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SR had done much to clean the city, clearing the streets. However, the humans were coming. He heard them. So he’d thought best to jump to one of metropolis’s very high skyscrapers. He jumped roof to roof to around where Cassandra was. He looked around and formed a disguise for if someone decided to become Savvy enough. He mimicked the gargoyles pose and around him, the fog forms a perfect imitation of a gargoyle statue. He watches Cassandra greet people, and watches people in general interact with one another, watching them speak and pose each Cassandra questions. She was done soon after. And returned to her duties. However SR continued to watch people. As a statue. As they spread throughout the city. Analogous to a growing forest. He watched for several hours, he simply watched and listened. SR could have stayed there in that pose, for days, or weeks. Absorbing the environment around him.
Eventually. People were getting closer. Nearer to the rooftops. He felt the need to avert himself from their general presence. He looses the disguise and jumps great horizontal distances, seemingly galloping on all 4s roof to roof. And then makes a large leap. Soaring through the air as he then lands sees centinnial park. He lands on a building and hops towards it, and then lands in the parks small lake. Making a large splash. He walks deeper into the water until he is fully submerged then sits.
The surface of the water bubbles as SR makes seemingly random noise under it. However, he ceased eventually. People enter here as well. There was hardly anywhere these beings did not roam. Eventually he will be discovered. However. SR eyes no longer glowed and he sat curled up. Most people mistook him for a a large black rock. Soon it became night. And everyone seemed to be gone. There a splashing at the lakes surface. SR’s fog flew into the holes of his head. Internally arranging itself within him, to form some makeshift structures in his mouth However he kept hearing some strange noise obscured by the water. He then sees a head dunk under the water calling to him. “HEEEEEEEY!!” He hears as the a voice yells under the water, bubbles foaming to the surface.
Tommy flops back pulling his head out the water. He got water inside his nose and felt very uncomfortable. He clenched his nose and blew. Snot dribbling out. A head rises from the water as SR approaches Tommy. SR steps the water and looks down on this small little being, who seemed to be so different from all the larger beings.
“Hi!” Tommy says wiping snot from his nose. “I saw you land here.” SR stooped down to the boy and sniffs him on his chest. The boy rubs SR’s head, and SR’s eyes begin to glow dully. “That’s a good boy.”
“I am not a boy….” SR says to the boy in a rather deep voice and he startles him. SR then says “I have no reproductive organs to speak of, and therefore, I have no specific gender.” SR pauses frequently when “You….talk?” “Yes.” SR says simply. “How come you didn’t talk before?” “Because I did not know how. I was never intended to speak in my creation.” “What’s your name?” “I am unsure.” “You don’t know your name?” “Where I am from, we lack much verbal communication. People spoke without language. One simply knew when one was being referred to.” “…..What?” “It is a difficult concept to explain. Identity was known, and not every thing had a name. I was a weapon, and I simply only was required to know identity.”
The boy the stands up. And SR stands up. And looks down on this little thing, that apparently had many questions. “Where are you from?” “A planet far away.” “Is it mars?” “No.” “Is it where superman is from?” “No. It is a planet that exists somewhere that no one would look.” “So your an alien.” “I would suppose so.” “Are you a robot?” SR pauses. Then he says. “I am unsure.” “What are you made of? Metal?” “I am comprised of many things. Primarily various forms of carbon, internally. And flesh.” “So you are like a cyborg.” “I suppose so.”
“THAT’S SO COOL!! YOUR LIKE A SUPERHERO SPACE CYBORG GORILLA THING!!” SR stares at the now excited boy. Wondering primarily what he’s going to do and ask next. “Can you fly?” “With a vehicle perhaps. Or more foglets.” “Wait! Why are you here? Are you going to invade us.” “No. I was not here intentionally, that much is clear. I suspect I was being transported, and that my ship was destroyed while I was being transported.” The boy looks at SR
“Well” the boy starts “Is someone going to come and get you? I mean. Your cool but, I understand if you don’t wanna stay here, and that you want to go home.” “Most likely, no one will come to retrieve me. There are many more like me, and it is likely they will not come all this way simply to retrieve me. When they can simply make more of me. Or use one of the many more of the weapons like me, and the weapons they have who’s power surpasses mine.” The boy blinked. Then asks “Are you sad?” “No.” “Do you feel emotion?” “Yes.” “Hm…well. What was your planet like? Just like. In general? And how do you like earth?”
