It was night in the city of San Fransokyo and the city was alive with activity. The streets were jammed with cars as people went to work the night shift, while the day wanted to get home as soon as possible. Other people went out to find some quality entertainment from the technology advance city.

Deep in the city, was a neighborhood that was well known for criminal activity. The epicenter of this underworld was a series of alleyways known as Good Luck Alley. The name was ironic considering you would need all the good luck in the world to get out alive in you strayed in there by accident.

At the far end of Good Luck Alley, an illegal bot fighting match was taking place. Technically, bot fighting wasn't illegal, but betting on it was. So, of course, it was a lucrative business in the underworld. Especially if you were the top bot fighter in the whole city.

Said person, was Yama. He was a very dangerous criminal in San Fransokyo. He had his own criminal empire and had connections in just about everything illegal and some legal businesses. His favorite passion was destroying other bot fighters' bots with his Little Yama.

Yama was gloating as he destroyed his latest opponent. "Ha! No one can beat Yama and his Little Yama! Does anyone dare to fight the mighty Little Yama?"

A child's voice responded. "I would like to try."

The crowd parted to reveal a kid, who might have been a teenager, if he wasn't so short, that he could pass as a prepubescent little kid. Seeing who his opponent was Yama laughed loudly.

"A kid? Shouldn't you be home little boy getting ready for bed," he taunted as the crowd jeered at him.

The kid frowned angrily for a second before he took a few steps forward with confidence. "My name is Hiro and you shouldn't underestimate me. Big things can come in little packages." He held out his Megabot as proof.

Yama laughed even harder when he saw the robot. "That's not a bot, its scrap metal! Get out of here kid, you don't belong here."

Hiro reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a good-sized wad of cash. Without a word, he handed the money to the pot before taking his seat across from Yama.

Seeing this kid wasn't going to go home, Yama told everyone to make their bets. "You have guts I'll admit kid, but you don't know when you're over your head. Any last words?"

"Don't underestimate me." Hiro snapped open his remote ready to fight. Megabot did a little bow ready to fight.

In response, Little Yama's saw blade whirled to life. Yama himself chuckled. "This will be like taking candy from a baby."

The signal was given and the fight began. Little Yama charged forward, its saw blade coming down fast at Megabot, who was just standing there. Right before the blade could hit, Megabot jumped to the side, avoiding damage.

Little Yama spun and lunged at the little robot, who once more dodged the attack. Little Yama attacked with its claws, trying to shred Megabot, who jumped out of the way.

Yama growled in frustration as his bot fighter continued to attack Hiro's bot fighter, never quite connecting with it. His opponent kept dancing around, evading the attacks. The criminal wasn't used to someone playing defense throughout a fight so his usual strategy wasn't working.

"You stupid brat! Fight me already unless you're too scared to try?"

"Oh, I'm not scared. I just wanted to get a feel for your attack style. Now that I know how you fight, get ready to be destroyed." Pressing a button on his remote Megabot's yellow face switched to red as the robot's posture shifted from defense to attack.

Unexpectedly, Megabot was a speedy little thing as it raced forward nimbly dodging Little Yama's attacks. Megabot sprang on to Little Yama's back and then split apart, the three pieces going in separate directions.

One piece slipped around the right foot, while the second went around the left hand, leaving the last piece to wrap around the Little Yama's waist. The bigger bot shook hard trying to get rid of the pieces.

Hiro's fingers danced around the remote as he skillfully disabled the leg and hand. Little Yama started to wobble now that it was only standing on one foot and without its saw blade, it was forced to rely only on its claws.

Yama snarled as he instructed his bot to tear the piece off his waist, which it did. The man ordered his bot back a bit so he could work on getting it rebalanced. He wanted to reclaim the lost limbs, but the Megabot pieces kicked them out of the fighting arena, preventing this from happening.

"Why you little piece of…I'm going to obliterate your bot!"

The teenager stuck his tongue out, his eyes never leaving the fight. He had Megabot come back together as one and kick the arm joint of the remaining hand. It was strong enough to break the arm completely off Little Yama.

