Nick Fury turned to look at Dr. Bruce Banner and Professor Morton, the telecommunications expert, standing beside him.
"Professor Morton, is there a malfunction with this interstellar pager?"
Professor Morton replied with a touch of excitement, "I don't believe so. This device is constantly emitting a specific signal. I suspect its underlying principle involves quantum entanglement..."
The naturally suspicious Nick Fury remained expressionless, merely glancing at Dr. Banner for confirmation.
Banner nodded, corroborating Morton's assessment.
"The pager isn't broken, and it is indeed transmitting. But as for when the recipient will actually get the signal, that's impossible to say."
Just then, Fury's intuition flared—someone was behind him.
He offered a subtle nod, shifting his gaze toward the reflection in the transparent glass to identify the unknown intruder.
"Nick, you didn't call me back just so I could save the Earth, did you?"
Upon hearing that familiar voice, Fury's face brightened with relief as he turned around.
The woman he had been waiting for was indeed standing there.
"Danvers, you're finally back! Do you have a way to resolve this global crisis?"
Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, clad in her iconic red-and-blue suit, shook her head with a grim expression.
"I'm not sure. While passing the Moon, I noticed signs of a massive battle, but I investigated for half an hour and found nothing."
"So I decided to come to Earth first to see if you had more intel."
Nick Fury glanced at Banner and Morton.
Dr. Banner was trustworthy, but Professor Morton was just a civilian; Fury worried about information leaks.
But on second thought, the world was on the brink of an apocalypse. If the crisis wasn't solved immediately, humanity wouldn't have a future anyway.
And so, Fury provided a concise summary of Earth's events over the past decade.
He also voiced his theories regarding the unknown enemy on the Moon.
Carol took a moment to process the information.
She hadn't expected Earth to change so drastically in just over ten years.
Sorcerers, aliens, superhumans, mutants, the God of Thunder, and even the resurgence of Hydra.
"That sorcerer... is he really that powerful?"
Nick Fury nodded with absolute seriousness.
"The battle on the Moon was likely a clash between him and those extraterrestrials."
"But that's not the main point. This sudden wave of natural disasters has caused catastrophic damage in just two hours."
"We need to find the source of these disasters immediately."
"According to preliminary scientific analysis, the cause is likely a disturbance in Earth's gravity."
"They suspect a massive celestial body or a micro-black hole has appeared near Earth."
Carol pondered for a moment; the theory sounded plausible.
"I'll do a sweep of the solar system to verify that."
With that, Carol walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and took flight, quickly becoming a streak of golden light as she breached the atmosphere.
Only once she reached the vacuum of space did she dare to accelerate fully.
She performed a circuit of the solar system at ten times the speed of light.
In less than five minutes, she discovered a strange, metallic planet sitting in Mars' orbit.
With the confidence of the powerful, Carol closed the distance and landed on the surface of the dead, metallic world.
She found no living beings on this dwarf planet.
However, she did discover that its gravity was over a hundred times that of Earth.
Clearly, this celestial body possessed an immense mass.
But even though she had found the source of Earth's suffering, she couldn't immediately think of a way to fix it.
She wasn't Ultraman; she couldn't exactly push a planet out of orbit by force.
Thus, she returned to Earth with a heavy heart to deliberate with Nick Fury.
Meanwhile, after wiping out the Decepticon army on the Moon, Harvey found himself equally helpless against the metallic planet of Cybertron.
Skyfather-level strength was not enough to punch a hole through a planet.
His most powerful spell, the Micro-Fusion Sun, only packed the punch of a 2-million-ton TNT yield.
It was nowhere near enough to destroy Cybertron.
He tried using the Shrinking Charm, Reducio, on the massive world.
But the spell had no effect on a celestial body of that magnitude.
Evidently, he had to return and brainstorm with his women to find a way to stop this apocalypse.
On the first floor of the New York estate villa.
The super-earthquake that had rattled half of America was finally subsiding.
The hundred-meter-long fissure in the earth remained unhealed. Looking down from above, the chasm looked like a jagged wound leading to the abyss, inspiring a sense of primal dread.
Harvey found Hermione to discuss their options.
"Where are Cho Chang and Wanda?"
"The sisters couldn't stand watching more innocent civilians die in the disasters, so they've gone out to play superhero."
"Fine, let's leave them be for now. Darling, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want first?"
"Both at once!"
Harvey rolled his eyes; he hadn't expected Hermione to be in the mood for jokes right now.
"Then I'll start with the good news. I found the cause of the disasters: there's a super-massive metallic planet near Mars."
"The bad news is, I can't destroy a planet that big yet, so I've come to you for ideas."
Hermione fell silent for a moment, wondering if she had misheard him.
"Actual shape-shifting silicon-based mechanical lifeforms? Are they trying to invade Earth too?"
Harvey sighed. "Unfortunately, you nailed it."
"The Decepticons were already in league with the Inhuman Royal Family on the Moon, ready to strike."
"Fortunately, I wiped out the Decepticon army early. That should deter the Inhumans for a while."
"But if we can't eliminate the gravitational interference, Earth is going to be ripped apart by the tidal forces in about twenty hours."
Hermione sank into thought; this was indeed a challenge worthy of her intellect.
While she was well-read and knew many obscure spells...
She had no idea how to negate the gravitational pull of a planet.
After two minutes of silence, a spark of inspiration hit her. "Can you find out how that planet appeared?"
"High-level spatial transport tech capable of moving an entire planet has to be the work of those silicon-based robots."
"If we can master that spatial tech, can't we just teleport the planet away?"
Harvey thought about it and said regretfully, "Uh, sorry. I might have accidentally killed all those silicon robots... wait, one of them got away."
Hermione asked crossly, "You're too impulsive. Not every problem can be solved with 'kill, kill, kill.' Do you have a way to find that remaining robot?"