Both of them were silent as a mouse, hiding behind the lab table's counter to try and avoid the eyes of the looming figure that just sliced the door open.
"What do we do?" Ari mouthed to Karmi, her friend shook her head, neither of them wanted to make a sound. Swallowing liquid courage, Ari popped her eyes above the counter, so she could put a name to the face that broke in.
She swallowed a gasp, recognizing the slim figure with wild black and blue hair, sharp graphene blades (something Wasabi talked her ear off about), and piercing green eyes that bore into her soul. Momakase! Noooo! Then she questioned why the recently escaped criminal was in the lab, maybe she's just stealing something and then she'll leave..we just have to hide behind the counter and it'll be good!
"You can't hide from me," Momakase's voice was silky, "I know you girls are hiding," she tosses one of her knives at the wall, Karmi shudders and covers her head with her hands at the sound of the impact.
Ari bristles with anger, she glances at Karmi, flashing a comforting smile. Then she glances at the knife stuck on the wall, well only one way this'll turn out, thank god I looked at some of those karate videos Hiro had on the garage computer for some reason. Ari exhaled, and sprinted to the knife on the wall, pulling it out, Momakase stared at her like a hawk.
"You really think that'll stop me?" the villain has a malicious grin, "how cute. However, you're not the girl I need to grab, but you'd be a good bonus package."
She yowled, charging towards Momakase with the knife in her hand. But the villain just blocked it with her katana, on instinct Ari kicked her legs. But she was then backhanded to the ground. Disarming the knife, Momakase pointed her weapon at Ari's nose, and pinned her with her heel, she whimpered at the pressure being placed on her stomach.
"If you do not come out of hiding," Momakase declared, "well your little friend isn't going to be in one piece," the tip of the katana grazed Ari's neck. Blood started to seep from the cut, and Ari let out a yelp from the pain. Please Karmi just run! She silently begged her friend from behind the counter.
The katana then prodded her sides, she screamed, and that second warning caused the biotech major to pop from behind the counter.
"Stop it!" Karmi yelled, "I'll go-just stop hurting Ariel!" there were small tears crawling down her cheek.
The villain grinned, "smart decision."
Ari growled at Momakase, "leave Karmi alone!"
"You're in no position to make any demands," the katana nicked her elbow, "I'll admit you putting up a fight was rather heroic and reckless, a trait you seem to carry with your brother." Momakase added under her breath, and Ari was too focused on the pain to even try to decipher the bits she heard.
"I can't have you running off and warning the superheroes, so I guess you will be coming with me as well."
"Like hell I will!" Ari spat, "you'll have to drag me you sore excuse for a sushi chef!"
Momakase gritted her teeth, and the last thing she saw was Karmi's horrified face and cries of "stop!" before a fist slammed the right side of her face and the world went black.
When Ari awoke again, Karmi was relieved at the sight of her blue eyes opening up. "Oh thank god you're not dead," she smiled.
Ari stirred, rubbing the side of her face that was hit, "what..happened?" her right eye was swollen and black, barely open.
"Okay so the crazy knife lady kidnapped us, and we're on a motorboat to who-knows-where," Karmi explained, gesturing to their kidnapper in the front seat driving somewhere. Ari got up and looked at the water skipping past them.
"If I have to fish you out of the water, you'll be sleeping with the fishes," Momakase warned her, but didn't turn her head.
Ari crossed her arms, and rubbed the cut on her elbow, "you're just bringing me along because my aunt beat you in a cooking contest."
Momakase didn't verbally respond, but she whipped her head around to glare at the girls, Karmi flinched at the intensity of her anger, shown in her green eyes. But something about it seemed familiar.
"Hold on a moment," she frowned, staring at their kidnapper, something about her narrowed eyes, wild black hair, and slim build was familiar. Karmi turned to her friend, "Ari, does she look familiar?"
"Well, long story short, I saw her in a match with the Fern kids," Ari explained, thinking back at the memory.
"No I mean, does she remind you of anyone?" She whispered, "that glare reminded me of the time David yelled at me during the earthquake demo," but she couldn't put her finger on why, a thought crossed her mind and her eyes widened.
