"Mikan? Are you sure this is a good idea?" Ari fidgeted with the seatbelt strap, true to her word Mikan was driving her to a certain..place.

"Relax mermaid, you getting the jitters?" Mikan didn't turn to face Ari, she had to have complete focus on the road, "it'll be fine, both David and Sara are covering for you so none of your nerdy friends know where we're going."
"Yeah," Ari drummed her fingers on the car seat, "thanks for doing this before Gogo takes me with her to her 'thing' tomorrow."
"No problem mermaid," Mikan shrugged, "has Gogo told you any details what her 'thing' is? None of us really bother to ask, Fred did once and regretted it five seconds later,"

Ari shrugged, "Nope, but I'm not gonna tell you because I promised."
"Don't anger the driver mermaid…"

They soon reach their destination, the San Fransokyo prison and Ari feels her nerves skyrocket into the air.

"You sure we're allowed to just visit?" Ari stared at Mikan as they exited the car and began walking towards the building."
"Oh would you calm down," Mikan huffs, "You're lucky I told them ahead of time so it's less of a freaking hassle, I don't need you chickening out."
Ari nodded, and took some deep calming breaths as Mikan talked to the front desk. Ari sat down at one of the chairs and focused on every detail the front desk had as Mikan was chatting with the front desk. After awhile, two guards came in to escort Ari to another room. She waved Mikan goodbye and looked at the hallways as she walked. It was dark grey and light grey stone, she had passed by several of the metal bars designed to keep certain prisoners in. Ari looked away and huffed, oh god I hope this doesn't go badly..or worse she punches me in the face..it's gonna take forever coming up with an excuse for that one!

The guards stop at a room, "She's right here." one of them told her, "no touching or getting close to the prisoner."
"Okay," Ari nodded, then she was led inside the small room, there was a wooden table in the middle. She took a deep breath and walked in, there was nobody else but one person. They were wearing a dull orange jumpsuit compared to their colorful clothes. They sat at the table with their arms crossed, and was surprised to see Ari, who took a seat at the other side of the table.

"You're that girl who fell out of a tree and came looking at the alley," she pointed to Ari, "What are you doing here?"
"Wellll I guess curiosity?" Ari shrugged, "Your name's Barb right?"
"Technically it's a nickname but yes, that is my name." Barb nodded, "and you are?"
"Ariel Rosemary, everybody calls me Ari." She realized she never told both members of High Voltage her name, so she wasn't surprised that question was asked, "So..is prison food really that terrible as they say it is?"

Ferns and Nerds group chat:

TheLittleMermaid: Wow that shopping trip was fun Sara! Thanks for inviting me!
Sara Ferns: No problem

Hiro Hamada: You went shopping?

TheLittleMermaid: Well the Fern kids did, I just tagged along

Sara Ferns: "We had fun" -David

Mikan Ferns: Yeah it was a real blast! XD

TheLittleMermaid: -_-

Wasabi: I don't get it

TheLittleMermaid: GOOD

"Spill, where were you?"
"Gogo, I... have no idea what you're talking about?"
"Yeah you didn't go shopping with the Fern kids."

"Hey that is a very serious accusation!"
"Explanation: now…"

"Okay okay!" After Ari went to Gogo's apartment to go do her 'thing', she immediately was getting drilled with questions, "I uh..went with Mikan somewhere."

"She took you to visit High Voltage didn't she?"

Ari sputtered, her face turning a vivid shade of pink.

Gogo chuckled, "relax, I won't snitch, it's none of my business anyways. As long as you're not trying to break them out of jail."

"I'm not," Ari shook her head, "I just talked to them, that's all."

"Them?" Gogo raised an eyebrow, "I thought you'd just speak to the one you have a crush on." Ari's cheeks went beed red, she looked away from Gogo in embarrassment.
"No, I talked to both." Ari fidgeted with her hands, "I talked to Barb first, then Juniper, apparently they're not on speaking terms for some reason."

"Oh?" Gogo smirked, "did you find out?"

"Something about an argument before their arrest," Ari shrugged, "pretty sure it won't last long."

"Uh huh, well let's get going." Gogo handed Ari a helmet because she was going to need one while riding her motorcycle.
"Remind me again where we're going exactly? You said it might help with my amnesia so it's why you made an exception in the first place."
"You'll see."

As Gogo drove down the city, Ari just held on tight and looked at the sights. She could've sworn the car behind them was following them but it could just be her imagination. Her friend drove the motorcycle past the Torii Gate Bridge, Huh, I haven't been outside of the city yet, I wonder where this 'thing' is..Ari wondered, she then looked to her right and saw a sign.
"Muihara Woods?" she questioned, "I didn't know you liked the woods Gogo," the motorcycle was parked at the end of the road by the trees.
"It's peaceful," Gogo replied.
"I heard from Fred that there's a monster in these woods called the Hibagon," Ari looked through the dense trees, "he claimed it was nine feet tall with a chocolate brown mane and large feet, then he showed me a picture." she picked up a twig from the ground, "pretty sure it's just a clickbait story."
"Well I haven't seen any monster whenever I go here, Fred has a tendency to believe anything he reads." Gogo shrugs.

