My War - UA Civil War

Chapter 8 - Preparations : Day 5

3rd POV

The last day of preparations was upon them, and for anyone running or working in a business, this would be the first day in the city, so that they didn't have to set up amidst the fighting and destruction.

The mock city was named 'Eniwa', a name bestowed upon it by a former student, who had participated in the war and thought that the city should have a name, at the very least. Eniwa was your average Metropolitan city, with billboards, traffic, high rise buildings filled with apartments, underground tunnels that were disguised as sewers, rooftops to parkour on, telephone boxes nobody uses, and lots of moving vans.

The sheer amount of these vehicles was phenomenal. Around every corner, on every street, next to every building, was at least six of them. The civilian bots hadn't even been released yet and the zebra crossings were already in use, as the students (and temporary residents) didn't want to be run over.

Eniwa was surrounded by large walls. Said large walls were primarily to stop students from running away, but they also had the absolutely infuriating ability to absorb the energy from an explosion and turn it into electricity. The walls were not favoured by previous members of the villain team, as creating large-scale explosions and power cuts at the same time was near impossible.

The walls were also where the observers, as well as many cameras, would be stationed. You see, the walls were incredibly thick, but had a hollow centre in which the spectators could sit comfortably and watch the chaos and mass destruction unfold, feeling both pleased and slightly miffed that they weren't the ones that were to rush in and save everyone.

The mock city would be home to 80,000 civilians (including the heroes team and students from the support, business and general courses) over a period of five days. It consisted of 23,418 households. Many of the civilian bots lived in high rise buildings however all of the students lived in houses or maisonettes, as it was a lot easier to place escape routes in those than 26 story buildings.

Eniwa had nine schools, three universities, four large supermarkets, two cinemas, a leisure centre and various other places that the students would enter today and likely never again as they were all being assessed on something over the next five days.

The residential areas of Eniwa were all small and densely populated, as the citys main purpose (besides being destroyed repeatedly for the grades of the Hero Commissions slaves-in-training) was business. While many of the high-rise buildings were filled with apartments, the tallest of them all were workplaces. Many of the civilian bots worked in these buildings, all of which were offices.

A lot of the civilian bots also worked in the many factories in the city, which were pushed out of the way of the more commercial areas. Many of the bots that were too young to work or were going to a university had part-time jobs in places like the aforementioned supermarkets or convenience stores or worked as babysitters as many of these robots worked extremely long hours. The cost of living in Eniwa was high and the pay was meagre. That is, unless you owned an extremely successful business.

The commercial areas of the city were its main attractions. Though it did not have much green space (save for a great park and lake), it did have many department stores and shopping centres. It had tattoo parlours, cafes, bars that sold fizzy drinks, one-on-one Spanish tuition, Vocaloid-themed escape rooms, anything and everything you could possibly desire from a city. And despite it not having free health care or good insurance companies or a reasonable age to receive a pension, it was the place to be.

Capitalism, ay?

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"Woah...this place is big!"