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---10 PM...
Skulking through the 1A Dorms a few minutes after curfew, Jiro looks around anxiously through the hallways before exiting her room.
She was wearing her usual 'Deep Dope' oversized top and a pair of matching shorts, phone gripped tightly in hand.
Taking a deep breath she tries to play it cool, as if she just got up to go get some water from downstairs, atleast that's the plan if anyone bumps into her.
But that's unlikely. This being the Hero Course means everyone trains from sunrise to sundown, and hardly any people are walking about at night.
Too exhausted from the constant training and studying, and had she not taken a nap after their large study session she would have been sound asleep as well.
Walking down the hallway she passes by Momo's room, and considers a possibility.
'If I go to chat with Horizon and Momo is there things could get awkward. I mean we already decided how to deal with...ugh but I really don't want to deal with any weird situations tonight.
But I mean I'm just going to talk, nothing is gonna happen, I think. I hope. I hope? Do I? Well, a little bit happening won't hurt, right?'
She smacks herself on the forehead, then winces a bit and rubs it.
'I'm overthinking things, but just to be sure I'm not interrupting them...'
She raises one of her Earphone Jacks and touches the wall in front of Momo's room.
Then relaxes as she hears her best friend sound asleep.
'I really need to stop doing that,' she reminds herself while retracting it. 'But I kind of like it when he teases me...atleast it makes him talk to me more. Nope, I need to cut out that habit.'
Walking to the end of the hallway she sees the boys' side across from her, then makes a sharp turn toward the elevator.
'It's only one floor up, and with my luck, someone is out getting a snack downstairs,' she thinks, walking to the side of the elevator to the stairwell that wraps around it.
Feeling more and more anxious with every step, she arrives on the fifth floor, the top floor of the 1A Dorms.
And walks toward its only resident.
Arriving at his door she can't help but roll her eyes at it. White and blue with his logo boldly carved into it.
'He really can't help himself huh,' she looks down the hallway, where usually she'd see three more doors for the other rooms.
But instead, it's just a plain wall.
'They really did make his room the entire Boys' Side top floor...what does he even need all that space for. Well, I guess I'm about to find out,' she takes a deep breath and raises her hand to gently knock.
Only for the door to open, and a pair of yellow and black eyes stare back at her.
They both freeze for a moment, then Mina is the first to break the awkward tension.
"Heya Kyoka, what brings you here?" She puts on her best smile to try and snap Jiro out of her frozen state.
"Uh, I, um---"
Mina leans forward, getting a bit closer to Jiro, "Here for a little one-on-one time with your not-so-secret crush huh, you being a bad rocker girl?"
"What! No!" Jiro yells, no longer trying to be stealthy, face fully red at the thought. "I was just, um, just here to talk about...things."
Mina gives her a mischievous smile, and Jiro just knows she's never going to let her forget this. "Really, talking, well if you say so."
"I'm serious."
"uh-huh, just be sure to tell me everything tomorrow," Mina steps out of the room, leaving Horizon's door open behind her. "Looks like Horizon gets his hands on all the ladies tonight," she says scandalously, just to see Jiro blush and try to cover her face.
Mina's laughter echoes through the hallway, "Honestly you're way too fun to tease, I wasn't here for that, I like sweet wholesome guys. Plus you two already have...whatever you have with him."
Jiro slowly drops her hands, "really? But then why were you here?"
Mina shrugs, "well I guess that's something you can talk to him about, all the science kind of went over my head anyway," she leans forward and pinches Jiro's cheek. "If you keep blushing like this you'll get to do more than talking tonight, you're just too adorable sometimes."
"That's not, uh."
"Good luck," Mina says as she begins walking away. "And keep it safe."
"It's not like that I swear!" Jiro yells, but Mina just waves and rounds the corner, heading back to her own room.
As she hears the elevator open, Jiro turns around, now looking into Horizon's room.
"Well, atleast she won't tell anyone...if only so she can tease me about this more, just my luck."
Assuming he must have heard and likely sensed her by now, however that works, she enters and closes the door behind her.
And she can't help but observe how neat everything was in his room. As she expects from their resident doctor atleast.
To the far end of the room was his large bed, where just last night she listened in on him and her best friend as they---
'Focus Jiro,' she snaps herself out of her daze.
Only a few feet away, standing in front of a hologram with a few tabs of notes and what looks like chemical structures floating about, Horizon is adding more and more information to it.
'Mina did say the science of it went over her head...' Jiro recalls.
"Had fun sneaking about the hallways?" Horizon asks. "Took you long enough to get here..."
"You knew I was coming?"
"I could sense you, and by the way, Momo just sends me a text and I warp her into my room, for future notice when we do this again."
