Evil Always Finds A Way...
"It's Hopeless!" He raged, storming into his lair, "The idiots just won't listen!"
"Who won't listen to you, Sir?" Minion asked.
"Politicians," Megamind sneered, "I thought solving world hunger would be an interesting challenge, now that I'm not a bad guy any more, but they won't let me!"
"Wait, You're not being allowed to solve world hunger?" Roxanne was a frequent visitor to his lair these days, enjoying his company as often as she could.
"They're stalling, naming pointless excuses, and ignoring solutions" Megamind grumbled, dropping into his favourite chair, "Ration bars solve hunger, and I can freely manufacture and distribute more than enough for everyone – I just can not distribute them outside Metrocity"
"Well, those ration bars do taste horrible" Roxanne smiled, having tried one earlier.
"That's deliberate," Megamind dismissed the complaint, "Basic economics. The food industry don't want the market flooded with free good food, but if they taste bad enough to be everyone's last resort rather than their first, no competition"
"That's actually surprisingly thoughtful," She murmured in reply, "So, you're just waiting on permission?"
"Not getting it," he muttered, "Not going to get it either. They don't want hunger solved. Or just not by me, perhaps."
"Well, you're still an evil supervillain," Roxanne mused, "Perhaps you should expand your conquests."
"Conquest..." Megamind mused, "Wait, what?"
"You never actually officially stepped down as Evil Overlord of Metrocity," she pointed out, "You just let the old administration take over the boring paperwork again. You being Evil Overlord of Metrocity is why you can distribute your 'cure' here – so expand on that. You are still the cool supervillain who saved me from Hal, be the cool supervillain who saves the world from itself."
"A supervillain who saves people..."
"It's like you told Tighten, it's all in the presentation. When you came to save me, you didn't ride in on a beam of sunlight to the strains of an angelic chorus." she smiled, "You flew in black cloud, thick with lightning and brainbots, a pounding beat in the background. It was villainous, but you won, you saved the city."
"She has a point, Sir," Minion added, "You haven't exactly abandoned your supervillain aesthetic for the whole "Defender of Metro City" thing."
"So, miss Ritchie," Megamind mused, the old familiar smirk gracing his lips, "You want me to play the villain, and terrorise the world into submission?"
"You are kind of good at that," she nodded, before adding, "I'll even be your evil queen if you want..."
"Evil… Queen!" Megamind gasped, his mind going blank.
"Oh dear, I think you broke him, miss Ritchie."
"Don't worry, Minion," she replied, "I'll put him back together again."
"The world for my queen," Megamind muttered to himself as he suddenly turned to his keyboard, "The world for my queen."
"Whatever gave you the idea?" Minion asked Roxanne, who shrugged in response.
"Evil always finds a way." she told him, as she Megamind's brain kick into high gear.