Ochaco looked at Midoriya for a long moment, then promptly burst into tears, "Oh thank goodness. I... please tell you know what's going on!"

Inko: If only...

"Umm..." Midoriya gave her a sheepish smile as he sat down on the bed beside her. "Not yet, but we're gonna figure it out together, okay! We can do this!"

Power Loader: Hopefully.

Ochaco took a deep breath and wiped her eyes, "Yeah! We can do this! What do you need to know?"

Midoriya grabbed a notebook out of his pocket and opened it to a fresh page, "Alright, so first of all, do you know where you are?"

"Well, you're interning on I-Island, so..." Ochaco thought for a moment, "well, either I'm on I-Island somehow, or you came back early."

Compress: It's the former.

Midoriya laughed, "It's the first one. Do you know how you got here? Was there a villain involved?"

"No. I was at Gunhead's agency, so there wasn't a villain." Ochaco wracked her brain. "One minute I was sparring with Shinso and..."

She felt gravity shift again, but not as intensely as it had last time and she was still in the hospital when it righted itself just in time for her to throw up again. Thankfully, the nurses had had the foresight to put a tub beside the bed and Midoriya just tossed his notebook out of the splash zone and rubbed her back until she was finished.

(everyone winced)

Uraraka: Oh that's gross...

"Ugh." Ochaco wiped her mouth. "I'm sorry, that's gross."

"Well, you are suffering from quirk exhaustion." Midoriya reminded her. "Which... well, what else do you remember?"

"Um... well, it was kinda like what happened just now." Ochaco grimaced. "I was completely fine this morning, but then I got really dizzy and all of a sudden I was someplace else."

All Might: Yeah One for All gave her the ability to teleport... somehow...

"Hmm." Izuku made a note of something. "Any other details? What you were trying to do during the spar, what you were thinking about, ect?"

Ochaco thought for a moment, "I mean, in the spar, I was just trying to keep Shinso from pinning me, but I was also thinking about how once internships were over, I needed to talk to Mei about..."

Mei(realizing): Hold on a second stop!

Izuku jerked back in surprise as Uraraka just... disappeared into thin air. Sure, there were slight traces of some sort of light, but mostly, she simply blinked out of existence, exactly like Shinso had described. It was a weird sight and he almost didn't believe his eyes, but at least now he could form some theories.

A lot of people: How...?

Shigaraki: It's the brat. Don't question it.

"Dr. Shield." He looked up from his notebook. "You wouldn't happen to have any equipment for measuring gravitational fields on this island, would you?"

Power Loader: He should but why- oh!

Recovery Girl: Don't tell me you get it too?

Nezu: Oh he does. At least a little bit anyway.

The moment Ochaco felt gravity shift again, she tensed. Even though she'd half been expecting it this time, the bed disappearing out from under her was still a shock and she didn't have nearly enough time to get her feet under her before she was falling hard on the floor.

"Seriously? Which of you beautiful babies decided to fall off the..." Mei circled the table and she stopped and blinked when she saw Ochaco on the floor, the gesture looking even more strange with the way her eyes were magnified underneath her goggles. "Oh, hi gravity girl! I didn't see you come in! You're supposed to be missing, so how did you get all the way out here?"

Mitsuki: Teleportation... which I really hope she doesn't do again.

Ochaco groaned and flopped down on the floor, "Yeah, that's what I'd like to know."

Mei hummed, "Well, as long as you're here, you may as well earn your keep! I need an extra set of hands."

Monoma: Seriously Hatsume?

Ochaco nodded and groaned as she stood up. She still felt unbearably nauseous, but she didn't feel like she was going to lose what was left of her breakfast at any moment, so that was a positive. Maybe it was because she didn't go as far this time? But, of course, that brought up the question of why she'd gone at all and Ochaco wasn't sure she really wanted the answer to that.

Mei handed her what looked like the handle of a lightsaber, "Just hold that part steady, alright?"

Power Loader(snorting): Lightsaber.

Ochaco nodded again and let Mei do her thing, but her thoughts started to spiral again and she bit her lip nervously as she remembered the reason why she'd been thinking about Mei in the first place, "Um, Hatsume? Do you mind if I ask you something?"

"Sure, but Hatsume's too formal!" Mei tightened another screw. "I thought I told you to call me Mei!"

