"So, what are you working on?" Ari was visiting her friend Karmi at SFIT, the latter was staying at the labs burning the midnight oil, and saw that she was working on something on her laptop.
"Oh, it's...uh... a surprise!" Karmi told her, the Biotech Major's face was beet red.
She frowned, "y'know ever since that Mel guy and the whole Buddy Guard thing..I am not a fan of surprises anymore," Ari crossed her arms, "is it something bad?"
"No!" Karmi shook her head, "but it's uh...a personal thing, a stress-relieving hobby, I've been doing it since I got to SFIT."
"Ohhh," Ari realized, "sorry, there's nothing wrong with having a hobby. Sometimes I do writing in my spare time!"
"Writing?" Karmi raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah...mostly I just freeball stuff and write whatever I think about," she explained, "and sometimes...IwriteaboutBigHero6becausethey'reawesomeandIlovethemandwhyistherenotshirtsofthemyetIwouldbuyone."
Her friend gave her a funny look, but picked up on what she said, "so..you like writing about Big Hero 6?" The buzzing of Karmi's phone interrupted them, "Big Hero 6 news alert!"
Ari scooted over to her to see the report.
"Catastrophe averted in Night Market Square tonight," Bluff Dunder reported from inside a helicopter, outside was a bunch of flying robot drones, "When Big Hero 6 came to the rescue of citizens trapped atop Telegraph Tower by weaponized microdrones run amok!"
"Who would do such a thing?" Ari turned to Karmi, who shrugged.
"Some jerk I bet."
A drone appears behind Bluff Dunder, but he doesn't notice, "why are San Fransokyo tech attacks rising? And what would we do without our mysterious own grown hero-WOAH!" The drone attempts to attack the helicopter, but the red member of Big Hero 6 uses his signature rocket fist ability to crush the drone. Karmi squeals with delight when she sees the purple member on top of Red.
"Thank you Big Hero 6!" Bluff Dunder waves to the superheroes, Purple gives him a wave back.
"You are welcome," Red states and he flies to help more citizens out.
Bluff Dunder leans into the camera, "did you see that? That was really close."
Karmi pauses the report, "I'll watch it later, I better get back to my dorm."
"You live in a dorm?" Ari questioned, "I thought you lived at home like Hiro did."
Karmi scowls at the mention of Hiro, "just because Genius Boy has the convenience of living nearby from SFIT does not mean I do, and don't compare us!"
"Sorry," Ari snickered. "I'll keep that in mind for the future, though I don't know how you do it, living away from your folks."
"I occasionally video call them, and visit whenever there's breaks." Karmi explains, "want to see a picture?"
"Would I?" Ari beamed, "I'd love to!"
Karmi chuckled, "always so hyper.." She selected an image from her photo gallery and showed it to Ari. It was a picture of a younger Karmi with her parents, it was obvious Karmi took a lot after her mother, because she looked almost identical, the difference was that her mother's eyes were a sharp crimson, while Karmi's was a dark brown.
"Where do you get your brown eyes from?" Ari questioned, noticing that Karmi's father was a man with light brown hair who had ice blue eyes, so she couldn't have gotten them from her parents.
"My grandmother, on my mother's side," Karmi explained, "it's apparently a gene thing, that the firstborn on that side of the family inherits the eye color of their grandparents. So my mom's eyes are from her grandfather."
"Hm, so you're an only child?"
Karmi shook her head, "no," she flipped to another picture, "I took this before I went to SFIT." There were two children that looked to be eight or ten next to her, "that's Haley, and that's Ryan, they're both twins, see?" She pointed to the girl on the left side, who looked a lot like her big sister except her eyes were the same as her dad's, the boy on the left took after her father, but he had his mother's eyes.
"Aww they're so adorable!" Ari cooed at the picture, "I wish I had a sibling sometimes, it must be fun having a best friend that's bound by blood."
She snickered, "that's a morbid way of putting it..Wait you're an only child?"
