Bang!

Bang bang!!

In the training room of Vought Corporation, Queen Maeve was doing her daily training. Her seemingly small fists struck the specially made punching bag in front of her, sending it flying.

When she had no activities scheduled, Queen Maeve would always do this, training her combat skills in the training room.

Because she couldn't fly, didn't have the speed of A-Train, couldn't dive underwater like Deep, or turn invisible like Translucent.

Queen Maeve's abilities lay in her strength and defense. Her strength was immense, on par with Homelander's, and her defense could withstand direct hits from assault rifles.

But besides this, Queen Maeve had nothing else.

So she chose to hone her combat skills.

Among the Seven, her fighting ability was the strongest. If you ignored the other special abilities of her teammates and only focused on physical combat, Queen Maeve could beat anyone.

But unfortunately, what made superhumans super was that they possessed special abilities that ordinary people could never have.

Whether it was speed or heat vision, these were abilities that ordinary people - and Queen Maeve - didn't possess. She only had the physical attributes of a superhuman.

As Queen Maeve was training her combat skills with great focus, she suddenly received a call from Ashley. Ashley asked her to come over and meet in Madelyn's office.

After taking a sip of water, Queen Maeve ended her training and went to Madelyn's office, where she found Madelyn and Ashley standing there.

"What's going on?"

Maeve could see that both of their expressions weren't good. Madelyn was frowning, lost in thought, while Ashley seemed a bit at a loss.

The Seven's manager looked at Madelyn, then took out a remote control to turn on the office TV, and said to Queen Maeve:

"You should see this first."

After saying this, Ashley turned on the TV to a channel that was broadcasting live.

As soon as the channel opened, Homelander appeared on the TV, wearing his star-spangled cape and holding a little boy in his arms. Beside him was a bus that had just been in an accident. Several reporters were surrounding him, pushing their microphones towards him.

"Homelander! I love you!!"

"Homelander just saved a bus full of innocent lives! He's amazing!"

"Homelander—!"

The crowd let out fan-like screams, including the reporters.

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After Homelander put the little boy down, he said to the crowd:

"While I'm happy you're all so enthusiastic, please make way. There are several injured people here who need to be taken to the hospital immediately. You don't want them to die because you're crowding around, right? Make way, make way, thank you!"

The crowd obediently made way, and then they saw Homelander pick up an unconscious pedestrian and fly towards the nearby hospital.

"..."

The scene hadn't ended yet, but Queen Maeve already understood what was going on. She turned her head to ask the two:

"This... wasn't arranged by you, was it?"

"No, of course not!" Ashley quickly explained: "In fact, there really was an accident there, but... but this was supposed to be A-Train's job. Homelander should... he should have..."

"He should have stayed at the company to prepare for tonight's speech to the politicians, not appear in a place like this playing superhero!" Madelyn said angrily.

She added: "This isn't like him at all!"

"Maybe... he... wanted to relax a bit?" Maeve suggested.

"Are you joking?" Madelyn looked at Queen Maeve: "We all know what he does when he wants to relax. He would specifically seek out robbers and kill them personally in front of the cameras. He wouldn't do something like this..."

Madelyn stopped here, took a deep breath, and said in a calm tone:

"Alright, alright, let's not worry about what he would do for now. I just want to know if he notified you before doing this, since you're partners now."

Maeve looked at Ashley, then said to Madelyn:

"You know we have a banquet tonight. The afternoon is our... rest time."

"But now someone has gone out to save the world during rest time," Madelyn said, pointing at the TV.

Madelyn stopped talking and watched Homelander on the TV with a changing expression. Ashley's eyes darted between Queen Maeve and Madelyn, and finally asked:

"So now... should we call him back?"

Madelyn thought for a moment, then said: "No need. Maeve, you go find Homelander and act together with him. Ashley, contact the company's reporters and have them film together. Make absolutely sure... there are no scandals, understand?"

"Understood," Ashley and Maeve nodded simultaneously.

They also knew why Madelyn was angry now.

If Homelander had informed the company in advance, and if the filming reporters were from the company, Madelyn would probably only be wondering why Homelander did this, not getting so angry.

The key issue was that Homelander had acted without instructions and exposed himself to other people's cameras!

If Homelander did something that revealed his true nature, or if someone captured some compromising footage, then the company's image ambassador would be ruined. Who knows how much damage this would cause Vought!

With Vought's positioning system, Queen Maeve and Ashley quickly found Homelander at the hospital.

However, Homelander wasn't taking photos with his fans at the moment. Instead, he had avoided everyone and run to the hospital's rooftop, standing at the edge and feeling the cold wind.

To be honest, if it wasn't Homelander, anyone else standing there would probably be mistaken for attempting suicide.

Roger stood on the rooftop feeling the cold wind, ignoring Queen Maeve who was approaching from behind.

His super hearing let him know that Queen Maeve had found him, but he wasn't in the mood to talk to her right now.

Maeve looked at his back, glanced back at Ashley standing behind her, sighed, and then walked out of the doorway to say to Roger:

"I hope I'm not disturbing you?"

"If I said you were, would you leave?" Roger asked without turning his head.

Maeve spread her hands and said: "Of course not. Madelyn told me to call you back. Your unplanned appearance has made her very angry."

Roger finally turned to look at Maeve, then asked:

"What do you mean by unplanned? Are you saying saving people wasn't part of the plan? Come on, saving people is the duty of us 'superheroes'."

"From your tone, you seem a bit unsatisfied? Did someone make you angry?" Queen Maeve asked, surprised at Roger's sarcastic words.

Roger looked at Queen Maeve, then shifted his gaze to the distance and said: "It's nothing, I'm just a bit tired, that's all."