The years that followed worked a great deal for the children. As the days turned to weeks and the weeks to months their relationship grew further that whatever of them thought possible. A simple day playing innocent superheroes games turned to them having one of the strongest friendships anyone could ever imagine.

Elementary school passed in a breeze leaving many surprises, the first one mainly being that Roxanne had been adopted by John Ritchi, the Warden in their games and the boys' neighbor. Megamind started making 'instruments of mass destruction' that mainly managed getting them all covered in different chemicals, colors, odors, or a weird mixture of them all. Metro 'Man' always kept everyone safe from Megamind's inventions which gave him sort of a protector role; meanwhile Minion launched himself as a supporter to Megamind and his wild inventions.

High school was no joke. Hormones drove everyone crazy and puberty was no laughing matter. Roxanne developed further, never leaving her slim figure, which got her some hate from her female peers. Megamind continued on doing his wild inventions, but now in a more…contained environment (meaning his garage). Minion spent extra time on hobbies such as cooking (one of his favorites) and sewing (which he got from making costumes in their youth). Metro –now truly- Man was more into sports and all. He was the pride of his father, but somewhere along the line things went downhill for the young Scott and his father.

Late in his football career, Wayne spoke to his father about not wanting to continue because he had found a new passion. His father objected as soon as he heard the word music dropped from his son's mouth. Wayne felt miserable and in an inescapable situation. It didn't last long, as the trio joined his cause and all of them pitched in for Wayne to follow his dream while still being able to head to school.

It wasn't until they all went to college that things really started to shape better. Wayne found himself enjoying the experience of the new environment alongside people that shared his passion. Megamind moved to the physics department but ended up dropping out and selling them equipment instead. Minion also didn't finish college, choosing to just keep to himself and his job as a waiter/bartender in a bar/restaurant. Roxanne surprised them all as she worked her way into the journalist department. She was brilliant and charming it was hard not to see her future as a journalist.

Anyone would picture this division ruining their friendship, but to everyones surprise they always wounded up together at the end of the day sharing stories and sharing food. And how could they not when they shared the same roof. With his first large check, Megamind had gotten his hands on the largest place he could find in the city and remodeled it to make it a living space/laboratory of sorts. They each have a room with enough space to do whatever they wanted and reinforced walls in case of explosions or other incidents.

The massive space brought on a wave of inventions to keep the 'house' in the best possible living conditions for each of them and other wacky inventions from Megamind enough to accompany his already 'minions of chaos' small flying dog like cyborgs called brianbots and Megamind's personal favorite invention The Invisible Car. The shocked expressions of the teens back then had inflated Megamind's ego to a thousand. However their compliments died as they allowed -the only member of their group to not have a license yet- drive it simply because it was his car.

After college things flowed smoothly for the odd set of friends. Routine was a luxury they simply allowed themselves to have, as it wasn't enough excitement to live under the same roof as Megamind; speaking of which. The ground shook slightly as Roxanne got ready to head to work. She had gotten dressed already and she was just placing the last bit of make-up before heading to out. A small smile appeared on her lips and she added a thin layer of lip-gloss and picked her purse.

On the ground floor she met with a loud commanding voice of her childhood friend. He kept yelling at the brainbots orders as they cleaned whatever had gone horribly wrong this time. Roxanne reached the ground floor to witness the shenanigans of Megamind as he yelled his way out of another failure.

"Brianbots clean up," said Megamind. "Roxanne should be down soon and I don't want half of this mess…"

"Morning to you too Megamind," interrupted Roxanne mid-rant.

Megamind froze and turned to her, odd smile in place, "Roxanne! Good morning to you too."

Roxanne chuckled at Megamind as he tried to act as if her wasn't currently covered in soot and grease, that his hair wasn't standing in odd angles and slightly burnt on some edges, and that he might fall any second for leaning on something that wasn't there.

"Working all night on another invention?" asked Roxanne walking over to him.

"Something like that," he said removing his working goggles to reveal his blue/green eyes. "It's a new engine for the invisible car. I found a buyer for the last one."

Roxanne nodded, "You removed all the useful things?"

Megamind laughed, "If that guy thought that I was going to give him an engine with MY invisibility features, he had another thing coming. If everyone had an invisible car then where do I keep my fun?"

"But wouldn't it be better to cause havoc with such a thing?" asked Roxanne reaching Megamind's side.

Megamind rolled his eyes, "Please as if, it would only get people in the way, literally. I will be stuck for hours in a jam."

Roxanne nodded, "And that is a big no."

"Precisely," said Megamind.

Roxanne stared at the new slicker engine for a few minutes before noticing something odd. Her brows furrowed as she looked around and didn't meet a pair of brown eyes.

"Where's Minion?"

Megamind replied, "He's making breakfast. He didn't want me over working again, so he made me choose, breakfast or sleep."

Roxanne shook her head, "You're a lost cause Megs."

