Okay so here you ravenous wolfs go! Yes it's coinciding with the movie, but It won't be exactly the same, it is a somewhat AU, so bear with the SSDD and try to get to the goods! I made it as interesting as I could…. Plus the cliff-hanger you will no doubt slaughter me over! :D And as always comments make me happy even if they are bad!

SMALL WARNING: there are suggestive conversations in this chapter!

Chapter 12: Bargain

Roxanne glanced down after the take. She still was having trouble believing that Megamind had destroyed Metro Man. But if she was going to continue to do her job she had to find a way to put it behind her. So she had chosen the new Metro Man Museum to shoot at tonight. Hal was oblivious to her depression, and he'd started to ask for her to join him to go to his place for a party.

A party? Why would he want to have a stupid party? Wasn't he worried at all about what was happening outside of his little video game world? The city was in disarray. Megamind seemed to be a completely different person to her. She'd never seen this side of him. And she really didn't like it.

And yet she could remember how frightened he was as a small child. She felt how scared he was when she held him, trying to whisper words of comfort into his ear as human scientist's pulled large chunks of flesh from his arm repeatedly.

Waking up in her apartment she had never been angrier at Megamind or more scared for him. She wanted desperately to find out where his Lair was so that she could talk to him and ask if he ever was really a subject for government experiments. While she was angry in part at him for destroying Metro Man, he couldn't have possibly known what her plans for him were.

So, she guessed that almost all of the blame would fall to her. She owed it to Metro Man to try and help Megamind. If not for himself for Metro City, and maybe a little for herself as well.

Roxanne snapped out of her daze to look into Hal's intense brown eyes, and after a moment realized that he'd just asked her out. To his happy fun party.

"I'm sorry Hal; I just don't feel like being around a bunch of people right now."

"No that's totally okay, because it'll be like just you and me." He smiled at her.

"That's really sweet but I'll have to decline." Roxanne sat and listened to him continuously blabber on about a wedding photographer. The guy really was awkward. Did he even have any other friends? Wait, did she consider herself a friend? No, no she did not. Perhaps at one time they could've been friends outside of work, but he'd sunk that ship a long long time ago.

After declining him again, she realized she still had her microphone and she handed it to him and turned to walk into the Metro Man Museum as he hit a light and drove away.

Walking to the escalator and standing in the elevator she had mixed feelings coursing through her mind. How could Metro Man be gone? How could Megamind be truly evil? Did he care for her? Did she care for him? How could she repent for indirectly helping destroy Metro Man? Would he forgive her? But mostly, what was with the dreams?

Walking along the glass terrace, she looked up at the Metro Man statue and she couldn't help but want to speak to him.

"Without you, evil is running rampant through the streets. Well, he thinks he's evil. Maybe he really believes that now that you're out of the way. Oh, Metro Man. I'm so sorry. I wish I could have your forgiveness, but believe me I swear I would've never asked for your help if I knew that you had a weakness. I was just thinking about myself I never once thought that there was any danger in what I wanted."

"Excuse me, we're closing soon."

"Oh!" Roxanne turned sharply blushing a bit at having gotten caught. "Berry right?"

"Bernard." the man looked a cross between bored and annoyed as he rolled his eyes. He looked like he needed a shave, and a hair brush.

"Bernard, sorry. I was just- well- talking to myself. You might think I'm a little bit crazy." She motioned the crazy sign with her finger.

"I'm not allowed to insult guest directly." He said and continued to walk around her.

"Yes, thank you. I'm sorry; I'll be done in a minute Bernard."

He sighed loudly, "Okay." and began to walk around the statue.

"Wait- wait a minute! Bernard." Roxanne walked to him and grabbed his arm.

"Yes?" he turned back to her.

"You were right. Just so you know, about Megamind." She admitted blushing a bit deeper now, what the hell is she doing?

"Oh? Which part?" the wire glasses were pushed back into place and his eyebrow arched.

"Oh- uh... all of what you said during the interview really." she could feel her blush creeping up her cheeks into her hairline.

"You know all of this first hand, Miss Ritchi?" he sounded mildly amused as he asked the question.

"Yes actually. I mean, c'mon- I am the man's most popular kidnapping subject right?" she attempted to brush off his intense stare, like she were a test subject herself.

