Roxanne turned the water to her shower off and realized she didn't have a towel. "Crap." She said. Stepping out of the shower she looked around and opened a few cabinets trying to find a towel, but to no avail. The only thing she found was a hand shower scrubber. "This isn't a towel." She said to herself angrily. She then started dabbing her face of the water when she heard the door open. "Hello?" she called "Is there someone there?" not hearing a response she shrugged and went back to her searching.
On the other side of the door was Syx. He had just stepped into the room still wearing his head phones, thus not able to hear Roxanne's call. He pulled out a towel and walked out onto the balcony. He began to undress getting ready for the shower.
Roxanne, by now had opened the door. She had the hand shower scrubber covering her lower front side and was using her hand and arm to cover her boobs. She was going to step into the room and look for a towel when the Brain-bot wondered in barking at her. "No!" she cried backing back into the bathroom. "Go away! Leave me alone!" the Brain-bot did no such thing, only moved closer to her. "Please just let me get a towel." She begged. The little bot just hovered there.
Finally she had had enough. She huffed and walked over to the counter and grabbed the hair dryer. Turning it on she then grabbed the cord and started making sparks with it. "You like that!" she asked egging the bot on. It let out a happy bark and started to fizzle. "You do like it." She said disappointedly. Another idea popped into her head and she smiled at the bot. "Oh aren't you just the cutest little thing!" she cooed. The Brain-bot started to 'wag its tail'. "Yes you are, come here, come here." The bot floated forward slowly "Yes, that's it, that's it. Come to mommy." The bot moved forward some more still wagging its tail. Roxanne smirked and quickly pulled the bot behind her before shutting the door quickly.
Unfortunately she had done this all so fast that she lost her footing and just as she was coming out of the bathroom, Syx was walking in with his towel and completely naked.
The two ran straight into each other hugging each other for a few seconds as they fell to the ground. Roxanne landed on top of Syx and they looked at one another for a few seconds before one turned red and the other turned purple. They then both let out a scream. "OH MY GOD! Why are you naked!" Roxanne cried getting off of him.
"Why are you wet!" Syx hollered rolling over. "I don't understand! Why are you wet!" he went on as they parted.
"Don't look at me!" she snapped crawling over to the bed. "Oh God, you're showing everything!" she cried shutting her eyes "Cover it up! Cover it up for the love of God!" Syx hastily wrapped a towel around him as she finally made it behind the bed, grabbing a blanket. "No, not the baby maker!" she huffed throwing the thing behind her before grabbing another and wrapping herself up. "Explain yourself!" she demanded.
"Explain myself!" Syx cried turning to her "You're the one who jumped me!"
"I did not!" Roxanne protested. "What were you doing! Didn't you hear me!"
"What no! I was outside! I was listening to music!" Syx cried standing, still holding the towel. "What are you even doing home! And why did you jump me!"
"I didn't mean to jump you!" Roxanne said "Your little robot thing was attacking me and I had to run and I ran into you!" she said pantomiming what she was doing.
"What is it with you and the Brain-bot?" Syx wondered quietly.
"Just go!" Roxanne ordered "Just go take your shower!"
"Fine." Syx said walking to the bathroom door "Nice tattoo by the way." He said opening the door.
"What?" Roxanne said reaching to her back where her tattoo was located. Just then the Brain-bot zoomed out of the room and outside. "See?" Roxanne cried "See!"
"Oh, barely escaped with my life there." Syx said sarcastically. Roxanne opened her mouth to protest, but he slammed the door. She glared at the door before sighing and falling onto the bed, face first.
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Syx and Roxanne had finally made it back to their beds and were sharing an awkward silence before Syx finally decided to say something. "So… so naked."
"Can we not talk about that please?" Roxanne asked blushing severely.
Syx shrugged "Just saying."
Another awkward silence passed between them before Roxanne said quietly "So, what's the deal with your father?"
"Oh, so sorry, but that is not in the booklet." Syx countered.
Roxanne sighed "Another thing I am not allowed to know?"
"Yep. Goodnight." Syx said sharply. Again the two shared a long silence.
"I don't hate red." Roxanne said suddenly.
Syx looked over to the bed "What?"
"The color red. I don't hate it; it's just… not one of my favorite colors." She was silent for a moment before saying "Don't laugh, but… my favorite color is actually… blue." Syx smiled and let out a short, silent laugh before she continued "I took Tango, and Swing dancing when I was younger, I don't have a favorite flower, my first concert was Bob Base and DJ Easy Rock. I've never played a video game. My mother was a reporter, that's what made me want to become one… haven't slept with a man in a year and a half. That bird tattoo, they're swallows. I got them when I was 16 after my parents died. And I went to the bathroom and cried when Bob called me a poisonous bitch. Contrary to what people say, I am still human and those things… hurt." Syx then started laughing and she glared at him, though he couldn't see "I just told you something personal and you start laughing?"
