Ain't I Just Despicable?
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Chapter 15: Goodbye, Girls
The following morning, in Gru's lab, the Minions were busy amusing themselves by photocopying their own buttocks and chuckling at the prints.
"Pfft... butt!" the Minions giggled, unaware the effects of the Shrink Ray seemed to have worn off from Gru's plane, as the tip of its wing snagged the print.
Meanwhile on the first floor, Sheldon and the girls were holding a mock tea party when there was a knock at the door.
"Hang on, I'll go get that. Remember to clink, girls." Sheldon told the trio as they continued their tea party. He went to open the door and saw that Diane was standing on the stoop. "Ah, what are you doing here, ma'am?"
"I'm here for the girls," she responded. "I received a call saying you wanted to return them. And I'd like to add I found a Spanish dictionary and I don't quite like what you called me." She then proceeded to smack Sheldon in the face with said dictionary.
"I never did such a thing. Who-" Sheldon contemplated before turning around to see Haymitch standing by solemnly. "Oh... I'll bring them right out."
After Sheldon got together the girls and guided them to Diane's car, Sweetie Belle tearfully clung onto Sheldon's leg.
"Don't let her take us! Tell her you want to keep us." she cried.
"I'm sorry," Sheldon sighed in defeat, "but this is just how it is."
"Goodbye, 'dad'," Karin said in sarcastic disgust, the word dad dripping in a venomous tone. "Thanks for everything." After doing so, the car door slammed shut and the car drove away leaving Sheldon and Haymitch alone to gather their thoughts.
"I did it for your own good, friend. Now, let's go get that moon." Haymitch told Sheldon, who silently trudged back inside the house, going back to business as usual in preparing for launch.
Days passed, and the morning of the heist was finally at hand, as Sheldon donned his spacesuit and prepared to board the rocket when one of the Minions stopped him and handed him a piece of paper.
"What's this?" Sheldon asked, pretending to not realize it was the flyer for the girls' dance recital.
"Recital!" the Minion chirped. Now deep in his heart, Sheldon truly wanted to support the girls and show how much they still meant to him, but in his mind, the mission still came first.
"I am on the cusp of the greatest heist of all time. I don't go to little girls' dance recitals!" he rebuked, swatting the flyer away, only for the Minion to stick it in Sheldon's suit pocket while his back was turned. Once inside the ship, Haymitch initiated the countdown.
"COMMENCING LAUNCH IN 10... 9... 8..."
Outside of the house, Sheldon's neighbor Ethan was getting ready to take his son Shaun off to school for the day when he turned around and saw a large rocket ship fire out from a hole in Sheldon's roof. Mandark silently approached the house and fired off a round from his Squid launcher as a tether to cling onto the ship, only to slam pathetically onto the windshield and get wiped away, sending him falling back down to Earth.
In a panic Mandark, struggled to find a way to break his fall when he suddenly realized... "I have my flight suit!", pulling a string on his shirt, turning it into a winged parachute of sorts. "Ah-ha! Once again, Mandark lives to scheme another-" declared only to hit a powerline and flop back down to Earth spasming.
"I'm okay!" he yelped weakly as he made contact with the ground.
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