A week later, Hallie still hadn't invited Mike and Sulley yet, but she did invite her parents and Randall's family over for a trip to the park. Her apartment was kind of small for them all to fit in there. Randall went too, but was invisible.

At the park, Cassie and Mason were glad to meet Ned, Marissa, and Rex. Hallie's parents loved meeting little Rex most of all. He was a little shy but opened up. Then he was allowed to go play on the playground while the adults all talked about things.

They talked about their jobs, interests, and stories about each other, just getting to know about the others.

It was a great day and that they had finally all met.

….

Within the next week, Hallie talked to Mike and Sulley that they were invited to come over to her place for an evening next Saturday. There was something important to discuss.

"Just you two this time, Mike. You can tell Celia about it later. I just need to talk to you two." Hallie said.

"Alright." Sulley said.

Mike was a little bummed that Celia wasn't invited too, but he would get over it. Maybe another time she would have her over too.

At home that night, she told Randall they were coming over on Saturday.

"I really hope I am ready to face them." Randall said.

"I know this is hard, but it needs to get sorted out. If we can get them on your side, it makes it better for you in court later." Hallie said.

"Sullivan might see it, but I doubt Wazowski will."

"You guys were friends in college. You should be able to claim a friendship again if you just really try. From what you told me about the RORs, they were the ones who messed you all up. Seeing things from their side is not how we should be, Randall. I know it just wasn't all about losing in the games to Sulley. But they were a bad influence on you. Even when you lost, they could have offered encouragement instead. Everyone can have an off time here and there. That just wasn't your night. But you owe this talk to them and yourself to get some powerful support for your court case and our life together."

"And also about your fraternity, if what you call the 'cool kids' is better than true friendship, that just isn't right. Mike was more your friend than they were. At least he didn't try to torture you."

Hallie did have a point.

Randall sadly remembered back to the college days in the RORS that if something wasn't done right, Johnny especially would be hard on him. Or the others too. Things might have seemed fine out in the open in public, but at the fraternity house, things were not always that way in the way of brotherly friendship.

Randall though had remembered when Mike had ignored him for a long time too. It had been too late. Mike had always been one self important fool. Things always had to go his way. He was a workaholic, and all in the end, he was never meant to be a scarer.

Sullivan had been such a jock in college. He thought he could just get by on his family name to get him through school. But it took more than just a good family name to get through the scare course or school all together. And it was only thanks to his cheating in the scare games his team had seemed to have won, but Randall hadn't stuck around to see the end of it. But he had seen in the paper the next day that he and Mike had been expelled.

But despite everything, everyone had always loved Sullivan compared to him. Because of Randall's temper and everything after that, he had such limited patience for idiots. Even when he had been a top scarer before Sullivan and Mike had become part of the teams, there had still been many that had feared or hated Randall. It seemed to him that when Sullivan became the top scarer that so many others were wanting a scarer that was more friendly.

As Randall thought more about it, if he hadn't met Hallie, his life would be better off in the swamps. It would have been harder to live in the human world. But it was all thanks to her that he had a real reason to come back here, and he would be a father. It had more meaning to him than anything else, even revenge. He never wanted to take her for granted again and he deserved a second chance, not being with the wrong people. Even working for Waternoose meant he was working for the wrong person. More bad influence on him.

…..

Saturday finally came. Randall was nervous about doing this with his rivals, but he knew he had to claim their support if not friendship. He didn't know how Hallie did it with them.

Mike had driven them to Hallie's street. They went up to her apartment.

"What do you think she wants to talk about?" Sulley asked.

"Maybe she wants to get with you." Mike joked.

"Very funny, Mike."

"No, seriously, I think she digs you."

"I'm too busy for a relationship, Mike. I don't think she's over Randall yet."

"She'll get over him. But you could be good for each other." Mike said.

Sulley rolled his eyes. Mike just wouldn't quit.

When they were at her door, they knocked. Hallie opened the door. "Come on in." She said. They entered.

Her home looked real nice and tidy. They went to sit on the couch. "So what did you want to talk about?" Sulley asked.

"Guys, this is important and I need you to have an open mind. Can you do that?" She asked.

"Yes, of course." Sulley said.

"Yes, but what about?" Mike asked.

"I know you both have a troubled past with a certain someone. And he needs to be talked about." Hallie said.

"You mean Randall, right?" Sulley said.

"Yes."

"I've already told why we had to banish him, Hallie."

"Yes, but then maybe you need to hear it from his side."

The two friends were a little dumbfounded.

"He was just trying to rule the city with Waternoose! He didn't have a side!"

Randall hated to hear that. He was standing in the background, invisible. That did it.

A certain form appeared in front of Mike. "Wazowski!"

It startled Mike right off the couch and away from Randall.

Randall laughed. "That never gets old."

"Randall!" Sulley said in shock.

"Randall! Stop that!" Hallie scolded.

"Sorry, but I had to do that." He said.

"What's he doing back here?!" Mike stammered.

