Superman: Part 1 of PART FIVE (5-part series by Raj Arumugam)
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SUPERMAN: 5-part series by Raj Arumugam |
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PART 5: Death of Superman
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1: Introduction 2: Superman Bodhisattva 3: Loneliness 4: You too have emotions, needs like us 5: Death of Superman |
Part 1 of PART FIVE: DEATH of SUPERMAN
How I killed Superman
extracts from recordings of ThoughtDiaryShadowMan
May, 2026
…fifty years ago they put me in jail…in the disc outside space…
I do not know what they did to me, if the disc was a trial…but now, 50 years later, released into the huge cities again, I am no longer the man I was – I am but a Shadow of the Man I was…
Oct, 2026
There are only cities…and it is hot on earth…Many cities are buried in watery graves, below the oceans that swallowed so much land, it seems, during my years in the disc…Now there are no forests and no trees, and all we have are cities…
Huge cities: Cities and people I do not know…
Nov, 2026
There is nothing for me…I will have my revenge on the world that took everything from me…I’m just a Shadow…a shadow of the man I was…I’ll have my revenge…on all of you…
Dec, 2026
Strange things are happening within me…People do not notice me…They look at me as seeing a shadow...I do feel a lack of solidity….like a shadow…There always, but strange and without fixed shape and lacking the feeling of a body…It is cold; I feel cold…I hear people say it’s been HOT since thirty years ago – but I feel COLD…
Still, I’ll have my revenge…
Jan, 2027
Strange...I feel expansive…I can stretch myself…I can stretch myself over things, over an area…I am like water that takes the shape of the vessel...I can cover a fruit with my shapelessness and I can take the shape of the pear, and I can cover it completely and I plunge it into utter darkness and I can bring density to it and I can bring cold to it – block out every ray of light and I can then release it – and it’s black and hard and dry – and the apple falls apart like fragile coal…
I think I can do that to earth…the whole planet…
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April, 2029
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It is done…I know my powers, though reduced to the shadow of a man – I am yet full and complete for I now know all my powers: I am Shadow Man.
Revenge is sweet and my patience brings vast revenge…My revenge will be the most complete kind…
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May, 2029
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No one here deserves life…No one here deserves the earth…You destroy the earth, you earthlings, you desecrate the
earth – and you say you want the earth? You do not deserve it; you do not deserve life… |
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June, 2029
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It will be done…as I can take an apple, and I can surround it and envelope it and plunge it into freezing darkness and turn it dry and powdery…and so the whole of earth…with all its earthlings…these puny beings on this hot planet…
I’ll wait till that anachronistic Scout Boy Superman is on one of his missions again to plant a satellite town in Mars…All I need
is a few seconds…I am ready…the planet in ten minutes – and when Superman returns – to ash and powder – I can take on Superman too…
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The moment
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I surround earth…my shadow…like a letter in the old days in an envelope and sealed – so the earth is enveloped…It takes me only a second to move, to wrap this earth…it’s like a black and sick apple…like the apple the Witch gave Snow White in the old tales…
The sun’s rays and all light bounce off me…Nothing leaves; nothing enters…The world is in utter darkness…I can see them –ha! the world literally in my shadow…
And I intensify the darkness – and I intensify the coldness – temperatures plunge below zero degrees – I can increase it all even more – but I’ll watch them die slowly…
See them die…What did you do to me world? Made me a shadow of what I was?
Now, enjoy the coldness – and…the babies die first; the beggars and those destitute in the streets – they die…
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Superman returns
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But what is this? I feel heat on my hands and my head – it’s Superman…He’s returned and he’s figured out where my hands are and he’s burning them with his Fiery Eyes…I’ll deal with him then…earth can wait – it’ll only take a second…
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Shadow Man
Attacks Superman
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I fly…like a missile I fly and envelope Superman…He doesn’t know what’s got him…He’s like a fly caught deep in a ball of ice… except this is black ice that gains stifling solidity each second – and black ice that increases its coldness...Superman fly, Superfly now!
It won’t take me two seconds – just increase the coldness, the blackness and the crushing solidity…
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Superman fights back
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But what’s this…I feel the heat coming from within me…is he drawing on his powers to build heat and destroy me from within?…It’s like a sun within my belly - he can’t last…he’ll…I can destroy him within –
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April 2030
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I am in a disc again…just a rag …not even a shadow…I did not have my revenge on the world…
…Just that Superman died….
…As I increased my coldness and solidity, Superman made himself too hot, for all the heat he generated could only stay within – and that just exploded like a hundred suns within me – and then we both fell…fell straight to earth...me not even a shadow, but just a rag - and he, weakened and destroyed by his own powers, in his attempt to escape but killed since he didn’t realize all that power could not escape from beyond my strangle-hold...and so he fell to earth in tatters…and dying…
I heard he died in the arms of his love, Lois Lane…I didn't really want him dead; he was never my enemy - the world, that's my enemy...
And here I am now, in the disc again – not even a Shadow now, but a rag...just an old rag of a cloth that thinks, feels and rages…
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Death of Superman: Part 1 of Part FIVE (Superman: 5-part series by Raj Arumugam)
text © Raj Arumugam, May 2008; images: http://www.superman-picture.com/;wikipedia
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