I.

Gogo pushed her bike along the line of trees dotting the bay, towards the path that would lead her out of the city.

She took one last time over at the place that had regained order but was still so quiet and desolate.

Sighing quietly to herself, the girl threw her leg over the middle and started to run her fingers down the side cylinder to select what level she wanted.

Gogo knew she only had a few moments left before RRC HQ would descend upon her, when she felt a hand take her arm.

"Is this really what you're going to do?"

She heard a voice stronger than her own.

"I've done enough," Gogo said without looking back.

"You really think that they can do this without you? That they don't need you anymore?"

Her head jerked forward. "After everything-"

"Nothing matters more than your friends!"

"I know."

"NOTHING is more important than their love."

"I *know*."

The voice sounded so familiar to Gogo; she had heard it all her life…

"There is NOTHING that they won't do for you."

"I-"

When Gogo turned around, nothing but cool air was behind her. The new day was upon her.

She blinked in realization.

What was she doing?

Gogo spun around on her Magna bike and sped back to the city.

Il.

Mei sat watching patiently as her son ran about the inside of the moving microbots.

"Mama, this is so cool! You were right about the bad guys not being the real bad guys."

His mother gave him a nervous nod. "I'm glad, baby."

"Hey, remember the final battle at the portal?"

"Huany, honey, I'd rather not remember how you were almost sucked into the portal okay?"

"NOOO. I mean, before the time Hiro saved me from it...the first time it opened up!"

He ran about as he recanted the story he knew by heart; his mother smiled as he recalled bit by bit from memory.

" … And then Uncle Bi and Aunt Hon Bun moved in, while Freddie and Gogo took point at the middle, and…"

He noticed his mother looked a little downcast and came over to her, to which she looked up only when he laid a hand on her cheek.

"Sorry, baby, I'm just thinking of our family... I'm just hoping they're all okay."

She tried to muffle her wavery voice with her arm, but her young son caught her wrist in his other hand.

"Everything will be okay, Mama," Huan looked up to her, his eyes like two warm, little suns. "Everything will be okay, you'll see. It will all be all right," he patted her arm in a way that made her realize something…

"Okay, baby." She said with a quiet confidence.

When Mei started to smile, he beamed and went right back to his little play session which of course he meant very seriously.

"And Beemax and Hiro circled around, making one final an aerial dive to stop…"

She listened more intently now.

When.

Quite suddenly, the two were being lowered down a bit in soft, bright sunlight streaming all about them.

It was in the early mists of morning from the harbor that they realized they had been taken out into the forest.

From the fast-moving mass, Mei looked over at her child and fought hard to keep the slight tremble from her voice.

"Baby, are you scared?"

To his little ears, it sounded quite natural and he noticed from within the pressure just tight enough to keep him secure that there was an almost rhythm to the way the bots whirled around him.

"No, I'm not scared," He said, almost casually, but quiet wonder was in his eyes.

He removed his glove and placed his hand on the swirling, swerving…

"It's cool… and smooth."

Huan looked up curiously at the one who was lowering him down now.

"Are these the original?" He asked.

His mother bit her lip.

The masked man looked back at him, then forward swiftly. "The original set were lost in the fire… mostly."

Huan nodded solemnly. "The one that makes Heero sad," he let his fingertips be moved about the edges. "It's like water."

Suddenly, the boy and his mother saw a figure moving inside of the moving parts.

A large, round thing appeared in the black as well and Huan watched curiously as the familiar figure circled about and blasted down, performing the moves he knew best on the black forces coming up at them.

"Heero! Beemax!"

Somehow, where they were going felt very near but Huan could not look away.

His Hiro and Beemax were suddenly caught and he gasped and urged them on.

A brief pause and the boy saw that the figure below had run out of black forces to send up at them.

He grinned widely as his heroes broke from their binds and than HIS Beemax streamed down in a heroic rocket fist to the-

"Hasaki!" Huan heard his mother scream.

"Mama," the boy called out to her.

The two were lowered down to the ground where they were gently deposited and Mei let her face fall into her hands.

She wept.

"My daddy…" the girl cried. "My father!"

The little boy had run up to her and was pulling on her arms when before them a new group of unfamiliar people stood in black. Mei stood with her son, a trembling, tired little girl.