"I'd be interested in having an interview with you myself on this. But you probably wouldn't want to keep your real name in it would you?"

She supposed if she was trying to make herself feel better for having destroyed Wayne this was as good a place to start as any. "No, I wouldn't- but I thought that you'd like to know for your own personal triumph over the woman with who you were arguing during that interview."

"Yes, I am grateful for that. But now you've piked my inquisitive nature. I'd like to know more about how he... 'Operates'. If you get my understanding?" He crossed his arms and when it came to the last part he made a sweeping gesture to emphasize his point.

"Oh, well- what would I get in return? I am a reporter after all." Roxanne really couldn't believe she was even considering letting anyone know that she had been together with Megamind in 'that way', but it was Bernard, and oddly enough no one really took him seriously. He was an expert on Megamind, yet he worked as the curator of the Metro Man Museum. One would think he would be an exciting sort of person to be around. However, this was not the case. His personality was that of a cold mop. Form what she saw of the man, he only ever got sort of excited when talking about Megamind. Even then, it was debatable. His curt remarks were honest and to the point most of the time he came off as a smart ass knows it all dweeb.

"What would you want? Surely not sex. You're not really my type, honey. And I believe that you know just as much on Megamind as I do- excuse me-obviously more than I do." he gestured again with his eyebrows bowed up in a condescending manner.

"I'm not sure-I-" suddenly it clicked; maybe he could help her locate his Lair? "Do you perhaps know where Megamind's main lair would be?"

"His headquarters? I have a few ideas on where it's located. But this is serious information. If I agree to give it to you I will want explicit details regarding what happens with- well- you know. And I'll also require that you tell no one. I know you are a reporter but- if I do tell you I don't want to be responsible for anything 'serious' happening. It'd look bad considering who and what I am, you understand?" He was serious now.

"I understand. But I also have the same requirements. If I tell you what I know, then you are to tell no one else. Ever. It's for your own piece of mind."

"Agreed. Now you first."

"Now?"

"Why not? It's not like anyone will overhear us up here. It's a good a place as any."

He had a point. So she proceeded to tell him what she felt he'd like to know. Without going into personal details, until he asked;

"What about orgasms, did he have any- did you?"

Now she knew she was blushing. Bernard really didn't have any tact at all did he?

It took her a few moments to compose herself before she replied, "Yes. We both did."

"How many?"

"Do you really have to know all this?" She figured that just telling him that Megamind was seriously similar to a human male when love making would sate his interest and then she could get her information. She was wrong, once Bernard got started it seemed- he couldn't stop until he'd had all details.

He raised an eyebrow, "Yes. Are you uncomfortable? I told you no one else would ever know. So how many?"

"I'm not sure, I didn't count- but I can tell you that it was every time we joined. For both of us." She felt fit to pass out at this rate.

"Hm. I would have thought it would be more interesting." he proceeded to rub his chin in deep thought.

"Oh- there is one more thing." She told him about the small bumps at the base of his penis.

Bernard's eyebrows shot up at this, and he resumed his deep thought, after a few minutes he nodded and looked up at her.

"Alright fair is fair. He's off the corner of Melnry, and Cove. St. Well, it's a location I've spotted his car nearby. The whole area is separately owned by some old guy in his sixties. A Mr. Seis if I remember right, and I usually do. If it's even a real person. I'm sure if he's anywhere he'll be in one of those houses or buildings. It'd be the best places to begin your search. I'd help you out if I could, but I'm needed here. Hm, I have the day off tomorrow so call me if you get a lead, and I'll join you."

"Really? Thanks Bernard. Can I have your number?"

"Sure, let me see your phone, I'll add it." She handed over her iphone and he entered his number.

"Thanks again."

"No, no thank you." he almost smiled as he pushed a cart towards the opposite side of the statue.

Roxanne looked up at Metro Man, maybe things could get better?

"I'm so tired of running rampant through the street. So many ideas that will never be. The illiteracy beam, typhoon cheese, robo-sheep, battles we will now never have." the sobs in his voice echoed off the statue. As he continued to talk to Metro Man, he apologized for destroying the statue and threw the detonator off of the balcony along with the roses he'd stolen on the way.

