Chapter 9
Chapter 9: The Return of the Super Man
*M*E*G*A*M*I*N*D*
"What?" Megamind repeats, looking at all of the faces that're staring at him incredulously.
"You..." Loki says and looks at the alien with a new found fear in his eyes. "How?! How is it that YOU are worthy of wielding Mjolnir?!"
"Brother Mind!" Thor yells, holding up his hand and motioning with his hand to Metro Man. "Use it to battle your nemesis!"
"O-kay..." Megamind slurs in confusion as Thor throws another punch at Loki. Minion steps up beside him.
"Sir, Mr. Stark has made it out, he's made contact with the others it seems." The fish bot says.
"How do you know that?" Megamind asks as Metro Man gets up, wiping his mouth in disbelief.
"The AI told me." Minion says and points to the speaker on the roof.
"Hello Mr. Mind." JARVIS says over the speakers. "I'd introduce myself, but I believe you should focus on the battle at hand."
"Right." Megamind says hastily and turns back just in time to dodge out of the way of a laser, glass shattering behind him. "Okay, Minion, so this is the only thing that can hurt him." Megamind says and holds up the hammer. "Now, what we need to do is break the control over his mind. What I suggest is-"
"Cognitive recalibration?" Minion asks.
"Yup, so you get him with your extendo arms, and i'll get him real hard on the head." Megamind says, swinging Mjolnir lightly, shocked when it cracks the counter.
"Are you sure that's safe Sir?" Minion asks, eyeing the cracks with a bit of fear.
"Well, normally no." Megamind says as Metro Man thrusts a fist through one of the counters scaringly close to Megamind's head. "But this IS Metro Man, so..."
"I'll grab him."
"I'll distract him." Megamind says, taking a deep breath as he hears the sounds of Thor and Loki's battle stopping. "Okay, three, two, one..." He counts down, both of them jumping over the counter together, Metro Man dodging out of the way of a flailing fist.
Minion runs behind them, seemingly fleeing as Megamind points at Metro Man. "Well, Metro Man, it seems we meet a-" He stops when Metro Man backhands him, falling back and hardly able to keep his grip on Mjolnir. "Hey! Whatever happened to the back and forth we had?!"
"Things have changed Megamind." Metro Man finally says, voice dark and filled with rage. "You've changed, and so have I."
"Oh come on, how could you have possibly changed?" Megamind asks, almost irritated. "You've been the same person ever since the day we met!"
"You think I wanted to be?!" Metro Man yells as he throws another fist at Megamind, the lithe alien hardly able to move his head out of the way, the wind thrown up throwing up the tattered remains of the Black Mamba. "You think I never wanted to live without limits and do anything I wanted?! I was never given the choice of who I wanted to be! My father chose for me! I wasn't allowed to do anything on my own!" He continues venting, each time he attempts to strike getting closer and closer to hitting his enemy. "And when I finally got out of the damned gilded cage, you brought me along with you, back to this life!"
Metro Man manages to hit the alien, Megamind finally feeling the full force of his fist. throughout all of their fights, Metro Man had held back. Maybe because he had to keep up appearances, maybe because he didn't want to hurt the man who he shared an odd sort of kinship with. Metro Man pulls the alien up by his throat, Megamind not even being able to put his feet on the ground when held at arms length. "It's all your fault." Metro Man says in a voice that was strangely calm compared to his roar before.
"Minion!" Megamind yells frantically as Metro Man's eyes begin to glow red. Minion jumps up from the couch, having not seen anything, waiting for Megamind's signal. He reaches out, yanking Metro Man back by his shoulders, the short and highly powered laser shooting into the roof.
"HYAH!" Megamind yells, swinging the huge hammer with both hands, the metal slamming onto the top of Metro Man's head with a dull thud, the man falling forward as Megamind steps to the side, the bigger man's head ramming into the wall as he falls over, a small bit of blood matting his dark hair. "Okay. Okay." Megamind says, placing a small hand on his chest as he tries to get his breathing back to normal. He had never been in such an up close and personal battle before.
