"Hey, Ari!" She turned to see Karmi waving to her, next to her was Liv Amara with her own lunch. "Come sit with us!"

Ari shrugged. "Alright." She walked over to the table, noticing nearby students were gawking and whispering among themselves about Liv's appearance, she sat next to Karmi.

"I was just telling Liv about you!" Her friend had the biggest smile on her face. "And how your enthusiasm is contagious."
"Contagious?" Ari gasped. "Oh no, I hope I didn't get you sick or anything."
Both biotech majors laughed. "No no, she means that your happy attitude rubs off of her." Liv explained. "And I can see that now."
"Well, did she say anything else?" Ari was curious what her friend was saying to the woman, and nervous. I hope she hasn't been saying any bad stuff.

"She told me that you're not an SFIT student, but your brother goes to this school, you're very optimistic and you have amnesia." Ari nodded until she heard the last part.
"Karmi!" She hissed. "You're not supposed to tell people about my memory problems! I trusted you!"
Karmi bowed her head. "Sorry Ari, but I think Liv could help you, she's got tons of cool things at Sycorax, one of those things might help you remember more."
She crossed her arms, still annoyed that Karmi told a total stranger one of her biggest secrets, but Karmi was right, Liv could help her in ways others cannot.
"Sorry." Ari told her. "You're right."
"It's fine, we're both even!"

She turned around at the sound of someone clearing her throat, Hiro had walked up to the table, with some… thing.

"Hey uh, Ms. Amara." Hiro waved. "I've wanted to show you something I've been working on."
"Now? I'm kind of eating." Liv raised an eyebrow. "But okay."
"Oh joy!" Karmi sarcastically exclaimed.

Hiro unveiled the cloth on top of this thing, which was a complicated machine of some sort. "This is a temperature gradient device."

Ari felt bad for him at that moment, but decided to take pity. "And what does it do?" She asked.
"Glad you asked sister!" He took Karmi's cup of water. "May I?" He then stuck a rod in the water, the machine beeped. "As you can see, it easily converts physical changes in heat to an easy to understand numerical value."
Ari leaned over to Karmi. "Do you wanna tell him or should I?"

He didn't hear that and continued to speak. "And it has plenty of practical applications for medical and commercial use."
The girls stared in silence, Liv was the one who spoke up. "So it's a thermometer."
Hiro then realized his mistake. "Huh?"

"A really big thermometer." Karmi added.
"But at least you know how to build one!" Ari tried to add something positive, but then faltered. "Please never do that again."
"It's a temperature gradient-yeah no it's a thermometer." Hiro dragged his invention away dejectly, Ari felt rather bad for her brother.
"Aww poor Hiro." She frowned. "He must've been upset that you weren't too interested in Baymax." Ari turned to Liv. "But I know you did that to spare his feelings."
"Pardon?" The woman raised an eyebrow.
"Y'know, Baymax was his late brother Tadashi's invention, and you probably didn't want to strip the robot of any of Tadashi's 'touches' or take Baymax away if you wanted to invest in him." Ari explained. "That's why you weren't interested when Hiro explained Baymax wasn't his invention."

Her eyes widened, there was something whirring in her head, those hazel eyes stared into her in an almost hypnotic manner. "Impressive detective skills Ms. Rosemary," Liv spoke in a sweet silky voice. "You're more clever than I gave credit for."

Ari beamed. "I pick up some things!"
"Shame about your memory, perhaps after the gala at SFIT, you'd like to come to Sycorax and see if I can't see what the problem is, and maybe give you a treatment." She offered. "I'd be able to show Karmi my company, and you'd get your amnesia problem solved, two birds with one stone."
Both girls stared at each other, did Liv just say what they thought she said?
"Us?" Karmi gasped.
"Visit Sycorax?"
"Mhmm." Liv nodded, the two of them starting squealing with excitement and joy, thanking the woman and began theorizing about what cool stuff was awaiting them at Sycorax. Karmi thinking more of the technical side, and Ari taking a page out of science-fiction. Neither of them noticed Liv's gaze upon Ari, something about her explanation shocked her. Perhaps it was better to keep an eye on the girl before she got too curious for her own good, for better or for worse…

Ferns and Nerds group chat:

TheLittleMermaid: Guess who's getting a free tour to Sycorax on Saturday? THIS GIRL!

