Okay, last chapter folks! I want to thank you all so much for reading and reviewing (I'll thank you all personally at the end of the chapter). Here it is! Hope you enjoy!

"Look, there they are!"

"The monsters!"

"They're heroes!"

"They're awesome!"

Insectosaurus had just landed in Susan's neighborhood, where a crowd of people were there cheering for them. The monsters and Monger all climbed off Insecto. "Yeah!" Link shouted happily. As soon as they saw him, three girls screamed. "Oh great," said Link, sighing. Here we go again, he thought, with the people screaming and being afrai...

One of the girls ran over to him and jumped into his arms, before kissing Link on the cheek. He slowly smiled. The other two girls jumped into his arms as well, causing him to fall backwards.

The monsters all chuckled, and then smiled at the crowd. Susan saw her parents walk forward. They'd never looked so proud of her.

"Oh Susan," said her mother, "Ever since you were a baby, I knew that one day you would, you know, save the world from an alien invasion." Her father gave his wife a strange look.

"Um, thanks Mom," said Susan, "But it wasn't just me." She gestured down to her friends. "They're heroes too." The crowd cheered even louder.

"Megamind!" Megamind looked up and saw someone moving through the crowd. He immediantly recognized the voice.

"Roxanne!" Megamind said happily. The crowd let the reporter through, and Megamind ran up to her. They smiled at each other.

"Wow, that was pretty amazing," said Roxanne, "I guess you guys don't have to worry about getting kicked out of the state anymore." Violet barked and flew over to the couple. "I take it you got my message?"

"Yes, thank you," said Megamind, smiling at her. He started blushing. "I'm, glad you're okay, Roxanne."

"Same here," replied Roxanne. The two got closer...

"Excuse me! Move it! Coming through!" The couple got shoved by a man in a brown suit.

The man was none other than Derek, with his new cameraman Hal right behind him. He quickly put on one of his trademark smiles. "Susan!" he shouted, getting the giantess' attention.

"Derek?" The monsters all glared at the weatherman turned reporter, but he just ignored the looks.

"Baby, I've been thinking long and hard," Derek began, "and I forgive you."

Susan blinked. "You forgive me?"

"Yeah!" said Derek, "It wasn't your fault you got hit by a meteor and ruined everything. And you know what? I say maybe you didn't ruin everything. I just got a call from New York, and they want me to go network! And all I have to do to get it is to get an exclusive interview from you! I get my dream job, and you get your dream guy! It's a win-win for Team Deitl. So Susan, what do you say?"

"Derek," Susan began. She still couldn't believe that he cared more about his job than her. Even though she didn't need him anymore, it still hurt a little. But at least now she could dump him in front of a crowd of people. But then, she saw Derek's cameraman and got a better idea.

"That's amazing!" she said smiling, "Um, is the camera rolling?"

"Yes it is," Derek said straightening his tie. But then, he felt himself getting lifted off the ground.

"Good," said Susan, "because I wouldn't want your fans to miss this." Derek winced. This was not good. "This is Susan Murphy saying, goodbye Derek!" She then flicked him straight up in the air. As Derek screamed and fell back down to Earth, Susan kneeled down to talk to Bob.

"Um, Bob, could you...?" Bob understood, and quickly got under Derek, catching him and then regurgitating him. After regaining his breath, Derek stood up, and that's when Bob started talking.

"Derek, you are a selfish jerk!" said Bob, "and guess what! I've met someone else. She's lime green, she's got fourteen little chunks of pineapple inside of her, and she is everything that I deserve in life! I'm happy now Derek, without you! It's over!" Bob then got out the jello he had been flirting with at the party (no one was really sure how he got it), and shook it in front of Derek. "Yeah, you tell him Jennette!"

Derek sighed, and then turned to his now laughing cameraman. "Just turn it off," he said.

"Monsters," said Monger, "I'm so proud of you I could cry, if only I hadn't lost my tearducts in the war. But not crying will have to wait, the world needs you again."

"Well, what is it General?" Susan asked.

"It seems that a snail fell into a nuclear reactor," explained Monger, "As we speak, Escargantuon is slowly making his way through Paris."

"Well," said Susan, "I've always wanted to see Paris. Now who's in?"

"What do you say, Butterflyasaurus?" Link asked. The butterfly, who the monsters could now tell was female, gave a happy roar. "We're in!" replied Link.

"I'm in!" shouted Bob, giving two thumbs up.

"Count me in too," said Dr. Cockroach.

"I'm in," said Minion. He then turned to Megamind. Megamind turned to Roxanne.

