Omni Boys

by AUfan62

While fighting both Kevin and Vilgax at Niagara Falls both them and Ben get sucked into a portal created by the Null Void projector. Only it’s not the Null Void they land. They land in a world where Superheroes are just a bunch of corporate puppets and think they can do whatever they want. But no it’s a real Hero’s Time.

12. Chapter 12: Downfall

Hello hello hellllllo. Thank you all for waiting, glad you all enjoyed last chapter. Now here's 12, and like I promised it's a doozy.

Also unrelated request to any Halo fans. Can someone PLEASE write story where they use the real Master Chief in the Halo TV series. Cause what they did to him was horrible.

Somewhere In New England

A young boy walks out of a store drinking a soda and holding a new phone. He walks around a turn when suddenly three guys in hoods stand before him. "Hey man, nice phone, it new?" Thug number 1 asks.

The Kid answers. "Yeah?"

"Hand it over." Thug number 2 says.

Instead of complying in fear the kid scoffs. "Seriously?"

Thug number 3 reveals he's holding a switchblade "You think we're playing?"

"You guys are trying to rob me?" Suddenly the boy starts laughing, like hed just heard the words funniest joke.

"Whats so fucking funny?" Thug number 1 asks.

"You wanna get cut?" Thug number 3 threatens.

When the kid laughing stopped he looked at the weapon infront of him. He casually held up a finger and placed it against the blade. "Fuck!" Suddenly the guy dropped the blade as it had suddenly became so hot it burned his hand.

"Too hot to handle?" The kid laughed

Thug number 1 then grabbed the kid by the shirt "What'd you do?" The kid didnt answer, he calmly grabbed the mans wrist and squeezed, a crack was heard as the man screamed and fell to his knees in pain.

The other two thugs back up in fear when suddenly the kid swung thug number 1 off the ground and through him into thug number 3. They both slammed into a dumpster denting it.

Thug number 2 looked like he was about to wet himself "I don't even know these asholes." He turned and ran down the alleyway. He was nearing the opening to the other side of the street when suddenly the kid appeared infront of him. "AAHH!" He turned left and ran, only to find himself in at a dead end. He turned to see the kid infront of him. "Your like that kid, they one who fought the seven." He spoke with fear.

"I'm nothing like that lame hero wannabe Tennyson." Kevin said as his pupils turned black. The thug then fell on his rear end as a large shadow grows over him "I'm the badest of the bad!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Was heard.

CIA

Deputy Director Susan Raynor walks into her bosses office after being called. It's been a day since she told Stillwell and Vought to back off, and she isn't sure being called in is a good thing or a bad thing. Walking in she see's another woman in addition to her boss. "Dinah Madani." She introduces herself and extends her hand.

"Of?" Raynor asks.

"Classified." Dinah replies.

"Classified, are they a new branch?" Raynor asks sarcastically, then turns to the director, who's sitting with a neutral expression. "Who the fuck is she?"

"She's-" The director begins.

"I'll be taking Naqib off your hands." Madani says plainly with a neutral tone.

"Bullshit." Raynor responds, not believing it. "I was the one who caught him, and then used Vought's own shit against them." She reminds him.

"And doing so you broke a number rules and laws." Her boss tells her. "Domestic and international." He emphasizes. "Legally you'd be arrested."

"Then arrest me." Raynor challenges.

"We don't wanna do that." Madani says. "We just want Naqib, especially considering what happened with Chimera."

"That was a fluke." Raynor tells her.

"Was it a fluke when you gave William Butcher the information to break him out." Madani says, causing Raynor's face to go blank. "And now your husband took the kids away for their safety and you haven't fought with him over it cause you agree." Silence.

"You're the reason that psycho was able to get in and break that monster out!?" The director asks.

"How do you know about that?" Raynor asks.

"My apologies, I thought you were aware." Madani says to the director. "But my superiors make it a point of pride to keep tabs on those with such caliber. And if I don't take Naqib into custody then the media is gonna have it when they find out, then the NSA, FBI, Homeland Security and whoever will try to wrestle it from you." She reasons. "So hand him over, or we'll take him."

"...Fine." Raynor says averting eye contact.

"Thank you. Just alert the facility your holding him in and we'll pick him up in an hour." Madani says, and heads for the door. Then she turns to the director. "If any of this gets on ANY sort of record your wife will find photos of you and her sister the day before the wedding and that her kid is actually your son." She threatens then leaves, but not before glancing at Raynor one more time.

Silence falls on the room and Raynor looks at her stunned boss. "Don't you have a phone call to make." He orders, silently telling her this meeting never happened.

VNN Studios

The camera points to Cameron Coleman who sips his coffee and begins his daily 'news report' for the channel. "Hello, welcome back to Seven on Seven. A lot of things have happened recently, but after so much bad news let's start out with something a bit more positive." He begins. "Such as this, Vought Studios has announce a writing contest for their next movie project "Dawn of The Seven" people from all over can send in their ideas. From a basic concept, to a full script of dialogue, just go to the Vought Studios website for more information."

He smiles then is about to continue. "Now reports are coming in that-"

Someone off camera then shouts. "GET DOWN!"

Crash

Coleman gets under his desk and camera starts shaking as a multitude of items are broken, and people are scrambling. "Move. F-(BEEP) MOVE!" Coleman shouts as he tries to get out. Something is destroying the studio, but the camera is still live and falls to the side. Showing the 'behind the scenes' equipment and such.

Then it's picked up and the camera is pointed to the face of Cannonbolt. "Sorry, but due to various reasons, including lying to you all this regularly scheduled Dweeb has been canceled." He says before dropping the camera, then people see Cannonbolt's bottom half as he walks, then rolls out.

Scene Cut

At a Vought sponsored gun rally in an event center, multiple people are examining an assortment of weaponry. Including teenagers, while kids learn how to strip and clean VR-15's. (A Vought sponsored gun)

When suddenly a black and blue blur runs around and after about a minute all the guns are gun. Including the personal one's people brought with them. Twenty minutes later a video circulates of XLR8 brings the guns to some empty abandoned lot and blowing them all up. But not before bringing in the rally banner with Green paint reading "FUTURE OF VOUGHT" on the pile of guns, bullets and grenades.

SceneCut

Firefighters arrive on the scene of a warehouse that looks like it's been hit with acid. Wearing protective equipment and filtered masks, they were scanning for any type of dangerous toxic chemical. Someone reported the smell of gas and called the authorities. Said authorities then evacuated anyone within a quarter of a mile, just in case.

Inside the warehouse was a bunch of Vought labeled crates in various states of melt. Like ice cream left out in the hot sun, then froze as it was melted halfway. In each crate and container there was consumer goods that also suffered similar fate.

"Anything?" The Fire Captain questioned as he walked around with his own piece of equipment.

"There's traces of Carbon Monoxide, LPG, Hydrochloric Acid and a bunch of other shit." One of the fire fighters says. "But not enough to cause this."

"What caused this?"

"I think I know." The probationary Firefighter said. "It was Shifter."

"Why's that probie?" Another of the Firefighters asked. "Your gut tell ya."

"It's the writing on the wall." The probie tells them.

"Look probie if this is some Millennial Gen Z crap, cut it." The Captain said.

"No, I mean it's literally the writing on the wall." The probie tells them again and even points to it.

On the far side of the warehouse a wall was entirely untouched. But burned on the wall "Future of Vought" with the Omnitrix insignia.

Scene Cut

In a forested area people were protesting a construction project to build a Vought sponsored mall on top of Sacred Native American land. So much so that even Vought's Native American supe, Lenape (Named after the Native American tribe which was located in what is today Manhattan) quit and has been sabotaging it. Sadly her efforts are being perceived as a crime and she is now in custody.

Despite all this the construction crew were going to carry out their work. As the excavators and Bulldozers were about to tear down some more tree's out of nowhere Four Arms dropped down with a thundering crash.

Then running at the nearest excavator he ripped the the claw off from the middle. The operator just managed to jump out as Ben swung it. Then he jumped up at the next machine and ripped it apart, before throwing the pieces at the other machines. All while people were running away.

One man wearing a suit with a hard hat was heading towards his Mercedes Benz. He was the representative from Vought in charge of overseeing all the construction. Before he could get to his car Four Arms landed right on top of it, crushing the German car. The shockwave caused the man to fall back.

The man scurried back in fear as Four Arms trudged towards him. Then when he got close enough Four Arms bent down and grabbed him by his suit collar. "Next time I see a bulldozer or any machine here, I'm throwing it at your house!" Four Arms then goes to rip what's left of the car in half before throwing the pieces at some signs about the mall coming soon. Before it said 'Future site of Vought Mega Mall' but now it said 'Future of Vought' as the other words were gone. Four Arms then jumped away.

Vought, Seven Meeting Room

The remaining Seven were gathered in the meeting room with Edgar. Who seemed to be in a good mood. "Welcome everyone. I know you're all still recovering, but there are matters that need to be addressed moving forward. First of all, welcome back Deep." He nodded to the aqutic supe. "Glad to hear your injuries weren't permanent."

