บท 320: CHAPTER 312(Classic American Lunch)
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"This really isn't what I expected," Star' says as she scrolls through her phone.
She was sitting in a small New York diner, and across the table from her, sitting on the other side of the booth, was Horizon.
They were the only people in this diner, aside from the staff, all three of which were anxiously preparing their meals.
"What else could be the outcome," Horizon looks out the window to see swarms of people with their cameras aiming at them.
Some even had banners, posters, and of course some merchandise for bother Heros to sign.
"I've just never seen the projected crime rate get this low before," Star' says. "People knowing you'll be setting up your temporary base in New York was enough to change everything...I wish I could cause a change like this."
"It's nothing to feel bad about," Horizon says. "My Quirk gives me the ability to constantly monitor everything and everyone within the city, which makes people a lot more scared, since unlike everyone else, I can be everywhere at once."
Star' sighs, "It's too bad your range doesn't cover the entire country, then maybe I could take a vacation."
"If you had the chance, would you ever take a vacation?"
"How can I possibly do that, every day I don't do my duty, people can be getting hurt."
"You can't save everyone," Horizon says.
"Doesn't mean I shouldn't try, no matter the cost."
"Tch," Horizon looks away from her, toward the penthouse the government reserved for him across the city, "you really are just like All Might."
"Thank you."
"Wasn't a compliment," Horizon says, which confuses her. "Yagi, of all my patients, is the most insufferable."
Seeing this Star' raises a brow, sets her phone aside, and leans forward slightly.
"What?" Horizon asks as she stares at him.
"I was just wondering, why is someone like you a Pro Hero, you don't have the disposition for it."
"With great power comes the responsibility to help others," Horizon says. "That's all."
Star' groans and relaxes back into the booth, "I'm giving us some privacy, the least you could do is not lie to my face like that."
Horizon looks at the rowdy crowd outside, and considers all the noise they were making, all the noise that he couldn't hear because New Order was giving them a privacy barrier within the diner.
"What? You don't believe in that line?"
"I do," She says. "But I don't believe that you believe it, I used to, but then I watched you in court."
"Was it entertaining at least?"
"Annoying," Star' rolls her eyes at his amused tone.
"Let me guess, the United Nations constantly calling in case they needed you to come handle me."
"My life was so much more peaceful before you, now every time you make a government nervous they start reaching out, and because of my position I have to respond," she says in an annoyed tone. "I miss when I just had to save people and punch villains."
"You make it sound like you're my babysitter," Horizon says. "I'm not that unstable, people just need to do what I say and leave me alone, mostly the second one honestly."
"The problem is that you have the power to make most of the people do exactly that, which is why every time you're on camera threatening a judge in court, they get ready to send me to arrest you."
"Oh, and who would they send after you?"
Star' narrows her eyes at him, "You think I'd die?"
"I think the cost would be too high."
Star' frowns, but nods in agreement, "Yeah, a fight between us would get so many people crushed as collateral that it might just be better to count Japan as a loss and hand it over to you."
"Especially since if I win, then I'd know there isn't anyone to stop me."
"Remind me again how you aren't a villain?" Star' asks.
"Because my government says I get a pass from bending the law, and at the end of the day, they decide who is a villain."
"Yes, but it's a bit different in America," Star' says. "Over in Japan 'Criminal' and 'Villain' are intertwined, that's partly because of how low the crime rate was during the era of All Might, Pro Heroes were so numerous that they could respond to even basic criminals who didn't use Quirks to commit crimes.
But over here things are a bit different. Publicly they're viewed the same, but Pro Heroes and law enforcement view it differently.
We view people who don't use Quirks -outside of some obvious exceptions like those trying to bomb a mall or something-, as just 'Criminals'.
'Villains' is a label more synonymous with 'terrorist', those people we can be a lot rougher with since, while it is frowned upon, 'Necessary Lethal Force' isn't that big a deal over here."
"Well I've read the self-defense laws, so that's not surprising," Horizon says. "All the shit I got for killing Overhaul wouldn't have even made the news if it happened over here."
"Oh no, everything you do will make the news, because you're Horizon."
"Which is the most annoying thing about being a public hero, not having a 'Secret Identity' is such a pain."
"Really, you don't have one?" Star asks, dumbfounded.
"I assumed you read my file your government collected."
"Yes, and it was concerning, all your documents, and even your medical certificate just have 'Horizon', we just assumed it was part of the deal you made with Japan."
"No, the deal was actually to heal All Might," Horizon says.
"Really? I read about that but, why are you trying to be a Pro Hero if that was the extent of it?"
