Pantheon: Rebirth

This article was written by Mystogan on 2012-01-05 under Novels & Stories.

Prologue

 

Out with the old and in with the new.  That is how the old saying goes, so maybe that’s the way it shall be.  The Greek Pantheon, with Zeus at its head, has come and gone with the passing of the ages.

 

The only one left behind was the herald of the Gods, Hermes, the immortal alchemist, healer, thief, and traveller, he has been there ever since it fell, ever since men has taken up arms against Zeus, and killed him.

 

After all it was prophesized that this would happen, that the child of Zeus would rise up against him and humans were all children of Zeus, neither of them though realized it would be Hercules, Zeus’s beloved son who would led the attack.

 

Apparently Hercules still holds a grudge against the Gods making him go blind mad and killing his own family.  Yes he accomplished great tasks, but at the end of the day, he still had to live with the fact that he killed his own family.

 

Yes, he was elevated to Hero Status, adored by all, hated by many, in fact his life was ended by a centaur that holds a grudge against him, and then of all things, they turned him into a God.  Hercules was by far pissed.  He thought that all the tasks he had accomplished and dying gloriously was enough, no they had to bring him back as a God, a lowly god mind you, but a God nevertheless, not only can he not forget past woes by living in the promised Elysian fields where his first family probably was, but he had to spend the rest of his life as a God.

 

So he decided one day, enough was enough, Zeus had to go, no more abuse of power, no more killing and resurrecting your own kid.  So Hercules gathering a few of his demi-gods friends, and mortals rush up Mt Olympus and kill all in his path, the massacre ending with a mass suicide by the demi-gods, and Hercules turns the sword to himself.

 

However one God was left to not die, but remain, because he was the most true to himself.  Hermes, the God of messenger, thieves, liars, healers, alchemist, and travellers.  He was the only one left alive, because Hercules considered him a friend.

 

But now a crisis has come forth, the seal is about to be broken, the seal holding the Titans back in Tartarus.  Hermes was alone, old and by far the weakest of the Gods.  So by his own research and science, he rediscovered the essence left behind the old Pantheon, including one of his own, and send them all off through the wheel of rebirth.

 

The scions of the God will become Earth’s defence against the Titans.

 

Chapter 1

 

Roger Acer stood up looking at the fan in his living room, for some reason today, it seem a little slow.  A fly flew up to him, and he plucked it out of thin air, what the hell is going on? Is this some kind of whacked out dream?

 

All of a sudden, his whole reality slipped away right under his feet, and he found himself staring at a corridor of broken statues, statues of the Greek Gods.  He remembered reading about them when he was a kid, fascinating stuff, especially how Zeus was a right bastard, going around raping every girl in sight and impregnating them to boot.  So the Greek myth was really a cesspool of rape and fucked up people.

 

That was his thought right up to the part where he now found himself standing right in front of Hermes.  “Hi Racer” said Hermes in a booming voice.  “I bought you here because the Gods are dead, the Titans are freeing themselves, and the pantheon needs to be resurrected because I am out of ideas”.

 

I said “Wha…” but never managed to end with a “t” because, the scenes of Hercules, obviously piss off comes through Mount Olympus hacking and slashing everyone in sight, finally last stand against Zeus.  Then everyone killed themselves.  “WTF” Racer managed, that was his nickname yes.  Following the mass suicide everyone cheer, looted the place and left, leaving Hermes behind wondering what the heck to do.

 

Everything then zoom by, seeing Hermes, resting on couch, watching a magic TV set, fishing a bit, then all of a sudden Tartarus, starts to break open, and the sky cracks open.  In the scene Hermes went “OMG”, ran around a couple of a hundred times, and decided on the best course of action.

 

Out of the God’s corpse he plucks their DNA or some shit like that and throws it out through the wheel of rebirth, he added his own as well, and his own was now Racer.

 

“So you see that’s what happened” added Hermes.

 

Racer’s mouth fell slack, start to say something and decide to leave it there for a few second.  “My thought exactly” said Hermes.  Racer forcibly put his jaw back in place and finally said “and I am meant to do what exactly?” with a raised eyebrow.

 

“I don’t know” shrugged Hermes.  “Gather the rest of the scions and hope for the best maybe” he said.

 

Racer, slap himself a couple of times, and then decided that wasn’t enough, and started slapping himself some more.  This was stupid, beyond stupid, the last hope humans have at surviving was killed off by humans.  Now one lone, slightly unhygienic God, sent of the clone of the dead Gods, including his own cell through the Gate of Rebirth.  All of which these scions should be adults now and therefore able to save the world.

