"Here is your latte sir," Ari handed another customer at the Lucky Cat Cafe his coffee.
"Thank you!" The customer chirped, smiling as he accepted his drink, Ari chuckled and went back to the counter.
"Is it almost time to close up?" she asked Cass.
"Mhmm," Cass nodded, "let's just finish up helping the rest of the customers and then we'll close shop."
Ari nodded, she got the rest of the customers their orders and cleaned the tables when they left, Cass closed the cafe when there were no more customers left in the Lucky Cat.
"What a day," Ari yawned, she'd been helping Cass run the cafe all day.
Cass gave her a pat on the shoulder, "thank you so much for your help Ari, I know you should spend more time doing kid stuff. But it's always nice to have a helping hand in the cafe sometimes."
"You're welcome…" Now or never Ari.. "..Aunt Cass.." Ari tensed up and waited for the reaction.
There was silence, Ari looked up to see Cass was sweeping up the cafe, "wait!" she turned around. "You're not going to react?"
"To…?" Cass raised an eyebrow.
"Me calling you 'Aunt Cass?', c'mon, isn't it a big deal?!" Ari exclaimed, "I thought you were going to yell at me for calling you aunt!"
She got a chuckle in response, "oh Ari..all of Hiro's friends call me 'Aunt Cass', you're family now so you're allowed to call me aunt anytime-oh!" Ari ran up to Cass and gave her a tight hug, the woman smiled and hugged her back.
"Well um.." Ari lets go of the hug, "I'm gonna go upstairs," she yawned. "I'm really tired."
"Oh that's fine," Cass tells her, "goodnight Ari!"
"Goodnight Aunt Cass!" Ari waved, she walked up the stairs, feeling another weight lifted off of her chest. Hiro and Aunt Cass really do feel like my family, Ari smiled as she walked, however as she went past the living room she glanced at a framed photo of Tadashi Hamada. Ari sighed and walked up to it, her hands touching the edges.
"I don't want to replace you," she told the painting, "I can tell both of them miss you a lot, and I want to try to help them in any way. Just like how Hiro said you wanted to help people." Ari huffed, now I'm just stressing myself out, I feel grief for someone I never met, but I still feel his presence in many ways..Ari walked upstairs and sat on her bed, "I hope Hiro comes home soon from his Kentucky Kaiju movie watching with his friends." Hiro and the others went to see a movie in theaters, she opted not to go due to wanting to help Cass run the cafe a little.
Her phone buzzed and she checked it, "uhg," Ari grumbled as it was a news report about the glob monster supervillain Globby. "He's robbing a bank! I hope Big Hero 6 will stop him!"
The superheroes were flying on their way towards the scene. "There's the bank," Hiro pointed to a building.
"Well, guess we know how Globby got in," Wasabi commented as the roof of the bank had a giant hole in it. Baymax flew in from the hole in the roof, Fred landed on the floor, angry that his movie watching time was ruined by the villain's break-in.
"Alright Globby! Show yourself!" Fred exclaimed, "I've got a movie to watch, for the seventh time!" He entered the open vault door and glanced left and right, "wait guys, he's not here."
"Nope!" They all turned around, and saw a large wall of purple globs behind them, "I'm over here!"
"So, Globby's gotten scarier," Wasabi pulled out his red corduroy cloth and started wiping his face with it in order to comfort his fear.
"You can't just break into a bank!" Hiro exclaimed.
"I just did!" Globby rocketed himself to the ground, scattering the team, he then went for Hiro and Baymax flying in the air.
"I will protect you," Baymax told Hiro as the glob monster grabbed them both.
"Aah!" Hiro yelped.
"Now let's see how you do without Big Red," Hiro was thrown onto the ground as Baymax was thrown into the vault, crashing into Fred. Globby locked the vault door shut.
"Baymax!" Hiro exclaimed, running up to the door, but Globby stood in front of the door. He started to shapeshift into a four-legged creature with two sharp horns, he now resembled the form of a bull.
"Stay here," Gogo told Hiro, she skated towards Globby and threw a disk at him. Globby deflected, leaping behind her and knocking her over. The glob monster laughed as Gogo hit the vault door, then turned his attention to Hiro who yelped in fear as Globby started charging towards him.
"Hold on Hiro!" Honey Lemon tossed a chem ball at Globby, he reformed into his humanoid form and caught the ball with his hand.
