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72.11% MHA: Horizon (Ope-Ope No Mi) / Chapter 268: CHAPTER 263(Golden Chain Gang Raid Pt IV)

Chapter 268: CHAPTER 263(Golden Chain Gang Raid Pt IV)

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CHAPTER START---

"MAGIC!" Majestic yells out, throwing his arms forward and forming a ring of prismatic energy which the large golden chain bounces off of.

Before their eyes it seemingly moves as if alive and whips back to the other side of the room at incredible speed, directly at Cellophane.

As he quickly fires a line of tape to the side and pulls himself toward it, avoiding the attack, Team Majestic gets a proper look at the fight.

Gold Chain was hovering in the middle of the room. There were golden glowing chains of different sizes forming on his clothes which were glowing in the same color, some of them were attached to the walls, floor, and ceiling to keep him aloft.

But most of them were thrashing about to strike Cellophane and Mudman.

The man himself was thin as they saw, and plain looking for a Japanese man, his grill of golden teeth showing every time he growled at the heroes.

"Ladies, circle him, he can't have eyes everywhere," Majestic says as his team enters the fight.

Genesis and Rule break off to one side, opposite Team Horizon, while Lizardy takes a few of Rule's shrunken objects and begins floating them about the battlefield on tiny pieces of herself.

"What took you so long?" Madman says as he avoids a few strikes and is promptly joined by Majestic.

"Didn't think that---" Majestic forms two prismatic rings below them, quickly launching them both into the air to avoid chains sweeping the floor. "---your team would get here so fast."

"We get that a lot," Cellophane says as he's hanging from the ceiling, but fires two lines of tape to grab them both, pulling them away from a trio of chains fired at them like spears.

As they get out of the way, Gold Chain feels something hit the back of his head and winces, only for foam to immediately begin forming around his head.

"What the---" his head is shrouded in golden energy before a few tiny chains manifest on it, scattering to foam to the floor below.

Looking around he sees the female heroes on the battlefield, and locks his sights on Genesis.

"You---" another capsule flies directly at his face, only for a chain to manifest on his body and bat it away. "Annoying bitch, trying to choke me!"

He flings his arms forward, and a collection of sharp pointed chains manifest on his back and arc above him, raining down on her like arrows.

"Technically I was trying to suffocate you," Genesis says as she fires directly into his attack, but this capsule shatters and forms a smoke screen that seems to linger in the air around the man.

She leaps to the side as all the chains begin spreading out, and forms a tungsten tower shield to crouch behind, holding her ground as vibrations ring through her arms.

The golden chains shatter against the shield and dissipate before they fall to the floor.

"He can't see through the smoke, his targeting was off," Mudman says. "So we know he can't sense us with these chains."

"We need a minute to regroup," Majestic says. "Rule, Lizardy, hit him with something to take his focus or immobilize him."

"Rule, Lizardy," Mudman says. "Just like we practiced in school, maneuver 9!"

"We'll take his focus!" Cellophane says as he rushes off.

Within this massive open room he was at a disadvantage, but he made up for it by attaching his tape to the chains flying about, bounding off them like tree branches in a forest.

Beside him Majestic made a prismatic ring below himself and flew over to Gold Chain as well.

"Annoying heroes!" Gold Chain yells as he sees them. "You ruined everything!" Some of the smaller chains moving about the room dissipate as he forms one massive chain from his chest, reminiscent of chains used to attach anchors to the most gargantuan of ships, each link being the size of a small car.

Majestic sees this attack incoming and makes a fist, punching forward against the air, "Magic!"

Ten prismatic rings form in front of him and quickly collapses into a single energy bolt, darting forward as a beam and colliding with the gold chain.

One of the massive links shatter, then another, then another, then the prismatic beam dissipates.

"Crap!" Majestic says as he sees the link within a few meters of him, knowing the attack he just did could punch through multiple buildings.

In the same moment he glances to his left, seeing Cellophane already having attached a line to the ceiling and vaulting over the massive chain, and decides to keep Gold Chain's attention on him.

"MAGIC SHIELD!" he screams at the top of his lungs, making ten concentric prismatic rings in front of himself to take the hit.

The massive chain links shatter against it and continue to shatter, even as Cellophane vaulted over it and began running along them.

