"Come in..."
With Pero's permission, a faint smile appeared on Homelander's handsome face.
He stepped cautiously into the villa.
Bang-
Pero shut the door. Seeing how cautiously Homelander was behaving, he felt his blood pressure rising out of control again, his temples throbbing.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the living room was awkward in the extreme.
Pero walked over to the couch and sat down, while Homelander was as nervous as someone meeting the parents for the first time.
He stood bolt upright in the middle of the living room, his hands fussing all over his body as he pretended to be busy.
"Sit." Pero pointed at the couch opposite him.
"Yes!" Homelander obediently sat down opposite him and stared at Pero with wide eyes.
Looking at him like that, Pero felt his stomach starting to act up again.
"You..." After hesitating for a long time, Homelander finally spoke nervously.
"You... Why are my powers so much like yours? Is there... some connection between us?"
Pero picked up the coffee on the coffee table and took a sip.
Inside, however, he was grumbling.
A connection? Of course there's a connection. Your entire world of The Boys borrowed from DC Comics.
Homelander is a weakened, evil version of Superman, while I should count as the real Superman. Round things off, and I might actually qualify as your ancestor.
Of course, he did not say any of that aloud.
He set down his coffee and spoke slowly, as though stating a fact from the past.
"There is indeed something of a connection between us."
"I come from another universe. In a sense, you could understand yourself as my counterpart in a parallel timeline."
"It's fairly normal for our abilities to be similar. Your world is just too weak."
"A parallel timeline...