HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO

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WHO: megamaniacal and brevipennate
WHERE: SOMEWHERE IN THESITY!
WHEN: Today
WARNINGS: showboating, loud rock music, and an ego 8(
SUMMARY: SHE NEEDS A HERO
FORMAT: Words! AKA I don't care, whatever Iola wants!



The sun was bright in The City, very bright indeed. Save for the moments when an entire flock of maddened pigeons were flying between one and the sun. Then it was temporarily dark. If that happened, you were either only left with some cool shade for a scant few moments, or you were going to be attacked when the birds noticed you.

Megamind didn't have that problem! It was because he was a genius, after all. When you had a rocket pack and a DE-gun to your name, it wasn't hard to make sure that you weren't going to get torn to tiny pieces. By birds. Embarassing! That's what that was! How anyone could be braindead enough to let that happen, in a city where people supposedly got powers? Maybe they weren't useful. Although, he didn't have any powers. Not that he could tell, anyway. He'd tried everything he could think of, but he was out of ideas. For the moment. It wasn't important! He'd gone this long without powers anyway, and he'd still managed to take out someone with all the powers of Metro Man. Not that he'd done it with anything than his infuser gun, but that wasn't important!

What was important, was that he was a hero!

So obviously someone needed saving, right? Right?

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She wasn't exactly sure what "witty banter" was, but she figured she could do her best to talk to him. At the question, she thought for a moment before holding up three fingers on her free hand. Heine and Nightwing, first; after a second she pointed to him. He made three. She shrugged at the second part. Definitely a lot. She couldn't count them all, though.

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He was surprised that she was actually making sense. Obviously, the girl had experience with not talking, which was reassuring, but there was still the problem that she couldn't really talk. Or even write on the street. It would be something of a hassle if her hands were full, like now!

He was silent for a moment while they walked, and he was thinking up solutions. Maybe it was because it was a puzzle, how to program and build something that would work? Of course, he was the hero now! This was the perfect opportunity to help! It might be best to leave it for now though, he was walking her home.

"Three! Only three? You must be good at avoiding trouble."

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She opened her mouth in a silent laugh at that; her shoulders shook a bit with the inexpressible sound. She shook her head a bit at him; that wasn't quite right. She found plenty of trouble. It was just always the same people that happened to be there at the perfect time. It was usually Heine. He hardly ever let her go out alone anymore. Even though Danny had taught her some kung-fu, he didn't think she was ready to defend herself from a real threat. And she knew he was right. It was comforting to know that someone would be there for her.

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"Oh, so you're frequently in danger!" he lit up at that. "Do people get kidnapped, or in trouble often?"

It was easy to use an opportunity near someone to actually find out information. He'd scanned through the comms, of course, but sometimes that didn't tell the whole story, or really enough of it. As much as he was often secluded from other people, he knew the rules of the game. If he was going to be a hero, he had to get over the hang-ups, and that included talking to people.

People he'd saved was easier, thankfully.

[culver]

She didn't want to admit it, but he was right. She always seemed to find whatever danger was lurking around at the time. She nodded a bit at the second question; there was always something bad going on, even if it wasn't always apparent.

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"Exciting!" he exclaimed, jumping a little bit at the prospect. Very exciting, in fact! That was a little reassuring, he had to admit. If there were things to do, he wouldn't get quite as bored as he'd been worried he would.

Of course, maybe heroes were supposed to get bored? He didn't know. Did Metro Man get bored all the time? Waiting for him to break out of prison and do something outlandish?

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She wasn't quite sure it was... exciting, but it was definitely something. She turned a corner, taking the scenic route to the apartment. She felt like he might not have seen much of the City before.