Portal

Hiro's Journal

Hiro Hamada – Captivity: Day 32

I haven't managed to stabilize the inter-dimensional time portal yet. I don't know how to link it to a specific date and time and am rather baffled by the ones it does choose to link to. There doesn't appear to be a discernible pattern that I can trace. I have, however, made some progress. I've managed to build a device that should allow a person to survive entering the inter-dimensional time portal. It's designed to contain the particles it's in contact with thus limiting their dispersal when these particles come into contact with the erratic fluctuations of energy caused by the portal. Now all I have to do is actually test it. Something tells me I'm the one that's going to be wearing it.

I'm not sure what's going to happen. I've double and triple checked the math and in theory my calculations appear to be sound but we all know success often doesn't come without failure. The question is, will I survive long enough to try again? The better question is, do I even care? Surely they won't hurt Aunt Cass if I'm no longer around to be threatened?

Hiro put down the pen and stared at the page before him. He watched as the pink ink dried and faded away, the most recent diary entry gone, as if it had never been there in the first place. Picking up the black pen he sketched a small symbol onto the corner of the page before pulling the photograph of Aunt Cass, his friends and Tadashi out of his pocket. He'd kept it as a reminder of what his life used to be.

He ran his fingers over its surface, trying to straighten corners tattered from too much handing, before slipping it into the notebook he'd started his diary in. He then slipped the notebook into the stack containing all of his recent calculations. Satisfied he'd done everything he could, he swiveled the chair he was in around to face the sliding door and settled for the wait.

- BH6 - BH6 - BH6 –

Hiro was standing before an eerily familiar sight. Before him was a giant metal ring, suspended in mid-air. Leading up to it was a steel platform. The ring itself was made up of large segments designed to slot into one another in order to form a perfect circle. It was project silent sparrow all over again with just a few differences. Where project silent sparrow had made use of two rings this portal used only one and attached to the top part of the ring was a digital display on which there was a date, presumably the date to which the portal was connected.

As expected, Hiro had been chosen to test the device he'd made. Overriding the fear that he wouldn't be alive for very much longer had been a sense of hope that this might finally be the opening he needed in order to escape. That hope had been crushed when Inquisitor had informed him that electrical signals could be sent into the portal without any problems and seeing as he was still strapped to the ankle monitor he might not want to stay in the portal for longer than five minutes lest he regret the outcome.

"Target stabilized. Initiate phase Epsilon." The emotionless voice echoed in the large laboratory.

"Okay, here's your chance to prove yourself." Inquisitor's voice could be heard over the intercom. "Remember, if you're not out in five minutes I'm activating the ankle monitor." The intercom was cut off.

Hiro turned to face the blue swirling light in the portal and took a deep breath in preparation to enter it. "Come on, knucklehead. You've been in one of these before. What are you afraid of?" He muttered to himself taking a few reluctant steps forward. "Oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that despite what it may look like, this isn't project silent sparrow and no one has survived the attempt to enter this portal yet." He answered his own question. Closing his eyes he bit his lip and took the first step that would take him beyond the blue swirling space.

The pain that coursed through him was excruciating far exceeding the pain of the electric shock. Every nerve came to life informing him that he was being torn apart. Every particle of his being vibrated out of control, the molecules that made up his body trying to synchronize to the rhythm of the portal itself but the device he'd created did its job and it was soon over. Hiro made it through and emerged on the other side taking in deep gasps of air as his brain fought to catch up to his body. The pain was, thankfully, gone.

Hiro opened his eyes.

To say that the sight that greeted him was unexpected was an understatement. He'd expected to find himself standing on solid ground, somewhere in either the past or the future. Instead he was in an empty space, much like the one he'd encountered when he entered the portal for project silent sparrow with swirling blues, and purples surrounding him. Looking down he realized he was standing on a glass-like walkway, the material cool beneath his still bare feet but that was not what really surprised him. What surprised him were the hundreds, if not thousands of colorful threads all attached to his pinkie. Behind him, there was only one, pure white and still. The rest were all before him shimmering in every color imaginable, thrumming with unexplained energy. He had to see what lay at the end of each one.