Mikan Ferns: Omg luckyyy!

Mikan Ferns: I have to talk to Liv on why she should hire me for her company and I am nervous!

Sara Ferns: You feel fear?

Mikan Ferns: Less of anxiety and more on what am I going to say to this person two years older than me yet she runs her own business.

Hiro Hamada: Woo, when's your parade?

TheLittleMermaid: : (

Mikan Ferns: Bruh

Rachel Rosemary: Have fun at Sycorax.

TheLittleMermaid: Have you been there?

Rachel Rosemary: Katie visited

Sara Ferns: owo what's this?

Gogo: Never make that face again

Rachel Rosemary: For five minutes. She doesn't like biotech.

Mikan Ferns: Wow, your cat is weird

Gogo: Hypocrite

Mikan Ferns: : (

The snow-haired girl was sitting in her lab, reciting in her head what she was supposed to say to Liv at the gala. Do I just say, "I'm a huge fan and I want to work at your company?" No, too brash.

"Mikan?" She saw Sally enter her lab.
"Oh, what's up?" Mikan raised an eyebrow. "Did I miss a homework assignment or something and you're here to remind me?"
The professor shook her head. "No, I wanted to see how you were doing. You must be nervous about the upcoming gala, and not sure on how to speak to Liv."
"Meh." Mikan shrugged. "Just gotta find a way to not sound like a crazed fangirl stalker."
Sally chuckled. "Happens more often than you'd think." She took a seat next to her. "Y'know, I thought I'd tell you perhaps you should pop some of the 'Mikan attitude' when working with your future coworkers?"
"Future?" She frowned.
"Come on, everyone and their teen genius brothers can tell that a certain biotech prodigy here might be interning at Sycorax next semester." Sally explained. "So, you might wanna be nicer when talking to Karmi."
"Nicer?"
Sally huffed. "Calling someone a germ isn't very appealing Mikan."
"It's a nickname!" Mikan crossed her arms, very frustrated on why her caretaker was being so sensitive about it. It's not like I'm calling her a disease that I hope gets destroyed anytime soon.

"Mikan, don't you notice how Karmi feels?" She defended. "She gets extremely uncomfortable when you call her that and try to noogie her."
"I noogie David and Sara all the time."
"That's because they're comfortable with you invading their space." Sally explained. "Karmi isn't."
"So what? I'm just trying to be a buddy to her." She shrugged. "not my fault she has no friends-"
"Mikan Ferns!" She flinched at Sally's increased volume. "That is a very inappropriate thing to say! Not everyone can be a social butterfly, or have an easy time making friends. Friendship takes time." the professor explained. "Karmi might allow you into her bubble if you just learn to respect her space, and treat her kinder."
Mikan opened her mouth to argue but decided against it. Guess I must be doing something wrong if everyone yells at me everytime I talk to Karmi. "Fine, I'll try."
Sally's amber gaze softened. "That's all I ask of you." She walked over to Mikan, pressing a kiss to her check. "I love you sweetheart."
"I… love you too." Mikan replied. She felt strange as Sally exited the lab. "Love, such a silly emotion."

Ari peeked into the garage, Hiro had been in there for awhile and she was getting worried.
"If you're going to say I was being jealous, I've already heard enough from Honey Lemon." He didn't turn to her.
"I wasn't going to ask about that." she defended. "Just, do you think Orso Knox is connected to the monster?"
"Probably." He shrugged. "That's why we're going to see him this afternoon."
"Please don't start the convo with 'are you behind the monster attacks?'" Ari suggested. "That's gonna end horribly."
Hiro chuckled. "Glad you haven't lost your sense of humor."
"Eh, it's what keeps me going." Ari handed him a bag of gummy bears. "You have been rather green today, so here."
He narrowed his eyes, but accepted the gummy bears. "I'm going to enjoy this bag, but I'm gonna be highly offended."

