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Percy arrived back on the venator battleship and immediately called a meeting between his officers in his office. "Hey guys listen up, Chaos wants me over on earth asap. They need me over there to look after the questers who are on their way to rescue Artemis. Echo I need you up here in charge of everyone else while i'm gone. Sigma I need you to take the marine squads Alpha to Delta down to Camp half-blood and start setting up camp for us. Echo you coordinate our air support up here and the ranger units for any hit and run targets you find."

"You got it sir" Echo and Sigma both replied before they all left Percy's office to let him grab his stuff and head out.

As Percy was placing items in his rucksack and making sure he had his foldable smg he got a call from Apollo on his PDA. Tapping his screen so he could put the call on speaker he called out "Yo Apollo what do you need? I'm just getting ready to head out to a pelican once they finish sending out the marines to camp."

"Perce I just wanted to make sure you know who's on the quest. Thalia Grace a daughter of Zeus, Alexander Pierce a son of Poseidon, Bianca Di Angelo a hunter, Zo-" Apollo paused.

"Shit Perce how soon can you meet them at the Smithsonian museum in D.C? The quest members ran into trouble like the Nemean Lion, spartus trouble" Apollo finished with a panicked voice.

"Shit. I'll head out now tell them I'll be there in 10 minutes" Percy replied before placing the metallic square on his chest and letting it open forming his Spartan armour and ending the call.

Pressing a button on his neck he said "Spectre to HEV drop bay how copy?"

"This is drop bay we hear you sir"

"Prep a drop pod for me now. Set coordinates for the landing site as Washington D.C right in front of the smithsonian. Have it ready to drop in two minutes" Percy said grabbing the bag and slinging it over his shoulder and running out the door.

Percy broke out into a full sprint down the corridors of the ship until he finally reached the drop bay and hopped into the only pod that was prepped to drop. He got on the comms channel and gave the controller the signal and he found himself being dropped from the ship falling into the atmosphere of the earth. Pulling out his PDA he called Apollo so he can get an update on the situation.

"Apollo its Percy, what's going on down there?"

"Hey Perce it's good to hear from you. Alex just found the Titan Atlas but was discovered. He's on his way back to inform the rest of the group of what he saw. The nemean lion and spartus should be closing in on them any second."

"Roger, I'm about 30 seconds out from the parking lot. Make sure they know I'm friendly." Percy finished as he willed his helmet to extend from his armour and cover his head. Then his drop pod finally crashed into the middle of the parking lot. Releasing the blast doors he got out of the pod and placed a Void receiver on it. The receiver allowed the drop pod to be reused since chaos enchanted it to always be sent back to the repair bay of the ship.

"This is Spectre I am on site heading into the museum now. Comms from me will be reduced to daily check-ins."

Percy ran into the museum and thanks to the mist he looked like a very big person with a business suit. 'Gotta love the mist' Percy thought until he heard a girl cry out "Look at the big kitty mom" as she left the now closed aerospace section.

Rushing into the section he saw the Nemean lion attacking the group of 5 demigods who he assumed to be those on the quest. Looking up on a plane that hung from the rafters he saw 3 hunters and one of them had a tiara. After he looked closer Percy had to suppress a groan because once he saw the coppery skin and the braided hair he knew who he was looking at. Zoe Nightshade was here on this quest. 'Great seems my luck is still as shit as it was all these years' he thought before leaping into the fray.

"Relax demigods. I am here to help" Percy said through his helmet in a much deeper tone and metallic voice. Summoning the shadows he used them to restrain the lion's paws keeping them pinned to the ground. Quickly he grabbed the mouth of the lion and pulled it apart grunting since the nemean lion kept trying to close it. "Hunters shoot inside its mouth" Percy said as he kept trying to readjust his grip to prevent his hands from being caught in its teeth.

A dozen silver arrows soon found their way into the mouth of the lion and it soon turned into dust leaving only the pelt. Zoe walked over and said "It was your kill we just helped the spoil is yours." Percy grabbed the pelt and dumped it in a trash can lighting it up before muttering "For Artemis" causing silvery dust to float upwards out of the can.

