Accelerator ones shots

Time travel

3rd pov

There's a lot of things Accelerator can do with his powers, but not even he can do time travel. That would require a level of calculation he not only refuses to mess with, but can no longer do after getting injured. Sure he might've been able to before the injury, but most certainly not after it. He never planned to risk it either, not with the fact that only Heaven can help him now, with no current successor and thus no one else knowing how to fix or make the battery he uses to live.

So, he finds himself rather confused as to how the fuck he got to where he is, and the Sisters probing at him every few minutes is not helping, each trying to identify this new part of the Misaka Network that did not exist a mere few seconds ago, but now slots in like it's always existed, brining a sense of safety none of them ever expected. Several of the nearest sisters are on their way, Accelerator can feel it, but he's still trying to figure out what the fuck just happened, so he let's them come. For now at least.

He glances around the area he's arrived in, surprised to find himself in a dormitory, though he's not in a specific room, just in the hallway. He grunts, because he knows for a fact he's never been to this building, before trying to find the elevator, because going down several floors of stairs is not the best way to figure out where he's at, not when it'll force him to rest for half a day because his bad leg can't handle it. He sighs in relief when he finds the elevator, leaning on the wall by his side, before realizing what he had possibly done. The Sisters could very well be on the elevator, riding it to where they can feel the newest source.

With a sigh - there's no way he's changing his plan 2 damn seconds in - he decides to let it be, instead probing to check on each of the Sisters. He's a bit surprised to find more of them, a bad feeling settling into his gut as he recognizes two signatures he's sure he killed, with several more as possibilities to having been killed. Damn. He resists the urge to throw up, because he really doesn't want to have to feel as a sister dies in the Network, but if he doesn't work fast - he holds that thought groaning as he realizes he's already figured out what happened and was just really hoping he was wrong, never wanting to have to face his past quite so literally.

He thinks back, remembers Yohikawa trying to grab him before he slipped into a liquid, remembers it eating at him, pain had been his only companion, and then he had been here. Goddamnit, what the fuck had the researchers in that building been doing before they were killed? The ding of the elevator has him looking up, entering it without saying anything to the Sisters, before hitting the down button. Only then does he face them, grimacing as he recognizes two of the presences, before throwing caution to the wind. He grabs the two and pulls them close, familiarizing himself with the way they feel in the Network, ignoring the curiosity and confusion he can feel, at least for the moment. He needs this, especially since he can only partially feel Last Order, meaning she's still in her tube.

"How are you here? Asks Misaka 10031, trying to recall where you were last said to be located."

"Why are you in the Network? Asks Misaka 10045, desperately searching for a reason as to why you feel like you've always existed within the Network."

"You are not our Accelerator, are you? Asks Misaka 11001, knowing she is hitting the nail on the head."

Accelerator relaxes, before pulling away from 10031 and 10032. He gives a small grin, shaky and unnerved as it may be, before turning to 11001.

"Yeah, no. I'm not from here, but I don't think there's a way to send me back either. Fuckin researchers and there over the top damn methods."

"When are you from?"

"About a year or so into the future." (I know that's wrong based on the anime timeline I found, but I refuse to put all of that stuff into a couple of months' time.)