"Well," Huan managed. "I guess we found the Resistance."

…

Having gone through the ration - ransacked turbine, currently adrift in the harbor, and knowing it would be the last place they would look for her, Gogo rummaged the fridge in her cousins' room.

"I don't know why the boy says he doesn't like Ginseng," She said as she zapped some ramen in the microwave, downing the can quickly.

The girl sighed, lonely, missing her friends so much as she-

She gasped as the refrigerator door slammed closed and Ji-Min stared down at her with all the reason and audacity she had been capable of at one time.

"You're either really nuts to come back here or really desperate."

She looked away. "I got hungry," Gogo reached inside of the microwave-

"How about the little boy you tried to abduct last night? Do you think HE had anything to eat all night?"

She blinked wildly. "No, but Baymax-"

"Yeah, about that. Did you know technically the best friend you tried to electrocute had legit citizenship?"

Gogo, shaking like she was just awakening from some horrific dream, slowly fell-

"Oh, no, you're gonna hear this, cousin." He pulled her easily to her feet. "Baymax and Fred's dad are out there looking for you right. now."

When the teenager met his eyes it was with the same look of horror that had been in the man's eyes last night when she had fled from the chopper.

Ji-Min was moderately convinced that his cousin was finally getting a grip on things.

"That's a start," he sat down with her on the bed. "Did you also know that your other friends Wasabi and Honey are coming back; I wouldn't be surprised if they're not in the city right now."

When his little cousin met his eyes again, it was finally with a fear of what their reaction might be over what she had done; the tears that were in her eyes-

"That's better," He nodded once in approval, tears in his own eyes, "It's a *start*."

Surprisingly, Gogo suddenly went into his arms... and allowed herself to be comforted.

"There." Ji-Min patted her back… and felt the weight fall off his sister's shoulders. "There."

"Everyone's safe," she pulled back and met his gentle eyes. Eyes… no doubt softened by her friends. Her own eyes…

Ji-Min sighed sadly, holding her at arm's length. "That doesn't mean they're not gonna fight," he told her. Gogo sighed shakily.

"I have to fight, too, with my friends."

He was rational.

"Are they, Leik?"

She considered his words.

"Whether they are or not, I have a duty to stand with them."

The Gogo that looked at him was the voice of truth, of justice, "I have a responsibility to protect them… even if I don't have the right."

She handed him the cup of noodles and was about to leave when.

A fist.

Ji-Min smiled.

Gogo smiled back faintly, tapped his fist, and took off.

"Ba-lalalala," She said as she slipped her helmet on - God, how she hated black - and went to be where she was needed.

…

Huan and his mother blinked each other uncertainly as one of the Resistance members came over; palms out towards them in a soothing manner.

Huan looked at the person in question and his eyes lit up. "Hiro!"

His mother watched as the little boy ran into his big cousin's outstretched arms and came over herself.

…

Huan was so excited as he ran right into Hiro's arms and felt his cousin hold him with more strength than he had last time.

"Hey buddy!" His eyes lit up as he grinned so wide and Huan was reminded of the time Hiro and Baymax had gotten back together in the park.

"Hiro, where's Beemax? Are you guys talking again now?"

Something like a wounded look flashed in Hiro's eyes when suddenly he turned to his mother coming over.

"So," Hiro smiled a little. "I see you and Huan have been busy."

"Yeah, it kind of got that way," she smiled back.

Hiro nodded in understanding and suddenly a presence behind them that was big made them turn.

"I don't believe it! Hiro, you never told me you had a girlfriend."

"A… a WHAT?"

Yama was thrilled. "Oh! This is much healthier than dating your brother's robot. Hey everyone! LOOK over here, Zero's got himself a real girlfriend."

"Yama…"

"And not just any girlfriend," the man reached over and took her hand, then proceeded to kiss it lightly... to which Mei could not form a proper response. "But one who has defeated a most valiant of foes; wearing the armor of a fallen hero!"

Mei looked down at the cracked yellow suit she was still wearing.

"Uh, actually…"

"Yama, Mei is my cousin." Hiro said flatly.

"Oh, well, you wouldn't want to date your cousin." The man said with some disappointment in his eyes. "That wouldn't be healthy, either."

