'Hiro! Explanation NOW!' Yelled Gogo as they pulled out of the creepy alleyway and sped off down the street.

'He stole my microbots! He started the fire and I don't know who he is!'

'What, so you thought you'd single-handedly attempt to take him down, armed with a robotic nurse?' Rena exploded, 'what got into you?'

'Did you not hear the part about he started the fire? He was responsible for all that damage and, and for Tadashi!' He yelled back, only realising what he'd said when he realised everyone was staring at him. Rena reached out and squeezed his hand, an invisible surge of understanding passing between them.

'Okay but now a man in a mask is trying to kill us!' Shrieked Wasabi, turning on his blinker as he said this.

'Did you actually just put your blinker on?! Are you KIDDING ME!' Gogo spluttered, and they bickered in the front.

'Alright but we don't know he's trying to kill us!' Said Honey, trying to remain positive. And this would have been all well and good if he had not launched a car at them right after she'd said this. Wasabi swerved sharply to the right and it scraped the side of the car as it screeched down the road.

'Nope!' Tadashi yelled over Wasabi and Gogo's bickering, 'definitely trying to kill us!'

'R,' Hiro begged, 'come on! Let me out! Baymax and I can take that guy!' He lent against the door as he said this, and Rena screamed as he door came blasting off and his face was suddenly inches away from the road. He was hauled back into the car by Baymax.

'Seatbelts save lives. Buckle up every time!'

Rena grabbed his hand, her face white. Hiro realised with a pang that her hands were shaking, and felt guilty almost instantly. He did not pull away.

'WHY HAVE WE STOPPED?!' Gogo shrieked at Wasabi, eyes popping.

'The light's red!'

'There are no red lights in a car chase! That is IT!' She clambered over onto the driving seat, seizing control of the wheel from Wasabi. Hiro was thrown into his sister as Gogo turned sharply down a side street, crashing into the bins outside a block of flats.

'Look at the mask! The creepy cloak! We're under attack from a super villain, people! How cool is that?! I mean it's scary obviously, but how cool!'

'Uh huh.' Rena said through gritted teeth as they sped dangerously down a hill, 'super cool Fred.'

They sped across the city as quick as lightning, recklessly speeding past various different obstacles such as benches and streetlights on their way. There were various whoops and screams as Gogo drove on, narrowly avoiding smashing into a train. Suddenly, it went dark as they were in a tunnel of microbots.

'Oh SHIT!' Yelled Wasabi, 'there's no way we're gonna make it out of this one!'

'We're gonna make it!' Shrieked Honey shrilly, we're gonna make it!

'We're not gonna make it!'

'We're gonna make it!'

'WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!'

'WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT!

They burst out the end of the tunnel and plunged into the icy depths of the sea, the car slowly sinking to the bottom.

Rena shivered violently as she clung to Baymax desperately. He floated them back to the pavement, where she scrambled to her feet, arms wrapped around herself in a desperate attempt to stay warm. Her eyes surveyed the scene before her, taking in all of her shivering friends lying on the floor.

'Hang on, where's Hiro?' She said, familiar panic rising in her throat. 'Did he make it out? Baymax, where is he?'

Tadashi sat bold upright, turning his head frantically from side to side, hoping to catch a glance of their younger brother.

'My sensors detect Hiro. Up there.' Baymax said, pointing upwards to where the masked man was standing on a huge tower of microbots. Rena's eyes followed and she saw Hiro, being held in the air by microbots. Even from where she was standing, she could see that he was unconscious. She clapped a hand to her mouth and a muffled scream escaped her lips. She started running towards him, blinded by tears, and before she even managed to get remotely far away she was pulled back by Honey-Lemon. She realised why. The masked man was coming towards them. Rena staggered backwards, intimidated by the sheer amount of robots the creepy man possessed. Quick as a flash, the robots deposited Hiro at her feet and before she even had time to react he'd disappeared completely. She knelt down, heart hammering. She placed two shaking fingers to his neck, and felt a pulse. She thought she was going to vomit, she was so relieved. Baymax appeared by her side and gently scooped Hiro up.

'How bad is he hurt?' She asked the robot, trying to keep her voice steady.

'I cannot be sure until I can give him a proper examination. However, I am concerned that your body temperatures are low and it is not safe to stay here.'

Rena nodded, and walked over to where Tadashi was sitting. She grabbed his hand, pulling him to his feet. He nodded grimly at her before walking slowly to where everyone was gathered around Hiro and Baymax.

