Chapter 38: Bleed!

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However she ignored the fact that Homelander's enhanced hearing made it painful for him too.

As XLR8 was getting back up he found himself light blasted by Starlight who found her opportunity. 

Earlier XLR8 had either been to fast, engaged or simply to far for her. But as he seemingly ignored her she took her shot.

However he was back up and glared at the two female supes of the Seven. "Well this isn't the first time I had to fight a couple of girls, at least one of you is skilled." The alien shapeshifter comments, looking towards Starlight.

Maeve then looks at Starlight, who feels her stare. This momentary lapse of focus is all XLR8 needs as he starts running around the two in circles, delivering a series a blows to them.

Starlight fires randomly and misses before she is hit again. Maeve tries to make a small earthquake to throw him off balance, but the ground isn't pavement, it's a synthetic rubber. 

So the result is a fist size hole with her hand barely reaching the ground that is half an inch below. 

This does make XLR8 stop to cross his arms and shake his head. "You do realize an important part of a fight is environment right?"

Maeve then swings at him and he leans back. "You're supposed to be this great fighter, but here's what I see." Maeve grunts in frustration and tries another punch. 

"I see a lazy quitter who's just accepted her role as a pawn in Vought's little game." Maeve tries again to hit him, but he just moves back some distance. 

"Who could be a great hero, but is too afraid of some corporate sleezballs. I'm on the money aren't I?"

Starlight then tried to fire another light blast, only XLR8 moved out of the way again. This time he runs behind her and begins psychoanalyzing her. 

"And you started to go down the path of a sellout." Moves to avoid a swing. "You want to be a hero, but Vought just wants to use you for their Nazi like propaganda." Backs up to avoid another hit.

"Don't be the hero they need you to be." XLR8 tells her, lifting his visor. "Be the person you want to be." Starlight then stops the light blast she was about to fire, realizing he has a point. 

They stuck her in some ridiculous gimmick costume and threatened to kick her off the Seven if she didn't comply.

XLR8 put his visor down and ran by Starlight to slide right at Maeve's feet making her fall forward. 

"Or do wanna end up like that?" XLR8 asked, before running to Homelander's location.

The Kineceleran repeated his earlier move on a recovered Homelander. Running around in circles and hitting him from different angles, only Homelander was able to just stand there and take it with no problem. All while trying to use his heat vision with no effect.

Eventually XLR8 stopped several feet directly in front of Vought's God. "Is that all you got?" Homelander asks. "Cause you can't hurt me like that."

"Well then." XLR8 replies before taking off as quickly as possible.

"Guess that's that." Homelander says, confident he just won. Turns to a mostly cheering crowd and waves.

"Aren't you gonna go after him?" Starlight asks, as she walks forward.

"Relax I-" Homelander begins then cuts himself off when he hears and distinctive voice saying. 

"Peekaboo." Turning around he was just in time to see XLR8's mask as the alien super tackled Vought's most iconic hero at speeds over Mach 1. 

The impact created a giant boom as Homelander was sent flying through the wall of stadium. 

Starlight, who was nearby, was also sent flying. Luckily no civilian was injured.

"Oh." XLR8 groaned as he fell on his knees and grabbed his head. "I'm definitely gonna feel that in the morning." Rubs his helmet covered head as he regrets his decision. It didn't work at Mount Rushmore with Vilgax, but Homelander was no Vilgax.

Struggling to get in his feet XLR8 saw Homelander rising from the hole he was sent through. 

"Uh you got a little something." The alien say's gesturing to his own face.

"What?" Homelander say's then wiped his face to and feels something on his normally perfect skin. 

He felt something, like a bump of some sort, then looking down at his finger he saw red. Not the shade of red on his gloves, it was a different shade. It couldn't be.

"Homelander." Maeve says, having recovered and went over to her leader with a shocked look. 

"You're bleeding." She says, as if she discovered a long lost horrible secret.

"I can't be." Homelander chuckles, denying it. Then wipes his cheek and is satisfied when he finds nothing besides the bump and no blood.

"She's not." Starlight says, coming over.

Indeed he was. It wasn't a major bleed, or even that serious, not even a paper cut was that bad. But it was enough to draw just a single small drop of blood. Homelander's blood.

Nearby Noir and Train were recovering. 

A-Train's metabolism accelerating his recovery. 

As Noir got up, thanks to his enhanced vision, he saw the small cut on Homelander's cheek. This drew an audible breath of shock from him.

….

Butcher

When the Brit saw XLR8 ram into Homelander and people began clearing he followed. 

It would look suspicious if he stayed, so still holding onto the kid he walked towards the exit. But when the Jumbotron showed a surprised Homelander he took a glance.

To his immense shock and joy the angle was of Homelander's scratched cheek. This made him pause his movements and stare. 

"Fuck me, the cunt can bleed." He spoke then laughed in joy. Good thing people were in a rush to notice. He then walked with a confused Elena to the van.

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