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12.92% MHA: Horizon (Ope-Ope No Mi) / Chapter 48: CHAPTER 045(Gold Medal Challenge)

Capítulo 48: CHAPTER 045(Gold Medal Challenge)

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CHAPTER START---

Running at full speed Law feels the cool night air crash against him. Breaking what would have been mythic Olympic records before the advent of Quirks 300 years ago.

Wearing just his UA blue and white PE pants and the white reinforced dress shoes from his Hero Costume he sprints shirtless and without a body glove, a thick layer of sweat glistening on his body, sticking his short spiky black hair to his face and head.

Sword at his side, already drawn, he rushes down street after street under the moonlight, hearing loud clanking in the distance ahead of him.

'Last one...' he reminds himself, picking up the pace. Rounding the corner he sees a long street of four-story buildings, unpainted, blank, as if this was an abandoned construction site, even the roads were concrete and had no lines, just a vague form so you'd know what they were meant to be.

"Gotcha," he smiles viciously, looking up at the Zero-Pointer, a massive 60m -196ft- tall green robot with four legs and a rectangular head reminiscent of a cannon.

"Inferior! Human!" The robot yells, nearly shaking the street as it rushes Law.

Breaking into a full sprint once again Law feels the soreness in his legs begging him to stop.

He raises his left hand and flicks his pointer finger upward.

TAKT!

Chunks of concrete from the road, rough and unrefined but large boulders either way are ripped out of the ground.

He runs from one to the next to the next, ascending like a staircase until he's 30m in the air.

The robot's large clawed hand comes down to slap him out of the air.

BOOSTER SHOT!

INCISION!

The healing energy floods his body, not finding any wounds it once again boosts his physical might.

His sword connects to the metal and cleaves the hand in two, 10m of metal and wiring slashed in one smooth motion.

Flipping in the air he reaches down while upside down and grabs the robot's arm with his free hand.

BOOSTER SHOT!

His fingers try and fail to grip into the metal, sliding off "shit," he mutters. Until he finds a groove between the massive plates to grip onto.

He pivots and finds his footing, running up the robot's arm toward the shoulder, only for the other arm to come out to swat him like a bug.

Another slash divides the massive palm, and he feels himself barely hanging on, exhaustion catching up to him.

He ignores the sound of metal crashing to the ground below, falling to the roof of a building and collapsing a floor or two, nothing Cementoss couldn't fix.

Making it to the robot's head he slashes down with both hands, once again amplifying his slash as much as possible.

CRAANG!

The robot splits directly down for a dozen meters, "shit..."

He warps away as the now deactivated robot collapses, destroying a few buildings. On a nearby rooftop, he looks back at the collapsed robot, frowning at the damage of his last attack.

"My physical attacks are still so pathetic..." he deactivates his Quirk and begins taking a relaxing walk back to the front of this training ground.

---Minutes Later...

Sitting on the roof of the ten-story concrete control tower at the entrance to this training area, Law has his feet dangling over the edge.

The shirt of his PE Uniform and his body glove were neatly folded beside him, both sporting Horizon's logo on the back. His sword lays sheathed beside them along with his cards as he enjoys a drink from his water bottle. Accompanied by the cool night air and the sight of the full moon above this training area.

A square concrete jungle 300m wide. UA's newest addition to their list of massive training areas that puts them a cut above all the other Hero Courses.

CLICK!

Law hears the door to the roof open behind him, he instantly opens his room, then relaxes as the door opens, deactivating his Quirk once again.

"So how was tonight's training?" Nezu asks, casually closing the door behind him and walking up to Law, standing beside him at the edge of the roof.

"Same as always, but getting better," Law shrugs.

"That's good to hear, plus I'm sure Cementoss will appreciate not having to rebuild this entire training ground first thing in the morning, a welcomed change I'm sure from the past week..." Nezu takes out a sandwich from behind his back and hands it over to Law, "steak."

"Thanks," he begins unwrapping it and eating.

"Well it's almost 9 PM, you should eat something, and considering how much you eat I figured you could use it."

"Mhm," Law swallows and takes a drink of water, "trying to bulk up is a real pain in the ass, how come you're here?"

"Well it's already Friday night, just one more day until the Sports Festival, I figured I'd come see how the new move you've been developing is going."