Kamakiri: You really don't care about first name or last name basis huh?

Mei: Why would i?

Ochaco half-smiled, "Heh, yeah. Um... why did you choose to go into support?"

Mei grinned, "It's fun! I get to make so many wonderful babies!"

Ochaco frowned, "And, uh, is that why you want to have your own company too?"

Mei: That's mostly for branding.

"Eh, I could work for somebody else and still make cool stuff." Mei stuck out her tongue in disgust. "But if I'm gonna make these babies, I want everybody to know who made them! It's branding! One day, I'm gonna be famous for all these beautiful babies, just you wait and see!"

"But..." Ochaco struggled to figure out a polite way to phrase it before realizing that Mei probably didn't care.

Joke: She definitely doesn't.

"Um, isn't that kinda selfish?"

"Yeah." Mei tightened something else on her device. "So?"

Dabi(snorting): 'So', she says, 'so'.

Ochaco stared at her, "So?"

Mei cackled, "A lot of people have this really stupid idea that being selfish is bad, just like they think failure is bad, but failure is how you make wonderful babies! If being selfish helps motivate me to be a better inventor, then why in the world wouldn't I do that?!"

A lot of people: Uh... why does that make sense?

"Huh," Ochaco blinked a few times, feeling like the world had shifted underneath her in a way that wasn't literal. "I guess I'd never thought of it like that."

"That's because too many people limit themselves and don't give into the best ideas!" Mei declared, tightening one final screw and taking the device from Ochaco. "If something isn't helping, throw it out! And if something is helping, then make it a part of the design!"

Kurogiri: She actually makes sense... I feel worried about my mental health.

Mei: Hey I'm not that bad!

Ochaco smiled as Mei turned on her device, only to frown when nothing happened. Mei, however, just shrugged and threw the device over her shoulder, "The original design was better. Back to the drawing board!"

(everyone snorted)

Reiko: That girl is something else.

Ochaco laughed, "If at first you don't succeed..."

"Then use that failure to fuel your next success!" Mei returned with a wide grin. "Hand me that wrench. Oh, and I'm glad you're alright, by the way. Sorry I forgot to mention that. Shinso said you just went poof! "

Everyone: She seriously forgot huh...?

Ochaco groaned, "I'm dunno. Before I came to talk to you, I was hoping that Midoriya could..."

Midoriya: Uraraka no!

The gravity shifted again and Ochaco had to resist the urge to scream in frustration as she found herself on a random street, somewhere. She was just so done with the whole thing. She felt emotionally and physically exhausted and she just wanted to stay still for a little while! Was that really too much to ask?!

Aizawa: Apparently.

Midoriya(mumbling): Interesting she's not necessarily right next to her anchor...

At least she was finally getting used to the sensation. Ochaco still didn't know what was going on, but she was almost certain at this point that it was One for All's fault, even if she couldn't pinpoint how. Alright, so maybe trying to push all that power down until it blew up hadn't been the best idea, because her new quirk obviously wasn't letting her repress it anymore, considering she could potentially end up halfway across the world with just a stray thought.

Gran Torino: It definitely wasn't.

"Alright, how did I do this last time?" Ochaco grumbled. "I was just thinking about Midoriya and..."

Gravity shifted and Ochaco felt a brief sense of pride until she looked around at her new location and Midoriya was nowhere to be seen. "You've got to be kidding me!"

Thirteen: This is getting chaotic...

Izuku popped his head into the lab, "Hey, uh, kind of a weird question, but have you seen Uraraka?"

Mei looked up from her current project, "She just popped out."

Vlad: Hatsume you should be more worried about that...

"Of course." Izuku groaned, "Did she give any clue of where she was going?"

"Nope!" Mei shrugged, then thought for a minute. "But I think she was talking about you when she disappeared."

Kirishima: She was... and she was thinking about Hatsume when she teleported the first time...

"That... alright that makes sense." Izuku scribbled a few things down in his notebook. "Her quirk must be using people to anchor her when she warps, but the only question is which people... and of course where she ended up this time."

"If you were her anchor point, Izu-kun," Mei pointed out, "then shouldn't she be with you?"

"You'd think so, but no." Izuku jumped up to sit on the table. "Her quirk uses gravity, but that's such a widespread force that she's probably only able to approximate her target, at least right now."

