"I--" The clone coughed up blood. "I don't--understand. I don't-- I had my mission. I don't--"

He was confused. He sounded all the world like a small child, scared and confused and just learning what death was as they were dying.

That's what he was, just a day old and learning what death was before learning what life was.

"I'm scared."

Tears started to trickle out of the corner of his eyes, as he looked up at Superboy, as the shock started to set in.