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SHAMBLES!
On a suspiciously empty highway leading into Musutafu, Horizon appears, still sitting on his chair.
Mindjack stands beside him, looking around clearly confused.
"What are we doing here?" he asks Horizon, seeing his classmate leaning back in his chair.
SHAMBLES!
Horizon warps a few feet to the side, placing himself in his seat toward the side of the road, leaving Mindjack standing in the middle lane of this three-lane highway.
"You plan to explain anything?"
"High-speed chase incoming," Horizon says as he points up the road. "They'll be here in less than a minute, try not to fuck it up."
"What is this, a tryout?"
"Pretty much, can't keep any dead weight around."
"Great," Mindjack sighs. "Put a guy with a vocal Brainwashing Quirk, to stop a high-speed chase."
Horizon takes out his phone, getting a message from Sero who just woke up.
"Your Quirk wore off, after almost 9 minutes, not bad," Horizon says.
"Told you, I've improved a lot."
"Uh-huh, now show me some more in-field practical applications," they hear and see the cars approaching, one car being chased by two police cars.
"How close are the cop cars to the villains?" Mindjack asks.
"100 Meters -330ft-."
"Then they should stop before this bothers them," Mindjack reaches for the pouch behind his back, resting over the sheathe for the Tanto behind his waist. Exactly like Eraser Head's.
He takes out a handful of razor-sharp Caltrops and prepares to throw them.
"Caltrops? Classic...very classic, but effective."
"Why fix what's worked for thousands of years," Mindjack shrugs.
Seconds later the car comes racing down the highway, directly at Mindjack.
He raises a palm toward the car while holding Caltrops in the other.
"Stop the car and get out!" he yells, hoping one of them responds.
Instead of responding the one person in the car only speeds up, intending to run over the hero.
The man was so distracted that only at the last moment did he look to the side, seeing Horizon sitting on his classroom chair, casually watching this unfold.
The man's head turns to watch Horizon do nothing as he sped into where Mindjack stood.
But by the time he got there, Mindjack already dove out of the way, dropping Caltrops where he stood moments earlier.
POP!
The front tires are blown out causing the man's face to snap back to the front of the car.
"AHHHHH!" he screams as the car begins to swerve, slamming on the brakes and pulling the emergency brake.
The car skids for a while then comes to a stop, and the cops stop their cars just ahead of Horizon, stepping out and opening the doors, using them for cover as they draw their guns.
The villain hops out of his car with nothing but a pistol and his idiotic hopes of escaping this, using his vehicle for cover.
"Leave me alone!" the man screams, staying hidden on the other side of his car.
"Uh, sir?" One of the cops sees Horizon doing nothing and approaches him. "Are you here to help?"
"I'm supervising for now," Horizon gestures to Mindjack who was sprinting up to the scene.
He runs past the cops, "hold fire," he says over and over. "Nobody is going to get hurt, just let me deal with this."
The police officers glance at each other, having never seen this hero before, but since Horizon was with him they didn't bother to ask questions.
SHAMBLES!
Horizon warps in front of the police, appearing in his chair beside Mindjack who was also standing in front of the barricade of cars.
"Ok, this is your specialty, try not to get anyone killed..."
"That's the plan," Mindjack says.
Taking a deep breath he steadies his mind, then speaks loudly for the villain to hear him, nearly 100ft -30m- away.
"If you surrender peacefully nobody has to get hurt!" Mindjack says.
They don't hear anything for a few seconds, then the sound of metal being crushed.
"Oh great..." Horizon says in a bored tone. "He's trying to fight."
"NghhAHHHH!" the villain's car suddenly flips through the air as he sends it tumbling toward the police barricade.
"Takt!"
Without moving Horizon catches it in mid-air, seemingly exerting no effort.
The police officers that dove for cover peeked out, feeling slightly idiotic for reacting like that, when they knew Horizon was sitting in front of them.
