Hiro skipped steps as he went down the stairs, he needed to check on Aunt Cass and see how she was doing after everything that happened yesterday, possibly check her brain activity. She won't remember anything and it almost made him sad to know that. NO. He can't think like that, he can't go back now.
"Hey, sport! How did you sleep?" Aunt Cass's voice sounded from the kitchen.
"I slept alright actually, thanks for asking. Hey, do you… feel strange or weird? Maybe feeling some pain?" Hiro walked casually, scratching his head trying to act normal.
"No, I feel fine." She shrugged and placed 2 plates on the table.
"Really? Because yesterday you seemed so out of it, I mean, you were all spacy when I got home." He watched her expression closely trying to see something she couldn't.
"Well, I don't remember much from yesterday. I only remember you giving me the headband and just after your friends came over, and after you came home. . . but it's all right kid! I hardly remember my day most of the time!" Messing up his hair as she walked back to the kitchen, he didn't see or hear any hint of a lie in her voice.
Aunt Cass placed some waffles on the table while Hiro took his place on the other side, where he usually sat noticing some extra items on the table.
"Aunt Cass…" Hiro spoke silently.
"Yes, what's wrong Hiro?" Aunt Cass sat down at the table with a worried look.
"Why did you set up for 3?" Hiro looked at the spot Tadashi used to sit, all set up waiting for someone to join them.
Aunt Cass looked confused for a moment before also looking at Tadashi's place, tears brimmed in her eyes and she smiled trying to shake it off. It didn't work and instead of saying something, she started to cry into her hands. As sad and confused as Hiro was, he understood where she was coming from. Standing from his spot he walked over to his dear Aunt and hugged her. They stayed that way for a while, hugging and crying about something that wasn't said.
They parted and continued with breakfast leaving the set up spot untouched and left the table without another word. Hiro decided he wouldn't use the headband that day.
Getting down stairs Hiro could feel small parts of him shattering for Aunt Cass, she felt just as much pain as he did, if not more. He had to do this; it was for all of them. He knew now what he was going to do, and how he was going to do it, maybe not in full detail, but it was closer.
Hiro's phone buzzed in his pocket and he quickly pulled it out to read a message from his Aunt, "Have a nice day."
He smiled sadly "You too."
Looking up, Hiro glanced at the red box "Ow" and out Baymax came.
"I heard the sound of distress, did someone cause you harm?" Baymax's voice was soothing, considering his morning so far.
"Let's get you suited up and ready." After about 20 or so minutes of trying to get Baymax ready, Hiro packed his own in a bag and headed out the door with Baymax in toe.
The park was mostly empty save for his friends talking casually at one of the many benches around the park.
"Hey, guys!" Hiro approached them with a wave having left Baymax on standby in a nearby ally.
"Hello, Hiro!" was all the warning he got before Honey Lemon hugged him as hard as she could.
Hiro smiled when she let go, "Hey, why don't we go to the island? We can talk more there."
They nodded in agreement before following Hiro to where Baymax was hidden.
"Hiro, what are we going to be doing today?" A pop from behind meant Gogo had gum.
"I'll tell you when we get there, it's not safe to talk here." Hiro brushed it off before climbing onto Baymax.
"Little dude, wouldn't it be like, really obvious if we flew through the sky on a huge red robot?" Fred raised his hand.
Hiro stopped and looked at Baymax realizing he was right, "Got any other suggestions?"
Fred pulled out his phone with a smile, "I have a helicopter."
Hiro smiled at Freds enthusiasm and nodded "Then let's go to your place and catch a ride."
Arriving at the island sometime later, Hiro told everyone to suit up after the butler left with the helicopter. Among other things he was glad that the butler didn't ask any questions but he was sure Fred had asked for weirder. They changed and walked to the room they had started on.
"Ok, here's the plan; this is going to be the main part of the base, I'm going to fix the computers in here and use them for my plan. I brought my computer so I could check everything out. Fred, I want you to go around and help Wasabi fix whatever metal beams or brick are falling apart, fix the place up. Gogo, I want you to map out the place as best you can I made a holo-screen that goes into your wristband so you can use it," Hiro hands her a small disk "Honey, you're going to help me with the computers to see what we can hack, oh! and will you give Wasabi some of your hardening formulas just in case he needs them?"
Honey nods and presses a few buttons before handing them to Wasabi. "But Hiro..." Honey looks at him confused "What about Baymax?"
Hiro shakes his head, "Baymax is going to help Fred and Wasabi fix the ceiling. Now go."
They all split up to do their respective jobs yet again while Hiro and Honey found a place to plug in.
"Hey Honey-Lemon?" Hiro asked, a hum was all he got "I need to scan your head to see if anything is happening, is that ok?"
"Of course, Hiro!" She smiles at him.
"Thanks, hold still for a moment." He held up his hands.
Hiro then took a small device that looked like those things you would find at a check out after shopping and scans her head. He modified it so that it would scan brain waves and had put Baymax's chip inside of it to see if there were any abnormalities. It beeped twice and he plugged it into his computer.
"Nothing seems to be wrong, it does say that some of the neurotransmitters in your brain aren't responding properly and that there is something else being put in. It also states that because of this there is a higher concentration of the chemical in your brain that makes you forget everything, essentially putting your mind into a temporary coma. Interesting." Hiro studied the data closer to see if he missed something.
"Isn't a coma bad, Hiro?" Honey-Lemon looked concerned.
Hiro thought about this carefully. Yes it was a bad thing, but it would make things so much easier if he didn't have to make them do anything against their will. Yes, part of their minds aren't working so short term memory is a no go, but on the other hand they can remember things from before that. He couldn't seem to figure out if he thought it was a bad thing of not, but what if the coma becomes permanent in their heads? What if wearing the head bands too long did cause a few issues? At most he could only imagine them being examined for some minor cases of amnesia, maybe they would undergo some form of degeneration in the brain from it, but how does he fix that? He would have to rewrite the entire coding for the head bands at least 5 times before he could even get a shred closer and that's with a few tests, but his friends weren't lab rats and he wouldn't make them one.
"I don't know yet Honey." Hiro sighed sadly, he was losing his resolve again to do all of this.
"Hiro, some video footage came up." Honey's voice pulled him away from his thoughts.
"Let's see it." He moved closer to the screen again.