Physics? Pfft, she laughed in the face of physics. Besides, those rules basically didn't apply to jack shit anymore because what the hell is thermodynamics when someone can create a wall of ice by moving their hand!
Besides those were the shackles of the sane.
Examining her latest baby one last time, Mei felt a rush of excitement flood over her. Izuku was going to love these. She heard him complaining about the weights in the gym a while ago, while she was eating and that gave her the idea to make some super weights. Because fuck physics!
"And done!" Mei wiped the sweat from her brow and gave a nice long stretch. It had so been worth staying in the workshop a few extra hours to get this done! Now she could easily give it to Izuku in time for Christmas. "And I even have enough time to-"
Sleep. She was going to say sleep. But when she saw that there was sunlight coming from outside, that word died in her mouth. Ahh, she had pulled another all nighter. Whoops. So much for her promise to get at least six hours of sleep. It wasn't like she was trying to not sleep it just, kind of didn't happen.
"Enough time to work on something else while I wait for Izuku's classes to be over!" She giggled to herself and started drawing up some new and fantastical baby. Wait. She should see if Izuku needed anything. Maybe he grew another quirk and wanted her to adapt something, or maybe, he wanted a utility vest or maybe he outgrew his costume. It had been a while since she measured him, he was sure to have grown.
He was taller now, a lot taller. Ooh, maybe she should-
Wait.
Mei blinked, looking at her latest baby. It was, a gift for Izuku. A gift. G I F T. Those things that people give to each other for nothing in return.
Why?
Because he needed it? No, if that was the case, he would have gone through the usual system of submitting a request form followed up by her saying she was to busy but she'd end up just accidentally making him exactly what he needed in a half asleep fever state.
At least that's what used to happen. How many things had she made just because she thought maybe izuku would need them? Looking over at her babies she realized that there were at least four that she could see that were sitting there that had a very Izuku-ish design to them that were just waiting for him to show up and ask for something just similar enough.
"Why am I making so much stuff for Izuku?" She asked herself, hoping that one of her babies was going to answer her. At least one of them was supposed to do that. It was her life advice robot. Wait, that exploded last month. Hmm that just meant she should build something new! "Like a 'why am I making so much stuff for Izuku?' machine!"
She even remembered his name, which was like, wow. She forgot sensei's name like every few weeks. Wait, what was his name again?
Izuku!
Wait no Izuku's name was Izuku, and Izuku wasn't her sensei.
That'd be weird. Because then she'd have a giant crush on her teacher!
But wait, why was she thinking about Izuku so much? It was like her brain had suddenly realized it could remember other things than the important stuff - where her tools where, babies she made, where the fire extinguisher was - less important stuff - what time it was, where her bed was, how long its been since she had last bathed - and Izuku. She knew a lot about Izuku.
This was weird.
Why was she thinking about Izuku so much?
She should try not thinking about Izuku.
Okay, it's going pretty well. Awesome back to making babies!
Mei continued to happily tinker on some new inventions ranging from a portable canoe to triple sided adhesive tape! Ohh, what if she made it a gun?! That would do amazing things.
"Yes, yes,"
"Mei?" Maijima-sensei's dull raspy voice echoed from behind her. Oh that was his name! Maijima-sensei! Or Higari when she wanted to bug him. That's right. "Did you pull another all nighter?"
"Huh? What? No, I totally uhh," She looked at the time. Oh yea. She did. "Yes, yes I did! Aren't you proud of me for being such a dedicated and hard working-"
Maijima let out a growl and pointed towards the door. "I told you, no skipping classes for the workshop. I can't sign any more waivers for you. So get out of here and-"
He sniffed the air.
"Shower, then go to class. Tell your teacher, I'll write a note."
"Aww, but sensei-"
"Look, Mei, you're a smart, but if you want to graduate you need to pass your finals that includes English. And History."
What? No fair! Those were her worst subjects! Especially History, it was time and names. She couldn't remember those at all! Well, besides Izuku. Hey wait, maybe Sensei would know why she keeps thinking about Izuku!
"Hey, sensei!"
"No, you can't finish just one more thing."
"Darn. Wait! No. I was going to ask you why I keep thinking about Izuku."
Maijima stood straight which made him barely taller. And looked at her with wide eyes. "Izuku? Izuku Midoriya?"
"Yea, that's the one. I keep thinking about him, I even made these for him as a Christmas present." She grabbed the super weights she developed. Or at least tried to, they were set pretty high. But dialing them down was easy enough and she had the two weights in her hands. "I don't know why, but I just keep making stuff for him."
"I'm sorry Mei, but I'm not qualified to answer that question for you. Go ask someone else, like Midnight, or talk to Izuku. After you shower. And take a nap."
"What? But what-"
"What would Izuku think if he saw you now?"
"Huh?"
Mei moved over to look at the nearest reflective surface she could find. What Izuku would think about how she looks? What did that mean? Why did she care? What if he thought she looked dirty? Wait she was dirty. That was normal. Still. She should maybe shower. Izuku did have a habit of asking her when was the last time she slept and bathed. So maybe this time she could give him an actual answer. That sounded like a great idea.
