ocean-life CHAPTER 028(1:10000000000)
CHAPTER 028(1:10000000000)
CHAPTER 028(1:10000000000)
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Walking into his homeroom ten minutes before lunch ends Horizon notices that he's the last to arrive, at a glance he sees everyone excitedly waiting, itching for their first Hero Basic Training class.
He doesn't give any reaction, simply keeping his hands in his pockets and moving to his seat, walking past Toru, seeing her playing with her hair, Bakugo with his feet up on his desk behind her, and Deku writing something in his battered notebook, quietly mumbling to himself.
Quiet conversations were happening among some students, including Tokoyami who sat to his right talking to Sero, who sits in front of Tokoyami.
Horizon takes his seat and leans back in his chair, quietly yawning as he just wakes up. And behind him, Momo is reading over her notes from English class while Todoroki is just staring out the window at nothing beside her.
As he's about to nod off into sleep again Tokoyami interrupts, "Horizon, are you awake?"
"Hmm," Horizon sits up and looks over at Tokoyami, seeing both he and Sero looking at him nervously. "Yeah, need something?"
"Sorry man," Sero says, "we honestly could tell because well, you know..."
"I get that a lot," Horizon replies. The entire class gets quiet to listen in, not expecting him to be this hospitable to anyone after his first impression yesterday.
"Right, we were just wondering... did you get kicked out of English class earlier?" Sero asks, scratching the back of his neck.
"No, I asked Mic if I could go for lunch early since I'm fluent in English, and he let me go," Horizon shrugs.
"You can speak English!" Kirishima yells in surprise, sitting three seats away.
"Among other languages yes, so I used the time to get ahead of the lunch lines..."
"Very wise," Tokoyami adds. "We were caught in the lunch crowd, even with the size of the cafeteria, it can still get quite crowded, but Lunch Rush's food is worth it."
"Yeah, I don't really like the cafeteria noise so I went up to the roof, by the time you guys were packing your things I was already on the top floor..."
"The roof is off limits to students," Momo says, putting down her book to join the conversation.
"Supposedly yeah, that's why it was locked. Nothing my Quirk couldn't get past, plus it was nice and quiet, and I got to take and post some nice pics too," he shrugs.
"Really! Can we see?" Sero asks.
"I can show you my profile if you want, I've got lots of cool pictures on it from the places I go."
"Sure, what's the profile name?" Sero and a few other curious people take out their phones.
"Horizon."
"Just Horizon?" Tokoyami asks, phone in hand and typing it in.
"It cost me a small fortune to get the original name, but having a trademark helps."
"Your profile picture is the thing on your back..." Sero notices as he begins scrolling, eyes widening as he sees more and more pictures of Horizon all across the world in the past year. "Holy crap."
"Indeed," was all Tokoyami could say as he was also staring at his screen.
"The symbol is my logo, and yeah the last year has been exciting, figured I'd live it up a little before I'm spending six days a week in UA."
"You call yourself a miracle? Seriously?" Jirou spins around in her chair, beside Bakugo, phone in hand on his profile, and casts a disappointed look at Horizon.
"I am a miracle, one in ten billion."
"The world only has nine billion people," she says.
"Oh, the usual incurable problems," Horizon casually waves his hand in the air as he speaks. "Cancer in the brain, spine, or wherever else it is, shattered spine, blindness, deafness, heart disease, I cured diabetes once but that was a real pain in the ass, took me like twelve hours," he groans at the memory. "And I needed a lot of new tissue to graft onto the Pancreas, but yeah that kind of stuff."
Everyone looks both impressed and horrified at how casually he's speaking of these real miracles.
"So you're like a doctor?" Todoroki asks. "But what else can your Quirk do, if healing isn't your only ability? I find it hard to believe a healing Quirk as capable as yours exists, much less having more abilities."
All eyes shift to Todoroki, for most of the class this is the first time they've heard his voice.
"Oh, I could show you if you want," Horizon takes out his stack of metal throwing cards and raises one between his fingers. "C'mon, it'll be fun, I'm just gonna---"
"I AM HERE!!!!!!!!" All Might bursts into the room through the front door, causing everyone to begin murmuring in excitement, wearing an older version of his costume with red as the main color and a long flowing cape.
'Wow...he's bigger than he looks on TV,' was Horizon's only real thought, not viewing All Might through the same hero-worshiping lens as most of the world. But the hulking 220cm -7ft3- figure was certainly imposing, especially considering All Might had the power and speed that would make him a threat to Horizon.
'I wonder if he's faster than my reaction time...' he ponders as All Might gives a basic breakdown of the class.
"Welcome to the most important class at UA High, think of it as heroing 1-0-1, this is where you'll learn the basics of being a pro and what it means to fight in the name of good," All Might says while flexing for the class.
'Fight for the government yeah,' Horizon rolls his eyes at the over-the-top speech, while everyone just eats it up.
"Now let's get into it, today's lesson is...BATTLE TRAINING!" All Might announces proudly, causing a small commotion in the class.
'Skipping the ethics and regulations and going in for hands-on training, can't say I'm surprised...' Horizon nods and leans back in his chair. 'Well, I'll get to see if anyone here is any fun to slap around at least.'
"But one of the keys to being a hero is, LOOKING GOOD!" All Might opens the shelves in the wall to reveal all the cases. Labeled number 1-20, with the number 19 white instead of silver, Horizon's blue logo pained on the face of it.
A loud commotion starts but some eyes glance over to Horizon, finally realizing what was in that case he had on the very first day.
'So he had access to his costume early,' they thought, curious about exactly what it could be.
"Alright, go by your seat numbers and come get your costume, then head to the 1A locker room and get changed, I'll be waiting at training ground beta!" All Might gives them a thumbs up and dazzling smile.
Being number nineteen Horizon is almost the last person to collect his costume, but he doesn't like waiting.
"Time to get dressed I suppose," he grumbles and stands up, before Aoyama -seat 1- could ever get to the shelves. With both hands at his side.
Iida immediately stands up to reprimand him, but All Might beats him to it, "young Horizon, you must wait your turn, patience is essential to being a hero, and you must be courteous to others," he says politely as Horizon is only two steps from his desk.
"Uh-huh."
SHAMBLES
Horizon's clothes are swapped out for his hero costume, his uniform stored safely and neatly in the metal case as the pristine three-piece white suit appears on him. White jacket and pants, matching the dress shoes he wears to school. His white Rolex stays on his wrist, a black vest above his blue shirt with a long dark-blue tie. His logo in blue at the back of the white jacket, draped on his shoulder without his arms in the sleeves, kept in place by subtle and clever buttons.
Everyone freezes at the sight.
"WARPING!" Half the room, including All Might, yell in surprise, eyes wide in shock.
"Warping is one of my other abilities," he stops at Jiro's desk and raises his hand.
SHAMBLES
His Katana appears in his hand, from end to end 145cm -4ft9- almost as tall as Jiro and Asui, but aside from the odd size, his logo along the scabbard and the white colour caught their eyes.
Holding the sword at his side he looks down at Jiro, and she could just feel the smug grin behind his black visor.
"See, one in ten billion," he begins walking out of the room, not looking back as he says, "I'll be waiting at training ground beta..."
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