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Walking into his homeroom ten minutes before lunch ends Horizon notices that he's the last to arrive, at a glance he sees everyone excitedly waiting, itching for their first Hero Basic Training class.
He doesn't give any reaction, simply keeping his hands in his pockets and moving to his seat, walking past Toru, seeing her playing with her hair, Bakugo with his feet up on his desk behind her, and Deku writing something in his battered notebook, quietly mumbling to himself.
Quiet conversations were happening among some students, including Tokoyami who sat to his right talking to Sero, who sits in front of Tokoyami.
Horizon takes his seat and leans back in his chair, quietly yawning as he just wakes up. And behind him, Momo is reading over her notes from English class while Todoroki is just staring out the window at nothing beside her.
As he's about to nod off into sleep again Tokoyami interrupts, "Horizon, are you awake?"
"Hmm," Horizon sits up and looks over at Tokoyami, seeing both he and Sero looking at him nervously. "Yeah, need something?"
"Sorry man," Sero says, "we honestly could tell because well, you know..."
"I get that a lot," Horizon replies. The entire class gets quiet to listen in, not expecting him to be this hospitable to anyone after his first impression yesterday.
"Right, we were just wondering... did you get kicked out of English class earlier?" Sero asks, scratching the back of his neck.
"No, I asked Mic if I could go for lunch early since I'm fluent in English, and he let me go," Horizon shrugs.
"You can speak English!" Kirishima yells in surprise, sitting three seats away.
"Among other languages yes, so I used the time to get ahead of the lunch lines..."
"Very wise," Tokoyami adds. "We were caught in the lunch crowd, even with the size of the cafeteria, it can still get quite crowded, but Lunch Rush's food is worth it."
"Yeah, I don't really like the cafeteria noise so I went up to the roof, by the time you guys were packing your things I was already on the top floor..."
"The roof is off limits to students," Momo says, putting down her book to join the conversation.
"Supposedly yeah, that's why it was locked. Nothing my Quirk couldn't get past, plus it was nice and quiet, and I got to take and post some nice pics too," he shrugs.
"Really! Can we see?" Sero asks.
"I can show you my profile if you want, I've got lots of cool pictures on it from the places I go."
"Sure, what's the profile name?" Sero and a few other curious people take out their phones.
"Horizon."
"Just Horizon?" Tokoyami asks, phone in hand and typing it in.
"It cost me a small fortune to get the original name, but having a trademark helps."
"Your profile picture is the thing on your back..." Sero notices as he begins scrolling, eyes widening as he sees more and more pictures of Horizon all across the world in the past year. "Holy crap."
"Indeed," was all Tokoyami could say as he was also staring at his screen.
"The symbol is my logo, and yeah the last year has been exciting, figured I'd live it up a little before I'm spending six days a week in UA."
"You call yourself a miracle? Seriously?" Jirou spins around in her chair, beside Bakugo, phone in hand on his profile, and casts a disappointed look at Horizon.
"I am a miracle, one in ten billion."
"The world only has nine billion people," she says.
"Exactly, but I'm sure all the people I healed would agree I'm a miracle..."
"I don't think he has to worry about getting into trouble," Tokoyami says, still scrolling through the profile. "The first comment on his roof picture is 'This view never gets old,'....and it's from Principal Nezu..."
Everyone just gives Horizon a confused look and he shrugs in response.
"Oh right," Sero snaps his fingers, causing all the people who were looking at Horizon's profile on their phones to look up. "You mentioned your healing Quirk before right...when you said you're the only person that could heal Midoriya."
"True," Tokoyami adds, "but you also said it allowed you access to the roof. I hope you didn't break the locks then heal yourself after, destruction of school property is a serious offense."
Horizon chuckles, "technically I didn't use the doors, they're still locked. And my Quirk isn't just for healing...but it is the most powerful healing in the world...by an immensely large margin."
"I thought Recovery Girl was the strongest," Tokoyami says.
"The Pope is said to have the most potent healing Quirk," Momo corrects him.
"Both good answers," Horizon says, leaning back in his chair with his back to the window so he can speak to everyone, almost all the eyes in class now focused on him. "Recovery Girl and the Pope have the same Quirk, they force cell activation, the difference is Recovery Girl uses the patients' stamina while the Pope uses his own. This means if someone is seriously hurt the Pope can heal them while she may not be able to heal them entirely at one because the stamina drain would kill them."
"Her Quirk can kill you like that?" Sato asks, utter disbelief in his voice.
"Yeah, and the Pope can accidentally kill himself the same way. They're the same but he is better for big injuries on a single person, while hers is better for lots of smaller injuries...the kind of injuries students at UA always have," he nods toward Deku.
