Announcement:
I am sorry that this story didn't get updated, but as explained in my other Fics, real-life was messed around with due to this Covid-19 Virus.
To make it up to you, I had time to plan this out and include things, along with adding more for not only the movie itself but the aftermath of it, as well, to lead to unexpected events as I might be adding my touch to things, once again.
So if you have suggestions for this or my other works (which I may include in my others), let me know more through PM's as I am placing my "Email" to contact me as well for those that want to suggest or something else for me within the fics.
I have noticed some errors in the first two chapters, and I will get to them at some point but wanted to post what I have, here, for the story and the others I have worked on for some time, firstly.
I would also like to state that I, sadly, am discontinuing Ranamon's Little Girl, but don't fret, I plan to redo it with a twist of this game: Digimon World 3 mixed with Digimon World Dusk/Dawn!
That's right folks, the eventual renewed story will be somewhat different yet will have the Season 4 Digimon Characters as well, but with a slight twist of being an alternate take of said PS1 Game that I; when growing up, played as a child, alongside playing the handheld for the other as well.
I will, however, leave the said story up as I have done before with the one other Fic. For ideas or other use (with my permission of course) of others to use.
So without further ado, let's finish the Megamind Story itself (Note: If it's too long, plan to split it into chapters).
Main Crossover Idea: Megamind, Harry Potter, Marvel (which is already placed) and DC and with other franchises characters permanently stuck (When it occurs, as I have another girl in mind as a character for Merida) in this reality of the story as they would be fictional, and locations may end up into their reality as well.
Letting you all know though as unlike a few others, I only plan for her to have six girls as her max Soulmates and they are the following: Delilah, a Hogwarts Girl (either Luna, Hermione, Fem Draco Twin, or Hardly used HP Girl to OC), and leaving as the last four others a mystery with another secretly hinted in the upcoming chapters (highly suggested from a debate from friends), as I plan for a small skip after the movie to introduce said girl and some adventures with Merida, and eventually a true skip to when Merida's 11; maybe a year skip.
If you want to suggest the best girl for HP Girl as mentioned, please do so. If Hermione or a few select girls hadn't been chosen, they would be considered friends or even sisters to Merida, in a Poll that I will place, when this gets finally put on the site itself.
I would also like to mention this person from Twitter, " BHoneyshot" that is, for letting me use his "Trio" as eventual friends for Merida within Hogwarts, and if he does get a chance to see them when they appear, I hope indeed I got their personalities and more correct, but they will be introduced when Hogwarts comes (as yes, Merida will still got to Hogwarts, but not in the House everyone expects, which I have yet decided).
This would be the only important Announcement for hopefully a decent chapter or chapters to this fic.
"Whisper, Cellular Phone Device, or Reptilian/Draconian (Parseltongue) Speech"
Thoughts
Hidden Meanings in Words
"Powerful Voices"
"Specific Devices for Inventions"
($) = OC Introduced By the suggestion of other Users/Authors/Readers for the Very First Time
(Number; 1, for example) = Number for mentioning things at the end.
Enjoy, guys!
A few days later, August 7th, 2008, at 1:45 PM within Roxanne's Apartment:
Roxanne sighed to herself while drinking some coffee due to her recently being awoken for a late shift last night, and watching her Godchild open her late birthday gifts as she got her a sketch pad, magical colored pencils that can create motion drawings once fully done along with being of unlimited use, and some more things and watching Merida silently giggle to herself.
She glanced to her right in her home at seeing Demona and Angela disguised as the younger female mentioned was gorgeous yet was a normal-looking female of herself similar to her own mother's tone of skin, and Elisa was also here alongside the few others that were awake, at this time of the late afternoon, and with her recalling later at night that her Godchild's other friends would be up from what she learned was dubbed as Stone Sleep.
Even Bernard was here, as she tried contacting Hal, but he wouldn't pick up.
It was some crazy times on getting used to Xanatos and the others being actual people to Roxanne in person, and all the information she was given, but she was simply happy at her Godchild and seeing herself more open as of late with sooner watching, with a small smile, at seeing Disguised Delilah was coming over and with seeing what Merida was drawing, firstly, within her unlimited and enchanted sketchbook.
"Seems like Megamind has at least done some things right." Bernard (aka Megamind) gently told Roxanne next to her against the nearby wall as she wordlessly nodded and was softly drinking the Hawaiian Punch, and paused before turning to him then as he hid being frightened by her confession to him, "Yes, especially since she helped me some more at figuring out what Megamind has planned for Metro City at times, and the Gargoyles themselves from arriving here keeping some severe criminals at bay."
Megamind indeed agreed on that as thankfully, they were simply visiting the city itself before heading back to the Bronx part of New York City, like statues, tomorrow afternoon.
"Finding out she's a dragon of sorts though," Roxanne decided to admit with Megamind instantly agreeing with her, "Is rather surprising, in honesty… I mean, I love her the way she is but she would damage the apartment if she ended up going into that state."
Roxanne was informed of partial truths about her Godchild, as everyone reluctantly agreed to keep most hidden by telling the two children it was a keep-away game, and in return, Megamind did share some of his blueprints, after a secretive meeting, with both Demona and Xanatos to which they are forced to join forces as a shared company they have decided to call Destiny CORP, for-profit and reproductive income.
"Well, at least she is being open about herself, and even finding out that those characters indeed have an importance to this place, and luckily I had spare copies of Megamind's Watches I also stole from his lab back then." Megamind decided to mention it to Roxanne, as she nodded and gazed at Elisa and those wearing it, especially Delilah and her Godchild, and even made some money from a person named Charles Xavier who wanted to have some for his students.
"Yes. And at least it's somewhat safer since, for some reason, Megamind is fixing most of the city as well." Roxanne decided to remind him as he looked a little sheepish on that.
"Aunty Roxi! Look at what I got!" Merida soon exclaimed after opening another gift to her, and mainly seeing with a look at Xanatos, of her Godchild having an emerald custom Nintendo DS Lite with a few games she already loved (despite them being delivered by an anonymous person to him): Digimon World Dawn and Dusk, Pokémon Delta Emerald and Shiny Crystal, Pokémon Platinum and Pokémon White and Black 2, and few other games based on Anime itself.
Let's say Merida got addicted via an accidental channel change to specific Anime, a few days back that is, and was hooked on them, and Roxanne even allowed it as it was harmless, and was even thinking of getting said games available for her.
"That's nice Sparkle, but let's see what else you got, ok?" Roxanne placed a hand on her Godchild's shoulder and gently told her as she beamed and went back to the presents at the end of the living room and turned to Demona.
The disguised gargoyle hid a smile while sipping some wine the girl's party had for the adults and ignored Elisa as she was getting some food for her Former Clan around as they ate homemade Italian Food, "I helped Xanatos make that custom gaming console as it cannot be broken, and we can even adapt it as time goes into something else if newer consoles come out easily and keep playing the old ones still…. In truth, I got the blueprints for it by a strange man beforehand by the name of Mr. KAP, and with him stating it can fuse with other updated appliances for handheld games concerning the franchise."
Roxanne raised an eyebrow at her for this before blinking at seeing Demona soon was pleased with witnessing Merida opening her gift, and they all saw the child was awestruck at seeing a silver necklace with two birthstones that are based on her birthday in a diamond shape on the sides, and with a pure emerald diamond-shaped just like a cross within the center.
"It was rather nice of you to give her jewels like that, Demona." Elisa, later on, told her as Merida was soon having fun playing some party games, and the ex-detective managed to catch the female off guard.
Demona just shrugged while observing her cloned daughter enjoying herself, alongside her eldest at playing the Dragonwood Game, once again.
