NOVEL NEXT CHAPTER 071(Tokyo Central Bank)
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Aside from a stopping few minor thefts, Horizon hadn't done anything exciting on the first day of his internship. Today would be much more exciting.
Walking through Tokyo with Burnin -Moe Kamiji-, Horizon is one step behind her as people constantly stare at them on the crowded streets.
Burnin was a young lady, Endeavor's most famous and powerful Sidekick. Her Hero Costume was rather simple. A grey double-breasted mini-dress with orange and black lining and accents. Two rows of buttons down the front of it and short slits at the sides so she can move easier.
Her belt has a temperature gauge for a buckle and a small fire extinguisher at the back of it. Strong thick legs in knee-high socks and short boots. And a pretty face was somewhat hidden beneath a black mask.
But in reality, the mask barely did anything.
Beacuse her entire costume was topped off with a head of green fire for hair. Seemingly appearing more like a liquid that's frozen in place, wild and messy. Perfectly matching her fiery personality and rambunctious nature.
All fit into a 169cm -5ft6.5- package, one inch shorter than Momo. Walking in front of Horizon the top of her head just barely reaches his neck.
Burnin raises a hand and stops abruptly, focusing in on the earpiece connecting her to the Endeavor Agency.
"What's going on?" Horizon asks.
A moment later she turns around and looks up at him, "some villains attacked the Tokyo Central Bank and took hostages, the cops want us there to help out, let's go!"
Without waiting for any response Burni's hair expands and all the loose piece meld together and grow, lifting her off the street and rocketing into the air.
Now soaring over the streets below she begins the somewhat long trip further into the heart of Tokyo to go help out.
"Great...this is gonna suck," Horizon mutters as he sees her disappear over the buildings. Already knowing he'd be quickly drained after this.
ROOM!
He opens the largest room he can, 7km in every direction, 2km more than before he joined UA. Having such a wide open space to train has done wonders for him already. This brings his area of influence to a total 14km diameter. As always he's in the middle, a blessing sometimes, and a curse in moments like these.
Focusing toward the southeast of his room he tries to find anything he can swap with.
SCAN!
The influx of information is instantly processed, but he can feel the toll on his mental stamina from scanning such a large area.
SHAMBLES!
He swaps for a candy wrapper he located in a back alley before instantly closing his ROOM.
"Four more of these to go..." he mutters, and starts the taxing process all over again.
SHAMBLES!
Law appears on a sidewalk, one more warp away from his destination. He shakes his head to stay focused, and opens another room.
SCAN!
'Oh, you can't be serious...' he sighs, finding nothing to swap to...an entire area of the city completely cleared out because of this bank heist. 'Fuck it.'
He raises his hand and flicks a finger upward.
TAKT!
At his desired location a peddle is ripped out of the sidewall by a seemingly invisible force.
Focusing on small objects is already difficult. With TAKT, if he can see them it's much easier to command them to move. Using SCAN and TAKT to move things that he's far away from him is taxing but has its uses.
But TAKT has a limit that only he and his parents know about.
Without adding much more energy and focus he can only command things to move as fast as gravity would naturally allow them.
For example, he can only move a rock as fast as it would naturally fall. Increasing the speed and force requires more energy, eventually leading to diminishing returns on his stamina use.
So ripping a pebble out of the floor, from this far away, without being able to even see it...
With his ROOM already pushed to the limit, it felt as if he tried to rip the sports festival stage out of the floor.
SHAMBLES!
He appears in a deserted alley one building away from the police barricade.
Immediately shutting down his Quirk he leans against the wall, taking a moment to catch his breath. Squeezing his eyes shut he regains his focus enough so that nobody would realize he isn't at full strength and stands up straight, walking toward the police barricade as if nothing happened.
In truth without the need to follow the rules and maintain his heroic image, he could have covered the 28km much easier.
Open a room, swap for a car or even a dumpster, something big enough that he doesn't have to strain his mind to find and lock onto it.
But he's Horizon. He doesn't move people's property so freely. Finding litter was the more heroic option, therefore that's what he did.
The last thing he wants is people questioning his Quirk use, especially since he doesn't have a Provisional License yet so this is all technically illegal Quirk use.
And as for ripping a piece of the ground out, he knows he can't make a habit of that. Property damage is what keeps people like Mt. Lady poor and low in the rankings after all.
'So what if a few people die because I take longer,' he thinks to himself. 'The important thing is that if this was going to be some rampaging monster like the USJ Nomu, I'd need to show up at full strength. I need to figure out this mobility problem.'
Walking out of the alley he sees a mob of news teams already set up with cameras and mics. Beyond them is a line of policemen and 10 Pro Heroes, all waiting patiently for an opening in this standoff.
Behind the news teams are a mob of civilians, so swept up in the idea of heroes that they don't even realize how dangerous this situation is, so confident that nothing would happen to them and heroes would take care of it all.
'Disgusting, the bystander effect in full action...' Horizon thinks as he walks up, making a show of it.
"Excuse me, can I please get by!" He loudly asks, causing the crowd to turn around and stare at him.
A chorus of cheers and chattering erupts as all the cameras turn to him, and one lucky reporter manages to shove a mic toward his face as he pushes through the crowd.
"Horizon! Do you think the hostages will be ok?!" The reporter asks, and Horizon stops.
The crowd waits anxiously for his answer, some of them having family and friends trapped inside, now seeing a shining beacon of hope that the situation would be taken care of.