"Oh, I get it," Sero says. "So one is a big health potion and the other is like a hundred smaller ones."
"Basically," Horizon says. "But the issue is almost all healing Quirks are just variations of this same Quirk, forced cell activation. It causes your cells to divide by adding or directing energy in your body, but like I explained yesterday, this can't heal things like nerve damage so all it does is accelerate the rate at which you would have naturally healed, and since cells can only divide so many times within a lifetime..."
"It's like chipping away your life," Tokoyami says. "A noticeable amount?"
"Unlikely," Horizon says. "But pennies add up to dollars eventually."
"How is your Quirk any different, mister miracle?" Jiro asks mockingly.
"Because, my Quirk is the only one that heals without using cell activation," he says. Raising his hand for them to see his palm, a faint blue glow swirls in the middle of his palm on the white body glove. "I convert my own stamina into energy and use it to heal people, but unlike other Quirks, mine is true healing. I don't activate cells, I give your body temporary cell regeneration...assuming your cells are normal," he adds. Understanding that for someone like Yagi adding brand new cells to join his power stockpiling Quirk would go poorly.
Seeing them looking a bit confused he elaborates," basically if you lose an eye or limb Recovery Girl can't fix that, but with me, I can help you grow it back, good as new, that also means no scars," he turns to look at Jiro and she sinks into her chair a bit.
"Does that mean---"
"No you don't have a class medic," he cuts off Sero's train of thought.
"Awe... but at least now we have a better idea of why you're acting like that," Sero says.
"Indeed," Tokoyami closes his eyes, trying and failing to look mysterious as he speaks. "Healing Quirks are rare in themselves, the rarest in fact, the most versatile and outright powerful healing Quirk in the world should be nurtured at a place like UA, not enrolling you would be a disservice to mankind as a whole."
"True," Horizon says, "but healing Quirks aren't technically the rarest, just second place, the number one spot is usually ignored because a lot of people think they don't even exist."
"What?" Tokoyami asks.
"Warping!" Deku can't help but blurt out, overcome with excitement that overpowers his anxiety and fears, turning to face Tokoyami. "Only around five warping Quirks have ever been discovered but none have ever gone pro, they all either get hired for private work or get recruited by their government, so naturally most people don't think they exist simply because of how rare it is to even see one in action."
Deku freezes after his rambling, now noticing all the eyes in the room on him, slowly and stiffly he turns back to face his desk and returns to his hero notes.
"Right," Horizon gestures to Deku, "what he said. But as I said earlier, my Quirk isn't a healing Quirk, it just happens that one of the things I can do is heal...honestly it's like the third thing I discovered," he shrugs.
"Your Quirk has multiple abilities!" Kirishima jumps out of his seat and yells. "No fair! I only have Hardening," he makes a fist and hardens it, causing it to look like a jagged rock.
"Life isn't fair, don't be a pussy about it," Horizon shakes his head while most of the class looks disgusted by his words.
"Uh, right, sorry I was just surprised," Kirishima chuckles and sits down. Returning his full focus to the conversation, just as everyone else in the room was doing the same thing.
"My abilities put together can perform miracles, that's what I've been doing all my life, and all those places you see me at on my profile are places I went to perform those miracles...for the right price obviously," he chuckles.
"And what do you consider to be a 'miracle' exactly?" Shoji asks from the front of the class.
"Oh, the usual incurable problems," Horizon casually waves his hand in the air as he speaks. "Cancer in the brain, spine, or wherever else it is, shattered spine, blindness, deafness, heart disease, I cured diabetes once but that was a real pain in the ass, took me like twelve hours," he groans at the memory. "And I needed a lot of new tissue to graft onto the Pancreas, but yeah that kind of stuff."
Everyone looks both impressed and horrified at how casually he's speaking of these real miracles.
"So you're like a doctor?" Todoroki asks. "But what else can your Quirk do, if healing isn't your only ability? I find it hard to believe a healing Quirk as capable as yours exists, much less having more abilities."
All eyes shift to Todoroki, for most of the class this is the first time they've heard his voice.
"Oh, I could show you if you want," Horizon takes out his stack of metal throwing cards and raises one between his fingers. "C'mon, it'll be fun, I'm just gonna---"
"I AM HERE!!!!!!!!" All Might bursts into the room through the front door, causing everyone to begin murmuring in excitement, wearing an older version of his costume with red as the main color and a long flowing cape.
'Wow...he's bigger than he looks on TV,' was Horizon's only real thought, not viewing All Might through the same hero-worshiping lens as most of the world. But the hulking 220cm -7ft3- figure was certainly imposing, especially considering All Might had the power and speed that would make him a threat to Horizon.
