A/N: ITS CHRISTMAS!
Chapter Summary: The gang finds themselves snowed in at the lab and attempt to have a very Merry Christmas from there.
White flurries of snow fluttered against the window panes of the lab like mad, each one smacking the window hard before tumbling down to join its many other friends on the ground. There was so much there already, and at the rate the snow was falling, the whole world looked white beyond the window. From inside, seven teenagers and their robot watched the maddness before sighing sadly. It was the holiday season, and while most of them wanted to be at home with their families, they instead found themselves trapped inside their school as a blizzard raged outside.
"Well, this sucks..." Go-Go muttered, tightening her grip on her leather jacket as she watched the snow with a bitter look in her eyes. "Its Christmas vacation and we're stuck in the school... How ironic."
"I was supposed to visit my nana today," Wasabi began, going to the window and pressing his hand against the glass. "I won't be able to if this snow doesn't die down..."
"According to the weather station-" Honey Lemon started to speak, but then stopped and looked sadly at her phone's screen for a moment. "That won't be until six tomorrow morning."
"SIX IN THE MORNING!?" Hiro's usually tan face paled, his eyes filled with the impatience that was normal for a child at that age.
"Hiro, calm down." The older Hamada brother scolded, reaching into his pocket and taking out his phone. "I'm going to call Aunt Cass and tell her where we are, okay?"
"We'll be dead before that comes!" Hiro added, grabbing at his raven locks as his older brother rolled his eyes and quickly left the room to make his call.
"Chill, kid. Thats only twelve hours away." Go-Go spat suddenly, already annoyed with the boy's whining. "Then we can all go home and be unhappy there."
With a sudden pout, the dark haired girl tossed her jacket onto a nearby table and walked over to her own side of the room so that she could sit. With nothing else better to do, everyone watched her as she walked, and then soon followed her example and took their own corners of the room. All except for Honey Lemon, who stood with her hands on her hips and a frown on her face. To her, the happiest time of year shouldn't be spent in a cold lab with unhappy friends, so instantly the gears in her brain began to turn as she attempted to think of something to do.
"Come on you guys! We can still celebrate the holidays here." Honey chirped, trying to spread her holiday cheer to everyone in the room.
"And how do you plan on doing that?" Go-Go muttered bitterly, quickly blowing a piece of her colored hair out of her eyes so she could glare at the peppy girl. "This isn't like in the movies where everything magically works out and santa shows up, you know?"
"I'm well aware of that." The blonde replied, trying to keep up her cheerful voice as she shuffled to the corner of the room and pulled her female friend up by her arm. "Now is anyody with me?"
The remaining males of the group were quiet for a moment, all three of them thinking over what Honey was proposing here. They could just sit around and mope like they were currently doing- Or they could attempt to celebrate the holidays with their closests friends and hopefully help the time move a little faster before they could leave and be with their families. After a moment more of thought, the youngest male stood up and crossed over to the center of the room.
"I'm with you, Honey." He said with a half-hearted shrug. "It beats sitting around and doing nothing."
"Then I'm in as well." Wasabi smiled, only to look over at Fred, who was passed out on his chair and apparently had not been awake this entire time. 'If he were awake, I think he'd be with us as well."
"Then its settled! Come on, Go-Go, you and Hiro can help me get my stuff from my locker." The blonde smiled, happily pulling her friends to the door way just as Tadashi returned to the room.
"Where are you three going?" He asked, looking at the trio in confusion before letting his eyes land on his little brother.
"We're going to save Christmas apparently." Hiro smirked, clinging now to Honey's arm and allowing himself to be dragged out of the room by the blonde. "You're welcome to join us if you like!"
With a simple shrug, the older brother turned around on his heels and followed his friends and little brother out of the room and into the hallway. He didn't really want to help, mainly because he didn't know what he was going to be helping with, but it was also due to this curiosity that he was following the group anyway and soon himself at Honey's locker with the others. Upon arriving at the locket, the tallest girl began to twist the lock and put in her combination.
