A/N: I hoped I could get this story done before I went on my holiday's, but I was being a bit ambitious. I was close though, this story should only have 2-3 more chapters.
I will return soon! I love you all! Please enjoy this chapter! Happy New Year!
There was only a few moments where everyone took a deep breath before the car sunk further down and the water filled the car. Everyone managed to swim out of the car without a problem.
Hiro struggled with the belt buckle, but luckily he finally managed to pull it off before any panic could flood his mind. Hiro swam out to see Baymax dropping off his armour. Everyone grabbed onto Baymax as he floated them all back up and out of the water. They all greedily gasped for air once they broke through the surface. Baymax didn't waste another moment as he scanned the six of them.
"Your injuries require my attention and your body temperatures are low."
Hiro finished catching his breath.
"We should get out of here." Hiro said, still coughing out water.
The masked man was gone, but it didn't mean that he couldn't come back. Fred nodded and suddenly smirked.
"I know a place."
Everyone tried to keep themselves warm as they followed Fred. Tadashi trailed behind with Baymax, but despite not being near each other Hiro could feel Tadashi's worried gaze burning in the back of his head. Tadashi didn't say anything but his concern was more than clear. Tadashi decided that he wasn't going to say anything until they were somewhere safe.
Honey Lemon finally looked around there surroundings.
"Where are we?" she asked.
Fred didn't reply as he finally turned in the direction of not a house but a mansion.
Tadashi blinked at Fred, being the first to voice his confusion.
"Fred, where are you going?" Tadashi asked as Fred stood by the large doors of a mansion.
Fred paused and stared for a moment before he realised something that the others didn't.
"Ohhhh! Welcome to mi casa, that's French for 'front door'."
Honey Lemon frowned at Fred's antics.
"It's really not."
Gogo was cold, but now she was cold and mad.
"Listen nitwit, a lunatic in a mask just tried to kill us. I'm not in the mood for-" The door was suddenly opened by a butler.
"Welcome home, Master Fredrick."
They all stood in silence as Fred smiled at the butler.
"Heathcliff, my man!" Fred casually greeted the man. "C'mon guys, we'll be safe in here."
They all stared gobsmacked. Fred lived in a mansion and he even had a butler? The day just got stranger by the minute.
"Give me some." Fred fist bumped the butler. Everyone began to walk in one by one. Tadashi let Baymax walk infront of him. Baymax paused at the butler still holding up his fist. Tadashi let his jaw drop a little when he saw what Baymax did next.
Baymax bumped fist then wiggled his fingers while making the sound, "Bah-a-la-la-la."
Tadashi couldn't help but smile. Of course Hiro would've taught a healthcare robot how to fist bump. The smile faded as he looked back to Hiro. What had he been doing at the docks in the first place? Hiro never answered the question.
They all stared around in awe as they followed Fred.
"This is your house?" Honey Lemon was still in a daze of awe.
"I thought you lived under a bridge." Gogo stated as she continued to look around in disbelief.
Fred shrugged. "Nah, well, technically it belongs to my parents. They're out on va-kay on the family island. We should all go sometime." Fred clapped his hands and the door to his room opened.
The five of them paused and stared at the state of Fred's room. It was so unusual, but yet, so inherently Fred.
Gogo rolled her eyes.
"You have got to be kidding me." she groaned.
The room had odd things everywhere. Everyone couldn't help but stare. Wasabi was slightly scared and mortified of a painting of a buff Fred with wings while riding a white tiger.
"If I wasn't just attacked by a guy in a kabuki mask, I think this would be the weirdest thing that's happened today."
Hiro had already slipped away from the others as he made his way to a desk with a pen and paper. He began to sketch the symbol he had seen on the debris that the masked man had been carrying. Hiro didn't even realise it, but he was still slightly shivering. It didn't go unnoticed by Tadashi. He walked over, putting a hand on Hiro's shoulder about to say something, but his hand quickly retracted back in surprise.
