"The city's park restored to their original glory, the streets the safest they've been, the banks reopened. Has something happened to Megamind? Has someone tamed this monster? This is Roxanne Ritchi, cautiously optimistic, and pleasantly confused," the reporter announced, multiplied on the giant monitor at the Evil Lair.
Megamind was standing on a pedestal, with a dreamy look, sighing as he watched Roxanne Ritchi doing her report on TV.
He was just in love with the woman who he had kidnapped all those years.
Minion arrived with a tape measure, to take his measures saying, "Well, you seem in a very good mood tonight, Sir!"
"Oh, yes. How long is this going to take, Minion?" the blue alien asked, still in a blissful state.
Minion smiled, and said happily, "Just a few alterations, Sir, and I will be done with your most terrifying cape yet! I'm calling it…the Black Mambaaaa."
"Black Mamba! Perfect! Gosh, I'm running late. I have to go," Megamind said happily, going down from the pedestal, thinking of the evening waiting for him, while the brainbots carried away the unfinished cape.
Minion looked at him puzzled.
"What? Where…where are you going, Sir? We have our debut battle with Titan, tomorrow morning. We haven't even tested your Big Battle Suit yet."
"You attend to the details, Minion. I have to…run a quick errand," the bigheaded alien said, biting his lower lip and making a hand gesture.
Minion narrowed his eyes, like he was scolding him, and said, "You don't run errands. What's going on here?"
"What?" Megamind said with a worried look, trying to get away.
Minion sniffed the air.
"Oh, wait a you wearing Jean-Paul Gautier's Pour Homme?" he asked making a reprimand expression.
"It's just my natural musk! Now, where are the car's keys? Ah!" he said facetiously, seeing the keys.
Minion stretched his robotic hand, to take the keys.
"Ah-ah ah-ah! This is about Miss Ritchi, isn't it? You're going to a date with her!" he affirmed with a scolding tone, worried about the turn events had taken.
Megamind took Minion's dome in his hands, and said, cheerfully, "Ahahah…no, my main man! Get out of town!"
Minion touched the dome, like when you ruffle your hair, worried.
"Oh, this is bad. This is bad. You've fallen in love with her!" he said, hitting center.
Megamind turned to the ichthyoid, angry.
"You are forgetting your place, Minion. Now give me the keys!" he said with a resolute tone.
Minion stretched the robotic hand, not letting him take the keys, while Megamind grumbled.
"What happens when Roxanne finds out who you really are?" the aquatic protector asked him, in a worried tone.
"She will never find out. That's the point of lying," Megamind claimed, pressing a button on Minion's robotic suit, to make return back his hand, to get the keys.
Minion screamed, for the treatment, shocked that his friend and ward could make him a thing like that.
"Honestly, if I didn't know any better, I'd think this is your first day of being evil," the blue alien said to the ichthyoid, nonchalantly, as he went to the car, rolling the keys.
While Megamind walked towards the car, Minion pressed a remote control, making the car turn invisible
"No! This is gone far enough!" the ichthyoid said, taking the keys on the hood and putting them in his water bowl.
Megamind, shocked by the gesture, he said angrily, "Oh, that was really grown-up!" falling onto the bonnet, while Minion fled toward the rear of the car.
Minion ran around the car, saying, " Sir, Sir, please. It's for your own good."
Megamind ran after him, more and more angry, saying, " Oh, what do you know?"
Minion stopped, and said with a resolute expression, "I may not know much, but I do know this: the bad guy doesn't get the girl."
Megamind stopped and stood erect.
"Maybe I don't want to be the bad guy anymore!" he said instinctively.
Minion gaped and screamed, shocked, looking at Megamind as if he were a stranger.
Megamind looked here and there with his eyes, saying, "You heard me!" making a resolute expression.
Minion had the strength to say, "Who are you?" looking him always shocked and increasingly concerned about the behavior of his protégée.
Megamind jumped toward Minion.
"Now, give me the keys!" he said in an irritate tone.
Minion rendered visible the car with the remote control, and Megamind bumped into it.
"No! My sole purpose in life is to look after you!" he said hysterically, thinking that the situation was very serious.
Megamind pulled himself up from the hood, and said imperiously, "Well, I don't need you to look after me!"
Minion was shocked, and said, sadly shaking his fins, "What are you s…What are you saying? You don't need me?"
Megamind said seriously, but with a worried look and a bit guilt, "Let me make it clear. Code: I don't need you."
Minion made a sad and angry expression, blowing out the keys from his bowl, making them end up on the hood.
"You know what? You know what? Code: I'll just pack my thing and go!" he said, putting away a box of fish flakes in a metal box that says "Face Melter".
"Code: Fine!" Megamind always replied with that suffering expression, while Minion climbed on the Segway of Evil.
"Code: Fine back!" Minion said, on the device full of spikes, making reverse and breaking the mirror, going towards the exit.
In that moment Megamind realized that unless he did something, he would lost his best friend, so his voice cracking with sadness, he said feebly, "Minion!"
Despite everything, thanks to the echo of the Lair, the fish heard.
The henchfish stopped shortly before leaving the Evil Lair. He stood like that for a while and then he said, his voice sad and choked with emotion, "Yes, Sir?"
Megamind sniffled, he was crying.
"Minion, please don't go...I'm sorry ..." he said in a voice broken by crying, between sobs.
The alien fish was crying, and sighed with relief and happiness to hear that phrase.
Then he got out of the machinery and turned to his ward.
Megamind looked at him and saw he had red eyes and the lower lip was trembling.
They looked at themselves for a while, and then they drew near, then embrace themselves.
"Sorry, Minion, I said some horrible things. You're my best friend, do not want to lose you to a so silly discussion," said the blue alien in tears.
