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Chapter 31: A Lie
Day 1
The whole team spent the following day planning all the stops and little surprises that Hiro got stored for Akage. They were at the garage watching a young boy storm from side to side trying to fix everything, anxious, and happy for Akage's birthday that will end up being the next day.
HIRO
"OK…!" He almost shouted to gain everybody's attention. All of the team sighed, they understood why the boy was acting weird but this has been the 7th time they have gone through all the details of the plan.
"Hiro…" Fred said complaining. "What now? We KNOW what we have to do!"
"I just… I want to be sure that we have everything covered!" Hiro said stopping at the center of the garage looking at all of them pleading for help.
"Relax Hiro…!" HL said standing up and walking closer to the boy. "Everything will be alright! You can trust in us right guys?" HL said questioning the boy but more as a concealed acknowledgement for the others. "RIGHT?" she raised her voice a little after realizing that the others never answered.
"Oh… yeah!" Gogo said simply sitting on the couch after popping her gum.
"Of course!" Wasabi said a little embarrassed.
"YEAH!" And Fred… well… he jumped of the couch throwing a punch at the air full excitement.
Sigh… "Now what?" Hiro asked confidence back to normal… or so it seemed.
"Actually…" Gogo said getting everybody's attention. "Tonight is movie night." She said sitting straight.
"Good idea!" HL said clapping and hugged Gogo with a smile. Gogo just huffed and popped another bubble gum.
"Okay then…" Hiro said walking towards his desk. He pressed a button on the wall that was right beside it and suddenly, the doors of the garage closed.
"Gogo could you please do me a favor?" Hiro said while grabbing a box from under the desk. She just raised her head and turned to look at him. "Upstairs, below to the right of my desk, there is a white transparent box. That box contains all the movies…" Hiro stopped to see if Gogo caught every direction.
"Sure! I'll be right back." Gogo said jumping out of the couch and started walking towards the door that lead into the house but was stopped by Hiro's words.
"Thanks!" Hiro said with a smile. She half turned her head, smiled, made a salute with her right hand and stormed to Hiro's room.
"Why her? Wouldn't it be a better task for a man to go into another man's room?" Fred asked.
"Well… She will, most likely, to do it as fast as she can so… that will save us time." Hiro replied trying to come up with a proper answer.
"True… Now, how are we going to watch the movie?" Fred said changing topic.
"Well, I bought a projector so we could watch movies down here." Hiro said setting up a little table and bringing with him all kinds of cables, a white 'box' and a DVD player.
"Could you guys help me with this?"
"Sure!" The three of them said at the same time and started setting up everything.
GOGO
The purple streaked girl closed the door behind her and, like a race, she ran towards the room of the boy. Climbing the stairs by two, she went through the second floor completely ignoring a woman that was sitting in a chair right in front of the TV caressing Mochi. She was right about to start climbing the stairs to the boy's room. She knew very well the room because this place was used two weeks ago as a changing room. As she entered the room the desk sat directly to her left.
Okay… he said that there was a white transparent box with the movies.
She turned to her left and started walking towards the messy corner. Apparently a civil war decided to explode on that specific part of the room. Books, papers, a green shirt, it was just a mess.
How can this knucklehead work in this place? My God! I maybe chaotic, but this is just... AHHH
And, as the boy said, to her lower right laid a white box labeled 'movies. She crouched and slowly with one hand on the bed as support started pulling the box towards her. The desk, unfortunately, moved too much and it caused the mouse to move turning on the screen. With a little jump, she stared at the glowing screen. It had the picture of Hiro and Akage in which Hiro was kissing her cheek with a bright smile. She lowered her head, breathed deeply and finished pulling the box out and placed it over the bed. She quickly glanced back again at the screen and turned off the computer not caring if there was a program running on the background.