As soon as he drops the hammer, it goes flying off by some unseen force. "Huh." Megamind says and watches it break yet another one of Tony's many windows. "Oh, we're gonna have to help him clean this up, aren't we?" Megamind asks dejectedly, Minion smiling in relief and nodding.
It was only after they set Metro Man on the couch that they finally looked outside. "My god..." Megamind whispers, watching the aliens fall out of the portal, looking to be able to easily overwhelm the people in the city.
It was only horror that either of the aliens felt. They couldn't name where, but they had seen the aliens before, and they knew that there was nothing they could do to stop them. "What are they...?" Minion asks in terror.
"The chitauri." Megamind answers, looking over at the fish that had been his companion since his birth. "Minion...do you have the cellular phone?"
"Of course Sir." Minion answers and takes out the huge and clunky cell phone from one of the built in pockets of his robot body.
"I'm going to call Roxanne." Megamind sighs. "You should go and try to tend to Metro Man."
"Yes Sir." Minion says and immediatly goes to work. He had only seen Megamind this serious once or twice, and it was never anything good when he was.
Megamind opens the phone, tapping one button, having put Roxanne on speed dial a couple of weeks ago. The loud ring of someone calling echoes through the silent room like someone sneezing in a movie theater.
He almost though she wasn't going to pick up when it reached the fifth ring, but it wasn't long before Roxanne spoke over the phone.
"Megamind, look, can you call me back in a few hours? I'm kind of on the air here." She says, voice slightly distorted by the cheap speakers.
"Wait!" Megamind starts, almost instinctively flinching forward.
"What is it?" Roxanne asks, slightly concerned now, having never heard him speak in this tone except the night she had found out he wasn't Bernard.
"I..." Megamind starts, stopping when he finds he can't think of anything to say. All he could do was stare in horror at the aliens falling, and the people being chased down as they flee. There weren't many left. Most of them had been killed or evacuated. But all Megamind felt was hopelessness, and failure.
"Jesus, where are you? I can hardly hear you." Roxanne asks, slightly annoyed by now.
"Just...please remember that..." Megamind starts, eyes burning, and his face twitching as he thinks of never seeing her again. He was sure that they wouldn't make it out of here. "That I love you Roxanne." He whispers. He had never said anything like this to her before. It had just never come up before. But...if he was never going to see her again, he wanted to make sure she knew.
"..." Roxanne doesn't say anything for so long that Megamind almost thought she had hung up. "What's wrong Megamind?"
"Nothing...nothing" Megamind says, bringing a fake happy tone to his voice. "I just...wanted to make sure you knew."
"Look, I need to go." Roxanne says. "But we WILL be talking about this later."
"Yeah." Megamind says, not noticing that there were two sets of eyes watching him. "I'll see you later Roxy." He says, softly tapping the end button, wiping the back of his hand over his eyes and turning around to see Metro Man and Minion watching him.
"You're awake!" Megamind yells happily, running over to crouch by Metro Man. "Sorry 'bout the hammer and all by the way."
"It's fine." Metro Man says, but there was something a bit different about him. "I guess we have a god to beat now huh little guy?" He asks jokingly, a smile being forced on his face.
"We sure do." Megamind says, standing up and offering a hand to Metro Man. "So, Minion, did you bring the spare Metro Man equalizers too?"
"Sure did." Minion says with a happy flap of his fins. "They're out in the invisible car."
"Well then, let's go out there and help our fellow Avengers huh?" Megamind asks Minion, who's smile grows wider. He was worried that Megamindnwas ready to give up.
Metro Man smiles, and follows the two aliens on the way to get the equipment that would give Megamind powers similar to his own.
He knew that it would be a mess to get back to being Music Man after this, but he couldn't very well leave Megamind to try and deal with an alien invasion on his own could he? It just wasn't in his conscience.