Safe in Brother's Wings Chapter 54: Dynamic Entrances, a DuckTales + Big Hero 6 Crossover fanfic

Chapter 54, everybody! BIG FIGHT SCENES STUFF BREAKING BITS OF EMOTION FLYING EVERYWHERE!

So as with all my fics, the climax and ending give me grief sometimes because aaaah sitting down and writing it aaaah—I mean I wrote down an outline so I know where to go but STILL. Honestly this chapter is hot off the presses—well the beginning isn't I had that written out WAY ahead of time but the rest? Got some knuckling down to do and just power through to the end wish me luck guys.

Continuing blanket disclaimer: I still have not finished Season Two. We're flying blind, boys. And again, I am still in denial of the end of "Countdown to Catastrophe" don't at me this is how I cope, okay? D: And now Ducktales is in its final episodes….As I said before, send all salt to Disney corporate every nastygram they get that represents fifteen people who couldn't be bothered so WRITE TO THEM.

Also ALL THE MOVIE REFERENCES—let's start with Jurassic Park and then move into The Croods, Mulan, Cool Runnings, Robots, Soul, How To Train Your Dragon, Don't Starve, Ferngully, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Thor: Ragnarok, Jeff Dunham…and apparently an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine—saw the quote attached to an Avengers pic and have been randomly quoting it since.

Moving on from that…again, I still haven't watched the last half of Season Two, but I did see bits and pieces of some of the episodes, and I have a vague idea of the plot of "Hiro the Villain." And, like I said, had the Momo VS Momo fight written out well in advance, so that was fun.

Also please give Tadashi a hug he's trying to process so much everything's nuts when he left the worst thing he had to deal with was Hiro bot-fighting has stopped working press any key to continue.

Hopefully I got the ensuing chaos written right though…fun facts about my climax outline: had Globby written in as showing up at some point, saw a perfect spot to slot him in and went with it and got some fun references in too. And…no lie, writing this and the outline up and Gogo insisted on punching Tadashi. Sorry, 'Dashi….

In other news, Wasabi whistles like my Mom and Grump bites like my bird.

Angelwings2002, thanks for the review! YES! Oh I had so much fun writing those two I swear—and yes yes yes yes and ooh I love cake thank you! :D

Hexyah, thanks for the review! The wait is over! Fortunately Fred is the only one who breaks that wall but he gets called out on it a lot too. XD

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Okay, so in retrospect maybe she shouldn't have engaged, but dangit she wanted a rematch bird-side of her brain shut up she was aware of the danger.

Mostly, the fact that her original was now totally feral, if the way she snarled and spat at 'Kase was any indication.

"Just for the record, you've really let yourself go," she taunted—

Launched away when her original lunged for her, already twisting out of her reach—sharp claws swung wide, sliced clean through the metal did she give her claws made of graphene? Okay that was it where was that complaint box Tadashi had been joking about she had some issues that needed addressing.

Later—more pressing concerns right now.

"You ever think about a career change?" she asked, leaping to a new perch as her original lunged at her old one. "I mean, you got schooled by a café owner, you're regularly stopped by a bunch of kids—face it, the market moved on without you, find something else." Dodge another spitting lunge. "You know, besides this." Swoop around, up. "This isn't a good look for you, by the way."

Jump back, dodge again when her original stayed light on her feet this time, clawed hands swinging—momentary panic when her back bumped against concrete—

Dodged the clawed hand slamming into it.

"I don't know who you think you are," her original hissed, voice guttural and thick from working around fangs. "But this ends now!"

She couldn't resist the dig. "I'm you but better."

Her original screamed, lunged—duck under her next swipe, leap up—

Another scream as those graphene claws dug deep into a concrete pillar instead of her.

"Girl, you thought!" she snapped, kicking hard against her pinioned hand—her original screamed as the impact sheared the trapped claws off. Take the opportunity to get some distance, foot rolling a pipe—

Duck down, grab it as her original lunged—

Muscle memory that wasn't hers kicked in, and she clocked the woman responsible for it hard enough that she probably forgot the technique.

"You know who I think I am?" she shot as her original staggered to recover. "I think I'm the reason you should be furious right now, and not for the reason you think. What is this, huh? Did you want this, or did she put you up to this?" Narrow her eyes. "You wanted this, didn't you. You wouldn't be standing for this if it had been done without your consent."

Snarling furred face as she circled for a better lunge—'Kase tried very hard not to react at the broken claws growing back. "And what makes you so sure?"

