I really must stop writing Megamind fics. But they are so much fun aren't they?

This one is the third I've written in a sequence. 'Eastern Exploits' and 'Black Holes And Revalations' came first. It really is better if you read them first, but if you can't be bothered here's the important stuff…

Roxanne and Megamind are now engaged, living at New Not Evil Lair and about to get married, about six months after Megamind saved the world from a swirling vortex of doom.

During Megamind's mission, he accidently let most of the prisoners at Metro City Penitentiary escape.

Minion met a lovely Coi-fish hench-woman named Shiyounin from Japan and they spawned two offspring.

Music Man (formerly known as Metro Man) has struck up a friendship with our blue hero and is currently on tour with an iPod/Brainbot hybrid named iBot.

I hope you enjoy, people. More chapters are to come!

Prologue

"Hello? Hello is this thing on? Helloo..." The round-faced ginger-haired man sat down in front of the webcam. "Good morning bloggers. As you know I'm Hal Stewart and this is my one hundred and seventeenth day of freedom from that hell-hole of a prison they put me in, simply because they couldn't handle the awesomeness that is me." He took a swig out of his can of energy drink and continued. "I had to go out and get supplies today, I held up a 7-11 and boy was the dumbass behind the counter scared. I mean seriously scared he like almost shit his pants. God it was great!" He sat back in his chair with his fingers laced behind his head. "I'm done with the small stuff now though. It's been great so far. Got me some cash and a sweet place to stay but now I've got some shit I need to take care of." For a moment he almost looked like his superhuman self with glinting reddish-brown eyes as he glared into the camera. "This crap-hole of a city has been putting me down for years, but that's okay. The police, the guards and that jailhouse shrink with the sweet ass were all just doing their jobs. Megamind though..." He sat forward as though the blue alien were actually there. "You made a fool out of me. For no reason. You built me up and then you tore me down, treated me like garbage. And Roxanne." His eyes narrowed and he licked his lips. "You led me on, prancing around like the slut you are in those short skirts. I'm coming for you. I'm coming for both of you. You think I needed those super powers? I'm smarter than all of you. You've been warned." He smiled and sat back again. "Stay tuned, bloggers, and watch the news. You'll be hearing from me soon."

He hit a button and the screen went blank.

Chapter 1

Megamind cornered the fugitive in an alleyway he knew was a dead end. He got off his hover-bike, took off his helmet and carried it under his arm.

The alley was mostly dark shadow and his target was nowhere in sight.

"Abe? Come on out I know you don't want to hurt me." He called. There was no answer, save the dripping of water into filthy puddles. He sighed. "Abe. I saw you come down here. We both know you're in the dumpster. Come on out." There was a rustling sound and a short, squat figure climbed out of the dumpster a few yards away from Megamind. His glare was clearly visible in the glow of the headlight of the hover-bike.

"All right, hero, I give myself up." He said. Megamind took note of the man's grey beard and bald head. This particular capture gave him no satisfaction.

"Damnit Abe why did you have to escape? You were due for release in two weeks! Now they're going to keep you in for I don't know how long!" he sighed as he took out his handcuffs. The grubby old man scowled at him.

"There was a hole in the wall. I escaped. In case you don't remember that's what prisoners do. It's our duty to escape."

"That's prisoners of war, not prisoners of Metro City Penitentiary who are convicted on charges of armed robbery."

"This is war." Abe snarled. Megamind put the cuffs on him but not too tight. "It's been a war since they put me away the first time! You used to understand that."

"You've been out three times, and every time you get sent back. Why can't you just stop being evil?" Megamind asked.

"We don't all have unlimited means and a gorgeous gal to show us the error of our ways, Blue. You know as well as I do when you're out, and you're cold and hungry and no one will give you a job or a chance you've got to take what you want!" he said. "They'll let me out in a few weeks. They'll put me in a shelter and give me food vouchers to last me a month or so and then I'm on my own again. What then?" he snapped. Megamind looked at him and saw one of the kindly men who taught him to walk, and talk, and who kept him safe for the first half of his life. His uncle, one of many he had tracked down and returned to prison over the last five months or so.

"I don't know." Megamind said as he put Abe on the back of his hover-bike and put his own helmet on the man's head. It was way too big but it would keep him safe. Abe wouldn't meet his gaze.

"Well it looks like your life is turning out okay. Hero of Metro City, getting married in a week, you've got it all don't you?" Megamind looked at the dirty, wet man and sighed.

"Yeah." He said as he revved the engine.

With a heavy heart, he took his uncle back to prison.

