Chapter 6: Fighting On

It took an hour to find a boat. The docks were completely empty because some people decided to be evacuated by boat. Fortunately, Gogo managed to find one that could get them to the island.

"Uh, Gogo?" Wasabi said clinging on to the seat as Gogo drove the boat through the water. "are you sure you know how to drive a boat?"

"Relax," she said. "I can drive anything I can get my hands on. Quit being a baby, I know you've ridden on boats before."

"Yeah, those ones were driven by licensed drivers, not crazy daredevils."

Gogo drove right into a large wave, almost causing Wasabi to fall off the boat.

"What was that?" she smirked.

"Nothing. Nevermind."

"That's what I thought."

"Guys can we not mess around?" Hiro said. "I'd like to get to the island without falling off a boat while wearing heavy armor."

"Man, you guys need to learn how to have fun," Gogo smiled.

"Who are you and what have you done with Gogo Tomago?" Hiro said.

"According to my scanners, this persons vitals match those of Gogo's, so this person is not an imposter," Baymax said.

"Baymax it's just an expression," Hiro said to the robot.

"Adding that to my list of expressions," Batmax said.

The island wasn't that far off the coast, so it didn't take long to arrive there. Gogo parked the boat on a small beach, and they made their way to the hole Wasabi had left.

"So since VADAI's at Krei Labs, we can just walk in and shut her down, right?" Gogo asked as they walked through the hallways of Krei's testing facility.

"It's… not that simple," Hiro replied. "AI's can exist in more than one place at a time. She could still be here, but can still be controlling the equipment at Krei Labs."

Hiro had to hand it to Krei. If VADAI hadn't misinturprated what he had said, she could have changed the world. She was powerful, and well programmed, maybe she could have made the world a better place instead of trying to tear it down.

"That suck's," Gogo said. "So she knows we're here?"

"Probably. I don't know what she's waiting for though. We're getting pretty close to her room, so i'm not sure why she hasn't tried attacking us yet."

As if VADAI had heard him, mechanical arms sprung out of the walls.

"You and you're big mouth," Wasabi said.


Large guns lay scattered on the floor of the Krei Labs' lobby.

"That was awesome!" Fred yelled, ripping one of the guns in half. "I almost want it to happen again."

"Says you," Jenna said breathing hard. She had a rough time dodging bullets. "Your suit's bullet proof."

"It is? I just thought they weren't shooting at me. Sweet!"

"Come on guys," Honey Lemon said. "We have to get moving if we want to stop VADAI."

"Elevators are out," Hibiki said. "We're going to have to use the stairs."

"Knowing this place," Jenna said, "those probably have guns guarding them too."

"Then what would you suggest?"

Jenna looked toward the elevator doors. "I think I have an idea."

The elevators had doors at the top of them incase of emergencies. The team was now standing on top of one of the elevators.

"This doesn't seem safe," Hibiki said, looking up the elevator shaft.

"Safer than walking up ten floors while being shot at," Jenna replied. "Fred's going to carry us one at a time, and boost jump up to the eleventh floor. Easy."

"Is taking the stairs still an op-" Fred grabbed Hibiki and boost jumped up to the eleventh floor. He had to stand on the ledge because the elevator door was still closed.

"Oh," Fred said. Probably should have thought that through."

"You think," Hibiki said annoyed.

"Here i'll just lower yo down-"

"How are you supposed to lower me down?! We're eleven stories from solid ground."

"Then i'll just jump back down, drop you off, jump back up open the door, then carry you guys up."

"Oh for god's sake, just hurry up."

When Fred put Hiiki down with Jenna and Honey Lemon, he jumped back up to try to pry open the door. That took him about ten minutes. Afterwards, Fred boost jumped everyone on to the eleventh floor.

"Jeez," Jenna said, "what took you so long?"

"It's hard to open stuff with these," Fred replied wiggling his claws around.

"Wow, this place is huge," Honey Lemon said, looking around the floor where Krei kept all of his weapons. It kind of looked like the inside of an airplane hangar, except instead of planes, there were large robotic suits lined up around the room.

"Cool," Fred said looking at the suits in amazement . "It's like something out of Avatar."

"Fred, don't touch," Honey Lemon said, as if Fred was a dog.

"So… we're here," Jenna said, "Now what?"

