"I swear, you are the pinnacle of irrationality"

All Might is currently sitting in Principal Nezu's office, discussing his actions during the 1st year final exams. Next to the principal is Aizawa, which doesn't surprise him too much. After all, he did just put one of his students in the hospital.

"Not only have you been wasting my students' time with this wild goose chase for Midoriya, but now you have landed one of our star students in the hospital. He'll be lucky to even make to the training camp in few weeks." Aizawa rubs his eyes. "So please, what reason could you possibly have had to go full force against a 15 year old boy."

All Might, once upon a time, would have been ashamed of himself. His actions seemed cruel, even excessive, but now All Might knows the truth. Those actions, above all else, were necessary.

"He needed to learn."

"Yes, Bakugou needed to learn the hard way that he had to rely on others, that's why we had him fight you one on one in the first place. But that could have been done with a single punch. How can you sit here and-"

"No, one punch wouldn't have been enough. He needed to learn that overestimating himself wouldn't cost him his grade, but that it would cost him his life. That was the lesson I needed to impart."

Aizawa sighs into his scarf. "You are as stubborn as you are foolish. There's no reasoning with someone as impractical as yourself. Nezu, please."

For the duration of the conversation, Nezu had been delighting sipping on his tea, watching with a sardonic glee as the unflappable Eraserhead grew more and more exasperated. But alas, now that he was called upon, the fun must come to an end. Now, he must do his job. "Well yes, All Might, there is no questioning behind your logic, and most certainly your results. A fractured skull, six shattered ribs, and a punctured lung will most certainly get the point across to our little hothead! However! Did you happen to consider what such an image would show to our current students? To the press? The Symbol Of Peace kicking a student into unconsciousness,after he surrendered no less, does not bring the best optics to our institution."

All Might silently nods his head, inwardly acknowledging that Nezu does make a point. He knew this incident wouldn't reflect well on himself, but he stopped caring about his image months ago. However, he hadn't once considered how it would reflect on the school. Yet, even if he had, All Might knows that it would not have changed what he had done. During that exam, while he was toying with Young Bakugou, he saw how much he was enjoying the test. He saw the excitement in his grin as he had the fight of his life, and the adoration in his eyes as he fought the number one hero.

It made him sick.

So he hit him. Again and again and again until his eyes went from adoration to anger to terror. That is what he had to do to protect Young Bakugou from becoming another Midoriya, another Endeavor, another Stain. His godlike image has corrupted so many lives without even knowing it. Now that he does, he will squash it out whenever he sees it.

"Nezu, I did what I had to do. I work for justice, not sound bytes! UA will handle this scandal, just like all of the others. At the end of the day, UA is UA, and even I can't ruin that reputation. You give me too much credit."

"Why no, in fact, I think I gave you just as much credit as you deserve! Aizawa, the papers please!" Aizawa, throughout the conversation, never took his eyes off of him. At one point, his doing so would have put him on edge, but now, it just bored him. Aizawa, bends down to get the paper, still not letting All Might out of his sight. With a soft thud, two stacks of papers, one much larger than the other, land on the desk.

"Now, All Might, this first stack you are looking at here are all of the early applications papers submitted for next year's courses at UA! Isn't it just delightful? It's such a large amount! Except, strangely, for the first time in the school's existence, our application numbers have gone down, and by a considerable number I might add. Why would you think that is?"

All Might knew where this was headed. "I wasn't hired to be an advertisement, Nezu, I'm here to raise the next generation of heroes."

Nezu doesn't skip a beat with his response. "Yes, that is quite so! But I am afraid that even in that regard you are performing well below our expectations. And that brings us to the second stack! Would you care to take a look!"

All Might, seeing no way out of it, takes the bait, and lifts up the smaller stack of papers closest to him and thus All Might, with disinterested eyes, begins to reads through all of the withdrawals his students have requested from the hero course. The first one he picked up, Mineta, wants to go to General Studies. No loss there, he supposes. The next, Kaminari, wants to go to Business. Good luck to him. Yayarozou, Support. Shoji, business. Koda, bless his heart, wants to leave UA all together. Good. If they want to leave now, then they're too soft for hero work. They aren't worthy of such a moniker. All Might then continues to sift through this paper trail of cowardice, finally stopping on one that makes him draw a breath. It was someone he would never have expected to want to leave his class.

"Ah", Nezu squeaks, "I see you've found Uraraka's transfer request to Shiketsu! It is quite unfortunate I must say, we most certainly would have groomed her into a fantastic hero."

