Hello! Here is the next chapter. it is kind of short, but I'm going to try to update again by Saturday. Quick note, I changed one thing in chapter 3. I decided not to specify the day Minion woke up. that's all you don't have to re-read it. :)
"Hello Minion." Said Megamind's voice. "You're probably wondering where you are. You are the key subjuct of the most recent scientific study I'm doing." The voice continued. "I'm sorry to say I can't tell you more, but that would ruin everything. Please enjoy yourself, and don't be concerned, everything is fine. Hopefully I will see you soon, you fantastic fish you." The message ended, and Minion looked around. It was a beautiful set-up. there was a miniature coral reef, a huge castle with a tv inside. Above the surface of the water, there was a fish ladder that led to a water-slide, as well as a buffet of all Minion's favorite foods, including his fish flakes.
It was all really cool… except for the fact that Minion was all alone and had no idea what was going on. "Megamind wouldn't do this to me, would he? Friends don't experiment on friends… at least not without their permission." Minion thought to himself. "Well, maybe sometimes without permission, but definitely not without telling them." Minion corrected his thoughts, remembering a time when Megamind had him test a jetpack against his will. "But that was years ago. He wouldn't do something like that now." Minion thought back to the message. It had sounded like Megamind, and he had even mispronounced the word subject, but somehow it wasn't right. Minion felt sure that it his best friend hadn't been the one to put him there. But then, if Megamind didn't do it, who did?
Though it wasn't exactly comforting to be convinced that something had happened to Minion, it gave Megamind something to do about the situation. The first thing he did was reboot the computer system. He was pleased to find that all his data was there… except video footage. He wasn't exactly surprised by that. Megamind tried to find out how his system had been hacked so he could get a lead on the intruder, but he couldn't find anything. Whoever did this obviously wasn't an amateur.
Suddenly he was pulled away from his computers by his brainbots. He had been tuning them out, but he started paying attention. They were frantically bow-bowing and pointing toward a blank wall. Megamind felt that the wall wasn't quite right. When he went closer, he found skid marks on the ground, as if something had been pushed… into the wall? Then it clicked. There wasn't supposed to be a wall there. There was supposed to be a door that said "Exit." He reached through the wall, then fell through.
"Megamind!" Roxanne shouted from behind him. She ran to the wall, then cautiously poked her head through. "Megamind?"
Megamind was flat on the ground in a circular room. He looked up at her. "I'm alright, but that certainly was exciting."
Roxanne smiled slightly. "Good thing you relocated the alligators." Then she noticed what was on the ground next to her husband. "Megamind look!"
Megamind did look. Right next to him was Minion's gorilla suit. Megamind swallowed his horror and inspected the surroundings. It looked as if Minion had been in a serious struggle, there were more skid marks on the ground, and Minions stretch arm had been deployed. The suit had buttons smashed in, and the head tank was nothing but broken glass. The forget-me-stick was lying right next to it. It didn't take Megamind's genius to figure out what had happened. Minion had been attacked, pushed into the exciting room, defeated, hit with the forget-me-stick, and fish-napped. "But why kidnap Minion?" Megamind asked out loud.
He puzzled over this question for a long time, and discussed it with Roxanne, but they couldn't figure it out. As a former villain, the only thing that made sense to him was that someone kidnapped minion as bait, but if that were the case, the kidnapper would have already contacted him. Roxanne wondered, who would hate Minion for Minion? Marvin maybe, but he was out of the question. This was definitely not the work of a gloupunkt.
"My mind is completely boggled." Megamind said, sinking into his lab chair. He checked his watch, it read 1:00 a.m.
Next to him, Roxanne yawned. "Megamind, we need to get to bed. We aren't going to get anywhere with this if we're dead tired." She said.
"My dear, you underestimate my ability to go without sleep for long periods of time." Megamind replied, but as he said it a yawn betrayed him.
"Uhuh, remember the time you held me hostage for 48 hours? You fell asleep after the first 6."
"Well I wasn't planning to hold you hostage for that long. Seriously how could no one notice that you were gone?! Anyway, it's not like I stayed asleep the whole time!"
"Ehh, you slept for quite a while. Minion eventually felt bad and sprayed me with knock out spray. Next thing I knew, I woke up in a cozy guest room with a tray of cookies next to me." Roxanne smiled at the memory.
