UA Civil War

chapter 14: Is This the End?

The field everyone was supposed to gather at was blown up. The concrete was uneven from the cracks in the ground even if it had Todoroki's ice dome as a cover at first, therefore the teachers led the fallen heroes, that had access to the main camera feeds as well (such as the park ones), to UA's auditorium, the place where it all started. Ectoplasm was the one who was tasked with bringing the players in the fake city to where the others gathered.

Midoriya was walking in front, with the heroes following like lost puppies. Red blood dripped off of them and their skin itched. Bakugo was quiet keeping his arms close to his wounded body. When they enetered the auditorium every head turned towards them. The crowd parted for him, just like it did when he got selected as the villain 'team' leader. There were so many deja-vus flashing on front of his eyes.

"We have gathered here to discuss the events of the Civil War. I know you must all be tired, but please bear with this as we all have important comments to make. We'll start with the hero team. Aizawa-san, Sekijiro-san please."

"The hero team was unorganized and underestimated their foe. They started making plans too late and even then lost due to not synchronizing well enough. The leader didn't even communicate the rules to his team and was unable to properly lead them like he should have, when he was present." Aizawa said.

"It disappointed me to see my class get killed off one by one. You were all taken by surprise by the first catastrophe and lost your composure. You attacked recklessly and let down your guard, it was obvious that you didn't spend your preparation days figting together, creating teams and getting to know each other's work styles in order to better the way you acted during the exercise." Vlad King said.

"You were all given a week to prepare and you spent it carelessly. I spotted the way that as people were eliminated you became more brutal. But that brutality didn't mean efficiency. Todorki-kun, your act of stabbing the villain was close to win the game on the heroes' side. I however trusted that Midoriya-kun would be able to reach a safe place in time, because other wise he would have died in the real world as well."

They all blanched at that. Todoroki's pale skin turned at the very least a lighter shade of white.

"Shouldn't we have won then?! It was a lethal hit!" Monoma screamed from the back. Kendou tried to lower his head and whispered something aggressively in his ear.

"It was not a lethal hit until Midoriya would have died. As you can all see he's still with us, which I'd say is a good thing. Monoma-kun, real lethal wounds would have been outside of the rules and would have gotten Todoroki-kun into several trouble."

"But there were some real wounds he gave us that didn’t kill us but we were counted out." Aoyama said referencing how he got slammed headfirst into concrete and was counted out but didn't actually die.

"That's because Midoriya-kun was obviously controlling his strength, it wasn't a situation where he couldn't have hit harder, he deliberately targeted you with a weaker strike. Todoroki on the other side hit a non-lethal wound, he had to wait for Midoriya-kun to bleed out which he almost did. It's funny how if Todoroki-kun wouldn't have unleashed his fire at the wrong time-- when it reacted with the nitric acid and gave everyone severe burns-- Midoriya-kun would have bled out, as his wound wouldn't have been cauterized. Moving on however, whats important is that no real deaths followed. Wouldn't you agree Todoroki-kun?"

Todoroki shakily gave a nod, the other looked at him pitifully, Momo reaching to put a supportive hand on his shoulder as the rest of the class gave the boy some space. It must have shocked him, to know that he almost killed his first friend, the one who helped him the most and taught him he is not his father.

"The hero team however, did manage towards the end to get their heads in the game and actually made a good plan despite having so little time to work with." Vlad King complimented them.