While Megamind,Roxanne and Minion was doing the celebration for the defeat of Titan, a frowning Hal was escorted in the police car by the local authorities.
Minion was splashing happy in the fountain and some people was taking picture of him and the couple.
Roxanne and Megamind were bouncing happy and hugging near the fountain.
Some people came toward Megamind for congratulate with him and he was still a little jumpy but he knew that they wasn't threatening.
Roxanne smiled at him and patted him on the shoulders.
After a while, Roxanne called her station, hoping that there was someone there for making a live report of the situation for the people still in the city. She was lucky and, after a short time, a little crew arrived with another KMCP 8 van. "Here's Roxanne Ritchi, reporting live from the site of the disaster. Megamind defeated Titan, and he saved the city! Did you have something to say?" questioned her in his direction.
He was a little absent-minded and his reaction wasn't so quick "Ah...eh...yeah, of course! I want to be honest with all of you. And, if it's possible, I don't want to tell lie anymore. Not after all what happened..." he told looking sheepishly Roxanne and blushing, and Roxanne understood that was talking about the "Bernard" charade "...and so now I want to tell everybody that this situation is the result of MY wrongdoings. I created Titan but let me tell you something:I created him only to give another hero to the city and I was tired to do bad things in my "Evil Overlord" period without someone stopping me. I wanted only the old days back. I even taught him how to be a hero but my eyes was obviously clouded by my enthusiasm and I didn't saw that he wasn't the right guy. Maybe some of you don't believe me but I'm very, very sorry for the mess that I have caused and I hope that someday you will forgive me. And in the meanwhile I will be happy to be Metrocity's new hero. Thanks to someone I have discovered that I like to protect the city and to be good." he finished smiling proudly in Roxanne's direction.
After a moment of silence some people started to clap and other followed shortly; Megamind's eyes widened, he smiled with delight and a lavender tone colored his cheeks.
Roxanne smiled happily in his direction and then, with an earnest expression, she turned in the camera's direction, she looked down and she sighed "I have something to say too. I'm also in part responsible for Titan's creation. I gave him the idea that heroes can be created. Though I won't tell you all the story here and now. Maybe in the future. For the moment I will report it only to the police.".
Megamind gaped ate her in disbelief for what she said "But...but...it wasn't necessary! I could handle this by myself..." he said to her.
Smiling sweetly in his direction and caressing his cheek she said gently "No...like I said before we are a team and so we should stick together."
At this statement he made a dreamy smile in her direction "Thank you very much, Roxanne, it means a LOT for me.".
Then Megamind made a firm expression "Now! Back to work! There's a city to repair and other things to do.". He whistled and a bunch of brainbots that was in the area came bowging.
There wasn't so many...about twenty but for Megamind they was sufficient.
He pondered for a while "Very well!Five of you go to the Lair and pick up a spare robotic suit for Minion and bring here the hoverbike, five of you start repairing the car's door and the other of you go to the Lair and turn on the "brainbot making machine" and then start to collect the debris of the building for the renewing of the city. And then wait for other instruction." he said to them, and they flew bowging making what Daddy has told them.
In the meanwhile Roxanne interviewed some of the people that was still here, and they gave her some positive feedback of the situation and she was very pleased.
Obviously, there was some discontented people too, but it was normal.
When the brainbots came with the spare suit for Minion, Megamind helped him to get into it, and when Roxanne finished to give her full report to the police he asked the ex-villain for a passage to her apartment "I'm exhausted and I only need to clean myself and go to bed." she said slumping a little.
They both agreed, and she mounted in the front seat(noticing that there wasn't seatbelt she frowned a little).
Megamind was in the back seat, leaning down with the justification that he was tired and battered and he need to stretch a little.
She made an impish smile and turning in his direction she said with an ironic tone "Perhaps did you want to be tied up and have a bag over your head?".
At this question he chuckled and,opening briefly an eye and cocking an eyebrow, he said "Ms Ritchie...feeling on the dark side today? I must admit that I like this side of yours.".
