I apologize for posting late. A lot has happened here that prevented me from working on the story. Here's an extra long chapter. Enjoy reading.
At the same time, Hiro woke up with a strange feeling he can't describe. That dream felt so real, but the weirdest part was that it didn't feel like a dream. More like a real experience.
Mochi ran up to him and liked his face, making Hiro laugh. After hugging Mochi for an hour, he stood up noticing that the room was empty! No Baymax, no mascots, no Mikey! How long did he sleep?
Going to the bathroom, he was about to open the water tap as he remembers what's happening to him as he comes in contact with water.
Deciding to get dressed instead, brushing his teeth. He grabbed Mochi and walked off to get some food. He sent a text to the bots to tell where he is.
But before he could reach the stairs of the apartment, his body starts to tremble and his vision was becoming blurry. His skull felt like breaking and his brain felt like exploding like a volcano. His bones were vibrating higher than ever and Hiro swore he heard his bones sing.
He fell on his knees, letting go of Mochi on time for the feline to jump on the floor on his four paws. Hiro then sank to the floor, barely staying conscious.
Mochi was panicking and meowed for help. Hiro manages to sent on last text to Baymax for help before his vision goes black.
Hiro opened his eyes to a snowy day. It was December and the Christmas decorations hang out (which had to be changed after Tadashi's snow machine incident). Hana was in search of Mochi who was hiding from her and Cass, and Tadashi was making him breakfast.
For some reason, Hiro couldn't shake off a strange feeling of reliving this all over away. Everything felt so real, he couldn't see it as a dream anymore, or had a hard time separating his dreams from reality. Memories filled his head from his time on vacation together with Hana and their friends, the interview, the pool accident, and sending a message to Baymax before falling unconscious in the hallway of their vacation apartment. But how come he could remember that? What is going on? What was happening?
At breakfast, he had a hard time believing how real it all tasted in his mouth, how real everything felt in his hand, how real Mochi felt when the cat brushed against his legs. His legs were itchy for some reason. Then it suddenly hit him, where are Baymax and the mascots? Where are their robot siblings?
His thought was interrupted when Hana appeared from under the table, still searching for Mochi. This memory filled his brain as he had experienced it before and knew exactly where that fat cat was hiding.
So after breakfast, he helped Hana and Cass out finding Mochi hiding under his bed, Mochi was forced to wear a Stitch costume on. In the photo, Mochi looked very grumpy. The twins laugh at this memory.
As the day goes on, Tadashi and Cass take the twins out shopping. Cass and Hana went together and Tadashi and Hiro looked around the toy store for a present for Hana. For Cass they bought her a new toaster as the last one was destroyed by the three siblings. Now that they bought a present for Hana, as Hiro remembered what they used to buy for her, it was easy for the boys to find it, and remembering his conversation with her after Pattawan, he bought her something extra. Now they just walked around the place to pass time.
A sudden wave of memories hid him so hard that he fell through his legs from pain. Rubbing a hand against his head to numb the pain while Tadashi was bent over him to make sure he is okay. All the memories from his time on vacation filled his head. a memory of him realizing he remembers the interview and Mikey pushing him in the pool and five people seeing his…tail! While he was working on Megabot. And passing out on the floor of the hotel apartment and…and, waking up…here!
WHAIT! WHAT? How is? When do? What? Tadashi helped him in the truck as Cass and Hana had returned from their shopping spree. Cass was worried and told them they were heading home. At home, Hiro was on the couch with Hana as Cass and Tadashi prepared dinner. A weather channel on tv said it was today the 25th of December. Here, Hiro remembered everything that evening and that the three Hamada siblings opened up all the presents before bed. He knew exactly what everyone was getting. Tadashi got a new computer, multiple SFN baseball caps, a mop and tools to work on his mop. Cass got a new book to write new recipes in, a new toaster, cooking utility's, and a turquoise necklace. Hana got books about animals and flowers as she loved them both, a new Kreiphone with only three numbers on it, of her brothers and Cass, a toolbox plus one extra present from her brothers, a painting set, and he got a toolbox just like Hana, a chemistry set, a new pair of shoes and a blue hoodie.
Cass told them they were allowed to open their presents and Hana and Tadashi attacked their presents like ninjas. So when he opens his present, he got exactly what he remembers, a toolbox, a chemistry set, and shoes with his favorite blue hoodie (the one he wore to the bot fight against Yama). This could no longer be a coincidence anymore, this is…this…is…and reality dawned on the boy…
Hiro realized this… this wasn't a dream anymore! It was reality! He was in the past! He was freaking reliving his own past.
The rest were amazed by their new gifts as he was staring at his favorite blue hoodie. How? When? How? Why? How is this possible? And why is this possible? Question circles his head as memories of Pattawan and the camping trip fill his head. Given answers to his questions.
It was too much for him. It was all too much for Hiro.
"You will need to change your past in order to create a new present so that a loved one can be saved."
His eyes grew wide as Pattawan's voice rang inside his head. The fortune-teller at the hotel that evening, her prediction floated inside his head. Was this what she meant, going back in time to…to…to save… a loved one? It then all hit him tenfold in the face as he stared at Tadashi and Hana showing their presents to Cass. Tadashi…he was going to die in the fire on the showcase night. Wait? Going back in the past, to save a loved one! Is this?…Is this what Pattawan predicted for him? A change…to…to save Tadashi?
