"Are you sure it's a good idea to take Kai with us?" Itsumi asked, hand in hand with the boy as a group of five walked down the road from the castle. It had been two days since Izuku had woken up, and while they had wanted to wait for Ojiro to fully recover, the stubborn blonde had insisted for them to go as soon as possible, which was why he was still wearing bandages around his head covering his eye. His presence had made very awkward bringing Kai.

"Yes Izuku, are you sure it's a good idea to take Kai with us?" Todoroki echoed sarcastically. Ojiro gave him an elbow in the side, but it was clear that even he wasn't sure. Izuku had noticed the man did his best to always look as far away as possible from the kid.

"Kai is a One for All user, and he has Teleport like me. If Atura knows anything about it, he should know too, don't you think?" Izuku replied.

"I think a lot of things about this situation. Like how the Multiverse seems to be a di-" Todoroki's sentence was stopped by Itsumi's glare as she pointed to Kai. The man rolled his eyes, "A meanie in how he distributes One for All considering I already found two of the worst villains in my universe with it."

"I'm sorry to hear that mister Todoroki, but I assure you in this universe Itsumi and Izuku are good people." Kai commented. Izuku, Itsumi and Ojiro could not hold back a laugh, even if the latter was a rather nervous one. Still, Izuku thought it was good progress.

The man chuckled a moment longer before staring at his bicolored friend and elbowing him a bit. "He's got a better sense of humor than you Shoto. I'm starting to think he isn't Overhaul after all."

"Very funny Mashirao. And here I was worried you would freak out seeing the kid." Todoroki replied.

"I'm freaking out internally. Good skill to have in a situation like this." The Hero gestured at his eye and at the kid with a single movement, "And I refuse to miss this because I'm freaking out internally about a ten-years old looking like my second worst enemy and an eye healing a bit slowly."

"That's the spirit." Itsumi commented. "Now, we should be almost there. Atura's Lab is supposed to be easy to recognize…"

"I think we found it." Izuku commented, pointing ahead. The others looked to the building he was pointing at.

"Oh yeah, that seems about right." Ojiro commented "That's definitely an Hatsume-type building."

The building in question seemed to have started as a normal, well-built three floors house made of stone. Started, because right now it was a monstrosity that had at least two extra floors that weren't part of the original building, as evidenced by the fact they were made of wood. One of said extra floors had burnt down partially recently and was currently being repaired, letting the inside visible. The garden in front had been turned in a scrapyard of sort, covered in mostly burnt wood and bent metal. And even from there, they could hear the sound of metal being hammered in place. Unsurprisingly, the houses around it seemed to be uninhabited, and to have been for a long time.

"So, we just knock at the door and go in?" Todoroki asked.

"Izo said so, yes." Itsumi replied, "He said Atura is the one person that could know enough about the Multiverse to give us a way home."

"How much would she know?"

Itsumi thought for a moment, "He said 'Atura would know everything Isaac chose to tell her. She is excited about meeting you, so at the very least she has something worth talking to you about'."

Ojiro hummed at that. "Well, that seems better than anything we got before. Alright, Izuku, you go first." Izuku nodded and walked forward, followed by the others, and knocked on the door. The sound reverberated, although it was mostly covered by the metallic sounds.

For a minute there was no response, so Izuku decided to try again. This time, he hit at the right time, with the metal thumping suddenly coming to an alt. "One moment!" A voice inside shouted, followed by a maniacal laughter and muted explosions. Izuku winced.

"Yup, definitely Hatsume's house." Ojiro commented.

The girl that opened the door did not look like Hatsume, however. She was short, and while Izuku knew he wasn't the tallest she was still five centimeters or so shorter than he was, despite looking older. She looked a bit like Uraraka, but she had short black hair and eyes of the same dark color.

"Mister Isaac?" She asked immediately, before clapping her hands together. "Oh, oh it's the other Travelers. This is great…" She paused, and suddenly paled, "Oh no."

"Uh… Are you ok?"

"Miss Atura is gonna get fired up about this... I can't handle it…" She seemed on the verge of either crying, barf or scream, her face turning quickly from pale, to red, and back to normal, but after a long pause she breathed out, and looked up at them. She seemed scared but mostly in control of herself. "Alright, sorry about that. Miss Atura will get… excited, and that's a bit scary at times. So, you are the people Izo told Miss Atura about, right?"

"Y-yes." Izuku replied, unsure of what to say since the girl seemed to almost be pleading to have been wrong.

He was right, since she almost choked on her words. "D-does any of you know how to build a minigun?"

