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Chapter Twenty One: Camera

"Green Kitten to Pink Kitten, Green Kitten to Pink Kitten, do you copy me?"

Inside the ship, behind a keyboard and three screens, Margo was frantic worried her sister was not answering. The cameras installed on the side of the buildings showed the police force was scattered and useless, but there was no sight of Minion and Roxanne. Margo knew the golden rule of any strategist; keep your friends close and your enemies closer. She switched from one roof camera to another in the reception of Joseph Hall's Hotel. The place has been emptied profiting Megamind's distracting entrance. She switched again to a handful of corridors and public areas. Perhaps Edith was hiding in a room? "Green Kitten to Pink Kitten. Edith, are you there?" she added with a pitch of wariness.

"Shesh, yes I'm here." Edith retorted stretching her words in annoyance. "Can't one enter the bathroom without being scolded at?"

"You shouldn't take out your microphone. Where are you?"

"I, hum, went down of the roof when Minion appeared climbing the side of the building. I got scared and ran downstairs."

Margo could hear her sister's shrug. There was something wrong all about this; she switched to the cameras on the roof. The snipe and the colorful bullets were lying on the floor, but they messily standred. Some green stains on the floor showed some struggle had taken place; this was not the scene of someone running away, it was more like the remnants of a battlefield on the building's roof. Margo's eyebrows fell to the sides in realization; her sister is not the kind of scraping when things turn hard. Who was she talking to? Where was Edith?

"Ok, I've confirmed Minion and Roxanne are in the building."Honestly she was a good liar, used to twist truth for saving herself and her sisters of the box of shame back when they lived in the orphanage. Margo expected a kind of reaction from the fake Edith, but nothing happened. "I'm about to activate the bombs we have installed in the area, Blue Kitten just confirmed me she's on her way. Just get out of there as soon as possible."

"Roger." Edith answered. Communication broken, a camera could finally catch the girl wearing a pink beanie rushing out of the building. The disguise was so perfect there was no way to identify it was a fake, unless you knew the person as close as Margo did. As it seemed the impostor could be Minion, because Megamind wouldn't have fallen for that blatant lie. Gru's family hasn't had the time to arrange bombs from their return to Metro City just hours ago. Even if she knew the good nature of the gorilla suited fish, she won't to rely in a super hero, the cameras showed no sign of Edith and it was worrisome.

The cameras from inside the Town Hall showed Gru was doing fine. For a moment it seemed the hero had startled him with his appearance switched to one of the minions, she had seen how his father had been shot with a strange shaped gun, but the laser hadn't harm in any way Gru. Then the villain had taken advantage of the situation to crush the hero, after all it was clear that in a hand to hand match Gru was imposing. Margo's eyes darted from one screen to the other, to enjoy from different perspectives. Her father had Megamind pinned on the floor, minions aiming directly at him. Everything was going fine.

"Green Kitten to Blue Kitten, do you copy me?" Margo hold the earphone closer to her ear, there was a lot of noise on the line, like a strong wind blazing around her sister's microphone.

"Green Kitten to Blue Kitten, do you copy me?" Agnes sweet voice parroted between giggles.

"No, Agnes, that means if you can hear me." She had explained her sister the way they should talk through the walkie-talkie; however the little girl had taken any given chance to misinterpret the dialogue.

"Yes. How have you been?"

"Uh, we have a problem." Margo turned to the cameras outside the hall, the fake Edith was alerting the police about the supposed bombs and people was running away panicked. "It seems Minion captured Edith and she's hidden somewhere in the hotel she was firing from."

"Oh, noes." Agnes gasped. "Is she okay?"

"I don't know. Probably yes...I hope so."

"Don't worry Margo," Doctor Nefario's raspy voice took over the conversation "heroes don't hurt their prisoners; even if they deserve it."

The following dialogue went through the techniques of the plan now that Edith was out of combat. Fortunately, Doctor Nefario and Agnes have managed to control the brainbots, which Margo could see hovering inside the hotel in the search of Edith, and she got news about a certain new mean of transport. They were coming to action in about ten minutes, so they could all say it was an acomplised mission. After several minutes she got a message from the brainbots, which were now programmed to obey her as the 'game master'. Edith wasn't in the building, but had found Roxanne. The reporter had been lured out of the place where Minion had left her secure with the false idea that those brainbots were still Megamind's. Now that she had discovered the truth she was pissed off, but safe. The brainbots hold her by the shirt with their thigh jaws to pull her out of the building, out of sight from Megamind and Minion.

Then something unexpected happened. Megamind, left cheek slammed on the floor under the weight of almost ten minions and Gru, had managed to reach his oddly shaped gun to shot straight to Gru. Margo's eyes turned like saucers as she saw her father disappear!
She switched cameras to check in several corners of the room. She even turned to the TV to see Melissa's transmission. The reporter was tucked under the mayor's desk, narrating in a whisper the events taking place inside the office. She had no idea either where Gru had gone.

Margo cringed in fear, she had never thought Megamind would be able of such cruelty, and perhaps Nefario was underestimating him. Thus far they have fought with a hero that a year before was a villain.

More than angry she was afraid. She was praying the hero hasn't disintegrated their father, when she switched cameras to the fake Edith on Town Hall's entrance. Her relief was beyond words when she found Gru and the minions rolling through the entrance's stairs down to the floor. The fallen couldn't have looked more painful, but the insight of knowing dad was fine made her smile and roll on her chair like a little child. It seemed the green laser was a weapon they had yet to be seen, a kind of teleporter gun that had taken Gru and the minions outside the building. Before she could cheer up, the fake Edith, profiting the confusion, pulled a widely known gut from her pocket and in seconds the villain and his workers had turned into several blue shining cubes lying on the floor. Then she turned her watch to shape change to his big gorilla suit.

"Oh no..." Margo immediately contacted to her little sister "Blue Kitten, blue kitten, do you copy me?"

She could hear strong wind through the earphone, her concentration broken by the TV where Megamind was untying the Mayor and explaining Melissa the basics of his recently invented teleportation ray.

"What is it, Margo?" Nefario took some precious seconds to answer.

"We've got a problem. Edith is still lost and Gru was turned in..." her words died at the last line, a lump was falling on her throat as she felt she had failed her beloved ones for a second time.

"We know. They are transmitting the same on the radio." The old man's tone was blunt but reassuring. "We're almost there, perhaps is the moment to retreat, 'commander'?"

A little smile flashed by Margo's face.
"You are right. Let's get out of here."

Author's Note: Yep, short chapter. I have to admit I've neglected to write this story in a while. We're getting close to the end, probably the next chapter. This one was a kind of experiment (thereof the title) I'll try to make the next more thrilling :3