Tadashi spent the next several days diligently working on a scanner that could scan entire cities at a time to search for Hiro. It was not easy though, a machine like this had a lot of potential bugs like accidentally finding the wrong person or completely missing the person you were looking for.

Despite all of the potentially disastrous flaws Tadashi pressed on. How could he not? Though he already had built an advanced scanner for Baymax, building one that could scan entire cities at a time quickly and efficiently was something else entirely. If he wanted it to scan a larger area at a time he'd have to sacrifice some efficiency and even risk it missing something. But having a small area meant more times a city would need to be scanned and opened up the possibility of an entire section of a city being skipped over. Both scenarios had a high probability of the machine not finding Hiro even though he was in the city being scanned. He was determined to find a perfect balance.

Tadashi knew he was spending an unhealthy amount of time in the lair working, but every second he spent not working was another second Hiro was missing. He didn't eat, didn't sleep, all he could think about was getting the machine done, having Hiro back in his arms safe and sound. Though Fred begged him to take care of himself, his pleas went ignored. The last time Tadashi had tried sleeping he watched in horror and a faceless monster slaughtered his brother right in front of him. It was agonizing. After that Tadashi refused to let himself sleep, drinking buckets of coffee to keep himself awake.

"I brought you something," Mr. Lee said, startling Tadashi out of his thoughts.

"I'm not stopping," Tadashi snapped, not looking away from what he was currently working on.

"I didn't say anything about stopping," Mr. Lee said. "I just brought you something to drink."

"What is it?" Tadashi snapped.

"Something to help you relax," Mr. Lee said. "Trust me it will do wonders in helping you focus and work better." Those words made Tadashi pause in his work, he was having a hard time focusing on his work and something that could help him do that sounded wonderful. But what if it was a trick?

"Are you positive this will help me focus?" Tadashi asked.

"Yes," Mr. Lee assured.

"Good," Tadashi said, snatching the cup and downing the contents. Almost instantly everything got dizzier and black spots danced across his vision. Before Tadashi could demand to know what Mr. Lee had done to him, darkness consumed him.


It had become nearly impossible for Kanan to bring himself to actually go home. Hera spent almost all of her time at the hospital waiting for either Sabine or Zeb to wake up making the house painfully empty. Everywhere he looked where reminders of the fact that his son was missing and his daughter was in the hospital.

Zeb was in the ICU from getting shot multiple times and Sabine hadn't woken up from a nasty blow to her head. Zeb had woken up several times but he had been extremely confused and not entirely lucid but the doctors where confident he would pull through; they were far more worried about Sabine. On top of worrying about the possibility that he would never find Ezra, he also had to fight the fear that Sabine would never wake up.

He couldn't let himself think like that. Sabine would wake up and Tadashi's invention would work and they would both have their families back safe and sound. He didn't think he'd be able to continue on if they didn't make it… Kanan's phone went off startling him out of his thoughts. Hera. Kanan felt his heart start hammering in his chest when he saw that name. A thousand scenarios flashed through Kanan's mind, each thought worse than the previous. Before it could go to voicemail Kanan answered,

"Hera what is it?"

"It's Sabine!" Hera exclaimed. "She woke up!"


Kanan honestly couldn't remember the rest of the conversation with Hera or the drive to the hospital. All he could think about was his little girl was awake and terrified. No one questioned Kanan was pretty sure everyone would understand him suddenly racing out of the police station and recklessly driving to the hospital, and if he didn't he'd tell them to shove it, this was his daughter! When he finally arrived he found Hera nervously pacing outside Sabine's room.

"What's going on?" Kanan asked.

"They're doing some tests…" Hera told him. "She was so scared when she woke up, all she could think about was Zeb and the boys and I didn't get a chance to talk to her before the doctors made me leave…"

"We'll talk to her together," Kanan said, placing his hands on his shoulders. Hera smiled and tightly wrapped her arms around him, a wave of guilt washing over him as he tightly held her back. He'd been spending so much time worried about finding Ezra, he forgot that the rest of his family was in the hospital. No one should have to deal with all of this alone, a part of him wanted to be here more for her, but every second here was a second not spent helping find their son. He felt himself being dragged in multiple directions and struggled to figure out where he should be and what he should be doing. Kanan heard a door close and looked up to see who he assumed was Sabine's doctor leaving the room. Reluctantly Kanan let go of Hera to turn his attention to the doctor, Hera simply responded by wrapping an arm around his waist, so Kanan did the same.