"I'm sorry, Roxanne, but out of the two of us, you are far more human than I." he answered still chuckling. Realizing what he meant she started laughing as well.
A comfortable silence fell over them before Syx asked "You really haven't slept with someone for 18 months?"
Roxanne rolled her eyes "Out of all of that, that's what you go for first?"
"That's a really long time." He said quietly.
"Well, I've been busy." She countered.
Syx nodded then asked "Who's Bob Base and DJ Easy Rock?"
"DJ Easy Rock? You know, 'it takes two make a thing go right! It takes two to make it out of sight.' Do do do." Syx shook his head then started laughing quietly. "What?" she asked.
"I know who they are I just wanted to hear you sing it." He said still chuckling. Roxanne rolled her eyes and started laughing with him. After they stopped Syx said "Roxanne?"
"Yes?" she asked.
"Don't take this the wrong way, but … you are a very, very beautiful women." He said looking over to her. Roxanne smiled as her heart started to flutter a bit. Syx then started to mutter the song they had been talking about. Roxanne joined in silently before he burst out loudly and in a higher register "It takes two to make a thing go right!" Roxanne burst out laughing "It takes two to make it out of sight!" she joined him adding the back part "It takes two to make a thing go right! It takes two to make it- ugh! I can't sing that high!" he said grabbing his throat. They both started laughing together until they quieted down. "My parents and I are the last of our kind."
"What?" Roxanne whispered. Had she heard him right?
"We're the only survivors of our home world." He said. Roxanne stayed silent as he continued. "When I was 8 days old my parents put me and Minion on an escape pod to Earth. On our way here we ran into another kid who lived on the planet next to ours. That was Wayne Scott." He added, knowing her friendship with the retired hero. "Our parents sent us away because our planets were being sucked into a black hole." Roxanne gasped and covered her mouth, but Syx didn't notice. "Wayne landed in the Scott's mansion, but Minion and I landed in the court yard of Metrocity's Prison for the Criminally Gifted. We stayed there for 7 years."
"What?" Roxanne whispered, but again Syx didn't hear her.
"It wasn't awful, but it wasn't ideal. Life was pretty hard there for a while. Finally, by the time I was 8 my mother and father found me and took me back. Somehow they managed to escape the black hole and find their way here. Because it was just the two of them and they had nothing and offered no credible threat, the government offered them citizen ship here in the U.S. for me and Minion as well. They moved us up here to Sitka, Alaska away from most of the world so we wouldn't cause a panic. After a while I was allowed to leave and go back to Metrocity, because Wayne had become the resident hero, aliens were a normal thing, so who cared about one more?" Throughout his whole explanation Roxanne had remained in stunned silence. She finally knew the big secret. "You still there?" he asked after a few minutes.
Roxanne nodded "Yeah, I'm still here. I'm just processing." Roxanne breathed in deeply in an effort not to cry. "Just… how could they do that!" she cried. Syx looked over confused. "You were a baby! A child and they kept you in a prison! Were they stupid!"
Syx sat up "It's okay, Roxanne. I'm fine, nothing happened." He told her, trying to calm her down. He didn't know why she was getting so worked up over this.
"No it's not okay." She said "You could have gotten hurt!"
Syx looked at her and smiled at her concern "Roxanne. I'm fine."
She looked at him then huffed and threw her head back onto the pillow. "Well who ever kept you there is just… stupid!" she huffed at last. Syx once again started laughing. "Why are you laughing!"
"Out of all the colorful words in your vocabulary, you go with 'stupid'." Syx explained, laughing some more. Understanding how childish she sounded to him, she started laughing with him.
Again they fell into silence until Roxanne sighed happily and closed her eyes "Goodnight… Syx."
Syx smiled and closed his eyes as well "Goodnight Roxanne."
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Roxanne jerked awake again, but then sighed when she realized it was just morning. She reached over and went to grab the clock, but accidently turned the curtains off, sending the sunlight into the room. "Crap!" she whispered, before closing them again.
She sighed and sat there for a second before moving to the end of the bed and looking over the edge at Syx. He was facing her sleeping like a baby. She smiled at the sight of him for a minute then leaned back. She reached over and was about to grab the clock to see what time it was when the mirror on the bedside table caught her reflection. She looked awful! Quickly Roxanne patted down her hair and made it look good before tapping her cheeks to make them red then she put on some lip gloss. She removed the eye boogers then positioned herself daintily onto the pillow.
As soon as she closed her eyes there was knocking on the door. "Room service!" she heard Minion say on the other side of the door. "Breakfast for the happy couple!"
