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80.73% MHA: Horizon (Ope-Ope No Mi) / Chapter 305: CHAPTER 299(The Finals)

Chapitre 305: CHAPTER 299(The Finals)

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CHAPTER START---

"JET BURN!" Todoroki's battle cry is barely heard over the roaring flames.

"UA's first-ever true legacy move!" Present Mic says excitedly as the pillar is about to collide with Midoriya a few dozen meters above the stage.

In the crowd Enedavor's flames dance excitedly as he laughs hysterically, filled with pride, and excitement, in his son's abilities yes, but mostly because this means his relationship with Shoto has taken yet another step toward being mended.

Beside him Fuyumi is crying, already seeing her dream of having her family together and happy becoming that much more tangible.

But all of that quickly changes to looks of shock, as Midoriya suddenly lands on the ground directly in front of Shoto.

At the last second before the Jet Burn hit, when he was supposed to throw his strongest punch and collide with the attack.

He instead raised his hand and flicked his finger to the side, using the recoil to throw himself out of the way.

Easily dodging where nobody expected him to, in mid-air, he then spun around and launched a powerful kick at the sky, using that to launch himself down toward the arena, directly in front of Todoroki.

Shoto's eyes track some of this as a blur, but they lock onto Midoriya's as the boy lands in front of his, hunched over with his first reared back.

Shoto's lack of mastery has locked him in place, breaking his control of the Jet Burn now is impossible, since all of Midoriya's movements to get from in the air to where he is now, happened in less than one second.

Before Todoroki could even lower his hand, a brutal straight right connects to his gut, completely doubling him over onto the fist before Midoriya stands up and transitions into an uppercut.

But instead of launching his friend into the air he simply stopped there, holding Todoroki's body on his fist for a moment before calmly placing him onto his shoulder to be carried to Recovery Girl, completely unconscious.

It all happened so fast that only a few Pro Heroes such as Endeavor, Ms. Midnight, Eraser Head, and a few others were able to see exactly what happened, leaving the audience confused until the slow-motion replay clarified things moments later.

"Shoto Todoroki is unable to continue!" Ms. Midnight announces to the stunned crowd. "Izuku Midoriya advances to face Tokyami Fumikage in the finals!"

---Horizon's Observation Room...

"Oh c'mon!" Juzo whines as he hands Shinso some money. "The one time I bet against Deku and he wins, seriously?!"

Sero and Shinso laugh at him while Horizon just shakes his head.

"We haven't been in school most of the time to know what their training has been like," Horizon says. "Even I didn't expect that kind of show from Deku."

"Yeah well we are too busy dealing with villains to keep up with the news around UA," Shinso says. "But a little birdie told me Deku's been doing a lot of training with All Might lately so I took an educated guess."

"And by little birdie you mean...?" Sero looks at Shinso, expecting something interesting.

But instead, Shinso just shrugs, "I just asked Aizawa what our classmates have been up to before the festival started."

"Lame," Sero says. "I thought you meant a secret girlfriend or something, you know, like Juzo."

"I don't have a secret girlfriend," Juzo says. "Tokage and I are just, taking things slow, it's not like we don't know we like each other, I've just been super busy with Team Horizon stuff."

Shinso just listens in and takes a sip of his drink, until Horizon speaks up.

"Shinso is just as busy and he manages to have a secret girlfriend---"

"ACH!" Shinso chokes on his drink and begins sputtering.

"---And she doesn't even go to UA, so stop making excuses," Horizon says.

As Juzo and Sero immediately turn on Shinso, Horizon warps away, arriving in Recovery Girl's infirmary.

There he sees Shoto lying in bed, half awake as Endeavor is scolding him for being so reckless, something he couldn't deny as his left hand has severe burns on it.

Across from him Deku and All Might are having a quiet conversation while Deku is doing some stretches after his checkup.

"I got your message," Horizon says, drawing all eyes onto him as he approaches Recovery Girl.

"It's this one," he taps Shoto on the head with her cane. "His injuries are too much for me to use my Quirk so it'd be best if you step in."

Horizon groans, but looks between Endeavor and Shoto.

"Fine, but this means he's out of the tournament, which means I get the fun job of telling Bakugo's he's been demoted, from silver, to bronze..."

After a break so that everyone could go have lunch, the Sports Festival resumes with the stage completely repaired and the crowd excited for the final match.

