It had been four hours since Leo had been to see Tadashi in the hospital, and in these four hours, Hiro had managed to get into trouble.
"Wait, wait. So, you took Baymax to an abandoned warehouse where you were attacked by a masked man who was using your microbot thingies?" Only four hours, Eleanor had been away and Hiro had gone and done something that could be very, very, dangerous.
"Yeah." Hiro replied nodding his head in a way that could probably give him brain damage.
"Are you crazy? You couldn't have waited until I got back? You could have gotten hurt, or killed Hiro. Killed. At the age of fourteen. We've already got Tadashi in the hospital, we don't need another Hamada to end up there." she huffed a little. She wasn't mad at Hiro for going out, she was a little more mad at herself for leaving for such a long period of time.
"Eleanor." Hiro said.
"What Hiro?"
"We have to get them back. There's no telling what he could do with those! We need a plan." It was moments like these Leo could see the hints of Tadashi in the younger boy. The facial expressions of determination were very similar and it almost hurt, but she didn't let it show on her face.
"I can see the wheels turning in your big brain kid don't even think about it." she said, knowing exactly what he was thinking.
"Oh come on Eleanor! It will be awesome! we'll just beef up Baymax a bit and we'll drag you along to experiment with your electricity! It'll be fun. We can do it in a few hours because I just upgraded Baymax. In an hour or so he should be able to track him down." Hiro had a good point, but that didn't make it any less dangerous. Maybe they could pull it off? What would Tadashi do? He'd somehow manage to blow off his leg and get into a coma. Wow, what a dry sense of humor, Leo thought to herself. Ugh. taking care of a kid is a lot harder than caring for a puppy despite the similarities of big brown eyes and the way they both got everything they wanted with an innocent look.
"Okay." she gave in.
"Yes! Yes! This is gonna be awesome! We're gonna take this guy out, he doesn't stand a chance!" Hiro jump up and fist bumped Baymax in an odd way Baymax saying something along the lines of 'Falalala?'. She wasn't going to ask.
"On a few conditions." she said, breaking his happy dance.
"Unbelievable." he blew his bangs out of his eyes with a puff. She smiled slightly at his behavior.
"Number one- we keep in touch with the gang back at SFIT for back up. Two- you stay close to me at all times. Three- we tell Cass we're going to the movies so she doesn't worry. Oh and anything else I think of on the way." she waited for his reaction.
"Alright. Fine." he crossed his arms, but he was glad she had said yes.
"Grab your coat, it's cold." He obliged as she pulled out her cell phone. It rang three times, crackling once or twice due to Leo's apprehensiveness for the risky situation.
"Hello, this is Wasabi." the voice on the other line spoke.
"Hey Wasabi, it's Eleanor, Tadashi and Hiro's friend? I kind of need a favor."
"Umm, okay? As long as it's nothing illegal." she could hear people in the background asking Wasabi who he was talking to and she was put on speaker phone.
"Hey Leo! We haven't seen you or Hiro in forever!" Honey Lemon's sweet voice came from the other end.
"Hey guys, I'd love to catch up, but about that favor. Hiro and I, also Baymax, are going somewhere slightly dangerous in a minute and we might need some backup if things get messy. You down?" She was silently praying they would say yes.
"Hmm, alright. Just text us if we're needed, but seriously try to be safe." There was the silent message of 'don't end up like Tadashi' in there and she caught it, but didn't say anything. She promised she would be as safe as possible and hung up.
"What are you doing Hiro?" Leo inquired as she glanced at the boy about to tell him they had succeeded in snagging some backup.
"Just downloading some fighting moves into Baymax is all." he said absentmindedly as he messed with the computer.
"Fighting moves," Leo responded, "doesn't that kind of go against what Baymax is all about?" She said as she grabbed a sweatshirt from the older boy's side of the room. It was going to be a cold night, she could tell from the chill she was getting or it could be like her sixth sense, like a spidey sense. Hah, that was unlikely.
"Alright, i'm done downloading them." Hiro said.
"Grab your coat kid, it's nearly freezing out there." She said as she pulled on a sweatshirt of her own and check to make sure the coast was clear to get Baymax up and out of the house without aunt Cass noticing. Eleanor sneezed and the lights flickered on and off several times, the alarm clock going off. How annoying, she thought as she slammed her tiny hand on it to get it to shut up. Hiro snickered at her behavior.
"Hiro." She said, interrupting his light chuckle. "I need you to get Baymax out while I distract aunt Cass. I'll tell her i'm taking you to see a movie and you better be outside that door when i'm done. We get one good shot at this." her words showed her determination to catch whatever man or woman who had stolen Hiro's invention. She also had a little pent up anger, okay, a lot, of pent up anger for the universe, so maybe fighting some crazy guy wouldn't be too bad. Then, she headed down the stairs to distract the aunt she practically adopted.
Cassidy Hamada was bustling around the kitchen, cleaning up pots and pans that she used for her cafe.
"Hey Aunt Cass!" Leo said sweetly as Cass jumped from the sudden voice.
"Oh, hey honey!What's up?" She said, wiping her hands on her pants.
"Well, I just wanted to let you know I was going to take Hiro to the movies with me." Leo said as she obstructed the older woman's view of the door, coughing so the sound of Hiro and Baymax leaving through the front door didn't grab her attention.
"Oh sure! It would be great for you two to get out of the house and have some fun, let loose, it's been a while. What are you guys going to go see?" Cassidy said. Ummm…. Leo thought. What movies were out again?
"Avengers: Age of Ultron." She said the first movie that came to her mind. Great now she really wanted to see that movie.
"Oh that sounds fun! Let me know how it is when you two get back. Have fun you two." she said with a smile as she turned back to her own work in the kitchen. Silently thanking the universe for letting at least this run smoothly. The bell above the door rung as she left the small building. She turned the corner and thankfully saw Hiro and Baymax.
"Alright, Hiro, your mission, should you choose to accept it," She joked, " is track down that di- ahem, jerk, who stole your genius idea. Do you accept?" She said, meeting eye level with the younger boy, smiling all the while even though her stomach was doing flips in anticipation. This could be very dangerous, but she was determined to act her age and not make matters worse by freaking out. They could do this. It wouldn't be too bad, right?
A/N JNIEUFLRHOIGHODSINVKLSNCOIEHF SORRY, THIS UPDATE IS REALLY LATE AND THIS CHAPTER KIND OF SUCKS, BUT I WILL BE CATCHING UP WITH THE MOVE AND I WILL MOSTLY FOLLOW CANON UNTIL AFTER THE MOVIE. I DON'T PLAN ON SPENDING A THOUSAND CHAPTERS ON THE MOVIE. I'M DEFINITELY GOING TO GO FARTHER IN THE MOVIE, AND DON'T WORRY I WILL ELABORATE MORE ON ELEANOR'S ABILITIES, BUT RIGHT NOW I'M JUST TRYING TO REALLY SET UP THE FIC, YA KNOW? SORRY THAT THIS CHAPPIE SUCKED AND I'LL TRY TO MAKE IT UP TO YOU WITH ALL THE REST OF THEM… STAY BEAUTIFUL MY LOVELIES
-WALLFLOWER