Chapter 144: CHAPTER 140(Another Imposter)
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CHAPTER START---
Under the moonlight on a quiet countryside road, a fully armored convoy was currently in chaos.
The main prisoner transport truck was currently flipped onto its side, with the last remaining member of the security division sitting behind it, back against the cold steel as he cradles his rifle.
"C'mon damn it, work," the man mutters, desperately tapping his radio, still not getting any signal.
"Grarh!" he hears one of his friends take his final breath just a few meters behind him.
CLANG!
He hears someone drop onto the main truck he was hiding behind, and carefully he cranes his neck upward, locking eyes with the cold emotionless killer.
"Wait please!" The man tries to jump to his feet, hoping to maybe get one shot off.
But Hawk's feathers are just too fast. Two pierce his heart and exit through his back before the man can even get off the ground.
His body crumples over, bleeding out as he takes his final pained breaths.
"Damn it, this had better be worth it," Hawk grumbles. He truly hates taking innocent lives, but orders were orders.
And for the greater good, their sacrifices are necessary.
Looking back he sees more bodies scattered about the road, some shot after the fact. Using their own guns to mix things up, rather than have everyone killed with 'blades'.
Hovering down from the truck using his feather wings, all the loose feathers return to his back while one long feather hovers into each of his hands. Playing the part of a feather sword.
He walks to the back of the truck, then glances over to Ryukyu, the woman was currently face down on the street in a pool of her own blood, with a dozen stab wounds in her back.
Taken by surprise, his first victim of the night. Barely left alive, much too close to death for his comfort.
Reaching into his jacket pocket Hawks takes out a communicator and hits one button. And moments later a Warp Gate opens a few meters away.
"Not bad," Dabi says as he walks out, hands in his pocket, as casual as ever. Looking around at the carnage he gives a nod of approval.
"I'll save you!" Twice screams as he rushes out of the Warp Gate, followed by a hulking Nomu that then easily rips the doors off the truck.
"I had the key," Hawks says, as Twice begins to multiply himself to haul his allies back through the Warp Gate.
"He gets excited easily," Dabi shrugs, standing between Hawks and the Warp Gate, keeping the hero in his sights at all times while Twice takes their allies to safety.
They have an intense staring contest for a while, until Twice and the other commanders are gone. Leaving Hawks, Dabi, the Nomu, and the unconscious Ryukyu as the only living people here.
Dabi takes his hands out of his pockets, ready for action, "so, what's your endgame here?"
"A world where people that can fly, are free to do so. I'm sick of being a bird in a cage."
"Of course, you'd talk in bird crap," Dabi says. "Well you helped us get these guys back, that's a start. But obviously, we still don't trust you, so I'll be in touch."
"Of course," Hawks says, relieved that atleast this part went smoothly.
"Ngh," Ryukyu makes just enough noise for them to hear, and Hawks immediately curses his luck.
"Ohh, missed one," Dabi gives a sinister smile as he aims his flames at Ryukyu, only for Hawks to step to the side, blocking his shot. "Dropping the crappy villain act already, huh?"
"I'm a freedom fighter, not a villain," Hawks says. "And if I'm the only survivor it looks too suspicious, I need her."
"You want me to pass up on a chance to kill a top 10 pro? Well, I could just make it two, how about it?"
"And kill the only intel source you have that can tell you what the other top 10 Pro Heroes are planning, right?"
Dabi clenches his jaw at that, and drops his hands. "She could become a problem for us later, kill her."
Hawks just sighs and shakes his head at that horrible idea, "Horizon already doesn't like me, I bet he'll think this is suspicious. If I'm the only survivor he'll be in my face in no time. And neither of us wants him knocking on our door, right?"
Dabi just rolls his eyes and blasts fire away from them, down the street and torching all the other vehicles and corpses, "there, alibi secure. But I see your point, we aren't ready for that fight just yet. For the record, I still think you're full of shit, and a bad actor, but the boss thinks you're useful. Try to stay useful, Hawks..."
Dabi turns around and casually walks into the Warp Gate followed by the Nomu, leaving Hawks and Ryukyu alone on the secluded street.
Hawks immediately shuts off the signal jammer, but the backup was dispatched when their signal disappeared. It was mostly so nobody could relay exactly who was attacking them.
'Twice was here, could have killed him already. But that's not the mission. Twice, Kurogiri, and whoever is producing all these damn Nomu for the league. When I get enough info on those 3, then we can take them all down, but for now...'
As he's thinking Hawk's arrives at one of the unburnt corpses, seeing a grenade on his belt.
