Percy closed the boxes and looked at Argo. The man was on his feet now but holding his side. Percy could see the exit wound and the blood pouring out. The man was surrounded by Gergosas, but Percy also had back up.
Percy focused his mana into the jem stuck in his forehead and summoned his remaining fighters, Craig and Timmy. The Goblin King and Damned knight appeared before Percy and stood ready to fight.
Percy opened his inventory and took out a celestial bronze blade and threw it to Timmy, "those gigantic things are called Gergosas, their only weak point is the back of their necks. The woman with ice powers is an ally, kill the giants and protect her. Don't interfere with my fight, got it?"
The two didn't say a word, they simply nodded and ran forward fighting the monsters near Argo leaving the man alone.
"I don't see the gauntlet anywhere," Argo commented, "and since I doubt you somehow created your own version I'm guessing it's inside you now."
Percy didn't speak, he was forming a plan. He took out Yew's Breath and Riptide and slowly walked towards Argo.
"So if it's inside you it must be impossible to separate you both," Argo said as he straightened up turning his fists black, "but I'm sure going to enjoy trying."
Percy activated his speed and exploded forward. Argo caught Percy's first strike and deflected his second. Percy kicked Argo with his Giga kick but to no effect. The moment his foot touched the man's body his mana was drained out of the attack.
Percy kicked off Argo's body and dashed forward again launching every attack in super speed. Sparks flew but Percy quickly realised he was being pushed back by Argo, not the other way around.
Percy couldn't understand it, he was moving in super speed, faster than any human should move. Argo might have superhuman reflexes but even those have a limit.
Percy looked at Argo's face and flinched. Argo took that chance to punch Percy's chest in and send the boy back a few steps.
Defence— 150,000
Percy coughed out blood but quickly got back to his fighting stance. The reason he slipped was because he looked at Argo's face. The man didn't even have his eyes open, he had blocked every attack Percy had made without opening his eyes. Percy was reasonably freaked out.
"How are you doing that?" Percy asked as he circled the man with his blades ready to attack at any moment.
"It's called using your senses kid," Argo smirked as he opened his eyes looking at Percy, "I learned to use mine to the fullest."
"No," Percy shook his head, "it's something else. I know the limits of a normal man. I have faced monster and demigods and I know what the limit of man is. It's true that we aren't using all our senses to the limit but what you're doing....what you're doing is something else. I'm moving faster than any normal human body can react to, yet you're blocking me, it's almost like you can read my thoughts."
Argo grinned, "Luke did say you were a quick study. 'A genius in coming up with on the fly battle plans but stupider than a brick in everything else,' that's how he described you."
"Yeah well Elsa called you a sick little pedophile that licked to play with little girls."
Argo shrugged, "you have no proof of that."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "you don't' deny it?"
"Of course I do, but just because I do doesn't mean you'll believe me-"
Percy vanished into a blur running right at Argo and jumping up bringing down his blades hard on top of the man.
DING!
Argo had blocked with his black arms, "hey I was talking!"
"God you are annoying!" Percy said as he kicked Argo's face in only to have the man cover his head with the black substance as well.
"Well now you know how people feel when fighting you!"
Percy then used his head as a jumping board and launched himself upwards shooting fireballs at the man.
Percy landed with his back to Argo when suddenly;
Warning! Ar—
Percy kicked back aiming high only to have Argo catch it with one hand. The scientist then used Percy like a rag doll and swung him over head smashing him into the ground.
"You know what's the best way to teach someone a lesson?" Argo asked lifting Percy up before smashing him into the ground again, "beat it into them!"
Percy's head was spinning as he was again smashed into the ground like a sack of wheat.'Just a little more,' Percy thought as Argo hit him again and again and again.
Defence— 149,000
Defence— 148,000
Defence— 147,000
Defence— 146,000
Percy could feel more blood in his mouth, luckily it wasn't serious, just cosmetic.
Argo stopped and pulled Percy and held him there like a strung up fish, "don't you get it? You can't hurt me kid."
Percy's eyes shot open and he dropped Riptide from his right hand and grabbed Argo's leg, "I wasn't trying to."
