Hello again! The muse has struck fast, so I'm back with another chapter of Academia Falls! This one's shorter than the last few, but there are many longer chapters that await. Hope you enjoy!

It was a new day in Gravity Falls, and the cheapest fair possible was being set up by the cheapest crew Stan Pines could find. Izuku's heroic instincts still told him this whole setup was absolutely terrible, but after nearly a month of living with the older man, he found that he'd come to appreciate Stan's cheapskate tendencies and casual lawbreaking ways.

In fact, Stan looked downright proud as he watched the fair being put together, Izuku and Ochako next to him. "There she is kids. The cheapest fair money can rent. I saved every expense." He threw his arms up in the air dramatically, gesturing to his new pet project.

It was at that moment when something close to them groaned and snapped. Izuku instinctively looked towards the noise, then yelped and jumped away as one of the trams broke free from the Ferris wheel and went plummeting downwards. Shouto, who was apparently in said tram at the time, let out a strangled yell and his hands glowed blue. Just before it hit the ground, the tram burst into blue flames, and from those flames emerged a donkey, which bucked Shouto off it wildly and ran off into the woods.

Shouto groaned and rubbed his back as Izuku and Ochako went over to help him out. "I think the tram's broken."

"We can see that," Ochako laughed lightly, hauling him to his feet. "I could've just caught you, you know."

Shouto looked away awkwardly. "I wanted to try using my fire."

"Still haven't gotten the hang of it?" Izuku sympathized.

Shouto looked disgruntled, rubbing his bandages. "It does what I want maybe half the time I use it. The other half, things end up flying around the room, bursting into flames, or... well..." He gestured to where the donkey had gone.

"Cipher was a pretty chaotic entity-thing. Maybe that's why it's all wonky," Ochako suggested.

Shouto nodded. "That would make sense. Guess I'll just have to deal with it for now."

Stan snickered at their antics, although his eyes seemed drawn to the Ferris wheel. "Yeah well. You better hope no one notices one of the trams are missing, or that's out of your pocket book."

"I doubt anyone will," Izuku reassured him. "This is Gravity Falls, remember?"

"You've learned! I like it." Stan smirked. "Alright kids, I've got a job for you. And Mina, wherever she is at the moment." He reached into his suit and pulled out a stack of papers with blue 'A's on them. "I printed up a bunch of fake safety inspection certificates. Go slap one on anything that looks like a lawsuit."

Ochako took the papers. "I hate to ask this, and I think I already know the answer, but is this even close to being legal?"

"When there's no cops around, anything's legal," Stan said cheerfully. Figuring that there was no point in arguing that statement, the four split the papers evenly. Izuku just hoped to get the job done quickly at this point.

"Soos!" Stan called out. "How's that dunk tank coming along?" Izuku glanced back over to see Stan approaching the friendly repairman, who was wielding the bulls-eye part of the dunk thank set up.

"Almost ready to go Mr. Pines," Soos said dutifully. Stan rapped on the bulls-eye, laughing at how Soos had rigged it for him. Izuku sighed fondly and turned away.

"It's twelve o'clock!" Stan announced. Ochako covered her ears as a screeching sound came from the older man's megaphone. She looked over to see him in a swimsuit, sitting on a platform above a tank of water. "The dunk tank is now open! Step right up and Dunk me folks. Talkin' to you, cut offs. That's right muffin top, high pants. Who wants a piece of me?"

Everyone threw their balls at the tank at once. Stan cackled as the platform refused to drop.

"Should we tell them he rigged it?" Izuku wondered as they wandered around with their strangely shaped question mark corn dogs. "I mean, someone's going to figure it out eventually, right?"

"Probably not for a while." Mina munched on her pretzel without a care. "Besides, the more cash he makes at this thing, the more lax he'll be with us for slacking off when we work in the gift shop later."

"Fair enough," Izuku conceded. "What should we do for now? Any games you guys want to play?"

"No rides," Shouto said automatically. "Those things are death traps."

