A/N: So, I started writing this a couple of months ago, but I only uploaded it on dA. It didn't get such a great reception there, so I'm hoping people will like it better here .

Kaitlin is largely based off me and what I would love to happen with my life, but you probably don't care. You're just skimming this, aren't you?

Disclaimer: I do not own Megamind, Minion, Roxanne Ritchi, or Metroman. I do own Kaitlin Merando and any other OCs that may just show up. This is purely fanmade and I'm not making any profit off it. If is was, Dreamworks would sue me for a billion monies.

Chapter 1

Kaitlin had carefully noted where the gas stations security cameras were as she browsed among the shelves the day before. She had found a blind spot, right where she needed.

The next night, trying her best to act inconspicuous, she followed an elderly couple into the store, trailing them lazily as if they were her grandparents. They turned into an aisle, and she pretended to be interested in a hand-held massager.

Glancing around, she slipped down the aisle to her left, skillfully avoiding the attention of the cash register man. She knocked a bag of pretzels to the floor on purpose, and stopped to pick them up, feigning interest. She continued walking, than turned and went down the next aisle, towards the blind spot.

She came to the blind spot and stuck the pretzel bag onto a shelf. Whistling nonchalantly, she browsed the store for a couple more minutes before returning to the blind spot.

Un-zipping her jacket, as she passed the pretzels, she pushed them into the inside pocket and kept walking. By the time she'd gotten to the door where the elderly couple was paying, her jacket had been zipped and she'd changed her devious expression to one of boredom.

The couple finished paying, and headed out the doors. She slowly followed them, faking a yawn of disinterest. Suddenly, a cry came from within the store.

"Stop! Stop you thief!" The cash register man ran out the doors and fixed his eyes on her.

She sized him up. He was plump, but muscular. Judging by the anger on his face, she figured she could make it to the alleys farther downtown and loose him in the twisting, confusing maze that only villains and outsiders knew how to navigate. She bolted without a second thought.

"Stop her!" He yelled.

The old man scowled in determination and tried to cut her off. She nimbly dodged him, only to run into the legs of the old woman's walker. Kaitlin let out a yelp of pain as she pitched forward and twisted her ankle.

Ignoring the stab of protesting pain, she lurched to her feet and continued her escape plan. She ran, gasping for breath, and turned, cutting across the street and towards her means of safety: the downtown alley ways.

Megamind sped around a corner, smirking as he hugged the wall of the alley he was hidden in. Panting, he realized he could see his breath in the cool night air. He turned and surveyed his surroundings. This was one of the bigger and more noticeable alleys.

He scowled. Of all the alleys he could've chosen, he just had to pick the one that Metroman would look in first. Sighing in frustration, Megamind cleared his throat and started running again, pushing the vague pain from his arm out of his mind and concentrating on the ground in front of him.

He picked up speed, but little did he know, someone else was running just as fast from the other direction, headed for a collision course with him.

Kaitlin had lost the clerk when she'd gotten into the third alley. She knew it, but wanted to put some distance between herself and the store in case the cops came earlier this time. She was shivering as she ran, but she knew she had to keep going.

Swallowing as she picked up the pace, she looked back briefly to make sure he hadn't caught up with her. He hadn't.

Then, just as she turned a corner to go down the next alley, she collided with something standing on the other side of the corner. Kaitlin yelped in shock as whatever she had run into tackled her to the ground.

They rolled, and it pinned her to the old concrete below them. Her eyes focused, and she realized it wasn't an object she had run into, but a person. A person who had been running equally fast from the opposite direction. A person with a giant, blue head.

Megamind collapsed onto whatever he had run into; unaware it was a human girl. He hadn't meant to fall, but it was lighter than him, so the force of him running into it full speed had caused him to loose his balance and trip.

He hit the ground and rolled, his cape wrapping around the object and pulling it with him, then pinning it under him when he came to a stop a good four feet away. Only when he blinked his eyes open he realized he was lying on top of a human. A human who looked as equally out of breath and shocked as he was sure he did. They both lay there stunned for a moment, their bodies pressed together and his cape enveloping them in much enjoyed warmth as they stared at each other. He recognized the fact that his shoulder spikes were digging into her shoulders, then he cried out in surprise.

"Ahhh!" He screamed.

His yelp had obviously scared the girl, because she screamed too. "Ahhh!"

He rolled off of her, and scrambled to his feet as fast as he could. When he looked back at her, he noted she'd done the same thing. She was also standing in a defensive position, looking wary and respectful of him as she rubbed her bruised shoulders.

"Who are you?" He asked hesitantly, staring her down.

She returned his glance. "A question better put by me, to you." She snapped, backing away a little.

He blinked at the teenager's epigram. "Well, I'm surprised you don't know." He shot back, keeping his distance.

"Who said I didn't?" She relaxed to an extent. "Everyone in this city knows you, Megamind."

"Well, then." He said, at a loss of words as the bitter temperature surrounded them.

"And you should watch out where you're going next time." She reminded.

"Why don't you?" He pushed forward, determined to learn about this strange human who was brave enough to stand up to him.

"Because it's the proper courtesy of a gentleman to let a lady pass him without running her over." She growled.

He blushed slightly, realizing that's what he'd done. Then he noticed her smile. The dim, mostly broken streetlights of the alley covered the faint purple coloring on his cheeks, and he was glad of it.

"What's your name? I don't believe we've been properly introduced." He held out a black gloved hand to shake. "And it's the courtesy of a lady to properly introduce herself to the man who ran her over, so he may repay her by getting them drinks and calling a taxi to take her home." He added, smirking.

She mimicked him and smirked back. "I'm Kaitlin."

"I'm Megamind." He said as he took her hand and shook it gently.

"I knew that already, and I'll take you up on the drink thing, but I'm afraid I'll have to pass on the taxi ride." She said, smirk fading slightly as she pulled her hand away.

"Well, Kaitlin. Do you have a last name? Or are you too afraid to tell a supervillain about yourself?" He asked, figuring she didn't want him to call a taxi because she didn't want him to know where she lived.

"My last name is Merando. My friends called me Kaiti. If I still had any friends…" She replied, unfazed by his remark.

He raised an eyebrow. "If you don't mind me asking, why did you say, if you still had any friends?" He asked curiously.

"Because my only friends were my cousins, and they died a long time ago, along with my parents." She closed her eyes.

"Oh. I'm sorry for bringing that up…" He apologized, shamed.

"It's alright. You were just asking." She forgave him quickly, catching him off-guard as they shivered together.

"Yes…shall we go retrieve those drinks I mentioned?" He covered.

Her smile returned and brightened. "It would be my pleasure."

He grinned and turned with a flamboyant swish of his cape. "To the invisible car!" He exclaimed, stabbing the air with his index finger and striding away.