Deep nods. "Thanks. I was just doing what heroes do." He didn't notice the eye rolls from some of the other members.

Edgar then resumes the meeting. "Now then. All of your numbers have sky rocketed. Every newstation, blog, or podcast is talking about how the Seven saved the world from an alien tyrant. This, may be the greatest accomplisment to come to Vought in it's history."

Edgar let that sink in for a moment before moving on. "But, we have we two, rather large, issues to deal with it." He pressed a button and Kevin appeared on the screen.

A-Train then spoke up. "The freak that ran like a pussy."

"Well that pussy almost killed us." Maeve reminds him.

"Since his escape from the CIA and retreat from the fight, he's been unseen, but we need to keep an eye out. But now the original problem." He pressed a button revealing a picture of Ben, seeing this Homelander clenched his fists but kept his composer. "After the fight he disappeared for a brief period and has now suddenly resurfaced. And is now performing acts of sabotage. Like he's some Polish World War Two resistance fighter."

Deep then questions. "So what are we gonna do about him?"

"Nothing." Was Edgar's answer.

Homelander was not happy about this. Not one bit. "You've gotta be fucking kidding me?" He responded aggressively.

Edgar, as per usual, maintains his composure. "No I'm not. And can any of you tell me why?"

Noir wrote something and held up the paper. It had the word 'Kid' on it.

"Precisely." Edgar says, nodding his head once. "Young Tennyson is a literal child and more importantly the whole world knows it. The incident with this Vilgax seems to have made the world forget that just short time ago 'Earth's Most Mighty' brutally beat a 10 year old."

"We didn't know!" A-Train reminded.

"Well now you do." The CEO sternly responds, looking directly A-Train. "And the world knows you do. The fact this hasn't ruined all of you and Vought can only be described as a miracle. But miracles don't happen twice."

Deep raised his hand. "Um, I think that's lightning."

Edgar looked at him for a moment., but didn't even respond. "The point is, if you see mister Tennyson. Do not engage, do not insult, do not argue. Vought's official statement is the Tennyson is a very confused child who has been manipulated by very dangerous people. And last I checked Superheroes don't beat up confused children."

"Except he's not a confused child." Starlight speaks up. "He definitely knows what he's doing and thinks it's right."

"Starlight's right, which is why we have to stop him, by any means." Homelander adds.

"That's not-" Starlight tried to argue.

"Do so and everyone in world will see you as nothing more than some child beater." Edgar points out. "And that's if you win against him, which you have not done."

"We did beat him last time." Homelander responds.

"You'd do well to stop lying to yourself. Everyone here knows his goal was to have all our attention so his little Ocean 11 Rat Pack gang could infiltrate and get access to sensitive documents." Edgar reminds him. "And while we have no idea what they actually learned since all those files were destroyed in the explosion, we know they made off with Wrenches case." He adds.

"You're the one who said nobody at Vought could open that case." Homelander points out.

"What's in there anyway?" A-Train asks, seeing as how Edgar had made this a big deal.

"Wrench's greatest weapon, that he never used." Edgar says, then proceeds to walk away. "Madelyn will meet with you all tomorrow morning."

Anika's Apartment

Ben and Kimiko were sitting while Anika and Elena tried to find out where Doctor Jonah Vogelbaum was. Despite being the head of something called the CSO he was pretty much out of the game. Just in the position and letting his subordinates doing the work. At least before the explosion, since then the CSO's work has been halted.

"Any luck?" Ben asked with a sigh.

"I think I can narrow down a possible location from what I can find in wire transfers." Anika answered. "He may not be the head scientist anymore, but he still gets paid by Vought."

"Found him." Elena said.

Anika turns to Elena with skepticism. "There's no way you could've hacked the firewalls to get his address."

"Didn't have to." Elena says as she turns her laptop over. "His personal information is protected in Vought records, but his house is registered under his name in the public records." She points out. "Guess no one thought about that."

Anika chuckles at this.

"Send me the address." Ben tells them as he gets up. "We're gonna have a little chat." The girls get up to, we'll Kimiko and Elena do, but Ben quickly says. "Just me. You guys stay here." He orders, then leaves.

"Guess we're staying." Elena points on.

"I guess I'm just gonna go to work now." Anika said as she got up. "Should I, or would that be suspicious?" She questions.

Kimiko signs and Elena translates. "If anything it would be suspicious of you didn't go." And with that she proceeds to go to work.

Upstate New York

Doctor Jonah Vogelbaum was nursing a drink in his study doing the same past time he had been doing the past eight years. Thinking about his mistakes, particularly one. Suddenly he got a call from one of his house keepers on the intercom he had installed. "Mister Vogglebaum, there is a boy at the gate who wants to meet with you... He says he's the Shifter."

"Let him in... then you everyone else take the rest of the day off." The retired scientist says.

"Sir?" The house keeper questions.

"Just do it." He adds a bit sternly.

Scene Cut

Ben walks in through the gates as they are opened. After getting the address he turned into XLR8 and ran to the location as fast as he could. When he did he saw a large house that was seemingly isolated with no one around for a good while. Perfectly manicured lawn, a roundabout driveway and a fountain.

When the gate finally opened her walked in and straight through to the door. As he did a few people also began exiting. 'Weird?' He thought. One of the maids then directed him to where the doctor was

Scene Cut

Ben opened the door to Doctor Vogelbaum study and greeted the man with. "What's up doc?"

"Ben Tennyson I presume." He said without turning his eyes away from the window that viewed his lawn.

"You know any other 10 year old superheroes that can turn into aliens and beat all your wannabe's?" Ben replied as he sat down in a chair next to a fireplace. It wasn't on, but it would be almost picturesque if it were.

"You know for a long time there wasn't much that surprised me anymore." Vogelbaum said before and walking over to the chair by the other side of the fireplace. "Then you showed up, and suddenly Vought's heroes seemed outmatched. Your fought the Seven and won." Smirks in amusement. "And in the end you turned out to be just a kid."

"Really says something about those fake hereos doesnt it?" Ben replies.

"I assume you're not here just for a friendly chat." Vogelbaum says.

"We need to be friends for that." Ben tells him. "And one of my biggest requests for friends is that they're aren't an evil science dude."

"Please, what is evil?" Vogelbaum asked. "In before World War Two world leaders viewed Stalin's Russia almost as bad as Hitler's Germany. Then when the war began America and Britian fought the Nazi Germany, and helped the Soviets (Reminder the USSR was not just Russia in fact Russians made up just 54% of the Red Army in WW2) with their war." Pause. "Just forgetting every crime they committed." Ponders something as he sips. "Guess we hoped they'd wipe each other out."

"If I wanted a history lesson I would've stayed in school." Ben replied.

"Kids." The scientist simply said.

"What was he like?" Ben suddenly asked after a brief period of silence.

"Who?" Vogelbaum questioned.

"Homelander, or whatever his name actually is." Ben clarified.

"I named him John." Vogelbaum informed as he remembered 'raising' Homelander. "He grew up a curious and kind hearted boy. Fascinated by the tales of Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and the American Frontier." He said with a small smile then started to fade. "He just couldn't always control his strength, and when that happened he was treated less like a human. And when he wasn't being feared, he was being praised as some sort of savior to the people, like he was the greatest thing EVER and that most certainly went to his head."

"Probably should've done something about it." Ben points out.

"I know that now." Vogelbaum admitted. "Back then I was just thinking about the science of it all. Not to mention it wasn't my unilateral decision to keep him locked up in a lab." He added.

"Does he have any parents?" Ben asks.

"...Not really." Vogelbaum tells him. "He wasn't born like most children."

"You grew him in a lab without parents." Ben said.

"Like crossbreeding dogs." Vogelbaum continued. "I got all the physically desired traits, both in terms of powers and appearance, but subjects raised without a sort of parental figure, especially a mother in his case, can most likely become unstable and violent."

"Man... you guys were dumb." Ben simply pointed out.

"What did you come here for, what are you hoping to gain?" Vogelbaum questioned. "Besides my company of course."

"What's his weakness?" Ben plainly asks.

"He doesn't have one, I should know." Vogelbaum says as he gets up to refill his glass. "I designed him to be the perfect superhero, we didn't make weaknesses."

"Ever watch Yu-Gi-Oh!?" Ben questions. "The original version."

"Maybe my grandson does." Vogelbaum said. "I'm more of a Star Trek man."

"Well the main villain came up with the perfect strategy involving an Egyptian God Card, Slifer the Sky Dragon." Ben began. "So no matter what he did the hero couldn't seem to beat it."

"I assume you have a point." Vogelbaum says.

"But then he used the strategy against him, the one wrong thing with the bad guy's plan that they (the bad guy) didn't even know until it was too late." Ben adds. "And he won, beating the Egyptian God."

The former scientist smirked in amusement. "You really are a kid, this isn't some show about a card game."

"But you see what I'm saying?" Ben questioned.

