Theme: Introduction.
This fic is set at the very begining of Megamind's campign against Metro City. At this point he dosent even know who Metro Man is. I've set this 12 years after the school was flown away. In my mind this makes Megamind about 19 years old.
Introduction
He stood there, overlooking the whole of the city, his cape billowing around him dramatically in the gusty wind. His airship was looking over the city above the highest level of the still under construction Metro Tower. The building was due to be a record breaker. The biggest combined office and apartment building in the world. It was not due for opening for another year or so yet already Megamind was thinking up ways he could use the building to his own advantage. But that was best left for another day.
He was finally ready. 12 years ago to the day he had made a decision that had changed his life for ever. He had dedicated his life to being Evil. Oh the city would regret how it let those people treat him. Oh they would regret it for the rest of their lives!
IT had been 12 long years of planning. Planning, scheming and preparation. And now, he was ready. He had set up truly the most fantastic evil lair in the world, furnished it with his best ever inventions. Ohhhohoho yes! The city was going to pay dearly!
"Is everything ready Minion?" the villain asked over his shoulder, raising his voice above the howling wind.
"Your evil introduction scheme is ready for deployment Sir!" Minion said happily. He had not seen his boss this excited in ages.
"Fantastic!" Megamind said to himself, his words swallowed by the wind, he turned suddenly on his heel and strode back into the airship, "Then it is time to start the show, Minion!"
"Aye aye Sir!" Minion grinned a toothy grin as he took the controls of the airship turning it towards the city below. City hall had been the obvious target for their debut appearance, it represented the heart of Metro City and was pretty well located for drawing in a crowd. Megamind grinned excitedly as he fidgeted on the spot. He had been looking forward to this day for so very long! At long last he was going to have his never ending revenge on the City that had treated him so badly as a child. The city that had caged, shunned and degraded him on a daily basis was going to pay, once and for all, for what it had done to him. Oh yes, revenge was indeed sweet!
"Now, Minion!" Megamind hissed watching the monitors as clouds of dark smog began bellowing out of the airship as it made it's swift decent towards the centre of the city. Inside the smog hundreds of blue and red lights could be seen giving the smog a very unearthly feel. Hundreds of the newly created Brainbots hummed around inside the smog, waiting for the command to descend and set their creator's plan into motion.
"Aaaaaaand - release the Brainbots!" Megamind stabbed at a button on the control console in front of them with a flourish, sending the command to every Brainbots to enter the city hall by any means necessary.
Instantly the cyborgs blasted out of the smog and flew down to the ornate building below them. As the airship settled in place on the elaborate pond and gardens in front of City Hall the Brainbots began making their way into the building through every door and window they could find. Almost instantly the screaming started causing Megamind to jump up and down on the spot in his excitement. The Brainbots began to emerge from the building which in places seemed to have caught fire. Minion frowned at this, they were not supposed to be starting fires, he shrugged it off as accidental damage and made a mental note to record it properly later on.
The screaming intensified as the Brainbots exited the building, each one carrying someone in their metal tentacles. Megamind grinned all the more as he watched the humans writhing around in fear, making futile attempts to pry themselves free from the unwavering strength of those delicate tendrils.
"Oh I wouldn't do that if I were you, helpless bureaucrats of Metrosity! I do not think it will be very good for your continued living if you fell to your deaths." He announced over the loudspeakers that were fitted to the outside of the airship, "Where is the one who is in charge here?"
"That would be me!" One man's voice sounded out among the screams. The two Brainbots who were holding the mayor three stories high above the ground suddenly flew forward, forcing a terrified shriek out of the man's mouth. He was a short but very round man, obviously having had lived well off of the spoils of his position in office, hence why he had to be carried by two of the little cyborgs. Unfortunately, much to Megamind's dismay, they were only as strong as the sum of their parts.
Megamind made his back out to the observation platform, plastering his most evil smirk on his face. The dark smog had blacked out any light from above and behind the airship and the lights of the Brainbots cast an eerie blue glow over the whole area. The effect was very sinister indeed.
"Well well. Mr Mayor, we meet again." Megamind gave the man his best unnerving smile, very pleased with the confused look on the mayor's face.
"I've never met you before in my life!" The man all but shrieked, earning a punishment from the Brainbots for talking to their creator in such a manner.
