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The Canterlot Estate, is both a privet home and a park, owned by the heroine, Alicorn and is located outside of the city of Detroit. The park is built on the abandon factories and industrial area that had all been closed down for decades. The parts of the estate that is open to the public is a big boom to the city, with all the jobs and businesses that have sprang up around it. As well as the estate employs hundreds of workers to maintain the estate and run the attractions.

The estate has several different parks that are themed after a location in Equestria, some are just parks for people to walk around, but others have rides and restaurants. The rides all came from a bankrupt amusement park that Alicorn brought all the old rides and equipments, using her power of telekinesis lifted it all up in the air and carried it to the estate. Alicorn brought many of the buildings outright and just lifted most of it up into the air and took it back home, it's how she got the observatory. After sealing off the water pipes, power and anything else she would just lift the building with its foundation and carried it back home.

The park is visited by tourists from all over the world as the Equestria books, tv show, and movies has become a culture icon. Like Star Wars, Star Trek, Pokemon, and Harry Potter, where it's not just a fad but stays with pop culture having its ups and downs but staying while others just fade. Like how Twilight the vampire and werewolf series were everywhere but faded away once the series was over.

The biggest draw is the castle resting on the eastern edge of the park, which Alicorn built herself which is modeled after Canterlot Castle which she said is built from memory of the castle. The castle is a grand hotel that can be rented out for events, with it section off in 3 parts. The largest section is for the families who come here, booking rooms that are in their price range, the second is for the ones with money and the last is for the V.I.P.s and the most expensive.

The estate has gotten many local businesses to theme themselves after Equestria, after making deals with Equestria Inc, which is the company that Alicorn created to operate the Equestria brand and owns. Which is completely independent from Vought-American, who merely handle the marketing of the merchandise but has no say in what is made or how it's made. Alicorn is very protective of her brand and all official licensed merchandise has to have her seal of approval.

Alicorn made it known she wouldn't join any superhero teams besides guest appearances in comics, pointing out the other superheroes faults. Which works for her as she has the reputation for "tough but fair," saying what needs to be said despite how it makes people feel. And the comics spin it off to having Alicorn sees herself being better than the other superheroes because of her royal upbringing and training she had in Equestria.

The only Superhero team Alicorn tolerates are the Superdupers who work in the park. They're there because of the pressure that Vought-American put on her and holding a important deal in the air if she didn't had one of the other Superhero teams working with her. Alicorn went with the deal but only if she gets to choose which team she would be working with, and she surprised everyone by picking the Superdupers.

The comics spun it that the Superdupers know Alicorn who is a beloved friend from their future. But in the past she doesn't know them and is cold to them. They're working at her park to befriend her and be the Alicorn they use to know. The comic series is actually a good seller with the Superdupers working at the park and causing trouble or having to deal with a villain, while trying to befriend Alicorn.

The Superdupers stayed in a 3 story manor with a basement and an attic that is walled off from the public. The Superdupers could be seen at different parts of the park, entertaining the crowds and helping out with the security. The Alicorn did give the members of Superdupers magical crystals of the Elements of Harmony. And helped trained them to have better control of their powers. That happen both in the comics and real life.

Auntie Sis has the element of Friendship

Bobby Badoing element of Laughter

Black Hole element of Loyalty

Klanker element of Honesty

Kid Camo element of Empathy

Ladyfold element of Kindness

Stoolshadow element of Generosity

The Superdupers are good with the kids and help out in emergencies. They're also huge fans of the Equestria series and Alicorn use them to see how new products would sell, also to bounce ideas off of. They're also the envy of the other heroes as they're racking in lots of money and very popular thanks to being apart of the Equestria brand.

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North Area of the Estate -

In the walled off section of the estate at the northern area is the manor where Alicorn made her home in. Inside her manor Alicorn walks into the dining room where she is hosting a dinner with Jess Bradley a new Vought-American executive that was sent to deal with her. The company has sent a great number of executives to deal with her, mostly trying to get more control of the money she's raking in.

"The company would like to rework the contract dealing with the Equestria brand," Jess said Alicorn who is sitting on the other side of the table.

Alicorn is in her uniform, a military style grey uniform, with a black belt around her waist. The only bright colors she had are two patches with her personal symbol of a red and yellow sun, the matching pair or red gloves and boots. The uniform covers her body but gives hints to her shapely figure hidden underneath, the market team had tried to get her to wear something more revealing but she went with the military uniform that's been custom made for her. And nearby is her weapon of choice a large bladed lance.

She's having a steak while Alicorn is having an egg dish, Alicorn doesn't eat meat but does eat eggs. Explaining that she does eat bake goods and they do have eggs in them, so she sees no problems in eating eggs. The eggs are scrambled with cheese, having ketchup, mustard, and hot sauce.

