Chapter Summaries

Pero's clone easily countered the Ten-Tails and Madara Uchiha's attacks, then Madara absorbed the Ten-Tails into a white sphere that began to pulse with a heartbeat.

• The Ten-Tails formed a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Pero's clone split it with red beams and its energy wounded the beast.
• Madara Uchiha connected himself to the Ten-Tails and took control of it before directing its tails at Pero's clone.
• Pero's clone dodged and blocked the Ten-Tails' attacks, then stopped Madara Uchiha's Limbo: Border Jail strike.
• Madara Uchiha realized Pero was only a clone, erupted in rage, and began absorbing the Ten-Tails into a singularity.
• The Ten-Tails and Madara Uchiha vanished into a glowing white sphere, which gave off a heartbeat.

Madara Uchiha absorbed the remaining Ten-Tails power and became the new Sage of Six Paths, then challenged Pero’s clone. The clone effortlessly defeated him and turned its attention to Black Zetsu, who was lurking nearby.

• Madara Uchiha absorbed the white sphere, transformed into a Six Paths sage, and confronted Pero’s clone.
• Pero’s clone struck Madara Uchiha with a single punch, sending him crashing through hills into a mountain range.
• Madara Uchiha unleashed powerful sage arts and Limbo Clones, but Pero’s clone dispelled the attacks and blocked the shadows with an invisible field.
• Pero’s clone punched Madara Uchiha into a deep crater, leaving him badly broken and stripped of his Rinnegan’s luster.
• Pero’s clone addressed Black Zetsu, who had been waiting nearby to move against Madara Uchiha’s body.

Madara Uchiha activated Infinite Tsukuyomi, trapping the world’s inhabitants in dreams and binding them in cocoons, while Minato Namikaze protected Amegakure with a barrier. Pero completed his energy absorption in the Sun’s core and raced toward the planet as his clone waited for Black Zetsu to make a move.

• Black Zetsu realized Pero’s clone had seen through his disguise and urged Madara Uchiha to use Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Madara Uchiha recovered enough to open his forehead’s Rinne Sharingan and cast Infinite Tsukuyomi across the planet.
• The scarlet moonlight trapped people in eternal genjutsu, and Madara Uchiha’s roots and vines wrapped them in cocoons.
• Minato Namikaze teleported the Akatsuki and Kakashi to Amegakure, where Nagato, Yahiko, Konan, and Rin raised a barrier against the moonlight.
• Pero’s clone watched the catastrophe unfold and waited for Black Zetsu to act.
• Pero completed his energy absorption in the Sun’s core and flew toward the planet.

Madara Uchiha’s Infinite Tsukuyomi failed to affect Pero’s clone, and Black Zetsu betrayed him to resurrect Kaguya. Kaguya emerged and confronted Pero’s clone, declaring the planet hers.

• Madara Uchiha watched the Infinite Tsukuyomi fail to harm Pero’s clone and gave up hope of defeating him.
• Black Zetsu pierced Madara Uchiha’s heart and revealed that his true will was Kaguya’s, and that Madara had been a pawn in her resurrection.
• Black Zetsu drew chakra from the God Tree and the trapped ninja into Madara Uchiha, whose body swelled and transformed as his consciousness was consumed.
• Kaguya emerged in Madara Uchiha’s reshaped body and examined Pero’s clone, finding that it was composed entirely of chakra.
• Kaguya identified Pero’s clone as a being from beyond the world and declared the planet hers.

Pero merged with his golden clone and defeated Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, freeing the world from the Infinite Tsukuyomi. With the final boss gone and the dreamers awakening, Pero turned his attention back to the altar where the Ryūmyaku was sealed.

• Kaguya demanded that Pero's clone return its chakra, while Pero's clone said his original self was ready to act.
• Pero appeared and destroyed Kaguya's upper body with a single punch, but she regenerated using the planet's chakra.
• Kaguya attacked Pero with All-Killing Ash Bones, but his bio-electric field stopped and reduced them to powder.
• Pero declared that Kaguya had to die for world peace, then consumed her with a burst of light.
• Kaguya's released chakra returned to the earth and the cocoons, awakening those trapped by the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Pero looked toward the altar where the Ryūmyaku was sealed and prepared to set things in order.

