To the OP: My apologies for trashing up your thread with these petty arguments but if someone has to play janitor, I may as well do it, enh?
Ah, my buddy MagicThief! I do not know what I would have done in your situation. You have failed to provide me with the following details critical to the decision making process:
1. Your location and a description of your surroundings. Are you at school? Can you get to someone's house? Are there unbiased witnesses, objects that can be used as weapons?
2. Are your opponents armed? How close are they?
3. Is there any chance of your ability to outrun them?
I'm certain that I'm forgetting many things that I could mention at this point. I've had a long day and I have a major headache. So sue me. But what it sounds like is that you deliberately went towards a CROWD with the intent of fighting. Providing that you're not in an absolutely worse-case scenario, I'd say that you're dumber than I gave you credit for.
But in the lacking of any and all options at all, I'd back up towards a wall if possible, wait for the first swing and fight for my life. I would then pursue any and all legal actions that I possibly could, including a civil lawsuit to pay for hospital bills and college. :thumbsup:
And lastly, I might add that half of not being a pefect nitwit is NOT FINDING YOURSELF IN SUCH A SITUATION TO BEGIN WITH. What dumb thing, preytell, did you do/say to piss off a guy that could bring a whole group against you? Gang beatings that are school related normally don't just magically happen. There are things like motives and the like. Instead of having to fight a group, I'd imagine there was some sort of preventative measure that you could have taken before things got that goddamned far.