Chapter 21
Hiro and the team watched the video as the flight pod’s engines fired up. The portal was humming. A computer-generated voice echoed through the lab: “T-minus thirty seconds to launch.”
“All systems go for pod launch,” Krei said.
A technician suddenly said, “Sir, we’ve picked up a slight irregularity in the magnetic containment field.” “Huh,” Krei said, looking at the readout on the screen.
One of the generals stepped forward. “Mr. Krei, is there a problem?”
“No, no problem,” Krei said with a wave of his hand. “It’s well within the parameters. Let’s move forward,” he said to the technician.
“Five, four, three, two ... one,” the voice said. “Pod engaged.” And the pod shot into the first portal, but the moment it entered, alarms screamed.
“We’ve lost all contact with the pilot!” a technician yelled. When the second portal exploded, Krei’s audience scrambled out of the way.
“Oh, no,” Honey said as they all watched the technicians panic. They understood that the pilot now had no way of exiting the portal.
The video was becoming shaky. A spinning vortex was forming at the center of the first portal. It was growing stronger and stronger. Items in the lab began flying into it. Suddenly, the vortex became strong enough to pull the concrete from the walls. The place was going to implode!
“The pilot is gone!” a technician yelled.
“Krei, shut it down! Now!” the general shouted just as Krei hit a kill switch.
The video screen in front of the friends went black.
Hiro stared numbly at the screen. Now he understood why the lab was destroyed. He figured the government must have taken over Krei’s equipment after the disaster.
“Krei’s using my microbots to steal his machine back. But why?” Hiro asked.
Suddenly, a familiar sound drew everyone’s attention to the lab. It was the sound of buzzing microbots—millions of them! Hiro looked out the control room window. The white-and-red face of Yokai came into view. He was standing on a platform of microbots.
They watched the black-cloaked figure raise his arm and the microbots hurled a chunk of debris at the control tower.
The debris smashed into the tower’s base. Hiro and his team held on as the tower buckled and swayed. A final wave of microbots leveled the entire structure.
Yokai smiled as he watched tons of rubble thunder to the floor. There was no way anyone could have survived.
Yokai turned his attention back to the business at hand—moving the precious portal. He used the microbots to dismantle the last portions of it.
Meanwhile, under the control tower wreckage, Hiro and his buddies huddled beneath Baymax. His huge carbon-fiber-covered body had protected them from the falling debris. Hiro gave Baymax a nudge. “Get us out of here!”
Yokai was ready to command the bots to raise the portal up through the hole in the lab’s ceiling. Then—smash! Baymax’s armored fist came crashing through the control room wreckage. Yokai spun around and saw Baymax throwing off steel beams and chunks of cement. He was stunned to see Hiro and the team come out from the wreckage.
Yokai suddenly realized he had to deal with this annoying team of misfits before he could get the portal to safety.
Hiro and the others came at Yokai with everything they had. “Go for the transmitter behind the mask!” Hiro yelled.
But before Baymax could make a move, a wave of microbots knocked him back. Hiro ran to help him, leaving the remaining team face to face with Yokai.
“All right, what’s the plan?” Wasabi asked.
Fred leaped over Yokai. “Super-jump!” he yelled. “Gravity crush! Falling hard!” he narrated as Yokai swatted him away with a wave of microbots.
“Seriously, what’s the plan?” Wasabi called.
“Go for the mask,” Go Go instructed.
“Right behind you!” Honey replied. The two of them took off together.
Go Go rode up a wall and flung her discs at Yokai. But Yokai dodged one while he deflected another. The discs flew past Yokai, just missing Honey as she lobbed a chem-ball. The chem-ball created an ice patch that caused Go Go to slip. She skidded on the ice and slammed into Honey, knocking them both down.
Yokai turned to Wasabi. Wasabi did his best to sound brave. “You want to dance, masked man? ’Cause you’ll be dancing with these!” He waved his laser hands. “Hand over the mask, or you’ll get a taste of THIS! And a little bit of THAT! Ha-ha!”
