Wilbur held on to Penny's shoulders for dear life as she careened up and down the San Fransokyo streets back to the university. Dash and Bolt kept pace with some effort on Bolt's part. She locked the scooter to the empty bike rack surprised the campus was barren even on a weekend. Surprisingly Dash chose to walk slowly with the others in case anyone saw them.
Wilbur tried to flirt with her as they walked, "And then these robotic bowler hats with claws took control of a dinosaur and attacked us."
Penny laughed, "Do you really expect me to believe that you fought a dinosaur over din-" Penny froze in horror staring at the blank van with a green eye logo. Her body tensed up and she started to hyperventilate.
"Hey what ar-"
Penny slapped her hand over his mouth and pushed him back near panicked, "Shh! Somethings wrong." She peered one eye around the corner then pulled back breathing heavily. "How are they here? They shouldn't be here."
"Who's here?" Wilbur whispered.
"Calico." Penny breathed, "I thought we were finally safe here. We have to go, right now!"
"But what about the time machine?" Wilbur whispered back.
"If Calico found us here then he will find the others too we have to warn them."
"Wait where's Dash?" Wilbur asked searching behind them, Dash was nowhere to be seen.
Penny grabbed her head in frustration, "No, we have to, we have to be smart, here we need to warn the others now. Dash can take care of himself."
Dash ran full speed weaving between cars and pedestrians, "No no no no." he chanted to himself over and over again.
The mansion door nearly blew off its hinges from Dash's super speed. He sprinted from room to room finding no one anywhere. In a panic Dash circled the house inside and out before realizing that Violet and Jack-jack had gone back to Hiro's house. He spun on his heel and ran to protect his brother and sister.
Penny and Wilbur found Hiro and Tadashi's lab a wreck. Broken glass covered in a filmy substance covered the floor. Baymax was pushed against the wall torn apart and deflated.
"Baymax! What happened to you?" Wilbur asked afraid of the answer. Baymax didn't respond.
"Calico beat us here." Penny answered trying not to cry, "He must have hit both this lab and the school lab at the same time."
"You seem to know a lot about how this Calico guy operates I bet we can find him in no time." Wilbur assured her with his endless bravado.
"No we can't!" Penny screamed, "Calico kidnapped my father five years ago. Bolt and I chased him from one end of the earth to the other and we NEVER got him back!"
Penny slammed her fists on the table in frustration, she felt torn apart by conflicting emotions. Half of her truly mourned losing her father to a madman while her other half never remembered even having a father. Wilbur just stood where he was not sure what to do. Bolt rubbed his head against her leg, "We can do it this time, Penny. The Green-Eyed Man can't have gone far."
Penny rubbed Bolt's side, "I don't know Bolt what if we get more people hurt?"
"I think Bolts right." Wilbur offered, "If this Calico guy came from your world then he must not know any more about this city than we do."
"Your right, both of you." Penny agreed, "We can do this."
She looked around the room at the strange chemical covering everything, "It looks like a smoke bomb or tear gas was set off in here that's as good of place as any to start. See if you can find a microscope or something to examine this stuff."
Wilbur opened Baymax's torn outer layer to check the damage to his internals, "Hiro was showing off Baymax's scanners to Lewis earlier. Maybe his scanner still works."
The white covering peeled away revealing the damaged internals, torn hydraulics and damaged wires with loose bits of circuit boards rattling around. "Whoa that's…. a lot of damage."
"Can you fix him?" Penny asked him.
"I'm sorry being smart is my dad's thing I'm just the cool kid of the family." Wilbur hung his head in shame, "I can't actually do anything."
"Please, you know more about this than anyone here." Penny insisted. Bolt dropped a tool at his feet.
"Alright, I will try but without blueprints and replacement parts I don't think I can really do much of anything here."
"I'll see if I can find anything on the computers." Penny answered, "Bolt bring him any tools and parts you can find."
"Yes Penny." Bolt Barked back.
Riley struggled to summon the lights in a larger form; the multicolored tendrils twisted to form a small tear roughly the size of a basketball. Riley was sweating from the repeated effort but was beginning to show results. Her headache still bothered her, but it hurt less each time she tried. Her record was a tear half her own size.
Abigail was having an easier time summoning her smoke powers but was making far less progress using them. She could make it form around her, coloring her clothing in azure and fuchsia fractals or float around an object but could barely lift the apple Riley had pulled from the lights earlier.
"This is useless!" Abigail groaned dropping to her knees exhausted, "This stuff can't do anything."
"You need to feel it out," Violet assured her, "This power is a part of you, so find what comes naturally and focus on that, we can expand out from there."
"All I can do is cover myself in the stuff. What good does that do?" Abigail demanded frustrated.
"I think I have an idea." Violet answered, pulling up a force field with the apple inside of it. "Try and block or catch this."
"What?"
The apple spun in place then launched at her face, Abigail dove to the side, the apple glancing off her shoulder.
"I said block it, not dodge it." Violet reminded her.
"What are you doing?" she snapped back, "That was dangerous!"
"Not if you stop it." Violet assured her, then spun the apple back at her.
Abigail threw her hands up defensively the fractal smoke filled the space between her fingers and the flying apple. The smoke coated the apple and slowed it to a stop. She pushed her hands forward launching the apple back at Violet. Violet threw up a force-field the apple splattered against the barrier leaving bits of fruit and fractal dust scattered around the impact.
"Nice job." Violet shouted happily holding out her hand for a high five.
"What was that?" Abigail demanded.
"I knew you could do it, you just needed a push." Violet explained, lowering her hand.
Abigail realized her tone was too harsh and held out her hand, Violet eagerly returned the high five.
"Violet!" Dash blew past them leaving a blast of wind in his wake, "Violet! Violet! Violet!" Dash spun around and sprinted back to them, "Where's Jack-Jack?!"
"He's at the house with everyone else." Violet answered nervously.
"Everyone there is gone!" Dash screamed frantically.
"What do you mean gone!?" Violet screamed at him.
"Well you weren't there either" Dash shouted back.
"Back up what happened? Who took them?" Violet demanded shaking him by the shoulders.
"Bad guys were at the school; I ran back to the house and everyone was already gone!" Dash shouted in a panic, "We need to find him!"
"Get back to the house. Look for tire tracks check if any banks are close by. We are right behind you!" Violet ordered.
Dash vanished from sight with loose grass pulled in his wake. Abigail threw her arms up to protect herself, Violet was already halfway to the car.