In Fawcett City, three teenagers were walking down the street. A boy and a girl with a family resemblance, and another boy, with crutches. They met a blonde girl, and one of the boys kissed her on the cheek.
"Hey, Courtney." Billy Batson said.
"Hey." Courtney Whitmore said. "I can still see the movie with you, but I have to be back to patrol with Pat."
As they left, the three felt a strange disturbance regarding the Rock of Eternity.
"Billy, did you feel that?" Mary asked her brother.
Billy was a sixteen-year-old wearing a red and yellow long-sleeved t-shirt.
"I did, and I'm guessing Freddie did too?" Billy Batson asked his friend, who was standing on his crutches.
"Yeah." Freddie said.
"What's wrong?" Courtney asked
"Something happened to the Rock of Eternity. It has to be." Billy said.
"Something really bad." Mary said.
"Something from here or the other Earth?" Freddie asked.
"I don't know." Billy said.
"Do you think you know who also felt it?" Freddie asked.
Mary and Billy sighed.
"Yes, he definitely did." They said in tandem.
"Then we'll need to get there soon." Freddie said.
"Sorry, Courtney." Billy said. "We have to check this."
"SHAZAM!" They shouted, transforming into their powered forms.
Mary, of course, was Mary Marvel. Freddy was Freddy Marvel, formerly Captain Marvel Jr. While Billy was now Captain Marvel. The World's Mightiest Mortal. Courtney raised her arm, and a golden staff flew to her hand. She followed them as he young champions flew off to the Rock of Eternity.
This disturbance was also felt in the Middle Eastern nation of Kahndaq, specifically by the nation's ruler, Black Adam. The former champion of Shazam sat on his throne frowning.
"Your Majesty?" A servant asked, clearly nervous.
Adam's glare softened in front of the servant.
"It is not your fault." Adam said before his features harshened once more. "There is a great disturbance at the Rock of Eternity." He said.
"Something hateful." Black Adam said, rising from his chair.
The dictator took off to the Rock of Eternity to investigate the disturbance.
Hughie and Annie were dropped off at the house where Becca and Ryan stayed. The League agreed to allow them to live off of the Watchtower so long as they agree to be placed under house arrest. Although "house arrest" was probably not the right sentence, they were allowed to leave the house, but they could not leave the neighborhood. Both wore bracelets around their wrists that tracked their movements, with the being worn by Annie as a power dampener. They were also given carry-ons that contained spare clothes and hygiene products. Becca opened the door for them.
"Come in!" She said.
Hughie and Annie walked into the house. They looked around the living room and sat on the couch.
"You'll be sleeping in the guest room. There are two beds in there just so you know." Becca told them.
Hughie and Annie blushed in embarrassment.
"We're sorry about that. We both went through a lot." Hughie said.
Becca chuckled.
"I know." She said.
"Where's Ryan?" Annie asked.
"He's in the basement making his Lego videos." Becca said.
Annie grinned.
"Does he know that we are staying?" Annie asked.
"Yes." Becca said.
"How much of the context about us does he know?" Hughie asked.
Becca sighed.
"Let's take this outside." Becca said.
They walked to the backyard.
"What does he think of Homelander and Stormfront?" Annie asked.
"Doesn't like them, but it's recent." Becca said.
"Did Stormfront- -? Like, get into his head?" Hughie asked.
"No! God no!" Becca said.
"Okay, but did she try to?" Hughie asked.
"She tried to make him believe in that white genocide conspiracy theory." Becca said. "I told him it was bullshit." She added.
"Okay, that's good." Annie said.
"Last thing we need is another supe Nazi." Hughie added.
"Ryan told me that even Homelander thinks she's full of shit." Becca added.
"Well, at least even Homelander has his limits." Hughie said.
"Probably because Homelander is a Homelander supremacist first and foremost. I'm honestly surprised they're still together at this point. I thought they would fall out by now." Annie remarked.
Hughie was looking through his phone.
"Oh shit!" Hughie said.
"What?!" Annie asked.
"Is it Homelander?!" Becca asked.
"No, the Reverse Flash, he massacred the Secret Lair. He's calling out The Flash and A-Train." Hughie said.
"Secret Lair?" Becca asked.
