My Hero Automata

Chapter 36: Debrief

Summary: The class gets news on all that has happened, and Nighteye makes his first appearance.

Chapter 36: Debrief

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It had taken almost an hour before an exhausted looking Midnight arrived at the Group A Heroics classroom. She wasn't the first member of staff to appear. One of Recovery Girl's assistant nurses had reached them only moments after they'd arrived. With help from Izumi and Momo, the nurse had tended to the various abrasions, minor lacerations, and burns. Two students, Ojiro and Aoyama, had been wounded enough to be sent to the medical department via bot. Asui, who had suffered from frequent proximity with the fires of the nastiest of the villains, had been taken to said department straight from the scene. Though the nurse had been able to assure them reports on UA's network stated she would be alright, before the nurse herself had to leave to help elsewhere.

Then had come the waiting. Which would have been much worse, if they hadn't still been in their hero gear with access to the HSN, as well as a substantial delivery of food from UA's robots. External communications had been cut by UA's own security, but with Izumi and Momo's admin access to the HSN, they had been able to check on Group B and the overall situation. Group B had several of their own injured, but hadn't been as in the thick of it as Group A had been. They'd also had Vlad King with them the entire time. Though without matching powerhouses to Momo and Izumi, five of their own were in the medical wing. At least only one was in serious condition, and Tetsutetsu was expected to pull through once his Quirk recovered. He was only in such a bad way at the moment because his steel had been literally warped and melted by another copy of the flame villain.

The good news, such as it was, unfortunately came with some bad news as well. There had been fatalities. A few non-heroics students, three older heroics students, and at least one of the pro-hero teachers. There were quite a few injured as well, with many having been sent on to various hospitals in the area if they weren't critical or from the Heroics department. Even worse, Izumi and Momo's access had been sufficient to breech the security cordon around UA and reveal that UA hadn't been the only target. Ketsubutsu and Seiai had both suffered similar, albeit much smaller, attacks. News from them was limited even on the HSN, but from what they did know...it didn't look good.

When Midnight finally arrived, several students had to be nudged awake. Most were suffering from Quirk Exhaustion of some sort, though a few had simply cried themselves to sleep as the shock set it. Once they were all up and focused, Midnight sighed, ran a harassed hand through her disheveled hair, and started speaking.

"First off...thank all of you for the amazing job you did. If you hadn't held Building E so effectively, this would have been much worse than it was. The villains completely ignored the training grounds and Heroics buildings, zeroing in on the general student population. As Building E was the closest to the eastern wall, you actually got a much bigger chunk of the attack than anyone else, save those that headed to the wall itself. Reinforcements were slow to reach you because, frankly, you were doing so well that we had little choice but to leave Building E to you while the staff retook the wall and shut the portals down with portable jammers. Those few older students who weren't out on work-studies were set to seek and destroy on the leakers that got deeper into the campus, while Vlad King and Group B protected Building D."

Midnight let that sink in for all of them. It was...a lot to take in. They all felt a stirring of pride that they'd apparently done so well, though that was mixed with fear that the attack had been so large in the first place that UA had needed to prioritize like that. Just as that seemed to be penetrating for a lot of them, Midnight confirmed it.