It was dark, the type of dark that happens when you close your eyes, and the weird colors start to swim around your vision, I couldn't hear anything- scratch that I could, it was a conversation, but it sounded muffled like I was underwater, or in some type of liquid. I felt comfortable seemingly floating, and I felt warm like taking a hot shower after waking up, this served to put me into an almost artificial calm, almost indifferent to the situation I found myself in. opening my eyes I'm temporarily blinded by the white light coming from directly above me, everything was a bit blurry and looking around me, it looks like I'm floating in some type of blue liquid with the occasional bubble floating up past me, I had an oxygen mask on my face. Looking around even more, I notice that whatever I'm in is shaped like a cylinder, and all around me, the walls are metal except for directly in front of me, where the wall is glass, looking out of that glass I find the source of the muffled conversation, outside of my pod thingy stood two people, one Asian female with long black hair that included streaks of artificially died gold streaks, and the second person, a generic white male sporting blond hair and blue eyes, both wearing white lab coats, with pens of various colors in the front pocket. With their conversation continuing I decide to try and get their attention by putting my hand on the glass, which I found surprisingly hard to do as my arm was hard to move, not knowing if it's from physical weakness or the liquid weighing down on me, nonetheless, I managed to succeed in grabbing their attention, what I wasn't expecting was their expression, which was first surprise, then horror before they proceeded to hurriedly run out of my line of sight, after that my heavy eyelids slowly drifted to a close no matter how hard I tried to stay awake. The next time I opened my eyes I found myself in what seems like a hospital room, decorated with white walls, and medical equipment, what drew my attention was the rhythmic beeping sound coming from the unusually advanced heart monitor, that seemed to just be a screen inserted in the wall opposite from my bed displaying various amounts of information. With a click, the door to my right opened, and the Asian female I saw previously walked in, followed by a slew of what might be doctors wearing the usual white coats and stethoscope around their necks, oddly the only female present was the previously mentioned Asian one, and without my consent, they proceeded to do a variety of tests on me, from moving my limbs to shining lights in my eyes, seeing my confusion The Asian female asked the doctors to give me some space and time to orient myself, although she referred to me as MR. Luthor, which I found oddly familiar, tho I don't know why. As soon as the doctors were out of the room she quickly introduced herself, but as she was doing that, I stopped listening as I found her name to be unimportant regarding the current situation, so I interrupted her asking, for the information I deemed important, I started with
MC: "Where am i" a bit surprised by my own monochrome sounding voice, and it seemed that she was also surprised though I'm not sure if it was because of my voice, though fortunately, she was able to quickly regain her composure and answered
Asian female: "You are at a secure Lex corp facility, sir"
MC: "Lex corp?"
I questioned trying to guess at where or what that may be, but my guesses we're either unrealistic or well, just plain unrealistic.
Asian Female: " Yes, Lex corp sir" she answered. Afraid of sounding stupid I hesitantly ask the question that continuously came up in my mind when I thought of a Lex corp.
MC: "As a one owned by Lex Luthor"
Asian female: " Yes sir, the one previously owned by MR.Luthor"
At that revelation, I start hyperventilating, the same question repeatedly going through my head, *" What the hell would I be doing in a private facility owned by Lex Luthor, assuming that he's even real and I'm not just EXTREMELY high right now"* after a few seconds, I managed to calm myself down, reasoning that based on my experiences so far it would be best to take what she says seriously, as that might be my best chance at survival, looking back at her face she seems to be patiently waiting for my response, based on that I can conclude that I am of relative importance, and that immediately killing me off would be an unlikely course of action, with my survival assured for the time being I decided to focus on her answer to my previous question, specifically zeroing in on one word "previously". after a bit of thinking I came to the conclusion that she's implying that Lex Luthor is no longer the CEO of Lex Corp, calling upon my vast knowledge of the Dc universe I could not recall a timeline in which Lex luthor was not the owner of lex corp, and knowing Luthors personality I highly doubt that he would willingly give up control of his company Which means that he either died which is unlikely, or disappeared which is also unlikely, the only way I can see any of those things happening to him, is if it was part of some big plan he had, deciding to test my hypothesis I ask the female, which I should really get her name, directly.
MC: " What do you mean previously?" lowering her head she answered
Asian Female: "Unfortunately he disappeared in a fight involving the Justice League, and some unknown extraterrestrials"
Processing the information I quickly ask another question
MC: "Was he attempting to help the justice league?" somehow not phased by the fact that I know what she's talking about when I just came out of a pod, she respectfully answered
Asian female: "Indeed his primary goal was to help push back the extraterrestrials, but gathering information on the league was a secondary goal"
Satisfied by that answer I nod, knowing full well that despite Luthors intentions, he is generally not altruistic. After thinking for a bit I decided to ask the question that's been on my mind for the past few minutes
MC: "What does all of this have to do with me?" I asked trying to piece together, what the disappearance of Lex has to do with me, but all I came up with is that based on the respectful way she's been treating me, I'm most likely the answer or at least one of the answers for Lexcorps continued survival, her next statement reinforced my guess
Asian female: "In case of MR. Luthors inability to lead lexcorp, a clone was to be made with the knowledge, tools, and expertise to run lexcorp, and that clone sir, James Luthor, is now you, and based on our conversation, I would deem the project a success"
At that I nod, this reassured me greatly, as well as opening up a lot of doors for my next course of action, and with that thought, most of my worries were put to rest, and now I could think of more trivial matters, such as the lack of any memories that don't involve comics, mangas, or web novels, at least I know my name which I've now figured out to be James Luthor. as worrying as the lack of memories sounds, it isn't that much of a problem, as I don't know what I forgot, and plus I seem to have an emotion dampener on me, though I can feel emotion, they feel weak, almost nonexistent, must be one of the tools she spoke of, no matter, as this could be used to my benefit, I was nocked out of my train of thought when she suddenly handed me a mirror, reminding me that I have no knowledge of what I look like, taking the mirror out of her hands I take a look, only to find that I look exactly like superboy but with blond hair instead, I can't help but sigh at that, *"if your going to make a clone, at least make them look different"* taking some time to think I can assume that I'm most likely in a variant of the young justice universeee which means that even with luthors dissapearence I should at least have some important knowledge that only I know, after that I hand the mirror back to her and upon getting the mirror back she left the room turning off the lights, stating that I needed some rest, and I couldn't agree more with her, after she left I spent a bit of time thinking about my next course of action, before falling asleep.