"It's a bar supes go to, the kind with sex, drugs, and alcohol. Butcher brought me there after we met. I saw A-Train there. He was laughing after… Nevermind." Hughie said, stopping himself from trailing off. "I need to change." He added to distract himself.
"We can't find Stormfront. We're sorry sir." One of the God-U students told Homelander.
Homelander let out an annoyed sigh, to the surprise of everyone else in the room.
"Of course she did. Why am I not surprised? Still clinging onto that stupid master race bullshit from a hundred fucking years ago. Well, I'm not going out like her oh-so-precious fuhrer. I'm not going to blow my brains out in some bunker. No, I'm going out on my two feet, like a fucking man." Homelander said.
"Yeah, you're so much better than Hitler, sir." The Deep said.
"We have a problem." Blue Hawk said as showed his phone to Homelander.
Homelander looked at the news brought to him by Blue Hawk.
"This guy could alert the Justice League to us." Blue Hawk said.
"Could he? I mean, he's called the Reverse Flash. Maybe his superpowers are based on slowness." The Deep said.
Homelander just glared at The Deep.
Wonder Woman and Maeve battled in the sky over the city. The fight was recorded by practically everyone below. Diana grabbed Maeve from behind and constricted her.
"I… Can't…Stop…" Maeve told Diana, her voice straining from the effort.
"Don't worry, I'm trying to help." Wonder Woman said.
"It… hurts…" Maeve said.
Maeve eventually freed herself by elbowing Diana in the stomach. She knocked Diana onto the skyscraper's roof and tried to cut her with the sword, only for Diana to counter by punching her far away.
"Having difficulty?" Circe asked.
Wonder Woman angrily glared at the sorceress.
"Why have you done this, Circe?" The Amazon princess asked.
"Why? It's a matter of revenge and spite." Circe said.
"That's it?" Diana asked incredulously.
"Yes, have you not forgotten that you stole my daughter?!" Circe stated.
"Lyta should never have been in your influence if this is the level of cruelty you would sink to. Especially someone who has done nothing to have wronged you. What does Maeve have to do with this?" Wonder Woman said.
"Simple, really. I knew you would simply try to help this broken reflection of yourself. I wanted you to relive your biggest regret too." Circe said.
"No! I won't kill!" Wonder Woman declared.
"Oh, I don't doubt that. However, if you don't, Maeve will die either way. The curse is slowly killing her as we speak. I'd say you have about an hour until she dies." Circe told Wonder Woman.
Diana grabbed Circe by the throat.
"Release her!" Diana demanded.
Only for her to get tackled by Maeve.
A-Train went up to his brother's home. His heart swelled even though the forced injection of Compound V did not kill him miraculously. He could not find anyone at the hideout. Stormfront went missing first, so Homelander and the others told him to find her. However, A-Train did not care about that and half-heartedly looked for her. When he returned, everyone else was gone. He saw this as an opportunity to get his family out of this mess. A-Train tripped as though someone pushed him. He looked around and saw no one there. At first, he thought the culprit would be Homelander, but if it were Homelander, he'd probably be missing his legs.
"Who did that? Do you know who I am?" A-Train demanded.
His only response was silence. Until he heard the sound of wind rushing behind him, only for there to be nothing. A-Train rushed to the door and knocked incessantly.
"Nathan! We need to go now!" A-Train yelled, pounding on the door.
Just as the door opened, he felt something punch him in the face knocking him into a nearby car. A-Train got up and saw the assailant: Professor Zoom.
"Flash?" A-Train asked.
"No." Thawne replied, a smug and sadistic grin on his face. "You're pretty tough, not just fast… For your standards. You're still bound to the laws of physics. I suppose you need a superhumanly strong body to survive your speed."
Seconds later A-Train felt pain as though he was getting punched hundreds of times in one second. Just as he loomed over a downed A-Train, Professor Zoom was knocked back by someone else: The Flash.
"Thawne." Flash said.
"Kid Flash." Thawne replied as he got up, teasing Wally by still calling him his sidekick alias as if he wasn't the real Flash.
The two speedsters circled one another.
"What's wrong, missing Barry?" Thawne taunted.
"You don't get to say his name." Wally said.
"What about Iris?" Thawne added.
Wally rushed at Thawne, only for the Reverse Flash to dodge.
