CHAPTER 225(Meltdown)

CHAPTER 225(Meltdown)

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Standing atop a small 6-story building. Normally a bustling hotel and restaurant but now entirely deserted, Law Matani looks out at the city of Kelto.

At the top of Japan's northern island, it was hours away from UA by conventional means.

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Looking down at the city below, there were only a final few stragglers making their way out. The last remaining people before this city became a temporary ghost town.

Emergency service personnel were busy opening the manholes all across the city and entering, wearing full body protective suits, sealing them away from the leaked gas so they don't get killed by the fumes.

A few news drones could be spotted observing them, the heroic few entering the undergound systems to find the massive gas leak and contain it before the entire city explodes.

ROOM!

Law's eyes glow bright blue and begin releasing blue energy vapor as he opens a Room spanning 20km total, 10km in any direction from him.

SCAN!

He casually takes stock of anyone left behind by the evacuation services, noting that they did a thorough job, then focuses toward the edge of the city.

Where he could see the massive Kelto reactor resting on the coast.

Taking out his phone he gives Pro Hero 13 a call.

"Horizon, are you here yet?" Thirteen asks, he can hear the worry in her voice.

"I'm just double checking the city incase people got left behind in the evacuation, how are things at the reactor?"

"Not good, we have about an hour before this thing goes critical."

"Can we go in yet?"

"No," Thirteen says. "The engineers are still trying to flood the system remotely, if we open the doors the radiation will leak past the control room so there won't be any going back from that, this is their last chance before evacuating."

"Got it, so you can explain to me what the hell is happening then," Law says. "Modern reactors are made so well that its nearly impossible for this to happen. The fail safes should have shut it down by flooding it with water or by releasing the dampeners, how is this possible?"

"We aren't sure yet, but they can do a autopsy of this after we solve it."

SHAMBLES!

Horizon's Hero Costume appears on his body, and Scalpel is floating at his side.

Focusing on the reactor he senses some scattered paper beside 13 and swaps with it.

SHAMBLES!

He appears beside her, cutting off the phone call and startling her.

"Good, you're here, is the city clear?" she asks.

"All clear, now we just have to deal with this," he gestures to the massive blast doors in front of them. Looking back he senses the engineers in the control room, all wearing full hazmat suits as they stressfully work at the computers.

"You need a hazmat suit!" Thirteen says. "If we have to open these doors the radiation will be beyond lethal!"

"Huh, I thought you called me because I can handle radiation?"

"You can? When President Pantu and I discussed this she only said you'd be a good person to have around for this, she didn't get into the specifics."

"My Quirk is very good in situations like these, she made the right call bringing me in on this. Now, tell me everything you couldn't say over the phone."

"The reactor seals cracked, along with some of the gates containing the heat. That lead to a chain reaction of sorts that apparently warped the metal and stopped the failsafe protocols from happening."

"I thought that was impossible," Horizon says.

"On paper it should be, but I suppose someone did the math wrong."

"And the people?"

"A false gas leak has been reported, and president Pantu ordered Bubble Girl and a few others with Quirks that can produce certain odors to trick the people. The evacuation was necessary incase we fail."

"And the people in the city actually looking for gas leaks."

"They're wearing those suits for a reason, it'll give them enough protection to get out of the city should we fail. They'll be fine no matter what. But we needed them to also believe there is a gas leak, we need the media on our side for this.

If things go as we want, this situation will be resolved without anyone ever knowing we almost had a nuclear accident here. Japan is already under internal and external scrutiny on a global scale, we can't afford to be the first country in centuries to mishandle our reactors."

Her suit was built for moments like these, thanks to her Quirk and position as one of the worlds best Rescue Heroes, she's prepared for even nightmares like this.

Beneath her suit she was already drenched in sweat, her suit quickly losing structural integrity by the seconds.

Her boots warping the nearly molten metal floor with each step.

Behind her Horizon was in the doorway, his coat was already on the floor, burnt to ash.

Along with his vest, undershirt, tie, and even his pants.

All burnt away so quickly, leaving only his Body Glove in tact, but he could feel that falling apart as well.

BOOSTER SHOT!

For the first time he actively tries to draw out the energy vapor, calling it out to coat his body.

He gets small patches of it across him, protecting him from the heat and radiation.

"Ach!" he winces as the material of his visor begins melting and fusing with his skin.

BOOSTER SHOT!

His entire head is coated in the blue vapor, but instead of being blown away it clings to him like a strange jelly, taking the damage from the heat on his behalf.

Feeling surprisingly cool even here in the reactor core.

BOOSTER SHOT!

He coats his entire body with the energy liquid, trying to match the radiation as Thirteen uses her Quirk.

Standing directly in from of the basketball sized reactor core she raises her right hand, the removes the arm portion of her costume.

Revealing her slender right hand to be covered in black spots below the Hero Costume.

The skin immediately begins burning away and becoming black, dying.

"BLACK HOLE!"

She activates her Quirk at full power for the first time in over a decade, and all the black spots on her hand grow and fuse together.

It pulls in the air and the radiation from the room.

Horizon drops to his knees to avoid being easily pulled in, resting his hands on the floor to give himself more friction.

Thirteen pushes forward and makes direct contact with the reactor core, and slowly it begins to break apart and be absorbed by her Quirk.

The limit of matter and energy she can breakdown and absorb grows with mastery and experience.

But this object had trillions of calories, so breaking it down wasn't so simple.

The moment to outer shell cracks the Rads in the room jump to 18 thousand.

And Horizon feels his energy reserves take a massive hit, his Quirk instantly released more energy to match the radiation, and he felt hungry all of a sudden.

Looking up he only sees blinding red light, then 30 seconds later the entire room goes silent and begins cooling down.

He stops making the energy layer around himself and gets up, taking deep breaths, already exhausted.

And looks up to see Thirteen laying on the floor, her helmet and the front of her suit was torn up, leaving her body exposed and unclothed, at least in the front.

Both her arms were once again revealed, this time without the spots on this, showing her Quirk was unusable at the moment.

Short black hair and a cute face, reminiscent of Toru.

But as Horizon kneels beside her to Scan her body, the most noticeable feature are the eyes, pupils like event horizons, glowing golden and black, quite appropriate considering her Quirk.

"You're pretty cute," Horizon says as he Scans her.

Thirteen winces from slight pain as he touches her, then begins feeling a draft blow across her naked body, but is too exhausted to care.

"The radiation...rods," Thirteen says, her voice sounding frail.

"I'll take care of it, you just rest..."

SHAMBLES!

A pillow appears in her place, as he warped her into one of the room of the hotel he visited earlier.

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