AN: My apologies for the shortness of these first couple of chapters... I don't have much free time to write. But I am so exciting to be writing something new after an 8 year hiatus!

I will also confess, I am one of those fans who love the characters for how they had been portrayed in the movie. The more I study these guys from the movie, the more I love Disney's adaptation from the original comic book characters (never really read the comic - just what the wikis have said about them). Lots of unspoken details are there about the team that would be missed if one doesn't know! (like how movie GoGo is also a Korean!)

The tenets I refer to are the five common in Tae Kwon Do, but I am also drawing from other martial art philosophies common in many action movies too. Enjoy!

Chapter 2

"Possess the Right Thinking…"

Much to Aunt Cass's relief, everything appeared to be running smoothly as they walked into her cafe. There was a couple finishing up by the front, and another man sitting with his tablet by the window side. The other four lab friends were situated closer to the front counter. Wasabi was behind it, by the cash register, and Honey Lemon was talking casually with another patron on her way out.

"I can't tell you enough how much I appreciated this. As soon as everyone is out, I'll make it up to ya!" Aunt Cass sincerely thanked them, before walking to the front to turn off the closed sign, hoping no others still come in.

"Hey, hey!" Fred stood up from the small table he was sitting at, "The Big Hero is in da house!" He gave Hiro a big congratulating slap on the back, nearly knocking him over. The mascot had joked earlier how much the younger Hamada's name sounded like 'hero', and decided that's what they could call themselves.

"Yeah, thanks," Hiro suddenly became a little wary of the looks he was getting from the other customers now. But that could be from how Fred was acting.

"Yep... Hero, like short for superhero, that's the best I could come up with," Fred added, whispering closer to Hiro's ear. "We were the Hero 6!" Fred gave him a thumbs-up with a wink.

"You just lucked out," GoGo added, stepping up to 'save' him from Fred. She could sense Hiro still wasn't in the talking mood. "Everything with the cops go okay?"

Hiro slid onto the bar stool by the counter and the wall, next to the cash register. "Yeah, they just had questions about the microbots."

"That's it?" Wasabi shook his head. "I would think they should have at least gave us medals... Man."

"Oh.. now that's too bad," Aunt Cass nodded, also realizing that no one gave them any kudos.

"We decided to stay low, away from the media," Gogo lowered her voice to explain exactly why to Aunt Cass.

"Whatever happened downtown... that was some crazy stuff!" The couple commented to Aunt Cass, as their response to the newsflash on the TV about Krei Tech on the news.

"It was.. we were there, frontcand center!" Fred sauntered over to them, boasting rather proudly.

"Wow, awesome, guys!" he man of the couple nodded before they headed out.

"Fred!" GoGo grabbed his shirt after the other people left. "What are you doing? You told us to not reveal ourselves!"

"Oh yeah... my bad," he laughed nervously, shrinking a little under her glare.

"Idiot," she let him go, muttering further obscenities under her breath.

"Hopefully they weren't anyone we should worry about," Honey Lemon tried to reassure her and the others.

Aunt Cass locked the cafe doors then turned back toward the others. "Let's call it an early night here. You are all very much welcome to stay for dinner. You guys deserve something especially good. I can throw together some things upstairs and make a party out of it." She went behind the pastry counter to pull the trays out to take upstairs. Of course, not without taking a couple bites from an apple turnover first. "Can make some udon soup, maybe teriyaki chicken, oh, I think there's some shrimp, crab cake, avocado, and frozen red snapper to make sushimaki..."

"Oh here, Ms. Cass, let me help you with those," Honey Lemon gracefully took a tray from her as they went upstairs.

"Food!"

"Did she say sushimaki?"

The last time all of them were visiting at Hiro's house apartment, it wasn't exactly on very good terms. This time, the mood was much more festive and relaxed, and they needed that. They had sat on the floor and the couch around the coffee table to best accommodate everyone. Various topics of discussion ranged from humorous instruction on how to eat with chopsticks to the best ways to slice and eat raw fish. Turns out Wasabi was quite the expert.

Aunt Cass finally had to ask what their real names were again, only because she felt awkward addressing by their nicknames in certain company. While Wasabi and Honey Lemon's nicknames made sense, GoGo's back story came as a surprise. Not only was she an orphaned Korean, but she also had a history of street racing. Then to avoid delving too much into that, GoGo pressured Fred as to why he didn't have a nickname. This conversation in turn prompted Aunt Cass to wonder how the whole superhero idea came into existence. There was a little bit of hesitation after that question, the others pretty much looking to Fred again.

