Hey Descendants!

Thank you so much everyone who has let us know they enjoy Hiro. You've really made Twisted's year with the welcome, and hey, the year just started so sounds like we're doing something right :)

Seriously though, she's so smiley.

And we hear the hopes that David and Nani become the vks' guardians. I will say, you're not entirely wrong. Not on the wrong line of thinking.

Anyway... We hope you're ready for a chapter all about Hiro and Carlos.

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-Dark-

Hiro chuckles. The kid had hustled him good. Ah, the good ol' days.

He had been hoping the boy made mods to the robot. Carlos hadn't disappointed either. Even after all David and Nani talked him up, he was still pleasantly surprised and thrilled.

This kid, this unassuming kid was impressive as fuck. And adorable to boot. He wasn't sure what he'd been expecting when he learned the villains Auradon banished to an isle turned around and had children. The thought simply horrified him at first. He thought for sure that kids coming out of a situation like that would be hard as hell.

But the young teen sitting across from him was as timid and mild-mannered as they came. Which only served to sadden him more in its own right.

Carlos was one of the most brilliant minds he'd ever come across. The only thing he seemed to be lacking was experience and knowledge, things he hadn't been privy to on an isle full of villains.

Under the right tutelage, this kid could be one of the greats. He'd bet his Baymax on it.

He laughs when his bot gets thrown out of the ring again. "You could make some serious money in the right circles, Chibi-chan." He teases.

"Just doing this?" Carlos asks with wide eyes, his head tilted just slightly to the side.

"Oh yeah." Hiro nods. "I used to make bank." He grins unabashedly, "I ended up in jail like ah hundred times for bot battling in underground circuits before my brother knocked some sense into me-" he smiles warmly at the thought of his brother, "But it was totally worth it at the time."

"What's jail?" Carlos asks absently as he continues to play with the upgrades he'd made to the bot.

"Huh." Hiro bites his lip. It fucking hurt how little this kid knew when his mind was a giant trap thirsty for information. Carlos was wasted on the isle. "Jails are holding facilities for criminals, people who broke the law, to wait for a trial to find out if they go to prison or not."

"Oh, like the isle-"

"No!" Hiro immediately shakes his head as he holds up his hands. "Not in the slightest. It's a lot more humane and regulated. Or are, ya know, supposed to be. At the very least they're not unisex, so there's no way for kids to happen for those serving their time. And not everyone who gets sent there is housed for life. I think the average time served is, one to five years and some can get out sooner for good behavior. It's by far not the best system, and has its own corruption and set of downfalls-" He stops himself with a shake of his head, they could be here for hours if he got the chance to go off on his home country's shitty penal system's and the boy in front of him was much too polite to stop him. He was just watching him with intense curiosity. He could practically hear the boy's brain slurping everything up like a sponge, see the way it worked to catalog the new information and file it away. "But still it's nothing like the isle. For one thing, kids aren't allowed, and if they do commit a crime they're sent to a different facility completely."

"Oh…" He frowns, "So, more like my new school."

Hiro chuckles, yeah, he could see a prep-school being compared to a prison. Even though it wasn't the best comparison, it tickled him something fierce. General schooling was such a fucking waste of time. So many people like him tended to fail out due to the monotony and lack of interest. Too much theory, not enough application. It was something he was trying to work on with his government. The whole educational infrastructure needed to go. "That would definitely be a better comparison. Like a hardcore boring school with nothing to do, but stand around and wait for someone to bail you out or for your sentence to run out."

"Huh." Carlos drops his eyes to his remote, "David never said you got in trouble for fighting bots."

"Tch," Hiro snorts, "I was a shitty kind of kid. I had to be close to your age at the time." He muses as he looks Carlos over before he shrugs, "I acted out a lot after my parents passed away. I was bored, under-stimulated, and liked making adults and general assholes feel like trash."

"Your parents-" Carlos shifts uncomfortably, "I mean uh-"

Hiro lets out a sigh, "Brother too. Tadashi was my hero, up until a villain got him killed. He died trying to save other people from a building on fire. He was always doing the right thing, ya know."

Carlos winces before he pulls his legs to his chest and hides his face, "Sorry," he whispers as he hugs his legs tightly.

Hiro tilts his head to the side as he watches the kid shift in discomfort. "Why-" His eyes narrow, before he lets out a snort. This kid was too much. "Why? You're not the one who did it. The guy's not even on the isle. He's in a high-security prison over on my side of the sea- And even if he wasn't, what those fuckers over on the isle did- That's not on you or any of your friends. You can't choose your parents. Trust me." He shakes his head and smiles, "I'm friends with Calhoun's daughter. She teaches astrophysics at my school."