"Ummm.." Ari remembered that she didn't tell Karmi about her amnesia yet so saying "I don't remember having a sibling" wasn't a good excuse, "yeah, it was just me and my parents."
"Huh, but you-nevermind," Karmi sighed, "shouldn't you be heading home?"
"Oh that's right!" Ari stood up, "I better head home or else Hiro will worry!" She bolted to the door, "bye Karmi! See you later!"
Her friend chuckled as she left, "kids..they have so much energy."
Elsewhere a certain Obake was looking at Bluff Dunder's report, "disappointing.." he chucked a drone. He was using the drone to monitor Big Hero 6's behavior and movements, but it was not contributing to his search for their identities.
"Big Hero 6...what a busy bunch you have all been," he brought up images of the superhero team next to blank images, except one. He already knew that one of the members of Big Hero 6 was Hiro Hamada.
"Time to really get to know you," Obake smirked, the left side of his face glowed a violet hue..he already knew what was the right tool for the job…
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
TheLittleMermaid: Y'know I wanna know who keeps making all these robot attacks
Mikan Ferns: Idk? That Yama guy?
Sara Ferns: "that Yama guy" Mika really -_-
Mikan Ferns: What? I have no clue!
Hiro Hamada: Well hopefully they stop soon, it's driving me crazy.
Rachel Rosemary: Indeed
Sara Ferns: WAIT YOU'RE STILL HERE?!
Rachel Rosemary: I never left : )
Mikan Ferns: She's stuck here forever and ever and ever, none of you will ever leave this chat
Gogo: Oh great…
Honey Lemon: I like this chat! It's fun talking with all of you!
TheLittleMermaid: Same : )
Hiro Hamada: It keeps me busy… I guess
Sara Ferns: "Group chats are fun, end of story" -David
It was the afternoon, Fred was treating Wasabi and Hiro to Noodle Burger. Ari and Baymax also tagged along, the former never passing up a chance to grab some grub. The place was packed, kids were running around, playing in the ball pit, enjoying their toys that came with their kids meal, and people grabbing and eating their orders.
"Since when do you have your own table here?" Hiro asked Fred, seeing his friend wipe the "Reserved for F. Frederickson," plaque on the side of the table with his sleeve. It wasn't there last time he joined Fred for a bite at Noodle Burger.
"Since I became a Noodle Burger titanium member," Fred explained, "I also get priority seating in the ball pit," he pointed towards the ball pit, where a section of it was reserved for him.
"Lucky," Ari grumbled, she was in a hangry mood because she skipped breakfast.
Fred handed her and the others tickets, "feel free to try it out guys," Ari squeals and picks up the ticket with delight.
"No thank you," Wasabi nudges his ticket away with chopsticks, "ball pits are where germs go to party."
Baymax scanned the pit, "the microorganism level of the ball pit is safe for humans."
"Yeah it's fun!" Hiro hands Baymax his ticket, "try it out Baymax!"
Ari started to drag Baymax over to the ball pit, "c'mon let's go!"
"Two please," Baymax and Ari hand their tickets to the employee supervising the ball pit, she opens the reserved area, "thank you." Baymax enters first, while Ari takes her shoes off before entering.
Baymax waddles in, spilling some of the balls out of the pit, the robot holds some of the balls in his hand and they roll back into the pit. His large vinyl body accidentally blocks the ball pit slide and the kids end up sliding into Baymax, "are you having fun?" he asks the kids.
Ari chuckles as she enters the ball pit, "oh Baymax.."
Their attention is brought by a singing robot with a noodle burger for a head, he's carrying a few customer trays.
Yeah! Oh! Hee-hee!
Yeah! Oh! Hee-hee!
Hiro, Wasabi, and a few customers tilt their heads for a better look, Ari bolts back to the table with excited vigor.
I'd do anything for a Noodle Burger!
Cause Noodle Burgers are really swell, yeah!
The robot brings the trays to customers tables, people snap pictures and kids cheer.
If I could I'd marry Noodle Burger!
'Cause Noodle Burgers ring my bell!
