Chapter 7
(Live)
The next morning Tadashi woke up to his phone ringing. "Hello?" he asked. "Hi, Tadashi we need to talk." Emi said. Aeiko woke up with a greenish blue-black bruise on her forehead just as Baymax had predicted she would. Now how would she explain that? She wondered if the giant red marshmallow robot had any ideas for cures. But one thing was for sure: she wasn't going back to that place. Aeiko set the keychain down on her desk and left the room. "Meet me at Keisuke's." she said. "Alright." Tadashi replied. Emi then hung up and called Keisuke.
"Hello?" Keisuke asked when his phone rang. Aeiko walked into the kitchen at that moment. "What happened to your face?!" he exclaimed. "Kei-What?" Emi asked confused. "Keisuke? Can Tadashi and I come hang out over there?" "No-no, not you, Emi! I meant Aeiko. She just walked down here with a giant bruise on her forehead. Uh, yeah sure, come on over. Aeiko, get some ice!" "Thanks Keisuke." she said and hung up. She used her watch to head over there and while she was running down the sidewalk she suddenly collapsed and blacked out.
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When she woke up the only thing she saw was burned rubble of a building. She got up carefully. She looked around and couldn't see anything but the destroyed building and an unfamiliar city all around it. She tried to keep going but after a while she passed out again.
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When she woke back up she saw people crowded around her. "Are you alright miss? You fainted." they asked. "Y-yeah. I'm fine..." she said and stood up and ran to Keisukes'. Tadashi was already there and was starting to worry when she ran inside and collapsed in the middle of living room floor in a heap. She was panting and tears were running down her face. Tadashi quickly ran forward to help her. Keisuke rushed over there as well. "Emi, can you hear us?" he exclaimed. Aeiko stood still in the kitchen. She was shaking and her breath was just as shaky but she somewhat nodded. "Are you alright? What happened?" "I saw it again...but not it...I-I don't really know what I saw..." she replied shakily. Tadashi glanced at Keisuke unsure of what she was talking about. "You look like you tripped and hit your head." he said, looking at her bruised and slightly bleeding forehead. "I probably did...twice? I don't know. Someone said I fainted..."
"Aeiko, get some ice!" Keisuke said. "Can you remember anything you saw?" She nodded. "I remember everything." she replied. She looked at Tadashi. "And I was hoping maybe you could tell me more about It." she said and he looked at her. "What do you mean?" "You were there in the first one from last night." she replied. He sat down beside her. "I'll try to explain but don't get your hopes up too much." she nodded. "What is going on?" Keisuke asked, confused. Aeiko picked up an ice pack and left the room. She wanted no part in college-age drama. "My dream? I guess you could call it a dream...from last night that I called you about Keisuke?" Emi said then took a deep breath. "The first one started out at a showcase full of science inventions...I wondered about and saw, Hiro I think..." she started explaining.
"Hiro?! But you've never even met him before!" Tadashi said surprised. "I know. It's strange." "Can you describe him?" "Wild black hair, brown eyes, red shirt with a hoodie, khaki shorts, tennis shoes." Emi replied. "You did see Hiro...At the showcase...Keep going." he said, now intrigued to find out how she knew this. "Okay...He had his project, microbots and got into the collage. I saw you and him with I think, Honey Lemon, GoGo Tamago, Fred Lee, and Wasabi. Along with your Aunt Cass. I think we all knew each other and I went there with you guys. They were going to celebrate but you and Hiro went to go have a discussion. I hung out near the building waiting on you guys when the building caught fire." she explained. Tadashi's eyes widened. He said nothing but kept listening.
"Then you and Hiro showed up and you ran inside and I ran after you. The building exploded but both you and I were thrown forward only burned a bit. I was hidden and you were looking for...Professor Callahan? I think that was it when I saw you and a shadowy figure talking and you both escaped the fire... I don't know what happened after that since I woke up." Tadashi was silent. "You saw all of them...Honey, GoGo, Fred, and wasabi. Hiro and Aunt Cass...Callahan..." he muttered. He looked up at her. "Did you see anything else?" "Only when I passed out earlier I was in the center of burned rubble of a building with a city all around it. I didn't recognize it." "WHAT?!" Keisuke was struck dumb at this thought. Aeiko felt herself being gravitated to pick up the keychain and show it to Tadashi.
Could he possibly be the one that Baymax was talking about? No, no-just a strange coincidence. But Aeiko felt that she somehow needed to visit this place again against her will. Tadashi thought about what all Emi had described. "What you saw was Sanfransokyo. In my school. Sanfransokyo institute of technology. It's weird that you seemed to know all of us and went there though." he thought. "Did you happen to see a white marshmallow like thing at all?" he asked. She shook her head. "No. Why?" he sighed. "No reason." "White marshmallow thingy?" Keisuke was flat-out confused. "Is this an inside joke?" Aeiko went against her will and picked up her skateboard. She tapped the keychain to the mirror and opened the portal.