Gold Chain obviously sees them and prepares to attack Cellophane simultaneously, but a smoke bomb capsule slams into the side of his face, shattering to block his view with a cloud.

Taking the chance Cellophane attaches two lines to the far wall, firing them through the smoke and past either side of Gold Chain's head, reeling himself in and kicking the villain directly in the face at full power.

As he plants both his feet into the villain's face, "ARGH!" he screams out as two gold chains tear through his feet, through the soles of his boots and out the top.

Gold Chain had manifested them at the moment of impact, along with a shroud of energy around his head so he could actually stay conscious after that hit.

"Cellophane!" Genesis yells, ready to fire another shot. She aims at the golden glow above his feet and fires. This time a hardened slug shatters each chain before a third slams into the energy protecting the villain's face, harmlessly bouncing off.

Her eyes open wide, realizing what she just did, what she instinctively did after seeing him hurt one of her dear friends, and being thankful that the villain could actually defend that attack instead of having a hole punched through his head.

Wasting no time Cellophane attaches his lines to the ceiling and pulls himself away, leaving a trail of blood from his feet as he rockets through the air.

As he sticks himself to the ceiling he notices Lizardy's right arm and head floating by themselves directly above Gold Chain, right beside Cellophane.

"You ok?" She asks, looking at his bleeding feet.

"I'll be fine," he tries and fails to hide his obvious pain.

"You're a bad liar," Lizardy says as her arm spins, throwing the small cube in her hand at Gold Chain, directly down at him.

'EXPAND!' Rule touches her fingers together and activates her Quirk, having touched this item once before she can activate her Quirk on it remotely a limited amount of times.

Suddenly the metal cube expands until it was 5m -15ft- wide, crashing into Gold Chain.

As the shadow is cast above him he looks up, just in time to stop his attack against Majestic's shield and create one of his own.

But the force the cube was thrown at and the material it comprises shatters his web of chains and slams into his, ready to crush him against the stone floor.

Luckily Mudman already softened the ground below him into water, so as he's slammed into it...

'SHRINK!' Rule deactivates her Quirk on the cube, allowing the softened ground to swallow the man as he's a few meters deep.

"Hardening it now," Mudman says as he deactivates his Quirk, sealing the man below.

"We need to take care of those wounds," Genesis says as Cellophane lands and sits on the floor.

"No time, that won't hold him for long," Cellophane says.

"He's right," Mudman says. "That guy is using trigger, he'll be out any second, we need a plan."

"Trigger, that explains why he's so much more powerful than we expected," Genesis says as she begins wrapping bandages around Cellophane's feet.

"He juiced up the moment he recognized us, guess he thought--- ahh!" Cellophane winces.

"Sorry."

"I guess he thought Horizon was gonna show up, lucky us," he sighs.

CRACK!

The stone floor begins to break apart, directly above Gold Chain.

"His Quirk, what is it?" Majestic asks

"Hard light constructs," Mudman says, "but he only makes those chains, different sizes and some things can be altered, but always chains."

"Do we have a plan?" Lizardy asks.

"Yeah---" the ground shakes as another crack forms. "Simon is on the way down, he finished downloading this gang's intel cache and treating his own wound, now he should have enough energy to shut this guy down."

CRACK!

A massive fissure forms in the stone floor as multiple gargantuan golden chains erupt from the ground.

"I thought trigger gets weaker over time," Majestic says while simultaneously forming energy rings below the students and moving them to safety.

"It should, but he's getting strong, this variation was purple," Cellophane says.

"Another unique formula," Lizardy grumbles.

They all continue to back away, with Cellophane being supported by Genesis, the adrenaline now dulling and taking his ability to stand with it.

"You know, I don't mind fighting villains," Lizardy says. "But stuff like this is why I'm a long range recon specialist..."

As the dust clears they see more and more massive chains forming, attached to thinner chains that expand the farther away they are from the villain's body.

"Dangerous things like this is why my wife also asked me to step back from being a frontline combatant," Majestic says as he takes a few steps forward.

"RAARGHHH!" Gold Chained pained cries echo through the room as the dust clears enough for them to see him, bleeding from his eyes that were glowing golden.

