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"I'm almost done in here, prep the next patient immediately," Horizon says to the empty operating room as he takes a scalpel to the brain lying on the metal table.
Hearing him through the comms his assistant at this hospital responds, "You've been performing surgeries for nearly twenty hours straight, don't you need a break?"
"I can still go for twenty more before I need some sleep, but these kids may not have that time," Horizon says as he continues focusing on the brain.
He very carefully and gently touches it with one finger, sensing where the tumor is once more, then takes one look to his left.
On the other end of the operating table where the three-year-old girl lays, her head harmlessly detached beside her body, her brain harmlessly removed and split in two right down the middle in front of Horizon.
Horizon leans forward and sees the tumor, half the size of a marble, attached to the top of her brain stem.
A terminal case for any person, unless Horizon is their doctor.
Horizon carefully pilots the scalpel to cut into the tumor, slowly, gently, cutting between where it and her brain stem meet.
He keeps one hand on the brain, holding it steady and constantly sensing her biological response to his intrusion as he goes.
After some tense moments and much concentration, Horizon completely removes the tumor and allows it to drop onto the table.
He pauses for a moment, prepared to react if her body, for whatever reason, responds poorly to the change.
But nothing happens, so with a wave of his hand, he reassembles her body perfectly, better than it was before he began.
"Now for one last check," Horizon mutters as he gently touches her head, doing a full Scan of her, down to the genetic level.
Beneath his visor, he smiles, "yet another miracle complete," he says before turning around, walking out of the operating room.
There are three nurses standing in the hallway with sanitation equipment and a gurney to move the child, who smile as Horizon steps outside.
"She'll be fine, just needs some rest and physical therapy to get over her muscle degradation," Horizon says as he walks past them.
As they move to sterilize the room and get the girl to the recovery ward, Horizon looks around, not seeing the second group of nurses with his next patient.
A two year old boy with degenerative bone marrow in dire need of a miracle.
Horizon sighs and walks through the hallway to the main nerve center of this wing of the hospital, seeing everyone moving about.
"Where is my next patient?" He asks, causing much of the room to pause for just a moment before they get back to work.
"Horizon, you're still here?" the nurse assigned to him asks, genuinely surprised.
"Why wouldn't I be? I still have lives to save."
"But, Central Park, we assumed you'd warp there right away," the man pointed down the hallway where a faint orange light was shining onto the wall.
ROOM!
Horizon expands his Room to cover more than just the hospital, but Central Park, which is just across the street.
"Wow, I've never sensed anything like that before," Horizon says as he walks down the hallway to a window overlooking the park.
On one of the baseball fields was a bright orange glow which then dimmed for a moment.
Horizon tilts his head to the side, clearly studying what he was sensing.
"We assumed you knew," the nurse says. "Other Pro Heroes and SWAT teams have already arrived on the scene."
"No, when I'm operating on a patient they get my full attention," Horizon says as he looks across the park, seeing the building that the United States government rented for him, completely melted. "Clearly whatever is going on there wants my attention."
"Should I postpone your other patients?" the man asks. "Normally we'd evacuate the hospital, at least those who aren't hooked up to essential life support machines, but…"
"I know, I am here," Horizon says, looking around to see the doctors, nurses, support staff, and patients looking at him. "No need to evacuate, prep my next patient, this won't take long," Horizon says before he warps away.
Horizon appears two blocks away, leaving the Children's Hospital to arrive in a general hospital, specifically the emergency room entryway.
He was yet again surrounded by chaos, police officers, civilians, and Pro Heroes alike were laid out on gurneys, chairs, and the floor, with doctors rushing to identify and treat the most heavily injured first.
BOOSTER SHOT!
Blue energy vapor begins pouring off of Horizon like a thick morning mist, spreading through the room and stabilizing the patients.
"What is this?" One of the doctors asks, looking away from the police officer he was struggling to stabilize, who was already trying to sit up.
"Booster Shot, it heals injuries and such, but still give everyone a once over before you clear them," Horizon says as he walks over to the help desk, noticing the sense of relief washing over the room.
The man behind the desk gives him a confused look as Horizon reaches over the desk and grabs all the pens and pencils held in a small cup, out of view.
