Chapter 23
Back at his garage, Hiro burst in with Baymax behind him. He sat down at his computer and accessed Baymax’s super sensor. This enabled him to make code changes directly into Baymax.
Baymax stared at Hiro. Hiro’s eyebrows were furrowed as he concentrated on the programming. “Your blood pressure is elevated. You appear to be distressed,” Baymax said.
“I’m fine,” Hiro snapped, typing faster. “There.” He turned to Baymax. “Is it working?”
“My sensor is now operational,” Baymax replied.
“Good,” Hiro said, and tapped the access port on Baymax’s chest. But the port didn’t open. Hiro tapped it again. “What?”
“Are you going to remove my health-care chip?” asked Baymax.
“Yes. Open,” Hiro said, tapping the port again.
“But my purpose is to heal the sick and injured.”
“Baymax, open your access port,” Hiro ordered.
“Will terminating Callaghan improve your emotional state?” Baymax asked.
“Yes! No... I don’t know!” Hiro said. He removed Baymax’s chest armor to get to the port, but it still wouldn’t open.
Hiro tapped it harder.
“Is this what Tadashi would have wanted?” Baymax asked, and Hiro felt a bit of a sting.
“It doesn’t matter,” Hiro said angrily, although he suddenly began to feel conflicted.
“Tadashi programmed me to aid—”
But before Baymax could finish, Hiro said, “Tadashi is gone.” Then he dropped his head against Baymax’s chest. “Tadashi is gone.”
“Tadashi is here,” Baymax said.
Suddenly, Hiro heard the muffled sound of Tadashi’s voice. He looked up at Baymax in disbelief. Baymax was running the data from the first day he was activated.
“This is Tadashi Hamada,” the muffled voice said, “and this is the first test of my robotics project.”
Hiro could see his brother on Baymax’s display screen. He watched as Tadashi ran test after test, trying to create Baymax. Finally, on his eighty-fourth try, the big white robot next to Tadashi said, “Hello. I am Baymax, your personal health-care companion.”
Hiro watched Tadashi pump his fist and spin around in his chair. “It works! He works! Ah! Yes! This is amazing! You work!” Tadashi cheered. “I can’t believe it! Ha-ha!”
A bitter-sweet smile came over Hiro’s face as he watched his brother. Then Tadashi said, “Okay. All right. Big moment here.” He turned toward Baymax, fingers crossed. “Okay. Scan me.”
On the screen, Baymax stared at Tadashi. “Your neurotransmitter levels are elevated. This indicates you are very happy.”
Tadashi said, “I am. I really am! Wait till my brother sees you!”
A tear ran down Hiro’s cheek.
“You’re going to help so many people, buddy. So many,” Tadashi said. “That’s all for now. I am satisfied with my care.”
And with that, Baymax’s display screen froze on the image of Tadashi. Hiro touched the screen.
“Thank you,” Hiro said, looking up at Baymax. He didn’t need to ask him to open his access port anymore.
Then Hiro heard someone call his name. He turned and saw the whole team standing in the doorway of his garage. By the looks on their faces, Hiro knew they’d seen Tadashi’s video, too. Hiro hung his head. “Guys, I ... I’m ... ,” he said.
Go Go rushed up to him. “We’re going to catch Callaghan. And this time we’re going to make it right,” she said as she hugged Hiro. The rest of the team watched, a little stunned. Was Go Go actually hugging someone?
“But maybe don’t leave your team stranded on a spooky island next time,” Wasabi said.
“Oh, man,” Hiro said, realizing that he’d been wrong to abandon them.
“Nah, it’s cool,” Fred told Hiro. “Heathcliff picked us up in the family chopper.”
“Hiro, we found something you should see,” Honey said. She was holding a hard drive.
Hiro hooked it to his computer and saw a frozen image of the test pilot, Abigail, on his screen. As the video played, Hiro gasped. Abigail was standing with Alistair Krei and another man. “Is that ... Callaghan was there?”
“Yeah, but why?” Go Go asked.
“And they look like they’re good friends,” Fred added.
Hiro was confused. “But Callaghan hates Krei.” He thought back to the time at the Tech Showcase when Callaghan warned him not to take Krei’s offer. “I wouldn’t trust him with your microbots, or anything else,” he had said.
Hiro fast-forwarded to a close-up image of the pilot. He zoomed in. He could clearly see the name on her flight suit. It read Callaghan. “The pilot was Callaghan’s daughter. Callaghan blames Krei.”
Fred nodded knowingly. “This is a revenge story.”
Hiro nodded, too, realizing that Professor Callaghan was after Krei all along. He needed Hiro’s microbots to carry out his revenge. Hiro thought about the awful destruction the portal could cause. “So what are we waiting for?” he said to his friends.
The team prepared to head to Krei Tech’s new campus, knowing it had to be Professor Callaghan’s real target.
第 23 章
回到車庫,小宏沖了進去,大白跟在后面。他坐到電腦前,把大白的超級探測裝置連接到了電腦上。這樣他就能直接對大白的編碼做出更改。
大白盯著小宏。小宏在集中注意力編程的時候,他的眉毛皺在了一起。“你的血壓上升了,你看起來很痛苦。”大白說道。
“我沒事。”小宏噼里啪啦地快速在電腦上敲擊著回答道。“好了。”他轉向大白。“可以了嗎?”
