Crickets chirped, the sun was setting on Muihara Woods. Light was dipping underneath the pines, welcoming cold darkness.

"Baymax? Where are you buddy?" Hiro called out in the dark woods, the robot had wandered off somewhere, and Hiro was very worried for his friend's safety.

"Baymax?" Fred and him had been calling the robot's name for awhile now, but there was no sign of the healthcare companion. "Come out, come out wherever you are!"

"He's gotta be somewhere!" Hiro stomped a foot on the ground, "how could I lose Baymax!"
"Hiro?" Fred turns to him, "what if the Hibagon got him?"

He gave him a deadpan look, "there is no such thing as the Hiba-" rustling leaves cut him off, both Fred and him stare at a wiggling bush.

"What is that?" Hiro questions.
"Maybe it's the Hibagon," Fred guessed, the rustling leaves get louder, "Hibagon.."
"Or maybe it's Baymax!" Hiro starts to walk up to the bush, "Baymax?"
A large, brown furred creature greets him, and roars.

"Or a bear!" Hiro's eyes went wide with horror as the bear roared at them

"I...really..hate..this..place," he creeped away from the bear, and began to scream. Fred starts screaming with him, and covers his eyes with his beanie.

"Time out bear!" a blur flies out of another bush, "you got every right to attack these fools. But I..have every right to defend 'em, it's your choice." The blur in the bush was a man, with long messy brown hair that was like a lion's mane, eyes of the same color and tan skin. His clothes looked old and ripped, the only thing keeping his attire together was woven leaves and other things.

The bear roared at this newcomer.
"Don't give him a choice!" Fred exclaimed. "I don't want to be bear food!"

"Hold still!" the man climbs on top of Fred and Hiro's shoulders, "you must intimidate the bear, it is the only way." he shakes his head, which causes his mane of hair to spike up. He then roars at the bear, lifting his arms and cane into the air. The bear roars back and retreats.
"You never saw me!" The man grabbed a tree branch and leaped back into the woods, leaving Hiro and Fred puzzled.

"What was that?" Fred turned to face Hiro, who shrugged.
"Maybe he could help us," Hiro then started to call the man "we need your help! We're lost and none of our gear works!"
"That's 'cause of Bessie," the man returns, but he was riding a moose.

"How are you?" Hiro lifted a finger, "wait wh-who's Bessie?"
"Obviously Bessie's the moose," Fred points to the mammal.

"No, Bessie's not the moose you dum-dums." The man shook his head, "the bear!"

"The bear is Bessie?" Fred raises an eyebrow, and gestures to the direction the bear left.

"The bear is behind you." he points, both of them turn to see the bear was back roaring after them. "Get on!" the man gestures to the moose, "let's get out of here!"
"Couldn't agree more!" Hiro exclaims, Fred and climbed on top of the moose and rode away from the bear, who stops running and roars in anger.

Back at SFIT, Ari was pacing back and forth behind a lab door.
"Cmon Ari..just knock." she told herself, all it would take is one knock but her darn nerves were getting the better of her! "She might not even be in, she could've gone home early like the Fern kids," Ari sighed.

Why am I so freaking nervous? Ari questioned, it was just checking to see if someone was in the lab but she was jumpy as a mouse. However she didn't have to knock, the lab door slid open.

"Oh," Karmi was surprised to see that she was there, "what are you doing here?"
"Hi Karmi," Ari waved, "we haven't talked in awhile, and I was at SFIT so...I went to see if you were in?" I hope Karmi doesn't catch how anxious I am..she sweatdropped.

"You wanted to talk?" she raised an eyebrow, "wouldn't you rather hang with the Fern kids or your other friends?"
Ari shook her head, "Karmi you're my friend! So I want to hang with you!" the Biotech Major had wide eyes, not expecting that response.
"Well if you want to talk, sure." Karmi gestured for Ari to enter her lab, she followed. Karmi got two chairs and pushed one over to Ari, "I already put all my viruses and dangerous organisms away so you're good."
"Don't you ever worry about catching an illness from studying viruses?" Ari sits down in the chair.