'I wonder if he's faster than my reaction time...' he ponders as All Might gives a basic breakdown of the class.
"Welcome to the most important class at UA High, think of it as heroing 1-0-1, this is where you'll learn the basics of being a pro and what it means to fight in the name of good," All Might says while flexing for the class.
'Fight for the government yeah,' Horizon rolls his eyes at the over-the-top speech, while everyone just eats it up.
"Now let's get into it, today's lesson is...BATTLE TRAINING!" All Might announces proudly, causing a small commotion in the class.
'Skipping the ethics and regulations and going in for hands-on training, can't say I'm surprised...' Horizon nods and leans back in his chair. 'Well, I'll get to see if anyone here is any fun to slap around at least.'
"But one of the keys to being a hero is, LOOKING GOOD!" All Might opens the shelves in the wall to reveal all the cases. Labeled number 1-20, with the number 19 white instead of silver, Horizon's blue logo pained on the face of it.
A loud commotion starts but some eyes glance over to Horizon, finally realizing what was in that case he had on the very first day.
'So he had access to his costume early,' they thought, curious about exactly what it could be.
"Alright, go by your seat numbers and come get your costume, then head to the 1A locker room and get changed, I'll be waiting at training ground beta!" All Might gives them a thumbs up and dazzling smile.
Being number nineteen Horizon is almost the last person to collect his costume, but he doesn't like waiting.
"Time to get dressed I suppose," he grumbles and stands up, before Aoyama -seat 1- could ever get to the shelves. With both hands at his side.
Iida immediately stands up to reprimand him, but All Might beats him to it, "young Horizon, you must wait your turn, patience is essential to being a hero, and you must be courteous to others," he says politely as Horizon is only two steps from his desk.
"Uh-huh."
SHAMBLES
Horizon's clothes are swapped out for his hero costume, his uniform stored safely and neatly in the metal case as the pristine three-piece white suit appears on him. White jacket and pants, matching the dress shoes he wears to school. His white Rolex stays on his wrist, a black vest above his blue shirt with a long dark-blue tie. His logo in blue at the back of the white jacket, draped on his shoulder without his arms in the sleeves, kept in place by subtle and clever buttons.
Everyone freezes at the sight.
"WARPING!" Half the room, including All Might, yell in surprise, eyes wide in shock.
"Warping is one of my other abilities," he stops at Jiro's desk and raises his hand.
SHAMBLES
His Katana appears in his hand, from end to end 145cm -4ft9- almost as tall as Jiro and Asui, but aside from the odd size, his logo along the scabbard and the white colour caught their eyes.
Holding the sword at his side he looks down at Jiro, and she could just feel the smug grin behind his black visor.
"See, one in ten billion," he begins walking out of the room, not looking back as he says, "I'll be waiting at training ground beta..."
END CHAPTER---
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CHAPTER START---
Walking through the dark hallway Horizon eventually enters Training Ground Beta. Sword magnetically attached to his belt, phone in his left hand, and his set of throwing cards in his jacket pocket.
'Fast' he thinks as he feels All Might rushing out of the main building and toward him.
He doesn't flinch when the giant of a man appears beside him, making a note that the speed isn't impossible to deal with, but certainly difficult, at least once he already has a ROOM active.
'If he catches me off guard without a ROOM up, I'm dead,' he concludes. Situations like this is exactly why he'd never reveal his ROOM requirement to anyone, not even Nezu.
"Young Horizon!" All Might's cheerful voice rings out, the man walks beside Horizon and moves to pat him on the back, but freezes a few inches away.
'Crap, that could have been bad,' All Might thinks. Awkwardly lowering his hand to his side as they continue walking.
'He's avoiding touching me...' Horizon notes, but doesn't react, still just scrolling on his phone.
"All Might," he finally greets the man as they exit the tunnel, a fully built concrete jungle, five city blocks by ten city blocks. One of the many massive training grounds at UA, all paid for by Nezu, and constructed by Cementoss, Power Loader, and a small army of drones.
"I assume Nezu knows about the Warping."
"Naturally," Horizon says.
"It is quite incredible, I've never encountered a Warping Quirk before," he admits. "I've only ever heard stories, but they all work by emitting something, either a portal or something else, yours seems to simply be instant."
"It is instant," Horizon says, putting the phone away to look up at All Might as they wait in the training ground, on a street just outside the tunnel entrance. "And undodgeable, once I want something to move, it will move."