Yokai threw a cloud of microbots at Wasabi. When Wasabi slashed at them wildly, the microbots seemed to scatter. Wasabi was thrilled. Then he looked down and saw that the swarm was covering his feet and climbing his legs. They lifted him off the ground and threw him into Fred. Fred unleashed a stream of fire that sprayed like an out-of-control garden hose as Wasabi knocked him to the floor.
Yokai was pleased. Most of the team was now out of commission. He turned his attention back to re-forming the microbot platform and raising the portal out of the roof. The job was almost done when Hiro, riding on Baymax, flew at him full force. Hiro was dismayed to see his friends all knocked out of the fight. They were a team, but they weren’t fighting like one.
Yokai angrily sent a stream of microbots at Baymax and knocked him back. The jolt sent Hiro flying forward, slamming him into Yokai. As Hiro and Yokai tumbled down, Yokai’s Kabuki mask flew off. All the microbots instantly fell to the ground.
“It’s over, Krei!” Hiro said.
Yokai had his back to Hiro. But when he turned, Hiro’s eyes grew wide in disbelief.
第 21 章
小宏和其他隊員們看著飛行吊艙的引擎啟動了。傳送門嗡嗡作響。電腦合成的語音在實(shí)驗(yàn)室里回蕩:“發(fā)射倒計時三十秒。”
“所有系統(tǒng)準(zhǔn)備發(fā)射吊艙,”格利說道。
一位技術(shù)人員突然說道:“先生,我們檢測到磁力控制場有輕微的紊亂。”“哦,”格利看著屏幕上的讀數(shù)說道。
有位長官向前一步說道:“格利先生,出問題了嗎?”
“不,沒有問題,”格利搖著手說道,“這在正常參數(shù)范圍內(nèi),繼續(xù)吧。”他對技術(shù)人員說道。
“五、四、三、二……一,”那個聲音說道,“吊艙發(fā)射。”吊艙快速進(jìn)入了第一個傳送門,可就在吊艙進(jìn)入的瞬間,警報響起了。
“我們與飛行員失去聯(lián)系了!”一位技術(shù)人員大喊道。第二個傳送門爆炸時,格利的觀眾們都開始慌亂地逃跑。
當(dāng)大家都看到技術(shù)人員恐慌無措時,哈妮檸檬說道:“哦,不”。大家都明白,那名飛行員現(xiàn)在再也不可能走出傳送門了。
視頻畫面開始晃動。第一扇輸送門中間形成了一個旋轉(zhuǎn)的漩渦,而且變得越來越強(qiáng)大。實(shí)驗(yàn)室里的東西開始飛向漩渦。突然,漩渦變得更加強(qiáng)勁,把所有混凝土從墻上吸了進(jìn)去。這個地方馬上就要向內(nèi)聚爆!
“飛行員消失了!”一位技術(shù)人員大喊道。
“格利,把它關(guān)掉!就現(xiàn)在!”將軍喊道,格利按下了開關(guān)。
在大家面前的熒光屏暗了下來。
小宏愣愣地看著屏幕。他現(xiàn)在知道這個實(shí)驗(yàn)室被毀的原因了。他估計政府在這場災(zāi)難之后接管了格利的設(shè)備。
“格利在用我的微型機(jī)器人偷回他的設(shè)備??蛇@是為什么呢?”小宏問道。
突然間,實(shí)驗(yàn)室里一個熟悉的聲音引起了每個人的注意。這正是微型機(jī)器人發(fā)出的嗡嗡聲——成百萬的微型機(jī)器人發(fā)出的聲音!小宏透過控制室的窗戶向外望去,帶著紅白相間面具的妖怪出現(xiàn)在了大家的視線中。他正站在由微型機(jī)器人構(gòu)成的平臺上。
他們看到這個穿著黑色斗篷的家伙抬起他的手臂,然后微型機(jī)器人便將一大塊殘骸擲向了控制塔。
殘骸猛砸在了控制塔的底部??刂拼铋_始搖晃坍塌,小宏和隊員們都抓緊了周圍的物體以穩(wěn)住自己。最后一群微型機(jī)器人涌來,將整個建筑夷為了平地。
妖怪微笑地看著成噸的碎石轟鳴著砸在地上,沒有任何人有生還的可能。
妖怪把注意力轉(zhuǎn)回到正在干的活上——運(yùn)送那珍貴的傳送門。他用微型機(jī)器人去拆除傳送門的。
與此同時,在控制塔的殘骸下,小宏和同伴們在大白身下蜷成一團(tuán)。大白那由碳纖維外殼包裹的巨大的身體保護(hù)了大家不受落下碎片的傷害。小宏輕推了一下大白:“帶我們離開這里!”
