At A Loss Ch. 2
CHAPTER 1 http://community.livejournal.com/megamind_movie/547481.html
CHAPTER 2
“Have they said anything?” Megamind asked as he and Roxanne ran up next to the hostage negotiator.
“Not yet.” he answered them, looking at a small blank screen. “Can we please get some feed back?!” he snapped at the men running around with wires.
“What happened?” Roxanne asked, her reporterness coming through.
“Once inside they shot all the video cameras, so we don’t know what’s going on inside.” the negotiator answered.
Megamind snapped his fingers and a few brain-bots floated up to him waiting for his command “Get inside and reconnect the surveillance. But do not allow anyone see you.” the brain-bots zoomed away entering the bank through the ventilation.
“Ms. Richie!” Roxanne turned around to see her new camerawomen, Caitlin, running to her with her camera in one hand and Roxanne’s mike in the other. “Here! Boss says you’re on in 5!” she adjusted the camera onto her shoulder and added “Good thing I found you or he would have had my head!” Roxanne rolled her eyes at her boss “I know! I know! He’s a media hound now let’s go!”
“This is Roxanne Richie reporting live in front of the Bank of Metro City where there is a hostage crisis. This reporter is unclear as to why this is happening, but one thing is for sure, there isn’t any villain that can stand against this city’s hero Megamind!” Roxanne said into the camera lens.
Suddenly Megamind ran up to her and whispered in her ear (so that it wouldn’t catch on the camera’s audio) “Don’t tell them anything that I’m doing, just in case the bad guys are listening to your report.”
She nodded and smiled at him telling him that she understood “This just in, Megamind is willing to listen to the groups demands.” Megamind looked over at her from off screen and smiled at her. “We’ll have more as the story unfolds.” Roxanne made the cut signal for Caitlin and the camera’s light went off.
“What are you doing?” Caitlin asked as Roxanne gave her the mike. “We need to have constant reporting going on or the boss will have our heads.”
“Relax.” Roxanne told her, making her way back to Megamind. “Like I said, when something develops I’ll tell everyone.” Caitlin nodded and moved to sit down on the steps in front of the building, ready for when her reporter needed her. “So how is everything?” she asked when she stepped in next to Megamind.
“Good.” he informed her “The brain-bots got the surveillance back on and there only seems to be 5 men with guns.”
“I got what you wanted, Sir.” Minion cried as he pushed his way to them.
“Ah well done, Minion! Thank you!” Megamind said, taking a small looking gun that had a magnet on the end.
“What is that?” Roxanne asked him, pointing to the device in his hand.
“Oh this?” he asked raising it a bit to get a better look at it. She nodded “This is the Metal-Dicater!” she gave him a look so he continued “Wherever I point the magnet, it draws all metal to it allowing me to disarm the enemy.” Without another word he looked back down at the screen and said “Where is this being filmed?”
“The second floor.” one officer answered.
Megamind nodded then said into his watch “Brain-bots within the building, when I give my signal throw up a protective shield around the hostages then escort them out with Minion.” A small buzzing sound came from the watch letting them know that the bots understood the command. “Alright, Minion, you and me! Let’s go!”
“Right behind you, Sir!” Minion cried as he followed Megamind into the building.
“Be careful!” Roxanne called back before they disappeared from her sight. She frowned. No matter how smart he was or how much she knew he would win, she could never get over the tug at her heart that said he wouldn’t come back from this mission. She always did her best to ignore it, but it got harder and harder every time.