At this, Mogo's voice sank into loneliness. Even the sphere of green light she had coalesced began to tremble.
"I don't really have friends. Maybe it's because I'm too old. It seems like most people prefer the young ones! I stopped being young a long time ago. But I've never done anything bad. I just stay here and live quietly. Even if you don't like me, do you have to keep coming to my surface, shouting about killing me, defeating me, stripping me of some so-called title of the strongest in the universe? Who's the strongest in the universe? I don't know. It can't possibly be me, right? Right? Right?!"
As her words faded, Clark and Tiff felt the planet beneath their feet shuddering again and again. Heisenberg felt none of this — because he couldn't feel anything at all.
His holographic projection paused in thought for a moment, then gently asked the increasingly agitated Mogo, "Mogo, besides us, have many others tried to harm you?"
"No, no, they can't hurt me. But so many people really do come here wanting to kill me! I've already punished plenty of invaders. I send them away, or I keep them inside my body and raise them until they grow old, then I send them off. I try my best not to hurt them, but why do they always want to hurt me?"
As she spoke, the body she had formed from green light drifted closer to Heisenberg.
Watching the little green figure draw near, Heisenberg let out a helpless smile. Then his holographic projection suddenly clenched its fist.
A moment later...
The light of the Bifrost blossomed into the sky. Far away on Earth, the Scholar Bach paused in surprise. "His Eminence has left?" He stared at the spot where Heisenberg's physical body had vanished and furrowed his brow.
...
At the same time, above the vast surface of the planet Mogo.
The Bifrost descended from the heavens, and Heisenberg's form materialized instantly at its landing point. The moment his true body appeared, the entire planet of Mogo began to tremble.
Struggling to contain her excitement, she cried out to him, "Aaaah, it's the sun! The sun!!! It's been so long since I felt sunlight this warm! I used to circle around my own sun, but then the Green Lantern Corps needed my help. So I traveled all that way. They all praised me for stopping a crisis that would have destroyed the universe, but... but after that, I could never find the place I used to live! Why didn't anyone take me home? Why... wuwu. They were the ones who called me away — why didn't they send me back?!"
The little green orb suddenly pressed herself against Heisenberg's chest.
Seeing this, Heisenberg smiled helplessly and opened his arms, simply pulling the little green sphere into an embrace. At the same time, his body erupted with dazzling, radiant light. Rays of omnipresent sunlight swept across the entire planet in an instant, wrapping Mogo's true, immense form in a firm embrace.
As Heisenberg's power continued to spread, Mogo's miniature green-light body quivered without pause. Heisenberg even had to exert a little strength to keep this adorable planetary girl steady in his arms.
Basking in Heisenberg's power and his embrace, Mogo trembled with utter contentment for a long moment before finally murmuring with girlish affection, "I haven't felt sunlight in so long. Not every sun has warmth like yours!"
"And not every planet is as lovely as you, little one," Heisenberg replied with a smile.
At his words, Mogo immediately began to shake with delight. The tremors sent Tiff bouncing repeatedly from the surface. As for Clark, he simply floated up, putting distance between himself and the planet's crust.
At the same time, Mogo asked Heisenberg softly, "Fa— I'm sorry. Lord Heisenberg, could you stay with me a little... Ahem, sorry, sorry. I mean, could you tell me why you've come?"
"Haha!" Heisenberg burst out laughing at her voice. He gave the little orb in his arms a few playful squeezes, then said gently, "If you like, you can call me Father. I am the sun, and you are a planet, after all. We..."
Before he could finish, the little orb in his arms suddenly rammed herself against his chest. "FatherFatherFatherFather!!!"
Along with Mogo's ecstatic, excited cries, Heisenberg broke into a grin of pure delight. He even pulled the little sphere tighter into his arms.
Perhaps the insight he had gained not long ago had made him feel the responsibilities of a sun. Or perhaps this sudden encounter, this twist of fate, had made him fall in love with the orb in his arms. Whatever the case, Heisenberg adored this lovely chubby girl to death.
Sure, she was incredibly fat — a full fifty-four hundred kilometers in diameter! But she was adorable. Absolutely adorable!
Watching Heisenberg and the little orb Mogo interact, Tiff swallowed hard. She hesitated for a long moment before finally unable to stop herself from asking, "Your Eminence, regarding the Green Lantern ring...?"
"Hm?!" Heisenberg's brow furrowed. He and the little orb in his arms both turned to glare at Tiff.
The pressure of the moment was so intense that Tiff audibly gulped. After a pause, she bowed her head deeply and spoke with difficulty, "Regarding the Green Lantern ring... I was being narrow-minded, Your Eminence. Even if I want to save our planet, I didn't need to choose this method. Especially..." She paused, casting a difficult glance at the little orb, then continued solemnly, "Especially, I shouldn't have set my sights on a... a..."
Her voice was melancholy and strained. She shook her head hard and forced the words out. "I shouldn't have set my target on a lovely, beautiful, gorgeous, and innocent planet!"
"Mm." Heisenberg nodded with satisfaction. The little orb also gave a satisfied nuzzle against his chest. As she burrowed in, she couldn't hide the joy in her voice as she said to Tiff, "You're forgiven. But not because you called me cute and pretty. You're Kryptonian, and Father is Kryptonian too, so I like Kryptonians. Oh, right — Clark is Kryptonian too, isn't he? Why does your presence feel so unusual? My Corps, the Green Lantern Corps, really dislikes Kryptonians. I remember before I fell asleep, the Corps was planning to attack Krypton. Something about stopping the Kryptonian elders from continuing to create a monster called Doomsday! Father, Father, you don't have Doomsday anymore, right?"
"Er..."
With those words, the adorable little orb in Heisenberg's heart instantly transformed into a cheeky little wrecking ball. But so what? Cheeky or wrecking, she was still a ball, and that was enough.
Heisenberg squeezed the orb in his arms a little tighter and muttered helplessly, "Krypton doesn't just lack Doomsday now — even Krypton itself has already been destroyed. You don't need to worry about that, little one."
"Destroyeeeeeed!!!"
Mogo: ...
She panicked a little. The destruction of a planet — hearing that made her unbearably sad. Mogo struggled to pull herself out of the grief of one who mourns the fate of her own kind, then burrowed into Heisenberg's arms with secret delight. "Father, Father, your Krypton is gone. Does that mean you only have me now?!"
"You..." Heisenberg froze, then didn't know whether to laugh or cry. You little wrecking ball, your competitiveness and possessiveness are completely transparent!
Sensing the exasperated amusement in Heisenberg's voice, the little wrecking ball seemed to realize something. She suddenly switched tones and spoke to Heisenberg with a voice full of sorrow. "Hearing this news makes me so very sad. But I want to say — though the Kryptonian friends I never knew are gone, Father still has me. So, how about this: let Father's people all live on me! I'm so heartbroken!!!"
"Pfft!!!"
Heisenberg genuinely couldn't hold back his laughter. Little wrecking ball, oh little wrecking ball, could you be any cuter? He rubbed the orb in his arms a few times, then said to her with a grin, "Sure. Why not come with me and leave this region? I'll take you home. My people and I will all live on you. As for your sorrow — please, don't be like that. I'd much rather you become a happy planet."
"But Father, Father!!!" The little wrecking ball's voice was utterly baffled as she quietly asked, "What exactly is a happy planet?"
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