First I'd like to thank Watcher of hearts for inspiring me. Her story of Megamind was so good that I found myself infested with an idea that just kept nagging in the back of my mind. It came to the point where I could no longer keep the idea to myself and, in conclusion, forced me to finally get off my lazy butt and write a fan fiction. Which, I haven't bothered with in a while since I've been busy writing books. So, I'd like to dedicate this story to her works. I'd also like to mention that this story is based off her universe of "What They've Needed All Along," so I would read that before reading this one because you might get confused if you don't.
Chapter 1
Megamind and Roxanne had been pretty happy together. Their wedding being the talk of the town even months after their honeymoon ended, they were convinced that they would never stop getting asked questions piled on questions on how everything was. Roxanne herself was bothered even more often than Mykael. Especially about the more "private" stories of their relationship, in which she tried her best to shoo off the bothersome person right away. Reena was the only she trusted with such detailed information anyways, and only barely. After all, Reena was someone she'd gone through a lot with. After putting Adam and that no good Serah away, Roxanne felt she owed it to her.
The four of them, Megamind, Roxanne, Minion, and Reena, sat around the large dinner table, laughing away at all the past failures of Megamind himself that they probably discussed thousands of times. Though, each time always brought out laughs and keen memories. Minion, having an obvious crush on Reena, had his hand close to hers. His metal hand barely touching Reena's pinki in which she didn't mind one bit. Roxanne wasn't sure why Minion still acted so goofy around Reena anymore. She noticed at her wedding that Minion was dancing with her so they obviously broke the ice. Perhaps, it was just Minion's personality.
Mykael began to sneak his hand over Roxanne's when the phone ring. They both shared from rather disappointing interruptions in their life together. When it wasn't Minion it was Reena, when it wasn't Reena it was the brain bots, when it wasn't the brain bots it was a phone call from the city. The list grows bigger every day. Megamind stood up to go fetch the phone while Minion suggested bringing Reena home in the Hudson, she agreed. As they both left, Roxanne was left alone with Megamind however small amount of time they had before he had to go save this city. After all, he was the defender of Metro City now.
"Who was it?" She already narrowed down the list of who it could be, but still it was a very long list.
"The Warden." He answered her as he sat down casually to finish what was left of his dinner. She was surprised. David usually called when the city was in trouble and they needed help with something they couldn't do on their own, but since Megamind just sat down so calmly that wasn't the case.
"What did he want?" She placed her napkin on the table and noticed her dear Pinky sitting at her feet, in which she smiled at her favorite brain bot.
"He said he wanted us to speak to someone at the jail." He tossed his fork behind him in which his brain bot, Fang, had caught it and was already attempting to devour it before any other bots came to claim the treat.
"Who?" Roxanne never heard such an odd request from David.
"Some girl, he said she was pretty young." He leaned back into his chair. Usually, she would think of this as a good opportunity to get some news for the station, but the way his eyes looked so distant made her think this was a private matter.
"When does he want us to talk to this girl?" She felt her Pinky land on her lap and gently stroked her head.
"Later today, whenever is convenient." Megamind stood up and looked at her. In a way, she felt that he wanted to spend this time alone to be with her, but he just knew that they had to check this out. "Let's go."
"Okay." She stood up also allowing her Pinky to float off with the other bots.
"Daddy will be right back." He stroked one of his bots and attempted to scold him for biting, which never works out anyways. They both got in her car and started heading toward the jail.
"Megamind. Ms. Ric-" David began to say before remembering that she was married now. "Mrs. Pearce." Roxanne noticed the discomfort he had saying his last name to refer to her.
"I told you. Just call me Roxanne." She smiled as Mykael and she walked up toward the jails gate. He nodded and smiled.
"Warden." Megamind smiled as well. "Dad." The two shared a brief father son moment, hugging each other and sharing a silent conversation that she couldn't quite make out.
"Come. This way, I'll show you who I was talking about." David led them into the jail.
