AN: Hi Everyone!

I have been informed that this story is being posted on Webnovel under the name: The Boys: Reborn as Homelander.

It is not me who is posting the story there. Fanfic is the only site where I have posted any of my stories.

Thank you to The Watcher of Fiction for letting me know in the reviews!

I hope you enjoy the chapter.

TIMELINE & DATE:

I think Season 3 happens during 2021 with the last few episodes happening after Homelander's Birthday Special which is July 4th. So I put the action for the last few episodes to happen towards the end of August or first week of September.

For this story I am moving the date up by one year so Chapters 1 through 15 happen during the last week of August first week of September 2022.

My reasoning is that in the show they have a presidential election coming up. In the real world the next election is 2024 and campaigning starts around two years before the election so it fits nicely with the real world and makes future date calculations much easier for me.

AS I'm starting the time skip I won't be providing exact dates only months and years and sometimes only years as we get further along the timeline.

Chapter 20:

Date: April 2023

Cameron: "Welcome to Seven on 7 this morning for a special edition of our show. Today officially marks a new era in mankind's space exploration as our beloved superhero Homelander officially enters the race by performing the official test flight of theV-Light's V1 capsule."

"Now I'm not expert in any matters related to space so joining me today to remark on this tremendous moment is retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot and musician Chris Hadfield. Welcome to the show Christ."

Chris: "Thank you Cameron. Glad to be here."

Cameron: "Now Chris you have been given access to the V1 capsule and behind the scenes at V-Light. What can you tell us about it?"

Chris: "Well Cameron, it is essentially a capsule that is 9 meters in diameter and 18 meters in height. It has a volume of approx. 1000 cubic meters of cargo space and it weighs about 4 metric tons."

Cameron: "And how much weight can this capsule hold?"

Chris: "That is an interesting question. The payload of the capsule, that is the term we use for the cargo carrying capacity of space rockets, is technically up to 100 tons. Now of course I'm not sure if the term really applies here since Homelander is replacing the role of the rocket. So maybe it's better to refer to it as the weight that the capsule can support in case of emergency descent."

Cameron: "Emergency descent, what do you mean by that? Can you elaborate?"

Chris: "Since Homelander is doing the lifting it all depends on how much weight he can fly into orbit. In test flights I've seen him move up to 30 tons quite easily. So our instinct is to say that payload is 30 tons. However the capsule itself can always be reinforced to hold more weight as long as Homelander can fly it up and the special harness that attaches Homelander to the capsule holds."

"But what if the harness snaps, or there is some sort of unknown accident and he loses control of it and drops it. So the engineers asked themselves what is the highest weight that they can safely use parachutes on for an emergency descent? The current design and materials allow for a safe descent for up to 100 tons. So even if Homelander could lift 200 tons they would never load the capsule to that weight with the current harness and emergency descent system."

Cameron: "Wow, thank you for making that distinction for myself and our viewers at home."

"And today's test flight there is no cargo in the capsule is that right?"

Chris: "That is correct. This flight will be all about getting capsule into low earth orbit about 510 km altitude, testing the various systems and the launch mechanism for the satellites as well of course the descent and emergency systems."

Cameron: "And Chris with Homelander doing heavy lifting there has been talk in the media that Homelander will be distorting the space flight market and that it will be unfair competition. What can you tell us about that?"

Chris: "In a way they are right but they are also wrong. You see problem with putting things into space is the exorbitant cost to lift things up there. With Homelander there is no cost so from a purely business point of view I can see what they mean."

"However from the point of view of mankind as a whole this is exactly what we need to kick things into high gear! With Homelander's help we can expand the space station maybe even start a colony on the moon. He can lift things piecemeal and we can assemble them in orbit."

"We can bring machines to the moon and start manufacturing space craft there. The possibilities are endless!"

Cameron: "A moon colony! Wow just wow! This is really the next great step isn't it?"

Chris: "It sure is Cameron! I hope I can see it in my lifetime."

Cameron: "Now I want to bring it back to the money side of things again since we've gotten a lot of questions about it ever since Vought announced V-Light and even in our congress there has been contention from both sides of the isle about fair competition and getting the approvals and…"

Chris: "Cameron, I'm Canadian so I don't think it's fair for me to discuss the politics involved nor am I an economics expert."

"What I can tell you though is that up to a decade ago almost all manned space flights were government funded and any commercial flights were usually unmanned and cargo carrying only. Essentially launching satellites in space."

Cameron: "Ok."

Chris: "And even the companies launching satellites did it only because they thought they could get a great return from it, so we are talking about big corporations here. As both launch technology and telecommunications technology improved we started to see more smaller secondary players enter the market."

Cameron: "You mean companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin?"

Chris: "Exactly! They brought new ideas and new ways of doing things. And these companies are slowly moving into manned space flights for commercial purposes."

"And they are doing this because they see a market for it, a way to make money. And the more infrastructure we can get into space the easier it becomes to be there, more people will be interested into going there. That will spur more investment for companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, that means more technological advancements making things cheaper which in turn will create even more interest so on and so forth."

