Oh my, I didn't expect such a positive response! Thank you all for your wonderful favorites and reviews!

I'm going to post the "original" ending to Five Alarm as a bonus for you all, you've really made my month :DD

It picks up off the line "For the first time, Tadashi burns", in case you're confused by the abrupt intro

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For the first time since the fire, Tadashi burns.

He heads home and drags Baymax into the garage, wondering exactly how to take down the masked man. If Hiro were still alive, he'd turn Baymax into one of his fighting bots, and Tadashi is tempted to use his creation to destroy the thief of his brother's.

But he doesn't, when he sees Baymax hover by his side, scanning scanning scanning Tadashi's stitches, scars, and deteriorating mental health. He can't turn his creation into a weapon, not when all he wanted to do was help the world. Hiro...Hiro is beyond helping now, Hiro will never get to see Baymax save so many lives, but Tadashi can't stomach any more changes to his once bright future.

Instead, he upgrades Baymax to be the ultimate healthcare companion twenty times over. Armor to protect his vinyl skin, increased amounts of surgical tools and solutions, Tadashi blueprints a way to take Baymax into the sky and carry dozens of injured people on his back. It takes a week and his friends are worried that he's not eating enough and hiding secrets, but he's a charming man, he even gets Honey and Aunt Cass to relax.

Tadashi designs little details for himself; if Baymax can fly, Baymax can fly Tadashi into the heart of the microbots so that Tadashi may rip out the spine of Hiro's murderer, and therefore Tadashi needs a flight suit. And weapons too—blades clean and sharp, able to sever heads with a wrist flick and precise enough to carve out every drop of agony Tadashi's soul screams for in revenge. Baymax is concerned at the growing pile of hacked apart dummies, and Tadashi upgrades his scanner to make sure that the masked man will have nowhere to hide.

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They fly, and Tadashi hollers into the air whipping past his face mask. Baymax takes him higher, Tadashi feels the power thrum beneath his hands and vibrate in the blades strapped to his back. San Fransokyo is beautiful from the ground and especially from the heavens, and Tadashi wants to cry because Hiro would've loved this.

Tadashi lets himself imagine that Hiro were here, hands magnetized to Baymax so he won't fall off while he twists to stare at every new sight, new sound, new everything. His hands were the hands of a teenager, caught between childish fragility and adult bulk, yet Tadashi can only see tiny infant fingers curling around his thumb. Hiro was so small as a baby, small as a boy, small as a fourteen year old running into the science fair, smaller still as an urn of ashes at Tadashi's feet.

Tadashi cries and the tears are cold against his cheeks. Baymax inquires after his health and Tadashi is so relieved to have Baymax here, even above Aunt Cass and his friends because Baymax is his in a way that they aren't; maybe Hiro would've understood

and maybe Tadashi is tired of always wishing that he'd said "I love you" before Hiro died. When was the last time he'd explicitly said that out loud? Mother always said it, she said that there was never a bad time to let her sons know that kaasan loved them and Tadashi hopes that she's telling Hiro that right now, because Tadashi failed that part of being a big brother.

They rest on top of one of the "koi fish" turbine blimps, and Hiro used to sit on their father's shoulders and babble on about swimming in the sky. Tadashi's dopamine levels dip again and Baymax hugs him close to try and comfort him. Tadashi rests against Baymax and thanks him over and over, despite the robot not understanding why.

Maybe Hiro would've understood.

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The masked man returns to destroy Krei's new building, and Tadashi is ready to fight him. He's not ready to see that it's Prof. Callaghan opening a portal to hell over San Fransokyo, and what is his mentor doing

what has he done?

