Hiro had one angry Ari laying in wait for him when he got home, she at least let him put Baymax in his charging station before yelling at him.
"The clenching of your jaw and increased heart rate indicates that you are angry." Baymax noted, his screen showed a picture of someone with a clenched jaw.
"Yeah I know," Ari glared, Baymax deactivated and went into his charging station, and Hiro prepared for the scolding he was about to receive.
"So, two little birdies told me that you were stalking Gogo and I in the woods today," she spoke through her gritted teeth.
"Stalking?" Hiro sweatdropped, "that's a bit of a strong word there."
"Don't try to joke it off! I am livid! That was an invasion of privacy!" she hissed, "I don't go poking in the garage when you do your 'school projects' but I at least respect your boundaries!" she said "school projects" with finger quotes.
"I know," Hiro sighed, on the inside he was grateful Ari didn't go in the garage when he was working on superhero stuff, "and I'm sorry."
"Good," Ari narrowed her eyes, "you better feel bad." then her tone went a little softer, "I also heard you ran into my pal Rachel Rosemary in the woods today, did she have to rescue you?"
"How did you...nevermind," Hiro shook his head, "she didn't rescue us, it was the weird Hibagon-real estate guy."
"The Hibagon?" Ari raised an eyebrow, "you mean that monster in the woods? You ran into it?!"
"Technically," Hiro pressed his hands together, "we ran into Ned Ludd, the guy that pretends to the Hibagon to scare people away, has a weird technology disrupting meteorite called Bessie, and almost threw Baymax off a cliff!"
"Huh that explains a lo-wait he did what?!" Ari exclaimed.
"Yeah, can you do the yelling at me more tomorrow, I'm still recovering from that," Hiro sighed, lying down on his bed.
"This guy almost destroys Baymax?! What the heck!? That's messed up!" Ari was pacing back and forth, "if I ever run into the Hibagon I'm gonna throw hands!"
"You can do it tomorrow.." Hiro sighed, "I'm tired."
"Okay, fine." Ari went to her bed and got under the covers, "goodnight Hiro."
"Goodnight Ari."
The next morning, Ari saw all of the Fern kids were getting breakfast in the Lucky Cat. As well as Honey Lemon and Gogo, she waved to the group and grabbed a chair.
"Hey," Ari greeted as she sat down.
"Hello," David greeted first, "did you get some good rest?"
"Did you murder Hiro in his sleep?" Sara chimed in.
"What? No!" Ari shook her head, "he's still getting dressed, dude takes forever to get ready."
"Speak of the devil," Gogo pointed out as Hiro and Baymax walked up to the table.
"Hello," the robot greeted.
"Hey guys," Hiro waved, "where's Wasabi and Fred?"
Mikan shrugged, "dunno, maybe they couldn't make it today."
"So," Ari hummed, "about Muihara.."
"Let me guess, you got to a part in the woods and your phone stopped working." David took a sip of his coffee, "nobody knows why, we certainly don't know."
"I found out, it's a long story." Hiro explained, "I'll tell you guys later at school."
"Woah," Sara had wide eyes, "did you run into the Hibagon?"
"Hibagon's just a myth Sara," Mikan speaks up.
"No it's not!"
"Maybe don't tell them that part," Ari whispers to Hiro, who nods.
"Anyways, did you guys hear the San Fransokyo Museum of Art is opening a new exhibit?" she mentions, "I read on the news the other day that it's opening tonight."
"Really?" Honey Lemon questions, "yay! I love the art museum, they have the best paintings!"
"Well, we better get to school." Hiro tells her, "bye Ari."
"Bye Hiro!" she waves as they exit, "have a fun day!"
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Fredilicous24: There's a new museum opening what?!
Mikan Ferns: Yeah, Sara and David are gonna go
Wasabi: How come you're not
Mikan Ferns: My dad needs my help on something biotech related and I don't care much for art
Honey Lemon: But Mikan art is a big part of life!
TheLittleMermaid: Can I go with Sara and David?
Sara Ferns: Sure! Anyone else want to come?
