Chapter 2: Wake Me Up Inside
Somalia is a rather horrible and unstable country on the african coast that Lex Luthor knew off. The government was corrupt, the economy was hellish, and the people living in Somalia were pirates trying to feed their families. The perfect place to create a puppet state for him.
Over the last few months in hiding, Lex Luthor had begun to industrialize Somalia with the keen attempt of them to serve him as their debt with him would be too big for them to pay it off. The country provided him with cheap labor which he needed to help build his rather strange inventions while hiding.
Lex was expecting a visitor today, one he had the pleasure of being seen an equal by. That visitor was none other than Brainiac. Lex felt like what he did before with the clown prince of crime was a terrible idea and he demanded to himself that he should partner up with someone of similar intelligence to him, Lex Luthor. Who better than the metallic alien known as Brainiac?
The meeting was happening at noon and Lex Luthor would do his best to set things up in case things would go south. He armed his labor men with somewhat up-to-date weaponry courtesy of the Somali army. In case Superman decided to stick his nose in their business, Kryptonite was provided to the armed labor men.
At precisely 12:00 in Somali hours, besides the beating of the sun, it seemed that Brainiac finally came. In the sky, a dark object began to fly down to the ground, the armed Somali labor force pointed this out by pointing at the floating object in the sky and began to shout,"Eeg! Eeg!" ("Eeg is Somali for "Look")
Lex Luthor looked up to the object too as he was outside waiting to greet the metallic alien. His men standing around.
Brainiac's flying ship that was oddly shaped like a skull began to descend and finally, it landed on the ground. The lower "jaw" began to open up as if the ship was gonna take a bite out of something. Out came a ramp that resembled a "tongue." The ramp hit the ground without much fanfare. Smoke began to file out of the ship and so did metal feet beating on the metal ramp.
Walking down the ramp was a being Lex had not seen for a long time, Brainiac. The bald businessman walked up to meet Brainiac face to face, a smirk on his face.
Soon enough, Brainiac and Lex looked at each other eye-to-eye, they both looked at each other with disatisfaction, creating some tension. The armed Somalis began to point their weapons to the alien. Lex noticed this and with a hand gesture, he ordered them to stop. He faced back to Brainiac and decided to break the tensions. He held out a hand for Brainiac to shake, but all Brainiac did was look down at the hand and stare back at the rich man. Lex retracted his hand after that.
Brainiac finally spoke, his metallic voice ringing in the ears of many," What is the specific point of the meeting, Luthor?"
"Don't worry about it, Brainiac. We shall discuss the entire point at the meeting office, now, if you would be so kind as to follow me."
Lex Luthor lead Brainiac to the meeting office while Luthor's guards stood around outside, waiting for any possible danger. They would soon be in for a surprise from the life form that was beginning to reawaken. Ayayayay….
Back inside the ship of Brainiac….
The frozen remains of our titular protagonist sat in one of the few bubble cells that protected it from the outside world, but that wouldn't be enough.
The shell of the ultimate pillar man once shook and stopped, it seemed to do it once more. Cracks appeared again as the icy shell began to shake. The reason for such a thing? It was simple, the body under the ice coating felt something it had not felt in a long time, heat. It made it it's top priority to reawaken the mind and so it did.
Kars, for all eternity, stopped thinking and so his head was filled not with his brain, but with darkness. However, a small spark of light in the sea of pitch black appeared then vanished just as quickly as it came back up…..
However, a slightly bigger spark of light appeared. It disappeared as well.
However, the cavern within Kar's head began to stir, a loud sound filled the head.
Finally, the biggest spark appeared, but it did not vanish into darkness unlike the other two. The light expanded while flashing many colors thus filling the head with brightness. A vivid array of colors began to stick to the inner walls of Kars' mind, thus the mind was lit up.
Kars, Kars who once thought no more was able to think again. He had awoken from his slumber without the need of a fellow Pillar Man. However, Kars did not wake up on the right side of the icy bed he laid within for lord knows how long.
