[September 11, 2001]
Pluto was now driving through the streets of Manhattan as Thena was just discharged from the hospital after a long observation of her body. Helios's birth made her weak, it's as if her cosmic and life energy had been consumed by the boy, but thankfully, she recovered, and they were now going home, well, not really, they were going to Central Park first, to catch some air after almost a month of quarantine..
Thena was feeding Helios in the front seat, as he just cried a couple minutes ago, begging for Thena to feed him. "You think Sprite's going to be okay?"
"She's going to school in London, there's no way it couldn't be worse." Pluto rolled his eyes. "Besides, maybe she'll get a letter from Hogwarts, and she'll skip formal education of the muggles."
Thena shook her head in amusement. "Spare me the pop-culture references darling."
Pluto chuckled as the car kept going through the streets. He massaged his nose bridge, the crying every night is not pleasant for Pluto, and the business of a parent will take a while to get used to.
But then, he saw a plane flying above Manhattan, and he frowned as he calculated the direction the plane was going.
"Wait, what date is it today?" Pluto questioned suddenly.
"September 11th, why?"
"Shit." Pluto cursed as he abruptly stopped his car, making the cars from his back shout profanities at them.
"What are you doing?" Thena questioned curiously.
But before Pluto could answer, the plane that was traversing the skies of Manhattan suddenly rammed to the World Trade centre, exploding the building for all the people could see.
"Holy Shit!" Pluto could hear many people screamed as they saw the plane crashes to the north tower. People were getting out of their cars, horns started to echoed throughout the street, and panic slowly ensued.
"What the hell happened?" Thena questioned anxiously as she looked at the burning tower above. "An accident?"
"That is no accident." Pluto murmured, he took his phone, and dialled a number from there. Not a second later, his butler picked up. "Yes master?"
"Benson, are you seeing this?" Pluto asked.
"The burning tower in the middle of the city? Yes master."
"Okay, you need to pick up Theo and Angie right now, I'll go there, we're near the tower."
"Wait, what are you doing?" Thena frowned.
"Certainly master, be careful."
Pluto hung up as he put his phone to his pocket. He got out of the car, and looked at the burning tower above.
"Hey! Get inside!" Thena shouted from inside the car.
Pluto just crouched down to the window, and said. "Thena, love, stay here, I'm going to try to do something."
"What are you going to do?" Thena questioned as Theo started to cry.
Pluto's eyes turned golden as he kept staring at Theo. "I'll let them do the work."
Thena nodded as she cooed Theo. "Okay, just stay safe."
Pluto nodded as many golden constructs suddenly appeared in the alleyway of New York. they were all winged, and had invisibility genes in them.
"Right, save as many as you can." Pluto murmured to the constructs as he walked closer and closer to the tower, passing many people.
""Your wish is our command, master.""
The golden constructs then dashed to the skies above, activating invisibility as they were in the line of sight of people. They quickly flew to the burning towers, saving the ones who tried to jump from the tower, and breaking the windows, searching for survivors.
"Look! They're floating!" shouted someone as he saw one of the men was saved from jumping, slowly floating to the ground below.
Pluto hummed as he walked closer, he took out his phone once again, and called the CEO of his company.
"Yes, Mr. Smith?" the CEO questioned.
"Evacuate the building." Pluto said quickly. "Tell the Research and Medical division to bring only the important research outside, do it in order, do not, I repeat, do not do it quickly, if some of those virus samples dropped, New York's going to be devastated."
"What's going on Mr. Smith?" the CEO questioned nervously.
"Look outside, dimwit." Pluto snorted. "One of the twin towers is burning, a terrorist attack from the looks of it, there's no way it's an accident."
The CEO gulped. "Very well Mr. Smith, I'll do it quickly."
Pluto hummed as he hung up the phone, he kept walking to the tower, and at this point, plenty of people had been saved, at least the ones who tried to jump anyway.
Then, Pluto saw a second plane rushing to the South Tower. Pluto frowned, and his eyes turned blue. Spatial pressure began to envelope the plane above, and as soon as it neared the tower, it moved away from it, barely touching the tower.
Many people gasped as they saw the plane coming closer, but sighed in relief when it turned around.
Pluto kept concentrating on the plane, bringing it to the nearest airport so SHIELD or FBI could handle it.
He stood for a couple minutes in the middle of the street, guiding the plane.
—
A bald black man with an eyepatch was standing on guard in front of the twin towers as it was burning. He took his communication device, and spoke to it.
"Report," he said.
"Many people have been saved by an unknown force, director."
"Unknown force?"
"They just… floating to the ground…"
"Motherfucker, do you think I couldn't see it?" Fury said as he saw the men floated onto the ground safely. "I'm asking you what unknown force is it?"
"We're working on it, director."
"Then work faster!" Fury said in a matter-of-fact tone. He massaged his forehead, tired of all this shit.
"Director, we just got a report that the Pentagon has been hit, and that plane that wanted to hit the south tower had landed safely in JFK, the FBI is dealing with it now."
