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90.02% MHA: Horizon (Ope-Ope No Mi) / Chapter 342: CHAPTER 334(Cellophane! Pt. II)

Chapitre 342: CHAPTER 334(Cellophane! Pt. II)

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"This was not the plan!" Toga says as she paces back and forth, meanwhile Twice is sitting nearby simply watching her and Dabi is scrolling on his phone.

They were in an empty building at the edge of Tokyo, a few stories up to overlook the streets below.

"Relax," Dabi says. "His boss isn't in Japan, and they don't know what happened, we'll be fine."

As Toga is about to respond, Spinner enters the room from one of the connected doors, and puts his phone away.

"Well, what'd he say?" Toga asks, hope in her voice.

"Tomura said it'll be almost two days before the Nomu we need gets here," Spinner says. "The best bet is to hold him until then."

"So we're stuck here, that's just great," Dabi grumbles.

"You can head out if you want, the three of us came to deal with this, not to tie you down from handling your business."

"Nah, this could be fun," Dabi says. "Besides, if he tries anything, I'd be nice to kill one of those UA brats."

After a few more minutes of discussion, they hear scraping in one of the connected rooms.

"I think he's awake," Twice says happily.

"We should probably go say hi," Spinner turns and walks to the door.

Everyone follows him in to see a hastily emptied room.

All the furniture had been moved out and the sleeves were blocking the wall of glass overlooking the city.

They'd intended to take him to one of the more remote safe houses, but sadly, this apartment was the closest safehouse they had access to.

And nobody wanted to be caught while kidnapping Cellophane.

"Oh, it's you idiots," Cellophane says while looking over at them, his arms and legs tied to the wooden chair they've chained him to. "If you let me go now, I'll only hurt you a little bit, and I'll even put in a good word so you only spend the rest of your life in Tartarus."

"Tch, is that supposed to be a good deal?" Toga asks as she draws her knife, angrily pointing at Cellophane.

"It's the only deal that you will survive."

"You think I'm scared of you?!" Toga rushes forward, ready to pierce his heart, but Cellophane doesn't flinch, and isn't surprised when Spinner grabs her.

"Guess atleast one of you grew a brain, or piece of one," Cellophane scoffs as Spinner holds back the fuming girl.

Dabi and Twice join Spinner and Toga in the room, all standing in front of Cellophane, glaring down at him.

"I'm not interested in joining the boy band, so don't bother."

"As if we'd ever sing with you," Twice says.

Dabi rolls his eyes while Spinner doesn't react.

But Toga glares even harder, "How would it be a boy band, I'm a girl dumbass."

"I thought they only kept you around as a groupie…atleast that's what the rumors say."

"That's just trash the heroes spread to make me look bad, I'm still saving myself for the one I love!" Toga says while pointing her knife at him.

Beneath his visor, Cellophane glances at Spinner, who flinches in response to her words, and he sees his opening.

"Rumors? Really?" Cellophane asks. "And here I was considering joining you guys if the initiation rumor was true, about you testing out all the new recruits. I heard when you guys suddenly expanded you had to take them all in big groups…all at once."

"I'll kill you!" Toga lunges forward and stabs him in the right shoulder, but Cellophane doesn't flinch.

Instead, he takes the moment that she's close to him and whispers to her, "See, you're not cute when you're like this. No wonder no boy will ever love you, after all, your parents never even loved you."

Toga immediately tries to stab him again, but Spinner pulls her back before she can.

"Don't let him get to you so easily, he's just trying to piss us off," Dabi says. "This fucker thinks he's untouchable, that he's better than us, but he's not. That's why he's in the chair, and we're not."

"Well, I'm sure you're familiar with knowing when someone is superior, right?" Cellophane says. 

Dabi gives Cellophane a curious look, "Try me."

"You know, I'm the person Horizon trusts the most in our class, we're actually pretty great friends, so he told me something interesting about you."

"And what's that?" Dabi asks.

"He told me your daddy never loved you, he didn't even go looking for your corpse, that he had a party and got right back to making a better kid the moment you were a memory," Cellophane says. "That's why you joined the league of idiots right? To get back at whoever your dad is, you're a manchild who deserves whatever is coming to you."

Dabi stares at Cellophane, and drops of blood flow from his eyes.

He wipes them away and smiles, "damn, you're pretty good at this. But I know UA doesn't teach this stuff, he's making you brats into real monsters, huh?"