"Come on, there has to be something fun here that isn't entirely a scam," Ochako encouraged. "I mean, maybe. I'm still not sure how he rigged some of those ball games. I didn't even know it was possible to do what he did with a basketball net."

Mina brightened and looked around. "You're right, I'm sure there's something he can't rig! Like, I dunno… pigs!"

"It would be pretty hard to rig pigs." Shouto mused. "Maybe a weight guessing game with a rigged scale?"

"No, I mean really! There are pigs over there that you can win!" Mina pointed at a sign nailed to one of the wooden polls, saying "win a pig" and pointing towards a large booth in which various little pigs were roaming around. Mina ran over, the rest of them following close behind her.

"If you can guess the critter's weight, you can take the critter home!" The guy with brown suspenders running the both announced. Mina stopped in front of the booth and examined all the different pigs.

"Oh, look at that one!" Izuku and Shouto had caught up to them, and Izuku was pointing at a small cute pig with a small spot over its eye, sitting up straight at looking at them innocently. "He's so cute!"

"You're right," Ochako agreed. "He's the cutest of the bunch." The pig grunted softly, and she couldn't help but coo.

"We have to get him," Mina announced. "And name him Waddles. Definitely Waddles."

Shouto looked more amused than anything, although he still decided to play the voice of reason, as he had been before. "Do we have the means to take care of him?"

Mina waved that off. "I'm sure Stan's got something. He was able to get all these pigs here and keep them healthy for the fair, after all."

The unfortunately familiar sound of snobby laughter drew Ochako's attention away from the pig and towards three girls dressed in nice clothes, snickering at them. "Oh look," the blond girl with large hoop earrings said. "Looks like little miss alien found a long lost family member." The other two girls snickered again, and Ochako felt her blood boiling.

Shouto narrowed his eyes. "If Waddles is a long lost family member of Mina's, how close does that make you to that garden snake over there? After all, Mina looks nothing like Waddles, and you have all the same mannerisms as that thing. Maybe a second cousin."

"I think first cousin once removed." Mina's eyes sparkled.

"Guys stop, you're making them too closely related, and that's not very nice," Izuku said. "I'm sure that snake would never be as cruel as she is." Ochako burst into surprised laughter, Mina following right behind. The blond huffed angrily and stomped away.

"Serves Pacifica right, the jerk." Mina wiped her eyes, still smiling. "Looks like she can't take what she dishes out."

"So that's the rich girl you were talking about earlier. Huh." Izuku watched her go.

"All the more reason to dislike her," Ochako said firmly. "I'm almost sad I wasn't able to get a joke in before she left."

Shouto turned to Mina. "Jokes aside. Are you alright?"

Mina grinned at him. "I'm fine, don't worry. Her opinion doesn't matter, and I'm not going to let her ruin my day." She looked up at suspenders, who was watching their conversation curiously. "Sir, I want to win that pig." She pointed at the newly dubbed Waddles.

"Of course!" Suspenders said. "For two tickets, you can guess his weight."

Ochako felt her face falling. "Two tickets? We only have one, 'cause Stan rigged the whole fair!"

"Is there anyway that we can get him with one?" Izuku pleaded.

"Sorry. You need two tickets to get the pig. That's just the rules." Suspenders shrugged. "Come back when you have another ticket. Pig won't be gone by then."

"Alright!" Mina pumped her fist in the air. "Let's win another ticket! Mystery Crew! Mystery Crew!" Ochako laughed, and she and the boys joined the chanting.

It was nice, Ochako realized. She hadn't laughed like that in a while, not with everything that had happened recently.

Maybe things really were getting better.

They returned with their second ticket. After multiple tries of rigged games, Ochako had simply used her magic to float their way to victory in one of the ball games. They were headed back to the pig stand, clutching their prize.

"All right, Waddles, here we- Ow!" Mina had briefly turned around to look at them, only to smack right into a bald man with goggles and a weird jumpsuit. He snatched his fallen measuring tape off the ground and ran away.