"By any chance, have you met any of David's blood relatives?"
"No, well I mean his sisters and parents but they're not blood related although he could pass off as Sally and Steven's biological kid," Ari shrugged, "he's mentioned his mom once or twice."
In the corner of her eye, Karmi noted how Momakase grew silent at the mention of the youngest Fern kid. "Have you met his mom? How much do you know about her?"
"Only three things, his mom isn't a good person, she's a food fighter, and that she was arrested with a bunch of other fighters when Big Hero 6 showed up in the Food Fights after Momakase."
No wonder Ari didn't get it by now, "David was lying when he said other food fighters were arrested when Momakse was," Karmi told her, "but his mom was arrested, and there's only one person that fits the bill."
Still, Ari stared at her with her confused face, "um, why are you bringing this up?" Karmi facepalmed at her friend's obliviousness, how can someone be so smart and yet not see what's in front of her nose.
"Because," Karmi turned to Momakase, and pointed to her, "she looks a lot like David!"
"Wait are you implying.." now she got the picture, "no way! That can't be his-"
"Yes," Momakase spoke up, "I am in fact, David's biological mother."
Both of their jaws dropped, while Karmi was internally freaking out, Ari was freaking out externally. "Wh-what-wh-wha-what?!" She looked like she was about to pop, "how could David be related to you?! He is a precious pure person!"
"He's not that innocent," Karmi recalled his outburst in class, must've inherited his mom's temper as well as looks, "it's mostly his eyes that make it off-putting, he probably got them from his dad."
"Not that I'd tell you," Momakase seemed annoyed with their reaction.
"Really?" she narrowed her eyes.
"His blood father isn't in the picture, nor will he ever be." The villain continued to pilot the boat, "your friendship with my son isn't going to win you any favors."
"You don't say," Ari rolled her eyes, "I doubt he'd approve of your actions!"
"Leave him out of this," she gritted her teeth.
"You brought him up! No wonder he calls Sally his mom as well, imagine having a heartless villain for a mother!"
"I will punch the other side of your face if you don't shut up!" Momakase's threat got her to stop talking, Ari slumped on the side of the motorboat and shivered. Karmi wanted so badly to comfort the poor girl, but she didn't know how, her stomach churned as they got closer to wherever they were going.
"Where are you taking us?" Karmi demanded, the shores of San Fransokyo were in the distance.
"If you must know, Akuma Island." Their kidnapper continued to focus on driving the motorboat. "It was the first place where Big Hero 6 had faced their first foe, and discovered who he was."
She gasped, "it was where they faced Professor Callaghan for the first time?"
"Who's Callaghan?" Karmi whipped her head to face Ari, she almost didn't hear her, she was so quiet, with tears running down her cheeks. Then Karmi processed what she asked, why doesn't she know? I thought her brother would tell her or something.
"Didn't Hiro tell you?" she questioned.
"No, I never heard that before," Ari shook her head, "is he a professor at SFIT?"
"Sort-of," Karmi frowned at the mention of the former dean, setter of the showcase fire, and true identity of the supervillain Yokai. "I'll tell you later, maybe eventually, but don't google it and sure as hell don't ask Hiro or anyone else!"
Ari frowned, then nodded, good. Karmi sighed, Ari's brother was going to kill her when he learned she was the one who brought up Callaghan.
Provided she survives tonight, she didn't know what Momakase wanted with them, but it wasn't good.
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Mikan Ferns: I have an announcement, I'm adding someone new to the group chat
Rachel Rosemary: Yay I am no longer the person who's been a member the shortest
Sara Ferns: ": D" -David
Fredilicous24: Oooh who is it?
Mikan Ferns added Sienna Kline to the group chat
Hiro Hamada: Oh David's GF, cool
Honey Lemon: Hi Sienna!
Sienna Kline: Hi!
Sienna Kline: Happy to be here, but who's Fredilicous24?
