Chapter 74

After the battle, everyone headed to the bridge to eat some ice cream. Fred, Wasabi, Donald, Goofy, Honey Lemon, Lucy, Juvia, Gray, Wendy, Charle, Natsu, and Happy were sitting one one ledge while the rest were sitting on another ledge above them.

Fred was jumping up and down saying, "Was that awesome...or was that totally awesome?!"

"Damn right that was totally awesome!", said Natsu.

"Being a hero is fun!", said Happy as he was gnawing on some fish.

"It is a fun workout.", said Gray.

"Gray-sama did wonderful out there as the Absolute Zero!", said Juvia.

"I haven't felt this excited in a while.", said Lucy.

"Yeah, I was pretty good.", said Donald.

"Your magic is amazing.", said Honey Lemon. "All of yours. Do you think I could study it sometime?"

"Why not?"

"You just made Donald's day.", said Goofy. Honey Lemon giggled.

"I wouldn't mind teaching you my magic.", said Wendy.

"You'll be giving support to you team.", said Charle.

"Thank you.", said Honey Lemon.

Meanwhile, on the ledge above them, Sora, Hiro, Go Go, Baymax, Erza, Gajeel, Lily, and Laxus were all sitting eating ice cream.

Laxus spoke. "Hiro, why did you become a hero?"

Hiro quickly looked sad and explained. "My brother wanted to help people. Now, we try to do the same."

"Your brother?", question Sora.

"You did mention that your brother would do the same.", said Laxus.

"Yeah, Tadashi. There was a fire, and now he's gone." This surprised everyone. Go Go looked depressed. "But he always wanted to make a difference. He cared about people. That's why he worked so hard to create Baymax."

"I'm sorry.", said a guilty Sora.

"Our condolences.", said Erza.

Hiro smiled and said. "He's still here. In Baymax. In all of us."

"He makes a good point.", said Gajeel.

"Agreed.", said Lily.

Sora spoke "Tadashi-he lives on in your hearts."

"Yeah.", said Hiro. "Right. He will always be a part of us in some way."

"And when you're not strong enough, he'll make up the difference."

"Did that answer your question, Laxus?"

"Huh?", said Laxus. "Yeah. When you first told us about your brother and being a hero. It reminded me of something that I too wish to protect."

"Who did you wanted to protect?"

Erza spoke. "Fairy Tail is a much larger group than you think. Because we're a team, we treat each other like family. But Laxus is a special case, he has a relative in Fairy Tail."

"You do?"

"Yeah.", answered Laxus. "My grandfather. He is our Master and treats us like we're his children. But for me, everyone thinks of me as the Master's grandson and I got sick of that as I grew older. One day, I had a fight with my friends and with the old man and then I left them. Overtime, I grew ashamed at what I done and return to them."

"How did they responded?"

"It's hard to explain. I'll just say they let me back in and I made a promise to protect them no matter what. But then six months ago, we were fighting a powerful enemy and the old man decided to sacrifice himself to defeat them. He cast a powerful spell that defeated them, but he ended up dead." Hiro looked surprised. "Everyone was mourning for his loss. I felt ashamed at myself because I failed to keep my promise. But then after a while, he suddenly awoke. We were all relieved at what happened."

"How did he survived?"

"We don't know. Even he was puzzled by it. He just said he dreamn't of a 'barefooted girl smiling joyfulling with a boy dressed in black.'"

"That sounds really strange.", said Go Go.

"But I guess you feel happy that he's alive.", said Hiro.

"Yeah.", said Laxus. "And I'll keep my promise."

Sora thought for a moment. I guess Master Makarov really means something to Fairy Tail. I guess that's what makes them a wonderful guild.

Suddenly, Sora was spacing out and felt like Roxas eating ice cream with his friends Hayner, Pence, and Olette on top of the bridge just like they do at the clock tower in Twilight Town. Sora then snapped out of it and everyone was looking at him with confusion.

"Sora. You okay?", asked Hiro.

"Yeah. Fine.", said a nervous Sora. He then looked at his hand and placed it on his chest. He then looked at the sunset and said, "I'm with you."

After eating ice cream, it was getting dark out and they all decided to patrol the area. As they were all talking, something moved behind them, startling them.

"What?!"

