During the Second World War, the Japanese feared a new weapon that they knew would come from the skies. One day, in Nagasaki, a young boy looked up to see a plane flying overhead. He watched through binoculars to see it dropping what appeared to be a bomb. However, the casing fell away to reveal a man.

Now, Superman re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and recalls how it feels similar to the experience of a game he used to play with his friends in Smallville called "The Colder Leap", where they would jump from a neighbor's silo into his haystacks before school. There, though, in outer space, Superman has found a prototype space station called the Lighthouse, developed in cooperation between the Americans, Russians, and Japanese. It is meant to be a hub for deep space exploration. Unfortunately, it is also the eighth object that has been hurled out of orbit today by someone who is attempting to destroy the Earth. This particular object is nuclear-equipped, and as such, it is far too dangerous to let collide with the planet, and it is a struggle to get a handle on it.

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