Okay I may be the only one, but I am starting to really like this story! Is it the best writing I've ever done? Not by a long shot. But it's a cool idea! This is very fun for me. Get excited guys, I'm gonna wake up Ruffnut!
"Come on, come on, come on!" Honey Lemon chanted, dragging Fred into the lab in a tow. He had insisted on stopping at the cafeteria for sushi, which he struggled to eat with chopsticks while she tugged on his arm.
"As much as I appreciate your excitement, Honey, I still don't understand why we're in such a rush," Fred complained. "This sushi is seriously quality stuff, and it's meant to be savored."
"Because, Fred, science is a delicate art!" Honey replied in exasperation. She threw on her safety goggles and raced over to her lab equipment to check on the vials she'd left overnight. "This formula has to sit for precisely 24 hours! Any more than that, and it won't work!"
Honey checked the timer. There was still two minutes left - she'd made it in time. She began mixing together a fresh batch of chemicals that, if done correctly, would balance the reaction with the sensitive formula she'd already created. Honey muttered to herself, listing off the measurements and doing quick math equations in her head. Sometimes her mind worked so fast that she could miss a step, and that would be very bad.
Fred peeked over her shoulder, watching her work in fascination. "Cool," he breathed. "It looks like witchcraft. Gandalf would be proud."
Honey smirked at his geek reference and finished stirring her mixture. The timer beeped, and she used her Bunsen burner to heat the formula to 600 degrees Kelvin. It turned dark red and began steaming.
"Okay," she breathed. "This is it."
She and Fred bent over the counter. Fred took another bite of sushi. Honey took her freshly-made mixture and carefully poured it into the dark red formula.
For a moment, nothing happened, and Honey thought perhaps it had worked. But then, it slowly turned to a deep green and began bubbling profusely.
"Oh no no no!" Honey exclaimed. She quickly took a step back and yanked on Fred's arm to get him away from the mixture that was about to combust. But Honey had not accounted for the piece of raw fish hanging from the chopsticks in Fred's hand. Her sudden movement caused him to drop the fish — and it landed right in the bubbling chemical compound.
"Ah!" The two of them screamed simultaneously. They both ducked behind the counter for protection, Honey with her hands over her ears as she waited for the violent explosion. But it never came. The room had gone silent.
Honey and Fred carefully peeked their heads over the counter. What they saw made them gasp.
"Holy Zippleback, baby!" Fred exclaimed in awe.
Inside the vial, a thick, putrid green gas swirled ominously, slowly leaking out the top like steam.
"I did it!" Honey squealed. She rushed back over to the completed creation to get a closer look. "I don't understand," she said, checking it over. "Somehow, the fish you dropped into the formula stabilized it!" She looked at Fred, who she expected to be grinning, or celebrating in victory. Instead, he stared at her creation in shock.
"I... don't... believe it!" Fred exclaimed holding out his hands. He leaned over the vial and took in a long whiff of the gas. "Oh, yeah," he breathed. "That is good stuff."
Honey raised an eyebrow at him. "You are seriously weird, you know that?"
Fred smirked at her mischievously. "Take a sniff," he told her, pushing the smoking vial towards her.
Honey snorted, and then complied, placing her nose over the gas. The smell was positively vile.
"Oh, ew!" she gagged. "It smells like barf!"
Fred's eyes glinted and his smile grew. "Yes, it does." He grabbed a small Bunsen burner from the counter. "And now all it needs," he said, holding it over the gas, "is a spark."
Honey tried to yell out for him to stop, but then he lit the gas and a deafening explosion filled the room. Honey saw a strange, two-headed reptile flash before her eyes, before everything went black.
Ruffnut gripped the scales of her dragon head, trying effortfully to stay on board as the six of them flew towards a dragon that Tuffnut had so fittingly named the Red Death.
"Ugh," she gagged. "My dragon won't keep its mouth shut. It keeps barfing up gas!" She complained.
"Oh yeah?" Tuff replied on the head next to her. "Mine keeps making weird belching noises!"
The dragon heads threw the two of them around violently. "Whoa!" Ruff wrapped her hands around the neck as Tuff nearly fell backwards.
Ruffnut wasn't the best at reading dragon behavior, but she was pretty sure the head she was riding was laughing at her.
"Hey!" She argued with the dragon. "Belching isn't such a bad thing. You should see Tuffnut after Snoggletog feast! He stinks way worse than you."
"Yeah," Tuffnut agreed enthusiastically. "And Ruffnut can barf up anything on command. Just ask her!"
"It's true!" Ruff said.
The dragon heads looked at each other, seeming to consult one another about the two muttonheads on their backs. It seemed to forgive them, because both heads cackled and shot an explosion in front of them.