Hiro Hamada: I'm good
Gogo: Same
Fredilicous24: I might go, but I have some stuff to do so maybe not
TheLittleMermaid: I'll tell you guys if anything fun happens!
"Isn't the museum pretty?" Sara asks her.
"Yeah," Ari nods, "it's amazing." They were inside the San Fransokyo Museum of Art, a lot of fancy dressed people had come to see the new exhibit, Ari had fun looking at all the art displayed.
"Hey, where's David?" Ari questions, not seeing Sara's brother nearby. "Didn't you two say you were going to go in together?"
"He wandered off somewhere, no biggie." Sara shrugged.
"Shouldn't you be concerned?" Ari raised an eyebrow, "you said it's a bad thing to get separated from your brother when you guys are out together.
"It'll be fiiiine! The museum isn't that large! We might bump into him," Sara dragged Ari off to where the new exhibit is, the girl wondered why Sara was acting so weird. She's hiding something.
"Oh wow, that's a pretty painting." Ari exclaims, there was a beautiful painting that was part of the new exhibit, it had warm orange colors and painted the city of San Fransokyo in an inspiring manner.
"Pretty neat huh, it's called 'City Rising' and it was made by Lenore Shimamoto." Sara explains, "she painted it to capture the city's rebirth after the Great Catastrophe of 1906, which was lost for a hundred years. Honey Lemon is a big fan of Shimamoto by the way."
"Really?" Ari questioned, "and also, what was the Great Catastrophe?"
"Giant earthquake that damaged most of the city and also destroyed Torii Gate Bridge, so glad I wasn't around during that time." Sara sighed, "if anything happened to my family or friends, I don't know how I'd recover."
"Yeah," Ari nods, "I don't know either," she then notices a familiar face at the gala.
"Is that David?" she recognized the familiar head of ruffled black hair with blue dye, he was with someone else. A woman of African American descent, she had dark curly hair tied into a bun, was wearing a beautiful frilly pink dress, and had diamond studs, she looked to be a high class citizen. "Who's that with him?"
"No one!" Sara shoves her away, "probably chatting up with another visitor! Let's keep looking!"
Ari pouted, but wanted to enjoy the rest of the Shimamoto exhibit so she kept quiet.
"So, how have you been-" her words were cut off by the sound of breaking glass.
"The heck?" Sara and several other guests glance up to see that the skyline had been broken, a purple sticky blur was still stuck to the skyline. It fell to the ground with shards of glass sticking, it moves from an unmoving blob on the ground too-
"Oh darn it's Globby!" Ari exclaims, recognizing the living purple glob monster who declared himself as a supervillain on live television.
"Yeah we're out!" Sara yells, and they both book it out of the museum, everyone else following suit and screaming.
"The gala is under attack by an inhuman freak!" a security guard exclaims, "out of my way!" everyone rushes down the stairs.
Once they were far away enough from the museum, Ari saw a familiar group of superheroes enter. "Hey its Big Hero 6!" she pointed to them.
"Goodie," Sara smiled, "wonder why Globby broke in the first place…"
"Well the superheroes can stop em!"
Honey Lemon, Fred, Baymax, and Hiro entered the museum, they were staking out the event outside at Fred's request and the latter was correct that a supervillain would attack.
"Nice try supervillain!" Fred exclaimed, "but justice will prevail!"
The supervillain was Globby, who was attempting to remove the broken glass stuck to him, "darn it! Knew I should've gone through the front door!"
"I dunno Fred," Hiro quipped, "I wouldn't call Globby a supervillain, maybe a subpar villain."
"Subpar villains aren't a thing." Fred argues, "what am I supposed to say?"
"Low quality villain?" he suggests, a finger lifted in the air.
"That could work.."
"Ohh there should be a warning on that skylight!" Globby complains as he plucks glass of his arms, "glass may shatter!"
"Time out guys," he tells the superheroes, "really appreciate this, makes the job work out. You guys are looking sharp by the way, love the color coded armor."
"Subpar," Hiro tells Fred, "let's just get him.
"Broken glass can be hazardous," Baymax explains.