Tadashi flies Baymax in and they get their answers because Callaghan is a talkative man in his rage. Krei's teleportation portals killed Abigail, Tadashi's aerodyanamics TA and fellow chicken udon enthusiast and yet another person too far away to say goodbye to. Tadashi asks why Hiro is dead if Callaghan stole the microbots and started the fire and

Callaghan threw Hiro across the room with the microbots because Hiro almost took the neurotransmitter

Callaghan watched Hiro's head snap back against a concrete pillar, his scalp splitting and his eyes filled with so much pain and confusion

Callaghan used the microbots to save himself while Hiro crawled across burning wood and glass and metal to try and get back to his niisan

he caused Hiro's death and

didn't care

and Tadashi wants his head on a spike.

They fight, and they are outmatched by the microbots, but Callaghan is outmatched by Tadashi's unholy fury. Tadashi shreds through Hiro's inventions because they are tainted by the selfish grief of a murderer, and he gets close enough to swing his katana down and slice Callaghan's arm off.

He crumples and the mask tumbles away and Tadashi is giddy at the idea of skinning him alive. His soul bays for it. But Baymax distracts him because he can sense life in the deteriorating portal, and Abigail might be alive to render Callaghan's murder even more meaningless.

Tadashi is conflicted, but decides on holstering his katana in Callaghan's lower spine and gut; he's going to watch Tadashi bring his daughter back to life.

And she is alive, in a dimension filled with more colors than Tadashi knows. It's beautiful and dangerous and cold, so terribly cold, and he wonders if he's going to freeze to death and get tell Hiro that he loves him and he's just so so proud of his little brother because Hiro iswasiswas incredible.

Baymax flies Abigail's pod out just as the portal collapses in a sea of flames that makes Tadashi scream in terror because oh god, what if Baymax dies in the fire, what if Abigail dies in the fire, what if civilians die in the fire, what if even Krei dies in the fire

he is held by Baymax, muffling his wails into his armored chest as the pod hatch hisses and Abigail stutters into consciousness. Abigail is alive and Callaghan murdered Hiro for nothing, and it isn't fair. He wipes his eyes and turns on Callaghan, who coughs up blood and begs for time to see Abigail once last time before Tadashi kills him.

And Tadashi decides not to kill him, because the only murderer here is the pathetic man groveling at his feet and dishonoring Hiro's death with every second of his fear. "I'm not going to kill you," Tadashi leans down to whisper ever so gently into Callaghan's ear, "I'm going to tell Abigail about what you did. About how you killed a fourteen year old child to avenge a death that never happened."

Tadashi smiles and his heart burns, "She will hate you as long as she lives."

Callaghan cries out and struggles against the sword in his back, and Tadashi leaves him for the scattered policemen. Baymax carries Abigail to the paramedics and Tadashi turns to the crowd of spectators looking at him like Amaterasu rising from the clouds. Hiro once looked at him sorta like that, and Tadashi dislikes the half-imitation, all these eyes trained on his blades and samurai flight suit and tear stained cheeks. And his friends are there, Fred in awe because Tadashi is a hero and the others in concern because Tadashi is still without his Hiro and still so dangerous.

But Abigail's frightened eyes meet Tadashi's and maybe he'll never have Hiro back, not even if he turned back around and spent five years inventing new ways to kill Callaghan, but he has things to discuss and cry about with Abigail and Honey and Gogo and Wasabi and Fred and Mochi, and it's nice to not lose someone for a change.

Honey hugs Tadashi close, they all pile together against Baymax and Tadashi feels warmth spread back down into his shaking hands that still can't handle chopsticks.

"Do you require anything else?" Baymax is not Hiro, his friends are not Hiro, Abigail is not Hiro, Aunt Cass is not Hiro, and Tadashi is going to have to learn how to live with that. He's scared, and still bleeding, and it will never be as Tadashi wishes. But Hiro believed in him, and maybe Hiro would understand why Tadashi can't give up just yet; udon requires chopsticks just as much as charred bones do, and his bandages need to come off eventually.

Tadashi leans his head back against his creation for a glimpse of a purple koi fish swimming in the sky, and exhales, "More than anyone can do...but I think for now, I'm satisfied with my care."

Yay happy ending! I think you all deserved that after the first edition, lol