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The Splitter

A high-intensity thriller that blends real-time dimensional collapse with consciousness rewriting

By anminPublished 10 months ago 2 min read

‌ The Splitter ‌

When Clark caught the falling Air Force One, the wing suddenly quantized through his palm. The President pointed behind him in horror. "Your cloak is eating the sky!" Looking up, Clark saw the red cloak eating away at the clouds, turning the swallowed area into shimmering pixels, revealing the steel armor of thousands of spectators behind him.

"Seven rescues left." Lex's projection emerges from a burning cloud, with the quantum chained Flash floating behind him, "When you save the thousandth human..." The Flash is suddenly accelerated into a speck of light and reforms into Barry Allen with a kryptonite blade before Clark's eyes.

Pursuit cycle

The Fortress of Solitude explodes the moment Clark lands, sending flying ice crystals into countless miniature versions of Doom Day. As he swept through the herd with his thermal sight, the beam suddenly split into three strands, piercing the water supply of Metropolis, Gotham, and Central City. At the sound of the alarm, the landmarks of the three cities began to twist into Kryptonian spacecraft.

When Lois shot herself on the roof of the Daily Planet, Clark grabbed the weapon in microseconds. The bullet mutated into liquid kryptonite on contact with the palm, corroding the hole through the palm. You're always 0.3 seconds late." Louise tore open her shirt, her heart beating at Krypton's core reactor. "This is the wound of the thousandth cycle."

Entropy flow duel

Lex flies out of the sea in a Mech fused with ten Superman corpses, and Gotham Bay vaporizes into a quantum fog. Clark's frozen breath is refracted into a web of lasers by the Mecha, cutting Metropolis into floating cubes. Inside each cube, Bruce Wayne, wearing the "S" logo, is imprisoned, and they simultaneously start the Batmobile engine loaded with green kryptonite.

When Clark crashes through the 12th dimension barrier, he discovers that every parallel universe is playing a video of his death. As he tried to shred the projections, a robotic arm reached out of the screen and clamped his throat: "Every breath you take kills three civilizations." Victor's electronic eye displays a real-time extinction counter: Earth's population is disappearing at a rate of 17% per second.

Self-destruct paradox

As Clark crushes the heart at absolute zero, the Krypton suit suddenly reverse-grows and wraps around the globe. All humans mutate into the appearance of Jor-El in pain, and the real Jor-El throws the remains of Krypton from the sunspot: "We raised you to harvest the entropy energy of civilization." Clark's X-ray vision peels through the wreckage and sees his own baby teeth gnawing at the Earth's core.

When Lois detonates the antimatter bomb, Clark's tears suddenly crystallize into a dimensional key. When the key is inserted into the Sun's core, the entire solar system begins to digitally erase. In the last 0.7 seconds, Clark sees all the people he has saved being reversely decomposed into elementary particles, while Lex's laughter condenses into a new cosmic singularity in the vacuum of space.

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