Hornhead

**Name**: Hornhead

**Species**: Diclonius

**Home World**: Earth

**Appearance**: Hornhead has the appearance of a Human male with messy neck-length pink hair and wears a predominantly black but include a red shirt with a tall, stiff collar (HRH collar). On top of this he wears a red skinny tie (low on the collar), black skinny trousers and pointed shoes, as well as a distinctive jacket. The jacket resembles a standard suit jacket around the chest and shoulders, although it has long sleeves with flared, pointed cuffs, and the jacket's skirt is similarly long (mid-thigh length) and shaped so that it comes to a point at the front. The jacket is fastened with two short button straps around the waist. The most distinguishing thing about him are his red eyes, and the cat-like horns growing out of his skull, and the Omnitrix symbol is on the middle of his shirt where his heart is located at.

**Powers and Abilities**:

**Peak Physical Condition**: Hornhead is the "perfect" specimen of human development and conditioning. He is classified as an enhanced human. He possesses physical prowess superior to any Olympic-level athlete that has ever competed. His physical body is at the absolute pinnacle of human potential and perfection.

**Peak Human Strength**: Hornhead's physical strength is at the very peak of human potential, making him able to sustain lift 800 lbs. (363 kg), and bench pressing 1,100 pounds (500 kg) as a warm-up. He can lift up to 1,200 lbs with maximum effort, which gives him the ability to knock out opponents as strong as Thunderball who has superhuman durability and also lift Merged Hulk. He is strong enough to bend very strong rusty iron bars.

**Peak Human Speed**: Hornhead can move at speeds equal to that of the absolute finest human athlete, being capable of running at a sustained 30 mph (48 kph); He was able to complete a 40-yard dash in 3.82 seconds, or a mile "in just over a minute," or more accurately 73 seconds. However, at his maximum capacity, he can run up to 41-45 mph. Although, he is capable of running speeds at 60 mph in one minute, he outran the Diatryma birds (Which can run speeds at 50 mph).

**Peak Human Durability**: Hornhead durability is at the highest human potential, making him very durable. This has allowed him to survive many forms of extensive punishment throughout his career that would injure an ordinary human. His ability to resist or recover from injury and disease is superior to that of ordinary humans. He is able to fall from several stories like 100 ft. and withstand certain amounts of blows from superhuman opponents. For example, if a person beats him with a ironwood baseball bat, the bat will easily break and he would show a little discomfort. His enhanced metabolism also enables him to have efficient healing.

**Peak Human Agility**: Hornhead agility is at the highest human potential. His agility is superior to that of any Olympic athlete that has ever competed.

**Peak Human Reflexes**: Hornhead's reflexes are at the highest human potential, and he is said to have a reaction time ten times faster than a normal person. He has been shown to dodge gunfire from multiple shooters simultaneously. He possess reaction time superior to any Olympic athlete that has ever competed.

**Peak Human Stamina**: Hornhead's body automatically eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing chemicals in his muscles; giving him exceptional endurance. He can exert himself at peak capacity for up to an hour without rest before showing any signs of fatigue. He could also resist the freezing cold waters of the Arctic, as not only did she survive being frozen for decades, he also spent time searching for any survivors.

**Peak Healing Recovery/Peak Human Metabolism/Peak Human Immune System**: Hornhead's healing speed and efficiency is at peak ability, meaning he heals faster than the average person. He is able to heal broken bones, torn muscles, several gunshot & knife wounds and other severe injuries within of several days and most lesser injuries like cuts, scrapes and burns within hours. This metabolism also renders him virtually immune to most poisons, including intoxication by consuming alcohol. The white blood cells in his body are efficient enough to fight off most microbe, foreign body, and other pathogens from his body, giving him a high immunity to all infections and diseases. Hornhead has stated his metabolism is too fast for alcohol. He is also more resistant to knockout and hypnotic suggestion, though is not immune.

**Peak Human Mental Processing**: Hornhead's mental performance is at the peak of human potential allowing it to operate in the most advanced and rapid manner possible. His mind also processes information quickly, giving him an accelerated learning aptitude; for example, Azmuth once stated that Hornhead can learn and master any weapon within seconds. He possesses an eidetic/photographic memory and perfect recall, meaning he never forgets what he sees and experiences, paired with the ability to speed read, and can thereby intuitively understand what's likely going to happen and how best to deal with it. This enables him to remember any military tactic and apply it to any situation.

**Peak Human Senses**: Hornhead senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are at the highest limits of human potential.