"Hiro, you're freezing." Tadashi didn't expect Hiro to be so cold. Hiro ignored the statement as he kept drawing the symbol from memory. Baymax, hearing what Tadashi had said, slumped over Hiro and he activated his heating feature. Hiro paid no mind to it, only rolling his eyes in response to the robot. The others started leaning on Baymax as well.
"Good robot." Gogo murmured as she enjoyed the warmth.
Tadashi leaned somewhat on Baymax, he was still a little cold, but he was more concerned with what Hiro was doing. He tilted his head in confusion as he watched Hiro draw. Hiro stared at the finished product before holding it up so the others could see.
"Does this symbol mean anything to you guys?"
"Yes!" Fred nodded, dramatically pointing toward the drawing. "It's a bird!"
Hiro shook his head as he stood back up. "No, the guy in the mask was carrying around something with this symbol on it."
Baymax deactivated his heating feature. "Apprehending the masked man will help Hiro with his increased stress levels."
Tadashi raised his eyebrows. "Increased stress levels?"
His question was ignored when Gogo carried on the conversation. "Apprehend him? We were lucky get away from him, let alone catch the guy."
"Well, at least we know that Tadashi's theory was right." Honey Lemon added, still trying to keep her positive outlook.
Hiro narrowed his eyes at all of them confused at what Honey Lemon had just said.
"Tadashi's theory? What theory?"
The cat was out of the bag now. Gogo stared Tadashi down. Tadashi knew that there was no way out of it, but he wanted to tell Hiro anyway, he just hoped that he could've had better timing.
Tadashi sighed.
"Hiro, there's something I've been keeping from you."
Tadashi let it all come out into the open. Tadashi explained how he tested and made simulations, and he explained how he figured out the fire was accidental, but intentional. Hiro remained silent and his expression was void of any emotion. He was expressionless as he listened to his brother explain everything.
"The only motive I could figure out was to cover the tracks of something stolen. And the only invention that anyone had any real interest in was your microbots."
Hiro finally spoke as he glared at his older brother. "You knew all this time and you didn't tell me?"
"I didn't want to put you into danger." Tadashi knew that it was ironic, but it was the truth.
Hiro mockingly let out a huff of humourless laughter. "And look where that's got us. Oh yeah, it's got us Wasabi's car on the bottom of San Fransokyo Bay…..No offence, Wasabi."
"None taken." Wasabi frowned, with a small sigh. It may have been small and second-hand, but he really did love that car.
Honestly, Hiro understood why Tadashi did it, he really did. He knew his brother better than anyone, but it still bothered him that Tadashi would keep something that large from him.
"Tadashi, I could've helped and you know it. You didn't need to keep this from me." Hiro also wanted to add to the fact that everything Tadashi told him was something he already figured it in one day when it took Tadashi weeks, but he didn't want to point out the obvious.
Tadashi nodded. "I know. I was wrong to do that, but you have to understand that I also felt that this was something I needed to do alone. I didn't want to get anyone involved. "
"And yet everyone else knew about it before I did."
"The others only found out earlier today." Tadashi defended, if it had been his choice, he would have done it alone, but the universe had other plans.
The gang all gave a small nod toward Hiro to say that Tadashi was telling the truth. It wasn't that Tadashi lied to Hiro, he just kept secrets that he shouldn't have.
"Either way I'm involved now anyway if you like it or not." Hiro's tone was unyielding and bold.
Tadashi forced a lop-sided smile before he let out a deep exhale. "Speaking of that, I've done my explanation. Now it's your turn."
"Huh?" Hiro blinked.
"How did you find out about the masked man?" Tadashi asked, his arms folding across his chest.
Hiro saw this one coming. Hiro knew he had to leave out the 'vision' information. That could be for another time. They had all endured a strange day and adding 'visions' to the mix would've made any one's head spin. Hiro didn't want to top it off to say he apparently saw the future.
