
Annie January, also known as Starlight is the tritagonist of the 2019 Amazon Prime adaptation of the comic book series The Boys.
She is a superheroine who has been selected as the newest member of the Seven, and comes to learn that everything she thought about the team is not close to it. While dealing with having to bend some of her morals, she begins a romantic relationship with Hughie Campbell, who is secretly a member of the Boys. As the series progresses, Annie finds herself acting as an asset for Hughie's team in their attempt to defeat Homelander and end Vought's control over the public.
Moral Ranking: Near Pure Good
Countdown To Chang's Guide To The Galaxy[]
Chapter 2[]
Starlight was privy to The Seven's attempts on getting Sid arrested through her visiting Luz's house and she followed them to the Noceda House, She was aware of Bender, Anti Cosmo, Slade and Libby's investigation and sides with them to bring down Vought as soon as she makes herself prevlant
This works as she saves Vee and Libby from the former being abducted by Homelander. She then introduces herself to Libby, Anti Cosmo and Bender but her real name is Anne Janunary and explains to all of them about her history with Vought International and the 7 she used to be part of. When questioned by Bender what she knows.

Bender, Libby and Anti Cosmo realize now that they have another ally to go after Vought, which means they're one step closer. Sid and Lisa decide they want to go invesitgate the remants of M.A.L.I.C.E and get some info on the leader of the group. Sid know M.A.L.I.C.E members are alive and that maybe they figure who set up the team. Wile E and Jessie Wells are asked to be brought up to speed on this and Lisa says she gladly do so. Starlight also agrees to this , and she will help them get through, as she knows they're in pretty tight confinement.
Irkens however show up and this is when they realize that they will have to make a detour and change of plans.
Chapter 3[]
As Anti Cosmo, Bender, Jessie, Libby, Lisa, Sid, Starlight, Vee and Wile E all run away from the Irkens even taking their ship to do so. Some of the group is questioning what those things even are, Anti Cosmo and Bender both being familar with them tell the group they're Irken Invaders, part of the empire of alien conquerers. Bender explains further that Dib was someone who knew they existed and Zim landed on earth and it took a while but he managed to expose Zim as an alien to people who would beleve him. He feels some sypthany over the fact people were asses to Dib on this.
Starlight and Jessie both fight off the Irken Ships due to their mass amount of ships.
Bender and Anti Cosmo help Starlight and Jessie with magic and arms respectively. Starlight managed to blind and send a few of the Irkens packing and Jessie knocks out even more of them with her speed and quick hits
Anti Cosmo and Starlight get everyone else and they decide to do their darnest to prevent their crash from being too castahsopic.
Wile E admits that he won't be able to fix this ship not with the right parts. Starlight considers just getting a new vechile to use, though Wile E is stubborn and wants his own ship to be used.
Bender, Anti Cosmo, Wile E, Libby, Lisa, Jessie Wells, Sid, Vee and Starlight all approach The Membrane Household and knock on the door.
Bender, Anti Cosmo, Sid, Libby, Lisa, Jessie, Wile E, Starlight and Vee go looking around and they go into Dib's room and notice a transmission from The Swollen Eyeball Network at Dib's Laptop. Wile E and Lisa manage to get it and it turns to be from Agent Darkbootie the head who was looking for Agent Mothman who Bender knows is Dib.
Wile E, Jessie and Starlight all look through Dib's stuff and are suprised how much Dib was into paranormal stuff and Vee is a little freaked out.
As Anti Cosmo, Bender, Jessie Wells, Libby, Lisa, Sid, Starlight, Vee and Wile E Coyote all head out to see Agent Darkbottie, this is when Professor Membrane shows up and recongizes Bender as Dib's close friend and what is he doing here. Libby questions his knowledge on Vought if he knew about Bruce Wayne, Starlight is also questioning this too as she was aware of Bruce Wayne/Batman though not through Libby, Anti Cosmo and Bender.
Bender, Anti Cosmo, Sid, Lisa, Libby, Vee, Starlight, Wile E, Jessie Wells and Professor Membrane all watch and The Smoking Man greets the former as it nice to see them again.
With Membrane, Anti Cosmom and Bender caught by The Smoking Man and Martian General Z-9,Starlight does offer to help the three and Anti Cosmo and Bender state she can later and tells the others to find Agent Darkboothe
Starlight goes after Dregg and matches him blow for blow with her strength and then uses her powers to absorb electricity from his ship to Send Dregg downwards and Libby decides to take an opporunity to take a weapon of Dregg's people and uses it to take out more Irkens.

Sid, Vee, Starlight, and Libby are successful in stalling the Irkens, and they end up killing hundreds thanks to Wile E rigging the ships with TNT and Lisa detonating it.
Starlight flies off to find Professor Membrane, Bender and Anti Cosmo
Starlight arrives to see The Resisty, Bender, Anti Cosmo and Professor Membrane. The Resisty informs Starlight, Bender, Anti Cosmo and Professsor Membrane that they can break the latter 3 out.
Starlight joins Bender and Anti Cosmo upon realizing that they have M.A.L.I.C.E Members they're seeing and a plan to find out more info.
Bender, Starlight and Anti Cosmo end up encountering Killain, Steelbeak, The Miller Family and The Ys.
