Years later, Rex was all grown and moved out. He was 17 and going to college. Randall had gone to college at a young age too. His son was very smart and wanted to be an engineer to make and fix vehicles.
Randall was proud of his son for how far he had come despite stuff from so long ago. He had never mentioned to him about Graf. He didn't want him to know. When Rex had asked him about his grayish stripes, Randall had simply said it might have come from some part of his own parentage, which he didn't even remember who his real parents were.
Rex wished he could have known his dad's parents. But the parents that Randall had known had adopted him and had died before he was even thirty. But at least Rex had known his step-mom's parents. They were as good as it got for grandparents. They were still around for little Nikki. That was his sister's nickname.
Rex and Nikki were both friends with the human, Mary. They had grown up together. Rex had a special bond with her, but he was definitely trying to have more bonds with other monsters. She was just fine as a secret friend.
Mary was now finishing up college and was still close as ever to Sulley and Mike, as well as Randall. She still called him Randy, but she was the only one allowed to call him that.
Sondra had changed careers. She was now a gynecologist. She helped females and even the sometimes pregnant male with their babies to be.
Megan, by now, was married and had two kids of her own with a loving husband named Patrick. He was a green lizard monster with 4 fronds, six limbs, and blue eyes. He was a great partner to Megan.
They had a son and daughter. Wendy and Cade.
Rex had had many difficulties in school growing up. He had encountered many things that Randall had gone through when he was young, especially about his blending, but now that he was older, he could control his ability better, except maybe being startled suddenly if he didn't see the surprise coming.
He was starting to have a relationship with a girl from the PNK group at his college, the old Monsters University, where Randall had gone. But scaring was not studied there anymore. Laughter was the new energy source this long down the road with this new generation that Monsters, Inc had inspired in a lot of monsters and other monster working facilities.
Nicole was inspired by her older brother. She wasn't much into mechanics, but would sometimes help Randall out on working on the cars at home.
Randall had since moved on from Monsters, Inc and had opened his own mechanics shop. A lot of monsters came to his shop to have them fixed. He was good at what he did. Fungus even helped him out. He had hired some others too.
The name of the shop was Randall's Auto Shop. He had decent enough prices to not rob a customer blind. It made him enough to help keep the house he and Sondra lived in. They now owned their own place.
At the school, Rex was enjoying his education when he ran into a group of seven lizards. And once again, they had met up and even remembered each other.
Their mothers had found some suitable males over the years and married finally. But they did know the truth that Randall was their real father. They had moved far away to avoid seeing him and avoiding further confrontations so long ago.
Now that the kids were grown up and didn't always have to tell their parents everything, they hung out at college secretly. Rex didn't tell his parents about this, at least at first. He was glad to see his siblings again. At least now he had his own kind to hang with when he wasn't with his girlfriend or studying.
Even though Rex told them about Randall, they couldn't help themselves and went to meet him.
Randall was at his shop when he was met up with a bunch of young lizards. He was at the desk. "Can I help you?"
"Yes, you can. Are you Randall Boggs?" The dark purple male said.
"I have that honor." Randall said.
"Dad, it's us." Grace said.
Randall's eyes lit up at that. No one but Rex, Nicole, or Megan called him that. But he then noticed some of the looks on the young ones.
"Our mothers told us of you, and we have waited all these years to be on our own to finally meet you without the possibility of causing trouble. We don't mean any harm." Aeron said.
"Did you ever want contact with us?" Anna asked.
Randall sighed. "Yes, but it was all what your mothers did. After a certain incident happened, they didn't allow me to see you ever. Not even when you were born. I assume they told you about everything?"
"Yeah, and they feel bad about it, but they just felt they couldn't find anyone better at the time to be our father." Steven said.
Randall would always feel doubted about what they did so long ago, but he wouldn't take it out on the kids. He said he would be willing to be involved in their lives as long as they didn't tell their mothers.
They were glad not to. Randall began a relationship with all his kids. Rex found out and was glad he had more siblings to do things with that were his age. He could do things with Nikki, but there were still some things she was still too young for. She had her own age group of friends at the age of ten, even if it was just a small one. There were only a few in her class that accepted her, blending ability and all.
Sondra found out about it and was a little uneasy about it, but she knew her husband had every right to want to know his children. They were his family too, despite how things had started so long ago.