"Fine, we'll wait." Fred crosses his arms, "I don't want to get any rips on the suit.."
"Okay done," Globby tossed the last piece of glass of his body, "I'm in on three," as he counts the superheroes get ready to attack. "One...two.."
"Psyche!" he uses his arms to grab a painting off the wall.
"He got City Rising!" Honey Lemon exclaimed in horror, Globby laughed as he used extra limbs on his back to swing across the room and into one of the hallways.
"After him!" Fred roars, leaping after the villain as Honey Lemon follows, but Baymax doesn't move.
"Baymax go!" Hiro told the robot
"He did not finish counting," Baymax explains, "technically it is still time out."
Hiro sighed, "Okay three, now go!"
"Go," Baymax activated his wings and flew after the others.
"That's not fair! You said time-out!" Fred yells at Globby who's swinging from the hallway ceiling.
"I lied!" Globby cackled, he swung globs at them. Fred jumped out of the way and Hiro ducked at one that flew over his head, it almost hit the paintings but Honey Lemon threw a chem ball that shielded a painting from getting glob on it.
"We have to protect the paintings!" Honey Lemon tells them, her message getting across on the communicators. Globby attempts to attack again but Fred intervenes.
"Fredzilla to the rescue!" he roars, blasting his fire breath at the glob monster but he turns at a corner. Instead of Globby, a water fountain is hit instead and it melts. "Okay, I did that...whoops."
Hiro and Baymax fly after Globby, he attacks with the globs again but Fred uses his fire to burn them out. But it reaches the end of the hallway and it would hit a painting were it not for Baymax grabbing it before the fire hit.
"Fire and paintings, bad combo!" Hiro tells him.
"Right..good call," Fred nods, standing idle on the floor.
"Anti-sticky ball ready," Honey Lemon prepares a special chem ball for the glob monster as he's reaching the exit. As he attempts to escape, she throws the chem ball at him.
"Hey!" Globby is hit with the yellow colored chemicals which causes his globby body to unstick from the ceiling and he drops the painting. Honey Lemon sees the painting fall and was able to catch it before it hit the ground.
"Yes!" Honey Lemon exclaimed, then gasped, "oh my gosh, I'm holding City Rising!"
Fred leaps and lands next to her, "you're talking about the famous painting? I've heard of that." He did hear Honey Lemon fangirl about it before Globby attacked.
Speaking of Globby, he was crawling on the ground like a caterpillar in an attempt to escape before the superheroes noticed. However Baymax saw and landed next to him.
"Do not move, you could be injured from your fall," Baymax picks up the glob monster, "I will scan you now."
"Don't worry Baymax," Hiro reasurres the robot. "They can take care of him in jail," he puts his hands on his hips.
"Pfft, jail?!" Globby scoffs, "they don't even make pants that can hold me!" He slips out of Baymax's grip, melting onto the floor and turning into a ...ball? "Boing boing boing everybody! Bye!" he bounces out the door and on top of a bus that's passing by the museum.
"What." Hiro deadpans.
"He can turn into a ball? That's new," Fred pointed out.
Globby reforms back into his humanoid shape, he turns to look back at the museum. As he's about to say something villainous his head hits a traffic light, it's stuck for a while but then he gets free and knocks himself over. "Darn it!" Globby grumbled, he'd soon try again to retrieve the painting.
"Well, at least we got the painting back," Honey Lemon smiled, she was extremely careful when placing City Rising back on the wall. "But why would Globby try to steal it?"
"For money!" Fred exclaims, "It's a classic supervillain motive, remember how he used to be a purse thief?"
"Could be," Hiro nods, "but how'd he know on the night of the museum opening? It's odd."
"Hey!" they all turn around in surprise, as a familiar curly blonde alongside a fluffy brunette walked into the museum. "Hi Big Hero 6!" Sara was waving like a madman at the superheroes, Ari just rolled her eyes at Sara and facepalmed.
"Hello," Baymax waved back.
"Oh uh.." Hiro cleared his throat, going for a more 'heroic tone' as he spoke, "hello citizens, it's rather late at night at you isn't it?"
