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Each of the Boys and the other members from the Suicide Squad sat inside gigantic tubes floating inside a rotating ring. Inside the tube, it was like a jet pilot's seat but with nothing to operate, they all could hear Waller speaking from their earpieces as the ring started rotating faster and their seats started shaking.

“You should arrive on Earth Seven Russian automatically.” Waller explained. “In case of a setback, be careful until we manage to send you to the right place.”

“Uhm, a setback?” Hughie said. “Ma’am, I don’t think I follow it.”

“When we use this, we usually send the passenger to a closer geographical equivalent of this place on your Earth but in the case of a different continent, the Multiverse crack between our Earth and yours can have an unpredictable effect.”

“The fuck you mean unpredictable…?” Mother’s Milk started asking but was cut by his teleportation from Earth One.

EARTH +

MM appeared on a hill, his bag of guns next to him, that was definitely not Russia. In his wrist, a bracelet that should connect him to the teleporter. A man with ragged clothes and a scarred face looked at MM, the man had a blade out of his bleeding crotch, as if a butcher knife was shoved in there and the blade was his penis.

“I’m going to fuck you hard!” He yelled and raced towards MM.

MM put out his hand gun and shot the man dead in the chest. Then touched his earpiece expecting an answer to Waller.

“Where the fuck did you send me to?” MM demanded to know.

“We are recalibrating the system, just keep your bracelet and wait.”

“Some maimed guy tried to kill me!”

“Maimed? You’re not in a zombie inhabited universe are you?”

MM laughed, the notion of that question one day would be insane but not anymore. He walked towards the body and took a nice look on the man’s face, his scar was shaped like a cross or a plus sign and covered his entire face from the nose, vertical and horizontal.

“I watched ‘Night of the Living Dead’, this is something else.” MM answered and heard a shot aimed at him.

Climbing the hill, a man with no arms carrying a little person with no legs in a baby carrier, they both had the cross scars on their faces, the little person had a shotgun.

“Found one here! A black one!” The legless little man yelled and many more crossfaces started running up the hill.

“Definitely ain’t zombies.” MM said as he took his assault rifle out of the bag.

EARTH 77

In his office on the top floor of the Flatiron Building, a dark haired man put his black shirt back on, and a blonde woman put on her skirt. He smirked, staring at her while she was angry and avoiding looking directly at him.

“So, love, your office wasn’t enough and you had to do it on mine?” The British man teased.

“Shut the fuck up.” She answered.

“Tell your husband I sent my regards, will ya?”

As they left his office, they passed by a Japanese woman with messy hair, a black man wearing red sunglasses and a white man with goggles, all of them except the blonde woman wore similar long black trench coats. They all were surprised when Hughie appeared out of light in the middle of their office with a bag next to him. He just sat down, and looked out of the window realizing he was back in New York.

“Uh, hey, guys,” He said. “I’m sorry to barge in, I better get going.”
Hughie attempted to take his bag but the man in goggles stepped on it.

“Envahisseur, I recognize a bag of guns when I see one.” The man said. He had an over the top French accent, much more exaggerated than Frenchie’s. “What were you planning to do with it?”

“Leave, I swear.”

“You’re not going anywhere before you clear this out. Who are you? Did Vought send you?” The blonde woman said.

That moment, Hughie had a flashback in his mind, he knew this woman, he watched her head explode right in front of him. That woman was Susan Raynor, the hair was different but it was her. He also noticed Kimiko and Mother’s Milk were there, dressed like Butcher.

“Ok, time out.” Hughie said and got up. “I guess I’m back in New York but not my New York. This is going to sound crazy, but I’m from another universe.”

“Yeah, and I’m from Oz.” This other MM said.

This other Kimiko started walking towards Hughie, the look on her face was expressionless and dead. Hughie walked back.

“By the look on your face, lad, I figure you know what she can do.” This strange British man, who Hughie figured was this universe’s Butcher, said.

“Come on, Kimiko, we’re friends.” Hughie pleaded.

With this sentence, the mood changed, the alternate the Boys looked astounded and surprised at Hughie. Suddenly, Butcher grabbed Hughie’s head and lifted him above the ground, pressing his cranium to the wall.

“Drop the comic script, cunt.” Butcher ordered. “How in bloody hell do you know the Female’s real name?”