Megamind smiled too. "Ah yes. Minion always did struggle with the evil concept of how to treat captives." Megamind's smile faded.
"Hey, we're going to find him, okay?" Roxanne said gently, looking Megamind in the eye. Megamind looked back and nodded slightly. "Well you may or may not need sleep, but I know I do, and I know I'll sleep better if you're next to me." Roxanne said, standing up and holding out her hand to her husband. Megamind took it and followed her to the bedroom, but it was a longtime before either of them got to sleep. There mind's where full of wondering where Minion was, and whether or not he was ok.
The days passed slowly for Minion… or quickly, he couldn't really tell which. There was no way to tell how much time had passed since he had been put in the "fish tank of fun" as the words on the wall read.
He had spent a long time looking for evidence that it hadn't really been Megamind who put him there. He didn't find anything, but he also didn't have any inventions to help him out. He was really feeling the loss of his robot suit. He still knew Megamind wasn't behind the weird experiment, but it would have been nice to find proof.
After searching the place thoroughly Minion spent a while mistrusting everything (Except for the fish food, which he was pretty sure was his own from the lair). Eventually he decided to try to enjoy all the cool things put there apparently for his benefit. He ate the food, rode the water slide, and watched tv. But it didn't feel like too long before that got old.
Minion sat on the floor staring at the wall. "Fish tank of fun? More like fish tank of boring." He thought. He guessed that several days had gone by since he had been in the "Fish tank of boring" based on how much he had eaten and slept. He wondered if Megamind was searching for him. " I'm sure he is, but why hasn't he found me yet?" Minion felt tears in his eyes. Thinking of his best friend filled him with loneliness. He missed Megamind. He missed joking with him, or surprising him with doughnuts, or listening to him enthusiastically talk about a new invention. And he missed how Roxanne gushed over every new cookie recipe he tried, and how they would team-tease Megamind. He missed Sara, and the sound of her calling him David. Minion let the tears flow freely. He wanted his family back. He fell asleep imagining the design of a new cape he would make for Megamind if he ever saw him again.
It was two weeks since Megamind and Roxanne had arrived home, and that day found Megamind asleep with his face on the computer keyboard. Despite Roxanne's requests for him to take a break, he had spent two days straight doing research and trying to figure out different ways to find Minion. The closest he had come was when he programed his lifeform sensor to only track Minion's DNA, it had started to work, and Megamind was just getting a sense of which direction to search for his friend, when the trace was lost. The only thing he learned was that Minion had been taken into space.
Roxanne was sitting next to her husband puzzling over this. It didn't make sense; how could Minion be found than blocked from the lifeform sensor? Or how could any of Megamind's inventions be blocked for that matter? Someone would have to be a genius, and very familiar with Megamind's work. Roxanne started at that thought. "Megamind woke up I think I'm onto something." She said
"What, What is it?" He asked, going from fully asleep to fully awake in record time.
"What if someone is using your own inventions against you? Using your technology to block all your inventions?"
"Okay, that makes sense, but how does it help?"
"Well… I'm not sure, I was hoping you would figure that part out."
Megamind held his chin. "Hhmmm… My inventions… Minion is in space… that's it!" Megamind started typing at lightning speed. As he typed he told Roxanne what he was doing. "The majority of my inventions that are in space are my satellites. If I check to see if all of them are still remotely connected to the lair… there!" the screen showed that one satellite was offline.
"Do you think?" Roxanne started to ask.
"Only one way to find out." Megamind said. Then he typed in the override control to hack into his own satellite. He quickly checked through the security footage, and there he saw a little green fish in an enormous colorful tank. Megamind and Roxanne let out shouts of joy, then Megamind hacked the sound system. "Minion!" he said.
"They saw the fish jump awake. "Sir?"
"Minion Code…" Suddenly red lights were flashing and alarms were blaring Where Minion was. The screen shut off. "No no no no no nonono," Megamind realized his mistake. He announced his presence to Minion's captor.
Megamind ran to his ship before he told Roxanne what was happening. He took off and got well away from earth when he saw it. A huge explosion in the exact direction he was headed. The satellite had just blown up.
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