Disclaimer: Ok, I'm sure that, while we all wish we owned Despicable Me and we all had little girls like Margo, Edith, and Agnes. Not to mention yellow minions wandering around doing our biddings, we know that will never happen. Because 1) They don't exist, and 2) ...I forgot what 2 was. Oh well, I can only own them on DVD, but I'll take what I can get.
Background info: Margo is a Junior in High school. Edith is in 9th grade. Agnes is in 6th or 7th.
Margo has her first boyfriend and Gru is getting just a little worried about her. How does he handle things when the boyfriend comes over to meet the family?
The doorbell rang, announcing the boy's imminent arrival. Agnes peered out the window by the door with her nose pressed up against the glass. The boy stared at her questioningly. Then he glanced back up at the house which seemed quite foreboding.
"Agnes!" Margo berated her coming up behind her younger sister as she approached the door.
"Why didn't you let him in?"
"Dad said I wasn't allowed to."
"What? Why?" Margo asked.
Edith rounded the corner just then. "Because he wanted him to squirm." She smiled.
"But-" Margo began to protest on behalf of her boyfriend.
"Plus he just installed that new eye-ball where the peep-hole used to be. You know, the bloodshot red eye that is even now staring down at your boyfriend." Edith told her with obvious pleasure.
"Yeah but-" This time Margo was cut off by the doorbell ringing followed by three knocks.
"Oh!" She exclaimed before she opened the door and she hugged and kissed her boyfriend quickly.
"Eww." Agnes said.
Edith grimaced at the boy and ran in to the living room where Gru was. Agnes followed and sat down on the couch next to her dad.
Gru called Margo's name. "Is he here?"
"Yes." She called back, hanging up her boyfriends coat.
"Well, bring him in."
She sighed, knowing this would be the real test. "Come on." She told him.
He looked questioningly at her but followed her around the corner and into the living room.
Gru looked up from where he was sitting with a bored look on his face and smiled a menacing smile.
"Have a seat." He said to the boy gesturing to a new chair that the minions had just invented.
Margo gasped and gave Gru that look. Her hip was jutted out and she was staring him down from behind those thin glass panes.
He heaved a sigh and said, "All right, all right." He got up and relinquished his rhino chair. Then he went to sit on the couch next to Agnes.
The boy was confused and Margo gestured for him to sit in the chair.
Then she went and moved the new chair out of the room. If you didn't know the trick of the chair you were in trouble. It swiveled and if you sat in it and swiveled it, spikes came out and poked you in your derrière. She rolled her eyes and came back into the room.
What she saw stopped her in her tracks.
Edith was circling the boy with an intimidating look on her face. Wearing her pink hat of course, which was pulled low to give her eyes a darker look. Gru was holding his old friend, his freeze ray, pointing it at the boy as thought it were a gun.
They boy looked even more nervous than he had when he'd first sat down in the large and ominous rhino chair. He couldn't decide whether to look at Gru with his looming freeze ray, or Edith with her protective glares.
"Dad? What are you doing?" Margo demanded, crossing her arms.
"Nothing. I waz just...I waz just interrogating our prisoner."
"DAD!"
"Alright, I waz interviewing our...guest. Better?"
She nodded but didn't smile as she walked over to sit next to Agnes on the couch.
"So, what is your name?" Gru asked the boy who looked startled to be addressed.
"Steve." He answered quickly, glancing over at Margo.
Gru sized the boy up again. Steve wore thick glasses, and a button up shirt with a jacket over it.
He sort of remind Gru of Mr. Rogers. The idea made him chuckle, but only inside. He could not show anything other than menacing boredom on his face in front of this boy.
"What exactly are you intentions with my daughter?" He asked Steve seriously.
"Uhh..."
"Dad, we're just dating right now." Margo looked at Steve apologetically.
Gru began looking annoyed. He started playing with his Freeze Ray and "accidentally" shot the dog who was growling at Steve from under the couch. He had started to move towards the boy and was frozen half under the couch and half not.
At the sudden movement from under the couch, and the fact that the thing he'd first thought was a Nerf gun, was actually a freeze ray, Steve jumped and gasped for air.
Edith chuckled evilly and Gru turned the freeze ray back on Steve. Agnes just smiled sweetly at him from the couch.
"Edith, commence operation 'Interrogation!'" Gru suddenly yelled.
Edith smiled even more evilly if that was possible. She was just about to push the button on the rhino chair when Margo, who had gotten up from the couch yelled, "wait!" With her hand outstretched she rushed forward.