Tip her beak up—"Because once upon a time I was you. Literally. If you don't believe me then maybe we can chat about Daddy's swords." Aha, that stopped her. "Yeah. How's it feel to know that the witch you're working for basically stole you? How's that for ironic?"

Another scream, this one promising that any further action would be in mindless anger—

Perfect—she was getting tired of jawing anyway.

No more talking—just focusing on staying one step ahead of her, dodging around this mess of pipes and scaffolding that she suspected was just trying to build up some new part—snatched another pipe—

Landed sprawling on the floor, leap free right before her original smacked into the ground, claws trapped—

"Same mistake?" she observed. "Wow, you're more out of it than I thought."

"I will END you," her original snarled.

"Maybe, but not today. Hey, speaking of irony—remember those two girls you were about to fricassee? Remember what you did to them on Akuma Island?" flip her foot so the pipe clattered by her original. "I'd call this just desserts, wouldn't you?"

Her original stared, confused for scant seconds—

Realized the issue when the structure above her started collapsing.

"Or maybe I'd just call this petty revenge," she decided. "Better luck next time." Tip her head. "And I gotta say: I'm not impressed."

Swoop out of the way as the whole teetering structure fell, clean on her original—circle around until the dust settled, waited a few long moments to see….

"HA," she spat down finally. Landed on a half-finished balcony—

She wondered how Tadashi was doing.

To answer that question: not well.

Mostly because of trying to navigate a warren that would have made Aperture Science proud, mostly because said warren was chock-full of monsters and he had bird-kids to keep track of, mostly because he still needed to find the others.

Mostly because apparently his brother had decided that giving Fred a flamethrower was a good idea.

Said flamethrower had, upon use to make one of the monsters back off, set off a bunch of sprinklers in the narrow hall, so now they had the bonus of being soaking-wet as they tried to squelch away from the monsters that kept coming okay where exactly were these guys coming from he did not let this many out he thought.

Also on the weirdness spectrum: yes, Fred and 'Mini-Max' (still needed to address this) was in front and he was still pretty certain giving Fred a flamethrower was a bad idea. Also: Wasabi in back with laser blades keeping the monsters off their tail. That was it, everything was weird now, his life had firmly leaped off the deep end forget the feathers THIS was the weirdest thing to ever happen to him maybe he was a clone because he DEFINITELY DID NOT remember any of this being a thing.

"Okay!" Fred said once they had a clear path again. "Where were we?"

"You were explaining just WHY you have a flamethrower and Wasabi has laser blades," Tadashi said flatly, ignoring Nox hissing at the sprinklers.

"Seriously?" Wasabi asked. "That's the part you're hung up on currently I have a bird-kid on my back and then there's YOU you're supposed to be dead not a bird-person I am like TWO SHADES away from a total nervous breakdown right now."

Silence for a beat as they stared at Wasabi.

"That is an inaccurate assessment," Mini-Max said. "You appear to be only one shade away from a total nervous breakdown."

"Mine," Lena said, pouncing for Mini-Max again—hissed when he dodged and Tadashi caught her.

"Remember your yoga training, Wasabi," Fred suggested. "Do the calming chant—like on Mulan."

"Fred," Wasabi said tensely. "Not helping."

"That's because you're not chanting oh hold that thought round forty-seven—"

So yeah, by the time they got to the Visitor's Center Tadashi was so done. And soaking wet, which didn't help.

"YES we made it!" Fred cheered. "Are we too late for the butt-whooping what'd we miss—"

All of them flinched back, plastered against each other when a low groaning graduated to a huge structure on the other end of the visitor's center collapsing—immediately hug the kids close, trying to shield them, Wasabi tugging Violet off his back and hugging her to his chest, him and Fred hunkering down with him as dust carried by the collapse washed over them—

"Wasabi," Fred asked finally, after the echoes had faded. "You dead yet?"

"No," Wasabi muttered.

"Seriously?"

"Fred, I'm not doing movie quotes right now."

"Movie quotes are important Tadashi tell him."

"Movie quotes are important," Tadashi told him.

"I give up," Wasabi sighed.

"Wasabi! Freddie! Over here!"

They all leaped up at that—Fred pointed and barked "There!"—

Ran for the two colorful shapes oh you've got to be kidding him Hiro you are SO dead—

"Are you guys okay?" Fred asked, reaching them first. "Is it over already did we miss it what happened I need details—"

"Momakase happened," Honey Lemon said, trying to keep a hold on Webby—looked behind Fred when Webby pointed and shrieked with glee—

Stiffened upon seeing Tadashi.

