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Hiro had worked tirelessly everyday rebuilding Baymax. Not wanting to waste anymore time, he started the day after he found Baymax's green healthcare chip tucked away in his armoured hand.
Hiro ate and slept by his half built friend's side, not wanting to be a second apart.
His friends and Aunt Cass tried to convince him many of times to come home and take a break, but no matter how many times they asked he kept refusing.
"I can't leave him, I can't abandon him again," He blamed himself for Baymax's death.
"If only I looked where I was going, Baymax would still be here, It's my fault he's dead, It's all my fault." Hiro whispered.
He missed Baymax, with every fibre of his being, he missed everything about him.
He missed his love, care and kindness. The way Baymax would always wrap him up in his big plush arms whenever he was cold. Fuss over him and hold him whenever he was sad or lonely. He missed everything about him.
The day he left, his heart broke and everything felt cold, black, broken and empty, just like when Tadashi died. He was falling out of his mind again, but this time he had no Baymax to catch him.
He had now lost the two most important people in his life, in a space of a year.
But none of that mattered now, he had the Green chip and he was going to bring Baymax back.
Hiro had made a promise to himself, that he would never leave Baymax side no matter how dangerous it got. If Baymax was going to go, He would go too.
Hiro treated the green chip and Baymax's half built body, like he was already there.
He eventually stopped caring what people thought of him anymore, all he cared about was getting Baymax back.
His friends would catch Hiro randomly talking to the green chip at times, like somehow Baymax could hear him.
Even though they thought Hiro had lost the plot a little, they always stayed close by in case he ever needed them. They eventually in time understood and stopped asking him to go home and and rest.
They left him alone to carry on rebuilding Baymax in peace, even though it was hard thing for them to do. But they never stopped worrying about him.
His aunt would always stop by and visit Hiro every evening, making sure her nephew was okay, Bringing his dinner and meals for the day ahead and some clean laundry too.
Aunt Cass would always try to stay for at least an hour, have a cup of tea, see how her nephew was doing today and see how Baymax was coming along.
In Hiro's absence, his friends had been the ones to tell Aunt Cass, who and what? Baymax was and why he meant so much to her nephew.
She had been shocked at first at how she missed a 6ft, walking, marshmallow in her home. Her face softened when, she realised that he was Tadashi's last project and how much Baymax had taken care of her nephew and helped him through the grieving process. It made her warm inside and even made her even miss Baymax too.
But she believed in her nephew and that he could somehow bring Baymax back.
Sadly, she could not stay long and would have to leave early, as she had to go to bed, so she could open her shop in the morning. She hated leaving her nephew all alone in his lab at night, when everyone else had gone home to their beds.
But like his friends, she tried not to worry too much about him, as she knew it wasn't forever, Baymax would hopefully be back soon and then they both could both go home together.
Hiro didn't mind though, he had in fact made a bit of a nest for himself in his lab.
He had installed a fridge, Tv and a DVD player in there and has brought some old family photo albums, books, clothes, pillows, bedding and some old home movies.
They were scattered everywhere in a mess, but Hiro didn't care, his lab had become his home from home. He worked tirelessly through the night, only pausing to eat, take a break, watch, laugh and cry at old home movies with his half built friend.
When he wasn't doing that, he was mindlessly chatting to Baymax while working on him, call it lack of sleep? He was really past caring anyway, as far as he was concerned, Baymax could hear him loud and clear.
As well rebuilding him, he also worked on new upgrades for him, like changing his battery to a more powerful one, multiple charging stations so he couldn't go loopy on him.
He also upgraded Baymax, so he didn't have to say "ow", to activate him anymore, even though he could be still activated this way, he could also be activated, just by saying his name.
When he started up in this mode, instead of saying "Hello i'm Baymax your personal healthcare companion." He just simply stated "Hello Hiro", which in Hiro's mind was a lot less formal and a lot more relaxed.
He had even created numerous chips this time to work along side his brothers nursing chip and created more slots so Baymax could go beyond his program and be so much more. He had the usual green healthcare chip, which acted as Baymax's heart, stored all of his thoughts and memories inside, which made Baymax, well Baymax.
He even created more chips for different things. He made a orange chip for domestic chores, in case one day Hiro decided to move out and get his own place, a yellow chip with emotions on.
