"This is nano-dex, it's a smart fabric that can contract to enhance natural muscle movement," Hiro flexed his arm, he was in the garage, explaining his new invention to his friends. They were rather impressed as they all saw him take down NBB without a sweat.
"Nice."
"Impressive."
"So great Hiro!"
"It's just like Human Fist!" Fred exclaimed, "by day, he's just a big hand but at night, the glove goes on!"
"Yep," Hiro nodded, "now you guys won't have to have my back, I'll have my own back."
"How can you have your own back?" Baymax questioned, he turned his head to look at his back, "oh..metaphor."
"You're gonna be careful with the nano-dex, right Hiro?" Honey Lemon asked him.
"Of course I will!" he replied, "I have my own power now, it works and it's awesome, what could ever go wrong?"
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Rachel Rosemary: Ok so someone filmed NBB attacking downtown and I saw that Mikan was taken hostage, you alright?
TheLittleMermaid: OMG WHAT
Mikan Ferns: Pfft I'm fiiine, I already got so many concerned comments from everyone at school lol
Sara Ferns: It was scary! I should hire Big Hero 6 to make sure that robot never touches you again!
Sara Ferns: "We should make a bodyguard robot for Mika" -David
Mikan Ferns: Guys no I'm fine
Gogo: What did you do to get NBB to kidnap you
Mikan Ferns: Uhhhhhhhhh...idk?
Wasabi: What do you mean "idk"
TheLittleMermaid: :/
Mikan Ferns: Look I'm not a mind reader! Idk what that robot kidnapped me! I'm just glad nobody got hurt
Next day in the Lucky Cat Cafe, as he was about to leave for school he saw his aunt struggling to open a pickle jar. "Morning, Aunt Cass," he greeted her, stopping beside her to stare at her having a hard time opening the jar.
"Morning Hiro," she greeted back, "come on you…" Hiro held out a hand, Cass understood the gesture and handed the jar over, "ahh give it a shot but I don't think-" He opened up the jar with ease. "Woah, someone's been drinking his milk. Thanks Hiro."
"You're welcome," Hiro smiled, walking out of the door.
On his way to school, he had stopped to help a few folks along his way. But it ended up making him late, he sprinted through the hallways to Granville's class, and ripped the door off its hinges.
The entire class stopped and stared at him, "Mr. Hamada!" Granville exclaimed, glaring at him.
He gave an awkward smile and chucked the door away, which hit Fred, "ow! Who is throwing doors?!"
"Uh, Professor Granville, hey." Hiro gave a nervous wave. His professor was unamused with him.
"Sit. Down."
"Good idea, I'll just uh.." he started walking to his seat, but tripped and knocked into a chair. Which went flying straight at Karmi, who yelped and ducked out of the way before it could hit her. "My bad Karmi."
"What is your problem?!" She snapped at him.
"Nothing, it uh..it slipped,"
"That was not a slip, that was a throw," Karmi glared, "back me up here, people," she gestured for her classmates to speak up.
"Definitely a throw,"
"He threw it so hard."
"Sounded like one to me," even David chipped in.
"See?"
"Alright alright everyone that's enough!" Granville shushed the class, "Karmi, are you alright?"
"Yes Professor Granville," Karmi sat back down, "I'll be fine."
"Good, Mr. Hamada," Hiro turned to face his professor, "are you done destroying school property?"
"I hope so," Hiro sighed.
The rest of his day didn't go any better, he had to be careful with his hands or else he'd break another chair, or glass...He was rather lucky nobody got hurt from that, but he did get an earful. As he bought his lunch and went to a table, he had to drag the chair with his leg, he managed to sit down. However as he grabbed a bottle of ketchup and was going to pour some on the side, it broke and the condiment spilled everywhere, he groaned with frustration.
"Hiro!" He turned around as Karmi was walking near his table and got ketchup all over the side of her face and sweater, "you totally did that on purpose!"
"No it-it was an accident."
"An accident? This doesn't look like an accident to me."
"Definitely on purpose," a student walking past the table commented.
"No one asked you!" Hiro yelled back, he attempted to grab a napkin to wipe the ketchup off, "here-aaah!" The entire table fell to pieces.
