Twisted:
Summary: What if Honey Lemon hadn't made it in time to put Baymax's original chip back in? What if Hiro had been ok with that? What if they had found Tadashi but he was in a coma?
I DON'T OWN THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY. THE RIGHTS GO TO THEIR OWNERS.
THIS IS MY FIRST POSTING FIC WITH CHAPTERS. HATERS CAN LEAVE, HELPFUL CRITICISM IS WELCOMED. ENJOY.
When Hiro saw who was really behind the mask, he was shocked, why was Callahan here? But he was dead. He can't be here, if he is here, why isn't Tadashi here?
The rest went by in a blur; all he could think about was his brother, his dear beloved and dead brother.
He barely registered ripping out Baymax's health card before looking at Callahan. He made his decision.
"Destroy. Destroy him Baymax!"
And as Baymax attacked Callahan, Hiro couldn't find it in himself to care about what happened. His friends tried to stop Baymax as he chased the man, but all their effort was in vain. They were too late, the shot had fired and Callahan was dead.
His friends were devastated, they tried to talk to Hiro but he didn't listen. Instead he made a plan to get them on his side. What Callahan did would never be repeated.
"Baymax," they would help him with or without their consent, "Put them to sleep." With the order and fear in their eyes, they ran.
Honey Lemon ran only a short distance before yelling, "Hiro! Please, stop! You can't do this!" But Hiro ignored her plea.
Gogo zipped by and pulled her out of the way before Baymax could catch up. "Hiro, get your head on straight! We're your friends."
Wasabi who was still recovering from the whole situation, ran straight for Hiro, "You have to stop Baymax! We can talk about this."
"Yeah, little dude! Just let us talk to you." Fred had jumped onto the platform above them to stay out of the way.
Why don't they understand that it was all Callahan's fault that Tadashi is dead? Why don't they get it? It's Callahan's fault. He didn't even say he was sorry. He said it was TADASHI'S mistake! That it was TADASHI who made the bad decision by trying to save him! THAT IS WAS ALL TADASHI'S FAULT THAT HE WAS DEAD!
Hiro felt a hand on his shoulder, "Hiro, please. We can talk about this, we can help you. We're your friends Hiro and we will do everything in our power to help you." Wasabi used a soft voice as to not provoke the child any further.
"I know you will Wasabi. I know all of you will help me." Hiro looked to the ground wishing they could just understand the pain he felt.
Gogo set Honey down next to Hiro before rolling off to keep Baymax busy.
"Hiro, let us help you!" Honey took off her helmet and set in on the ground before going over to the saddened boy. "Please, Hiro. Tadashi would want us to help you."
And that was it, the click in his mind telling him that they knew nothing about him. They didn't know just how much this was hurting him. These people were Tadashi's friends not his.
"You're right…" Hiro didn't want to hurt them, but it was the only way, "Baymax! Stop."
The robot's movements halted before coming to stand near him, Fred and Gogo joining them as well.
"You're right. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you." Hiro kept his head low as he spoke.
Honey hugged him, "It's ok Hiro, we'll help you. We'll make sure that everything is ok."
Hiro accepted the hug hoping that it wouldn't be his last one as all of his teammates hugged him.
"Baymax," Once Hiro was sure he had everyone's attention he spoke, "Gas them."
The effect was instant, everyone gasped as the robot took no time to process his words, sleeping gas filling the air around them.
"Hiro!" Gogo panicked as she caught Honey Lemon from hitting the floor too hard, Fred doing the same for Wasabi.
"Right, I forgot you two have your heads covered." Hiro walked over to where the mask had fallen.
"Hiro! You can't do this! Tadashi-" Hiro quickly cut her off
"Tadashi should not be an automatic default when you're talking to me; even you know that's a low blow."
Gogo closed her mouth setting down Honey Lemon before standing. "I won't let you do this Hiro."
Fred put Wasabi down getting ready to jump, though he looked much more hesitant "What she said."
Hiro bent to grab the mask but not before one of Gogo's disks hit it out of the way.
"Baymax. Stop them!" Hiro chased the mask while Fred charged the robot.