(everyone blinked)

Toga: Well he figured that out quick.

Uraraka: Please tell me he has an idea about how I stop teleporting...

Mei hummed, "I didn't even know she could teleport."

"Neither did she." Izuku shook his head in amusement. "I'm still trying to figure out why, but it's like her quirk got more powerful overnight and now she's dealing with a new manifestation of it. It's really cool, but she hasn't had time to develop the ability, so she doesn't have any way to stop herself from warping."

"Or any way to predict where she'll end up." Mei finished. She pushed her project to the side and started grabbing more materials. "Well, I can help with one of those."

Mei: Oh yeah a tracker!

Uraraka: That would be helpful...

Dr. Shield smiled and lifted the tarp, "It's been a while since I had an excuse to dust off this old baby."

All Might(excitedly): Oh! It's her!

Mei: See?! I'm not the only one who calls machines babies!

All Might: Technically young Hatsume Dave calls it 'baby' because in America they call vehicles that, not because he made it.

Mei: Well that makes no sense.

Melissa rolled her eyes, "You realize you could take it out for a spin at any time, right? You're just old and boring."

"Is that the car you and All Might used during his study abroad?!" Izuku's eyes were wide as he dissolved into a muttering storm of facts. "The technology was state of the art at the time and still holds up under today's standards. The engine alone is..."

Bakugo: Nerd out later!

"Come on, Izu-kun, you can nerd out in the car." Mei grabbed him by the collar and hauled him into the back seat. The device in her hand was only mostly finished, but Dr. Shield had been tracking the gravitational fields around the island and Uraraka's warps were becoming more frequent, so they needed to find her before she accidentally ended up in the water or something.

Inko(gulping): Yes...

"Alright, Midoriya! Your turn to navigate!" Melissa said, strapping herself into the passenger seat as Dr. Shield started the car. "You connected your laptop to the gravity sensors, right?"

"Yep!" Izuku said. "I'm probably going to have to write a program to really track her, but for now these readings will at least tell us when she moves and get us in the general ballpark of where she is... oh, she moved again. Head west!"

Dabi: This is going to take a while isn't it?

Aizawa: And they haven't even told us that they found her yet!

Everyone(realizing): ...Oh no!

Ochaco sighed and tried not to think of anything at all as she made her way down the streets, too tired to pay attention to the weird looks she was getting for wearing a full hospital gown in the middle of the city. At least it wasn't one of the ones that was open in the back, but honestly, at this point she didn't care. Maybe if she just didn't think she wouldn't find herself suddenly halfway across the city with no way of knowing where she'd end up.

Midoriya: Yeah focusing on something else would probably help...

She passed a fast food place and only hesitated for a moment before muttering, "Screw it."

An electronic bell chimed as she pushed open the door and the look on the poor cashier's face when he saw her was way more funny than it had the right to be, but Ochaco was too tired to laugh or even really care as she walked up to the counter, "Hey, do you guys sell ginger ale?"

(everyone snorted)

Recovery Girl: Well at least she knows what to drink.

"Um... yes?" He looked her up and down, and Ochaco knew she should be embarrassed, but she just found herself half wondering whether they'd turn her away for violating a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy or whether they'd just roll with it. The cashier hesitated for another moment before meeting her eyes again. "I, uh, I'm assuming you don't have any money with you?"

Kendo: Nope.

"She warped again!" Izuku yelled. "Ooh, she's closer this time!"

"Where to next, then?" Dr. Shield stopped the car, ready to double back if they needed to. "Where is she?"

"She's..." Izuku looked at the screen and his eyes widened. "She's two streets over!"

Mt. Lady: Hurry up and get her!

"Great! We can cut through that alley!" Mei grabbed his hand and Izuku had just enough presence of mind to set down his laptop before she was pulling him from the car and running toward the alley.

"Wait!" Melissa called. "Shouldn't we..."

"Sorry, we'll meet you there!" Izuku yelled back. It was only a few seconds before they were running out onto the next street, which was more crowded than the one they'd just come from, "Excuse me! Has anyone seen a girl in a hospital gown?"

Twice: Imagine how weird that would be if they didn't. Nah it's not that weird.

