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Chapitre 52: CHAPTER 049(Built Different)

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CHAPTER START---

"Twelve million and counting," Horizon says while scrolling on his phone. Looking at the picture he just took and posted outside the stadium. He, Death Arms, Kamui Woods, and Mt. Lady. "I've already got more followers than those three put together...they really don't know how to work the sheep," he mutters.

"And now for the first match!" Midnight announces.

His head snaps up and away from his phone, quickly putting it in his pocket.

Standing in the dark tunnel leading into the arena he sees the now constructed cement stage built by Cementoss. The crowd is going crazy as the first round of the 1-vs-1 tournament begins.

"Let's start big, with...1A's Class Rep, already showing that he's a prodigy even among all our genius aspiring heroes, Horizon!"

Horizon steps out of the tunnel, full PE Uniform on, the shirt unbuttoned for everyone to see the body glove on his chest, his logo in blue atop the white fabric, just barely distracting people from how the fabric clings to his chiseled body and exposes his muscles. The same symbol is in black across the back of his PE Uniform for the competition to see.

He takes his time walking up to the stage as Midnight announces Monoma, stirring the crowd into a smaller but still absurd wave of chaos.

Eventually both students are standing opposite each other on the stage, looking around to see all eyes on them. One-on-one Horizon's size shows, standing 20cm -8in- taller than Monoma, the much thinner and lankier blonde contrasting greatly to Horizon's now bulkier build, still lean but muscles clearly making themselves known through his uniform.

"Are both of you ready?" Midnight asks.

Monoma nods.

"Actually," Horizon speaks up, surprising everyone. "Since your Quirk is Copy I'm sure you've prepared something for me, but I'm curious, would you like to copy my Quirk?"

"You would let me just, copy your Quirk? Just like that?" Monoma asks skeptically.

"I'm curious about what happens if a regular person tries it, since it is the most powerful Quirk in the world," Horizon shrugs as everyone just stares in surprise, never expecting such a blatant and seemingly outlandish boast.

"Well, if you insist," Monoma smiles sinisterly. "Since you're the main character here I'm sure I can use that power to win this match..."

Horizon chuckles and pulls up the sleeve on his left hand, separating the glove and sleeve of his body glove to expose the inner forearm of his left hand, where there were no tattoos, gesturing for Monoma to make contact.

The audience is at the edge of their seat to see what happens.

Monoma raises a brow at the sight of Horizon's watch. "You brought a Rolex to a battle? That seems rather careless..."

"Oh please, the USJ Nomu couldn't even hit me, how would any of you ever manage to break it?"

Monoma narrows his eyes at him and reaches out, touching Horizon's skin with his fingers.

Horizon feels a tingling at the back of his mind and shrugs it off.

"That's odd," Monoma says. "I felt it, but...it didn't let me Copy it."

"I rejected your Quirk, I just wanted to see if I could."

"You re---"

"For real this time," Horizon once again presents his arm, "no tricks."

Monoma looks equal parts annoyed and impressed, but can't pass up the chance to become the main character for a short while. Without hesitation he reaches out, and immediately feels his entire body tingling as the Quirk manifests within him.

Monoma shakes his head a bit and stumbles back, a wide smile on his face as he giggles like a madman.

"You ok?" Horizon asks, slight concern in his voice as he and Midnight watch Monoma begin to hop in place.

"I feel great. Like I could run a marathon. It's like a sugar rush. Is this how you always feel? It's incredible. What does your Quirk do anyway? Man this is great. Everything is all tingly." Monoma breaks out in another fit of giggles.

"Oh no," Horizon says, earning concerned looks from Midnight and the audience. "Ok Monoma, listen very carefully to me," he raises his hands gently to keep Monoma calm. "You need to cancel Copy on my Quirk, and no matter what, don't try to activate it, alright?"

Midnight immediately walks over to Horizon, ready to rip her costume to sedate Monoma.

Monoma looks confused, then with all the energy in his body, his fight or flight response kicks into overdrive, "why would I do that? This is a trick isn't it? You don't want me to win! But I can feel it, I can win, this feels great," he raises a hand and swings it at Horizon, "warp away!"

"Oh crap... I didn't think his body would react like this," Horizon says, and everyone hears through Midnight's mic.

