Full summary:
Penny Forrester, Wilbur Robinson, Violet Parr, and Hiro Hamada have been best friends since they were nine, and when Obake puts his plan into action, the Futuristic Four and Big Hero 6 come together to stop him and save the city. Although they manage to contain the star and save San Fransokyo, Obake's machine explodes, and Hiro and Penny find themselves in two separate locations without any memories except for their nicknames: Ro and Pen. Penny is in San Francisco, which is a few miles south of San Fransokyo, and she meets a girl called Riley and winds up going on a mission to retrieve her memories and save Riley from herself. Hiro finds himself in Santa Cecilia and meets a boy named Miguel. Together, they will go on an adventure through the Land Of The Dead to discover Miguel's family history and hopefully unlock Hiro's memories before they become permanent residents of the Land Of The Dead. Meanwhile, their friends are doing everything they can to find them.
Hello, everyone! This is my first Futuristic Four story, so I would greatly appreciate some feedback. Personally, I think this chapter turned out better than I expected, but I am always looking to improve when it comes to writing, so please, feel free to leave a review or PM me with any thoughts you have. Thanks!
Disclaimer: This story is fiction. Fanfiction, to be precise. I am not claiming this story to be canon, nor am I claiming characters, settings, or anything you recognize as my own. Thank you.
Chapter One: The End Of The Beginning
The text came in at exactly 4:28 pm.
Wilbur Robinson yelped as a cap flew off of his father's newest invention and crashed into the wall directly where his head would've been if he hadn't ducked.
"Sorry, Wilbur!" Cornelius called, sheepishly, as the demonstration he'd been giving his family failed. "Guess there's still a few kinks for me to work out."
"It's cool, Dad," Wilbur replied before his phone dinged, and he pulled it out of his pocket to see a new text message from one of his best friends, Hiro Hamada.
SOS!
Wilbur frowned at the screaming desperation of the message and typed in a message of his own.
What's up?
Wilbur waited a solid five minutes, but there was no answer. If it was an emergency, wouldn't Hiro have replied within seconds?
Unless he couldn't…
A few moments later, another ding sounded, but the message wasn't from Hiro. It was from Violet.
Did Hiro send you an SOS message?
Yes, but he isn't replying to any messages I send him, Wilbur wrote back.
Me, neither, Violet replied. Penny got a message, too. We both tried calling him (You know Hiro. He wouldn't send a message like that unless it was urgent), but he didn't answer.
How soon can you get to San Fransokyo?
If I use my force field transportation method… twelve minutes at least. You?
I'll take the hover car. I tweaked it a bit, so it can go up to 120 miles an hour.
I'll text Penny and pick her up on the way.
"Okay, it is going to work this time," Cornelius grinned as he twisted the last screw with his wrench.
"Sorry, Dad, but I've got to go. I need to go see one of my friends," Wilbur said as he stood up.
"Which one? And why?" Franny asked. Normally, Wilbur's mom gave him a fair amount of freedom, but ever since the time traveling incident, she always needed to know where he was and why he was there, and Wilbur didn't blame her. If he were the parent of a child that time traveled without permission, nearly destroyed the time line, and ceased to exist for half an hour, he'd be a little overprotective, too.
"Hiro, and as for why… that is an excellent question," Wilbur told her before strolling around the corner and sprinting towards the garage the moment he was out of sight of his family.
Wilbur opened the door to the red hover car and hopped into the driver's seat. The hover car could drive by itself, so Wilbur simply hit a few buttons to increase the speed and the height off the ground before finding the button that meant drive.
Wilbur barely had time to open the garage door before he was out, racing high above everyone and barely hanging onto his stomach.
It took him approximately four minutes and thirteen seconds to travel what was typically a 30-45 minute drive, and by the time he stopped in front of the Lucky Cat Café, he was breathing heavily and swallowing to stop his stomach from ejecting its contents as he literally rolled out of the car and onto the sidewalk. He got a few weird glances, but he didn't care as he barely stopped himself from kissing the ground.
"Note to self," he muttered. "Let's never do that again."
Wilbur stumbled to his feet and walked into the café, a bell dinging above his head as he walked inside.
"Aunt Cass!" Wilbur called. Cass was not Wilbur's aunt from a biological stand point, but she was everybody's aunt, just like… just like Tadashi used to be everyone's big brother.
"Wilbur, I didn't know you were coming over," Cass exclaimed.
Neither did I, Wilbur thought.
"Hiro's in the garage," she told him.
"Thanks!" Wilbur called before he walked out the door and into Hiro's workshop. "Hiro, this had better be good. You had us all worried… sick…" Wilbur trailed off as he realized the garage was empty, and he stared around in confusion.