Majestic takes a deep breath and steels his will, glancing back at the students and giving them a thumbs up, "but don't worry, I was the #9 Pro Hero at one point, now I'll show you kids why..."

END CHAPTER---

I wrinkled my smooth brain this time and actually got her name right, sorry she just shows up so rarely I forget about that. Also, I re-read the manga recently so that didn't help...the last two arcs were...oof.


Chapter 269: CHAPTER 264(Golden Chain Gang Raid Pt V)

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CHAPTER START---

"MAGIC RUSH!" Majestic yells out, drawing Gold Chain's eyes to him and away from the students as he rushes forward.

Breaking into a full sprint a prismatic ring appears below his left foot and launches him into the air.

More appear with each step in the air as he pivots and twists, effectively running on air at all different angles, eventually running along the ceiling and swinging his arm down.

"MAGIC CRASH!"

Ten large prismatic rings appear at his side while two keep him standing upside down above Gold Chain.

"Just die!" Gold Chain screams out as his eyes glow even brighter for just a moment. He punches forward at Majestic and one regular sized chain manifests from his fist.

"Hydra!" he screams out, and as it extends barely a meter it suddenly splits like a hydra's head constantly multiplying and snaking around, approaching Majestic at all angles as spearheads manifest at their tips.

From the sidelines all the students back away as the entire room begins shaking, energy from both sides colliding at Gold Chain's attack constantly manifests more chains and Majestic rapid fires prismatic rings into them.

The air begins to heat up and the light is almost blinding, all the students shield their eyes as they begin to back away.

Lizardy helps Cellophane back away as Mudman slams his palms down, softening the stone at Gold Chain's feet.

As Gold Chain feels his footing becoming weaker, chains manifest from his legs and extend around, holding him aloft and away from the floor.

"This is intense," Mudman says as he backs away, after hardening the ground once more.

"I didn't know sensei could fight like this," Genesis says as she backs away beside him. As they get to the others she makes some dark sun glasses and hands them to Lizardy and Rule so they could also see what was going on.

"Yeah it's insane," Cellophane says as he winces, pain shooting through his feet as he tries to stand up, still supported by Lizardy. "He's keeping up with that guy even after he took Trigger."

"Yeah that's nice and all but, where the hell is Simon?" Lizardy asks.

"I'm running down the hallways now," Simon says through their communicators, "is everyone alright?"

"Uh---" Lizardy glances at Cellophane's injured feet, "n---"

"We're all fine," Cellophane says. "Just hurry up man, Majestic is fighting this guy and I don't think our Quirks will be of much use anymore."

"It must be this new variation of Trigger," Mudman says. "He's able to mostly keep his control and focus, allowing him to think clearly and fight with some actual strategy."

"So, at what point does miracle boy actually get involved?" Lizardy asks. "I mean Ser--- Cellophane has holes in his feet, feel like this is where he should step in."

"Its not that big of a deal, none of us are that hurt," Cellophane says.

Rule, Lizardy, and Genesis look at his feet and grimace, very glad their mentor doesn't treat them like this.

But Mudman never takes his eyes off the fight.

Genesis records every moment through her mask as does Team Horizon, intent on learning anything she can.

The purpose of working with Majestic after all, was to predict and adapt to the ever changing battlefield.

And now more than ever she could see it, not nearly as clearly as Mudman or Cellophane can see the actions.

While Majestic was 12 steps ahead, Mudman was 10, Cellophane was 6, and Genesis was 3.

Even as hundreds of chains were flowing through the air, piercing and whipping at Majestic.

They see chains begin to curve in large arcs away from the fight, moving to stab Majestic in the back, and Genesis immediately raises her gun to fire at them, but Mudman blocks her with his hand.

"Don't fire, you'll throw off their rhythm," Mudman says. "If you fire and those chains break, then when they repair they'll act like a Hydra's head and keep multiplying, let Majestic deal with this for now, trust your sensei..."

As he says this Majestic casually waves a hand behind him and a large prismatic ring of energy forms, immediately collapses in on itself and fires out like a laser.

It shatters the chains and follows their links, curving around the room all the way to the villain who pulls himself away from the attack at the last moment.

Gold Chain is hit in the chest with another blast as he dodges the first, but an aura of golden energy envelops him and takes the hit.