Ochaco sipped on her soda and took a few deep breaths as she ignored the stares of the other patrons. She'd wasn't nearly as nauseous as she'd been when she'd first gotten to I-Island, and she could feel herself steadily regaining energy especially with the way that One for All was buzzing just underneath her skin, but she still wasn't used to it. It would have been nice if One for All came with an off switch because the way things were going, she would be having to shower in a bathing suit for the foreseeable future.

Uraraka: This is going to be so inconvenient...

She slumped further down in the hard plastic seat and took another sip, only partially sitting up when she heard the bell on the door chime.

"Hey Gravity Girl!" Mei grinned as she bounced up to her table. "Happy birthday!"

Uraraka: ...But it's not my birthday?

Shinso: Just roll with it.

"But... but it's not my birthday." She stared at Mei in shocked confusion as she grabbed Ochaco's arm and fastened something around her wrist.

"Nope!" Mei confirmed. "But I got you something! That's a tracking bracelet! I'll make you a better one when we get back, but this little baby will keep us from having to chase you down again! We'll be able to see where you are even if you accidentally warp yourself to America!"

Midnight: That had better not happen...

Midoriya: Oh she probably won't be able to since her anchor points so far seem to be just whoever she's used her quirk on.

Uraraka(relieved): Oh phew.

Ochaco shuddered, "Oh god, I hope that doesn't happen."

Kaminari: And according to the local quirk expert it probably won't.

"Unfortunately, it's a possibility." Izuku ran up to them, hands on his knees as he caught his breath. "But this way, even if it does, we'll be able to find you!"

"Okay, yeah... that'll be nice." Ochaco nodded gratefully. "Thanks, Mei."

"Now come on! We gotta get back to the labs so I can get back to work on my babies!" Mei said. "And not that the hospital gown isn't a statement piece, but we should get you some actual clothes, come on, let's get going!"

Everyone: Yeah definitely.

Ochaco stood and stretched, "Yes, please and thank you."

The two gremlins led her outside, where a red sports car was waiting to pick her up. She recognized the driver from her unfortunate arrival and he smiled when she slid into the backseat, "You must be Ochaco Uraraka. It's nice to officially meet you; I'm Dr. David Shield and this is my daughter Melissa."

Nezu: Well at least they finally had introductions.

Ochaco grimaced, "Sorry about... you know."

"No, don't worry about it." Dr. Shield laughed. "Honestly, now that we know you're not a security threat and we figured out how you got in, it's more entertaining than anything else. Freaked us out a bit at first, but we're good."

All Might: Dave really was more used to rolling with the chaos than most people...

"Well, I'm glad someone found it entertaining." Ochaco grumbled. "I honestly wasn't expecting to learn how to teleport when I woke up this morning."

"I know! Everyone back in Japan was really..." Izuku's eyes widened. "Wait, Mei, did you ever tell anyone we found her?"

Everyone: Oh boy...

Shinso: We must be going crazy back there.

Mic: Understatement.

Mei frowned, "No, I think I assumed you told them and then I was too focused on the tracking bracelet to think about anything else."

"I believe that our people were focused on making sure our security was up to date and incorporating a warning for gravitational shifts." Dr. Shield scowled. "How did we forget that?"

Uraraka: Gah this is so chaotic...

Aizawa: Great Majima your problem children have infected mine with chaos magnetism.

Power Loader(sputtering): Okay one that doesn't make any sense and two they're not my problem children!

Aizawa: In that world they are.

"Didn't you ever call them, Midoriya?" Melissa asked.

Izuku groaned and put his head in his hands, "No, I was busy trying to figure out the quirk science of how she was even warping! Everyone's probably still freaking out!"

Mei shrugged and grabbed her phone, "Well, better late than never!"

Hawks: Well finally.

Shouta wasn't doing well. All the teachers had been called in and some of the more adept reporters were starting to realize that something was wrong. Uraraka's parents had been contacted and were with a police escort, but there wasn't a whole lot they could tell them. Their daughter had been missing for over four hours now and they still hadn't found a single lead. He, All Might and Tsukauchi were all gathered in Nezu's office, grimly combing through what meager evidence they could find as they came to terms with the fact that they had failed as teachers and as heroes.

Jirou: No you haven't!

His phone rang and he took one look at teh caller ID before picking up, "Hatsume, please tell me you're safe. I really don't have the time or energy to deal with two..."

"Oh, I know!" Mei interrupted. "I thought you might want to know