She was about to turn around and, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a purple envelope. She took a glance at it and immediately felt the smell of the redhead's perfume. She stopped dead but her curiosity was bigger than her will and slowly, she opened the envelope, pulled out the white paper and read carefully every word written in calligraphy. (AN: if you want to remember the letter's content, please go back to chapter 26.)
Her hands went into full panic mode. With trembling hands, she placed the letter back into its envelope and stared blankly at the wall, fist clutched and tears were being fought back. Her mind was clouded because of the rage. It was not directed towards the boy or the other girl but all of her thoughts were going against herself.
Why was I so weak? I just needed to say back those words… I… I…
Unfortunately, her mind was too clouded. Unconsciously she reached for the golden necklace and tore it away from her neck breaking the joint that kept it hanging over her chest. Milliseconds after, with all her power, she punched the wall with all her strength. Suddenly she snapped back to reality too late. She felt a hot liquid pouring into her hand. Unknowingly, she opened her hand and then realized the sour outcome of her actions.
Oh… no… nonononono…
A tear escaped both of her eyes while, ignoring the pain, clutched her so loved and yet, cursed necklace stronger wishing that when she open her eyes again the necklace would be okay… but nothing. Quickly, she went to the bathroom and cleaned the wound. With some toilet paper, she improvised a bandage and then used her leather glove to hide the wound. She quickly grabbed the box and went downstairs to the garage.
"I'm back!"
"Wow… you really took your time!" Hiro said raising an eyebrow questioning the speed junkie.
"Sorry! I remembered that I have something to work on." Gogo said holding back the sorrow and the pain.
"Oh… So, you are not staying with us?" HL asked with a sad remark on her face.
"Sorry Honey Lemon but I'll make it up for you!" Gogo said setting the box in a little table that was to her right and quickly turned around closed the door and ran away.
"Well… That was weird. Should I… Should we…"Hiro said but was interrupted by HL.
"Nonononono…" HL rose from the couche waiving her hands at the boy and placed them over his shoulders. "Leave her alone! you know how she gets when she needs to work on something." Hiro nodded. With a sigh of realief, both sat down again. She unlocked her phone and texted Gogo.
I know you didn't forget something, specially a a project… You will either talk to me later or I'm going to spam you all night.
Spam then! It's not my phone bill
Day 2
The girl was sleeping soundly on her bed, wrapped like a burrito but her peace was short lived. Everybody knows that even if you are on a day off from college or work you will always end up waking early in the morning this day.
AKAGE
RING
RING
RING
The girl barely opened her eyes to take a look at the clock that was at the table right beside her.
7:00 AM
"Who the hell dares to call at this hour on a Sunday?" She silently cursed but still, whoever was calling at this hour it was definitely an emergency.
"Hello!" Her voice was so raspy that managed to impress the girl.
Honey is it you?
"Hiro… do you know what time is it?" Akage said struggling to open her eyes.
I know I know… I'm sorry! But we are going to train with the team and I will not be able to talk to you until later today. So I thought this would be the right time.
"Sweetie… Sigh… I really appreciate your thought but you know that the mere thought that I have you is enough for me!" Akage said rubbing her eyes and struggling to free herself from her blankets.
You are the best! Will I see those eyes later?
"OF COURSE! What did you think? I can't keep these two away from you!" Akage laughed at the boy and his question.
HAHAHA… Happy birthday sweetie and I really hope you enjoy this day to the fullest. I have something for you later today so don't do anything stupid!
"Since when do I do stupid things?" Akage asked raising an eyebrow
It's just an expression!
"Hiro…"
I… I… I'll talk to you later hun… We are about to enter the scrambler range soooo….
"Okay Love you!"
Love you too!
Akage hung up and went back to her bed but wasn't able to get more sleep. She silently cursed the boy and went to take a shower.
Due to the position of her room by 7:15 the sun was illuminating the whole room. Her room was painted in light green. Her room was neatly arranged not even a speck of dust could be found in it. The window was to the left of the bed. Due to the sun she had to move her desk to the darkest place of the room which was to the corner opposite her bed. On the corner between the window wall and her bed was a white table with the clock showing 7:30 AM.