Turning he heard a voice call out. It sounded like-

Roxanne!

He looked down at himself- of all nights to be wearing these pajamas! His most comfortable pair surely, but also his most embarrassing! He could NOT let her see him so pathetic. He panicked and began to run in the opposite direction looking back to make sure she was out of view, in the process he ran into something-someone?

A surprised man looked back at him.

"What a cheap costume." he breathed out through a naisley voice.

"Costume?" what an outrage!

"Megamind's head is not that grotesquely large." Bernard was in serious denial- rather overload. The object of his life's work was standing right in front of him, surely this must be a prank. It wouldn't be the first time. He'd be damned if he was going to let the bastards get him excited for no reason.

Megamind couldn't believe his ears, he scanned the man and then he pulled out his DE-Gun and changed the setting.

Bernard rolled his eyes, "You even made a cheap replica of his dehydration gun, how orig-"

Megamind dehydrated him as he was saying 'original', and he heard Roxanne approaching he quickly stumbled around behind the cart, grabbing Bernard's talking device, and glasses, he quickly switched the setting on his watch and the image of the man appeared over him, he stood up scaring Roxanne in the process.

"Oh! Oh, Bernard it's just you! Hahaha. You scared me."

"Y-yes it's just me- Ber-nar-ed. Listen, I wouldn't stay her longer than 2 minutes and thirty-seven seconds if I were you, were having the walls and ceiling removed." He jumped into the elevator as soon as it opened.

"Oh? That's quite the renovation; guess I'll catch a ride down with you then." She hopped in the elevator next to him.

"So thanks for helping me. Really, I don't think you understand how much you're helping. Maybe I can call you sometime later this week to talk about the dreams huh?" Roxanne asked.

Dreams? So did Roxanne know who the man was whose body he'd temporarily borrowed?

"Of course, which one is bothering you the most?" he chose his words carefully making them as vague as possible.

"I don't know, I mean. All of them. You told me you knew stuff about Mutual Dreaming. I didn't think it was possible. Do you really think Megamind is also dreaming the same things with me? I mean the last one- it was different compared to the others- but there's no way. I mean... I hope it's not true. I hope it was just a dream and not some sort of flash back like pulling me into his past. That would be horrible if it were true." She brushed her bangs out of her face.

Mutual Dreams? Could it be? Were the dreams that he was having, where he was sure she was really there- also what she was dreaming? Could they talk to each other? Communicate in their dreams?

"In these dreams, do you talk to him? Like an actual conversation?"

"Well, at first we were doing- um- other activities...like I mentioned earlier-"at this Megamid/Bernard's eyebrows shot up. Earlier? "But the recent ones, we usually end up talking afterwards, about serious issues. The last real one was not good. Before that we got into an argument about whether or not we should continue to keep dreaming of each other, as if we could stop." She laughed sadly. "I guess he found a way to stop though. I mean, if he was really sharing dreams with me. But if not, I may just be too stressed out and maybe dreaming of him helps me- I don't know- relax? Maybe I just felt safe with him is that weird?"

"You feel safe? With Megamind?" at his he turned to look at her in disbelief.

"Well, yeah. Silly, huh? He's never been threatening towards me, he's tried to seem so, but really it was funny."

Ouch.

"He just never hurt me before. I guess in my mind he's a safe haven of sorts, when I sleep. I don't know why. That's what I wanted your help with. You know all about this stuff." Roxanne looked at him expectantly.

"Yes, I'll help as best I can." He hoped that was a good enough answer for her at the moment.

"You know I really thought he was gonna do one of his last minute escapes."

Realizing she was talking about Metro Man, Megamind agreed.

"Yeah, he was really good at those."

"If only the world had a reset button."

And from there they began to talk about Metro Man and Megamind. He confided in her that there was nothing for him. Nothing. And she lifted his spirits with an ingenious idea!

Hero's could be made.

He had Metro Man's DNA! He could simply create another Metro Man to fight!

Sending her off in a Taxi, and promising to contact her later, he reveled in his amazing plan, and was nearly destroyed himself from his own explosion, narrowly missing a giant boulder from Metro Man's statue as it flew towards him. He felt remorse for taking a life but apparently not enough to end his own.

