(Logan POV)
Maggie and I stare at one another for a few seconds as we both have looks of mixed emotions. Then Maggie walks over to me and pulls me into a deep passionate kiss which I quickly return. We both lost each other in the kiss just expressing our hidden feelings to the other. Before Frenchie's whistle and clapping snapped us out of the stupor.
"You two can fuck later, right now we have to worry about Homelander and the Nazi bitch," Butcher says as he grabs our things and we load the van and his car.
"Wait! What Maggie and my tracking chips?" Starlight says as everyone looks very nervous now.
"Right, come here. This will hurt, but just bite down on… uh, this," I say looking around and finding a bundle of gauze to give them to bite down on.
"No, we need that to wrap the wounds! Here take this," MM says grabbing some leather belts and handing it over.
I then take out a single claw and slowly cut into Starlight who groans while biting down on the belt. After a few seconds of making sure I don't cut anything important, I see the tracking chip and pull it. I then do the same to Maggie before running to the bathroom tossing them into the toilet and flushing them. I came back to see MM patching them as the others finished loading our things.
"Where too?" Frenchie asks me as I get into the driver's seat of the van. My thoughts go to a place outside of the city, several hours away deep in the woods where I built a cabin off the grid over the years.
"A place I kept away even from the eyes of Uncle Sam or atleast I hope, since it is off the grid. The electrical company isn't even aware there is a structure there," I say as we pull out of the city.
"What is gonna happen next?" Starlight says, only Butcher was driving with MM and everyone else was in the van.
"We are going to expose Stormfront as the Nazi she is. Then we need to get Homelander away from the city and confront him. With all of us, it should be enough to leave me the chance to behead him or stab him in the heart," I say as Frenchie nods his head.
As we drive Frenchie suddenly gets a call and answers the phone with a surprised look on his face. Frenchie then suddenly curses, before hanging up the phone after listening for a bit. We all look at him waiting for him to explain, as he rubs his face in annoyance.
"Shawn says we need to get to the place he is working. Apparently, Stormfront is in charge of it and is now giving the order to speed up whatever it is they are working on," Frenchie says as I grumble.
"First to the safe house, then we'll deal with that," I say with a sigh.
"Shawn?" Hughie says since he doesn't know about Lamplighter.
"He was known as Lamplighter but got thrown under the bus for his stupid ass being well stupid. We were able to flip him, however, he has been working at this hospital made for supes. From what we know he was their clean-up guy, meaning he killed the supes there who were no longer valuable," I say as Annie looks horrified along with Hughie, with Maggie just glaring in the distance.
"You didn't stop this sooner?!" Annie says with an annoyed voice.
"You think we can be everywhere at once? Because our main objective was targeting active supes, not a hospital that was killing them. Plus at the time it would have been detrimental to the mission to target the place," I say snapping at Annie who winces from my angry tone.
"You don't need to tell me the horrors of places like that! I was there in WW2 and liberated a few camps, nothing much worse than seeing the shit the Nazis did to those unfortunate souls," I say to Annie as my mind wanders to the concentration camps, as Maggie puts her hand on my shoulder.
"I… I–" Annie says looking at me with an apologetic look.
"Just stop talking, ok. I have a lot to worry about and I don't need anyone's shit right now," I say to her as everyone goes quiet for the rest of the journey.
In a couple more hours we finally arrived at my cabin which was even a few dozen miles off the main road. The van and Butcher's shitty car were shaking a lot due to the off-road driving for the last few miles. My cabin was not that large only having two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen/living room. The cabin had running water and electricity using solar/wind.
"Looks… cozy," Maggie says while looking at the place.
"Better than nothing," I say walking over and unlocking the place as everyone enters and sees the place.
"Needs some cleaning, haven't been here in a few years now," I say since the place had decent dust build-up and looked abandoned for the last few years.
"Fuck it, at least there is running water and power," MM says seeing the setup.
"I get the main bedroom, Maggie feel free to join me. The rest of you can fight for the second bedroom and couch," I say walking past them to my room with Maggie smirking at them following me.
We then all unpacked our things and cleaned the place the best we could before finally relaxing for a bit. I grabbed a few bottles of liquor I had in storage here, while Hughie and Annie looked through the food I had here.