"Really?" the teal chemicals started moving through his body, "I'm made of this stuff you idiot!" The chemicals reformed in his other hand into the shape of a spear, which he fired at Hiro. He yelped and blocked his face with his hands. Honey Lemon tossed another chem ball at her friend which formed into a pink bubble that absorbed the spear's attack. The tip of the spear hit Hiro's visor, which started to crack.
"Choose your next move very carefully!" Wasabi stood in front of Hiro, his plasma blades activated and prepared to defend him. At that moment Baymax punched the vault door open, Fred was jumping for joy at being freed. The robot flew out and attempted to grab Globby, who leapt on top of the roof.
"It's a good thing you've got friends with firepower kid!" Globby told Hiro, "'cause you're useless without 'em!" He laughed as he swung away, Hiro staring up at the roof with anger.
"Mmm!" Hiro yanked a chunk of the spear that was inside the chem bubble, but it started to make the bubble roll away from the group.
"Hiro," Baymax chased after him, the others staring as he rolled away.
Globby had swung back to Obake's lair, his boss was staring at the large computer screens when he reformed on the ground. "I did what you asked, but I'm gonna be honest, I don't get it."
"Well of course not, it's beyond you." Obake brought up a picture of "Hero Hiro" on screen, "you planted doubt."
"I did?" Globby smirked, "yeah I did!"
"Our doubts are traitors," Obake explained, "and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
"Yeah that's pretty much what I was thinkin' too," Globby nodded, he actually wasn't thinking that but was trying to look smart in front of his boss.
Obake walked back to the screen, "let's see what the boy genius does now. Wracked with doubt." The left side of his face glowed a violet hue in the green lighted room.
Back at his garage, Hiro tossed his gauntlets and helmet onto his desk, and slumped down in his chair. "Ow.." He placed a hand on his wounded shoulder.
"I was alerted to your-"
"Pain," Hiro rubbed his shoulder, "yeah, plenty of that." His mind kept thinking about what Globby said.
It's a good thing you've got friends with firepower kid!
'Cause you're useless without 'em!
Was he right? He kept thinking back to moments when he was in his superhero gear, thinking of the times when he couldn't do anything his friend's did all the fighting.
"A cold compress can help," Baymax's hand turned blue as he iced Hiro's shoulder, who batted the arm away.
"Heh, help? That's all I've been getting!" Hiro exclaimed, "I don't want anymore help!"
Baymax blinked at him, "would you like me to deactivate now?"
Hiro stared back, feeling guilty for his outburst, he sighed. "Sorry Baymax, I-I just hate feeling weak and useless all the time."
"For a fourteen-year-old boy, your strength is statistically average."
"That's the problem!" Hiro held his hands up, "a-a superhero shouldn't be average, everyone else has a superpower. I need my superpower." He drummed his fingers on the desk, he shouldn't pick any superpower that his friends use, what would be good for him? Electricity powers? No, too dangerous, and High Voltage would sue for copyright if they ever broke out of jail. Earth powers? Nah, he didn't want to recreate the Great Catastrophe anytime soon. Wind powers? Now he was scraping the bottom of the barrel, who could even control the wind outside of science fiction?
"I'm thinking super strength!" Hiro realized it would be the perfect superpower for knocking down large foes and be able to help citizens if there was another runaway trolley.
"A protein-rich diet, coupled with exercise, can increase muscle mass." Baymax showed a few pictures on his screen to show his point, Hiro stared at the screen. That was correct, but it would take too long.
"I've got a better idea," Hiro went and got his toolbox and blueprints. Baymax watched as he scooted around the garage working, after a while of work Hiro watched as the machine in the garage printed a long sleeved shirt that had purple lined circuitry all over. He stared at his work with pride, he'd use it the next time there was another baddie attacking and they'd get the surprise of their life.
Knock knock knock!
"Hiro? You in there?" He whipped his head around at Ari's voice, "I got something for you, can I come in?"
"In a minute!" Hiro rushed to hide the shirt and all of his superhero gear into boxes and shoving them into corner's she couldn't reach, "okay now come in!"
Ari opened the garage door, "you've been here for like two hours, so I got you a snack."
"That's great Ari," Hiro smiled, "what did you get me?"
"Catch," she tossed a bag and Hiro managed to catch it with both of his hands, it was a bag of gummy bears. "Aunt Cass told me that these were your favorite kind of snacks, so I got you some, and it's a large bag so don't eat all of it at once or else you'll get a tummy ache."
"Thank you," he placed the bag on his desk.
