Beyond Worlds

*"The two parallel lines were never meant to meet become a tangent."* -**Beyond World's** tagline

## **Official Description**

### Author

Stefen Sanchez, Parker Trinh, Cj Sanchez, and Michael Williams

### Publisher

HM

**Beyond Worlds** is an ongoing Chrysalis literary work by Stefen Sanchez with Haruto Miyano. Starring the OTP Hirella, it will be a fanfiction of Big Hero 6, featuring both its characters and setting. The story will be co-written by Parker Trinh, Cj Sanchez, and Michael Williams, and Pauline Sui will be handling the editing.

## **Plot**

Léa Navarro and her best friend since 8th grade, Red Ordonia, graduates from junior high school in the Philippines to a prestigious high school, California Institute of Technology, as third-year students. Prior to the events of Beyond Worlds, Red's father goes missing and/or dies when Red was just a baby, and Léa wants to somehow reunite her with her father via a parallel universe. Red then teases Léa about her past crush on a particular fictional character, Hiro Hamada, that she wants to forget. Despite Léa's words, Red contacts Cameron, a mutual friend of theirs to help make a one-shot fanfiction of Léa and Hiro, to which Léa just ignores as she needs to prepare for the show.

At Caltech, Professor Bouman, her Science teacher, invites Léa to be a guest host for that year's planetarium show held in California Academy of Sciences, and she agrees. Léa and her brother Julian subsequently meet Hiro Hamada, Tadashi, and Baymax in CAS after Léa successfully gives a show, as well as the others; Honey Lemon, Gogo, Fred, and Wasabi, resulting in Léa's sudden fainting. The team gives their proper introduction after Léa wakes up in the infirmary, and almost immediately Hiro and Léa begin bickering for no reason. Red calls Léa from Pasadena to check-in on her and Léa tells her that somehow the characters of Big Hero 6 are in their world, prompting for the two's research for the topic. Hiro catches Léa talking about him and the others, and Red meets him via the video call.

Léa and her brother comes home to Pasadena and tells Red and Cameron about what happened in San Francisco, although Cameron seems to be more interested about the fact that Léa met the Big Hero 6 there and asks more questions at to how it might've happened. The three come up with the conclusion that they might have connections with the characters that they like the most, and that's what brought Big Hero 6 to life. A fire suddenly starts on the other side of Red's neighborhood, prompting Red, Léa, and Cameron to save survivors, get them to safety, and guide to the nearest evacuation. A little boy is inside one of the houses, and Léa and Red volunteered to go in to save him. While Red is looking for possible survivors on the ground floor of the house, Léa helps the little boy stuck between his wardrobe and bed, although she couldn't push the wardrobe far enough for the boy to get out. The Big Hero 6 goes onto the scene and Hiro helps Léa with pushing the wardrobe. As the three were about to go outside, Hiro realizes the house is seconds later before exploding and uses his strength to push Léa and the boy outside with him, saving them altogether. Because of what he did, Hiro obtained burns and an injury that Léa will later get to in Red's bedroom.

While Léa's treating him, Hiro keeps on moving making Léa frustrated. Hiro did oblige, letting Léa tend to his wound and burns. As Hiro goes to the bathroom to cool his body down, Léa remembers how she and Red are so close; and that the whole reason why she wanted to be an astrophysicist was to help Red who lost her father when she was just young, albeit not having proof that he was even killed. Hiro goes out of the bathroom shirtless making Léa uneasy, telling him to have decency. Downstairs, Léa watches Red and Gogo discuss about magnetic levitation, and Honey Lemon asks why Léa isn't at all friendly towards Hiro, but she couldn't find the right words and couldn't tell her the truth just yet. Wasabi and Fred struggle with plastering pieces of tape all over Baymax's damaged body, so Red offered to help Hiro and Baymax go to Caltech with Léa so they could fix him.

In the robotics lab of Caltech while Hiro fawns over the inventions the students are working on, Léa teases Red about Gogo, but Red denies all knowledge of it, saying she's been interested with Gogo's superhero stuff. Red then tells Léa how she couldn't touch Gogo as it electrocutes both of them. The conversation cuts there when Kenji Katagiri, Red and Léa's classmate comes into the lab and sees Hiro, but proceeds to insult and down Léa's abilities, telling her that she wouldn't be Caltech's representative for long as he will steal the spotlight someday. Even if the two seems to be against each other, Hiro realizes they might be at least friends because they're competitors. After fixing Baymax, Red goes out of the lab to take a call from Gogo, and Léa and Hiro discuss about Kenji and who he is in Léa's life, with Léa confessing that she isn't Kenji's type. Hiro then tells her that Léa is *his* type, making him stutter and spiral out of control. Tadashi calls from Baymax, scolding Hiro how he should've told him he'll go out of town to help people.

## **Characters**

#### **Protagonists**

* Léa Navarro is a 16 going 17 years old the time the story will be set; she's a fresh graduate from the Philippines moving to the States with her best friend Red Ordonia. She wants to be an astrophysicist studying the universe when she grows up, and Hiro Hamada is her love interest.
* Hiro Hamada is a character original from Big Hero 6 aged-up to be 17. He's now a collegian who attends San Fransokyo Institute of Technology along with his older brother Tadashi and best friends. He's a robotics prodigy with an IQ of 160, and his love interest is Léa Navarro.