Fredilicous24: Me! Fred Fredrickson the Fourth! Tho I might change my UN
Fredilicous24 changed their name to Fredzilla
Fredzilla: This is so more cooler : D
Gogo: Debatable
Mikan Ferns: More easier to write too
Fredzilla: What
Mikan Ferns: What?
Sara Ferns: "Where's Ari?" -David
Gogo: Good question!
Rachel Rosemary: Yeah, I'm at the cafe grabbing another one of Cass's delicious muffins, and she's not there.
Hiro Hamada: Probably talking to Karmi : (
Mikan Ferns: Let the fanfic thing go dude!
Mikan Ferns: Let it gooo!
Sara Ferns: Blocked
Rachel Rosemary: TheLittleMermaid where are you?
Hiro Hamada: Ari!
Hiro Hamada: Did her phone die?
Hiro got his answer to where his sister was. He had been waiting outside SFIT in his superhero gear (his plan to get Karmi to stop writing: tell her to stop in his superhero persona considering she had a crush on superhero him.) Then Honey Lemon on the comm told him to come over to Fred's house, he did, and was shown a frightful video.
"Captain Cutie, meet me at Akuma Island by nine o' clock or you'll never see your beautiful girlfriend again." The video was recorded by Momakase, who panned the camera to show the biotech genius tied up.
"Uhhg! Let me go!" Karmi glared at the villain, next to her was his beloved sister, bound, gagged, and knocked unconscious. He gasped with horror at her black eye, bruised lip, and gash on her neck.
"I also grabbed her little friend, she was rather uncooperative so I had to resort to certain measurements," Momakase showed no remorse at beating up his precious little sister, "clock's ticking."
The video ended, and Baymax closed the screen.
"Poor Ari!" Fred whimpered, "she must've done all she could in fighting her off!"
"That's Krei's old lab," Hiro turned to the gang, anger painted on his face, "it's set to be demolished tonight. Karmi and Ari need us." He puts on his helmet and starts to walk towards the door.
"And Karmi's not my girlfriend!"
In a flash, the rest of them had gotten into their superhero armor, and just like their first visit, clung onto Baymax as he flew to the island.
"Momakase knows we're coming," Wasabi pointed out.
"But she can't catch all of us if we split up," Gogo suggested.
"Whoever gets to the girls first, signal the others," Hiro explained, "me and Baymax will go as a pair, Fred and Wasabi, you go in the path we first went through on our first visit. Honey Lemon and Gogo, try entering from the roof."
They all nodded, "good luck everyone, and watch out." Honey Lemon told them as they split off and went in three separate directions.
Out of all of them, Fred was the only one excited to be in Akuma Island again, the place had too many bad memories, even for the comic fan himself, who tried to distract himself by humming.
"Big Hero 6 back on Akuma island, where it all began!" He sang as he rounded a corner, he gestured for Wasabi to follow.
"Just a little further and we should be able to cut our way," he mumbled, they walked down a hallway, Wasabi stopped in the middle, "we should be far enough."
He activates his plasma blade, and begins to cut a hole, the plasma sizzling as he does so.
"Can you do that any faster?" Fred questions, "look it doesn't have to be a perfect circle."
"Oh I'd need a lot more tools to make a perfect circle," Wasabi tells him, behind him said perfect circle cuts a hole into the wall. The metal creaks and the smoke clears as Momakase smirks from the other side of the wall.
"Hello boys," they scream as she threw her knives at them.
In another corner of the island, Gogo and Honey Lemon found a grate. The latter used acid from a chem ball to melt the glass, then used other chem balls to create a rubber lift to lower them down.
As they descended into the darkness, a glint in the shadows, and a dark chuckle was heard before the rubber snapped and they tumbled onto the floor. They screamed, Honey Lemon managed to cushion the fall with a chem ball before they hit the ground. As they landed, Momakase charged and knocked Gogo onto the floor.
"Gogo!" Honey Lemon exclaimed, she dodged two knives thrown at her, and jumped away from the mercenary using her chem balls, at a far enough distance she created a shield. Which had a graphene katana pierced through it, and before Momakase could slice the top part open, Honey Lemon escaped to the lower levels.
