The Boys sat in a waiting room outside the Medbay where Butcher was being examined, Becca beside him. The room was silent due to recent events. MM and Frenchie had told the League that Doctor Sivanna, Ocean Master, Arkillo, The Brain, and Mallah were a part of the Secret Society of Supervillains.

"How are you feeling?" Hughie asked MM.

MM looked at Hughie.

"Not well." MM confessed.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Hughie asked.

"There's nothing to talk about, Hughie. I have no fucking idea what that bald son of a bitch made us do, and honestly, I don't think we wanna know." MM tensely told Hughie.

Hughie backed off.

"Alright." Hughie said.

MM sighed.

"What happened while we were out?" MM asked.

"A-Train's dead." Hughie told MM.

This news got the attention of the Boys. MM, Kimiko, and Frenchie noted how Hughie apparently took no joy in sharing that tidbit of information.

"Who did him in? Homelander? Stormfront?" MM asked.

"Professor Zoom." Hughie told them.

The Boys had a look of disgust upon hearing that.

"That guy was a psycho. He was the only one who realized they were pieces of shit and enjoyed it." MM remarked.

"That suceur de bite tortured Butcher and I for a bit." Frenchie said.

"He killed A-Train in front of his family." Annie added somberly.

"Fuck that's just…" MM remarked, remembering his childhood.

"I know." Hughie said.

"What does an asshole have to do to get killed here?" MM asked.

"There is no limit." Frenchie said.

"To be fair, I read from the museum Professor Zoom has died a lot. He just comes back every time, time travel stuff." Hughie said.

MM, Frenchie, and Kimiko seemingly disregarded Hughie's comment.

"I mean, for fuck's sake! They could have just let Homelander and Stormfront die back at the movie lot, and now I hear that they got upgrades!" MM said.

"Upgrades? I thought it was just Stormfront." Annie said.

"Homelander apparently got a yellow lantern ring from the Alien that worked with Luthor." MM said.

"Sinestro Corps." Frenchie corrected.

"I don't give a pair of extraterrestrial balls what they're called." MM said.

Hughie and Annie decided to let them vent.

Homelander got hit in the head by a wrecking ball made of green light. He was thrown away and dived through the ground. When he opened his eyes, he saw Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, flying over him, swinging the wrecking ball chain.

"I waited a long time for this." Green Lantern said.

A giant arm made of yellow light emerged from the ground behind Guy and grabbed him. Homelander willed his construct from the ground. He got up as Guy broke from the hand and flew towards him. Homelander and Green Lantern flew towards each other. Homelander surrounded himself by a giant arm with a palm facing Green Lantern. Guy surrounded himself with a giant drill digging through the hand. The drill went through slowly as yellow and green light shocked. When he was halfway through, Guy created an ax twice the size of Homelander and hit his body, breaking the arm construct. Homelander stabilized his flight before he hit the land. As Gardner launched toward him, Homelander shot a blast of energy. Guy protected himself with a shield, and Homelander tried to slash him from the other side with a sword. Guy counter-attacked with another sword.

"A sword? Really, asshole?" Guy questioned. "That, a giant hand, and an energy blast? Where's your creativity?"

Green Lantern moved his sword further, revealing the hilt to be the barrel of a gun and shot Homelander. In response, he created a baseball bat that grew bigger with each strike. Guy made a baseball and threw it at Homelander. Still, when he went for the home run, the baseball broke in half, the bat swung between the halves, and Homelander found himself secluded inside the baseball. Guy created a link of light with the baseball and shrunk it more and more, closing on Homelander, who was getting squashed.

"I have years of experience with this ring and a lot of will." Green Lantern said. "What do you have?"

Homelander broke the sphere of light with the construct of a giant eagle around his body. A wave of yellow energy hit Guy and spread further, causing quakes and breaking windows of several skyscrapers. People in the city felt that they could see the deadly yellow light of providence fighting the Green Lantern from afar. That scared them. And this fear only made Homelander stronger.

Green Lantern was surrounded by six yellow constructs of military jets charging towards him. Guy dived, and the constructs crashed against themselves. Guy created a pickaxe and let it grow longer and bigger towards Homelander's head. Homelander ducked, and with that, Guy pulled the construct back, hoping to hit Homelander from behind. In response, Homelander broke the pickaxe in half and created another bat. He struck Guy, and this time, Green Lantern was the one who dived into the ground. Homelander saw him down and created a giant leg with his ring. It wore his boot, and, with all its strength, stepped on Guy like an insect.

