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Sitting at his desk in his 1A Dorm Room, Horizon sees a collection of Pro Heroes on his dual monitors.
All of the Top 10 Pro Heroes and a few other top ranking pros together for a meeting he was hosting.
Behind his monitors all the way at the other side of his room Sero, Shinso, and Juzo were playing cards at his coffee table while waiting for the meeting to be over.
"---that covers where all of you need to be on Sunday," Horizon says. "I've already assigned a division leader for each of your parts, but since you've worked with each other before feel free to adjust that as you see fit.
This is all about us being in sync, these people have been moving a lot of drugs, guns, and...other things."
"People," Ryukyu says. "This is part of the human abduction ring we suspect the League of Villains is using to feed their Nomu Labs, right?"
"It is," Horizon says, and all the heroes react in absolute disgust. "Since they have Kurogiri we can't afford to just take bites out of their organization, that's why I've been collecting data for the past few weeks so we can hit them hard.Hard enough that he can't simply use Warp Gate to solve the problem. But that requires us to hit 11 different cities at once, which is why I actually need help. Because contrary to what the public likes to believe, and what I want the villains to believe, I can't actually be everywhere at once."
"Not yet," President Pantu pops up in the call, surprising many Pro Heroes who didn't know she was here. Seeing their reactions she elaborates, "I've been here from the start, only to observe how Horizon conducts himself in these situations, thus far, most impressive."
"Naturally," Horizon says. "But you must have broken your silence for a reason, right?"
"I just got done with the briefing and the maps you sent us, how did you get this information?" Pantu asks. "And more importantly, why wasn't the Police or the Commission brought in on this, we've been trying for years to get a mole this deep in the black market. The most we get is a few middle men, but this...this is distribution and manufacturing..."
"It honestly wasn't that hard, I just questioned one person, followed the trail. And eventually I found someone desperate enough to put some trackers on the shipments they move, then used them and some more follow up investigations to map their organization."
"And you didn't bring me in on this because?"
"Because while I do trust you not to be a spy," he says. "I'm sure you have leaks in your organization, can't risk them either breaking into your system or overhearing a conversation."
"Or you used methods that aren't 'heroic' in our sense," Pantu's face remains cold and free of emotions.
"Well...everyone talks when I get my hands on them," Ryukyu flinches at his words, which Endeavor doesn't miss. "But this time all it took was money, did you forget that I'm rich?"
"Regardless of how he got it," Edgeshot cuts in. "We have the information now, and my team as well as a few other Pro Heroes have already made contributions by following his instructions. Small investigations and staking out certain locations, not to mention I've worked with Horizon before, I trust his judgement on these matters."
"Yes," Endeavor finally speaks up, and everyone can see a wisp of green flame over his shoulder, Burnin was listening in. "Horizon is oddly skilled in these types of cases, lets follow his lead instead of inserting doubt and trying to change his plans. He's clearly spent a lot of time on this, I'm sure he's thought of almost everything."
"A brilliant new star shining before us, I trust this young hero!" Crust says, and half the Pros have to resist the urge to roll their eyes at him.
"My concern is the logistics on the police side," Best Jeanist says. "You want to keep the police in the dark but we can't do this without their support, at least to round up the captured criminals."
"I'll deal with that," Pantu says. "There are police stations nearby, I simply have to make sure they're equipped with assault gear beforehand, then when the attacks start they'll be alerted and deployed. This way any would be spies don't have time to warn the criminals."
"Its more likely that the stations are simply bugged," Horizon says.
"What about the teams?" Mirko asks, from her camera they could see buildings changing behind her. She was clearly leaping between the rooftops under a cloudy night sky. "Can I work solo?"
"No you're with Jeanist," Horizon says. "You're good 1-on-1 incase they have any heavy hitters, and he's good against groups of opponents. Teaming up is a necessity for this mission, no exceptions."
"No exceptions?" Endeavor asks with a raised brow.
"Yes that includes myself, Simon, Cellophane, and Mudman will be with me..."
"Team Horizon," Gang Orca says. "Wait, who's Mudman?"
"My work studies student," Crust proudly says.
"Versatile and level headed," Edgeshot says, "he'll be good for this kind of mission."
"He's also the final member of my team, we'll deal with one of the big storage and distribution houses near Minato Tokyo, it's off the shore on small uninhabited island, should be easy enough."