"Uhg! What is going on with you?" Karmi demanded.
"Nothing!" He stood up, "that table must've been uh, cracked. Because that's the only logical explanation it would break like that, right? Yeah it was-it was cracked."
"You are cracked!" And Karmi stomped off, Hiro rubbed his sleeves in guilt, seeing the broken table and the school's vacuum robots attempting to clean up the mess he made.
At the robotics lab, Hiro tosses his jacket away in frustration and tries pulling off the nano-dex he was wearing underneath.
"Uh, Hiro what are you doing?" Wasabi asked him.
"Nano-dex, won't come off," Hiro replied.
Wasabi frowned, "here, let me try." he walked up to Hiro and attempted to pull the nano-dex off, "yep. It's really stuck there."
"Guys, weirdest thing," Fred walks up to them, holding an ice pack to his head. "I'm just standing in the hallway, and outta nowhere I get hit by a flying-" Wasabi let go of Hiro, who bumps into Fred and sends him flying across the room. "Ow! Okay this is not my day!"
Hiro winces, "sorry Fred," he rubs his shoulder.
"Seems like this might be a problem," Wasabi pointed out.
"What's the problem?" David walked into the lab, "I heard a crash, is everything okay?"
"I'm not," Fred whined, picking himself up.
Hiro flinched, he was lucky David couldn't see the nano-dex but he still had to come up with an excuse, "it's-it's just uh…."
"Malfunctioning project!" Wasabi answered, "Hiro's working on a personal project and it's not going well."
"Yikes," David hummed, "hope it's not a robot otherwise it would turn evil and attack us," he chuckled. "That was a sour joke.."
"Kind of was," Hiro shrugged, "how's Mikan doing?"
"Surprisingly she's acting like nothing happened," there was a dark gaze in his topaz eyes, "kind of disturbing..How she brushed getting kidnapped by a crazy robot like it was nothing."
"Well that's Mikan for you," Wasabi hummed, "it's almost nothing seems to phase her, at all."
"You might be right,"
Meanwhile..Obake was looking at the footage NBB recorded of his encounter with Big Hero 6.
"Uch," he was rather disappointed in Hiro's choice of a superpower, "super strength, such an obvious choice." Behind him was Globby, NBB, and Mikan, the latter enjoying a box of blueberry scones for her participation in the scheme.
"Yeah I woulda gone with laser eyes!" Globby was hanging upside down, he pointed to his artificial green eyes.
"Like these?" NBB fired a laser at him, he yelled as it went through him, Mikan ducked to the floor to avoid getting hit.
"Watch where you aim little bro!" Mikan glared at him.
"Show off," Globby grumbled.
"I bet you'd like a sticker," NBB pulled out one of his stickers.
Obake placed his hands to his head, "stop talking." He zoomed in on Hiro's arms, the usual red stripe sleeves replaced with the nano-dex, the computer scanned it.
"Nano-compressed circuitry. Impressive, pity he rushed it."
"Wow, this leader guy has brains for sure," Mikan took a bite out of her scone, "lack of common sense, but he's smart."
Globby shot her a weird look, "you haven't asked your dad his identity yet? I mean I know at this point and NBB was the one who figured it out!"
"Not interested," Mikan shrugged, "I respect their privacy, besides I'm not the one who's fighting them."
"Golly big sis! You sure are strange!" NBB told her.
"I get that a lot," she kneeled to his level, "next time you decide to pull a damsel in distress, don't have me do it next time okay? It's hard to fake shock," NBB nodded.
"Mikan." She looked up to her dad, "you have been keeping an eye on Ariel correct?"
"Mhhm," Mikan nodded, "she and Hiro finally stopped acting weird and have acknowledged their sibling-like bond, though I'm starting to think you lied when you said there was something...special about Ari."
Obake raised an eyebrow at that information, it would come in handy for later. "I already told you, she is not useful to my plans, which is why I haven't made any plans to retrieve her."
"But what's so special about her? That some other bad guy tried grabbing her..then some weirdo in white tried rescuing her..then you had Yama grab her and hold her in a cell for awhile...Then she woke up with amnesia...makes no sense to me."
"That..my dear Mikan, is something in the eye of the beholder, she may seem special to one, but to me..She is merely a child."