They tell the two about their deals with M.A.L.I.C.E, their knowledge on The Smoking Man and other stuff that occured. Starlight questions and he just came back like that, Killian and Steelbeak state that he kept his own opeartion secret and that Vought was in league with him ever before now.
The Ys, The Millers, Killian and Steelbeak decide to get even with CSM and reveal Operation: Countdown to Bender, Anti Cosmo and Starlight. Scratch shows up randomlly with Carmilta Noceda stating that he doesn't of the operation. But knows Carmilla was caught to lure Luz out.
Professor Membrane and Starlight both state that they won't be alone they have someone on their side. Ren Amamiya who knows Starlight though she doesn't know him. Ren states it's because he's from the future.
Anti Cosmo, Bender, Professor Membrane, The Resisty, Starlight, Carmilla, Scratch and Ren all get to work on their top secret plan. When they learn that they have a vistor.
Professor Membrane tells them, that Dib was created by him but was meant for Batman for an opporunity to have a son of his own, alongside Gaz who was based on his dead wife. Membrane admits he was doing this when he worked for Vought, he used to work for Vought but backed out when their work got too much for him. Starlight questions what Membrane knows and Membrane states he knows everything on Homelander he could get as he didn't trust Homelander and worked with the previous heads, quitting when Homerlander killed Matlhlyn. Starlight asks if Membrane wants to expose Homelander and Vought
Membrane states he would like to do , now with Batman dead and Dib and Gaz no longer safe from Vought.
Bender, Anti Cosmo and Starlight question how Membrane got away and how Batman is involved with this., Membrane states that Vought tried to kill him, Dib and Gaz after he tried to go after Homelander, Professor Membrane has also had to deal with The Seven all wanting his head, so he had to basically cease communciation with both of his kids. He gave Dib to Bruce Wayne, so he can fulfill his interests and excel under him. Bender states and Vought has been on his shit list that long. Membrane states and as for Gaz, he had to give her up to someone else with purple hair to make the charade it, as he tried to find a way to keep Voght and The Seven
Ren tells Scartch, Bender and Anti Cosmo that he did hail from the future, but something happened in the timeline that forced himself and his friends into the past. Ren states that he has been trying to get into touch with his friends, who were teenage super heroes and monster slayers while trying to get in touch with his girlfriend, Ren states that his girlfriend is a girl named Eliza Papillon and shows a picture of them to the three. Bender sarcastically that he is totally suprised that he gets involved with a woman out of his league, Starlight comments that his girlfriend Eliza is very attraactive. Ren states she is more than a pretty face with blonde hair and blue eyes, He has known her for a while, he tells them that Eliza is a intellgent, Strong, courageous, but also caring, kind and humble despite all of her power. Ren even admits that Starlight was who taught her in turn as well as her friends and him.Starlight asks who is she in the future, Ren states someone of great respect. Scratch states of course she will be told this from the guy in the future
Bender, Anti Cosmo, Ren, Scratch and Starlight hear the Janitor calling out and it's Agent Darkboothe who was keeping a track as well of everything. He offers them a way to get out, Bender states they have been working on a way, but they'll take his help.
Anti Cosmo, Bender, Professor Membrane, Starlight, Carmilta, The Resisty, Ren, Scratch and even Killian, Steelbeak, The Miller Family and The Ys all decide to wait for the right moment to attack and once guards do manage to get their backs. They all attack the Guards with Agent Darkboothe's orders for them all.
Starlight blinds all them with the light and useing the electricity in the cell, which allows The Reisisty, Scrtach and Professor Membrane to steal all the weapons that CSM and Makarov's men have. The former M.A.L.I.C.E members attack Blackfire who uses her personal bodyguards to go after them
Blackfire gloats that even though they escaped, they will still be killed as Number 1 and CSM dropped a bomb to kill them with Makarov. The Reisisty gets thier ship crashing into the prison with Agent Darkboothe and everyone escapes as Makarov, Blackfire, Zib and THe Smoking Man blow up the prison killing the latter's allies.
Wile E, Jessie, Sid, Lisa, Vee and Libby all with Darkboothe's allies are continuing their attempts to fight and take out the Martians they CSM sent after them. This is when The Resisty shows up with Bender, Anti Cosmo, Carmilta, Ren, Scratch, Starlight, Professor Membrane and Agent Darkboothe and all of them manage to basically force the Martians to back off as Libby uses old country music to basically kill the Martians.
This baffles them as The Martians retreat realziing the human has found their weakness though plenty are still killed by Bender, Anti Cosmo, Libby, Sid, Lisa, Wile E, Vee, Carmilta, Professor Membrane, The Reissity, Agnet Darkboothe and his men and Starlight.
Bender, Anti Cosmo and Starlight reveal to them that they encountered former M.A.L.I.C.E. Members, Blackfire and Zib. Starlight tells the crew, that The Smoking Man was in contact with Vought for a long while, and it's not just recent. Professor Membrane states that this is a convincing halluncation despite everyone saying this is real to him.