"Surprisingly well," Law admits. "Usually it would take months or years to figure out a new one, but since I've got a lot of space and freedom here to move around and get rowdy it's a lot faster, but that's probably because of how simple the new move is..."

"Well, I'm happy to hear that," Nezu sits at the edge of the roof with Law. "It's certainly good that Training Ground Zeta is useful, since it was built to your specifications."

"Mhm," Law takes another drink of water. "No cameras or pests to bother me, that's the best part honestly, my own little playground. Especially since working out in the body glove is a nightmare, way too sweaty, it basically becomes a wetsuit."

"Gross."

"Exactly, but thanks to this place it's ready for use...just nowhere near as efficient as my other abilities."

"So you just, what, decide to do something and your Quirk makes it happen?" Nezu asks, still trying to understand what Hand Of God does.

"Mystery class, beyond human and scientific comprehension," Law shrugs. "As far as you need to know I can do whatever I want."

"Aha, but I'm not a human," Nezu points out.

"Still not saying."

"Oh well, it's not like you need help training it, so you can take care of your own Quirk training."

"Exactly, only three people in the world know how my Quirk works, so I'm keeping it that way," they both settle into a comfortable silence for a moment, until Law continues. "Is everything ready for the Sports Festival in two days?"

"Oh, of course, Pros from all across the country have been hired as security, and even if he isn't technically working at the Sports Festival, Endeavor has already called me and confirmed that he'll be there."

"So the rank one and two heroes, assuming you can even count on Yagi..."

"We can, he is still hell-bent on being the Symbol Of Peace, but between those two and you being present the League of Villains should be smart enough not to show their faces."

"Mhm, and speaking of Yagi, what's up with him and Deku?" Law asks without even looking over at Nezu.

"What exactly do you mean?"

"Well, I noticed him using his Quirk to talk to Deku a few times these past two weeks, seems like a waste of his time using his energy on that loser," Law says.

'He's only doing that because he knows you can 'sense' him,' Nezu thinks to himself.

"Well he's fulfilling his duty," Nezu says. "He's trying to help Midoriya to control his Quirk, he knows the importance of the Sports Festival, especially for Hero Course students, and he wants all of you to have the best possible chance of leaving a good impression during your debut."

"Well he should be more discrete about it," Law says. "It's a bad look having the number one hero constantly having meetings with one student."

"Says the student so well connected with the school Principal," Nezu points out.

"Yeah, but if I didn't know better I'd think All Might was his dad or something, at least with us nobody will make such a stupid mistake," Law chuckles, looking down at the Bear-Mouse.

"And why couldn't Yagi be his dad?" Nezu asks, curious as to exactly what Law thinks about the mentor and successor connection.

"Because I've seen Yagi's medical records, no kids, plus he's told me that," Law says. "But if someone doesn't know better it's the logical conclusion, since at face value their Quirks look identical."

"You think they aren't?" Nezu is both curious and amused by where this is going, half expecting Law to have figured it out by now, but grateful that Midoriya has avoided physical contact with him until now.

"Well they look similar, but I know Yagi's Quirk makes his cells like steel that's somehow elastic and swelling to contain more and more energy. It lets him accumulate and stockpile power, right?"

"Right," Nezu doesn't bother trying to hide that fact.

"Right, that means he started weak and became stronger over his lifetime, but Deku said he broke his arm as a kid using his Quirk, that it's always been strong. So it can't be an accumulation if it starts that strong, because he would have had time to learn it while it was stockpiling power, but to other people who don't know about Yagi's Quirk they may look the same."

"True," Nezu says. "His Quirk did start with rather insignificant and unnoticeable strength, while Midoriya has such incredible power from the beginning." A technical truth, as One For All the Quirk, did start weak.

Nezu simply plays along with Law's theory. Realizing that the idea of trading and passing on Quirks was so impossible to all but the very few who knew of All For One and One For All that even Law didn't consider the possibility. Especially since Yagi does in fact have an accumulation Quirk, but Midoriya was able to skip the long accumulation process by having all the stockpiled energy transferred to him.

"That makes sense," Nezu says. "Atleast you're the only one who noticed, thankful nobody else can see through walls."

"I can't technically see through walls, but no, everyone noticed."

"What?!"

