zerotohiro | Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

[He swats at Tadashi's hand, only partially put out. It doesn't hurt or anything and it's actually a pretty familiar gesture. It's weirdly comforting, whatever that means. Regardless, he doesn't like the idea of not having ideas.]

Well they won't be just theories if we start figuring stuff out. Who else do you even know that would be able to use this information right?

Don't think you're the only genius around here.

[ he looks at hiro when he says this, tone dead serious. and he shouldn't think that he's the only hero around here, either. ]

Then who else, Tadashi? [He knows he's not...but he hasn't been here long enough to really start asking around and finding out these pieces.]

Well, that. . . I haven't figured out yet.

But there's got to be other people whom we can work with.

Find them and we'll work with them. [Maybe. He's grown better at working with others, but in a place like Cerealia...he knows he's at a disadvantage. Tadashi knows better.]

This guy came over the other day and told me about some of the stuff CERES has gotten up to. [He points to the sign Katsura left at the apartment and Baymax taped up.] People wanna fight back, but we need to decide the best way to get in and do it. What's stopping us from just breaking in somehow?

[ he looks at the sign and makes a face. what the hell kind of sign is that, and why is hiro getting acquainted with these strange people? he's definitely not doing a good job of being a big brother if hiro's making friends with terrorists. ]

Um, a lot of things? [ he arches a brow. ] What do you think CERES will do to you if you get caught?

[Heyheyhey. That strange man actually helped him out in ViVid, you should be happy. Even if he's a terrorist.]

Who says I'm going to get caught? I'm not going to do anything without a really good plan, don't worry.

I'm not risking anything, [ he says firmly. ] If you're going to do something reckless, I better be there with you.

And can you take that poster down? It's weird.

[ and doesn't match his hipster interior at all. ]

[He rolls his eyes...but he goes to do what Tadashi says anyway. It's fine, he'll just hang it up again later to freak him out.]

I thought you just said you're not risking anything. I'll take Baymax with me. [He's not exactly jazzed at the idea of risking Tadashi's life, either.]

[ hiro you little shit, you better not do that. and he REALLY NEEDS TO INSTALL GPS TRACKERS ON HIS BRO'S CLOTHES SOON dammit. ]

Fine. Baymax.

I'll- [ be useless over here. ] If anything happens...

[ he'll come find you. ]

[Sorry, Tadashi, it might not be soon enough to stop Hiro from disappearing and going on the raid of CERES' facility.]

...[There's a sigh before there's a small bump of his chin into the side of Tadashi's head.] You know you're worried about nothing, right? I can handle all of this.

[He thinks. He assumes. And there's a problem with being at the age where you want to pretend you can take care of yourself while being dropped in the a horror-colony. It's fine. This is fine.]

[ hiro, you're fourteen. stop thinking you can do everything. you aren't immortal. ~~you could be, but not for long.~~ ]

I'm not allowed to worry about my little brother? That's news to me.

[Oh he'll realize that soon enough. For now though he rolls his eyes.]

Well...[He actually doesn't have a good answer for that.] Baymax and I will be careful and we'll let you know what we find, if we find anything. Promise. [Which is still a fancier way of saying "don't worry about it."]

I haven't talked to Mosley yet either. Thought about what you said, decided to hold off on it for a little bit...not that it makes a difference since everybody's unreachable now, but...you know. [Which is also a fancier way of saying "I'm still listening to some things you're saying."]

[ he'll probably have to check out baymax's cameras every night just to see what he and hiro have been up to, too. dammit, hiro!! ]

Just be sure to be careful.

As for Mosley, [ he lets out a resigned sigh. ] CERES really is undependable...

Katsura told me a lot about them that I didn't even know and I don't know how many other people know. I don't like that they're constantly watching, Tadashi. It's creepy. We need to figure out a way to take ourselves off the grid.

I already know that.

[ he looks away, not really wanting to divulge such information just yet. . . but-- ]

If they're watching us, something around us is bugged. But that's not possible.

[ a beat. ]

We're bugged. And to remove it, it'd probably take some coding. Or worse.

[ real pain. ]

It's in our eyes. [That's what Katsura had told him and he doesn't doubt it.] Ocular implants connected to our nervous system so to disable it might knock us out. [Or kill them. One of the two.] But if they were able to put it in there's a way to take it out. Katsura said it's too dangerous to mess with our own bodies but we could find where in their headquarters they're watching us and disable it from the inside. Why can't we do that?

Remember that we're coded. We can probably just hack into the implants and switch them off, or change the system entirely.

Messing with our own bodies— well, [ he definitely can't allow hiro to do that. ] I'd rather not do something like that.

Tadashi don't you think it's weird that if we're code we can still get hurt and stuff? Or get sick? What kind of code do you know does that? [Hiro...stop. Stop right there.] Katsura just said it would be better not to actually touch the implants.

[It's clear that whoever Katsura is, he's left an impression on the younger Hamada.]

Then explain the glitching out to me. Code or not, that stuff doesn't happen in anything that isn't digital.

[ you're the genius, hiro. tell him. ]

I don't know. [And that's the scariest thing to admit.] I don't know what's causing it or why this is happening but we're not going to find out anything until we either get into the Nexus or we find somebody else from CERES who'll spill.

I'm going to find out though. Trust me.

[ hiro why. ]

Please don't give me more reasons to worry about you.

[Bro. He's not the one who ran into a burning building and died. Don't even talk about worry. Still, he shakes his head a little before wandering off to another part of the apartment to find Mochi, still talking loud enough over his shoulder as he goes.]

Ex-botfighter, remember? There's seriously no reason to worry so much, I'm not going to do anything until I have some more information. Then I'll get us into the Nexus.

[It's not like he's going to take Baymax on a raid, trespass through high-security areas, get kidnapped by robots, watch two members of his team get killed and alert Bellona that they broke in. Jeeze, Tadashi.]

Besides, if Wasabi's in there, what makes you think some of our other friends aren't, too?

[ does he have to remind you how many times he had to bail your ass because of your botfighting? yeah... let's not talk about that. ]

Fine.

I'll do what I can here. [ gather information that hiro can't, for example. he's been here longer, so he should at least... hopefully??? have more connections. but being a brooding tool doesn't help sometimes. it's tough when you think abotu death all the time. ]

[There's silence...and soon Hiro comes back lugging the fat cat with him and he drops onto the couch next to Tadashi, squishing Mochi into his lap and mulling over what's been said. Tadashi's not always going to be around to bail him out. That was the case at home and that may be the case here. And yet...]

If CERES fixed our code, what do you think the likelihood of them fixing Wasabi's code is anyway? [It's the last thing he wants to know. Then he'll stop arguing. For now.]

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