Homelander looked down and saw a giant nail through his foot. Guy laid protected by the base of the nail under Homelander's construct. With his bruised face, Guy presented a bloody smirk to Homelander and showed him his middle finger.

Stormfront charged at John, only for the Green Lantern to knock her back by creating a shield before her. Stormfront crashed into it, staggering her. Stormfront glared at him.

"Go on, we both know what you are. You no longer need to hold back. We both know you want to." John goaded.

"I will hang you with your own intestines, boy." She threatened a smirk on her face.

John dismissively rolled his eyes at her threat, only for her to get blasted by a tank construct. Stormfront looked at the tank and recognized its design.

"A Sherman?! What are you trying to be fucking funny?!" Stormfront demanded.

Just then, an entire battalion of soldiers was constructed from the ring. They appeared to be American, British, French, Canadian, and Soviet troops from around World War II. The Soldiers fired on Stormfront, who shielded herself from the onslaught. Until an American, Soviet, British, Canadian, French, and Soviet trooper proceeded to kick and stomp Stormfront.

"And the others say I don't have a sense of humor." John said to himself, a grin on his face.

With an angry roar, Stormfront destroyed the constructs and charged at John, knocking him into space. She proceeded to punch the Green Lantern across the face until John punched her off of him. Stormfront shot lightning, knocking the Lantern back to Earth, only for John to construct a chain around the supe Nazi. Stormfront crashed into the Earth as Green Lantern sat up.

"You don't even know what the hell you gave him, did you?" Green Lantern asked.

"What am I supposed to care?" Stormfront mocked.

"If you were smart, you would." John said.

Stormfront lunged at John only for John to phase through it.

"That ring feeds off of fear, not will. Guy is not scared of him. None of us are." John said.

"Yeah, but everyone from here is." Stormfront said.

"That's true, but there is a slight problem with that. Even if by some impossible chance he wins, your boyfriend will serve someone else. So no Fourth Reich for you, I'm afraid." John said.

"Then he'll kill them. He is everything we have worked for." Stormfront said.

John chuckled at her first part.

"Kill Sinestro? You really have no idea of what you are talking about. Hell, he won't be happy when he finds out you incapacitated Arkillo, one of his best. We found him on the way over." John remarked.

For a moment, Stormfront seemed worried, until falling back to her arrogant demeanor.

"It doesn't matter because you'll die before it happens." Stormfront said.

Stormfront was then blasted back by two lightning bolts. John looked and Saw Captain and Mary Marvel.

"Green Lantern." Captain Marvel acknowledged.

"Captain." John nodded.

"We can take over from here." Mary said.

"Right." John said, flying towards where Homelander and Guy were fighting.

Butcher sat on the table, not even looking at Doctor Midnite, while Becca looked almost relieved to hear the news.

"Can you repeat that again?" Butcher asked.

"You'll need to stay here, so we can clean out any traces of the kryptonite in your blood steam." Midnite told Butcher.

Butcher sat there silently, digesting the information.

"I'll leave you two alone for the time being." Midnite said.

"Fucking better." Butcher quietly said under his breath.

Midnite walked out of the room somberly. Becca regained her composure, though there were still tears in her eyes, and Billy could clearly tell she had a lump in her throat.

"You can stay with us." Becca told him.

Butcher looked at her with a look of hesitation in his eyes.

"Billy, please! Ryan agreed to let the League remove his powers. He won't be Homelander's son." She told him.

"He still is." Butcher said.

"Don't you do this. I know what you are going to do. You'll say something to hurt me so I don't feel bad when you die, but it won't work." Becca said.

"Powers or not, you and I agreed that raising a kid was off the table. After all, I told you about my old man." Butcher said.

"I know, but please. Stay with us." Becca pleaded.

"I'll think about it." Butcher said as he got off the bed.

"Where are you going?" Becca asked.

"To speak to the man in charge." Billy told her.

Homelander was blasted back by one of John's energy blasts, followed by a kick from a giant football player, courtesy of Guy. Homelander crashed into a mountain, and their fight brought them to the Rockies.

With an angry roar, Homelander created a swarm of construct guns that fired at the Green Lanterns.

"Die! Die! Fuckin' Die!" Homelander angrily muttered as the bullets encompassed where the Green Lanterns were.