Akage got dressed in a light blue blouse, black jeans and boots that barely made it half her lower part of her legs (AN: I don't know how they are called soooo…)
"I have to hand it to that boy… he is a keeper… sigh… I have a bad feeling about this day"
Ding Dong
The girl lazily went down to attend the front door but she only encountered another surprise.
"We have to go! And Now!" A figure was standing in front of the door wearing a mask that went up to the person's mouth, a beige cap, a matching jacket, black jeans and boots.
"For some reason I knew this was going to happen." Akage said in a monotone voice.
"Don't get cocky with me girl… Is he suspecting something?"
"Not at all…"
"Let's go then…"
"What about the brothers?"
"I have something for them… Call them!" Akage obeyed and immediately turned around.
"Guys! I need your help!" Akage yelled and her two brothers came rushing down the stairs.
"Good morning sis!" One of them said with a wide smile.
"Hi Kid! Why do you need help? I don't see anything here…!" Her older brother raised his head and looked at the figure. "…Who is…?" He was interrupted by the person standing in front of them. He entered the house and with a swift movement, two glowing orbs were sent to Akage's brothers, one for each of them.
Their eyes started to glow, one green and the other blue. They stood there like soldiers awaiting orders, looking intently at the figure.
"Now we just have to get their attention."
HIRO
"Love you too!" Hiro hung up the phone and sat down again.
The team was on the family chopper and was heading to their island HQ. They needed to train with their new armors. Even though they are made of Vibranium, which is extremely light, it was the first time dealing with metal. The chopper landed gracefully over the helipad where a man dressed in a black military like uniform was waiting patiently.
"Welcome back Big Hero 6! First of all I want to say thanks for saving my family on a fire not so long ago." The black man saluted proud of his job.
"You are welcome!" Hiro answered.
"Always glad to help!" HL said with a wide smile.
"Heathcliff notified the base that you were coming here to start training with your new armors. We have prepared everything for you. Could you please follow me? I will escort you to the training room." The man started walking and without asking, the team followed the man.
"Your armors have sensors that send notes to the 'eagle nest' where there is a specialized team recording all your results. I may also note that we took the liberty to paint the armors with the original colors instead of Gogo. I…" the man half turned around. "… I advised your armor to be painted gold."
The team spent most of the day training and getting used to the new outfit. Amazingly, even with the armors made of the strongest metal of the earth, they were perfectly designed giving them mobility and protection. Unfortunately, the fun was shortened by the alarm. Everybody stopped cold on their place, they weren't ready for this. Baymax has not been rebuilt yet and they were at the island.
"Uuhhmmm Hiro? What are we going to do?" HL asked a little scared but ready to take down some bad guys.
"We have to go there and stop them!" Hiro said with a cheerful and decided tone that made everybody calm down and focus on the present.
"We don't have Baymax with us!" Fred said bringing another topic to the discussion, and indeed, with the vacations Hiro haven't had enough time to work on the marshmallow.
"That is not entirely true!" Gogo said blushing while hiding a smile. Everybody turned to look at her and waited anxiously for her words.
"I was going to show it to you on your birthday but we never got the time!" Gogo said signaling to a couple of agents that were standing at the door to bring the 'gift'. "Needless to say, I've been working on him for several days now and I've tested everything so we are cool." Leiko smiled proud of her work.
In queue, the two agents came into the room carrying a charging station made exclusively for Baymax and set it down on the floor in front of them.
"Did you really..." Hiro had to fight the tears that were creeping on his eyes. Gogo only nodded and smiled as she pinched the anxious boy's arm. "Ouch" v
The white circle of the charger blinked and the robot came up of it like a Juke box.
"Hello! I am Baymax! Your personal healthcare companion. Hello Hiro!" The robot said his greeting as if nothing ever happened. Hiro ran to the robot and hugged it with all his strength. After all, it was the last gift from Tadashi.