Starlight states that they have all kinds of evidence to incriminate Homelander and The Cigarette Smoking Man, but no one to believe them. Ren tells Starlight she will have a way and he knows it, he looks up to her in the time he's from. Starlight asks if she and Hughie stayed together, Ren admits yes they did they got away from Homelander though that's all he can say. Starlight asks about Ren's Eliza and Ren states that she can take care of herself, though tells her, the girl went through a lot of hardships, heck she may not have even know her real parents. Ren admitted he was friends with her for years and didn't realize he was in love with her until he had a epithany and she for him. Ren states that he also wants to get back to keep his theives safe as while capable on their own, he's the leader for a reason.
Libby states and that she and Bender will insure the bringdown of Vought International which Starlight and Anti Cosmo agree to.
Chapter 4[]
Starlight joins Bender, Anti Cosmo and Libby in discussing the conspiracy theorist idea Bender has in mind to get for the job with them and questions trusting a man that unhinged. She considers just getting the Boys to investigate, though Wile E shoots this down as Homelander is already aware of how much of a threat Hughie and Billy are to him and that they have a bit more of an edge as Homelander isn't as aware of them as he is of the boys.
After departing from the talk, Starlight observes Ren and begins thinking on how she grew to into this savior figure and leader figure she is in his future as while she knows of her potential, what caused it to her, as they work together to figure out time laws as Ren doesn't believe there are that much responsible time travelers where he comes from as he heard form Calamity. Starlight tells Ren that he and his friends will get home as she will make sure of it and see his girlfriend in one piece.
Upon arriving in Arlen, and meeting Dale, her view is confirmed, though she realizes that a guy like him could be of help when he refuses to play ball against Homelander and Captain Putty. This is a big deal to her, as so many people are scared of Homelander, and Dale not giving any inchs to Homelander despite being a coward seems admirable to her even if it's minimal.
Starlight joins Bender, Dale, Anti Cosmo, Wile E, Scartch, The Resisty, Ren and Professor Membrane in going to the base to find more info on Operation Countdown and disguises herself as a solider with Ren, Professor Membrane and Dale and acts careful not to use her powers not to give Homelander vindication about wanting Supes in the army. When they find the main computer, She with Ren, Dale and Membrane manage to extact the info and learn about Operation Countdown's real play and what The CSM has already done before with a temporary distortion of space and time.
Starlight tells the rest of the crew of this as they head to Alamo Land, Starlight and the others are attacked by Blackfire, Zib, Putty and CSM. Starlight, Ren, Bender and Professor Membrane all fight back against them with Starlight and Ren fighting Blackfire while Bender and Membrane fight Zib. Starlight is able to defeat Blackfire with Ren's help due to her powers and she stunns Blackfire in the nick of time to escape and pins her down with Ren's help.
Arriving to Alamo Land, Starlight saves Sid from Homelander and stands up to him with Bender and Ren. Despite his threats, the three attack him and manage to get him away from Sid, albeit they don't overpower him as Starlight is still tired from her fight with Blackfire like Ren and Bender from their own encounters. As she rests up, she sees Professor Membrane with an sample of Tighten's cells and inquires him about them and learning of Bender's association with the president, the two hand the vital of what they got from Tighten to Deathstroke as Bender and Anti Cosmo talk to him about Blackfire.
Chapter 5[]
Starlight helps keep eyes on anything, and notices someone spied on them alongside Dale. But she has no idea what was doing just that as does Dale. With a new objective in mind, Starlight looks through what Slade and the others gave them, and she sees an opportunity to take them down as Slade showed Ac and Bender. Starlight, Bender, Slade, Anti Cosmo are all unafraid of Homelander no matter what he threatens, so she decides to wait for the right time to expose him
Joining Anti Cosmo, she helps him find the Weather Trio and Moltres, using her light powers she helps the others navigate through Mt.Sliver so they can find Moltres. Using what the Professor gave them, they catch Moltres with the master Balls. She and the others then get back to Wile E and Jessie who found out to get the weather Trio and what to use.
Starlight flies the others to Cianwood City and then helps nativgate them to the Embedded Tower to capture the Weather Trio.
With only the roaming legendaries left on their list, they go looking for Entei and Raikou as she tames Suciune to help them with their quest respectfully.
Chapter 6[]
Assisting the others, Starlight manages to track down and capture Raikou and Entei. Slade having arrived on his own terms gets the crew other than Anti Cosmo and Bender to Halverston and Area as he will take care of that aspect. Following through with this, Starlight gets there and gets back with Slade's Empire as well as Luan and Dr.Wells who were with the Boys respectively.
This is when The Smoking Man makes his move and has his allies invade and Starlight participates in the fight against them. She is aware this is Homelander's moves and retailation towards her, Slade, Anti Cosmo and Bender who give no shits about Homelander thinking he can do what he wants.
Blinding and dealing with the oppositon, the whole group bands together to stop Countdown from progressing.
Finale[]
Starlight decides to take on the alien invaders and helps the others defeat CSM's forcesJoining with her friends she and the others kill The Deep and bring in Tighten to Hades and HIM to bring back to the underworld
Starlight joins Bender, Slade, Anti Comso and The Boys in dealing with Homelander who she isn't scared of and helps them stall, defeat and kill Homelander.After seeing off Ren and Kate, they tell her she has proven why they look up to her in where she is now. Confusing Annie
Hughie and Benny confirm they won the Vought Case, and Starlight being the only actual member of the 7 around and not in hiding, this puts her in charge though she decides to give it to Professor Membrane who brings her and Hughie in to reform Vought to a more benevolent organization.