"Ah," Tadashi started, one hand up, scrambling for something to say why didn't he think more on these things beforehand that would have been nicer than all the worrying—

Got socked hard enough to go head over teakettle, feet and tail flailing before his body decided that no, it wasn't going to complete that circuit, flop back the other way—hands plastered against his face OW THAT HURT—

"Seriously!?" Wasabi demanded.

"It had to be done," Gogo said—seriously?

"Ohhh WHY would you DO THAT?" Tadashi squawked, rolling a little—okay good news he was pretty sure his nose wasn't broken but OW that hurt that very much hurt—had to roll back up quickly when he heard Nox and Lena hissing and squawking NO NO NO NO NO—

Had to jump up when an angrily screeching blue thing tacked the yellow one he was pretty sure was Gogo, haul 'Kase off before she could do anything, everyone yelling as he tried to hang onto an angrily flailing bird-person and keep the other two angrily screaming bird-people back Honey Lemon keeping a death-grip on Webby and Fred hopping between everyone as Wasabi helped Gogo up—

And then put two fingers in his mouth and whistled.

"Okay, FOCUS PEOPLE," Wasabi said loudly, holding a hand up with his two middle fingers touching his thumb and the outer fingers poked up, moving the fingers like it was a dog barking. "Quiet coyote, quiet coyote…."

He succeeded in getting everyone quiet and staring at him at least, bird-kids wide-eyed and Violet pushing up a little from his back so she could imitate his hand movements.

"See? See?" Fred asked. "I told you about using the yoga training."

"Yeah whatever. Let me go," 'Kase said to Tadashi. "I'm on a roll here."

"Uh, no," Tadashi said—freed up a hand to point at Gogo. "And you—no more punching what was the punching even for?"

"One: if you're really Tadashi, for making everyone think you were dead," Gogo said, tugging two discuses off her back. "Two: if you weren't, I wanted to get the first hit in."

"Seriously?"

"Wanna let me go now?" 'Kase asked.

"No. And then the rest of you I am mad at you none of you acted like sensible people and stopped Hiro and I have problems with this."

"Okay, these are fair points and we are moving on now," Fred offered. "Now we just gotta get the others and move on with the plan hopefully all we need to get the band back together is Hiro and Baymax—"

Fred was cut off by snarling—everyone started, looked—

The first monster barreled into the room, followed by several more.

"Let me go," 'Kase squawked—Tadashi did so, grabbed a pipe that had rolled over from the collapsed structure, aware that 'Kase did the same as everyone else assumed defensive positions around the bird-kids, reasoned that if he was going down he'd make one of these things choke on it—

Things got hectic after that—didn't help that on top of keeping the bird-kids safe he had to process Honey Lemon throwing chem balls and Gogo throwing discuses, the latter doing it hard enough to knock sharp teeth loose—

"So uh," he said, when he found himself back-to-back with 'Kase at one point. "Remember that worry we agreed I wouldn't think about until San Fransokyo? I think I was right because I don't remember any of this."

"Really? Seriously? Now you want to talk about that?" 'Kase asked incredulously.

"It feels like a REALLY important point." REALLY being where he punctuated the comment with bashing the pipe on an incoming monster's head.

"Uh-huh. I have an explanation for you: you have really weird friends and I would have thought the underwear story would have tipped you off to this ages ago."

"It saves on laundry!" Fred called, leaping out of the way of a charging monster before flaming it.

"Fred you can afford detergent you can do your laundry more often," Wasabi shot, currently using a shield variation of the laser blades he had to block several incoming hits—Tadashi lunged and jabbed a monster in its open mouth when it leaped for the bird-kids, lost the pipe when it leaped back with an agonized yelp—

"Webby NO—" Tadashi squawked upon seeing a monster stagger by with Webby clinging on for dear life and scratching the life out of its head.

"Webby yes!" 'Kase called. "Go for the eyes!"

"'Kase NO—" Had to cut that off and dive for Nox and Lena, got them and rolled away from the incoming monster—popped back up, flinching back when Fred landed between them and said monster and flamed it.

"How're we looking?" Fred asked.

"Sexy, but not like we're trying too hard," Tadashi reported. "I mean sure, we could be trying, but it's effortless at this point."

"Tadashi I have missed you," Fred said, hugging him.

"How many of you idiots are there?" 'Kase demanded, giving them a look that was a thousand-percent done.

"Too many," Gogo said, doing dental work on another monster. "Welcome to my world."

"Okay I changed my mind I like you you can stay."

"Less talk more smash!" Wasabi squawked, dodging a monster that made him look small. "The adrenaline's wearing off here!"