"Because I agreed to do this in exchange for them leaving me alone, I like having absolute freedom to explore my Quirk and its mysteries, can't do that unless you're a Pro Hero. But I had to promise to graduate UA, which is becoming a serious drag."
"Luckily they don't require you to spend much time there anymore," Star' says. "You barely spend more than one or two days a week there, at least before coming to America."
"Perks of being as smart as I am, High School is easy."
"I'd at least hope so, you are a doctor after all."
"Best in the world," Horizon says.
"Here you are," the waitress says as she walks up holding a large tray. "It's on the house as always, I hope you both enjoy it."
"Thanks, Cindy, I'm sure he'll like it," Star' says as the woman places a large burger and a milkshake in front of her, and an identical meal in front of Horizon.
"Thank you very much," Horizon says before the woman scurries away to behind the counter, anxiously cleaning while constantly stealing glances at the pair.
"I've never seen her this nervous," Star' says as she starts eating her fries. "Atleast not since the first time I came here with Agpar."
"That guy you want me to meet?" Horizon says as he looks down at the massive burger. "He's your handler right?"
"Technically yes, who is yours?" Star' asks as she sees him just staring at the food. "Not going to eat?"
"I will, just, my visor doesn't open large enough for me to bite into this. They really should make burgers wider instead of taller," Horizon says. "Oh, and my handler would technically be Nezu, although since he's a 'National Asset' he should have one too, but I guess he's not that kind of person."
"I see, and they tried the wider burger strategy a while back, but it didn't sell. People think food is bigger when it's taller because they can see more of it."
"Kind of like how the 1/3rd pounder they tried to sell in America didn't work because people thought '1/4' was bigger, because it had a '4' in it," Horizon says as his visor retracts slightly at his mouth for him to take a sip of his drink. "Heart disease either way."
"The most dangerous thing in America," Star' chuckles. "Burger and fries are the most American thing I can think of."
"I would have said a hotdog and beer at a baseball game."
"I'm not that big a fan of baseball, plus I'm a regular here, the food is good, and us showing up will be good for their business."
Horizon exaggerates a fake gasp, "The woman with an American flag for a Hero Costume doesn't like baseball, how absurd."
"Yeah yeah, I know. But at least I like burgers and fries like the next person."
"That's the spirit, take French and German food and say it's 'True American Food'," Horizon laughs.
"You can do that when you've never lost a war, how did the last one go for Japan again?"
"Ouch, that's a low blow, besides, I'm only half Japanese."
"Did the other half do any better?"
"...I'd rather not talk about it," Horizon says as he reaches for his burger, then he stops himself. "Well, taking this off for a few minutes shouldn't kill me," he says before reaching to the back of his visor.
To the amazement of Star and Stripe, the diner staff, and the public taking pictures outside, his visor collapses into a small metal plate the size of his palm toward the back of his neck, and he casually places it onto the table.
"Wow," Star' says as she sees his entire head glowing blue, almost blinding, releasing a geyser of energy mist that floats up to the ceiling, blocking his identity and facial features entirely. "You aren't going to die on me are you?"
"Well, hopefully, the burger is worth it, but I should be fine," Horizon says as he lifts the burger into the blue energy geyser to take a bite. "Well, what do you think, am I pretty?"
"You look similar to Kurogiri, with all the fog and mist, but this is a lot more dense."
"It's pure energy, it heals anyone that touches it," he gestures to the waitress. "In a few seconds, even from this far away, her feet will stop hurting."
Star' looks over to the woman as Horizon continues eating.
"Wow, they really do feel better," the woman says.
Star' looks back to Horizon, "risking your entire life to eat a burger, you really are ridiculous," she says before also eating her food.
But even now, her mind was breaking down his power.
'Constantly releasing that much energy and he seems fine for a few minutes, he must have a lot more energy than I realized. But this matches our descriptions about his visor being a vital container for him, which I'm sure killed any chance of him having a secret identity.'
Giving into her curiosity Star and Stipe reaches out toward the edge of the energy mist.
NEW ORDER: Horizon's energy mist will become a liquid sphere in my hand.
As she touches the mist a small piece of it rushes into her hand, condensing into a liquid the size of a tennis ball and maintaining its structure.
"How much of your energy did that take?" Horizon asks, still eating his food.
"More than I'd care to admit, even for this small amount," Star' says.
"Well considering that has enough energy to power a few city blocks, you didn't do that bad, especially since you first had to wrestle with Hand Of God for the energy to do what you wanted it to."
"Your Quirk is very, controlling, but you allowed me to take this for a reason, what does it do?" Star' asks as she plays with the sphere of liquid energy in her hand.
"Booster Shot."