Cass announced it was time for a movie and then after bedtime. They watched an old version of a Christmas Carol. The whole movie Hiro was trying to convince himself this was all a dream. But reality could not stay hidden anymore and with every opportunity it got, it blew Hiro away, the food, the drinks, the touching, the feeling, the smell, everything made reality hit him in the face and reality itself was enjoying it, mocking him, laughing him in the face. He wanted to die, to wake up (if that is even possible). He then thought of something! What if it is still upstairs hidden in his drawer he never let anyone look in. After the movie it was bedtime, so saying goodnight to everyone and pretending to be asleep, he secretly stood up as the others were shure asleep and tiptoed to his drawer. He rummaged through his drawer until he found what he was looking for, he pulled out high school notebooks that held his songs and art in. If this was a dream then the pages should be empty, but luck was not on his side as he saw that the pages were full of written words on. Here goes his attempt to prove this was a dream. Sighting, a second idea popped up in his head, he quietly went to the balcony where Cass herbs and plants were, there he sang one of his songs he never thought he would sing again, and he chose his most difficult one he made back in high school.
Nailing the song, he lost all hope proving this was a dream. Then as one last attempt he re-sang it again while filming it. If he is in the past then everything he does here will exist in the future! Or present time. Finally going to bed, he closed his eyes and let sleep wash over him, hoping to wake up back in the hotel.
If only he knew what he'd gotten himself into?
Hiro opened his eyes to hear a loud crowd cheering. Looking around, he sees that he is at a bot-fight together with Hana. She was wearing her clothes she wore the night they were arrested.
"And the winner, 5 total annihilation, Yama!" The crowd went wild.
"No, this can't be!" Hiro was completely shocked at what he heard. He felt a nudge against his elbow. His eyes widened, looking to Hana. "Are you ready, brother?" she asked, but Hiro didn't hear her. He felt drowning underwater. It felt so real her elbow against his, the feeling, the noise, the smell, the lights, everything felt real. Like he was really back to that one particular bot-fight almost a year ago.
He turned around and walked away from the crowd, closing his eyes and taking deep breaths. He tried to ground himself like Baymax teached him and Hana months ago. Feeling he was no longer underwater, he grounded himself, observing his surroundings. They were in the good luck alley, he was holding his megabot in his hands.
Is he still in the past? Is this a dream? He remembers filming himself singing like it was last night. Taking out his phone he'd check if the video he made at Christmas was real. His eyes were wide upon seeing the video on his phone. This…is real!
"Hey? Hiro?" He heard Hana talk to him. "Are you ready to do this?" She asked him. He swallows his saliva, nodding that he is ready. She was smiling at him, "Good, let's go then." And she held his hand and led him back to the fight. She felt so...real. How is this possible?
When they both presented themselves to Yama, Hiro knew what would happen, so he did it differently this time. He showed all his cash and stoked Yama up, resulting in Yama putting all his money he had and they began the fight "megabot, ninjabot" he extended his controller and nudged Hana to do the same "destroy. Assassinate." the twins said at the same time.
The fight went by in a haze. He and Hana won the fight, earning the full pot triple times more than the first time. Soon they both find themself pushed against a brick wall, Yama taking their bots and his goons were about to beat them up when a light blinds them.
Seeing a red mop with a tall, slender, slightly muscular man with a larger build. He has large, warm brown eyes and neat black hair cut above his prominent ears. His face shape is different from those of the two siblings, with a longer face, larger jaw and slightly larger nose. He's wearing a green biker jacket with a white shirt underneath it. On top of his head is a green helmet.
"Guys, get on!" The man orders them.
Hiro was frozen in place, time seemed to slow down as he heard the voice of the person they lost on the night of the showcase fire.
There, sitting on his mop, was his big brother. "Tadashi!" They exclaimed in relief, He and Hana both jumped on the back of the mop. "Great timing!" Tadashi placed a helmet on Hiro and tossed one to Hana.
Tadashi then started his mop and they drove off away from Yama and his goons. Remembering how it goes, he grabs his controller and made megabot attack Yama. Hana did the same with her ninjabot. Hana then swoops down to catch both bots and gives Megabot to Hiro.
"Are you two okay?" Tadashi asked them.
"Yeah," they said in unison.
"Yeah, we are. We are both okay and we're not hurt, AND you're going the wrong way." Hiro exclaimed.
Hiro was met with Tadashi's elbow hitting him.
"Then what were you thinking, you knuckleheads?! And Hana, I can't believe you went with him! You both could've been killed!" He scolds, Hiro pulling his legs up. They make it to a dead end and Tadashi turns around to go towards Yama and the others. "You both graduated high school when you were 13, and THIS is what you're doing?!"
"I'm sorry Dashi and you're right, bot fighting is illegal and dangerous and we promise to quit bot fighting tonight." Hiro sees Yama's man blocking the alley and knows what's gonna happen, spotting the ramp "Use that wood as a ramp." He pointed to a wooden ramp to Tadashi and Tadashi did what Hiro said and drove over the ramp. Soaring in the air was the best feeling ever for the second time. But this time he was able to take a picture of that moment from the reflection in the glass. Hana's long hair was flying in the air.
When they landed, Hiro directed Tadashi into another direction to avoid the cops.
"Tadashi please, Hana and I are sorry for botfighting." Hiro looked to his sister, pleading with his eyes, she agreed. "Y-yes Dashi. We're sorry for this. We're not gonna do it anymore." Hana exclaimed.
"A-and you can even drag us all the way to your college and we won't complain, no bargain, and no fighting. You can drag us there with no complications whatsoever." When Hiro was done, Hana looked at him with disbelief in her eyes.
Is that really my brother? She thought.
Tadashi on the other hand was smiling to hear that his little siblings quit bot-fighting for good.
Once they were home, they went to the back of the house to avoid their mom...errr...aunt… her poetry night.
Upstairs in their room, Hana went to climb on her bed while Tadashi took off his jacket. When Hiro steps into the room, it feels different, empty. No Baymax charging, no Noodle Burger or Hangry Panda arguing, no HyperPotamus singing, and no Crushroom attempting magic tricks. It felt just...empty.
"Hiro, are you alright?"
The rich voice of his older brother got Hiro out of his state. "Huh?"
