DO NOT ADJUST YOUR COMMS. WE NOW CONTROL THE AIRWAVES.

[megamind]

[There is a blue man in dramatic lighting. Bedecked as befits a comic book villain. A heavy mantle defines his shoulders, spikes all across it, an arching collar framing his slender neck and large head. A body suit, where the start of his trademark blue lightning bolt starts it's path down across his body.]

[He sits somewhere, in what appears to be some sort of strange mess of wires, panels and montors, all ablink with light and readings.]

CAPTIVES OF THE TRANQUILITY.

I an Megamind, and-- I am now in control of the ship.

[A gesture, and the power flickers for a moment.]

You have thirty minutes to surrender, or I will handle any further insurrection with harm to my hostages, Dr. Jane Foster and Miss Roxanen Ritchi. Where are they, you've been wondering. Hard at work? Lost to the warp?

No, no no. They've been in my tender care. [Obligatory, rolling villainous chuckle; confident in his smugness.] All this time.

You are to head straight to the med bay and engage your grav couches. Any resistance will be met with force. I have measures in place to protect myself -- do not test my patience, captives!

I am doing you all a favor. I'm not pretending to be your friend while assembling a team of close operatives to insinuate into key positions like the good Captain Kirk is while suggesting that we let someone feed on you, nor am I silent like Ward and Resnik in the depths of the ship. I'm giving you what the captain must: Someone to hate, while he does something no one else would:

Act!

No, go to the med bay! It's the only clear path you'll have. Any other places will be met with resistance... And I don't want to have to start destroying important facilities to cow you into submission, either.

But I will.

[He rises, flourishes.]

Thirty minutes. Grav couches. Don't squander it.

Comments

[not here]

[goldshirt]

[shit.

so he was behind it all; he was behind the text Jim received. and now he has control of the ship. how? he fires off an immediate alert to Spock (gather, we're taking this guy down) before he decides to contact megamind.]

video;

[goldshirt]

Pretty impressive to do this all by yourself.

video;

[awakenings]

[This guy has commandeered the ship? Really? And he thinks he can just threaten the entire crew?]

Are you serious?

video;

[megamind]

Like a heart attack, Re-l.

voice.

[swagneto]

[ And then people wonder why Erik's been campaigning for a cause where there's someone blatantly trying to exacerbate the situation. His first thought is, this guy is an idiot. His second thought involves something along the lines of being passive because Megamind is clearly not human looking, and his third is that if the guy had any sense of belief along Erik's lines, he wouldn't have done such a thing.

Conflicted emotions all around, and Erik's first instinct is not to question why (though he knew full well most people didn't need a reason beyond inherent superiority), but to really just distract, especially when Kirk has been mentioned, though that on its own is enough to raise suspicions for a later date. ]

Congratulations on making yourself a glaring target.

voice.

[megamind]

If it spurs the complacent sheep to action? I have no regrets. [Good would rise. He just hoped it rose in the right ways-- in the right places.]

video

[edle_gestalt]

[...Wow, has anyone here seen him this angry]

Anyone attempting to bring people together primarily through stirring hatred has no right to call himself a leader.




Get.

Out.

video

[megamind]

Did I say 'leader'?

Try overlord.

voice;

[goingsilent]

Well. You had me up until "harm the hostages" and "cow you into submission."

video

[megamind]

Miss Goto.

[...he actually likes you, Kasumi. A lot. There's a brief moment of pause, a worry-- but no. Villains have no friends. He has to see this through.]

Desperate times, desperate measures. I'm sure you understand. Or will, eventually.

voice;

[alwaysagit]

[To be honest, Snape doesn't give a rat's arse what you do to your prisoners, Megamind, but one thing is certain—] I am not getting back into that grav couch.

voice;

[megamind]

Then when I activate the jump drive, you will be reduced to a fine red mist under the pressure of the g-forces exerted.

If you're okay with becoming chunky salsa instead of being a person, hey [he shrugs his shoulders.] That's all you, man.

Voice

[walksonrooftops]

I will kill you.

[Short, sweet, and to the point. Cat-man is angry.]

voice

[megamind]

You are welcome to try!

[saidhe]

And all without a person's, [ my, specifically, he intends, ] notice.

