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Flying on his hoverboard, Horizon glares at his phone as he soars above Japan.
He was pushing his speed up to 400mph -643kmph- as he was watching the live news broadcast on his phone.
With the audio projected into his visor, he completely ignores everything and focuses on the fight.
Listening to All For One's words he can't help but scowl.
"Nana Shimura...she really just destroyed her family to save strangers, disgusting..." he mulls it over for a few seconds before realizing something.
"Wait, if All Might called her his Master...he has the body of a Quirkless person, so he must have gotten One For All from her.
And she had to have gotten it from someone, All For One attacked the camp for it so he knows about it.Plus everything Deku just said means...how many people did that Quirk get passed down to before now?
Oh, that was a smart move, finally got rid of the distraction," Horizon mutters as Gran Torino is turned into bloody mist by All For One.
'Now I just need All For One to win or warp away so he can keep up his end of our deal...'
Moments later his hopes are crushed when, as always, All Might claims victory.
'Fuck,' he frowns at the screen, seeing All Might standing unconscious with his right fist raised to the sky and his left arm missing from just below the shoulder.
'Ok, I guess I can work with this, heal up All Might, get some more credibility from all the crap All For One was spouting during the fight about how if they wanted to guarantee victory they should have brought me.
Then I guess since All Might is definitely forced into retirement by this I can fill the much more blatant power vacuum, thankfully I've already prepared Minato Tokyo to be my territory.
And since All Might used to be there they don't even have many Hero Agencies in the first place because he always put them out of business...
I guess I'll have to ask Nezu for more days away from UA to do hero crap. Two days a week is already pushing it but maybe I can get Thursdays too.
That way I can do hero work from Thursday to Sunday.
Plus I can just start hunting down the League Of Villains immediately, if I lock up all of them before I graduate that'll get me to the #2 spot, if not number one.
Hmm, #1, Endeavor probably wouldn't be that easy to get ahead of, but now he's dealing with his nightmare family bullshit so he's distracted by that.
Plus I need to train up Sero so people know that I'm a capable leader and keep working on myself, that'll get me to the top spot,' he decides, considering the finer points of his plan as the scene changes on his phone.
Instead of the battlefield, the news helicopters follow the ambulance as it rushed All Might to Central Hospital, by far Japan's second-best medical facility.
Second only to whatever room Horizon happens to be standing in at any given moment.
Seeing this he hops onto 'Yay!' to check how the internet is reacting to All Might's fight.
And as usual, it was having a complete meltdown.
Multiple discussions and topics were trending, many of which involved people putting together any possible evidence of All For One existing over the years, but of all these people none would ever openly admit to being in collaboration with him.
Not while he's in jail, too far for his influence and power to protect them.
Checking the other topics Horizon sees almost unanimous praise for All Might, and some people are a bit too trigger-happy with the 'in memory of' tributes.
"These fuckers really haven't figured out that I'm his doctor, as if something like that would kill him...hell, he can't even die unless I allow it."
Poking around a bit more, he found exactly what he was looking for.
Absolute chaos.
People were crying and panicking all over the internet about the Symbol Of Peace being done, obviously forced to retire, and Horizon smiles below his visor.
Because chaos, brings opportunity.
"Looks like you sheep need a new shepherd...oh, sorry, you civilians need a new 'Symbol Of Peace'," he chuckles at the ridiculous thought.
A few minutes later and Horizon sees posts appearing, people already theorizing how this will shake up the Pro Hero Rankings in Japan.
And a moment later another alert catches his eyes, "wow...that's a big drop," he says, staring wide-eyed at his phone as the projected devaluation of the Japanese currency is shown.
"Makes sense, people really don't have any faith in countries without strong heroes, crime is definitely going to skyrocket now that All Might is down, so people can't invest in Japan as safely...good thing none of my money is stored here."
He opens the notification up to see the projected drop at 5%, such a sudden drop is catastrophic for the economy, and that is only for tonight.
"All the more reason to get out of this country...but I guess when I'm the top hero it should become stable again at least."
Before he could look any deeper into the immediate effects of this battle Horizon's phone begins to ring, and he immediately answers.
"I'm already flying to Central Hospital," he says.
"Oh thank god," Nezu's worried voice flows into his visor.
"You're welcome, but care to tell me what the fuck is going on?! Why didn't you even tell me there was a counter-attack happening tonight?!"