"Nope, I know what I'm doing," she answered, "I make sure to follow all safety precautions when doing my research."
"That's so cool!" Ari exclaimed, "has anything else been going in your life?"

"Well I've been mostly doing my work in class," Karmi shrugged, "it would be a lot easier if a certain Genius Boy would stop being a pain!"
"Genius Boy?" Ari raised an eyebrow, "what did Hiro do?"
"Everything, he's the worst!" Karmi exclaims, "always has to correct me in class, and acts like he's the best thing since sliced bread! Uhg!"
Ari chuckled, it reminded of whenever she'd hear Hiro complain about Karmi, they both thought of each other as "the worst".

"I'm sure he is," Ari smiled, "you get rescued by Big Hero 6 from any falling lamps recently?"
"No but I wish," Karmi had a goofy grin on her face, "Captain Cutie is just the best."
"Captain Cutie?" she was puzzled who Karmi was referring to. "Oh, you mean the purple one? Is that what you call him?"
"Mhmm," her friend nodded, too deep into dreamland to process her words, "he's just so handsome and heroic." Karmi realized who she was talking to and shook her head of daydreaming, "uh.." there was a pink blush on her face.
"Oh don't worry." Ari waved it off, "I'm not gonna judge you on your crush, could be worse, you could have a crush on a bad person."
Karmi raised an eyebrow, "I never got an answer when you said there was someone you had a crush on," now it was Ari's turn to turn into a blushing mess. "Who exactly are you crushing on?"
"Umm…." Ari hid her face in her hands, "J-Juniper.." she mumbled.
"From High Voltage?" Karmi questioned, Ari gave an embarrassed nod, "Hmm. I can see that, she is cute. Plus I saw a video online that had a familiar looking girl being spun around." The biotech major gestured to her.
"She also saved me from falling down a tree," Ari blushed, thinking about how close she was to her rescuer's face. "She's so pretty and a good dancer. And the way the purple highlight in her hair compliments her attire..." She hummed, "what a star."

"Wow." Karmi hummed, raising an eyebrow at her gushing. "You've got it bad."
"You don't say.."

In Muihara Woods, the man and the moose had arrived at a treehouse in the center of the forest.
"Woah!" Fred exclaimed, "that's the coolest treehouse I've ever seen, I wish we made ones like those in camp."
"This is your house?" Hiro asks the man.
"Oh, it's not mine." the man replies.
"Wait, if it's not yours, who lives here?" Fred questioned.

"I do, but it belongs to the woods." the man stares into the forest, "I just mind it." he gestures for them to come over, "wanna come up and take a looksie?"

"Actually we need to find-" Hiro is cut off from Ned hitting the side of the tree trunk with his staff.

"Hey! Girlie!" Ned yells up to the tree, "lower the lift!" Hiro and Fred look up as a wooden lift lowers to the ground.

"Do you have a roommate?" Fred raised an eyebrow, "Are you this guy's roommate?!" he yells to whomever is above.
"No!" a young girl's voice yelled back, "I just visit!"
"Rachel who are you yelling at?" Hiro heard another voice question, but this one was older and had more sass in her tone.
"I think Ned brought some guests!" the voice named Rachel replied to who questioned her. When the lift was flat on the ground, Hiro and Fred got on as Ned began pulling it towards the top of the treehouse.

"I don't get to show off too much," the man (Ned?) explains, "that's the downside of the hermit lifestyle."
"Oh my goodness," Fred exclaims when they reach the top, "look at all these original hardwood floors!" The treehouse was very authentic, made of complete wood. Very traditional looking, Hiro saw a brown haired girl and a..blue cat? Next to the wooden lift, must be the ones who lowered it down.

"Oh wow, you're Hiro Hamada." the girl recognized him, "I saw the video of your microbot presentation, incredible work."

"Thanks," Hiro smiled, "you're a regular at the Lucky Cat right? Rachel Rosemary?"
"Yep!" Rachel nodded, "and this is my cat Katie!" she gestures to the strange blue colored cat resting on her shoulder.