"Well I got a papercut and that's when Baymax activated." He held up his finger with a band-aid wrapped around it. Hiro was somewhat surprised that it was still intact after everything.
Tadashi had only brought Baymax home a couple of days prior because he needed more room in his lab, he had never thought that Hiro would accidentally activate him in that time.
Hiro explained what happened once he had found the microbot in his jacket. He intentionally let out a few details like himself and Baymax almost getting hit by multiple cars as they ran in traffic. Hiro explained the warehouse and when he saw machinery creating more of his microbots.
"That's when the masked guy showed up." Hiro explained, his fist clenching at the memory.
Baymax finally brought himself into the conversation. "The encounter with the masked man only increased Hiro's levels of stress. Especially when were under attack and as we escaped by jumping out of a window." Hiro slammed his hand against his forehead for a third time that night.
"You mean you were attacked by him before!? And you jumped out of a window!?" Tadashi had always been a calm person, but the thought of his one and only brother being so close to danger, and to a larger extent, so close to death. Well, if he lost control of his composure for a moment it was something that no one could argue with.
Hiro threw his hands up in defence. "Yes, but I was fine. He didn't catch us in time and Baymax caught me when we fell out of the window, but that's beside the point."
Tadashi stared at Hiro for a few silent seconds in disbelief.
"I need to sit down."
He sat on the couch beside Wasabi and Honey Lemon, exhaling deeply to try to calm his raging protectiveness as he also tried to gather himself back. Tadashi would've attempted to lecture him but he was stopped by his own train of thought, 'You have no right to yell at him, if you had just told him at the very beginning what you were up to then it wouldn't have happened.'
Hiro finished explaining that after trying and failing to explain it to the police, he figured out that the fire had to be a cover for someone to steal his microbots. He then went to finish off by saying how he gave Baymax upgrades before he ended up at the docks.
Hiro bit his lip. "Are you mad?" He waited for a lecture about messing around with Baymax's programming, but Tadashi was surprisingly calm as he shook his head at Hiro's question.
"While I don't necessarily agree that you made my nursebot learn karate, if I had told you everything before, you wouldn't have been in this mess in the first place." I was trying to protect you, but I just ended up throwing you further into danger. Tadashi knew that he didn't need to say it for Hiro to know what he meant. "Are you mad?"
Hiro replied as honestly as he could.
"I'm not sure."
Hiro was mad, but he also wasn't at the same time. He didn't know how he felt about it, but all he knew what was done was done, there was nothing more that could've been said. They both had been harbouring secrets, but Hiro knew that the real problem at hand was the masked man.
Seeing that they had all the explanations out the way, Gogo was getting straight to the point.
"So, what now? We just let that guy loose on the city?"
"It's easy, we just expose him." Fred smiled, he had the very same smile before they broke into Krei Tech.
Hiro eyes widened. "Wait, you know who he is?"
Fred grabbed a nearby remote and turned on his flat screen television. A familiar face was on the screen as Fred pointed. "Alistair Krei."
Hiro stared confused at the screen. "What?"
"He's the only suspect that has a clear motive. He wanted your microbots and his company is known for being dishonest." Tadashi answered. "We've been on to it. Earlier we even got into Krei Tech and placed a bug in there system."
Hiro was clearly impressed, "A bug in Krei Tech's systems? A company which is known to have to tightest security in all of San Fransokyo? How did you even pull it off?"
The others shifted uncomfortably in their seats on the couch. They did pull it off, but the memory of it was embarrassing for everyone, except Fred, he loved it. Tadashi felt slightly ashamed, but he still convinced himself that it was for good reason.
Tadashi coughed to clear his throat, replying, "That's classified."
Hiro rolled his eyes at Tadashi's attempt to sound cool.
Tadashi continued, "All we need to do expose Krei as the masked man and everything should fall into place from there."
"That's if it is Krei." Hiro interjected.