As she was sucked inside, her foot knocked hard against the wall, resounding in a loud bang that made Rocket start barking like a mad dog. Tadashi was about to reply when Rocket started barking. "What was that?" he asked. Emi shrugged. "It was probably just Aeiko being a...being a jolt?" he offered. "Well, whatever. I'll go find her." Keisuke ran as fast as he could up the stairs. Rocket greeted him and lead him into Aeiko's room. It was unoccupied, except for a dent in the wall near the mirror. "Shoot, Mom's going to kill me," Keisuke exclaimed.
Rocket continued barking, much to his surprise. "What is it, Rocket?" he asked. Rocket barked again and tried to lead him to something at the foot of the mirror. Keisuke picked it up. He didn't know it, but it was another microbot. Emi had calmed down some and was discussing with Tadashi how it would be possible for her to have seen and known all of that.
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Hiro awoke later in the morning with a brilliant idea; due to the girl he'd seen skateboard earlier that morning: he was going to build a flying skateboard. Baymax was charging.
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Tadashi thought about what had happened with Emi seeing the visions. "I want you to try going to sleep and see if find yourself there again." he said and took a piece of paper and wrote a map down on it and circled the lucky cat café. "See if you can take this with you." he said handing it to her. She nodded and took it and put it in her pocket and fell asleep on the couch.
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She woke up still on the burned rubble. She stood up and got away from it and reached in her pocket and found the map. She smiled and followed the directions. Hiro scribbled ideas in his notebook on the way downstairs. He couldn't find Aunt Cass in the kitchen, so he went down to the café. But he was so busy brainstorming that he tripped over Mochi on the stairs and rolled the rest of the five stairs down. "Some lucky cat," laughed a usual customer ad he picked himself up, unhurt but extremely embarrassed.
Aeiko crashed into a wall when she went through the portal. She stood uneasily up and found herself in a bathroom this time. Thankfully it wasn't the guy's house. She hoped he was okay and that he had recovered. Aeiko stumbled out of the bathroom and found herself in a café. She remembered she hadn't eaten breakfast. Aeiko hoped she had some money or at least something. She found two one-dollar bills in her hoodie pocket. Then she looked out the window to get a sense of where she was. Aeiko froze then. She saw Emi outside, or at least someone who looked like her. But when she blinked, the mirage of Emi was gone.
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Emi had caught a glimpse of Aeiko but she woke up. She looked at Tadashi who was waiting for her. "Well?" he asked. "I found the café and I think I saw Aeiko." she said. "Aeiko? She shouldn't be there…" "Saw Aeiko where?" Keisuke asked, walking down the stairs. "In Sanfransokyo. In the lucky cat café." Emi replied. Tadashi was lost in thought. "What on earth is that?" Keisuke asked, but then realization hit him. "Oh. I wonder what Aeiko was doing in your dream?" he mused aloud.
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Aeiko was trying to recover from seeing Emi in a possibly dystopian world when she experienced yet something else to recover from: Hiro was standing up from his fall, rubbing his head from where he'd hit it. He looked up and saw Aeiko, but he only knew her as that skateboarding girl. "Do I know you?" he exclaimed. "Uh..." Aeiko wasn't sure how to respond. Aeiko and Hiro just looked at each other for the longest time. "So, I'm Hiro," he said finally. Recognition hit Aeiko and she replied, "I-I'm Aeiko." "Did you just move here?" Hiro asked Aeiko. Then he almost slapped himself. What a dumb question to ask after you've just met someone. "I-I, no." Aeiko answered. "Uh, I'm visiting." "Oh."
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"It doesn't feel like a dream because I have full control of it." "Like a lucid dream?" Keisuke asked. "Kind of." she replied. "Oh..." Keisuke couldn't help but wonder what else went through his best friend's head. Emi stared at the map of Sanfransokyo. "Should I try again?" She finally spoke up. Tadashi looked at her. "If you want to try..." He replied. She nodded. "Maybe I'll try later today but right now I'm hungry." "Food!" Keisuke ran to the kitchen. "We have cold pizza and left-over...sauerkraut," he announced.
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"So, ah, how did you get here?" Hiro asked. "I came from San Francisco," Aeiko replied. "San Fran-what what?" Hiro was confused. "Hold on." Then he ran upstairs to find Baymax. "Baymax, do you know locations?" "Yes." He replied looking up from petting Mochi. "Look up San Fran-what what?" Hiro ran back down the stairs, careful to watch his step. "Cisco." Aeiko answered. "How do you not know what that is?"
"Um," Hiro looked awkwardly away. "It's San Francisco," he called to Baymax. Baymax looked it up in his data blanks even plugging into the computer. "I have found no results for San Francisco. Would you like to try Sanfransokyo instead?" he asked, tilting his head slightly. Hiro shook his head. "No, Baymax. We live in San Fransokyo." Aeiko shrugged. "Whatever. It doesn't matter where I'm from, I just don't know how to get home...well, maybe it does matter..." Her voice trailed off. "alright." he replied.
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"Pizza sounds good." Emi called. Keisuke grabbed a box of leftover pizza and brought it out to the living room. Emi ate some of the pizza. She was more tired than she should be because apparently whenever she slept she appeared in Sanfransokyo. She wanted to sleep. Keisuke had lost his appetite. Emi finished and passed out on the couch. Tadashi watched her, slightly worried about her.
(Emi is jumping between dimensions and so is Aeiko.)