Dominion (Futuristic Four)

"Exactly How Far Back Did We Go, Wilbur?"

It had been a completely normal day before the spaceship came out of nowhere and slammed Hiro into the ground.

Maybe you're wondering why a spaceship existed in San Fransokyo anyway.  Or why it crashed into Hiro.  Certainly you'd want to know who was driving.

Had Hiro been able to string two thoughts together, he would have been wondering the same thing.

"WILBUR!"

The girl's shout blasted through the air and rattled around Hiro's skull.  He blinked hazily, staring up at the two teens who now crouched over him.  One was a girl, not much older than himself, with short almond hair and a sprinkle of freckles across her nose.  The other was a guy with dark hair who, oddly enough, had gelled it into some sort of spike.

"Sorry, Penny, steering isn't very precise," the guy said with a shrug.

"You did that on purpose!" the girl, Penny, accused.

"Nah, he's fine.  He'll snap out of it in a second.  See?"  He held a hand in front of Hiro's face.  "How many fingers am I holding up?"

"Four?" Hiro guessed as the hand swam in and out of focus.  The guy shrugged.

"Eh, he'll come around eventually."

"WILBUR, YOU APOLOGIZE RIGHT NOW!"

"Geez, you sound like my mom.  Sorry for the rough landing, Hiro.  I guess you make a better crash pad than a superhero, huh?"

"Take that back, Wilbur, you don't mean it!"

"Do I know you?" Hiro mumbled.  Things were starting to piece themselves back together in his head, but he still couldn't recall where he knew them from, if he'd ever met them before at all.

"Yes," Penny responded.  She hesitated.  "Well, no, I guess not.  Exactly how far back did we go, Wilbur?"

"I don't know, like, two years?  I was more focused on keeping us alive than aiming for any specific time.  I just know this is before any of that mess with Kyuubi happened."

"Kyuubi?" Hiro repeated.  Now he knew things were definitely out of wack.  Maybe I got a concussion from that last bot fight . . .

"Here, I'll give you the crash course edition," Wilbur offered.  "You, me, Penny, and this girl named Violet are friends.  Obviously I'm the genius of the group, and I assembled us together from different time periods to fight this super villain and things got super complicated but we won in the end anyway.  And things were going pretty awesome until some stuff went down and Violet was already dead and we were going to be too if we didn't do something quick so I jumped in my time machine and zipped us here to your time period and we were hoping that he didn't get the other time machine because I tried to disable it but it seems like he did because in this time you're supposed to have already lived our adventures and recognize us and Tadashi should be dead but obviously none of that happened so I think that he fixed the time machine and jumped back in time and messed stuff up and now we need you and hopefully Violet if we can find her so that we can save the world again sounds good ok let's go."

"Wait, back up," Hiro ordered, holding his hands up.  "You're from the future?  And what do you mean that Tadashi should be dead?  Why would he be?"

"It's a really long story, and we'll tell you later if you want," Penny promised.  "But for now we really need to get going.  Do you have Baymax?"

"Tadashi's medical robot?"  Hiro laughed.  "What's he supposed to do to help?  He only scans for injuries and gives out lollipops."

Wilbur slapped his forehead and grimaced.  "That's right, Tadashi never died so you never upgraded Baymax.  Ugh, this is so infuriating!"

"We can still do this without Baymax," Penny suggested.  "It'll just take more work."

"But you haven't even really explained what we're doing yet!" Hiro protested.

"Didn't we say?  We're going to go save Violet before . . . someone kills her."