Chapter 16
The car skidded to a stop. When Hiro saw who was driving, he blinked a couple of times and smacked himself in the head. Wasabi was the driver! The rest of the group was jammed into the car with him.
“Hiro?” Wasabi said.
“No, no, no! Get out of here! Go!” Hiro yelled, knowing they had no idea what danger they were walking into. He couldn’t figure out why they were there in the first place. Then he looked at Baymax and remembered. The big robot had contacted his friends to improve his health.
Wasabi climbed out of the car. “Dude, what are you doing here?” He looked around at the grimy docks.
“Nothing. I’m fine,” Hiro whispered as they all climbed out of the car.
But Wasabi was staring at the robot. “Is that Baymax?”
Hiro moved quickly to his friend and tried to push him back toward the vehicle. “Yeah, but you really—”
Go Go asked, “Uh, why is Baymax wearing carbon-fiber underpants?”
“I also know karate,” Baymax said.
Hiro took a deep breath. “You guys need to go, okay?”
“No,” Honey said. “Don’t ... don’t push us away. We’re here for you.”
Baymax nodded. “Those who suffer a loss require support from friends and loved ones. Who would like to share his feelings first?”
Hiro cringed as Fred said, “I’ll go. Okay, my name is Fred, and it has been thirty days since my last—” He stopped, staring up at something above their heads. “Holy mother of Megazon!” he said as the shipping container behind them began to rise.
It was being lifted by microbots!
Then the masked man from the warehouse appeared directly behind the container.
“Am I the only one seeing this?” Fred shouted.
Honey raised her phone and quickly took a photo. The flash blinded the villain for a second. Then, furious, he hurled the shipping container at them.
The friends scrambled out of the way as Baymax jumped up and caught the falling container.
“Go! Baymax, get him!” Hiro cheered. Go Go grabbed Hiro’s arm and pulled him into Wasabi’s car.
“No! What are you doing?” Hiro yelled as they all piled in behind him. “Baymax can handle that guy!”
THUMP! Something had hit the car roof. It was Baymax.
“Oh, no,” Baymax said.
Baymax’s rear end was wedged in the sunroof when Wasabi floored it. The car zoomed away from the pier with the masked man and the microbots right behind it.
Go Go narrowed her eyes. “Hiro. Explanation. Now.”
“He stole my microbots! He started the fire! I don’t know who he is!” Hiro said as a swarm of microbots streamed toward the car.
“Baymax! Palm-hill strike!” Hiro said. Baymax leaned his armored hand out, and when the microbots hit it, they scattered in every direction.
The car swerved off course.
“Hard left!” Go Go shouted, and they turned a corner with tires squealing.
Fred suddenly brightened like a bulb. “The mask ... the black suit ... we are under attack from a super villain, people! A real bad guy— a Yokai! I mean, how cool is that?” he said as the car whipped around a corner and jolted to a stop.
“Why are we stopped?” Go Go asked.
“The light’s red!” Wasabi exclaimed.
Everyone groaned.
“There are no red lights in a car chase!” Go Go screamed.
Wasabi nodded and gunned it. Then he leaned out the window, looked toward Yokai, and yelled, “Why are you trying to kill us?”
Yokai hurled a car at them in response. Terrified, Wasabi clicked on his turn signal and screeched around a corner.
Go Go was furious. “Did you just put your blinker on?”
Wasabi cringed. “You have to indicate your turn! It’s the law!”
Go Go couldn’t take another second. She took out her gum, stuck it on the dashboard, pushed back Wasabi’s seat, and slid onto his lap. She grabbed the wheel and slammed on the gas pedal with her foot. The car hurtled forward.
Hiro moved to take Go Go’s spot in the front seat, yelling, “Stop! Baymax can take this guy!” But the passenger door suddenly swung open, and out tumbled Hiro.
Baymax grabbed Hiro’s hoodie seconds before he hit the pavement. “Seat belts save lives,” Baymax said. “Buckle up every time!”
