IG-88 Meets Superman III

IG-88 Meets Superman III is the third installment of the IG-88 / DC Universe and the third installment of the IG-88 / Superman Trilogy to be made by BeastBoyRules52 XD. It is scheduled to be released on Dailymotion in the future.

## PLOT

Gus Gorman, a chronically unemployed loser, discovers he has a talent for computer programming and gets a job at the Metropolis-based conglomerate Webscoe. Gus, dissatisfied with his pay, embezzles from his employer using a technique known as salami slicing, which brings Gus to the attention of CEO Ross Webster. Webster is intrigued by the computer programmer's potential to aid him in his schemes to rule the world financially. Joined by his sister Vera and his "psychic nutritionist," Lorelei Ambrosia, Webster and secretly, The Horde Of Darkness, blackmail Gus into helping them.

Clark Kent has convinced his *Daily Planet* boss Perry White to allow him to return to Smallville for his high-school reunion with The 88 Squad. En route, as Superman, he and The 88 Squad extinguish a fire in a chemical plant containing highly unstable Beltric acid that can produce corrosive vapor when superheated. At the reunion, Clark is reunited with childhood friend Lana Lang, a divorcée with a young son named Ricky, and harassed by Brad Wilson, her ex-boyfriend.

Webster and The Horde Of Darkness scheme to monopolize the world's coffee crop. Infuriated by Colombia's refusal to do business with them, they order Gus to command a weather satellite, Vulcan, to create a tornado to destroy Colombia's coffee crop for the next several years.

Gus and Rap Critic (disguised as his assistant) travel to Smallville to use the offices of WheatKing, a subsidiary of Webscoe that manufactures farm equipment, to reprogram the satellite. Though Gus is successful and Vulcan creates a devastating storm, The villains's scheme is thwarted when Superman flies into the eye of the storm, neutralizing it and saving the harvest. The Horde Of Darkness escape after getting overwhelmed by The 88 Squad.

Webster, seeing Superman as a legitimate threat, orders Gorman and The Horde Of Darkness to use his computer knowledge to create Kryptonite, remembering Lois Lane's *Daily Planet* interview with Superman. Gus and Rap Critic use Vulcan to locate Krypton's debris in outer space and to analyze its components; they discover that one of the elements of Kryptonite is an "unknown" compound, but (glancing at his pack of cigarettes) decides to substitute tar instead, thinking no one will notice.

Lana convinces Superman and The 88 Squad to appear at Ricky's birthday party, but Smallville turns it into a town celebration. Gus, Vera, and The TGWTG Squad, disguised as United States Army officers, give Superman the crude Kryptonite as a gift, but it appears to cause no symptoms; however, The 88 Squad notice Superman biting his nails as he studies the kryptonite. Superman soon becomes selfish, focusing on his lust for Lana, which causes him to delay rescuing a truck driver from his jackknifed rig, but The 88 Squad save the truck driver. Superman begins questioning his self-worth and becomes depressed, angry and casually destructive, committing petty acts of vandalism such as blowing out the Olympic Flame and straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa, much to The 88 Squad's dismay.

Gus, feeling used, gives Webster and The Horde Of Darkness crude plans for a supercomputer and the villains agrees to build it in turn for Gus directing all oil tankers to sail the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and remain there, idle, until further notice. When the captain of one tanker insists on maintaining his course for Metropolis, Webster and Bowser use Lorelei to seduce Superman into waylaying the tanker, breaching its hull and causing a massive oil spill. The villains decamp to the computer's location in Glen Canyon.

Superman goes on a drinking binge, but is overcome by guilt and undergoes a nervous breakdown. After nearly crash-landing in a junkyard, IG-88 shoots his zapper gun to split Superman into two personas: the immoral, corrupted Superman and the moral, righteous Clark Kent. They engage in a battle, ending when Clark strangles his evil identity. Restored to his normal self, Superman and The 88 Squad repair the damage his evil counterpart caused.

After defending himself from rockets and an MX missile, Superman and The 88 Squad confront Webster, Vera, Lorelei, and The Horde Of Darkness. Gus's supercomputer immediately identifies him as a threat and attempts to find his weakness. After a beam of energy and a constricting plastic bubble fail to stop Superman, the computer finally succeeds with a beam of pure Kryptonite. Elsewhere, The Horde Of Darkness fight The 88 Squad.

Guilt-ridden and horrified by the prospect of "going down in history as the man who killed Superman", Gus betrays Rap Critic and destroys the Kryptonite ray with a firefighter's axe, whereupon Superman flees. The computer becomes self-aware and defends itself against Gus's attempts to disable it, draining power from electrical towers. Ross and Lorelei escape from the control room, but Vera is pulled into the computer and transformed into a cyborg. Vera attacks her brother and Lorelei with beams of energy that immobilize them. Superman returns with a canister of the Beltric acid from the chemical plant he saved earlier. Superman places the canister by the supercomputer, which does not resist as it suspects no immediate danger. The intense heat emitted by the supercomputer causes the acid to turn volatile, destroying it. After The Horde Of Darkness escape after getting defeated once again, Superman and The 88 Squad fly away with Gus, leaving Webster and his cronies to deal with the authorities, and drop Gus off at a West Virginia coal mine.

Superman and The 88 Squad return to Metropolis. As Clark, he pays a visit to Lana, who has relocated to the big city and found employment as Perry White's new secretary. They are attacked by Brad, who has stalked Lana to Metropolis, only to end up falling into a room service cart thanks to IG-80 pushing him. The film ends with Superman and The 88 Squad flying into the sunrise for further adventures.