"Megamind! Megamind!" she hissed trying to wake him up. If his family came in now and saw them sleeping separately, the whole rouge would be ruined! "Megamind!" she snapped. He didn't budge. Finally she grabbed a pillow and chucked it at his face. It hit him dead on.
Syx threw his hands up in defense "What the!" he cried.
"Syx, Roxanne? Is everything alright?" Lactea asked.
"Just a second!" Roxanne called then looked at Syx "Your mother's at the door! Get up here!" she hissed.
"Oh crap!" he whispered grabbing the blankets and pillows off the floor and throwing them onto the bed. Roxanne glared at him as they hit her face then quickly threw the Baby Maker off the bed. Syx got into bed with her and as they fumbled with the covers as he looked at her "Are you wearing make-up?" he asked.
Roxanne blushed a bit. He had noticed! Regardless she shook her head "No! Now come on!"
"What do you want me to do?" Syx asked unsure how far he was allowed to touch her.
"Just, spoon me spoon me!" she ordered quickly. As Syx moved closer to her Roxanne jumped "What the hell was that!" she cried.
"Well I'm sorry, it's the morning." Syx said with a shrug.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Roxanne asked. Syx looked at her. She then rolled her eyes "God!" Finally they found a position that looked relatively realistic then called "Come in!"
Lactea, Orion and Minion walked in all smiling. Minion was carrying a tray with coffee, orange juice, and a plate full of cinnamon rolls with forks and knives. "Oh Minion! It smells wonderful!" Syx said happily.
"You shouldn't have gone to all that trouble." Roxanne remarked although they did smell quite divine.
"It's no trouble at all, Ms. Ritchi!" the happy fish said clapping his hands and making the curtains open fully.
"Yes, you're one of the family now!" Lactea added happily.
Orion nodded wrapping his arm around Lactea's shoulders. "Yes you are, and that comes with certain aspects."
Syx grabbed his head "Can we not do the whole Brady Bunch family meeting." He started laughing nervously with Roxanne joining in "We did just get up."
"Syx, your mother and I have come up with a proposition and I happen to think its genius." Orion said smiling at his wife before continuing "We were thinking that maybe-"
"We want you to get married here, tomorrow!" Lactea cried, unable to contain herself any longer.
Roxanne and Syx both stared at them for a few moments before Syx shook his head as Roxanne smiled "What?" she asked trying to sound causal.
"Well you're going to get married anyway, so why don't you get married here, where we can all be together!" Lactea said still excitedly, but a little calmer.
Syx just flat out said no, but Roxanne went with more of a gentle let down. "No, we couldn't do that." She and Syx looked at each other for a second reading each other's mind's "Its Minion's 30th birthday tomorrow. We don't want to ruin that."
Minion rolled his eyes "Sir, you know I hate it when the attention's on me!" Minion told them crushing their hopes of getting out of this "I'm a fish Sir, I don't need another birthday and besides, I would rather see you get married!" he cried. "So you'll do it?" he asked hopefully. Syx shook his head and said no while Roxanne just looked at them. "Before I float to the top?" he asked again.
"Okay!" they cried both giving a thumbs up.
Lactea and Minion cheered happily while Orion smiled. "Minion and I will do everything." Lactea assured them "And you can get married under the stars!"
"Oh… wow!" Roxanne cried with Syx forcing a smile behind her. "I've… always wanted to get married outside, at night!" she lied.
Syx nodded "I have as well."
Minion smiled seriously "It's a sign!" the fish cried "You two were meant to be together!" they looked at him "Oh! I have to go and prepare!" he cried before walking out of the room.
"Well, we should probably leave you alone." Lactea said smiling at them. "I am so excited!" she cried, before Orion led her out.
The two sat there for a few minutes in silence after the door had closed until Syx opened his mouth. "I am so dead!" he cried starting to panic.
Roxanne moved around a bit to face him though they still stayed in the bed together. "No you're not-"
"When my mother finds out that this whole thing is a pretense she's going to be devastated and Minion is going to die from shock!" Syx interrupted still panicking.
Roxanne tried again "He won't die…"
"And my father?" Syx asked incredulously, gesturing to the door "The wedding? What was that all about?"
"Lactea probably just got him all excited." Roxanne consoled "She's not going to find out."
Syx leaned forward placing his blue hands over his face "Oh crap Roxanne!" he cried, his hands muffling his voice.
"Megamind," Roxanne sighed "they're not going to find out. Just relax okay?" she said comfortingly, rubbing his shoulders in an effort to calm him. "It's not like we're going to be married forever." She continued still rubbing his shoulders "We'll be happily divorced before you know it. You will be fine and so will your family." She then stopped to give him a bit of a hug. "Okay?"
