The next day, the remaining Supes, who had been waiting to see what happened or even planning to resist, broke down completely. The number voluntarily registering at Vought offices multiplied several times over!
Even among ordinary people, vast numbers of the rich and powerful began frantically buying up Compound V, desperate to become Supes.
Taking advantage of this global upheaval, Vought president Ashley naturally presented the Global Supe Act to political leaders around the world.
Under Solomon's terrifying deterrence, like a god looming overhead, not a single country or government dared utter so much as a word of refusal.
Countries signed the act as quickly as possible, handing supreme authority over the management and policing of their own Supes to Vought International!
For a time, Vought's stock soared exponentially at an unprecedented rate, its power and status instantly rising above every worldly nation and government!
Inside a dilapidated apartment building far from the bustling heart of New York.
All the members of The Boys sat around that battered square table once again, but unlike before, the room was now terrifyingly quiet. Only the bare light bulb overhead swayed gently in the breeze, stretching and distorting everyone's shadows.
The wave of Supe exterminations that had just swept across the globe had been like a heavy iron hammer, smashing the last shred of hope they had of resisting.
Hughie pressed both hands firmly against the tabletop, his knuckles white from the force.
He abruptly looked up, his voice trembling uncontrollably.
"Give it up! Guys, I'm begging you... give it up! Stop thinking about going up against Vought and those people!"
Hughie snatched up the newspaper on the table, its headline reporting the instantaneous deaths of thousands of Supes worldwide, and slammed it into the middle of the table.
"Don't you get it