Chapter 3
Life went on as normal for a few weeks. Since he was older now, he learned not to take the things some of the people said too seriously. Syx learned how to ignore the whispers and insults that people threw at him. The teachers seemed to have turned out like miss Franklin. They would give him one look and then turn away, their noses in the air. Syx, however, would not let that get him down. As long as he stayed in the company of Bernard and Roxanne, he was fine.
There were only two teachers who liked Syx. He found that he was the favourite of the algebra teacher, Mr. Benjamin Brown, who admired Syx for his talent. Syx also managed to start off on a friendly foot with his biology teacher, Mr. Oliver Smith. Oliver did not like kids who were noisy or undisciplined. He also did not like it if children did not pay attention. Syx did his best to abide by the right rules and behaved at his best, which earned him the favor of Mr. Oliver, the teacher that every kid in school said was so strict. Syx and Wayne have not yet met face to face, but the blue teen had no doubt anymore that it was the same Wayne Scott who bullied him during his childhood. When he told Roxanne and Bernard about this, they tried whatever they could to avoid the muscled teen. For a few days everything went well.
Then the time came for Syx to fight his first crime. It was after another busy day at school. His behaviour was so good that Syx was allowed out of his cell to wander around the prison with Minion. It was on his way back to his cell when he passed the warden's office that he heard it.
"So, Thomas, how exactly did they escape?"
" I don't know, sir. When we arrived, the cell door was wide open and the room was empty!"
" Well, find them!"
" Right, sir!"
Syx froze when he heard this. Some of the more dangerous criminals had escaped from Metro City prison! The moment Syx heard the news, he decided to go and hunt them down. He could not ask the warden to let him out. The old man made it very clear that he did not want Syx to leave the facility until he had come of age. Syx quickly returned to his cell and took out his gadgets and his superhero costume.
"Minion, are you ready to go on a hunt for criminals?"
"I think I'd much rather stay here, sir! If the warden asks where you have gone, then I can tell him so he will not think that we have broken out!"
"Alright, Minion! I'm off!"
" Good luck, sir!"
The gadgets that Megamind had were his dehydration gun, along with a pendant that could create a force field to block bullets, a watch that could help him take on the appearance of another person, and a jet pack that he attached to his back. His costume was made of leather. Everything was black, apart from a blue lightning bolt over the front. Everything was skin tight.
He wore long boots which were spiked along with leather gloves that were also spiked. He also made himself a cape that looked like something that Dracula would have been proud of! The last part of the costume was a helmet that looked like a cross between a biker's and the one he made during his childhood when he was playing dodge ball. It was shaped like a dragon's head, but without the spikes.
With his costume complete, Syx took his gadgets and quietly sneaked out.
"Alright, it was time for Megamind, hero and protector of Metrocity, to come out and save the day, or shall I say night?"
Megamind took out his watch and used it to disguise himself as a guard. The second he stepped outside the prison, he climbed on to his motorcycle and rode off. He made the bike himself. It was an abandoned bicycle he found one day. Syx took it home, repainted it and put in an engine. He also replaced the wheels and the seat with bigger ones. He was still working on improving the bike, but right now that could wait.
Megamind started his motorcycle and began to hunt down the criminals that escaped. He rode through town looking for the escaped convicts. He spun around when he heard a scream from one of the deserted alleyways. Megamind looked down the street. What he saw angered and exited him at the same time. A woman was in the process of being mugged. A man held a knife to her throat while trying to get a hold of her purse.
"Hey you! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?"
Both the mugger and the victim looked at him in surprise.
"And who are you?" asked the mugger.
"I am Megamind, the super hero and protector of Metrocity. As the city's new hero, I am taking you back to jail!"
The man laughed.
"Hero? Indeed! You, deary, stay right where you are, while I rough this guy up a bit" he told to the woman. Megmaind pointed his gun at the man and shot at him, turning him into a small blue cube. He then turned his to the woman.
"Are you okay?" The woman just stared at him before falling onto her knees in front of him.
"Oh thank you, mysterious fighter, and thank you for saving me!"
"You're welcome. Now I have got to go. Others need my help!"
Megamind quickly rode off in search of the other convicts.
"That guy was not one of the convicts who escaped from jail. He was just a random mugger. Oh well, I might as well take him to jail too."
Megmamind did not have to search long before he found the prisoners. He caught them just as they were about to break into someone's home.
"Hey you!" he shouted at them. They turned around, surprised, before looking at each other.
"You are trespassing into the property of another. I'll give you one chance. Surrender to me now!"
This caused them only to laugh.
"Oh really? Is that a threat?"
"No, it's a warning, your only warning!" The men stared at the stranger. They could not see his face, because there was a helmet of some kind over his head. One of the men pulled out a gun and pointed it straight at Megamind's face. Megamind did not even flinch but continued to glare at the man through the visor of his helmet.
"You asked for it!" said the thug before firing the gun. The bullet hit the force field that the pendant produced.
