Location: Unknown
Sweat and blood dripped from his body. She was getting nowhere with him and was getting furious. Curse the NSA for making their agents so strong in both body and mind. There had to be something to break him. They did have something, but it was still in the testing stage. Maybe now would be as good a time to use it. It may have been made to use on supers, but desperate times called for desperate measures.
One of the guards entered carrying a suitcase and the woman opened it, taking out a headset.
"What is that?" William asked, worry starting to come across his face.
"Oh, this thing? It's going to make you spill everything I want to know." She smirked, spinning the device in her hand.
Location: D16 Common Room
As the days went by, S.B.W started to feel more and more like a normal school. Classes, hanging with friends, then doing homework. Yeah, the whole super ordeal was different, but they soon adjusted it to their daily routine.
For Hiro, his powers had been improving. He was still a bit shaky, but he was improving. Especially with the help of his new friends. He had friends. Sure he had friends back in San Fransokyo, but they were Tadashi's friend and they were Tadashi's friend who accepted him into their group. Here, he made his friends on his own. Plus, they were his age and understood him. They even went along when he went on about high level science. He did spend most of his day attending college level classes, but at the end of the day, he'd join them for their super classes.
"During a stealth mission, depending on your abilities, how do you pass an enemy guard? Do you:
a) Attempt to sneak pass them unnoticed?
or b) Take them out from behind?" Violet read out the question from their Field Theory homework.
"This is one of those trick questions, isn't it?" Wilbur asked, staring at his paper.
"Only here there'd be different answers for each student." Hiro commented.
"Well, at least no one can cheat, because if you copied someone else, chances are, their powers are completely different from yours." Penny said.
"With illusion and invisibility, we could easily sneak past the guard unnoticed." Penny said. "I could just create an illusion to distract him and sneak by unnoticed."
"It would less likely alert others." Violet nodded.
"It just says one guard." Hiro pointed out.
The three of them blinked at him. Clearly he missed something.
Wilbur came over and threw his arm around Hiro. "I get the whole super thing is new to you, but have you watched or read about superheroes? There's never just one bad guy."
"You've been on how many stealth missions?" Hiro questioned.
"Does breaking into my dad's time lab count?" Wilbur joked.
"Do I even want to know?" Violet raised an eyebrow at him.
"I bet he'd tell us any way." Penny laughed. But she did enjoy hearing his stories. They were interesting and she'd willingly admit it.
"As great as it sounds. We've got homework to finish first." Violet said.
"You sure know how to spoil fun." Wilbur said blantly.
"Once we get this done, you can tell all the stories you want." Violet said.
"I agree with Vi." Hiro said, getting away from Wilbur's grasp. "It'll pile up if we hold out. Plus, this is the most interesting homework I've ever had."
"Dude, you're such a nerd." Wilbur smirked, rolling his eyes.
The group laughed and continued on with their work, with the occasional conversation.
Location: Lucky Cat Cafe, San Fransokyo
Saying she missed her nephew was an understatement. Cass couldn't stand that Hiro wasn't coming through the door anytime soon. Every time the bell rang, she would get her hopes up, hoping the NSA would return her nephew. Since he left she hadn't heard from him. She understood that she couldn't contact him, but not knowing if he was okay or not was driving her insane.
"My scanners sense you are depressed." Baymax said, entering the room with his usual waddle.
"Oh don't worry Baymax." She brushed the robot off. "I just miss Hiro, that's all." The woman smiled. No point in convincing him otherwise. As useful as Baymax was, he had a tendency to make sure everyone was one hundred percent with themselves. Sometimes his nursing could annoy you. She recalled when Hiro caught a fever sometime last year and Baymax would not leave his side. It was fine for a few hours until Hiro was finally sick of it and threatened to deactivate him for the duration of his current sickness. Of course he was thankful when Baymax's treatments shortened his time of being sick. But Hiro would never admit that.
"Do you know when Hiro will return?" Baymax asked.
Cass shook her head. "I'm afraid I don't." She sighed. "I just hope he is okay. Wherever he is."
"Hiro was in good health last time I scanned him. But his emotions were unclear."
It did make Cass feel a little better about how Hiro was when he left. But she couldn't understand what was going on with him emotionally. One day he just woke up with powers and didn't know what to do with them. It wasn't anything like waking up with a zit on your face. That much she knew. Most people looked down on supers. She personally never had any issues with them. So people had to pay a few extra taxes to pay for the damages supers caused. Better struggle for money than die before your time at the hands from some whack job.