EARTH P 

“You are telling the truth.” Qubit said, having Butcher’s earpiece connected to his computer. “This is receiving signals from a different universe.”

Butcher (Earth Seven Butcher) was in some kind of ultra advanced lab/headquarters surrounded by robots, all which look like the same middle aged man wearing a vest and tie but with an inhuman robotic face. Butcher‘s neck was still bruised from the electricity blast he had just taken.

“I fucking told you.” Butcher said.

“You still came up all hotheaded.” Volt, a one-armed black superhero, said.

“I don’t use the hand you have left to…?”

“Quiet, Butcher.” Waller’s voice echoed from Qubit’s computer. “The rest of the task force ended up in situations worse than yours and they’re not whining.”

“You’re still there, guv? I wasn’t sure after you sent me to the wrong Earth.”

“You’ll be on the right Earth soon.”

“I think we can help each other.” Qubit said. He was a thin white man with black hair and a long brown jacket, a scientist and somehow had the face of one.

“With what?” Waller questioned.

“He can’t help you.” Butcher said. “But they’re desperate for help. All the Earths with an evil Superman? This looks like the worst one.”

EARTH 1956

A cartoon. Frenchie was in a cartoon. He was a cartoon. And tied up and hanging upside down over a cartoon shark tank, in a cartoon spaceship surrounded by cartoon versions of Earth One villains. He looked down at the tank, the sharks looked like a still painting, as if money was saved by not animating them or simply there wasn’t the technology to animate anything from that angle.

“Frenchman, hang in there.” Waller said from his earpiece. “You’ll be on Earth Seven at any moment.”

“Hang?” Frenchie asked, outraged. “Is this a joke? I’m a cartoon!”

“You are our hostage!” The animated Lex Luthor said.

Luthor wore green power armor with pink gauntlets and boots. He was accompanied by a dozen other cartoony villains. One of them was a robot with a skull-face, his head was yellow on the round top. The robot checked Frenchie’s bracelet.

“Once I crack the secret’s behind this technology, I’ll recreate it and we’ll be able to spread our evil in the larger Multiverse.”

“Yes!” Riddler said, who wore a green costume with purple boots and gloves with a single giant question mark on his chest. “We’ll recruit the Super Enemies again and our forces are going to destroy the Super Friends!”

“Luthor, what about his comrades?” Black Manta asked. “Won’t they question why he did not arrive?”

“He’ll arrive. I have a plan. We’ll remove his brain and place it inside a monkey, meanwhile, we’ll put the brain of one of our henchmen in his body and he’ll work for us!”

“Great idea, Luthor.” Grodd, animated as a brown gorilla with sharpened teeth, said.

“Non!” Frenchie yelled. “Non, puton! Get away! Get away!”

EARTH 616

Kimiko drank a big cup of milkshake surrounded by a group of young girls, all dressed as superheroes and one of them in particular seemed to recognize her.

“I mean, I could never get into the comics, too much stupid shock value.” Gwenpool said she was a girl dressed like a leather white and pink ninja with her mouth visible and naked leg. “But I really liked the show! I think that’s where you’re from.”

“I’m sorry.” Viv Vision, the robotic girl with red skin and green hair said. “Gwen is a little… Odd? She thinks we’re in a comic.”

“We might be, I was retconned to be a mutant a while back so that probably doesn’t matter anymore. Hold on, you’re a completely separate property, does that mean we’re in a fanfic?”

“What’s wrong with fanfic?” Ms. Marvel, a girl in a blue mask and boots with a yellow symbol on her chest said. She had a large dog with an antenna on his head next to her. Kimiko was hesitant in petting the dog. “His name is Lockjaw, he likes hugs.”

Kimiko gave the gigantic dog a hug, at this moment, a portal opened and a very tall and ripped green skinned woman walked out alongside a goth Japanese girl carrying a gold staff in her normal arm, the other arm was black and appeared to belong to a fearsome mannequin.

“I just ran her tech through the Fantastic Four’s computers.” She-Hulk said. “The lady on the other end of the line was right, she’ll be back to her world at any moment. Meanwhile she can just wait here and hang.”

Kimiko shook her hand and showed her cup, indicating she wanted another milkshake.