"Honestly, I'm amazed you actually came all the way out here to defend this murderous drug addict. Not even his teammate would bother." Professor Zoom said.
"If you're shocked by that, Eobard, small wonder Barry rejected you as the Flash." Wally said.
This time Eobard lunged at Wally, with the latter throwing the former into another car.
"A-Train, you need to go now." Flash told A-Train.
A-Train got up.
"Run now and let you take more from me, fuck no!" A-Train said.
Thawne rushed at A-Train, only for the Flash to intercept, punching Thawne in the chest and sending him back a few miles.
"Reggie, please listen to him!" Nathan cried out, his family in tow. They looked horrified by something.
"Why?! What's wrong with you?!" A-Train asked.
Nathan didn't answer A-Train and noticed that his brother's family refused to look at him.
"I told them everything you did." Thawne said.
"What?" A-Train asked.
"I started by telling them about you killing your girlfriend Popclaw." Thawne said.
"What? How could… I don't know…" A-Train was about to ask before catching himself.
"Then I showed them you killing that girl. What was her name? Oh, that's right Robin Ward." Thawne said.
Flash knew what Thawne was about to do: trying to goad A-Train into rushing him. Naturally, he ran towards Thawne, only for Thawne to disappear and appear behind Flash. He kicked Wally in the legs, breaking them, but only temporarily.
"Then I told them about how Homelander would kill them all. I told him to take his temper tantrum elsewhere." Thawne said.
"Where?" Flash asked.
Thawne ignored him, instead keeping his focus on A-Train.
"So now your family knows you're a murderer and a coward, but look on the bright side. They'll have a new hero to look up to after you're gone." Thawne said, gesturing to The Flash.
A-Train angrily ran towards Thawne, who remained perfectly still. Just as A-Train's fist was about to collide with the Reverse Flash, Thawne vibrated his molecules, making himself phase through the punch. A-Train turned to Thawne, a look of horror on his face that said it all: he was going to die.
"Nate, I'm…" A-Train was cut off when Thawne rushed at him.
To everyone else watching the events unfold, whether live or from any device, it was instantaneous. However, the Flash saw all of the carnage in utter detail.
"Your body is tough." Professor Zoom whispered in A-Train's ear. "But not tough enough to survive going this fast."
The Flash followed Professor Zoom as he ran at maximum speed, fast, too fast for A-Train's body to handle. He saw A-Train's skin, bones, and organs get torn apart by the friction. The streets ran red with A-Train's blood, the only physical piece of his existence being the burnt plastic goggles he wore being held by his murderer. In a second, they ran around the entire planet and returned to where they started. The Flash turned to the remaining members of the Franklin family, who looked horrified. Nathan collapsed, Arana screamed, and fell to her knees while their children stood still, absolutely gun shocked. This incident would follow them for the rest of their lives. The Flash knew that. With his legs freshly healed, Wally tackled Thawne at super speeds.
"Murderer!" Wally shouted, punching Thawne across the jaw.
They began fighting and racing again until their bodies fell against each other, now somewhere in East Asia.
"A-Train's dead." One of the God-U students told Homelander.
They were at his apartment, surrounded by other younger supes, former Vought big hitters and others. Homelander signed, slightly annoyed by what he just heard.
"Fine, I knew there was a risk the V shot would give him a heart attack."
"He was… Murdered, actually."
"What?"
"By Professor Zoom, one of Flash's enemies."
"That's the same asshole who killed a third of our guys at the Secret Lair. You think that's a coincidence?"
"Maybe…" The Deep said. "Maybe, you're part of the plan? They know what you're planning, so they want to diminish the damage and just have you so…"
"Shut the fuck up." Homelander said. He was listening to something. He could hear it coming and left the room at super speed.
Hughie had just gotten changed and walked over to the living room, where he saw Annie sitting down on the couch with a horrified look on her face. Hughie rushed over to her.
"What happened?" He asked.
Annie's expression turned to one of concern upon looking at Hughie, worried about his possible reaction.
"Professor Zoom just killed A-Train." Annie told him.
Hughie stood still, unable to process what he just heard. He looked over to the TV, which confirmed Annie's statement. As well as giving him more details on how A-Train died.
"Are you alright?" Annie asked.