"Listen we gotta move those spartus are closing in fast. I have a ride to take us west, we can talk more once we're safe on it." Percy said as they ran to the back door.

"I got a ride to the train station in the alley. Zoe you drive Phoebe give her directions"

"Boy who do you think you are giving orders to us" Zoe snapped back.

"Listen, no offence but I really don't have the energy to take shit from any of you right now. The gods and another more powerful being have tasked me with protecting you. Now you all need to listen up." Percy replied.

"He's right he hasn't done anything to warrant your hostility. He literally saved our asses back there" Thalia chimed in as they all got into the black SUV parked in front of the exit.

Percy opened the trunk and sat in the back with his SMG out covering the rear. Zoe began driving and Phoebe was barking out orders. "Spartus coming in from our left" Thalia cried out causing Percy to shift over to get a better angle.

Raising his gun he lined up his sights on the closest two and fired two quick bursts dropping the two but not killing them.

"These guys can't be killed unless it's a child of Hades and I'm not sure I wanna get close enough to test out if any chaos weapons work" Percy cried out as he continued to fire at the remaining spartus.

The group finally pulled into the train station parking and hopped out leaving the car where it is. Percy finally spotted a train car with Sunwest railways written on the side of it and said "There. That's our ride west, let's move."

After all the quest members were inside Percy closed the train car door and heard Apollo flash in.

"I'm not supposed to be here but Chaos gave me a pass so I'll be here to help with the introductions." Apollo said.

"So who's the boy?" Zoe said with a sneer.

Apollo turned around quickly and snarled "Watch yourself huntress. Without that boy you would have been left behind in that garden"

"Impossible. He died thousands of years ago" Zoe replied sadly as she figured out who Apollo was referring to.

"Why don't you see for yourself" Apollo said before stepping out of the way to reveal a tall man standing at 6'3, jet black hair and the same facial structures as Percy but when Zoe looked up at his eyes she finally realized it was him. The same sea green eyes she fell in love with have lost it's vibrant colour over the years but she still knew whose eyes they belonged to.

"Percy?" Phoebe called out in uncertainty as she could not believe the sight in front of her. She still mourned the loss of her brother in all but blood and made sure to remind Zoe and Artemis of their mistakes every chance that she got over the years.

"It's me. I really am here" Percy said softly as he stepped forward to hug the shaken hunter. Percy was comforting the Phoebe stroking her hair whispering soothing words.

Thalia and Alex were in shock as to who this man was and what his relationship to the hunters were considering two of the biggest man haters besides Lady Artemis herself were crying and hugging a man.

"Who are you?" Aelx asked as Apollo stepped forward and summoned some food for the group and began to explain Percy's story since he knew how painful it would be for him to retell it all. Once he had finished Apollo bid Percy goodbye as he flashed out leaving Percy with the group of awed demigods.

"Why didn't you come back" Zoe asked softly

"Come back to what? You and the hunters?" Percy snapped back. "Save for Phoebe and Diana the rest of you guys thought I was guilty. But no that wasn't why. It wasn't even my best friend's betrayal that made me leave you all behind. IT WAS YOU" Percy screamed out

"You broke me. Chaos despite everything he did for me knew that this wasn't a fix. Fighting wars and saving others doesn't fix the fact that I loved you. Seeing that look in your eyes was enough to snap me in half"

Percy reached into his pocket and pulled out Anaklusmos and tossed it to Zoe who caught it. "Maybe you can give it to someone who you believe is worthy this time" Percy said before he walked toward the pickup truck in the corner of the train car and laid down on the truck bed.

Phoebe threw Zoe a glare before she made her way over to the truck bed and began conversing with Percy softly.

'What have I done' Zoe thought bitterly she knew she had made a terrible mistake all those years ago and she had paid for it all throughout these years with Phoebe's constant reminders and the nightmares that plagued her at night. Bianca had seen Zoe's look and did her best to comfort her lieutenant but to no avail.

