"Lord Kalibak, the fortress's defense matrix is active. But to be safe, should we open a transdimensional channel and report to the great Darkseid immediately?"
"No. There's no need to tell him!"
Kalibak ground his teeth.
He worshipped Darkseid with a sickening devotion, yet felt desperately inferior to him.
But Darkseid had never valued him. Kalibak was not even allowed to call Darkseid "Father" in public.
That was the deepest humiliation he carried.
"He's never given me a second glance! He took DeSaad and Granny Goodness with him, but left me here like a watchdog!"
"Now some wretched insect has dared invade Apokolips. This is my chance!"
Kalibak raised the Beta Club high and roared at the sky.
"I'll rip this invader's spine out myself! I'll hang his head above the fortress gates!"
"When my father returns, he'll see how fierce I am! He'll know Kalibak is the strongest warrior on Apokolips!"
"Pass on my orders! Send the First and Second Parademon Legions into the air! Assemble the heavy Destroyer War Tanks in the square!"
Kalibak strode toward the exit.
"I'll crush him myself!"
Above Apokolips.
Homelander emerged from a blue vortex with the Mother Box balanced on one hand.
He had barely escaped the channel's pull when the Boom Tube behind him snapped shut, leaving a few fading traces of energy in the air.
Homelander hovered thousands of meters above the ground.
Rather than act at once, he narrowed his eyes and surveyed this legendary hell of a planet.
There was not a hint of green, nor any of the gentle colors of life.
Everywhere he looked stood jagged black buildings, immense pits spewing lava, and slaves laboring across the ground in swarms like ants.
"What a miserable hellhole."
After that offhand remark, Homelander turned his wrist.
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