Hiro knew that it made sense for it to be Alistair Krei, but something told him that it wasn't. He didn't know why, but it was like his thoughts weren't his own as it told him that it wasn't Krei. He decided to trust it.
"We can't just assume he's Krei. It could've honestly been anyone that was at the showcase. Besides Krei is way too high profile."
Honey Lemon fidgeted in her seat. "Then who was that guy in the mask?"
Hiro groaned in frustration. "I don't know, we don't know anything about him. All we do know is that he wears a mask and he stole my-"
Baymax interrupted Hiro in midsentence. "His blood type is AB-. His cholesterol levels are-"
"Wait. Baymax, you scanned him?" Tadashi cut him off.
Baymax nodded. "Yes, you programmed me to assess everyone's healthcare needs."
"We can use the data from the scan to find him!" Tadashi never intended for Baymax's programming to be used in that way, but he had to catch the guy for Callaghan.
"So you're gonna scan everyone in San Fransokyo, and that might take, oh, I don't know. Forever." The sarcasm in Gogo's voice was just dripping from every word.
"It's not impossible though, we just need to look for a new angle." Tadashi had his want for justice for Callaghan renewed. He was completely determined to catch that masked man.
Hiro was hit by an idea as he happened to glance at one of Fred's action figures.
"We could scan the whole city at once." Hiro scooped up a figurine, the light from his idea began spread.
Tadashi smiled as he understood where Hiro was going with it. "By upgrading Baymax's sensors."
Hiro began to nod but he stopped as he looked up to the superhero figurines, he had another idea that solved the problem of how they could actually catch the guy. "Actually if we're going to catch this guy, we're going to have to upgrade all of you."
"Upgrade who now?" Wasabi raised his eyebrows. Hiro began to walk around them as he had thousands of simultaneous thoughts and ideas beginning to race across his mind.
Fred started grinning as he practically started jumping from his seat as he practically sang, "I like where this is heading."
It was safe to say that Wasabi wasn't as excited as Fred.
"We can't go up against him, we're nerds."
Tadashi smirked with a new found cockiness. "Hey, we're the very same nerds that got a bug into Krei Tech undetected. That definitely means something."
Gogo scoffed. "And look how well that ended." Her expression only slightly softened, "There's only so much we can do."
Honey Lemon agreed, adding, "We'd love to help, but we're just…us."
Hiro turned around to stare at the costumes Fred had on display, it was clear to all of them what Hiro had in mind.
"No, you can be way more."
"What do you think, Tadashi?" Wasabi asked, still in disbelief at the seemingly impossible idea. Hiro waited for his idea to be undoubtedly shot down by Tadashi, but the response he got was the complete opposite.
"I think it's a great idea."
Hiro gaped at Tadashi, was he actually siding with him?
"You do know that this means the possibility of imminent danger, right?" Hiro stared at his brother.
Tadashi nodded. "I know, and I still agree."
Hiro just blinked in response. Tadashi's expression sobered.
"If we don't catch this guy, no one else will." The conviction in Tadashi's voice sounded like a whole different person.
Fred was already super hyped up and excited. He needed no convincing. The rest of the three exchanged looks. They all gave each other the same look. Gogo let out a large exhale as she voiced the final verdict.
"Well we're not going to let the two of you run around the streets alone. We're in."
Fred started jumping around excitedly.
"Can you feel it? This is where our origin story begins. We're going to be super heroes!"
The next morning the gang came bright and early for the game plan. They all met up in Hiro and Tadashi's lab that was originally their Aunt Cass' garage.
"Arm's up." Hiro scanned all five of them and got the right modelling. He saved the scan details before he showed a visual display on the touch screen on the kabuki mask and neurocranial transmitter.
"The neurotransmitter must be in his mask. Get the mask and he can't control the bots. Game over."
