Chapter 201: CHAPTER 197(Morning Bonfire)
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---9AM, October 23rd, 2315...
Under the morning sun, in the strong winds atop Horizon tower.
A man was currently chained to a chair, hands tied up and entirely restrained.
Drenched in gasoline.
He had tears streaking down his face as he whimpered, begging for this to stop.
And in front of him was what would be Japan's greatest Pro Hero, the rising moral compass of Hero Society.
Horizon, standing with his sword hovering at his side, and a flare in his hand as he looks down at his prisoner.
"Please I swear I don't know anything, they never told me a name!" The man screamed, but nobody could hear him.
Not through the winds this high up, as if the sheer altitude from the streets wasn't enough insurance.
"I know you're lying, so just tell me the name of the place," Horizon says, waving the sealed flare around. "Don't you know what this is, and what I poured all over you...how do you think this ends?"
"No!" The man yells in denial. "You're bluffing, you're a hero! You can't do this to me!" he rattles his chain, trying to cool his skin and the chains, ideally he'd make them brittle with his Cold Touch Quirk and shatter them.
But nothing happens.
"Your Quirk won't word dumbass," Horizon reaches behind his back and displays the man's own heart, still beating rapidly and sealed in a gel-like cube of spatial energy. "Now tell me what I want..."
"Please, just let me go! I won't tell you anything!"
"That time you said 'won't', see, you do know what I need," Horizon grips the heart, and the man feels a small heart attack in his chest.
He almost sees his life flicker before his eyes.
"ARGH!"
"Where is Wolfram? I know you're his eyes in Tokyo, he was using you to keep an eye on me, and look where it got you, just talk and this will all be over."
"He'll kill me," the man mutters out between pained gasps.
"And you think I won't?" Horizon gives the heart a good squeeze, and the man's eyes roll back as the pain knocks him out.
"Argh! Get up!" Horizon kicks him in the face, hard enough to snap him awake and almost send the chair tumbling over.
Luckily it was securely tied down.
"Ahhh!" The man screams. Then he gets quiet, desperately trying to catch his breath.
"If you aren't gonna talk, then I don't have any reason to leave that useless mouth intact," Horizon says.
The man's eyes go wide as he sees the 'Hero', reach behind his back, under his jacket. And take out a small pouch that's always attached behind him at the back of his belt.
It hovers in the air and opens with a flick of Horizon's hand, and out comes a pair of medical pliers. Sliver, blue, and white, and inching closer as Horizon grabs his jaw and forces his mouth open.
The man gets a proper look at his reflection in the visor, the scent of gasoline masking his excrement as fear overtakes him.
He tries to pull away but Horizon's grip is like a vice, keeping him in place.
"We'll start from the back..." Horizon says, almost playfully as he reaches in with the pliers and grabs a molar from the back of the man's mouth.
"Nnngh! Ahgnhh!" The man tries to talk but the tool is preventing it, as he feels force being applied to the tooth.
"You'll have a chance to talk after, now is time for punishment, because I hate having to ask twice."
The sound of flesh and gums ripping precedes the taste of blood and warm liquid flooding his mouth.
Horizon steps back as the man screams in pain, which only makes it hurt that much more.
"Get your shit together before I ask again, you've got about eighty more tries...teeth, fingernails, toenails...then I'll go for the fingers and toes...I rather save the eyes for last. The faster you talk, the more piece I leave intact, just saying."
The man opens his mouth and a flood of blood pours into his lap, "---monster," he says through the pain and gargling.
"Monster?" Horizon chuckles. The man looks up to see him casually turn around to gesture toward Tokyo all around them. "I'm Horizon, UA's golden boy, Japan's next Symbol Of Peace, these people love me, they'll worship me, I'm the Hero here...I'm the only Hero these people need.
I'm so perfect that even if some filthy villain like you says the worst things about me. All it will be, is a poor man's attempt at slandering Japan's favorite son, because I'm the only Hero here, and I'm always the only Hero that matters..."
