MHA: Horizon(Ope-Ope No Mi)

MHA: Horizon(Chapter 258)

MHA: Horizon(Chapter 258)

CHAPTER 258(Building Confidence)

CHAPTER START---

Within the mountains of Gero Japan hides a Nomu manufacturing lab, hidden underground in the forest.

Within this lab stands a slim man, tall with a head of curly brown hair. Wearing a lab coat over standard office attire, the only feature that made his Quirk apparent were the walrus-like tusks in his mouth.

All around him are large tubes containing gestating Nomu, more forces for Shigaraki to deploy when they're ready.

And his job, maintaining the genetic integrity of these Nomu, overseeing the transformation process, recording it all for Shigaraki.

The man is sitting at his desk typing away on the computer, on the screen is a constantly updating report of each and every Nomu in this building, alongside precious data that his mysterious boss has allowed him to record.

"After this maybe the boss will finally let me help make a Nomu instead of just babysitting corpses," he grumbles. "I'm an accomplished geneticist, yet they only have me here watching corpses. But atleast I can learn from watching them evolve."

He continues typing away for a few moments.

"They are superior!" He screams angrily, leering to his right, to the empty room. "Tch, the damn hospital board called me crazy for wanting to reverse engineer Nomu, but I'll show them."

He sits back and reads the reports for a few moments, before getting up angrily, throwing his chair at the wall.

"I'm not crazy!" he points at where the chair landed. "And you people won't be laughing when I evolve myself and---"

CLANG!

The metal door to the room slams open and in walks a young boy, seemingly plain and Japanese, no older than 15. He was wearing a traditional Japanese high school uniform of all things with a revolver in his hand.

"Doctor, the Heroes are coming!"

"Agh!" he slams his palms on the desk, and growls at where he threw the chair, "this will work!"

The young boy gives the man a strange look before remembering why he came here, "what do we do sir?!"

The man sighs and takes a few deep breaths, "we stick to the plan."

"But---"

"It'll work," the man says. "You're here because your Quirk can get us both out of this situation, so just play your role and Shigaraki will reward us, you get to meet that silly girl you like and I get my reward."

"She's not just some girl, she's Himiko Toga!"

"Tch," the man turns back to the computer as the boy walks up to him. "They're all some silly girl, and no matter how hard you love them, when the world starts laughing at you, she'll join them too, isn't that right..." he looks at the same spot he threw the chair in disgust.

The boy shakes his head and is just thankful this mission is over, he no longer had to be stuck here with this crazy man.

BANG!

The sound of steel twisting and concrete breaking echoes through the base as the entire structure shakes.Upstodatee from

The man and boy share a glace, both equally afraid of what happens next, but already resolved themselves to see it through to the end.

"Too late to go back now," the man says. "Those eyes of yours can work on a crowd right?"

"Too many uses can mess up my eyes and brain, but yeah, hopefully they didn't bring too many."

"Just remember not to use it on the big guy, that Quirk of his would probably feel it."

The boy swallows harshly, "right."

The sound of yelling and boots stomping down the hallway soon follows as the officers clear the base floor by floor, quickly approaching this room.

As the sound of footsteps gets closer, it immediately goes silent.

The boy raises the gun, aiming at the door, his entire body shaking.

CRANG!

The entire metal door suddenly implodes, crumpling itself into a metal ball and floating in the air.

The man begins sweating alongside the boy, staring in horror as Horizon casually steps into the room and hovers the ball of metal in place above his head, slowly walking toward them.

Scalpel hovers at his other side, not even drawn, even as the boy points a revolver at his visor.

"No threat!" Horizon yells back at the hallway. "Secure to other rooms, and have some men escort this kid out of here!"

"Copy!" he hears from the hallway as the armored officers continue searching the building.

Horizon then drops the metal ball onto the floor and approaches the computer, looking at both enemies.

He looks the doctor up and down, then turns to the boy who had the revolver barely a meter from his visor, still pointing directly at him.

But the boy was trembling more than ever.

"Put that thing down before you hurt yourself," Horizon says.

The boy immediately drops the gun and raises his hands, "I'm sorry I'm sorry!"