"Ruff! Tuff! Watch your backs!" Hiccup shouted at them as they approached the Red Death. He gave out orders like a pro, so much so that Ruff almost felt bad for making fun of the chief's son for so many years. She had to admit, someone this crazy was someone she would happily follow into a fight.
"Come on Barf!" Ruff said to her dragon head. "Let's go kick some nasty dragon butt!"
"Yeah!" Tuff echoed her. "Let's blow this place, Belch!"
And with that, the two dragon riders flew into battle on their newly-named dragon.
"Honey!"
"Honey Lemon!"
She awoke with a start, completely disoriented. Fred leaned over her with a hand on her head. She realized she was on the lab floor.
A green and red-speckled dragonhead flashed in her mind, with two large fangs sticking out of its mouth and a curved horn on its nose. A distinct gassy smell filled her nostrils, and she shot up suddenly.
"Barf!" She exclaimed.
"Whoa, whoa! Easy Honey," Fred held her shoulders, keeping her in a sitting position on the floor. "You just fainted from the gas. Are you okay?"
Her head ached painfully. "I keep seeing... a dragon... Barf," she groaned, unable to understand the confusion in her own mind.
Fred froze, his eyes wide. "Ruff?" He asked, so quietly she almost missed it.
She squinted. Her name was Honey Lemon — or at least that's what Fred and all her friends called her.
"Ruffnut is that you?" Fred asked urgently.
Honey's instincts kicked in, and she suddenly saw Fred with long blonde dreads and a horned helmet.
"Tuff!" She exclaimed.
Fred leaped up from the ground. "You remember!"
Honey wasn't sure what she remembered. She was still herself. But she realized that Fred's freak out the other night made perfect sense to her. Dragons were real. In another life she had been a Viking. And the guy in front of her had been her brother.
She stood up and stared at Fred. Honey sniffed the room, and she turned to look at what remained of her science experiment. Her jaw dropped.
"I made Zippleback gas?" She screeched.
"No, we made Zippleback gas," Fred corrected with a smile. "My raw fish helped, remember? I guess that makes sense since dragons eat fish, you know? It must have done something all chemical-ly, like the inside of a dragon's stomach — "
"Oh my God, Tuff!" Honey Lemon attacked her brother with a hug. The Ruffnut in her wanted to actually tackle him to the ground, but Honey was much less violent than the Viking version of herself. Instead, she just squeezed him way too tightly around the neck.
Fred/Tuff laughed and hugged her back. "I missed you, dear sister," he said.
They pulled apart and Tuff (sorry, Fred) rubbed the back of his neck. "I guess the smell of the gas and the explosion were enough to wake you up?" He hypothesized. "I don't know why we are both suddenly remembering ourselves. I mean, why us? Why now?"
Honey felt her mind start up again. Unlike Ruffnut, Honey was much brighter and had a much deeper understanding of chemistry and science. Not that Ruffnut wasn't scientifically-inclined; the Viking loved doing experiments. But Ruff was much more chaotic and accidental in her discoveries, whereas Honey usually understood more about what she was doing.
Then again, she had just accidentally created Zippleback gas with her brother. How was that even possible?
"Barf-and-Belch!" Honey exclaimed. "Maybe since we remembered our dragon, it reminded us of our past selves?"
"Yeah!" Fred replied excitedly. "Perhaps it's our subconscious minds trying to reconcile having reincarnated souls inside our bodies — "
" — and if we're here," Honey continued, "then that means Barf-and-Belch could be here too!"
"Really? You think so?" Fred said excitedly. "How?"
Honey shook her head. "I don't know. But Tuff, we have to find them!"
"But we don't even know if dragons exist in this world!"
"You're the one always saying that riders and dragons are bonded forever," she insisted. "If they are here, they will recognize us!" Honey declared. She raced over to the empty vile where she had created the gas. "If I can make more of their gas, we can use it to signal them. I'll condense it into a chem ball, and we can use it to find them!"
Fred began jumping up and down. "Yes! The Thorston Twins are back, baby! I'll get my dragon suit, and we can go around blasting Zippleback gas all over the city..." A dreamy expression came over his face. Then he gasped. "I need to get more sushi!"
Honey began racing over the room collecting ingredients to recreate the formula. "We need lots of it! More than you can carry!" She ordered. "I'm coming Barf!" She poured three chemicals together and watched them react.
"We're both coming, Belch!" Fred echoed. He leaped up in celebration and hit the top of the doorframe with his hand. "I love you, sis!" He shouted from down the hall as he ran back to the cafeteria.
I know that Fred and Honey are a little different than the twins, but all the Big Hero 6 characters are too similar to the HTTYD characters to pass up this reincarnation theory. I imagine that Honey and Fred are generally quicker than Ruff and Tuff, but if you recall, the twins have always secretly been geniuses. Boy, when they get around to finally waking up Hiccup, I cannot wait... Please leave a review!
