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CHAPTER START---
"Can you please get down from there, its making me anxious," Jiro says.
She and Horizon were standing atop UA overlooking Musutafu in the distance, the morning sun shining down on the ocean just beyond the city.
But while she was safely leaning against the wall beside the door to enter the building, he was standing on the ledge scrolling through his phone. Taking some pictures.
"Awe, since when do you worry about me?"
Jiro rolls her eyes, "its natural to be concerned when people stand on ledges...especially when they still can't fly, mister perfect."
"Tch, not everyone can fly."
"Endeavor can."
"W---"
"---Hawks too," Jiro thinks about it for a moment. "Come to think of it, so can Ryukyu and Edgeshot...well he uses his Quirk to launch through the air. And even All Might used to punch the air to get around."
"You've made your point," Horizon grumbles. "But I don't need to fly, because while they're flying, I'm already there."
Jiro turns the page of her book, "yeah but warping isn't as iconic."
"I'm Horizon, I'll set my own standard, its as simple as that."
"Just don't fall Mr. I Can't Fly, but I guess you could just warp back up here anyway."
"Something like that, Shambles doesn't cancel momentum, so if I warp fast enough then yeah, but if I jump from a plane I'd have to brace for the impact all the same."
"Good thing you're also super strong, because some people get all the cool stuff."
"I rather not rely on my physical strength in such ways, I'm not trying to be another wannabe All Might after all."
Jiro sighs and shuts the book, unable to focus anymore, "but it must still feel pretty good right?" she walks up to the the ledge he's standing on and enjoys the view.
"What must feel good?"
"Being able to just know that you can do some insane things and your Quirk can get you out of it, meanwhile I'm just 'The hearing hero'."
"Well if it makes you feel any better, I don't have Super Hearing," Horizon puts his phone away and turns to her, reaching down to bring her up on the ledge.
Jiro immediately backs away, "uh, I'm no good with heights."
"Then it's a good thing you've got Japan's future #1 Pro Hero to hold onto, right?"
She hesitates for a moment, but eventually gives in and takes his hand, after which he easily pulls her up to stand beside him, wrapping an arm around her waist.
"So, you plan to open your eyes?"
"Nope, this is fine," she holds onto him tightly and keeps her eyes shut.
"You're gonna be running toward villains but can't handle a little altitude, really?"
"Mmm, fine, just for a little bit..." she grips him tighter while opening her eyes, and it takes all of her willpower not to look down. "Yeah, this is still scary, good view but still scary."
"Don't worry, I just started tolerating you, so I won't drop you."
"Thanks a lot, jerk."
After some time enjoying the silence, feeling the cold morning breeze against them, Jiro opens her eyes to enjoy the view. Much more relaxed in Horizon's arms.
"Is this how you spend all your early mornings?" she asks.
"What do you mean?"
"Warping around Musutafu for breakfast, relaxing on the roof before classes start, that sort of thing."
"No, usually I just get an hour of sleep then get back to work, but this morning I decided to take things easy. I got a lot of work done these past few days and I'm sort of between cases at the moment."
"Our resident workaholic."
"Yeah well, when talent works hard, nothing can beat it," Horizon shrugs.
"You aren't the only person in our class that could apply to, you do know that, right?"
"I acknowledge that in the scope of the entire world our class has some individuals like Bakugo, Todoroki, Tokoyami, and even...fucking Deku, who more than likely will become top 20 if not top 10 Pro heroes. Simply based on their abilities and work ethic."
"They why do you still give them such a hard time?" Jiro asks. "I feel like you'd rather die than say anything nice to them."
"Because they misunderstand their place in the world. See I have no issue with them thinking they'll be top Pros, but they're trying to compete with me. The audacity in them thinking they could ever be in the same arena with someone like me is appalling. They need to be taught that life just isn't fair.
That sometimes even if you have all the gifts handed to you, even if you work till you're covered in sweat and blood, till your bones break. You can and will still lose, because I exist, and I'm just better. The fact that they even bother trying to catch up to me is so misguided and arrogant that it disgusts me."