"Huh, was the cat the one who talked?" Fred questioned, "I don't see anyone else here, except you and your cat."
Hiro shook his head at his friend, "Fred don't be ridiculous, cats can't tal-"

"Wow," the sassy voice spoke from the feline's mouth, "this guy is smart."

His jaw dropped to the ground as Fred exclaimed, "I knew it!" then realized the cat talked, "wait how are you doing that?!"
"It's a long story," Rachel explained, "to make it short it's because Katie's a genetically enhanced cat."
"Accept that and don't ask anything else." Katie twitched her whiskers, he decided not to push his luck.

"Okay, so what are you both doing here?" Hiro questioned.

"I like to spend time in the woods, and do some studying." Rachel explained, "Ned here can probably explain." she gestures to the man who's placing some fireflies in a lamp to provide light.

"No thanks," he shook his head. "We need to find Baymax."
"I know, but look!" Fred started to poke around the treehouse, "original hardwood everything!"

"Maybe I could spot Baymax from up here." Hiro walked up to the treehouse's windows, he peered into the forest trying to look for a flash of white.

"Baymax?" Rachel raised an eyebrow, she walks up to the window, "I'll try and look as well."
"Thanks."

Fred saw a couple papers on the tree trunk wall, he went over to read what was on them.
"Ned Ludd, the real estate king?" Fred saw on one of them a picture of a man with slicked back brown hair and business attire, "the one who went bats and disappeared?" he mimicked bats flying with his arms.

"Shhh!" Katie shushed him, Hiro walked up to Fred and saw the glare the man was giving him.
"Uhh...:" Hiro flinched at the anger, it wasn't even directed at him.

"Oh," Fred gestured to the picture, "that's you, isn't it?" he clenched his teeth, "sorry.."
"It don't bother me none," Ned put more fireflies in a lamp, "yeah people do think I'm crazy."
He stared at the fireflies, "but after what happened to me, you see bunkin' here was...well it was the only sane thing to do."

Ned remember years ago when he stared out into the woods, on a ridge with his car parked next to him.

"I was young, full of fire and obsessed with getting mine. You see, I had big plans for Muihara-"
"Mr. Ludd?" Hiro speaks up, "sorry to interrupt but our friend-"

"Um, can't you see I'm holding the story snake!?" Ned gestures to the green snake coiled on his arms, which hisses at Hiro, "it's my turn to talk."
"You can't really stop him when he gets on his tangents," Rachel whispers to Fred, "just nod and pretend you know what he's saying."

"Now where was I?" Ned turns to the snake.
"I had big plans for Muihara, tear it all down." He remembered in his foolishness desiring to build a city in the place of the great forest, "until one night, fate had a different plan." On his way driving home, his car malfunctioned, "I thought I was a goner, dunzo and dead. But then..I was saved." there was a green light that passed his car when he almost drove off the cliff.

"Great story," Hiro interrupts yet again, "but we really need to-"
He's cut off from both the snake and Katie hissing at him.
"Let him finish the dang story!" Katie growled, "it's a good one!"
Ned clears his throat and continues, "I was saved! By nature itself!" something had crashed behind his car and it caused it to stop just before falling over the cliff, saving his life. He remembered getting out of the car, and looking to see what stopped his vehicle.

"And it was at that moment, I realized I was not meant to cut down the woods. No I was meant to live in the woods, away from the big city, away from all things techno-illogical."

"I was meant to live in the woods, with Bessie." Ned finished his story, remembering seeing the green glowing meteor in the crater, how it called it to him, and gave him a new purpose.

"Still not clear on who this 'Bessie' person is." Fred questions, Hiro and him were creeped out by how intense the look Ned was giving them. The man gives Fred the lamp, pushes him to the side with his cane, and walks over to a curtain. He pulls the curtain over to show a green glowing meteorite.

"Oh, Bessie's the meteorite," Fred realized, "make sense!"
"That's what I study when I go here," Rachel nods, "Bessie."

