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Momo wakes up in a large and comfortable bed, and she feels a satisfying soreness wracking her body.
Before her eyes open she remains under the blanket, memories of hours earlier flooding her mind, causing a cheerful grin to spread across her face.
He can't help but release a small giggle and roll onto her side, and as the sense of bliss fades away, she realizes she's not in her room.
Feeling around all she finds is more of the empty bed, and all the things she's heard about women waking up to find themselves abandoned and only used for sex flood her mind.
She frantically throws off the blanket, uncaring about her naked form, and looks around.
Then breathes a sigh of relief as her eyes land on Horizon.
He was standing toward the other side of the room, the only light source being the hologram he'd been working on last night before she arrived.
He was now in his body glove and visor again, but she could see what looks like a young white haired girl with a single horn on one of the screens, and a map of Japan on the other.
"You ok?" Horizon asks, not even turning around to look at her.
"I'm," Momo thinks about it for a moment. "I'm happy, actually. I was just worried you wouldn't be here."
Horizon continues making adjustments and notes on the map, "you're here, so where else could I possible be? Besides... it's my room."
"Oh, right."
"How do you feel?"
Momo takes and blanket and sloppily wraps it around herself as she gets out of bed, not wanting to imagine the state of her hair at the moment, "exhausted, is that normal?"
She walks over to him and takes a seat on the couch behind him, then he looks over to her, "you spent the night with what's comparable to a living nuclear power plant...so yeah, it's pretty normal." He then turns back to his work. "Don't worry, you'll get used to it, and I'll try to keep your limitations in mind more going forward."
Momo blushes at that, the thought of doing this again already making her heart race, "what time is it?"
"5 AM, a bit earlier than you usually wake up."
"And around the time Mr. Aizawa does his checks to make sure we didn't break curfew, I should get back to my room before---"
"You really don't need to worry about that," Horizon says as he opens a third screen, and she sees him composing an email addressed to Fatgum. "Eraser Head doesn't check certain rooms."
"What do you mean?"
"Mine, Sero's, Shinso's, yours, Jiro's," he shrugs. "He has very good reasons to stay on my good side, and our understanding makes my life at UA so much easier."
Momo looks genuinely confused, "I understand that Team Horizon would have some privileges, but, why wouldn't he check mine or Kyoka's rooms?"
"Asks the girl who just spent the night in my bed, pretty sure the entire school knows about the not-so-secret crush you two have."
"Can we please not talk about that?" Momo asks. "I still need time to process what happened last night."
"Sure, also, when you're ready to go back to your room, I can warp."
"I'd like to stay here just a bit longer, I'm not ready to be alone with my thoughts just yet, if that's ok."
Horizon chuckles as he sends the email, "I'm a gentleman, I won't just kick you out after sex."
"That's not wh---"
"I'm kidding Momo."
"Oh, right."
Horizon works in silence for a few minutes, sending a few more documents out to top Pro Heroes, many of which Momo never would have expected him to be working with.
'I suppose it makes sense,' she inspects the map even closer. 'His domain is Minato Tokyo and Musutafu where UA is. This map has points all across Japan and some off the coast, he needs dozens of Pro Heroes working together to bring it all down at once.'
"Why do you accept help from other Pro Heroes?" Momo asks. "Isn't your catchphrase 'I am enough'?"
"That's not official," Horizon says. "But as to why I accept help, well, part of being respected is being seen as a competent leader. Even while All Might was the top Pro, for many situations the Commission would call upon Endeavor to lead operations because All Might is more of a solo act."
"So you don't just want to be another #1 Pro Hero, you want to be the respected leader of all Pro Heroes."
"Exactly. But I also can't be everywhere at once, I can hardly leave Minato Tokyo these days, so having pieces on the board is a way of extending my reach."
"You're even more ambitious and incredible than we thought," Momo mindlessly whispers.
"Thank you."
"Oh, I didn't mean to say that out loud..."
"Well I appreciate it anyway, but honestly, the perks of being a Top Pro are barely in effect since I only have a Provisional License...and I'm already starting to like it."
"What kind of perks?"
