Chapter Summaries

Soldier Boy arrived at the Seven's meeting and took charge with Homelander's full support. After ordering Black Noir treated and explaining why he had spared him, Soldier Boy told the Seven to act like real superheroes, leaving Maeve encouraged and Homelander with a question for his father.

• Maeve, The Deep, and Translucent waited beside the badly injured Black Noir and wondered which side Homelander would take.
• Soldier Boy entered the meeting room ahead of Homelander, alarming Maeve, and Black Noir woke in terror at Soldier Boy's voice.
• Soldier Boy ordered Homelander to get Black Noir treated and said he did not blame him for betraying Soldier Boy.
• Soldier Boy admitted he had broken A-Train's legs, and Homelander announced that the Seven would follow Soldier Boy's orders.
• Soldier Boy demanded that the Seven fulfill their superhero duties and dismissed them, while Homelander stayed behind to question him.

Homelander asked Soldier Boy why he had spared Black Noir, and Soldier Boy used the question to begin teaching his son empathy and restraint. Edgar signed over shares to Soldier Boy, then left Vought Tower with a vial of Black V and the V Plan dossier.

• Homelander questioned Soldier Boy about sparing Black Noir, whose betrayal he believed deserved death.
• Soldier Boy asked Homelander how he would feel if his father hurt him, then explained how Homelander treated people who pleased or displeased him.
• Soldier Boy promised to teach Homelander and said he would refuse to become the center of public attention so his son could have the spotlight.
• Homelander left the conference room with tears in his eyes and a genuine smile.
• Edgar signed a Share Transfer Agreement giving Soldier Boy some of his Vought shares and told his assistant to deliver it.
• Edgar retrieved a vial of Black V and the V Plan dossier, then left Vought International Tower at night.

Homelander attacked Vought board member Waynes at his estate, killed his tiger, and confronted him inside his safe room before setting the estate ablaze. Meanwhile, Soldier Boy demanded his mission reward at Vought International Tower.

• Waynes mocked Soldier Boy and dismissed Homelander as a product while surveying his estate.
• The estate lost power, its security staff fell silent, and a frightened guard warned Waynes that a ghost was there.
• A figure burst through the estate wall and killed Waynes's Bengal tiger in an instant.
• Waynes fled into his safe room, where he found Homelander waiting for him.
• Ten minutes later, Homelander left the estate burning and spared the unconscious people on the grounds.
• At Vought International Tower, Soldier Boy demanded his mission reward from the system.

Soldier Boy used a Speed Ability Upgrade Card and tested his new level-two super speed, then scanned A-Train’s stats. The next morning, Edgar learned that Waynes had died in a fire and confronted Madelyn about Homelander’s actions, leaving her with one last chance to keep Homelander and Soldier Boy in check.

• Soldier Boy found the Speed Ability Upgrade Card in the system inventory and used it to raise his super speed to level two.
• Soldier Boy tested his speed by running from the first floor to the third in five seconds, then spent 10 Exchange Points to scan A-Train’s stats.
• Edgar’s secretary told him that Waynes had died in a fire that police preliminarily ruled an accident.
• Edgar told Madelyn that Homelander had targeted Vought’s management after Waynes mocked Soldier Boy, and demanded to know how her effort to divide them was going.
• Edgar ordered Madelyn to keep Homelander and Soldier Boy in check, warning that this was her last chance; Madelyn decided she had to visit Homelander.

Homelander imitated Soldier Boy and learned that Soldier Boy was meeting Stormfront, a woman from his past. Stormfront revealed her Nazi beliefs and moved closer to Soldier Boy, while Homelander listened from next door.

• Homelander practiced swearing like Soldier Boy and admitted to Madelyn that he had killed Waynes for insulting his father.
• Madelyn tested Homelander by claiming she had arranged to destroy evidence, then gave him a bottle of milk.
• Homelander overheard Soldier Boy greeting Stormfront, whose real name was Clara, and the system issued a mission to kill her.
• Stormfront said Soldier Boy had changed, and he explained that learning he had a son had softened him.
• Soldier Boy told Stormfront that Edgar had sold him to the Soviet Union, while Homelander dropped the bottle and told Madelyn to be quiet.
• Stormfront expressed her belief that people like them deserved to rule and asked Soldier Boy whether he had missed her.