#### **Deuteragonist**

* Red Ordonia is Léa Navarro's best friend since 8th grade, and like Léa she wants to be a doctor. She has a slight knack for all things Science, and she's the one who teases Léa to Hiro and vice-versa, often teaming up with Tadashi and Honey Lemon.

#### **Tritagonist**

* Julian Navarro is Léa's brother who is older than her by a year, and attends the same university as his younger sister. Unlike Léa, he wants to be a neuroscientist and he's already in fourth-year high school. Tadashi becomes his best friend when they meet in CAS.

#### **Tetartagonist**

* Kenji Katagiri is a friend of Red who she met online, and found out they were classmates along with Léa when they transferred to California. Kenji is the valedictorian for eight years and counting, and because of this, he considers Léa for "stealing his turf".

#### **Pentagonists**

* Tadashi Hamada is the older brother of Hiro who considers Julian as one of his best friends upon meeting each other because of their similarities. He's a 22 year-old collegian in SFIT whose girlfriend is Honey Lemon, and he's Baymax's creator.
* Baymax is a huggable robot healthcare companion invention of Tadashi who often hangs out with Hiro to make sure he's safe at all times- and all his friends in general. Along with Hiro, Gogo, Honey Lemon, Fred, and Wasabi, he's part of the superhero team Big Hero 6.

**Supporting**

* Honey Lemon is a fashionista with Latin roots. When it comes to Science, her forte is chemistry, and she has Tadashi as her boyfriend for at least two years now. She likes to hang out with Léa as she loves her natural friendliness, energy and enthusiasm.
* Gogo Tomago is a pink-bubblegum chewing rebel who's one of the members of Big Hero 6 and she's a friend of them. She's not that close with Léa like Honey Lemon is, but she *is* close to Red, as they are both daredevils who like feeling the wind in their hair.
* Fred isn't a scientist nor an inventor, but he what he is is a "Science enthusiast". He's skilled with sign spinning as he's San Fransokyo Institute of Technology's mascot, and he likes the idea of comics, manga, anime, and all things superhero.
* Wasabi is the perfectionist friend of Tadashi, Hiro, Honey Lemon, Gogo, and Fred, who gave him the nickname when he spilled the said condiment on his shirt. He has a major in applied physics upon joining SFIT, and he is considered to be the "mom friend" of the group.

## **Songs Picked**

##### **English**

* Paper Rings- Taylor Swift (Lover album)
* Kura Kura- TWICE (Kura Kura album)
* Depend On You- TWICE (I CAN'T STOP ME album)
* Fine- Taeyeon (My Voice album)

##### **Spanish**

* Odio o Amor- Rin y Len [Latino]
* Echame La Culpa- Demi Lovato, Luis Fonsi (Vida album)

## **Trivias**

* Beyond Worlds will be the first (and so far only) literary work of HM to be a fanfiction.
* Despite the book revolving around Science, the tagline is related to Math.
* A lot of references and similarities to The Big Bang Theory was in the book:
	+ Most of the characters in TBBT are working in California Institute of Technology, often shortened to Caltech, and that's also where Léa, Red, Kenji, Julian, and Cameron are studying.
		- Ironically, not one from the main characters originate from Pasadena, California, let alone the United States. The Navarro family is from the Philippines along with Red, Kenji is from Japan, and Cameron was born and raised in Vietnam.
	+ Léa corrects Red by saying she wants to be an astrophysicist, not an astronomer, as those are two different occupations. Raj Koothrappali is also an astrophysicist who hosts planetarium shows.
	+ Like Sheldon Cooper, Kenji hates it when things are out of order or if someone antagonizes and/or annoys him.
	+ Red could be inspired from Howard Wolowitz for her engineering skills as shown in the book.
	+ Amy Farrah Fowler is a neurobiologist, and a neurobiologist is what Julian wants to be when he grows up.
* Unlike San Fransokyo, the places that the characters go to in Beyond Worlds (except for the locations already coined in by Big Hero 6)- even the characters they meet along the way- are real locations and people:
	+ California Institute of Technology is a real university in Pasadena, California, as well as California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
		- Both universities also have planetariums, a place where Léa is picked to host in.
	+ Léa's favorite teacher, Professor Katherine (Katie) L. Bouman, is an actual professor in Caltech.
	+ The Huntington Hospital where Léa's mother is working and where her father is confined in is a real hospital located in Pasadena.
	+ The Navarro's apartment is the Pasadena Gateway Villas.
	+ Scott D. Sampson is the real director of California Academy of Sciences.
	+ Marengo Villa is where Red and her mother lives in.
* Beyond Worlds is so far the only literary work that's been translated completely to Spanish, with the title being *Dimensiones.*
	+ Respectively, this is the only story to have two titles when translated into another language.
* The book's teaser card depicts the book title's initials "BW" in binary.

## **Gallery**

Beyond Worlds (Dimensiones) Spanish title cardBeyond Worlds title cardTeaser card released by Stefen in Twitter