Thanks for all the reviews, and happy new year! Here's chapter 3. Sorry it's kinda short compaired to the last chapter, but hopefully it's still good.
After giving the good news to the families, Megamind and Roxanne started to tell their friends. Roxanne told a couple of her co-workers that she knew the best about the wedding, and Megamind told Bernard the next time he saw him. Bernard didn't look too happy about it (but then again, when did he ever look happy?), but he congratulated them. However, Megamind did manage to bring a smile to the museum currator's face when he told him he was invited to the wedding.
Just like Roxanne predicted, Kela already knew about the marraige, but was still excited when Roxanne told her. Roxanne was even making Kela the Maid of Honor, and after explaining what it was, Kela happily accepted the role.
The next time the couple visited Music Man, they told them about the wedding.
"Congratulations Little Buddy," Music Man had said smiling as he gave Megamind a friendly hit on the shoulder (accidentally hurting him more than he intended).
"Uh, thanks," Megamind said, forcing a smile and ignoring his now sore shoulder. Despite their history, the two supers were good friends now, and Megamind didn't mind inviting Music Man to the wedding. Megamind had offered the holographic watch for Music Man to borrow for the wedding, but he politely declined, saying he had his own disguise ready to go.
"Hey, if you want, I can play at the reception," suggested Music Man. Megamind and Roxanne exchanged a glance.
"Well, um, isn't it trade-dish-nal to have a band play at the reception?" Megamind asked.
"I guess you're right," said Music Man, a little disappointed, "but hey, if you need a backup guitar player, you know who to call right?"
"Oh we sure do," said Roxanne, giving the ex-hero a convincing smile.
When they got back to the lair, Roxanne started making a quick guest list. When she was finished, she showed it to her future husband. "Looks good?"
Megamind quickly read over the list. He recognized all the names he knew, and the ones he didn't recognize he just assumed were friends of Roxanne's. "Looks fine to me," he said, handing back the list.
"Anyone else you want to invite?" Megamind opened his mouth to speak, but quickly closed it. "What?"
"Well, you probably don't want any of my uncles from prison to be at the wedding, do you?" Megamind asked.
Megamind had told Roxanne his history growing up in prison, so she knew about his 'uncles'. But even though she knew the prisoners were harmless to Megamind, Roxanne wasn't really comfortable with having prisoners and police officers at the wedding. "How about we set up a video feed to the prison?"
"Perfect!" Megamind said happily.
"They'll love that!" Minion commented. Roxanne giggled and quickly wrote down a quick note.
"So, have you decided where to have the wedding?" Megamind asked.
"Our wedding," corrected Roxanne, "that means you have a say in this too, Megamind."
"Right," said Megamind sheepishly.
"So, do you have any suggestions." Actually, he did.
"Well, I was thinking the wedding could be at Metrosity Park," said Megamind. The park was when he truly felt like a happy normal person. He still remember riding bikes and holding hands with Roxanne there.
"Actually, that's not a bad idea," commented Roxanne, "we can have the actual wedding by the trees, and then we can have the reception at the shelters on the other side of the park. There would be plenty of room, and of course, the park has a lot of sentimental value." When she said this, Roxanne looked up at Megamind smiling, knowing they were sharing the same memory.
"Well then," said Megamind, pointing a figure in the air dramatically, "The park, it is!" Roxanne rolled her eyes and wrote down another quick note.
So far, they had the place, the date, the guest list, and the chef plus food picked out and the assigned people (best man and bridesmaides) chosen. The wedding was starting to come together, and the couple couldn't be happier.
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Megamind mentally counted off the days in his head. 42 more days, or six weeks until the wedding. Roxanne was out getting all the paperwork filled out for having the wedding at the park. Megamind was trying to relax since there was no crimes being committed and he didn't need to do anything else to plan for the wedding (for now at least). There were no plans or inventions he was currently working on, and none of his old inventions needed repairs.
In other words, Megamind was bored.
"Minion, are you sure there's no crimes going on?"
"At this moment, no Sir," replied Minion. Megamind gave an exaggerated sigh. "Sir, would you like to help me decide what to cook for the wedding?"