“My original planet is much the same and yet different from this one. Your planet orbits a star. What you call the sun. Mine does not. It is also very cold. However, the planet itself produces much of it’s own heat, and people live primarily in subterranean habitats. We also do not have oxygen in a gaseous form as you have it. Some time ago, the our sun turned into a black hole, and which is in turn caused the planet to freeze and be consumed by near complete darkness from the outside. Had you seen our planet from the outside, you would think it lifeless and desolate.”
Tommy looked with much intensity and extreme interest as SR described his world. He then asks “Wouldn’t your world be sucked in….by the black hole…?” “No. At such a distance the gravitational pull of the black hole does not change or alter our planets orbit. To be pulled into the black hole, we would need to be passed the event horizon of the black hole.” “Uhhhh….yeah. Yeah. Of course…” Tommy says pretending to understand. SR assumes wholeheartedly that the boy does in fact understand.
Tommy changes the subject. “Well. What are the people like?” “They look like your race does. Consciousness is collective.” “What does that mean?” “It means everyone is mentally connected. Without boundaries of the mind. There is no war, and all understand one another.” Tommy also did not understand this. “Although, we do not have “Children.” like you” SR points at Tommy. “So then how do you make babies?” “Both artificial means and more natural ones. That includes the merging of ones genitals. However, they are almost within a day, already mature…”
“….I thought babies came from Cranes. I saw it on TV.” Tommy says lowly. “Cranes also produce offspring.” “Oh so babies do come from Cranes.” “Yes.” SR had mistakenly thought that Tommy had meant that Tommy meant natural reproduction of cranes, to produce more cranes, when in fact Tommy did not think this.
“I’m getting sleepy. Do you want to come and live with me?” Tommy yawns. “I do not think that will work well.” “….Oh, Ok….That’s alright. We can meet tomorrow night. You’ll be here. Right?” “Yes.” SR says simply. Tommy however still seems down, and a bit disappointed. Then SR, has a question for Tommy.
“How you like to fly?” “What?” Would…like to fly?” SR looks at Tommy tilting his head. “Sure how! That would be so cool. “Be still…” SR says as fog seeps out of his pours within his shoulder. And orbits Tommy. He floats up. “Simply point and you will go in the direction you wish and you will be flown there.” “YES. I WANNA FLY MAKE ME FLY MAKE ME FLY MAKEMEFLYMAKEMEFLY!” The boy was extremely eager
And just like that he is swept in what is almost a wind around him 40 feet in the air. And the boy was not afraid of heights at all. He looked down at SR as he flew away. Most people not looking up. The boy could not help but to pose like superman as he flew with a look of determination on his face. Body flat, arms in front extended, fists clenched as he was brought to his home as he directed himself, SR adjusting the child as he simply flew through the air and touched down in the backdoor of his home in the suburbs.
SR jumps up through the air jumping rooftop to rooftop. Going back to Lexcorp. A few moments later the door to what is now Cassandra’s office is open. And SR walks in on all fours and starts to her desk. Then he stands upright as he stands before her. Then SR begins speaking to her. Asking for guidance without any semblance of introduction or greeting. Or actually letting Cassandra now know he is capable of verbal speech. He just…talks. “These people…” SR begins. “They fear me. The mere sight of me causes them panic and distress. I am sure of what course of action or inaction I am to take…you and one child accepts me yet I am incapable why the rest do not.”
SR looks down towards Cassandra as a fraction of the fog returns to him and goes back inside her. He awaits her answer. Standing there very still, like a statue. His dull glowing orange eye fixed on the first organic being he met upon his awakening here.