The group soon separated for bed each going into their own cars and as Percy drifted off to sleep the nightmares came.

Nightmare sequence Start

"MOVE!" a voice cried out as Percy turned to his left to see his past self in his Spartan armour. He looked around to see they were in a city on a planet that was filled with rocks. 'This must be Vanguard' he thought to himself as he followed his past self down memory lane.

Despite this being a memory he felt a pain in his heart as he saw his men get cut down as bullets rained down from the surrounding buildings.

"Sir we need to get to the building 400m to your right. It has the EMP below ground in the parking garage. We need to disable it before it takes out the power and the reactor shuts down causing a meltdown." said a figure in a blue spartan armour.

Past Percy said " I know but we need to push past these guys. We are pinned and we don't have time to go around"

Past Percy and Wraith went back and forth arguing with each other on what the best solution was to their problem.

"Will you two stop. I'll take a team to provide a distraction and suppressive fire across the street" a woman in a white spartan armour spoke out.

"Sarah, don't we haven't cleared that building as safe. There could be IED's there" Wraith said.

"It's your call Sarah" Past Percy said as he returned fire to the enemies in the building where the EMP was located.

"I'll be fine William" Sarah said as she took a couple marines and moved towards the building. Soon Sarah's team was able to set up a position and laid down suppressive fire.

"Everyone on me. We are pushing the building EOD squad make sure to stay behind us as we move. We need you down there to disable the EMP" Past Percy cried out as he leapt out of his cover with Wraith and the rest of the marines followed behind him.

As the marines and EOD squad made it to the building Past Percy was barking out orders making sure that there were teams clearing the building while the rest accompanied the EOD squad to the parking garage to shut down the EMP.

Suddenly, a huge explosive brought everyone down as the shockwave hit them. As Past Percy got his bearings back he could hear Wraith scream out "SARAH" and saw that the building that he sent Sarah and her team to had collapsed because the explosion originated from there.

"Wraith she's gone" Past Percy said as he ripped his helmet off trying to pull the Spartan off of the rubble. "WILLIAM SHES GONE" Past Percy screamed out as he finally got Wraith off of the rubble. Wraith turned around and punched Past Percy sending him to the ground before spitting out "SHE DIED BECAUSE OF YOU. SHE FUCKING LOVED YOU"

"But you could never let go of that fucking girl Zoe could you. She loved you in every way I wish she loved me. Now she's gone. All because you refused to pull back. She followed your orders to the very end all because it was her way of proving her loyalty to you that she wouldn't hurt you like Zoe did." Wraith said as he went back to the rubble trying to find Sarah's dead body.

Nightmare End

Percy woke up in a cold sweat to find Apollo looking at him. "You alright bro?" he asked

"Nightmares again sorry. What did you need to talk to me about?" Percy replied

"I am off to start my duties and so its 6 am the train will stop at 9 am so that's as far as you can go with my help" Apollo said

"Alright thanks" Percy said

"You know I watched over them throughout these years and the hunt, my sister, Zoe. They all regret what they did. I am not asking you to forgive them but giving them a second chance wouldn't hurt. I would start with Zoe since we both know you still have a soft spot for her. It doesn't hurt that she's also making her way towards you right now" Apollo finished as he winked at his best friend before flashing away again.

Percy sat up on the truck bed and saw Zoe walking towards him. She had a nervous look on her face before she asked " May I?" gesturing towards the empty spot on the truck bed beside Percy.

Percy nodded his head as he moved over to the side to make more room for Zoe to sit.

"I know this probably doesn't mean much to you but I'm sorry. I really mean it. There hasn't been a day that goes by where I don't regret letting the prejudices that Artemis and the other hunters taught me get the best of me that day. I should have trusted you above all else not just because I loved you too but because ever since that day in the garden you have done nothing to act like the men we hunters hate" Zoe said looking at Percy.

"It's been over two thousand years since it happened. I've moved on. I had to or else I couldn't perform my duty as a commander in Chaos' army." Percy replied, refusing to meet her eyes.

