Disclaimer: Big Hero 6 is the property of Disney Animation. Please go watch Season 2; it has been an absolute blast so far.
Disclaimer #2: Blah blah blah spoilers blah blah blah don't read this blah blah.
Chapter 4 – Fishing For Info
"So did you at least take her home?"
"No, her dad took her in his police car. I barely got a chance to say goodbye."
"Aww, Hiro." Honey Lemon put her hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault. We were a little busy at the time, anyway."
The gang was back at SFIT the next morning, working at their own stations. Fred was nowhere to be found, but Hiro had a sneaking suspicion he was up in the rafters testing the invisibility on his new suit. Go Go had taken her new bike out for a test run, Wasabi was busy organizing his toolkit, and Hiro was...
Well...
"Hiro, are you sure you're OK?"
"Honey Lemon, I'm fine. Why do you ask?"
"...Because you've been hitting that ping-pong ball with the robot for ten minutes straight now."
Hiro had the paddle in his hand, his hits almost on automatic. The robot on the other side, having been programmed for this, was hitting everything back at him.
"I'm fine," he repeated, hitting the ball again. "You know, just normal old me doing normal old things like playing sports and whatnot."
Honey Lemon glanced over at Wasabi, who shook his head. "Yeah, I'm going to go with a no on that."
"Guys," Hiro said, shrugging his shoulders, "I'm fine. For the last time. Nothing's wrong with me."
The garage door to the lab open, and Go Go came back in with her bike. She threw it onto her hooks, taking her helmet off.
"How'd the ride go?" Wasabi asked.
"Pretty good. Could still use some tuning, though." She came over to his toolbox and grabbed a wrench, much to Wasabi's annoyance. "What's wrong with Hiro?"
The three turned toward their classmate, who was now hitting the ball with increasing ferocity.
"...Besides the usual?"
THWACK!
Hiro smacked the ball so hard it careened off the table and screamed past the paddle of the robot, breaking the glass window on the double doors behind it. After a moment of confusion, the robot lowered its arm, apparently sad it was beat.
"Would you like a hug?" Baymax walked over to his kin.
The ping-pong robot put its arm around Baymax's shoulder. He softly patted the elbow as he hugged it back. "There, there."
Hiro flipped the paddle onto the table, his energy now expended. He made his way over to Fred's chair and sighed deeply as he threw himself down.
"Gah!"
And immediately jumped back up, as his rear came in contact with something hidden.
"Only a Frederickson can be allowed to sit on the throne, young Hiro!" Fred yelled, his suit coming back into view on the chair. "Smoothie?"
"No thanks, Fred."
"Freddie, I could use one right now. Why don't you head down to the cafe and get some for all of us?"
"Excellent idea, Honey Lemon!" He jumped out of the chair and started walking backwards, his suit going out of their vision. "I'll even do it...invisssiibllyyy."
SMACK!
"Ow."
"Maybe look so you know where you're going, Fred."
The doors swung open and shut seemingly on their own, the footsteps of Fred continuing down the hallway.
"Hiro," Honey Lemon started as Hiro sat down in the chair, "It's OK to be sad. Things didn't work out. It happens."
"I'm not sad. I'm just...frustrated." He leaned back, wanting to disappear in the cushions. "I wanted to just be normal for a change, but I can't do it. I'm not good at it."
Wasabi and Honey Lemon exchanged a glance between them, wondering what to say to him...and then suddenly got pushed apart by Go Go.
"Oh, for the love of-"
She walked over to him and bent down. "Hiro, you are normal...to us. Stop trying to be something you're not. Especially if you're doing it for the wrong reasons. This Megan girl.."
She wheeled around to Wasabi and Honey Lemon to point a finger at them. "By the way, thanks for not telling me about her."
She turned back toward Hiro, her mood back to normal. "She wants you to be a 'normal' fourteen year-old. Normal for her is different than you. You live in two different worlds. It didn't work out. Get over it."
"No offense, Go Go, but when was the last time you tried to do something normal outside of this for a change?"
The Korean straightened up, staring at him oddly. After a moment, she spoke up again.
"I went out to dinner a few nights ago."
"Really?" Hiro turned to Honey Lemon, who was attempting to hold in some sort of happiness outburst. "Where did the two of you go?"
"It...wasn't with Honey Lemon."
Hiro was confused now. "So who was it with?"
"Look," Go Go said, ignoring his question. "The point that I'm trying to make is that you're you. Don't try to change yourself. We like you for who you are. We don't care that you didn't go to a dance when you were younger, or you graduated high school at thirteen. If this Megan girl can't accept you for who you are...then it's not worth it."
"It's not her fault. She was just trying to help me out."
Go Go scratched her forehead. "Or maybe she thought she was." Seeing Hiro's frown, she sat down on the arm of the chair. "Hiro, I'm sure she meant well, but if she really wanted to help, she'd try to take things a little slower."
"Yeah." He set his chin down on his hands. "Maybe you're right."
"This calls for a smoothie break!"
This time, four "Gah!"s rang out as Fred reappeared, his tail stretching down from the ceiling, carrying a tray of glasses in his hand.
"You really need to work on your entrances, Fred," Wasabi said as he grabbed a drink.
"You mean they're not mysterious enough? I know, right? I should learn to pop in with more pizzazz!"
