Hello! I am so sorry It has taken me so long to get this chapter out. The delay was due to a combination of life and writers block. I appreciate those of you that continued to reach out to me asking for the next chapter. Thank you for still reading!

"But first," Riley said in a tone of putting off the inevitable." I need to dry off. I'm going inside. You can get into the living room by swimming under the house. You should be able to find it." With that, Riley was already walking away.

Minion swam back a ways to get a better look at the "House." Megamind wouldn't have called it merely a house. He would have called it. Super ultra-awesome techy science lab/house. The part Minion noted the most was that it didn't look like it could keep water out at all, yet he had seen it come out of the water, and now it was completely dry. He would have to ask Riley how she did it.

Minion swam under the house, expecting to see one opening to swim to. He wasn't sure why she would have a whole in the floor of her living room, but it was what she said. When Minion saw under the house he was amazed. There was a central area with glass tunnels leading to every room. There were signs and blinky lights and everything! It was as if the place was designed for a minion! Minion suddenly realized it probably was designed for Riley's minion, so he decided he would keep his questions about it to himself.

He followed the tunnel labeled living room and found himself in what clearly was the living room. There was couch, and a TV, and even a Nintendo 64 hooked up to the TV. Suddenly memories from his childhood flooded in. When he and Megamind were teenagers, they escaped from prison just to steal a Nintendo 64 and one game; Super Mario 64. Since they were able to dehydrate it at will, the warden never found out. Minion and Megamind had spent hours playing that game….

"Helloooo, Minion?"

"Huh? Oh, hello Riley." Minion said, pulled out of his fond memories.

Riley laughed. "I asked if you and Megamind played the Nintendo 64?"

"Oh, uh, yes we did." Minion didn't feel like talking about that with Riley, it just made him miss Megamind more.

Riley picked up on that pretty quickly. "Alright." She said, plopping on the couch. "I can't hold off on telling you my story any longer."

She took a breath. "It happened about three and a half years ago. Back then I lived on the planet Rogerous, where I grew up. That day I had just finished some upgrades on my ship so Minion and I took it out for a spin. Everything ran smoothly as far as I could tell. It was getting late, so we decided to head back home in time for dinner. But when we got back, home was on fire. I ran off the ship, thinking only of my parents. I left Minion behind on the ship. As soon as I got off the ship, it blew up. and… she didn't make it. I don't remember anything clearly after that, until both fires were out and I found myself shivering with a blanket over my shoulders and someone telling me that both my parents, their minions, and my minion had all parished.

"The leaders of our little Sarylian city took me in and were kind to me, but no one else was. Sure, they tried to seem nice, but I could tell what they really thought. They thought I was responsible for both the fire and the explosion. A few thought it was intentional, that I had…. But most believed that I was simply irresponsible. But that is worse because… to this day I still don't know whether or not they were correct.

"Anyway, I couldn't stand living my life the way it was, so I rebuilt my ship, and as soon as it was functional, I was gone. I didn't even know where I was going. /I flew for a while with nowhere in mind, then I remembered hearing about Earth, an inhabitable planet that did not have a Sarylian colony on it. So, that is where I came. And here is where I've stayed, spending my time inventing and building the coolest house ever, if I do say so myself. But…. It has been a lonely three years for sure."

When Riley didn't say any more Minion felt that he should say something in response to what she shared, but it was difficult to find the right words. "I'm sorry all that happened to you." He said finally.

"Hey, it's not your fault!" Riley replied. "Actually, watching news stories about you and Megamind is what has kept life interesting for me. Though, if I'm honest, seeing the way the two of you work together makes me a little jealous. That is, it makes me miss Minion."

Riley paused thoughtfully, the looked up at Minion with a scrutinizing expression that made him uncomfortable. "What?" he asked.

Riley took a deep breath and let it out. "Are you absolutely sure Megamind isn't the one who put you on that satellite?" Minion stared at her. "I mean, I'm not saying he made it blow up on purpose, but maybe he was doing an experiment on you? Cause if there's a chance he did do it, then that would be strange. I mean, that's not something most Sarylians would do to their Minions… It's not something friends do to friends."

