Mechanical wings were sticking out of Hiro's back with the coat of dark silver and the highlight of cyan at the edges. It reminded Tadashi of a steampunk angel and he didn't know how to react.
Hiro faced him as shocked, as confused, as worried, as - terrified? Were they both terrified in each other's presence? Surely the older ravenette couldn't find the courage to move from his place while the younger one slowly backed away from him.
It was only when Hiro tripped on Midori's spear when Tadashi saw the cyan liquid coming from Hiro's chest.
He had a cut, and instead of blood, it was phosphor. The older was speechless.
Such a scene was so hard to comprehend at first sight. The next thing you'll notice after the young boy was the unmoving bodies of the Fujitas around him -hopefully they weren't dead- and then you'll notice the wires slithering towards him like a snake, like he was their king viper, like he was the flute player.
Every piece of technology wavered around them, everything seemed to come alive. The lights were bright as it could be, the vehicles around them roared with power, even Tadashi's suit was acting strange in the most high tech and advanced way it could.
"Baymax," he called to check if his healthcare companion was affected too, and with the absence of answer, it definitely was.
It was like every piece of technology around them was waiting for Hiro's command.
And they were.
"What are you doing here?" The young ravenette asked, his voice trembling.
Tadashi couldn't believe that he even asked, "I'm here to save you, Hiro. Are you- okay?"
He knew it was an obviously dumb question to ask - was someone okay when they were obviously bleeding a very dangerous chemical? Was someone okay when wings were sticking out of his back as if someone stabbed them in? Unlikely.
The young boy didn't answer. He just backed away from Tadashi as he shook his head in disbelief, in disbelief that someone witnessed him as that, as what he was that moment. He started to pant heavily as he looked around for a way of escape, a way out of the situation he's in, but no. There was just Tadashi in front of him - with an expression he couldn't define, but he determined as something negative, the unconscious bodies of his captors, the long circuits, and the vehicles.
Everything around him didn't show him escape; everything around him reminded that he was trapped! There was no way out, he was chained to- whatever he was.
"Stay away from me, Tadashi." He warned, not wanting to hurt the older one.
"No, Hiro. It's going to be okay." He soothed, as he took a step forward. Even the slightest action made the young ravenette tremble, causing the wire to turn to Tadashi ominously.
"No, Tadashi!" Hiro finally raised his voice out of worry, unaware that it provoked the electric vipers even more. A few plunged at the older male with their circuits sticking out, ready for the sting.
Tadashi was able to protect himself with an arm, causing the wires to wrap around it. Luckily his suit was fire proof and electricity proof.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Tadashi. Just- just stay away! I-I don't want to hurt you! I-"
"It's okay, buddy. It's okay. I'm not hurt, and you're not going to hurt me. Now, calm down." He said calmly, advancing little by little. He was finally sure that it wasn't Hiro he was afraid of, it was everything around them, and he was sure that Hiro felt the same way.
The young ravenette tried to heed his instruction, he tried to calm his nerves, he tried to not be afraid.
It was just useless.
He shut his eyes closed and tried to bottle up his feelings.
It didn't work. If anything, it pushed the contraptions to attack even harder.
Tadashi cursed under his breath. There was too much, he couldn't dodge them, especially with one of his arms caught.
Hiro opened his eyes, only to see that the older male wasn't even budging. Was he going to take the attack? He wouldn't. He couldn't!
"NO! STOP!" He shouted reaching out.
Tadashi flinched his eyes closed and braced himself for the impact. But seconds later it never came. He slowly turned to see what happened, only to catch the sharp electric wires just centimeters away from his face.
He let out a big puff of air he didn't know he was holding in. He then turned his attention to Hiro.
He was breathing heavily and circles started to appear under his eyes. It was like the energy was getting drained from him as he continued to use the power.
Did Hiro just really stop the wires with one command? Tadashi thought about it and realized that Hiro was the reason why those were moving in the first place.
The older ravenette got even more confused when everything around them started to fluctuate again. The bright lights were flickering, the wires were wriggling and the vehicles were roaring. Hiro started coughing out the dangerous chemical as he got on all fours.
"Hiro?" Tadashi called out, but no answer.
Everything then just died down; the light, the wires, the vehicles, even Tadashi's suit and Baymax!