Baymax comforted Cass by giving her a hug and it did work to a degree. She did need it. She just wished it was Hiro giving her one.
"Thanks Baymax." She patted the robot once he let go.
Location: S.B Williams Arcade
Clearly the NSA wasn't going to let them out anytime soon. Both Hiro and Wilbur were going at it on Hero's Duty. The arcade did work as a distraction and was only open during the weekends. Some of the board had decided against it, but Rick Diker reminded everyone that they were all kids with lives. They weren't here to be trained into soldiers. They were only here for their own protection. They were receiving training, but that was to keep their abilities intact. They weren't normal kids, but they were still kids and just because they had unique talents, it didn't make them different from any other normal kid.
At least that's how Rick Diker saw it. Of all the NSA agents, he was the one who saw supers as equals. He did tire of the problems they caused, but making mistakes and such was being human. He felt it fair that since the kids were being kept here, they should at least try to keep them occupied. Plus he brought up an argument that video games helped in their development. That sold the board.
Violet and Penny came in and just saw the boys finished their game. Once again, they couldn't get past the cybugs and collect the medal.
"I swear this game is rigged." Wilbur complained. They've been at it all morning and just couldn't defeat that final swarm of them.
Even Hiro was stumped. Usually games came easy to him. He'd just pick up on a strategy and work from it there. But the last several swarms began to go random and he couldn't find the pattern. Maybe he really needed to look hard for a new angle.
"Don't tell me you've been playing on this thing all day?" Violet questioned, but she knew what their answer would be.
"We finally get a break from homework and so we're seizing the opportunity." Wilbur stated.
Both girls rolled their eyes. The two of them had mostly spent the day talking in their dorm and went out to the quad. Basically, they just walked around. Violet was even comfortable with Penny taking photos. If one went into their room now, they'd see a bunch of photos of their group. Most were of Violet and Penny as the two spent more time together, but there was also a fair number with the boys as well.
"So are you two just going to play until you beat this thing?" Penny asked, a smirk forming on her face.
"Pretty much." Hiro nodded.
The girls sighed. What was it with boys and their games?
"Why not let us help you out?" Violet offered.
Wilbur and Hiro just looked at them wide eyed.
"No offence, princess, but I never took either of yous for the game girl type." Wilbur commented. But seeing the offended look on their faces, he quickly regretted it and held his hands up.
"Dude." Hiro said. "You didn't." Even Hiro knew his friend was in trouble. He was thinking it too, but he was smart enough not to say it out loud. You didn't need a super brain for that. Just common sense. Something he knew Wilbur lacked most times.
"So you think just because we're girls we can't handle shooting a few bugs?" Penny raised an eyebrow. "You forget, neither of us are normal girls. So don't underestimate us. Give the gun and you'll see."
Seeing as he wasn't going to convince them other wise, Wilbur stepped aside and motioned for them to go on right ahead.
They restarted the game and soon the four of them were off. They received the briefing from Sergeant Calhoun and no sooner had they left the ship, cybugs began swarming and quickly the four began to shoot at them.
"One of the main characters is a female and you have the nerve to question us?" Violet questioned, her eyes not leaving the screen.
"Okay, you win there." Wilbur surrendered.
All their focus was on the game, but the usual "over there!" or "watch out!" was shouted amongst them.
They weren't sure how long had passed, but the final cybugs went down and they were escorted to the hall of heroes and received their medal. The two girls high-fives each other and smirked towards the boys, who were stunned. Mostly because both the girls had scored twice as many as they did.
"Okay, how?" Hiro shook his head. "We tried every strategy and lost. But you two come and suddenly it's a win first try?"
"When you have a brother who runs faster than the speed of light you become aware of pretty much anything. Apply that to video games like this and you almost never lose." Violet said. The years of dealing with Dash using his speed against her have made the teenager more aware of what was around her. Almost nothing went past her.
"I don't have a sibling, but I have three different pets at home and you need eyes everywhere with them." At the best of times, Bolt, Mittens and Rhino got along, but all were so completely different. Bolt was really playful and was always eager to go out and mess around outside. Mittens had a tendency to nap in some bizarre places, mostly in spots that were in the way. Then there was Rhino. He didn't move much and would just watch TV, but he left a lot of food lying about.
"So maybe...don't underestimate us." Violet told them threw her gun at Hiro. He struggled to catch it as his own was still in his hand.
