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CHAPTER START---
'What is this?' Horizon wonders, feeling the disjointed information flooding his mind.
Two sets of data from one Room. His Room was large enough to encompass the entire Yakuza base, but the time bubble he was currently trapped in was only a few meters wide.
Within the bubble, everything felt slower, but outside it was as if the world was in super speed.
His eyes saw nothing but darkness, light not moving fast enough through the bubble to give him any information within, his brain slowed to an absolute crawl. But luckily for him, that's still faster than the average genius.
'Why is everything fast?' he questions to himself, sensing the heroes and Yakuza around him frozen, but now he's sensing Overhaul already waking up.
'He should have been out for at least a few minutes, long enough for me to check on this guy and still go get his heart...my body won't move...'
He tries to turn his head or command his Quirk, but nothing happens. He can't even warp away.'Deactivating my Quirk will completely blind me, and for some reason, I can't warp...my body is frozen. I can't move.'
SCAN!
He checks out his own body, down to the genetic level, then even deeper.
'My body, it's just like Eri's Quirk...but it's slowing time rather than reversing. This Yakuza was a suicide bomb. How do I get out? What do I do...c'mon Horizon, think!'
He delves deeper and deeper into his own body, into how the Chronons were interacting with him, into the bubble itself, and how it affected the world around him.
He combs over every cell of his body, every moving part that he's lost control of.
BA-DUM!
He feels his Quirk acting up, Hand of God still not having perfectly integrated the others.
The telltale sign of his Quirk about to shut off.
About to leave him blind and deaf in this time bubble so Overhaul can escape.
But time is still disjointed, he expects the headache but doesn't feel anything.
The physical pain hasn't moved across his nerves yet, his brain hasn't been strained by the blood flow yet.
Time is slowing everything to a crawl aside from his thoughts.
'Chronons...I need to control my own, within my own body, just reverse the effect. I only need a few seconds of it, I need. TO MOVE!'
Combing over every particle and manipulating them precisely, he ignores everything else and focuses only on his body.
'Hand of God has no limits, with enough practice I can do anything, I can bend the world!'
He reminds himself, on what feels like the third day of wracking his mind against this problem.
Then finally, his body begins moving.
His head slowly turns, as Overhaul is about to get up.
He senses the villain moving, and after what to Horizon was a week trapped in his own body, in not even enough time for Lemillion or Night Eye to begin the process of forming a single thought.
He's figured out how to diminish the effects on himself.
He slowly gets up, moving as if his entire body was submerged in wet concrete.
BA-DUM!
The pain becomes real, he can feel the small brain aneurysm starting, compounding onto each other. His body tries to send a Booster Shot to automatically heal it, but he halts the command.
As he gets up and begins walking toward Overhaul, he feels the villain look in his direction.
And in a blur, he begins running toward the two Nomu corpses.
Horizon doesn't give him any more attention, focusing only on himself.
'Once I get out of this stupid bubble, I'll break his fucking legs!'
As he's one step away from freedom, he feels Overhaul using his Quirk on both the dead Nomu.
All three bodies become a massive floating collection of red mist as they fuse together at a cellular level.
And what felt like hours later, Horizon takes the final step out of the bubble, and as he's entirely out he drops to one knee, cradling his head.
"Argh! Fuck!" all the compounding pain of pushing his Quirk to the limit crashed into him at once. His Room finally collapses as he takes deep breaths, feeling exhausted.
What to Overhaul was only a few minutes, for Horizon was closer to two weeks stuck in his own body.
His stomach growls loudly as the ground begins shaking, then he looks over at Overhaul.
Now fused with the two Nomu into a 10m -32ft- long, red and black hulking quadrupedal creature. Bone spikes crackle with electricity all protruding from the layers of these shock-nullifying muscles. And where the massive head should be is Overhaul, from the waist up and resting in a canopy, shaped like his plague doctor mask.
Even the villain himself has red and black skin, torn up and showing red glowing muscles beneath.
Horizon barely catches his breath before Overhaul lowers his main body so his palm can touch the ground.
And a destructive wave is sent toward him, dismantling the floor on its way toward the heroes.
SHAMBLES!
Horizon warps to the other side of the room, then looks back at the bubble, at the people he couldn't warp out.
The attack hits the bubble and the floor around it, but everything inside is completely unaffected.
'Ok, they're safe, one less thing to worry about,' he thinks before warping away.
He appears back on the surface standing at the back of an ambulance, where the paramedics were currently cutting Eri out of the stone coffin she'd been fused with.