Violet gave a war shriek and launched herself off Wasabi and at the monster—it retreated moments later, guarding watering eyes from where she had jabbed at them.

"Yeah no that's not an improvement get back here," Wasabi ordered, frantically slicing at another charging monster.

"Welcome to my world," Tadashi countered—squawked and grabbed the kids when another monster charged them—

Said monster was suddenly broadsided by something pink and globby, leaving Tadashi blinking—

Looked to see said pink glob arc over the flattened monster and come skidding to a halt, somewhat bull-shaped in appearance.

"HA!" Globby spat. "Eat that—HEY not LITERALLY!" he squawked, arcing away from a monster snapping at him—it roared in his face—

Was suddenly dealing with a pink gelatinous T. Rex roaring in its face.

"And THAT is how you monster!" Globby declared, stomping.

Tadashi stared, trying to comprehend this new wrinkle (like how did something human-sized get dinosaur-sized HOW does that stuff even WORK)—was startled out of it by Fred screaming YES! loud and long enough to be worthy of Thor.

"I know him!" Fred said to Tadashi, hopping in place and pointing at the pink T. rex. "I know him—friend from work!"

Okay, Tadashi thought he had handled things really well up until this point, but here is where he drew the line sometimes you had to draw the line there was only so much one person could handle and he had reached that point. "HOW is that an improvement!?"

"Oh right I never started telling you about Phase One—so—"

"FRED!"

"Oh right—to be continued!" Fred said, leaping away as Tadashi scrambled the other way, dodging the monster charging for them—Nox was still clinging on but Lena was fighting and kicking like she wanted to fight too and he could just see how that would end—another one leaped for them—

Globby—in a moment that felt too much like the climax of Jurassic Park for Tadashi to ever feel comfortable with the movie again—caught the monster in mid-air and flung it away, stomping over them and roaring as it went smacking against the wall. Scramble the other way as Globby went after the next monster—

Something red burst out of the compromised wall, Tadashi's brain registering it as a fist right as Baymax followed it in, catching it on his arm before landing hard in front of one of the monsters charging for Gogo—

Hiro leaned over Baymax's shoulder, fired several disks that stuck to the monster—it thrashed, trying to get them off, bellowed when hardlight cables wrapped around, connecting the disks and sending the monster crashing to the ground.

"YES!" Fred yelled. "NOW things are getting GOOD!"

"Remind me to hit Fred later," Tadashi muttered to 'Kase.

"Why wait?" she asked.

That was a fair point—with the addition of Tyrannosaurus Globby and Baymax the monsters were falling like dominoes—and Hiro was fighting with the sort of feral intenseness he was used to from the kids, at one point nailing a monster with the disks and then using several hardlight cables and its own momentum to swing it around and into a column. It was…insane. And then to top it off Globby threw another monster around before doing a passing imitation that yes meant rewatching that movie would be surreal.

"Everything's weird now," Tadashi announced.

"Now?" 'Kase asked, giving him one of those I can't believe you looks—squawked and hopped back when Honey Lemon tackled him in a hug.

"Sorry," she said quietly, voice thick. "I just—"

Hug her back. "It's okay," he said softly. "I get it." And was pretty sure some comment was coming from a third party (either 'Kase or Gogo at this point)—

'Kase did comment, but it was another squawk at being included in a group hug, Fred counting them out and barking SEVEN! triumphantly when he glomped on.

"Eight!" Mini-Max declared, hugging them too.

"And a half," Fred offered—lost Mini-Max again to Lena grabbing him and going mine. "Eight…nine, ten, eleven, twelve," Fred continued, counting out the rest of them. "Oh wait Globby makes thirteen maybe we should count you as a full number Mini-Max."

"To not do so would be exceedingly foolish," Mini-Max agreed.

"Yeah why are you in on this mess?" 'Kase demanded.

"Got caught up in the moment," Globby said, still hugging.

Despite everything—despite the emotion choking him right now—he couldn't help the dig. "'Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration I've decided not to endorse your park.'"

"If this is another movie quote I'm going to hurt somebody," 'Kase said flatly.

"Funnily enough, that was the movie we were going to go see," Globby said pensively.

"Uh-huh. Okay that's enough get me out of this mess."

"You're still not going to Jersey," Tadashi offered.

"Watch me," 'Kase spat—squawked when Honey Lemon hugged her.

"Thank you for saving us," Honey Lemon said.

"Uh…yeah," 'Kase said. "I ah, had a preexisting bone to pick, so…."

"Take the win," Globby suggested.

