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---New York City, Central Park...
"Horizon! Come down here and face me!"
The bellowing demand echoes through Central Park as a 33ft -10m- stone golem rampaged about, breaking trees and ignoring constant gunfire from police officers swarming the area.
A news drone was already circling the park and reporters were swarming as the villain continued to rampage, but even as countless bullets were fired at him.
None could crack the reinforced heart encasing his human form, deep within the core of the golem.
As the golem begins uprooting trees and throwing them aside, making a stage for his battle, the police drive their cars onto the grass to form a wide blockade around him.
Between the gunfire, the golem yells once more, "Horizon! You scared off those cowards, but New York is my gang's city! After I squash you, no one will be able to challenge that!"
The golem keeps walking in circles, yelling over and over while ignoring the constant gunfire, all while one of the police Sergeant ducks behind his vehicle with another officer.
"How long do we have?" the Sergeant asks as he peeks over the hood.
"At best, 12 minutes," the other officer says. "Most of the Pro Heroes moved out of Manhattan, if not the entire city over the past few days since Horizon moved in."
"Damn it, they're so desperate to get paid they couldn't just hang around in case something like this happened," the Sergeant grumbles. "And where the hell is Horizon anyway, the news didn't say he was out of town?"
"Central dispatch says they were having difficulties contacting him sir," the officer says.
"That damn Trigger junkie will turn his attention to the city if Horizon doesn't get down here now, we don't have time for this," the Sergeant says as he rushes over to one of the more heavily armed officers.
This man, like many others, was using an assault rifle to keep the villain as distracted as the useless bullets could.
"I need your weapon, now," the Sergeant says, and the man doesn't hesitate to hand it over.
"That doesn't actually hurt him," the man says, only for his eyes to widen as the Sergeant turns away from the villain and aims at a nearby hotel at the edge of Central Park.
"Sir what are you doing?!"
The man carefully aims at the penthouse, even as he responds, "Horizon is the only resident in that place, and the staff should be in the basement or evacuated right now, so I'm just gonna knock."
A chorus of bangs echo out as 6 bullets slam into the glass wall of Horizon's balcony.
"That should get his attention," the Sergeant hands the gun back to the man.
"Couldn't we have just gone there and rang the buzzer?" the man asks.
"That's the first thing I sent men to do," the Sergeant says. "But I figured if anything would get his attention, it's the alarm on his temporary home."
"C'mon!" the golem bellows as he slams both fists into the ground, shaking the entire park and knocking most of the men off their feet. "Give me a real challenge!"
Another wave of gunfire begins, and as the golem is about to focus on the police officers, the entire battlefield goes silent.
"Huh?" The golem looks above him to see Sunder -Horizon's new blade-, glowing blue as a liquid-like energy clings to the blade, completely coating it.
"The toy," The golem says, seeing the sword floating on its own, but before he can reach out and grab it.
The blade rushes toward him, coming down in a powerful slash.
The golem raises an arm to block, and before the blade makes contact his rocky body glows golden for just a moment, reinforcing his body even more.
"Annoying," the golem says as he swats it away, not suffering more than a scratch from the blade. "If you want to beat me you'll have to come down here yourself, my defense is rock solid!"
The sword strikes out a few more times, some of which were blocked, but none of which did damage to the golem.
And after just a handful of clashes, the energy around the blade fades.
CLANG!
With one final collision, the golem grabs the blade, but even the regular police officers and people watching at home could see that something was wrong.
As if the blade slowed down for him to grab it.
But this didn't make sense to them, after all, Horizon was controlling it via Takt.
The man who can rip cities from the Earth wouldn't let his sword be so easily captured.
Then the golem raised his 'trophy' in victory, to show it to the world, and the last of the energy on the blade fell to the earth.
And with it, the insulation keeping the positive charge of the blade away from the air.
KRA-KOOM!
A lightning bolt descends from the heavens, so bright that it was easily visible in broad daylight as it hits the blade.
It then travels through the golem, shattering it into pieces and leaving the unconscious human villain lying on the floor.
Surrounded by red hot earth and charred grass.
"I think he got our message sir," one of the officers says to the Sergeant as they watch the sword hover about the battlefield.
"Yeah, I just hope he doesn't take it personally," the Sergeant says as he orders some men to lock up the unconscious villain.