All the students are watching, even Bakugo who's bitter about his bronze medal defeat and sulking behind his classmates.

"Let's get this show started!" Present Mic yells as both Midoriya and Tokoyami are already standing on the massive concrete stage, staring each other down.

Away from the stage, Ms. Midnight and Cementoss are on a raised platform, keeping them away from any wide-sweeping attacks while allowing them to intervene where necessary in the match, a lesson they learned last year.

"Is everyone ready?!" Ms. Midnight asks, and both the boys nod at each other.

She raises her fan high as the crowd goes silent, allowing the tension in the air to build, then quickly brings it down.

"Begin!"

Midoriya instantly dashes forward with One For All 45% and launches a direct kick at Tokoyami's face.

He makes direct contact, causing a gust of wind to blow through the arena and reach the crowd, but to his surprise, Tokoyami isn't sent tumbling off the stage.

Instead, he sees his friend's head and parts of his body shrouded in shadow energy as he tanks the kick, only having it slightly move his head.

Midoriya's eyes open wide as Tokoyami swings his right hand out, launching a fist toward his chest as shadow energy erupts from his skin to make a reinforced punch.

Midoirya quickly steps back, avoiding the punch and making some distance between them.

'He actually took that hit and activated his Quirk as armor fast enough to counterattack,' Midoriya thinks as he sees Tokoyami's body now fully enveloped in shadow energy, with two glowing red eyes layers over his own. 'He's gotten even stronger than we realized...'

"That's new, you've been holding back this much in class Tokoyami?" Midoriya asks with a wide smile on his face, taking a moment to stretch his limbs as they both relax slightly.

"This is my power," Tsukuyomi says in a distorted voice. "One With The Abyss: Dark Shadow, Tsukuyomi!"

"Wow, even your voi---" Midorya immediately jumps to the right as the ground he'd been standing on erupts, a large tendril of shadow energy breaking out of the floor and whipping at him.

Before his feet are back on the ground he glances at Tsukuyomi, seeing him stretching a spear of shadow energy directly at him.

Midoriya immediately gets his feet on the ground and spins into a kick, crashing his shoes into the side of the shadow energy construct blade, trying to knock it aside.

But instead, it shifts to act as a liquid, taking the blow and swallowing his foot up to the ankle.

'His shapeshifting it better too!' Midoriya realizes as he bends and twists while the tendril tries to fling him out of the arena. 'I can't grapple with him since it'll be like fighting water, range or quick strikes are the only options...'

ALL FOR ONE: 60%!

Midoriya's momentary sudden surge of power before returning to 45% surprised Tsukuyomi who was intentionally avoiding breaking his friend's foot, with a strong kick he breaks out of the hold and lays flat on the ground to avoid the tendril swinging back at his head.

From his prone position, Midoriya digs into the concrete with his fingers and his hands, breaking the stage to make handholds and launch forward like a missile.

He moves so fast that to everyone he becomes a blur while dashing around the arena avoiding a torrent of sharp tendrils extending from Tsukuyomi.

Along many of the tendrils more glowing red eyes form, causing them to gradually become more and more accurate as Midoriya desperately tries to close the distance.

To the audience they see blurs of darkness whipping about destroying the concrete arena with bits of green appearing all over as both students send gusts of winds and shockwaves through the stadium.

'He can keep up at this speed?' Midoriya wonders as he deftly avoids the torrent of attacks, but after a few more moments he notices the edges of the arena are also being destroyed.

Places he's been unintentionally avoiding.

'His Quirk gives him more of those glowing eyes, but his brain still has to process dozens of fields of vision, he's only pretending to keep up...' 

Realizing that Midoriya grits his teeth and charges directly, finding a gap in the attack his power suddenly jumps up to 60% to close the distance before returning to 45% as he punches at Tsukuyomi directly.

BOOM!

The first impact pushes Tsukuyomi back a few meters and he instantly retracts all the shadow energy moving about the arena onto himself, reinforcing his body with dense armor.

Tsukuyomi's arms become more dense, mimicking the makeup of muscles before seamlessly merging to launch a counter punch.

But Midoriya is much, much faster, and matches the strike fist against fist.

The shockwave cracks the stage and sends Tsukuyomi flying back, but he extends shadow energy from his legs to anchor him into the arena and catch himself, preventing him from going out of bounds.