Chronicles of Zaragoza[]
Chapter 3: Solider Boy's Final Stand[]
Starlight arrives to see the heroes and talk with Cecil alongside Hughie She took over Vought with Hughie Campbell after Homelander's death and she found a way to perserve youth as she reveals
She states that she has been keeping her eyes on the others with Cecil. Starlight promises Ren a way back to his friends in The Phantom Thieves. She knows him particually well, but accepts what he and they do
She also knows about Solider Boy and reveals her own history with the guy
She agrees to help them though she admits she was always going to help them
As it's not safe to do anything where they are, the group on Larke's ideas decide to head to the northern multiverseStarlight and Hughie initally about getting the other Boys involved, though they decide against it
She approaches Lizbeth, Starlight decides to inform her of what she does know about it on Larke's insistence in regards to Ciel, Ren and her talk as well when it comes to everything. Starlight basically guides him to go his own way
They head off to Blue Falcon's lair only to get ambushed and Starlight just decides to straight up fight as its' the only way to get to safety Upon blinding the enemy fraction, Starlight and the others get to Blue Falcon's lair as they brief what they're going to do.
Sharon Carter finds them with her super soliders and Starlight can tell SB is trying to wear them out as they once again have to fight
Star takes on the Winter Solider unlike the other girls, She does manage to wrestle it down respectfully but also must deal with back up and she works with Hughie to deal with this. Working with Lizbeth, Larke and Connie's group they bait Solider Boy to take Lizbeth and they go then to save her after the bait was set.
Starlight and her friends find his base and they deal with the rest of the generals, She takes a direct hand in helping the others against Solider Boy as they will need all the help they can get as he is defiiently not easy to deal with. Despite their combined forces, they only manage to go for a draw with him. Though Upon being confronted and exposed by them, Solider Boy decides to give up and asks the heroes to kill him as he can't deal with this and that he has been around too long and can't live here anymore. He tells Lizbeth to go her own way, he sees the truth like he has the whole time. Like that Starlight and the others kill Solider Boy
She excapes with the others and Starlight tells Lizbeth and the others that they will be always watching, be it hero stuff or just to hang out. After that she ponders to Hughie what these words meant.
Chapter 4: Dread The Unknown[]
She learns of the invasion of Lord Commander and his men from Larke, Betty and the others, She and Hughie remember this from when The CSM tried to do this and they head off to do what they can. Starlight and Hughie decide to focus on saving the heroes respectfully than taking out the aliens. Larke and Starlight set up a safe sick bay for everyone especially hearing from Ren who states the Bird man infected Lizbeth with some bio warfare thing.
Starlight observes Lizbeth's room and she is worried as Lizbeth has something that is just new in her and needs to do something. Ren approaches her about this as he wants to confess how he feels about her and is worried he's losing her to that man. Starlight tells him to do what he needs to, make sure if they can't be together with her near death's door give her a reason to die happy. However Annie finds out about Larke and Betty's work and reveal that they have a solution for helping Lizbeth.
Annie tells Ren about this afterwards and tells him that they'll find a way and will use it on her. Ren informs Starlight of what he had in mind so they can go to Japan to help him and her by default. Starlight decides to join them in this, following Cecil.
She meets Ann, Rejiji and Morgana and they discuss what will go on. Despite her wishes, she agrees to pose as the mom to them as she can pass off for the role convincible as it is as Larke is the president. Starlight tries to get in contact with Hughie separately put learns the communication was cut off some how and goes to Larke and Betty who give it a try themselves, she learns he went underground himself.
Throughout the week, she observes Kelly training with Rejijij for a rematch with the Mawkin Empire and she decides to look into a way to use the full extent of her powers, as while her powers have grown over the years. Starlight feels she needs to help more.
Upon learning of what Kate found out respectfully, Starlight joins Cecil and the other super heroes to go get the tesseract knowing Lord Commander wants it, as it needs to be on them at all times as the Guard will find it. They do get it, but they find themselves dealing with corrupt politicans and Mozer with the Martians. While they do manage to get it away from them, They don't fare so well against Raven Beak who demands the Tesseract and find themselves fleeing when he sends an E.M.I.S atfer them. The E.M.I.S manage to shrug off most of the group's attacks and Starlight does manage to do something to them, it's clear that it will need more than her powers to destory them, Despite this They do get the Tesseract to safety and bring back to the group and Starlight warns her friends about Raven Beak and the E.M.I.S seeing him on par with or even more dangerous than Lord Commander as Starlight feels.
Starlight enters Space with her friends to deal with the Commander and his group, She sees Hughie in Frozen Carbonite and tries to break him out of this with Tech. They are though hindered by Mozer and The Martians who try to control them with their enslaved servants. Not out to hurt innocents, she has Lizbeth's arrival used to deal with them while she blinds them with her light powers and remembers where the carbonite is as they leave to deal with the rest.
She goes after Vengus and fights him to a standstill and manages to defeat the Ixions with her true power thus allowing her town to get their oil. She goes to try and save Hughie though Raven Beak managed to put him with the others he captured and learning Raven Beak's true intent, she needs to lay low as Raven Beak might just a find way to use her Supe DNA like he intends with Lizbeth.