"Anything for the best big brother ever!" She beamed, "you seemed kind of down when you got back so I thought a treat would cheer you up!"
Hiro could met from her kindness at that moment, "Ari, can I ask you a question?"
"You can," she nodded.
"Do you ever feel..powerless?" Hiro slumped into his chair, "like you can't do anything?"
"All the time.." He looked up at her in surprise.
"Why?"
"Well, it's just..When I see you and your friends sad about…things..I wish I could help, but I don't want to probe any of you for information so I'm just stuck in the dark." Hiro didn't have to be a mind reader to know what she was talking about, a part of him wanted to tell her the truth but feared compromising his secret identity and putting her at serious risk.
"It's not something I want to talk about," Hiro told her, "but just you being there for me and my friends is enough help..I think you're pretty strong Ari, for keeping positive after all you're going through."
"Really?" Ari perked up, her blue eyes shining with happiness.
"Yeah, you keep your positive attitude and kindness despite being stuck in a cell for days, and you see the good in others where I can't," Hiro explained.
"Well, I guess that's just me," Ari hummed, "I guess that's what makes me..Ari, huh, having ten o' clock conversations is a real eye opener huh?"
Hiro chuckled, and wrapped her into a hug, "yes, yes it does."
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Mikan Ferns: I crave pizza
Gogo: Why
Mikan Ferns: Anything but noodle burgers, please no
Sara Ferns: Are you okay?
Mikan Ferns: My little brother won't shut up about noodle burgers I'm going to slam my head into a wall
Hiro Hamada: That will only cause injury
Mikan Ferns: Ok Baymax
Hiro Hamada: : (
TheLittleMermaid: Is David that crazy for a noodle burger?
Mikan Ferns: Umm..okay so long story give me a sec
Sara Ferns: "This I wanna hear" David and I
TheLittleMermaid: Now I'm hungry, can we get regular burgers Hiro?
Hiro Hamada: Sure Ari,
TheLittleMermaid: : D
Mikan Ferns: Okay so my dad adopted some new kid who I already love as my little brother but he is a noodle burger maniac
Sara Ferns: I wanna meet him!
Mikan Ferns: One day you might, we gotta let him adjust first
TheLittleMermaid: Mikan ur dad is so nice!
Mikan Ferns: Yeah he is
Early in the morning, at the docks owned by the Frederickson family. Fred and Heathcliff were waiting outside watching a boat load cargo onto the docks. Fred was pacing around in circles.
"The waiting is killing me!" Fred exclaimed in a dramatic manner.
"If I may ask Master Frederick," Heathcliff spoke up, "what are we waiting for?"
"Only the most awesome thing in the history of awesome things!"
"A snow cone machine?"
"No, but I like that answer," Fred placed an arm around Heathcliff's shoulder. "I bought the actual Kentucky Kaiju animatronic from the movie! And it's being delivered today!" He shakes Heathcliff's shoulders, "uh, Heathcliff, that's your cue."
"Oh right," he clears his throat, "awesome."
"Okay you can definitely do better than-" a large crate starts lowering to the ground, "wait wait!" Fred runs up to it, "here is! Come to me! Come to my hands! Just right here in my hands!" Fred walks up to the crate and opens it, unleashing a flood of packing peanuts.
"What? This can't be right. No. No. No!" Fred picked up the kaiju animatronic.
"Is that not a Kentucky Kaiju?" Heathcliff questioned.
"Well yeah it is, but I thought it was going to be bigger, like way bigger," he held the small sized animatronic in his hands, "like as big as that giant crane bigger." Fred laid down on the packing peanuts and looked up at the crane lowering crates to the ground, "hmm, wait a second." He held up the Kentucky Kaiju up to the crane. "Heathcliff, I technically own everything here, right?"
Pow!
Bricks shattered and broke into pieces as Hiro punched the wall, "ha! Wait till the guys see this!" He was wearing his superhero gloves and helm, and also the shirt with purple lined circuitry.
"I fail to see how punching concrete makes you a better superhero," Baymax tilted his head.
"I won't be punching concrete, I'll be-" the helm's comm buzzed and he clicked it, "hold on, hey Gogo."
"Noodle Burger Boy's back," Gogo told him on the other line, "sending the location now."
The map appeared on his visor and a red dot appeared on screen, "got it, Baymax and I will meet you guys there." He turned off the comm, then turned to the robot. "Let's do this," he fists bumps Baymax but due to his super strength he knocks the robot into the wall.
"Sorry Baymax!"