"Hiro! Stop!" Gogo took Baymax's slow movement to her advantage and sped past Hiro for the mask. "After everything we did you're going to throw it away?"
Hiro was not by any means as fast as the teenager, but he thought a lot quicker. "I'm not throwing anything away! I'm changing everything!"
Gogo snagged the mask from the ground before zooming off, "You can't change the past Hiro!"
"No," Hiro ran to Honey Lemon and used the table to make a few orbs, "but I can shape the future."
Fred was easily tossed to the ground again by the large robot, "Ugh, why is this thing so strong?"
He was lifted by the foot into the air as Baymax looked to Hiro. "What would you like me to do now?"
Hiro glanced at the robot and Fred's only slightly struggling form, "Put him to sleep with the gas, but don't hurt him."
Baymax nodded as Fred's costume head fell off and gently pressed a mask to his face so he would sleep. Fred went limp quickly and only then did Baymax set him down on the ground to rest.
Hiro turned his attention to the speeding female, " Gogo, please, you know I would never hurt you. I just want to talk to you."
Gogo stopped a good distance away, "Why should I listen to you? You already hurt them."
Hiro shook his head "I didn't hurt them, they are just asleep. You don't even know what I was going to do…"
"Then tell me!" Gogo was guarded, she knew something was wrong with their conversation but couldn't put a finger on it.
Hiro took off his own helmet trying to show he wasn't a threat, "I don't plan on hurting anyone. I just want to make it so others won't end up like my… like my brother." The stutter wasn't planned and he would take it to his grave before admitting it.
"How?" She didn't believe him and rightly so, her friends were all passed out on the floor.
Hiro kept the orbs behind his Helmet, he only had 2 so they had to count, "I'm going to use my Microbots to get everyone home first. Then I'm going to come up with a way to save people. Please Gogo, I need your help."
Gogo held the mask behind her a little, "If you wanted our help you wouldn't have put them to sleep and then attacked."
Hiro held his helmet closer to himself, "I'm sorry, ok? I panicked. I just found out that my brother died for nothing, that the man he was going to save didn't care. My invention has been used to hurt, when that was never what they were for." Crap now he's on the verge of tears, this wasn't how this talk was supposed to go, "Please, Gogo. I can't do this alone."
Gogo watched for a moment as tears slipped down the child's face. He was only 14 and here he was, confused, lost and in need of a friend. The speedster sighed before slowly making her way over to the now crying boy.
"I can't do this alone." Hiro whispered to himself while hugging his helmet. He had long forgotten about the orbs which were now freezing his hands, he had long forgotten that Gogo was watching. He could only think about the depression sinking it's deep fangs into his mind.
Gogo placed a hand on Hiro's shoulder, "Hiro, it's ok. We can help you. I can help you." She spoke softly trying hard to comfort him.
Hiro was pulled from his own thoughts by her sweet words, he really would regret doing this to them, "I know Gogo." And he dropped the orbs on the floor.
In an instant both of them were frozen to the floor, unable to move. Hiro dropped his helmet and hugged Gogo with their close proximity.
With her gasp he spoke, "I'm sorry! I really am!" then he reached up and took her helmet. "Baymax put her to sleep."
She struggled, to say the least but with both of her feet stuck and the fast approaching robot she had nowhere to go.
"Hiro, please. We can still change things, we can keep people safe, we can help everyone. Not just you. Please Hiro. Don't do this."
Hiro listened to her pleas as Baymax got closer and place the mask on her face gently even as she struggled to get away. She fell limp and Hiro was quick to catch her before she broke her ankle.
"Alright, Baymax, let's take them back home. I will tell Aunt Cass there was an accident and they need to stay with us for a bit. Help me melt this ice." It took Baymax a good 20 minutes to melt all of the ice before they could get everyone together for the ride home.
"It would be easier if I used the microbots…" a heavy sigh left his lips as he picked up the mask. It had caused him so much pain and problems, but he could fix everything with these. No one will have to go through what he did.
Hiro glared at the mask before making a decision and pulled at the mask to try and get it off of the band. It was stuck on pretty well, but with a few more tugs the mask was dropped onto the floor with a loud clatter.
