Butcher POV - Earth, New York City - 2022

  After my meeting with Meave, I rush bay apartment to hide the folder on Soldier Boy and deal with that shit that Meave gave me.

  But just as I'm about to pour that Temp V shit into the sink, I hear a fug familiar sound, and so I quickly close the Temp V capsule's cork while taking a g the baly of the living room that still be seen from the kit and seeing the figure of that t I quickly hide the Temp V capsules into the dog shaped jar made of lead.

  Then I slowly walk toward the living room, keeping my gaze on Homender as he is calmly standing on the baly with his hands behind his back staring back at me.

  I move even closer and open the door and say, "If you want to watch me have a wank, it'll cost you a tenner."

  Homender simply raises his eyebrows and asks, "May I e in?"

  After a moment of silence, I simply leave the door open and go bato the kit to pour some water into a cup, meanwhile, Homender calmly walks inside and asks, "Where's Ryan?"

  I stand still for a moment, hearing that, then I resolve myself to get ready for what could happen and pig up the cup, I walk toward the table while replying, "He's at 673 Nosh My Bollocks Ave. You want a pen and paper?" and calmly sit on the chair while looking at him.

  Hearing that, Homender simply ents, "You know I could... could just pull you apart limb by limb. Make you tell me."

  But I fearlessly rebut, "Nah, that'd be worthless. The victim always goes into shock. You got to start small. Fingers, toenails, ears."

  But he interrupts me deg, "He's my son, William. My family. I'm gonna find him sooner or ter."

  We stare at each other for a couple of seds, then I click my tongue and say, "Look, uh... I don't mean to be rude, but we just skip to the part where you ser my f?g brains out?"

  Homehen excims exasperated, "Oh, for Christ sakes. Where's the sport in that? No, look at you." he then sits on the chair oher side of this small circur table as he tinues, "It'd be like putting down a wounded dog."

  Hearing that I smirk and reply with an amused expression and tone, "You're the oh your tail between ys on all them f?g talk shows. And then they go and make Starlight cocaptain. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! That's got to sting."

  Homeares at me for a couple of seds and replies with an almost impressed, "Touché, William... Touché."

  Then I ask genuinely curious as it seems he isn't here to blow my fug brain up, "What are you doing here?"

  Homeares at the floor in sileh his head twitg as if he is struggling to let the words out, then he looks at me and pins, "Vought and the f?g bureau. The wheeling and dealing. And-and-and-and giving and taking. Just to keep everythily the same. And you and me? Well, they treat us like old pythings and put us up on the f?g shelf? Hmm? Treat us like we're obsolete. Doesn't that make you angry?"

  I stand in silence for a few moments, because as much as I loathe to admit it, I fug agree with him especially thinking at all the useless shit that happehis past fug peaceful year, and so I nod and reply, "Yeah. It does."

  Hearing that, Homender asks, "What if... what if it doesn't have to be that way? What if... you and I... Well, what if we share a differeiny?"

  I drink some more water as I look at the fug t as he tinues with a happy smirk on his face, "Something... a little more... scorched earth, shod awe, blood and bone. And in the end, only one of us left standing." then after a long pause with an expression that seems almost like he has a hard-on he asks, "Isn't that what you want?"

  Hearing that, I lean forward and reply while smiling back as I think at the image of this t's corpse ying at my feet and reply, "Too f?g right. More than anything."

  As he listens to my answer, Homender smiles baods, and says, "Mm-hmm. I look forward to it."

  I then take a moment to gnce back at the dog-shaped jar where I hid the capsules of Temp V and think, 'And maybe... with that shit I do it with my own hands, ripping him apart one limb at a time, looking down at his broken body as he begs, without relying on some fug alien or some stupid on or other things like that...'

  Then I gnce back at Homender, but soon I realize that he took advantage of that brief pse to leave, and with him gone from sight, I regain a little of trol and reason, '...But even with my own pranted by that shitty Temp V, that doesn't mean that I'll be able to defeat and kill him, not when nur Supe is able to be his match... No, to deal with him, I need something more than powers, sure, they help to level the ground a little, but to tilt it to my advantage I need something more than that... a on...'