"I asked if you are okay?" Tadashi asked again, laying his hand on his shoulder. The feeling of Tadashi's hand brought a nostalgic feeling back. Boy, did he and his sister longed for that feeling back again?
Looking toward his brother "yeah, I'm okay." he took a deep breath "Dashi, can Hana and I visit your school? Tonight!"
Tadashi had a smile on his face. Hana her head shot up at what her brother asked. "Of course." Tadashi said excitedly, then he went to grab their helmets. Hiro went over to his bed and took two boxes from underneath, he put his money in a shoebox with his name written on it, and gave a pink box with Hana's name written on to her. She did the same as her brother did with the money they won tonight.
Tadashi gave them both their helmets and went down to the mop. Hiro remembers to bring the bots with him in his backpack. Making sure his brother doesn't see them.
Arriving at SFIT, the atmosphere gave Hiro a sense of normalcy in this chaos he's in. Tadashi parked his mop and got off. Hiro jumped off and held out a hand to help his sister off the mop. She got off as well, but Hiro noticed something? This is not the same Hana he knew in the present time, no this was the past Hana who still feels disconnected from him and Tadashi. They got stronger in the past as she yelled one day she felt left out, but Vivian still had done a number on her. He hoped he can help her become the strong sister she's gonna be in the present time.
"Hana, you're gonna love hearing this," Tadashi turned around to her. "This building is powered by solar panels," He points up to the roof, her eyes widened in awe. Hiro was smiling at his sister, knowing that she belonged here. And she's gonna love Gogo, Honey Lemon, Wasabi, and Fred. After all, he belonged there too.
They walked down the hallways of their school...okay, future school. The twins walked after him. Hiro with more confident and Hana followed reluctantly.
Tadashi grabs the door handle and opens it "ready to see my lab?" He asked them both.
"Absolutely, can't wait to see the nerd lab," Hiro exclaimed with joy.
"For whatever reason." Hana rolls her eyes. She didn't expect her brother to be interested in nerd school. Let alone quitting bot-fights altogether.
"Heads up!" Hiro pushed Hana against the door with his body to protect her from the passing yellow bike Gogo was riding. Hiro went over to Gogo's lab while Hana looked around the lab, seeing people testing out all kinds of cool inventions they made.
"Look Hana, you love this. Electro-mag suspension." Hiro said impressed. pointing to the yellow bike. Hana walked over.
She inspected the yellow bike and saw that the wheels were floating on the bike held in place with magnets.
"Woah...metal magnets? Very durable," Hana taps the magnet with her finger.
"Hey!"
Hana jumps as she turns to see the driver. Both could see their reflection from her helmet. "Who are you?"
"Uh, we're..." Hana stammers, backing away from the driver.
"Hi, I'..." Hiro starts to introduce himself confidently, but his brother beats him.
"Gogo," Tadashi walks up to them. "These are my twin siblings, Hiro and Hana," He gestures to each one when he says their name.
"Hi, nice to meet you." Hiro greeted Gogo, holding his hand out to her.
Gogo lifts up her helmet, revealing herself to the twins. She blows a bubble from her gum.
"Welcome to the nerd lab," She heard what Hiro said earlier. "Not bad, huh?"
"It's amazing here. I love this place." Hiro couldn't contain his excitement any longer.
Hana laughs awkwardly, not knowing what to say or do. "I've never seen electro-mag suspension on a bike before, so cool," Hiro tries to make things less tense for his sister.
"Zero resistance," As she spins the wheel. "Faster bike. But not fast enough," Gogo removes the wheel and throws it into a bin, with several other wheels that had failed in the past. "...Yet." She walks away just when Hana was about to say something, but Hiro beat her in it, stopping Gogo in her tracks.
"What about drop the bike and keep the wheels, use them as skates connected to your feet with magnets, then you go even faster!" Hiro told her, earning her attention.
She looked at the boy, thinking about the idea, "Huh, I'll think about it!" And then she walked away. Hiro turns around to go to Wasabi.
They walk over to another lab, standing there is a large and burly African-American man. Hiro stops in front of the line but Hana doesn't.
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa!" He holds a hand in front of her. "Do not move. Behind the line, please."
Hana steps behind the black and yellow line, standing next to her brother.
"Hey Wasabi! This is my brother and sister, Hiro and Hana," Tadashi interrupts from behind. Wasabi removes the safety goggles he's wearing.
"Hello Hiro, Hana," He greets with a small smile. "Prepare to be amazed." Wasabi puts the goggles back on, throwing around an apple. "Catch."
When he throws it between two poles, the apple is cut into very thin slices and they float slowly. The two manage to catch one. Hiro eats his slice and Hana inspects it further.
"Wow..." She murmurs and Wasabi flicks a switch, revealing lasers between the poles.
"Laser induced plasma? That's exactly your field, sis!" Hiro looked towards Hana who was gasping sharply, hands on her cheeks.
"Oh my god, that is so cool!" She exclaims, bouncing up and down a bit.
"Ah, I see an Applied Physics enthusiast," Wasabi grins at her, turning to his table. "Yeah, to answer the question. With a little magnetic confinement for-"
"Ultra precision," Wasabi and Hana say in unison.
"Brilliant!" Hana compliments, amazed by it. Hiro smiles at her changed attitude this time around. Even if he remembers being mad at her at the interview! He still cares for her.
"I think you and I will get along just fine," Wasabi smiles a bit as she's inspecting the lasers. Hiro approaches the table in front of him. Wasabi's table has an outline for every single tool, placed perfectly in the outlines. Hiro looks at his table before he asks...
"Wasabi?" Wasabi looks at him. "Have you ever thought of making a laser blade stronger than graphene?"
Wasabi "Hmmm. That's possible with some modification here and there."
