A/N: Hello, again! Back for more story, are we? I can see that people from all over the world are reading this story, so I thank you for all the support, wherever you might be from. Last chapter, we saw Penny moving out from California to Florida to start her filming career. Hiro and Penny are on opposite sides of the country, but they'll still be important to the overall story. And now, enough with the talk. Let's get this next chapter going! Enjoy!

Chapter 3: A Friend Gone Missing

It had been a full year since Penny had moved out to Florida. In her absence, much had transpired in the city of San Fransokyo. Shortly after Penny's departure, Hiro had discovered a masked man was planning on using his microbots for ill-intended purposes, so he had built armors for himself, Baymax, and the rest of his friends while planning to apprehend the thief. The group of friends identified the masked man to be professor Callaghan, who had survived the fire and was planning to murder Alistair Krei for the disappearance of Callaghan's daughter in a failed teleportation experiment.

Hiro and friends managed to stop Callaghan, and Hiro learned to forgive Callaghan even after learning he abandoned Tadashi to die in the fire.

The "masked man incident" had drawn the attention of the world and made headlines everywhere. No casualties were incurred, but the masked man caused billions in collateral damage and left several families in the surrounding area homeless while also injuring a few people.

"I was the one who invented the microbots." Hiro said in an interview. "They were stolen from me and used to cause this disaster. So, I would like to apologize to anyone who was hurt or had property destroyed because of this incident, and I hope that everyone watching this takes a lesson away from it. Technology is ours to create and develop, but can be used by anyone has access to it, whether it be for good intentions or bad ones. We need to be careful what we make, and we also need to make things for the right reason: to make the world a better place."

The media was also interested in the group of individuals who stopped the masked man and labelled them the, Big Hero 6. When questioned about the group, Hiro and the others vehemently denied any affiliation with the Big Hero 6.

After all that had transpired, Hiro started to regularly attend the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology and came out of his depression knowing that he would honor his brother's legacy by continuing what Tadashi did for his whole life.

On one particular day, Hiro was in the garage working on his latest project. Suddenly, he got a notification request for a video call. Hiro opened up the call, and a familiar face appeared.

"Hiro!" Penny sounded excited and concerned at the same time.

"Hey, Penny! Long time no see." Hiro greeted.

"Are you okay?!" Penny demanded.

"Wha-?" Hiro asked.

"That whole 'masked man' incident! I saw it on the news, and it happened right around where you live! Are you hurt at all?" Penny looked desperate for answers.

"Uh, N-no. I'm fine." Hiro assured. He was trying to hide the fact that it was he and his friends that were the ones who took Callaghan head-on. A news company must have caught them on camera, and Hiro really didn't need the media swarming him or his friends.

"Are you really, really sure?"

"Penny, seriously, I'm fine." Hiro said. "How's filming coming along?"

Penny instantly brightened. "It's great! Me and Bolt just finished training and are now ready to start filming! The first episode of our new show should be out later this week."

"That's awesome!" Hiro congratulated. "I'll make sure to tune in to it when it comes out."

"Thanks, Hiro!" Penny greeted. "Stay safe!"

"You too." Hiro said. Penny then smiled and hung up.

Hiro turned back to his project. Blueprints of an internal carbon-fiber skeleton, vinyl outer covering, and program lists covered the screen.

"Don't worry, buddy." Hiro said while touching the intended final product. "I'll make sure that you're rebuilt soon." On the screen was a full 3D rendering of Baymax, who had been lost in the final rescue mission.

Penny and Bolt ran out onto the roof of a building and took shelter behind a box. Penny then slipped off her backpack and took out a pair of high-tech binoculars while pressing another button for enhanced hearing.

"There he is. Dr. Calico." Penny put her binoculars over Bolt's eyes so he could see the screen showing the evil man. Bolt growled when he had a clear view of the doctor.

"Any luck getting our 'guest' to spill his guts?" A henchman watching the screen asked.

"Oh! His guts will spill, one way or another." Calico said while backing up and revealing a man in a lab coat strapped to a chair.

"Never!" the man snapped. "I'll never talk."

A cat standing near the man hissed while arching its back.

"Daddy." Penny said in a worried tone.