Swiftly Megabot turned back to pieces and severed the remaining limb. Coming back together, the unique robot punched its way into the stomach. It crawled into the belly and undid the head from the inside.

Sliding out in pieces Megabot came back together. He performed a mock bow and his faces switched back. Hiro smiled pleased with himself. "Told you not to underestimate me. That money is mine."

He reached for the pot, his fingers grazing the money when Yama grabbed the boy's arm. Hiro whimpered as the man's grip tightened fearing his bones would snap. "Let me go! I won fair and square!"

"No one makes a fool of Yama, especially not a little kid! When I'm done with you no one will be able to identify your remains!"

The whole crowd was looking forward to watching Yama beat the stuffing out of the kid when the police raided the area. It took three police officers working together to get Yama to release Hiro, who was also promptly arrested for illegal bot fighting.

Half an hour later, Aunt Cass picked up her nephew and drove home with a disapproving expression on her face. "What were you thinking Hiro? Sneaking out of the house and going to Good Luck Alley to go bot fighting? You could have been killed!"

Hiro slouched in the passenger seat. "I was doing fine, besides I won. My bot was the best out there."

Aunt Cass took her eyes off the road for a second to look at her nephew. "You were not doing fine. The police had to save you from the criminal who was going to rip your arm off! How did you think you were going to get out of that?"

Hiro had no answer for that and remained silent the rest of the ride home. Once they were back at the Lucky Cat Café, Aunt Cass told the boy he was grounded for a week and go to his room.

In the bedroom, Hiro's older brother Tadashi was waiting for him. "Are you hurt?" He noticed the bruises on his little brother's arm and concerned he might have to go to the hospital for treatment.

"My arm's a little sore from where Yama grabbed me. It will probably be bruised for a little while, but other than that, I'm fine."

Tadashi looked at his brother in frustration. "Then what were you thinking tonight? Why did you go out in the first place? Bot fighting is illegal Hiro for a reason. It's too dangerous, especially when you go up against harden criminals!"

Hiro squeezed Megabot tightly. "I was bored okay! I graduated from high school last year and so far nothing has challenged me. I can't get a good paying job until I'm at least eighteen so what else am I supposed to do?"

Tadashi raised one eyebrow at that statement. "You could join me at college, I'm sure that would challenge you. With how smart you are you could make it to grad school in a few years. It wouldn't matter that you're only fourteen."

Hiro scoffed at the idea. School had always come easily to him and he doubted it would be any different if he went to college with his older brother. While he adored Tadashi with all his heart, sometimes his older brother could be a pain in the butt.

"Nerd school? I think I'll pass. I'm tired of going to school and learn things I already know."

Tadashi shook his head. His brother was wasting his potential with bot fighting. Hiro was always a natural genius when it came to school subjects. When his little brother had first started school his test scores had been so high he started off in second grade. From then on he just kept skipping grades until he graduated. Because of the gaps in ages as well as not connecting with people his own age, Hiro didn't have any friends.

Tadashi wished he had pushed his little brother a little harder during his younger years to try to make friends with people, instead of letting him always go off and do his own thing.

Sitting down on his bed, he picked up a picture of him and Hiro, when he teaching his brother to ride a bike. His little brother had been scared not wanting to Tadashi to let go of him. The first few times, he hadn't. When he finally did his brother had done fantastic.

He set the picture down and looked at another one on his nightstand. It was of the whole family, including their parents. It had been taken the day Hiro had arrived home from the hospital.

Running his fingers over his parents' faces, he smiled faintly. He had been so excited to have a little brother to take care of and his parents had been so proud of both their sons. "I wish you were still here. Maybe you could talk some sense into Hiro."

Moving the screen aside slightly, Tadashi saw Hiro hard at work on his bot fighter. The boy took a sip of a soda, pushing his chair towards the end of the desk to retrieve a screwdriver and then back to his original position.