"You could have done that at any point, why didn't you?" Jiro was clearly annoyed by his antics.
"More fun this way, could have sworn you were having a panic attack deciding whether to take the elevator."
"It wasn't that bad," she grumbles and walks up to him, looking at the work he's doing.
"It was," he looks to the side, down at the petite girl, "but hey, you made it, and I'm happy to have you."
"Well, atleast you find it funny."
"Adorable really. And I noticed you couldn't help but be a little perv one last time."
"It's really not like that," Jiro says. "It's just...kind of a habit now. Ever since joining UA, you and the teachers say we should use our Quirks any chance we get, well mine lets me do things like that. So its good practice...and I guess I got a bit carried away with it."
"I understand the feeling, better than most actually."
"Really, you do? And mind if I take a seat?" She gestures to the couch at his back.
"Go ahead, and yeah, I do understand it," he continues his work. "My Quirk allows me to sense things within my range, I can pick and choose what I sense depending on how much focus and energy I want to use.
I could decide to ignore, let's say, your clothes, and get a map of what you look like naked. I can peer through walls entirely without limit and know what everyone is doing. I can see behind the masks of the Top Pro Heroes, and there isn't anything in the world they could do about it.
So yes, I understand the temptation to use your Quirk to violate the privacy of others, but honestly, its never bothered me."
"Right, because of course mister perfect never gets tempted to do bad things," Jiro rolls her eyes. "Do you really expect me to believe that?"
"Why would I care about others in such a way, they aren't worth my attention. Besides, it ruins the fun part."
"What fun part?"
"Well, half the fun of women is making them want you, if you skip to the end it's rather boring."
"You expect me to believe you enjoy that?"
Horizon looks over his shoulder at her, then goes back to finishing his notes, "asks the girl who has a massive and obvious crush on me, snuck though the halls after curfew to visit me in my dorms, and is now sitting patiently for me to finish these notes and give her my undivided romantic attention...really?"
"Tch, that doesn't prove anything," Jiro says. "Besides, seems like you've had a lot of visitors lately."
"Mina?"
"Mhm."
"She's cute, and has a nice ass, but do you really think I'd put my dick in a potential acid puddle...no thanks."
"Well, she said she wasn't here for that kind of thing...so why was she here?"
"I'll show you," he saves his work and then taps a few buttons on the watch device Mei made for him.
Jiro moves over so he can sit beside her, and the hologram begins to change.
Displaying what appear to be scans and results from hundreds of people, hundreds of sick people that need help.
Then each file ends with the same word, 'Terminally ill'.
"Your patients?" Jiro asks.
"No, these are people from around the world that I just can't get to, but I can fix. Too bad they'll all long die before I could ever get the chance to go there."
"Oh no...Mina?"
"Is fine," he reassures her. "A while ago I won a bet, and I asked that she let me run some tests on her. She thought I was going to do some perverted nonsense apparently."
"We all thought that, she told the girls."
"And you're still here, how odd. But no I wanted to examine her Quirk. Contrary to what you may see in the news and on TV, Quirks like hers and Bakugo's are rare. Full body quirks that entirely change a body system while adding nothing but genetic benefits to the user.
But I've already studied some similar to Bakugo's so I don't need him...but Shoji is a bit hesitant to be 'treated like a lab rat', as he puts it. Something about his past...I wasn't really listening to the sob story."
"Jeez, even when you try to be sweet you're still a jerk."
"That's my charm babe, but really now, medicine has become a lot more difficult since the advent of Quirks.
Operating on people is much harder as the human form can vary so much now, it's like having to be a doctor, a vet, and a dozen other things all in one. That's also why creating universal medication is all but impossible too, and that's something I plan to solve."
"You want to make medicine?"
"Just think about it, if I study enough people firsthand, I could make a cure for dozens of things. One shot or one pill or whatever, and bye-bye terminal illness, forever."
"Wow..." Jiro's eyes widen in amazement, never expecting to know this side of him.
"As I said, this Pro Hero thing is a stepping stone, and now that the entire world knows me, they trust me, I can get information that would have never been given freely before. I can fix this world, one cure at a time.
For each of the people I save by fighting some idiot villain, I'll save tens of millions more by completing these cures. No cape, no tights, just results, as it should be. And it'll all be completely free."
"Completely free?" Jiro was even more surprised. "Since when were you altruistic?"
"Well, maybe being around all you heroes is rubbing off on me, but recently I've had a change of heart," he lied, so blatantly and boldly she couldn't help but believe it.
Leaving her none the wise to how far he'd go to have this entire world eating out of his palm.