"Like what?" she asks, now seeing Monoma frozen in place, blood quickly flowing from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. "Monoma!"

"It's fine...kinda," Horizon says, holding her back from rushing forward and approaching Monoma. "It's just my Quirk."

The entire arena is deathly silent as the scene unfolds.

Monoma collapses into Horizon's arms and he gently places him on the ground, immediately summoning his healing energy into his palm and placing it on the unconscious Monoma's head.

"Your Quirk?"

"He tried to activate it, so it started killing him," Horizon says. "My Quirk requires the user to essentially be superhuman in terms of how much energy is in your body and how much information your brain can process. His body tried to rapidly increase the energy capacity within it, hence the sugar rush, and his brain tried to expand, tearing itself apart, hence the bleeding.

But that isn't enough for my Quirk. You also need to be able to comprehend what you process...meaning he literally wasn't smart enough to sort and apply the sudden influx of information my Quirk caused, his body tried to adapt by ripping energy away from anything that wasn't his brain to force more growth."

"It tried to make his organs fail," Midnight mutters out in shock and horror. "What kind of Quirk does such a thing, how is that even possible?"

"My Quirk ignored the safeguards that Copy has built into it, I didn't even think he'd be able to copy my Quirk, figured it'd be a dud. He's a lot better than I thought. But he just isn't built like me, to handle this kind of situation..."

"Superhuman," Midnight says, recalling what Horizon just said. "Will he be ok?"

Horizon takes his hand away from Monoma, standing as the medical robots bring a stretcher into the arena, "he just needs some drips and sleep, he'll be fine in a few hours, but I doubt he'd remember any of this," he shrugs.

As the robots load Monoma onto the stretcher and haul him away only Horizon and Midnight are left in the arena, "that's some Quirk you've got there..." she says awkwardly, trying to get the atmosphere back in a good mood.

"Yeah, but it's not meant for regular humans, anyway I guess this means I win, right?"

Midnight nods, "Horizon moves on to the next round!"

The crowd goes wild once again, as if they didn't see a teenager almost die in front of them.

"Didn't even have to throw a punch or get him out of bounds... pretty easy."

Midnight rolls her eyes, "try not to do things like that to all your opponents please, you're not supposed to kill your opponent, you're training to be a hero remember," she warns him.

"Hey, I didn't know that would happen."

"Which is the only reason you aren't disqualified, but don't pull a stunt like that again," she glares at him.

"Gotcha," he says before walking off the stage.

Making his way back to his class's seats he sees Momo wave for him to sit with her and Jiro.

"So you always put people in the infirmary?" Jiro asks with a bit of edge to her voice as he sits on the other side of Momo. "I just got out of there after you tried to fry my brain and now Monoma's in there for pretty much the same reason."

"Hey you attacked me, and as for him, it's not my fault he isn't built to handle my power, but it's not surprising, mortals and divinity have a terrible track record when they meet..."

END CHAPTER---

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Chapitre 53: CHAPTER 050(Round 1-First Half)

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CHAPTER START---

"Did anyone see that guy use his Quirk?" Horizon asks, sitting at the end of the front row in 1As seating area above the arena.

With Momo to his left, Jiro beside her, Tokoyami just behind him with Tsu, the other students scattered about chatting quietly.

"I don't recall him using it in the previous events," Momo says, all their eyes falling to Shinso as he enters the arena, Sero standing happily across from him.

"Well if he wins he'll be against me next, so it doesn't really matter," Horizon shrugs.

"You could at least pretend to be a bit apprehensive to the challenge," Momo says. "Some would say it's unsportsmanlike to speak in such a way of your competition, even if it is true..."

"That cocky attitude is gonna bite you in the ass someday," Jiro mutters, Earphone Jacks still bandaged from the electrical burns.

"I doubt that, but even if it does, it won't be in a tournament like this," Horizon says. "This event has a clear out-of-bounds rule, so I can honestly win whenever I want. That's the same rule that gives other people a chance but limits others simply based on the matchup, but even if it were to the death I'd still easily win..."

"What do you mean?" Tsu asks from behind him.

"Well...take Tokoyami VS Uraraka for example. Her Quirk requires something to activate it on, make a car weightless then throw it and deactivate her Quirk at the last moment for maximum damage. But here she doesn't have any items aside from her clothes and herself, if she makes herself weightless Dark Shadow will swat her away and she can't adjust her trajectory in the air. And she'd have to get close or touch Dark Shadow to make Tokoyami weightless and throw him away."

