Luther Log 004 - Population Control/Nervous Breakdown

[greatestmanll40]

 [Lex now remembers.

Or rather, he forgets. His mind is a mess. Filled with patches. He's now been 'updated' to current. When he gained absolute omnipotence... only to lose it to his own hatred of Superman. 

His deserved hatred! But why... he can't remember... something about a friend. 

Lex walks downstairs in a stupor and finds a starnge package...]

A. Phone

Hello... Mayfield... I am Lex... Luthor? The package that arrived helped remind me. I need to rememebr more. I had all the power.

Everything I could ever dream. And I lost it! To that damn alien! The alien, who was he? Just... anger. Fury forever! I need to do this.

I need my power back. I need it all back.

 

B. Action.

 

[You can find a seemingly dazed and despondent lex laying on a hammock outside, re-reading the letter. He looks like a wreck.]

Comments

[Phone]

[sturmbahnfurher.livejournal.com]

Oh. Not surprising.

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

[Lex is still having those patches in his memory.]

What... who is this?

Do not doubt me!

[sturmbahnfurher.livejournal.com]

It's hard not to doubt someone who would apparently sell their own humanity for power.

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

What would you know!?

I was GOD!

I did not forsake my humanity, I embraced what man was always meant to do and take rein of this Universe!

[sturmbahnfurher.livejournal.com]

A dog, more like it.

What, exactly, is human about what you propose to have been?

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

I already told you, you bickering fool!

It was fr the betterment of mankind that I take that power!

A

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

Aw, lovers' spat? Don't worry, all couples have those!

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

Silence!

I held the whole of reality in my grasp and I will... I will do it again!

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

You sound really bitter! What, being a normal fucking human ain't cutting it anymore? Knew it.

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

You don't know.

No one could ever know.

All that power.

All that I could do...

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

So, you went crazy with godjuice and then your boyfriend zapped your ass?

So typical.

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

[Hear that banging noise? That's lex bashing the phone. It'll still work but HOO BOY

He mad.]

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

HEY

LOSER

HEY

LOSER

HEY

LOSER

[this will go on for a while]

[Action]

[smallestgrave.livejournal.com]

[After checking houses one at a time for the name Luthor on the mailbox, Alice has found what she believes to be the right house. So she's approaching the man in the hammock. She is carrying a large bible.]

Excuse me? Are you Mr. Lex Luthor?

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

[Lex is lying on his back with a look of unnatural stoicism on his face.

He notices the bible.]


Do not mock me further with the words of a false god when it was I who held the power of omnipotence over this Universe.

[smallestgrave.livejournal.com]

[She raises an eyebrow, but gives him an amused smile.]

Thats quite a bold statement from a man who looks so very troubled by his life's circumstances.

But no. I merely came to talk. And to tell you that I wasn't planning to hurt you.

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

[Lex's eyes bulge.

The assassin.

He jumps behind the hammock.]

Don't you even think about it!

My genius has already deduced over a thousand ways to defend myself from the likes of you!

[smallestgrave.livejournal.com]

Oh, come now, don't be ridiculous. Why on earth would I want hurt you? I don't even know you.

[She tries a gentle smile and extends her hand.]

Now stop being silly and let's talk like civilized adults, alright?

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

Then speak.

Or I will b forced to strike.

[smallestgrave.livejournal.com]

[She raises an eyebrow.]

Well there isn't any cause to be rude, Mr. Luthor.

All I really wanted to do was set your mind at ease. I won't do anything to hurt you. Or anyone else. No matter what.

A

[puzzlerprince.livejournal.com]

Sounds like someone had a bit of a rough day.

Riddle me this. What's got the so-called Smartest Man in the World so hot and bothered?

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

This damned town made me remember... and forget.

by remembering I forgot so much!

I had all the power in the Univers enad lot it to he who embodies my hatred!

[puzzlerprince.livejournal.com]

Really, now? All the power? Sounds like a bit of a complete hyperbole, Lex. Even coming from you.

[greatestmanll40.livejournal.com]

No!

I did!

Reality was mine to shape and remold in my image and it all became undone because of that damned alien!