As he wanted to go above and beyond, by giving his robot something that no other robot had and that's the ability to feel emotions.
Joy, happiness, love, sadness, guilt, embarrassment, anger and even jealousy. He wanted Baymax to be able to feel empathy for a patient's pain, as he felt this would make him a better healthcare companion and hopefully evolve more into a A.I.
He created a blue chip, but that was for something later, which he stashed in his pocket, as the last thing he wanted to do was crash or overload him.
He did consider 're creating the red fighting chip for a moment. But thought better of it, as he remembered Baymax's rampage and without his green chip present, Baymax could be unknowingly very dangerous and unpredictable and the last thing he wanted was for him getting into the wrong hands.
Plus Baymax was already naturally protective of Hiro anyway, although it was against his protocol to harm another human being, Hiro wired him, so if someone was going to harm his patient, Baymax could temporarily override that function and come to Hiro's rescue, but only in a emergency.
Thar not needing the Red chip to be ever created again.
Then Baymax could stay the sweet, kind, gentle, cuddly, suffocating, over stuffed balloon man that he's always been.
But tonight he had finally done it, he had finally finished rebuilding Baymax, after Four months he finally done it.
He left 3 chips on a small table in front of his newly re built friend and decided to call it a early night.
Tomorrow he would be hopefully bringing his friend back to life.
He then moved Baymax's lifeless body into his charging station, as he wanted him to be at full charge.
And then snuggled into his sleeping bag on the sofa and hoped this would be his last night alone.
He brought up one photo albums called family, flicking through it, looking at all the old photos of his parents, him as a baby with his parents and Tadashi. Then him and Tadashi growing up with Aunt Cass and Mochi.
His attention turned to his Aunt and friends, Hiro knew how much his Aunt Cass and his friends cared for him and how they much they had been worried for him.
He did feel guilty of the way he had treated them these four months, shutting them all out and locking himself away. He knew it wasn't right, but it was like he was possessed, all he could see and think about was bringing Baymax back and that was it. He didn't seem to notice anything else that was going on and he knew once Baymax was back, he would have a lot of making up to do.
He got up, waddled over to where Baymax, who was now in his charger. "See you tomorrow buddy," Hiro smiled, turning off the lights and crawling back into his sleeping bag.
Fire, he saw fire, then heat he felt heat. He Then saw his brother run into the burning building again."Tadashi no!" Hiro screamed.
He was about to run in after him. When he felt soft vinyl hands on his shoulders holding him back, but when he turned around to face Baymax, his eyes were glowing red. "Baymax!" Hiro screamed, but Baymax was scarily silent. He then wrapped his soft, but firm, vinyl hands around Hiro's neck chocking him.
"You left me in that portal to die." Baymax growled.
"No, No Baymax, that's not true, it's not like that," Hiro whimpered. "I didn't want to leave you, honestly, I tried so hard to think of another way to get you out, honestly"
"You only saw me as nothing but a machine." Baymax growled at him again, strangling Hiro tighter and tighter.
"B,B,Baymax, I.. I love you," Hiro managed to breathe out and everything went black.
Hiro sat up panting, sweat now dripping down him and his head throbbed in pain. Looking around and seeing Baymax's still lifeless body in his charger. Realising it was only a nightmare.
He could see it was still dark outside, but then he could see the sun was starting to rise through the window, he looked at his watch, 6am it read.
Wiping his eyes, he got up and walked over to Baymax and looked up at him. He looked everything the same as Tadashi's Baymax, same puffed body and dull, yet warm, expressionless face.
"Sorry I couldn't save you buddy," Hiro wispered to himself, wiping his eyes and running his hand down Baymax's arm.
"Well today's the day buddy," Hiro smiled. He did wonder if he would end up like his brother and have to test Baymax 84 times to finally get him right.
He then started to pack everything away, hoping tonight would be the night, when they would both go back to Aunt Cass's house together. He then got dressed, had breakfast and brushed his teeth.
He then took the 3 chips off the table, but decided just load two of them, not wanting to overload him. He would load the third at at a later date.
The sun had just started to shine through the window and he felt finally ready to activate Baymax.
He thought it would be best to load him the old way first and then test the new way at a later date.
Taking Baymax off charge, he held his breath and took a step back.