Jiro nods along for a bit as she processes everything, "yup, you definitely need serious therapy."
"As if my mind is weak enough to have some person talking about feelings influence it, besides, I'm perfect."
"Then I guess I need therapy, because you just said all of that and I'm still here with you."
"Yeah well, I always knew you were crazy..." Horizon says.
---Later That Morning...
Horizon as usual had his feet up, scrolling through his phone while waiting for Homeroom to start, trying his best to ignore his chatty classmates.
"Eraser's coming," he says, and as usual everyone quiets down and gets to their seats, but he just remains as he is.
Even as Eraser Head enters the room with his sleeping bag over his shoulder and extra dark bags under his eyes.
"Good morning class," he gets a chorus of responses from his students. "Alright, this morning we've got something big to discuss..."
Then entire room gets tense as he looks around, his eyes land on Horizon, seeing the boy with his feet up and scrolling through his phone. But he ignores it and continues.
"The UA Culture Festival is in three weeks," he says dryly.
Most of the class immediately erupts in cheers.
"Quiet down!" after a second he regains control of the room. "Now, by this time tomorrow I expect all of you to have decided on what you'll be doing for the culture festival. This is a big deal so I need all of you to do your best."
Deku's hand shoots up, "I have a question!"
"What is it Midoriya?"
"Um, sir, won't this be a prime target for villain attacks?"
"I raised that concern with Principal Nezu, as did many others, but he assured us that security will be well taken care of."
"But---"
"---The decision has already been made Midoriya, now its just up to us to do our best," Eraser Head says. "But, everyone with a Provisional Hero License must remain vigilant. This year it'll be bigger than ever, that means a lot of civilians inside UA's walls, its up to us to keep them safe."
He sees them nod in agreement.
"Good, now I'm going to take a nap, wake me when the bell rings, I'm sure you're all eager to start voting on ideas..."
The moment Aizawa is in his sleeping bag, the entire room is about to erupt in excitement.
Until Horizon gets up from his seat, then he turns around to look at Momo, "Ms. Vice President, tally up the votes and get rid of the stupid ideas some of these idiots will come up with, I need to go speak to Nezu."
He doesn't even wait for a response before warping away.
---Principal Nezu's Office...
"Are you insane?" Horizon asks as he abruptly warps in with no warning, approaching Nezu's desk.
The principal doesn't even look up from his paperwork as he answers, "I'm the only sane person in this room..."
"Very funny," Horizon takes a seat opposite Nezu. "The Culture Festival, what the fuck?"
"Not everyone can spend all their time working like you and I, believe it or not regular people need things that boost their morale."
"At the risk of villains walking into the school. And don't give me that crap about 'Security measures,' when we both know you just mean me."
"You're Horizon, what villain would dare to attack when you're here. Even Shigaraki and his big bad League of Villains avoid you, especially after All For One confessed to the world about how dangerous you are. Plus we'll have many of the Top Pros here, I even got confirmation that Endeavor will be here."
"That's not because of you, he's just trying to spend more time with his loser son, but Eraser mentioned it'll be even bigger this year, so again, what the fuck?"
"Its a show of solidarity and power, if we can pull off a massive festival with thousands of people and no incidents, then Japan can rest that much easier knowing the heroes have things handled."
"And if villains attack people die and I look bad."
Nezu stops writing and looks up at him, "are you more concerned with people dying or you looking bad?"
"Do you really want me to answer that question?"
Nezu sighs and leans back in his chair, "everything will be fine. I just need you to be on duty and use your Quirk to keep an eye on things."
"So I just don't get to enjoy the exciting UA Culture Festival," his words were dripping with sarcasm.
"I assumed you'd rather not be among the 'hero worshipping sheep' as you call them, I'm sure many people are coming just to get pictures or autographs of you."
"Which is exactly why I don't patrol by walking the streets, I always get swarmed."
"I just need you to trust me on this, President Pantu has some sources that are tracking the league, they don't have anything planned for a while. Between them being busy and all the extra security we'll have, no idiot would dare to attack the Culture Festival."
"If she has info on the league she should just send it to me, the faster I arrest those losers the easier our lives get."