Hiro smacked himself in the face and glanced guiltily up at Mei. "We're going to have to talk later…"

"Don't worry, Hiro, I'll fix this little girl up..."

"Yama!"

"Over here! This little girl needs a boyfriend." he pointed down at Mei.

Huan pulled Hiro over towards him. "Hiro, Hiro! I know the secret."

" 'The secret' ?" Hiro knelt down to him.

Huan kept his voice low. "Superheroes are normal people," the boys said excitedly.

"Yeah, you're right," Hiro nodded off to the side.

"Superheroes are just normal people."

"YEAH."

"Is that the secret?" Hiro raised an eyebrow at him, smiling a little.

Huan was caught.

"You were right," Huan looked down at his suit.

"I am sometimes," Hiro shrugged.

"I have an even bigger secret though."

"Yeah, what's that?" He leaned down, humoring.

But Huan was a boy of ideas.

"Normal people are superheroes."

"Uh… WHAT?" Hiro snapped to attention.

He felt a little guilt for undermining him.

" I figured it out all on my own! Superheroes are normal people and normal people are superheroes "

"Well, yeah, but-"

"I'm a superhero now! You're a superhero how." Huan was dancing everywhere until he came across Yama's right hand woman "You're a superhero."

"Me?! I'm not a hero..."

"Not the Hiro, A hero."

"I'm a hero?" She blinked. "Thanks."

"Hey, where's my *cousin* Hiro?"

"Saw him heading over that way," she indicated with her chopsticks in her slim black shawl. "He goes off all the time by himself; he could use a little guy like you to cheer him up..."

Realizing Huan had a duty all his own, he scrambled off to find his big cousin.

…

Hiro sat looking out at the city, depressed and wondering…

The momentary relief he had experienced when Mei and Huan had come was gone and he clutched at his chest where it throbbed and ached.

He heard little footsteps running up behind him, a silly giggle and then the little boy had jumped out.

"You want to talk about superhero teams?"

"Not right now, buddy." Hiro never moved his eyes away from the tall pines and the sun starting to rise, breaking the mists away.

"Oh," Huan fell to his little bottom and then jumped right back up. "Ba lalalalala," he jumped to the other side. "Ba la la la," he made flapping motions with his hands to his head. "ba-lalalala!"

"That's enough buddy," Hiro got up, almost fluidly.

"But Hiro-"

"I got to go check something," he said as he ruffled Huan's head and for the first time in Huan's life he felt like he was being treated like a little cousin.

The toddler watched Hiro start to move away when he started singing softly.

"We could be immortal, immortal if only for…"

Hiro had stopped but he didn't look back.

Tears slowly collecting in Huan's eyes.

"If only for a while…"

The teenager turned him, slowly smiling.

"We could be immoorrrrtal Immortal," they sang together, coming closer, "if only for a while."

"Immortal," Hiro chorused loudly and Huan giggled as he sat back down and then he rested his head against one of his best friends. "Immortal…"

Huan looked up into his eyes. "When is it team going to get back together?"

A chill coursed inside of Hiro.

"You mean," his mouth went dry. "When are me and Beemax going to be together again?"

Huan nodded quietly.

Struggle was in Hiro's eyes. "I've tried everything, Huany, so what do you do when you've run out of all other options…?"

"You try again," the boy suggested.

"Right! But I've tried being on the good side, the bad side, now I'm on the in between side...if there was a way around this, I would have found it by now."

Hiro looked down, letting his bangs cover his eyes. "The only option there seems to be left is to… to fight."

A little hand laid against his chest.

Hiro looked up instantly.

Something perfectly reasonable, something perfectly, wonderfully simple, was in Huan's eyes as he reached over and patted his little chest.

Hiro blinked in memory and saw his little cousin smile, almost grin, before he nodded and slipped off his cousin's lap to run off find his mother.

Knitting his brow, Hiro patted his heart again and cringed.

No…

It could never be.

He placed his face in his hands as the only option left loomed over him.

ll.

Already getting into the feel of their roles again - and, to be honest, a few rolls was definitely what they were dealing with - Wasabi and Honey moved fast to the forest.

"Everyone signals are in some other direction," he looked over at her.

"Let's not split up," Was Honey's suggestion "We'll pick up everyone one by one and-"

They suddenly saw a little figure speeding through the sky…

"Wait, what's...?"