"You are beginning to irk me professor. I am irked, and that will not do." Calico snarled. He then turned back to his henchman. "Has our 'package' arrived? I am sure that it will make our guest more...communicative."

"I'm sending an agent to pick it up." The henchman said while nodding to another henchman.

"Gorgeous!" Calico said with glee. "Have him bring it to me on the first flight." The video call ended, and then henchman went down to the ground level and walked onto the street. After turning his head to look around, he went into an alleyway.

"Bolt let's go." Penny said after putting down the magazine she was using to cover her face.

Bolt, who was humorously reading his own magazine, put his down as well and followed his human.

The two went to the alley entrance that the henchman had just went down and followed him closely while avoiding detection.

The henchman then turned a corner and disappeared. Penny and Bolt followed after him...to find a dead end. Penny and Bolt looked around to see where the thug had gone, and then a door came up behind them trapping them in the alley. The rev of a car engine was heard, and at the opposite end of the alley, a black car appeared.

"We only need the girl." Calico informed the henchman through a dashboard computer screen. The henchman then stepped on the gas and charged towards Bolt and Penny.

Penny looked worried, but Bolt just growled and started running towards the oncoming car. As soon as Bolt's head collided with the car, the car flew into the air and landed on its roof.

Penny walked over to the car and tapped on the driver's window.

"What?" Snarled the driver.

"Where's Calico?" Penny demanded.

"I'm not telling you anything." The Henchman snapped.

A few minutes later, Bolt dangled the car off of a bridge with his teeth.

"Bolivia! Bolivia!" The driver practically screeched. "Calico's in Bolivia near Lake Rogaguado!"

"Lake Rogaguado." Penny said flatly. "I should've known." She then looked up to see several attack helicopters coming their way. "Come one Bolt, let's go!"

Bolt dropped the car onto the bridge and run over to his human.

Penny then took out a foldable high-speed scooter and put on her helmet. After starting up the scooter's engine, she kicked off with Both following closely.

Penny and Bolt evaded the helicopters when they came close, and went down a thin alleyway to try and lose them.

"Bolivia!" A small computer screen came up over Penny's eye. She then saw a readout for a flight to Bolivia at the nearby airport. "There's a flight leaving in ten minutes!" Penny then saw the three helicopters directly above her head.

Several of Calico's lackeys dropped down on motorcycles and began chasing Penny and Bolt. One henchman activated his electrical taser glove for Penny to see.

"Bolt!" Penny called. "Zoom-zoom!" Penny then pushed a button, which launched a small stick attached by a string to the front of her scooter. Bolt grabbed the stick in his mouth and started running at breakneck speeds while towing Penny behind him. Penny and Bolt weaved through traffic at high speed, but eventually, Calico's lackeys caught up with the duo.

"Gah!" One of the henchmen tried to swipe at Penny with his electrified glove, but Penny dodged the attack and Bolt guided her into an abandoned factory. Bolt then crashed into the opposite wall and onto the street. The two lackeys that were following Penny into the factory slipped and fell off of their bikes.

Bolt and Penny smiled at each other, but then two more lackeys dropped down from an overpass. One lackey showed Bolt a disk-shaped object. "1:00" appeared on the disk, and then the lackey threw it so it stuck to the back of a fuel tanker right next to a school bus filled with children.

"Bolt! Fetch!" Penny commanded. Bolt released the stick in his mouth and started pursuing the fuel tanker with the bomb on it.

One of Calico's lackeys cackled with laughter as he prepared to bring his electrified glove on Penny. At the last second, Penny dodged and the lackey accidently shocked his co-lackey, who fell off of his bike.

Bolt finally caught up to the truck with the bomb on it and grabbed it with his teeth.

"Puppy!" One of the students said as Bolt ran past the school bus. Bolt looked behind him and saw two helicopters hot on his tail. He then saw a metro passing by and jumped on.

One helicopter prepared to fire its gatling gun at Bolt, but then Bolt turned around and fired his laser eyes at the helicopter, which made it crash land a few moments after.

Another helicopter continued the pursuit and dropped a motorcycle, which then fired a heat-seeking missile at Bolt. Bolt jumped off the top of the metro and the missile followed. In the distance, Bolt could see Penny still being harassed by a lackey.

