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"So, be honest this time, what happened to your Quirk?"
Yagi and Nezu both froze at those words, Nezu's mind racing to solve this problem without starting a fight, while Yagi still had Horizon's hand holding his right hand. Staring into the two blue eyes of Horizon's visor.
He felt a shiver run down his spine, all the hairs at the back of his neck standing on end. This sickening feeling, the sudden change in atmosphere. From a crude but necessary doctor to such an imminent threat. Yagi was astonished, but as All Might he's faced worse.
And as his bright blue pupils stare right back at Horizon, just as when he faced of against the symbol of evil and the countless villains in his life, his eyes never blink. Conviction and hope keep them bright and as unflinching as ever.
"My Quirk was unique," Yagi said.
"Unique how?"
"It allowed the user to get rid of it, allowing me to completely rid myself of it, as you've detected.""Hmm, I'm not detecting a lie...but this...Quirks are part of us, part of our DNA, this doesn't make sense, it's hard to believe," Horizon says in a low, nearly threatening voice.
"I know," Yagi sighs. "But this is the truth, I got rid of it when I realized that it was time for me to let go, for me to stop clinging to the past and focus on the future, when I finally accepted what was going to happen to me," he lifts his left hand up to touch his side.
A tense silence hangs in the air for a while as everyone holds their breaths, not sure what would happen next.
"Can it happen to me?" Horizon asks.
Yagi shakes his head, "no, this was a feature of my Quirk, it can't affect others, and even if it could, you know I'm essentially Quirkless now, running on the last embers of my power."
Horizon doesn't detect any lies, so instead he focuses on Yagi's body. Pouring more and more energy into scanning him, so much that he could barely support a room large enough to fit UA's main building.
He mapped much of his DNA and genome before taking a step back and dropping back in his seat. Mentally exhausted, although he refused to show it.
To both the people sitting across from him, nothing changed.
Taking a few deep breaths he steadies his mind, "I don't particularly care about you, obviously I'm interested in how your Quirk managed to do that. But I just had to make sure that you can't remove my Quirk," he shrugs.
Yagi and Nezu both breathe a sigh of relief, "well I'm glad that's all taken care of," Nezu says.
"But I won't be healing him anymore," Horizon cuts their little celebration short.
"What? Why?" Yagi asks.
"Because you've wasted my time. I performed a miracle to heal you yet the energy reserves in you diminished so much, unnaturally fast. You've been using your Quirk damn near every day since that first day we met. Plus it's not like I could do any more for you, just try not to get hurt, you're in the contract so I'll honor that...but I'd rather not waste my time healing self-sacrificial trash."
"Ah---I see," Yagi bows politely, "thank you."
"Your timer is down to six years," Horizon says. "That's less than half of what I originally gave you, try not to waste it. Honestly, nothing about you is normal, not surprising since you're the only person to probably ever exist that's born with a Quirk while not having the extra bone in their toe that Quirk users have...such an odd case..."
'But one that I'll eventually solve,' Horizon thinks to himself as Yagi and Nezu share a moment of relief. 'I can't mess with genetics yet, but after an entire year of traveling and training I was able to map his genetic sequences while making contact for a few minutes, I'll figure out more about this whole situation on my own, pressing them any further could complicate things and put my position at risk...'
"Thank you for not prying," Yagi nods respectfully. "And for everything that you've done for me."
"Tch, don't mention it." Horizon turns to Nezu and checks the time on his phone, only five minutes until homeroom starts. "Are we done here?"
"Toshinori has something to take care of," Nezu gives Yagi a curt nod, thankfully he seems to have gotten the hint. "But you and I have some other things to discuss."
"What things?"
"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll at least find it entertaining."
"Then I'll be on my way," Yagi gets up and gives them both a nod, "I need to go make a quick phone call, I wish you both a good day..."
Nezu nods and Horizon makes no effort to respond, only sitting in his spot and taking deep breaths, trying to restore what stamina he can after scanning Yagi for so many details. At the moment he didn't even have a ROOM open, he was simply that drained.
Stepping into the hallway Yagi immediately dug into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Seeing it was only a few minutes before homeroom begins he frantically called Izuku.
'As expected of a fanboy,' he thinks as the call is answered before the first ring can even finish.