"Huh, you been working on your Shakespeare Pops?"
"...Go to your room Mikan."
Crash!
Mochi yowled and leapt off the counter, Ari stared in shock. She was nose deep into a book she was reading so she didn't know what scared the cat.
"I'm gonna switch you to decaf, Mochi." Cass commented as she walked past the cat, holding a pot of coffee in her hands.
"Come on Baymax," Hiro stood up, "let's go to Fred's house. Maybe he knows some...comic book way out of this."
"That seems unlikely," Baymax told him.
"Desperate times."
"Want me to come with you?" Ari offered, he shook his head.
"No, it's a uh..school thing," he told her, "but thank you."
"Alright," she nodded, "hope your thing clears up soon!" Ari chuckled.
Hiro chuckled as well, "I hope so too." he and Baymax left the cafe. Unknown to him, a pair of cold blue eyes watched him leave.
"More coffee?" Cass walked up to him.
"You're too kind," Obake smirked.
"How do you like that blueberry scone?" Cass questioned as she refilled his cup.
"Delightfully..fruitful," he took a bite.
"Well, they're in season."
"Yummy."
Ari's curiosity was piqued, she walked up to him after Cass left, "hey mister!"
Obake raised an eyebrow, "hello."
"You like that scone huh? I have a friend named Mikan who once told me her dad got her into liking blueberry scones, do you know her by any chance?" Ari questioned.
"Is that what dear Mikan says about me to her friends? Well to be fair it was a treat I've loved since my youth."
"I knew it!" Ari exclaimed, "You must be her dad!"
Obake gave a small smirk, she was more clever than she let on, "guilty as charged. You must be the Ariel she talks about sometimes."
"Mhmm," she nodded, "is Mikan okay? She got kidnapped by a crazy robot the other day."
"She's doing fine," Obake told her.
"That's good to hear! Mikan is a good friend to my brother and I! So it's nice that she's doing alright after all."
"Your brother?" Obake raised an eyebrow, "perhaps that boy who left a while ago? You don't seem to share blood, do you not?"
"Nope," she shook her head, "is that a problem?"
"Not at all, Mikan is proof of that, is she not? I may be her father, but she does not carry my blood."
"She does carry your love of scones," Ari pointed out.
"Rather sharp eyes you have," Obake noted, the girl may not be vital to his plans, but she was giving him vital information. Her sibling bond with Hiro may come in handy in the future..
Meanwhile with Hiro himself…
"Yeah, I don't know what to tell you." Hiro explained his problem to Fred but he didn't have a comic book answer. "Sorry my friend, this is unprecedented in the comic book multiverse. And I'm pretty familiar."
Hiro groaned and buried his face into his hands, "uhg, unbelievable."
A phone rang, Fred picked it up, the caller was Heathcliff. "I need to take this," he answered the phone. "Is it ready? Is it ready? Is it ready? It's ready!" Fred jumped up, "ow! Still in pain, but it's ready! I'm on my way!" He ended the call, "I need to excuse myself, just for a bit. Stay as long as you want but I gotta go bye!" Fred ran out of the room, Hiro watched his friend puzzled.
The screen behind him flickered to life, "great news Fred!" Hiro turned around to see Mr. Frederickson on screen, in a pyramid ruin. "Wait a minute, you're not my son. Or my wife!" Behind him a mummy tried attacking but he batted it back.
"Uh..no, I'm Hiro, Mr. Frederickson."
He adjusted his glasses and stared at Hiro, "I guess I should go." Hiro prepared to exit the room.
"Hold it! Hold it right there," he stopped in his tracks. "What's that you've got up your sleeve?"
"This?" Hiro gestured to the black shirt with purple lined circuitry, "I uh..call it nano-dex, heh, it's a smart fabric that can contract to-"
"Enhance natural muscle movement, genius!"
"Well, not quite genius, I can't get it off," Hiro sighed.
"Classic! I tried to give myself super strength when I was a rookie hero too!" Mr. Frederickson told him.
"You did?" Hiro raised an eyebrow.
"Yep, until I realized that you don't have to be strong, you just have to find your true strength."
What did that mean? "I'm not sure I follow."
