Hades POV

Artemis, Athena and I immediately leave the throne room to initiate stage one of our plan of attack. The rest of the gods are up on Olympus preparing for battle while we, 'the three musketeers', scout out the enemy base.

Zeus had said it was 'an honor' to be chosen as a part of this trio. Honestly, can't I just watch tv or something? I don't want to go in the enemy base. Not that I'm scared or anything... I'm just lazy.

Athena was chosen cause she smart and she can think her way through things. Artemis was chosen because she is always sneaking around enemy camps with her crew of archers.

But why was I chosen? Merely because the base is probably somewhere in the Underworld and I know the most about the Underworld.

Anyway so we are crawling around the Underworld sticking to the shadows, (looking like a pack of idiots in my mind).

Our whole mission is simple: find out where the enemy has set up camp and figure out who their allies are. Easy, right? Wrong.

The thing is. Miss Smarty Pants (Athena) thinks (there's a shocker!) that because the leader is Tartarus their base will most likely be near the pit.

The extra bad thing about this plan is that we are going to the pit of Tartarus. Tartarus. The one place that the gods powers don't work at all (except for Alaska, but let's forget about that).

We pass by the fields of punishment, in the corner of my eye I see Athena and Artemis shiver. I laugh to myself silently. They may find the screams creepy but I myself find them .. relaxing.

We near closer to the pit and I can already feel the pull. It's like an invisible force field pulling me to the centre, luring me in. Like a moth drawn to a flame.

Suddenly Artemis holds out her hand in a 'stop' manner. I instantly freeze, my feet rooted to the ground like a tree. She takes the lead and continues through the darkness to the evil abyss.

We pass through some kind of barrier and instantly I can see hundreds of tents filled with monsters. This is their base... well okay then.

I look around and mentally make a list.

Heaps of monsters. check.

One evil being (Tartarus). check.

Evil allies (morpheus, Prometheus). check.

Well... now we know where the base is. I close my eyes and start communicating telepathically with my brother, Zeus. Another reason why I was chosen to do this is because other gods can't use their domains and powers in my domain. So I am the only one that can use my telepathic powers in the underworld.

'Hey airhead, we found the base.'

'Airhead? Really? Real creative.. Anyway, good.'

'Good? Is that it! Humph, anyway what do we do now?'

'Don't you know the plan!'

'Ohhhh... We're actually doing that?'

'Just do it, death breath!'

'Only for you, sparky..'

Then I cut off the telepathic communication.

"Hey" I poke athena, "What was the next stage of the plan?"

"Are you kidding me! You forgot already!"

"Hey don't blame me. Blame my ADHD."

"You don't have ADHD only your children do!"

"Oh... Yeah, I knew that.."

"Uh. Just... Follow me."

We crawl around the camp trying to see if they have any other big allies that could potentially be dangerous.

"Remind me why we can't just go and beat the fudge out of them right now." I whisper to Artemis harshly.

"You idiot! Tartarus doesn't want a war. Meaning we can't just barge in and kill everyone. This is a game of shadows, sneakiness, decoys, plans. Every step of the game is well-thought and executed carefully and precisely." She hissed back.

"Right... Carefully and Precisely.. I can do that." I grinned at Artemis before adding under my breath, "Not.."

We stalk deeper into the camp with me manipulating the shadows making it harder, not impossible, to see us. Luckily no body is even looking in our direction so..

I look around and am not really surprised to see a few minor gods have also joined in order to help punish us gods. None that are particularly important .. No big threats other than Morpheus god of sleep.

I also notice some Titans have even been resurrected for Tartarus's cause, namely Prometheus.

While I am lost in my own thoughts I don't even notice Artemis rising her hand in a 'stop' sign until I literally bash into her and we go rolling down the hill to the pit.

She and I are both screaming our heads off with Athena running down behind us trying to get to us, no doubt using her big head to try and 'strategically find the quickest and easiest route away from the danger and blah blah blah'.

Anyway we are just plummeting down to the pit when huge, and I mean HUGE, hands suddenly grab us from behind and pick us up. Then proceeding to throw 'the three musketeers' into a huge cage just sitting there. A quarter of the cage is still dangling into the pit, just enough to make me scared out of my wits but not enough that the cage will fall into Tartarus.

Although, if someone pushed the edge I have no doubt we would go flying.

I look back at our 'saviour' only to see Prometheus grinning back at us slyly. My first thought: Crap. Now we're trapped too.

Tartarus POV

I sit in my throne wearing my fake body. When I say fake I mean I have put some of my essence into another's body. Kind of like what Kronos did.

Because I am a primadoral god I don't have a body, therefore the closest I can be to 'normal' is putting my essence into another's body and completely controlling it. The only down side is that I am not as powerful as I could be because this weak body cannot control all of my power.

Bang! The doors bang open and in strides Prometheus looking extremely happy about something.

"Guess who I just caught snooping around our camp." He grins sadistically.

".."

"Hades, Artemis and Athena! We have the person who controls this domain. The best fighter on Olympus. And their best (and only) strategist! Isn't this amazing! Plus we have 3 gods to have fun with torturing! Who do you want first? I dib Artemis." He keeps rambling on and on about random stuff that nobody cares about.

"Shut up!" I snap. His mouth instantly shuts and he looks at me with an 'I am so sorry' look. I just shrug in reply.

"First things first, go and tell the Olympians that we have seen through their plan, that we have captured three of their own and that they are definitely going to lose this battle." I instruct him.

Prometheus hastily bows and runs off to deliver my message.

I turn to one of the monsters that are obediently guarding the throne room.

"Send the monsters." I order, he scurries off into the darkness while I grin wickedly.

Everything is going splendidly...

Steve POV

We are just chilling in Stark towers thinking about the aspects of the plan that we will be a part of when suddenly an earthquake shakes the island of manhattan.

I immediately look at Percy, what with his father being the 'earth shaker'. But he looks extremely confused as well.

"Is your dad angry?" Tony jokes.

Percy scowls at him, "This isn't my dad's doing, this is darker. Evil. I can't control it."

We all exchange glances before running to the streets of New York.

"This way," Percy mutters before taking off in a steady sprint. I immediately take off after him followed closely behind by the rest of the team.

Despite the earthquake Percy stays balanced and can still sprint extremely fast, us on the other hand are stumbling all over the place as the very earth try's to knock us over.

Finally we reach Central Park and the first thing I notice is that it is completely deserted. The second thing I notice is that there is a huge crack in the ground with hundreds of monsters pouring out of into and into the normal world.

"At least we know what started the earthquake..." Natasha mutters breathlessly.

Percy starts changes into 'battle mode' and looks at all of us seriously.

"Damn ... Your weapons won't work because they are normal weapons... Okay here's what we're gonna do. I am going to beat all of these monsters while you guys distract them, keep them busy, and don't get killed."

With that Percy dives into battle and starts expertly killing everything in sight. He must have killed a hundred before we finally snap out of it and start trying to help. Key word trying.

Natasha and Clint do well by snapping monster necks left right and centre. Tony try's to blast limbs off of the monsters. Thor is doing outer worldly stuff with his hammer and lightning abilities while Bruce has gone into 'hulk' mode and is currently smashing everything in sight.

I stand there for a few moments before finally coming to my senses and start beating monsters with my shield and 'super soldier strength'.

The battle lasted about half an hour until finally the monsters stop coming and Percy has used his earth shaker abilities to mold the two slabs of earth back together, effectively cutting off the entrance to the world.

We all look at each other clearly thinking the same thing. 'We have to start the plan before Tartarus kills people trying to get to the gods and Percy'.

Game on, Tartarus.