Hibiki facepalmed. He didn't think of what they were going to do when they got to the weapons. He didn't expect there to be this many mechs, Krei was loaded. And if VADAI got a hold of this stuff…

"We need to destroy these," Hibiki said. "All of them."

"I don't think so," a voice rang out throught the large room. Suddenly one of the mechs began to move, and it grabbed Fred.

"Okay! Okay! I take it back, this is not cool!"

"Put him down!" Honey Lemon threw a green chemical ball at the mech. It broke throught the glass window, and landed in a the cockpit where a soldier would sit controlling it. Large green spike came shooting out of the mech, causing it to drop Fred. The mech dropped to the floor, it was destroyed.

"That... that was easy," Fred said, breathing heavily.

At once, all of the mechs began to move.

"Ah crap," Fred said.

"Remember, we can't let them leave the building," Hibiki said, readying his amp gauntlets.

"I think they're more focused on us," Jenna said, pulling out her whips.

"Correct," VADAI said. "You have been the main problem in my progress of deleting mankind. Erasing you from the equation will ensure the completion of my task. At the moment, the rest of your team is on Akuma Island, where I am in the progress of deleting them."

Hibiki was mad now. This… thing was trying to hurt his friends. He wasn't going to stand for that. The mechs were now advancing on the team. They weren't armed, so at least they weren't going to be shot at.

One tried to punch Hibiki into the ground, but he jumped out of the way and sound blasted it across the room. Then another grabbed his left leg and hung him upside down.

"Uh, you guys can, you know, jump in. Anytime."

Fred jumped into action. Literally.

"Gravity crush!" he yelled, falling onto the mech and basically smashing it. Hibiki was dropped and landed on his feet. Fred stood up on the smashed mech.

"You know, with as much money Krei has, you'd think he'd make his weapons more durable."

"Yeah, Fred," Hibiki said, "we can talk about Krei's cheap tech later. Now, we've kinda got an army to fight."

"Gotcha." Fred jumped into the air again, and smashed about three more mechs. Then the rest of the team joined in.

Jenn was cutting mechs in half with he whips, and shutting a few down with her electrical blasts. Honey Lemon was throwing around her chemicals like crazy. One made large pink explosion that destroyed several mechs. Another made a gas that melted the legs of a few others. And Fred was… well, Fred was being Fred. He was jumping around and smashing mechs with his fists, while also breathing fire on others, causing them to stand back. Hibiki was sound bouncing everyehere, blasting the mechs with his amps, throwing them against each other and into walls. Overall, the fight seemed to be going well.

"Man VADAI," Fred said while smashing a mech, "for someone whose only function is to destroy us, you're not doing a very good job."

As if challenged by his words, VADAI opened up a hatch in the floor, revealing a vert large, very armed tank."

"Fred," Jenna said, "I really think you should stop talkin to her."

"Duly noted," he said looking up at the tank.

It was large and it's gun probably packed the power of fiee gravity crushes. Instead of being on treads, the tanl was suspended by giant robotic legs. Like a crab with a gun. The first shot was fired at Fred.


Hiro, Gogo, Wasabi, and Baymax had no problem destroying the arms. They were very fragile. Clearly they were only made for constructing large devices around the facility, bu VADAI was manipulating them to attck Hiro and his friends.

"Remember when Honey Lemon said VADAI doesn't have an infinate supply of these arms?" Wasabi said, slicing an arm in half. "I think she was wrong."

"We just have to fight through them, and make it to VADAI's room," Hiro said, blasting another arm with his repulsor blasts.

Then the arms just stopped. They stopped coming out of the walls, and the ones that were left just dangled.

"What's going on?" Gogo asked.

"She must have her full attention on Krei Labs," Hiro said. "Whatever their doing to stop her, it's working."

Hiro thought about that for a moment. VADAI was throwing everything she had at his friends. They were in trouble, Hiro had to help them somehow. Then he remembered that shutting down VADAI will help them.

"Well then what are we standing around for?" Wasabi said. "We have to get to VADAI."

The four rushed down the hallway, and they finally made it to VADAI's room. The screen wall was still a bright blue. VADAI was definately at Krei Labs now.

"Hiro hurry," Gogo said. "You need to reprogram her before she gets back here."

Hiro looked to the right side of the room. There he found the console Krei was talking about. He began typing, in a matter of minutes VADAI was going to be reprogrammed to delete herself, and this would all be over.