The man's eyes widen as he realizes exactly how serious Horizon was being, and a new wave of fear rang through his body.
All the thoughts of this being a child's over-the-top attempt at playing 'bad cop' were now gone.
He was in the hands of a monster, and he'd never been more scared of a 'Hero' in his life.
"Now, where is Wolfram?" Horizon asks, taking careful and slow steps up to the man, dropping the heart to the floor.
Seeing this the man considers his options.
He knows the people he works with will kill him for sure if he talks, more than just violence like Horizon is doing.
'But he's still a Hero, he still wants to be a Hero. He can't kill me, right?' he wonders as Horizon now stands above him. 'He won't kill me, and I'll just report him for this...'
"I don't know," he lies through the pain of even moving his mouth.
Horizon freezes, then sighs.
He drops the pliers and they float in the air, alongside the medical pouch, his sword, and the sealed flare.
"Alright, fine, you win---" Horizon relents.
The man forces a smile, even with his quickly swelling mouth.
'I knew it, the brat was just bluffing, can't believe I ever fell for this...the news is gonna tear him apart when I tell them about this!'
But his victorious smile becomes a look of absolute dread at Horizon's next words.
"---I guess I'll skip to the eyes..."
"Wh---AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
The sound of popping and squelching is easily overshadowed by the cries of anguish as Horizon suddenly holds his head and digs his massive fingers into the man's left eye socket, destroying the eyeball before tearing it out.
Leaving the exposed nerves in the eye socket somewhat hanging out in the winds atop the tower, causing all the more pain for his guest.
"Look what you made me do," Horizon says as he steps back, dropping the crushed eyeball to the floor. "Well, I guess 'look' probably isn't the right word huh," he chuckles to himself as the man is still screaming and convulsing in the chair.
After two minutes of screaming and heavy breathing, the man looks up, now drenched in sweat.
Blood flows from his left eye and his mouth, but there is no sympathy in Horizon for him.
"So, I'm gonna ask again, and this time I hope you don't try to test me like that, wh---"
Horizon stop suddenly, confusing the man.
"One moment," he raises a hand and turns away from his prisoner. "Hello?"
The man instantly realizes he's on the phone and tries to scream, but the moment he does.
SHAMBLES!
Horizon warps away.
He sees the objects still floating about, and considers trying to break free. But a quick tug on the chain showed how useless that was. Looking at the floor he could see the puddle of gasoline, excrement, and blood running out from him.
His rapidly beating heart was so casually dropped to the floor a few feet away. And craning his neck as best he can, the rooftop was entirely isolated and towered over the nearby buildings.
There was nobody to see this or for him to signal to.
It was a hopeless situation through and through.
Meanwhile, inside the tower...
Law was walking around, visor off, with his phone floating around him.
Currently on a video call with Nezu.
"Any particular reason for the check-up?" Law asks while walking through he kitchen, getting a bag of chips.
"Last night you requested additional server space and processing power from my super computer, why is that?" Nezu asks.
"Did you not read the data I uploaded into the simulations?"
"I'm a busy man Law, give me the short versions."
Law shrugs and begins eating his chips, as if he wasn't just torturing a man. "I need the power for medical simulations, I just about have enough data to start working on some cures."
"Cures for what?"
"Starting with Dementia and Alzheimer's, things that degenerate cognitive functions, then onto other things like Cancers..."
"Why start with mental ailments?"
"I've got a lot of experience on it lately, it'll be easier for me."
"Alright, I'll allocate the space for you, and what do you plan to do when you create these cures? Will they be sold by Horizon's medical research company, or some other way?"
"I'll own the patent but it'll be free to other companies."
" If you can do this, you should, this helps much more people. But there are easier ways to become a beloved figure than curing things such as this, you do realize that, right?"
"Yeah, but why would I do things other people can already do? Horizon is better than that," Law says.
"Well, you aren't doing it for profit, which is rather strange for you...I don't suppose I'm rubbing off on you?"
