The next morning seemed perfectly normal. Midoriya was up before anybody else despite being up later than almost anybody the night before. He met with All Might, who watched over his training and helped with as much advice as he could give. He needed to learn how to push his power to 100% at the very end of his movements while still keeping it around 20% for the rest of it. Allowing the power of One-for-all to flow through his body with ease was essential to mastering it.
"I get that you're eager to use this power, but you can't push yourself all the way. It takes time." All Might said. He was in his smaller form, which was now known to everybody as his base form. He couldn't become his big muscular form for more than a second anymore, this pushes Midoriya to be better more than anything.
"Yeah I know, but I have to hurry." Midoriya said, punching forward but nothing happened. He couldn't bring himself to push to full power, he didn't want to break his arm for nothing.
All Might pulled out his phone and saw the time.
"Hey kid, you've only got twenty minutes until school starts, I guess we lost track of time." He said, pulling Midoriya's attention.
"Yeah, my bad. We should probably get going." He said, walking with his teacher back towards the school.
He walked into class, took his normal seat, and forced himself to not look back at Uraraka. He had to distance himself from her, for her, and it was killing him. He looked out the window, which reminded him of Okamoto, and that's when he started to be able to think clearly again. Uraraka was pushed to a back of his mind as he focused how much of a coincidence it must have been that a new student with an unknown quirk showed up just before their feelings started acting up. He spastically looked around at Aoyama, Iida, and Uraraka, but none of them seemed to be distracted, even Uraraka. She must've been trying her hardest to focus, so he should stop staring at her.
He waited until the end of the class ended and shot up immediately. He was going to go talk to Iida, but he rushed off with Uraraka, she must've needed someone to talk to. He rushed past Bakugo and accidentally pushed by Hagakure because he didn't see her.
"Sorry about that." He said, but he didn't look back, he was too determined to get to Aoyama. He caught up to him just before he left the classroom, but just walked with him down the hall.
"Hey, have you been feeling weird or different lately?" He asked him, studying his eyes in case he lied.
"No, I've been feeling perfect, just like always." He said, winking one eye like he always does, to help emphasis his sparkling personality.
"Are you sure, like nothing at all… like some kind of obsession?"
"No. Are you feeling alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, just curious."
He remembered that Okamoto had heart-eyes and that only pushed his suspicion that his quirk must have something to do with people's feelings, but why didn't Aoyama feel any different?
"Well, if you'd like to walk with me to my next class, that'd be fine." He said, looking down, but still smiling like normal.
"Oh, yeah, well I think I need to talk to someone else, but we should definitely hang out later, okay?" Midoriya said, running off into the distance. He remembered that Hatsume has something different her eyes too, so that'd be his natural next step.
He rushed to the workshop area that Hatsume usually spends her time at. He opened the door and saw Hatsume showing Okamoto what she usually does, introducing him to all of her 'babies.' He felt nervous, like he just found a villain, but he didn't know why, Okamoto was just another student who was trying to find out his quirk, he's not evil.
"Hey, Midoriya right?" Okamoto said, waving to him.
"Hi, yeah, and you're Okamoto." He responded, but immediately shifted his attention to Hatsume. "Can I talk to you, like personally." The two of them walked away from Okamoto just a little bit, leaving him to admire all of the creations in the workshop.
"What's up, did you need to add something else to your suit?" She asked excitedly.
"No, my gauntlets are working great, but I was wondering, what are your eyes used for?" He asked.
"What, my eyes? They're used for seeing."
"No I mean… you know how they're different from most other people's eyes?"
"Oh, I can zoom with my eyes, I'm able to see smaller things easier than others."
"Well have you noticed that Okamoto's eyes are different too, like they're not-" Midoriya was interrupted by Okamoto running towards them and tackling them to the ground. One of the machines was making a loud high pitched noise, followed quickly by it exploding behind them.
Midoriya had almost all of his classmates surrounding him while he was unconscious in the medical bed.
"So, is he gonna be okay?" Kaminari asked, getting closer to see him better, but was pulled back by Jiro.
"He'll be fine, along with the other two there." The nurse Recover Girl said, pointing to Okamoto and Hatsume.
