Chapter 7 A leader's choices

Once everyone was finally seated after which shouldn't have been this long, which was mostly me and Liz fault for it, but nonetheless after we both sat down in our chair, everything in the room went silent as the light that was once on now magical turned off as me and Liz didn't expected that. As we sat in the dark for a second, a projector turned on behind all of us as the sudden bright light blinded us all as we weren't prepared for it.

"Thank you Damien," as Nicole said that, we all seen the tallest person in the room was behind the projector giving her a thumbs up to her, "Now that's everyone seated and looked fully prepared for our next step in our plan," she looked fully serious, "But we'll have to wait for a second as we should explain our current predicament to Mr. Grey here." but suddenly turned amused by this.

"Oi." The wall finally talked, "We don't have time." he only shot her a hard glance at her with a look of displeasement at her actions.

And once he said that, both the girls that was still standing beside her were now shooting him a death glare for speaking ill about her like that, while the male of her team only looked amused by his others teammate's actions. Once the three of them were now stuck in this glaring standoff, with Jackson only keeping his glare at Nicole only, while not caring for the others staring him down in that moment.

"Mr. Jackson.." she waved at her fellow teammates to stop their actions, "Doesn't our fable hero deserve the truth? As well his friend?" she then shot him with a terrifying smile that oozing with tremendous amount of killings attend behind in while she simply closing her eyes while giving that smile.

As we all bare witnessed to her murderous smile, everyone in the room except for her team and Jackson weren't effected by this terrifying look that made everyone who seen it was paralyzed with fear. As they both continued to stare at each others with neither one of them giving in to each pressure or imitation of each others, but as they only continued to glare each others down.

"Miss Chika." hearing someone dare speak in this moment of this intense silence between them, "I'm glad you taken my suggestion on taking care of your facial features by not giving that look anymore." now seeing the person who challenged them was none other than the person behind the projector, "And that's goes for you as Mr. Jackson," now completely coming out from behind the projector, to show himself in front of everyone while showing off his looks by swiping his hair away from his face, "By watching out about you're outer beauty to a certain extent, then you're working on your inner beauty to a certain extent as well." as he finished those line with a smile to complain his own speech about beauty, everyone and including me as well were now paying attention to him instead of their glaring contest.

And as he said that, both Nicole and Jackson stopped their's psychology warfare from continuing on, while they both stopped; only Damien continued on showing off his beauty to everyone in here. Hearing a sigh from Jackson, he only brought up his hand to met his face.

"I'll allow it for now." he only nodded to continue with their recapping about what they done, "Next time I won't be so leeway." he only close his eyes as he waited for the showing to continue.

"If there's isn't anymore distraction," she snapped her fingers to inform the person behind the projector to begin, "We'll take this chance as we'll go over the events that lead us to this moment to see how we should approach their's assault in two more days." once she was done her speech, the person behind the projector instantly moved onto the real work as he left it on the title. But through out Nicole's speech, Cristina only looked more trouble as she continued talking, with her now completely too troubled to look neither one of us in the eyes as she only brought her head down to the table.

"We'll first begin with our main reasons why we're fighting for our lives to begin with," on the screen, there was a huge crater that didn't look so promising, "Sadly our poor friend the United States was destroyed by that explosion we felt." as she continued to talk, we seen clips of the explosion going off while it was happening and seeing clips of people recording the missiles firing at them.

"And while the world is still recovering from this unprecedented crisis, most if not all communities have stopped in every countries," now looking at the screen again to only see more chaos that been happening to most countries she shown from news clips found online as the explosion went off and the aftermath was as we watched, "which ensued people to raise anarchy as their law enforcement were scattered as their government abandoned them." now again, seeing images of peoples who looked important making their way from their respective buildings as it either were inflamed or was raided by the people.

"Which lead us to our very own law enforcement that was supposed to care for us, to only turn rogue as the they fired at anything that came to our school," then the screen showed pictures of the men I seen when I first came to this school were now shooting without care at civilian passing by, "and because of their idiotic behavior, they fired at one family that shouldn't be trifled with in this city." the screen now changed to a normal looking person with his family sitting together, "Mr. Fincher's brother is the head of the infamous Sled that have sizable name in the underground for his drug cartel moving easily through Canada and the United states." as the picture changed from the younger brother's family to him and our current enemy that wanted us all die were hugging each others while showing much brotherly love to each others.

