Location: Todayland, Unused RI Warehouse
The beam proved to be quite a giveaway to where they needed to go. There was no way Sansweet caused it. It jeopardised her location. Whoever caused it, must be someone willing to help from the inside.
But aside from getting their attention, it got everyone else in the city too and the news would've been broadcasting it to the rest of the world no doubt. It might make sneaking in more difficult. Sansweet might already be on the move to a new location and then they'd never find her or she might doubling, tripling her security if she wasn't ready to leave.
"A beam coming from Old Town can't be a coincidence." Penny said, after they pinpointed the exact location the beam had come from. Before it was shut off, they had managed to pinpoint the coordinates.
"Looks like we got some help from the inside. Unless Sansweet is reckless." Violet said.
The team set their gear up and flew out on Baymax, heading towards their destination. When they arrived a barrier had been placed by the police as curious citizens were gathering to see what all the commotion was about and to find answers on the huge light in the sky. Lucky for them, they were too busy with the whole light to notice four kids on a flying robot sneaking in. They remained hidden on an old building rooftop that was overlooking the scene.
The barriers set were forcefield 5000s, which meant no one below would get through. It was still a good distance from the actual location.
"Looks like the NSA's shown up." Wilbur commented, looking over the edge of the building and seeing several black cars pull up.
"Means we better get the job done quick." Hiro noted. "So the plan is to break in, get back the skeleton chip, free the supers and lock up Sansweet."
"Sounds like a piece of cake." Wilbur remarked sarcastically.
Ignoring his friend's remark, Hiro turned to Baymax. "You should head back to the warehouse. We can take it from here. I'll let you know if we need anything." Baymax would've been to easily spotted by Sansweet and the people below.
The robot nodded and then flew off, leaving the four of them to continue with sneaking into the base.
"Any ideas how to get pass the forcefield?" Penny asked.
"With our own forcefield." Violet smirked, holding a small forcefield in her hand. She then created a field that connected from the building they were on to the next, as if a sort of bridge. They did that for the next couple of buildings, before finally descending down when they were far enough from prying eyes.
"You've really improved with your forcefields." Hiro commented, making Violet blush lightly. Peering from the side of a building, they saw no one was standing watch.
"Too easy." Violet mumbled. Something didn't seem right. The entrance was in the clear, but she couldn't help but feel they were missing something.
"Let's go. Sansweet probably didn't want to attract more attention."
"No wait!" Violet called out just as a guard came out and fired.
Using her forcefield she had managed to block the attack from hitting her friend, but due to it being created so unexpectedly, Wilbur was lucky to only have been knocked to the ground.
Before the guard could send another shot, Hiro used his telekinesis to aim the gun away from them and used it to knock the guard out. Penny ran over to make sure the guard was out and when it didn't look like he'd be waking up soon, she kicked his weapon a good distance away and checked to see if the guard had anything of use to them on his person.
Violet shook her head at Wilbur before walking over to help Penny.
"You've got a death wish, dude." Hiro commented when he helped Wilbur up.
"I was fine."
"Because of Vi's forcefield."
The two boys headed to where the girls were and found the guard wasn't of much use to them. Due to the lack of guards, he must have been the only one on duty. They also had to be careful, since none of them saw him until he came out at them. The team headed towards the building and found the doors locked. Typical.
Hiro focused his attention on the locked and managed to successfully unlock it. Inside was dark, but unlike many of the buildings in Old Town, it didn't look as abandoned. They had to be careful not to attract any attention or get caught before they finished their mission. This was for real, not a simulator back at S.B.
Location: Sansweet's Base, Old Town, Todayland
That girl had jeopardised their location. The NSA would be coming soon. At least she had what she needed. But she couldn't leave yet, the computer worked and all she had to do was download the information on supers and she could be out of here before the authorities could get to her. She was so close to avenging her father. Nothing could stop her now. Except...
"Mam? Henderson is out."
She had sent Henderson out to patrol the perimeter to make sure none of the authorities would interrupt before she finished.
"What do you mean out?" she asked, gritting her teeth. Hoping it didn't mean what she thought.
"He's been knocked out unconscious."