"Is that?!"

"Uncle B! Aunt Hon Bun!" An excited little voice called out and then was barrelling towards them.

With Huan coming, Wasabi assumed the position of a linebacker and Honey unsuccessfully tried to copy him when the little boy rammed into his aunt and uncle.

"Muho!" Honey cried and trilled to the little boy in Spanish as she cuddled him close.

"Muy adore, Tia Hon Bun," he told her.

"Huany, buddy," Wasabi picked him up and looked down into his eyes gravely. "Where are you going? And where's your mother?!"

As usual, it was always Baymax and Wasabi who always had the most effect on the boy when it came to making him think.

"Oh, Mama doesn't know that I'm gone but it's okay! I was going to see Beemax."

"Beemax?! But what about 'Hiro."

He was a little sharper than she remembered. "I just got done seeing him, Auntie, and now I want to go see my Beemax."

Wasabi and Honey shared looks that weren't promising.

"Baymax and Hiro arent together?" Bi guessed.

Huan looked away. "They're just being silly right now..."

Wasabi was on it in a moment. " Buddy," he hugged him close. "It's all going to be okay if I have to clean up this mess myself." The man's sudden anger seemed aimed at a few, personal targets.

"You leave everything to us now, honey," Honey Lemon reached out and stroked his little head before sharing another look with Wasabi. "Where's Gogo and Fred?"

"I don't know," he said quietly.

"This changes things," Honey said. "You go find Hiro, Bi, and take Huany to Mei; I'll go find Max."

"I'll come with you!" Huan grasped her hands.

"Baby, you probably need to go back to your mother."

"I REALLY need to see Beemax," He met her eyes with nothing but truth.

"I know, baby."

Wasabi patted his little arm as he broke out into small sniffles. "Go see your Beemax, buddy, we'll see you soon." He and Honey met eyes again and it was in knowledge in realization.

And Huan did not know what this meant as he was taken to go see his Beemax…

…

The man's high-pitched scream as he flew upside down and was dangling by a CF rope from the trees was heard throughout the forest.

"Sorry, Bi, couldn't be sure you weren't one of our many enemies," Hiro pulled down his black mask and grinned at him.

The look Wasabi sent him immediately made look down at his unlaced boots... It was a loaded with a thousand words.

"Wasabi! Huan?" Mei prompted him, having received his text.

"Perfectly safe, he's going with Honey to see Baymax right now."

"The RRC Disband," Hiro said emotionlessly and laser cut his friend down to which he fell in an undignified heap.

"Okay, little man," Wasabi got to his feet quickly and reached out for him to pull him close... but it was in such a way as to hold him accountable. "About all this Disband and Resistance nonsense..."

"What about it?" Hiro met his eyes, keeping his voice steady. "It was inevitable."

Wasabi gauged him. "Was it really?" he said, his black brows lowering dangerously over his eyes.

Hiro felt something summoned inside of him... he was too weak to fight with another friend. "Bi, Aunt Cass isn't even my real aunt, our team isn't together anymore and Baymax…"

"Your best friend," Mei touched his shoulder.

Wasabi caught him about the arm and whirled him around with a jerk. "Your BEST friend," he nailed it right into Hiro's very being.

The boy rebelled emptily.

"My Maxie is GONE."

"No," Wasabi put it very clearly for him. "You were gone the moment you decided not to stand up for him that day on the roof... And you've been trying to justify your abandonment of our buddy ever since," his eyes watered, his voice cracked. "Of OUR best friend."

Hiro trembled. Wasabi backed away from him, shaking his head in absolute disbelief.

"Baymax and Gogo aren't the ones who forgot about Tadashi, Hiro, you did."

The boy started to back away from him "I was trying..."

Hiro knew that this is what Baymax had been trying to tell him all along.

Wasabi was calm and he never looked away from him. "I told you one time to come back to us when you found your heart again."

The man shook his head as Hiro recalled vividly the time he had almost disbanded the team himself.

"I think that time has passed, buddy," Wasabi told him and dashed off.

Hiro, looking down at the white helmet suddenly in his hands, slowly placed it on his head and walked back to the Resistance who were ready to go now.

...

