CHAPTER 039(Debrief)

CHAPTER 039(Debrief)

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Minutes after Nomu was defeated, Kurogiri and Shigarami were already knocked out.Upstodatee from n(0)/ve/lbIn/.(co/m

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.

"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...

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