Chapter 151: Into the Vaught Like a Normal Person
AN: Sorry for some of the colorful language used, but I'm simply staying faithful to the source material, and if you guys like The Boys, you should know what to expect. Have Fun
Jayr POV - Earth, New York City - 2022
Anne seems shocked by my revelation as she asks, "The Greek Goddess Athena... in your world... she truly exists... you..."
Then I notice she waver a little before she asks, "Does that mean that God also truly exists in your version of Earth...? I mean God God the one with the capital "G" the creator..."
I take a glance at her and it seems that she is also a little afraid to hear the answer, then I remember the problem she faced in the TV show with her faith, especially after everything she witnessed and went through, and as I realize that, I mutter, "That's right, you're a Christian..."
I look at Anne right in the eyes and say, "Yes the biblical God also exists in my world and the same is true for the Gods of most religions, and I can somewhat understand what you are going through, as the biblical God is canonically pretty hands-off as he wants humanity to make their own life choices without His interference, you know free will and all that... The only difference between my version and the one in other possible universes is that because of the presence of the Gods from other religions, my version is sometimes forced to act to prevent or stop world-ending calamities, but even in those instances, the most he does is to send some Angels or in truly grave cases Jesus back on Earth to deal with it."
At this point, it seems that Anne.exe stopped working as she stops in place with her mouth open wide staring at me unable to come up with anything else, as she seems to hyperventilate, and showing clear signs of a panic attack.
Seeing that happening, I quickly realize that I may have made a mistake revealing that information to her as she seems on the verge of having a mental breakdown and understand what she is going through as she probably lost her faith after everything that happened, and learning that Gods truly exists may have pushed her past the breaking point.
So I quickly move beside her and slowly pat her on the back infusing my Spiral Cosmo into her to calm her down while saying, "There, there... It isn't the end of the world. Sure, I understand that having this knowledge can be very shocking, scary even, but that doesn't change the fact that everything that happens in the world is because of the people living in it, both the good and the bad. And from what I have seen you are a good person, Anne, despite what you have been through and the things you did, you still are a good person, someone that genuinely wishes to help others, and that already makes this shitty world a slightly better place to live. Do not ever forget that."
After a few seconds, with the help of my words and Spiral Cosmo, Anne calms down, and after taking a deep breath, she regains her composure and says, "Thank you, Jayr. Your words have helped me more than you can imagine..."
At the same time, she straightens her back and says with conviction, "Now, I know what I have to do!"
I notice a change in her presence as if she finally resolved a great internal distress that was plaguing her for who knows how long.
After that, we start to walk once more, and Anne comments, "I have to admit that for a 17-year-old kid, you are pretty mature and wise..."
Then I heavily sigh and say, "I have to be... I'm about to become a father after all..."
Hearing that, Anne smirks and jokes, "Really? Have you never heard the words safe sex? Geez, kids these days..." I snort and reply with the same tone, "Don't tell me about it... but the problem is that it doesn't exist a rubber strong enough to withstand such activity, especially when one has sex with a dragon that can easily mow down a mountain with her physical body... quoting a purple alien, it's inevitable." making Anne exclaim in horror, "You're joking, right?"
I simply raise an eyebrow and say, "Infinite universes, Anne. Infinite universes."
After a while, we are finally in front of a high-rise building complex located in Manhattan, New York City, the Vought Tower, the headquarters of both Vought International and the Seven.
Without hesitation, Anne walks into the ground floor, a wide-open lobby area accessible by civilians, and I easily follow after her as she moves toward the metal detectors an obligatory stop for anyone who wants to enter further into the tower must pass through.
Of course, Annie passes without any problems while I simply follow after her, but as we continue moving, Annie who heading toward the elevator finally notices that something strange is happening and asks while whispering, "Wait, why isn't any of the guards stopping you? This area is strictly forbidden to civilians!"
With a smirk on my face I raise my hands and reply while yelling out loud, "Hey, I'm simply walking in like a normal person, it isn't like I'm distorting anyone's perception so that they don't even realize my existence and also screening myself from all kinds of technology so that I can move around undeterred and unnoticed!"
Hearing that, Annie snorts and mutters, "Hmpf... Yeah... just like a normal person..."
Once inside the elevator, I look at the 99 buttons on the panel and ask, "So what are the most important floors in this tower? Be at ease, no one will be able to hear us."
Anne nods, pushes the button with the number 99 engraved, and explains, "Well let us start with the top, the 99th floor is where The Seven live and work, on that floor there is the meeting room and our apartments, then there is the 82nd floor where the CEO's, Stan Edgar's office is located. Floor 75 to 70 is dedicated to the Crisis Management Team, while Floor 69 is dedicated to the Public Relations Department. Another floor to take note of is 67th, which has strictly limited access, the floor contains laboratories to test Vought products. Compound V is housed there."
