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The Canterlot Estate, is both a privet home and a park, owned by The Alicorn and is located outside of the city of Detroit. The estate that is public is a big boom to the city, with all the jobs and businesses that have sprang up around it. The estate has several different parks that are themed after a location in Equestria, some are just parks for people to walk around, but others have rides and restaurants. The park is visited by tourists from all over the world as the Equestria books, tv show, and movies has become a culture icon. Like Star Wars, Star Trek, Pokemon, and Harry Potter, where it’s not just a fad but stays with pop culture having its ups and downs but staying while others just fade.

The biggest draw is the castle which, The Alicorn built herself which is modeled after Canterlot Castle which she said is built from memory of the castle. The castle is a grand hotel that can be rented out for events, with it section off in 3 parts. The largest section is for the families who come here, booking rooms that are in their price range, the second is for the ones with money and the last is for the V.I.P.s and the most expensive.

The estate has gotten many local businesses to theme themselves after Equestria, after making deals with Equestria Inc, which is the company that The Alicorn created to operate the Equestria brand and owns. Which is completely independent from Vought-American, who merely handle the marketing of the merchandise but has no say in what is made or how it’s made.

Alicorn made it known she wouldn’t join any superhero teams besides guest appearances in comics, pointing out the other superheroes faults. Which works for her as she has the reputation for "tough but fair," saying what needs to be said despite how it makes people feel. And the comics spin it off to having the Alicorn sees herself being better than the other superheroes because of her royal upbringing and training she had in Equestria.

The only Superhero team Alicorn tolerates are the Superdupers who work in the park. They’re there because of the pressure that Vought-American put on her and holding a important deal in the air if she didn’t had one of the other Superhero teams working with her. The Alicorn went with the deal but only if she gets to choose which team, and she surprised everyone by picking the Superdupers.

The comics spun it that the Superdupers know Alicorn who is a beloved friend from their future. But in the past she doesn’t know them and is cold to them. They’re working at her park to befriend her and be the Alicorn they use to know. The comic series is actually a good seller with the Superdupers working at the park and causing trouble or having to deal with a villain, while trying to befriend Alicorn.

The Superdupers could be seen at different parts of the park, entertaining the crowds and helping out with the security. The Alicorn did give the members of Superdupers magical crystals of the Elements of Harmony. And helped trained them to have better control of their powers. That happen both in the comics and real life.

Auntie Sis has the element of Friendship

Bobby Badoing element of Laughter

Black Hole element of Loyalty

Klanker element of Honesty

Kid Camo element of Empathy

Ladyfold element of Kindness

Stoolshadow element of Generosity

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In the walled off section of the estate is the manor where The Alicorn made her home in. Inside her manor The Alicorn walks into the dining room where she is hosting a dinner with Jess Bradley a new Vought-American executive that was sent to deal with her. The company has sent a great number of executives to deal with her, mostly trying to get more control of the money she’s raking in.

“The company would like to rework the contract dealing with the Equestria brand,” Jess said the Alicorn who is sitting on the other side of the table. She’s having a steak while Alicorn is having an egg dish, the Alicorn doesn’t eat meat but does eat eggs.

“The answer is still no. Not my fault that the legal team couldn’t work the contract to give the company control of the brand, but then again none in the company had thought of much of The Equestria brand at the beginning. Didn’t think it would be anything but a fad like those Twilight books with the vampires and werewolves. Hot for a few years but then dies. But I hit pay dirt with my gamble, investing my own money into it. Now the Equestria brand is now worth over 100 billion and growing thanks to my business smarts. With spin-offs and merchandises selling like the Disney brand, I even have licensed works done by other creators and companies, as long as they have my approval first. The company is making money from the marketing and selling my comics and other Vought-American brand merchandises, even having the animation department make the cartoon for the first season. But you all seeing the amount of money the Equestria brand is making, just wants more,” Alicorn explains.

“We be able to expand the brand,” Jess said.

“By adding the other heroes to Equestria? I think not, Superduper are enough and are the only ones I agreed to work with. There are only a handful of supers who I would even think of having them guest star in any official works besides them. I know what will happen once you people gain control. You will change everything and cut corners like everything else under your brand,” Alicorn said.

“What do you mean?” Jess asked.

“You have no idea why you’re here do you? Why Stillwell or even the CEO haven’t tried to talk to me. They did and I will give you the same speech I gave them and sent them packing,” Alicorn said.

