Big Book of Solarballs

-Asteroids- An angsty banger!-

My first (attempt to write) angst! Let's see how it goes..

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After the revolution, things were finally back to normal. Venus and Mercury argued a lot, Earth and Mars were best friends again, the giants were doing their own things, and the moons were working on their communication skill in the Asteroid Belt, at their Moon Club.

"Yeah!"

"Ohh, come on!"

"Take that, pipsqueak!"

"Good game, Venus!"

"I could've beaten you this time!"

Venus grabbed the deck of cards and began shuffling once more, while Earth crossed his arms, Mercury groaning.

"Get ready to be smashed again this round!" the hotheaded planet said passing out an uneven amount of cards.

"Smashed, eh?" Earth gave a smug smile.

Venus realized how that sounded, and Mercury began laughing hysterically. That quickly escalated into an actual argument.

Meanwhile, Mars was trying to stop their fight, but his attempt was fruitless.

"Guys, chill out, I though we were over the arguments—"

"YOU THOUGH WRONG!" Venus suddenly launched Mars off to the distance.

"VENUS!" Earth and Mercury yelled in disbelief.

Venus realized what had happened. "... Whoops."

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You may wonder where Mars ended up at, after getting flung away by Venus's temper.

The Asteroid Belt.

Mars, after pulling himself together, looked around.

Yes, he's absolutely been here before—OH FLIP, IT'S THE FLIPPIN' ASTEROID BELT!

The red planetary denomination curled up into a globule shaped sphere, also known as a ball, but he already is one, so there's no logic in it.

Whatever, fourth walls are as well as extinct, so sue me.

Mars got hit by an asteroid.

Oh no...

The laughter starts.

Ceres is here!

Mars peeked out, uncurling from the metaphorical ball he was in.

Was the Asteroid Belt always this . . . empty?

Abnormal could be another way to describe it. And off-putting.

It's just a bunch of nothingness with brownish asteroids floating everywhere you turn, with a couple of space between them all.

He felt somewhat claustrophobic, being this alone with his worst nightmare.

While Mars was in those thoughts, Ceres was sneaking closer.

Mars saw his silhouette passing by numerous times around him, circling him. Over and over...

He never liked the feeling of vulnerability.

But with this particular setting, and the object roaming in it and attacking him, with his unsettling laugh, it was making him come undone.

How had Mercury not come out of this place shaking and terrified? He seemed perfectly fine after he and Earth got him, and the cards, out of the belt, after Earth got cured from consuming Skechers.

Another asteroid came at him, missing by only a couple inches.

Mars backed away, and broke in a run, dodging all the asteroids in the way. But now he was more lost—the asteroids didn't end—when could it end?

Agh! Why was he running? He's Mars, (named after) god of war!

And here he was, running in one place from the smallest known Dwarf Planet. Literally the only reason he was afraid of Ceres from the beginning was because he laughed and threw something at him.

Yeah, Ceres wasn't scary...

Ceres also chose that moment to jump in front of him.

Mars let out a shriek, Ceres just laughing as usual.

Ceres then threw an asteroid at the shaking red planet, knocking him limp out of line and momentarily falling into the vast darkness of space.

He let himself fall, not acknowledging how long it took and where we was going, and he found himself at the bottom of the Asteroid Belt.

He quickly regained his wits and tried to float back up to home. He could see his friends from under there, near the Asteroid Belt, searching for him.

But he couldn't.

The asteroids Ceres threw at him made him numb. Too numb. And he couldn't do anything about it.

Has it really been only a few moments ago that he was playing Space Poker with the others?

He didn't blame Venus. He couldn't really feel any emotions other than longingness and hopelessness at the moment.

A while in, the 'what-if's came. About his friends, about his moons, about his survival...

After a long period of silence, with him just drifting away with his thoughts, he felt something pull him in... A gravitational pull.

One of the Jovian's, perhaps.

It gave him strength, soothing out his pain, and, almost crying of relief, he went towards it's direction, eager to see someone else after a long silence of himself.

But he soon realized that he was being pulled far too long, and it didn't stop anytime soon, like the planet, or whatever object this is, was moving away themself, intentionally keeping a distance that could keep Mars in it's pull and far enough out of his sight.

Mars got hit by a few asteroids on the way, leaving quite a number of dents on his dusty red surface.

For a moment, he's back with Venus, fighting off the army of moons, Ganymede and Europa leading them in the distance.

But the lack of Venus brought him back to reality, his confusing reality, and the loneliness became overwhelming.

Mars managed to turn around, flinching when he realized he just past Uranus's orbit. Has he really been pulled away for that long?

Scared and on edge, Mars . . . curled up into another ball—has he always been this much a coward?

He decided to blame it on the mood-swings.

After a while, nearly completely passing Neptune's orbit, he started to acknowledge his nausea from the never-ending gravitational pull. His vision was blurred. The asteroids came again.

Crash-

One of the asteroids jammed into his surface, near his left eye, and he went unconscious, getting out a yelp from the impact beforehand.

The owner of the gravitational pull let out a slight chuckle, before completely passing the last orbit of the main Solar System, and going off to the distance, to his own place, Mars in his hold...

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I don't really know where I was going with this story, but it's finished, I guess...?

I reread it and it sounded like a wannabe edgy lore-filled and complex story XD