"I do." Vogelbaum said with a nod. "That just because I didn't make a weakness, it doesn't mean that one wasn't created." The scientist figures, then asks. "But even if there was, why would I tell you?"

"Cause you're smart." Ben said. "You gotta know I'm the only Hero that can stop him. And you know you made a mistake, now you can help me fix it, save the world." Ben points out. "Cause it's always the same with people like him, sooner or later they're gonna want to take over the world, only thing stopping him is himself. That's just cause he wants to rule the world and have everyone in the world love him... honestly it's a little sad and pathetic." He added.

Vogelbaum sighed. "Well you're not wrong." He admitted. "It's not a weakness, more of an unforeseen inconvenience for him." Dramatic pause. "The sun."

Ben chuckled at this. "What is he a plant?"

"No, but growing up he was kept under near constant full spectrum light bulbs, these can mimic sunlight and radiation from the sun." Vogelbaum stated. "There was no purpose to it really, there was just a mix up with installing the lights and we just never fixed it."

"There better be a 'but' right about now." Ben said, finding this a little boring.

"But... we later found out that his recovery diminished when not under the lights." Vogelbaum said.

"So wait, I just have to hit him at night?" Ben asked, finding that a little too simple. What's next a supe that can be taken out with a peanut allergy?

"No." Vogelbaum dragged. "He's still at full power and has his invulnerability, but if he gets hurt in anyway his recovery is faster in the sun." He clarified. "Otherwise he wouldn't appear at night."

"How'd you even test this?" Ben wondered. "If he's still strong in the dark."

"It's not like he was a vampire." Vogelbaum reasons. "It was subtle. After Soldier Boy was killed Edgar tasked us with testing a variety of different things. So we poisoned him several times, on the tests I noticed that when we gave him enough poison to kill an elephant his stomach seemed to get upset for several minutes." He recalls. "But when I tested it again he seemed alright, and I noticed the first time the lights were down for maintenance."

Ben was now listening thoroughly.

"It wasn't much, that's why I never put it on his chart." Jonah explained. "Even if he was it with a Nuke at night, he'd likely be fine by the morning at the latest, if he doesn't fly somewhere where the sun is shining."

"Does he know?" Ben asked.

"No." Vogelbaum says with confidence. "Until you came John hasn't had anyone who could ever challenge him. Perhaps Soldier Boy or Wrench, but we haven't learned to bring back the dead yet."

"Anyone else know?" Ben wondered.

"Maybe Edgar... that prick always seems to know everything." The scientist replied. "If that will be all, can you please leave my house." He requests as he walks by a small wooden chest, designed to keep trinkets in.

Ben looks at him.

Anika's Apartment

Ben comes back to Anika's in the late afternoon. Anika is still working, while Kimiko and Elena are on the couch. "Did you get it?" She asks.

Ben smiles and nods. "Got it." Then relays what Vogelbaum told him.

With the Boys

At a different Motel Butcher, Hughie, Mother's Milk and Frenchie were waiting for... they didn't know what. "What exactly are we waiting for?" Hughie asked. "Shouldn't we do something, go somewhere."

"We're wanted mother fuckers." MM reminds him. "Where the fuck are we gonna go?" He asks and he sits by a burner phone he got, expecting a call from his daughter.

"MM's right." Butcher stated. "Gotta lay low for a bit so the heat dies down."

"Ben isn't." Hughie points out. "He turned into Four Arms and destroyed that Vought construction project."

"Well first off Benji ain't here." Butcher reminds him.

"Because of you." MM reminds Butcher.

Butcher takes a second to breathe before continuing. "Second, unless you got your own fucking space watch that can turn you into some supe cunt then by all means." Gestures to the door. "Have at it." Hughie just stays in place.

Frenchie then spoke up. "I wonder what they are doing now?" He asks aloud.

With the others

Ben just finished relaying what happened at Vogelbaum's house. "So you gonna do it?" Elena asked after hearing what Ben said.

"Definitely." Ben said with a nod.

Kimiko then signed which Elena translated. "What's the plan?" Which she answered. "Not sure? Just attack him at night I assume is what you're thinking."

"Only thing I can come up with." Ben responded.

Elena then thinks. "Wait... if he becomes more vulnerable at night because there's no sun... then what would happen if he stays out of the sun?" She asks.

"Not sure... didn't ask." Ben replies. "Not like we can keep him out of the sun... can we?"

"We'd need to keep him in a room with no natural sunlight." Elena thinks, then pulls up a computer. After a few moments she smirks. "Bingo." Turns the computer over. "Thirty-Seventh floor, conference room B, apart from some underground bunker it's perfect. Faces the opposite direction the sun sets and where the sun rises is blocked by other buildings." She reveals. "Don't know how we can keep him in there for hours though?"

Ben then had an idea, just as Anika entered the apartment. "We set up a meeting." Ben states. "Me, the Seven, including Homelander, Stillwell, Edgar in that room, from morning until night. Then I go Hero and end it."

"What are you gonna do, call and ask?" Elena pointed out. "They won't just say yes, you gotta go Jason Bourne and make it their only option."

Before Ben could ask who that was Anika spoke up. "Um I think I know when you should ask. Stillwell has a meeting with the Seven tomorrow morning."

"How do you know that?" Ben asked.

Flashback

Anika was in the elevator as she was done for work and heading back to her apartment. One floor down however it stopped and when the door opened revealing Ashley walked in. "Look Miss Stillwell has bigger things on her plate then worrying about your dumb show. Just wait a week or two and it'll be fixed you fucking asshole." Pause. "She's meeting with the Seven tomorrow morning, yeah now you agree, so you can go home for a fucking week and don't bother me. Otherwise I'm gonna take a camera, shove it up your ass and film your actual crap!" She threatened as the elevator stopped on her floor. Not even noticing Anika who stood awkwardly in a corner.

Flashback Over

"She didn't even notice I was standing there." Anika said.

"So all we need is Stillwell's number and I'll call her." Ben pointed out.

"No." Elena said. "We gotta do this Jason Bourne style."

"Oh I love Matt Damon." Anika says.

"Who are these guys, and how is this gonna help?" Ben asked, not knowing what they were talking about.

Several Hours and 2 Jason Bourne Movies Later

"Oh this definitely gonna help us." Ben comments.

Next Day

It's around 10:30 in the morning as Stinkfly lands on top of a building with a satchel. The alien quickly transforms back to Ben and checks the clock 10:32 a.m. The young hero then pulls out a pair of military grade binoculars and looks towards Vought Tower. From this position he can see the Seven meeting room clearly enough to see who's in there, the binoculars just need to be zoomed almost to their limit. At the moment only Homelander is in and his back is turned.

"This Green 10, in position. Eyes on target Stars and Stripes, standing by, everything is Charlie 40-60, no sign of Stick in Mud, Lame Leopard, Sea Slug, Blunder Woman, Dork Knight or Light Switch. Over." Ben spoke in a walkie talkie.

"What?" Anika's voice came through.

Ben groaned. "We went over this, Blue 8 over." He spoke.

"This is Red 9, copy that Green 10, maintain visual and when Stick in Mud reaches area Bullseye initiate Shard Strike, at strike time Shatter over." Elena voiced in.

"Copy that Red 9, and in the meantime inform Blue 8 of the proper protocols on open channels over." Ben said.

"Why can't we just use phones... over." Anika voiced in the walkie.

"Blue 8 it's obvious over." Ben voiced.

"Green 10, Magenta 7 is requesting we pull a 'E' protocol on Blue 8 over." Elena said, translating for Kimiko.

"Wait are you kicking me out?" Anika asked.

"Green 10 it seems like Blue 8 is smarter than we thought, should we proceed with 'E' protocol over?" Elena asked.

"You asked for it?" Anika questioned. "We're in the same room why am I using a Walkie Talkie?"

"This is Green 10 again, advising all of us to go radio silent from here on out over." Ben says.

"Copy that Green 10 over." Elena said.

Vought 11:02 a.m.

Stillwell walks into the Seven conference room. "Sorry I'm late." She apologizes as she steps into the room. "Been a hectic day, so let's just jump right into it." She starts talking as the other Seven members remain in their seats. "As I'm sure you're all aware he have suffered some setback, but thanks to all your valiant efforts the other day, everyone's points have shot up by at least 20."

Her phone then rings, but she pulls it from the pocket of her dress and to ignore it. "Nobody was injured fortunately, despite all the..." Ring ring ring. Stillwell pulls out her phone to ignore the call then put it on vibrate.

"Shouldn't you get that?" Starlight asks.

"I don't know the number, it's probably a telemarketer." Stillwell replies as she puts her phone away. "As I was saying-"

"Of fucks sake, I here the phone vibrating just answer it." Homelander tells her aggressively, annoyed by it.

Madelyn sighs and picks up the phone to answer the strange number. "Hello."

"......"

With Ben

Ben looks at a pair of binoculars at the Stillwell who's in the Seven conference room with the Seven. He waits several seconds to reply with. "This is Ben 10, I want a meeting." In a very curt manner.

"Where? When?" Stillwell asks and Ben can see her signal Ashley to track the call.

