Author's Note: Here it is! Sorry it's a little late, life got a little crazy. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
I feel like I'm a kid riding home with my soccer mom, Hiro thought as he sat uncomfortably in the GIRI SUV. He, Baymax, and Honey Lemon sat in the middle while Fred and Wasabi sat in the back and Gogo rode shotgun next to Agent Hanson. Wasn't spying on them enough? Did GIRI really have to sabotage their entire mission?
After what felt like an eternity, Gogo broke the silence. "So now that we 'can't be overheard,' you wanna give us some more specific information?"
"Once we are at the home of Paul Silver, you will apprehend X the Unknowable and we will take care of her from there."
"X the what?" Wasabi asked.
"X the Unknowable. You did a good job of tracking her. We've been on the lookout for her for a while now."
"Ha! See! We are smarter than you give us credit for!" Fred said triumphantly.
Agent Hanson actually cracked a smile. "You do realize that this whole arrangement was my idea, right?"
"Huh?" Hiro questioned.
"Yeah, like I said, you could and should have been taken down. I just suggested that we find a way to maybe use you instead. That way, you could still live your dream and we could rest in peace knowing that you wouldn't ever use your power for evil."
Hiro suddenly saw Callaghan in front of him, saying that Tadashi's death was Tadashi's mistake. He remembered how determined he was to kill that man, how badly he wanted to hurt him. He remembered briefly hating his friends when they took the power to kill away from him.
Maybe she had a point.
"Oh, before you fight her, there are a couple things you should know. Do you know about the robot?"
They exchanged glances. "A little," Hiro answered. "We know it can change shapes, but we don't know how."
"It can change atomic structure at her will, but we're not sure how she controls it either. Your goal is to knock her out. Hopefully without a controller, the robot won't work. That way, we get the criminal and the weapon."
"But you want the weapon still operable?" Hiro asked, checking for other motives.
"It would be nice to know how villains these days work, yes."
Hiro nodded. The vehicle pulled to a stop.
"Alright, go up the hill and hide out around house number 429, which should be on the right. Good luck and make good choices!"
Yeesh this woman sounded almost like Aunt Cass. Hiro and his friends filed out of the car (Hiro had to pull Baymax out of the door).
"Oh, and since I like to always have a plan B, take this." She tossed a small device, which Hiro caught. "Attatch this to her or her robot as soon as possible, preferably without her knowledge. That way, if you fail, we can at least track her."
With that, the car drove smoothly away, but Hiro knew that they weren't going far.
"Okay everybody," Wasabi began. "Plan time. Since the house is uphill, we could use the height to our advantage if we spot her before she gets to the house. Gogo, you might want to watch your speed going downhill. And Fred, you -"
"Um," she had her helmet on, but everyone knew she was glaring. "I've got this. If she's using a robot, she's not in fighting shape herself." Hiro wondered for a moment if she would say the same thing about him. "My speed's a perfect advantage."
"I know but I'm just saying the hill's kinda steep!" Wasabi argued.
"I'm just saying that maybe I know my inventions better than you do," Gogo retorted.
"Guys, be quiet!" Honey interrupted.
"What? I'm just trying to point out the potential dangers –"
"No," Honey pointed up. "Look!"
Up on the peak of the hill was a woman glaring at them in a pale gray blazer and a pale pink skirt. Her black hair was pulled up in a pony tail. She stood tall on the hill, with extra height due to black high heels. Hiro was about to tell Honey that the woman was probably just someone who lived in the neighborhood when he saw a black mass rise and swirl around her like a thunderstorm. The mass folded into a large black dog with red eyes and charged towards them, sounding like a freight train.
"New plan!" Hiro yelled. "Honey, try to jam the robot. Fred, go with her and fight it from the air. Wasabi, go with them and fight it from the ground. Gogo, you, me, and Baymax are going after X."
"Team break!" Fred yelled, leaping into the air.
Hiro hopped onto Baymax's back and flew towards the woman on the hill, who was reaching into her jacket. That didn't seem good.
"Oh, no you don't!" Gogo said, hitting X's arm with a disc and knocking what looked like a gun onto the street. X grunted in pain.
"Baymax, get her!" They plummeted towards the criminal, Baymax reaching out a hand.