"Ha ha, very funny." She rolled his eyes. "Have you considered asking Detective Rosemary on his input?"
"Well according to the others, all he mentioned was the monster attack on his house, and that Knox was interested in investing in Sycorax."
"Oooh I'm gonna ask Liv about it next time I see her!" Ari exclaimed. "Which is either the gala or on Saturday, I don't want to rain on Karmi's parade this week."

Hiro groaned. "All she did was invent a stupid sticker, what's the big deal?"
"You participated in the space junk competition." She pointed out. "Let some others have spotlight man."
"Karmi is the actual worst though!" Hiro huffed. "most of the time at least..."
"What was that last part?" She leaned in.

"Nothing!"

Knock-knock-knock

"Mr. Knox?" Hiro knocked on the door, him, Honey Lemon, Fred, and Baymax had showed up in their superhero outfits, just in case. The door creaked open as he knocked.
"Weird." Fred commented.

"Mr. Knox? The door was open, may we come in?" Honey Lemon questioned as they entered his office room.

It was a mess, the chairs and tables were knocked over. Glass pictures cracked and vases shattered. Carpets torn and stuffing ripped and shredded. As if a cat tornado went to town in this room.

Hiro frowned. "Woah, this office-"
"Is Wasabi's worst nightmare!" Fred exclaimed, he adjusted a picture on the wall. Hiro stepped on a picture, the glass crunched under his boot, he picked up the picture and squinted.

It was a picture of a balding man with blue eyes. "He's not supposed to be out today." Honey Lemon walked up to him, a copy of Knox's schedule in her hands.

"Office hours." He hummed, then turned to his robot companion. "Uh, Baymax?" He turned around. "Can you find Knox?"
Baymax beeped. "Scanning biometric data." He began to scan the picture Hiro was holding.

CRASH!

The wall burst behind them, and out the dust the monster appeared and roared at them.

"See? I told you!" Fred exclaimed. "He looked like if you put a whale and a dinosaur and some hair into a blender-AAAH!" The monster picked him up and tossed him at the wall. Fred groaned as he fell to the floor.

Honey Lemon popped out a chem ball but before she could throw it the monster charged at the three of them, they all ducked out of the way but it snagged her chem purse. She tossed the ball in her hand at the monster as it went for her, cyan goop trapped it's arms but it broke free! Honey Lemon yelped as it leapt at her, she ducked and it hit the chimney instead.

"I've got this!" Fred bounced back into the action. "Away with thee, monster!" In both hands he held out his clove of garlic and a wooden stake.

The monster roared and chomped his clove.
"What?" And then Fred was screaming and being tossed out of the window. Hiro winced as the glass shattered from his impact. He then saw the snarling monster peeking at the schedule which was dropped due to all the chaos.

"Knox's schedule!" He exclaimed, the monster turned to him, on instinct he dived for the schedule. He didn't make it very far as the monster grabbed him, Hiro screamed as he dangled in the monster's clutches.

"Hiro!" Honey Lemon gasped.

The monster stared at him with it's blue eyes. "All the devils are here." It rasped. He curled his nose at its rancid breath, which could kill a man.

"Baymax! Overdrive mode!" He turned to Baymax.

"Overdrive mode: engaged." Air hissed as he transformed, his wings became a sword and he gripped it. "Overdrive mode." Energy channeled into his sword as he stomped over to the monster, it dropped Hiro and made it's escape. Running with its tail between its legs.

Baymax shifted back to normal, and out of energy. "I scared the blender whale!"
"Oh, thanks Baymax." Hiro sighed.

"No problem, pal." He thudded to the ground as Fred got up.

"Uh, so the garlic isn't as effective as one would've hoped." he groaned.
"You don't say?" Hiro sarcastically questioned.
"Yeah I thought monsters hated garlic-oh… sarcasm."

"All the devils are here." Hiro commented. They retreated back to Fred's house, and Ari had joined them in waiting for Baymax to recharge and recover from their monster encounter.
"Wow, what even?" Ari raised an eyebrow.
"He's so dramatic!" Fred added. "It's like, dude, start a blog."
Honey Lemon's phone beeped, she gasped,. "All the devils are here, all the devils are here! The Tempest!"
"The what?" Hiro frowned.
"The Shakespeare play." Honey Lemon explained, "hell is empty and all the devils are here, this thing of darkness I acknowledge mine, what's past is prologue. They're quotes from The Tempest!"
"Why would he say those quotes?" Ari narrowed her eyes. "Is he a cryptic kind of monster?"
"Detective Rosemary did suspect the monster was trying to communicate something/" Fred added.
"So the monster's a Shakespeare fan?" Hiro raised an eyebrow.

