Chapter 2: Construction

At the meeting with Alistair Krei, they sat around a wooden circular table in a large office room. They all sat in comfortable, plush black office chairs with a pen in for don't of every chair. Mr. Krei was pacing around the room, a solemn look on his face. "This is an interesting idea you propose. But making a time machine! Well, it is possible giving the measures of..." He started mumbling to himself, though he thought everyone could hear him. "Use the transcontinental transmitter...adding a random alarm clock could help..." Hiro and Honey Lemon snickered at that sentence.

"Krei?" GoGo Tomago interrupted before he got too deep into his thoughts.

"Hmm?"

"You know, you should really let us help you..."

"Oh? Well, yes, I should. I'm having a bit of a dilemma here. I don't have enough funding to have my industry build both a new robot like Baymax, and a time portal. You will have to choose just one."

This was a easy choice for Hiro to make. He then realized it wasn't entirely up to him to decide. "Can me and my group talk alone for a moment?" Hiro asked Krei.

"Of course, as long it doesn't take very long", Alistair replied. All of Hiro's friends looked at him strangely. Why does he need us to help him decide? After all, this is his brother we're saving, their expressions seemed to say. Hiro didn't notice. Or, if he did, he didn't care.

"Well", Krei said quickly, noticing everyone's faces. " There's a small room with a few chairs just down the half and to your right, though some of you will have to stand, if that's okay with you". Everyone nodded in agreement.

"I sure hope I get a chair", Fred whispered to Hiro. Hiro just rolled his eyes.

Once they got to the small meeting room, Fred rushed to the biggest chair there, which, of course was at the front of a very skinny rectangular table. "I'm the boss! Finally!" Everyone just ignored him. Everyone except Wasabi and Hiro took a chair. The rest of the chairs were too small for Wasabi, and there wasn't enough chairs for Hiro.

"Okay, do you know why we are having a mini meeting here?" Everyone nodded their heads.

"Ya, because you want your brother back, but don't want to be selfish and make the decision yourself", GoGo said before blowing a bubble with the gum she was chewing. Hiro stood there shocked. "So, you guys all know?" Hiro asked.

"Yep. Sure do. Absolutely! Yeah. Of course, Hiro", his friends replied one after the other. "We know what choice you want to make, too. I want the same as you, Hiro. I want Tadashi back more than anything", Honey Lemon said. Everyone mumbled in agreement.

Hiro was surprised by how well his friends knew and understood him. He missed having friends around. Baymax just wasn't enough. Sure, he had his aunt Cass, but you can't really count her as a best friend. After he and his friends broke up the superhero group a year ago, Hiro never made any other friends. He felt alone. Hiro felt something he hadn't felt for a while. Contentment. He was okay with what was going on. He had his friends, he was happy, and most of all, he was going to get his brother back.

"Well, there's no use for a meeting, anymore, I guess", Hiro announced.

"Finally!" Wasabi said. He was getting tired of standing there.

Back in Mr. Krei's office, they discussed what they wanted to do, and how.

"So, you have decided to build a time machine. Technically, time travel is not possible, but instead if making it a time machine to go to any time, we could make it so it could only travel to a certain time. It's the only possible way. It would instead be a 'time portal'", Krei said after everyone was seated and listening.

"What if we get sent to the wrong time?" Wasabi questioned. He was the biggest worrier of the group. He started fiddling with the pen that was placed in front of him, clicking it rapidly. Everyone waited until Wasabi stopped making unnecessary noises to talk. He noticed that everyone was looking at him. He chuckled and slid the pen across the table to GoGo. She pushed it to Hiro, who slid it to Honey Lemon, who then pushed it back to Wasabi. Krei walked over, picked up the pen, and threw it in the trash can from where he was standing. "Dude, were you in basketball or something?" Fred asked in awe. "I was on the varsity team in college. Not the best, though. Frederick Donovan always had all the glory, all the fame. In fact, he was your father, Fred."

"But he's all snobby and 'hoity toity' and fancy" GoGo said, surprised.

Well, after he left college and got married, he really changed", Krei said sadly.

"Nah, he is still like that. He's all into superheroes. I mean, he's even got his own secret superhero shrine-thingy!" Fred exclaimed.

Everyone rolled their eyes and continued their conversation.

"So we are a definitely going to built the time teleporter", Honey Lemon said with a sigh of releif

"Yes!" Everyone responded loudly. It seemed like she was off in her own world sometimes.

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At the island off the coast of San Fransokyo...

"Okay, we finally have all the materials we need to build the machine. Let me warn you, this contraption only has two uses. One to get to the time we want to go to, and one use to get back to the present", Alistair Krei warned. "If you go too far back in time, you will have to wait till the exact time you wanted to go to in the first place".

"You couldn't have told us sooner?!" GoGo exclaimed angrily.

Krei held up his hands defensively. "It was the only-"

"No, I am pretty sure there was another way", GoGo said, letting her anger get the best of her.

"Woah. Just calm down there. It isn't such a big deal", Wasabi said.

The construction took about six months to complete. When they were finnaly done, they had mixed feelings about the results.

"Why is it so small?" Was a frequent question.

"It has all the components needed for what the invention needs. It only needs to be large enough for all of you to touch it at the same time", Krei said, with a clearly visible look of annoyance on his face, having explained this many times before.

"I think its great" Honey Lemon said to Krei, hugging his arm.

With everything ready, the five packed up everything they needed for the trip.

"Aren't we forgetting someone?" Fred asked quizzically.

"Baymax!" Everyone said.

Later that night, Hiro went up to the attic of his house. He picked up a large red box, carried it out of the attic, and set it down on the dining room table. He dusted off the layer of dust that it had accumulated in the attic.

"We're getting back together, Baymax", Hiro said while patting the unopened box.

That's the end of chapter 2! I'm sorry I couldn't update for a while. I just moved and it took a few weeks to get internet going. You can expect another chapter in about 2-3 weeks. I'm sorry my writing process is so slow. I'll try to do the best I can! Thank you for staying and reading my story, even though it took a while to update. Have fun reading! ;-)