As Felix Faust starts making his presence known on Earth 7, he's slowly surrounded as each leading member of The Justice League shows up to stop him.
The Joker is an evil Monster Clown, but he succeeds in humiliating Homelander and setting up a brilliant (if terrifying) Batman Gambit that cripples his reputation.
Solomon Grundy beats Stormfront into the ground without breaking a sweat. Had Two-Face not been merciful enough to spare Stormfront after the coin toss, she would've been toast.
Batman manages to see through Stormfront's white supremacist leanings and spooks her into backing off without breaking a sweat.
The Flash in this fic is one which doesn't show nearly as many self-limitations with his speed force powers, as he built "50 houses in 8 different countries" in under an hour.
The sting operation set up by Martian Manhunter and Mr. Terrific to demonstrate the racist intent by Blue Hawk.
Then, when Blue Hawk gets aggressive with League representative Catherine over being released over the bad look, John Stewart drops him with an energy baton.
Batman found and brought down Herogasm thanks to the bravery of ordinary sex workers who were willing to come forward.
After having the press eating out of the palms of their hands for years, Vought is left utterly defenseless when Earth-1 reporters, who use facts instead of propaganda, hit them with Armor-Piercing Question after Armor-Piercing Question. Even better? Said reporters were Clark and Lois Kent, Linda Park-West, Gwyneth Tate, and Alexander Knox. Ashley knows she's fighting a losing battle the moment the conference starts.
Billy Butcher thought that crushing the criminals in Gotham would be a snap. Then he and his crew went into Scarecrow's lab to destroy Compound V, but soon found out why Batman's rogues are no joke.
Earlier, there's the Penguin seeing through the Boys' attempts to bug the Iceburg Lounge, and retaliating with a team of henchmen (including Grundy and Deathstroke) who capture them easily.
Deathstroke giving Butcher a beating to remember.
Credit where it's due, the fact that the Boys managed to correctly deduce Batman's true identity as Bruce Wayne is no small feat. Of course, Batman had already anticipated they would figure it out and had Martian Manhunter shapeshifted as Bruce Wayne to deflect suspicion when Butcher tried to reveal his identity out of spite.
After connecting the dots thanks to Mallory, Batman, Martian Manhunter and Mr. Terrific set up another sting operation. This time, catching Victoria Newman as Vought's fake opposition.
Even if she did it for her own agenda, Amanda Waller's brilliant way to break The Boys out of Arkham using subterfuge.
The Legion of Doom vs The Justice League. Nothing like some classic superhero fights to show how The Seven have a big gap to make up when going against their doppelganger Arch-Enemy rivals.
Superman matches Bizarro blow for blow.
Aquaman summons a squid to ensure the defeat of Black Manta.
Green Lantern manages to stop Dr. Polaris from ripping Manhattan out from its roots using the magnetics of the earth itself. Just by using his own insane willpower to keep it all grounded.
Plastic Man and Wonder Woman tag teaming Giganta to topple her.
Batman manages to freeze Clayface to incapacitate him.
Deadshot gives MM a callout about putting his crusade over family. Saying they're better off without him if he's here now. Using his own experiences as a family man as firsthand understanding.
Brutal and scathing as they are, Hugo Strange manages to call out each of The Boys in his care in various ways for their character flaws and inability to look at themselves straight.
He says to Mother's Milk that despite claiming to be a family man, the trauma of his childhood gave him a burning desire for vengeance against supers, and that he turned Billy Butcher into his ideal self to fulfill that desire. But he then pointed out in return that doing so caused him to abandon his family. And what kind of a father would do that?
Talking to Frenchie, Strange asks if Frenchie ever wanted to consider how important things are for himself for once. He keeps trying to please others who aren't kind to him, and like a drug, it's killing him even as he thinks it's satisfying.
For Kimiko, he gives a simple summation: in the pain of loss, she turned herself into a soldier, and that she seems incapable of walking away from that mindset.
For Hughie, he digs into learning about the A-Train incident, but then goes on to accuse Hughie of choosing to be weak and enabling Butcher's own delusions through his passivity.
Finally for Butcher, he brings up how his prejudiced views against superheroes led him to underestimate Batman. Strange also points out that Butcher's reputation as an unhinged madman would make his claims of knowing Batman's secret identity doubtful. Finally, Hugo points out that Butcher has essentially become his father.
Just like in canon, Homelander finds himself in a fight between Soldier Boy and a V-24-empowered Butcher. Soldier Boy's new shield proves to be useful against Homelander with it being able to draw blood from Homelander. Butcher manages to sucker punch Homelander and beat him down. The two even silently agree to an Enemy Mine where they proceed to tag team. Homelander is only saved thanks to intervention from Stormfront.
Kimiko manages to get payback on Stormfront by jabbing her fingers where Stormfront lost her eye.
Realizing that he can't meaningfully stop Zoom with the time crunch on hand, Flash decides to use a new trick to keep Thawne locked away for now: take them to Zoom's future with The Legion of Superheroes to have them create a way to hold him for now.
Wonder Woman manages to play a clever trick on Circe. She took the Molly from Harley Quinn as an Anti-Magic plant, and used it to free Maeve from Circe's control. The rest was just clean up against the sorceress.
The Justice League's training pays off when Ryan is able to use his laser vision to take out V24-injected enemies without killing them.
Even with their newfound upgrades, Stormfront and Homelander still are no match when the League finally has the opportunity to take the fight to them.
Despite having a Yellow Lantern Ring which is being fueled by the fear of everyone on Earth-7, Homelander is still on the losing end of his battle with Guy Gardner, who points out that he has more experience with his own Green Lantern Ring plus plenty of willpower.
Meanwhile, John Stewart uses an army of Ring Constructs in the shape of the Allied Forces from WWII to beat up the Shazam-powered Stormfront, while pointing out her stupidity in handing Homelander a Yellow Lantern Ring in the first place. Once the rest of the Marvels get there, they easily take on Stormfront and allow John to assist Guy in defeating Homelander.
In the end, both upgraded Supes have no choice but to flee from their first battle with the League with their tails between their legs.
Despite being down on the elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, Aquaman still manages to force Stormfront to flee after a fierce battle.
When Blue Hawk finds out his powers are gone, he begs for mercy from Black Canary, who points out that his victims have likely done the same thing before he brutalized them. She makes it clear that she’s not obligated to give him any mercy before inflicting a Groin Attack that leaves him squealing like a pig, much to Green Arrow’s amusement.
Though they had to back off, Kyle and Kilowog managed to send a signal of warning to the GL corp, allowing them to show up to help defend the earth from the Sinestro Corps.
As the battle for Earth 7 rages, Black Noir decides to finally face down his fears, and confronts Soldier Boy for all the abuse of the past.
In pitched battle, Noir is faster, but Soldier Boy is impenetrable, so as a way to finally end the fight, Noir forces him to be stuck between the closing portal between the earths. Both of them are bisected, but Soldier Boy is killed.
The Grand Finale ends with both Stormfront and Homelander getting De Powered. After so many chapters of the two spouting their Super Supremacist drivel, seeing them brought low and humiliated by being Brought Down to Normal, after a completely one-sided battle, is extremely satisfying.
The simple fact that this story gives the Boys universe a happy ending. For a show that's (in)famous for being fairly bleak and feeling like little in the world will get better, the fact that this fic defied that and ended on a high note for almost all the main characters is quite the accomplishment.