 

“You are an idiot” Racer told Hermes finally “and an asshole”.  Hermes Grinned “Well it’s your world”.  Reality then zoomed back into place.  Back in his shoddy rented house, where he found himself looking at the fan, still going a bit slow.  Then he realized, it wasn’t the fan that was slow, he was the fast one.

 

“Holy Shit!” As he sped, to the front door, and crashing into the mesh door, taking it away with him.  Must turn handle, must remember that.  Boy is the landlord going to be mad.  This is going to be tough, he thinks to himself before zooming off, wondering where the hell he needs to go now.

 

Chapter 2

 

Cronus had no intention of escaping his decked out prison, he had everything he wanted there, all he wanted to do was scared the willies out of the Gods, then he realized after a bit, that they were dead, so his little stunt was pointless.

 

But he noticed one thing, Hermes had set into motion a new thing of fun, he had set the Gods’ essence into rebirth, so Cronus did what any sane Titan would do out of pure boredom, he set his own essence and other Titans’ into the gate of rebirth also.

 

It seemed like a good idea at the time, to have a little war on the side when you are bored shitless watching soap opera/daytime TV.  Chronos only found out about his stunt being pointless when Atlas came and told him, since, he was supposed to hold up the heaven in which the Gods reside, but since Gods are dead, he just kind of left.

 

Prometheus, unchained himself after several hours of biting the heads off the vultures that came to take his liver and kidneys or whatever the hell Zeus set them to do this time.  Oh sure it hurts the first few hundreds time, but after a while it gets bloody old.

 

So it was in total agreement with everyone involved that they should set their own scions to do battle for them, because really they just couldn’t be fucked.

 

Chapter 3

 

Gods, doesn’t die, they wane in power but they don’t die, not unless of course they are killed by another God.  So when they were supposedly “massacred” they merely left into hiding, well Zeus was anyway, the rest were thrown into Tartarus II.

Sure Hercules was bought back to life, but the ingrate was not actually a God, he was a demi-God still, so he died in vain.  Then Hermes the idiot took their essence and sent them all through the gate of rebirth.  Now there should be a copy of them in human forms everywhere.

 

Zeus was mad, angry mad, not crazy mad, and well that is debatable too.  But he was mostly angry mad.  Hermes must be up to something to do this, he had always been man’s friend, but he has no proof.

 

Hermes was standing around in contemplation, when pops out Zeus right in front of him.  “Hi Hermes”, Hermes did not act at all surprised “Hi Dad, I guess I am in trouble huh?” “Yep” said Zeus.  “So you are going to put me in with Tartarus II like the rest of the others right?”  Zeus chuckled, “No son, I have a much more fun surprise for you”

 

With that Hermes was hurled right through the eye of the Hypercane on Jupiter.

 

“Run, run as fast as you can, you will never break free from that prison until the day I am finally thoroughly defeated”.

 

Chapter 4

 

Racer doesn’t really know where he was running to but then he ran past an electronic store.  The TV in the window was blaring some kind of movie or at least he thought it was.  Right up til he saw LIVE at the bottom of the screen.  It was showing a tank being disembowelled by a lone soldier.  “WTH” Racer thought, then he considered his own situation and thought about it.

 

This was in Afghan, he doubt he could run all the way to Afghanistan but hey he could give it a try.  Then he remembered how reality has warped around him, and all of a sudden he realizes he could do it too.  Racer ran on the spot, and waited for everything to zoom in slow motion.  It did that for a bit, and then everything stopped, the insects, the water splattering in the gutter stop in its track.  He was about to concentrate on Afghanistan when suddenly someone called out “What did you do?”

 

Everything slow down to a slow motion state again, and he found himself staring face to face with a stranger.  The stranger stared straight back at him.  In his hand was a bunch of wallets.  Time had stop or had slowed.  Then he realized he was facing a super powered being like he was.  He tries to run for it and everything froze again, he went even faster, and reality shifted.  ‘Afghanistan’ he thought.   “Wait!!!” but it was too late.  “BAM!” and a building exploded behind him.

 

The stranger stood there in a state of shock, he had come for the ride.  Racer tries to runs again but this time, he froze in mid track and the stranger walked casually up to him “You are Hermes’s Brood” he stated rather than questioned. “I am Cronus’s”.  He sped up again, pushing for speed but then slowed again, “Shit you don’t like talking much do you?”