"Honestly, just being able to do whatever I want, and nobody questions it, people hold Pro Heroes up on such a pedestal that the license and a good reputation is all you need to have the world in your hand."
"That's a dangerous way of viewing it."
"Power not worth abusing isn't worth having," Horizon says. "But don't worry, I still intend to be the perfect Hero, because I've got people I need to save."
"Well, that's a relief, because I'm not quite sure how we'd arrest you," she laughs nervously.
"Well, you can certainly try, but we both know how that'd end."
Preferring not to think about such a seemingly unlikely and impossible scenario, Momo eye's drift over to the files regarding the little girl.
Taking a closer look at her red eyes and white hair, noticing her arms and legs were covered in bandages, and most of the information on her page was left blank.
Only the name 'Eri' at the top along with some basic information, as well as her Quirk being listed as 'Rewind?'.
"Who is the little girl?" Momo asks. "She's so cute, is she someone you rescued?"
"No," he continues typing. "She's currently being torn apart and put together by someone that's being investigated. I'm consulting on the case, they're using her to make Quirk destroying bullets, Deleter Rounds. This is all confidential ofcourse, but I trust you not to gossip."
Momo appreciates his confidence, but also looks disgusted at the very thought of what Eri is going through, "what kind of monster would do such a thing?"
"Some wannabe Yakuza boss, he's trying to make his faction of the Yakuza into a feared gang again, he'll be in cuffs by the end of this month."
"Well I feel better knowing that you're going after him, villains like that, people who take advantage of those that can't defend themselves...those are the worst types of people."
"Well, I'm only consulting, he operates outside of Tokyo so he's not my problem until Nighteye runs out of time."
"Sir Nighteye? Does this have anything to do with why Midoriya isn't doing his Work Studies there anymore?"
"This case is a bit too dangerous so they sent Deku back to UA," he lies, not in the mood to go into Deku's failures.
"Oh, well that makes sense, these people sound dangerous."
"Which is why Sir Nighteye has 8 more days to solve it before I have to step out of Tokyo and put boots on the ground myself."
"But I still don't quite understand," Momo pauses for a moment, trying and failing to make sense of this. "How do you know this girl is in danger, but leave here there instead of simply going to rescue her? It couldn't possibly take you that long, right?"
"Meh, a day or two at most, just fly by the hideouts on my hoverboard, find the girl, and do some light violence," Horizon shrugs.
Momo furrows her brows, "then why don't you just go save her?!" her eyes open a bit in surprise. "Sorry, I didn't mean to raise my voice, it's just, it's difficult to understand. If you have to power to go save her, why wouldn't you do it."
Horizon stops for a moment, realizing exactly what's about to happen, and snaps his fingers.
The hologram shuts off and the lighting comes on, causing Momo to squint and pull the blanket up higher, even as Horizon sits beside her.
"You've heard me say things like, 'I'm not just a Pro Hero, I'm Horizon', right?"
"Yes I've witnessed your bravado," she says jokingly. "But what does that have to do with it?"
"Well, it's not bravado, it's painfully literal and true. I'm not like other Pro Heroes, my role in the world is entirely different. I don't get to run around putting out fires all day. I have to stay put in Minato Tokyo because my existence makes crime almost non-existent. I leave and villains come out in force to make up for lost time, and the Paper Pros can't handle that.
I don't have the freedom to just go where I please, as much as I say I can do whatever I want, which I can. Being able to do something doesn't mean you should. Like me stepping out of Tokyo to save Eri, I could, but a lot of people would get hurt and a lot of drugs would get shipped since Horizon Tower is so close to the docks."
"But---" Momo tried and tried, but couldn't make sense of it. "How can you just, exist, knowing someone out there needs you, and you're here with me being...happy?"
"Because I see the big picture. I'm holding Japan's feeble Hero Society together by just being here. I'm the big red button the government can push when shit hits the fan. Like the nuclear option when things go very badly. Other nations know this and are always trying to buy my service, wanting me to come live in their countries.
They've offered me everything. Money, political office, a knighthood, lands, titles, women...the ability to make and alter a few laws. Or complete immunity to laws in their lands. Everyone wants Horizon, and the most effective thing I can do for the whole, is not running around trying to save every single person that needs help."