"And as our law enforcement stepped into this sinking pit they made for themselves as they fought Sled off the first time they attacked," now seeing a familiar place that I visited only two times in this new environment, "And the only time they'll ever fight them off." as she finished explaining our protector's faith as she ended it with a tone of malicious in her voice, "But the Sled did leave us a welcoming gife for us in the form of our weakest point in our defenses with the hole they made." now seeing clips of someone recording our current predicament as the person was recording the war they were having, till in the midst of that fighting; seeing some students run away from the windows as they seen a rocket coming at them. But once the rockets hit the entrance of the school, we only heard screaming while now only seeing pitch black.

"Once both sides couldn't continue fighting each other anymore, as they both only stopped as Sled called a retreat because of the lack of numbers they had at the end, but we cannot call it a win on our part as we lost countless students that were caught in this crossfire once our defenses been beached." everyone wore the same expression once the screen was filled with pictures of multiple students dying or were in extreme critical conditions as others tried to help them.

"And I won't bore you with information that everyone here knows as common knowledge to everyone in this school about what we done," she started waving her hands at the rest of her team, one by one; but only leaving me out, "Swiftly taken care of our mistake." she only sounded proud of her team, more than herself for what she done on her part.

"But I'll fully take responsibility for not taking action before they started talking to our enemies." she only wore a strong look as she said responsibility.

"Continuing on." continuing our presentation as she was done her vow to own up to the people whose brought us to this war by provoking our enemies to the point of wanting us and this building gone completely, "As the first battle was done, and what followed next was us licking our wounds from their conflicts," on screen, it was mostly students helping each others by healing the injured or carrying the bodies of those who didn't make it, "But we weren't fully prepared as they continued their assault.." she only looked grimed when she brought up this point, and looking around in this room once she said that, everyone except me only wore faces of despair when remembering their first attack.

Expecting her to explain what happened, we were only met with silent as the person behind the projector only continued his job as he continued sliding through while showing images of the aftermath of their fight. And it's wasn't anything glorious or grand as many images shown students fighting till the bitter end to them now lying on the ground outside or inside slowly dying from them bleeding out.

"We lost thirty five percent of the student's body in that fight," now seeing images of a large amount of people attacking the school that should have been the end for us if they had that many people while that much firepower, "But thank to Miss. Evenly here," she happily looked to Liz, but she only had the opposite reaction to Nicole's; as she only looked disgusted by herself, "We seen a critical flaw in their plan once they all stood in one place." now seeing a massive hole where the army was once were, "Using the city's environment to our advantage, we send out some students to plant some explosives underneath them by using the sewage system we had access thankfully to this building previously being a public water service outlet."

As she that, now remembering why this place felt familiar and why I knew how to get here instantly without using any other thing to help me find this building, because it was talked about for an entire year by the news that kept on reporting on it, and how it'll change our city if they do remodel the station. But didn't know the full story on it because I lacked the needed interest in caring about that issue, so the only reluctant thing about this problem was our caretaker who left the news on while we all cleaned the church.

"After our first real experience with the construction of our fight, everyone seen just how 'hopeless' this was." she put a lot of emphasis on the word 'hopeless', and as she said that, everyone again except for me reaction hard to what she said, while Cristina took it the hardest as she started to shake irregular, "And like nature, they all sought me out to be their leader once my plan worked." and once again, expecting her to flaunt over her achievements or at least a well deserved smile to what she accomplished, but she only humbled herself as she only continued her presentation.

"And so," thinking the screen would change to something, but only remained the same as she spoke again, "forming our own little government, I hand picked each and everyone one of you here because of your strengths and your resolves," and expecting them to at least be somewhat happy about this fact and how she seen them this highly about them, but to them only looking emotionless about what she said to them while both me and Liz were confused by this reaction from them.

"The only reason you chosen us, is our ability to handle our sins jefa." now hearing someone speak finally, "I wouldn't call it 'sins' if it was the right thing's to do." now hearing another voice that didn't speak that much, "If so then, why is she crumbling underneath her sins right now?" now seeing Alejandro pointing at Cristina went she only continued to keep her head down.

