As he waited for the elevator to descend from the main floor to the laboratory, he held an ice cream cake inscribed with "Sweet Home" in sweet cream, a sarcastic nod to the place that haunted his worst nightmares. The jingle of the elevator signaled his arrival, and a sinister grin spread across his face.

”Well, hello.” The locals appeared shocked when they saw him arriving with a smile. Homelander recognized some familiar faces and noticed some new ones, but what really grabbed his attention was the sight of the red steel door, which brought back dark memories from his childhood.

He decided to have fun torturing those who made him suffer pain, shame, and misery. He left a poor man to burn alive in that oven where they tested his resistance to heat when he was a child. He also humiliated another man by making him expose himself in front of everyone touching himself, and then killing him. Everything was a mess until Barbara appeared at that elevator. His revenge was far from finished, but as he approached the red door, he pictured a figure inside, occupying the same dreadful place he once did. —A new child—.

The terror mirrored in the child's eyes was a reflection of himself, and he understood exactly what he should be experiencing. To be tortured, scrutinized, examined, dissected, and then discarded like trash.

”It’s okay… Homelander’s here to save you from this bad people, okay?”