Rena stood behind Baymax whilst he bandaged Fred's arm and set it back in place. 'Did you hear that?' She asked Fred nervously.

'How could I not? Ow!'

'Sorry, I am only trying to fix your arm.'

'That's okay, Baymax. It just fucking hurts.'

'And why do you think that's going to happen? Face it! You're outnumbered.' Hiro said coldly.

'Everyone is going to remove their armour.' Jason replied smoothly, 'starting with you.'

'And what makes you think I'll do that?' Hiro said, scoffing.

'This.'

He clicked his fingers. Immediately, Tadashi howled and collapsed onto the floor. There he lay, shaking and screaming as though someone was torturing him.

'TADASHI!' Rena screamed, her hands clapping to her mouth in shock. It had all happened so sudden.

'He's convinced he's being tortured.' Gogo whispered, her eyes wide.

Honey Lemon had her hands over her ears, 'make it stop!' She whimpered.

'Oh, I will.' Jason said, 'if you take your armour off and remove your weapons.'

Hiro stared him down, but after only a few seconds sighed and gave in. Reluctantly, he took his helmet off and threw it onto the floor. The rest of the gang followed him.

'And the robot.'

Hiro sighed and walked over to Baymax. With the help of Rena and Fred, Baymax's armour was on the floor in no time. 'Okay, it's off.'

Baymax continued to assist Fred as though nothing had even happened.

'Excellent.' Jason purred. 'Now, before anyone does anything rash, remember that my brother is holding a gun.'

'Now stop it!' Hiro said defiantly. His confident demeanour was quickly slipping with the sounds of Tadashi's screams still tearing through the air, 'stop it!'

The man rolled his eyes, 'okay, okay. I am many things, but I'm not a liar.' He clicked a button on the phone and Tadashi lay still.

'We need the phone.' Fred whispered from next to Rena, eyeing Tadashi lying on the floor. 'Like, now.'

'I know!' She hissed, 'I'm thinking! I just... I need more time.'

'I can give you that.' Fred replied quietly. 'OI!'

Fournier turned to him, his eyes narrowed. 'What?'

Fred stepped out behind Baymax, his arm freshly bandaged. 'Uhhh... Hi!'

'Fred!' Hiro hissed, annoyed. 'What the hell are you doing?!'

'I just thought... You know... If you're gonna kill us... We might as well get to know each other! So, I'm gonna go first. My name's Fred and I like comic books and pizza. Your turn, Rena.' He gestured behind him and Rena stepped forward hesitantly.

'Uh, I'm Rena. I like... Uhhh...' She was stalling, her eyes darting frantically around the room. Of course, they could just all run. But then, there was the problem of the gun. No, they had to be smart about it. They could do that... Right? 'I like...' Her voice trailed off when she noticed the chem purse, lying on the floor between Wasabi and Honey Lemon. Then, a slightly insane idea started to form in her head. If she could just get near that chem purse...

Rena's face split into a grin as she looked at Wasabi. She knew exactly what she had to do. 'I like WASABI!'

'As in... The food?' Fournier said, confused.

'No!' Rena exclaimed, putting on her most high pitched and girlish voice, 'HIM!'

She pointed right at him. Wasabi stared at her, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. 'Eh?'

'Wasabi, we shouldn't have to hide anymore!' Rena said, taking her chance and taking a step towards him. She wasn't shot in the head, so she took this as a good sign, and an indication to go further. 'Well, seeing as we're gonna die anyway.'

'Rena, what-' Honey Lemon began.

'We're in LOVE with each other!' Rena announced loudly, jumping forwards and diving into Wasabi, wrapping her arms around him as they fell to the floor in a heap. 'Please just go with this, I have a plan. I promise.' She whispered into his ear.

'This better had be a good plan.' He muttered in response. He got to his feet and extended a hand out to her. 'Yes, yes what she is saying is true. We are madly.. Madly in love with each other.' He embraced her awkwardly.

'What the FUCK?!' Gogo exclaimed.

'Ugh, this makes me sick.' Fournier said, rolling his eyes in disgust.

'How long... How long has this been going on?' Hiro asked, his eyes wide.

'July 24th.' Rena replied, trying to subtly jerk her head towards the chem purse a couple of feet away from her. As everyone turned away from her, she grabbed the purse and held it behind her back, wrapping the strap around her sprained wrist the best she could.

'Wh...' He replied, then he suddenly understood. 'I... What? Oh.'

Slowly, the rest of the gang seemed to understand what she was saying. July 24th. The day of the fire.

'July 24th?' Gogo questioned, raising her eyebrows. 'How... Dangerous of a... Relationship is it?'

'Probably pretty dangerous.' Rena said seriously, trying to give her best look of warning without seeming obvious.

'Then... Why are you in it?'

'I think it's the only way.'

'Yes.' Gogo replied, nodding. 'You're right.'

'Oh, whatever!' Fournier said impatiently, shaking his head. 'I'm going to kill you now.'

Rena side-stepped behind Wasabi and began to cry very loudly. It wasn't hard to force the tears to come, given the situation. 'Oh! It's just not fair! We're so young! And we haven't even done anything!' Slowly, she took the purse out and, hidden by her friend, she began typing. Sodium Chlorate in one hand. Sulfuric acid in the other. Carbon, oxygen and hydrogen in the other. Glucose. 'I just can't believe this is happening to us!'