"No but Orso Knox was." Honey Lemon shook her head. "I think..."

"The monster is Orso Knox!" Both Baymax and Honey Lemon exclaimed, the robot showing an image of the monster on his screen.

"You know, one of you now owes the other a soda." Fred pointed to them. "Like during the sleepover!"
"Don't remind me." Hiro grumbled at the memory of buying Karmi a soda due to the laws of jinxing.
"I mapped the iris on the photo of Orso Knox." Baymax brought up a picture of Knox, and showed the similarities between the blue eyes. "It matched with the monster."
Ari gasped. "Oh my god, that thing is a person." She gagged. "Gross, so gross! At least it's not anyone I know."
"But what happened to him?" Honey Lemon frowned. "Some kind of genetic mutation?"
"Maybe he drank something really bad," Ari guessed. "Or he was watching a lab experiment and wasn't careful, Mikan warned me bad things can happen if you don't follow safety procedures."
"It's Globby all over again!" Fred dramatically exclaimed. "And I thought one monster in San Fransokyo is bad enough! Least he's not a spider monster."
"Or an eel monster." Ari gagged at the thought. "Gross."

Hiro stared at the schedule on the tablet. "Wait a minute." he picked it up. "Fred and Rachel's houses, Krei's office." He pointed to the locations.
"Knox has been keeping his appointments!" Honey Lemon exclaimed.
"Which means the next place he's going is..." He stared at the bottom one taking place Friday night, and gasped.

"SFIT." he, Honey Lemon, and Ari realized.

"S-F-I-T-" Fred paused. "I mean SFIT."

Ari groaned. "Great, can I just enjoy one event where a villain slash monster doesn't attack?!" She brought a hand to her head. "What's next? A school dance?"
"At least my second Bro-Tillion was supervillain clean." Fred bragged. Ari just glared at him, and he closed his mouth. "Sorry."

The day before the gala, in his garage, the gang gathered. "Hey guys." Ari waved, bringing in a plate of blueberry muffins.

They all waved and got one. "How's work?"

"Going well." Hiro commented from the computer.
Wasabi was looking at a book of The Tempest, and was flinching. "this play has three of my top nine fears. Shipwrecks, rainstorms and… puns." he shuddered.
"Oh yeah, puns are annoying." Ari nodded. especially from a certain attractive, but irritating at times blonde.

"Lunatic mutant billionaire tops those." Gogo gestured to a tablet comparing Knox's mutant and human forms.
"Not the first time I've heard of that, long story." Hiro typed on his computer. "But luckily, I know a way to even the playing field." He pressed a button. "And it can be executed now."
Fred squealed as the 3D printer got to work, whirring to life a piece of a boot.

"Not in some magical, distant future like the ideas of some biotech major we all know, whose name rhymes with 'Zarmi.'" Hiro boasted, his sister just rolled her eyes and tossed a muffin at him. "Hey!"
"Are you talking about Jarmi?" Fred raised an eyebrow. "'Cause I agree, his ideas are crazy."
Hiro flashed him a deadpan look.

"I like Jarmi, snappy dresser." Wasabi smirked.
"There's a Jarmi at your school?!" Ari exclaimed.
Honey Lemon nodded. "He's a good classmate of Mikan, ask her for more details."

Hiro just groaned.

Later in the evening...

"It is sweet! Whoo!"
"This ultra amor's a little heavy, and a lot awesome!"
"I like it."
"Ooh."
"Woah you guys look awesome!"
"Titanium reinforced to withstand more of a beating." Hiro explained, they were all in greyscale, heavy suits, they'd repaint them in more color later.
Ari flashed them a thumbs up, she wore sunglasses so her eyes were protected from the light reflecting off of the shiny metal.

"Oh, great." Wasabi dreaded the mention of a beating.
"It's going to be super helpful, Hiro!" Honey Lemon told him.

