Honey Lemon could have sworn if she was drinking something, she would have spit it out by then. That question caught her off guard. She literally didn't expect that question to come from him at such a moment.

Hiro noticed that she was starting to look nervous, making him go all skeptical.

"So?" He said, trying to get an answer.

But Honey Lemon just turned to him apologetically, "I'm sorry, but it's not something we really talk about. Have you tried asking Tadashi?"

The young ravenette could only slump back and pout, "I did, but he really didn't give me a proper answer. He said that you guys did it for him, to help him get a guy in jail."

"Well, that's it really." She answered nervously.

"That can't be it!" He absentmindedly raised his voice, "I mean, c'mon. Did you guys just really become heroes to get a random guy in jail? What did he do? Why was it for Tadashi?"

Honey really wasn't comfortable with the topic. After that incident, nobody talked about it ever again. It was never brought up. They just became superheroes and continued with it, burying the reason why completely.

But now that it was brought up, would it be okay to talk about it? Hiro was practically the new member of their gang, he deserved to know. Would Tadashi want him to know though?

"Okay, I'll tell you." she said. Hiro's face just lit up, "After I ask for Tadashi's permission." The young boy's face then scrunched up in disappointment, "Also you have to tell me something in exchange." With that addition, his face scrunched up even more.

Hiro was nervous about the tell her something part, it sounded really, really ominous, or maybe he was just paranoid. Knowing more about them did sound tempting.

Now he knew how they felt when he refused to share things about himself. Did it feel good? No. Would he change his ways? Absolutely not. It wasn't about him. It was about Big Hero 6.

"Do we have a deal?" She said as if she won an argument, which she obviously has.

He grumbled, crossing his arms and turning away. "Okay, fine. We have a deal."

Honey grinned widely and brought out her hand with her pinky finger up. Hiro just stared at it.

"Pinky swear? Really?" He honestly thought it was childish. It has been years since he had dwelled in such actions, especially in the testing facility; he never had a promise to keep and a promise was never kept for him.

"Just do it, Hiro." She said, rolling her eyes with an amused smile, completely oblivious to the younger one's thoughts.

The young ravenette looked at her for a while and debated in his mind whether or not he should do it. On the surface, a pinky swear may not seem much to the boy, but deep down it struck a chord he didn't want to be so familiar with.

The last time he intertwined his pinky with someone, he ended up alone and hurt.

Would that time be the same?

"Okay, fine." He gave in and curled his small finger around Honey's, earning such a bright and sunny smile from her.

It was going to be different, he convinced himself and smiled back.

Hopefully, he wasn't wrong.

Suddenly, a screeching noise was heard and constant tilts and shakes were felt; their bus was spinning out of control.

XxxxX

Tadashi's first class was finally over. He quickly went to the lab and expected to see the whole gang complete and accounted for, but they weren't.

Fred, Hiro, Honey and Baymax were nowhere to be seen.

"Before you blow a fuse," Gogo interrupted him from panicking before he could even start and said, "Honey texted us and said that the bus they were in got a flat tire. They had to find a new bus to ride in so they'll be running a little late."

"Oh." It made the male ravenette a little relaxed, but not entirely. "That's good to know. How about Fred?"

The female ravenette just shrugged her shoulders and continued with her project, "Who knows when that nerd will arrive."

"How about right now!"

Fred suddenly bursted into the laboratory door, easily getting everyone's attention, it didn't help that he was wearing his mascot uniform.

"Hey," greeted Wasabi, "where have you been?"

"A game just finished. Whoo! Boy, the crowd was tough. Couldn't get them to cheer. You wouldn't believe what I had to go through just to have them smile- WAIT, I HAVE SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU GUYS."

His sudden emotion and topic change surprised the other three, and again, he being in a costume didn't help.

All of a sudden, the arms of the dragon-lizard costume just went floppy as bumps started to appear and disappear from inside the costume's body. "Hold on," Fred kept saying all the while, "It's in here. Let me just get it." He seemed to be searching for something, "Aha!" And he found it.

He brought out three phones, all scratched up and cracked, and all having different colors of blue, pink and green.

Wasabi was first to react, "Please tell me you didn't pull those out of your underpants."

The shaggy blonde was almost outraged, "Dude no," but he wasn't, "Thanks for the pointer though." He easily made the bigger guy whiz.

"Broken phones?" Gogo was unimpressed.

Fred made sure she was face to face with the phones, almost rubbing it on her face - which didn't make the asian woman happy, and explained with his usual comic book awestruck voice, "These are not broken, Gogo, and these are not just your ordinary phones." He turned them on and familiar logos came across the screen.

