Chapter 190: CHAPTER 186(Girls & Guns)
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---2 PM, Sunday...
"I always wondered what was in here," Genesis says, walking through Horizon's training ground in her new Hero Costume.
Her leotard now replaced with a pair of shorts and a crop top, with a zipper down the middle of the top. A mask covering most of her face and her signature ponytail still apparent. Her book was also now held at her side on her belt with the other side having small compartments with high fat snacks she could easily eat.
"Impressed?" Horizon ask as they walk through the empty streets. He was wearing his PC Uniform instead of Hero Costume. "Cementoss built it pretty quickly, like a little city of pure concrete, no pesky cameras so I can practice my new moves in private."
"That explains why it doesn't have the details other training areas have, the windows here don't even have glass, no plants, the roads aren't paved."
"All designed to be destroyed and quickly rebuilt, and I've destroyed it all a few time already," Horizon shrugs as the gets to what appears to be a town square.
"You've destroyed a small town of concrete multiple times over," Momo looks around at the blocks of five story buildings. "You say that as if its normal."
"Well for me it is, now, lets get to why you're here," they finally get to a shaded spot and he points to the far wall, only 20m away from them.
TAKT!
Three thin pillars rise up out of the floor, as tall as light posts.
"My targets?" Momo asks.
"First things first, show my the guns?" there was a noticeable tinge of excitement in Horizon's voice, which she didn't miss.
"Uh, I'm not allowed to hand them to anyone who...right, nevermind," Genesis reaches down to her exposed stomach as it begins shimmering a pinkish purple light.
And then she produces what appears to be a modified pistol, what would be plain and boring if not for the oddly large chamber and bulkier design.
And the red and white colour scheme to match her outfit.
Holding it in his hand Horizon does a quick Scan.
"This thing has a lot of parts...some weird ones too."
"That's a requirement," Genesis says. "Since my Quirk doesn't actually need firearms to function, I had to make them in a way that cannot be used for anyone else. They're also disposable in the sense that they get worn down quite easily.
The material composition is also very expensive to replicate industrially. Its likely that I'll only be able to use all of my shots in a gun, reload once, then by the end of those new rounds I'll have to make another gun."
"So many hoops just to use a gun, on villains no less. What about those weird bullets, they're wider than normal ones, and blunt."
"Oh, Mr. Shield helped me with the design, they're made of a metal composite that transfers most of the kinetic energy as blunt force instead of piercing."
"So metal beanbags...ouch."
"Mostly non-lethal, but they will hurt a lot."
"Any other guns or just this design?"
"Only this for now, I'm working on some others, and when I feel confident with all of them I'll apply for a work studies next semester, hopefully with Snipe or another ranged Pro Hero."
"Good plan, now lets see how good these are," Horizon casually aims at the middle pillar, looking down the iron sights.
Seeing his improper form Genesis is about to correct him, but he starts firing immediately.
She stands mouth agape and eyes wide as each shot is released with almost no delay between them. And they all hit the same spot, causing a small crack to spread through the concrete and the metal missiles to fall to the ground below the impact point.
Her face was flushed below the mask, heart racing, breathing heavy.
"You can shoot?" she asks in amazement. "Why can you shoot, and how are you that good?"
"Its not that hard," Horizon shrugs, leaving her oblivious to his years of practice. "I see it in movies all the time."
"But, but 20 shots in the exact same spot, that's, incredible."
"Nineteen shots actually."
"Nineteen? But that magazine holds---"
BANG!
He shoots her in the left shoulder.
"AHHHH!" she falls back onto the floor clutching her shoulder, looking up at him with teary eyes as the blackish purple bruise forms.
"Huh, guess it really hits like a beanbag."
"You shot me!" he wasn't sure if she sounded more hurt from the pain or the perceived betrayal.
"Yeah, obviously. If you're gonna be shooting people you should atleast get shot once, see how it feels for yourself. So you know exactly the kind of pain you're about to so casually inflict onto others, only seems fair, right?"
She holds her breath for a moment, trying to calm herself, then gives him an annoyed look as she gets up, "you could have warned me first."
"That's no fun," he says while handing her back the gun.
"I think it fractured a bone," Genesis winces as she tries to roll her shoulder.
"Well you're pretty slim so not much padding, hold still," he rests a hand on her shoulder and a soothing sensation flows through the injury, and the pain completely goes away.
She just barely looks in time to see the blue healing energy retracting as he removes his hand, "thank you," she gives a dazzling smile.
"Quit blushing and start shooting, let me see how accurate you are..."
---2 Hours Later...
"Well now we know your limit," Horizon says as he looks around, seeing the three destroyed concrete pillars, then looking around his feet to see scattered sets of brittle guns.
And beside him, on the floor, Genesis, sitting on the floor panting, drenched in sweat, trying to recover.
"I'm, out of, snacks," she says, gesturing to her empty belt pouches.