"!" A helicopter appeared directly in front of Bolt, but Bolt jumped right over the helicopter and the missile that was chasing Bolt flew right into the helicopter, destroying it.

The Lackey chasing Penny was just about to grab her, but then Bolt appeared from over his shoulder and jumped down. The lackey felt something on his head and grabbed it. He turned it over and saw, "0:04" on the timer. The lackey then jumped and threw the disc upwards, where it stuck to the last helicopter and detonated. He slapped his head in disbelief, but forgot that his glove was still electrified and fell off of his bike after a nasty shock.

"Good boy!" Penny said as Bolt caught up to her. "Airport!" the duo pulled off on an exit, but saw a problem. "Uh-oh." Penny came to a stop as an entire army of battle trucks, motorcycles, helicopters and more headed their way. "Bolt, speak." Penny commanded.

Bolt then went slightly in front of Penny and crouched. Penny covered her ears, and Bolt let out a thunderous superbark that created a supersonic shockwave and blew away everything headed their way. After the dust cleared, all foes had been immobilized.

"Okay, okay. Good job, buddy. Mission accomplished." Penny said while taking out a camera. She took a picture of herself and Bolt, and the picture came out of a small slit at the bottom of the camera. "That's a keeper."

Bolt growled at the fallen lackeys everywhere while Penny scooped him up in her arms.

"Don't worry, Bolt. You saved the day again."

A bell rang, the background was lifted up, and the props began to be cleared. A large bustle was going on on the sound stage, but the bigger bustle happened in the central filming room.

"Let me ask you, Mindy from the network, what do you see here?" The director angrily demanded from a woman in a business suit.

"Uh," Mindy looked at the screen, which had a frame of Bolt and Penny on it. A boom mike could be seen on the far right side of the screen. "The dog." Mindy finally replied.

"'The dog' she says." The director said in a mocking tone. "Oh, Mindy. Poor, poor, Mindy."

"Am I missing something?" asked Mindy.

"You're missing EVERYTHING, Mindy." The director said while scooting over to Mindy in a wheeled swivel chair. "You see a dog. I see an animal who believes with every fiber of his being, every FIBER, that the girl he loves is in mortal danger." He waved dramatically at the screen. "I see a depth of emotion on the face of that canine the likes of which has never been captured on screen before! Never, Mindy from the network!"

"Hmm." Mindy looked unimpressed.

"We jump through hoops to make sure that Bolt believes everything is real." The director continued. "It's why we don't miss marks. It's why we don't reshoot, and it's why we most certainly do not let the dog see boom mikes! Because, Mindy from the network, if the dog believes it, the audience believes it."

"Wow. Okay." Mindy still looked unimpressed. "You want reality? Here you go, chief. The show's too predictable. The girl's in danger, the dog saves her from the creepy English guy, we get it. There's always a happy ending. And our focus groups tell us 18-to-35-year-olds are unhappy." Mindy's voice began to gain volume. "They're not happy with happy. So maybe you should, I don't know, spend a little less time worrying about the dog's method of acting and more time figuring out how to stop 20-year-olds in Topeka from changing the channel. Because if you lose so much as half a rating point, so help me, I will fire everyone in this room, starting with you. How's that for real?" She then slammed the door behind her and left everyone mute.

"There she is! My little superstar!" Penny's agent caught her coming out of Bolt's trailer. "Let's go get that Teen Vogue cover shoot!"

"Mom, I want to take Bolt home this weekend." Penny said.

"Well, I-" Mrs. Forrester started.

"That'd be nice." Agent interrupted. "That'd be great!"

"So I can bring Bolt home?" Penny asked excitedly.

"As your friend, I say, 'yes, absolutely,' but as your agent, I have to remind you that this is Bolt's world. He has to stay right here. Okay, let's go."

"But he never gets to be a real dog anymore!" Penny protested. "Ever since we started filming, he's been acting different. It would only be for the weekend and I just want-"

"Well, you know what?" Agent interrupted. "That's a fair question. Let's do this, let's put a pin in it. Boop! Pin in. Now, let's let that hang there a bit, and then we'll address that when we've thought things through. Okay? Good enough for everybody? Smiles all around? Let's get out of here. Come on."