"Do you know why they were all there together?" Uraraka said, staring at Hatsume.
"No, they were the only three in the room, it wasn't a big explosion, but it must've been big enough to knock them out."
Just then Midoriya shot up from his bed, quickly looked around everybody, who just snapped to looking at him, and shouted something very strange.
"MY BABY!?" He yelled.
"W-what!?" Uraraka asked, horrifyingly looking over at Hatsume and back to Midoriya. He jumped up, pushed through his friends, and ran out through the double doors.
"Midoriya, wait!" Iida said, chasing after him. Kirishima walked over to Uraraka.
"Are you alright?" He asked her, probably thinking the same thing she thought.
"What did he mean his baby?" She asked.
"I don't know, if he did mean Hatsume, why did he just sprint out of here?"
"Isn't 'baby' what Hatsume calls her inventions?" Tokoyami asked, approaching both of them.
"Yeah, why?" Uraraka asked, but didn't let him reply. "Do you think he calls her that, as like a way to show how much he likes her!?"
"I don't know, but it's curious." He said, walking quickly through the double doors, leaving Kirishima to consol Uraraka by himself, which felt a little awkward for him.
Tokoyami followed his own suspicion and went back to the workshop room, but it was surrounded by teachers stopping students from getting in. One of those students was Midoriya, trying his hardest to push past Aizawa. Tokoyami walked up and helped pull him away, boh to help Aizawa and because he wanted to ask him something.
"Midoriya?" He asked, and got a weird look in return.
"What about him?" He asked.
"Interesting. What happened to Iida, he was running after you."
"I don't know, I guess he got lost, who are you and why won't you let me go see my babies!?" He kept frantically trying to escape Tokoyami's grasp.
"You should recognise me, even if my theory is right you still should, we were on a team together."
Midoriya studied his face some more before a light bulb turned on in his head.
"Oh, you're the bird guy from the Sports Festival, duh!" He said, giving a relieved look and a satisfied sigh.
"Right, and you're not Midoriya from class 1-A are you?" He asked this, only responded with another strange look.
"No, my name is Mei Hatsume, and I'm in the Support Department."
Tokoyami grabbed the back of Midoriya's collar on his school jacket and forced him to stare at the window behind them. The look of confusion shifted to shock and then to horror as he realized what happened. He backed up and slowly found that he couldn't zoom in with his eyes anymore.
"What happened!?" He yelled. It still sounded like Midoriya's voice, but the way he spoke was different.
"I don't know. How didn't you notice your voice was different?" Tokoyami asked, trying to keep him calm.
"My voice is different, it sounds the same to me."
"Strange, this must be from some kind of quirk, it couldn't have come from a machine you made, right?"
"No, I don't make weird science-fiction machines!"
"Okay, just try to calm down and come back with me so we can explain this to the others, they're going to want to know."
After they got back to the medical room they saw Hatsume standing up trying to explain to the rest of the kids what's wrong.
"It's no surprise that he already figured it out, I sometimes wonder if Midoriya was blessed with two quirks." Tokoyami said, escorting Midoriya into the room.
"What are you talking about, I'm still really confused." Kaminari said.
"Something caused Midoriya and Hatsume and change bodies." Tokoyami started to explain, pointing at Midoriya, in Hatsume's body. "That is actually Midoriya." He said, then pointing his thumb to Hatsume, in Midoriya's body, standing next him. "This is Hatsume, they switched bodies."
"Okay, I understand that much now, but why?" Kaminari asked again. Just then Iida burst back into the room and clamped his hand firmly around Midoriya's arm.
"Why did you run off like that?" Iida questioned, completely out of breath.
"I had to make sure my baby wasn't destroyed… it is though." He said, dropping his head in defeat.
"What are you talking about!?"
"Listen, if everyone is here, I'm going to explain this one more time. Midoriya and Hatsume somehow switched bodies, I'm not sure how but-" Tokoyami was saying but was cut off by Hatsume.
"I think was from Okamoto's quirk!" She said. Everybody turned to her in surprise. "I can think now, I couldn't focus on anything earlier, but now… I think Okamoto's quirk has something to do with my feelings, this must be part of it somehow."
