Rage Against The Sickness [Closed]

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For Superman, getting sick was a rare occurrence. Usually, it struck him when he was powerless and when it hit it, it hit him like a ton of bricks. However, this was different. He was still powered and it hit him. That wasn't good at all. To make sure no one else got it, he headed for his quarters to wait it out, hoping it was some minor cold.

However, it wouldn't leave. It was like a persistent flu. But, being locked up got him thinking about everything. But, it seemed to just make him frustrated. The more he thought, the angrier he got. Unable to take it any longer, Superman left his room in a huff, trying his best to fight the sickness.

It wasn't working. And it was making him angrier

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Even with the lockdown, Rein was flitting around the area looking for anyone who was still suffering. She was worried to say the least and when the little tiny device floated into view, she gasped. "Superman!" she called out, flitting up towards him. "You're sick," she stated in disbelief.

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Superman looked at Reinforce for a few moments. The illness was a bit draining as he suffered a slight dizzy spell. He continued on, ignoring her concern.

"I'm fine."

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"You don't look fine," retorted the tiny girl. "Let's get you down to medical. I'm sure they have something for... whatever you got."

She reached out to take his hand.

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"I said, I'm fine!" Superman said, raising his voice as he moved to knock Reinforce's hand. "I don't need your help anyway. The rest of you have done enough."

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"Mou, what's your problem?" snapped back Rein, throwing her little arms into the air as she was pushed back from the motion. "I'm trying to help Kal! Don't be so stubborn!"

And she pouted angrily, folding her arms in front of her tiny chest.

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"My problem? My problem is fixing everyone else's problem!" Superman snapped. The frustrations of being someone everyone looked up to JUUUUUUST got jacked up to eleven. "Every time I turn around, I have to solve someone else's mistake. Even here on this blasted ship, I have to make someone happy? When's it going to end? When are these people going to handle things without me?!"

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"It ends when you want it to, but you won't because you know deep down you want to help people," soothed Rein. She was practically blown away from the Man of Steel's savagery though. Where was it all coming from? This was insane.

"Just take a deep breath, count to 10 and try to calm down?"

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"Calm down? Why should I? So your brown-haired friend can yell at me over something else that reminds her of her family? So that snot-nosed brat can complain about something else when he does nothing to help? We shouldn't be fighting, we shouldn't be arguing. We could have stopped the Ohm ages ago, but no, we have to stop and babysit someone else here who has a problem with life in general!"

Superman was getting a bit fired up here and it seemed that there was a lot of problems on his mind.

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"H-hey! Now that's just rude!" exclaimed Rein. "Sure we've got problems but just cool your jets for a moment before something bad happens!"

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"And I want you to leave me alone!"

And now, he's crossed the threshold, throwing a punch at Reinforce, trying to get rid of her.

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"WHOA!" Rein barely got out of the way, Superman's punch winging her shields that she threw up automatically. "Superman you're not well! If you don't stop I'll have to use force!"

Could she use force? Rein read comic books, as little as she could at any given rate. She knew that she was virtually walking kryptonite against the man of steel. So in defense, she erected a wall of shields.

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Superman wasn't going to have any of that and began swinging his fists wildly at Reinforce's barriers. Any other time, he would have figured out other ways to stop Rein. Now? He was all "KAL SMASH"

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Mighty fists met mighty shields which shuddered under the impact. "Kal please calm down!" cried Rein as she held out her hands, supporting the layers, reinforcing it with fresh barriers. Weak against magic or not, his fists were shattering layer upon layer.

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A growl left Superman's lips as he stood back and fired a burst of heat vision at Rein's shields, intending on bursting them down. There was no more rhyme or reason with him. There was only Zuul rage.

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Whoa now, heat vision!

Rein scattered backwards as her shields blew and she spiraled outwards. "Okay, time for a time out!" exclaimed Rein as she got some distance from him, an incantation on her lips.

"Freeze... Arrows!"

And freezing energy blasted outwards at the enraged man.

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Superman let out a growl as the freezing blast struck him as he started to approach Rein... and soon found himself stopping in his tracks.

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Rein exhaled thankfully as the freezing arrows had done their job. Flicking up her tiny little Omnicomm, she started to tap a message to let people know she had contained Superman...

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There's one thing you should know about your opponents, Reinforce - don't turn your back on them. As soon as she turned her back, there was a slight rumbling... then a roar of anger as Superman burst out of the ice prison, rightfully mad at the Unison Device.

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"Oh crap!" exclaimed Rein, using words that would have Hayate chiding her for using them for a week. But now was not the time to quibble semantics as she created a watery freezing sphere and lobbed the bubble at Superman.

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Superman was getting tired of Rein's antics. As the sphere came at him, he inhaled and let out a gust of breath, intending to blow it and Rein away.

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Blown across the way, the water splashed against her, chilling her to the bone. "Oooogh this was a new outfit!"

Looking up, she squeaked as she tried to figure out what she could do before she stretched out her hands as rings of energy moved to bind Superman.

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Again with the capture tactics. Again, they stopped the rampaging Man of Steel, forcing him to struggle against the bindings.

"Let me go!" Superman shouted, trying to break free

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"Not till you calm down!" retorted Rein as she created more bindings to try and keep him from breaking free like last time. And this time, she kept her eyes on him.

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The bindings were really starting to tick him off, especially since their magical nature made it harder for him to struggle free. Instead, he opted to try to blast her with heat vision.

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"Yipe!" exclaimed Rein as she dodged the strafe. With her concentration disrupted, the bonds loosened as she desperately erected shields to ward off the attacks that came too close.

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The concentration broken, Superman broke free of his bonds once again, throwing punches wildly at Rein's barriers, intending on breaking through once again.

Reinforce was SERIOUSLY pissing him off.

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The environment was beginning to shake under the impacts of the barriers and the last one exploded, pitching Rein backwards. "No choice," she whispered before she made a gesture.

In an instant, a huge barrier flooded outwards, encompassing the city. Anyone with a hint of magic would be able to feel it, but she didn't want to risk anyone stumbling in, so she keyed the wards to herself.

"Kal... I'm sorry." And she spread her arms as huge blocks of ice formed and with a gesture, hurled it at him.

Kid gloves were off.

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Superman let out a roar as the ice blocks flew at him. With all his might, his fists flew at the blocks, smashing them with ease. Probably the good thing about this was that, in his rage, he didn't want to fly up and grab her.

Just hit her. A lot.

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Rein darted backwards as she clapped her hands together and created an array of blunted ice daggers that she hurled at him in waves. It would probably slow him down or hurt him, but she really wanted to just knock him out. "This is so not good..."

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Superman staggered back as the ice daggers struck home. It must have been the sickness, because they were starting to affect him more than usual.

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They hurt him! CHANCE!

Spinning around, she made a swinging motion as she formed a giant Volkswagen beetle out of ice. The words came to her, silly as it was, but it was needed.

"BLUE PUNCH BUGGY!"

And the ice made vehicle was swung headlong at Kal in an attempt to knock him out.

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And there was a loud grunt as the ice vehicle connected dead on, dropping him to the ground.

It didn't look like he was moving at this point.

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"Ohcrap," squeaked out Rein as she dissipated the giant Volkswagen and fluttered down next to him. Carefully she poked him on the chest. "Kal? Kallllll... are you unconscious? please say you are so you won't get up and vaporize me."