Soldier Boy rejected Stormfront’s attempts to seduce and recruit him, insisting that Homelander was his son rather than a tool for her Nazi ambitions. Homelander overheard Soldier Boy call him his pride and joy, while Soldier Boy planned to run the Seven and kill Edgar without Stormfront’s help.

• Stormfront flirted with Soldier Boy, but he insulted her and pulled her hand away.
• Stormfront asked to meet Homelander and argued that he was stronger than Soldier Boy, who said he was proud of his son.
• Homelander overheard Soldier Boy call him his pride and joy and felt touched by his father’s affection.
• Stormfront proposed using Homelander to help them rule the world, but Soldier Boy warned her not to treat his son as a tool or advance her Nazi ideals.
• Soldier Boy said he planned to run the Seven and kill Edgar, refused Stormfront’s offer of help, and teased her by claiming she had invented the words “Internet” and “Bluetooth.”

Stormfront persuaded Soldier Boy to introduce her to Homelander as a candidate for The Seven. Their meeting left Homelander humiliated after Stormfront exposed his secret milk drinking, while Soldier Boy threatened to seize Vought and fire Madelyn.

• Stormfront insisted that she wanted to help Soldier Boy take control of Vought, and he agreed to bring her to meet Homelander before she could join The Seven.
• Homelander panicked about hiding the shattered baby bottle and spilled milk in his room before Soldier Boy arrived with Stormfront.
• Soldier Boy entered Homelander's room, insulted Madelyn, and declared he planned to kill Edgar and fire her; Homelander weakly asked him to be kinder to his friend.
• Stormfront found the broken baby bottle under the table and mocked Homelander for secretly drinking milk, prompting Soldier Boy to ridicule him.
• Stormfront interrupted the confrontation, and Homelander changed the subject by asking why Soldier Boy had come.

Homelander approved Stormfront joining The Seven, and Stormfront proposed expanding Vought’s hero teams. Soldier Boy insisted the heroes must genuinely save people, while Annie January applied for The Seven’s tryouts and triggered a system alert that Starlight had entered the main storyline.

• Stormfront announced that Soldier Boy wanted her to join The Seven, and Homelander approved her while Madelyn left angrily.
• Homelander suggested canceling the tryouts, but Soldier Boy decided they should continue, and Stormfront proposed creating additional hero teams.
• Soldier Boy suggested making Homelander joint captain of the teams, then demanded that The Seven focus on actually saving people.
• In Ohio, Annie January applied for The Seven’s tryouts with her mother, Donna, encouraging her.
• Soldier Boy received a system notification that Starlight had entered the main storyline.

Soldier Boy learned that his interventions had changed the original timeline, but he accepted the uncertainty and continued shaping Vought's plans. After Annie registered for The Seven's auditions, Soldier Boy arranged for her to join directly, and Homelander announced that Vought would establish a second Seven.

• Soldier Boy learned that the current Fate Deviation was 17 percent and decided that changes to the original timeline did not concern him.
• Annie completed her registration for The Seven's selection competition, and Soldier Boy called Vought staff to have her admitted directly.
• The Seven announced nationwide open auditions and a new superhero team initiative, while Soldier Boy told reporters he had been away for forty years because they would understand when they were his age.
• Three days later, Soldier Boy called The Seven together to plan a welcome party for Annie, and Homelander confronted A-Train about pretending his broken leg was still in a cast.
• Homelander announced that Vought would establish a second Seven.

Soldier Boy helped welcome Starlight to The Seven, then secretly intervened when The Deep tried to coerce her. The chapter ended with The Deep recoiling in terror as Soldier Boy emerged from beneath the conference table and approached him.

• Stormfront proposed forming a second Seven team and named Homelander joint captain and supreme commander of both teams.
• Ashley Barrett brought Starlight to the Vought Tower welcome event, where Homelander and The Seven greeted her.
• Soldier Boy received a mission to prevent Starlight from being bullied by The Deep.
• The Deep led Starlight to The Seven's private conference room, removed his pants, and threatened her when she tried to leave.
• Soldier Boy crawled out from under the conference table and confronted The Deep as Starlight watched.

