Chapter 25
Hiro flailed his arms and grabbed onto the end of a metal pipe. Holding the pipe, Hiro fought against being pulled into the vortex of the portal. He watched his team below, and saw they were being beaten badly.
Yokai laughed as the microbots grabbed Fred’s arms and pulled.
“They’re tearing me apart!” Fred howled.
Then Yokai turned to Wasabi. He had him pinned between two walls of microbots. “Getting a little tight!” Wasabi said as the walls closed in.
Go Go was immobilized in a ball of microbots. “I could use a little help!” she called.
Everyone seemed to be in a jam, even Honey. She had covered herself in a chemical dome, but the microbots were hammering on it.
Hiro was suddenly frightened. He could see them losing the battle. They could all be sucked into the portal. As he hung upside down, he watched pieces of debris and loose microbots fall into the gaping maw. “That’s it! I know how to beat him!”
He yelled into his communicator, “Hey! Listen up! Use those big brains to think your way out! There are no dead ends!”
It was just the jolt of inspiration the team needed.
Fred grabbed a fallen sign. Spinning the sign, he sliced through the microbots that were holding his Kaiju suit. “Oh, it’s Fred time!” he howled. “And we don’t need a super suit for the super signspin!”
At the same time, Go Go revved her wheels until they smoked—and sliced through the sphere of microbots around her.
Held between two walls of bots, Wasabi knew the best way to escape was to go down. Using his laser hands, he dug through the floor and was free. Honey latched on to a string of microbots that had penetrated her dome. They pulled her to freedom.
But the robot was still surrounded. “Baymax!” Hiro called. He gasped as a sharp piece of debris flew past and cut him.
Baymax looked up, and the two stared at one another before Baymax was completely covered with microbots. Hiro gasped, and then he felt his hands slip on the pipe.
Suddenly, Baymax’s rocket fist shot out of a mound of microbots.
The rest of Baymax caught up to his fist and he grabbed Hiro just as the pipe gave way. Krei and Callaghan could only watch. “I love that robot!” Krei shouted.
With a snarl, Callaghan used the microbots to trap Krei against a billboard. Hiro rode Baymax down to the ground, where the team was ready and waiting for action.
“Here’s the plan,” Hiro told them as he looked toward Callaghan. “We gotta force him up. Close to the portal. Honey, Fred, can you give us a little cover?”
“Let’s do this, Freddie!” Honey shouted.
“Like you have to ask,” Fred said as he blew a blast of smoke from his Kaiju nostrils. “Smoke screen!”
“Yes!” Hiro cheered as the two disappeared in the cloud of smoke. “All right, Wasabi, here’s what I want you to do—”
“I’m good, man!” Wasabi interrupted. “I don’t need a plan. Wasabi is winging it.” Wasabi ran in and slashed away at the columns of microbots. Go Go sent discs flying at the columns as well, causing large cracks to appear. Honey threw chem-balls into the cracks. The expanding goo caused the columns to shift.
Hiro smiled. They were finally working together as a team.
Baymax and Hiro flew toward Callaghan, drawing an attack of swirling microbots toward the portal. At the last second, they reversed into a dive, going straight into the microbots, which engulfed them.
Hiro activated Baymax. “Back kick! Knife hand! Roundhouse! Hammer fist!” he called out in quick succession. Baymax went at the microbots with a whirlwind of karate moves.
“This ends now!” Callaghan shouted. With one final push, he threw a swarm of microbots at Hiro and Baymax. But with a mighty blow, Baymax punched thousands of microbots into the portal.
The columns shook and Callaghan staggered. With very few microbots left, he struggled to maintain his balance. “No!”
“It’s over, Callaghan!” Hiro shouted. “Hand over the mask.”
“Never,” Callaghan snarled.
“I thought you’d say that,” Hiro said. “Fred?”
Fred leaped at Callaghan. “Fred time!” he called as he grabbed the mask. Instantly, the microbot columns collapsed, sending Krei and Callaghan tumbling toward the ground.
Baymax caught the two men in midair.
Hiro watched the columns of microbots holding the portal come apart. With a great shudder, the whole thing crashed to the ground!
Hiro and his friends cheered. The portal had been destroyed and the microbots were lying in heaps!
But seconds later, it was clear that the broken portal was still active. “It’s still on!” Hiro said to Krei. “We have to shut it down!”
The portal was sucking in everything around it. Then, pulsing with light, it began sucking in parts of itself.