The former escape pods has served their purpose for the former Care Bots working with Ji-Min and Baymax, having successfully taken control of them, and they were now in an airfield ready to face the new wave of Resistance members.

"We must do what we can to help them," he said in his suit at the front.

"Even if that means having to face them in battle?" Ji's voice emitted.

"I believe it will be more of an apprehension and the prevention of further injury and damage to the city."

"Right," the man sighed. Baymax viewed to cityscape with his long-range scanner.

"Gogo, Hiro, Fred, Wasabi and Honey are all here in the city; we will help them just like the others."

"The way you're thinking is kind of different..."

Baymax could not deny this as he looked down at his suit when suddenly he saw someone running towards him... for a moment, he really couldn't believe what he saw and then a suited Huan was running right up to him and the other clones looking down.

It could not be denied that the formation of suited beings was one of a fairly intimidating assembly, a robotic army of justice notwithstanding, but the little boy knew exactly who he was running to and he did not for a moment show a fear in anything.

"Huany," Baymax almost sighed in a soft whir when he saw the little boy coming toward him and picked him up instantly, cradling of him close in his arms and watched as pink-swatched suit was smiling as they came forward.

"Honey-Lemon," He tried to make his voice automated.

Tried not to scare her off...

The look she gave him was one of love, sadness and longing.

Something inside of him hesitated, something deep inside of his very being and seemed almost for a moment to overwhelm him when he felt a little hand touch him on the chest.

"It's okay, Beemax, we're going to be a team again!" Huan said up to him, patting him where his chip had once been.

The botman blinked recalling an entire night not having it is chipmate Cradle to his chest

"I do not believe it is that simple, Huany."

"Of course it is!" Huan said and then he climbed out of be Max's arms. "But... until then," He assumed a heroic pose. "I, Huan, will be the new leader at Big Hero 6!"

Baymax blinked to him and suddenly he was chuckling in his bell tone, snuggling little boy close to his helmet. The boy himself was laughing, too, clutching onto him and saying how he could be Baymax's sidekick or Baymax could be his sidekick and then Honey came over to both of them.

"You DO have a cool laugh, Beemax!"

"Baymax," the girl entreated, looking at her friend.

"Honey-Lemon," Baymax reached out to her in gentle voice and pulled her into his arms and suddenly she broke out into tears, sobbing against his chest when she felt the wounded soul tear into her own heart.

"It was wrong to leave you all!" she exclaimed."

"Everything will be all right," He said as he set her down. But, she thought she was talking to someone else who was Baymax but was not. "I will take care of things," now he patted her shoulder.

"Let me help you," she touched his arms.

He blinked at her.

"Let me help you."

Baymax lowered his shoulders. "The time for that has past," he told her gently, moving her long hair behind her shoulder and then he put the little boy in her arms. Huan protested in a near wail.

"Stay with your Aunt Honey," Baymax told him, for the first time in Huan's life denying him.

For his own safety.

"BAYMAX-" Honey tried again.

They watched as Baymax blasted into the sky and the aerial thrust pushed them back a step as the botman lead them all away.

...

"How do you want to handle this?" Jinsu's top advisor asked when he'd regained consciousness.

"Fortunately, I'm not one of those watch-them-destroy themselves-types. Get ready to move in."

...

In the middle of the city the Resistance marched on, led by the two members who were the most active in bringing everything together. At any other time, Hiro would never have believed this was possible but now he and Yama walked side-by-side with villains, citizens and even allies alike.

The Baymax clones landed before them, surprisingly organized, and surprisingly suited... Hiro saw they were all in his Baymax 2.0 designs (it figured) and this made him clench his fist and raise it up in the air.

"Let's do this he!" He shouted.

"Let's take back our lives!" Yama struck up his fist as well and cheers rang out.

"You really ought to looking into copyrights after this is over with," Someone said to Hiro.

"Hiro?" A voice he knew to his core spoke.

It was with shock when the boy turned back around to find who was on the other side of the dividing lines. Baymax blinked at him in disbelief even though it shouldn't be surprising...

"Just a heads up," a villaness girl came up beside him, "All those happen to be the former Care Bots; just thought you ought to know before going head-first into kill mode."

All Hiro could recall in his head was Wasabi's last words to him,

That time has passed.

To be continued...