"Well in my case, my true strength was my can-do attitude, and having truckloads of cash didn't hurt either."
"Right, huh," Hiro got the gist of the meaning. "I guess I don't know what my true strength is."
"I'm sure you'll figure it out," Mr. Frederickson told him. "But you know, right now, you should leave. I didn't recognize you at first, so I alerted security. They'll be here any minute." The faint sound of sirens was heard, and Hiro decided to leave asap.
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Rachel Rosemary:
Honey Lemon: omg Katie is adorable!
Gogo: Is she reenacting the smug cat meme?
Rachel Rosemary: Yes
Gogo: Oh jeez
Hiro Hamada: Hey Rachel I have a weird question for you
Rachel Rosemary: Sure
Hiro Hamada: What would you say is your true strength?
TheLittleMermaid: it fits the bill of weird question
Hiro Hamada: Hey! I was just thinking of something I heard!
Rachel Rosemary: My compassion, though many say that kindness is a weakness and not a strength
Fredilicous24: Lies! Compassion is a strength few have!
Rachel Rosemary: Oh, thank you.
Later that night, Hiro and the gang were by the docks owned by Fred's family.
"Why did Fred want us to meet him here?" Gogo questioned.
"I don't know, but he was acting strange earlier," Hiro pointed out, Gogo glanced at him. "Strange than his usual strange," he specified.
"I wonder where he is?" Honey Lemon looked around.
Splash
"What is that?" Wasabi held his arms out as the dock shook. Behind them the shakes grew louder as a bright green spike emerged from the water, followed by a giant teal colored, three-eyed reptilian monster that roared.
"Uh, are you guys seeing what I'm seeing?"
"You mean the giant lizard that just came out of the water?" Hiro and the others had wide eyes.
"Oh good, you see it too."
The lizard bent down to their level, and the eyes opened revealing-
"Ta-dah!"
"Freddie?" Honey Lemon gawked, it was Fred himself, wearing his superhero gear.
"Oh, what did you do?" Wasabi also gawked.
"Oh I paid to have a one-to-one scale replica of the Kentucky Kaiju made out of a giant crane, obviously." Fred gestured to the kaiju.
"Oh yeah, sure, of course." Wasabi nodded, "because that makes sense!"
"Look at it! Isn't it glorious?"
"It is pretty cool," Hiro pointed out.
"Worth every penny."
"Okay, what do you plan on doing with a giant lizard?" Gogo questioned.
"Well I haven't really thought that through," Fred admitted. "But I mean, there's plenty I'm sure I-" lasers fired at him, "ow!" Fred looked to see who shot lasers at him.
"Howdy and hello!" It was NBB, who fired more lasers.
Fred ducked, "woah! This is just like when the Human Fist got laser eyes! It was kind of a stretch looking back. You know, 'cause he was a hand, and hands don't have eyes."
"Jeepers! You sure do talk a lot!" NBB leapt and kicked Fred out of the kaiju.
"I have got you," Baymax caught his fall.
"Thanks for the swell gizmo mister!" NBB closed the Kentucky Kaiju's eyes, and stepped out of the water and stomped past them.
"Oh this is not good," Wasabi commented.
"He's heading towards the city!" Honey Lemon exclaimed, "we've got to stop him!"
"I'm calling Skymax," Hiro pulled his phone from his pocket but due to his strength his finger went through the phone, he sighed.
"Yeah, I'll call," Gogo got her phone out and called Skymax. The phone beeped as five colored Skymaxes landed beside them, each with their respective colors and had their gear.
Hiro reached a hand to grab his gear but hesitated, what if he broke something?
"Can..someone help me get dressed?"
In the city of San Fransokyo there was chaos as the Kentucky Kaiju stomped through the city. People got out of their cars and made a run for it, screaming. A few brave folks recorded the monster with their phones, as they ran. NBB as he was controlling the kaiju was singing his theme song.
I'd do anything for a Noodle Burger!
'Cause Noodle Burgers are really swell, yeah!
His hand turned into a drill and tore off the main control panel's frame.
If I could I'd marry Noodle Burger!
'Cause Noodle Burger's ring my bell!
Ding dong!