'Robot man's right.' Said Gogo.

'Yeah please can we get out of here?' Wasabi pleaded, 'it's super scary here.'

'Okay but where are we gonna go?' Tadashi questioned, 'the cafe is on the other side of town, as is your guys places.'

'I know a place!' Announced Fred happily, 'follow me!'

He turned and set off, the group following him hesitantly.

'Freddie, where are we going?' Honey asked nervously.

'Oh, I live around here! It's like, 10 minutes away from here.'

'Do you?' Tadashi asked doubtfully.

'Yeah man!'

Tadashi turned to Rena, shaking his head. 'You know, I've known him since high school and it's only just occurred to me that I've literally never been to his house.'

Rena smiled weakly, not bothering to respond. She glanced back at her brother's unconscious form, sub-consciously chewing her nails anxiously.

'Oi, Squish.' Tadashi said to her, and she looked up, momentarily distracted.

'Oi, Dash. What?'

'Are you doubting my skills as an inventor? Hiro will be fine, he's in the hands of Baymax, created by the most handesome, intelligent and modest inventor ever.'

'Uh no, he was made by a one-legged douche who likes to run into fire for fun. Apologies for worrying slightly'

Tadashi snorted with laughter and she grinned.

'Okay, okay. Fair enough.'

'Surprised you're not crapping yourself with worry.'

'Oh, I can assure you that I am.' He replied, his smile faltering slightly.

'Well with any luck, he's had some sense knocked into him. What is it with you two and trying to get killed recently?'

Tadashi sighed. 'You tell me.'

They walked in silence for a few minutes, still shivering rather violently. Rena dragged her hand through her hair for the tenth time in two minutes, thinking.

'I don't get it.' She blurted out, 'why'd he just put Hiro back down? Obviously I'm not complaining!' She added quickly, seeing the look on her elder brother's face. 'But... I don't know, I was convinced he was gonna kill him.' She shrugged, 'maybe I'm over thinking things.'

'No, it makes sense.' Said Tadashi, 'I have to admit that I was terrified in those two minutes that he had him. I was sure he was gonna squeeze him to death or something, good thing Baymax was there cause I almost had a heart attack.' He eyed Baymax nervously as the robot approached them. 'An expression!' He added loudly, he retreated.

'Yeah well, that was nothing compared to the fire.' Rena said carelessly.

Tadashi cringed. 'I said I'm sorry!'

She shrugged, 'nah it's fine. I've already told you that.'

'Yeah but I still feel bad!'

'Shut it, or I swear I will punch you.'

Tadashi recoiled slightly and she laughed. 'I can't believe you're actually scared of me now. God, imagine being scared of your baby sister!' She teased, elbowing him in the ribs.

'Nah nah nah! I'm not scared! I just- WOAH.' He stopped dead in the middle of the pavement, and Rena turned to where he was eyeballing. She hadn't even noticed the ridiculously nice neighborhood they'd stumbled into, and the even nicer that Fred had just approached.

'Woah is right.' Said Wasabi, shaking his head in disbelief.

'Nah, I'm not buying it.' Gogo muttered angrily. 'Hey DINGUS!' She shouted. 'Now is not the time for a pathetic joke! I am FREEZING and we have a KID who is injured! I'm not in the mood for-'

'Holy cow.' Whispered Rena, for the door had just opened and Fred was greeted by the butler. Gogo's accusing finger had dropped to her side as she stared at the giant house.

'Come on!' Fred called from inside, and they practically ran to catch up with him. (Apart from Tadashi, who was being pulled along by Rena and was stumbling more than running, really.) They walked quickly through carpeted halls, in awe of how huge Fred's house was.

'Freddie I can't believe this is your house!' Honey whispered in awe.

'Yeah I thought you lived under a bridge.' Gogo smirked.

Rena slowed slightly and fell into step with Baymax. 'Is he okay?' She asked anxiously, looking up at her brother.

'I am unsure. I will perform a full examination now.' Baymax answered smoothly as they entered Fred's bedroom. Everyone else was marvelling at the weird decor, but she barely gave it a second glance. Baymax gently placed Hiro down on the sofa, and she sat on the floor next to his head, stroking his hair gently as Baymax scanned him. Tadashi sank down next to her and awkwardly patted her shoulder. She stared at him incredulously and he withdrew his hand.

'Sorry.' Quickly glancing at him, she saw the tears welling up in his eyes.