Tadashi gasped, "No way. Are those The Fujitas' phones?!" Gogo and Wasabi were in disbelief as well.

"Yes they are, bro." Fred patted his back, "We have the enemy's phones in our hands."

"How did you-" the bigger guy wanted to ask, but words betrayed him.

Luckily the shaggy blonde easily understood, "Found it inside my room. Don't know how it got there."

Tadashi analyzed how, and then his mind went back to the night before. When Hiro was in his steampunk angel state, he was holding onto three phones. That's how it got to Fred's house. The young ravenette must've held on to it but just forgot about it.

Why would he hold on to it though?

"Have you tried opening it? Surely there are lots of information about them in there." Gogo stated, only to receive a look of dismay from Fred.

"I asked Heathcliff, but the best he could do was get it functioning again. He couldn't crack the code."

"Luckily, we have a master of robotics right here, huh?" Wasabi said, making him and the rest turn to the only person who could own such a title- Tadashi.

"Woah, me?"

"Yeah, Hamada." Gogo grabbed the phones from Fred and carelessly threw them at the male ravenette, making him panic but catch them nonetheless, "We know that you know that you're the only one who could do this. So do it. We might get valuable info in there and finally get those criminal skater dolls in prison."

For once, Tadashi completely agreed. He liked the idea of their main rival behind bars, plus it was just a phone code, how hard could it be?

Honestly, really hard. Tadashi tweaked with it, but it wouldn't budge. The security was pretty tight and it's like the programming of the phone was on a different level.

"This will take longer than I thought." He breathed, then he looked at the time. He has been working on it for almost two hours. "Any updates on Honey and Hiro?"

"Last text was an hour and a half ago, she said they were almost here." Gogo answered.

"Didn't she supposed to have class by then? Huh. The flat tire may have caused heavy traffic."

"Hey guys!"

Speak of the devil, it was Honey Lemon entering the lab. Her things seemed lighter which means she just go off her first class and dropped by her locker.

"Oh hey. We thought you weren't here yet," said Tadashi, he then tried to look pass her, looking for Hiro, "Where's the nerd at?"

The female blonde was surprised by his question, "You mean he's not here?"

"Uh yeah, he was supposed to be with you." Gogo answered.

"No. We arrived a few minutes after my last text to you. I was kind of running late so I let Baymax show him the way to the lab." She explained.

Everyone was speechless for a while, letting what Honey said sink in. When it did, they literally went into panic mode. A boy, who was a technopath, was literally lost in their university, which was an Institute of Technology. Ah, that predicament will never get old.

"We have to find him!" Tadashi exclaimed as he shot up from the table.

"We'll split up!" Gogo quickly backed him up. She gave out directions like at what wing and what building someone should search and so on.

They split up going to their respective spots. Honey and Tadashi were assigned to the Robotics building, Fred was at the Medical Building, Wasabi was at the Engineering building and Gogo took the miscellaneous building.

Everything felt like deja vu. Why was Hiro so fond of being looked for? Everybody wondered the same thing.

"I don't get it," Honey said, confused, "Baymax was capable of bringing him back to the lab, right? I know he can!"

"I know he can too. Something must've gone wrong." Tadashi then stated.

There were numbers of possibilities in which Tadashi ranked in his mind rationally. First thing that popped in his head was that Hiro was kidnapped, but even if he was, Baymax should have returned and reported to them. Next, they were both kidnapped, but who wouldn't notice a bunch of people kidnapping a kid and a huge marshmallow robot? Lastly, they just got lost, but how could an intelligent robot like Baymax, with a highly intelligent boy like Hiro get lost that long?

"Weeeee! We got caught up in a street accident! We got caught in a street accident! The tire went 'pheeeeeeeeew.'"

The college blonde and ravenette suddenly heard a drunk like robotic voice around a corner.

"Oh God, please don't tell me-" Tadashi didn't finish the sentence as he and Honey Lemon took the turn, only to be greeted by a crowd surrounding what seems to be his drunk project with Hiro trying to calm it down all the while tilting the hat to hide his face.

First and foremost, Tadashi looked at Honey sternly, "Street Accident?"

The female blonde just forced a nervous laugh, "Flat tires are considered street accidents, but yeah," she coughed, "the bus we took sorta, kinda, spiraled out of control and fell onto its side."

"Which side?" The ravenette started to sound like a worried but at the same time angry parent. Honey easily gave in.

"Okay, our side. But Baymax protected us from the crash, so no harm done. Although we did take a while because we had to assist some injured people."

Tadashi turned his attention back to Baymax, and he did notice it's kind of deflated arm, which was probably used to protect Honey and Hiro from the broken window shards. He sighed, massaged the bridge of his nose and shook his head. Baymax was out of charge and his station was at the lab. It'd be hard work to bring him back, but at least they found them.