"The answer is still no. Not my fault that the legal team couldn't work the contract to give the company control of the brand, but then again none in the company had thought of much of The Equestria brand at the beginning. Didn't think it would be anything but a fad like those Twilight books with the vampires and werewolves or pogs. Hot for a few years but then dies and is quickly forgotten. But I hit pay dirt with my gamble, investing my own money into it. Now the Equestria brand is now worth billions and growing thanks to my business smarts. With spin-offs and merchandises selling like the Disney brand, I even have licensed works done by other creators and companies, as long as they have my approval first. The company is making money from the marketing and selling my comics and other Vought-American brand merchandises, even having the animation department make the cartoon for the first season. The Asian market is huge, which the Vought brand always had a hard time in that market. But your company seeing the amount of money the Equestria brand is making, just wants more than what you're already getting," Alicorn explains.

"We be able to expand the brand," Jess said.

"By adding the other heroes to Equestria? I think not, Superduper are enough and are the only ones I agreed to work with. There are only a handful of supers who I would even think of having them guest star in any official works besides them. I know what will happen once you people gain control. You will change everything and cut corners like everything else under your brand," Alicorn said.

"What do you mean?" Jess asked.

"You have no idea why you're here do you? Why Stillwell or even the CEO haven't tried to talk to me. They did and I will give you the same speech I gave them and sent them packing," Alicorn said.

Jess eyes widen hearing that Alicorn had sent the boss and Stillwell packing.

"The reason why you're here to get my product is that the product your company has is just a bad product. The superheroes, as a result of all the power they've been given right from the moment they were born, mostly have ended up sociopathic, immature, spoiled, and utterly hedonistic. Who are fixated only on their own individual satisfactions without much regard for the innocents whose lives are in their hands. What's even worse is that since superheroes are such a massive investment and turn in extremely huge profits, Vought's management is very much willing to do whatever they deem necessary to ensure their business remains afloat. Never mind the fact that the superheroes, are incompetent and have no real skills with their powers. The superhero business in general can be explain as this. Why go out and fight crime for real when you can sit back and collect residuals on all of the comic books, TV shows, and merchandise with your face on it?" Alicorn explains. (1)

Alicorn drank down her glass of orange juice.

"The superheroes your company produces are a bad product, namely in the amount of money spent on keeping them happy and covering up their messes. The company seems to have always had this problem in creating a bad product. They're always looking to cut corners and save money even at the cost of nearly going bankrupt, their sole skill appears to be amassing political clout. Which is the reason why I'm such a good product for the company, having nothing that needs to be covered up or having vices that cost lots of money. I was never made by the company or was apart of it, till I step into this world. Talking with some of the heroes, I know about how they were treated and groomed when they were younger. Is it any wonder why so many are messed up?" Alicorn asked. "Which is why, I'm so much better than the other heroes. I had a better childhood where, I wasn't drugged up and actually had a formal education."

Jess wonders how much Alicorn knows. Alicorn sticks to the lore she created of being an exiled princess from a magical world and that she's really a unicorn who was transformed into a human. Which caused many in the company not to take her seriously, till after they realized that she's much more cunning and smarter than the act she does makes her out to be.

"I know all about how the company was started. They use to make boots for the army, which weren't that good but then again that was the point. Faster the boots wear out, the more orders the company got. Too bad the company used that kind of thinking for everything else that followed. During WW2 the company shipped out the V.A.C. F7U Grizzly, which was considered the worst aircraft ever flown by the US military, with thirteen being lost for every enemy aircraft they shot down. The war would had been lost if the bomb wasn't dropped, but the company doesn't care about that, the rush job with the jet and cost cutting that made the jet so bad, was just to get the company's name out there. The orders that came brought in one bad product after another, but with there being no war the company only had to fill out orders. And if the bad equipment that's caused by cutting corners to save money wasn't used because of how bad it is, it's ok as there isn't any war and the papers could be made to look like they're being used. Which was the straw that broke the camel's back thanks to the Vietnam war where the soldiers were armed with the M-20 Assault Rifle. Thanks to all the cost cutting that happen with the gun, it failed so badly that the Vietnamese didn't even bother to salvage the guns or the ammunition, instead using them as mounts for the heads of the one thousand soldiers that died trying to use them at the Battle of Ia Drang. The company was the lowest bidder and cut cost everywhere, creating one bad product after another with the last military contract being the last they ever got, no matter how low the company bid for a contract," Alicorn said laying it all out.

Alicorn takes another drink.