Chapter 5: Return Of The Heroes/Raven Beak Strikes Again[]
Starlight has secretly been fighting Raven Beak's Guard in secret intend to save Hughie and The Boys as it turns out, she ends up discovering what Raven Beak has in mind with them to her horror. She gets back to the others at some point and informs them of what happened respectfully. When Spider Noir tells him of what he did do, She one ups him by revealing her hand
Starlight joins the others in heading through the rest of the Mawkin Guard, and then takes on them in their hideout. She personally saves The others from their carbonite, though she finds out Birdman was killed as Raven Beak killed him and mounted his head to the wall.
With Raven Beak's defeat, they find out Lizbeth was brought back to Japan with Ann and they go back to there after clean up. Starlight goes with the others in Japan to celebrate Lizbeth's 16th birthday and learns that she underwent her full on upgrade. She tells Lizbeth what happened with her parents and that she can insure they can home safety.
Chapter 6: The Arrival of Earth X[]
Starlight has recovered contact with the Boys respectfully and kept a maternal role to Ren learning he and Eliza slept together and knowing the latter is now infertile thanks to the work done on her. She keeps her on Eliza too, acknowledging how far she has come from the girl she met, helping her deal with Chloe.
Things turn to a head when The Nazis invade and Stormfront is part of it who she engages with before returning back to base with Cecil and the others. She then meets Dakota and Cavendish who report what caused the 4 of Eliza's friends to go missing as did Luan's arrival
Realizing the situation she tags along with the others, to get help. All the while dealing with the Nazis who consider her a traitor for not joining up with them. Starlight rebunks them and has learnt new powers over her time where she absorbs electricity and uses it against them.
She meets back with Ann and they learn that The Reichmen have trying to recuit her as well as Eliza like they have a certain type. She helps Eliza and Noir deal with Stormfront again as well as Over Girl before going to Royal Woods and Los Angeles in regards to the Tesseract and learning about the Infinity Stones.
Starlight uses her own powers to help bring the others back and learns Cassie has changed herself and Ren runs to hug her as he tells her he met her in the past, Starlight begins to think the timeline was changed was somehow and them going back proved it.
Chapter 7: X Marks the Spot[]
Starlight discovers the Infinity Stones with the others and goes to get the Reality Stone with them. She is crucial to many of the attacks Dark Arrow tries to pull, though she has some trouble with Siren X respectfully
Thanks to her and the others, they manage to find The Reality Stone and when she learns Ren failed to get the Time Stone, she admits she would have given up the stone if her friends or loved ones were targeted so they didn't do anything wrong.
Chapter 8: Earth X's Last Stand[]
Starlight decides to help her friends pursue the Power Stone to protect them from Stormfront and other Nazis. She manages to keep the Nazis and symptathizers from hurting her friends, though The Drawn Together ally does manage to distract her enough to get the chance to knock her and her friends off course
Starlight notices how Tech E and Cecil are working on a way to know how to carry the Power Stone, She does deal with Stormfront on occassion though Stormfront was more concerned about something else at that point
Helping her friends she finds the Power Stone and gets it to safety using her Supe DNA to be able to stand it. Upon hearing of Smoak's capture, she leads the way to save her friends, taking on Over Girl to insure of the heroes being able to defeat Dark Arrow and feels Eliza needs to deal with Dark Arrow.
Once Dark Arrow is defeated, Starlight helps Eliza and the others save Felicity by using her own powers to help Eliza who takes the energy away to save her with Tech's invention putting it somewhere else. She meets back with the Boys and learns of what they dealt with.
The Bad Guys and The Boys[]
Starlight joins everyone in dealing with Kang with Deathstroke and the crew, she also joins the others in dealing with Black Noir.
She joins them in dealing with Kang and his group and works to prevent Black Noir from trying to resurge the 7With her powers she is able to assist the others respectfully though does have her own struggles i dealing with Noir, due to his abiltiies.
When The Bad Guys get arrested, she helps the others get the others out and is the one who suggests Bruce use the Crimson Paw CostumeUpon getting the others back, Starlight goes up against Black Noir and Kang as well managing to bring them out respectfully
Starlight decides to continue her pursuit of heroics respectfully as she decides to help Larke
House of Disenchanted Cards[]
This works well when she learns of Underwood and this was who Pied Piper was warning Tanner of. Learning Hughie and Mother's Milk are doing their own investgations, Starlight decides to help Hughie deal with it and Billy gets involved later on while she meets back with Bender, Wile E, Hero and Mop Girl who all work together to stop Bad Bean and Underwood's allies respectfully. When everyone is freed, Starlight makes sure Bender, Hero and Wile E get to Slade's empire by taking the fight to Underwood's allies so they can take out Stampler and The Underwoods.