Getting off the bed Tadashi stood by Hiro and ruffled his hair up a bit causing his younger sibling to whine. "Stop it, you're going to ruin my hairdo."

"The same hairdo which makes you look younger than you really are?" The young adult ruffled the hair a little more before squeezed Hiro's shoulder in affection. "You know I love you, Hiro."

Hiro looked up at Tadashi with a bright smile. "I know you do Tadashi. I love you too. Since I'm grounded, can you get me something to eat?"

Tadashi nodded and headed down the stairs. "What am I going to do with you little brother?" the young adult asked himself. He needed to stage an intercession and soon.

The next night, after making sure Hiro stayed put in their shared bedroom, Tadashi sat down with his aunt in the living room to talk to her. "We need to do something about Hiro and his bot fighting. I've tried talking to him about it, but he's not listening."

Holding her head in her hand Aunt Cass replied, "Don't remind me. Sometimes your brother is too smart for his own good. I tried to ground him and I locked all the doors before, but he still figured a way out. Neither of us can keep our eyes on him all day."

Tadashi acknowledged the truth of his aunt's words. In the year since Hiro graduated from high school, his little brother had been getting in more trouble. These last few months of him going out for bot fighting had been the latest stage of trouble.

Leaning back into the couch he added, "He says he's bored. That he has nothing to do and there's no challenge for him. Hiro thinks there's nothing out there for him to learn."

Aunt Cass pointed out that if Hiro wanted a challenge he should go to college. Hearing Tadashi explain what Hiro said to that idea last night and she let out a frustrated growl. "There has to be a way to convince him to go to college with you. SFIT is one of the best colleges in the country. You told me about how they push the boundaries of science every day there. Surely a place like that would help him grow."

The eldest nephew inclined his head in agreement. "I'm brainstorming on trying to figure out a way to get him to go with me. I need some more time to figure out what to do and say."

"I'm sure you'll do your best Tadashi. You always do."

Neither of them realized that Hiro had snuck down the stairs and eavesdropped on the conversation. He was in disbelief about the whole conversation.

"Do they really think that I need an intervention? Their hearts are in the right place, but they don't get it. Neither of them knows what it's liked to be bored in school."

Returning to his room, Hiro sat down at his desk and started looking online for another bot fight to go to. He had improved upon Megabot by making the magnetic servos have a stronger pull, which would allow Megabot to have a wider range of attack.

Finding a fight nearby, Hiro started to think of a way to get outside without being caught. The only door out was the one downstairs. I can probably sneak pass Aunt Cass, but Tadashi will see me for sure. Maybe I could get out via the garage?

Hiro slowly started to make his way down the stairs, keeping an eye out for Aunt Cass and Tadashi. Seeing neither of them, he hurried down the stairs intent on reaching the garage only to come face to face with both of his relatives waiting for him at the bottom.

"Oh hey, Aunt Cass, Tadashi what are you doing down here?"

"The question is what are you doing down here Hiro? Your grounded remember?"

Hiro opened his mouth to reply only to fall silent at the expression on both Aunt Cass and Tadashi's faces. Both had narrowed their eyes and their eyebrows formed an angry V shape. Their lips were frowning. Both of them were deeply disappointed by Hiro's escape attempt.

"Back to your room this instant young man! You are not allowed downstairs unless I tell you differently." Hanging his head, Hiro did as he was asked.

Aunt Cass massaged her head. "I don't know how much longer I can handle this. Have I been perfect? No! Do I know anything about children? No! Should I have picked up a book on parenting? Probably!"

Seeing how stressed she was, Tadashi handed her a plate of deserts. "You should go lie down Aunt Cass. I'll make sure Hiro doesn't try sneaking out again."

Aunt Cass headed upstairs with Mochi following behind her. He only stopped to eat the crumbs falling from the plate.

At this rate, Aunt Cass will eat everything from the café and she'll go out of business. Somehow, I need to get through to Hiro that his future lies in SFIT. But how?