“We can’t!” Krei cried. “The containment field is failing. The portal’s going to tear itself apart.”
“We need to get out of here, now!” Hiro shouted. Everyone was turning to run when Hiro looked back and saw Baymax staring at the portal. “Baymax!” he shouted.
“My detector is sensing signs of life,” Baymax said.
“What?” Hiro said.
“Coming from there,” Baymax replied, pointing at the portal. “The life signs are female. She appears to be in hyper-sleep.”
Hiro gasped. “Callaghan’s daughter!” he said. “She’s still alive?”
“Abigail!” Callaghan said. Hiro saw the hope in Callaghan’s eyes. Then he looked to his team. He knew if there was a chance she was alive, he had to try to save her. He looked at Baymax. “Let’s go get her.” He climbed onto the robot’s back.
Krei stood next to the team on the ground. He said, “The portal is destabilizing. You don’t have much time.”
Honey was worried. “Hiro, it’s too dangerous.”
“She’s alive in there,” Hiro told his team. “Someone has to help.”
The team looked at each other and then back at Hiro and Baymax. They understood that Hiro would always be the person who would offer help. Just as Tadashi had been. “What do you say, buddy?” Hiro asked Baymax with a smile.
“Flying makes me a better health-care companion.”
And with that, the team watched Baymax and Hiro rocket into the portal.
第 25 章
小宏揮動手臂,抓住了鋼筋管的一端。小宏緊緊地抓住鋼筋管奮力掙扎,以避免自己被傳送門吸進去。他看了一下下面的隊友,他們也被打得很慘。
看到微型機器人拽住弗雷德的兩條胳膊用力向兩邊拉的一幕,妖怪很高興。
“他們要把我扯開了!”弗雷德嚎叫道。
妖怪轉(zhuǎn)向了芥末無疆,把他壓在兩面由微型機器人構(gòu)成的墻壁之間。“越來越緊了!”隨著墻面之間的距離越來越近了,芥末無疆說道。
神行御姐被固定在了由微型機器人構(gòu)成的球內(nèi)動彈不得。“我需要些幫助!”她喊道。
每個人似乎都陷入了困境,哈妮檸檬也是。她把自己包裹在了用化學(xué)球制成的圓頂屋里,忍受著微型機器人不斷的攻擊。
小宏突然變得很害怕。他可以看到他們在戰(zhàn)斗中處于下風(fēng)。他們都有可能被吸進傳送門。他被倒掛著的時候,眼看著很多殘骸的碎片和零散的微型機器人被吸入傳送門那張大口。“我想到了!我知道如何打敗他了!”
他對著他的通信器大喊道“嘿!聽著!開動你們無敵的大腦,想想擺脫困境的方法!沒有過不去的火焰山!”
這正是振奮整個團隊所需要的。
弗雷德?lián)炱鹨粔K掉落的牌子,旋轉(zhuǎn)著它,把緊緊抓住他怪獸盔甲的微型機器人切得粉碎。“哦,到了弗雷德時刻了!”他大喊道,“急速旋轉(zhuǎn)可不需要穿超級盔甲!”
與此同時,神行御姐加快了她飛輪的轉(zhuǎn)速,直至它們開始冒煙,把包裹著她的由微型機器人構(gòu)成的球體切割開來。
被兩面機器人墻夾著的芥末無疆知道,最好的逃脫方向就是下面。他用自己的激光刀在地板上挖了個洞,隨即他就擺脫了困境。哈妮檸檬抓住一束刺穿她圓頂小屋的微型機器人。它們將她拽了出來,她自由了。
可是大白還是被微型機器人包裹著。小宏喊道:“大白!”。一片尖利的殘骸飛過切傷了他,他倒吸了口氣。
在微型機器人把他完全包裹起來之前,大白抬起頭與小宏對視著。小宏吸了口氣,隨即他感覺到自己的手正在從鋼筋管上滑落下來。
突然,大白的火箭拳從一大堆微型機器人中飛了出來。
大白追上了他的拳頭,在小宏的手滑落鋼筋管的瞬間抓住了他。格利和卡拉漢只能眼睜睜地看著。“我愛死那個機器人了!”格利放聲喊道。
卡拉漢咆哮著,用微型機器人把格利打向了一面廣告牌。小宏騎著大白回到了地面。其他隊員也在那里,準(zhǔn)備開始行動。
“我有個新計劃,”小宏一邊告訴他們,一邊看向卡拉漢。“我們得強迫他向上接近傳送門。哈妮檸檬、弗雷德,你們能掩護我們嗎?”
