Vought
The Seven, sans Translucent, were seated as Ashley told them the news.
"Good news, with the exception of Deep, all of your points went up." Ashley tells them with a smile. "Especially Starlight and Black Noir." Gestures to the two in question. "You just had that perfect teamwork going, did you plan that?"
"Oh know." Starlight tells her as Noir shakes his head. "It it was just some of the moves Noir used in his movie 'Dark Justice' I'd thought it could work here."
"Now let's move onto-" Ashley was about to continue when Annie interrupted her.
"I'm sorry." The newbie said. "But shouldn't we talk about what that was. I mean does anyone know who he was, why he was here?"
"Crime analytics are on it." Ashley said with a polite smile.
"Then can we talk to them?" Starlight asks and before Ashley could say no the door open. Revealing Stan Edgar once more.
"That'll be all Ashley, I'll take it from here." Edgar tells her.
"But Miss Stillwell-" Ashley tries to refuse.
"Miss Stillwell works for me, therefore so do you and as your boss I am telling you." Pauses for a moment that scares Ashley slightly. "Take the rest of the day off." He tells her and she leaves.
When she does tension fills the room so thick one would need an axe to have a chance at cutting. "I am not happy."
"There's a shock." Homelander mutters.
"Someone ask me why." The CEO requests.
They all look to each other until Deep finally says. "Why?"
"So glad you asked." Edgar replies with a smile. "Because while you kept casualties to only a few broken limbs, that will all heal, and damages will not have to be paid, at least not solely, by Vought you nearly ruined your own brand." He begins.
After a short pause that allows Edgar to put Chimera's image on screen. "Because a single individual not only took you on, he completely embarrassed you."
"But what about those other guys?" Maeve questions without a care. "They didn't do fuck." She reminds him.
"They aren't the Seven." Edgar explains simply. "You're supposed to be Earth's Most Mighty, it's one thing for you to again lose to Shifter alone." Pulls up images of Webweaver, Groundhawk, Silver Kincaid and Ice Princess. "But no, with Shifter's guidance he, Silver Kincaid, a retired has been, an immature newbie and a B-lister we're able to stop Chimera."
"There points all went up, with some requesting they be part of the Seven." Edgar continues.
"Fucking bullshit." Homelander simply says with annoyance.
"EXCUSE ME!" Starlight interrupts with irritation, lights flickering. "But can we talk about Chimera, not about points or marketing or that fucking shit!" She again requests.
Instead of getting mad Edgar smiles. "My next point." He says. "It's clearly obvious he knows Shifter, personally because they called each other by their names." Plays the recording of them just before they started fighting. Names like Kevin and Tennyson popped up.
"Unfortunately our own policies require that we leave Chimera with the custody of the CIA." Edgar admits to them. "But they will allow us to visit him provided we are supervised. Once his proper cell is ready. Plus since this is the first ever super villain there's going to be a lot of debate."
"What do you mean when his cell is ready?" A-Train asks.
"Well there's a way to knock him out, but unfortunately it will take a little time for them to outfit a proper cell to hold him while he's conscious." Edgar explains. "We do however definitely know the names of them." He adds.
"Yeah but there's like a fuck load of Kevin's in the city alone." Maeve points out.
"Yes, but how many Tennyson's are there?" The CEO asked. "And seeing as how Chimera started making appearances in South America a little while after Shifter so it's safe to say they're connected."
"Yes but how?" Starlight asks. "It seemed like they us to be friends or partners, but why are they fighting?"
Stan then replays another part of their interaction. "It was you who decided to try and take the watches power. I tried to help you and you attacked me."
"A watch? What the fuck does a watch have to do with any of this?" Maeve asks in disbelief.
"Clearly it's a source of power, likely for Shifter." Edgar theorizes. "This reveals his power comes from a device rather than yours."
"Cause we're born with it." Starlight points out, but gets no reply from Edgar.
"Now just a few minor changes." Edgar tells them before he pulls out his phone and makes a call on speaker. "Anika this is Mister Edgar."