"Yeah, Ultra Armor, a win." He tapped a checklist on his tablet, Honey Lemon leaned over to look at it.

"Hm, how does Karmi have negative accomplishments?"
"Because everything she does is the worst." Another muffin got thrown at him. "Knock it off!"
Ari just narrowed her eyes. "Dude, please chill for like, five seconds."

"Hiro." Wasabi started. "Are you ever jealous of how awesomely organized I am?"
"Or how helpful I am in the cafe? Or how good am I at writing?" Ari added.
He frowned. "What? Uh, no, why?"
"Or how fast I am." Gogo chimed in.
"Or how positive I am?" Honey Lemon questioned.
"Or how Fred I am." The comic fan flipped his hood down.
Hiro shook his head. "No, you guys are who you are."
"Exactly, and Karmi's a biotech genius, that's who she is." Wasabi explained.
"She's special in ways that you're not, and you're special in ways that she's not." Honey Lemon told him.

"Yeah!" Ari nodded. "You're smart at robotics stuff, and sassy, and a bit overprotective, but you're also very heroic and caring."
Hiro flashed her a smile. "Thanks Ari, and thanks guys."
"No problem." Gogo adjusted a disk. "The world's cool like that."

"Reminder, it is time to leave for the dedication gala." Baymax spoke up.

"We've got a socialite turned Shakespeare monster to catch!" Fred exclaimed. "I'll get the garlic!"
"No!" the group chorused.

"Heck I better get on my dress!" Ari exclaimed, bolting out of the garage. "And Fred you better not bring that garlic or so help me-"

Ferns and Nerds group chat:

Rachel Rosemary: Great news, I will be attending the gala : )

TheLittleMermaid: Yay!

Mikan Ferns: "Ooh you can finally meet my GF then" -David

Rachel Rosemary: Your GF?

Sienna Kline: Me! I can introduce myself in person.

Rachel Rosemary: K

Sara Ferns: Omg I am so excited! Maybe I'll get to speak at Liv at some point! She's so cool!

Hiro Hamada: You're cool Sara

Sara Ferns: Aaaah tysm!

Hiro Hamada: Yw

The gala had a mixture of students, business folk, and rich people attending. Big Hero 6 was split into two groups. Wasabi, Fred, and Baymax were in their suits staking the outside. While Hiro, Gogo, Honey Lemon, and even Ari assisting covered the inside. The comic fan however complained about missing out on consuming free gala food, and Gogo promised to bring him a crab cake, and Ari excused herself from the group to fulfill that request.

"There we go." She picked up a plate and put a crab cake on it, but then a paw swiped it. "Hey!" She turned to the person next to her. "Oh, hi Rachel!"
The girl was in the dress she wore at the Bro-Tillion, and had a suspiciously wiggly purse to boot. "Hey." Rachel smiled, she slightly opened the purse to reveal the crab cake thief.

"Katie." Ari groaned. "Why are you in Rachel's purse?"
"To avoid the press." The feline twitched her whiskers. "And Liv."
Now she was plain confused. "Liv? Why do you wanna avoid Liv?"

Rachel and Katie exchanged glances. "Katie isn't a fan of biotech majors, remember?" The girl explained. "Including Liv."
"Awww, but she's so nice." Ari frowned.

"I don't like her." Katie huffed. "The look in her eyes creeps me out."

"Well that's just your opinion." She thought the blue was being rude. Liv's a good person for donating to the school and helping my friend Karmi with her dreams! Katie's just being prejudiced, not to mention I might get my memories back thanks to her!

"Hey gang." they turned to see David walking up to them, Sienna was wrapped around his arm, "is this where the party is? I heard your voices."
"Very funny," Ari snickered. "Come to introduce Sienna to the youngest Rosemary and her famous cat?"
"Yep."

She waved to the artist. "Are you doing okay Sienna? I heard about the car accident."
"I'm better now." Sienna waved it off. "David being there helped me recover."
"Awww."

Sienna shook hands with Rachel, "it is such an honor to meet you Ms. Rosemary."
"Please, my parents go by their last names, call me Rachel, or Rach, most people call me Rach." She replied.