  At this point I gnce back at Soldier Boy's folder, thinking about that B.C.L. RED that may have done Soldier Boy in, then I look at the clod see that it is almost time for the meeting with the Boys and that fug alien while thinking, '...Or some ued helper that could very well deal with everything...'

  Then I once again grab my coat and put it on, turn off the lights of my apartment and close the door while muttering, "I fug hope that this doesn't bite me in the ass..."

  Jayr POV - Earth, New York City - 2022

  After w hard for a while, I'm finally done and look at the seven round masterpieces I created lying o table, seven pizzas all with different toppings and fvors.

  The first four are the most cssic pizzas in southern Italian cuisine, one is the most cssical and always loved Margherita, with tomato sauce, mozzarel, and fresh basil leaves.

  o the Margherita, there is a pizza with a white topping, it's the Pizza ai Quattri (Four Cheese Pizza), aalian cssic, seasoned with Gonzo, Fontina, Mozzarel, and Parmigianiano all mixed together.

  The wo pizzas are the Pizza Capricciosa, with tomato sauce, mozzarel, baked ham, mushrooms, green and bck olives, and artichokes, and the Pizza al Tonno e Cipol (Tuna and Onion), with tomato sauce, ed tuna, and red onion.

  After the four cssics, the st three pizzas are what be sidered gourmet pizzas, my own personal creations, and probably something that every regur human being should e only once a month if they want to remaihy.

  The first one is the Incazzata (Pissed Off), a very spid delicious pizza, its topping is made of fresh provo, Cabrian 'nduja, a spicy, spreadable pork sausage from the region of Cabria which is made usi from the trimmings from various meat cuts, fatback, and sundry Cabrian chili peppers, which give 'nduja its characteristic fiery taste, fresh sausage, baked tropea onions, the sweetest and most delicious onions in Italy, known to the world as the red queen, and olive oil.

  Basically, if someone likes to eat spicy food then this one is going to be his or her favorite pizza.

  The one is sweeter but also very delicious, its name is Noce (Walnut), and its topping is made of milk cream, walnut cream, baked tropea onions, freshly baked sausage, and fkes of Parmigianiano.

  It has a quite uaste but all the ingredients mix well with each other creating a symphoween the sweet and salty fvors.

  And the st one, is Saori's favorite one, basically is a GAP (Goddess Approved Pizza) among all the pizzas, the Tartufata Bianca, (White Truffled).

  Its topping is made of white truffled cream, pori mushrooms, milk cream, and provolone del Monaco, then ohis base is baked, I pull it out and add also buffalo milk cherries and pistachio grain.

  After admiring my masterpieces for a couple of seds, I put them in a temporal stasis and go back to check what Cratergann did in the meantime while I wait fhie, Annie, and the others to e.

  I sit on the couear the ptop and ask, "So, how did it go? Did you find something iing?" which Cratergann immediately replies in its meical voice, "Quite good in fact... I used the backdoor in the Vought's work to enter once more, and then from there I hacked into their satellites and gained access and trol over all their digital TV data. At the same time, I hacked all the other works in the world that are accessible, to gain as mupromising data on Supes as possible, then I also attacked the most closed-off works like those of govers and military all over the world, and while it took a while to find an opening in some, still I was successful in the end."

  Then it adds, "I found many more incriminating photos and videos of a lot of Supes and even the video of Flight 37's Tragedy which was on William Butcher's ptop. Moreover, I found something that could be iing to you in the Russiaworks."

  Cratergann then opens a folder oop as me see its tent, which makes me mutter out loud, "So the Russians still have Soldier Boy a experimenting on him trying to find a way to kill him or at the very least how the pound V works and its formu spectacurly failing at both..."

