Chapter Summaries

Linderman’s Ability Users attacked Soldier Boy and the superheroes at the Manor, but Soldier Boy’s power disrupted their abilities and turned the fight against them. As Linderman ordered the laboratory evacuated, Andrew secretly copied its data and took important potions before everyone resumed working.

• Jeff, controlling Peter, charged Soldier Boy with Nuclear Energy, but Soldier Boy met his punch and sent him flying while his arm quickly healed.
• Stormfront and the other heroes fought Linderman’s Ability Users as they were overwhelmed by attacks and specialized abilities.
• Jeff and the Ability Users gained ground against Soldier Boy, who unleashed Red Lightning that killed several attackers and disrupted most abilities.
• Jeff recovered and continued fighting Soldier Boy while Linderman ordered the laboratory to destroy its files and evacuate through a secret passage.
• Andrew used Mind Shutdown to freeze everyone, copied the laboratory’s data, and took half of its important potions before leaving unseen.

After Soldier Boy and Vought’s forces attacked the organization’s Las Vegas laboratory, the organization escaped as the facility self-destructed. Soldier Boy reported the nuclear explosion to the President, while Linderman and Angela returned to New York and prepared another attack on Vought.

• Linderman ordered Jeff to carry Soldier Boy into the sky, but Soldier Boy knocked Jeff unconscious and kicked him upward before he exploded; Jeff survived and fled.
• The organization evacuated through secret passages, and its laboratory and Manor exploded after Soldier Boy and the others withdrew.
• Andrew used Jeff to observe brains and gain abilities, while also obtaining most of the Molecular Formula.
• Soldier Boy told Stormfront to inform Edgar about the organization, then warned the President that another disaster could soon occur and that New York might be at risk.
• Linderman and Angela decided to launch their plan within two or three days, and Angela promised Nathan she would no longer hide the truth from him.

Andrew forced Nathan to abandon his plan to nuke New York and join S.W.O.R.D., promising to help him become president. He then trained Peggy in magic and began a romantic relationship with her.

• Angela told Jeff to copy other ability users' powers so he could fight Homelander and Soldier Boy.
• Andrew confronted Nathan, expelled his soul from his body, and made him confess his organization's plans.
• Nathan agreed to serve S.W.O.R.D., and Andrew promised to help him become president through unlimited access to money while forbidding a nuclear attack on New York.
• Andrew offered Nathan the chance to become a World Guardian after death and let the organization continue its plan.
• Andrew taught Peggy that mastering music magic required studying science, and she practiced making a cup fly.
• Peggy received a message from Dave, then Andrew took her hand and began a romantic relationship with her.

Vought International prepared to hunt Linderman’s organization while Homelander secretly helped Death build a laboratory. Linderman launched a citywide gang uprising as cover for an operation involving Jeff, who was sent out with nuclear material to destroy Manhattan.

• Edgar told Stormfront that the Pharmaceutical Company had sent two elite squads and that Linderman’s organization was hiding somewhere in New York.
• Stormfront failed to reach Homelander at Vought Tower, while Homelander inspected Death’s laboratory and ordered Hunter to oversee its experiments.
• Death instructed Homelander to find the ability-creating drug and capture powerful ability users, while Hunter kept his mission to kill Homelander secret.
• Linderman gave Jeff nuclear material to absorb during his planned self-destruction and ordered him to kill Homelander and Soldier Boy and level Manhattan.
• Linderman’s intermediary mobilized gangs across New York, drawing most superheroes away from Vought Tower as Linderman ordered Jeff to move out.

Andrew captured Linderman and took the molecular formula, then redirected Linderman’s ability users to attack Vought Tower. The tower collapsed, leaving its survivors scattered and the people inside buried beneath the rubble.

• Andrew pinned Linderman, persuaded Angela to surrender, and took the molecular formula before sending Linderman to the Wasteland World.
• Andrew used Linderman’s voice to order Jeff and the ability users to continue their mission, then sent Angela to Japan.
• Jeff brought the ability users to Vought Tower, where the Sunglasses Superpowered Individual melted its steel reinforcement.
• Soldier Boy and others evacuated, while A-Train rescued executives, Homelander carried Madelyn outside, and Starlight Annie saved two people.
• Vought Tower collapsed, and Andrew secretly ensured that few people were buried beneath its rubble.

Andrew transported Vought International’s employees to the Wasteland World and watched as the organization’s ability users fought Homelander, Soldier Boy, and their allies at the Vought ruins. As Edgar called for reinforcements, Andrew traced the call to a pharmaceutical-company branch and learned that Lamplighter was being sent with three squads.

