*WARNING: Super long author's note.*

Chapters have been re-written except for chapter one for I'm still fixing the pronouns, but I'll probably re-write the whole chapter altogether.

And just to clarify some things about Karmi: was

-She doesn't have any friends at SFIT, so it didn't say if she had any in her past.

- I head-canon that she's either fifteen (mostly) or at least is also fourteen but is a couple of weeks or months older than Hiro, since he's is now the youngest student to attend SFIT.

-She might had graduated the same way Hiro did, possibly meaning that he must had been a senior at age thirteen to fourteen. Or she was an actual high school just starting her freshman year, until someone scouted her and she had to graduate early to be able to attend SFIT.

-Another headcanon I also had (but got scrapped) is that she might of been a regular high school student who was also a running start kid. For those who don't know what that is or their school don't have the program. It's basically being a part-time college student taking their classes, and they help build your resume for future references and education background. Mind you, you are still a high school student, so if you failed a class at the college, you can be kick out of the program and then return attending the regular high school.

With that said, I scrapped it because based on my school system, only juniors and senior can do running start. Meaning that Karmi would have been a junior in high school, making herself technically older than Hiro when she looks more like a freshman or sophomore.

-Karmi must had at least one human friend, helping her get through some school problem at an early age... which is where I insert my OC...

- I went with a single parent because... why not.

Hiro sympathize with his aunt, but with the machine useless and can't be repair, it is what it is. Maybe he'll stick with the woman on her next shopping day for the perfect and long-lasting coffee machine.

He was gonna return to their apartment that is a floor above the Lucky Cat Cafe, But laughter disturb the silence.

The owner of the sound was from the short black haired girl by the window. Meanwhile Karmi was covering her face with her hands as she look down at their table. Whatever conversation was going on, this for some reason perk Hiro's interest. Eventually the no-name girl tone down her voice by muffling her voice with a hand over her mouth, but her shoulders shook with enjoyment.

Maybe because his academic rival is embarrassed about something, which resulting into a priceless reaction the boy couldn't pass up on.

He smile evilly as he made his way to the table closest to the window.

"So wait wait…" Michelle finally stopped herself, taking some quick breaths. "What you're saying is, Hiro could be your," She use both her pointer and middle finger to mimed "hero?"

"Hypothetically speaking…!" Karmi hiss at her best friend, putting her hands down. She can already see the people staring at them right now, practically drilling hole into her awkward being. Right now that's that least of her concern. "For all I know, it could be another guy in that gear."

"Another guy? As in this person happen to have this super power, and got a crazy rich genius to create the superhero gears to enhance and control his power?" The brunette just stare at her confused. "Y'know like Spider-Man." Michelle smile wide at the possible parallel between her favorite movie and their reality. As much as she want to ridicule her friend's weird reference, but given the circumstances, any theory is better than nothing.

"You're not wrong… but it's debunked. What other genius would help Hiro? Callaghan is in jail, Ms. Granville wouldn't particularly help him… and as must as I don't like admitting it, he's a genius that doesn't need to rely on some other geniuses." She begrudgingly let out the last reason to rebuttal.

"Guess that's true… you guys are at that smart school for a reason." She blew some air in disappointment. "But he's not alone. There's the other four with him, five if we're counting the huge red guy. Didn't you also said that those guys could be superheroes?"

"They're the other hypothesis." Another theory made by the artist that Karmi is willing to take. "They're not not my biggest problem either."

"So it is mainly that Hiro boy?" The brunette look down at the table, not wanting to meet two blue curious eyes. "Or could it possibly be your feelings if it is Hiro?" She quickly notice the shoulders tensed.

"So what are you gonna do when you find out who it is?"

Karmi look up to finally meet eyes that could practically read her emotions like an open book. She was speechless, unsure to even form sentences together in her mind. Would her feelings quickly dulled, or would she be seeing the small boy in a new light? She is honestly curious and scared to find out for that matter.

"I honestly don't know…" Solving how to take care of viruses, complicated math problems, and discovering the biology of human features is all she capable of doing, because she prepared for the unpredictable outcome of science. But discovery the psychology side of the human research is completely out of her specialty range. Maybe if she test this hypothesis out, maybe she'll learn more about her rivals… and maybe more about herself than she realize.

"Hey, you shouldn't sweat about it." Michelle got up from her seat to stand beside her troubled friend. Placing a hand on the biologist's shoulder and giving it a comforting squeeze. "How we just enjoy ourselves in this cafe with some drinks, and then we think of a plan to expose the small hero of Big Hero 6?"

Karmi nodded with a new found hope.

"Alright! Drinks is on me. Anything you want?"

"Just water." Before the artist left their spot. She turn with an all knowing smirk on her lips.

"That means you have to be a lot nicer to him."

Unbeknownst to the two girls. A boy with a dark blue hoodie, seating at a table annexed to theirs, is internally freaking out.