"Inspired by a fan theory I heard about the movie that makes it fit in a bit better with the Marvel Universe. I didn't realize that "Big Hero 6" was a Marvel movie until weeks before the release and was kinda bummed to when I realized that there was no way they'd be able to allude the the X-Men. (Thanks, Fox! Grrr...) But now I have this fanfic to console me! And *Spoiler Alert*> this also means Tadashi isn't dead! Yay!<*End Spoilers* I'm sure there'll be more for this story pretty soon, seeing as how the DVD comes out on the 24th." -Casey
The streets had been little more than a blur of neon lights and rain for the last twelve blocks. The city was always chaotic, but it seemed even more so when you were lost. Tadashi couldn’t tell if it was early morning or early evening, but it was definitely dark out and there wasn’t anyone on streets. The teenager wandered in a daze until a line of cherry trees came into view. They were surrounding a small temple with a red columned gate with black tiled eaves that kept the steps dry in the torrential downpour. The young man stumbled underneath the protective cover and went to sit in the corner. As he took a moment to catch his breath a faint steam began to rise from his shoulders. He quickly removed his sweater and threw it aside, but the steam continued to rise up around him. He wiped the sweat from his brow and shook his head and closed his eyes in an attempt to clear his mind.
“This doesn’t make any sense,” he whispered as he clenched his fists before him. He opened his eyes as he unclenched his fists and a small flame bust to life between his fingers.
His muscles tensed as the flame danced before him.
Suddenly he wasn’t on the temple grounds, but at the convention center again. Flames were erupting all around him, heat rising up from below, and smoke choking him from above.
Where was Professor Callaghan?
An explosion suddenly consumed the building.
What was once a blazing nightmare was nothing but fire now.
Fire that swallowed Tadashi whole.
He cried out and dropped the small flame that was dancing above his hand. It died out before it hit the stone floor. He was back in the in the temple again, thunder rumbling outside. He shouldn’t have survived. Professor Callaghan hadn’t made it out, so why had he? How had he? No matter what angle he approached it from, it didn’t make sense.
The young man reached up to adjust his cap only to remember that he had lost it back at the college. He turned his hand before him instead and gasped at what he saw. His entire right arm was as black as soot. He attempted to wipe the strange substance off, but it didn’t come off. He pulled back the sleeve of his shirt to find it on his shoulder and even beginning to creep over his neck.
“Tadashi Hamada,” a voice called from the entrance of the temple.
The boy looked up to see a tall muscular figure standing in the rain, his features completely obscured by the backlight of the city streets, not the mention the lightning.
“What do you want?” the boy demanded, jumping to his feet and turning so that his blackened arm was out of the man’s line of site.
“I don’t wish to harm you,” the man continued. “In fact, I doubt anyone could harm you now that you’ve realized your abilities.”
“How do you know my name? Who are you?” the boy demanded.
The man stepped underneath the eaves and removed the kabuto style helmet he was wearing, revealing his short dark hair, though Tadashi still couldn’t quite make out his other features in the dim light.
“I am called the Silver Samurai,” he replied as he pounded his fist against his chest. “Like you, I am a mutant.”
The man stepped forward and Tadashi stumbled back in an attempt to gain some distance.
“Stay away from me!” Tadashi warned, raising his fists defensively. “Get back!”
Fire erupted from the boy's hands, the flames rising high above his head on either side of him. He recoiled, but the flames did not relent. He felt panic sweeping over him, but he forced himself to remember that he wasn’t in the convention center anymore. There had to be something he could do. Why was the fire stalking him like this?
The Samurai’s loud voice called out over the roar of the blaze. The man’s square jaw and dark eyes were finally visible in the light of the fire and he didn't seem fazed by the spectacle even though the flames were beginning to lick at the ceiling above them.
“The fire acts of its own spirit because you grant it that power,” he explained calmly. “Stop treating it as an outside force.”
Tadashi glanced quickly between the flames and the Silver Samurai as he struggled to stay in the moment, to focus on what was happening right now rather than what had happened before.
“Embrace that the flames are an extension of you yourself,” the man continued. “Then you may calm the fire as you would the beating of your own heart.”
Tadashi swallowed nervously as he felt his heart beating like a jackhammer. He forgot about the fire, both at the convention and here in the temple, and focused on slowing his pulse. He closed his eyes and took a long calming breath of the warm air around him. The heat slowly subsided and when he opened his eyes he found that the flames had relented and were little more than small torches in his hands. He waved his hands at his sides and the fire went out completely.
“How did you know that would work?” Tadashi asked as they both stood in the dark again. The man again approached the teenager, but the boy didn’t retreat this time. The Silver Samurai put his hand on the boy’s left shoulder and nodded in understanding. “I too have had to struggle to master my unnatural abilities,” he admitted. “I met with someone that guided me in control my gifts. It was she that sent me to find you.”
“She?” Tadashi asked, his voice filled with both curiosity and concern.
The Samurai took his hand from the boy’s shoulder and took a step back. “A brilliant scientist that knows more of our abilities than any mutant,” he explained as he put his helmet back on. “She is unparalleled in her work and she wants to meet you.”
“Are you intentionally dodging the question?” Tadashi asked as he considered bolting off into the rain. “Who is this expert?”
“Madam Hydra.”
Big Hero 6 Movie (C) Marvel Studios and Disney
Other character (C) Marvel Comics
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