Penny looked back at Bolt's trailer one last time, and then she was swarmed by her crew and guided outside.

Inside of his trailer, Bolt was lying down on the ground. "I'll never let them get you, Penny." Bolt promised.

Deep in a jungle near a lake, Bolt and Penny crouched near a bush as a truck went by. A door then opened to a secret-facility.

"You ready, Bolt?" Penny asked.

"Widen up, camera three." A director said from the central filming room. "Ready four. Go four! And driver."

A camera on the floor watched as Penny and Bolt passed by while hanging from under the truck.

A set design for a secret lair had several lackeys armed with guns standing guard. One of the guards bent down to allow a set person to clean his visor. "Thanks, Larry." The guard said.

"Alright, Scooter," the director said through an earpiece. "Find the grate. Ready on the rubber bars." Another set member put his hands on two levers.

Bolt crawled through the air vent and placed his paws on the bars. As he pulled them outwards, the set member pulled the levers and the bars bent outwards giving the impression that Bolt pulled the bars apart.

"And, track with them..." The director said to the cameraman.

"The Calico supercomputer." Penny said while looking around the corner. "If we can access it, I'll finally know where they're keeping my father." Penny motioned for Bolt to go down the other hallway, and then pulled a penny out of her pocket. She rolled the penny on the ground, and a guard walked over to investigate it.

"Oof!" As the guard was distracted, Bolt tackled the two other guards. Both guards were pulled out of sight using cables and landed on mattresses.

"The weapon's hot." A set member reported.

Another set member walked over to a slit in the wall with a remote control. "Heat vision time." He whispered to himself.

The guard examining the penny suddenly whipped around and aimed his gun at Bolt.

"Bolt, stare!" Penny commanded. Bolt stared intensely at the guard's gun.

"Now!" The director commanded.

The set member pulled a lever, and the gun vaporized in the guard's hands. "Ahh!" The guard pretended to be shocked, and then Bolt launch himself at the guard.

A lackey was looking through some data files on the Calico supercomputer. Bolt slowly came up from behind and delivered a swift chop to the lackey's neck. The lackey let out an exaggerated gasp and collapsed onto the floor.

"Nice move." Penny said before sitting in the chair and starting to type in some key words. "Come on, come on!" Suddenly, the computer and the lights shut down. The ceiling began to open.

"Such devotion." Calico crowed from up top. "It brings tears to my eyes!"

"Calico." Penny said.

"Your father's discoveries could be of great use to our organization. I'm sure he'll be more accommodating now that I've got his lucky Penny!"

The chair Penny was in suddenly lurched backwards, and a metal shell appeared from the ground.

"Bolt!" Penny cried. It was the last thing she said before the top half of the shell crashed down from the helicopter overhead and lifted Penny away.

"World domination is within my grasp!" Calico laughed maniacally as he flew away on top of the shell containing Penny.

Bolt growled and prepared to pursue, but then a man in a visor and padded suit grabbed Bolt and tossed him into a cage before leaving the set cage in hand.

"How did your focus groups feel about cliffhangers?" The director said snidely to Mindy, who rolled her eyes. "You ask for unhappy 18-to-35-year-olds, I give you unhappy 18-to-35-year-olds."

"Bolt!" Penny's voice rang. "I'm okay!"

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" The director panicked. "Guards, stop her!"

The two guards outside the computer room stopped Penny from reaching Bolt.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hold on." The guard said.

Bolt barked angrily form his cage, wanting to be let out.

"Listen to him!" Penny protested. "He needs to know I'm okay!"

"Nope." Agent said. "You're not okay. You've been kidnapped by the fiendish Dr. Calico, at least that's what the dog needs to think, but just imagine, close your eyes and imagine how excited he'll be when he saves you tomorrow. Okay?"

"But he's gonna be freaking out all night. Please, just let me-"

"Wait a second, what's that behind your ear?" Agent interrupted. "Is that a...yes, it is. It's a pin. Let's do this. Let's take the pin and put it in this conversation. Boop! And we will not take it down, no, ma'am, until this matter is resolved."

Bolt, meanwhile, had been taken back to his trailer by the padded man. He opened the door to the cage, and Bolt jumped out and angrily growled at him.