"Ow".
He heard a faint wirring sound, as Baymax started to inflate and come to life.
"Hello, I'm Baymax, your personal healthcare companion."
"Hello Hiro."
Hiro stood there for a minute running his hands through his hair in shock.
He couldn't believe he had finally done it, Baymax was back, he was really back and on the first try too.
"Its you." Hiro laughed in shock, feeling like his heart was going to burst.
With that he ran and launched himself right into Baymax, pulling him closer and relishing the familar squish.
Tears of joy ran down his face, as he felt those familiar arms wrapping themselves round him once more. Leaning into him, grinning and finally feeling safe, contented and as as one again.
Hiro felt exactly where he wanted to be right now and that was in Baymax's arms, he felt like he never ever wanted to let go.
After a few minutes of hugging, Baymax tilted his head and blinked his optics, looking down at his patient, who was still snuggled into his companion's, soft, cuddly, body.
"Your neuro transmitter levels are high, this indicates your happy."
"I am, I really am big guy, I've missed you so much, you were gone for so long and nothing felt right anymore after you died. It felt like I had died inside too."
"Baymax I can't live with you and I'm sorry, I'm so sorry for leaving you behind, I really am, If I only looked where I was going, then you would had never died. Its my fault you died, it's all my fault, I'm so sorry." Hiro sobbed harder, as a new wave of guilt crashed over him.
Baymax who had been silently observing his patient just blinked and held him tighter. Taking his hand, he rubbed the back of Hiro's head and wiped away his tears with his big, balloon finger.
If there is one thing Baymax didn't like and that was seeing Hiro cry. He knew it was just a reaction to physical or emotional pain, but it was still something hard for the soft bot to see.
"No, Hiro please don't cry, don't ever be sorry and blame yourself, it was never your fault, I knew what I was doing and I chose to save you. Neither I or Tadashi, would had wanted you trapped in that portal."
"Your life men't more to me than mine, after all I'm just a robot, I can be rebuilt, but you can't, your life is irreplaceable. Plus I couldn't live with myself if I didn't know your safe. Your health and well being are important to me and your the most important thing to me. I'm sorry i haven't been here for you when you needed me, but none of that matters now, I'm here now and i will keep you safe, I promise."
Hiro looked up at Baymax in astonishment. " Baymax your not just a robot, Your my best friend, Maybe something more, your the most important person in my life and Ive missed you so..so much."
Hiro froze, feeling something warm, fluttering in his heart. "Baymax."
Hiro started to cry again, all of his pain, he had been storing up these months started to come out, as relief washed over him.
Baymax, sensing Hiro's emotional pain, picked Hiro up in his big, warm, puffy arms and brought Hiro closer to him while rubbing his back.
"Please don't cry Hiro, I'm here now, you are safe and I promise will never leave your side again, I love you."
"What did you say?" Hiro said shocked.
"I love you Hiro and I missed you too"
Hiro was silent in Baymax's arms, looking up at him in shock, getting another warm fluttering feeling in his heart. He took his hand, reached up and traced Baymax's face with his hand.
Baymax nuzzled his hand, bringing his head closer, so there foreheads were touching.
Hiro closed his eyes and reached in, so his lips were in line of Baymax's mouth. Baymax closed his optics, as he felt his own system heat up and hum with happiness.
Hiro could hear Baymax's fans whirring inside. It was far more intense than he realised, as he let out a few small gasps and "Baymax," Hiro murmured in between, as Baymax's grip tightened around him.
After a while Hiro pulled back and smiled, going dangerously red.
His breath hitched, when he felt Baymax nuzzling his face against his neck.
Attempting to copy him. Baymax eventually pulled back, practically smiling at him with his eyes.
"I love you too." Hiro cried, throwing his arms around Baymax's neck, bringing him closer.
After a while they both pulled back grinning at each other like idiots.
"Um i never thought my first kiss would be with a robot." Hiro laughed, going red and snuggling into Baymax's soft, squishy shoulder.
"But I really love you Maxi, I really do." Hiro sighed with contentment.
The chip, the yellow chip. The one with emotions on, Hiro thought to himself, it was working, Baymax was starting to feel emotions.
Upon hearing the commotion outside, his friends started knocking on the door.
"Hiro are you alright?" Coo'd Honey Lemon.
