MHA: Horizon(Ope-Ope No Mi)

Chapter 338: (Immolation)

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"Surrender now, last chance!" A Pro Hero wearing an all blue costume with a small cape at his back says.

He was slowly backing up, inching closer to the water reservoir in Central Park, not moving his gaze from the villain in front of him.

The man was simply standing there, bored, made entirely of solid fire as he looked around.

There was a blockade a hundred meters away with police officers and medical staff, along with new teams and support staff calling for more Pro Heroes to help.

Even the fire trucks were here and on high alert, but either fortunately or not, instead of igniting things around him and causing fires to ravage the greenery of the park.

Anything the villain touches in instantly disintegrated, torn asunder by the immense heat of his existence.

The villain looks around, taking in the sight of all the dead or injured Pro Heroes scattered about, taking in all the carnage and death these people brought upon themselves by crashing against him.

"That's a bad idea," the villain says, his voice reverberating on the scorched air around him. "Using water against me is…counter intuitive, trust me."

"Great Splash!" The Pro Hero yells as he waves his hands, controlling the water behind him to create a massive whip, aiming to grab the villain and drag him into the reservoir.

The villain sighs, and as he's been doing this entire time, stands there, waiting for them to haplessly die, as all living things do in his presence.

The water whip hits him, and what happens next is instant, and terrifying.

His Quirk, is entirely unique. A transformation Quirk which was boosted and modified via illegal human experimentation when he was a baby.

Because of that, his body is always in this fiery form, a surprisingly serene experience, but it makes him powerful.

Too powerful for the government that created him to control, so naturally, they tried to douse his flames with fire and chemicals at first.

And they learned a terrifying truth about his Quirk.

The moment the water touched him, his Quirk body transferred its heat into the water, but instead of simply evaporating it.

He separated the particles.

The Oxygen from the water was greedily consumed by his Quirk, and the Hydrogen instantly became a fiery blast.

The explosion rocked the area and consumed both the villain and Pro Heroes alike.

The Pro Hero controlling the water didn't even have the time to feel the blistering heat as the flames reached him.

Not because it was so fast, but because he was suddenly standing by one of the police officers.

"Huh?" He looks around, confused, seeing the officers with their useless weapons aimed at the villain, even as the fiery explosion quickly subsides.

"What's going on?" The police sergeant, wearing SWAT gear and holding a large rifle sees all the injured Pro Heroes and civilians who'd been hurt or killed, gone.

And the few who could fight and were closing in on the villain were now standing just in front of the barrier.

The sergeant immediately realizes what's going on, and smiles. "Get behind the barrier, and be prepared to help the firefighters douse any flames that come up!"

The Pro Heroes waste no time falling in line as they too realize what just happened, and all the cameras and attention shifts to Horizon, who was now standing across from the villain, sword sheathed and hovering beside him.

"What, were you asleep?" the villain asks. The new crews and drones hear and see everything, and can't help but frown at that question. Because since this incident began nearly thirty minutes ago, everyone had been asking the same thing.

"Hey now,, beauty sleep is important for someone as handsome as me," Horizon taps his visor. "But it also takes a lot of effort to keep this perfectly clean."

"I always wonder what that feels like," the villain says.

"What's that?"

"Sleeping, eating," the villain then looks down at his hands. "Being human."

"Well, I can't really comment on that last bit, if you haven't noticed," Horizon says. "I'm closer to you than regular humans."

"Containment suit and all," the villain says. "So what happens if yours comes off?"

Horizon shrugs, "I'd probably just die. But my Quirk could react poorly, so, who really knows."

"Tch, now I'm really jealous," the villain grumbles. "I take mine off when it's time to get to work, so long as I keep my heat in check it lets me blend in, but take it off, and—"

"Self Immolation," Horizon interrupts him, causing the villain's body to flare up for just a moment. "Oh, was I right?"

"How do you even know who I am?"