"Just give up!" Mindjack yells as he stands his ground, the villain who was not 10ft -3.04m- rushes toward them.
"You give up!" the villain responds, and his body immediately freezes up.
"Brainwashing complete," Mindjack says.
"Took you long enough," Horizon says as he drops the car to the side of the road. "Wrap this up, class is about to start..."
"Deactivate your Quirk," Mindjack commands, and the man obeys, shrinking to his usual short self. "Lay on the floor, hands behind your back."
The man does exactly that.
"Officers, he's all yours, he won't be able to control his body so long and nobody hurts him, you've got a few minutes," Mindjack says.
One of the men looks toward Horizon, and receiving an approving nod he turns back to the other, "get the Iron Maiden, let's lock this guy up."
Within a minute the villain has a reinforced special metal alloy brace wrapped around his torso. Like a metal straight-jacket preventing him from expanding or using his arms as they wait for the armored transport unit to come to deal with him.
"Sorry but we can't stay here and wait for the armored unit," Horizon says as they're all standing around. "They should be here in a few minutes anyway..."
He walks up to the villain and places a hand on his shoulder.
"Counter Shock."
"NGH!"
The villain's body convulses as he collapses to the floor, completely blacked out.
"There, he won't be going anywhere, now, Simon, let's go..."
"It's Mindjack."
"Well, Mindjack is a stupid name, and it isn't catchy. You need something catchy and thematic, but also a bit tough and marketable."
"I'll think about it," Mindjack says as he sees Horizon sit back in his chair.
He walks up to Horizon who casually puts a hand on his arm.
"Have a good day gentlemen, and stay safe," he says to the cops. "Shambles."
Arriving back in the now full classroom, all eyes fall on Horizon and Mindjack.
SHAMBLES!
Shinso's Hero Costume is swapped with his uniform once again, and he gives Horizon an annoyed glance.
"Well, how'd I do?"
"It's a start," Horizon says. "We've got some work to do but yeah, I can make it work."
Shinso actually gives a small smile at that, nods, then walks to his seat on the other side of the room.
"What was that about?" Tokoyami looks to his left at Horizon.
"There was a car chase, and he went to stop it, that's all."
"But you went with him..." Momo speaks up from behind him. "Was it that bad?"
"I was just checking in on his progress, I did help him train during the Summer Camp after all."
"Well I guess that makes sense," Jiro, who was standing behind him at Momo's desk says. "Anyway, we were discussing what Mr. Aizawa probably has in store for us today, since its the first day and all."
"I'd think it's something extreme," Momo says. "Consider our first day at UA included the Quirk Apprehension Test, maybe another such test to mark our progress."
There was an excited spark in the classroom at that suggestion, most of the class wants to see how far they'd come since those 5 long months have passed.
As they all begin muttering Sero spins around in his seat, "what was that about earlier?"
"I'll explain during lunch, but we might have a new guest in the tower," Horizon says quietly.
Sero's eyes widen for a moment, then return to normal, "happened a lot sooner than I expected."
"Yeah, me too..."
After a few more seconds, Horizon sees Kirishima about to get up and start yelling in excitement and decides to cut this short.
"Shut up!" he silences the room. "Eraser and All Might aren't even here right now so we probably won't have anything like that until they're back, sit down and get ready for homeroom."
"Awe," Mina puts her head down in disappointment. "I was hoping to start this semester with fun, not boring classwork!"
"You need the book time more than anyone else Pinky."
"Well, I'm still hyped up!" Kirishima stands up and yells. "Today we learn more about the Work Studies and the Pros we'll be working for, it's gonna be awesome!"
The entire room begins clamoring, making theories, and sharing the heroes they hope they can work with.
A few minutes later the door slides open, and Midnight walks in with her hands behind her head, showing off her body for the students to see.
"Good morning my lovely darling students!" she gives them a dazzling smile, "and Horizon..."
"Tch, morning saggy..."