Percy activated Death Touch. Argo's eyes shot up in pain as cold fury burned through Percy's veins and into Argo. Percy could feel the spell taking control as it slowly chipped away at Argo's life.
Argo's grip on Percy weakened, dropping the kid down, but Percy still held onto the man's leg. Percy's squinted and looked at Argo, the man's skin was running with black veins. 'I can feel it. I can feel him dying.'
Argo sounded like he was choking, dying. But just as the last of his resistance died out Argo let out a roar, "NOO!"
Percy felt an invisible force open his grip on the man before flinging him across the room. Percy rolled across the floor but quickly got back up and turned to Argo. The scientist fell to his knees in pain still shouting in pain. But slowly Percy could see the effects of the black veins taking effect. He was dying.
But just then Argo stopped screaming. He stopped moving. The black veins glowed darker as suddenly the exploded out of the man's body leaving him sweating and tired but still alive.
Ping!
Argo's will power has concurred your own resulting in your spell, 'Death Touch' to be negated!
Percy was beyond surprised. The rules of the game stated that Percy's skill were absolute, if he used death touch on something, that thing died. Those were the rules. But Argo just broke them.
"Haha, not bad kid," Argo said as he got back on his feet, "I quite frankly didn't think you had the balls to kill me. Luke told me so, guess he was wrong."
"How are you still alive?!" Percy shouted out, "that was supposed to have killed you!"
Argo chuckled, "and it may have if anyone else had used it. Anyone who could actually use Haki that is."
Percy's eyes shot up in recognition, "haki...you mean will power?"
Argo nodded, "it's an amazing thing that, the power to create and destroy. Truly the weapon of man to be used against gods."
"Against gods?" Percy asked surprised. The only ones who he knew who could use Haki other than Argo were the gods.
"You don't know?" Argo asked surprised as a smile began to form on his face, "I'm surprised you don't know. After all you are the Greek's champion. I thought they would have atleast told you."
Percy didn't like this one bit, "tell me."
Argo smiled, "neah, don't want to. But I am feeling gracious, so how about a hint. Next time you see a god ask them this, 'what happened 2000 years ago that caused man to stop believing in god?'"
Percy raised an eyebrow in curiosity but Argo refused to explain further. Just as Percy was about to fight the man again a Gergosa came flying through their line of sight. Argo used this chance to escape as he ran to one corner of the room activating a hidden panel and escaping inside.
Percy jumped on top of the Gergosa and saw this happen as he clicked his teeth in disappointment, he needed answers.
"Argh!" The Gergosa Percy was on got up and tried to catch Percy only for the demigod to send an icicle thru it's neck destroying it instantly.
Percy got off the disintegrating monster and walked to Elsa and his servants who were killing off the last of the monsters. Elsa turned to Percy, "where is he?"
Percy pointed to the open door Argo escaped through, "he ran."
"Why didn't you follow him?"
"He could have been leading me to a trap. I wanted someone to back me up."
"Then let's go," Elsa said before turning to Percy's servants, "thank you guys for the help. Oh and sorry about nearly freezing you soild Timmy."
"No problem beautiful," The Goblin King winked causing Percy to roll his eyes.
The group then ran out of the training room and into the secret passageway. The passage was different when compared to the rest of the bunker. The corridor was made out of metal with ventilation fans running along the corner with grills along the bottom protecting people from loose wires. Along the sides of the tunnel were long neon green tubes that served as lighting, with a warning label on it claiming to be extremely flammable.
"Any idea where we are?" Percy asked as they walked down the hallway.
"If I was to guess I would say we were in the deepest part of the dungeon. He usually has two labs, only for one on one time with the experiments, like the one on top, and another for mass production."
"Then that's where we are going to find the Gergosas."
"You think he had more of those things?"
"He was supposed to make enough to supply the entire Titan army," Percy said, "I doubt those were all the Gergosas he made."
"So...trap?"
Percy nodded, "trap."
The passage was long and winding and lead down many false pathway leading to dead ends. There were also many locked door along the way. When Percy broke open the door they found mostly files on experiments and also files of various other locations for other bases.
"This could be useful," Elsa said passing a file to Percy which contained a summary of all the bases Argo had in the US.
Percy nodded, "damn right it is useful," he put the map away for later, maybe something he and the other campers could look into later.
