Hiya guys! I thought I'd have a go at writing Megamind and this is the result I got! Basically, Megamind has a sister who accompanies him to Earth. Megamind is 2 years old ad his sister is 8 days old. I hope you enjoy... this is sort of like a prologue... there will be a few chapters before we start the actual movie! :)
DISCAIMER: Megamind and all the characters do not belong to me... except his sister!
Chapter 1 – Two Little Infant Aliens.
Bradley Gibson often wondered if it was his fault that Blue had turned out the way he had. Perhaps if he'd given him and Sophie a proper home with a proper family then perhaps Blue wouldn't be getting into so much trouble with a certain superhero.
Gibson could remember when a guard had discovered a shuttle with two seats big enough for two infants wedged between two walls. He had then ordered every guard to search every area of the prison in search of what could possibly be two infants. He just hoped upon hoped that the two children were still alive. The men in the prison were not to be taken lightly. Plenty of them were locked up for taking the life of a child, raping a child and child abuse. So therefore he was overwhelmed when a guard informed him two infants had been found in Simon Parker's cell. He was then surprised when he laid eyes on the two children for the first time. One was obviously a toddler and the other could not be more that 3 months old. But that wasn't the shocking thing. Oh no. What shocked Warden Gibson the most was the shape and colour of the two. They were both a striking light blue and had a massive cranium. They also seemed to have a fish in a fishbowl which the older to the two children carried around with him in his arms. Gibson had placed the phone back on its holder; he could only imagine what would happen to these two, obviously alien, children. They were both the most adorable things he had ever seen. He had taken them home with him that night and showed his wife who had freaked out and refused to let him adopt them. He tried his best to convince her but she had begun to pack and said that it was either the aliens or her. So after convincing her to let them stay that night he had taken them back to the prison the next day. If that was the reaction he had gotten from his wife, how would the rest of the city react? He couldn't show anyone. He made sure the guards kept the tongues and the prisoners were also told to not open their mouths.
He had learnt a little bit from the older of the two and the weird fish thing (which could talk). The older of the two had said his name and told Gibson his sister's name. But the names were long and complicated and Gibson gave up on trying pronouncing them and settled for calling the older of the two 'Blue' and calling his sister 'Sophie'. He had then learnt that Blue was older than his sister by two years and Sophie was only 10 days old. He understood that their own planet was sucked into a black hole and that their parents had saved them by sending them off in the escape pod to Earth where they believed someone would adopt their children and take them on as their own. Looking back Gibson wondered why he ever believed that story. He guessed at the time he was looking at 3 infants who were very clearly not from his world.
For a few years he had let the two sleep in his office with a guard checking on them every 20 minutes. However when Sophie turned three and Blue was 5 he gave them their own cell to share.
"DAD!" Bradley smiled as he heard Blue call him as he entered his office for the first time on a December morning. It was freezing outside and he made a mental note to wrap the two children up warm before he let them out with the others. He loved it when the two called him Dad, he never told his wife – he knew it would freak her out and she would leave. He used the cover story that he had sent them off to an adoption agency. He wasn't too sure she believed him though.
"Morning Blue." Bradley replied as he slipped his coat off and placed it on the back of his chair. "Good Morning Sophie."
"Good Morning dad." Sophie mumbled from behind her book about physics. He couldn't believe how fast the two could learn to read!
"Have you had breakfast?" He questioned.
"Yes! We had scrambled egg on toast!" Blue beamed as he climbed onto the Wardens lap. "It was yummy!" Bradley chuckled.
"I need to ask you both something." Bradley said seriously. Sophie looked up from her book. Blue had stilled in his lap. Bradley chuckled at their reaction. "Don't worry. You're not in trouble." He reassured them. Sophie closed her book and made her way across the room. When he had Sophie sat on his lap with Blue he asked his question. "How would you both feel if you had your own cell?" He questioned.
"Like Uncle Simon?" Blue asked, excitedly. Bradley had tried to steer them clear of trusting the other prisoners but both Sophie and Blue had chosen to get attached to a few of them. These were called their 'Uncles'. And their favourite 'Uncle' was Simon Parker.
"Yes. Like Uncle Simon."
"And Uncle Tom?" Sophie questioned quietly.
"Yes. And Uncle Tom." Bradley sighed. "But I think you're getting a bit big for my office. So what do you think?"
The idea had gone off like a hit. That night had been a restless one. Which Gibson assumed it would be. It was like asking a child to sleep in their own bed after having a nightmare. Sophie had managed to fall asleep a few hours past their usual bedtime but Blue had kept everyone in the cell block up (bar Sophie who was out for the count). He refused to sleep until one of the guards called the Warden. As soon as Gibson had arrived Blue had calmed and Gibson had sat in the cell with him until he fell asleep. After that night Blue had been fine and eventually fell into a routine.
When Blue had been 6 he had sent the boy to school. He wasn't allowed to enrol Sophie while she was 4 and so had to wait till she was 5 before she could go too. Blue had hated school. He said every kid hated him and picked on him. Gibson had suggested that perhaps it was because of what he wore. The small boy always wore his orange jumpsuit that read 'PRISONER' on the back of it. He had tried plenty of times to get the boy to not wear it but he refused to wear anything else. Blue had said everyone hated him because Wayne Scott went there.
"It's not because of my clothes!" The boy argued. "It's stupid Wayne Scott." He crossed his arms and poked out his lower lip. His sister giggled. "It's not funny Sophie!" Blue snapped.
"Blue. I'll have less of the attitude please." Gibson warned calmly. He didn't sound cross, or looked it. He just didn't like the way Blue had talked to his sister.