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-John had taken an experimental chopper out for a ride since he needed to know more about this Luthor since he knew from the information he had gathered Lex was one of the worst men to ever have power and now his daughter was on the throne even if the throw was only a broken city. He guided the ride into a helicopter pad killing the engine and disabling the live rounds and rockets with a touch of his thumb. He climbed out wearing a nice clean black suit looking towards the female and the thing next to her he stiffened his muscles thinking maybe this was all a trick by brainiac but he figured he would have been attacked already if that was the case so he decided to play it safe so he walked up with a smile ignoring the robot as he reached out his hand for her to shake”Hello my Name is Johnathon Muse, the owner of Muse industries and wanted to see if there was anything we could do to quicken the process of getting this great town back up and running”. He turned and looked at the giant creature”is this a new product from Lexcorp or is this thing organic and from some planet like your great superman”.
He had his gear in the helicopter in case he saw there was an attack of some kind here though his worst thought were the two standing in front of him. He walked away from them and down into the town after a few hours of chatting about things going on around the town. He walked around the city streets seeing that most of the streets would need cleaned and then repaved. He had a Model 60 Smith&Wesson revolver that fired .357 rounds in his jacket in case someone decided to mug him since he knew that around the world his face was posted everywhere not sure if it would be here since everything was broken for the time.
John ended up where the daily bugle once was before he turned a corner and found a brianiac droid laying on the ground and it twitched and looked at john analyzing his genetic makeup seeing that he was a krytonian under it all. It tried to sit up to attack him but he smirked as he walked up and put his foot right through its head looking around to make sure no one was watching and if anyone was he planned to hunt them down.-
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-Cassandra looked at SR and said, “Humans are fickle creatures. They are afraid of difference and react accordingly. Unless said thing saves them. Children, though, have open minds. Make your way into the hearts of children and you may be accepted in this city.” She heard the sound of a helicopter approaching and made her way to the roof. She watched as it landed and held her dress down as it tried to fly up. She watched as the man came out, her hoping he wouldn’t notice the horrible marks on her arms from where the cups were. She took his hand when offered a handshake. “It is a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Muse,” She spoke just before he commented on SR, who she hoped had followed her up. “I would like to believe he will be this city’s superman, but from what he told me, no one likes him yet.” He hand dropped to her side and she watched over her shoulder as he walked by and down. She glanced to SR and said, “Follow him.” She would then return to the blueprints in her office, meaning to get them furthered along. She drew in special modifications and gave the blueprints to the returned private contractor. He looked at her and asked, “Are you sure about this?” Cassandra nodded to him and sent him away to get started. She sat at her desk and awaited Mr Johnathan Muse to return.
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SR listens to her advice and simply nods and then turns and looks at the man who approached him. SR doesn’t say anything as he watches her, being incapable of any facial expression. He watches him. And allows her to do the talking. When he ask her what SR is, SR then says “I am not of this earth…” And says nothing more for the rest of the conversation. He simply kept looking at John the entire time while he was in the room until he left. He was about to leave, when Cassandra told him to follow John. And so when he left the building, he did.
SR jumped roof to roof and wall to wall. Crawling along the wall like a giant black gecko. He had seen John and kept on going to him. SR gets closer and jumps to John landing right in front of him with a large ground rattling *THUD* people near by feel. That whole time SR made no attempt at stealth or at being inconspicuous. “I am told to follow you. I assume it is for your protection, Mr. Muse.” SR says looking down at John.
