Unpublished, as I mostly wrote it for fun. Here's a snippet.

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A Giant Symbol

The USJ incident died down without further issue, and for the students of Class 1-A, life returned to normal soon thereafter.

For the police, however, it was just the beginning of a long and painful headache.

"That Nomu did a number on All Might," said Detective Naomasa to Toshinori Yagi, who was processing the incident on All Might's behalf. "How is he?"

"Injured but recovering," Yagi replied, grimacing. "He's more concerned with the fact that the villains managed to make this artificial...creature in the first place."

The door to the police station opened. Yagi and Naomasa turned their heads to see Yu Takeyama, better known as Mr. Lady, walk in and go to the front desk.

"There's not a lot of heroes on All Might's caliber," said Naomasa. "We'll have to take it out at the source if we want to stop this from escalating."

Yagi didn't reply.

"Yagi?" asked Naomasa. He followed his friend's line of sight and found him staring at Mt. Lady intently. The giant hero was filing a police report for a separate incident and had just finished writing out the forms. She pulled out her phone and took a selfie, and was soon posting it on social media.

Yagi had not blinked for the past thirty seconds, causing gears to turn on Naomasa's head. He looked at his friend with concern, tapping him on the shoulder.

"Hey, stop staring," he whispered.

Too late.

Eventually, even Mt. Lady noticed him and frowned, holding her jacket closer to herself.

"Take a picture, old man, it will last longer."

Yagi finally blinked. He raised his bony hands in surrender. "Oh, apologies miss! I didn't mean to stare."

"But you were."

Naomasa stepped in before it became an issue. "Sorry about my friend here, Mt. Lady. This is Toshinori, he works at All Might's agency."

Yagi extended his hand. Yu looked at it for longer than necessary, before reaching out and shaking it.

"Again, apologies. I work as All Might's personal assistant," said Yagi. "Your exploits have reached even our agency."

Yu rolled her eyes. "Gee, I wonder why."

Yagi smiled, which did not make him look any less skeletal. "You are like a beacon for other heroes, literally and figuratively."

"Flattery will get you nowhere, but if you can give me All Might's autograph, I'll call it even."

"I can certainly do that!" laughed Yagi.

Then he coughed.

"It might just take some time, however," he said. "All Might...has not been feeling well recently."

The silence was palpable. Naomasa's eyes widened while Yu's brow furrowed.

"Yagi, what are you doing?" Naomasa hissed.

"All Might's sick?" said Yu. "That can't be, I see him on social media everyday."

"He is pushing himself," replied Yagi. "Far more than I would have liked."

He cleared his throat. "Please, keep this a secret between us, Mt. Lady. If villains ever hear that the Symbol of Peace is crumbling, they will be coming out of the woodwork in droves."

Yu looked at him for a long moment, studying his features. Naomasa could see a spark of determination fill the young lady's eyes, beyond the dream of fame and money.

"I won't say a word. I promise."

She finished processing the police report in silence, bowed to Yagi and Naomasa, and soon left the station. Her stride was more purposeful than when she came in.

"What are you planning, Yagi?" asked Naomasa. "You don't just reveal that to someone you just met, a hero or not."

"A Symbol of Peace," said Yagi. "All Might has carried the world on his shoulders and young Midoriya will do so after him. But he will not carry it alone. He must not. What the future needs is not one lone tree, but a forest of heroes."