"Your healing and physical enhancement skill?" Star' asks. "Is this it?"
"An unstable form, I don't recommend directly using that on a person. When separated from me, it will heal them. But could cause mutations, they may grow a second head or extra arms, maybe a second pair of lungs which would then cause everything in there to get crushed," Horizon says.
"This is what you've been working on, right?" Star' asks. "The President said we'd get the first bid if you perfected it while you were here."
"Yeah, but what's in your hand is better to use on plants, it's pretty unpredictable, honestly, even touching it could cause problems for you."
Star' immediately drops it onto the table, where it falls apart into harmless mist and disappears.
"You're just full of surprises," Star' says.
"Oh, you have no idea..."
END CHAPTER---
AUTHOR NOTE:
'Some chapters recently have been taking a bit longer than usual to get right, this is mostly because I have to get these new characters and their interactions, such as Star and Stripe, perfect, since we're completely out of Canon now.
Along with having to world-build...the entire world that isn't japan. Sorry for the delays, please be a bit patient with me.
Thank you for reading, and a review will always be appreciated.'
บท 321: CHAPTER 313(The Formula For God)
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---New York City, Central Park...
"Horizon! Come down here and face me!"
The bellowing demand echoes through Central Park as a 33ft -10m- stone golem rampaged about, breaking trees and ignoring constant gunfire from police officers swarming the area.
A news drone was already circling the park and reporters were swarming as the villain continued to rampage, but even as countless bullets were fired at him.
None could crack the reinforced heart encasing his human form, deep within the core of the golem.
As the golem begins uprooting trees and throwing them aside, making a stage for his battle, the police drive their cars onto the grass to form a wide blockade around him.
Between the gunfire, the golem yells once more, "Horizon! You scared off those cowards, but New York is my gang's city! After I squash you, no one will be able to challenge that!"
The golem keeps walking in circles, yelling over and over while ignoring the constant gunfire, all while one of the police Sergeant ducks behind his vehicle with another officer.
"How long do we have?" the Sergeant asks as he peeks over the hood.
"At best, 12 minutes," the other officer says. "Most of the Pro Heroes moved out of Manhattan, if not the entire city over the past few days since Horizon moved in."
"Damn it, they're so desperate to get paid they couldn't just hang around in case something like this happened," the Sergeant grumbles. "And where the hell is Horizon anyway, the news didn't say he was out of town?"
"Central dispatch says they were having difficulties contacting him sir," the officer says.
"That damn Trigger junkie will turn his attention to the city if Horizon doesn't get down here now, we don't have time for this," the Sergeant says as he rushes over to one of the more heavily armed officers.
This man, like many others, was using an assault rifle to keep the villain as distracted as the useless bullets could.
"I need your weapon, now," the Sergeant says, and the man doesn't hesitate to hand it over.
"That doesn't actually hurt him," the man says, only for his eyes to widen as the Sergeant turns away from the villain and aims at a nearby hotel at the edge of Central Park.
"Sir what are you doing?!"
The man carefully aims at the penthouse, even as he responds, "Horizon is the only resident in that place, and the staff should be in the basement or evacuated right now, so I'm just gonna knock."
A chorus of bangs echo out as 6 bullets slam into the glass wall of Horizon's balcony.
"That should get his attention," the Sergeant hands the gun back to the man.
"Couldn't we have just gone there and rang the buzzer?" the man asks.
"That's the first thing I sent men to do," the Sergeant says. "But I figured if anything would get his attention, it's the alarm on his temporary home."
"C'mon!" the golem bellows as he slams both fists into the ground, shaking the entire park and knocking most of the men off their feet. "Give me a real challenge!"
Another wave of gunfire begins, and as the golem is about to focus on the police officers, the entire battlefield goes silent.
"Huh?" The golem looks above him to see Sunder -Horizon's new blade-, glowing blue as a liquid-like energy clings to the blade, completely coating it.
"The toy," The golem says, seeing the sword floating on its own, but before he can reach out and grab it.
The blade rushes toward him, coming down in a powerful slash.
The golem raises an arm to block, and before the blade makes contact his rocky body glows golden for just a moment, reinforcing his body even more.
"Annoying," the golem says as he swats it away, not suffering more than a scratch from the blade. "If you want to beat me you'll have to come down here yourself, my defense is rock solid!"
The sword strikes out a few more times, some of which were blocked, but none of which did damage to the golem.
And after just a handful of clashes, the energy around the blade fades.
CLANG!
With one final collision, the golem grabs the blade, but even the regular police officers and people watching at home could see that something was wrong.
As if the blade slowed down for him to grab it.
But this didn't make sense to them, after all, Horizon was controlling it via Takt.