"Hey Bolt-" A skinny black cat and a furry white cat had opened the top of Bolt's trailer, and Bolt looked up and saw the way out. He jumped on top of the padded man's head and jumped out of the trailer, scaring the two cats away. Bolt then ran to where they had just been filming.

"Bolt! Come back!" The padded man yelled.

Bolt ran to the computer room, but it was dark and empty. "I'm too late." Bolt muttered.

"Bolt, help!" Penny's voice echoed.

"I'm coming Penny!" Bolt ran towards the voice.

"Bolt, help!" Penny's voice came again.

Bolt ran into a hallway and ran towards Penny's voice. "Hold on, Penny! Hold on!"

Unbeknownst to Bolt, the sound of Penny's cries for help was actually a sound editor going over old footage on a computer.

Bolt ran past another room, But something outside the window caught his attention. It was a container that looked exactly like the one Penny was taken away in. "Penny!" Bolt ran towards the container...and crashed right into a window. Bolt then fell backwards and into a box filled with styrofoam packing peanuts. Another man wearing headphones came by and taped closed the box Bolt was in without knowing it. He then took it and another box and loaded them onto a truck.

"Bolt!" a woman passed by with the padded man walking awkwardly behind her. "Here Bolt!"

The box was loaded onto the truck and the door closed.

"What do you mean he ran off!?" Penny asked.

"I put him back into the trailer," the padded man explained. "But then he escaped out the top and ran off, and we can't find him anywhere!"

Penny looked about ready to strangle something, but her agent beat her to it.

"What are you saying?!" Agent screeched while grabbing the padded man by the neck. "Without Bolt, we can't continue filming! We'll never be able to resolve the cliffhanger!"

Penny then fully realized the situation. Bolt believed that Penny had been kidnapped by Calico, and he had broken out to try and find her. If only she had been able to show Bolt that she was okay!

"Why didn't you let me see him!?" Penny yelled. "If he had just known that I was okay, none of this would have happened!"

"Now, Penny." Agent tried to calm her down. "You know we can't do that because if Bolt knew you were okay, he wouldn't try as hard to rescue yo-"

"I DON'T CARE!" Penny shouted. At that, everyone paused and looked at her. Penny was usually such a sweet and quiet girl. Seeing her outburst like this was unthought of. "I just wanted to let Bolt be a normal dog. Can't you even let me do that for one day?!"

"Penny, let's do this." Agent said with an even tone. "Let's put a pin in th-"

"NO." Penny said firmly. "I've had enough of your pins! I just want my dog back! I want my friend back!" She then ran towards Bolt's trailer while sobbing loudly. She went in and slammed the door shut, leaving everyone in close proximity mute.

A worker unloaded a stack of boxes from the most recent delivery. He placed the boxes in a corner of the storage area and was about to walk off when the box on the bottom jumped.

"Huh?" The worker took out a box-cutting knife and cut the tape covering the box. As soon as the box was opened all the way, Bolt jumped out of the Box. "Whoa!"

Bolt didn't linger to look around for long. He jumped out an open window and ran towards the street. "Okay, Bolty. Okay. Stay cool. You're cool, Bolty."

Bolt then ran down another alleyway and saw a man with a very familiar hairdo.

"The green-eyed man!" Bolt said. A fence separated Bolt from the man, so Bolt got a running start and charged at the fence expecting it to break. Bolt was very surprised when he bounced off of the fence and doing virtually no damage to it whatsoever.

"What?" Bolt then saw a small hole on the side of the fence and went through that to get to the man on the other side. He snuck up behind. Bolt readied his paw and struck the man, but it did nothing besides get the man's attention. Bolt looked and saw that the man was actually not the green-eyed man - just a normal civilian. Bolt then ran off down the street

"Oh!" "Whoa!" "Hey!" Bolt weaved around the people on the sidewalk. Then, he noticed a large hole in the sidewalk under construction. Bolt ran faster and jumped, expecting to clear the hole easily, but fell down before he was even halfway across. Bolt climbed out of the hole hurt and confused, but then he saw a familiar-looking container on the back of a truck.

"Penny! Target acquired."

Bolt began chasing the truck, and eventually got right in front of it. The truck driver swerved to avoid running into Bolt, and the container on its back fell over after the truck stopped.