"This is gonna hurt, sometimes I hate this job..." he mutters while reaching for the grenade.
The final piece, hurting himself enough to make it more believable...
---Minato Tokyo...
While Hawks was making himself a believable victim, Horizon got caught up in another situation.
Because of course with his luck, he'd be flying back to his building in Minato Tokyo, and soar directly above a convenience store hostage situation.
Sitting on his hoverboard he descends to street level, just behind the police barricade where the officers had the store surrounded.
"What happened?"
"Some idiot tried to rob the store when one of my guys was just on the sidewalk over here," the officer says. "He freaked out and hold the owner hostage, we've been here ever since."
Horizon takes an annoyed breath, "I'm too tired for this nonsense, what's his Quirk?"
"Uh, tough skin, like tough as leather."
Looking at the store Horizon sees the windows all spray painted from the inside, but that doesn't matter to him.
SCAN!
He 'sees' the man pacing back and forth, a gun in one hand and a phone in the other, negotiating with the detective in charge.
"I try not to use this much since it's not very 'heroic'...but you're keeping me from my bed, so you deserve it," he mutters in annoyance, causing the nearby police officer to give him a curios look.
Horizon raises his sword and aims it directly at the man's thigh, "Injection Shot."
"ARGHHH!" The man's pained scream rings out as he feels as if a bullet tore through the flesh and bone of his leg, yet didn't break the skin. All the obstacles between the blade and the target were completely pulverized as well.
"Injection Shot."
Another pained scream rings out, but before the man can even fall over.
"Shambles."
Horizon swaps the man with his katana, grabbing him by the face and slamming him into the pavement, leaving the gun in the store.
The officers nearby take a cautious step back, realizing the Hero was exceptionally annoyed at the moment.
It only took minutes to get the paperwork done for this on the scene, and make a public statement. And as Horizon finished talking to the officers and the press, ready to warp to his nearby building.
"Horizon!" one of the officers yells out. "Fire on 28th street!"
'FUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKK! I hate this hero bullshit!' Horizon's inner voice screams, but on the outside, he was as calm and eager to help as always.
"I'll take care of it, stay safe everyone," he tells the crowd before warping away.
---40 Minutes Later...
Stepping out of the shower, Law dries off before warping some shorts on and warping himself into the kitchen.
Getting some takeout that he'd ordered before getting back here out of the fridge he puts it in the microwave while checking his phone.
He sees a 'thank you' message from Nejire...for, snacks?
Then a moment later he opens his message from Burnin, seeing that both ladies were in his office at Endeavor's Agency and enjoying his snacks.
"Great, now they're multiplying," Law groans as his food is ready.
Taking it out he warps onto the couch and turns on the TV, hoping to watch some of the formula one races he missed today.
But only two minutes in, and after nearly 80 hours of being awake and constantly fighting villains or saving people.
His eyes were already closing.
Finally drifting off into a very well-deserved rest.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!
"Huh!" he jolts awake, the familiar emergency alert snapping him out of his restful state.
He checks his phone to see an emergency call for the Endeavor Hero Agency, with he and Endeavor listed by name.
He immediately calls Endeavor, intending to tell him he can't make it.
"What's going on?" he asks.
"The convoy was attacked, Ryukyu and Hawks are critical," and just like that, all hopes of skipping this task was washed away.
"Fuck, alright I'll prepare to work on Ryukyu, send her to my Operating Suite in your building."
"What about Hawks?" Endeavor asks.
"...What about him?"
END CHAPTER---
Chapter 145: CHAPTER 141(Dragon and God)
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"Mmm," with a relaxed and comfortable moan, Ryukyu rolls over in bed as she stirs awake.
Feeling well-rested and completely refreshed, as if she just spent a week at a spa. But the moment she opens her eyes, her mind is flooded with confusion.
Training kicking in as she's ready to fight anyone in the room.
Sitting up in the bed and looking around, she sees she's in a hospital bed, to her right is a wall of cabinets with a variety of different tools.
But this wasn't Central Hospital. One look to her left, at the view of Saitama Tokyo made that very clear.
"Where am---" she stops talking, feeling her throat dry. Looking around she sees a bottle of water on the bedside table.
Before doing anything else she throws off the covers to see her state. Wearing only a hospital gown.
'No cuffs or restraints, this has to be a friendly place. The police and other Pros must have found us before the villains could finish.'
Deciding she's mostly safe the woman drinks some of the water. Feeling much more relaxed afterward.