"Its a delicate situation, even I'm not fully aware of what she has in the works. But when she needs muscle, I'm sure you're the first person she'll call."
"Well that explains how they knew Kurogiri was busy..."
"What?" Nezu asks.
"When Nighteye saw the two Nomu in the hideout, they called it in to the Commission and got the all clear to engage, Pantu told him Kurogiri isn't in a position to warp anyone there or out of the hideout."
"Hmm, well she's worked with Sir. Nighteye and All Might many times in the past, it makes sense that he'd be trusted with that kind of information. That must mean she can only keep tabs on a few members at once, and she doesn't trust you to not hunt them down immediately."
"Because then they'll know I've got a trail to follow and hide even better," Horizon says. "I guess keeping me out of the loop was the smart move on her end, no villain sticks around if they know I'm hunting them, aside from Wolfram."
"Mhm, speaking of you moving around, you took Kyoka with you for breakfast this morning. Unless she can somehow also warp."
"Problem?"
"No, not at all," Nezu says. "I'm just curious as to how this will all play out, between Yaoyorozu, Kyoka, and Ryuko... who will be at the Culture Festival by the way since the other Wild Wild Pussycats are coming to help."
"Well then, it's a good thing I'll be too busy working security huh..."
After a few more minutes of chatting Horizon gets all the info he needed.
SHAMBLES!
He warps back into his seat in the 1A Homeroom, "Alright, what did you guys decide on?" he asks.
"It's between a skit, a bakery, and a concert," Momo says. "But your vote could sway the results."
"I'm not voting, I just had a chat with Nezu and I'll be too busy working security to be a part of the Culture Festival, you'll have to manage without me."
"Well then," Momo thinks for a moment. "I suppose this afternoon we can vote again until we have a decision, since Mr. Aizawa said we have until Homeroom tomorrow to form an answer."
"Dance party!" Mina yells out, hopping out of her seat. "C'mon guys, this time lets vote for a dance party!"
"Oh my fucking god..." Horizon mutters as the class is about to devolve into another loud discussion.
"Settle down everyone," Cementoss walks in, saving Horizon from this early morning chatter. "It's time for math, today we'll be working on chapter seven of---"
Horizon tunes him out and just leans back, putting his feet up and playing music inside his visor.
'I need to find a nice place to go for lunch...' he thinks while pulling up a list of places nearby.
END CHAPTER---
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CHAPTER START---
"Is this where you always go for lunch?" Juzo asks. "We never see you in the cafeteria anymore..."
He takes a seat opposite Horizon, in a high-rise restaurant in Musutafu. The city was below them with UA perched on its hill in the distance.
"No I usually just eat on the roof, helps me avoid people always asking for pictures. But I always have this private room reserved incase I feel like having real food instead of a meal bar," Horizon says as he takes his seat, gesturing to the door separating them from the main dining area.
"Sounds expensive."
"I'm Horizon, I can afford it," he relaxes into his seat. "Not to mention that sometimes I let them take a picture or two, knowing I eat here makes people rush to see what the hype is about. You know, celebrity worshipping morons."
"That's not a very nice thing to call your fans," Juzo says.
"Its accurate," Horizon says as someone knocks on the door a few times, then comes in to take their orders.
After the server leaves Juzo decides to get to the point, they only had just over an hour for lunch after all.
"You know I was surprised when I saw your message this morning, so why'd you want to have lunch with me?"
"I just wanted to talk to you about Team Horizon."
"Team Horizon?" Juzo raises a brow. "What, you want me to join?"
"Yeah," Horizon shrugs. "Why else would we be here right now."
Juzo looks genuinely confused, "I thought that was only for 1A students."
"I never said that."
"Well, you and I are cool but we aren't that close, are we?"
"Doesn't matter. I looked at the footage from how you led your classmates during the mid-term exams. You're practical and flexible on the battlefield, that's useful and gives you good chemistry with the others. Not to mention you and Sero are already close."
"Uh-huh, but there's something else you aren't telling me, right?"
"Obviously, can you figure it out?" Horizon asks.
