Super-short, one off Megamind fic I wrote a long time ago. Buddy is Megamind, Manny is Metroman, set in grade school. Enjoy and review :)
"In sh...school? None of the other kids...really liked me. I was always the last one picked for everything."
"Well, it's too bad that we didn't go to the same school."
Buddy rubbed the back of his head restlessly. The other kids were singing 'The Itsy Bitsy Spider.' Why anyone would care to sing about a miniscule arachnid's fruitless as well as arbitrary struggle to ascend a pipe intended for conveying di-hydrogen monoxide to no specified location was beyond him. For one thing, although he understood the intent, the use of 'waterspout' was incorrect there, as a waterspout was a meteorological phenomenon, and any other intent of the word 'spout' would not be preceded by 'water.' Also, wouldn't the arachnid have drowned when the rain came down and washed him out? And if not, why didn't he immediately attempt the climb again, though it was still raining? That's what Buddy would have done.
Of course, Mr. Goody-two-shoes was leading them on the ukulele. Everybody loved Manny. He was musical and fun and athletic and helpful and incredibly handsome, and everything he did always worked.
Buddy couldn't carry a tune worth beans. He was serious and thoughtful instead of interesting and vibrant. He was generally awkward and bad at sports, even basketball, though he was the tallest boy in the class and could run really well. When he tried to be helpful, he ended up messing things up worse. The only things he ever did that worked were things like his dehydration gun, and nobody was terribly excited about that.
And he was skinny with blue skin and a giant bald round head.
If anybody had ever bothered to look at his face, they would have seen an honest, sweet expression and a pair of lovely emerald green eyes with long black lashes. It was really almost too pretty for a boy's face. But the blue skin and giant head kind of threw people for a loop. You just don't expect to see a huge blue headed person in the middle of a room full of little kids.
Buddy felt a light tap on his shoulder and he whirled. His face turned crimson.
Two round blue eyes looked at him a little curiously. They were set in the face of the prettiest girl in class, Roxanne Ritchi. Most of the other boys were in the 'girls have cooties' stage of life already, but not Buddy. As soon as he saw Roxanne's long black hair and blue eyes, there was absolutely no way he could imagine such a being having cooties. She was so extremely clean, for one thing.
"Hi, Roxanne," he stammered.
"Hi." She blushed too, but smiled radiantly. She had a gap in the front of her mouth where a tooth had fallen out. It was a lovely gap.
She shuffled her feet a little, then said, "I'm sorry about the popcorn thing."
"It wasn't your fault," he said, surprised.
"I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry it happened," she explained. "I thought your little robot suit for your fish was really cool."
Little Minion lifted his eyes and smiled sweetly at her through the glass of his bowl. "I helped design it, Miss Ritchi," he said.
Roxanne grinned at him. "How much?"
He made a face. "A little."
"Well," she turned back to Buddy, "I thought it was cool, and so was that laser thing. Maybe you just need to adjust it so that it doesn't give off so much heat."
"Good idea. Still...I don't think any of the other kids are ever going to like me," he sighed.
"I like you," she said.
"You do?"
"Sure." She smiled and turned away.
Buddy was in a daze the rest of the day.