Roxanne had never felt better. Today she was going to investigate Mr. Seis's land. He'd owned several abandoned buildings and a few old houses. One in particular she was most interested in looking at. After arriving at the area, it only took Roxanne fifteen minutes to discover it. And she couldn't resist calling Bernard. It was his day off after all. And he said he would be interested in coming to check it out with her. So she quickly dialed him up.

Waiting for the ringing he picked up.

"Ollo? Oh, um- hello?" he said

"Bernard? It's Roxanne! I just want to thank you for inspiring me the other day."

"Oh? You inspired me too." she figured he meant about the new information she'd divulged to him about Megamind.

"Great! It's about time we stood up to Megamind and showed him he can't push us around." She meant about her dreams and the fact that he'd dropped her off at her apartment early on their 'day' and the fact that he'd tried to erase her memory! All of which she still didn't have back!

"Oh, really?" she heard the dullness begin to fade into interest from Bernard.

"I'm already hot on his trail." Roxanne could barely contain her giggles of glee.

"Uh-huh, and what gives you that idea?"

"I just found his secret hideout!"

After a pause, she heard his voice, "How did you find his hideout?"

"This is the only building in Metro City with a fake observatory on the roof!" She laughed, she gasped then noticing something. "There's a doormat here that says 'secret entrance!'" and without waiting for further notice from Bernard she walked into- through?- the wall.

There was a loud crashing sound.

"What was that?" Roxanne asked.

"What? Oh, not you Roxanne- I was just yelling at my-mothers-urn. Don't do anything I'll be right there!" she heard a click on her line.

"Hm. Guess he hung up." She cautiously opened a door that was past a long table full of dynamite. What does he need with that?

There was no one around that she could see...

"Uh-Roxanne." She heard a voice from behind her, raising her camera she was ready to strike.

"Oh, Bernard it's just you-wait how did you get here so fast?"

"Uh, I happened to be speed walking nearby when you called."

"In a suit?"

"Uh-huh, it's called formal speed walking. I better take the lead, this way looks exciting."

"No, no it says 'exit.' What's over there! Look, we've hit the mother lode!" She began to snap away rapidly at the images hanging from the ceiling.

She was talking to him and the next thing she knew, there were robots carrying him away, she ran to keep up, but they were too fast, and they ended up knocking down a large odd-looking gun.

Rounding the corner she found Megamind. It had felt like forever since she'd seen him, but she wasn't ready for confrontation. After freeing Bernard- they tried to sneak away, when Megamind appeared to take back the gun she had. They fought like kids for a few moments, before the gun slipped and she accidentally pulled the trigger.

"Oh, no!" he yelled pulling the gun from her, she didn't want to face him and like a coward she made a mad dash for the Exit.

But as soon as she opened the door, she stopped suddenly, looking down was a huge cavern with alligators, and a disco ball...

She felt a hand pull her out from the room, and was relieved thinking it was Megamind- but upon turning she saw Bernard.

"You were right about that door being exciting!"

"Let's go!" He yelled.

They ran out and exploded the entrance at the same time. Hopefully it'll keep Megamind busy while they escaped.

In gratitude she hugged Bernard and promised to call him later to discuss things.

He didn't sleep last night. He was up thinking about Roxanne and what she had said about the dreams. Looking into it more he had discovered quite a bit. It seemed that human's often had Mutual Dreams with loved ones.

Loved ones.

He'd been dreaming of her since before he could remember. Only recently had she ever spoken to him, had they ever had an actual conversation with each other in his dreams. What he had discovered about Mutual Dreams was that usually it happened between two or more people who knew each other well. Usually couples.

He and Roxanne were not a couple. They were nothing. He was him, and she was... well her. He'd ran through several different scenarios trying to see what had educed it but the only thing he could come up with was that they had known each other for a very long time. Bit by bit, they would share certain things with each other every time he'd kidnap her.

Perhaps that was reason enough to dream the same dream? Yes it was. But to actually have a conversation when they were so far away. He could only guess that they both had to be thinking extremely hard about each other.

They've been exposed to the same stimuli for years. His kidnapping her could have induced the dreams easily.