  Then I remember all I learned about Soldier Boy and ask, "Say, do you think we have to put him down too or leave him in that hellhole?" and Cratergann replies, "I think that he is a rabid dog and that he's got a lot of i blood on his hands, maybe you should give him the Anti-V a his victim deal with him as a form of closure..."

  Hearing that, I ask surprised, "There are victims of his still alive that still seek revenge?" and Cratergann replies, "Yes... one of them is Marvin T. Milk..."

  That name doesn't tell me anything so I ask, "And he is...?" but instead of replying, Cratergann opens a photo oop and I see the image of M.M., Mother's Milk of The Boys, makiter in wonder, "What a small world..."

  Then Cratergann says, "Anyway... I'm done here. Everything you need for your pn is ready. I have created a basic AI called Craty to help you with the b details of your pn. You just have to cliy i on the desktop to activate it and it will start to hato all the TV els, personal puters, smartphones, smartwatches, radios, streaming sites, and all other media all over the world, while also automatically geing the subtitles iive tongue of who will be watg your whistleblowing speech. It will also help you in bringing out the needed files, links, images, and videos."

  Hearing that I nod and say, "That's perfect! Thanks, partner. Without you, this would have taken a lot more time than I would have liked..."

  Then Cratergann turns bato its Cloth Form aurns to the Core Drill on my neck, while saying, "It isn't a problem, Jayr. I too want to hurry and go bae to watch over Athena, especially sidering her current state. Something I'm sure the other Saint will make you pay for when they learn of it..."

  Crateris' st jab, reminds me of one of the problems I tried to ighe most since I and Saori decided to have a child, thinking about the reas of my fellow Saints, especially the Gold ones, a wry smile forms on my face as I mutter, "Well, luckily I merged my energies, awakened my 9th Sense, and became a God... So even if all 12 Gold Saints work together and try to erase my existend a good part of the Universe by using the ultimate forbidden teique of a Gold Saint, the Athena Excmation, I should still be able to stop them, even if they use 4 of them at the same time... probably as their bined power should be just a tiny bit weaker than Antispiral's Infinite Big Bang Storm... maybe..."

  After a while, I sehat something is happening around Hughie, so I focus more on him and realize that he is following a couple of Supes, a male, and a female, into a deserted alley, spying on them.

  Thewo Supes start to fight and but quickly the female one gains an advantage over the other and makes him explode, I obviously could have stopped her, if her victim was an i ohat is, but the Supe that she offed had a lot of i blood on his hands too, since I felt that is soul was very close to being pitch bck.

  By the effects of the female Supe's power, I realize that she is Hughie's boss, Victoria Neuman real name Nadia Neuman, director of the FBSA, and former resident of the Red River Institute, another of Vought Iional shitty facilities, group home that acts as orphanage for Supes, where children that have developed "undesired superpowers" could be thrown away, some of course are the up for adoption, but many other are further experimented on, and other even trained as "ons" to be used by Vought Iional.

  Sensing Hughie's situation, I let out a sigh and teleport him here and see him sitting on the ground almost hyperventiting with a horrified expression on his face, so I crouext to him and pat him on the back sending my Spiral o to calm him down a little while saying, "There, there, everything is fine you are safe here... take a deep breath."

  It takes a few moments fhie to realize what happened and calm down a little then he looks at me and mutters, "S-she... she... Victoria... she..."

  I nod and say, "I know..." I then use my telekinesis t a gss of water here from the kit and say, "Drink."

  As Hughie follows my instrus, I say, "Don't worry, everything is going to be fihe situation will get better soon. They all will pay for their crimes, I will make sure of that."

  Thanks to my words, and my Spiral o, Hughie calms down and finally starts to look at his surroundings and realizes, "This is my apartment... How did I get here?" making me simply expin to him that I teleported him here.

  Soon after that, I hear the sound of the entrance door opening, and hear Anne's voice as she asks, "Anyone home?" and I reply, "We're here!"

