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CHAPTER START---
"So, what are the chances?" Mina asks as she watches the fight with most of the other students.
They were now joined by Midnight, Vlad King, Ectoplasm, Snipe, and Eri.
Nezu, Aizawa, and All Might were at the control console, monitoring the camera feeds that are displayed on the big screen.
Standing beside Mina is Mudman -Juzo-, who everyone looks to as the resident expert on fighting Horizon.
"Well honestly," Mudman says. "They're gonna get beat up, real bad, doubt they have any chance of winning. The best team would have had me there to lock him down more effectively, but---"
"You rather lose than get beat up by Horizon when he's serious?" Cellophane asks, chuckling lowly.
"Hey you've seen him fight," Mudman says. "Me being in a full body cast isn't worth a 2% raise in the chance of success.""That's true," Simon says. "And part of making a strategy is avoiding impossible fights."
Above them on a massive screen is Horizon, standing in the industrial training zone, hands at his side. Still dressed casually, waiting for his opponents.
He had a blue sash from his right shoulder to his left hip, the prize for either side to get.
ROOM!
Horizon expands his range to encompass the entire training area, sensing most of his opponents immediately.
'Bakugo, Tokoyami, Ibara...one person is missing. They're supposed to send 4,' he turns his head in the direction of the observation area and expands his Room even more. 'Monoma isn't in the observation area, he's the 4th.'
He sensed Bakugo rush ahead, splitting from Tokoyami and Ibara as he soars above the buildings, looking for Horizon.
'Still lacking teamwork, that'll bite him in the ass...' But once again Horizon searches, and doesn't find Monoma. 'Maybe I just need to---'
"---DIE!" Bakugo's scream interrupts him.
Horizon turns his head to see Bakugo already preparing a Howitzer Grand Impact.
ANTIBACTERIAL CURTAIN: Barrier!
He raises a hand and from his palm blue energy crystalizes into a dome around him.
The explosion shakes the entire training grounds and blocks the view from the cameras.
Smoke and dust take almost a minute to properly settle, and when it does, Bakugo is hovering in the air via his explosion.
Above a large crater with Horizon in the center, unmoved, the ground around him and his body protected by the unbothered shield.
"You've gotten stronger, but I told you before, I grow faster than any of you."
Hearing that, Bakugo charges forward, propelled by explosions, and Horizon drops the barrier.
"You know how this ends, why rush in alone?" Horizon asks as they begin trading blows.
He narrowly parries one of Bakugo's strikes, diverting his palm and the ensuing explosion to the side.
But Bakugo changes his strategy, instead of trying to land large and direct explosions, he uses smaller explosions between them, before Horizon can parry.
Instead of trying to hit Horizon with a rocket that he would parry, he sets off grenades between them, damaging both of them in exchange for landing hits.
"You can't warp this time!" Bakugo screams as he begins speeding up, but even as the explosion appears to be making contact, he doesn't see any damage on Horizon.
"Don't need it."
BOOSTER SHOT!
Horizon's speed instantly multiplies, now appearing like a blur for short bursts, leaving a small train of blue energy vapor in his wake.
Bakugo leaps back, using explosions to take to the air before putting his hands together.
"AP Machine Gun!" he releases a rapid-fire stream of dense explosions at Horizon.
Seeing the explosions covering a wide area Horizon raises his hands once again and manifests his dome shield.
But as they begin beating against this shield Bakugo does something new.
"He's in position, now!" Bakugo screams.
Everyone is surprised that this entire time he's been seemingly following a plan, perfectly at that.
Suddenly a small forest of green thorny vines burst out of the ground. Concrete and dust fill the air as they all rush straight toward Horizon.
Even within his dome barrier, the vines attack him, immediately wrapping him up and holding his limbs apart.
The barrier immediately falls and Bakugo lands.
"Tch, without warping you aren't that big a deal."
Horizon doesn't speak, still feeling the vines tightening and pulling his limbs apart, keeping him bound.