"I have to bestow something for the three at times, as I realize items such as that necklace isn't worth it, but it is reasonable enough for rare moments of making them happy, and knowing that the gifts are mere that for sentimental value," Demona told Elisa as she merely nodded as the others were either dancing or chatting to themselves in the apartment's park area they're at now, outside.
"So how are things going for you?" Elisa asked the female gargoyle then to make Demona half-suspicious but answered in kind with them witnessing 'Bernard' giving a book to the child she was curious over, as it was labeled: The Hobbit, alongside a few select books that were secret, from his collection he kept. "It's been rather unorthodox at the least, but I and Delilah have been managing… You?"
"Not easy as Goliath has been giving me lessons on flight at times when he isn't busy patrolling, but we decided to take our time and be patient with one another before we, well… Commit to things." Elisa honestly told the female gargoyle to make Demona raise a brow, and smirked with making Elisa almost choke on her wine with a look to her, "Well, let's say I don't care about what goes between you two, but his place, is rather large and well suited if I state to you."
Before Elisa could remark or anything, she was hugged by Merida with seeing her soon wearing the custom bracelet she managed to save up around her left wrist, with secretly having Xanatos place a tracking device on the bronze jewelry with a few actual pieces of emeralds mixed in, from his donation to it.
Merida gave a playful pout with a minor wince from Elisa rubbing her hair before she went back to play the game with Delilah and Angela.
With Xanatos, he was secretly researching something interesting before he paused it as his wife approached, as Owen or in case, Puck, was watching their son back home.
They kissed briefly with him rubbing her stomach for a moment as she was drinking the cider that was provided, as she curiously asked him then, "What are you up to?"
"Not much love. Just simply looking into the market for a moment." Xanatos tells her as she gave him a 'really' look before she kissed his cheek, and softly stated to get him to quickly nod once, "You better tell me later what it is, or you will not be sleeping beside me for a few weeks."
With Merida later on, she opened the rest of the presents she was given with them being interesting.
From Angela and the Clan, she was given by wary looks of Roxanne and intrigue of the others, a wooden carved practice sword, from recalling the interest of their tales and even motions during their stories, especially both Angela and Demona, at times.
From mainly Fox with minor help from her son and both Owen/Puck, at the time, she got new clothes that impressed the females of her knowing some fashion sense.
She even got some strange presents that she decided to open later to which, from checking, was alright as they've had weird wrapping and decals on them.
Although… She opened one present to which they were except for Roxanne, secretly, as it was from a black and silver ribboned and emerald wrapped box of a stuffed black dragon of sorts, similar to a chibi version of Onyxia from World of Warcraft.
After that, they had food, cake, and ice cream before everyone left and Merida was soon being babysat by Angela, as Roxanne's news company she worked for firmly requested for her to work tonight.
Angela was amused after watching Merida finally letting her gaming console charge, and also placing a marker for chapter three of The Hobbit before that, she was playing and secretly, teaching Merida how to use her wooden sword.
After making a large enough clearing within Roxanne's Apartment that is.
"Alright. Let's try this again…" Angela tells Merida as the child let out a small wordless giggle at tripping over her tail from the stances she was trying to learn, and Angela helped her get it corrected as soon she made Angela blink at the weird stance she was in, as it was a stance related, oddly enough, to a fencer mixed with a reverse, as she was doing air motions for a bit until after twenty minutes later, was told to take a break until tomorrow, or a day after that.
"Angela?" Merida asked as she was in the kitchen helping her make some food as the gargoyle paused and looked at the child then as she was rolling the dough to make stuffed crescent balls with pizza ingredients, and curious, stated, "Yes, Little One?"
"W-Would Mama and Papa… W-Well… Will they be proud of me?" Merida asked hesitatingly from stopping from stirring the ingredients in the bowl and to make Angela blink in mixed surprise and understanding as she wiped her hands on the spare towel and knew what she was asking, and ignored the instinctive flinch she unknowingly gave off by her gentle yet firm answer and with her gazing right into the child's eyes, "They are. Without a doubt, Pearl. From what I was told, death is another beginning or challenge to the next adventure. At times, I believe that those we cherish also witness our deeds and no matter what is said or done would be proud since they gave us life to continue onward their legacy."
This made Merida cutely blink with her resuming to stir the mixture of pizza ingredients, before playfully glaring at her tail, and witnessing it soon whacking her on her head a few times to amuse Angela as they resumed their cooking.
Eventually, after a few hours, ate the meal and she was soon tucking the child into bed and was relaxing by seeing Roxanne on the evening television with her reporting to everyone within this city.
"The city's parks have been restored to their original glory. The streets are the safest they've been. The banks reopened. Has something happened to Megamind? Has someone tamed this monster? This is Roxanne Ritchie, cautiously optimistic and pleasantly confused." She stated as she did a 'cut signal' and soon she sighed as truthfully, she has been baffled by whatever Megamind is up to the past few days, and blinked at immediately getting a phone call from her flip phone to see it was an unknown number.
She told the news crew that she would order a cab back to her apartment as she was done working for the night, and hesitated but answered the number that oddly stated the numbers (if it's someone's actual number, this was for fiction use): 1-666-1987, and muttered a wary, "Hello?"
"Hello, Miss Roxanne Ritchie. I am calling on behalf of the Goblins within Gringotts for truly informing me about the bloodwork of your charge, after asking to investigate and see what heritage she has obtained, and calling you as to what we found out." A male voice tells her to relieve her of this a tiny bit as she walks on the sidewalk, still.
"So what did they find out?" Roxanne asked as, despite the vague comments about what happened to her, she needed to personally know and blinked by what she was then told after waiting for the taxi service to pick her up, "That is rather… Interesting, to say the least. But did they also place what she has for her record as well?"
"Indeed, Mam. They did place her blood work as well onto an Inheritance Test that is constantly updating… One of the new parchment paper models designed by an investment the Goblins did a few years back and would reveal it once she has a chance to visit once she is eleven years of age. She may be considered by Non-Magical Terms, to their eyes that is, a Mutant… Sadly that is. But she isn't, as she has genomes that are rather astounding." Wary by this as she just got into the cab to take her back, she questioned the person then, "What do you mean by that?"
"Truthfully I was one of the few to oversee the results and most… Was by some strange way, blocked as if her blood refused to reveal it with some being so. It seems like she previously had leukemia but it was cured before it could get worse, and we detected forced alien anomalies mixed with truly ancestral alien anomalies to which my research team and the Goblins are still overseeing. If it's true, then some of our research is going to be revealed even more to the Magicals of Aliens possibly intermingling with both Mundane and Magicals in past terms. We believe that she isn't done changing as of yet, to the point of my previous words of most declaring her a Mutant, the biased name it is." The person told her with Roxanne understanding most of it.
Roxanne was worried, secretly, as she simply told the driver where to go as she learned a few things about her Godchild she would tell the others, later on.
Merida gained regeneration yet could still get sick if she had gotten a cold or flu, can become her recently unlocked Animagus and back (after being taught), a high metabolism with it also increasing her reserves of magic and more within her body, and her body being on two different temperatures would have to be by her blood mainly.
Merida also appeared to have been a natural Parseltongue child as well as having the brain of a developing smarter child and with the ability to mesmerize anything she learns but would take minor time to do so and would still need to be taught for a bit on physical aspects, then written.
She is also going through not just one but two sets of ongoing puberties within her (hence the man's words of not being finished). As well, it seems the child also can devour any mass of energy with ease, but too much would knock her out and into a small coma to slowly and gradually spread said energy into her reserves to slowly make her power grow.
