Shattered Mind Chapter 4

Chapter 4

The moment they landed in one of the streets ahead of the monster's path, Megamind stepped away from Wayne and looked down the street, then turns back to his ex-rival. "Yeah this should work." He looked around, seeing citizens shopping or doing other daily things. Looking back down the street, he saw a policeman making his way over to them. His name was Lieutenant Matt Walker. Matt looked back and fourth between them. His brown eyes then locked on the green pair and he spoke with a tone that clearly said he really didn't wand the ex-villain here. "We didn't called for any back-up support, especially yours."

Other citizens were starting to gather around them, surprised to see both old and new heroes here. Some citizens were shouting to have them sign things.

Unnoticed by the citizens, Megamind twisted a small button on his watch. He looked at Wayne, slightly panicked, then down the street. "Wayne, we really need to get all these people out of here."

From down the street they all heard the monster's howls. Wayne turned to the officer and the citizens. "You should all leave." They just looked at him.

Matt spoke up. "I think we, as in the Metro City Police, can handle this without you, you two" He turned without saying anything else.

Megamind looked over his shoulder at a Sergeant wanting his autograph. He smirked. "Okay, fine, be my guest." The Sergeant moved closer to him and held out something and a pen. Megamind took both and looked down. He narrowed his eyes at the sheet of paper; it was a part of a report. He leaned against a wall, then gave a short laugh and signed his name.

Without looking up, he called out loud enough for Matt to hear over the other citizens. "We'll stand back and let you do your fine work, then."

"But Megamind they can't-" A confused Wayne stood waiting and watched as the group of officer moved past them.

"Wayne, have a little more faith in the police." He calmly looked down the street and then at Matt's men, handing back the autograph.

"They can ask us nicely." Looking around, he grinned as he spotted a coffee shop. He tilted his head at Wayne. "The question now is, what will it be, tea or coffee?"

Twenty-five agonizingly minutes later, Wayne was on the very edge of his chair. He kept looking at random citizens, then back down the street, then repeating. He glanced over to the small group of officers clearly way out of their depth but refusing help from both more experiencedheroes, one with superpowers. He shook his head, not understanding that, and looked up to see Megamind making his way over to the table with their drinks; his blue ex-rival, now friend, had picked a table outside so they could watch.

As he came closer he said, "Hey, look. The lovely lady Tina was here and told me we could have these free. Isn't that great?" He set Wayne's drink down, then his, and sat in the chair opposite.

"Why aren't we going to help them?"

All he got in reply was a grin as the other sat and started putting sugar into his coffee. While doing this he calmly looked over at the officers. Without warning to Wayne or another one else, he yelled, "Hey, Matt, would you like our help yet?"

"NO!"

Megamind looked at Wayne and grinned. "See? He doesn't want it, Wayne." He sat back. "I know you're dying to ask, so ask."

Wayne looked away from the street at him. "Ask what?"

"What happened at City Hall two nights ago?" He lifted his drink to his lips. He noticed that the other citizens in the shop were all looking at them. He glanced outside, worried. He sighed lowed the mug. "We're just chatty, okay? We're not really going to leave them to fight that thing." All the citizens seemed to relax after hearing that.

A slightly surprised look crossed Wayne's face. Then he grinned, knowing that this monster would be dealt with soon, and added "But you're all in danger if you stay, so you should all leaves" He didn't have to ask again; everyone got up and ran.

"I noticed your suit change."

"Ah, so you notice that, then." He grinned wildly. The armour was in segments, black limbs alternating with silver-blue collar, short vest and pants sections. What looked like an abstract representation of his spine was represented in glowing pink over his real spine. Two silver-blue bands went most of the way around his abdomen, ending in glowing points on either side of the gaps at centre-front in each one. There was a silver-blue vambrace on his left wrist with a glowing panel on the back, over a bicep-length black glove; the right had a short black glove and his watch. The only spikes were on the shoulder guards, which stood out slightly. His boots were styled like engineers boots, but mostly blue, with black soles, ankle straps anchored with silver triangular fasteners and calf straps with silver buckles. "Since I don't have all your powers, I made this. You see, it's my new armoured suit. Since Minion and myself are on the good side now, I decided to make a new battle suit like the one I used when I battling Tighten, you know, that giant robot he destroyed." He then glared at his mug.

