Pluto stood in front of Arishem. He looked around, and saw earth behind him, along with the countless stars shining through the vast and empty space around. Arishem stood proudly, his size dwarfing Pluto’s. To Arishem, Pluto was like an ant, he could easily crush him with one finger if he wanted to, he could easily destroy earth with a punch if he desired to.
“About ti you showed up, don’t you think?” asked Pluto, fearless as he could be.
“Pluto.” Arishem’s words echoed throughout the space around him. “You have broken our rules so many tis.”
“I know. That’s why I’m here, right?” said Pluto casually.
Arishem paused a bit, then he spoke. “You have disturbed the balance of the ergence, do you have words to defend yourself?”
“I just did what you ask.” Pluto chuckled. “You wanted technological advancents right? War creates it.”
“What you did isn’t war.” Arishem spoke. “It is a massacre. Massacre in this stage of advancent could only delay the ergence.”
Pluto just chuckled. “That’s how it is, huh? Okay, then explain to , why do I have feelings? Why do I have thoughts? Why do I have emotions?! If I was but a mindless being, all of this wouldn’t have happened, I wouldn’t get attached, you wouldn’t have to make those stupid rules, we would be tools instead! Tools for your grand design!”
Arishem then moved Pluto closer to his face, as if he was staring directly at him. “Your mission is to nurture the humans. And for that, you have to have feelings, to relate to them. If I made you mindless. It will not be effective, as you cannot do the mission efficiently.”
“Then why would you command us not to get too attached to them?!”
“At the end of the day, you are but a catalyst for them to advance, you are not human Pluto, your mission is to quicken the ergence and to collect data from the deviants.”
Pluto stared at the gigantic helt of Arishem, fearless about the punishnt he was about to receive. “Fine then, Helen is safe anyway. Do what you want with . Erase my mories, replace , I do not care anymore.”
Arishem was quiet for a while, but then, he spoke again. “No.”
“No?”
“You… are one of a kind Pluto.” Arishem spoke. “You are not my creation… The one-above-all gave you to so that I could study the deviants and fix the anomaly of the universe…”
“In other words, your mistakes.” Pluto said sarcastically.
“And your thoughts… you are rebellious, like the deviants that I created. You will stay on earth, I will leave your mories intact, but when the ti cos, I will study your mories, to see what the deviants were thinking when they rebelled, and from your mories, I would improve the Eternals' design.”
Pluto looked confused. “So I would be leaving scot-free then?”
“No.”
“Okay… then what?”
“I will strip away your gifts, and I will study the deviants that you have brought to now.” spoke Arishem. “A thousand years of earth ti I shall study it, and when the one thousand years are finished, I will give you your gifts back. That one thousand years would also be your punishnt, you cannot travel with the other Eternals, you cannot fight alongside them, you cannot enter the ship, you can only stay outside of it, and the others won’t defend you..”
Pluto clenched his fist. “So I’ll be powerless.”
“You are an eternal Pluto.” answered Arishem. “Your body is still stronger than humans, use that to survive, and if you could survive for a thousand years, I will return your gifts to you.”
Pluto looked down towards the empty abyss below him, and sighed. “Very well. I accept your punishnt Arishem.”
“Then good luck, Pluto.”
As soon as Arishem spoke his final words, Pluto felt sothing painful, like a part of him was stripped away suddenly. He could not hear the voice of Idemnon, he could not hear the voice of phia, he could not hear the voice of Asterion. For the first ti in a while, his head is silent.
His vision suddenly darkened again, and not a minute later, he woke up, he opened his eyes, and saw Helen was sitting beside him as his body was laying on the ground.
“Oh thank the gods!” Helen hugged Pluto, crying as she did that.. “I thought sothing happened to you!”
“Helen…” Pluto murmured, he felt off, his constructs were gone, and he didn’t like it. “I- I’m fine… just tired…”
Helen released the hug, and only nodded. Both of them stood up, and Pluto spoke. “Let’s go ho.” he said, smiling at Helen.
Helen also smiled, nodding vigorously as she looked at Pluto. “Okay.”
And so, Pluto and Helen slowly exited the palace, leaving the empty place, never to visit it ever again.
Reviews
All reviews (0)