Tadashi snapped his fingers and pulled out his cellphone. Pressing a button, he called one of his friends from school. "Hey, Fred I need your help. No nothing like that. Do you think you could help me with my little brother?"

The next day Tadashi spent the morning convincing his aunt of his plan. She was a bit skeptical, fearing that Tadashi's plan wouldn't help. The young adult assured her he would make sure it would work. All she had to do was lift Hiro's grounding for one night.

When Hiro came down for lunch they were both ready. He raised an eyebrow when he saw that Aunt Cass had made his favorite, spicy chicken wings. Something was up. "Okay, anyone want to tell me what's going on?"

Aunt Cass giggled nervously. "Why would you ask that Hiro?"

"You made my favorite food and you're giggling."

"Just sit down and eat Hiro."

Hiro did as he was asked. He had to admit the spicy chicken wings tasted better than usual. Aunt Cass really outdid herself this time. Something is up for sure he thought.

A few minutes later Tadashi spoke. "Hiro, Aunt Cass decided to lift the grounding for tonight." He noticed his little brother grin in joy before frowning. He was wondering why Aunt Cass had agreed to this.

"Hiro we're worried about you. These last few months haven't been easy for any of us. I know you think college isn't going to challenge you. However, you don't know that if you never go to SFIT to see for yourself."

Aunt Cass took over telling her youngest nephew was going with his older brother tonight to check out the college for himself. They wouldn't pressure him to join the school, but he at least had to do give it a chance.

So that night, Hiro rode on the back of his brother's moped as they headed off to the SFIT. "I have to admit, I'm a bit curious about your school. Just don't expect me to take an instant delight to it because you're pushing me towards it."

Tadashi chuckled and replied to his little brother. "Don't worry little brother, I assure you I won't be pushing you to join the school." That's what my friends are for he added mentally.

They finally reached the school and parked near the robotics lab. The brother's headed inside. Reaching the lab, Tadashi escorted his brother inside and watched with delight as his brother's eyes widened as he took in all the innovated tech.

Hiro's mind was blown. He had never seen so many new ideas in one place. Spider robot shoes that moved you across the room with ease, rocket boots on a cat to make it fly, and robotic arms playing a fierce game of ping pong.

"Coming through!" a female voice shouted giving Hiro enough time to jump out of the way. She was riding a bike that didn't have a chain and the wheels weren't mounted on the bike.

Taking off her helmet, she acknowledged the boys with a tilt of her head. "Hey Dashi, so this is your little genius brother? I thought you said he was fourteen, not ten."

"I'm not that short!" Hiro snapped as Tadashi laughed.

"So Go-Go how's the latest test on your mag-lev bike?"

"Still not fast enough. The electromagnetically-suspended wheels need to be stronger. The stronger the electromagnetism is means I'll have more power to go even faster." Turning her back to the boys she started working on her bike once more.

Hiro was steered towards another friend of Tadashi. This time it was a male. He waved to the boys. "So you're Hiro? Your brother mentioned he was going to bring you around sometime. Why don't you check out my latest tech design? Hope you're hungry."

Wasabi tossed an apple over to Hiro, who was amazed when the apple was cut into thin and precise slices.

"Nice isn't it," the big burly African American stated. He pressed a button revealing green plasma-based lasers between two magnetic containment uses. "This technology has ample applications from security to sanitation."

Wasabi walked over to his very organized tool station and placed his wielder in its precise place. "I got a system where everything has its own place. Neat huh?"

Hiro nodded politely even though he was a more chaotic inventor. Turning his head, he saw his brother talking to a perky, tall, honey blond haired girl. Judging from the way she was blushing it appeared she had a crush on Tadashi.

"Hiro come over here. I want you to meet my friend Honey Lemon."

Before he could even take a step Honey Lemon rushed over and started to shake his hand enthusiastically. "Hello, Hiro! I'm so glad to finally meet you! Your brother has told us all about you. Come on, your about to see the wonders of chemistry!"