"Right, let's go home." Hiro climbed onto Baymax's back and slipped the band over his head, "We will come back later." At his thought Microbots gathered under his friends and picked them all up before the bots attached themselves to Baymax. It helped that they had mag-capability.
The flight home was silent aside from the gentle breeze and the sound of the jets going into a higher setting to accommodate the extra weight. The last hour kept replaying in the child's head as he remembered his friend's cries. He knew they would help him, with his new idea they would do anything for him. He just hoped that it wouldn't cause some underlying issues later.
The landing was rough but Hiro didn't care. He had the Microbots put his friends down before having them all move to blend in with the alleyway next to the house. Then put his act into action.
"Aunt Cass!" Hiro yelled running into the garage.
"Hiro? What's wrong? Are you-? OH MY GOSH!" She ran down stairs only to see his friends all passed out on the ground. "What happened? Are you ok?"
"We were attacked, there was an accident and- I couldn't help them! I didn't know what to do! I'm sorry, they…" Hiro broke off looking at his friends.
"Let's get them to some beds and somewhere comfortable." She moved quickly to help Baymax and Hiro move his friends.
She fell for the just like he knew she would. He was almost mad at how he was taking advantage of that fact. Now all he had to do was make the bands, it was easy to design and the overall idea wasn't too hard. It was the programming that really got to him, a program to override the brain's processing, a way to make them think the way he wanted them to think. It was similar to his Microbots, but more complex, less of a control and more of something that could move them. A mind control device that wouldn't destroy the brain.
3 weeks, it took 3 weeks before Hiro was even willing to play with the idea of testing it. And in that time Hiro got his friends home with the help of Aunt Cass and their families before they could wake up. They had been constantly calling, texting and even coming to his house to talk to him. He knew they didn't tell anyone what had happened because Aunt Cass would sometimes send them away and no cops ever showed up. But at this point they were giving him such a headache he WISHED they had told the cops.
Hiro gazed at his new creation and sighed, his friends had just left his home due to Aunt Cass's promptings. He was more than tired but he wanted to try this out. He had studied the brain endlessly to find the right algorithms and even then he could only get so far without testing it.
Who better to test it out then on Aunt Cass, she would love to help him and if something went wrong he had Baymax's chip out and ready.
"Hey, Aunt Cass…" Hiro asked from the door to the kitchen.
"Hiro? Oh! You came out of the garage, do you need something? How are you feeling?" Aunt Cass was making dinner.
"I made you a gift!" He presented the headband to her, pointedly ignoring her questions. It was a beautiful shade of purple with a small flower on it. "The flower is a real one, and it won't wither because it's covered in wax."
"Oh! Thank you honey! That's so thoughtful." She took it with a smile, seeming a little put off by his mood, before putting it on, it looked nice on her.
Hiro smiled as she hugged him before pushing a button in his pocket. The smallest of sounds was made signaling it had turned on, he only heard it because she was hugging him.
Hiro waited a moment before speaking "Hey, Aunt Cass, will you give me that flower pot?"
Aunt Cass let go of Hiro and walked to the table, she picked up the pot before coming back to smile at Hiro.
"Here you go kid!" She held it out for him to take.
"Thank you." He took the pot and stared at his Aunt as he pressed the button again.
Light seems to spring into her eyes as well as the confusion, Hiro was sure that the light in his own eyes dimmed a little when he watched.
"When did you grab the flower pot?" She stood with her hands on her hips.
"Oh! Uh, just testing something! Thank you, for helping me Aunt Cass! I love you! I'm going to call my friends, I think I'm ready to talk to them again." He knew he was rambling, but if he talked enough she would forget her question.
"Oh, ok! I'll make some snacks then!" She turned back to the stove as Hiro set down the flower pot and left the room in a hurry.
She didn't remember what had happened, even after he pressed the button. Hiro stopped at the bottom of the stairs taking a moment to think. He would need to do some more research on that but for now he would see it as a gift.
Walking into the garage turned lab, Hiro glanced around at all of the machinery and graphs he had up. "I should probably move everything to my room or something…"
Shrugging he pulled out his phone and made a group call to his 'friends', mentally preparing for the tirade that was sure to erupt from his phone.