Behind them, Fred sneezed, "Achoo!"

"Bless you." Baymax stated. "Would you like a tissue?"

"Shhh!" Hiro whispered, "they can't find out we followed them!"

"I keep hearing things," Ari mumbled.

"Probably a sparrow, or a cricket." Gogo continued to trek through the woods, "we're here."

"Wow." Ari awed at the sights, they were sitting by the river on a warm rock. The sunlight glistened through the pine trees, the ground felt soft under Ari's feet. She smelled the scent of wood from the trees, she could hear animals chirping but out of sight. When sitting by the stream, she felt strange. It wasn't a bad kind of strange, but a good strange. It reminded her of the time she had that weird water dream, "I can see why you visit here."
"Yep." Gogo gets her binoculars and sees a woodpecker, "can you remember anything?"
"Let me think," Ari hummed, "I remember that..I love nature?"

Gogo chuckled, "well it's something at least."
"I also remember taking hikes with my parents!" Ari exclaimed, "we'd go hike up trails, and camp overnight with marshmallows, and look at the deer!" she sighed, "that's the first time I remembered having parents..they must miss me a lot."
"Don't worry, you'll find your family soon." Gogo told her.
"Thanks," Ari smiled, "so is this an alone thing for you? It was nice of you to trust me to keep this secret, I promise to not spill."

"Mhmm," Gogo nodded, "I usually go by myself, haven't told any of the others, but sometimes someone else joined me on my bird watching trips."

Ari whistled, "Wow, was it Mikan? She could've been acting like she didn't know for a reason yesterday but.."
"No, it wasn't any of the Fern kids," Gogo shook her head, "Tadashi used to join me on my bird watching trips whenever he was stressed out."
"Oh.." Ari felt her throat go dry, it always felt like tiptoeing through a landmine when anyone mentioned the infamous Tadashi Hamada, "what stressed him out?"
"Most of the time it was his work on Baymax," Gogo answered, her tone neutral, "but a few times it was because Hiro drove him crazy."
"I can see that," Ari chuckled, "Hiro is awesome but he drives me up the walls, though most of the time he tends to work in the garage. I make sure to let him have his alone time, he could use it." Gogo nodded, understanding where she was coming from.

"Say, Gogo?" Ari questioned, "is there any way I can help Hiro?..it must have been hard for all of you to lose your friend, and I want to help."
"You being a friend to Hiro and to all of us is good enough help," Gogo told her, "Fred's been a lot happier since meeting you, Wasabi enjoys your company, and Honey Lemon loves the cat pictures you send her."

"Really?" Ari blinked, was she that good of a friend?
"Yeah." Gogo nodded, "you're good company Ari, and a good secret keeper."

"Wow," Hiro exclaimed, "now I feel guilty for eavesdropping on a private conversation." him, Baymax and Fred were in the trees. Why? So they could see what Gogo's "thing" was.

"Yeah but at the same time, it was so sweet." Fred wiped a tear from his eye, "Ari's a beam of energy that found her way into our hearts."
"Yeah," he nodded, Ari was something special to him. Not in any romantic way because..EW! But in his heart he thought of the girl as something more than a friend, he just didn't know what it was.

Fred sees a squirrel next to him and smiles, "Awww hey little guy." The squirrel looks at him and scurried away, letting him have a better view across the river. Fred could see something in the trees, it was tall, it had a dark mane, it was-

"The Hiba-"

The branch they were all on snaps off the tree, causing them to fall into the running river.

"Aaah!" as they land in the water, both Fred and him cling to Baymax to keep them afloat. The current drags them down the stream, as they keep rafting further and further away.

"There are large radishes ahead." Baymax states, Hiro stares at the robot and notices his twitching eye.

"Radishes?" he raises an eyebrow then looks ahead, "you mean rocks?"

"Yes, radishes." Fred stares at Baymax with confusion, "we are go-go-going to hit those radishes."
"Uh oh, I think the water is causing Baymax to malfunction," Fred exclaims, they have to get out of the river soon before the typical "falling off a giant waterfall" moment happens! He sees a branch up ahead, "Hiro, grab that branch!"
"Got it!" Hiro climbs on top of Baymax and is able to reach the branch, he grabs on and pulls them all onto the shore, their clothes and bodies soaking wet from the cold water.

"That was.." Fred collapses onto the ground, "not as I thought water rafting was supposed to be."
"Fred, where are we?" Hiro looks around, all he sees are the trees and leaves around them.
"I don't know, I better call Healthcliff," Fred pulls out his phone to call the butler, but it starts to glitch, stating there was no service. "Weird..my phone's waterproof, maybe it's because of how far we are from shore? Not sure but it's acting all crazy."
"Your phone's not the only thing acting crazy." Hiro points to Baymax, the robot was staring at a tree for some strange reason.

"Hel-lo-lo, I am Baymax."

"Why is Baymax talking to a tree?" Fred questions, Hiro shrugs, then decides to approach the robot.

