Danny Didn't Go Ghost For Several Months Because He Was Content With Just Having A Normal Life - Tumblr Posts
Clark is completely oblivious to the fact that Danny and the death god the Justice League is looking for are the same person.
After crashing, Danny transforms back into a human, cutting off any trackable energy the JL could follow, thus leaving them confused as several members of the Justice League Dark work to figure out what happened and set up various sensors so they can track down this potential threat.
Clark, meanwhile, eventually makes his way back to the farm to meet the kid his parents have been talking about. Danny's a bit nervous about meeting someone new, but lets a few small things slip to Clark, namely that he has powers and he wasn't in the best of homes prior to being picked up by the Kent's.
Clark, more than a bit concerned for this child, keeps coming around to see him. He brings over the rest of his family so Danny can talk to people closer to his age.
Over time, Danny opens up more and more, explaining how he gained his powers from a lab accident, how he had to hide the fact he had them from his parents due to their beliefs and practices, how he was left to defend his city, maybe even his entire world, from various rogues to the point he was running on little sleep some nights and failing his classes. He talks about how many of the people he protected saw him as an enemy, and the government even put out laws to give themselves the right to experiment on him. He talks about fighting the Ghost King and taking his place after he pulled his entire town into another dimension. He talks about Dan and his fear of becoming him, that one small mistake could lead to him turning out for the worse. He talks about how he misses his family, but at the same time is relieved he doesn't have to sit through another presentation about how his parents plan to rip him apart molecule by molecule.
Clark talks too, eventually letting Danny know he's Superman. Explaining how he's had to learn to control his powers from a young age to make sure he never hurt anyone. Explaining how he became a paragon, and the standards everyone has held him to. How he's made mistakes, some with worse impacts than others. How he's let his enemies get the better of him. How he's hurt someone for being born. How he's seen his own dark future, where he lets 'the right thing' become something much more twisted. And how he's still doing his best to make up for all his faults, working with a team to make things better.
Eventually, Danny trusts Clark. And after keeping it hidden for so long, he shows him his ghost half. The two share a nice moment, taking a flight around the countryside, enjoying the stars, Danny sharing how he's always wanted to be an astronaut as Clark describes the other planets he's been to.
Of course, Danny turning into a ghost just so happened to trigger every alarm and scanner the Justice League and Justice League Dark set up. And they just so happen to track him down to the farm town of Smallville. Surely Superman can help them stop what must be an intergalactic threat hiding out in his hometown.
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In a fight, skulker accidentally throws Danny through a natural portal, and now Danny is stuck at Pluto, what the hell you bony bastard?! So now he has to fly all the way back to earth and hope the satellites don’t pick him up, but it’s actually Hal Jordan who sees him, and when later telling the justice league about a glowing boy in space who doesn’t need to breath and definitely wasn’t a lantern, zatanna cuts him off to mention the urgent need of addressing the insane amounts of dead following what feels like an insanely powerful god of death that definitely wasn’t in this dimension the day before. Bats is obviously the first one to notice they’re talking about the same person.
Back with Danny, he can’t seem to find his way around the states with how tired that flight made him, so he crashed down onto a farm on accident, while two sweet parents see this glowing boy fall from the sky and decided yeah. Might as well have another.
Clark, meanwhile, has no clue that the god of death sending the league into chaos is the same kid his parents have been wanting him to meet back at the farm.