Hello readers! Come and delve into the backissues for BH6. This is one of my shorter stories, I thought it was cute and added details I cut from Six Years Gone for pacing reasons. This one can be anything from a week before the first chapter to a few days, or else Hiro was sitting on something pretty useful for too long!
Hiro had been working for a long while in his private lab, part of the somewhat secret complex now home to Big Hero 6. Krei had been a great help to the team since they saved him from Callahagn and then he had hired Hiro after he'd earned his PhD. Now he was fully supportive of this latest plan.
Bubble blowing and a pop heralded a visitor. "Hey wonder boy. What're you working on?" GoGo sat down on a chair and rolled herself over to the desk he was working at.
"Micro-bots." Hiro replied, a magnifier between him and the object. "I'm just making sure this batch is perfect. If I'm going to use them on missions they have to be right."
"Cool. Finally time for you to have a 'power' huh?"
"Yup. Baymax has been in enough fights, had plenty of anime, karate movies and Super Sentai downloaded into his database and learned from it all to not need me telling him what to do." Hiro smiled. "I thought with these I can be a different type of help. The headset is built into my helmet." He tapped the purple helmet beside him.
"Nice." GoGo peered over. Micro-bots had been on public release for a year now. Hiro had fixed the problems that let them be hijacked. Vein scans on the headsets and encrypted codes to tether the 'bots to a specific headset. Subject to checks and vetting, they were sold in batches of a thousand. Manufactured by Krei Tech in a friendly and appealing chrome finish. No association with Yokai that way.
Though, there was a difference to these ones. "Purple?" GoGo looked at the little device in front of the genius.
"Purple is my favourite colour." Hiro said, not really thinking exactly who he was talking to.
"How come? I never really asked." GoGo leaned in. The little bot was a lightly metallic purple all over, a whole load of them together would look badass.
"Uh, no real reason. Heh." Hiro scrubbed his hand through his hair. "Aunt Cass says it was always my favourite..."
"Cool. It'll match your armour." She chucked him on the shoulder. "Don't burn that big brain of yours out nerd. We've got snacks and drinks in the lounge." She waved off a lazy salute and left his lab.
"That was close." Hiro breathed, the words slipping out quietly. Purple had been his favourite colour for quite a while, but he'd not had a favourite until a certain moment. A moment with a sarcastic retort, a gum-bubble pop and a pair of dark eyes under dark hair with that streak of purple; a moment sealed into his memory.
Purple was Hiro's favourite colour. It reminded him of a certain someone.
Keep your eyes peeled for other peeks into the past.