"Hallie, do you know what you're doing by allowing him in here?" Sulley asked. "Remember how he treated you before?"

"He's since apologized for that. And ever since he came back, we have reconciled. He's been great to me. He's even reconnected with my parents and his own family. He's come a long way to being a better monster in the few weeks he's been back here. He was just showing off in that moment, even if you didn't like that, Mike." Hallie said. "But that's not why you are here, I had you two come over because I know the three of you had so many problems in the past and this needs to be solved once and for all."

Mike began making all kinds of mean remarks about him. Randall retaliated back at him.

Sulley and Hallie were speechless for a few moments. But it wasn't long before Hallie put a stop to it.

"I don't think it can be done, Hallie." Randall said.

"If you would just calm down first and then begin again."

"Guys, you need to hear Randall's side of what was going on behind the scenes with everything. He needs your support for when this comes to court. I know you want to turn him over to the CDA now, but please, hear him out first. The CDA would just arrest him and cops would just tear his testimony apart more likely. They would do everything in their power to send him away for a long time. I know Randall did some bad things, but it's not like he's done a long lifetime of crimes, am I right?" Hallie exclaimed.

"Right." Randall said. "Before the scream extractor, I did abide by all the laws, even though I wasn't the most friendly monster around."

Mike and Sulley could agree on that. Randall would have been in jail a long time ago if he had done many other crimes.

"Guys, I know I'm not your favorite monster right now, but with me about to become a new father in a short time and I do want to be able to support Hallie and our baby, and I need all the support I can get. Waternoose was the main problem behind it all. He threatened Hallie if I didn't work on the machine. He threatened my paycheck. He was the main source of it all. I was just his puppet to manipulate. That's how he treated me. And you Sullivan, you heard him say that he was ordering me to kill you?"

"Yes, I did." Sulley said. He couldn't believe he was hearing these coming from Randall. "And he said things about kidnapping more kids than just Boo. He tried to get me out of the way too even after we banished you."

"He would have done away with me or banished me himself if I didn't do what he said. Or to Hallie. I couldn't let him do that. She never knew what was going on though until after everything. And it was under his orders that I began avoiding her and taking her for granted that I let my greedy ways take over and I didn't even know she was pregnant at the time." Randall explained.

Then the male lizard went on to explain all the other important things of the story. But most of all, he had been against kidnapping anymore kids than just that one. But it was just sheer exhaustion and desperation and anger that were driving him that one last day before banishment. But it had been under strict orders to do it all, and for all the wrong reasons.

"I am sorry for it all, guys." Randall said.

As Mike and Sulley were looking at him, they saw that Randall's demeanor had calmed down more. Mike was seeing more of the Randy that he knew in college so long ago.

It sure had taken such a short time for Randall to change. But he had the best reasons to change.

The two friends were seeing that Hallie's influence was good on their old rival. It wasn't easy for them to just forgive him like this, but they could see why he needed the support for a trial.

"I know you guys will probably always have your rivalries and competition with each other, but could you at least try to make efforts to get along without hurting one another?" Hallie stated.

Sullivan had begun thinking it. "I can agree." He put his right hand out.

Randall looked at it. "Agreed." He took it.

They shook for a moment and pulled away.

"Mike." Randall said and he offered his hand.

Mike was still doubtful. "Alright." He shook his hand too.

"See? You can all learn to get along, and maybe, be friends one day." Hallie said.

"But if he causes more trouble, there will be trouble." Mike warned.

"I'm not going to be the trouble. Now if I just had a job."

"That won't be easy, Randall. You walk into Monsters, Inc and the CDA will be on you in a second." Sulley said.

"Not if I was invisible."

"Yeah, but how long can you maintain it, really for the longest time?" Hallie asked.

"A little while. It requires a lot of concentration to maintain it."

"Well, now that that's settled, Sulley, is there any way how we could get a easy trial for him, or a good lawyer? I know we need to get Randall's case solved. I would really hate for our son to grow up without his father." Hallie said.

"My family has a good lawyer. I could talk to him and he could see about representing Randall."

"Thanks, but can it wait awhile longer? The baby is going to hatch in just about two weeks. Can we at least celebrate our son's birth first?" Hallie asked.

"Sure. But I will keep in touch with you on the lawyer." Sulley said. "He might be able to still work out what is needed while you are waiting."

"That's fine, Sullivan. But I do want to be there for my son's hatching when I couldn't be there for Hallie when she had the egg. I want to be there with her that day." Randall said.

Mike and Sulley could understand this part. It was his child. But they still felt worried about Randall for the simple reasons, for what he had done. Sulley knew Boo wouldn't forgive him so easily. Or the CDA.

When they went home, Mike told Celia about it over the phone. His fiancé was surprised and a bit steamed at Hallie for keeping this from them. But to hear all the big details was also shocking.

The important thing was that Randall was gaining support for when it came time to, he would reluctantly turn himself in. He just really wanted to wait until after his son was born first.