Beside her were Ryukyu, Nejire-Chan, and Froppy.
"Is this place fully evacuated?" Horizon asks before raising the mouthpiece of his visor, showing the blood flowing down his chin from his eyes, nose, and mouth.
"What happened?!" Ryukyu immediately rushes over to him. "Are you ok?!"
"I'll be fine," he takes out two meal bars and begins forcing them into his mouth.
"The evacuation is almost complete," Ryukyu says. "But the west side still has some people that are being stubborn."
Horizon forces down both the meal bars and takes a relieved breath. "Good, this might get messy, get her and everyone else out of here, now..."
"But the perimeter---"
He cuts off Ryukyu, "---can't be held against what I'm about to fight, just get out of the way so I don't have to worry about more things. If he decides to touch the floor and Overhaul the neighborhood you're all dead..." he immediately warps away.
They all look at each other, then to Ryukyu, "alright, you heard him, everyone clear out, something big is happening!"
Horizon arrives back in the underground cavern, then looks to his side to see Overhaul using his Quirk to make a tunnel away from the hideout.
With the villain's back to him, he raises his sword, using his Quirk to aim directly at Overhaul's brain stem.
'If this doesn't kill you it should at least exhaust you a bit... but since you absorbed the eclectic Nomu its impossible to beat you in a war of attrition, damn it.'
INJECTION SHOT!
Six invisible, indefensible bullets slam through the villain.
Horizon sees the entire body flinch for just a moment, then in the next Overhaul spins around and charges in his direction.
'Fuck...' Horizon thinks as he sees the villain's neck and head currently a bloody mist as it quickly reforms. 'That's such an annoying Quirk...'
The ground cracks under Overhaul's monstrous arms as he crawls toward Horizon.
'Let's try this!'
Horizon draws his blade and holds the sheathe in his left hand, then throws it at the charging villain.
"Catch!" he yells out, and Overhaul doesn't even acknowledge it as the item just barely misses his head.
SHAMBLES!
Horizon swaps with the sheathe, planting his feet on Overhaul's monstrous shoulder and swinging down with his blade.
BOOSTER SHOT+INCISION!
He boosts the cutting power of his blade and his own striking strength, and cleaves right through Overhaul's neck.
Even with all the resistance of the Nomu biology, because it was so sparingly used in his own head for risk of interrupting his higher brain functions, Overhaul can't stop the blade.
His head is bloodily cut off, the most tactical alternative since Amputate would simply let him reform.
Horizon sees the slashed flesh already become red mist with chunks of meat in it, intending to reform.
SHAMBLES!
He swaps the severed head with his sheathe before jumping away, expecting the monster to simply collapse.
But as he lands, he learns something new.
Once the Overhaul command has been set, not even death can stop it. And the majority will always attract the minority, so Overhaul's severed head still becomes the red mist with chunks of meat in it, and rockets back to his main body where it reattaches.
'Oh you've got the be fucking kidding me,' Horizon thinks as the monster rushes toward him. 'If I warp his head too far it could just grow a new one with the Nomu cells...or the head would grow a new body, too risky, fuck.'
"I guess I'll kill you first!" Overhaul screams out while constantly trying to smash Horizon.
Each hit from his new body craters the solid stone floor and shakes the entire base.
With Horizon warping away, he touches the floor with his hand and Overhauls it toward him.
'restructuring matter that quickly outside of his own body...' Horizon thinks as he sees the ground around him dismantled before almost instantly reforming into massive spikes in every direction.
AMPUTATE!
One horizontal slash cuts off the top of most spikes.
TAKT!
He keeps the spikes floating so he can freely warp about, which he does while constantly slashing at Overhaul.
AMPUTATE!
He slashes Overhaul right down the middle, and along the attack the body becomes the disassembled mist and begins reforming.
SHAMBLES!
He warps to Overhaul's side.
AMPUTATE!
He slashes down yet again, leaving a thin slash through the cavern floor and walls, vivisecting Overhaul yet again.
"Just stay put!" Overhaul yells as he wildly swings at Horizon, unable to ever land a single hit.
Horizon continues the process, so many times that the floor beneath Overhaul looks as if it was made of gravel, all the compounding slashes constantly divided.
'This guy is such a pain in the ass,' Horizon thinks as he continues slashing and warping.
Even as Overhaul becomes a massive cloud of blood and meat constantly trying to reform.
