My Hero Academia: Aspirations

Chapter 17

A/N: If anyone would like to submit an OC for the support staff hired for Class 1B, I can work them in as a reoccurring side character. I will pick from any character submitted as a review/comment across the different sites I post on.

Aspirations
Chapter 17

You sat beside your aunt as the last staff member to attend took a seat at the large table. Surprisingly it wasn't Aizawa. The normally punctual Principal put the files on the table as though he hadn't been late to his own meeting before climbing onto his chair. Everyone, yourself included, stayed respectfully quiet as the quirky animal settled into place.

"I have brought you all here to discuss a few different topics which may affect the direction of this school," Principal Nezu started cordially. "In light of the current events, U.A has been asked to ready the students with provisional licenses to start working. Though it was phrased as a request, the committee was quite insistent that we send students to fill recently vacated areas. I believe it would be in the school's best interest to do as requested. After all, we can not keep the doors open as a hero academy without their support."

Your eyes widened. There was a murmur of surprise around the table. Were things really so dire? It was true that you weren't a teacher, nor really a board member of the school, but you hadn't heard that things had gotten so dire. The media had tried to question and discredit U.A through live interviews after the events of the failed summer camp, of course, it was just that you hadn't thought much of it. The news always tried to spin stories out of control to make a quick buck. Though compared to other countries, the Japanese media was actually fairly mild. That didn't make all reporters pleasant to deal with but at least there still was a little dignity left in the media. Which was possibly why you hadn't realized that the question of U.A remaining open though these multiple disasters had been so dire that the Principal was considering sending the students out even earlier.

First they'd moved their work studies ahead of schedule...now they were practically being forced to shove the kids out of school entirely. Had the villain situation really gotten so bad so quickly?

"I've worked this last week on accumulating data on the areas that we've been requested to fill in for," as he spoke, Nezu turned on the display behind him.

There was a map of Japan with many different small red circles spread all throughout. A good amount of them were in less densely populated areas. Most of them were spots in Hokkaido as well as Kyushu, though some of them were in more rural areas in Honshu. Nezu had the folders passed out to the six homeroom teachers in the hero course. You noticed that there was another file which he kept for himself. Though this one seemed to be of a different thickness than the others. Just barely though.

"I've informed the Hero Public Safety Commission that our school will, for the time being, staff eight locations of our choosing throughout Japan."

There were far more dots on the map than that. You double checked just in case your first count had been wrong.  You hadn't been. There were a good deal more spots than Principal Nezu decided that they would fill.

"There are thirty spots marked," Cementos said with a respectful tone.

"Correct. Other Hero schools will fill in for the areas we have not selected. If needs be the committee has discussed the relocation of pro-heroes for the most turbulent areas that would be unsuitable for students."

You looked around the table to see everyone's faces. There was a mixture to be sure - surprise, disgruntlement, and all ranges of uncomfortable emotions. No one was quite happy with the arrangement.