"For the ten billionth time Ariel! Quit asking me why I don't like Krei!" Sara was glaring at her, she was working on some project in her lab which kept being interrupted by Ari's pestering.
"Please?" Ari gave her wide puppy eyes.
"No," Sara tells her.
"Double please?"
"Double no."
"Triple please?"
"Triple n-stop it!"
"C'mon!" Ari groaned, "I need to know! Especially because Krei is taking Cass out on a date and I need to know if he's good enough for her!"
"You don't need to know-WHAT?!" Sara whipped her head around, eyes wide as dinner plates, Ari saw trickles of anger in her eyes. " you just ."
"Um...Krei is taking Cass on a date?" Ari took a few steps back at the intensity of the glare, Sara in response began to stomp around her lab.
"Why?! Just why?! This is the worst idea Hiro's aunt has done, ever?! What the hell?! Why is this happening?! There is no bloody way that Hiro's gonna this happen! He better do something about it or else-"
"Shouldn't we stay out of her personal life?" Ari raised an eyebrow, "it's not a big deal, a little weird, but it's not the end of the world."
"Not a big deal?!" Sara stomped over until she was face to face with Ari, "do you even know what Alistair Krei has done?!"
"Um...stupid CEO things like what CEOs do?" Ari whimpered.
Sara noticed the fear in Ari's eyes, then stepped back. She sighed, "he's not a good person, a greedy business tycoon, someone who makes shortcuts in the name of profit."
"And if it weren't for him… Tadashi would still be alive.." she muttered under her breath.
"What?" Ari couldn't hear what she said.
"It's nothing!" Sara sighed, shoving Ari out of her lab, "bye bye Ariel, tell Hiro I said good luck!" and closed the door. Once her intruder was gone, Sara could work on her project again.
But she didn't, instead she pulled up a photo on her phone. It was a picture of her and Tadashi completing a group project, smiling as they both had gotten an A for their efforts. Sara smiled as she remembered the moment, so happy that they succeeded they both gave each other hugs.
"You'd be happy to see how far your brother has come," Sara sighed, wiping a tear from her eye, "but he misses you..we all do."
Her sadness turned to anger when finding out who started the showcase fire, and how the whole act had been a revenge scheme against Krei. She hated him, had he not aggravated Callaghan or done his stupid shortcuts, then there would be no showcase fire and no revenge plot. No matter how much her uncle Steven told her that his boss shouldn't be blamed for the actions of another, his actions had been the reason for that.
"I really need to stop doing this to myself," she put her phone down, and started working again on her project, "though I'm really hopeful that date goes sour."
When Ari got back to the Lucky Cat Cafe, it was after Cass left on her date. She saw Hiro pacing like a maniac in the living room.
"Hiro, are you okay?" Ari asked him.
"Wh-what if this date goes great?!" Hiro exclaims as he paces, "what if they really, really like each other?!" he turns to Baymax, "they couldn't get married right?!"
Baymax was holding Mochi and giving the cat some pets, "they are of legal age for marriage." The robot states, "Mr. Krei would then be your uncle."
"Uncle Krei!? Hiro looked horrified at the concept.
"Yeah...I don't think I could see it," Ari hummed.
"It's not happening!" Hiro exclaims, "no way!"
"What is so bad about Krei again?!" Ari questioned, "Sara said he's a jerk, so Cass will probably dump him if he really is."
"Yeah he is a jerk," Hiro nods, "he blackmailed me and my friends to inspect his Buddy Guard's safeguards or else.." he stops his sentence, because the blackmailing part was about their Big Hero 6 secret identities.
"Wow," Ari quipped, "what a slimeball."
"Yeah," Hiro started to drag Baymax down the stairs, Ari looked in confusion.
"Wait, where are you going?" she asked him, "are you following their date?"
"Um, noooo?" Hiro lied, "I'm just uh..going for a walk with Baymax?"
Ari rolled her eyes, "I don't mind if you do, just don't do anything stupid."