As the explosion clears and the light fades slightly, they see the aura having a large crack in the chest area of it, which immediately repairs itself.

"A full body shield huh," Majestic says with a wide grin. "But you look tired!" he immediately launches another volley of attack at the villain.

As he batters Gold Chain with attacks that shake the room, causing cracks to appear in the walls and ceilings, shockwaves push the students toward the edge of the chamber.

"I'm here!" Simon says as he rushes into the room, "what's going on?"

"That's the last guy we---" As Mudman is pointing at the villain he is suddenly speechless as Gold Chain wraps himself in hundreds of chains, creating a thick sphere to defend himself.

The chains begin glowing brighter and brighter as Majestic yells out, "get down!" and clasps both his hands together.

Both his arms start glowing, energy flowing from his palms up his shoulder and to his chest, forming a small prismatic ring in the middle of his chest that hovers just above his body.

Majestic fires his energy blast directly at Gold Chain, causing an explosion that shakes the entire base and the road above.

"Rule!" Genesis creates something in her palms and throws it to her friend just as the explosion and light washes over them.

BOOM! 

Clouds of dust and bits of stone were across the room for a few moments, but when they cleared all the students found themselves swimming in the floor.

"Ugh, this is so gross," Lizardy says as they begin getting out of the small pool. 

"Says the girl that breaks her own body apart," Mudman says.

"Hey, swimming in mud is still gross."

"Swimming in stone and concrete actually."

As they all get out Genesis looks around, seeing the small blast shield she made for Rule to enlarge at the far wall behind them. 'We didn't react fast enough, but luckily Juzo was here...' she scowls at that realization, mentally berating herself.

As they all get out and the ground is returned to normal, the entire room finally clears enough for them to see Gold Chain at the other side of the room slumped against the wall, blood flowing from his shoulder and mouth.

And across from him, Majestic's Hero Costume is torn and tattered, sleeves and bits of the chest and back missing, bruised arms bare for everyone to see.

"Wow," Simon says.

"Yeah, wait till you see the replay," Cellophane adds.

"Sensei, are you ok?!" Lizardy yells out.

Majestic gives them a forced smile and a thumbs up, "yeah, but let's not tell my wife how dangerous this got!"

"Thank god this is over," Cellophane says. "Because honestly guys, my feet hurt..."

Mudman and Simon chuckle at that as Majestic begins walking over to them, only for Gold Chain to move.

"Sensei!" Genesis raises her gun at the villain as he brings an injector, housing a vial of green liquid in it to his neck.

PSH!

Her gun fires, but a moment too late as the new shot of Trigger is injected into the villain.

From his spot on the floor Cellophane fires a line of tape at the exhausted Pro Hero and pulls him over to the students as Genesis and Mudman step forward, ready to fight.

"Gold Chain, that much Trigger could kill you!" Simon yells out as the villain gets up, glowing brighter than ever with golden energy.

"No! I can---" Gold Chain's words are cut short as his shoulders slump.

BRAINWASHING COMPLETE!

Mudman relaxes and looks back at his friend, "honestly man, your Quirk is so ridiculous, glad you're on my team."

"And it's always impro---" Simon stops speaking as his eyes widen, looking at the villain. "He broke out!"

"What?!" Mudman turns around to see the villain moving freely once more and immediately drops to place his palms on the floor, intended to trap the villain once more.

But before he could touch the ground, the walls, ceiling, and floor of the room glow green and are seemingly coated in a thin layer of energy.

From all the surfaces of the room, including the floor beneath them, spear tipped chains begin launching at the heroes as they frantically evade.

"Simon?!" Cellophane asks as he feels excruciating pain with each forced step until Majestic begins carrying them all on his prismatic rings. But even his rings were dulling now.

"The Trigger and injuries must be causing him pain," Simon says. 

"And pain breaks your control, damn it," Mudman says. "Genesis, any ideas?"

As they continue avoiding the chains that were thankfully less accurate now that the villain was hurt and tired, they also notice the shield on his body returning.

She looks at her allies, seeing them tired or injured, ideas spawn in her mind, but the risk of people being hurt was too much for her.

