Are you nervous? I'm nervous. Standing before me was the large building that hosted the SFIT Showcase. Today I will either succeed or fail. The goal was simple, keep Hiro and Tadashi as far away from any burning buildings. I'm not an idiot. Tadashi may have died in the original Disney movie, but do you know how many fanfic writers wrote the opposite happening to Hiro instead? I'm not taking any chances. Keep both Hamada brothers far, far, far away from any burning buildings.

If I managed to stop Callaghan in the process, bonus! Otherwise, let the man drown in his revenge.

xXxXx

"Impressive, no?" Cass said.

"Yeah," Haruka said, staring at the displays. Peoples bustled around them, wandering from presentation to presentation. "It's kinda amazing the kind of things people come up with."

It was hard for Haruka to say if her old universe was just… limited by stricter laws of physics or if genius truly meant genius here. She had attended a science fair during her college days and all the displays there were mostly theoretical and often inherited from students before them. Not many people had a working prototype to show off and certainly not everyone.

There were robots and then were robots.

70% of the battle bots (battle bots that normal common people made!) were more sophisticated than any robot Haruka had heard of back home.

Then were Hiro's microbots.

Haruka couldn't even imagine how long it would take someone back home to make microbots, yet here, Hiro did it in a few short weeks. It was staggering. Nothing short of amazing could describe the sheer awe Haruka felt looking at the displays.

"It's good to see you smile so freely. It's been missing for a while," Cass remarked. "You know you can come to me if you have a problem right?"

Haruka flinched. "Am I that obvious?"

Cass laid a hand on Haruka's shoulder. "You've been distressed by something for the past couple weeks. What has you so worried?"

'That after today you're going to lose one of your nephews,' Haruka thought to herself. She looked at where the gang was talking to Callaghan and Krei. No doubt, Krei was doing his shady thing, the red herring in the film and Callaghan had just given Hiro his acceptance letter.

"Something about today is making me uneasy," Haruka said lightly. "Like something bad is going to happen."

Cass looked at her sharply. "What?"

Haruka just gave her a tight smile as Hiro came rushing over.

"Aunt Cass! I got in!" Hiro said excitedly, waving his acceptance letter.

"That's great!" Cass said, pulling her youngest nephew into a hug.

"Don't forget your neurotransmitter," Haruka said, pointing to the silver band that laid on the stage, forgotten in the excitement.

"Oh right! Thanks Haruka," Hiro said, running back to the stage to snatch it up.

"Alright geniuses," Cass said. "Let's feed those hungry brains. Back to the cafe! Dinner is on me!"

The gang let out a cheer.

"Free food!" Fred said.

Haruka waved her hand. "I'll catch up. There's this one last display I want to see."

"Us too," Tadashi said, catching Hiro's attention.

Cass nodded, giving her nephews another large hug. "I'm so proud of you! Both of you!"

"Thanks Aunt Cass," they chorused together.

Cass then turned and pulled Haruka into a hug. "You'll be okay?" she whispered into Haruka's ear.

"Yeah. I'll be fine," Haruka said, squeezing back. Hugs were great. The hardest part about being in a new universe was being separated from her family. Haruka hadn't been getting her daily dosage of hugs in the last two years. But in her own way, without even knowing it, Cass never failed to make a dent in necessary hug giving.

"Five minutes!" Cass said, pulling away and looking at her favorite employee and nephews. "I expect you see you back at the truck in five minutes."

"Yes, Aunt Cass."

"Aye Aye ma'am."

Haruka watched her boss and the future heroes headed off in one direction and her favorite Hamada bros headed toward the bridge. She took a seat on the bench just outside of the building. Nothing to do but to wait. She closed her eyes and let out a heavy sigh.

With the neurotransmitter back in Hiro's hands, would Callaghan still start the fire? Perhaps the man was smart enough to reverse engineer the microbots without the neurotransmitter. He was suppose to be the leading expert in robotics. Not to mention he probably needed to fake his death to provide a strong alibi.

Behind her the building exploded in flames.

xXxXx

Shit!

Guest Reviewer Response

Dreamer

Nah, never really hold back when I write, but emotionally invested because now I know people are interested and I wanna hear that they say. owo b (Normally this type of story would never be posted and would just sit and collect dust on my computer :P ) I would totally fail if I was thrown in Haruka's position. I'm so terribly sheltered it isn't even funny.