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The cabin convulsed, a deafening groan of metal mixing with the screams. Homelander adjusted the drape of his cape, his smile serene and utterly out of place. 'Everyone, remain calm,' he commanded, his voice cutting through the pandemonium. Maeve shouted over the din, demanding he lift the aircraft. Homelander's eyes flickered with a moment of genuine uncertainty. 'There's nothing to stand on,' he muttered, almost to himself. You pushed forward, a reckless idea on your lips—suggesting a full-speed, head-on impact. He flinched at the brutality of it, then laughed, a hollow sound, as the plane dropped sickeningly again. 'Everything's fine,' he assured the cabin, the lie smooth as glass. Maeve countered with a plan to evacuate them one by one. Homelander cut her off with a low, dark chuckl…