A.N I will say this only once...Tadashi's fate is in your hands, I have a master plan for Tadashi from the 4 options I gave you on the poll for the story's path i.e. expansion or containment. I will let you know 3 of those options' plotlines ensure Tadashi's survival HOWEVER 1 will result in me offing him in a Game of Thrones worthy fashion :) I wont tell you which option does what though :P Vote away.

I did delete and re-write this chapter twice my reason for this is I wanted to further character development and practice using humor as I have been told mine is a bit...well I will use the adjective unique. It is also training for writing Fred when the main storyline of the film ends Fred who is also part of the reason I decided to cut the chapter off when I did (I planned to finish it after they meet the team) will also play a more important role than he did in the movie as will a few other characters if I have my way.

A thank you to all the reviewers who took the time to do so they have given me a few evil plot bunnies :] which you may or may not like.

To my dear Elifer who wrote me a thesis on programming paltforms and their pros, yes I understand it, I have a degree in Software Engineering, I will agree that standard application development can be fun, its also been done to death. The parts I was attempting to word my way in and around without boring everyone to tears was the greater aspects of programming (hacking a bank firewall.) I did consider that the boost in technology could have made it easy but the boost would also have made the countermeasures that more difficult to get past. As for Harry's slight deficiency with technology, wait and see.

HOWEVER the part of your review that grabbed my attention for a second read was the 'Harry have his wicked way with both brothers' for all my plotline scandals I have prepared for you all I sat there and asked myself 'Why didn't I think of that?' so the plot bunny it spawned is having a cup of tea and a digestive with me while I decide whether or not to use it in some way.

Hope you all enjoy

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Chapter 6- part 2: She-Who-Is-Cass

Tadashi shrunk away from the verbal assault his smaller Aunt was landing on both him and Hiro, he could safely say it hit him right in the 'feels' and he wasn't even doing anything illegal!

"And I thought I raised you better! Or was it something I did?! Was it me! Did I raise you wrong!" Aunt Cass was starting to enter the realm of hysterical and the police clerk on the front desk was having the time of his life.

Said clerk raised his mug of coffee in salute and munched on his doughnut taking no small amount of entertainment from it, it was far too quiet these days. Mr Clerk sighed as he remembered the Friday nights of old when half of the chancers from the docks would pass through the halls from the hookers who were always up for a good gab to the drug dealers always shouting profanities and promising neverending retribution that never came...God he missed the screaming; Anything! Anything other than this damn empty hall all night 5 times a week, his mind was rotting...tonight was different though, that Ashikaga boy had returned for a visit. Interesting things always seemed to happen around him, unfortunate things too but interesting nonetheless.

Double homicide was the charge he was originally brought in for, a locked room murder that had detectives ripping their hair out over how he got in and out. Some believed he was innocent and just at the wrong place at the wrong time but Mr Clerk knew differently, he had seen and spoken to both the prestige and scum of society on both telephone and in person he knew from his 35 years of experience manning this desk which ones were guilty and which ones were innocent. Not that he ever told his superiors that, oh no no that would ruin the fun. The theories ranged from an unknown nerve gas to using magnets to seal the room, the boy could have used either he had the connections but apparently hadn't used them, the evidence was non-existent and they had to let them go but Mr Clerk would never forget that blood curdling smile as he spoke to the detective leading him out of the holding cell coming up to his desk. Mr Clerk had looked at him once before handing the release form over and said "I guess I will be seeing more of you in the future then." the response to which was a bright and cheery

"Of course! The place wouldn't be the same without me!"

Mr Clerk supposed he should as an officer of the law and upholder of civil justice be horrified at the thought of a boy as young as 12 murdering people, but damn he would wait and see how long this little Kingpin lasted before they finally nabbed him. If they managed to nab him.

The sound of the steel door into the holding cells halted conversation and brought Mr Clerk out of his memories about the 12 year old killer, because he was walking out of the holding with the warden? There was no call for release yet why is he...oh.

The line of thought died when he saw his ashen faced colleague, the poor thing.

Aunt Cass was brought out of her rant when Tadashi stopped her from leaving the station "Eh Aunt Cass?" He spoke softly "Can we wait on a friend of mine he said he will be out shortly."

She rounded on him and his brother "You're getting your friends caught up in this too!" She started to wail in despair only to stop when to holding door opened and she caught sight of a boy barely the same height as Hiro messy raven black hair that was all over the place in ¾ length shorts sandals and a long sleeved white top with the sleeves rolled up... she started to wail again "You're getting more kids involved in crime!~~~~~"

Tadashi just sighed as he watched Harry walk to front desk with the warden going to the computer as the clerk moved out of his way...strange.

Mr Clerk humphed when his colleague asked him to step away from his desk no doubt to commit what was considered a crime. Letting out a sigh he just got the release papers smile for the camera and all that.

"Couldn't stay outa trouble could ya kid?" he said amusedly passing over the forms and pen.

Harry smirked he liked this guy, much less uptight than the others "Of course you know me Monty" enjoying the brightened demeanor of the clerk at the mention of his name "The place wouldn't be the same without me."

