Title: A Master of Alchemy in Metro City
Author: Max Evelyn (Fearcat on Livejournal)
Beta's: Joanhello (member from the megamind_movie Community on Livejournal)
Summary: Megamind's homecoming isn't how he planed it, enemies become allies a new war, a hero joins the Syndicate, and Mother's mad.
Author'sNote: this is a crossover idea with Megamind and Fullmetal Alchemist (sorry to any FMA fans hoping to see Ed but he's not in this), once again I'm working with Joanhello, who helped a lot with my last fanfic.
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A shining light broke out of the darkness. When it had filled the room, a giant doorway could be seen, fully opened. Out of this light came a single figure. The blinding white light shined around the room, hiding the identity of the figure. Then the doorway began to close and the room was once more engulfed in darkness as the doors made a sound of grinding metal.
Once the figure was along he blinked a few times and took in his surrounds. His eyes widened and he blinked more. Taking a few steps forward, he rushed up to a machine in the centre of the room, placed his left hand on the metal and sighed lightly. He was in the lower level of the Lair, his home.
He spun around wildly, smiling. He was home! The Gate of Truth had returned him home after all this time. The sudden recollection of the Gate of Truth made him looked down at himself and realize he was still disguised. He noticed the true Philosopher's Stone glowing blue around his wrist. The Gate of Truth had given him that as a reminder not to try something like this again.
As he left the lower level of the Lair and came up into the main part, he saw the giant robotic battle suit standing intact. He looked at it, confused. He has used that to fight Tighten; the crazed super had destroyed it and nearly killed him. He closed his eyes and thanked the Gate of Truth; it had sent him back hours before his friends were murdered. Perhaps Hal was still playing video games in that little dump of an apartment with no blood on his hands at all.
He turned and saw some of the brainbots flying toward him happily.
"Hey, hey, did you miss daddy?" His smiled widened into a grin. "Daddy's missed you all."
Suddenly his blood ran cold as he heard a shout that made his head lift and turn sharply.
"COME OUT, ROXIE."
He heard the shouting voice again, this time closer. "OH, LOOK! A TALKING FISH!" He knew the owner of that voice; his eyes narrowed with pure hatred. He rushed off in the direction of the voice, moving lightly, not making a sound.
Just before the corner, he stopped, then slowly came around, staying hidden in the shadows. He stopped dead as he saw Metro Man, dressed only in his white bathrobe and the lower part of the white Metro Man costume, lying on the ground with Roxanne at his side asking if he was okay. Not far away from them was Minion in his gorilla suit. Then he noticed that the gorilla suit's right arm had been torn off and the legs seemed damaged. Things were happening differently. A thought suddenly popped into his mind: he had changed timeline.
"I'll kill the fishy first," Hal called out in a singsong tone.
Megamind cracked his knuckles. I don't think so, he spat within his mind. Then he moved gradually forward and spoke in a older voice.
"Some may call it curse..." The other four in the Lair all turned at the voice from out of the shadows. "...a life like mine, but others, a blessing." He stopped and simply stood half visible in the shadows. Hal spun around, then spotted the dark figure. "Who's that?"
The disguised alien let a short, insane-sounding laugh escape his lips. He then fell silent, but the grin never left his face. He had a lot of new moves that he could try out on this fool. He decided to have a bit of fun with Hal first. He continued towards him, the long coat flapping wildly as he walked.
Pointing a finger, the red-haired super called out nervously, "Hey, hey, whoever you are, I'm telling you to stop? Like right now."
As the figure stepped into the light, his grin widened even more. He appeared human and had dark hair and lightly tanned skin. "Well, hello, Hal, it's been a long time."
"I've never seen you before," Hal shot back.
"Oh, I think you have seen me, just not looking like this." He stepped a little closer. "I'm going to take my time, having fun with you." He stalked to Hal's right.
Clearly confused at how this man knew his name, Hal stepped away from the three on the ground and over to the new man. "How do you know me?"
Waving his left hand in the air, the tanned man spoke. "I'm something of a fan of yours," he said.
"A fan of mine," said the shocked Hal. "Really? Wow. I've been doing this training for a few weeks and I've already got a fan."
Roxanne hissed at the tanned man, "How can you be a fan of this sick psycho? He's been trying to kill us."
Hal look at her. "Shut up, Roxie."
"That's ROXANNE!"
The tanned man grinned lustily at her anger; he said out loud "Oh, I love it when you get mad."
She didn't know why but her face became heated and she had to look away. Was this man was flirting with her?
Hal groaned loudly. "This is worse than when I saw her at the restaurant with that nerd."
Roxanne looked at Hal, furious. She knew he had been at the window. He had seen her with Bernard - no it had been Megamind. "It's none of your business who I see."
The tanned man grinned. "Oh, really."