Katie snickered, swiping another crab cake off the table. Ari's stomach growled with hunger, she got a plate and began stuffing it with egg rolls, rice, and crab cakes. As she reached over to grab some of the fish being served, Rachel stopped her.
"I wouldn't eat that if I were you." the girl gave a warning. Ari frowned, she took a sample and began chewing it. It tasted wiry, but good.
"This isn't terrible." She swallowed the piece.
"Yeah but it's unagi." Sienna told her, Ari's jaw dropped.

"It's what?"
"Unagi, y'know, e-"
"Eel!" Ari gagged, taking the rest of her sample and throwing it in the trash. "Ew! Gross!" She took a cup of water and began drowning the taste out of her mouth. Katie started laughing at her reaction, Rachel just glared at the feline who was having the time of her life in her purse. "Who even eats this stuff?!"
"Liv does." Rachel pointed to the talk of the gala, the woman was having some food and chatting with business folk, on her plate was unagi, for some freakish reason.
"Bleugh." Ari stuck her tongue out.

"People have tastes." Sienna shrugged. "I dunno what to tell you."

Hiro, on the other hand, was mostly worried about Orso Knox crashing the event than what was being served. Though it was comical seeing Krei acting jealous over Liv, even if he shared the same advice to him that his friends shared. Though at this point who cared if he got Liv's approval or not, at least he had his sister and their friend's support.
"Careful!" He accidentally bumped into someone, his arm hitting their shoulder.
"I'm sor-" Hiro paused. "Wait, Karmi?" He almost didn't recognize her, she was wearing a beautiful blue dress and pumps.
"What's that look for?" She narrowed her eyes at his staring.
"Nothing!" Hiro turned away. "You just look good in a dress, I guess."

"Oh." Karmi's cheeks went red, she glanced away. "You don't look so bad either."

"Thanks." Was he having a decent conversation with Karmi for once?

"Are you going to present another giant thermometer to Liv again?" And there it was.
"Nope." he shook his head. "I'm just here for… because my sister wanted to come, she was excited about the gala." He glanced over to where Liv was, she was wearing a black dress and was talking to guests, Hiro squinted when seeing a familiar head of snowy hair. "Is that Mikan over there?"
"Hm?" Karmi squinted. "Yeah, she said she was going to try getting a job at Sycorax next semester, and must be handing her resume right now."
"When did you talk to Mikan?"
"This morning, she was kind of pleasant. She even apologized for constantly invading my space." She explained. "She's a bit scary and mean, but Mikan's better than most people I've met." Hiro nodded in agreement.
"Yep, though do you think you can ask her to give me space?" He requested. "You're right, she does invade people's space a lot."
"I guess, if you get me another soda."
"Oh for the love of-" He groaned. "I'm just gonna go."

Hiro tapped the comm. "Status report."
"There is no sign of the Orso Knox monster." Baymax reported.

"Maybe he likes being fashionably late?" Wasabi questioned.
"Keep watch." Hiro told them, he took his seat as Granville took the stage she was in a fancy blue dress herself, tapping the microphone.

"If I may have your attention?" The chatter from the guests continued, Granville chuckled."Attention please."

Still, the chatter chatted on.

"Attention!" There was feedback from the microphone as she raised her voice, that got the chatter to stop. "Thank you, thank you, there are few innovators who have made their mark as quickly and completely as Liv Amara."
He heard Krei cough behind him. "Overrated."
"So it is my honor to introduce the namesake of the new Amara Biotech Center. Ms. Liv Amara!" The crowd applauded as Liv came onstage and took her place on the podium.

"Thank you, Grace." She smiled. "You know, the other day I was lucky enough to meet a current biotech student. Karmi reminded me why I wanted to help build this facility."
He saw Karmi gasp with delightment. Good for her I guess. Bits of jealousy still wormed him, but their prior conversation eased his mood. He walked over to Honey Lemon and Gogo's table, and that's when he heard three "Oh no's" through the comm.
"Oh no what?" He whispered, they all nodded and ran outside, where Wasabi, Fred, and Baymax were in battle mode.

"Nothing much." The former replied. "Just Orso Knox!"