Jess eyes widen hearing that Alicorn had sent the boss and Stillwell packing.

“The reason why you’re here to get my product is that the product your company has is just a bad product. The superheroes, as a result of all the power they've been given right from the moment they were born, end up sociopathic, immature, spoiled, and utterly hedonistic. Who are fixated only on their own individual satisfactions without much regard for the innocents whose lives are in their hands. What's even worse is that since superheroes are such a massive investment and turn in extremely huge profits, Vought's management is very much willing to do whatever they deem necessary to ensure their business remains afloat. Never mind the fact that the superheroes, are incompetent and have no real skills with their powers. The superhero business in general can be explain as this. Why go out and fight crime for real when you can sit back and collect residuals on all of the comic books, TV shows, and merchandise with your face on it?” Alicorn explains. (1)

Alicorn drank down her glass of orange juice.

“The superheroes your company produces are a bad product, namely in the amount of money spent on keeping them happy and covering up their messes. The company seems to have always had this problem in creating a bad product. They're always to looking cut corners and save money even at the cost of nearly going bankrupt, their sole skill appears to be amassing political clout. Which is the reason why I’m such a good product for the company, having nothing that needs to be covered up or having vices that cost lots of money. I was never made by the company or was apart of it, till I step into this world. Talking with some of the heroes, I know about how they were treated and groomed when they were younger. Is it any wonder why so many are messed up?” Alicorn asked. "Which is why, I'm so much better then the other heroes. I had a better childhood where, I wasn't drugged up and actually had a formal education."

Jess wonders how much Alicorn knows.

"I know all about how the company was started. They use to make boots for the army, which weren't that good but then again that was the point. Faster the boots worn out, the more orders the company got. Too bad the company used that kind of thinking for everything else that followed. During WW2 the company brought out the V.A.C. F7U Grizzly, which was considered the worst aircraft ever flown by the US military, with thirteen being lost for every enemy aircraft they shot down. The war would had been lost if the bomb wasn't dropped, but the company doesn't care about that, the rush job with the jet and cost cutting that made the jet so bad, was just to get the company's name out there. The orders that came brought in one bad product after another, but with there being no war the company only had to fill out orders. And if the bad equipment that's caused by cutting corners to save money wasn't used because of how bad it is, it's ok as there isn't any war and the papers could be made to look like they're being used. Which was the straw that broke the camel's back thanks to the Vietnam war where the soldiers were armed with the M-20 Assault Rifle. Thanks to all the cost cutting that happen with the gun, it failed so badly that the Vietnamese didn't even bother to salvage the guns or the ammunition, instead using them as mounts for the heads of the one thousand soldiers that died trying to use them at the Battle of Ia Drang. The company was the lowest bidder and cut cost everywhere, creating one bad product after another with the last military contract being the last no matter how low the company bid for a contract,” Alicorn said laying it all out.

Alicorn takes another drink.

“Vought-American, the very corporation behind the superheroes is just an incompetent company. The fact that the superheroes are on the most part are all incompetent and depraved psychopaths, VA is known for producing shoddy military equipment that did more harm to the US military than the enemies they were fighting. Only getting the contracts because they’re the lowest bidder. The company is actually shown to be frighteningly competent at everything a corporation needs to do to get its products out the door (marketing, lobbying, manipulating regulations, weaseling out of controversies, general-purpose corporate skulduggery), but their actual products cut corners whenever possible. The company’s philosophy is built around the idea that a corporation's output doesn't have to be good, it just has to turn a profit, rather than making their products good, the company focus on burying any evidence that people shouldn't buy their stuff,” Alicorn explains.

Jess listed and wonders where this is all going.

“This is why I’m the biggest money maker as the company had nothing to do with me till, I signed up with it. I actually train to use my powers, I trained to be able to use them without causing that much damage. Which is why I’m more powerful then Homelander. Unlike him I actually had to deal with others who are my size or stronger. In the end of the day he’s just the biggest kid on the playground. The potential is there but besides me there isn’t anyone who is on his level. I also don’t have any of the other issues that cost the company money that they need to pay off the debt,” Alicorn said.

“Debt?” Jess asked.

