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Tako examined the minion on the table in front of her. It was truly a remarkable creature with such a primitive body yet such a highly-evolved brain. Her attempts to clone her own deceased minion met with some minor success but her true accomplishment was fusing of the minion DNA with that of the local coi fish. The coi were nowhere near as intelligent and had to be taught to speak rather than picking it up for themselves. Even then the only real success she ever had was with Shiyounin. She had to have a neural implant to be heard but she was intelligent, at least as intelligent as most of the humans Tako had ever met. She was also incredibly compliant. Unlike Tako's original minion.
This minion was unconscious. She had anaesthetised him temporarily. She did basic tests. Size, weight, brain size and small samples of skin and blood before returning him to the tank in her lab. With this living specimen she would finally be able to clone the species and create a worthy set of servants for herself and, she smiled at the thought, the next generation of her kind.
A male. Of her species. She had never dared to hope she might find one. She had done tests and knew her species (it saddened her that she didn't even know their name) was biologically and genetically compatible with humans but the very thought of creating such a hybrid, an abomination, sickened her. She had planned on cloning herself but now she wouldn't have to. Or she still could, and between hers and Megamind's modified DNA and (she smiled again) their children they would be able to create a more diverse gene pool.
She cleaned up her operating table and sat down at the computer in the cool underground lab. She called up the coi-bot camera footage of the downtown shopping district. She ignored the residential bots and cycled through the street cleaners. She knew the human female would be around there somewhere. The coi-bot in the suite she had given to had relayed that information to her. Ahh there she was. She had a few bags on her and was having a good snoop around while she was there. Tako hated the press. Even her own city-controlled media were a pain in the neck on occasion and she'd have to send in the coi-bots to make sure one reporter or another 'disappeared' before dissent spread too quickly. There hadn't been too many incidents lately. The citizens of Neo Kyoto had learned their place.
This woman was trouble. Tako had considered having her 'disappear' but she doubted Megamind would simply let it go. Her plan was a juvenile one really, but then so was the human involved. A complicated plan would undoubtedly fail due to Tako over-estimating the woman's intelligence.
Tako opened a channel to the coi-bot whose camera she was seeing through.
Observe the foreign human women. Notify me when she leaves and follow her. I may need you to delay her at some point. It acknowledged her request with a bubbling sound. She sighed. It was frustrating that her coi-bots couldn't talk but they were a recycled experiment. She had bred a batch of coi who had mutated horribly and whose brains could not handle speech patterns. She had planned to dispose of them until she realised she was having a problem with the robot's circuitry.
Megamind was right. Synthetic brains just would not work. But the modified coi fish brains had worked perfectly.
Megamind. She smiled as she thought of him. She had to go and get ready for dinner soon. She had a man to seduce and smelling like a minion was not going to get her anywhere.