DP x DC
Superman was having a bad day.
The Justice League had just raided a Cadmus that had “gone rogue” and was “out of the government’s control” according to Waller (and that woman lied as easily as she breathed, Clark would be impressed that he couldn’t even detect her lies if it wasn’t so personal)
The base was clearly researching cloning powerful individuals and making another Superman was clearly their goal. It seemed like they succeeded in some way.
When the Justice League got there there was a young teenage boy who looked EXACTLY like Clark back when he was Superboy getting shot at by kryptonite ray guns. When the boy saw Superman he almost froze him using ice breath before the could calm him down and take him to the to the watch tower.
And what they found shocked them.
His DNA was EXACTLY like Clark’s, but with no trace of his Kryptonian heritage, in its place was a strange radioactive substance. (one that was later found naturally decaying in green Kryptonite)
The boy also was very closed of, only opening up to J’onn after he told him he was a Martion (and the way the boy’s eyes lit up when he realized he was talking to an alien in space)
The Martian couldn’t read the kid’s mind but everything he told them was concerning. He didn’t see himself as a person, not deserving to be called alive or dead, he didn’t have a name beyond Phantom, and his “parents” were mad scientists that made weapons that HURT him.
Superman didn’t know what to do as he walked to the room of his clone. He didn’t want to freak out and react badly like he did to Conner but he also didn’t want to freak out Phanton by saying he was only a copy of him, the boy didn’t seem to know what and who he was.
…he was excited to learn that J’onn was an alien, maybe that was a start.
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Danny was flying through the Ghost Zone trying to save Cujo from Skulker (or save Skulker from Cujo when the ghost dog inevitably got through the metal shell of the ghost hunter) when he was knocked into a random portal to some creepy base that looked like it belonged Vlad and his cloning obsession.
The base was apparently run by some knock off GIW that had weird ecto-ranium powered guns that messed with his powers and knocked him put of his Ghost form.
And then he ran into a man that looked almost exactly like Dan minus Plasmius’s influence.
Danny was lucky that the weird ecto-ranium turned his panicked Wail into an ice scream.
He had apparently landed in another reality where there were other Superheroes and aliens! (this was so much better then being forced to join the school newspaper club, even if Sam liked blabbering about corrupt companies and Tucker liked the camera tech)
Danny still tried to keep his secret identity but he might have let a couple things slip when he was TALKING TO AN ALIEN SUPERHERO IN SPACE, OH MY GOSH!!!
He’s powers were still on the fritz though and he needed to find a way back home. He had to wait though so maybe he can learn more about the nice Dan lookalike.
-TLDR Danny is Clark’s dimensional counterpart and accidentally confuses the Justice League.