"Vought-American, the very corporation behind the superheroes is just an incompetent company, all said and done. The fact that the superheroes are on the most part are all incompetent and depraved psychopaths, VA is known for producing shoddy military equipment that did more harm to the US military than the enemies they were fighting. Only getting the contracts because they're the lowest bidder, till the battle happen that showed that they will cut corners to save money even if it cost soldiers lives. Resulting such a backlash that the government either stop giving out contracts to your company or face mass fallout with the public with the anti war movement gaining ground thanks to that mess," Alicorn said.

Alicorn poured herself more orange juice.

"That said the company is actually shown to be frighteningly competent at everything a corporation needs to do to get its products out the door, marketing, lobbying, manipulating regulations, weaseling out of controversies, general-purpose corporate skulduggery, but the actual products that have been corner cutting whenever possible. The company's philosophy is built around the idea that a corporation's output doesn't have to be good, it just has to turn a profit, rather than making their products good, the company focus on burying any evidence that people shouldn't buy their stuff," Alicorn explains.

Jess listed and wonders where this is all going.

"This is why I'm the biggest money maker as the company had nothing to do with me till, I signed up with it. I actually train to use my powers, I trained to be able to use them without causing that much damage. Which is why I'm more powerful than Homelander. Unlike him I actually had to deal with others who are my size or stronger, and actually have to put effort in learning to use my powers. In the end of the day he's just the biggest kid on the playground, and suddenly he discovers there's a wider world out there and I'm just as big as him. The potential is there but besides me there isn't anyone who is on his level, on this world anyways. I also don't have any of the other issues that cost the company money that they need to pay off the debt," Alicorn said.

"Debt?" Jess asked.

"I know for the fact that making one dose of compound v, cost around 19 billion in todays money. The Seven are all grown and built to be powerful from the ground up. I'm guessing the debt the company owes their backers is close to a trillion or so, and I'm also taking account for inflation as The Seven are between 40 to 60. Which is why the company is so dead set in getting military contracts so that they can pay it off. I'm a lifeline for the company as I make them money and the cost for maintenance is much lower then dealing with the other heroes. I'm everything the company hoped that the Homelander would be, with no issues but that I'm not that loyal to the company. My brand brought in 8 billion for the company even with the small cut of the profits the company is getting, The Seven brought in under a billion. And the company needs me as their cash cow more than I need them," Alicorn explains. (2)

"Needs you?" Jess asked.

"The company sells the idea that superheroes are like how they're presented in the comics. The moment where that is shown to be nothing but a lie and the public sees what the heroes are really like, the bottom will fall from the superhero market. No amount of hush money or spin doctors will be able to regain the public trust and more importantly get them to buy the merchandise again. The only heroes left will be me who has nothing to hide… well there are the Superdupers. But bottom line is that the superheroes will never be profitable again and for the top people in charge of the company, will have to spend the rest of their lives employed in the company trying to make them profitable again when they're all just a bad product, like selling a car that doesn't even work and everyone knows it," Alicorn said calmly to Jess who has a look of horror on her face.

Alicorn using her telekinesis pours Jess a glass of wine which she drank down quickly.

"That's the same reaction both Stillwell and your boss had once I explained things to them. They have nothing but a bad product and are stuck in keeping the public from finding out what they're really like so they remain profitable, not to mention jail time. But knowing them they will just use a scrape goat to put all the blame on if that happens, you should take measures against that by the way. I'm the only superhero the company has that when it comes out what the other superheroes are really like, will still have some public trust. The entire superhero process is just a last of a long line of bad products caused by the company cutting corners to save money. I'm surprise how the company managed to survive with all the cost cutting they do that just makes a bad product. Like a construction company who keeps on building buildings that falls and kills everyone inside. Yet they still have people hiring them and keep buying their shoddy buildings. Doesn't make sense as that only happens in fiction where people are written to be that dumb, but somehow it's happening here," Alicorn said.

Alicorn takes another drink.

"It's the reason why I'm only having company handle the marketing and switch animation studios after the first season of My Little Pony, as the cost cutting and the changes made by the company backed studio was making a mess of things. Which showed as the second season is much more loved by the fans and they showed it by the sales number. If I had stayed with the company's studio the entire series would be just a novelty, instead of helping to launch the Equestria series into becoming a pop culture icon that it is today. Because I don't cut corners and give out a good product which the company doesn't do. And the only thing holding it together is the profits that the superhero merchandise makes and you and everyone else in the company are stuck maintaining the illusion to make a profit. Once the superheroes are no longer profitable, what you think the investors and banks will do when they see that the company can't make money anymore?" Alicorn asked. (3)

"Shit," was all that Jess could say as she holds her head with her her right hand.

"As I said the company needs me more than I need you people," Alicorn said.