"You wish, this is just a good way to establish Horizon's reputation as a boon to all mankind, plus between the grants I'll get from the United Nations and other countries and people after this, I'll be paid well enough."
"You just had to ruin it," Nezu sighs. "I'll make a hero out of you someday...somehow."
"Good luck with that," Law finishes eating his chips. "Can I get back to work now? Was kind of in the middle of something."
"Right, good luck," Nezu says before hanging up.
He warps his visor back onto his head and tosses his pack into the trash, before warping back onto the roof.
His prisoner was a bit calmer now, after that short reprieve.
"So, one more time, where is Wolfram," he puts his hand on the mans head, using Scan to detect any lies.
And the man sings like an honest little bird, only wishing for the sweet relief of a jail cell.
"See, was that so hard?" Horizon asks after a few minutes of simple questioning. "Now we're done here."
"Mhm," the man stiffly nods. "Will you give me to the cops n---"
Horizon raises a hand to silence the man, then steps away and turns his back to him.
"Hello?"
"------"
"Are you sure? Two of them?" the man hears Horizon asks, clearly not liking whatever news he got.
"------"
"Alright, I'm on the way, wait for me to get ther---"
"------"
"Damn it! Fine, I'll hurry..." Horizon hangs up and gives an annoyed sigh. "Stupid useless fucks can't do anything themselves."
"Will you give me to the cops now?" the man asks, hopeful even now.
Horizon just looks at him, then tilts his head slightly, "I knew you villains are dumb, but this is a new low."
And with a few casual motions, he grabs the flare from mid-air where it was floating, cracks it open so its lit, and tosses it onto the gasoline-soaked man.
"As if I'd ever let my perfect reputation be so much as questioned because of a mongrel like you," he mutters as the flames consume the screaming man.
Soon he'd be unrecognizable, and Horizon will warp him to the bottom of the nearby ocean, as if this never happened.
And with no trace of him being involved.
Japan's perfect pristine rising star remains fully intact, as it should always be...
END CHAPTER---
Chapter 202: CHAPTER 198(Yakuza Raid)
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---11 Am, Western Japan...
"What the hell is this, can't they do anything right?" Horizon asks himself while flying toward the Yakuza base.
He was only a few miles away, but could sense multiple fights happening.
'Took me two hours to get here, I was hoping this would have been over by now,' he thinks while slowing down his hoverboard.
ROOM!
He opens a room spanning 8km -5 miles-.
SCAN!
"Mmm," he grumbles as the influx of information bombards him, then he decides where he's needed most.
'Lemillion is dealing with Overhaul and some of those lackeys underground, the girl and Nighteye are there so he should be fine for now, they're winning.
Suneater is handling three villains, they won't last long. Red Riot and Fatgum are having a brawl, seems like a stalemate right now.
But Ryukyu, what the hell...'
He shrinks the Room to focus in on Ryukyu and her sidekicks.
He senses a giant of a man, standing at 15m -45ft- and covered in hulking muscles. A similar plague doctor mask to the other Yakuza, and in his grasp is Uravity, seemingly unconscious.
Standing at the edge of the fight are some D-listers and police officers.
'They don't want to get close, and Froppy looks exhausted, Ryukyu too. Only Nejire is fighting properly but she's getting tired.
He must be Rikiya Katsukame, the guy that absorbs stamina after making contact once. Constantly ripping energy out of them, and since Nejire is all about stamina she's the only one that can last long against him.
I'd better start there and deal with him first, that way the only fight happening outside the base doesn't get the nearby civilians hurt...'
SHAMBLES!
Horizon swaps with some rubble, arriving just beside Ryukyu and standing on his hoverboard.
"What!" Rikyia yells out, still holding Uravity. All the girls and heroes are relived at the sight of Horizon. "What the hell are you doing here?!"
"Being the hero," Horizon snaps his fingers, and Uravity and Froppy both warp away from the villain behind the police barricade, swapped with some rubble.