'Save your tears, pathetic girl. They won't save you now.'

'No.' Rena said, emerging from behind Wasabi. 'But this will! RED PARTY!'

Red party was a code word they'd been taught in their first few weeks at SFIT. A series of code words were taught to them in case of an emergency. Charlie was the word that meant danger. Operation bright star meant a medical emergency. They were code words often used on ships, but the staff at SFIT deemed it appropriate to drill them into the students to try and reduce danger when working with dangerous chemicals.

Red party? It meant fire.

She threw all the balls as hard as she could at the ground. Sugar, sulfuric acid and sodium chlorate reacted to make fire. And react it did. A huge inferno instantly erupted, sending plumes of black smoke towards the ceiling.

'HOLY SHIT!' Fred screamed, pulling Baymax back with him.

'I am not fast.'

'RENA!' Gogo screeched, grabbing her sleeve, 'come on!'

'NO! I'll be right behind you! GO!' Rena shook her off, instead rushing towards the fire and pelting it with more chemicals. Slowly, the fire began to rise.

'YOU INSOLENT CHILD!' Jason screamed from the centre of the wall, 'MOVE!' He pushed his brother out of the way an dived through the flames, heading straight for the door. Nobody seemed to notice him in the chaos, Matthew directly on his heels. 'I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!'

Honey Lemon and Wasabi were running towards Baymax. Together, they grabbed his arms and helped Fred to pull him to safety.

'Rena!' Hiro screeched, already coughing from the smoke, 'RENA!'

She dived out of the way of a flame and ran towards him, her arms outstretched. 'Quick!' She yelled into his ear.

'TADASHI!' Hiro sobbed, pointing towards the fire.

Rena's heart almost stopped. How could she forget? 'Shit!' She cried, running towards her older brother and diving onto the floor.

'I can help-'

'HIRO! GO!' Rena shouted, her voice scratchy and her throat raw. 'GOGO! GRAB HIM!'

Almost instantly, Gogo was at Hiro's side. She seized his wrist and pulled him away, despite his angry protests. 'RENA IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT OUT OF HERE I'LL KILL YOU MYSELF!'

The smoke was quickly surrounding her. Tadashi still lay limp on the floor.

'Tadashi!' She pleaded, 'wake up! NOW!' She shook his shoulder, but to no avail. 'For fucks sake.' She muttered angrily, grabbing his arm and draping it loosely around her shoulder. Her hands were slick with sweat, making an already difficult task almost impossible. She hoisted him up and grabbed his waist pulling him along beside her. They'd almost made it to the door when a hand clamped on her shoulder, making her scream.

'CAINE?!' She yelped, coughing wildly as she inhaled a huge mouthful of smoke, 'what the FUCK?'

'Listen very carefully.' He wheezed, holding his sides. There was a smear of soot on his cheek and tears in his eyes. 'You need to get the chip out of him. It's a secret project he's been working on. The chip is in the back of his neck. Brian placed a tiny robot on him which implemented it, he would have barely felt it. Tadashi programmed the software himself whilst under its influence. It's incredibly easy to install and use. Even if you did get the phone, he would easily be able to re-install it and use it against him. It's killing him. The chip. He'll be dead within hours. Remove it. Get it out. YOU need to do it. Can't... Save... Him...'

Rena stared at him as he coughed. 'Why are you helping me?' She wheezed, almost forgetting the fire.

'Never mind that! Just do it! Save him!' Caine pleaded, before going limp. 'Save... Him...' He crashed against the wall, his eyes half-closed. 'Go. Rena. GO!'

She didn't want to, but her vision was beginning to go cloudy. If she didn't leave, they would all die. She turned on her heel and ran as fast as she could, half dragging Tadashi along behind her. He would not be the victim of another fire, especially one she caused. And they needed to get the chip out. Fast. Adrenaline was the only thing pushing her onwards. Fire. She hated it. This was the worst idea she'd ever had. Her shaking hands were doing her no favours.

She emerged into the cold air without any memory of getting there. She collapsed onto the ground, Tadashi lying next to her. Her ribs were in agony and the pain was almost enough to make her black out.

'YOU'RE AN IDIOT!' Hiro grabbed her shoulders and shook her, 'YOU'RE AN IDIOT!' He gasped again, tears streaming down his face.

'Yeah...' Rena gasped, 'I know..'

'You're fucking lucky we have Baymax.' Hiro said, shaking his head. 'I swear-'

'Tadashi first.' Rena gasped, 'Tadashi first.'

Hiro nodded, taking his brother's arm. 'And then you.'

Gogo appeared out of nowhere and grabbed Tadashi's other arm, helping Hiro to hoist him up. 'Hamada, you're such a fucking idiot.'

Rena waved her off. 'I know! He's already said. Now take him to Baymax. Now.'

She nodded, and they dragged Tadashi away.

Rena looked behind her, at the inferno. Smoke was billowing into the air; she had forgotten how deadly fire was. Her stomach twisted at the idea of Caine still inside. She couldn't let him die. She couldn't. After everything he had done, she still loved him; still cared for him. She did. She couldn't let him die like that.

Fire wouldn't take anything else away from her. Ever. Again. ESPECIALLY when she started it in the first place.

Rena stared at the door determinedly. Caine had saved her brother. Now she was going to save him.

Without another thought, she did what another brave Hamada had done so many months before.

She took a deep breath, and ran back into the burning building.