Hiro's garage was always a mess, but it was a mess of things that made sense, like tools and spare parts and completed and partially completed inventions, but some of this stuff… some of this stuff didn't make any sense.
A CPU with a weird red face on it, pieces of what appeared to be red and purple armor scattered across the floor, and that was before Wilbur noticed the elaborate conspiracy board.
The board had pictures, articles, a few index cards, and more, all connected by strings, most of which lead to an area labeled as The Bay, along with the same red face Wilbur saw on the CPU.
"Where's Hiro?" Violet asked as her and Penny walked into the room.
"I don't know, but you guys need to see this," Wilbur told them.
Violet stood beside him and examined the board.
"It looks like Hiro was fighting a super villain without us," the Super deadpanned.
"It looks like he was fighting a lot of super villains without us," Penny corrected, and they turned to see her standing in front of a screen with a bunch of articles pulled up. They were all about some kind of super team and had various notes scrawled across each one with an electronic sketching pen.
"This was in a file titled Big Hero 6," Penny told them.
"I've heard of them," Wilbur realized. "My dad praises them for their hand-made equipment and creative use of technology in their gear," he remembered. "I know we haven't seen each other in a few months, what with me being grounded, Penny being an actress up until a month ago, and Hiro starting college, but… Hiro is apart of this super team? And he didn't tell us?"
"That doesn't surprise me," Violet said, more to herself than to them. "He probably thought we were too busy. He's very independent, as you know. We have to assume the SOS meant he needed help fighting a super villain. It's the only thing that would warrant an urgent message like that. But his armor is still here, so unless he has spare armor he's using right now, someone might have figured out his identity."
"Who are you?" a voice demanded from behind them, and the three teenagers whipped around to see a young woman with short black hair, highlighted with purple stripes, standing in the doorway to the garage.
"GoGo, stand down," an African-American man with long dark brown hair told the young woman. "This is Wilbur, Violet, and Penny, Hiro's friends. Remember? They were there when Tadashi introduced us to Hiro, and they were at the showcase."
GoGo nodded. "I remember. What are you three doing here?"
"Hiro sent us an SOS message," Wilbur answered. "Do you know where he is?"
The four young adults exchanged glances, and Honey Lemon stepped forward.
"We can explain everything," she promised. "But it's a long story, and we don't have a lot of time."
Ten minutes later, the story was completed, and the four teens stared at the college students for a few seconds.
"So Hiro's been kidnapped by a guy who intends to create a star and use it to 'recreate' San Fransokyo, destroying the city in the process, and you want to get to the highest point in the city to scan for an energy surge to stop the star from collapsing, save the city, and hopefully find Hiro?" Penny summed up.
Fred nodded. "Pretty much."
Violet shrugged. "Let's go," she said, and the three friends pulled their backpacks (they always carried backpacks because danger had a tendency to find them, and it was always good to have some emergency supplies, like an extra phone or a first aid kit, on hand) off of their shoulders and withdrew folded up scooters.
"You just carry those around in your backpacks?" Wasabi asked.
Wilbur nodded. "You never know when you're going to get chased by super villains."
Penny and Wilbur turned to Violet with raised eyebrows and that yes-we're-talking-about-you look.
"That was one time! Let it go!" Violet groaned before they walked out of the garage.
"Remind me, when we get Hiro back, to ask them to tell us that story," Fred chuckled before Mini-Max leaped onto his shoulder, and he strolled out of the garage, followed by his three friends.
"Aren't you scared, Wasabi?" GoGo asked as Penny worked on scanning for the energy surge (Penny may have only been a spy on a television show, but she was certainly clever enough to be one in real life if the need for one ever arises).
"Oh, I'm terrified. I'm just more scared of the whole city being wiped out," Wasabi told them.
"Hey, guys, are you there?" Hiro's voice came through the communication gadget in the ears of the four students, making all of their heads jerk up.
"Hiro!" Honey Lemon exclaimed.
"Where are you?" GoGo demanded.
"I'm leaving the café now. Obake captured me. He has Baymax. We need to stop that star; do you know where it is?"
As if on cue, a small ding sounded from the device in Penny's lap.
"We do now," she said. "There is a huge energy surge at the Lighthouse."
"Got it," GoGo said. "Hiro, the device is at the Lighthouse. What's the plan?"
"I'll head to the Lighthouse to get the energy amplifier and shut down the machine."
"All right. We'll send some back up. The last thing we need is you getting captured again. Something tells me we'll need all hands on deck for this," GoGo told Hiro before looking up to tell Wilbur, Penny, and Violet to go help Hiro, but they were already gone.
"I think I finally figured out why they're friends," Honey Lemon said. "They're a lot more alike than I thought."
"Yeah," Wasabi agreed. "They're all loyal, stubborn kids that attract more danger than anyone else on the planet and somehow always get out of it."
The other three nodded in agreement with his words.