GoGo suddenly appears, knocking into his table and snatching a tool. "Need this."
"You can't do that!" He shouts angrily, running after her. "This is anarchy! Society has rules!"
Hana can't help but giggle a bit. Looking towards her brother, he giggles as well seeing those two being their natural self.
"Excuse me, coming through!" Honey Lemon passes by, rolling a giant black ball.
Honey glances behind her, seeing the trio. "Tadashi!" Honey brings back her head over the ball to look at him. Then Honey sees the twins. "Oh my gosh, you must be the Hamada Twins, Hiro and Hana!" Honey screamed over her music. "I've heard so much about you two!"
Honey pulls out her headphones and kisses both of their cheeks. "Perfect timing, perfect timing!" Honey grabs them by the hands to show them the black ball. Grinning, Honey hooks her arms with theirs as the platform raises for them to get a good look at it.
"How much tungsten carbide do you have?" Hiro knew the answer already, Hana was just staring at it.
"I don't think I've ever seen this size before..."
"400 pounds of it!" Honey exclaims excitedly to them. "Come here, come here, come here!" Honey yanks them to her table full of chemicals and equipment. "You both are gonna love this! A dash of perchloric acid," Honey plants it into a cup, which flows into a wire that goes to a large blue canister. "A smidge of cobalt," Honey flicks a switch, dropping a dark blue chemical into another container. "A hint of hydrogen peroxide," They watch as it travels to a machine and Honey holds up a 'Blue Dragon' torch. Honey heats up the mixture, causing them to recoil back a bit. "Super heated to five hundred kelvin, and..." Honey walks back to the tungsten carbide, spraying it with what Honey mixed. They watch as there's a cloud of pink surrounding it and Honey pulls a lever. With a flash of electricity, the mixture sticks to the ball...in pink.
"Tada!" Honey gestures to it. "Pretty great, huh?"
"pink, love that color" Hiro says, shocking Hana. Hiro feld a sudden comfort in that color.
"Y-you love...p-pink," She asked him curiously.
"Here's the best part~!" The woman sings and giggles, tiptoeing towards the pink ball. Hiro, not letting his chance fall, ran up to Honey, poking the ball together with her at the same time. The ball explodes into pink dust.
"Whoa!" Hana exclaimed in awe. Honey and Hiro turn back to Hana, both covered in pink dust. Luckily, Hiro had snatched a pair of fake glasses from home and put them up to protect his eyes before he poked the pink ball.
"I know, right?" Honey removes her glasses, wiping some dust off her shoulder. "Chemical-metal embrittlement! And Hiro, I see you and I making lots of chemistry formulas." She took Hiro in a hug.
"That was so...amazing. This is the reason why I love chemistry" Hiro said, wiping off pink dust. Hana laughed a bit and took a photo of Hiro covered in pink dust. "You gonna send it to me?" Hiro asked.
"Hmmm, no." Hana responds jokingly, Hiro shows a pained face, "Why not?" He exclaimed. "Not gonna tell you~" Hana says as she puts away her phone, leaving Hiro sticking his tongue out to her. She returned the gesture back, playful.
"Not bad, Honey Lemon," Tadashi walks up to them. Hana furrowed her eyebrows at the names they just heard. Were they for real? People actually refer them as such?
"Honey Lemon? Gogo? Wasabi?" Hiro asked. "And...Why don't they call you by a strange name?"
"Why those?" Hana murmured to herself.
"I spilled wasabi on my shirt one time, people!" Wasabi exclaims as he walks past them to the doors. "ONE. TIME!" He slams the door open.
"Fred is the one who comes up with the nicknames," Tadashi explains to the two. "And to answer your question! …" Tadashi didn't say anything "Huh, I don't know why?" He shrugged.
"Uh, who's Fred?" Hiro asked and Hana raised a brow.
"This guy right here!"
They turn around to be met with a giant Kaiju monster staring at them. Hana screams at his appearance. Hiro just stares as Fred is talking. Fred's wearing a kaiju suit. "Ah ah, don't be alarmed."
Fred flips up the mouth to reveal his face. "It's just a suit, this is not my real face and body." Fred shakes hands with Hiro, then Hana. "The name's Fred. School mascot by day," Fred shows himself in costume, spinning the spin around his body. "But by night..." Fred flips around the sign with some impressive moves, striking a final pose. "I am also a school mascot."
"Sooo, what's your major?" Hiro asks him. He knew that Fred is not a student at SFIT.
"Maybe Bio-Tech?" Hana rubs her chin as she stares at his costume.
"No no no no, I'm not a student," He walks towards a couch. "But I am a major science enthusiast," He jumps into the chair, throwing the sign away. "I've been trying to get Honey to develop a formula that can turn me into a fire-breathing lizard at will." He holds up a comic with a giant lizard on it. "But she says that's not science."
The others join him. "It's really not," Honey Lemon says politely.
"Right," He says sarcastically, "I bet the shrink ray I asked Wasabi for isn't science either, is it?"
"No," Wasabi answers with a straight face.
"Well how about invisible sandwiches?"
"Hiro, Hana." They turn around at their brother's voice. He gestures for them to follow. Hiro turned around back to the gang while Hana followed Tadashi.
"Imagine eating a sandwich, but everyone just thinks you're crazy!" Fred mimics eating a sandwich, the twins following their brother.
"Just stop," Wasabi tells him.
Hiro decided to chim in "You could become a monster at will with the help of bio-tech! And becoming invisible can be done with creating display technology, but you can't eat it. And shrinking could be done with chemistry." He said. The gang were all staring at him. Fred had the biggest smile on his face and Wasabi and Gogo were more impressed than before. Honey Lemon was squealing from excitement.
"Hiro" All heard Tadashi calling for his little brother, so Hiro ran over to the door and disappeared in the halls before the gang could ask him questions.
