I can't stop writing this! Eeep! And thanks to all the lovely reviews and favorites. Every one of them makes my day! But, since I have work tonight, and I have yet to shower today (eugh!) this will probably be the last chapter for a bit. Hopefully by tomorrow I will have gotten back up and writing!
Let me know what you think! :)
The car chase was much more squished that Hiro remembered. Baymax had been thrown on the roof of the car, just as last time, but Tadashi being there made things a little tighter in the already small car.
Hiro thought his dignity was going to remain intact for this. But he was wrong. He was sitting on his brother's lap. Hiro Hamada, the creator of Big Hero 6 was sitting on his brother's lap.
To be fair, no one probably cared. They were all too busy trying not to die.
"Why is this guy trying to kill us!?" Gogo yelled, from the back seat.
This time she had been put in the back, that way the brothers would have room. Hiro realized that it probably wasn't the best idea given Wasabi's careful driving.
"It's classic supervillain!" Fred said. "We've all seen too much!"
"Oh, god! We're gonna die!" Wasabi said.
"No, we're not!" Hiro said. "Move over! I got this!"
"What, no! You don't even have a license!"
"I do now!" Hiro yelled, pushing Wasabi out of the way. Back in his own timeline, Hiro had just gotten his permit, and he knew how to work a car. He was also a super hero; he could do this.
Revving the engine, Hiro blasted off, avoiding Callaghan and his micro bots with ease.
"What- Where did you learn to drive!?" Tadashi yelled, gripping the sides of the seats.
"Hiro has been learning to drive from Aunt Cass for approximately six months." Baymax said helpfully.
"I'm going to have to talk to her about that!"
"Hiro!" Honey Lemon said from the back. "You're driving towards the river! The road isn't built yet!"
"I know!" Hiro said. "I have a plan!"
"To kill us all?" Wasabi yelled. Hiro ignored him.
"Hiro, what's your plan?" Tadashi yelled.
"This guy is trying to kill is. It's time to play dead!" Hiro yelled.
"Bro! You're like a real life super hero!" Fred said.
"Not now!" Gogo said. "And what happens when we all drown?"
"We have Baymax." Hiro said, with a smirk. "He's got this."
He drove the car over the edge, and into the water.
Baymax waited before letting them all float to the top. His armor didn't make it, causing Hiro to groan the moment he reached the surface. He was going to have to start all over.
"What were you thinking, bonehead!" Tadashi yelled, the minute he knew everyone was safe. "You can't drive, you drove us off a cliff-!"
"My car is gone!" Wasabi said.
"Hey, we were in a high speed chase!" Hiro said. "I had to do something."
"I'm glad you did it before me." Gogo said, and she pulled Wasabi's ear. "The fourteen year old kid with no license got us out of that before you did!"
"Ow! It doesn't matter if we're in a high speed chase, laws are laws!"
"Yes, it does!" They all yelled.
"It's cold out. We need to get some place warm." Hiro said, before Baymax could do so. "Fred, what about your place?"
"I thought you'd never ask…" Fred said, smiling.
The walk itself sucked just as bad as Hiro remembered it. The cool fall air in San Fransokyo sucked after taking a swim in the river. By the time he got to Fred's house, Hiro was shaking. The young boy didn't remember how he was able to draw the Silent Sparrow symbol the last time this happened.
"You're… rich?" Tadashi said, shocked.
"Well, technically my dad is, but they're out on vay-cay right now." Fred said, gesturing to the picture of Fred's parents. "The house is ours."
"Wow…" Wasabi said, shocked. Hiro tried to mirror the shock that was on all of his friend's faces, but he had been here so many times over the last few years that it was hard to.
"Alright guys! This is my room!" Fred said, dramatically opening the door.
"You've got to be kidding me." Gogo said, unimpressed. Hiro ignored it, and walking in shivering.
"This is the weirdest thing I've seen all day." Wasabi said.
"I know! It's the coolest, right?" Fred replied.
Hiro sighed. He was looking around in the room, wondering where to start, but he was too cold to do so.
