At the end of their school days, Hiro and Ari usually sat at the same table in the corner of the cafe to finish any extra work while their aunt refilled their tanks with sweets. Hiro didn't have any important work to do, so he just watched Ari scribble away in her notebook.
"Math problems?" He questioned.
"Writing." Ari shrugged. "We're doing this creative writing assignment in one of my classes where you make up a story."
"Ironically I have the same problem." Hiro groaned.
She gawked at him. "Huh?" She didn't know SFIT did writing courses… it felt like an SFAI thing.
He dramatically huffed like it was the end of the world. "Professor Granville is giving us this writing assignment for the week for some stupid reason. And of course everyone is acting like it's a break."
"You're not doing it are you?"
"Nope."
"Suit yourself." She flipped to the next page. "I'm writing about something based off of that one time you and Fred followed me and Gogo to Muirahara, but it's like a fantasy AU!"
"A what?"
"Fantasy AU! Like y'know, medieval times, magic, dragons and what-not. It's cool." Ari grinned. "I got this idea from those dragon plushies in your room."
"Of course you did." He rolled his eyes. "Well at least one of us is enjoying this assignment."
By the time the assignment was due for Hiro, he just watched Granville collect various written stories from everyone except him. The dean shuffled a stapled story on her desk. "Congratulations on turning in your creative writing assignments." She told the class. "Most of you."
He knew that comment was an unintentional jab at him. "Challenging your imaginations makes you better thinkers. Better thinkers are better scientists."
"Or this stuff keeps us from actual science." Hiro pointed out, while having an imagination was good for inventing, he saw little use in imagining hypothetical scenarios in your head and writing it down on paper.
Granville frowned at his words. "A strong opinion from an uninformed source." She scanned the class. "Karmi, would you please read the first chapter of your story?"
"Of course!" Hiro jabbed the pencil into his desk as she went on. "I'm always happy to inspire the underachievers."
Of all the people she had to pick, it was Karmi. He thought. She's probably gonna narrate some wacky rom-com parody that's Big Hero 6 related.
And he wasn't wrong. "By the time Big Hero 6 knew the evil Momakase had lured them into a trap, it was too late." Kill me now…
"Oh no it's a trap!" Flame Jumper exclaimed, clinging onto a lamppost for dear life.
"And we realized too late!" Chop Chop clung to a building as the others clung to heavy objects. Poor Speed Queen was unable to grab onto something and was sucked into the malicious vortex Momakase summoned to wipe out the city!
Momakase sneered at the helpless team. "The city is mine now, heroes."
There was a groan from surprise, David. "Why is Momakase the villain in this story? You couldn't pick Steamer?"
"Mr. Ferns, no interruptions."
"Sorry Professor."
Alas, their brave leader was reduced to tears. "I never got to tell my beautiful girlfriend, Karmi, how I felt."
"There there."
"She knew, she's very smart." Red Panda and Chem Girl tried cheering him up.
"She is! And she's here to save you." They looked up to see a figure on the rooftops, who twirled down to the ground smirking.
Momakase, for some reason, did not recognize the girl she had abducted months ago. "Who are you?"
"Didn't you hear us?" Flame Jumper questioned. "She's Captain Cutie's beautiful girlfriend, Karmi." He lost his grip on the lamppost and fell into the vortex. "Aaaah!"
"Yes, allow me to play it back for you." Red Panda kept looping the statement until Momakase was annoyed enough to toss him into the vortex as well.
"Enough! And how do you plan to stop me?"
She whipped out a gun, wait what? "I designed a device to reverse the polarity of your evil vortex."
"She's the best." Captain Cutie swooned.
"Uhg! No way!"
Karmi glared at Hiro for being the interrupter. "Problem, weirdo?"
"Yeah. A whole list of them." He could tolerate some of her work, but the part about Karmi getting involved in the heroics? Like that'll ever happen! Before he could derail into a rant, Granville cut him off.
"Instead of criticism, might I suggest creation?" She suggested.
"Fine." He smirked at Karmi, eager to rise to the challenge. "My story will be way more realistic!"
"Sure Hiro, have fun staring at a blank computer screen all night!" Karmi taunted, next to her, David snickered.
"You wish." If Hiro was uninterested before, he was gonna do the project better than her!