And the entire room falls silent, as if they could see the petty and vicious lightning sparking between Midnight and Horizon.
END CHAPTER---
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"Look I think it makes sense," Sero says. "But honestly, how do you even make a logo for that name?"
As the lunch rush began in UA's cafeteria, Sero was sitting beside Horizon, warped here before most students even got out of class.
He was eating his large lunch, happily now. His muscles were more apparent now since he began training with Horizon, which he certainly appreciates, and certain others do as well.
Horizon wasn't eating anything this time, just scrolling through his phone and listening to the conversation.
And across from Sero, "I know it's a good name, but I'm already used to Mindjack," Shinso says.
"Yeah but you don't have a public image yet so it'll be easy to change it now," Sero explains. "Plus, 'Simon says', is a pretty cool line."
"More like a gimmick," Horizon says. "But those sell very well."
"Yeah, plus you don't really cause property damage so the people who pay us will like that."
"And I'm not working with anyone named Mindjack," Horizon says. "It sounds stupid."
Shinso just sighs and takes another bite of his lunch. "Simon it is then."
"Awesome, welcome to the team," Sero puts his hand out for a fist bump, but Shinso just looks at it, and ignores him. "Awe, gonna leave me hanging like that?"
"..." Shinso just continues eating.
Sero just drops his fist and continues eating, "great, now I've got two of them," he says as their usual lunch table is filled up.
Momo, Tokoyami, Jiro, and Shoji join them at their table, leaving one empty seat where Sato used to sit.
After a few more minutes of chatter, Sero notices Momo reading their new textbook at the table and winces.
"It's not a complicated book, right?" he asks. "I've already got enough trouble keeping up as it is right now!" he whines.
Most of the table looks over at her, and Momo suddenly feels a bit shy with all this attention. She looks up to see Horizon still playing with his phone and breathes a sigh of relief.
Then she perks up a bit, hoping to dazzle him with her initiative.
"Well," she shuts the book. "When Ms. Midnight announced this textbook would be moved from our second year to our first year I knew it would be a bit advanced.
But this is even more advanced than expected.
So I do recommend everyone starts reading ahead now before our first class on the subject next week. That way you won't be overwhelmed by any surprises during the class."
"Another demon to torment my soul before my dark nightly slumber," Tokoyami says, closing his eyes dramatically before biting into his apple.
"Yeah," Sero groans. "I already have to read crime reports, and the usual book, and my Quirk research...and now this too."
"What book is that?" Horizon asks.
"Oh, right," Momo frowns. "You spent this morning in Principal Nezu's office after that little issue with Ms. Midnight."
Everyone winces at that.
"Look, she's a horrendous bitch that doesn't know her place, and I'm always right, that's all, now get on with it."
Momo shakes her head in disapproval, "you know she warned me about getting close to you..."
"And yet you can't seem to keep away, strange how that works," he lifts his head to look at her, then turns slightly to see Jiro also staring at him, "I seem to have that effect on people."
"Let's focus on the book please," Momo says as he returns his attention to his phone. "The book is 'The lines and ethics of Quirks and Humanity,' it was meant to be studied during our second year but they decided to move it forward since some of us are already in the field."
"What's it about anyway?" Jiro asks.
"The lines between what is and what is not a person have been blurred since Quirks manifested, this book delves deeper into that issue."
"It's a good book," Shoji says. "I've read it a few times cover to cover..."
"Really?!" Momo lets a bit of her excitement show, "how co---" she cuts herself off as her eyes land on him. "Oh, right..."
"Yeah," Shoji raises his 6 arms. "I'm one of the people that blur the line between person and 'monster', so I had personal reasons to look into it."
"I see, has anyone else read it?"
"Yeah," Horizon says. "It's pretty much required reading globally for anyone in the medical field, but also I read all the textbooks we'd need for all the years at UA."
"Seriously," Jiro cringes at the thought of that. "What, did you have an entire summer to waste?"