Hiro shouted as he clung to Sky-Max, the wind roaring in his ears as he sped towards the Lighthouse, which loomed ahead of him, arcs of blue and purple electricity crackling in and around the structure.
But what truly attracted Hiro's attention were the three kids pressing themselves against the rail, electricity bouncing off of the force field that had formed around them.
"You guys got my message!" Hiro exclaimed as Violet lowered her force field just long enough for Hiro to jump off of Sky-Max and onto the floor. Sky-Max hovered nearby, just out of reach of the dangerous amount of electricity sparking in the air.
"We haven't gotten an SOS message from you since you got kidnapped by that bot fighter when you were twelve," Wilbur pointed out (story for another time). "Your SOS messages are usually pretty urgent, so of course we dropped everything to come."
Hiro smiled. "Thanks, guys. Vi, can you keep your force field up long enough for me to get to that machine?" Hiro asked, pointing to the machine that was currently the source of the energy flying around them.
Violet nodded. "But I'll need to lower my force field for you to dismantle the machine. There's a lot of electricity. One hit from these things," she gestured to the arcs of energy dancing around them, "could give you third or even second degree burns, so be careful, Ro."
"I will. Violet, keep your force field up. Pen, Wil, I need you to cover me while I shut down the machine. Here, take my gloves," Hiro said, taking off the pieces of his gear and handing one to Penny and one to Wilbur. "They're electromagnetic, so use them to swat aside the arcs of electricity if they get too close. Let's do this."
The four teenagers shuffled forward, Violet carefully moving while keeping her shield up, and once they were right beside the machine, Violet let her shield drop, and Wilbur and Penny immediately went to work on swatting aside any energy while Hiro reached into the machine, wincing as a small burst of energy burned his wrist, but he didn't let the pain stop him. He grabbed the energy amplifier, and the minute he was away from the machine, Violet activated her force field once again.
No one was majorly injured in the ordeal. Violet looked exhausted from the amount of energy she was using to keep her force field up. Wilbur had a rip in his shirt where an arc of electricity burned through the fabric, and Hiro saw a moderate burn on his side through the hole in his shirt. Penny had a bruise on her arm from bumping into the machine to avoid some stray energy, and she had a small burn on her cheek, which would likely heal in a few days.
The machine was shut down. There were minimal injuries, and the city was safe. Their work here was done.
The teenagers used Sky-Max to return to the ground, and Hiro rode on the back of Wilbur's scooter as the four teenagers returned to the building where the other four members of Big Hero 6 and a weird purple monster were waiting for them. The three teens didn't question the monster because the superheroes weren't attacking him (it?), so they assumed Big Hero 6 must trust the monster.
"We did it!" Hiro cheered, and the nine heroes embraced, but before a celebration could even begin, a flickering light caught their attention as an orb of energy rose above the Lighthouse.
"Oh, no," Violet muttered.
"The machine became self-sustaining," Honey Lemon realized.
"What do we do now?" Penny asked.
"We evacuate as many as we can, and we try to stop that star," Hiro answered.
"How?" Wasabi inquired. "A shock wave that powerful? We can't stop something like that…"
"Unless we have a more powerful opposite force," Hiro added.
"Like a wave," GoGo suggested.
"But we'd need something huge to cause a wave that big," Wilbur pointed out.
Hiro and Fred exchanged glances with small smiles on their faces.
"We have something like that," Hiro assured them. "Fred, Penny, we're going to stop that star. GoGo, Wasabi, evacuate the docks, the bay, anywhere that can be affected by the wave. Violet, Wilbur, go to Obake's location and get Baymax. If something goes wrong, we're going to need Baymax to do some rescuing. Globby, Honey Lemon, here's what you have to do…"
Ten minutes later, everyone was getting into position. GoGo and Wasabi had evacuated everyone in the bay, including a bunch of kids on a field trip, and had battled Momacase. Now, GoGo was hiding in an alleyway with a bunch of small animals, a frightened kitten in her arms, while Wasabi stood with the kids on the edge of a high cliff, holding the hand of a small girl, as they waited to see if the plan would succeed. Globby was stretched from one side of the bay to the other with balls of blue chemicals lined on top of his body to keep the wave contained, and Honey Lemon stood nearby with her Chem-Purse.
"You guys ready for this?" Hiro asked. Penny, Fred, and Hiro were seated in the seats inside of the Kaiju, strapped in side by side while they waited for the right moment.
"Ready as we'll ever be," Penny answered, trying and failing to disguise the nervousness in her voice.
"I just want you to know... it's been an honor being superheroes with you," Fred told Hiro.
"And I'm glad we're friends," Penny smiled at Hiro before resting her hand on the lever that would turn on the Kaiju when she pulled it downward. "Now, let's do this."