"I wanted to involve you, but I was ordered not to," Nezu says.
"Ordered?"
"Pantu, she had some information that the villains were especially monitoring you, since only you can stop Kurogiri---"
"I'm not sure how that would work, but I guess it's not impossible.
And if I moved in their direction they'd have just warped away...that wouldn't have worked out for them but I see why someone could think that, but what did you have planned to stop them from just running away?"
"All Might," Nezu says. "And he was sure that All For One wouldn't be able to run away from a chance to settle their differences once and for all."
"Tch, I still should have been there, All For One said it himself that he was done for if they had me with them," Horizon grumbles.
"True, but All Might didn't want to put any more students in danger. We lost quite a few students during the training camp, we can't lose any more of you."
Horizon doesn't even doubt that statement. He's met the man after all, someone with such a strong 'Heroic Spirit' would never allow one of his students into a fight like that, even if it was Horizon.
"Heroic to a fault, so how'd you even find them so quickly? At the press conference tonight you said the police had no leads yet, you lied?"
"A necessary deception," Nezu says. "It caused both UA and the police to take some hard criticism in the minutes between that statement and the reveal that it was all a clever lie. We had hoped that the assault would have gone smoothly without anyone dying."
"That's always the hope," Horizon says.
Nezu sighs, "true, so far, aside from the civilians, Gran Torino is the only confirmed death, along with some police officers."
"Arrests?"
"Only All For One, the others got away from what I understand, teams are moving in to investigate the buildings as we speak."
"Shigaraki and his group of losers shouldn't be as dangerous without their backed, but we still don't know who is making the Nomu for them."
"We assumed it was All For One," Nezu says.
"If he's a geneticist then possibly, otherwise they've got someone who knows his way around a helical genetic code and pharmaceuticals..."
"Hmm, we'll have to look into it, but it won't be easy until we have some of their group in custody to question."
"Yeah that'd make things a lot easier," Horizon says. "How'd you even find the villains so quickly?"
"Oh, I half expected her to have already told you...Ms. Yaoyorozu attached a tracker to one of the Nomu at the summer camp, with some help of course."
Horizon doesn't know if he should be annoyed or surprised that now is when she chooses to be capable, when she had the best opportunity to completely fuck him over and ruin his escape plan.
"Good job I supposed," he says in an extremely bored tone, deciding not to think about it too much.
"You should tell her that in person sometime, how much longer before you get to the hospital?"
"Half hour, is that place secure enough?"
"The Commission is having all nearby heroes and a lot of police head there now to secure it, they expect trouble since All Might is the patient...every villain wants to be the one to finish off All Might."
"Better the hero the bigger the target on your back," Horizon says with clear disgust in his voice, "even extends to your family sometimes."
"Mhm, will you be able to save him?"
"From what I saw and what I know of his condition, he's got about a 1% chance to live, it'll take a miracle basically...so yeah, he'll be fine when I'm done, but..."
"But what?" Nezu asks, scared to hear the answer.
"The hero 'All Might', is done, you know that right?"
Nezu sighs, "yes, I prepared myself for this a long time ago, but I don't believe he's ready to hang up his cape."
"He won't have a chance, and you're a lot more ready than most, have you seen how the media is reacting?"
"Insanity and chaos, as usual."
Horizon shakes his head, "people just aren't ready for their one support pillar to shatter like this. An entire society leaning on one person is destined to fail, the system has to change if you want it to last."
"True, but thankfully, until those changes happen the masses will be a bit calmer since they already have an idea of who their next pillar shall likely be...right?"
Horizon rolls his eyes, "first things first, so for now let me just try to pick up the pieces of the last one..."
As Horizon continues his flight to Tokyo, both men would be proven right on this very night.
Countless people demanded that the Japanese constitution be ignored in the case of Horizon. Allowing him to be a fully licensed Pro Her without completing the trial period or graduating from a Hero Course.
A move made out of desperation and fear, because with All Might seemingly dead or out of action, people wanted someone they could hide behind when things got dangerous.
And as if to prove Horizon's point about society needing to not depend on one person to this extent, over the next 24 hours, the Japanese currency would lose 12% of its total trading value.
Soon trade and shipping would begin to slow as crime skyrockets, and at every level of society, people would feel the repercussions of this night in their wallets and bellies.
The shifting tides as the eras change.
Chaos, until Horizon rises to become their next Symbol Of Peace...
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