"Excuse us." "Coming through." The raven and blonde college students said respectively as they squeezed through the people just to get to the boy and the bot.

When Hiro saw them, he was more than relieved. He knew Baymax was running low on energy, but he never expected him to act that way; it caught him off guard. Not only did it lead to them getting lost in the university, it also attracted extremely unwanted attention. Namely the attention of one person who was chasing after them and who they tried to shake off.

"I'm sorry for not taking you to the lab myself, Hiro." Honey apologized as she was about to give him a hug, but he backed away and hid behind Baymax's very floppy build.

He forced a smile, looked around nervously and said, "It's okay, Honey. B-but can we please get out of here now?"

The number of people around them made Hiro uneasy, it didn't help that they were circled around him like he was some kind of freak show. It struck an all too familiar chord in his chest.

The two older teens noticing his distress, they nodded.

They were about to ask everybody to let them through, but someone cut into the crowd.

"There they are." It was Callaghan.

The color from Hiro's face just drained as he felt his throat dry and his whole body tremble in fear. He dug his fingers into Baymax's back and hid his face there.

Honey saw this gesture and it made her confused.

"Honey Lemon, Tadashi" the professor called out rather surprised, "Seems like you found your runaway project."

"Uh, sir?"

"I've been chasing Baymax all around the school since this morning. He had a kid with your hat with him."

"Oh sorry, Professor Callaghan for causing so much trouble." Tadashi immediately apologized.

Robert chuckled, "Not trouble at all, but isn't this place a little too far from the laboratory to have Baymax wondering around?"

"Ah, yes, Professor Callaghan. Now that you mention it, it is." Honey joined in, also doing some nervous gestures. "We better get going."

"Yes, you better. And also you people." He added as he gave everyone stern looks. Easily, everyone left with a dash, leaving him, Tadashi, Honey, Baymax and Hiro alone in the hallway.

"Thank you, Professor." Said the older ravenette, breathing out a big sigh of relief.

"Anytime, Mr. Hamada." He said. Hiro thought he was about to walk away so he separated for a little while only to find that Callaghan was trying to take a look at him. "So is this your little brother, Tadashi?" He asked, taking a step closer, making Hiro flinch and hide even more inside Baymax's outer lining.

"Yes, sir. He is."

"I see." He chuckled, "I can't say I can see the resemblance. Why are you hiding, my boy?"

"He's afraid of you."

Tadashi and Honey were taken aback by what Baymax had said. Hiro was afraid of Callaghan? Or was it just Baymax's bugs talking?

"Afraid of me?" Luckily the professor took it as the latter one.

"Yes. Afraaaaiid of you. Like he's afraid of ghosts and peanuts."

Callaghan didn't expect such an answer so he ended up laughing at it, much to the teens' surprise. "I never thought I'd be compared to a ghost or a peanut in my life."

"Uh, sorry, sir. Baymax has a slight malfunction when he gets a low battery." Tadashi explained, pulling on his collar. It took him months before his thesis on Baymax was approved, and months of probation when it came to his actual functionality. He didn't want anything to compromise his project.

"You seem to have a lot in your hands, Mr. Hamada. I won't keep you. I'm very excited to see how much Baymax has improved next week at your monthly probation." The professor started walking away. The older ravenette just kept his obedient composure until his mentor disappeared into the next hallway.

When he did, huge sighs of relief were released.

"Great. More pressure." Tadashi uttered as he held his forehead. Due to the BH6 and increase of criminal rates because of The Fujitas, he hasn't been able to focus that much on Baymax's actual healthcare coding. He still has a lot to do in one week.

Maybe the loss of their suit was a sign for him to focus more on academics.

"It's pretty hard to have the most acknowledged professor at SFIT as your mentor, isn't it?" Honey commented, forcing a smile.

"It is, but it's rewarding."

"The scary guy is gone, Hiro. He's goooooooone. Weeee!" The two college students' attention where caught by Baymax who continued to act drunk. Hiro still holding onto him for dear life.

"Hey bud," Tadashi called out gently as he knelt beside him, "we talked about this. Callaghan isn't a bad guy."

Hiro turned to Tadashi, still unconvinced but he didn't let it show, "If you say so, Tadashi."

XxxxX

"Afraid of peanuts?" Gogo teased with a grin, making Hiro flush pink.

"Not afraid. Allergic! Baymax just got it wrong!" He defended.

They were safely back at the lab and Baymax was charging up inside Tadashi's own room. The college students were all focused on their projects all the while trying to tease the younger teen with them.

