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First round of song-meme drabble-things! These are all for badplanmobile, and they're all Megamind. Shock of shocks.
Title: You And I Know The Drill
Fandom: Megamind
Song prompt: Sing You To Sleep - Paul Fidalgo; Megamind/Minion
Summary: This is how it works. Megamind goes to jail, and Minion keeps the lair running and waits.
This isn’t a big deal. Megamind gets arrested all the time. And Minion knows that he doesn’t mind going to jail, for a short time, anyway- he grew up there, after all- and they always have an escape plan worked out. Most of the time, he leaves the rescue for a few days longer, so Megamind can have his chance to catch up with everyone.
But to be honest? It kind of sucks, waiting.
The lair’s quiet, with just the whirr of assorted deathtraps running on idle and the brainbots half-heartedly attempting to bite each other. They’re bored. They miss Megamind. He knows how they feel.
This time, as they put him in the squad car, he looked right at Minion’s hidden surveillance camera and winked. Minion had a robotic hand pressed against his robotic chest before he realized that it was a totally superfluous gesture. What did that mean?
It probably isn’t a big deal. But the waiting really sucks.
Title: The Trivial Sublime
Fandom: Megamind
Song prompt: Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Summary: Sometimes Megamind tries to figure out his motivations. If he has them.
Sometimes he starts to think he ought to have more of a reason to be a villain. Something beyond “well, I’m not the hero, so I might as well.” It’s an infrequent thought, but it’s unsettling enough to really bother him.
Like, maybe he ought to need revenge on the world for shunning him? Or are people perhaps so insane and corrupt that they need to be ruled and oppressed? Well… probably. Maybe. He doesn’t actually know many people. The prisoners at the jail must have done something to get in there, but they’ve always been okay to him. And the rest of the citizens of Metro City he doesn’t interact with much, apart from when he terrorizes them in a giant robot suit or something. That probably doesn’t count.
That basically just leaves Minion, who’s his best friend and is on his side anyway, Metro Man, who is clearly his nemesis by virtue of being The Hero, and Roxanne. Who he mostly only keeps kidnapping to get at Metro Man. Mostly. Because he’s his nemesis and… things.
None of which really seem like good reasons, when he thinks about it that way.
But then he hears about, for example, the observation deck they’re dedicating to Metro Man, and wouldn’t it be so excellent to blow it up, and he’s finally got the explosives to give off smoke in just the right shade of blue, and Minion’s designing a new cape for the next scheme, and maybe Roxanne will see it-
-and he wonders if he really needs a reason to be a villain, beyond “well, it’s fun.”
Title: A Little Better All The Time
Fandom: Megamind
Song prompt: Getting Better - The Beatles; Megamind/Roxanne
Summary: She makes him want to be a hero.
People keep telling him that virtue is its own reward, but that’s clearly not true. The reward of virtue, in his particular case, anyway, is the way Roxanne smiles.
It’s the secret little wink she gives him, interviewing him on camera after he kicked Doctor Implausible out of town, and the way she squeezes his hand when they pass one of his old schoolteachers at the museum and he doesn’t freeze-ray the man just to do it. It’s the way she raises an eyebrow at him when he comes home announcing that he went to the bank and didn’t even rob it a little. Well, except for this pen that was on the counter, but he’s trying.
And yeah, some days he really doesn’t feel like walking into another of Man-Cat’s obvious traps, but it’s even more fun to save Roxanne from death-traps than it used to be to build them. “When are you going to learn?” he says, hovering on his jet-pack just out of the villain’s reach. “No one kidnaps Roxanne,” and he adds, “anymore.”
And they hold on to each other, her arm around his shoulders and his around her waist, and laugh and laugh.
Title: You And I Know The Drill
Fandom: Megamind
Song prompt: Sing You To Sleep - Paul Fidalgo; Megamind/Minion
Summary: This is how it works. Megamind goes to jail, and Minion keeps the lair running and waits.
This isn’t a big deal. Megamind gets arrested all the time. And Minion knows that he doesn’t mind going to jail, for a short time, anyway- he grew up there, after all- and they always have an escape plan worked out. Most of the time, he leaves the rescue for a few days longer, so Megamind can have his chance to catch up with everyone.
But to be honest? It kind of sucks, waiting.
The lair’s quiet, with just the whirr of assorted deathtraps running on idle and the brainbots half-heartedly attempting to bite each other. They’re bored. They miss Megamind. He knows how they feel.
This time, as they put him in the squad car, he looked right at Minion’s hidden surveillance camera and winked. Minion had a robotic hand pressed against his robotic chest before he realized that it was a totally superfluous gesture. What did that mean?
It probably isn’t a big deal. But the waiting really sucks.
Title: The Trivial Sublime
Fandom: Megamind
Song prompt: Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Summary: Sometimes Megamind tries to figure out his motivations. If he has them.
Sometimes he starts to think he ought to have more of a reason to be a villain. Something beyond “well, I’m not the hero, so I might as well.” It’s an infrequent thought, but it’s unsettling enough to really bother him.
Like, maybe he ought to need revenge on the world for shunning him? Or are people perhaps so insane and corrupt that they need to be ruled and oppressed? Well… probably. Maybe. He doesn’t actually know many people. The prisoners at the jail must have done something to get in there, but they’ve always been okay to him. And the rest of the citizens of Metro City he doesn’t interact with much, apart from when he terrorizes them in a giant robot suit or something. That probably doesn’t count.
That basically just leaves Minion, who’s his best friend and is on his side anyway, Metro Man, who is clearly his nemesis by virtue of being The Hero, and Roxanne. Who he mostly only keeps kidnapping to get at Metro Man. Mostly. Because he’s his nemesis and… things.
None of which really seem like good reasons, when he thinks about it that way.
But then he hears about, for example, the observation deck they’re dedicating to Metro Man, and wouldn’t it be so excellent to blow it up, and he’s finally got the explosives to give off smoke in just the right shade of blue, and Minion’s designing a new cape for the next scheme, and maybe Roxanne will see it-
-and he wonders if he really needs a reason to be a villain, beyond “well, it’s fun.”
Title: A Little Better All The Time
Fandom: Megamind
Song prompt: Getting Better - The Beatles; Megamind/Roxanne
Summary: She makes him want to be a hero.
People keep telling him that virtue is its own reward, but that’s clearly not true. The reward of virtue, in his particular case, anyway, is the way Roxanne smiles.
It’s the secret little wink she gives him, interviewing him on camera after he kicked Doctor Implausible out of town, and the way she squeezes his hand when they pass one of his old schoolteachers at the museum and he doesn’t freeze-ray the man just to do it. It’s the way she raises an eyebrow at him when he comes home announcing that he went to the bank and didn’t even rob it a little. Well, except for this pen that was on the counter, but he’s trying.
And yeah, some days he really doesn’t feel like walking into another of Man-Cat’s obvious traps, but it’s even more fun to save Roxanne from death-traps than it used to be to build them. “When are you going to learn?” he says, hovering on his jet-pack just out of the villain’s reach. “No one kidnaps Roxanne,” and he adds, “anymore.”
And they hold on to each other, her arm around his shoulders and his around her waist, and laugh and laugh.