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I’ve decided that I will take Amaranth Star’s offer. I’m short on leads for finding my mother on my own, and I owe her for putting me in contact with my dad. I think she genuinely wants to help me, and help defend the world, too. It seems pretty obvious that defending the world against an alien invasion is the right thing to do. I just can’t get Watchmen out of my head. Maybe it really just doesn’t matter. Maybe I’m just shooting myself in the foot if I think about it too much. I don’t think a catastrophic world event is really going to unite the nations of the world. It’d just be another Cold War with a bigger war on top of it. I don’t want to see that happen but there’s only so much control that I have over the situation. Powers get caught up in politics the same as anybody else. We may want to shut it out, ignore the rhetoric, but it’s there and it changes out lives the same as anyone else. A person who could topple an entire building with a punch can be toppled just the same by a lawsuit. It’s only by the grace of the governments of nations that dangerous people are allowed to live and work. It’s only the fear of what would happen if we dangerous people were cut loose that keeps us friendly with the authorities. It is only on the trust that we’ve built by policing our own, by the rhetoric of “good guys” and “bad guys” that we’ve stopped a war from happening. It won’t last forever.
Already the rumors are spreading about the number of American heroes involved in the Niigata quake. Already, my mother’s professional name is being slandered. The news of the fight being brought to American soil has already reached the public. Ms. Star was right about that. It’s simultaneously increasing tension between the crime fighting community and the government and keeping things status quo. They’re asking us to enlist in the military. National defense. There are a lot of people I know who have already agreed, and others who have always been with the government. I don’t know how much better it will be signing up with a UN organization, though. I’d like to say that it doesn’t matter, that all I’m trying to do is find my mom and bring her home. But it does matter. Every action that we heroes–we celebrities–make is watched with star-struck eyes or criticizing grimaces. There has never been a time I’ve wished so strongly that the point of Watchmen hit home with everybody. If it did, then my mom would probably be at home.
Tonight, I will be dreaming that my mom’s at home, that her years of training with a sword have culminated in a moment cutting a chicken breast into strips. Tonight, I’ll be floating up to reach the top shelf, where we keep the fine china. Tonight, a special guest is coming over, and we’ve got over a decade-and-a-half to catch up on.
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