Sure he might've been a bit inspired by spite, but anything Karms could do, he could do better.
Later that night…
Crickets chirped outside. "You have been staring at a blank computer screen all night." Baymax stated, standing behind Hiro.
He groaned as a response and slammed his face onto the desk, thankfully Baymax used his vinyl arm as a pillow so he didn't hit any wood.
"If you're done with groaning, dim the volume." Ari complained, she had taken over his bed since he wasn't using it, and was cuddling some of his plushies. "Some of us like a healthy sleep schedule!"
He mumbled something that sounded like "shut up, Ari" to her. She got up. "That's it." And dragged him to the covers.
"Wh-what are you doing!?" Hiro put up a fight and squirmed. "Let me go!"
"No, you need sleep-" He kicked her ankle, she yelped. "Baymax!"
"I have got you." Baymax scooped her brother up like a cat and started rocking him, and starting to play a small lullaby. "Go to sleep, Hiro."
"I'm not…" His eyes grew heavy. "Tired…" and he was out like a light. The robot then noticed Ari had passed out.
"Oh." He turned off the computer screen so the bright lights wouldn't wake them up, Baymax then tucked the two in.
"Goodnight." He told the siblings as they started unconsciously snuggling each other for warmth and comfort. With his job done, Baymax went into his charging station, satisfied that his family were catching up on sleep.
Elsewhere… in an abandoned warehouse that served as two robotic sibling's headquarters. Trina was in her regular body, tinkering away on some sort of project, the mech suit was too clunky to get the finer details.
"Whatcha working on, sis?" NBB bounced up to her.
She frowned at him. "It's-"
"Shiny! What's that do? And that? And that? And that?" He poked through everything that could be poked. "Oh, and definitely-"
"Noodle!" Trina snapped at him. "I'm trying to work!"
He chuckled. "Okay. Betcha I can guess what you're working on!" He spun his head around. "Um… give me a hint."
"Maybe I could actually get work done if you were somewhere else!"
"Not much of a hint."
Trina growled. "Take this hint!" She threw NBB to the back of the warehouse. "Go! Anywhere but here. Make yourself useful!"
NBB would be pouting if his mouth moved, his "big sis" was never this mean to him. "Okie-dokie…" He wished Mikan was here, but Trina said he couldn't hang out with her because she was a traitor.
Now he knew what loneliness felt like, and it was colder than a Noodle Burger frosty.
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Mikan Ferns: Good morning to a glorious day of fourth wall breaking : )
Rachel Rosemary: Wut
Fredzilla: That's my line!
Hiro Hamada: Very funny guys
Mikan Ferns: Well sue me for spicing up this week
Gogo: I don't need these shenanigans until I've had my coffee
TheLittleMermaid: I thought fanfiction jokes were saved until another day.
Rachel Rosemary: Here we go again
Sienna Kline: Oh I love fanfiction!
Sienna Kline: Some people write gross stuff though
Mikan Ferns: Welcome to society, people are gross
Hiro Hamada: Thanks I hate it!
TheLittleMermaid: I'm not being a productive member today!
Fredzilla: ^^
Sienna Kline: Why am I here again?
"Okay, Baymax, now play that back." The robot replayed the recording. "As the concentration shifted, the chemical clock reaction suddenly went completely black."
Fred frowned, night patrol could get boring, but this? "I don't get it."
"It's a scary story." Hiro explained.
Baymax gave a thumbs up. "A chemically accurate scary story."
"Accuracy does not equal entertainment." Fred gestured with his claws. "It's not 'acur-tainment.'"
"But isn't it bad writing if things aren't realistic?" Hiro frowned.
"Bad writing is when the characters aren't realistic, or that the lore changes even ten seconds for the needs of the plot." Fred explained. "Sometimes a bit of creativity and magic can make things interesting, as long as it's not overpowered or shallow, character development makes stuff pop."
Hiro nodded. "Wow." He was amazed at how much Fred knew, then again it wasn't a surprise, he then turned to Baymax. "Baymax, erase it."
"All of it?"
"Yeah, go ahead and erase every bit of that, it's super boring." The comic fan chimed in.
Baymax beeped. "Deleted." Fred walked up to the brooding teen and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Science-horror might be too advanced for your first work of fiction." Fred told him. "Maybe write what you know."