"Let me warm you up." Baymax said. He did not wait for an answer, and wrapped his fluffy arms around the boy, turning his heater on.
"Thanks, buddy." Hiro said, leaning into the comfort.
"When did you design Baymax to be so… Hiro centric?" Gogo asked. Hiro wasn't supposed to hear it, but he did.
"No." Tadashi said. "I don't know what happened, actually."
"What happened…" Hiro said, still enveloped in Baymax's arms. He got one hand free so he could use it. He mimicked Baymax's hand gesture when stating a fact. "Is that I am a time traveler."
They all looked at each other before promptly bursting out into laughter.
"Oh, Hiro." Honey said, wiping a tear from her eye. "I always loved your sense of humor."
"Guys, I'm serious." Hiro said, and he got out of Baymax's arms so that way he could be taken seriously. "I'm from a year in the future!"
"He's not lying." Tadashi said, finally backing him up. "I thought he was too, but he isn't."
"Wait, what?" Fred said. "You're a real live time traveler!? Tell me, do I become the great Fredzilla that I was destined to be?"
Hiro laughed. "Yeah, man. I make you a suit and-"
"Wait, you're serious?" Gogo said. "You're actually from a year in the future?"
"Yeah, well me and Baymax are." Hiro said, smiling.
"That … explains a lot actually." Wasabi said. "Wait, how did you get here then?"
"There was an accident." Hiro explained. "We were all at the showcase next year … well, we were in Tadashi's building actually, and I was the volunteer for a new kid's, you know, alleged time machine, and I woke up here."
"Well, then how did Baymax get here?" Gogo said.
"Oh!" Hiro said. "I made some modifications to him after a few months. His pod is now a backpack, and I can take him everywhere! He was on my back when I came here…"
"Wow." Honey Lemon said, her eyes alight. "What happens in the future?"
"Well," Hiro said, rubbing the back of his head with his hand. "We kind of all came together to stop Cal- I mean, the masked man. We became superheroes!"
"Wow!" Fred said. "What was our name? Was it Fred's Angels?"
"No, Big Hero 6." Hiro said. "You, me, Baymax, Gogo, Wasabi, and Honey. We were all a team."
"What about Tadashi?" Gogo said. "Did you forget about your brother?"
Hiro sucked in a breath. He did not know how to explain it, but thankfully, Baymax did.
"Tadashi died in our timeline in the fire at the presentation building. He was the cause for all of us to band together." Baymax explained.
Everyone's eyes turned to Tadashi, who was a little red in the face. "Uh, yeah. But, I'm alive now! So, uh, yeah. Hiro saved me."
"You- you mean, Tadashi died?" Honey Lemon said. "For you, I mean?"
"Yeah." Hiro said. "So when I woke up a year before, I really freaked out."
"So, what, we become superheroes and stop this guy?" Wasabi asked. "We can't do that! We're nerds!"
"Oh, I know, I have a plan for that." Hiro said. "I can upgrade you all. With time, of course. We can all be superheroes with the help of robotics. But only if you guys are in."
"I'm in!" Fred said. "I want to be Fredzilla!"
"Okay, dude." Hiro said.
"I guess I'm in." Gogo said. "Only because I want to help you and Tadashi."
"I'm in!" Honey said. "Ooh, this is so exciting!"
"Then, I guess I'm in too." Wasabi said. He then looked as Tadashi. "What about you, man? You wanna make Big Hero Six, Big Hero Seven?"
Tadashi shrugged. "Oh, what could it hurt? But I'm designing my own super suit! I don't trust you to not make it embarrassing, Hiro."
"You got it bro." Hiro said, smiling.
"Ow."
Baymax inflated in an instant, much faster than Tadashi had programmed him to.
This was the first time that Hiro had left the robot somewhere that wasn't in his immediate vision. Right now, Hiro was registering for classes. This was probably Tadashi's only chance.
"Hello, Tadashi." Baymax said, blinking. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, Baymax. I'm fine."