They sit in silence for a few minutes as Juzo ponders the possibilities, and in this time there is another knock on the door before the server brings their food.
After the food is served the man leaves, and much to Juzo's surprise Horizon reaches behind his visor and activates it, and the entire thing folds down to the size of his palm focused behind his neck.
Juzo's eyes go wide as he sees the blue energy vapor pouring out of Horizon's eyes and mouth while the rest of his head is covered by the ski-mask like portion of the body glove.
"Wow, not what I expected," Juzo mutters, acknowledging the show of trust.
"I can only take it off for a few minutes at a time," Horizon lies. "But its nice to get fresh air sometimes..." he says as he begins eating.
After some more pondering, Juzo finally comes to his conclusion.
"You want me to join because I'm in 2A, right? It shows some inclusivity, ideally you would have picked a girl but that probably won't go well for you since most of the girls don't like you that much.
Plus they could distract Sero and Shinso. I'm also one of the four recommended students from our classes. Tokage is the other from my class, but her Quirk would be redundant with you, even if she is a fan of yours.
Shoto doesn't have his Provisional License so he can't join, plus I don't think you two get along. Momo is the other, but from what I hear she'd be too distracted by you to function properly.
I'm capable enough to keep up with Sero and Shinso, and my Quirk brings a certain level of versatility and flexibility they don't have at the moment.
But you did say I'm also good at leading my classmates, so I'm guessing you want me to fill the role of a leader...but that doesn't make sense with you there..."
"Mhm," Horizon nods along as he continues eating.
Juzo snaps his fingers, "you want to have us act as your Sidekick team instead of as your actual teammates, just like Endeavor has his Flaming Sidekicks that operate directly under him."
"Mhm, and?"
Juzo thinks for a moment, "expanding the team further would be more efficient, but you can only oversee a few people at once, plus you also have to think of team culture. I doubt many of our classmates will be as unbothered as myself when you and Sero discuss certain topics."
"They're pussies, yeah."
"Your words, not mine," Juzo says. "But I'm sure you can fit one or two others into the team, Tokage wouldn't mind and neither would Yanagi...so why not?"
"Because three is the limit," Horizon says as Juzo also begins eating. "The general Hero-Worshipping public is too stupid to adapt to new ideas so quickly. My existence is hard enough to wrap their minds around, but going from 'The Big Three' to 'The Big Four' will be a bit much, plus it doesn't sound as cool."
"The Big Three huh. So you plan for us to replace them while you're still held apart above us?"
"Ofcouse, because Horizon has no equals."
"Hmm, well obviously I'm in. Operating under you pretty much hands me a top spot guaranteed once I show the public how useful I can be, but you've probably got a lot of questions for me, right?"
"Not particularly, we may not be great friends but you and I have spent enough time around each other, I only need to know one thing."
"And what's that?"
"Why did you choose to become a Pro Hero?" Horizon reaches forward and holds Juzo's shoulder.
Juzo is surprised by the interaction, then it clicks, "ohh, you can't actually detect lies like you've said, but when you touch people you can read the changes in their body when they do lie..."
Horizon chuckles, "you're one of the few people to figure that out, although admittedly I wasn't being very subtle this time. Everyone on the team knows by now so its fine."
"Right, well, I want to be a Pro-Hero to push myself to the limits and see how far my Quirk and skills can go. Helping people is also really nice but ever since I was a kid I've wanted to prove that just because I can't punch the clouds away like All Might doesn't mean I'm useless.
It just takes a bit more work to be creative and effective with a Quirk like mine," Juzo admits.
"So you want to be stronger than anyone ever thought you could be," Horizon nods as he relaxes back into his seat. "Alright, I like it, now lets talk about the specifics. You're doing the Work Studies with Crust so---"
---1 Hour Later...
SHAMBLES!
Horizon arrives in training ground beta, already in his Hero Costume but standing at the back of his classmates.
"What did I miss?" he whispers to Sero who was also at the back with Shinso, both with the masks off and patiently waiting.
"Why are you late?"
"Juzo's in," Horizon whispers back.
"His Quirk will certainly be useful," Shinso says before nodding forward at the building Eraser Head was looking at.
