Summary: A once-powerful hero finds himself alone in the universe. Alone and angry.
Disclaimer: DC owns Superman past, present and future tense. Good thing Marcelo doesn't own him - Future Supes is scary when he's mad.
Warning: This won't make much sense if you haven't read the Superman/Batman series (I think issues 2 or 3 would be enough). Unless you're used to random unlikely apocaliptic scenarios, in which case by all means make yourself at home. Rating: PG-13.
Being human has nothing to do with your DNA. There's not a shred of
Homo Sapiens in my cells, yet mankind took to me as one of them.
Almost up to the end. I believed it, too. I went to work, paid my
taxes, and then put on what I thought was a disguise and flew out
through the window to save the world. My world, the world to which I
belonged, the world I called home.But the universe has its way of divesting you of your illusions. "Kryptonite isn't your biggest weakness," once a friend told me, "it's yourself." He was a human, you know, but he never let it -or anything else- stop him. It took... it took the end of the world to kill him. And I think that he died only because he didn't want to live in a universe where everybody he loved was dead.
So I'm alone now, even if every world in this galaxy would is open to me. The world I want is as dead as its airless moon. Not a trace of mankind's left but me.
Except that I'm not human. Everything human died when the asteroid hit. Without Lois, without my parents, without contact with other humans -even the criminals, the villains, the violent ones- I find myself less and less constricted by who I used to be. In this barren rock Clark Kent wouldn't even be a ghost, and Metropolis' Favorite Son... there's no more Metropolis, period. There's only me.
Humanity isn't in your DNA. It's in where and how you live, and without Earth there's nothing left of it in me.
So you *will* give me Metron, High Father, or I will tear New Genesis in half and hunt your sons until the stars die. I will have Metron's chair and I will go back in time and save the Earth, and when there's again people and cities and I have my family with me, perhaps then I will feel sorrow for you and shame for what I've done.