Chapter 3: Finding Inspiration

So, some of you guys might be probably thinking about how to pronounce Friya's name. Well, it sounds like /free-yah/ /tah-ma-kee/. Hope that was helpful for some of ya'll. :) (One fun fact: Friya is two months older than Hiro)

I also want to make some things clear: this story is not ALL about romance and my OC's relationship with Hiro. I'm hoping as I write further chapters, most of you readers will understand the lesson hidden within. ^-^ Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Hiro didn't forget about yesterday. He finally registered his name in the showcase with Friya's and started brainstorming some ideas.

However, his duty as San Fransokyo's hero was still his top priority.

When he woke up the next morning, he was in a good mood and got up with a smile on his face. He bolted from bed, started changing, and said, "Hey, Baymax! Time to get up!" There was no response from the robot's case. Hiro rolled his eyes. "Ow."

Instantly, his mechanical friend popped out and blinked. "Good morning, Hiro."

"Today's going to be a big day, bud," he said, playfully punching the big guy's stomach. "I can feel it. Let's gear up!"

He quickly zipped his suit on and helped Baymax put on his. Once they were ready, they went downstairs.

Hiro's Aunt Cass, usually opened her shop during late mornings on Saturdays. When Hiro told her about the whole superhero thing, she had no choice but to let her only nephew go along with it. She even changed the Lucky Cat Café schedule so the Big Hero 6 could have their meetings there early.

As the young leader and humble robot entered the room, Cass was already setting a plate of donuts on the table. She grinned when she saw the geared-up Hiro. "Good morning, honey!" she greeted and gestured to the treats. "Look! For you and your friends! My treat!"

"Wow!" Hiro smiled as he reached for a chocolate-coated one and bit into it. "Thanks, Aunt Cass."

"I have detected a high presence of sugar and oil in those ring-shaped objects, which are very bad for your health," Baymax noted. "Are you sure you want to eat those?"

Hiro rolled his eyes at Baymax's oblivion. "Yeah, bud, donuts are really good."

"I do not see how diabetes, heart disease, and cancer can be 'good',"

"Wait, what?"

Cass only laughed. "Baymax sure knows a lot. You should listen to him."

Hiro stared, dumbfounded. "You were the one who made these!"

"Did I?"

"Aunt Cass!"

The woman laughed again and gripped her nephew by the shoulders. "My little Hiro is all grown up, saving the world in his little nerdy outfit with his much older smartpants college friends," Hiro chuckled at this. "Your parents and your brother would've been proud."

His smile dropped. The mention of both the deaths of his family was a really sore subject. "Thanks," he said quietly.

Cass smiled and hugged him. Hiro hugged her back. They were like that for a while until Baymax picked both of them up and joined in. "It is all right to cry," he said, patting their heads. "There. There." The duo laughed.

Jus then, the other four members entered the café, all suited up and ready to go. "Hey, why is everyone sitting around here being emotional?" Gogo said.

"Yeah!" Fred said from his suit enthusiastically. "We have a city to save!"

"Hey, look, donuts," Wasabi happily walked over to the table and practically stuffed one in his mouth.

The others looked at each other. "Well, I don't know about you guys, but I can't save the city on an empty stomach!" Honey Lemon immediately joined Wasabi and casually ate a strawberry-coated donut.

"All right, I'm starving," Fred said, joining them.

"What the heck," Gogo shrugged and took one bite.

Everyone seemed to forget that they were on duty and started to pig out on donuts. Hiro mental facepalmed at his friends. Even Fred, who was apparently too lazy to get out of his suit, stuck his hand out the monster mouth hole and started eating donuts just like that.

"These are really good, Ms. Hamada!" Wasabi commented.

"Aww, thank you all, but you can just call me Cass," She grinned.

"Well, they're delicious!"

"We'd better get going, though," Gogo said, setting down her half-eaten donut. "Where are we going first?'

"Baymax?" Everyone turned to their robot companion.

"I will now scan the area for any unusual or iniquitous activities," he said. After a blink of an eye, he said, "Scan complete. I have detected an assembly of ten people, headed towards the city bank, northwest."

"Which is exactly where we're going. Let's move!" Hiro stood up and ran out the shop with the gang following him. "Good luck!" Cass called out, waving.