"Oh yeah, he interrupted Deku and his friends in the hall and Uraraka mentioned it, pretty much everyone knows Yagi is training him."

"Oh...I hope they aren't jealous or resentful of it," Nezu says genuinely, making a mental note to scold Yagi for his carelessness.

"Doesn't matter," Law chuckles. "Yagi is just one big veiny bicep, he doesn't have the brainpower to figure out what Deku is doing wrong, as obvious as it is..."

"And I still can't convince you to help?" Nezu asks.

"I rather deep throat a whole cactus that help that trash."

"That's excessive..." Nezu sighs.

"Not like I care what happens to them at the Sports Festival, I'm just gonna win, have some food from the stalls, launch my career, and wave for the hero-worshipping trash in the stands," Law shrugs. "Gotta make sure I look good for the cameras after all."

"Well if you're so confident I'm sure you'll be fine, but don't underestimate your opponents, it could cost you, maintaining the top spot at UA is difficult for countless reasons."

"If you say so..."

"Have you considered who you'd like to intern under? I'm sure the moment you start warping about everyone will flood us with requests, not to mention you're already famous with how you've worked the press thus far."

"Well ideally I'd get Endeavor, but he famously never takes interns or work studies students," Law shrugs. "Hawks is rank 3, but...I don't think that'll go well for anyone involved..."

"It would be a shame to lose a top ten Pro so young," Nezu nods in agreement. "Jeanist is rank 4, him?"

"Yeah we'd probably get along from what I know, but I prefer people who are a bit more active, I'm starting from a better spot than the other students but I still need to rack up a lot of credit by stopping villains, can't do that sitting in Jeanist office all day."

"So you want to go looking for trouble? Well, Endeavor has the highest number of resolved incidents in history, globally that is."

"Until I go Pro at least," Law smirks at the thought of watching those numbers climb. "But I think Miruko will be best to intern and have my work studies under next year."

"She isn't interested in working with anyone," Nezu says. "And even if she was, I can't trust someone of her disposition with one of my students, same with All Might, not that teachers are allowed to host internships."

"Yeah but, I can handle her meathead terrible decisions, consider it?"

"I'll think about it, but that woman only has one brain cell and all it does is lift weights and punch villains, not a role model for my students..."

"Yeah but her being a meathead will let me run around and handle villains," Law shrugs. "After her would probably be Ryukyu and Gang Orca, I'd be shocked if I need anyone outside of the top ten."

"You forgot Edgeshot, your Quirk would be perfect for his stealthy style."

"Yeah but I need cameras around to boost my popularity, kinda works against the whole ninja thing he has going for him."

"That makes sense, well I'm sure you'll have your pick of the litter when they see what you can do."

"Yeah, and the gold metal will look good on me," Law chuckles. "But you know, there is one thing that would really help my 4-year plan..."

"Oh, what's that?"

"A Provisional Hero License," Law says. "I know normally Hero Courses only sent second-year students to take the test but, if I get it in year 1 then the three-year trial will be done just a few months after graduation, and I'd be able to do some freelance hero work whenever I'm not stuck in UA."

"Well that is normally the case, but I intended to have you take the exam in June to get it."

"Really? Wait, 'intended', you changed your mind?" Law asks.

"No, with the War On Heroes declared by the villains we've decided to have a summer training camp for the first years, we intend for all of you to take the September exam, just a few days before that semester starts."

"Why not just have me take it in June anyway?" Law asks. "You know I'll pass anyway so what's a few months early? Plus that way I'd get all summer to fight villains."

"I'd rather have your entire class take the exam together, teamwork is an important component in passing the exam."

"Do you honestly think between now and September I'll suddenly want to help those idiots pass that exam?" Law asks with a blank expression.

"Good point," Nezu says. "But keeping you with them is currently vital, we believe that the main reason the villains haven't launched a second attack at UA is because you can shut the Warp Gate Quirk down."

"I can't babysit them forever Nezu, and I'd like my summer free..."

"Hmm," Nezu thinks for a moment then nods, giving Law a brilliant smile. "Alright, if you can keep your word and win the UA Sports Festival, I'll let you take the license exam at the end of June. But it has to be a perfect and absolute victory..."

Law laughs at this easy challenge, "one gold medal coming up..."