She laughed wholeheartedly "Oh my! Thank you Mr ex-Evil Overlord, I'm rather flattered by your compliment" then she made a sweet smile at him "It's better that you rest a little. I'm quite surprised by the fact that you are still in one piece after the way Titan has threatened you. We can continue our...witty banter later" she finished with a foxy smile.
After a while they arrived at her apartment and she asked Minion to wait there because she didn't know if Titan has damaged her apartment with his rage and Minion nodded, understanding the situation.
She arrived and she found that her worries weren't so meaningless.
She scowled seeing her apartment was all trashed out, with laser burning everywhere and some furniture tipped over.
The facilities were unusable because he tied up all the water pipes.
She went in her bedroom and picked up some clothes and shoes.
In the bathroom she took a beauty-case ans she put in it some useful thing like the hairdryer and some of the other things that was still usable(her toothbrush and other beauty product).
Then she called the police and her insurance for the damage.
Finally she called her boss, explaining the situation, and he was very gentle with her and gave her two week off for rest and take care of all the things. She smiled and thanked her boss.
She frowned looking again at the apartment and then she went down and she told to Minion what happened.
He frowned and then he smiled broadly "Don't worry, Ms Ritchi, if it's not a problem for you, you may come to our apartment back in the Lair. Sir here told me that after he heard you say those things. We have a pretty big apartment over the Lair, you know?" he said with a proud smile.
She made an astonished face "Really? You know that I thought that you two lived in some little room inside the Lair? Oh well...let's say that I really don't know very well Megamind and I hope that I will know him, and you of course, better staying with you two." she said smiling sweetly and blushing a little.
Minion, at that state, smiled so broadly that she saw all his pointy teeth "That's fantastic! Mmmh...so do you want to give Sir another opportunity?" he questioned shyly.
She nodded smiling and with glittering eyes "Yes...he saved me and the whole city. I have thought a lot about that night and now I know that I mistreated him. He DESERVE another chance and my apology too. But I don't want to talk of this now. I only need to clean myself, eat something and then go to bed. I'm physically and mentally tired right now.".
Minion nodded sympathetically "Yes...it's better talk later of this. We are all tired and we need some rest. Especially Sir...he went through a LOT of physical and emotional stress." he said to her and she nodded.
They finally arrived at the Lair and when Minion tried to wake up Megamind shaking him and he didn't respond, Roxanne gasped but Minion reassured her that was perfectly normal for the alien and it was his way to recover "He is a fast healer. But I must take him to the "Healing Bathtub" because this time he got a lot of damage."
The henchfish saw her quizzical expression and he said "I'll tell you what it is later. Now, please, wait for me here while I go to the room where is the tub.".
He went over an elevator and he pressed a button labeled -1. When the elevator stopped and the door opened he went along a corridor with some door but his goal was the door at the end of the corridor .
It was labeled "HEALING ROOM" and he entered there and placed his Boss in a padded table and he undressed him.
Then he placed him in a strange-shaped bathtub: from the outside it was like a normal tub but on the inside there was a headrest shaped like Megamind's head with a narrowing for his neck.
On the tub's border there was two buttons labeled "HEALING" and "HYDRATION"; near the "HEALING" there was three colored led labeled "normal" in green, "medium" in yellow and "hard" in red.
Minion pressed the "HEALING" button and a scan passed over Megamind's body and at the end of the scanning the yellow led lit and Minion frowned a little.
Then a green liquid started to fill the tub and the headrest. When the liquid stopped filling the tub, Minion pressed the "HYDRATION" button and a blue goo surrounded Megamind's body.
Minion watched for a while his friend, a worried expression on his face; he sighed and he returned on the elevator.
When he reached the upper floor he still had that expression and Roxanne, seeing him like that, she asked him what happened.
"I'm a little worried because the tub vent on "HEALING:medium" after the scan. But I'll explain this later like the other things." he said sighing again, then he straightened up "Now, please, come with me. I will show you where is the master bathroom."
They went over the elevator and he pressed a button labeled +1. When the elevator stopped and the doors opened, Roxanne let out a small gasp.
They arrived clearly in the library, and at the end of the room there was Megamind's bedroom. The room was oval-shaped and all the wall was plastered with shelves and shelves of books.