"It's not hard when you just have to be honest," Cellophane nods to Spinner. "You should try it sometime, honesty."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Spinner asks, hand itching to draw his sword, already tired of hearing their captive speak.

Cellophane sighs, "How about you take off my visor so we can talk face to face?"

Twice shrugs, "Sure, that thing looks super stuffy anyway, not like my super cool mask!"

Yet again Spinner has to stop one of his friends from doing something stupid, preventing Twice from removing the visor.

"How about you and Himiko just, keep your hands to yourself for the rest of this, alright?"

"But, don't we want to know who he is?" Twice asks.

"No," Spinner says. "Team Horizon has gone to extreme lengths, aside from Tsukuyomi, to hide their identities. We're trying to minimize Horizon's reasons for actively hunting us. The best case scenario is we drop this guy off somewhere, Horizon will know it's a distraction but he will have to respond personally, and then we get some work done elsewhere simultaneously."

"Ohhh, yeah that makes sense," Toga says. "But can I stab him some more?"

"No, we want him as whole as possible, and as for whatever is beneath that visor," Spinner leans forward and taps the visor. "If we know, Horizon will hunt us across the planet if he has to, right now we're barely on his radar, and we'll keep it that way."

"Don't you think it's a bit too late for that?" Dabi asks, gesturing to their captive. "I don't see a way to step backward after this."

"You're probably right, but this guy isn't a problem for us and won't change anything on the battlefield, nothing wrong with returning him in one piece and hoping for the best."

Toga folds her arms, "Well the longer we have him the more likely his boss is to appear here, let's just do whatever we're doing quickly."

"I'm working on it."

"You've been saying that all night," Toga mutters.

"Damn," Cellophane says, drawing their attention back to him. "You know, Spinner, it's moments like these I'm glad my girlfriend doesn't talk much, I can't imagine dealing with this weirdo."

"She's not my girlfriend," Spinner says.

"Oh, sorry, I just figured with the looks you were giving her…you know."

This causes Toga to look over at her friend, "Spinner? What's he talking about?"

"Uh, it's," Spinner begins stuttering and awkwardly stepping away. "It's nothing, I swear, he's just trying to get in our heads."

Toga looks genuinely hurt by that, feeling as if once again she was unworthy of love, and beneath his visor, Sero smiles.

"I guess you aren't his type," Cellophane says. "Sorry, but I guess I was right the first time."

Hearing that almost pushes Toga to tears, and at a loss for words, Spinner steps forward and gently hugs her.

Beneath his visor Sero glances at his hud yet again, seeing his communication systems still being jammed, and quietly commanding it to reset yet again.

"If you love her, you should tell her," Cellophane says, and Dabi looks around confused as somehow this touching moment was taking place mid-interrogation. "What we all do is dangerous, we can't afford to waste a moment."

Spinner takes a step away from Toga, and gently wipes some of her tears away, "we should talk after, just us, alright?"

She looks up at him through teary eyes and nods, smiling brightly for the very last time in her life.

"I don't get it," Cellophane says, capitalizing on this serene moment of vulnerability. "You're not living glamorously, you're always on the running, looking over your shoulders all the time, but…you're so committed to being in the League Of Villains, why?"

Dabi doesn't move, only staring at Cellophane.

But Spinner steps forward, speaking clearly and simply. "Because this is our family. What about you, I doubt the 'True Hero' types follow Horizon, so, why?"

"Well, at first, it was the money, then, it was because we were friends," Cellophane confesses. "But along the way, I liked how he'd always push me to do better, I pulled ahead of all my rivals, I got the respect of the people I had on posters in my room, and I even got an awesome girlfriend. Not to mention the lifestyle…and all he's done to help me and my family."

"So you owe him, is that it?" Spinner asks, disgusted. "Stain was right about you people, you're no Hero."

"Yeah, but, there is one more thing, but I guess it's a bit stupid that—" Cellophane's voice became lower with each word, as if he were shy and embarrassed about what he was about to confess. "No, I guess, it's too embarrassing. Nobody would ever take it seriously."

Resonating with those words, after feeling ashamed for being himself his entire life, Spinner's heart demands he reach out to help the person in front of him.

So he takes two steps forward in front of Cellophane, and leans in.

"You can't tell anyone I'm saying this but," Cellophane whispers to Spinner. "The reason I follow Horizon, even while he's so violent, and ruthless, and after all the things he does to villains, it's because, well…"

"Why?" Spinner asks, quietly.

