I believe that once he gets a bit more familiar with the feeling of carrying people while flying, this kind of bad situation won’t happen again.
“Derek, long time no see. I watched your match just now; it was amazing! I really admire your control over lightning!”
At this moment, a magnetic and mature voice sounded beside Derek.
It was Peter’s father, Richard.
Derek smiled slightly at Richard: “Uncle Richard, long time no see. I only know a thing or two about lightning, not enough to earn Uncle Richard’s admiration.”
Richard shook his head and said seriously: “No, no, no. I’ve seen quite a few Superhumans over the years, and I’ve seen many elemental superpowered individuals as well, but I’ve never seen a Superhumans who can control and materialize lightning into the shape of a hammer like you can. That is simply incredible!”
“Perhaps.” Derek was very calm about this.
Seeing that Derek didn’t say much, Richard knew that Derek didn’t want to discuss the control of lightning abilities deeply with him, and couldn’t help feeling a bit regretful inside.
But he adjusted quickly.
After all, he was a biologist himself, not a physicist, and didn’t have such a strong exploratory spirit regarding electricity and the like.
Richard turned to invite:
“Derek, do you and Harry want to come over to the house for a bite to eat? Mary knew that Peter went to watch Vought’s The Seven tryouts tonight and would be back a bit later, so she specially baked some cookies as a late-night snack.”
Derek touched his belly.
Having fought a battle with Homelander, he was indeed a bit hungry, so he didn’t refuse.
“Then Harry and I won’t stand on ceremony.”
“Haha, bro, don’t be polite at Peter’s house, just treat it like your own home!”
As Peter’s best friend, Harry came to Peter’s house much more often than Derek, who didn’t even come once a year.
Harry was as familiar with Peter’s house as returning to his own home.
Even before Mary went to get the cookies, he took the cookie tray out of the kitchen oven himself.
“Hot, fresh cookies are here~”
Amidst laughter and cheers, Derek and Peter’s family had a very pleasant dinner.
Fifteen days later…
After a fifteen-day selection process by Vought Corporation (including five days of rest).
The final seven members of The Seven were finally selected.
And today was the day to announce all the members of The Seven.
At Vought’s press conference.
As Madelyn finished her lengthy introductory speech, the exciting moment finally began.
That was the appearance of all the members of The Seven!
“Let us first invite the leader of The Seven, Homelander, to introduce all the members of The Seven to us!”
But compared to his previous mood of desperately craving camera flashes and attention.
Homelander, walking out now, instead felt that these flashes and attention were somewhat dazzling.
Because just half a month ago, in front of countless flashes and gazes, in front of global audiences, he had been beaten up until he begged for mercy!
The meme of him beaten into a pig’s head and begging for mercy had now spread all over the internet!
Good news: he got his wish to make his name famous worldwide…
Bad news: it was in the form of spoofing negative memes…
This gave Homelander a bit of post-war PTSD!
He always felt that the flashes and gazes below were malicious, waiting to watch his fun, watch him make a fool of himself, and waiting for him to contribute new memes!
“Homelander, Homelander?”
As Madelyn’s calls continued to ring in his ears, Homelander finally recovered from that paranoid and mentally fragile state.
“Homelander, it’s time to introduce your new members.”
Homelander took a deep breath, steadied his mind, picked up the manuscript, and forced a fake smile on his face:
“Now let us invite the six members of The Seven…”
“The master of lightning, Derek!”
“The mysterious ninja, Black Noir!”
“The ultimate speed, Mr. Marathon!”
“The queen of both strength and elegance, Maeve!”
“The king of fire, Lamplighter!”
“The nonexistent person, Translucent!”
Following Homelander’s words, members of The Seven walked out from backstage one by one.
And except for Derek, who was wearing an ordinary shirt, all the other members wore various battle suits.
Therefore, when Derek came out and The Seven of them stood together, it looked rather out of place.
He looked more like a host, just like Madelyn hosting beside him.
However, regarding this, no one felt that there was anything wrong.
Even the other members of The Seven, as well as the reporters off stage, felt the same.
This was the influence brought by strength.
Therefore, even wearing an ordinary shirt, Derek was still the most handsome guy present!
Derek glanced at the people beside him.
He wasn’t surprised by the others, but upon seeing Mr.
Marathon, he frowned and asked Homelander beside him:
“Where is A-Train? Wasn’t he already among the candidates for The Seven before?”
Honestly, Homelander really didn’t want to pay attention to Derek right now.
But he was afraid that if he ignored Derek, Derek would beat him again.
Therefore, Homelander could only turn his head and whisper an explanation to Derek: “Vought’s upper management thinks A-Train is a Black guy, which would lower the class of The Seven, so they replaced him with a white speedster to enter The Seven…”
Derek: …
Damn, Vought’s upper management turned out to be dark knights?
That’s not right, he remembered that Vought’s CEO, the fried chicken uncle, was also a Black person?
And isn’t Vought forming The Seven engaging in political correctness, cozying up to LGBT individuals?
Such a great political correctness propaganda tool as A-Train, and they aren’t using him?
Now, except for Black Noir, that guy who never reveals his true face, The Seven are all white people.
Won’t they really get flak for disrespecting people of color?
Derek found that he couldn’t quite understand Vought anymore.
However, Derek couldn’t be bothered to think too much about it.
Missing just one Black guy wasn’t a big deal anyway.
Derek glanced around at the others and frowned again: “Is Translucent acting this pretentious? He’s still invisible during The Seven’s first group appearance. I think this guy is extremely disrespectful to us!”
“Homelander, use your X-ray vision to see where Translucent is. How about we drag him to the restroom and beat him up later?”
Homelander: ???
Good grief, what do you mean I am Homelander, you fucking are Homelander!
Wanting to bully a teammate on the very first day of forming The Seven, are you serious?
Looking at the stunned Homelander, Derek narrowed his eyes slightly: “What, you’re not willing?”
“Ah no, no, willing, of course I’m willing, I’ll find him right away!”
Seeing Derek’s cold gaze, Homelander trembled all over and immediately activated his X-ray vision to scan around.
But after scanning the entire stage and even off stage, he didn’t find any trace of Translucent.
At this moment, even Homelander’s expression became ugly.
He gritted his teeth, puffing out his cheeks: “That guy Translucent actually didn’t come at all, he stood us up. He’s asking for death!”