AN: Before we start, I have to announce that updates will be paused for a few weeks to make sure I don't get burnout. Y'know, with the state of the world.. I'll try to resume updates sometime in summer, enjoy the chapter though!

Ferns and Nerds group chat:

Rachel Rosemary: NBB update: my dad hasn't found any clues on who took him, but I have bad news

Sara Ferns: Oooh nooo what's the bad news?

Fredilicous24: :,(

Rachel Rosemary: So I was doing my own investigating, and I saw NBB

TheLittleMermaid: YOU DID!?

Fredilicous24: Really?

Sara Ferns: What's the bad news?!

Rachel Rosemary: He was attacking Big Hero 6

Sara Ferns: WHAT

TheLittleMermaid: Oh no! Fred are you okay?

Fredilicous24: nooo….

Gogo: Wait, you were there? Was that all you saw?

Rachel Rosemary: Yep, I was too far away to hear anything but I clearly saw a fight, and NBB drove away. I feel bad for the superheroes, they have another villain to fight.

Fredilicous24: : (

TheLittleMermaid: : (

Gogo: Stop that

"And his go-kart had racing stripes! So cool!" Fred was reciting the encounter with NBB to the gang at his house, they were in his room discussing the issue. "...and evil, I forgot to mention they were evil racing stripes," Gogo facepalmed.
"If we're going to beat Noodle Burger Boy, we need more information about how he works," Honey Lemon pointed out.

Gogo picked up her phone, "I already called the manager at Noodle Burger, she doesn't know where he was made."
"Wait I have a clue!" Fred told them, "he left a footprint...on my butt," he picked up his suit's costume, which had a footprint of when NBB kicked him in the hiney.

"Woah," Wasabi commented, "that must've been a painful kick."
"It was!' Fred exclaimed, "but what hurt most was that Noodle Burger Boy betrayed our friendship!"

"Okay…?"
Gogo inspected the footprint, "it has the Krei-Tech logo on it."
"Which can only mean one thing..." he concluded, "Krei makes shoes you guys."
They all stared at him, "or Krei made Noodle Burger Boy," Wasabi spoke up.

Fred got the hint, "ooooh right, that makes more sense!"
"Wasabi and I will withdraw from the space junk competition, this is more important." Hiro tells them.

"Don't worry, we can handle it," Gogo reassures him.
"Are you sure?" Wasabi questions, "I think it might be better if Hiro and I go, not that we don't love working together!"
"A lot."

"Ooh, that sounds forced," Honey Lemon noted, "are you guys still clashing?"
"You can fix that by just calling each other before you get dressed in the morning, it's very simple," Fred gave them some advice.

"Not that kind of clashing Fred," Gogo told him.

"We just have different ways of doing things," Hiro explained, looking at his phone.

"Yeah, one of us is right and one of us is wrong," his eyes widened at Wasabi's words, if that's the game he was going to play then so be it.

"One of us is super controlling, and the other goes with the flow."
"Well one of us acts like a civilized human being, and the other acts like...an uncivilized human so…"

"One of us is good at insults and the other is terrible."
"Woah!" Fred gets between the two, "come on! This is getting too personal."
"No that last one was fair," Wasabi pointed out.

Gogo kicks Fred's table to the side and walks up to them, "here's how this is going to go. You guys are gonna find a way to work together, because you're dear friends, who care about each other, got it?" She glares at them.

"I'm good with that."
"Me too," Hiro and Wasabi nod, not wanting to anger Gogo by saying otherwise.

Fred gives Gogo a weak smile, it was nice of her to do that, "alright, so you guys work on that, while we find out information about Noodle Burger Boy."
"Maybe we could invite Ari to come with us!" Honey Lemon suggested.

Hiro shook his head, "no! What if she finds out that we're Big Hero 6 because of that?"
"Oh please, no one can crack our secret identities," Fred reassured him, "we probably shouldn't get her involved though."
"Mhmm," Gogo nodded, "even though she can be dense as a rock, we shouldn't have her tag along."

