A/N: Thank you everyone again for your support. Reading through your reviews and seeing how many people added Scientist to their alerts and favorites felt overwhelming at times. You have no idea how much I appreciate it!

With that being said I also wanted to thank you for supporting my OC, Vera. A few of you reviewed and said that you really were starting to like her and that you thought she meshed well with the canon characters. That makes me feel so great seeing as how Vera is essentially a character from one of my original fiction stories that I've adapted to fit into Scientist.

Alright, I'm done boring you with my author's notes. Enjoy the chapter!

"And then this one," Travis pointed his chopstick at a very agitated Vera, "yells out 'hold on! I'm coming to help you!'"

Chiune looked over at Vera and grinned. "This so did not end well for you did it?" he asked her.

"The next thing I know is that there's this huge splash and Vera looks as though she's just surfaced from a high dive in an olympic swimming pool." Travis cackled with glee. Chiune burst out laughing, grabbing his sides and trying not to fall out of his chair at the kitchen table.

"That's right," grumbled Vera, "just laugh it up buddy. Just laugh it up?"

"What about the little old lady? What happened with her and her shoe?" he asked through his tears.

"She lost the shoe and called me a good for nothing lazy kid." growled Vera as she stabbed her fork into the white Chinese food container so hard that he was fairly certain it was going to come out the bottom. "Seriously! I remember intercepting counterintelligence agents that were more grateful to see me than that little old lady."

Travis had to set his carry out container on the table because he was laughing so hard that it was liable to spill all over the floor. "I had to take her to my apartment to dry off before we could even go get dinner."

"Which is why you showed up here wearing a pair of his sweat pants and a shirt twice your size." Chiune added.

"Well I wasn't about to put my suit back on when I was wet now was I?" muttered Vera hotly.

"No one is blaming you babe." Travis assured her as he squeezed her shoulder gently. Vera's sour mood lifted slightly. Travis looked as though he were going to say more but at that exact moment, both Chiune and Vera's phones went off.

He picked his up first. It was a text from Director Coulson. He opened it up and read it in confusion. "Turn on your tv?" Vera read the same words that he had on his phone.

Travis pushed himself out of the chair and walked to the back of the couch where the remote control had been thrown. "What channel?" asked Travis.

Vera looked at Chiune, holding her phone up for him to see. Just like his text from Coulson, there was no indication as to what channel or what exactly it was they were supposed to be seeing. "I don't know. It doesn't say." he said.

Vera rose to her feet, "Try the local stations first. It's Coulson so it's probably big news."

He followed Vera over to the couch and stood on the other side of Travis. Travis played his part dutifully, flipping through the local stations. Evening news and commercials mostly. "Wait! Stop! Go back a channel!" Vera cried out.

She'd taken the remote from Travis before he'd even gotten a chance to do as she'd asked. Vera flipped the tv back what appeared to be the national news. The scrolling title read, "California prison confirms Supervillain escaped last night." Something from his previous conversation with Coulson earlier that day clicked in his head. Hadn't Coulson said something about some sort of incident in going on in California that S.H.I.E.L.D. was investigating? Was this it?

In the top right hand corner of the screen was a picture of man clad in black and wearing a white and red kabuki mask.

"Isn't that…" Chiune started. His breath caught automatically as he looked at the image on the screen. He'd have been a pretty half rate robotics engineer to not recognize one of the greatest pioneers in his field of expertise.

"Yokai," finished Vera grimly. "First Supervillain to be convicted and sentenced to life in prison in California. It was a huge legal step in hero/villain and metahuman politics."

"Doctor Robert Callaghan, renowned robotics engineer and inventor. A real groundbreaker." he added reverently despite knowing that Vera vehemently disagreed with his admiration of the man. For some reason, though, she didn't comment as she usually did. Then again, the reason became strikingly clear to him when he looked at her.

"Old friend of yours?" asked Travis. The worry was clear in both his voice and his face. Chiune watched as Travis battled not to reach out and clutch Vera protectively to his chest. The pair had been dating before she'd been captured by Hydra. He was a flight instructor and had apparently given her flying lessons after a break up with a previous boyfriend to help her get over the other guy. Travis had been in the Air Force and his instinct to protect her was just as strong his own was.

"No, never met him but…" her voice trailed off. Vera's fingers started to twitch sporadically. She looked she was trying to force herself to watch the tv screen. He moved around to her other side and took her hand gently.