"Every year, my family and I help out at local soup kitchens on Christmas eve." She began, not once looking up at her friends as she opened her locker. "Usually I decorate the dining rooms, but since I can't do that this year because of the snow, I was thinking that we could put the decorations to good use in the lab."
Raising a brow, all three of her friends took a look into her locker and found several paper decorations and plastic bulbs lining the inside of the girl's locker. Every square inch of the metal space was covered by a colorful shape and not a single decoration was the same. With looks that ranged from amazement, humor, and annoyance, the three friends watched as Honey Lemon carefully scooped up a handful of bulbs and quickly hand them off to whoever was close to her.
"Your locker looks like santa threw up all over it." Go-Go spoke suddenly, frowning at the glittering plastic was placed in her hands. "This stuff is never going to wash off..."
"Come on, lighten up Go-Go." Hiro piped up, opening his hands for the stack of decorations that Honey was currently holding. "This could be fun."
"Thats the spirit, Hiro!" Honey giggled, handing a slightly larger stack over to Tadashi and then taking her own stack. "This is going to be fun, Go-Go."
With a roll of her dark eyes, the Asian female began to treck back towards the lab, followed by her friends who were now happily buzzing with talk of the holidays and what their next move would be. Upon arriving, the group watched as Wasabi jumped up from his chair and quickly went to assist his friends with whatever they needed help with.
"We need all of these decorations hung about the room." Honey instructed, dumping off of her stack onto the nearby table and watching as the others soon did the same.
"I think we can manage that." Hiro smirked, picking up a piece of mistletoe that had somehow gotten into the pile of decorations and then turning to his brother. "Hey, help me up so I can hang this."
The two brother's smirked as the older of the two picked up his little brother and held him up high enough that he could hang the plant over head above the doorway. Once that was done, the little brother kissed his older brother's cheek to keep with tradition and then was lowered back to the ground. Wasabi wrinkled his nose suddenly at the act, picking up his own paper angel and then going to hand it on some blank wall in the room.
"My nana never lets us hang that in her home." He said as he hung the angel up, taking it down only once to adjust it. "She thinks that whole thing is impure- that or its because the leaves make a mess of her carpet... One of the two."
"Oh? Then how does your grandma celebrate the holidays?" Honey asked, clearly interested in what the other would have to say.
"Well, usually she has all of her grandchildren over, and we have a nice family dinner together and we go around the table talking about things that we think we could improve with the coming New Year." Wasabi smiled softly as he spoke, idly returning to the table for more decorations. "And then after we all drive around the neighborhood and look at all of the Christmas lights that people have put up."
Honey Lemon smiled widely, taking a moment to imagine the scene before slowly making her way over to the table to pick up her own stack and hang them. She mainly grabbed the pink and yellow bells, placing them whereever she thought they would look nice before making her way over to Wasabi and placing a bell next to the first angel that he had hung.
"That sounds like fun! I bet we could do that here too." The blonde giggled, pulling her friend in for a quick hug before going back for more decorations.
"Except without his nana and without food." Go-Go reminded her gruffly, already decorating her own side of the room with decorations that had been cut out to resemble the ghosts from A Christmas Carol, along with a few skulls that were left over from Halloween.
"Maybe not." Wasabi said suddenly, smiling a little wider as he quickly left the room, shooting a passing glare at the plant above the doorway and disappearing out into the hall, only to reappear for a quick moment. "Also, forgive me but I'm going to have to go through our stuff."
Puzzled, the gang went back to decorating as they waited for him to return. During that, Fred began to stirr a little, only to fall back asleep when Honey placed a paper star onto his forehead and then went on to take a quick selfie with him. The Hamada brother's cracked up a little in amusement, but then went back to decorating their own side of the room until all of the decorations had their own place on the walls.
"Well, I think that looks pretty nice." Hiro commented, doing a quick 360 spin around the room to get a better look. "Except for Scrooge's side over there."
"Hey, shut it, Brat." Go-Go snapped, looking over at her decorations and frowning softly. "Its not my fault that stupid book exist."