She emerged again and threw a chem ball at Momakase's leg, she sliced the goop stuck to her leg and continued to chase after Honey Lemon. As she ran away, she tossed a chem ball to the ground, creating ice and causing the mercenary to slip and have to use her katana to keep her balance. She leapt in front of Honey Lemon but before Momakase could attack, Gogo slammed her into a metal pillar, she tossed a disk that was sliced up, jumped onto a pillar and hit her again. Momakase then swiped her katana at Gogo, which hit her hand, she yelped and covered it, trying to stop the sudden flow of blood rushing out. Before she was attacked again, Honey Lemon then slammed into Momakase, and tossed a chem ball of ice, which caused her to stumble and drop her katana.
"There's nowhere left to go," Gogo told her, still pressing the cut on her hand.
Momakase just looked up and smirked, "that's what I was going to say to you." Before the two superheroes could process, she tossed two knives up, cutting the steel pillars which began to descend on them, they both screamed.
Hiro removes the panel of the camera room's wirings. "Maybe we can use the old security system to find Karmi and Ari," he hovers his gloves over the generator to activate it.
"It appears to still be functional," Baymax commented as the screens booted up.
"There they are," Hiro glanced to the middle-left screen, which showed both of the girls bound to a chair, tied up, and gagged, Ari was staring at the camera with sadness, while Karmi had her eyes closed, tears running down her face. It hurt to see them both so..vulnerable, "no sign of Momakase."
"There is also no sign of the others," Baymax warned him.
He sighed, "let's untie them first before we try and find the others," he walked through the door of the room they were trapped in.
"Narrow," Baymax squeezed through the door.
The only sounds Ari heard was the whimpering and sniffling of her captured friend, she wanted so badly to comfort Karmi, but she bound and gagged to the chair. Helpless as a newborn, everytime she squirmed a sharp pain would occur from the wounds on her sides. That and the inevitability of death wasn't helpful either. I hope the disintegration is painless, Ari prayed, she knew the superheroes wouldn't bother for her. After all, who would risk their lives over two regular girls?
"Karmi!"
Her eyes widened as the leader, Captain Cutie and his fighting partner Red Panda leaped from upper level. Karmi reacted in an instant, her eyes widened and she tried shouting a warning, but all that came out was muffled noises due to the gag.
Captain Cutie ungagged her, "uh! Careful it's a-"
Karmi's warning came too late.
"Trap," a button clicked and the surrounding area was blocked by prison bars, the lights went on behind them to reveal the other injured members of Big Hero 6, captured by their kidnapper.
"Welcome Captain Cutie," Momakase taunted, "what a good boyfriend you are."
"It was just a story!" Ari exclaimed after the superhero ungagged her, Karmi turned to the other superheroes and untied them as well.
"I'm not-" Captain Cutie cleared his throat, "I mean, you're not getting away with this!"
"I'd say I already have," Momakase clicks another button, activating the mechanisms of the bars, whirring as the purple wiring lights up. She walks over to the cell, "not bad, to trap all six of you, I actually had to break a sweat."
"That's not all you're going to break," Speed Queen untied Chop Chop, who activated his blades and tried cutting the cell, but it deflected back with purple sparks.
"The bars aren't the only way out," Chem Girl tried melting the floor but the bars bounced it towards one of the chairs, melting it instead of the floor.
"This cell was designed specifically for you," Momakase told them, "I thought of everything."
Captain Cutie narrowed his eyes, "you mean Obake thought of everything."
Ari gasped, remembering that name as the one behind her kidnapping.
"His intel, the ideas are all me."
Against her better judgement Ari spoke up, "including the idea of kidnapping friends of your son,"
The superheroes flashed her puzzled looks, you'd think they'd know about her connection to David, guess not. If looks could kill, Momakase's glare would've melted her like the poor chair.
"Her son?" Chop Chop narrowed his eyes, then turned to the villain.
"Long story, forget I said anything."
"Quick question," Flame Jumper spoke up, "what exactly do you guys call yourselves? Is it 'Oba-kase?' My money's on 'Moma-bake' personally."