"You're a scary kid you know that right?"

A small laugh escaped him "You don't know the half of it." Flourishing his signature he folded the document over "Oh and happy birthday by the way."

Monty just laughed as he placed the document in the shredder outside the view of the camera.

Aunt Cass ceased wailing to look at the boy approaching her charges "Oh look at you. All innocent and these two have ended up getting you locked up." Aunt Cass took a moment to compose herself.

Tadashi took the opening she gave him to hopefully get the show on the road.

"Well Aunt Cass this is Harry, Harry this is our Aunt Cass." He said waving a hand between them.

Harry gave a nervous wave "Hi." emotional females….equate to Honey Lemon in his mind dangerous and deceptive he braced himself for the smushing that tended to follow. Instead she started to head to the door crying about 'corrupting', 'innocence' and 'all her fault.'

Harry sighed, he gave up, the fairer sex was something he would never for all his brain cells come close to understanding.

Hiro approached "Don't worry about her she's just temperamental in thinking that shes done a good job raising us." that goofy smile plastered on his face, he was enjoying someone else getting that treatment.

Tadashi just wrapped his arms over the two's shoulders and escorted them outside to the car "Well looks like you will be crashing at our place Harry." Seeing Harry scrunch up his eyebrows in protest an evil thought passed through Tadashi's mind, fair's fair after what he did in the holding cells, taking a deep breath

"Oh no! you aren't going back there yourself!" Seeing the look of confusion on teen's face he moved his eyes upwards, Harry followed them to see Aunt Cass had stopped and was now staring at him with the look of pure worry, the bastard.

"You could be killed."

"Sold!" Hiro chirped catching on to what his older brother was up to.

Tadashi seeing his Aunt's face from under his skip cap whispered semi-dramatically "or even corrupted!"

"NOPE! NUH UH!" Aunt Cass opened the car door with speeds Harry was having trouble keeping up with "Not on my watch!" she roared like a lioness picking up Hiro and Harry by their collars and threw them in the car as Tadashi smirked at the look of shock on his little brother's face for getting involved...'paybacks a bitch' he thought calmly walking into the front seat of the car as Aunt Cass wrestled the two into submission and getting seatbelts fastned. Aunt Cass started the car and revved the engine. The whole ride to the Hamada residence was to the lecturing of Aunt Cass on how dangerous going home at night in San Fransokyo could be and how people especially two naive and impressionable children/teens were sometimes too tempting and were corrupted. Tadashi went a bit green at one point in the description of the overprotective guardian of the Hamadas all this despite out of the people listening two were prodigies in their own right and the other could technically be classed as a sociopath, he had burned people alive for crying out loud….pardon the pun.

They arrived and Aunt Cass was still having a serious case of motor mouth, Harry couldn't help but feel slightly disturbed at what went through her mind unlike the two Hamadas he didn't have the experience in blocking her out, he had heard EVERYTHING she said.

Opening the door she flicked the light switch and went straight for the pastry counter "SEE!" she shouted muffled by the food she had crammed into her mouth "STWESS E-HING!"

Tadashi sighed and rubbed the back of his neck before approaching his guardian "Let's get you some calming tea Aunt Cass."

Hiro just darted upstairs once the spotlight had moved on from him. Harry was unsure of what to do, he felt rather awkward in the presence of the Aunt who was currently being stabilized by Tadashi and the manners that Gramps had battered into him stopped him from following Hiro upstairs….OH THERE WAS A CAT!

Mirth danced in Harry's eyes as the feline approached him, swiftly picking up the bundle of fluffy happiness he went and sat down in one of the chairs giving the rounded ball of fluff a good scratch under the chin, the animal was putty within moments.

After five minutes Tadashi had finally managed to calm his Aunt's frayed nerves with a combination of camomile tea, mind numbing TV soaps and chocolate ice cream...the former and latter being polar opposites but hey what worked worked right?

Turning around he noticed Harry had captured the family feline and noticed his brother had abandoned him in the hall. Sighing he made his way to Harry he really had to teach his brother manners he could be so self centered it was unreal, nothing really held his interest for long and when something did the results scared him...he could still be classed as new to the robotics scene and look at him now undefeatable in bot fights; Hiro thought he didn't know about his little excursions HAH! He had been to every one of them. Perhaps Hiro could do with a friend or two Harry was definitely a possibility the two would either get on like a house on fire or set the actual house on fire but both were awkward and equally as stubborn as the other.

"I see that Mochi is quite taken with you." Tadashi smiled at Harry as he got to see another rare moment where the boy acted his age.

"Mhm he's purrfect aren't you." Harry cooed not really caring how much blackmail he was giving Tadashi, Mochi was powerless to do anything but purr under Harry's ministrations.

Rolling his eyes Tadashi beckoned at Harry "Come on let's go find my errant brother...and you can bring the cat with you."

Cats...'weakness discovered' was what went through his mind as they finished climbing the stairs opening his and Hiro's room door he found his little brother on the computer, surprise surprise.

"You better make this up to Aunt Cas before she eats everything in the Cafe." He stated with a mindlessly following green eyed drone + cat trailing behind him.