They all got a closer look at it when it flew by them. It was black cubes covered with patterns and they took the forms of several tentacles.

"Great, they're back.", said Go Go.

"Oh, we got this.", said Wasabi.

"Time for a lesson.", said Honey Lemon.

"Cheee-aaarge!", shouted Fred and they all went after it.

Hiro analyzed the cubes with his helmet and gasped.

"Wait!", shouted Hiro. "Uh, guys! That one's not like the others!" But they all left.

"What do you mean 'not like the others'?", asked Lucy.

"It can't be. Microbots?"

"Microbots?", question Sora. "You know what they are?"

"Well, they're different from Heartless.", said Goofy.

"Uh-huh.", said Donald.

"But they're still dangerous.", said Erza.

"What are these Microbots?", asked Laxus.

Hiro explained. "Microbots are designed to do whatever you think via a neural transmitter…that communicates what you're..."

The group was not following him.

"Speak english.", said Natsu.

"They're a kind of a mini-bot I invented. Some bad stuff happened and I thought that meant they were totally gone. But those enemies are way too similar. Which means someone's controlling them. The question is who." He then gasped. "Could it be?"

"Who?", asked Wendy.

"I'm gonna go back to the garage and look into it some more. You mind going after 'em?"

"Sure!", they all said.

"We need you on the sciency stuff.", said Sora.

Hiro smiled. "Baymax… Stick with 'em."

"All right, Hiro.", answered Baymax. "Sora, Donald, Goofy, Natsu, Happy, Lucy, Gray, Erza, Wendy, Charle, Juvia, Gajeel, Lily, Laxus, I will be your personal healthcare companion."

"Thanks, Baymax.", said Sora. "We're in good hands."

"We need to find it.", said Gray.

"Happy, take me up!", said Natsu.

"Aye, sir!", said Happy as he flew into the air with Natsu.

"Let's go, Charle!", said Wendy.

Both Natsu and Wendy flew into the skies to see where the black cubes have gone.

"Do you see anything?", shouted Lucy.

"I see them! They're at the North District!"

"Let us hurry there!", said Erza.

Everyone ran to the North District as quickly as possible thanks to Wendy's Sky magic. Once they arrived, they looked around to find the cubes.

Baymax then looked up and said while pointing at a roof, "Target acquired."

They all saw the cubes hovering above them. The cubes then surrounded them inside a black force field.

They all heard Hiro say, "They're not microbots… Be careful!"

Natsu and Gajeel immediately jumped towards the enemy.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

"Iron Dragon's Club!"

Both of the attacks destroyed several of the cubes, but the pieces of the destroyed cubes suddenly floated into the air and went inside the enemy. Everyone then fired their magic at it, but the same thing happened before.

"Nothings working!", said Juvia.

"It's no fair!", said Sora. "Why can't we hurt it?"

"Magic is no good.", said Donald.

"What do we do?", said Goofy.

"We beat it until it's no more!", said Natsu.

Suddenly, the black cubes flew away onto the highway. The group started to run after it.

"Hey, get the hell back here!"

"This is weird.", said Sora.

"Sora, you guys all right?", asked Hiro.

"Oh… Yeah, but the target escaped. Have you got any leads?"

"Because we need some.", said Gajeel.

"Tons. Somewhere inside that thing, there is a core. It's what powers the whole cluster. The core is the only way to hurt it."

Wasabi grunted through the communication. "Now he tells us." He then yelled in pain.

"Wasabi! What happened?"

"Let's just say it's a handful."

"Team, check in."

"So far, so good.", said Honey Lemon.

"Guys, I'm really tired of just dodging this thing.", said Go Go.

"Freddie getting frustrated!", said Fred.

Honey Lemon threw a chem-ball at a wall, creating a pillar.

"Guys, I'm on my way.", said Hiro.

The black cubes came straight at Honey Lemon, but she quickly dodged it while staying on the platform.

"No, Hiro!", she said as she jumped off the pilar.

Elsewhere, the cubes were floating in front of Fred. It then send it's cube formed tentacles at Fred, but he froze all of them, making them stuck to the ground.

"Hiro, you analyze the Darkubes."

"Wait, did you just say 'Darkubes'?", question Wasabi.