"Got it!" Hiro then exited the cafe with Baymax in tow, Ari sighed and just picked up Mochi.
"You know..I just don't get it Mochi," Ari stared at the cat, who meowed back. "Why should I care if Au...well you wouldn't tell, if Aunt Cass dated anyone. It's her life, but at the same time...eh..dating is weird."
Mochi just rubbed his face against her arms, purring as he does so. Ari chuckled, "you're such a good kitty."
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Sara Ferns: Nopenopenopenope NOPE! Not happening!
Mikan Ferns: I take ONE day off and suddenly there's a frenzy, I am 90% sure the date will go bad
Sara Ferns: THERE'S STILL TEN PERCENT LEFT
Wasabi: Chill Sara, how about you try not to think about it
Sara Ferns: I'm going to drown my sorrows in cookie dough
Gogo: That is not healthy
Sara Ferns: LET ME LIVE MY LIFE
Hiro Hamada: Can I join you?
Gogo: Hiro don't
Mikan Ferns: Hey Ari how do you feel about this?
TheLittleMermaid: eh
TheLittleMermaid: I don't date, so why should I care
Mikan Ferns: I know who you'd like to date though : )
TheLittleMermaid: CAN YOU NOT
Gogo: Wow guys..just..wow
At SFIT, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, and Gogo were poking through the Buddy Guard's coding.
"Awww," Honey Lemon stared at the drone in a box, "it's kind of cute!..In a way."
"Sure, cute for a lethal weapon." Gogo glances at her.
Wasabi picked up the Buddy Guard out of the box and took a look at it's code "Jeez, you and Hiro were right, it wouldn't take much of a glitch to scramble this thing's programming."
"That's not a good thing," Honey Lemon notes, looking at the wirings of the drone.
"Speaking of Hiro," Gogo glanced around but didn't see him anywhere in the lab, "where is he?"
"Oh, he texted me, he's busy following Krei and Aunt Cass on their date." Honey Lemon explained.
"Yeah, that's normal."
As they continued to work, Fred walked in with a bunch of fast food bags. "Who needs a Noodle Burger break?" he walks over to the lab table.
"Yes, we're starving here." Gogo swipes one of the bags.
"Thanks Freddie!" Honey Lemon takes a bag with glee.
As Fred places the soda cups in the toolbox for placeholding, Wasabi shoots him a warning, "Not a good place to do that."
"Why?" Fred turns to his friend, but his arm knocks the sodas over and the fizzy drink spills on the Buddy Guard.
"Awww," Wasabi stares at the drone glitches with purple electricity.
"Ohhh," Fred said as a moment of realization as the drone flies above them, the green eye turning red as it labels all of them as enemies.
"Yep," Gogo and all of them stare at the floating Buddy Guard, "that's why."
The Buddy Guard stares for a few seconds, then turns invisible.
"That's not good…" Wasabi clenched his teeth.
Fred doesn't seem worried however, and takes a sip of his soda, "oh cool it wants to play hide and seek-" the invisible drone fires a laser at him. "Oww!" Which knocks him down to the floor.
"It's not playing hide and seek," Gogo tells him as he grabs the lab table to pull himself up. The drone buzzes, and fires a laser at her next, "ow!"
"Uhh!" It targets Honey Lemon next.
Fred grips his soda cup, picking up the lid and straw with his other hand and points it around the room, "show yourself coward!" The Buddy Guard in response shoots Fred in the back, "owww!"
The drone shimmers from being visible to invisible, and hits Wasabi, "ouch!" He crawls under the table, "how are we supposed to fight what we can't see!?"
"With ketchup!" Fred pulls out several ketchup packets from a Noodle Burger bag, "aaaaaaaaaaaaah!" he starts firing ketchup everywhere, the tomato flavored condiment goes everywhere in the lab, but it covers the Buddy Guard.
"Fred it worked!" Honey Lemon smiles, she grabs a nearby book and whacks the Buddy Guard with it over to Gogo, she hits it with a fire extinguisher and it hits the wall next to Fred and Wasabi. The ketchup from the Buddy Guard splatters on the wall as it goes down, smoke emits from the drone as it turns visible again. They all walk towards the bodyguard still armed, a few moments pass to confirm that it wouldn't attack them again.
