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Minutes after Nomu was defeated, Kurogiri and Shigarami were already knocked out.
All Might and the other Pros arrived and quickly swept up the other villains, which leaves us where we are now.
With Horizon standing at the fountain speaking to detective Tsukauchi.
"Are you sure it's alive?" Tsukauchi asks, looking at the dozens of pieces of Nomu on the floor, all the police officers standing around with disgusted looks, metal cases ready to store the pieces, while others kept loading up villains.
"It is," Horizon says, "it's a walking corpse made from a few different people, it wasn't really alive in the first place, more like the muscles were just getting commands. But it's alive, if you put these pieces in the same box you'll have to deal with it again so don't do that."
"Freaky," the detective says, noticing one of the eyes still looking around as part of its head was still intact. "What kind of monster would think to even do this..."
"No clue," Horizon says. "Now since you know I didn't kill anyone can I go join the others?"
"Right, I'll be over in a bit to get all the other stories..."
Taking a rather exhausting walk up the massive staircase and out of USJ Horizon sees a dozen prison busses parked outside, a small army of police cars accompanying them.
Off to the left, he sees all his classmates standing with Present Mic at a UA bus, clearly waiting for him. Quietly chattering about their first villain experience.
"Horizon!" Mina yells excitedly, causing everyone to turn toward him. "You were super cool in there, the way you cut up that villain."
"Thanks," he says in a tired voice. "We ready to go?"
"Yup," Mic says. "We were just waiting for you, Eraser and Midoriya are already at Recovery Girl, Thirteen too..."
"Great, let's get out of here..."
Everyone boarded the bus and Horizon immediately gets a text from Nezu, 'My office,' was all it said.
'Of course...'
Present Mic sat at the front while the robot was driving, with Horizon only one seat behind him, sitting beside Momo and Jiro.
Everyone is still chattering about what they just encountered when Todoroki's voice cuts through the noise.
"Horizon," his monotone voice silences the bus, sitting closer to the back while Horizon was at the front.
"Yeah?" Horizon asks, leaning back and trying to relax.
"We know the villains made that creature to kill All Might, but how did you beat it, it was as strong as him, it even shrugged off our best attacks," he glances at Bakugo who was one step from exploding at the memory. "But you beat it by yourself, how?"
Even Present Mic turns to look at him, not sure what kind of answer to expect.
"Simple, because I'm better," Horizon shrugs. Everyone just glares daggers at him before he continues explaining. "I had to overcome its Quirks, Shock Absorption, Super-Power, Super-Regeneration, and anything else it had. Power types are easy for me, but the regeneration was a real pain, without that I could have handled it in one slash. Plus the fact that I had to deal with Kurogiri, every time he made a Warp Gate I had to take a second to close it before he decided to move any of you around again, honestly it was more of a challenge than I ever expected to face at UA."
They look both amazed and horrified that a student could deal with a situation like that.
"Your reaction in stressful situations is also admirable," Momo adds. "You instantly warped us back to our homeroom from USJ when the villains arrived, if he wasn't able to warp us back then I'm sure you would have done that again."
"Yup."
"Man to think you got the final boss while we had to clean up those street punks...not that I could have done anything to help, I mean one of his punches was destroying buildings, I'm not ready for that yet," Kirishima whines. "Good job Class Rep!"
Everyone echoes his cheer, and they could slowly feel the distance between them and Horizon widening. No, not widening, they were simply realizing how far ahead he really was.
Shoto quietly sits and stares at Horizon, 'I wonder how much he suffered to become this strong, I can't imagine what he survived...'
Bakugo just glares out the window, a new sense of numbness spreading in his chest, as if his body didn't have that burning desire to catch up anymore, as if he was slowly realizing how hopeless it was.
Iida was proud of himself, he now knew for sure that he made the right choice voting for Horizon.
And sitting directly beside Horizon, Momo frowns and tunes out Jiro who was chatting with her. Suddenly there was an infinite chasm separating her, the Vice Class Rep, from the Class Rep. Her doubts and insecurities about her own value suddenly amplified to heights unheard of for her.
Jiro notices the change in Momo's mood and rests and hand on her leg, giving her a concerned look, but Momo just puts on a weak fake smile, not even fooling herself.
Stepping off the bus Horizon ignores everyone and makes a beeline to Nezu's office, quickly entering and laying down on one of the couches, not even wanting to activate his Quirk to swap his hero costume.