END CHAPTER---

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Capítulo 49: CHAPTER 046(Sports Festival)

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CHAPTER START---

As the bell for lunch rings, everyone begins packing up, and Sero turns back to look at Horizon. "Hey you gonna disappear during lunch again, you can totally eat with us if you want."

"I'm actually gonna head down to the support department to talk to Power Loader, I need new shoes for my Hero Costume," Horizon says.

"Oh...that's too bad," Sero mutters sadly.

"Ugh, ignore him," Jiro walks up and says, ready to go have lunch with Momo. "He just wants you to have lunch with him to get noticed by your fan club."

"Well, some of them are pretty cute," Horizon adds. "Can't blame a guy for trying and all that..." He sees Sero give him a thumbs up. "It is kinda creepy the way they're always lurking around me, but that's part of the whole being famous aspect of heroics these days."

"Well I'm certainly not jealous of that, having people always watching you and following you around seems like a nightmare," Jiro mutters as she walks past them and toward Momo at the back of the room.

Tokoyami nods in agreement, "unfortunately it's the life we signed up for by attending UA."

"Once you---" Horizon stops talking, head snapping to the doors on the other side of the room, "there's a mob outside."

Everyone remaining in the room gets on alert immediately, silently looking at the windows leading into the hallway.

"What the hell do these people want now, how many selfies do I need to take with students before it gets old," Horizon mutters while getting up and walking to the door at the front of class, walking past Bakugo who was still packing his bag.

Pulling open the door he finds himself staring at a horde of first-years, towering over them.

"Wow he's huge!"

"So he always wears the mask?"

"Does he have the sword? I can't see!"

"He's intense."

And a dozen other lines are fired off as the crowd gets a bit rowdy.

"I see...only first years...so you're here because the Sports Festival is tomorrow, right?" he asks.

A few people nod nervously in response.

"Well, now you've seen us, so you can stop blocking the doorway now, my classmates want to go get lunch," he says casually, ignoring a few people who were blatantly taking pictures of him.

"Wow," a purple-haired boy with tired baggy eyes pushes his way to the front, now standing beside a short girl who was seemingly recording. "I can't tell if you're arrogant or confident, but you know we've heard a lot about you, constant chatter in our ear from the news, from clips online, from our friends. But don't think that means that we can't take your spo---"

"Shut up," Horizon commands, causing everyone to freeze, feeling waves of annoyance radiating from him. "Whatever declarations of desires, dreams, promises, and feelings you're about to vomit at my feet, swallow it. The truth is nobody in the world cares about any of that trash, we got the speech about you taking our spots, we're over it, you want them? You want to prove to UA and whoever else that you belong here instead of us? Then shut your mouth, and get to work."

He gestures to the gathered mob that was now getting annoyed.

"Win," he says, catching them off guard. "It's literally that simple, no talk, just action. Prove you should be here instead of us, because your words don't matter if you can't back up the talk. So how about you go plan your strategy for tomorrow, or literally anything more useful than this crap, now, get out of our doorway..."

Horizon immediately begins walking forward, and everyone gets out of his way, an ocean of people that were all talking parting to get out of his way.

Annoyance transformed into respect, although they had to admit they didn't like his abrasive manner of speaking.

Meanwhile back in the classroom, his classmates were more than a little surprised that he was so pleasant to the visitors, but their determination only grew, now seeing the mob of people that were aiming to replace them.

---20 Hours Later...

Standing with 11 other first years Horizon nods along to everything Ms. Midnight says, all wearing their PE Uniforms, with his having his logo in black at the back of it. The shirt of his PE Uniform opened to show off his white body glove beneath, his logo in blue on his chest.

"---I expect all of you Class Reps to keep everyone in line out there, at least while in the stands, I want you young and hot-blooded students running wild in the games," Midnight says in a completely serious tone.

"Yes ma'am!" everyone yells while Horizon only nods.

"Good, we start in 5 minutes, get to your waiting rooms, and wait for the announcements..."

Leaving the room Horizon is walking beside Kendo, her PE Uniform on with the arms rolled up to her elbow and legs rolled up to her knees.

"So you excited for this?" Kendo asks, her nervousness showing as she looks up at Horizon.

"It's just a competition, all I've gotta do is win."

Kendo frowns at that, "yeah I figured you wouldn't be nervous, you've been in the public eye for weeks, half the people are here for you... and you're so strong," she mutters quietly.