"I wasn't the one who doubted you." He defended.
"No. But you were thinking it." She said as she walked passed him.
Hiro blinked and watched her walk away before turning back to Wilbur and Penny. The two were snickering at what just happened.
"Oh dude." Wilbur said.
"Don't think you're off the hook." Penny said, crossing her arms. "And you know this arcade is most likely a training technique." She picked that fact up almost instantly. Games tend to help with hand eye coordination.
"So you're saying that we've been tricked into doing school work?" Wilbur questioned. Oh they were clever. He'd give them that.
"So there is the brain up there?" Hiro commented.
"Hey." Wilbur feigned offence.
While the others were back there, Violet made her way to Dash and found him playing on the Sugar Rush game. She knew he was only interested in it because it had a racing aspect to it. Dash loved anything to do with speed and competing.
He was picking his character and saw he had chosen Vanellope Von Schweetz.
"Why her?" Violet asked.
"Because she's the coolest." Dash admitted. Violet noticed the way he was looking at the character odd. Kinda like...oh he didn't.
"Don't tell me you have a crush on a video game character?" She tried to hold back a laugh.
Dash went red. "So..." He hesitated.
"Of course you would get a crush on someone who doesn't exist."
"Better than crushing on a nerd." He retorted.
"I don't have a crush on Hiro!" She denied.
Dash smirked. He got something on her now. "I never said it was Hiro."
Violet was about to say something, but couldn't. No witty remark. Dash didn't say Hiro, but something in her brain just told her he was implying him. Even if he didn't say it out loud, she had and that would've confirmed his suspicions of it.
"Shut up, you lousy insect." She growled and stormed off. She relaxed by the time she rejoined her friends.
"Where'd you go off too?" Hiro asked.
"Just went to check on my brother." She replied. "Guess you two aren't the only ones obsessed with the games here."
"I know if I raced him in real life, he'd beat me. But do you think it'd be a fair fight in a video game?" Wilbur asked.
"Possibly." Violet shrugged. "If you know the game and are strategic, you could beat him."
"Ooh, looks like you can't beat him Wil, since you don't got a lot going on up there." Hiro teased, pointing to his head.
"I know strategy." Wilbur said, once again offended. "Looks like I'm also being underestimated."
"You do have brains at the best of times." Penny defended for him. Wilbur was smart, but he had a tendency to look past things and think quickly.
"Nice to see some people appreciate me." Wilbur said.
"You may excel in school, but if common sense was a subject, you'd fail." Violet told him.
"You win this time. But you did just admit that I'm smarter than you." Wilbur grinned.
Violet just shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"Maybe instead of being competitive, we could talk about how we kicked ass as a team in Hero's Duty." Hiro suggested. He noticed while playing they weren't really competing against each other, but working together. The girls may have hit more cybugs than the two boys, but they still helped each other out. If a cybugs was approaching the other unknowingly, one of the, would shoot it for them.
"I do admit, we did look pretty bad ass." Penny nodded.
"Maybe we should go again?" Wilbur suggested.
"I think you two have had enough of Hero's Duty. Let's get some lunch first?" Violet said, looking to the both of them.
"I am getting hungry." Hiro admitted. He didn't recall eating breakfast. Unless you counted a cereal bar before you left your dorm. Highly unlikely.
"Besides, I hear they're serving burgers. None of that diet they serve us during the school days." Penny said. She knew how the boys thought. It was nice the school let them let loose on weekends. Of course the usual menu was still present for those who were strict on what they ate.
"Finally! Something decent to eat." Wilbur said with praise. Not that the food they served wasn't good. It was alright, but sometimes you craved something with a bit more flavour or a lot.
Location: Unknown
He was twitching non-stop. His bloodshot eyes were unfocused and appeared fogged up. But no one seemed to cared. He'd be gone soon any way. She had gotten what she wanted from Agent William. The device was meant for supers and with their stronger immune systems and tolerance for pain wouldn't be harmed as much. A normal human couldn't take it and eventually they would shut down.
"Dispose of the body." She ordered. Two men came in and escorted William out.
"Don't...think you've...won...yet." He let out a final say to her.
She couldn't care less about his last words. She got the location of the school. It was practically gift wrapping her the next generation of the demented species. Supers ruined her life and she wanted them all gone. And she was going to wipe off a bunch of them in one go.
AN: Hey, late update here. My bad. Enjoy the little Dash x Vanellope reference.
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