Leaning his sword against the coffee table he closes his eyes and nods off, taking a small nap while the Pros finish up...
---2 Hours Later...
TAP TAP TAP!
Horizon wakes up groggily, seeing Yagi standing over him tapping his visor as if it were a fishbowl.
"Mmm," Horizon groans and sits up, looking around to see Nezu and Tsukauchi on the opposite couch already. "How long was I asleep?"
"It's only five," Yagi says, taking a seat beside Horizon. "You've had a long day, makes sense that you're tired."
"Yeah, from doing your job..." Horizon groans, and everyone frowns in response. "So why am I here?"
"We just need to ask some questions, mainly about the Nomu," Tsukauchi says.
"Right, go ahead."
"What can you tell us about it?"
"Pretty much everything," Horizon shrugs. "Well they cobbled together four corpses to make it, one was a base and the others for the Quirks. Shock-Absorption, Super-Power, Super-Regeneration, a perfect All Might killing combo."
"That matches what Eraser said Shigaraki was boasting about," Nezu says.
"You got all that from touching Nomu?" Yagi asks.
"Yeah, it was nasty," Horizon says. "The thing was a walking corpse so I didn't mind cutting it up. It wasn't even sentient, only the parts of the brain needed to accept commands were working, the strain of multiple Quirks is too much for a body to handle, something had to give."
"Any idea of how it was done?" Yagi asks, a bit of trepidation in his voice. "With medical operations or did it seem a bit more...natural..."
Horizon raises a brow at that, "well I could tell it involved a lot of drugs and operations, the pieces were put together and grafted before the brain was rewired, Super-Regeneration helped pull it all together, but that's a one in two hundred thousand Quirk, if it's even that common."
Yagi, Tsukauchi, and Nezu share a look of relief, glad to hear that it wasn't as simple as someone placing a hand on a villain and giving him multiple Quirks.
"And about Kurogiri?" Nezu asks.
"Warp Gate guy," Horizon sighs. "Didn't get to touch him, I just kept canceling his Warp Gates from wherever I was in USJ at time. It has a pretty obvious tell for me, not the first Warp Gate I've encountered."
"Really!" Both Tsukauchi and Yagi are surprised, but Nezu just nods along.
"Right, her, but this was of a completely different nature," Nezu says.
"Plus this one didn't need an anchor," Horizon adds. "Worked by either coordinates or lock-on, not sure. But After I warped everyone back to my homeroom he pulled us back into USJ, our feet were already in the mist so I didn't want to cancel it or try to rip us out---"
"Good call," Yagi says. "That could have gone bloody."
"I figured as much," Horizon says. "Then I just cut up Nomu, you pretty much know the rest."
"I see," Tsukauchi finishes writing everything Horizon said. "Anything else?"
"Yeah, I think the villains were targeting me, anything on that?" Everyone in the room stiffens at that.
"There was mention of that from Aizawa," Nezu says. "The villains said that since All Might wasn't there they would kill the secondary target, you. But the fact that they were also able to identify you, that is concerning."
"Unless they got in touch with one of my patients or something, but that's unlikely," Horizon says. "Nobody would hand over a miracle cure. Coupled with the fact that they knew we would be at USJ and who would be there...you've got a leak."
"Possibly," Nezu says. "But I'd rather not jump to that conclusion, we need to have a united front instead of all suspecting each other, especially right now."
"I just hope you find the leak before I do," Horizon grumbles out.
"For their sake, I hope so too," Nezu says. "Anyway, now we only have to deal with the matter of our PR nightmare, all eighty villains have been arrested and are already en route to Tartarus, including Nomu."
"And the school was searched, so my job here is done," Tsukauchi stands and politely nods to everyone. "I'll let you all deal with this while I continue investigating this League Of Villains."
"Thank you for all your hard work Tsukauchi," Nezu politely bows to the detective before he leaves the room.
After Tsukauchi leaves Horizon relaxes a bit more, "so, is this crap stopping the Sports Festival, because that really messes up my plan..."
"I think it best that we continue as usual, with added security," Nezu says, ignoring Yagi's worried look. "We need to show the public and our students that this incident won't hinder us at all."
"I suppose that's right," Yagi says. "And M---our students need the opportunity to make their proper debut to the world."
"Good, because I've had the info packs ready to send to news outlets for a while," Horizon says. "When I win the sports festival and everyone is searching my name they'll find what I want them to find."