"So it really was just for research," Jiro says as she scoots a bit closer to him, and he casually drapes his arm around her.
"Well, Mina is cute."
"You like pink?"
"She makes it work, but I usually mostly just like Quirky people. People that would be indistinguishable from regular boring obsolete humans...but then they just have that one odd thing about them. Like you, just an incredibly cute girl...with Earphone Jacks for earlobes."
Jiro blushes up a storm as the holograms close up, and the room dims slightly. "You really like them?"
"I think they look good on you."
"And I think I might look good on you," Jiro says his line, which catches him off guard.
"---oh, you heard me say that yesterday, of course."
She giggles a bit, "sorry I couldn't help it."
"Well, atleast you're not wrong..."
Feeling he heart pounding in her chest, and her face heating up, Jiro quickly blurts out, "can we take it slow! I mean...I'm just not ready for, you know."
There is a moment before Horizon speaks where she's worried he won't like what she said, until, he laughs, and she feels her heart sink, fearing the worse.
But as always, he never misses a chance to tease her.
"Wooowwww, I just wanted to talk and you're already thinking about such horny things, honestly Jiro you're such a pervert."
"Wh---HEY!"
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"Honestly I expected a bit more from you," Mei says.
She was currently standing at her workstation, looking over the sketch Horizon brought her.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Horizon asks.
"Well, this is like...just less than I expected from you of all people."
"I'm already a miracle doctor, you want me to be a perfect engineer too? Honestly, there is no pleasing you people."
"You please me plenty, but I'm just surprised you aren't as good with technology," Mei says as she makes some adjustments to his sketch.
"I work with meat, not metal. Besides, that's what I have you and Nezu for."
"Mhm, well, I can make this work, but having to make it out of individual parts that can also interconnect with some thin membrane is going to be tough. What's this for?"
"I saw the gear you made for Sero, to bolster his skeletal structure and increase how much pressure his Hero Costume can take. Figured if I could get one of those under my suit it could come in useful."
Mei considers it for a moment. "I made his so he could use his tape to catch heavy objects without his arms being torn off of his body or getting crushed by the force, you need it for the same thing?"
"No, just enough weight for...about 136kg -300lbs-. Think you can manage?"
Mei gets an idea of what he's planning and raises a brow, "This will take a lot of time. Finding materials for what I assume you're planning will be tough. It would have been easier if your Quirk gave you regular Telekinesis, but Hand Of God is more...weird."
"This isn't a combat-based upgrade, just...something a bit flashy that I want. An idea I actually got from All For One. You can send it to the back of the line for now."
"Great, because I've got a lot to work going on with all the Work Studies students requesting upgrades, I'll be making babies non-stop!"
"Any interesting requests?"
"Not really, some Gloves, a new cloak for Tokoyami, a stretchy one, oh and I have to help Bakugo to modify his gauntlets. I'm not allowed to build those so when the company sends them to UA he wants them to be reinforced. Because apparently, you breaking them was the last straw."
"Not like you mind, I'm sure you've been waiting for a chance to get your hands on those."
"Oh yeah," Mei finishes up her sketch, and compared it to his.
It's like he was a toddler drawing while she is an architect.
"Uh, guess that'll do," Horizon says.
"Great, when I'm done with the others I'll work on this."
"How's Shield been doing by the way? Have you spoken to her?"
"Just a little bit, her dad only teaches the third-year students but I go talk to him during his office hours, he's my Hero after all. But I'll be more famous than even the great David Shield someday."
"Well, he's a genius like you, but he got lucky by being the main support for All Might, you're doing the same thing with me, and I'll be a lot bigger than All Might."
"I'm counting on it, his daughter spoke to me once since she's in the second-year classes. Plus she even asked if you wanted any upgrades and offered to help me out. But I don't want to put anyone else's name on your gear... and I figured since you don't really rely on equipment it would be fine to turn her down."
"That's fine, I've got enough as it is, and I haven't even used my medical stuff much. Aside from the scope you made me atleast, but that's still pretty rare."
"I figured as much, plus that explains this new request. Warping makes it obsolete but I'm guessing you plan to use it to make a statement, or a cool entrance, right?"
"Am I getting to be that predictable?"
"Always have been..."
"Ouch."
A few minutes later after discussing her upcoming projects, the door to the design studio opens and in walks Juzo Honenuki -Mudman-, and Setsuna Tokage -Lizardy- of class 1B.
Horizon was rather familiar with Juzo, but hasn't spoken to Setsuna much.
"Hey Hatsume, Horizon," Juzo greets them as he and Setsuna enter.
"Hey guys," Setsuna says, then activates her Quirk.