"Yeah! How do you like us now buddy?" Wasabi leans in, taunting the drone, which then zaps him with one more laser, "Oww!" he falls to the floor. The others stare at him in mild shock.
"See anything yet?"
"They just entered the restaurant, it's a long line so we'll have to go in the back." Hiro frowned at the front door where Krei..uhg took his aunt inside, he had his phone to his ear and Ari was on the other line.
"How do you plan on doing that?" Ari asked him, "you could sneak in fine, but I doubt Baymax could."
A lightbulb turns on in Hiro's head, "thanks for the idea Ari!"
"..you're welcome?"
Baymax buzzes the back door, a chef opens the door. "Hello, I am Baymax."
The chef stares at him funny, "so what?" he points to the bag, "is that bag for me?" As he questions the robot, Hiro sneaks into the restaurant from behind.
"You may have the bag."
"What's in it?"
Baymax scans the bag, "garbage."
The chef looked offended, "why would I want garbage?!" behind him, Hiro flashed the robot a thumbs up as he entered the restaurant.
"I do not know."
"Is this some kind of joke?"
"I do not understand jokes."
The chef stares at Baymax, "yeah I'm gonna close the door now," and he slams the door leaving Baymax outside.
"Goodbye," Baymax waves.
Unaware to the host and the people waiting outside, the door opened, but there wasn't a visible person to open it..or rather, there was an invisible person who entered the restaurant..
"Oh, is he gonna be surprised.." a voice chuckled, the host glanced at the door for a few seconds but shrugged it off.
Back at SFIT the gang was looking at the deactivated Buddy Guard for an explanation why it went rouge.
Wasabi looked through the data on the computer, "When Fred spilled his drink, it shorted out the drone's threat assessment program," he explained.
Gogo glanced at him, popping her bubblegum, "so it thought we were all bad guys."
"Yeah."
Fred picked up the drone and looked into its eye, "we are superheroes! We are the definition of good guys! Come on!"
"These buddies are dangerous," Honey Lemon speaks up, "Krei cannot sell them to the public."
"Mhmm," Gogo nods, "we need to tell him immediately."
"Is he even going to listen to us?" Wasabi questions, the others stare at him, "I mean knowing his track record.."
"Nah," Fred places the Buddy Guard done, "Krei's been on the caution side since… so I think he'll listen!"
"I hope so," Honey Lemon nods, "though we'll have to tell him later, after his date..I doubt he'd be in a mood to listen if we ruined his date."
"Ari I need a plan on how to ruin Krei's date," Hiro whispered to the phone, he was hiding under an ice statue and staring at the table his aunt and Krei were sitting at. It was very disturbing to watch, the sooner it ended the better.
"I never would've guessed you're a fan of origami too," he heard his aunt speak to Krei.
The CEO chuckled, "ah yes, we always had plenty laying around, Papa never let me fold anything bigger than a fifty, but I made do." He folded a money bill to resemble-
"A crane! Amazing!" Cass exclaimed, "check this out," she took the paper crane and folded it into a different shape.
Krei smiled at the origami money, "it's me! And I'm literally made of money!" He took the paper mini-Krei, "I'll treasure it always."
"Bleh," Hiro stuck his tongue out, "too sappy.."
"Maybe try to make him mad," Ari suggested from the other line, "I wouldn't want to date a girl if she got mad easily. And for your information, I resent that sappy comment mister."
"It was literally origami money," Hiro deadpanned, "what's so special?"
Ari scoffed from the other line, "you'll understand when love hits you in the face Hiro."
"That'll happen as much as flying dumplings."
As the waiter went to place the appetizers down on the table, Hiro tripped their leg and caused the food to spill all over Krei.
"Oh!" Krei stood up in anger, "I am so-"
"Mr. Krei!" The waiter looked at him with fear in his eyes, as Krei opened his mouth to yell something he noticed Cass staring at him with wide eyes.