The whole day was Hiro collaborating with the others. Everyone had their own part to play with their own 'powers'. Hiro worked with all of them to sort out what they could use. Honey Lemon, Gogo, and Wasabi's were obvious and easy enough to work around with, but Fred was a different story.
"Can we work with something like this?" Fred passed over a comic with a giant lizard man. "He can also become fifty feet tall, I mean, just imagine that. It would be completely and insanely awesome."
Tadashi and Hiro instantly looked to each other. Tadashi wondered if they were thinking about the same thing, "So you're thinking about the one with the-"
Hiro had already begun modelling a 3D diagram. "Yep."
Tadashi peeked over his shoulder. "And the added-"
"Yep."
"Nice." The two nodded at each other before they went back to work. The other's stood there obviously confused at what they had just witnessed. The Hamada brothers working together was definitely something different.
During that day, Tadashi felt like he was contributing nothing. No matter how much he tried to help Hiro was still the brains of the entire operation. A lot of the time he was just watching Hiro do his own thing. Tadashi was overwhelmed with both pride and awe.
When Hiro applied his genius to a task, he proved that he could make anything possible. What would normally take someone months or even years, Hiro managed to accomplish it in one day.
Hiro had finished the blue prints for their suit and weapon designs by the end of that first day.
He had even done a little of his own research on each of their specialties so he knew a rough outline of what he was doing, not that Hiro would admit it to anyone.
Hiro refused to show Tadashi the suit designs for him, he claimed that he wanted to surprise him. Tadashi decided to go with it to humour his younger brother. It had Tadashi both concerned and intrigued. And it took a lot of convincing and puppy dog eyes for Hiro to convince Tadashi to let him to use Baymax. Tadashi gave in pretty quickly, only under the condition that Hiro had to run the ideas of the upgrades by him first.
Tadashi began acting like himself again, but he was still different. He was still obsessed with finding the masked man even if he didn't say anything aloud. Hiro could tell by just seeing Tadashi's facial expression.
And it made Hiro want to catch the guy nearly as much as Tadashi did, but it wasn't just because that the masked man had stolen his microbots and what damage he could do with them. His reason was more selfish. He wanted Tadashi to be himself again. And for that to happen he knew that Tadashi needed to get justice for something he obviously felt guilty about; Callaghan's death.
In those next few days everything was in the process of being created and were being tested. Fred had volunteered his parents' mansion for them to test their new abilities.
Honey Lemon's was done first. Honey Lemon was equipped with a special purse, containing a miniature chemical lab inside, and a touch screen with a programming of the periodic table that contained whatever chemical she typed in to be injected in small spheres. With her smarts of chemistry she knew what chemical reactions caused what. It was both a deadly and stylish blend. She adored it.
Fred volunteered Heathcliff to be the 'masked man' so they could all test out their new gear. Heathcliff looked unfazed by the new development of their superhero upgrades. The gang had concluded that it was because he was the family butler to Fred. That fact alone was enough to answer their question.
Gogo initially disliked the fact that Hiro tossed away the idea of her bike, but was later impressed that her electromagnetic discs were made even faster by creating them into a kind of rollerblade. She also had two disks on each arm for a boomerang type weapon.
Wasabi had his own laser induced plasma blades, it was similar to his original creation but it was more highly concentrated. He felt like in it that he was invincible.
Fred got his very own kaiju looking suit where he could super jump and breathe fire. He tried chasing Hiro down for what seemed like hours trying to give him a hug for giving him such a brilliant super suit.
After finishing up with Fred, Hiro finally revealed to Tadashi his suit. It was thicker than the others; it was quite bulky. The suit and helmet were as dark as obsidian and the only splash of colour were the crimson circles of padding.
"So are you going to tell me what it does now?" Tadashi asked.
Hiro smirked in response. "I'll meet you in the garden. In the meantime, suit up." Hiro skipped out leaving Tadashi to try on his new suit.
While the others were sitting around, marveling at their new gear, Tadashi made his appearance in his new suit.
