A/N: Shout out to DestinyWing for giving me so many ideas and being awesome! You go dude!
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"It didn't work, Baymax. Got any other ideas?" The young boy stated as he continued to wipe the liquid off his eyes.
"What's happening to you, Hiro?" Honey shouted out of worry as she approached him and knelt beside him to take a closer look.
Despite the tears that continued to flow, he gave her a smile obviously forced, "I started crying a while ago, but now it won't stop."
Gogo also got closer to see what was happening to the little guys. His blue jacket sleeves were already soaked with the cyan liquid that was flowing from his eyes, puddles of it too started to appear under him.
"You're actually crying out phosphor. How is that possible?" She stated in disbelief.
Hiro answered while he continued to wipe it off his eyes, "You'll be surprised what injecting chemicals could do to a person. Next thing you know you're eyes change color and your tears glow in the dark. I've been crying phosphor since I was six so it's not really new. Although I never get used to the headaches it brings me though, at one point I even started to feel nauseous. But don't worry I'm better."
They knew the young boy was trying to put them at ease, to show them that there was nothing to worry about, but the change of color in his tears, eyes and skin said otherwise. He was getting paler and the shades of his eyes kept on changing every second. It didn't help that he was talking about being experimented -at a young age no less- as if it was some kind of joke.
"C'mon, Hiro," Tadashi approached him and held him by the shoulder, "I'm sorry. Please don't cry anymore. It was stupid of me to shout."
Hiro chuckled, which wasn't convincing because he was still crying. "It is, Tadashi. Very stupid. Now it's not the best day of my life because I cried. But I already told you that it's okay. I'm over it."
"Then stop crying," he said guiltily.
"I would if I could. This is also normal when I cry. I can't stop, it just usually dries out. I cried long enough a lot of times to know that in the least." He tried to make it sound something light and funny, but it came out more hurt than he would expect, even he felt sorry for himself. He saw how everyone's face scrunched up in pity and horror so he tried his best to take it back. "Ah, I was kidding, I was joking. It's not that way at all. I-I'm completely fine-"
But he was stopped when he pulled in a hug; he was more surprised to see that it came from Tadashi.
"What are you doing? I don't like hugs." the young ravenette said softly, but he didn't push him away. He never found comfort in human touch. But it was different when he got out of that box, when he was in Tadashi's arms, when he and Honey were comforting him, when he was on Tadashi's back, when he woke up in Honey's embrace. It was different, but he doesn't know if it's a good different or a bad different.
"Want to talk about it?"
"No. I told you, I'm fine."
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The fujitas were doing their day job, selling tacos in a food truck. It was around lunch so they were pretty busy, but they swept through their customers as fast they escaped the Big Hero 6 on their high speed chase. Too bad they couldn't bring the package with them.
Service just ended and the three of them were resting inside the closed up truck.
Aoi, the one in a blue shirt, the average height of them all, sat in front, tapping the driver's wheel impatiently. Momoi, the one in pink, the short curvaceous woman out of the three, just sat and played with her hair. Midori, the one in green, the tallest and slimmest, was cleaning up.
They were almost unrecognizable with their hair not tied into traditional Japanese styles and with them out of their modernized kimono. They looked exactly like three innocent hard working girls. But they weren't, and everyone who was fooled paid for it.
"We need to find that stupid invention." Scowled Aoi, "Yokai will have our heads if we don't get it to him, ASAP."
Momoi just blew on her hair before she answered, "And where do we start looking? Not even Krei Tech has found that cursed thing, plus we don't know what it is."
"I don't think it's a 'thing' though." Midori suddenly stated. The other two girls turned to her, surprised.
"Did you check what was inside even if Yokai said strictly ordered not to?" The one in pink asked half impressed half terrified.
"I tried to." Midori corrected. "Of course I won't allow us to be the type who follows blindly. I had to check out what it was. So while you two were shaking off that Yellow Rider, I tried to sneak a peek. But that pink girl just had to set us on fire." She hissed at the memory of the explosion. "When we were hit, I heard a yelp coming from inside the box."