"I know," Ari nodded, "but Sara here really wanted to give you guys something and wouldn't leave..unfortunately.." she adds under her breath, Hiro wasn't a healthcare companion but he could guess that she was tired and wanted to go to sleep.
"So," Sara gave a nervous chuckle, and pulled out a letter from her purse, "I uh..wanted to give you guys this..it's a..um..letter."
"Why thank you!" Fred exclaims, he collects the letter from her, "we appreciate it!"
"See," Ari nudged Sara, "I told you'd they would like it."
"That's very sweet of you S...ma'am," Honey Lemon adds, "but you should get some sleep, I'm sure you have some things to do in the morning."
"Yeah I do," Sara yawns, "I have school tomorrow. But I wanted to give my favorite superheroes a thank you letter for saving my friend."
"Your friend?" Hiro raised an eyebrow, who was she talking about?
"Yeah, you saved my friend Wasabi from that stupid steam guy!" Sara explained, "if you guys didn't.." she shuddered, "I would've had a heart attack if anything bad happened to him."
"Oookay that's enough," Ari starts to drag Sara away, "goodnight Big Hero 6! Thanks again for saving the city!"
"Goodbye," Baymax waved as they left, with the other just chuckling as they left.
The next morning...
"Guess what I made? Breakfast nachos el Diablo!" Cass exclaims, placing a plate of nachos on the table that Hiro, Ari, and the rest of their friends were sitting on.
"Breakfast nachos?! The unbalanced part of an unbalanced breakfast!" Fred rubs his hands together with glee, eager to dig into his meal.
"Uhg," Ari turns her nose at the spicy smell, "I think I'm about to lose mine.." the nachos had jalapenos, cheese, eggs, and bacon on top of them, while it appealed to Fred it didn't appeal to her.
"So, what were you guys doing out so late last night?" Cass turns to Hiro and Baymax.
"We, um.." Hiro struggled to find an answer.
"We were at the museum." Baymax states.
"Huh, I was at the museum too!" Ari exclaimed, "must've missed you guys."
"Yeah, must've." Hiro shrugged.
"Hmm," Cass raises an eyebrow, finding the answer suspicious, at that moment Fred got to the spicy part of his breakfast nachos.
"Caliente! Muy caliente!" Fred exclaims, running to cool his burning tongue.
"Hiro, this is your reminder that you have a school project due today," Baymax tells him, a clock was pictured on Baymax's chest, "that is currently..ten percent finished." He shows a percentage bar at that percent.
"Dude," Ari narrows her eyes at Hiro, who gestures for Baymax to stop talking.
"What? Shouldn't you have been doing homework last night?" Cass questions Hiro, "here at home? The work?"
"Aunt Cass, don't worry, it's me." Hiro didn't look worried one bit, "I'll improvise."
"You mean scramble?" Wasabi questions.
"At the last minute." Gogo answers.
"Always worked in high school." Hiro shrugged it off.
"Speaking of that…" Ari lifts a finger up, "I..do not remember school, not one bit."
"Well you still have amnesia so it's obvious," Gogo pointed out.
"No I mean that I remembered that I never went to a public school," she explained, "I remember being homeschooled, but even I at least got my work done in time." Ari glances at Hiro, who's digging into the breakfast nachos.
"Huh, well good to hear you're remembering more stuff Ariel," Cass gives her a pat on the shoulder, "remember not to push yourself too hard!" She walks off to serve the other customers in the Lucky Cat Cafe.
"Well it's good that you remembered," Wasabi smiled, "it might be a sign that your memory is returning soon."
"Amnesia can last from six to nine months." Baymax states.
"I hope my memory comes back soon," Ari sighs.
"Don't worry it will.." Hiro tells her, a smile on his face.
"Thanks, but you should finish your homework."
"Hey!"
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
TheLittleMermaid: Hey Mikan and Sara, did you guys ever go to public school?
Mikan Ferns: Yes and it was AWFUL
Sara Ferns: It was fine for me but it wasn't fine for David
Sara Ferns: "Teenagers are evil" -David
Mikan Ferns: Why do you ask?