"Huh," Hiro walks up to the meteorite, "the magnetic field from uh..Bessie, must be what killed your tech, and ours!" he stares at the glowing green rock, "Baymax, that's what's wrong with him." He tries to touch the rock but Ned steps in front and growls.

"Hands off!" he yells, then goes to comfort the rock, "that's a good girl Bessie. That's a good little girl."
Hiro steps back, he and Fred look at Ned who's comforting Bessie as if "she" is a sad puppy. They look at each other with confusion.

"Yeah I stopped questioning it a long time ago," Rachel sighed.

"I'm telling ya Rach, the rock is sentient." Katie's ears perk up, "you just don't believe me."
"Says the talking cat," Hiro grumbles, "we just want to look for our friend, we've been looking all day."
"You were out in the woods all day?" Rachel gasps, "you must be tired!" she turns and calls to Ned, "hey do you mind if I give these guys some sap! They've been in the woods all day!"
"I told ya a dozen times girlie!" Ned stopped patting Bessie to reply back, "I don't mind if you use my things as long as you don't bring any of that machine stuff!"

"But-" Hiro lifts a finger to object.
"Shush and take the sap." Rachel drags Hiro and Fred towards a table and sits them down, she gives them a cup of warm tree sap. Hiro sniffs the sap, then takes a sip.
"Huh," the taste was sweet, and sticky, "not bad."
"Yeah kind of reminds me of soda." Fred takes a gulp of his drink.

"Don't guzzle the sap," Rachel warns him.

"I'm not guzzling it," Fred stopped gulping and frowns.
"I wasn't talking to you," she points to Ned, who's taking large gulps of the sap.
"Excuse me? Mr. Ludd?" Hiro calls to him, "our friend-"
"Quick question have you seen the Hibagon?" Fred cuts him off.

"Really?" Hiro raises an eyebrow.
"The Hibagon?" Ned feeds some of the mice that are rooted in his beard, "let me think..hmm." he slams his hands on the table, "yer lookin at him!" He gestures to himself.

"Whaaaaat?!" Fred exclaims, "you're the Hibagon?"
"I know right?" Katie meows, "made me frightened at first, mostly due to his mane, it can be intimidating."
"Well I like making people think there's a big ol' boogeyman out here in these woods." Ned grabs the newspaper featuring a "Hibagon sighting" with his cane and brings it over, letting the boys get a better look. "Keeps those dum-dums away."
"Huh, that explains a lot," Fred notes, "but some people like our friends Gogo and Ari enjoy the woods, there's no need to scare everyone away from Muihara."
"Ari?" Rachel mutters under her breath, she turns to look at Fred, so Ariel goes into the woods? Interesting, perhaps I'll ask how she felt. Being too close to Bessie can cause a reaction, like it did for me. She keeps her expression neutral to mask her thoughts.

"Them city-folk don't appreciate the true beauty of the woods, always on their gadgets and gizmos and whatsits, none of them can appreciate nature unlike girlie and her cat." Ned gestures to Rachel and Katie, then scoffs when he sees Hiro poking at his glitching phone, "technology, humanity's worst idea ever."
The Robotics major was offended by Ned's comment, "that's not true, technology is good, it can help people."
"Or hurt people." Katie speaks up, Hiro glances at the cat, wondering if she was speaking from experience.

"The cat speaks truth," Ned pours himself more tree sap, "technology doesn't help people. You want more sap?" He refills Fred's cup.

"No thanks I'm good." Hiro says when Ned tries to refill his cup, "but we need your help sir, our friend Baymax is lost in the woods and we need your help finding him."
Ned finishes his tree sap, grabs his cane, sits up, and starts to head for the door. Hiro and Fred watch him leave.
"What are y'all doing just standing there? Let's go!" he gestures for them to follow.

"Oh." Hiro and Fred get up from their seats and start to follow.
"Hey, you coming?" Hiro turns to look at Rachel, who is grabbing the empty cups from the table.
"Nope," Rachel shrugs, "I'll just tidy here and head home, good luck finding your friend!"
"Okay," and Hiro exits the treehouse with Fred.