"You think it's Hydra, don't you imouto?" he asked her quietly.

Vera's hand curled around his subconsciously. "Call it instinct. Call it highly advanced training. Call it whatever you want, but this just smells of Hydra."

There was a knock at the door. Vera gave little scream and jumped. Travis latched on to her and pulled her close against his body. He started whispering something into her ear, most likely trying to take her mind out of whatever moment she was reliving. There was another knock on the door. It wasn't demanding or threatening but it made Vera quake all the more. "Stop knocking!" Chiune snapped before swearing under his breath in Japanese. "I'm coming."

He stalked to the front door while Travis tried to soothe Vera's frayed nerves. A quick check in the peephole told him that it was Director Coulson. Chiune let him in without hesitation. "Is everything alright in here? I thought I heard someone scream." Coulson asked in concern.

Coulson looked past him and saw Vera. Her face was bleached of any color and her eyes were wide. However, she was no longer clinging to Travis. She took a deep breath to steady her nerves. "I had a… um, a brief flashback... when you knocked. The news...it took me off guard for a moment." she said by way of answer.

He bit back a smile, glad for once that Vera hadn't immediately started apologizing for her flashbacks. He was proud of her for coming so far in her recovery. "I'm sorry, I didn't know." Director Coulson told her with genuine remorse.

Vera waved a shaking hand through the air to dismiss it. "Wasn't intentional." she murmured. Then she swallowed and looked up at Coulson. "Was it Hydra's doing?"

"Aaand...this is something that I probably don't have security clearance for." Travis grumbled, recognizing the situation right off the bat. He rubbed his forehead and sighed in defeat. "I should go."

"Thank you for your understanding Airman." Director Coulson replied. Travis gave a grunt in reply. He gave Vera a quick kiss on the lips and whispered something in her ear. Probably more reassurement before he left.

"Call me if you need me." Travis told Chiune as he grabbed his coat from the back of the chair. The door clicked shut, quietly, and it was just the three of them in the room.

Coulson motioned for them to sit down. Vera wrapped her arms around herself and made her way back to the table. He placed his hand on her back, just to let her know he was there. Unlike Vera and Coulson, he remained standing close to Vera's side. "We have a few field agents looking into it...but I think it is a pretty safe bet that yes, this was most likely Hydra's doing."

"Fantastic," Vera said quietly with a grim look on her face. She pushed away the forgotten take out containers so she could prop her chin up on the table. He pulled a file that neither Chiune or Vera had seen him carry in. Coulson flipped it open in front of he and Vera. Vera took it as he bent down to read over her shoulder. It was a basic rundown of what S.H.I.E.L.D. knew about Callaghan. Vera repeated her earlier words as she twisted her head to the side, "Dr. Robert Callaghan Supervillain and top dog of the robotics' field. Also Chiune's idol."

He winced at her disapproving tone. "Dr. Robert Callaghan is one of the prolific names in robotics Vera. His work paved the way for a lot of people. Yes, he is a Supervillain but that doesn't change what he did before that. Dr. Callaghan did a lot of good work." he reminded her emphatically but knowing it was futile.

"Until he had a so called psychotic break and plunged himself into a revenge fantasy that nearly killed Alistair Krei and several innocent bystanders." Coulson added.

"He most likely also killed one of his students to get the micro-robotics technology he used to try and fulfill his revenge. The prosecutors weren't able to prove it but many think that he set the fire in the San Fransokyo exhibition hall that killed his one of his students." Vera said with complete and utter distaste. "We studied the case pretty thoroughly last semester in one of my classes. Or at least as thoroughly as we could. The majority of the court records were sealed because of the fact that one of the victims involved was a minor."

"Callaghan said he was driven to a mental breakdown because he thought Alistair Krei was responsible for the accident he thought killed his daughter." he recalled.

"Alistair Krei was definitely responsible." Vera said fiercely. Her eyes took on the deadly flash that he knew just a little too well. He held up his hands pacifically in a sort of 'I know, I know' gesture. "A court should have found him guilty of negligence and manslaughter. For some unknown reason, they didn't."

"Callaghan's obviously no saint either." Coulson pointed out. "As Vera said, he claims he suffered a psychotic break during the fire and thought he saw the chance to right the wrongs that Krei had done to him. His defense attorney argued extreme emotional distress."

"They all do." Vera said scathingly, "It's either extreme emotional distress or mental disturbance. You can't be a proper Supervillain without a 'I'm crazy' defense."

