Disclaimer: Despicable Me belongs to Illumination Studios, Megamind to Dreamworks. This is purely fan made and with doing this I'm just avoiding to do my homework.
Chapter two: Robbery
Gru watched his watch one more time, it was exactly midnight in Metro City. If Nefario's calculations were correct, in a couple of minutes the principle named after him should start to take place. Then something started trembling inside Gru's pocket, he almost lost the pants for not taking it out earlier. His shrink ray had turned its original size.
It was after returning the moon at its place that Gru started to make some experiments with the shrink ray. Nefario's principle was very useful. With simple mathematical calculation he could determine in which moment the shrunk objects should turn to their original size. Also, the shrinking ray turned to be shrinkable. The girls discovered this when they tried to miniaturize a mirror. It lead an open door to new misdeeds and villainous acts.
Back to the museum, with the shrink ray in his hands, Gru fired it directly to the paintings. In a matter of seconds twenty paintings turned the size of baseball cards.
Smiling at his 'full house' of precious paintings, there was nothing else to do in the place. He took out from his pocket a small mirror with a pink frame, and accurately pointed the shrink ray directly to it's reflect. In a matter of seconds the big pistol had turned into a toy gun one more time, maybe slightly bigger than a key chain. When everything seemed going according to plan, some odd sound came from the end of the hall. It was similar to the one that yellow pizza videogame Edith and Agnes loved to play in the jumbo screen back in the lab. A metallic 'wakka wakka.' Some blue light illuminated the other side of the hall, when Gru fell about to be exposed, he considered this robbery maybe wasn't as easy as it was supposed to be. Luckily there was an air vent where he could hid with all the paintings in his grasp.
From there, behind the thin door that made the air vent, and through the gap, he saw a bunch of sort-of-floating robots with Tesla coils as heads and several metallic tentacles as arms. It seemed they weren't looking for something in specific, their wandering was more like being on patrol. But they didn't notice the absence of the paintings.
Then the robots moved out of the hall, leaving everything in almost complete darkness again. Gru took out of the interior of his jacket a black container the size of a pencil case. Once open it revealed 'minionaturized' Larry and Tim. Both of them were comfortably sleeping in their respective compartments.
"Pst Wake up. Eets time to work." Gru murmured to his henchman, keeping the ear in alert in case that the robots could have decided to pass by there again. The two genetically modified corn kernels opened the eyes and gave him an easy going "g'morning." Then Gru took out of his suit a red toy car replica of a convertible and placed both subordinates in their respective seats, along with a card case filled with the painting in the trunk.
"Tim, Larry, eet is very important that you take theese paintings with you. The tank ees parked in dhe waste deeposit, outside dhe citee. Don't stop until you arrive home ok?" The minions seemed concerned about their boss, but he reassured them everything was according to plan. Tim started the engine, the car was not a replica, it was in fact a miniaturized car. Both minions frighted for who was going to be the driver. Gru settled the dispute, he had decided to put Tim behind the wheel and that was the last word. Larry, not so happy by the resolution, turned on his internal green light for illuminating their path.
And as they aimed to the exit using the air ducts, making the green light more and more dim, Gru could only hope they could made it before sunrise, which was the time those minions were going to recover their original size.
It was one of those boring nights for Megamind. Doing Metro Man's job was uber easy considering he didn't have a super villain to fight against. Of course he had had to deal with the members of Doom Syndicate the first days of his career as a good boy, but even they had not been big deal. After all he knew all the tricks in the art of villainy. He had beaten some simple burglars to stole a jewelry, waiting inside the place before they could arrive; that public worker could never make a transaction to his personal account because Megamind had all his cards frozen beforehand; teen gangs simply had decided to stay home since the ex villain turned the good side; and professional assassins couldn't never find a job in Metro City, so they had to depart. Hence the blue skinned was facing the same thing that happened when he thought his old rival had died: boredom. Inside his lair he crunched in front of the monitors, not feeling like going out to patrol this time. The streets looked safer than ever and his reliable brainbots were doing a fourth round to the main buildings, looking for something suspicious. It was like any other night since he had become the hero, two months ago.
His best friend Minion, a fish inside a fish tank over a robotic gorilla body, entered the room with a basket full of clean clothes. He was humming a goofy romantic song from the 50's.
"What's the matter sir? Aren't you enjoying your free time?" The fish left the basket on the floor and approached to check the screens that protected different city settings.
"Minion, have you noticed we have had free time the complete week?" The blue skinned hero was right, they had nothing to do. It was like the third time Minion was washing those old capes. They had not even made more inventions, since he didn't know what to invent beside evil weapons. And improving old creations was out of topic, since most of them had already been dismantelated. "Ahh, I'd give whatever I could for some action" sighed with tedium covering his face with both hands and driving the head backwards. And as an answer to his prayers, Minion noticed something odd in the cameras of the Metro City museum.
