Annabeth stood on the ramp of Stella and looked around at the destruction around them, waiting, Rocket stood beside her playing with a multitude of different pieces of metal in his paws...something that was coming closer and closer to completion before her very eyes.

"What are you making?" She asked and he stopped what he was doing temporarily and looked at her, then at his hands confused, before shrugging and continuing to do whatever it was that he was doing without answering her. Annabeth sighed and let him be, guessing that whatever it was that he was or wasn't making was just something that he tended to do when he was bored and she'd eventually see what it was when it was done...or maybe not. It depended on whether it was something that he was going to use here or whether it was something that he was just making at the time and was eventually jut going to end up storing it somewhere for the time being, forgotten about.

After another long moment in silence permeated the area he did end up asking a question. "What is it we are waiting for?" Rocket looked around for a moment, and the up at her and Annabeth tapped her thigh in frustration.

"Something that'll show us were Percy is at, or likely could be" She continued to look around in bored repetition. "Hopefully it's soon and we don't miss it..." She was interrupted by Stella coming over the comm. system of the ship and a ding going off on the main control consol.

There is an individual incoming at high speed. Annabeth trot over to the controls and looked at the screen as it zoomed in on a silver streak appearing over a hill in the distance. It was enhanced and the tracker adapted to show the figure of a man in some sort of running suit with a fixed but determined expression running towards them. Annabeth watched the screen for a moment before looking away and going back to the ramp to lean over the edge of the landing platform and just watch as they came closer and closer.

Should I attempt to contact this individual? Stella asked and Annabeth denied her.

"No I think that they're getting something, or maybe they're running away from something...either way I feel like they'll lead us to Percy." She said and there was a hum of thought from the sentient AI.

Should I contact Quill and captain Gamora then? Annabeth smiled at the quip and agreed. A second later Quill came over the comm. system screeching.

"Hey. I am the captain of this ship, not Gamorah! Why are you calling for her as captain."

"Maybe you'd be called a captain if you actually stuck your butt out and did something" Annabeth could practically hear Gamorah's smirk and the deflated exhale from Quill got Rocket to let out a shout of laughter.

"Ha! Why don't you show us some of those demi-god powers again and I'll think about calling you a captain..."

"You know that I can't use my powers anymore...they only worked on my father's planet and if you didn't remember we destroyed that planet!"

"I thought you said you were the guardians of the Galaxy?" Annabeth decided to join in on the fun a little. "Why are you going around destroying planets and still calling yourselves that?" All she got in return was a groan of frustration and Drax tried to have some input too.

"We should call ourselves the fuckers of the universe!"

""What? NO"" Both Quill and Gamorah yelled at him and Annabeth looked at the voice-line shown on the screen confused.

"Just because your father fucked everything on every planet he visited doesn't mean that we can't do the same with entire planets..."

"No! We're not fucking anything, dammit Drax. Can't you use your brain and say something useful?" Quill sounded horrified but Annabeth was still thinking about the fact Quill could be a demi-god in some way, or maybe he was just close to one?

Shouldn't we be focusing on the man running off into the distance? Stella came over comms again and Annabeth's attention snapped to the screen again to see that the silver streak of light was in fact disappearing over the hill in the distance again.

"Yeah. Right, sorry Stella that was distracting."

I understand

"Anyways I want to follow him." Annabeth told the others, "I have a feeling that that man is going towards who I want to find."

"This person is who to you again?" Quill asked and Annabeth heard a loud smack on the other end.

"You idiot. She means the person she loves." It was surprising to hear Gamorah in the scolding position and she found it comically refreshing compared to what she'd heard from Rocket about how she used to be.

"We're looking for a Percy guy, or wolf guy/thing right?" Quill said after a moment and Annabeth nodded, more to herself than to those around her.

"Yeah. I'm hoping he didn't do anything too overboard after my latest kidnapping."

"What would be considered overboard." Rocket asked from behind her, Groot looking at her inquisitively as well.

"...I guess we'll see when we get there." Annabeth murmured, knowing that Rocket would likely hear her anyways, "Anyways I plan on going there whether you come with us or not, but if you do decide to come just know that we'll more than likely be fighting monsters and man alike in this."

"Fought plenty of both so it shouldn't be that big of a surprise." Came Quill over the line and Gamorah sighed agreeing.

"I've seen and killed some pretty strange creatures since joining Quill and I don't think much will surprise us at this point."