"All I know is that I hate writing." Hiro was glaring daggers from frustration.
Fred took no offense, instead his eyes lit up. "Ooh! Writing about how you hate writing would be like meta. Super meta, it could be a comedy!"
The comms buzzed. "Sounds like you're avoiding it." Gogo chimed in.
"I am not avoiding it!" Hiro complained, then he saw something yellow in his vision, Fred yelped as the engineer sped over just to make eye contact with him.
"Yep, avoiding it."
Fred raised his hand. "Hey, maybe reading Karmi's latest work would spark something." He pulled out his phone. "I mean it's got everything: action, adventure, suspense, humor, us!"
"That's it!" Hiro realized. "I know us. I can just write a Big Hero 6 story!" It couldn't be that hard, he could write a story based off of one of their heroic adventures!
Gogo narrowed her eyes. "Isn't that what she did?"
"Well, yeah." He chuckled. "But mine will be, um…"
"Scientifically accurate." Baymax pointed out.
Hiro grinned. "Better, can't be that hard to fix her inaccuracy."
"Interesting." Fred tapped his claws. "An AU- that stands for 'alternate universe,' for you fanfic newbies. Inside another AU is the perfect amount of AU!" He yelped when Gogo knocked him over. "Hey!"
"You were leaning on me." She pointed out. "Baymax, any thoughts on this?"
Baymax looked out into the city. "I think there is a disturbance at Night Market Square."
"Let's move out."
Fred flipped his hood back on. "This conversation is TBC. That stands for 'to be conti-' Woah!" Gogo dragged off the roof. "Yeah. Okay!" They landed on Baymax's back and flew to the square.
They landed at Nigh Market Square and saw a familiar robotic menace. "Noodle Burger Boy." Hiro glared at him.
NBB looked… different, his smiling face frowning and a tear painted on his face. "Perhaps these parts will fill the emptiness inside of me."
Fred took a step back. "Is he okay?"
"Whatever." Gogo readied her disks. "Move in." She threw them and NBB ducked with his head.
"Great. Happy, hyperactive heroes." His eyes glowed red. "Awesome." He shot lasers at Gogo, she backflipped into the air as Baymax and Hiro flew for the attack, luckily Fred caught her.
"Existence is an endless void." NBB ran to Baymax and started head-butting him.
"Is it just me or is Noodle Burger Boy kind of OOC?"
"What does that stand for?" Gogo looked at Fred.
"Out of character." He translated. "Like when I eat guilt-eat crackers."
"Huh, you learn something new every day."
Hiro grinned. "I can fix that. Baymax, power kick!" Baymax punted the smaller robot at a building, he fell on his head.
"Typical me." NBB's legs flailed like a turtle on his back. "Failure is the inevitable result of effort!"
Gogo winced. "I think he gave up."
"Uh… okay. So, you surrender?" Hiro asked him.
"Why not, my day can't get any worse." The universe jinxed NBB as a billboard fell on top of him.
Fred gave a grief-stricken gasp as NBB's leg fell in his arms. "I can't believe it, he's gone!" He fell to his knees. "Taken out by a flying billboard!"
"Fred, it was a falling billboard." Baymax patted his back. "There, there."
"What?!" Mikan's eyes widened. "NBB is… gone?"
"Yeah." Fred sniffled, Mikan was hanging with the gang in the robotics lab where she was told of the small robot's fate. "I'm gonna miss that Noodle Burger buddy, who was also a Noodle Burger adversary." He stroked the leg.
"A-are you sure he's 'gone' gone?" Mikan questioned.
"I didn't see your dad's chip when we inspected him." Gogo explained. "And he was acting a little weird, we'll know if his sister comes breaking into the lab with vengeance."
Next to her, Honey Lemon shivered. "I don't want to even think about that."
"How's the writing going, Hiro?" Wasabi looked over to the teen typing away on his computer.
"Check this out." He grinned maliciously. "Karmi, thinking she could save Big Hero 6 from Momakase's trap, was about to fail so much..."
"I made a shiny thing to reverse the spinning sky thing's spinning-ness!" Karmi declared, preparing to fire the laser gun, but it fizzled. "Huh, that's so weird."
