MHA: Horizon(Ope-Ope No Mi)

Chapter 43: (Understandable Assumptions)

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Sitting in a dimly lit room, All For One is in his usual black formal suit, his head exposed, various tubes inserted into his skin to help keep him alive as he sits with his oldest friend.

His head only had a mouth, no ears or other sensory parts, no hair, appearing burnt and battered, like a rotting potato that a child stitched together.

The giant 225cm -7ft4- tall man, just barely taller than All Might, relaxes in his comfortable chair and listens to Dr. Garaki prattle on about his creations, the man's pride in his Nomu's boundless as always, only second to his admiration of All For One himself, not even the value of his own life could match those things.

Dr. Garaki was a short and portly man with large glasses and a thick white mustache contrasting his bald head. Appearing no older than sixty, but in truth, he was the second oldest person on the planet, at over 120 years old, second only to All For One, a being that has existed since the first generation of Quirks.

"Any news Kyudai?" All For One asks in a deep yet calm voice, and the doctor just sighs as he looks at the screens in front of him.

"Honestly this is a waste of time," the man grumbles, the only person in the world who could speak to the demon lord so casually. "I don't get why we even gave that brat those two Nomus, especially Kurogiri, after we took over a decade to create his Warp Gate Quirk, that damn man-child could never be your successor master."

"And get two of our Nomus caught," the man grumbles.

"Yes, but we already have someone en route to rescue them...all three of them, and collect the simple thugs to make more Nomus."

"To think that I may one day have to work with that child," Garaki begins silently crying at the thought, looking at his dear friend and master with sadness in his eyes. "If only I could heal your body, then you could rule forever as we've always wanted."

"I know doctor, but that dream died when All Might and I had our last encounter, now he is teaching, certainly trying to find someone to inherit his power, his next bet for the Symbol Of Peace, so I must do the same and pass everything to a successor, wouldn't you agree?"

Garaki sighs, "I just wish I could have done more, a hundred years of experimentation, yet I can't save the person who matters most to me...I feel useless."

"No no no Kyudai, it's not your fault," All For One comforts his friend. "You are the only person in this world who cannot be replaced, my oldest friend and confidant, in fact, your usefulness has even outlived me...or at least it will."

Garaki can't help but shed another tear at those words, but he's unable to accept what forgiveness All For One was offering.

BEEP BEEP BEEP!

Garaki turns back to the screen, "it seems UA has released a report, now we can get some idea of what happened at the USJ."

"Indeed, our trojan told us one part of the story, but I'd like to see how they spin this tale," All For One says. "How will UA handle the media after they've been attacked, and the Symbol Of Peace wasn't even there to help, a difficult situation, but I'm sure Nezu will solve it."

"Yes, that High Spec wielding bear-mouse," Garaki grumbles as the news report reads the document aloud. "If it were possible to create a brain that could handle that Quirk we could dominate the world, easily."

"Assuming we could even get to him," All For One says. "UA has some of the most meticulous and weaponized security in the world, and he never leaves his fortress. It's like a private country within Japan, it's honestly a miracle the USJ attack was even a success."

"Thankfully you have people everywhere," Garaki says.

A few minutes later and the news report is complete, propping up Horizon, Thirteen, and Eraser, while putting down the villains for foolishly attacking UA, eighty villains infiltrated, and all were arrested, including their abomination of a superweapon, now publicly known as Nomu.

In the end, the villains didn't manage to damage any of the students, and a quick trip to Recovery Girl fixed both pros.

"Exactly as we heard, it seems his classmate was the main problem...that Horizon kid," Garaki said, not thinking much of the fact that villains were captured, they'd be back soon enough anyway. "But to think he beat Brainless and nullified Kurogiri, very impressive."

"More than just impressive Kyudai, superhuman," All For One says, a vicious smile on his lips. "It wasn't clear before, but I believe this confirms it. First Nezu claims he is capable of being the next Symbol Of Peace, then our friend inside tells us his Quirk is warping, among other things. But now he has offensive power that I only suspected people like All Might, Endeavour, and Star and Stripe to possess, quite a scary combo."

"You think he has One For All? That All Might passed his Quirk onto this child," Garaki thinks about it for a moment and can't help but agree. "That would explain how he beat Brainless that was built to kill All Might, but how would we know for sure? We already had our people in the Hero Public Safety Commission check, his private record just says Hand Of God."

"Because of Nezu."

"Nezu?" Garaki asks, not putting the pieces together.

"Yes, he has been blocking all of our contacts, any attempt we made to track or contact Horizon this past year was blocked, we couldn't tell by who, but it could only be Nezu. We assumed the miracle doctor had friends in high places, but now we know he has a sponsor at the very top of this world."

