Gogo groaned and turned over. It was too early. She was never a morning person and the others at the nerd lab could atest to that.

"How you manage to sleep in and still be on time for class is beyond me Gogo. Are you half Yokai or something?" He used to joke as he always met her at the gates on his moped and her on her bike.

If she ever saw him again in the after life...she was going to kick his ass.

"...Gogo...You have a really hard head." Wasabi murmered, yawning.

"Shut up. I'm comfortable." The speed demon replied.

They all got convinced by Aunt Cass to stay the night. They were all too exhausted to argue anyway.

At least it was Saturday.

"...He is...Tadashi?"

Honey Lemon let out a yawn and rubbed her eyes while groping for her glasses.

"You're up already?"

Piper held the blanket tight around her. The three college students shared the couch, Fred got the floor (he didn't complain), and Piper got the recliner while Baymax got Hiro upstairs to his bed and the robot's charger.

Wasabi raised his head and looked to where Piper was pointing. It was Tadashi's effigy photo.

"...How do you-"

"I told her." Honey replied getting off Wasabi's shoulder and stretching after she found her glasses.

"Yep...That's him."

Piper held the blanket around her as she sat down on the ground, looking at the picture.

"...He looks nice."

"Didn't have a negative bone in his body." Wasabi replied, stretching his asleep arm and giving it a good pop.

"Alright, Gogo off. I want full use of my legs."

The speed demon grumbled and got up, checking her phone.

"Come on, 7 AM on a saturday? Some of us like to sleep in."

"Well you are not sleeping in on me." Wasabi countered as Honey got up to join Piper.

"Even when dealing with all of us, he had the patience of a saint." The chemist said sitting down.

"Always wondered what'd he think if he ever saw us being super heroes."

"Probably something along the lines of "Are you insane!"." Gogo commented, popping her neck.

"Yeah, that sounds like something he would say. Especially to Hiro." Wasabi added.

"Well, that's because he's protective about Hiro, they are brothers. Oh!"

Honey Lemon pulled out her phone.

"Probably just tía calling. You know how parents are about weddings. One sec. Hello?"

Then she heard a voice that made her blood run cold.

"Miss Rodríguez, listen to me. I do not have much time."

"...Professor Callaghan?"

"Yes! Now listen! I cannot follow this man in good faith. He needs to be stopped. The way...the way he has been treating his own child...We are here on Akuma Island. You have to hurry. I know what I have done is wrong and that you are all still angry, but I am not lying to you. He had me work on these interfaces, make them into mind control devices."

"Mind control?"

"Yes. He said that they were originally created by his son to try to find a "cure" for his abilities. But he's using them on both him and..." Callaghan paused.

"What do you mean by a "cure?" Who's "he"?" Honey Lemon tried to ask.

"No time to explain. As I said, we are on Akuma Island. Please, hurry!" With that, the call ended.

"What happened?" Wasabi asked, noticing her confused expression.

Honey didn't seem to hear, as she tried to figure out what Callaghan just told her. What stuck out to her the most was how "the interfaces were being used to originally find a cure," but for what abilities? Then it hit her. The last time she heard something like that was from...

"Connor!" She shouted, drawing everyone's attention to her. It was also loud enough to wake up Fred, and probably Hiro as well.

"What about Con?" Piper asked quickly.

"He's on Akuma Island!"

"Slow down, Honey. What do you mean he's there? And how do you even know?" Gogo asked, concerned.

"The call. It was-" Honey started.

"What's going on?"

The group looked to see Hiro coming down, with Baymax right behind him.

"I was just called by, well... It was Callaghan." Honey answered.

Eveyone went silent, except Hiro.

"WHAT?!"

"Where is it?" Piper asked, standing up.

"It's off the coast of the city." Wasabi answered instead.

"Good, shouldn't be too far for my hover skates."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, take a chill pill, Piper! This has to be a trap!" Wasabi shouted, grabbing the edge of the blanket Piper still had around her.

