He somehow pulls it off!

"...the hell do you want to say, Deku?" Bakugo growled, still absolutely furious.

Izuku grimaced, weighing his words. His best shot at coming to anything even resembling an understanding with Bakugo was to simply speak his language... Well, somewhat, he wasn't going to talk to Bakugo with a tone of constant fury, or with a ton of cusses. "...I simply want to say that we were never going to get a proper answer to the question of who is stronger between us, regardless of how that last exchange went. If I had followed through with that final punch, the question would still be up in the air. Because we simply were not on equal footing from the start, given the handicap I was fighting with."

"... tch, I still wanted you at your best, even if I couldn't bring my own, idiot!" Bakugo growled, but at least not outright shouting anymore, implying he was at least hearing Izuku out. Then again, he probably felt he was owed an answer as to just what happened there, and Izuku was inclined to agree.

"...yeah, you're right," Izuku replied sheepishly. "If nothing else, you wanted the battle to end on your terms, and I took that choice out of your hands when I picked the wrong moment to hesitate, even if it was mostly subconsciously... If it makes you feel any better, I paid for it... That blow really hurt," he added a mild joke to the situation. To his relief, he actually earned a light snort from Bakugo, who was still looking irritated.

Izuku then held up the second place medal. "I'm going to hold onto this for the time being, and you hold on to the first place one. And sometime soon, when we're both in perfect shape, we can have another fight, and that will be decides who deserves which medal. Even if we don't do it for an audience."

"...you know what Deku? You have yourself a fucking deal," Bakugo grinned savagely. "And if you think you're aching now, just wait until we have had that rematch! I'm going to crush you when we do..."

All Might sweat dropped a bit more. Bakugo was certainly a unique individual, as far as those who wanted to be a Hero and had the potential for it went. "...Young Midoriya is going to have his own version of Endeavor to push and motivate him, it seems... And for the life of me, I can't tell if that's an overall good thing or a bad thing..." he mused in his head. While he obviously didn't know the extent of how fucked up Endeavor was, and was generally quite polite and jovial towards the man, he did understand that Endeavor was quite simply not a pleasant person to be around. He did make for a half decent rival though, so there was that.

"...so I guess you don't want me putting this around your neck like Young Midoriya then?" All Might finally asked, clearing his throat, glad that Bakugo seemed to have at least calmed down somewhat, given that he seemed to reach an understanding of sorts with Izuku.

Bakugo's eye twitched. "...well, I can't exactly hold it right now, can I?" he asked, glaring down at the restraints. "Just... Just put the strap on my mouth or something, I'll hold it like that until someone brings the key to these damn things..."

"...fair enough," All Might agreed, seeing that as the only current viable option to honor their agreement, to accept the medals for now, but not lay claim to them until after things were properly settled for the time being at least. He did as Bakugo asked, and then turned to the crowd. "Well, everyone, this has been an amazing... Albeit rather eventful, Sports Festival! Before we all leave and get to home or whatever other business you might have, I have one final thing to say! In fact, I'd like you all to say it with me!" he added. The crowd tensed, most of them thinking they knew what All Might meant, and quite hyped to shout the school motto. "1! 2! 3!" All Might counted up, and on 3, the vast majority of people in the stands shouted, "Plus Ultra!"

All Might though? He made an ass of himself when he instead shouted, "Thank you all for your hard work!" There was dead silence for a moment, before the crowd exploded in an uproar, leaving All Might trying to awkwardly explain how he expected people to somehow know that what he had said was what he would say instead of of the much more obvious conclusion. Izuku noted that it was quite the rare sight to see All Might get booed.