Yeah, I'm really sorry for waiting so long for an update. But all this week I've had projects and finals to study for, plus band auditions. Aie ya! That and I've had a bit of a writter's block. But not everything has been bad. I finally got "The Art of Megamind" in the mail (it is awesome btw), I bought the first out of four Megamind comics and finals are almost over. I'm hoping this chapter will be worth the wait. It's kinda a filler chapter, but look on the bright side. Next chapter: The wedding!
Anyway, enjoy!
"Well, what do you think?"
"It's definitely...black."
Megamind and Roxanne were standing in front of the newly finished jet, and with one day to spare. It was painted black with a blue lightning bolt (of course). It looked very shiny and new.
"I've tested it all day, and it's ready to fly to hey-why-ye," said Megamind.
Roxanne smiled at her fiancee's pronounciation. "Good, and you sure it won't crash?"
"Of course not!" replied Megamind, "when has anything I ever made...okay don't answer that."
Roxanne laughed. "I was just joking, I know it won't crash. If it works as great as it looks, we shouldn't have any problems getting to Hawaii." Megamind beamed. He always loved it when she complemented his inventions.
"Well, I guess I should be going," said Roxanne. Megamind nodded. He knew she was going to the party her friends and aunt had planned for her.
From what the alien had heard, on the night before the wedding the bride and husband to be seperate parties. Music Man had offered to throw Megamind a party, but the hero was quite content with staying in the lair, ordering a pizza and watching one of the many action movies in his collection with Minion. Besides, Megamind still had work to do.
"Have fun," said Megamind, giving her a quick kiss.
"You too," replied Roxanne, "and don't spend all night working."
"How do you know I will?"
"Because I know you too well," replied Roxanne, smirking before she walked away, leaving Megamind with a sly smile on his face.
But as soon as Roxanne left, Megamind's smile left with her. Since the jet was in the observatory, Megamind just simply walked out onto the roof, looking over the huge city.
Tomorrow's the day, Megamind thought to himself. He should've been happy, but...
"Sir?"
Megamind lifted his head at the voice. "Ollo Minion," replied Megamind.
"You okay, Sir?" Minion asked, "You look as if you're over thinking again."
"What do you mean 'again'?" questioned Megamind, a little offended.
"No offense, Sir, but I can tell your thinking about the villainess."
Guess Roxanne's not the only one who can tell what I'm thinking, thought Megamind. "I don't understand it, Minion. She goes on a two week crime spree, and then she vanishes? It doesn't make sense!"
The villainess had completely stopped committing crimes. She hadn't robbed a place for the past two weeks.
"You're getting paranoid," stated Minion.
"Am not!" Megamind retorted, sounding like a ten year old.
"Yes you are, Sir," said Minion, "Maybe she found out you were trying to find her, and just decided to quit while ahead?"
As much as Megamind wanted to believe that, he knew what a villain was like. They aren't after the money, they're after the battle. The most thrilling part of being a supervillain, battling the superhero.
"Or maybe she's waiting until I'm gone on my honeymoon to attack," said Megamind.
"Don't even think about it," said Minion.
"Think about what?"
"Cancelling your honeymoon because of the villainess," replied Minion.
"Minion! I would never..." Megamind thought for a moment. "Well, maybe shortening it..."
"No," Minion said sternly, "you know the brainbots and I have everything under control here. Sir, you're getting married, to Roxanne Ritchi. This is supposed to be a happy and relaxing time for you. Celebrate, Sir!"
Megamind thought and smiled. Again, his best friend was right. He was marrying the woman he loved, and then going on a week long vacation with her. This was a time to celebrate.
"Then let us celebrate!" said Megamind, happy and dramatically, "Minion, did you order the pizza?"
"It's on it's way, Sir," replied Minion, smiling.
"I'll go get the movie, you go get the sodas," said Megamind.
"On it, Boss," replied Minion, "and just so you know, my vote is for Back to the Future!"
