Dirty Little Secrets

This Is The End-AVPSY(April Fools Chapter)

Third Person POV

Sally called thirty minutes into Percy's visit with Emmy and her mom.

"Percy, where are you? School ended forty-five minutes ago. Are you okay?"

He smiled. "I'm fine, Mom. I went to Emmy's. Sorry for not telling you."

"Oh, that's fine, honey. Just remember to text me or one of the team next time."

"Will do, Mom. Sorry." He chuckled. "Love you."

"I love you too, Percy. See you when you get home." The line clicked off.

Mitzy, who was lying across Percy's lap with a wagging tail, lifted his head to nudge his hand.

Emmy laughed. "You stopped petting him. He does that when he feels like he should have more attention."

Percy chuckled and continued to pet the large black dog. "Sorry, Buddy. Only one arm here."

Mitzy snuggled tighter against the boy's stomach as Percy pet his head.

"So, Percy, how did you meet Emmy at school?" Mrs. Sonewall asked. "She makes you sound like some sort of knight in shining armor."

Emmy laughed. "No I don't. He just helped me out with an annoying little fly by the name of Leo."

Percy laughed as well. "I wouldn't say a knight. More like a human flyswatter, if we're going by Emmy's description of Leo." He reached for the plate of cookies on the table, but Mitzy, once again annoyed at not being paid attention to, butted his hand with his large black forehead.

"Mitzy, there are other people in the room besides you." Emmy scolded jokingly as Percy lightly pushed the dog's head aside and grabbed a cookie.

"These are really good, Mrs. Sonewall." He said.

"Why, thank you, Percy!" Emmy's mom beamed.

Percy checked his watch quickly. "Well, I should probably get going soon. My mom will need help with dinner."

"Aren't you such a good boy." Mrs. Sonewall chuckled. "Helping your mom."

"Well she'll need it." Percy replied. "She's cooking for 8. And with trying to feed my uncles, it's more like cooking for 12."

"Goodness!" Mrs. Sonewall seemed surprised. "There's eight in your family?"

Percy nodded. "Me, my mom, my five uncles and my aunt."

"Well that's quite the group." 

He laughed. "You have no idea." Carefully nudging Mitzy off his lap, he stood and stretched.

"Thank you for the cookies and the hospitality, I'll see you at school tomorrow, Emmy."

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When Percy got home, the tower was quiet, which in itself was unusual.

"Mom?" He called.

Getting no answer, he began to feel a sinking sense of dread in his stomach.

"Mom? Tony? Is anyone here?"

The living room was clean, but as he walked down the hallway, he realized that there was smoke coming from the kitchen.

"Mom?" He scrambled into the kitchen.

It was a mess. Pans were everywhere and something was burning on the stove.

"Mom!" Percy panicked when he saw his mother lying on the kitchen floor, unconscious.

He wanted to pick her up, but with his one arm, that would prove to be tricky.

Running to his room, Percy slipped on the fake arm and the mental connector.

"Mom, can you hear me?" He asked as he picked her up, carrying her into her room which was right next to the kitchen.

He got no answer. 

With a sigh, Percy went back into the kitchen to clean up. He turned off the stove and pulled water from the sink to put out the fire. He cleaned up the pans and things as well.

Once he was satisfied that nothing in the kitchen would flame up again, he walked down the hall to the living room and pulled his phone out.

First he tried dialing Tony.

"Uncle Tony? I understand if you're on a mission, but if you aren't where are you? Mom was passed out in the kitchen and I don't know what happened."

After that he tried the other members of the team. No one answered and Percy was fighting to keep calm.

"They're probably just working, it'll be fine, Mom just got a headache or something and passed out, calm down." He murmured to himself as he paced back and forth. But it didn't add up. If the team was on a mission, he would have gotten a text. He checked his phone again to try and find the missing message that he knew wasn't there because he had checked his phone thrice already.

After an hour, Percy was on the verge of calling Fury himself. His mom still wasn't awake, none of the team had answered, they weren't back yet, and he still didn't have a text confirming or denying that they were on mission.

Slowly, Percy became aware of a screeching sound coming from outside. He frowned and went to the window, looking out to try and see what was going on. 

There was a black dot in the sky. Percy squinted at it, trying to figure out what it was.

As he identified the flying object, he swore loudly and backpedaled as quickly as he could.

Tony's suit was smoking as he crashed through the window. He flew across the room and hit the bar.

A fireball exploded from the place where Tony landed, flaring through the room and blowing Percy backwards.

He hit the wall and the world went black.

[A/N So yeah...this is the last chapter.... I'll mark it as complete later tonight, I've got to go do stuff right now]