"Boss I think Craig wants to see this," Timmy called out from a pile of folders on the ground. He and Craig has been looking through them on Percy's commanded and they found something. Craig handed Percy a file labeled 'Subject: Water Horse.'
Percy opened the file and found a picture of himself in it. It had details all about him, birthday, height, weight, school. Heck his recent report card was in this, and Percy himself hadn't seen that one! Huh, all A', nice..
It also had a list of his known powers, pocket dimension storage, earthquake, water and shadow manipulation. The ability to summon servants using an artifact, the Le Bete curse and super speed.
"What is it?" Elsa asked as Percy passed her the file. She read it and looked surprised, "wow, I didn't realise you were such a priority target."
Percy nodded, "I am.....the good thing is they don't have everything about me. They don't know I can manipulate ice or the fact that I can increase my strength temporarily. But... I still want to know how they got what they have."
"Probably observation," Elsa said, "maybe they were watching all your battles."
"Maybe..."
"Either Way I suggest you look out for yourself and for your family," Elsa said opening a new page of the folder and giving it to Percy.
The new paper was a big report of some kind given by Argo. Elsa pointed at a particular sentence at the bottom, 'Recommended action: Manipulate using personal attachments. Recommend you kidnap his mother and blackmail him, note current location of said mortal in unknown. Warning! Subject is a level Beta threat and requires caution when dealing with.'
When Percy read what they wanted to do to blackmail him he was furious. He wanted to kill Argo then and there, the only bright side of this was the fact that they didn't know where his mom was."Beta level threat?"
"Means your the second most dangerous kind of opponent there is," Elsa explained, "Alpha levels are gods or world destroying events like a nuclear war. Beta's means the threat is manageable but dangerous to try. It really is impressive, I myself am only a gamma. Not that big of a deal."
Percy nodded and snapped his fingers forming a fireball. He burnt the file and every other piece of paper in there, "let's go."
They walked out of the room and Percy looked at his new watch. The glass was already cracked in half, must have been from one of the thousand times he was thrown into a wall. The numbers however could still be made out.
"It's 11: 50," Percy said, "we have ten minutes."
"If Argo knows about the bombs then we are in trouble."
"I don't think he knows," Percy said and just then a man walked out of one of the rooms. He was looking down at a pad and wore big thick glasses with a lab coat.
Percy dashed behind the man and smashed the man headfirst into the wall. Percy pressed him down, "who the hell are you?"
"I'm Jake the lab assistant!" The man cried out shaking his legs, "please don't hurt me!"
Percy looked at the title above the man's head,
Jake Haro, Lab Assistant
Lv— 5
"Alright Jake I'm going to only ask you this once okay?" Jake nodded furiously, "where is Argo?"
"The professor? Why would you-" Percy pressed his head harder, "okay! Oksy! He's in the 'Jungle'!"
"What?"
"'The Jungle'! That's what we call the giant lab down this corridor! Please don't hurt me!"
Percy looked at Elsa who nodded. Percy let go of the man allowing him to turn around and look at Percy in surprise, "you're just a kid."
Marcia and the other growled causing Jake to cry out in fear.
"Is anyone else aother you in this base?" Percy asked but Jake was still too busy being scared of Percy's servants.
"Ah, I ah, big scary-"
"Hey don't look at them, look at me, because as much as they seem scary to you, I'm worse."
Jake took a deep gulp of air and nodded, "no there isn't anyone else here. Just me and the professor, we used to have helpers but they kind of ran away. And well you guys but I don't think that's what you-"
"Listen Jake you seem like a nice guys so why don't you make like a banana and split," Percy growled out letting Jake to run away from him and Elsa as fast as his skinny legs could carry him.
"You realize he probably helped Argo do all those things right?" Elsa said watching the skinny scientist run away.
"I know, but I doubt he can escape this place without meeting you team or mine. Etherway he's going to be our prisoner, might as well not have to deal with him ourselves right now."
Elsa nodded in agreement as the two walked forward until slowly the tunnel grew larger and larger. The passage finally ended at a double sided door much like the one leading to the lab on the floor above.
"Elsa look," Percy said pointing at a bloody handprint on the hable of the door, "he was bleeding, badly."