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Later -

Alicorn walks back into the dining room after escorting Jess out of her home. The table had been reset with fresh plates of food and drinks, for her other guests. Alicorn took her seat at the table shared by her guests, The Boys who are eating and drinking.

"Had no trouble?" Alicorn asked.

"The suits were in the shed as you said. But really you had to dye the food," Billy Butcher said eating his plate of green eggs and ham. He and the others had to dress up as Doctor Seuss characters to sneak into the park.

"The park is honoring the late doctor," Alicorn said.

"And why we had to dress up to look like we came out of one of those book?" Mother Milk asked.

"Prefect cover," Alicorn said pouring herself a glass of wine. "Now let's get down to business."

"You heard what happen to Silver Kincaid of the G-Men?" Butcher ask.

"She killed herself which the company is already having spin doctors work it over," Alicorn said.

"What do you know of the G-Men?" Butcher ask.

"The cover story is them being a bunch of super-powered runaways and outcasts who have been taken in by John Godolkin. I can't stand them and make sure there is no interaction with any of the teams with my brand. They are however the biggest money maker of the company but there are increasing irritation with them by all the cover ups and bailing out they have to do with the members. They're the most likely to blow the cover of how the heroes are really like. They're also the most unstable of all of the heroes with ties with the company. I'm going with Godolkin being a pedophile," Alicorn said causing the Boys to stare at her.

"He's a child rapist?" Hughie ask.

"How do you know?" The Frenchman ask.

"I have met him when I met up with the G-Men to see what they're like and he gives off that feel. All of the members started off young and the way he speaks about them, reminds me of a stalker. There is also the members around the mansion, all clearly hates him and everyone else on the team. Been around nobles all of my life who all put on masks talking nicely to each other while hating each other. Beneath his kindly facade lies a cold and hateful person who only values others if they're useful to him. Meet too many nobles like that and some who like them young," Alicorn said.

"That does explains so much," Mother's Milk said connecting the dots and all the information they have on the G-Men.

"We're trying to get information on them and if you say is true, it just makes things a whole lot easier," Butcher said.

"I don't have any proof of any of that. The company would know what's really going on but they been keeping it all covered up since the team makes so much money. But that was before I came along and bring in 8 billion, compared to the under 2 billion to the company. The G-Men are now not the biggest money maker and they know it. I can drop by and plant some bugs, saying that I'm there for the wake of Silver Kincaid. I can pass it off as a PR stunt and Godolkin will have to accept it, once I call the company about the plan and they can add it as one of my rare crossover events with the team," Alicorn said.

"You really don't like them do you?" Hughie ask.

"The only decent heroes are the Superdupers and that's because the company mostly ignores them. They're morally good, idealistic and helpful as far as they are able at least. They are tied to the company but have been ignored by them as being "Defective products" and as such are not corrupted by the company's incompetent personal raising of heroes and corruption from hedonisms, riches and popularity they lavish their supers with. Auntie Sis is a viable and useful superhero candidate but her stubbornly unwavering "attitude" to do good makes her useless to Vought outside of being a willing volunteer to raise their rejects. Which is why I picked them when the company force me to pick a team to work with. They are getting rich and getting lots of popularity because of working in the estate, but they're still the same and are good with the fans. And there's me who is a princess and grew up in wealth, this world is nice but I will be returning back home when the portal reopens. The company can't offer me anything that I won't be getting and more once I return. All of this is just me having fun as much as I can before I have to go back to all the political theater I will have to deal with again. That's why I'm helping you and your team. I can't stand the heroes of this world," Alicorn said.

"Yeah sure," Butcher said reminding himself that Alicorn for all of her smarts and cunning is still someone who believes that she's a unicorn princess from a magical world. Crazy but very useful when they needed some help.

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Author Notes -

1 - The superheroes in The Boys are incompetent and have no real skills or training to talk of. They mostly just learn to control their powers but never trained to use them. Or have any kind of training in using them to actually save people or fight crime.

In the tv show at least the heroes there have some experience in fighting crime and saving people. Not much but at least it's better then how inexperience and incompetent the heroes in the comics are.

2 - Seeing how the shot that The Boys used to make themselves super strong cost nearly 19 billion, Vought-American would be heavily indebted to many banks and investors. As I'm going with the company spending trillions to make The Seven. And that's taking in inflation for the billions spent in the 60's to make The Seven. Which explains why they're so greedy in making money.

3 - In The Boys : Dear Becky, I'm going with the company going under because of superheroes no longer being able to make money. And that the debt the company must have with banks and investors being in the trillions and not being able to pay it back, ruin the company. The company would be blacklisted by the banks and investors.

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