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"Wake up, Hiro!"
The call was a bit of a jolt, causing the teen to roll out of bed and hit the floor, the screech of a cat echoing.
"Mochi!" He shouted, shooing the cat away.
"Are you up yet?" Aunt Cass shouted up the stairs once more and Hiro sighed, rubbing his eyes.
"Ugh, yeah, yeah, I'm up..." He called back to her, clambering to his feet, tossing the blankets back onto the bed. He rubbed his eyes, reaching down and picking up Tadashi's hat from the floor and placing it on his brother's bed. He checked the time and jumped, throwing on a pair of shorts and a tee shirt, grabbing his sweatshirt and nearly falling down the stairs, only making it halfway before pelting back up to retrieve his backpack.
"Im late, I'm late, I'm late!" He tried to run out, but Aunt Cass gave a sharp shout, making him stop dead in his tracks.
"Breakfast first!" She pointed to a chair, and Hiro groaned.
"Aunt Cass, I really need to go!" He whined, but she was firm.
"Sit." She set a muffin on the table before turning her back. The boy snatched the muffin from the table and flew down the stairs, ignoring the protests and bursting out into the street, suddenly remembering the strange figure on the sidewalk. Maybe he could track him...
"No, school." He said to himself, turning and running to a trolley stop, boarding and tapping his foot anxiously until they arrived, at which point did he run so fast to the robotics lab that he actually slammed into the door because he forgot it wasn't a push.
Groaning and rubbing his face, he pulled the door open and ran down the hall, straightening his jacket before walking into the lab. The others were all working quietly, except for Fred, or course, who lounged in his armchair reading comics.
"Hey, guys!" Hiro called, and it was as if he'd just walked in on a red carpet.
"Hiro! It's so good to see you!" Honey immediately dropped the vial she was holding and ran to him, hugging him tightly despite the green explosion that sounded just behind them. Thankfully it was small.
"Hi, Honey." He shimmied away from her, looking around as the others waved and smiled.
"We didn't think you'd be in today, actually." Wasabi said, barely looking up from his lasers, and Gogo nodded, working on some sort of miniature track. Fred, Hiro hadn't noticed before, was asleep in the chair, not reading.
"Yeah, Aunt Cass didn't want me to fall behind. I feel great, though." He smiled, shrugging and walking to his work station. Setting his backpack on the desk, he pulled out his laptop, setting it on the desk and pressing a button. Today was one of the days he left Baymax with Aunt Cass so he could help out at the cafe, so he was stuck using his computer for now. His project was a bit up in the air at the moment, but he was buikding other types of helping robots. He'd taken up his microbot project again, ut was adding some minor tweaks to the design. Among the other projects, he had made a standard bot to put in kitchen (Namely Cass's), Construction working bots, all the same things he'd always done. What he really wanted to do was make nursing robots, not unlike Baymax, but that was Tadashi's forte. She maybe there was something to be done with fighting bots. Maybe a protection force for the school. More security...
Hours passed, but he didn't feel it as he dug through plans, drawings and scientific research. Gogo was the one who brough him out of the trance, knocking on the door.
"Hey, Hiro. Did you plan on going home tonight?" She asked, and he looked at the clock, eyes widening.
"Oh, yeah." He nodded, closing the laptop and grabbing his sweatshirt as he followed her out.
"You seemed frazzled this morning. Everything chill?" She asked him, and he sighed, looking ahead.
"Kind of." He mumbled.
"Explain."
"Well, someone broke into my house, took Tadashi's hat then left it in the street."
Gogo stopped, looking down at him.
"What?"
Hiro rubbed his neck.
"I don't know who did it or why, but they only took the hat. Everything else was untouched." He sighed, starting to walk again.
"Did you call the cops?" Gogo asked, catching up with him easily.
"No, they didn't take anything." Hiro repeated, holding open the door, only to get punched in the shoulder.
"Ow... no one was hurt! Besides, I'm gonna track whoever it was down."
Gogo rolled her eyes, snapping her gum as they neared the exit.
"Yeah, alone, I guess? No armor?"
It was Hiro's turn to roll his eyes.
"Shut up, Gogo. I know what I'm doing." He muttered, dragging his feet as he left the building and walking back towards the city, waving goodbye as he did.
All the way into the neon lit streets, Hiro felt as if someone was following him, continually checking his six. No one was there, but the eerie feeling never left. In fact, he felt so anxious that he actually ran the last steetch home, walking into the cafe and closing the door behind him. Cass looked up, and smiled.
"Hiro!" She said, and Baymax, manning the register, waved at him. Hiro waved, smiling a bit.
"Hey, guys. Good day at the cafe?" He asked, slipping behind the counter and squeezing between Baymax and the wall.
"Yes. I have done as you asked and helped Cass." The robot seemed proud of himself, and Hiro patted his arm.
Good job, buddy." He said, hugging Aunt Cass gently before getting to work, restocking doughnuts and baked goods, sneaking a bagel into his pocket.
"Hey, Aunt Cass, did you see anyone weird come in today?"
"There was an old lady with green hair in the corner booth today, she was so loud and-"
"No, no, no, I meant like... shady. See, last night, I couldn't find Tadashi's hat, and then I saw someone outside, and they had dropped it out there." He explained, and his aunt froze.
"You what? You went out there to confront some psychopath that broke in?!"