Meanwhile at the Lucky Cat, Ari sneezed, "ach-oo!"
Mochi meowed, though she could predict he was saying "gesundheit."

Back at the SFIT labs, Baymax was glancing back and forth at Hiro and Wasabi, who were idling in silence.

"The others are right," Hiro speaks up, "friends should be able to work together."
"Maybe we're just too different," Wasabi reasoned, it had to be the logical explanation of why they were having such a hard time.

"One key to understanding another person, is to try to see things from his perspective," Baymax suggested.

"I guess we could try that."

Hiro offers another solution, "or we could just split up the work and do our parts separately."

"I like where you're going with this."
"My way works for me, and your way works for you. Why mess up a good thing?"
"Avoiding a problem, means it could recur in the future," Baymax warned them.

"Luckily, we're in the present," Hiro didn't believe him.

"Let's do this! Not together," Wasabi santizes his hands and shakes Hiro's, then they split up to do the work.

As Wasabi is working on his part of the project, he gets a visitor in the form of Sara.

"Hey Wasabi!" She waved at him, he waved back.
"Hey Sara, do you need anything?"

She shook her head, "no, just want to see you, aren't you supposed to be working on the space junk competition with Hiro?"
"Well yeah.." He fidgeted with his hands, "but we're splitting up the work, since we both have different ways of doing things."

Sara hummed, "is that so? Well hopefully it works out for you two."
"Thanks," he then noticed that she had been rubbing her arms for the entire conversation, "you okay?"
"Yeah," she sighed, "just..thinking about things."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Wasabi placed his hand on her shoulder, she jolted at the sudden touch.

"Oh um..I guess it couldn't hurt," Sara stared down at the floor, "I was just..thinking about my mom, because around this time was when I stopped living with her and moved in with my Uncle," her hands went over the faint scars on her wrist. "Whenever I think about her... I used to vent to either my siblings or Tadashi, but they've been going through a lot lately and... y'know."
"Yeah," Wasabi nodded, he missed him a lot as well, "it's not healthy to bottle your thoughts like that. So if you need to vent to anyone, you can always come to me, okay?"
"Okay," she looked up at him and smiled, the light returning in her eyes. "So, everyone lately has been talking about the robot attacks, has that been on your mind as well?"

Well it had been because he was fighting the robots, but he couldn't tell Sara that, "no, not really. I've been busy with my studies and worrying about the next test."
"Well glad to see these events haven't been bothering you at all," she quipped, "I'm going to be heading home soon, see you tomorrow Wasabi!" Sara waved as she walked out of the labs.

"See you tomorrow!" He waved back, and got back to work on his project.

Soon enough, Wasabi and Hiro finished up the mech that could collect junk and dispose of it in space.

Hiro admired their work, "nice."

"I think this is gonna work," Wasabi high-fived him, but he got something sticky on his hand.

"Sorry, I just ate an almond butter and jelly sandwich," Hiro apologized, wiping his hand on his hoodie's sleeve.

"Almond butter?"
"Hiro has a mild peanut allergy," Baymax informs Wasabi, the robot squirts some hand sanitizer onto his hand.

"Now all we have to do is test it on some real junk at the dump, to make sure it works," Hiro explained.

"The dump...yeah..sounds fun," Wasabi looked uncomfortable at the idea of going to such a dirty place, even if it was in the name of science.

"You don't have to go if you don't want to," Hiro tells him.

"No no, I'll go, doing things apart together worked out. Let's try to finish up together apart."

Ferns and Nerds group chat:

TheLittleMermaid: Y'know I was just thinking

TheLittleMermaid: We should all have a giant sleepover!
Hiro Hamada: Why

Honey Lemon: Hiro that was kind of rude to say : (, a sleepover is a wonderful idea!

TheLittleMermaid: Everyone has been so stressed and grumpy 24/7!
TheLittleMermaid: Looking at you Mika

Mikan Ferns: Hey only David and Sara can call me Mika!

