Zeus Vs. Poseidon!

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So Big Daddy Zeus is pleased with how things are going. The Trojans have the upper hand and he’s not sweatin’ a thing. And when you’re not sweatin’, you’re not paying attention. Yeah, BDZ turned his back from the war for a bit of a break, thinking that none of the other gods were going to interfere. Oh, dear sweet Zeus. It’s like you’ve never even met your fellow Olympians.

While Zeus has his back turned, Poseidon comes walking out of the water into the Greek camp, disguised as Calchas. In his disguised form, Poseidon goes around encouraging the Greek warriors, including Big Ajax and Little Ajax. He told them in particular to go after Hector, as he is the leader of the Trojans and if they can defeat him, they can win the whole thing.

The Greeks, now freshly invigorated by the encouraging words of Poseidon, head back into battle. The Ajaxes head right for Hector on the battlefield. Big Ajax fired his spear at Hector, but the Trojan prince was able to deflect it with his spear. Enraged, Little Ajax cut off the head of a fallen Trojan and threw it straight at Hector, where the severed head landed directly at his feet.

In the skirmish, Hector kills Amphimachus, a grandson of Poseidon. The sea god, who was watching all of this unfold, sees his grandson fall and has to jump in to do something about it. He disguises himself again, this time as Thoas, and goes to Idomeneus, a huge Greek warrior, who was taking a quick breather at the healer’s tent. Poseidon tries to convince Idomeneus to get back out there but the dude is reluctant. Idomeneus is kinda just brushing off Poseidon’s request to rejoin the battle until he sees his little buddy and right-hand-man, Meriones come back to the outskirts to grab a new spear because his broke. 

With Meriones willing and ready to fight, Idomeneus also decides to rejoin the battle. They both go towards the left flanks of the battle ground. 

With the Ajaxes going ham and the tag-team of Idomeneus and Meriones leading a charge from the side, Zeus takes notice and returns to the fight. It’s god against god, brother against brother, Zeus versus Poseidon. (Although, it’s noted that Poseidon was terrified of Zeus so he was doing all his battle stuff on the Greek side invisibly.) 

But between Idomeneus and Meriones, the Ajaxes, and also Menelaus, the Greek army basically destroys the Trojans. Hector was back by the ships and didn’t realize just how many men he had lost, even though Zeus is still doing his godly thing and encouraging the Trojans to fight. 

When Hector returns to the meaty section of the battle, he finds the Trojans being rained on by arrows and ready to give up. Poulydamas sees Hector and leans into him for not letting the men retreat. Hector mumbles something and wanders away.

Hector finds Paris amid the melee and tries to yell at him, like “WTF JUST HAPPENED HERE?!?” And Paris is like, “No way, dude. You’re not blaming me for this battle going sideways.”

Finally, Hector and Big Ajax meet and square off. Ajax basically tells Hector that he’s a loser and should go home. There is still a wave of tension in the air as an eagle, the sign of Zeus flies over Ajax’s shoulder.