  Annie quickly reaches us and instantly notices Hughie's state and asks worried about what happehen Hughie, who in the meantime regained his bearings, starts to tell her how he saw a suspian following Victoria and worried about him he followed after them, only to see Victoria blow him up, theells her how he suddenly found himself here with me helping him with his small panic attack.

  After that, Annie looks at me and asks, "So, how did it go? Were you able to hato the work and find anything useful?"

  Hearing her question, I give her a thumbs up and say with a smile on my face, "Of course, I did! The Vought Iional is doomed!"

  But before she could ask more the doorbell rings, and Hughie says, "It should be Butcher and the others."

  Then he looks at me and expins, "I asked them to e..." but I interrupt him and say, "I already know, don't worry about it."

  Aheo open the door and soon after, she returns with 3 other people, a male and a female walking in front, and a man with a stantly angry face walking behind them.

  The man in front is in his 30s, around 1,73 meters tall, with bck hair styled in a buzz mohawk, brown eyes, and a 3-day stubble beard, he is wearing a green jumper with brown square trousers, like all the others he is very simir to the actor Tomer e, I easily reize him as Frenchie.

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  [colpse]The female o him is clearly an Asian woman in her 30s, she is 1,55 meters tall with long bck wavy hair and dark brown eyes, wearing a white shirt with a bck jacket, bck skirt, fishogs, and bck boots, she is the knock-off Wolverine Supe, Kimiko, a copy of the actress Karen Fukuhara.

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  [colpse]And of course, the 1,84 meters-tall man, with spiky brown hair and bck eyes, sp a full-blown beard in his 40s, wearing a long bck trench coat, a blue short-sleeved shirt, and jeans, he only be William "Billy" Butcher, which also is very simir to the actor Karl Urban.

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  [colpse]Of course, as soon as Butcher spots me he excims, "Are you fug kidding me!? He is just a damn huge kid!!"

  Hearing that, I simply smile and calmly say, "Yes, I'm a 17-year-old kid. A kid that was able to walk into the Vought Tower ued like I own the pd steal all the data in their servers while also creating an ued backdoor in their wranting me full trol over it."

  But before anyone say anything else, the doorbell rings once more, and Anne asks, "Were we expeg someone else?" Butcher answers with, "Yes, I invited someone who is also ied in bringing down the Vought and that also helped us a lot in this past year."

  Hearing that, Anne nods and goes to open the door once again, only this time, I hear her yell in surprise, "Meave!?"

  Then after a few seds, she returns with another woman following behind her.

  She is quite good looking Caucasian woman, she is around 1,73 meters tall with an athletic body, long auburn hair gathered in a bun, and blue eyes, obviously, she is in her civilian's clothes as she is wearing a lic shirt, and jeans and a dark grey coat, she is the only other det human being of the Seven, Queen Meave, that just like everyone else in this universe, she looks very simir to the actress that portrayed her role iv show, Dominique McElligott.

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  [colpse]Meave looks at me and excims just like Butcher, "Are you fug kiddihis is the ohat will take care of the Vought and Homender ond for all?" then she asks, "Are you even old enough to drink or vote?"

  Hearing her question, I smile and reply, "hen I say, "Anyway, o meet you too Miss Margaret Shaw, born the 26 March 1982 in Modesto, California, daughter of Sebastian Shawn and the te Lourdes tel, graduated at Vought's Godolkin Uy as the top of your year and was then drafted into the Seven as its seember. Also being the person subjected to the highest tration of pound V after Stormfront, Soldier Boy, and Homender."

  Hearing that, Meave asks in shock, "How do you know all that? All my personal information is protected!?" to which I reply with, "Simple, I made the Vought Iional's work my bitd took everything from it... Probably I'm the ohat knows the most about all the Vought's dirty secrets... and soon I won't be the only one..."

  At this point, Freerrupts and ents in a, well, in a French at, "I already like this kid..." and Kimiko o him silently nods.