“我的超級探測裝置可以使用了,”大白回答道。
“很好,”小宏說道。他輕輕摁了一下大白胸口的訪問端口,可是它卻沒有打開。小宏又摁了一下。“怎么回事?”
“你要拿掉我的護理芯片嗎?”大白問道。
“是的,打開它,”小宏說著,又摁了幾下訪問端口。
“但是我被研制出來是為了救死扶傷。”
“大白,打開你的訪問端口,”小宏命令道。
“殺了卡拉漢能改善你的情緒狀態(tài)嗎?”大白問道。
“是的!不……我不知道!”小宏說道。他移除了大白胸部的盔甲,想要打開端口,可還是打不開。
小宏更用力地摁著那里。
“這會是泰迪想要的嗎?”大白問道,小宏感到一絲刺痛。
“我不在乎,”小宏生氣地說,雖然他隨即感到很矛盾。
“泰迪研制了我是為了幫助……”
但大白還沒說完,小宏就說道:“泰迪已經(jīng)死了。”然后他把頭撞到大白的胸上。“泰迪已經(jīng)死了。”
“泰迪在這。”大白說道。
突然,小宏聽到了泰迪低沉的聲音。他不可思議地看著大白,大白播放著從他第一天被激活時開始儲存的數(shù)據(jù)。
“我是濱田泰迪,”那個低沉的聲音說道,“這是我的機器人項目的第一次測試。”
小宏可以在大白的顯示屏幕上看到他的哥哥。他看著泰迪一次一次地做著實驗,努力要創(chuàng)造出一個大白。最終在他第84次實驗時,泰迪旁邊的白色大機器人說道:“你好,我是大白,您的私人健康顧問。”
小宏看到泰迪晃動著雙手圍著椅子旋轉。“成功了!他好用了!啊!太棒了!太神奇了!你能運行了!”泰迪歡呼道,“我簡直不敢相信!哈哈!”
小宏看到哥哥時,臉上露出了苦澀的笑容。然后泰迪說道:“好了!到此為止!這是個重大時刻。”他手指交叉轉向大白。“好吧,掃描我。”
屏幕上,大白盯著泰迪說道:“你的神經(jīng)遞質(zhì)水平上升了,這說明你現(xiàn)在很開心。”
泰迪說道:“的確,我確實很開心!很期待我弟弟看到你。”
一滴淚珠從小宏的臉上滑落了下來。
“你會幫助很多人的,伙計,很多很多。”泰迪說道,“先這樣吧,我對你本次的護理感到很滿意。”
說到這,大白的顯示屏定格在了泰迪的影像上。小宏摸著屏幕。
“謝謝,”小宏看著大白說道。他已經(jīng)不再需要大白打開訪問端口了。
接著,小宏聽到有人叫他。他轉過身來看到他的小隊成員正站在車庫門口??吹剿麄兊谋砬?,小宏知道他們也看到了泰迪的視頻。小宏垂下了頭。“伙計們,我……我……,”他說道。
神行御姐沖到他面前。“我們?nèi)プタɡ瓭h。這次,我們要做對的事。”她抱住小宏說道。其他伙伴看到這一幕,有些驚訝。神行御姐真的會抱著別人嗎?
“但是下一次,別再把你的隊友撇在毛骨悚然的荒島了。”芥末無疆說道。
“哦,天哪。”小宏說道,他已經(jīng)意識到拋棄他們是多么大的一個錯誤。
“沒,沒事,”弗雷德對小宏說道,“希斯克利夫開著我家的直升機把我們接回來了。”
“小宏,我們找到一些東西,你得看看。”哈妮檸檬拿著一張硬盤說道。
小宏把它插在電腦上,隨即看見屏幕上的畫面定格在測試飛行員艾比蓋爾身上。在視頻播放過程中,小宏倒吸了一口氣。艾比蓋爾正站在阿里斯泰·格利和另一個男人之間。“那是……卡拉漢,他當時在那兒?”
“是啊,可是為什么呢?”神行御姐問道。
弗雷德補充道:“他們看起來像是好朋友。”
小宏看起來很困惑。“可是卡拉漢討厭格利。”他回憶起在科技展時,卡拉漢警告他不要接受格利的提議。當時他還說,“我要是你的話,就不會把自己的微型機器人或者任何其他發(fā)明交給他。”
小宏快進視頻直到出現(xiàn)了那位飛行員的特寫。他放大視頻,清晰地看到航空服上有她的名字。上面寫著卡拉漢。“這個飛行員是卡拉漢的女兒。卡拉漢怪罪于格利。”
弗雷德會意地點點頭:“這是個復仇的故事。”
小宏也點點頭,他意識到了卡拉漢教授一直在報復格利。他需要小宏的微型機器人去實施他的復仇計劃。小宏想起傳送門可能造成的可怕的破壞。“我們還等什么?”他對他的朋友們說道。
超能陸戰(zhàn)隊準備前往格利科技的新園區(qū),他們知道那里才是卡拉漢教授的真正目標。