'The only way I stop this guy is with---' he considers it for a moment. 'Yeah, but I'll need---'
"Horizon!" he hears Lemillion call out to him. "What is that?" he points at the cloud of flesh and blood.
With Lemillion, Rock Lock, and Sir Nighteye, they could only see Horizon flickering about the room while slashing down, pulverizing the floor and a floating cloud of blood and bits of flesh that was constantly trying to pull itself together.
'Perfect,' Horizon warps beside the other heroes, and they can see him breathing heavily trying to catch his breath. "That's Overhaul, he fused with the Nomu, distract him while I prepare a finishing blow..."
"That's Chisaki?" Rock Lock asks, disgusted by the cloud before it quickly begins reforming into the villain. "Oh god!"
"We'll get you the time you need," Sir Nighteye says. "Rock Lock, anchor him, Lemillion and I will run interference!"
Without a word, Horizon hands Sir Nighteye his sword and warps away.
At the other side of the room, while watching Overhaul pull himself back together, slowly and slowly losing more of his mind as his Quirk diminishes it.
The body of both Nomu straining his brain. Causing him to become more violent and erratic, a disaster waiting to happen.
Sir Nighteye looks over his shoulder, seeing Horizon take a deep breath and raise his right hand, holding it in from of his chest he leaves his hand open, and grabs his wrist with his free hand.
Sadly he could only open a Room barely large enough to cover the surrounding neighborhood during his move, and he would be entirely defenseless as well.
Because while people are amazed by how fluid and quickly he uses his Quirk, they'll never see the years of struggling to get his abilities to that point.
And right now, he can't use this ability in conjunction with the others.
'Must be something big...' Sir Nighteye thinks.
"Don't let him past us," Sir Nighteye says as he rushes forward, using his Foresight Quirk on himself to see his own future.
Lemillion sinks into the floor beside him as Rocklock rushes Overhaul beside him.
'This thing is heavier than I thought,' Nighteye thinks while raising Scalpel.
Overhaul touches the floor and makes a legion of spikes toward them, only for them to stop a few meters ahead of them.
"Deadbolt."
Rocklock dropped down and touched the floor, locking it in place. Exactly why Sir Nighteye wanted him to be in this room, because his Quirk directly counters Overhaul.
'That should hold for a few moments at least,' Sir Nighteye thinks as he rushes forward, entering Overhaul's range when more spikes erupt.
But he sees into his own future and easily dodges the spikes, completely surprising Overhaul.
Closing in on the villain he sees Overhaul raise one of the monstrous hands to swat at him, but he doesn't even try to avoid it.
Because as Overhaul is locked in on him, Lemillion rockets out of the floor below him, landing an uppercut that cracks Overhaul's jaw and shatters some teeth, and they see his head already disassembling itself to reform.
The hit staggers Overhaul enough that his attack misses Sir Nigheye, exactly as he foresaw, allowing him to leap up and bury the entire blade up to the hilt into Overhaul's still reforming skull, down into his neck and spine.
Lemillion's eyes go wide at such a lethal attack, until a moment later Overhaul's entire human body disassembles as Sir Nighteye kicks off his shoulder, landing on his feet.
Rocklock rushes up at this moment and slams both his hands onto Overhaul's monstrous body.
He focuses all his energy while activating his Quirk.
"GRAND DEADBOLT!"
The monstrous body completely freezes, and the cloud of reforming matter can't seem to reconnect to it.
Rocklock completely stopped all movement from the villain, stalling the reformation process.
"Good work," Sir Nighteye says. He looks back at Horizon to see strange green particles hovering above his palm, he feels the air becoming colder by the moment.
Looking into his own future he sees what's about to happen and is completely perplexed, not even understanding what exactly he's seeing.
"I can't hold it much longer!" Rocklock yells out after a few moments, and both other heroes get ready to act.
Lemillion sinks into the floor as Sir Nighteye leaps back.
"Get off me!" Overhaul yells out, slurring his words slightly as his mental ability begins more obviously degrading.
He knocks Rocklock aside and tries to crush Sir Nighteye once more, but this time the hero just casually sidesteps the attack.
Just barely out of the way thanks to his Quirk he leaps onto Overhaul's monstrous arm and begins running toward his main body.
Seeing another hand swiping at him before it even happens, Sir Nighteye leaps up and over it, then continues running, only for Overhaul to use his Quirk on the floor.
Sir Nigheye sees spikes rising before it happens, and leaps up, stabbing out with Scalpel to his side for a stone spike to perfectly intersect with the blade.