Launching himself into a run he picked a vibrant purple thread and followed it until he stumbled to a halt at a softly glowing tear in the colorful swirls around him. The thread entered the glowing rift and vanished. That's when he realized the entire space was comprised of glowing rifts, overlapping, merging and swirling together to form the kaleidoscope of color he saw before him. Taking another deep breath he gathered himself and stepped through the opening, this time already prepared for the tearing pain that he would encounter as he crossed the rift.

Ice cold ground connecting with his bare feet brought him back to his senses once more. Bright light filtered into sight, this time revealing the exactly what he'd originally expected to encounter. He was back in reality. He was standing on ice cold concrete, surrounded by all too familiar metal walls and sliding door. A camera was mounted in the ceiling and the air conditioner continued to blow cool air onto the scene but something wasn't right. The sliding door was wide open and the corridor beyond it was encased in darkness.

Turn around…

Hiro responded to the whisper and turned slowly round, running his eyes over each familiar wall. He spotted the toilet mounted to the corner wall, exactly where he expected it to be. Connected to it was the bed he'd begun to hate with a passion for it signified his captivity, his sheer helplessness. The bed was occupied. Hiro saw himself, lying prone on the bed. He was covered in blood and his eyes were staring up at the ceiling dark, still and lifeless.

Hiro screamed.

- BH6 - BH6 - BH6 –

A/N: If anyone is interested I have added a link; to an image of Hiro as the Grimalkin; to my profile page. On a different note it looks like I started something here. When I replied to Mr m about potentially writing a pairing later I meant I might consider writing a short oneshot fluffy piece with a pairing in it after this story is complete, probably in the same timeline as this story. I'm not too keen to write a romance for Hiro though because there is no one in my story that I think Hiro would work well with and original characters are difficult to introduce into a fan fiction without giving the impression that you as the author are trying to write yourself into the story (Mary Sue).

Ern Estine 13624: XD You must be on a similar timeline to me as you're generally first to review!

Rizard13: I'm glad you liked my usage of 'Hiro is Here' XD. I liked it too. I'm a gay fiction writer. Not a gay fanfiction writer XD. I've never written a gay fanfiction piece. This is after all my very first fanfiction and I'm not all that keen to put romance directly into it as it is meant to be a piece that focuses on Hiro and Tadashi and their sibling relationship. I don't do incest. I don't mind Hidashi but only if its written as an alternate universe where Hiro is aged up and Tadashi and Hiro are NOT related.

shooting2stars: Yes one can hope that the correct connections are made quickly. Hiro needs some saving! The bad guys are a bit intimidating, I agree but the circumstances of the actual rescue may surprise you ;). I'm also enjoying the interactions between Tadashi and Baymax but they are difficult to write...

Guest: I picture Hiro's mind as being all over the place when he is running through ideas which is why I described his notes as being all over the place. I picture Tadashi's mind as more structured and ordered so his notes would probably be cataloged, not to the degree of Wasabi but yeah. BI too adore Baymax!

Rosycat: Yeah, Baymax is an interesting character to write. He is both a person and not.

MinamiJSakuya: I can neither confirm nor deny a grand super hero style rescue XD. I generally have a vague idea of what I want to put into my story and let the characters and the story do the rest of the work so to be honest I can't really predict the details of what will happen until it does. I want to insert a few moments of brotherly fluff into this piece but will see how the story plays out. If it doesn't work out I might do a short story afterwards. I like writing romance in general but the only pairing I actually like in the context of my story (without the need to introduce an original character) is Tadashi and Gogo.

Anony mouse101: Hi and Welcome! I love your username. Very clever. Glad you are enjoying my story. I'm currently updating twice a week. More or less on Monday's and Friday's. Hope that's soon enough for you. XD