"Quite the formidable ability," All Might holds his chin as he takes a proper look at Horizon's hero costume. "A simple white and blue suit, the visor you always wear, and a Katana. I understand the sword, it works well for quick decisive blows since to my knowledge your Quirk doesn't provide any damaging abilities. And considering how much Nezu brags about your combat smarts you'd do well with a simple but versatile weapon, but why the rest of your costume."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, heroes are meant to be inspiring symbols," All Might places his hands at his side and puffs out his chest, cape suddenly bellowing behind him with no wind at all. "Your costume is quite...normal."
"I'm not wearing some stupid cape and spandex monkey suit," All Might feels an arrow hit his pride at those words. "Plus my costume serves its purpose, and tells people what I'm all about. I'm all business, no wasting time, just get the job done and move on. Everything from the sword to the colors I chose were picked for very specific reasons, I thought about my costume a lot..."
"I see, still think you'd look good in a cape though," All Might nods a few times. "Some of your classmates requested support equipment, do you have any, aside from that life support visor and body glove of course."
"Yeah, just the sword and these," he takes out the small stack of cards. "They're a super-durable alloy, and sharp."
All Might holds one of the cards, and Horizon notices how careful the man was not to touch him, looking at the white card with Horizon's blue logo on it, noticing how sharp the edges were, "so you plan to use them like shuriken?"
"Something like that," Horizon says, as the card disappears from All Might's hand and rejoins the deck.
"Well, I suppose you won't need much to stand out, the worlds' first and only Warping hero is enough to sell you to the public. But I'm sure you realize, Nezu has high expectations of you, and because of this everyone at UA has the same expectations, you've got more eyes on you than everyone else... aside from perhaps young Todoroki."
"Just don't stare, looking at divinity is a bad idea," Horizon turns to face down the tunnel, 'seeing' everyone approaching them. "Only four of them have full masks, and the invisible girl is mostly naked...well, I guess that makes sense," he sighs.
Only Sero, Sato, Iida, and Deku had full masks.
"You can see them from this far away?"
"It's a bit complicated, don't worry about it."
"Hmm, alright, but why does the mask issue bother you so much, most heroes have public identities these days. Plus, not everyone can hide their identities, like Young Shoji."
"True," Horizon says. "But being a hero means you have a target on your back, the higher the rank the bigger the target. And even if it's a one in one hundred chance, you don't want to be the hero that goes home to find his family killed by some revenge-hungry villain. Protecting your identity is the easiest way to avoid that, and by extension not going to UA, since the sports festival kills any chance of that."
"I see," All Might thinks back to his master, Nana Shimura, how she lost her husband to this exact situation, how she had to put her son into an orphanage to protect him, all because she didn't bother to protect her identity. "Honestly that's not something most people think about, I guess the idea of helping people, or whatever else drives heroes to do what they do, it blinds us," he says solemnly.
Horizon turns to look up at him, "you sound like you speak from experience."
"It happened to someone I once knew, nearly broke her, but I guess most people just think they'll never be the one in one hundred that's unfortunate enough," he says quietly.
It was odd seeing someone always apparently brimming with positive energy look so vulnerable, but Horizon didn't believe anyone could genuinely be that positive all the time in the first place. "What about you?"
"Huh, what do you mean?"
"Your face is the most famous, have villains ever attacked your family?"
"I don't really have any family, I never did, and I spend so much time on my hero work that it wouldn't really be fair to them," All Might says with a smile, already having made peace with the life he chose, and the fact that he was given away at birth for not having a Quirk.
Horizon chuckles darkly at that which catches All Might off guard, "you know, my mom warned me that I could end up like you one day, just another lonely god... and I guess right now I am."
"I'm sorry to hear that..."
A few moments later and the other students arrive, interrupting another quiet conversation between Horizon and All Might.
Both men stop talking and look toward the class, Horizon takes a look at all the costumes, noticing a few that he actually likes..
'So Sero has the best of them, froggy is thematic and effective, and Bakugo's is loud but appropriate... that means the worst one is definitely... Momo, just another pair of tits in a bimbo suit, but not like she needs the money...guess she's a Midnight fan.'
He then glances over at Toru, only seeing pair of baby blue gloves and boots. Everything else is exposed to the elements, and subsequently, as the only person who can actively see her, his eyes roam her body.
Short white-green hair falling just past her shoulders, with a petite body that's obviously toned with all the right curves, the horny 16 year old part of his brain takes over for a moment before he snaps his eyes back onto All Might.
All Might takes a few steps back so everyone can focus on him and begins explaining.