It could be a Dream Matrix. But that usually took up to thirty people to do. And each person had to have knowledge of the inanimate world expressed through mathematics, and physics. They would have to make use of the mathematical and mechanical metaphors, and formal logic. They would also have to have knowledge of the organic world as expressed in biology which is linked with the use of evolutionary and organic metaphors, as well as dialectical logic.

While he was sure he could accomplish this easily he knew something important.

Roxanne was terrible at math.

Oh she was fine with algebra, geometry and the like, but when it came to advanced calculus and learning complex algorithms, she was a lost cause.

He remembered an occasion in High School, the one and only time they had every really 'hung out', was when he was assigned to tutor her. Well, really he'd volunteered, when the teacher asked the class for someone to tutor a student in another of his classes, he wasn't going to bother- until the teacher mentioned who it was. He almost tripped over himself to accept.

Thanking whatever gods he could that he was accepted to teach her. He remembered how nervous he was that day. And he was so nervous he slept in late, and almost missed the meeting time.

He was supposed to meet her at the City Library. He was late, and he was praying to whatever gods again that she was still waiting for him. Upon arriving he spotted her near the entrance, she was being hassled by some men. His walking sped up, and before he knew it he was over hearing the conversation.

"Wanna get some drinks?" one of the men asked.

"Sorry guys, I'm waiting for someone." she politely declined.

"Is it a friend? Bring her too, our treat! C'mon it'll be great!" This man was smoking.

"And we can get to know each other after-"

He could barely contain his wrath as he slammed his right hand against the wall that was next to her, his arm stretched between her and the two men. His hand making a loud slap sound as it connected with the wall. It stung but he ignored it, giving the two men his best glare.

"What- are you doing?" he growled out at the two men.

"Uh..."

"I..." It was clear that they had never heard of the big-headed-blue-Alien-American living in Metro City.

"And what about getting drinks?"

"Syx!" Roxanne gasped behind him finally finding her voice.

"Just whose girl do you think she is?" He gave his best menacing glare. Yeah it was a dumb thing to say but he couldn't help it... it just felt like the right words, and they fell from his mouth dripping venom before he could stop himself.

And he also recalled her laughing herself silly in the Library at his expense.

"Don't forget to breathe." He'd told her annoyed at the laughter even though it warmed his heart to hear such a beautiful sound.

"Can't..help...it! They ran SO fast!" she gasped and continued to laugh.

"It's not THAT funny!" he crossed his leg over his other knee and lifted his hand up to his face so he could lean on it. In a very cute pout.

"It-it seemed like a good idea at the time. Seriously, stop laughing!" He was blushing a deep purple now. But her laughter seemed to get even louder.

"C'mon! Quit it already!" he yelled, and she tried to keep it under control visibly grabbing at the table, her shoulders shaking.

"Fine, then. You can do your own complex algorithms." He said smugly crossing his arms.

"Ok, ok! Wait, wait!" she took deep breaths to stop herself.

Megamind smiled at the memory. After several hours of studying she had finally begun to understand something's. She was just placing numbers out of the sequence. He taught her that the algorithms were like a story book. You had to find the plot and plug it into the story in order to understand the ending. Sometimes there were several ways the main character could go, it was her job as the author to figure out what ending was the best for the problem.

So perhaps they were closer than he had first wanted to believe. If he could still remember... who was he kidding? He couldn't stop remembering.

There was a knock at the door.

"Come-" wait a minute... Minon never knocked...what in the world?

Megamind figured that maybe Minion had his hands full. He stood up to answer the door annoyed.

"Minion, honestly, if you have your hands full, you should carry only one thing at a time-"

He opened the door.

And there was Roxanne.

Cliff hanger!

*plots to destroy the artist attempting to be a writer*

I know right?

But wait, there's more!

Or there will be in the next chapter! :D

Coming up next: WTF Roxanne? What are you doing back at Meg's Lair? Megamind retracts from her more, and Roxanne gets close to 'Bernard' to heal her heart.

Comments make me happy! Please let me know what you think so far!

ALSO, the memory that Meg's is having about Roxanne being bad at math and him 'saving' her from the two men, will be up on my fansite in COMIC form either today or tomorrow, please check it out! *you can get the address on my profile*

Their is also 2 pages of ninnteennintytwo's fate story that I'm making into a comic for her! :) it's up and ready to be looked at, comment their also if you like.