• Andrew left several criminals to die in the collapsing tower, harvested their souls, and transported Vought International’s employees to the Wasteland World, where Queen Maeve welcomed them.
• Jeff and more than a hundred ability users attacked the superheroes at the Vought ruins, while Homelander fought Jeff and Linderman’s tactics slowed Soldier Boy.
• Daphne poisoned A-Train with thorn seeds and pursued him with a knife, but his Nuclear Heart helped him resist the poison.
• Edgar ordered more ability users to reinforce Vought International and asked for electromagnetic interference to prevent a live broadcast.
• Andrew traced Edgar’s call to a mental hospital, where the Director ordered Lamplighter to take three squads of elite ability users to Manhattan.

As the battle around Vought Tower became public, Nathan advised the president against using nuclear missiles and returned to New York to help, while Andrew restored Peter’s control of Jeff’s body. Peter joined the fight against Homelander as the president prepared conventional military support and the public fled the city.

• Andrew stopped concealing the incident, causing the livestream to return as the battle at Vought Tower drew news crews and the president’s attention.
• Nathan argued against launching nuclear missiles, proposed evacuating civilians and helping Vought’s superheroes, and persuaded the president to send a carrier fleet on standby instead.
• The president sent Nathan back to New York to command the front line, while Andrew’s livestream defeated the new Network Team’s attempt to trace it.
• Viewers learned that the ability users had caused the Las Vegas nuclear explosion, and New Yorkers fled as Homelander fought Jeff and Vought’s Edgar refused to order a retreat.
• Andrew told Peter that Nathan had been persuaded, suppressed Jeff’s consciousness, and returned control of the body to Peter without revealing his identity.
• Peter eagerly agreed to fight Homelander, but Homelander struck him through a building before realizing that his opponent seemed clumsier.

Lamplighter and his elite squads turned the battle against the Ability Users, while Soldier Boy broke free and attacked. Jeff and the remaining organization members began their escape plan, leaving New York facing an apparent nuclear explosion as the chapter ended.

• Peter struggled against Homelander but improved as he gained combat experience, while Homelander refused Death's suggestion to accept Hunter's help.
• Lamplighter arrived with three elite squads, and his flames helped the superheroes regain ground against the Ability Users.
• Hunter prevented the superheroes from helping Soldier Boy, who shattered his stone shell with Red Lightning and charged into the enemy forces.
• Jeff took control of Peter and joined the long-haired Ability User in launching the organization's final plan against Homelander.
• The organization used sound attacks, a Spirit Body, poisonous gas, and Jeff's rubber form to restrain Homelander before most of its members escaped by group teleportation.
• Soldier Boy pretended to rescue Homelander while interfering with his abilities and triggering a nuclear explosion, sending New Yorkers fleeing as Nathan directed people into the sewers and Edgar abandoned Madelyn.

Andrew failed to kill Homelander but captured Serpent God Set’s severed body and recruited the ability users caught in the blast zone, bringing them to the Wasteland World. He learned from Linderman that the organization’s European headquarters was its strongest base, while Angela had yet to reach Japan Base.

• Andrew trapped Serpent God Set’s partial body, blasted it with nuclear energy, then used time reversal to restore the remains and prepared a curse for their next encounter.
• Andrew teleported Jeff and Soldier Boy to the Wasteland World before they exploded, rescued the pharmaceutical company’s elite ability users, and appeared in New York as the city’s savior.
• Homelander flew off to hunt for the missing ability users, while Hughie teleported away with Lamplighter and Soldier Boy received orders to return to the mental hospital.
• Andrew welcomed the captured ability users to the Wasteland World, assigned Peter to show them around, and had Linderman explain the organization’s bases and powerful European headquarters.
• Andrew learned that Angela had not reached Japan Base yet, while Nathan proposed a citywide disaster plan during a television interview.

Nathan’s allies maneuvered to make him a candidate for Vice President while the President demanded answers from Vought International. Elsewhere, Death and the Serpent God Set formed an alliance against Andrew Wang, and the Boys learned from Lamplighter about Vought’s secret experiments.

• After the Vice President was injured, the President considered Nathan as a possible running mate, while Andrew’s paid supporters worked to secure Nathan a place on the candidate list.
• The President ordered Vought International to explain the sudden appearance of so many Ability Users, and Edgar prepared to address its mounting crises.
• Homelander flew to the Middle East to cultivate Death’s power, while Death and the Serpent God Set agreed to unite against Andrew Wang.
• Hughie teleported into the Boys’ basement without his clothes, and Marvin and Frenchie beat Lamplighter before Billy stopped Marvin from killing him.
• Lamplighter explained that he had burned Grace Mallory’s grandchildren without knowing they were inside, and Billy decided Grace should decide his fate.
• Lamplighter revealed that he had been hiding in a Vought mental hospital used as an experimental base and told the Boys what he knew about its research.