Hiro walks with swag in his step as they enter Tadashi's lab. It's neatly organized like his side of their room, of course. Hana starts touching stuff from his table. Hiro took the time to prepare himself mentally. He knows what's going to happen and knows it's not gonna be the same meeting him.
"So, what have you been working on?" Hiro asks Tadashi. A pang of pain went through his heart as he will meet his big ro-brother who will have no memory of him.
"I'll show ya," He turns around to them, unrolling a piece of tape.
"Duct-tape?" Hiro giggles, "Serious bro, what is your real invention?"
"Okay, pick a number between 1 and 10," Tadashi looks between both twins. He couldn't decide which one to pick for demonstration. Either way, they weren't going to like it.
"7," Hana immediately saya, Hiro knowing what will happen, decides he's going to spare Hana from the duck-tape attack. "10."
"Why would you pick 7 Hana?" He shakes his head at her. 7 was always the most common answer when someone asks that question. "And 10 is the exact number I was looking for, Hiro."
"Why wouldn't i?" Hana says, who shrugs at why Tadashi is acting like this.
"Well, Hiro lost." Tadashi rolls up Hiro's sleeve, slaps some duct-tape on it, and pulls the strip off.
"Ow! Dude! Ow!" Hiro cries while grabbing his arm, dropping his bag on the ground. Two bots falling out.
"Tadashi, what the heck?!" Hana screeches seeing her twin in pain, turning around to glare at her older brother. A loud beep fills the room and suddenly something inflates from a red case near Tadashi's computer.
Hana inspected Hiro's arm where the duck-tape was ripped off "I think you ripped off some hai-" Hana slowly stops speaking as she looks in the same direction as Hiro.
"This is what I've been working on," Tadashi gestures to the invention that had appeared.
He appears as a wide robot covered in inflatable vinyl material. His head is relatively simple-looking, consisting of only two "eyes" and a mouth-esque line connecting them. His access port is on the left side of his chest, and can be recognized by its badge-like appearance.
The robot slowly steps out of the case, looking up at the twins. Tadashi steps back as the robot wads over to them, only to bump into a chair. It turns its head to look at the obstacle before bending down and picking it up. It glances around and puts the chair to the side. It then walks over, waves, and speaks.
"Hello, I am Baymax," It introduces itself. "Your personal healthcare companion. I was alerted to a need for medical attention when you both said ow." Tadashi points to him, mouthing the word 'ow.'
"Oh wow..." Hana blinks up at the thing in awe.
Hiro felt drowning under water again, Baymax was standing right before him, but has no memories of who he is. It hurt Hiro so badly, tears were forming in the corners of his eyes, and he wanted to run out of the lab and sprint to the front door to ground himself outside the building.
"A r-robotic...n-nurse," Hiro says with a shivering, quiet voice. Ten different smiley faces appear on a screen, with 1 being a yellow happy face, and 10 being a red pained face.
"On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain?"
"Physical, or emotional?" Hiro gives the robot please remember me look.
"Physically, I think we're okay," Hana taps her chin with her finger. "Emotionally, I'm very displeased with how he handled things," She glances at Tadashi with a tiny glare. He just hits them with a puppy eye look for them to go along.
"I will scan you now," He scans both of their bodies at the same time, looking for any symptoms. After a few seconds, he's already done. "Scan complete." His screen shows a picture of a silhouette of the male body.
"You have a slight epidermal abrasion on your forearms, your neural levels are twice activer than a normal person, and a pink spark is detected in your bloodstream." The forearms from the male body light up in red, as well a picture of his brain activity. "I suggest an anti-bacterial spray," He gently takes Hiro's arm. Both Tadashi and Hana were confused hearing what Baymax just said.
Hiro smiles at Baymax, the feeling of the vinyl against his skin grounds him. He felt he was back on the surface again.
"Whoa whoa whoa," Hana stops Baymax before he could do anything. "What's in that spray, specifically? Moreover, how accurate is this thing?" Hana says to her big brother. Tadashi just smiled.
"The primary ingredient is: Bacitracin," His screen shows the components of Bacitracin. Hiro, getting out of his state, snaps his fingers with a click.
"That's a bummer. We're actually allergic to that," He bounces a little. He was doing better at the moment.
"You both are not allergic to Bacitracin," Baymax tilts his head at him. "You both do have mild allergies to...peanuts."
"Huh, not bad," Hana comments as she allows the bot to put a spray on Hiro's arm. "You've done some serious coding on this thing." Hiro says as he felt more stable now when Baymax sprayed his arm.
"For real," Hana nods in agreement. "Must've taken a lot of tests to perfect it, huh?"
"Yes and yes," Tadashi answers to both questions, pushing the access port from the robot. "He's programmed with over 10,000 medical procedures." The access port shows one green chip inside that has a doctor smiley face on it. "This chip is what makes Baymax, Baymax."
Hana smiles as Hiro pushes the chip back in. They start looking around Baymax, poking at his body. "Vinyl?"
"Yeah. Going for a non-threatening, huggable design," Tadashi explains as he just watches them.
"Would that not slow him down a bit when he walks?" Hiro looks up at Baymax. Then he looks at Tadashi. "Why not look into finding a way to give him faster locomotion!"
"Huh, never thought of that, I should look into it." Tadashi stared at Baymax, who would probably be better if he went faster.
"He does look like a marshmallow." Hiro said just for the sake of it, starting at Baymax "no offense, Baymax."
"I am a robot, I cannot be offended." Baymax says, tilting his head.
"Don't hate on marshmallows," Hana gives Hiro a dirty look. "Marshmallows are delicious. Perfect for smores," She holds up a finger.
Hiro rolls his eyes in amusement at her, looking up at Baymax's black 'eyes.' "Hyper spectral cameras?" Hiro wanted to poke them, but decided not to out of respect he has for his big robot brother, just as his respect towards his big brother Tadashi.