After establishing peace under the Akatsuki, Pero prepared to leave the Naruto world and used the Ryūmyaku to unlock dimensional travel. He stepped through a portal toward a darker, unknown world.

• Months after Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's defeat, the Five Great Shinobi Villages bowed to Pero and the Akatsuki, whose rule brought peace and transformed Amegakure.
• Pero created a golden clone and hid it beneath Amegakure as an anchor in case he wanted to return.
• Obito lost to Yahiko and Rin during training, while Nagato meditated with restored eyes and Konan managed the new world's paperwork.
• Pero traveled to the Land of Wind, found the Ryūmyaku beneath the desert, and absorbed its space-time energy.
• After the system unlocked dimensional travel, Pero opened a portal and stepped into the unknown world.

Pero arrived in the world of The Boys, identified the timeline as midway through season two, and found Starlight, Maeve, and Kimiko attacking Storm near an abandoned garage. He watched the chaotic fight with eager interest.

• Pero stepped through a spatial rift and arrived in a modern city, where a poster and the Vought International tower confirmed he was in The Boys.
• Pero recognized Homelander and Storm appearing together on a talk show and placed the story around the middle of season two.
• Pero heard a fight and flew to an abandoned garage, where Starlight, Maeve, and Kimiko were beating Storm.
• Pero watched Storm struggle against the three women and declared that he enjoyed watching women fight.

Pero arrived during the aftermath of Storm’s fight with Starlight, Queen Maeve, and Kimiko, then offered to help the stranded group in exchange for answers. Meanwhile, Ryan’s first use of his heat vision killed Storm but also fatally wounded Becca, and Homelander and Pero arrived as Becca died.

• Storm blasted Starlight, Queen Maeve, and Kimiko away and fled toward Billy.
• Homelander appeared over the stranded group, but Pero descended instead and offered help in exchange for answers.
• Storm seized Becca and threatened her while Butcher tried unsuccessfully to stop her.
• Ryan unleashed his heat vision, badly wounding Storm and accidentally striking Becca in the neck.
• Becca died after asking Billy to keep Ryan safe.
• Homelander arrived and saw Storm, Becca, and Ryan, then Pero descended nearby.

After Becca died, Homelander tried to take Ryan from Butcher, then attacked Pero, who effortlessly overpowered him. Pero flew away carrying the battered Homelander, leaving Butcher and Ryan stunned beside the bodies.

• Homelander asked Ryan to come with him, but Ryan hid behind Butcher, who refused to hand him over after promising Becca to protect him.
• Pero silently assessed the tangled relationships between Ryan, Becca, Butcher, Homelander, and Storm.
• Homelander attacked Pero with Heat Vision, but Pero stopped the beams with his palm without being harmed.
• Homelander charged Pero, who caught his wrist, punched him, and repeatedly slammed him into the ground.
• Pero grabbed the battered Homelander by the hair and flew into the sky with him, leaving Butcher and Ryan behind in shock.

Pero brutally beat Homelander after Homelander tried to attack him, but Homelander mistook the beating for fatherly affection. Pero fled in alarm, while Homelander followed him with a devoted gaze.

• Pero carried Homelander high above the ground and ignored his offers of money, power, and a place in The Seven.
• Homelander tried to punch Pero and use Heat Vision, but Pero stopped him and slammed him into a crater.
• Pero burned Homelander with golden Heat Vision, then repeatedly punched him as punishment.
• Pero noticed Homelander seemed happy and realized he had interpreted the beating as fatherly discipline.
• Pero fled from Homelander, who shakily took flight and followed him like a devoted son.

After Pero vanished, Homelander became convinced the black-robed man was his father and began preparing to impress him. Meanwhile, Stan Edgar identified the man as Soldier Boy and planned to use Homelander’s desire for a reunion to draw him out.