Momo looks back at Eri's picture and falls into deep thought, "I can't imagine the magnitude of the weight on your shoulders. But I trust you to always make the right choice to help the most people."
"Yeah well, that's why I'm here, I deal with the big problems so they don't run over anyone else. All the little people get to live in ignorance of all the looming threats and sleeping giants, hell nobody even knew about the shadow war between All Might and All For One until Kamino, so imagine how many of those happened before that day."
Momo moves a bit closer and leans against his side, and he wraps an arm around her, "shadow wars and political disputes over you, intense."
"Yeah, meanwhile I'm just here spending the night with you, so in a weird way, you're closer than they are..."
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---1A Dorms, 6:35 AM...
After getting out of the showers and getting dressed, wearing a pair of shorts and a large shirt, Jiro gathers her things and begins the trip back up to her room from the showers and laundry area downstairs.
"Morning Kyoka!" Uraraka greets her, falling into step beside her as she too is heading back to her room to change.
'It's way too early to have that much energy,' Jiro thinks, but instead just looks over at her friend. "Morning Ochaco, a late start for you?"
"Oh, just a bit. I kind of got carried away sparring with Mina last night, so I overslept."
"Oh that, yeah she mentioned you've been teaching her some of the Gun Head martial arts from your internship," Jiro says as they enter the hallway, moving toward the elevator.
"Yup, she's a natural, atleast more than me, Mina's got some serious moves already."
"Well she likes to dance so I bet that helps her out," Jiro shrugs.
"What about you?" Uraraka asks, taking a closer look at Jiro, seeing small dark bags under her eyes. "Trouble sleeping?"
"Uh, I, was up late studying for midterms," she lied. "They should be starting soon so I don't want to wait too long."
"Oh shoot!" Uraraka facepalms as they enter the elevator. "I totally forgot about those! Awe man I need to start studying more, I've just been so caught up with working at Ryukyu's Agency that my school work hasn't been as big of a priority."
"Yeah well I imagine that's difficult to manage."
"Yeah, you know how it is, every time you're out on patrol you come back exhausted, studying after that just seems like torture."
"Well, I actually wouldn't know," Jiro says, and she see's Uraraka looks like she's about to apologize. "Its fine, really. But don't think just because we failed the Provisional License exam that we can't catch up to you. Because while you're all out of UA we've been training harder than ever, you'll see."
"Yeah! Then we can go on patrol together and help people," Uraraka gets excited at the idea. "Oooh! Maybe all the girls can form a hero team together, with a super flashy Super Move where we all work together to take down a big villain and save everyone!"
"Let's focus on one thing at a time Chaco'," Jiro says. "I still have to actually pass the next exam first, then we'll talk about combo moves afterward."
"Oh you'll be fine," Uraraka says as the elevator begins taking them up. "The only reason you didn't get it this year was because there were just so many third-year students from other Hero Courses there, next year you'll be a second year during it, and a lot stronger."
"But I'll have fewer allies, so I think it balances out."
"Mmm, maybe, but I guess you've just got to be even stronger and win anyway!" Uraraka gives her a dazzling smile, and Jiro just gives an awkward one in exchange.
"You make it sound so easy, but yeah, that's exactly what I'll do!"
They chat a bit more while walking through the hallway, then Uraraka goes into her own room to get ready for school.
And after a few more steps, two doors down, Jiro arrives at her own.
"Honestly I'll never understand how anyone has that much energy this early in the morning," she mutters while casually stepping into her room.
"Morning people are annoying," Horizon agrees.
"Eehh!" she squeals out, dropping her items and holding her chest, breathing heavily as she leans against the door.
"Well good morning to you too," Horizon says.
He was currently in his full UA uniform, with the back of his jacket, his logo stitched into it staring at her. As he peruses the myriad of musical instruments lining her walls.
The entire room looks like a music shop, with instruments, posters, even some old records and a record player, beside a stereo system.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Jiro growls out, looking more cute than scary as she picks up her stuff, but Horizon doesn't pay her much attention, still inspecting her instruments. "This is my room."