"Yes," she hummed at Alejandro answer, "You're ability to handle you're problems was the main reason why I chose each one of you, and a surprisingly amount of leadership from each of you as well is a great boon as well." she answered his questions, "Most of you." as she finished that up, she solely looked at Liz's seat at that moment with a stern look.

"But as each of you know," now the screen continues to moving to the next image, "After our first fight, everyone fell into despair." now seeing multiple students I seen when I first when to the main hall, with the look of someone without any hope left in their eyes and now waiting for something or anything to happen to them to finish this nightmare of theirs, "We counted about fifteen suicides after that day," she wasn't faze by saying that or caring about the number she said out loud, "Which in turn brought out more negative emotions throughout the school, the thought of ending it peaceful instead of fighting our problems."

As everyone now only wore a serious face once she was done explaining our once current environment, "Thus, we all came to an a agreement that we needed to change this negative emotions we all had." as she finished, the screen only showed a drawing of the same person who drawn the school's schematic, 'Project Hero' as the title and a singular triangle that was on the schematic now properly shown on the drawing, "Project hero is what you expect, a hero saving the day while making sure nobody going hurt. But since there isn't any real heroes, we had to make our own." smiling as she continued, "By sending a person who happened to awakened up in this chaos we all know, that person who was confused by him suddenly being in charge of our entire supply of our shields that are the only way of defending off our enemies attack?" she gave out a playful shrug, but knew exactly where she was going with this, "And let's say this person happened to be strong enough to fend off entire small army filled with our enemies by himself without 'killing' a single one of them?" as she put emphasis on the 'killing' part while coming straight at me.

"It would be a problem yes?" she'd said that, now behind my chair while looking at everyone in the room, "The whole point of project hero was to give students hope, while showing how dangerous our enemies are by our hero having no others options but to use extreme violence against them to save the day." she asked the rest of the room, "But our little hero did set out what we were trying to accomplish with our plan, by giving our people hope," she looked happy about my achievements, but quickly turned soured in a instant, "But he also gave our students an a idea that our opponent aren't that dangerous to begin with if he didn't have the need to kill anyone while fighting?" now questioning the whole room, "That'll ensue problems to the ones who haven't seen what real combat is or who their truly going up against." she coldly looked at everyone.

Now hearing enough from her, getting up from my seat as fast and hard as I can in hopes that that'll at least get her, but like our last fight with her; she simply dodge my chair aimed at her by me. And about to try a throw a punch at her for using me in this horrible project of theirs, but as fast I turned to met her face to face while about to run at her; to only be met with two people surrounding me with the intent to kill on sight with weapon in hand. And as the two of them were standing there ready to kill if I taken another step at Nicole, and now feeling a cold blade next to my neck as the right side person was holding a knife in hand while the small person who didn't move in this situation only aimed her gun at my hand and the last person who was once behind the projector instantly came from all the way over there to me while raising his arm back with his fist ready to make impact if I dare move.

Being put into this position, my only concern was looking at Nicole in this moment out of spite, "Some honor you have." only amused by her lack of it, "Watch your tongue. Lowlife." as I heard that from my side, a sharp pain came from my neck while feeling something coming down my neck that was liquidity, "I could say the same thing as well."

After hearing that, the three attackers and me looked to see that they were being targeted by the people whose I happened to have a connection to, as Alejandro, Cristina and Liz were ready as well once they gotten their weapons out and were ready to used them on them, with Alejandro readying his empty needles in hand and were aiming them at the smol person with the gun, and Cristina holding her hammers at the person's head who was holding her knife to close to my liking, while Liz was on the right; as well behind Damien while she looked only complex about this action she was about to make. And with this sudden shaft of events for them, both the girls who were ready to kill only gave out a cold sweat at this unpredictable moment, while Damien only looked disheartened by Liz actions to him.

The two people whose doesn't have a care in the world in this moment was Nicole smiling at us while Jackson simply didn't care about what's going on as he only watched us with the same cold look, "Grey," she finally answered back to me amused by my actions, "In what way did I betray your trust?" she hummed at me, "By holding this information from you?" she question back, "Because it's won't change the outcome in any other way if I'd told you what was going to happen," she started walking towards me calmly without any fear of me whatsoever, "Because I trusted you to overcome this challenge I set for you." now that she's answered her own question while now standing in front of me within hitting range while only to smile at me with that smile having no hidden ill emotions to me, instead of only looking proud of me.