"That's weird" Minion commented as it clearly seemed someone had hijacked the museum's security system. The image was not moving at all. But the brainbots' cameras showed how the museum patrol was going; the robots were passing by the cameras but they weren't caught in the filming "who could be intelligent enough to deactivate your alarms."
"I don't know." The hero called to his brainbots though a microphone placed before him, he ordered them to gather in the area and to duplicate the security. Seeing how the image the cameras presented was still, a twisted smile formed in his lips "but I bet it's not a normal thief."
Megamind jumped from his chair and raced to the invisible car they had parked in the middle of the lair. Minion placed in the copilot sit, normally he was the one driving, but his master seemed to eager about getting to the place soon he didn't complaint. They started the engine and went out full speed towards the museum. The hero was sure this was going to be an unforgettable night. They raced along the streets of Metro City, blissed with the idea of someone silly enough to try to steal the museum in their shift. It was almost suicide, concluded Megamind as a uttermost joke.
Just for being sure the perpetrator wasn't a prison fugitive, the fish decided to make a call to warden John. He picked his cellphone and arduously dialed a number with his big hands.
"Hello Minion, what can I do for you?" An old man with tired expression but tough demeanor, had picked the phone from his office in Metro City prison for the criminally gifted.
"Good night Mr. Warden, good to hear you're doing fine. The call is for asking if there had been any prison break recently."
"What? No, of course not. You know all the prisoners are Megamind's friends, none of them could ever think of going out before their accomplished sentence. May I know why the question?"
"Don't tell him. He'll ruin all the fun" Interrupted Megamind as the car took a curve in the main avenue. Minion covered the microphone with the hand, but it was obvious the warden could hear everything.
"Sir, It's your obligation as hero to ask for cooperation to the police."
"But I want to solve this case by myself."
"They're the authority sir."
"And I am the hero here."
"Whatever, I'm telling."
"You don't!"
Through the phone the warden could hear some struggle and then the car swerving. If it were a common phone call from someone else but Megamind, warden could be concerned. Then Minion picked the phone again, some Megamind's whimpering could be heard in the background.
"Sorry Mr. Warden. I was about to say we found someone hacked the security alarms and cameras in the city museum, and we're in our way to investigate it."
"It sounds important. Should I send you reinforcements?"
"It's not necessary!" Cried Megamind in a ridiculous pleading tone.
"We would be pleased if you do so Mr. Warden" concluded Minion as the car parked next to the museum entrance, where everything seem calm and quiet.
Inside there Gru was going out the air vent as slow as he could, he was worried because at that pace he probably could not get to the hotel room before the girls have waken up. He had not given two steps when a couple of those silly floating robots passed by, obligating him to hide behind a Greek statue, copying its position. Once he realized the blue light the robots emitted was going thinner, he walked to the exact place where he entered. The number of robots had been increasing in matter of minutes, it was risky to think they hadn't surrounded the entrance yet, but he didn't have time to look for another escape route.
About some meters next the window, Gru heard echoing voices. They were two persons, probably policemen. One of them was saying "Look at the window, someone made a hole on it!" Gru gulped. The other guy was strangely fascinated with Gru's abilities, it sounded like a young policeman on his first day of duty. "We better split sir, we don't know how many of them are in here." The respectful manner this policeman conferred to the other man made Gru confused, maybe the young fella was in fact a police chief. Or maybe he was wasting time wondering who was in the main hall about to seize him! He had to run away from there in a matter of right now.
Megamind and Minion weren't a pair of policemen, but anyone seeing them could swear they were one of those old detective shows. Jocking and making some laughable comments, they finally decided to split. Minion to the right side, Megamind to the left side.
Considering the number of paintings they had stolen and the amount of time they had spent doing it, it couldn't possibly be only one person. The hero was pleased since he was about to play havoc with what seemed like a bunch of hunks with fast legs, with one of them probably being a hacking genius. As he took out his de-hydrating gun from his holster, some brainbots gathered around him. The robots were happy to see his owner in that place, and the owner patted some tesla heads with joy, but suddenly he heard a crack. A little dog statue from ancient greek culture had fell from it's position behind the exhibition glass.
"Hey you! Freeze!" He pointed the gun behind the pedestal which contained it and approached. But his expression of mean guy changed to one of astonishment. He found the least person he'd expect to see "I don't believe it. Is that you...Gru?"
In the other side, the thief was also in a state of shock. For a moment he didn't know what to do, how to react; but as the de-hydratate gun went from aiming at him to point to the floor, he stood up cautiously and gave the newcomer a somewhat embarrased smile. "Hello, Syx."
Author note: First of all this fic is based in fanon, which means Megamind's name is going to be Syx along the story, as warden's name will be John. Syx name belongs to SilverShepherd from her amazing fanfic 'Times Syx.' Warden name...honestly I don't know from where is that, but if you happen to be the one who named him let me know for give you the credit .
As for the Doom Syndicate, they are canon, their designs appear in the book the Art of Megamind and you can see some members in the videogame. Unluckily they won't make any apparition in this fic.
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