The Boys- Apprentice

The Week After

After the reveal of Compound V, and the defeat of the super terrorist. I started giving out a few interviews to help the people understand everything I knew about the situation. In these interviews I would talk about how shocked I was to learn about getting my powers from Vought, or some fringe group within the company. I would explain that even though this angered me at first, I quickly became grateful for it, because without this Compound V, I wouldn't have gotten my powers and been able to help so many people. So, even though my powers came from a possibly negative source, they had positive effects and I was grateful for them.

The other members of the group also gave out interviews, and I was very surprised to learn watching one of Queen Maeve's and Homelander talks that Queen Maeve was a lesbian. Another thing that I learned about was that A Train was being kicked off the team. I wasn't really sure why, but I knew that it was pretty much a settled fact.

Oh, one thing I did the week after the criminal defeat was visit my family. I flew out to see them all the way over in Texas so we could get everything out into the open. This was nice as I had a chance to relax, to be away from all of the reporters and get everything that was happening off of my chest. I left my family feeling a lot better about what was going on, the supervillains, the civilian deaths, everything.

After flying back to New York, I started filming the new movie with the rest of the 7. Even with all of the other depressing stuff that had been happening, this was still the coolest thing I had ever done, except maybe becoming a superhero. One horrifying thing that happened was when a video came out that Homelander had killed someone while trying to kill another terrorist. Apparently when he killed the target with his heat vision, the beam went straight through the target and hit an innocent civilian.

After filming one day I was eating lunch with Stormfront when we met Starlight's mother. As we were talking, she started to tell us about the problems she had been having with her daughter, how she hadn't forgiven her about lying about the source of her powers. Trying to console her I said, "I went through the same thing that Starlight is going through when I heard about all of this. I was mad at my parents for not telling me that my powers came from drugs instead of it coming from a miracle. But I then realized that if my parents hadn't done what they had, I wouldn't be where I am, and where I am is a pretty good place to be. I'm a superhero with the power to basically control metal, I can fly, and I have my own house due to my job. I'm living the dream, and if my parents hadn't consented to me getting superpowers, I wouldn't have any of this. Hopefully Starlight will realize the same thing that I did, that getting these powers were definitely a good thing, at least it has been for me."

When I finished saying this I noticed Starlight coming over. She quickly started trying to ask her mom to have this conversation with her in private. Noticing that the situation was getting awkward and very personal I said, "Well, this seems like a conversation that should be had in private. Mam, it was nice to meet you, and I hope everything between you and Starlight goes well." I then proceeded to leave.

As I was walking back to the set of the movie, I noticed Queen Maeve hugging another woman. I asked who the woman was and Maeve introduced me to her girlfriend. We got to talking and I learned that they had known each other for a long time. "It was nice to meet you, I've known Queen Maeve since I first joined Vought and she helped me get ready to join the 7. You're dating a great women here, though I'm sure you already know that. Well, hope to see you later."

After leaving that day I finally got a chance to check my phone for the news only to see something more than a little shocking. Homelander had killed an innocent civilian while taking out a super terrorist. While I found this slightly understandable as there can be casualties when taking down enemies, I was still a little shocked to see this happening with Homelander himself. But I thought to myself, mistakes happen with everyone, and the more powerful you are, the larger your mistakes will be.

I started watching a rally on line protesting Vought when I saw Homelander fly in and interrupt the speaker. As I continued watching I noticed that Homelanders appearance seemed to have backfired on him. After watching this, I went home and decided to get some sleep. I was shocked from the events that had occurred that day and needed some rest.