"Can I ask you a question, David?" She looked around nervously. She knew, somewhere in this jail was not only Hal, but Adam now as well.
"Sure." He said without looking back at her. Megamind grabbed her hand, feeling the obvious tension in her presence and tried to tell her that he wouldn't let them hurt her. Which made her feel instantly better as she went ahead to ask her questions.
"Shouldn't this girl be in the female jail? Where Serah is?" Roxanne avoided the obvious question of why a young girl is in jail in the first place, considering Mykael was raised in this jail.
"She's, different. You'll see." As they walked toward the back of the jail, she noticed they were heading towards the room Megamind was in for most of his years.
"Isn't Hal in that cell?"
"He was moved. We figured it was a little bit of an over kill to put an idiot like him in a high tech lock down cell. And far too comfortable for what he had done." He reassured her. As they got closer, they noticed a guard walking out of the room carrying a small bag. He looked disappointed.
"She beat me again." The guard placed the bag next to the door as he left to go on patrol.
"Beat him?" She whispered to Megamind in which he just shrugged and watched the Warden pick up the bag right after.
"Open up." He said to the guard at the controls. "Come on. They have to lock us in." Roxanne and Mykael followed David into the cell and found the white rotating chair turned away from them. Megamind smiled and began to daydream memories of the time he spent in that room in which wasn't all bad. "Are you going to cooperate with me this time, Anya?"
"Good evening to you too, Warden." She turned in her chair now facing them; she leaned her elbows on her knees and waved her right hand. "I don't know, according to you, I'm evil. Are I not?" Anya smiled and leaned back in her chair. Roxanne was surprised. The child was, indeed, no older than twelve and yet sounded so mature. Her long brown hair and brown eyes made her a quiet good looking girl, but the evil shine in the eyes made it hard to focus on how innocent she actually looked. Compared to her own short brown hair, which to much of Megamind's dismay that she had recently cut shorter, Anya's brown hair was LONG. David brought over a table that was sitting in the corner and a folding chair and placed them in front of Anya.
"You did this to yourself." He first took a chessboard out of the bag and set it on the table, than one by one took the pieces from the bag and placed them on the board accordingly.
"Why do you call me Anya again? You know too well I despise that name." She propped her feet up on the table and put her interlocked hands on her lap.
"That was the name on your birth certificate and that's the name I'm going to use." He slammed the last piece on the board annoyingly, obviously getting quickly flustered with her. Megamind and Roxi both noticed that Anya had ignored them, as if she rather not bother.
"Hello, I'm-" Roxi began.
"Roxanne Richie, Ace Reporter for KMCP news channel 8. Megamind, defender of Metro City and genius inventor, blah blah blah." Anya put on of her arms on the arm rest and leaned into her hand. "I see you on the news 24/7."
"So, who are you?" Roxanne attempted a polite approach only to get no response out of her. Anya simply starred back with a blank expression.
"She's a troublesome one. You got to play chess with her in order for her to answer any questions." David answered as he gestured to Anya. "I'll play, you answer." Anya complied as she moved a pawn forward two spaces.
"I'm who he says I am. A twelve year old criminal who doesn't like her name and gives everyone a hard time. You just wasted a question." She sighed and waited.
"Why are you here?" Roxanne asked back as David moved his pawn to block Anya.
"Why are you?" Anya moved her bishop out.
"To talk to you." She answered as David moved out his knight.
"Then I guess I'm here to talk to you." Anya moved out her Queen.
"That's a lie. You don't just go in jail because you want to talk to someone." David moved his other knight out.
"Then why are you here?" Anya smirked as she just gave Roxi, a reporter, the run around. She quickly took one of David's pawns. "Checkmate." David grumbled as he realized she had been playing into her hands as Roxanne realized she was in a similar situation. Megamind had been so busy paying attention to the game to notice, he obviously was intrigued by it.