"Well yes but then she can toss him out of bounds and win, right?" Momo asks.

"Nope, not a chance in hell," Horizon says. "At least not if Tokoyami has a brain."

"I do," Tokoyami says behind them.

"See, easy win," Horizon explains. "If she touches him and removes gravity from him and Dark Shadow, since they are one being, then she'll try to throw him out of the arena, but he can just anchor himself by having Dark Shadow dig into the floor, and since she's tiny and Dark Shadow has some muscle to it..."

"He'll throw her out instead," Momo says. "I see...I hadn't considered that people can anchor themselves."

"Same thing Kirishima would do with some hardening on his fingers, use them like spears," Horizon shrugs. "This is a shitty setting for Zero Gravity, either she throws them before they anchor, or she somehow overpowers them...both situations are basically impossible. And a lot of people like Bakugo and I don't even care if she makes us float because we have either aerial or instant mobility."

"I will admit I came to the same conclusion," Tokoyami says. "But I didn't want to speak down on my classmate's chances in such a way."

"It is what it is, some people just aren't meant to fight in a setting like this..."

"I failed to consider the matchups and environment properly," Momo quietly admits. "I have much to learn."

"Same here," Jiro says. "But at least your Quirk can be useful in an event like this, I'd probably just get my Earphone Jacks pulled out of the air, and then they'd toss me out of the arena."

"Probably," Horizon says. "You'll notice all the one-trick pony style Quirks getting taken out quickly, assuming they even made it this far, honestly I would have bet on Tokoyami meeting me in the finals if so many people didn't have a direct counter to him..."

"Likewise," Tokoyami says, surprising all of them. They'd never expected Horizon of all people to speak favorable to his Quirk, and for him to agree as well. "These conditions are among the worst for Dark Shadow..."

"LET THE SECOND MATCH BEGIN!" Midnight yells, causing the crowd to erupt in noise.

Sero immediately fires off two lines of tape, trapping Shinso as they wrap around his arms and torso.

As he's being dragged to the edge of the stage Shinso yells, obviously panicked, not expecting the instant attack, "do you really think people will ever let someone with such freaky elbows become a hero?!"

"Ye---" Sero froze, eyes going dull and arms falling to his side.

"Good, now walk off the stage," Shinso commands, and Sero does exactly that.

The audience was able to hear everything thanks to the mics, and Eraser immediately gave an explanation.

"Hitoshi Shinso, Quirk: Brainwashing, he can control people who respond to him, it requires him to activate it so its only when he wants...A perfect Quirk for dealing with hostage situations and most villains. But because UA makes students wanting to enter the Hero Course fight robots he couldn't even use it...a clear oversight on our part..." he says in a tired voice.

As Shinso and Sero clear the stage Momo turns to Horizon. "Looks like all you have to do is not speak and you'll win, I guess you're practically in the semi-finals already."

Horizon sighs, "honestly I was hoping to at least have some fun...but I guess it's just a bunch of easy fights."

"You know you'd be a lot cooler if you were nice to people," Jiro says.

"Like heroes are expected to be, like All Might," Momo adds.

"Yeah, and I'd always be exhausted from that crap, I already have to act like these people are worth saving to their faces," he gestures to the cheering crowd as Deku and Todoroki take the stage. "I'm not doing that shit around all of you too."

"If you don't care about people, why are you here?" Tsu asks.

"Because being a hero is just another job, the reason doesn't matter...just do it the best you can, no matter what. Does it matter if I'm not some bleeding heart moron like All Might if I save just as many people?"

They think about it for a moment, then Momo nods in agreement, "well, I guess it doesn't."

"Exactly, all that matters, is whatever the reward is, I think it's worth risking my life and the life of everyone I care about...at least if I was showing my face and using my name like you people..."

Before anyone can even question what he means, a gust of cold wind blasts the crowd.

"He's breaking fingers," Horizon says as he notices what just happened, Deku did a super strong flick to shatter Todoroki's ice attack.

"Such power, both of them!" Tokoyami yells.

"If Todoroki has a brain he wins in the next attack," Horizon says, causing everyone to glance at him before setting their eyes back to the stage.

