(Homelander POV)
We arrived at where the terrorist was last seen on the NYC police scanner. There I immediately smelled nothing but blood and heard a familiar voice wimpering about a dead whale.
"Jesus Christ. Deep," I say getting the certified dumb fuck's attention.
"Homelander, hey," Deep says turning toward us.
"What happened?" I ask wanting to know where the missing criminals are.
"They killed her. They fucking killed her, man!" Deep says with a very angry and sad voice.
"What?" I say confused about what the fuck he is on about.
"I just was trying to help out. You know, I got some intel on the boat. We started to cut them off and then, fuck, they just ran right into her. I'm so sorry. I was just, like, gonna try to stop them. I tried to cut them off…" Deep says about to cry now, really testing my patience for idiocy.
"Okay… Hey, hey, hey, hey, focus. So you're saying there's people with the terrorist? Look at me. You're saying they're not alone?" I say holding the deep by his shoulders and making him get his attention on me.
"I think so," Deep says as I let out a small sigh.
"All right. Did you get a good look at them, or…?" I say trying to get his limited memory jogged.
"Not really. I was too busy worrying about Lucy," Deep says gesturing to the whale.
"Oh, Jesus. Right, Lucy," I say with sarcasm lacing my voice which the Deep doesn't seem to catch.
"But I think they went off in the storm drains. Can't be too far," Deep says as I roll my eyes and walk toward the Storm Drain.
"Uh, who invited you, exactly?" I hear Starlight confront the Deep with a very agitated voice.
"Starlight. Listen, what I did was unforgivable. I'm going to do everything in my power to renew my light. Not just for you but for all the female people that I've offended," Deep says with surprising sincerity.
"'Renew my light'. Did you just fucking join the Church of the Collective?" I hear Stormfront say to him as my patience is thinning.
"Maybe," Deep says with a defensive voice.
"You're an idiot," Stormfront says staring directly at the Deep with a condescending tone and look.
"Hey, easy on the religious persecution, okay, new girl? Starlight, maybe one day you can welcome me back into the Seven, but I know my road is long and hard," Deep says looking between the two women.
"Are you serious?! There is no FUCKING way, you're coming back!" Starlight says as her anger spikes.
"Hey, there's no need for language," Deep says as my eye twitches and I lose the remaining patience I have for these mongrels.
"All right, enough. We do not have time for this," I start to say but Stormfront puts her hand up stopping me and giving me a look to wait.
"Look, I am with you, sister, but first we have to go get the terrorist, okay?" Stormfront says while looking toward Starlight.
At first, I was furious she stopped me, but something about her stopped me from snapping at her, maybe it was her look toward me. So for now I will let her transgression pass.
"All right, everyone in the tunnels," I say as everyone starts to walk to them.
"Yeah, everyone in the tunnels," Deep says acting like he is the second in command again.
"Not you," I say grabbing the Deep stopping him from falling the others.
"Anyone gets eyeballs on the target, he's mine, understood?" I say as they walk into the tunnels and they nod their heads, with Stormfront giving me a dual thumbs up.
"Go get'em," Deep says as they walk past us into the tunnels.
"All right, you… need to hang back a bit. Okay?" I say smacking his chest to get his attention back to me.
"Okay," Deep says with a sad look.
"Still got some work to do with the ladies, but it's going to be okay. You'll be back in no time," I say to him just to get him to stay behind and shut the fuck up.
"Really?" Deep says with an excited look now.
"Sure… One other thing. You, uh, you ripped your vest," I say gesturing to his disgusting fucking gill that is showing.
"What?" Deep says confused like the moron he is.
"Your gill is showing. Cover it up. It's disgusting," I say with a deadly serious look as he shrinks under my gaze before I follow after the others.
As I walk inside I hear A-Train groaning in pain around the corner with his heartbeat rapidly increasing, like he is about to have a cardiac arrest. I roll my eyes as another fucking mongrel has become useless to our team and we have already lost two members with a third being kicked from the team.
"You okay?" I say to him with poorly faked concern.
"Yep. I just need a little rehab. I'll be fine," A-Train says while sweating profusely and poorly playing off his pain.
"Yeah… I know you will, A-Train," I say to him with held-back contempt and walk past him.
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(Starlight POV)
After entering the tunnels, I quickly walk past everyone. I knew Hughie and his team were here and I needed to find them first. I was extremely worried since Homelander was in an especially bad move after the Deep and Stormfront pulled their shit. I rushed down tunnels and then I saw a man covered in blood standing at the end of the tunnels.
"Hughie?" I say walking closer as the man grunts in annoyance.
