The Emerald Prince

Chapter 134: All Might, No Mind

Urgh, hate writing All Might POV.

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"This is ridiculous!"
All Might was fed up with this. This quirkless kid commanding heroes like chess pieces, the very idea of allowing villains and vigilantes to fight along with them, and even worse, all of his compatriots nodding along to what Izuku was saying like the teenager was a genius.

Just looking at all the people involved against All for One made him angry. The number of people who could die before he finally defeated that evil man. And this was his son they were listening to! He didn't trust a word coming out of the kid's mouth.

"What's ridiculous?" Asked Izuku, oh so calmly.
All Might hated him a little, acting so mature. Like he was in control. Like he was being sensible and All Might was the idiot, he, the number one hero, bringer of peace, who'd saved innumerable lives, was an idiot.
He took a calming breath, he was not Endeavour, he did not shout abuse at children and expect everyone to be fine with that.
"This isn't your fight, Young Aizawa!" He said gently, "this is my fight, and I will not have anyone risking their lives needlessly."

The room of assorted heroes and police (Tsukauchi) eyed them quietly.
He'd interrupted Izuku just as he was wrapping up the final details.
"Tell me, Yagi-san," said Izuku calmly, "do you know what the scientific method is?"
"Of course, I may be a hero, but I studied at UA too and worked very hard."
Izuku hummed doubtfully, "then you'll know that it is the process of coming up with ideas, testing them, then coming up with new ideas based on the results. You come up with a hypothesis, test it, then if the hypothesis is proved incorrect, you come up with a new one."
"Of course!" All Might said, like a liar, "but what exactly are you getting at, Young Aizawa?"
"I asked you not to call me that, Yagi-san." Replied Izuku politely, "you are...the eighth user of One for All, am I correct?"
He winced at it being in the open, but since he'd been forced to explain it earlier in the meeting, there was no further shock, "I am indeed."

Izuku cocked his head innocently, "you have a man who can take quirks and collect them for himself. You decide for what ever reason, that someone like that should be defeated by someone with a strength enhancing quirk. You test it once, twice, thrice, and each time it fails. Don't you think by the seventh failed attempt you should be trying a new hypothesis?"
All Might growled in spite of himself, "you forgot one thing, that each user of One for All gets more powerful than the last."
Izuku snorted, "and you forget three things. Firstly, that All for One gains better quirks, more power over time. Secondly, that you are severely injured and Mirio inexperienced, and thirdly, that All for One has Nomus. The one at USJ almost beat you Yagi-san. And that was months ago. I have it on good authority, he now has a dozen of those, and they are stronger than that one you faced."

A peculiar thing happens when you pick an argument and it doesn't go as planned. All Might was meant to speak heroically for a bit, Izuku was meant to admit he felt over whelmed and burst into tears, he was going to pat the kid on the head and return to his beloved spotlight as the leader of peace.
Instead of Izuku getting irrational, as he laid out a neat logical argument, Izuku had laid out a neat logical argument, so there was no role left to play but to be irrational.
"You should not be out there regardless!" He said in a fatherly manner, "Young Aizawa, you are quirkless. You'll just be a burden on the field."

Holy shit did he misread the room with that one.

"I didn't believe it." Murmured Shinsou in the tense silence, "Izuku said you discriminated people based on their quirks, but I thought he must have misunderstood."
"No! Not at all!" Exclaimed All Might, "I was quirkless myself! Young Aizawa you are very noble and clever, but without a quirk you cannot do hero work! I needed a quirk before I could be a hero!"
Izuku nodded thoughtfully, and Yagi's heart leapt at the thought that he might be getting through to the delusional kid.
"You make an interesting point. Are there anyone else here you do not think should attend?"