"Today we'll be doing indoor battle training! Statistically, most villain encounters happen indoors, backroom deals, home invasions, secret bases, that kind of thing! Smart villains stay hidden as long as possible, so for this training exercise you'll be split into pairs, one hero team, and one villain team, to have an indoor battle."
"Isn't this a little advanced?" Asui asks.
"I agree," Iida says, raising his hand stiffly. "Wouldn't it be proper to better familiarize ourselves with each other's Quirks before entering such a scenario?"
Horizon groans loudly and rolls his eyes, "don't be such a pussy, villains won't give you time to familiarize yourself with anything, and UA has Recovery Girl, just try not to kill anyone, plus experience is the best teacher, painful lessons are rarely forgotten."
"Well said," All Might nods to Horizon, "although you should speak to your classmates a little nicer."
"No."
All Might just fake coughs and ignores that, "right, so let's begin."
A flurry of questions is pelted at All Might causing him to wince.
"Alright listen up," he takes out a small booklet and begins reading word for word. "The villains have hidden a nuclear device somewhere in their hideout, the heroes must stop them. To do that you must either use the Capture Tape provided to catch the villains, or recover the device, simply touching the objective will count as removing it. The villains win if they protect the device until the fifteen-minute timer is done, or capture the heroes with Capture Tape."
"How will the teams be chosen sir?" Iida asks.
"Teams will be selected before each match by random lots in the control room," All Might says.
"But wouldn't it be better to group us by comparative skill for more of a challenge?"
Horizon groans loudly, causing many annoyed glares to shift toward him, "you don't know enough about each other to judge that, and life isn't fair, sometimes you get an opponent out of your league, get over it."
"Exactly," All Might says. "Heroes are always at a disadvantage because we have to extra careful while villains can let loose with their Quirks, and sometimes we get placed into situations where we're outmatched or a bad matchup, but heroes always have to pull through in the end! This best simulates that," he adds.
"I see, I hadn't thought about this as a proper simulation and only training, my apologies," Iida bows politely to All Might.
"No problem, now follow me to the control room and we'll get this started!"
Everyone walks behind All Might to a building attached to the outer wall of the training grounds.
On the short walk there a few people were mulling over the short briefing, begrudgingly coming to a conclusion that they wish wasn't the case. 'Horizon is a jerk but he definitely knows his stuff, and his Quirk is insane...how do I beat Warping?'
A curious look from Todoroki and the heated glare from Bakugo didn't go unnoticed by anyone.
And as they enter the room, a large room with a massive holographic screen on the far wall, with a guard rail and control panel. A small yellow box resting on the control panel with 'Lots' printed across the front waiting for them.
"Alright, time to decide the first team!" All Might picks up the box and turns to face everyone, digging on hand in and grabbing a ball. Half the class get nervous, not wanting to be the first team, and certainly not wanting to get a bad matchup. And All Might is also nervous. 'C'mon, theirs are different so just make sure you save those for last!' he reminds himself.
Taking out the first ball "four," he reads aloud. "Seat number four."
Iida steps forward.
"You'll be paired with number...seventeen," Bakugo steps forward.
"And the next team is, five," Uraraka steps forward. "Paired with, eighteen," Deku steps forward to stand beside her.
"Alright, teams have been decided!" All Might opens a compartment under the control panel and takes out four rolls of thin tape and four earpieces. "These are Capture Tape, each of you get one, wrap it around your opponent and they're out. Each team also gets a pair of these earpieces so you can talk to each other," he hands them out.
Everyone puts in their earpiece and stores away their tape.
"You'll also get these," he reaches back into the compartment and takes out two booklets. "We've prepared a few buildings, so each team works with a different map, these are yours, the villains have five minutes to go get set up, then the timer starts, and the heroes wait outside until then."
They all nod and begin moving out.
As Bakugo and Iida are setting up as the villains Deku and Uraraka are chatting outside the building seemingly reviewing the floorplan.
All Might activates the cameras inside for everyone to watch.
"Will we be able to hear them?" Horizon asks.
"Only I can hear them," All Might says. "I have a control earpiece connected to theirs, the surveillance in the building doesn't have audio. I suggest you all take note of how they approach this situation and begin thinking of how to use your Quirk to complete the scenario."
Horizon shakes his head, 'warp to the bomb and touch it if I'm the hero, or just have some fun testing people then touch the bomb...yeah, that sounds a lot more fun, I should let them know what I'm all about...'
"START!" All Might announces as the timer begins counting down from fifteen minutes.
'I'll have to make sure Horizon is the villain because of his Quirk,' he decides, forming the same conclusion as Horizon now that Warping was revealed. 'I wonder how Young Todoroki and Yaoyorozu will deal with Warping...'
END CHAPTER---
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