"Penny!" Bolt looked inside the container. Little did Bolt know that the container was just a port-a-potty. "Penny? They moved her!"

Bolt continued running, but was suddenly picked up by a lady holding several dog leashes. "Hey there. Are you lost, sweetie?" She then put a leash on Bolt's collar.

Bolt suddenly jumped down and began running again, now with a leash on his collar. He ran into a pile of newspapers, got one stuck on his face, and couldn't see where he was running. When he finally shook off the newspaper, Bolt suddenly ran into a fence and got his head stuck between two bars in a fence.

"Ah-hah-hah." Bolt realized how long he had been running for and caught his breath. He then looked up at some super-tall buildings. Why did this feel so familiar? Bolt then realized that he was still stuck in the fence and tried to bend the bars to get out.

"Why. Can't. I. Bend these stupid bars!?" Bolt desperately tried his hardest, but to no avail.

"Oh, buddy. You got your head stuck pretty good, huh, guy?" A new voice said.

"?" Bolt looked down and saw a pigeon looking up at him.

"Hey, guys, come here." The pigeon said. "Check this out. He's got his melon stuck."

Two more pigeons landed next to the first.

"Yup." One pigeon said. "Dat is one stuck melon."

Bolt continued his struggle to try and get out.

"Hey, hey, buddy. Take it easy. Slow down." The first pigeon said.

"I will not take it easy, pheasant." Bolt grunted as he continued to struggle. "I am missing my person."

"Hey, buddy, relax. Like this." The pigeon demonstrated with his head. "Turn and pull. Turn and pull. Forget about it. You'll be out, no time."

Bolt looked skeptical, but with no better alternative, he followed the pigeon's advice. Indeed, in no time at all, Bolt's head popped out and he fell backwards. He then noticed something on his paw. It was pink and light-weight.

"What are these things?" Bolt asked while shaking it off. "This stuff weakens me!"

The first pigeon walked over and pecked at the pink object. "Oh! Those are styrofoam packing peanuts."

"Styrofoam?" Bolt asked. "This has the green-eyed man written all over it. Have you seen the man with the green eye?"

"You know, I gotta say something," the first pigeon said. "if I could say something here. You look familiar. Joey, look at this guy's mug."

"Yeah. You know, I could've sworn I've seen this guy before." Joey said.

"I gotta tell you, I never forget a face." said the first pigeon.

"He never does." Joey agreed.

"Listen, listen!" Bolt was starting to get frustrated. "The man with the green eye, tell me what you know, birds."

"I know this dog." The first pigeon said, ignoring Bolt's question. "I gotta remember. It's gonna kill me. Hold on."

Right at that moment, a bus advertising Bolt's show pulled up right next to the group.

"No, I don't know. I thought I knew." The pigeon finally said.

Bolt groaned. "You pigeons are useless. I need someone on the inside, someone close to the Green-Eyed Man. A cat."

"Ooh. A cat?" asked the first pigeon.

"Yeah, a cat. And when I find him, when I find him, I'm gonna make that cat wish he were never born." Bolt said confidently.

The three pigeons all looked at each other and then got a devious glint in their eyes.

"I think we know just the cat." The first pigeon finally said.

Penny was curled up into a ball and sobbing while her mother placed an arm around Penny and gently shushing her.

"W-w-why i-is he g-g-gone?" Penny stuttered and sniffed.

"Oh, baby." Mrs. Forrester pulled her daughter in close for a hug. "I wish I knew so that I could bring him back for you."

'What do I do?' Mrs. Forrester thought to herself. Penny was in a bad spot. She had just lost her best friend and needed emotional support. She herself could only provide so much support and love, but this situation looked like it was going to require outside help. But who?

Penny shifted in her mother's embrace and Mrs. Forrester looked the picture wall. The picture wall was mostly covered with pictures of Penny and Bolt, but there were a few that had other people in them as well. Her eyes scanned the wall until her gaze fell on a certain picture. In the picture was Penny, Bolt, and a young man with messy black hair. The gears in her head slowly began to turn.

"Penny? Honey?" Mrs. Forrester gently shook her daughter to get her attention.

"...?" Penny looked up at her mother with tear-filled eyes.