Izuku and Itsumi looked at Todoroki and Ojiro, who shook their heads.

"Oh, thank the gods." The girl replied, sighing in clear relief.

"Anna, who is it?!" A voice shouted from inside, and Izuku recognized the usual tone of Hatsume Mei, even if it wasn't her voice that spoke.

"It's Izo's new friends miss!" The girl shouted back.

"Send them away, the shop is closed!"

"They are the Travelers miss Atura!" Anna clarified.

The loud sound of metal being beaten into shape stopped as a woman in her thirties seemed to rush into view from behind a corner and dive through the hall before stopping looking at them. She had the same pink hair and green-yellow eyes, although they were missing the scope-like pattern.

"Isaaaaaaac!" She shouted. "Wait, no, too young! Do you know how to make a train engine?"

Izuku took a step back. Yes, that was definitely Mei. "Uh, no?"

"Less useful then. But you are a Traveler, right?!" She said, going in a moment from excitement to a flat expression and back to excitement.

"Uh, I come from another world, yes. My friends…"

"Are you a Patroller? A Wanderer? Is your universe Earth-like? Is it Magical, Quirked, Technology-based or mixed? Do you know of any universe besides your own and this one? If it's a Quirked universe, is it post-Alignment? No wait, stupid question, I'm talking to you. Did you defeat All for One yet?"

Anna coughed awkwardly, probably noticing Izuku's dumbfounded expression. "Uhm, ma'am, didn't Isaac say a Sitting Agent is supposed to make Travelers feel at ease?"

"Ah! Right! My bad! Come in and get some… Do we have tea Anna?"

"You threw it all away when you realized it wasn't coffee…"

"Then make some coffee!"

"A-At once ma'am." The girl rushed away.

"That was Hana, right?" Ojiro asked to Todoroki. The man nodded as Izuku entered first in the room, followed with uncertainty by the others. Atura half led them and half dragged them to a large room that could be generously called a dining room, and less generously but more accurately called a scrapyard with one clean table in the middle of the room. She carefully moved away some metalwork that reminded Izuku of pieces of a motor he had seen on books from atop some chairs, and in a few minutes they were sitting awkwardly on one side of the large table while Atura sat alone on the other side, grinning and laughing to herself.

"Is she… ok?" Itsumi asked.

"Yes, that's just normal Mei." Izuku commented. Ojiro and Todoroki nodded as well.

"Yep."

"That's her."

"… Ok. Are you sure you can deal with this Kai?"

"I can do it Big Sis. I will be a Hero." He replied, pretty much forcing the large smile. Itsumi patted his head and ruffled his hair, and the kid's smile became more genuine. Izuku smiled too. In the past two days, him and Itsumi had tried to teach him how to use One for All. Itsumi didn't have much to say, since her One for All wasn't too strong, but Izuku's experience was a lot more valuable. He showed him the Full Cowling and explained the theory of it. Kai's fine control wasn't nearly good enough to pull it off yet, but the kid seemed to be eager to learn. For once, he had managed to focus One for All on the finger instead of the whole arm.

A better control of Overhaul would probably help, if…

"So, are you all from the same universe?" Atura abruptly asked, stopping his train of thought.

"No, uhm, Todoroki and Ojiro are from one, I'm from another, Itsumi is from a third one, and Kai is from… well, it's complicated. Do you know about Nion?"

"Wait, you are from Nion?! That means your Sitting Agent is probably going insane since you are here! Oh man, you are lucky! By the way, how many of you have One for All?"

Izuku, Itsumi and Kai raised their hands, and Atura shifted her chair immediately to sit in front of them. Todoroki grumbled something that Izuku couldn't really catch.

"Ok, so, I take you are Wanderers rather than Patrollers, right?"

"I think?" Izuku replied. This wasn't how he had expected this to go. Izo had mentioned Atura might know something, but she seemed to know everything. She seemed to know more than they did by an absurd degree actually.

"Well, you don't have a direction, right? You are jumping randomly from one universe to another. Is that right?"

"Yes."

"And your Sitting Agent didn't tell you anything about your powers before this happened?" She paused, "Uh, do you even have a Sitting Agent?"

"I don't know what that is." Izuku replied. Itsumi and Kai both shook their head.

"The League for All? Isaac's group? The Patrollers?" She paused, "You knew about the Multiverse at least, did you?"

"Uh…"

"None of us did." Todoroki replied, "Itsumi knew Isaac vaguely but she wasn't a One for All user when he appeared in her universe, her mom was. Still is, actually. She didn't tell Itsumi because they don't have Teleport there. But everyone else is just lost."