"..Chika-sama..." as everyone in the room heard her explanation on why I was chosen, the person who held a knife to my neck now slowly lowered the weapon. And as she lowered her weapon, everyone else followed suit as there wasn't anything to worried about, with some of the people who was about to fight now sighing out at this close call on not killing each others.

"Now that unneeded moment passed," as everyone in the class now turned their attention to our unfazed friend here, "Our next move-"

As Jackson tried to be serious while playing off that cool post with his hand resting on his chin while showing off his seriousness in his eyes that could woo any girl, but the image died quickly as my stomach voices out his needs. Once my stomach voiced its complaint about being empty and needed nutrients after being basically empty for three days, it made everyone in the room looked amused by my actions while now completely forgetting why they almost started fighting to begin with; as for the person who helped me defuse the situation, he simply looked the same as we started; with a face that had no emotions on it.

"Mr. Grey and Mr. Jackson make a compelling arguments on what our next option should be," now seeing Nicole finally moving from her position where I tried to attack her, "But I'm in favor of Mr. Jackson plan on continuing to model out our plan instead of talking a break." as she was done explaining on what we should do next, she made it back to her seat like nothing really happened before, "Same." hearing a familiar voice is opinion, with that emotionless person now nodding with the two of them.

And seeing this was a optional choice where we can pick a side to either continuing or take a break from this. The opinion about hearing how we'll be sending more or making more bodies by our choices was a compelling opinion in this moment, but my stomach was making another compelling counter argument to the other opinion that sounds great. But ultimately letting my stomach make the decision this time as I was walking to the door, and while walking there; getting this feeling that someone was judging me hard for choosing the other opinion instead of choosing the stay, mainly the person who tried to cut me before with that glare that as well was cutting me as she didn't care to stay hidden and only let it out freely for me to see; thinking it'll only be me alone to exits this meeting on my own, but hearing someone standing up from their chair quickly to come running to me.

"I'll make sure my patients get to his destination safely jafa." now feeling a arm coming around my neck, "Can't have him passing out and skipping another day away on us." as he waved them off while opening the door with his other free arm. After finally getting out from that room, both of us sighed out a air of relief of getting away from them; and seeing their wasn't any point in lingering around here anymore, we both just left the principal office without speaking another word to each other as we traveled to the cafeteria.

And as we made it to the cafeteria without anything or anyone interesting on the way, we only kept the silence between us as we moved through the empty cafeteria. Moving to a table that had food that was left as scraps from previous people's leftovers, and seeing their wasn't anything better I'll get in this post apocalyptic world; sitting down at that table to finish their leftovers happily.

Now sitting down to enjoy this food, and thinking maybe there'll be something or someone who'll stop me from eating in this moment, but Alejandro only sat down as well with only a face filled with uneasiness after looking at me. And thinking he was going to stop me or something, he only sat down without giving me glance for some reason, and thinking maybe I should address this by talking to him, but hunger taken ahold of my reasoning as I simply ignored his problems looking face and only worried about filling my stomach with something.

"Hey Rucio," hearing him break the ice as I was in the middle of eating, "..I'm...sorry.." now stopping as I was interested as to what he'll be saying, "We just need-"

"I as well..." as we turned to see the same person who welded hammers back in the room we escaped now standing in front of us, "I...I..." she only continued to stand in front of us, but with the look of having a breakdown at any given moment. As she couldn't bear to standing up anymore; but to now giving into her breakdown as she fallen to the ground while covering her eyes, "I'm sorry!" she finally gotten out what she wanted to say.

And true to his cause, Alejandro quickly went to her side to see if she okay. Seeing that this was my chance to stop eating and to care about her now instead of taking care of my hunger, now getting up from the unfinished food to walk to her and see how she was holding up after her breakdown was still going. As I gotten to her position, Alejandro only gave me a gesture to help him lift her up and get her off the floor to sit her down at the table we're at and getting into position while getting a grip on her other arm, and as we both grabbed her arm, we nodded to each others to start. But in the middle of holding her up, feeling a sharp pain in my arms that almost made me drop her from the immense pain when forcing my arm to do something, and as Alejandro seen my pain; he quickly taken the full weight of Cristina off my hand, for me to as well drop to onto the table while my left arm continued to flare with pain more then my right.