"What's going on buddy?" Hiro stares at the robot, puzzled by his strange behavior. "Oh uh, wet circuits right?" he presses his face against Baymax's vinyl to see his skeleton, which was working fine. "Huh, it looks fine..weird."
"One a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your p-pineapple?" Baymax shows a bunch of pineapples instead of faces on his chest, the screen was glitching as well.

"I think we'd better get you home and fix ya," Hiro then sees Baymax waddles up to him with his defibrillators active and presses a hand to stop the robot from shocking his already soaking body. "Baymax! Woah woah woah stop!"
"Stick out your tongue and say aaaaaaaaaah," as Baymax continues to say "aaaaah" Hiro turns to Fred.

"What are we going to do? We're in the middle of nowhere!" he was starting to feel the panic settling in.

"Calm down Hiro," Fred tried to comfort him, "I bet Healthcliff is looking for us right now."

Heathcliff in actuality, was enjoying a nice relaxing soak in the limosine's hot tub. That Fred had been in during the whole drive following Gogo and Ari.

"I don't think so-look we're miles down where we started and nobody knows where we are!" Hiro exclaims.
"Maybe Gogo and Ari saw us when we were hiding from her and saw us float downstream." Fred pointed out.

"Yeah! they can't be that far!" Hiro nodded, "Gogo! Ari! Where are you?!"
"Gogo! Ari!" him and Fred start calling for the girls, neither of them noticing that Baymax was starting to waddle away from them.

"Gogo! Ari!"

Ferns and Nerds group chat:

Sara Ferns: So Big Hero 6

Wasabi: What about em?

Sara Ferns: You ever wonder who they are?

Wasabi: Not really?

Mikan Ferns: Sara why is this mentioned...again

Sara Ferns: 'Cause I want to write a thank you letter to them! Because they've made the city a safer place!

Honey Lemon: Aww that's so sweet of you Sara, I'm sure Big Hero 6 would love it

Sara Ferns: Problem is idk how to send this letter to them!
Wasabi: I know you'll find a way

Sara Ferns: Thanks Wasabi

"Hey guys," Gogo greeted her friends, it had turned to evening since Ari and her left the woods. They were now back at the SFIT Robotics lab and saw Wasabi and Honey Lemon in the lab.

"Hello!" Ari waved.
"Hey Ari," Honey Lemon waved back.
"You guys are in a good mood," Wasabi noted, "which is surprising considering Hiro and Fred followed you guys."

"What?!" they both exclaimed.
"Why?!" Ari questioned, she knew Hiro was a bit nosy but this...not cool!

"They wanted to know what your thing was Gogo," Honey Lemon explained, "we told them not to but-"
"Are you sure Hiro and Fred followed us?" Gogo raised an eyebrow, "we didn't see them."

"I think so," Honey Lemon turned to Wasabi, "I mean we haven't seen them all day."
"That's concerning." Ari points out, "should we be concerned?"
"Don't worry, I'll just ping their phones," Wasabi walked over to the computer and began to tap the keyboard, a humming noise followed, "They're dead."
Ari and Honey Lemon gasp with horror.

"No sorry, their phones are dead." Wasabi saw their looks of horror and reassured them, "my bad."
"Try the last known location," Gogo tells him, he taps on the keyboard and it brings up a location.

"Muihara Woods? Why would they-" Wasabi has a look of realization and turns to Gogo, "oooohhh, that's where you go."
"Mhmm," Gogo nods, "and?"
"And it's starting to get dark." Honey Lemon explains, "something bad could happen to them if they're left in the woods at night."
Ari gasps, a part of her wanted to rush towards Muihara Woods to save Fred and Hiro but a part.."I can't go."
"Why not?" the others look at her with confusion.
"When I was in the woods, I got this weird..feeling," she explains to them, "I don't know what it is...but it's not good, I don't want to risk it, especially since I remembered important information today!"
"Important information?" Wasabi questions.
"Ariel here started to remember her family," Gogo answers for her.

"That's great news Ari!" Honey Lemon exclaims, "why don't you stay here, so if Hiro and Fred come back, you can tell us!"
"Okay," Ari nods, the others grab flashlights and start to exit the lab, "be careful!" She calls them as they leave.
"We will!" Honey Lemon waves, and her, Wasabi, and Gogo are on the search for Fred and Hiro.

"Now what am I supposed to do," Ari hums, play that mobile game she downloaded last week? No, she was stuck on a level that "elevated her blood pressure," according to Baymax. Maybe the Fern kids were around? No, they usually left SFIT when classes ended, who else would be here?
"Oh duh," Ari facepalms, then walks out of the lab. "I wonder if she's still here, we haven't talked in awhile so it would be nice."

AN: I bet a handful of you guessed where Ari was gonna go

I didn't write the whole HV visit..you get a tidbit of the convo from Barb, but off-screen the chat with Juniper went, very, veeery well in Ari's terms. So don't expect her to let go of her crush anytime soon : )

Next week's chapter is gonna have the technology hating wild man..and a familiar duo you might know if you've seen my DA

That's all I gotta say!

Edit: almost forgot question of the week! What's your favorite thing about/to do in the woods?