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-john looked up at the man as he pulled out a cigar and cut the end before he smoked it walking around the robot that landed in front of him and he kept walking”don’t worry about me big man nothing in this town scares me, and she didn’t tell you to follow me for my protection, she wants you to report to her what my actual meaning for being in this town is, I’ve read over how the Luthors think and it seems shes no different”. He walked down the street not caring if the thing followed him as he walked into a homeless shelter and took off his jacket and gave it to a man that was shivering from the cold. He then searched for the owner of this building once finding the small woman he offer her a contract to get this place new beds and heating and cooling systems and he planed to expand the building out since the area behind it was an empty lot. The woman thanked him sighing the contract that he placed in his shirt pocket. He walked back down stairs and pulled the revolver out of the jacket of the man who now had his coat,”sorry forgot this”. He placed it in the leg holster and walked back outside looking for the robot checking to make sure his coast was clear before he walked back up the road back towards the Luthor tower. He was about a block from the tower when he heard a bang of a gun which made him turn to see that a man was shot for his wallet and a guy was running down the alley with it. John took off first at a human speed but after a few seconds his anger boiled and he appeared in front of the man in a blink of an eyes before he lifted him up by the throat and carried him back to the guy he shot throwing him on the ground where the dead man now layed he pulled out his gun and put a bullet in the mans skull making sure this murder could never kill again. He put his gun back and walked to the tower where he walked right up to the Luthor”you know if you don’t trust me you can just ask you dont have to send your robotic Gorilla after me”. He walked around her office looking at things before he sat down across from her desk putting his feet on her desk as he waited for her retort or for her to deny sending the creature.-
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-Cassandra heard the shots fired from her office, she sighed as things were going into where they were before she had to live in the panic room. She disliked that the city was still empty enough to hear the faint shots. She then promptly saw as the man came back to her, right into her office. She heard his inquiry, or rather statement, about sending SR after him. She also noticed his feet on her desk, not a big deal seeing as they weren’t on anything important. She looked at him and said, “First off, he’s not a gorilla. He is a protective life form. Secondly, you are invading on my territory but you are a guest, I sent him to protect you and also to get him out where people can see him and make them fear him less. You do understand?” She stood and went over to a coffee maker that, during the process of cleaning the city, was made into a tea maker. She started it and said, “Would you like any tea? I got a selection that I kept with me in the panic room during the braniac invasion.” She was accurate with its freshness, but the taste had always been the same to her. She had in it chamomile and chocomint. More or less, she wanted the taste of chocolate without the caffeine in chocolate.-
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“Irregardless, Mr. Muse. I am not sure of what your intent is, either.” He says replying to John as he continues to follow him. As John walks through the crowd and SR follows him. People look at SR either scared or…confused as to what he is and why is following this man. He goes into the shelter and sees homeless and sees John giving to the community, to the woman. As SR watches him. SR then learns from the John humans appreciate gestures of kindness to aid them. Towards those especially in poverty.
SR hears the gunshot and as John starts running. People make room as they feel the heavy footsteps of SR running at speeds attainable for a normal human. He hears a brief woosh as John is out of sight momentarily and sees a man before him. laying on the ground with a projectile that pierced him him, his heart no longer beating, as SR can hear the heartbeat of most people within 5 feet of him. SR then moves on to see John holding a man by the throat. Then putting a bullet in him. Soon his heartbeat also faded. SR looked at John. And said nothing. He followed him towards Luthor’s. SR had never seen a human being die before. In fact, on SR’s planet, he had never witnessed a death. For, those whom SR had killed were not of his own race. Clearly. It seemed John killed that man because he killed the other man. In SR’s mind. This occurred to him as revenge.
SR followed John back to the tower and doesn’t speak. He simply stands on all fours. He stood there wondering if he could connect to this “internet.” The humans have. Apparently it is a vast collective network containing untold amounts of data provided by humans and machines. SR had a translator. But, it was basically only a dictionary essentially. Not a full fledged database. SR needed to learn more about humans because though they looked the same. They appeared to be much weaker then anyone of his race. There were infants on SR’s planet, but he had never seen a natural infant before. From looking at these humans, it became evident they were not as strong as his race physically. Their technology was behind in some areas. Yet actually more advanced in some others. And infants here seem to think differently then other people. Cassandra suggested he learn more about them. And so SR’s fog flew out quickly.
A few electronics parts float on in and SR assembles a computer within a few seconds from mostly memory of the internal parts of a computer and SR’s own rapid processing abilities. It sits on the floor below him. The fog presses the keys and it. It starts up, and is a rather average speed computer. SR then hits an obstacle. “Cassandra….how does one connect to this…”internet?” He says looking at the home screen of the computer.