He and Coulson both ignored her comment. Any indulgence and she would be off on a tangent, ranting and raving about Superhero/villain politics. Coulson continued, "Before his 'break down,' Callaghan was a pioneer in his field as Chiune said. Had some really good ideas and inventions. He caught many people's eyes from governments to intelligence agencies."

"Including Hydra you think." he said thoughtfully as he took the file from Vera's hand. The picture of Robert Callaghan was familiar to him in a way that went beyond the normal familiarity of recognizing a well known and respected robotics engineer. Then again, he'd seen it dozens of times in the science journals he liked to read as well as in the newspaper articles he'd been studying. The sensation was probably just because of the fact that he'd seen Callaghan's face so many times.

"Again, I still have field agents trying to confirm that but I think it's suspicious that nearly a year after you escape from them that now, all of a sudden, a Supervillain with similar expertise breaks out of prison."

Vera leaned back in her chair and cocked her head to the side thoughtfully. "Any indication that he had plans to break himself out? Supervillains don't exactly find prison of any kind their ideal home away from home." she asked.

"None," Coulson answered with absolute certainty. "His daughter visits him regularly and told investigators that he seemed content to serve his sentence in peace. There's that and the fact that videos indicate that Callaghan didn't escape without help. That was pretty clear."

Vera stiffened, "You don't think that…"

"That Hydra is still on a kick to find ways to strike at metahumans?" Director Coulson finished for her. Chiune wrapped his hand around Vera's shoulder. She'd been doing so well. "I think they still are and I think the team called Big Hero 6 might be in danger." Coulson added.

"They aren't metahumans though." he pointed out.

"No but they are Superheroes and they did stop Callaghan." Vera said quietly. "Supervillains can't usually resist going after those who first brought them down. It's a bit of an ego thing for them. Ego and revenge. On top of that, if Hydra were to figure out how this team was able to build such advanced equipment then it could be used to augment their own weapons arsenal for their war on metahumans and freedom."

"Big Hero 6 could be an important component to them." Coulson said simply. Director Coulson looked at Vera and the implication was evident. Big Hero 6 might be just as important to Hydra as Vera had been. From her they'd pieced together how to seemingly block a metahuman's Superhuman abilities. Another opportunity to pick something apart and hurt it beyond all logical comprehension. His heart clenched at the thought of someone as young as that seventeen year old boy falling into Hydra's clutches. Who knew what and just how much they would learn from Big Hero 6 and how far they would go to learn it.

"What do we do?" asked Chiune.

"We switch directions with project BH6." Coulson stated. He reached into his suit coat pocket and fished out and a long packet. He slid it across the table towards Chiune. It had his name on it, he saw as he picked it up. Inside it was an airline ticket to San Fransokyo. "You leave tomorrow morning." Coulson told him simply.

"Coulson," he said, eyes going wide is shock, "Wait! Are you serious?"

"Very," answered Coulson as he gave a nod.

Chiune rubbed his chin as he looked down at the plane ticket. "This is…" he stammered, "wow!"

"I'll say." Vera mumbled under her breath as she looked at the ticket with an unreadable expression. That's when he realized something.

He couldn't leave Vera. Not after she'd just had another flashback. Not after she'd just been told that Hydra was possibly looking to go after another group of Superheroes. He shook his head and held the ticket back out to Coulson. "You should send someone else." he told Coulson before giving Vera a pointed look, "I have things here I need to make sure are alright."

"I knew you'd say something like that, so..." Coulson gave an understanding nod and reached back into his pocket. He withdrew another long packet from inside his suit and slid it across the table.

Vera picked it up in confusion. "You want me to go to San Fransokyo too?"

"We could really use your help again." Coulson said sincerely.

Both his and Vera's eyes narrowed. "Absolutely not Coulson." Vera said snapping the airline ticket back down on the table and shaking her head violently. "I'm not coming back to S.H.I.E.L.D."

"For the record I agree." he added. "You want to send her back into a snake's nest."

"What I want to do is someone who knows Supervillains on hand to help my agents predict what Callaghan may possibly be doing for Hydra." Coulson explained.

"You forget that I'm a basket case, ticking time bomb that could explode into a mental breakdown at the drop of a hat and at the worst possible moment most likely." Vera told him. She crossed her arms over her chest and pointedly refused to look at the the airline ticket that Coulson had placed in front of her.