"Today, in 30 minutes in the 37th floor, conference room B. You and the rest of the Seven are gonna be there." He instructs before threatening. "If not I'm gonna rip apart that building brick by brick, then go after each and everyone one of your stores, factories and anything else you own, and blow it all to kingdom come like Luke did to the Death Star."

"For what reason? Every time we tried to reason with you it's always been just a childish 'Fuck off' from you." She asks.

"Giving you guys one last chance to settle this without risking people's lives. But EVERYONE has to be there, nobody leaves until we come to a deal." He explains. "Otherwise bye bye Vought."

"Well they're all very busy they might not be available for that time." Stillwell tries to lie.

Seven Conference Room

"I think they have time." Ben says over the phone.

"Why do you think that?" Stillwell asks.

"Why don't you just ask them, they're standing 5 feet away from you." The ten year old says before abruptly cutting the call. Everyone jerks their head up in surprise.

"He's watching us." Stillwell says.

Homelander and the rest of the Seven look out the window, but all they can see is a bunch of buildings where anyone with a good enough scope can look. Homelander then notices a glimmer like the light reflecting off glass on the roof of one of skyscrapers.

Homelander then, without warning, flew out through the glass to the rooftop where he saw the glimmer. There he found a piece of glass on a string attached tied onto one of the HVAC systems with a flashlight pointed it. "FUCK!" He shouted in frustration, before noticing something else.

On the ground was a piece of paper that was taped down. On it was the word 'PSYCHE' with a picture of a donkey prominently showing it's back side. Homelander then picked it and burned it.

With Ben

After going XLR8 and running out at the last moment to avoid a fight with Homelander Ben returned to Vought. But instead of going inside as XLR8 he transformed back to human around the corner and waited until he could transform again

Now he was walking straight in, first time he did so. As he entered there was still some construction going on but it was mostly repaired since he, Kevin and Homelander fought in the lobby area just days ago. Ben walked through without being stopped by anyone. Who would want to try?

"Mr. Tennyson." A voice called and the ten year old turned to see Ashley. "I'm here to escort you to the conference room, right this way." Gestures to the elevator.

However Ben ignores her and wordlessly steps in she follows as the door closes a green flash appears. Suddenly Ben has turned into Upgrade and they zooming up to the 37th floor without stopping.

Scene Cut

Ben steps off the elevator with a slightly traumatized Ashley and starts marching towards the conference room. On the way he grabs an entire plate of large expensive fancy doughnuts and a water bottle. "We bring food if you want.

"No, no food or water brought in and nobody leaves the room, otherwise I make this building part of a Mad Max set." Ben threatens as he takes a bite of each doughnut before putting them back on the plate. "Gross strawberry." He says as he spits that piece into some garbage in a cubicle.

"Well how long do you plan to..." Ashley is cut off when.

"SHUT UP!" Ben shouts gaining the attention of the nearby Vought workers. "You have no power, you're basically a lacky, they ask you for coffee you ask what kind. So shut up and go away. The meeting is for important people, as in NOT you. I'd prefer you quit cause you can do WAAAAY better then here, but you're scared so..." Ben continues to walk to the conference room leaving behind a stunned Ashley.

Confrence Room

Ben walks in the empty room seven minutes before the deadline and arranged so only one was towards the window, his. Rest were on the other side away from the sun. As he sat down Ben took and set an alarm for 6:54 p.m. It was now 11:29 a.m.

Just one minute before the deadline was up the Seven and Stillwell came in. "Morning Mister Tennyson." Madelyn greeted as she extended her hand out.

"Oh thanks." Ben said totally rebuffing her while handing her a crumbled up napkin he used to wipe his mouth. Stillwell then threw it out.

"Woah did you bite every piece?" A-Train asked as he looked at the plate.

"Yeah, deal with it dweeb." Ben answers.

"Be right back gonna get some-." A-Train tried to say.

"Anyone leaves this room, I leave and everything with a Vought logo is destroyed." Ben threatens.

"You're bluffing." Homelander says as he sits across from Ben.

"Try me." Ben replies leaning back into his spinning chair with wheels.

Before anyone could respond to that threat Edgar came in. "I can tell you he's most certainly not." The CEO states as he sits down at the head of the table on Ben's right side. "In fact our meeting yesterday was a big indicator that Mister Tennyson isn't gonna hold back, seeing as how in a single afternoon you costed us millions and prevented us from obtaining significantly more than what we already spent."

"Just imagine how much it's gonna cost to rebuild this whole place?" Ben asks gesturing to the building.

"Somewhere around 300 Million dollars is the lowest price to construct a skyscraper." Edgar informed. "That doesn't account for any complications along the way, not to mention revenue lost." He added the turns to Homelander. "And before you ask whose side I'm on, it's this company's which does not need you, just like it didn't need Soldier Boy, or Payback."

"Let's get back to the topic at hand." Stillwell said, trying to get the meeting back on track. "What's your offer."

"You first." Ben said.

"Well you asked us here." Stillwell reminds him.

"True." Ben accepts. "But I'm only doing this as a courtesy. I can just burn this whole place down like I almost did that forest when I first turned into Heatblast. So you go first." Ben counters. "Plus it's good manners."

"Like ladies first?" Stillwell questions.

"More like age before beauty." Ben clarifies, getting some snorts.

Stillwell sighs before pulling out a contract multiple pages long. "This is a draft of the deal I mentioned the last time you were here."

"As your prisoner." Ben reminds her.

"That's irrelevant." Madelyn tells him.

"I find it very relevant." Ben responds, before asking. "Why should I sign that?"

"Well it's a mutually beneficial deal." Stillwell says. "You get to keep doing what you want to do, save lives and in return Vought gets good publicity and we both make quite a large amount of money."

"Sooooooo you wanna pay me to bad mouth you and keep destroying your stuff and beating him to a pulp?" Ben questions, pointing to Homelander at the last part. "I like that, but how does that benefit you?"

"No." Stillwell tells him. "You would have to stop doing that." She adds.

"You lied to me." Ben responds.

"No I didn't." Stillwell tries to dismiss.

But this fails as Ben continues. "You did. Cause you just said I can keep doing what I'm doing, then you said I have to stop." Ben recalls. "So which is it?"

Madelyn sighs but before she can speak Ben cuts her off. "You know what, just go through everything on there and I'll ask questions when they pop up."

"I'm sorry but I need to ask this, why are we here?" Homelander jumps in. "If this is some negotiation why are we here?"

"Cause I'm not leaving until we work out a deal and I don't want you using this as a chance to go after my friends." Ben informs. "Or anyone else."

"We wouldn't do that." Starlight said.

"Really?" Ben questioned. "Just like stars and stripes here didn't have something to do with creating a super villian that was part of a terrorist group."

"Wait what?" A-Train spoke.

"Huh?" Deep said.

"Don't know what you're talking about." Homelander denied.

"Let me paint you a picture." Ben said. "After getting your butt kicked by me, Kevin and Vilgax six ways to Sunday you decided it was ok to slip Compound V in the Middle East like it was candy. Only it backfired. The dude got arrested and the other supes are good guys." He informs them.

"What you're saying isn't even true." Homelander continues to deny.

"How would you even know?" Stillwell asks.

"Who do you think the CIA called to put out your dumpster fire?" Ben sarcastically asks. This gets some eyes widened. "Since you're all dumb dweebs I'm just gonna point out I was there and I helped stop him. He's not gonna hurt anyone else." The Seven and Vought members look to each other. Meanwhile Stan still remains cool as a cucumber.

"So you admitted to violating international law as an order from the CIA?" Edgar questions, seeing an opportunity. "That's generally quite frowned upon. You may not care about public opinion of yourself, but the CIA does."

Sensing where Edgar was getting at Stillwell continued. "And there's a good chance they might just throw you under the bus when push comes to shove. They might make you the most wanted person I the country."

"Wouldn't be the first time." Ben simply replies. "Plus it's not a crime to help people, which I did. But it is a crime to hurt people, which you all have."

"We save lives you little shit." Deep argues.

"Maybe." Ben says. "But I'm pretty sure they're all staged, like my first day in this dimension." He points out.

"That's a gross exaggeration." Stillwell says.

Ben then looks confused. "I'm sorry don't you guys hand out crime itineraries and make sure all the stuff you do is on camera?" He questions. "But we're getting off topic, where were we?" Tries to remember where they drifted off. "Oh yeah you were gonna go over that entire contract."

"It's a standard contract." Stillwell tells him. "We've sent it to you before. Several times." She reminds him having sent emails and DM's on social media.

"Never read it." Ben tells her. "Plus you're supposed to sell it to me, so sell it to me."

"This is gonna take quite a while." Stillwell states hoping it will convince him not to want to go over every detail of the contract.

"You got somewhere to be?" Ben asked. "One of the many perks I have not being from this dimension and all that."

Madelyn sighed with a. "Fine." Before she took the contract and began the long tedious effort of going over the contract.

It was nearing noon.