"That is not going to end well," Katie notes, tail pointing at the treehouse exit.
"You think?" Rachel frowns, "Ned hates robots, and I know that Hiro's friend Baymax is a robot."

"Hope Ned doesn't hurt the guys," Katie's whiskers twitch.

"I think they'll be fine," she reasurres the feline, "but if I found out Ned did try any harm I'm going to guilt him until he cries."

Elsewhere…

Gogo sighed, "I'm not picking up anything," she was using her phone's GPS to try and find the boys, but it wasn't working. "We must be in the 'technology-in-the-fritz' part of the woods."
"There's a part of the woods like that?" Honey Lemon's eyes widened, "I've never been this deep in Muihara."
"Mhhm," she nodded, "I never go too far into the woods because of that."
"Speaking of the woods," Wasabi speaks up, "why?"
Gogo turned around and huffed, "I like to go birdwatching okay!?" her outburst startled Honey Lemon and Wasabi, "it relaxes me!"
"That sounds fun," Honey Lemon smiled, "maybe I could come sometime?"

"No. It's my alone thing."

Wasabi frowned, "if it's your alone thing, then how come you brought Ari along?"

She crossed her arms, "I thought it could jog up her memories, good news it worked."
"No, but I thought you didn't trust Ari," he pointed out, "you didn't believe her story at first."
Gogo glanced away, he was correct, she didn't trust Ari at first. "I was worried for Hiro, y'know, we all promised to look after him. I'm glad that I was wrong in my skepticism, the kiddo is a good friend to all of us."
Honey Lemon wiped at a tear from her eye, "that is the most beautiful thing I've heard all day, so poetic."
"Oh don't get all emotional on me."
"Guys.." they turn around to see Wasabi pulling a familiar necklace from the river, "it's Fred's."
"They were here," Honey Lemon realized.

"Look," Gogo pointed to the broken tree branch that the boys had clung onto, but there wasn't a trace of them.

Wasabi stood up, "since Baymax isn't here I'll just say it, oh no."

Hiro was walking in silence as Fred and him followed Ned on the trail for Baymax. The man found a broken branch of a bush, he parted the foliage to reveal Baymax in a clearing with flowers.

"Good doggy," the robot was petting a flower.

"Baymax!" Hiro ran to him and hugged the robot, "I'm so glad you're okay!"
"Nice kitty," Baymax patted his head.

Ned however, was anything but happy at that moment. "Your friend is a robot?"
Hiro's eyes widened, remembering the man's distaste in technology, "a good robot," he explained, "he helps people."
"No such animal as a good robot," Ned disappeared into the bushes.

"Is he trying to scare us?" Fred turned to Hiro, "because mission accomplished."

"You know what I think?" they heard the man's voice echoing through the trees, "I'm gonna boot him over a cliff." Yellow eyes peered from the neck of the pines. "That's what good old Bessie would want me to do."
In a flash before they react, Baymax was hogtied and dragged away, "goodbye," and the two of them were trapped in a net.

"Baymax!" Hiro screamed as he saw the robot vanish into the shrubbery, "let him go! Stop it! Stop it!" He squirmed, the movement of his legs trying to kick free ended up hitting poor Fred.
"Ow!" Fred yelped, rubbing his sides, "Hiro you gotta calm down!"
"I can't lose Baymax! Not again! I'm not doing that again!" Fred could see despite the darkness, tears running down Hiro's cheeks, and he knew what he was referring to.
"Hey-hey-hey, we'll get Baymax back," Fred wiped the tears away, "but please stop kicking me in the ribs."
Hiro started to take in deep, heavy, breaths, once he was calm enough he looked up at Fred. "Sorry for kicking you, we-we're gonna get Baymax back right?"
"Yeah, I got a plan," with all of his might, Fred took a deep breath and yelled, "Haaallllp!" the loudness of his voice startled Hiro.

"Fred!" their eyes widened at Wasabi's voice, "uh...is-is there a bear over there?"

There was the sound of rustling as Gogo, Wasabi, and Honey Lemon appeared from behind a rock, "oh, you guys are okay!" The latter exclaimed, then noticing their situation, "...kinda."
"Plasma blade would be handy right now," Wasabi commented.

