Roxanne had everything ready by morning, just as she planned, but she was really tired. Hopefully she could sleep on the way. The brainbots could wake her up if necessary. She checked the time. 8:30. She decided to wait 15 minutes to see if Metro Man would show up. "He probably won't, but you never know." She said to a brainbot that was floating near her.
Metro Man paced back and forth, undecided on what to do. He had never had to think this much about anything in his life, because before, he had really only ever thought about himself. Sure, he said nice things to people, like subtly encouraging Roxanne and Megamind to take on Titan. But really that had mostly been to get them off his case.
But now he was really thinking about what Roxanne had said. He considered his life, and realized it didn't have much value in it. It was the same way he had felt the year before, when he quit being a super hero. At the time, he thought it was because he was living for other people, and not for himself, but now he wondered if it was the other way around. He now had a chance to do something for someone else, and maybe even risk his life doing it. Though the thought scared him, it also made him kind of excited.
On top of all that, there was the little detail that his dad was alive. He didn't know how to feel about that. He never really felt that he missed his real parents, his earth parents had been enough. Even when Megamind had set out to find his people, Metro Man was happy for him, but the thought hadn't even crossed his mind that his own father would be found as well. Metro Man was definitely curious about his father, but beyond that, he didn't really have a desire to meet him, especially with him being evil and all.
Metro Man finally came to a decision. He was going to go with Roxanne and save his little buddy, if only for the reason that he owed it to Megamind. He used super speed to run to the lair, but Roxanne had already taken off. He stood there and looked at the ship, noticing that it hadn't disappeared yet, so he decided to go after it.
At the KMCP news station Nathan's boss walked into his office. "Mr. Nelson, I need you to fill in for miss Ritchi today, she called late last night and said she wasn't coming in today."
Nathan was surprised. His co-worker Roxanne rarely missed work, well at least, not since last year. "Really? Did she say why not?" He asked.
The boss just shrugged. "She said she had a personal issue to work through. Said I would understand later, whatever that means."
Now Nathan was looking out the window. "Maybe that's why. Look!" he said pointing out the window, where a space ship just like the one Megamind and Minion had taken off in the week before was taking off now.
"Well don't just stand there, get your Camera man and get out there!" said his boss.
A few minutes later Nathan was outside in front of a camera. "I'm Nathan Nelson reporting live with KMCP8. As you can see behind me, there seems to be a spaceship taking off from Megamind's lair. It is under speculation that Roxanne Ritchi is the pilot, but at this point nothing is confirmed. As you can see, the ship has not switched to hyper speed yet, it seems to be stopped, unlike when Megamind took off just last week. Again, we don't know the reason for this, but stay tuned for further information. This is Nathan Nel…."
"Look! A voice shouted from behind the camera, cutting Nathan off.
"Nathan turned around. "It seems that a smaller object is flying up to meet the ship, it appears to be… no way… is that Metro Man?" Nathan looked back at the camera with a shocked expression. He was speechless. After a moment, the Cameraman shut the camera off. "You saw him too, right?"
The camera man nodded.
Roxanne didn't know what to do. She had let the brainbots build the ship and hadn't really paid attention, except when adding the stealth feature. Because of this, she really didn't know what to do once she got the ship in the air. She had kind of assumed it would be easy to figure out. But in her defense, it was hard to concentrate with all the noisy brainbots. She thought they would come in handy, and it would be good to bring them, but in that moment, she wasn't sure. She was on the verge of pushing random buttons, when there was a loud bang.
All of the sudden Metro Man was sitting in the copilot chair. Roxanne screamed.
"Hey, calm down, it's just me!" Metro Man said.
Roxanne glared "why can't you ever show up in a normal way, like a normal person?"
"well, I'm not exactly a normal person, Roxy, at least not here." He replied, "and besides, you left without me."
"You were late!" Roxanne shot back.
"you didn't tell me what time you were leaving, you just said in the morning."
"you didn't give me any reason to think you would come."
Metro Man sighed. "let's just save your boyfriend in baby seal leather boots, shall we?" Roxanne burst out laughing. "What?" he asked.
Roxanne replied, "It's just that you attempted to copy the thing Megamind always said to me about you and your tights, but you said it so weird!"
"…Okay… well anyway, how do we get this thing into hyper speed… or whatever?" Metro Man asked
"Well that's what I've been trying to figure out..." Roxanne replied.
"Will this Help?" Metro Man asked, pulling out an instruction manual.
Roxanne took the instruction manual and started up the hyper drive without a word. She was annoyed that Metro Man had already been helpful.