The little blue I phone started to ring on Lucy's bedside table. It played it's usual cheery tune that slowly woke Lucy up.
Sleepily Lucy rubbed her eyes and sighed before picking up her phone. She turned it on and grimaced as her eyes stung from the sudden light.
She saw that she had a miss call from Valerie Da Vinci, the cruel, selfish new leader of the AVL, of all people.
Lucy groaned as she called her back. Gru was still asleep, as he was a heavy sleeper.
"Hello?" Came the ear piercing screech of Valerie.
"Hi it's Lucy, you called earlier." Lucy replied, trying to sound cheerful and professional even though she felt tired and annoyed.
"Yes I did! Why on earth didn't you answer?!" Valerie bellowed down the phone, almost causing Lucy's phone to leap out of her hands.
"Valerie it's like 1.00 O clock in the morning!" Lucy argued.
"Doesn't mean anything! The world is at stake! And you should also know better that to answer back at your boss like that! Do it again and you'll be fired again!" Valerie threatened.
Lucy bit her lip and instantly regretted what she had said. She defiantly didn't want to be fired again.
"Sorry ma'am. What did you want to phone us about anyway?" Lucy asked.
"Well there is a villain on the loose, he's extremely dangerous and he has to be stopped. His lair is located in an abandoned castle on Hilltop Mountain.
His name is Strider, Sinno Strider."
Lucy gasped, she'd heard that name before, spred around the AVL break rooms and meeting rooms. Apparently he had been on their radar for a long time but no agent dared to approach him, let alone capture him.
According to the other agent's, he was heartless and cruel, he didn't care who he hurt or how much he hurt them. He wouldn't let anyone stand in his way.
Lucy really didn't want to go, she felt like screaming no and hanging up.
Instead she groaned a "we're on it" to Valerie and put her phone down.
She then tried to wake Gru up.
"Gru? Gruuuu? Honey bear? It's time to get up sweetie." Lucy cooed.
"No, no, no five more minutes mom!" Gru mumbled.
"Hold on since when has your mom ever called you sweetie?" Lucy chuckled.
Gru didn't reply, he just buried his head in his pillow.
Lucy sighed at this and kept on at him that it was time to get up.
Finally Lucy managed to get him up and told him what was going on.
"Vat?! Really? Do we have to go?" Where Gru's only responses.
Lucy nodded and told him to get ready.
They put on their casual clothing and headed to the lair of Strider in Lucy's car. Before they left though they stuck a large note on the inside of the girl's bedroom door informing them of their absence.
Once they reached the location of the lair, Lucy felt sick and nervous. She really didn't want to be doing this, she wanted to be at home, safe and warm with her little girl's.