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CHAPTER START---
After nearly 70 Hours of non-stop Hero work, Horizon is walking down the sidewalk of Tokyo, feeling mentally and physically exhausted.
The lunchtime crowd was looking at him, as if unsure of if this was.
Horizon rarely ever walks around on the street because of the crowds that always swarm him, and as people come to their senses, he seemingly randomly walks into the street.
Even after days of constant Hero work, his Hero Costume was perfectly clean -aside from the gloves-, even if the man below desperately desired a shower and nap.
Horizon raises a hand and casually signals for the cars on the street to stop.
"Clear the street for a minute please, Hero stuff!" he yells out as he stands in the middle of the road.
Everyone looks around, not seeing anything out of the usual.
Only a few people begin moving, others are unsure of what he's talking about, and a few idiots still take out their phones to ask him for a picture or record whatever they think is about to happen.
BANG BANG!
Two gunshots ring out, and Horizon just rolls his eyes, yawning below his visor as people finally begin to clear out.
This has been the state of Tokyo and the more populated cities for the past 3 days.
Ever since Gigantomachia showed the world what happens to any aid they send to Japan, international companies immediately began to withdraw their physical businesses.
Investments instantly dropped all across the country.
And overnight, a new wave of unemployment struck Japan.
And sadly with unemployment, comes new would-be villains, because while 99% of people would simply struggle for a while and then get a new job, some bad apples decided to take these drastic measures immediately.
All around Japan heroes have been working overtime to put out fires and keep everyone safe and maintain a presence, but the villains, and the new wave of starting villains, are truly relentless.
This is the direct consequence of a nation appearing weak on the international stage.
If you're #1 Hero cannot suppress the villain threats within your borders other countries cannot trust you to protect their citizens, investments, or visiting Heroes.
And through it all, Horizon is determined to stay on the streets as long as possible. This is the time everyone is looking to anyone to take the lead and hold the country together.
All eyes are on two people to accomplish this task, two men that have been working non-stop since that night.
Endeavor, the acting #1 Hero.
And Horizon, who everyone is betting on as their future #1 Hero.
So of course he's out in the public eye trying to soak in as much good publicity as possible.
As the street mostly clears out, some people run into stores and record him on the street, as expected.
'Well at least they're off the street, morons,' Horizon thinks as he looks around, then looks down the street toward where he hears more gunshots, closer this time.
And he senses the chase moving toward him, as predicted.
'Police are right behind them so I shouldn't have to wait more than a few minutes to get out of here. Finally, I can get some food and sleep then get back to work.
Actually, fuck these people, I don't think I'll be heading out until later tonight, I need to relax for a bit. I'm just barely keeping my eyes open right now.'
BANG BANG!
Two more gunshots ring out as a car rounds the corner.
In the front seat is a woman, leaning out the passenger window and shooting back at the cop cars chasing them.
In the driver's seat is a man entirely focused on driving.
And in the back seat is another man firing back at the police.
Horizon sees the panicked look on the driver's face, as he notices Horizon standing in the middle of the street.
The man looks terrified as he yells to his accomplices, who both look forward to see Horizon and begin yelling at each other.
Even from this far away, out of earshot, he could tell they were not infinitely more scared of his appearance on the scene.
The woman screams at the driver and points at Horizon as the man in the back seat just continues firing back at the police, missing every shot.
She points at Horizon, clearly arguing with the driver, then the man relents and just speeds up.
'Did this bitch just tell him to ram me?' Horizon wonders. 'Well, I hope she enjoys hospital time...'
As the car is only a dozen meters away from him, fully intending to ram into him at full speed, he raises a hand.
TAKT!
The entire car stopped, as if the air around it became solid in an instant.
CRASH!
The woman flies through the windscreen, past Horizon who doesn't even bother to catch her or soften the fall, leaving her to ragdoll across the street.
Grating apart enough skin to disfigure her.
Breaking enough bones to put her in the hospital for months, and in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
Unless a certain someone performs a miracle for the shattered nerves in her legs and spine...he wouldn't.
The driver has his nose broken as his face slams into the steering wheel, and while he's coming back to his senses the man in the back seat gets out of the car, stumbling to his feet.
