Outside the White House, countless people were still waiting to die in this most desperate hour.
But the livestream on the screens suddenly switched.
The ravaged arena and that vicious, overwhelmingly demonic Skrull were gone.
What appeared on screen was the Oval Office of the White House.
United States President Matthew Ellis sat upright behind a broad desk, dressed in a crisp suit.
Behind him stood the Stars and Stripes alongside a flag bearing the Vought logo.
Viewers around the world were stunned. At the very moment Earth was about to be destroyed, the United States president had suddenly cut off the livestream?
What was he going to do? Announce humanity's surrender?
Ellis clasped his hands on the desk and slowly began speaking to the camera.
"Fellow human beings of the world. I am Matthew Ellis, President of the United States of America."
Ellis's voice rang out in every corner of Earth.
"I know you are afraid right now. You watch the sky bleed, the oceans churn, and our strongest heroes fall in pools of blood."
Ellis spoke slowly, but every word weighed a thousand pounds.
"You think the end of the world has come. You think we have been abandoned."
"But I am here to tell you—no!"
"In the depths of the universe, there is one man who has never abandoned us!"
"Homelander!"
At the mention of that name, countless people weeping in despair involuntarily raised their heads.
"He isn't dead!"
Fanaticism blazed in Ellis's eyes, and his tone was utterly certain.
"Though he is lost in the dark universe, he has been doing everything in his power to return and save us!"
"Just as he has done countless times before!"
"Look around you! Look at this world on the verge of collapse!"
"I don't know whether God or