Honey Lemon narrated the chemicals she was using to make a four hundred pound ball of tungsten carbide become brittle metal with a single touch. As soon as it was broke Hiro was covered in pink dust.

"Whoa, that's a lot of pink," he chuckled.

"Pink is Honey Lemon's favorite color," Tadashi explained. He looked around the lab searching for someone. "Has anyone seen Fred?"

"I'm here!" Fred shouted as he dashed through the doors, his mascot costume catching on the door. "Ah, I'm stuck. Very stuck!" Go-Go rolled her eyes and yanked him through the door before going back to work on her bike.

Hiro looked at Fred. He really didn't scream science nerd, he looked more like a comic book geek. "What major are you?" he asked enquiringly.

"Oh, I'm actually an English major taking online courses at home," Fred replied hurriedly. Bouncing to his feet he showed off the mascot costume. "Though I'm no scientist, I have striven to find my place here at SFIT! You're looking at not just the mascot of this school, but the official human dummy tester and science fiction proposal man!"

Hiro was confused by the last part of that sentence so Tadashi explained. "You know how Jules Vern inspired the scuba suit when he wrote, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea? Well, Fred's job here is to keep coming up with crazy ideas for a lot of the students to bring into reality."

"How often has that happened?"

"So far four times! I'm amazing right Dashi?"

Tadashi agreed he was one of a kind. He stood there as Fred went on and on about how awesome the school was and what it was like to work with the nerds to help improve the world. He mentioned if Hiro wanted to see something cool, he should see Tadashi's latest project.

"So what's my big brother up to? Trying to build nanites to cure people of diseases?" Hiro asked as he leaned against his brother's desk.

Tadashi ripped some tape off a roll and placed it on his brother's arm. "The field of medical nanites is only in its infancy little brother. Until we get there, I've come up with a solution to help people stay healthy."

With that he pulled the tape off hard leaving a slight abrasion on his brother's arm causing the boy to shout in pain. Beaming, he watched as his project Baymax came to life.

"Hello, I am Baymax. I am your personal healthcare companion. On a scale from one to ten, how would you rate your pain?"

Tadashi watched and answered all of Hiro's questions about Baymax, who didn't seem to mind being talked about as if he couldn't hear them. Admittedly, he was working on a new chip to help Baymax develop a personality of his own.

Once Baymax deactivated Tadashi turned to his brother. "So, what do you think of this place?"

"It's really amazing and your friends are cool. It would be fun to go here."

"I sense a but coming."

"How would the teachers react to me? In the past, some of them treated me as if I was a baby or didn't interact with me at all. Is that going to be the same here?"

"I can assure Hiro Hamada that won't be the case," a kind older male voice said. Hiro's jaw dropped in astonishment as saw who was standing in the doorway. Why hadn't his brother told him the famous Robert Callaghan taught here?!

The man held out his hand and Hiro shook it enthusiastically. "So your Tadashi's little brother. He told me he had a genius brother who was interested in robots."

"Yeah, I love them. I designed my own bot fighter based on magnetic servos to take on opponents! I can't believe you teach here! I'm a huge fan of your work."

Callaghan chuckled. "It's nice to meet a fan as young as you Hiro. I see great potential in you. We have a showcase coming up in a few weeks. If you come up with an innovative piece of technology the judges might just give you the scholarship to start as a student here."

Hiro promised he would be there with something great. In the background, Tadashi pumped his fist. He knew if Hiro got a tour of this place he would want to enroll here. I really need to thank Fred for helping to convince Callaghan to stay late and meet Hiro.

Hearing that Tadashi's plan was a success Aunt Cass lifted Hiro's grounding so he could have access to the garage/lab and gather the materials he would need for his showcase project.

Hiro's mind buzzed with ideas as he spent hours in the garage working on his ideas. There was a spring in his step and he was really excited, babbling about how his projects would improve the world.

Therefore Tadashi was surprised when five days later, Hiro came upstairs and asked for his help since he was scraping his project idea. Concerned, the older boy followed his brother into the lab to see what the problem was. He stood next to his brother's workstation as Hiro turned on his computer.