'I'm stronger and faster, this is it,' Midoriya thinks as he rushes in once again, but this time Tsukuyomi shifts the shadow energy to form tendrils out of his back, effectively creating a dozen arms to compensate for his lack of speed and power as he anchors himself into the stage.

In a constant onslaught they brawl, blow for blow without taking a single step back, refusing to give each other an inch of ground.

The audience can barely keep their eyes open with the intense winds rushing about the arena and when they do, all they can see are tendrils rushing forward and Midoriya's blurred form matching it, his image moving so quickly he appeared to have multiple sets of arms.

"What an insane match, it's like they're determined to see who breaks first!" Present Mic yells out over the thundering clashes from the arena.

"Midoriya is speeding up, while Tokoyami is getting tired," Eraser Head points out, not that most people could notice such small changes in a hectic battle.

Tsukuyomi was forced to keep his Quirk tough, like armor, to avoid the air pressure from Midoriya's punches from throwing him out of the arena.

Even with his ability to fly, avoiding being thrown around by hurricane winds is beyond his capabilities which is why he's decided to stay anchored during this fight.

But now the constant use of that skill along with the mid-day sun beating down on them is wearing on him after only a few minutes.

Along with that, he too could feel Midoriya getting stronger.

Yet Midoriya couldn't feel it, he simply focused on breaking through the wall in front of him, the last obstacle separating him from the next challenge.

He accelerates in increments, and his punches hit harder each time.

At 45%, Tokoyami was feeling the punches deep within the armor, but grit his teeth and dealt with them, mostly by shifting his armor to make them glancing blows rather than direct hits.

At 47%, the punches became slightly harder to see, forcing Tsukuyomi to respond by softening pieces of his armor as he felt contact was made to ease the blows.

At 50%, he could barely avoid the full strength of the punches, and the determined, if not excited look on Midoriya's face had him greatly concerned for what came next.

As with every hit Midoriya seemed to recover some of his stamina, instead of slowing down his was speeding up, his body was moving more responsively and subconsciously, he could track the attacks easier, and his muscles didn't feel as sore after every hit.

And moments later, acting on instincts Midoriya performs an uppercut with his left hand, using the air pressure and direct contact against Tsukuyomi's arms to knock them upward, making a clear opening for a straight right into his opponent.

Before Tsukuyomi could realize what was happening, faster than the cameras or even Eraser Head could see, Midoriya punched forward with all his might.

No, he punched with beyond all his power.

In this moment his body finally became so acclimated to One for All that it finally began acting like part of him, no longer needed to constantly activate and deactivate it.

In this moment he unconsciously punched forward with 100% directly at Tsukuyomi.

But not his previous 100%, no, now instead of the previous 8 users' strength, he could finally internalize his own stockpiled power and add it to the Quirk.

Now instead of 100% of All Might's strength, for barely a fraction of an instant, he accesses 100% of the 9th User's power.

100% of Izuku Midoriya's strength , which surpasses the legendary strength of even All Might himself.

Before he can realize what's happening he strikes Tsukuyomi and feels a direct hit.

All of UA shakes as if it were hit by an earthquake.

The entire arena erupts into dust and stone as the walls of the stadium crack.

This wind nearly rips spectators out of their seats but their clothes seem to tether them to the earth all on its own.

The sound temporarily deafened everyone and nearly permanently ruptured Jiro's eardrums as everyone tried to steady themselves, waiting for the dust to settle and reveal what remained after that attack.

Moments later the dust settles, and everyone sees the arena completely cratered, reduced to a pile of rubble.

Mirodiya is standing in the middle of it, holding his right arm, looking around at the destruction with a look of horror on his face.

He looks to where his opponent was just a few meters away, and doesn't see anything, then to where Ms. Midnight and Cementoss were, and only sees more rubble.

"Don't look so worried," Horizon's voice calls out from the far side of the arena as the last bits of dust settled, revealing him in his casual clothes with both hands up, Antibacterial Curtain at its current full strength with pieces of it missing and massive cracks across the structure.

And a clear trench in front of him from the force of Midoriya's attaching pushing him to the far wall of the stadium.

He drops the Curtain and shakes his aching hands for a moment while walking up to Midoriya.

"If I knew that attack would be so strong I would have warped you away instead of Tokoyami and the others, actually I think this is better since that attack would have carved a path through Musutafu at the very least," he looks around at the rubble. " But regardless, I had to warp Tokoyami away because he was losing, he's out of bounds. So congratulations De---, Midoriya, you won..."