The one in blue got silent for a moment and thought. An actual human as an 'invention?' What could that mean? What was it capable of? It must be very important to have Yokai keep it a secret from them.
They had to confront him.
"Ey. Taco Ladies." The three of them turned to a blonde guy in a bonnet, one of their regulars, who was jumping gleefully like a kid. "The usual, but for six."
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Like Hiro said, his tears did dry up eventually and his eyes even turned back to its normal brown state, but not soon enough for the team to continue with their plan. They always ate out for lunch at a nearby American Bistro and they wanted to bring the young kid. Due to the fact that they can't bring a kid with clothes soaked in glow in the dark cyan phosphor out in public, they just asked Fred to buy them food. Now they were waiting for the male blonde to arrive while they worked on their projects.
They weren't working so well though. They had their minds still wrapped around Hiro. They were a little disappointed - more than a little disappointed- that he didn't want to talk. He just walked away and towards Baymax who he ordered to sit in one corner just for him to lay down on. He was comfortably snuggled in between the marshmallow robot's legs as he tried to make a conversation with him. Luckily for Hiro, Baymax was smart and Tadashi programmed him to comfort people - talking was always one of them.
"May I ask you a few questions for my patient's records?"
Hiro just buried himself in Baymax's soft outer lining and agreed. "Throw it at me buddy."
Tadashi was listening in. The questions were just the basics; name, age, date of birth, gender, orientation. Things that you could find in a bio sheet. So the older Ravenette stopped listening a while after and concentrated on improving that codes in his computer.
It was a moment of pure since with only zaps and clangs from tools, boiling from chemicals and typing from keyboards that could be heard.
"Fredzilla's back with food!" The blonde shouted as he bursted in the lab door and waved the paper bags of Mexican food in the air. Everyone approached him and grabbed their share. Hiro watched wondering if he had a share. He got his answer when Tadashi threw one at him. He yelped when he felt that it was hot, too hot.
"Oh sorry!" Tadashi immediately regretted it. He knelt down and gave attention to the not-so burned hand of Hiro.
The young ravenette stared at him with a raised brow, "Really? You made me cry once and now you're all soft on me?"
The older one was caught red handed, "Well, it's just that I really feel bad and I'm really sorry and-"
"I know, Tadashi. You said sorry so many times a while ago, and I accepted all of them already. Now go back to being a nerd. No need to baby me." Hiro said as he took a bite off the taco, only remembering that it was too hot when he felt his tongue burn.
Tadashi just stared at him surprised when he yelped in pain inflicted upon him by the Mexican food, and then he just exploded with laughter - which was totally weird because he was just called a nerd by a kid younger than him who was also suffering a burn in the tongue. The young ravenette glared at him as he fanned his mouth, not saying a word. He knew what he said, he knew he wanted Tadashi to go back to his usual self, but for the transition to happen that quickly, it annoyed him.
The older boy gave him a smoothie, and with no second thought Hiro drank it down, saving his taste buds from being unable to taste again. Tadashi laughed even more.
"'No need to baby me,' said the baby." he teased with a smirk.
"I miss the guilty you already." the younger ravenette could only shake his head.
The team was happy to see that the two boys were good again.
They continued to eat with a light atmosphere.
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The blue fujita stomped back and forth in their hide out as she tried to reach their 'client.' She was never really the patient one.
Finally the other end picked up. "What?!" It boomed with a monster like sound, obviously someone using a voice changer to hide his identity. "I'm working. This better be important."
"Very important, Yokai. We seriously can't believe you expect us to find an invention without knowing what it is!" she shouted between gritted teeth, emphasizing some points so she could get information out of him.
"You wouldn't have to worry about that if you just did your job properly!" The other side snapped back. Aoi was losing her patience.
"Look here, you jerk! If you want us to find him, you better spill some information or else we'll cut off this deal. Go ahead and find another team of super skilled villains to retrieve your experiment! See if we care."
