Gru stood in front of a black board, making a plan for rescuing Lucy. Dru sat in a chair opposite, sipping coffee from a white mug with a D on it.
"So vhat is de plan?" Asked Dru
Gru started drawing a picture of Strider's lair, on the chalk board, before turning around to face Dru.
"Ok so we use our dad's villian suits to make sure that when we sneak in, we can't be seen. We also need to take dad's gold car but when we get there, we have to hide it round de back of de lair.
Next we use de invisible setting on our super suits to sneak through the door of the lair. Once we're inside..." Gru began before Dru interrupted him.
"Hold on, this guy has a door that leads into his lair? So no secret passageways or tubes or anything! This dude does not know how to build a lair!" Dru shouted.
"Dru! Dat is not important right now! We'll discuss eet later, after we've got Lucy back!" Gru snapped "anyway as I was saying, once we're inside, still invisible, we look for Lucy. Once we find her then we grab her and escape before they catch us. Good plan?"
"Yeah I guess, but I still don't get de door."
Gru rolled his eyes and sighed at his weird brother.
Gru was quite impressed with his plan and excited about seeing Lucy, but deep inside he had a feeling of worry.
"Anyway I'm going to put de gurl's to bed and go to bed myself. Night Dru." Gru mutterd, sloping out of the lab, with his head low.
"Brother? Are yoo ok?" Asked Dru, walking towards him.
"I'm fine, I'm fine...crushing it. I'm actually worried about something. I'm worried that we'll be too late." Gru mumbled.
"Well we're going to rescue her in the morning, I don't think that will be too late!" Dru said, clearly confused.
"Oh no, no, no! Not like dat, I mean like what if we get there and Lucy is already...g..gone?" Gru mutterd.
"Don't worry Gru, I promise that we'll get there in time. Go and say goodnight to the gurls and get some sleep for tomorrow." Dru instructed.
"Dat's another thing I'm worried about. Vhat do I tell the gurls if they start asking me where Lucy is?"
"You just try and tell them de truth, they need to know." Dru replied "goodnight Gru"
"Night Dru" Gru mumbled sadly.
He walked into the girl's bedroom, Edith was playing video games, Agnes was playing with Lucky and Kyle and Margo was reading a book.
"Alright time for bed!" Gru said, clapping his hands.
Agnes leaped into her bomb bed and dove underneath the covers as Lucky and Kyle leapt up and lay on top of the quilt.
Margo, who was already lying on the bed, reading her book, lay her book on her dressing table and put her glasses on top and pulled the covers over her.
Edith turned off her game and put it on the shelf behind her, but instead of going under the covers, she stared at Gru with pure suspicion.
"Gru? Where's Lucy?" She asked, attracting the attention of her sisters, who sat up and looked at Gru with equally suspicious glances.
"Gurls I know dat I should've told yoo sooner but I'm afraid dat someone has kidnapped Lucy."
The girl's suspicious faces turned to sadness and worry for their mum.
"Will mommy come back?" Asked Agnes, pouting.
"Oh of course she will sweetie, in fact uncle Dru and I are going to rescue her tomorrow!" Gru said, trying to cheer the girls up.
"Cool can we come with you?" asked Edith, grinning.
"No Edith, it wouldn't be a good idea, de guy who has Lucy is very dangerous, like Balthazar Bratt he doesn't care who he hurts." Gru replied.
"Does that mean he's hurt mommy?" Agnes panicked, clinging to Lucky and Kyle.
Gru knew that Strider had really hurt Lucy, he had cut her cheek, tied her hands together with tough rope so her wrists bled and he had knocked her out at one point. But he couldn't tell the girls this, ecspessially not Agnes.
"No, no, no sweetie, he hasn't hurt her because he's had no need to." Gru lied, trying not to make it obvious, that he was lying. Thankfully the girls didn't notice, which slightly shocked Gru, considering that Margo could usually see right through him.
"What time will you be back?" Margo asked, equally as nervous as Agnes.
"Well we are leaving in the early morning so we should be back in the afternoon. Grandma will look after you." Gru explained.
He then held out his arms to his three brave little girl's and gave them a hug.
"Goodnight my three little kittens. Mommy unicorn will be back soon." Gru said, switching the light off and closing the door.
As he walked down the hall that lead to his and Lucy's room, he felt his phone softly ring in his pocket.
Gru frowned, thinking that it was Strider again but calmed when he saw the words JAKE IS CALLING on the screen.
"Hello?"
"Hey Gru it's only me" A soft, young male voice came through the speaker.
"Oh hey Jake, how are you?" Gru asked.
"I'm alright I was just ringing about you, Lucy and girls. How are things going? Is she home yet?" Asked Jake.
"Nope I'm afraid not. But me and Dru are rescuing her tomorrow, in fact how about you come along?" Gru asked.
"Oh yeah! I'll get ready!" Jake said excitedly.
"Me and Dru will get you a super suit! See you tomorrow!" Gru said before hanging up.
He took the lift down to the lab and ran into the bedroom that Dru shared with the minions and started to shake Dru to wake him up.
"Dru! Dru!" Gru screamed
"What! Oh no is there a fire? Is there a gigantic monster that is going to kill us all?!" Dru cried.
"Nope none of those! Have we got any more villian suits?" Asked Gru.
"Uh yeah, it's quite old but not faulty, I used to wear it when I was in my 30s but it won't fit me now. Why do you need it?" Dru gabbled.
"I need it because we've got an extra guest coming to rescue Lucy tomorrow, his name is Jake Rider." Gru explained.
Dru opened a keep sake box and dug around until he found the bright red latex suit.
"Ta da!" He yelled, grinning widely.
"It's perfect!"
To be continued...