Instantly, the others fixated themselves on Baymax and Hiro was getting his flight pack on. He couldn't wait to use it. Once on, he found two buttons on each strap and pressed the left on. The wings immediately popped open. "We better hurry," he told the others. "Take off in—"

"Wait!" A familiar voice was calling out to them.

The team turned. Moving up to them on a black and silver scooter was the creator of the wings herself.

"Friya?" Honey asked. "You're here?"

"Well," she said, taking her helmet off.

"Hey, no offense little dude," Fred said with a perplexed tone. "But shouldn't you be back at school?"

"Oh, well, Hiro invited me over," she said nonchalantly. "He offered to help me today." Then she gave an apologetic look. "But I didn't know you guys were going to do hero stuff too. I'm too early, I can wait."

Hiro rubbed his head in embarrassment. "Sorry, Friya, I should've confirmed schedules with you."

She waved a hand. "It's cool. It's my fault for not checking with you." Then her eyes lit up. "Hey, what if I go with you guys?"

"Go where?" Gogo asked.

"Go go," Fred joked. Wasabi laughed, which made the girl punch both of them in the shoulders.

"Go wherever you guys are going to do your superhero stuff!" Friya replied. "I wanna help!"

Hiro frowned. "I don't know, Friya…you could get hurt."

The girl was offended. She crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow. "Excuse you Hiro, but just because I'm fourteen, a girl, and half-blonde, doesn't mean I can't take care of myself. I have an IQ that's larger than my invention collection and sometimes, I don't hesitate to tell people that."

"She's right about that," Wasabi cut in, almost sounding annoyed.

"And besides," Friya continued. "I think everyone can agree here when I say it's unfair to not tag a close friend along in at least one of their missions." The four shifted uncomfortably, knowing she was right.

"Well, it looks like we lost here," Hiro smiled at the young inventor. "Hop on, Fri."

She grinned widely and got on Baymax. "We're running out of time," Gogo said. "We need to speed it up."

"Says the girl with the zero resistance electro-magnetic wheels," Wasabi muttered.

"Let's fly," Hiro smirked, gripping his straps.

With that, they were off.

Flying by himself was easier than Hiro thought. The wings were easy to fly with, like it was a natural thing to him. He expected that it would be a transmitter that connects the pack to his spinal cord and brain to emit the wings to be in his control. Why Friya thought creating something like this wasn't a good, original invention, he didn't know. He just happily did spins in the air for good measure.

"Having fun there?" Friya shouted out to him.

Hiro flew beside her, grinning. "These wings are awesome!" he shouted back. "It's like a whole new part of me!"

"They're supposed to be designed like that! So they would seem light and comfortable. Anyway, I'm really glad you like them!"

The teen boy nodded. He was about to say something else, but then Baymax interrupted, saying, "We have arrived at our destination," and suddenly dove down. "Whoa!" Hiro looked to see where he was going and realized he was heading towards the bank.

Police cars were surrounding the building, sounding their sirens, causing crowds and traffic. The team hovered above it all, trying to search for the criminals.

"I have sensed ten people inside," Baymax confirmed.

"Let's do this!" Fred said, putting his suit's face on.

They flew into the bank, disregarding the protests of the police. Once they were inside, everyone got into position while Friya stood in the corner with her camera out.

"Over there!" Gogo pointed to a group of people in ski masks trying to escape through a vent in the wall with big sacks strapped across their backs. Immediately, she threw a spiky disc at the man holding the vent cover to knock it off and cut holes through their sacks. Then she threw another disc to knock him out.

"Hey!" His teammate glared at Gogo and charged at her with a knife, but Honey struck first with a Chem-ball, trapping him in a sticky goo of elements. The man struggled, leaving Honey to smile smugly.

Meanwhile, Fred and Wasabi were taking on two more people. One man punched Fred but he jumped just in time before he got hit. As he landed, he decided to test out his ice breath and encased the robber in a block of ice. "Yeah!" he cheered for himself.

The other guy was trying to hit Wasabi but he kept dodging. When he tried to attack with his plasma blades, the guy just kept dodging as well. Finally, Wasabi used his knee blades to kick upwards. When the guy dodged it, he straightened his leg to kick him in the face. That robber skidded across the floor, knocked out. Wasabi punched the air in victory.