The Boys joined forces with Grace Mallory to investigate Vought International’s Mental Hospital, while Andrew continued consolidating his power and preparing for Chthon. After taking control of Japan Base, he learned Anto’s ability to amplify powers and claimed it for himself.

• Billy, Marvin, and Frenchie decided Lamplighter should be kept alive as a witness, and Andrew ordered them to let Grace Mallory decide his fate.
• Grace shot Lamplighter twice without killing him, then joined The Boys in targeting Vought International’s Mental Hospital.
• Andrew reviewed his gains, including Set’s body, Vought personnel and souls, Madelyn’s soul, and a path for Nathan to become president.
• Andrew went to Japan Base, forced its Ability Users to submit, and assigned Angela to manage the base.
• Andrew learned Anto’s Red Lightning ability, used it to amplify his Lord of Hell power, then devoured the ability and offered Anto thirty million dollars.

Vought International planned a staged attack on the president so Homelander could rescue him and restore the company’s reputation. As Homelander prepared to take part, the chapter left the scheme set for the president’s New York visit the next day.

• Anto received thirty million dollars from Andrew and hurried to a website to become its top donor.
• Madelyn told Edgar that Vought was losing talent and Homelander was demanding that Soldier Boy and A-Train be removed, then suggested staging a crisis to restore public confidence.
• Andrew trained Peggy in Sonic Blade and assigned her biology lessons to prepare her for Music Magic.
• The president chose Nathan as his running mate, while Homelander worried about falling popularity and pressed Hunter to launch the Death Organization’s attack plan.
• Edgar and Madelyn arranged for a disguised Hughie and a team of metahumans to abduct the president so Homelander could rescue him in public and deliver Edgar’s speech.
• Homelander agreed to the staged rescue and asked that Soldier Boy and A-Train be kept away; Edgar said A-Train was in Japan and Soldier Boy was hunting ability users.

Vought International staged the kidnapping of the president to boost its reputation, while Andrew let the plan unfold, confident the president would be rescued. The president disappeared during a speech in New York, and the kidnapping triggered a public and media uproar.

• Edgar tasked Madelyn with a production to restore Vought International’s standing, while Homelander prepared to take part.
• The president and Nathan traveled to New York, where the president planned to reassure the public and discuss disaster preparations.
• Andrew arranged for Veronica to train Peggy and waited for a world fusion; Nathan then told him the president had been kidnapped, and Andrew revealed he knew Vought was behind it.
• Fake Hughie seized the president during his speech, but Dave and the agents briefly stopped him before an unknown ability plunged the auditorium into darkness and the kidnappers escaped.
• Nathan moved to stabilize the situation as Secret Service agents pursued the kidnappers, and news of the abduction spread across the media and online.

Fake Hughie held the president hostage at the Empire State Building to demand a ban on superheroes, while the Boys suspected Vought was behind the stunt. A Double-Ring Space Station appeared and transported the president, Fake Hughie’s group, and several superheroes and soldiers to another world, where Andrew arrived and saw a wounded bald man fleeing an aircraft.

• Fake Hughie threatened to execute the president unless the government banned superheroes, and Hughie insisted he was being impersonated.
• Lamplighter suspected Vought had staged the kidnapping, while Billy and Hughie injected temporary serum and headed out to investigate.
• Nathan ordered the Secret Service and military to rescue the president and asked Edgar to send superheroes, as Fake Hughie’s group prepared to stage a battle.
• A Double-Ring Space Station appeared over New York and transported the president, Fake Hughie and his companions, Starlight Annie, Stormfront, Black Noir, and some soldiers to another world.
• Andrew recognized the space station, entered the other world, and saw a wounded bald man in crude exoskeleton armor fleeing a large jet.

Andrew took control of Max and the soldiers pursuing him, killed Captain Kruger, and set off for Pleasure Space, intending to seize its Life Healing Device and fortress. Meanwhile, the president’s group arrived in Pleasure Space and began fighting among themselves as its defenses mobilized.

• Andrew remembered that Max’s brain held John Carlyle’s memories and decided to bring him along to take over Pleasure Space.
• Andrew forced Max to lure Captain Kruger’s spacecraft to a sports field, seized control of the ship and the soldiers’ armor, and killed Kruger.
• Max and the four surviving soldiers agreed to serve Andrew, and Andrew promised to cure Max before flying toward Pleasure Space.
• Andrew contacted White Tiger Hoggoth and Ganahta about a plan to strike Chthon while Dracut faced the arrival of the president’s group and Pleasure Space’s defenses.
• Dave attacked Fake Hughie and his allies as the president’s group fought among themselves, and a naked man appeared and punched Fake Hughie.