Krei fumbled on his words, "ahhh..not going to have you fired!" He picks the waiter up, "cuz what kind of monster would have a guy fired for a simple mistake? Not me, not a monster." He hands the waiter a bill, "here's 20 bucks, buy yourself some chicken toes."
"Oookay," and the waiter walks away.
"Real real heck of a guy there ladies in gents," Ari facepalmed from the other line.
"That was sweet," Cass tells Krei, "but you got something from.." she points to his stained suit, "yeah..pretty much all over."
Krei looks down at the mess, "right, I'll go wash off," he heads to the restroom.
"Sorry not sorry Uncle Krei," Hiro smirks, Ari facepalms again from the other line.
In the restroom, Krei is using a washcloth to attempt wiping the stain away from his suit. He looks at himself in the mirror and frowns, it is not coming out anytime soon.
"Surprise!"
He jolts, "aaah!" another face appears out of nowhere behind him, "stop doing that Mel!" He then has a moment of realization, "wait why are you here!?"
"I'll be needing your key card Alistair…" Mel tells him, holding a rope, Krei's eyes widen.
"Wait..that's illegal!"
"Is Krei back yet?" Ari asks from the other line.
"Yep," Hiro answers, seeing the CEO exit from the bathroom, with no trace of his suit being stained.
"Alistair? Wow, you cleaned up nice." Cass walks up to him.
"Oh, uh yeah, uh huh," Krei fumbles, his voice sounded different. "I'm sorry, something came up at the office and I have to go." He starts to walk away, Cass was not amused.
"Wait! Are you ditching me?" She narrows his eyes at him.
"Well yeah I do have to leave now, and alone."
"You have to at least give me a ride home buster!" Cass follows after him, "and what happened to your voice?"
"What happened to your voice?"
Hiro stares from under the cart curtain, he clicks the earpiece under his left ear, "Baymax! Krei and Aunt Cass are leaving, but Krei's acting weird."
"I agree with that statement," Ari comments, still on the phone.
Outside the restaurant, Baymax scans Krei as he and Cass enter a limo. "Mr. Krei appears normal, but his DNA has changed."
"Hmm," Hiro glances to the restroom, he enters and hears the sound of muffling.
"Mhmm, mm-mm-mm," he opens up one of the stalls and a tied up Krei with duct tape covering his mouth falls out.
He removes the duct tape from the CEO's mouth, "Mr. Krei? Why are you tied up?"
"He stole my ID! And my 'buy nine sandwiches, get the tenth sandwich free' card."
"Who did?!" Ari questions from the other line, "and why also your sandwich car-"
Hiro hangs up the phone, "but if you're here..then who is-" there is a flash of fear in his eyes, "Aunt Cass!"
Ari stares at her phone with frustration, did..did Hiro just hang up on her? How was she supposed to know what was going on!?
"Arrrg!" she tosses the phone on her bed in anger, then stomps downstairs.
"Mochi can you believe the nerve of him!?" she stares at the cat, who meows in response. "I keep in check and asisst in his stupid plan but ooooh heaven forbid I'm on the phone when finding out some guy stole Krei's ID!"
"Wait a moment," Ari thinks back to when she visited Krei in his office, and overhearing the conversation he had with some..Mel guy, "the guy sold Krei his technology..but Krei wouldn't give it back, you can use the tech to look like anything or nothing at all..logic concludes..HE'S BEING A KREI IMPOSTER AND AUNT CASS IS IN DANGER!" Mochi's fur fluffs in shock when her voice reaches a higher pick, "oh sorry Mochi."
"But this is bad..this is really bad! Ohh why did Hiro have to hang up on me! I have to get to Krei-Tech and punch some weirdo in the face!" Ari bolted out of the cafe, hoping Cass was alright.
Cass was not alright, she was livid at her date, "what is so important that you need to go to your office in the middle of our date?!" She demands Krei, but she wasn't aware that it was actually Mel pretending to be Krei.
