I have a question.

Why single out Peter Petrelli to "Save the cheerleader, save the world"?

Because, only Peter directly affects others abilitys. He is, in my opinion, an ability leech. If Sylar tries to use his TK around Peter, it would not work. Peter would absorb Sylar's abiliy, and be able to use it against Sylar.

It appears Future Hiro and Peter are friends when he comes from.

Also, Peter *wants* to believe. Hiro says as much to him, he says this is what he's been waiting for, he wants proof, a purpose.

None of the other powered beings really believe what's going on, or are interested in asking too many questions just yet.

J

I agree. Peter is the one most likely to believe Hiro at this point in time. The others would probably just think he's an idiot in a funny costume (despite the...time-stopping thing...yeah).

And he didn't say PETER was to save the cheerleader. Peter needs to tell them where to meet. Future Hiro needed someone to get them together fast!

Is that proven, though? That Peter is, at that moment, "leeching" Hiro's ability, and that that is why he's able to see time stopping? Or is it rather because Hiro has improved his ability in the future and can choose how he stops time?

Thank you for correcting my Logic.

Not only does Peter *want* to believe that he can make a difference, he can also verify that Hiro is bending space/time. If future Hiro came back to any of the other heroes, he would be in the same situation as the women's restroom event, trying to explain that he just teleported.

Since Peter can Siphon (my personal choice for Peter's name) off of Hiro's power, he has verifiable proof that time has been stopped because he can see it with his own eyes.

So, Peter is the logical choice for contact. He is willing to believe and he is the only one that can see Hiro's abilities in action.

I think it's his abilites as a leech that made him the most obvious choice as well as the fact that he's the most willing to believe now...

It's not proven one way or the other, and on top of that it makes perfect sense either way, so I just latched onto the idea I liked best, lol

Yep. Both ideas are perfectly valid at this point in time.

Peter's siphon or Hiro's skill could both be true until we either:

1)See Hiro (future or otherwise) allow someone else to stay unfrozen
2)See Peter stay unfrozen with the unskilled Hiro.

I'd change that to "See Peter frozen with either Hiro." because the first time he sees Peter could also conceivably be the first time he realizes he can keep people unfrozen...

I believe that Peter will learn how to completely drain someone of there power.

I think it's also possible that Peter is simply going to be in the right place at the right time -- that the flow of events is going to put Peter in a position to save Claire, an opportunity that he might have missed the "first time," i.e., in the timeline future Hiro came from. So it's not necessarily something unique to Peter as an individual.

ITA with those who say that it may be more a question of Peter being the ideal messenger rather than the one who will do the saving.

I think we ironed out enough to say that Peter is the catalyst and the connector to all of the characters. he's the man with his head set for this. This much is clear.

I dissagree with Peter being a power leech. If he takes people powers while he is around, that would take away the powers of allies as well, not to mention that pocket of space/time on the train wouldn't be possible. Mimicry, not absorbing.

Peter is a mimick, not a leech. I don't think that he steals their powers from others. He only gains those abilities when he's near them. I'm sure that whoever he's mimicking still have their abilities.

He's the perfect one to fight Sylar. He can match telekenesis with telekenesis, plus if Claire is around he'll also have her regenerative powers so if he gets wounded he'll heal.

I think that it is Hiro that made Peter able to stay unfrozen. Just what I think. I prefer to call Peter a Mimic also, it's not nice to call him a leecher.

Right you are. Besides Leech from the X men comics only suppressed mutant powers. He didn't take them on for himself. He is more like Rogue except he only needs to be in close proximity and the other person doesn't lose their power or pass out. If that were true when Nathan caught him from doing his swan dive off the roof they both would have fallen to their deaths because Nathan would have lost his ability or passed out.

Perfectly put...

Peter is Rogue jus better...

hehe.

just like in final fantasy tactics:

mimes blow solo.

mimes are overpowered with Calculated Holy. ^^

Because the plot requires it to be as such.

Real answer: Because he's the pretty looking one. The pretty looking one is always the main character.

I kid, the real answer is the first answer that I gave. I don't have reasons. I'm horrible and speculating.

My fiance came up with this theory. That Hiro contacted Peter because when he freezes time everyone is frozen except him, but if Peter is a mimic he is also unfrozen and therefore the only one that Hiro can talk to without actually going into the past and changing the future by doing so...if that makes sense. =)

You know if they ever do a Prince of Persia movie, the guy that plays Peter would be the perfect choice for the prince. It's that scene where his eyes go all white and he's got the hair infront of the one eye.. Reminds me of the prince. Since I'm a big fan of the Prince of Persia games that was kind of a "hmmm" moment..

Exactly.

Indeed. And I think you see this in one of Isaac's paintings. One looks like Peter is using TK to either throw doors (at Sylar?) or to block doors that were thrown at him. And they look like classroom doors, so I'd assume that the fight is at the school when Isaac painted Claire running away from the shadow.

Maybe this fight is where Peter gets his scar that Future Hiro alludes to in the train.

I totally agree. He is the logical choice right now.

Definitely his power to mimic made him the only choice for Hiro to approach. If you think about it, if Hiro were to stop time and visit somebody else, they wouldn't be able to talk because Hiro would have froze them. Being a leech made Peter the ONLY choice.