MHA: Horizon(Ope-Ope No Mi)

Chapter 271: (Hero Course Class Clash)

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CHAPTER START---

---March 3rd, 2315, 2:17 PM...

"What's up everyone!" Present Mic yells out as he enters a dimly lit viewing room, holding popcorn in one hand and a can of soda in the other.

He's immediately greeted by the annoyed looks of Eraser Head and Vlad King, and a polite wave from Nezu.

Ms. Midnight, Ectoplasm, and Snipe all stay focused on the wall of monitors before them, taking notes on their clipboards.

"What? Nobody else brought snacks?" Present Mic asks as he sits beside Snipe.

"This isn't a show Mic, it's a training exercise," Eraser Head says.

"No," Vlad King says. "We need him involved in this one, but he isn't on Team 1A or Team 1B, we want to see how they deal with an insurmountable third party."

"Translation, how good the kiddies can play nice when a bigger threat is on the field huh, because sometimes they'll have to work with Pro Heroes they don't like, right?" Mic asks.

"Precisely," Nezu says. "I recommended that we call over the Ketsubutsu students to really test that, but Eraser didn't want Ms. Joke here..."

"If you met her you'd know why," Eraser grumbles.

"I think you two are cute together," Midnight teases. "Are you sure nothing ever happened there?"

"Well---"

Eraser cuts off Present Mic, "focus on the students please," Eraser growls out.

As fights begin breaking out all across the simulation metropolis Training Ground Beta, the teachers notice one particular student not moving.

Not even attempting to gain a single point.

---At the same time...

Sitting atop a 7 story building, Horizon has his feet hanging over the side as he snacks on some pieces of chocolate.

Noticing massive explosions erupting in the distance, constantly shaking the entire training ground, Horizon is unbothered as he senses Bakugo trying and failing to land a hit on Juzo.

He glances to his left, where Scalpel hovers in place, and looks toward the other end of the training area where Todoroki and Manga are having an intense fight.

Even from here he can feel the air becoming more humid, he can smell the ozone on the wind as they throw fire, ice, and lightning at each other.

"I expected you to jump into the fight and collect all their points," Eraser's voice speaks through Horizon's earpiece.

"Busy..."

"Eating chocolate?"

"Jiro made me this for valentines day, it would be disrespectful not to eat it," Horizon says.

"So did Yaoyorozu, and about half the girls in UA who left gifts for you at the dorm, do you plan to sit on that roof and eat all the candy you got?"

"No, I plan to give Eri most of it when you aren't looking," Horizon chuckles.

"Don't...but seriously, you won't get any points at this rate."

"And we'd like to see how they work together against you," Nezu adds.

"I figured, but I don't descend to challenge people weaker than me, that's bullying, and well...they're beneath me," Horizon shrugs. "But I'm sure some of them will come to me, actually..."

Horizon leans forward slightly and looks down the side of this building, on which is Red Riot -Kirishima-, with his fingers hardened and clawing into the side of the building allowing him to scale the smooth wall leading up to Horizon.

"Uhh---" Kirishima is still a dozen meters below Horizon, awkwardly looking up at him.

"I figured that collapsing the stairs would be a big enough hint not to bother me," Horizon eats another piece of chocolate, staring at Red Riot who was now frozen in place, not sure what to do.

"Well I fig---"

"Takt," Horizon says loudly enough for him to hear.

"Wait!" The slab of wall Red Riot is on begins to crack. "WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!!!" he screams as it breaks away from the building and he falls 6 stories down to the street below.

As Red Riot is crushed by the piece of wall he was climbing moments ago against the street, Horizon resumes his snack.

"He's not bad, but, not quite what I'm looking for, Tokoyami really is the only option."

Horizon looks out into the distance, focusing on another fight, Monoma and a few of his classmates chasing after Deku and slowly gaining ground against him.

"Deku, he'd probably be a good choice, at least physically making up for what they lack, but his mentality isn't any good for us," Horizon sighs. "If he wasn't so obsessed with being a mini All Might he could fill in the gaps pretty well..."

As Horizon is enjoying his snack, he suddenly stops chewing and turns around, looking at the barbed tipped arrow that was frozen in the air behind him.

He sighs and gets up, standing on the ledge, "do you realize how much this would have hurt?" 