Hughie and Billy tried to rescue the president, but Stormfront’s group and Pleasure Space’s forces disrupted the mission. Andrew reunited with the two men aboard a spaceship as Pleasure Space prepared stronger weapons for the battle.

• Hughie fought his naked double while Billy told the president that Vought International had sent the impostors to kidnap him.
• Stormfront arrived with Starlight Annie and Black Noir, and Fake Hughie tried to eliminate Hughie before the group retreated.
• Hughie teleported himself and Billy away as Pleasure Space’s spaceships and Robots attacked the remaining fighters, allowing Fake Hughie and his allies to escape.
• Stormfront and Annie fought the Robots while Dracut took command and ordered Plasma Cannon Shells prepared.
• Billy and Hughie teleported onto a spaceship, where Andrew gave them clothes and told Hughie to practice his power.

Andrew took control of Pleasure Space’s systems and robots, making its people and forces submit to him. As Homelander arrived in the Main World, Death warned him to rescue Stormfront and the others without confronting Andrew, while the president’s group was summoned to meet Andrew at the command center.

• Andrew absorbed Max’s memories while Billy and Hughie joined him on the way to Pleasure Space.
• Death sent Homelander to Pleasure Space to rescue Stormfront and the others, warning him not to seek out Andrew.
• Dracut ordered Pleasure Space’s soldiers to prepare for battle and let a returning spacecraft dock for inspection.
• Andrew took control of Pleasure Space’s Main System, causing its robots to kneel to him and turn their weapons on Dracut.
• Andrew’s control disabled the human agents’ Exoskeleton Armor, stopped the fighting, and summoned the president’s group to the command center.

Andrew took control of Pleasure Space, appointed Dracut its regent minister, and prepared to send the president and the others back to New York. He lured Homelander into staying behind, then mocked him as their confrontation began.

• The president and his group learned Andrew was Pleasure Space’s emperor and traveled to the command center, while agents followed robots to pursue the escaped outsiders.
• Andrew made Max a citizen so a medical pod could treat him, then appointed Dracut regent minister after she pledged loyalty and ordered her to stabilize Pleasure Space.
• Andrew met the president and agreed to send him and the others back; when Homelander arrived, he opened a spatial vortex that Stormfront, Annie, Translucent, the president, and the others used to leave.
• After everyone else departed, Andrew told Homelander he had lured him there, and Homelander stayed to face him.

Andrew fought Homelander inside Pleasure Space, using robots, curses, and heavy weapons to overpower him. Homelander escaped with Serpent God Set’s power, and Set and Death threatened to destroy Pleasure Space, forcing Andrew to suppress their portal as he prepared for a final battle.

• Andrew confronted Homelander and matched his strength before defeating him with superior fighting skill and Pleasure Space’s defenses.
• Andrew trapped Homelander with a curse and robots, then attacked him with a Super Electromagnetic Cannon while a Nuclear Energy Cannon charged.
• Homelander fused with Serpent God Set’s Mark, broke Andrew’s curse, destroyed the robots, and teleported away from the cannon’s blast.
• Set threatened to destroy Pleasure Space through the Serpent Ring Teleportation Portal, but Andrew refused to yield and declared that he would avenge the victims.
• Andrew suppressed the portal and put everyone in Pleasure Space to sleep beneath protective light as Death’s power spread and Set and Death called for a final battle.

Andrew stopped Death and Serpent God Set from interfering, sent Billy and Hughie back to pursue the president’s suspicions about Vought International, and prepared a magic array and another trump card for the coming fight. The president returned to New York and publicly credited Andrew Wang with rescuing him, revealing that Andrew was the emperor of the world in the sky.

• Serpent God Set and Death used Set’s Shedding Technique to return Homelander to New York, where Death urged him to keep performing and grow stronger.
• Andrew sensed Homelander’s escape, crushed his shed snakeskin form, ended the space vortex, and ordered Dracut and the robots to repair the damage.
• Andrew told Billy and Hughie that Vought International had used the dead captives as expendable pawns, then sent them back to contact the president through Grace’s connections.
• Andrew summoned Balthazar, Veronica, Maxim, the other mages, and Fire Dragon to the moon to assemble a magic array intended to kill a god, while he prepared a trump card in Pleasure Space.
• Stormfront, Annie, Translucent, and the president appeared at the Empire State Building, and the president told reporters Andrew Wang had rescued him and was the emperor of the world in the sky.