En.Tropized[]
Book 1: Overture[]
Chapter 1[]
Part 1[]
Starlight is doing her own recongissance and Maeve arrives to Starlight asking what has they all been doing. Maeve has something to give Starlight and she has used off the grid status to look into something and discovered some activities that had happened. These activities being about The fall of the Cartel and that Captain Putty is basically the solo surivior and will be seeking retailation as well that Zib has gotten in touch with this. Starlight asks about Vought, Maeve explains that Neuman is pretty much untouchable in what she can find and thus they need some back uo
Later Starlight arrives back and Hughie, M.M and Frenchie infrom her that Bender is on the case as Starlight tells them about Maeve. Hughie had Kimoko assist Bender to get where he needs to go and to set up their plan to help.
Billy is brought to a bed by Hughie and Starlight and they tell him about what happened with him. Billy admits he proably shouldn't have taken all those Temp V shots to them. Hughie questions why he even did it, Billy says he did so he can get the edge on the supes by leveling the playing field
Starlight says did he have to do so to deal with Underwood and his cartel group. Billy says he was just trying to bring them down as well to help Bender and Slade's teams. Starlight says that he will be coming soon or later back here as Hughie hired him to investigate Neuman. Billy is clear to feel that Bender and Slade might be able to help with his condition, even if they can't he is sure they can look into it.
Hughie and Starlight then sit down and talk privately about everything that is going down, and the hope they hopefully can have in all this. Hughie might be upset about Neuman, but he will do what he can to try and appeal to her, Starlight says that she knows him and he may get through or at least be how they stay safe as long as Hughie doesn't escalate.
Anti Cosmo, Bender Dale, Libby and Wile E visit the Boys hand outs where Bender, Libby and Anti Cosmo hand the files they found, Hughie, Starlight and Frenchie all look into the files. Hughie admits that they knew this already but are still thankful of the investigation,
Billy Butcher sees Bender, Hughie, Starlight, Libby and Anti Cosmo and inquires to them if they found anything on Neuman. Hughie explains that they just found the usual but did find some useful stuff. Anti Cosmo does explain the situation that Neuman held on him and Bender, Bender says AC not to say anything about that, he doesn't want to talk about. Starlight adds but he'll tell Slade, she even questions how much those 3 have been involved in. Anti Cosmo says him, Slade and Bender have been involved in more than they know.
Hughie, Starlight, Marvin and Frenchie all meet with Anti Cosmo and Bender and they talk about everything the duo found in their search. Both the Robot and the Anti Fairy note how what they did in China Town is coming to light due to Vicky and Marvin decides to investigate Bender and Anti Cosmo's actions to see if Neuman can find any traces of this knowledge.
Frenchie asks what's with the secrecy to the two, they're acting like Butcher which Marvin also notes. Bender tells the two that what happened now there is events he can't have anyone know about unless he wants it to as he doesn't want to remember himself. Anti Cosmo says that it's a senstivie topic for him, even most of his own friends don't even know Starlight is curious how much the two and Slade have been involved in and Marvin says that since the two asked to find traces maybe he can do that too
Hughie, Bender, Anti Cosmo and Starlight then promise Butcher they will do what they can to help out. Billy does say that he will keep trying to fight despite all of this.
Hughie explains to Starlight and Billy his call with Bender and explains that quid pro quo time has arrived and there going to do somethiing for Bender's help. Butcher wanders what Hughie took without him knowing, Hughie informs Billy and Starlight there Bender needs some assistance with a serial killer who killed some of his friends of two of his and Luan's friends. Starlight takes what Bender gave Hughie and says that they have to give all this to Marvin so he can do looks into this.
As Harry is busy on the phone as he calls Hughie and Starlight to warn them of the Supes under Neuman's watch persumably to him as he managed to maintain his memories against Cate. Hughie is more sympathetic and advices Wells to watch his back as he may have dealt with metahumans, but these guys are unlike most and he doesn't even know them personally. Harry asks if Starlight knows them and Starlight confirms her history with Fire Cracker. Harrison snarks about how of course she did what did to Firecracker commenting on the cutthroat blonde stereotype, Starlight does feel some regret over this. Harrison asks if Hughie and Starlight have any advice, the two just say that to remember what Victoria can do against them, if she knows what them and Bender did down in Chinatown, then she must have been track of for a long time and the worst thing that they can do and should avoid is threatening her daughter as Hughie knows this better than anyone.
Starlight remeets with Maeve to discuss what happened, Maeve has an idea that someone is working with her in secret and found them for her and her allies to work with. Starlight asks does Maeve know, Maeve is unaware herself and just informs her that eventually someone will reveal themselves eventually and then they can get closer in their vase. She feels she to find someway to warn Bender, Slade and the others too of this.
Starlight and Hughie decide to get the others to go on their own journey and the former decides to go get the others as Hughie stays.
Hughie mentions to the Boys his meeting with Victoria and what she told him. Starlight and Marvin seem to think it's odd that Vicky said something about this
Part 2[]
When it comes to the cases, Starlight teams up with Hughie to look into the Team Free Will MassacreThey observe the files Bender gave them and decide to look into the 1st of the case and flew out to Aloha so they find out what happened to May as Lydia, Lincoln and Bender all knew that Dawn told Ford and in turn told them. It was also the last place they saw May so they suspect something happened that resulted in her death.