Baymax and Hiro were trying to handle five more guys. Baymax easily kicked and punched three opponents. Hiro hit one guy in the face and knocked him down. The other charged, and Hiro frantically activated the beams from his right hand. The man quickly dodged to the left. Fortunately, that gave Hiro opportunity. "Yes!" he grinned.

"Go, guys!" Friya shouted, cheering all them on. Hiro smiled towards her, but dropped it when he saw a figure creeping towards his friend. Before he could yell out, Friya already expected the attack and hit the guy in the chest. Immediately, he passed out on the floor.

The heroes quickly went to see if she was OK. They stared at their unharmed friend. "I told you I can take care of myself," she said proudly.

"How did you do that?" Honey Lemon asked.

Grinning, Friya took out a small, steel rod. Hiro recognized it immediately. "You brought your electrifier stick?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Hey, I still need to protect myself!"

"From what?"

"Well…"

"You're sounding like you don't trust me."

"I don't."

"Hey!"

The Big Hero 6 gang burst out laughing with Friya as she put her rod away. "All right, let's get outta here," she said, catching her breath.

Suddenly, the doors to the bank broke open and the police started to surround them. "Nobody move!" their chief commanded with his gun pointed at them. The others followed his actions.

"Go, go, go!" Hiro shouted, as everyone got on Baymax.

"Stop!" the officer yelled. No one shot, but no one stopped them from flying out the building.

"Too close," Wasabi breathed heavily as soon as they were in the sky.

"At least we were able to catch those robbers before they escaped," Honey sighed.

"Dudes! That was awesome!" Fred exclaimed. "Let's put out some more bad guys!"

Gogo, who was clinging onto Baymax's hand, scanning the area, squinted her eyes at a certain location, replying, "How would you like to put out some fire?"

"Wait, what?" Hiro flew to her side and tried to see in her point of view. His eyes widened when he saw a tall apartment building, engulfed in flames, and burning to the ground.

"Shall we come to their rescue?" Baymax asked robotically.

"Do you even need to ask?" Friya said, half-laughing incredulously. "Dive!"

The team immediately landed in front of the burning structure. People on the ground floor were screaming and running outside, saving themselves and coughing incessantly.

"Where are the firemen?" Friya asked worriedly.

"Probably still not knowing about this," Gogo sneered.

"Hiro! Do you have a plan?" Honey asked anxiously.

Honestly, Hiro couldn't think of anything. The scene before his eyes caused him to freeze in place, unable to move. It was just like last year…only this time, more lives will be lost; unless Hiro does something about it.

He forced himself to snap out of his fear and turned to his team. "OK, here's what we have to do," he said. "Fred, Gogo, you two get in and save whoever else is inside the building and bring them out safely. Wasabi, you take care of the victims, give them medication if needed. Friya and Baymax can help, but they, along with Honey and I need to put out the flames with Chem-balls and water. Let's move!"

Everyone hastily got to work. Gogo was able to take at least two or three people outside at a time in lightning speed. Fred used his jumping powers to get to the higher floors and tried putting fire out with his ice. Wasabi tended to the people that escaped from the fire while Honey threw liquid-like Chem-balls to put them out. Baymax assisted Wasabi while he, Hiro, and Friya collected water from a nearby fire hydrant and helped Honey. The young inventor watched the gang work together as Big Hero 6 and admired them all. What happened at the bank wasn't teamwork; seeing them all doing their part gave her motivation.

'If only the fire would just turn solid and stop spreading!' she thought to herself.

The fires were dying down pretty quickly, but not fast enough. The firefighters had just arrived and helped make their job easier. Things were going as planned. Fred and Gogo appeared on the ground again. "We've escorted everyone out," Gogo confirmed.

"Great," Hiro relaxed. "Things are going well."

"Wait!" a woman's voice shrieked. She crossed the line and flung herself at the building, but Honey and Wasabi stopped her. "My baby is still in there!" she wailed. "My daughter! I need to save her!"

"I thought you said you guys got everyone out already!" Wasabi reprimanded.

"Hey, it wasn't a promise!" Fred defended.

"No one can get through anymore," Honey said sorrowfully. "Some of the chemicals in the Chem-balls can be dangerous to human skin if not removed expertly."

"If I jump in, I might break the building even faster," Fred groaned.

"Honey's Chem-balls might affect me and my suit if I try to run inside," Gogo glared at the building.

