Chapter 4

"Ok. So the Biobots that weren't programed to fix your legs should be dormant and are getting ready to leave your system. Thank God." Panda said to Tadashi. "And if my calculations were correct then you should be starting to feel them working in your legs before the end of the week."

Sweet Tea leaned back in her chair "A week, can't we slow them down? I don't think I can stand having to deal with Lopyboo back in a week."

Panda shook her head, as Tadashi looked between the two before he spoke up "Loopyboo?"

"It's our nickname for you when you're high on painkillers." Sweet Tea said "And I really don't want to deal with him ever again."

"What did I do?"

"You sing, flirt and pee." Sweet Tea glared at him through narrowed eyes.

Panda shook her head "Don't forget talking to the posters. And getting mad when they don't talk back."

"I filmed it. It's going on youtube the second you come back from the dead." A devilish grin took over Sweet Tea's face and she laughed slightly manically. "It'll get a million hits for sure."

Tadashi smiled nervously "Well I'm glad that I'll be a part of your internet success, but I'm not 'coming back from the dead' until I figure out how to deal with Callahan."

"Oh yes, because this can't just be a simple case of going to the police! Tadashi, we're collage kids... The only reasonable answer to this is to go to the police like normal people."

"He attacked my brother in a Kabuki mask with Hiro's tech! This isn't as simple as just going to the police! They'd never believe us!" Tadashi frowned.

Panda shook her head "Tadashi calm down. You too Akiko. We'll figure out how to deal with Callahan, and then we'll get back to our normal lives. Well as normal as it can get. For now, we focus on getting Tadashi up and walking, while trying to figure out why Callahan went crazy."

"Sounds like a plan." Panda nodded firmly at the pair as Tadashi gave her thumbs up.

"So, Tadashi any thoughts on Callahan?"

Tadashi closed his eyes, thinking back to the fire. He'd run inside, avoiding the flames in search of the professor. It'd taken a moment, but he'd found the other man by the stage. Callahan had been surprised, and then the whole world went... white. White and silent and then black. When he'd woken up he was in a warehouse, and quickly discovered he couldn't move his legs. A man had been near by, messing with what had looked like Hiro's neurotransmitter. Tadashi had surprised him, and gotten a good look at his face before he'd put on a red and white Kabuki mask. Then had come the threats, the warnings.

Tell no one. Hiro will die if you say anything... And Tadashi had spent days laying on cot while his legs tried to heal, just listening to his surroundings. At one point he'd sworn he'd heard Hiro and Baymax enter the building, but Callahan had been there and fear had kept him quiet. Sweet Tea watched Tadashi reflect, and frowned as a dark look passed over his face. She shared a glance with Panda.

Tadashi remembered Callahan had seemed depressed, had cried out of sight some night's. There had been a night when Callahan had returned sat at a small desk, staring at photo of a young woman.

"Abigail." He said, breaking the slightly tense silence that had fallen over the apartment.

"Who?" Sweet Tea frowned.

"Abigail. Didn't catch a last name... But Callahan had a photograph of a girl in a frame on a desk in the warehouse, and he called her Abigail. Told her he'd make things right." He looked between the girls. "Whoever Abigail is, she's important to Callahan... We have to figure out what happened to her."

"Oh yeah, easy peasy! Abigail is a totally unique name! No one else in this entire city has that particular name in the entire city of San Fransokyo!" Sweet Tea rolled her eyes and folded her arms over her chest.

"Give him a break Sweet Tea. We'll figure it out... You and I can ask around about Abigail. Until then, we'll help Tadashi get his legs back. Now I'm exhausted, let's get some sleep and deal with this Abigail later."

"Seconded."

Panda and Sweet Tea were both woken up by a low moan later that night. Meeting in the dark hall they wondered about the source.

"I locked the door, and the security system is ten times louder than that. So nobody broke in." Sweet Tea said rubbing her eyes.

"And Tadashi's asleep…..Wait Tadashi of course. He's starting to feel his legs again." Panda said running towards the living room, with Sweet Tea on her tail.

Tadashi was on the couch his face contorted in pain. Panda smiled "Tadashi you can feel your legs!"

"Only like half of my calve and my feet." he looked over towards her and could just barely make out the pair in the dark "You're smiling at my pain aren't you?"

Panda laughed "We're happy that you're getting better. I take it you want painkillers?"

"If you would be so kind."

Panda turned to go and get the morphine when Sweet Tea grabbed her arm. "It hasn't even been a week yet."

"I guess my calculations were off."

"Well your off calculation has earned you bedpan duty for Loopyboo when he comes for a visit."