"Come in guys," Hiro called.
They let themselves in and saw Hiro sitting on Baymax's shoulder
"Hey guys."
"Omg! Hiro you did it, you brought Baymax back." They cheered.
"group hug!" Fred shouted and everyone hugged Baymax together.
"What the?...." Wasabi remarked.
"Dude he's smiling." Fred said.
"Awww isn't that sweet?" Honey lemon smiled, quickly snapping a picture.
"Hiro! What did you do to him." Gogo snapped.
Hiro, feeling very nervous of his friends now. Sat there, on Baymax's shoulder, rubbing the back of his neck.
"I may of created a chip, that can make Baymax feel emotions." He smiled
His friends stood there with there mouths open, looking at Hiro in stunned silence.
Hiro then fearing of his friends judgement, quickly added "I thought, it would make Baymax a better healthcare companion, if he could empathize with his patients?."
Finally Wasabi spoke up, "dude that's, that's."
"Sick, It's just a expression."
"Baymax!"
Everyone laughed.
"Still that's so cool, Baymax will be the first robot in the world to feel and express human emotion. Hiro do you realise what you have done?" Wasabi said in amazement.
"Hiro, I think this should be celebrated? Don't you?" Honey Lemon smiled.
"Party tonight at yours then?" Fred added.
Hiro nodded.
"I shall take Baymax home first, then I will go and ask Aunt Cass and see what she says, then i will call you later?"
"Yay, Nothing's better than free food." Fred cheered.
Even though it was still really early in the day, finally feeling at peace and having let everything go, he had been storing these few months. Hiro suddenly felt very physically and mentally exhausted and for months he had missed his bed.
Looking up to his inflatable friend, he smiled. "Come on Maxi, let's go home.
Hiro thought back
He couldn't believe that only a few months ago, he found Baymax's presence as a mere annoyance, he didn't really want him around, he was just a annoying reminder of his late brother Tadashi and that was that.
Then after telling Baymax, that his brother Tadashi was gone and wasn't coming back, Baymax had comforted him. He felt Baymax had became his friend.
Then after they took there first flight together and Hiro started to feel good inside. He realised Baymax had helped him so much. Baymax had become more or less, his best friend.
Then in the portal, when Baymax was going to sacrifice himself, in order to get him and Miss Callinghan to safety. He realized in that moment, that Baymax men't something more to him now, he loved him.
He was a part of him.
He was about to loose a part of him.
Baymax was starting to let go, activating his cannon and blasting Hiro and Miss Callinghan out of the portal. Hiro tried to reach for Baymax, but Baymax was too far, as he started to drift away. He crashed just outside the portal and watched In horror, as the portal exploded in front of his eyes.
Trapping Baymax, inside of the portal. He had now lost a piece of himself.
Baymax was gone! He was gone forever.
So he thought, little did he know that, Baymax had literally men't, what he said. "Hiro, I will always be with you" and had stuffed his green chip in his armoured glove.
Baymax's heart, the green chip that holds all of his memories, thoughts and made Baymax, well Baymax, had been shot out of the portal with Hiro to safety.
After Baymax died, Hiro didn't eat or sleep very well, his skinny frame, getting smaller each day, he just existed now. Feeling empty, guilty, broken and lost inside. Hiro Blamed himself for Baymax's death.
To him no could really help or understand him, not the way Baymax did. Even though they didn't understand him, it didn't stop his friends and family trying to help him, rallying around him at all times of the day, they were not about to give up on him.
But it was like he couldn't see them or even hear them anymore.
He kept Baymax's armoured hand next to him at all times, not wanting to be apart. As that was the last physical bit of Baymax he had left of him and he was determined to never let go.
When he did manage to sleep, he was plagued of nightmares, of Tadashi and Baymax.
In a space of a year, Hiro had lost two of the most important people in his life. All he felt now was pain, Loneliness and Emptiness. He had even contemplated suicide at one point, so he could be with Tadashi and Baymax. Though he didn't go through with it, as he thought, that was not what they had wanted and there deaths would had been in vain.
Though as the weeks went by and time started to heal, he did start to notice his friends and family coming in and out of his room at different times during the day.
They would come in one at a time, sit down beside him, wherever he was at the time and try and talk to him.