Roxanne eventually hung up the phone after asking several questions before she got out and paid the cab, and soon greeted Angela who waved lazily for once as she got up and stretched before wincing with them both glancing to the child's bedroom, of the one snore she had just done before speaking.
"Even though I'm used to it, it is rather unexpected at times." Roxanne honestly tells Angela as the female gargoyle nodded with a small smile as she was drinking some tea she made for the two of them and admitted to getting Roxanne to blink in small surprise by, "Hatchlings like I used to be… She may simply grow out of it once she has regained her voice. By then, from what I was told by my mother, well… She was inspecting the crown today and saw it would be removable, would dissolve and go away."
"So it's off her head?" Roxanne asked after sipping the tea to which she nodded, "Yes. She seemed to be the only one to remove it, though." Angela gently responded with a slight stretch and stood up then, and Roxanne commented to get a soft nod by the female gargoyle, "You're going to meet up with the Clan?"
"Yes. We plan to see how the crime of this city goes before we head back to the updated New York, after finding things out." Angela states while stretching her limbs and wings with her claws, and made Roxanne nod as to her inward surprise, the show still existed yet was made to be fictional then true detail of events, as whatever occurred to merge their worlds into one, made it so with finding many things out as well, especially with Xanatos being partnered, recently a day ago, to the very Tony Stark.
"Before you go, was Sparkle a handful, Angie?" Angela softened at the human female who secretly liked the nickname she was given by the news reporter, and shook her head a simple 'No' while hiding on recalling the amusing parts of her babysitting tonight, "Not really. Merely curious and eager for her age."
Before she could glide out the window, she nearly tripped and hid her tinting as she saw the smirk on Roxanne's face by her words, knowingly, "Well, tell the others their welcome to visit, especially Broadway, as I tend to overstock at times and he can make anything he wants… Both you and him."
"It's that obvious then?" Angela asked with her body prepared to take off still, and Roxanne softly nodded with a smile then, "Yes, like me, Elisa, Fox, and even a few others noticed your interactions at times. And I think he likes you as well, and maybe wait until he makes the first move."
"Why is that? Shouldn't I go forward with my feelings?" Angela perplexedly questioned her to make Roxanne cross her arms with a gleaming smirk of being amused and only responded then, "Oh we have so much to teach you about, especially since we only recently found out why Demona avoided us until Merida's late birthday party."
Angela nodded hesitantly at that in wordless agreement as her mother was looking into things, still, and plans to bring her at some point to whatever she goes to for further details, and replied before finally taking off into the night, "I will keep your words to mind, Roxanne. If Merida wants to come to the brief lair we have, then she is more than welcomed as I have a feeling she would ask her many questions about our kind, again. Farewell until the other night."
Roxanne closed the doors before stiffening and sharply turned to be guarded by a person sitting in her recliner and helping themself to some tea that was left, from an extra teacup.
The person was a young man in some kind of armor, and he was around the age of twenty-two. He has no helmet on so anyone could see his face. His eyes, although, were slanted on his pupils, but also looked normal except they have strange small symbols that couldn't be made out. The eyes were of course mixed with a bright green of some kind, mixed with the bluest of the oceans together, in color. He was also clean shaved, and he has a scar on the left side of his left eye (like a single claw mark stuck in deep). His hair, however, was pure white yet his armor represented that of medieval times (as a knight) but the armor was a mixture between silver and gold. The shoulders represented two specific animals, as the left one was in the shape of a dragon, while the right was a bird of some kind. He lastly wore a pitch-black cape that oddly moved like water threw waves, a little, as he moved.
"Lovely tea you provided, Miss Ritchie." The man began as he sipped it once more before gently placing the cup down and giving her a look to know he was here on purpose, and not as a thief or worse.
"Who are you?" Roxanne asked warily as from the vibe he gave off, it was unusual, to say the least, as he chuckled softly to himself, and clasped his hands on his lap while still sitting in the chair, gazing at her with those eyes of his, "Indeed… That is a question itself to further inquiry of one's selfishness within us all, to our hearts, body, mind, and soul."
Roxanne was rather perplexed by that as he only shook his head before telling her then in kind words, "I am rather sorry for that, for I am a man or entity with many titles upon my name, but you may dub me as Aeroza."
Why does that name sound familiar? Roxanne thought to herself before asking him then to see only acknowledgment from his eyes, "So what are you doing in my home?"
"I have arrived to drop things off, oversee the developments, and make sure things go as smoothly as I can perhaps allow it to pass. Though, I was merely stopping by before I had to head to several other locations." Aeroza spoke to her as if he was talking about everyday business with her.
It was then that he perplexed her by placing an unusual ring with a black opal gemstone and the band being that of a bronze eastern dragon, with the maw holding the stone as such, onto her table stand near the recliner.
"That ring will be important over the years for the child, as unfortunately, a person bound her to her destined ones. That ring will remain on the finger of her choice throughout her life, and with minor boons of aiding her and locating them… And if you are curious, I highly suggest that you ask either Xanatos' Servant of a man or even Demona herself, as one has been located already. The others… I cannot reveal." Aeroza informed her as she curiously picked up the oddly warm ring and thought she saw the miniature left eye wink at her, "The ring will guide her as to simplify my words of a somewhat fictional character, to let her consciousness be her guide."
"I will make sure she gets this, um, gift," Roxanne hesitates with her pocketing the ring to make him let out a brief amused chuckle and simply tell her then, "No need to be fearful of me, Roxanne. Unlike those that dwell within the tainted version of darkness, and are not pure, I am honorable to situations and even to combat… Unless it is necessary to do so. I, although, dwell in both pure light and darkness to be considered neutral in the affairs of everyone."
He then got up from his seat and startled Roxanne at him snapping his fingers as a rainbow-like vortex showed itself a few feet away from them, and informed her to make her wary, be perplexed, and guarded all at once, and gazed to her before he vanished alongside the vortex itself, "This isn't the last time you and those of this world has seen of me, as she will unlock powers and will need to be aided to control them better. And if you are also wondering, why yes, her blood is precious for many things and has consequences for both sides of the coin. Take care, and know that not one, but two, will happen as to what will unfold and more as time goes, as these events… Will bring forced truths out into the open."
Roxanne after a few moments sat in the same recliner and was wrapping up whatever that more than an unusual man than Loki himself, said, and sighed while grabbing the ring and turning it around to inspect it before placing it on the stand, and went to the kitchen.
The next day, August 8th of 2008, around the parking area:
Merida was with Demona in her disguise once again as Roxanne wanted to ask Angela but the female herself pulled an all-nighter and was resting up for the early day ahead.
Demona was free today and oddly agreed in haste, to perplex the reporter, but let it slide as the female gargoyle herself, personally wanted to do this due to being conflicted.
Conflicted by the memories of Lily herself, and her mixed feelings with the child as well. And other things to which would be worried about later as she blinked from being distracted, and turned to the child from realizing she asked something, "What was it?"
Merida was fiddling with the ring on her right hand between her pinkie and middle finger, and is the same ring as she also wore her necklace and bracelet gifts as well, the bracelet on her left wrist, asked again to soften Demona's eyes with her secretly glancing at, well, some passerby's looking at her in disgust to hold back her fury for, at the child was herself, "Why are some people always looking at me like that?"
"Most humans don't understand the difference between themselves and others, as, despite that, we all live on the same globe, and share its wars and peace it transpired in," Demona replied softly with the child only nodding before perking up, and making Demona sigh as she got the borrowed money ready from hearing the jingles of an ice cream mobile cart.
After walking with the child slowly eating her rocky road double scoop waffle cone by the seller looking, oddly enough, like Stan Lee himself, she and Demona were soon near Belvedere Castle, and sat nearby another bench and simply enjoying the scenery.