"I don't know if my dad knew him." Kai added, "But he never told me anything about it, and the shadow people don't talk to me about it either."

"This is… This is amazing!" Atura shouted, "An unknown universe, maybe two, and a confirmation of our theory on Nion! Oh, this was worth all those stupid reports I had to file to the League for All! I'll show Izuku who is the 'distracted Sitting Agent'!"

"Uhm, but I didn't call you that…"

"Not you, the other Izuku."

Izuku was about to ask more, but Todoroki beat him to it. "Uhm, miss Atura, can we ask for an explanation on… well, everything really. We don't know what you are talking about, and I must admit this is not what I expected from today."

"Oh, right, my bad. Sorry, this experience must be quite exhausting for you. There I go making this harder to understand. Anna, how is that coffee coming?!"

"I'm here!" The girl exclaimed as she entered the room with six small cups and a small pot of the darkest coffee Izuku had ever seen in his life. "I thought the kid might not like it, so I brought him some cookies too." She added, putting a small plate with some cookies in front of him. Kai's eyes lit up as he started to eat the first one. "Boss, shouldn't you follow the rules Isaac explained?"

"Do we have to?"

Anna sighed, "Yes. I know, it's not a purely scientific work so of course, you don't like it." The second sigh seemed if possible even more resigned as the first. Izuku was genuinely pitying her at this point. "So, how about I explain what's going on and you take care of the science side of it?"

Atura nodded, and Anna turned around and left the room a moment, coming back with a suspiciously modern piece of paper and a document that was clearly printed, a list of some kind. Thinking about it, Izuku noticed it wasn't the only very modern thing in the room. Some of the books had a clearly modern appearance, and the clock on the wall behind Atura and Anna was clearly made of plastic.

"Alright, what are your names? Starting with the people with One for All please."

"I'm Izuku Midoriya." Izuku replied, and the girl started to go down the list.

"Let's see… Izuku is a very common name, so I can't really round it down. Did you have One for All a year ago?"

"Not yet."

"Who was your predecessor?"

"Toshinori Yagi." He replied.

"Uhm… That's also very common. Japan, right?"

"Yes."

"Uhm…" She kept going down the list, then shook her head. "There are too many, I can't narrow it down. It's possible he is from an unknown universe, but it might just not be on this list." She explained, Atura's eyes sparkling. "Your predecessor never told you about Isaac Midoriya or the League for All, correct?"

"I had never heard about the latter until now. And we only know about Isaac because we went to Itsumi's world."

"I see." She replied, nodding, "Well, this document alone has about thirty Toshinori Yagi as the current holder. Might be one of those, or just an entirely different one. Although, since there was no contact apparently…"

"It means we discovered an entirely new universe!" Atura's excitement was clear, judging by how she was jumping up and down on the chair. Izuku felt that if possible, this Atura was even more hyper than the Hatsume he knew. Maybe it was just the fact she was already on her third cup of coffee.

"So next, you are from Nion, right kid?" She asked, and at Kai's nod she lit up. "Well, we can report that mister Isaac too. He will send someone to take you home."

"Alright, enough. Can we get some explanation?" Todoroki finally asked, snapping. "I get this is fun for you, but they want to go home." He said, gesturing to Itsumi and Izuku. Ojiro raised an eyebrow, and Todoroki coughed. "I mean, we want to go home."

"Ah, sorry! Sorry, I just… I'm a bit of a klutz so I figured going step by step was easier. Sorry." She replied, bowing her head.

"That's not necessary." Todoroki waved slightly, and the girl looked back up. "Just… Please explain us something."

"Right. So, uh… You know Isaac Midoriya, at least by name, right?"

Everyone except Kai nodded. Anna nodded as well. "So, Isaac Midoriya travelled the multiverse for a long time. As he did that, however, he figured out he wasn't the only one, and tried to form a group that would help people lost in it. So about six years ago he formed the League for All." She showed them the symbol printed on top of the list she was reading. A large 'A' was surrounded by ten rendition of planet Earth. No, not just planet Earth, Izuku realized. While most of them were Earths at different point in the rotation, with America, East Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Africa in the center, five others depicted different planets, with continents shaped in alien ways. "The League for All is an inter-universal group that is based on Earth JUK-016, also called the…" she sighed, "Seriously, who comes up with those names… The Allforverse."

"Wait, you mean there is an organization of Multiverse Heroes?"

"Exactly! Isn't that amazing?!" Atura shouted with a wild grin, "And Isaac chose me to be the Sitting Agent of this world." She added proudly.