“一起上吧,弗雷德!”哈妮檸檬大喊道。
“這還用說嗎,”弗雷德邊說邊從怪獸盔甲的鼻孔處噴出一陣濃煙。“煙幕彈!”
“太好了!”小宏看著那兩人消失在濃煙中歡呼道,“好了,芥末無疆,現(xiàn)在我想讓你去……”
“我沒問題,伙計!”芥末無疆打斷道,“我不需要計劃。芥末無疆要即興表演了。”芥末無疆跑了進來,朝著微型機器人組成的柱子削去。神行御姐也朝著微型機器人組成的柱子投擲著飛盤,導(dǎo)致柱子出現(xiàn)了巨大的裂痕。哈妮檸檬朝著裂痕處扔出了化學(xué)球。擴展的黏性物導(dǎo)致微型機器人柱子移動了。
小宏笑了。他們終于開始團體作戰(zhàn)了。
大白和小宏朝著卡拉漢飛了過去,吸引盤繞的微型機器人朝傳送門的方向攻擊。在最后時刻,他們顛倒過來急速下降,直擊包圍著他們的微型機器人。
小宏激活了大白。“后踢!手刀!回旋踢!錘拳!”他一個接一個地指揮著。大白對著微型機器人如旋風(fēng)般地演繹著空手道。
“到此為止吧!”卡拉漢大喊道。隨著最后的一推,他向小宏和大白扔出一堆微型機器人。但大白猛力一擊,將數(shù)以千計的微型機器人打進了傳送門。
柱子搖晃起來,卡拉漢的腳步也開始不穩(wěn)。微型機器人的數(shù)量越來越少,他努力維持著平衡。“不!”
“結(jié)束了,卡拉漢!”小宏喊道,“把面具給我。”
“休想!”卡拉漢咆哮道。
“我猜你會這樣說,”小宏說道,“弗雷德?”
弗雷德跳向卡拉漢。“弗雷德時間!”他一邊喊一邊抓住面具。微型機器人組成的柱子立即就坍塌了,格利和卡拉漢摔向了地面。
大白在半空中接住了他們兩人。
小宏看到舉著傳送門的微型機器人柱子開始瓦解了。隨著一陣震顫,整個傳送門砸向了地面!
小宏和他的朋友們歡呼起來。傳送門被毀了,而微型機器人散落成堆!
可是幾秒鐘后,他們發(fā)現(xiàn),殘破的傳送門還在運轉(zhuǎn)著。“它還在運轉(zhuǎn)!”小宏對格利說道,“我們得關(guān)掉它!”
傳送門把它附近的東西都吸了進去。隨著傳送門的燈一閃一亮,它開始吸入本身的部件。
“我們關(guān)不了!”格利哭喊道。“磁力控制場快要失靈了。傳送門會自己分解的。”
“我們需要趕快離開這里!”小宏大喊道。所有人都轉(zhuǎn)身而逃,就在這時,小宏回頭看了看大白,只見大白正盯著傳送門。“大白!”他喊道。
“我的探測裝置探測到了生命跡象。”大白說道。
“什么?”小宏說道。
“從那邊過來的,”大白指向傳送門答道,“生命跡象顯示是名女性,她正處于休眠狀態(tài)。”
小宏吸了口氣。“卡拉漢的女兒!”他說道,“她還活著?”
“艾比蓋爾!”卡拉漢說道。小宏看到了卡拉漢眼中的希冀。然后他看向了他的團隊。他知道如果她尚有一線生機,他就應(yīng)該去救她。他看向大白:“咱們?nèi)ゾ人?rdquo;他爬上了大白的背。
格利挨著其他隊員站在那里。他說道:“傳送門越來越不穩(wěn)定。你沒有多少時間。”
哈妮檸檬很擔(dān)心:“小宏,這太危險了。”
“她就在那兒,還活著,”小宏對他的隊員們說道,“得有人去救她。”
隊員們對視了一眼,然后注視著小宏和大白。他們都知道小宏是那個永遠愿意幫助他人的人,就像泰迪那樣。“你怎么看,伙計?”小宏笑著問大白道。
“會飛使我成為一名更好的健康顧問。”
說完,小隊的其他成員便看著大白和小宏火箭般地沖進了傳送門。