"You what!" Roxanne exclaimed, aghast.

"And why exactly did he ask you in the first place...?" Megamind mused. Metrocity shrugged.

"I guess he liked the way Aiyana looked or something. Maybe he thought she'd make a great trophy. But it doesn't matter, because with any luck, his head will be my trophy before the month is out! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"Oh, I like that laugh, Metrocity!" Megamind said excitedly. "It's brilliantly terrifying!"

"You think?" she asked, beaming excitedly. "It took me a week and a half to figure out the mechanics of fear vs. the chill factor for a good evil laugh, but I think I pulled it off."

"I agree, and you know, if you hold out at the end there—"

"Have both of you gone insane?" Roxanne demanded, looking between the both of them as though they belonged in a mental institution. "Metrocity, I really don't think—"

"It'll be fine, Mom," Metrocity insisted. "And it isn't like I'm in danger. As long as I stay Aiyana, it can't go wrong! And in the end, if it fails, at least I've tried, and you and Dad taught me to try my hardest to win. If I lose, it's just another part of the game."

"Megamind—" Roxanne looked to her husband for support, and he shrugged somewhat apologetically.

"Personally, I think it's a wanderful idea!"

"Wonderful," Roxanne and Metrocity corrected at the same time.

"Yes, wonderful! If we get to Metro Boy, we get to Metro Man, and then, we can crush him like the nothing bug he is—!"

"Did I hear a Q in there?" Metrocity asked, quirking her brow.

"Err...maybe. Which one's Q again?"

"Dad!" she laughed, knowing he was trying to be funny.

"Oh, alright!" Roxanne relented, seeing that neither of them was going to listen to her. "But I just want you to know that I have a really, really bad feeling about this!" Metrocity smiled and gave each of her parents a peck on the cheek before switching her watch to disguise mode and dashing towards the door.

"Bye Mom, bye Dad! If I'm not back by midnight, you can assume I'm in jail again!"

"Have fun honey!" Megamind called after her, and scrunched his brow when he saw the look on Roxanne's face. "What?"

"Nothing," Roxanne denied, sitting down beside Megamind and staring at the door. She shook her head. None of this sat right. "I just hope she ends up in jail by night's end."

***Break***

"Ollo, Bernard!" Metrocity called as she watched the superboy land nearby.

"Don't call me Bernard," he snapped.

"Fine, fine, I just like the name. I don't see why you favor, 'Metro City Protectinator', or whatever it is you call yourself."

"What's wrong with my title?" he asked, sounding defensive.

"Nothing. It's just long and boring and tacky and overdone. I mean, who wants to be saved by someone with the initials MCP when they could be saved by someone with the initials MM, or better yet, attacked by someone with the same initials?"

"What?"

"Nothing. I'm just saying, Metro is a title born once too often in your family, and because it was your father's title, it's redundant. As for Bernard..."

"Bernard is a stupid name!"

"I like it," she declared simply, defiantly. "It's esoteric and unusual!" He gave her a look as they walked down the path. "Esoteric meaning different," she explained.

"Oh," he replied, unable to come up with a rebuke. "Well I like your name as well." Metrocity snorted.

"I believe that, Mr. 'are all homeschoolers as dumb as they look.'"

"I told you I was sorry about that!" Bernard exclaimed, clearly aggravated, and Metrocity smirked. The smirk left her disguised face and turned to a look of fear as Bernard grabbed her up like a baby and began rising into the sky.

"What are you doing!" she screeched.

"I'm saying I'm sorry. Don't you like heights?"

"Yes, when I'm the one rising to them!"

He smirked at her. "Well maybe I should show you what it's like to be up in the sky!"

"Put me down!" she shouted, pounding on his chest as they rose higher and higher. "Put me down!"

"Never," Bernard returned smugly before really taking off. Flying at full speed over the city, Metrocity (as Aiyana) yelled and screamed at him, shrieking in fear, frustration, and humiliation, to be put down right that instant, but he ignored her shrill cries. Then he dipped suddenly, falling lower and lower, and Metrocity yelled at him to pull up as their speeds increased further. As the ground came into sight, Metrocity screamed and turned, wrapping her arms around Bernard and hanging on for dear life.

Bernard smiled to himself as he pulled up at the last moment, and shot into the sky like a rocket. "You can look now," he told her, hovering over the city. Slowly, one after the other, Metrocity blinked her eyes open, and gasped as she saw the city looking back at her. She had never been this high up before, and now, at night, it was beautiful, lit up with a thousand lights and twinkling like stars from so far away, where you couldn't see individual cars, or even hear any noise but the silent air rushing past and the steady rhythm of their breathing.

"It's beautiful," Metrocity whispered, then frowned and turned back to Bernard. She pulled back her fist and slammed it into his cheek, coming away with a smarting hand. "Ugh!" she groaned, clutching it to her, and she expected Bernard to laugh at her. Instead, he lifted one hand to his face, disrupting her balance and making her cling to him again. A look of surprise and confusion flitted across his face.

"That actually...kind of...hurt," he admitted, and Metrocity rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, it's called a punch. It's supposed to hurt, not that you'd know!"

"No, I wouldn't!" he said quickly, and when he put his arm back down, Metrocity dropped from around his neck and looked around again.

"I thought I'd been high in the sky before, but... But this is..."

"Amazing?" Bernard asked.

"Don't get your britches in a bunch, hotshot," Metrocity snapped, but there was an underlying tone of wonderment in her voice that curbed the sharpness and made Bernard smiled—not letting her see of course; being hurt actually hurt, and he didn't like it.

But he did like her.

Author Comments:

Yep, yep, yep. A flight scene, of course, because when a boy is graced with the power of flight, what better thing could he do than take her flying? In the case of Metrocity, many things, because apparently flying leads to—GASPETH!—pain. So how is it she managed to hurt the invincible son of Metro Man? We'll find out in another installment! :D