"Oh Mister Edgar how can I help you?"
"Until further notice all crime itineraries for the Seven are to be cancel and yes I am serious." Hangs up and puts his phone away. "As of right now you are to solve crimes on your own."
Maeve: "The fuck."
A-Train: "What?"
Deep: "You can't be serious."
Black Noir: Eyes raised behind a mask.
Starlight: No response.
Homelander: Eyes narrowed, fist clenching.
"If you can prove you are capable of doing what the public thinks you can then you shall be given back the resources at crime analytics." He explains to them, then looks at Starlight. "Should you want them."
"Finally with how well the four of members of Vought performed during Chimera's attack one of them shall be joining the Seven to replace the deceased Translucent." Edgar tells them.
"Deceased!" Starlight repeats, standing up.
"Joining the Seven?" Homelander asks in confusion.
"When did he die?" Starlight asks. "Was it on his mission?"
"He was never on a mission." Edgar tells the ignorant girl. "He died weeks ago, why, how and where is unclear, all we got back was a box of what was left of him." He informs. "A few days from now we'll announce it, mourn his loss then replace him with any of the four mentioned." He tells them.
"Um I decide who can join the Seven." Homelander reminds Edgar. "I mean those guys are good, but the Seven is the strongest Superhero team, shouldn't we have the strongest Superheroes." He adds, completely ignoring Stan Edgar's reminder of the fight that humiliated the Seven not even a couple of hours ago.
Rather than repeat himself Edgar decided to take a different approach. "Wrench." He simply says.
"Who?" Homelander questions, since he along with others recognize that meaning.
"Didn't he and Soldier Boy fight in World War II." Starlight said, her memory a little foggy about when and where she learned that.
"So he was a hero." Homelander say's.
"He was the greatest hero." Edgar say's, as he puts an old photo of Wrench and Soldier Boy, on the screen. Soldier Boy was smiling, Wrench, who wore a mechanic's uniform, was not, in fact he looked annoyed.
"His father was a Veteran on World War One, fought in Bellau Wood and in the Meuse–Argonne offensive. Injured and decorated he met his future wife a nurse and they married in 1919, 1920 they gave birth to Henry Williams." Edgar starts. "Growing up Henry was always around tools and at a young age helped his father fix and repair cars, plumbing, tables and the works."
"Is there a point to this story?" A-Train asked, getting bored.
"Pay attention and you'll see." Edgar tells him.
The CEO then continues. "When the Great Depression hit Henry's family struggled. In 1931 Henry's father jumped off a bridge so his family could get the insurance money, his wife, shortly after hearing the news, died of a broken heart."
A moment of silence.
"Henry didn't have time to mourn." Edgar continued. "Instead he used the money to rent a room in queens, small, but the family was nice. He then earned money by being a repairman, or repair boy in this case. Not only did he do a good job for cheap he also only worked for people that really needed the help. Refusing to be taken in by a rich family after he helped restart their car on the side of the road."
Pause.
"When he was 16 he found a job at a garage, which was black owned and employed mainly people of color. There he fixed cars, motorcycles while still helping those that needed home repairs, only he did the latter for even less or free." Chuckles. "Sometimes he snuck back the money they paid him because they needed it more."
Pause.
"World War II comes around Roosevelt wants to call up soldiers just in case. At age 20 in joins and with his background he comes a mechanic." Edgar resumes. "However in 1942 he gets into a fist fight with a couple of police officers and the army puts him in a combat unit as punishment. They then discover his extraordinary abilities."
Dramatic Pause.
Edgar then puts footage from 1943, during the Battle of Kasserine Pass. It's from a distance, but it's clear a man with a large wrench taking out German soldiers of the Afrika Korp left and right. With great skill he dodges bullets and never stays still. He then takes several German stick grenades and shoved them inside the tank. Footage cuts off there.
