"I want Baymax back now." Tadashi Hamada stood with his arms crossed impatiently in front of his friends.

They had not spoken since Arakan's identity was revealed to be Hiro. An awkward tension filled the silence when they were at school yesterday and nothing had changed since. Not even Fred's strange antics were enough to break the tension among the group.

"No, he's helping your brother right now," GoGo challenged back to Tadashi.

The raven haired girl was mad at both Hamada brothers. Tadashi needed to woman up and face his problem head on, but he wasn't. He was hiding behind his fears because he did not want to believe that the person tied up in a chair in the next room was his brother. She was also mad at Hiro for multiple reasons. First, why hadn't he come back to everyone? Hiro was obviously alive, so why did he not relieve every one of the pain they went through when he 'died'? Second, why was he taking their tech and using it for his own vigilante purposes?

"I don't care!" The raven hair teen was red in the face, "Take him to a hospital instead!"

"Is that really what you want Tadashi?" GoGo yelled back, "You want us to take him to the hospital where they identify him as your younger brother and they call your aunt and then you have to explain this whole mess?"

Tadashi remained silent. He did not have an argument to go against GoGo. The boy knew that she was right; there was no way Hiro was allowed to go to the hospital. Aunt Cass did not need to know about this mess. She had already suffered too much with his little brother's death. Tadashi would have to be incredibly selfish to do that to his aunt.

GoGo retreated back to her chair beside the door. Honey Lemon stared back and forth between Tadashi and GoGo. She hated all the tension between her best friends. All she wanted was for everything to go back to normal.

The group waited in silence together for a couple minutes until the door opened and Baymax stuck his head out the door, "Hiro is awake."

Hiro's head was killing him. It felt like a ton of bricks were trying to push him into the ground. The boy rolled his shoulders slowly which caused him to groan. His whole body was arguing against him to stop moving.

"Who are you?"

The voice sounded far away, but the boy was able to hear it. His response was a simple humming noise. He tried to rub a hand against his face and realized that it did not move. The boy pried his eyes open against his wishes to see his hands tied down to a brown chair. His feet were also bound to the chair as well.

Whoever tied these ropes was obviously not an expert in trying to hold someone in place.

"Hey! I asked you a question!" The same voice called out but louder, "Who are you?"

Hiro raised his head to see a group of six standing in front of them. They were all sickeningly familiar. A tall blonde haired girl with a pink and orange suit, a raven haired girl dressed in a yellow suit with disks to match, a broad shouldered man dressed in green with plasma blades in hand, then a blonde haired boy dressed in large baggy clothing. In front of all of them stood a white robot and a tall raven haired boy dressed in blue armor.

The boy simply shrugged his shoulders then put his eyes downcast. The sight of seeing all of his family alive and well without him in the picture hurt. He lost every single person in this room from his own life.

"Hiro is it really you?" Honey Lemon stepped forward from the group.

"Not your Hiro," The boy rasped out, "Not even close."

"What does that even mean?" Tadashi crossed his arms disapprovingly, "Give us answers now or we won't untie you."

Hiro glared at the raven haired boy. In response to his challenge Hiro easily broke out of the loose ties and stood up. The others in the room took a step back in fear. They wondered how he did that. Those ropes were tight and secure! How had he escaped so easily?

"If you are going to kidnap someone and tie them up, then make sure you actually know how to tie someone up." Hiro threw the ropes behind him.

"Hiro, please we don't want to hurt you," Honey stepped back forward again, "We just want to talk."

Hiro glanced at the blonde. Her words were sincere and truthful. It sent a pang of sadness to his heart; he missed having the happy girl by his side to keep everyone in good spirits and to make any bad situation good. Hiro sighed and sat back down in the brown chair. He motioned with his hand for the others to sit. They all sat down in chairs nearby waiting patiently for the boy to say anything. It was odd. Despite knowing this boy as a young troublemaker the others felt an unconscious pull to listen to him.

"I want my stuff back first." Hiro announced.