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EARTH 77

Hughie was tied by his arms and legs in a chair, held captive by alternate versions of his allies. Mother’s Milk and Kimiko (or just ‘The Female’ as it seemed to be the only name she responded to in this universe) were the same but Butcher and Frenchie had different faces. Butcher didn’t have a beard, his hair was shorter, his jaw was bigger and his eyes much darker, but just the way he held his crowbar reminded Hughie that was in fact Billy Butcher. He pointed his crowbar to Hughie’s bracelet.

“I tried to break this so hard I could’ve taken your arm.” Butcher said. “But it didn’t break.”

“Supposed to send me back to my universe, the Earth One people made it - -”

Butcher interrupted Hughie putting the crowbar in Hughie’s.

“We know everything, mate. Aliens, magic, parallel universes, it’s all bollocks Vought made up for their comics. Tell the truth before I shove this crowbar so deep down your throat it comes out down your arse.” Butcher threatened and removed the crowbar.

“I’m telling you the truth! I’m Hughie! Just not your Hughie! I’m not a teleporting supe, if I was, I’d be out of here already. Shit, how the fuck can I prove it…? MM! Your dad, he was a lawyer, he tried to sue Vought and worked himself to death, you found him dead on his desk.”

“This motherfucker knows way too much.” MM said.

“You told me! Not you, you, Earth Seven you.”

“Jings,” Someone said as he entered the office. “I’m late one day and you get a hostage?”

The man presented a Scottish accent, Hughie took a look at him and recognized his own father, except they were around the same age despite the shaved head. He wore the same black trench coat as the others.

“Petit Hughie, this American connard claims to be you from a parallel universe.” Frenchie said.

“Dad…?” Hughie said.

“Dad?” Wee Hughie asked. “I’m sorry, is he from another universe or the future?”

“Neither, man, it’s all bullshit.” MM explained.

“I know, I’m not an idiot, I’m just trying to understand his story.”

“Campbell,” Hughie heard Waller say in his earpiece. “Keep them talking, if they’re anything like you and your friends, you might end up with a bomb up your ass if you don’t make this last long enough for the system to recalibrate.”

“Butcher recruited me,” Hughie said. “After A-Train ran through my girlfriend. Her name was Robin.”

Hughie could see in the face of his alternate self that he knew Robin’s name as well.

“He knows stuff.” MM explained. “He knew about my father.”

“A-Train didn’t run through my girlfriend.” Wee Hughie said. “He threw a supervillain at her. While I stood there…” Wee Hughie couldn’t finish the sentence.

“Holding her arms like a sucker, because that was all that was left of her. Same.”

Wee Hughie grabbed Hughie’s collar and lifted him with a chair above his head.

“You bloodless bastards, think you can play mind games with me!? Who sent you!? Any survivor from the G-Men!? Answer me!”

“Settle down, lad!” Butcher said. “You don’t need to play the rough, I already got him shitting bricks.”

Wee Hughie let Hughie and he fell, breaking the chair.

“Holy shit!” Hughie said. “You’re all supes here?”

“Will you ever let this shit go?” MM asked.

“Wait, wait, I know things only Hughie would know. Translucent, I killed him.”

“Who’s Translucent?” Wee Hughie asked.

“You don’t have Translucent on this Earth?” Hughie asked, astounded and then Butcher started stepping on his neck, pressing a little harder, and a little more harder.

“I’m tired of this prick.” Butcher said. “We’ll take his photo, show it to Legend, Queen Maeve, your bird, somebody will know who he is.”

Just then, Hughie’s bracelet started litting up and vibrating. A few seconds laters, Hughie disappeared in light just as he came, as well as the bag of guns he brought. Leaving the Boys confused as for what happened.

EARTH P

Butcher sat down at the lab watching footage of the Plutonian. He was a blonde, similar to both Homelander and Superman in different ways in the older footage wearing his white and red caped suit while he killed crowds of people with his powers. “How many times did Homelander want to do just that?” Butcher thought. The Plutonian’s golden power vision could cover someone’s entire body and reduce them to a flaming skeleton. In the earlier footage he had a buzzcut and no cape, his suit was red and black now, he was still killing people.

“You won’t stay here for long.” Bette Noir told Butcher. “No reason to have this in your mind.”