妖怪已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備好操縱機(jī)器人從實(shí)驗(yàn)室房頂?shù)拇蠖刺幪饌魉烷T。突然撞擊聲傳來,大白的裝甲拳從控制塔的廢墟中彈出,把殘骸擊得粉碎。妖怪轉(zhuǎn)過身來,看見大白正在扔鋼梁和水泥塊??吹叫『旰完爢T們從廢墟中走了出來,他很吃驚。
妖怪突然意識到,在他安全地把傳送門運(yùn)走之前,他必須處理掉這隊討厭的與他格格不入的超能少年。
小宏和其他隊員用他們所有的武器對付著妖怪。“去取面具下的傳感器!”小宏喊道。
但在大白開始行動前,一大群微型機(jī)器人就猛地把他擊退。小宏跑去幫他,剩下的隊員則須自己對付那個妖怪。
“好吧,什么計劃?”芥末無疆問道。
弗雷德跳向妖怪。“超級跳躍!”他大喊道。“重力碾壓!摔得好慘!”在他給自己做解說時,被妖怪用一群機(jī)器人猛拍了出去。
“說真的,什么計劃?”芥末無疆問道。
神行御姐指揮道:“去取面具。”
“我來幫你!”哈妮檸檬回應(yīng)道。她們倆沖出去了。
神行御姐滑上了一面墻,朝妖怪扔出飛盤??墒茄侄汩_了一個飛盤又打偏了另一個。飛盤飛過妖怪,差點(diǎn)擊中了正要扔出化學(xué)球的哈妮檸檬?;瘜W(xué)球?qū)⒁黄瑓^(qū)域變成了冰面,導(dǎo)致神行御姐打滑了。她在冰面上滑著與哈妮檸檬撞在了一起,兩個人都倒在了地上。
妖怪轉(zhuǎn)向了芥末無疆。芥末無疆努力讓自己的聲音聽起來很勇敢:“想要跳舞嗎?面具男。因?yàn)槟泷R上就要和它們共舞了!”他揮動著自己的激光手。交出你的面具,要不就讓你嘗嘗這招!還有這招!哈哈!”
妖怪朝芥末無疆扔出了大量的微型機(jī)器人。芥末無疆瘋狂地砍過去,微型機(jī)器人看似散落到了地上。芥末無疆很激動。隨即他低頭一看,看見那群機(jī)器人覆蓋住了他的雙腳,爬上了他的雙腿。他們把芥末無疆托起扔向了弗雷德。芥末無疆將弗雷德?lián)舻乖诘貢r,弗雷德剛好釋放出了一束火焰,因此火焰就像花園里失控的澆水管一樣,胡亂噴射起來。
妖怪很高興。大部分的隊員已經(jīng)失去了戰(zhàn)斗力。他將注意力轉(zhuǎn)回到了平臺重組,想把傳送門抬出屋頂。就在他快完成時,小宏騎著大白全力沖向了他。看見他的朋友們在戰(zhàn)斗中被徹底打敗,小宏很驚慌。他們是一個團(tuán)隊,可是他們并沒有像一個團(tuán)隊那樣作戰(zhàn)。
妖怪憤怒地朝大白打出一束微型機(jī)器人,把他擊退了。顛簸之中,小宏向前飛了出去,和妖怪砰地撞在一起。小宏和妖怪跌下來時,妖怪的歌舞伎面具掉了下來,所有的微型機(jī)器人瞬間掉在了地上。
“一切都結(jié)束了,格利!”小宏說道。
妖怪背對著小宏。可是當(dāng)他轉(zhuǎn)過來的時候,小宏難以置信地睜大了雙眼。