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It was supposed to be just another elementary school field trip.
The bus stopped in front of the city’s astronomy museum; teachers told everyone to “stay together,” and the class immediately scattered like starlight.
Nine-year-old Midoriya Izuku stared up, awestruck.
Some kids mashed buttons to make comets streak across the digital ceiling. Others pressed their faces against the glass, trying to touch the meteorites beyond.
Bakugo Katsuki stood at the center of a circle of boys, smirking as he read the plaques with mock authority. “Tch. This is nothing. Bet I could blast a meteor out of the sky myself.” His friends roared with laughter. Normally, Izuku would’ve been there too, clapping and cheering — but today, something else tugged at him.
A glowing display showed planets circling a bright yellow sun. As the orbits turned, a calm voice narrated:
“For thousands of years, people believed Earth was the center. In the 16th century, Copernicus proposed a heliocentric model — that Earth orbits the sun. A simple shift that changed how we see the universe.”
Izuku froze.
Wait… everyone thought the sun went around us? But it’s us that move?
He crouched by the railing, pulled out his battered notebook, and scrawled, the words too big for the lines:
Copernican Revolution = Earth NOT center!!
Earth = orbiting!! Sun = center!!
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
He even doodled All Might flying across the sun.
It felt like turning the world upside down — just by thinking differently. A quiet idea powerful enough to change history.
Could he ever do that for someone? Could he be someone’s “shift”?
The thought planted itself deep, like a star at the edge of his universe.
Years later, it would stop being theory.
It would come as a small smile, a simple promise, a hand reaching back — and just like that, his world would move.