  I ighat and start to introduce myself, "Anyway, now that you are all here, let me introduce myself first. My name is Jayr Pucci, 17 years old hum- hmm, now that I think about it, I stopped being a normal human quite some time ago... Oh well, let's just say I'm a former human and from your point of view a random omnipotent being, anyway I e from a differeh from this one. Ae my young age, I'm both a full-fledged doctor, some kind ious figure, and a warrior with a lot of experience."

  At this point, I use my fingers as I start to t, "I have already fought, defeated, and killed tless monsters, mighty warriors capable of destroying this world with a flick of their fingers and... hmm, let's see... 3 gods, and 1 almost almighty ic horror."

  Doh my small introdu, I raise my head ahat everyone is looking at me like I'm crazy, then Butcher asks, "Are you telling us that you're some fug kind of space Jesus or something?"

  But I quickly reply, "No, I'm not Jesus and the space Jesus' name is Anakin. But personally, I think that I'm more handsome than both of them, not that they are ugly..."

  At this point, Butcher asks, "Are you shitting us!?" then enraged he faces Hughie and yells, "Is this really the ohat is gonroy the Vought and kill that fug t of Homender!? What did you smoke? He is clearly only a crazy kid!! This is a total waste of time!"

  Meanwhile, Frenchie and Kimiko look fused, Meave looks disappointed, and Annie seems ready to interfere and say something in my defense.

  Realizing that it is time to stop joking with them, I let out a sigh and say, "Hey, there is a simple way to prove to you all that I easily bring down the Vought Iional and Homender."

  Seeing that everyone is once again fog on me, I expin, "Before, I showed you that I was able to hato the Vought's servers by bringing up Meave's protected information... Now, I'll show you that I deal with Homender."

  Then I look at Meave and say, "Meave, you are one of the most physically powerful Supes to have ever lived, only surpassed by Homender himself, to the point that even Homender will be slightly harmed if you hit him. So hit me with your best shoot."

  At this point, everyone looks between me and Meave, while Meave herself seems to hesitate, so I ence her, "Don't worry, I took Starlight's energy bst head on and it did nothing."

  Hearing that, Meave looks at Anne who simply nods back, then says "Get ready!" and rushes toward me.

  Once she is close enough, she throowerful right hook aimed at my body, but in my eyes, it is way too slow, so while the fist sloroaches my ribs, I have the time to think, 'Her teique isn't bad, it is clear that she trained in various martial arts, and even mastered a few of them...'

  Just as her fist is about to hit my ribs, I notiething else and rex my muscles as much as possible to absorb as much of the impact as possible, because if I flex them it is very possible that Meave's fist and arm will break and probably even explode, especially since I clearly see that the bones of that arm are also weaker simply because a previous old injury didn't heal very well.

  Soon Meave fist hits me, but instead of the loud sound of impact, a muffled one es out, and fused Meave takes a step bad looks at her fist while Butcher pins, "Hey, don't take it easy!" but Meave ents in wonder, "I didn't I punched with all my power but when my fist hit something strange happened... It felt like I hit cotton or something..."

  Hearing that, I expin, "Yeah, at the st moment, I rexed my muscles and absorbed the impact because I realized that if you had hit me in my normal state, then you would have broken your arm... especially sidering its current state..."

  While Meave still looks fused, I move at the speed of light, and before anyone realize what happened, I grab Meave's right arm and use Restoration Magi it t it back to its peak dition.

  Then I hear everyone as they excim in surprise at my sudden movement, meanwhile, Meave who just realized that I'm holding her arm asks armed, "What are you doing?" to which I reply with a calm smile, "Stay calm, I'm simply fixing your arm."

  Once done, I let go of her arm, take a few steps back, and ask, "How does it feel now?"

  Curious about what I just said, Meave shakes her right arm a few times, and soon her eyes widen as she instantly realizes the difference, and mutters in wonder "It feels so light... How did you do this? The doctor said that it was impossible to fully recover..."

  I don't answer yet, but take a quice at everyone and ask, "So? Is this enough to prove to you guys that I bring down the Vought Iional, Homender, and the other shitty Supes or do I have to also destroy and recreate the moon?"

  Odyin