"From Operation Torch they find out what a natural born fighter he is." Edgar continues. "Single handedly taking out German and Italian soldiers by the dozen in the Tunisian Campaign. Soon his childhood nickname spread like wildfire across the country."
"Wrench." Starlight said.
"He then fought in Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Southern France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany-" Edgar listed off, only to be cut off when.
"What about Soldier Boy?" The Deep asked. "Wasn't he on Normandy?"
"Yes." Edgar says. "Two weeks after D-Day. You see Wrench hated Soldier Boy, but the brass hated Wrench, so they gave Soldier Boy at least half the credit for fighting the battles Wrench was in." He explains.
"But Wrench didn't care." Stan goes on. "He kept fighting until the end of the war, often up close and personal and upheld every sense of honor, even when his enemy didn't deserve it."
Pause.
"After the war he participated in the Berlin Airlift, fixing planes and training those to fix them. Then in Korea, after which he met his future Wife. Was hero to those here in New York until he, and Soldier Boy, were sent off to Vietnam." Edgar continues, but pauses for effect. "Where he spent as much time fighting Americans as he did the Vietnamese, until finally during the closing hours of the war he attacked an American Airbase."
This earned some reactions.
"Now our own media team will tell you he became a communist and Soldier Boy killed him." Edgar continued. "But the reality is he teamed up with both Vietnamese soldiers on both sides to attack that base which was about to bomb a heavily civilian populated area." He clarified. "All Americans, except Soldier Boy, died, it's unknown how many Vietnamese dead there were."
"What does this have to do with us?" Homelander asked, not seeing the point of this story.
"The point is that unlike you Wrench was actually hero, who saved lives, did it successfully, did it without any want for money or glory and did it without a fraction of the resources you have." Stan pointed out. "So now his best, is gonna be the bare minimum requirement for all of you until Shifter is neutralized. Fail to meet that requirement you can look for employment elsewhere."
Homelander chuckles at his. "You can't just fire us." He says, with both amusement and confidence.
"I can actually." Edgar told him. "Comes with the job. And if you believe for one second that you're not replaceable then look at Payback." He adds.
"That's all for now." Edgar concludes then walks away, leaving a stunned Seven behind.
Ben and the Boys
Ben was now in a van with the rest of the Boys. After exiting the fighting it took Ben some time to find a safe place to transform. Then he had to wait for Butcher and the rest to ditch the van they had and get a new one. As they drove back to the hideout Ben explained who Kevin was and why he was upset with him.
"So you're telling us that roid raging freak cunt has had it in for you since New York in your universe for about a month." Butcher says, while driving.
"Because he blames you for turning him into that." Frenchie adds.
"Even though that kid did it to himself?" Mother's Milk finishes.
"Ok... that makes sense actually." Hughie stated, as if it's a normal thing, which comparatively speaking likely is.
Mother's Milk looks at Hughie with a raised eyebrow. "How does that make sense?" He asks.
"I mean.. like it comic book stuff, superheroes have villains that have the same powers but are like their opposite." Hughie reasons.
"The kid is right." Butcher agrees. "Vought's supe cunts may be fake as fuck, but since Benji is actually a real life version of the pile of shite they tell people it's simple that he has his own supe cunt that can actually take him down." He explains.
"Yeah, but Kevin isn't like my toughest bad guy, that's Vilgax." Ben mentions, then has a look of worry.
"What's wrong?" MM asks, knowing the look Ben is giving.
"If Kevin is here then Vilgax is too." Ben say's with realization.
"Who is this Vilgax?" Frenchie wonders, and Ben begins a brief overview.
Scene Cut
Deep in ocean a large mass sits in the ocean floor. Suddenly two pairs of red eyes slowly begin to open, only to close again.
Scene Cut
Ben and The Boys pulled outside the building they were using for their hideout. "So you have a giant calamari after you too and he could be anywhere on earth."
"Probably." Ben shrugs.
"What other messed up shit did you get into?" Butcher asks, with amusement as they take the equipment they used out of the van.