It was silent on the other side. Momoi and Midori stared at their leader, feeling nervous. She just actually shouted at the Yokai, though not as well-known when it came to causing crime, he was still as intimidating, maybe even more with his shadow powers. Aoi started to feel a little scared too because it was very silent on the other line.
She flinched when he heard a chuckle, "Fine. You win. I admit I need your help," she started to feel relieved; "I'm not that arrogant to deny it."
The call was cut. She was confused as to why he hung up. Then she received number of files, flashing through her phone screen non-stop. Records and pictures and even videos she has never seen before. Her two associates also took a look and they were speechless as well.
"Experiment TK121."
"Chemicals injected and -static sounds- in blood stream greatly effects-"
"Test subjects escaped leaving one."
"Test subject #40137 left."
"Only successful result."
"Power capacity unknown."
"Mental ability unknown."
"Reach unknown."
The files stopped with a photo, and the three women just smirked.
"What a cutie." Momoi commented as she cooed the photo.
"This boy is the most dangerous invention in San Fransokyo?" Midori seemed unimpressed.
Aoi just kept quiet as she memorized the features; messy black hair, thin frame, pale skin, brown eyes. Height is five feet, weight is 110 pounds. Wearing a blue hoodie, with a red and white long sleeved under shirt, six pocket shirts under and an ordinary pair of sneakers. Name: Hiro.
They knew what their target finally looked like and they were ready to search every part of the city to find him.
A new message then popped out, it was from Yokai.
"I guess that much information is sufficient, right? Now, if you still fail to get him back, I will make sure to have your heads."
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The day passed smoothly despite the rough start. After lunch, Tadashi had five classes straight, giving him no time to check on the little guy, but according to the texts his gang sent him, he was doing okay. Hiro was very comfortable with the healthcare companion's company. Turns out Baymax was still asking him questions for the patient record, but one text caught his attention.
It was from Gogo. She said that Hiro waited for her to leave before they continued with the answer and question portion. Tadashi didn't think of it much; maybe Baymax was at the embarrassing part of the record - like when he hit puberty, how he handled it etc. He really didn't know why he added that there, but more questions the merrier he guessed.
He had no classes left and he figured that it was about time to take Hiro home. He must be tired of the lab by then. He had to make another excuse for Aunt Cass too. He never did get to ask Hiro about his parents, and he didn't plan to do so anytime that day. They already struck one wrong chord; he didn't plan to do so again.
"Time to go buddy." Tadashi announced as he entered the lab. Hiro and Baymax were still at the same place and still talking.
"Aren't we going to wait for the others?" the kid asked, standing up and stretching his limbs.
"They have late classes."
"Oh. Where are we going then?"
"Duh, home. Where else should we go?"
Hiro grinned and started to pull something out of his jacket. It was Megabot and its controller. "How about Bot-fighting?"
Tadashi crossed his arms and glared at him. "Hiro, we talked about this, no means no."
"Aww c'mon! Just let me try!" the younger one whined, puffing his cheeks.
The older ravenette just shook his head and grabbed Hiro by the arm as he started to drag him away. "We're going home, that's final. Baymax, we're satisfied with our ca-"
"What are you doing?!"
Tadashi was surprised to have two small hands over his mouth. Hiro was on tiptoes trying his best to stop the older raven hair from speaking. Curse him for being tall, curse himself for being not-so-tall - you'll never catch him admitting that he's short.
"You're not deactivating him." Hiro stated sternly.
Tadashi tried his best to pry the younger one's hands off his, which was hard because -wow- he had strength a normal fourteen shouldn't exert just to keep one guy quite, he was keeping him from breathing for goodness sake! He was so relieved when Hiro decided to let him speak. I big puff of air finally entering his lungs. If he didn't know any better, he'd think that the little guy was trying to kill him.
"What the hell, Hiro?"
"You are not deactivating him." He repeated.
"But we can't fit in my mope if we don't put him back in his station."