We are halfway on the way to the top floor as Anne continues, " Floor 66 to 55 is dedicated to the Research and Development Department, 42 to the Crime Analytics Department, 41 to 38 to the Hero Management Department, 21 to the Digital Marketing Department, and 17 to the Talent Relations Department. These are the most important, and despite living here for some years now, I still don't know what there is on some of the floors probably the offices of other subdivisions of the Vaught International."
Finally, the elevator stops as we reach the 99th floor, and just before the elevator's doors open, Anne says, "I'm going back to my apartment to change into my Starlight suit. Thanks again and good luck!"
After that, the elevator's doors open and Anne gets out and starts heading toward her apartment, in the meantime, I chose to calmly look around the floor to check if there is something I should take note of.
From my senses, I easily realize that this whole floor is dedicated to the Seven, as only their apartments, meeting room, and what I think is the office bathroom that can be used by the Seven, guests and workers are present on this floor.
Seeing that, I decide to use the stairs to descend to the lower floors so that I can find a good quiet place to start my hacking into Vought International's network, 'After all, no matter how advanced your technology is, it is always better to have an inside access when you are hacking instead of starting from the outside.'
Disappointingly, all the floors I visited until now were full of people working their asses off continuously going back and forth like NPC of a game with trashy AI as I "stealthily" walk through these floors while whistling The Simpson theme.
And so this pattern continues until I reach the 82nd floor where the CEO's, Stan Edgar's office is located, and luckily the office is currently empty as the only people present are the secretary and the cleaners.
So I calmly open the door of Stan Edgard's office and walk inside, and see an open laptop laying on the table, defenseless and ready to be accessed.
Seeing this, a smile forms on my face as I mutter, "Well, I couldn't find a better place to access Vought International's network."
I walk toward the laptop and grab my Silver Core Drill, and from it, I summon the Crateris Cloth and say, "Hey partner can you please assimilate that laptop and access their network?"
The Crateris Cloth quickly changes into its Gunmen Form becoming Cratergann, then, with its mechanical voice, it says, "Sure, Jayr. It isn't a problem."
Then it pierces the laptop with a drill that comes out from one of its fingers and starts the assimilation process that lasts only a second, then it says, "Done! Now should I just search for what we need or do you want to download everything they have and that I can find into that data storage given to us by Lordgenome?"
I quickly use my senses to get a feel of the current situation, and seeing that no one is heading toward this office yet, I reply, "No, we don't need everything. Just search and download everything about the company and the Supes' misdeeds, no matter how insignificant, I want every crime they covered out in the open, from shitting in the middle of the street to mass human experimentation and genocide and also every other compromising information. Camera videos, photos, emails, internal communication, everything that they tried to sweep under the rug. And if you find it, download the Compound V formula, I want to see if I can find a cure for it. Another thing, be sure to leave a hidden backdoor and grant us administration rights so that we can have all direct access to their media spread all over the globe and use their influence against them."
Cratergann's eyes shine as it says, "It will be done... It will take around 15 minutes to download everything as they have done a lot of evil things. Meanwhile, I already created a backdoor and gained admin rights, basically, I can take control whenever and wherever we want now."
Hearing that, I smirk while thinking, 'Who needs an AI when you have an overpowered sentient billions of years old armor that can transform into a mecha and has computing power rivaling a quantum computer!'
At the same time, I say, "You're the best!" making Cratergann reply simply by giving me a thumbs-up sign as he also focuses on its current task.
After a few minutes pass, I ask curious, "So, how bad it is?" making Cratergann reply, "The evil hidden in humanity's heart never ceases to amaze me. The people living in this world feel truly damned... The ones that should protect them are the ones that are a danger to them and harm them the most ... No even Deathmask at his worst was this bad. Sure, he was careless and caused a lot of collateral damage, but even then he at least fought for the right reasons. But the "superheroes", most of them only fight for their own vanity, if they fight in the first place, some even simply ignore the crimes happening around them and only appear in what they call "scripted events" basically fake crimes created by Vought International to raise that particular hero fame and sell more merchandise."
Soon Cratergann downloads all the useful data and puts them into the data storage, and so I get out of the CEO's office, and just in time.
As I can see an African-American well-dressed man with salt pepper hair and black eyes, coming out of the elevator and steadily heading toward his office with a stoic expression, he is Stanford Edgar, the current CEO of Vought International.
(Image Here - Stan Edgar)
I ignore him and head toward the empty office bathroom, and once there, a mischievous smirk forms on my face as I feel the sudden urge to leave behind a few words of poetry.