"Moved on? Do you mean that you forgave me?" Zoe asked, confused.

"No I haven't forgiven you but I have begun to consider it if you show me I can trust you again. My loyalty to you knew no bounds before that day, but now you have to earn it back" Percy replied.

"Then I will do everything I must to earn it back" Zoe said sensing the conversation was at its end. Though she could not shake the pain in her heart when she heard him say "I've moved on". 'Could he have found someone else to love these past two thousand years?' she thought to herself as she left the truck bed and went to go wake Phoebe and Bianca.

Percy reached into a pocket inside his black bomber jacket after he turned his spartan armour back into his usual metallic box and his tactical suit into the wolf necklace and pulled out a photograph.

Written below the picture it said 'Spartan class-101191' and in the photo beside Percy with dark brown hair and hazel eyes that is was a man with shoulder length black hair with blue eyes that was Wraith/William. A woman with shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes was Sarah/Angel, The man with a ghost mask was Ghost/Ty, and a blonde haired man with blue eyes was Joker/David. The only two without x marks on the top of their faces were Echo and his own. Ghost and Joker died early on in their second tour on a planet called Ascension and after Sarah's death Wraith was given his own fleet to command due to the tensions being too high between him and Percy. His fleet went missing one day after a mission and Chaos declared them KIA.

Sarah's death plagued Percy's mind everyday and despite what he told Zoe deep down inside he hasn't moved on. The only thing keeping him from becoming a wreck was the lack of downtime he had in between missions. The missions gave him a sense of duty and a purpose to get his sorry ass out of bed everyday.

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Percy and the group had finished their breakfast and left as soon as the train stopped. They began their journey west on foot until they could find another vehicle or a bus station. "So um with you being a son of Poseidon and all are we brothers?" Alex asked as Percy and Thalia walked beside him while Phoebe, Zoe and Bianca walked in front of them.

"I suppose but I was disowned and Posidon had to take my demigod powers away" Percy replied

"Oh yeah" Alex replied realizing this might be a touchy subject for the new addition to their quest. Thalia smacked him in the back of his head lightly saying something about not reading the situation properly.

"Here take this. I gave Zoe and the others their own earlier, it is supposed to block out any gods from tracking us and snooping on us for the duration of the quest. I'd rather not have to deal with the likes of Aphrodite" Percy said, handing his two companions a black and silver disk which they placed into their pockets.

They trio conversed until Zoe decided to stop for a break and during this time Alex and Thalia learned more about Percy and Percy learned more about them. Despite being the children of the big three Percy was glad that none of them inherited any of the bad qualities that their godly parents had. Percy had even offered to help Alex with his water manipulation considering he basically unofficially inherited Pontus' domain of water when he faded away. Chaos said that he was willing to make Percy a second generation primordial but Percy flat out refused saying he wanted to be able to die on the battlefield with the rest of his men.

As night fell the group found a clearing in the forest and Percy and Zoe were out to take the first watch. They sat in silence until they both heard two small whines come from the forest to their left. Percy pulled out his pistol and shone the flashlight in the direction while Zoe followed behind him with her hunting knives out.

Approaching the tree, Percy and Zoe looked down to see two wolf pups with paws in the air bleeding. Looking at each other there was a silent understanding between the two and each picked up one wolf each and took them back to the camp to tend to their wounds.

As Percy was tending to his wolf's wounds he heard two voices in his head one saying 'Thanks boss' and the other saying 'Thank you mistress'. Percy then looked over at Zoe and said "Did you hear that?"

"Yes I did. Do you think it was" Zoe trailed off as she looked towards the two wolves.

"Yup" "Yes that was us" The two wolves said at the same time.

"So i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that your a girl and the one im holding right now is the boy" Percy said

"Wow my boss is smarter than yours" The wolf on Percy's arms said

"Care to repeat that," Zoe said whipping out her knife, waving it around menacingly towards the wolf in Percy's arms who yelped while the one in Zoe's arms whined in amusement.