"Why don't you give Hiro a call? I'm sure that he would love to speak to you right now since you haven't contacted each other for a while."

"No, mom." Penny said while wiping her tears on her sleeve. "I already t-talked to him recently. Besides, i-if he sees me like this, *hic* who knows what he'll think of me."

"Now, Penny." Mrs. Forrester said with a gentle but firm tone. "Hiro is not that kind of person. He's the responsible kind of boy who supports his friends, no matter what. Now, go on. I'm sure that it'll do you some good."

"..." Penny didn't move for a few seconds, and then nodded her head. She wiped her tears off once more and opened up her laptop with her mother sitting next to her.

Hiro had just come back from school. It was a great day. He had finally finished rebuilding Baymax and had brought him home.

"You're gonna help so many people, buddy." Hiro said, recalling what Tadashi once said. "So many."

Suddenly, a notification jingle played from Hiro's computer. Hiro turned on the monitor and saw a request for a video call. Hiro raised an eyebrow. Hardly anyone used Clickchat anymore. The only person he knew who used Clickchat as much as he did was… Hiro quickly accepted the request and gasped at the sight that appeared on the screen.

"H-hey H-Hiro." Penny sniffed.

"Hello, Hiro." Mrs. Forrester greeted.

Hiro was at a loss for words. Penny looked like a complete mess. Her red eyes and tear-streaked face instantly sent a message to Hiro that something was wrong.

"Penny!" Hiro finally spoke. "W-what happened?"

Penny sniffled and then spoke, "Bolt is gone."

"...What?" Hiro asked, not sure he heard correctly. "He's gone?! B-but...When?! Why?!"

"He disappeared yesterday after the shooting concluded." Mrs. Forrester. "It was a cliffhanger episode. Bolt thought that something bad happened to Penny, so he escaped his trailer to try and look for her. Now, we don't know where he is."

"But-but," Hiro struggled to speak. His mind was running at a thousand miles an hour trying to process the fact that Bolt just disappeared. Then, he remembered Penny's visibly deranged emotional condition. He cast a quick glance at Mrs. Forrester, who nodded, and then he knew what he needed to do. Hiro took a deep breath. "Penny. Look into my eyes."

"…?" Penny slowly lifted her gaze upwards and looked at Hiro's eyes through the screen.

"You were the one who gave me emotional support when I lost someone close to me, so now I'm going to do the same for you." Hiro then cleared his throat. "Penny. You and Bolt share a relationship that I've never seen between owner and pet. Bolt WILL return to you. Not might, he WILL. You've gotta believe that, Penny."

"Uh-huh." Penny choked out.

"Penny." Hiro said. "Remember. You have people who love you and are here to support you. You've got your wonderful mother to give you love and support. I'm envious of you!"

"Oh, stop it, you!" Mrs. Forrester gushed.

Penny smiled.

"And you can always talk to me about anything! I'm here for you Penny. Don't ever forget that."

Penny let out a laugh/cough. "Yeah. You're right. Thank you, Hiro."

"Don't worry." Hiro said. "I'm certain that Bolt will come back to you somehow. Just hang on until he comes back. You're strong Penny. I know you are."

"Thanks, Hiro. You're such wonderful friend." Penny smiled slightly.

"No problem." Hiro said. "Now, turn that frown upside-down and stay strong. For Bolt."

"For Bolt." Penny repeated. "See you later, Hiro."

"Take care, Penny."

Hiro ended the call and slumped into his chair. Bolt was missing. Could waiting possibly be the only thing that they could do? Hiro thought for a bit, then he looked at his bot-fighter.

"..." Hiro then got an idea. A crazy idea. An incredibly stupid idea that might not even work. "Perfect!" Hiro jumped up and grabbed a notebook and pencil. He was going to help Penny in any way he could, and waiting certainly wasn't going to cut it for him.

"Don't worry Penny." Hiro said while drawing out some designs. "I'm going to make sure you and Bolt get back together, no matter what."

A/N: Alright. That was a real doozy, but things are starting to take shape here. Bolt is missing, but it'll all work out in the end. Promise. If you enjoyed the story so far, please consider showing your support by leaving a comment. That's all for now! Until next time, peace!