And so, I enter a random stall and using my Spiral Cosmo, I start to engrave on the wall a few words as if written with a sharp knife, "In this place that of shit is asylum, I made a turd that weighs at least a kilo. Black Noir." copying Black Noir sign I saw on some documents in the office while I was waiting.
Then I change methods and write something else below it and make it appear like it was burned into the wall with heat vision, "Not to be outdone by your verses, I made a turd twice of that heaviness. Homelander." and do the same as what I did with Black Noir, only this time, I used Homelander's signature.
At this point, I write the last part below the other two, this time I create an indelible marker and write with it, "To make turds of yes such heavyweights, one must at least have a wounded ass. Jayr Pucci."
Looking at my literal masterpiece, I mutter, "A little too childish and I already regret it... but it hints that Homelander and Black Noir are either homosexual or like pegging or something along those lines, anyway, it is something that can clearly upset that prideful douchebag so it is still a win for me."
Then I look at my signature and say, "I was tempted to put the Deep signature, but it is very possible that shitstain of Homelander could retaliate using Deep's girl, whose name I forgot, that for what I know is an innocent bystander... So in the end I used my own signature, it is better if the target is on my back."
After that, I walk out of the bathroom and implant the idea of coming to that precise stall later in the day into the mind of a nearby employee, and I add the idea of taking a photo of this artwork and spreading it all over the net anonymously, giving him specific details on how to do it so to make sure that no harm befalls on him or his dears.
Done with this prank, I teleport back into Hughie's apartment, and after creating a laptop with my Spiral Cosmo and enhancing it with Creation Magic, I install the data storage in it and start to look at what Cratergann took from the Vought International's servers.
At the same time, while I wait for the huge amount of Vought's data to load on the laptop, I mutter, "I really hate that I can't go inside my villa in my Soulbound Territory... I have to even take advantage of Hughie's apartment to do my things. Even if I asked his permission before, I still feel uncomfortable about it... but, well, it is still better than a random abandoned place."
As soon as all the Vought's data is on the laptop, I start to comb through and organize them, but seeing the absurd amount I can't help but think, 'Geez... This is going to take a while... and I also have to remember to ask Queen Meave for the video of the tragic Flight 37 plus forging some more incriminating evidence using my memories of the show. We'll let's do this!'
Hughie POV - Earth, New York City - 2022
Once outside of the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs (FBSA) Building, I let out a sigh of relief as all the tension I accumulated flows down and leaves my body while thinking, 'I'm finally out of there... This was one of the most nerve-wracking days since I started working at the FBSA... all for one simple reason, I learned that my boss Victoria Neuman, someone I thought was a good person and friend, someone I trusted, is in fact, a Supe, and not a simple harmless Supe, but the freaking head popper Supe, the one who killed Susan Raynor, the deputy director of the CIA and a bunch of other people at the Congressional Hearing.'
Reaching this point, I still feel the cold sweat running down my back as I think about how close I was to such a dangerous and ruthless person, 'I had to keep my calm and wits to not show her that I now knew her secret and it was hard... Plus there is that strange guy who called her Nadia and told me that he was her best friend, I'm sure it's the same guy I saw yesterday night at the world premiere of Dawn of the Seven... I made sure to get him away as I didn't know how Victoria could react to his presence, maybe she could even try to get rid of him. But I have to admit that Jayr's barrier helped me a lot, it felt great having for the first time a safe net in case something went wrong.'
While thinking that, I call an Uber to reach the Boys' headquarters, to give Butcher and the others the news that the Termite got away scot-free, I'll also take advantage of the situation to tell them about Jayr and his plan to bring down the Vought International, Homelander, and other Supes like him.
Thinking about Jayr, I can't help but have some suspicion about him, 'If my experience with the Boys taught me something is that if something seems too good to be true it probably is... But until now, Jayr did seem really genuine, he is very different from the Supes I have met until now, and he gives me the same good vibes of Anne, someone who genuinely cares about other people and wants to do good. But his young age is also a little concerning...'
At this point, I think back to what he showed us, 'Sure his story seems absurd and very unlikely but what little bit of his power that he has shown until now is already staggering, to say the least. He took on a full power energy blast from Annie like it was nothing but a pleasant breeze... or even he showed us that monster named Yamcha blowing up the freaking moon only to call him the most pathetic human on Earth and after that, he showed us that scary short alien that created a small sun and blow up a whole fucking planet making Homelander look like a freaking small cute harmless animal.'
