Okay, so, for this upcoming fight, the scene should be set
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Night has fallen over Metropolis, and from his office in the Daily Planet, Perry White looks out uneasily over the city. true, the evening edition has gone out on time, but his mind now is to the crisis at hand.
earlier today, three godlike super-criminals destroyed a mission to the moon, toppled mount rushmore, demolished an entire army, and as it says in tonights paper, have no ground the whitehouse beneath their heel. all because no one was there to stop them.
"I can't understand it," he shouts, "Where is he? I mean, he shows up every time a cat gets stuck in a tree, and now he decides to pull a disappearing act?"
Across the room, cub photographer jimmy olsen fidgits with his camera
"Maybe we just don' t know his game plan?" he suggests, black humor in his words."
"Game plan? It's fourth down and long yardage, the two-minute warning sounded and the ball's deep in our territory! How brilliant do you have to be?!"
watching their exchange, Lois Lane wants to tell them, to let them know the secret, and why their champion is missing, but the news is too heavy to tell, especially after she saw him last.
Just then, the wall to the city room explodes into the office, as two figures in black stride in. the first is non, a brutish, silent monster, his beady eyes looking for something to smash. then comes Ursa, moving with the lethal grace of a lioness. they part, and their leader enters the room.
He is big, but not overly muscular, despite his seeming middle age. His hair as ebon as his black uniform. and with his peircing gaze and thin beard, this General Zod looks very much like the devil.
"You promised me the son of Jor-El!" shouts back to the fourth invader, a bald man in a dark suit, none other than Lex Luthor.
"You're right," Luthor says, "Your Eminence, Your Grace, oh Fullest One...But er -- what I've given you is the next best thing. You just hold on to that little lady and, er he'll be along. You see they have this relationship and she does all his Public Relations and he gives her every exclusive. They're the best of friends."
a pause, before Zod gestures to his fellow criminals. "She lives - for now. Kill the rest." he then points at Luthor. "Starting with him."
as Non looms, Luthor again tries to weasel his way out, when suddenly, the air of dread is broken by a clear, stentorian voice.
"Haven't you heard of Freedom of the press?"
as one, all 7 occupants whip their heads to the window, looking out to see Superman floating there, arms folded across his chest, unafraid of the escapees from the Phantom Zone, before flying off into the city
though thunderstruck, the general quickly finds his voice:
"Come to me, Son of Jor-El!
KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!"
and as one, the phantom zone criminals fly out from the building to face the son of their jailer
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VS
okay, it's exactly as it sounds. a re-enactment of the climactic fight scene from Superman II, with Bizarro and Galatea playing the parts of Non and Ursa. (or two Paragons, if mort wants to play up their roles second bananas, his choice)
I hope Mortarion picks a good superman for this, cuz this fight's gonna get ugly...