"My sensors indicated that you have no bodily harm. Where is Hiro?"
"He's just out. I want to talk to you Baymax. About Hiro."
"Are you concerned about your brother?" Baymax said.
"Yes. What happened over the last year Baymax? Was Hiro ever in danger?"
"With Hiro's lifestyle, is in constantly in danger of bodily harm. But nothing serious had ever happened to him." Baymax said.
Tadashi rubbed his eyes worriedly.
"How did he take me dying?" Tadashi said.
"Why do you ask this?"
"Because… he's not the same." Tadashi said. "He's so … not Hiro! The Hiro I knew was immature, selfish and annoying. This Hiro is…"
"Hiro had gone through some changes that come with puberty. Maybe that is the cause."
"No, I don't think so. I don't think if it anything you can diagnose." Tadashi said, sighing. His main confidant was a robot who didn't understand emotions yet. He knew that he would get nowhere with this.
"Then, are you speaking on an emotional level?" Baymax asked.
"Uh, yeah." Tadashi said, shocked. "Do you … you know, understand emotions?"
"Yes. I have downloaded, as well as observed efficient information on human emotion." Baymax said. "My diagnosis is that Hiro had had to grow a lot in your absence. He had to become a hero to save a young woman from an alternate dimension, and he had to come to terms with two close deaths."
"Two?" Tadashi asked. "Who died?"
"I did." Baymax said. "I was lost in an alternate dimension when we saved Abigail Callaghan from death. Hiro then rebuilt me."
"Abigail Callaghan?" Tadashi recalled. He remembered her funeral for when she died a few months ago. "You mean she's alive?"
"Tadashi?" A voice said, and Tadashi turned to the door in a rush.
"Ah, Hiro." Baymax said. "It is good to see you have returned."
"You too, Baymax." Hiro said, but walked to his brother. "What are you doing?"
"I was talking to Baymax about some … concerns."
"About what? Abigail? We got her out safely because of Baymax."
"No." Tadashi said. "About you. I'm worried about you."
"Why?" Hiro said. "I'm fine. And as long as everything goes to plan, we'll all be fine."
"Tadashi is worried about your emotional development, Hiro." Baymax explained.
"Emotional development? Nothings really changed, except I sometimes save the world, but, you know." Hiro shrugged.
Tadashi sighed. "How was school? When do classes start?"
"Great, and Monday. They're giving me the weekend off, which is great because I need to work on all of your guys' stuff." Hiro said.
"See?" Tadashi replied. "Before you were going bot fighting, or doing something else that was irresponsible. Now, you know about your school, you're trying to help other people and-"
"You're saying that like it a bad thing." Hiro said.
"No, it's not." Tadashi said. "But my kid brother grew up without me."
There was a moment of silence. Hiro turned to Tadashi, realizing that his brother wanted to have a serious conversation.
"You know, when I first found out it was Callaghan who started the fire … I set Baymax to kill him." Hiro said.
"What?" Tadashi said.
Hiro reached over to Baymax and pressed his data dock. "There are two chips here. The one you made, and the one I made to make him a fighter. I took yours out, and sent him to kill Callahan."
Tadashi had no answer for this.
"I was so angry that day that I wanted him to die. And it wound up being Honey who stopped Baymax. And then Baymax who stopped me. He showed me you, Tadashi. You are the reason I became who I am." Hiro said. "It was hard … but I did it. I became a hero."
Hiro paused, gauging Tadashi's reaction.
Tadashi smiled and hugged his little brother. Hiro hugged him back, and smiled when he felt Baymax get in on the hug too. The robot could never pass up an excuse to hug someone.
"You two make a pretty good team." Tadashi said. "And I'm proud of you, knucklehead."
"I'm proud of me too."
"There's the kid brother I know." Tadashi said, laughing. But, he did not move. With his brother, and Baymax around him, he made a promise not to leave Hiro again, and he would do anything to fulfill that promise.
Just like Hiro would do anything to make sure Tadashi didn't die again.