---Meanwhile, Matani Tower, around Central Park...
Sitting in his study, which at the moment is a completely sealed-off, blacked-out room with a hologram in the middle of it.
A holographic projection of a single helical DNA strand, reached up like a twisted ladder, from floor to ceiling.
"Run simulation again, against new DNA samples collected from USA Quirk Database, alter string #18525-13, practical trials at 50mm dosage..."
The hologram begins rotating as it processes Law's new request, all while he's looking at it with intensity from his glowing blue eyes.
As it's processing he raises his left hand, and warps Sentinel's eyeballs to float above his palm, moving in a circle for him to observe.
After a few minutes, the room receives a priority notification, to which Law simply warps his phone into the room and hovers it beside him as some of the lights come on.
"Need something?" Law asks as Nezu appears on his phone.
"Can't I just be calling to check in on my precious student?" Nezu asks as Law's camera points toward the hologram. "What is that?"
"A project I'm working on, but I could use more processing power, can you help?"
"Not if you want it to be secure," Nezu says. "The global web has a few nexus locations across the globe to help keep connections secure and efficient. UA happens to be one of those places, since it's the base for my supercomputer."
"Where is the nearest one?"
"Middle America," Nezu says. "But I can't secure that one so anything you do, the government will get."
"Are there any closer?"
"You'd have to go to Europe, which would break your agreement with America, or Hawaii, which is technically an American location."
"I guess I'll just deal with the slower speeds," Law sighs.
"I just heard you had to be called by a police officer firing into the hotel they reserved for you, dangerous."
"Well my 50-State License is there, but Matani Tower is on the other end of Central Park, so luckily I couldn't get shot."
"That doesn't answer my question," Nezu says. "What are you working on that takes so much of your focus, and demands that much computing power."
"Look at this," Law gestures, and the hologram changes, showing three strands of DNA.
To the far left, the one he'd been working on, in the middle, a similar strange with thicker layers, like a reinforced ladder.
And to the right, a strand with four helical pillars instead of two, and in the middle is one pillar that they're all connected to as they twist toward the ceiling, heavily reinforced.
"I don't even understand what I'm looking at," Nezu says. "Medicine isn't my expertise, remember?"
"I know, it's quite simple, at least easier to explain than apply. To the left, the basic DNA structure, is of humans before the advent of Quirks, this no longer exists since now even humans born with no Quirk have the DNA structure to support Quirks.
That's why Deku didn't develop some kind of cancer when he got One For All, but it needs something to fill the gap in the Quirk section of the DNA sequence. One For All did that, which activated his DNA fully, hence him now being able to regrow teeth like everyone else who was born with the Quirk Gene active."
"So the first one is extinct, which means the middle is the new normal human DNA, right?"
"Close, it's more like regular animal DNA," Law says. "Humans and animals alike all have reinforced Quirk Capable DNA, anything without it died off centuries ago, this is the new normal for animal life on earth."
"I see, and the final one, is that even DNA?"
"It is, theoretically," Law says.
"Theoretically?"
"In theory, that DNA Sequence can support enough power to do anything. With the correct addition of Quirks, enough power to fuel it, maybe the power of a hundred nuclear reactors, the modern Nuclear Fusion ones, and mastery...it could do anything."
"Do anything?"
"Even things I can't do, mess with space in ways I can't even begin to imagine, maybe even time, its evolution perfected," Law says. "Atleast according to our current understanding, I'm sure it still has room for improvement that I just can't imagine."
"Evolution perfected...how did you come up with this?"
"A lot of studying, recent studying."
"Hmm, the new data you pulled from those last few Nomu and Kurogiri a couple of weeks ago, this is what you've been doing with it," Nezu says. "I thought you were trying to find a cure, but you were trying to solve the endgame for All For One, figure out what he was doing, right?"
"Nomu can't be cured," Law says. "If you rip apart Frankenstein's monster and return the pieces to their original owners---"
"The monster dies."
"Worse, it ceases," Law says. "Kurogiri is still in his catatonic state, but he can still hear and see. Eraser and Mic need to pull some 'power of friendship' out of their ass and talk to him, well, keep talking to him."
"It would be nice to have Oboro back," Nezu says.
"It'd be nice to have Kurogiri on our side, not to mention all the intel he has locked up in there."