Now Minion was clearly mad. "Your right, it is not something friends do to friends, which is why I know it wasn't Megamind! If you've seen as on Metro City News than you should know that." With that Minion swam off.

Megamind sat in front of his computers, searching for any possible lead on the criminals who took and later Destroyed Minion. His own camera records had been lost, but he searched the records of video footage city wide, searching for anything out of place.

He eventually noticed a pattern of a certain man frequently going in and out of an ally that wasn't far from the lair. Perhaps it wasn't much, but it was suspicious. Megamind checked the date of Minion's kidnapping. At 10:05 that evening the video footage showed the man dressed in all black sneaking out of the ally in the direction of the lair. Now Megamind was really interested. he was definitely going to go check it out in the morning. For the moment, his eyelids felt heavy so he decided to call it a night.

He set the video footage he was looking at back to live footage and turned to go, but something caught his eye. There was the man, loitering at the entrance of the ally way! "He looks like he's waiting to meet someone…" Megamind said under his breath. He glanced at the clock. It read 12:23 a.m. Megamind didn't wait to think more in detail. If he could catch these guys in a meeting, then he could find out their plans… "or get revange!" He thought" No no, just the plans." He told himself. "They might even turn out to be common thugs."

He quickly checked his bedroom to make sure Roxanne was safely asleep, then he switched to invisibility on his watch and slipped out of the lair.

Roxanne was asleep, until she heard the door of her bedroom open. When she heard it close she sat up, intending to acknowledge her husband and tell him she was glad he had enough sense to finally get some sleep, but her husband was not in the room apparently. She thought she must have imagined the door. She decided to get up and check on him anyway. She got up, slipped her slippers on, and went out, just in time to see evidence of something invisible going through the brick wall illusion. Without missing a beat, she put a coat on, grabbed the life form scanner off Megamind's desk, and followed. She set the life for scanner to detect Sarylian life only and found that one Sarylian was moving down the street away from her.

She followed Megamind until he stopped near an ally way. There was a man standing there as if waiting for something. She crept closer till she was right by Megamind, but as she stopped her slipper scrapped noisily on the sidewalk. She cringed at the sound of it.

The man looked up in their direction and walked toward them. "I know your there." He said. Roxanne held her breath. "I also know it's you Megamind. Who else would be spying on me with an invisibility device? Plus, I've been expecting you. Suddenly he reached his hand out until it came in to contact with something. "Got ya!" he said.

Roxanne saw a person appear next to her with the man holding their wrist. It was herself in a black dress. She realized that was what Megamind's watch got switched to instead of his actual self.

The man was obviously surprised. "Not Megamind, but his wife." He looked at what he thought was Roxanne. "How would you feel about hanging out here so I can get your husband to come for you?" he asked and started pulling Megamind into the ally.

"Thanks but I've been kidnapped enough for one life time." Roxanne heard Megamind reply in her voice. She had to admit it was a good imitation. That was exactly what she would have said. She followed them into the ally were there was an assortment of weapons. The man picked up what looked like a dart gun. Then he looked in Roxanne's direction. "As I said once already, I know you're there Megamind."

"No, I came to spy on you, Megamind isn't here." Roxaane could her the panic in her own voice. Megamind knew she was there, otherwise he wouldn't be worried.

"Megamind, show yourself or I'll shoot your dear wife." He pointed the dart gun at what appeared to be Roxanne's head.

The real Roxanne, in a a panic and not knowing what else to do, quickly changed from invisible to Megamind in appearance. "No, no, no don't shoot, I'm here!" She said in Megamind's voice.

"Hello there Megamind" The man said. He pointed the dart gun at her. "Bye."

"Bye." The man pulled the trigger. Megamind watched as the dart stuck in the abdomen of what looked like his body. Then he saw himself tumble over. "No!" he exclaimed in Roxanne's voice. The man shoved him away, and grabbed a device from his collection. "See ya" He said than he shot the ground beneath himself, creating a portal, and just like that, he was gone.

Yet Another Cliff Hanger. Please Review, I like to see your thoughts. :)