The brainbots eyes glowed redder than normal as the order came through. They hade been impatiently waiting for this order since they had spotted daddy and now it had come. Free Daddy command activated. The command was passed to brainbot to brainbot then they moved. The other four bots entered the house through a window Sneak had found and opened for them. They emerged from the room bowging angerily.
The unlucky guard that was the first to run into the bots and found himself staring at five glowing red eyes. He panicked and fired at them, only to find the bullets bounced harmlessly off. The brainbots attacked, one latched onto the man's gun arm, another his leg. His yells brought others running, but with their guns useless against the bots they were soon running or on the ground. One of the brainbots used the non-lethal taser they had to shock the downed guards into unconsciosness. The others chased the fleeing guards and shocked them unconscious as well. Not using the tasers first instead of their beartrap jaws was a way to punish them for taking daddy.
Sneak lead the bots to the room where target Roxanne was imprisoned. The door proved to be locked, but with all the brainbots working together it was easily bashed open. They raced into the room with Sneak in the lead.
Roxanne was ready for them, they hadn't been subtle after all. "Hi fellas. Sorry, your daddy isn't here. They took him someplace else." She was grateful for the help, but kind of assumed it was an accidental rescue.
Sneak floated closer and plucked at Roxanne's sleeve, tugging at it to encourage her to follow. "Bowg! Bowg!"
Roxanne only hesitated for an instant then followed the brainbots from the room. Well, she certainly didn't want to stay in this place. She looked at the unconcious guards scattered all over the hall. It was then Roxanne saw Sarah standing a few feet away. Her eyes were wide with shook and fear as she stared at the brainbots. The reporter went to her. "They won't hurt you if you don't threaten them. Where's Mr. Davis?"
Sarah finally managed to tear her gaze away from the dangerous looking bots and looked at Roxanne. "He left for some business meetings. He will be gone until late tonight. If he doesn't hear about this."
Sneak got Roxanne's sleeve in its jaws with surprising delicateness and tugged. Clearly it wanted her to keep following.
Roxanne looked at it. "Alright, I'm coming. Good luck, Sarah." She followed the bots out of the house and down the road. "Wayne, Minion! you found me! Look, they took Megamind to some lab, they snatched me to force him to make weapons for them. They threatened to torture me if he refused. You have to find him."
Minion gently patted her shoulder. "The bots already have. They're saving him now and will guide him here. Once they do we can all go home. Mr. Scott agreed not to take him back to jail."
Wayne came up to Roxanne. "I can take you home now, Roxanne. There's no reason for us to hang around."
Minion nodded and smiled at Roxanne. "You can go if you want to, Miss Ritchi, we'll be fine. The brainbots will bring sir back soon and we'll go home."
Roxanne looked at Minion and the worry still in his eyes then at Wayne who was wearing his usual swarmy grin. She wondered if he even realized he was doing it. She didn't think so, but who knew. She squared her shoulders and smiled at Minion. "That's okay, Minion. We'll wait until the bots bring Megamind back."
Wayne shrugged then nodded. "If that's what you want to do." He folded his arms acrooss his chest and they settled down to wait.
The only warning Lewis and the other two men got was a faint buzzing sound which was ignored. The men figured that it was one of the machines in the lab. They were wrong when five enraged brainbots swarmed into the lab and attacked.
The two men with Lewis opened fire and found the guns useless. They were tasered into unconsciousness.
Lewis cursed and whirled to snatch Megamind to use as a hostage only to find himself looking down the barrel of one of the De-Guns he'd been making. "You miserable son of a..."
Megamind fired one shot reducing Lewis to a little blue cube. "Next time you'll think twice before testing the super genius of Megamind." He destroyed oll the things he just made then swept grandly out of the lab. He followed the brainbots back to the invisble car.
Minion was out of the car with surprising speed when he saw his charge approach. An instant later the alien was being hugged by his friend. "Sir, oh sir. I thought I'd lost you. Are you hurt? Are you hungry? I'll make you a nice snack when we get back then you can have a nice rest. You must be exhausted," Minion said, nearly babbling in his relief.
Surprisingly Megamind didn't resist, even hugged Minion back for a minute then he spotted Roxanne and worse his arch nemisis. "Minion! Let go! I'm fine!" This was humiliating and in front of his rival too! Let's go home."
"Oh, of course, sir! Right away." Minion ushered his charge into the car and drove off. They dropped Miss Ritchi and Mr. Scott off first then drove home to the lair. Minion ushered off to make his charge a snack.
Megamind retreated to his room for a long soak and change into proper clothes. He would take a couple weeks off from his plots and relax. It was good to be home.