“I know for the fact that making one dose of compound v, cost around 19 billion in todays money. The Seven are all grown and built to be powerful from the ground up. I’m guessing the debt the company owes their backers is close to a trillion or so, and I’m also taking account for inflation as The Seven are between 40 to 60. Which is why the company is so dead set in getting military contracts so that they can pay it off. I’m a lifeline for the company as I make them money and the cost for maintenance is much lower then dealing with the other heroes. I’m everything the company hoped that the Homelander would be, with no issues but that I’m not that loyal to the company. But the company needs me to makeup the lost revenue with the lost of the G-Men who brought in nearly 1.9 billion last year. My brand brought in 8 billion for the company even with the small cut of the profits the company is getting, The Seven brought in under a billion. And the company needs me as their cash cow more than I need them,” Alicorn explains. (2)

“Needs you?” Jess asked.

“The company sells the idea that superheroes are like how they’re presented in the comics. The moment where that is shown to be nothing but a lie and the public sees what the heroes are really like, the bottom will fall from the superhero market. No amount of hush money or spin doctors will be able to regain the public trust and more importantly get them to buy the merchandise again. The only heroes left will be me who has nothing to hide… well there are the Superdupers. But bottom line is that the superheroes will never be profitable again and for the top people in charge of the company, will have to spend the rest of their lives employed in the company trying to make them profitable again when they’re all just a bad product, like selling a car that doesn’t even work and everyone knows it,” Alicorn said calmly to Jess who has a look of horror on her face.

Alicorn using her telekinesis pours Jess a glass of wine which she drank down quickly.

“That’s the same reaction both Stillwell and your boss had once I explained things to them. They have nothing but a bad product and are stuck in keeping the public from finding out what they’re really like so they remain profitable. I’m the only superhero the company has that when it comes out what the other superheroes are really like, will still have some public trust. The entire superhero process is just a last of a long line of bad products caused by the company cutting corners to save money. I’m surprise how the company managed to survive with all the cost cutting they do that just makes a bad product. Like a construction company who bleeps building buildings that falls and kills everyone inside. Yet they still have people hiring them and keep buying their shoddy buildings. It’s the reason why I’m only having company handle the marketing and switch animation studios after the first season of My Little Pony, as the cost cutting and the changes made by the company backed studio was making a mess of things. Which showed as the second season is much more loved by the fans and they showed it by the sales number. If I had stayed with the company’s studio the entire series would be just a novelty, instead of helping to launch the Equestria series into becoming a pop culture icon that it is today. Because I don’t cut corners and give out a good product which the company doesn’t do. And the only thing holding it together is the profits that the superhero merchandise makes and you and everyone else in the company are stuck maintaining the illusion to make a profit. Once the superheroes are no longer profitable, what you think the investors and banks will do when they see that the company can’t make money anymore?” Alicorn asked. (3)

“Shit,” was all that Jess could say.

“As I said the company needs me more than I need you people,” Alicorn said.

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Later -

Alicorn walks back into the dining room after escorting Jess out of her home. The table had been reset with fresh plates of food and drinks, for her other guests. Alicorn took her seat at the table shared by her guests, The Boys who are eating and drinking.

“Had no trouble?” Alicorn asked.

“The suits were in the shed as you said. But really you had to dye the food,” Billy Butcher said eating his plate of green eggs and ham.

“The park is honoring the late doctor,” Alicorn said.

“And why we had to dress up to look like we came out of one of those book?” Mother Milk asked.

“Prefect cover,” Alicorn said pouring herself a glass of wine. “Now let’s get down to business.”

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1 - The superheroes in The Boys are incompetent and have no real skills or training to talk of. They mostly just learn to control their powers but never trained to use them. Or have any kind of training in using them to actually save people or fight crime.

In the tv show at least the heroes there have some experience in fighting crime and saving people. Not much but at least it’s better then how inexperience and incompetent the heroes in the comics are.

2 - Seeing how the shot that The Boys used to make themselves super strong cost nearly 19 billion, Vought-American would be heavily indebted to many banks and investors. As I’m going with the company spending trillions to make The Seven. And that’s taking in inflation for the billions spent in the 60’s to make The Seven. Which explains why they’re so greedy in making money.

3 - In The Boys : Dear Becky, I’m going with the company going under because of superheroes no longer being able to make money. And that the debt the company must have with banks and investors being in the trillions and not being able to pay it back, ruin the company. The company would be blacklisted by the banks and investors.