The realization hits Midoriya like a train, not only had he won, but Horizon of all people congratulated him.

The crowd erupts into cheers as the faint sound of angry explosions can be heard in the distance as a certain bronze medalist isn't taking this turn of events well.

SHAMBLES!

Ms. Midnight, Cementoss, and Tokoyami, who now had his Quirk deactivated, are warped into the field of rubble to stand beside them.

Looking at the celebrating crowd Ms. Midnight frowns, "announcing the winner is my job you know," she tells Horizon.

"Well you weren't here, and I did it fast to get everyone past the whole destructive finale we just had," He gestures to the destroyed arena they were standing on, to which Cementoss just sighs.

Ms. Midnight raises her mic and begins speaking to the crowd, turning their attention back to her for the announcements.

"Now that the finals are over, we'll be taking a, hopefully, short intermission before the medal ceremony!" she says. "We'll be back to see these incredible students claim their prize for these hard-fought and incredible victories soon folks..."

The crowd erupts into more cheers as Midoriya and Tokoyami take it all in, they both know that the reporters will be waiting for them, and Tokoyami is the first to leave by strolling through the hallway to speak to them directly.

While Horizon, Ms. Midnight, and Cementoss are about to start discussing the state of the arena and the upcoming ceremony, instead of basking in the excitement of winning the gold medal and talking to the waiting press, Midoriya walks over to them and taps Horizon on the arm.

"Hmm, do you need something Midoriya?" Cementoss asks as they turn their attention to him.

"Yes actually," Midoriya says as he gestures to the mic in her hand.

"Oh, you have a message for the people, well I'm sure with you it'll be something quite cute," Ms. Midnight raises the mic to his mouth.

Midoriya doesn't take his eyes off Horizon as he speaks, and the entire world stops to listen.

"You said that if Kacchan won the gold medal you'd consider having a match with him, right?" Midoriya asks, and many, many people, already hate where this is going.

Ms. Midnight silently shakes her head, as if begging Midoryia not to do what she's sure he's about to do.

But he continues anyway.

"Well, I won the gold medal, so how about one more match before the Sports Festival ends?"

The crowd goes silent, waiting for Horizon's response.

He looks down at Midoriya and tilts his head to the side, then chuckles happily, "Do you have any idea how long I've waited for this, you're finally strong enough that maybe it'll be a bit of fun to knock you around..."

END CHAPTER---


Chapitre 306: CHAPTER 300(The Main Event)

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CHAPTER START---

"One For All: 65%!" Midoriya yells out as power flows through his body, small arcs of current dance around him as his hair begins moving wildly.

"Gah!" he shuts off his Quirk and stumbles back, sitting on the bench in this changing room as he catches his breath.

"I guess my new limit for constant use is just 50%," Midoriya says as he looks up at the small screen in the corner of the room, seeing the stage almost fully reconstructed as Present Mic excites the crowd for the final match.

As he sits on the bench he looks over at his Hero Costume case beside him, and opens it to reveal his upgraded costume.

Then begins changing his sports sneakers into his new Hero Costume books and gloves, made to enhance and protect himself while using his Quirk.

As he's done with his shoes and about to pull on his gloves, however, the door slams open, startling him.

"Huh?"

"Izuku!" His mother rushes into the room, tears streaming down her face.

"Mom? What's going on?" he asks as All Might enters behind her, trying to catch his breath. "Why are you guys here?"

"We need to go, come on," His mother begins dragging him away, which he resists.

"Go where? What's going on?"

"To call off this match," she says. "I don't want you fighting him of all people, we need to hurry, we can tell them you aren't feeling well..."

As he hears this Izuku becomes immovable to the woman, causing her to look back at him in surprise.

"No," he says, causing All Might to awkwardly stand watching this unfold.

"But---"

"No mom," he says again. "I challenged him in front of the entire world, I can't back down now," he sits back down and continues getting ready.

"Is that what this is about?!" she begins crying even more, which he ignores. "This is because of your pride or something silly like that?! What does that matter if he accidentally kills you Izuku, this is bad and you know it. You don't have anything to prove, not to me, and not to All Might, he chose you above everyone else for a reason."

"I don't think it's that simpl---" All Might's words die in his throat as she glares at him.

"It's not just that mom," Izuku says. "Sure, part of it is that I want Horizon to see that I'm not the same loser I was when we started UA, I want him to acknowledge how much progress I've made.