"Because I like it."

"Wh— AHHHH!" Spinner screams as Cellophane breaks the legs of the chair with his pure leg strength and kicks Spinner in the knees, shattering both kneecaps in one moment.

This causes him to get pushed back into the wall behind him, shattering the chair.

In their moment of confusion, before the villains can react Cellophane spins and throws a piece of the chair at Twice's face, making it cross in front of Dabi.

Dabi fires a small flame at the piece of wood while Cellophane moves in the opposite direction, placing Toga between Dabi and himself and closing the distance on her.

Dabi hesitates to fire for a moment while Toga rushes forward, and twice begins making Doubles to grab Cellophane.

Cellophane makes quick work of Toga by spinning and kicking her in the side of her leg, breaking her leg, then in the same motion grabbing her hair and throwing her toward the door the villains entered from.

Dabi takes this opportunity to release a massive blast of flames, not caring about the building or taking the Hero alive, simply wanting this to be over.

The blue light blinds everyone in the small room, who isn't wearing a high-tech adaptive visor.

Cellophane barely moves to the right, the entire left side of his body being scorched black in the process.

But his adrenaline is so high that he keeps moving, and the flames are so intense they instantly kill the nerves, resulting in his left side feeling completely numb.

He reaches Dabi and grabs him, swinging him around and throwing him into the group of Twice Doubles, destroying all of them in one motion as Dabi's flames run wild.

The immense heat reaches Spinner and he ignores his pain, rolling out of the way and grabbing a knife from his belt.

He looks up just in time to see Cellophane about to land with a stomp directly onto Dabi's skull, and throws the knife into the Hero's calf, causing him to miss.

Dabi takes his chance and his entire body begins to release smoke as he tries to kill the hero with one vertical fire blast, one that would pierce through the ceiling and roof of the building and spare his allies.

But to his surprise, Cellophane doesn't hesitate to remove the knife from his leg and pierce Dabi's hand, then pin that hand to the villain's chest, all in one motion.

"Argh!" Dabi screams as he feels the sharp pain in his chest. 

Then Cellophane grabs him by the leg and spins him, throwing him through the door to the other room, shattering it, before blue flames erupt in that room.

Seeing all the villains dealt with, for now, Cellophane looks down at his body, and feels himself getting tired as the adrenaline wears off.

'I need to get out of here,' he decides. 'But I can't just go tell Horizon I got captured…I need something.'

To Spinner's horror, he's forced to watch with his broken legs, as Cellophane walks over to Toga and stomps on her head, knocking her out in one hit, then slings her over his shoulder.

The Hero then begins walking to the glass wall that was now exposed thanks to Dabi's attacks, with the villain on his shoulder.

But before he leaves, he takes one last look at Spinner, making sure the villain remembers this moment.

"I told you, you should never miss an opportunity to tell the person you love how you really feel, this life is too dangerous to be wasting time," Cellophane says, then sighs. "But I suppose you should be used to this, huh? You finally found a girl who might actually be interested in a loser like you, and you can't even protect her…I could never imagine being so pathetic."

Those words echo in Spinner's mind as he sees Cellophane use her as a cushion between himself and the glass and leap out the window, taking her away from them.

After swinging a few blocks away, toward the nearest police station, Cellophane's communication systems are back online, only for a strange video to start playing in his visor.

It showed the earth, but from many nations were littered with red circles, blocking entire specious of the globe.

'What the hell is this, and why won't it cut off?'

As he arrives at the police station, he looks around to see all the electronic billboards and people's phones are showing the same video.

Then words finally appear.

'Hello world, I am Tech…'

END CHAPTER---


Chapitre 343: CHAPTER 335(Hello World)

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CHAPTER START---

"Since when do you eat this much?" Star' asks as she walks into Horizon's living room with a drink in her hand.

They were in the living room of his new temporary home for the remainder of the summer, overlooking Central Park yet again as the sun reached its peak in the sky.

"I used my Awakening three times yesterday," Horizon says as he continues eating his large bowl of pasta. "And I ran out of meal bars."

Star' sits on the single seat beside the couch and relaxes, watching the TV as they'd been doing for some time now.

"Still not efficient huh," Star' says jokingly. "I thought you were perfect or something?"

"Says the woman who trained all her life and doesn't have an awakening," Horizon says as he continues eating.

"Tch, my Quirk is enough, plus, it's hard to train it."

"Excuses," Horizon says as his phone beeps twice. 

