I thought of this and just the thought of it made me crack up. I was at our cabin upnorth and everyone was sleeping, so it was so hard not to laugh too loud, I was hysterical typing this! Post movie.
"You!" The warden yelled at the blue hero, though in this case, he was looking more like the villain again.
"Now, now…" Megamind said, avoiding him by moving to the other side of the coffee table, "lets not be hasty…Roxanne is fine, and if it makes you feel any better, she was the one that wanted it…" he shrugged nervously.
"Gahh!" The warden shook his head angrily and moved at him quicker. Bad choice of words.
"Oh, yeah…I'm sure she wanted to be knocked up by the man who kidnapped her, her entire life! It was pretty dumb of you not to have her here…now I can kill you…" Megamind nearly tripped as he tried to move around a corner of the coffee table.
"Look, look..I understand the whole father daughter 'protective mode' thing…but hey, if you kill me, then you're leaving Roxanne a single mother and, uh…you don't want to do that, do you?" The warden stopped momentarily and breathed out, shaking his head to himself. Megamind stopped as well, watching his potential father-in-law's reaction.
"Guess you're right…" He sighed angrily, "I swear, if you do anything to-"
"I won't! I won't, I promise…smooth pregnancy, that's what we're all hoping for…" Megamind breathed out and relaxed as he watched the warden's expression soften. He sat down on the chair nearest to him.
"I still can't believe she ended up with you." Megamind shrugged,
"Ok…I deserved that." He meant to just think it, but ended up saying it aloud. The warden laughed.
"Yeah. Ya' did." He shook his head, then rubbed his face with both his hands,
"I can't believe my little girls' pregnant…And the father is a convict… heck, a villain for pete's sake…I work at the prison, at the very least I'd think that would be the type I'd try keep her away from."
"Hey, hey…ex villain and ex convict…" He smiled, though still unsure, "All in the past. I'm the hero now, remember?"
"Hmm…well, you aren't exactly looking like the hero to me right about now." Megamind paused for a second before faintly laughing through his nose,
"Well, just think; you'll be a grandpa! It'll fit your gray….um…" The warden turned and glared at him.
"Gray…personality! You know, uh…verifying that seniority over other people-"
"Just stop now, Megamind. Before you dig the hole any deeper."
"Yeah, I guess that'd be best…"Megamind nodded submissively. What was such the big deal? He had dealt with the warden dozens of times, and not once was he scared of him, before. Though now, after Roxanne had told him that the warden was her father, even after all the years he had been around the warden, a sort of new respect found it's way through. Considering that that man had seen everything he had done, kidnapping his daughter, 'destroying' Metro Man, terrorizing the city, creating supposedly 'deadly' weapons, and the warden monitored every movement he made…and now he was telling that man that he was the father of his daughter's child. His résumé didn't exactly look good for father of the year.
Heck, Megamind didn't even understand how the warden had allowed Roxanne to be with him; he had always taken the direct blow from Megamind when ever he had escaped, whether it was being tied up, shut in a cell, or having his identity stolen.
"So James-….uh, Mr. Richi…." Megamind scrambled for words as his father in law glared again at him.
"Dad?" He asked, uncomfortably suggestive.
"Yup?" He finally sighed.
"Theres always been one thing I've wanted to ask you…and I guess I really never had a reason to until now…" Megamind cut off.
"I'm listening."
"Why did you…allow…Roxanne to be with me? I mean, obviously you knew what was going on…" the uncomfortable atmosphere rose again, his eyes widened as he realized what the meaning would have passed for, and he tried to patch his wording up, "Uh, I mean, you know…me kidnapping her…now this…uh, situation…" The warden looked up at him and raised an eyebrow, "there wasn't much I could do, was there?" Megamind didn't move, not sure if he understood. The warden sat up straighter,
"Megamind, I would never be able to have police go after you, especially alone. Good God, I couldn't even get the entire force to go after you. What was I supposed to do? You've been charged with so many other crimes I'm sure even you can't count, and you've been in prison for most of your life, but you just kept breaking out. Theres almost no point in trying to convict you of anything else; just throwing away money to lawyers and investing in something that'll break out with the crime, anyway." He sighed, "Though I was very lucky you weren't after Roxanne…for other reasons…you know, that type of villain who-"
"No! No, I can assure you that was never my intention, and I had never even considered it! She was just bait for Metro Man….that's it; that was all…" He trailed off, "though of course, now that we're together, she had-"
"Keep it up, and I will fix you right here and now, you overgrown smurf!" the warden hissed. Though it silenced him almost instantly, he couldn't help but chuckle just a little with that very last comment. Even if it was just internally; just the slightest appreciation for his witty humor.
"Ok, ok, again….I probably deserved that…" he gulped as the warden looked back away. There was a very long silence before the warden laughed through his nose.
"But…" He turned back to Megamind, "atleast I won't have to worry about the baby being safe. You being the 'most dangerous man' on the planet and everything; no one would dare to even go near him or her…because of who their father is. Even if in the case of the slightest chance that something does happen, I'll know they'll get what they deserve." Megamind's eyes brightened,
"Exactly! I mean, you can't get any more dangerous then me, can you? No villain or bad guy would even consider going after them." He stopped for a second, contemplating what he had just said, and how bad it sounded. But on the surface, it sounded better, and what ever kept his father-in-law feeling more secure about the situation, "you can trust that I will protect the baby with my life. I mean, you're a father; you know how it feels." The warden smiled back warmly, nodding,
"Yeah, that's definitely true." He laughed, "Its too bad my life wouldn't have been enough to keep Roxanne from you."
"Roxannes' just as safe as the baby…she always has been."
"That's a bit hard to believe."
"Well, even when I was the villain…I would never have hurt her. Between you and me, don't tell anyone, but when I was planning my plots against Metro Man, that was the thing I spent the most time on; keeping Roxanne safe, and making sure if anything went wrong, I could get her out of it easily. It may've looked dangerous, but it never was…not really, anyway…"
"Oh yes, because that makes me feel much better about you using my daughter as bait…faking that she was in danger." Megamind shrugged,
"It was worth a try." The warden put his hands on his knees before standing up from his chair and holding out a hand. Megamind flinched back at first, but then cautiously shook his hand.
"Take care of them for me."
"Always will."
"Good…because if you don't, that promise from earlier still stands."
XD You know, I didn't see this until after I started typing this, but if you look at the warden, atleast in his younger days when MM was a kid, he did have brown hair…and he does have blue eyes. xD
If you didn't catch it, though I'm hoping you did,(because I've had questions about my 'hinting' before) what the warden was glad about was that MM wasn't like a villain in the way that he never raped her…(XZ…the words' very alien; to me, anyway, with this fandom…so its very raw…and strange...)
And like the warden was saying, MM was the most dangerous, you couldn't get any worse then him, so any of the other villains wouldn't dare go after the baby…so because he was extremely dangerous, the baby would be very safe. XD Think about it this way, if you were a criminal, going after a bank accountant's kid would be much easier then going after a mob boss's kid. xD