They waited…
…
…
…
And they were off as the star collapsed, the Kaiju (why Fred and Hiro just happened to have that on hand, Penny had no idea, and she didn't have time to ask) leaping into the air until it broke through the clouds, displaying the sun beyond the gray clouds that had gathered over San Fransokyo, as though even the sky sensed the danger and potential tragedy of the grim situation.
They hung in the sky for a moment, and Penny and Hiro exchanged one last glance before they were falling.
The three of them and Mini-Max rose off of their seats, the seat belts barely keeping them in their chairs, as they tumbled through the air until they finally crashed into the bay.
A wave bigger than anything Penny had ever seen crashed over the star, enclosing around the ball of fire and containing the shock wave. The shock wave was absorbed by the water, but the Kaiju was struck head on by the aftermath of the powerful shocks, and the light from the star as it imploded blinded them.
And then they knew nothing else.
Rescuing Baymax wasn't very hard. Rescuing Obake was a whole other matter.
When Wilbur and Violet arrived at the sea cave, they found Baymax standing outside.
"Baymax?" Violet asked.
Baymax turned to them. "Obake is still inside. He told me to go to Hiro."
Wilbur and Violet turned to the crumbling sea cave before looking back at Baymax.
"Baymax, go help the others. We'll get Obake!" Wilbur shouted before the teenagers sprinted into the cave, following the whirring of machinery into what looked like some kind of workshop. A man who Wilbur and Violet assumed was Obake glanced up in confusion; he was unharmed, but a rock crashed to the floor dangerously close to him a moment later. The ceiling was about to come down.
Violet ran forward, followed by Wilbur, and her force field appeared over them, shaking and flickering as boulder after boulder bounced off of it. Obake was in too much shock to do anything other than stare until finally, the sea cave was flooded with water as the walls and the ground fell to pieces and scattered throughout the bay.
Wilbur grabbed Obake by the arm with one hand and a barely conscious Violet with the other, dragging them to the surface of the bay and breaking free of the water. Wilbur let go of Obake, confident that the man would have a hard time escaping in the middle of the bay and held Violet in his arms as she slipped into slumber, her energy leaving her after she pushed her powers to the limit.
Wilbur pulled Violet to shore, followed by Obake, and holding Violet up with one arm, he gripped Obake's arm with the other and pulled him towards the docks without even sparing the villain a glance. Wilbur was a little shocked when Obake didn't even resist, but he didn't question it. He was more worried about Penny and Hiro.
Wilbur found Globby and Big Hero 6 standing on the docks; Fred was lying on the ground with a trickle of blood dripping down the side of his face from a head injury, and he was out cold. Mini-Max was hovering over his sidekick in concern, reminding Wilbur of the first time Carl showed true human emotion when he worried for Wilbur after the boy broke his arm when he was ten after an adventure with Penny, Hiro, and Violet. Carl had shown hints of human emotion before then, but that was the first time it was so obvious. But Wilbur also knew that when robots showed worry, there was probably something to worry about.
That's when Wilbur realized that Penny and Hiro were no where in sight.
"Where are Penny and Hiro?" Wilbur asked as he lowered Violet, who was beginning to wake up, to the ground beside Fred.
GoGo looked scared, and Wilbur nearly fainted right there because he didn't know GoGo well, but he knew she wasn't one to show fear.
"The shock wave hit the Kaiju," she explained. "Fred was knocked out. By the time Baymax got there, Penny and Hiro had disappeared. Baymax and Mini-Max both scanned for them. They didn't find them."
Wilbur's vision tunneled with this piece of news. That couldn't be right… Maybe he had misheard her. Yeah, that had to be it because Penny and Hiro couldn't just be gone. He had been through everything with his three friends. Danger, adventures, injuries, heart break, laughter, depression, and everything in between. They had always been there for him, and he had always been there for them. It had always been PennyHiroWilburandViolet. A world without Penny and Hiro, a world without two of his best friends, just felt wrong. He felt like the world was put on pause, like everything, even his mind, had frozen, except for a single thought that struck him like a lightning bolt.
The city was safe. The bad guy was defeated…
But Penny and Hiro were gone.
Three things I need to note:
1. You will find out why Fred wasn't teleported like Penny and Hiro in a later chapter.
2. When Violet mentions her force field transportation method while she is texting Wilbur, she is referring to how she rolled her force field to travel in The Incredibles and escaped the bad guys.
3. Do not let Obake's lack of resistance fool you. His plan may have failed, but his game isn't over yet.
Once again, please review or PM me with your thoughts on what you liked about the chapter or with things I need to improve on. Also, editing is not my strong suit, so if you notice any spelling/grammar/punctuation errors, feel free to inform me, so I can correct them. Thank you, and I will see you with the second chapter hopefully sometime next week.