"That is a lot of canned food," I hear Hughie say as we are all sitting in the kitchen/living room.
"Yeah, some of it is a few years old, but should still be good. Though check the date before eating it," I say as Hughie is looking through the cabinets at the canned goods and other non-perishable foods I stocked up on years back.
"So, when are we dealing with Shawn's issue?" Frenchie says as Hughie and Annie decide to make dinner for us with whatever they found.
"Tomorrow morning we can head over… should only be a couple hours away. Then we can get the details from him and decide how to move forward. Annie, Hughie, think you guys can contact that news channel you leaked Compound V to and give them what I have on Starlight being a Nazi?" I say as they turn to look at me before nodding their heads.
"Good, then you too deal with that. Then the rest of us will head to the hospital," I say as everyone nods thier heads.
We all then eat the somewhat not-terrible dinner Annie and Hughie made. Afterward, Maggie and I headed to our room as Annie managed to secure the other room for her and Hughie. Kimiko got the couch after some threatening, while Butcher said fuck it and slept in his car. With Frenchie and MM grabbing some extra blankets and pillows for the floor.
The following morning, I woke up early with Maggie sleeping on my chest with a smile on her face. I slipped out from under her without waking her and walked into the kitchen to make everyone coffee. After the coffee brewed I walked outside with two cups and knocked on Butcher's window handing him the second cup.
"Thanks," Butcher says taking the cup and getting out to stretch.
"Listen, I know you can only think about Becca right now. I get that, but we can't do anything until Homelander is taken care of," I say to him while lighting up a cigarette and offering him one which he declines.
"I know mate… But I can't promise I won't be thinking 'bout her the whole time," Butcher says to me as I nod my head.
"Just don't do anything stupid… well more stupid than usual," I say to him as he just snorts in response.
"So, you like your married life now?" Butcher says to me with a smirk breaking the silence that took place as we sat on the porch enjoying the peace of nature.
"Ha, ha… Though if I'm being honest I could see myself settling down with her. She is the first woman I've met who could maybe live alongside me," I say since it seems Compound V either extends their lifespans or makes them ageless.
"Hey if her crazy matches your's then it's good," Butcher says as I chuckle.
Slowly everyone else woke up and we all ate breakfast and then prepared for our separate duties. Annie and Hughie would be copying my pictures of Stormfront and other information they found on her, before sending it to the same news agency they leaked Compound V to. As for the rest of us, we got into the van and drove to the hospital where Shawn is now working.
"Frenchie, call Shawn and tell him we are on our way. I want him to meet us when we arrive briefing us on the situation," I say as Freniche nods his head before calling Shawn.
In a couple of hours, we finally arrived at the hospital maybe around midday. We pulled up about a half mile away before using the van as a way to spy on the place. Butcher climbed on top of the van with the same rifle he used to shoot starlight, to give overwatch. A few minutes later Butcher told us he saw Shawn walking toward us, we can then all see Shawn after he comes over the hill.
"So, what's the situation exactly?" I say as Shawn walks over with a small wave and smile on his face seeing us.
"No, hi? It's been forever since I've seen you guys," Shawn says as I roll my eyes.
"Hello," Frenchie says waving his hand and Kimiko copies him making Shawn smile again.
"Focus, we aren't here for pleasantries. Now, explain what changed since before you called," I say to him as he sighs nodding his head.
"So, Stormfront was originally using this place for what seems like finding powerful supes and brainwashing them. Then a few hours before I called you yesterday Stormfront called telling us to prepare to clean house today. Which means purging the supes here and burning any evidence that would tie Vought to this place," Shawn says to us as we all grumble.
"Shit, ok. Then we need to get that evidence before it is destroyed," I say as everyone nods their heads.
"What about the people inside?" Frenchie says as we all get out of the van, with Butcher and Maggie staying behind in case we need outside assistance.
"I mean most are straight-up insane or their powers are just a complete danger to themselves or others, so…" Shawn says as we change into the staff uniforms he brought us.
"Frenchie, first worry about the documents and other evidence, then we'll worry about the people," I say as Frenchie looks like he wants to object but sighs and nods his head, after seeing my look.
"Everyone ready? Good let's go, Shawn bring us to the places we need to gather the evidence at," I say as Shawn nods his head and we enter the hospital.