Tadashi immediately stood up, "No! Do you think we are stupid?"

Fred halted in his steps toward the boy with his belongings in his hand. He glanced between the brothers then sat back down with an apologetic smile on his face. Fred wholeheartedly believed that the boy in front of him was Hiro Hamada. All he wanted to do was figure out what this Hiro's story was.

"It's okay Fred," Hiro waved him off, "I understand that you don't trust me."

Tadashi himself was shocked by the calm voice coming from the figure that looked exactly like his brother. Tadashi reluctantly sat back down in his chair. The figure in front of him made him very nervous. There was something about this boy that was wrong; Tadashi still did not believe that he was his brother.

"I am Hiro Hamada, but not your Hiro Hamada," the boy took a deep breath, "I am from a different reality than this one, but I ended up here because of an accident."

"Okay I have a question!" Fred raised his hand excitedly, "Okay actually it's not a question. But, if you really are Hiro then tell us something only Hiro would know."

"He can't do that if he isn't from our reality Fred," GoGo rolled her eyes. This kid's story was already far-fetched and she did not know what she believed anymore.

The boy was unfazed by her statement, "Fred you have every single original copy of Captain Fancy in a special box locked under your bed except one copy. Your 'arch enemy' is Richardson Mole and he has the one comic book that you don't have."

Fred's jaw dropped. Everything that the boy in front of them said was true. Hiro did not stop there. He turned his gaze to Wasabi that was sitting beside Fred and continued.

"Wasabi has more than one fear. His top two are heights and public speaking, but he does not like to talk about it because of the accident he had in high school during his first speech he had to give. Long story short, Wasabi clammed up and ended up standing onstage for 4 hours after the presentation was over."

"Honey, you secretly love art and you're attending SFAI next semester as a secret while also going to SFIT still."

"GoGo has a fear of leprechauns."

"Tadashi," Hiro cast his head down, "Tadashi put little trackers in my sweatshirt when I used to go bot fighting, and he always thought that I didn't know he did it… but I did. I always knew about them."

The group stared in shock at the raven haired boy in front of him. There was no denying that this boy was Hiro Hamada. He knew their identities, their secrets, what they loved, and feared. He was telling the truth. If it was the truth, then this was not their Hiro. Not the one from their world at least. The Hiro Hamada that they all grew to know and love was still dead.

"So, you say that you are not from our world," Wasabi rubbed his face; this was so confusing, "Then what about yours? How did you end up here?"

"I honestly don't know how I am here exactly, I have a few theories but mainly just grasping at straws."

"Okay another question!" Fred jumped out of his seat, "Okay so are we all Big Hero 6 in your world? Wait, no we would be Big Hero 7 in yours right! Please tell me we were still superheroes!"

Hiro's smile faded away. He wished that 'Big Hero 7' could have happened. Hiro would give anything to have his big brother around when Callaghan started the group. Not only would he have been the better leader in Hiro's eyes, but he would not have had to go through the struggle of trying to survive without him there. Hiro wished that he could look Fred confidently in the eyes and tell him that his version of them were still alive. Still part of the team that were a beacon of hope to the citizens of San Fransokyo, but there was no San Fransokyo anymore in his world. Everything that he had was gone forever. For all Hiro knew, his world could be obliterated by now. There may not be a world to return to if he ever got the chance.

"Well, we were." He simply stated eyes downcast.

"What do you mean, were? What happened?" Wasabi frowned, he did not like the tone of the boy's voice.

Hiro shook his head and coughed, "That's not important right now."

Tadashi's head was reeling. He could not believe that his brother or another version of him was sitting in front of him. Hiro was all grown up; he was probably around the same age as him now. He grew out of his babyish features that he loved seeing on the boy. Hiro was tall and lean now, a perfect image of an athlete. Ignoring his obvious incredible physique, Hiro looked worn down. Tadashi recognized that look of sad tiredness that seemed to seep over all of his features. He recognized this look because the teen remembered waking up every day after Hiro died and seeing the exact look on his own face in the mirror.

