"Aiyana" stormed through the streets, the device, now rigged up with a camera, in hand. Bernard, going for a stroll through the clouds for no other reason than to show himself how great he was, saw her from, literally, a mile away. His eyes clouded over in pain, and fury coursed through him. How dare she show her false face around Metro City! How dare she walk the streets freely at this hour!
Lowering slightly, Bernard began to follow her, wondering what it was she was doing in her disguise, wondering what the thing in her hand could be, and, though he would never let himself know, wondering if this had anything to do with him.
***Break***
Metrocity stood on the stage part of the Metro Museum, renamed so that they could add another wing, almost as big as the whole original building, about Metro Boy. This was the center of town, almost like a plaza. Setting the device down, Metrocity angled the camera so it would show her entire body from where she planned to stand, and carefully switched on the device before stepping in front of the camera.
"Hello, Metrocity," Metrocity greeted, making sure her voice was loud enough to carry to those not watching as their TVs were taken over by an ethereal-looking teenager. Metrocity was using the same device her mother had used years before to tell Metro City she was in love, and for the same reasons. Almost.
"I just wanted you all to know that I'm in love with Bernard, 'Metro Boy' Scott, and my name is—" she announced, her hand fleeing to turn off the watch. Before her hand could meet her wrist, however, the very teenager in question flew down and tackled her to the ground, stopping her from turning her watch off—and accidentally doing it himself instead. "Metrocity!" she whispered, the flame of victory dancing in her eyes, and before he could move, she reached up and kissed him.
Bernard was shocked, but not so shocked that he was frozen. When she kissed him, he pulled back, not in disgust this time, but in fear and apprehension, and kicked the machine she was using over and onto its back, stepping on the camera lens before turning around and flying away.
"Hey Metro Boy!" she called after him, and stuck her tongue out at him, not sure what other course of action to take.
"Go home, Metrocity!" Bernard shouted, glaring back down at her before taking off.
And Metrocity felt a thousand times lighter.
***Break***
"What is this?" Metro Man demanded as his son walked in the door, rubbing his wrist. Metrocity had grabbed it when he landed, and it still ached a little. He still didn't understand how, after so many years of being invincible to everyone and everything, Metrocity could just do the tiniest thing like sock him in the face with all her strength, and make his jaw twinge.
"What?" he snapped back, looking back up at his father as the giant rewound the TV image with the TiVo option.
"This," Metro Man growled, and the image of him tackling Aiyana and Aiyana turning to Metrocity replayed. "Do you mean to tell me that this 'Aiyana' girl was Metrocity the whole time?"
"I don't mean to tell you anything!" Bernard snarled. "I never said anything in the first place!"
"How could you do that, Bernard!" Metro Man exclaimed. "How could you knowingly date your arch nemesis?"
"I didn't know who she was until the other night!"
"How do you expect me to believe that!"
"I don't! I just want to go to bed!"
"Why didn't you tell anyone when you found out?"
"Because I didn't think of it!"
"And why is that?"
"NO ONE SEES THE WIZARD!" Bernard shouted, and slammed his bedroom door shut in his father's face.
***Break***
"How could you do this to us, Metrocity?" Megamind asked his daughter. He didn't yell, his voice was very calm and gentle, if exasperated and worried, but that only made things worse. It was harder to get angry and defend herself.
"I didn't mean to," she mumbled. "I didn't want to..."
"But did you have to tell everyone?" her father asked.
"It was the only thing I could think of! That's what Mom did when she realized she loved you..."
"It's different for you and I and your siblings, Metrocity. It isn't as easy to get someone to turn to evil as it is to turn evil yourself."
"But I don't want to be evil anymore!" Metrocity cried, practically pleasing with him to understand. He looked surprised, then hurt.
"I see," Megamind said, standing. "I see. Metro Boy has finally done it! He's finally brainwashed you!"
"No one brainwashed me!"
"And that's just what you'd say if you were brainwashed!"
"If anything I brainwashed him!" Metrocity shouted.
"But you didn't, and—and—and...I'm very disappointed in you!" Megamind scolded, extending a stern forefinger, and Metrocity didn't know what to say. So, for the second time that night, she fled from the house, taking time only to switch her disguise, this time to a young blonde woman instead of Aiyana, and stormed out the door.
Megamind sighed and sat down, holding his large head in his hands as Roxanne walked in.
It was times like this that reminded him that he had no clue what he was doing.
Author Comments:
Yes...
How will this end? Goodly? Badly? I DON'T KNOWNESS! Oh, I might have to take the easy way out, but then my readers would murder me! I'M STUCK!