Her head immediately detaches and begins floating about the room, a mop of long green hair flowing about as she inspects all the cool devices Mei has hanging around.
None of them pay it any mind, her Quirk: Lizard Tail Splitter, allows her to split apart her body and freely control the parts by a certain manner of Telekinesis, essentially allowing flight.
The parts also regenerate when away from her main body for too long.
A Quirk that would have been much more creepy, had Horizon not set the bar a bit too high by ripping out Shoto's heart on national TV.
"Did you come for you gear?" Mei asks Juzo. "Or did you have more babies for me to work on?"
"Uh just the gear for now, and Tokage wants to look around for something that can help her deliver big hits," he gestures to the floating girl.
"My Quirk is good for recon but not much else, and even if my Work Studies should be focused on mobility and recon, better safe than sorry, right?"
"Good point," Horizon says as Mei begins rummaging through her lockers of gadgets.
"Hey Horizon, did you hear the good news?" Setsuna asks him, floating her head about the room and looking around, but detaching the bottom half of her skull and sending it toward him to chat. "I got a work studies, finally!"
"Why should I care?"
Juzo chimes in, "Your girlfriend got the same offer, from Majestic."
"Majestic? The street magician guy, well I guess it makes sense since he's all about support and versatility, your Quirks are good for that. But what girlfriend?"
"Momo," Setsuna says. "Figured she would have told you already."
"I've been training all day since classes finished, actually since lunch. I got to skip the final part of our exams."
"Guess it makes no sense giving you the first aid exam huh," Juzo says. "Well, I'll actually be working with Sero this week. Crust got called over by Edgeshot to provide support in some case, so we'll be taking the train together tonight."
"Really?" Horizon asks. "I guess that means Mid-Term results are already out, and Sero got about 80% if he's allowed to continue the work studies."
"Wow, you're really out of the loop huh," Setsuna says, now bringing her pieces together, back to the 5ft2 tall -158cm- girl. "Results came out about an hour ago, you're at the top as usual, perfect score."
"Well I'm Horizon, it's expected of me."
"Are you heading over to Tokyo tonight?"
"I've already lost enough days with these stupid exams, and Friday night is time I can't afford to not be out on patrol."
"Wow, you really never stop working, maybe you can join us in training sometime. Our class practices combo moves all the time, and my Quirk counters your slashes so it could be interesting."
"I have more than one trick," he raises his hand, and some electricity dances between his fingers.
Juzo speaks up," Yeah but, well, that doesn't mean learning how to fight as a team won't be useful training."
"I'm more efficient on my own."
"Found it!" Mei yells out as she comes rushing over with a small box and hands it to Juzo. "These are for when you use your Quirk to soften the ground, drop one of the trackers into it. Each of them also project a sonar so you'll be able to effectively 'see' what's floating about under the surface."
"So you plan to use your Quirk to soften the floor, then fight people in it?" Horizon asks.
"Not really, its mostly so I know where to find things. I've had to soften large areas before so the villains don't escape with valuables, but finding them afterwards is a pain. My Quirk: Softening, can turn any inorganic matter into a softer form, I can even make concrete into just a bit more viscous than water now after lots of training, but finding things in it get tough since it's still concrete."
"So this lets you sense where things are, clever," Horizon says.
"Yeah, got the idea from your Quirk actually."
"Juzo's actually really smart," Setsuna says. "He's like our class tactician, alongside Kendo."
"I assumed as much..."
'A highly utility-based Quirk, and I've seen his training, he's got a lot of potential as a battlefield commander, more than Sero and Shinso for sure. They're more like specialists, Mudman could be useful,' Horizon thinks.
A moment later as Mei is explaining the intricacies of the new gear, he gets a message inside his visor.
"I need to go, I'll see you all Monday---"
SHAMBLES!
He warps away before they can even respond.
Arriving in Nezu's office he sees the principal sitting on the couch drinking a cup of tea, seemingly relaxing on this Friday afternoon.
"So what's up?" Horizon asks as he sits opposite Nezu, putting his feet up on the coffee table.
"A public imagine issue, involving you."
"My image is perfect," Horizon says. "I'm the 'true hero' the world needs, or whatever other nonsense they say."
"Well, take a look at this," Nezu taps his phone, and the coffee table project a hologram.
It was recorded from a shaky camera, a shootout happening. And from this point of view, the cameraman was also holding a gun.
"A police body camera...oh, I remember this," Horizon says. "How much did they record."
"Just keep watching."
The villains were outgunning the few police officers president, pistols against assault rifles.
The man recording fires a few shots that just barely miss.
And in the chaos, he ducks behind his police car as a hail of bullets slams into it.