The ceiling was high almost like the lair's and there was some small display case with some prototype and broken inventions.
Encased in a wall there was Metro Man's cape, protected by a series of crossing laser lights.
The bookshelves were accessible by a series of metal stairs and platforms. Near the bedroom there was an oval-shaped office table over an oval-shaper wooden low plattform.
Over the table there was an Earth-globe, some paper and a desk lamp. In the front part of the table was carved in the wood the Megamind's "M" logo, painted in blue and silver.
The bedroom was in a housing under one of the bookshelves. It was mostly occupied by a huge round-shaped double-room bed with 6 pillows.
The round wall was decorated with some space-related arras that she don't quite catch because Minion didn't stop the bedroom's left there was a balcony that was over the Lair.
She recovered her voice and after a sigh spoke "WOW...just WOW...this room is INCREDIBLE!". Minion smiled proudly "And Sir used different styles for every room in this apartment. Tomorrow I will show you the other rooms, if you want.".
She smiled and nodded "Oh yes! I'm very curious about the other room. Thanks, Minion!"
They reached the master bathroom and Minion opened the door, and Roxanne gasped again.
It was a hybrid japanese/occidental styled bathroom. In front of the door there was two very large bathtub; the one of the left it was a traditional japanese hot tub already filled with water.
It was placed over a stair-shaped plattform decorated with blue and green tile(like the rest of the floor).
The tub(or maybe it was better call it pool) on the right was rectangular and it have a whirlpool function too. And it was empty.
Near the japanese tub, at the left of the door, there was the traditional low tap and wooden stool, some wooden bucket. At the right of the door there was a washbasin and the toilet.
Roxanne regain her breath again and she said "Wow...another surprise! This bathroom is amazing! It's like a SPA!".
Minion smiled and pointed on the left "Here it is the traditional japanese hot tub. You wash yourself here..." he said indicating the low tap "...and you use the pail full of water to rinse of the foam, and then you can relax a bit in the tub. Pay attention to not stay in it too much because the water is REALLY hot and you can faint. I suggest you to use a pail full of cold water after you exit the tub. It's refreshing! And here..." he said indicating a small cabinet at the door's left side "...you can find some soap and towels.".
Then he gestured toward the right side of the room "Here there is a traditional bathtub with a whirlpool function. And there is the facilities if you want to relieve yourself in a more occidental way" he said with a grin and he finished saying "If you want some help from me push this button and I will arrive" indicating a button near the toilet. "I will be in the kitchen preparing supper. Did you have some preferences, Ms Ritchie? Ah...and NO fish, thanks!" he said with a foxy smile. She laughed "Ok...no fish...it's understandable. I'm very hungry so in this moment I don't have any preferences."
Minion nodded "I will prepare some light curried chicken with rice." he said with a toothy grin and he leaved the room.
She stretched a little and she opened the small cabinet. Inside there was some big and small towel and she picked one small and one big. In a deep drawer there was several type of bath-foam and some "beard and eyebrow" lotion.
At that sight she giggled "What a narcissist". She choose one sandal-fragrance bath-foam and she dropped her dirty clothes on the floor, taking clean ones from the holdall.
Then, scratching her head, she thought what type of bath she can choose.
After a while she chose the japanese one "I think that I will have plenty of time to try the other one too. I'm stuck here until my apartment will be checked by the police and repaired. But I think that I will enjoy staying here for a while." she said with a smile.
She sat over one of the stool and opened one of the tap, adjusting the water temperature, then she damped one sponge, that was near the tap, and she put some bath-foam over the sponge and began to wash herself throughly.
Then she grabbed one of the pail and she filled it with water and then she rinse the foam all over her.
She went near the hot tub and she immersed herself in it. At first she was breathless because the water was REALLY hot but after a while she get used to it and she relaxed a bit leaning the arms over the tub's border, and her chin over her arms.
After some minutes she got out of the tub and, like Minion suggested to her, she threw on herself some cold water and she felt really energized. She take out her hairdryer, from her beauty-case, and started to dry her hair.
She finished drying her body with the big towel and then she wore the underwear that she took from her holdall and then the clothes: an azure T-shirt and a pair of blue slacks.