But I also want to see what the top of the world really looks like. This Quirk I have is supposed to be a light that can overcome any darkness, but if that light has a massive hand shrouded in darkness falling upon it, will I be enough to ever shine through?"

"I don't get it, what are you saying?" she asks.

"I think he's worried about the example Horizon sets," All Might says.

"Yeah," Midoriya confirms. "Horizon is great at being a Pro Hero, he's probably the best there will ever be. But, if the entire world thinks like him, there won't be much of a world left. I want him to acknowledge me, not just for me, but so people can see that he isn't the only great hero they can use as an example.

I want to be for people, what All Might was to me.

Maybe I am being a bit selfish, I know I should only care about saving people, but, I want to be more than just another Pro Hero saving people and never being recognized, I want to help inspire people to be better than they were yesterday.

And I'm willing to fight Horizon, to be acknowledged by him, and maybe even hurt...a lot, if that's a way to make this journey easier."

As Izuku and his mother cry and hug each other, All Might observes everything and smiles.

Reminded of a conversation he had with the previous user of One For All, with Nana Shimura.

'Being a hero and saving people isn't enough, people need someone they can look up to, can be inspired by. They need a pillar to support them and let them know everything will be alright, someone who shows them a better path, a brighter path...' he recalls his exact words, and the radiant smile she gave him in response.

'Izuku Midoriya, you can see it without me ever telling you, being a hero and saving lives isn't enough. If you can't inspire people to change on their own, then your impact will only be as long as your career, I'm proud of you, for realizing this on your own,' All Might thinks as Izuku finishes getting dressed.

"So, do you have a plan?" All Might asks as the Midoriyas settle down.

"Yeah, I've got a few," Izuku says. "But I can't say them out loud, Horizon could be reading our lips with his Quirk."

"I doubt he'd ever do that," All Might says. "He really doesn't think so much of you that he'd try to look at your playbook, also he's a man of his word."

"That's true," Izuku says.

"Can he really do that?" his mom asks.

"Oh yeah, it'd be super easy," All Might says jokingly. "Horizon is sensing every minute movement on UA and in most of Musutafu right now and has complete control of everything within that range, just as an invisible layer of security."

All the color drains from her face as she grabs onto Izuku, "Please don't go fighting this person Izuku!"

---Minutes Later...

Walking out of the tunnel leading into the arena, Izuku immediately notices that the concrete stage was extended to occupy more of the space.

It was thicker and had a greater surface area, but the floor of the games area was lowered deeper into the earth so the combatants would be even lower than before, further from the crowd.

As he climbs the stairs he takes note of all these changes.

'They reinforced the stage and made it larger, plus the walls of the arena as well to protect the crowd. I still have to be extra careful with my Shoot-Style and Air Force shots.

But this means I can be a lot more lenient than before since most of the air won't even reach the crowd because they put us in a deeper hole.

The negatives of these changes are bad too, a larger stadium means he has more space to warp about, so getting a Ring Out victory will be even harder, although I can't imagine what could be harder than 'impossible'.

But at least I don't have to worry about him trying to knock me out of the ring, knowing him that'll be an absolute last resort, him doing that is like him admitting he couldn't make me submit, and he'd never admit that. 

I just have to land hits without holding contact for more than a fraction of a second each time, so no grappling, otherwise he'll electrocute me with Counter Shock...'

As he's done thinking Midoriya is standing in front of Horizon, looking up at the boy.

While Horizon was now 198cm -6ft6-, Midoriya has grown as well, standing at 175cm -5ft9-, with more lean muscle on his frame to accommodate his power.

Both students wore their UA PE Uniforms, with Midoriya also wearing his gloves and boots from his Hero Costume.

While across from him Horizon had the jacket of his PE Uniform open with no shirt beneath, showing the Body Glove directly to the crowd, and on his back is his symbol as usual.

"You took my offer and actually decided to use it," Horizon says. "But I'm a bit disappointed you didn't come wearing the full costume."

"These are the main functional parts," Midoriya says as they continue to ignore the crowd. "No sword?"

Horizon shrugs, "figured I'd keep things reasonable, besides I'm still not entirely used to the new sword yet."

"Is everyone ready?!" Ms. Midnight asks, causing the arena to go silent and both students nod.

She pauses, allowing the tension to build, then lowers her fan.

"BEGIN!"

Horizon, Midoriya, Ms. Midnights, and Cementoss, all instantly disappear from the arena.