“Better safe than sorry, love. I need to get an idea what’s going to be like on my Earth if the main cunt does the same.”

Bette Noir was a woman with blue eyes and short black hair, she wore blue fashioned like a noir detective and carried a gun. Butcher laughed as he looked at her gun and the footage of the Plutonian killing hordes of the people. Butcher followed her back to Qubit’s lab where he had Amanda Waller on the screen looking very displeased. There was also a winged man with long hair and a beard next to Qubit.

“If the Plutonian is half of the threat you describe, there’s no way in Hell I’m risking him popping up in my reality.” Waller said.

“Not necessarily your reality.” Qubit explained. “But somewhere else in the Multiverse where we can escape him. People are desperate, literally nowhere to run.”

“I fail to see how that’s my problem. We’re working on sending Butcher to Earth Seven, he’ll be out of your hands in minutes.”

“I got the feeling I can’t count on the goodness of your heart to save billions of lives.”

“You got the right feeling.”

Butcher’s bracelet started litting up. He smiled wickedly, knowing what was about to happen.

“I guess it’s goodbye, mate.” Butcher said. “Good luck. You’ll need it.”

That last sentence was uncharacteristically serious. The last thing Billy Butcher said before he disappeared out of light with his belongings and even the earpiece Qubit had on the table. The winged man spoke to Qubit.

“So, this was all for nothing?” Gilgamos asked.

“Maybe not. We got the idea of the Multiverse, even if we can’t escape this universe, perhaps we could weaponize multiversal teleportation. But this would take a genius greater than mine.” Qubit said as he looked at the Modeus robots.

EARTH 1956

Apache Chief slapped the Legion of Doom’s spaceship to the ground, where the Super Friends waited for them. Frenchie looked around as he sneaked out of the ship and was enclosed by a sphere of green energy, a white Green Lantern wearing a mask was taking him away from the fight. Frenchie saw everything green from inside the sphere, like a bad filter used on a 80s children cartoon, where he figured he was in.

“Don’t worry, pal.” Green Lantern said. “You’ll be safe behind these rocks.”

Frenchie watched the cartoon battle between them. Despite the presence of powerful heroes like Firestorm, they never used too much power, matter of fact, they barely threw any punches. Frenchie heard somebody walking behind him, it was Captain Cold, pointing his gun at him.

“Stay right there!” Captain Cold said. “We won’t let you go before we find the secrets of your technology!”

“Oh, but you have to!” Someone said, a girl.

She was with a boy, both brown skinned and smiling, wearing the same purple jumpsuits and out of fashion hair.

“Jayna and Zan, the Wonder Twins!” Captain Cold said.

The two fist bumped and said together:

“Wonder Twin powers activate!” Reminiscent to Frenchie of the TNT Twins.

“Form of an elephant!” Jayna said and turned into an elephant.

“Form of water!” Zan said and turned as well.

Captain Cold, as if waiting for them to finish the transformation, tried to shoot at  the Wonder Twins. Zan, in his water form, covered Captain Cold’s whole body and when he shot, turned into ice and froze himself. Zan’s face was still down in the face with a few animated lines.

“It seems like Captain Cold became Captain Colder, Jayna.” Ice Zan said, and his sister used her elephant trunk to carry Captain Cold.

“Come on.” Jayna said. “It’s safe now.”

The villain’s spaceship was flying again. Frenchie somehow could perfectly see Lex Luthor on the window from a great distance, as if his eyes got to see him from a close up. Luthor lifted his fist at the heroes.

“You’re yet to see the last of me, Super Friends!” He said.

Frenchie walked to the Superfriends with Jayna and Zan. Superman and Batman both shook his hand.

“It’s good to see well.” Superman said.

“It’s good to be well, monsieur.”

“Hey,” Cyborg said. “If you’re having trouble going back to your reality I bet pops’ crew can fix you up at Star Labs.”

“Very gently but Madame Waller said I’ll be back home at any minute. But I’m grateful, this all reminds me of the things I watched when I was a petit. And for this Captain Cold connard, I hope he burns in hell!”

“I’m sorry…?” Jayna, still in elephant form, asked, very confused. “What do you mean burn in hell? He’ll be okay after the ice melts.”

“What? Non, non, he’s dead. When you freeze someone, the cells explode, they’re instantly dead.”

