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CHAPTER START---
"So, what are the chances?" Mina asks as she watches the fight with most of the other students.
They were now joined by Midnight, Vlad King, Ectoplasm, Snipe, and Eri.
Nezu, Aizawa, and All Might were at the control console, monitoring the camera feeds that are displayed on the big screen.
Standing beside Mina is Mudman -Juzo-, who everyone looks to as the resident expert on fighting Horizon.
"Well honestly," Mudman says. "They're gonna get beat up, real bad, doubt they have any chance of winning. The best team would have had me there to lock him down more effectively, but---"
"You rather lose than get beat up by Horizon when he's serious?" Cellophane asks, chuckling lowly.
"Hey you've seen him fight," Mudman says. "Me being in a full body cast isn't worth a 2% raise in the chance of success."
"That's true," Simon says. "And part of making a strategy is avoiding impossible fights."
Above them on a massive screen is Horizon, standing in the industrial training zone, hands at his side. Still dressed casually, waiting for his opponents.
He had a blue sash from his right shoulder to his left hip, the prize for either side to get.
ROOM!
Horizon expands his range to encompass the entire training area, sensing most of his opponents immediately.
'Bakugo, Tokoyami, Ibara...one person is missing. They're supposed to send 4,' he turns his head in the direction of the observation area and expands his Room even more. 'Monoma isn't in the observation area, he's the 4th.'
He sensed Bakugo rush ahead, splitting from Tokoyami and Ibara as he soars above the buildings, looking for Horizon.
'Still lacking teamwork, that'll bite him in the ass...' But once again Horizon searches, and doesn't find Monoma. 'Maybe I just need to---'
"---DIE!" Bakugo's scream interrupts him.
Horizon turns his head to see Bakugo already preparing a Howitzer Grand Impact.
ANTIBACTERIAL CURTAIN: Barrier!
He raises a hand and from his palm blue energy crystalizes into a dome around him.
The explosion shakes the entire training grounds and blocks the view from the cameras.
Smoke and dust take almost a minute to properly settle, and when it does, Bakugo is hovering in the air via his explosion.
Above a large crater with Horizon in the center, unmoved, the ground around him and his body protected by the unbothered shield.
"You've gotten stronger, but I told you before, I grow faster than any of you."
Hearing that, Bakugo charges forward, propelled by explosions, and Horizon drops the barrier.
"You know how this ends, why rush in alone?" Horizon asks as they begin trading blows.
He narrowly parries one of Bakugo's strikes, diverting his palm and the ensuing explosion to the side.
But Bakugo changes his strategy, instead of trying to land large and direct explosions, he uses smaller explosions between them, before Horizon can parry.
Instead of trying to hit Horizon with a rocket that he would parry, he sets off grenades between them, damaging both of them in exchange for landing hits.
"You can't warp this time!" Bakugo screams as he begins speeding up, but even as the explosion appears to be making contact, he doesn't see any damage on Horizon.
"Don't need it."
BOOSTER SHOT!
Horizon's speed instantly multiplies, now appearing like a blur for short bursts, leaving a small train of blue energy vapor in his wake.
Bakugo leaps back, using explosions to take to the air before putting his hands together.
"AP Machine Gun!" he releases a rapid-fire stream of dense explosions at Horizon.
Seeing the explosions covering a wide area Horizon raises his hands once again and manifests his dome shield.
But as they begin beating against this shield Bakugo does something new.
"He's in position, now!" Bakugo screams.
Everyone is surprised that this entire time he's been seemingly following a plan, perfectly at that.
Suddenly a small forest of green thorny vines burst out of the ground. Concrete and dust fill the air as they all rush straight toward Horizon.
Even within his dome barrier, the vines attack him, immediately wrapping him up and holding his limbs apart.
The barrier immediately falls and Bakugo lands.
"Tch, without warping you aren't that big a deal."
Horizon doesn't speak, still feeling the vines tightening and pulling his limbs apart, keeping him bound.
Bakugo seizes the moment and rushes forward, intent on landing at least one solid hit and ending the fight.
The main objective was the grab the sash, but nobody wanted to go that close to Horizon, and Ibara's vines aren't that precise from such a long-range without line of sight.
So he had to score some kind of hit while he had the chance.