"Yeah. They're dark, they're cubes. I call 'em like I see 'em. Every bad baddies needs a cool name."

"That makes sense.", said Happy.

"Yeah, that's not cool.", said Go Go.

Honey Lemon was standing on another pillar when the Darkubes came up to her.

"We'll gather as much data from the Darkubes as we can.", she said as she dropped a chem-ball onto the platform.

The platform melted and she fell just before the Darkubes could attack her.

At another location, Wasabi was firing at the Darkubes with his gauntlet.

"Hiro, figure out a way for us to beat this thing!", he said before he dodged another attack.

Go Go jumped off of a bridged and started to zoom down the road while the Darkubes followed her.

"But guys, I can't leave you out there all alone.", said Hiro.

"Hiro.", she said. "We are a team. And teams delegate. We need you at the garage. We trust you, so you trust us."

"Fine. I'll look for a way that we can expose the Darkubes' core. Just keep that data coming."

Back at the group, Sora asked, "Hiro, what should we do?"

"You protect the others. I'll mark their position for you on your AR display."

"We got it! Time to go Baymax!"

"All right.", said Baymax.

"Everyone split up and help the others!", said Erza.

Everyone split up with their respective group when the city was invaded. Natsu, Gajeel, and Lily went after Fred. Erza, Wendy, and Charle went after Go Go. Sora, Laxus, Lucy and Happy went after Honey Lemon. And Goofy, Donald, Gray and Juvia went after Wasabi.

"Honey Lemon!", shouted Sora as his group arrived were Honey Lemon was at.

She was inside a Darkubes sphere with some of the Darkubes stuck to the ground by chemicals.

"Hey, Sora?", said Honey Lemon through his AR device. "I think I'm stuck."

"We can see that.", said Happy.

"Is there anything we can do?", asked Lucy.

"See if you can find the residue from the chem-balls. If you hit it with fire or electricity, it might trigger a chain reaction!"

Laxus looked and saw different color residue on the Darkubes.

"They're all red, yellow, and blue.", he said. "Probably representing which element to use against the Darkubes. Sora, can you handle the red chemicals?"

"No problem!", he said.

"And Star Woman, can you handle the blue chemicals?"

"On it!", said Lucy as she charged into her Aquarius form.

"What about you?", asked Happy.

"I'll take care of the yellow chemicals."

Listening to Laxus, Sora destroyed the red chemicals with fire magic, Lucy destroyed the blue chemicals with water magic, and Laxus destroyed the yellow chemicals with lightning magic. Once all the chemicals were gone, Honey Lemon broke free from the sphere and join the others.

"Gracias!", she said. "Next time I won't go so easy on them."

Gray's team climbed up the tower were Wasabi was. When they arrived, he was inside a giant sphere made out of Darkubes.

"Wasabi", shouted Gray. "Can you hear me?"

"Absolute Zero!", said Wasabi through the AR device. "Am I glad to see you! I am not a big fan of heights. Hey, you think it dragged me up here 'cause it's scared of being attacked from above?"

"'Attacked from above'? I need you guys to distract it from the bottom."

"Right!", all three of them said.

Everyone then started attacking it from the bottom. After having enough of it, the Darkubes had a tentacle pilar come out and knocked them away. But Gray had appeared over the Darkubes, ready to attack.

"Ice-Make: Hammer!"

Gray created a giant ice hammer and smashed it on top of the Darkubes, allowing Wasabi to break free.

"Finally! Thanks for the save.", he said. "I'll see if anyone else needs help."

Erza's team went after Go Go, who was inside a rolling Darkube sphere.

"Go Go-san!", shouted Wendy. "Are you in there?"

"Sky Sorceress!", said Go Go through the AR device. "I don't know how to stop this thing. I tried slowing it down with my discs."

Erza then shouted, "Sky Sorceress, use your magic to make the sphere turn towards me!"

"Got it! Moonlight!"

"Yes!", said Charle as she carried Wendy into the air.

Wendy blasted a powerful wind spell, causing it to change direction. Once the sphere completely turned around, Wendy stopped her attack and the sphere started to role towards Erza. Once it came close, Erza requip into her Adamantine Armor and summon her shield. The sphere immediately crashed into her shield, causing all of the cubes to fall to the ground and Go Go emerged from them.