"What's that?" Ojiro asked.

"A Sitting Agent is a member of the League for All that can't travel through various universes." Anna explained, "Their main job is watching over the world in case a Wanderer bumps into them and keep an eye on One for All's users to make sure they don't manifest the ability to travel the Multiverse." Anna pointed at Atura, "As she said, she is one, and I am too. It wasn't what I signed for when I asked her to take me in as an apprentice, but I suppose beggars can't be choosers, right?" Her tone was uncertain, and Izuku could understand. Anna seemed like a very normal girl, and he supposed it wasn't easy to find your work included the idea of multiple universes existing and possibly visiting you without notice.

"But then why did we never run into one? Isaac has been to Itsumi's universe at least." Todoroki pointed out.

"Who is the One for All user in your world?"

"Eirin Kirishima, Katsumi Bakugou, Hyaku Togata and me, Itsumi Midoriya." She answered.

"Ah yes, Earth J-081, Flameverse." She said, tapping a line in the list, "Quirked, post-Alignment… Do you know someone called Shota Aizawa?"

"My parents' teacher? Yes, I knew him. He passed six months ago, unfortunately. Wait…"

"Yeah, he was the Sitting Agent." Anna frowned, writing down something on the side of the list, "Well that explains why no one made contact. He died and I assume he had no apprentice, so no one to take over. Either that or the apprentice didn't find out about you."

"But why was he an Agent instead of the One for All users?" Izuku asked, "Wouldn't that make more sense?"

"Not if you need to keep an eye on them." Todoroki pointed out, "Remember, one of the jobs of those Agents is to keep them under surveillance."

"That makes it sound bad, but we really just make sure people don't unlock Teleport or some other Multiverse travelling power and get lost. Most of the time, there is just no job at all. Aside from Isaac and Nana a century ago, and a Patroller from time to time, you are the first to visit this world."

"I see. So… What happens now? You take us home?"

"We can't. We don't have a way to travel the Multiverse, I told you. We aren't Patrollers, the few League members that actually go around world from world to take our reports and hand us those. Isaac also comes around from time to time because he likes this place and wants to help, but that's an exception." She said, shaking the printed page again. "Honestly it's a pretty simple job, and is not like we need to travel the Multiverse or anything. We haven't even seen what the headquarters look like."

Izuku tried to get a grip on the girl's words. This wasn't what he had expected. He had thought Atura would maybe know how Teleport worked. Maybe have a way to take them to Isaac if he wanted to hope wildly. An inter-universal organization led by another version of himself that patrolled the Multiverse was not on his list of ideas. He looked at the others, who were pretty much all shocked as he was. Except Kai, who was instead focusing on the cookies. He was the only one taking this well. Maybe because he had already accepted it. Kids were amazing.

"Alright, so how do we go home?" Itsumi finally asked, recovering from her own thoughts.

"Do you have Teleport and Guide?"

"I have Guide, and he has Teleport." She explained, pointing at herself and at Izuku.

"Ah, so that's how it is… Well, then you should be fine." Anna replied simply. "You just need to use Guide to point home and…"

"We tried to use our powers combined before, but we ended up here instead. It didn't work."

Atura perked up at that, "Did all of you lose consciousness afterward?"

"Yes?"

"So you definitely strained yourself. Good, it means you activated both powers." Atura said, nodding.

Izuku racked his brain. "But why did we lose consciousness? I never did when using Teleport by itself. Sure, it was tiring during training back home, but I was never pushed into unconsciousness."

Atura nodded, with a large smile. "Isaac gave me an explanation for that to give to any Wanderer. Ahem… 'That's all related to your misconception on what Teleport does once powered by One for All. You are assuming you were using it right before and then it went suddenly mad, but it's the opposite. You were using it wrong.'"

"Wrong? Why?"

"Because, once powered by One for All, Teleport is supposed to bring you to another world, not to another place on that same planet." She casually explained.

"… What?"

The woman grinned proudly. "Tell me, do you usually use a cart - or a car, to use Isaac's analogy – to move around your house?"

Everyone stared at her, and Anna coughed. "Ma'am, I think you need to explain the entire analogy for it to work."

"Oh right. So, imagine the Multiverse is a city." She drew a large circle on a piece of paper she snatched from Anna. "Now, imagine there is a group of universes, like a district in the city. That's what we call a Universe Cluster. It's basically universes that keep close at all times." She drew some smaller circles inside the big one. "And then each universe is a building inside this Cluster." She drew even smaller circles inside those, to highlight the point further, "To go from one building to another, and especially to one Cluster to another, you would need a cart. Right?"