Hiro collapsed on the floor with a puddle of phosphor beneath him.
The whole place was dark with only the light of the moon passing through the broken glass illuminating them. Dramatically, it shined down upon the young boy.
"Hiro!" The older ravenette harshly pulled the wires off him and ran to the younger one's aid-
Only to be stopped by what it seemed to be a wave of shadows. This wave of shadows had mass and swept him away easily, pinning him to the farthest wall. Tadashi tried his best to break free, but it was no use. It was like he was cemented to the wall. With a closer look, he realized that the thing that rendered him immobile wasn't a shadow but some sort of tiny robot in multitudes of quantity!
In the silent warehouse echoed footsteps. In the dark shadow emerges a mysterious man in all black himself with only a white Kabuki mask standing out. More of those tiny robots followed behind him as he approached the unconscious boy.
Only one word came into Tadashi's mind: 'Yokai.'
The newly arrived character passed by the unconscious bodies of the notorious female villains and swiftly turned Hiro's body around so he could see his face; pale, drained, damaged. Even if Tadashi couldn't see it, he felt the mysterious man smirk under his mask.
"Don't touch him!" The older ravenette barked, earning Yokai's attention.
As much as the figure made him nervous, he'd willingly become a decoy as long as it meant keeping him away from Hiro.
Alas, Yokai wasn't interested in him. He just sent another wave of microbots at home with the intent of knocking him out for good as he placed the unconscious boy on his shoulders; he also started to command his tiny robots to pick up the bodies of the Fujitas.
Yet again Tadashi was caught defenseless only with the choice of taking the pain. He braced for impact!
But the gods seemed to have been smiling upon him that day. An explosion, combustion and consecutive slashes were heard and the sound of the robots falling to the ground echoed in the silent warehouse. Tadashi opened his eyes to see Honey, Fred and Wasabi arriving in the scenes.
"Are you okay, leader?" Wasabi asked, making sure not to let their names slip out. He also cut him loose from his tiny robot glue.
"I'm fine, but my suit is deactivated and so is Baymax." He informed.
Yokai seemed to have lost his composure when he saw the three new heroes arrive at the seams, so he turned on his heel and headed into the shadows, trying to escape with the young ravenette and the three female villains.
Another crash came echoing inside the building and it was Gogo Tomago, entering from one of the glass windows and skillfully landing near the mysterious figure. In a second she circled him, making him dizzy and confused, giving her just the right chance to snatch away Hiro from his grip. She pulled him off, only to stumble on the ground by the sudden weight gain of the frail boy. It was only then when she, and the whole team, noticed his wings, wound and blood.
They were frozen in place, giving Yokai the chance to take back what was his.
The so called 'shadows' attacked Gogo, luckily she was able to dodge and race towards her teammates' side. Hiro was given to Tadashi for safe keeping, it was only then when the young ravenette slurred to consciousness.
"Hiro?!" The older shouted as he looked down at him with pure relief, seeing that at least he was awake despite being dazed.
Tadashi's suit started to function again, even Baymax came to life, and the lights finally went on too. It was only then when the Big Hero 6 realized what they were up against.
Tiny robots, thousands, probably millions of them were inside the warehouse just waiting to be controlled by the new villain in front of them. All five of them couldn't help but gulp.
Yokai raised his hand and directed it at them. It was a moment of pure silence and pressure. Sweat was rolling down the faces of the college superhero team.
Then a monstrous voice boomed through the building, "Give him back."
The tiny robots charged at the team, frozen on their places by the overwhelming size of what they had to dodge. Tadashi was already hit once and he knew how painful it felt, surely an increase of size and mass meant it was going to be much more gruesome.
Even with a blurry vision, Hiro saw it coming too. There was a black wave coming towards him, an oh-so familiar black wave.
They were hit.
Yokai made the tiny robots charge at them in full force until each and last one had a chance to hit him. It wasn't too hard to kill, don't worry. He still needed Hiro very much well and alive.
Once the small pieces of technology cleared, the black villain was shocked at what he saw.
Apparently he underestimated his attack. It was strong enough to kill; it was strong enough to rip a whole through the wall. What angered him the most though was-
There were no bodies.