Megamind shrugged, "Anyway we better get going. Also Minion wanted me to tell you he might have to drop you off earlier today; he got called early for a double shift."

Roxanne stood abruptly, "And he didn't tell me?"

Megamind rolled his eyes, "And you're surprised?"

Roxanne thought for a second, "You're right, but that doesn't save you from skipping breakfast, now come on."

Megamind groaned, but allowed himself to be dragged to the kitchen by Roxanne. The alien was apparently stronger that what she appeared as she could easily carry Megamind, then again it could be just him being skinny.

At the entrance of the down stairs kitchen they met with Metro, pencil between his teeth as he stared at his notepad while sitting in the bar. Tons of ingredients lined up before him as Minion worked the stove with dexterous hands. Roxanne pulled Megamind to the dinner table, it wasn't big but it held all of them just fine. He was quickly to sit and drop his goggles. Roxanne joined him as she spoke her greetings to their companions.

Metro turned form his notepad and smiled at her, "Mornin' Roxie, what did you do to convince Megamind out of his shell?"

Megamind mocked Metro as Roxanne spoke, "I didn't do anything, Minion did. It was this or sleep."

Minion flipped a pancake and served it in a plate, "Eat up we have to rush, rush, rush, also sir I want you to take a nap this afternoon okay."

Megamind rolled his eyes, "Fine, you're such a pill."

Minion sighed and placed their plates on the dinner table, "I mean it."

"I said I was going to do it, didn't I?" replied Megamind.

Minion didn't look convinced but didn't dig further, he had ways of making Megamind obey; besides the brianbots were quite easy to reprogram…

Breakfast ended faster than you would expect, and even faster when Minion watched the time. His eyes growing wide as he stood and rushed to pick his things: keys, apron, wallet…he snapped his fingers and rushed to reprogram the brianbots. When he was back Roxanne and Metro were already in the car.

"Calm yourself Minion just put on the invisibility feature and you'll make it in no time," said Megamind watching his friend get in the car.

"Remember to sleep Syx," replied the olive skinned man. "You're not a robot."

And he sped out leaving Megamind waving at the wall. Sighing Megamind removed his working gloves and walked back to the kitchen. He sat down and eyed his cup filled with steaming coffee and wrapped his fingers around it. Megamind watched the white ceramic in great detail but his eyes kept changing course to his nails. He sighed and asked the brainbots to bring him his contact case. Megamind was quick to strip the blue contacts and put them in their case. Taking the cup in his hands and dropped the contents of the sink, he was feeling quite tired after all.

M

At work later Roxanne found herself in a rush to finish a report for the night news. Her fingers dashed on the keyboard as she tried to finish in order to make it for the live news before Louise went on air. Roxanne and everyone else in the KMCP were also in a rush to get the news rolling as the hour drew closer. Two incidents had happened that afternoon and everyone was losing their minds on how the reports were going to go live or even they would be ready in time.

"Roxanne how is the report coming along?" asked her boss reaching Roxanne's cubicle.

"Almost done I just need to add the bit with the charities that already sent help and that would be it," she mentioned never moving her eyes from the screen.

"We got news of two nearby countries that sent help after the earthquake," said her boss. "Here add them."

Roxanne took the paper, read through it and added the new details in, "There."

"Let me see…Good…good…perfect."

"Thank you sir," said Roxanne taking several calming breaths.

"However we have a problem," said James. "Louise is on site and we have no one else to cover her anchor position."

Roxanne turned to him, "That's awful, what happened with Peter?"

"He got called to the other assignment and Clark called in sick this morning."

Roxanne thought for a second before turning to James, "Perhaps one of the new interns…"

"Roxanne," interrupted her James. "Will you be the anchor for the night news?"

Roxanne's eyes grew wide at his statement. Years ago –before she started college- Roxanne had redeemed herself to a desk job. No one would like to see the blue alien on their local news. Roxanne had never even glanced at the opportunity to be an anchor. But now it seemed to be right there, waiting for her to reach forward and take it.

"Well?" asked James.

"I…are you sure sir?" asked Roxanne in a quivery voice.

James laughed, "I wouldn't be asking if I was joking."

"But I'm an alien," said Roxanne showing him her hands.

"Roxanne, are you really going to live the night news to a bunch of interns? Two mayor incidents happened today and I want someone I can trust telling these stories. I'm sure you'll do an amazing job," said James looking like a father watching his son walk for the first time. "So can I count on you?"

Roxanne stayed frozen in place as her mind raced. This was happening, this was really happening to her. She was going to anchor the news. Her, Roxanne Ritchi was going to be a news anchor.

"You can count on me sir," she said tears threatening to fall down her cheeks.

James chuckled and nodded, "Good now go to make up and get ready to go on air, and no crying I don't want your first time to be all red eyed."

Roxanne laughed a little at the joke and stood, "Right away sir."

However half way to make-up she turned and dug into her purse, if she was going to be live she needed several people to know.