One Hero For Them And Nine For All

Time Traveler's Arrow

Izuku and Ippan end up in a strangely industrialized cave. Someone, probably some scientist, was most likely using this place as a bunker of sorts. They had no reason to stay here since it wasn't their timeline, and they were about to leave as quickly as they came.

But Danger Sense goes off. Izuku was gonna grab Ippan and dodges, but she does so herself surprisingly. This leads to Izuku blocking the danger instead of avoiding it. He grapples with an ugly, slimy white creature who was surprisingly strong.

"You're a robust little human, aren't you?" The mysterious creature chuckled as it shapeshifts into a human. A human who, for some reason, had 6 fingers on each hand.

Izuku boxes with the creature without using his quirks so as to not collapse the cave. He blocked, parried, and countered it with ease, ending the exchange with a dual palmstrike imbued with 4 percent of One For All, sending it back.

"I can't use too much power here..." Izuku muttered.

Ippan, hearing this, steps in to fight before Izuku could go again. One right hook to the cheek sent it flying into a cave wall.

"Stay away from him, ugly!" She shouted.

"Ugly?" The creature asked, turning into Ippan. "You shouldn't say that about yourself."

Ippan and the creature fight, and her raw physical force overwhelmed the creature quickly despite it becoming her. Ippan blocks a right and swept its thing white legs. And without hesitation, she stomped on its head, killing it and resulting in it reverting to his original ugly form. Wanting to make sure it didn't come back, she stomped on it a few more times.

"Phew!" She wiped her brow. "Okay, let's..."

Izuku's mouth was agape. And while giggling, she walks up to him and closes his mouth.

"Badass." He said.

"I was hit by that arrow quite a while ago." Ippan says. "I probably would've reached enlightenment had you never shown up. Either that or ended up killed by whoever those two people were."

"They probably caused that cataclysm you mentioned prior. Not that it matters, we'll likely never see them again."

They had a very brief but very unpleasant feeling.

"Don't count on it," she replies.

Izuku picked up Ippan again and threw the arrow, catching it and sending them through time. This time, there wasn't any danger. So Izuku continued jumping through time with Ippan in his arm.

Again, they were somewhere that wasn't home. So they kept jumping. Again. Again. And again.

*

Mugen was bored. Bored and wildly unimpressed. After killing many of the top 30 heroes, he stayed in the Sports Festival arena, sitting in the destroyed stands waiting for more to show up. But that didn't happen.

"Why the hell am I just sitting here?"

He stood up and warped in front of Ryukyu, who was thrashing against her bubble prison in her dragon form, unable to free herself.

"Hi, Ryukyu."

The giant dragon hero snarled at him.

"Do you like bowling?" Not giving her time to answer, he picked up the Ryukyu ball with one hand and flew out to a random street. "Let's get a strike!" He placed and pushed the prison ball.

Buildings were leveled, hundreds were crushed, and for Ryukyu, this was a nightmare. Not only was her head spinning from all the spinning, but guilt and self-loathing at her inability to free herself and stop this madness ate away at her.