"Once I've finished here, Roxie, I'll go find him and -"
The tanned man stood still. "What if I were to tell you that you've found him?" He raised a eyebrow. "You killed some of my closest friends."
"Whoa, hold it right there, pal. I haven't killed anyone."
The newcomer spat "I'm not your pal." Then he reached for his silver pocket watch on the long chain, looked down as he held it in his left hand, then slowly lifted his head again, eyes fixed on the man in front of him. "And I'm never going to let you have the chance."
He opened the watch. There was a flash of blue and the disguise around him deactivated. "Because, Hal, I'm your worse nightmare." There in front of them was Megamind, using all his willpower to not run at Hal right then.
The first thing they noticed about Megamind was that he wasn't dressed in his normal skin-tight leathers or spikes. Instead he wore a dark green coat over what looked to be a dark military uniform of some kind, and dark brown round shades. He then lifting his right arm to the light and removed the white glove, revealing his automail hand and then he took his shades off; there was a small scar over his left eye. Roxanne gasped in shock.
"Like what you see?" Megamind smirked. He knew that he was still partly blind in his left eye thanks to that fight with Lust a year ago, but he had adapted to it; what others may call a weakness he found a way to turn into a strength, thanks to his teacher.
"Oh, jeez. What happened to you?" Hal said, surprised and confused.
Minion's eyes widened. "Sir? Is that you?" he looked at his friend's older appearance.
Tilting his head back, the blue man looked at the owner of the robotic gorilla suit as if it was his first time; then he spoke. "Hey, Minion." A warm, genuine smile spread across the blue alien's lips. "Oh, it's so good to see you again."
"Sir, what do you mean?" he looked around at the others nervously for a moment; he knew that now wasn't the best time to have this talk. "I only left the Lair last night after-" he stopped.
Megamind looked up and stared at nothing and finished the sentence. "After our fight." Then he slowly looked back over at Hal for a moment; his eyes narrowed darkly and his hands changed to tight fists.
Minion's eyes were wide as he shifted on the ground. He had never seen his friend like this in all his years as the city's villain. He glanced at the fallen hero who lay next to him, and at Roxanne, who stood by on the hero's other side. Minion answered his unspoken question. "We're all right, Sir. As you can see my suit's damaged, Miss Ritchi has a few cuts and bruises but apart from that she's okay and, well, Metro Man's not dead."
"Yeah I know," the blue alien said without taking his eyes off Hal. Metro Man, who was still lying on the ground, watched Megamind; the look in those green eye sent chills down his spine.
"Okay. Enough chit-chat," Hal yelled, cutting them off. His eyes started to glow red.
Megamind's green eyes narrowed as he calmly came closer to Hal. His face never changed as he spoke. "Now, that wasn't very nice, was it? I haven't seen any of you for years and you -" He raised his right hand and waved his index finger at Hal, "- want to skip to the end already." Then he stopped sharply. "Now let me see." He closed his eyes for a moment, then snapped his fingers with his right hand. "If I remember correctly, you have his -" pointing to Metro Man "- powers, am I right Minion?" He looked over to his friend who was nodding, very confused.
Hal then looked over at Megamind. "Wait, what? How do you know I have powers?"
Megamind ignored this, sighed, closed his eyes and shook his head. "Well, now, isn't that something? The alchemical energies here in this world aren't as weak as I first thought. Oh, this is going be too easy."
"What are you blabbing about, blue boy?" Hal spoke his eyes still glowing. "Now, tell me how you know I have powers."
"I gave them to you."
"Whoa, what!" Hal said, rooted to the spot, and then he laughed. "Yeah, sure you did, spacedad -".
Cutting him off Megamind said "Oh, jeez. Not even an hour's gone by and I think I'm already missing the smarter you." Slowly opening his eyes, Megamind's green lock with glowing red. He then pocketed the shades; as he was doing that, he looked around the Lair. "Oh, it's been a long time." He smiled as he saw a group of the brainbots hovering over his friends. He nodded to them and a few flow off.
Minion's eyes widened at the sudden realization of what had happened. He spoke in a tone that a parent would use to scold a child, saying "Sir, how could you use it?" He looked away.
Megamind looked back over his shoulder and locked eyes with the fish. "You have no idea how much I regret that. I broke that promise, but if you knew -" His voice sounded pained.
"Can you two talk later? We have a crazy man with Metro Man's powers trying to kill us." Roxanne spoke up "Megs, if your going to do something, can you do it NOW!"
The blue alien smirked then nodded his head at her; he then began to remove his dark green coat and, like a million times before, a brainbot floated down and took it from him. The others all saw that his whole right arm was metal; it was automail, an artificial arm from his shoulder to hand. He smiled at the memory of the other Roxanne making it for him; he knew now how to make his own and, now that he was back in the Lair, he would be able to make a more advanced version.