Izuku helped her off the ground. "You good?" he asked.

"Yeah, don't worry." Mina brushed herself off. "Some jerks just don't have any manners." They rounded the corner to where the pig stand was.

"We're back." Ochako looked around the stand. "Where's Waddles? You know, the pig we were trying to get," She elaborated at suspender's confused look.

"Oh, someone got to him before you." Suspenders shrugged nonchalantly. "Sorry." He pointed in the other direction, and Mina turned to see Pacifica with a leash on poor Waddles, pulling him away against his will. The leash was tightening around the pigs neck, and it looked like he was struggling to breathe."

"He's going to choke!" Izuku had clearly come to the same conclusion as Mina had. She started forward, but was outstripped by Ochako, who was storming towards the rich girl with a look of absolute fury in her gaze.

"How dare you! First you insult my friend, then hurt a poor animal - you asshole!" And with that, the usually cheery girl punched Pacifica Northwest right in the jaw. Izuku gasped, Pacifica cried out in pain and her entourage screamed, and Blubs and Durland, their arms full of cotton candy, showed up just seconds later.

"Ma'am, we're going to have to ask you to leave the fair, on account of misconduct," Blubs said.

"No punching the town's richest kid like that!" Durland added. Pacifica smirked.

"Officers, it wasn't her fault, she didn't start it," Izuku tried to reason with them.

"All I did was win the pig they wanted before they did," Pacifica whined. "Is that really a crime? An excuse for punching a young girl in the face?" Her jaw was already starting to bruise. Clearly Wendy's lessons were paying off.

"Of course not," Blubs reassured the blond. "Miss, please leave the fair," he said to Ochako.

Mina groaned and put her head in her hands. This was all a disaster.

It was beginning to grow dark, and all the lights on the different attractions lit up. It was pretty, sure, but Mina couldn't find it in herself to care.

Ochako lay next to her, equally disappointed. "Today was the absolute worst," She announced. Mina nodded morosely. "I can't believe I got kicked out of the fair. And Pacifica went home with Waddles! That rich snot, I'll bet she's going to treat him terribly."

"Yeah…" Izuku trailed off, running his fingers through the grass. He was clearly as disappointed as they were. "If only we could just undo one thing. We could've made it to the stand before Pacifica did, and we would have, if not for-"

"That guy." Shouto pointed. Mina sat up, and sure enough, the bald man in the jumpsuit, with his back turned to them, working on something they couldn't see.

Ochako jumped up, the rest of them right behind her. "Hey you! Toolbelt! You cost us our pig!"

The man jumped. "Huh? W-what? A-ah! My position has been compromised! Assuming stealth mode!" He turned his watch, which changed his jumpsuit color to TV static. "Color match, initiating color match!" The jumpsuit changed to match different places in Gravity Falls, but certainly not matching what was behind him. "C-come on, dangit!" He pulled out a screwdriver and started fiddling with the watch.

Izuku looked at the watch with sparkling eyes. "That's some pretty neat tech!"

"Are you from the future or something?" Shouto theorized.

"N-no! Who told you that!?" The man was sweating profusely. Memory wipe!" He threw some sort of blue wipe on Shouto's face.

Shouto pulled it off, looking flatly at the man. "This is a baby wipe."

"Want to try again? From the top?" Mina offered. "Maybe tell us who you really are."

"Ugh." The man sat down on some haystacks. "You four caught me. I'm a time traveler."

"Woah," Izuku breathed.

An idea sparked in Mina's mind. "So…" She started. "If you're from the future, do you have some sort of time machine, or something?"

The man shrugged. "That's kinda how it works."

Mina thought about their terrible day at the fair. Losing Waddles, having to play rigged games, Ochako getting kicked out… She caught the eyes of the rest of the Mystery Crew, and smiled. It seemed they were all on the same page. "Can I borrow it, please?"

"Out of the question," The man snapped. He brought out his weird tape measurer, the one he had dropped earlier. "This is sensitive time equipment."