He screamed with madness, Kars, he who had reawaken screamed with anger as memories began to flood back into his mind. He remembered it all, his creation, the murder of his, the stone mask, the reawakening, becoming the ultimate lifeform with the Red Stone of Aja, and finally his defeat at the hands of a human.
Crash! The titular Pillar Man punched one of the walls of Brainiac's skull ships with such might, he was able to create a hole! All because Kars remembered his defeat at the hand of the pesky human, thus he was thinking but not thinking clearly. Rage, primal rage, filled his mind again. He screamed again, this time more louder than the rest before. It was more of a high pitched scream instead.
The men outside heard the screams, they were terrified. 'What animal made noise like that?' they asked themselves. They were afraid, very afraid at facing the animal, but it sounded like it came from the skull ship.
Gaining the courage, the armed men approached the entrance of the skull ship with stealth being a key factor in their approach. They looked at one another as sounds of items breaking grew louder and louder until…...silence. There was no more sound. Lack of any noise scared the men even more. However, they pointed their guns and held their grounds….
That was until he attacked. Leaping a great leap from inside the skull ship unto the men, Kars drew out his blades made of bone at slashed everyone that was in his vicinity. Kars moved fast and efficiently. The poor men had not time to properly react. Blood filled the air while Kars kneeled at the remains at the men sliced up by him. He gazed down upon him, they all looked the same, they all looked like the pesky human brat that bested him to him. That made him shake a bit. The other guards began shooting at him, causing a scene. Kars may have jerked a bit when being hit with gunfire but he did not fall. Finally, when the guns had been emptied, Kars just still knelt with the back of his skin messed up by the bullets. The Somalis, they took all this in with their own eyes. They lowered their guns while letting fear take them over.
"Do you hear that, Brainiac?" the rich Lex Luthor asked the mechanical being as he sipped on wine. He had gunshots going off before it stopped, he was puzzled. His mechanical being looked at Luthor with his bleak robotic eyes and said," Yes, I have heard it."
Lex began to get up but his arrogance told him that he was fine. He sat back down with the intent of discussing plans with Brainiac.
Kars finally stood up, his back began to fix itself in a grotesque manner, and he faced the men. Madness in his eyes, and rage in his brain got him powered up to fight the identical looking Joseph's that apparently stood before him. The men felt something bad was going to happen to them.
The Pillar Man moved once more though he was quicker than before, he dug his fingers into the first man that happened to be close to him. Kars' fingers dug into the man's weak throat, the man stopped moving after that. The now dead man was held high by Kars in his craziness. The rest saw this and ran for their lives.
Kars saw this and quickly drained all possible energy from the man, he couldn't let him escape. The wings of a giant bird sprouted from Kars' arms as he began to laugh like a lunatic in a mental asylum. He flew into the air with great speed that he was launched high into the sky, but he stopped as he opened his wings.
"HaHaHAHAHAHHAHAHAHaHaHaHa!" Kars laughed in craze as he found him. The human running away with others. Kars swooped down with speed and agility. His feet turned into monstrous talons needed to pick of the brat.
Down below the Somalis tried to run quicker, however, Kars was QUICKER. He opened his talons and pierced a man in the head with his talons. Blood squirted out but Kars quickly moved onto the next, and the next, and the next, until all of him lay dead.
Unfortunately, Kars was not satisfied, he flew off in such mighty speeds hoping to find Joseph's allies to kill for his humiliation. Preferably, the female hamon user he wanted to kill.
=====To be continued==
AN: Soooooooo I am back! I kinda decided to spend some time on Deviantart for a while, and I apologize for making y'all wait for a long time!
Kars has finally awakened from his slumber, and seems to be crazy for the time being. Where he will go? Nobody knows but lemme tell, the next chapter will be good. You know why? Because next chapter will the ultimate life form against the man of steel in a spectacular fight for the ages!
