Warning: Written in Google Docs so the grammar might be even worse than usual \0o0/ (that was supposed to be a wide-eyed face. With the sides being hands and the 0s being eyes, and the o being a mouth… okay, I'll just… go now). Also, in this chapter, the chapter's POVs aren't proportionate; if you find Hiro's POV short, don't worry; Vanellope's won't be. It might be the other way around in other chapters too. I'll try and avoid switching around too much in one chapter, though.

Botfighter101 (BigHiro6)

Hiro's desktop was spazzing out. He was pretty sure the guy was trying to fight back at the virus. And, judging by his techniques, knew that Hiro had been trying to track him. Keyword: had been. The location was on a nice piece of printer paper.

Hiro felt very stalker-ish at that moment. For a split second, Hiro felt dread; what if this person had called the cops? Surely, it was illegal to do things like this. There was also the feeling of a bad kind of anticipation, the kind that made you dizzy and sick to your stomach. He hadn't been planning on taking a flight to see this guy; it just wasn't worth it. But if it was closer, then he would go for. And candycrusher14 was local… very local. So Hiro was going for it. He wasn't going to murder him, just meet him. And after that, the person wouldn't feel threatened… okay, so there were some holes in Hiro's plan; it was last minute and he couldn't go back now.

The virus had the ability to show the address, and even the room, but this one said that candycrusher14 was at the park. It was a little inconvenient, but Hiro could ask around… Because people knew each other by their usernames on MOR (1). Hiro groaned and plopped on his bed.

This wasn't a plan; this was Swiss cheese.

But he had to be something. Hiro had a little voice in his head saying he didn't, but that was the quitter voice. And if there was one thing Tadashi taught him, it was to never quit. Even if you were working Stalker-style. Adding one more piece to his plan, he grabbed his phone and transferred the data in his desktop into it. That way, he could try and track him while setting this guy left on a mission to take it off of his desktop. Well, this guy was probably smart enough to just try and stop his computer from sending the signals. Hiro just hoped that he-himself- got there in time. (2)

Hiro felt so stalker-ish, he practically smelled it.

~line break. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah~

The park was maybe 5 minutes away, via trolley. Add the wait time and crowds, Hiro got to the park about 15 minutes later (3). He wandered around the areas until he got closer to where the red marked indicated candycrusher14 was. It took a while, and Hiro had to use his phone that kept loosing where he was and finding him again. Eventually, Hiro made it to a tree that looked like an old woman at a club; wrinkly and wearing clothes made for those far under her age. It definitely looked like a place candycrusher14 would hang around. Only issue; there was no one there.

Hiro sighed. candycrusher14 had probably dropped his laptop there and made a run for it. It was a waste of money, but it wasn't like the laptop was worth that much anymore anyways. Hiro sighed and was about to make an exit when a memory card fell down from his left.

Either memory cards were falling for the sky, or a certain person was up in that tree.

candycrusher14

She had intended to take out the memory card and replace it. Not like she had the cash to do it, but it was better than being killed for beating someone in a game, which was still tracking her, despite her very best attempts. (4) Then he came. BigHiro6 (she was guessing it had something to do with the new superhero group in town) didn't look any older than she was, maybe by a year at most. Still, he was taller than her by a good few inches (she wasn't exactly the tallest kid around). She held her breath and waited a moment before he gave up and left. Relieved, Vanellope forgot the memory card was in her hands and let it slip.

And there went her secrecy.

BigHiro6 looked up; she held her breath and tried to think. What to do… If she ran she had a 50/50 shot of making it. Vanellope could take that chance. But the ego in her head stopped her from running. Why was she afraid of this kid? Sure, he was taller than her. But he was her age for heaven's sake! Vanellope finally let out her breath and sat there, waiting. When she finally heard him coming, she closed her eyes, hook the insides of her knees on the branch and swung upside down.

"Hello!" Vanellope said with a wide smile.

BigHiro6 looked shocked and nearly dropped off his branch.

"Umm… hi?" he asked, almost as a question.

Vanellope continued with her wide smile.

"Can I help ya with something?" Vanellope said, turning her head to the side. This kid was bluffing. She was going to torture him for the panic attack he gave her.

"Um, yeah," BigHiro6 said, "Are you… candycrusher14?"

"Mmm, depends: are you the Stinkbrain that murdered my laptop? And then tracked me? Because I think I'll need to write down your name so I can report you. Hiro, something…"

Hiro looked surprised.

"How do you know my name?"

Vanellope rolled her eyes, "Hm, let me see… you hack into my computer, find my location, while simultaneously killing it, but can't spell 'H.E.R.O' in Big Hero 6? I think… not."

Hiro cringed and nodded.

"Uh… right."

There was a fair length of silence before Vanellope darted her eyes around and finally looked back at Hiro.

"Do you need something?"

Hiro cringed.

"Yeah… I didn't really plan this out that well…" Hiro raked his hand through his hair, causing him to wobble on the branch he was clinging to.

Vanellope felt heat rising to her chest.

"So you're saying you ruined my computer to the point of no salvage. Because of sketchy planning?"

Hiro coughed.

"No. I corrupted your computer because you were cheating."