The spike carries him up a few meters before he holds onto it and leaps away from the battle, while throwing the sword directly above Overhaul.
The villain focuses on Sir Nighteye and ignores the blade, which quickly disappears above him, out of sight.
"Just di---"
Overhaul's words are cut off as the blade is kicked into the back of his skull, piercing his face and once again causing him to split apart before attempting to reform.
The moment Sir Nighteye threw the blade, Lemillion shot out of the ceiling down onto the villain, and as expected he saw the blade and dropkicked it directly down into the villain.
No longer inhibited by the idea of 'lethal force' as he knows Overhaul can handle it.
"GRAND DEADBOLT!"
Once again Rocklock rushes up and puts his hands on the villain, just as the sword falls through Overhaul's skull, freezing the villain.
Sir Nighteye picks up the sword and Lemillion lands beside him.
"Much too violent for my tastes," Sir Nighteye says about the blade, "but supremely efficient in this conflict."
"I think it's pretty cool," Lemillion says, "too bad gadgets don't work with my Quirk.
"Shut. Up," Rocklock grits out, beads of sweat running down his face as he grits his teeth. "Concentrating."
"Get away, now!" Horizon yells out, causing them all to look at him. "I'm ready..."
They see Horizon still gathering strange green particles, but now they begin flicking to life all around the room, flowing toward his open palm.
Then they move faster, and faster, as if the wind became visible in soft green streaks.
A cold chill ran across the room as they begin to see their own breath, only feeling some warmth as the small glowing wisps float past them.
"Move!" Horizon screams as he begins running toward Overhaul, and Lemillion and Sir Nighteye immediately rush away.
But Rocklock stays, "If I leave he moves, and we can't afford to miss---"
"Yeah!" Horizon dashes between the large spikes and sees Sir Nighteye and Lemillion rushing away. "But if you stay you'll---"
"---Be fine!" Rocklock says. "I've got the world's best doctor on my team!"
Within a few moments, Horizon reaches up to Overhaul, and slams his open palm into the monstrous body of the villain.
Rocklock leaps away at the last moment, but is sadly caught in the area of effect.
For the first time a hint at the existence of Horizon's Room is shown, luckily the battlefield was too hectic to notice.
Green particles are ripped from the environment and surrounding neighborhood, almost showing the exact range of his Room. Then fuses and becomes visible as it closes in on Horizon, rushing through the villain to gather into his palm.
GAMMA---!
Horizon shrinks his Room, down to barely large enough to contain himself, the villain, and Rocklock who was currently leaping out of it.
And with it, he drags as much of the gamma radiation as possible toward his palm, as if the air in the room was visible there was a transparent green mist rushing toward Overhual to gather at Horizon's palm which was on his chest.
Rocklock dives out of the attack but his foot just barely gets caught at the end, he feels searing heat and crackling skin as he suffers immense radiation burn.
An agonizing scream echoes out of him as he lands with a thud, completely unconscious from the pain.
But the stone floor below his is covered in a thin layer of frost, as is the area on the surface above them, where the heat and radiation were stripped away.
Seeing Overhaul's body being burnt and invaded by the radiation, the villain convulses as it passes through his heart, into Horizon's palm.
Horizon pulls back his hand, revealing a glowing green orb of radiation and heat hovering at his palm.
---STRIKE!
He slams the orb back into Overhaul, and a pulse of green energy travels across the villain as the radiation and heart permeate every cell of his.
The skin is fried away and deformed as the radiation cause horrific mutations and burns all across the body.
Overhaul's main body suffers the same fate as he silently convulses before going limp, completely lifeless.
The blinding light causes the other heroes to cover their eyes, and when they open them Overhaul's monstrous corpse is crumpled to the floor, and Horizon is stumbling back.
The entire right hand that held the radiation was covered in severe burns, missing the Hero Costume, Body Glove, tattoos, and skin on it. Showing charred black flesh below.
"Ok...still needs practice," Horizon mutters and he falls back and sits on the floor, taking deep breaths.
Finally using something he's been preparing since the Summer Camp.
His ultimate counter to any Super Regeneration type Quirk, simply absolute cellular destruction.
And today, he finally got a glimpse of the power he'll easily be able to toss around after sorting out his Quirk problem...
He hears Sir Nighteye and Lemillion rushing over, looking at Rocklocks's foot and his hand, in the same state.
"We'll be fine," Horizon says between exhausted breaths. "I'll warp us out, then fix us up...just give me a minute to catch my breath..."
END CHAPTER---