"Yup," Tadashi confirms, Hana walking around towards the robot's back.
They look deep inside the vinyl from opposite sides, which has a flexible carbon-fiber skeleton covered in plastic and wires with thick limbs holding the rest of his body together. The skeleton also has a projector in its chest for Baymax to display anything from his screen.
"A light weighted skeleton," Hiro notes, both twins looking ridiculous with their pressed up faces.
"Carbon fiber," Tadashi tells him.
"Right...killer actuators! Where did you get those?" Hiro asks in amusement. Hiro looks up at Tadashi.
"Machined 'em right here, in-house," Tadashi replies smugly.
"Cool! " Hiro looked over at the 3D printing while Hana hugged Baymax from behind. Let's be real, who doesn't want to hug a big walking balloon?
"Yup. He can lift up to a thousand pounds," Tadashi explains, Hiro looking up at Baymax.
"What do you think of that, Hana? I'm amazed. Tadashi created an insane nurse-robot."
Hana lets go of the huggable robot to face him again. She didn't say anything, and it saddened Hiro a bit.
"You have been good children!" He holds out two red lollipops. "Have a lollipop."
"Nice! Thanks buddy." Hiro smirks, taking it.
"Thank you!" Hana grins at him as she takes the other one.
"I cannot deactivate until you say you are satisfied with your care," He tilts his head again.
"Well then, we're satisfied with our care," Hana tells him, but Hiro did not say the famous centince. He didn't want Baymax to leave yet, but seeing Baymax turning around schot a pang of pain right in his heart again. Hana put her lollipop back in her mouth as Tadashi stands between them.
"He's gonna help a lot of people," Tadashi says proudly, both of them watching Baymax. He walks back to his charging station and steps into it.
"Hey uh, what battery does he run on?" Hiro asks his big brother.
"Lithium ion," Tadashi responds as Baymax starts to deflate.
"What about supercapacitors, Baymax would charge way faster," Hiro suggests, Hana shaking her head.
"Just make sure not to overload him, or else he'd be too energized to function properly."
Tadashi smirks down at her and she plays with her braid, saying nothing else. He sighs to himself. Another time where she shows her intelligence, and she denies it yet again...even after he showed them everything, he still hadn't gotten through to her.
Hiro, as he swings his bag back on after picking it up along with the two bots in his left hand, could see Tadashi's smirk disappearing that Hana denied her intelligence, again. Hiro thought of helping his brother out with Hana accepting her genie's brain. But how? And not to forget he was still mad at her during that interview and Mikey pushing him in the pool. Hiro's thoughts were interrupted by a voice that sent ice-cold chills down his spine. The voice of the one who killed his older brother, stole his and Hana's invention and almost destroyed KreiTech.
"Burning the midnight oil, Mr. Hamada?" The three turn around to see a middle-aged man with blue eyes, gray hair, and slightly wrinkled skin. He's wearing brown slacks and a green sweater vest over a blue shirt.
Hiro, shocked, eyes widened, hands clamped to the straps of his bag. Time seems to stand still to him as Professor Callaghan walks in the lab. He couldn't move, nor say anything. His breathing was spiking and his heart goes so fast that it put Gogo's submarine suit, Wasabi's car, and Supersonic Sue and Stu's roller skates all to shame.
"Hey Professor," Tadashi greets, gesturing to his siblings to follow him. "Actually, I was just finishing up."
Hana removes her lollipop from her mouth to greet the man. "You must be the Hamada Twins," He points to Hiro. "Hiro." He then moves his finger to Hana, looking between the two. "And Hana. Well, you are definitely twins. I almost mistook you for one another! Bot-fighters, right?" He points to their robots in Hiro's left hand. Hana looked over to Hiro to see her Ninjabot and took her bot in her hands"When my daughter was younger, that's all she wanted to do. May I?" He holds out his hands.
"Sure," Hana says, placing her bot and Hiro's megabot in his hand. He examines their bots carefully. "Hmm. Magnetic bearing servos...and here we have metal servos. I see you two inspire each other."
"Oh, I'm not really an inspiration to him," Hana waves her hand frantically. "We don't even do the same designs..."
Hiro swore he had a heart attack right there. He felt drowning again, choking even. Like no air could go into his lungs. His vision began to come blurry and his head was hurting, like the hammer of thor was slamming against his head. He needed to run, he needed to run, get out of the building and grounding himself again. But his legs didn't move, he felt frozen, paralized. Hana had her arm locked with his arm, dragging him outside the lab and just like that, he moved with her, like a ragged doll moving on command.
Hana was a bit worried as her brother acted weird, so she bragged in his place as he would have done, "Wanna see how we put them together?"
Tadashi bangs on the window cover, turning it off. "Hey genius! He invented them," He points to the man and the window goes back to normal. Hana turned to the man standing in front of them.
"You're...Robert Callaghan," She murmured at the man.
"Like in...Callaghan-catmull spline," Hiro says slowly. Hiro tried his best to ground himself but felt he couldn't do it alone and wanted Baymax back. But he could barely say 'ow'.
"And your law of robotics?" Hana follows the professor while dragging her twin with her, Tadashi was turning off the light from his lab.
"That's right," He hands back the robots with a smile. Hana couldn't believe it. Robert Callaghan was a teacher; Tadashi's teacher! "Have you two ever thought about applying here? Your ages wouldn't be an issue."
"Oh they will, professor" Tadashi speaks up as he exits his lab. "They're done with bot-fighting. And Hiro was the one who wanted to come visit here. I knew they wanted to come study here." He was very proud of his little siblings.
"Well...y-yeah of course i w-want to come here," Hiro says as the two follow after them. Hana decides to stay silent as she wanted to hear what Callaghan had to say.