He stopped until a second later, a construct of a hand giving him the middle finger popped up in front of his face. To no surprise, it was from Guy Gardner. Homelander was only further angered Homelander.

"Hey, John, it looks like he's about to cry." Guy called.

"Guy…" John warned his colleague.

"Oh, come on, John! Don't give me that taking the high road bullshit with this prick." Guy complained.

"I am not going to cry!" Homelander yelled.

"You sure because it looks like it to me." Guy said.

"I don't cry!" Homelander yelled.

"Why? Worried you're Daddy will disown you even more. We already know about Soldier Boy." Guy said.

Homelander fired a laser at Guy, who dodged it.

"Face it, jackass you've lost! Big time!" Guy said.

Homelander created a hammer construct for Guy to create a shield over his head, preventing it from crushing him. Homelander was then punched in the jaw by John. Once the pain ceded, Homelander tasted blood in his mouth.

"FUCK YOU! ALL OF YOU! YOU TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING FROM ME!" Homelander yelled, unleashing a multitude of Americana-themed constructs at the Green Lanterns. From jets, planes, tanks, eagles, and guns.

"WHAT DID I EVEN DO TO YOU ANY OF YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE?!" He yelled.

"What did you do?" John asked rhetorically. "Forget there is not enough time in the day for me to explain it to you."

"I think I can, that reason: is that you're an asshole." Guy said.

Stormfront flew to where Homelander was and saw that he was getting double-teamed by both Green Lanterns. Just as she was about to reach them, she was knocked to the ground by someone. Stormfront looked up and saw Captain and Mary Marvel. She gritted her teeth in anger upon seeing them.

"So much for your little Fourth Reich, grandma." Guy taunted her.

Homelander was dropped down beside her.

"You haven't stopped anything. People love what I say because they…" She was cut off when John formed a tape-like construct around her mouth.

"Hopefully, they like your muffles too." Mary said.

Homelander got up and unleashed a large yellow light, blinding the four. When their vision came to, they were gone.

"Goddamnit!" Guy said.

"Where do you think they went?" John asked the Marvels.

"Not far. I don't think they could escape far after how injured they looked." Billy said.

Homelander dropped his old followers from a giant construct hand somewhere in a deep cave underground. His ring and costume illuminated the dark. Stormfront landed next to him, they faced the God-U students and supes such as Blue Hawk, the Deep and others. Homelander smiled and approached.

"We are back!" He excitedly announced. "This time, with a real shot against the Justice League."

"We thought you abandoned us." One of the God-U students said.

"I would never do such a thing. I left, because I needed to get this." Homelander said and showed them his yellow ring. "Took me a little while, but I got it, because I knew that you deserved a capable leader."

"What is he doing here?" Stormfront said, looking at the Deep. He stepped back. "I told you to bring only the right ones."

Homelander stepped between Stormfront and the Deep.

"He's here, because he's going to help us kill one of the members of the Justice League." Homelander said and called the Deep to come closer. He whispered something in his ear.

"Sir, this is sort of terrorism."

"What do you think you're here for? When we got these new powers, the Lanterns got us dumbfounded. Now we're getting one of theirs dumbfounded."

"Anybody want to say something to me?" Stormfront asked, wondering if anybody had something to say about Nazi alignments. To everyone's surprise, Blue Hawk stepped up.

"In school, we learn that Germany was all fucked up after World War One, but Hitler came to power and it got better. I always wonder why focus on the Holocaust only and not talk about that? Kinda biased, I mean. Even their ideas, why do people get so pissed that might have some real science behind it? The guy who fucking created Compound-V believes it so maybe it's not so crazy." Blue Hawk said smiling before sighing in relief. "I always wanted to say that. I just never could."

"Shocking." Homelander sarcastically said. He then put his hand on Deep's shoulder, where his arm used to be. "Let's get shit done."

A cruise ship was nearly knocked over on the sea as a giant whale hit its body against it. People inside the ship witnessed with horror the windows cracking, they were ready to jump off. However, the water was infested with sharks just waiting for them. One man was stupid enough to steal an escape boat. The sharks sinked it and ripped him to shreds. These beings were being controlled by the Deep, who was on the water, giving them instructions. He floated with his head out as he addressed the giant whale.

"That's it, Shelly, you're doing great." He told her. The whale suddenly stopped. "Come on, we're not done yet."

The whale submerged and rapidly reemerged, hitting against the Deep, who was thrown in the air. He fell on top of the whale and saw Aquaman's boots when he opened his eyes. He grabbed the Deep by the neck and lifted him.