"Relax Zoe, I'm sure the pup meant no disrespect" Percy said seriously but you could see the mirth in his eyes.

"So what were you guys doing out here anyway" Zoe asked

"We were abandoned by our respective packs and we met with each other. We kept moving as there were monsters who wanted to eat us. Then we finally met you guys" the wolf in Zoe's arms replied

"Well I am definitely going to keep this lil guy. Hmmm I think i'm going to call you Ace" Percy said stroking the fur on Ace's back.

Zoe rolled her eyes before saying "I guess I will keep her as well. I shall call you Midnight" both wolves cuddling into their owners showing their affection to their new companions.

Alex and Thalia soon came out to replace them on watch duty, finally allowing them to rest. For once in a very long time Percy fell asleep without any dreams or memories coming to haunt him.

In the morning, the group sat in a circle with Percy being in between Alex and Phoebe eating his MRE rations that he dug out from his rucksack.

"So does this mean you're going to be back?" Phoebe asked

"What do you mean back?" Percy asked giving her a questioning look

"Well I just thought since you came to help us with the Titans and well you did seem to be interacting better with Zoe especially since you did guard duty with her last night which also led to you two getting pet wolves, that you'd stay with us" Phoebe finished before taking a sip of water from her thermos.

Percy sighed before saying "Phoebe I wish I could but once the threat is over me and the rest of the others must leave. I fight wars over the galaxy and once this one is over I go wherever the next war is. My duty is to Chaos, he saved my life after all and I will honor his wishes"

Phoebe nodded sadly letting silence envelope them before she replied softly "It's because of Zoe and Artemis isn't"

Percy just took another bite from his ration before saying "Among other things yes it's because of them"

Unknown to the two Zoe who was seated beside Phoebe heard the entire conversation and could not help but feel guilty about everything and she vowed to herself to prove to Percy that she was sorry for her actions all those years ago and to make him stay for Phoebe and Diana's sake.

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The group began their trek west again the two wolf pups at their heels and were moving towards a small abandoned store until Percy felt something near them and grabbed both Phoebe and Zoe pulling them to the ground telling Alex and the others to get down.

Turning around he saw 4 spartus with swords and another with a bow. Percy got up and pulled the hilt of his katana out and willed the blade to appear before charging at the one with the bow.

Two Spartus tried to get in his way but Percy leapt over them bringing his sword down on the one wielding the bow and cut the Spartus in half. Bringing up his hand and closing it he created a shadow that enveloped Spartus and sent it to the void.

The two Spartus he leapt over earlier encircled him while the other two went after the questers who were holding them back just barely. 'I have to end this quick' Percy thought to himself as he blocked a strike from one and whipped out his pistol shooting three shots towards the other sending it stumbling back.

Turning his attention to the Spartus in front of him he emptied the pistol magazine into its chest before wrapping a shadow around it and sending it to the void. Going after the one he previously shot Percy quickly dispatched it as well leaving the last two that were engaging the quest group. Just as the Spartus was about to impale Alex who pushed Thalia out of the way Percy hurled his Katana toward it, buying him enough time to send that Spartus to the void.

'Shit' Percy thought as he saw the last Spartus lunge toward Zoe and was about to impale her until Bianca was able to pull out her hunting knife and stab it in the back causing it to explode into dust and not reform.

'Must be a child of hades' Percy mused to himself before falling to a knee exhausted at the energy he expended sending the four spartus to void.

"I'll be fine, I just need a breather" he said waving off Zoe and Phoebe who rushed over to help while Bianca and Thalia were helping up Alex.

The group rested before they headed into the woods where Alex asked"What did you do to those Spartus anyway?"

"I sent them to the void, it's a place Chaos created that imprisons those who are sent to it for eternity." Percy replied and explained how Chaos had given him access to imprison beings. Although the list of those he could imprison by himself were limited to less power individuals such as Spartus.

A couple of hours later Percy got a message from Echo on his comms "Spectre sir we have got two objects coming to your location fast they have just entered the atmosphere"

"What is it" Percy asked before gesturing to the others to spread out away from him.