Although Vanellope knew she was hard to take seriously while upside down, she shrieked.

"It's just a game!"

This kid was delusional. What was with him? Vanellope didn't want a pity party, especially not from PhycHiro (she'd work on the name), but that was all she had. Vanellope, hands in her pockets, pinched herself to keep herself from choking up. Not now. Alone, somewhere private; something the tree should have been.

The smile Vanellope hadn't realized she'd dropped was back on.

"Well, thanks for stopping by, but I think you should go now," Vanellope said, almost sounding drunk in the way she dragged out her words.

Hiro looked at her, and then at the rest of the tree above her. With that, he set back his shoulders and switched his attitude (Vanellope was pretty sure that was a sign of psychotics). He turned his head upside down to meet eyes with Vanellope.

"So… what's up the rest of this tree?"

Vanellope narrowed her eyes in suspicion.

"Nothing." She answered in a tone equal to Hiro's.

Hiro shrugged and began moving upwards. Vanellope watched and snickered; she turned upright on her branch and looked down at her colorfully painted nails (5).

"Oh, I wouldn't do that if I were you."

Hiro snorted.

"What, do you have, booby traps up here?"

Vanellope listened for a minute before she heard a snap and waited as Hiro fell rapidly into her front line of vision. Quickly, she reached forward and grabbed his wrist. She smirked.

"Yes."

Vanellope promptly hauled him up and nearly threw him onto a branch to the front left of her.

"And only I know where they are." Vanellope thought about her next sentence and scowled. "Go back home and ruin someone else's l-laptop (6)."

Hiro looked at Vanellope for a second.

"I can help fix it; your laptop." he said.

Vanellope shook her head.

"You'll probably just ruin it some more."

Hiro looked at her, "Which would make it worse than it already is because..? Listen; you have a BitWhisper Virus in your computer. You have a really well protected system, but the virus is eating holes through it like crazy, letting all the bugs you've fought against using that system invade. With all the hacking systems and other virus-laced content you've downloaded, you're dead within a few minutes. I graduated high school last year and have recently started college at SFIT; if there's anyone that can help, it's me."

Vanellope growled.

"Oh, a real life genius here in front of me; I'm honored. And I know; you may be Einstein, but I know every hack and virus out there; I'll fix it myself. Just leave me-"

"But do you have the equipment to do it?"

Vanellope paused and blinked at Hiro.

"What?"

"So you know how to fix a virus," Hiro said with a shrug, "Do you have the equipment to fix it? I see you have a pretty old model of the Flitter laptop-"

"Which you would know because you took a peek at all of my information."

"... so it doesn't look like you can- no offense- afford all the equipment needed to take out the virus. Like I said, I'm a student at SFIT, I have access to all that equipment." Hiro took a deep breath, "Look; if I mess up your laptop, you can turn me in for destruction of property. My name's Hiro Hamada. Here's my phone if you don't believe me. I swear to you, ah… whatever your name is…, I'm just trying to make it up to you."

Vanellope turned on and looked at the phone handed to her, but really only looked at the front screen before tossing it back to Hiro.

"The name's Vanellope," she ignored the eyebrows-hit-hairline, wide-eyed look Hiro gave her, "and you better have the equipment to fix it."

A/N: I HAVE REVIEW REPLIES IN THE CHAPTER BEFORE THIS! You didn't get notified because, technically, I already posted chapter 3. Also, the A/N was WAAAAY too long. Okay, so meh. Meh, meh, meh, meh, meh… I'm soooo done with playing the pronoun game. Anyways, let's hope this doesn't just turn into a bunch of code like last chapter.

(1) It's supposed to stand for the game's name, but I made up to name for it at all. * face palm *

(2) I have no idea how tracking works. All of the terms used in the chapter are either made up, or known because I'm a Non/Disney YT editor, meaning what I do is illegal, and therefore, downloading the footage to do it would be using illegal software. And those usually have bugs in them -.- I DON'T know how to track someone and the only things I know about hacking is you use software to discover passwords.

(3) I'm adding only 10 minutes because my story's Vanellope would probably have gotten Hiro off her track in 20 minutes.

(4) I DON'T KNOOOOOWWWWW! The saddest thing is that I've written a story on hacking before (How To Hack Your Dragon; incomplete and on hiatus/ abandoned).

(5) I really don't know what my obsession is with the dyed hair and painted nails… I really don't…

(6) The stutter with the "l" was because Vanellope was about to say "life", but she doesn't like people knowing too much about her.

So, here's some information: First of all, those that began following me because of my HTTYD fanfics know that I DON'T UPDATE UNLESS I GET FIVE REVIEWS PER CHAPTER. I'm not even kidding. I've had this rule since I began on FF. I just didn't uphold it as much as I do now. Second of all, on my YT account, there is a trailer I made for this. It's not great, but a full summary is in the desc. I can't give you the think, but just look up Hiro x Vanellope | Life Hack and you'll find it. NOTE (after you read the summary): THERE WILL BE A SIGNIFICANTLY LESS AMOUNT OF SUPERNATURALISM TO THIS IF ANY! What I said about her memory stands though (reference in last chapter)

Woah! I think the A/N was longer than the actual chapter -.- Oh well, until next time!

~ Sam