The man who can rip cities from the Earth wouldn't let his sword be so easily captured.
Then the golem raised his 'trophy' in victory, to show it to the world, and the last of the energy on the blade fell to the earth.
And with it, the insulation keeping the positive charge of the blade away from the air.
KRA-KOOM!
A lightning bolt descends from the heavens, so bright that it was easily visible in broad daylight as it hits the blade.
It then travels through the golem, shattering it into pieces and leaving the unconscious human villain lying on the floor.
Surrounded by red hot earth and charred grass.
"I think he got our message sir," one of the officers says to the Sergeant as they watch the sword hover about the battlefield.
"Yeah, I just hope he doesn't take it personally," the Sergeant says as he orders some men to lock up the unconscious villain.
---Meanwhile, Matani Tower, around Central Park...
Sitting in his study, which at the moment is a completely sealed-off, blacked-out room with a hologram in the middle of it.
A holographic projection of a single helical DNA strand, reached up like a twisted ladder, from floor to ceiling.
"Run simulation again, against new DNA samples collected from USA Quirk Database, alter string #18525-13, practical trials at 50mm dosage..."
The hologram begins rotating as it processes Law's new request, all while he's looking at it with intensity from his glowing blue eyes.
As it's processing he raises his left hand, and warps Sentinel's eyeballs to float above his palm, moving in a circle for him to observe.
After a few minutes, the room receives a priority notification, to which Law simply warps his phone into the room and hovers it beside him as some of the lights come on.
"Need something?" Law asks as Nezu appears on his phone.
"Can't I just be calling to check in on my precious student?" Nezu asks as Law's camera points toward the hologram. "What is that?"
"A project I'm working on, but I could use more processing power, can you help?"
"Not if you want it to be secure," Nezu says. "The global web has a few nexus locations across the globe to help keep connections secure and efficient. UA happens to be one of those places, since it's the base for my supercomputer."
"Where is the nearest one?"
"Middle America," Nezu says. "But I can't secure that one so anything you do, the government will get."
"Are there any closer?"
"You'd have to go to Europe, which would break your agreement with America, or Hawaii, which is technically an American location."
"I guess I'll just deal with the slower speeds," Law sighs.
"I just heard you had to be called by a police officer firing into the hotel they reserved for you, dangerous."
"Well my 50-State License is there, but Matani Tower is on the other end of Central Park, so luckily I couldn't get shot."
"That doesn't answer my question," Nezu says. "What are you working on that takes so much of your focus, and demands that much computing power."
"Look at this," Law gestures, and the hologram changes, showing three strands of DNA.
To the far left, the one he'd been working on, in the middle, a similar strange with thicker layers, like a reinforced ladder.
And to the right, a strand with four helical pillars instead of two, and in the middle is one pillar that they're all connected to as they twist toward the ceiling, heavily reinforced.
"I don't even understand what I'm looking at," Nezu says. "Medicine isn't my expertise, remember?"
"I know, it's quite simple, at least easier to explain than apply. To the left, the basic DNA structure, is of humans before the advent of Quirks, this no longer exists since now even humans born with no Quirk have the DNA structure to support Quirks.
That's why Deku didn't develop some kind of cancer when he got One For All, but it needs something to fill the gap in the Quirk section of the DNA sequence. One For All did that, which activated his DNA fully, hence him now being able to regrow teeth like everyone else who was born with the Quirk Gene active."
"So the first one is extinct, which means the middle is the new normal human DNA, right?"
"Close, it's more like regular animal DNA," Law says. "Humans and animals alike all have reinforced Quirk Capable DNA, anything without it died off centuries ago, this is the new normal for animal life on earth."
"I see, and the final one, is that even DNA?"
"It is, theoretically," Law says.
"Theoretically?"
"In theory, that DNA Sequence can support enough power to do anything. With the correct addition of Quirks, enough power to fuel it, maybe the power of a hundred nuclear reactors, the modern Nuclear Fusion ones, and mastery...it could do anything."
"Do anything?"
"Even things I can't do, mess with space in ways I can't even begin to imagine, maybe even time, its evolution perfected," Law says. "Atleast according to our current understanding, I'm sure it still has room for improvement that I just can't imagine."
"Evolution perfected...how did you come up with this?"
"A lot of studying, recent studying."
"Hmm, the new data you pulled from those last few Nomu and Kurogiri a couple of weeks ago, this is what you've been doing with it," Nezu says. "I thought you were trying to find a cure, but you were trying to solve the endgame for All For One, figure out what he was doing, right?"
"Nomu can't be cured," Law says. "If you rip apart Frankenstein's monster and return the pieces to their original owners---"
"The monster dies."