She too got a cone for herself from being merely simple mint ice cream and saw some Canadian geese lazing around the pond closely and was in deep thoughts about the plans she was making and blinked like the child was to astound Demona by seeing the unusual creature sitting down in front of them, unexpectedly.
It was a cat of course, but an unusual and creepy looking one to which the child herself, didn't mind and with Demona, on the other hand, was cautious over.
It was a decently sized Cheshire Cat with signs of malnutrition with being healthy as well, and by the looks, a male, despite the eyes being strange.
"Pretty Kitty." Merida states as she petted the cat to which Demona didn't like the intelligence showed from his eyes and 'meowed' cutely for more attention to which the child gave him and was distracted enough to not see Demona glare right at the backs of a middle-aged couple from overhearing that the child needed to die at some point for being a mutant, and soon confused Merida then as she gave the cat the last cookie she saved from earlier at her home with her Aunt Roxie, and led her out of the park.
The cat with the cookie within his mouth had glinted orbs with muffled chuckling as he took off into an alleyway, and once the coast was clear, shifted into an even larger and unusual animal.
He resembled a male sphynx cat, with his very thin coat of fur and thin body shape. The Cat has an emaciated, almost skeletal appearance as his bones can be seen through his fur-less, gray skin. His decaying starved appearance is suggestive of a cat carcass that has been rotting for years and could be symbolic of the damage and "decay" of anyone's mental state.
To mention as well, he has a large head and paws, a disturbingly human-like smile (which is sometimes seen spattered with blood), a long neck, sharp claws, big pointed ears, and a long tail with a slightly sharper tuft of fur on the end. He wears a gold hoop earring in his right ear, and a silver one to his left, and his skin is covered with black markings similar to tribal tattoos, but were more prominent. His smile also looks maniacal, and he appears to have under-grown yellow incisors that are covered in blood. Lastly, his eyes are also green and with the darker yellow sclera (and glow with a bright, illuminating light).
He then hacked up a true black diamond heart he easily caught into his paws before touching it with the offering the child gave him, and his eyes glinted with a look of being, to term it, of a journey's end as the gemstone dimly glowed and soon devoured it once again alongside the treat.
He then spoke to himself with a brief grin to his features as he vanished, and leaving said grin behind before that, too, went as well, "So she is the one to free her… This will be an interesting outcome yet for the time, to simply watch and abide by the time."
With Demona and Merida, they were walking through the crowd of people as since Megamind was rather tame as of late, the citizens of the city itself decided upon themselves to be brave and venture out and do what needed to get done within their lives.
Demona had a secretive smile on her face from hearing the minor humming that Merida was doing from being content and unaware of what some passerby was thinking as truthfully, Demona was the one who personally asked if the child wanted to disguise herself, and was rather surprised by her answer.
And she is still innocent despite what she has been through… I do curse the fools from Lily's memories I sorted out, of how she ended up as she was. The female gargoyle briefly thought to herself that indeed the reason for her absence was to sort hers and Lily's memories within her, and was rather intrigued by some of their magic being easier yet slightly weaker than hers. and why she knew the others' power and spells.
Demona was brought out of her minor thoughts from glancing down to her current charge while out, tugging her sleeve, as she wore a fancy outfit of sorts that was commenting for her to wear while out as her human guise, and asked quietly to not attract attention, not known to them that farther ahead in a few streets there was something unusual about to occur, "Yes?"
Demona began to slowly panic at the child's unexpected words as she inwardly cursed at not double-checking to see if she indeed had to do that task, "Miss Demona, I got to go, badly."
"Come on, there has to be at least a building with a restroom close by," Demona told her with her gently dragging the child further out with soon seeing them being unlucky at finding one that had a restroom.
Without warning, an unexplained explosion occurred a few blocks down to cause the crowd to panic and run past then as Demona held the child down with the urge to go long gone from fear taking root, and stiffened Demona in utter disbelief with her cautiously keeping the child close to her at what was revealed as an unfortunate burglar of sorts, from seeing it, was easily devoured from a single chomp before gazing around the area.
It was a fourteen feet quadrupedal monster with superficially lupine features. It has highly developed limbs, sharp fangs, and claws. Its forelegs are extremely powerful and can kill prey in one brutal blow, from seeing it whacked another burglar with ease to a random building further away. Despite its hulking size, it appears very agile and can perform many impressive aerial and land-based maneuvers. The spikes on its body mostly lie flat, but when it has built up an electric charge they stick out vertically into the air… Though, the duo didn't know this.
Demona became even more guarded when the creature sniffed the air deeply before sharply turning to their direction, and the reason being to the female gargoyle's minor ire to this, was that Merida may have had a small accident from witnessing this creature show up and eat a random man who dressed weird, and then roared with hints of static within the air for a few brief moments.
Thinking of her current charge, she glanced at Merida and back at the beast with it licking its maw hungrily then at them, especially since it scented Merida's accident, grabbed her, and began running with it roaring behind them and pursuing them through an alleyway with it destroying the sides of the buildings to try and snap them up.
Merida kept glancing back as she was dragged by force from Demona as human until she saw that no one was around, and made the beast trip over itself with witnessing her easily shift into her gargoyle self, picked up Merida, and took off as quickly as she could until it roared at them, and sent thousands of bolt of electrical currents right at her.
"Look out!" Merida yelled from her crown too late as she let out an equal scream of pain with Demona roaring as she braved herself, and crashed through one of many abandoned warehouses the city has been saving for later projects, and hit her head to pass out with unfurling her wings to reveal a somewhat twitchy yet alright Merida.
"Ma- Miss Demona!" Merida exclaimed to the downed woman in a slight panic and shaking her side until she froze, and turned sharply to see she was face-to-face with the strange beast breathing deeply on her until she felt something rumble not from her stomach, but something close to that feeling and before it could open its mouth, she did, with breathing out white-hot flames with hints of silver and emerald, and made the beast stumble upon itself in surprise and unexpected pain.
While the creature was rubbing its face off the scorch marks she left behind with her mouth letting out remains of smoke, she began to try and drag Demona with a few attempts and winced when the female gargoyle was hitting stuff by dragging her from behind, and out of the building's open exit closely.
The child wasn't at least seven feet from the site until the sides burst down and the creature was enraged if the glowing eyes and sparking membranes indicated Merida and began to struggle to try and hasten her progress of getting away and not seeing the creature was hissing in amusement at her plight.
It then began to charge electricity into itself and from the core sack within, opened its maw to show a glowing sparkle of electric heat forming as Merida kept dragging Demona who grained slightly, and soon fired an energy beam at the duo.
Merida prepared herself with her eyes shut and hugging Demona, but eventually blinked and glanced to be stunned at seeing a female blocking the attack as the beam was sent upwards to the sky like a light beam.
She was that of a beautiful young woman of average height with shoulder-length dark brown hair. She was around 5'4 in height with her having large brownish-amber eyes that were anime-based in real life, naturally trimmed dark brown eyebrows, and delicate facial features to that of what people would think of as an angel and at times, not known to the child, compared to the actress: Rosa Salazar.
The female wore, however, a full-body black leather mesh suit in the form of fingerless black gloves with small dull-silver spikes, a sleeveless dark top, dark elbow pads, and black pants with a thin yellow thunderbolt on the sides. The outfit was combined with knee-high brown boots and a light yellow trench coat that was omitted and the coat having a purple with an outer bronze stitching of the number "99" near to where her heart was, at the pocket.