"And Sophie," He turned to look at the blue headed, bold girl sat beside Blue. "Don't laugh at your brother." Sophie fell silent. Gibson turned back to Blue.
"What has the Scott's boy got to do with this?" He questioned.
"He's like us!" Blue stood up.
"He's blue?" Gibson suggested.
"No! He can fly!"
"I didn't know you could fly." Gibson was messing, knowing that they couldn't.
"We can't. It's not fair!" Blue argued.
"Blue sit down." Gibson sat up slightly. When Blue had sat back down he raised an eyebrow. "I still don't see what Wayne Scott has got to do with this all."
"He's a bully! Everybody loves him because he can fly and makes pop-ed corn for them."
"Pop-ed corn?" Gibson questioned. "Oh! You mean popcorn!"
"Yes! And he has laser vision and is strong!"
"Now come on Blue." Gibson mumbled. "I very much doubt this boy can fly."
"He can!" Blue argued. "He's like us!"
"I'm still not getting it Blue."
"Wayne Scott," Sophie began. Both Gibson and Blue turned to look at her. "Wayne Scott came from a planet that also got sucked into the black hole." Gibson suddenly understood. "He looks human but he has super strength and can fly. That's all I know about him." Sophie mumbled.
"He has laser vision too!" Blue added.
Bradley never could forget that conversation. He couldn't believe that the Scott's son could be a bully. Sure the boy had grown up with money and power but he couldn't be a bully. Everyone knew him as a helpful young boy. He was always helping old people across the street or helping someone up if they fell over. Gibson just couldn't see how Wayne Scott could be a bully.
When it was Sophie's turn to go up to school, he managed to convince her out of her orange jumpsuit and into some normal clothes. He remembered what she wore on her first day. A denim skirt and a pink t-shirt with a pink jumper. She had looked adorable and came back with stories of new friends and Wayne Scott. Except the stories he heard from Sophie about the Scott boy were completely different from the ones he heard from Blue.
"And Wayne Scott gave everyone a cupcake today!" Sophie told Gibson. Blue was sulking. "He said his mum had made them especially for his friends." They were sat in the cafeteria. The two had their own little table away from the other prisoners. This was the main time when prisoners chatted and usually a lot of dirty words were passed around. Gibson never normally sat with the two children but he made an effort today as he wanted to learn all about Sophie's first day at school.
"Did you get a cupcake Blue?" Gibson asked turning to look at the 7 year old boy who was messing with his mashed potato instead of eating it.
"No!" He snapped. "Sophie did. But stupid Wayne Scott didn't give me any. He said his mum had told him I wasn't allowed one!" Gibson raised his eyebrows.
"Is that true Sophie?" He asked, hoping to start getting the truth about Wayne Scott. Sophie nodded her head.
"But I shared my cupcake with Blue." She smiled.
"That was nice." Gibson smiled. "Did you say thank you Blue?"
"No." Blue snapped. "I threw it on the floor."
"I was only being nice." Sophie mumbled, the smile having now vanished from her face.
Sophie loved school and her best friend was Wayne Scott. The two got on really well. But Sophie always stood up for her brother. Blue often commented how he never needed her help but that didn't stop Sophie from trying.
One day, when Blue was 8 and Sophie was 6, Bradley had a phone call from the school. The two siblings had been excluded and he was ordered to go and collect them. He sent a prison bus over to bring them back. He had listened to the teachers explanation on the phone and was fuming when he was told that she had only excluded Sophie because she thought she might have given her brother the idea to set a paint bomb off in the middle of the classroom. When the two had arrived, both their clothes (Blue's orange jumpsuit and Sophie's jeans and t-shirt) were painted blue to match their skin. The Warden had ordered them into his office where he lost it.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S YOUR DESTINY?!" Gibson screamed at Blue.
"I told you! It's my destiny! That's what it means!" Blue argued.
"And what's this about you helping?" He turned to Sophie who shrunk into her jumper.
"I didn't do anything! I was sat on the floor looking after Minion." She mumbled, eyes stinging with tears. Gibson rarely got angry and Sophie didn't like it when he did. "Honestly!"
"Yeah! And like I'd let a silly girl help me with my destiny!"
At this Sophie had broken down crying.
"Blue! I've had it with you! You are not destined to be the bad boy! So stop it! Now you will be taken to your cell and all your privileges will be taken away! And no Minion!" He added for good measure. Blue would be losing his privileges of going outside, using the library and the work room.
"WHAT?!" Blue yelled jumping up. "What about Sophie?!"
"Sophie didn't do anything!" Gibson raised his voice. "So she still gets the privileges and Minion. In fact, she can sleep in here tonight! If you want to be the bad boy, I'll treat you like the bad boy! And bad boys are put in their cells and left alone."
With that he had ordered a guard in. The guard had to carry a kicking and screaming Blue over his shoulder and all the way to his cell. The screaming didn't stop either. The boy kicked the walls, punched the walls shook the bars of the cell. He obviously didn't like the way he was being treated. He had never been left alone, at least not without his sister. And it was obviously taking a toll on him. Sophie didn't like being without her brother either, but Gibson knew he couldn't put the two back together. He had dished out Blue's punishment, he was not about to bend just to make Sophie happy.
Bradley Gibson often wondered if it was his fault that Blue had turned out the way he had. Perhaps if he'd given him and Sophie a proper home with a proper family then perhaps Blue wouldn't be getting into so much trouble with a certain superhero.
So how was it? The next chapter will be when Sophie and Blue are teenagers and SPOILER: Blue tries to escape!:)
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