Sara Ferns: "It's sibling privileges" -David

Wasabi: Sleepover sounds fun

Fredilicous24: Oooh it can be at my house! I have all the Kentucky Kaiju movies for us to watch!
Rachel Rosemary: Lucky

Hiro Hamada: You can come to this hypothetical sleepover if you want

Rachel Rosemary: Yay

TheLittleMermaid: Can we do the sleepover tomorrow?

Sara Ferns: I have a test! Maybe after next week : P

Mikan Ferns: Y'all we need to bring snacks though

TheLittleMermaid: "Y'all"
Mikan Ferns: Oh don't you start

"Noodle Burger asked us to build the ultimate nostalgic robot boy mascot, and that's what we did." Honey Lemon, Gogo, and Fred were sitting in Krei's office to gather information about their latest adversary.

"Ah," Fred sighed, "he makes me wish I was an old-timey boy."
"Is he made out of military-grade titanium?" Gogo squinted at the blueprints on the powerpoint that Krei was showing them. She was surprised to see such a material used for a customer happiness robot.

"Well..funny story," Krei brought up more blueprints that showed NBB's exoskeleton, "the inner mechanism is from an abandoned robot soldier project. It was taking up space in R&D."
Gogo facepalmed, "oh great.."
"So that means in addition to being able to predict our every move," Honey Lemon realized, "he's-"
"Indestructible, yes, yes." Krei nodded, "but adorable, you can't fight that smile."
"But he can fight us," Gogo crossed her arms.

Fred was pacing around the room, "I can't believe I gave my heart to Noodle Burger, and now its boy is going to destroy me!"
"Destroy us," Honey Lemon corrected, "he'll destroy us if we don't beat him."
"That's even worse!"
"Yeah that's a tough break," Krei closed the powerpoint, "anyway if that's it, you can..leave."
Gogo grumbled, "c'mon guys," she gestured for Honey Lemon and Fred to follow her, they had some planning to do.

As they were leaving the Krei-Tech lobby they ran into Steven Ferns.
"Hmm, I hope my boss wasn't bothering you all for anything," he hummed.

"Oh no he wasn't," Fred shook his head, "we were just leaving."
"Ah, let me guess, were you asking about the robot attacks?" They all looked at each other, where did Steven get a conclusion from?
"Yeah," Honey Lemon answered for them, "we heard that Noodle Burger Boy went rouge and we asked Krei some questions about it."
"Noodle Burger Boy?" Steven narrowed his eyes, "I helped build that robot y'know, I was very thorough with the programming safeguards, someone most likely tampered with him."
"Got any suspects?" Gogo questioned.

There was hesitation, "...No, I can't think of anyone," Steven chuckled and ruffled her hair, "you kids should be focusing on whatever test my wife is giving you in class, don't worry about the robot attacks. Besides, Big Hero 6 will take care of any threat that comes to the city, just make sure to be careful."
"Oh we will!" Fred grinned, "have a nice day Mr. Ferns!"
"You too Fred," Steven walked away from the trio.
"Well that was ironic," Gogo sighed, "we can't ignore the robot attacks just like that."
"Mhmm," Honey Lemon nodded, as Big Hero 6 they had to do something after all. "But I'm sure it'll work out Gogo! Remember how much of a hard time we had at first? You helped us stop a few pairs of villains!"
"Thanks Honey Lemon," she smiled, "I needed that."
"You're welcome!"

At the dump, a seagull landed on a pile of garbage. He turned to see NBB searching through the dump for something. He squawked at the robot, who tilted his head towards the bird.

"Howdy and Hello mister!" NBB waved to the bird, "I'm here to upgrade, so I can defeat my mortal enemies, Big Hero 6!" He punches in the air and then walks toward the bird. "Want some stickers? They're the coolest." The seagull takes the sticker and starts to nibble at it, "have a swell day mister!" The seagull spits out the sticker, squawks, and flies away.

"All right, well, I think that's the last of it." NBB hears a voice and walks to see down below, Hiro, Wasabi, and Baymax with the mech.

"Hang on, let me check the connection," Wasabi checked the mech, NBB scanned it.