All the Super Friends’ jaws dropped, they couldn’t believe it. Robin shook as he pointed to the frozen body of Captain Cold.

“D-Does t-that means I'm looking at a dead body!?” Robin yelled and turned around, Frenchie could hear him vomiting but couldn’t see it.

“Recompose yourself, chum!” Batman said. “Now we have to arrest the Wonder Twins.”

“Oh my God.” Zan said, still as the ice covering Captain Cold. “Jayna, we’re not heroes, we’re murderers! What have we done!?”

Just then, seeing this talking animated piece of ice with a little face in it, Frenchie considered that the laws of physics and biology could not apply to this cartoon reality. Before he could say anything, the Super Friends started loudly arguing with each other and his bracelet showed a white light that made him disappear in a flash.

EARTH +

Mother’s Milk machine gunned a crowd of crossfaces, hidden behind an abandoned carriage with an old man and two other younger men with him also shooting at the crossfaces. One of the younger men got hit by an arrow on his shoulder. MM laid him down as the two others kept shooting.

“Easy, easy.” MM told him. “You’re out of danger, matter of fact, you better keep shooting because we need you.”

The look on the man’s face changed from expressionless to sadistic, a cross scar started emerging on his face. MM took the arrow out of his shoulder and put it through his eyeball, killing him. MM and the other two survivors ran, the old man couldn’t keep up with the younger and was left behind. The crossfaces snatched him and started removing his clothes, the old man yelled for help, MM looked back and when he saw the crossfaces putting their pants down, did the best he could do: Through a grenade at them, killing them all, including the old man.

“You just wasted a grenade.” The survivor said.

“If that was me, I’d consider it a favor.”

He kept going with the other survivor and headed to a barn. A crossface jumped out of a bush and killed the other survivor, his weapon: A severed woman’s head she carried by the ponytail, the head was filled with metal spikes.

“I’ll rip your prostate with my teeth!” The crossface yelled and MM shot her in the head.

MM ran to the barn and locked himself inside.

“MOO! I’m a cow! Hahahaha!” A crossface inside the barn said.

He was covered in blood and was wearing the head of a decapitated cow as a mask, his face was visible through the cow’s mouth. He attempted to attack MM with a pitchfork but MM dodge, took the pitchfork from him and put it through the crossface’s heart.

“Take me out of fucking Hell!” MM begged Waller through his earpiece.

“Done, you’ll be on Earth Seven in less than a minute.” Waller said.

“I hope I have a minute.”

Crossfaces started climbing inside the barn and MM gunned them down. MM took a bottle of rum on the ground of the barn and put a piece of clothing in it, he put out his lighter and lit it up. As more crossfaces climbed inside, he threw the bottle at them, and the fire started spreading. MM’s bracelet finally flashed its light.

“I’m here inside! Come get me!” MM screamed. “Come in and burn, motherfuckers.”

MM disappeared with a flash of light as more and more crossfaces got inside and started dying consumed by the fire.

EARTH 616

Gwenpool gave Kimiko one of her pairs of sunglasses, pink and with very transparent lenses.

“Just a little reminder of our Earth.” Gwenpool said.

Ms. Marvel stretched her arm to give Kimiko a new cup of Mocha Cola and sat next to her. Two Spider-Men entered the fast food, one taller wearing red and blue and a shorter one wearing black with red webs. The taller one was taking the lead.

“Today’s lesson: How to master the art of swinging while taking your lunch with you.” The taller Spider-Man said.

“That was last week’s lesson.” The other said, his voice sounded young.

“Yes, and you got soda all over your suit.”

“Look, it’s Spider-Man.” Viv Vision said. “Well, Spider- Men .”

The two Spider-Men walked over to their table.

“Of course this crossover needed a Spider-Man cameo.” Gwenpool said. “That’s Miles, he’s from another Earth too.”

“Hey!” Miles Morales said.

“Relax, she’s going back to her universe.”

“Is it just me, or is the whole Multiverse thing is getting tiring?” The older Spider-Man said.

Gwenpool laughed at Spider-Man. Kimiko’s bracelet’s light turned on.

“I think this means she’s going.” Ms Marvel said. “Bye, nice to meet you.”

All the other heroes said their goodbyes as Kimiko disappeared and she waved at them.