Horizon could sense Asui and Ojiro inside looking around, but wasn't sure what the exercise was.
"Its a break in," Shinso says. "The scenario is the someone broke into this jewelry store and robbed it, including the vault at the back."
"And we need to figure out who it is," Sero says. "Mr. Aizawa said one of the teachers did it and we need to solve who it was, but he won't give us any clues or even a list to pick from so the list is super long, it could be anyone."
"Depends on how they opened the vault," Shinso says. "Only a few teachers have the muscle to do it so that will narrow it down a lot."
"Hmm, sounds easy, did anyone make any bets?" Horizon asks.
"Nah," Sero says before he puts on his visor. "We kind of all figured you or Momo would win," he shrugs. "Cellophane is more of a car chase style hero."
"And I'm still new to this part of Hero work," Shinso says.
A moment later someone pushes through the crowd until they arrive at the back, and Horizon finds himself looking down at Aux.
Kyoka Jiro, in her new Hero Costume and headset which covers her entire face and runs wires all across her suit, preventing her from having to extend and expose her Earphone Jacks while fighting.
The mask also doubles as a speaker, which has the neat effect of lighting up every time she speaks. Still running with the black and purple theme she's had and sporting some smaller speakers and amps across her body.
"I'll take your bet," Aux says.
"You, seriously?" Horizon asks. "You've never even done one of these before."
"But I've been studying non-stop to keep up with you guys while I'm stuck in UA, I can do this," Aux says.
"Hmm, alright, and what would you wager?" Horizon asks, and by now a few others are paying attention to them.
"I'll---" she cuts herself off. "I'll tell you later."
"Doesn't seem fair," Horizon says.
"Sounds like you're scared you'll lose, think your the only one that can solve this?"
"Tch, fine, if you win I owe you a favor, but if you can't solve it, you own me one..."
Aux steps back nervously, "y---you're on!"
"Horizon!" Eraser Head calls out, drawing all eyes back toward the exercise. "Since you're finally here and already distracting my class, you're up," he gestures to the building. "And you're next Jiro..."
Without a word he walks past his classmates and into the broken glass window of the store, seeing shattered and emptied display cases all around the room.
ROOM!
He creates a small Room so he can focus on the little details. Only large enough for the store itself, allowing him to properly comb it over.
He stands still, looking around as he shifts his Scan from one aspect to the next.
'The glass was shattered by someone hitting it, but there isn't any DNA on it...the suspects either used a weapon or was covered up.
No bullet holes or concrete deformation, wasn't Snipe or Cementoss.
Midnight doesn't have the raw power to break into the back vault.
No dog hair, that rules out Hound Dog...'
He runs down the list of UA staff until he exhausted most of them, then he arrives in the back room at the vault.
He sees a standard security door, reinforced steel but a regular doorway, nothing like a bank vault.
Touching the metal he still doesn't feel any biomatter on it, strangely clean. Then he looks at where the door itself it, torn out of the wall and tossed against the wall opposite the vault.
'Strong enough o do this, that rules out a few more...but how they did it is odd...' he uses Scan on the door.
Pressure was applied evenly all around the door to rip it out of the wall. None of the staff has telekinesis, and the only person who could do that is...'
"I've got my answer," Horizon says. And Eraser walks over to the crumpled door with his datapad.
"Tell me who and I'll add it to the list, then after class we see who was right."
"Vlad king, he used his Blood Control to rip the door out of the wall by wrapping it in his blood, and that explains why there isn't' any loose DNA lying around, he can perfectly control his blood."
Eraser doesn't react, but was thoroughly impressed with Horizon's investigative skills, but not at all surprised.
---1 Hour Later...
Everyone was back in the 1A homeroom now after changing into their regular uniforms.
"Only three of you actually solved today's exercise," Eraser Head announces as the list appears with everyone's tops suspect.
"It was Vlad King, but somehow only Horizon, Bakugo, and Jiro were able to figure that out..."
Horizon looks over at Jiro who turns around just to stick her tongue out at him, "told you I've been training hard..."
END CHAPTER---
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