Vida had set up some coffee once Megamind and Minion came up. Megamind knew the apartment very well.

It used to be Miss Ritchi's.

What a coincidence that their apartment was owned by Roxanne. Megamind felt uneasy all of a sudden. He saw the walls being painted pink, the bricks not showing their dull red color. He couldn't believe they had this apartment altered, nothing even resembled Roxanne's existence within this apartment.

"How come you guys purchased this apartment… there are other apartments after this one you know," Megamind said, sitting down one a chair that was in the middle of the room.

Bernard was about to respond when Vida stepped in. "We were trying to move somewhere closer to the city for our daughter, Elise. She's wanted to transfer to Metro Academy for… personal reasons."

"You have a daughter?" Megamind said in disbelief, looking at Bernard with saucers.

"Stepdaughter… but yeah, she's 15 going on to 25," Bernard utter, Vida smacking his arm. "Ow! Stop hitting me."

"Stop giving me reasons to hit you," she said back to him. "Anyways, this is the time she's supposed to be home… she tends to come home with different stuff on… different clothes, different jewelry…"

"Different attitude," Bernard uttered Vida growling.

"Anyway, she's a teen who's at a rebellious stage right now," Vida said.

"Sounds to me like your daughter's a hoot," Megamind said with a little smiled. "She's nearly expressing herself through action… not that I'm saying this to put an input, I'm no counselor," he said as head drank coffee.

"Listen, Mr. Hero, we don't need your advice," Bernard said, "She's Vida's child and it's her who disciplines her."

Megamind had silenced himself and said nothing else. Minion was looking at Vida's modeling photos, sporting gold and white in all of them, "You look so amazing!" Minion said, feeling a fangirl.

"Thank you, if you like I can sign an autograph and give you one of my photos," she said as she gotten a silver marker and signed the marker. "To… my biggest Simeon fan… yours truly, Vida," she said, putting lipstick and kissing the photo.

Minion squealed as he was so excited. "You're so amazing," he said to her, hugging her gently, Vida squeezing his bowl.

The entrance door was being jiggled, in which followed a faint but audible knock on the door. "Can someone please open the door, this thing has like six locks, help me out," said a bitter voice.

"That's Elise," Bernard said, going to the door and opened it to see Elise.

She was spitting imagine of her mother, only she had blue eyes inherited from her late father. She was shorter than her mother, hell she was shorter than Megamind. She wore the Metro Academy uniform, which was a yellow pleated skirt with a white shirt, the insignia on her left breast. Her hair was up to her shoulders, blonde and straight over her eyes.

"Are you gonna let me in?" she said to Bernard.

"Are you gonna start acting right?" he said with a strict tone.

"Come on, guys not with guests over!" Vida said, her fingers rubbing her temples.

Megamind had looked at Bernard tower over Elise. He didn't play therapist, but he knew there was a fragment within the relationship between Bernard and his estranged stepdaughter.

"Get in," Bernard said, opening the door to let the girl in. She stepped inside and looked straight at Megamind and Minion who had their eyes on her, smiling faintly.

"Mom… why are they here…" Elise said abruptly.

"Because I invited them over," Vida said through a smile and teeth.

"I'm going to my room," Elise said, rushing past her mom and Megamind and slammed the door.

"This apartment was designed to be a one bedroom loft, how did you manage to make two bedrooms," Megamind said in disbelief.

"We broke down the wall and installed a door," Bernard said, "It cost a hefty penny, but we made it work."

"Did you let the manager know you altered the apartment? Did you get rights to this apartment?" Megamind said in defense of Roxanne.

"Yes and Yes, it was confirmed," Vida said, Bernard drinking his coffee.

"Hmmm… I see," Megamind said, putting the coffee down on a tissue and standing up. "Well, I enjoyed having coffee with you all, but time is calling for us," the hero said, heading to the door.

"But, Sir," Minion said with a whine, "we still have a few more hours."

"Now. Minion," Megamind said, his brows furrowed as he didn't tolerate the defiance. Vida had a hand over her mouth and Bernard's eyebrow up in surprise. Megamind had left, Minion saying goodbye, much to Megamind's annoyance.

One the two left, Bernard ha wrapped his arms around his wife and kissed her forehead. "Sorry if I was weird today… I just don't like them a lot," he said, his hand on her waist.

"I know you're still a little on the fence about them," Vida said as she looked at him, "you'll learn to like them, and one day you might need them."

"Yeah, sure, like I'm gonna call for the help of a former villain," Bernard said, "in speaking of villains, can you tell your daughter that she's out of control with her attitude."

"Why is it that every time you two get within an inch of each other, you guys become nasty towards one another," Vida complained.

"She's nasty me first, and I actually care and try to communicate. 'Hey, how was school?', 'Did you get any grades back from your teacher?', 'Did anyone bother you?'. These are the basic questions to ask a kid, and she can't give me an answer," Bernard said.

"Well she just came from school, maybe you should give her some time to adjust, you know?" Vida said, running out of excuses.

"Well I'm giving her all of the space she needs, so she can have fun with that," he said as he headed to their master bedroom.

9:00 p.m., Elise's Bedroom

Elise was in a loose fitting pajama set, looking at herself in the mirror. She had looked at her mother's picture when she was younger, around Elise's age. She was told that she looked just like her mother, which by mouth she agreed, but deep down she wasn' wasn't as understanding as her mother, nor was she caring and forgiving like her. It felt like the two were always close at one point before Bernard.