Megamind parked the bike, took off his helmet and walked quietly inside. It was past midnight and he had warned Roxanne it may be a long night. He took the long way home hoping the ride through the city would make him feel better. It did. Slightly.

He intended to creep inside unnoticed but spotted the light on in the little-used dining-room and had to investigate.

There, asleep at the dining table with her head pillowed on her laptop keyboard still clutching a half-drunk cup of coffee was Roxanne. Megamind smiled. To anyone else she would have looked hard at work but he knew what she had been up to.

He walked over to her, took off his spiked leather gloves, and gently stroked her hair.

"Roxanne?" He ventured. She let out an incoherent mumble. "Roxanne? Wake up."

"Chicken!" she sat up with a jolt, causing Megamind to give a small (but infinitely manly) scream and jump back. "Chicken and white wine sauce! No mushrooms for Aunt Joyce, she can't have mushrooms." Her eyes were wide and glassy. Megamind got back up again.

"Who's allergic to mushrooms?" Megamind wondered.

"Not allergic. Did too many mushrooms during the 70's and now she stars screaming at the sight of them." Roxanne's blue eyes were glassy and unfocused. Megamind gingerly touched her arm.

"Roxanne? Wake up Roxanne." She blinked a few times.

"What are you doing home? You said you were going to be late." She said.

"It's after midnight." he said with a smile. Her hair was all messy and standing straight up on one side. He brushed it down with his fingers.

"Oh." She looked back at her laptop. "I've just got to send this e-mail off to the caterer and then I'll be up." She turned back to her computer. Megamind raised one eyebrow.

"No." He lifted her into his arms and she gave a little squeal. "You're in my clutches now Miss Ritchie!" he said happily and started walking towards the stairs.

"No! Put me down I have stuff to do!" She protested.

"Quiet or I'll tie you up again." He said. She gave one last longing look at her computer and then turned back to her fiancé. That didn't sound so bad, it had been a while since they'd gotten out the ropes.

"No! Put me down I need to choose soup!" she protested.

"Right. That's it." He stomped up the stairs.

The next morning Roxanne woke early, pulled on a pair of jeans and a tank and crept downstairs. There it was. Her laptop. Ready and waiting for her to use the awesome power of e-mail to ensure everything about her wedding was organised and perfect.

She e-mailed the caterer about Aunt Joyce's aversion to mushrooms and then confirmed that the dessert was going to be peanut-free for her colleague Harry Newman (as much as she was tempted to ask them to sneak some peanuts into his ice-cream...he was that incompetent!) and that her parents were to be seated on a table on her side of the wedding party and not Megamind's (they still weren't comfortable with her marrying a retired megalomaniac) and that Minion's partner Shiyounin had requested hers and Minion's offspring were seated at the kid's table rather than with the wedding party (even fish parents needed a break sometimes).

Shiyounin really needed one more dress fitting to make her look just that little more normal (maybe a wig might help? Roxanne was at a loss) and she had to confirm Megamind's, Music Man's and Minion's suit fittings (The store owner had nearly had a coronary when she gave him their measurements over the phone). She made her way to the kitchen for coffee, and to her surprise Shiyounin was already in there measuring out dried shrimp. She spun around and looked at Roxanne from the back of her suit's dome.

"Konichiwa, Miss Ritchie." She said pleasantly with a small bow in her white robotic suit.

"Konichiwa Shiyounin. Please call me Roxanne?" she had been trying to get the pretty little coi fish to use her first name for months now. Shiyounin bobbed her head up and down as she always did.

"Of course Miss Ritchie." She replied. Roxanne sighed. "Would you like some coffee?"

"Sounds like a plan." Roxanne yawned and went over to the espresso machine. Shiyounin stopped her and waved her over to a stool at the breakfast bar.

"I make coffee. Sit." She said. Roxanne did as she was told. She looked down and saw Minion's and Shiyounin's offspring, Rei and Minion Junior, sitting in their little travel spheres on the breakfast bar. Both were silently crying with bubbles floating out of their mouths. "Yes, yes little ones breakfast is coming." Shiyounin said as she set the espresso machine to work and then scooped some of the little shrimp out of the container. She popped the lids up on their spheres and dropped the food in. Immediately the little fish, now almost a third the size of their parents, began gobbling their breakfast. Roxanne smiled and watched them.

"How are their walking lessons going?" she asked. Megamind had helped customise two of the thigh-high Japanese-style robot suits that Shiyounin's former mistress had invented for the little fish to use.

