#Black Zero (still @ supergrrrl): those are some sweet shades! wait is that a leather jacket. no..... come on... dont do it...

[pocketramblr]

sitting here realizing how absolutely weird earth 1098 had to be for Black Zero, because even if he's sorta a multiversal tyrant there's also part of him deep down who's just another superboy, so like

He gets to a new earth that's having clear problems with anti-clone sentiments, not helped by gotham going full no mans land and fully banning any paranormal/metas/genetix, winning the ensuing civil war about how messed up segregation is. ("ugh a worse than average batman" says Black Zero, before realizing there's only Batgirl/Oracle here, and she did that on her own. "ugh, a significantly worse than average batgirl." he corrects, not seeing the irony of his own dictatorship)

he wonders if this civil war was only lost because it was after superman's death, and finds out he's half right- apparently there's never been a superman here because Lex Luthor killed Kal-El as an infant. ("wow, i'm going to kill him here for that." says Black Zero, who feels no clone-comraderie over a possible lex luthor jr situation here, and isn't even doing it because it means he doesn't exist here. he never got to meet Superman and he's kinda getting annoyed that hypertime never lets him land on an earth before he dies or after he comes back.)

he is then stopped in his "kill lex luthor" plans for five minutes because he saw that the president on this earth is elvis presley. ("wtf" says man who's seen dozens of worlds but nothing like this before.)

once he gets over his president elvis shock, he tracks down lex, who's apparently in this world's cadmus, and apparently owns it. He's peeved that paul westfield isn't where he should be, but sends some guardian clones to hunt him down and bring him back to set him up as ruler of this earth after lex is executed for killing baby superman and also, he assumes, firing westfield. ("lex luthor, your days are- what is that" says man who already knows he's looking at a cloning tube with a young Supergirl in it, and knows his world's history with lex and supergirl and clones, and is Not about to have this.)

he frees the young supergirl clone, takes over the planet, hands it off to a very confused westfield whos got no idea why this random new dictator sees him as a father, but is absolutely not going to question it, and when the supergirl clone wants to leave to join the justice society of heroes who are absolutely going to fight Black Zero over this world domination thing... he just lets her leave. no fuss at all. Happy that she gets to spend time with Supergirl like he never did Superman. Hoping, i suppose, that this time maybe she'll convince the heroes to not fight him, to surrender. after all, how bad could he be, if he saved her?

except like, clearly not hoping that hard, considering supergrrrl ends up in his clone bank too, so i guess she fought back in the end, at some point, in the twenty minutes of free time black zero had to grab her before he kept chasing kon into the pocket superboy universe???

maybe he just, landed there, saw supergrrrl in costume for the first time, and was like 'ah no she's dressed way more like the punk than she is me, yeah, not gonna give her time to rebel like him too' and just, nabbed her then and kept moving, carrying her in her clone bank tube while shaking his head, muttering "i mean, elvis, really???" to himself as he goes