"Who died?" He finally spoke up.

Everyone was silent to his random question. Tadashi looked up to meet Hiro's eyes only to flinch away from the coldness looking back at him. It was unnerving seeing his dark brown eyes bore into his matching brown ones.

"Everyone," Hiro cleared his throat, "Everyone died. Big Hero 6 doesn't exist anymore in my world."

"What happened Hiro?" Honey Lemon sat on the arm of the brown chair beside the boy.

Hiro immediately stood up and walked to the door, but he did not leave. He could not talk about the horrors that became of his friends to them. Even before the boy had been unable to share his feelings with others. It was too painful and these versions of his friends could never understand. He would only be corrupting them from the demons he had faced.

"Well, if I died then I think that I deserve to know what killed me," GoGo took her mask off and sat it on the floor.

"I'm doing you all a favor by not telling you," Hiro glared at the group, "I was doing you all a favor by not showing up to your doorstep and exposing myself, but you all had to figure out who I was and couldn't leave it alone! I did research on you guys; you weren't even helping people with these abilities you have! You all laid back and let these incompetent people do the job for you, so I figured that I would do it for you."

Tadashi shocked himself when he stood up then walked toward the boy. This may not be his Hiro, it may be a completely different person than who he remembered, but Tadashi knew that look that was on the boy's face. When his eyes were glassy and cheeks were red that meant he was upset. Whenever that happened to Hiro when he was a little kid Tadashi would always wrap his arms around the small child and just hold him firmly. It always soothed the small child. Even when his brother got older the simple trick would work every time. So, Tadashi wrapped his arms around the boy and held him there. Tadashi ignored the way the boy stiffened in his arms and did not melt into the embrace. Tadashi began to worry that what he did was wrong. Just before he let the boy go, Hiro melted into the embrace and grasped onto the older boy.

Tadashi rested his head on top of Hiro's. The two were almost the same height, but Tadashi was still taller to rest his head comfortably on his head. Tears began to leak out of his eyes. He was feeling a plethora of emotions. Sadness, anger, happiness, and love. All the emotions swam through Tadashi's body which caused him to squeeze the boy in his arms tighter. Hiro was right when he said he was doing them all a favor by not telling them what happened in his world. Tadashi could tell by the look that was on his face that it was far worse than what he had experienced himself.

Another pair of arms wrapped around the group. It was Honey Lemon lightly squeezing the pair and resting her head on Tadashi's shoulder. Fred and Wasabi joined next, then Baymax and GoGo. It almost seemed normal for a second. The group had been reunited together after too long. Finally the puzzle pieces had been put back together, yet that was not the case. These puzzle pieces were not the perfect fit. There would always be that one edge that wouldn't fit perfectly in the puzzle. Not quite whole, but close enough for Tadashi.

The group separated letting Hiro have his space. His face was a mixture of emotions and Tadashi could not read the expression which annoyed him to no end. He wanted to be able to look at this version of his Hiro and be able to tell what was wrong and make it better.

"Listen Hiro," GoGo's tone softened to a level no one in the group had ever heard except Hiro, "You don't have to tell us what happened, but we can't help you if you don't let us."

Hiro thought to himself. He wanted to desperately get the sadness lifted off his chest for just a while. If that meant confiding in his friends from another reality then that would be it.

"I guess I better start from the beginning then."

"So you mean to tell me that the same exact thing happened to you that happened to us, except that Tadashi died and you didn't." Fred's mind was combusting from the multiple reality information he was trying to process.

"Yea, basically," Hiro shrugged, "We went after Callaghan, stopped him and then kept being Big Hero 6 after I rebuilt Baymax. We helped a lot of people."

Hiro had a faraway gaze; memories of flying around the city with his friends and his own Baymax caused his heart to clench. He missed flying so much. He missed eating noodle burgers and chasing bad guys down the streets with his best friends at his side.