The monster was here, bushes and street lights had been knocked over in his way, the Skymaxes arrived with the rest of their gear.

"Hold him off!" Hiro ordered as his Skymax landed beside him. Baymax fired a rocket fist at Knox, who dodged and kept charging, and leapt at Wasabi. He flinched, shielding himself with his plasma blades, which caused Knox to screech and get knocked back by the force.

Wasabi was surprised by this outcome. "Hey, it worked! Hiro, this armor is-" He was tackled by Knox. "Woah!" The fall didn't hurt as much, but he whimpered as the monster got closer.

"This one's for Mini-Max!" Fred declared as he hopped on Knox's back, who roared in offense.

Gogo and Honey Lemon had finished armoring up. "Let's clear out the tent!" The former declared, they went inside.
"And a new generation is ready to lead our industry into the future." Liv was still speaking when they went in.
"Excuse me?" Honey Lemon tried getting their attention. "Excuse me, everyone."
Gogo lowered her visor and whistled sharply. "Hey!" She raised her visor back up as Liv stopped speaking and the crowd turned to her. "Back exits, everyone! Now!"
"Please!" Honey Lemon added.

The loud monster roaring got the message clear, objects clattered as the gala attendees exited like rabbits during rabbit season.

"What's going on?" Liv questioned as she stepped down from the podium.

Gogo skated to her. "Long story, big fan."
"Is Captain Cutie here?" Karmi grabbed her shoulders. "Is Captain Cutie here?!"
"Now is not the time Karmi!" Ari exclaimed as she helped David pick up Sienna who had tripped, and bolted out of the tent.

Outside, Wasabi got knocked by Knox again. The monster roared as Fred leapt on him again. Then Hiro and Baymax tackled him, the robot pushing against his strength.
"Chem Girl? All clear?" Hiro asked through the comms.
"All clear!"
Baymax let go, Knox went flying, then flew over to their teammate lying on the ground. "Wasabi, get up."
"Where are we going?" He questioned.
"I have an idea."

Knox roared and entered the tent, ripping appart tables as he stomped towards Gogo and Honey Lemon.

"Inside that monster there's a person. Mr. Knox, we wanna help you." Honey Lemon told him.

She got more growling, tables tossed, and the Liv Amara ice sculpture shattered as her response.

"Yeah. Mostly monster." Gogo commented, as they stepped back as he roared. Baymax and Hiro entered the tent, with Wasabi clinging onto one of the robot's arms.
"Blade!" Hiro commanded, and he began cutting the top of the tent with his plasma blades. Honey Lemon tossed a chem ball at Knox and froze him in place. His arms broke free and Gogo threw a disk at him, he roared.

The tent was fully cut as the top began falling down, Baymax and the team exited. Knox emerged from the cloth and let out a pained roar. Partygoers gasped and screamed at the sight of the monster, Rachel and David had more deadpan reactions, unfazed by the roaring.

Fred hogtied Knox and handed the loose end of the rope to Hiro, he spun around Knox as Honey Lemon continued to ice and goop him in. Once there was no more rope, Baymax landed, the heroes satisfied with their work.

"No worries everyone." Hiro told the crowd. "We've got this situation under-" the goop crackled as Knox broke free!

People screamed and ran, everyone except a few bystanders, Karmi one of them. Knox roared, eyeing his next target, his gaze fell under a small group, Liv among the bystanders.

"Out of this house!" Rachel suddenly exclaimed, she started running towards the monster, and began hitting him with her purse. There was a screeching meow from that.
"Get out of there!" Ari called to her. "it's not safe!"
"Oh please, this monster is scary as pack of miiiice!" Rachel yelped as Knox grabbed her, she flinched as he roared his rotten breath.
"Hell is empty." He rasped. "And all the devils are HERE!" Knox tossed Rachel, she ended up crashing into Ari. Both girls groaned and moaned from the impact. The monster turned to his next target, Liv Amara herself. She stared in horror as he stomped toward her and roared. He screeched, baring his sharp teeth as she gasped.

Then there was a high-pitched noise, Knox's eyes widened and he fell to the ground, behind him was Karmi, with a purple sticker in her hand.

