AN: This is it, guys! The moment we've all been waiting for! Enjoy this chapter!
Hiro woke with a throbbing headache and an aching chest, his thoughts blurred and his heart poundimg. He was freezing, and everything was dark, except for a small candle burning a few feet away.
On instinct, Hiro tried to move towards the heat, but he was jerked back by his ankle, a chain wrapped around his foot and holding him to the wall. He groaned, trying to pull free, feeling blood well beneath the tight shackle.
"It's no use, Hiro." A soft whisper echoed around the room, and he looked around, seeing the dark shape of-
"Gogo!" He gasped out, looking at her from across the room. She wasn't chained up, much to his confusion.
"What's going on?" He asked, and she sighed, her face illuminated only enough to reveal the expression of contempt. She glanced to the corner of the room, where another dark shape was huddled, shaking.
"Tadashi?" Hiro asked, sitting back against the wall. The shape moved, coming towards the light.
The man was tired, aged looking, wounds littered about his body. And Hiro wanted to kill him.
"You let her kill Baymax. You let her." He spat, and Tadashi winced.
"I didn't want to-"
"He couldn't help it, Hiro, none of us can!" Hiro turned as he heard Honey Lemon's voice, followed by a grunt from Wasabi, who sat beside her.
"What... why is she-" Hiro started, but Gogo shook her head.
"She's made us into fighting bots."
"What?"
"She's... Altering us. She's calling it upgrading, but it's really called cruelty." She replied, rubbing the back of her neck, feeling the metal plate on the base of her spine. Hiro couldn't help but feel on his neck for one, relieved when he felt nothing.
Tadashi stepped closer to Hiro hesitantly, swallowing hard.
"Hiro... I'm so sorry. I... I let this happen to everyone. This is my fault." He whispered, sliding to the floor beside him. Hiro looked up, rubbing his jaw.
"Did she get Aunt Cass? Fred?"
Gogo sighed. "We got Fred, but she didn't want Cass." She answered and Hiro swallowed hard, trying to think of a way out.
"How are we...?"
"We don't know. We've tried everything, but she... She controls us." Honey said softly.
"I... I'll get us out. I promise, I'm gonna fix this mess." Hiro said, and Tadashi placed a gentle hand on his shoulder.
"We can help. We can fight."
"Yeah, but she has control over your minds." Hiro replied, looking around at the rag tag group of kids.
That's all they were, really. Kids. Just... geniuses with computers. Now, they were gonna have to duke this one out like normal human beings. No computers, no robots, just strength and common sense. Instinct.
"Why aren't you guys restrained too?" Hiro asked, and Tadashi frowned, looking at his brother's ankle with a concerned expression.
"She's coming!" Wasabi's whisper broke through the gloom, and Tadashi leaped to his feet, standing in front of Hiro protectively.
The metal door opened slowly, grinding against the floor with a screech as it did. Hiro winced, trying to see around his brother's legs, but Tadashi was unmoving, like a sentry, and Hiro noticed that the others were all similar.
There was a sound of scuffling, then a dull thud as someone was thrown into the room.
Fred.
Hiro gaped, and there were footsteps coming from behind the door, then a pair of legs could be seen just in front of his brother.
"Tadashi, move. I'd like to see our treasured guest." The woman's voice was sweet with venom, and Tadashi moved aside as he was told.
The woman was slender, her hair pulled back into a ponytail and a red dress decorated her body.
"Oh my g-" Hiro trailed off, staring up at her. How was this possible? The woman taking his friends away, hurting them, destroying things...
Was Abigail Callaghan.