"Then what?" Honey Lemon leaned forward, she did not admit it, but she wanted to know what happened to the group.

Hiro snapped back to reality to soak Honey's question in, "One day a man came up to me and asked me to help him create a time machine."

The others glanced at each other and began to connect the dots. Hiro had broken into Krei Tech and stole everything he had on the plans for the machine. There was something big that was still missing in the picture.

"Obviously I said no," Hiro's gaze turned dark, "I told the man of the dangers of what would happen if a machine like that was made. I knew too well the dangers of messing with things bigger than yourself could create."

"What do you mean?" Tadashi asked, "What did you do knucklehead?"

The friendly insult rolled off Tadashi's tongue like he used it every day. Hiro smiled sadly at the insult. It had been too long since he had heard the concerned big brother voice.

"I accidentally created a machine that a bad guy needed to blow up the city," Hiro waved the news off, "Totally blackmailed me, but it's fine we had it under control after he kidnapped me and I figured out what he was doing and where he planned it."

"You got kidnapped!" Fred yelled, "No fair, that is so cool dude."

"No, not cool!" Tadashi yelled back at Fred, "How many times did you get kidnapped?"

Hiro waved Tadashi off again, "Not important. Anyway the guy didn't listen to me and created the machine despite the risks."

"It didn't work, but it caused catastrophic events around the globe. Billions of people died from the deadly radiation and waves produced from the thing. Luckily I was able to create a small space that was safe from that. But it took a while, I wasn't able to save a lot of people. Including some of you."

Hiro turned his gaze toward Baymax, "You were the first to go, the radiation messed with your sensors and all I was able to grab was your medical chip that had all of our memories on it. I never got the materials or anything close to it to rebuild you again."

The boys gaze then shifted to Honey Lemon, "The radiation killed you next. You got really sick and there wasn't anything out there that could heal you. You were the first of us to die."

Honey sucked in a breath then immediately ran over to Hiro to engulf him in a hug, "I am so sorry."

The raven haired boy turned to Wasabi next, "We were on a mission to find the guy who made the mess happen. We faced a lot of enemies on our journey and found him, but only one of us came out of that fight alive. You put up a helluva fight though. On the way back, I found a nice strip of land by a river and buried you there."

Wasabi put his head down. He was thankful, at least he went down with a fight. However, the fact that the young boy buried him alone unsettled him. How was he able to do that?

The boy turned to GoGo next, "After Honey and Wasabi died you separated yourself from Fred and me. You were always making yourself busy with something because you said you couldn't face us right now. We both respected your decision and let you be. I thought you were doing better until I woke up one morning and got the message that you took your life away the night before. You were so tired of losing and lost what made you, you. I should have seen the signs, but I didn't."

The girl nodded her head slowly taking in the information. Her death unnerved her severely. GoGo was not superstitious or believed in fate, but she couldn't help but wonder if she would do the same thing in this life if the same events occurred even with this knowledge.

Hiro turned his head down. No one needed an indicator to let them know that Fred had survived through the events.

"Fred, you didn't turn me away. You kept me as close as you could without being in the picture of my work and trying to keep moving forward. You stayed on the sidelines watching. You drank yourself away every day, and every day I would sit with you and watch you destroy yourself. I was never going to turn you in. I'm too selfish to turn in my last friend because he was drinking."

Hiro rubbed his head, "One day, I came and sat with you and you were more drunk than normal. You told me you were thinking about killing yourself like GoGo because there wasn't a point in living. I argued with you and tried to change your mind. I was so mad that I didn't interfere sooner. I let the same thing that happened to GoGo happen to you. I tried to tell you to let me help, to fix you. You told me that I couldn't fix someone that was already dead and then to leave. The next morning I went over where we would always meet and you were laying on a trashed couch bleeding and smiling. I burned the house down with you in it."

Tadashi did not want to believe what he had heard. Hiro's confession of what happened to his friends in his world was horrendous. He couldn't imagine what he would do in Hiro's position. How had his little brother kept fighting through that? He knew that he was not strong enough for that.