"I was on a flight from Dubai to Italy actually, just read them all," Horizon shrugs. "Why else do you think I never take notes...or the fact that I don't even have a backpack. Only just the one book in my desk for classwork and exams."
Most of the table just share a look between each other, which Horizon notices.
"What?"
"Well," Jiro plays with her earlobes, "we all kind of assumed you had like...well, you know, in your head..."
"What, a brain?" Horizon asks. "I know not everyone in our class has one, but yes I do have a brain."
"A hard drive, dick," Jiro grits out, clearly annoyed by that last statement.
Sero immediately bursts out laughing, and the few people who weren't constantly glancing at their table to get a glimpse of Horizon join the others in looking at them.
"I hate that fucking rumor," Horizon mutters.
"Well that makes one of us, besides it not like it wouldn't make sense," Sero says as his laughter slowly stops.
"I underestimated how stupid people can be," Horizon says.
"Anyway, Yaomomo," Tokoyami speaks up. "Will you be hosting weekly study sessions this semester as well?"
"Well," Momo thinks about it for a moment. "I don't know what my schedule will be like, hopefully I get a Pro that hires me for the Work Studies program. If that's the case then I'll likely be spending two weekdays at their agency as well as weekends."
"But we'll be doing the same thing," Tokoyami says. "So we can all study together to keep up with the others."
"Oh man, this is gonna suck," Sero groans.
"Have you not been reading ahead already?" Shinso asks.
"I've been too busy swinging around Tokyo, then when I'm back at the tower it's just to sleep..."
"Oh yeah?" Jiro gives Horizon a sly look, "almost as if, say...you were trying to keep up with a robot?"
"I fucking hate it here," Horizon mutters as everyone has a laugh at his expense. "The study group sounds like a great idea, if you can peel his tape off of Yui..."
"I think I'll manage."
"OH!" Momo claps her hands together. "I should speak to Kendo about having her and some of her own classmates study with us!"
"Study group with Kirishima and Tetsutetsu... good luck with that," Horizon puts down his phone.
"I'll figure something out, but if you'd be so kind as to---"
"I'm not that kind of teacher," Horizon says. "Ask Juzo, he's good at teaching people that kind of thing. He's probably the most tolerable of the 1B people."
"Mud Man the teacher, strangely, it makes sense," Shoji says.
"He'll be working with Shinso for the Work Studies actually."
Shinso looks across at Horizon, clearly confused. "What are you talking about?"
Horizon raises his phone and shakes it a bit, "just got confirmation from Gang Orca, he'll send UA a request for you."
"Gang Orca?" Shinso's eyes widen. "You were just casually texting the #10 Pro Hero?"
"We've worked a few times since our first meeting."
"Since you beat him and Mirko up is what you mean," Jiro says. "He was actually who I'd hope to work with...but I didn't get my Provisional License so that'll have to wait."
"Makes sense, he's the top pro with sonic attacks," Tokoyami says. "That's a difficult Quirk to find a master for. But I suppose Present Mic is an alternative if needed."
"Ugh," Jiro rolls her eyes. "Don't put the cursed idea in my mind, he's soooo lame!"
"Sound quirk, likes music...birds of a feather the two of you," Tokoyami says.
"I'll pretend you didn't just assault my ears with that disgusting thought..."
As everyone is finishing up their lunch, Shinso zones out and just retreats into his own mind.
Thinking about what he just heard, that he'd be working with Gang Orca, the #10 Pro Hero.
'I've come a long way from my days in general studies, but I've still got a lifetime of work ahead of me,' he looks across at Horizon who was talking with Jiro about a concert nearby. 'Team Horizon...certainly has its uses.'
Shinso gives a soft smile.
And as if sensing some happiness in Shinso, Horizon swoops in to replace it with some pain.
"Simon," Horizon snaps him out of his daydream. "Let's go over your goals, and how much I need to increase your training, we start this evening..."
END CHAPTER---
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