"I… I don't know…" Hughie stammered.
He sat down next to her trying to process the information.
"I mean… I want… I wanted him to pay for killing Robin, but not like that." Hughie told her.
"I know. A-Train was not a good person, but he did not deserve to die like that. Especially in front of his family." Annie said.
A thought occurred to her.
"Vought signed off on it." Annie realized.
"What?" Hughie asked.
"Damaged goods or not, Vought would not allow someone as high profile as A-Train to die. Especially if Edgar is working with Luthor and Thawne." She said.
"You're right." Hughie said, remembering Thawne's earlier massacre of the Secret Lair.
"Edgar and Vought are liquidating their supes." Annie said, horrified at the prospect. "I really was a product to them." She added.
Hughie hugged her in an effort to comfort them.
"You're still a human being to me." He whispered in her ear.
Annie watched the TV showing footage of Wonder Woman's fight with Queen Maeve. The couple were surprised to see Maeve's new look.
"Is that Maeve?" Hughie asked.
Diana blocked another of Maeve's attacks with her gauntlets, sparks flying. Wonder Woman figured that she needed to disarm her.
"Maeve, I'm sorry." Wonder Woman said.
Diana twisted Maeve's arm, eliciting a scream. She dropped the sword, only for her to grab it with the other as the broken one healed. Maeve knocked Diana down to the ground creating a crater. Maeve walked up to the downed Amazon and prepared to finish her off. Only for Wonder Woman to open her eyes and kick Maeve in the stomach, then sweep her leg. Diana began to wrap her lasso around Maeve, hogtying her.
"Well done, Diana, you managed to delay the inevitable." Circe announced.
Diana was then blasted from behind by Circe. She fired another blast at Diana, who blocked it with her gauntlets.
"Freeze!" Two cops announced, pointing their guns at Circe. Circe smiled at this.
"No, stay away from her!" Diana warned them.
Using her magic, she transformed the cops into a pair of wild boar beastiamorphs.
"Now, boys, protect and serve me." She ordered the beasts to attack Wonder Woman.
The beastiamorphs attacked Wonder Woman, who managed to knock them out with only a few blows. Diana looked at Maeve, who appeared to be resisting the spell. She smiled upon seeing this.
"Well done you've managed to buy yourself some time." Maeve said.
"If that is the case, why are you so desperate?" Diana asked.
"Silence! Kill her!" Circe ordered her minions.
Just then, the other Amazons arrived.
"Sorry, we're late." Cassie apologized.
A massive brawl ensued, and beastiamorphs were thrown around in various directions. Circe kept up her mystical onslaught on Diana, she started to panic upon seeing the Princess of the Amazons get up to her face. Diana punched the sorceress in the face breaking her nose as blood dripped.
"YOU! DARE!" She yelled.
"I do." Wonder Woman said.
Circe was about to unleash her spell when suddenly, her magic was disrupted.
"What?" Circe asked until she realized something.
"Hey Donna!" A newly freed Maeve said.
Circe turned around and was punched in the face by Maeve.
"You're free, how?" Circe asked.
"With this." Maeve said, showing she had a piece of molly in her hand.
"Compliments of Harley Quinn, believe it or not." Diana said, placing a hand on Circe's shoulder.
Circe stood still like a statue surrounded by the Amazons.
"I will concede defeat." She said.
Wonder Woman punched her across the face knocking out the sorceress.
"Great, Themyscira will gladly like to hear it." Donna Troy said, wrapping up the sorceress in her lasso.
Maeve went up to Diana.
"Thank you… I'm sorry for everything." Maeve said.
"It's alright you've been granted a second chance." Diana told her.
Maeve realized something.
"You saw the video, didn't you?" Maeve asked.
"We did. If you come forward about Homelander and Vought, we will do our best to help you." Wonder Woman said.
Maeve hesitated to answer.
"You'll keep Elena safe, right?" Maeve asked.
"We will. She's with us right now." Diana said.
"She was at Vought Tower before we arrived." Troia said.
"I'll go. Homelander is about to rampage, but I expect you already know that." Maeve said.
"We do." Wonder Woman said.
"Make it hurt." Maeve told them.
"Trust us, we will." Artemis said.
They all were brought to the Watchtower.