"Our scanners are picking up lifepods from...the venator class destroyer marked 1015" Echo replied

"That's impossible, that was Wraith's ship. It was supposed to have gone down with him on board when Chaos dispatched them from Vanguard to quell the second rebellion" Percy said

"That's what our scans are picking up. Be careful sir the rest of us will monitor the situation up here. Keep the communication lines open, Echo out"

"Guys there is a lifepod coming down to us from space. I need you to all back up and let me handle this. The ship this lifepod came from should've been destroyed centuries ago" Percy told the group behind him.

Once Percy had a visual of the lifepod it came crashing down towards the earth landing a hundred metres in front of him. Loading the last full magazine into his SMG he cocked the weapon and aimed it at the door as it opened.

"Stop. Who are you? That pod belongs to a ship that went down centuries ago" Percy said in a loud voice.

"Would you look at that mate he still thinks the boss' ship went down," a voice said as the second person with him laughed.

"Wraith sends his regards Spectre"

"Impossible…you all went down in that ship" Percy said as he couldn't believe his eyes as he saw Jubil and Charlie who were a part of Wraith's fireteam and transferred alongside him to the new ship after Sarah died.

"You'll learn the truth soon enough" Charlie said before Jubil cut in "Or you end up dying before you do I mean Wraith said we could kill him. If he kills us then we give him the message.

"Stand down rangers no one is killing anybody" Percy said

"Oi would you look at that Spectre thinks he is still the boss of us. Newsflash waterboy we don't work for you anymore" Jubil said

Jubil and Charlie both dashed towards Percy and knocked his gun out before they pulled out their swords and slashed at him.

Percy quickly pulled out his dual hunting knives and parried both strikes but soon found himself on the defensive as the two rangers were not letting up. Summoning water from a nearby creek he formed a fist with it and sent it towards Jubil knocking him back into a tree.

Focusing on Charlie he quickly took the offensive and feinted a strike to his left before quickly altering the direction of his hunting knife plunged it into the armour of Charlie and using the momentary distraction to shove the remaining knife into the opening of his armour into his stomach.

"CHARLIE. I am going to kill you for that Spectre. Then I'm going to find that girl of yours Zoe and have some fun with the lady" Jubil roared sprinting towards Percy who was so locked into combat he did not care who Jubil once was to him. Percy stepped aside and grabbed Jubil's sword arm and twisted it moving the blade away from his direction and summoned his katana stabbing Jubil in the stomach.

Jubil dropped to his knees and Percy removed his blade before asking "Deliver the message from Wraith and I promise a painless death." Percy said

Jubil grabbed a hologram disc from the inside of his armour and dropped it at Percy's knee before saying "He's coming for you. Everything you care about he will destroy. Especially her" motioning towards Zoe who came out of the trees with the rest of the group.

"I failed Sarah but I won't let something like that happen again" Percy replied before stabbing Jubil in the heart.

Picking up the hologram disc he radioed Echo telling him he needed to hear this before playing the message from Wraith.

"You took everything from me. The night I lost Sarah, that was the night I truly became a wraith. I promise you Spectre I will be there very soon to make sure you know what it's like to lose the people you love the most and I will savour each moment of it. 7 days time I shall see you enjoy yourself while you can"

"Echo prepares the rangers and pilots for an attack. I want all units left on the destroyer to be on high alert. Set the sonar to detect once they are within a 2 days journey from earth. Lastly, get in touch with Chaos inform him of Wraith and ask if he can send backup" Percy spoke into the comms before taking off his armour leaving him in a black hoodie, grey jogging pants and a pair of grey sneakers.

Sitting himself down on the log he motioned for the rest of the quest members to join him. "We need to find Artemis fast. I am going to try and shadow travel us to Mt. Tam tomorrow once I get my energy back. While we eat I will do my best to explain everything to you all" Percy finished before he explained to everyone what was coming.

AN: Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter please review and let me know how you guys think of the story so far.