"This isn't the real observatory!" Roxanne cried as the opening of the real observatory slammed shut on Metro Man.
"Ready the deathray, Minion!" Megamind ordered. "Over here, old friend," he called, directing this last part at Metro Man. "In case you haven't noticed, you've fallen right into my trap!"
"You can't trap justice! It's an idea; a belief!" Metro Man told Megamind.
"But even the most heartfelt belief can be corroded over time!"
"Justice is a non-corrosive metal!"
"But metals can be melted by the heat of ravahnge!"
"It's revenge, and it's best served cold!"
"But it can be easily reheated, in the microwave of evil!"
"Well, I think your warranty is about to expire!"
"Maybe I got an extended warranty?"
"Warranties are invalid if you don't use the project for its intended purpose!"
"Girls, girls, you're both pretty! Can I go home now?" Roxanne cut in.
"Of course! That is, if Metro Man can withstand the full, concentrated power of the sun! FIRE!" Nothing happened. Megamind asked, rolling his eyes and walking over to his fishfriend. "Minion? Fire?"
"Still warming up, Sir."
"Come again?"
"Warming up, Sir."
"Warming up? The SUN is warming up?"
"One second more, and...just a tipy-tipy-tap-tap-tip-top more, and we are ready in just...a few moments...here we almost go...and we're a...bout to get ready..."
"Honestly!" Megamind cried in exasperation. "I told you to have things ready! I told you countless times!"
"Why do you always blame me, Sir?" the fish asked innocently.
"Ah! My spider bite is acting up!"
"You're plan is failing," Roxanne informed him. "Just admit it!"
"Yeah, good luck with that one!" Minion said pointedly.
"Who's side are you on?" Megamind demanded of his sidekick.
"Could someone stamp my frequent kidnapping card?" Roxanne asked.
"You of all people should know we discontinued that promotion!" Megamind snapped.
"Same time next week then?" Roxanne questioned, but before Minion could hit her with the spray, she realized that Metro Man had been uncharacteristically quiet. "Metro Man?" she interrogated, looking to the screen, but Metro Man was gone, the room empty, and a gaping hole in the wall. "Uh, Megamind," she said, nodding towards the screen.
"What is it now?" he grumbled, and when he looked over her head, he screamed and rushed over to Minion. As they huddled in a whispering circle, there was a huge crash and an explosion. Roxanne looked up, just in time to see the outline of a skeleton falling from the sky. She screamed, but the moment she did, she saw it was just Metro Man, alive and well. He must have done something to destroy the deathray and was coming back for Megamind!
Just then, Metro Man crashed to the ground, nearly going through the floor. He stood up, planting hands on hips and putting a cheesy smile on his face. "It looks like someone called for an extra case of justice!" he cried as Megamind screamed and held up his hands, Minion stepping in front of his master to shield him. Metro Man tossed him aside as if he were nothing. "Come on, Megamind; just admit that you've lost."
"Never!" Megamind exclaimed, turning and throwing a handful of something into Metro Man's eyes, causing him to stumble backwards, rubbing furiously to get it out. Roxanne couldn't speak; she was too caught up in he action. Megamind leaped onto his panel, trying to get as far from Metro Man as possible while Minion grabbed jetpacks from a corner. But Metro Man was too fast!
Before the allotted time, Metro Man had cleared his eyes and was flying up to meet Megamind on the panel. Pulling back his fist, Metro Man punched Megamind with all the force he could muster, and sent him flying up through the now broken roof. "Go Metro Man!" Roxanne cried as Minion stood.
"SIR!" the fish cried, fixing on a jetpack and flying off.
They were far enough to be seen through the gap in the fake observatory before the jetpack malfunctioned.
Minion began to fall, and Roxanne watched in amusement as he fell, down, down, down, followed by a battered Megamind.
"You aren't fooling anyone!" she called as loudly as possible as they screamed in distress, thinking they were planning on pulling a last minute escape. But when they didn't answer, when they kept falling, when they got closer to the water without pulling up, or even Minion catching Megamind, Roxanne grew worried. "Stop that!" she yelled at Metro Man, who was trying to untie her. "You have to save them!"
"Evil doesn't need saving," he informed her.
"But they do!" Roxanne cried, struggling against him. "You have to help them!"
"If I help them they'll only turn around and try and harm Metro City, and they've never needed saving before."
"Well I never needed saving before Megamind kidnapped me for the first time! You have to help them! Megamind can't swim, and Minion's too heavy to swim!"
"They're just trying to mess with you, Roxanne—"
"THEY NEED HELP!" she screamed, feeling her fingers dig down into the chair she was sitting on; she could feel them turning white.
"But they're evil!"
"They're still people!"
"They aren't people, Roxanne!"
"How can you even say that!"
"But they aren't!"
"They still have a right to...to...to..." Roxanne trailed off, her eyes filling with tears and her voice catching in her throat as she watched Megamind and Minion plummet the last few feet down and into Lake Michigan. She cringed as she heard the splash and saw them disappear beneath the surface. She waited. And waited. And waited. A minute went by. Two. Three. And Roxanne knew they weren't coming back.
Megamind was dead.
Author Comments:
I came up with his idea one morning about a year ago. I thought, 'what if Megamind had died instead of Metro Man?' So this is what came of it; Chapter 1. Let's see how things go while Megamind is out of commission. MWAAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAHA!
ALSO: I apologize for the terrible quality in writing-I cringe at my own year-old works, and I'm sure you do as well. AND, of course, I apologize TWICE as much for the tired repetition of everyone's favorite banter scene, but...Yeah. Oh! And I realize now that Roxanne's scream is one-hundred-percent OOC, and the skeleton, just to note it, is just a trick of the eye. SO. Yes. I'm sorry. :F