"You did hang them up though." Hiro noted, pushing the girl's buttons further.
Sensing the growing tension between the two, Tadashi stepped forward and placed a hand on Hiro's shoulder and shook it a little in a silent attempt to tell his little brother to lay off. Though, knowing his little brother, he knew that Hiro would do no such thing and he was quick to switch to plan B.
"Hey, Hiro. Isn't that the same story that made you wet the bed when you were seven?" He asked, quickly going over to inspect Go-Go's wall. "You said the Ghost of Christmas present looked like the guy from the paper towel ads."
"S-shut up! I did not!" Hiro blushed darkly, now glaring up at his older brother.
"Yes you did. Heck, you attempted to watch the movie every year after that as a 'right of passage'." The older brother smirked, watching for a moment as Go-Go's hard glare began to soften.
"Not as bad as your holiday tradition of doing a cover to EVERY Christmas song that you hear!" Hiro smirked, now turning to all of his friends. "In fact, I still have the first mix tape he tried to make of his parodies."
"Seriously? A mix tap, what is this, the 70s?" Go-Go laughed, watching as Hiro took said tape out of his pocket.
"Every year I play the tape for aunt Cass and every year she plays it for her book club." Hiro laughed hard, waving the tape around and tossing it to Go-Go so that it would be out of his brother's reach. "Man, I wish I had a tape player."
"Well, you don't." Tadashi frowned, feeling as though he had dodged a bullet.
"Wait, doesn't your robot have one?" Honey suddenly chimed in, feeling that Christmas music would be perfect for their make-shift celebration.
"Hey, thats right!" Hiro laughed, turning to Go-Go and sending her a wink.
The Asian girl smirked and pinched her arm, letting out a soft sound of pain. Baymax took that moment to suddenly spring to life, leaving his charger station and walking over to Go-Go for the tape. Already knowing what Baymax was going to do, the girl handed the tape over and watched as the robot took it and placed it into one of the slots that seemed to fabricate out of him.
"Hiro says that this is a good tape." Baymax explained in his smooth tone as he was about to hit play, only to pause as Wasabi reentered the room wit several plastic containers in his hands.
"Where were you at?" Tadashi asked, turning his attention quickly to his friend.
"The lunch room." Wasabi replied, walking over to the table where the decorations had once been and placing the containers on the table.
"Woah! Where did you get all of that?" Hiro asked as the covers were taken off of the containers and reviled the food contents that were inside.
"Its just some things I managed to make using our lunches." Wasabi replied, pointing out what each thing was. "Turkey from mine and Go-Go's lunch, noodle soup from the Hamada brothers, Fred had KFCs in his lunch, and I managed to make an apple pie from scratch using a peanut butter sandwhich and two apples from Honey Lemon's lunch. Also I had a bottle of ginger ale in case of emergencies and the napkins are just napkins. "
The group of friends looked up at the other in pure amazement, then back down at the food in front of them. It wasn't long before the gang began to distribute the food evenly onto their little napkin 'plates'. It was also around this time that Fred began to wake up and soon joined the group for their make-shift dinner. It was during this time that Baymax hit play on the mixtape as it started off with a remix of the Carol of The Bells instrumental.
"Wait, so you played this entire song using power tools and a piece of sheet metal?" Go-Go asked, looking at Tadashi in amazement as the song played on.
"Thats wicked awesome, man." Fred gasped, shoving another piece of make-shift pie into his mouth before looking around the room. "Woah, and when did we decorate this place?"
"While you were sleeping." Honey laughed, finishing up her own food and then going for seconds. "We decided to try and celebrate the holidays here while we wait for the snow to stop."
"Huh? Well, thats cool brah." Fred said as he got up suddenly and went to where his backpack was. "But you know, it aint Christmas without presents."
"No duh, but if you haven't noticed, we're stuck at school." Go-Go pointed out, taking a swig of ginger ale to swallow down the annoyance in her tone.
"I have noticed, and since Santa isn't due to arrive for the next couple of hours than might I suggest we do a stuff exchange?" Fred asked in a mocking tone as he returned to his backpack. "You guys have a lot of cool stuff in your backpacks so we could totally do that."