"Well, I was thinking Die Hard, but now that you mention it..."
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"See ya Roxie! Congratulations again!"
"Thanks!" replied Roxanne. She heard the slam of the door and then sat down on the couch with a sigh. It was nearly midnight, and everyone was now just leaving her aunt's house.
"Now wasn't that fun, Rainy?" her aunt asked.
Roxanne gave a small smile. She wasn't really a party person, but it was fun to be around her friends, even if a few of them had a little too much to drink.
"Yeah, it was fun actually," replied Roxanne.
"Good, I'm glad you enjoyed it," said Deb. She then picked up two wine glasses, and poured what was left of a wine bottle into them. She handed Roxanne a glass. "A toast to your last night being single, and your sure-to-be happy marriage."
Roxanne smiled, and they both clinked their glasses together before taking a sip. Roxanne was glad her aunt approved of Megamind and their wedding. But there was still a thought in the back of her mind.
"Aunt Deb?" Roxanne asked.
"Mm?" replied her aunt. Roxanne opened her mouth to talk, but was interrupted by the door opening.
"Sounds like the party's over," said Jon, with a sleeping Cassidy in his arms.
"Yep. Did you two have fun?" asked Deb.
"Yeah, she liked both of the movies," replied Jon, "after that I just drove her around in the car until she fell asleep."
Deb gave an approving smile, and Jon walked to the hallway to put his sister and himself to bed.
"So, what did you want to talk with me about, Rainy?" Deb asked.
"Well," said Roxanne, looking at her wine glass, "why did you like Megamind when you first met him?"
"Would you rather I hated him?" asked Deb.
"No, no, no!" said Roxanne, "it's just that I figured, well with him being..."
"Blue?" asked Deb.
"and an ex-villain," finished Roxanne, "I would've thought it would've been hard for all of you to like him. But you and Cassidy warmed right up to him."
"Well, Cass likes anyone you like," said Deb, stating what Roxanne already knew, "as for me, well, I always said you two had a connection. He would always capture you, but never hurt a hair on your head. The second reason: You liked him. I know you're a smart girl Rainy, you wouldn't marry anyone who wasn't perfect for you. And third, the relationship between you and Megamind, well, it seemed all too familiar."
Roxanne looked at her aunt. What was she talking about? "What do you mean?"
"Well, you remember your uncle, don't you?"
Roxanne nodded. She could never forget her Uncle Randy. Because her real father left her and her mother, Randy was the closest thing Roxanne had to a father. Randy was kind, funny and caring. He was a great man.
"Well, this may surprise you a little, but he wasn't always the man I married." Roxanne raised an eyebrow at this. "Randy grew up on the bad end of things. He was also a jailbird."
"What?" Roxanne said in disbelief. Her uncle, had been a criminal?
"Yep, he mostly stole to survive. Mostly food, clothes and sometimes watches to pawn off. Dropped out of high school," -Roxanne had remembered Megamind saying something about dropping out of high school, for both being to smart for it and to 'embrace his villainess ways'- "and had stayed in juvy twice for about a month or two each."
"So, how on Earth did you two even meet?" Roxanne asked.
Deb smiled. "Well, one night, I came home to my house. My parents were out of the house, and I was all alone. I walk into the kitchen, and there he was drinking a Dr. Pepper."
"What did you do?"
"I nearly hit him over the head with my mother's rolling pin." Roxanne laughed. That sounded exactly like what her aunt would do. "He managed to convince me to let him stay there until midnight. He promised he would leave after that, knowing the police would be off his tail by then. He didn't threaten me, he just asked with a sly smirk.
"I told him he could stay until eleven thirty. While I waited, I made sure he hadn't stolen anything of ours. Our television was broken at the time, and so we were just staring at each other, me glaring and him looking bored. Finally, I started up a conversation with him, just something simple about tv.
