One Year Ago

Hiro's POV

"I don't understand why you are making me watch the other contestants. It's just making me more nervous!" Hiro said to his brother who only chuckled.

"Trust me Hiro, you're microbots are going to win but it's always good to scope out the competition!" Tadashi said just as the announcer walked out and everyone clapped. Hiro had never felt more nervous about anything than this competition, if he didn't win then he didn't get to go to university with his friends.

"And for our next contestant we have Mercury Tetch!" the announcer said into the microphone. A young teenager maybe a year older than Hiro walked out with a wave, he had crazy brown hair, a bright smile, and piercing blue eyes.

"Okay for the millionth time my first name isn't...you know what yeah okay my name is Mercury." he grumbled into the microphone. Mercury reached into his pocket and pulled out what looked like a bluetooth earpiece "My invention is one I've dreamed of for a long time. On this earpiece is hundreds of hours of guitar lessons, now I have never even touched a guitar but watch this!" he said loudly and placed the device in his ear.

Mercury shuddered for a second before running over and grabbing a guitar. He played every song perfectly as if he had been practicing since the day he was born. When he was done he put the guitar down and took out the earpiece "Maybe you want to show off to your friends in basketball?" he asked before taking out a second earpiece and replacing the first. He shuddered again before someone from the audience threw him a basketball, he grabbed it, dribbled it expertly for a few seconds before throwing it across the room where it landed in a hoop.

Everyone clapped in excitement as he pulled out a third earpiece and put it in his ear, he began to sing an opera, hitting notes no one ever thought possible. After five minutes of straight singing he took the earpiece out and bowed "With this you can become a superstar in a matter of seconds!" he shouted and everyone clapped excitedly as he exited the stage.

Tadashi was clapping too and when Mercury passed by them he gave Hiro a calculating look. Hiro shifted nervously, his blue eyes were starting to scare him, Mercury pulled something out of his pocket, it looked like a silver coin and he brought it to his mouth. He held the coin in his mouth like a toothpick "So this is Hiro? Wow, thought he was going to be more impressive Tad. Way to oversell." he said before pushing through the crowd and out of sight.

"What was that?!" Hiro asked nervously, he couldn't get that intense stare and the way that coin sounded scraping against his teeth out of his head.

Tadashi laughed "Mercury is an odd duck but he's a good guy at heart. Trust me when he's mean to you it generally means he's taken a liking to you." he explained. They walked up to the stage and Hiro was feeling anxious again.

Tadashi gave Hiro a quick hug before Hiro went and gave his presentation. He didn't remember much he was so nervous and there was so much adrenaline running through him that it was all a blur. One thing he did remember though when he won the contest...

Was how angry Mercury Tetch looked.

Present Day

"Hey Hiro! How you been?" Wasabi asked as he worked on his plasma gauntlets. Hiro gave him a smile as he worked on his helmet, it was giving off this strange static noise and he was trying to figure out what was wrong.

Suddenly the door opened and Gogo ran in looking worried "Big trouble! Mercury and the rest of the administration are on their way here!" he shouted and everyone quickly scrambled to put all of their super hero team gear away.

Hiro had just put his helmet away when the door opened and Mercury walked in, like always whenever he tried to get them in trouble he immediately zeroed in on Hiro. No matter where Hiro was in the school whenever he turned around Mercury was always glaring at him from a distance and he had been too scared to ask what he had done wrong.

Mercury had his coin in hand and was flipping it around as Granville walked up "Mr. Tetch has brought it to our attention that you all are misusing university tools to create weapons?" she asked. Mercury grinned as he leaned against the wall looking smug.

Everyone stuttered as they tried to think of what to say, did Mercury know about their secret identities? He was one of the smartest people in the university but he rarely interacted with them. Granville looked over at Mercury before back at the group.

"Which is why we have decided to have Mr. Tetch supervise you all from now one." she announced.

"WHAT!?" everyone, including Mercury, shouted.

"Professor you can't be serious! If I'm stuck with them I'll go insane!" Mercury shouted but Granville refused to argue. Everyone looked at each other worriedly because if Mercury was in the same room as them then they couldn't discuss their plans in saving the city when it was in peril! Sure they all hung out after school but their lab and equipment was here!

Mercury was practically shouting at Granville "Is this a punishment for me too?!" he snarled.

Granville gave a thin smile "Well considering how you are constantly complaining about Mr. Hamada and his antics, we think that the best person to supervise them would be you. Good day Mr. Tetch." and with that all of the teachers left a stunned Mercury in the room.

Hiro walked over and Mercury was gripping his coin so tightly his knuckles were turning white. Hiro gave a side smile "Hey Tetch...so, I guess we're colleagues now?" he asked with a nervous laugh.

Mercury glared at Hiro "I hate you." he deadpanned before walking out of the room.

Hiro sighed, why did Mercury hate him so much? He never really did anything to him and Tadashi always said he was a nice guy but he's been nothing but rude and obnoxious to Hiro since he started school. He went back to his desk and slumped over it "Why does he hate me?" he asked.

"No idea he's always been kind of a jerk but then you came into the picture and he just went off the charts jerkmode." Wasabi explained as he sat next to him.

Fred and Honey walked next to them as Hiro looked at his helmet in front of him "Why is he called Mercury?" he asked remembering the day he met him. He complained about Mercury not being his name but resigned to it.

"Fred called him that, it was his first semester here. He and Tadashi were lab partners and the second day of class he flooded most of the building with liquid mercury. Took weeks for it all to be removed from the school, since then everyone in the school has called him Mercury Tetch." Honey explained and Fred looked enormously proud of that.

Hiro looked up in shock "How on earth did he..." he started.

"We asked...he refuses to tell us how he got his hands on that much mercury." Gogo explained as if reading Hiros mind. He sighed, that story just made the guy even more mysterious and strange. The door opened and Mercury walked in carrying a box filled with a bunch of gadgets and tools.

"I'm taking this corner." he said loudly and set his stuff down and started writing some notes in a book. Hiro got up and walked over to the taller teenager, he glanced over and scowled at Hiro. Hiro glanced at his notebook and saw the entire page was covered in mathematical equations and notes on harnessing different elements.

"What are you working on?" Hiro asked and Mercury continued writing, he was twirling his coin in his hand. Hiro had never actually gotten a good looks at it but now he could clearly see the coin. It was a bright silver, it was liquid but laced with a casing so it didn't spill. The coin was made of mercury!

Mercury stopped writing and sighed, he put his pencil down and glared at Hiro "Can you get away from me?!" he whispered harshly and Hiro nodded and walked away from him. Mercury stared at him for a few seconds and looked like he wanted to say something else but rolled his eyes and went back to his notes.

Hiro sat down and stared at the older teen, he was hunched over and he was staring intently at his notebook as he wrote stuff down. It was like he wanted to get every detail of each letter and number perfectly. Hiro had seen that kind of posture and stare before, he used to do it when he was younger.

Mercury felt like an outcast, he felt like no one wanted to interact with him, he felt like no one cared about him. If he could have his notes be perfect then he could feel proud of something, even if no one else was proud of him. It was right there Hiro decided that no matter the cost...

He was going to make Mercury Tetch his friend!

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So this is my first BH6 story...hope it's good!