Go Go looked into the rearview mirror. There was nothing behind them. For a moment, it seemed Yokai and the microbots had given up. Go Go smiled—then saw that she was driving on a ramp formed by millions of microbots!
Before she knew it, the ramp turned into a tunnel that was closing around them. Up ahead, the tunnel’s exit was closing fast!
Wasabi threw his hands over his eyes as Go Go zoomed toward the tunnel’s exit. Hiro bracedhimself and yelled, “Baymax, hold on!”
“We’re not going to make it!” Wasabi howled. But Go Go steered the car onto the wall of the tunnel, lifted into a one-sided wheelie, and squeezed the car through the tunnel’s narrowing exit.
“Aaaah!” everyone yelled as the car went sailing.
“We made it!” Wasabi cheered. But his relief turned to horror when he saw that the tunnel’s exit was right over the bay. Everyone screamed as the car splashed nose first into the water and started sinking.
Filling with water, the car began to sink. Yokai watched and waited until it disappeared. Then he and the microbots retreated into the darkness.
第 16 章
汽車打著滑停了下來。在小宏看清楚是誰在開車后,他眨了眨眼睛,打了一下自己的頭。司機(jī)是芥末無疆!其余的幾個(gè)好朋友都和他一起擠在車?yán)铩?br />
“小宏?”芥末無疆說道。
“不,不,不!快離開這里!快跑!”小宏喊道,小宏知道他們根本不了解自己走進(jìn)了什么樣的危險(xiǎn)之中。他根本不知道他們?yōu)槭裁磿?huì)出現(xiàn)在這里。但當(dāng)他看著大白時(shí),他想起來了。大機(jī)器人曾經(jīng)聯(lián)系過他們來幫助他恢復(fù)健康。
芥末無疆爬下了車。“伙計(jì),你在這干什么?”他環(huán)視了一下骯臟的碼頭。
“沒事,我很好。”小宏低語著,大家都下了車。
芥末無疆看著機(jī)器人問道:“這是大白?”
小宏快速走近他的朋友,想要把他推回車?yán)铩?ldquo;是的,但你真的……”
神行御姐問道,“呃,為什么大白穿著碳纖維內(nèi)褲?
“我還會(huì)空手道,”大白說道。
小宏深呼吸了一下:“你們必須離開,好嗎?”
“不,”哈妮檸檬說道,“別……別趕我們走。我們專門來找你的。”
大白點(diǎn)點(diǎn)頭。“失去親人的人,需要親朋好友的支持和安慰。誰先來說說自己的感受?”
小宏畏縮了一下,隨即弗雷德說道:“我先來。好的,我叫弗雷德,已經(jīng)過去三十天了……”他停了下來,看著他們頭頂上的東西。“我的媽媽呀!”他說著,只見海運(yùn)集裝箱開始慢慢升起。
集裝箱是被微型機(jī)器人托起來的!
在倉庫遇見過的戴面具的男人直接出現(xiàn)在了集裝箱的后面。
“難道就我一個(gè)人能看到嗎?”弗雷德喊道。
哈妮檸檬舉起她的手機(jī),迅速地拍了張照片,閃光燈讓那個(gè)壞蛋在一段時(shí)間內(nèi)看不清周圍的東西。隨即他狂怒地把集裝箱扔向了他們。
朋友們尖叫著逃離,大白跳出來接住了掉下來的集裝箱。
“去!大白,抓住他!”小宏大呼道。神行御姐抓住小宏的胳膊,把他推進(jìn)了芥末無疆的車。
“別!你們?cè)诟墒裁矗?rdquo;小宏大喊道,他們隨即也上了車。“大白能搞定那個(gè)家伙!”