**Peak Mental Resistance**: Hornhead is highly resistant to mental attacks.

**Peak Human Longevity**: Hornhead aging is dramatically slowed due to having incredibly healthy cells in his body.

**Vectors**: Aside from their unusual colors and horns, the main defining feature of a Diclonius - at least, to those who can see or are aware of their presence - is their Vectors. These are invisible and intangible arms which sprout out of their backs, and are often used as their main source of self-defense and if need be, murder. Such a name actually has its basis in two different fields of science; biological vectors are organisms which spread diseases and viruses from one being to another, while vectors in physics are forces that have both magnitude and direction - both of these definitions apply to the ones possessed by the Diclonii to different extents. Vectors are extensions of a Diclonii’s body, and serve as extra limbs they can manipulate at will. They are invisible to non-Diclonii, although it is still possible to feel their presence and hear them on very rare occasions. On their own, they possess inhuman levels of strength and toughness, capable of cutting through or lifting almost anything, launching their main bodies far enough to mimic flight and acting as a shield to defend against explosions and other large area-of-effect attacks. They can also move fast enough to guard their main bodies against fast-moving projectiles and kill people before they realize they are already dead. Each Diclonii has a set amount of arms, as well as a range in which they can reach up to; in Hornhead's case, his Vectors over around the mid-10s mark with a originally 2 meter range. It is possible for a Diclonius to push past these limits by sprouting more arms and increase their size and range, but doing so can be risky and lethal; continuously overusing and pushing their Vectors will result in their body deteriorating and melting, eventually leading to their death. Hornhead himself at his peak is able to create up to 50 vectors, in which an individual vector can reach the length of over 2,700 miles and a width of 51 miles. If he were to place all his vectors side by side, that means they can cover over 1,400 miles. In comparison, that’s longer than the United States and can cover over half of the country.

**Cellular Stitching**: Hornhead's Vectors are unique in that they are capable of reconnecting and restoring damaged cells, allowing him to heal at a much faster rate than a normal human being would. Thus, in the event that his Vectors cannot defend him and he is hurt, he can just tie them back together to continue fighting. He can also use this ability on other people; the above example sees he reconnect Alma's damaged cells together after she suffers a near-fatal injury. Whether this power allows him to manipulate cells in ways other than reconnection is unknown, although this could theoretically allow him to attack opponents on a cellular level as well.

**Vector Intangibility:** Vectors themselves are made of molecules, which can vibrate at variable speeds to perform different tasks. At lower speeds, the arms are rendered intangible, allowing them to move through most objects unimpeded. As the vibration increases, so do the Vectors’ ability to exert their power by slashing and lifting heavy materials or disrupting blood vessels, eventually capping off with fast-moving molecules that allow them to cause miniature explosions. These speeds can be changed on the fly, allowing Hornhead for example to render his Vectors intangible, phase through a target and speed up to rip out vital internal organs.

**Barriers:** In a situation where he is forced on the defensive, Hornhead can create barriers around her body using the Vectors to wrap it up. Hence, oftentimes when he is shot at, the Vectors invisibility makes it look like projectiles - whether as small as handgun fire or even as large as missiles - just outright stop before they make contact with his body. While it should be theoretically possible to penetrate the Vectors’ defense with brute force, it is more likely that he can be damaged by abusing gaps within the Vectors to hit parts of his body.

**Diclonius Virus:** The Vectors also contain a mysterious virus that spreads to any human male it comes into contact with; this is theorized to be the main reason why the Diclonii possess their Vectors - not as a weapon, but as a tool to ensure the spread of their species. When infected, their genetic code is rewritten such that any offspring they father will always be a Diclonius, regardless of whichever woman they end up impregnating. Hornhead inherited this virus from the first true Diclonius: his mother. That being said, the virus itself is not fatal nor does it afflict infectees with any harmful side effects, so for the purposes of a fight to the death, it is essentially useless.

**Weaknesses**:

**Diclonius Limits**: While he is a truly dangerous individual, Hornhead's Diclonius powers have limits, with the last of them being particularly fatal. If his horns are broken, or if his pineal gland is damaged enough, it will cause him to lose his Vectors. Without his Vectors, Hornhead would essentially be nothing more than a normal teenage boy, which makes him a lot more vulnerable than he would be with them.

**Double-Edged Sword**: Pushing his abilities to their maximum for an extended period of time will cause them to slowly eat away at his body and force it to melt. At the peak of Hornhead's power, his overuse of the Vectors to try and destroy all of humanity while attempting to save Alma resulted in his being reduced to nothing more than a puddle with a head easily finished off by a single bullet from a handgun. In other words, Hornhead's true strength with the Vectors can only be shown when he tries to literally kill himself, past the point where his own healing factor cannot continue to support him .