"..Sorry..." hearing her beside me while we sat down together at the table, didn't gave any of my attention to her as I unwrapped my left arm's bandage off to see why I was feeling this much pain from lifting someone.

Once I ripped the bandage away that was covering my left arm to see the real damage done by that's person attack, but as I was done unwrapping the bandage off; this huge bruise that been swallowing my whole front arm was the only thing I seen, and once seeing this bruise on my arm, my brain immediately switched to me now feeling this pain I was probably meant to feel this entire time. As my body now started feeling the pain at my arm, it now as well started feeling heavy as well as having painful sores all over my body; making me stop moving completely in hope to stop this painful feeling altogether.

"Feeling it now?" shifting my head to the side to see Alejandro calming down Cristina as he started patting her back while occasionally rubbing it, "Ye..yeah." now slowly lowering myself to lean on the table, "Feels like shit..." slowly trying to laugh at myself, but ultimately stopping midway from the pain coming from laughing, "I'm more surprised you even made it this far with all of yours injuries." looking at him now offering a candy smoke to Cristina to help her.

And as we all let the room to filled with silence as we're trying to adjust to our new roles in this moment; Alejandro helping Cristina out with her breakdown, Cristina trying to get everything all together, while me trying my best at handling the pain that won't stop.

"..G..gray.." finally hearing her, "I'm truly sorry," as she said that's clearly, that gotten my attention as I turned to look at her slowly, "for everything that's happened." as I looked at her, she was now kneeling down in front of me in the hopes of me accepting her apology, "It's as Nicole said before," she kept on going as she was kneeling down, "We all came to an agreement..." she now looked up to see me eye to eye, "Even if we knew what we'll pay."

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"Thank you for everyone for coming in this short notice." as Nicole thanks everyone whose was a leader of this school that came, everyone only seemed confused by this sudden noticed from there main leader, "I'm well aware that each one of you have a very important task that you should be doing instead of this meeting." as she said those line, she was as well walking around to show how serious this is, "So I'm sorry to say, but we'll need to worry about those task later as we'll need to think extensively on the decision I came to and the future of our survival." as she was done her speech about needing them for something important; the door instantly closed, leaving only the leaders in the room together.

And as the door closes, everyone in the room were agitated by the sudden new environment place as the doors were closed, "Don't worry about that," as Nicole tried to ease their worries as she sat down in her chair, "Just needed some privacy for us," as she finished explaining why they needed the privacy, there's was a awkward silence that followed through as Nicole simply sat down, "Ohh," now realizing the mistake she made, "Mr. Young, could you please shut the lights off?" as she asked the person who was the closest the light switch, the person only sighed out at his new role, "As well as work the projector?" she asked another thing from him, he once again sighed at his role, "Well at least my entire life experience with coding and mechanics is now being tested with this task at hand..." he dryly laughed at her, "Charming Mr. Young, you remind me of a friend I have." she laughed back at him that sounded genuine, "Well Phoenix the name if you wanna know," he winked at her, "But my friends calls me Nix for short, so don't wear it out." after Phoenix give out a flirtatious greeting to Nicole, she answered him, "Well Mr. Young," she sounded happy he started working the projector, "I'll be sure to use your real name." she only smiled at him to give him a hint.

As that failed attempts on Phoenix part at flirting didn't go well, he only quietly went back to the projector to only focus on his new role and to make sure he doesn't embarrass himself any further then he did by himself. And as the room fell into this comfortable silence at Phoenix's failed attempts, they only waited for what they be expected a presentation. For the needs for a projector for this meeting; once Phoenix turned on the laptop that was hocked up to the projector already, he was confused by having the presentation already ready and prepare for him advanced.

"My fellow students of oasis." she gotten up from her seat that's she didn't need anymore as everyone was seated, "I come to you as not as a fellow students anymore, no. But I come to you as a fellow leader in this moment," she stopped walking back and forth, to now stand in front of all of them with her hand outward to show her respect for their status among the school, "As leaders of our respectful school, we need to make the decisions on how'll we'll go about our survival, and I'll say this. In a short amount of time you've been elected leaders because of you're respectful skills in you're class, each one of you shown just how capable you are by turning our bleak situation into a fighting chance that we could face our foes with the amount of leadership you've shown to your class by the amount of weapons and defense you've built in a short time I've asked of you, while also supplying our students with food and giving services to our injured students while we're preparing for the our last fight that's is coming in a few days." she only sounded proud at each one of them for their accomplishments.

