"And we are done!"

Roxanne smiled. It was around nine thirty at night, and she had just finished an evening report about the sales of a book from a series she hadn't even read, but it was a decent enough story.

Roxanne Ritchi was a star reporter that was originally from Metro City, a town not to far from San Francisco. She was bright, smart, and definitely camera ready. She had a great figure, brunette hair that was in a pixie cut, and bright blue eyes. Her boss had sent her and her cameraman, Hal, out to San Francisco for a month to cover stories. While she wondered how many stories could happen in the city, she was happy to break away from the monotonous of her hometown.

"Okay Roxie, so like, maybe you'd want to..." Hal started to say as he put his camera away, "I dunno, go to a movie or something?"

"Actually Hal, I'm kind of tired," Roxanne replied, trying to sound polite, "I think I'm just going to go home."

"Oh, okay, that's cool," said Hal, trying not to sound disappointed. Truth was, Hal was hopelessly in love with Roxanne, but Roxanne wasn't really interested. Hal was a nice guy, and he was good with the camera, always getting the best angles and shots, but he did tend to be a little... clingy. She would rather just stay friends with him (if she could even call it that, they barely knew each other outside of work). "Well, I can at least take you back to the apartment."

"Okay," said Roxanne, before climbing into the news van. Her boss had rented out two apartment rooms for the month for them. Roxanne had gotten one on the top floor, while Hal got one on the second or third floor.

As they drove past the many buildings and lights of the city, Roxanne just looked up at the sky. Despite the fabulous nightlife California was supposed to have, it all seemed a little boring to her. You couldn't really blame her for wanting some excitement.

Just then, as she was looking at the stars, one in particular started to get bright. Really bright. It started getting bigger, and closer!

"Hal!" Roxanne shouted, getting her cameraman's attention, "look!" She pointed out the window.

"Wow," said Hal, "that's a really bright helicopter light."

"Hal, I don't think that's a helicopter light," said Roxanne as she continued to watch. As it got closer, it looked more like a metal egg! It was heading towards an orange orchard. "Hal, quick, turn here!"

"What?" said Hal, "Uh, Roxie, isn't this a job for the police or something?"

"Hal, this thing is going to be on the news," said Roxanne, "we might as well get footage of it first." Truth be told, she didn't care about getting a good story, she just wanted to see what this thing was.

"Okay Roxie," Hal said, as he reluctantly turned onto a country road. As they drove, the metal egg landed in the orchard, and practically caused an earthquake, making Hal protest even more. But Roxanne managed to convince him to continue driving. Once the road got to small for the van to drive on, Roxanne grabbed her camera and got out.

"Um, I'm going to like stay here in case the police come or something," said Hal, trying to act brave, "but if you get in trouble, just yell and I'll like come and rescue you."

Roxanne couldn't help but roll her eyes a little. "Okay Hal." She started walking down the road, watching out for tree branches and listening for anything weird. As she got closer, there was practically a dirt cloud around her. What ever this thing was, it was huge.

She started to hear the sounds of machinery and what sounded like one of the robots on those old sci-fi shows. Once she was at the top of a small hill, she saw the top of egg shaped figure sticking out of the ground and quickly grabbed her camera. As she snapped a few pictures, she noticed the figure slowly start to glow blue. "What are you," she asked quietly.

Suddenly, as if awakened, a giant blue eye opened and stared right at her.

She gasped, but surprisingly didn't scream. This was some giant robot, she thought, and now it was now awake. The robot pulled it's arms out from the ground and slowly started to come up, shaking the ground as it did. As it grew in size, it started to pull up the ground around her. She had to get out of here!

Roxanne quickly turned on her heals and ran back towards the van, and didn't slow down until she saw its' headlights. As the ground continued to shake, she climbed into the van and Hal didnt' hesitate to turn around and get the heck out of there!

"What was that thing!" Hal asked, looking up at his rearview mirror at the rising shape. Roxanne didn't answer right away, she was scrolling through the pictures she took.