"That's enough sleeping Ryukyu," she mutters to herself as she sits at the edge of the bed, feet hanging just an inch above the floor.
"Cold," she mutters as her bare feet touch the tile floor. Dealing with the discomfort she walks over and turns on the lights, no longer solely depending on the moonlight and bedside lamp for light.
She has to block her eyes as the blue and white of the room assault her vision.
"Well, atleast now I know where I am..." she realizes immediately. The logo on some of the cabinets made it rather obvious.
Her shoulder slumps down as she takes her time to walk over to the mirror. Using the full-length mirror to look at herself properly. Not seeing any scars or bruises on her face.
"I must have been out for a few days," she looks at the clock, seeing it's only midnight. "Nejire must be so worried...some mentor I am, making my Sidekicks worry about me. You need to do better Ryukyu."
Looking lower, down to her feet, she also sees perfectly clear and unblemished skin.
She freezes for a moment, then hastily takes off the hospital gown, standing naked in front of the mirror.
Her entire body was flawless, in every sense.
All the scars and proofs of her career as a Pro Hero were gone, leaving her appearing as a woman who has never known such violent work.
After staring in amazement she finally spots the change of clothes laid out for her beside the bed, and a pair of fuzzy slippers that she wishes she saw earlier.
"Does he seriously need to make everything match?" she mutters curiously while moving to get dressed.
After getting dressed, in a set of grey sweatpants with the simple blue fluffy slippers and a grey sweater. The pants and sweater each sporting Horizon's blue logo. One on the thigh and the other on the back.
Running a hand through her hair to lazily set her bangs across the right side of her face she looks at both doors connected to this room. One on the opposite end of the room away from the glass wall.
And another beside the glass wall toward the outer wall of the building.
"Nejire is probably in the waiting room," Ryukyu says as she grabs her bottle of water and walks to the door closest to the bed, beside the glass wall.
And the moment she opens it, 'oh...not a waiting room.'
She enters Horizon's office, closing the door behind her as she looks around in genuine wonder.
'His office is bigger than mine, atleast twice as big,' she thinks while walking around.
She sees all the books on the shelves, most of which are Quirk Catalogues. Containing every publicly recorded Quirk and its uses.
'So old fashioned, all of this stuff is already online,' her gaze drifts over to a medical degree on the wall.
'So is 'Horizon' his actual name...it has to be if they put it on his degree, right?'
As she's curiously looking around the office, however, her eyes finally land on the most interesting thing, something she's almost smacking herself in the face for missing.
So distracted by the fact that he even has an office, to see him slumped forward on his desk completely asleep.
Ryukyu froze, for the first time Horizon actually seemed...human.
Or atleast somewhat human.
Even with his visor on and in full costume, his sword and hoverboard nowhere in sight. It was so surreal seeing him do something that everyone does, sleep.
But somehow he still managed to inspire awe. By the strange blue energy vapor wafting off of his body as he peacefully sleeps.
Just small wisps from his arms and hands, enough to give her an unsettling feeling.
But her curiosity was even stronger, and before she knew it, the woman was taking careful, silent steps forward.
Until she stood in front of his desk, with the two seats opposite him to either side of her.
And in the next moment she reaches out, to swat some of the energy away.
"ARGH!" Horizon's hand instinctively shoots up and grabs her neck, slowly choking the life out of her as she desperately claws at his fingers.
His grip was like a vice, and it took all her willpower not to instinctively transform. To break his hold, and the moment he finally looks up.
Those inhuman blue eyes on his visor seemed to bore a hole into her very being. They shone brightly as he looked at her, then the next moment became dull as the vapor on his body disappeared and he released her.
"Gaahhh!" she greedily sucks in air, leaning on the desk to support herself as Horizon sits back in his chair.
"Oh don't be so dramatic," Horizon's somewhat mechanical voice sounds more disgusted than anything else. "What were you even doing?"
Finally catching her breath Ryukyu stares at him with concern, "who reacts like that to someone being close to them, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, I'm perfect," he says. "Can you just sit down already?"
Ryukyu frowns, still massaging her neck which was sporting a fresh new handprint, but she sits opposite him.
"Good," Horizon sees her picking up her water bottle off the floor, "now, what were you doing?"
"You were, leaking?"
"Excuse me?"
"Blue mist from your arm, I was just making sure you're ok. Maybe coolant, do robots have that?"
Horizon pauses for a moment, realizing how serious she was being, "I'm not a robot."
"Sorry sorry sorry! I meant cyborg! I didn't mean to offend you I promise!"