Another clash, Deku breaks a second finger to counter Todorki's ice, keeping them at a stalemate.

Horizon leans back in his seat, obviously disappointed. "Never mind I guess, should have expected this when two of the most pathetic levels of Quirk Mastery in our class are put together...freaking meatheads, I at least expected more from Endeavor's kid," he grumbles.

They all keep those words at the back of their mind, not quite understanding them, and certainly not willing to ask him directly, knowing he'd likely verbally rip them apart for even doing that.

"What are they even talking about?" Horizon questions aloud as the battle rages on. "Feelings? 'It's your power'? Did I miss something or are they just as emotional and stupid as I thought?"

"Both," Tsu says. "Todoroki declared war on Midoriya while you were off talking to Midnight and the other Class Reps."

"On Deku? Talk about punching down...but not by much honestly."

"You truly think them that similar?" Momo asks, her invincible image of Todoroki long since shattered and replaced with Horizon.

"Well they're both meatheads flailing at each other screaming about feelings aren't they," he gestures to the arena where the fight kept going, "you tell me."

"Right," she nods along. "I also saw them speaking privately while we all went for lunch, maybe something happened that we missed."

"Whatever it is, it's brought out quite incredible power from both of them," Jiro says.

"Powerful doesn't mean good, or useful," Horizon says as the fight continues.

Eventually, after a lot more broken bones, screaming, and tears, the final clash ends with Todoroki activating his fire for the first time since joining UA.

Everyone hears Endeavor yelling, but pays him no mind and an explosion rocks the arena, Cementoss erects soft walls to ease the damage.

And when the mist and dust clear, Deku is crumpled against the far wall while Todoroki is cushioned by his ice...

"TODOROKI WINS!" Midnight announces.

"Looks like the pennies are adding up," Horizon says, looking at Deku's mangled arm and fingers, dark purple and torn up as he gets hauled off to Recovery Girl.

"Will he be able to move his arm again?" Momo asks, clear concern in her voice.

"Yeah, but regular healing Quirks can't fix that...he'll have serious lasting damage this time, the damage is adding up more and more with each use, best guess, one or two more injuries like that and he's out of the Hero Course."

"Unless you heal him," Momo says.

"The only way that's happening is if he can afford to outbid my other clients -which he can't-, and I'd need to somehow agree to heal someone that will certainly hurt themself again. I've only ever made one exception for a person like that, I'm not making it a habit."

"Well, what if I were to bid for him?" Momo asks. "it would be a shame for someone with such a heroic spirit not to see their dreams become real, just think about all the people he can save."

"I don't think your allowance is gonna cut it, actually I don't think your family can afford it," Horizon says.

"What if it does?"

Horizon chuckles, "of course the rich girl doesn't know the cost of anything...minimum bid is fifty million...and let's just say the leading bid for my next operation is a lot higher than that, even you can't afford me."

Momo looks genuinely confused, while everyone who knows the actual value of money looks horrified. "People pay that much for healthcare?" Momo asks.

"No, I don't sell healthcare, I deal in time," Horizon corrects her. "I can give and take time with the people you love, so tell me, is there anything you wouldn't pay if I'm the only person in the world that can give you time with your loved ones?"

Nobody responds to that for a long tense moment until Tsu speaks up. "You really can charge whatever you want..."

"More than that, I can do whatever I want, because I'm Horizon, everyone wants a piece of me...I'm a walking miracle, do you honestly think any politician is gonna risk moving against me now that the word is out that I can practically heal anything?" he chuckles darkly, knowing the media was already devouring that anonymous information they received earlier. "If Recovery Girl decided to murder someone in the street the government wouldn't touch her...I can't imagine what I could get away with..."

The cold and sharp edge in his voice sent a chill down their spines. Someone seemingly all-powerful and untouchable, a truly dangerous existence.

By the time everyone comes to their senses, Hatsume has already surrendered after using Kaminari as a practice dummy for her capture devices, more amusing than anything else for people who aren't interested in support equipment.

'Hover Soles huh,' Horizon eyes the boots she has on that let her float above the floor. 'That looks fun...'

"And with that, the first half of the first round of this game is complete!" Midnight announces, "now let's welcome our next competitors..."

END CHAPTER---

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