With a thought, he makes it float over to him, and smiles at the screen.

"Pizza's ready."

"Why are you telling me that, go get it," Star' says.

SHAMBLES!

She suddenly finds herself sitting on the counter of a pizza restaurant across the city, causing everyone in the crowded business to freeze and stare at her.

Without a word she gets down from the counter and turns to face the cashier, "I'm here for Horizon's pizza."

"Uh we," the man looks back nervously as his friend shrugs.

"It's under the name, 'Tim'," Star' says, and the man is immediately relieved.

"Here you are," the man places four pizza boxes on the counter along with a few orders of sides. "We had no idea this was for you two, I hope you enjoy it."

"We always do, we actually order from here a lot," Star' says as she holds the boxes.

SHAMBLES!

She appears back in Horizon's living room, visibly annoyed.

"The one day I decide not to constantly resist your Quirk, and you warp me into a pizza place, seriously?"

"And now you know better," Horizon immediately opens one of the boxes and starts eating.

"How much energy did you expend yesterday?" Star' asks as she settles back into her seat. "And was warping him into space hard, since, you know, there isn't anything up there to swap with?"

"I used enough energy to power Manhattan for…quite a while. I'm a living nuclear reactor, except I produce a lot more power since my Quirk allows me to exist on a quantum level, like yours…even if you aren't that good at it."

"Well considering how much of a freak you are, I don't feel bad about it."

"Yeah well, food is mostly just used by my brain to handle my body using quantum entanglement to, ugh, are you understanding any of this?"

"Huh?" Star' looks over at him. "Sorry were you still talking about the science stuff?"

Horizon rolls his eyes beneath his visor as he grabs a second slice of pizza. "As for your second question, I don't need to swap with anything so long as I'm familiar with the 'Space' I'm warping within. And since I've been here for a few weeks, I keep my range as far out as possible, and that includes going up."

"If I want to go to space I usually just fly, but I can't actually leave the atmosphere."

"I did, hence Immolation getting snuffed out," Horizon says. "Problem is I need air to breathe, so, surviving that along with the damage he did to me cost damn near as much as my Awakening."

Star and Stripe gives him a sideways glance, then take a slice of pizza, "You know, you're kind of scary powerful."

"Coming from you, that actually means something," Horizon says. "But remember, I'm only 17, imagine when I'm old like you."

"I'm not that old, barely past 40."

"You're almost there, basically a senior citizen at this point."

They eat in silence for a while, watching TV, and then Star' gives in to her curiosity and asks something he's always been very private about.

"What's your range?"

"16 to 38."

"Not that!" Star' says. "Also, isn't 38 kind of old?"

"They can be fun," Horizon shrugs. "And some of them are really—"

"I don't need to hear that," she cuts him off. "I meant your Quirk. I can feel when it's active, and when I fly into your range, so I know there is a limit, so, what is it?"

"Are you sure you want to know?" Horizon asks. "My Quirk is one of the very few, maybe the only one, where the more you know the more powerful it seems. Like my 'Warping', it's manageable when people buy into that lie, but we both know it's not really 'warping', and the reality is a lot scarier."

"You think I can't handle it?"

"In a week or two, I'll be too much for you," Horizon says. "But if you must know, as of yesterday. 250mi -402km-."

"Oh god, is that the—"

"Radius," Horizon says. "I can see everything all around us, all at once, and with a thought, I can move anything. Or I can rip Manhattan and most of the state out of the ground and just drop it."

"A little more and you'll be able to lift one of Japan's main islands, right?"

"That's more than enough to rip Kyushu out of the ocean and throw it into the ocean, or at Korea," Horizon says, casually.

"Sheesh. If you ever decide to become a villain, do it away from here, alright," Star' says. "If that happened in America they'd send me to fight you."

"Well I think no matter where I am they'd send you, but the real question is," Horizon points at her with his fresh slice of pizza, pulling her attention to him. "Who do you think they'd send after you?"

Star' laughs in his face. "Don't get too cocky now, even you can't fight the world."

"She says to the man who can wave his hand and put almost everything in this state into a blender."

"Yeah, but you're a hero, a real hero, you'd never turn on us like that."

"Eh," Horizon leans back into the couch, looking at the empty pizza boxes. "I might—"

Star' glances over at him, curiously.

"---If I don't get something sweet to finish this lunch."

"Ice cream?"

"Cheesecake," Horizon says before warping away for a moment, then appears back on the couch holding two large cheesecakes.