"Well..." Ben shrugs grabbing one of launchers, which was empty of grenades. "I did have to stop some sentient Mushrooms from taking over world, plus there was that Krakken, and a guy who can control bugs." Shivers. "That was not fun." Walks inside, as Butcher chuckles in amusement.
"This is very strange." Frenchie whispers to Hughie.
"What is?" Hughie asks, as they take off some of their gear. "That is stranger than what we do."
"Seeing Butcher this..." Frenchie trails off not finding the right word.
When they go inside though they see the kitchen area was an even bigger mess than when they left. With Elena and the Female with food and ingredient stained clothes. When they noticed the boys they stood like statues.
"What... The hell... happened?" Mother's Milk asked, looking around the mess.
"We were trying to make spaghetti." Elena said with a sheepish smile.
"How the hell did you get sauce on the ceiling?" Butcher asked.
"It blew up." Elena answers.
"How do you blow up pasta?" Ben asks.
MM then grabs several rags, Clorox spray and purrel wet wipes. "We are going to clean this place spotless." He orders them, and they soon start cleaning.
An hour later
MM has left and gone home, while the rest stayed at the hideout. With Butcher and Frenchie heading to hospital to get the V and Hughie on babysitting duty, which was fine with Hughie. Meanwhile Ben, Elena and the Female were watching Transformers Prime on Netflix.
"Whoever does their voices are awesome." Ben comments.
"I know plus lines just fit so well." Elena adds, as they watch Optimus Prime and Megatron fight on the Space Bridge.
"Definitely gonna use them." Ben tells her.
"One shall stand, one shall fall." Elena mimics, deepening her voice to sound like Optimus.
"I might derail it's objective, by removing it's head." Ben replies.
"Autobots rollout!" Hughie joins, feeling left out slightly.
"Lame." Ben and Elena said simultaneously, while the Female nodded in agreement.
Just then Butcher and Frenchie entered. With Butcher having a huge smile on his face.
"Um is that a 'we should celebrate' smile?" Ben asks, with unsureness.
"Or a 'we should be scared' smile?" Elena adds, getting the same vibes as Hughie.
Gulping Hughie said. "Can it be the first one."
Grinning like the grinch Butcher replies. "Let's party."
Frenchie then holds up a vial of blue liquid. "We got the V!" He say's with a smile. After cleaning up Butcher wanted to get to the hospital Ezekiel told Hughie about. Originally he was gonna go with Mother's Milk, but the father needed to get home to his family. So he took Frenchie, luckily the hospital was basically deserted at this hour. They were in an out without setting off any alarms, plus they got some valuable intel.
Milk Household
MM entered his family's home and was welcomed with the smell of food. His wife was making lamb chops. Yum. He then saw his daughter on the couch on her tablet and the dining room table was set up. "Hey baby, what you watching?" He asked his daughter.
"Hi daddy, I was watching Shifter's fight." She replies, showing a YouTube video created by someone called "Hero Times" an account created by Ben and Elena.
Apparently after finding out a person can make money by making original videos Ben asked for Elena's help on his Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. The video was of Diamondhead and the other Supes fighting Chimera from different angles, taken from news footage or other social media. It already had over 100,000 views in just a short time. "Isn't it cool?"
Smiling MM replied. "The coolest." Then kissed her head before going to the kitchen.
"Hey sweetie." MM greeted his wife with a kiss to her cheek. "Something smells good."
"I made lamb chops." Monique tells him with a smile. "Plus mashed potatoes, and this Italian side called Caprese."
MM chuckles internally, knowing the last part his a subtle hint about her wanting to go to Italy. He then noticed she was dressed warmly, even though the heat was on and the weather wasn't that cold. "You cold baby?" He asked, concerned.
"I'm fine." Monique answers. "I've just been cold lately, at least in the house. There's gotta be a draft or something." She admits.
"That's weird, but I'll check it out." The husband tells her.