"I wouldn't go that far." Chiune told her with a wince.

"Hydra...tortured me." Vera stumbled over the words. Her hands were shaking, badly. She fought through it though. "Do you know what set me off when you got here? It wasn't you knocking on the door. I was already rattled by the news report. The one about Callaghan. I knew he was a robotics expert. His skills are similar to Chiune. Hydra doesn't stop, won't stop, until they have what they want. I could tell this was them just by watching the news report. That's what caused my sudden anxiety attack. Something as little as that set me off Coulson."

"Vera," Coulson started. Chiune tensed as Vera's face became hard.

"You want to send me back into a situation with known Hydra involvement. It won't be a matter of if I have a break down. It'll be a matter of when and how bad. If you put me in San Fransokyo as a field operative, I could jeopardize the entire mission and everyone involved." she said fiercely.

Coulson didn't push the ticket back into her hands but he stared at her piercingly. "You'd be a consultant. No field work or spying involved. That I promise you."

Vera didn't say anything and neither did Chiune. When Coulson realized that they weren't going to respond, he pushed forward. "No one knows Supervillains the way you do Vera. No one has the experience with them like you do."

Vera swallowed hard. Slowly, she took the ticket from the table once more. He and Coulson both watched as she opened it to stare at the plane ticket. He squeezed her shoulder gently. "You don't have to do this if you don't want to. It's your choice Vera."

Vera looked up at Director Coulson. "Consultant only, no field work?" she asked him uncertainly. Coulson nodded. "I won't be anywhere close the investigating agents or Hydra?"

"Not likely," Coulson gave her as much assurance as he could. Vera shifted. It was as good as they were going to get.

Vera picked up the airline ticket again. She flicked it back and forth between her fingers as she stared at it blankly. He bit his lip as he waited for her to do or say something.

"You won't go if I stay." Vera said quietly as she reached up and grasped his hand on her shoulder. He started to say something, what he wasn't entirely sure because it was the truth, but Vera gripped his hand harder and cut him off. "Don't even try to deny it. I know you way to well robot boy. You won't go because you think that I need to be watched twenty-four seven."

She looked up and locked a hard gaze on Director Coulson. "What's your detail plan for Chiune?"

"Wait, what are you talking about?" he asked in confusion looking between Coulson and Vera. Vera twisted around in her chair. She looked at him with the same hard gaze that she'd given Coulson. It was very reminiscent of the fierce look she'd given him when they'd made their escape from Hydra and it made him stop, just like it had the last time.

"Your protection detail." she answered him matter of factly. "If we're going to San Fransokyo and most likely into the thick of a Hydra nest then we need to discuss S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plans to keep you from falling into Hydra's greedy little hands again."

"But you never gave an answer as to whether or not you were coming." he told her in confusion.

The chair scraped across the floor as Vera stood up. She laid both her hands on his shoulders, not an easy feat since she was so much shorter than he was, and a small smile twisted on to her lips. "We have to find Big Hero 6 and we have to keep them safe. You're S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best hope of figuring out who they are and you can't do it from behind a desk. As far as me going, unfortunately Coulson is right. I probably have the most first hand experience with Supervillains that isn't tied up in the Avenger's project. I have to get inside Robert Callaghan's head and I definitely can't do that from behind a desk here in New York either, so we might as well talk with Director Coulson about how he plans to keep you under Hydra's radar."

Chiune smiled back at her, "You mean to keep us under Hydra's radar."

"Precisely," nodded Vera. Her smile was plastered tightly on to her face but there was something in the way that she hung on to his shoulders with trembling hands that made him want to wrap her in a hug and not let her go.

X X X

"Hiro, your blood pressure is elevated and your heart rate has accelerated quite rapidly. I suggest that sitting down and taking deep breaths as a possible treatment." Baymax said. His voice was its typical monotone but yet somehow still managed to convey worry. Of course that was impossible seeing as how Baymax was a robot, but still!

"He was supposed to be locked up!" Hiro said. His words came out like a hiss between his clenched teeth as he stared at the footage on the television. His hands curled tightly around the chair he was standing behind.

"Hiro?" called Aunt Cass as she looked over the stair railings at him. "Are you alright sweetie? Why is Baymax activated?"

"Callaghan is supposed to be in prison!" growled Hiro. Anger raced through him, making his entire body cold and shaky.