He finishes bringing trays to tables and stops at Fred's table.
Ding-Dong!
Hiro and Wasabi stare at the robot in awe.
Fred introduces the robot, "guys, meet Noodle Burger boy!"
"Or as I like to call him, NBB for short!" Ari chipped in.
"He's Noodle Burger's new customer happiness robot," Fred explained.
"Howdy and hello Mr. Fred!" NBB waved, "welcome back to Noodle Burger, where we do swell well. You can't beat Noodle Burger!"
"Hi NBB!" Ari waved, "can we get out orders please?"
"Golly of course! I'll have our noodle dudes make your Friday favorites! A Noodle Burger! Crunchy style with sides! Bring the heat! WTMP!" and NBB walks off to get the orders.
"What did any of that mean?" Wasabi raised an eyebrow.
"'Crunchy style' means we like our noodle buns extra crunchy, while Ari likes a side of fries or onion rings with her burger. 'bring the heat' means add chilli sauce, and 'WTMP' stands for 'way too many pickles', obviously on that one." At that moment NBB comes back to the table bringing their orders, Ari's noodle burger has a side of french fries and onion rings, while Fred's has a lot of pickles.
"That is way too many pickles," Wasabi pointed out seeing all the pickles in Fred's noodle burger, Hiro stares at the burger puzzled why Fred has so many pickles.
"Yeah he's basically psychic," Fred lifts the top of his noodle burger, "can I get a bit of-"
"Ketchup? Coming right up!" Noodle Burger deploys ketchup on top of the pickles, which spills on some of Ari's fries.
"Ooh free ketchup," Ari dips some of her onion rings into the ketchup and munches on it.
"See what I'm talking about?" Fred digs into his noodle burger.
NBB scans Wasabi and Hiro, making a profile for them, "Sorry misters, since we just met, I am unable to predict your order. But I can't wait to get to know you!"
"Not exactly psychic, but it is a killer prediction algorithm," Hiro commented.
Baymax had come back to the table, and was observing the customer happiness robot, "gee whiz mister," NBB stared at the healthcare companion, "would you like some stickers of me? Noodle Burger Boy? He produced some stickers from his head.
"He is a robot," Baymax told Hiro.
"Yes he is."
"What is his function?"
"I spread happiness! And stickers! Yay me!" NBB started placing multiple stickers on Baymax's body until he had a ton stuck to him, "you look extra swell!"
Baymax stared at the stickers, "thank you."
"You're welcome!"
After NBB got Hiro and Wasabi's orders, the customer happiness robot went off to serve other customers, leaving the group to enjoy their meal.
"So, guys." Ari spoke up, "who do you think is behind the robot attacks?"
"I bet Yama!" Fred exclaimed, Hiro and Wasabi shushed him to lower his voice, "sorry, but he has done robot attacks in the past."
"Yeah but it was for that paperweight," Hiro explained, "and we haven't heard from him since, so I doubt he's behind the recent robot attacks."
"What I want to know is why have there been robot attacks in the first place?" Wasabi questioned, "it's starting to become a pattern."
"I didn't know you kept track of Big Hero 6 Wasabi," Ari noted, "you guys never bring them up, except responding to stuff about them," she didn't catch everyone sweating when she brought that up.
"We-"
"Tend to focus more on our studies!" Hiro cutted Baymax off, "which is why it's great that Fred treated us to a noodle burger!" He made eye contact with the comic/kaiju fan, who got the point.
"Yeah, you guys have been so busy so I thought lunch would be a good idea!" Fred nodded, "and of course you're great company Ari!"
"Aww I try to be," Ari smiled, "I'm just glad to spend time with my pal Hiro!" The word "pal" however, felt too weak of a word.
"Yep, just us pals spending time together," Hiro chuckled, feeling the same way, "though I think a stronger word could be used to describe our friendship." He added under his breath.
Wasabi raised an eyebrow at their banter, "you guys are acting weird."
"We're not!" they both exclaimed at the same time.
"The both of us are just being..what's the word..besties! Amrigiht Hiro?"