"WAIT... YOU RECOGNIZED ME!" Hiro looked at the robot with a puzzled look, then turned around to look at the others. "He recognized me! How? Leiko... How did you...?" Hiro couldn't finish his question. He was too excited and confused to make a clear statement. '
Blushing... "I added a program to your computer that connected remotely to Baymax." Gogo said proud of her work. She was never good at programming but she wasn't that bad either. "Every battle and interaction with the robot was saved into a hard drive which I retrieved from your computer and used it to rebuild Baymax."
"So... That's why my computer was working slow..." Hiro smiled pulling the pieces together. Gogo looked down to her feet feeling a bit ashamed but still proud. She looked up at the boy and returned to the original matter. People needed BH6 and they were taking too much.
"On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain?" Baymax showed the chart with 10 cartoon faces.
"A zero... It's great… to see… you again… buddy!" Hiro said between sobs while the robot hugged him.
"Now we are…" Gogo got interrupted by Hiro who was hugging her tightly.
"Thank you Leiko… Thank you very much!" Hiro said between sobs hugging her stronger. Blushing, Gogo patted Hiro on the back to calm the boy down.
"You are welcome… Now..." With pain on her heart because she needed to end the hug but trying to take this moment as long as she could. "…We need to go and kick some asses." Hiro glared at Gogo but kept his mouth shut. After all, it was the best way to explain everything.
"Right!" Hiro said with a smile.
"Baymax! Come here!" Hiro literally carried the robot towards a white circle that was painted on the floor of the training room.
Recognizing the robot, the circle blinked and immediately several robotic arms came from under the ground and started to place the new armor over the robot. In matter of seconds, Baymax had the red armor and ready to go. The roof of the room opened enabling Baymax to take off. The team climbed on the robot and shot to the skies ready for battle. Big Hero 6 was back fully loaded and upgraded. (AN: I took this idea from Iron man.)
"Where are we going?" Wasabi asked gripping the robot as hard as he could. How many times will the team torture the martial arts expert with his height fears?
"The riot seems to be at from San Fransokyo Bank." Baymax said through the communicator of his helmet.
"Let's kick some ass then!" Gogo said making everybody assent with a nod. Immediately, the robot dived and fixed his course to the entrance of the bank.
The team busted through the doors of the bank fully armored and ready to save lives but what they saw shocked the whole team to the core. Papers were thrown everywhere, people were held against the marbled floor. A huge muscled man was standing near the hostages watching them over. Another guy wearing a blue armor and matching glasses came up from the vault carrying huge amounts of money. But the most shocking part was Akage standing with her back against a pillar with a smile, orange glasses, arms folded over her chest and legs crossed waiting for them.
"Sto…" Hiro stopped midsentence after spotting the red haired girl. "…Akage… is that you?" Hiro's feet were stuck to the ground meanwhile, the girl only chuckled.
"Akage…?" The girl unfolded her arms and got in a ready stance. "That fool is loooong dead, twit… She died that night." (AN: referece chapter 21)
The memory was too bad to even consider reliving the moments but that didn't stop the boy to shed a tear.
"She really loved you… you know?" Akage got closer to him but nobody dared to move besides Hiro who also started to move towards her. "Until that night of course." Akage smiled at the boy with venomous eyes.
"But then…" Hiro's voice cracked. "All those I love you…"
"Fake!" 'Akage' smiled.
"All those kiss…"
"Fake!"
"I…" Hiro fell to his knees while Akage laughed.
"Fake, fake… all of it!" 'Akage said almost singing with a bright smile. "You do know what role play is... right?"
"Akage I…" Hiro was interrupted by 'Akage'
"I told you, She is dead!" The girl, with a swift kick, sent Hiro to the ground and then stood before him. "I'm Whiplash. Now say goodbye." She readied her gun and aimed at Hiro.
BAM