"Why that's great to hear, I asure you two will love it here." Callaghan glances at them for a second.
"Yeah...I know," Hiro looks away as he knows what will happen as they come here...he couldn't do anything to change that as the need to save someone close to Callaghan. Callaghan presses the button for the elevator.
"If you like to challenge yourselfs, then my program is exactly for you. We push the boundaries of robotics here. My students go on to shape the future. Nice to meet you, Hamada Twins," He lets go of the door. "Good luck on the showcase."
Tadashi starts the engine to his scooter, looking towards the twins. Hana was staring at the exterior of the robotics lab. Hiro was sitting on the stairs, grounding himself. He remembers Abigail, she was stuck in another dimension.
"We gotta hurry if you two wanna catch a good night's sleep!" He calls out and after a second, Hiro stands up in a panic.
"I HAVE to go here! If-If I don't go to this school, I'm gonna lose my mind!" He holds his hair in his left hand, turning back to his brother. "How do I get in?" It was like he almost forgot how he got in, but he did remember. He wants to save his brother, but at the same time, he remembers that Abigail also needs to be saved. He needs to find a way to save both of them. Tadashi doesn't need to die in order to save Abigail.
Tadashi gives Hiro a smile, glad Hiro made his choice to come. He notices Hana still staring up at the lab.
"Hana," Tadashi calls out and she turns around, seeing a curious gaze from his eyes. "How about you?"
"...It's nice..." She starts off, Tadashi leans in with interest. "But I don't think it's for me."
Hiro stares after her as she walks down the stairs. After all, he knew that she had still low-self esteem, but she also belonged in that school. Besides, she is important to the team "What?!" He said calmly this time, looking towards the surprised Tadashi.
"Why?" Tadashi calls out in disbelief.
"It's a nice school," Hana shrugs at them. "And while it does seem cool, I wo-" She decides to cut herself off before she could say it out loud.
"That's not the point!" Hiro rushes down the steps, coming to a stop in front of his sister. "Hana, listen! I know you believe you're not smart enough for this school, but you are smart, and you belong in a place like this. Stop brooding over what Vivian ever said to you. You graduated last year, and she's still in high school. You're beautiful and she's ugly, why would you believe any words she says to you?!" He pokes a finger in her chest.
Hana frowns at him. Not liking he said the girl's name "It's just another school. Besides, I don't see why you two are so upset. What's so bad about me not wanting to go?"
"Because I won't have my sister beside me! I want you to be there with me, with us!" Hiro said and Hana just stared at him. She had a hard time believing him.
"Really? I want that too, Hiro. But like I said before, it's just another school, there's nothing there waiting for me. It's my decision, so no, I'm not going, it's not for me."
"And why? Because Vivian said that?" Hana froze in place as Hiro said that. She hadn't heard that name in months. "She's not here anymore, so you can come to this school. The atmosphere is calm and amazing and friendly, the students here are great and more mature so no bullying, and the classes are incredible, so much to learn. Are you really gonna let Vivian get to you!" Hiro was more determined to convince Hana she was wrong about not coming to this school. "You belong here in this school just as much as I belong here as well. And your gonna get a future here caus a future IS waiting for you here at SFIT."
Tadashi and Hana mouths dropped to the floor as you could see another galaxy in there. "You constantly listened to what Vivian said to you and you never told us from day one what Vivian did to you. Are you literally letting that girl bring you down and do nothing with your life or are you gonna stand up and show that girl you are far smarter and beautifuller than she is?"
Hana narrowed her eyes, not liking where this is going, she said it was not for her. "Hiro, It is not for m…"
"It's WHAT? Not for you? Who said that? Vivian!" Hiro looked at Hana "Why are you listening to that girl? Believe that girl, cause newsflash you a genius and you graduated at 13 and you believe every word that dumb, ugly, fat, talentless, useless, money waisting, irritating, self-absorb, selfish, pathetic sad joke, and a waist of time girl said to you!"
Both Tadashi and Hana were speechless at his words, never in their lives would they ever hear Hiro say such things about a human being. But for him to say that about Vivian, that means something. Hana, wide eyes said nothing to him. She was struggling believing him.
Hiro looks to his brother for help. "You wanna say something to her?" His eyes are pleading. Tadashi couldn't say anything though, because he was speechless hearing what Hiro said a minute ago. Hana had said no after seeing what could be done here. He feels very dejected that she still didn't wanna come here.
"Riiight. Let's go," Hana jumps onto the back, taking Hiro's spot. "Shotgun."
Hiro sighs, but not in defeat. "No, we are not leaving until you see that Vivian's empty words are just lies. Do you know why you are like this, Huh? Because you believed in every. Single. Word. She. Said. To. You! Why? Just Why! Do you believe her so badly? Why?"
Hana didn't know what to think. "I-I don't… well I… euh… I" She was stammering, not knowing how to answer him.
"WHY" Hiro yelled at her. That made Hana snapped at him "BECAUSE I NEVER COULD BE AS GOOD AS YOU!" Tadashi was shocked to hear that and Hiro feld proud that she confessed her real problem, "I'm not as smart as you or at the same level as you, and I just did… I don't know, I just have such low self-esteem and I'm so insecure. I believed everything Vivian said, no one even believed me when I told the truth, okay. I know she's lying, but I just insecure and had such low self-esteem and not on the same level as you, I-I…I"
"So you do know she's lying, huh. Then stop giving her what she wants and do what she hates. You…" He was pointing with his finger towards her "Not giving in to her. Not giving her what she wants. You. Not. Believing. Her. And newsflash, you don't need to be the same as I am! You need to be you instead, not like me, none of us ever asked that from you." Hiro said sternly towards her, he knows she felt so low of herself because she thought she needed to be on the same level as him. Hana needed to see for herself; she never needed to be like him.
