FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
AUTHORS NOTE: Chapters will be added daily. This is basically an introductory chapter.
This story takes place at the beginning of the year after Gru and Lucy were married. Everything was going fine until a certain day not too long after summer break. Gru had just finished the last portion of his breakfast and was ready to get back to work on his project. He kissed Lucy on the cheek. "Well, I'ma go see how Dr. Nefario is doing on ze new project."
"Okay, don't forget that this is the girls first day back to school." Lucy reminded Gru.
"Ah, yes, I weel go help zem make sure they have everyting ready. Ze project weel have to wait." Gru walked over to where Margo, Edith, and Agnes were putting together their backpacks for school. "Do you have everyting you need for your first day of school?"
Margo shuffled through the supplies she was sorting on her bed. "I think so... No wait, I'm missing scrap paper."
"And I need a few pencils." Edith said.
"I sink I know where we have some..." Gru went into another room and looked for the supplies in a drawer.
After Gru had left the room to get the supplies, Edith spoke again. "Well, there goes our summer vacation..." She was going into third grade and wasn't happy about the end of summer break, but then again, summer breaks can get a little boring after a while. At least school would give her something to do. Edith hated school.
Agnes hopped about excitedly. "I think it will be fun to go back to school again! I'll be in first grade! I wonder if it will be like kindergarten!" her ever-active imagination kept giving her new ideas and expectations about what grade-school would be like.
Margo smiled. She thought it was cute how Agnes got excited over just about anything. Margo was going into fifth grade, and looking forward to seeing some of last year's friends, although, like Edith, she was still sad that summer break was over. A lot had happened since she had seen her school-friends last... She would have some interesting stories to tell...Maybe not... No, she decided to keep them a secret. She didn't want a reputation for being the weird girl with the weirder Dad.
Gru almost tripped over Kyle as he walked in and gave the pencil and paper to the girls. "All righty then, you gorls have a good first day at school, okay?"
"We will!" they answered.
Gru hugged each of them and watched them leave for the bus-stop. He was a little uncomfortable about sending them off to school, but not as uncomfortable as he was last year. Agnes was new to grade-school, Edith was a troublemaker, and Margo had discovered boys not too long ago. Gru had many reasons to worry, but tried to relax and forget about it by distracting himself with his work. Lucy was also there to remind Gru to stop worrying.
Well, now eets time for me to git down to business. He thought. On the way to his underground laboratory, he was thinking about his new project. It was a new type of weapon that the AVL had requested that he manufacture. Gru's underground laboratories seemed to convert nicely to a weapons factory. The manufacturing job offered Dr. Nefario, who had been in search of more exciting employment, a new occupation. Gru hired Dr. Nefario for managing the weapon craftsmanship and designs.
Manufacturing weapons eez more fun than making jellies and jams anyhow. He thought. Gru would turn the place back into a Jelly-making factory after he was finished with designing the next line of the AVL's spy gadgets. Gru descended into his laboratory. All activities appeared to be running smoothly. Except for a few of his minions idling about on break, everything was as busy as could be. Half of the minions were making jellies and jams, and the other half were working on random gadgets and weapons.
A minion waved to Gru as he walked by. Gru lifted his hand in a relaxed two-fingered salute, gesturing a greeting. Down in the lab, Nefario was working on the latest weapon...
"Ah, there you are, Where've you been?" Nefario questioned.
"Oh, I vus elping Lucy get the girls rety for dare first day back to school."
"Oh, I see. Well, Gru you're going to be impressed when you see this! Come on! Take a look!"
Gru's eyes skimmed over the project. It was the makings of a sleeping-gas bomb. They had been tweaking the prototype for the last couple weeks.
"Dat is good! Dat is good... Eez it finished?"
"No, but it's close. We only have a few things left to do. Just a couple parts and pieces to fit together. I sent a few minions to pick up-" The jabbering of a minion interrupted him.
Kevin held up a mechanical gear-pin that looked very similar to a hair-comb, except that it was a little too small and had an arch shape. It would be used to hold a few parts of the bomb in place.
Dave handed Nefario a gas tank, which Dave had originally mistaken for a hamster ball while he was in the store looking for it.
Phil gave Gru an extra piece of scrap metal that was to be melted down for filling in the hull.
"Once we add these few little pieces," Nefario mused out-loud, "the project will be finished, and I'll mail the prototype to the Anti Villain League facility for testing!"