"I cannot go in as well," Baymax said. The heat and molecular state might damage my inflatable structure, even with protective equipment."

"Hiro?" Wasabi asked, waiting for his call. The rest turned to him as well.

It's as if the fear was returning to him. This time, Hiro just stared at the building, slowly falling to the ground. If he got in, would he make it out? He was just fixated there, a million thoughts running through his mind. With a saddened look, he turned to the others. "I…don't know what to do."

"Please!" the woman cried. She wept, her face in her hands. "Someone needs to do something! She's only a child! She can't die like this!"

Suddenly, something in Friya's heart stopped. The words that were just said struck her heart. It's as if the world had disappeared from her senses and cleared everything in her mind. An old memory flashed before her eyes.

'Please! She's only a little girl! She doesn't deserve this!'

Well, no wonder those words sounded so familiar. Friya stared between the mother and the blazing building. She knew what it was like to be in the woman's place; to love someone so young and watch them die before your eyes. She couldn't let that happen again.

"I'll do it!" Without warning, Friya charged in through the window.

"Friya, no!" Hiro yelled, chasing after her. "You can't do this!" Baymax held him back and positioned himself in front of everyone else, arms spread out wide. As if on cue, a blast of fire exploded, escaping from the building. Everyone was able to duck just in time.

When the flames grew just a bit calmer, Hiro pulled away from his robot friend's grip and walked up to the building, horrified as he watched the walls slowly cave in and tear apart the entire construction. "No…" It was like Tadashi's death all over again.

He was just about ready to collapse onto the floor and grieve, when he heard footsteps. He looked up and couldn't believe his eyes.

Friya was casually walking out the building, carrying a quivering little five-year old-looking girl in her arms with her denim jacket covering both of them. The weeping mother burst out into tears of joy and went to hug her child. "Thank you, thank you, thank you…!" she bawled repeatedly.

"Mama…" the child weakly said.

Friya gave a warm smile and bowed to the united mother and daughter.

"Unbelievable…" Hiro murmured, staring at his friend.

The fourteen-year old girl, who was covered in slightly scarred burn marks and dust, walked up to Hiro and held a hand out to him with a smile. He didn't take it. Instead, he wrapped his arms around her and embraced her tightly. Friya was surprised and hugged back. The others grinned tearfully and went to join in.

"I thought you were gone, too…" Hiro whispered.

Friya chuckled. "There's no way I would ever leave." They hugged even tighter after that.

Unfortunately, Fred had to break the moment by pulling away and asking, "Wait a second, how were you able to survive all that without completely bursting into flames? If you ask me, you should be dead by now."

"Fred!" Honey scolded. Gogo slapped his head, causing him to yell in pain.

"Oh!" Friya said, astonished. "It's my clothes, actually. I always make my own, because I use a special material I designed to make them completely waterproof, electric-proof, and of course, nonflammable. I just covered the child and I with my jacket and we got out together safely." She smiled softly to herself; the little girl reminded her a lot of Rhea…

"Friya, that's…amazing," Hiro said remarkably. "You created something that is useful."

"No, really," Friya insisted. "Anyone could have created something like this."

"No, anyone couldn't have," Hiro said, half-laughing. "Don't you see? You can be original. You just have to dig deep."

"Don't be daft, Hiro. Creating that material is just like steel; I mean, if anyone can use steel as a clothes material, then—" She cut herself off.

"What is it?"

The gears in her mind were running through her brain in high-speed. She just thought of something, and she knew it was going to be brilliant. Her thoughts ran through her, spreading throughout her body, just waiting to be expressed in different ways. With a huge grin plastered on her face, she turned to the entire group. "I have an idea."

Was it good? Did you like it? Do you like the story so far? So many questions, so little time. This is my last chapter update for the week. Awesome, I accomplished three chapters. Thanks again to all those who read my fanfic that encourage me to update the fanfic early! :) To be honest, I usually don't update as quick as the usual. It usually takes me a chapter a week, and I only write ten chapters each fanfic. But all you readers gave me inspiration! You're my heroes! (Whoops, spoiler! xD If you get it, that is) I hope you guys will stick around long enough for me to finish the tenth and final chapter because there's a chance I won't be updating in another week. Thanks again guys! See you around! -Ridaa