• Pero vanished in front of Homelander, who searched for him before returning to find Ryan, Butcher, and the others gone.
• Queen Maeve mocked Homelander’s battered appearance as Vought’s cleanup crew took Storm away for treatment.
• Homelander decided the black-robed man was his father, ordered Ashley to find him a lavish house, and arranged a staged father-son reunion with actors.
• Stan Edgar reviewed the footage and a top-secret file confirming Soldier Boy was Homelander’s biological father and could permanently remove Compound V powers.
• Edgar decided to exploit Homelander’s longing for his father to lure Soldier Boy out.

Pero realized Homelander had mistaken him for a father figure and created a false identity to settle into the world, but Homelander used it to track him down. Pero fled to outer space for peace, unaware that a Vought satellite had spotted him.

• Pero suspected that Homelander's pursuit and his calls of “Father” came from a desperate need for fatherly love.
• Pero found an empty villa near New York, created a false identity under the name Pero, and erased the traces of his intrusion.
• Homelander prepared a luxury home for Pero and ordered Ashley to watch for suspicious people around him.
• After Vought staff found Pero's new identity, Homelander recognized his face and rushed to the address linked to the registration.
• Pero sensed Homelander approaching and vanished before he arrived; Homelander found a steaming cup of coffee, then ordered Ashley to buy and furnish the house in Pero's name.
• Pero fled into space to escape Homelander, while a Vought satellite secretly photographed him.

Homelander’s obsession with finding Pero made him reject Maeve’s attempt to blackmail him into protecting Billy, Ryan, Irina, and Starlight. Ashley then showed Maeve satellite footage of Pero floating in orbit, giving her a possible new way to influence Homelander.

• Homelander searched the continent for Pero for a week, unaware that Pero was floating in low Earth orbit.
• Maeve confronted Homelander in an elevator and threatened to expose footage of him abandoning a plane full of passengers unless he left Billy, Ryan, Irina, and Starlight alone.
• Homelander dismissed Maeve’s threat, smashed the elevator wall, and flew away, declaring that he no longer cared about his reputation.
• Ashley showed Maeve satellite footage of Pero floating unprotected in space, and Maeve realized that Pero might be the reason for Homelander’s changed behavior.
• Maeve recognized Pero and regained hope that his connection to Homelander could give her leverage.

Pero returned to Earth after learning he needed two more months before his next dimensional journey, and found that Homelander had renovated a villa and put it in his name. Homelander reunited with him and called him “Dad,” leaving Pero reluctantly letting him inside.

• Pero decided to leave orbit and return to Earth rather than spend two months hiding in space.
• Pero found the villa Homelander had renovated, along with house and land deeds listing Pero as the owner and John as guarantor.
• A Vought agent spotted Pero and reported his return to Edgar, who ordered the agent to keep watching.
• Homelander noticed activity at the villa, realized Pero was back, and went to the door.
• Homelander called Pero “Dad,” and Pero threw a punch that stopped just short of his face before inviting him inside.

Homelander visited Pero and decided that their connection made Pero his father. After killing Vought agents and fighting Maeve, Homelander saw footage of Pero in space, agreed to cancel Starlight’s wanted notice, and took Maeve to the villa.

• Homelander asked Pero whether their similar powers meant they were connected, and Pero said they were counterparts from parallel timelines.
• Homelander asked Pero to be his father, and Pero pointed out that Homelander was forty-four while he was sixteen.
• Homelander flew to a high-rise, killed several Vought agents, and demanded to know who had sent them.
• Homelander attacked Maeve, mistaking her for the person behind the agents, until she offered him a tablet to negotiate.
• Homelander watched footage of Pero in space, promised to cancel Starlight’s wanted notice, and took Maeve to Pero’s villa.

Homelander brought Maeve to meet Pero, then helped Vought reshape the public story and settled into a life of seeking Pero’s approval. He suddenly remembered his son Ryan and rushed to tell Pero, leaving Pero suspicious of whatever Homelander planned next.