"What?" shouted the man. He fired several more rounds but none of the bullets reached Megamind.
"Allow me to show you how it is done!" Megamind pointed his dehydration gun at the man. Before the thugs knew what had happened, Megamind had dehydrated them. Stuffing the cubes into his pocket he climbed on his bike and headed back to the prison.
When arriving back at the prison, he saw the warden waiting for him there.
"Warden, I found them! I caught each one of them!"
The warden, however, looked anything but happy.
"And just where have you been for half the night, young man?"
"Catching the escaped convicts! I've got them right here with me."
Megamind held out a handful of cubes.
"Just throw water over these cubes and they'll be back to normal!"
The warden took the cubes and then turned his gaze to the rider in front of him.
"You have got some explaining to do!"
"But warden, I already told you a long time ago that I want to be a superhero!"
The warden sighed. "I know that. Alright, kid, give me those and come inside, and we'll have a talk."
It was night and no one but the thugs and the woman he saved from them, saw him. The thugs would be going to jail, so the news would be able to spread. There was also very slim chance that people would believe her story.
James knew that try as he might, he would not be able to change the kid's mind. He sighed.
"Maybe I'm worry too much". He glanced at the cubes. 6 prisoners had escape and here were 7 cubes. "We'll soon find out who number 7 is, but first it was time to lock these guys up."
The warden was not happy with Syx's decision and the fact that he had sneaked out of prison and caused everyone to be worried. He told the boy that he was still too young to be a superhero. After a long lecture James had grounded the boy. The warden told Syx that he was not allowed to go out and fight crime again until he was at least 17. Syx hated the fact that he could not go out and fight crime but he could not argue with the warden. As for school, that had to continue as normal.
When Megamind arrived back in his cell, Minion was waiting for him there.
"So, sir, how did it go?"
"It went great, Minion," the blue alien said as he took off his helmet.
"I caught all of them!"
"That's great, sir!"
"No it isn't, Minion."
"What happened, sir, have they escaped?"
"No, it's just that warden said that I'm grounded and not allowed to go out and capture criminals again."
"But don't worry, sir. You'll get your chance to be a hero again!"
"You're right, Minion. May be I am in too much of a hurry with things."
" Sir, it is late, maybe we should talk about this tomorrow?"
To tell the truth, Syx was tired after the night's adventure.
"You are right, Minion, I'll think about it tomorrow. Goodnight Minion."
"Goodnight, sir."
The next day at school Syx arrived just to find Roxanne waiting for him at the school gate. His friends Bernard and Roxanne had begun to meet Syx every morning at the school gate.
"Hey, Syx!"
"Oh hey, Roxanne! Where's Bernard?"
The girl shook her head. "I don't know…"
Wayne Scott walked proudly down the school corridor as he always did, with his head held high. He and Roxanne did not see or hear much of each other these past couple of days. Roxanne still did not want to go out with him. His parents told him yet again for what must been a thousand time about his destiny. He thought that so much stuff about this was just wrong. There was so much that he did not understand.
Suddenly he saw something that made him froze. For a moment he could not say a word. It felt as if time stood still. All he could do was stare at the picture of the blue alien speaking to Roxanne!
"Who was that?" the boy wondered. "I've never saw him here before. Wait a second…, no, it cannot be!"
A memory suddenly sprung into his mind, a long forgotten memory of a blue alien kid in an orange prison suit.
"It's him! He is back! I can't believe it. He is here. He is actually here. Syx is back! Syx, how could I have forgotten?"
Unlike the prison clothes he saw Syx in then, the blue teen was this time wearing a school uniform like everyone else! Syx now also looked older. Wayne could not move as he watched his childhood enemy and Roxanne walk to their first class of the day. Wayne thought that he would never see that alien again. After having relocated the schoolhouse, Wayne had fully expected Syx to start his criminal career. He remembered what he had always been told as a child. How he was destined to become a superhero. And Syx's destiny was to become a super villain. Their destinies were to be lifelong rivals! But seeing Syx here, he could now see that Syx had not followed his destiny. He did not accept it.
Wayne suddenly felt boiling mad at the blue teen. How dare he! He ran away from his destiny! Fate had given them both a role in life and yet Syx was not following that role. His was not doing his part. Before he knew what he was doing, Wayne found himself walking up to the unexpecting couple. He marched straight up to them and stopped in front of the two with his arms folded over his chest.
Syx stared at him, shocked, while Roxanne just frowned.
"So, we meet again, blueberry head!" he said in a dangerous tone.
"Wayne, what's got into you?" asked Roxanne.
"You should not be hanging out with him, Roxie! He is the bad guy. He had always been!"
"I don't know what you are talking about, Wayne!" Roxanne said in a cold voice.
"But he is!" The super powered teen glared at the blue one.
"That's enough, Wayne!"
"Come on, Syx, let's go someplace else." Roxanne took his arm and began to lead him away but Wayne blocked their path.
"Roxanne you don't understand! He is dangerous!"
