Chapter 5:
Mandy woke up in a daze and didn't know where she was. She tryed to look around, but she couldn't move her head. She quickly realized that she was strapped to a chair; she was some sort of captive.
The room was perfectly white; lights shown brightly in her eyes like the dentist's office. There was nothing in the room but her and it was obvious that she was being survalenced.
She tryed to remember what had happened before she apparently passed out, but all she could wonder was how anyone could possibly kidnap her. Not in her whole life had she been kidnapped, no one could thwart her father--no one.
Her memory was slowly coming back as she woke up a little more. She remembered James telling her to go home; she remembered that she told him that Isaac was a fake. What did that mean? She remembered Isaac and the menacing look on his face. Had he kidnapped her? Were they working together? Who were they working for?
She tryed squirming her way out of her restraints, but immediatly after doing so, the doors burst open and two men in white masks and white lab coats got on either side of her--more restraints.
A TV screen came down from the ceiling and turned on to a face that she was unfamiliar with.
"Good morning, princess."
Mandy was extrememly offended by this, people would try to agrivate her buy calling her the "princess of Metro City." How did he know about that? Despite her frustration, she decided to try to make this fun.
"Princess? you must be talking to one of these guys." she countered, sarcastically.
"Very funny, Amanda."
"Amanda?! Now I know you're talking to one of these guys--"
"Enough! You are a prisoner of the United States Army, and you will remain that way until we gey what we want!"
"The Army?! Wha--who are you?Why am I here?"
The man laughed at her ignorance. He thought it would be funny to tell her the whole truth, but that it would funnier to leave her in suspense.
"You can call me Evil Overlord of all United Forces. My spies have taken control of all military forces since you've been asleep, and since your dad has been busy trying to thwart me, he doesn't even know you're gone."
"I seriously don't know where he went, he was here and knocked out just a second ago."
"He's a phycic, maybe he blocked the attack somehow and ran off. Come on, he can't far!"
After the two spies left Millie's sight, she kept herself and James invisible while she took him by his sweat shirt and flew off to her family's appartment. Invisibility wouldn't keep them off radar, but hopefully, she could ward off being tracked with another device infused in her brain: Playing Dead.
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Roxanne recieved Millie's distress signal right in the middle of an information meeting. The Armed Forces were doing badly, and Megamind was virtually useless without a thought out plan and enough information about who was behind all this. She had a terribly bad feeling that it had something to do with Mandy being caught up in this mess, so she immediatly left without an explanation.
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Roxanne came home to find Minion and Millie tending to a boy just waking up. She didn't know this boy, but still knew it had something to do with Mandy.
The boy looked over to Roxanne entering the apartment and almost fell off the couch in surprise.
"Mrs. Ritchie! Oh my gosh--Mandy must be at the base by now!..." he paused, taking a second to look around and think. "How'd I get here?"
"Millie flew you here, and then she called Mrs. Ritchie." Minion answered.
"Wait, who are you and what was that about Mandy?" Roxanne asked James sat up straight and tryed to explain things, but didn't really know where to begin.
"I'm James, I'm a phycic." he paused. He started again, "I'm regrettingly apart of a terrible scheme..." He cringed and waited for something to happen, but nothing did. He turned to Roxanne.
"Is there some sort of signal cancellor around?"
"Millie is equiped with an advanced multi-signal cancellor. Why?" Minion answered.
"Well, usually when I try to tell that my uncle abuses my powers in his plot to defeat Megamind, he sends an electric wave that prevents me from saying so."
"Woah, woah, woah, hold up!" Roxanne interrupted. "Let's start from the beginning. What happened to Mandy? Then tell us the plot."
James hesitated, still afraid of whether he was being watched, Roxanne could tell.
"Look," Roxanne said, "this entire building is secure. No one's going to listen in on us or find you. You're safe."
James nodded. "First time probably in my life." He sighed. "Mandy has been captured by my uncle, a former US army general."
Roxanne gasped. Questions filled her head, but she let James continue. "It was my uncle's idea to ask Megamind to build the military weapons, but after so many rejection letters and his insisting that they force him, they made him retire. He refused and swore his revenge, so when I was older and skilled enough, that would make me thirteen years old, he made me take over the minds of all the military leaders so that he could make his way to the top without suspicion. But that wasn't all, he made his son, Isaac, pretend to be Mandy's friend while I controlled the minds of the teenagers who never let her out of their sight so that she would feel trapped."
he hesitated, it was too horible to tell Mandy's parent the truth about the terrible things he'd done, but he had to do it. "But she was too smart to really fall for that; she would break away too easily. So...my uncle made me have a phycic grip on her mind at all times so that she couldn't break away or tell her true feeling to you."
Roxanne could see James' disgust with himself and hated to ask him nagging questions, but she needed to know. "Why did you have to restrict Mandy when you--you're uncle was after Megamind?"
"It was his back-up plan." James answered immediatly. "He was going to kidnap Mandy if Megamind kept refusing, and he almost used me to do that--but I couldn't! I don't want to live a lie anymore!"
"Don't worry James," Roxanne said, reasurringly, almost like a superhero. "You made the right choice. We're going to fix this."