So with no hesitation Genesis raises a hand to her communicator, "Horizon, we need backup!"

Hearing this, Mudman immediately takes out the metallic card Horizon gave him and throws it toward the floor, and the moment it's almost at the floor.

SHAMBLES!

Appearing in the room Horizon's eyes and brain are confused for a moment, his Quirk not matching the visuals of what he's seeing.

"Hard-light...annoying," he says.

Since he's so reliant on Scan, light based abilities are effectively invisible to him. If an attack is made purely of light he simply cannot detect it, because to do so he'd have to detect all light within his Room, which would make the room almost entirely solid within his mind since light is almost everywhere.

And even he cannot separate individual light particles in real time.

SHAMBLES!

Horizon warps Scalpel into his hand as he sees a legion of chains descending down onto him, with a slash at the space between him and the chains, they all shatter as Amputate strikes out.

Gold Chain's eyes lock onto Horizon, now ignoring the other, immediately causing chains from the walls and floor to manifest and rush toward Horizon.

Horizon feels one of the chains manifesting beneath his boot, creating a pointy spearhead to stab him through the foot as it did to Cellophane.

He instantly detects it as the material of his boot is deformed, even before his body can feel the pressure his Room detects it all, still unable to 'see' the hard-light attack causing this effect.

He immediately thinks to swap places with Gold Chain, but notices the man is attached to all the energy flowing through the room like one solid object, he cannot be warped without moving it all.

'Not impossible, but I don't know what'll happen if I just warp him and his Quirk reacts poorly, best not take the risk...'

BOOSTER SHOT!

Horizon's entire body begins releasing blue energy vapor, the grooves of his body glove that are visible on his gloves are glowing bright blue as well.

And all the hard-light attacks shatter against him as the energies collide.

More and more attacks rain down on him but no matter how hard they try they simply break against his new defense, leaving him unbothered as he stabs Scalpel into the floor.

BOOSTER SHOT!

He surges an immense amount of power through his blade and down into the floor, sending a pulse of energy through every surface of the room.

Where the glowing golden energy exists, it's shattered and overtaken by a wave of rolling blue that leads all the way back to Gold Chain.

Seeing the energy wave coming and easily overpowering him, the man uses everything he has to push against it but he feels as if he's throwing pebbles at a tsunami.

It reaches him as he's depleted all his energy and collapses onto his knees.

And the exhausted villain slumps forward, looking up at Horizon who's casually walking over to him, sword in hand.

The others descend as Horizon reaches the villain, almost as amazed at what just happened, but looking up at Horizon, Gold Chain understood something they never could.

Having his energy collide with and be so easily overpowered by Horizon, he had a level of understanding that very few people have.

An understanding of exactly what was looking down at him right now. At the living nuclear reactor's worth of energy, pretending to be human beneath that visor.

So looking up at Horizon, through his exhausted eyes, he musters up the energy for one last question.

"That much power..." he gasps between breaths, veins bulging purple as the Trigger is slowly killing him. "You...can't be human, are you?"

Horizon chuckles, "I'm better, now bow..."

Gold Chain raises a brow at that, until he's surprised as there's an intense pulling force on his golden plated teeth, yanking his head down to the floor.

CRACK!

He cracks his skull and the stone floor on impact as his teeth are ripped out of his mouth by the invisible force.

Horizon kneels down and places a hand on the villain's back, then as he's working looks at his allies, "so, this guy was a lot tougher than we thought huh?"

"That's one way of putting it," Cellophane says.

"He used Trigger like it was candy," Majestic adds. "That's hard to account for."

"Unpredictable things happen all the time, I'm just glad nobody got hurt."

"Uhhh," Lizardy gestures at Cellophane's feet.

"It'll take me seconds to heal that, that doesn't count."

"Still hurts," Cellophane says.

"You'll get over it..." Horizon says as he finally raises a hand from the villain's back ,and with it comes a marble sized sphere of green liquid.

"Is that the Trigger?" Majestic asks. "And here I thought you were healing him."

"I don't heal villains, but this," the Trigger hovers above his palm for everyone to see. "This I must study, now, let's get out of here..."

END CHAPTER—

So, I was in a car accident thursday hence chapters being delayed. I'm all good now and back to business. Sorry about the delays…


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