"Enough, Wayne, does he looked dangerous to you?"
"Well, no but…"
"Exactly!" said the girl. "Now if you'll excuse us, Syx and I don't want to be late for our next class."
Wayne watched them go with a shocked face. How can she be so calm around him? Yet again, Syx had been here for over 3 weeks and he did not cause any trouble. And that was the problem of it all. From the look of things, it did not look as if Syx wanted to be the bad guy. How in the world was he going to get Syx to accept his fate? He would, one way or another! Wayne Scott watched as the two teens walked away hand in hand.
"I'm so sorry about Wayne, Syx I don't know what's gotten into him today."
"Was he always like that, Roxanne?"
The girl shook her head.
"Wayne was always very full of himself. He thinks he can do what he wants and that he can have whatever he wants just because his parents are the richest people in this town, but I have never seen him behave like this before."
Syx just sighed but he then put his hand on her shoulder and tried to reassure her.
"Hey, don't worry, Roxanne. We'll get to the bottom of this. I promise."
"Thanks, Syx." Then the girl threw her arms around his neck.
"Hey, you two, sorry I'm late, I'm not interrupting something, am I?" said a voice behind them.
Both teens quickly broke apart.
"Bernard! Where have you been?" asked Syx.
Bernard watched the two blushing teens with an amused smirk on his face.
"Oh, I was at the library."
"Bernard, I think there is something you need to know." Bernard frowned. Roxanne never sounded so desperate before.
Minion paced up and down in his brand new body in the cell. He had a very bad feeling about today. When he'd found out that his boss and the Scott boy were going to the same school, he asked the warden to relocate Syx to a diffident school. Syx, however, was against it. He told them that he did not want to leave the few friends he had behind. He thought that he may not find friends like Bernard and Roxanne again. He also said that it was about time he stood up to Wayne Scott. Minion did not liked any of this.
"So let me get this straight. The old muscle bag just walked up to you and said that Syx is evil?" asked Bernard.
"Yes, and to tell you the truth, I don't know why he did that! Syx told us that the two of them went to primary school together."
The blue alien nodded. "After I was expelled, mister goody-two-shoes relocated the school building to a different place. That was the last time I've seen it."
" Is there something else, Syx? You have to tell us everything!"
"Well, yeah… I remember he and the other kids kept telling me that destiny chooses our paths for us. For me it was my destiny to be bad. But I did not want to be a bad boy, so I have made a plan on how to escape destiny!"
Roxanne and Bernard just stood there listening as Syx told his story.
"Looks like old Wayne Scott let destiny got the better of him…" said Bernard finally.
Roxanne just shook her head angrily. "I can't believe any of this. So, he thinks fate chose him to be a hero and you to be a villain?"
Syx nodded. "Yes, but like said, I have managed to escape my destiny."
"Does Wayne even want to be hero?" asked Bernard. "So far it looks like he had people making all his decisions for him!"
"Well, then someone is going have to tell that to Wayne!"
At that moment the bell rang. "Come, we had better get going before we're late for class!" said Roxanne.
Minion could tell the second the police car dropped Syx off at the prison that his boss was worried about something. Syx looked deeply troubled.
"Hey warden, hey Minion."
"Hallo sir, and how was your day so far?"
Syx smiled. "It was nice. Minion there is something I need to tell you. I think we may have a problem."
1 hour later.
"I knew it, I knew that that boy was nothing but trouble!" exclaimed Minion when Syx finished his story.
"I know, Minion, but there is nothing that can be done now."
" Sir, do you think that it is the young Scott's destiny to became a hero?"
" Mmmm… I hope not, Minion. It was my destiny to become a super villain. But I have decided to choose my own destiny! So, if it is Wayne's destiny to be a superhero, then that must mean….? Oh no…!"
"Sir, what is the problem with having two heroes?"
"That's the problem, Minion. Do you remember how Wayne always tried to get something to work against me? Well, what if he is going to do it again? What if he is going make people think that I'm the bad guy?"
"But, sir, what are we going to do now? If the young Scott is going to try and force you to accept your destiny to be a super villain, then it would ruin your dreams of becoming a superhero!"
"I know that, Minion, that's why we cannot let him find out about Megamind at all cost! If he does, then he may try and challenge him!"
"Are you still going to fight crime as Megamind?" asked the fish.
Syx nodded. "Yes, Minion, speaking of which, I think it is time to leave. Listen, Minion, let's not worry about 'mister-goody-two-shoes'! I'll try and think of a plan of what to do with him. Roxanne and Bernard said that they will help me if Wayne tried anything. You know what, Minion? I will not worry about Megamind right now. He is safe, warden made sure of that!" The teen said the last part a bit grumpily. He was still grounded from fighting crime for 3 more years.
Next up. After been grounded Syx is not allowed to slip out of prison and to play the hero again until hi's older. Meanwhile, the holiday is closing in. Syx, Roxanne, Bernard, Weayn and Hal is whriting exams.