As he was ten meters away Bakugo jumped forward, crossing his hands and simultaneously pulling the pin on both his grenadier gauntlets.
"DI---"
TAKT!
Two pieces of concrete rip themselves out of the ground and rocket upward, surprising Bakugo as they slam into the underside of his gauntlets.
Both the explosions are sent into the air and the unexpected change leaves him unprepared for the recoil.
The force slams him into the ground hard enough to crack the concrete, and Horizon doesn't even move during this entire time.
"I'm a lot more than just a guy who can warp," Horizon says. "I command the world, don't ever forget that..."
GAMMA!
The air around Horizon flickers green for just a moment, and all the vines holding him directly stiffen, eventually freezing and snapping as they become brittle.
After ripping all the heat and radiation from the vines to make them cold and brittle, he harmlessly dissipates it within his body.
"Ice?" Shoto asks, he was watching and hearing everything from the observation area.
"That's new," Juzo says.
Bakugo sees this as he forces himself to get up, both his arms aching, begging him to stop.
Horizon points a finger at him, "This is new and unrefined, so thanks for letting me test it. Counter Shock: Direct Current."
An arc of blue lightning jumps from Horizon's finger directly to Bakugo, tasing him and knocking him out.
"Not sure about the name," Horizon shakes his hand and the lightning dissipates.
"Another new move," Simon says. "I remember he said he couldn't control lightning after it leaves his body, guess he figured it out."
While it looks like Horizon is simply shooting a lightning bolt, and that's exactly what he wants the enemies to think.
Earlier when they fought he didn't try to hit Bakugo, he simply ran a small current through the boy each time he parried a strike.
Continuously changing the charge of his body to a negative state.
And when he released a large amount of positively charged lightning, Bakugo became a lighting rod.
Taking a deep breath he looks around at the destruction they caused, and all the vines that were quickly being retracted.
He could sense them underground during the entire fight, but didn't deem them a big enough concern to act against. He also wanted to see exactly what plan his fellow students could conceive of.
Sensing where the vines were going, and Ibara's distressed state, Horizon takes of running directly toward her.
BOOSTER SHOT!
Everyone is surprised at how fast he can run, at 6ft4 -196cm- and 270lbs -122kg-, he was running at over 120kmph.
It's not that they aren't surprised someone so large could move quickly, after all, both Star and Stripe and All Might are as large as him or larger in the case of All Might, and they're both much faster.
But for Horizon, he's always warped about, so this was entirely new.
And their concern only grew when he ran straight through a reinforced concrete wall without slowing down, as if the buildings were made of cardboard.
Aizawa glanced over to Eri, seeing her cheering with stars in her eyes, and he couldn't help but sigh.
Soon Horizon got to where Ibara had set up, only for Tokoyami to pounce on him, or more accurately, Dark Shadow attacked him.
Ibara was at the back of the clearing trying to repair the ends of her hair with Tokoyami in front of her, Dark Shadow extending from his midsection to fight Horizon.
The shadow creature was larger than usual, showing Tokoyami's growth, but Horizon was unfazed.
Tokoyami already had a bead of sweat running down his face, clearly nervous about this encounter.
"You know I could end this instantly, right..." A few arcs of blue lightning run across Horizon's body. Tokoyami takes a nervous step back.
"Yes, you could, but will you always rely on cheap tricks?"
"Oooh, reverse psychology," Horizon plays along. "But you should know, when the result is that you lose either way, take the less painful option next time, cuz now I'm gonna break you..."
Tokoyami and Dark Shadow instinctively take a step back, truly terrified of standing against Horizon.
END CHAPTER---
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Tokoyami takes a step back, glancing over his shoulder to see Ibara behind him. She was still trying to recover from having the ends of her hair frozen, the vines needed time and were among the few things they have that could potentially restrain Horizon, even for a moment.
Tokoyami throws both hands forward, directing Dark Shadow to grow and grow until it was the size of a school bus.
"Dark Shadow: Abyss of Hearts, descending judgment!"
"Stupid name," was all Horizon said as the massive shadow creature descended like a bullet, intending to flatten him into the ground.
He raised his hands to catch the creature as it molded itself into a large beak, catching the tip of its face between his palms.
