Deep within the Earth, tectonic plates ground together, unstoppable force meeting immoveable object.
Piezoelectricity shot upward in tiny plasmoid spheres, passing through the bedrock, flowing toward
the pyramid.
In the burial chamber, the Stone King felt the shock and welcomed it.
Deeper still, molten rock at a temperature of thousands of degrees swirled and eddied, creating forces
as yet unknown to science. As they surged through the ground in massive low-frequency waves, the
pyramid absorbed their power and channeled it to the Stone King.
And deeper yet, deeper than any man had gone or ever could, at the very center of the earth,
electromagnetic forces pulsed and twisted. The gravity-compressed, near-solid iron core broadcast
on a wide range of frequencies, weaving webs of unbelievable force as it spun on its orbit around the
sun.
In the chamber, planetary energies caressed the Stone King's skin, pulsing through it, man and planet
merging.
With a wild shriek of triumph that shook the entire pyramid and sent boulders cascading down its
slopes, the Stone King began to grow.
Clinging to him, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Manhunter were dragged along as he shot up at
colossal speed, smashing through the slabbed ceiling in an explosion of stone.
Half the pyramid was demolished as his body expanded and swelled, thrusting hundreds of tons of
rock and soil aside as if they were marbles. The plateau on top was already half destroyed, from the
last time the power manifested here. The Stone King grew past it, sending avalanches racing down its
sides.

Outside, the Stone King reached a height of a hundred feet before his size stabilized. The energy that
had kept the pyramid invisible was siphoned back to him, and now a bright glow lit up the sky for
miles around.
Towering over the countryside, surrounded by an aura of swirling fluorescence, the Neolithic shaman
raised both arms in a gesture of victory. Flashes of blue fire flickered from the bull's skull that
covered his head, running down the animal hides that clothed his body in a sparkling, fiery waterfall.