Seconds later his hyper mood kicked in again. "This time, though, I made it to fit my body. It was Minion's idea really."

Wayne looked at him, shocked. "You're not taking full credit for this?"

"Oh no, not this time or any other now. I've done that too much in the past." He lifted the mug drank a little then lowered it. "He's helped me a lot over the years. I think it's time he got credit." He looked down into his drink, smiling. "He really is a fantastic fish."

Their drink break was cut short by the arrival of the lava monster; Megamind put the mug down, looking over at the officers. Then he stood and stepped away from the table. He drew his gun.

Wayne hadn't noticed two nights ago because it was dark, but the bodysuit was a metal skin tight suit. He thought the new suit was very impressive. Then, realizing who he was dealing with, he smiled.

The monster's howls got closer and closer until it came crashing through a building.

The moment Matt and the other officers saw what it was they all turned to face Megamind and Wayne and shouted, "Er, we'd like your help now!" Then they ran down a side alleyway.

Both heroes left the coffee shop and just stood looking at the direction the officers had gone. Megamind was pretty much jumping up and down while grinning. He called over his shoulder "See? That wasn't too hard, was it?"

He walked to the centre of the street with Wayne behind him. "I'll let you do the fist work since you're so good at that. I'll try and find its weak spot." He looked at the superpowered figure without turning to him, waiting for his nod.

The lava monster seemed bigger than before. Wayne looked back at the blue alien, unsure. "Megamind, are you sure we can-"

"Wayne, get your head in the game." he looked ahead, ready for the fight.

Wayne could tell from years of fighting him that his little blue buddy was in full battle mode now.

He smiled as he felt something within him awaken. Oh, he missed this feeling. Okay, yeah, it was a bit weird working along side someone that was once his enemy. He shook his head. No, not enemy. Not anymore. He gave a side ways look at Megamind. Wayne could tell this change to being good had been the right move. He wasn't going to take the hero title from Megamind now, but he could sure use the help here as part of the agreement between the two.

His mind flashed back to a week ago as he, Megamind, Minion and commissioner of police stood in the Mayor's office. Megamind had said that after the announcement at City Hall in a few days, he would need to show to each citizens of the city that he was sorry for making fools of them. The three aliens and both the Mayor and Commissioner had come up with an agreement that if there was a situation that came up, all three people would come to one another's aid.

Another great howl brought Wayne back to the present. He stood ready. "Okay, buddy." The ex-hero stepped up and stood next to Megamind. The new hero handed him a small device.

With a blank face, he said "Put that on your ear, it'll help with me talking to you."

Wayne looked down at it. "Wow, I don't think I'll every get used to the new you."

Megamind narrowed his eyes slight confused. "Just take it." Wayne nodded.

From farther down the street, the monster turned, howled and then started to running towards them. Wayne flew strait at it. He pushed it into a building.

Meanwhile Megamind brought his left arm up to his chest. A small transparent computer screen appeared in the air and Roxanne's voice spoke. "Scanning for any weakness, love."

"Thank you, Roxy."

He looked up and watched Wayne fight the monster. Out of the corner of his eye, Megamind saw what he had been waiting for and smiled.

A good ten minutes into the fight, hundreds of brainbots started to appear and swam around the lava monster giving Wayne time to regroup next to Megamind.

The blue alien had been standing back away from the fighting letting the ex-hero and his brainbots do most of the work.

Wayne landed and looked at him panicked. "Nothing seems to be working."