"Oh on the contrary Mr Mayor, I met you when you were just a civil servant, oh many moons ago!" Megamind was slightly annoyed that the man could not remember him, how many people with his particular skin tone could this man possibly know?
"wha -" A look of dawning realisation spread on the mayor's face, "The child from the prison! The blue one! What are you doing out here?"
"Ooohhhhhh hohohohhooooo!" Megamind laughed merrily to himself, resisting the urge to start jumping up and down again, he loved playing these games, it had been a long time since he had anyone to banter with in this way, "Yes indeed I am Mr Mayor. You see, a primitive facility such as your prison could not contain one of my amazing intellect for very long! I soon grew tired of the place and so went looking for pastures new. Now I believe I have found the perfect location as a base for my new career!"
"And where exactly is that you criminal!"
"ooooh you wound me with you're words sir!" Megamind nearly howled at the man, glad he was playing right into his hands, "I must say however, you have a very agreeable office! I believe it will provide excellent facilities to make my rule over this city all the more enjoyable!"
"What? You mean you want to -"
"Now he gets it! YES, Mr Mayor, I MEGAMIND, am taking control of this City and you and every citizen of Metrosity will bend to my will!"
"You are truly mad! Someone will stop you!" The mayor shouted, his voice betraying the fact that even he was not sure of his words.
"Oh really, and who, pray tell, might that be?" Megamind smirked as he leaned over the railings to bring himself closer to the quivering mayor.
"That would be ME!" The voice came from above but what Megamind didn't expect was to see the owner of voice just hovering in mid air about 10 feet above them in-between the airship and the army of Brainbots. He stood in mid air with his arms folded across his impossibly well build chest, his biceps bulging under the off-white material of his costume. Megamind looked the man directly in the face, a fierce scowl forming over his angry green eyes. That chizzled jaw, perfect nose, unwrinkled eyes and perfectly coifed hair were all a dead give away.
"Wayne Scott!" Megamind hissed, the hatred clear in his voice, amplified over the past 12 years of not seeing hide nor hair of his school room adversary.
"The name is Metro Man! Defender of Metro City and it is my job to put you back behind bars, where you belong!" Metro man pointed an accusing finger at the blue creature he had known from so long ago.
"Oh we shall see about that! What are you going to do? Take me to the corner? I'd like to see you try, BRAINBOTS!" Megamind bellowed the command so loud that many of the people suspended in the air by the Brainbots recoiled in shock moments before their captor's let go of them all once, sending them plummeting to the round below.
Metro Man moved instantly, using what could only be described as impossible speed to catch every last member of the mayor's staff and depositing them safely on the ground. In the mean time the brain bots had regrouped around the airship forming a protective barrier as the imposing aircraft started retreating into the smog.
As Metro Man deposited the last citizen on the ground, he turned, not expecting the airship to have been able to move so quickly. It disappeared into the smog, becoming completely invisible to the naked eye. With a self confident smile Metro Man searched the fog with his x-ray vision, finding the airship and the Brainbots with ease as they slipped in-between the tall buildings of the city centre. He blasted off in pursuit easily catching up with the airship and grabbing two handfuls of it's fabric air bag, tearing holes in the material causing the gas to escape in a whoosh. Whatever the gas had been it made Metro Man's head swim for a moment, and his throat constrict, rendering his super-breath useless for the moment. After quickly flying the stricken airship out to the city's waterfront, ignoring the many Brainbots that were attacking him with their pincers, clawing at his flesh and putting his hair, he dropped the machine into the water watching with a satisfied smile as electricity sparked across the water as the machinery short-circuited. Now that he was out of the strange gas he took in a deep breath and blew a jet of freezing cold air at the cloud of Brainbots that had followed him, freezing them all instantly causing them to plummet into the water along with the sinking airship.
Using his X-ray vision once more Metro Man discovered that there was no one onboard the airship. /He turned back to the city, searching for any signs as to where the mad man had gone but none could be found. If he had only looked up, to the top level of the still incomplete Metro Tower, he would have seen a small group of glowing Brainbots crowding around the self-proclaimed super villain and his loyal sidekick.
"I think we have some more work to do Minion." Megamind said quietly to the fish crouching at his side on the scaffolding.
"Indeed sir, I'll collect the remains of the airship as soon as the coast is clear Sir." Minion replied, simply glad that this 'defender' had not managed to recapture the escaped convict and return him to his prison cell.