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Gogo, Honey Lemon, Fred, Wasabi, Tadashi, Hiro -who was still in the older' s arm, unconscious- and even Baymax was walking down the street soaking wet.
It all happened too fast.
The first thing they knew was that there was a wave of microscopic robots about to hit them, the next was that a few of those robots actually protected them by making a sphere around them, then due to the force exerted by the attack they were pushed out the building and plummeted to the sea.
Their suits were too heavy so they had to abandon it and hitch a ride on the fully functional marshmallow bot.
Currently they were walking towards a place Fred suggested, which was better than anywhere at the moment.
"Is he okay?" Honey asked Tadashi as she hugged herself for warmth.
The older ravenette stared at the still unconscious boy. He was nowhere near 'okay.' He was pale, cold, wet and injured. The only thing that seemed to come back to normal for him was the loss of his wings. They started to fall apart by the time he was unconscious and they disintegrated completely when they hit water. Hiro looked like a normal boy again, beside the fact that his body was covered by phosphor due to the wound.
Despite his thoughts, he gave Honey a reassuring smile and said, "Don't worry. We'll make sure he will be."
"We're here." Fred announced and everyone just stopped in their tracks. They stared at the place wide-eyed.
They gaped at the shiny gold and white mansion in front of them. Their draws literally dropped. Fred casually walked up to the place and rang the doorbell, his friends absent-mindedly following behind.
"What are we doing here, dweeb?!" Gogo asked angrily. She was soaking wet and pissed, she didn't want more sidetracks. "If this is a joke, it's not funny."
"What do you mean?" The male blonde looked clueless.
"What are we doing here? What is this place?" Repeated the shorter woman, that time with a growl.
"Ooh. My bad." Fred flapped his arm at him and laughed at his mistake. He then extended his arm and showed off the place, "Welcome to Mi Casa. It's French for 'Front Door.'"
Honey Lemon's friendly smile slowly disappeared, "It's really not."
"Wait, wait. You live here?" Tadashi stated, still finding it hard to believe.
The male blonde shrugged, "Yeah. Why? Where did you guys think I lived?"
Wasabi looked around, taking in the whole sight, "I dunno. Under a bridge or something."
Fred thought it was a joke and a compliment so he laughed at it and gave Wasabi a big bro pat on the shoulder.
The door then opened, revealing a butler all proper and neat. "Welcome back, Master Fred."
The male blonde cheered at the presence of the older man, "Heathcliff, my man, how has things been?"
"Still the same, sir." He answered obediently.
"Cool." He gave him a fist bump, which the butler gave neutrally. "Anyway, my friends are going to stay for the night so prepare for a feast, okay?"
"As you wish, sir."
Fred came in, followed by Honey, Gogo, Wasabi and Tadashi and Hiro. Baymax stopped at the door and gave Heathcliff a fist bump too, with his signature 'Bahlalala' at the end.
Tadashi looked around and everything seemed to just get bigger and bigger as they walked.
Their day was full of twist and turns, that was for sure.
But at that moment -he didn't know if it was because he took that blow when he hit the wall because of Yokai's attack- all he could think about was, 'Maybe we should have our team meetings here.'
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"Failures!" Yokai roared as he seemingly plunged his microbots at one of the fujita. In reality it was just a few inches away from Momoi's face, but it did serve his purpose of showing his dominancy.
"We're not failures!" Only Aoi had the guts to shout back, "We got him, just as you ordered. If only you wouldn't have arrived so late then you'd have that stupid lab rat with you right now."
To her shock, Yokai was already at her, holding her by her neck with his gloved hands. Midori and Momoi were about to attack for their sister, but they were stopped and pinned down to the floor by a mountain of microbots. They were defenseless.
"This wouldn't have happened if you didn't provoke it." He growled.
Despite her situation, Aoi still managed to conceive a chuckle, "I just wanted to see what he could do."
The grip around her neck tightened, letting a yelp of pain echo in the unknown hide out. Midori and Momoi called for their sister, but to no avail they were still in danger.
"Now you witnessed its true power, and I have no doubt that you deserve the wounds you've gotten."
He expected an answer, but no. The blue fujita was still trying her best to keep alive. Fortunate for her, Yokai let go after seconds. He also called away the microbots from the green and pink one.