"Doesn't look like it," Shouto said coolly.

"You shut your time mouth!"The man pointed at Shouto, who looked entirely unimpressed.

"So," Ochako hedged. "Who are you again?"

"Blendin Blandin," Blendin brought out his card. He looked very sweaty and uncomfortable in the picture. "Time anomaly removal crew, year twenty-sNeventy-twelve." He put the card away. "My mission is to stop a series of time anomalies that are supposed to happen at this very location!" He looked around. "B-but I don't see any anomalies. I don't know if it's some kind of paradox, or if I'm just really tired." He sat down once again, clutching his forehead.

The four friends looked at each other, and somehow Mina knew they were all on the same page. "You know," Izuku started. "You look like you could use a break. This is a fair, why don't you go and enjoy some of the rides? I think after a long day, it's about time you treated yourself."

"You know what?" Blendin got to his feet. "What the heck. I'm worth it!" He took the offered tickets from Izuku, the ones they weren't able to use earlier. "But I've got my eye on you!" They all watched as he walked over to the barrel ride, where Soos was manning the tickets. "One please!"

"Sorry dude, but you're gonna have to take your belt off for the ride," Soos said. "One of your tools might fly off and accidentally fix something."

Blendin handed him the belt with the time machine on it. "Guard it with your life!"

"I will watch it like a hawk, dude," Soos assured him. Blendin clambered into one of the barrels, and Soos started the machine, watching Blendin have his fun. Seeing her chance, Ochako floated the time machine over to them, and they ducked behind another attraction.

"Nice!" Mina examined the machine. It didn't look that out of the ordinary, save for the hourglass symbol on the front. Maybe that was the point, to not attract attention? "Now we can go back and save Waddles."

Izuku picked up the time machine. "Let's start at the beginning of the day. That way we'll have all the tickets we need when we first go over to that suspenders guy."

"Sounds like a plan! Everyone hold onto each other." Ochako said. She gripped Izuku's arm. Shouto put his hand on Izuku's shoulder, and Mina high fived Shouto. Izuku pulled out the tape, stopping around twelve hours, and letting it go, and with a flash, they were all going back.

"There she is kids." Stan gestured proudly towards the fair. The cheapest fair money can rent. I saved every expense." There was a groaning noise, and Izuku jumped out of the way without thinking as Shouto took his tumble in the tram. Once again Shouto's hands glowed blue, and there was a flash… and the tram turned into a murder of crows, which took off in every direction."

Izuku blinked. "Um… pretty sure that was a donkey last time."

Shouto rubbed his back and pulled himself to his feet. "Yeah. Just when I think I've even somewhat figured this thing out." He glanced over at a slightly confused Stan. "Don't worry, no one will notice the missing tram. This is Gravity Falls."

"I'll hold you to that," Stan promised. He pulled the stack of fake inspection certificates out of his suit. "Slap one of these on anything that looks like a lawsuit, okay?"

"Sure thing!" Ochako took the sheets and spread them out between the four friends, Mina having just arrived. "Because when there's no cops around, anything's legal, right?"

"You got it!" Stan smiled proudly. "Welp, I'm off. Soos, how's that dunk tank coming along?"

"Let's go win some tickets right now," Mina muttered softly. "We'll probably need to cheat, but I don't think that's really an issue at this point."

"Out cheat the cheater," Shouto agreed. "Let's go."

With far more than two tickets in their hands, the group ran over to the pig stand. Mina thrust them towards suspenders. "I'd like that pig please!" She gestured towards Waddles, who was looking far more nervous than Ochako remembered him looking last time.

"Excuse me?" The all spun around to see Pacifica standing there, smug as ever. "In case you didn't notice, I already won the pig. Guess you losers got yourself all worked up a sweat for nothing."

Ochako groaned, glaring at the rich blonde. "Seriously? Why do you even want him anyways? Is it too much for you to have everything else that your parents could buy you?"

