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[batmanschmatman]

So I figure by now, everyone's calmed down and realized we're not in any imminent danger here, so I have a question. Does anyone else - of the kids on board, I mean - remember this place at all? I feel like I've been here before, but a long time ago, or like I had a dream about it or something. It wasn't all decked out for Halloween last time, though. I'm not sure if I should be weirded out by it or not. Halloween in Gotham's usually a fiasco. [Private to Tim] Do you need help dealing with anyone? [He saw you talking to that very angry scary girl and vaguely remembers you/has a sense you're to be trusted, so. B(] Also, I could maybe stand to borrow a sweatshirt or something, if you don't mind. Everything in my room's like, six sizes too big. [ooc: Tags will be coming from theboywonder!]

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[megamind]

Because that's where aliens go? [ ...duh, Dick. ]

[theboywonder]

No, it's not. You send criminals to prison, you don't send kids.

[megamind]

I crashed at in the prison yard. So starting with breaking and entering, trespassing on Federal property, inciting a riot... [ ...yeah this is what he's been told, okay, and he's naive enough to buy it so far. ]

[theboywonder]

You're five. That still doesn't mean you should be locked up for it. Where are you from?

[megamind]

...space.

[ He fidgets a little, clinging to his puppy. Yeah, this is getting into awkward topic time. ]

[theboywonder]

No, I mean, what Earth city did you wind up on? Are you on Earth?

[megamind]

Oh! Metro City, Michigan.

[ Prison for the Criminally Gifted, he doesn't add. ]

[theboywonder]

I've never heard of it. Do you know Gotham City?

[megamind]

[ Little headshake. ]

It's not in Michigan. Is it?

[theboywonder]

No, it's in New Jersey. You must be from a different universe.

[megamind]

Well, of course I'm from a different universe. [ That's not what he meant, Megamind. ]

[theboywonder]

No, I mean like, a parallel dimension.

[megamind]

O--Oh! Okay.

Well, that's possible. [ For a five year old, he's thinking really hard about that. ] I'd have to look at the math, but I'm pretty sure that's feasible.

[theboywonder]

[Robin laughs a little.] You're pretty smart, for a five year old.

[megamind]

I'm way more developmentally advanced then humans of the same age. [ He may sound a little pleased at that. ] But they have me in shool now and so I'll catch up in proper social development and maybe then I won't be a menace.

[ He repeats things he hears really well, too. ]

[theboywonder]

You're not a menace just because you're an alien. What's your name?

[megamind]

Yes I am. Or they'd let me go to a place like Sesame Street, where the people are like me.

[ ...kid hasn't clued into a few things yet. Might explain why the adult clings so hard to his lies. ]

I might get more time off for good behavior, if I do good in shool.

[theboywonder]

[Robin makes a sort of frustrated noise.] I wish you were from my universe. Superman wouldn't let this kind of thing happen. No one in the JLA would.

[megamind]

Who's Superman? [ Not a damned clue just how close their universes are... ]

[theboywonder]

He's a hero. [And basically THE BEST PERSON EVER except Batman. Actually Dick might like Clark more than Bruce sometimes. :V] He helps people like you.

[megamind]

Oooh. Why like me? [ Still not getting that he's in trouble here, okay. ]

[theboywonder]

Because you need help. Little kids aren't supposed to be in prisons, no matter where they're from or what they did.

[megamind]

The warden says I'll never leave if I'm not good. [ Soooooooo that's contrary to everything ever he's been told. ] But if I'm good I'll get time off!

[theboywonder]

The warden is a jerk, and he's the one who should be in prison.

[megamind]

[ Megamind does not quite know how to handle this information. His entire life -- short as it has been up until this point -- cannot have been a lie, right? ]

No, no, he has a really hard job and he's really smart and tough to handle so many criminals and to keep me from breaking out. Seriously, he's foiled me like ten times now.