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-John pulls out his phone and pushes a button and the computer would connect instantly as his phone was now a hot spot and no information other then happening of muse corp would be blocked to this creature as he himself understood how valuable intelligence was but unknown to this creature John would be tracking the sites it used to see if it worked into government weapons or war codes so that he could block them as if they no longer existed to him. He then turned back to the woman and smiled”yes please id love a cop of tea, as I hear it the roots made for this area comes from a small town called smallvile that I plan to visit as I have relatives from there”. He wanted her to look into him and he would enjoy the game of cat and mouse.
He accepted the cup as he smiled at her and he drank it as they discussed business but as his watch struck five O’clock he stood and shook her hand once more as he turned and exited the office. Heading for his Helicopter which he got up into smoothly and took off heading towards a local army base where he sent a code to the base to allow him access to land. He landed and asked for a private flight to Australia he told them he was being followed by someone and had to travel outside of the country without being spotted. They covered him into an army private uniform before shipping out and taking off across country and enjoying things as he went picking up books on chemical structures and analyzing different forms of technology as he went from country to country as they refueled and once they dropped him off he saluted him and took off on his search of the assassins.-
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-Cassandra was about to answer but John solved he problem for her. She smirked and gave him a cup as she took her own. She enjoyed talking business. She really liked talking to someone other than herself that was human. She saw him go away and just shrugged when their time was up. That phrase urked her but she couldn’t let it get to her. He’s from smallville, so? Why would she want to care. Her mind wandered on it until she thought of something that made sense. She started hooking up the local internet of her building through her computer and went into private and began looking up old files. They were centered on smallville.
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SR formed a cord with his fog that connected the back of his head with the computer. Then, SR controlled the computer simply with his mind. Where he then began to bring up several browsers. SR was learning as much as he could, viewing each browser for mere milliseconds before moving on. He researched mostly the psychology of children and their behavior, and it lead to human behavior on parenting and one thing led to another. SR soon found himself learning human history, weapons and medical devices. SR looked up human psychology in general. It was very complicated to him. Much more complicated then those of the people at his planet. SR then learned himself a full map of metropolis, it’s sewers, suburbs and the outskirts. Before he was back to learning about humanity. About current events. He’d opened more then 11,000 pages in 45 minutes and steadily increasing. SR could never access any top secret information from the internet.
The computer froze. The fog left. And returned with more parts as SR assembled more computers and hardware so he could browse quickly among each of them. Him no longer really needing a monitor. He sits there absently detached from the world as Cassandra and John talk. After 5 and a half hours or so disconnected. It seemed John had left. He never really had the opportunity to thank him. Perhaps when he leaves again. He then walks out the room. SR goes to the roof. And then crawls along the wall where he jumps off building to building back into the city.
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-Cassandra looked up files of smallville the only Jonathan coming up being Johnathan Kent. She slammed her fist on the desk, not even noticing SR left. She began looking up files on the family and searching a greater span of the muse corp, only to get blocked out of some of the information. She thought on it and said to herself, “Touche… But I refuse to be paranoid…” She logged out of her computer, turned it off, unplugged it, then walked away. She went to the window and started trying to think on how to protect the city and siphon back the lost land of Lex corp, only for her thoughts to be riddled by the Muse Corp Johnathan. She grumbled and looked at her shut off computer and spoke to herself, “I won’t do it…” She started scratching her arms and went back to her computer, plugged it in, turned it on, and started trying to hack into Muse Corps files.-
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SR walks into Centinnial park and stoops over a fountain. Drinking water in manner that seems to remind people of a deer. Without much audible noise as the water goes into his “mouth” on his head. People stare. No one is quite so sure as to what SR is and people are afraid of him. But not so afraid as to run away screaming. But some people are rather evasive. Others are curious. SR stands up and looks at the people staring at him then, turns and continues walking.