BOOSTER SHOT!
His entire body instantly begins releasing blue energy vapor as the concrete beneath him cracks.
"Hmm, a stalemate," Tokoyami says.
"Not really," Horizon had obvious signs of straining in his voice, surprising everyone. For the first time he sounded as if he was actually trying. "You have Dark Shadow, but the world is my weapon..."
"Wh--- AHHH!" A piece of the concrete floor rips itself out of the ground and rockets into Tokoyami's gut, knocking the wind out of him and sending him tumbling back.
"Fumi!" Dark Shadow yells, glancing back at Tokoyami.
Taking this opportunity Horizon shifts his stance and pushes Dark Shadow to the side, causing it to slam into the concrete and knock up a small dust cloud.
By the time Tokoyami stops tumbling over himself he looks up to see Horizon rushing out of the cloud much faster than he ever expected, the ground cracking beneath his feet with each step.
"Dark Shadow!"
The tether connecting Tokoyami and Dark Shadow immediately begins shifting and molding itself, as if a dozen tendrils formed from it to grab out at Horizon who ran beside it.
Sensing this change, Horizon stops his rush down and pivots in place, landing three precise and targeted punches onto Dark Shadow's body.
He then leaps away before the creature can grab him while it retracts to Tokoyami.
"Those kinds of attacks aren't very effective against my Quirk, you should know this," Tokoyami says.
"Wasn't aiming at your Quirk, those punches hit their mark," Horizon says.
At those words Tokoyami's and Ibara's eyes widen, their plan had been found out.
"It was a good plan, but all it took was me looking a bit closer," Horizon says as he rushes forward again.
As he's quickly closing the distance Tokoyami closes his eyes and focuses on Dark Shadow, shrinking him back down to his regular size to float beside him.
As Horizon got closer he launched forward in a strong right, intending to knock Tokoyami out in one blow.
In a few moments, Dark Shadow surrounded Tokyami and coated him like a suit, only focused on his upper body.
Tokoyami wore his Quirk like a living Hero Costume, with their eyes resting beside each others to both could see.
He matched Horizon's strike with this new level of power.
"Black Abyss!" Both Tokoyami and Dark Shadow yell, their voices now in perfect unison each time they speak.
Feeling themselves about to lose against Horizon's power, Dark Shadow expands behind Tokyami and anchors them, giving them a bit more leverage.
They couldn't out muscle Horizon, but because of their superior footing, he was pushed back a few meters.
"No way," Kendo mutters in the observation area. "Since when did those two get that strong?"
"Tokoyami's been studying with us sometimes," Sero says, now enjoying some potato chips. "Sometimes he asks Horizon about how to improve his Quirk, this is one of the answers he got."
"How come he helps him but not us?" Kirishima asks.
"Because he thinks you're annoying," Mudman says. "Plus he prefers people with...less straightforward Quirks. He already has a lot of firepower, Team Horizon is supposed to be adaptable to any situation, not just act as a sword or shield, but a scalpel."
They all shift their attention back to the screens as Horizon is observing Tokoyami's growth.
"Black Abyss, not a bad name from you," Horizon says.
"Thank you, I hope this is close to what you envisioned," Tokoyami's and Dark Shadow's voices were perfectly in sync. "When we stop acting as Tokoyami and Dark Shadow, but as one being, when I accept that Dark Shadow is simply me, then I'd understand my Quirk and its full potential. That's when Tokoyami and Dark Shadow can become the Hero, Tsukuyomi."
"Yeah, that's what I said, and this is pretty much what I pictured, at least to start. Now show me what you've got, Tsukuyomi."
Horizon raises his hands, and both Tsukuyomi's mouths twist into elated smiles.
As they meet each other and the brawl begins, Tsukuyomi's high of his growth being recognized by Horizon quickly fades away.
Replaced with the fact that, well, he's fighting Horizon.
He was outclassed in all aspects the moment they clashed again.
Horizon had seemingly instantly adapted to Tsukuyomi's new fighting style, his increased speed, strength, defenses, and perception.
Even whenever Tsukuyomi would try changing the shape of his shadow appendages to lash out from unexpected angles, Horizon would either use his barrier to easily block it or his sensory ability to avoid it without looking at it.