"Any idea who knocked him out?"
"There was no sign of anyone when we found him."
That meant the culprit had ran off or they had broken into her base and were now tracking her down. It was most likely the latter. It must be the NSA. Todayland officers would've tried calling her out by now.
"Find out whose broken in and stop them." she ordered the guard.
Bela turned back to the computer, it was still at forty percent. There were surprisingly a lot of supers under the NSA's protection. Probably many more that weren't registered. She began typing something on the computer and grinned when the name came up.
Robert Parr.
"Could this place be anymore creepy?" Penny questioned. She felt like she stepped into a horror film. While the building was in good shape, it didn't change the fact that it needed a serious clean up. The wallpaper was tearing apart, windows were busted. Floors needed way more than a sweeping and bugs were crawling from corners. They could even hear water dripping from some pipe. If it wasn't for the lights, they easily would've passed this building off as not in use. No wonder the NSA hadn't found the missing supers. That was, if they actually were here. But no one would suspect to search in a low tech area.
The building was an old apartment complex. The previous owners had obviously cleared out a long time ago. Many of the rooms had been empty and only few still had some furniture. After searching the first several floors, they found on the sixth, there was definitely activity going on. The first door they found had lights on. Hiro carefully opened the door and inside, chairs had been set out in rows.
"Oh my god." Violet through a hand over her mouth. Sitting on the chairs were people and IVs were placed next to them, leaving all of them in a catatonic state.
"Are they..." Penny started.
"Supers." Wilbur answered. "This one was Jack Hanson." he said stepping away from one of the victims.
"They did a news report on him months ago." Hiro recalled.
"He worked as one of the engineers at my dad's company. He got promoted to head engineer the night he disappeared." Wilbur mentioned.
"At least we know he's alive." Penny noted.
"But why?" Violet asked. "Doesn't Sansweet want to eliminate supers? Why keep them alive for so long?"
"Because she doesn't want to eliminate them. She wants to destroy them. And what better way to destroy something than ruin their reputation." Hiro realised. "Remember? She controlled those supers to steal the skeleton chip?"
"So if she's found a way to control supers, she could make them do whatever she wants." Wilbur added.
"Including making us bad." Penny said.
"That no one will ever trust anyone with powers ever again." Violet finished.
"Do we help them?" Penny turned to her friends.
Hiro examined the liquid that was being pumped into the people. Maybe they should've kept Baymax around for some medical analysis. "It might not be safe." Hiro shook his head.
"We can't just leave them." Wilbur argued.
"What can we do?" Hiro faced him. "How do we know that removing that stuff won't kill them? Best thing we can do is defeat Sansweet and then bring help."
He did have a point and if they didn't do anything now, then more supers could end up like this. They just hoped, these people weren't a lost cause. The next few rooms had more supers in the same state. They recognised some students from school and around.
As they went up the floors, guards were becoming more frequent. But with success, they managed to use their abilities, powers and none, to knock them out before they could summon more guards.
They found another room that held a small number of supers in the same state, but without an IV and instead had the same headset found on the security footage.
Hiro felt something weird wracking his brain and closely examined one on a young girl, not much younger than they were. He didn't remove them incase it might cause damage. But after a few seconds he carefully followed the electrode's wire and opened the small compartment by the ear.
"What are you doing?" Violet asked, coming beside him.
"Removing it forcefully would kill them or cause brain damage. It seems to be controlled wirelessly. It's leaving her brain offline, but..." he motioned for Wilbur to come over. The boy followed suit and joined them. "If you short circuit that part..." he pointed to a barely visible spot. "with a small jolt, we should be able to get this off her without causing any damage."
Wilbur gulped. His friend was trusting him with someone's life. He may have trusted Hiro, but the fact that this was a life and death situation, it made him nervous. But he took a depp breath and pointed his finger towards the spot Hiro showed him and sent a small shock of electricity.
The girl's head fell as if she were unconscious and all four of them looked anxiously. A second later the girl took a breath and blinked at them. Hiro managed to remove the headset from her and placed it on the ground.
"You okay?" he asked.
She looked at him cautiously. "You don't look like Sansweet."