"No! Con needs me!" Piper snapped back, trying to get away.

"Guys, that's Aunt Cass' favorite blanket!" Hiro yelled at the two.

"...Dude, way too early for this." Fred groaned.

"Well, sounds like I don't have to see if anyone's still asleep." A voice, Cass', called up.

"Anyone want breakfast?" She asked.

"That would be great, Aunt Cass!" Hiro called back.

"A proper breakfast is a cornerstone of everything, even her-"

"That would be lovely Miss Hamada." Honey Lemon called, interrupting Baymax.

"Breakfast?" Fred asked, raising his head at full attention, his mouth covered in drool.

"Of course he would wake at the mention of food." Wasabi muttered.

"So... I see prison didn't break your morals, professor." The man in the armor commented as the call ended.

"No, I suppose it hasn't." Callaghan replied as he got up from the compter, keeping his back to the man.

"Then say it to my face." Damian growled.

"This is wrong, Hawkings. To be doing this, just so you can have vengence." The professor stated, turned to look at the man, hands behind his back.

"And yet, you've gone to lengths to try to get vengence yourself, Callighan?" Damian asked.

"Not by using my own child!" The former professor yelled.

"He is out of his mind. He has been poisoned against me." The elder Hawkings spat.

"That doesn't justify any of this!" Callaghan shouted.

"Stark took my wife with weapons, and took my son out of pure spite! He deserves to die!" Damian yelled back.

"He took your son in because everyone, including him, thought you were dead. How can you say that it's spite?"

"I gave you freedom, and you're questioning me?" The thief in armor asked dangerously, grabbing a hold of the professor's orange jumpsuit.

"You have to see reason, Hawkings. Not only are you using your own son, but even one of my students, and he has nothing to do with any of this!"

"Not after he shares the name of that leader from this town's... Podunk hero team. I need more to my cause, Callighan. The Avengers will most likely join Stark... But they'd never hurt innocents."

"You've gone completely mad." Callighan whispered as he was dropped, leaning back on the computer console.

"Mad? I'm angry at the injustice, but certainly not mad."

The former professor shook his head.

"There's no possible way to try to convince you to stop all of this, is there?" He simply asked.

In response, Damian raised a repulser.

"If you aren't with me, you're against me, you fool." He said.

"I'm a former professor of some of the brightest young minds in the world... I know when to have a backup plan." Callaghan responded.

From behind him, a mass of microbots quickly flew in, and straight at Damian as Callaghan produced a mask and put it on his face.

"What the!" Damian shouted as he sent repulser after repusler blast at the swarm.

"Now to get those boys out of here."

Callaghan ran out and down the hall to find them.

"I have to...fight this..." Connor kept repeating to himself, still curled up. The headband simply pulsed harder and the white noise in his ears grew louder. The tears were free flowing now. His father was mad. He was geniuenly crazy. Stark was not the most subtle of people, but he had never harmed a single innocent soul directly with the armor. He's seen him in action, he's never harmed a living soul, maybe caused a few headaches especially with that really really stupid party he had in the damn thing, but it was nothing but inconvience and property damage.

Despite the white noise in his ears, he could faintly hear the door to his cell open. He froze. Hurried footsteps got closer, but it was quickly tuned out by the white noise. No, he was losing control again!

He felt a hand on his head, and all of a sudden, the white noise completely stopped. It was like he could breath after being underwater for so long. It was followed by a crunch of metal of Callaghan destroying the band with his foot.

"Boy, you need to listen to me. You and Tadashi need to get out of here!"

"Wh... What?" The telekentic disorented as his eyes finally began to truely see again.

"Damnit, the collar! I forgot about it! Listen, we have at most, three mintues tops. Young man, you have to get yourself and him out of here."

The weight from his throat was lifted as well and flung to another part of the cell.

"I don't even want to think about where he found those damnable things. Come on. I know you're scared, but going into shock is not going to help us in anyway shape or form."