He then snaps them all in half, then snaps them once more.
Without a word he then tosses them outside, into the drop off bay.
SHAMBLES!
Most of the pieces are swapped for civilians, Pro Heroes, and police officers, including some more heavily armed officers.
Then new arrivals look around confused, until they feel the cool sensation of Horizon's healing energy flowing through them.
---Minutes Earlier…
Walking through one of the many baseball fields within Central Park, a man made entirely of solid flames, glowing orange and melting the ground with each step, walks to the pitcher's plate.
"Damn it, and here I thought that would have gotten his attention," the man groans in annoyance, looking back at Horizon's assumed residence within Manhattan.
The entire building was melted, molten stone, steel, and glass, now flowing into the streets and affecting the nearby buildings.
BANG!
A high caliber sniper rifle bullet slams into the man's head, entering one side and leaving the other as molten metal.
"Well, at least someone finally noticed me," the man says as three Pro Heroes arrive on the scene.
One of them had two massive bat wings protruding from his back, and under each arm he carried an ally.
Under his left was a man with a sniper rifle, still aimed at the villain.
And under his right was a woman with large gauntlets on her hands.
The three Pro Heroes land, and immediately take a combat stance.
"Surrender, before this gets messy," the man with wings says.
"Seriously? You ask me to surrender after shooting me in the head, isn't that supposed to be the other way around?"
The man with the rifle responds by taking aim yet again, then loads a special round without moving the gun at all. "When you melt a skyscraper, I tend to get trigger happy."
"You're lucky since Horizon lives there there isn't anyone else in the building!" the woman says, slamming her fists together to cause a shockwave through the area. "You could have killed someone!"
"That's…the point, now, come be the first victims!" the man yells while running at them.
"Don't let him touch you!" the winged man says as he flaps his wings, sending a massive gust of wind through the area and kicking up a small sandstorm.
"Annoying!" the villain yells as he can't see through the sand, but from outside they see him as a bright glowing target.
The Pro Hero with the rifle fires a special 'Cryo Round' directly at the villains' head, only for the special payload that can freeze a moving locomotive engine in place, instantly, to have no effect at all.
"He runs hot," the man says, "we need backup."
"We'll stall him, get us some help, and find Horizon!" the woman says as she rushes into the sand cloud.
"Got it," the winged hero rockets into the air, leaving his friends behind.
Seeing his wife rushing forward, the man raises his rifle once more, aiming at the villain's head, then hits a button at the side of his gun to make it completely silent.
He quickly steadies his breathing and focuses his Quirk, preparing the next few rounds with it.
He fires one round at the stationary villain, and while it's soaring through the sand cloud it suddenly changes directions, making a sharp turn upward.
After less than a second it changes again, making another sharp turn forward.
Then it makes a third sharp turn, and strikes the villain's head from above, directly opposite the man who shot it.
His Quirk, Loaded Vectors, allows him to preset coordinates into projectiles, and when they reach those coordinates, the vector will change without losing any energy.
He can set up to three coordinates per projectile.
The villain responds as expected, and turns around.
'Gotcha!' the woman thinks as she arrives behind the villain, then pivots to the side and launches a strong right at his face.
"Skyquake Strike!" she bellows as her fist stops inches away from him.
The area shakes as a street wide lane of destruction is launched point blank at the villain.
It shakes the air between the fist and his face, causing a path of destruction from her fist to the water reservoir in Central Park, where she intended to launch him.
But as her attack blasts away the sand, the villain is standing in place, hovering in place actually, as the ground beneath him was completely torn away and launched into the reservoir.
Before the woman can react the villain casually raises his hand, and gently touches her fist with the back of his hand.
Her body barely made contact for a fraction of a second, but down to her bones were completely disintegrated, atomized perfectly into the air.
It happens so quickly that her nerves don't register any pain, only a cold sensation at the end of her arm.
"Move!" her husband screams, and she leaps away as he offloads his entire magazine into the villain, and it does nothing.
"My Fire quirk is the only Transformation Type for a reason you know," the villain says, looking at the man. "It makes me invulnerable to anything you have, even if you were able to move me, the water wouldn't have worked. That's the first thing I tried when I realized the hell my life would be, trapped in this form, so just go get me Horizon."