Except it wasn't. Because Karmi's not an electrical engineer, and is also The Worst. "Luckily, the problem's obvious." Captain Cutie grabbed the laser gun. "Backwards regulator."
"By the time it's fixed, it will be far too late!" Momakase declared.
"Oh my gosh!" Mikan cackled. "That was worse than when I mimicked her accent! And then I got punched for it."
She rubbed her nose. "David yelled at both of us."
Hiro glared at her for interrupting. "Mikan..."
"Sorry, sorry, continue with your terribly accented story!" Mikan waved it off.
"She doesn't have that much of an english accent." He mumbled. "So it's easy to mimic."
Elsewhere, a certain mercenary turned werecat sneezed, feeling annoyed like the time her son's older sister made fun of her accent.
Captain Cutie repaired the laser gun in an instant. "Fixed it." He grinned and shot the portal, reversing the damage and freeing his teammates.
"You win this time, Big Hero 6!" Momakase vanished in a puff of smoke.
Karmi started crying from her failure. "I don't why I failed so badly." She sobbed, a dramatic spotlight over her miserable form.
"I can make you a list." Captain Cutie told her.
Hiro gave a happy sigh at his work. "Pretty good, right." He was met with awkward stares. "Right?!"
Fred spoke first. "Well if you are open to taking notes…" He winced. "That dialogue was way on the nose. Plus the main character's a little unlikeable."
"And also, everyone else didn't get a lot of spotlight." Mikan chimed in. "It's important that everyone gets some spotlight, but sometimes characters can have too much, often the main character to be honest." She glanced over to Hiro, then to Baymax.
"Hiro. I am concerned about your elevated blood pressure." He stated, noticing how Hiro's face scrunched into a frown.
"I think what we all need to do is think of something happier!" Honey Lemon clapped her hands.
Hiro rolled his eyes. "Uh, what's better than saving the day and making Karmi look bad?"
"Well, I do love a good love story."
"Or a found family story, those are underrated." Gogo smirked.
"Amen." Wasabi high-fived her.
Big Hero 6 was in the Lucky Cat Cafe, and there were cute animals everywhere! "Ooh, this is so soothing." Chem Girl squealed.
"It's great." Karmi pouted. "I just wish I could have been more helpful earlier."
Ari then waddled up to Captain Cutie. "Go talk to her about… y'know!" She grinned.
He blushed. "What?! I don't- y'know!"
"Why is my sister in this?"
"Because it's what she would've wanted!"
"You can't hide it from me Captain!" Ari winked at him. "I know how you feel about my friend."
"You know?" Captain Cutie stammered.
"Don't be shy, go for it!" She nudged him over to where Karmi was sitting.
"Yeah, you're so nice too!" Chem Girl added, he decided to try.
So he walked over. "Cheer up Karmi." He tapped her head. "Momakase would've had us if you hadn't shown up."
Karmi lifted her head. "Really? But you said-"
"I know." He frowned. "And I was wrong. I'm sorry."
She sniffled. "Then why do you act like you hate me in front of everyone?" Karmi shut her eyes, then felt Captain Cutie wiping away her tears.
"Your best friend made me realize the truth, I've been intimidated by how much I… like you." He had a lovey-dovey look in his eyes.
A heart of flowers formed around them, and Captain Cutie wrapped the roses in a bouquet and gave them to Karmi. "Chem Girl and Ari are such good friends!" She squealed, she looked into his eyes, and they leaned in for a loving-
"Ssh! Be quiet."
"Thank you, Gogo." Hiro stated, glad someone stopped the shipping train before… "There is no way that-"
"No, not that." She paused. "I heard something." She got up and walked only a few feet before a large whirring sound followed by lasers blasting a chunk of the lab wall open.
"Noodle Burger Boy's back!" Fred exclaimed, pointing to the figure. They all ducked the laser eyes going for their heads.
"Noodle Burger Boy's back…" Mikan's eyes widened with fear.
AN: and back to goofyness! Man get ready for 4th wall breaks and jokes everywhere! This ep is always a favorite for me and it's fun adding my OCs into the action!
By the time of posting it's currently Passover so if any of my readers celebrate, happy Passover to you all!
QOTW: Favorite fanfic trope?