She was seven when her father passed away. He died in his sleep after battling stage four cancer. Her mother didn't get time to grieve, but when she did, she was was a wreck. She didn't eat, sleep or shower. Elise had to take care of her mother. Funny… the only time a child should take care of their parent is when they are of old age. But as the next four passed by, Vida and Elise became close and were each other's halves. They moved to Metro City. leaving the past behind and starting anew.

But that was when Bernard was introduced.

Vida was at a cafe when she met Bernard. He had a green shirt and brown pants, which was the uniform. Vida wasn't looking for anyone to chat with and neither was Bernard. But it seemed as though everyday Bernard was serving her every time she came around.

However, one day Bernard had accidentally placed honey in her tea and served it to Vida. It was then that she cried, and Bernard didn't understand.

Vida's husband always put honey in her tea, which was what she missed the most about him.

Bernard felt something that day and shared his experience being dehydrated and left alone for months with no one trying to find. It became an everyday thing, in which they would talk after hours, and Elise would be in her after school programs at her then middle school. It was then they became a couple, and soon after eloped, much to Elise's annoyance. The next for years were beautiful for the two adults but was hell for Elise.

Elise did not like Bernard and made it very, very clear to him that she didn't.

But Bernard didn't care.

He was still involved within her life and cared for her like she was his daughter. but Elise wouldn't give Bernard credit when he deserved it. And as boring and dull as he was, he did feel some sort of discomfort

A knock was on the door, in which Elise had stood up and opened the door, seeing her mom. "Hey, mom," she said.

"Can I came in?" Vida asked her daughter.

"Mom you don't need to asked, just come in," Elise said as she had sat on her bed. Her room was painted pink with gold polka dots. She had looked at her mom and smiled. "Yeah what's up?"

"Well… I kinda wanna ask you about earlier, when Megamind was here and his friend Minion… why do you hate them?" Vida asked.

"Because he killed Metro Man and destroyed the whole city," Elise said.

"But honey we weren't even around to witness that," Vida said, combing her hair.

"Still. Metro Man was awesome. He had super powers and can see danger from a mile away, and god his smile! He had such a cute smile," She said as she had a poster of him on her wall.

"I know, we all had on him didn't we," Vida said, tickling her daughter, Elise laughing," but all joking aside, you need to respect Megamind. He's the city's protector, and he's good…."

"Yeah? Well, how come 30 people died in the last six months since we moved from the lower end of the city. The Doom Syndicate is not safe, and I'm afraid they'll infiltrate the inner city…" she said, looking down.

"Honey… I promise you, I will not let anything happen to you. Your father is watching you too…" she said as she kissed her forehead.

"I know… I'm just… I lost dad and… I can't imagine any world without you if something happened," she said as she hugged her mom.

Vida hugged her daughter and rubbed her back. "I know baby, I can't imagine any world without you, too…" she said as she held her close and laid a kiss on her head. "Now, go get some rest, you have school tomorrow," she said as she looked at her.

"Okay," Elise said, turning off her lamp and her nightlight, as she didn't like sleeping in the dark. As Vida was about to walk out, Elise had turned around and looked at her mom, "mom?"

"Yes, honey?" Vida said.

"I wanna pierce my ears… and cut my hair super short… This Friday…" she said as she looked at her, "please?"

"… I'll think about it." Vida said, and too headed out, her face content as she had a peaceful night for one.

The Lair

"How could they… ravage that apartment, Minion?" Megamind said, passing back and forth as Minion had watched his friend pace in thought. "it's not their's to alter?! They should have left the walls untouched, how could they!"

"Sir, is it really that serious?" Minion said, receiving a gasp from Megamind.

"All of our memories were there, our first Christmas was in there, our first Thanksgiving, for goodness sake that was our first time where we ever been comfortable," Megamind said, "and they changed it all."

"Sir, we had our times with Roxanne, and now they'll make in that house. They'll have a wonderful Christmas, and amazing Thanksgiving, and much more to come…" he said as he looked at Megamind.

Megamind said down, holding one of his brainbots as he stroked them, He looked at a picture of Roxanne, who shared a kiss on the day of his inauguration. He was in a black suit with a blue shirt under. He was so happy to share this that moment with Roxanne. "How do I make the hurt stop, Minion… how do I move on?" he asked rhetorically.

"…" minion didn't know how to answer, but he answered anyway. "Sir… remember when you 'defeated' Metro Man?"

"Yes…" Megamind said, looking at him.

"You got inspired to make a hero, and even though it turned into a horrible plan, you didn't stop at anything," Minion said, an unpleasant scowl on his face.

"What are you saying, Minion?" Megamind said.

"What I'm saying is… don't give up Sir… you ever did before, and you never will. Inspire yourself," Minion said.

Megamind sighed, turning around and looking at a picture of her. "Thank you, Minion… but, my inspiration went on a plane and never came back…"

Minion had sighed and left. "Goodnight, Sir…"

During the late hours of the night, Megamind stayed up looking at old superhero comics. He enjoyed looking at one called Hawkhead. Megamind read on and saw that he had two sidekicks. The first sidekick was with Hawkhead since the beginning, but he realized that there was a new face for the Hawk family. This new sidekick grabbed attention from all around the world in the Hawkhead universe.

And that's when Megamind had an idea.

Big and brilliant idea.