Anika's Apartment

Elena and Kimiko were packing up some things. "So you guys are leaving?" Anika questioned.

"Yup." Elena said as she put her laptop in her backpack.

"And you're not coming back?" Anika asked.

"We don't know." Elena answered. "It's better we don't stay here too long, we don't want to get you in any more trouble." She adds.

"Not like I'm not in trouble already." Anika says. "I guess just let me know if you need anything. So do I just wait for my next 'assignment' or whatever?" She asks.

"Just keep a low profile until we need your help, keep your eyes and ears open for any important information you find at Vought." Elena instructs. "And you know how reach us if you think you're in trouble."

Kimiko walks out from the bathroom putting a bottle of expensive coconut scented shampoo in her bag. Anika see's this and Kimiko signs. "Is she like threatening me for some shampoo?"

"She's just letting you know you're out, cause she's taking it." Elena explains.

"It's cool." Anika said and with that they made their way out. "Goodbye." And with that Anika was now alone in her apartment, at least for the immediate future.

Vought

It was 2:48 p.m.

Stillwell had just finished going over the whole contract that she and Vought was offering Ben. "And that's that." She says as she flips up the last page. "Any questions?"

"What are dividends?" Ben asks.

"Sorry?" Stillwell replied."

"What are dividends?" Ben asks again. "You said it a bunch of times, what is?" He clarifies.

"It's a money paid regularly by us to our shareholders." Stillwell explained.

"And what's a shareholder?" Ben asked.

This cycle continued. With Ben asking Stillwell to explain minuscule details and Stillwell begrudgingly explaining them. "Anymore questions?" Stillwell asked after spending over an hour answering questions. The time was now 3:54 p.m.

"Uhhhh no." Ben answered. Getting some sighs of relief. Untillll. "Just gonna make some changes, can I borrow a pen." The response to that was several groans of annoyance. "It's just a pen, chill." Ben told them, either not knowing or intentionally ignoring what they were really annoyed about.

"Here you are." Edgar said, reaching in his jacket for one. "I always keep a few on me." Pulls out a fancy looking green pen. "I believe this is your color, but ink is black."

"Sweet." Ben said taking it. "This isn't gonna squirt in my face right?"

"It writes like a regular pen, just designed to look like one from the 1940's." Edgar explained.

"Cool." Ben then flips to the front of the contract. "Ok let's get started." Starts making marks all over the contract, mainly crossing every line on there. This went on until 4:28p.m.

"Yeah... this is what's ok." Ben informs Stillwell as he slides back the contract papers.

Stillwell takes them and see's nearly everything has been crossed off on the first page. Then the second page, and the third. All the way to the last page. "You pretty much took off everything we gain from this partnership."

"Oh!" Ben said with faux realization. "You thought this was gonna be a partnership. It's not." Reaches for the contract and flips to the back pages. "Let me write down my offer, it's very generous, just gonna need a minute." Starts to write then adds. "Actually might need a bunch of minutes."

Later at 5:10 p.m.

"And done." Ben said as he makes a final dot. "I believe you'll find this more than generous." Slides the back the contract, only with his version on the blank sided pages.

Stillwell reads this over for a few minutes and Homelander looks over and see's some stuff.

"You have got to be kidding me." Stillwell says. "This is a load of fucking shit."

"Careful Madelyn there's a child present." Edgar interjects.

"Yeah this is my offer." Ben told them as he leans back and puts his feet up. "You guys admit you committed every crime you ever committed, give away all your money to the people you hurt, get out of the super hero industry, all your supes arrested, plead guilty and Compound V destroyed."

Stillwell now tries to counter.

Later at 6:35 p.m.

"Sorry I'm not budging." Ben said rejecting several of Stillwell's latest offers. "I'll stop talking bad about Vought when Vought stops being Bad." He reasons.

"But doing that we gain nothing, we actually lose in every way." Madelyn reminds him.

"Yeah so sad that after years and years of being bad guys you get to avoid jail and humiliation by doing the right thing." Ben says with faux sympathy. "So so hard and very sad. Boo hoo, need a tissue." Ben sarcastically adds while throwing a napkin. "Maybe playing a song on the worlds smallest violin."

"We have a right to do what's necessary." Homelander chimes.

"And I have the right to help the people and protect them from you." Ben counters.

"You're demands are just..." Stillwell tries to speak but struggles to look for a word. "Unethical and."

"Unethical?" Ben cuts her off. "UNETHICAL!" He then exclaims in anger. "What's UNETHICAL is how all you dingbats got your powers." Gets up and starts walking around as he continues to speak. "What's UNETHICAL is you lie about it and make it seem like you're gods." Turns to Homelander specifically. "WHICH YOU'RE NOT! What is UNETHICAL is how because you have a lot of money you think you can do whatever you want! What's UNETHICAL is how you got that money, by scamming and cheating people by pretending to save lives and making lame toys and movies that aren't even good! What's UNETHICAL is you guys thinking you're the good guys... YOU'RE NOT!" Ben then takes a breath.

"You're all just a bunch of soul sucking, money leeching posers who don't know anything about being a hero. AND I DON'T CARE IF I HAVE TO SIT HERE ALL YEAR TO BRING YOU TO JUSTICE, CAUSE THAT'S A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR YOU DWEEBS TO NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER BE ABLE TO ΚΕΕΡ DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING!" He finishes.

Stillwel angry, annoyed and exhausted. "Oh fuck off there's gotta be something you want you little brat so spit it already!" She orders.

"Nothing you can give." Ben replies placing his hands on the table while leaning on it. "I don't care about having a lot of money, I don't care what random strangers think of me, I don't want a movie, show, toys, or anything you can offer other than this company buried so deep in the ground that a random Chinese farmer will have better luck finding it than anyone here. I want all of your junkie employees pretending to be heroes to lose their powers, and for everyone who committed a crime here to plead guilty in doing that without anything in return except spending the maximum time in a prison cell."

Homelander gets mad. "YOU HAVE NO RIGHT YOU FUCKING ALIEN PRICK!" He exclaims to the gets as he stands up.

"I do actually." Ben replies. "Check the Declaration of Independence, say's so there."

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Was Homelander's response.

"We hold these truths to be self evident," Edgar begins, getting the attention of the others. "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." He quotes perfectly.

"You see." Ben says, gesturing to Edgar.

"Though this applies to government, not us." Edgar tells him.

"Ok this is getting out of hand." Starlight interjects, before Ben can reply. "You don't want to make a deal do you, otherwise you'd compromise on some things by now. Plus it's very out of character."

Ben shrugs. "Well I was told you guys were good at making deals. I mean what did it take for them to get you into that thing you were wearing back at the race?" He reminds her, turns to Homelander. "It's also where I first nicked you, remember." Referring to the scratch Homelander got, the first time he could ever remember bleeding.

The last light of the suns rays were starting to fade

"You're just here to waste our time, aren't you." Edgar asks, realizing it. "But for what?" He asks.

Ben just stares at Homelander without saying anything.

"What are you up to?" Homelander asks, nearly ready to laser Ben in half.

"You really wanna know?" Ben says.

The sun finally, fully set and the only lights were ones created by humans. The clock shifted from 6:53 p.m. to 6:54 p.m.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Everyone stares as Ben's alarm on his phone starts playing music. "What's that?" Homelander asked.

"Oh it's Metellaica." Ben says, and there's a small pause before Ben adds. "For Whom The Bell Tolls." (A/N also the title of a Ernest Hemingway book) Pause. "And that's you." Ben finishes.

Ben then activates the Omnitrix and changes form before anyone could question it. Suddenly Diamondhead appears and slams his fists down on the table breaking it and causing a pillar of crystal to shoot out at Homelander, sending him back into the wall. Before the other members could do anything Diamondhead raised his arms, creating a two walls that blocked their paths to him.

Ben ran towards Homelander and pulled him close. "Let's end this." Before throwing him out the window, shattering the glass. Homelander quickly recovered and stabilized himself in the air just outside the window, but not before Diamondhead ran and jumped out of it at him. When Diamondhead tackled him he began falling down as they each struggled against each other.

Back inside the Seven members as well as Madelyn stared in shock. Exiting the room they tried to figure out what to do.

"The fuck is his problem?" A-Train asks.

"What should we do?" Deep asked.

"You all need to go and-" Stillwell tried to say, but was cut off.

"Nothing." Edgar said, completely unfazed by what had transpired. "With any luck he'll kill him and my problems we'll be solved." He added as he made his way towards the elevator.

"Do you mean Homelander or Shifter?" Maeve asked, but Edgar just lets the door close, leaving the Seven flabbergasted.

Back to the fight

Diamondhead and Homelander hit the ground with a crash, adding another crater among the others that have piled up with recent events. Diamondhead quickly rose to a kneeling position and thrusted his left fist down. This caused a large green crystal shard to shoot up directly below Homelander, launching him into the air. The Seven leader stabilized himself in the air, but soon had to cross his arms to block the oncoming shards of crystal coming at him with the rate of a machine gun.