• Homelander took Maeve to meet Pero, and Maeve left with a promise that she, Starlight, and the others would be kept safe.
• Stan Edgar blamed Storm for the attack on Congress, announced that Vought would delay releasing Compound V, and restored Starlight, Maeve, and A-Train to public favor.
• The White House named Victoria Neuman director of the Superhuman Affairs Office, while Grace Mallory arranged for Billy Butcher, Hughie, and the Boys to regain their freedom and receive secret funding.
• Homelander spent his days performing company-arranged heroics and reporting them to Pero, who played games and gave him perfunctory praise.
• Homelander remembered that Ryan was his son and hurried out of the kitchen with milk, eager to tell Pero that he had a grandson.
• Pero noticed Homelander’s excited grin and feared he was about to propose another absurd plan.

Homelander returned to Vought International intent on finding Butcher and bringing Ryan back, but Edgar’s decision to make Starlight co-captain and A-Train’s insult provoked him. He left A-Train embedded in a wall and flew away.

• Homelander greeted A-Train and warned him about eating too much before heading to Edgar’s meeting.
• Edgar announced Starlight would become co-captain of The Seven, then sent Homelander out so he could speak with her alone.
• Edgar persuaded Starlight to accept the position and challenge Homelander.
• Vought International staged publicity for Starlight’s new role and turned her search for recruits into a television talent show.
• Homelander confronted A-Train about his diet, punched him into an alloy wall after A-Train insulted him, and flew away.

Homelander rejected Vought’s birthday publicity plan and opened up to Pero about feeling controlled, while Edgar prepared to eliminate permanent superheroes. Meanwhile, Mallory gave Butcher and The Boys a lead on Soldier Boy and a weapon that might kill Homelander.

• Homelander refused Ashley’s birthday broadcast plan, dismissed his falling approval rating, and left to find Butcher and bring Ryan back.
• Edgar concluded Homelander had escaped Vought’s control and decided to launch a cleanup plan targeting The Seven and other permanently powered superheroes.
• At Pero’s villa, Homelander questioned whether he had ever made his own choices, and Pero urged him to live as a person rather than follow a script.
• Homelander interpreted Pero’s advice as a father-son talk, while Pero noted that his Dimensional Travel cooldown was nearly over and prepared to leave.
• Butcher and The Boys discussed how to kill Homelander, and Mallory revealed that Soldier Boy had survived his mission and been taken by the Russians.
• Butcher learned that the Russians had used a weapon codenamed B.C.L. Red on Soldier Boy and believed it could kill Homelander.

Stan Edgar used the revelation that Soldier Boy was Homelander’s biological father to turn Homelander against Vought’s secrets and push him toward Russia. After Homelander left, Edgar sent an elite squad to retrieve a weapon capable of hurting Soldier Boy, confident Vought would benefit from the ensuing conflict.

• Stan Edgar reviewed footage of Pero in space and Homelander following him, then decided Homelander had found a new father and Pero was an unpredictable threat.
• Edgar called Homelander and claimed his biological father was Soldier Boy, last known to be in Russia.
• Homelander rejected Edgar’s claim, then flew to Vought Tower after Edgar insisted it was true.
• Edgar gave Homelander files documenting Soldier Boy’s genetic sample cultivation, and Homelander left after realizing Vought had hidden the truth from him.
• Edgar ordered an elite squad to Russia to find a weapon capable of hurting Soldier Boy.

Homelander learned that Soldier Boy might be his biological father and asked Pero to accompany him to Russia. After The Boys found and awakened Soldier Boy, Pero and Homelander followed them to their safe house, where they confronted the group.

• Homelander showed Pero the file Edgar had given him, and Pero agreed to go with him to Russia.
• Butcher learned from Gunpowder that Soldier Boy had disappeared during a CIA mission led by Mallory, who said Soldier Boy was being held in a secret Russian laboratory.
• The Boys broke into the laboratory, where Butcher and Hughie used Temporary Compound V to overpower Russian soldiers and found Soldier Boy alive in a chamber.
• Soldier Boy awakened and unleashed a crimson energy blast that shattered Kimiko’s bones and nullified her healing ability.
• Pero and Homelander followed The Boys as they fled with Soldier Boy and the injured Kimiko, then appeared at their safe house.
• Butcher stepped forward to shield the group and demanded to know what Pero and Homelander wanted.