The Boys- Apprentice

Saving a Plane

The day started like any other, I flew over to work and started filling out the contracts that were given to me almost as soon as I entered the building. This took me almost an hour just to finish them. By the time I was done it was lunch time and I decided that I would eat with Queen Maeve if I could find her.

After asking around I found that she was in a meeting with Madelyn Stillwell. Deciding to see if she was still busy I went to Stillwell's office and after knocking entered the office. "Metallic, what are you doing here?" asked Stillwell. I looked around the office to find both Queen Maeve and Homelander in the office with Stillwell. I quickly responded with, "Oh, I was just looking for Maeve, I was going to ask if she was busy, and wanted to have lunch. But I can see your busy."

About to leave the office I was stopped by Queen Maeve, "wait, Metallic might actually be able to help with this mission."

I perked up, "Mission, what mission?"

Stillwell looked over at Queen Maeve and asked, "Are you sure?"

Maeve looked a little uncertain but replied, "Maybe, lets ask him?"

I looked around a little confusingly, "Ask him? Ask me what?"

Stillwell looked at me and said, "A US airliner has been taken over by terrorists. I figure, who better to save them then the 7. Also, if the 7 save the plane then no one is going to argue against introducing our supers into the military."

I processed this statement for a moment and then said, "Ok, so we're going to be saving an airplane."

Stillwell quickly interrupted, "This is going to be a very important mission, there can be no failures. Are you prepared for this?"

After a moment of silence, I responded, "Yea, no problem, and if anything goes wrong, well a plane is basically just a large chunk of metal, my specialty."

Stillwell looked at me searchingly and then said, "Ok, you're on the mission, as long as Homelander has no problems with this."

Homelander, who had remained largely silent until now responded by saying, "No problems here, if he thinks he can help great, and if Queen Maeve over here is vouching for him then even better."

The next 15 minutes were spent filling me in on what was going on and finding the location of the captive airliner. We then all rushed out to save the plane, with me and Homelander flying of our own power, and Homelander carrying Queen Maeve.

After entering the plane Homelander proceeded to take out the terrorist in the passenger side of the plane. Homelander then started calming down the passengers saying, "It's all over everything is fine." We then all moved to the front of the plane to find one captain dead and the other with a gun being held up to his head by another terrorist. After Homelander tried to calm him down, the man shot the captain and Homelander then proceeded to kill him with his heat vision unfortunately damaging the plane.

I started to silently freak out for a moment as the plane started to fall in altitude rapidly. As my panic began to rise, I heard Homelander and Maeve talking, saying that there was no way to save the plane, saying that they were going to have to abandon the passengers. Hearing this, I stopped feeling sorry for myself and tried to think of a solution. I tried to control the plane with my powers but the only thing I could do was slow it down not stop it or change the direction it was flying. I then heard Homelander say that there was no way that he could stop the plane in midair. This got me thinking, what if instead of stopping it, we angled it so it could land, not smoothly, but stably enough so that the passengers would survive. I could slow it down enough so if it hit the water the passengers would survive, and Homelander could move the wings of the plane and angle it so it can land smoothly.

I quickly ran over to Homelander and Queen Maeve and told them my plan. Maeve looked hopeful while Homelander looked contemplative for a moment. I then heard him mumble to himself, "Even if the plan fails, we can make it sound like the terrorists destroyed the plane steering and we did our best to save it but failed because we were not warned about this before by the military." I was horrified to hear him say this but I figured we had bigger things to worry about at the moment. 

So, after Homelander agreed to attempt my, admittedly crazy plan, I went over to the pilot seat of the plane, after pushing the pilot out of the seat and began to focus. First, I began to try and stop the plane, but I quickly noticed, as I thought, that that was impossible to do. Maybe if the plane wasn't falling at hundreds of miles per hour, I could lift it, but while it was, there was no way. So, I started to work according to the plan, I tried to slow the plane down as much as possible but then I noticed that it was still pointing much too directly towards the ocean. Right as I was about to panic, I noticed the plane start to level off, I looked out the window to see Homelander manually turning the wings of the plane so it was more level.

After about 5 more panic filled minutes, I heard a loud thump. I opened my eyes, which had been closed so I could focus, and noticed that the plane was in the water. I walked over to the passenger section of the plane to see everyone still alive. I quickly cheered in delight, "WOOHOO," and then the passengers, also taking note that they were still alive started celebrating with me. I quickly noticed that the plane was sinking though and decided to do something about it. After noticing land close by I quickly closed my eyes and lowered my hands towards the bottom of the plane and focused. Everyone fell silent for a moment, unsure of what I was doing, until they noticed that the plane was starting to move. Slowly at first, until the momentum built up and then the plane was gliding through the water towards land.

When the plane buckled for a moment, I noticed that we had reached land. As I started walking to the exit of the plane, I received many a thank you and congratulations from the passengers. Leaving the plane, I realized that I had never felt as fulfilled as I did at that moment. When we got to the beach later and the reporters started to arrive, Homelander started giving a speech. In this speech he basically said that today could have been a tragedy if we hadn't been able to make it in time to save the plane, and if it had been up to congress, we wouldn't have come at all. He urged the people to force their congressmen to sign a bill letting super heroes into the military. I was barely able to listen to the speech at this point due to my exhaustion. 

Sitting on the sand Queen Maeve came up to me and congratulated me on a job well done. She also asked, " Hey, are you going to be able to make it back to Vought on your own." 

I tiredly responded, "I don't think so, if I start flying now, I might just fall asleep in the air." She then called Stillwell, who was able to fly a helicopter over to where we were. As soon as I sat down in the helicopter the lights went out.