Chapter 4: Control

Don't yell at me, I know it's been a while, but I've been busy. School's out so I should be working on this more often. Key word should…

Hiro flew back into the roof of the compound. Honey Lemon was waking up in his arms. Now the question came up; did he let Honey Lemon see him, or make sure she didn't see him at all? The question was answered for him when he hit the ground.

"Is she waking up?" Krei asked, walking into the room as the roof closed. Hiro nodded.

"You're not going to do to her what you did to me," Hiro said, moving towards Krei, "I won't let you,"

"Of course not. I couldn't, it took me five years to make all the stuff for you," he said, "give her here,"

Hiro clenched his jaw as he moved towards Krei, placing Honey Lemon in his arms.

"Go back to your room," Krei said, carrying Honey Lemon away, "and if you try and talk to your brother, I'll make sure you don't remember him ever again,"

Then Krei was gone. Hiro screamed and punched the wall with his metal hand. He made a significant dent in it before following directions in his eye back to his room. This way was cruel, it took him past Tadashi's cell. He stopped there for a moment, and stared at the blank door. Well, blank to anyone walking by, to him it was different. He had begun to memorize the little niches in the door. He stood there for a little longer before making his way back to his room.

It was when he arrived in his room that the trauma of what happened to him begun. The shock began to set in. There was a robotic system wired into his body, not to mention his entire left leg was gone, completely gone. He looked at his reflection on the glimmering wall. He didn't even look human anymore.

He began to hyperventilate and sweat. He began getting light-headed and his heart rate was speeding up. He was not in a healthy state at the moment. He was breathing loudly, and leaning on the wall. He was going into shock. Slowly, he began collapsing onto the floor.

"Oh my god," Tadashi had woken up. Instead of being surrounded by four grey walls, he was surrounded by three grey walls, and one wall of glass. That wasn't what surprised him most; it was who was on the other side of the glass.

"Honey Lemon," Tadashi got up off the slate of metal he called a bed, and moved towards the glass. He knocked on it lightly. She didn't move, she just laid there on the metal floor in such a way that Tadashi could not see if her stomach was moving up and down.

"Oh god. Honey Lemon. Please don't be dead," Tadashi said, pressing both hands on the glass.

"She's not dead," a voice boomed through the room, scaring Tadashi. He fell back, off the glass and onto the floor, "at least not yet,"

"What the hell did you do to her?!" Tadashi yelled.

"I did nothing," the voice said, it was Krei, "this was all your brother,"

"No. No. It wasn't him," Tadashi said to himself, "What did you make him do?!"

"I made him doing nothing. He did it on his own accord," Krei said smugly.

"No, he would never!" Tadashi shouted. Krei just laughed, and then his voice was gone. Completely. Tadashi looked back at Honey Lemon, who had begun to stir. She woke up, frightened, and looked around frantically. She turned, and faced Tadashi. Her face showed both relief, shock, and terror. Tadashi ran to the glass, and placed his hands against it. Honey Lemon did the same. She began speaking, but Tadashi heard nothing.

"No…" he said softly. She couldn't hear him, and he couldn't hear her. This was almost worse than not being able to see her at all. Tadashi waved her hands around and said, "I can't hear you,"

He gestured to his ears then shook his head. Her expression dropped before she fell back onto the ground, and screamed. She covered her ears, and cowered on the floor. Tadashi banged furiously on the glass, trying to get to her. After his fists had become bruised, and some of the skin had split, making them bloody, he gave up, and leaned against the glass. She eventually joined him against the glass. Then he had an idea, he began tapping his fingers.

Line dot dot, pause, line line line, double pause, line dot line line, pause, line line line, pause, dot dot line, double pause, line dot line pause, line dot pause, line line line, pause, dot line line, double pause, line line, pause, line line line, pause, dot dot dot, pause, dot line dot, pause, dot, double pause, line dot line dot, pause, line line line, pause, line dot dot, pause, dot, pause dot dot line line dot dot, pause, dot line dot line dot

Do you know morse code? End message

Line dot line line, pause, dot, pause, dot dot dot, pause, dot line dot line dot

Yes. End message

Tadashi sighed in relief. He didn't remember her knowing morse code back when he was 'alive'. It had to be Hiro's doing. He would make them all learn morse code, or Wasabi, or Gogo, or Fred or Honey Lemon herself. Any of them could have proposed the morse code idea. Tadashi didn't care who had the idea to learn, but he was so happy. He could communicate with someone other than Allister Krei. Their conversations consisted of empty threats from both ends, so Tadashi was finally ready for a real conversation with someone. He began tapping again.