The cheers fade as confusion blooms in its place, cameras turn to Ms.Midnight and Cementoss who appear at the same instant in the stands, at the lowest level nearest to the stage.

Both teachers turn to each other, just as confused as everyone else.

"Huh," Present Mic looks around, just as confused but understanding his role as the announcer. "Well if they both left the arena then---"

KRAKOOOM!

The sound of thunder nearly deafens the crowd, but not from the overcast sky above, from the stage below.

KRAKOOOM!

It continues rumbling, and this time the stage itself explodes into dust and derbis, the entire stadium, no, all of UA, no, all of Musutafu and this entire stretch of Japan's coastline shakes.

Over and over, like the world itself was falling apart, like an invisible force was rolling through reality to a choir of thunder.

People in the crowd cover their ears, for what little that can do, children who were cheering moments ago begin crying, begging to go home.

The entire world watches, confused, as if reality itself was coming apart in the arena.

KRAKOOM!

One final thunderous explosion echoes out from what's left of the stage, but instead of kicking up more dust.

The dustcloud is pushed aside, revealing Horizon, looking completely untouched.

His energy was visible and radiant, his entire being cloaked in a flowing blue energy vapor, that had they not known better, people would have assumed to be flames.

He had one fist outstretched, clashing with the fist of Izuku Midoriya, who was also enveloped in the energy vapor as it leaked off of Horizon, but Midoriya had bruises and scratches on his body.

Pieces of his PE Uniform were torn, and his eyes looked more serious than his peers could ever imagine.

No, at this moment, he had no peers. 

There is no being equal to him at this exact moment, there are only those who are above him, one of which he is clashing with.

And there are those that are coming to the realization, that they simply cannot keep up.

'One For All: 85%!' Midoriya commands as his power increases by yet another magnitude, and they both disappear again.

This time the clashes are more visible, if it can even be called that.

The chorus of thunder echoes out as they flicker about, like floating holograms all about the arena.

In every instant they clash, Horizon warps them away.

They appear above the stage, Midoriya kicking toward Horizon's visor, and Horizon's hand already raised with Curtain on his forearm taking the blow.

The clash happens, and then they warp away, yet their afterimage stays in place.

With each clash another afterimage is formed, then they warp to the next, then the next.

Seeing dozens of these appear before the first begin to fade away, Eraser Head scoffs.

'If he can afford to do all of these little tricks while guiding the fight, he still isn't taking Midoriya seriously...' he realizes.

Horizon cannot simply make illusions such as this, and while most people think this is a byproduct of the fight, Eraser Head knows better.

He's warping them back and forth while conducting this fight like a dance, and each time moves are repeated he warps them into the exact same spot.

Making the illusion of dozens of frozen clashes perfectly in the air.

KRAKOOM!

All the afterimages disappear and Horizon and Midoriya appear on the stage one more, and Midoriya kicks forward with everything he has.

'Shoot Style: 85%!' his metal shoe collides directly with Horizon's fist that'd manifested a Curatin on itself.

The curtain instantly shatters, knocking Horizon's hand back.

SHAMBLES!

He warps away, swapping places with Midoriya to avoid the follow-up punch.

The moment he appears, however, the fist is millimeters away from smashing into his visor.

SHAMBLES!

He warps to the other side of the stage, and the moment he appears his vision is blocked by Midoirya's fist yet again.

This dance continues on for a while, with Horizon always barely avoiding a direct attack.

In such a cramped space, Warping and Super Speed are much closer in use than in a larger place, and against Midoriya, Horizon's usually invisible faults are being shown.

Horizon can Warp at the speed of thought, but his body cannot move at that speed.

He cannot raise his hand fast enough to block a strict to his face, and Midoriya has broken his hastily made shield countless times before.

He simply does not have the time he needs to contest an enemy with immense speed and instant maximum acceleration in such a confined area.

While he works to solve this issue, Midoriya simply has to use his accelerated perception and capabilities to look around, and the instant Horizon appears he charges directly toward him.

The goes on for a few more seconds, until Horizon begins using one of his newer moves.

SHAMBLES: Flicker!

He simultaneously appears all across the stage at once.

'Doesn't matter,' Midoriya thought. 'These aren't illusions, so if I connect with one, that's all I need, all he did was make himself a bigger target!'

With that Midoriya charges forward, fist reared to crash into the visor of a flickering Horizon.