He pulled out a device from his head, and placed it onto the control panel. As it activated, a monster symbol appeared on the screen and every button left on the panel turned red, including the Kentucky Kaiju's eyes.
It began to roar fire but Baymax punched it in the face, the whole team was clinging onto the robot as it circled the kaiju who roared fire at them.
"Did you have to do the fire?!" Wasabi exclaimed to Fred.
"I was going for accuracy!" Fred leapt and roared his own fire at the kaiju who was unaffected, "of course now I regret that decision," he braced himself as the Kentucky Kaiju roared fire at him and he landed on a car. Knocking him to the ground, Baymax flew by the ground and dropped Gogo, Wasabi, and Honey Lemon.
"Fred, you alive?" the former asked him.
"Uh-huh, yeah. I think I should just lay here for awhile."
"Baymax rocket fist!" As his friends battled the kaiju on ground, he was fighting in the air, Baymax fired a rocket first at the kaiju multiple times until he swallowed it whole.
"He ate it." Baymax pointed out, the kaiju swung its tail at them and knocked them to the ground.
"Oh no," the kaiju stomped past them.
"Baymax?" Hiro ran to his friend and moved a boulder covering him, "Baymax you okay?"
"My systems are not responding, I cannot move." Baymax told him. Hiro glanced at the moving Kentucky Kaiju, his friends behind him had run out of firepower, so it was up to him.
"Wait here buddy."
"Hiro, I will not be able to have your back."
"Don't worry, got super strength remember?"
Hiro ran to the top of a building and used it to jump onto the kaiju's tail, NBB got the alert he was on the tail and tried shaking him off. But he used his magnet-lock gloves to stick onto the tail as swung back and forth, he used it to stick until he got to the helm of the Kentucky Kaiju and he ran into the cockpit.
"Wait, where's Noodle Burger Boy?" Hiro glanced as the robot wasn't there anymore.
"Hoo boy!" NBB had exited the cockpit and was on the roof of a building. "Looks like you have your hands full mister! Have a tasty day!" Hiro watched him leave, puzzled.
"Who's driving this thing?" He ran to the control panel and saw the device NBB had planted, but before he could remove it the kaiju opened its eyes and managed to shake Hiro out. As he landed on the ground his chest piece broke from the fall, revealing his nano-dex shirt. The kaiju roared and attempted to stomp on Hiro, who deflected due to his super strength. However some of the circuitry on the nano-dex started to crack under pressure, and as Hiro managed to toss the weight on him, the nano-dex broke.
"Of course, now it comes off!" Hiro grumbled, he then flinched as the Kentucky Kaiju looked down on him, a feeling of horror went down his spine as it roared at him. He then saw ahead a billboard advertising Mr. Frederickson's shipping, and his words came back to him.
You don't have to be strong, you just have to find your true strength. He stared at the power lines under the billboard, the rocket fist inside the cockpit, and a plan formed in his head. He stood still as the kaiju ducked down and swallowed him whole.
"No!" The others exclaimed with terror, as the Kentucky Kaiju stood up and began walking again. A rocket fist with Hiro clinging on broke from the mouth, a tooth falling to the ground as he flew past the power lines and hit the billboard. Enraged, the kaiju began stomping towards Hiro.
"Okay you win! Just please! Don't hurt me!" Hiro begged, as it began to cross over the power lines, he smirked as the electricity from the power lines began shaking the robot. "Whoops, should've told you to watch your step."
The Kentucky Kaiju howled with pain as it began to deactivate and blow up, Hiro stopped clinging onto the rocket fist and used the nano-dex shirt to help him parachute to the ground. The hacking device fell off of the kaiju and landed next to Baymax.
As Hiro landed onto the ground, he smirked at the others, who were happy to see him already. Wasabi helped him lift Baymax up as Gogo and Honey Lemon ran up to him. "You were amazing Hiro!" The latter exclaimed.
"Seriously! You saved our butts out there!" Wasabi added.
Gogo smirked and gave him a punch on the shoulder, "boy genius is definitely your thing." At that moment, Fred had woken up from his short nap, he crawled onto the hood of a car.
"Uhg..woah, I just had this crazy dream, I was caught by the Kentucky Kaiju, also laser eyes."