"Though, I guess I have to thank the three of you."
His statement came to a shock to the three female villains. They look at him with difficulty and fear. Yokai just started walking away with the tiny robots following after him.
"You awakened him after all."
They eye him in confusion. What did he mean by 'awaken'? They will surely never know for they didn't have the guts to question him anymore.
"I'll give you three another chance. Find him and bring him to me. Next time, I'll make sure that no one gets to him before I do. Are we clear?"
The Fujitas gulped and nodded unwillingly. Yokai smirked under his mask and started walking away.
He disappeared into the shadows, leaving the three women relieved. They were happy to be out of that psycho's way, at least for a little while. It was not their ordinary fight, that was for sure. They needed a break.
They checked for their valuables, and that was the only time when they noticed that their phones were missing.
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The team entered a room filled with figurines ranging from the smallest to life size. It was that of superheroes in comic books and even villains. In the middle side of the room was a fireplace with a flat screen T. V. above it, an extravagant white couch in front of it, a table not too far to the left and comic books and bean bags scattered everywhere. Each team member fell to their respective beanbag while Tadashi carefully placed Hiro on the couch. Poor boy was still unconscious and it didn't help that he was shivering.
Tadashi looked for the closest blanket and placed it on top of him. He then turned to Baymax and ordered, "Baymax, warmers on."
"As you wish Tadashi." The marshmallow robot started to glow a warm orange as it radiated heat.
"Great buddy, now sit near Hiro would you? He needs as much heat as possible."
Without saying anything, Baymax approached the couch and sat just beside it. He was close enough to emit just enough heat. Tadashi fell beside the bot and leaned in the warm outer layer, groaning in comfort. Everyone followed and found their own place, making themselves comfortable.
Peaceful silence devoured them as they rested off the tense muscles caused by their tiring day.
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Hiro awakened in an unfamiliar place, but it wasn't half bad. It was warm and comfortable. He then shifted his eyes to his side, only to find Tadashi, Honey, Gogo, Fred and Wasabi sleeping peacefully near the healthcare companion that seemed to be a living heater.
He carefully sat up as he cautiously looked around for an escape.
He remembered everything that happened; the abduction, the threat of marking him with the word 'freak,' his 'snapping' and his attack towards the fujitas, Tadashi seeing him and him waking up to an attack of microbots. He knew he was missing some memories but he didn't need those to know that Yokai was so close to capturing him again, to make things worse, Tadashi and his friends were at the verge of being involved.
He needed to get as far away from them as possible.
"You are awake." Baymax suddenly stated making the young ravenette flinch. "I shall inform Tadashi."
Before Baymax could even lift his arm, Hiro's eyes glowed cyan and he held the marshmallow bot's hand. With that, Baymax stopped and looked back at him, his black eyes copying Hiro's, meaning that he was under his control.
"Don't move and don't say anything until I'm gone." He ordered.
The young ravenette felt guilty. He never wanted to use his 'powers' on Baymax, he never wanted to use them in the first place. Everything was just a huge mistake.
He should have never come with them, he should have never stayed, now, because of his selfishness, the innocent college students' lives might be in danger.
He shifted to his knees and it was only then when he noticed the pain on his chest; the wound given to him by the blue fujita. It was neatly covered in bandaged, probably Tadashi.
Hiro's desire for happiness and freedom kept shouting at him to stay despite the danger his presence might bring to his friends, but he had made a decision and he was going to leave.
He leaped off the couch, only to find himself stumbling over it and falling face forward to the boarded floor.
'Fourth time I hit my head. FOURTH!' He mentally yelled in his mind as he yelled his t throbbing head. He was confused. How the hell did that happen when he had his jump completely calculated in his mind, it wasn't even that far of a jump and the couch wasn't even half his height.
"And where do you think are you going?"
Hiro tensed up as he slowly turned around.
He saw Tadashi wide awake, leaning on the cover board of the sofa, looking at him with a raised brow.
The young ravenette could only gulp down the vile of fear and nervousness coming up his throat.
So much for escape.
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I tried to put the action, but I couldn't make it long. xD I tried to but I couldn't. I have a thing for making Tadashi almost patriotic - you know, ready to take a blow any time for the sake of someone else, and for making Hiro fall on his face.
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