She shook her head at him, smirking. 'no need to apologise. Weirdo.' She withdrew her own hand from Hiro's hair and stood quickly, brushing imaginary dust off of her dungarees. Tadashi remained firmly where he was, rooted to his position on the floor. She purposely avoided his gaze, knowing that if he cried she would start bawling. She instead focused her eyes on the strange painting of Fred atop a tiger that was mounted on the wall as Baymax finished with his initial assessment. Honey came up behind her and squeezed her hand comfortingly, and she squeezed back. It was a lot more helpful than the awkward pat of Tadashi's, somehow.

'My scan shows that he has two bruised ribs and a wound on the back of his head that will require stitches. He may also be concussed, but I cannot be sure on this until he awakens. My scan indicates that he will awaken soon.' Baymax turned to Fred, who was stood with his arms crossed, leaning against the wall. 'Hiro will need ice.' Fred nodded and left to go get some. Baymax turned back towards Hiro and lifted his head slightly until she could see the worringly large gash at the back of his head. Thankfully, it had stopped bleeding. The robot produced a clean rag out of thin air and gently mopped the back of his head before spraying it with his finger. With Tadashi's mute assistance, he neatly and quickly stitched the cut up. After only a couple of minutes, the wound was clean and stitched up. As he was finishing up, Hiro stirred slightly. Rena stepped towards him as he opened his eyes, groaning slightly. He sat up slowly, wincing. She took the empty seat on the sofa next to him just as Fred returned with a bag of frozen peas. He tossed the bag to her, who caught it before gently pressing it to Hiro's side. A soft moan of relief escaped his lips. He shut his eyes and lent back against the back of the sofa gently. Everyone gathered around the sofa, draping themselves over the various seats in the vicinity.

'You okay?' Asked Tadashi quietly.

'Peachy.' Answered Hiro sleepily.

'Clearly.' Rena replied icily. He opened his eyes and looked at her.

'Oh come on! I'm fine!'

'Hiro you were literally almost squeezed to death by your own invention!' Gogo exclaimed before Rena had a chance to say anything.

'Yeah, how are you so chill?' Honey added, eyes wide.

'They key word here is almost!'

'How's your vision?' Asked Tadashi, ignoring his last statement. 'Do you feel ill?'

Hiro narrowed his eyes. 'Not concussed bro.'

'Just checking!'

'I am worried that your body temperatures are still low.' Baymax said, out of nowhere. As he said this, Rena suddenly realised how cold and wet she still was. Baymax came and sat down in the middle of their little circle and began to glow a soft red colour. Rena felt the benefit of the heat almost instantly and sighed in relief. She reached her hands out and rubbed them together, as though Baymax was some sort of weird, huge campfire.

'Yeah why are you all wet?' Asked Hiro curiously as they all warmed themselves up.

'My car sank to the bottom of the lake.' Said Wasabi bitterly, 'took me ages to save up for that.'

Hiro looked down at his hands, twisting them in his lap. 'Listen guys, I'm sorry. But in my defence, you weren't meant to be there!'

'Well you should have thought about that before you went running off after masked weirdos!' Rena said in exasperation. 'What's up with the police?'

'I went to the police!' He protested loudly, 'all they did was ask me to write down my parent's phone number so they could come pick me up!'

'It is true!' Baymax added, 'we jumped out a window!'

'You WHAT?!' Rena and Tadashi yelled this at the same time.

'OK, calm down!' Interrupted Gogo fairly, holding her hands up as Rena rose to her feet. 'How about Hiro tells us what happened, and then we can decide whether or not he gets to live?'

She sat down with a thud and nodded. Hiro breathed a sigh of relief and re-positioned himself slightly, wincing. He then launched into an extensive account of the afternoon's events. He expected interruptions as he detailed how they had broke into the warehouse and the masked man had tried to attack them before they eventually did jump out the window, but no one said a word. He finished his story after a few minutes and there was no movement, everyone was taring at him in disbelief.

'Oh shit.' Stated Wasabi simply.

'Yeah. We need to apprehend him! He started the fire to steal my microbots! I know he did!'

'Apprehend him?' Gogo questioned incredulously, 'ok, we don't even know who he is, for start!'

'Hiro we want to help you,' Honey said gently, 'but there's no way we can apprehend this guy!'