"Fred, that really did happen," Gogo told him.
He glanced up at the smoking remains of the kaiju, then back at the group. "Oh...right, wow. Guys, seriously, sorry I inadvertently created a monster that almost destroyed the city," he leapt off of the car. "But in my defence, who would've thought it could cause mayhem and destruction?"
"Everyone Fred," Wasabi gave him a deadpan look, "everyone." The other stared at Hiro as he walked across the street to pick up the hacking device from the rubble.
"Hiro, is something wrong?" Baymax asked him.
Fred leapt next to him, "what is that?"
"It's an incredibly advanced CPU," Hiro got up and showed it to the group. "This must be what switched the kaiju into battle mode."
"Where did it come from?" Honey Lemon questioned.
"Noodle Burger Boy must've installed it, but I doubt he could've made this."
Gogo narrowed her eyes, "yeah..this is way beyond his robo-burger brain."
"And something else has been bothering me," Hiro stared at the CPU, "Globby. He didn't steal anything from the vault!"
"You're right," Honey Lemon nodded, "That was weird."
Now let's see how you do without Big Red!
"He wasn't trying to get into the bank."
It's a good thing you've got friends with firepower kid! 'Cause you're useless without 'em!
"He was trying to get into my head, someone else is behind this."
"But who?" Wasabi frowned.
"That's what I need to know."
Elsewhere, Obake was watching Big Hero 6 converse and came to the realization that someone was pulling the strings. "Well, I wanted to find out how smart this boy is," behind him was Globby and NBB, the former asking what the latest scheme was for.
"I'll bite, how smart is he?" Globby raised an eyebrow.
Obake gave a dark chuckle, "very."
AN: I am still out of it so I nearly forgot to post this on time... whoops!
So Kentucky Kaiju is done! I bet you all are happy about that since last chapter didn't get a lot of feedback hahahahaha *cries*
I'm kidding. Everyone is still dealing with the world being an extra mess in ye old 2020 so I wouldn't be surprised if that discouraged readers from reviewing. I get it, I've been writing a lot for this to keep me from going nutty.
Also, it was fun writing the infamous scone scene : D. Ari doesn't have a major role to play in the Obake arc, but that doesn't mean she's not important. I didn't want her to be super involved since I've seen that a few times in OC-insert stories, so it's lost its appeal to me. Idk, I didn't want her to become a mary-sue by being involved. I'm mostly writing HOF as self-comfort and posting so other people can feel happy too while reading (bc bh6 tag here needs MORE pure content and I am here to deliver) TLDR I love my baby girl but I like giving her a break, hopefully it's not bad having her interact with too many canon characters. Mary-sues according to google is someone too OP it's ridiculous or warps the world to show off their power so as long as I don't do that I think I'm good.
Now that I think about it I hope Katie cat isn't considered a Mary-sue, talking cats haven't been confirmed in bh6 universe but considering the whole monster arc and it's in the future anything can happen. I mention Katie bc I was talking to someone about if Katie was out of place and they had a ":/" reaction so... I swear I will explain her deal, as well as anything AU that shows up... I'm gonna bring this up again a few times bc there is a certain ep I am worried to get to because I probably revealed something too early that takes awhile to be explained and I am worried that it'll make people very impatient/angry if I wait too long to explain stuff but I want to get done canon first before I get to my OC stuff but sometimes I find good opportunities to slip OC during canon while making sure it doesn't take over.
Again I am SO sorry for the word vomit. I love Heroes of Flowers but I am a sensitive baby who will cry if people hate my stuff and disrespect my things and I get really anxious and my self-esteem goes down at the thought. Fun times ;-;
TLDR of THAT I struggle to mix canon and OC but I am trying my best while having fun and I hope you guys enjoy the ride which can get long for certain things.
Question of the week: What would you say is the strength of some of the (canon or OC) characters?
Thanks for reading, see you next week and sorry for that giant wall of text. I should NOT type ANs late at night where my emotions are more messy but y'know I am just trying to not be ignorant in my faults. I need therapy from all this quarantine stress, but it's expensive so I just drown in bh6 content. I love my OC children but they are gonna give me grey hairs XD. At least I'll be dropping a few breadcrumb for things so y'all won't starve.