"Nope, but he is safe with the others escaping. Though we need to fight to keep your cover, sorry for this," the man says who I now recognize as Hughie's boss and then he charges me.
I yelp and on instinct release a blast of light toward him, the light hits him and sends him flying into the concrete wall cracking it on impact.
"Oh my God! Are you–" I start to say running over since I didn't want to kill him, however, he quickly got up with a smirk on his face.
"You hit pretty hard, that's good," he says before giving me a quick jab in the stomach.
I doubled over as the air was knocked out of my lungs and it felt like I was hit by an eighteen-wheeler. Then I looked up to see him give me a quick look of 'sorry' before punching me in the head smashing my whole body into the ground as I groan in pain. I became slightly dizzy then I heard an electric charge strike the man as he growled in pain.
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(Queen Maeve POV)
I heard Annie yelp and then the sounds of fighting, which I'm sure everyone else heard too. So I rushed over and saw Annie on the ground groaning in pain, as Logan was standing above her being electrocuted by Stormfront. A storm of emotions flooded me, but before I could say or do anything, Logan said something that took everyone by surprise.
"Nazi bitch! I will cut you in half this time!!" Logan growls out and charges Stormfront who for the first time since I met her, looks at Logan with complete terror. She never even showed Homelander the same fear.
"How?" Stormfront says but before anyone else can react, Logan gets sent flying and crashing into another wall as Homelander appears and punches Logan into the wall.
"Fuck! Shit!" Homelander says holding his right fist like he hurt himself.
The whole wall broke under the strength behind the punch and weight of Logan. With a grunt, Logan got out of the wall as some of his flesh was hanging loose. However, it healed almost instantly then he charged Homelander again.
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(Homelander POV)
I quickly made my way to the sounds of fighting, there I saw a man who was not our terrorist charging Stormfront. Who for the first time stood there frozen in fear, therefore I moved to intercept the man and punched him with enough power to go through his chest.
However, instead of going through his chest, I sent him flying into the wall breaking it and at the same time I felt pain, pain that I haven't felt since they experimented on me as a child. I looked down and saw that I had a few hairline fractures in my hand.
"Fuck! Shit!" I say holding the hand that had the fractures.
My anger spiked as I looked up to see the man with metal bones and what appeared to be hidden claws in his hands. He charges toward me with a growl, so I use my eye lasers to pierce his head. However, all it does is piss the man off more as he charges me with his metal claws out now.
"Oh, fuck!" I say as use my arm to block the swipe from the man.
"Motherfucker!!" I say jumping back instantly once I feel pain again and see three deep gashes from the claws that almost took my left forearm.
"Maeve, Stormfront! Help me kill this fucker!" I say seeing Queen Maeve standing in the back looking on with mixed emotions lacing her face.
Stormfront snaps from her stupor and sends another volley of electricity to him stunning him for a second, which I use to kick him in the chest with all my strength this time. This sends him flying into the same broken wall but now the whole ground shakes. As it appears the place has become unstable from that strike and it starts to collapse in on itself.
"Leave now!" I shout to them as I quickly follow the smell of whale blood down the other corridor with Stormfront right behind me.
We follow it to an apartment building where we see the terrorist running toward, along with an Asian woman following him like she is trying to capture him too. We rush toward them as Stormfront sends a strike of lightning toward them. However, it misses and strikes the building creating a huge opening in the side. I hear screams from inside as some of the dwellers inside are killed.
"Careful, the last thing we need is more negative press coverage," I growl to Stormfront who rolls her eyes before rushing inside.
I fly up to the roof since I hear them running to the roof. On the way there I hear the sounds of more people dying. It seems Stormfront isn't as careful as I told her to. Then the roof door opens and both Asian people come out. I give an evil smile as the man sends some metal toward me and the woman charges me.
I just backhand the woman who flies off the roof and I hear her being killed on impact. I then walk toward the man who is screaming in rage at me and sending more objects to me. I just take my time walking toward him and ignore the objects as they can't hurt me, unlike that beast I killed earlier.
"What the fuck! I said he was mine!" I say as Stormfront appears and grabs his hands snapping them at the wrists and then breaks his neck a second later.
"Hey, first come, first serve," Stormfront says to me with a smirk.
My eye twitches as my anger spikes again, however, before I can berate her, she walks toward me and pulls me into a deep kiss. At first, I was going to pull away, but something about her attracted me and I'm very into this kiss. My rage disappears and turns to lust as she wraps her leg around my waist.
'At least I killed that fucker from earlier,' I think as I feel my arm almost healed now.