"Yeah, besties!"
"Not the word I'd use but sure," Fred mumbled, taking another bite out of his noodle burger.
Lunch ended and evening rolled around, Hiro and Ari headed back to the Lucky Cat, wanting to spend the rest of the day inside after being out all day long.
"Y'know.." Ari was giving Mochi some well deserved belly rubs, "when Fred mentioned 'you-know-who' it still reminded me that I'm scared he'll show up at the cafe one day and hurt you and Cass."
"Well he hasn't done it yet, so if he really wanted you he'd have done that by now," Hiro pointed out, "so I think he's given up."
"I'm still scared," Ari shivered, "I don't want to hurt you, I care about you a lot Hiro."
"Ari.." Hiro sighed, giving the girl a hug, "stop being so hard on yourself, and I care about you too."
She smiled at him, "is uh..besties a strong enough word to describe our friendship? Out of all my friends, you're the one I have the strongest bond with, but I don't think besties is a good enough word."
"I don't know what's a good enough word," Hiro shrugged, "I'm just glad I have a good friend like you in my life, though you should be nicer to yourself."
Her giggling warmed his heart, "I'll try to be! Well I'm going to spend more time with Mochi 'bestie who's better than a bestie', so I'll be upstairs!"
"Alrighty then 'bestie who's better than a bestie,'" Hiro chuckled, "I'll be in the garage working on things," aka tweaking his superhero armor so he'd be more prepared for any more robot attacks.
"Then see ya later!" Ari scooped up Mochi and jumped up the stairs.
"Be careful!"
"Ok Baymax!"
"Hey!"
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Sara Ferns: Hey Mika if you're not busy tonight you should join the family dinner! Steven's making his famous pasta!
Mikan Ferns: Family dinner, I haven't had it in so long
Mikan Ferns: I've been living off of Yaki Taco for years
Sara Ferns: "Diva" -David
TheLittleMermaid: omg luckkyyyy! Save me a bowl! His pasta is the best!
Hiro Hamada: I'm telling Aunt Cass you said that
TheLittleMermaid: OMG PLEASE DON'T
Sara Ferns: :/
Mikan Ferns: :/
Gogo: Why did you twin like that
Sara Ferns: I have nooo idea what you're talking about
Gogo: We're neighbors, I know you at this point
Late at night, when the moon was high in the sky. A car drove past the closed Noodle Burger restaurant, NBB himself was charging his batteries for tomorrow. The door opened, he looked up to see who was there.
"Howdy and hello mister!" NBB waved, "Noodle Burger is now closed. Can I help you with something else?"
"Yes," the cold ice blue stare of Obake stared back at NBB, the robot perfect for his plans.
"I believe you can."
AN: Ta-daaah it's Noodle Burger boy you guys the wait is over
Anyways ty for the delicious support guys! I've been kinda lazy in writing since this worldwide lockdown so bleh, hopefully I'll be able to get motivation back!
Now for some of your fav events: QnA!
Guest: did Di create Katie?
No offense but this question made me chuckle XD, so I had to answer it. Well it's an interesting theory but no evidence dude, I mean Katie did say she had a fam in her past so it's not like she's artificially created like the Mayoi
panther dragon: So is this going to be a copy of the show but with extra Obake and Ari moments?
First of all, welcome new reader I hope you are enjoying this fic. Second of all no, Ari might be the main OC added but she's not going to be involved w/ everything, including Obake but there is some history so watch out. And this isn't just gonna be a copy of the show, some things will be different some will not. I'm actually gonna make things more different in arcs 2-3 but that'll be awhile.
And on top of that I have TWO questions for this week
Question 1: Are you guys okay with some show scenes being cut? I really don't want this to be a copy/paste of the show but some scenes will still remain
Question 2: Are you interested in a character QnA after each arc is done? The idea popped in my head when I woke up
Sidenote. I'm not sorry if you guys get the Noodle Song stuck in your head. Feel my pain. FEEL IT.
Have a good week everyone!