"I'm here because you're in jail and you're so young." She suggested, not knowing why David had called them here in the first place.
"I don't do rematches." Anya told David as he rose from the chair. Megamind took his place surprisingly.
"Let me try this. What is this called again?" Mykael looked at the board excitingly.
"Chess." Anya answered, suddenly interested. "Do you know how to play?"
"No, but how hard can this wooden board game be?" He smiled devilishly in which Roxanne couldn't help but feel attracted to.
"Suit yourself." Anya reset the pieces and then moved her pawn out. Mykael went to take the knight and moved it similarly to how David moved it last game.
"So, why are you here?" Mykael asked.
"Because I can only do bad things." Anya frowned and moved her queen out.
"What do you mean?" He moved a pawn out two spaces.
"You wouldn't understand." She blocked his pawn with her own.
"Do you go to shool?" He moved his bishop out toward her queen.
"Shool?" She raised an eyebrow.
"School." Roxanne explained smiling at Megamind's vocabulary.
"Used to." She moved out her knight.
"Why'd you stop?" Roxanne asked as Megamind moved a piece that David explained to him was a castle and how it moved.
"Got kicked out." She took the bishop with her queen.
"Why?"
"A list of things." Anya watched Megamind move his own queen out to take her own then countered with taking it with her knight and placed her hand over Megamind's.
"Explain." Roxanne urged. With that, the next five moves she told them how she kept sneaking out during classes and how she managed to melt a kids sneakers to the pavement because he kept teasing her. It was at the point that Roxanne realized why David had wanted us to talk to her. Anya was just like Megamind! Minus the blue skin and alien in origin. She was smart, bullied, and proclaimed evil simply because of some misunderstood actions that caused her to act the roll. It was almost heart breaking.
"Where are your parents?" Roxanne asked as Mykael preformed his last move.
"Don't have any." Anya looked aggravated by the question as she slammed her castle down and removed her hand from Mykael's. "Checkmate." Mykael looked disappointed as he rose from the chair, though both Roxanne and David knew if he played her again he would win now that he knew how to play.
"I don't believe that." Roxi took the seat and reset the board. "Not any?"
"I was left at the steps of an orphanage when I was born and after a few years of putting up with my brains, they gave me to the prison to raise." Anya moved her pawn out.
"That's sad." Roxi moved her pawn out as well.
"Why would you be sad? You don't even know me." Anya placed another pawn out. "For all you know, I might even deserve it."
"I'd like to." Roxanne frowned and moved other pawn out too.
"That makes one of us." She took the other pawn with her bishop.
"Why are you acting like that? I'm trying to talk to you. Get to know you." Roxi slammed her other pawn out.
"Maybe because someone told you to." Anya took that pawn too with her queen. "Or maybe I just don't like reporters."
"Well maybe I know what you're going through." Roxi placed her knight out unknowingly. "Check."
"How could you? Everything was given to you. You didn't have to work for anything." Anya took the knight which checked her with her queen. "Check." The next thing that Anya said really spooked Roxanne to her core. "Your move Roxaroo." Only Hal ever called her that, which meant she had been talking to him. For the first time, Roxanne felt unprepared to counter using her reporter skills. Anya knew could know so much about Roxanne while she herself knew nothing about her. Roxanne panicked and put her Queen out. Anya took her queen and smirked. "Checkmate."
Mykael looked at the girl angrily, knowing to well what kind of mental stress she put Roxanne into. He put his hand on Roxanne's shoulders to sooth her. Roxanne immediately appreciated the gesture, feeling better.
"Come on, I'd like to talk to you guys." David knocked on the door which opened to let them out.
"Looking forward to your next visit Warden." Anya announced after them as they left, bag filled with the chess pieces and board. When the door closed, David gestured them to his office where they sat down across his desk.
"Do you see now? She's, difficult, but she has potential." David suggested.
"She bears a striking resemblance to you Mykael." Roxanne looked at him as he stroked the hairs on his chin.