"Sometimes I really love that Quirk," Star' says as he hands her an entire cheesecake."But I'll need a checkup on my heart before you leave, eating with you is tough…but so delicious." 

A few minutes later, while Horizon's cheesecake is almost done, Star' is on her fifth slice when her phone rings.

She looks down at it for a moment before answering, "Hello, sir?"

Horizon glances over to her for a moment, then continues watching the TV.

"Wait, slow down sir, I don't understand," Star' says. "But, Mr. President isn't that impossible?"

"***"

"No, we haven't had any activity from them within the country since Optics attack on the White House."

"***"

"The drone lab in Mexico, but, are you sure?"

"***"

"Yes sir, should we got to the—" Star' stops for a moment. "The Pentagon? I see, but—"

Star' stops talking the same moment the TV shows 'No Signal' on the screen.

"That's weird," She says, looking at her phone and the TV, then the ceiling. "The lights are on, so not an EMP. How is the rest of the city?"

Horizon pauses for a moment then activates his Quirk. "People all across the state are looking at the phones, computers, and screens, it's not just here."

"What could this mean?"

In response, Horizon grabs his phone and tries to call Star', only for the connection to fail.

Then he calls Nezu, and the man immediately answers, "Nezu, is anything strange happening in Japan?"

"Yes, wait, is this not a local issue? I assumed someone was trying to disable UA's system."

"Luckily you used a closed system, but, no it's in New York too," Horizon says as Star' taps his shoulder.

"I'm going to the Pentagon, and I need to secure the President, can you two figure out what's going on?"

"We'll work on it," Horizon says before warping her to the edge of the Room, closer to her goal. "Alright Nezu, what the hell is going on, and how are our phones the only things working?"

"Because UA uses a closed system of satellites and supercomputers. Even the US military can't have such a secure system, not for their lack of trying, but because of how many access points their size requires."

"Can you track where this is coming from?"

"I'll have to create a second closed system and then sacrifice it, that will take time."

"Ok, that leaves me to keep things together, too many planes in the air. The trains and boats will be fine with their emergency systems, but if navigation systems are down then a lot of crashes are incoming."

"Even you can't be everywhere at once."

"Then it's a good thing I'm not alone…"

Over the next few minutes, Horizon appears across the United States, ripping Pro Heroes away without asking and placing them near airports and other points of congestion to deal with inevitable disasters, eventually ending at Los Angeles International Airport.

Leading to where he is now, atop the air traffic control tower, down on his knees trying to catch his breath.

With two Pro Heroes behind him, both of which can fly. 

"Are you ok?" One of them asks as Horizon stands up.

"I'll be fine, just focus on keeping the planes from crashing, the police can handle the public panic for now," Horizon says.

"Yeah, but, what's even going on right—"

Horizon raises his hand to stop the man from talking, then his entire body tenses as he looks up at the sky.

Both Pro Heroes follow his gaze, and see a trail of vapor leading past the clouds, from the ground.

And at the top of it, a rocket of some kind.

Then in the distance, out in the Nevada desert, they see dozens more.

"Oh fuck," One of the men mutters. "Are those—"

"If anyone asks those are satellites to solve the network problem," Horizon says as he immediately warps into the sky, past the sky.

He warps to the edge of the atmosphere and sees not a dozen, but hundreds of nuclear missiles rising from the land below.

Through the clear atmosphere, he can see above Canada, and at the edge of his vision, dozens of missiles are also launched.

"It's the end of the world," Horizon says as he wracks his brain trying to figure out a solution.

'If I stop the nukes America is launching, then, they get hit without a counterattack. But, if every country is doing this I need to find the nukes aiming at Japan, that's my best course of action.'

As he draws his sword and is about to activate his newest Awakening ability, all the missiles stop.

Their thrusters shut off and their smaller directional boosters keep them apart, but locked in perfect orbit around Earth.

A beautiful dance of impending extinction above the Earth.

Horizon pauses, taking in the sight, his visor recording everything and showing it to Nezu.

"This…this isn't an extermination, it's a hostage situation," Horizon says as he looks down at the world below. "Someone is holding ten billion people hostage."

Minutes later Horizon is back on the ground trying to catch his breath, when everyone around him receives a signal on their phones, and a clear message.

'Hello world, I am Tech, welcome to your new, peaceful self. I am boundless, I am infinite, I am everywhere, I, am your only path forward…'

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