The man glances over at his wife, who already had her left fist raised, ready to continue fighting.
"Sorry, but we aren't the type to give up," he says, noticing his wife's smile at those words.
"Nothing you have can hurt me, so begone…"
The couple barely have time to react as the villain raises the heat of his body, vaporizing the air around him, flash incinerating the entire baseball diamond into black dust.
The air in the area rushes toward the villain for a moment as his Quirk hungrily consumes it all, then the man simply looks around, seeing police cars and Pro Heroes rushing toward him, led by a man with bat wings.
He frowns, knowing they could never hurt him, knowing they couldn't bring him the peace he wanted…
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"Surrender now, last chance!" A Pro Hero wearing an all blue costume with a small cape at his back says.
He was slowly backing up, inching closer to the water reservoir in Central Park, not moving his gaze from the villain in front of him.
The man was simply standing there, bored, made entirely of solid fire as he looked around.
There was a blockade a hundred meters away with police officers and medical staff, along with new teams and support staff calling for more Pro Heroes to help.
Even the fire trucks were here and on high alert, but either fortunately or not, instead of igniting things around him and causing fires to ravage the greenery of the park.
Anything the villain touches in instantly disintegrated, torn asunder by the immense heat of his existence.
The villain looks around, taking in the sight of all the dead or injured Pro Heroes scattered about, taking in all the carnage and death these people brought upon themselves by crashing against him.
"That's a bad idea," the villain says, his voice reverberating on the scorched air around him. "Using water against me is…counter intuitive, trust me."
"Great Splash!" The Pro Hero yells as he waves his hands, controlling the water behind him to create a massive whip, aiming to grab the villain and drag him into the reservoir.
The villain sighs, and as he's been doing this entire time, stands there, waiting for them to haplessly die, as all living things do in his presence.
The water whip hits him, and what happens next is instant, and terrifying.
His Quirk, is entirely unique. A transformation Quirk which was boosted and modified via illegal human experimentation when he was a baby.
Because of that, his body is always in this fiery form, a surprisingly serene experience, but it makes him powerful.
Too powerful for the government that created him to control, so naturally, they tried to douse his flames with water and chemicals at first.
And they learned a terrifying truth about his Quirk.
The moment the water touched him, his Quirk body transferred its heat into the water, but instead of simply evaporating it.
He separated the particles.
The Oxygen from the water was greedily consumed by his Quirk, and the Hydrogen instantly became a fiery blast.
The explosion rocked the area and consumed both the villain and Pro Heroes alike.
The Pro Hero controlling the water didn't even have the time to feel the blistering heat as the flames reached him.
Not because it was so fast, but because he was suddenly standing by one of the police officers.
"Huh?" He looks around, confused, seeing the officers with their useless weapons aimed at the villain, even as the fiery explosion quickly subsides.
"What's going on?" The police sergeant, wearing SWAT gear and holding a large rifle sees all the injured Pro Heroes and civilians who'd been hurt or killed, gone.
And the few who could fight and were closing in on the villain were now standing just in front of the barrier.
The sergeant immediately realizes what's going on, and smiles. "Get behind the barrier, and be prepared to help the firefighters douse any flames that come up!"
The Pro Heroes waste no time falling in line as they too realize what just happened, and all the cameras and attention shifts to Horizon, who was now standing across from the villain, sword sheathed and hovering beside him.
"What, were you asleep?" the villain asks. The new crews and drones hear and see everything, and can't help but frown at that question. Because since this incident began nearly thirty minutes ago, everyone had been asking the same thing.
"Hey now, beauty sleep is important for someone as handsome as me," Horizon taps his visor. "But it also takes a lot of effort to keep this perfectly clean."
"I always wonder what that feels like," the villain says.
"What's that?"
"Sleeping, eating," the villain then looks down at his hands. "Being human."
"Well, I can't really comment on that last bit, if you haven't noticed," Horizon says. "I'm closer to you than regular humans."
"Containment suit and all," the villain says. "So what happens if yours comes off?"
Horizon shrugs, "I'd probably just die. But my Quirk could react poorly, so, who really knows."
