Chapter 58, everybody! Hiro's really starting to get invested, isn't he? And also—as of this chapter we have ten chapters left! D:
So in Season 3 they tried to have Rishi as a replacement Hiro with Hiro playing Tadashi and apparently high summer isn't the best time to be showing off everything—honestly part of what probably convinced Hiro was all of Tadashi's friends showing stuff off. Moving on…I went to a campus college for two years before switching to online and Wasabi's moment is a mood if you have a classroom with windows. Big shoutout to my one early-morning Marketing class where the teacher was lecturing, pacing the front, paused by the window and looked down before saying "Those girls should not be playing tennis." When a friend told me her PE was Tennis I had to ask her if she had the eight o' clock slot. X'D
In other news…Tadashi has been waiting his whole life for this moment Hiro has finally discovered girls and he is ready. X'D Also Trina's question is the recurring one in my other BH6 fic Obake Itoko, where Obake is Hiro's age without strange shenanigans making it so (really need to work on Season 1 with that one). And yes organic family trees are confusing have you ever tried to figure out first and second cousins? Trina's referencing the Matrix movies and Season 2, by the way. Mrs. Matsuda's advice, meanwhile, is what Mom has told me on romance.
Juxshoa, thanks for the review! Maybe?
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They were able to do a quick tour of SFIT, Hiro showing off some of the cooler stuff before they hustled off to Noodle Burger ahead of Tadashi getting out of class.
"You want anything?" he asked her. "Or wait no you're buying right because you made bank?"
"Nah, had a big breakfast," she said, waving him off. "Think Dad's trying to ferret out more information on you—he tells me it's polite for the guy to buy anyway."
Hiro tried to keep his amusement tamped down. "So how did bot-fighting go?"
"I can say with absolute certainty that we did a hundred percent better than we did last time," Trina said brightly. "We actually survived round one."
"Nice—oh wait that means he bit it in round two, doesn't it?"
"Yeah," she sighed. "Got knocked out by Soto round two. But it's progress, right?" Pulled out some papers and unfolded them. "Took notes too like you asked so we can be all nerdy later."
"Well howdy and hello, mister and miss!" Noodle Burger Boy cheered, bopping over to them. "How may I serve you today?"
"Cheeseburger Kawaii Meal with a coke?" Hiro asked.
"Can do! And you?"
"You can answer my survey questions," Trina offered, pulling a pen out. "On a scale of one to ten, how likely are you to participate in a robot uprising?"
"Will there be Noodle Burgers involved?"
"Let's go with yes."
"Then a definite ten!"
"So I'm concerned," Hiro said as the robot bopped off.
"At least there'll be food," Trina pointed out.
Hiro wasn't able to lie about going to Noodle Burger considering he had one of the stickers on his jacket, tried to fluff through it by saying he wanted one of the Kawaii Meal toys. Which wasn't a lie.
"Didn't get the right one though," he said, holding it up. "So…probably going to have to try again."
"Not by yourself," Tadashi said, arms crossed. "Seriously? Going off by yourself and not telling anyone what's gotten into you?"
"I can provide some enlightenment," Wasabi offered. "Saw him out the window of my class and he was showing a girl around campus."
"Gogo I'm going to need help hiding a body," Hiro called.
"I have multiple options, pick your favorite," Gogo said.
Tadashi, meanwhile, had perked up in a way Hiro most definitely didn't like. "Better make it for two."
"So that narrows down the options."
"What girl?" Tadashi demanded. "Who is she? Does she have a name? Is she cute?"
"She's too young for you," Hiro said, hoping to derail the line of questioning.
No dice, Tadashi was poking his head and ignoring attempts at batting him away. "You mean you finally found out that girls don't have cooties?"
"Cooties, also known as: body lice, are not restricted to a single gender," Baymax offered, a finger up.
"EW Baymax we didn't need to know that—"
"Wait cooties are real?" Wasabi asked blankly. "Cooties are body lice EW—"
"Heyo! What're we talking about?" Fred asked, coming in.