As everyone is trying to wrap their minds around what just happened, the police come to a stop two dozen meters away, opening their doors for cover and drawing their guns, but not firing.
Horizon was on the scene after all, adding bullets that could potentially hurt civilians into the mix was unnecessary.
Eventually, both men stumble out of opposite sides of the car, one holding his head and the other holding his broken nose. The steering wheel itself was warped from the impact.
'Durability Quirk?' Horizon wonders.
Then both of them look past Horizon to the woman, slowly bleeding out, completely blacked out.
"Damn it!" The driver yells. "That's my wife!"
Horizon shrugs, "get a smarter one next time..."
And both men immediately rush Horizon. The driver raises his fists which seem to glow with orange energy, while the other man transforms his fingernails into meter-long blades.
Horizon holds the hilt of his sword, still sheathed at his side, then throws it out at the man with blades.
TAKT: Dancing Sword!
Scalpel -Horizon's sword- flies through the air and begins fighting the man with bladed fingers seemingly on its own as Horizon casually walks toward the driver.
"Lets wrap this up," Horizon taunts.
"ARRRRGHHHHH!"
"Exactly," he responds with a chuckle as the driver swings wildly at him, a strong right, sloppy and untrained. The strike of a desperate man with no other options.
BOOSTER SHOT!
Horizon meets the man with his own strike, and as their fists collide he feels the man's fingers shatter.
Then his wrist buckles.
Then the man's forearm shatters and his shoulder is dislocated.
"AHHHH!" the man screams out, only to receive a left hook, knocking him out completely and leaving him on the street.
The sound of steel crossing steel echoes out as Horizon looks down at his fist, seeing some blood on his gloves from this opponent and some wear and tear from the past 70 hours.
But he also sees the now familiar blue vapor-like energy radiating from his hand, feeling his mind now at its limit.
As if he were standing on the edge of a skyscraper and the hurricane was closing in.
Ready to push him off...
'Problems for later...' he decides, looking toward his sword and its opponent. Even controlled by his TAKT the blade was a thing of beauty fighting on its own.
'I guess Sero was right, it's not very economical so I certainly never would have thought of it...but damn does it look cool, and the media will surely agree.'
Currently, the final opponent was trying to get past Scalpel -Horizon's sword- to close in on the Hero, but he couldn't even manage that.
Horizon just shakes his head and looks toward the police while walking toward his sword, "I'm done here, you can come and arrest these losers!"
"Hey I'm not done yet!" the man says as Horizon now takes his sword back into his hand, standing across from him. Even while he was trembling in fear, he refused to back down, because his friends were on the line.
"Yes, you are, Incision."
As the ten finger-blades clash with Scalpel, unlike all the other clashes, this time Horizon's sword easily cleaves through the man's Quirk, only stopping at his throat because of Horizon's perfect control.
Feeling the cold metal alloy against his throat the man raises his hands in surrender as the police approach him.
On its own Scalpel is just an admittedly unwieldy, heavy, and terribly balanced weapon for most people. But in his hand, with Hand Of God amplifying its attacks, it can easily cleave through such simple things as blades.
---12 Minutes Later...
Standing behind a police car Horizon is treating one of the officers who was currently sitting on the trunk.
And as he takes the bullet out of the man's shoulder he casually placed a palm on his arm, and the surrounding officers watch in amazement as they can see the injury healing in real-time.
"Did anyone else get hurt, is that everyone?" Horizon asks as he gives the man a final check.
"That's it," one of the other men says. "Thanks for this, the guys really appreciate it, having someone looking out for us."
"We're all on the same team," Horizon shrugs. "It's the least I can do."
"Well, we appreciate it all the same."
"Likewise, now if you don't mind I need to go get some food."
"Oh, right, you've been fighting for days right, I can't even imagine that..." One of the other men says, causing Horizon to turn and look at him.
"How do you know that?"
The man looks genuinely surprised at this, "it's...on the news, and some people online have been trying to figure out when you sleep, sorry I thought you knew....wait, it's true? That's crazy."
Horizon just shakes his head, hating this Celebrity Hero nonsense more every day, "how can I sleep when villains are hurting people? Anyway, I'm gonna get some fo---"
Horizon's phone immediately goes off, and an emergency alert gets projected into his visor.