"What are you talking about Hiro?" Aunt Cass shook her head as she came down the stairs towards him. "Dr. Callaghan is in prison."

"It appears as though Dr. Robert Callaghan, also known as Yokai, is no longer located at the penitentiary facility he was placed in." Baymax supplied.

"He escaped!" Hiro yelled. "How could he possibly have escaped? He was supposed to stay locked up for what he did to Tadashi!"

He gave an angry yell and stomped his foot, pacing back and forth in the kitchen as he ran his hands through his hair. Vaguely he was aware of Aunt Cass staring at the ongoing news report. The one that said that California's first convicted Supervillain had escaped from prison. He heard her gasp in shock but he was too wrapped up in his own anger. How dare Callaghan do this! How dare he try to avoid the punishment he'd been handed down for killing Tadashi! "Baymax," he growled, "call everyone else. We need to talk about how we're going to track Callaghan down."

"Hiro I am not sure if this is the wisest…" Baymax started to reason with him.

Hiro wasn't listening. He waved his hand through the air. "Just do it. It'll help my adolescent mood swings."

Well sort of. Putting Callaghan back in prison would definitely do him some sort of good.

He went to grab his coat off the table. Before he got more than half a step though, someone caught his arm. He whipped around, still fuming. That is until he saw Aunt Cass's worried face. The anger that had been burning inside of him started calm to a dull roar. "Hiro, sweetie," she said pleadingly, "Be careful alright."

Hiro grasped her hand gently and pulled it from his arm. He wrapped his arms around his aunt and tried to infuse every ounce of reassurance he had in his body into his hug. "I will." he promised her, whispering over the top of her head, "Don't worry."

He pulled away from her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Come on Baymax. We can't let Callaghan get away."

Thank you again to all who reviewed, followed, and favorited this story.

A special thank you to last chapter's reviewers...

The Guardian of the Sky: Thank you for your support. I also see your Tadashi reference! Took me forever, but I caught it lol.

AK47reloaded: Well a few MCU references anyways. I'm not as proficient as I would like to be but I do enjoy my little jokes here and there...probably more than what makes sense haha.

InsanityIsClarity: Yes, the plot is beginning to take shape. I'm glad you enjoy this story. I had way too much fun writing it (most of the time).

Guest (Anon reviewer): Your review really put a smile on my face! I'll be honest. I thought about putting in a "Who the heck is Tadashi?" joke in on Tadashi's part (followed by a mortified reaction from Big Hero 6 and Tadashi quickly taking it back) into a later chapter but couldn't find a good place to put it in. That and it seemed a bit too cruel. I also am operating under the premise that Tadashi has retrograde amnesia where a person's personality remains mostly intact. Seeing as how Hydra kidnapped him in the first place to be an ace robotics engineer, I don't think they would've risked brainwashing him and losing all that valuable knowledge and skill set.

MagicWriterK: Yep! Tadashi/Chiune is on his way to San Fransokyo because there's a group of Superheroes there that don't even realize what sort of danger they're in.

Ember Neutron: Yes, things are going to start getting interesting from here on out. A lot of factors in play.

JenniBaka2406: Honestly, my writing is 10% style and voice and 90% 10+ years of practice. As far as everyone being in character, that is the hardest part for me. I really struggle with taking other people's established characters and writing them believably. I have a strong admiration to fanfiction writers who can do that sort of thing.

Sabeloid: The majority of this story is finished. I am doing a couple rewrites on later scenes and editing earlier chapters to preface plot decisions I incorporated later on. However, you'll see an update once a week or so.

A Random Person (Anon reviewer): Making sure that Tadashi/Chiune (and Hiro in later chapters) stayed in the spotlight and the focus of the story was one of the very first decisions I made when writing Vera into the story. As for Callaghan, he was actually kind of difficult for me to write. I wasn't quite sure who or what I needed Callaghan to be besides a secondary villain that had yet to completely give up his bitterness. I hope that you and other readers will like what happens with Callaghan.

akizaki114: I'm so glad that you like Vera! She's not always the sweetest person (aka she has her flaws) but she's driven and will go after what she wants as well as fiercely protect those she cares about.

ThatGirlWhoWantsToBeAwesome: The first chapter was really just kind of a drabble for me when I wrote it but then I saw what it could be and thought that it would be fun to use fanfiction to explore and experiment with a few things with my writing. Thus, I came up with a set plot and let it go from there. I just hope my story lives up to your expectations for it.