She put on her feet a pair of black and fluffy slippers watching them critically "Not a very serious pair of slippers but they were the only usable" she said shrugging off.
She thought that was better press the button for calling Minion, instead of wandering off in the apartment, so she pushed the button and after a while Minion came "Feeling well?Did you use the japanese or the traditional tub? Just curious..." he said sheepishly.
She smiled "I have used the japanese and I feel really refreshed! I'm very hungry but I think that the supper's not ready yet, right?" she asked and Minion nodded "I will show you the guest room.I've ashed to some brainbot to clean it and now it's usable." and he opened a door in front of the master bathroom.
Her eyes widened in awe: it was a simple yet beautiful room. Minion smiled "I think that, from the face you made, you like this room. Now I will go in the kitchen and I will finish supper. In the meanwhile feel free to relax here a bit" and he left the room. She entered and closed the door.
The room's furniture was in the same style: made of wood and antique.
From where she was(with the door behind her) she noticed that the room was a square and the furniture were all lined against the walls.
In front of her there was the bed who had the longer side lined with the wall; at her left, lined with the wall where were the door, there was a big wardrobe, one of those with two door and a drawer under the doors.
She noticed that the door and the drawer could be opened and closed with a small key. A traditional key with the handle of the shape of a four-leaf clover that had a six-layer filigree inside every leaf shaped like a four-leaf clover.
It was a beautiful work of art and she added that information together with the thing that didn't know about Megamind.
Near the bed there was a small cabinet with a gray marble top, under the top was a drawer and under the drawer a small door.
She opened it and inside there was a wooden board at the middle of the space.
She placed the beauty-case there and her shoes(a pair of sneakers and a pair of classic shoes)at the bottom of the cabinet.
At the door's right side there was a bureau, the longer side lined with the right wall, with three drawers that can be opened or closed with a key similar in aspect at that in the wardrobe.
And in the upper right angle there was a dressing table also lined like the drawer. It had a polished, rectangular mirror, standing upon a table.
The table top was also gray marble, like the cabinet; the mirror was framed in two lathed stick and the top in a simple batten.
Over the marble top there was an enameled white basin and under the marble they were two small drawers. And a chair was placed in front of the dresser.
She placed the bag over the bed and she started to take out the few things that she recovered from her house.
She divided the underwear, the casual wear and the formal wear. She sighed at the sight "I must go shopping one of these days. That IDIOT destroyed almost all my clothes,dress and shoes! What a NERVE!".
Then she opened the wardrobe's drawer and placed the underwear there. She noticed that there was a small lavender-filled pouch "I wonder if it's a Minion's work...maybe I will ask him later." and she sniffed it making a happy sound.
Then she opened the doors and placed the few shirts,dress,skirts and pants she have.
She picked up the T-shirt, tank tops and shorts and she headed to the bureau.
She opened a drawer and she noticed that there was a lavender pouch here too, then she placed the T-shirts and tank tops here; she opened the drawer below and she placed the shorts.
She went to the bed and she lied down with the arms under the head, gawking the ceiling. She noticed that the ceiling was at a normal high and she remembered that the master bathroom had a normal-high ceiling "Maybe there is the attic or something like that over these room...I will ask Minion." she thought. She closed briefly her eyes and she relaxed a bit.
After a short time she heard Minion knocking at the door telling her that the supper was ready. She followed Minion in the kitchen, that was a a classic '50's kitchen with the table in the middle of the room and a classic kitchenette with the color's furniture hazel.
She giggled a little seeing Minion with the "kiss the cook" apron and she sat at the table with the stomach grumbling after she smelled that wonderful aroma of the curry.
"That's a very cute and traditional kitchen. It suits you, Minion!" she told him with a smile.
He smiled in return "Thank you! It's one of the few room were I chose the furniture. It's because I use it more than Sir and I like this style.".
She nodded and she started to eat the curried chicken and the rice when Minion placed the plate in front of her.
Her eyes widened "It's really delicious, Minion! You are really a good cook! I didn't expected that! Bravo! Just for curiosity...did you only use the curry powder or something else?" she asked at the fish.