"Then it's a good thing we didn't manage to make contact with him to get you an appointment for healing," Garaki sighs in relief. "Things could have gone very poorly, and we don't have any way to deal with his warping since its so instantaneous...with a massive range too."

"Yes, but this report also made it obvious that Horizon is the next One For All user," he says, confusing the doctor slightly.

"I'm sorry but I don't follow, the report only said what we already confirmed happened," Garaki says.

"Yes, exactly. But Nezu would never put a student's name in such a report and antagonize us, even if he thinks the entire League Of Villains was arrested, he would quicker pin everything on the teachers and All Might to make them targets instead of students, this shows his absolute unshakable faith in Horizon to defend himself from any villains we send after him, its alarming how much confidence he has in the boy, even if it's only so because they believe I'm dead."

"Hmm, One For All would explain that level of confidence in the kid for sure, should we take the bait and attack him, we don't have any more Nomus that can match Brainless so it'll be a while before we're ready," Garaki says. "But taking One For All is worth it."

"No, that won't work, my body as it is right now can't handle the power amplification of my little brother's Quirk. And even if I went in person he could simply warp away, I would need a reason for him to stay in the fight, and hostages don't work since he will simply remove them too," All For One says, then he frowns. "I'll have to make things personal, make him want to fight me."

"Our spy says he's an asshole so that'll be tough," Garaki says flatly. "Honestly unless we can get Nezu or someone he cares about I don't see how this will work."

"Well luckily we are not alone, I'll contact all the people I can, we'll dig up all the information we can on Horizon, he must have someone or something we can take to piss him off, every man has something they care about. Oh, and I'll contact the Aoyama family as well, make sure they know their new role in all of this..."

"And what about the so-called League Of Villains?" Garaki asks, clearly annoyed at having to indulge All For One's desire to groom Shigaraki.

"When they escape it will cause much panic, especially considering who we sent and how he operates, it would be best to shift the focus away from UA to ease the mind of those students."

"The other Hero Courses across Japan?" Garaki asks.

"Precisely, and it will play into Nezu's plan to make Horizon looks even better, we need him confident in himself to the point that he would fight anyone, and we need UA and All Might safe from media scrutiny, killing someone is easier if they stay in one place six days a week after all, much better than when All Might was running about Japan and Horizon was traveling the world."

"And how would you like to deal with the other Hero Courses?" Garaki asks. "After he gets back from rescuing them we could just warp him into those schools, it'd be easy."

"No," All For One disregards that idea entirely. "Let's ramp up production of Nomus, Tomura needs his own army, he isn't ready to command you or him just yet, far from it actually. We'll send a few dozen Nomus out to one school at a time, but make sure they're all weak. We want the media shaming the other schools for failing while UA has a first year that was able to stop a monster intended to kill All Might. Oh, and you can collect the corpses to make more."

"Hmm, that many will take at least a month."

"If we needed them capable of accepting orders yes," All For One says. "But these are just wild animals to be unleashed on students to stack bodies, we'll make them quickly and let them run wild until the pros put them down, and Kurogiri will collect the bodies."

Garaki smiles at that, "that much genetic material will greatly help my research, and a lot of those kids probably have strong Quirks too."

"Not to mention this will further make them believe that I'm dead, because why would I ever expend resources that don't directly hurt All Might, it's so out of character that it can't be me," he smiles victoriously at the thought of them thinking he's gone.

"A single move with so many layers, your evil genius is truly unmatched my friend," Garaki says. "Now I need to be ready to operate on many fresh subjects..."

"Yes doctor, if all goes well I'll have to build you yet another lab," All For One chuckles darkly before loud beeping interrupts them.

Garaki takes out his phone and checks the message.

"Good news I expect, as usual from him," All For One says.

"Mhm, both the Nomus are recovered, Kurogiri is a bit damaged from the ice and Brainless needs to be put back together," Garaki says happily.

"And Tomura?"

"Oh, the brat is fine too, they're already at another safehouse," Garaki immediately begins typing on his computer. "I'll start looking into which schools we should hit first, Japan has thousands of Hero Courses, aside from Shiketsu we need to make sure the targets we select have people with useful Quirks."

"Good, and have Kurogiri warp me to their location when the coast is clear, I'd like to go in person to greet them, after all, my presence is the greatest reward I can give him."

Garaki nods in agreement, "well he never fails, and he exists to serve and protect you, honestly the fact that his body can handle seven Quirks without any modifications helped make the foundation for my Nomu program, I can't imagine a better bodyguard and attack dog, if anyone deserves to see you in person it's him..."

All For One smiles proudly, "yes, I too am quite impressed by him, Gigantomachia..."

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