 

Reality shifted once again and they were no longer in Afghanistan, they were in Cronus’s decked out prison.  He ran for his life but time doubly slowed, as Cronus was standing there all 10 foot tall of him.  “He doesn’t like to talk” said the stranger.  “I noticed” said Cronus.

 

Reality shifted again, and he realizes that he was seeing the past.  Cronus just wanted to give the Gods a good scare but that was it, he did not want a war.  The next thing he saw was Zeus throwing Hermes into a Hypercane on the Planet Jupiter.

 

Everything slowed down, and he stop running.  The stranger says “I am Cecil, Cecil Lock, yes I am Clock and we have no intentions of a war with you considering what has happened”.  Cecil then begins to rewind time to Zeus, faking all their deaths.  What had actually happened were he had actually the other Gods to an unnamed location by trickery and imprisoning them there.   Then he took some of their essences and made them his own.

 

Zeus is now and overpowered maniac trying to destroy and reconquer the world.  “So that’s what it is” Cronus said.  “Hermes had actually tricked you into believing something else in order to save your life, unlike him you are human and not God” Cecil added.

 

“But you can go back to Afghanistan we need Ares’s brood for this”.

 

Reality shifted and he found himself back in the path of a tank, which was about to shoot at him.  Then all of a sudden the tank was hurled wayside by the soldier on the news.

 

The soldier turn to him and said “I take it you are not from around here” pointing to his tracksuit.  “You have 2 seconds to explain everything”.

 

Chapter 5

 

“Whoa!” I didn’t really mean in 2 seconds, Racer stopped “but you said” Racer looked around and notices that Cecil was also nearby then was not.

 

“Damn you two got to show me how you do that zooming stuff, all I can do is hurl these tanks about and be totally impenetrable” he says all this with a beaming smile.  “Dude all I know is this, one night I was a weakling now I can hurl shit one hundred time my weight and a rocket would just bounce off my body like it was nothing, its frigging awesome man” he continued.

 

“So what the hell is going on like or I am going to hurl this building at you” he said with the same beaming smile but his eyes was totally serious.

 

I started to explain at the speed of 1.1 millisecond.  This was probably a tad too fast.  Cecil came into view and sigh, did the whole past, present thing with Cronus, explaining how he had explained before, which in the end nearly broke Racer’s head.

 

Apparently the soldier’s name was Warren Augustus Rage, the name acronym for WAR.  Awesome this guy was born of Ares’s essence, and he has a temper and the personality to boot.

 

“Right on count of three I am going to throw this building at you, for doing that to my head” he said it with no smile “Three” he said, and throw a building straight at me.  I stood there for what I thought could be hours, or even years, then Cecil spoke up “hang on are you going to move?” he inquire “If not I am just going to let it hit you” he said.

 

I moved away from the building’s path just in time for Cecil to let go of time.  Cecil seems to be a bit annoyed with him for some  reason, sure he had the speed to dodge, but who in their right mind throws a building at someone else out of pure migraine.  WAR obviously.

 

The building came to nearly a crash toward a cameraman.  But Racer saw just in time, with his hyper speed observation, and took off as soon as the building was about to squish the cameraman.  As the building came crashing to the ground, Racer came to the pleasant surprise that the cameraman was a camerawoman as her chest was kind of soft and squishy.

 

He let her go, then sped up again, blood boiling a little bit, no one hits a girl or at least throw a building at one.  As she fell to the ground, he was off at supersonic speed, towards WAR.  His one thousand punches combo in at more than 400km/h each.  WAR was flung back, obviously surprised and a bit out of breath and pained.  “You don’t throw a building at a woman!” Racer yelled.  WAR sputter a little bit, “Chill dude, I didn’t even see her there”.

 

“You chill! She was almost squished, pay more attention god damn it!” he yell even further, flinging his arms about causing a bit of a gale force wind with the force of his arms.

 

Cecil stood up in front of Racer, push up his shirt, to reveal breasts, “Now shut up” Racer stood there gawking for a bit, Cecil was a Cecilia?

 

WAR was equally surprised, and probably equally as pleasantly surprised as he was.  “Don’t fight amongst yourself, we have bigger fish to fry” with that she pointed straight at the sky.

 

“By the way this may seem a little silly but why are you destroying tanks?” I said “Doesn’t tank usually equate allies?”