Gogo pulled out a pocket knife and began cutting the rope, "hey Gogo," Hiro greeted her.
"We'll have a convo about privacy later," oh no.."but for now, I'm just glad you're alive."

The net breaks and they both hit the ground.

Honey Lemon glances around, "wait, where's Baymax?"

"The crazy wilderness real estate developer got him!" Fred exclaimed.
"What?" Wasabi narrowed his eyes.

"It's a long story."
"Which way did he go?" Gogo questioned.
"I-I don't know!" Hiro exclaimed, "Where do we even start?!"
"C'mon sto-" she tried to comfort him but it seemed to upset him even more, tears threatened to crawl down his cheeks once more.
"No you don't get it!" his outburst caused the others to flinch, "Nothing works out here! Ned knows the woods like the back of his palm! And we-we're lost!" he clenched his fist and gritted his teeth. "Nothing works here…"
The others glanced at each other and frowned, they hadn't seen Hiro having a meltdown like this since..Gogo sighed, she walked up to Hiro and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"So improvise," she told him, "Baymax needs you."

Hiro wiped his tears, "well we could-uhg! Except for Bessie!"
"Bessie?" Wasabi raised an eyebrow, "who's Bessie?"
"Weirdest part of the long story," Fred pointed out.

"Wait that's it!" Hiro realized, he turned to his friend, "Gogo, can you make a fire?"

They had grabbed sticks and other flammable materials around to create a fire, the smoke wafting above the trees, "Ned thinks there's only two of us, so we can use that to our advantage." Hiro explained, "since we can't track him, we need to lure him."

"How are we gonna do that?" Wasabi returned to the campfire with a bundle of sticks and pinecones for fuel.
"By threatening the thing he cares about most..the woods."
"We're not gonna hurt the woods, are we?" Honey Lemon looked fearful at the thought.

"Of course not, but Ned doesn't know that."

"What if he doesn't want to just give up Baymax?" Gogo questioned.

Hiro smirked, staring at the leftover materials from building the campfire, "I think I can make that work.."

Ferns and Nerds group chat:

TheLittleMermaid: Hello

TheLittleMermaid: Are you guys there?

TheLittleMermaid: Guys!?

Mikan Ferns: Ari it's late at night what are you doing

TheLittleMermaid: I CAN'T REACH ANY OF MY FRIENDS DID A BEAR EAT THEM IN THE WOODS?!

Sara Ferns: Are you at Muihara?

TheLittleMermaid: No, but Gogo, HL, Fred, Hiro, and Wasabi are

Sara Ferns: Oh they're fine, just that technology doesn't work in Muihara for some weird reason

TheLittleMermaid: Really?

Mikan Ferns: I don't like it there, I always feel tingly the deeper I get into the woods, odd feeling

TheLittleMermaid: I felt weird when I was in the woods too!

Sara Ferns: Are you part dog or something?

Mikan Ferns: S A R A

TheLittleMermaid: No I just felt some sort of energy, might be just be reconnecting with my love of nature

Sara Ferns: Oh

Mikan Ferns: Ok meanwhile I gotta have a chat with Sara here

Sara Ferns: Mika please dopkomc[pvwrp,wcao[ve[,cw-clp-]cw

TheLittleMermaid: ?

Rachel groaned when she saw Ned return with his arm in a sling, "what did you do?"
"Me?" Ned looked offended, "I try to save them dum-dums from their robot 'friend' and they light a fire! And then try and hit me with pinecones, and pitfalls, I dun broke my arm! It was humiliating having that robot put 'mah arm in a cast! Though gotta admit they improvised well, for a bunch of amateurs."

She rolled her eyes, "do you know why Hiro cares for Baymax so much?" When she saw Ned shook his head, she began to explain. "Because that robot is the last thing Hiro has left of his brother, Baymax is one of Tadashi Hamada's last inventions, and you tried killing his memory in front of Hiro!"