Connor quickly, but carefully, got up, still feeling a bit weak from the "disclipline". His brain felt like it went through a blender and his throat felt hoarse from the screaming.

"Okay, that's it. Floor is not going to bite you. Do you remember your name?"

"C... Connor..." He replied as he slipped and stumbled off the bed, not trusting his neck enough not to give out of him to glance up at his rescuer. He didn't recognize the voice and it certainly wasn't his father having a change of heart.

"Good...I will admit, your techonology is world class. If I was teaching still, I think you would be on my top favorites, but we don't have time. Do you think you can walk, but you are going to have to run.

"I-I think so."

He finally looked up and backed away slightly from the masked man.

"I cannot take this off right now. It's the only thing keeping your father busy. Now quickly, we need to get to Tadashi."

"Tadashi...the student that died in the fire...Wait...You're that prof-"

"I'd love to have a lecture right now on physics but right now we don't have time!" The former professor snapped back.

"I have my standards, low as they may be. I could not stand by when my student and you were being tortured in order to conform to his ideals."

He grabbed Connor by the crux of his arm and they both rushed out of the cell.

"We need to get to the medical bay. The microbots are tough, but they aren't indestructable."

Connor tried his best to keep up with the man, but his body just didn't seem to want to work with him.

"S-slow down... I-it hurts..." Connor tried to say.

"We don't have time. I unfortunately made a lot more. He'll just put you under again. We need to keep going."

Even though he was still in pain, the thought of having to go through all of it again was enough for him to push his limits before they stopped at a set of double steel doors.

"Quickly in. The doors were meant to protect from explosions." Callaghan ordered pressing the button to open the doors.

As soon as the doors opened, the two quickly ran inside.

It was a medical bay. Dust covered most everything and it looked like it hadn't been used in quite some time. Instead of beds there were pods of some sort, each of them enclosed by glass.

"Farthest one. He hasn't had the chance to place it on his head yet. You've been his priority."

Connor moved to the farthest pod and saw that it was indeed occupied.

"That's... Tadashi?"

Behind the glass of the only lit pod was a male. He was older than Connor by several years with black hair. There was no denying he had been in a fire. There were 3rd degree burns on his arms and neck from what he could see. His breathing was slow and even, barely there if he didn't hear the oxygen pump, he would've sworn he wasn't breathing period.

Suspended Animation.

"How long has he been like this?"

"6 months." Callaghan answered, walking up next to him.

"Got him out before the entire building collasped...He threw a wrench in my plans but I wasn't going to kill him for being in the wrong place at the wrong time...He is one of the brightest and most determined students I've ever had. I could never snuff out that candle. He had too much to offer."

The former professor went to the front of the pod and started to type into the console.

"There is a back door that goes to a cave that we used to use to get equipment and personnel without the city becoming suspicious to our activites. I have a boat there. Both of you need to take it and get out of here while I distract him. It hasn't run since I was incarcerated, but you two are resourceful, you can handle it."

"O... Okay."

Connor sat down on one of the opened pod beds as Callaghan continued his work.

"How are you holding up? Any adverse effects?"

"Everything still hurts... But I think I can keep it together long enough to get out of here..." The telekentic answered.

"Most likely your nerves are trying to get back control of your body...and there. He'll be coming out of it any second."

Callaghan then pulled out a phone and pressed it into Connor's hand.

"I'll keep him busy long enough for your escape...go and use that brain for good. You gotta gift. It's time to use it."

He tapped the telekentic on the forehead with a finger.

"...And tell them all...I'm proud of them."

Connor simply nodded.

"Cabinet on the far side will get you to the enterance to the cave system...Good luck."

Callaghan then rushed to the blast doors and slammed them open. Just then the young man in the pod began to stir.

"...Where...am I?"

Connor quickly moved to the pod.

"Tadashi?"

He looked up at him with barely open eyes.

"...Who...are you?...The fire...my brother..."

"I'm Connor... And we need to get out of here."