"I noticed that. She liked to pop her collar up too." Megamind and Roxanne both shared a chuckle, remembering that he wore his collar up whenever he found himself in his orange jump suit just as Anya noticeably had done herself. "In all seriousness, what does one do with someone like this?"
"Well, I was thinking if she spent some time in a loving environment, she could change. I mean, you did. That's where you two come in. I was hoping you two could, let her live with you for a while?" David asked.
"Come again?" Mykael raised an eyebrow.
"Let her stay with you. Not for long, maybe a few weeks or so. Just so she has a feeling of what it is like for someone to care for her." David leaned back into his chair waiting for their answer.
Mykael realized that if they accepted this offer, he wouldn't have any time alone with his Queen of evil for a long time. On the other hand, this was a chance to see what it is like to have a kid. Interesting situation. Not only that, but he kind of hoped that this could be his chance to change someone's life the way Roxanne had changed him.
"Okay." Roxanne answered, beating Mykael to the punch. "We'll do it."
"Great, let's go tell her." David got up and the three of them headed over to the cell once more. He gestured toward the guard to open the door in which hesitated before opening it and they all went in. The chair had once again been turned away from them. "Anya, I got some good news for you." He waited for a response, but he didn't get one. "Anya?" He waited again before turning the chair. "Anya!" The three gasped to find the guard tied up and gaged.
"Hey Megamind." They all turned to find the guard who opened the door smirking and holding his wrist up. "Nice watch, very high tech." She turned the watch to reveal it was actually Anya herself. "Nice to meet all of you." She turned the watch so that she could look just like the Warden before shutting the door. She glided through the shutting gates and walked down the hall heading toward the exit.
"She got your watch? How did she get your watch?" Roxanne finally remembered Anya placing her hand on Mykael's during their chess game. She was kind of surprised the he didn't feel her lift the watch from him. Megamind took out his De-gun and flipped it to destroy. He blasted the door off its hinges and went to open the closed gates. Roxanne, after Megamind opened the gates, told him she would stay behind and try and contact Minion to track the GPS in the watch. He nodded and ran to catch Anya.
"Good luck, son!" David called after him before Mykael turned the corner.
"Where is it?" Anya dusted off the surface of sand dirt that she was standing over just across from the jail. Looking for something she had hid hear not too long ago before she was put in jail.
"You there! Do not run from me, Megamind, defender of Metrocity." Megamind ran out the jail determined to catch her only to trip over himself.
"This is Metro City's hero?" Anya rolled her eyes before turning around and continuing her search. "Oh, here it is." She picked up a metal skateboard looking thing with no wheels.
"Hey, wait!" Megamind stood up and switched his De-gun to dehydration.
"I wouldn't do that." Anya turned while adjusting her watch to turn back into herself again.
"Oh and why is that?" Megamind gave her one of his signature bad boy looks, feeling quiet confident that he could take her. That was before he heard a growling above him. He looked up quickly to find a metal skeleton like dog growling down at him. The dog robot lunged at him and knocked the gun out of his hand.
"My friend doesn't like that." She smiled and got on her board after turning it on. "I'll see you around Hero!" She zoomed off on her hover board whistling for her dog which soon followed. Mykael rushed to see her off and found a smile on his face. She didn't say hero in a sarcastic or dismissing tone. It was a true honest gesture. She called him a hero. Perhaps she wasn't as bad as everyone thought she was. He waited for Roxanne to come out before getting into her car and rushing to meet up with Minion. Hopefully, they'd find Anya before morning.
Well there's chapter one. Hopefully it's up to par with Watcher's standards and I can complete it with little trouble. I'll be watching Megamind twenty times a day until I can perform his bouncy attitude with little effort. Along with reading Watcher's story over and over, not that I needed to be forced because it was just that good. Anyways, chapter two will be coming as soon as I can figure out how events should lay out. Thanks again to Watcher for inspiring me.