'But what if we figure out who it is?' Fred said excitedly, jumping to his feet. 'I have a theory!' He strode confidently over to his book shelves and tossed various comic books and graphic novels over his shoulder. Rena caught one that was sent spinning through the air towards her face and looked at the front cover, confused. A generic comic-book super-villain stared back up at him.

'Freddie, I don't understand.' Honey lemon was holding her comic out at arms length, squinting at it. 'Are we supposed to be making a link here?'

'Yes! There's an obvious link!' Fred explained, exasperated at their clear lack of superhero knowledge. 'All of these villains are super rich guys in disguise! And we know a super rich guy, who also happens to be a bit of a dick!'

'Alistair Krei.' Rena blurted, understanding suddenly.

'Yes!' Fred was practically shivering from excitement at her revelation.

'Oh come on!' Scoffed Wasabi, tossing the book onto the floor.

'Yeah there's no way!' Said Tadashi, 'the guy's too high profile!'

'Yeah but that's the point!' Said Fred happily, 'no one is gonna expect big tough business man Krei!'

'No.' Tadashi argued firmly, shaking his head. 'There's no way I'll believe that.'

'No..' Rena said slowly, 'I think he's onto something. No really!' She added as Tadashi shook his head at her, 'Tadashi, you trust too easily. Remember at the showcase?'

'Oh shit, yeah!' Hiro piped up, 'he tried to steal my microbot! Jesus I'd forgotten about that!'

'And at Callaghan's vigil,' she noticed Tadashi wince at the mention of their dead professor but she ploughed on nevertheless. 'He dragged me off to the bridge, demanding to know if you were still working on your microbots. I told him no, and he looked really angry.'

'Okay then fine.' Said Tadashi, 'we'll take this information to the police again. They can open up an investigation and we can keep our noses out.'

Hiro started protesting, but Rena shut him up with a glare. 'They'll listen to Tadashi, he's not some scruffy little 14 year old kid.'

'The police are gonna do nothing!' Hiro retorted angrily.

'Yeah he's right. Superhero rule number 1, never go to the police.' Fred added, sitting back down on the floor again.

'Wait are you actually suggesting that we go after him ourselves?' Exploded Wasabi, 'Fred, do you have any idea how dangerous that is?!'

'Yeah and what if your foolproof theory is wrong?' Gogo asked him scathingly, 'then what, genius? You go and attack Krei for seemingly no reason?'

'She has a point.' Honey said gently, looking back at Hiro. 'We don't really know anything about him other than his creepy sense of style.'

'His blood type is O+.' Baymax said brightly, lifting a robotic finger into the air. 'His cholesterol levels are-'

'Baymax, you scanned him?!' Hiro yelped excitedly. He tried to jump to his feet but Rena pushed him back onto the sofa where he fell back with a badly disguised screech of pain.

'No.' She said quietly to him. 'Stop being so reckless.'

'But he stole my microbots! He almost killed Tadashi! The police won't do anything, we need to bring him to justice!' Hiro's eyes were ablaze and Rena sighed. There was no stopping him now, he was in action mode.

'Okay but to find him we're gonna need to scan the whole city, which will literally take forever!' Tadashi said in annoyance.

'I'll upgrade Baymax's sensors then.'

'Oh will you now?'

'Yeah! I will! In fact, all of us will need an upgrade if we're gonna catch this guy!'

'But we're nerds!' Exclaimed Wasabi in frustration.

'Well yeah, but we can be so much more than that!' Hiro said encouragingly. 'Come on guys, you don't even want revenge for the guy that turned your best friend into a cripple?'

'SHUT UP!' Yelled Tadashi angrily, and everyone turned to stare at him in shock. Hiro recoiled slightly under his angry glare. 'No! No one is doing this because of me! I'm not gonna watch anyone get hurt anymore! Especially you!' He added, jabbing his finger at Hiro who stared back at him in defiance.

'Says the guy who RAN INTO A BURNING BUILDING! I need your approval, and I'm doing this with or without your help. I don't care what you say, but that guy is gonna pay for what he did to you. And my microbots.'

Rena looked at him, hesitating. Then, before she could change her mind - 'fine. I'm in.'

'Me too!'

'And me!'

'So am I.'

'Yeah, let's give that guy a taste of his own medicine!'

Tadashi stared at them in disbelief, realising that he'd been overpowered. Finally, he slumped his shoulders in defeat and nodded. Fred jumped into the air, pumping his fist.

'You guys! Our origin story begins! We're gonna be SUPERHEROES!'