"Careful now Young Horizon," Yagi says. "If you're too confident victory could slip away from you. People are most vulnerable when they think they've won."
"I'm not arrogant," Horizon says. "It's a proper assessment of my skill compared to everyone else I've seen, honestly the closest is probably Bakugo and he's hot garbage compared to me."
"Well I'll be sure to watch your performance closely," Yagi says.
"One thing, since my Quirk is warping, it's legal for me to summon my sword right?"
"Completely, after the game officially begins that is," Nezu says. "But if you cause too much damage with it you'll be disqualified, the same goes for everyone and their Quirks too."
"Easy win then," Horizon says.
"Well now that we've handled those things, I just need to figure out the PR nightmare this situation has caused. People are already demanding All Might step down for the safety of the students," Nezu says sadly.
"Why not tell the truth?" Horizon asks flatly.
"What do you mean?" Yagi asks.
"Well, if you just consider it all at face value, villains made this incredibly intricate master plan expending a crap ton of resources to kill All Might, only to be stopped by a class of first years three days into school, their homeroom teacher and a rescue hero that almost never fights. Villains suck and UA looks good and---"
"And," Nezu cuts him off. "You'll want us to name you specifically and credit you with taking down their weapon and disrupting their Warp Gate user, playing an instrumental part in our victory, and putting the spotlight on yourself even before the sports festival."
"Well," Horizon shrugs. "It's not like we'd be lying."
"But we'd place our students in the crosshairs of any revenge attacks, and antagonize the villains by humiliating them," Nezu points out, a serious frown on his face. "That's why I already disregarded this option, while I am proud of my students we still don't know the full extent of the League Of Villains."
"Yeah, but you'd put most of the heat on me, and I'm certainly good bait," Horizon says
"Hmm, if another attack happens and any student gets hurt we'd be in a lot more trouble after pulling such a stunt," Nezu says. "I already plan to more properly insulate the school and all our teaching schedules."
"Smart move," Yagi says. "And I should make a better effort to actually be here, I got sidetracked doing heroics and wasn't even here when my students needed me..."
"Agreed," Horizon says harshly. "You made a deal, honor it, no matter what. Breaking contracts is grounds to be put down, remember that."
Yagi just looks at him a bit nervously, "right...yeah."
"Well I should get the press statement out," Nezu says. " I'll follow Horizon's plan, showing that everyone at UA is capable will look much better, I don't want any students scared to come to our school."
Nezu immediately takes out a tablet and types up a proper statement. And twenty minutes later it's posted.
"Already at five million views and it's only been seconds!" Nezu chuckles.
Horizon's phone immediately begins going off, he unlocks it to see his 'Yay!' profile going crazy.
"And I'm already at a million followers," he can't help but laugh. "Man those hero-worshipping idiots are too easy..."
"Hey now, you shouldn't call your fans that," Yagi says.
"Tch, fuck those sheeple..."
BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Yagi's phone goes off, he reaches for it so quickly you'd think it burnt him.
"Emergency Hero Network alert," he says, then his face looks drained of all life as he sees the article. He places it on the table for Nezu and Horizon to see, an entire city block turned to rubble. Dozens of armored trucks and cop cars were crushed and tossed about as if they were nothing.
"What the hell did that, where is that?" Horizon asks.
"That, was the League Of Villains convoy," Yagi says. "Apparently they were attacked by something, hit with a EMP and attacked before anyone could respond, no survivors or witnesses, but lots of missing prisoners, including a certain trio..."
"Let me guess," Nezu groans. "Shigaraki, Kurogiri, and Nomu..."
Yagi just nods sadly, knowing this fight was far from over...
END CHAPTER---
So I failed to explain properly the interaction between Amputate and Super-Regeneration last chapter and a lot of people got mad, it'll come up again and I'll go more in-depth at that point, just need you to trust me until then, Law is still op :)
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Sitting in a dimly lit room, All For One is in his usual black formal suit, his head exposed, various tubes inserted into his skin to help keep him alive as he sits with his oldest friend.
His head only had a mouth, no ears or other sensory parts, no hair, appearing burnt and battered, like a rotting potato that a child stitched together.
The giant 225cm -7ft4- tall man, just barely taller than All Might, relaxes in his comfortable chair and listens to Dr. Garaki prattle on about his creations, the man's pride in his Nomu's boundless as always, only second to his admiration of All For One himself, not even the value of his own life could match those things.