砰的一聲重?fù)?!有東西砸在了車的頂部。那正是大白。
“哦,不,”大白說道。
在芥末無疆踩油門的時(shí)候,大白的屁股陷進(jìn)了車頂?shù)奶齑啊F嚰彼亳傠x碼頭,戴面具的男人和微型機(jī)器人緊隨其后。
神行御姐瞇起了眼睛:“小宏,解釋一下,就現(xiàn)在。”
“他偷了我的微型機(jī)器人!是他放的火!我不知道他是誰!”小宏說著,一群微型機(jī)器人蜂擁而上朝汽車涌來。
“大白!震山掌!”小宏說道。大白伸出他配備了盔甲的手進(jìn)行還擊。當(dāng)那些微型機(jī)器人碰到大白的手時(shí),便被打得四處散落。
汽車偏離了路線。
“快左轉(zhuǎn)!”神行御姐喊道。他們急轉(zhuǎn)了一個(gè)彎,輪胎與地面摩擦發(fā)出了尖銳的聲音。
弗雷德突然茅塞頓開。“面具……黑色的外套……大伙,我們正在被一個(gè)超級(jí)大壞蛋襲擊!一個(gè)真正的壞蛋——一個(gè)妖怪!我是說,這多酷?。?rdquo;他正說著,車子急速拐了一個(gè)彎,搖晃著停了下來。
“我們?yōu)槭裁赐O聛恚?rdquo;神行御姐問道。
“紅燈啦!”芥末無疆大喊道。
所有人都發(fā)出不滿的抱怨聲。
“被追殺還管什么紅燈啊!”神行御姐尖叫道。
芥末無疆點(diǎn)了點(diǎn)頭,加大了油門。然后他探出頭,朝妖怪看了看,大聲喊道:“你為什么要追殺我們?”
妖怪朝他們?nèi)恿艘惠v車過去作為回應(yīng)。芥末無疆在驚嚇中咔嗒一聲打了轉(zhuǎn)向信號(hào),車輪尖叫著轉(zhuǎn)過一個(gè)拐角。
神行御姐發(fā)怒了:“你剛剛還打了轉(zhuǎn)向燈?”
芥末無疆畏縮地回答道:“轉(zhuǎn)彎時(shí)你必須提示別人!這是法律規(guī)定的!”
神行御姐一秒鐘也不能等了。她吐出口香糖,粘在汽車的儀表板上,把芥末無疆座椅向后一推,滑坐到他的膝蓋上。她抓住方向盤,猛踩油門。汽車猛地向前沖去。
小宏爬到前排坐到了神行御姐之前的座位上。他大喊道:“停車!大白可以搞定那家伙!”可是副駕駛門突然被晃開了,小宏跌了出去。
在小宏就要撞到人行道的前幾秒時(shí)大白抓住了他的連帽衫。“安全帶能救命,”大白說道,“任何時(shí)候都要系好!”
神行御姐看了看后視鏡,他們后面什么也沒有。這一刻,妖怪和微型機(jī)器人看似是放棄追趕了。神行御姐笑了,就在這時(shí)她才發(fā)現(xiàn)她正行駛在由數(shù)以百萬計(jì)的微型機(jī)器人構(gòu)建的斜坡上。
她剛意識(shí)到這點(diǎn),斜坡就變成了包裹著他們的一條隧道。隧道上面的出口正在快速關(guān)閉!
神行御姐加速朝隧道出口駛?cè)ィ藭r(shí)芥末無疆用手捂住了雙眼。小宏牢牢地穩(wěn)住自己,大喊道:“大白,抓緊!”
“我們沖不出去了!”芥末無疆嚎叫道。但神行御姐駕駛著車子在隧道壁上行駛著,一邊的車輪離地,車從狹窄的出口擠了出去。
“??!”在車飛出去的一刻,所有人都尖叫起來。
“我們沖出來了!”芥末無疆歡呼道??伤膶捨哭D(zhuǎn)瞬變成了恐懼,因?yàn)樗吹剿淼赖某隹诰驮诤车纳峡?。隨著車子扎入水中并開始下沉,所有人都尖叫起來。
車子進(jìn)水后開始下沉。妖怪冷眼看著,一直等到車子消失,他才和微型機(jī)器人消失在黑暗中。