'He makes it look so easy,' Tsukuyomi thinks as he's quickly losing ground and energy, feeling his power diminishing by the second. 'I'm fighting for my life and he's just playing with me, he could end this fight at any time with Counter Shock but he said he wouldn't use it. And he's about to win without it.'
Back in the observation area most of the students and teachers were looking at the screen with genuine shock, all while Eri was happily cheering for Horizon.
Nezu had a look of pride on his face as he observed the match.
"So he's even freaky good at close combat huh," Vlad King says. "Where did you find this kid again Nezu?"
"Fate brought us all together," Nezu says. "But honestly Horizon using Scalpel is much better for his opponents than him without it. He has a bad habit of overdoing it when it comes to, well, holding back against people. With Scalpel he's much quicker and more efficient, not to mention painless."
"Clearly," Aizawa narrows his eyes at the screen, seeing Tokoyami now stumbling about as he gets battered and beaten up by Horizon. "But this is supposed to be a challenge for everyone involved, giving him all his tools would make it too easy. This way he has to break up his usual combat pattern and try out things he's probably not used in a while."
Meanwhile, back in the combat area, Tsukuyomi was stumbling back, the shadow energy retracting from his arms and face.
Both his arms were bleeding profusely onto the floor and his Hero Costume was torn up, but Horizon seemed completely fine.
They had 10m -32ft- between them, and Ibara was still behind him.
He feels a signal, and Tsukuyomi sighs in relief.
'He's finally ready, good, I'm about to black out here. Even if Horizon knows where he is, he hasn't shown any concern about our plan, he likely wants to see what our plan is. He doesn't think it'll work, and that arrogance of his will give us the one chance we need,' Tsukuyomi thinks.
"Ibara," he says.
"I'm ready."
"Now!" Tsukuyomi yells out.
"Repent heathen!" Ibara's vines shoot forward faster than ever before.
Horizon sees and senses it, and with practiced ease, he moves out of the way.
"Inspired Growth!" Ibara yells out, and from her vines, new parallel vines begin rapidly sprouting.
The sudden expansion surprised Horizon for just a moment before it quickly wraps around his limbs.
The vines hoist him into the air, nearly 10m -32ft- above the floor. And by the time they've secured themselves, he's already begun using Gamma to draw all the heat and radiation out of them to freeze them brittle.
At the same moment, Tsukuyomi surged with all the energy he could muster and used his Quirk to leap up toward Horizon.
Seeing Tsukuyomi incoming Horizon doesn't say a word, but uses Takt to rip a block of concrete out of the ground and send it right at his classmate.
It lines up perfectly to intercept them, but one of Tsukuyomi's four eyes spots the incoming projectile, and at the last moment, to Horizon's surprise.
Adjusts in mid-air.
'He can fly!' Horizon thought, and everyone watching the fight thought the same thing.
TAKT!
Horizon rips more chunks out of the ground but via flight and form shifting Tsukuyomi either avoided them or materialized limbs to get them away from him.
Eventually flying all the way over to Horizon.
When he was only 2m -6ft- away from Horizon, Tsukuyomi reached out for the sash, only for Horizon's right hand to swing out, aiming to deliver a fist to his face.
Using Antibacterial Curtain now could cause real damage to Tokoyami, not to mention the fact that he was curious about this grand scheme they thought could actually work on him.
So the ruthless mercenary went away just for a bit, and the playful and cocky 16-year-old inside came forward.
Something they were hoping for, and did well to capitalize on.
As Tsukuyomi grabbed the sash, his grip tight on it, Horizon fist rattled his brain.
Dark Shadow shrank, barely able to sustain itself anymore, but Tokoyami's grip didn't slacken.
And as that happened, Neito Monoma sprung up on Tokoyami's shoulder.
He popped out of Dark Shadow, his usual fair skin now void black, bits of blonde stains on his formal black Hero Costume.
And both his hands together directly in Horizon's face, sparks crackling just an inch away from the visor.
All the explosive sweat he needed to make this attack truly count, even against a monster like Horizon.
BOOM!
The cameras were blinded by the bright light as the entire training area was rocked.
All the way over at the observation area everyone covered their ears, and the Hero Course students' plan, the first phase, was now complete...
END CHAPTER---
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