Diamondhead ran forward still firing the shards and when he felt he was close enough he quickly created a pillar to launch himself up at Homelander. Forming his right arm into a blade he tried to stab the Seven leader. But Homelander just floated to his right (Ben's left) out of the way. Despite missing the stab, Diamondhead spun as he was falling and launched several more shards at Homelander.

Homelander quickly turned around blocked them, and grabbed one that was heading towards his face. He squeeze it and with quite a bit of effort it shattered, then proceeded to float down. "What? No quippy remark?" He asked sarcastically.

"Sorry John I save that stuff for people who aren't murderers." Diamondhead commented using the name Vogelbaum gave Homelander.

"What did you call me?" Homelander asked in bewilderment, not believing what his super hearing heard.

"Want me to say it again?" Diamondhead asked. "Fine." He answered for himself. "Murderer!" He shouted so anyone near would hear, before slamming his fists down to create another green rock wave heading towards Homelander. The caped supe simply flew up then launched himself at Diamondhead, the alien raise a pillar of green crystal and jumped out of the way as Homelander flew at it shattering it.

Homelander tried to move on Diamondhead again, but soon found his lower half was being encased in crystal. "You killed everyone on that plane!" He heard and saw Diamondhead run at him before being punched so hard he was knocked out of his encasement.

It was unclear what Homelander was more shocked about, Ben knowing his other name or what happened with Flight 37. "The fuck are you-" Homelander tried to ask but was cut off as Ben went in for more punches.

Diamondhead took a second to stop and respond with. "You know what I'm talking about!" Before forming his left hand into a blade and trying to stab Homelander.

But the Seven leader grabbed it then threw Ben across the street, causing his body to skip the ground a few times. As Ben regained his footing Homelander flew at him, the alien hero tried to hold his ground. But this resulted in the pavement being torn up as Diamondhead was being pushed while trying to hold his ground. The two grit their teeth, and each of their eyes glowed. Homelander's Red and Diamondhead's Yellow.

Eventually Diamondhead was able to push aside Homelander after creating a line of wrecked concrete. Homelander tumbled a bit before regaining his footing and turned to Diamondhead. "You could've saved those people on that plane, but you just killed them! And for what, your name on news again!"

Knowing that there could be some people around Homelander said. "I told you, if the government just let us in the army then what happened with Flight 37 wouldn't have happened!"

"That's a lie, and you know it!" Diamondhead shouts. "And it wasn't the first time you screwed up with a plane. Just look back at September 11th, 2001!" He added getting a worried look from Homelanders face. "I saved my earth a bunch of times, not cause it was easy for me, but because I gave it everything I had everytime. Cause unlike you, (points a finger to him) for me (gestures himself with a thumb) when lives are on the line it's Hero time."

"I am the hero!" Homelander lamely shoots back.

"No you're not!" Diamondhead says, starts walking a bit as he begins listing what he believes Homelander really is. "You're nothing. Just an abomination, an experiment gone wrong, just some dog that's been crossbred and doesn't know how to control his anger." Diamondhead stops and turns to Homelander, knowing what's coming. "Some old lab coat's greatest failure."

Snap

With red eyes Homelander flies at max speed for punch at Diamondhead sending the alien flying into the wall on the side of a building. As Diamondhead began pushing himself off it, Homelander flew at him again and held him by the throat. "Not so cocky now are we?" The caped supe says with a smirk.

"Not cocky." Diamondhead says as he slaps his palms on the side of the building. Causing several crystal spikes to shoot out of the as if they grew like a fungus, around Diamondhead and towards Homelander. This caused the Vought hero to let go and back away. "Just dispointed and frankly, bored of you." Ben stated as he landed on the ground. "You're getting predictable John."

Homelander flies in for a right punch, but Diamondhead blocks it with his left and punches Homelander with his right. Homelnader turns to use his heat vision, but Diamondhead extends his palm, reflecting it back to it's sender. Forcing Homelander back further. "Right on que, the eye beams. I used to think you were just lazy, now I just know you have no creativity."

"SHUT UP!" Homelander shouts before he flies at Ben who punches the ground making crystals erupt from the ground that Homelander flies into. He flies through them, shattering them, but they were strong enough to throw him off so he's no longer flying straight. But that didn't matter because Ben clotheslined him.

As Homelander laid there, trying to regain his footing, Diamondhead spoke again. "You don't wanan share the spot light cause if anyone stood there with you they'd see just how human you actually are."

"Shut the fuck up!" Homelander quickly stands up and goes in for a careless punch. Diamondhead merely leans back to avoid it, then headbutts the supe. "SHIT!" Homelander exclaimed in pain as he reeled back with blood coming down his nose.

"You see, you're not a God, a hero, or a savior." Diamondhead continued, Homelander tried to rush him but the Petrosapien side stepped it easy. "You're what every villain is, just someone lucky enough to get powers, but who only uses theirs for their own benefit." Pause. "That's all you are John."

SNAP!

(A/N This one is more serious as it's in bold, underlined and slanted)

With unprecedented speed even for himself, Homelander flew at Diamondhead with a roar. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"The two flew through the city hitting the sides of buildings, with Diamondhead trying to break free.

Eventually Homelander gained some control and started dragging Ben along the side of a skyscraper while punching his face. "SHUT (punch) THE (punch) FUCK (punch) UP (punch) YOU (punch) PIECE OF (punch) FUCKING (punch) SHIT!" As they passed the highest point Homelander tossed Ben up a little then punched him down. Not caring if anyone got hit.

Fortunately Diamondhead crashed into a section of street that was currently void of any civilians. And he quickly stood back up. But Homelander flies down and stomps on him, creating a large crater. Then before the dust settled grabbed and threw the crystalized alien up in the air. Then before he could start falling Homelander flew up and punched him again.

As Diamondhead was skipping the pavement he flung several shards at Homelander which did seemingly nothing. Homelander soon charged again just as Ben was getting back up, with no time to dodge the young hero raised several large crystal shards from the ground to block it. But Homelander brushed those aside and continued his onslaught.

This cycle continued for a considerable length of time. With Homelander trying to brutally beat down Ben, who tried to fight back, only to get tossed around like a rag doll all over New York City.

All while people observed this through various news footage and social media posts. One such social media channel seemed to have access to any public camera and shifted to the best angle during the fight as if people were watching a TV show or cartoon.

With the Boys

"Uh you guys might wanna see this." MM called out, gesturing to the tv. Having no idea what to do until Raynor contacted them they were just waiting.

"Je n'en reviens pas." Frenchie whispered as they saw the old tv display Homelander thrashing Diamondhead repeatedly in multiple directions. Though by now it has grown redundant that they were displaying smaller headlines on the bottom, including the Middle East, candidates for the next election and the presidents latest series of offensive tweets.

"He wants it." Frenchie observed.

"What?" MM asked not seeing where he is getting at.

"It's like he's asking for it." Frenchie reiterated, before adding. "Like a Japanese businessman paying women to slap his body while it is covered teriyaki sauce."

"Ew gross man." Hughie says.

Frenchie scoffed. "Well what you call it then huh?" He asked.

"Rocky." Hughie stated. "It's literally what Rocky did." He states.

Back at the Fight

Diamondhead's body once again was the cause of another large crater in the streets of Manhattan. Along with dozens of others, plus more in the other boroughs. Homelander, breathing a little heavily, hovered several feet above the pavement and stared into the crater thinking he was done.

However. Diamondhead slowly got back up, his cracked body recovering. What was most strange was that he even had a smile on his face, and he even started to chuckle. "What's so funny?" Homelander asks.

"That you think that's enough to hurt me." Diamondhead answers. "You're gonna have to do a lot better than that John!" He adds.

"How about this." Homelander simply replies as he flies again at Diamondhead, who crosses his arms 59 block the punch.

The alien gets pushed back a large distance but remains on his feet. "Grrrrr I'm not giving up!" Uncrosses his arms. "Come on! LET ME HAVE IT!" He shouted, to which Homelander replied with another attack, which had similar results. "Is that it?" Diamondhead taunts, so Homelander attacks him again. And again with similar results. "I barely even felt that." Diamondhead told the supe, who again attacked, trying to apply even more force.

The attack was stronger, but still yielded similar results. With Diamondhead being pushed back a large distance still on his feet, though he stumbles and almost falls and has to use his hand to steady himself. "Are you quitting on me? Come at me more." He taunted as he stood up with a bit of stumble, but with confident smirk on his face.

"RAH!" Homelander shouted as he used his powers to fly at Diamondhead once more. Only this time the crystal alien didn't just stand there and take it.

"Ruh!" With a roar of his own Diamondhead slammed his fists and used all the power he could to create the area in front of him into a tundra of green crystal spikes. Unable to quickly stop Homelander flies through it, breaking each barrier, but slowing down drastically soon after.

Once he clears it he is met by a green crystal fist throwing him back against on of the spike pillars. Spitting out some blood he looks to see another fist, but ducks to avoid it before moving away. Out of habit he fires his heat vision, whose beams are more narrower than before, at Diamondhead. Who quickly retracts his left fist and points his palm at the beam, reflecting it back at him.

