After all, I really can't help myself from trying to save people. But actually dealing with the aftermath is way harder and a lot less fun than the Superman part of the equation.
Honestly, Vought might be evil, but at least they did handle a lot of the tedious cover ups, media manipulation and funding for their degenerate Supes. Maybe I should start my own corporation?
Then again, Corpos are gonna have Corpo problems. Whether it's Batman or the Green Arrow, no, even Atom, basically all super rich Corpo Superheroes are shackled by their companies. Sure, the wealth allowed them to start out, but at a certain point, they rose beyond the limitations by breaking free from their companies. For the Atom, he became a time-traveling Superhero, while Oliver kinda-sorta died but also kinda-sorta became a God? I'm not totally sure how that worked out in the end. Batman is Batman, doing Batman things.
"Aaaah~! No! Please no!" There was a woman screaming in Mandarin. I glanced over and saw some men with SMGs, knives and pistols dragging her out of the shipping container. Most of the other girls were sobbing quietly or just completely silent.
"Mama! Mama!" Then there was a little five year old girl that tried to chase after her mother, but a boot was about to kick her teeth out. I reached my right foot out and easily stopped his steel-toed black boot with a loud *ting*.
"What the hell?!" The man exclaimed right before the heavy core of an asteroid smashed into his chest. His torso exploded outwards when he impacted the back of the steel crate behind him. A man actually reacted and shot at me with a pistol, but the Moon rock hit the bullet, then the gun, then exploded into pieces which ripped his entire body to shreds like a grenade. I casually tossed another two rocks that caused one dude's head to explode, while the other had his throat torn asunder.
"Aaaaaaah!" The filthy naked woman screamed her lungs out as I casually tossed her back inside the cargo container. I scanned their naked bodies and couldn't help getting a little horny, but I somehow managed to avoid getting a boner. Breathing out a long sigh, I closed the metal doors just moments before bullets started pelting me.
"Doesn't even tickle anymore." Bullets were really… Weak. Compared to what I experienced, they had no effect. Even if I didn't have a biological forcefield, they just flattened and bounced off my skin easily enough.
I looked over at the dudes that were shooting at me and smiled. They were terrified. My eyes glowed red. I was gentle. A fat guy had his gut explode. Another had his legs and dick sliced off. The metal behind them wasn't even damaged.
"Aaaaaagh~!" The legless man screamed desperately and even shot me a few more times, before I casually walked over. Then he aimed the gun at his own head and pulled the trigger.
"Umm…" I shrugged and looked over across the ship. There were only about thirty people actually working on the cargo ship. There were fifty armed guards though and several hundred in the shipping crates.
"It feels so good to be back on Earth, but I really wanna go home. So I can't waste too much time playing around with these scumbags." I moved quickly. Smashed a dude's head into the wall, it kept splattering in slow motion as I left. Another guy was bisected at the waist when I waved my right arm through him. His upper half was still connected by the time I reached the next man and bitch slapped his mouth away. His neck would likely break, but I wasn't sticking around to watch.
I looked at a man and his face melted off. Accidentally didn't use enough strength on those eye beams but whatever. Kicked a dude's knee off, then grabbed another guy's gun and stabbed it through his back. The gunless motherfucker had his hand ripped off in the process but I pushed him towards the metal wall for good measure. I saw a guy pissing off the side of the boat, so I kicked him overboard.
"Good luck swimming without being able to use your legs." Get it? Cause I fucked up his spine.
"Seriously, I think I know why Batman likes his hobby so much." I caught a bullet from a sniper rifle and flew over to the man with the gun that still had a muzzle-flash going. I took the scorching hot bullet and shoved it into his left ear hole. Then I went back to slaughtering the rest of the crew and returned in time to watch him writhing in agony on the ground.
"Monster!" He screamed at me as I slowly stomped on his head until it burst open.
"No shit." I looked down at the mess and then at his twitching corpse, then over towards the girls and boys in those shipping containers, "Anyway, enjoy your time in Hell while it lasts. If you're reborn, you might end up as one of those helpless kids your raped and tortured."
I didn't actually know whether this specific guy raped or tortured any children, personally. But he was definitely an accomplice. Everyone on the boat… No, I guess the workers could actually be more like slaves, so there's a chance that they don't deserve to be brutally murdered, huh?
"I'd ask John, but he probably wouldn't approve of my methods anyway."
Actually, there might even be undercover agents or some shit…
"Lena is right. I think too much." And so, I massacred the entire crew. Especially the Captain and his guards, who were in the middle of gangraping a teenage girl when I got there. The Asian girl was already covered in cum, so a little blood and gore didn't make that big of a difference, right?
Okay, maybe she'd be traumatized for life, but who isn't a little traumatized in their teenage years?
In the end, I went over to the ship's radio in the control room, with that sobbing girl hiding in the corner of the gory nightmare.
"Clark?" Lex answered almost immediately.
"Hey Lex… It's been a while." I sighed dramatically.
"You're on a cargo ship in the Pacific?" He figured it out really fast, was probably looking down with a satellite, "I'm glad you made it back home safely."
"Sorry for forgetting to pick you up some Venusian rocks and dirt for your collection." I chuckled and looked down at the deck, "Stopped by the Moon and picked up some stuff but… Umm, I can get some more. The samples aren't exactly in pristine condition anymore."
"It looks like you made a mess again." Lex stated calmly, totally unbothered by the carnage he could likely see, "I'll send Otis to deal with the aftermath."
"Thanks, Lex. You're awesome." I smiled wryly and looked over at the crying girl again, "Hey Lex… How do you save people?"
"Opportunities, Clark." He was quiet for a while before he continued, "You give them the ability to save themselves and the opportunity to make a better life for themselves afterwards."
"That sounds like a lot of work." I snickered.
Lex chuckled in response, "It is, but the work is rewarding. And someone needs to do it. Humanity won't save themselves without someone to lead the way."
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