(A/N): Hello! First off, I would just like thank all who have been reading. I would love to hear from you! Just thanks so so much! :D and for this next chapter, I'm adding a little bonus in the end. :3 so just read on and see! Also, sorry for taking so long to update. I'll try to get better at it... Sooner or later. Anyways, enjoy! :) don't forget to review! I would love to know what you think!3
Disclaimers: I do not own Big Hero 6, it belongs to Disney and Marvel; nor do I own Here's to Never Growing Up, that belongs to Avril Lavigne. I only own my own characters such as Emily.
Chapter 3- And Then There's This
"No, crap! You're not supposed to do that!" Emily yipped as she jumped back from her project. The circuitry had started sparking again, so she quickly turned off the connecting power and glared at it. "How come you won't just work for me?!" She said, exasperated beyond care.
Mamoru shot up from where she had been sleeping on the other side of the room and trotted over to her, wagging her tail and giving Emily a confused look. She sighed and patted the dog, "Don't worry, it's just being difficult, you silly dog. Kinda reminds me of you." She chuckled as Mamoru continued to look up at her.
Emily sighed again and put down the pliers she had been using, removing her goggles from her face. For the month and a half she had been here, she had been working on a project that she had come up with during the previous summer. It was a jet pack, with wings that looked similar to angel wings, and could bend and twist in the way birds' wings do. If she could just crack the code on how to transfer those to machine, it would make this so much easier, and lead to a break through on mastering the tools of nature! The others had offered to help, but she wanted to do this by herself.
But, unfortunately, she just couldn't figure out how to do it! She had studied the patterns of flight and wing shapes from different birds and planes, figured out the required fire power for lift, but the wings were what she was having trouble putting together. How was she to transfer animal flight to machine and still keep the original wing shape, feathers and all?
And now, the wiring she was working on to control the jet pack was deciding to be moody.
Just perfect.
She shook her head in frustration and turned from her project, taking a deep breath. She needed to calm down, getting mad over this won't help anything.
Emily looked to her clock, and read the time in big, digital red letters. 9:12 pm. She had been working since 3, so... 6 hours of dealing with this crap. She groaned and stretched out her back. As she fixed her green shirt, tugging the sleeves back to her elbows, and her slightly tattered blue jeans, she walked over to her desk and picked up her phone. She smiled at the message her sister, Angel, had sent her, assuring Emily that her project would be fantastic, and sent a quick text back, running a hand through her brown hair. She needed to get it trimmed, but it was whatever.
Emily peeked her head around the door to her office, noticing that she had the lab room all to herself. She silently mouthed 'yes' and turned to Mamoru, a huge grin on her face. "Ready for a jam session, girl?" Mamoru barked as if in a response, and Emily giggled. "Let's do this."
She went over to Gogo's work space and plugged in her phone to Gogo's speakers. "I'm sure she won't mind," she said aloud, a smirk on her face. She picked the play list with all her favorite songs and clicked on shuffle. Immediately, music began to blare from the speakers, and she jumped and shot her hand over to turn it down. "Jeez, Gogo, I'm surprised you're not deaf by now," Emily mumbled, shaking her head. She heard Mamoru whimpering and winced, "Oh, sorry Mamoru. I did not mean for that to happen." After she fixed it to a reasonable volume, she began to move to the beat. It was 'Here's to Never Growing Up' by Avril Lavigne.
Singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs, with the boom box blarin' as we're falling in love. Got a bottle of whatever, but it's gettin' us drunk, singing here's to never growing up!
She liked to listen to it when she got stressed, so now was the perfect time. She moved around the lab, singing along to it and dancing around. Mamoru watched her, not seeming as interested in the song.
Call up all our friends, go hard this weekend. For no dang reason, I don't think we'll ever change. Meet you at the spot, half past ten o'clock. We don't ever stop, and we're never gonna change!
As the music played on, Emily jumped onto an empty table, not caring how or why it was there, completely lost into the song.
Say, won't you stay forever, stay, if you stay forever, hey, we can stay forever young!
As it went on, she didn't notice the main door to the lab open, nor the faces that peered in and watched her little performance.
We'll be running down the street, yelling "Kiss my-" OH! I'm like yeah whatever, we're still living like the sun's going down, we'll be raising our cups, singing, here's to never growing up.
She continued to dance, jumping from the table and dashing over to Mamoru, who jumped back a bit. Emily knelt down and scratched her behind both ears, putting them nose to nose as she sang along.
We live like rock stars, dance on every is who we are, I don't think we'll ever change (no!) They say just grow up, but they don't know us. We don't give a- , and we're never gonna change!
Then she stood up and started to twirl, but froze when she finally noticed the familiar faces by the door.
"Guys?! W-what are ya'll doing here? I-I didn't think you would be back until, um- later, I guess," she stammered out, her face going red from embarrassment. Gogo popped her gum and chuckled, "Nice performance there, Twinkle toes." Wasabi nodded, and Honey and Fred smiled widely. "Yea! It was pretty cool!" Fred added in.