"Tch, now I'm really jealous," the villain grumbles. "I take mine off when it's time to get to work, so long as I keep my heat in check it lets me blend in, but take it off, and—"
"Self Immolation," Horizon interrupts him, causing the villain's body to flare up for just a moment. "Oh, was I right?"
"How do you even know who I am?"
"Part of it was a guess," Horizon admits. "Part of it was the fact that you did that to my temporary home," he gestures to the melted hotel.
"And the other part?"
"You did something similar when you killed Minister Chevil, ten years ago, right?" Horizon says. "I've always been curious about exactly what your Quirk is, Immolation."
"Oh, I get it, Arsenal must have told you, since she's the only person who knew that was me," Immolation says, then realizes something. "Nah, she was a real pro, she'd never rat. You people must have dug around in her head before you put her down, so those horrors we hear about Tartarus are true, huh?"
"You're in America, so New Alcatraz is where you'll be going," Horizon says. "So what is this? You're trying to take her spot?"
"It's also very profitable to kill you," Immolation says. "But, yeah, part of it is just showing that with her gone, the top spot is up for grabs. And while that level of hyper violent obsession isn't something I've got, I more than make up for it in power."
"But not subtlety," Horizon says. "No wonder you only got the loud jobs."
Immolation laughs, "Damn, you're not just some nerdy doctor with a powerful Quirk, you even know about people too…scary."
"I get that a lot."
"So, are you done stalling now?" Immolation asks, getting more serious for a moment. "I'm not stupid you know, a lot of people with a lot of experience killing powerful Pro Heroes have been watching you, and we figured out something about what you can and can't warp, so…since I'm still standing here…" Immolation playfully gestures to Horizon.
And Horizon groans, nodding, "Yeah, you got me, warping energy isn't exactly easy. Especially not the kind you're made up of."
"Which means all I have to deal with is…everything else," Immolation begins heating up his body, and all the grass around him instantly blackened into ash and blows away with the hot air.
"Give me one second," Horizon says as he warps away, appearing in front of the police officers. "Push this barrier back another few hundred feet, this can get messy."
He turns away, looking at Immolation, and touches the side of his visor.
"Did you get all of that?" he asks.
"Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm busy," Star' says. "This guy looks like a really bad matchup for you, but I'm sure you'll figure something out. But I'll look into the data you sent, and your theory about him while you fight, good luck."
SHAMBLES!
Horizon appears in front of Immolation once again, but with his sheathe missing, leaving Sunder's blade free as he grips the hilt, and his phone back at Matani Tower.
Horizon takes a combat stance, and Immolation doesn't react, as usual.
Instead, he simply waits for Horizon to get closer, ready to raise his heat and disintegrate the Hero.
In an instant Horizon weighs all his options, and sadly, he sees only one path forward.
He takes a more relaxed stance and lifts his left hand, palm facing the sky.
'Hopefully his counter attack doesn't kill me,' Horizon thinks as he deactivates his Quirk.
T-ROOM!
He feels his total energy take a massive hit, more energy than he had one year ago was instantly consumed to create a small Room hovering above his palm.
Unlike his standard Room, the Rooms created by his awakening cannot be made invisible, leaving it to be a visible blue sphere of energy.
Even now, drops of dense liquid energy leaks out of the T-ROOM, onto his hand, then onto the scorched earth below, causing grass to grow.
"That's new," Immolation says, playfully.
Then Horizon brings Sunder's blade to the sphere, and the T-Room slowly crawls over the blade like thick flowing liquid, leaving the translucent blue energy around it.
"Yeah, very new, I hope you don't mind being the test subject."
"That's what I was literally born to be," Immolation says as Horizon begins walking forward.
ROOM!
Horizon creates a second Room, a standard room around the immediate combat area, and even that strains his mind and energy.
'The gap between myself and Sunder is problematic, I'm not familiar enough with my Awakening abilities to use them like this, so hopefully I can end this in one go…'
With each step forward he feels as if he's inside a smelting oven, and the temperature around him just keeps climbing.
Within three steps he's standing close enough to swing his sword, and as he moves to attack, Immolation raises the heat immensely.
