At A Loss ch. 15

   Both women turned to leave the gruesome room, when a grown caught their attention. "Wait."

   Caitlin and Roxanne spun around. "Caitlin, call 911!" Roxanne snapped, as she ran over to the man.

   "I'm on it!" Caitlin cried, following her while dialing.

   "Please help." The man on the floor begged holding onto his side. He was bleeding hard as well. Roxanne knelt down to him.

   "Don't worry, help's on the way." Roxanne told him with a gentle smile.

   "Why-y are you hel-helping me-e?" he asked, knowing who she was.

   Roxanne looked at him. She recognized him as well. He was one of the men that poisoned her. The other one was lying on the floor, dead. "Because I'm a better person." She told him. He smiled a bit and she shook her head. "Where is Megamind!?" she demanded.

   "With Cha-chaos." the man choked.

   "But where?" she hissed. Suddenly she heard a loud scream "Caitlin stay with him!" she cried, over her shoulder as she ran onto the balcony. Roxanne looked up and saw a small ball falling fast. When it got closer she realized it was Minion! Reaching out for him, she caught him before he fell over the edge.

   "Am I dead yet?" the small fish said, shaking in terror.

   "MINION!" Roxanne said, on the brink of tears as she hugged him tight. "I'm so glad to see you! I was so worried!"

   "Ms. Ritchi!?" Minion cried, then quickly hugged her (as much as he could) back. "I'm so happy to see you're alive!" he cried.

   "What?" Roxanne asked holding him up to her face.

   "Well-" Minion began then started coughing. Roxanne headed back inside. Fish need water. Duh. "Well, Ms. Works called the boss on his cell phone saying that you died!"

   "I did not!" Caitlin cried, standing from her place next to the man. "What I said was that Roxanne flat lined, but she came back. The doctors said she would be fine." After a moment she added "Did you even listen to what I said?"

   "Well," Minion said, avoiding her eyes.

   "That's what it was!" Caitlin cried. Roxanne was about to ask what she meant when she went on "Megamind must have hung up on me!"

   Minion nodded as Roxanne spoke "Minion where is Megamind?"

   "He's on the roof, Ms. Ritchi." Minion told her.

   Roxanne nodded and tossed the little fish into Caitlin's arms. "Take care of him and tell the police and doctors everything when they get here!" Roxanne cried as she threw the door to the stairs open and raced up to the top.

   "Wait!" Minion cried, but it was too late. Roxanne was already gone.

   "What is it, Minion?" Caitlin asked as she placed him into the fountain in the middle of the room.

   "Chaos is up there!" Minion cried, flailing his fins.

   "We know." Caitlin told him. "Roxanne's on a mission. I couldn't stop her if I tried." After a moment she looked over to the dead man on the floor and asked "Did Megamind do this, Minion?"

   Minion went pale.

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   "MINION!!" Megamind screamed as he raced to the edge of the roof. When he finally got there the fish's screams had already stopped and he was nowhere to be seen. Gripping the gun in his hands and making a fist with his other, Megamind turned around and glared daggers at Chaos, who in turn just smiled like he had not a care in the world. "You killed Minion, you killed Roxanne. Why!?" He cried, throwing his hands into the air. "Why are you doing this!?"

   Chaos smiled and walked over to him calmly. "I told you, I enjoy seeing others pain. And you my friend," he patted Megamind's shoulder. "are just too easy to hurt." Megamind threw his hand off of his shoulder and took a step back. After a moment Chaos said "But I do believe that Ms. Ritchi is alive."

   "What?" Megamind whispered as his face fell. For a moment, hope filled his heart. But remembering who he was talking to, he forced that hope away and replaced his shock with a hateful scowl. "Don't lie to me!" he snapped.

   "I can understand while you'd think I'd lie." Chaos said "That is one thing I tend to do, but" he continued walking over to the satellite "my sources tell me she is alive."

   Still not believing him, Megamind shook his head "Big mistake Chaos," he told him switching his De-hydrator "Because now, like you said, I have no one left." Chaos smiled at this "Which means," Megamind held his gun up, now set onto De-stroy "I have nothing holding me back." For just a split second, Chaos' smug smile fell and terror filled his eyes, but it left as quickly as it came.

   He instead, turned around to face his computer "We'll see about that." Chaos then typed something into the computer and turned around to face Megamind "How about I turn off the power to the business buildings, or the local business?" With a wicked smile he added "Or the hospitals."

   Completely filled with rage, Megamind suddenly lunched at him. In the initial shock Chaos was surprised at this, but quickly recuperated. Megamind held the gun to his chest and was preparing to fire, but Chaos knocked it out of his hand making the gun fly close to the edge. For a few minutes, they both laid on the ground struggling for dominance over one another. "You know," Chaos said "I consider myself to be a fairly even tempered man, but congratulations!" he snapped punching Megamind in the face "You've really pissed me off!"

   "Yeah," Megamind said, wiping his face "being a hero tends to do that!" Megamind went to punch him, but was thrown back. He jumped onto Chaos again, and went to punch him until he caught sight of his gun. Megamind hopped off of Chaos running to it, but Chaos was faster. He grabbed Megamind's leg making him trip, and ran over to the gun.

   When Megamind looked back up, Chaos was standing next to the gun smiling evilly. Kicking it off the edge he looked at Megamind "Oops." he said deadly. Megamind stood up. "Look," Chaos said, leaning over the edge "It broke into a million pieces... just like that fish."

   Roaring in anger Megamind charged at him once more.

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   'I'm coming!' Roxanne thought as she ran up the stairs. She was breathing hard and having to force herself up each painful step.  After all, as Caitlin had said, she was still recovering. She stopped in the middle of the stair, leaned over and tried to catch her breath. Shinning her flashlight up, she saw the plate of the floor read '46'. 'Four more.' She thought pushing on the railing to get a head start. 'I'm coming, Megamind! Please be okay!!'

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   Megamind struggled back breathing hard. He looked over to Chaos who was bleeding from a cut in the forehead. 'If only I still had my gun!' Megamind thought, wiping his mouth of the blood that was trickling down.

   "You're far more trouble than you're worth." Chaos growled. "Just like that loud mouth woman of yours!"

   Megamind smirked "We make a pretty good team, huh?" he asked snidely.

  "Indeed." Chaos said, nodding before running strait at Megamind. Our blue hero was completely prepared for this as Chaos tackled him to the ground. He made another fist and punched Chaos in the face. The villain retracted, but quickly recovered, punching Megamind as well.

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