"We aren't scared of any hero, not even you!" Rikiyia slams his fists into the road, the gust pushes Nejire back to hover beside Horizon and Ryukyu. "Don't you know who we are?!"
"No," Horizon lied. "But I'm Horizon, so it really doesn't matter..."
"Raah!" the man is about to lunge forward, but he suddenly disappears, swapping for the large dragon standing beside Horizon.
Before he can realize what happened there is a sharp pain in his shoulder.
He turns to swing, barely getting a glimpse of Horizon who was currently stabbing him with Scalpel.
COUNTER SHOCK!
His backhand strike stops mere inches from Horizon's face as his body convulses and tenses.
Unintelligible screaming left his mouth and small wisps of smoke appeared across his body, accompanying the electrical scorch marks slowly forming on his skin.
Horizon withdraws his blade, and before the unconscious villain can hit the floor he's extending his senses to the underground brawl.
SHAMBLES!
He once again tries to warp Eri away from the fight, but she doesn't move. She's stuck in place, in the damn wall, bits of stone molecularly bonded to her skin so they can't rescue her.
All with Nighteye and Lemillion in front of her, desperately trying to form a wall between her and Overhaul.
'How annoying...but they've got that covered for now, I need to find Joi Irinaka, Mimic, that's the guy controlling the structure of the base so freely, fighting in there is a bad idea while he's in control...'
SCAN!
Horizon focuses on the base itself, he feels the hallways and walls constantly moving.
SHAMBLES!
He warps a hallway of police officers to his side moments before they got squashed into a paste.
He focuses once more, delving deeper.
There are very few ways to hide from his Scan.
Permeation does not work to achieve this, even when Lemillion is intangible or moving through objects, he detects him as a glitch of overlapping masses.
Illusions based on light and smoke will not work as Scan detects the truth around him.
Only true shapeshifting can hide a person.
Shapeshifting of the nature he encountered when he last worked with Arsenal.
Shapeshifting that causes you to externally become exactly like your target, shapeshifting with absolutely no gaps for him to sense what you really are.
The kind that Himiko Toga has, or that a Twice Clone would technically be.
Mimic, however, was not fortunate enough to have this...
SHAMBLES!
Horizon drops his sword, and in the same instant, it's swapped for a tiny doll-like creature currently being controlled by Mimic, the shapeshifter that possesses it from within.
Horizon grabs him by the face, and a slew of rage-fueled swears assaults him as the villains tries to fight out of his grasp.
COUNTER SHOCK!
"ARGHHH!" The small doll creature gets fried before going limp, and Horizon looks back over his shoulder at Ryukyu.
"Kyukyu, hold this, don't let it touch anything inorganic. It invades and possesses them, and he's currently near overdosed on trigger..." He tosses the villain back over his shoulder and the large dragon catches him in her hands.
"I know what he does," she says. "It was in the briefing, and my name is RYU-Kyu."
"Whatever Kyukyu," Horizon warps away, swapped with a few unconscious police officers and D-list heroes.
After a few more warps to deal with generic thugs, he appears in a room with a lone doctor frantically sorting through research papers while typing up some things on a computer.
The doorway to this room was folded away and sealed by Mimic, so the man had no way out on his own.
A failsafe so the heroes wouldn't find him during the raid, and afterward either Mimic or Overhaul could simply come get him, they never expected him to be found after all.
Which is why he doesn't expect Horizon to warp into the room.
And silently sneak up on him, watching over his shoulder as the man frantically looks through all the 'Research' they did on Eri.
After a few seconds of observation, Horizon has seen enough.
"I need that," he says.
"Wh--ahh!" The man feels Scalpel pierce his shoulder through his back, and down through his thigh, staking him to the chair before he can even turn around.
Horizon shoves the chair to the side, sending the man rolling, before he uses Takt to levitate the computer and all the files.
SHAMBLES!
He warps with everything and the man to the police barricade, and the heroes are appalled by the way he crudely kept the man seated.