Fred's grin wasn't seen because of his suit, but it was more than evident.
"Tadashi, you look so cool!" Fred exclaimed. "What's your super power?"
Tadashi sighed. "I honestly still don't know."
Gogo threw her disc forward. "He still hasn't told you?" She caught the disc as it came back. She really did like her new electromagnetic discs.
"Where is Hiro anyway?" Wasabi asked.
"He said something about meeting him up in the garden." Suddenly, they all heard a loud crackling like sound coming from the garden.
Tadashi was followed by the others as they all ran toward the garden. They saw Hiro, now in his purple and red armour, dusting himself off from leftover dust from a large stone statue that had been knocked over. Tadashi stared at the fallen statue.
"What did you do?" Tadashi narrowed his eyes to see some sort of armoured fist lying near the statue.
Hiro had a grin plastered on his face that wasn't moving anytime soon. "It wasn't me, it was one of Baymax's upgrades. May I present you, Baymax 2.0."
The armoured fist suddenly shot back to its owner. It revealed Baymax in magnificent red and purple armour. Baymax stood tall and heroically.
Fred gasped in awe. "He's glorious."
Tadashi smiled at the memory of the previous night. Himself and Hiro tried fitting on the armour unto Baymax, it ended up all flying off almost hitting the two. He and Hiro just laughed it off and sized it bigger.
"Hello." Baymax happily greeted before he quickly got distracted by a butterfly. Tadashi chuckled. Baymax was most certainly still himself despite all the upgrades he had let Hiro add. Hiro quickly got Baymax's attention back.
Hiro grinned at his older brother. "Okay, Tadashi, you're up."
"What?"
"Pick the statue with only one hand." Hiro's smirk said it all.
Tadashi didn't want to believe it but he did when he picked the statue one-handed with ease, "It feels like it weighs nothing." Tadashi stated as he placed the statue back up.
"No way! A Hercules suit!" Fred was ecstatic. "This makes Freddie very happy!"
"Enhanced super strength, the suit amplifies your regular strength by any amount that is needed for the object." Hiro explained. "Of course there's a limit, but I doubt you'll carry over five tons around with you for very long anyway, so surprise!" Hiro's smile almost vanished as he was about to mention that his suit was fire resistant, it had a heavy sense of irony to Hiro since he had a dream of Tadashi dying in a fire. Hiro was drawn out of those thoughts as Tadashi spoke.
"Hiro this is amazing, all of it." Tadashi praised.
"And that's not all." Hiro added as the memory of the dream retreated back to its dormancy in the back of his mind, "Baymax, wings."
They all watched as Hiro connected his shoe and hand magnets on the back of the robot.
"Thrusters." Hiro commanded. Baymax began to hover as the thrusters opened on the bottom of his feet.
Baymax turned his head toward Hiro, "I fail to see how flying makes me a better healthcare companion."
"I fail to see, how you fail to see, that it's awesome! Full thrusters!" Everyone expected for them to shoot up into the sky, but they ended up ducking out of the uncoordinated way. The next thing that any of them knew Baymax and Hiro were gradually beginning to go into the direction of the city.
"Hiro, where are you going!?"
It had to be a miracle that Hiro heard him as he and Baymax flew further away, "Baymax and I need to go on this test run, we'll be back soo-ahhh!" Baymax's thrusters fluctuated to its full blast and the two were gone.
Tadashi dragged his hand across his face before letting out a deep sigh. "I guess we just have to wait then."
"Shouldn't we follow and try to help or something?" Wasabi asked. Not that they could do much to help, but he thought it was worth suggesting.
Tadashi suddenly had a smile on his face, shaking his head, "Nah, they've got this."
Gogo decided to point out the obvious.
"You're taking this awfully well. Just the other day you freaked when he almost fell out of a car and now you're cool with him just flying around the city, possibly hitting buildings or billboards?"