"Why are you scrapping your project, Hiro? I thought you were loving it."

"Because it's not really something new. Here, I'll show you." He brought up a file labeled Project Super and showed his brother the blueprint designs for his former project.

"I was inspired by your friends' school projects and decided to create armor based ideas around their projects. I was thinking of how law enforcement could use them to help in crises, but they ended up looking more like superhero costumes."

Tadashi looked over the blueprints and was amazed by how much detail and thought went into them. Each set of armor was uniquely designed to use a person's project to help them achieve whatever goal they had in mind.

The armor based on Go-Go's project would help apprehend fleeing criminals without endangering civilian lives. Honey Lemon's project would come in handy when dealing with hostage situations. Wasabi's armor would be perfect riot gear.

Tadashi wasn't sure what Fred's lizard suit could be used for, but its jumping capabilities could be put to good use. Hiro had even designed armor based on both Baymax and Tadashi himself. A robot medic that could fly an injured patient to a hospital was a great idea. Tadashi's own armor idea was based around the idea of having robot parts on hand to quickly assemble tools for any occasion.

"Little brother, these are astounding! I can't believe you came up with all these brilliant ideas! Even if you created one of these for the showcase I'm sure you would win."

"I know they're cool. I was going to design one based on myself, but decided against it," Hiro admitted. "The problem is all of these ideas were based on someone else's ideas. I need something really original if I want to win that showcase."

Tadashi agreed with his brother and asked if his brother had any other ideas for the showcase.

Hiro brought up a few half thought of ideas he had come up with only to dismiss. There was an idea for a power planter that would plant trees, shrubs, and bushes to restore devastated landscapes. It was a good idea except it would be a mobile lightning rod which would result in the very plants in planted catching fire.

Another idea had been to create a probe that would tunnel under the earth and explore the underground looking for valuable resources for use. It was a sound idea except the probe might unintentionally set off a fault line.

A third idea he had come up with involved creating a mobile garbage and recycling unit to help keep the city streets clean and reduce waste. It was a good idea, but the size it would need to be was way too big to fit through the doors to the showcase hall.

"These are all good ideas little brother. You could build any one of these. I'm sure with a little time you could perfect them."

"But not in time for the showcase. I really need to come up with something amazing and has the best wow factor. I can't flub in front of Professor Callaghan!" the boy whined unhappily.

"Trust me, whatever you come up with Professor Callaghan will like. He loves encouraging young minds to reach their full potential. Since your specialty is robotics, you already have his attention."

"Attention yes, respect no!" The boy brought his hands together and pleaded with Tadashi to help him come up with something that was feasible and award-winning.

Tadashi responded he couldn't help Hiro with creating an idea. His little brother would have to earn his spot at SFIT, just like he had.

"Come on big brother, I need help! Can't you give me some hint or wisdom to at least get me started?"

Tadashi snatched up his little brother and threw him over his shoulders. "Let's get the blood pumping to your head. You have an idea yet?"

"Stop it! This isn't any way to treat your little brother!"

"I'm just trying to get you to see things from a new angle. Every problem can be solved if you look at it from different directions."

Hiro was getting dizzy from being upside down. He struggled to pull himself up. If I could separate myself into different pieces and reassemble I wouldn't be in this position the boy thought.

"I GOT IT! I know what I'm going to do!" Hiro shouted in delight.

Glad that he helped his little brother out, Tadashi pulled Hiro upright then set him down in his work chair. "Now that's the genius brother I know and love. What's your new idea?"

The boy grinned mischievously, "You'll just have to wait until the showcase to see the final project." Leaning back in his chair he did say, "It is going to take some time to complete. I wouldn't mind company while I work."

"I can certainly provide company. We'll make it a bonding experience with your soon to be friends and classmates."

As his little brother started to work on his new project, Tadashi pulled out his phone to call his friends. Everything was going to be okay now. Hiro's life was back on track and the world would see his brilliance. Nothing could go wrong.