"Ba-la-la-la-la."
Right downtown, NBB was rampaging. Equipped with a flying, four armed mech suit, he was throwing cars at citizens. One car almost hit a person but Wasabi sliced it in half with his plasma blades.
"Go! Get to safety!" He told the citizen, who nodded and ran in the other direction.
"Guys we have a problem," Honey Lemon told them.
"Uh yeah Honey Lemon, we can see Noodle Burger Boy right there," Fred shrugged, gesturing to the robot.
"No! I mean look!" Honey Lemon pointed to one of the mech suit's arms, where a snowy-haired girl was in it's grip.
"He's got Mikan!"
Gogo tossed a disk at the arm holding her, "let her go!" NBB crushed the disk with one another arm.
"Golly, no can do!" the robot giggled, "I've got a special order to fill!" The arm holding Mikan tightened.
She screamed in pain, "Big Hero 6! Help!" Under her breath she muttered, "jeez do you have to do a death grip? I need air to breathe buddy."
"Sorry Mika, gotta make it look for realsies," NBB whispered to her, he then picked up a car and chucked it at the superheroes who jumped back. "Welcome to drive-thru!"
The superheroes jumped to the side of the streets as the car was thrown downhill.
"Is it just me, or are all the supervillains getting stronger lately?" Wasabi brushed the side of his face with the red corduroy to comfort himself.
At that moment Baymax and Hiro had arrived, a laser fired at them and Hiro leapt to the other side of the road. "Maybe not just the villains," Hiro smirked at his friends, and started running towards NBB.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Wasabi stared at his friend as he ran towards the rampaging robot.
"Baymax, you're not going to let him go over there alone, are you?" Honey Lemon asked Baymax.
"I have been instructed to let Hiro, 'do his thing,'" the robot replied.
"Howdy and hello!" NBB fired lasers at Hiro, who dodged with ease, "I sure am glad you could join us!"
"I'm not," Mikan muttered under her breath, "this better be worth all the scones for this…"
NBB tossed another car at Hiro, he caught it with one hand, "wouldn't miss it.." Hiro smirked.
"Whaaat?" Wasabi's jaw dropped.
"That is Hiro's thing," Baymax pointed out.
Gogo frowned and turned to the others, "I thought 'boy genius' was his thing."
"Woah…" Mikan had wide green eyes, "someone took a page out of Hercule's book."
Hiro lifted the car up and tossed it back at NBB, who caught it with two of his mech suit's arms. "Gee whiz mister, how did you do that?" He snapped the car in half, dropped it, and fired lasers at the purple-armored superhero.
Hiro rolled over, picking up a sewer grate and using it as a shield, "the same way I'm going to do this." He tossed it like a frisbee at one of the mech suit's arms, it impaling the claw, Mikan stared at it with shock.
"Watch where you're aiming! Damsel in distress here!"
"Whoops!" Hiro shrugged, "I think I broke it!"
Hiro ran to the mech suit, breaking the arm that had Mikan in it's grip, she rolled to the ground and bolted towards the other superheroes. He grabbed the suit's cockpit and looked NBB in the eyes, "hello what's the matter? Having trouble predicting what I'm gonna do?"
"You are really starting to shred my lettuce!" Hiro jumped on top of the robot, two of the arms tried grabbing him but he pulled them off, and landed back onto the ground, kicking the mech suit across the street. NBB managed to lift himself up and fly with the remains of his broken mech suit, Hiro watched him go with pride at single-handedly taking him down.
"Howdy and goodbye!" Hiro dropped the two mech suit's arms to the ground.
"Woah!" Fred exclaiming, jumping up and down, "that was awesome!"
"Tell me about it," Mikan chuckled, she walked up to him, "thanks for saving me Big Hero 6."
"You are welcome Mmmmm citizen," Hiro put on his superhero voice, "are you alright? Do you need us to drop you home?"
Mikan shook her head in rapid motions, "nahhhh, I'm good, but that was pretty cool, what's your secret?"
"Ummm," Hiro bolted to his team, "gotta go! More superhero stuff! Get home safely!" He jumped on Baymax and flew off, the team looking up and then following suit. Mikan just chuckled as they left.
AN: Mikan isn't subtle, is she no?
Lately I haven't been in writing mojo, and I think I'm tying that to my self-worth so I'm reminding myself that there's plenty of time for me to take days of bc I already have a lot written
I think I have summer fever...
um, wow this got too deep. Anyways question of the week: what's your favorite member of big hero 6?