Tadashi visibly tensed at the thought, but he began to relax as he answered, "He should be fine. He has Baymax with him, and if I trust anyone to keep Hiro safe, it's Baymax." And honestly, it was also because Tadashi had discovered something in those past few days.
Tadashi didn't know how to explain it. Hiro had grown such an attachment to Baymax, but what baffled him was that Baymax was showing attachment to Hiro as well. Baymax was beginning to show more of a personality and a caring side that seemed to become more human by each passing day. Hiro's influence on Baymax was something he didn't expect, but it was a pleasant surprise and discovery about his robotics project. Tadashi knew that Baymax wouldn't let anything bad happen to Hiro, and even despite the sudden bond between the two, he still knew that Baymax would take care of Hiro. Tadashi did build Baymax after all.
Hiro called it luck. There was no other explanation of how they survived in that first minute of failing to fly, but it soon became as amazing as he hoped it would be as the two finally managed to sync up.
Hiro cheered as they flew over the San Fransokyo Bridge once again. Hiro ended up sitting on top of a large metal blimp with Baymax, wanting to take in the scenery before they had to head back. Hiro unconsciously was moving his feet in a waving motion, Baymax started to mirror the movement. The first flight was finally sinking in.
"That was…..that was…" Hiro couldn't find the right word.
"Sick." Baymax said.
Hiro stared a Baymax, did he really just say that?
"It's just an expression." Baymax replied.
Hiro laughed. "That's right, buddy." He really did enjoy Baymax's company. "I'm never taking the bus again."
The two stared off at the sunset. Hiro couldn't say that he ever thought that he'd ever be on the back of a flying robot, but at least he could cross that off his bucket list. They were officially one step closer in becoming more capable of stopping the masked man.
Hiro stood back up and stretched. "Well, we better head back."
Baymax suddenly straightened up. "Your brain waves are beginning to fluctuate on a worrisome level."
Before Hiro could respond, he felt like his head was splitting like a coconut. Images flashed all around, it was going too quick for him to see anything straight. Whenever he got close to seeing it, it all went out of focus and distant like someone was pulling him back. Hiro couldn't see anything anymore but he was overwhelmed by the sudden pounding of powerful emotions.
Hurt. Sadness. But most of all, anger. He had never felt so angry. He felt like he was drowning in it. The feelings vanished as he felt like his brain was being pushed down by a powerful pressure. Then suddenly the pain was gone and he was drawn back into reality. And in reality, Baymax had a hold of his arm, making sure he wasn't tipping off the edge of the blimp. He had almost tumbled off the blimp in the confusion.
"Falling from this height will lead to a certain death." Baymax stated, gently pulling Hiro away from the edge. Hiro felt weak in his legs and almost collapsed if it weren't for Baymax helping to support him up.
"Hiro, I will scan you for injuries," There was brief moment of silence. "Scan complete. Your brain activity is returning to normal and your stress levels have heavily increased. While I sense no physical injuries, your body is in a state of fatigue which is unusual considering you were not doing any physically strenuous activities prior, perhaps it has something to do with your previous brain wave fluctuations."
Hiro wanted to scream. He didn't know what was happening to him and from the sound of it, he was either going crazy or it was something that even Baymax couldn't pick up. And now they were happening when he was awake?
It didn't go unnoticed to Hiro that while it felt like the other two 'visions', but the one he just had was different. It was like someone had been holding it back. It was as if someone had pulled him away and shut the open door that he happened to be looking through. Hiro needed answers.
Hiro pulled himself away from Baymax's supporting arms.
"I'm alright, I'm just tired and almost slipped." Hiro forced a fake laugh as he lied. He was just lucky that Baymax thought he was being truthful.
"I encourage that you get more rest and exercise more caution in the future."
All Hiro knew is that there was no doubt that the masked man was connected to these 'visions', so Hiro compromised that if they found him, he could find his answers. Hiro nodded to Baymax as he took a deep breath, "Let's head back."