"Thanks.", she said. "I owe ya."

Natsu arrived at were Fred is. He was inside a Darkube sphere with the Darkubes connecting to several city light poles.

"Fred!", said Natsu. "You okay?"

"I'm getting pulled in too many directions!", he answered through the AR device. "You think you can free my arms and legs? Gotta find a weak point and loosen the Darkubes' grip!"

"Try destroying the Darkubes connecting from the lights to the sphere.", said Lily.

"Got it!", said both Natsu and Gajeel.

Boys immediately destroyed the connection of the poles to the sphere, causing the Darkubes to fall onto the ground and Fred emerged from the pile.

"Pure appreciation, my man.", he said. "My citizens! They need me!"

After saving everyone, everyone regrouped with Sora. Just then, Sora received a call.

"Listen, Sora!", said Hiro. "The Darkubes have converged on a single location. Whatever's happening can't be good. I'm almost done pinpointing the core. If you need me to help-"

"Nah, it's okay, Hiro.", said Sora. "We're on it."

"Thanks."

Everyone started to head to the roof of the tall building, where the Darkubes are gather. Once there, the cubes took a form of a giant sphere.

"Okay, there's a lot of them.", said Go Go.

"Who cares.", said Gray.

"We can take them.", said Juvia.

"What do ya suppose they'll do?", wondered Goofy.

"I don't think we wanna find out.", said Wasabi.

"Yeah, what he said.", said Lucy.

"I say we destroy this thing!", said Fred.

"He gets it.", said Natsu.

"Yeah!", said Donald.

"Time for some smashing!", said Happy.

"But without a strategy, we'd just be wasting our strength.", said Honey Lemon.

"If we knew where to strike…", said Sora.

"Sora! I got it!", said Hiro. "I'm sending you an AR software update. It'll show you where the core is-the Darkubes' weak point. I'm coming to help."

As Sora was looking at the Darkubes with his AR device, a waring flash came up, making Sora and the others confused.

"Huh? That's weird. Is it busted?", wondered Sora.

"Weird fuzzy stuff appeared.", said Natsu.

The AR device started to glitch. But when he looked down he saw someone wearing a black coat approaching towards them.

"Hiro, who's that on the display?"

"Um, Sora-san…", said a worried Wendy.

"That's not the display.", said Goofy. "He's really here."

"The black coat…", said Go Go. "He's back?"

"You saw him?", asked Lily.

"Are you done messing around?", said the person in the black coat.

The group looked shocked.

"What?", said Sora. "Wait, that voice…"

"Hold on.", said Wasabi. "You...know this guy?"

"And now...enter the supervillian.", said Fred dramatically.

"He definitely has the vibe.", said Honey Lemon.

The guy removed his hood, and the grouped looked surprised. It was Riku but younger and he had golden eyes.

"Funny.", he said with a serious look.

"Riku…", said a surprised Sora. "But…"

A red chip appeared in Riku's hand.

"As if this stupid experiment wasn't already a hassle.", he said.

"Where'd he get that?", asked Hiro.

"Hiro, do you recognize it?", asked Sora.

"Yeah…"

Riku continued to examine the chip. "Not quite ready."

"That's the first chip I made for Baymax. It's full of combat programs."

The team gasped.

"Programs?", question Sora.

"Yeah, they tell Baymax how to react."

"Does that mean...it's like his heart?", wondered Goofy.

"Kind of…", said Donald.

Riku turned to face the Darkubes and said, "More then!" He threw the chip inside the Darkubes.

"What did you do!", Erza demanded.

But Riku left through a dark corridor.

"Riku!", shouted Sora.

"Look!", shouted Wendy.

The Darkubes took the form of a three dimensional heat and started to spin like crazy. Dark walls rosed up and everyone was trapped as the Darkubes took the tentacle form again. The tentacle cubes then attacked the Big Hero 6 team and pushed them out of .

the area.

"Oh no!", said a worried Sora.

"Sora, I'm on my way. I'll look after my team. You guys fight the Darkubes! Remember to use the AR device to target the core!", said Hiro.

"Got it!"

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

"Iron Dragon's Club!"

Natsu and Gajeel attacked the core, causing some damage to it. But the core immediately merged with the field. Suddenly, it quickly came out of the field and crashed into everyone, causing some mild pain. It kept on going, until everyone got annoyed.