"Okay, bye sensei!"
XXXX
Something was off. Not off in the way that something bad was going to happen, no this was a different kind of off. But something was going to happen, wait, this was the Mei Hatsume was going to do something kind of off.
Izuku swallowed the last of his water and exited the gym, the cool winter air burned the sweat he had earned from his latest work out session. Maybe he should go to the workshop and see if that crazy pink haired friend of his was okay.
Or would that be tempting fate?
Well there hadn't been any explosions today so that was good.
He would have a bit of extra time during lunch to go check on her though.
When he turned down the hallway, he was greeted by a rare sight. Mei Hatsume in her school uniform. A clean school uniform, her long pink hair was pulled into a ponytail looked extra fluffy and bouncy, while her skin was free from oil. Had it not been for her goggles, he almost wouldn't have recognized her.
"Mei!" He called holding out his hand to greet her and walked over to her.
Her head snapped to him and she took half a step towards him before she stopped. Was something wrong with her? Well, besides her being Mei. And the fact that her uniform looked a bit tighter than normal. Maybe it shrunk in the wash. Or maybe Mei had-
No! He shouldn't be thinking about her like that. This was Mei, even if she was really cute and beautiful in her own way, she just wasn't into him. Or anybody really. Her number one love in life was her babies.
She shook her head and started walking towards him, a great big smile on her face as she held up a pair of black dumbbells.
"These are for you!" Mei said when they finally met holding out the set. "I made them. They're uh, they do the, muscle bigger, thingy."
She wasn't looking him in the eyes. Instead she was staring at his chest? Why was she looking there? Did she want to measure him again?
"Workout?" He offered.
Her eyes snapped to his and hers went wider for a second. She pressed a button and a bar appeared between the two dumbbells turning them into a bench bar with weights. "The weight can be adjusted quickly, and they can be reformed into everything that normal free weights can do. You can even set them up so the weight changes as you use them to keep the workout more varied and stuff. I have no idea if that's helpful. But Uhh. Chrimstas present! Please take!"
He took the bar in his free hand and found it to be much heavier than Mei had made it look. It really shouldn't surprise him that Mei was stronger than she let on.
"A Christmas present? But I didn't get you anything." He looked at the bar and found that there were a bunch of colored buttons on the inside of the handles. He had no idea how it worked.
"Oh! Uhh, well, that doesn't matter I wasn't expecting anything. I just thought that maybe you'd like it. And I uhh. Oh! I can show you how it works!" She bounced up getting way too close to him. Her large chest bounced against his. Mei came to a dead stop and then took a step back. "Sorry I umm, Oh hey, it's lunch right? We can uhh, eat together and I can explain it. I kind of forgot to make an instruction manual but it works! And its easy!"
Had Mei become self-aware since the last time he talked to her? Normally she didn't even know what personal space was. And yep, Mei had grown. Soft.
"I mean I need to take a shower first but if you want to wait for a bit, we can eat after that." He shrugged, trying to figure out how to scratch the back of his head with his water bottle in one hand and Mei's gift in the other.
"Oh! Sure that sounds. Uhh great! Shower. Right. Oh! I took one before I came to see you! What do you think?" Mei jumped back another step, somehow looking more manic than normal. Was she trying to socialize?
Okay, a girl just asked how she looked. He needed to be calm and think rationally about this. Even if it was Mei he needed to be honest, and careful and- "I think you look beautiful."
Fuck! Stupid mouth! Even if it was true.
Mei's eyes went wide and she touched her face. "Oh, umm, thank you! I'll uhh, make sure I shower more when I'm going to talk to important people and stuff. But uhh. Oh! We should get going you need to shower right. That means that-"
She clapped her cheeks.
"Mei? Are you okay?" He asked softly, placing his water bottle down to grab her shoulder.
"I'm fine." she muttered. "I just, uhh, I've been confused for a bit. You see I keep thinking about you. It's like all the time and I'm even happier when I'm thinking about you. I feel funny, but also not funny, and it's super weird. And I really can't stop staring at you and it's making my face feel really warm and other parts of me too, oh and I felt really hot when you said you were going to shower so I felt super excited, especially because I can see your muscles. And I got even more excited when you said that I was beautiful because I took a shower for you and I don't know what's going on but that mattered for some reason and I really don't know what's happening!"
She looked up at him with tears in her eyes. "What's wrong with me?"
Izuku blinked, staring at the yellow eyed girl that had just said a lot of very, very important things. One. She thought he was attractive. Two. She was happy when he said she was beautiful. Three. She can't stop thinking about him.
"Mei," he said slowly, trying to find the right words for this. This was Mei he didn't need to be subtle, subtle wasn't on her radar. "I think you have a crush on me."
Mei gasped and looked at him with her mouth slightly open. "Oh. I have a crush on you."
Her shoulders fell as she blinked up at him. "Thanks for telling me. That makes a lot of sense. Well hey, let's go eat, I'm hungry. Wait, you need to shower first."
She grabbed onto his wrist and spun him in a circle before dragging him off in a random direction.
Was she going to ignore the fact that she just confessed to him?
What the fuck was he supposed to do with that?