"A robot," she answered. She then took out her cell phone, and dialed the police. She knew they couldn't take on something this big, but since she didn't exactly have the army's number in her contacts. As she listened to the dial tone, she couldn't help but think it was ironic.

She wished for excitement, and now she was getting it.

()()()()()()()()

President Stephen Robinson had his hand on his forehead in frusteration. Why was this happening to him? He had had a decent election, didn't try to blackmail or mudsling anyone. Sure, even he could agree he wasn't the smartest canididate, but at least he knew how to take charge and get things done. So why was this happening to him?

Today he had to take a helicopter to some place in California where a giant robot, a giant robot, had landed! Some reporter, Rebecca or something, had found it last night, and now the whole country and the world knew about it.

First, as adviced by his staff, he tried to make peace with the alien. And, if he had to say so himself, he had done a pretty good job of trying to make peace. But the robot smashed his keyboard, and tried to smash him! The army fired everything they had at the thing, but it just bounced off the thing! So now, he was in his secret meeting room with his staff, trying to figure out what to do.

"Look," the president said as he grabbed his cup of coffee, "I don't want to go down as the president that was in office when the world came to an end so somebody think of something, and think of it fast!"

And that's when General W. R. Monger came in.

He had this whole plan already set up involving...monsters?

"Technically Mr. President, it's five monsters and two aliens," Monger had corrected. He then introduced each monster. The large and strong Insectosaurus, the ferocious Missing Link, the intelligent Dr. Cockroach Ph. D, the indestructable B.O.B, the strange looking Megamind and his fish Pirahna, and the newest monster, the tall (and strangely attractive) Ginormica.

To him, they just looked like a bunch of freaks. How exactly would they take down an alien robot? But, thanks to a little 'persuasion' from the general, he had decided to give this plan a shot. After all, what did he have to lose?

"Okay, stay where you are," he said to Monger, "General, I'm going to let you go through with your Monsters versus Aliens Plan...thingy."

()()()()()()()()()

Megamind turned a couple more dials on his newest invention. It looked like an old Easy Bake oven combined with a fan and a baseball glove on a stick, but if worked, it could be a great invention.

"Is it done, Sir?" Minion asked.

"Yes Minion, I believe it is," Megamind answered, smiling. He put a wrench in the glove, and turned it on. As the oven warmed up, the fan slowly started to turn, as did the glove. As the fan started to go faster, Megamind pressed another button, and the wrench flew across the room, and right the jaws of the brainbot. "Yes!" Megamind shouted happily, his invention now a success.

"Brilliant idea, Sir," said Minion, smiling as the brainbot took the wrench over to the aliens.

"Well, it's no giant computer or weapon, but hopefully it'll keep Biter from chewing on my inventio-AHH!" Biter had grown impatient, dropped the wrench, and bit Megamind's hand. Hard. Minion helped pull the brainbot off his hand, who then quickly flew under the bed.

"You sure do live up to your name," Megamind said to the hiding brainbot as he rubbed his hand.

"Maybe you should wear your gloves around him, Sir," Minion suggested, "Biter doesn't like leather in his teeth so maybe he won't bite you as much."

"That's not a bad idea, Minion," Megamind commented. Minion smiled, and Megamind put on his leather work gloves. He liked wearing his gloves anyway. Suddenly, they both heard a scream from out in the main room.

They quickly ran out into the main room, and saw Susan on the floor unconsious and her hair sticking up. "What happened?" Minion asked.

"Perhaps my shrink machine needs a little less spark," Dr. Cockroach said, as he turned off his invention (a Lite-Bright combined with a pizza box and a toaster). The doctor sighed.

He had completed the giant size cell phone about a week and a half ago, and it worked perfectly. Susan had been able to call her parents and talk to them a little bit. She had cried while she was on the phone, but she was still happy she could talk with her family. The only one she wasn't able to talk to was Derek, who was at work, but luckily her parents were able to take a message.

After the call home, Susan was even more homesick. That's when the cockroach scientist came up with the idea to try and shrink her. After all, she had absorbed some sort of foreign space energy, so there had to be someway to get it out of her. Susan was so happy, she even hugged the doctor (earning him a week of teasing from Link, but he didn't care). With an evil laugh, he went to work. As he created inventions and tested them on her, she shared with them a little more about her life, mostly about Derek, her family, and her plans for the future.