"How is she?" Kanan asked, anxious to go inside and see her.

"She's awake but she might not stay awake for very long," The doctor said.

"Can we go in?" Hera asked.

"Yes of course," He said.

"Thank you," Hera said as the pair walked inside. Kanan and Hera sat down in the chairs next to the bed, Kanan saying,

"Hey sweetie. How are you feeling?"

"Dad, please are the boys okay?" Sabine asked eyes glossy.

"We're more worried about yo-" Kanan assured but this only seemed to upset her more.

"No! I need to know if they're okay! The men who broke in kept asking where Ezra was. I-I had no idea what they were going to do to him and Zeb-"

"Zeb will be alright," Kanan assured. "He's on a lot of pain medication so he's a little confused but he will be alright."

"And Ezra?" Sabine asked.

"Sweetie you need to worry ab-" Kanan soothingly said but Sabine snapped,

"What happened to him!" Kanan sighed heavily and glanced over at Hera who solemnly nodded her head.

"We aren't sure." Kanan reluctantly admitted. "He and Hiro where both missing when we got there."

"They took Hiro too?" Sabine asked, a horrified look on her face.

"Yes," Kanan said.

"Y-y-you will find them, right dad?" Sabine desperately asked, looking like she would completely shatter if he said no. If Kanan was honest with himself though, he knew he would shatter if he didn't find them.

Kanan reached over and firmly held Sabine's hand and looked her in the eye and promised, "I swear I'll do everything I can to find them." Sabine nodded her head, tears streaming down her face and asked,

"Then why are you here?"

"Sweetie you just woke up an-" Kanan argued but Sabine shook her head, looking exhausted.

"I'll….sleep for a while…please find the boys…." Kanan glanced over at Hera who nodded her head, a look of determination on her face.

"Go, we'll be fine," Hera assured.

"Are you sure? You shouldn't be al-" Kanan argued but Hera wouldn't hear it.

"Yes I'm sure. I know Sabine and Zeb will be fine, what I don't know is if Ezra will be. Please go." Kanan nodded his head, lips tightly pressed together and said,

"I will find them."


Hiro lay on the freezing cold ground, having no energy to even shift himself around to make himself a bit more comfortable. Every time Hiro opened his eyes the room spun out of control, so he kept his eyes firmly shut and tried to ignore the churning of his stomach. Painful coughing racked his small frame, once the coughing finally stopped; Hiro curled up into a tight ball, shivering uncontrollably.

He wanted to go home. He wanted his warm bed and his brothers comforting arms around him. Tadashi could make anything better. He said he'd do anything for Hiro, so why hadn't he come to save them yet. Maybe the man was right, maybe no one was coming for them….

Hiro felt something being draped over his body and slowly opened his eyes to see Ezra kneeling next to him, carefully pulling a raggedy blanket over him. Hiro knew Tadashi would want him to share since they obviously only had this to keep them warm, but he was so cold he really couldn't bring himself to care about sharing so he tightly wrapped the blanket around himself and tried to go to sleep, only for another coughing fit to wrack his small frame. He was so thirsty and would give anything for some water…

Hiro heard someone weakly cough next to him and looked up to see Ezra was coughing, sounding miserable. He was probably cold and thirsty too. Hiro tried to open his mouth to tell him to come closer, but his throat was so dry he started to cough when he tried to speak. Determined to help his friend, Hiro dragged himself closer and weakly tugged on Ezra's sleeve. Ezra looked down at him, looking exhausted. Shivering uncontrollably, Hiro lifted the blanket up, trying to tell him to share.

For a moment Hiro was worried Ezra would refuse, but then he dove under the blanket and curled up next to Hiro, shivering as well. At least he was a little warmer now. As Hiro finally started to drift off to sleep, he realized that no one was coming for them. They had been abandoned.