CHAPTER 048(Quality>Quantity)

CHAPTER 048(Quality>Quantity)

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"The first game is complete!" Midnight announces. "The top 42 competitors will be advancing into the next round! Don't worry if you didn't make the cut, we've got other opportunities later for you to shine!"

Standing with his class Horizon doesn't react, even to all the clearly worried gazes befalling him. Mic's announcement had the desired effect at least, all eyes were on him.

The tension was palpable, everyone wondering how they could beat someone that Warps, but his classmates have been considering this for the past month, results? Inconclusive...

Looking around as the second game was being decided Horizon recognized most of the people who qualified, including everyone from 1B, some of which were not present when he first met them.

'So everyone from the Hero Course got this far...even Deku managed to get 23rd, Aoyama somehow got 42nd, barely making it in...and the purple-haired guy from yesterday got 30th, nothing special I guess...' he concludes.

"In first place of course we've got our resident warping doctor, Horizon!" Midnight announces as his name appears on the board in first place. "But remaining on top takes a lot of skill, especially at UA," she licks her lips lecherously. "And in the next game that'll be even more difficult...CALVARY BATTLE!"

Everyone begins murmuring but she quickly silences them and begins explaining.

"You'll all have fifteen minutes to break into teams of up to 5 people, you've each been assigned a point value based on your ranking in the obstacle race! The points start at 5 points for 42nd place, 10 for 41st, and it keeps increasing by 5 until you get to Bakugo in 2nd place. The point total will be worn above the shoulder on one headband by the rider and will represent the entire team, the teams with the most points at the end of the 15 minutes get into the final stage. And at the very top, the first place holder is worth..." she points at Horizon. "TEN MILLION!"

All eyes once again fell to Horizon, and he immediately raised his hand.

"Yes?" Midnight asks.

"Since I don't need any rag-tag team...I'll be playing solo," Horizon says.

Midnight frowns at that, "well I don't thi---" she stops talking and raises a hand to her earpiece, then she just frowns. "The judges say it's allowed if you can stay off the ground, but are you sure? Allies will play a huge part in this..."Upstodatee from n(0)/ve/lbIn/.(co/m

"I'm Horizon," he says. "That's enough."

Midnight gives a vicious smile, "that kind of bold and confident talk is a real turn-on! Horizon will be playing solo!"

The hologram shifts to place 'Horizon-10 Million Points' in the top spot.

"Everyone else, you've got fifteen minutes..."

As everyone is scrambling to make their teams Midnight looks up to where Nezu was sitting, shaking her head, 'you're making your favoritism of this boy too damn obvious Nezu...'

"Looks like Horizon is playing solo folks!" Mic announces. "Let's see what his homeroom teacher has to say about that!"

Eraser sighs and shakes his head, "Horizon has a habit of thinking he doesn't need any help, it showed itself in training and during USJ, fortunately, both times he was enough to overcome anything that was thrown at him, but even if he manages to win this its a horrible habit for any hero to have, because the one time you aren't enough, you'll die..."

"Excellent insight!" Mic cheers on his friend. "But what do you say his chances are of winning this game?"

"If the objective is collecting an item...he'll win," Eraser says flatly. "This is more of a battle for second place, but that doesn't mean everyone else won't be giving it their all."

"Well there you have it folks, unshakable confidence from his homeroom teacher, looks like Eraser Head has a favorite!"

"What! I don't ha---" the mic cuts off as they both begin bickering.

--15 Minutes Later...

All the teams were decided and everyone took their positions.

"I see," Horizon rests down his phone, noticing all cameras facing him, "I don't have a massive power output like Kaminari, but," he sparks up some blue electricity in his left hand, inching it closer to her Earphone Jacks. "My control is a lot better..."

"WAIT NONONONONONON!" Jiro screams.

"Counter Schock."

"ARRRGHHH!" Her entire team screams as they collapse to the floor, completely unconscious.

"He can use electricity too!" Mic screams, riling up the crowd.

Across the arena Kaminari pouts, "c'mon man...I've only got the one thing and you had to steal it..."

"TIME IS UP!" Midnight yells, ending the game.

"In first place, no surprise here, Horizon!" Mic announces, the massive screens replaying the moment he fried Jiro's team before showing him still sitting casually in his chair.

"In second place, team Bakugo! In third place is team Monoma! Class 1B came out to represent! In fourth, we've got team Todoroki, followed by team Midoriya barely edging out team Shinso for fifth place. 16 people from these teams will be going onto the tournament stage...but first...a 1-hour lunch break!" Mic announces.

After sorting out who gets to compete from the bottom teams, and some people opting out, all the names immediately appear on the board, already lined up in their brackets for the tournament.

---Tounament Round 1...

Horizon VS Monoma

Shiso VS Sero

Midoriya VS Todoroki

Hatsume VS Kaminari

Awase VS Bakugo

Iida VS Kirishima

Tokoyami VS Uraraka

Momo VS Juzo

Looking up at the board Horizon immediately begins walking away toward the cafeteria, seeing Jiro and her team being carted off to Recovery Girl in the distance.

'Monoma...I saw him copy Juzo's Quirk earlier... looked like he needed to touch the person, this could be interesting...'

"Horizon," Monoma says, causing Horizon to look over at him as he approaches. "Hey, I'm Monoma, guess you and I are up first huh," he falls into step walking to the cafeteria.

"Looks like it, so I'm guessing you're trying to figure out what Quirks you can copy from your friends to use against me, right?"

Monoma chuckles, "naturally, I need to prepare before the battle, we can't all have built-in power like you. But Tetsutetsu told me you're pretty cool, well, he said 'super manly,' but it's the same thing, I hope we have a good match."

"Sure, I hope to learn a lot from it..." Horizon says as they enter the cafeteria, going their separate ways until the gruesome and bloody match begins.

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Monoma doesn't hate class 1B because when everyone was at the door to 1A Horizon didn't leave a bad impression, in canon Bakugo treated them badly and that's where it started :)

Predictions for the matchups?