"That doesn't make any sense though, usually if there's a quirk that can be excelled, it connects to the earlier version, like how I can harden my skin, I can make it almost like I'm made of something other than skin, like rocks." Kirishima pointed out. "These two things don't really connect though."
"But… then how did this happen!?" She asked.
"I think we need to calm down and wait for Okamoto to wake up, in that time we can take all this in."
Hatsume and Midoriya sat down next to each other trying to figure out what happened. Uraraka was watching with growing jealousy and anger.
"So, even are quirks switched." Midoriya said. "I tried to use my eyes to zoom in, but I couldn't."
"Yeah, I've been randomly zooming in on things, it's hard to figure it out how to control it hehe." Hatsume said. "Oh, but try to not use my quirk."
"Yeah I know, I saw you at the Sports Festival, you break yourself, weird backdraw to a quirk, but whatever."
Just then Uraraka walked up, she didn't look mad, but that didn't stop the air from feeling stagnant.
"Hey, could I talk to Deku alone for a second?" She said. She didn't directly look at either of them, but Midoriya stood up and walked away leaving Hatsume and Uraraka. She sat down next to her and instantly started to feel weird.
"This is weird isn't it?" Hatsume said.
"A little bit." Uraraka chuckled. "So, I think we should talk about last night."
"Okay, I mean I thought it was pretty blunt, but if you want to talk."
"I know it hasn't been long, but I still can't stop thinking about you… you being normal Deku, not Hatsume-Deku."
"Yeah, hehe I get it."
"And see you and Hatsume talk weirds me out for some reason."
"You mean-"
"I mean at all. I felt jealous during the Sports Festival, when you were complimenting her, and I don't know why. And then I went with you to talk to her about adjusting your suit and she landed on top of you and… I think I made a mistake by deciding we should stop talking to each other before trying something else out first."
"No, it was a good idea, because you were motivated before you met me, but… I'm starting to think that Okamoto has nothing to do with how I felt last night. I've always had a crush on you since we met, I thought maybe it was just because I'd never really had a female friend, or a friend at all for that matter, but last night… I think that's not what it was."
"Deku, you motivate me too, I just need to find a nice balance between your help and motivation." Uraraka said, leaving a pause to take a breath before beginning again. "I didn't really think anything of you outside of being a good friend, and yeah I was impressed by you, but I think everyone was. It wasn't until the Sports Festival that I felt something was off, and then Aoyama pointed out that I had been acting weird, and then there was the time when we were all at the mall. I left you there because I was afraid of my own feelings, that put you trouble with Shigaraki."
"That wasn't your fault, he probably would've gotten the drop on both of us if you were there, I'd have felt horrible if something happened to you."
"Y'know, I think I only float like that because of how I feel, it happened a while ago, Ashido kept asking me about a boy I liked, it was a little after Aoyama caught on too. I couldn't stop floating and they had to help me get down. I saw you through the curtains on the window."
They both sat there, neither could stop smiling or blushing. Uraraka put her hand on Hatsume's and looked up, but just then Okamoto let in a big gasp as he woke up. Everyone jumped at the sound and immediately surrounded him.
"Hey, you need to back up and give him space to breath." Iida said, to use himself as a blockade between Okamoto and the crowd of students. Recover Girl snuck in past Iida and hopped up on a small stepping stool.
"How are you feeling?" She asked him.
"I'm fine… why am I fine, I was closest to the explosion." He pointed out.
"The explosion wasn't big enough to kill, even if you had been right next to it, it would've only hurt you pretty bad, but you'd still be alive. Now you just rest here for about half an hour, just to be sure, then you all should go to your dorms, and explosion will cause the news reporters to come swarming, and possibly some sort of investigation."
"OH NO!" Hatsume yelled out. "I GOTTA CALL MY MOM AND TELL HER I'M FINE!" She frantically grabbed at her phone in her jacket pocket before realizing her phone wasn't her own. She looked up at Midoriya who was already holding out his phone for her. She grabbed it and typed a text with lightning speed.
"So, how do we put ourselves back to normal?" Midoriya asked.
"You'll have to talk to Principal Nezu about that, but be sure to inform your own teachers about the situation."