"That developed into a whole conversation, which ended right at eleven thirty. Several days later, he came back, asking to stay until midnight."
"Did you let him?" Roxanne asked.
"I said he could stay until eleven forty-five, and we started up another conversation. Randy started coming back once week, and after a while, he stopped coming to hide and just came to talk. Believe it or not, I started to look forward to our conversations. We told each other about our families, our favorite things, our stories. If it wasn't for the fact he was a thief, I would've thought he was a normal college student."
Roxanne felt a bit of deja vu. Her aunt had met what most would believe was just a petty thief, but was actually just a normal guy. She couldn't help but think of her and Megamind.
"So, what happened?"
"Well, even if he stopped stealing, he was still being followed by the police. One night, after three months of our little chats, we were talking and a police car drove up to my house. Randy got up and opened a back window. He told me to stay put, and he climbed out the window. I looked out the front window, and an officer was walking up to my house. But before he could even get close to the door, he stopped, and ran towards the house next door."
"He made it look like he was hiding next door," said Roxanne. Deb nodded. "And he was arrested?"
"Yep, and I wasn't even questioned." He saved her from getting in trouble for hiding a criminal, thought Roxanne. "I would visit him in jail, our conversations dwindled down to the length of the prison visitation hour. But I still enjoyed our chats. Then, one day, I got a call from Randy. He called to say that he had gotten parole.
"After that, I don't think anyone could tell he used to steal to make a living. He got a job, and then got himself an apartment, which we soon moved into together. He may've changed job wise, but to me, he was still the man I stayed up until midnight talking to. We still had midnight talks every once in a while. My parents hated Randy, but to me, he was my closest friend."
Roxanne smiled. She was pretty sure she knew what was going to come next. "What happened then?"
"Well, about five months after we moved in together, I looked at the checkbook. Everytime Randy got paid, ten dollars of it disappeared. It wasn't spent, according to the checkbook, and Randy never said anything about it. As you can imagine, I got curious. Randy could've been using that ten dollars a week for anything, and he was keeping it a secret."
"Did you ask him about it?" Roxanne asked.
"Well I thought about it, but I never did," said Deb, "I knew your uncle, and I had to trust him. That's just a part of love."
Roxanne looked down at her glass again. Despite the whole 'Bernard' incident, she trusted Megamind. He would tell her every plan he had unless it was something for her, and she always trusted Megamind with her life, even if his escape plans from a new villain's hideout were a little crazy. Her aunt was right, trusting someone was a part of loving them.
"Finally, after over a year of the missing ten dollars a week, I found out what it was for." Deb smiled, and lifted her hand, her diamond ring glistening in the light of the living room.
"He was saving up to get you a wedding ring," said Roxanne smiling. Deb smiled back and nodded.
"I could tell right away that Megamind cared about you, Rainy," said Deb, "and I have the feeling he didn't influence himself when he turned into the hero." Roxanne blushed slightly. "Bottom line: He loved you, and that was a good enough reason for me to love him."
"Thanks Aunt Deb," said Roxanne. The two brunettes hugged each other.
"Well, I'd say we start cleaning up and then hit the hay," suggested Deb, "after all, tomorrow's the day!"
"I know," said Roxanne happily, before picking up a piece of trash. As the two cleaned, they didnt' even notice Jon who was standing in the doorway of his room. He had heard the whole story.
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Melanie walked over to the platform. Everything looked good so far.
"Nice work," she said to the engineer, who was basically on autopilot as he worked. She got out her remote. "Now, let's go a little faster." She pressed a button, and the man started to work a little faster.
Melanie smiled and left the man to his work. "After all, tomorrow's the day."
Oh snap!
Okay, I hope this chapter was okay, you wouldn't believe how difficult it was to start writing it (curse you writer's block). If it sucks, I'm sorry, but I'm planning on uploading the wedding chapter late tonight/early tomorrow morning.
Please review and Back to the Future FTW.
