I am CACKLING this is hilarious and legit the perfect plot for a fic. I would read fifty yes please and thank you.
The Jimmy side plot is essential. Every time he tags along to take pictures he gets his own wild adventure. Sometimes he gets transformed or teleported or rescues a princess.
I propose this time Jimmy gets get the Pulitzer for the very first non-fuzzy picture of the ghost zone. Itās because he uses an old film camera that belonged to an old uncle that died in the same room it was stored, so itās got natural ecto radiation imbued in the lenses or something.
And while sprinting through the GIW base (got separated from Clark) heās snapping pictures of all the horrifying things the government has done to these beings - and a portal opens in front of him. Jimmy canāt slow down in time so he accidentally tackles Phantom, the ghost hero who came to help because someone somehow (Clark) destroyed the anti-ghost shield around the base.
Phantom and Jimmy fall backward into the ghost zone and Jimmy is still snapping pictures like crazy while this kid starts yelling and asking questions and then shoves him back through the portal. Phantom goes off to fight and help save ghosts with Superman (when did he get here? where is Clark?) and Jimmy changes out the roll of film for a new one to keep going.
Once the day is saved and heās back in his dark room developing film he finds crisp clear photos of a very different dimension.
Meanwhile Clark is pouting while sleeping on the couch.
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