"Uh, hello, I'm walking to class..." Izuku says in a quiet voice, not wanting anyone to know he's talking to All Might.
"Right, young Midoriya, there's something I need to warn you about before homeroom," Yagi scans the hallway, thankful the top floor of this tower was currently barren, as usual.
"Warn me?!"
"Settle down kid, it's one of your classmates, I need you to be careful around him."
"Hmm, is he dangerous?" Izuku asks with a shaky voice.
"In a way, listen I know you don't have much time but I'll make it real simple. You've got a lot more competition than I ever expected, principal Nezu has been bragging about this kid for a while and it looks like it wasn't all hot air."
"The principal?"
"Yeah, the same doctor I told you was able to somewhat heal me... that guy."
"A doctor?! But I thought you said classmate?"
"I did," Yagi says. "He's in your class, he just turned 16, and he's a serious monster, don't give him any information about One For All, got it, stick to the cover that your Quirk is just Super-Power."
"Got it...but, is it really that bad?"
"Well, I just had a casual checkup with him, it took him all of two seconds to notice the difference from a year ago, that my Quirk is gone. He kept scanning me, he supposedly read my DNA, if that's true then---"
"He'll notice One For All in me," Izuku sounded like he wanted to cry already.
"Stop with the waterworks," Yagi groans.
"Sorry..." he sniffles.
"Listen, his Quirk is touch-based, just don't let him touch you and you'll be fine. But when he touches you he can also detect any lies you try to tell. Not to mention he was able to figure out what you've been doing wrong with One For All and how to fix it at a glance. He basically saw a picture of you before you left the ground to smash that robot and gave a full breakdown."
"That's impossible! Even you haven't been able to---" Izuku cuts himself off. "WAIT! No! I mean I'm grateful for everything you've done for me it just---"
"I know what you meant kid, it's fine," Yagi sighs. "Honestly it felt like crap sitting there and watching him be better at my job than me, but the reason I'm telling you this is so that you don't underestimate him, don't give him any information at all unless you want him to put the pieces together, got it?"
"Yes sir, I'll be sure to keep my distance and not say a word."
"Good, but don't forget that there will be things you can learn from all of your classmates, especially this one."
"Of course, I always look for things I can learn from others."
"That's one of the many things that I like about you kid," Yagi chuckles. "As for the kid I warned you about, his name is Horizon, trust me, you won't be able to miss him..."
---Nezu's Office...
"So what do we need to talk about?" Horizon asks.
"Oh, Eraserhead is about to give your classmates their first little taste of life in UA, I figured we could watch together," Nezu says cheerfully as he removes the remote from his vest and activates the hologram between them. This time to an empty training field.
"Uh, shouldn't you be at the entrance ceremony mister principal?"
"Vice-Principal Ectoplasm can cover for me this time, I'd much rather be here. I promised you competition, this is my first chance to make good on that promise."
"And shouldn't I be down there too, not that I want to be."
"Oh this Quirk Apprehension test isn't necessary for you, it's simply a way of getting the message into their heads that Quirks are part of their beings. While society at large suppresses the use of Quirks unless you're a hero, here at UA we encourage Hero Course students to use their Quirks wherever they can effectively apply them. Most of your classmates went to public schools where they would get in trouble for Quirk use so this message will take a while for them to understand."
"Hmm, makes sense," Horizon thinks it over for a second. "Most?"
"Mhm, Todoroki was homeschooled, just like you, and I assume he must have been trained very well by his father."
"Todoroki? Like Endeavour?"
"His son, yes."
"Interesting, Endeavour is the hero with the highest level of Quirk-Mastery, highest in the world as far as I can see... it's actually very impressive, even by my standards, if his son is anything like that it could actually be fun to slap him around," Horizon chuckles at the thought.
"Really? 'Slap him around', are you that confident against the child of the number 2 hero?"
Horizon laughs at that ridiculous question, "trust me, basic elemental Quirks can't beat me, no matter how strong they are, but that doesn't mean I can't have some fun before winning..."
"They're taking the field," Nezu says as nineteen students begin walking onto the training ground. "I'm sure at least one of them will have a Quirk you find interesting..."
"We'll see about that..."
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