"I'm fine." She tries to reassure him. "Least I'm not sick." She then pokes her head to the living room. "Janine sweetie can you please set the table up." She calls. Their daughter then grabs the plates and silverware and after Monique starts to set the table up.
As Monique gets the drink and MM gets cleaned up, Janine goes to her IPad to turn it off. That's when she hears vroom followed by a. "Hey want an autograph?" By A-Train who was seated on the couch.
Janine then let out a loud scream, dropping her IPad. In response both parents rushed out, MM taking his gun out, only for them to freeze seeing A-Train. They then hear sounds in the dining room and turn to see Black Noir cutting up and eating part of their dinner. "Fuck." MM whispers, still pointing his gun.
A-Train then gets up and says. "You have a lovely home Mrs. Milk." Looks around. "I mean wow this is the kind of house my mom would've wanted." Picks up an old school vinyl record. "Vintage nice, music just sounds better on this shit."
"Baby get behind me." MM tells his daughter, who immediately follows.
Noir notices Monique looking at her so he points to the food and makes the 'ok' sign, signaling the food is excellent. Then gets up and walks towards them.
"What are you doing in my house?" MM wants to know, though he had a very good idea.
"Well you checked out my girls home, only fair I check out yours." A-Train informs, then looks at Janine with a smile. "Hi cutie."
"Marvin what's he talking about?" Monique asks, doing her best to conceal how terrified she was. With only partial success.
"So you don't tell your wife what you do since you basically quit your job at the prison." A-Train says, with faux disappointment, the pulls out two pictures. "This is you right?" The first image is only half of his face from a mirror, the other is of Popclaw's apartment.
MM realizes what's gonna happen so he sets his gun down and holds his gun up. "Look just leave my family out of this. They know nothing about nothing." He tells them.
"Wraith." Janine calls towards the stairs, though only Noir pays attention to her.
"Should've thought about that." A-Train says glaring at him. "Who are you working for? Tell me and you might live." He adds, though he has no intention of letting him live, especially after making him have to kill Popclaw.
"I'll tell you." MM says slowly, trying to keep the situation cool. "Just take me and let them go first." He says again.
"Wraith!" Janine calls louder more worried, getting the mother's attention as well.
"Bitch shut up!" A-Train say's having lost all patience. Only to be hit in the face by an invisible punch. "The fuck!" He exclaims as he recovers and feels his lips to see if there's blood.
"You... shouldn't have... come... here..." A ghostly voice dragged out from nowhere as everyone, but Janine, looked around.
"How are you doing this?" A-Train asks, thinking it was the family.
"They... didn't..." The voice said to A-Train's side, making him turn. "I... did." Turns again and see's nothing.
"Come out you fucking shit." A-Train demands. "I ain't afraid of no ghost." He say's looking around.
As everyone, but Janine who stands there with a smile, looks around for the source of the mysterious voice a grey figure appears out of nowhere behind A-Train. "You should be." Wraith say's with a narrowed eye.
A-Train quickly turns around, only for the ghost to grab and throw into the wall behind him. Noir throws several knives at his new opponent, only for him to go intangible. The ghost then flew forward and inside the body of Black Noir.
"Where is he?" A-Train asks, as he recovers, but is surprised when the possessed Black Noir throws a knife at him. With his speed he catches the knife. "What the hell man?" Before there's even a chance to get a reply the knife released an electrical charge shocking him. Due to the low voltage and his own durability it surprised him more than hurt him. But it distract him momentarily.
Enough for Possessed Noir to grab him and repeatedly bash his face into the wall. "Run!" Noir's distorted voice called out, before A-Train got the upper hand and the fighting moved to the kitchen.
"Let's go." MM called, grabbing his daughter and wife while they headed to their car. Getting into their grey 2017 Subaru Outback and hit the gas.
Seconds after they pulled out Monique started asking questions. "The fuck was that Marvin!? You said you were out." Remembering his vendetta with the deceased Soldier Boy and his Butcher days as she called it.
"It's complicated." The husband admitted.