"For sure…" click click click was the response he got from his sibling as he threw his jacket onto his bed and opened the cupboard to get out the spare mattress and quilt.

"And I hope you learned your lesson bonehead." He said into the wooden box withdrawing the desired items.

Click click click. Setting them down on the ground his brother turned around on the chair and looked into his brother's eyes and spoke without shame or effort to him "Absolutely." while maintaining a perfectly straight face.

Tadashi's walking rhythm was interrupted at the sight, swaying a little to the left he slowed his pace looking at the completely neutral face, the irregular step bought Harry's momentary attention from Mochi to observe the brothers, fingers still working their magic.

Tadashi's face screwed up in realisation "You're going bot fighting aren't you?!" he said with no small amount of incredulity...they had a guest tonight!

"Theres a fight across town if i book I can still make it." Hiro spoke as he got up and grabbed Megabot, Harry also got up and made his way to the computer that had the location of the Bot-Fight and summary displayed on it...it was in the docks Tadashi was correct in the respect that it wasn't safe to wander alone down there at night, if you were a regular little lamb.

Tadashi latched onto the hood of his brothers grey fleece. Hiro's face just adopted a look of annoyance and suffering as his brother turned him to face him.

Tadashi started to get desperate his brother's obsession with this Bot-Fighting business was going to land him in a bad place. "When are you going to start doing something with that big brain of yours?" he asked and poked his brothers head for effect.

Hiro slapped the hand and arm away from him and responded with an patronising and insulting tone "What? Go to college like you?" and poked his brother back and throwing another patronising jab into the mix to get him off his back "So people can tell me stuff I already know?" he smiled internally when he watched defeat cross Tadashi's face.

"Unbelievable-" Tadashi muttered as he watched his brother smirk at him, Harry who at this point had been staunchly ignoring the sibling spat along with Mochi decided he had heard enough from the little twat... time to break out the Socrates…..

"My my you are something else Hamada the second." Harry said genially as he turned to face the boy that was behind him Mochi in hand "A wise man once said The Oracle once told me that I was the wisest of all the Greeks, that is because I alone, out of all the Greeks know, that I know nothing. That Hiro Hamada is something you need to learn and quickly, you do not know everything but if you insist on going out on this mad escapade to the Docks area." stressing the word for Tadashi to pick up on, and judging by the irritated twitch of Hiro's left eye he knew as well "I may as well come with you both so you don't get yourselves killed or worse! Corrupted." He added his usual flair which got a couple of chuckles from the two.

"Well if I can't stop you." Tadashi grabbed his helmet "I'm going with you."

"Sweet" was all Hiro said.

The brothers and Harry + cat were sneaking down past Aunt Cass who was getting caught up in the emotional tripe of trashy Actors and Actresses with never ending plotlines, and into the Cafe. Tadashi put his foot down at the door.

"Harry the cat stays."

"But..." Harry looked at Mochi, Mochi looked at Harry, it was time to say farewell.

Hiro looked with no short amount of amusement although the cat was acting strangely, it seemed to follow and act differently around Harry like it could understand him. Tadashi had noticed the same thing, it wasn't just cats he had seen interact this way with Harry, weirdly enough an Owl seemed to take it upon itself to deliver him letters from his Grandfather during the day! Owls were nocturnal creatures!

Harry put the cat on the table "I'll see you again my furry friend." to which Mochi responded with a meow, and they parted ways. After leaving Tadashi got on his scooter after moving it down a block so they didn't alert She-Who-Is-Cass.

Giving its no doubt 50cc engine a little rev he looked at Harry and Hiro, Harry and Hiro looked at one another...Harry seemed to be doing that a lot these days all this looking was stressful.

"Well what are you waiting for shorty? You're in the middle." Tadashi spoke looking directly at Harry.

"What!" Harry protested "but that's for a car!", Hiro let a small smirk grace his face at the other raven haired boy, petty vengeance and all that. Catching the helmet his brother tossed him Hiro chuckled at how petulant the boy who had preached words of wisdom at him seemed as he climbed on behind Tadashi, Hiro sitting himself behind Harry...sometimes he loved nature it brought little things that made you happy in unexpected ways.

The drive was an unexpectedly short one Hiro had been caught in thought the whole journey was brought out of thought by Harry's dread filled.

"Oh no."

"Huh?" Hiro looked around, this wasn't the docks if the big sign saying San Fransokyo Institute of Technology was anything to go by "What are we doing at your Nerd School?!" to which the smaller teen in front of him jabbed him in the ribs with an elbow none too lightly.

Tadashi just smirked he had a cunning plan in mind….what you didn't think Hiro was the only one with cunning huh?

Harry just looked at the building in fear, he spent the majority of his time in University but not this building, he was truly terrified of what lurked within, in this building they added Tadashi and Honey Lemon in the same room with a few extra components and expected the place to be standing in a years time, he already had a secretly created budget created dedicated solely to repairs and damage control. And Tadashi's lab light was on...someone was inside.

Tadashi just turned of the engine and withdrew the keys, knowing Hiro and Harry were too lazy to do anything but follow.

And into the beast's maw they went.