1 ring, 2 rings, 3 ri- "HIRO!" came Honey's shout from the other end.
3 more voices joined in shortly after, "Hiro! Are you ok?" "What happened?" "Why wouldn't you talk to us?" anything after that turned into noisy mush that he couldn't understand, and it took him a few minutes of shouting to get them to listen to him.
"Guys! I'm here ok? Calm down or I'm going to hang up on you!" He waited as they settled down.
Taking a deep breath, he continued, "Look, I know I messed up. I've been thinking really long and hard about what happened. Gogo, what I did wasn't cool. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I betrayed all of your trust…." He didn't know when the tears had started to fall, but he didn't care, "Can… would you guys come over…? I… want to talk to you in person."
The first one to speak wasn't who he thought would say something, "We will meet up at your house, kid. Try not to cry too hard ok?"
Said child swallowed hard,"…Ok, I'm sorry Gogo, I-"
"Drop it kid. It's fine; I understand why you were upset. I know you are sorry. So calm down, take a deep breath and open the front door. It's cold out here." She didn't sound upset and that made him want to regret his intentions of calling them.
"Ok…" He hung up before walking to the front door and opening it. There they all were waiting, and smiling at him like he did nothing wrong.
Honey moved first, "Oh Hiro!" gripping him in a huge hug before the others could even breathe.
Hiro stayed silent as they initiated a group hug. Gogo side hugged him until Fred forced her into a tighter hug that Wasabi was more than willing to add in on. They were all so genuine, they seemed to care so much, but they didn't really care. If they did, they would help him fight. With that in mind, he was more than willing to use the bands he had made for them.
"Guys, I wanted to show you something, I've been working on it while I was thinking and… I think you will like it!" Hiro smiled and pulled away from the hug to look at the college students.
"Lead the way little man!" Fred pumped his fist in the air with a loud whoop.
With a nod from the others, he walked down the hall toward the garage. He went to open the door before remembering he hadn't moved his plans yet.
"Oh! Actually, I just remembered that Aunt Cass made snacks! Why don't we go eat those before going into my makeshift lab? I don't want food in here." The understanding looks of his friends was the only relief of his small mistake, they would understand because they didn't have food around their labs either. Fred didn't count.
Fred was already at the bottom of the stairs by the time the word snacks was said, "Oh yeah! Food!"
"Slow down Fred you can't eat them all!" Wasabi was hot on his tail.
Gogo and Honey had just reached the bottom of the stairs before Hiro spoke up "Hey, Honey? I have to use the bathroom; I'll be right up when I'm done."
A nod from her and the disappearing of their footsteps was all he had to wait for before running into his lab and hiding EVERY plan he could find. It didn't take long but it felt like forever, and by the time he go upstairs, everyone was sitting for food.
"Hiro, your aunt's cooking is amazing. I wish my mom could cook like this!" Fred laughed while holding food in his hands.
Wasabi nodded, "I would agree with the part about the good cooking! Mmm Mmm! Does she know how to make a mean dip!"
Aunt Cass blushes from their praise "Come on guys, it's not that good."
The group of young adults was more than willing to prove her wrong. In the meantime Hiro was still working on a way to get them all into a headband without causing any issues. He wanted to try them out now, as soon as possible. He knew he was getting excited but he couldn't help it.
"…ro…Hiro…?" Oh Honey was talking to him.
"Oh! Uh, yes?" He glanced up quickly while grabbing at the snack plate, apparently Aunt Cass had made mini tortilla rolls with sauce.
"I wanted to know if you were ready to talk? I know you said you were but…" She was whispering and sounded a little worried about asking.
"I'm not sure yet… I-I probably should…" Hiro fidgeted as he looked at the food.
"Take your time Hiro, we are here for you. You don't have to feel rushed." Honey Lemon smiled and placed a hand on his shoulder.
Fred sprung from his spot at the table and ran over to the stairs, "OK! Now that snackage has been had! Let's go science!"
Gogo shook her head, "Fred, that's not how you use that word."