"He came back didn't he?" Monique correctly guessed.
"We have to go back for Wraith." Janine speaks up with urgency.
"Who?" Both parents ask, but as MM makes a sharp turn the door opens and closes briefly.
"Had me for a minute." A-Train say's breathing a little hard as he rests in the back seat with Janine in a chokehold. "Keep driving unless you want me to snap her neck." He threatens.
Before anything else can happen, unknowingly to most, Wraith possesses Janine. Then with the enhanced strength they're (I think that'sright) able to push his arm off and elbow him. As the wind his knocked out of him, with a scream Wraith/Janine stomps her left foot on his leg, aiming for the tibia especially. As A-Train cries out in pain, Wraith leaves Janine's body to open the door by A-Train and toss him out. All as the parents watch in shock and horror.
With A-Train
"Fuck!" He cries out. He then tries to get up and run after them only to fall back down. "Shit!" He grunts, his lower leg may not be broken, but's definitely severely fractured. It'll take at least a few minutes before he can walk, let alone run, again.
Back in the Subaru
"I think we're good." Wraith say's looking behind them. With Noir at the house still, A-Train not running after them and no cars chasing them he looked forward. "Sorry Mr and Mrs Milk, this is not how I wanted to officially meet." He says then adds. "I'm Wraith, an extra terrestrial Ghost like being who your daughter has been so kind in helping."
MM just stares at the road and says. "Baby... I swear I knew nothin about this-"
"JUST" Monique cuts him off. "Drive."
Wraith leans back into the seat and turns to Janine while asking. "Do you think i made a good first impression?"
The young smiles and gives him a thumbs up. Then puts on his seatbelt. "Safety first" She tells him and he nods.
As they settle into silence the parents repeat in their head, in various ways. "Our daughter is friends with a ghost in the back seat that just possessed her, Black Noir and took down A-Train."
"Oh can we get a Halal?" Wraith asks, as they pass a Halal truck. "I hear the meat is cleaner so it's better for you." He tells them.
"Maybe later." Janine says. "Usually this is the part of the movie where we need to hide." She points out.
"Fair point." Wraith relents.
"Should've listened to my sister about that divorce." Monique says.
"Well she never really had the best of judgment." Wraith responds. "Weren't you the one telling her not to sleep with her married boss to use as blackmail for her promotion." Pause. "Then telling her not to keep it a secret and just tell Travis instead secretly apologizing to her boyfriend by giving him a three way with her and I quote "no standard whore Tamika." FYI she and Tamika are going steady now and they seem quite happy." He adds.
"Have you been listening on my calls?" Monique asks, realizing how much she could've done or said in their, former, haunted house.
"Yes." Wraith admits. "But that's only because you're incredibly loud when you think nobody is home." He tells her. "Sometimes during intercourse to."
"What's that?" Janine asks.
"The more common term is sex." Wraith answers.
"And what's that?" Janine repeats.
"Well-." Wraith is about to answer.
"Say another word and I'll kill you again." MM threatens.
"Ohhhhh." Wraith drags on. "You'll learn about that when you're thirteen and in schoool." He realizes, slapping his head slightly. "My bad. Forgot the whole age appropriate section." He admits, as he looks out the window. "Wish I had a Halal right now."
What the heck is going?
Later
After ditching their car and stealing a new one MM took a long drive to the hideout to make sure they weren't followed. Taking someone else's car was really conflicting.
Flashback
"Are you sure about this?" Monique asks with worry, looking around the parking garage for anyone. Janine helping her while holding her mom's hand.
"Yes." Mother's Milk say's with assurance, but struggles with attempting to get into the Altima.
"What are you waiting for?" Monique questions, seeing him not unlock the door.
"Feels wrong with you guys here." MM admits. Normally with the Boys he'd do it no problem, but his wife and daughter are making it morally conflicting.
The door then opens on it's own, revealing Wraith inside who then turns it on. Poking his head through the glass the ghost say's. "Now I can just be your Yuber driver." He cheerfully say's.