She placed a few more on his back. "Extradermal nano-receptor! I administered a sedative." Karmi smirked.

Knox growled, and she started placing stickers more rapidly on his back. She laughed nervously as Hiro walked up to her. "Thought maybe you could use the help." He could see the blush growing on her cheeks, perhaps from standing next to her "Captain Cutie."

"Uh… thanks!" He gave her a thumbs up, then turned to Ari and Rachel, the latter was all roughed up from being thrown. "Are you alright?"
"Meh, I can't believe I got 'yeeted' by a monster," Rachel shrugged.
"Oh my god, I can't even," Ari groaned.

Liv brushed the unconscious Knox with her hand. "See? This is exactly the kind of thinking that's getting your project funded."
"Funded?" Hiro sputtered. "I mean uh, ahem… good for you." He chuckled. Karmi flashed him a big smile.

"Props on the armor, Big Hero 6." Liv told the superheroes, inspecting their ultra armor. "Excellent mech work. Not my area of expertise, but I'm impressed."
"Check out the titanium back spikes, huh?" Fred gestured to the spikes on his back. "Yeah!"

"Please tell me we're repainting them later, right?" Wasabi whispered to Honey Lemon. "I miss being green."
"Don't worry, I'll make sure to add some flavor to when I add the color." She winked back.
Gogo walked over to Knox. "So, what do we do about Sleeping Ugly here?"
"Hmm, that's kind of harsh." Honey Lemon frowned.
"There's a secure genetics lab back at Sycorax, if anyone can help him, my team can." Liv explained.
"Hold up!" Ari raised a hand. "How did you figure out the monster was Knox?"
"I spoke to Detective Rosemary." She answered, at the mention of her father, Rachel narrowed her eyes. "He managed to connect the dots and explained the situation to me, so I already have the materials gathered to help Knox."
"Oh that's so smart!" She beamed. "Though I wonder what he meant when he said that thing, right Rachel?" Ari turned to her companion who was lost in thought.
"Hm? Oh." she shook her head. "Perhaps it was a cry for help, best not think about it."

"I will help you transport him to the lab." Baymax offered, waddling over to the unconscious monster.

Hiro turned to Karmi, if it weren't for her intervention, someone could've gotten hurt. He did it find it brave of her to help out like that, most people just ran. "You know Karmi, you did a super job out there."
"I love you too Captain Cutie."

"What?"
"What."
Too much for him right now, staring into her soft reddish-brown eyes. "I gotta go!" He clouded his visor and bumped into Baymax, falling to the ground.

Karmi gasped, and the robot glanced down as he picked up Knox. "Oh."

Ari snickered. "Wow Karmi, you broke Captain Cutie."
"I didn't mean it!" She helped Wasabi lift him back up.

Rachel opened her purse. "Katie, you alright?" she picked up the blue inside, she was dizzy from the crash.
"Heads, spinning." Katie slurred. "uhhhg." Liv's eyes widened at the sight of the blue feline, she raised an eyebrow.
"You kept your cat in your purse?" Rachel turned around at her words.
"Yes, Katie likes to avoid crowds. She wanted to swipe a crab cake or two."
"Hmm." Liv hummed. "Very strange behavior for a cat."
"Well at this point Katie is anything but an ordinary cat." the girl placed the blue back in her purse. "And very adorable."
"She's a menace." Ari huffed. "A furry pain in the neck."
"Aww but she likes you."
"Why?!"

The superheroes giggled at the girl's banter, happy that things were more lighthearted after such a thrilling monster hunt. However, the question of how Knox became a monster, that was unanswered. Perhaps it was a freak accident after-all.

But it would be answered another day, for Big Hero 6 still had other villains to deal with.

AN: And that's Big Problem, cue the internal screaming from distressed readers.

I don't have to write that much of "Liv" until next season... ich.

And anyways Ari no what are you doing Ari no XD. I bet y'all are vibing with Katie because she no like "Liv"

Animals have good senses! Katie can tell something is off about this whole situation, but she's not sure what it is.

QOTW: Since this is the ep that foreshadows the COM, tell me your current predictions for what I'm gonna do in that, besides torture y'all.

Until next week. Hehehehe