Chapter 5
Chapter Five: Arguments!
*M*E*G*A*M*I*N*D*
It is a risk. The extraterrestrial life forms cannot be trusted, as they may have some sort of connection. Keep a close eye on it, if any sign is given that he knows any other extraterrestrial being, immediate execution is approved.
Megamind couldn't speak. He feared that if he did he would wind up regretting what he would say. So he clenched his jaw as tightly as he could, staring at the holographic blue screen in front of him with a malice he had only directed at Tighten before.
Tony only watched as the alien stormed out, making sure to backhand an empty beaker on his way out. He sighed and shook his head. Bruce had retired to his quarters at about 11:30, and he was left to some friendly banter with Megamind. He didn't mind it until the alien claimed he had made his way through some of the firewalls, only to storm out.
Whatever it was, it could wait. He had work to do.
Megamind returned to the lab at 7:30. It wasn't too strange for him to be up this early to work on an invention. When you have a hyperactive mind, you tend not to get too much sleep. Either way, Tony had slept in the lab to make sure that no one came in to find the hacking occuring on the computer.
So of course he woke up when Megamind walked in, having taken his cape off, he was only carrying a bottle of water. "Hey, Iron." He says and waves to him happily. "I was wondering if you'd help me with something."
"Hm...?" Tony asks and sits up wearily, rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand. "What'dya need help with?"
"This!" Megamind yells, flinging a glowing cube onto the table, and, with an overdramatic flourish, puts only a single drop of water onto it. In it's place were a pair of heavy steel gloves and boots. "I made these to mimic the abilities of Metro Man." He says as Tony moves forward to look at them curiously. "I thought, since you made a whole suit, you could help me fix up the designs."
Tony shrugs. He did want to learn more about his fellow geniuses inventions, but he wasn't so eager to give away his technology anymore.
"Okay, look." Megamind sighs, hand on his chin almost contemplatively. "How about you just help me sleek them up? Cause I already got the flying down, and the super strength."
"Ugh. Fine." Tony groans and prays to god that this doesn't come back to bite him in the ass later. The bulky and unrefined shape was bothering him anyway.
Bruce had arrived around 9:00, and none of them were bothering to work on the tesseract. They had other things to do. And Tony and Megamind had gotten much too into refining the super power armour. They had only managed to write up a design for a smaller one so far, but that was fairly impressive to Bruce.
Of course, all of the poductiveness ended when Fury entered the room. "What's going on here?" He demands and motions to the room angrily. "What are you all doing?"
"Uh..." Tony says snarkily, turning away from the partialy updated armour on the table. "Kind of wondering the same thing about you."
"You're supposed to be locating the tesseract." Fury growls to them, Megamind returning the glower the same way he had to the screen last night.
"We are." Bruce says, patting Megamind once on the shoulder, not knowing why he was so angry with Fury, but he was well experienced in anger and felt that he had to help. Megamind sighs and shakes his head morbidly. "The models locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within a half a mile."
"No worries Director." Megamind snarls to the one eyed man. "You'll get your precious cube back."
"So what's phase 2?" Tony asks, turning the moniter next to him to show the secret files that they had broken into just this morning.
"Phase 2." Steve says from next Fury, where he had moved strangely silently for a man of his size. "Is SHIELD uses the cube to make weapons." The look on his face when he looked at Fury clearly said that he was not happy about this. "Sorry, the computer was moving a little slow." He says with a nod to Tony and the monitor.
"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the tesseract." Fury responds in a strangely clm manner. Everyone in the room was just getting more suspicious. "That doesn't mean we're-."
"Director." Megamind says in a cold and even voice tht has Tony glancing at him as the show Fury the plans for the weapons clearly laid out on the monitor.
"So, Nick." Tony says, crossing his arms cockily. "Were you lying?"
"I was wrong Director." Steve says in the same emotionless way Megamind had just seconds ago, Natasha and Thor walking in with suspicious looks at the men already in the room. "The world hasn't changed a bit."
"Did you know about this?" Bruce questionsa Natasha with a hint of betrayal in his eyes.
"Doctor." Natasha says warily. "You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment?"
"He has as much a right to be here as anyone else." Megamind glowers from behind Bruce, arms crossed."As do I Director." He says, purposefully putting emphasis on the last sentance, Fury grimacing as he realized what the alien knew.
"Loki's manipulating him." Natasha says to the scientists in front of her.
"And you've been doing...what exactly?" Bruce asks in as calm a way as he can. He was somehow the only one in the room who sounded calm.
"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you." She objects, slightly irked.