They arrive at 1Bs locker room in the stadium and stop at the door. They both face each other as he speaks, "no need to be nervous, just do your best, that's all you can do anyway," he raises a finger to her chin, lifting her head to get a proper look at her large teal eyes. "And besides, even if the gold is mine, you'll look incredible in silver...good luck."

He casually walks away leaving her to stare at his back, her face sporting a faint blush as her mind catches up to her body, "huh? Wait a minute...THAT JERK!" she takes a breath to compose herself before entering the room to address her class.

Walking into the 1A locker room Horizon sees Deku and Todoroki looking one second away from a fight, with Kirishima standing beside them, the entire room tense and silent, everyone looking at the duo.

"Save whatever crap this is for later, we go out in four minutes," he announces and closes the door behind him.

Everyone started getting more nervous or excited as Horizon takes out his phone, doing one last check on his online presence.

'Hmm, that video of my speech yesterday is trending, guess that girl was recording, not just taking pictures...and people think I was being motivational to our competition...ok, I'll take it...' he can't help but smile at that. 'Even when I'm not trying this is too easy.'

Minutes later they're all walking into the stadium as Present Mic announces all the classes, A through K, all 11 years-1 classes. 220 students competing for the top spot.

"Holy crap," Sero mutters nervously, standing toward the back with Horizon and Sato as they all walk into the arena. "This is a lot more intense than it looks on TV..."

And in truth, it was, even for Horizon. Standing in the arena, soft grass all around, a twenty-meter raise at the edges where the first row of views was sitting above. The absolutely gargantuan stadium was nearly 70 meters -220ft- tall, with rows and floors of seats for all 200 thousand spectators, including the private boxes at the top behind tinted windows.

Looking around as the other classes enter the arena he can see a few people holding up posters with his symbol on them, fans cheering specifically for him.

He smiles at that, raising his hand to give a polite wave before Midnight begins talking.

"Now, for the student pledge, we have... KATSUKI BAKUGO!" Midnight proudly announces, and while Bakugo stalks up to the stage, both hands in his pockets, a fair amount of the students look at Horizon in surprise.

He shrugs, "Bakugo got first on the public entrance exam, he represents more of you, its the logical choice..." was all he said before Bakugo began talking.

Bakugo opens his mouth to speak, then closes it, glaring at all the other students before focusing his gaze on Horizon at the back of the class. "I'll give it my all, and I won't let anyone stop me from being the absolute best Hero...not even you Glass Face..."

Horizon lifts a hand, and where his entire class expects a middle finger, he gives a thumbs up, "do your best Bakugo!" he cheers on his classmate.

Everyone who knows him is surprised by this, until they remember exactly where they are, 'public appearances...' they recall he's always talking about that.

But they also knew exactly why he meant, 'do you best, it won't be enough.' And clearly, Bakugo understood this too as he stomped off the stage fuming mad.

"Alright, time for the first game!" Midnight gets the crowd stirred up once more. "An obstacle race, the course is 4km around this stadium, Quirks are allowed of course, do whatever you'd like as long as you stay on the course, first to cross the finish line wins!"

"It's like they're handing me that gold medal," Horizon chuckles as his classmates just glare in envy, already knowing how this will go.

"Now get to your starting positions!" Midnight gestures to the large red hallway built into the stadium.

Everyone immediately rushes for a front spot, toes against the starting line, but when the crowd moves Horizon is just left standing alone in the middle of the arena. Midnight has to stop herself from telling him to get to the starting point, saving herself from looking foolish on TV.

As everyone gets settled the stadium falls completely silent, and the timer begins.

3

Horizon opens a room, 700m in every direction, just enough to cover the entire track. A quick SCAN feeds him all the information he needs.

'A minefield, a horde of robots, and...when did they even have time to dig that hole...god damn Power Loader...'

2

He finds a pebble at the finish line, identifying the banner held between two posts.

1

Horizon takes one last look at the crowd, most people excitedly watching the starting hallway, some of his fans looking at him in worry.

'This is the first time the public will know what my Quirk is...time for the big debut.'

"START!" Midnight announces.

SHAMBLES!

"WINNER!" Present Mic immediately announces, and Horizon truly takes the stage...

END CHAPTER---

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