Agnes got up from the couch as everyone else froze and turned to look at Margo.
She wandered up to Steve, with an innocent look on her face and her hands behind her back.
With all eyes on her, she flourished a piece of paper from behind her back and handed it to Steve, along with a pen.
"Could you sign this please?" She asked in her syrupy sweet voice.
Steve and Margo just stared at her with their mouths hanging open. Gru and Edith didn't even seem surprised. They were simply frozen in place, identical grins plastered on their faces.
Steven looked down at the piece of paper that read:
"This is a legal and binding contract.
You are not to speak to anyone, of what you are about to see. If you do, Mr. Gru has every right to set his evil minions on you. After which they will do terrible things to you, including freezing you with a freeze ray and sending you in a refrigerated box to Timbucktoo.
X_"
Steve looked from the paper to the sweet little girl before him, and then at Margo who looked scared of what he was thinking. He gulped nervously and looked back at the paper.
Then taking a deep breath, he attempted a chuckle that sounded weak even to him, and signed.
Evil Minions. That's a good one. He thought to himself.
Gru's smile widened. "Agnes, please go file that under, Collected Souls."
She nodded, grabbed the paper and pen, and skipped away from the rhino chair.
"Edith, if you would..."
Edith stepped around to the side of the chair and pressed the button.
The chair's seat detached and moved quickly to the center of the room. The columns began to move and before they could tip the cannon hanging above Steve, Margo had leaped onto the platform with her boyfriend.
"Brace yourself." She told him quickly. Then the cannon dropped, the tube moved backwards and they began to descend.
Edith, Agnes, and Gru clambered into the next tube. Their ride down wasn't exactly roomy to say the least.
When they were all in the lab, and Margo had sat Steve in a chair, surrounded by minions, Gru sat down directly across from Steve.
Agnes skipped over to some filing cabinets and filed the contract. Then she came back to stand next to Margo behind Gru. Edith continued her earlier task, circling the chair Steve was sitting in.
Gru clicked a button on a remote he was holding and metal straps clinked together around Steve's wrists.
Steve glanced down at his wrists nervously and looked back at Gru, gulping.
"So." Gru said, examining his fingernails.
Steve cleared his throat. "So." His voice was a little higher than normal.
Gru didn't say anything else for a minute, so Steve looked around at all of the little yellow things with big eyes.
He wanted to beat Gru to the silent treatment, but the nerd in him wouldn't let him keep quiet.
"What are those things?" he asked staring around at all of the yellow things.
"Zey are my evil minions." Gru answered, sounding bored.
"Oh, but what species are they?"
"Umm...well zey are a new species of minion. I created zem myself, with a little bit of help from Dr. Nefario." Gru answered, looking uncertainly at this boy.
"Who is Dr. Nefario?"
"One of my colleagues."
"Was that a freeze ray you were holding earlier?"
"Yes..." Gru said tentatively.
"Who made that?"
"Well, Dr. Nefario built it with the help of the minions and I designed it."
"Wow." There was wonder and admiration in Steve's eyes now.
Gru sat there, staring at the inquisitive boy before him. No one, other than his girls had ever asked him about his minions or his gadgets.
"Can I see some more?" The boy asked, then looked down as if he were afraid he'd been to forward. After all he seemed to be a prisoner, and he was pretty sure prisoners didn't get to ask for things.
Gru sat there, truly stunned for a moment then he nodded. "Sure. Minions, unlock him."
The minions unlocked him and Steve got up with his hands behind his back. He wandered over to the area that looked like a chemistry lab.
"What do all of these mixtures do?"
Gru came over and examined them.
"Well this one is the perfected anti-gravity potion. This one fills you up faster than soda and fried chicken when drunk. This one..."
He continued on explaining all of the chemicals and when that was done he moved on to the gadgets he was most proud of.
That night when Margo was out on the porch, saying goodbye to Steve, Gru decided he'd give the boy a chance with his daughter. He was on his good side now, the side he didn't like to admit he had.
When Margo came in she walked over to her Dad with a condescending look. He thought, oh no. I'm in trouble now.
But then her face changed and she gave Gru a big hug.
"Thanks Daddy."
Gru hugged her back and nodded.
Then he sent her off to bed, with her sisters.
All right, I hope you enjoyed this little anecdote that came to me, while I was watching DESPICABLE ME!
I'd really like to know how I did, with the characters because sometimes I have trouble staying in character, so let me know PLEASE! It would mean alot to me. REVIEW!
Thankies,
OSK