“Hey!” A guy calls out. His mouth remains rather sealed as SR turns around to look at him. “…Yes?” SR replies looking at the man. “Uh….what are you?” Robot was not the first thing that came to people’s minds when they say SR. Strange as he looked. He didn’t seem like a robot at first glance. People often easily mistake him for a man in power armor or some strange new creature, or genetic monster. The man standing in the crowd stares at SR. Waiting for his answer. SR’s answer is rather blatant. “I am an extraterrestrial being comprised of organic and inorganic parts…” “Why are you here?” “Due to my abandonment, I seek purpose. I choose to simply aid humanity in whatever way I can.” “How do we know we can trust you?”
“To look at it from your perspective…” SR begins “You do not know. There is no completely true way for me to verify my benevolence. Whether or not you trust me is based entirely of your own observations.” The man doesn’t say much else. “Um ok.” Is his last reply. SR looks at the man for a few moments, then walks off. A journalist takes notes.
SR walks through the streets. And people stare at him and some watch him generally. And SR doesn’t pay people much mind, at all. People in front of him simply make a path for him. Others just stare. A few people follow him from a distance. SR walks around the city four a few hours. Going in no particular direction to no place. People are curious. A few kids throw rocks and other things at SR. They are told not to do this, but SR doesn’t respond to people throwing anything at him.
Pretty soon. People are wondering why a large crowd of people are following SR and are making a very big deal of this large 8 ft tall thing simply walking around the city. Tommy runs up next to SR walking with him right next to him. “Hey, what are you doing? How come all these people are following you?” SR looks down on Tommy as he walks.
“It is their nature. It seems.” “…Huh?” A person throws a can of soda at SR and it spills all over him. “Ew. You know people are throwing stuff at you right?” “Yes. I am aware.” “So why don’t you do something back?” “Because I see no reason to.” “Doesn’t it bother you?” “No.” SR continues walking. And then jumps away. Dissappearing from their sight. People rather surprised at how quick such a large thing is. He jumps off to Lexcorp. In a restroom, the fog gathers water in a solid
“Cassandra…” SR begins “I think that you should publicly announce me. Hardly anyone knows of me…..” SR looks at Cassandra. A bit of soda drips off his visor.
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-Cassandra found the hacking rather difficult, she was growling and frustrated with it but continued to try. She then heard SR speak to her and she turned to him and said, “I will place a public announcement if it makes you feel better. Did someone throw something at you?!” She sounded even more angered and got a towel and moved, offering to clean it off of him. If he accepted, she’d sop up the soda. Either way, she’d place the towel down after and set up for making an announcement. She even waved SR over to her to be in the announcement if he so wished.-
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“Yes.” SR replied. “It was children following the actions of another child.” He adds, as he allows her to wipe off his face stooping down on all 4s. As Cassandra waves SR over he walks to her. Unaware exactly of where she would him to stand, so he chooses to stand by her side.
“Not anymore.” A voice says. SR looks around as a few tiny ball like surround him. And then he freezes suddenly unable to say a word. There is a black humanoid figure in the office, with a eminating black smoke clouding his figure, and no facial features aside from his monochrome white eyes. SR is levitated over with a gesture and with that as he pulled towards the figure, he is gone as the figure disappears from plain sight with SR53 as the air disorts. Air for a moment rushes in to fill the temporary vaccuum for a moment, and they are then both gone without a trace.
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-Cassandra felt the vacuum and then let her brain catch up on what just happened since there seemed to be no immediate danger. She made sure the broadcast didn’t start and tried to make sense of it. Instead, she went back to her computer and began to set up a hacking system for the locked information of Muse Corp. She coded the entire program, it taking her several hours to complete and then allowing it to do its work as she walked away from the computer. The design of the hacking system made sure that on a retrace back, it would take hours to find her from all the bounced signals. It made a minimum of one hundred bounces and was programmed to bounce more if it felt something tracing back. She left it to its work of collecting files as she went on her merry way to help designers make the city better and more productive. She passed by a drone that had escaped SR’s wrath and was outside of the detonation area, it watching her as she passed by unknowingly with the male she was scouting the edge of the city with.-