Cameron: "So it's the rising tide that will lift all boats…well in this case rockets!"

Chris: "Hahah, well put! Even more so companies should not be worried about competing with Homelander they should be looking at the opportunities Homelander will provide. If anything they should be worried that Homelander will not able to do as much as we want him too!"

Cameron: "Oh, what do you mean by that Chris?"

Chris: "Well superpowers or not he is still just one man and there are only 24hrs in a day. He's chairman of Vought, leader of The Seven the world's greatest superhero, he's flying around helping people left right and centre, he's doing talk shows, movies, promoting science education and so many other things!"

"We are honestly lucky that he has the time to start this venture. I cannot stress enough how much this is going to help humanity if we can just create even the basic orbital infrastructure!"

Cameron: "You know Chris, I never even thought of it that way. Being in New York and working for Vought I think that sometimes I just take Homelander for granted. He's really the gift that keeps on giving!"

"Chris, I've just received word from our producers that V-Light was just given the go ahead and they will launch in 5 minutes. So we are going to switch to the live view for Homelander's take off."

"I hope you can walk us through the different stages of the flight. But before that a quick break!"

Scene Break

Date: May 2023

Lander's Journal May 13th 2023

I thought it fitting that I start my journal on the day that my greatest enemy (so far) is buried dead into the ground.

William Butcher is no more! Finally!

I watched him over the months deteriorate more and more becoming only a husk of his former self. I thought for sure he would drop dead or at least go into a coma over a month ago but it seems out of sheer stubbornness he refused to let go.

I can only assume he wanted to see the birth of 'his' child. HA! I get much more joy at that thought than I should be.

Truthfully 'I' had nothing against the man it was only because of 'our' intertwined pasts that meant him and I could never reconcile.

Besides superpowers or not I simply couldn't have a resourceful hateful cunt like him alive to keep gunning for me. I was only ever so lucky that he went against his principles and became what he hated the most.

It killed him and removed that annoyance of a substitute little brother off the board and I didn't even have to lift a finger.

I was worried he would release 'the video' as a last fuck you but it seems he didn't and I don't think he will. I don't know if Frenchy, M.M or Malory have it my best guess he entrusted everything to Maeve to have as a last effort deterrent against me.

She's probably the one that convinced him not to do it. I doubt she'd want to raise her son in a post-apocalyptic world.

Not that I would ever let it get to that point. It's amazing what you can do with deep fakes nowadays. There's a whole website where people make deep fakes of celebrities fucking. Some are so good I wonder if they aren't actually real sex tapes.

No, nothing to worry on that front, I'm prepared if that video ever surfaces.

Maeve is due soon and so should Kimiko. The Vought doctors say everything is 'normal' with Maeve's pregnancy, no signs of powers or abnormalities yet but I know better and I think Maeve feels it too.

Literally I've 'seen' that boy's kick. Still it remains to be seen how he will develop, even my gifts only fully surfaced after a few years.

Ryan's were even longer but that maybe because of the sterilized environment he was raised in.

As for Kimiko I have no idea how her pregnancy is progressing. Her and Frenchy had basically disappeared doing god knows what nonsense only appearing for Butcher's funeral. All I got from observing her was that the baby was also a boy, already sporting a flush of dark hair in contrast to Maeve's kid sporting red.

It seems the trend is for all the boys to take after their mothers…typical.

Though as Ryan is maturing every day I see more and more of his grandfather in him…Soldier Boy.

One day I have to take a trip to the moon and tie up that loose end…as soon as I figure out what to do with him…I very much doubt that he's fully dead.

I can't simply assume that not when I feel no adverse effects when in space outside my need to breath…which I'm slowly working on.

I still need a suite to be in space, but because of my innate hardiness my space suit is maximized for optimal mobility and breathing time. It's quite sleek and unlike those bulky tanks that regular humans have to wear.

The V-Light launch was successful and in a few months we will launch our first cadre of satellites. Byron Sat is ramping up production and software programming.

Things are going to start moving very fast soon. I need V-light to be a success within two years. With it as a success story and hopefully Singer and Victoria in office I'll be able to rope in the government.

Then things will really pick up first orbit then the Moon.

Still Soldier Boy, Soldier Boy , Soldier Boy. What am I to do with you?

…maybe I can chuck him into the Sun.

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AN:

This chapter is pretty much all 'telling' and not showing.

I'm looking for ideas of how the space build up can happen. Some readers mentioned hotels for tourists which is a pretty neat idea and fits in with Vought's 'Vought World parks'.

Let me know if you have any other ideas for both commercial and scientific ventures.

For anyone worried someone is going to read Lander's journal don't worry it's on an encrypted laptop and all that tech security mumbo jumbo.

As well the chapter shows some hints on how the children will look so it's not quite obvious right away who the fathers are.

Once again thank you for reading and reviewing.