Now, at the age of 47, as he had been 29 when he had had Rex, and fathered the other seven, Randall was still young enough to work and be a father and be in all his kids' lives for a long time. Brett and Steven wanted to work alongside him in his shop, but if they were to keep their relationship a secret, as much as it pained him to say no, he had to say no.
"Dad, we are over 18 now. So what if our moms find out now. Adults can't take us away from them." Steven said.
"No. But your mother's family had to make life so tough for me many years ago when they didn't even want me to keep your brother, Rex." Randall said. "I don't need trouble coming up like that from the past again. I have had so much rejection and being hated much of my life, boys. It hasn't been easy for me to get to where I am today, and only hope that you had it better than I did."
"I guess we might have." Brett said. "Sure, we were teased and everything, but we always had each other at school to see us through. We were our own support system. It's what got us through the hard school years from the bullies. Being together made it nearly impossible for anyone to go against us. We had learned defense skills."
"Alright. We can give it a try." Randall said.
So two of his sons joined him in the shop.
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Rhoda and Fiona were glad that their sons had found a job working together at the same place, but were not thrilled when their sons had to talk to them angrily and told them that they were working alongside their real father.
The secret relationship came out too. They weren't pleased about it. They both went to investigate the business.
From inside their car across the street, the two of them could see their sons toiling away in the mechanics shop. They even did spot Randall among them. He was being no threat to them. He just did what he did working on vehicles and helping his sons find parts.
As much as Rhoda and Fiona were jealous that their sons having the relationship with Randall, they knew there wasn't much they could do. Their kids were all grown up now and had their own lives to live.
Randall hadn't been a threat to anyone for years. So why would anyone believe he was trouble now? But some people could always return to old ways when new ways never worked out.
Rhoda was almost willing to make trouble for him again, but Fiona stopped her. "Rhoda, he's been through enough all these years. It was a hard enough battle from your family just for him to keep the child that he raised all these years."
"That baby was my brother's son. That's why it was so hard to let it go for so long. But yeah, I had Steven and Brenda. I got to raise them for most of their lives. I'm not going to cause him trouble. It was a mistake for me to team up with the boys and that crab they were working with. That's what got them all killed. I guess Randall was right to stop them."
"We have raised our kids well. Let them have a relationship with him. Since we denied Randall contact all those years, they have much catching up to do." Fiona said.
Rhoda nodded. She started up the car and drove away. They wouldn't make anymore trouble for Randall.
Randall had spotted the car outside his shop. He had seen who was in it. He hoped they weren't going to make more trouble for him.
They never did. Lisa, Sadie, and Iona also did find out as well. They decided to let things be and let their kids be with their dad when they wanted to be.
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Randall had worked so hard all his life to get to where he was now. He had been so shy and naïve when he was younger in his younger school years and in college, then he had turned to that grumpy, evil kind of person for so many years and it had been so hard to come out of it.
Being banished had not been easy on him, and when he managed to come back, he had paid the price for it by going to jail and being on probation for much longer. But being in jail had made him think he had wasted so much by being that person and nearly making the biggest mistakes of his life, possibly harming that little girl and nearly killing Sullivan. If he had killed him, he would be in prison the rest of his life if not sentenced to death.
But he overcame it. He wouldn't have minded finding his soul mate the regular way. But when the girls and their brothers kidnapped him, they set things in motion for him to start having something new in his life. His own new blood relatives. But he had never asked to be raped. It had been hard coming to terms with it all.
As going through a forced pregnancy was scary enough and nearly losing the chance when the boys and Waternoose had escaped and threatened to kill the baby, he had known he had to get rid of them. He didn't want to call himself a killer, but they had pushed him too far.
The city and the human side had been saved by his actions. And he met Sondra shortly after. She had been there for him ever since they met when he was pregnant with Rex. They didn't know each other very long before they were married, but they had been each other's best friend and partners for many years now, and raised some kids together.
And now, Randall had his own relationships with the kids that he hadn't seen grow up. And Rex wanted to be involved with them too. Things had always been so weird in Randall's life, but with everything feeling like paradise, he wouldn't change it for the world.
Mike and Sulley still worked at Monsters, Inc. Sulley had found a girl and was married to her. As was Mike and Celia. Randall and his family had come to the weddings just as they had been at his and Sondra's.
Life couldn't have gotten better in the life of Randall Boggs.
The End
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