"It's not enough, actually. I don't mind having a little bit extra." Pacifica smirked. "Or a lot. Not that you'd understand. I can tell just by looking at you, you're obviously some poor person. Bet this is the only way you'd ever be able to get a pet, isn't it?"

Ochako was kicked out of the fair once again, earlier than last time, for the exact same reason. She decided it was totally worth it.

"This totally shouldn't be happening!" Mina groaned, flopping down one the grass in frustration. "Every time, no matter what we do, Pacifica always gets Waddles. She doesn't deserve Waddles! How does this keep happening!?"

"And yet what happens to the tram Shouto falls off always stays the same," Izuku mused, sitting down next to each other. "It could be that something about the structure of the universe is preventing us from getting Waddles…" He glanced over at Shouto. "But Shout's powers seem to be able to counteract that structure."

Shouto narrowed his eyes in thought. "So you're saying if I used my powers, there's a chance we would be able to bypass whatever's preventing us from getting Waddles?" He seemed hesitant. "I don't know. You've seen how unpredictable it is. It could just make everything even worse."

"Or it could make things better," Mina encouraged, re-energized by the idea of getting around this strange time problem. "It can't hurt to try! And even if things go wrong, we could always go back and undo it."

"YOU!" At the yell, they all jumped and looked around to see Blendin pointing their way and glaring at them, clearly out of breath. "You stole my equipment! You kids don't know what you're messing with. Give it back!"

Ochako didn't think, just acted. "Nope, sorry!" She jumped out of the way as Blendin lunged for the machine, accidentally bowling into her friends. Blendin's finger seemed to catch on the edge of the time machine, and the tape pulled out a long way, before snapping back and sending the group careening through time.

They landed on an open dirt road, seemingly in the middle of nowhere.

Izuku rubbed his head. "Where are we?"

"I think you mean 'when are we?'" Mina joked. She glanced to the side, seeing Blendin getting to his feet. "Anyways, whenever we are, we should probably scram."

"We can't just leave him in the past!" Izuku protested.

"He's a time traveler. Shouldn't he have another way to get home?" Ochako reasoned.

"Shh." Shouto was looking past all of them. "Do you hear that?" It was a loud thundering noise, getting closer and closer. Mina let out a gasp as a herd of Buffalo started charging towards them. Ochako floated them all out of the way, including Blendin, who yelped as he was lifted into the air. She set them all down safely on the side of the path.

"Well that's different," Mina managed to say, still somewhat stunned. Blendin seemed to recover from his surprise and glared at the Crew.

"Give it back, dangit!" He charged at them once again,and once again the tape went flying.

They found themselves surrounded by tall trees, and something loud roared at them, and Holy Shit that's a T-Rex! All five of them screamed and ran for their lives, the dinosaur (an actual dinosaur!) chasing after them. Shouto's hands lit up with flames, and he sent them towards the T-Rex, who reared back at the surprising distraction. Izuku took that moment to send them all forwards.

They found themselves in some ruins, and all breathed a sigh of relief. Then Ochako yelped as a laser struck the ground right next to her feet. Looking around, Mina could see chaos in every direction. There were helicopters and people screaming for everyone to run while firing laser guns at a large baby with the time symbol on its forehead, which was laughing and destroying everything in sight.

"Oh I remember this," Blendin mused. "This was the time war! It happened Blevens of years ago, when the great time baby came into power."

"Riiight," Mina said. "We should really get out of here." With quick agreements from everyone else, they vanished into the past.

There was a moment as they took in the peacefulness of the Gravity Falls fishing season sign. Then Blendin was chasing after them again, and the Mystery Crew was off, running from the beach, to the shack, to another side of the shack where those weird gnomes who had tried to capture Mina were gathered, to a snowy forest Mina barely recognized.

"This thing is getting hotter!" Izuku yelled, bouncing the time machine between his hands. The machine was giving off sparks in every direction covering the five of them before fading.

They landed with a thump, right next to the porta-potty at the Mystery Fair, back in the present time. There was Pacifica, receiving Waddles from suspenders.