And everyone hears him respond with a loud groan.
"Bank robbery in progress, guess my food will have to wait a while..."
END CHAPTER---
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CHAPTER START---
SCAN!
The first thing Law does when he wakes up, before even opening his eyes.
He was currently laying in bed at his Minato Tokyo penthouse, feeling the details of everything flooding into his mind.
8 km in every direction all at once. All the people in their apartments getting ready for work, and some are already at work starting their day.
He even senses some petty crimes happening, but they aren't his problem yet.
BA-DUM!
"Ngh!" he groans, feeling the sharp pain in his head that shuts off his Quirk. "Really sick of that..."
Looking to his left he sees the sun just about to rise beyond the ocean and just sighs. Another day putting out fires.
Thankfully he only really needs an hour of sleep on a regular day, after 74 hours of non-stop hero work he was so tired that he needed four hours.
"I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I miss having All Might running around doing this crap," Law confesses as he gets up, moving toward another day of Hero Work.
"Actually, I think I'll stay in until noon, I'm sick of saving all those losers..."
---9 AM...
Sitting in his living room Law is on the couch eating a large bowl of rice and grilled beef. After taking a long morning shower he's finally enjoying a meal after 74 hours of non-stop work.
"I love that Energy Saver Quirk...but nothing beats some good food after working your ass off," to Law the meal tastes like it was the greatest thing he ever ate.
Turning on the tv he puts on the HNN -Hero News Network-, and keeps enjoying his food.
SHAMBLES!
He warps his phone into his hand while he's eating, receiving a new list of potential patients from Central Hospital.
Scrolling through the list of dying people he immediately removes all the adults, not even bothering to look at their files.
That leaves only the children.
'Hmm, someone with a Transmutation Quirk? That's useful, I'll work on him.
Girl with a shapeshifting Quirk, never worked on one of those before. Studying her stem cells could be useful.
Kinetic Energy Absorption...now that's a Quirk I'd like to study, I'll add her to the list too.'
After sorting through a few more terminally ill people, Law finds a dozen that have Quirks that could be useful for his personal situation.
Studying Quirks similar to this new version of Hand Of God is the best he can do to fill in the knowledge he's missing.
As he's finishing up his list and sending it to the administration at Central Hospital, however, a certain news story reaches his ears.
"A new report has been released regarding the attack on I-Island two days ago," the reporter announces, and Law's eyes snap up to look at the screen.
Seeing the island torn up as if someone ripped the buildings out of the ground by the very foundations.
They show the tower in the middle of the island broken in half, the underground railway system was collapsed and nearly half of it was actually torn out of the floor and currently rests above ground.
As if every piece of metal tried to get up and walk away.
"The confirmed casualties number nearly one thousand, with the projected number roughly 1500 persons.
I-Island, even as the center of technology and innovation in the world will need atleast six months to rebuild and recover.
Not to mention the 232 Billion Dollar cost of repairing the infrastructure of the island itself.
The island is currently evacuated of anyone that isn't helping in search and rescue, thankfully another wave of Rescue Heroes has arrived on the island just this morning, further supplementing the efforts spent over the past two days."
"I wonder if Thirteen is there right now," Law mutters as he continues eating. "The villains must have been looking for something on the island, but that's an international province so they either have a big backer or a lot of balls to take a swing at that place.
If they stole something big then America might just send Star and Stripe to deal with it...no, no villain is that dumb or strong."
As if hearing his speculations the report continues, "currently none of the projects on the island have been reported missing, including those at the main expo venue where the attack took place.
The villain in question, codenamed 'Wolfram', is presumed to have a Quirk which allows him to control metal.
The extent of his power is currently unknown but judging by the destruction shown behind me he is a formidable opponent."
The woman pauses for a moment, touching the receiver in her ear, then a sad look washes across her face.
"Unfortunately, I've just received some unfortunate news," she says. "While we know the villain tried to take David and Melissa Shield captive during the attack, he failed as the entire tower collapsed and the nearby Pro Heroes and security forces got involved.
Sadly, the epicenter of the explosion, I've just been informed is where David and Melissa Shield were. Only some shredded remains of the father and daughter duo were recovered as of moments ago.
It seems the world has lost two of its brightest minds during this absolutely tragic and horrific event," the woman is barely keeping a straight face as she speaks.