"So," Hiro looked up at Go Go. "Are you going to tell me who you went out with?"
"I can tell you, Hiro!"
Go Go's head snapped onto her roommate. "Honey Lemon, you signed the contract, remember?"
"Aww."
Wasabi glanced between the two of them, now concerned. "Wait, what contract?"
Ignoring Wasabi, Go Go looked down at Hiro, who was giving her puppy-dog eyes.
And then she got an idea.
"Fred, be a good chameleon-whatever and get me those paddles over there."
"Coming right up, Go Go!" Fred stuck out the tongue in his costume's mouth and grabbed two ping-pong paddles, reeling them in to the group.
"Thanks." In one fell swoop, she grabbed them with one hand and the tongue with the other, pulling it toward her. Letting go, Fred careened off into the ceiling, disappearing from sight.
"...Ow..."
Not his voice, though.
"Why don't we do this?" Go Go offered a paddle to Hiro. "You win, best of eleven...I'll tell you who I went with."
The teen genius smiled, grabbing it from her. "It's a deal."
Megan grabbed the ball off the bounce, tossing it to her mini-basketball hoop above her door. It went right through in a swish, hit the door, and bounced right back to her open hand.
Her dad, the new chief of San Fransokyo, was off looking for the culprits that wrecked the school's gymnasium. She was currently in her room, being bored from the day off of school.
Due to the...wrecked...gymnasium.
She turned over in her bed, the ball falling to the floor. Maybe the Internet could help cure her boredom for a little bit.
Megan logged into her laptop, her mind going over the past day. Big Hero 6 had shown up to save them from those weird electric fish-people, and that was awesome. She got to dance with Hiro, which was awesome.
And then her dad took her home in a huff. Which was not awesome.
She looked at her screen, starting to scroll through random pages. Hiro was certainly an...odd person. Guess that was a given when you were a fourteen-year-old genius. Everything she had tried to do with him ended either in failure or him running off to do school work.
"Once you go genius, I guess you can never go back," she said to herself.
A new e-mail notification popped up, and Megan tapped on the envelope icon.
"Sweet! She uploaded a new story!"
She followed the link inside, taking some time to take part in some sappy literature. After finishing it, she giggled to herself.
"I totally get it! A Shot At Love? You're a genius!"
Megan quickly began to type out a review to send. After a couple of minutes, she sent it off:
This is so great! I wish that I could write as good as you do. I got my first taste of Big Hero 6 for real after moving here a bit ago, and it was awesome! Your stories are always fantastic! Can't wait for the next one!
She got up from her bed and walked over to her desk to grab her charging phone. By the time she got back over to her computer, she had a new PM notice on the website. Curious, she clicked on it.
I think you're the fastest person every to comment on one of my stories! Are you stalking me or something? LOL JK. Thanks for the review! I was at my internship and got a...burst of inspiration. Mostly because Big Hero 6 showed up and CAPTAIN CUTIE WAS THERE OMG! IT WAS SO AWESOME!
Megan could feel the yelling coming through the computer screen. Chuckling softly, she started to type again:
Yeah, they're all pretty cool. I saw one of them turn invisible, which was great. But don't worry, I won't take your "Captain Cutie" away from you. I remember when you wrote "Up In The Air" and you went on that blimp with him. It sounded amazing.
She paused for a moment, and then continued on.
My dad just got a new job here, and he HATES Big Hero 6. I try to tell him that they're good for the city, but he never listens. Parents, I guess.
She sent that off as well. This was nice, having someone to talk to about normal things, not college level math or robots or study groups. Just...normal girl stuff.
WHAAAATT? SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR DAD! SERIOUSLY!
Megan laughed at her all-caps response as she answered.
Yeah, he's definitely a stick in the mud. But he's my dad, so I have to live with it.
She stopped again, wondering whether she wanted to add something else.
"Oh, why not?"
I'm Megan, by the way. Like I said in the review, I just moved to San Fransokyo. Maybe you can show me around the city sometime...and we can talk about Big Hero 6 some more.
She hit Enter, almost immediately regretting it. It seemed like a creeper thing to do, but hey. She took a shot. She would completely understand if the author declined.
The sound of two new messages one right after the other filled her ears, and she looked at her screen. The first:
Well, with a screen name like "ChiefM'Gann", I sure HOPE your name is Megan.
"Hehehe."
The second?
I'm Karmi. Nice to meet you!
AUTHOR'S NOTE: JASON Y U DO DIS?
...Will probably be the response I get from people.
And my answer?
Because I'm evil.
No, the actual reason is I have a suspicion that we haven't seen the last of Megan in the show. We'll more than likely see the Chief again, because of the hate towards Big Hero 6. But Megan? Who knows?
I'm torn on Megan, actually. I didn't want to straight bash her in this story, but it does appear that based off the episode, she's really not that interested in him. Maybe hanging out with him, but not him. It's also unfortunate that this came out right after "Prey Date", where we had actually character development between Hiro and Karmi (if only for two minutes).
But would it not be hilarious if Karmi and Megan were able to come together through the power of fanfiction?
Imagine that…Hiro.
"Nega-Globby" is the last episode of the week, and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I also will probably be forced to put Part-Time on hiatus for a bit, at least until these new episodes end. We'll see what happens.
Read and review, if you like. Until tomorrow.