"Well, you did good against immobile targets, today was just limit testing, you still need to practice accuracy while moving, on moving targets, and clearing buildings. Also, always keep a knife on you atleast, or a retractable staff."
"Snipe said the same thing, and thank you."
"One last thing, have you shot anyone yet?"
Her eyes widen, "uh, no, I haven't gone on patrol yet or used this in real combat."
"Well, you've got enough for one shot I'm sure, and who better than me."
"You, you want me to shoot you?!"
"Yeah, better to get all this anxiety out now before you come face to face with some psycho and freeze, because then you'd die, or worse."
"Worse?"
"With tits like that, use your imagination..."
She looks disgusted at that idea, but doesn't argue with the depths some people can sink into.
"C'mon, just get it out of the way now."
"I don't know, you're my friend, and you know I li---"
"If you do it I'll give you a ki---"
BANG!
Horizon stops the bullet just before it slams into his visor, holding it in mid-air with his Quirk.
He keeps it in place and leans to the side, looking at her embarrassed face.
"Maybe not in the face, but good job I guess..."
"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry! I just got so excited and then my hand just moved and I was already looking at your face and I---"
"Don't worry about it, and good quick draw time. Now go get cleaned up then come to my room to cash in, in about two hours, I've got something to do first, and I'd do it now but you're all sweaty and gross..."
SHAMBLES!
Momo rips off her mask and takes a deep breath, mind still reeling from what just happened. Then she sees the bullet still floating in the air and grabs it, a memento of a day well spent.
Then she assess her current state, drenched in sweat, and holds her head in her hands, "how embarrassing, but he didn't seem to hate it atleast... I just have to go make the most of tonight."
---Meanwhile, Horizon's Room...
"I was trying to be flirty and she tried to shoot me in the face, what the fuck Momo," he immediately checks his phone, seeing his client almost ready.
SHAMBLES!
His casual PE Uniform is swapped out for his Hero Costume, ready to do one last bit of work before he has some fun for the evening.
'My informant should be in Musutafu soon, just help him out, get the info I need, then I can get back here and relax...probably talk to Shield first. Finally making some progress on all these things I have to do...'
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Chapter 191: CHAPTER 187(Cold Leads)
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"So how do you feel?" Horizon asks.
He was currently sitting in a high end hotel room in Musutafu, looking at UA in the distance atop its hill while listening to some news reports on his phone.
"I still can't believe this is happening," a woman says as she takes the seat opposite him. An older woman approaching her sixties, hair already grey and face wrinkled, but dressed in a suit.
"That didn't answer the question."
"I'm feeling better than I have in years," she takes a deep breath. "I can finally breath freely again, and my back pains are gone...I can probably keep up with my grandkids now."
"Well, I'm good at what I do, I promised a full checkup and to fix whatever I found, and I delivered."
"Yes, but honestly when the big bad Horizon came knocking, I expected to be dragged off in cuffs, not negotiating a deal."
"Well, I can always do that later, but that doesn't get me what I want."
"Not like I could stop you, not like anyone could. The information you requested is in my car downstairs."
Horizon puts his phone down and looks toward the car, through the floor, "the papers?"
"Yeah."
SHAMBLES!
He warps away for a moment the reappears with a thick stack of papers.
'No wonder villains have their head in the sand, kids a monster,' she thinks but wisely doesn't say aloud.
"Handwritten, why?" he asks, already skimming them.
"You asked me for the manifests of all my clients hidden airfields across Japan, that's not something I'm willing to just download to give you a backdoor into my system. I have a business to run."
"Fair enough."
"How'd you find me by the way?" She asks. "I made sure the Pro Heroes and Police didn't even know I existed, but you just called my phone like it was nothing."
"Maybe you aren't as invisible as you thought..."
"Bullshit," she scoffs. "Someone talked, so who's the rat?"
"Everyone talks when I put hands on them, but all that matters is you're useful to me, so I'll keep you around."
"Was useful, I'm leaving Japan. I'm not foolish enough to stick around when UA's golden boy knows my address, that's not how I lasted this long."
"What you do is none of my business, just be gone by the end of the week, now back to my question about these being handwritten, not even printed, that's unusual, so..."
The woman sighs, "Tech."
"Tech?"
"That's a name that came up once or twice," she says. "My business was brining people in under the radar, big names and big players that had to get themselves across borders or move a lot of...higher tier items."
"I know, you dealt with guns and glory, no drugs and silly things like that, I've done my research obviously."
"Well you asked me to look into anyone by the codename Wolfram, got one hit from a landing strip up in the mountains to the west. Big guy, a foreigner, could control metal from the way he folded up the fence at the airstrip."
"That's the one."
"Yeah well his trail ran cold, and I figured if I helped you find him maybe you'd be honest and stick to your deal...at the time I still thought this was a setup, can't blame me for being paranoid."
"Understandable."