"No. We're your local heroes, here to help." Wilbur grinned.
"You saw my signal!" she exclaimed.
"You mean the light?" Violet questioned.
"Yeah." she nodded. "Sansweet wanted to use my powers to create some computer."
"What computer?" Hiro raised an eyebrow.
"To make this skeleton chip work. She was going to use it to find the supers and if I didn't help her, she'd hurt my family." she said, teary eyed.
"Hey." Penny came to her and gave her a reassuring look. "She put you in a difficult position. But you're okay now. How about you tell us your name?"
"Harley."
"Okay, Harley, we need you to get out of here. There's police down the block. What you do, is tell them where the building is and to send in a medical team. Think you can do that?" Penny smiled lightly.
Harley nodded. "I can do that." she got up, but lost her footing, Penny had stopped her from falling back down.
"You okay to stand?"
"Just give me a minute." Harley said and then regained her footing.
Violet went over to a window and opened it. "Incase there are guards outside." she created a slide with her forcefield.
Harley came over and hopped onto the window sill. "You'll help the others, right?" she looked back.
"We're gonna help everyone." Violet told her. Satisfied with her answer, Harley slid down and once she was safe on the ground, Violet released her field.
"Do we continue with the others?" asked Wilbur.
"Might as well. We could help these guys out and I'd rather not find out what powers these guys have that Sansweet could use against us. Besides, maybe someone could help with the others downstairs." Hiro said.
Wilbur nodded. He moved to the front of the room and held his hands up. He sent out several bolts of electricity, managing to short circuit the devices. The others went over to remove them and then did the same thing with Harley to bring them down. Some stayed and offered to help the victims in the lower floors.
"Get everyone out and be careful." Penny told them.
Once the last one was out, they proceeded to leave, but heard someone outside the door.
Sansweet had informed that supers under her control were going offline. A guard had been sent to to check them. She didn't have many devices at the moment and used a majority of them on the most useful supers to her.
The guard entered the room and found everyone to still be in there. Devices still in place. He blinked confused. Sure look like nothing was wrong.
"Boss, all is clear." he spoke into his earpiece.
"What do you mean?" Sansweet questioned annoyed.
"They're all still here and under the effects."
"Impossible." her screen clearly read they were all offline. This had to be whoever broke in. The download still had another thirteen percent before completion. She'd have to settle with this. It wasn't like she need all of them anyway. She really only wanted to get revenge on one. Only Mr. Incredible mattered. And with the supers she did have, she could use them to destroy how all supers were seen by the public. All it'd take was one rogue and out of control super to do so.
"Make sure no one besides me leaves the building." she told him. She removed her drive and the skeleton chip. She then called in for a chopper.
The guard walked towards one of them supers, seeing if there was anything wrong up close. He was too busy examining to notice a headband spinning towards him and knocking him out cold. Violet appeared behind him, grabbing her headband and placing it back in her hair. The guard fell onto the chair, the person disappearing as Penny removed the illusion. With Violet's invisibility and Penny's illusions, the four of them were able to hide and distract the guard. The two girls high-fived each other.
"Now let's find Sansweet." Hiro stated and they all ran out of the room and went to the top floor.
They found the computer. It's screen empty and skeleton chip gone. Sansweet must've gotten what she needed. Wilbur grabbed one of his discs, filling it with power and then threw it at the machine. At the touch of a button, he had managed to fry it. No one would be using that or even manage to rebuild it again.
They heard a gun's safety being removed and they turned to find Sansweet in the corner. "Looking for these?" she held up the drive and skeleton chip in her hand.
The four readied into a fighting stance, ready to fight the woman.
"Oh, how cute." she chuckled. "The cliche superhero ass-kicking pose. It's gonna take a lot more than that to defeat me and save your excuse of human evolution." she then aimed her gun and prepared to shoot.
AN: So sorry for taking my time on this update. We had no internet for several weeks and I had the story saved on wattpad and couldn't write it. But it did give me time to write the first several chapters of the sequel to this and even start on a one shot spinoff.
Not going to say anything about those. They're top secret. Also, I'm nearly done with this fic. Just a few more chapters. Maybe two or three after this.
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