Dr. Garaki was a short and portly man with large glasses and a thick white mustache contrasting his bald head. Appearing no older than sixty, but in truth, he was the second oldest person on the planet, at over 120 years old, second only to All For One, a being that has existed since the first generation of Quirks.
"Any news Kyudai?" All For One asks in a deep yet calm voice, and the doctor just sighs as he looks at the screens in front of him.
"Honestly this is a waste of time," the man grumbles, the only person in the world who could speak to the demon lord so casually. "I don't get why we even gave that brat those two Nomus, especially Kurogiri, after we took over a decade to create his Warp Gate Quirk, that damn man-child could never be your successor master."
"Tomura is still young, Kyudai, he will make mistakes---"
"And get two of our Nomus caught," the man grumbles.
"Yes, but we already have someone en route to rescue them...all three of them, and collect the simple thugs to make more Nomus."
"To think that I may one day have to work with that child," Garaki begins silently crying at the thought, looking at his dear friend and master with sadness in his eyes. "If only I could heal your body, then you could rule forever as we've always wanted."
"I know doctor, but that dream died when All Might and I had our last encounter, now he is teaching, certainly trying to find someone to inherit his power, his next bet for the Symbol Of Peace, so I must do the same and pass everything to a successor, wouldn't you agree?"
Garaki sighs, "I just wish I could have done more, a hundred years of experimentation, yet I can't save the person who matters most to me...I feel useless."
"No no no Kyudai, it's not your fault," All For One comforts his friend. "You are the only person in this world who cannot be replaced, my oldest friend and confidant, in fact, your usefulness has even outlived me...or at least it will."
Garaki can't help but shed another tear at those words, but he's unable to accept what forgiveness All For One was offering.
BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Garaki turns back to the screen, "it seems UA has released a report, now we can get some idea of what happened at the USJ."
"Indeed, our trojan told us one part of the story, but I'd like to see how they spin this tale," All For One says. "How will UA handle the media after they've been attacked, and the Symbol Of Peace wasn't even there to help, a difficult situation, but I'm sure Nezu will solve it."
"Yes, that High Spec wielding bear-mouse," Garaki grumbles as the news report reads the document aloud. "If it were possible to create a brain that could handle that Quirk we could dominate the world, easily."
"Assuming we could even get to him," All For One says. "UA has some of the most meticulous and weaponized security in the world, and he never leaves his fortress. It's like a private country within Japan, it's honestly a miracle the USJ attack was even a success."
"Thankfully you have people everywhere," Garaki says.
A few minutes later and the news report is complete, propping up Horizon, Thirteen, and Eraser, while putting down the villains for foolishly attacking UA, eighty villains infiltrated, and all were arrested, including their abomination of a superweapon, now publicly known as Nomu.
In the end, the villains didn't manage to damage any of the students, and a quick trip to Recovery Girl fixed both pros.
"Exactly as we heard, it seems his classmate was the main problem...that Horizon kid," Garaki said, not thinking much of the fact that villains were captured, they'd be back soon enough anyway. "But to think he beat Brainless and nullified Kurogiri, very impressive."
"More than just impressive Kyudai, superhuman," All For One says, a vicious smile on his lips. "It wasn't clear before, but I believe this confirms it. First Nezu claims he is capable of being the next Symbol Of Peace, then our friend inside tells us his Quirk is warping, among other things. But now he has offensive power that I only suspected people like All Might, Endeavour, and Star and Stripe to possess, quite a scary combo."
"You think he has One For All? That All Might passed his Quirk onto this child," Garaki thinks about it for a moment and can't help but agree. "That would explain how he beat Brainless that was built to kill All Might, but how would we know for sure? We already had our people in the Hero Public Safety Commission check, his private record just says Hand Of God."
"Because of Nezu."
"Nezu?" Garaki asks, not putting the pieces together.
"Yes, he has been blocking all of our contacts, any attempt we made to track or contact Horizon this past year was blocked, we couldn't tell by who, but it could only be Nezu. We assumed the miracle doctor had friends in high places, but now we know he has a sponsor at the very top of this world."
"Then it's a good thing we didn't manage to make contact with him to get you an appointment for healing," Garaki sighs in relief. "Things could have gone very poorly, and we don't have any way to deal with his warping since its so instantaneous...with a massive range too."
"Yes, but this report also made it obvious that Horizon is the next One For All user," he says, confusing the doctor slightly.