"Speaking of," Fred said. "We're in the home stretch, time to run it home—we get everyone else out the door, slam it on the evil Doctor Amara, and then BOOM! Happy ending! Also, can I just say that I am totally stoked I get to check have a villainous doctor as a bad guy off the superhero bucket list this is a REALLY good week for me, just sayin'—"

"I'm going to feed your friend to one of these monsters," 'Kase said flatly. "Just wake one up and do it."

"I'll help you pick," Gogo said.

"Bruh," Fred sniffed—

Everyone leaped close when more of the monsters barged in, circling around them and forming a ring of teeth and claws—seriously, how many more were there—

So many names, so many people lifted from hospitals, cloned—so many people picked off the streets—

"So this has been fun to watch," Liv Amara announced—look around frantically, hugging the wailing kids close—finally pick her out on a balcony overlooking them. "But I'm really getting tired of testing this particular strain against you."

"Well you're just going to have to get tired!" Fred declared, gesturing dramatically. "Because we are Big! Hero! SIX! We will never rest until JUSTICE has been—"

"Yeah hold on I gotta take this," Dr. Amara said, holding up a finger as she fished out her phone.

"…served," Fred finished weakly.

"Did—did we just get put on hold?" Wasabi asked, looking at the rest of them for clarification.

"Rude," Globby said.

"I'm pretty sure I could get there before anyone reacts," 'Kase said quietly as Hiro ducked under Tadashi's wing and climbed back onto Baymax's back. "I'm motivated."

"Hold that thought," Tadashi muttered, noticing how suddenly rattled Dr. Amara looked, the way she angrily started hissing into the phone.

"Ugh, fine," she spat finally—hung up the phone to glare at them.

"As much as I would love to watch you squirm, I have something else that needs addressing," she snarled. "But trust me, the next time I see you will be after you're in a holding cell."

"Oh, you mean like the one you had us in?" Hiro asked cheekily. "How's that working out for you?"

"Pish, villains always make this mistake," Fred said, waving a costumed hand. "They leave the heroes in some sort of trap that they're SO SURE is foolproof, go off to do villain stuff, and give the heroes time to escape. It's a common trope."

Dr. Amara looked steamed at that.

"You know what, you're right," she said—pressed something on her phone as she turned and left. "Kill them all."

"Thanks, Fred," Gogo said flatly.

"That's also another villain trope, don't sweat it," Fred said, assuming a fighting stance along with the rest of them.

"My body is ready," Globby declared, now some sort of Pteranodon. Okay you know what Tadashi gave up on trying to make sense of that guy—look around at the monsters snarling—

It looked like sparks flitted across one's eyes, like they had in that one room—blinked rapidly, eyes dilating—looked startled to see them—

Suddenly leaped between them and the other monsters, roaring and bellowing and stamping and for all the world looking like it was telling the other monsters to stand down—one leaped forward, got batted away for its trouble—another broadsided it, making it teeter awkwardly before forcing it off—

Why it seemed off-balance became clear when Tadashi realized it was missing a leg.

"Wait—Sherman!?" Tadashi squawked.

"Seriously!?" 'Kase asked.

"Who!?" Wasabi asked.

The monster turned a little, smiled and winked—

Bellowed as another monster rammed him, getting under and forcing him up—couldn't get the same traction down a hind leg, ended up flipped over the monster, which lunged at them—

Ended up reeling away, coughing up blue foam.

"Serves you right!" Honey Lemon said, another chem ball ready to throw and looking like she'd throw hands once she was out.

Which seemed to be Hiro's thought as well. "How much do you have left?"

"Not much," Honey Lemon admitted. "Not for all of them."

"If we die, we die with honor," Fred declared, posing.

"Please—please, I'm begging You," 'Kase said, face buried in her hands. "Don't send me to the Hereafter listening to movie quotes. I am begging You please."

"Somehow I feel like being ripped to shreds is a worse fate," Tadashi told her.

But then there was no more time for movie quotes, which he was sure she appreciated—the monsters lunged—several slipping on icy floors thanks to Honey Lemon's chem balls, several more going down to fire and discuses and hardlight ropes—

One leaped over the others, using them as a springboard, angling straight for them—

CRASH!

They ducked, looked up at the source—

Amid the glass falling from the ceiling, a blur of gray, wings batting shards of glass as they pumped to make the fall faster—

Landed heavy on the monster, big beak clamping down on the short thick neck, biting down hard and sawing back and forth as clawed paws dug in sharp, impressive meathooks tearing through the thick hide—

Finally flung the monster away, planted all four paws on the ground, wings spread and tail lashing as he bellowed—

Grump had entered the fray.