A/N:
Pinky:
Gee, Brain, what do ya wanna do tonight?
Sparkle(me):
I know what we're doing tonight!
The Brain:
That's right sparkle! Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the world!
They're Pinky and the Brain,
Yes, Pinky and the Brain,
One is a genius, the other's insane.
They met a little girl,
Who changed their whole world,
They're pinky,
Sparkle and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain.
Before each night is done,
Their plan will be unfurled,
By the dawning of the sun,
They'll take over the world!
They're Pinky and the Brain,
Yes, Pinky and the Brain,
Their twilight campaign
Is easy to explain:
To prove their mousey worth,
They'll overthrow the earth.
They're pinky,
Sparkle and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain...
Pinky: NARF!
Sparkle (me): *giggles*
WARNING!: The chapter will be very very very very dialogue heavy.(I know it already is heavy LMAO, but this chapter will not be describing much of the situation just heading straight into the dialogue)
Also there will be some inconsistencies in PB cannon. I may have switched the night their genes had been spliced with another event which was supposed to happen before, but who cares? Not me! xD
I know some people dislike having lots of dialogue. But I knew this chapter would come up in the story. I knew from the moment I started writing chapter 1, I knew one of these chapters were going to be just a conversation between me and the megalomaniac. So yeah, I will also put a trigger warning: this chapter will contain characters getting abandoned, abused, mensions of child neglect, as well as mentions of a dysfunctional family, as well is a Panic attack.
"We need to talk." Brain was dreading this conversation. It had now been two weeks since sparkle had woken up, she was doing much better, back in school, with her friends, and thankfully Elmyra was expelled, and she was taken to the foster care system, with her mother and father being arrested for possible child neglect.
Brain had been DREADING this conversation from the moment his little one woke up.
"Brain! Stop trying to avoid the fact that we need to talk about this! "Sparkle said, very annoyed. "Come on, my room, now." Brain obeyed, following his human owner to her room as she carefully shut the door behind them, making the awkwardness in the room feel like 100° heat. Sparkle wheeled closer to her bed, placing the megalomaniac on it, giving him a deadly look. "You are not allowed to leave this room until we've finished," Brain nodded, deciding not to protest, considering the mood she was in.
Sparkle sighed. " Brain, why have you been avoiding me for two weeks?"
"I'm sorry."
"Not good enough of an excuse, "she glared at him. "Why. Have. You. Been. Avoiding. Me? "She asked again, speaking the words deliberately slow as though The megalomaniac was an idiot. But again he didn't protest.
Brain sighed. "I didn't want to have this conversation. I knew from the moment that all of this started, that something was bound to go wrong. I was too careless, I should've stopped my world domination plans from the moment snowball entered the picture. I did, for awhile, but until the night of your performance I didn't."
"And you didn't tell me this why?!" Sparkle shouted. " Brain! Why didn't you tell me, or at least ask me for my consent first? Is that why pinky was in pain a few weeks ago? Because you decided to take over the world?! When you knew fine well that I had issues of my own going on! I was invited to my grandfather's funeral, but had to decline because someone wasn't there to take me like he promised!"
Brain forgot about that? Oops.
"Sparkle dear, i'm—"
"Sorry? Yeah I know you, and I know you're not sorry. Brain, you know this whole time I was asleep? I felt awful for how I acted on the night of my performance! I felt horrible! I wanted to talk to you to apologise for the way I acted, but then you started avoiding me like the plague! I only then find out by a very easily bribed mouse, that you didn't want to take me to my grandfathers funeral because you made plans to take over the world, without my consent! Like I said on the first day I met you, I don't want you taking over the world to destroy it! I want you to take over the world to help it! Not destroy it! But you promised me you weren't going to destroy the world, you promised! What did you go and do? Only nearly blew up the whole world, while I had to stay at home wishing I was part of my grandfather's funeral!"
Brain looked down, tears brimming the corners of his eyes.
"Sparkle," he began, his voice thick with tears. " i'm so sorry for everything I've put you through. I'm sorry I didn't take you to your grandfather's funeral when I know I should've. I'm sorry for letting you down, i'm sorry I was the one that didn't watch your performance. I'm sorry I didn't consent you or let you know about any of my plans. But I'm not sorry for the fact that I saved your life! I saved your life! If it wasn't for me and pinky you would be dead! I was the one that turned down the dial from the 50% mark, to 25%! I was the one that risked my life for you so that you could survive! I didn't want to be in this mess, I don't want to put you in this mess! But I didn't have a choice! Do you know the threat snowball gave me on the night of our power outage scheme?! He told me I had to give him the world now, or he was going to kill you! I couldn't let that happen to you! If you died, I don't know what I would do with myself, I wouldn't be able to live with myself!"
Sparkle's shoulders were shaking, she had never seen her megalomaniac pet mouse yell at her. She backed away frightened, backing her wheels up against the door. "I'm sorry... I—" she was beginning to hyperventilate. Tears blurred her vision she couldn't breathe. She was gasping for air, Black spots coming into her vision.
Brain rushed over, climbing up to her chair holding her hand. "Sparkle baby, breathe... Deep breaths baby girl, deep breath in and out. "He demonstrated what to do. "Breathe in, and breathe out." She tried to follow his breathing exercise, Brain nodding
"Good girl, good girl... i'm sorry for yelling, I'm sorry for yelling. I just got angry that's all... i'm not angry at you sweetie, I'm just frustrated that you weren't acknowledging the fact that I helped bring you back."
She looked at him. "I didn't know, if I'd known, I would've thanked you. I'm sorry."