TheLittleMermaid: No reason!
Hiro Hamada: Hey David how did you think you did on your seismic project
Sara Ferns: "I think okay, had a hard time figuring out a good formula" -David
TheLittleMermaid: Wow, at least you did the homework!
Hiro Hamada: Ari can you please let it go
TheLittleMermaid: NEVER!
Hiro rolled his eyes, then put the phone away.
"So," he saw that David was walking up to his seat and sitting next to him, "I'm really nervous."
"Really?" Hiro raised an eyebrow, "you're nervous?"
"Yeah." David nodded, "this is one of the first big projects I've had this year, I don't want to fail." he sees David was rubbing his knuckles on the table.
"I don't think you'll fail," Hiro tells him.
"You're not worried at all?" David questions.
"Nope." he replies.
"Alright everyone, settle." They end the conversation as Professor Granville begins the class. She uses a device on her desk to activate a screen. "Good morning, I hope you used your three weeks wisely for this seismic project."
"Totally wisely," Hiro smirks.
"I'd be rolling my eyes at you right now.." David mutters under his breath.
Karmi was the first student to present her earthquake demon, her model was colored a lilac pink. "My prototype uses nickel titanium as a shape memory alloy, which allows it to have increased plasticity under pressure," she pokes her model as she's presenting it to Granville.
"Very good Karmi," Granville tells her, then activates the scale, "now let's shake it and break it."
Karmi stares at her model with pride as it stands strong on the scale.
"Our goal is to withstand a 9.0 or greater on the Richter scale," Granville ups the level.
As it gets higher and higher, Karmi anticipates with glee. Until her model breaks when it was so close to passing, "uhg!" a few students were surprised as well, they thought it would be a passing grade too.
"8.5..impressive," Granville writes her score down. "But Karmi I am confident you can do better, let's see version 2.0 next week." Karmi brings her broken model back to her desk, a little bummed out it didn't pass.
"Your turn Mr. Hamada," Granville tells him to bring his model over.
He places a red painted model on the scale, "Elastomer dampers," he explains.
"Is the paint still wet on your model?" She raises an eyebrow, inspecting the model.
"No!" Hiro exclaims, "that would imply I threw it together at the last possible minute." he's nervous as he comes up with his excuse.
"God why…" David groans in the background.
"Perhaps your design will save our city from the next Great Catastrophe." Granville starts up the scale, but at about 3.0 Hiro's model starts to crack and a top piece falls off, he tries to stop it from breaking but it doesn't work. "Or not.." Granville writes down something in her notebook.
The top part falls off, the red paint sticking to Hiro's shirt, he groans and facepalms, but he now has red paint on his face. He looks at the paint on his hands, then at Granville and gives a nervous chuckle.
"And scene." Karmi smirks, having filmed the whole thing, "this is a keeper."
"David Ferns," Granville calls the next student, "your turn."
"He-heres my model Professor Granville," David stutters, placing a grey painted model on the scale, "it's titanium steel, built strong enough to last."
"Interesting choice Mr. Ferns," Granville activates the scale, "let's see if it's strong enough on the scale."
The model stands strong for awhile, but David speaks up as it's hitting 6.0, "rats it's gonna break," he huffs.
"Hey how do you know that?" Karmi questions aloud, "it hasn't even made a-"
Crash!
"crack…"
"Impressive work David," Granville writes down his grade, "I look forward to seeing the improvements you'll make next week."
"Thank you," David brings his model back to his seat. "At least mine isn't put together at the last minute.." he mutters under his breath.
Hiro just facepalms again.
AN: To ReeReeWithAngst, thank for for the advertisements to my review challenge! Currently I have 76 reviews, if I can get 24 reviews before chapter 20 (which is called Buddy Business..guess what it's about hint hint) I'll post twice a week for a month and post a one-shot about the Fern Kids pre-Big Hero 6
No pressure tho. I don't really think it'll happen, but I heart the support!
Anyways...
This episode has some good Fern Kid moments! And David, who doesn't love David? He's a good fellow!
Question of the week: Who do you think was talking to David at the art gala?