As Hughie calls Luan, Starlight manages to make an connection of her own regarding this and she discovers some most unusual actions that occurred near Akala Island which could have been a part in the disappearance of the pokemon co-ordinator
Upon Returning to the others, Hughie tells Billy that he and Annie went to Aloha to find traces of the Johto Princess May as she was reported among the cassualites of the Massacre he was given by Bender as a job and while he and Starlight didn't find her or any part of her. They did find something interesting that he would have to give Bender during one of their trips to the islands and Starlight feels that the attack was very co-ordinated as Hughie and her both learn from Billy about James Rogers's death at the Woods.
Part 3[]
Bender, Luan, Wile E and Libby manage to get a hold of the Boys and Starlight
Bender says that he learned about Red River and asks what does Hughie and Marvin know about it. Marvin says he'll investigate with Hughie with it and asks if Slade didn't do already. He says Anti Cosmo told him that, as Slade knows he's being watched and needed to send a message. Neuman told him and AC About it to some extent as well as Slade. Hughie isn't too suprised with how Vicky just showed up to chat with the two instead of threatening them. Starlight admits she has know idea on most of the other supes other than Fire Cracker who she shares with the 4 her history with. Libby said she was suprised she was just a jerk to her, Starlight admits she isn't always pleased with this. Starlight says whatever Bender or the others can find on the other supes or whatever tell them.
Annie Discovers from Frenchie and Kimoko that the investigations weren't that insignifcant as the deaths of Agent Trout and Pied Piper are brought up to them. She, Hughie and Billy discuss this and theorize if not confirm that Victoria Neuman had killed them to cover her tracks or whoever she is working for. Starlight then runs into Maeve who informs her that she had got the boys to meet up with them and a safe spot will be found.
Finding Bender, Slade and Anti Cosmo, Starlight and Hughie tell the trio about what they did in Aloha as they looked into the death of May for Bender's clients who Annie say she looked into. She and The Boys find Dawn who managed to sneak into all this who further explains to them about what she had dealt with prior to the event. Starlight asks who Dawn is and learns she is a pokemon co-ordinator like May and is part of Team Free WIll. Hughie and Starlight interrograte Dawn about this thinking she had a role in this, though Dawn denies this as she was told of the Massacre and helped bury their bodies alongside the kids, who actually told her.
After Bender, Slade, Anti Cosmo and Dawn all take their leave Hughie, Marvin, Starlight and Billy decide on heading to Chinatown to continue the digging around ahead of sechulde as Billy can get a further find on the supe virus while Marvin can get those digging around cues in case Neuman is after them.
Chapter 2[]
Part 4[]
Hughie recalling what he encountered in the Aether Foundation hacks into it to get an idea to how May was killed here, as it was proven she died there alongside Starlight so he can allow Bender to get into there to investigate. Starlight explains that he will need to be absolutely be sure to insure no one is covering his own observiations. Starlight later gets in contact again with Bender, this time with Slade and Anti Cosmo as she helped Marvin look into what happened with Slade's butler and his other allies.
She is called by Slade in regards to the ranch with the other boys and the compound V which she agrees to help with as a way to help Luan.
Part 5[]
The Boys arrive at the ranch to see Luan and Leonard Snart as they prepare to get all of the temp v and Compound V for their own usage
Victoria Neuman however arrives with the intent to go after them for trying to damage her adopted dad's company and it's drug ready to make heads fly. However once rabid farm animals go after them in part to Zib going against Neuman's suggeestion it leads to an uneasy alliance between them and Vicky to surivive.
Snart, Rory, Dale Gribble, Cat R Waul, Kimoko and Starlight all go their own way after Snart heard something about Zib and go to find him to see what his role in all this is. With Cat R Waul running due to the crazy Dogs, Dale and The Boys go to defend him and catch them trying to apply rabies shots. Starlight is able to find ZIb and has Snart, Rory and Dale come with her to see Zib who they decide that they need to deal with in order to stop his plan with the V. Starlight is able to allow the trio to put him in his place and take the remainder of the V he has.
Hughie talks on matters with Neuman with Starlight where Neuman has decided to allow them to throw compound V away pointing how dangerous it really is. Starlight questions why she backed off, Neuman has her reasons. Hughie and Starlight are pondering among themselves. When Neuman reveals she knows what they are looking into, Starlight tries to wrap her head about not why she knows, but why Neuman hasn't stopped her and Hughie from doing so and helping Bender and Anti Cosmo in this. She is also having starting to question Butcher because he is acting irrational like he is talking to himself.
Part 6[]
Hughie and Starlight join up to decide to aid Marvin on their own terms by trying to figure out what happened with Neuman and why she is targeting Bender and Slade's group. Hughie does recall something but he needs to check at a old location for this which he tells Annie he must retread back to old territory when he worked for the FBSA. Marvin, Hughie, Starlight, Frenchie and Kimoko all regather to discuss what Neuman could have on Bender and Slade's expoits and which one Neuman is placing MAD over their heads on as Marvin and Hughie both have their ideas on what had happened and why it has got the attention of Neuman that goes beyond instilling Professor Membrane in charge of Vought. Though everyone is in question where Butcher is.
Chapter 3[]
Part 7[]
Hughie and Starlight investigate The Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs (FBSA) and Annie discovers part of what Hughie did with Vicky a while ago. This had to do with Chinatown and that Neuman has some knowledge with Hughie of what happened due to an action that happened that concerned the FBSA. Hughie, Vicky and the FBSA got involved in when it came to nuclear power and supe powers and that Hughie was actually able to help the FBSA put a supe away who was killed in prison.