Momakase scoffed, "stupid last words," she snapped her fingers, "a disintegration device is about to wipe out everything on this island." She leaned in to stare at the glaring Captain Cutie, "was it worth it to reunite with your girlfriend?"
"She called me your girlfriend!" Karmi squealed, forgetting her fear for a moment and squeezing the purple-armored leader's shoulder.
At that moment the alarm blared, the room flashed red.
"Prepare for disintegration," the intercom announced.
"That's my cue," Momakase tossed one of her knives at the back door's control panel, opening it up. She then backflipped out of the room and escaped.
They all stared in silence, "well," Chop Chop spoke up. "If no one else is going to say it.."
/He let out a scream of horror as the mercenary got on her motorboat and drove away from Akuma Island.
"Big Hero 6 is trapped," she reported to Obake over the comm.
"Perfect."
She glanced back at the island, "I thought you had plans for the boy."
"If he's good enough, he'll survive." she turned off the comm and sped away faster.
Back at the cell, Flame Jumper tapped the bars with his claws. "Okay, we're locked in a super high-tech prison cell, made especially to contain us, and the building is about to be disintegrated."
"But?" Speed Queen raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, there is no 'but,' I'm just stating the facts here."
"You guys shouldn't have come," Ari sighed, "I wasn't worth it, you're now trapped and it's my fault!"
The superheroes stared at her with sympathy, Karmi placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Hey it's not your fault.." she told her, "if anything, it's mine... Momakase was after me, you just got roped in."
Ari just looked away, not wanting to face the biotech major. I wonder if Hiro would miss me... I knew I was gonna hurt him, and I was gonna try and figure out what was bothering him today..now I'll never get to cheer him up, or look at cat pictures with Honey Lemon. Or try and confess my feelings to-
"This isn't good," Chem Girl interrupted her thoughts, the pink member was tugging her hair.
"Oh boy," Speed Queen glanced at her, "when you say it's not good, it's really not good."
"You guys know another way out, right?" Karmi asked them, the superheroes just looked away, "right?!"
"We're gonna die," Ari buried her face into her arms.
"Actually, I do."
They both turned to Captain Cutie, "Red Panda, engage Overdrive Mode," he placed a chip into the red robot.
Red Panda warbled, "my body is changing." Both girls stared in shock and wonder as Red Panda began to grow bigger, lilac light emitted from his arms and chest, "Overdrive Mode engaged."
"What?" Chop Chop gawked at the transformed robot, and Flame Jumper was hopping with delight.
Karmi was in even more delight, "Overdrive Mode, from my story! It's real!"
"After-" Captain Cutie cleared his throat, "after I heard Karmi's story, I made a few tweaks to the armor."
"Tweaks? You mean awesome upgrades!" Ari exclaimed, shaking her arms in a "jazz hands" motion.
"It'll drain his battery really quickly, but it's enough to.." he clicked a button, and from Red Panda's wings out came a sword, they all stepped back as the red robot channeled his power into the blade, and there was a cracking boom as the bars, and the wall burst open to the outside.
"Do that..."
Red Panda switched back to his regular form, but he was loopy, "I did the thing!" He slurred.
"Disintegration in four minutes," the intercom told them.
"We've gotta go," Captain Cutie exclaimed, he turned to the red robot, "can you fly us out Red Panda?"
"I can walk through anything!"
"That's a no," he held onto the red robot as he leaned back, and turned to his still-gaping teammate, "uh, Chop Chop, grab Red Panda!"
Chop Chop yelped as the red robot was tossed at him, "hey Chop Chop!"
"Karmi," Captain Cutie turned to the biotech major and gently grabbed her hand, she looked up at him and blushed. "Follow me," Ari swore she saw heart eyes on her friend as the captain led her out of the building.
"This is so cool!" she squealed.
"Disintegration in two minutes."
"Goodbye Akuma Island!" Flame Jumper exclaimed, Ari was too injured to walk, so the lizard carried her bridal style out of the building.
As the group sped through the island's foliage, the disintegration device went off behind them. They reached a fence, Chop Chop dropped Red Panda for a moment and activated his blades.
