Neutrality Order (TomBoo)

R.C. - Chapter 2

Aizawa looked over his class in the common room, noting that their expressions hadn't changed much since he left them right after Tommy's arrest.

Again, he could strangle the Musutafu Police for their tactless arrest. He knew the police had more authority than he did when it came to student safety and anything pertaining to the law as a whole. He would still regret handing over the middleman piece that connected Tommy to the -in their own opinion- villain Blackout, but he hadn't known the police had found evidence of Tommy's involvement or identity when he did. 

He'd just gone into the department to have a friend of his search through the burner phones they'd recovered from Tommy's room, but the evidence they found was given directly to the officers in charge of a Blackout investigation. The next thing Aizawa knew, no less than five cops showed up, walked right through the gate with a warrant in hand, and arrested Tommy in front of more than half the class in their dorm common room on the grounds of being identified as Blackout.

It took everything Aizawa had not to wrench his problem child away from them and kick their asses right back through the gate. He gave his students his warning to say and do NOTHING until his return, and immediately phoned up Nezu, Crow Father, and Nighteye.

The entire time waiting for Tsukauchi to have clearance to interrogate Tommy, Crow Father was on the verge of a several-hours-long anxiety attack that made Aizawa almost call up Nemuri for her quirk to handle, before the interrogation began. 

Tommy was Blackout.

Tommy -gods bless and damn the boy- had a loophole for his every move.

Tommy still considered himself a hero. A hero to EVERYONE was what he wanted to be.

Worrying, but still somewhat comforting, in Aizawa's humble opinion. Far too many students his age were almost strictly black and white on the morality scale, something that he was unfortunately not able to fully convey in teaching. Experience was the teacher for that particular lesson, though he had an inkling a decent number of his students were beginning to be open up to the idea.

Aizawa wouldn't ever just TELL, but he wouldn't deny it either that he'd ended a few lives of his own in his line of work, and it seemed Tommy had too after Sneegsnag had been on the receiving end of more than one of Tommy's infamous 100% blows. But Tommy found the death inconsequential, and -in Aizawa's opinion- rightfully so.

At this point in time, Aizawa was concerned about only three things.

Tommy's apparent conviction to be both a public and underground hero.

Tommy's reputation as a whole in the school.

And Tommy's silence on several key questions.

First things first. Reputation.

His eyes swept over everyone once again and settled on Tubbo, who looked closest to actually speaking. and speak he did.

"...Aziawa....it's not true, is it?" he asked. "It was a big misunderstanding, right?" It prompted several other students to murmur assent, noise level rising in the common room. He raised his hand, and the noise was cut in an instant back to silence.

"In a manner of speaking, it was a misunderstanding," he said, noting several relieved expressions. "Listen to me carefully, all of you. Tommy is coming back later. Do not bombard him with questions. Do not try to fish out anything he doesn't want to tell you. And above all else, do not speak of anything I am about to tell you to anyone outside this dorm, other than the teachers." He looked them over again, hating he was having to kill the hopefulness in their faces. "Tommy HAS been identified as Blackout. And he confessed as much this evening under a lie-detection quirk."