A Different Shade of Blue
"Look at all those hopeless drones." Remarked Megamind, not even bothering to lower his voice.
"They are quite oblivious, Sir." Said Minion, looking at their fellow commuters on the subway.
The supervillain, still in his orange jumpsuit, and his robot gorilla fish friend, were riding the Metro City subway home after their latest breakout. The train car rattled back and forth, and the bent heads of the riders swayed back and forth in unison. So engrossed in their phones or newspapers were they, that no one spared the blue alien and talking fish a second glance.
"Hey, Minion, why don't we go poople watching!"
"POOPLE WATCHING, sir?"
"You know, when you watch poople and have fun by imagining their pathetic lives."
"I think it's pronounced 'people', not 'poople'."
"Whatever, Minion." Replied Megamind. "Here, I'll go first. See that guy." He pointed out a heavy set man reading 'War and Peace', "He's trying to catch up on his reading because he failed kindergarten."
"Oh, good one, sir! Now let me try…" Minion singled out a lady dozing with a cat on her lap. "She's sleeping because she stayed up all night rescuing kittens!"
"No, that's not how it works, Minion! You have to be evil about it! Watch the master and learn." Megamind spotted a man wearing mismatched socks. "Look! He has yet to master primary colors. Stupid human."
Minion's eyes were glancing around the train car, looking for a person to comment on, when his eyes suddenly stared fixedly at a figure huddled in a seat by the window. His eyes narrowed then slowly widened.
"Sir? That girl looks blue."
"Minion, you have to be more EVIL about it! What do you even mean anyway, blue? She's probably just depressed because Metro-loser-mahn didn't sign her face or something."
"Not, depressed blue. Just blue. "
Megamind gave a shug."The air conditioning in this train car is pretty intense. Maybe she has hypothermia. "
"LOOK, sir."
Earbuds stuffed in her ears, big blue eyes staring sadly out the window, the girl was small and rather frail looking, ten at the youngest, at the oldest maybe thirteen. She had a plaid scarf wrapped around her neck, which was appropriate for the refrigerator of a subway, but not for the sweltering summer day outside. Her spindly fingers were clutching a odd-looking i-pod like it was a lifeline, and her unusually stiff curls blew unnaturally under the blast of the air conditioner. Her cheeks were smudged with bright rouge to give them a slightly more natural color and her red baseball cap was tilted to shadow her face. But the color of the skin peeking out of her white high-top sneakers was undeniable. A soft, creamy shade of baby-blue. Not obnoxiously bright, like Megamind's shocking colbalt shade. Lighter, more subtle, timid and understated. But definitely blue.
"I didn't know humans turned blue when they are, well, blue."
"They DON'T, sir. Humans cannot turn their epidermis any color but a slightly darker shade of tan or red if they stay in the sun too long."
"You mean, that girl's not just blue, she's BLUE?"
"Precisely my point, sir."
"But if she's BLUE, does that mean she's one of us, one of ME?"
"I don't know if anyone else escaped your planet's destruction, sir, the chances are slim…"
"Seven hundred and thirty-two billion to one, I know, Minion."
"But it's not completely impossible, you know."
"But if she is, do we just kidnap her or what?"
"I suggest talking to her first."
"Bah, that's not Evil at all!"
"But kidnapping her might give off a wrong impression."
"We WANT to give a wrong impression. Right impressions are for good guys. Ready the knock-out spray, Minion!"
"But , sir, maybe we should think this through."
"Minion, we don't have TIME to think this through! For all we know, she's going to get off at the next…"
The sliding doors dinged open and the two supervillains stopped their bickering only to blink in horror at the pale blue child stepping off the train and into the station.
"…stop."
"WAIT!" they both shouted and leapt for the sliding doors, but the doors shut when they were halfway through, clamping them both with their heads sticking out of the train, in full view of a security officer. Dropping his sandwich, he gaped and yelled at the driver to stop the train. But they had already started to pick up speed and next think they knew, Megamind and Minion were off to the next station with only half their bodies in the car.
"If we live, Minion, I will kill you."
Minion bashfully twitched his gorilla legs inside the train. "Do you think they'll notice us, sir?"
"Naw, humans are stupid."
Who is the mysterious blue girl? Only more chapters will tell. This is my first Megamind fanfic, so this might be a little shaky. Time-wise, this takes place a few years before the movie. Roxanne and Metroman will be involved as well as other characters.
I don't know if Metro City had a subway system, but for the sake of the story assume it on subways can be pretty oblivious, but no offense was intended toward anyone who rides subways. I know that train car doors nowadays have motion-sensors and probably wouldn't clamp onto Minion and Megamind like that, but I added that in for comedy.
So, who do YOU think the blue kid is? Comment and tell me.
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