"It was not obvious?" Fred smiled as he began his explanation for Aunt Cass. "The idea came up after we began to wonder about who had taken Hiro's microbots. You see, this dude was not just bad, he was twisted," he spoke with his hands, tensing his fingers to stress his point. "Super hero villain bad. He totally wanted to kill us!"

"Almost... that's the part I don't understand about Callaghan," Hiro jumped in, hoping what Fred said hadn't alarmed her to much, "I mean, just how he went from being totally supportive for his school, to just having no regard for anyone, for you guys… after everything he was known for..."

"Yeah, I really did not see that coming," Wasabi shook his head.

"I told you, it was because we saw too much!" Fred reminded them.

"Could there be someone else involved?" GoGo looked at the boys. She sat on the other side of the table, on the floor across from the couch.

"I started wondering the same," Hiro rubbed his neck in thought. "Could explain the suspicion that detective had about my microbots." The more he thought about it, the whole thing about the series of events from that night seemed suspicious.

"Maybe you should just let the police handle this, now that they have seen the damage that was done?" Aunt Cass tried to not sound like an overbearing chaperone at this point, but her uneasiness about this new revelation did not sit well with her. She did want to know all the details about this at some point, however. Hiro's friends were, hopefully, responsible young adults, so she reminded herself to not nag them. Hopefully later she can get Hiro to tell her more.

"We were thankful to have Baymax keeping us safe," Honey Lemon acknowledged Aunt Cass's uneasiness by patting her shoulder. She added further explanation to help clarify some of the discussion. "Professor Callaghan apparently was also involved with some top secret military experiments. I guess that added involvement might have been too much stress for him."

"I mean, seriously... Callaghan somehow got the whole Super Villain thing down pat. The mask, the super tech, the nightmare inducing aurora-" Fred started his theory again.

"You could be right. No way could Callaghan not have just thought up everything that night of the Expo. The way he was talking at the abandoned research lab, it sounded like he knew about your microbots before you presented them," GoGo looked over to Hiro.

"The way he also was talking about Krei that night of the explosion made me wonder just why he didn't like him," Hiro agreed.

"Y'know, I'm not really supposed tell just anyone this, but with you guys, I'm sure my Dad would understand." Fred leaned forward, rubbing his hands. "I also have connections, with SHIELD. Yeah!"

"SHIELD?" They didn't get it.

"Yes, SHIELD. It's an intelligence agency that takes on special cases like this. It's an acronym that stands for Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division."

"Okay... Sounds official enough," GoGo still sounded dubious. She knew all to well now that he had that tendency to exaggerate the extent of his knowledge to persuade them.

"They could give the authorities here a heads up, so that we could help out!" Fred proposed hopefully.

"Really? Wow..."

"Okay, I think we first need some more training before pursuing anything remotely dangerous," Wasabi openly admitted. After all, they didn't fight like the superheroes they had hoped to be against Callaghan.

Normally, Hiro would not back down from a challenge, but this time he also had to agree it was too soon. "And I don't have Baymax," he sat back on the couch.

"But we have seen what you are capable of, Hiro. Can't you rebuild him?" GoGo asked.

"Maybe... but without his programming, I doubt he would be the same," Hiro countered.

"He doesn't have a back-up somewhere?" Wasabi wondered. "Man, I'm practically making three back-ups of anything I do, because you never know!"

"Well, I mean that Tadashi used behavior-based AI in Baymax. He was practically learning and building new updates to his knowledge base so that the next time an event occurs, he gets better at responding to it."

"Yeah, I started to notice that too," Wasabi nodded.

"That's what made him so great!" Fred smirked. "I had to keep reminding myself he was a robot."

"So all your upgrades on Baymax will be lost?" Lemon Honey confirmed.

"At least this time, you know how to do it. Just doing it all over again won't be that long, right?" Fred wondered.

"Yeah, but… it still won't be the same," Hiro looked down, then finally decided to say it. "It's not the Baymax that Tadashi made."

"I'm sorry about that, Hiro," Honey Lemon empathized.

"But didn't you say you had taken karate?" Fred still had to ask.

Hiro just pressed the palms into his forehead as his response to that question. He didn't want to say anything, but his head was also starting to hurt, most likely from the tension.

Wasabi sitting on the floor next to the couch, prodded Fred's leg as a subtle queue to "let it go" for tonight. He also noticed how late it was getting. "Wow, don't know about the rest of you, but after a hard day's fight, I can barely move!"