Tadashi looked around the room to see the others staring at the ground. The confession must have affected them worse since it was their deaths even if it was from a different world.

"Is that why you broke into Krei Tech?" Wasabi was the first to break the silence.

Hiro nodded solemnly, "I thought that I could give this world a chance that mine didn't have."

The group fell into another silence. There was so much information dumped on them all at once. How were they supposed to react? Were they supposed to be mad or happy that they got a chance to live a fulfilling life and ignore how the younger boy didn't? Were they supposed to try and make it up to the child? How would they be able to make everything up that happened to the child?

"I think that's enough for today guys," Tadashi exhaled deeply, "Why don't we all go home and relax."

Everyone nodded in agreement except Hiro. The boy did not know what to expect now. Were they going to tie him up and leave him in Fred's bedroom alone? He knew for a fact that the group was not going to give him his weapons back. So if he was left to find his own place to stay he would have nothing with him to defend himself besides his natural abilities.

"Um, Hiro," Tadashi called to the boy, "You want to come with me and stay? We can explain this to Aunt Cass and you could come back home."

All eyes turned to Hiro who sucked in his breath in response. He did not want to do that. He was already struggling with the fact that his friends had figured out his identity in this world. The teen was not ready to see this version of his aunt yet, and he didn't think he would ever be able to. He remembered how his Aunt from his world reacted when she found out he was part of Big Hero 6, and when the world began to collapse and he took on the responsibility to apprehend the man who started did not fare well for the teen. That is, until she died as well.

"If not you could totally stay in one of the guest rooms here little guy," Fred wrapped an arm around the boy's shoulder, "A superhero duo sleep over!"

"That would be great Fred," Hiro grimaced in Tadashi's direction, "No offense, but I can't go back."

Tadashi opened his mouth to argue, but GoGo punched him in the arm. That was the only sign the raven haired teen needed to know that he needed to stop. The boy had been pushed enough today. If Hiro wanted to go back home, then Tadashi would be happy to take him there when he was ready.

"Okay, but tomorrow I want to talk to you," Tadashi compromised, "Alone, just you and me."

Hiro nodded in agreement then watched the group disperse from the room leaving him and Fred alone. Fred walked to the seat he had previously been sitting in and grabbed a small bag of items. He handed the bag to Hiro then smiled. Inside the bag were his gadgets. Hiro glanced at the blonde with a questioning gaze. Why did he give them the items back when they clearly did not want him to have it?

"I figured that they had a sort of value to you," Fred shrugged, "I believe that you're good and would like them back."

"Thank you," Hiro smiled, "They are really valuable to me."

Fred winked to the boy, "If you wanna talk about anything we can, but I understand if you want to be alone. Kinda been a crazy day."

Hiro nodded to the statement, "I'd really appreciate being alone."

Fred motioned for the teen to follow him out of the room. The blonde explained where the kitchen and other rooms were located in the mansion as he led him to the guest room and Hiro did not have the heart to tell him that he already knew where everything was located. Hiro gladly just listened to the boy speak. Fred had become the best friend he ever had. They had deep conversations about everything. It annoyed Hiro to no end when Fred did not show this side to anyone else. He was truly a genius in that manner.

"If you need anything at all don't hesitate to ask," Fred opened the door for him and Hiro walked inside.

"One more thing," Fred called out.

Hiro turned back around to the blonde. He could tell that he wanted to say something that was pressing on his mind.

"Yeah Fred?" Hiro walked back to the door.

"It's just that it's really good to see you again," Fred rubbed the back of his neck, "And I'm really sorry for everything you went through. If you ever need anyone to talk to, I'm here for you little guy."

Hiro let out a chuckle, "I know Fred, I know."

With that, Fred closed the door leaving Hiro alone. He did not move from his spot in front of the door though, he stayed there for several minutes staring at the door.

"I know," He whispered then finally turned toward around, "I'm sorry too."