"So did Wolfram was them to build him something..." Law wonders as he tries to make sense of this.
"This is the HNN, and we'll keep you posted on any updates evolving in the world, including this I-Island attack, stay safe everyone, in these turbulent times."
"David Shield," Law sends his list to the hospital and puts down his phone. "He was one of Yagi's best friends...what a fucked up summer for him. Huh, didn't even know he had a kid, guess she was a tech genius too. Yeah, I'll leave all the tech stuff to people like Nezu, not a fan of it."
"In more local news," another reporter, this time a man appears on screen with a bar graph behind him. "Since the most recent Hiroshima incident where the League Of Villains, and more notably Gigantomachia plunged the country into an unemployment and financial crisis, breeding a new wave of petty crime and villains.
Our Pro Heroes have been working non-stop to contain the chaos and bring back some semblance of order and normalcy." The man gestures to the chart behind him.
Endeavor- 287
Horizon- 253
Mirko- 188
Hawks- 159
Best Jeanist- 128
"Here we see the incidents resolved by each Pro Hero and Horizon over the past 80 hours. Clearly, both the Pro Heroes and aspiring heroes have been doing their best to make an impact.
But unfortunately, the crime rate is still soaring upward, heading to 19%, a number that hasn't been seen since before All Might.
Some individuals have also noticed that Horizon has been most active during this time, seemingly never sleeping.
I just hope he's alright, because we need him and the other top Pro Heroes now more than ever---"
Law shuts off the TV as he finishes eating, seeing a message he's been waiting on for a while. Giving his estate manager a call.
"Mr. Matani," the man greets him, sounding cheerful, because who wouldn't be cheerful with a billion-dollar client calling them? "How may I help you?"
"I just saw your update to my properties, you got all of them?"
"Each and everyone one, the market in Japan has become quite friendly to those with cash in their accounts such as yourself. We were easily able to buy out the areas you wanted.
Starting next week we'll be shutting down the smaller businesses and downsizing."
"Hmm," Law considers it for a moment. "No, don't downsize, lower have the business managers cut production if needed to keep costs low but don't fire anyone. I don't want the rebranding efforts to be undermined by me firing a few thousand people."
"But that would cost you---"
"Money that I can make back, this isn't about that. I want people in this country to need me, got it?"
"Uh...yes sir, so, legacy?"
"Sure, be sure to contact me if you need anything."
"Understood sir, have a wonderful d---" Law hangs up.
He can't help but smile after that call, with a wave of unemployment and the economy in shambles, the Matani Estate would be buying any and everything it can.
Keeping everyone employed within his companies would cost him millions if not a hundred million, nothing he can't make many times over for one full-priced surgery.
"Who says you can't buy loyalty and goodwill," Law chuckles as he swaps over to his Horizon number on the same phone.
Requesting an update on a building he's been eyeing in Minato Tokyo.
The All Might Hero Agency, which he'd be buying and turning into a museum. Turning it into his own agency would be a slap in the face of the Japanese people, so that's the worst possible move.
Again, buying goodwill.
'Become the most essential cog and the machine will obey.'
BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Law sighs, an annoyed look on his face as he raises his phone to his ear.
SHAMBLES!
His visor is warped onto his head, and the call immediately connects to it.
"Kyukyu?" Horizon asks.
"It's Ryukyu," the grumpy dragon-lady says. "I just got done with a raid here in my city, can I send you a sample of something to identify."
"The HPSC has a crime lab for that remember."
"They take time and we have missing people to find," Ryukyu says.
"Sigh, fine, you can send someone with it."
"I'll have Nejire-chan deliver it."
"Timeframe?"
"I already have Nejire-chan heading to Tokyo with the sample. I sent her earlier this morning."
Horizon sighs, "I guess you decided for me, I'll meet her at Endeavor's agency."
"Knew I could count on you Miracle Boy."
"Ugh," Horizon groans and hangs up at that nickname.
Only a few of the Top 10 Pro Heroes has Horizon's number, and honestly, Ryukyu was among the more professional of them.
He's already had to completely block Mirko on both the Hero Network and her personal number...being bombarded by her demanding a rematch got annoying within minutes.
END CHAPTER---
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