Hughie and Starlight return to Marvin Milk, Frenchie and Kimoko about what they found at The Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs (FBSA) and that Hughie was aware at the same time as Neuman of the events back when he worked with her and says that Noir was involved in this, The orginial one not the other one. He also discovered her string pulling for a Gen V Student and the events that resulted in Sam and Cate's involvement with Vought. She also knows that Bender as well as his friends were involved in the action as well, and it has connections to Vought's first supe Solider Boy.
Part 8[]
Starlight finds Maeve who is secretingly assisting Slade and Bender on their investigation with Neuman as she is also aware of what the duo did with Solider Boy like her, though she has no intent to blackmail the two on this. Maeve decides to assist them in heading to Tek Knight Manor to assist Bender and Slade's crew to deal with Tek Knight and the others. Where Starlight confesses what she and Hughie are up to with Luan which Maeve informs that Slade's operatives are waiting for her.
Running into Jessie Wells, Sideshow Bob and Captain Hook, the five of them work together to find a nastier version of the Woods and discover who was used as the scapegoats to the Goodkin Massacre which got Cate and Sam praised as heroes and she notices that she will have to be careful not to alert anyone with her powers and works with Jessie to do just that by sneaking off them with Hughie, Captain Hook and Sideshow Bob preparing a way to get them out. Though the alarm does get tricked and this puts the crew on edge.
Part 9[]
Harry finds them as it turns out they are cornered by Captain Putty and B.P who are out to wreck them and Starlight initially tries to not use her powers. However when it comes to the dire situation she decides to use her powers as does Jessie to help escape. Annie and Harry help take Hughie to the manor and despite things, Starlight decides to let Hughie do his own thing having confidence in him to so. She confers with Harry about what is going and he tells her that the situation goes beyond Neuman as he heard from Slade and Anti Cosmo who informed him that Tek Knight and Sister Sage threw her under the bus.
Starlight tells Harry, that it may have do with what she, Hughie, Bender and Anti Cosmo are looking into for The Streaming Resistance, Lincoln and Lydia. She then tells him about the Team Free Will Massacre and that the latter two hired Bender to look into it.
After Hughie tells her of what he had heard of from Tom, Starlight decides she'll pick up him so they can discuss what he had learned about Ucumu as well as what he learned from Snart and Rory.
Chapter 4[]
Afterwards, she teams up with Butcher to go investigate the rest of Neuman's actions so they can discover what happened as an effect of Neuman's actions and discover that Solider Boy was involved in the events that Bender and Slade were dealing with and that Neuman was going to use this against the two groups. Starlight and Butcher burn the info and head back to the rest of the boys.
Chapter 5[]
The Boys also find themselves on the run due to Tek Knight putting a bounty on them due to him taking over from Neuman and this leads to a few hard blows dealt to them which results in some trauma on Butcher's part before the Boys are able to find Bender and Slade's teams. Upon Regrouping with Team Free WIll and The Streaming Resistance, Annie finds Neuman was captured by the team and learns what she knows. On Hughie's insistence, Annie decides to accept that Vicky is intend to side with them against N.Tropy until Butcher arrives with intent to kill her
Chapter 6[]
With A-Train, The rest of the Boys, Bender and Slade's Group. Annie fights Butcher who has been possessed by Ucumu and they work to bring an end to the acolpayse N.Tropy has been plotting with his alternate counterpart. Due to the nature of Ucumu and his mooks, this is out of her ball park though she is told to deal with Butcher with the others and the heroes are able to stop this and regretfully kill Butcher who accepts his death at their hands.
After this, she and the other Boys apart from Hughie and A-Train end up get abducted by Sam and Cate as a result of Tek and Sister Sage's plans though she is able to warn Hughie of this.
Book 2: Interlude[]
Annie was placed in the MIrror World and she was saved by Hughie and Mr.Wolf where she is discovering what has happened due to the actions of N.Tropy. She assists the team in dealing with N.Tropy's groups and eventually regroups with the rest of the heroes to rescue Bender's imprisoned friends and Lincoln's family. Though she plays a decent hand, she finds herself witnessing Rodrigo brutally murdering the Boys and having to save Hughie from him realizing that for her own powers. She can't deal with him as she witnessed Rodirgo attack and nearly murder M.O.D.A.B and with what she knows it was a wise choice.
Being between only her and Hughie now, The two now realize that The Boys have been disbanded and now that they must work with the Gen V students, A-Train and the rest of the group to deal with N.Tropy's forces. As she holds him accountable with Tek Knight for everything that has happened.
Book 3: Culmination[]
Annie and Hughie with the rest of the Bad Guys join rank with Dib, Lizbeth and their own teams to follow suit to find a way to help Deathstroke regain his spots and get out of hiding as well following his lead to keep N.Tropy and his associates from getting their hands on more power all the while she and Hughie discover their future with the others. She and him are skepical of leaving Bender and Slade on their own since how much N.Tropy's henchmen are hunting them down as well as the death of the rest of the team. Though she persists and helps deal with N.Tropy's constant attacks.