 

WAR stare at me as if I had grown fins and became a fish, “To stop the war duh, I am sick of this stupid war, so many died, trying to do what conquer another country, that has a civil war of their own?” he muttered under his breath “It is frigging stupid, and I want it ended”.

 

Racer look at WAR with new found respect, WAR was surprisingly thoughtful and well peaceful.  “You guys go on ahead, I have a war to stop, I will catch up with you later” he nodded for them to go on and then add “I will probably commandeer a naval ship or something to find you guys but for now later”.

 

Chapter 6

 

“Where do we go now?” Racer turned and asks Cecilia.  “Don’t you feel that?” asked Cecilia.  “Eh?” Racer said.  “The interruption in the flow stupid” she says.  “Umm…nope” Racer said.  “Hang on you probably really can’t you are only a speedster, and the only way you can feel time, is to speed up hmm” she said thoughtfully.

 

Racer begins to race on the spot, and then realizes what she meant there were little spikes in the flow of time and space, like something important was there.  Cecilia looked up at Racer and says “So you get it now?” Racer nodded.

“Ok let’s go then” and she grabbed onto his arm, as reality shifted.

 

He didn’t really know where he was going but he was following the spikes, there were at least four he followed the biggest one, but then Cecilia shook her head, so he took off toward a smaller one.

 

Reality shifted and he found himself standing outside a Pub, yup it was a pub.  It was packed with people, probably due to the sign: Free Beer, Wine, and Alcohol here.

 

Racer, look at it and wonder what went wrong but Cecilia motion for him to move on in.   Racer took a step inside and felt woozy all of a sudden, like he was a bit tipsy.  It was fun though, everything was fun.  He shook his head then peer around, one man was dancing on the centre table with a jug of beer in his hand while drinking and singing away.

 

Racer stares at him, the man turn around and stared back, and then a look of ‘Oh shit’ seems to come to his face.  “I am not going there man!” he cried out.  “Cecilia tells him I am not going! I just make people drunk and be merry that’s all!” the man seems to have sobered up.

 

Cecilia then did something strange she played a scene of him attacking WAR with 400km/h punches.  Racer gasped, he forgotten about that, but he wasn’t going to do anything to this guy because he hasn’t done anything yet.  Cecilia even played the bit how if WAR hurt girls, he would hurt him.

 

The stranger collapse to the ground and says “Ok man, you win, I am not going to go against you, and I am not going to be hit by those punches am I?” he asked.   Racer stared.  ‘What in hell had just happened’ Racer thought.

 

The man name was Al Co Hol, which if put together spelt alcohol, he realizes then Hermes must have been not very creative or just have a sense of humour when he sent them.  Amusingly enough, the man’s name is also A. Hol if he were to take out the C.  Laughing out loud was a bad idea.

 

Cecilia whisper in his ears,” trust me he has done things to woman, you would not like”.  Racer sigh, but threatening a man to help him on his quest wasn’t exactly the right way to go either.

 

But now they had more things to do, so off to more spikes in time and space they go off to.

 

Chapter 7

 

After retrieving yet another Hero, Florette Lower, from a flower shop, that wasn’t really much to do to begin with.  It seems Florette already knew they were coming as if Cecilia has done it all before which made Racer a little paranoid.

 

“Don’t worry it will work out Racer” Cecilia seems to know what he was thinking about.  That made him wonders all the more.

 

Reality shifted once more and Racer found himself staring down an arrow coming right at his head, Racer dodged just in time and heard the arrow whizz past his face, cutting off a strand of his hair.  The arrow buried itself with a “THUNK!”  in a practiced target.  He stood up only to have another arrow aimed straight at him.  This time it stays in the bow.  His gaze climbs upward the arrow and the bow and on to the prettiest girl he had ever met.

 

He looked around for Cecilia, but she was nowhere in sight, the other heroes he had picked up were though.  “Hi we come in peace” he says imitating a person from Star Trek convention.  The girl looks at him for one moment, the arrows slacken and she cracks up laughing.

 

“Hi” she says to him, “I am Sparrow and before you say another word, I know who you are and yes I changed it, there was no way I am going to be call ARROW” she says.  “So now it’s just a one word name”.

 

“Cecilia told me you were going to head this way, and since you are kind of the leader of this whole thing, you will have to do all the meeting and stuff again” Sparrow said.

