Chapter 10: Delusion & Provoking!
"What?" The blonde replies not understanding.
"You, just like everyone else here, are under the delusion that we are a Superhero company." He begins while gesturing to the building.
"We are not. What we are in fact is a pharmaceutical company that is disguised as that. Homelander is not our biggest asset, that is the vials of Compound V. So bottom line is, we lose all the hero's we can make twice as many more." Takes a pause and walks to the window.
"It wasn't to long when Soldier Boy was this country's greatest Hero." He resumes, while looking down at the statue.
"But before that it was Wrench and unlike Soldier Boy he actually fought. The V he was induced with just enhanced his combat skills, and he served in North Africa, Italy, France, Belgium and Germany in some of heaviest fighting."
"Why are you telling me this?" Stillwell asked, not seeing the point.
"Because you need to know the harsh truth that Homelander keeps denying." He starts to answer, then turns back.
"He's replaceable. They all are. Soldier Boy, Wrench, every member of Payback, all were considered either one of the best or the best. Then suddenly nobody cares about them, the Seven is just this generation's flavor of the month." He concludes, before walking out.
"Alive." He emphasizes before he closes the door shut.
"Prick." Madelyn say's before her work phone rings. "Hello." "So you've heard." "Well you know what to do." She says before hanging up.
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Next Day
On the streets of Manhattan a truck full of money was driving crazy to avoid the cops.
However it wasn't the cops that stopped it was a red skinned, four armed alien jumping in front of the vehicle, stopping it with his bare hands.
The criminals inside then gave up and were waiting to be arrested. However at that moment Homelander touched down.
Fourarms looked and saw the supe with the American flag cape. "Well well well. You're trespassing." Homelander calls out.
"Well someone has to be the real hero and it's not you." Fourarms replied.
"Who are you?" Homelander asked, giving him a once over with a face showing he wasn't impressed.
"Right now, the name's Fourarms." The Tetramand introduces himself.
The blue eyed supe chuckles at this. "Four arms?" He replies amused.
"Better than Homeloser." Fourarms counters.
"This is your only warning." Homelander begins. "Turn yourself in or I drag you in." He offers.
To his surprise Fourarms bellows out laughing. "HA HA HA HA OH HA HA HA." He cries as he uses his two lower arms to clutch his lower abdomen.
After about a minute he wipes a tear and replies.
"If you think I'm gonna give up to a bunch of jealous greedy wannabes than you're a bigger dweeb than I thought."
Homelander smirk's "In that case." Then in a blink of an eye he closes the distance throws a punch at him. This sends him flying into the truck the criminals used, thankfully nobody was in it.
This action caused everyone nearby to stop and look.
Homelander then turns to Maeve and smiles arrogantly. "See wasn't that-" Gets cut off when the same truck he punched Fourarms into is thrown at him.
It didn't do much, but it did distract him so that Fourarms could run up and deliver a two armed punch. Mimicking what Homelander did before to him.
Homelander got back up from the pavement he crashed into. "Nice shot." He comments as his eyes began to glow red.
Ben noticed this and quickly grabbed an empty car to throw. Homelander merely fired his heat vision at the vehicle, but since he hit the gas an explosion happened right in front of him.
"Seriously." He scoffs, brushing off any debris.
As Homelander dusted himself off Fourarms, who jumped up when the explosion happened, came down right on top of him.
Causing the blonde to fall on his back and be pushed into the pavement. "Yeah!" The Tetramand screamed as he soon began delivering multi armed punches.
Before Homelander could stop him, Queen Maeve shoulder tackled the alien off of him from the side.
Though due to his size and her having less strength than Homelander she only made him go back by several feet.
The Amazon like warrior then ran at the alien, intending to pay him back for the incident upstate.
Fourarms then tried to swing at her with his right arms, but she leaned back to dodge. Then delivered a punch to his exposed side with her left fist.
Before he could recover from that Homelander flew straight at him and threw a punch, sending the Tetramand into the side of a building.
"Ugh." Fourarms groaned as he pulled himself out of the brick wall while rubbing his head.
"Wish Grandpa and Gwen were here." He spoke to himself as he shook his head to get rid of the ringing.
When he regained his footing Ben saw that Homelander and Maeve were both taking their time walking towards him.
He also saw Homelander's cape flowing to the side a bit and had an idea. "If that's all you got then you're dumber than your outfits. I mean who's the idiot who thought having an American flag as cape was a good idea, it's just tacky and lacks imagination."
Unbeknownst to Fourarms Homelander's eye twitched.
Fourarms starts walking as he talks. "You also basically embody the ideal Nazi. Blonde, blue eyes, with a might makes right mentality. No wonder anyone who knows how to use more than 2 brain cells thinks you're losers."
That did it.
Homelander flew straight at Fourarms in anger, ready to go straight through him. But to his shock the Tetramand was able to lean to the side and grabbed his cape.
The cape was made of an expensive special polymer that was infused to the suit so it wouldn't rip or burn. At least not very easily.
So when Fourarms pulled the cape he threw him on the pavement.