That Principal Nezu's bet, the future Symbol Of Peace has arrived to save them.
Turning to the reporter Horizon speaks in a gentle voice, still sounding somewhat mechanical. "You don't need to worry, everyone will be fine."
"Are more Pros coming?" another reporter asks, "the current Pros have just been standing about doing nothing, how long until enough Pros are here to go in and deal with these villains?!"
Horizon looks at him and chuckles before answering, "this problem is already resolved, you have all the heroes you need, because I am Horizon, and that's enough..." he walks past the police barricade without saying another word.
Stepping into the police area Horizon sees the massive bank, large white columns, and a stone staircase leading to the door. All the windows were currently painted over, a bright purple color, as well as the glass doors.
Looking up to the nearby rooftops he sees armored police officers with rifles aimed at the building, trigger fingers itchy and waiting for the right order. He also sees a few Pros he's standing spread out in case any of the robbers try to run. None of them having a Quirk applicable to this situation unless a fight happens.
"Horizon, this way please," one of the officers says, even the regular uniformed officers wore bulletproof vests and were carrying around rifles, obviously ready to put these criminals down if necessary.
Following the man he's led into a mobile command unit, a small room with monitors connected to nearby street cameras to keep eyes on the building. In it are a few people on headphones looking at the screen and coordinating efforts, likely calling in more Pros, and standing behind them is an officer in a trench coat pacing back and forth.
He was an older gentleman with grey hair and a thin mustache, but his eyes seemed youthful the moment they landed on Horizon.
"Horizon."
"Captain?" Horizon asks while shaking his hand.
"Yes, I'm the captain in charge of this operation," the man looks confused for a moment. "The Endeavor Agency told us you'd arrive with Burnin..."
"I can warp, she has to fly, I got here first. I don't think we have time to waste with innocent lives at stake sir."
"Agreed," the man nods. "Endeavor is busy but your dispatcher at the agency was confident your Quirk could handle this situation."
"What's the situation?"
The captain leads him to a table with a floor plan of the bank, he points at the vault room, "a dozen men, one of them has a Drill Quirk, transforms his arms into drills, he's breaking into the vault here."
"How long until he gets in?"
"It's been ten minutes so I'd rather not find out."
"Hostages?" Horizon asks.
The man points to the main floor of the bank, "two dozen, men, women, they let the kids go. But one of the kids had a note, said they strapped half a pound of C4 to each hostage, and they claim that the lead guy is holding a dead man's trigger."
"So if he gets shot or hurt, boom..."
"Exactly," the captain says. "We managed to get some intel on their Quirks. Nothing that packs a punch, basic strength enhancer, and some standard Mutant Quirks."
"Alright," Horizon nods. "Let's confirm what we can."
ROOM!
He closes his eyes and focuses, his ROOM expanding to cover everything for 200 meters in every direction.
"Get some men to clear the sewer system," Horizon says.
"What?" the captain taps one of the men behind him who immediately take off his headset to listen in.
"They entered through the front door but they've got another guy with a drill Quirk in the sewer. And he's got one big guy with him."
The captain looks surprised and confused, but he's ultimately grateful.
"Half a pound of C4 times 24, that's a dozen pounds, not enough to bring down a building that size but anyone in the main room when it goes off is probably dead...the Pros on hand should be enough if these guys are as weak as you say. Ok, I've got a plan that can end this now..."
ROOM!
Law takes a deep breath as his Quirk deactivates.
"I'm listening..." the captain says.
Five minutes later Horizon is standing with nearly fifty officers and 8 Pros, two having just arrived. They were all facing the front of the building ready for action. There was an assortment of rocks scattered about on the street which they were all staring at, guns lowered.
The news cameras were confused at what was going on, then they saw Horizon raise his hand. And snap his fingers.
SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES!
The two dozen hostages suddenly appear where some of the rocks were, without the bombs strapped to them.
For a moment they look bewildered and confused, then some of their eyes settled on Horizon and they slowly began to realize what was going on.
The surrounding crowd began to cheer as the police escorted the hostages to safety until this situation was resolved.
A moment later all the cops returned and pointed their guns at the remaining rocks, ready for action at a moment's notice.
Horizon raises his hand again, making a show of snapping his fingers.
SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES! SHAMBLES!
Thirteen naked and unarmed men suddenly appear in front of them, immediately freezing at the sight of all the guns aimed at them. And in the middle of all the officers, Horizon stood with his sword drawn and also pointed at them.
"You should surrender, this isn't a good look," Horizon says.
Half the men raise their hands, the others keep them down to preserve what little dignity they had left.
Less than a minute later all the men were arrested, each wearing handcuffs and a cloth sheet, stuffed into the back of armored trucks.
The captain walks up to Horizon as the men are sent off, giving him an apprehensive look.
"You sure about this?" he asks Horizon.
"Of course," Horizon says. "If I warp him and he moves his finger the bombs go off, and we can't take their word for it that it's only C4, the best course of action is to make sure they never go off, this ensures that."
"Assuming he doesn't freak out when it happens," the captain says.
"I'll get ahold of it before he can do that, trust me."
"I obviously do...just, cutting people up is really freaky..."
"I get that a lot."
"Well at least wear a vest," the captain says. "Your circumstance is pretty unique so I'm letting you use your Quirk, but if you get hurt then we both get in serious trouble, you could get expelled and I'll go to jail like those guys..."
"How about a camera, I'll warp away if things go bad, I promise."
"Fine...I really hope I don't regret this..."
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