He smiled "Yes...this time I have used only the yellow curry powder. It's more simple to do than the classic recipe." he answered.
They eat together and Roxanne was fascinated by the fact that he eat the curry and some rice through the hatch of his bowl.
She asked him what he usually eat and he answered that he was substantially omnivorous and he ate a lot of things from the fish flake to normal food like curry or vegetable too. Roxanne drank some green jasmine-flavored tea and there was water too and when she was full thanked Minion for the delicious supper.
She inhaled "Now I want to know about that "healing bathtub"...what it is precisely?" she asked after a while.
Minion nodded "Ok...I'll explain you. It's simple a bathtub, specially designated to contain Sir, that he invented for occasion like this one. I put him inside, I press the "HEALING" button and a scan pass over his body and check out totally the body. Like a TAC but more precise and more quick. And then adjust the level of concentration of the healing liquid based on how much he is hurt. The healing liquid is a special liquid made by Sir that is specially developed to heal totally his body in a very short time and I mean that tomorrow he will be like new. This time I used the "HYDRATION" button too because he fell dehydrated in that fountain, and when someone is re-hydrated in a not so clean water he might experience some illness. The goo that surround him when I pressed that button will destroy all the bacteria that he absorbed with the water." he finished.
She was impressed by the explanation and more question popped in her mind "That healing liquid work only on Megamind? I ask you because if it will work with human it could be the most amazing discovery of the century!".
Minion shook his entire body "Sadly it works only with Sir...like I said it's specially made for his metabolism. Maybe he can think about it now that he's good. Like you say it will be an amazing progress in the medicine." he finished with a smile.
She asked why the ceiling of the master bathroom and her room was less higher than the library and Minion told her that some room were like that because there was the attic over ans she nodded "Ah-ha!I knew it! One point for the Nosy Reporter" she told at the ichthyoid with a smirk and he smirked in return.
They talked for a while of other argument and suddenly Roxanne asked "Mmmh...I don't want to be rude but...I want to know if the construction of this apartment is made with stolen money or what...".
Minion wasn't surprised or angry after that question and he even smiled to her "Don't worry, Ms Ritchi, you aren't rude and it's a pretty fair question thinking of my ward's past. Anyway no...this apartment is all built with legal-earned money. When Sir was in prison he invented and patented a lot of technological things that are commonly used today too. Like SD card,cellphone and things like that. The warden opened a bank account when Sir was a little child and he started to invent those things. And all the money earned with the royalties of those things were stocked into that account. Obviously when he was already a villain, and they know that he was out of prison, they froze his assets so he can't use that money to do bad things but sometime he could take out some money and he have mostly used for this apartment. Even then he wasn't so evil to use that money for doing bad things...and I think that now that he is the hero of Metro City he will use part of the money to repay his debt and to help reconstruct the city." he finished with a wide smile.
She widened her eyes "But...you are sure that he has enough money for paying his debt and rebuilt the city? I mean...it's a HUGE debt!" and her eyes widened even more when Minion started laughing "But of course! And I'm sure that it will remain some money to enjoy the life. And besides he earn money from royalties even now so I don't think that the money will be a problem for him" he finished winking.
She whistled "Wow...amazing...I know that he became a villain at the age of six...so that means that he invented those thing before that age! But I must not be surprised because he had-and he have-that incredible brain." she said with a smirk and a shrug.
Minion nodded "Yes...he invented many things before that age and I think that the warden opened that account because he saw the good in him. It's a shame that "thanks" to Wayne he became a villain...oh well...now he is-we are-good and it's not too late to do good things." he finished with a smile and a yawn.
Roxanne yawned too "Wow...watch the hour! It's very late...maybe it's better going to bed. I'm really tired.".
Minion nodded sympathetically and yawned again. He cleaned the table and he placed the dish in the dishwasher.
She headed in her room and in her sleepiness she marveled that she was already considering that place "home", more than her apartment. And she thought that was one of those things that she was going to say to Megamind tomorrow.
She changed in her nightgown-a withe cotton nightgown with lace on the neckline and in the hem-and she slid inside the fresh sheet falling asleep almost instantly.