Diamondhead then extends both his arms and fires shards at the speed similar to a machine gun. Homelander raises his forearms to block this and grits his teeth as the shards start tearing apart his costume and scratching his skin.

Trying to counterattack Homelander spins around the volley and tries flying at Diamondhead again. But the Crystal alien see's this and backhands, splattering some of his blood on the ground. Diamondhead then grabs him by the cape and throws him back against the the nearest crystal spike. "Like I said, a failure!" Diamondhead says, before going in for another punch.

However in a burst of anger Homelander ducks and before using all his might to tackle Diamondhead at close range. He holds onto the alien tightly as he begins flying upwards. "Let's how fucking big your fucking mouth is in space you green piece of shit!" Homelander says, but instead of seeing Ben panicking he see's him smirking. "What?!" Homelander demands, sounding like a madman.

"Take a look." Diamondhead says as he glances to the side.

Instead of looking Homelander redoubled his efforts to fly up as fast as he could. However he wasn't going any faster. In fact... he seemed to be going up slower. As they were passing the tops of rather large buildings he began... falling. "I'm-I'm..." He couldn't even say.

"Going down." Diamondhead said, before grabbing Homelander and pulling him in for a headbutt. Then as they began falling the alien readjusted them so Homelander would be hitting the ground first. As they fell Diamondhead repeatedly punched Homelander in the face. Eventually they hit the ground with a huge crash creating a new crater.

Before the dust cleared Homelander was flung and when he hit the ground, it hurt. "AHHHH!" He cried out in pain. Struggling to get up he looked at Diamondhead who marched out of the crater seemingly unscathed. The alien then flung a single shard at Homelander, who tried to smack it away. "GAH!" But misjudged the timing, so while he deflected it, there was a huge gash on his right palm. "What the FUCK DID YOU DO TO ME!" Homelander demanded to know.

"Hurts doesn't it." Diamondhead said while walking forward. "That's what everyone else without power's go through, repeatedly." He adds, not answering Homelander. "And that's just the tip of the iceberg." Diamondhead then punches Homelander again, knocking him down.

Homelander retaliates by throwing a punch of his own, but apart from jerking Diamondhead back a bit, nothing happens. "What no laser eyes?" Diamondhead jokingly asks, Homelander tries to fire them but apart from his eyes glowing a bit red nothing happens. Smirking Diamondhead then launches are barrage of back to back punches, which Homelander is helpless to defend himself against. Each one hurting more than the last.

With the Boys

All were watching in even greater shock as Homelander was being beaten to a pulp by Ben. "How the fuck is he doing that?" MM asked, while Hughie's mouth was just a gape.

"C'est dingue!" Frenchie gasped.

Butcher meanwhile kept his eyes glued on the TV without blinking. "Come on Benji, end it." He whispered in a soft prayer.

Back with Ben

"Get it now!" Diamondhead said grabbing Homelander by the collar like a bully. "In case you don't let me spell it out." Takes a breath. "YOU'RE NOT A GOD! You can get hurt just like everyone else and die like everyone else." Diamondhead then spins and tosses Homelander like a rag doll, who crashes into another large green shard protruding from the ground.

As Homelander tries to crawl away, he cries out in pain as Diamondhead begins firing shards at him with the pace of a bolt action rifle. Each one embedded into him making his back look like porcupine. "Where's you're little boy band now?" Diamondhead asks as he walks up to him and pulls him up by the back of his head. Noticing a camera crew he pointed him at it's direction.

Seven Tower

On various levels of the tower man Vought employee's were in shock at the images of Homelander's bloodied face. Seeing him have a scratch was entirely brand new and NOW this Shifter, who's actually a kid, is doing this much damage.

On the top floor the Seven were in disbelief. They always thought Homelander was invincible, to anything. "Go help him." Stillwell demanded, her heart pounding.

"But Edgar told us-" Deep tried to say.

"I DON'T FUCKING CARE WHAT HE SAID!" Stillwell shouted. "Stop that fucking brat before he destroys our brand or so help me I'll use what remaining time I have to devote all of it to destroying your futures here." With that they left.

With Edgar

Stan Edgar was doing something rather peculiar. He was taking screenshots of Homelander during the fight. "Hm might make that one my screen saver." He said aloud.

Back to the fight

Diamondhead threw up Homelander and punched him, sending him into a wall again. "118!" Diamondhead called out. "One hit for each person you killed!"

"I didn't kill them." Homelander weakly said, still keeping up the act.

"You know that's not true." Ben said as he began walking towards him at a leisurely pace. "I already told you, I know the truth, whether I can prove it or not."

Ben created a blade with his right arm, and as he was readying himself to use it he saw something. In the reflection of his blade he saw Maeve jump down from the roof of the building behind him to attack. Spinning around Ben caught her with his right hand by the throat, then without uttering a word slammed her on the ground.

Maeve tried to push his hand away, but his grip was solid. Diamondhead then flung her to the nearest wall and before pinning her to it by invading her body in green crystal.

As Diamondhead tried to go back and finish Homelander, he noticed Annie coming in for a blast. When she fired her light beams, Diamondhead just palm heeled it, and it bounced right back to her. He then trapped her feet and hands in crystal as she fell on the ground.

Finally he felt something he didn't see coming at him. It wasn't that strong, but it was fast so Ben knew it was A-Train. The speedster then repeated the process of delivering pot shots at Diamondhead where he wasn't looking. Seeing this, Ben turned his head away and a split second after feeling the next hit grabbed A-Train's arm.

A-Train tried to pull away, but it was futile. Diamondhead lifted him up, and slammed him down on the ground, before encasing nearly his entire body in green crystal. Only the head was left open.

"What the fuck man! You never like this before." A-Train said, having fought his other forms.

"I was having fun before, not this time." Diamondhead answered.

Ben walks back over to Homelander, who manages to stand up again, though very wobbly. Seeing Diamondhead he tried to throw a punch, but when it hit his chest there was a small 'dink' before he recoiled in pain. "GAAAH!" Grabs his wrist in pain.

"You really wanna know how I did this, well think back." Diamondhead said as he grabbed his collar. "Where I'm from there's this comic book character, you remind me of, well an evil version of him. And like you, he has the same weaknesses. You're not as strong at night and you lose your powers to a special green rock." Diamondhead informs, then holds up his bladed right arm. "Though not as fast as Kryptonite."

Flashback

"If that will be all, can you please leave my house." Vogelbaum requests of Ben as he walks by a small wooden chest, designed to keep trinkets in.

"No, cause I need an actual weakness." Ben told him.

"I told you I didn't create him with any weakness." Vogelbaum reminded.

"That doesn't mean there isn't one." Ben countered. "There'a absolutely nothing at all, no Kryptonite, no special flower, no stone, sound? I mean come on, look at Titanic!" The ten year old exclaims. "Unsinkable ship hits a tiny iceberg and BOOM (claps his hands once) sinks and makes Leonardo DiCaprio famous."

Vogelbaum sighs before opening the small wooden chest and pulling out it's contents. Holding it up Ben was surprised to see it was a shard from Diamondhead.

"Is that?" Ben questions.

"It is." Vogelbaum answers. "A cystral shard from the form you call Diamondhead." Picks up his drink and takes a sip. "I had finished up for the day and was at home, when suddenly I get a call from the overnight crew that John was crying. I went over and saw he had somehow cut himself, though only slightly."

"What are you saying?" Ben asks. "Diamondhead is his Kryptonite?"

"Apparently prolonged exposure to that substance, results in the dampening of his powers, and even a complete shut down of them." Vogelbaum explains. "From what I gathered it emits a radiation of sorts, not harmful to humans, but to John, though he must be exposed to either a large amount of this substance or a small a mount for a considerable length of time without sunlight." Tosses the shard to Ben.

"How'd you get this?" Ben asks.

"I don't know." Vogelbaum simply says. "It just showed up in his room, none of our cameras saw anything, neither did our security team or anyone else. All we found out was that substance is not found anywhere on earth, either as a natural element or a compound." Finishes his drink and puts the empty glass down.

Ben looks at the shard with curiosity. "Thanks for your help." He says as he puts the shard down on a table and begins to leave. Before editing the door though he pauses and turns back. "You know for a genius you're kind of a huge idiot." He remarks before leaving.

Vogelbaum just stays standing as he stares at the shard, recalling the day. Both surprised and horrified at the prospect of a potential weakness of Homelander. Now he wish he explored it further.

Flashback over

"You fucking Rocky'ed me." Homelander uttered.

"And it worked like a charm." Diamondhead added, before throwing the depowered and injured supe on the pavement in front of him. "Let's end this." Brings up his blade in the diagonal position. "For good." Ben rushes forward and jumps up with the intention of fatally stabbing Homelander when he lands.

Time seemed to slow down as everyone watched this from wherever they were. Elena, Kimiko, Butcher, Hughie, Mother's Milk, Frenchie, Raynor, Edgar, Stillwell, Vogelbaum and millions of others. All with expressions reflecting their shock and disbelief.

