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"Uh, hi," Hiro said into the mike, which screeched with feedback. For a moment, his mind went blank. Then he saw Tadashi's face in the audience as his brother moved to stand next to Aunt Cass. He was smiling and giving Hiro a thumbs-up.

Hiro put on a headset and reached into his hoodie. He took out a small object no bigger than a paper clip. "This is a microbot." The small object in his palm took a bow. "It doesn't look like much," Hiro continued, "but when it links up with the rest of its pals, things get a little more interesting."

Hiro walked up to the mike. He looked out at the huge crowd… and felt a heaviness in the pit of his stomach. They were all staring at him, waiting.

The crowd didn't seem impressed. Then a murmur rose as the startled audience noticed waves of tiny microbots slithering across the floor. The single microbot flew from Hiro's hand and joined a towering column of microbots that had now formed onstage.

Hiro smiled back and took a breath. "Sorry. My name is Hiro Hamada, and I've been working on something I think is pretty cool. I hope you like it."

Then the microbots lifted Hiro and placed him on top of the tower. In the audience, billionaire tech mogul Alistair Krei was very impressed.

"I think of what I want them to do," Hiro said, "and they do it!" The microbots took the shape of a hand waving. Everyone in the audience smiled and waved back. "The applications for this tech are limitless. Take construction."

Hiro stared at the microbots, and with a wave of his hand, they picked up cinder blocks and assembled them into a tower. "What used to take teams of people working by hand for months or years can now be accomplished by one person!"

Hiro smiled and tapped his headset. "The microbots are controlled with this neural transmitter." He took the headset off and the microbots collapsed to the floor. They re-formed into a column as soon as Hiro put the headset back on.

"And that's just the beginning," Hiro said as he leaped off the tower. Everyone gasped, thinking he was about to fall, but the microbots rose and caught him midair. Hiro smiled. He could see Tadashi giving him another thumbs-up.

"How about transportation?" Hiro asked. The microbots transformed into a set of legs that walked Hiro through the audience. "Microbots can move anything, anywhere, with ease."

The audience was with him now. The moment belonged to Hiro, and he was on a roll. "The only limit is your imagination! Microbots!" he exclaimed, and the audience burst into applause.

As they approached the stage, the microbots formed a set of stairs so Hiro could climb back up to it. "If you can think it, the microbots can do it!" Hiro said.

Hiro jumped off the stage and found Tadashi. The two high-fived as Aunt Cass shouted enthusiastically, "That's my nephew! Whoo! My family! I love my family!"