"Is this really necessary?" Roxanne scolded them as the t-rex grasped her in its claw and it stomped into town, making loud shrieks as it left footprints in the concrete and vibrated the nearby buildings.
"Why of course it is, Miss Richi." Megamind glanced down at her from over the side.
"You are so lucky I don't get motion sickness or are afraid of heights!" She yelled back irritably as she looked down. People scattered out of the way and screamed as they watched the large feet leave its impressions in the road.
"Any sign of Metro Musk-cles yet?" Megamind asked his fish partner next to him as he peered over the rooftops and through the skyscrapers.
"Nothing yet, sir."
"Seriously, how many words do you mispronounce?" She sighed.
"I don't mispronounskiate anything, Miss Richi!"
She just rolled her eyes before hearing a loud rush of air amplify as it drew nearer. A white blur circled them before stationing in mid air at eye level with the massive dinosaur, the sound echoing and catching up with Metro Man as he stopped abruptly.
"Megamind! Up for another round, I see? It's been a while."
"Success comes to those who wait, old friend."
"Only if the intentions for success are genuine!"
"Genuinity is determined in the eyes of the beholder!"
"The eyes of evil hold no reasoning for it to be determined in."
"Evil is free of all the domestic and suppressing boundaries that justice must follow. Therefore evil is not blinded by rules that limits reasoning."
"Limits that always guide the noble to victory! They are absent in evil and that, Megamind, is why you always end in failure!"
"Failure gains knowledge for each following attempts at your demise!"
"Attempts! And that's what they always will be!"
"Would you two get on with it? This metal is starting to chafe." Roxanne whined, crushing her eyes shut as she yelled at them both. Megamind stopped abruptly before recovering and blinking.
"Do you hear that, hero? Ro-…Miss Richi does not want to delay your destruction with banter! I can't help but agree with the inevitable." He flipped up a switch and the contraption shrieked, it's red eyes dilating within the mechanism to hone in on the man in front of him. It breathed a blast of fire in his direction, which he began to dodge flawlessly.
"Roxanne! I've been meaning to talk to you…about before-" Metro Man called as he evaded the flames.
"Are you sure this is the right time?" She questioned, preserving the irritation in her tone as she projected her voice.
"Well, I didn't mean what I said, really. It came out wrong."
"Really? Then what did you mean by it?"
"Hey, hey, hey! No socializing with my captive while I'm trying to destroy you!" Megamind yelled back, trying to focus on the controls.
"Roxanne, I was-..I wasn't thinking…"
'As if that's a surprise…' Megamind mumbled under his breath, angrily forcing the controls this way and that.
"Sir?" Minion asked, looking over at him.
"Nothing." He replied in a low tone.
"Oh, what a shock…" she rolled her eyes at Metro Man. Megamind smirked a little as he listened to her practically pull the words from his head, but did not look up.
"Look, Roxie, I'm sorry. Can you forgive me?"
"Get me out of this thing and I might consider it…"
"With pleasure!" Megamind's eyes snapped up to find Metro Man melting away the robot's arm to release Roxanne. He caught her in one arm and with his other, he focused his laser beam at the dinosaur's chest. It threw out sparks as it collapsed in on itself and the legs buckled, bending with the uneven weight.
"Forgot about that…" Megamind huffed.
"Back to the drawing board, Sir." Minion replied as bits and parts of the contraption detonated with a chain reaction. As they watched the mechanism combust around them, flames gaining height, the ground beneath them exploded upwards, propelling them into the air.
Megamind dazedly opened his eyes, observing the rubble and flaming metal the destructosaur had converted into. He was splayed over a pile of the destruction and debris, half propped up by the scraps behind him. He blinked a few times before gaining better consciousness of the situation around him, the flames distorting some of his vision. A wave of pain crept over his legs and arms, then making its way to his head and core as whispers around him slurred into words. He looked up to find Metro Man land in front of him, setting Roxanne down.
"The 'Destructosaur'? Situation seems a little ironic, don't you think?" Metro Man shook his head, his expression softening the longer the pause drew out, "c'mon, Roxanne. I'll take you home." Roxanne very lightly squinted her eyes at the fallen villain as he came to grips with things, and she tried to ignore the fact Metro Man had rested a hand on her back to lead her away. His chest heaved as he strained to look up at her, cuts and scrapes crisscrossing his body and tattering his outfit. Bruises littered his face and head, red and dark purple tints painting over his cheekbones and jaw line. She shook her head slightly as she examined him in awe and almost...pity? His eyes opened to a more natural level when he heard Metro Man call for her.
"Coming, Roxie?" His eyes swiped back to her to nervously anticipate a response and she pursed her lips, resiliently pressing her eyebrows together and responding back.
"Be right there." She called back, not looking away from him until after she said it and slowly retreated to the hero. His arms buckled as he tried to sit up, resting a hand over the side of his head and temple. The fog was beginning to clear as he attempted to stand, his legs still rediscovering their balance. She was going with him. The man he had devoted his life to destroy and had driven him into this life. He lifted his wrist to his face and managed to speak into it, "brainbots, find Minion and take him back to the lair." He dropped his arm away out of exhaustion then heard cheers around him as he felt the presence of guns lock onto his location.
"Hands up where we can see them!" A policeman yelled as he cautiously approached him, though Megamind did not comply.
"No…" The word barely fell from his mouth as he watched Metro Man and Roxanne inch away.
"Last warning!" The policeman called again, which seemed to catch Roxanne's attention as she turned to watch. The cop pulled Megamind's arms behind him as a handful of others grabbed him, though he to paid no attention.
So this was how it was meant to be? Metro Man was rewarded with Roxanne and praise from the city, while he got to rot in prison. He had the privilege to escort her home and be her hero right after he had to erase all of her memory of any connection and relationship between him and Roxanne. He got to zoom right in and take her from him. Megamind's eyes narrowed viciously and jaw tensed, his muscles still wavering.
"No." He stated firmly and in a flash out of pure adrenaline, he pulled away from the cops and pulled out his dehydration gun. He aimed for the hero and shot after him, but the blast was dodged and before he could aim again, a cop pulled down his arm and locked the two together in cuffs.
"C'mon, Roxanne. You don't want to see that." Metro Man pulled her to look at him, holding out a hand as an offer to fly her home. She blinked as she glanced between the two scenes, Metro Man's offer and the reckless villain that was being forced to drop to his knees.
"…Thanks." She finally said, accepting his hand and allowing him to take her back home.
Megamind was shoved into his prison cell, though he didn't move from his position with his hands now bound to the front of him. He felt the warden approach the door's porthole from behind.
"Life sentence number 53, Megamind. You're lucky you're the only one of your kind, otherwise capital punishment would be without question." Without any other movement, Megamind blinked up to the TV screen, watching Metro Man's interview and ignoring the warden's threat.
'No, I can assure you that Metro City will always be protected from Megamind's evil clutches. No life will ever be lost in his doing as long as I'm around. Roxanne, you'll always be in safe hands with me, I'll never let him hurt you." Megamind's jaw tensed angrily and his emerald eyes were vindictively and irrationally fierce, nearly glowing in the dim prison light. His words were simple, yet eerily dark.
"No life will be lost…" He agreed, "except for your own."
Love can drive a man to insanity; and an insane, lethal supervillain is a force beyond recognition.
Ha HA! Finally done with this chapter…lol Sorry this took so long. I'm terrible with writing banter(as far as metaphors go...like the 'microwave of evil' lol. Why this took so long to get through). XD I'm not even sure if what they said makes complete sense. haha