"Ooh..that meal comes with a free toy.."

Hiro started to press all of the buttons, "okay, let's see what this thing can do."
"Woah woah woah," Wasabi held a hand to stop him, "you're putting it on all wrong, you want to start with the waist strap."
"It doesn't matter what you start with," Hiro argued.

Wasabi laughed mockingly, "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, here." He reaches his hand to touch the mech but Hiro slaps it away.

"No way! I built the robotic skeletcture, I'm testing it!"
Baymax saw a shadow looming overhead and looked up, "perhaps you-"
"Hold on Baymax," Hiro interrupted him. "This is between me and Wasabi."
"But there is a problem."
"Yeah, a big problem: you," Wasabi glared at Hiro, who took offense to that.

"Uh, what's that supposed to mean?"
"It means everything's by the seat of your pants, you always take shortcuts and you don't follow procedures!""
"You don't follow procedures, you obsess about them!"
"Like that's a bad thing?! You know what? Forget it, I'm done, working on this project was a bad idea!"
"Fine! You don't want to work on it anymore? Neither do I."
"There is a problem."
"We know there's a problem Baymax, that's why we're arguing."

Clang!

"That is the problem," Baymax pointed to the giant crane that picked him up by the head and was lifting him upwards.

"Baymax!" Hiro runs to him, trying to keep him grounded, he leaps into the air and clings onto the robot. Wasabi runs over and attempts to catch Hiro when he slips, he fails and Hiro lands on the ground.

"Howdy and hello!" Hiro whips his around to see NBB stole the mech and riding it. "Thanks for the swell gizmo misters!" NBB grips the joystick, "golly what does this do?" He clicked the button on the joystick that fired the plasma blaster.

"Aah! Run!" Wasabi pushed Hiro out of the way and they both started running away as NBB tried blasting them.

"We have to go back for Baymax!" Hiro exclaimed.
"We will, but not like this," Wasabi starts to drag Hiro away, "we need our armor!"

"You can't beat Noodle Burger Boy!" NBB chuckled and fired the blaster in the air. "Hee-hee! Hee-hee! Hee-hee!"

Hiro was driving down the street frantically on his moped while Wasabi sat in the passenger seat calling the others.

"Noodle Burger Boy's at the dump, he took our mech suit and now he's got Baymax! Hiro and I are going back to the lab to get our amor."
"We've got our suits, we're on our way." Gogo tells him on the other line, he almost fell off of the moped when Hiro skids past a corner.

"Woah Hiro slow down!"
"I can't!" he yelled back, "we have to rescue Baymax!"

"We'll get him back but please don't cause a car crash oh god-"

"I fail to see how this makes you a better customer happiness representative," Baymax's was gripped by the metal claw, he was watching NBB throw junk around the dump with his stolen mech.

"That was my old job," NBB tossed more junk around and looked at Baymax. "My new owner reprogrammed to destroy Big Hero 6!"
Baymax blinked, "robots are designed to help humans."
"Golly mister, it looks like you're the one who needs help," NBB's head whirled as he looked at Baymax. "Big Hero 6 will be here any minute to try to rescue you. Too bad I'm going to destroy them!" He shot several blasts with the plasma blaster, then held out a few stickers, "sticker?"

At SFIT, Hiro was placing his armor on in silence. He spared no glance at his friend, keeping his thoughts to himself. Why did he leave Baymax behind? Hiro knew there was nothing he could've done, but leaving the robot behind left a bad taste in his mouth.

"Look Hiro," he turns his head at the sound of Wasabi's voice.

"Sorry?..Yeah, me too." They didn't have to say what for.

"Maybe Baymax was right...again," Wasabi put on his shoulder pads, he went to grab Hiro's glove as his friend grabbed his plasma blades.

"Wasabi, wait!" Hiro stared at the plasma blades.
"Yeah, I just think I had the same idea!" Wasabi nodded, both of them getting the same idea.