"I don't really drive…"

"You do though. That's what Teleport is. You are trying to use a cart to drive from one point to another of your house, instead of putting it on the street and actually using it properly. That's why you end up exhausting yourself so much after using it a bit, because your fine control can only get you so far. And that's why eventually you got shot somewhere randomly. The cart broke a wall, and the result is you getting thrown out."

Izuku stared at the piece of paper. The analogy was rather rough, but he could grasp what it wanted to say. "It's easy to solve then. I just need to use Teleport to go home, right?"

"Well, in theory yes, but here comes the problem. Usually, a street has a direction of travel, right? Well, travelling through the Multiverse is pretty much the same. There are… currents, for lack of a better term, that make you move in a certain way in the space between Universes. Going against those currents, for Teleport, is very hard. It takes a lot of training." She pointed at Itsumi, "With Guide, however, it's a completely different story. You can just choose a direction and bam, cutting right through to your destination."

"But it didn't work to reach my dad."

"Was he outside the Universe?"

"No, inside."

"Well, that's simple then. You either went beyond the distance Teleport could carry you inside that same Universe and got thrown out, or you didn't focus on the target. How many people were being transported?"

"Four."

"Were you four actually focusing on reaching your father? Not generic thoughts like 'safety' or 'escape'?" Izuku and Itsumi looked at each other, and then to Todoroki and Ojiro. They all reached the same conclusion: no, not everyone was focusing on the same target. Atura nodded, "That's what I thought. Isaac and a few others can just exclude someone's thoughts from the Teleport direction, but you just created a jumble of requests for, I don't know, safety, or protection, or help, and so you got lost."

"That's it? Think very hard about a place you want to be at, and you can go there?"

"With Teleport and Guide, yes. With just Teleport, it will take a long time to train for it to work properly. Isaac said usually the League finds people that have learned after months of being lost. Well, that or they have gone on a rampage after losing their mind and are stopped by a Sitting Agent, ahahah." Her cheery laughter was very much at odds with what she was telling them.

Anna shook her head. "Anyway, if you four want to go home, your best bet is going to JUS-001, Isaac's home world, and ask him to take you home. He will help."

Izuku blinked. "Not to the… Allforverse? Isn't that where the League for All is?"

"It's another option, but for some reason Isaac always said it was better to go to him than to JUK-016. Here." She stood up and walked away, coming back soon with a picture. "The League gives us a number of pictures of worlds where you can usually find a Patroller. This one is for JUS-001."

The picture showed a tall building with a white star on the front. It was at least thirty stories tall, and the picture showed the street around bustling with civilians. "This is the Might Tower, Isaac's office building in Los Angeles. It's not the main office, but this is where his family lives so is also where you would find him."

"Bit pretentious, isn't it?" Todoroki commented.

"I wouldn't really know." Anna protested, "The biggest building I have ever seen is the royal palace."

Izuku looked at it. He never thought he would have an office like that, even if he became a Hero with enough money to own one. It seemed too big and flashy. Hizuku's office, despite being a lot smaller, was enough for him. Then again, All Might had his own tower as well, and Izuku knew the Hero wasn't vain when it came to his riches. Maybe it was just a necessity for a Number One Hero. "Are you sure a picture is enough?"

"With Teleport and Guide, if you all focus on it, yes." Anna smiled, "Congratulations. Your hurdle should be over soon."

Izuku nodded. He couldn't help but feel a mix of weird mix of feelings. Relief of course. He was going home soon, after all. All Might would be overjoyed, and Kacchan was probably going to blow him to smithereens… Well, maybe he wasn't only happy about going home, but of course he wanted to. His mom was probably worried sick, as were his friends. However, there was also some… worry. Not for himself, but for the others.

'Will this League help them?' He asked himself. He made to ask, but at the last moment he stopped. He wasn't sure he wanted to have an answer from them.

He would ask someone else.

(xx)

We are back on Monday, and I am happy it happens for this. The Drifting Arc is moving on to its next stage, but much more is ahead.

The League for All was something I had planned to introduce earlier than this, but it felt either forced or not the right time. I remember a very early draft where Isaac Green, the gunslinger, was a League member, but it would slow the confrontation with Izuku so I dropped it.

As for the way Teleport actually works, a lot of people went fairly close, congrats to those that figured out what was happening (partially or even mostly). Of course, stuff like the existence of "currents" in the Multiverse was harder to guess and thus harder to figure out.

Next step, Los Angeles on JUS-001. Hopefully.