"Sorry," Genesis says, holding an already reloaded crossbow in her hands on the other side of the room.

Beside her were Uravity, Lizardy, Froppy, Pinky, Battle Fist -Kendo-, and Emily -Yanagi-

"No it was smart, use pain to distract me and fire something more silent than a gun," Horizon says as he hops down from the ledge. "What is this supposed to be, girl squad?"

"Yeah!" Pinky yells out.

"That was a coincidence, but these ladies are gonna kick your butt!" Kendo yells as she rushes forward.

As she covers the dozen meters between them Horizon pops a piece of chocolate in his mouth and frees his right hand, ready for her assault.

As she swings her fist forward she enlarges her fist midway through the attack, earlier than she's been training to do, costing her some power on the potential impact.

But the massive fridge sized fist served a secondary purpose.

As she swings he doesn't seemingly react, until...

SHAMBLES!

He swaps places with her, causing her to punch the air.

As he swapped he was met with a hundred telekinetically controlled shuriken, courtesy of Emily's telekinesis Quirk and Genesis's creations.

TAKT!

Having already sensed the blades they attempted to hide behind Battle Fist, fully expecting him to simply swap places they had already thrown them at their friends location, but his ability to sense and stop each blade surprised them.

But they reacted instantly.

Battle Fist pivots, using the force of her first punch and swinging around to swat him away.

Doing a full spin she's suddenly surprised when she feel a hundred blades pierce her enlarged hand.

"Ahhh!" she cries out as blood splatters across the rooftop.

At the last moment Horizon had swapped places with her once again, causing her to slap the blades full force.

As the pain wracks her hand and arm she flinches for a moment, Froppy fires her tongue at Battle Fist to get her away from Horizon, but it was too late.

In one smooth action he grabs the girl by her ponytail and throws her off the rooftop.

Her pained cry echoes for hundreds of meters as tears build in her eyes, feeling like her scalp was about to be torn off, but also being rushed by a soothing sensation in the same moment.

As she goes hurling off the roof Horizon looks at Uravity, "fetch," he commands.

Uravity grits her teeth and glares at Horizon, even as she makes herself weightless and dives off the rooftop to save Battle First.

As both of them are out of the way Froppy redirects her tongue to whip at Horizon, knowing he can't telekinetically control her body, taking advantage of her organic abilities to assault him.

"Counter Shock," Horizon says as lightning begins arcing across his body, ready to taze Froppy the moment she makes contact.

He expects her to back away from him after simply speaking those words, but to his surprise the girl makes full contact with his forearm.

He feels like a sledgehammer slammed against him as the muscles in her tongue are pushed to their limits.

Without even using Booster Shot he swings his arm and bats it aside, but her tongue twists in the air and tries to wrap around him.

"Counter Shock," once again lightning crackles across his body, and she doesn't hesitate to wrap her tongue around him anyway.

SHAMBLES!

He swaps places with Genesis, directly beside Emily who he grabs by the throat.

He sees the fear in her grey eyes, pupils focusing as he heart rate immediately skyrockets.

"Counter Shock," he says quietly, sending a surge of lightning through her, more than enough to put her in the hospital, but nothing happens to her.

And then he notices, a device beneath their clothes running through their boots, grounding them and keeping their body safe as the current flows across it through to the ground.

"Genesis," he mutters while yanking Emily forward, slamming her head into his visor while reinforcing it with Booster Shot, knocking her out, and holding her off the floor.

As he does so Uravity swings over the side of the building with a combination of her Quirk and grapnel gadget, Battle Fist in her arms.

She does a spin and throws Battle Fist at him, and the girl rears back with her one good hand as the bandaged hand hangs at her side.

Seeing her incoming Horizon casually throws Emily over the side of the building and raises a palm to Battle Fist.

"You jerk!" Uravity yells as she once again dives over the edge to save a friend.

This time Battle Fist perfectly executes her punch while rocketing down at Horizon, enlarging her fist at the apex of her swing to maximize the damage.

She expected to be dodged and punch the roof, but to their surprise, Horizon meets her fist with his palm.

BOOSTER SHOT!

A wave of blue energy vapor wafts off him as the force of her strike moves through him, not hurting his body but cracking the concrete at his feet.