"Say your line Chop Chop," Flame Jumper whispered to him, Karmi glanced at the superhero.
"Oh yeah," he nodded, "time to make chop chop!" He sliced the fence open and they continued to run. They stopped again, this time at the cliffs.
"Should we swim?" Karmi looked at the water below.
"Not enough time," Captain Cutie told her.
Chem Girl pulled out a chem ball, "ready Flame Jumper?"
"Ready, Chem Girl!" Flame Jumper handed Ari to Speed Queen, and stared at the sea.
"Told you Chem Girl was a good choice of name," Ari whispered to Karmi.
Flame Jumper leaped into the air, "things are about to get muy caliente," he roared fire at the water, and smoke rose up to them.
"Time for a chemical reaction!" Chem Girl clapped the smoke with her chem balls, creating an ice slide to safety, the ice crackled as it touched the sea.
"Time to go!" Captain Cutie exclaimed, as the disintegration was right behind them, they all went down the ice slide, the captain held Karmi tight as the group reached the bottom. The explosion launched them into the ocean.
"Buildings go bye-bye," Red Panda slurred as they were knocked into the air, and landed on the bottom of the ice slide.
Snow began to accumulate on the ice, which softened their fall. As they got up, Hiro and Karmi glanced at each other, then looked away, the latter attempting to hide her scarlet cheeks.
"Honeyzilla saves the day!" Fred declared, they were far enough from the girls so they didn't hear it.
Honey Lemon glanced at him, "Honeyzilla?"
He got up, "oh, that's what we'd be called if they were shipping us," he gestured to the both of them. "I've got them for everyone on the team, minus Hiro because he's a minor." He pulled out flashcards, "I've got Gogosabi, Fredsabi, Honeysabi, I'm banking on Wasabi being a fan favorite." He glanced at their friend, who landed face first into the snow, "I mean look at him, he's so cool."
Ari stared up at the superheroes, "oh my god! That was awesome!" There were tears of joy on her face, "I'm so happy! I live!" Hiro smiled at her joy, he was mostly glad that she was alright. He turned back to Baymax, and began to poke at the robot's wirings, he hoped Overdrive Mode didn't use too much power, otherwise they'd be paddling home.
"I can't believe you created Overdrive Mode because of me," Karmi exclaimed.
"That's right," he told her in his "Captain Cutie" voice, "you're the one that really saved the day back there."
"So then, you liked my story." His eyes widened, recalling how earlier he wanted to persuade her to stop in his superhero persona, he turned to her.
"Yeah..about that Karmi, I've been meaning to say to you uh, that.." But when he looked into her reddish-brown eyes, he just couldn't discourage her! Even if it was annoying that her and his sister worked on that story, it made them happy, how could he force them to stop doing something they love? He'd be willing to bite down at his irritation if it meant Ari and… maybe Karmi (deep, deep down), were happy.
Hiro cleared his throat, "as long as there's a Captain Cutie, there will always be justice."
She stared with wide eyes, then squealed, "this is the best day ever!" Karmi giggled, she pulled him into a hug, laughing with excitement. It was kind of cute..in some sort of way seeing her excited, he just glanced at his friends, Wasabi flashed him a thumbs up, Fred made a heart symbol, and he just looked away and smiled.
And so our heroes saved the day. Escaping the hideout of the evil Momakase in one piece!
"Yay, Karmi!" Big Hero 6 and Ari exclaimed.
"Yay, Karmi,"
Captain Cutie nudged his teammates to the side, "we'd be honored if you became the seventh member of Big Hero 6."
Karmi gasped, "Big Hero 7? I'm in!" She took his hand.
"And I have one more question," Captain Cutie then got down on one knee, "Karmi, will you marry me?"
She stared at delight at him, her eyes shining with happiness-
"Really? Way to jump the gun," Ari commented.
Big Hero 6 had dropped them off at SFIT, and she was waiting for her brother to pick her up, in the meanwhile, Karmi was reading her latest chapter of her fanfiction.
"I was getting to the good part!" She exclaimed.
"Let me guess, it actually ends with them kissing?"