 

Racer felt they hit it off straight away, they talked a bit about how they found out their powers, how she has been able to run all over the woods, and how she knew that they were coming with her power of prophecy and her ability to not ever miss a target.

 

Before she was just working at a desk job throwing pens at the ceiling and making them stick and hang on it.  It was fun while it lasted but this was a lot more fun, and she wants to join in their little fight against Zeus because if they don’t they would be screwed.

 

“Cecilia says, the last two you have to approach carefully, they are Hades ‘s and Poseidon’s brood, and before you go any further it seems Zeus’s brood may have joined him, so it’s best to leave him” Sparrow says.  “In any case it would be wise to not cause a misstep but I refer to you to do the recruiting”.

 

Chapter 8

 

But before even considering the last two or three, there was still a matter of Apollo’s, Aphrodite’s, Athena’s and Hephaestus’s essences.  Sparrow had said, they weren’t really that necessary to bring down Zeus, and that he should just ignored them.

 

First on the list was Apollo’s essence.  His name was Fletch, because he wanted to rename himself that which was cool, people should be named whatever the hell they want instead of this entire weird, absurd, and obvious name.

 

Racer wonder if he should just renamed himself Racer, instead of Roger Acer, but then again his name wasn’t half bad neither was Cecilia’s.  A. Hol on the other hand was bad either way you look at it, Racer thinks to himself.

 

Fletch had the power to be real shiny, play music, heal people, and the power of prophecy also, and he prophesized that he was going to get his ass handed to him by Zeus, if they don’t get more help.

 

Fletch was a smart ass, which was good, Racer like smart ass, considering that he was also one himself.

Lovett Ove, a model from Milan was a bit harder to handle, sure she had the power to make any normal man fall deeply in love with her, but that was a bit sickening when she turned on the charm, Racer found himself wanting to regurgitate more often than not, luckily she also had the power of fighting as well.  All is fair in love and war after all, thought Racer.

 

Spike Jones was Athena’s brood another smart one who changed their name, his name was literally Sam Mart, so no matter how people say it, it still sounds like SMART.  He was a master of strategy and he was sick of people calling him SMART.

The next guy was Black Smith, yes that was his name and he was one too, he was also a damn good engineer, making toy robots, and aircrafts that sells really well, he was a millionaire too, which was also a real big hit with Lovett.  He wasn’t hard to convince considering if the world was destroyed; he would no longer be rich, and able to make any more stuff.

 

So that was all the heroes he gathered, and what was left was the scary three.  Zeus’s, Poseidon’s and Hades’ broods.

 

Chapter 9

 

Racer decides to take a gamble and went for Zeus’s essence.  He found himself staring at an electric power pole.  On it was a lone man climbing it, he turned around once and sigh, then turned back again to complete his work.

 

For a minute he remembered Sparrow’s warning, but he decides against that.  He looked up and gulped loudly how was this electrician going to join up with him?

 

Racer just stared up at the slouching back of the electrician as he went on working.  Then he decided on the best course of action and went against it.  He open his mouth, and asked “Hey, you know that Zeus’s problem, you want to join us in helping defeat him?”

 

It was the best decision he ever made, the electrician, practically and literally jump from the power pole, electricity circling around him, “Hell yeah!” he says.  “The name is Sparks Plug, and I have so been waiting for someone to ask, everyone thinks I am on his side, but he doesn’t ask either, I just want someone to ask” and the sad and pained look in his eyes said it all.  He was sick of feeling like he was the bad guy when he was never asked in the first place.

 

Racer and Sparks hit it off well, they became good friends, but Sparks said “You do realize, I can’t really help right?” he said.  Racer looks at him questioningly “Well I am Electric and Zeus is electric, it just wouldn’t do any good”.  Racer pats him on the back and then says “You never know until you tried right?”

 

Chapter 10

 

Cecilia did not part way from Racer without a reason, two people recruiting was much better than one and also the fact that she has begun to feel a soft spot for him, she knew that he would end up meeting Sparrow, and how they would hit it off really well but she has to try.

 

Cecilia also knew that she would die in this fight, as far as the scenarios played in her head, she always died trying to save the man she loves.  It was all pointless, Racer did not love her, he only saw her as another guy, until she flashes him.

 

In every scenarios, they would all die a nasty death, all due to what they need to do, bring and free the real Gods, who would fight for them and in the midst of it, Zeus would use a mind control technique to conquer Artemis, and point her arrow at Racer, where immediately she would jump in front to stop him from getting killed.