"Is good." Shiyounin handed her a coffee and then opened up a section of her suit and poured her coffee and some shrimp inside. She pushed a button and the compartment retracted, sending the food and coffee floating into her dome. The water discoloured and Shiyounin sighed happily. "Ahhh. Coffee." She said. Roxanne smiled and took a sip of hers. Maybe they weren't so different after all. She eyed the fish's white enamel robotic suit and sighed. She still didn't know how she was going to manage to dress this fish for the wedding.

Megamind walked into the kitchen in his black hero suit. He kissed Roxanne and then kissed Shiyounin on the dome, placing his hand on her cool, hard midsection.

"Good morning ladies." Roxanne rolled her eyes. This weird flirting thing he and the fish had going was getting just a little bit creepy. Shiyounin laughed prettily.

"Good morning Mega Mind. Would you like some breakfast?" she asked. Megamind eyed the table in front of them.

"Coffee yes. I'll pass on the dry shrimp."

"Is good." Shiyounin said, gulping down another one that had been floating in her dome and taking another deep breath of coffee. Megamind poured himself a coffee and the doorbell rang.

"I'll go." Megamind said and went to answer the door. He looked at his watch. 8am. Who would be visiting him at this time of day?

He opened the door and he felt that strange combination of dread and delight that came with seeing the Warden.

"Warden! You just can't stay away from me can you?" he said with a smug grin. He couldn't resist baiting the man. The Warden gave him a flat stare.

"We need to talk." He said and walked past him into the house. Megamind could see Shiyounin and Roxanne talking animatedly about the wedding. He gestured to the couch.

"Have a seat. Do you want some coffee?"

"No thanks. And I meant in private." Megamind glanced at the females in the kitchen.

"They're in wedding mode. They can't hear what you're saying. Watch this." He cleared his throat and said loudly: "What? The world is ending?" They kept talking. "Seven storey lizard heading this way?" still nothing. Megamind grinned. "Flowers!" Both females snapped their heads up and looked in his direction.

"Blue and white roses." Roxanne said automatically while Shiyounin added.

"Picking them up at 7:30 am on morning of wedding." Satisfied they had the flowers under control they went back to discussing seating plans. The Warden blinked and shook his head. He sat down, apparently satisfied.

"Okay...anyway. Since the prison escape of five months ago," he gave Megamind a glare. Technically Megamind supposed it probably had been his fault, but it had been an accident. "We have recovered all but one prisoner. Hal Stewart." Megamind frowned. He had been given the names of all the prisoners who were considered a bigger than average threat, or harder to track down than the others.

"Metrosity PD was meant to be handling Hal. He was considered low-risk."

"He is basically an idiot. We didn't think he would be this hard to catch but so far he just seems to have disappeared."

"Maybe he's left the city." Megamind guessed, not really concerned. "He's no threat to anyone, not without his super powers." The Warden fingered the manila folder he had brought with him. He sighed.

"We don't think he's left Metro City. There was a hold up of a 7-11 yesterday and the security camera showed a guy who looked a lot like him."

"A fat nerd? They aren't in short supply you know." The Warden's expression was serious.

"He's not leaving the city Megamind. I didn't want to show you these but..." he handed Megamind the folder. He opened it up and glanced at the photographs inside.

"Hal's prison cell. We photographed it before we re-painted after he escaped." Megamind wordlessly flipped through them. The cell was plastered with posters of Roxanne. Over all of it was poorly-drawn graffiti of her in some fairly explicit pornographic positions. After the third picture Megamind put them back in the folder.

"Okay...I see those prison art classes are still popular as ever." He tried to joke but his heart wasn't in it. The Warden glanced at Roxanne.

"He'll come for her. The police can't find him. You need to track him down as soon as you can." Megamind sighed.

"You're right." This on top of the wedding next week was not doing wonders for his stress levels. If he had hair it would probably turn grey over the next week.

"You could ask the chief of police for a few officers to keep an eye on things around here." The Warden suggested. Megamind shook his head.

"I have my own security. He could never get past the brainbots." Megamind said. The Warden stood up.

"All right. I'd better head off now I actually have prisoners to watch over." He said. Megamind stood up.

"About Abe..." he began. The Warden sighed.

"He escaped Megamind. I can't just let that go." Megamind gave him his 'sad eyes'. It used to work (occasionally) when he was younger. The Warden raised an eyebrow.

"That stopped working a long time ago." He said. Megamind blinked. "Okay, okay. He can do his two weeks and I'll release him." Megamind smiled.

"Thanks." He walked the older man outside.