But he wouldn't look at them or respond, he would just sit there, with his eyes shut, hugging Baymax's armoured hand close to him.
He felt weak and couldn't go on anymore.
But today felt different, it had been a few weeks since Baymax had passed away and after a few days, his body finally gave in and allowed him to sleep.
Hiro had woken up and looked at the clock, 12:30pm it read, he didn't know what day or month it was though. The sun was shining through the gap in the curtains.
His door opened and in came Honey lemon with his lunch, he gathered it must be the weekend, if she was here. She gently placed the tray on his bedside table next to his bed and gently climbed on to the bed beside him.
Hiro didn't move at first, as she began gently talking to him, while stroking his hair, about her week and the goings on at SFIT and there friends.
Hiro felt something suddenly go through him, a sudden new urge, life. He wanted to live, He wanted to be with his friends again and it was what Baymax would had wanted.
He sat up and hugged her. Although she was shocked at first, she gently whispered. "Tadashi would be proud of you and so would Baymax."
It was a week later when he returned with his friends back to SFIT, as he needed the week, to get his strength back up and put some weight back on.
Although he still felt broken inside, he imagined to himself that he had put on Baymax's armour on and felt strong enough to face the world, even though he didn't really feel it and it was just a front. A front to calm everyone down and make it look like he was ok, even though he wasn't really, so they would stop stressing about him so much.
Hiro had been granted bereavement leave, like before for Tadashi.
Even though they did scratch there heads at first, at how someone could get so upset over a robot?
Given the case was unusual, they decided to grant it anyway, seeing the looks in Hiro's friends faces, when they explained how hiro was feeling and acting at home.
Hiro had been given his brothers lab, although it was dusty and empty, it still smelled of Tadashi.
Aunt cass helped everyone to move Hiro's school stuff into Tadashi's old office, even she shed a tear, when she realized, where they had moved Hiro to. Soon, they all started to dust and clean the place, until it was nice and clean, even though it still smelled of Tadashi.
When Hiro got in the next day, his friends decided to leave Hiro to unpack his boxes in peace, feeling like he needed some space for this.
He unloaded his books onto his bookcase and scattered some of his toy bots around on the shelves above.
He opened the last box, called Baymax and pulled out his charger and put that in the corner of the room and then he gently lifted Baymax's, huge, heavy, armoured glove and placed it gently by the window on top of the bookcase.
He had even considered one time rebuilding Baymax, but without his green chip he wouldn't be the same, have the memories of his brother or what they went through together and wouldn't have the piece of his brother inside of him.
But as he didn't have the green chip, Hiro felt, although he would look exactly the same, he would be completely different on the inside and Hiro felt he couldn't do that, to Baymax, it would be just too painful for him.
Remembering his Baymax, when he first taught him to fist punch, he laughed to himself, then he fist punched Baymax's glove.
"Bah al la la" hiro said, mimicking Baymax's fist punch noise.
He turned around, as he was just about to leave, when something caught his eye In the sun. He stopped to look at the glove again. It gleamed again, it was something green.
"No it couldn't be?, I'm daydreaming again" Hiro thought to himself.
He reached down and picked up the green chip, out of Baymax's armoured hand.
Tadashi Hamada it read and it had a picture of a smiling doctor on it, Hiro felt it in his hand, turning it round, it felt solid and real, wait it was real! It wasn't a dream.
"Baymax's alive." Hiro laughed, his friends upon hearing him, came running In to see it be was ok?
"Baymax's alive!" Hiro screamed at them.
"Whos alive??"
"Baymax is." Hiro yelled, showing them the green chip.
They all started cheering and dancing and saying it too "Baymax is alive, Baymax is alive."
Hiro then knew he really wasn't dreaming and that night they had a party at the Lucky cat cafe.
When they told Aunt Cass, she cheered as well, with Hiro and his friends, even Mochi, seemed to meow louder that night too.
The next day, Hiro told his friends and family, that he will be moving into his Lab for a little while, as he felt that this was something Hiro had to do alone.
He woke up early that morning, packed his bags, hugged his Aunt Cass and stroked Mochi and left early for SFIT.
Then he went and gathered all the parts he needed for Baymax's revival, luckily his brother still had Baymax's parts for him, in his Lab, so Hiro was able to get working on him right away.