Syx nodded "Okay." They stayed like that for a few minutes before the realization hit them and Roxanne moved out of the bed and walked over to the breakfast tray.
"So would you like a cinnamon soy latté?" she asked with a mischievous grin.
Syx grinned and shook his head at her as she poured him some coffee. Syx watched her for a few moments, his heart starting to do something dangerous so he quickly continued the conversation "You are right, of course. We'll get a quick divorce and it will be fine."
"That's right." Roxanne agreed bringing over a cup and cinnamon roll for him. "I'll need to learn how to cook as well. I don't want my man leaving me for another woman." She joked getting back into bed with him as he took the items from her.
Syx stared to chuckle "I haven't left you yet Roxanne."
Roxanne looked at him a warm smile forming as the meaning of his words sunk in. "Um… I gonna go."
"What?" Syx asked as she stood up out of bed once more. "Aren't you hungry?"
"I'll get something later, I just have to go." She cried shutting the bathroom door.
Syx looked confusedly at the door for a few more seconds before shrugging. "Oh well! More for me!" he said happily, shoving a whole cinnamon into his mouth.
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"Okay Roxanne," Roxanne told herself, biking into the forest "this is just a business deal! Just a business deal! Just a business deal!" she chanted to herself and before long came to a rough path that she could no longer bike on, so decided to abandon the bike for her feet and trudged on. Still chanting to herself she wasn't at all prepared to run strait into a large, furry, metal body. Looking up she came face to face with Minion.
"Oh!" the cried "Sorry about that Miss Ritchie. I didn't look where I was going."
Roxanne smiled at him "No harm done, Minion. I wasn't paying attention either. What are you doing out here?" Minion smiled and reached behind her to grab a handful of some lacy looking flower.
"I'm getting your bouquet ready." He then turned around and Roxanne decided to follow. He led her to into a clearing where she saw he had a couple of piles of flowers and a small pile of pink berries.
"Wow!" she remarked "You sure are fast."
He laughed "Well I'd have to be. I have a lot to do today."
She smiled at him "Yes I guess that's true." Walking over to the pile of berries she asked "What are these for?"
"Those are for a special pie that the Mistress makes." Minion informed her.
Roxanne nodded and popped a few into her mouth. "Those are very good!" she said happily placing a few more into her mouth.
Minion spun around suddenly looking a bit fearful. "Did you just eat some!" he asked dreadfully.
"Yes…" she said eating another berry not sure why he was acting like this. "I'll pick more you." She offered starting to feel a bit lightheaded.
Minion shook his head "That's not what I'm worried about. Those berries' skins are poisonous. We were only going to use the juices inside." He explained.
Roxanne grew pale as her vision started to blur. "What kind of poison?"
Minion looked like he was about to laugh "Hallucinogens." As if the word was a trigger Roxanne started to hear music. "Miss Ritchie?" Minion questioned when the woman stated to nod her head in time with the music. "How many did you eat, exactly?"
All of a sudden she burst into song and started dancing "I like big buts and I cannot lie! You other brothers can't deny! When that girl walks in with that itty bitty waist and that round thing in your face you get sprung!"
Minion's mouth hung open and he started laughing uncontrollably. He was about to get back to work, since there really was nothing he could do to help her, but make sure she didn't hurt herself until the 'drug' ran its course, when the bushes rustled and out stepped Syx. Minion smiled at him "Hello, sir! Come to get your bride?" he asked a bit teasingly.
Syx looked at him a bit confused and opened his mouth to ask what he meant when Roxanne jumped past him singing "I'm a gonna get you drunk, get you drunk of my lady humps! My humps, my humps, my humps my humps! My lovely lady lumps! Break it down!"
Syx stared at her then looked over to Minion a bit horrified. Minion smiled "She had some Kola berries." The fish explained.
Syx burst into helpless laughter, shaking his head as he walked over to her. Once he reached the woman, he held her steady and gently pressed some of her pressure points, making her fall before looking up at him. "Megamind?" she asked holding her head. Seeing his smug face and Minion moving to go pick up more berries she asked dully "I had a trip didn't I?"
"Yep." Syx answered chuckling before adding "Did you know that you're very interested in your lower backside?"
She glared at him then stood up "Oh, shut up."
Syx laughed lightly again "Well would you like to go into town and get your phone or would you rather stay here and have another trip with Minion?"
Roxanne glared at him and started walking away back to the house "Oh shut up."
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Sooooo... ^^; Heehee Sory for the long ass wait everyone! The real reason I took this long was because I couldn't figure out how to do this last scene seeing as How Minion is not a Native American. Anyway! Hope you guys like and the next chapter won't take as long for me to update!