[ He's never met the man. He's only seen him in passing. And now he's organized a near hostile takeover of the entirety of the ship. ]

[ So when Holmes speaks next, there's genuine compliment in his voice, and he sounds legitimately impressed. ]

Elegantly executed.

[megamind]

[Oooh ego stroking. Megamind preens.]

You can't help it. You're technologically behind, Mr. Holmes. What I did-- you'd need more than a passing understanding of the ships systems to grasp the enormity of it!

[statsraaden]

[Oh, Stats is not impressed. Way. not. impressed. He's not going to give in. Not after having lived through the war. It's all the same now.]

You have thirty minutes to explain to us how exactly you're going to run this ship and take us home. Be careful, you might be short.

[megamind]

An overlord explains nothing.

Sit back, and enjoy the ride!

[video]

[testgasm]

[AH HA HA HA OH MAN

This is going to be the greatest dear-everyone-but-mostly-Cave-I-told-you-he-was-a-lunactic-I-told-you-so moment

ever

in the history of the whole entire world.]

Haha, oh wow. Just--just indulge me for a second. Who is the idiot, again? Because, uh. It's certainly not me.

[video]

[megamind]

You're the first one out the airlock if I have to start executing people, just an FYI, Wheatley.

Video

[bottlearum]

[Hahaha, oh man! Jack had intended on taking the ship sooner or later, once he had gotten up a crew and actually planned some things out, but this? This was too good. He's so glad that there are other people besides him willing to do something about their situation. And well, if this guy had already taken over the ship, the hard part was done for him!

When he starts up the video, Jack Sparrow is grinning from ear to ear.]

Quite an impressive feat, mate. Might I ask if you need any help?

[MegaEncrypt; ping to Caprica.]

[megamind]

I think you two should meet.

Perhaps you can help the good man help me?

text

[mutelunatic]

no.

text

[megamind]

The grav couches are for your own safety, since when I activate the jump to get us off the course of CERTAIN DOOM -- you'll be reduced to human tomato paste.

But if you want to die, no skin off my nose. 30 minutes are ticking away!

audio;

[rebelled]

We are not your captives.

audio

[megamind]

You will be if you know what's good for you.

[ video ]

[coffeeking]

[You'll have to forgive Ianto while he gets stuck on one particular point, Megamind.]

Isn't Roxanne your girlfriend?

[ video ]

[megamind]

Right now she's a cube. She's-- not very happy with me, at the moment.

[Text]

[godofthemachine]

[AM isn't sure if he's amused or annoyed.]

And who might you be?

[Text]

[megamind]

As of now?

Overlord.

[video]

[profligates]

On the one hand... I would be fine with this in any other situation. However, it's you, who says he can play a piano by ear. And that's just not believable.

[video]

[megamind]

[Not even taking to you, fake captain!]

[circumitus]

Then you will have to use force.

[megamind]

Good thing I prepared for that eventuality.

video -> [cylon encryption]

[re_imagining]

[Golf clap.]

Bravo. Well presented.

Now -- can you pull it off?

[video]

[za_rodina]

And what will you do when the jump happens? Surely you'll be a bit preoccupied with turning to your so called "mush" if you attempt to steer us.

[What's that, is that a bored tone? It sure is. Just not getting good reactions out of the nations today, are you?]

Re: [video]

[megamind]

You assume I don't have a contingency plan for my own safety.

Don't worry, I have my own means of stasis here.

[voice] just gonna slide this in so it doesn't look like i utterly dropped any sort of ball

[uncodlyawwesome]

[o-oh.]

I guess as far as vvillainous introductions go, that's pretty good.

But seriously, are you gonna try jumpin' this ship wwithout knowwin' evverythin' about it? Or... do you actually knoww evverythin'?

[megamind]

Oh. It's you.

[Megamind just smirks. It's not a kind smirk. In fact, it barely masks disdain.]

I had high hopes for you, Eridan. High hopes indeed. But in the end you fell flat. You contented yourself with just-- mediocre juvenile antics! Drinking and pretending to be security and being a obvious troll - no pun intended - on the network.

You were a disappointment as a nemesis.

[ video ]

[timedaughter]

[Jenny pops up, chin in hands. She doesn't look entertained or righteously angry, just interested.]

So what's the plan?

[She speaks as if they're friends exchanging gossip or something.]

[ video ]

[megamind]

The plan for you is to get in the grav couch, okay? You go do that. I'm a bit busy at the moment.