The champions of Shazam arrived at the Rock of Eternity. They entered and looked around. Everything appeared normal until they saw who was sitting on Shazam's old throne.
"Mary, great to see you! I see you brought the whole family with you." Stormfront said.
It didn't take the Wisdom of Solomon to clue them in on what happened to Stormfront.
"Oh boy…" Captain Marvel said.
"You stole the power of the wizard." Mary said.
"I didn't steal anything. What? Is no one from Earth Seven allowed to be on your playing field." Stormfront said.
"Not when they're Nazis." Freddy said.
His statement took Stormfront aback momentarily.
"What? You don't like the name too?" She sarcastically asked.
"The Justice League knows. We know that your real name is Klara Vought." Mary said.
Stormfront glared at Mary.
"People appreciate what I have to say. They just don't like the word Nazi." Stormfront said.
"Lady, I don't know which people you speak for, but not us." Captain Marvel said.
Stormfront was about to attack when someone managed to tackle her. It was Black Adam.
"You're the defiler, I presume?" He asked, pinning her against the wall.
"Get your filthy hands off me!" She yelled
Stormfront punched Adam in the face before kicking him off of her.
"There are four of us and only one of you. Give up." Mary said.
A flash of lightning, and Stormfront was gone, much to the dread of the three champions and the annoyance of the former.
At the Vought Tower's entrance, crowds gathered, and reporters were ready to hear a statement. Ashley was preparing her talking points when she was surprised by Homelander suddenly appearing in front of her.
"Why wasn't I notified?" Homelander asked her.
"I-It was an emergency. We thought we had to speak as soon as possible, or else the Justice League would."
"Give me that." Homelander said, and Ashley gave him her talking points. "We're very sorry for A-Train, blablabla; Vought is doing everything possible to deal with the threats… Drug abuse of Compound-V?"
"Some are saying A-Train used it to heal his legs. The crowds are here to protest. They think we're putting more people in danger."
"Ok, stay here. I'll talk to them."
Homelander dropped the papers on the ground and went to face the crowd. Ashley picked up the papers and left. One of the assistants went to talk to her.
"Homelander is going to answer about Stormfront?" She asked.
"No, A-Train. Shit, did they kill Stormfront now?"
"No, they didn't."
The assistant turned on the TV in the hallway, channeling in the report of Stormfront's nazi past going public.
Homelander took the mic and presented himself in front of the crowd. The protestors were angry, and the reporters were eager.
"Folks, I know why you're here." Homelander said. "I'm hurt beyond measure, A-Train, my brother, didn't deserve that. That's what I've been talking about this whole time! All that comes from Earth One is a threat, and now they took one of ours!"
"What about Stormfront!? Doesn't her Nazi alignments make you sound hypocritical?
"What…? W-What are you talking about?"
"Why wasn't Frederick Vought's Nazi history common knowledge already?"
Homelander was swarmed by questions of this nature, all coming too quickly for him to answer any, he was cornered.
"Hey, guys, please. You know Stormfront. I know Stormfront- -"
"You knew it!?"
Somebody shouted.
"I did not say that. What I am saying is that when you let yourself be driven by emotion, you can act irrationally."
"It's not emotion. It's a fact." Another person shouted. "Vought's a Nazi."
"You're a fucking Nazi!" Another one shouted.
Homelander was speechless. He just stared at the crowd with dead eyes as they kept shouting names, showing middle fingers and the reporters on the front desperately trying to get a word from him. He was tired. His dead eyes lit up red.
He lasered a protester who kept shouting at him. The laser went through his body and also killed those behind him. The crowds ran, but at no moment Homelander stopped his laser. He just kept passing it around the crowd. The Bodies were cut in half, and there was blood and fire all over the ground. The sound of screens was very particular, screens of desperation getting louder and suddenly interrupted by the noise of Homelander's laser vision.
Once they were all dead, Homelander stopped. He sighed in relief and smiled momentarily, then saw what he did. There wasn't a plan anymore. It happened, it was there, right in front of him, and that scared him. The supes he was gathering left Vought Tower and saw what he did, one of them asked.
"Is it now? Has it started?"
Homelander was panicking. They could see the confusion in his eyes.
"Homelander?" Another asked.
Homelander simply flew away.