"This is awful, Absolutely terrible," Gogo said as she drove back to the mansion. They were going back to sift through the rubble to see if they could find anything. Wasabi sat next to her, and Fred was in the backseat with Baymax.

"Is it really safe to go back there?" Wasabi asked.

"I don't know," Gogo said, "but we need to see if we can get our hands on something; anything that can either save Hiro, or stop him,"

"Stop him? Fred stuck his head into the front seat, "you mean kill him?"

"It may be necessary," Gogo said, "he said Krei could control his mind, if he wanted. If he comes and attacks us, or anyone, and we can't reason with him, we may have to stop him,"

"We have Baymax now," Fred said, "can't we use his scanner to find Hiro, Honey Lemon, and Tadashi before that happens?"

"Yeah. We can," Gogo said, "but let's wait until morning. I don't think they'll do anything else,"

They drove into the darkness, unaware of what they should've done, and unaware of what was to come.

Hiro had experienced a lot of strange things throughout the last five years, but dying hadn't been added to the list until now. He was dead, and had been dead for almost an hour before Krei found him. He had gone into shock and died, but Krei was determined, and brought him back. This was the most real and scarring experience he had ever been through.

"I just made you," Krei had said, "I'm not just gonna let you die,"

That weirded Hiro out, and he was scared for what was to come. He almost wished he could've died, but then he would've died knowing his brother was alive, and not being able to talk to him.

He was now standing in the large room with the window on the ceiling. The sun was coming up, and day was coming. He could hear airplanes coming, and he began reflecting the sunlight off his chestplate.

Dot dot dot, pause, line line line, pause, dot dot dot

SOS

Hiro was glad that he had suggested they all learn morse code. He continued to signal SOS until Krei walked into the room.

"What do you want me to do now?" Hiro asked.

"You're going to go into the middle of town, and set it ablaze. You're going to kill everyone you see, then you'll spread a message. You are going to strike fear into the hearts of every citizen of San Fransokyo, and then eventually the entire country.

"Absolutely not," Hiro said. This had crossed a line. This was something he absolutely would not do. He would not go injure and kill innocent people! Not for himself, not for his brother, not for anyone.

"You know what this mean for Tadashi, and for you, if you don't," Krei said.

"I will not injure innocent people," Hiro said, "I will not kill innocent people. Not for anybody,"

"Very well," Krei said. He took a remote from his pocket, and hit a button. Hiro felt something come out of the eye, and go into his skull. Then he felt the pain. He screamed, and fell to his knees, clutching his head, "I'm sorry to say this part is a little invasive,"

Hiro gritted his teeth, and held back his screams. He felt his skull being drilled into, and liquid following the paths that were drilled. Then he felt something touch his brain, and he got what he felt was intense brain freeze. He couldn't hold it in anymore; the sweat was pouring down his face, and white hot pain was going through his head. He screamed. It didn't help much, but it helped a little. He then stopped screaming.

He felt the pain, immensely. His head was throbbing, and he could almost feel himself bleeding internally, but he know longer had control of his body. He told his arm to move, it wouldn't move. He told his leg to kick, it wouldn't kick. He told his mouth to scream, it wouldn't scream. He told his eyelids to blink, they .blink.

And suddenly he was flying. Up through the roof, and towards the city. He was going to do what Krei told him to. He was going to kill innocent people, and he had a feeling that Tadashi would be hurt as well. His resistance was futile, he had lost, and he would always lose. He wished he could give the people a warning; to get them out of the city. His and the country's only hope was that someone saw his SOS, and the likelihood of that was little to none.

Spirit week was a few weeks ago, and there was superhero/villain day, and one of the math teachers dressed up as Callahan, mask and all. Looked exactly like him, I nearly screamed when I first saw him it was so awesome. And also, I wanna say, the morse code thing, I'm actually teaching myself morse so that was in their partially for my own practice. I won't do it anymore unless you guys really like it.

-Croc9400