Megamind looked around at all the people still in the area. He yelled "Brainbots, code: alpha, Nv."

To the complete surprise of Wayne and the people around the street a large swam of brainbots broke away and started picking up shocked citizens and flying off with them to safety.

Wayne looked over at Megamind and smiled knowing he would never let anyone get hurt.

This short peaceful moment was broken by the lava monster trying to speak, if you could call it that.

Its voice rumbaed in a low tone, it didn't sounded human anymore. "Why, if it's the ex-beloved son of the city. Oh, and look, if it isn't the little Azure with him."

Megamind stepped forward, his back to Wayne. His right hand griped the handle of his gun tightly and he growled, "Don't call me that."

The lava monster rumbled again. "Or you'll what? You're weak, just like that fool standing behind you."

Megamind seemed to calm down for a moment then in deadly cold voice he replied, "Time for me to come and play."

Time seemed to slow down. Megamind rushed forwards faster than Wayne had even seen him do. He also noticed how the little hero seemed to be in an oddly calm mood as he came closer to the monster.

Then he watched in horror as the large fiery beast raised its right fist and brought it hard and fast hitting Megamind in the chest, sending him flying backwards, crashing into the coffee shop window.

Broken chairs and glass were suddenly being thrown aside as Wayne dug around. His arms moved fast. "Megamind!" he yelled "Where the hell are you?" He suddenly stopped as he heard a cough.

He turned to look over where the till was on the work top and rushed over. As he looked over the counter, he found the blue alien lying on the ground, holding his head and moaning. Wayne could tell he had a few cuts around his face but nothing serious, and his suit looked fine. Sighing in relief, Wayne helped him to shaky legs.

"You okay?" Wayne asked.

"NO!" he almost screamed. "That thing, it's got no weakness," the ex-villain groaned. He looked out into the street, watching the monster move past the shop.

"What!" Wayne looked at him "Surely it has one, everything has." His voice was panicked.

Narrowed annoyed green eyes meet his own. "Well what's yours, then?" he snapped "It's not copper."

"Will you focus here?"

"Ah, right, okay." He leaned on what was left of a counter, holding his head.

Wayne could tell he had hit his head hard on something. "Look, maybe you should go have yourself looked at."

Ignoring the pain and Wayne's comment, Megamind shook his head slightly. "Well, we could try something like ny-tra-jin."

Wayne looked at him confused. "Huh?"

"Ice!" he snapped while holding his head. He could feel that cold voice talked to him again.

*if you only let me have full control*

"We're in the middle of the city, Megamind, too far from the harbour."

"If I let you do want you wanted..."

*yes, yes let me, let me out*

Wayne answered. "Yes, we're on the same side now."

"No I'm not letting you."

*aww, come on*

"Megamind, are you alright"

"Oh shut up!" Megamind yelled, Wayne looked at him worried for a moment.

Megamind pushed back and stood away from the counter, ignoring Wayne.

Moments later both heroes stepped out of the wrecked shop and stood at the broken window. The lava monster had moved down a different street and vanished from sight.

Knowing it was going to be a very bad idea, Wayne asked "I know this hero act is all new to you, so I'm going to ask: how long do you think you can you keep it busy?"

With his mind a little cloudy it took him a moment to understand what Wayne was asking him. When he did his eyes widened. "You want me to keep that thing busy?" He pointed in the direction of the monster. "Are you nuts!"

"How long?"

A long annoyed sigh filled the air. "If you're planning to go get some ice, then you better jump to it. I'll hold it off." He turned his back.

"Don't get cocky, little buddy; I need you to keep your cool." Wayne smiled.

Turning back to look at him, the green eyes darkened in seconds. "Don't call me that." He turned away once more. "Go, already. You're wasting time."

"I'll be as fast as I can."

Waving his hand, "Sure whatever," Megamind grinned at the streets ahead. "I have work to do."

With that. Wayne nodded and flew off. leaving the blue alien alone.