"Updates completed." Baymax's voice was a lot softer than Aria had expected. Very calming. Not like she could hear him all that well, though. She was a good 25 feet from the open garage door, where Hiro's friends were congregated, and Hiro himself was running through the list of installed updates on his computer. "Aerodynamic stabilizer upgraded, thrusters optimized, auto-inflation patched. No more updates in the queue."

"Sweet!" Hiro said, leaning back in his chair. "You should be good to go for a few more months, then. At least until I can patch through those upgrades I'm still designing." He smiled as Baymax stepped out of his charging station, before turning back to Aria, who was still lingering far away.

"Hey, c'mon, we don't bite!" Fred said, flopping down on the small couch in the corner, motioning Aria closer. "Well, I mean, I don't. Gogo mi-eeEEOWW!" He was cut off as Gogo walked past, smacking him over the head.

"Uhh," she said, taking note of all the very fragile pieces of equipment she could see in the garage workshop. Fragile, metal equipment. "I-I don't think that's such a good idea…"

"You said you needed my help," Hiro pointed out, "so you'll have to get a little closer so I can scan you"

"I am sensing increasing levels of magnetic radiation," Baymax said, cutting off whatever Aria was about to say. The automaton's head turned towards the girl, who swallowed hard. "Are you in need of medical assistance?" He began to shuffle towards her, but she threw her hands up, backing up a few steps.

"No no no!" she said, trying to laugh it off, but her nerves were obvious in her voice. "I don't think you should get very close to me…I, uh…I tend to wipe computer's hard drives, if I get too close…" Hiro's eyebrow cocked, and he tossed a glance back at his friends.

"I don't think Baymax's program works like that," Honey Lemon said, but Hiro rose from his seat anyway, and followed Baymax.

"…Well, I have his hard drive backed up, just in case. It's not gonna hurt anything to let Baymax try to scan you." He sped up, extending a hand to Aria. "You asked for my help, so let me help you." His smile was crooked, stretching farther up one half of his face than the other, which made his features seem far younger than he really was. Aria hesitated, biting hip lip nervously, before letting him take her hand, and lead her closer to the garage and Baymax. But as she got closer, just like she'd feared, she saw Baymax's feet start to slide over the pavement towards her.

"Whoa, whoa, I thought his skeleton was carbon fiber?" Wasabi said, looking up from tinkering with his gauntlets. Hiro grabbed one of Baymax's arms, trying to pull him out of Aria's pull, but it seemed to be stronger than it was in the café, and the inflatable medical caregiver collided with the small girl, throwing both onto the ground.

"It is," Hiro said, a laugh on the edge of his voice. "But the bearings are titanium…heh, must've forgotten….sorry Aria."

"I seem to have fallen," Baymax said, as Aria tried to wrestle herself out from under him. As the others broke into chatter, both surprised and slightly amused at the turn of events, Aria was having trouble not hyperventilating. 'This isn't happening,' she told herself, chest feeling too tight to breath. 'It's getting stronger…no, no, no…'

"Uh, Aria?" She was broken out of her panicked thoughts by Hiro, who had kneeled beside her, and was trying to shove Baymax off, though the whole 'magnet' thing was making it difficult. "Are you alright? You're muttering to yourself, you know."

"I didn't mean to come here and make trouble for you," she said, turning wide eyes up at him. "I just need help with this!"

"Hey, hey, I'm gonna help!" he reassured, grabbing both of her wrists, and dragging her up to her feet. Baymax was pushed to his feet as well, though he was unable to leave Aria's side. Very literally. "We'll just start with a simple scan, if there's anything wrong biologically, Baymax will find it. You got that buddy?" Hiro looked up at Baymax, who's cameras were already in the process of scanning the girl.

"Scan complete," he said, sifting through the information in his core processor. "No physical abrasions. White blood cell scans show low levels, immune system compromised. Clusters of somatic cells and neurons show mutation at the molecular level. Retrieving mutation analysis now." He paused then, and Aria's eyes darted from his face, to Hiro's, and then to the others, as they emerged from the workshop, curious about what Baymax had to say. She herself was curious as to what he would say, though she pretty much already knew. And it wasn't good. "Analysis complete. Cytotoxic T cell levels elevated. Suggests remission of metastasized tumors."

"Whoa, what?" For the first time since meeting her, Aria noticed Gogo had quite popping her gum, and was staring wide eyed.

"Shh shhh," Hiro shushed, as Baymax continued.

"Analysis inconclusive on unknown cell mutation, further scans recommended. Unusually high levels of magnetic radiation detected, unknown source."

"We know the source, Baymax," Hiro said, motioning towards Aria.

"Impossible. Organic life cannot carry a natural magnetic charge."

"…Then it can't be natural." Hiro looked at Aria, realization dawning on him. Suppressed immune system, t cells, mutations, it all made sense. "You're in remission for cancer, aren't you?" he asked, and behind him, Honey Lemon squeaked, and covered her mouth in shock. Aria only nodded, shrugging slightly.

"Billions of people have had cancer," Gogo said, grabbing Hiro's shoulder to turn him towards her. "How the hell does that make her magnetic!?" Hiro shook his head, turning his eyes back to Aria. She heaved a sigh, feeling slightly calmer, now that the cat was finally being let out of the bag.

"The cancer didn't," she said, playing with a stray locke of hair. "The treatment did, though."

Silence. The lot of them were quiet; until, that is, Fred decided to speak up.

"Heavy."

"I'm technically not allowed to talk about it. But technically, they weren't supposed to turn me into some magnetic freak, so, I guess the contract's already been voided." She noticed, as she spoke, Baymax was able to inch backwards a bit; the force was decreasing. 'Just keep calm,' she thought, taking a few deep breathes. 'Stay calm, and you can keep it under control.' "They described it as being like the radiation they've always used on patients, only more efficient. The old technique killed cancerous cells, but it also killed healthy, living cells too. The new technique was supposed to use a type of modified gamma radiation to target only mutated cells. It had to be programmed with my DNA to work."

"That's incredible," Hiro said quietly, his eyes wide, though she could see the thrill of possibility dancing behind them. He was interested in the tech, which was understandable. It was why she had come to him; someone so interested in tech like this might be able to reverse engineer it, and fix her. "It used DNA flagging to concentrate radiation on mutated tissues…that's brilliant!"

"In theory," Aria continued. "It worked pretty well at first, but my tumors metastasized unexpectedly. It spread from my central nervous system up through my spinal cord, into my brain. I guess that's what went wrong. The radiation had only ever been tested on body cells. I was the guinea pig for human neurological trials."

"Testing unverified medical technology on humans is unethical," Baymax interrupted.

"Yeah, well, tell that to my contract. Anyway, I was ejected from the trial program when I started wiping the computers in the hospital. They almost sent me in for an MRI," she paused, shuddering. "Thank god they kicked me out before then. It wasn't until I started pulling magnets off the fridge did I realize what had happened."

"Fred was right," Gogo said, crossing her arms. "This IS heavy." She turned towards Hiro, who could not stop staring at Aria. "What are we supposed to do? If she can't even get close to the garage, how are we gonna help?"

"I've gotta get more readings!" Hiro said, ditching the group suddenly, running off into the garage, and digging around in the clutter. Aria pursed her lips, as her eyes travelled the faces around her. Honey Lemon and Wasabi were speechless, but the former did reach a hand out, and pat Aria on the shoulder.

"If anyone can fix you," she said, "It'd be Hiro. Don't worry."