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Heat Lightning
Hiro sat down and groaned, holding his bruised side while GoGo sat at her desk, rubbing her head where she had hit it on the ground when Hiro pushed her.
"Are you okay?" Hiro asked.
"I should be asking you," GoGo smirked. "I'm fine, thanks to you."
"Good," Hiro smiled and looked to Baymax who had brought him clean clothes, his suit washer to clean their weapons and armor, and his charging port. "I'm satisfied with my care."
Baymax turned and walked to his charging station, stepping onto it as it reached up its mechanical hands and disassembled its armor before he collapsed into his station, shutting down. Hiro sighed, sitting back and bit back a groan as his side stretched.
"Thank you, for visiting me," Hiro finally said. "I'm not sure what it was you said but it got me out of my room, so..."
"Thank you for coming to the bank," GoGo smiled. "You probably saved my life from being blasted before you got there, then saved me from the bus and the roots after. Once more and I'd have had to be your slave to make up for it."
"Like you'd do that willingly," Hiro replied but was staring at the ground and blushing.
"Wow, you know, I never realized how much you look like your brother," GoGo stated, then winced in apologetic sympathy. "Sorry."
"It's alright," Hiro smiled up at her. "I know I'm a lot like him. Comes with being family right?"
"Yeah," GoGo smiled. "So, what are we going to do about the new Callaghan?"
"I have no idea," Hiro sighed. "I would just invent a way to stop him, except I don't even know what he does. I mean, lightning? Wind? Roots? That's physically impossible."
"I never thought I'd hear that from you," GoGo smirked. "I mean, a lot of people would say that lasers, or turning liquids into cement in seconds, or bike tires that hover next to the frame are all physically impossible too."
"I...you're right," Hiro shrugged. "But this time...it really is. He's controlling the world around him."
"Hiro Hamada, you are smarter than that!" GoGo snapped. "Come on. You know that's not what he's doing. Lightning is formed both from static electricity, Wind could be controlled by gaining control of the particles in it, most likely through magnetism. Now, how can he control roots?"
"I...I don't know," Hiro sighed. "How?"
"Oh come on Hiro, you're not even trying," GoGo complained. "You have got to use that big brain of yours. Look for another angle."
Hiro stared at her for a minute then lowered his head, this time in thought. Finally, he looked sideways at the plant off to his left. it was just a potted tree but when he saw it, he realized his own stupidity.
"Magnetized particles," Hiro said. "If he could control the wind with magnetized particles, doing the same to roots shouldn't be a problem."
"It wouldn't, if there were roots present," GoGo stated. "Try to remember, we were in the city."
"Well...I got nothing then," Hiro sighed.
"I figured," GoGo smirked. "That's the one I can't figure out either. Anyway, we need to figure out how to override his abilities."
"The mask," Hiro stated. "Same as Callaghan. Has to be."
"Hiro, I hit him with a disk," GoGo reminded him. "There is no metal on Earth that can deflect one. But Wasabi's energy blades could."
"So, he's got high energy charges running over his arms?" Hiro asked. "Then, it might be body armor."
GoGo nodded and looked outside.
"Want to try again?" GoGo asked. "If we're right about the rest, he doesn't have the ability to get out of instant cement without blasting himself with Lightning or skewering himself with roots."
"About that, how does he know about our instant cement?" Hiro asked. "When have we ever said that's what we call it around someone like him?"
"We...we never did," GoGo stated, brow furrowing. "But we'll find out when we catch him."
Hiro nodded and stood, looking outside just as a familiar kabuki mask appeared in it, the rest of the body becoming visible a moment later. Hiro staggered backward, bruised side impacting with the corner of GoGo's desk and making him suck in air in a high pitched gasp before he held his breath to keep from shouting in pain. The gasp, however was enough for Baymax to activate, complete with armor, this time.
"Hello again, Hiro Hamada," the man greeted. "GoGo Tomago. I've been looking for you. Hiro, your aunt was very disappointed that you didn't come home. She wouldn't stop talking about how you had better only be hanging out with GoGo. She didn't know that you had been spending time with me as well. Shame. She never saw the lightning coming."
"You're lying," Hiro snarled.
The man held a hand out and the TV turned on suddenly, switching to the news where it was displaying Hiro's house, as a column of flame and smoke. He only knew it was his house because of the houses on either side of it, both of which were black from the soot and ash and one of which seemed to have smoke of its own curling out of it. After a moment, a more fire trucks arrived, one of them firing a stream of water into the smoking window of Hiro had seen before coating that building and the one on the opposite side of Hiro's with water before helping put out the main flame. Finally the TV turned off and the man lowered his arm.
"You abhor me don't you?" the man asked before floating backward again, turning invisible as he did, a psychopathic and unsettling laugh ringing out after him.
"Hiro-"
"Baymax, let's go!" Hiro shouted sprinting to the window and leaping out.
Baymax crashed out of the wall behind him, catching him before flying toward Hiro's house. When they arrived, the fire hadn't lessened at all, the firetrucks were still struggling to do anything noticeable, and the news camera panned around on them. Hiro tinted his visor to hide his face then looked down at Baymax.
"Scan complete," Baymax stated. "No signs of life detected. Several bodies located. Scanning...complete. Cass Hamada identified. I am sorry Hiro."
Hiro remained silent, fingers pressing hard against Baymax's armor, both in rage and grief.
"Alert, crime in progress," Baymax suddenly reported.
"Not right now Baymax," Hiro muttered.
"Breaking and entering," Baymax continued. "Location, Tomago residence."
"GoGo?" Hiro blinked before rage and defensiveness both erupted inside him. "Fuck no. He is not taking her from me. Not now. I'll kill him this time. Go Baymax."
Baymax turned and flew back toward GoGo's. When they arrived, they saw a familiar sight. The building was burning. Only this time, the fire hadn't spread enough to block the building itself from view. He could easily see that the front door had been reduced to a gaping hole, as if struck by lightning.
"Scan," Hiro ordered.
"Scanning...complete," Baymax reported. "No signs of life. No bodies detected."
"FUCK!" Hiro shouted resisting the urge to slam his fist into Baymax's armor. "Find her Baymax!"
Baymax began looking around as he scanned but after several moments, he was still scanning.
"Faster Baymax," Hiro snarled. "Find her now!"
"Located," Baymax finally reported. "One hundred percent match. Location, water park."
He pointed and Hiro looked. There was a water park on one side of the city. It was new but wasn't ready to be opened yet because their main attraction, a water slide that stretched underground more than above ground, was unfinished. It had only the first half with lights installed and those would randomly go out for anywhere from minutes to days. Baymax flew to it and landed at the entrance and Hiro dropped to the ground.
"Go put out the fire at GoGo's," Hiro instructed. "Then help the firefighters at Aunt Cass's. Get my computer if it still works, if not, destroy it."
Baymax flew into the air and left and Hiro turned, pulling out a small screwdriver and adjusting his laser blades back to lethal.
"You will not get away this time, you son of a bitch," Hiro growled.
Before he could walk forward, Fred landed beside him, wearing his suit once again.
"Hey man," Fred greeted. "Sorry I was away so long. My girl didn't like the life. I saw the news. Is she okay?"
"She's dead," Hiro stated, voice emotionless. "So the fucker that killed her is going to die just as soon as I find him."
"The guy from the bank?" Fred asked.
"That's the one," Hiro nodded. "Let's go."
They both began to walk forward but both knew exactly where to look. The massive swimming pool that was going to be a shark tank for a special guest if the park had opened on time.
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