"Shelly…?" Deep mouthed. "Him!? Really?"

"What are you doing?" Aquaman asked. "There are over six thousand people on that ship."

The Deep punched Aquaman in the face, who had no reaction.

"Fuck!" Deep shouted, realizing he had broken his knuckles.

"You still have 3 limbs left. Do you want to keep them?"

"Your majesty, they made me do it! Homelander and Stormfront, they asked me to do this, I was just following orders."

"That's a tourist ship. It has no military or political purpose. Why would they give you this order?"

"They just did. I don't know what they were thinking."

"We were thinking…" Stormfront said, flying above them, with a wicked smile. "... That water conducts electricity."

With the power of Zeus, Stormfront threw a lightning bolt at the Deep and Aquaman. They fell profoundly into the water. Stormfront kept her bolt-on, illuminating the ocean with her hand and boiling the whale and sharks alive. After a few seconds, she stopped. With that, Deep's bones emerged from the water, colored red from his blood. She was still waiting for Aquaman's body to wash up.

Arthur was down under the water. His skin was burned, and the fish around him were dead, but he was still alive. Everything hurt, but he opened his eyes and saw Stormfront waiting above the water for him. He closed his fist and gave her just what she wanted.

Aquaman jumped out with the power of waves racing towards Stormfront. His harpoon pointed at her. She threw another lightning bolt. This time, the blast was attracted to the harpoon's metal, leaving Aquaman unharmed. He put his harpoon through her shoulder and pushed Stormfront down as he fell on top of her on the floating dead body of Shelly. He punched Stormfront's face repeatedly as she sank into the hot flesh of the whale. He only stopped to touch his earpiece.

"Aquaman to Watchtower, I need back up… No!" Aquaman realized that his earpiece was fried.

Stormfront punched Aquaman away. He flew up in the air above the clouds, and she followed him. Stormfront attacked, expecting him to be helpless in the air, but Aquaman fought back. He punched and kicked her and made a large cut on her back with his harpoon.

They both fell back into the ocean and created a wave that shook the cruise ship. On the water, Stormfront tried the same trick again, to use it to conduct electricity and tried to burn Aquaman. He was burned, but he didn't care fighting through the pain. He held her neck and choked her, pushing her further down the ocean. She could see his skin burning, and the fish dying from the electric discharge, but Aquaman didn't give up. He kept pushing and pressing her throat harder. She didn't know if that was Solomon's wisdom or whoever was kicking in. Still, she knew the greater the sea pressure was, the greater Aquaman's advantage. She kicked Aquaman's arm away and flew out of the sea.

Once her head was out, she coughed and caught air. She couldn't go as fast as she could. That was enough for Aquaman to follow her. His harpoon went through her calf. Stormfront screamed in pain and tried to shake him away. She grabbed Aquaman and hurled him like a cannonball through the cruise ship.

Aquaman fell back into the ocean, and Stormfront attacked. She held his arm so his harpoon wouldn't reach her, and they struggled, but something bad happened. The cruise ship started sinking.

"No!" Aquaman shouted and headbutted Stormfront away.

He dived into the sea and lifted the ship back up. Stormfront threw a lightning bolt and killed some of the people. Aquaman had no choice. He swam at high speed away, carrying the entire ship on his back to escape Stormfront. She could've chased him, but she saw her wounds. Suddenly, that same wisdom kicked in, and she flew away.

Butcher walked into the waiting room and found the Boys waiting for him.

"How are you?" Hughie asked.

"I'm fine." Butcher lied.

Hughie seemed unconvinced but didn't speak up.

"So, lads, any news?" Butcher asked.

"Homelander and Stormfront got upgrades." MM told him.

Butcher scowled upon hearing that.

"I think I might want to speak with them." Butcher said though he did not raise his voice, it was apparent he was livid upon hearing that.

Butcher headed towards the door, leaving the waiting room. Hughie followed him.

"Maybe you should get some rest." Hughie suggested.

"Maybe you should shut the fuck up." Butcher tensely said.

Butcher walked up to one of the technicians and grabbed him.

"I want to speak to Big Blue in private." Butcher said.

"I'm here, let's talk." Superman said.

Butcher turned and saw Superman standing with Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Martian Manhunter.

"Good, just you and me. Not the rest." Butcher told him.

"I understand." Superman said.

They went to the League's meeting room.