"Uh..it's a surprise." Mel tells her.
"I'm not a fan of surprises."
Mel leans forward, "you know there's nothing like a surprise party. The bond shared by a group of people hiding and waiting together in the dark?"
"I guess?"
"Wouldn't it be great if there was something that would make you invisible? So you could have the ultimate surprise party?"
Cass stares at him with wide eyes, "are you feeling okay?" She scoots several inches away.
"Yes sorry, I just get really excited about things sometimes."
"Like surprise parties?"
"Yeah! Uh it's a rich person thing, you wouldn't understand." Mel waves it off.
"You're right about that.." Cass mutters under her breath.
The limo arrives at Krei-Tech, "be right back," Mel tells Cass as he enters the building. He walks up to the front desk where a security guard is on his phone, "hi, um I'm-"
The security guard notices him and stands up, "Mr. Krei! Workin' late?"
"Oh, is that something I would do? Th-th-then yes! Yes I am," Krei crosses his arms behind his back then starts heading to his office, the security guard gives a sigh of relief when he's out of sight.
When he gets to the office, Mel uses Krei's ID to open the bin his blueprints were stored in. "Check and mate," he smirks, but his eyes widen when he turns around, "oh!"
"Surprise!"
"Surprise." All members of Big Hero 6 were behind him, including Krei.
"Hand over the plans Mel," Krei demands, walking over with his hand extended.
Mel gives him the plans with no other choice, "you win, but you should know that you're helping a man who's using my surprise party invention for something much less festive and something more boring!"
"It's called good business," Krei huffed, snatching the plans back.
"Sure, call it what you want, you can't sell those drones." Gogo tells Krei as the CEO heads back to his desk.
"If they get wet, their programming scrambles and they attack everyone around them." Honey Lemon explains.
Krei looks up and sees everyone (Mel included) glaring at him, "fine, I'll delay shipping until they're fixed." He tells them.
Mel smiles and removes the purple cloth making him look like Krei from his face, "what a nice surprise."
"Yeah? How's this for a surprise?" Krei clicks a button on his desk, which activates a few Buddy Guards, which deem Mel as a threat and head towards him.
"We just said that they're dangerous!" Hiro exclaims, bringing his hand to his head.
Mel yelps and hides behind Fred, "Woah! Keep those things away from me! They can be dangerous!"
His movement causes Fred to laugh, "hahaha not cool man! I'm ticklish!" In an accident, he blasts the wall past the Buddy Guards but it hits the sprinkler and it activates.
"That's not good," Wasabi states as the other drones in boxes get soaked, static emitting from them as they turn red, deem them all as threats, and turn invisible.
"What are we gonna do!?" Fred exclaimed, "I don't have any ketchup to use!"
"Honey Lemon, use your chem balls," Gogo turns to her friend.
"I'm on it-Uhh!" as she attempts to create a chem ball a Buddy Guard knocks her over, and traps her with a net when she tries to get back up.
"Woman down!" Gogo skates over to untie her but she gets hit and netted as well.
"Watch out!" Hiro exclaims as a laser flies over the group, they all duck.
Wasabi runs to Krei's desk, "I should be able to hack into the Buddy Operating System and turn those things visible," he moves past the CEO and starts typing in.
"Cover Wasabi!" Hiro tells the group, they all run to their friend at the desk.
Krei starts to walk away, "looks like you guys have it under control, so I'll go-" a laser hits Krei, "uhh!" He then gets netted.
"All right!" Fred called to the Buddy Guards, "nice one drones," he then gets lasered and netted, "ah! Bad drones! That was a bad one!"
"If my arms were free I would be facepalming right now.." Gogo grumbled under her breath.
One of the Buddy Guards netted Wasabi, tying him to the chair, but he still tries to hack the drones without using his arms to type, "typing with your chin isn't easy." An icon pops up on the computer screen, "I think I did it!" The drones glitch as they turn visible again,"Aaah! I think I did something else!"
"The Buddy Guards are now visible, but they look different," Baymax states, punching one of the drones.
