MHA: Horizon

Chapter 6: (Critical Wounds)

Chapter 6: (Critical Wounds)

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Rushing toward Chrome, the massive metal-plated brute, Law glances at Hawk, seeing the hero rocket toward his mother, swords in hand and three dozen small feathers flying alongside him like sentient knives.

'Direct confrontation isn't our specialty, assassination is,' Law thinks, his mind racing a thousand miles a minute to solve this problem. 'I need to save as many tricks as possible in case they have reinforcements on the way, and I need to deal with Chrome quickly before mom gets overwhelmed by those feathers, she can't defend from all angles but also can't hurt Chrome, damn it...'

Both pairs separate slightly and break into individual duels.

Chrome punches down at Law with a massive metal fist, only for the swordsman to pivot and turn his back to the hero.

'Shambles!'

Blade clashes against metal skin as they swap places and Law slashes at his back. A large gash is left on the hero's back, but it draws no blood.

Law leaps away as Chrome swings back to swat him.

'Damn power types,' Law internally groans. Being an assassin, he rarely, if ever, comes into confrontation with a power type, and certainly not one that's in the top twenty Japanese hero ranking.

Law tries to aim the point of his sword at Chrome to attack his insides with a force bullet, but the hero closes the distance between them too quickly.

"Shining Fist!" Chrome yells out, his dazzling metallic fist striking Law's sword, sending a wave of numbness up Law's arms as it knocks him across the roof.

Law rolls across the ground, then looks up just in time.

"Shining Stomp!" Chrome yells as he descends onto Law, aiming to stomp on the assassin.

'Idiot heroes are always yelling,' Law internally groans as he swaps places with Chrome.

Law fell a few feet to the roof and landed on his feet while Chrome suddenly appeared on the roof instead of falling, leaving a small crack because of his momentum.

As Chrome realizes what happened he rushes Law, but the assassin was already a few meters away with his sword raised high.

'Injection shot!' he commands while Chrome charges.

"Argh!" Chrome collapses with a heavy clank, cracking and chipping the concrete roof.

Law had aimed for his thigh, tearing through the artery and tendon without breaking the skin, the hero collapsed in pain as his fleshy insides we shredded. Chrome grits his teeth and makes an erratic, mad dash toward Law, realizing what had happened and making it difficult for the boy to aim.

'Injection Shot!'

The shoulder.

'Injection Shot!'

The gut.

'Injection Shot!'

The brain, finally killing the hero.

CLANG!

Chrome's forehead slams against the concrete as Law turns toward Hawks and his mother.

What he sees makes his blood run cold, but only for a moment, before it begins to boil.

During Hawk's short but lethal battle with Kiku, the assassin showed her decades of experience.

During one of their clashes she slashed Hawk's face, cracking his visor and nearly destroying his right eye.

"Ugh!" he groaned, the feathers on his back pulling him away from her as he thrust his arms forward.

All the feathers on his back react and lash out, four dozen small blades shredding the assassin.

Kiku freezes, eyes wide as she looks down at her own body, as if she'd been sentenced to death via firing squad, there were almost more holes than solid flesh on her torso.

Understanding what just happened Hawks leaps forward with both his swords, taking advantage of this moment to eliminate her before anything unexpected happened.

As both his blades were about to make contact, however.

"MOM!" he hears before he disappears. Slashing at the empty air in front of him when he appears at the far side of the roof. Looking down at Chrome's body at his feet, no blood or visible damage of any kind, presumably unconscious, the hero couldn't tell that his dear friend was already dead.

Turning around he sees Law cradling Kiku as she takes what he expects to be her final breaths. His feathers tore through her and danced around inside her torso, putting all her organs into a crude blender, she was dead, she had to be, right?

"BOOSTER SHOT!"

"BOOSTER SHOT!"

"BOOSTER SHOT!"

"BOOSTER SHOT!"

"BOOSTER SHOT!"

"BOOSTER SHOT!"

"BOOSTER SHOT!"

Law screams over and over, his palm over her heart, and faint blue energy transfers from him into her.

Unlike Recovery Girl's world-famous Heal quirk, instead of using the patients' stamina to force cell activation, Law uses his own stamina to regenerate their bodies. Thankfully his quirk had his body adapt to have much more energy than an average person.

"She's gone," Hawks says, walking up to Law with his feathers hovering around him, both feather swords still in his hands. "Surrender now, enough people have died today."

Looking at his mother as she struggles to survive, Law feels rage like never before, not toward Hawks, not toward this situation, only rage at himself.

Looking up his wide-eyed and pissed-off gaze clashes with Hawks's. He puts on a brave front, but using that much energy to keep her alive had his stamina greatly diminished. His room had shrunk from two hundred meters down to just barely fifty meters, but the steady, weak, but steady beat of her heart beneath his palm was well worth it.

'Now I just need to get us out of here so I can operate and save her,' Law decided as he gently places her down, rising to his feet, sword in hand.

Hawks sighs, "I see, so it's like that..."

Law immediately rushes the hero, Hawks rockets forward, flanked by a dozen feathers on each side, ready to bombard Law with an indefensible onslaught.

Before they clash Law shrinks his room, even more, to barely the size of this whole rooftop. Removing all the unnecessary clutter from his awareness he focuses entirely on Hawks and all the feathers flying about.

'Shambles!'

CLANG!

Law's blade clashes with Hawks, and the hero's eyes widen, realizing Law had swapped places with a feather at his side.

'Shambles!'

CLANG! This time Hawks barely reacts fast enough, blocking a slash intended for his back, his feathers heightening his senses and awareness to react nearly as fast as Law, but not quite fast enough to really block anything.

But Law had to allow him to block some.

'Shambles!'

CLANG!

Hawks lifts both swords and meets Law's strike to his left side, pushing back against Law, his confidence was built up enough.

'Shambles!'

Hawks reacts, and Law once again allows him to defend, blocking with both his feather swords crossed directly in front of him.

And as their blades meet.

'Amputate!'

Law's sword delivers a slash that separates matter, taking advantage of Hawks's confidence in his ability to parry. The hero's eyes widen in horror as his feather swords are cleanly sliced through.

'Incision!'

After Law's blade breaks Hawks's guard he changes the type of slash he performs. Switching from Amputate which harmlessly divides organic matter, to Incision, which increases the physical and destructive property of his slash.

The moment his blade makes contact with the hero's armored chest plate it sinks nearly an inch deep.

Hawks doesn't even register the searing pain until after all his feathers instinctively yank him backward. The slash that would have cut his heart in two and ended his career right there instead only sank an inch deep before his body was pulled back by his feathers.

From his left shoulder to nearly his right hip Law's blade leaves a trail of blood and pain across his chest as all the available feathers slam into the hero and rocket away from the roof with him in tow.

The blood that sprayed out of Hawks's chest in his retreat splashed across Law's mask, the normal obsessively hygenic surgeon doesn't even pay it any mind as the hero retreats.

Law doesn't both to chase or even continue his assault, he drops his sword and runs back toward where his mother lays, fighting to desperately cling to life.

Dropping to his knees beside her he cradles her in his arms and places a hand on her chest.

"Booster Shot," he begs his quirk to heal her, and the blue light flows from his palm into her torso, her broken ragged breathing and irregular heartbeat don't change. Faint and barely there if at all.

"Room!" Law commands, expanding his ROOM, creating the largest ROOM he could to get them out of here.

He needed his operating tools.

He needed life support devices.

He needed...he needed.

"Home..." he says in an exhausted voice, "shambles..."

Both he and his mother disappeared from the rooftop...

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