"No", All Might says. "This can't be true. She wouldn't leave, not while we're so close to finding him." True to his word, 1-A has spent every hero course scouring for any hint of Young Midoriya's whereabouts, even taking them on patrols on their spare time, and no student volunteered for more shifts than Young Uraraka. While more and more of her classmates had given up, she had continued to hope. Now, it appears, she too has lost faith.

"And that brings me to my final point, Toshinori. As unorthodox as your request was for your class, we allowed you to have 1-A look for Izuku Midoriya, as we thought them having a hand in rescuing their friend would raise their spirits after the vicious murder of their classmates. However, after all these months, not a single clue has emerged, and yet you won't let your students move on! Out of all of these transfer requests, All Might, you were mentioned in almost all of them."

"There were clues", All Might said through gritted teeth. "Young Bakugou-"

"Bakugou didn't know what he saw." Aizawa, still staring through the Symbol of Peace, speaks up with a surprising amount of emotion. "He said that he may have seen Midoriya near his childhood home, but we followed that lead for months, and nothing has come from it. I know how badly you want to find that Problem Child, but you're not the only one who misses him. By forcing his classmates to search for a dead child, even after school, you had robbed them of their chance to grieve and eventually. The decision was irrational, inappropriate, and selfish. How any of these kids looked up to you is beyond me. Either Midoriya is dead, or doesn't want to be found. Regardless, they need to move on" By the end of the statement, Aizawa was nearly shaking. It appears that he had been holding in that outburst for quite some time. But All Might wasn't fazed. Aizawa didn't understand what Midoriya's loss meant to him, to the world. Nine generations of heroes, ended by a single lunatic. Even if he worked for the League, he couldn't believe it. He wouldn't

All Might turns back to Nezu, and asks him, full of disdain, "So, what does this mean for me. Am I fired now?"

Nezu only laughs in response. "Why no! As bad as your actions have been, the media would have a field day if we just got up and removed you from the school! We can't fire you! No, no no no, you must resign!"

….

"You rat bastard."

Nezu once again laughs. "Why All Might! You wound me so! You know I associate more as a bear-thing than a rat!". He wipes a tear from his scarred eye. "You should be happy! This is a good thing! You came here to find a successor and train him under our eye, and you did! Now, your job is over! You're free! You don't have to use your three hours of hero work beating up school children anymore, you can go back to being a hero."

All Might, for the first time in this conversation, visibly showed emotion. That emotion, justifiably, was anger. Did Nezu just out One For All? He looks over at Aizawa, who just kept staring back. If what Nezu said surprised him, he didn't show it. Nezu, following his gaze, sees where his anger lies, and continues. "Toshinori Yagi! Are you really upset what I just said?! I assure you, Aizawa here can be trusted with a little secret! So please, agree to resign, and we can all go back to doing what we're best at."

He looks down at the paper. Could he really give up on his students? He looks at the stack of applications, and then at the transfer requests. 'None of them want me to be teaching them anyway.' With the atmosphere tense, All Might stands to grab his pen out of his baggy yellow jacket. Yet as he stands, something happens that truly shows how lost this world had become.

Aizawa uses his quirk.

It doesn't affect All Might physically, as he was already in his true form, but the act shocks him. "Did you...did you think I was going to strike you, Aizawa?" He looks back to the principal. "Is this why you brought him here?! For your protection?!"

Aizawa, deactivating his quirk, scoffs. "It wouldn't be the first time you beat up a hero because you didn't like what he said."

"Maybe so, Young Aizawa-" Eraserhead's mouth slightly twitches at the patronization "- but I'm more upset at how presumptuous you are with your quirk!"

With that, the mood in the room shifts. Aizawa, a veteran hero, knows when a fight is about to start. He grabs his scarf, and his eyes start to turn red.

The preparation was for naught however, because within a flash, All Might had turned into his muscular form, grabbed Aizawa by the back of the head, and shoved his face into the desk, cracking it in two "I AM FASTER THAN A BULLET, AIZAWA! YOU DON'T THINK I CAN'T KILL YOU IN A BLINK OF AN EYE IF I WANTED TO?!"

Aizawa, now unconscious with a severe concussion, sinks to the floor, and is unable to answer the question. Nezu, despite his animal heart beating out of his chest, and his senses screaming at him to run, decided instead to drink his tea. He knows his quirk, High Specs. There was always a chance that this meeting would end this way, and he was prepared for the worst.

And All Might, with his monstrous strength, turns to face him. "YOU WANT ME TO RESIGN, OLD FRIEND! THEN BY ALL MEANS, CONSIDER THIS AS MY SIGNATURE!"

With a flick of his finger, half of the administration building was gone. All Might, seething with rage, decides to leap away before he loses control. He flies off into the distance, not turning back once. He knew where he flicked, Aizawa and Nezu will survive.

It appears that they too had a lesson to learn.