"Also about the ghosts?" Wasabi added.

"That- that's-!" The young ravenette tried to find an excuse, but all the blood was just flowing up to his cheeks that he couldn't think straight. "Nothing! It's nothing!"

"Don't worry, little dude. Fears are nothing to be ashamed of. I fear taking a bath, but it's a necessity so-" Fred placed an arm over the boy's shoulders, only for it to be slowly removed by Tadashi while he pulled away the younger boy.

"Maybe when you actually take it, dude."

"Hey, I do, bro. I just forgot this morning."

Wasabi grimaced, Gogo just rolled her eyes. While they were messing around, a certain female blonde was in deep thought.

"How about you being afraid of Callaghan?" Honey tried, but she didn't tease. She was asking out of pure curiosity. If it was a fear of strangers, then Hiro wouldn't have reacted that way the second time around, but he did.

Hiro visibly flinched, but everyone was oblivious.

Instead of the boy answering, Tadashi did, "Maybe Baymax remembered what happened yesterday and concluded that he was afraid of him due to the way he reacted."

The female blonde was unconvinced, "Uhuh," she then smiled brightly at the younger boy, "Remember our deal okay?"

Hiro pouted, pocketed his hands in the jeans he was wearing and looked away, "He hasn't even said yes yet." He then started to walk towards Tadashi's lab, "I'm going to check how Baymax is doing."

When he disappeared, everyone turned to Honey, "What deal?"

"Oh, he asked me about why we became heroes because you," she pointed at the older ravenette, "didn't give him a proper answer. I said I'll only tell him provided that Tadashi says it's okay and that he tells us something in return."

Everyone was quite impressed, everyone except Tadashi who was almost pouting like a child who was asked to give his favorite toy to someone else.

"Do we have to tell him?" He groaned. Everyone turned to him with tired yet understanding smiles.

"C'mon dude," said Fred, "We know it's hard, but talking makes it better."

"He won't look at you any differently. He's probably your little brother already." Added Wasabi.

The ravenette just coughed, "I feel like some kind of a butler though, following him around and such."

Gogo smirked, "That's just the surface of it. Wait 'til you feel like a slave, that's when things get really fun."

Tadashi almost choked. How long would that take? "Wait, are you guys expecting me to take care of him for life?" He turned to his friends with surprise and only to see that they were had the same looks on their faces too.

"Well, technically not for life, until he finds a job and is able to support himself, and technically not just you, we and Aunt Cass will help you." Honey corrected.

Tadashi was overwhelmed. He honestly did not think that they had such high expectations of him! "How are you guys so sure that Aunt Cass would agree to this?"

"C'mon Tadashi, we're talking about Aunt Cass." Gogo raised a brow.

The college ravenette raised a finger to make a point, but words immediately failed him. He knew they were absolutely right. He was still too far from accepting such a responsibility though.

"I don't think I can, guys."

"What? Are we just going to let him run around the streets free for bad guys to kidnap?" The female ravenette asked. Tadashi considered that Hiro would be filthy rich if they were to do that because he would sweep the bot fighting business clean. His life would be endangered though. He groaned.

"Okay! I'll think about it." He finally gave in.

Every one of his friends cheered out of accomplishment, Tadashi only raised an eyebrow.

"I said I'll think about it."

"We all know that means yes, dude." Wasabi cockily said, only to receive an eye roll from his raven friend.

"Is it a yes to the super hero past thing too?" Fred asked, Tadashi was practically cornered.

"Ugh. Okay, yes. Happy?"

Another set of cheers were heard.

"What are we going to ask the kid in exchange?" Gogo wondered, turning to Honey who was already back to mixing chemicals to make a new equation.

"I was actually planning to ask him who Katherine is."

"Katherine?"

XxxxX

Hiro sat in front of Baymax who was still standing idly on top of his station, waiting for his battery to fill up.

The young boy stared at him with melancholy. The healthcare companion easily sensed his distress.

"What seems to be the problem, Hiro?"

For a while, Hiro did not answer. It was as if he was stuck in deep thought. It stayed like that for almost a minute until he breathed a big puff of air and looked Baymax straight in the eye.

"I don't want you saying that I'm afraid of Callaghan anymore."

The marshmallow bot only tilted its head, "but you are, Hiro."

The young boy just looked away and clenched his fist.

"I-I know, bud." He admitted, choking on his words.

A memory then flashed into his mind.

"Dare say another bad thing about him, then you're good as gone, Hiro!"

Another vile shot up his throat, making him gulp it down and tremble even more.

"Just keep it a secret for me, okay?"

XxxxX

College is here and I'm dying slowly yeeey!

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