"Why do they look like Krei heads.." Fred was disturbed by the flying Krei heads, "why.."
Hiro gets hit by a laser, "ow!" he falls to the floor and is netted
Baymax turns to him, "I was alerted to the need for medical attention when you said, 'ow'," he goes to check on Hiro but then several Buddy Guards hit him with nets, and knock him over. "Oh no, I am unable to tend to your health care needs."
"I'm outta here!" Mel runs out of the door with the rest of the Krei heads chasing after him.
"No! He's leading them right to Aunt Cass!" Hiro exclaimed, very worried for his aunt's safety.
"Oh no," the group chorused.
Hiro struggled to break free, "jeez how tight did you make these nets?!" he turned to Krei.
"These Buddy Guards wouldn't be much of a hit if anything they netted could break free so easily," Krei responded, Hiro noticed Wasabi was scooting towards him, his plasma blade activated.
"Nice Wasabi," he rolls over to the blade, it cuts the rope and he's able to break free. As he's about to help untie Wasabi, the door opens.
"Where's the Krei imposter?!" all of them whip their heads around to see that Ari entered the office and she anything but in a good mood. Her eyes zoomed in on the still tied up Krei, "you! I'm gonna make you regret going a foot near Au-"
"Woah!" Hiro blocked her path, "that's the real Alistair Krei! The imposter ran off!" Ari looked around and saw the scorch marks from the lasers, and his tied up teammates, "can you help me untie the team?"
"Oh uh, sure," Ari nodded, she helped unite Honey Lemon, Fred and Gogo, while Hiro managed to untie Wasabi and Baymax, as soon as the robot was untied he got on his back and took off.
"What's the rush?" Ari stared at where he took off.
"To catch the imposter," Fred replied, "Why are you here young lady? Isn't it too late at night for you to be out!"
"Well um..Mr. Fire Lizard guy, my friend's aunt was on a date with this guy," she gestured to Krei, who was being untied by Wasabi, "and my friend hung up at the part where some imposter took Krei's ID! And I came here to punch that guy in the face if he did any damage!" Ari grumbled.
"Do not punch people in the face," Gogo told her.
"Sorry," Ari bowed her head down, her rage was cooled down and she realized that it would've been bad in the long run no matter how satisfying, "have any of you seen my friend Hiro? He hung up on me and I didn't run into him."
All of them are sweating, except Krei, "wait she doesn't know you-" he gets cut off by Honey Lemon.
"Perhaps your friend went home! Maybe you should head back to check!" she told Ari, "before he goes to try and find you and it turns into a goose chase!"
Ari facepalmed, "Oh, of course! I'm an idiot!" she runs out of the office, all of the superheroes give sighs of relief.
"Do not tell her that we're Big Hero 6," Gogo glares at Krei, "ever," the CEO gave a weak nod.
Baymax punched two of the Buddy Guards that tried attacking them and smashed them into each other. "Hurry Baymax!" Hiro exclaimed as there were more drones chasing the limo his beloved aunt was in, as he flew past the drones he saw them glitch and turn back to normal. His aunt notices them flying from the window and waves, "hey that's the big guy from Big Hero 6! Hi! Thanks for your help."
Hiro ducks and looks away, fearing Cass would recognize him, "Hello," Baymax waved.
"Baymax look out," Hiro jumped at a Buddy Guard that tried attacking them, "ah!"
"Hiro." Baymax turns around seeing that Hiro was wrestling the Buddy Guard, and flies after them.
The drone moves through the city, trying to get Hiro to lose his grip, he clings to it with all his might but the drone gives him the slip, "aaah!" but he lands right back on. The Buddy Guard hits a billboard, destroying it and causing Hiro to fall, but Baymax catches him, "Hiro, you are safe," Baymax tells him.
"Come on, we gotta rescue Aunt Cass." Hiro and Baymax fly towards the limo, which drives through the park. He gasped in horror as a Buddy Guard had his aunt and Mel cornered, "rocket fist!" he told Baymax before the drone attacked his aunt. The rocket fist causes an explosion, Cass gasps, walking towards the smoky rocket fist but couldn't detect him or Baymax.