Carlos peaks his head up, "You're friends with a vk?"

Hiro's eyes light up. He'd never viewed it that way before. "Yeah, I guess I am." He chuckles. "After she got pulled out of stasis she came to my house to apologize for what her father had done-"

"She apologized-" His brow furrows, but he falls silent again.

"She didn't need to. I didn't hold it against her. It wasn't her fault her father went bat shit crazy when he thought he'd lost her. And on a level, I kinda get where he was coming from. I never would have killed innocent bystanders to get a member of my ohana back- But I'd shed some blood if it meant getting them back to me."

"So, he went bad to save his daughter?" He shakes his head.

"Well, went bat shit first. But then, yeah, went bad."

"You're not like the adults here." Carlos shakes his head again before he sighs, "You didn't blame her for what her dad did, and you even like, understand it. Not agree with the choices, but understand."

"Thank fucks for that." Hiro shakes his head, "Then again, I'm a fucking genius. It takes some level of intelligence to pull your head outta your ass and not be so close-minded." He smirks, "Ignorance breeds fear, and I hate being afraid of stupid shit." He shrugs. "So no, how can I blame her for what her dad did when she wasn't even in this plane of existence while all that shit was going down? And yeah, there's definitely a difference between understanding and agreeing with someone. And honestly, I don't know the lengths I'd go through if someone I loved was just abandoned, unsure if they were dead or left alone to suffer by themselves. I know some shit would get fucked up though. I'm not perfect, and everyone has the capacity for evil as much as they do good. It all comes down to personal choice."

Carlos winces again. "It's not easy, not knowing if people are okay."

"You're worried about your friends…" Hiro frowns, talk about putting a foot in your mouth. "I can't imagine the pressure you and your ohana are under right now. It's great they started pulling you guys off the isle, but I don't think anyone thought about what having to leave others behind would do to you. I don't have a choice but to be up to date with current affairs, and it baffles me that the general consensus of Auradon is that your parents would have loved and nurtured you all, or raised you all to be hardened criminals out to terrorize Auradon." He rubs the back of his neck. "And having the pressure not to fuck up or else you might not ever see any of them again… That's a lot to put on a kid. Fuck. This place is so ass-backward. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy if anything happens to your friends while you're here when you could be there helping each other survive. You're all going to be pissed, or hurt, with good reason." He rubs his temples, "And that's where people are usually faced with the choices that define them as good or evil. It's a fucking paradox."

"So, you do know." Carlos half chuckles, "You don't have to imagine it." He shakes his head before he lets his legs go and stretches out, "I uh- Thanks. It's nice to feel understood."

Hiro can't help his smile. "No prob, chibi-chan." He wanted to smother this kid with hugs. "I'm glad I can at least offer you that. It's a fucked situation, but I'm glad it's finally being addressed. I mean, not thrilled it's a sixteen-year-old addressing it. But then again I feel like this place is run ass-backward, but David warned me to keep those things to myself."

"Got it. Something I never heard." Carlos grins before his face turns thoughtful, "Deez never gave up hope that Auradon would change its mind." He shrugs, "It feels dumb to give up now that we're here and working to get everyone else over here too. She wouldn't want that."

"Deez sounds like one fucking hell of an optimist. That's impressive," or desperate, "thinking on her part." He grins, "Still, that's even more fuckin' pressure on the four of you- Not that you can't handle it. You four have proven more than capable of controlling yourselves. Hell as I said, even I acted out as a teenager, and besides this stupid bullshit, you guys haven't even been a blip on the radar since you got brought over. It must've been stressful learning a new set of rules and expectations without any warning."

Carlos shrugs again, "Yeah, but also interesting. And it's a lot safer to make mistakes here, so that made it easier."

Tch. How fucking bad was the isle if they thought it was easier to make mistakes here in Auradon?

"I mean, you said you got in trouble all the time as a kid, but now you're in charge of the best tech school in the world." Carlos beams, "So, maybe we've got a chance to be more here too."

Hiro tenses. It was ridiculous how much restraint he had to exercise to not dive bomb this kid and hug him. Instead, he rubs the back of his head again, "It's always come down to who you know, whether or not you get a chance to be more or be what society expects you to be." He frowns at the truth of the statement. "I was lucky my brother was who he was. That he believed in me, and already had a rep that was starting to bloom in the right communities." He grins, "But luckily for you guys, you've drawn as much of the right attention as you're arrival drew the bad."