As Homelander saw the blade coming towards his face, he closed his eyes and rose his arms in fear. In other words he flinched.

As Diamondhead's blade was getting closer, the shapeshifted ten year old saw something in the brief moment of time while he was coming down.

CRASH

THUMP THUMP

THUMP THUMP

THUMP THUMP

Homelander opened his eyes to see that no part of his body was skewered. Turning his head the blade was just centimeters, from his face.

Diamondhead was glaring at Homelander with his yellow eyes glowing, before turning to his left. There he saw an elderly man in a red buttoned-up Hawaiian shirt with a floral design. Just like his grandpa Max, who was next to a camera crew.

Turning back to Homelander Ben scoffed. "Too easy." Then grabs him by his face and tosses his body again so Homelander's helpless and injured body is there to be seen for the whole world. Then starts to walk away.

"You're-You're not gonna finish it?!" Homelander questions as he tries, and fails to get up.

Without stopping or looking back Ben utters the same words he said to Kevin on the Golden Gate Bridge. "You're not worth it. Never were." And continues on.

With the Boys

The Boys stared in shock as virtually every news program was showing the same thing. Homelander's, and some of the Seven, being taken down, for real. While not dead, their moniker "Earth's Most Mighty" got tossed out the window permanently.

"Holy fucking shit!" Hughie exclaimed.

"He could've killed that fucker." Frenchie said.

Butcher was being strangely quiet, which MM took notice. "What's the matter with you, I'd figure you'd get a hard one from this?" He asked, personally he was relieved Ben didn't kill Homelander, but Butcher was someone else entirely.

"Not sure if I happy the cunt got the fucking shit beat outta him..." Butcher began.

"Or disappointed that he's alive." MM finished, only he wasn't entirely right. Butcher was disappointed, not just because Homelander was alive, but because he almost saw a 10 year old kid murder someone.

"Holy fucking shit." Hughie gasped again.

Elsewhere in New England

By an old warehouse Kevin landed with a laugh after latest spree. It mostly consisted of scaring people off and stealing their belongings for fun. Going inside something miraculous occurred, he shifted from his mutant form to his normal self. "Home sweet home." He said.

Inside the warehouse there was some old empty crates and equipment, but in one area there was a couch that faced a large television. Nearby there was several arcade games as well as a refrigerator. Opening the fridge he pulled out a soda and begs to chug it.

Thud

That's when he heard someone land nearby, and turning to the unoccupied end of the warehouse Kevin saw it was Black Noir.

Kevin smirked. "Oh, you." He then finishes his soda and tosses the can aside and transforms into his mutant form. (Not sure what else to call it) "Come here for a bit of one on one?" He questions, but just gets back a blank masked stare.

"What are you staring at!?" Kevin asked, getting ready to attack

"Oh don't mind Noir." A voice speaks out, then Noir holds up a tablet showing Edgar on a video call. "He's the strong silent type. Hello Kevin, Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Stan Edgar, CEO of Vought International."

"Vought?" Kevin repeated, trying to remember the name. "Oh yeah you're the company those loser heroes I crushed work for." He remembered.

"There has been an unfortunate drop in quality, or rather an unexpected competitor arrived." Edgar replied with his usual tone. "Which is why I've arranged this meeting."

"What do you want?" Kevin wonders

"I want you, to join us here at Vought." Edgar says plainly.

"What?" Kevin responded with surprise, then began laughing. "You gotta be kidding me?"

"I assure you im quite sincere." Edgar tells him before adding. "We could be of great help to one another."

"You think i need help!? I dont need anybodies help!" Kevin assured him.

Edgar counters with "Says the one locked up by the CIA." Kevin grit his teeth in anger, but still was strong enough to break free yet. "Whats your plan?"

"Stomp Tennyson and anyone else who gets in my way into the dirt." Kevin says, punctuating his statement by punch his Heatblast fist into his Diamondhead palm.

Edgar waited a moment expecting more, but there was just silence. "And then?" He asked.

Kevin blinked. "Huh?"

"Once you get your vengeance, what's next for Kevin 11 in this new world?" Edgar wondered.

Kevin shrugs before suggesting. "Maybe I'll take over this earth? Not like your excuses for heroes could stop me."

"Very ambitious." Edgar mockingly applauds before adding. "So you have a plan to deal with unemployment?"

Again Kevin blinks. "The what?"

"The unemployment in the country. You have a way to create new jobs?" Edgar questions.

"Uhhhh." Kevin stutters.

"That's alright, what about the economy though, or housing or foregin trade relations?" Edgar lists off. "Anything for those?"

Kevin raises an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?" He asks.

"These are the things the people in charge have to deal with on a daily basis." Edgar informs in. "And contary to what most right wings would say, you cannot solve every problem by being the strongest. Now does any of that sound like fun to you?"

"What's your point?" Kevin asked.

Edgar sighs. "You are on a different earth, no family, no resources, no records of your own existence except for the footage captured when you attacked a few weeks ago and several rumors of a Chimera in South America. Wouldn't you rather live a comfortable life where your well compensated for the use of your skills?"

With a bit of skepticism Kevin asked. "And what skills would that be?"

"The powerul and violent ones." Came Edgar's reply.

In response, Kevin's face formed a sadistic grin.

And that's that. Sorry this took so long and thank you for your patience. I hope you enjoyed it. Now you're probably wondering why I made Homelander have a weakness? Well if he's like Superman then he has his strengths and weaknesses. Look at Superman's battle's against Doomsday and Cyborg Superman, without the sun he still has his powers but is more vulnerable. Also since Kryptonite doesn't really exist, I'd figure Diamondhead would work, they haven't really fought. And I'd figure it was only a matter of time before Kevin gets recruited or allies with Vought, same enemies and all that.

The next chapter is gonna be the season finale of Omni-Boys. Stay tuned.

Anyway for all your patience here's a trailer for my next story.

Narrated by Optimus Prime, voiced by Peter Cullen.

An image of the universe is show. "The universe." Zooms in on the Milky Way Galaxy. "It is vast, and filled with secrets beyond complete understanding."

The scene changes into an ocean filled with deep dwelling sea creatures. "Around each corner." Scene changes to a lava planet with a Magma being walking around. "Each planet." Scene changes to a jungle filled world with flying creatures. "Is filled with life." Scene changes to a desert planet with a six legged creature strolling the sandy dunes. "With abilities." A small scorpion like creature rises from the sand and tries to attack the animal, who somehow expels cold air from his body stunning the attacker and giving him a chance to run. "We could never imagine."

The scene once again changes as the planet earth comes into view. "Earth. An unassuming world with no concept of its unique place in the universe." The space background morphs into a series of clips of the Guardians of The Globe, the Teen Team, Fight Force and other heroes fighting. "Daily battles occur between the forces of good and evil, but great danger is coming for this world."

The clips fade away until space is clearly shown, only this time there was some sort of rift quickly followed by something falling to earth. "But a great and unsuspecting danger is coming for this world." Scene shifts to Omni-Man inspecting a crash site. "What this world needs."

Scene changes into a forest at night, all seems peaceful until... Two powerful beings clash, one of those being Omni-Man who was pushing back large green crystal being. "Is a new kind of hero."

"He could be slimey." Scene shows Omni-Man being hit with some kind of sticky green substance.

"Creepy." Scene now shows a grey specter coming through a tree behind Green Ghost.

"Fast." Scene now shows Red Rush chasing after a Black and Blue blur in the forest.

"Strong." Immortal gets sent flying from a four red fisted uppercut.

"Any shape." Some sort of large yellow armored sphere crash's into War Woman as she raised her mace to smash someone, or something.

"Or size." Dark looks around and fails to notice a small grey creature on his cape.

Omni-Man is floating up and looking around for a potential threat, but cannot seem to find any. "But will this Hero stop this grave threat?" Feeling a presence behind him Omni-Man turns around, only to be hit by a titan's fist and shot across the area. "Will earth's protectors be strong enough?"

War Woman and Immortal eyes widen in shock as they just narrowly avoid a large blue laser.

"Will this threat be victorious?"

Underwater Aquarus and Martian Man scream in pain as high voltage electricity courses through their bodies.

"Who shall fall?"

Darkwing is in his jet and it begins to crash.

"Who shall stand?"

Omni-Man tries to get up from the ground, but is soon stomped back down into it.

"Coming Soon!"

Immortal and the rest of the Guardians arrive to help Omni-Man who's just withstood an attack from a green crystal being. "What is that?"

Omni-Man tries to answer. "It's-."

OMNI-VINCIBLE

(The 'O' is the Omnitrix insignia, it the rest of the letters are yellow, with a blue and green striped background and the Omnitrix activating sounds)

Scene now goes to Cecil in a Global Defense Agency lab as he stares into a room from a glass window. After hearing what Donald has said and after seeing the footage and data he concludes. "Donald I think we've found out ace."

(suspenseful music with a close up on Cecil)

Donald clears his throat. "With all due respects sir, I believe we have at least ten." He says.

What do you think?