Well, he didn't have anything better to do. "Fine," Megamind replied reluctantly, "what do you have chosen so far?"
"Well, nothing yet Sir," replied Minion, "for appetizers, I'm thinking of making dinner rolls, small finger sandwiches and either cold tomato soup or warm chicken soup. I guess that will just depend on what the weather is like."
"Okay," said Megamind motioning for the fish to continue.
"For the main course, I'm thinking of making a chicken dish, and people will have a choice of grilled or cooked. There will also be a salad and a three cheese lasanga for people to choose if they don't like chicken. For sides I was thinking baked potatoes, various greens and probably any leftover rolls."
"Okay..."
"And finally for dessert, I was thinking of making the wedding cake white with blueberry flavored frosting. The cake itself will be blue and white. They'll also be a small chocolate cake and blueberry pie in case guests don't like white cake or cake in general. And to finish it off, each guest gets two scoops of homemade vanilla or chocolate ice..."
"Minion!"
"What!"
"Please cease talking about food!" said Megamind, "I feel as if I haven't eaten in days."
"oh, sorry Sir," said Minion, "um, there's chips in the kitchen if you want any."
"No that's fine," replied Megamind. Well, that was no help at all. Not only was he still bored, but now he was feeling hungry. Just then, the phone rang. After seeing that it was Roxanne, Megamind quickly answered the phone. "Ollo?"
"Hey, have you been downtown?" Roxanne asked.
"No, why?"
"Well, I just drove past the bank, and there were police cars there so I think there was..."
"A bank robbery!" Megamind finished for her, "Yes!" He tossed the phone on the table and ran towards the door.
"Hello? Megamind? Hello?" Minion heard coming from the phone.
"Er, sorry Ms. Ritchi," said Minion, "He's been feeling bored lately."
"Ah," said Roxanne, understanding, "well, good luck."
"Thank you," said Minion before hanging up and running after his master. The two hopped in the invisible car, and drove as fast as they could to the bank. When they arrived, the police were still there and were interrogating someone.
"I swear, I didn't give her the money on purpose, she was controlling me!" the man, clearly a bank employee, shouted.
"What happened?" Megamind asked the officers.
"The bank was robbed," said the officer, "and this man was giving the robber money without even being threatened, we've got witnesses confirming this."
"I was being controlled!" the man shouted again.
"Well," Megamind looked at the man's nametag, "Ken, what did the robber look like."
"She looked like a regular person," Ken replied, "blonde hair, tall, wearing jeans and a t-shirt like everyone else I've seen today. But then she pointed this weird remote at me. I was going to ask her what she needed, but I couldn't. She pressed a button, and I started moving on my own. She made me give her money, and anyone who tried to stop her she just kicked to the ground like a karate expert. After she got the money and when she was almost to the door, she pressed another button, and I could move again, so I pressed the silent alarm."
"Hmm," said Megamind, "did you get any video of her?"
"We've already checked," replied the officer, "the cameras were temporarily offline during the robbery."
"She must be a professional then," Megamind said to himself. Back when he was a villain, even though he was the only supervillain in the city, he would always make sure to disable the cameras before he robbed the place. It was just a profession thing to do. "We'll send the brainbots out to search, if you find any pictures of her, send it to me im-medant-ly."
"We will, Megamind," said the officer.
"Can I go now?" Ken asked.
Megamind and Minion got back into the invisible car and sped away.
"Well, that was a burst," commented Megamind.
"I think you mean 'bust', Sir," said Minion.
"Potato, tomato," replied Megamind, "at least now I have a villain-er- villainess to search for. Sounds like her thing is mind control, it's cliche but powerful. Which reminds me, Minion make sure all the brainbots are up to code and are able to withstand controlling frequencies, I don't want any of my brainbots attacking me."
"Will do, Sir," replied Minion.
Megamind sat back in his seat. Even though he was happy to have a criminal to chase after, he wished it wasn't so close to the wedding. He had a little more than a month to catch this woman, and he was determined to do so. There was no way he was going to let this wannabee villainess ruin his wedding.
He promised himself that the wedding would be perfect, and it would be.
Looks like a little more drama got added to the story. Stay tuned! (and review please!)