"But metals can be melted. By the heat of re-vahnge!" the supervillain came back to the superman of Metro City – or as Megamind pronounced it – Metrocity.
They were in another one of their disputes again. Oh, a kidnapping of Roxanne Ritchi followed by a battle between Megamind and Metro Man happened about once a week. Possibly twice. But it was nothing unusual. If anything, it was kind of getting boring by now.
"It's revenge and it's best served cold!" Metro Man corrected him.
"But it can easily be reheated. By the microwave of evil!" Megamind snapped back.
"Well, I think your warranty is about to expire." Metro Man heroically rebounded.
"Well maybe I bought an extended warranty."
"Warranties are invalid if you don't use the product for its intended purposes!"
"Girls, girls, you're both pretty!" Miss Ritchi sneeringly interrupted, "Can I go home now?" she smiled with her eyes opening wide, showing her scorn.
Megamind appeared slightly irritated at her interruption of their game, but that is secretly what he loved about the game: her feistiness. Her sassiness. It was what he loved most about her.
Yes, he loved her. He had fully accepted it a long time ago, when they were just teenagers. He was head-over-heels for her; it was too late to deny it. He adored every single little thing about her, except that she wasn't with him.
But he also loved this sport, so he had to push his secret admirations away when she was nearby.
Megamind then quickly snapped out of it and said, "Only if Metro Man can stand the full, concentrated power of the sun! FIRE!"
They all waited.
After nothing happened for a while, Minion tried to whisper, "Sir, would you come look at this for a moment?"
"What is it, Minion?" Megamind impatiently moaned.
"You should see that-"
Megamind cut him off. "You haven't even activated it yet! Ugh! I guess if you want something done right, do it yourself." He pushed the activate button.
"Sir you might want to know that the target was off. It's not set for the abandoned observatory," Minion warned him.
"Well, why didn't you say so, Minion?"
"I tried to, but-"
"Excuses, excuses. So, where is it set then?"
"Sir, that's what I was trying to tell you! It's set for here, the evil lair."
"Way to go, Megamind!" Roxanne Ritchi said with a sour wry.
"So does this mean, we'll die?" Megamind inquired Minion.
Minion shrugged unknowingly.
Megamind rushed to turn off the camera that screened at the abandoned observatory and the Metro Man Museum. Before he shut it off, though, he said, "It was nice working with you, Metro Man." Then all the citizens and Metro Man saw a black square where there once was video.
While the town was all in extreme, chaotic, mixed emotions, the three in Megamind's lair were feeling of doom.
Minion said to Megamind, "If we die, I want you to know you are my best friend. And I love you. Like a brother."
"Diddo. Minion, how much time do we have left?"
"Ehh… two minutes-ish. Not enough time to escape, if that is what you are asking."
"Could you leave me for just a second, Minion? Go in the other room?"
"Sure, sir." Minion was curious as to why he would want to be alone with Miss Ritchi still there, but it was an order, and he had to obey, even if that meant going all the way downstairs to be in a separate room.
As soon as Minion went downstairs, Megamind turned to Roxanne, untied her, grabbed her arms in a non-harmful, yet stern, grip, and looked dead into her eyes.
"Roxanne, now that I know we're about to die, I don't know how to say this. I've always wanted you to know, but it was never the right time. Well, we don't have much time left, but I just want you to know one thing. That…"
"I'm waiting," Miss Ritchi said as Megamind had a hard time uttering the words he was actually about to say.
"I love you."
Roxanne was left slack-jawed.
They looked into each other's eyes, gazing for what seemed an eternity.
"I love you, too."
They could not believe the words they were actually saying.
They have always playfully teased. Somewhat flirted. There was something apparent in the way they communicated that hinted it.
Perhaps they both knew it, too. They just probably ignored it and continued their little recreation of jokes and laughs.
It was all fun and games until now. Now they were both in danger.
They saw in each other's eyes their love for each other which they never even spoke, but their heart screamed.
They both leaned forward, at the same time, as if on cue, tilted their heads, closed their eyes and locked lips.
They were in heaven. In peace. In true serenity. No feeling has ever beaten this one. They were finally open with their true feelings and had no reason to hide them. This was the time to let everything go, to forget the world and just give in to their true wants and desires.
Roxanne was the Yin to Megamind's Yang. For once in his life, Megamind felt loved. For once in her life, Roxanne felt complete. They both felt secure in one another's embrace. They felt so safe in the near presence of death. But it did not matter, because what they had both been fantasizing about had become a reality. What Megamind had imagined mentally 24/7, what Roxanne endlessly wrote about in her diary, what they had both dreamt of every single night had finally come true!
They broke from their kiss and gazed in each other's souls with their arms wrapped around one another in an amorous embrace.
"I love you," they said, dreamingly, in unison.
Little did they acknowledge, they death ray countdown was ticking only 5 feet away from them.