Green eyes lock with red once more. Then the owner of the green eyes grinned as he remembered the special blue stone around his left wrist that he had gotten from the Gate of Truth. "Well, come on, you little firefly."
Hal yelled in anger at hearing this name. He took to the air, launching himself at Megamind. There was a series of names all being called out at the same time: "Sir!" "Megamind!" "Little buddy!"
In a flash, he jumped up and grabbed his coat from the brainbot; in that same second Hal tried to grab him but, using the coat like a bull fighter would use a cape, he covered Hal's head and at the last moment pushed the flying human aside, sending him crashing into a wall.
"Oh, is that all you've got, Hal?" Megamind sang. He could feel an old part of himself awakening and his grin widened.
"I'll get you for that!" Hal yelled out, standing up with parts of the wall falling off him, and he rose into the air to try again.
Megamind changed his stance, ready to fight, thinking, This is the moment of truth. He simply clapped his hands together and there was a flash of blue mixed with white.
"What's that going to do?" Hal says rising an eyebrow
"Watch and learn," Megamind said, then without warning electricity in the form of lightning bolts hit all around where Hal was moving towards him. Not resting, he clapped his hands together again and out of the ground near his feet appeared a long blue and black scythe. Before it could fall, he grabbed it, then spun it around in his hands. Hal flew at him; he dodged. Hal swung round and came at him again; he dodged and at the same time caught a fold of the costume Minion had made with the scythe tip as he went by, then flung himself away so that the flying figure was pulled off course; then he pulled the scythe out of the costume and let Hal crash into a lamppost, bending it over. The rogue super kept it up, trying to close with his blue enemy and failing every time. The others watched with wide eyes and open mouths; Megamind was fighting and using that scythe like he had all his life.
On his tenth try, Megamind hit Hal in the chest with the scythe and sent a bolt of lightning into him. The redhead fell to the ground on his knees with wisps of smoke coming off him. He stood up, shook his head for a moment, then began trying to fight the blue alien on foot. No matter how fast he was, Megamind was faster, dodging every single blow and landing a lightning strike almost every time. He struck out with laser vision. Megamind caught both beams on the blade of the scythe and reflected them back into his face, causing him to scream in pain. The redhead went back to trying to punch him, with no more effect than before.
Roxanne eye's widened. Her long-time kidnapper was moving like a professional dancer. Every time Hal came close to landing a hit, the blue man would side-step and dance away. She had known he was a great street fighter with his years of growing up in prison but the type of close combat fighting style he was using was a mix of martial arts and boxing. Every movement was perfect. When had he had time to find a teacher?
A bigger question popped into Roxanne's mind as she watched him use the weapon in his hands like a master: when had he gone and gotten the ability to use electricity like that? She looked behind her at Minion. "I didn't know he could fight like that. I knew he could fight but that was more street fighting."
Amber eyes narrowed; the fish could see that something was different with his friend. "He can't," he replies in a low tone.
Metro Man heard the two talking, then said, "Well, it looks like the little guy's had a lot of time on his hands." The weakened hero looked at the others; they noticed how weak he sounded.
Roxanne knelt next to him "Are you feeling okay?"
He tried to sit up, failed and fell back. "I'm not sure what's happening to me," he said in a low tone.
Minion shakes his whole body in his dome "Oh, Sir, how could you have used it?" The fish turned to the fight and just stared at the blue skinned man.
"You're being cryptic, Minion," the reporter said while watching the fight. After speaking, she looked at the fish.
The fallen hero spoke. "Yeah, what do you mean?"
He looked from one to the other. "Look closely at Sir." He watched them both turn to look, then continued. "He's changed. He's older, not sure by how many years." He frowned. "I'm not sure but I think his personality's changed, too." He looked at Roxanne. "I'm not sure if that works in our favour or not." Roxanne turned back to him with a confused look; he met her eyes sadly. "Whatever happened, it had to be really bad for him to use the reset button."
"He, he told me it was impossible," Roxanne stammered, looking over at Megamind, then back at Minion with wide eyes.
"I hate to say this, but that's not the Megamind we knew yesterday." He watched as she turned to look at the blue alien again.
"Reset button? What's that? What's going on here?" Metro Man repeated, confused. He tried to sit up again but he still felt too weak and unsure why it was happening.
Minion was about to reply when Hal landed in front of him. Both the fish and reporter screamed in surprise and tried to back away from Hal, who was laughing at them when, without warning, a wall of stone grew up between the super-powered human and them.
Minion and Roxanne snapped their heads to the right where Megamind crouched on the ground a few meters away with his hands palms-down on the ground.
He looked up at them, smiled, then stood up quickly and rushed to the other side of the wall.