"Argh!" he groans, then his hand reaches across the camera up to his shoulder, and when it moves away, it's covered in his own blood.
But a few seconds later, all the shooting stops. The camera continues frantically shaking as the man slowly gets up to peek over his cover, then stands so the camera can see what he sees.
Horizon was in the middle of the shootout, and the three men were no longer holding their rifles.
All the police officers stop, and what seems to be the leader takes a step back.
"Rush him!" the man orders both his subordinates.
One of them slams his fists together, a brawny man, and both his arms from fingertips to shoulder become diamonds.
Horizon raises his sword, and as the man punches forward he cleaves the man's entire arm right down the middle with Amputate, and it harmlessly falls to the floor.
He ducks down and swipes at the man's legs, using Amputate to remove them before doing a full spin and slicing at the man's waist. Then finally cleaving upward, slicing his torso and head right down the middle.
The man begins to panic and wail but was completely uninjured, until Horizon stomped on his head, knocking him out.
All of this happens so fast the second man only has time to rush up and throw his hands forward, spraying a jet of green acid from his palms.
CURTAIN!
Horizon's light blue, transparent, square shield appears in front of him.
The acid splashes on it and goes everywhere, including back toward the attacker.
The man raises his hands instinctively, only for his arms to be nearly completely dissolved.
His blood-curdling screams are like nails on a chalkboard as the video shows his flesh dissolve, and in some areas so badly it reveals the bones beneath.
Horizon drops his shield and walks past the man, noticing the acid only seems to affect organic matter as he steps through it. A very deadly Quirk for anyone else to deal with.
He sees the puddle of acid slowly inching toward its creator who was unconscious face first on the road, and gives him a hard kick to the gut, sending him a few meters away to safety.
All while the last man is shaking in his boots, his Quirk already active, giving him a third eye in the middle of his forehead, a non-combat Quirk.
Which explains why he pulled out his pistol and was now aiming it at Horizon.
Horizon looks down at Scalpel, his sword, then up at the man, and shakes his head.
"What do you plan to do with that, I'm sure you'll run out of gun before I run out of sword."
BANG!
The man fires a shot, and Horizon seems to flicker as he instantly deflects it.
The man looks confused at what just happened. As if Horizon glitched in real life.
"Told you, now, surrender, and tell me who you're working for," Horizon says, rather casually considering the situation. "You're moving guns through Tokyo, and I want your boss."
"H-he'll kill me," the man stutters, still pointing his gun at Horizon. "He'll kill them!"
"Not if I get to him first."
"No!" the man screams. "I'll never talk!" he points the gun at his own head.
Horizon just tilts his head, and looks around at the cops to make sure everyone was seeing this. "Really, you're more scared of him than me, oh now I just have to know who he is, and you will tell me..." he takes one step forward.
"No!" the man pulls back the hammer, "I'll do it, I swear!"
"So?" Horizon asks as he begins closing the distance, slowly, casually, to the horror and amazement of everyone watching. "Everyone says that, and even if you do, why would I care, you're a villain, a cop killer, so go ahead... I can stop you at any time, but I'm more interested to know if you've got the balls to follow through."
"Stop!" one of the police officers yells out, but Horizon ignores him and just continues. "He'll hurt himself!"
"I'll do it!" the man yells, tears and snot streaming down his face as he sees Horizon get closer by the second. "I'll kill myself!"
"Go ahead," Horizon says as he keeps walking forward. "Save the taxpayers some money so we don't have to keep you alive in prison, finally doing something good with your life, by ending it..."
"Ahhhh!" the man releases one final anguished scream and squeezes his eyes shut.
"Don't!" some of the cops yell.
BANG!
The gun goes off, and the man drops it stumbling to the side, feeling the ringing in his ears from the gunshot.
The only damage he suffered as he begins hyperventilating, unable to snap back to his senses, questioning why he was not dead.
Then he fearfully looks back, to see the bullet floating in mid-air, completely stopped before it even left the barrel.
The tears keep streaming even as Horizon approaches, and the man's will to fight and live are completely gone.
Exactly how Horizon wants him for an easy interrogation.
"Tch, couldn't even do that right, what a joke," Horizon says as he now stands directly in front of the weeping man.
Taking his sword he stabs it horizontally through the man's shoulder, then lifts him off the ground, all while the man is screaming at the top of his lungs.
TAKT!
He lets go, and the sword keeps the man hanging in place.
"Now you and I are gonna have a hopefully short conversation about your boss..."
The video comes to an end at that point, and Horizon nods along, proudly.
"Do you atleast see the problem with this?"
"No."
Nezu sighs, "Honestly, what am I going to do with you..."
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