"But I now asked if you're capable of shouldering the burden of a leader now." after this sudden shaft in tone from praise to now seriousness at them, and not letting them take a minute to straighten out their confusion, she only snapped her fingers to start the presentation. And as they looked to the screen they're were only met to see a confusing title, 'Project Hero.'

"We've done everything in our capability for our students, but the one think we cannot do for them as we lead them was give them 'hope'," as she said those lines, everyone in the room knew where she was coming from and how much it pain some of them, they knew all their efforts to bring some semblance of hope to their peers wasn't enough to get them much hopes for the future, "And you seen the actions when we couldn't give them hopes," giving them time to remember what they've learned about the amount of students completely loosing their will to live when learning their fate and having no hope, "So I propose an answer to our problem, and seeing this should be a majority vote between us here instead of me going through this by myself and my team; I felt it was necessary for me to tell you my plan."

Clapping her hand together, the screen changed to another scene of what's makes a hero, looking closer at the scene, it's shown the value of a hero in movies and others sources.

"Now a hero that's me and my team have chosen that should be chosen is somebody whose just woken up to this new environment," as she continued going on about a hero needed, the scene changed as well to list the things that the hero needed, "Our hero needs the strength and wist to handle the task we'll set for them, while having a particular facial features that'll not be too noticeable once we take them from there completed task so nobody will know the hero identity." as she explained how they'll get their hero into a task and how they'll well get that hero away from the area so nobody will know the identity of that said hero. But the one thing she failed to mention was what the task that there fable hero was about to challenge.

"Miss. Chika," hearing a monotone voice interrupting her from continuing, "I assume you've chosen our champion already?" this monotone person asked, with his only answer to his question was a nod from their leader, "And I assume we won't be able to see our champion if he'd just waking up to our new world? Right?" he put a lot of emphases on the 'right' part to then shot her a glance, "You're right Mr. Jackson, I've already send out my team to find the person in question." she only answered back, now waiting for another question he may have, "I see," he only nodded at her answer, "thank you for clearing up my confusion." he only went back to listening to her continued her speech.

"Now for the task our hero well need to overcome is another problem that'll cause us to take this vote." she only glance at them if they were ready for her plan. With everything she been saying and how's she made them take a break from their busy schedule, they only nodded with a face of seriousness to match this important decision they'll make; as they shown their approval to hearing her plan, Nicole only found it amusing for their's innocent lifestyle to change after hearing her plan.

"To make a grand entrance for our hero, he'll have to save our limited supply." explaining how'll there hero will make his entrance and what he'll be protecting, "So we're going plant our limited resources outside so our hero well receives them? Doesn't sound so heroic to me." the person who was handling the projector finally making a statement after being embarrassed, "Mr. Young," she looked at him, "That's far from my plan, but you're efforts to see through my plan is plausible." now giving him a small clap for his try.

"No, my plan is to send out a scouting team that'll relay a rumour to our enemies of a locations of one of our necessary room we desperately need in order to survive." and as she finished, she was only confused by the screen not changing as she clapped her hand together for Phoenix to continue, but like all the people in the room that's heard her first side of her plan; they only came to a complete stop or were too shocked to hear it.

"Are you insane!?"

As Phoenix shouted at her from across the table where he was at the opposite end to her instead of behind the projector like everyone thought he'll be. But as he made his presence known to everyone, while showing his distaste against her plan.

"We shouldn't-"

"Enough."

As Phoenix tried to voice his reason; to only be quickly shunned by the only person who recovered from what Nicole propose.

"We agreed we'll listen to her did we not?" shooting him a glare at him that'll cut through anyone who wasn't prepared for that look. But as Phoenix wasn't ready from him like this, he was instantly cutten down by that glare shot at him, as he didn't talk back at him.

"Now now Mr. Jackson," she only sounded glad about Phoenix outburst, "Mr. Young is right; my plan is in the realm of that of an 'insane' person," humming at what Phoenix said, "Mr. Young, can you please continue our showing?" giving him a smile for him to continue.