"You're suppose to have a pro with you. Did you forget you're still just a student?" Mirko reminds him. "Let me come supervise!"
"So you can annoy me for a rematch, just be glad I unblocked you from the Hero Network, and if you aren't annoying after this mission it might stay that way."
"Mmmm," Mirko pouts and stops on a rooftop, but doesn't say anything.
"Horizon is plenty capable by himself," Ryukyu says. "Besides he won't be alone..."
"Of course you'd defend your bo---"
"We aren't dating," both Horizon and Ryukyu say at one.
Mt. Lady stifles a chuckle as Pantu speaks up, "their love life aside, Horizon is capable and I trust him to act in the full capacity of a Pro Hero. If I didn't I never would have allowed him to nearly monopolize Minato Tokyo."
"Your report doesn't have any information on the ringleaders," Endeavor says. Like many of the present Pros he's already begun reading it.
"You don't last this long as a criminal by announcing who you are. That's why I stacked the teams to have a mix of fighters and capture based Pro Heroes."
"You've thought of everything," Hawks says. "You're pretty impressive, guess the hype about you wasn't overblown after all."
"Oh you haven't seen anything yet," Horizon says. "But just be careful, and feel free to recruit anyone from directly around where you'll all be operating that you trust. If we displace too many Pro Heroes at once our targets will realize something is off, we can't risk that, especially since all the Top 10 Pros will be in on this."
"Gotcha boss," Hawks says jokingly.
"Well that should be everything we have to discuss tonight," Horizon says. "If you have any questions either ask now or call me sometime...only for things regarding Hero Work for you Mirko..."
They see the woman mutter something under her breath, but can't hear it.
After a moment nobody speak up, until Best Jeanist does.
"It looks like this briefing was informative and concise, we'll be sure to review the documents you've sent us," the other Pros nod along. "And I must say, I too am impressed, if I didn't know better I never would have guess a child was organizing this."
"Well, when the adults rather run around in colorful pajamas and capes and fight other likeminded morons, I guess the children have to deal with the real criminals..."
He gets a mix of reaction from the pro, but shrugs it off.
"Now I'm sure you've all got streets to patrol or villains to fight, so I'll let you get back to it," Horizon kicks everyone from the call aside from Pantu.
"You can't even take a compliment without insulting people," Pantu says. "Your bedside manner is truly the worst. But I am impressed with the work you've done, and here I thought you were just planning to do the bare minimum to get by."
Horizon chuckles, "oh no, I'm the best at anything I agree to do, and that includes this Pro Hero game."
"Well, perhaps Nezu's hope has some merit, maybe you will be greater than any other Pro Hero the world will ever see...including All Might."
"Pro Hero...you're still thinking too small," Horizon says. The words send a chill down her spine, but her expression would never show it. "But one deal at a time Pantu..."
"When this one is complete we'll discuss a more long term contract," Pantu says before hanging up.
Horizon leans back in his chair and sends Ryukyu a short message, then gets up to check on his teammates.
"Hey morons, everything is set, so you're all going to Horizon Tower with me from tomorrow night."
"Tomorrow?" Juzo asks. "But that's Wednesday."
"We've got some preparing to do, plus I've got a date so we need to be there by Thursday night."
"Since when do you go on dates?" Sero asks, skeptical at the idea. "I thought the great and powerful Horizon just seduces fangirls, and Ryuko."
"Ryuko?" Juzo looks a bit concerned. "Are you and Ryukyu a thing? I thought you said that's a stupid rumor?"
"It is a stupid rumor, he was talking about Pixie-Bob."
"They have the same name?" Juzo asks.
"Its always confusing," Shinso mutters, still focusing on his cards.
"Yeah but I decided to put those rumors to work for me, so I'm going on a 'date' with Ryukyu, and I'll need you there as backup," he gestures to Shinso. "Not in costume this time."
"What about us?" Sero asks.
"You and Juzo can go patrol the nearby areas or something, this is a delicate mission, won't need to fight anyone."
"Good luck explaining this to Ryuko," Shinso says.
"Oh yeah," Juzo looks back at Horizon, half amazed and entirely confused. "When the hell did that happen, and aren't you dating Momo and Jiro or something?"
"Its a long story," Horizon says as he takes a seat at the table.
And Shinso happily takes all the cards and shuffles them, getting rid of his losing hand...
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