The gun hovers in place where he dropped it and Horizon sighs, "don't drop loaded weapons," he says as some officers enter the room.

Horizon skims some of the folder names and nods, "finally something useful."

As it downloads he finds the command to cut all power to the Nomu pods, and does exactly that.

The vitals of every Nomu immediately drops to zero, returning them to being lifeless corpses.

He looks back at some more officers entering the room, and before they can speak he taps the side of his visor.

The man nods, understanding Horizon was speaking to someone, and does a hand signal asking if they were done and should move everything out.

Horizon responds with a thumbs up and everyone gets back to work.

As the men are working, Horizon's call connects.

---Hawks Hero Agency...

Laying flat on the couch with his feet up Hawks enjoys his pack of potato chips.

Standing nearby leaning against his desk is Dabi, glaring at the nonchalant Pro Hero, clearly annoyed.

It was late at night so the Agency was mostly empty, all the Sidekicks are out on patrol while only a few remain in the building to act as communications and logistics. This allowed the villain to warp into Hawks's office for a private meeting.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Hawks sits up and answers the phone on loudspeaker, "Horizon, how'd it go?" has asks.

"Your intel was good," Horizon says, and Dabi glances at Hawks wearily.

"How good?"

"Well, you were right about this place being a Nomu research lab, looks like it was to observe the Nomu so there wasn't any fighting like you said there'd be, but that's good. Also you were right about who would be here, two non-combatants sent here just to keep an eye on the place."

"What about the intel, anything good?" Hawks asks.

"Better than the last two raids, this time they had a local mainframe with over a dozen terabytes of data, it'll take me a while to sort it, but there is a lot of good intel about the Nomu here."

"Good, but this is gonna make Shigaraki suspicious of me so I'll have to keep my head down for a while," Hawks says. "Not many people knew about that particular facility."

"Yeah it was very well hidden, I'll need time to sort the data anyway so it's fine, villains are captured and gone, now I need to get back to work, tell Pantu what I told you, I don't like repeating myself."

"Sure thi---" Horizon hangs up on him.

"He really really doesn't like you huh," Dabi chuckles.

"What gave it away?" Hawks relaxes on the couch.

"I've met you, can't imagine anyone wanting to be around you," Dabi shrugs.

"You and your bad jokes, everyone loves me," Hawks says. "But seriously, looks like it worked. Shigaraki offering up that data and facility should make Horizon question my intel a lot less, especially since this is the 3rd time in a row we've done this."

"Yeah, but this time we get something back from it," Dabi says. "The public is getting a bit too relaxed, gotta remind them that we're still on the loose. After tonight Pantu won't be able to keep us out of the news since she'll have to explain why a bunch of cops are dead..."

"Yeah, and next time we do this, Machia' deals with Horizon for us," Hawks says.

"Hmm," Dabi narrows his eyes at Hawks.

"What, admiring my handsome face?" Hawks grins.

Dabi rolls his eyes, "I was thinking maybe you would have been a good villain after all, but you just had to ruin the moment."

"Awe, you're softening up to me."

"Tch, go fuck yourself bird boy," Dabi takes a step away from the desk. "Kurogiri..."

A shroud of purple mist immediately forms around him and warps him away.

Hawks sighs and picks up his phone, making a call that instantly connects, "hey President Pantu, everything worked perfectly, raid complete..."

---Elsewhere...

In the back of the armored prisoner transport vehicle, the doctor sits with his arms cuffed behind his back, opposite the young boy who was still bleeding and had all his veins nearly bursting out of his skin.

The boy was also sweating, struggling to remain conscious.

The doctor looks around the otherwise empty prisoner area of the truck, then at the small holes that allowed the driver to hear what was going on back here.

Moving his food forward he nudged the boy's foot, getting his attention.

The boy looks up at him, clearly struggling to stay awake.

"Hey, think about Toga," the doctor says. "You love her, you want to meet her, right?"

The boy nods tiredly.

"Then you need to do this, do it for her, we should be far enough away now..."

Hearing that the boy musters all his strength and activates the second stage of his Quirk.

His eyes glow bright white for a moment as he feels it work, and with his job done, he then immediately begins having a seizure on the floor...

END CHAPTER---