"You should have let that cunt and all the others die, so give me your reason for letting them live." Butcher said.

"So he and the rest could face justice and possibly have the chance to change for the better." Superman said.

Butcher scoffed at that.

"He's not going to change." Butcher said.

"Homelander, no, I'm certain he never will." Superman admitted. "Maeve, did she help rescue

you and your friends from Luthor's control." He added.

"Good for her." Butcher sarcastically stated.

"I'm sorry." Superman said.

"For what?" Butcher said.

"We should not have targeted you. We should have tried to help you. We could have worked together." Superman said.

Butcher glared at Superman.

"We don't need any of your help." Butcher said.

Superman looked unconvinced, but he did not voice his opinion.

"I bet you think you can make our world better like yours. Well, news flash, your world is not much better." Butcher told him.

"I'm aware of that. No world is perfect, but everyone must try to improve their world in any way they can." Superman admitted.

Butcher's anger started to grow. However, he started to feel woozy. He grabbed onto a chair to support himself.

"You can shove your platitudes up your ass, space cunt." Butcher said.

"They're not platitudes. I'm sorry about everything you've gone through, but this isn't healthy. You have a chance to live a happier life now. Homelander will have his powers removed and spend the rest of his days in a jail cell. Something that you know he would find worse than death." Superman told him.

Butcher had to admit the idea of Homelander losing his powers and stuck in a jail cell would be immensely satisfying. However, he knew of a way Homelander would do to get out of that fate.

"That cunt will kill himself the moment he's out of someone's sight if that happens." Butcher said.

"Maybe, but he'll die as something he despises. Would that be enough, even for you?" Superman said.

Butcher glared.

"We'll see." He lied.

Back at the same cave, an irate Homelander paced. His ring and costume illuminated the dark.

"You couldn't kill the fish guy?!" He asked angrily.

"It wasn't my fault! He got lucky!" Stormfront argued, defending herself.

Homelander scoffed at her.

"You're telling me that several cuts, bruises, and stab wounds are luck?" Homelander questioned her.

"Would have loved to see you take him on with the ring I handed you!" Stormfront said.

Homelander's ring angrily glowed as sparks started to emit from Stormfront. After a minute they knew it would be a bad idea to fight when both believed they could still defeat the League. Instead, Stormfront opted to move to a new talking point.

"We need a new strategy." Stormfront told him.

"No, this time, we follow the same plan as before. We just need to wait and heal." Homelander said.

"Wait for what? To lose in a hopeless massacre?" Stormfront asked.

"Yes, we are. I want to hurt them like they hurt us." Homelander told her.

Just then, Homelander's ring blinked, and a likely life-sized hologram of an alien appeared before him. He had a mustache and pointy ears.

"Homelander, I presume." The alien said.

"Who are you?" Homelander asked.

"Thaal Sinestro, your new commander." Sinestro said.

"Commander?" Homelander asked indignantly until an idea came to him.

"I'm on Earth Seven. I think that's beyond your jurisdiction." Homelander said.

"Yes, I am aware of that. I sent Arkillo to work with Lex Luthor to find my corps any newfound advantage." Sinestro said. With that, an idea popped on Homelander's mind.

"Well, you have a newfound advantage, me." Homelander said.

Sinestro looked unconvinced, which Homelander seemed to take note of.

"I can give you my Earth." Homelander said.

"Why would I want a backward copy of Earth? I've been told about what was happening in your world from Arkillo. I am well aware of your vast inadequacies compared to the likes of Superman let alone any surviving Kryptonian." Sinestro said.

Homelander glared at him.

"I don't quite appreciate your tone." Homelander said, trying to intimidate Sinestro.

Sinestro let out an amused grin before glaring at him dismissively once more.

"And I don't appreciate losing one of my best soldiers to a man-child who offers me no real benefits. So I would highly suggest you try to think of any in your empty cranium." Sinestro told Homelander.

Homelander angrily glared at Sinestro, only for Stormfront to speak up.

"Then let Homelander prove his worth. The Justice League is after him, and I take it you don't want to lose his ring, right?" Stormfront said.

"Finally, an intelligent conversation. I would like to keep it away from any Green Lanterns or their allies. The League in particular." Sinestro said.

"Exactly, so how about you provide us with some assistance?" Stormfront said.

Sinestro silently contemplated it.

"Very well. I shall assist you." Sinestro said.

RIP Arleen Sorkin (1955-2023)