Bakugo seizes the moment and rushes forward, intent on landing at least one solid hit and ending the fight.
The main objective was the grab the sash, but nobody wanted to go that close to Horizon, and Ibara's vines aren't that precise from such a long-range without line of sight.
So he had to score some kind of hit while he had the chance.
As he was ten meters away Bakugo jumped forward, crossing his hands and simultaneously pulling the pin on both his grenadier gauntlets.
"DI---"
TAKT!
Two pieces of concrete rip themselves out of the ground and rocket upward, surprising Bakugo as they slam into the underside of his gauntlets.
Both the explosions are sent into the air and the unexpected change leaves him unprepared for the recoil.
The force slams him into the ground hard enough to crack the concrete, and Horizon doesn't even move during this entire time.
"I'm a lot more than just a guy who can warp," Horizon says. "I command the world, don't ever forget that..."
GAMMA!
The air around Horizon flickers green for just a moment, and all the vines holding him directly stiffen, eventually freezing and snapping as they become brittle.
After ripping all the heat and radiation from the vines to make them cold and brittle, he harmlessly dissipates it within his body.
"Ice?" Shoto asks, he was watching and hearing everything from the observation area.
"That's new," Juzo says.
Bakugo sees this as he forces himself to get up, both his arms aching, begging him to stop.
Horizon points a finger at him, "This is new and unrefined, so thanks for letting me test it. Counter Shock: Direct Current."
An arc of blue lightning jumps from Horizon's finger directly to Bakugo, tasing him and knocking him out.
"Not sure about the name," Horizon shakes his hand and the lightning dissipates.
"Another new move," Simon says. "I remember he said he couldn't control lightning after it leaves his body, guess he figured it out."
While it looks like Horizon is simply shooting a lightning bolt, and that's exactly what he wants the enemies to think.
Earlier when they fought he didn't try to hit Bakugo, he simply ran a small current through the boy each time he parried a strike.
Continuously changing the charge of his body to a negative state.
And when he released a large amount of positively charged lightning, Bakugo became a lighting rod.
Taking a deep breath he looks around at the destruction they caused, and all the vines that were quickly being retracted.
He could sense them underground during the entire fight, but didn't deem them a big enough concern to act against. He also wanted to see exactly what plan his fellow students could conceive of.
Sensing where the vines were going, and Ibara's distressed state, Horizon takes of running directly toward her.
BOOSTER SHOT!
Everyone is surprised at how fast he can run, at 6ft4 -196cm- and 270lbs -122kg-, he was running at over 120kmph.
It's not that they aren't surprised someone so large could move quickly, after all, both Star and Stripe and All Might are as large as him or larger in the case of All Might, and they're both much faster.
But for Horizon, he's always warped about, so this was entirely new.
And their concern only grew when he ran straight through a reinforced concrete wall without slowing down, as if the buildings were made of cardboard.
Aizawa glanced over to Eri, seeing her cheering with stars in her eyes, and he couldn't help but sigh.
Soon Horizon got to where Ibara had set up, only for Tokoyami to pounce on him, or more accurately, Dark Shadow attacked him.
Ibara was at the back of the clearing trying to repair the ends of her hair with Tokoyami in front of her, Dark Shadow extending from his midsection to fight Horizon.
The shadow creature was larger than usual, showing Tokoyami's growth, but Horizon was unfazed.
Tokoyami already had a bead of sweat running down his face, clearly nervous about this encounter.
"You know I could end this instantly, right..." A few arcs of blue lightning run across Horizon's body. Tokoyami takes a nervous step back.
"Yes, you could, but will you always rely on cheap tricks?"
"Oooh, reverse psychology," Horizon plays along. "But you should know, when the result is that you lose either way, take the less painful option next time, cuz now I'm gonna break you..."
Tokoyami and Dark Shadow instinctively take a step back, truly terrified of standing against Horizon.
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