The ichthyoid smiled.
"You apologized, and this is important. I too apologize for the bad things I said. And in my opinion is not a silly argument. Emm ...you were really thinking all of those things? I mean...do you not want to be evil anymore?" he asked eagerly.
The blue alien inhaled a lot of air, to calm down, and thought hard about that question.
Really did not want to be bad, for the love of Roxanne?
He thought a lot, and the answer was just one: yes.
"Yes, Minion. I love Roxanne, and I feel really good to be with her, she makes me feel accepted, normal. And not for the fact that when I see her I'm disguised, but because I'm myself with her, and she accept me for what I'm. But you're right, I cannot continue this farce. I must say it to her. Even if this would broke my heart, if she would accept me anymore," he finished sadly, sighing tremulously, and sagging.
Minion rested a hand on his shoulder, smiling at him.
"You know it's a relief to hear you say it? I must confess that for years I thought that this "destiny of criminality" was not for you. When you said that you wouldn't be bad, I thought it was just an excuse to get the keys, but now I know that isn't so. And I'm really happy. I'll help you with Miss Ritchi, I'm sure that will settle everything," he said happily, proudly watching his protégéé.
Megamind gaped at him, and smiled, looking with sparkling eyes at his friend.
"Thanks Minion, and you're right, I just realized it now. Doing good is one thing that makes me feel happy, especially if it's for Roxanne," he ended up blushing, thinking of the times spent with her at the library, museum and park.
The fish smiled toothily, and said enthusiastically, "Well! Now, what you want to do? You wants to go to that appointment, or want to go to her to tell him directly?"
The blue alien pondered the two possibilities, and decided to go to her.
"We'll go to her. I will confess everything, hopefully for good," he said, then pressing another button to put back the hand of Minion, and then got into the car.
They arrived at her apartment building, and Megamind disguised himself as Bernard, to go up to her apartment while Minion parked the invisible car nearby.
He noted that there had been an accident nearby, and came to ask what had happened.
There was a small group of people and some agent, and they told him that a cart of flowers had fallen from above, but fortunately no one was seriously injured.
They were investigating to find out how such a thing had happened, but had not yet been answered.
Megamind didn't give much importance to that event, so he entered in the building and greeted Carlos, the doorman and asked if Roxanne was still at home.
"But of course, señor Bernard, I didn't see her leave the building. It's the great date's day, eh? Señorita Ritchi does nothing more than talk about this," the southamerican answered him, winking.
The alien smiled happily and thanked him, going toward the elevator.
When he reached the floor where Roxanne's apartment was placed, knocked at the door, but he didn't hear no one answer, he frowned: something was off.
He took the spare keys that the reporter gave him, to help him to decipher the "idea cloud", while she was at work.
He opened the door, and called Roxanne. Receiving no answer, he looked around and saw that the balcony door was open.
It formed a knot in his stomach, remembering the incident below, so he went out and looked everywhere, and then down.
Like he had thought, the flower's cart was landed from Roxanne's balcony.
The genius racked his brains, and when he came to understand what had happened, turned pale.
"Minion, I'm going down. Roxanne is in danger!"
Said that, he went down from the apartment, always disguised as Bernard, and when Carlos asked him what happened, he answered quickly, with a preoccupied note in his voice, "Roxanne is in danger! I must go! Mh…I will explain all later! See you soon!" leaving the doorman puzzled, and a little worried.
He exited from the building, and run like crazy in the car, telling Minion to tune into police radios, with the transmitter that they had in the car.
His fears became terrible truth when he heard, "At all the unit! At all the unit! Various incidents in the center of Metro City! It seems that the cause is a superequipped guy who flies like a madman through the streets and skies of Metro City! He has also caused damage to a building, smashing a window, wounding with fragments of glass the people strolling near the condo! He is also assumed that is the cause of the accident of the cart of flowers! Someone has seen him holding a person in his arms. Approach him with caution! "
"Oh my god! He's that idiot of Hal! And probably he has Roxanne with him…gosh…what I've done! It's my entire fault! You were right, Minion! He wasn't the right guy! And now Roxanne risk to die, and it's ALL MY fault!" the alien said panicking, tears rolling down from his emerald eyes, gasping in panic.
Minion was worried, and he didn't understand well what he was talking about, so he leaned a hand on his friend's leg, to calm him a bit, and said quietly, "Don't get so nervous, Sir. And why you claims that it is your fault? But above all, why Hal would take Miss Ritchi?"
Megamind calmed a bit, and explained at his aquatic friend what happened at the park, before he arrived with the churros.
"Only now I realized that this girl was talking about was Roxanne! Why I din't see before! It was clear that Hal was in love with her, and now he is "saving" her, like I said to him. What an idiot I am! And now she risk of die! We must go!" he said with a worried tone.
Minion connected various things, and zoomed through Metro city's streets, following the trail of incidents and the wail of police's sirens.
"Don't worry too much, it's normal. You are in love with her, and it's not so strange that you hadn't seen some signs," he assured him.
Megamind sighed.
"It 's true...but I could never forgive myself if she would die for my lack of judgment. And again sorry for not listening to you. You were always right. I wonder who's the genius here," he said sadly, frowning.
Minion shook his head – or rather the whole body – at the insecurity of his friend.
"I'm sure she'll be fine. Hey, look," he said pointing to the Metro Tower, where he saw Hal flying off at high speed, smashing several windows of the tower.
The blue alien looked up, frowning, and then drew near to the tower with the car, Megamind coming down disguised as Bernard.
Then he climbed to the top floor with the elevator, trying to bring her down from there.
Meanwhile, Roxanne had found a way down alone, and so they met in the top floor, where the floor was covered with broken glasses.