"Kyukyu!" Ryukyu looks over at him, and grimaces at the sight of the doctor. "Don't feel bad for the guy experimenting on kids...keep him and all his research in sight, I have questions for him."
The last thing he sees before warping away is Ryukyu snarling at the man as she shrinks down to gather up the documents.
"Can someone please help me?" the man asks sheepishly, wincing in pain and gesturing to the sword piercing his back, coming out through his shoulder, then going through his thigh and into the chair.
"That's nothing compared to what you did to Eri," Ryukyu says with no emotion, not even looking at him while she gathers the papers. "You'll be fine..."
Horizon appears beside Suneater, who was currently sitting against a wall with bruises all over him.
Laying on the floor of the room were three unconscious members of Overhaul's personal guard.
'Not surprising from the strongest person here...before I arrived atleast, the one person I can trust to do their job. Nice work Suneater.'
Horizon does another quick Scan to ensure he doesn't miss anything, then sends Suneater, the Yakuza, and the raid members from this area to the police outside.
SHAMBLES!
Horizon appears in a small medical room, seeing Red Riot on one of the beds wrapped in bandages, with a Yakuza in the bed opposite him.
Standing in the room is Fatgum who was currently thin, 'so that's what the stored energy does...a big counterattack that leaves him skinny,' Horizon immediately realizes.
But across from Fatgum is a Yakuza, who just like him was bandaged up.
"What the fuck is this?" Horizon asks. "Having tea with the enemy during a raid, something you want to tell me Fatgum?"
"Wait it's not like that," Fatgum raises his hands in protest. "We just got done fighting and this guy showed us to this room," he gestures to the Yakuza behind him. "He's actually pretty cool and just likes fighting..."
"HE, is an IT," Horizon says. "As in it's another task on our list, nothing more."
"Hey!" Fatgum furrows his brow. "You can't just treat them like that, villains are people too! Beside its not like I wasn't gonna arrest them..."
"Save it for the debriefing---"
SHAMBLES!
They're all warped to the police on the surface, and everyone is confused by Red Riot and a Yakuza on bed rest.
The police raise their guns and nearby heroes get ready for a fight, only for Rappa to raise his hands in surrender.
"Wish you showed up when I was ready for a fight, would have been fun brawling with you!" he says to Horizon.
"I'm not a brawler, I'm a surgeon, and you'd just be more meat on my operating table..." Horizon turns away and gestured for Nejire and Froppy to walk with him, leaving the others to deal with Fatgum's mess.
Ryukyu sees this and keeps an eye on them while having some officers pack the evidence away.
"I'm going after Eri and Overhaul now," Horizon says.
"Finally!" Nejire cheers. "Let's go, but why didn't you do that from the start?"
He raises his hand, and his bloodied sword appears from the doctor's body into his grasp.
"The situation down there is a stalemate, and Overhauls Quirk is dangerous, plus the longer he doesn't know I'm here the better. If I warped her out he could have just brought down the building and neighborhood, and there isn't anywhere in this city I can warp him to that's safe..."
"So you left him for last, smart," Nejire says.
"Yeah, now get ready to catch Eri," he says.
"What?" Froppy asks.
"You'll see," he slashes diagonally at the floor, leaving a seemingly small slash in the road. But it reached all the way down into the basement of the Yakuza building.
Finally freeing the hostage.
SHAMBLES!
Horizon is swapped for a small white-haired girl, currently encased in a stone spike that was rising from the wall.
Nejire and Froppy snap out of their surprise and grab onto her before she hits the floor, then all three girls look at each other confused.
In the same instant Horizon arrives at the lowest room of the hideout, standing behind Nighteye, Lemillion, Bubble Girl, and Rock Lock.
And across from them is Overhaul, a few of his Yakuza, and what he now notices as the two Nomu he was called to deal with.
"So...you're the boss?" Horizon casually asks Overhaul, seeing the man clearly pissed off at losing Eri...
"Yeah," Overhaul grits out. "I'm the boss..."
END CHAPTER---
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