Yet as he's above to make contact, it flickers and reappers with a fist raised to meet his.

'He changed the position of his body while he was warping, how?!' this realization came to Midoriya as they collided and sent a shockwave through the stadium.

Horizon's arm is knocked aside and he's sent flying away through the air, while Midoriya barely feels anything at all.

In fact, he feels better than ever.

'One For All: 90%!'

He launches into the air, away from the designated fighting area and above the stadium where Horizon was still sent flying.

Before anyone could blink he'd arrive below Horizon, ready to kick him into orbit.

SHAMBLES!

Horizon appears on the stage, standing perfectly relaxed as he flexes his arm.

Unbeknownst to most, including his opponent, with every clash all the bones in the connecting limb, and sometimes all across his body, were shattered.

The shroud of energy around him was focused entirely on healing, and that was all he could do to keep up in this fight.

The moment he appeared, Horizon, Midoriya was inches away yet again, a foot about to crash into Horizon's face.

Midoriya has punched the air from high above the stadium to rocket back down, a mix of All Might and Bakugo's techniques, and now he unleashed his power directly toward Horizon.

"SMASH!"

The entire coast shakes as the 95% One For All attack collides with the arena.

Just as Horizon held everyone to the earth via their clothes in previous rounds, he does the same thing again to keep the ground itself from caving in and swallowing UA.

The sound is deafening, the wind more intense than any hurricane, but only for a fleeting moment.

And the dust cloud blocks everyone's view of the arena.

In the middle of the cratered stage, Midoriya gently waves his hand, clearing the dust cloud, and looking around for Horizon.

'That attack was so massive it must have made contact,' Midoriya thought. 'He couldn't have warped away and stayed within the fighting area at once...'

He looks around to see the crowd more scared than anything else, looking at him with fear and awe in their eyes. They knew he wanted to be a Pro Hero, but in the face of such power, intent is not what stirs human emotions to the surface.

"How are you feeling?" Horizon asks, and Midoriya's head snaps to look up, seeing the man standing in the air with his hands behind his back.

He shuts his eyes and shakes his head, forcing the memories of All For One away before looking up at his classmate.

"Since when could you fly?" Midoriya asks, still using 95%, energy arcing off of his body every few seconds.

"Not really flying," Horizon says. "More like standing in the air, I got sick of people wondering why I couldn't fly, so I got creative..."

"And just when I thought I did an attack you couldn't run away from."

"I'd be foolish to take one of your serious attacks head-on," Horizon says. "I could, of course, but this isn't the time and place for that to happen. But again, how are you feeling?"

Midoriya raises a brow at this, "Better than ever, in fact, I feel like I could do this forever," he clenches his fists and closes his eyes,

ONE FOR ALL: 100%!

The earth begins rumbling, hundreds of tremors compounding onto each other as his power is pushed to its current limit.

This was not intentional, but simply his muscles constantly twitching while he was standing on the ground.

"You should get up here before you destroy the place," Horizon says.

Taking a deep breath Midoriya focuses his mind, and with the most gentle movements he could muster, flicks his finger.

The quakes stop as he appears before Horizon, a dozen meters between them as Midoriya keeps flicking his fingers at his sides to hover in place.

"That looks familiar," Horizon says.

"I got the idea from Kacchan," Midoriya admits. "I kept it a secret in case I got matched against him, or you."

"Good decision, and your Quirk?"

"I feel like I've fully mastered it now," Midoriya says. "I don't know why but, I feel like fighting against you brought out my full power, and I must have instinctively managed to control it."

"The answer will reveal itself soon," Horizon says. "Just give it a few seconds..."

"Oh," Midoriya looks slightly confused, but both students and the crowd are enjoying this moment between them. "And what about you, how long were you going to save the fact that you can fly...walk on air."

"Well, I plan to disappear from the public eye while I get some training done, then maybe at my big reveal after the suspension is over," Horizon shrugs. "But you ruined it, I had to use it to avoid that kick."

"Oh, sorry, I just---" As Midoriya is speaking One For All suddenly shuts, off.

He feels all the muscles in his body cramp up as he blacks out from the immense pain.

And Horizon watches him fall, onto the stage below, completely unconscious.

While he's lying face down in the rubble, Horizon raises one hand, and condenses some of his energy into a single drop, then allows it to fall.

It falls directly onto Midoriya, and the boy gasps back to life, the heart attack that was killing him immediately stops.