 

Tartarus II was a reality in a reality, which can be caused by a really big discharged of electricity at a certain spot or at least reverse time, fast forward time, and freeze time all at once, which would cause a destabilization in the reality causing a rip to appear which leads to Tartarus II.

She needs the Gods inside because it is only true Gods which can kill a God.

 

She hates this, everyone was going to die, no matter what they do, but Cronus had said, ‘there is nothing until you at least give it a try’.

 

She concentrates hard on one spot where Zeus had put all his friends, it was strange how Zeus seems to know everything and had killed Hera off first, maybe it was the effect of absorbing all the Gods’ essences.

 

Time did a strange dance then all of a sudden a vortex appear in mid-air, strange un earth like creature appears only to be shot down by Artemis’s arrows, arrows that never misses.  All at once the old pantheon flew out, all except Hera and Ares who also died defending his mother.  The only two with power enough to match Zeus’s own.

 

Cecilia starts to open her mouth only to be shut off again by Apollo’s words, “Yes we know who you are, I have seen it in a dream, we are doomed if we don’t, we are doomed if we do, so we chose to do rather than don’t at least there won’t be regrets”.

 

Cecilia smile for a bit, then Artemis added “Don’t worry prophecies sometimes have trouble getting its way, especially when things are unexpectedly happening; by the way that Harrier Jump Jet seems to contain WAR”.

 

Cecilia looked and realized that Artemis was in fact right, Zeus as smart as he was, was still stupid, he placed Tartarus II right underneath Mt Olympus.

 

Chapter 11

 

WAR flew up on his stolen jet and landed on top of the ruins of Mt Olympus.

 

Cecilia knew what he was about to do but was powerless to stop it, he hurl the jet straight at Zeus, the war was about to begin, without any strategy whatsoever.

 

The Gods flew down, onto the ruins joining the fray, with WAR shouting to Cecilia “Don’t worry the best attack is a frontal attack!”  Zeus promptly blasts him away with a lightning bolt.

Cecilia on the other hand cast a time field which cause everything to slow down so that all the Gods could dodge whatever the hell Zeus was throwing at them.

 

Zeus was picking up debris and throwing them around like a maniac, while WAR himself was having a hard time “Damn this is harder than expected” he says.

 

Cecilia wants to punch him, but WAR grinned “Look the element of surprise is already gone, I am just here to hold the fort until the real party arrives, you and the Gods stay away, I will do my best to not die” he grin one more time before running straight into Zeus with the side of his arm, doing a lariat.  Zeus fell to the floor, stunned, he had not expected that and neither did Cecilia.

 

Artemis says “We better do as he wishes and wait for the other party to arrive, but some of our fighting Gods will join in to keep the balance up”

 

Cecilia hopes that Racer would come here soon, and do whatever he does best, and that’s pull miracles out of his ass.

 

Chapter 12

 

Racer nearly died when he fell into the middle of the Ocean, in fact the other heroes nearly did as well.  There he was the a frigging tourist wandering around on a boat, paddling like mad, trying to get away from friendly sharks, and the giant Kraken.

 

“Get them away! Get them away!” he was crying out.  Racer thought this was probably best left til last.  So off he went straight for a medical centre “WTF” he said loudly.

 

He checked the named plates and sure enough was Dr. Grim Death.  It was a most unfortunate name for a medical practitioner.  The heroes though a bit wet behind the ears, was being dried off by Fletch’s shininess.

 

After some ruckus, he made an appointment and found himself staring at a Doctor who appears to consider wearing a cowl and robe was good humour.  “So who are you all?”

 

Racer explained, he shrugged and said “Ok”, that was simple, and so Racer decides to go after the unfortunate tourist again, this time with Dr. Death’s help.

They both landed in water, but with Racer’s ability to run across the surface and the Doctor’s ability to float on it, it was no problem.

 

The tourist was still running/swimming around, and not wondering why he could do that in the middle of the ocean.

 

“Look we want your help” Dr Death said menacingly, and all the sea monsters including the tourist appear to cringe.  “Sorry, you best handle this” Dr Death said.

 

Racer half running on the Ocean’s surface half skidding off it, ran to where the sobbing tourist.  “Look it’s your fault, no wait its Zeus’s fault” and Racer began to explain in great detail why it is Zeus’s fault that there was sea monsters coming after him.

 

So after the quick but wet explanation, there was now a very pissed off tourist joining in the fray.

