TWs: Brief fighting/arguing, brief autophobia (fear of abandonment)/Earth Alone reference. Stay safe :)
"Stop this at once, Gliese." An accented voice huffed.
Gliese scowled, "Regulus...? You dare block my attack?"
The Blue Star pushed back Gliese's weapon, throwing it to the side. He aimed his bo staff at her chest, "This isn't right and you know it. Back away or I'll make you."
Gliese scoffed, blinking unbelievably at the bigger Star, "Seriously...? Is everyone on his side now?"
"I'm not on anyone's side, I'm just stopping you from getting hurt further," Regulus said.
"Listen to them, Gliese." Proxima spoke, "You don't have to do this."
"Oh, really?" Gliese turned to face the others, her voice cracking, "But, don't I!? Look at what he did to me!"
"Gliese." Sirius cautiously moved forward, "Despite everything that happened, you're still going strong. You were knocked down, but you managed to get back up again. You have been permanently scarred, yes, but it shouldn't stop you from doing what's right, which is..."
Gliese sighed, gesturing to her Zweihänder, "Not doing this."
"Exactly." Sirius nodded.
The brown dwarf crossed her arms, "Even though I hate this, I know you're right." She sheathed her sword, turning toward the Sun, "But I do not forgive you."
"I know..." Sun uttered.
"Happy now?" Gliese frowned at Sirius.
"That'll do, I suppose..."
"Good, because I am not forgiving him." She moved away, standing behind Toliman.
"Wait, does that mean it's over?" Mercury asked.
"I guess...?" Venus shrugged.
"What a weird way to wrap up a fight..." Earth uttered.
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"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Uranus shook his head, his hand faltering as the arrow was clutched tightly in his grip.
Nine said nothing, biting his lip as he averted his gaze. He huffed, "I'm not going to repeat myself."
"You're not going to repeat that you said you made a mistake because you know what you did was wrong?" Neptune leaned forward, his face getting real close to Nine's before the latter pushed him away.
"Yes! Yes, okay, I... ad-" Nine clenched his jaw, his teeth biting through the surface. He hunched his shoulders, whispering, "Admit- I made a mistake."
"You act as if you've never admitted to making a mistake." Uranus rolled his eyes.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Nine scoffed, "Have you met Jupiter or the Sun? With their God Complexes rubbing off on everyone, it's hard to accept defeat."
"Okay, why don't we just relax and breathe for a second?" Neptune stepped between his cousin and brother, moving the arrow in Uranus' hand away.
"We don't have time to relax." Nine spoke, "By now, the Stars will have faced the Sun already."
"Well, what are we waiting for? We have to go!" Uranus spun around.
"Wait-" Nine's eyes focused on the smaller body a few units away. He moved forward, sweeping her into his grasp, "Hold on to me, got it?"
Sedna gave a weak nod, clutching at the fabric from Nine's jacket.
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NOW
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"Woah..."
"Welcome to space, men- where everything is dead silent and absolutely nothing is-"
"Uh, Earth-? I think some of your earthlings are escaping." Luna pointed out.
"What? Where?" Earth's eyes widened, looking around sporadically until he finally caught sight of a spacecraft and an earthling outside of said spacecraft, "What the- well, that's new."
The earthlings gazed out the window in a trance, their jaws to the floor.
"I think you scared them, Earth," Mercury spoke, popping up beside him.
"Nonsense! How can my own earthlings be terrified of me?" Earth frowned before turning his gaze to the small spacecraft, "Seriously though, can one of you talk?"
Mr. Spherical blinked. He flew, er, glided in the atmosphere, his arms waving as he tried to get a handle on the change in gravity. He peered at the Celestial being, "Uh, yes- my name is Mr. Spherical, and this is America, Russia, and China. We've come here because we were concerned about the second Star."
"Second Star?" Earth hummed, "Oh! Do you mean Spica? Well, it's a long story, but we were in sort of a war with these other Stars-"
"What!?"
"But now it's calmed down, I think." Earth peered over his shoulder.
"Oh, so the situation has been handled?" Mr. Spherical asked.
"For the most part."
"Uh, yeah, I got a question." America's voice sounded from the intercom, "Are all of the planets... like this?"
"And the Stars. And moons." Earth nodded.
"We have planetoid shapes though." Mars spoke, "We can 'shape-shift' whenever we want."
"And we have Space Poker," Earth grinned, "Which we play 24/7."
What's 24/7?" Venus asked.
"An Earth thing. You wouldn't understand since you have 5,832/1,701." Mars said.
"What...?" Venus squinted.
"Anyway, I'm the Earth, your home planet." Earth grinned, "And this is Mars, Venus, Mercury, and my moon, Luna."
"The moon has a name...?" America whispered to the others.
"I hope you enjoy your time outside of my orbit. My friends are off-limits for colonization. I wish I could give a tour, but I have to stay here at all times." Earth scanned the area, frowning at the liminal space he had up to the asteroid belt.
"Cause of the Goldilocks Zone." Mr. Spherical hummed.
"Exactly!"
"Aren't we already making preparations to colonize the moon...?" Russia turned to China, who nodded.
"Chang'e Six finished its mission not long ago," China spoke.
"Ooh, it got the sample from that basin or whatever?" America queried, intrigued.
"The South Pole Aitken Basin, yes." China huffed, "Took nearly fifty-three days."
"Shorter than the orbit of Mercury." Russia stroked his beard.
"I suppose."
"What are they talking about?" Luna asked the Earth.
"Nothing!" Earth blurted out quickly, "They're definitely not leaving me in the near future, that's for sure."
"Earth-" Mars got cut off by Earth pushing past him.
"Anyway, hey- look!" Earth called out suddenly, his face brightening, "Uranus and Neptune are back!"
At the sound of Earth's exclamation, the Celestials turned their gazes upon the asteroid belt, watching as two blue figures emerged.
"Neptune! Uranus!" Saturn grinned, pulling the two in a body-crushing hug.
"Oomf- can't bre... breathe, mate." Uranus muffled.
Saturn let them go, giving an awkward look, "Sorry-"
"Did you guys do it?" Jupiter moved beside Saturn, "Did you guys defeat him?"
"Uh... not exactly." Neptune turned his gaze to the asteroid belt.
The Celestials tensed upon seeing a navy figure stepping out from within the rocks.
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DUN DUN DUN!
Earthlings arrive and they literally do nothing LMAO
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