"Why you…", growled Gray.

"Ice-Make: Shield!"

Gray's shield stopped the Darkubes from crashing into them. Gray then made the ice spread onto the Darkubes, immobilizing them.

"Do it now!", shouted Gray.

"Lightning Dragon's Roar!"

The core took a direct hit from that attack, causing it to short circuit and the field covering them started to disappear. Once the field was gone, the Darkubes just fell to the ground. Leaving the red cube open. Sora ran up to it and slashed it. The red cube dropped the red chip when it was defeated.

"Baymax…", said a guilty Hiro.

Hiro then ran up to the chip and tried to grab it, But someone already picked it up before he could.

"Oh, this isn't for you." Hiro looked up and saw Riku in front of him. "At least not until we're done."

Hiro attempted to grab it, but Riku jumped away from him and landed on a fan.

"Riku…", said Sora. "Is it you? Why do you look like that?"

"Looks are deceiving, but the heart? You know that it's me."

"I know Riku wouldn't do this. Not without a good reason."

"A reason? When did that ever matter? We've been trying to one-up each other since we were kids."

"What…?"

"Hey, Sora can I kick this guy's ass?", asked Natsu.

"But-"

"Don't listen to him, Sora!", said Donald.

"The coat means he's with Organization XIII!", said Goofy.

"It's not him.", said Laxus. "He looks younger than the one we saw at the Tower. And besides, Mickey, Sabertooth and Crime Sorciere should be with him."

"Smarter than you look.", said Riku.

"We defeated Ansem and Xehanort-every last one of 'em.", said Goofy. "But still they all came back anyway, right? So, maybe this Riku 'came back' too, from the time when Ansem possessed him."

"Yeah, from the past!", said Donald.

"He was like this in the past?", question Lucy.

"Talk about a jerk.", said Natsu.

"How?", question Sora.

Riku explained. "Unlike a certain wizard you know, I had to play by the rules to travel through time. Which meant leaving my body behind."

"How could give up your body for time travel.", said an angry Juvia. "It's inhumane!"

"It was the only way to receive that great power on our own."

"Despicable.", said Erza. "Sacrificing a body for power."

Sora looked surprised as he remembered what Young Xehanort told about time travel during his Mark of Mastery Exam.

"I know about this…", he said. "But...you have a body."

Riku smirked. "Xehanort's heart left his body in order to voyage back through time. He needed to tell his younger self of the great plans he had in store. There in the past, his heart stayed, and waited out the years until you and I came along. Xehanort's heart possessed me and became Ansem, the first adversary you faced. The rest of him, the piece he left behind, took the name Xemnas and created the first Organization. It was all a part of a larger plan to bring Xehanort into contact with the right hearts-enough of them to form the real Organization XIII. They could come from anywhere, and when...just as long as he had the right vessels at hand to place their hearts in."

"Vessels?"

"Replicas!", said both Donald and Goofy.

"That's right. The Replica Program was a success. We are as real as people."

"Then pack up and leave!", said Sora. "What are you still doing here?"

"To see if we can recreate a heart from data."

"What?"

"Sorry, did we steal your idea?", he said as he played around with the chip. He then faced Hiro and Baymax. "That walking balloon over there has a 'heart.' At least that's the nonsense I'm supposed to believe."

"There are hearts all around us. You only have to see them for them to become real."

Hiro then spoke. "Where'd you get that? That's my chip. I made it."

"Oh, well, I'm sorry about that.", said Riku. "But I promise I'll put it right back where I found it."

"What do you mean?"

Riku then turned around. "I think I'll be getting back to work now." He then entered a dark corridor.

"Wait!", said Sora.

But he was already gone.

"Bastard.", said Gray.

"We gotta stop him.", said Hiro. "Guys-" Hiro then saw his teammates sitting down and breathing heavily.

"You are all suffering from acute exhaustion.", said Baymax. " I recommend rest."

Hiro sighed. "Yeah, you're right. Let's regroup."

As they were leaving, Sora and Hiro saw Laxus with a serious look.

"Laxus?", asked Hiro.

Laxus snapped out of it and faced them.

"Are you okay?", asked Sora.

Laxus sighed. "I'm fine. Let's go."