She was holding a weapon of sorts to which she was startled by it being altered upon arrival, from seeing she summoned it. It was her weapon: The Damascus Blade, but there were ancient runes or a language on the sides of the blade itself as it was glowing a brief neon-blue, and at the end of the hilt was a keychain with the end holding a purplish orb.
This was a biodrioded-based cyborg named Alita or otherwise known as Yoko von der Rasierklinge, or for shorter aliases due to her past, the Angel of Death.
Her story was complicated and altered for her well being, from the realm she hailed from, but she was dropped off like several others from their realms as she was nearly dead due to an entity overtaking her world, and was dropped into an abandoned parking lot several miles out, fully healed.
She was minding her own business until she saw the beast chase after Merida and a woman, and eventually found them about to be blasted, and her improved weapon was able to easily deflect it into the sky… But she was rather startled about the woman being a real monster female, in truth, but kept that to herself.
"Stay there." Alita gently tells the child, in which Merida could only nod as the beast snarled right at the woman in an immediate challenge.
Alita thought quickly with her brain and saw an opening behind the beast.
So without much effort, she leapt and began side-running and slashed some parts of the beast's hide very easily to make it roar in anger at her and its hunger forgotten as enraging took hold, and Merida barely winced as some debris fell closely to her but not to cover, as Alita began leading the creature away to fight it better.
Merida shook slightly in place before she turned around and blacked out from a cloaked figure spraying her with a solution just right as Demona woke up and tackled the person.
"She's waking up." A female voice that Merida heard stated in relief as she was in bed, and saw it was her Aunt with a damp washcloth on her head.
It was then Merida felt sick and seeing it was the same girl close by, grabbed a large bowl as she puked not regular vomit, but candied sprinkles into the bowl.
The child felt feverish, slightly yet aware, mixed between being hot and cold, and was weakened to the point that they glanced at each other as she held back winces of pain.
"Take it easy Sparkle. You're still getting over whatever was sprayed on you." Roxanne admitted as she prepped her Godchild on her bed within her bedroom, as thankfully, Alita managed to defeat the creature yet it fled into the wilderness with the control device it had, broken, as they and several others were summoned to cause destructive mayhem in random cities earlier, from finding things out.
Demona was picked up by Xanatos as whatever she was shocked with, she was paralyzed to what was to be expected to be at least a full day or two, and "Bernard" managed to thankfully be around the area at the time and explained that it was a random new villain dubbed as The Summoner, summoned those things based off whatever franchises that those creatures were from within his room, alongside said characters he did also unintentionally as well… But he was instantly killed by three Shriekers as the last to be summoned within the outskirts of Nevada, and last heard that they multiplied to at least a decent size to maybe start a private reserve for the creatures, as, unlike the movies they were advertised, they are more tamed to think of the others as well, with intelligent movements to a velociraptor.
Back to Demona, however, Fox and even Elisa stated to Roxanne over the phone she wouldn't be up and around for a few weeks due to the static being able to temporarily paralyze the lower bones of the body as well, and Merida was very lucky to have not been affected by that.
Though whatever was sprayed onto Merida, she seems to have gained a temporarily weakened immune system, and with "Bernard" secretly taking a sample of the powder for study without anyone's notice, when he was asked to check her due to him stating he also had minor medical training.
Merida glanced at Alita with a weak head tilt of being curious and blinked at realizing that she didn't thought-speak and only nodded at her guardian caretaker in a wordless sigh after, "You took off the crown during the middle of the night and I have it safe for now on the end table in my room. You need at least a day's rest before we can let you wear it again."
Roxanne saw her charge glancing at Alita still with curiosity to see Alita was amused by the child when the female scooted over to be closer, was touching her hand in being perplexed and even more curious.
Merida did a wordless yawn though with her letting out a harsh hiccup as her hair went all static before going down back to normal once again, and gazed at Alita before blinking as she did as around her left wrist, from another empowered hiccup, was an unusual bracelet formed by Merida's Magic acting up as she soon passed out after.
It was a decently sized and exposed wristband bracer of sorts with the design matching Alita's former body she started with upon awakening in the doctor's former home, but the main sigil was that to the Potter Crest with the sides having mixed Latin and Greek Runes in dull-golden colors.
"It seems like the oddest of times for her to have an Adopted Sibling and more when the child's willing soul accepts it while under the weather." A male voice started to see that it was Aeroza once again, and not seeing Alita narrowing her orbs at him in recognition as he forewarned her two weeks ago of an event occurring that would aid her enemy, and it did… But costly as well.
But Alita blinked after she and Roxanne had his words go through their heads in mere moments, and the only word to come out of Alita's mouth was, "What?"
"Indeed." Aeroza cryptically states to get looks with his hands behind him, as he was near the door and was gazing right at Merida with intrigue before looking right at Roxanne as she firmly asked him, and only amusing the man, "What do you mean Adopted?"
"The Youngling's own Magic and Soul easily accepted Miss Alita by default not only as a Bigger Sister but also as a way of protection and eventual teachings of fighting style." Aeroza explained his best capabilities to the two females and resumed while conjuring a frozen soda for himself, "The ways of oneself is a mystery, but it is as what it is done and made. The child, although, is spent and would recover from her slight illness gained from the few things that can affect her… Although, I highly suggest a secretive blood test should be taken as you and she are, truthfully, Miss Alita..." Here he prolonged it before stunning her with widened eyes as to why this all became to be, "She is you, and you are her, from what she would have been in a separate reality. You, my dear living robotic female of importance, are Merida's alternative reality self."
Before they could comment about that, and without warning, Merida let out a sleeping sneeze that sent out a burst of a raw ball of flaming magic that bounced everywhere and fled the open window to intrigue by a brief vision of things to come as to where it was bouncing too.
"Now I must be off. I only came to briefly inform you of both the information I stated, and to check up on the child herself." Aeroza decided to clarify to them then as he paused before he tossed a ring at Alita to which she caught, as it was a basic silvery ring with a green gemstone in the shape of a star and vines looping around it, "A gift as the one you cherished, was reincarnated by means for your existence here. In this realm."
He then placed a hand to his chest and they blinked as he vanished into a rainbow-based mist.
"Unlike Loki, that man is more mysterious than him," Roxanne confessed moments later to get Alita to blink numbly at that as she was still processing her being the child's reality-based doppelgänger, and more, before sighed as she fiddled with the ring, and Roxanne was reluctant to do so. "I will stay for a few nights or so before I look for someplace to stay, knowing what I was told. If you want, you could resume your research into whatever it is in that room."
"So you are stealthy? I figured it out." Roxanne decided to admit then as Alita acknowledged with her giving her a nod for 'Yes', "That is one of few modifications I became after all my modeled bodies were fused as one under a unique planted tree… It's an unusual process that is rather complicated."
"Just let me know when she needs me, alright?" Roxanne accepted, to which Alita nodded as she fiddled with the ring as Merida's godparent left the room.
In the outskirts of Metro City, at this point and time:
A large black van pulled up within a clearing and soon armored and geared people came out with the armor being a matching color as the van, but somewhat more advanced and technologically advanced to describe with guns, pointed randomly around the clearing.
The leader, a fully black-ebony cloaked person came out with having blackened devil-like gauntlets on their hands, inhaled the air deeply before stating in a deep filtered voice to them calmly with minor hints of what could be described as a secretive thrill of sorts, "The escaped targets are close. Spread out and set phasers to capture."
The ones wielding the guns did so as they began scoping the area as indeed, a small group of escaped individuals and entities did manage to free themselves from an unexpected quake from the Nevada region of their secretive operations, and the odd energy wave after that spread around the world managed to free all their captives, and they managed to either deal or round them all up except this last small few escapees.