"Part of it was a guess," Horizon admits. "Part of it was the fact that you did that to my temporary home," he gestures to the melted hotel.

"And the other part?"

"You did something similar when you killed Minister Chevil, ten years ago, right?" Horizon says. "I've always been curious about exactly what your Quirk is, Immolation."

"Oh, I get it, Arsenal must have told you, since she's the only person who knew that was me," Immolation says, then realizes something. "Nah, she was a real pro, she'd never rat. You people must have dug around in her head before you put her down, so those horrors we hear about Tartarus are true, huh?"

"You're in America, so New Alcatraz is where you'll be going," Horizon says. "So what is this? You're trying to take her spot?"

"It's also very profitable to kill you," Immolation says. "But, yeah, part of it is just showing that with her gone, the top spot is up for grabs. And while that level of hyper violent obsession isn't something I've got, I more than make up for it in power."

"But not subtly," Horizon says. "No wonder you only got the loud job."

Immolation laughs, "Damn, you're not just some nerdy doctor with a powerful Quirk, you even know about people too…scary."

"I get that a lot."

"So, are you done stalling now?" Immolation asks, getting more serious for a moment. "I'm not stupid you know, a lot of people with a lot of experience killing powerful Pro Heroes have been watching you, and we figured out something about what you can and can't warp, so…since I'm still standing here…" Immolation playfully gestures to Horizon.

And Horizon groans, nodding, "Yeah, you got me, warping energy isn't exactly easy. Especially not the kind you're made up of."

"Which means all I have to deal with is…everything else," Immolation begins heating up his body, and all the grass around him instantly blackened into ash and blows away with the hot air.

"Give me one second," Horizon says as he warps away, appearing in front of the police officers. "Push this barrier back another few hundred feet, this can get messy."

He turns away, looking at Immolation, and touches the side of his visor.

"Did you get all of that?" he asks.

"Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm busy," Star' says. "This guy looks like a really bad matchup for you, but I'm sure you'll figure something out. But I'll look into the data you sent, and your theory about him while you fight, good luck."

SHAMBLES!

Horizon appears in front of Immolation once again, but with his sheathe missing, leaving Sunder's blade free as he grips the hilt, and his phone back at Matani Tower.

Horizon takes a combat stance, and Immolation doesn't react, as usual.

Instead he simply waits for Horizon to get closer, ready to raise his heat and disintegrate the Hero.

In an instant Horizon weighs all his options, and sadly, he sees only one path forward.

She he takes a more relaxed stance and lifts his left hand, palm facing the sky.

'Hopefully his counter attack doesn't kill me,' Horizon thinks as he deactivates his Quirk.

T-ROOM!

He feels his total energy take a massive hit, more energy than he had one year ago was instantly consumed to create a small Room hovering above his palm.

Unlike his standard Room, the Rooms created by his awakening cannot be made invisible, leaving it to be a visible blue sphere of energy.

Even now, drops of dense liquid energy leaks out of the T-ROOM, onto his hand, then onto the scorched earth below, causing grass to grow.

"That's new," Immolation says, playfully.

Then Horizon brings Sunder's blade to the sphere, and the T-Room slowly crawls over the blade like thick flowing liquid, leaving the translucent blue energy around it.

"Yeah, very new, I hope you don't mind being the test subject."

"That's what I was literally born to be," Immolation says as Horizon begins walking forward.

ROOM!

Horizon creates a second Room, a standard room around the immediate combat area, and even that strains his mind and energy.

'The gap between myself as Sunder is problematic, I'm not familiar enough with my Awakening abilities to use them like this, so hopefully I can end this in one go…'

With each step forward he feels as if he's inside a smelting over, and the temperature around him just keeps climbing.

Within three steps he's standing close enough to swing his sword, and as he moves to attack, Immolation raises the heat immensely.

Everything around them is incinerated by the instant heat.

With no theatrics and flames, a wave of heat hits the earth and grass as Immolation raises the temperature of his sentient plasma body so much that the air rushes away from him, carrying death with it.