"Gah!" Midoriya tries to sit up but just falls onto his back once again. "What?!"

Most of the onlookers are confused, so of course they turn to Horizon for an explanation.

"You blacked out, so you lost," Horizon says. "I told you, 'give it a few seconds', remember?"

Looking up at him, Midoriya has an expression of immense pain and confusion on his face, "My Quirk, I didn't master it in this fight, did I?"

"Not even close," Horizon says as his energy shroud manifests once more. "This energy around me doesn't hurt people, it heals them. Every time you got close or we clashed, I healed you, hundreds of times until you were so saturated with energy that your body didn't even realize your Quirk was trying to rip it apart."

"What? Why?" Midoriya asks, but sees Horizon isn't planning on answering him.

"Because he had no choice," Eraser Head cuts in. "This arena, these rules, the handicaps placed on Horizon by them. They made the perfect scenario for someone as powerful as Midoriya to defeat Horizon.

And they left Horizon with no real way of forcing his opponent to submit. Instead, he used the fact that your own body can't handle the immense power of your Quirk to his advantage, baiting you into thinking you finally got control, then he simply stopped healing you.

And your Quirk did the rest for him..."

"Tch, that man refuses to just let people live with the mystery," Horizon grumbles. "But, he's right, a battle with you in such a confined space is very annoying, this was the best-case scenario for you to ever defeat me."

"Yet I couldn't even scratch you," Midoriya says.

"Don't be too hard on yourself for this defeat De---" Horizon cuts himself off.

He takes a moment to collect his thoughts, and decides his next moves very carefully.

"Do not be dejected, Izuku Midoriya, you are strong," his words surprise everyone, especially Midoriya. "I always knew your strength and speed would surpass All Might, and your intellect was always ahead of his.

Today we saw the true limits of those, and they were great. I am sure you'll become a great Pro Hero, and your strength will grow to greatly surpass all, even All Might, this I see as an absolute truth."

Horizon's words surprise the world, his classmates most of all, and as Izuku Midoriya has tears of joy streaming down his face, the entire world takes note of this incredible young man.

"But strength isn't everything," Horizon says. "Strength and power are far from the same thing. I will never match your strength, I couldn't even truly match it today, and you will only grow more with each day.

But even if you had the strength of 100 All Mights, in a world of true superhumans, there are those who simply have real power.

Real power is bending the world to your whims, real power is being able to reach up, and sunder the heavens," Horizon raises one hand toward the overcast sky, and everyone expects him to part the clouds, but he continues.

"Real power, is the will, to reach up, and rip power from the sky..."

With that he takes his raised hand and grips the air, making the same motion as his now globally infamous Gamma Knife.

But instead of the horrifying green energy the world fears, dozens of lightning bolts strike out from the sky directly at him, all gathering in his palm.

He brings his hand down in front of him as a blinding white light causes everyone to look away.

The sound of thunder is heard, then the scent of ozone fills the stadium.

And when the light fades, they look up at Horizon, to see him standing in the air, holding a crystalized lighting bolt, brimming with power.

Its very presence causes everyone's hair to float upward toward it.

"Counter Shock: Charged Bolt," Horizon says, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

With that he stretches his hand out, still holding the object, and begins to squeeze.

The absolute silence of the stadium allows the small hairline fractures in the glass-like material to be heard, and everyone feels their hearts skip a beat.

"Lightning Smite..."

KRAKOOM!

The air is vaporized as a massive pillar of lightning punches a hole in the arena below it where Midoriya lays, and extends all the way to the sky, punching a massive hole in the cloud cover.

"Oh god," was all Present Mic could say, not in a scream, but in a soft mutter.

"God indeed," Eraser Head says as the light and pillar of lightning disappear, to reveal the area having been completely vaporized by it.

A hole for hundreds of meters into the earth was glowing red, walls slick with molten rock.

Yet there are pillars raised in it where the lightning seemingly didn't hit, forming Horizon's logo, the smiling face with checkered teeth.

And on one of the eyes, lays Izuku Midoriya, completely untouched, smiling, with not a single drop of fear in him.

"This is gonna take all day to fix," Cementoss grumbles while looking at the hole.

The people and cameras look around, only to find no sign of Horizon.

For just as he said, he disappeared from the public eye.

On this day, April 23rd, Horizon made his last public appearance for quite some time, until he later emerges, to save the world...

END CHAPTER---

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