X saw them and picked up her gun. Hiro ducked just as two shots were discharged. Several people in the neighborhood screamed. Heart pounding, he looked up to see her put two fingers in her mouth and whistle.
The robot that Fred, Wasabi, and Honey were attacking suddenly split in two. One of the large dogs turned and bounded uphill towards its master. Standing at roughly twenty feet tall, the demon dog circled X like a guard dog.
I still have height to my advantage, Hiro thought to himself. If I can just keep it distracted, Gogo can sneak around it.
"Baymax, dive towards its head!"
"As your health-care companion, I must express disapproval, as this could be hazardous -"
"Just do it!"
They rocketed up and then dove straight towards the monster's head, wind whipping past Hiro and making him shiver despite his thick suit. Once they were an uncomfortably close distance from the beast, Hiro yelled, "Baymax, pull up!"
Robotic jaws nearly clamped down on both of them as they ascended once again. Then the dog jumped up and swiped, slamming them to the ground.
"ARGH!" Hiro yelled, aching from the landing and from where the demon dog hit him. This was going to be a hard fight.
...
His heart pounded and he was breathing too hard and too fast. The guard dogs were circling her, keeping her safe, but six people clad in bright colors kept attacking her. These people were after him. They were trying to get through her and take him. He couldn't let that happen. Not again.
Heat flooded his veins until he could see fire. He had to wait here until he was called, but he was prepared. No one was going to take him by surprise. Not again.
The red one with the purple one on his back flew towards one of the dogs and away again, like a fly. Irritable rage made the flames rise. Why couldn't they just leave him alone?
The pink one threw colorful bombs at the other dog, trapping a paw long enough for the green one to slice it with his hands and the blue one to breathe fire from above, yelling in victory.
Smoke was now clouding his vision, but he had to wait. If he didn't wait, they could get him again. X could protect him, he had to listen to her.
The red one and the purple one fell from the sky with a swipe of the guard dog's paw. Relief cooled the fire, but then he felt it, a small electric pulse from his temple. Battle time.
He sprinted to X, who was pointing a gun at a rapidly moving yellow figure. He held a flame in his hand and then thrusted it in front of the figure's path. The yellow one went down and rolled away from him.
He prepared another fistful of fire. But then he heard a voice. A voice that sounded familiar, but distant. Like a dream he must have forgotten.
"We have fallen," a robotic, yet familiar voice resounded.
"You think?"
That voice.
He forgot for a moment what was going on around him. This was more important. Something about those voices mattered. He spun around and saw they were coming from the red one and the purple one. Fear spiked in his gut again. They were close.
...
Hiro had barely stood up when a fire ball nearly slammed him in the face.
"WHOA!" Hiro yelled, sidestepping behind Baymax and breathing fast. That was way too close for comfort. Images of fire and Tadashi flashed through his mind. The heat was all too familiar. Peeping around Baymax, he saw that apparently X brought a friend who had...wait, what?
A man wearing armor not unlike theirs was standing in front of X like a body guard. What made Hiro do a double-take, however, was the fact that both of the man's arms were entirely on fire. Hiro's heart leapt into his throat.
"Watch out!" Gogo's voice warned from his helmet's communication device. "She's apparently got backup!"
"We'll come help as soon as we get rid of this one!" Wasabi yelled back.
Another fire ball flew at Hiro. "Baymax, we got to get back into the air!" He jumped on his robotic friend's back and flew up, avoiding a blast of heat and hearing another bullet hit Baymax's armor.
He heard a noise that sounded like a mix between a growl and a train slamming on its breaks. The demon dog tried to pounce on Gogo. While it missed, Gogo was still sent flying down the hill by the force of the heavy paw hitting the ground. "No! Gogo are you okay?"
After a moment, a voice grunted, "Yeah, I'll be back up there in a moment."
"Okay, I'm going to try to tag her with the tracker."
Hiro examined the ground, evaluating his options. He needed to dodge demon dog (he decided to name him 'Spot') and hot pants to get to X. Then he remembered what Agent Hanson said about the robot needing X to control it. How was it being controlled? She wasn't using a controller, so either it was being controlled by someone else, or she was using a neurotransmitter...
