This is a short chapter with little fluff or anything really, but it's necessary to speed the story along and pick up the plot.

The issue with Ty will be solved in the next chapter, but the story will continue- Ty was never intended to be a major character or have any plot significance, I just made him up to have someone to kind of bully Hiro a little bit (sorry Hiro, love you!) but then people mentioned him a lot in their reviews and so I thought 'hey, I could do something with this dude'

I don't own Big Hero 6.

~princess

Hiro was by now settled into his timetable and college life. He had been worried that he and Tadashi would become distant, but that didn't happen at all; if anything, they grew closer as they supported each other.

However, over the next few days, strange things started to happen to Hiro. At first he thought nothing of them, but as it continued he realised that someone was behind it.

It began when his copy of a physics textbook went missing. Luckily, the professor had spares but he didn't hide his annoyance, which put Hiro in a bad mood.

In the same day, the science paper he had spent hours working on was covered in ink blots when he took it out of his bag to hand in. He stared at in horror. It certainly hadn't looked like that when he had put it into his bag that morning!

Little things started to go missing too, such as pens and, to Hiro's irritation, his only calculator. Not that Hiro needed it, since he could do any sum in his head in seconds, but it was required of every physics student to have a calculator.

When Hiro discovered at lunch that his phone was missing, he freaked out until he went to the office and found out that someone had handed it in. When Hiro asked who it was, they said they didn't know; the phone had just been left on the desk.

Feeling grumpy and confused, Hiro shoved his phone in his pocket and rushed to meet Tadashi for lunch.

"You okay?" asked Tadashi, as the brothers sat down at a table. Tadashi had pizza and Hiro had noodles.

"Not really," scowled Hiro, wrapping noodles around his fork and stuffing them in his mouth.

Tadashi watched, a little amused, as his brother angrily ate his food. "What's happened?"

"I don't even know! This morning I lost my physics textbook and had to get a new one. The paper I wrote for computer science was covered in ink and I have to do it again- it's the one I spent three hours on! All my pens have gone missing and so has my calculator. Finally, my phone disappeared and the reason I was late meeting you is because I went to get it from the office."

Tadashi frowned. "Wow, you're knuckleheaded, but not enough for all those things to be an accident."

Hiro stared. "You mean someone's doing this?"

Tadashi snorted. His little brother was so innocent. "I'm pretty certain someone's behind it, yeah. It just isn't possible for so many things to go missing purely as a result of bad luck."

"Who could it be, though?" Hiro was a little hurt to think that someone hated him enough to go out of their way to do all that.

"I have no idea. Do you know anyone who dislikes you?"

"Not particularly…but most people probably don't like me, what with me being fourteen and all."

Tadashi frowned at this, and his frown deepened when he thought of something. "What about that Ty?"

"He's my friend!" said Hiro defensively. "He would never do this to me."

Listening to the conversation from behind a vending machine, Ty smirked. 'That little brat has no idea it's me! Serves Tadashi right, and his annoying brother.'

Time skip:

Hiro was careful not to let his bag out of his sight for the rest of the week, and the only thing that happened was that his new calculator went missing. He figured that someone must have swiped it off the table when he wasn't looking. This greatly frustrated him, as he had to buy a calculator for the second time that week, and Aunt Cass wasn't pleased, either.

On Monday, it was the day of the presentation. Hiro's stomach churned with nerves when he thought of it. He was consoled by the fact that Ty would be presenting most of it; but his hopes were completely dashed when he got to school and discovered that the young man had a sore throat.

"Sorry, Hiro," said Ty, his voice nothing more than a hoarse whisper. "My throat is awful. I'll stand at the front and switch the slides for you, but I can't say a word."

Hiro felt like throwing up there and then, but he assured Ty that it was okay.

He stammered his way through the presentation, and couldn't have been more relived that it was over. He bore no hard feelings towards Ty; after all, it was no one's fault that he had a sore throat.

However, Hiro certainly had mixed feelings when he walked round a corner to see Ty talking to his friend, his voice completely normal. Hiro had quietly backtracked and Ty didn't know he was there, but Hiro was extremely upset and puzzled.

Ty didn't have a sore throat at all. He had lied, just so Hiro would have to do the presentation on his own, when he knew how terrified the younger boy was.