The group then began to scope out the area without realizing that several of the escapees were not around except for two, to which they were secretly watching the area within the trees of the small forest the soldiers were entering.
The cloaked person grinned sharply under the hood as they waited with ambition as further in the woods, two soldiers were scoping around to what appears to be some failed plans of Megamind years ago as it resembled closer to a rusting looking metallic duck of sorts with the forest claiming it as vines and some mushrooms were on its surface, and they shivered at the sight before hearing a slight noise from several feet away from them.
Without warning, they were blindsided by something fast in movement as they shot their weapons, but were easily defeated as something that was living in the woods… Devoured them.
Off in the distance, the person heard from his waiting spot, more guns were fired and screams were heard as one of two escapees revealed themselves to be a female.
She was around 5' 1 and has mid-length brown hair and red eyes, and her face has cross-shaped scars with stitches. She wears a white cute collared uniform that went well with her impressive and decently sized B-Cup (as her measurements are 21-18-23) as she was stuck at being fifteen until, by their words, her soulmate kissed her and would age with her, along with her having as well a dark-blue necktie, dark-blue skirt, and brown shoes.
She was holding, however, her former weapon that was a Japanese shuriken throwing star of sorts, formerly attached to her back, now summonable.
This was Carol or otherwise known as Codename: Painwheel.
To briefly explain, she and those she knew, alongside hated, was taken from their realm and was used, abused, and experimented upon for several weeks back within Nevada alongside many, many others they took to what they sadly learned before escaping, from dying realms being overrun by what they labeled as The Taint.
Like her, several others were injected with some type of liquidized biological metal from truly broken remains of unusual and ownerless weapons, and also fused with their own, and well, as explained they can summon and dismiss them easily.
Carol and her comrade were the only ones left out of hundreds that were not captured and were heading to Metro City to look into the energy that was caused by unknown means, from the secretive report the group that took them, had awareness of.
Carol dismissed her weapon and paused before looking behind her of another female who easily landed onto her feet with giving her an equal acknowledgment of each other, and easily ignored Painwheel's look at shaking her arms of blood from the soldiers she slew further back.
The female didn't want to, but she knew they had no choice in the matter.
She has sun-kissed shoulder-length blonde hair, with whisker marks on her cheeks to her oval face and blue wide yet almond eyes. The outfit she wore, however, didn't even try to hide her decent E-Cup bust as well as her lean yet developing exotic curves, from early puberty as it looks, as it was a bright 'I'm right here so kill me now' orange and blue jacket with a white collar that was open as her grey shirt also not hiding her bosom either due to the oblivious nature of her figure, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, and a red unusual crest on the back of it. She also wore orange pants with a shuriken holster on her right knee, blue toe sandals with grey socks, and a blue forehead protector.
This was Naruko Uzumaki, as for her minor story, she found out she was cloned from what she learned was blood stolen in secretive values, of a boy named Naruto Uzumaki, and was also injected with several other types of blood-based on trial and error before being fully brought to life, and she had Painwheel to thank for freeing her of her torment as an engineered lab rat, as the clothes were based on the recreational value of her supposed 'Big Brother' as well.
"Seems we are still being pursued by those bastards." Naruko told her comrade with her giving a face at that to which Carol wordlessly agreed, and suggested since she knew how to handle the one person possibly waiting in that clearing for them, and motions to the city itself, "I don't want to expose us to the people… But it seems we have no choice. It's either we face that prick, or we just avoid his mind games as a Hunter and simply try and blend into the crowd."
"I like the second option as I've had it with… Well, dealing with things like I was forced to do to those soldiers." Naruko admitted to Carol and they soon stiffened at hearing more soldiers searching for them, and eventually glanced downwards at seeing some roots from the trees bulging within the dirt and gradually going back to normal as the duo took off, and ignored the unexpected screams and random shooting of the soldiers.
In the clearing, the person was scowling as he, yes he, grabbed his cellular device that looked gothic and demonic, and dialed a specific number.
After a few rings, he got a response and it was in an old and long-forgotten language that was deep, disturbing, and of course, demonic.
Once done, responded firmly, "They escaped from going into the Forlorn Woods. That one plant creature was somehow protective of those two that your former High Lord released in the area before they were defeated years ago… Yes, they were all a handful as we are still searching for the others… Yes, My Lord. If they show signs or something unexpected or opportunistic occurs, my colleagues will keep track of the few cities that they could end up in… Yes, My Lord, I will keep you and the other Lords updated as time passes for recapturing the Experiments."
The device shut off with the man gazing at it before easily crushing the device due to inward rage at losing a hunt before gazing at where it was as darkness and ash were what was left before that too, faded, and sighed before opening the door to the van and getting inside, and ordered the minion at the driver's seat to head to the nearest base, and ignored the continuous screaming of his former men.
A week later, August 15th, 2008, at 10AM in the outskirts of Metro City:
"Again." Alita told Merida with Roxanne and a few others watching as she was teaching the child her fighting techniques and, by being impressed after learning three days ago, she was a semi-natural at both free running and parkour.
Merida was hitting a very sturdy and tall dummy that was from Xanatos' training stock he had for when he was practicing his technique for tiquando… Whatever that meant, when it was brought up to the child as suggested physical training for her body as within the ongoing week, she was nearly healed from her magic overloading her body.
It wasn't easy and costly due to the ongoing large appetite she had to regain it quicker, however, but thankfully Xanatos and Demona covered that.
Speaking of the two, they were with Elisa as themselves, like Merida was, and watching Alita train the child and even correcting her movements.
She did, to make Roxanne and a few others glad at least, she made a few decent friends while walking randomly around town, and the Godmother herself was thinking about eventually inviting them to dinner at some point.
"She's like a sponge." Xanatos told them in an impressed tone with Demona wordlessly agreeing as Elisa saw the concerned look on Roxanne yet before she could ask, they all jumped with Merida blinking as she overdid it and managed to use her fist to Ram right into the dummy itself, and leaving a gaping hole around the stomach area.
Alita calmly blinked with being secretly stunned at the dummy's appearance, and gently told Merida as she beamed to the living robotic woman by her words, as she went over to her travel bag to do so, "I think that is enough for today as in a few days I was told about magical lessons and you need to take this time for relaxation, alright?"
"It seems like she gets impressive each day when able, even within a mere four or so days of you wanting to train her, Miss Rasierklinge." Demona calmly phrased her as Alita wordlessly nodded as they saw the child was soon eating the meal Roxanne made for her from leftover meatloaf as a sandwich and stated in secretive pride to let the other approaching individuals listen as well, "She is rather bright for her age… I have to admit. Although, she still has a lot to go if she wants to keep doing this training."
"Oh, believe me, she will. She actually enjoys it." Roxanne decided to admit with them not being bothered as Merida hiccupped and her magic summoned a chocolate drink for her and drank it in moments.
"That is swell news to learn, as the others have been wanting to take her patrolling at some point within New York before she begins schooling." Elisa decided to point out as it was decided that Merida would go to school when the next beginning session starts, but Roxanne and a select few were worried about her choice of going as her true self.
"She will get a thrill at least from doing that… Despite the unsatisfactory truce we have." Demona added as yes, they made a truce due to Merida and not wanting to be separate from either side. So they came up with a small truce to not only satisfy things but to test our wary waters, so to speak, especially since Angela and Broadway recently became a couple, and were also watching over Delilah as well.
Roxanne jumped before grabbing her phone to see it was Bernard and did a 'Hang On' motion with being briefly amused by her godchild, soon convincing them to play a guessing game with her, within moments after she ate, "Hey."