Soldier Boy stopped The Deep from assaulting Starlight, then Homelander punished The Deep and warned him to stop. After leaving Vought Tower, Soldier Boy paid to locate Private Angel and learned she was hiding in a men's restroom stall at a nearby bar.

• Soldier Boy punched The Deep into a wall and bullied him until Starlight warned that he seemed to be dying.
• Soldier Boy criticized Starlight for letting The Deep blackmail her, then left as Homelander and Maeve arrived.
• Homelander questioned Starlight, then hurt The Deep and warned him that another offense would get him expelled from The Seven.
• Soldier Boy spent 50 Exchange Points to locate Private Angel and learned she was in the second stall of a nearby bar's men's restroom.

Soldier Boy reunited with Private Angel and recruited her for his new team, while Homelander intercepted information about Soldier Boy’s former teammates and began killing them. Homelander then spotted Baltimore’s mayor aboard a private jet and realized the mayor had been involved in threatening Madelyn over Compound V.

• Soldier Boy found Private Angel at a bar, and the two old teammates reunited after decades apart.
• Soldier Boy told Private Angel that Homelander was his son and asked her to join a second team; she agreed to join the Blood Debt Repayment Team.
• Homelander intercepted Ashley Barrett’s information about Soldier Boy’s former teammates and killed Scarlet Earl while recording the attack.
• Homelander wiped out the Blood Debt Repayment Team and flew back toward Vought Tower to show Soldier Boy the footage.
• Homelander recognized Baltimore’s mayor aboard a private jet and recalled overhearing the mayor threaten Madelyn with information about Compound V.

Homelander spared a mayor and his son, then bonded with Soldier Boy after learning why he had intervened at the Super Infant Laboratory. Three days later, a massive snake-like shape appeared in the clouds and headed toward a civilian airliner.

• Homelander reconsidered killing the mayor and his son and let their plane pass.
• Homelander visited Soldier Boy, who explained that he had gone to the Super Infant Laboratory because he hated seeing his son used by Vought.
• Homelander gave Soldier Boy a recorder of his revenge against Soldier Boy's old teammates, and Soldier Boy thanked him, earning 100 Exchange Points.
• Homelander stayed up drinking and listening to Soldier Boy's war stories, then became noticeably calmer over the following days.
• At a Seven meeting, Soldier Boy refused to attend, and Homelander began the meeting without losing his temper.
• Ashley Barrett showed footage of a huge snake-like shape moving through the clouds toward a civilian airliner, with a collision projected in ten minutes.

Homelander and Maeve flew to intercept a gigantic, serpent-like creature approaching an airliner, while Vought planned to use the rescue to gain a place in national defense. In a secret laboratory, Edgar prepared the creature as a test subject in a plan involving Soldier Boy, and Vogelbaum gave in after Edgar threatened his family.

• The Seven examined satellite images of a 200-meter creature in the clouds, and The Deep suggested it was a legendary Jiaolong.
• Maeve warned that the creature was about to hit an airliner, and Homelander agreed to help after learning 123 passengers were aboard.
• Madelyn relayed the White House's request and Edgar's plan to send Homelander toward the creature, and Homelander and Maeve flew out to meet it.
• At a top-secret laboratory, Edgar ordered the staff to record Homelander's approach to the V Plan test subject, which he said was the only thing that could hurt Soldier Boy.
• Vogelbaum confronted Edgar and urged him to stop, but Edgar showed him surveillance records of his family, forcing Vogelbaum to ask how much Red V had been used.

Homelander and Maeve fought a giant king cobra created by Red V while it attacked a passenger plane. Homelander killed it, but falling venom damaged the plane, leaving him focused on saving its passengers and fearing Soldier Boy's reaction.

• Edgar showed Vogelbaum an image of a king cobra transformed by Red V and wondered what would happen if a supe were injected.
• Homelander and Maeve confronted the enormous flying cobra, which attacked them and sprayed corrosive venom toward the ground.
• Homelander fought the cobra, then cut it in half with his heat vision and destroyed its head when it continued trying to attack.
• Edgar's researchers reported that the cobra was dead and Homelander seemed injured, but Vogelbaum said the experiment had not overcome Homelander's defenses.
• Venom burned through the passenger plane's exterior and control console, sending it into a dive as Homelander panicked about saving the passengers and facing Soldier Boy.