"It's Uber." MM corrects.
"Yeah Yuber." Wraith repeats, not hearing the difference.
"Uber."
"Yuber."
"Uber."
Janine laughs at the exchange as Monique looks in disbelief. "Are you fucking serious right now?!" She exclaims. They then get into the car and rive away.
Flashback over
Wraith opted to check the perimeter to make sure nobody was following them. While the Milks walked inside.
"How is it different this time?" Monique asks her possibly soon to be divorced, maybe soon to be murdered, husband. On the drive he explained how yes he got involved with Frenchie and Butcher but some new faces actually made it work and for the better. Completely skipping over the killing of Translucent.
"Is Shifter really helping you?" Janine asks. Despite the intensity of the situation the child remained calm throughout the ordeal. She was even excited about meeting Shifter.
"Yes." MM answers. "He basically made us into a less crazy A-Team, and we actually got stuff now." He tells her.
"Really?" Monique asks with skepticism, remembering his trauma from before.
MM turned to his wife as they came upon the door that would lead them inside. "Baby I know I fudged up." He admits. "But I promise you it's better. Right now they're working on a way to take down and the supes, and keep them down." He say's with assurance then he open's the door.
"To the right,to the right, to the right, to the right"
"To the left, to the left, to the left, to the left"
"Now kick, now kick, now kick, now kick"
"Now walk it by yourself, now walk it by yourself"
He was greeted to the sight of all of Boys, and now two girls, doing the Cupid Shuffle. With the exception of Butcher, who eventually noticed the family of three and paused the music. "Well this is unexpected." The Brit says with surprise, and all attention is on the Milk family.
"Of all the things right now." Mother's Milk begins to say, frustrated. "Why the hell are ya'll dancing like you in a gym class?" Turns to Butcher. "And why are you ok with it?"
Butcher simply shrugs and replies. "Latest batch of tenderised supercunts put me in a good mood. Plus we got the V." Butcher then goes up to the family as they walk in. "Monique. Your as gorgeous as ev-" He's cut off as Monique punches him in the face. "Fair enough." He say's, massaging his jaw. "You've been practicing."
"Lovely to see you again Monique." Frenchie greets with a smile. Though he keeps his distance and stays by the Female.
"Hi there. I'm Hughie." Hughie introduces with a wave and a smile.
Monique looks at him. "I know that voice."
Hughie then has a confused look on his face as he replies. "Huh?"
Monique points a finger at him. "You picked my husbands phone. You lied to me to." She marches towards him and Hughie is eventually backed up until he was agaisnt a wall.
"What!?" He exclaims with surprise, he never met her before now. "No no no, I never."
"It wasnt him, the voice was, synsthised." Frenchie tries to clear up.
"By me." Ben chimes in with a hand raised. "Sorry I couldn't let you blow the op. Name's Ben"
"I'm Elena." Elena introduces them gestures to the hideout. "Welcome to our clubhouse."
"It's a secret base." Ben tries to correct her.
"Uh secret bases have high tech computers and junk." Elena reminds him. "We just have junk."
"What do you call this." Ben replies, showing her the Omnitrix.
"Kids." Monique simply says with eyes widened.
"I'm Janine." Their daughter introduces
Monique then goes to her husband, who she has miraculously not throttled yet. "You got kids in this shit now?"
MM in a calm tone replies. "Monique I'm sorry iddint want it to go this far."
In anger Monique replies. "Oh we are past too far!" She then lists all the things he's done. "You lied to me. Started working with this peice of crap agian." Points to Butcher. "Declared war on the most powerful people on earth, invited a ghost into out house. And last but not least, you put our family in danger!"
Frenchie's interest is then peaked. "Excuse me, but did you say ghost?" He ask's.
Monique hastily turns to the Frenchman with a chuckle. "Yeah, turns out our familys got a ghost now."