"Cooties are body lice!"
"EW! Okay so that is so gross and I didn't need to know that can I go out and come back in and we pretend we don't know that now?"
Baymax blinked. "Good hygiene reduces the risk of body lice, as does routinely washing clothes."
"So I'm safe," Wasabi said, looking at Fred.
Fred considered this, a finger raised…finally pointed. "So I have some things to do later."
"GOOD."
"Hi guys, what's up?" Honey Lemon asked, coming in.
"We FINALLY got Fred to bathe!"
"No, we finally got him to agree to bathing," Gogo said.
Honey Lemon stopped, blinking. "That's good Freddie?"
"Well finding out that cooties actually do exist was kind of a big motivator," Fred said, waving a hand around.
"Cooties exist?" she asked blankly.
"Baymax tells us they're body lice and I was infinitely happier five minutes ago when I didn't know this," Tadashi told her.
Baymax blinked at him. "Your serotonin levels are not drastically different than they were five minutes ago."
"It's an expression, Baymax. But back to why we were on the subject in the first place."
Ah dang Hiro was hoping he'd forgotten. "Pretty sure she doesn't have body lice, Tadashi."
"Ooh she?" Fred asked.
"Don't you start, Fred."
"Hiro has a girlfriend," Tadashi announced, grinning.
"I do not! All I did was show her around campus! Excuse me for wanting to hang around other people!"
"That's how it starts. So how are you breaking the news to Karmi?"
Hiro pointed at him. "See this is why I wasn't going to tell you, you have to go and make it weird."
"I am not, it's just simple yes or no questions."
"Fine, no she is not my girlfriend."
"So what's her name?"
"No."
"Kinda a weird name."
"No, I'm not telling you, you'll hunt her down and start questioning her and make it awkward," Hiro said.
"I can work from a physical description. Wasabi?"
"GOGO."
"You over here," Gogo said, steering him away. "We'll discuss means."
"Seriously?" Tadashi asked.
"It's important to have options," Gogo said. "Besides, this might be a good opportunity to test out the one Professor Granville showed me."
Baymax blinked. "I have concerns."
"Me too buddy," Tadashi said, grimacing.
"I have bad news."
"You angered the robots and therefore won't be spared during the robot uprising," Trina guessed, putting her robot back together.
"Eh, no—Tadashi found out," Hiro said.
Trina blinked. "The brother?" she asked—when he nodded: "So now we're going to be dealing with a third wheel."
"Pretty much," Hiro groused, hugging his knees to his chest. "I was hoping for at least a week."
"Meh," she noised, shrugging. "We'll put him and Dad together and they can do the annoying speculating somewhere else."
"Or they arrange our marriage or something."
"Ew," she noised, sort of grimace-smiling at him. "And you haven't even bought me dinner yet."
"I offered to buy you lunch," he pointed out.
"And then immediately said I should buy it."
"The point is, I offered."
She waved him off. "So now that he knows…wanna sneak out bot-fighting?"
"You don't have to sneak out, your family is totally cool with you bot-fighting."
"Yeah but yours isn't, so that'll be fun."
Huff. "So is it just you and your dad?"
"I have an aunt, kinda," she said. "Well I say she's my aunt, we're not related and she's kinda eyeing Dad—I think she either wants to date him or kill him."
"So that sounds problematic."
"Yeah—when she's not like that she best fills the role of wine aunt. What about you?"
"Me, my brother, my aunt, her cat, Tadashi's healthcare robot…." Trail off, trying to figure out how best to describe Obake. "A friend of mine, think Aunt Cass is trying to adopt him. Honestly, all she needs is the papers at this point."
"So would that make him like a cousin or a brother?"
"Not sure," Hiro said, pondering this.
"What do you think?" Trina asked the robot. "Are organic family trees confusing?" Had the robot nod. "I feel the same way. So can I talk you into bot-fighting tonight?"
