Chapter 10
Chapter 10
*M*E*G*A*M*I*N*D*
"Wow..." Metro Man mutters as he and Megamind float in the air, staring at the devastation. "Where do we even start?"
"How about with those?" Megamind asks and points to the dozens of leviathans poiring out of the portal. "They seem like a good idea."
"Yeah. Let's go after them." Metro Man says, him and the other extraterrestrial blasting off almost simultaneously.
The leviathans just seemed to get bigger and bigger the closer they got to them, the strange creatures looming over the two foes turned friends. Megamind snorts in respect before smirking, him and Metro Man dashing off again, this time splitting paths.
Megamind flew after the leviathan that was taking off into the city, as Metro Man flew up to meet a leviathan in midair.
As soon as he got over what he thought was the creatures neck, Megamind cut off the power and slammed a fist on what looked like a spine, only to find the scales unyielding under his metal fist. He growls and continues with his assault, continuing until the softer flesh beneath is revealed. "That was arduous." He mutters, tapping a button on the side of his goggles, shooting off a quick blue laser, searching for something that would make the creature fall.
It didn't really take long before the chitauri crumpled under him. He laughed the classic laugh that he had used more and more often as he watched it leave a trail of scales after it.
"Well, look who decided to join the party." A mechanical voice chuckles, Megamind whirling around to see Iron Man with his arms crossed in front of him. "Took you long enough."
"Yes, well, some of us were under mind control." Megamind says, rolling his eyes.
"What?" Iron Man asks as he blasts a chitauri that had been flying parallel of him. "They really did get you?"
"What? No!" Megamind yells, almost insulted and punching a chitauri that had attempted to fly close to him. "You think they could ever control this massive brain? They got Metro Man."
"They did?" Iron Man asks, not really knowing who Metro Man was. "Where is he?"
Megamind doesn't even speak, he just points to where there were a trail of leviathan falling from the sky, with flashing red lasers and explosions.
"Wow." Iron Man mutters. "Glad he's on our side. Oh yeah." He says and tosses Megamind an earpiece. "Here. You left so soon, you didn't get a com."
"To be fair, I didn't leave by chOICE!" He ends with a yell, dodging a barrage of bullets that had been blasting after him, pressing the button again, shooting a brief laser to take out the chitauri on the roof that had shot at him. "I was kidnapped!"
"Sure." Iron Man chuckles, glancing up and chasing after a chitauri that was heading towards Hawkeye.
Megamind snorts, taking back off into the air, placing the com in his ear and activating it with a small tap. "Hey compadres, ya miss me?" He says over the link as he shoves a chitauri off of his hover vehicle.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" Captain America roars over the intercom, Megamind recoiling.
"Ow." Hawkeye says plainly.
"My earballs!" Iron Man says as though he had been hurt.
"So..." Megamind says, trailing off. "Should I take that as a yes or..."
"Look just..." Captain America starts, trailing off with a sigh. "Just go and do something to help."
"Like...?" Megamind asks, firing another laser at a passing chitauri.
"Protect the tower." Iron Man suggests.
"Alrighty." Megamind says enthusiastically. "Hey, big guy!" He calls up to Metro Man, who glances over, not stilling his arm that had been punching a chitauri. "Looks like we're protecting the tower!"
Metro Man salutes him, throwing the chitauri and continuing the assualt on the aliens closer to the tower.
Glancing down, he waves to Black Widow and Selvig, the older man looking up from his laptop. Widow nods to him, holding the scepter carefully in both hands, but doesn't do anything more. "I can close it. Can anybody hear me? I can shut the-!"
Megamind had turned to watch her as she spoke, all of it getting cut off when a chitauri slams into his back, nearly shocking him enough to fall. He glares back up at Metro Man as his earpiece falls to the ground. "Sorry!" The bigger man yells, not having meant to hit him with the alien he had thrown.
Megamind sighs and rolls his eyes, turning back to the aliens and shoving more away from him, sending a few careening into some buildings, glass glittering as it shattered from the mostly window buildings.
Megamind glances up to the portal, eyes narrow as more of the chitauri fly through it, feeling a fresh wave of despair wash over him, hardly hearing Metro Man yell a warning, looking down to see a huge missile charging at him.
Megamind yells out in terror, attempting to dodge to the side, hardly making it out of the way, sighing as he finds himself going past clouds and-wait, going up?! He glances over, seeing the shreds of his trademark cape caught in the many plates on Iron Man's gauntlet, Iron Man looking down at him, as shocked a look as can be on an emotionless metal suit.
Before the alien can manage to rip the durable material of the cape, he finds the two of them going through the sky and into the stars, the suit of armour beside him going silent as Megamind breathes in the vacuum that is space.
Captain America gasps as he watches the second form get dragged along with Iron Man through the portal.
"What?!" Hawkeye yells through the com.
On the ground, Minion watches with wide eyes, totally still, and unable to say anything as he watches the scene unfold safely from the invisible car.
Metro Man looks down at Black Widow, their eyes meeting for only a moment before the former hero sighs and lands next to her.
The Metro Man enhancers had shorted out as soon as they reached the portal. But Megamind's body did not. It was strange and unfamiliar, but he was breating in the space air as though it were the oxygen on earth.
Before the missile he didn't know was on it's way hits the strange land mass in space, his eyes meet with the red eyes of the chitauri leader, dark clothing and a smirk on his face.
The team cheers when the two fall out, still entangled in each other, neither of them moving though as they hit the edge of a building as they fall.
"They're not slowing down!" Thor shouts, twirling his hammer, unable to make his lift off before The Hulk jumps, managing only to snatch up Iron Man as he falls. He had obviously meant to get both of them, but the cape finally gave up and threw the alien to the side.
Thor jumps up immediatly, ignoring The Hulk smashing a car half flat next to him, managing to grab the small alien over his shoulder about 100 feet above the ground, sighing in telief before nearly having a heart attack when The Hulk roars at the top of his lungs, the thunder god yelling in shock, placing a hand over his chest and glancing at the alien with a questionable look.
The alien was breathing, a bit laboured, but he was still breathing, but he didn't flinch at the roar, and he was totally limp, but his eyes were open. Thor lands by the rest, Iron Man babbling on about shwarma, and Captain America looking very relieved.
"Something is wrong." Thor says, setting Megamind down, who managed to sit up on his own, but stared ahead blindly.
Megamind could see the scene replay in his mind, and he was a child again, only 8 days old. He could see his parents carrying him over their shoulder, watching as all of his kind ran past him, he could see the fires still burning, and the smell of the destruction was fresh in his nostrils.
He could still feel the small glass toy in his mouth as they placed Minions bowl in his hands, and he could hear their voices, but he was focused on something behind them. The same red eyes were glowing and watching him with the same look of triumph.
"You are destined for-"
"What could be wrong with him? Isn't he from space?" Tony asks and looks into the wide blank eyes, and the way his mouth is moving slightly around nothing.
"Flashback." Steve says, waving a hand in front of Megamind's eyes. "I've seen many soldiers suffering from them back in the war."
"Hm..." Tony says and scratches his chin, having taken off the helmet fully now, his hair ruffled and mussed. "I wonder-"
"What?" Megamind asks desperately, finding four faces staring at them, three dirty and tired, one green and angry. "Um...so..."
"Shwarma?" Tony asks with a bright smile.
Loki was crawling away from them, hand on his head as though trying to ward off pain, finally looking up to find 7 fairly pissed faces watching him.
"Um..." Loki says nervously. "I'll take that drink now?"