This causes Hughie to scoff a little. "Okay. I know a lot crazy stuff has happened, and aliens exist but. ghosts? Ghosts don't exist." He points out.
"Wait." Ben say's, realizing who they might mean.
"I didn't invite him." MM points out.
"Yeah Wraith saved our lives." Janine reminds them.
"Who the fuck is Wraith?" Butcher asks, wanting to be clued in.
Wraith then becomes visible in the middle of the room. "Hello." He greets with a delicate wave.
"GAH!" Hughie screams as he jumps back in fright.
"Fuuuucking Hell." Butcher gasps.
A bright green flash interrupts any further conversation as Ben becomes Heatblast. "Ghostfreak!" Is about to shoot a fire blast when his flames get dosed from a fire extinguisher.
"Knock it on the head, you'll set the whole place ablaze!" Butcher shouts as stops shooting the coolant.
"This guy tried to take over my body and nearly killed my cousin!" Heatblast informs them, remembering the incident at the nerdy prep school Gwen wanted to go to.
"The fuck!" Monique exlclaims, for various reasons.
MM: "He what?"
Hughie: "Fuck!"
Frenchie: "Really?"
Wraith: "I did?"
The Ghost Alien then see's Elena, who freed him from Vought. "Oh it's you." He realizes.
"Project Wraith?" Elena questions.
Seeing as how there's no danger Heatblast transformed back. "You two know each other?" Ben questions, gesturing between the two.
"What the hell is going on!?" Mother's Milk demands to know.
"You're supposed to be telling me that." Monique reminds him.
"Holy fuck." Hughie gasps, still in shock.
"Look why don't we just take a breather so we can get this shit sorted out ok." Butcher suggests.
Before they could continue, music begins playing again as the song resumes. They all saw the Female holding Elena's phone which was playing the song and doing a little shoulder dance.
"Ok fine." Elena agreed, then the two started doing the dance again. "She really likes this song." Elena informs then the Female waves over Ben and Frenchie. Janine soon joins in as well, followed awkwardly by Wraith. All while the adults shared a single though. 'WHAT THE FUCK!'
Tada! Hope it was worth the wait. We got the Kevin fight, I hope you all liked it. I originally planned for him to over power the Seven as if they were just bug, but that's a little unfair. I hope you enjoyed Starlight and Black Noir working together. I just thought it would work well, you know Light and Dark. Black Noir is a great fighter and Annie trained like her whole life to be a superhero so.
I used actual Boys Supe's for Ben's little rag tag team. It was originally gonna be just him, Groundhawk and Silver Kincaid, but then I found Webweaver (Boys Sider-Man) and wanted to add him. Ice Princess was a later addition too because it would be weird to have a team of 4, like there has never been a team of 4 power rangers, at least not for long.
You also found out a bit more about Wrench, which was fun to write. And MM getting burned the way he did I hope I did good for that. Someone needed to get burned and couldn't be anyone else. In this universe Butcher and Frenchie didn't meet Popclaw and for Hughie it's too soon.
Plus I wanted Wraith to go all Ghostfreak on A-Train and Noir. That was also fun, I actually thought of the little taunting part as I was writing it. At first I was gonna have him just barge in, but he's a ghost so why not use that?
Sorry I didn't make Starlight confess about Deep mouth raping her, but I need him for later. That and Hughie's confession to her were just phenomenal. I hope it was okay the way I used it. Hughie was reminded about Translucent and therefore is reminded about why he chose to join the crusade so Robin was on his mind. Plus it's a great way to keep Annie from being suspicious while also making sure he didn't compromise the opportunity the relationship provides.
Also Vilgax is gonna come soon too. I'm sure your thinking why is he so hurt that he has to rest? Well Ben was Diamondhead when he traveled, Kevin was first in the portal and technically first out, Vilgax not only stayed in longer but pulled himself out a bit. Nor does he have the same recovery abilities like Ben and Kevin. And for the obvious reason of I'm saving him for later.
Leave a review and again big thank you to my cowriter.