"Me too," Honey Lemon agreed.

Aunt Cass took the motion to wish them well. "Thank you again for, well, everything! I mean it."

Wasabi managed to get his stiff legs moving enough so he could stand up and help with some clean-up. "Likewise, Ms. Cass. You sure know how to cook!"

With the others distracted in clean-up and more small talk, Hiro decided to slip away upstairs to his room for a break.

Aunt Cass looked up that way briefly. She noticed to looks of concern from Gogo and Honey Lemon too. "It's been one heckuva big day," she sighed.

"Can't argue with you on that," Honey Lemon agreed, giving Aunt Cass a quick hug. "Are you doing better, Ms. Cass?"

"I think so," she smiled at the two girls. "I admire your strength too, which is a good thing to have, I suppose."

Fred and Wasabi announced that they were ready to head out, but GoGo told them to wait a few minutes. She smoothly jogged up the stairs, only pausing briefly at the top.

"Hey," she said with her tough girl tone, standing at the top of the stairs with one hand leaning against the wall there. A lone desk lamp illuminated an otherwise large, dark attic bedroom.

Hiro had turned around from his desk area with a start. Since he had just changed his clothes a couple minutes ago, her unexpected presence left him feeling more on edge.

"You forgot to say goodbye," GoGo took a couple steps closer, pausing to rest a hand on her hip.

"Uh, yeah... Sorry," Hiro ran a hand though his hair in thought. His eyes darted back down to the floor to avoid hers.

GoGo then softened, lowering her voice to let on that she was just teasing him. "Hey, I just want to apologize if we said anything upsetting."

"S'okay," he sat down on his computer chair sideways and straddled his arm over the back rest. He was starting to realize how uncomfortable her presence was making him feel, and became very self-conscious about himself around her.

The speedster moved in closer and sat on his bed to be on the same level with him. "You sure?"

Hiro looked at GoGo long enough to make eye contact before he shifted his focus again, "Maybe. Just got a lot of stuff to figure out."

Her intense gaze was still on him. Hiro tried to make eye contact with her again, noticing more now how she did look more worried. But worried about him? Why?

"This is not like you, Hiro, " GoGo leveled with him. "I still believe you can rebuilt Baymax."

"I know… I just…" he gave up trying to explain his feeling. That the last real connection he had with Tadashi was through his Baymax. But now the robot was also gone, just so that the man who caused the fire that killed Tadashi, could have his daughter back alive.

"Okay, I think I get it," GoGo started slowly, with emphasis. "Yes, Tadashi built him. He put all his hard work, all his dreams, and his best intentions into that robotic design, and nothing can replace that."

Hiro turned in his chair to face her. He knew all too well of that fact as the last part of Baymax's video resurfaced in his mind again.

"Today was just a setback, but don't let that stop you. Baymax is not really out of the game. 'Cause you know what? It was really never Tadashi's plan to make only one Baymax." GoGo gripped his shoulders in reassurance, "I bet your brother would be honored if you took on his Baymax project, and 'did more' with it!"

This time Hiro was able to keep his eyes steady on hers, a small smile of inspiration creeping across his face. He only glanced behind her for a moment to Tadashi's side of the room when her words had clicked. A couple days after the funeral, they had brought over much of Tadashi's documents and research, along with Baymax in suitcase form, to store in that side of the room. In his denial, he really didn't want to think about that and what it represented then. It had been all too much to take in then.

"Okay?"

He nodded, blinking his eyes. He took a deep breath, trying to shake the wave of emotion that just hit him.

GoGo sat back, satisfied. "The lab's waiting."

"Okay... for Tadashi," Hiro was barely audible.

"You're not the only one who misses him, y'know." Then with a smug grin, GoGo held out a fist.

Hiro looked at her once in apparent disbelief, and then at the fist.

"C'mon! You know you wanna!" GoGo teased, only to catch him into a quick hug.

"He's okay. Let's go," GoGo announced matter of factly as she went down the stairs.

"Awesome!" Fred cheered.

Hiro followed after a few steps behind, then paused on the star landing. "Yeah, good night, guys. I guess I'll see you... Monday?"

"Great! We'll see you too, Hiro!" Honey Lemon stepped up to give him a quick hug.

As they headed out, Aunt Cass make sure to stop GoGo briefly, "Thanks," she smiled sincerely.

"Anytime," GoGo smiled, before stepping outside.

"What did you talk about?" Honey Lemon asked her a little more quietly as they walked toward the sidewalk, where Fred's butler was waiting with the car.