Hey, who could it be? (No, it's gotta be...!)

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TWs: Playful colliding, excessive worrying/panic, brief arguing/yelling. Stay safe :)

8 HOURS

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"Mr. Spherical, I know you want to help and all, but what exactly are we going to do?" Houston asked, "I can't ask the world powers to give us more resources."

"I know, Captain, and I'm not asking you to do that." The cape-clad hero turned to face the other, "But you can't expect me to sit around and do nothing when our planet- our home- could be destroyed at any moment!"

Mr. Spherical brought a hand up to his face, breathing in before letting it out slowly. He took off his sunglasses, his other hand clutching a corner of his cape as he brought the fabric up to wipe the lens.

"They're still here, right?" He asked, placing his sunglasses in one swift motion, "I'm going to have to talk to them."

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"You want us to do what!?" China asked incredulously.

"Are you for real?" Russia's eyes were wide as his hands clenched into tight fists.

"Can't we just go somewhere else?" America crossed his arms.

"No one is leaving the planet!" Mr. Spherical placed his hand atop the table, "It's either Earth is blown up into a thousand pieces while we sit around doing nothing, or we actually do something about it and hopefully... have a chance to make it out alive."

The room was silent as they took in the superhero's words.

"Hope?" China scoffed, almost as if the other made a bad joke, "Hope, Mr. Spherical, will get us nowhere. We'll be dead before we have any chance to know what hit us!"

"He's right." Russia agreed, "Besides, we don't even know the source of the problem! How are we supposed to 'fix' it?"

"For once, I'm agreeing with the communists." America nodded, "All we know is that there are a bunch of unknown Stars that entered the solar system, and one of them has gotten more than a few thousand citizens injured in the past few hours."

"Well, what if there was a way to get more information?" Mr. Spherical perked an eyebrow as he leaned forward.

"How would you go about doing that?" Russia asked, "Unless you went up into space yourself."

Mr. Spherical smirked.

"Wait." China frowned, "You're not going up into space, right?"

The superhero said nothing.

"Right!?" China and Russia sat up in their seats.

America perked up, "Ooh, that's a great idea! You know, I bet you can help me find some space oil- the other guy in space let me down."

China collapsed into his seat while Russia face-palmed, exasperated sighs exiting both of them.

"Wait- something's missing." America lowered his sunglasses, taking in the room, "Where's Canada?"

The room fell into silence again.

"Eh, I bet he's fine." America shrugged, pushing his sunglasses up as he leaned back into his chair.

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