Horizon just gives an annoyed groan, "not a cyborg either, but thanks for the info."
He truly had no idea his body was doing that while he slept. Yet another thing to divide his focus.
"Oh, but Nejire said you told her that---"
"This is my face, because it never comes off, Lifestyle Support Item," Horizon says. "But really I'm just a bag of meat, like everyone else."
"Right, well, sorry," she gives an awkward smile.
"It's fine, now since you're here, anything you want to know?" he asks while logging into his computer and checking up on some cases.
"What happened?" Ryukyu asks.
"What do you remember?"
"Everything up until I was in one of the trucks, then there was a cold pain in my back, then everything goes black."
"That makes sense, your vehicle was the first to get hit. Then they killed most of the security and hit Hawks with a grenade before leaving, from the looks of it Endeavor and Burnin got there fast enough that they couldn't finish you two. But nobody else lived."
"Hawks?" Ryukyu voice almost cracked with how worried she was, or maybe how disappointed in herself she was.
"In Central Hospital, still in surgery, will be for a few more hours."
"Wait, he isn't here?"
"Why would he be here?"
"For you to operate on him."
"Hawks isn't my problem, he can deal with his own healthcare," Horizon looks at her, then turn back to his computer.
"Is the bad blood between you two truly that serious?"
He stops typing, then speaks in a dangerously calm tone, "yes, now is there anything else you want to know?"
"How long has it been?"
"Well, the attack was only a few hours ago, your surgery was done two hours ago."
"What?! You fixed me that quickly?"
He glances back to her, then returns to his work, "what part of 'Miracle' did you not understand?"
"And my scars."
"I assumed you didn't want to keep them, you look better like this anyway," he shrugs.
She raises a brow at that, "doctors aren't supposed to comment on their patients like that."
"Then go find another miracle doctor."
She opens her mouth to respond, but decides to just take the compliment. "Thank you for healing me."
"Happy to help, now can you tell me how you feel?"
"Like I spent two weeks on vacation and got a massage."
"Tired?"
"Not at all, I feel fully refreshed."
'That's new,' Horizon thinks. Usually, for such invasive operations, his patients need atleast a day of rest before they can function normally. 'Refined energy has its uses...'
"Is that another room for your patients?" Ryukyu gestures to the other door, opposite where she entered from.
"That's my bedroom. Office in the middle, bedroom to my left, patient room and medical equipment to my right."
"Hmm, maybe my agency should get a live-in doctor..."
After a few more minutes of talking Horizon's computer and phone start beeping. The familiar sound of the Hero Network alert immediately has Ryukyu on alert.
"What's going on?"
"I put out some bait on the black market to find where that super concentrated Trigger supplier is, just got a hit."
"The sample I sent you not even a day ago, seriously? How'd you even get a black market contact, that's near impossible for heroes."
"Miracles are my specialty, it shouldn't take us long to get there."
She looks a bit confused by that, "us?"
"Yes, us. Because after I spent 80 hours doing Hero Work and was finally about to get some sleep, I had to rush over here to work on you. And now the public also thinks you can't do your job that well so you need the reputation boost of teaming up with me."
"Good point, but...how are you even awake?"
Horizon shrugs, "you expect me to sleep when I can be helping people? I can't become who I'm aiming to be like that."
She's both surprised and inspired by that answer, but also can't help but worry for his own health. "And who are you aiming to be?"
"Well, at first it was the next Symbol of Peace...but I think being a Guardian Deity has a better ring to it."
Ryukyu thinks it over for a second, then nods in agreement, then gives him a soft smile "honestly. If anyone else said it that'd be arrogance, but on you, it just makes sense."
"Awe look who's being inappropriate now, flirting with your doctor," he teases.
She folds her arms and glares at him, "I was not, besides you're 10 years younger than me."
"I won't make it weird if you don't..."
Her glare softens, genuinely confused as to if he was serious or not.
"Anyway, let's get going, it's a private hangar at the edge of Tokyo, his plane leaves soon," Horizon warps from his seat to standing beside her, startling the woman.
"I thought you needed to always swap with something?"
"It's complicated," he turns to looks down at her, enjoying the way she was sitting down and staring up at him. "Now as much as I like the way I look on you, let's make use of the things Nejire brought for you..."
'SHAMBLES!'
Her Horizon-themed clothes immediately swap for her spare Hero Costume that Nejire brought her, perfectly equipped.
Ryukyu freezes, then her face quickly begins transitioning to bright red, she grabs her chest and squeezes her legs shut tight.
"Don't do that!"
END CHAPTER---
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