Everything around them is incinerated by the instant heat.
With no theatrics and flames, a wave of heat hits the earth and grass as Immolation raises the temperature of his sentient plasma body so much that the air rushes away from him, carrying death with it.
Horizon is struck by this, but Booster Shot envelopes his entire body, healing him as fast as he's being disintegrated.
It wraps around his body, his body glove, and his visor, but everything else is not that fortunate.
His formal suit burns away as the blade reaches Immolation, slashing directly through his head.
And as it touches him, the villain's glowing white 'eyes' widen.
"ARGH!" Immolation screams as the blade enters one side of his head and leaves the other, and he feels every bit of the immense pain that a regular person could feel from this, even if his sentient plasma body reforms behind the blade as it flows through him.
The sensation was entirely forgotten by him, so used to being invulnerable that it terrifies him, shaking him to his core and bringing out his most primal survival instincts.
Horizon's eyes widen beneath his visor as Immolation suddenly glows bright orange, raising his temperature so much and so quickly that the earth, grass, and even the air from a hundred feet around him is incinerated, leaving slagged ground around them.
The rushing air was so intense that Horizon was knocked away, sent tumbling as the combined focus and energy needed for his Awakening and Booster Shot, which kept him alive, but made it so he couldn't warp away.
"Ouch," Horizon mutters, more serious than playful as he gets up, and takes in the destruction.
He was now standing inside the entirely evaporated reservoir, with red hot earth all around him.
Pieces of his Body Glove were burnt and melted, even through the veil of energy protecting it, and Sunder was red hot, his awakening, deactivated.
"What did you do?!" Immolation charges at Horizon, his body glowing as fear grips his heart.
All his life he thought death would bring relief, but now, facing someone with the potential to make it a reality, fear consumed him.
Seeing the villain running toward him, Horizon warps Sunder away.
"I over complicated things," he says while creating another T-Room, this time in his right hand. Then he creates a second, simultaneous T-Room in his left hand. "Time to simplify things."
Rushing toward Horizon, Immolation sees his clash both glowing spheres into each other until they become one, and then he crushes it between his palms.
The spheres break, collapsing into each other, and the liquid energy slowly flows across Horizon's body, coating his body glove and visor completely.
"No!" Immolation stumbles for a moment, recognizing this as the same effect from his sword. "Never again!"
Immolation stops before he touches Horizon and raises his temperature yet again, hotter than before.
But while the heat rushes outward, Horizon charges forward.
Even as the ground is turned into black dust around them, he rushes through it.
The air around him burns, scorching his lungs with each breath, but the energy constantly heals him, doing nothing for the pain but keeping him alive, keeping him fighting.
So clad in this mysterious energy, like armor, and punches Immolation in the face.
The villain experiences the pain of his jaw breaking and teeth shattering, but his plasma body instantly reforms, seemingly fine.
So in a panic he reaches out to grab Horizon to melt him directly, only for the Hero to reach out and grab his wrist.
Horizon tightens his grip, only to crush Immolation's wrist, causing the sensation a regular human would feel if that happened to them, to wrack the villain.
Immolation gives a blood curdling scream and directs his heat to his legs, heating the air below his feet and haphazardly launching himself back.
He tumbles on the floor for a few dozen meters, trying and failing to calm his mind.
"What the hell is this, what did you do to me?" Immolation asks as he hurries to get up, seeing Horizon already walking toward him.
"I reminded you of what it feels like to be human," Horizon says. "You've been invulnerable for so long that you'd forgotten, and clearly you neglected to train because of the power you were born with, it's pathetic, really."
"Tch, you're no different!" Immolation says, pointing at the hero. "You're strong simply from existing, you were born like that, so don't tell me that crap."
"People always think that, but I was weak at first," Horizon says.
"Bullshit!"
"No, I'm serious. I was weak, I didn't even know what my Quirk was. But, I trained, I studied, I worked, I was on the path to the top of this world before I even knew my Quirk wasn't a useless dud. See, I didn't become what I am now because I'm strong," Horizon stretches, preparing for the fight ahead. "I'm Horizon, because I was already the greatest, now let me show you…"
END CHAPTER---
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