"I don't care. You are not deactivating him."
"How do you plan to go home then?"
"I don't know. Take a bus? WALK?"
Tadashi stared at him in disbelief. "Are you serious?" He thought that maybe the boy was kidding, that he was just pulling his leg, but to the older's surprised, he didn't budge. Hiro even raised a brow as if he was saying, 'try me.' He sighed, knowing that there was no winning against the younger ravenette.
"Fine. I'll just ask Gogo to bring back my mope for me." He grunted and left the keys on her table with a note along with it.
Hiro cheered and approached Baymax, telling him the good news.
"Good for you, buddy. You're not gonna be trapped in that small station now. Aren't you happy?"
"Hiro, no need for you to exert that much effort for me."
The young boy just shrugged, "Saying 'thanks' is much easier, don't you think Baymax?"
Baymax tilted his head, "Thank you." He said, and for a moment, Tadashi thought he heard sincerity in the robot's voice. He turned his attention to them to see the two of them talking so casual -as casual talking to a robot could get and more.
"You're welcome, bud. Fist bump." Hiro raised his fist. The older ravenette was about to say that his project wasn't program to know what that is but-
"Bahalalala," Baymax actually did it.
Did Tadashi ever program Baymax to do that? He couldn't remember. Did Hiro teach him that? Was Baymax a learning bot? It was only then when Tadashi realized that he didn't know his own invention as much as he thought he did.
They took the bus back for quarter the way and walked the remaining distance. Tadashi noticed that Hiro was very talkative, but directed more to Baymax rather than to him. The young boy and the marshmallow bot would usually argue about having weapons installed in him and about how it won't help improve Baymax's skill as a healthcare companion, sometimes Baymax would comment on Hiro's health, like how he's too thin, too small for his age. Tadashi would laugh and the kid would scowl at both of his companions.
"Don't laugh at me!" Hiro shouted as he slapped Tadashi's arm.
"I'm sorry." he said, but the laughter continued.
The young ravenette grumbled, crossed his arms and walked ahead. He was still a kid after all, easily teased, couldn't take a joke. Tadashi could only shake his head in amusement.
He was about to follow, but in one swift a shadow took Hiro and pulled him inside an alley. Tadashi reacted immediately and ran after them, shouting orders at the healthcare companion, "Baymax, inform the team of our location. Say that we are in need of assistance, ASAP!"
"Understood Tadashi."
When the older male entered the dark alleyway, he could make out a very familiar shadow that of the pink fujita, he could also see that Hiro was trying his best to escape her grip around his body.
""Hey there, cutie." Momoi cooed, he just tried to push her away.
"What the hell do you think are you doing?!"
The woman just grinned.
"We're bringing you back to your master, of course. Yokai misses you."
Hiro paled at the mention of the name.
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Stuff just got real! Is it too fast or too slow? I can't tell cause I just enjoy making those Tadashi and Hiro feat. Baymax brotherly moments. Ah, I hope it's always like that, but alas, bad things are going to happen. Oh well.
Reply to Reviews:
RazzlePazzleDooDot - *sings with you* eey. Thank you for reading ;3 Hahaha it's funny because I based that scene on a fan art where Hiro seemes to be an angel with Cyan eyes and Microbot wings. It was awesome.
GuitarGeek- I agree with you! I wonder if he does know. Thank you for reviewing!
Lea Valdez - Aww well. Popped up in my chaotic mind /shot. Thank you so much. I agree with you on the Tadashi snapping part. I enjoyed writing that. I figured because he didn't have Hiro to grow up with, he won't be as patient as we thought he would be.
DestinyWing - Bless you for that information. Bless you for that review. Bless you for reviewing. Bless you.
PikaNerd6 - Aww please, you're flattering me. I'm so glad you like it.
Skittles82 - You people are so kind. I'm so glad you like it too! You should really post it, you won't lose anything if you try. That's what I always do xD
NobodyKnows2245 - I might consider a part of your suggestion because I've been planning something like that too. Thank you so much!