Back at the dump, Baymax was trying to wiggle free. "Gee whiz mister, keep trying to escape, and I'll deep-fry you," NBB told him. "Extra crunchy style!"
"Deep-fry this!" Gogo skidded over and threw a disk at NBB, he deflected it back with a broken car and tossed it at her. She dodged the car, as NBB started stomping towards her Honey Lemon from another trash pile and tossed a chem ball. However NBB grabbed it just like last time and tossed it back at her.
"I always wanted to dive in to save someone like this!" Fred exclaimed as he leapt over and took the blow for his friend, he was trapped in violet colored goop.

Honey Lemon stared at him with shock, but it didn't last long because Gogo skated in and scooped her up bridal style and they both avoided another car thrown at them. As Gogo skids by, she passes by the crane that's holding Baymax, she glances to the control panel and gets an idea. As she lowers Honey Lemon and tosses a disk however, NBB blasts it away.

"Golly miss, so predictable."

"What do we do?" Honey Lemon questioned.

"You try to-"
"Short out my suit with one of your chem balls while she skates around me real fast and hits me with one of her disks." Both of them stare at NBB with wide eyes and glance at each other. "Or I could suggest a new order. Clean up on table five!"
"Hey!" Gogo exclaims as NBB nets them.

"Hee-hee-hee! I do swell well!" NBB spun his head around.

"We will beat you!" Fred told him, "our friends will be here to save us!"
"I know everything they are going to do too. That's the Noodle Burger Boy guarantee!"

"Hey! You might wanna rethink that!" NBB turns around at the sound of Hiro's voice.

"Yeah! We'd like to place an order...for payback!"

"Gee whiz, something changed!" NBB noted that Hiro is wearing Wasabi's armor and Wasabi is wearing Hiro's armor. "My algorithm is out of whack, I cannot predict what you will do. So I guess I'll just have to beat you with brute force." He picks up a piece of trash and chucks it at them.

Hiro slices it in half with the plasma blades, Wasabi yelps and shields himself from the blast with his hands.

"Bet you didn't see that coming!" Hiro smirks, Wasabi picks up a piece of metal and throws it at NBB.

He leapt into the air, "golly mister I did not!" NBB began to shoot the plasma blaster at them. "You're really starting to grill my bun!" They both start to run away from the blasts.

"The mech suit's working really great!" Wasabi exclaims as they're running.
"Yeah, nice job with the blasters!" Hiro tells him.

A plasma blast sends them flying towards the crane, "hello." Baymax greets them as they're dangling.

"Oh hi Baymax!" Wasabi greets back, Hiro gives the robot a pat on the tummy. "Don't worry, we'll get you out of there real soon."

NBB is mad at that statement, "that is not swell mister. Not swell at all!" He fires a blast that causes them to slip their grip. Wasabi manages to cling to the wall and grabs Hiro as he's slipping, however another blast sends them tumbling towards the ground.

"Hey there, let me tell you about our new menu item.." NBB stomps towards them as he creates a plasma sword, "chop suey!"

Hiro activates the plasma blades and deflects the blade, as he struggles in his defence NBB prepares the plasma blaster. Wasabi gets up and pushes the plasma blaster away so the blast is misfired, Hiro manages to get the upper ground and slashes the mech suit's legs.

"Gee whiz, golly, howdy and hello!" NBB lands on the ground and prepares to escape.
"Howdy and hello this!" Gogo managed to break free of the net and tossed it at him, he landed on the ground upside down.

"Is this to go? Is this to go? Is this to go?"

Fred gets to the crane and starts lowering Baymax to the ground, "oh come on Gogo, you need a new battle cry, the whole 'blank this' thing is getting a little repetitive."

Honey Lemon creates a gooey cushion with one of her chem balls so Gogo and her could land safely on the ground.

"Nice going Wasabi," Hiro holds out his fist for a fist bump, Wasabi smirks and returns it.

"You too, little man."
Baymax was lowered back on solid ground with success, he lifts a finger to the air. "Hiro."