"Yes, and i'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy." Bruce responds with a slightly louder voice then before. "I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."
"Because of him." Fury growls as he points a finger accusively at Thor.
"Me?" Thor asks and points at himself, nearly stumned by the accusation.
"We learned, 27 years sgo, that we're not the only ones in this universe." Fury says as he motions to Megamind. "It was relatively harmless, so we assumed that we would be safe from extraterrestrial war. But no. Last year, we had a visitor from yet another planet, who's grudge match leveled a small town. So we finally learned that we're hopelessly, hilariously, outgunned."
"Really." Megamind growls, stepping forward to Fury, attempting to stare down the taller man. "If I was so harmless, then why do your soldiers have explicit orders to execute me, should I EVER mention space?!"
"You have to realize, that we know nothing about any other race that could be out there!" Fury shouts to the alien.
"My people want nothing but peace with your planet!" Thor rumbles, attempting to convince Fury more than anyone else.
"But you're NOT the only people out there." Fury growls, motioning once more to the alien in front of him.
"For all we know, they are!" Megamind responds in an equally unkind and menacing voice.
"You are living proof of another races existance, besides the asgardian's." Fury responds as the rest of the members feed off of the tension in the room, getting in close and dangerously personal positions.
"Get in position 'Mind. You go down to the starboard. Take out the quinjets. Get back to the ship by 1300." Next to Clint, the small form of a silent and obediant Megamind, sitting with his boots and gloves on as Clint takes out his bow. Megamind watched with bored brown eyes. "Arms to ammunition, over."
"That's what you think." Megamind sneers back. "I was sent here when I was eight DAYS old Director! And do you know what my first memory was?" Fury watches with his eye glinting in anger. "My first memory was of my parents shoving me into a space pod and sending me off. The only time I saw my planet was when it was getting sucked into a black hole."
"I suggest you not mention anything more about your 'childhood escapades'." Fury snaps. "We have enough to worry about without a filthy creature like you here."
"Oh yes, i'm just a filthy creature." Megamind chuckles in a way he hadn't in many months. "Perhaps that's why you reffered to me as 'it' in your orders?"
"Well, perhaps i'll take it upon myself to follow them." Fury says as he grabs ahold of Megamind's collar.
"YOU CAN TRY!" Megamind roars back, several of the fellow faces turning to him.
"Put on the suit. Let's go a few rounds." Steve growls as Megamind and Fury continue their nonverbal stand off.
The quinjet moves through the clouds effortlessly, stopping only to let Megamind jump from the plane and onto the helicarrier with a dull thud. No soldiers were out right now. It was too early, and they were in midair and moving. It was easy for the blue form to simply walk up to the nearest plane, waiting for the signal, being the explosion of the port engine turbine...
"Agent Romanoff." Fury says, breaking his gaze from the enraged alien. "Would you escort Dr. Banner back to his..."
"Where?" Megamind snarls to them, to spite Fury, and to defend Bruce. "I think his room is already occupied."
"The cell was just in case..." Fury begins, ready to start another fight with the prone blue form in front of him.
"In case you needed to kill me!" Bruce yells, his anger finally managing to come out in his voice. "But you can't! I know! I've tried!" He says with a bit of dejection. "I got low." He sighs. "I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk!" As soon as he glances at Natasha, his face begins to contort. "You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?"
Before he can finish though, two guns are pointed at him, cocked and ready to shoot. "Look Doc...you gotta put down the staff." Megamind says, keeping his hands up and yet talking in a friendly voice. "Ya still got a lot to lose if you mess this up."
"Really." Bruce mutters, not really believing Megamind at all. The computer beeping seems to break the vicious trance they had been in a moment ago. "Sorry kids, you don't get to see my little party trick after all."
"Located the tesseract?" Thor asks, hope carefully laden in his voice.
Tony nods once. "I can get there faster." He responds. Really he just wanted to get away.
"Man, and here I was thinking i'd be able to test out the upgrades." Megamind chuckles, seemingly going through a bipolar transformation.
"Look, all of us..." Steve starts, only for Thor to interrupt him, breaking the strange calm that had formed.
"The tesseract belongs on Asgard. No human is a match for it." Thor objects quickly.
"Then I guess it's a good thing i'm not human." Megamind says and moves over to start putting on his slight armour.
"Oh my god!" Bruce says, looking at one of the many monitors with wide eyes.
And Bruce pushes the button, Megamind immediatly going into action.
"Put on the suit!" Steve yells to Tony.
"Yep!" Tony responds, running out of the room, Megamind following to get his de-gun. And maybe to maybe slip into the Black Mamba...