"Hey… I have a question?" Bernard or currently on the other side, Megamind, asked as Roxanne secretly smiled as she said 'Yes', and what he asked secretly made her heart leap and didn't know how to feel as she felt mixed with being mostly nervous, "Would you like to maybe catch up with me later at that one restaurant? I figured maybe you and I can eat formally for once and maybe discuss what you have for Megamind?"
"Umm… Sure? I just need to ask someone to watch Merida for me tonight, and bring what I found out for later at your place?" Roxanne informed him as she heard a nervous 'Alright', "So… How's nine at night sound?"
"Perfect. See you then?" Roxanne responded with being equally nervous as they equally hung up their phones with Roxanne being amused by seeing they were doing riddles with Merida then as she decided to head over and ask them about tonight.
Meanwhile, in a hidden distance from the group, the one cloaked person was using a telescope in the distance from his concealed location and smirked underneath the hood before rolling his orbs at the approaching soldier as he gave a quick chest salute, "My Lord Xalis. It seems the rumors are true. That is the Last Potter Child from England, and the last of her race unlocked by secretly stealing her blood when she had a checkup a few days ago."
"Good… Send word to the others to keep an eye on the child, as when an opportunity comes, we will take it." The cloaked person, Xalis, firmly ordered before making the informant pause in his tracks and nodded when he added, "And if the rumors are true, have the guns set to capture. My Master would be intrigued by this news when I inform him later tonight."
Once the soldier took off, Xalis kept observing the small group as it seemed in the distance the child looked ready to sneeze- He ducked at the unexpected blast of flaming electric bolts aimed his way and it struck a random soldier to make him laugh once, and passed out due to being shocked.
Several hours later within Megamind's Lair, at night:
"Well you seem in a very good mood tonight, sir." Minion stated with Megamind distracted with his lackey measuring his body, "Ha? How long is this going to take, Minion?"
Minion is still measuring Megamind before hearing the question and informs him, "Just a few alterations, sir, and I will be done with your most terrifying cape yet! I'm calling it.. Black Mambaaaa!" The fishy lackey whispered dramatically at the end.
"Black Mamba. Perfect! Gosh, I'm running late. I have to go." Megamind quickly stated in an appeased tone before hopping down while looking at his disguise watch and saw it was around 7:12PM and he wanted to get ready for tonight.
"Where… Where are you going, sir? We have our debut battle with Tighten tomorrow morning. We haven't even tested your big battle suite yet!" Minion began to state in being confused at his boss as they managed to finish training Hal, and was ready to face him.
"You attend to the details, Minion. I have to… Run a quick errand." Megamind decided to state with a failed excuse as Minion questions him then with mechanical hands on his automated waist, "You don't run errands. What's going on here?"
"What?" Megamind warily asked before Minion stated, "Oh, wait a minute!" Minion smells Megamind and firmly questions him then in a way Megamind was hiding a gulp for, "Are you wearing Jean Paul Gaultier's, Pour Homme?"
"It's just my natural musk." Megamind decided to make an excuse before Minion figured things out in moments and accused his boss, and took the car keys from him before the blue skinned man could, "This is about Miss Ritchie, isn't it? You're going on a date with her!"
Megamind nervously laughed and waved him off as he told him then, "No, my main man! Get out of town!"
"Oh, this is bad. This is bad! You've fallen in love with her!" Minion exclaimed with Megamind's mood growing sour a bit and told him firmly, "You are forgetting your place, Minion! Now give me the keys!" Minion stretches the arm in which his hand is holding the car key, and questions, "What happens when Roxanne finds out who you are?"
"She will never find out. That's the point of lying!" Megamind pushes a button on Minion's robotic body which makes his stretched arm fall, "Honestly, if I didn't know any better, I'd think this was your first day of being evil."
"I may not know much, but I do know this: The bad guy doesn't get the girl!" Minion stated after running around the car and trying to nab the keys from each other and was startled by Megamind's next words, "Maybe I don't want to be the bad guy anymore!" Minion screams in being baffled by this with Megamind stating in defiance, "You heard me!"
In shock, Minion whispers loudly enough for Megamind to hear, "Who are you?" Megamind narrowed his eyes before stating something random as Minion used the wireless remote to their Invisible Car, and he ran into it as he explained his purpose once again to him, "My sole purpose in life is to look after you!"
"Well, I don't need you to look after me." Megamind rudely stated to shock Minion to his core and asked in a quiet and stunned voice, "What are… What are you saying? You don't need me?"
Megamind, while in anger, stated firmly to him to make Minion gaze at Megamind in betrayal, "Let me make it clear. Code: I don't need you." Minion then responded back, "You know what? You know what? Code: I'll just pack my things and go!" Minion coughed up the keys as Megamind caught it, and was grabbing his things and getting ready to leave the lair on a large and modified mall cop device with spikes.
"Code: Fine!" Megamind retorted as Minion did the same, "Code: Fine back!" Just as Minion's about to leave, he roughly looked back and stated sarcastically to him, "Well, good luck on your date!"
Megamind only responded in argument, "I will!" Minion while leaving informed him loudly as a last retort, "That doesn't even make any sense!" And Megamind only responded as he shifted to Bernard's Form from his device, "I know!"
He gently tossed the keys and grabbed them before freezing in place by seeing an unusual stray cat just randomly sitting on the hood of the car.
"Go on! Shoo!" Megamind firmly told the animal as it refused to budge… Until he whistled as the cat let out a loud yowl of being startled before running out of the building by the Brain Bots chasing it.
"I know I'm close, I can feel it." Roxanne tells herself as Merida was over at a hotel with Elisa volunteering as Goliath was with her as well, and left Brooklyn in charge in Manhattan as Puck, the trickster he was, managed to transport him when he was stone, into Elisa's temporary apartment for a few weeks.
Roxanne was frustrated as she was so close, however, at figuring things out of Megamind's latest and ongoing plan, and sighed before telling herself then, "OK. OK. I just have to take a step back." She was fixing her hair before noticing the way the cutouts and more hanging from the ceiling were, and states, "Wait a minute…" she opened her window doors to her balcony and saw, revealing the answer for her.
"Tighten! What's a Tighten?" Roxanne tells herself in a tone to know she was perplexed as not known to her as she asked that, Hal dressed in his Tighten superhero costume, floats up behind her, and responds, "My super ears are burning!"
Roxanne screams in shock as Hal floats and tells her casually as if it was an everyday thing, "I usually just sneak up on criminals. You haven't been naughty, have you?" Roxanne just looks at him in shock.
"Ha! I'm totally messin' with you. I'm totally messing with you. The name's Tighten." Hal informed her with a grin to make Roxanne Ritchie freeze for a second and responded to herself, Tighten!"
"You very own heroic guardian of pure awesome. What's your name? I'm kiddin', I know everything about you." Hal continues and not seeing Roxanne's face from looking back and forth between her revealed search and him, and was perplexed even more as he had an 'Oh' look, went back down and moments later, was back to her with a cart filled with various flowers, "I didn't know what you liked, so I just grabbed, you know, all of them."
Roxanne just stares at Hal at being weirded out to which he realized and noted, "Oh? You don't like flowers? Forget the flowers." He then tossed them casually as they landed on a cabbage seller's cart and they winced at the foreign dialect of profanity he used.
"What do you want?" Roxanne questions Hal as he tries to be flirty in his movements with her not acknowledging that, and informs her then his intentions, "I thought we could go for a little flight around town, to get to know each other first."
He startled her as he grabbed Roxanne and he's holding her in his arms, flying over the city and catching her at times, "This must be very thrilling for you."
"What do you think you're doing?" Roxanne warily expressed loudly as Hal perked up, "Oh, am I going too fast? You're probably right, I should just rescue you a few times before we get all romantic."