"I'm sorry but I don't follow, the report only said what we already confirmed happened," Garaki says.
"Yes, exactly. But Nezu would never put a student's name in such a report and antagonize us, even if he thinks the entire League Of Villains was arrested, he would quicker pin everything on the teachers and All Might to make them targets instead of students, this shows his absolute unshakable faith in Horizon to defend himself from any villains we send after him, its alarming how much confidence he has in the boy, even if it's only so because they believe I'm dead."
"Hmm, One For All would explain that level of confidence in the kid for sure, should we take the bait and attack him, we don't have any more Nomus that can match Brainless so it'll be a while before we're ready," Garaki says. "But taking One For All is worth it."
"No, that won't work, my body as it is right now can't handle the power amplification of my little brother's Quirk. And even if I went in person he could simply warp away, I would need a reason for him to stay in the fight, and hostages don't work since he will simply remove them too," All For One says, then he frowns. "I'll have to make things personal, make him want to fight me."
"Our spy says he's an asshole so that'll be tough," Garaki says flatly. "Honestly unless we can get Nezu or someone he cares about I don't see how this will work."
"Well luckily we are not alone, I'll contact all the people I can, we'll dig up all the information we can on Horizon, he must have someone or something we can take to piss him off, every man has something they care about. Oh, and I'll contact the Aoyama family as well, make sure they know their new role in all of this..."
"And what about the so-called League Of Villains?" Garaki asks, clearly annoyed at having to indulge All For One's desire to groom Shigaraki.
"When they escape it will cause much panic, especially considering who we sent and how he operates, it would be best to shift the focus away from UA to ease the mind of those students."
"The other Hero Courses across Japan?" Garaki asks.
"Precisely, and it will play into Nezu's plan to make Horizon looks even better, we need him confident in himself to the point that he would fight anyone, and we need UA and All Might safe from media scrutiny, killing someone is easier if they stay in one place six days a week after all, much better than when All Might was running about Japan and Horizon was traveling the world."
"And how would you like to deal with the other Hero Courses?" Garaki asks. "After he gets back from rescuing them we could just warp him into those schools, it'd be easy."
"No," All For One disregards that idea entirely. "Let's ramp up production of Nomus, Tomura needs his own army, he isn't ready to command you or him just yet, far from it actually. We'll send a few dozen Nomus out to one school at a time, but make sure they're all weak. We want the media shaming the other schools for failing while UA has a first year that was able to stop a monster intended to kill All Might. Oh, and you can collect the corpses to make more."
"Hmm, that many will take at least a month."
"If we needed them capable of accepting orders yes," All For One says. "But these are just wild animals to be unleashed on students to stack bodies, we'll make them quickly and let them run wild until the pros put them down, and Kurogiri will collect the bodies."
Garaki smiles at that, "that much genetic material will greatly help my research, and a lot of those kids probably have strong Quirks too."
"Not to mention this will further make them believe that I'm dead, because why would I ever expend resources that don't directly hurt All Might, it's so out of character that it can't be me," he smiles victoriously at the thought of them thinking he's gone.
"A single move with so many layers, your evil genius is truly unmatched my friend," Garaki says. "Now I need to be ready to operate on many fresh subjects..."
"Yes doctor, if all goes well I'll have to build you yet another lab," All For One chuckles darkly before loud beeping interrupts them.
Garaki takes out his phone and checks the message.
"Good news I expect, as usual from him," All For One says.
"Mhm, both the Nomus are recovered, Kurogiri is a bit damaged from the ice and Brainless needs to be put back together," Garaki says happily.
"And Tomura?"
"Oh, the brat is fine too, they're already at another safehouse," Garaki immediately begins typing on his computer. "I'll start looking into which schools we should hit first, Japan has thousands of Hero Courses, aside from Shiketsu we need to make sure the targets we select have people with useful Quirks."
"Good, and have Kurogiri warp me to their location when the coast is clear, I'd like to go in person to greet them, after all, my presence is the greatest reward I can give him."
Garaki nods in agreement, "well he never fails, and he exists to serve and protect you, honestly the fact that his body can handle seven Quirks without any modifications helped make the foundation for my Nomu program, I can't imagine a better bodyguard and attack dog, if anyone deserves to see you in person it's him..."
All For One smiles proudly, "yes, I too am quite impressed by him, Gigantomachia..."
END CHAPTER---
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