Homelander struggled to decide whether to save the passengers on a damaged plane, then tried to support it but only worsened its condition. With the plane still descending, Maeve urged him to rescue the passengers one at a time.

• Homelander hesitated as Maeve and the passengers pleaded for help, weighing the damage to his reputation against letting them die.
• Homelander remembered Soldier Boy condemning him as a coward and decided to try saving the plane.
• Homelander braced himself against the plane’s nose, but dented it and realized more force could tear it apart.
• Homelander pushed up on the left wing, broke off half of it, and accelerated the plane’s destruction.
• Homelander admitted to Maeve that he could not stop the crash, and Maeve urged him to carry the passengers down one at a time.

Ashley told Soldier Boy that a giant flying creature had appeared and a passenger plane was about to hit it. Soldier Boy rushed to help, while Homelander began ferrying passengers to the ground and realized he could not save them all in time.

• Ashley defied Madelyn and called Soldier Boy to report the giant creature and the endangered plane.
• Soldier Boy hurried to the conference room and ordered A-Train to get rescue cushions and Clara and Starlight to help, but A-Train was injured and Starlight could not fly.
• Homelander killed King Cobra, damaging the plane, then began carrying passengers down in small groups while Maeve watched from the ground.
• Homelander stopped a panicked passenger from pulling a child away and threatened the crowd with his laser eyes before continuing the rescue.
• As the plane neared the ground, Homelander realized there was not enough time to save everyone and thought of Soldier Boy as a possible lifeline.

Soldier Boy coordinated a desperate effort to rescue passengers from a crashing plane, using Private Angel to heal A-Train and pushing Starlight to discover whether she could fly. As Homelander struggled to save people, Soldier Boy called him while Starlight faced the screen and tried to unlock her potential.

• Homelander repeatedly flew between the plane and the ground but saved only a few dozen people, while Soldier Boy watched the crisis unfold at Vought Tower.
• Private Angel healed A-Train, restoring his speed and curing his injuries, and Soldier Boy ordered him to find a rescue air cushion and support Homelander.
• Stormfront flew out to assist Homelander, while Starlight despaired that she could not fly and Soldier Boy urged her to use her light energy to propel herself.
• Starlight failed to fly after releasing her light, so Soldier Boy pressured her by describing the passengers who would die and called Homelander.
• Homelander told Soldier Boy that he feared he was going to fail, and Soldier Boy began to answer him.

Homelander, Stormfront, A-Train, and Starlight rescued passengers from a damaged plane, though one person died and Starlight passed out. Homelander stayed to face the media, while a New York newspaper prepared to condemn him over the death.

• Soldier Boy sent A-Train and Stormfront to help Homelander rescue passengers, and Homelander slowed their falls before they hit the rescue cushions.
• Homelander ordered Stormfront to catch the passengers while he threw everyone aboard the damaged plane to safety.
• Soldier Boy revealed that Starlight had unlocked flight and flown off to help, and Starlight reinforced the rescue cushions with light energy.
• One passenger missed the cushions and died, while Starlight passed out from pushing herself too far.
• Homelander stayed with A-Train to speak to the media, while Stormfront carried Starlight away and Maeve took an injured girl to the hospital.
• A New York newspaper editor ordered reporters to publish the photo of the dead passenger and condemn Homelander.

After a plane rescue left twelve people dead and twenty-three seriously injured, Homelander worried that he had failed and faced public backlash. Soldier Boy reassured him, and Homelander began a press conference the next day by saying he had done everything he could.

• Homelander returned to Vought Tower upset by reports blaming him for the deaths after the plane rescue.
• Soldier Boy told Homelander that saving over a hundred people was a success despite the casualties and promised to attend his press conference.
• Homelander felt reassured and became more dependent on Soldier Boy, while Ashley Barrett and Vought's PR department worked through the night.
• At the next day's press conference, reporters questioned Homelander about the twelve deaths, and he said he had done everything he could.