"I know Baymax," Hiro stared at the robot. "You were right all along, I'll listen next time."
"Noodle Burger Boy is getting away." Baymax pointed to the free robot, who was revving the engine on his go-kart. Not only did smoke come out of the go-kart, but also ketchup and mustard relishments.

Yeah! Oh! Hee-hee!

Gogo wipes away the mustard from her visor, "uhg, gross."
"Yeah, but love that go-kart." Fred flips up his suit's hood and samples the ketchup, "mmhmm."
"Should we go after Noodle Burger Boy?" Hiro pointed to the direction the robot drove away from.

Honey Lemon shakes her head, "no, it's getting late. We'll take care of him another day."

Above a pile of junk, a snowy cloaked figure eyes the superheroes. They watched as the group cleaned themselves up, picked up the mech suit, and left the area. When they were gone the figure jumped down on the ground, avoiding the splattered ketchup and mustard stains.
"Hmm, this kind of problem is already going to be solved." Their voice was young, femminine, but worn, "Big Hero 6, I used to be curious about what you were when you first appeared." They placed a glove on their mask, stroking it.

"To be honest you all should be better at keeping your identity secret, criticism aside I pray I won't have to get you involved into my business until I can conclude that you are full-fledged heroes. At least this situation gives me the break I need from keeping my eyes peeled for those power hungry rats…"

Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Sara Ferns: Guys I loved the mech suit! It looked fabulous!
Hiro Hamada: Ty

Wasabi: Thanks!
Mikan Ferns: We're gonna win! Muahhahah

Gogo: You're starting to sound like Granville

Mikan Ferns: Why thank you : )

TheLittleMermaid: Send me a picture! I wanna see : D

Hiro Hamada: mech,jpeg

TheLittleMermaid: COOL! Hiro you build the coolest things!
Hiro Hamada: Aww ty

Wasabi: I helped build it too…

Elsewhere..NBB walks into a lair, "howdy and hello." The robot's head drops down. "I'm awful sorry mister, I totally messed up your order."

"Did you collect all the information I requested?" Obake steps out of the shadows and kneels down to NBB's level.

"Golly I..I sure did mister." NBB stares up at him with shiny black eyes.
"Well then, I'd say you did just..fine," he strokes the robot's head then plugs him into the computer. "Your database should fill in a few gaps." The computer beeps with 100% accuracy, Obake laughs as the pictures of Big Hero 6 showed all of their real identities.
"Big Hero 6..So nice to get to know you.."

AN: Oh snap, we're at the halfway point. I never though I'd get this far, sidenote why is it everytime I try to do "image . jpeg" it always cuts out.. darn fanfic site.

Question of the Week: your thoughts on HOF so far. Be honest, what do you like, dislike, think I'm doing good, think I could do better? But please don't talk about ships I should put in, I already decided what ships will happen in HOF, canon or OC

This was at the point where I got to some cool stuff in HOF (plz don't kill me for making you guys wait a lil' longer I value my mental health). I really enjoyed writing the canon-OC interactions in this fic, I was trying to make sure that the canon characters weren't outshined by the OCs. I've seen that happen a few times sadly, and it's a real off-putter, so I hope I'm doing a good job. I try to have the OC conflicts in the story not take place during canon conflicts so it's less of a hassle.

I think having Ari not be a part of the whole Obake arc (mostly... but it happened pre-canon so it doesn't count right?), is a helper. but that doesn't mean she has some moments! And also the Fern Kids. *exhale*, y'all were shocked about Mikan.

Also can I just say writing NBB was funnier than I expected, his "fast food jabber" is hard to nail but it's fun if you can do it correctly. Note to self, give him more S2 screentime bc the writer's could've done that (along with his big sis) but that's what fanfiction is for! Exploring what could've happened in canon and giving canon characters backstory!

...I probably should do that more with the Nerd Gang.. but I can do that in arc 2, I'll have plenty of time there ; ).

Enjoy! And if you want something to read while HOF is on hiatus check out AgentOfAngst and Brainyxbat! SEND THEM ALL THE REVIEWS! JUST DO IT! FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!