"Worse, it ceases," Law says. "Kurogiri is still in his catatonic state, but he can still hear and see. Eraser and Mic need to pull some 'power of friendship' out of their ass and talk to him, well, keep talking to him."
"It would be nice to have Oboro back," Nezu says.
"It'd be nice to have Kurogiri on our side, not to mention all the intel he has locked up in there."
"That too I suppose," Nezu says. "But about this 3rd DNA Strand, you think this is the end goal for All For One, right? He combines all the needed Quirks, using One For All's immense energy to power it, and becomes a perfected lifeform?"
"It's possible, but," Law hums as he considers the list of Quirks he knows. "I can't imagine him being able to pull that off even if he collected the Mystery Class Quirk. That's just not how All For One works."
"What do you mean?"
"All For One has the second DNA Structure because it acts as a computer and the Quirks are just files on it, and his physical and mental ability are the RAM, more files running, the more RAM used, the slower the entire thing moves.
The theoretical DNA I came up with needs all Quirks to constantly feed off of each other without delay or rest, a perpetual motion machine, well, no, but as close as we can get to it. A hyper-efficient nuclear fusion reactor..."
"What about the Overhaul Quirk?" Nezu asks. "If they somehow recovered a sample could they do it, make this, thing?"
"God Formula?" Law asks.
"Accurate but, that name is a bit much."
Law shrugs, "Well there is a reason this entire thing is just a theory anyway, I don't think even with All For One, he could pull this off."
"Yet you came up with it, because?"
"Because it's the answer," Law gestures again, and lines connect all three DNA Structures. "I'm trying to alter and transpose piece of his sequence onto another, to make a universal answer, but I need more data."
"A universal answer?" Nezu asks. "Your Panacea? You're trying to come up with a template for the standard modern human genome so you can restore anyone to a healthy state, that's a tall task in a world of people with countless mutations."
"This is why I need the Quirk databases from China and North Africa, but they're being difficult," Law says with slight frustration in his voice, then relaxes. "But if they keep being difficult I'll just offer it to every other country, lets so how long those politicians survive when a nearly universal cure hits public markets and their people are the only ones without access to it."
"They'd be dead within a day, not even the Pro Heroes or military would protect them," Nezu says. "You may have accidentally created the most powerful weapon of influence in the world."
"Not accidental, that's the original intent," Law says. "The fact that it's medicine is a fortunate side effect."
"How kind of you," Nezu rolls his eyes, and as he does so the camera turns slightly to show Law. "Why do you have two eyeballs floating in your palm?"
"Oh, I took these from Sentinel to study how they transfer and convert energy, I'm almost done with them now."
"Can he---"
"No I temporarily blinded them so he can't see anything through them, I'll probably remember to fix that before returning them."
"Law..."
"What? He's spending the rest of his life trapped in a metal coffin deep underground, not like he needs to see, it's just dark in there."
"You're ridiculous."
"In all the best ways, how have things been going in Japan anyway?" Law asks.
"They've been a bit more busy, and hectic, but I---"
BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Law's emergency alert interrupts Nezu.
"Answer," Law commands, and the room's speakers connect to the call.
"Horizon, I need you!" Star and Stripe's voice yells through the speakers.
"I'm flattered, but I'm a bit busy."
"Miami, now, I have a lead on Kelvin!" she hangs up.
"Shit, I actually have to go deal with that," Law grumbles as he gets up, warping the eyeballs away as all the lights turn on.
"Have fun, try not to get melted," Nezu says as he hangs up.
SHAMBLES!
Law's entire Hero Costume warps onto his body as he pockets his phone.
"Results inconclusive, cross reference sequence variations required," his computer says as all the DNA Holograms become red.
"Open collection tray," Horizon commands as he steps forward to where a desk rises from the ground, with a small glass case in the middle of it. "Label project, title: The Formula For God."
"Label accepted," the computer says as the tray opens.
"Inserting sample 1835, version 2," Horizon says as he reaches forward, warping the glove of his left hand away before making a small cut into his finger, releasing a few drops of blood into the tray.
The holograms immediately become blue as another God Formula sample is accepted and studied.
"Reverse engineer sequence 15 to begin with, solving the most basic illnesses is a good start before moving onto organ failure, alert me of results immediately."
"Command accepted..." the computer says as Horizon is about to warp away, but he stops.
He considers the conversation is just had, and tries a new approach.
"Computer, insert One For All as a base sample, remove energy storage factor, focus processing power on 'Genetic Transference', run tests using this as the new bridge."
"Command accepted."
"Alert me of all results in real-time," Horizon says as he warps away...
END CHAPTER---
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