Baymax partly helped Hiro unto his back. Hiro felt weak, but he slowly felt his strength returning.
"And Baymax, let's just keep this between us, okay?"
When Hiro and Baymax returned, everyone was having a nice chat in the mansion. They had gotten out of their suits and were waiting on their return.
Tadashi was the first to see Hiro and Baymax landing from out of the window, he raced back in the garden to greet the two.
"How was it?"
Hiro threw on a smile. "It was incredible." Hiro began to climb off of Baymax, "We flew all over San Fransokyo and-" Hiro's legs almost gave way if Tadashi wasn't there to help steady him. He quickly stood back on his own as he lightly chuckled before Tadashi could ask the inevitable 'are you okay'.
"I'm just a little overwhelmed from the day. I'm okay."
Tadashi accepted it as a good enough answer to believe. "Well I'm not surprised after all the work you've been doing with that big brain of yours."
"Hiro! How was the test run?" Honey Lemon asked as the others approached them.
"We've worked out the kinks." Hiro gave a small smile. It was his way of saying that it was a struggle to begin with but it ended in success.
Fred then suddenly noticed something that no one would've expected him to notice.
"Are you feeling okay little dude? You don't look so hot."
That's when Tadashi got a good look at Hiro's face, had he always been that pale?
Hiro smiled. "I feel fine." It wasn't a complete lie, he did feel alright, just more worn down. "All we have to do now is finishing upgrading the sensor on Baymax and we'll be set. It'll only take about twenty minutes."
"That means that can wait until tomorrow. We've all had a long day." They knew that Tadashi wanted to catch the guy as soon as possible, but it was obvious that Hiro was always the exception. No one objected to it.
As soon as Baymax and Hiro were out of their armour they returned home with Tadashi. Hiro felt exhausted. When he dreamt of the warehouse he awoke to feel a little weak in his knees, but this time around it was far more intense. And what confused him more was that the 'vision' he just had wasn't as clear as the others, it was like he wasn't meant to see it. Hiro knew he would have to tell Tadashi, and he wanted to, but he just didn't know how to say it.
Tadashi had to steer Hiro away from the garage's direction. "We can get up early and finish it, c'mon."
They were up the stairs in their room when Baymax waddled over to his charging station, and Tadashi said, "You know, if flying is going to make you look this pale every time, then I don't think you should take it a little easier."
Hiro kicked off his shoes and threw himself on his bed. "It wasn't because of the flying."
Tadashi frowned, "Right, so do you feel sick or-" He was cut off by the voice of their Aunt Cass coming from down the stairs.
"Tadashi, can you help me for a second?" He reluctantly dropped the conversation went to assist his Aunt. She needed a bowl from one of the higher shelves that she was too short to reach. He passed her the bowl,
"Thanks, oh! And dinner's almost ready, do you mind telling your brother?"
Tadashi nodded and was back up the stairs, "Hey Aunt Cass said that dinner's almost….Hiro?"
Hiro was under the covers and was out like a light. Truthfully, Tadashi was concerned. Hiro was acting strange. Tadashi just hoped that rest would do Hiro some good. Tadashi desperately wanted to catch the masked man to get justice for Callaghan's death, but he knew he could wait one more day, not for his sake, but for Hiro's.
Tadashi looked to Baymax charging.
"Don't worry, professor. We'll catch your killer."
A/N: Okay guys, once again, I won't be back until over 2 weeks! I'm so sorry for the long gap, but I won't have access or the time. Sorry for the inconvenience guys, but I will be back because I love this story and I love you readers.
And since I'm gone for a while I'll give you guys a little hint/spoiler: Hiro isn't psychic.
I bet you're confused. *evil laughter* Oh and the brothers may be getting along now, but just wait until the next chapter. *more evil laughter*
Next time on DCoE….
There had to be no doubt. The visions hadn't been wrong before, this would have to be no exception. The masked man was Robert Callaghan.
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