Hiro blinked. Of course! How could he not have thought of it before? She was controlling it in the same way that Hiro controlled his microbots! So knocking her in the head might be able to take out the neurotransmitter while knocking her out!
Just as Hiro was about to order Baymax to use his rocket fist, he felt them fall a few feet.
"Baymax!"
"Sorry, Hiro. There appears to be a slight malfunction in my flying system."
Hiro looked at the robot's armor. Angry cracks decorated the wings and Hiro felt himself internally groaning. This was getting embarrassing.
"Okay, let's use rocket fist to take out the dog and then we'll stick to the ground."
Baymax aimed and then shot the dog in the muzzle. The force of the blast made Hiro momentarily lose grip of the robot's back (which made him shriek like a dying cat). "Let's get down!" he screamed.
After a jerky ride down, Hiro stepped down from the robot and turned to his opponents. The remains of the dog were reforming into god-knows-what, the scary fire man was now completely on fire (which was confusing Hiro's brain on so many levels), and X stood in the middle with a slightly irritated look on her face and a gun in her hand.
Gogo thankfully appeared beside him, her armor looking a little beat up. She flung another disc, probably to knock the gun away again, but the fiery man blast it out if the way before advancing towards them.
"We need to wrap this up!" Gogo yelled. "Most of us are injured and I don't think these robots stay dead long!"
"Okay!" Honey replied. "Wasabi and I can hold this one off while Fred jumps up to help you."
"ON MY WAY!" Fred yelled.
"Thanks!" Hiro replied. "Gogo, you should have this." Hiro held out the tracker. "You can get to her quickly."
Just as Gogo was about to reach out to grab it, another fireball blast past towards Hiro, making him shield his face and drop the tracker.
"No!" He reached down and grabbed it. When he stood back up, the man on fire was right in his face.
Hiro froze. He could feel himself sweating underneath his clothes and could smell smoke. Too familiar.
An impossibly hot hand wrapped around his throat. "Not again," a hoarse, panicked voice stated.
Hiro felt himself being lifted up, and right before he was thrown, he desperately shoved the tracker onto the man's neck, hoping that it would somehow attach.
...
One day later, in an old containment facility, Agent Hanson nervously stretched her hands while standing in front of Big Hero 6 with Agent Oshima. The team had no idea why they were called in; they probably thought it was just a followup on the case or instructions on what to do next.
She grasped her own hands firmly to keep them from shaking. She had explained many times to many people that their loved ones were gone, or were taken, or were the killer or taker themselves. She had never before told someone that their nightmare was over, only to then explain why it wasn't.
"When we we to the place that the tracker was, we found some things..."
"You didn't want us to check it out for you?" Fred asked, actually sounding offended.
"When we went there," she continued, as if there hadn't been an interruption. "We found some, well, interesting things. We found multiple bodies, most of which matched the missing person's list from several local psychiatric wards. We didn't find X or her robot or the crime boss. But," she had to pause to take a breath. "We found the fire man."
Fred laughed. "It sounds like you just found some fire man when you say it like that."
Everyone else in the room seemed to understand, at least to a degree, the seriousness of the situation. "What about him?" asked Hiro.
God, he looked so innocent right now. He was fifteen, but right now, she thought he looked three. "We want to see if you can identify him."
Hiro blinked. "What?"
"I... Just come with me."
The hallway seemed to be at least a mile long, and her hands were shaking uncontrollably by the time that they reached the end. She opened the door. "He's a little unstable, so we're only going to be looking through the glass.
She watched as the group filed in, curiosity and apprehension in their eyes. She watched as they took in the scene in front of them. A young man in his early twenties was huddled in a corner, rocking back and forth rapidly with his arms wrapped tightly around his knees. His eyes starred at nothing, but they were dilated in fear.
She watched as the youngest in the group's mouth dropped. His eyes widened in shock as he subconsciously stepped forward and placed a hand on the glass.
Her heart broke.
"Tadashi?"
Author's Note: Yes! This is a Tadashi lives story! Please feel free to tell me what you think!
Although I haven't directly mentioned it, Tadashi is going to have some of the aspects of the character Sunfire from the comics. That being said, I am not going to be changing anything about who Tadashi is. I don't think that Tadashi would ever willingly side with villains, so this story will explore what would change that. I hope you enjoyed!