"Not tonight, Tadashi's on high alert and I have to do damage control," Hiro said. "Hopefully he hasn't told the whole city yet, managed to get away with not telling him your name but one of our friends saw us so now he's got a physical description."
"Ooh, I'm a big secret, am I?"
"Tadashi immediately went as weird as I thought he would, there were reasons for keeping us a secret," Hiro said. "Also today I learned cooties exist and I was much happier without that knowledge."
"Wait cooties are a thing?"
"Baymax had to go and tell us that cooties are actually body lice, which is so gross and now I itch everywhere."
"So you have cooties."
"Boy I hope not," Hiro said, scratching his head.
She snorted at that. "So what kind of a handle is Baymax?"
"Baymax is Tadashi's project—the healthcare robot? Pretty sure he wouldn't be down for the robot uprising, he likes helping people too much."
"I mean he could tend to the human farms once they're all hooked up to the Matrix to use as batteries."
"Pretty sure that wouldn't actually work, I read that the human body doesn't produce enough electricity to act as a battery."
Trina thought on this. "Ooh wait I know, robots take that genetics company Sycorax first, blend human DNA with electric eel DNA, and then use them as a battery farm."
"I'm concerned that you've thought this out this far."
"Might be toying with this for a story idea."
"I'd introduce you to Fred, but seeing as how he's also Tadashi's friend that runs the risk of him bringing everything back to Tadashi."
"That would complicate matters," she agreed. "So you gotta flake on bot-fighting tonight—what about tomorrow? When will the heat die down enough for you to see me absolutely dominate in the ring?"
"Maybe a week." Smirk at her. "And the way you're going, that'll be about the time you'll actually start dominating in the ring."
"Hey," she said, shoving at his shoulder. "I'm so not putting a good word in for you during the robot uprising."
"That's okay—you will, right?" Hiro asked the little robot, making it nod. "See? Totally safe."
"Traitor," Trina said.
"Maybe he likes me better because I put him back together."
"Well hopefully this round of upgrades will make it so you don't have to put him back together," she said, bagging everything before hugging him. "I'll tell you how it went."
"Uh—uh yeah," Hiro said, returning the hug and reminding himself that this was totally nothing. "Don't forget to take notes."
"Duh," she said, shouldering her pack. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"Bye," Hiro said, waving—opted to walk around the block a couple of times after that until he could get his expression under control.
Tadashi was waiting to waylay him when he came back. "Where have you been? Out with your girlfriend?"
"Aunt CASS," Hiro yelled.
"Busy! Dinner rush! Sort it out amongst yourselves!" she called.
"Hiro's got a girlfriend!" Tadashi hollered.
Aunt Cass suddenly wasn't so busy. "Wait what?"
"I do NOT," Hiro protested. "T—they're just a friend."
"Wasabi said it was a female friend," Tadashi said.
"Wasabi was misinformed?"
"Okay but focus," Aunt Cass said. "Female friend? Male friend? Cute friend?"
"AUNT CASS," Hiro groused.
"Oh come on I promise you can tell me," she said, steering him away from Tadashi. "Is it Megan?"
"NO," Hiro said. "Megan's dad is a cop, remember? He'll arrest me if I date her."
"We don't know that," she said, serving a table. "Besides, I'll take care of him, you just focus on your date so cute!" she squealed, pinching his cheek before breezing along to the next table.
"Help," Hiro said.
"Have something else for when the butterflies wear off," Mrs. Matsuda advised.
Hiro really didn't have anything to respond to that, waved at her before heading for the living room, glancing at the wall-mounted TV—
Stopped when he realized Bluff Dunder was reporting that Soto was under arrest for thievery in addition to bot-fighting, saying this was just the latest in a string of such bot-fight-thievery—
Ran into the living room, tugging out his phone and sending a text.
Zero2Hiro: U still going bot-fighting tonight?
Bounce up and down on his heels, praying Tadashi didn't come in and see him all anxious over a text—glanced down when his phone pinged.
Trinatron2000: Yeah, y?
Deep breath, send the text.
Zero2Hiro: I'm coming with u.