Chapter 5
*****(Live)*****
Across the dimension border; yet at the same time as Hiro and his friends had finished the portal key, Aeiko had returned from the hospital two days earlier. She was extraordinarily bored. One late afternoon, while Keisuke and Tadashi were hanging out, Aeiko had become so bored and her steroids she was on so strong, that she decided to scare her brother. After finding an old Kabuki mask in the attic, Aeiko hid behind a door. As Keisuke and Tadashi passed by, she leapt out. "YEEEAAAAA!" she hollered. "Yow!" Keisuke exclaimed, startled. As Aeiko pushed up the mask, nearly collapsing with laughter, he turned to Tadashi. "I am so sorry. My sister has been very immature since she's been on her meds."
Tadashi was slightly startled as well. He smiled. "It's fine." He replied. "Can I see the mask?" He asked. "Um, sure." Aeiko handed it to him. He held the mask in his hands and thought of Callahan. He hoped Hiro and everyone was alright... He then turned to Aeiko. "You should get some rest." "Okay then." Aeiko agreed. She did feel very tired. "She always does immature things when she's tired," Keisuke told Tadashi. Aeiko did not disagree. She felt too tired, in fact, to complain. She bide the two friends goodbye and went into her room.
On her way, she noticed a small, charcoal colored object. She picked it up and took it into her room, then forgot about it and fell asleep. Tadashi put the mask down and sat down in a chair with a soft sigh. He couldn't keep from thinking about Hiro and his friends and family. He hoped they were safe from Callahan's wrath. Keisuke watched his friend closely. He hadn't the slightest idea of where Tadashi was from; except for the fact that it seemed to be a parody of San Francisco. "Are you okay, dude?" he asked carefully. Tadashi shook his head slightly. "Not really. I'm worried about my friends and family back home..." "Are they sick? Or was it some sort of a natural disaster? There was this huge earthquake here in the twentieth century..." Keisuke trailed off, remembering the difference.
"No...there was fire at my school, and I ran inside to help my professor but it turned out he had gone a bit mad and he kidnapped me...I made a device that sent me here and I'm just worried that he might have gone after them." "Oh. A device?" Keisuke was interested. "That's really cool. But yikes! That professor? Kidnapped? That's definitely not cool." "It's getting late. I should head out. See you later Keisuke." Tadashi said and left. When Tadashi had left, Keisuke heard Aeiko up and around in her room. Aeiko had woken and was incredibly bored. She was slouching in her director's chair, studying the Kabuki mask when she heard Keisuke's knock at the door.
"Hey. Glad you're up." Keisuke said. "Feel better?" Aeiko shrugged. "A little bit." "Great. I've got a surprise for you," Keisuke told her. "What is it?" Aeiko asked excitedly. "Well, I don't know if I should give it to you now..." Keisuke teased. "Aw come on, Keisuke!" Aeiko pleaded. "Well, all right; if you insist." Keisuke held out a new skateboard. "It's awesome!" Aeiko exclaimed. "Thank you so much! Best brother ever!" She gave him a hug. Emi had hooked Tadashi up in a nice hotel to stay in until otherwise. Tadashi entered his room and fell asleep not noticing the small clinking noise coming from the bathroom. A small black microbot lied on the floor of the bathroom.
*****(BH6)*****
At that time, to the point where San Fransokyo is a few hours ahead of San Francisco, Hiro was trying to think of some kind of tracking device so that they would be able to keep in contact with Baymax while he went to the other dimension. "Come on, Callaghan, you've got to have some kind of tracking thing," he muttered as he pawed through some old odds and ends under Callaghan's desk. Then he had an idea. "Honey, can I borrow your phone?" She handed it over. "Thanks. Okay, so this is what I was thinking. Baymax takes Honey's phone with him and we can keep contact that way. There's a phone booth at the entrance of the neighborhood. We could try using that."