Wasabi burst into laughter, "You think that will change his mind?!"
She skater sighs shaking her head again silently relenting and coming to terms with the situation. "Come on nerds, let's find out what Hiro wanted to show us."
Hiro smiled at the group before leading the way to his lab. He opened the door slowly and let his friends wander in before closing the door. "Welcome to my makeshift lab… again"
Everyone looked all stages of emotions, from awe to mild amusement to Wasabi's look of confused worry. He had TONS more inventions out now laying around, half-finished projects on the tables, and plenty of blueprints scattered about, excluding the ones he hid away in the corner.
"Um, how long have you been working on some of this stuff?" Wasabi was looking at something on a table near the door with concern.
"Some of it's a few years old, I had put most of it away to work on my other project and started pulling things out after….. So I could think." He walked over to one of the chairs near his computer so he could sit down and watched his friends as they decided what they were going to do.
"Soooo like, I don't need to be worried that you have been working yourself to death?" So that's why Wasabi was making those faces.
"No! No, no, no. These are old projects I only have one new project out of all of this stuff and that's the one I want to show you!" Hiro beamed at them as he crossed his legs on his chair.
Fred was the first to plop down on the couch that was moved in a few weeks ago, Honey sat next to him and Wasabi by her while Gogo decided to sit in the chair by Hiro.
"Alright little man! Let's see some science!" Fred whooped with a smile on his face.
Hiro nodded as he turned around to the box by his computer, "It's something I was working on kind of as an offhanded project. It's a little strange but I was just pushing ideas out my ear." He pulled out the headbands he had made, "Their kind of plain but I'm still working on them," He gave them their color coordinated bands, "It's like a headset! It's bluetooth, it can connect to your phone or anything that can use bluetooth and play sound!"
Honey looked confused, "But Hiro wireless headphones already exist..."
"That's the catch," A grin spread across his face, " It plays sounds directly into your ear using vibrations, see it goes behind your ear and you can still hear what's going on around you but you can listen to music at the same time. It won't cause harm to your eardrums either!" He smiled putting a band on his own head to show them.
Fred put his on and Honey was soon to follow, "How do they work?" Wasabi was inspecting it closely.
"Here I can show you, it might take a moment to get the signals to link to my computer but I can play some music if you want?" He looked at them with a questioning look while turning to said device, in all truth he had an idea like this before he just never made it into an actual object. Now he was using it as a cover up for the fact he was going to monitor their brains when he finally turned them on.
"OH! Can you play Panic! At the Disco; Mona Lisa?" Fred asked excitedly.
"Oh, no! We are not listening to that! You should play a Disney song." Wasabi folded his arms making a smug look.
Gogo gave the giant a look "Um. No."
"But why not Gogo?! Disney is very popular and a new movie is supposed to be coming out soon called Frozen! It's music is beautiful!" Honey smiled ear to ear.
"You like anything Disney, Honey. Play Fall Out Boy! That's a band I can get behind." Gogo put the headband on.
Wasabi placed the band on as well folding his arms, "Yeah! Their music is good! As long as everyone agrees."
Fred gave a thumbs up while Honey looked a little disappointed before nodding "Fall Out boy is fine. Just not too loud."
Hiro opened up YouTube while speaking, "I like that band, I think it would make cool music to a movie or something," he pressed the button in his pocket "What do you think Fred?"
A soft beeping noise filled the silence after his question as the child genius turned around, to be met with blank stares. They didn't seem to be focused on anything but there was only one way to find out.
Hiro turned back to his computer and closed YouTube in favor of his new program that was supposed to monitor brain activity when connected to a band. Five color coded bars appeared with a steady wavelength on each. They were all in a similar state of mind rest, as Hiro has come to call it, but still so different with each person.
Giving a satisfied smile the 14 year old turned to his 'friends'. "Ok, guys. Let's see how this worked out, shall we? I'm still not sure what I can and can't do but there's nothing stopping me from finding out now."
A note: I had a wonderful Beta Reader: Smiley-Nami, offer to help me out with this story and I will be inputting all of the fixes needed. They are minor things that wont effect the story but will hopefully make reading Twisted a better experience!