 

Chapter 13

 

Cecilia was having trouble holding the fort and she could see also that WAR was having more trouble, he was bleeding from head to toe, covered in blood, but he was still fighting.

 

Zeus was a hard kill, especially when the only thing that can kill him was another God, but he was leaving no opening, and the Gods don’t seem to know how to stop him.

 

All of a sudden out pops Racer and crew right in the middle of everything.

Racer could see the bloodied and a bit burnt WAR and nod to Sparks.  Sparks gulped and discharged a huge blast of lightning sending Zeus several feet back.

 

“Yeah motherfucker! I am on their side you asshole father who didn’t ask for help!”  Cecilia was flabbergasted; he had bought Zeus’s brood to the fray.  Zeus hurls a piece of the jet back at them, but all of a sudden it stopped in mid-air, “Electromagnetic Field Mother Fucker!” Sparks scream out again but he was sweating a bit.

 

Racer looks at Dionysus and A. Hol, “You two!” they perk up.  Racer then says Al, you give him a hangover like the Mother Fucker and Dionysus, you make him drunk like the Mother Fucker!” they stared at him but shrugged, Zeus goes down for the count.  Racer then begins giving commands.  Aphrodite and Lovett was charming Zeus, Poseidon and the Tourist was hitting him with hard water, Hephaestus and Black sending automatons and toy robots at him, Sparrow was shooting arrows to distract him, while Demeter and Florette was binding him with their plants.  Apollo and Fletch was healing the wounded.

 

“Now!” he points at Artemis.  Zeus cackled “You fool! You played into my plan, Artemis turn and fired the arrow that never misses straight at Racer, Cecilia jumps in front of him like in the scenarios.  But then she realize Racer was running on the spot, she looked straight at him, and he says “Now!” she now knew why she was in love with him, he was able to speed himself to match up with time’s stream, while she can stop it.  At the word “Now!” everything stopped.

 

Artemis’s arrow which had been aiming for him had stopped a hair breadth away from him, Racer reach out to adjust the trajectory ever so slightly about all 90 degree of it, “Now! Full force!” time sped up once more but this time in fast forward, the arrow seems to have teleported from where it was and straight into Zeus’s heart.

 

Zeus exploded into a huge blue flame.   “No!” he screamed before dwindling out into nothing.

 

Chapter 14

 

“Thanks for that” Racer nearly jumped when he was suddenly surprised by a rather bedraggled Hermes.

 

“I knew he was the bad guy, but I didn’t quite knew what to do, plus he was always spying on me too, so I couldn’t tell you what was going on” Hermes sigh.

 

Racer looks at him, then sigh, its ok we think a like anyhow, it’s what you would have done right?” Racer shrugged.  Hermes stares off into the East, “Well no not quite, you succeed where I would have fail, and I have you to thank for that, otherwise I would still be running around in the middle of that Hypercane on Jupiter”.

 

“But it seems you have gotten yourself a lot of friends and something else too” and he winked to Cecilia, which made her and funnily enough Racer blushed.

 

So all the Gods and them began the hard task of cleaning up, WAR was out of commission because, he had had taken too many hits from Zeus and Apollo and Fletch was doing their best to heal him but it seem a losing battle.  Dr Death then walk in, “If you please, hold onto his soul for me” he ask of Hades, and Dr Death begins his surgery.

 

In the end WAR survives, but he was now a wanted criminal by the UN and also by the rest of the Western World for destroying so many tanks and then stealing and destroying a jet.  So he was offered a place with the newly reformed pantheon while the rest mill about trying to find their way back.

 

Dionysus and his protégé look onto each other with new found pride in their own powers, same with the love duo, and the plant duo.  The ones with the greatest pride go to the two messengers of course but the ones that really helped out was the two healers.

Epilogue

 

Out with the old and in with the new, oh so the saying goes, but it seems the new isn’t that really new, it just has a new leader, Hermes became the new leader of the Pantheon, WAR replaced Ares.  Artemis marries Hermes, and a whole new pantheon begins.  Pan was bought into the new Pantheon as Hermes’s Son.  Apollo invites Fletch to join so there would be more healers in case anything like this happens again.  Black deny the offer and surprisingly did Sparks who wants to go back to college and do a degree in science.

 

Everyone else rejected the offer to become Gods of the new Pantheon because they wanted to go back to their own life.

 

Fast forward a couple of years, and Racer is now married to Clock, their children able to change Fate at their own will.

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