"Wait, how do you know?" Hiro asked, giving Fred an untrusting look as Hoeny Lemon giggled suddenly and rushed about the room to gather up everyone's backpacks.
"I love that idea!" She laughed, handing everyone their bags as everyone half-heartedly tried to agree with her. "It'll be like a little garage sale!"
"As long as no one gives me a piece of paper, then I'm in." With everyone agreeing on that, the college students began to rummage around in their backpacks for something they could give as a present.
They figured it would be easier to set it up like a 'Secret Santa' type of thing, with one student giving to another and vise versa. The santas were chosen by Honey (Of course) and ended up being Tadashi and Honey, Fred and Go-Go, Wasabi and Hiro, and Baymax did not want to be apart of the game since he felt that it was unfair that the number of friends should be uneven. With that, they went in their order.
"Okay, Honey." Tadashi began, reaching into his backpack and taking out a hoodie. "Only because I know that you love my hoodie so much."
"Yay! Now I won't have to keep borrowing it!" Honey giggled, taking her gift before handing him hers, which ended up being a CD of their favorite band. "Because I know that you love them as much as I do."
The pair smiled over their gifts, giving each other a quick hug and a thank you before turning to watch the next group go. Since Go-Go was still looking, they jumped over to Wasabi and Hiro, with Hiro giving Wasabi a pocket-knife and Wasabi giving Hiro a hand held video game that he never used before. With a friendly bro-fist, it was now Go-Go and Fred's turns. Without a word, Go-Go shoved a purple jacket into Fred's arms and then folded her arms over her chest as she watched him look it over. At first he looked very confused, but then he smiled lovingly at the gift from his friend.
"Its only because I don't wear it anymore." She muttered quickly to cut him off from thanking her.
Nodding, Fred reached into his pocket and pulled something out, shoving it into Go-Go's hand in a similar fashion that she had. With a confused glare, the girl took and looked down at what had been handed to her and gasped when she saw what it was. In her hands, she now held a black chained necklace with a heart shaped pendent on the end. It was plastic, with the inside stained a deep read color by whatever the liquid was that was floating inside of it. Bringing it to her nose, she found that the heart was filled with an apple scented perfume.
"Why was this in your backpack?" She asked after a moment, trying to sound annoyed with the gift even though she did love it already.
"I bought it for your birthday once." Fred said as he pulled his new purple jacket on and zipped it up. "Forgot to give it to you though, so Merry Christmas."
The girl went quiet and bowed her head, feeling all of her friend's eyes now on her as she quickly brought up her hand to wipe the blurriness away from them. Frowning, it was Honey Lemon who went first to her friend to ask what was wrong, wrapping her thin arms around the other's shoulders. Soon the other's did the same as they waited for Go-Go to speak up. Finally she did.
"I don't have a family like the rest of you guys..." She admitted after a long while. "This is my first real Christmas actually."
The group seemed both surprised at the same time that they weren't and as she went silent again, the group tightened their hug just a little bit more. After a few more seconds of silence, the hug finally got less tight before breaking apart all together. To everyone's surprise, it was Baymax who stepped forward and spoke first.
"Incorrect." He said suddenly, going over to Go-Go. "As I understand, a family is a unit of people who share a special bond and loyalty to one another. Is that not what the six of you have?"
"Baymax is right! We are a little family in that case!" Honey smiled, suddenly scooping everyone back up into the group hug. "What a great Christmas you guys! Spending it with each other an-"
"Hey guys, it stopped snowing!" Hiro suddenly called from the window, having escaped from the group hug.
"Well then..." Honey frowned as she ended the group hug again.
"... I guess we can all leave then-" Wasabi muttered, looking out at the clearing sky and frowning.
"I kind of don't want to though..." Hiro added, slowly shuffling back over to the group. "It wouldn't hurt to stay for a few more hours right?"
"I suppose not." With a shared smile, the group turned away from the window and returned back to their little party.
"Merry Christmas, you guys."