The town is in ruins. A cart was crashed into a makeshift target on a building. The whole mayor's office painted blue. Near the mayor's building, or rather, Megamind's building, there were a two Royal Guards watching over a huge machine. The Guards were being watched by a group of brain bots. One Guard eventually dozed off, until a brain bot came and gave him a small shock. He yelped, rubbing the stung area. He then groaned and went back to watching the machine.
Inside the building, art pictures were tarnished with blue drawings. Further down the hall was the entrance to "Megamind's" office. Inside, there were treasures, belongings, and wealth. Several Daring Do books were on the floor. Multiple bags full of bits were scattered around. Comic books lay everywhere. A certain pair of purple shades was on his desk. Megamind rested his head on his hands on the desk. He was staring at a water desk toy. It was a turkey with a top hat. It was sucking in water using physics.
"That's right. Always thirsty, never satisfied." Megamind said, to the toy.
"I understand you, well dressed bird. Loneliness, emptiness.....its a vacuum isn't it?" Megamind then brought his head up.
"What's YOUR vacuum like?
Suddenly, Minion burst in, strumming a statue with a nail gun.
"GOING OFF THE RAILS ON THE CRAZY TRAIN SIR!" Minion sang.
"Not now Minion!" Megamind said.
"Can't you see I'm in a heated existential discussion, with a plastic, desk toy!" Megamind huffed, turning his chair around.
Minion was confused by Megamind's outburst.
"Is something wrong, sir?" Minion asked.
"Just think Minion. We have it all.....yet we have so little." Megamind replied.
"I'm sorry, you've lost me sir."
"I mean, I did it, didn't I?"
"Umm, yes you did sir, you made that perfectly clear."
"Then why do I feel so........Mel-on-choly?"
"Excuse me sir?"
"Unhappy."
"Oh" Minion pondered on this question. Then he perked up.
"Ooh! What if, we could go kidnap Twilight Sparkle? That always seems to lift your spirits up!" Minion suggested.
Megamind smiled for a moment, then became glum again.
"Good thought Minion, but without him," Megamind stared off into the museum a fair distance away. "What's the point?"
"Without who?"Minion asked.
"Nothing."
A short pause.
"Ok, we'll definitely think about that tomorrow, aaaaaand....." Minion said, while checking his watch.
"Oh! Would you look at the time! I've got to tell the guards to start the night sequence!" Minion slowly edged towards the door.
"Plus, I've got to feed Rainbow again soooooooo..........BYE!!" He quickly zoomed off, leaving Megamind alone.
Minion, once out of the room, went to where their "new guards" were positioned. He signaled the brain bots to start the night sequence. A brain bot went and zapped a Guard.
He screeched. Then gave Minion an angry glare.
"You said you wouldn't do that again!" He complained.
"Oops, heh heh, sorry." Minion laughed nervously.
"Can you please start the night sequence?"
The guard sighed.
"Fine.....your Highness." He choked on the last part of the sentence.
"Ahh! I never get tired of hearing that." Suddenly, Minion's watch beeped.
"Oh dear! Gotta feed a mare! Keep up the good work guys!" Minion gave a double thumbs up, as he left.
The guards rolled their eyes.
"For an evil sidekick, he sure sucks at being evil."
The other guard shrugged, as the first guard pulled the lever, causing the machine to switch from Celestia's power, to Luna's.
Thus, the sun began to lower, starting night time.
~~~
"I hope he hears this" Twilight said, as he stopped next to Megamind's residence. Garret stopped with her, and Spike jumped off of her back.
"Write this down Garret." Twilight said.
Garret quickly got out a pencil and paper.
"He was always there for us. Strong, faithful, dependable. We never took the time to actually get to know him..." Twilight looked to the ground. What she didn't know was that a certain blue alien was watching her.
"I guess you never know what you miss until its gone." Twilight then raised her head up.
"And I have just one message for Megamind....." She angrily stared at the window Megamind was looking out of.
"Are you happy now?" Megamind heard all she said, and still had a sad look on his face.
"Tomorrow, are you ready to become a slave army? What you need to know." Twilight then looked at Garret.
"Signature"
"Wrap that up, and give it to a foal on her birthday! 'Cause we're good!" Garret said, finishing the article.
Twilight turned to head towards the museum.
Suddenly, Garret stopped her.
"Hey Twilight! I'm having a party, you know, next week, and well its gonna have balloons, clowns, punch, its gonna be sick."
Twilight looked at Spike. He just rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Sorry Garret. I can't answer that right now. I've got to do some things first."
Twilight began to trot away.
"Oh Yeah! Also I hired, like, a wedding photographer, you know, like if something crazy happened and we want to remember it, for the rest of our lives." Garret choked out.
Twilight gave him a generally creeped out look.
"Wow.....I'll DEFINITELY think about it" She went back to walking away.
"So its a maybe on Wednesday?" Twilight ignored him, continuing her pace.
"Soft yes on Thursday? Ok." As Twilight walked away, Garret called for a taxi carriage
The cart arrived in front of him.
What is...WRONG with you?!" He said to himself, kicking the wheel.
"Mares don't like clowns, they like cupcakes!" He then punched the shell of the carriage.
"OW! Ohhh!"
"HEY! Watch it!" Said a voice from the carriage.
"Sorry." Garret said.