He watched from the shadows as the police arrived to arrest Mel.
"Do you want to press charges Mr. Krei?" an officer asks the CEO who arrived at the scene.
"Absolutely, throw the book at him!" Krei exclaimed.
"Really Alistair?" Cass raised an eyebrow, "I mean sure, he's a creepy surprise party weirdo, but he told me why he did all this while we were being chased. You kind of used him," she frowned at him.
"Cass, Cass, Cass, Cass, you are a sweet person, but I am still pressing charges!"
"Let me go! I don't want to go to jail. I heard the food's terrible!" Mel was struggling with a police officer who was trying to get him into the police car, he manages to get free and tosses a purple cloth over his body except his feet. "So long forever! You'll never find me! You hear me? Never!"
"We can still see your feet Mel," Cass tells him.
"How do you know they're my feet?" he mumbled, the police officer rolled his eyes.
"Okay that's enough," a familiar brunette officer removed the cloth making most of Mel's body invisible, "if you keep resisting it will only make things worse for you." Mel pouted, giving up and going in the police car.
"Hello again Detective Rosem-I mean Elio!" Cass waved to the officer.
"Howdy Cass," Elio waved back, "rough night for you eh?" he glanced at Krei.
"Very funny Ella," Krei grumbled.
"It's Elio, but at least you were close.."
Mel glances at Cass when he's in the police car, "w-will you come visit me in prison?"
"Probably not," she replies.
"Can I write to you?"
"Sure, why not?"
"Yes!" Mel exclaimed as the police vehicle drove away.
Krei glances to Cass, "so is that a no on a second date?" she glares at him in response, "okay..alright," he got the hint.
"By the way, I didn't know that you had a niece." Cass was puzzled.
"What?" she raised an eyebrow.
"That girl who hangs with Hiro a lot? What was her name?...Arby?"
"Ari," Cass corrected, "technically she's not my niece, we're just looking after her until we find her folks."
"Huh..I thought you adopted her like my mechanic Steven adopted all of his kids," Krei told her.
"Huh," Cass had never really thought about 'adopting' Ari, she'd figured that if-when they found Ari's folks she'd go back with them, but if she was right that maybe her folks were gone..Would it alright to just adopt her into the family?
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Sara Ferns: Hiro, update
Hiro Hamada: My aunt will not be going on a date with Krei anytime soon
Mikan Ferns: *pretends to be shocked*
Sara Ferns: THANK GOD
TheLittleMermaid: I am still mad you hung up on me!
Hiro Hamada: Sorry Ari
Gogo: I feel like we should be mad that you followed Aunt Cass on her date, because it's an invasion of privacy and what did we say about boundaries
Hiro Hamada: I've learned my lesson!
TheLittleMermaid: Sure jan -_-
Sara Ferns: I am so confused
Mikan Ferns: Did your aunt at least enjoy her date?
Hiro Hamada: She said she did until Mel impostered Krei and finding out that Krei tricked Mel into selling his invention
TheLittleMermaid: And of course..killer drones!
Sara Ferns: I am not surprised
Cass seemed to be over Krei overnight, she was washing the windows with happiness as if the disaster of a date didn't happen. She even told them that they'd be having another movie night! Ari teased Hiro about it, joking if he was going to take forever putting on his movie clothes.
"So..how would you feel if Cass went on a date with someone that wasn't a jerk CEO?" she asked him.
"Meh," Hiro shrugged, "I wouldn't mind her dating because I need my space, but I'll stay out of her love life next time."
Ari snickered, "aww were you trying to set up your aunt?"
Hiro turned red with embarrassment, "I'm going to the garage!" he exited the cafe, dragging Baymax with him. As he left, Cass entered the cafe with a few papers in her hands.
"Wonder what's the rush?" She stared at the direction Hiro bolted from, "also I got a letter in the mail for you Ari."