Honey giggled, "I'm so sad we missed in joining!" Tadashi just stood there, grinning from ear to ear and chuckled. 'I'm so freaking screwed,' Emily thought to herself. "Well, um, thanks. F-for the compliments and all, " Emily moved closer to the speakers, "but I- um- I gotta go back to work on my, my project, ya know?"
She quickly grabbed her phone and rushed back to her lab, Mamoru following, as well as the slightly confused looks of the others. Once they were in her lab, she closed the door behind her and smacked her forehead lightly. 'I am such an idiot,' she mentally scolded herself.
She sighed and walked to her desk, picking up a motherboard and sitting in her chair grumpily. She pulled her lamp closer to the tech so that she could examine it properly, trying desperately to distract herself from her previous moment. As she was, Emily heard a knock on the door, and Tadashi's voice, "Hey, Emily, may I come in?" She was about to refuse, but sighed and replied, "Sure, come on in."
He poked his around the door to find Emily hunched over a mother board, tinkering at the tech. She glanced up at him, and saw his bright smile as he walked over. "Hey, how's it going?" Emily huffed, "Besides just embarrassing myself by my little show, that stupid piece of junk of a project being funky with me, and a number of other things, I'm fantastic. Never been better." Sarcasm practically dripped from her voice and she winced at herself. "Sorry, that was rude."
Tadashi shook his head, "Don't apologize. You have the right to be frustrated. I would be too, to be honest." He leaned against her desk, arms crossed over his broad chest, and looked at the tech with some interest. Emily huffed again, leaning back in her chair."Thanks, but it was still rude," she said. Tadashi shook his head, sighing with a small smile on his face as he looked at her. Emily frowned at him a little, "What? I'm serious." He nodded to her, "I know, it's just amusing how silly you are."
Emily rolled her eyes, but couldn't help the smile ghosting her face. His smiles were just really contagious. "The only one here who's silly is you, good sir." He chuckled at this and shook his head, turning to look at the discarded tech sitting on another counter. "So, what seems to be the trouble this time?" Emily groaned and rubbed her face in frustration, "Don't remind me. This is so freaking difficult!" Tadashi laughed, "Hehe, hey, calm down. You'll get it. Just look for a new angle."
The words struck a chord in her mind and she dropped her hands from her face, staring at him in slight shock. "Say that again." "Wait, what?" He said, obviously taken aback by this sudden change in mood.
"Say that again, what you said," she said, leaning forward. There was something... Important in those words, and she needed to know what. Still confused, he did, but it sounded more like a question, "Just look for a new angle?"
That was it. The thing she had been missing in her equations and diagrams and pretty much everything to do with this project! A new angle! No wonder she couldn't figure it out, she had been looking at it wrong the whole time! With that, Emily jumped up, excitement on her face and shouted, "Eureka!" It was so sudden that Mamoru jumped up, ears pricked and looking around.
Tadashi jumped back (well really, to the side) away from Emily, surprise written across his face. "What? What is it?" But all Emily did was squeal and jumped to him, hugging him, "Tadashi, you wonderful, brilliant man! Thank you so so much!" "Um, your welcome?" was all he could say, a lop-sided smile on his face.
Emily then pushed back, turned him around, and began to push him out the door. "Now, you need to go, I have work to do and I'll explain everything when I'm done. It's gonna be great!" He was baffled by this and started to protest, "Hey, wait, can't I at least-" Emily finally got him out and Tadashi turned to her "-can't I at least know?!" She shook her head, bouncing her brown hair, and smiled mischievously. "Sorry, Tadashi-boy. You're just gonna have to wait."
Emily began to close the door, then stopped. Without much thinking on her part, she opened the door more and stood on her tip toes, a hand on his cheek. She kissed his other cheek and pulled back, smiling. "I owe you one, thanks." And with that, she shoot back into her lab, and closed the door quickly.
She had tons of work to do, but confidence and determination now ran through her as she drew out blue prints and designs for her wings. "This is it, Mamoru, I can feel it!" She talked excitedly to her dog.
Tonight was going to be a long night.
Tadashi's reaction bonus: Tadashi stood in front of her door, wide eyed and blushing a mild pink hue. When he heard someone clear their throat, he turned and saw the others standing in front of Honey Lemon's lab door, which wasn't far down. Inwardly he groaned and only blushed more at their surprised and mischievous looks.
"So, how did your 'talk' go, Tadashi?" Gogo asked, lifting a brow. Tadashi glared a bit, "Don't even start that." The others laughed and Honey clapped her hands, "But it was so cute! She looked so excited, do you know what for?" Tadashi shook his head, and sighed, smiling a little, "I don't know, but I think we will find out sooner or later."
They could already hear Emily talking and working in her lab. It was a habit of her's to talk out loud when she worked, and they had grown used to it.
Tadashi looked back to her door, grinning, and shook his head again in mild bewilderment. Emily was quite the girl, she always seemed to surprise them through out the time she had been there.
And that was his favorite part about her.