The only thing Phoenix answered back to her smile was a cold sweat coming down to his forehead; while seeing he didn't have a choice in this matter, he only when back to the projector while showing a look of distress to both Jackson and Nicole actions. As he continues to work the projector, the next scene shown the drawing they made of the school now turned to a picture for all of them to see on the screen instead of them having to hauling together to look at the drawing on the table.

"We've came to the conclusion that we'll have the smiting classroom be our grand opening for our hero entrance." she moved to the screen to only start pointing at the smiting classroom; as she once again finished talking about a part of her plan again, to only be interrupted once again as someone else slammed at the table with a stronger force behind it than the last person.

"I see we're at a impasse," she turned to only be met with a torn look from Cristina as she only continued to look down instead of looking Nicole in the eyes, "Neither the less, you've seem well mannered as to allow me to continue my explanation as you're silent is much appreciated." she only gave her a smile at her for her willingness to continue her talk.

"Once going into detail about which room to use, we ruled out the necessity of our medical room and kitchen; as both of them would be a much better place to set up a entrance for our hero. But they both would have overwhelm our hero at his limited amount of decisions he'll have to choose from as to protect the innocent and mitigated the lost of our supplies as they attack." as she list all the importance on why they couldn't use the two most important room for the entrance, they all started slowly understand where she was going with, "That is why I've chosen we'll use smiting classroom. The room is equally important to the two rooms I've gave an example, as I've extensively told the entire school of its importance was a great move on my part I won't lie." as she for once looked satisfied by herself accomplished. As she finally finished lying out her plan, the only thing that they voice was their silence with a disgusted looked from the very thought of her plan, with only Jackson nodding at Nicole's plan.

"This is why I've come to the decision on a majority vote onto either enacting my plan or not," she looked around to see mostly everyone was disgusted by her, "But I must remind you, that's each and everyone of you here are leaders. Not as students, nor as children's whom are about to reach adulthood, but as leaders who must put their peoples first! Leaders who'll have to discard their humanity at any choice they'll decide here and now! Even if you've chosen not to vote with me, the deaths of those whose lost their hope will be on your hands! This is the price of leadership! Now show me why you've received your leadership by you're will!"

After hearing that impactful speech about the gravity of their decision they'll be making, everyone only sat there in silence for a minute; contemplating at each decision with deadly cautious at what the right decision. But there time was up as they heard a big slam at the table to get their attention.

"I'll be mercifully to everyone here as to quickly choose our decision as of right now."

Hearing this, they only looked down and nodded at her word; except for one who only continued to stay put.

"In favor of going through with my plan?"

As hearing this, only two people raised their hand, as only her and Jackson was the only one.

"Now in favor of grasping at straws?"

As she said that, there were a hint of venom behind it at those who didn't raise with her choice, but like the first choice; it only yielded two hands to be raised.

Once seeing their were missing a person who didn't rise there hand, as she only continued to stay in the exact same position where she slammed at table.

"w-why...do I have to choose..." as Cristina spite out her through, she only sounded weak at the very thought of choosing, "..I've been working besides them since day one..yet now..." as she continued the very thought of making a decision; she only continued to shake as a leaf as all the pressure was on her now.

"The more important question is; why didn't you vote with us? Amiga?" after keeping his peace through out the meeting till this piece in time of a fellow leader having trouble, while that very leader spoke volumes about her not choosing with him and Phoenix.

"al..Alejandro?"

"You've said that you're classmates are like comrades right? But you've chosen to keep your hand down once the opportunity to keep them out of harm? Why is this?" as he looked her down with eyes of seriousness, she was only shaken to realize what she was doing now.

"Don't listen to him Miss. Den," Nicole reassure her, "You're only processing the information you've been given like a true leader should be." she explained her reasoning why she'd haven't choosen yet, "But I'll reassure you this Miss Den, if you chosen to follow through with my plan, I promise you that none of you're class- no," she shook her head as she almost finished her sentence, "None of you're 'friends' will be killed if you put your faith in my champion." correcting herself.

As she was met with a stand still, she only continued to look down at having to decide.

But as she sighed out a audible sound that filled the room, she only answered them with a nod to finally finished their debate for once and for all.

"i...I'll choice..."

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