"That too I suppose," Nezu says. "But about this 3rd DNA Strand, you think this is the end goal for All For One, right? He combines all the needed Quirks, using One For All's immense energy to power it, and becomes a perfected lifeform?"
"It's possible, but," Law hums as he considers the list of Quirks he knows. "I can't imagine him being able to pull that off even if he collected the Mystery Class Quirk. That's just not how All For One works."
"What do you mean?"
"All For One has the second DNA Structure because it acts as a computer and the Quirks are just files on it, and his physical and mental ability are the RAM, more files running, the more RAM used, the slower the entire thing moves.
The theoretical DNA I came up with needs all Quirks to constantly feed off of each other without delay or rest, a perpetual motion machine, well, no, but as close as we can get to it. A hyper-efficient nuclear fusion reactor..."
"What about the Overhaul Quirk?" Nezu asks. "If they somehow recovered a sample could they do it, make this, thing?"
"God Formula?" Law asks.
"Accurate but, that name is a bit much."
Law shrugs, "Well there is a reason this entire thing is just a theory anyway, I don't think even with All For One, he could pull this off."
"Yet you came up with it, because?"
"Because it's the answer," Law gestures again, and lines connect all three DNA Structures. "I'm trying to alter and transpose piece of his sequence onto another, to make a universal answer, but I need more data."
"A universal answer?" Nezu asks. "Your Panacea? You're trying to come up with a template for the standard modern human genome so you can restore anyone to a healthy state, that's a tall task in a world of people with countless mutations."
"This is why I need the Quirk databases from China and North Africa, but they're being difficult," Law says with slight frustration in his voice, then relaxes. "But if they keep being difficult I'll just offer it to every other country, lets so how long those politicians survive when a nearly universal cure hits public markets and their people are the only ones without access to it."
"They'd be dead within a day, not even the Pro Heroes or military would protect them," Nezu says. "You may have accidentally created the most powerful weapon of influence in the world."
"Not accidental, that's the original intent," Law says. "The fact that it's medicine is a fortunate side effect."
"How kind of you," Nezu rolls his eyes, and as he does so the camera turns slightly to show Law. "Why do you have two eyeballs floating in your palm?"
"Oh, I took these from Sentinel to study how they transfer and convert energy, I'm almost done with them now."
"Can he---"
"No I temporarily blinded them so he can't see anything through them, I'll probably remember to fix that before returning them."
"Law..."
"What? He's spending the rest of his life trapped in a metal coffin deep underground, not like he needs to see, it's just dark in there."
"You're ridiculous."
"In all the best ways, how have things been going in Japan anyway?" Law asks.
"They've been a bit more busy, and hectic, but I---"
BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Law's emergency alert interrupts Nezu.
"Answer," Law commands, and the room's speakers connect to the call.
"Horizon, I need you!" Star and Stripe's voice yells through the speakers.
"I'm flattered, but I'm a bit busy."
"Miami, now, I have a lead on Kelvin!" she hangs up.
"Shit, I actually have to go deal with that," Law grumbles as he gets up, warping the eyeballs away as all the lights turn on.
"Have fun, try not to get melted," Nezu says as he hangs up.
SHAMBLES!
Law's entire Hero Costume warps onto his body as he pockets his phone.
"Results inconclusive, cross reference sequence variations required," his computer says as all the DNA Holograms become red.
"Open collection tray," Horizon commands as he steps forward to where a desk rises from the ground, with a small glass case in the middle of it. "Label project, title: The Formula For God."
"Label accepted," the computer says as the tray opens.
"Inserting sample 1835, version 2," Horizon says as he reaches forward, warping the glove of his left hand away before making a small cut into his finger, releasing a few drops of blood into the tray.
The holograms immediately become blue as another God Formula sample is accepted and studied.
"Reverse engineer sequence 15 to begin with, solving the most basic illnesses is a good start before moving onto organ failure, alert me of results immediately."
"Command accepted..." the computer says as Horizon is about to warp away, but he stops.
He considers the conversation is just had, and tries a new approach.
"Computer, insert One For All as a base sample, remove energy storage factor, focus processing power on 'Genetic Transference', run tests using this as the new bridge."
"Command accepted."
"Alert me of all results in real-time," Horizon says as he warps away...
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