In return, the monsters shared a little more of their past with her. Link told her all his spring break experiences, and Bob told her all about their failed escape attempts (unfortunately not leaving out any embarrasing details). Even Megamind, who usually kept his past a secret, shared a little bit of his childhood adventures. But days turned to weeks, and after almost a month of being in the monster prison, Susan still wasn't small.

"Well, if you want you can borrow a few of my inventions. They may not be much help now, but you can use them for spare parts," suggested Megamind.

"No, no Tesla," replied Dr. Cockroach, "they're your inventions, I have no right."

Just then, Susan started to wake up. They all quickly ran over to her. "Ms. Susan?" said Minion, "are you alright?"

"Am I small again?" Susan asked.

"I'm afraid not, my dear," said Dr. Cockroach sadly. The monsters backed away from the giantess, giving her room to get up. "In fact, I think you may've actually grown a couple feet." He gave a nervous chuckle, but really he was just as dissappointed as she was.

"It's okay Doc," Susan said, giving a small smile, "we can try again tomorrow."

"You really don't get it, do ya?" Link asked, "No monster, is ever getting out of here!"

"Hey, that's not true! Megamind got out!" Bob said.

"Yes, but I was put back in," said Megamind, "it doesn't really count."

"Well, what about the Invisible Man?" said Bob. Dr. Cockroach and Link looked at each other.

"Um, well actually..."

As Link and Dr. Cockroach talked to Bob, Megamind and Minion went over to Susan.

"Maybe you can get out of here, and still be a giant," suggested Minion.

"How? Monger won't let me out unless I'm less than ten feet," said Susan.

"Well, I could always..." Megamind said, getting out his de-hydrator. Susan gave him a look. "I'm just saying!"

"Thanks for the help, but I don't think I want to be dehydrated, again," said Susan. The first time it happened, Bob was playing with his gun (luckily he didn't change the settings) and accidentally shot it at the giantess. It wasn't really the most pleasant experience. Now, Megamind kept it with him at all times, not wanting the same thing to happen again.

"Besides, I can't fit in my house or go to the movies or do anything being this tall," said Susan, "My only hope of having a normal life is if Doc can shrink me. As soon as that happens, I can marry Derek, and we can get to-"

"Let me guess, Fresno?" interrupted Link, since he had been listening to their whole conversation, "Look Susan, no monster is ever getting out of here!

"You know Link, you don't have to be so negative," commented Minion.

"I'm not being negative," said Link, glaring at the fish, "I'm being realistic."

"You know, there's being realistic and there's being nice," said Minion. Link just rolled his eyes. Despite the two looking very similar, they were almost the complete opposite personality wise.

Just then, one of the metal doors opened, and Monger (who was in a jeep) drove in.

"Good news monsters," said Monger, "You're gettin' out!"

Susan gasped. "Really?" she asked, her voice full of hope.

"Yep," said Monger, "Pack your bags, we're goin' to California! Come on, I'll explain on the way!"

As the excited monsters started to exit out of the main room, Dr. Cockroach couldn't help himself. "So Link," he said with a sly smile, "what was all that you were saying about 'no monster is ever getting out of here'?"

"That's right," said Link, "No monster is ever getting out of here, until today."

Okay, you guys have NO idea how hard writing this chapter was. I had major writers block, everything I tried to write seemed too boring or seemed like it just went no where. Finally, I just decided to go straight to the landing of the robot. I also decided to make Roxanne the one who finds the robot, that way when she does finally meet our blue hero, it's not like she comes out of nowhere (sorry to everyone who liked Katie and Burt). As for the president's name, I made that up (though I got Steven from the guy who plays the president, Stephen Colbert).

Okay, please review, and hopefully the next chapter won't have as many problems. Also, if you feel as if this story is going nowhere, next chapter's the robot battle, so please don't lose hope in this story, I'm going to try and make that chapter the best. Okay, bye :)