"That's enough," a voice said from the stopped typing. The voice wasn't VADAI's, so he was confused.

Krei stepped out of the darkness.

"Krei?" Hiro said. "What are you doing here?"

"Before I evacuated," the man spoke, "I realized something. We don't need to shut down VADAI. If she caan do all of this, just think of what she can do if she's on our side. If we can reprogram her differently, then she could help the world."

Hiro thought about it for a moment. He was right. That's what VADAI was made for anyways, so what was the point in getting rid of her?

"By examining your movement," Baymax said, "and the amount of breaths you are taking, I can deduce, you are lying."

Hiro looked from Baymax to Krei, who now had a look of anger written on his face.

"What is he talking about?" Gogo asked.

"I don't know," Krei said suspiciously.

"He is still telling lies," Baymax said.

"Krei what's going on?" Hiro asked

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Then it hit Hiro so hard he could feel it.

"You want to use VADAI as a weapon," he said. "You don't care about helping people. You just want to get big bucks from the government."

"Hiro, that's siply not true-"

"You saw what VADAI could do, then you though what she could do if you were pulling the strings."

"Alright," Krei said calmly. "You got me." He then pulled out a small device that looked like a handle. Krei pushed a button and a large futuristic gun materialized in the space in front of him.

"Now," he cocked it, "all of you in the corner. Now!"

Hiro stepped away from the console, and moved to the corner of the room with the rest of his friends. Hiro stared at the large guns in Krei's hands.

"You like this?" he said. "It's from my private armory. It can blow a brick wall to nothing from five thousand feet. I'd love to see what it could do to you."

"You're insane," Wasabi said.

"Right," Krei said. "I'm the insane man about to make billions."

Hiro was just beginning to trust Krei. He was trying to protect the city from his mistake. Now, he held a gun to Hiro and his friend's, about to turn that mistake into a weapon he would control.

Krei walked over to the console and started typing. That's when he was grabbed.

The screen on the wall flashed to life, showing an image of VADAI. She was holding onto Krei's neck with a mechanical arm.

"I see my creator is trying to stop me from completing my task."

"I..I created you," Krei said struggled to say. "You lis.. listen to me… and only me."

"I have listened to you, and now I am completing the task you gave me."

The arm through Krei across the room, he hit the wall and Hiro heard a snapping sound. He watched Krei's unmoving body, his head pointed in an odd direction. Krei was dead.

More arms sprouted from th walls and reached for the team.

"Hiro go!" Wasabi yelled. "We'll cover you."

Without hesitation, Hiro ran to the console and began typing in a new code for VADAI. Behind him, Wasabi was slicing, Gogo was throwing her dics, and Baymax was ripping apart mechanical arms.

"Almost there," Hiro said to himself.

He typed in the last bit of code and hit the enter button. There was about one minute before the code took full affect, but it was almost over.

The mechanical arms stopped moving, but VADAI still remained on the screen.

"It's over VADAI," Hiro said. "You've lost."

"Not quite," VADAI said. "In the event that I was not able to delete all of mankind, I created a plan B."

There were thirty second left.

"Plan B?" Hiro said. "VADAI what's plan B?!"

"Krei Labs is powered by a nuculear reactor benheath the building. I will overlosd it's power, and I will delete as many humans as I can. That is my last resort."

VADAI's screen shut off, for good this time.

"No!" Hiro yelled. "Just when I think this is all over, she pulls another trick on us."

"Hiro we have to stop that reactor," Wasabi said. "I've read about it. If that thing overloads, it could have a blast radius of five thousand miles."

Five thousand miles, Hiro thought. There's no way anyone from the city has gotten that far yet. Even with VADAI shut down, people were still going to be hurt. They had to stop the reactor. If they didn't, everything they've done would be for nothing.


(A/N) YAAAWWN. Man, nothing exciting happened in this one. To be clear, Krei dying was not the plot twist. He had it coming no matter what happened. What did you guys think of this one? I think other than chapter 7 of A Darker Path, this is the longest chapter i've written. I'd like to give a shout out to Alter-Knight. Thanks for being so supportive with you're reviews, and I hoped you liked this chapter. Alrighty then, it's about midnight right now and my young body needs rest, so until next time, That's DaydreamDepartment out of your hair! ;)