And thinking that, I can't help but shudder realizing the true reason behind my suspicion toward Jayr, 'But if all he said is really true, that also means that there are many powerful beings from different universes out there that can just come to this one and wipe all of us out with a flick of their fingers or simply ruin our lives for their own amusement... How can one defend against something like that!? Nope, after I'm done with informing Butcher and the others, I have to rush back home and ask Jayr how is our current situation and if this world is in danger.'
While I was thinking that, my Uber finally arrived, and when the driver asked me where I mindlessly replied, "175 5th Avenue, and please get there as fast as possible..." and watched as the scenery started to move as the car moved forward as fast as the traffic makes it possible.
At the same time, I think, 'Maybe is better that Butcher and the others also meet him together with me... Knowing Butcher's character, he won't restrain himself if he doesn't have a genuine reason that doing so will help with his ultimate objective... kill Homelander and get his revenge for what he has done to Becca.'
After some time, I finally arrived at the Flatiron Building, a historic triangular skyscraper in Manhattan, New York.
Looking at the building famous for being one of the first buildings to use a steel skeleton, a wry smile forms on my face as I remember, 'When Butcher was negotiating with Susan Raynor for CIA resources to fight Supes he requested office space in the Flatiron Building but the request was denied. But then Butcher was eventually able to set up a headquarters for The Boys in the abandoned Greywal & Co. Import & Export office in the Flatiron Building after the group became a contractor for the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs.'
Then I pay and thank the Uber driver and rush inside the building, and into the elevator to reach The Boys' office.
Once inside the messy office, I quickly and briefly tell them about Termite's situation, and as expected, this piss off Butcher as he starts to rant, "You must be having a fսcking laugh. That little cunt crawled up a guy's cock and blew him to bits. He almost killed Frenchie, and you're just gonna let him go 'cause Stan Edgar asked nice? Fuck me, I should have done Termite when I had the chance."
I stand in silence as he says this, before what I learned probably, I would have parroted what Victoria told me today, that Supe collateral damage is down 60%, maybe even defended her by saying that she has locked up more Supes this year than every other year combined or even say that things are good and that we're actually winning, but I now know that it isn't true, we're still losing.
At the same time, Kimiko starts to play a small piano, really, really bad, and seeing that, a wry smile briefly forms on my face.
Then I look back at Butcher and remembering everything I learned I raise my tone I say, "You're right! Locking up a couple of nobodies won't lead us anywhere. They got all the money and all the power, and they want us dead or worse. We're outmanned and outgunned, and we got to deal with them before they deal with us!"
At this point, everyone seems surprised by my outburst, Kimiko even stopped playing the piano and now stares at me with eyes wide open.
Noticing something strange in my outburst, Butcher asks, "You all right, mate?"
I shake my head and say, "Neuman's a Supe! She's the Head Popper! The past year of my life has been a waste! I thought we could fight Vought the right way, but we can't. It's all rigged! If we're gonna take them down, we have to do something different! We already tried your extreme way and it didn't work, my way full of compromises is even worse! Now the only way I see we can move forward is to put my trust in a complete stranger that if what he says is the truth, comes from a fucking different universe, and is strong enough to easily smack Homelander's ass."
At this point, Butcher moves closer and grabs my shoulders while asking, "Wait, Hughie! What are you talking about? Who is this stranger!?"
I calm my raging emotions and start to tell them about Jayr, how he appeared in front of the door of my apartment this morning, how he easily took Anne's energy blast head-on without any consequences, the images he showed of the other different universes, about the barrier he put on me to protect me from Victoria, his plan to expose all the shit that the Vought and the Supes did in such a way that they have no way to wring their way out, how he went to the Vought Tower with Annie to hack into their servers and bring out all the shit they have hidden and so on, I also ask them to come to my apartment this evening to meet him and see what he found.
After that, Butcher looks at me for a few seconds, then he quickly pulls out his gun and before I could react, he aims at my leg and pulls the trigger shocking me, but luckily the bullet easily bounces off the barrier and ricochets on the wall as I yell out, "What the fuck, man!? You shoot me!!?"
Meanwhile, Frenchie also asks if Butcher has gone crazy, while Kimiko stands up also surprised by Butcher's actions.
At the same time, Butcher raises his gun and says, "Calm your fucking tits. I aimed at his leg and it was a grazing shoot... more or less... anyway I had to confirm that what Hughie told us was the truth because that changes everything!"
Then a smirk forms on his face as he happily declares, "If what that Jayr guy told him is truly the truth, that he can deal with the Vough and Homelander once and for all... Then we absolutely need to meet this guy... and if he can hold his word and bring down those fucking cunts, then I need to get a first-class seating for the upcoming show, because I'm sure it is gonna be fucking diabolical!"
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