"I mean I'm sitting on your space ship, beating you at battle bots," Carlos shakes his head as he chuckles and looks down at the remote in his hand, "I do feel pretty damn lucky right now."

"Watch it Chibi-chan," Hiro chuckles, "I'm just a little rusty is all." He sticks his tongue out at the kid. Wow, it felt good to just relax and enjoy the company he was with.

"Still, meeting you-" Carlos blushes as he looks away and fidgets with the remote in his hand, "Even if we do get sent back, meeting you was worth it. The magazines weren't- I mean, you're even cooler than I imagined."

He wasn't about to be cool if this kid kept being so authentically adorable. He wanted nothing more than to pounce on the kid and tell him that everything would be okay. "You're not getting sent back to that shit hole." He states as he runs a shaking hand through his hair. "I'd seriously kidnap all of you first and claim you as refugees. Sure it might start shit between our two countries but ain't shit I can't handle. The president might not be thrilled about it, but he'll live."

Carlos tilts his head as he watches him, "We're not worth you getting in trouble man. And everyone says there's no way we're getting sent back." He sighs, "And that we'll trust it one day." He sighs, "But it's hard, especially knowing how much people hate us. David says I shouldn't read any forum boards about us though. That it's just idiots who can say what they want without having to own their opinions."

"Well, trust that if shit did ever hit the fan like that I got you. The four of you." And probably all their friends on the isle. There was no way tech couldn't beat magic. If there was a way to get on and off the isle, he could figure it the fuck out. It just hadn't come to the point where he would commit that level of terrorism yet. "David is a great guy to listen to, gives solid advice," He nods before he gives Carlos a conspirators grin, "But I bet you read the forums anyway."

"I have been since I figured out how to connect to the internet and do searches." Carlos shrugs.

"Roogle is fucking awesome isn't it?"

"Yeah, it is. All that information just waiting for you to search for it? And it lines it all up by keyword algorithms to better match your search?" Carlos smiles as he presses a palm to his temple, "I can't believe how easy it is to learn anything you want. Like anything! Man, I used to have to borrow books from Yensid, and even then a lot of it was trial and error because it was never exactly what I was looking for. It just got me going in the right direction. But here- A search is all you need, just a few keystrokes and boom."

"Agreed." Hiro grins, "Which is why it's shocking to me so many people are so god damn fucking ignorant."

Carlos tilts his head and frowns, "Deez used to say there was something about not being able to do a thing that made you do it all the more once you could." He shrugs, "Like reading. T and Gil didn't know how to read until we taught them, and then they read everything they could get their hands on. Maybe it's something like that."

"People do love taking shit for granted. You don't appreciate what you've always had because you don't know what life is like without it." Hiro chuckles, Ben was right, these kids were very forward-thinking. "That takes a lot of perspective, which most people don't have the patience, depth, or empathy for."

"Well, Deez is all of those things. Except for the patience sometimes. She's better about her temper now, but boy she used to lose control a lot."

"Deez must also be one in a million because even on this side of the barrier that's hard for people to get."

"She's a lot like Ben." Carlos grins, "I can't wait for them to meet. Actually, I can't wait for a lot of my friends from the isle to meet our new friends."

"If they're friends of yours then I'm sure they're worth meeting." Hiro chuckles, "I have the feeling you had a lot of haters on the isle. Genius is never appreciated, and nearly always underestimated. Especially by those who are scared by what they don't understand.'

"That's pretty much the isle. But, I was in a good gang." Carlos shrugs, "They kept people off me most of the time. And T and Deez helped too even before they were in our gang."

"Nice." Hiro nods. "Being a part of a group is better than going against the world by yourself."

"Wish T would figure that out." He rolls his eyes.

"It can be a hard lesson to learn." Hiro chuckles. "Trust me. I used to be the same way."

"Yeah." Carlos sighs sadly as he looks out towards the isle.

"So," Hiro claps his hands, "Wanna take something apart? See if you can put it back together?"

Carlos turns to him so fast he heard the boy's neck crack, "No one's ever asked me that before."

"Well, I'm not no one." Hiro stands up.

"I've really been wanting to take David's car apart to figure out how it hovers and why it doesn't need gas."

"Then let's do it." Hiro nods as he walks over to offer his hand to Carlos. "I could use a refresher course on Jumba's style."