They all agreed. Hiro took a deep breath, then tapped the pendant to the glass. That was when he noticed a single one of his microbots on the floor. The portal opened and he was momentarily distracted by the surreal image in front of him. So he didn't notice the microbot get sucked into the portal through some invisible vacuuming force. Baymax grabbed him and pulled him back. Hiro kept his distance after that. "Okay, I think we should be ready. How about you; are you ready, Baymax?" He nodded. "Then let's go!" Hiro exclaimed. He gave Baymax a slight salute. Baymax stepped inside.
*****(Live)*****
After she had finished admiring her skateboard, Aeiko felt something moving in her hoodie pocket and remembered the microbot. She pulled it out now and watched in surprise and amusement as it flinched out of her hand and hopped, then rolled on the floor toward her mirror. At that moment, the keychain on her dresser flashed. Aeiko had forgotten about that, too. She picked it up and tapped it to the microbot. The keychain cracked slightly. Aeiko wondered why the microbot kept jerking toward the mirror, so she touched it to the mirror. Then she held the keychain to the mirror. Instantly, an invisible force threw Aeiko back, but pulled her skateboard forward. Aeiko staggered up as she watched her new skateboard get sucked into an outer-space looking landscape with a crystal blue pool in the middle.
"My skateboard!" she yelled, her priorities skidding out of whack through her brain. Aeiko leapt forward and, with the microbot, plunged into the cool darkness, the portal closing behind her. "WHHOOOOOAAAA!" Aeiko screamed as she was hurled through the air. Her weight had thrust her ahead of her skateboard, but the microbot had already made its way into the pool, were it clashed with the one from San Fransokyo. The microbot in Tadashi's hotel bathroom felt the two of its mates crash and magnetism pulled it up and it hit the glass, giving an ear-splitting crack. Tadashi suddenly jerked awake from the sound. He made his way towards the noise and saw the microbot and stared at it.
*****(Live/Portal/BH6)*****
The portal closed behind Baymax and all was silent for about ten seconds. During those ten seconds, several things portal-related happened all at once:
1. The microbot on Tadashi's hotel bathroom floor pushed itself through the radial lines in the tempered glass of the mirror and quickly made its way to the center of the portal.
2. Aeiko plummeted into the turquoise pool and felt herself being dragged down, but then she got stuck. She was left holding tightly onto her skateboard, surrounded by a ring of blue light, staring into a dark, tunnel-like hole ahead of her. She turned around quickly watched the microbot meet another microbot in the center of the pool. Aeiko also thought she saw a floating white object covered in red and purple armor.
3. The San Fransokyan microbot zoomed ahead of Baymax and met the other two in the center of the pool.
The three microbots joined together with magnetic force and three last things happened:
1. A wave of magnetism sent Baymax backward and back through his portal.
2. Aeiko was still left hanging there, terrified, yet her only thought was, 'why didn't I bring my camera?'
3. Tadashi's bathroom mirror finally shattered; exploded really, leaving only an empty wall behind it.
*****(Live)*****
Tadashi dodged the glass and stared at the wall for several minutes. Tadashi was still super tired so he went back to bed telling himself to think about what just happened in the morning.
*****(BH6)*****
Baymax slowly got up. Hiro rushed to him. "Baymax! Are you okay?" Baymax nodded. "I am alright." Now Hiro focused on something else. Disappointment welled inside of him, but he unsuccessfully struggled not to show it. "Come on, guys. The portal doesn't work. We should just go home." "We also have to dodge Callaghan and his guards," Wasabi reminded him. Baymax turned to him. "I suggest working on it more at home. It did work. I believe I saw a girl and several microbots in there too." "What?!" They exclaimed. Hiro started plaguing Baymax with questions about what he had seen as they left the house. Callaghan suspecting nothing as he finished his book-the fourth one this week-and decided to get something to drink. Baymax answered as well as he could.
*****(portal)*****
Aeiko finally broke loose from whatever force was holding her in one place as the three microbots were obliterated in the pool. The force of magnetism that had been holding her there for a long while released her and she with her skateboard went spiraling through the hole.
(Dimension jumping is so much fun!)