Hana was silenced, thoughtful of his words. Minutes go by and she still hasn't said anything. Hiro shook his head and went over to Tadashi.
"I won't…"
Hiro looked at Hana as she stopped talking, what was she gonna say…
"What? You won't fit in! Won't belong here! Won't be good enough!" Hana looked up at him, locking eyes with fierce and stern eyes. "Hana you WILL fit in and Will belong here and you WILL be good enough for SFIT if you don't compare yourself to what Vivian said to you. Your problem is that you care so much about what Vivian said to you that you gave Vivian permission to bully you, but guess what, you never did that, you never gave Vivian permission! So stop letting yourself be shaped and molded by Vivian and start shaping and molding yourself into the person you want to be." And with that…
He jumps on the mop after Hana and they ride back home in silence. Once home, they were greeted by their Aunt Cass, who to Hiro didn't feel like an aunt, but as his mom.
"Hey sweeties, where were you three so late?" She hugged her three children "Did you two went bot-fighting again?" She crossed her arms, looking at the twins smiling rather 'I caught you' on her face. Hana spoke up.
"Sorry Aunt Cass, we did indeed go bot-fighting…" Tadashi cut her off with good news, "But they both decided tonight to quit bot-fighting for good, and they...errr i mean, Hiro wants to come study at SFIT." Tadashi said to his aunt with the brightest smile ever.
Cass her eyes went big hearing that they were stopping with bot-fights and want to go study with their older brother. "R-Really?"
"Yes, really." Tadashi said. Hana looked away, she didn't agree to go, but she couldn't shake the words of Hiro out of her head. Hiro was staring at Cass, she's not his aunt, but his mother. Their mother, of all three of them.
"Ooooo, I'm so happy for you two." She gave the twins a bone breaking hug, "I can't believe that my two little baby's are going to college with their older brother." She let go of them and kissed them on their foreheads.
"Thank you, Aunt Cass. B-but I'm not going." Hana said, as she walked to the stairs to the attic.
Aunt Cass looked shocked and confused at her, "What...Why?"
"It's not for me, and… i haven't really decided yet" Hana answers back, going up the stairs. Cass looked at Tadashi with disbelieved eyes.
"Sorry Aunt Cass, she just doesn't want to go." Tadashi exclaimed sadly. "But Hiro still wanna go." He laid his arm over Hiro's shoulders. Aunt Cass was excited he wants to go.
"Oooo sweetie, I'm so proud of you." She hugged him again, "Don't worry, I'm sure Hana will change her mind and she will wanna go when she sees how much fun you two will have." She let go and said her good night to them, "Good night you too." She turns and walked off to her room. "Come on, Mochi." She tells a Japanese Bobtail cat to follow her. Mochi follows her to her room.
"Good night, Aunt Cass." Tadashi said as he went up the stairs. Hiro stood there for a second, he then said something that surprised both Aunt Cass and Tadashi, "Good night, mommy." Hiro said to his mother.
Both aun...err...Cass and Tadashi looked at Hiro with big eyes and open mouths. Hiro couldn't hide how much Cass means to him and ran up to her and hugged her, "Aunt Cass, you're my mommy, and you always have been my mommy. I don't wanna hide it anymore and I don't wanna call you aunt anymore. I wanna call you mommy from now on." Tears swell in Hiro's eyes as he says that.
Cass had tears in her eyes of happiness. She had raised the three siblings since their parents death, they had become her sons and daughter to her over time. Hearing Hiro call her mom was the most heartwarming moment in her life. This means so much to her that they see her as a mother. She hugged him back one last time before they let each other go. "You three have always been my children to me. And I'm more than happy you want to call me mommy." She said, wiping her tears away. Giving Hiro one last good night kiss on his forehead, they went all to bed.
In the siblings bedroom, Hana was already dressed in PJ's and sleeping. Tadashi walked to his side of the room and closed the divider for some privacy. Hiro went to the shared bathroom to change. When he returned to his side of the room, he saw Tadashi sitting on his bed. Hiro swallows his nerves to walks up to him.
"Hi."
"Hi." Tadashi replied back.
"So...uh, y-you wann…"
"What's going on with you?" Tadashi cuts him off. Coming directly to the point.
Hiro was taken aback a bit. "Uh, Wha-W-What do y-you m-mean?" he stammered.
Tadashi lift up an eyebrow, "Really? You quit bot-fighting," He held up a finger " you wanna come to my school," He held up a second finger "and you call aunt Cass mommy!" He held up a third finger "What is going on?"
Hiro's eyes were wide, not expecting this. How is he gonna answer that? Swallowing his nerves, "Tadashi, I don't know what to say, but I do know what to say to you. I love you Tadashi, and you mean so much to me and Hana. You have always been there for us and you always cared for us, And there are no words out there that can describe how thankful I am to have you and Hana in my life. You are more than my Nii-san, you're also a father figure to me and Hana, and more, you're our best friend. You, Cass and Hana mean so much to me, I wouldn't be able to live without you guys." When Hiro was done, he had tears in his eyes.
Tadashi was so taken by what Hiro says that he took him in a warm, loving hug. When Hiro called him Nii-san, he realized how much he missed them calling him that, it felt good to hear that again. When he let go, he saw how tired Hiro was and laid him down on his bed, tucking him in. As he was about to leave, Hiro grabbed his arm and stops Tadashi in his tracks.
"Please sleep with me." Hiro says, looking to tadashi with pleading eyes. Tadashi didn't have the heart to say no, and agreed to sleep with him. When they both were covered, Hiro drift off to sleep with Tadashi's heartbeat next to his ear.
Unbeknown to them, Hana heard every word Hiro said and slightly feels guilty for saying she didn't want to go to SFIT with them. Biting her bottom lip, she reconsidered if she should go too.