After the clash he casually steps to the side and pushes her fist away, only to lean his head backward as another arrow zips past his face.

He glances at Genesis through the corner of his eye as she loads another bolt, and he keeps focus on her even while his fist clashes with Battle Fists and constantly pushes her back.

With every hit he feels himself get more comfortable with this variation of Booster Shot, just as she feels more and more of the super strong bones in her hand and fingers break with each clash.

Eventually Genesis loads a bolt into the crossbow, this one slightly thicker than the others, something she's spent months thinking about for a moment just like this.

She nods at Froppy, signaling for the girl to also join the melee with Battle Fist, and as she does Genesis begins the other half of this combo.

As both girls rush in, Genesis lines up her perfect shot, their only chance at gleaming victory against this force of nature.

Between all the attacks Horizon doesn't notice Froppy adjusting a bead hidden beneath her tongue.

All the attacks he dodges, as expected, makes him cocky.

The girls expected this, and they truly were doing their best, because he would notice otherwise. But they knew they could beat him head-to-head.

Yet instead of a true victory, they only wanted progress.

If they could land one hit, it would be enough for them.

Uravity returns to the rooftop with Emily now awake in her arms and land beside Genesis.

The girls share a few glances and immediately get to work.

As the fight goes on and Horizon toys with their friends, Uravity uses her Quirk on Genesis's unique bolt, and Emily activates her Quirk on it.

Her face immediately drenched in sweat as she pushes her Quirk to the absolute limit.

And at the perfect moment where Horizon sidesteps an enlarged fist from Battle Fist, Genesis fires her weightless bolt.

It moves faster than any bullet or artillery, much faster than Horizon expected, but still slow enough that he can react to it.

Because even this projectile couldn't outdo the speed of his thoughts.

But he didn't react to it, by choice, because as he sidesteps Battle Fist's arm, the projectile slams into her forearm, shattering it completely and barely missing his head.

But what he didn't expect was for it to collapse in on itself on impact, releasing an orange gas that instantly clings to his Hero Costume and visor.

A combination of Emily's Quirk and Genesis's special creation built with the extremely rare material of his costume in mind.

His vision is immediately blocked as the gas coats his visor in an orange substance.

SHAMBLES!

He warps away, only focused on his Hero Costume and body, but the substance stays with him even as he swaps places with Battle Fist.

"Its bonded to my suit, what the---"

As he's confused Froppy opens her mouth after cracking the bead, and taking advantage of the fact that sensing suck thin gasses is something he has to specifically put effort into, blows out a purple mist from her mouth.

It's instantly attracted to the orange and clings to it, as they both begin burning his Hero Costume.

A special nanite fusion to cling to him and ignite like thermite on his body.

Not something that they could even use on villains, but for this scenario, principal Nezu gave Genesis his permission, because Horizon was beyond any villain...

---HPSC President Pantu's Office...

"Lady Pantu!" A man bursts into the room, causing Pantu to look up from her paperwork with a stone cold façade.

"What is it?"

"We figured out what the hacker from a few weeks ago stole!" he says while frantically rushing over to her and placing some files on her desk.

She immediately takes the files and begins looking over them, and for one of the rare moments she loses her focus and shows an emotion.

Dropping Façade as confusion shows on her face, "this doesn't make any sense, they could have stolen anything, but they only took this, are you sure?"

"Yes ma'am, we made sure, what should we do, should we alert him?"

Pantu ponders it for a moment, but decides to let this play out and see what happens, "no, even if they stole a copy of the building layout, there isn't anyone in the world stupid enough to break into Horizon Tower..."

---Minato Tokyo...

Standing atop a skyscraper opposite Horizon Tower, a dapper gentleman with gray hair, wearing an exaggerated street magician styled tuxedo sips from a cup of tea.

Beside him a short woman, less that 4ft -120cm- tall with bright red pigtails in a matching costume also sips from a cup of tea, looking at Horizon Tower.

"Today is the day La Brava," the man says. "Today we write our names in the grandest halls of villainy, today, we break into Horizon Tower, and steal ourselves a trophy..."

END CHAPTER---

Someone actually guessed that Gentle and La Brava were the ones to hack the commission, congratulations...