Karmi looked away and blushed, "maaaaybe?"
She snickered, "well if I was writing myself with my crush, I'd do the same."
"Oooh," Karmi wiggled her eyebrows, "you don't say?"
Now it was Ari's turn to blush, "leave me alone! At least you have a higher chance than me!" She placed a hand on her bruised cheek, "I get enough from Mikan and… David."
At the mention of the youngest Fern kid, they thought back to what they had learned, "David.." Karmi's gaze darkened, "I'm going to talk to him when I get a chance." They were still processing that Momakase, the mercenary/sushi chef that kidnapped them and almost got them, and Big Hero 6 killed, was the biological mother of the sweet hearted robotics major.
"Speaking of talking about things," Ari glanced up to her, "is now a good time to ask who's Callaghan?"
"He uh...he.." Karmi glanced away, "he was the... dean before Granville. That's all I have to say."
"Oh," considering Granville had started at SFIT this year, Ari wasn't surprised there was a dean before her, but something about her explanation seemed..missing.
However, just as Ari opened her mouth to fire another question, Hiro burst through the doors.
"Ari!" In an instant he was at her side, "oh my god you're all beat up!"
"It doesn't hurt as much anymore," she rubbed her injured elbow, "I just..wanna go home, I'm tired." Her eyes felt droopy, and she yawned.
"I banadaged some of her injuries," Karmi told him, "luckily she hasn't gotten an infection."
Hiro walked up to her, she winced, expecting to get yelled at. Instead Hiro pulled her into a soft hug, "thank you..for looking after my sister." The hug ended just as it began, he then scooped up Ari, "c'mon sis, let's go home."
"Goodbye Karmi," Ari weakly waved to her friend, who smiled and returned the gesture.
As Hiro led Ari to his moped and drove her home, all the bottled up emotions he carried during Akuma Island were let out, he was in tears as he gripped his sister's hand. He felt pure, hot anger at Momakase for bruising the poor girl up, he hadn't felt so angry at someone in a long time. As they entered the empty cafe, Hiro carried Ari up the stairs.
"I'll live for a few steps y'know," she protested, but he wasn't having any of that. As he carried her to her bed, he saw that Mochi was curled by the pillow.
"Oh great, Mochi's joined the bandwagon," she sarcastically commented as Hiro tucked her in, the calico meowed and nuzzled Ari's arm. She giggled and patted his head.
"Sweet dreams Ari," he kissed her forehead, "goodnight sis."
"Goodnight Hiro," she yawned, "I love you," as soon as she said that, Ari was happily dozing into dreamland. Mochi smiled up at him, then burrowed himself under the covers of the bed, soaking up her warmth.
He smiled, she deserved the softest dreams, he thought as he crawled into his own bed.
With a yawn, Hiro dozed off, and both siblings were fast asleep after a long day. Earning the well-deserved rest they needed.
AN: Hahahahahah! Bet you didn't see THAT twist! Did ya?
Actually some of you guys figured it out back in Food Fight... I'm either upset I gave it away or impressed y'all are sharp. Anyways, yeah. David's related to Momakase, it does explain where he gets his temper from...
Also if you guys are wondering what Momakase meant by how David's blood dad "isn't in the picture." Doesn't mean he's dead or estranged, it's bc Momakase is a single parent, and his blood dad will never, EVER, show up in HOF. Steven is his dad now. So SHUT UP about it.
I don't want to relive the trauma of that one troll harassing me n.n'
On another note... uh-oh looks like Karmi spilled something she shouldn't have said to Ari. So it confirms that Hiro or any of the nerd gang didn't tell Ari about Callaghan off-screen. Can you blame them tho, awkward telling your new sister/friend about the old dean of your college trying to kill you, and got Tadashi killed, and Hiro nearly died getting Abigail back from the portal, talk about trauma...
Question of the Week: Thoughts on how the reveal with David went? Was it bothersome how Ari got kidnapped as well?
I normally don't ask 2 questions but uh... everytime I include an OC into a canon event (esp one like this) I get mild to severe anxiety about it... It's gonna get worse in COM (sob)
Have a great week y'all