Hal then drops her on purpose, "Woops!" He flies down and catches her to rescue her, "Saved. You are lucky to have such a hero here!" He then flies everywhere and it was pure chaos before he placed her on top of a building and placed her down, "Are you crazy?" Her tone though was not noticed by him, as he responded in mirth, "I suppose I'm a little crazy… About you!"
"Who are you? Really?" Roxanne insisted with him being clueless, blinking before comprehending things, "Oh, oh, right! Well, prepare to have your mind blown, little lady." He takes off his face mask, "Ta-da."
"Hal?" Roxanne was startled to know the crazy person dressed as a hero was her cameraman, and he nodded enthusiastically to her, "Yeah! Isn't this great? Now there's nothing keeping us apart." Roxanne disagrees, "No, it's not great."
Hal laughed to himself before claiming to make Roxanne disturbed for a moment, "Wow, our first fight. This is so us, we're like an old married couple."
"Look, there is no 'Us'! Okay? There will never be an 'Us'-" Roxanne started to state to him pointedly yet he was stunned by her words and expressed before he interrupted her, and even gesturing to his costume, "But, I have powers! I have a cape! I'm the good guy!"
"You are a good guy, Hal, but you don't understand. We need to find out" Roxanne tried to clarify yet Hal wasn't having any of it as he looked crossed, "This isn't right. You're supposed to be with me!" Roxanne quickly grabbed his collar to keep herself from not falling as she did see Hal's distraught face as she let out to him loudly due to the slight wind blowing through their ears, "I'm trying to warn you, Hal!"
"It's Tighten! It's Tighten, not Hal!" Hal exclaimed to her from snapping as she managed to get good leverage before he speedily took off and from the speeding boom he caused, shattered the upper windows of the building they were on.
Roxanne sighed before finding the way down from the trap door she spotted, which was thankfully unlocked, and recalled the time as she sped her way down.
Meanwhile with Megamind still disguised as Bernard, a few hours later, he is waiting at the restaurant for Roxanne when she arrives late with windswept hair. "Roxanne!"
"I'm sorry I'm late." She began as she sat down and noticed her hair, "Wow, your hair! It looks exciting."
"Mmm, not the only exciting development of the night. Megamind's created a new hero and I know why. It all makes sense now. He missed getting his butt kicked…" Roxanne babbled her theory to him as Megamind was distracted, "He created a new hero…" "Yeah." "…To kick it for him!" Megamind is about to drink when he spits it out in surprise, "Wow! Who?"
"Hal! Hal's the worst possible person you could pick!" Megamind just nodded and noted, "Wow! That's a lot to take in."
"It- It- It boggles my mind!" Roxanne for once in her life, stutters as he agreed, "I am extremely boggled. You know, I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of who's kicking whose butt. But in the meantime, let's enjoy each other's company."
Roxanne blinked briefly and relaxed then as she apologized, "I'm sorry, Bernard. Of course, you're right. You know, I could use a breather." She raises her champagne glass for a toast, "To, Bernard. For being the only normal thing in my crazy, upside-down world."
Megamind raised his glass and agreed, "To, being normal." They then clinger their glasses before he looked to be thinking and then asked her, "Roxanne?"
"Yes." She stated as Megamind began to try and sway words to confuse her for a moment, "Say I wasn't so normal. Say I was bald and I had the complexion of… Of a popular primary color as a random, non-specific example. Would you still enjoy my company?"
"Of course! You don't judge a book by its cover or a person from the outside." She tells him to make Megamind relax for a moment, "Aaah! That's a relief to hear." Until she expanded into her words, "You judge them based on their actions."
Not known to them, Hal saw them 'Dating' in the restaurant and then left in anger.
"Well, that seems kind of betty. Don't you think so?" He soon jokes as Roxanne laughs then kisses Megamind disguised as Bernard as he's kissing Roxanne he's accidentally turned back into his real form and unexpectedly everyone in the restaurant realizes, and Roxanne pushes him back.
"What? What?" Megamind looks down at his hands and realizes that he's in his real form, "Haaa! Aaah! Don't look at me! Just- Just a technical glitch! Don't look yet." He presses buttons on his watch to try and turn himself back into Bernard, but he's turned into the Warden, "No, not that." He presses more buttons on this watch, "Ooh! Ow!" He's then turned into Jor-El but he doesn't realize and turns to Roxanne, "Where were we?" Roxanne throws a glass of water over him and he's turned back into his real form. "Now, now, hold on!"
"You! Ooh!" Roxanne then leaves in anger, and with the waiter signing before going to his manager and telling him another tip is gone, "I can explain." Roxanne turns away in anger as she left him hanging and the weather unexpectedly changed from being clear to sour her mood more, to being a thunderstorm of sorts with revealing as she walked by, the dehydrated cubes unearthing heaps of trash and more, and even another regular stray cat fleeing in terror as he caught up to her then with his car. "What about everything you just said? About judging a book by its cover?"
"Well, let's take a look at the content then, shall we? You destroyed Metro Man, you took over the city, and then you actually got me to care about you! Why are you so evil? Tricking me! What could you possibly hope to gain?" Roxanne let him have it yet saw Megamind looking at her sadly and realized, "Wait a minute. Oh! I don't believe this. Do you think that I would ever be with you?"
Megamind, realizing things, responded softly back with only one word, "No." Roxanne walks away from him with mixed emotions as he begins wandering back to the lair in the rain and didn't see a shady-looking van that was keeping tabs on them, left its spot, and took off in a specific direction.
With Hal or otherwise, Tighten, he was at a clearing and randomly taking his frustrations out while ignoring the storm.
After he hurled a large rock and didn't flinch when it crashed onto a tree, he sighed in place before he stilled, and turned to see a cloaked individual with Xalis who to make him wonder for a mere second, how they were not wet at all, by the cloaked person's words clearly to him, "Down and broken, are you?" His voice was deep yet rich like sickening honey of sorts.
"Ya? What's it to you?" Tighten rudely questioned them to which Xalis was just silent as the cloaked individual revealed demonic-like claws in a similar fingerless gauntlet design as him, from the sleeves for a few moments to clarify things, "Not to me, but you… Vengeance and more."
This got Tighten's immediate attention to the fullest and raised a question with a raised brow, "What do you mean?"
"What if I say, we can provide you more than you have with, let's say, an equivalent exchange of things?" The cloaked individual began to offer as Hal only told them and didn't see the glint the cloaked person had under the hood, "I'm listening."
"My Group can make sure you get what you want, and in exchange for a harmless person… An individual no one will miss." The person began as he saw a dark-looking gemstone being shown from Xalis to Tighten, "And this little jewel will give you more than you can bargain. If things ever go sour, as we plan to recapture two prisoners and one new one for Our Lord's plans for the future."
Tighten looked to be contemplating and gazed at them and didn't see the wicked grin that was shown under the hoods of the two at seeing the choice was made.
I know this chapter was short, but it is with good reasons as after I post all the fixed chapters to this story, I am going to resume my developing Chapter 4 to this, and my other developing chapters to my other Fics as well as I do plan to add more to my "Beauty and the Witch Sister", and my JCA (Jackie Chan Adventure) Crossover as well at some point.
So simply wait until I post the final part to the movie itself as mentioned, I plan to route how Merida grows up in particular adventures and more as a such, and some that may even be added in another telling, within either the to stories I mentioned, or even within Twilight's Daughter (which is also being worked on as well).
So I hope you enjoy the fixed chapters as within Chapter two during Megamind's searching for the object for the child, were slight hints of what might occur within the story itself as time goes.
Until next time, cya, and hope you will like chapter 4 at some point1