"Okay then. Stella is you would..."

I have pinpointed the unknown person's location and scanned the area. She paused for a second, I have found six human signatures, three of which are mutations or superhuman, one is partially technological, and there seems to be a wave of unknown creatures heading in their direction.

"Lets go." Annabeth sighed, "Percy if you got yourself trapped again I am going to be--" The ship sped forwards mid-sentence and Annabeth quickly scrambled into a chair. Rocket and Groot joining her in the other chair a moment later.

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They arrived at the location a few minutes later and saw a red witch dragging what looked to be a giant cage for a second, straining for a moment before getting it to float. Then she turned to the other one there and they both started to walk a little ways down the road.

Stella had taken the liberty of engaging the cloaking system so no one on the ground was able to detect them and not long after they stopped and started to gather themselves did the wave of darkness appear on the distance. A giant swarm of writing creatures: from wriggling ones that dig through the concrete of the road like paper to gargoyle looking creatures that ran on all fours.

The two on the ground were soon joined by a third person and they all had no idea what was coming after them. The woman went over to the cage and seemed to be talking to someone in frustration and that's when Annabeth noticed Percy in the middle of the cage...just laying there.

She smiled shaking her head and turned to where Stella's avatar was standing in the table. "We're you able to sense Percy there too?" Stella seemed to be confused for a moment before doing something and shaking her head.

I cannot. She seemed in awe, or at least very curious, it seems that either the entity you call 'Percy' is invisible to my sensors or what ever cage they have him in are hiding his signature. What kind of material is that cage made from?

Annabeth shook her head and turned to Rocket. He was staring at the scene unfolding under him anxiously. He looked over for a moment, noticing both Annabeth and Stella's avatar were looking at him, and at Groot who turned to also stare at him and waved his hands around.

"What?! I don't know what's going on either." He looked at the screen, "Shouldn't we, like, warn them about the giant wave of monsters coming towards them?" Annabeth looked for him a moment longer and sighed. He hasn't heard them at all, and she didn't feel like repeating the question.

"Stella what do you think is the best course of action here?" She asked and that moment the Milano came flying over them and started to open fire into the oncoming hoard. "Nevermind. It seems Quill's decided for us. Let's go down and help Percy."

The individuals seem to be waiting for others, are you sure you want to land and confront them before the others get here? Annabeth liked at the screen as it changed, indicating that four other red dots were slowly making their way over from a few streets over. Going through buildings in a straight line towards them.

"Well I'm assuming that that's the other Avengers, and seeing that Bruce is down there and seemingly unable to bring out The Hulk Percy must've done something to really traumatize the big guy." Annabeth looked at the figure leaning against the car in torn, stretched shorts putting on a new shirt. "If anything does go wrong I can just stall using my fire until those creatures can catch up to us."

Disengaging cloak and setting landing gear Stella said, her avatar disappearing as the ship started to descend. The three below them immediately noticed the second ship, wondering how long it had been watching them before deciding to show itself. Wanda prepared herself for another confrontation, aware that the other ship in the distance was firing at something and she hoped these weren't their enemy taking advantage of the situation.

Whoever the enemy was that is...

Then the boarding ramp disengaged and started to lower soundlessly, revealing a girl with piercing Grey eyes and golden-blond hair with what looked like streaks of red through it at random lengths and spacing. Her hands held a knife made of what looked like molten fire and at her side was a raccoon standing on two legs, holding a giant cannon.

"Who are you?" Wanda asked, her powers flaring and she noticed that their prisoner, Percy, had looked over with wide eyes and was now standing in the cage. So this was someone important to him? Hopefully they don't have to fight each other and end up making the situation worse...especially with a hoard of something on its way.

"Hi I'm Annabeth, this is Rocket, and that's Groot." Wanda looked around for the third person and a sort of walking tree person walked up to stand behind the raccoon. "Can you tell me why my boyfriend, and soon to be mate, is in a fancy cage?"

Hi everyone. Sorry for the late publish. I've been distracted by some pretty good books on Kindle Unlimited and funny videos online. It's really no excuse, and I know I'm really bad at managing my time...that's something I'm trying to find a solution to that works for myself.

Anyways I hope that you enjoyed this chapter.
(Imsorryforthecliffhanger—notreally ;) )

See y'all in the next one...

...we're getting closer to the end.