Explanations, of Sorts

"Hey, Fred! What is this big surprise we're supposed to rush over here to s… ee." Dark brown eyes narrowed into slits as a tiny slim Asian woman stumbled to a sudden halt. A tall lean Hispanic woman followed suit nearly walking into her. A soft gasp escaped Honey Lemon's lips and she raised a hand to her mouth, green eyes wide in shock.

Silence.

The inflation of a bright pink bubble was the only sound to be heard, each second that ticked by agonisingly slow.

Pop.

The bubble popped and Gogo burst into motion marching straight up to Tadashi. Arms crossed she sauntered around him, black sneakers not making a sound. Head held high, she carefully ran her eyes over him, assessing, measuring, processing and then she punched him square in the jaw. "That one's for dying on us!" She exclaimed following the first punch with another, this one aimed at Tadashi's gut. "And that one's for coming back without so much as a warning.

"Gogo!" Honey Lemon exclaimed rushing forward to pull the flailing slim woman away from Tadashi.

Tadashi was leaning forward, one hand supporting himself on a knee and the other cradling his gut. He had not seen either blow coming. He'd reeled back in shock when Gogo's fist connected with his jaw and folded in on himself with a silent wince when she connected with his gut. The blows hurt but that was the least of his problems. Gogo's words hurt far more. "Dying on you?" Tadashi gasped out, his mind reeling.

"Yo, man, you ok?" Fred asked reaching out to support Tadashi. He directed a pointed look Gogo's way. "The idea was to break that news to him gently." He softly reprimanded her guiding Tadashi over to a sofa before making him sit down.

"Dying on you?" Tadashi repeated looking up at Fred in confusion. He understood the individual words but they didn't make sense. He wasn't dead. Or at least he didn't think so. "Fred, what's going on here?"

"What's going on? I'll tell you what's going on." Gogo managed to wiggle out of Honey Lemon's grasp and threw herself at Tadashi once more. She grabbed hold of his shirt and sweater pulling him in towards her. "You stupidly ran into an exploding building trying to save someone who neither needed nor deserved saving and then disappeared. We all thought you DIED! We BURIED you. Hiro was a WRECK and now you have the audacity to come back and pretend none of it happened?"

Tadashi raised his arms in surrender, eyes wide in disbelief and shock. "Gogo… I swear, the last thing I remember is running into the showcase building. I was going to save Callaghan but someone pushed me and the next thing I knew I was outside on the lawn, running towards Fred and Wasabi."

Gogo narrowed her eyes further and glanced towards Fred, seeking confirmation. Fred nodded. "Wasabi and I were investigating the appearance of the old showcase building. The weird box Hiro gave Wasabi went crazy, so we ran. There was a big boom and a whoosh…" Fred waved his arms about in illustration, "…and the next thing I knew Tadashi was leaning over me asking me to count fingers. It was AWESOME!" Fred beamed, his earlier excitement returning as he relived the moment.

"Gogo." Honey Lemon gently reached out to place a hand on Gogo's shoulder. "It's not like Tadashi to worry us on purpose." She nervously glanced at Tadashi as she spoke, mixed emotions still swirling through her. She couldn't believe what she was seeing but they had seen some strange things since becoming Super Hero's. Besides miracles were not unheard of and if anyone deserved a miracle it was Tadashi and Hiro.

Gogo pushed Tadashi back into the sofa releasing his clothing. "Whatever." She turned and walked to the corner of the room proceeding to lean against the wall. She crossed her arms and continued to glare at Tadashi.

"Where's Wasabi?" Honey asked. Nervously adjusting her overly large glasses which had begun to slip.

"Over there." Fred pointed to another sofa. Wasabi was lying passed out on it, no longer in his Super Hero Costume. "Tadashi says he passed out when he saw him. Heathcliff took care of him."

Honey nodded before sitting down beside Tadashi. She gingerly placed a slim hand onto Tadashi's knee. "You ok?"

Tadashi shook his head, running a large hand over his face in stress. He hadn't even begun to imagine things could be so complicated and was struggling to take it all in. "So… I'm dead?"

Honey's hand fluttered nervously. "That's what we thought."

"In the showcase fire?"

Honey nodded.

"Oh man. What am I going to do now?" Shadows of panic flickered across Tadashi's face, his breath coming in short gasps as he fought to process all the potential implications of what he was being told. He'd died. He'd left his friends behind. Aunt Cass had lost, mourned and buried him. He'd lost his life, everything he knew and broken a promise he'd give everything to keep…

He'd left Hiro behind.

"Take each day as it comes?" Honey suggested, ignoring the soft ringing of a phone. "It's probably not going to be easy and we're all going to have to adjust but…"

"Yo, Heathcliff." Fred answered the phone in a hushed tone.

"It's good to have you back." Honey continued. "Hiro misses you so much." Tadashi glanced at her, desperately hoping there was some way he could fix this, some way to make things right again but most of all hoping there was some way he could make it up to Hiro.

Fred dropped the phone and snatched up a remote control off of the table. He urgently pushed a button triggering a sliding wall. "Come on, come on, come ooooooon." He bounced up and down on his feet in impatience as if the movement could urge the wall to open faster.

The wall continued to slide open in a steady pace revealing a large television screen as it did so. Fred frantically pushed a couple of more buttons turning the television on, flipping the channel and turning the volume up. A newscaster was speaking on the screen, footage of the incident in question running in the background. "… ausing a major disruption at Krei Tech. The leader of Big Hero 6 and his sidekick intercepted the dark mass but were unfortunately overcome. This footage was taken by our team on scene."

Tadashi gasped.

A large mass of micro-bots made its way across the screen destroying everything it in its path. A flash of purple and orange crossed the screen heading towards the threat. The next few scenes were clearly cut, portraying snippets of a fight between the Micro-bots and the flying figures. The pair was putting up a good fight but it was clear they were grossly outnumbered. "The pair of Hero's bravely put up a fight, trying to stop the terror that had seemingly appeared out of nowhere…"

The purple figure leapt off of the orange one and ran across the top of Krei Tech pulling out and firing an electrical weapon of some sort. The orange figure flew in a weaving pattern, clearly trying to distract the black mass. "… but were unfortunately outnumbered and outclassed by the swarm. The swarm attacked the pair,…" The swarm continued on, hitting the building. Krei Tech's west wing began to fold in on itself, glass, steel and cement tumbling down to bury the orange flying figure. The purple figure began to tumble down after but never hit the ground. Surging forward the micro-bots encased the figure before heading away from Krei Tech, leaving destruction and chaos behind. "…snatched the leader and fled the scene."

The scene switched back to the newscaster. "There were no signs of the rest of the team. Is this the end of Big Hero 6?"

- BH6 - BH6 - BH6 -

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews. They really are appreciated and do keep us writers writing :D

Lacila: I agree with you. Hiro is definitely not the only one that would be affected by Tadashi's return from the 'dead'. Something like this would affect everyone in Tadashi's life as well as Tadashi himself. I really hope the future chapters you see yourself fangirling over do not disappoint as there is more to this than Tadashi returning :D