And there was Blendin, right in front of them. "I'll be taking that!" He snapped, swiping the time machine from Izuku's hands. "Y-You kids don't have any idea what you've done, who you've messed with! How many rules you've broken?"

There was a flash, like the flashes Mina had just seen when they were time travelling, and two burly men appeared, wearing futuristic clothes. One of them snatched the time device from Blendin's hands.

"Blendin Blandin," the other man said, his voice deep and very befitting of some grizzled future guy.

Blendin yelped. "The time paradox avoidance enforcement squadron!"

The men glared down at him. "That's right. And our phones have been ringing off the hook!" One of them said. "There are human footprints in the age of the dinosaurs, and calculators strewn throughout eight centuries!"

Mina glanced at Izuku, who gave a guilty shrug.

"You are under arrest for violation of the time traveler's code of conduct." The two of them grabbed Blendin's arms.

"I-It was those kids!" Blendin sputtered. "They're the criminals, not me! Arrest them, not me!"

"Don't try and blame your crimes on others now." The brown haired man said. "We're going."

Blendin was dragged away. "I-I'll get you for this! I'll go back in time and make sure your parents never meet!"

Mina looked down at her hands. "Well, looks like we're still here."

"Guess he forgot to go back." Shouto shrugged casually. "Too bad. I'm sure my mom would appreciate the gesture."

"Can he even do that to our parents? I don't think time travel correlates to alternate universes" Izuku muttered thoughtfully. A blast drew their attention to the dunk tank, where one of the future police had blasted off the bulls-eye with an arm cannon, sending Stan plummeting into the water as everybody cheered.

Ochako snickered. "After everything his rigged games put us through, I can't say he didn't deserve it."

"'Cause he totally did," Mina chimed in. Still, she couldn't help but be drawn towards the scene of Pacifica horribly handling Waddles, who obviously didn't want to go with her.

Shouto tapped her shoulder lightly. "Izuku thought my power could change the flow of time, right? We might not have been able to test that theory, but…" He held out his hand towards Waddles and Mina watched the pig glow blue.

There was a flash, Shouto let out an undignified yell, and there, in place of a pig, was now a small brown bear cub, a patch of darker fur around one of his eyes. Pacifica shrieked and dropped the now far more dangerous Waddles, who happily trotted over to them and sat down in front of the Crew, huffing contentedly. There was another flash, and Waddles was a pig again.

"I didn't mean to do that." Shouto's eyes were wide. "I just wanted to bring him over."

"I don't think you need to worry about it," Izuku laughed. Mina picked Waddles up and hugged him tight as Pacifica ran away. "Waddles doesn't seem to mind very much."

They were walking through the fair at night, this time with their very own pig-bear (Waddles seemed to be able to control his transformations between species, and had scared off Robbie when the older teen had come over to antagonize them). It was peaceful, Izuku decided. He hoped there would be more days like this ahead of them.

Mina frowned, looking into her snow cone. "You know, we never did find out what was with all those anomalies Blendin was looking for."

Izuku paused, then slapped his forehead. "Of course! We were the time anomalies he was looking for!"

"Now that just makes my brain hurt." The pink girl sighed. "Whatever. All's well that ends well, right?"

"Except for poor Blendin," Ochako commented. "Think he'll ever come back for revenge?"

"No way. They put him under arrest, remember?" Izuku assured her. "We'll probably never see him again." Not that he didn't feel a bit guilty, seeing as it really wasn't Blendin's fault for just doing his job, but the guy had threatened to erase them from existence, so Izuku wasn't feeling too generous.

Shouto gave a small smile. "We should probably head back to the shack. It's getting late."

And so with hearts and bellies full, the Mystery Crew and their new pig-bear pet walked back home, ready for a brand new day of adventure that was surely awaiting them tomorrow.

This Stan Pines has much less conflict with Waddles, if only because it's a lot harder to boss a pig around when the pig can turn into a brown bear whenever he feels like it. It's a good thing Waddles loves Stan anyways.

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