Ned flinched at the anger in her voice, "you sound like it's a personal attack on you."
"You didn't even get my point!" Rachel grumbles, she stomps on the ground, "forget it!"
Katie sighed at the former real estate guy, "you made a mistake."
Ned grumbled, "well what are you two doing here, shouldn't you have gone home?"

"I was tidying up," Rachel picked up her cat, "we're leaving now." They exited the treehouse in a huff, leaving Ned alone.

After walking far enough, Rachel pulled out her phone from her pocket, and smiled when she saw it was working, "we're out of Bessie range," she told Katie.

"Why are you telling me?" Katie questioned.

"I'm making a call," Rachel dialed a number on her phone, the phone rang for a few seconds before someone picked up the call.

"Hello? Oh hi Rachel!" the voice of Ariel Rosemary exclaimed on the other end.

"Hey Ariel," Rachel replied, keeping her tone neutral, "I saw some of your friends in the woods today."
"You did? Huh," Ari hums, she heard shuffling of papers on the other end. "If you say Hiro and Fred, it's because they followed me into the woods!"

"Define follow," she noted the hint of anger in Ari's tone.

"By 'follow' I mean when I went to reconnect with my love of nature with a friend they were stalking me and ruining my sense of privacy!"
"Ah," Rachel knew how the girl felt, "maybe it was because your friends are worried for you."
"Yeah but do they have to know my every action?" Ari groaned, "just because I have amnesia doesn't mean I'm fragi-" she stops talking. Rachel hears Ari slap her hand on something, presumably her mouth at the realization of what she said.

"Just so you know I'm a good secret keeper," Rachel tells her, "I wouldn't say a word, well maybe to Katie but she's a good secret keeper as well."
"Oh...so as you heard from that..I can't remember anything, it's why I was in Muihara, I remembered a little of my parents." Ari's voice became more high pitched and nervous with every word.

"Hope your memory comes back soon," Rachel told her, "and nice to hear you remembered something, was it a good memory?"
"Yeah it was! It was a memory of hiking and I've been remembering more details!" Ari was excited on the other line, the girl's enthusiasm was cute in a way. "I think it's a sign that I'll remember stuff quicker!"
Rachel chuckled, "good on keeping positive, enthusiasm will keep you running."

"Thanks," there was the sound of a door opening on the other line, "looks like Hiro's home, gotta give him the riot act for stalking me."
"Aw, be nice to him." Rachel teased, Ari chuckled and ended the conversation.

"You deserve an Oscar," Katie noted, "that was some really good-"
"Katie hush," her friend glared at the feline, "Ari would've been freaked out if she knew I was aware of her amnesia the whole time."
"Yeah yeah, I know." Katie shook her head, "but it's not her fault you were able to pick up she had amnesia."

"The fact that she didn't recognize me and stared at me puzzled from day one rang some alarm bells," Rachel sighed, "we better get home quicker or my dad's gonna open up a missing case for me."
"That joke wasn't funny the first million times you said it!"
"It annoys you so it's funny!"

AN: So far this chapter is my favorite?

Why? Because my girls Rachel and Katie are together as a duo! For context: both of them are old OCs of mine, and I just had to add them into HOF.

And before you ask yes, Katie is a talking blue cat. Considering the other stuff that exists in the show *coughthemayoicough*, I don't think she's logic breaking. Let me live people!

Also surprise surprise, Rachel knew of Ari's amnesia the whole time, and seems to know her : ) oh I bet it's something harmless...maybe..maybe not..you guys gotta continue to read to find out

Question of the week: Do you think Bessie is sentient or not? Ned and Katie believe so. Thoughts?

Now here's the fun part of this weeks update, I have a challange for YOU, the readers!

Currently, the story has 66 reviews and I am so very thankful for the love. But I wonder if I can get to 100 before I reach chapter 20. No pressure tho, but if I get 100 reviews, I'll...update twice a week for like a month and I'll throw in a one-shot about the Fern Kids pre-movie events to boot.

So tell your friends, tell your fellow bh6 mutals, tell your peeps who don't have fanfic accounts to review anonymously and good luck!