"Fine. Now let go." Panda freed her arm and went to grab the morphine from her room, and came back holding a small needle. "Ready?" she asked walking up to Tadashi's side, and he nodded as she jabbed the needle into his arm and pushed down the plunger. "Ok that should kick in soon." she threw the needle away in a small tupperware container sitting on the counter with other used needles, and then yawned "Now I'm going back to bed."

"Me too!" Sweet Tea said turning on her heels and went back to her room "See you in a few hours Loopyboo!"

Sweet Tea and Panda woke up early the next morning and and met in the hall before sighing in sync and walking to the living room and found a very interesting sight.

"Panda, he not wearing any…"

"I noticed." Panda and Sweet Tea walked over to Tadashi, who was staring the ceiling humming to himself. "Tadashi?" Panda said getting his attention.

"Yeah?"

"Why, aren't you wearing pants? or a shirt?"

"After you guys, went back to bed it got really hot….So I took my pants off. Then Thor laughed at me for having scrawny chicken legs and a meager Midgardian frame... So I took off my shirt to show him that I'm not as scrawny as he thinks."

"Uh huh..." Sweet Tea said. "Well, that's... Different. The posters are talking back to you now?" Tadashi nodded with a grin plastered to his face.

Panda leaned over and whispered to her roommate "At least we're not gonna have to deal with it all day." She turned back to face him "Tadashi, you're gonna be here alone for today. Finals are next week so we need to go to school so we know what's going on the test. We'll be back this afternoon."

"Okie-Dokie Loki!" Tadashi said before bursting out into laughter and point to the poster on the ceiling "Loki."

"And on that note. Lets go Panda. I think Loopyboo will be fine. He has all his 'friends' to keep him company." Sweet Tea said grabbing onto Panda's arm and dragging her out of the apartment.

The school day finally came to an end and Panda was driving home the radio blaring as her and Sweet Tea and her were singing along. Half way back to the apartment Sweet Tea turned the radio down. "Did you notice that no one was in the joint lab today?"

"Yeah, but Hiro needs them right now."

"Right." Sweet Tea looked out the window and just caught something out of the corner of her eye. "Um...Panda?"

"What?"

"Could Baymax fly?"

"I don't think so. Why?"

"Cause I think he's flying over the bay in red carbon fiber underwear with everyone from the joint lab."

Panda laughed. "Sure." Then she too saw exactly what Sweet Tea described in the rearview mirror. "Well then….This is happening."

"Where in the name of sanity are they going?" Turning back to see the robot shrink further and further behind them Sweet Tea frowned. "The only thing out that way is that old island no one's allowed to go to anymore..."

Panda thought for a minute before she spoke "My dad told me once there was a super secret Kreitech project on that island. He kept complaining that he had to work on something that wasn't his specialty."

"Did he ever say what it was?"

"No... but he did talk about… Abigail!"

"Abigail? What about her?"

"Just that she was, important to the experiment, and that her dad was someone I knew."

"Someone you knew? Could it have been Professor Callahan?"

"It would have to be it fits everything Tadashi told us." She said, pulling into the parking lot of the apartment complex "Now lets hope Tadashi isn't too high and can understand all this." They moved into the apartment, and paused as they noticed Tadashi. He'd yet to put on any pants, or shirt, and was staring at the TV in a sort of awe.

"Whales..." Sweet Tea said in surprise. "He's watching a documentary on whales..."

Tadashi looked up from the TV for a moment "Hey guys! Did you know that whales, since they're mammals, have hair? But they don't have a lot. Oh and that one." he pointed to the screen "she's pregnant and I have named her Patrice."

Sweet Tea nodded and turned to Panda "You go get the car ready and I'll get him dressed. And then we take him to his aunt's cafe?" Panda nodded and quickly went back outside. "Ok Loopyboo, let's get your clothes back on and then we're going on a trip."

Tadashi looked up at her his eyes wide "But the Whales! What's going to happen to them? What about Patrice and her Baby!? I have to pee."

"Of course you do."

Sweet Tea opened the back seat of Panda's car and managed to get Tadashi in and buckled before he collapsed on the seat, then she too got into the passenger side. "Thanks for all the help getting him down the stairs."

"You told me to get the car ready not to help you. Plus you could have used the wheelchair and the elevator on the other side of our floor."

Sweet Tea hit her head on the dashboard "The elevator…" then she lifted her head "The wheelchair. I totally forgot about the wheelchair."

Panda smiled. "I'll go get it." She got out of the car swiftly making her way back up to the apartment and returning with the wheelchair folded neatly. Tossing it in the truck she got back in and smiled. "Tadashi, you ready to go home."

"Huh?"

"I'll take that as a yes and that painkillers are wearing off."

Sweet Tea laughed "Which is a good thing cause we don't want your Aunt to meet Loopyboo."