Horizon is struck by this, but Booster Shot envelopes his entire body, healing him as fast as he's being disintegrated.

It wraps around his body, his body glove, and his visor, but everything else is not that fortunate.

His formal suit burns away as the blade reaches Immolation, clashing directly though his head.

And as it touches him, the villain's glowing white 'eyes' widen.

"ARGH!" Immolation screams as the blade enters one side of his head and leaves the other, and he feels every bit of the immense pain that a regular person could feel from this, even if his sentient plasma body reforms behind the blade as it flows through him.

The sensation was entirely forgotten by him, so used to being invulnerable that it terrifies him, shaking him to his core and bringing out his most primal survival instincts.

Horizon's eyes widen beneath his visor as Immolation suddenly glows bright orange, raising his temperature so much and so quickly that the earth, grass, and even the air from a hundred feet around him was incinerated, leaving slagged ground around them.

The rushing air was so intense that Horizon was knocked away, sent tumbling as the combined focus and energy needed for his Awakening and Booster Shot, which kept him alive, that he couldn't warp away.

"Ouch," Horizon mutters, more serious than playful as he gets up, and takes in the destruction.

He was now standing inside the entirely evaporated reservoir, with red hot earth all around him.

Pieces of his Body Glove were burnt and melted, even through the veil of energy protecting it, and Sunder was red hot, his awakening, deactivated.

"What did you do?!" Immolation charges at Horizon, his body glowing as fear grips his heart.

All his life he thought death would bring relief, but now, facing someone with the potential to make it a reality, fear consumed him.

Seeing the villain running toward him, Horizon warps Sunder away.

"I over complicated things," he says while creating another T-Room, this time in his right hand. Then he creates a second, simultaneous T-Room in his left hand. "Time to simplify things."

Rushing toward Horizon, Immolation sees his cash both glowing spheres into each other until they become one, then he crushes it between his palms.

The spheres break, collapsing into each other, and the liquid energy slowly flows across Horizon's body, coating his body glove and visor completely.

"No!" Immolation stumbles for a moment, recognizing this as the same effect from his sword. "Never again!"

Immolation stops before he touches Horizon and raises his temperature yet again, hotter than before.

But while the heat rushes outward, Horizon charges forward.

Even as the ground is turned onto black dust around them, he rushes through it.

The air around him burns, scorching his lungs with each breath, but the energy constantly heals him, doing nothing for the pain but keeping him alive, keeping him fighting.

So clad in this mysterious energy, like armor, and punches Immolation in the face.

The villain experiences the pain of his jaw breaking and teeth shattering, but his plasma body instantly reforms, seemingly fine.

So in a panic he reaches out to grab Horizon and melt him directly, only for the Hero to reach out and grab his wrist.

Horizon tightens his grip, only to crush Immolation's wrist, causing the sensation a regular human would feel if that happened to them, to wrack the villain.

Immolation gives a blood curdling scream and directs his heat to his legs, heating the air below his feet and haphazardly launching himself back.

He tumbles on the floor for a few dozen meters, trying and failing to calm his mind.

"What the hell is this, what did you do to me?" Immolation asks as he hurries to get up, seeing Horizon already walking toward him.

"I reminded you of what it feels like to be human," Horizon says. "You've been invulnerable for so long that you'd forgotten, and clearly you neglected to train because of the power you were born with, it's pathetic, really."

"Tch, you're no different!" Immolation says, pointing at the hero. "You're strong simply from existing, you were born like that, so don't tell me that crap."

"People always think that, but I was weak at first," Horizon says.

"Bullshit!"

"No, I'm serious. I was weak, I didn't even know what my Quirk was. But, I trained, I studied, I worked, I was on the path to the top of this world before I even knew my Quirk wasn't a useless dude. See, I didn't become what I am now because I'm strong," Horizon stretches, preparing for the fight ahead. "I'm Horizon, because I was already the greatest, now let me show you…"

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