Brain nodded. "It's okay dear, I shouldn't of yelled."
"I don't like yelling... it reminds me of when mom and dad started fighting... "Brain looked at her with concern. "How long have they been doing that for? "
"About a year now..?" She tried to remember this whole year had turned into a blur, she couldn't remember much. Brain hugged her. "I'm sorry..."
She nodded understandingly. " Brain, I've been meaning to ask you this since the first day we met, but haven't had the time because of you know, the whole 'taking over the world' stuff. But did something happen to you before you were spliced? Like did you have a family? A family who looked after you?"
Brain froze. He hasn't talked about his family since he went to that therapist. But, he figured since they were opening up, he might as well tell her. Besides, she opened up about her situation, so it was only fair. Brain took a deep breath, beginning to speak. " I was an average fieldmouse, living in a field with my mother and father in a tin can, a pretty normal circumstance for a mouse like me. Anyway, one particular day I was chasing a butterfly around the field when a acorn caught my attention, I tried to get it but the people at Acne Labs captured me. After that I was brainwashed, and that's how I was spliced. It was to increase my intelligence. After that, I met my best friend, snowball." He nearly vomited at the mention of his ex best friend's name. "Anyway, me and him were best friends, we did absolutely everything together. But everything changed when something went wrong, we were playing and being our usual selves, while being secretly tested to see if we could drive a toy car.
We didn't do very well, we nearly died. They said they could fix us, make us better and make sure that none of us got hurt again. But, after we were 'fixed' snowball had evil intentions. But me Animaniacs crew loved filming unnecessarily personal things, and they filmed our plans to take over the world. Because our segments were so popular on Animaniacs. Sadly, after 1998 our show got cancelled." He said sadly.
" at the time, we were living with Elmyra."
" I think I remember Rob telling me that. The Animaniacs crew filmed your day-to-day life with her, and after the show flop, you were given back to the pet store that Elmyra supposedly bought you from. Well, that's what I heard anyway. But wow, really? All that stuff happened to you?" Brain simply nodded. Hugging his human owner.
"I think we have both learned a valuable lesson." Sparkle states.
"That we should've communicated more, maybe then we would've gotten to do the things we wanted. Me, take over the world, and you sending your final wishes to your grandpa. Again, I am sorry for not letting you go to his funeral. I remember you saying how much you would love to go. " his ears drooped. "Don't worry about it, it's in the past now. We'll work through our communication problems, together. Speaking of which, we should probably let pinky know that we spoke."
Brain nodded, as he hopped onto her lap as they went to go and find the 'mother' of their little 'family' they've created over the months of being together. But coincidentally, the mother of the family found them first.
"There you two are! I've been looking everywhere for you two!" Pinky exclaimed, acting like the mother character he was in their little trio. "Sorry pinky, we had some problems to sort out, but we're okay now. But I do think we need to work on our communication, just like I need to work on communicating with my parents. Even if they're never around. "Brain squeezed her hand. "You're getting better at it, since you've come out of the hospital your mother and father have been actually paying attention to you, you don't fight with them nearly as frequently. But the downside though, is that your parents have started fighting with each other. But don't worry me and pinky will be here."
Pinky nodded. "Of course! We'll all be here! Poit! Now, I hate to cut our conversation like this, but your friends are worrying about you. They're about to watch Hamilton, you said you would be down for it, come on! Jess has the popcorn ready! "
Nodding, they all make it to the living room where everyone was sitting ready for Hamilton to begin. "There you guys are!" Maurice exclaimed, moving along so that sparkle could sit next to you Leela and Shay.
"Sorry guys, I had a lot going on, my family comes first."
Rob nodded sympathetically, hearing about half of sparkle and the megalomaniac's Conversation turned argument. He reached over squeezing her hand, letting her know nonverbally that he understood. Tress squeezed her hand too. "We're here for you." She said, as Rob nodded.
After Hamilton
After everyone had gone home it was now just Pinky, Brain and sparkle. Her parents were at work again, leaving their only child to relax in her bed with her pet mice, who were ecstatic about the hospital performance that was rescheduled now that Sparkle was feeling better. She couldn't wait to play princess Sapphire, she was looking forward to it. She had been rehearsing for it since she got back to school and the teachers were so impressed that they were willing to perform it not just at the school but at the hospital too. Where Rob's father was undergoing his treatment to be cured from his throat cancer. It wasn't going to happen until Rob's father had finished his treatment, so it gave everyone plenty of time to practice and get everything ready.
" i'm so excited about the performance soon! I really hope Rob's father will be able to watch it." Sparkles says, knowing how much Rob wanted to show what they've been working on to his father.
"I'm sure he will, besides, didn't Rob tell you he was halfway done? So that means there shouldn't be too much longer until he is cancer free and will be able to watch the performance." Brain reassured her, nuzzling her. "Now, I think it's time we went to bed. It's almost 1130 at night, and you have school tomorrow. I don't want you sleeping in late."
Sparkle giggles. "Alright, I'll go to sleep. And, Brain?"
"Yes?"
" I love you, and, thank you for saving me. I owe you that much."
Brain chuckles. "You don't owe me anything, and, you're welcome. I love you too."
Brain could breathe again. He felt like he wasn't suffocating anymore, swimming in his own pool of guilt and genuinely felt happy, happy that his family were whole again. Happy that things were back to normal. Well, as normal as things could be when you have a insane partner who you love so much. Things were just perfect, just as perfect as they had always been.
Brain wouldn't trade that for the world.