He got in the transport.
"Stupid carriage. Broke my claw." He muttered, as the carriage took off.
Twilight then made her way to the museum, not knowing a blue humanoid was going inside too.
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"I never meant to destroy you......well I MEANT to destroy you, but I didn't think it would ever work." Megamind was speaking to the giant statue of Metro Man. On the other side of the glass level, Twilight was with Spike.
"You were always there for us. Now, without you, evil is running rampant through the streets." Twilight told the statue
"I'm so tired of running rampant through the streets. What's the point of being bad when there's no good to try and stop you?" Megamind said, looking at the marbled Metro Man.
Twilight then turned to leave, she then bumped into a dark brown unicorn with a frizzy mane and glasses.
"Oh! I'm sorry! I almost didn't see you there......ummm,"
"Bernard" he said, in a monotonous tone.
"Bernard. Right. I was just.....talking to Metro Man here....heh heh." Twilight giggled, embarrassed. Bernard kept the same straight face.
"You must think I'm pretty crazy huh?" She asked.
"I'm not allowed to insult guests directly." He replied.
"Oh. That's right. Can you just give us a few minutes? Please?" She asked, putting her "innocent eyes" on.
Bernard sighed loudly.
"Fine." Meanwhile, on the other side, Megamind was still speaking to the statue.
"I had so many ideas to follow through with. The Illiteracy Beam, Typhoon Cheese......Robo-Sheep." Megamind choked up.
"Battles which now we will never have"
The last word echoed across the level, reaching the ears of Spike and Twilight.
"Didja hear that?" Spike asked.
"I did. Somepony else is here." She concluded.
"So it's good that we have this time now," Megamind brought out a bouquet of roses. "You know, before I blow this museum to pieces." He took out a bundle of dynamite with a timer on it out of the bouquet.
"Nothing personal, just too many bad memories." He dropped the bomb and bouquet to the floor. The bouquet was picked up bya brain bot. The bomb was grabbed by another brain bot. Then, it joined the other brain bots placing dynamite at the base of the statue.
"Hello? Anypony there?" Twilight asked from the other side.
Megamind gasped.
"Twilight!" He then looked over himself, still in his pajamas, then looked at the bombs at the base. He started running away from the source of her voice.
She started running towards the footsteps, with Spike close by. Megamind kept running, until he bumped into a unicorn pushing a cart. Megamind then got up.
"That's a pretty tasteless costume." The unicorn said.
"Costume?!" Megamind said, confused.
"Megamind's head is TOTALLY not THAT disproportionated."
Megamind, hearing the hoof steps getting closer, scanned the unicorn with his watch. He then took out his Dehydration Gun.
"Oh. And you even made a cheap replica of his Dehydration Gun. How origina-" The unicorn couldn't finish his sentence, as he was promptly turned into a small blue cube.
"Hello?!" She was very close now. Megamind hid behind the cart, turning his watch to change form. He suddenly popped up, still holding the cube, right when Twilight and Spike appeared.
"Oh! It's only you Bernard." Megamind quickly put the cube in a book on the cart.
"Ummm, yes! Its just me....Bernard." He said the name with the same monotonous tone. He then grabbed the book and headed to the elevator. He quickly kept pressing the button.
"Listen, you might not want to be here in the next two minutes and thirty seven seconds. We're having the walls and ceiling removed." The elevator door finally opened, as the he entered inside it.
"Oh. I see. Guess I'll.....hitch a ride with you then." She entered the elevator, along with Spike, right before the door closed. They then stood in awkward silence while the elevator moved down.
"I expected him to do another one of his last minute escapes." Twilight said, breaking the silence.
Bernard exhaled.
"Yeah. He was very good at those."
"I sometimes wish the world had a reset button to fix all this."
"I've looked into the reset button," Bernard sobbed. "The science is impossible!"
They then reached the bottom floor. Twilight put her hoof on his shoulder.
"Bernard, I didn't know you had feelings."
"Its because of this whole mess," he said, while they took the down escalator.
"Now that Metro Man is gone, there's nopony left to stop Megamind."
"Now hold on Bernard," She stopped him when they touched the floor."True, Metro Man is gone. And we don't have ALL the Elements, but anypony can be a hero! They just need to be able to stand up against Megamind! Its like they say, heroes aren't born, they're made."
Bernard perked up and looked at her.
"That's it! All we need are the right ingredients! Like Strength!"
"Determination!"
"Courage!"
"Willpower!"
"Bravery!"
"And a smidgen of DNA." Bernard said under his breath, looking at the DNA Spiral.
"With that, ANYPONY can be a hero!" He exclaimed. They gave shouts of joy, as Bernard lifted Twilight off the ground. When she was back on the ground, Bernard's watch beeped.
"I think we should run!" He said.
~~~
"Bye!" Bernard said, as he waved at Twilight, leaving with Spike in the taxi carriage.
He then turned around to museum.
"Time to put the Past behind us..." He then turned the watch, changing back to his true form.
"Only the future-" The museum suddenly exploded, throwing chunks of rock everywhere. Megamind accidentally dropped the book with the cube in it.
"OH! Oh my gosh! I hope nopony's watching this!" He then picked up the book with the cube in it and began running.
"Aggghh! This is Shool all over again!" Megamind then made his way to his evil lair.
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