Carlos blinks up at him before he extends his hand as if in a trance, "Seriously? Like he won't be mad? I don't want David mad at me."

"Tch." Hiro waves him off, "Between the two of us we can definitely reassemble it, probably before he even notices." He winks. "And he wouldn't be mad at you."

"Then hell yes! Let's do it!" Carlos slaps his hand into Hiro's.

"Nice." Hiro nods, "Let's get this shit done."

Carlos smiles as he unbolts a nut before passing the wrench back to Hiro.

This was like a dream. The best dream he'd never thought to have. He was talking thermodynamics and fusion energy with Hiro. Hiro Hamada. His scientific role model.

And he couldn't wipe the silly grin off his face even if he'd tried.

He'd been worried when he learned that Hiro lost his brother because of a villain. The chats online were full of people who hated them because they'd lost someone to a villain attack too.

But, Hiro was different. Different in so many ways. This was one of the best things to ever happen to him.

Just getting to ask questions about the parts he was pulling out of the car was worth any price. Hiro was a funny teacher and he liked the way the man explained things.

And he praised him. He still wasn't entirely sure what Hiro was calling him, but he even liked the nickname.

He also liked the way Hiro ruffled his hair. And though he couldn't help the flinch, he was happy every time he clapped his back or shoulder too.

It felt selfish, but he would have traded anything to get to spend more time with Hiro.

"Brahs! Dinner is ready-" David calls out as he rounds the corner of the house before he stops, blinking in horror when he finds his car's guts pulled out and laid across a blanket, "My car!"

Carlos gulps as he stands up and faces David, "I'm sorry. Please don't be mad." His eyes shift to Hiro and he whispers, "You said he wouldn't be mad."

Hiro laughs, "Chibi-chan, I said he wouldn't get mad at you." He claps Carlos on the back before he turns back to David. "And seriously brah, it's your fault for leaving us alone for so long." He grins, "And don't act like we can't put it back together, we're not tweakers brah."

"I'm not mad at you," David quickly assures, holding Carlos's gaze until he nods before he turns back to face Hiro, "Brah, it's only been a few hours. But hey, glad you guys are getting along," He chuckles before his face sombers, "Seriously though, put it up and wash up. Dinner's ready and I am not going to bat for you against the Pelekai sisters ever again." He holds up a finger dramatically, "Once was enough."

"It's cool David, don't worry. I took pictures and notes so I know exactly how to put it back together." Carlos grins before he bends to pick up a circular tube pulsating with an inner blue light, "Hey Hiro, this is the only part I don't really understand now. I know it's some kind of power source, just not sure what kind."

Hiro reaches over and ruffles his hair, "It's a subsonic singularity synthesizer. It's why this baby don't need gas."

David's eyes widen, "Jumba always told me not to touch that. Is that safe for my iki brah to be touching?"

Hiro waves him off, "It's not like he's playing catch with it."

"Why would I play catch with this?" Carlos looks between the two adults before he shakes his head, "It could break and then I'd never figure it out." He gingerly rotates it in his hands before he plops down on the ground and starts sketching the part out.

"See. Chibi-chan is golden." Hiro grins as he flashes David a thumbs up, "He just gets it."

David stares at them, speechless for a moment before he waves his hand in front of him. "You know what, you know this stuff better than me. Just get in here and eat before our wives decide to come get us or kill us."

"Hai." Hiro chirps as he squats down and grips Carlos's shoulder, "Finish up Chibi-chan and come on, it'll be here when we get back out here."

Carlos looks up at him, "But it'll be dark by then, how are we going to get the car put back together?"

Hiro chuckles before he pulls his keys from his pocket and hits a button on a fob.

"Wow!" Carlos squints as bright light floods the yard, "Those are the ship's headlights?"

"Something like that." Hiro smiles warmly as he ruffles his hair again, "When we work on that I'll show you what they are."

SQUEEEEEEEEE!

Just so you guys know, this was originally in the last chapter, and a hell of a lot shorter, but after seeing how excited you guys were for it, we expanded the ever-living shit out of the bitch and tried to pack as much interaction of it as we could, while also pining to get back to writing the isle, which we are in the middle of doing at the moment. Hopefully, it hits the spot for ya'll.

That being said…

How are you liking adult Hiro?

And Carlos' reaction to him?

Wasn't it the cutest to listen to C and Hiro play battle bots?

Wasn't the two of them dismantling David's car just the sweetest?

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-Twisted