"You wanna know what I think, agent? A plane like that couldn't possibly turn around that quickly." Spoke Fury. "I bet that 'unknown force' you're talking about is also the culprit, find out about it."
"Sir, yes, sir."
—
After almost two hours of burning, the north tower finally collapsed. Pluto, instead of reaching safety, kept walking to it. The wave of dust quickly dash through the streets, dirtying and damaging countless properties the whole way.
"Mr. Smith!" a cop shouted. "Mr. Smith, you shouldn't be here! We need to get you out of here."
"Thank you for your concern sir, but I think I'm alright." Pluto insisted, not looking at the cop. The cop however kept trying to talk him out of it, and quickly, the wave of dust hit them both, making the cop fall from the force.
"You okay Sir?" Pluto asked, helping the cop to stand up and cleaning his shirt. As the cop stood up, Pluto kept walking, he saw his constructs looking for more survivors in the foggy area of the rubble, and as he arrived at the place, he saw some of the cops were already there, also trying to find survivors.
"Mr. Smith? What are you doing here?" another cop questioned, this time a higher rank from the previous one.
"Captain Stacy." Pluto nodded, but he ignored him, and walked to the rubble. He gazed at the destroyed building and his frantic constructs. He clenched his fist, and sighed at the sight.
Heavy rain started to pour from the skies above as people gathered in front of the rubbles north tower of WTC. all of them were wearing black, and using black umbrellas. Pluto and Thena were standing in front, near the governor of New York, delivering a speech to the masses. The two were wearing a black turncoat, with a black tuxedo and dress inside it, Helios is at home, staying with Ajak.
Thena held Pluto's arm as the governor continued his speech, many people were crying from the back of Pluto, mostly from the families of the fallen.
A man was standing beside them, wearing a cop's uniform.
"Captain Stacy." Pluto greeted calmly, not looking at the man.
"Mr. Smith." Captain Stacy nodded. "Thank you for your help, the donations you have made to this city and its departments is too much honestly…"
"Nothing is too much for security, officer." Pluto added. "And besides, these families aren't as fortunate as me and my wife, some had lost a son, some had lost a daughter, some had lost their parents, monetary support is only temporary, for they had lost their familial support."
Captain Stacy looked at Pluto in surprise, but Pluto didn't move, he kept looking at the governor. "I heard you had a kid last month."
Pluto smiled as he nodded weakly. "A son."
"Then congratulations Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith…" said Captain Stacy sincerely. "I had a child myself back in March, a daughter, makes me feel motivated to go to work everyday, to keep the city safe, for her."
"Then a congratulation is in order for you too, Captain." Pluto hummed. "I heard the NYPD needed funding for new equipment."
Captain Stacy was surprised at the sudden statement. "Yes, we're in need of new equipment right now… the government is straining us down."
"Well, you should inform your commissioner officer, tell him to contact me, and we shall discuss this later." Pluto said as the governor continued to speak.
"Well, I'll be sure to tell him." Captain Stacy smiled. "Thank you, Mr. Smith."
"You can call me Jonathan Officer, I'm not that old yet." Pluto chuckled.
Captain Stacy nodded. "Then call me George."
—
As Pluto and Thena were walking towards their car, the place was still raining, they were halted by a man wearing a military uniform.
"May I have a moment, Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith?" the man said, making Pluto and Thena frown.
"And you are?"
"General Thaddeus Ross." said the man, offering his hand for a handshake.
Pluto shook his hands, and said. "Then do you need anything, General?"
"I am here to talk about a proposal," he said. "I promise you, Mr. Smith, it will soar your name if it succeeds."
"I don't need fame, General, but do go on." Pluto said as they walked towards the parking lot.
"Yesterday, the US Armed Forces had accepted my proposal on the Bio-Tech Enhancement Project, because they believed our nation is threatened right now, and we need to fight that threat."
"What kind of project is that, General?"
"I'm sure your father knew of a project called 'Project Rebirth', he worked with Howard Stark after all."
"So the project is to make super soldier serums." Pluto sighed as he opened the door for Thena. He closed the door, and turned to Ross. "I'm sorry General, it's been our policy since the beginning of the company, that we are not to deal with weapon technology. We are a company that deals with Natural resources, Medicine, and Research, but weapons are not one of them."
"Look at this, Mr. Smith." Ross said as he pointed at the World Trade Centre. "Do you want this to happen again? We need to fight back! We need an ace, so that our country will be protected!"
"There are countless ways to fight it, General." Pluto said as he opened the door to the driver's seat. "Building an army of Super Soldiers is not one of them. It will only be a matter of time before it'll be misused if you create it. When one gets power, if they don't have a good heart, they will be corrupted, you've read history right General?"
"Steve Rogers overcame it." Ross argued.
"Rogers was an exception." Pluto said, before entering his car, slamming the door shut in front of Ross. he opened the window. "Have a good day General, and the answer is no."
Pluto then drove away, leaving Ross in the middle of the rain, a bit pissed at Pluto's attitude towards him.
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A/N: I saw this pic in the Internet, and thought it matched Helios's appearance.
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