"We should probably be heading home now. The girls are waiting for us, I'm sure." Bob said to the others before they all crammed back into the car.
"Man! How many you think we caught? I lost count, a solid ten at least." Lucius said as he climbed in and shut the door.
"Thirteen." Megamind replied, leaning back and his arms folded across his chest with a satisfied grin on his face.
"Yeah. You know, you're pretty good with that sort of thing."
"I hate to say it, but he's right." Bob chimed in.
"No, it's no-…Wait, is that your house?" Megamind sat up to get a better look.
"Ye-whaa?" Bob trailed off when he saw the gapping hole in his ceiling. He floored it and as they reached the house, they barely gave the car enough time to stop before getting out and rushing in.
"Helen! Dash? Violet?" Bob yelled out, frantically looking around.
""Jack-Jack? You in here, bud?" Frozone echoed as they scanned the dimly lit home. Most of the lighting had short-circuited. Megamind walked through, examining the forced door.
"Who ever did this, did it quick." Megamind commented, and the other two shot a look at him.
"What?" Was the first thing out of their mouths. Megamind rolled his eyes and threw his arms in the air.
"Well, it obviously wasn't a burglar. For one thing, the lights were on, and I'm sure a family of supers can easily take on even the most skilled intruder in those sorts. Not to mention the hole in the ceiling." He walked through, "I don't see any sign of a struggle-"
"What are you talking about? My family was just kidnapped, and you're over here playing CSI?"
"Look, this is the very last moment you should be panicking. It distorts thought processes, now calm down so we can try to figure out who-"
"Oh, so we should be over here chanting mantras because it 'distorts thought processes'? Bob shouted, pacing.
"No, what I'm saying is-"
"Would you two stop arguing so we can figure out a solution, here?" Frozone yelled back, and the room went silent. Megamind bit his lip.
"as I was saying…I don't see any type of struggle-" He heard a crunch beneath his feet and looked down to find the picture Roxanne gave Helen. It was essentially the only thing in the kitchen that was broken.
"This could've just fell off a counter or something from the vibration of the ceiling." He placed it on the counter. "There was either a lot of people in here that just carefully plucked a family of supers out of their home, or someone like Frozone here froze them all before they could react." Bob thought for a second before speaking.
"T-the only one I know who could do that is dead."
"What, Syndrome?" Frozone asked.
"Syndrome…?"
"He was a criminal we had stopped last year…b-but he's dead, the plane he was trying to take off in, exploded."
"You'd be surprised what people can live through. Believe me." Megamind commented, "I think I have a way we can find them, though." He swiftly disappeared into the spare bedroom, luckily his suitcase had been untouched. He flipped up the top, grabbed a belt lined with square-shaped, leather slings, and gathered the blue cubes and his dehydration gun, which he set in it's holster. He also unzipped Roxanne's suitcase and pulled out a blouse.
Megamind walked out with one of the cubes in his hand.
"What is that, now?" Bob asked as he passed him in a still nervous tone.
"Water still works, right?" He almost stated, turning the handle on the faucet and running water over the cube. It morphed into a brainbot, and the two supers stepped back.
"What is that?" Frozone asked.
"It's a brainbot. I designed them."
"Them? You mean there's more?"
"Oh, yeah. Tons. I just didn't bring them all…" He showed the blouse to it, and it hovered closer to get the scent.
"Does that thing even have a nose?" Bob commented.
"It has very strong scent receptors, yes. In fact, all of their senses are very keen. Except for eyesight. That' usually a bit faulty."
"Seems like that'd be the only thing it can do."
"Well, when you're trying to look through a single red lense, things can get a little distorted." Megamind shrugged, then looked back at the brainbot.
"Go find mommy-" He patted it on the head, and it took off out the door.
"Do you have a water bottle I can borrow?"
"Uh…sure. Bottom left cabinet." Megamind pulled it out and after filling it with water, he shrugged the strap over his shoulder and rose an eyebrow at them as he shot a look back.
"We'll take my car." The two supers looked curiously at each other before following him outside. He pulled another one of the blue cubes as everyone, including the brainbot, watched and he tossed it in a puddle on the side of the road. Though instead of morphing into something, the blue cube just disappeared.
"…That's it?" Frozone shrugged, looking around as if he had missed something. Megamind pulled out the keys from his pocket and as he pressed a button on it, they heard an engine rev and the car appeared through a blue light with headlights on.
"Wha-hoa!" Frozone nodded approvingly.
"Bob, you can sit in the back…it'll give you more…leg room." Megamind said, flipping the keys around his finger before climbing into the driver's seat.
"Ok…I guess I deserved that." Bob laughed, climbing into the back seat and surprisingly, there was a good amount of room (Minion's body suit was significantly tall).
Megamind watched the brainbot take off down the road and he followed behind him.
"So no one can see us going down the road here?"
"Nope…the cloak bends light around us."
"But they can still see the thi-..erm, the brainbot flying there, right?"
"Well, the people that're out this late, yeah...but I doubt they'll think twice about it...or even notice him."
"Alright…so how far do you think they got?" Frozone looked back at Bob as he continued, "Where do you think he'd take them?"
"I have no idea…it was that island last time, but…Syndrome's…smart. I'd doubt he'd go to the same place twice."
"Yeah, it's like playing hide and seek then hiding in the same place as you did before." Frozone agreed.
"We'll just see how intelligent he really is." Megamind irritably shook his head, "it couldn't have been that long, the brainbot picked up the scent quick…maybe an hour ago…I doubt he would've went through the ceiling to transport them in a car, so it was something airborne."
"He tried kidnapping Jack-Jack in a black jet last time. He builds most of what he has, I guess…so I don't think we can determine it's style. It was pretty small compared to a regular jet, but it blew up..."
"It doesn't mean he doesn't still have the blueprint."
"Well, I think the government confiscated everything of his." Megamind shrugged after pausing momentarily,
"I guess if he's as smart as he says he is, if he's created it once, he could do it again." He continued, "What did it look like, do you remember?"
"…Why would it matter?"
"Because if I can get an idea of its structure, we can guess how fast it can go, and how far they've gotten. Helicopters are slower then jets, for example."
"Well, it wasn't a helicopter. It just looked like a compact jet. It wasn't commercial, of course."
"How low was it flying?"
"It was stationary for I think a bit above our house, maybe a-"
"That's impressive, not many planes can do that." He huffed, grasping the wheel as he focused on the brainbot, "Well I guess we won't really able to determine it anyway, but the brainbot should take us where ever they're going. They'll have to land sooner or later." He blinked hard but quickly, trying to focus on the road.
'This guy won't be feeling the same way about Roxanne like when I had kidnapped her…' He gulped, nervously readjusting his hands on the wheel, 'let's hope she can hold her own against him, too.'
Sorry these have taken so long, I was able to upload a chapter for all three stories.