"Obviously," he stops and turns to her. "But I didn't think you cared much for the notion of privacy, after last night," he gestures to the ceiling, where hidden behind a poster there is a small indentation where her Earphone Jack was but hours ago.
Jiro's blood runs cold, almost breaking out into a sweat as she freezes, unable to think of any excuse that could make this better.
"Can you really play all of these?" Horizon asks, and she leaps at the chance to change the subject.
"Atleast a little bit, you know who my parents are, it's in my blood."
"Impressive."
"You mentioned that you don't play anything, right, want to learn?" she desperately tries to distract him.
"I'd rather not, understanding it ruins the magic, and with how my brain works, if I can understand something it's difficult to enjoy."
"Right, we---"
"Why were you listening in on Momo and I last night?" Horizon asks, and a flash of embarrassment and fear appears on her face.
"Well, I, um---"
"I did a quick Scan of the dorms to make sure we weren't being spied on before I...well, you know, you heard, and imagine my surprise to find you, laying in bed with an Earphone Jack in the ceiling and a hand do---"
"I'm sorry!" Jiro blurts out. "I was just, worried you'd take advantage of my friend."
He considers it for a moment, then nods, "a good excuse for the first part maybe, but that doesn't explain why you listened in all night."
As Jiro freezes, Horizon walks over and gently puts a finger under her chin, raising her head so she has to look up at him.
As he looms over her, a full 16in -40cm- taller than the petite girl.
"I..." Jiro stutters for a moment, then her eyes get teary as she finally lets it all out. "Because I like you, and I know I tried not to but I really do. And I like Momo, and I don't know what to do, so when both of you got all, close, like that, I just kept listening in ok.
What else was I supposed to do? Both the people I'm attracted to were...and I just...I...I don't know. I'm sorry. Please don't tell anyone, don't tell Momo that I'm---"
"As if I care about some teenaged sexuality crisis, and again, you aren't very subtle, but relax Momo is too sweet to treat you any differently either way."
"What about---"
"I already knew why you were listening in," Horizon shrugs. "I just like watching you squirm, atleast that makes us even."
"What?"
"But I do have one question," he ensures he's making proper contact with her, and reads her body as he speaks. "When you were listening in, how much can you see. I imagine you have something like echo mapping, right?"
"I'm not that good yet, I could only hear," Jiro says. "Sorry to disappoint...even more."
Luckily for her, he detects no lies. He was fairly sure she wouldn't have gotten much detail like his face and certainly not his tattoos, but better safe than sorry.
And removing Jiro from the board is always preferable to compromising Law Matani.
With her dodging that bullet he steps away and continues looking around her room, as she desperately tries to make sense of what's happening.
Taking deep breaths she wipes her tears and just observes him, before finally speaking.
"Are you going to report me to Principal Nezu?"
"Don't be stupid," Horizon says. "What Momo and I were doing is so much worse than your preerected antics, the teachers acknowledge that they can't fully stop students from fucking, but they have to atleast try to prevent it. But atleast try not to be such a creepy pervert in the future, or just ask to be there, doubt either of us would mind..."
Jiro's mind is sent reeling with that thought, and she blinks a few times to try and make sense of it, but before responding with some outrage, she takes stock of the situation.
And realizes she's really holding no moral position to be judging him "what?"
Horizon stops looks around and walks up to her, then leans in closer to her face, "I sensed it early on, so if I wanted to. If you were anyone else spying on us, this would have gone very differently, but since its you we're having a pleasant and hopefully fruitful conversation about this."
Jiro nods stiffly, feeling the hairs behind her neck stand up, a new sense of danger filling the room.
"But you're you, and how this ends is quite obvious, so I saw no reason not to let you have a glimpse of your future. Atleast now you know what you're signing up for..."
Jiro freezes for a moment, and from the look in her eyes, he can tell her brain is struggling to process all of this.
And the redness on her face says she's finally making some progress in understanding him.
Shaking his head he sighs, and pats her head, "don't be late for class, and try not to be any weirder around us..."
And with that, he warps away, happy with how he's using the perks that come from being Horizon.
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