"Well everywhere this guy goes the cameras start glitching, telltale sign of someone else, a group called Tech, must be thousands of hackers working together. One of their men passed through Japan before about five years ago before heading back to America."
"For what?"
"To set up supply lines, linking Japan, America, Europe, Russia, Brazil, and China, plus some others, factories with vehicle and computer parts."
"Using their quirks to manufacture commercial goods, highly illegal without the proper licenses, which they probably don't have," Horizon says.
"But they pay, and since they're connected to seemingly everything, I didn't want to take the risk of exporting these files on Wolfram, hence me having to stay up and write it all out."
"I see," Horizon ponders this information for a moment. "Well you kept up your side of the agreement, we'll never mention this to anyone and you can get out of Japan as soon as possible."
"Thank you, and for the record, I much prefer when Pro Heroes ask for what they want instead of coming in swinging, even if your bedside manner needs a lot of work."
"I get that a lot, but does it really matter, you're a villain..."
"Criminal," she corrects him. "Villain means I used my Quirk to commit a crime, and since I'm not somehow committing crimes with my Acid Spit, I'm just a regular criminal."
"Technicalities, I've got work to do, have a good life."
SHAMBLES!
Now back in his room Horizon sits on his couch and puts his feet up, flipping through the stack of papers he just got.
Shrinking his Room to only encompass the dorms, he looks around for a moment.
He senses Sero playing video games with Kirishima and Ojiro in the common area. Shinso and Tokoyami finishing up some studying for tomorrow.
Deku and Bakugo are outside sparring, with Shoto and Uraraka watching them.
Then his focus jumps over to Momo's room where he senses her, Jiro, and a few other girls excitedly talking on her bed.
'I really hope that's not about me...' he thinks before cutting off his Quirk. 'It's probably about me.'
"Nezu's system is the most secure in the world, it'll be fine if I just scan these files," he mutters while taking out his phone.
---10 Minutes later...
Standing in front of a hologram being projected in his room, he sees a map of Japan with dozens of small dots across it.
"Too many places, Wolfram can use any of these as a cover if he cares about a place with a lot of metal that nobody would care about if it went missing."
He swipes his hand and the map refreshes, now completely blank.
"Ok, if I were him, then I'd assume that Horizon is protecting the Shields so I could just team up with the league, but the league hasn't shown up in weeks so that doesn't give me any new leads either."
He thinks for a moment, then opens the Hero Network on another hologram and gives a command, "map the most recent Nomu sightings."
Three dots appear on the opposite side of Japan, to the southwest shore, "been weeks since the last one...dead leads.
Well, atleast I know Wolfram is in Japan. No face or description, like hunting a ghost, but the only thing I can confirm is that my bait works. But he won't strike unless they leave UA or I'm not around. So best to just stay put and hope he gets impatient, then I'll kick his teeth in when he shows his face."
With an annoyed grumble he sits back and looks at the map.
"So much bullshit to deal with, all to play the perfect hero role...but I'll have this world groveling at my feet in no time.
Save the Shields- get David and Melissa Shield in my pocket, and instantly have All Might's most famous and outspoken supporter in my corner. Almost guaranteed hall of fame potential in that alone from the credit he'll bring me.
Maybe find a way to reverse the Nomu operation...unlikely, but atleast make an effort. Having Eraser Head on my side makes UA a lot more tolerable already, and hell a Nobel Prize could be fun to have.
Same with this," he raises his hand and activates his Quirk, allowing the energy mist to waft off his hand. "Figure out a way to cure things without being there and suddenly I'm at the top of the world...and I'm never coming down.
And they won't have a choice but to give me everything I want, and then some."
He then looks back up to the map, "if only I could make progress on this idiot first."
'Maybe if I just dip into Arsenal or Law Matani's resources,' he genuinely contemplates this. 'No, keep all three separate. Law is a businessman, Horizon is a perfect Hero, and Arsenal's connections are for criminals only...the only way I win is to have the world in my hand, then leave.
Give it all up and disappear to live a peaceful life somewhere. I almost can't wait for that day... But I will somewhat miss people tripping over themselves to reach me, this Pro Hero gig has its uses.'
With a wave of his hand, the map goes away as he neatly stacks up all his papers.
Then he taps his phone a few times, and another map of Japan shows up. This time with red lines covering some of the roads to blinking red nodes in major cities and some smaller towns. Even some places just off the shore were blinking.
"Orca and Edgeshot must have updated my map today, some of these routes are new," he can't help but chuckle at the absurdity of it. "First-year UA student, leading his own independent takedown of major contraband distribution lines across the country, so successful that even Pro Heroes jump onboard to get a piece of the action, Rank 1 here I come..."
And just as he's about to review their updates, a knock on his door pulls his focus away.
He expands his Room enough to sense Momo anxiously waiting outside his door.
A folder in her hands, wearing a sweater dress, and nothing below it.
'Huh, guess Mina got into her head, I'll need to thank Pinky later...now to check one item off the to-do list...'
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