She stood up, and walked over to retrieve the letter, a big smile was on her face when she saw the address on it, "awww she did send me a letter after all! The mail must come quick!"
"Who sent you a letter?" Cass raised an eyebrow, now it was Ari's turn to go red with embarrassment.
"Umm gotta read so I can reply back heading upstairs!" and she sped up the stairs, Cass just shook her head.
"I wonder if the kids took a liking to coffee this morning," she hummed, "they're rather hyper today."
When Ari got upstairs, she opened the letter with glee. Her happiness over the letter was because it was from the person she had a crush on.
"Though she'd forgotten about it after last visit, since she was upset I left in a hurry," Ari was still upset that Mikan didn't pick her up that day so she had to take the bus home. But since Mikan was a busy college student, and even busier since she had been going to help her dad a lot the past few days, maybe sending letters was a better method of communication. On the plus side, her friends would stop getting suspicious when she and Mikan left to go on a "shopping trip", at least Gogo didn't interrogate her about it. But sooner or later she knew that she'd have to confess to Hiro, it was getting tiring lying to her friends, maybe I'll tell him if he tells me what he does in the garage all the time and vice-versa. Ari decided to stop procrastination and just read the darn letter!
"Oh wow her writing is so pretty," she noted, smiling as she began to read the letter.
Dear Ariel aka Ari
I hope this letter comes out in one piece in the mail, I haven't sent a letter in years! But I'm pretty sure it'll be fine, I hope you send a letter back! I know you can't visit very often, so maybe we can be pen pals. It'll at least cure my boredom! They always talk about how bland the food is in jail, but they forget to mention how boring jail is! I have no one else to talk to, well except my mom but she still isn't admitting what she did so it's mostly bickering. Uhhhg, enough about my complaining, I hope you are doing well! Last time you visited you told me that you're having a memory loss problem, so I hope you're doing better, though I wonder what kind of wall you hit to cause you to lose your memories? Did you hit another tree?
Ari snickered, "oh I wish, though I'm starting to theorize I had my memory wiped..because of how groggy I was when I was in the cell."
I have no other idea what else to write, so I might as well tell you about my new next door cellmate. I think his name is Mel?..He creeps me out, always mentions surprise parties, I hope he doesn't find out that I hate surprise parties. Also he mentioned something about deadly buddy guards? If you know any information about that, please explain if you send a letter, I am just confused. Better wrap this up soon, I'm running out of paper.
Hope to hear from you again soon!
From Juniper
She reread the letter a few times, smiling and grinning as she did so, "of course I will send you a letter back." There was a blush on her face, "I better get to that, maybe after movie night, so I have the house to myself while everyone's asleep."
Ari gave a lovestruck sigh, maybe she'd have better luck with love than Cass had…
AN: This chapter is just a meme
Sure there's bit ol' angst at the beginning, but this chapter is mostly a meme. And thanks to everyone who sent support last chapter when I mentioned the harassing anon thing, they stopped awhile ago so thanks n.n
I thought I'd announce this but at this point in time I finished writing arc 1 of Heroes of Flowers (aka season 1) so don't worry about that : D. And I wrote a lot..wow.
Question of the Week: What episode of Season 1 are you excited for me to get to? Like what HOF chapters that take place during an episode are you really hyped/anticipating about
Speaking of QOTW I'm gonna answer this ask
smooch119: Why wasn't Mikan invited to the presentation?!
I think I mentioned this in the fic once but Mikan is "semi-adopted" into the Fern fam. Like she's one of them in name but legally not, like she still has her dad she just lives at their house sometimes and refers to David and Sara as siblings. And Krei doesn't really pay attention to details so he just sent invites to the kids Steven and Sara legally adopted.
Tldr Krei being cheap.
Here's a little meme based off the ending of this chapter
Ari: I'm totally gonna have better luck than Aunt Cass w/ the one I have a crush on
The readers who've seen future episodes: Are you sure about that?
XD, I should just meme at the end of these AN's. Tune in next week!..or mid-week :3c