"Um, so I'll see you when I get back?" the blue alien asked. Roxanne gave him a look.

"Do you really think I'll just stay here while you have all the fun?" Megamind smiled.

"No." The two took each others hand and then all the monsters climbed onto Butterflyasaurus.

"Au revoir sweetie!" said Susan's mother.

"Yeah, and hang on!" reminded Susan's father. The crowd cheered, and Monger saluted the monsters. Butterflyasaurus flapped her wings, and flew into the sky. As the monsters and Roxanne flew into the sunset and headed for the City of Lights, they all couldn't help but smile.

"Goodbye Derek!" Bob shouted, "and good luck getting over me!"

"Um, Bob," said Susan, "It's me Derek's never going to get over."

"Wait wait wait!" said Bob, "You were dating Derek too? That two timing jerk!

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Things had certainly have changed at the monster prison, but the monsters (and humans and aliens) were happy to say that they had changed for the better.

Deciding that it was for the best, the monsters moved back into the monster prison, which was completely refurnished for them as a thank you for saving the world. There they had plenty of room, and could leave anytime they wanted. The prison really did feel more like a home than a cage.

But the monsters also had a new job to do. They would protect the world from other monsters, aliens, and anything else that tried to take over the world. They were pretty good at their job, just two months prior they had saved Modesto from an army of mutant pumpkins (that was definitely an interesting Halloween).

But just because they had jobs now, didn't mean they didn't get a chance to enjoy the holidays.

"Monsters! Your guests are here!" Monger shouted, his voice booming through the prison. Along with Monger, there was Warden from the Metro City Prison for the Criminally Gifted, Roger, and Susan's parents. All the monsters started to come out of their rooms and meet their guests.

"Hey everyone!" said Link. He was still cocky and tried to be the tough guy, especially know since he had his own fan club (he said he always had one, they were just in hiding), but he was still a nice guy. Behind him, Butterflyasaurus, or Bea for short, let out a happy roar.

"Hi!" said Bob, smiling happily, and holding 'Jennette', his jello girlfriend. Bob, hadn't really changed at all. He was still fun loving, happy and one hundred percent brainless.

Two more monsters walked out of their rooms. "Hi Mom, Hi Daddy," said Susan, kneeling down to give her parents a hug. Sitting on her shoulder was her boyfriend Dr. Cockroach.

Thanks to some convincing from the other monsters, Dr. Cockroach finally shared his true feelings with Susan, and soon after that they were dating. The doctor got teased mercilessly by Link, but he was still happy. In fact, he had never been happier. "It's very nice to see you again, Mr. and Mrs. Murphy," said Dr. Cockroach.

Finally, the final two monsters and their human friend appeared.

Megamind and Roxanne were also dating. The two were even living together. After Roxanne's time in San Fransisco was up, she had to move back to Metro City, and invited Megamind and Minion to live with her, and they happily accepted.

There, Megamind rented a second apartment to use as his own personal lab. He also sold some of his and Dr. Cockroach's (giving the doctor credit of course) to the public, and they practically flew off the shelves. Though he was still a little nervous around crowds, Megamind was no longer shy around humans. In fact, he was happy to be around them since they usually cheered him rather than ridicule him.

"Well, let's get eatin'!" said Monger.

"I brought casserole," said Susan's mother.

"Ooh, we'll have some of that!" said Bob, holding up Jennette.

As the monsters all started setting up for Christmas Eve dinner, Megamind couldn't help but smile. He glanced out one of the windows Monger had installed, and looked at the stars. Before, when he looked at them he felt lonely and meloncholly. But now, he felt as if his parents were there watching him.

"Merry Chrees-mas, Mom and Dad," said Megamind quietly.

"Megamind?" Megamind looked and saw Susan. "You coming?"

"Yes, I'm coming," said Megamind smiling at the giantess. Neither of them ever believed they could ever become this close. Maybe they were such good friends because they both had needed the same thing: Confidence and True Happiness. And they had both found it, and had made a few good friends along the way.

Megamind walked onto Susan's palm, and the giantess lifted him up to the giant table. Megamind took his seat in between Minion and Roxanne. The monsters, aliens and humans all started to talk to one another, and happily started digging into the delicious holiday food.

They were all together, and they were all happy. One big, happy monster family.

The End

Okay, I'm not sure how you guys would feel about an ending like this, but I wanted to have an epilogue just to show what happened to the monsters and which couples actually happened (speaking of which, yes I am a BobxJello supporter :P). Also, yes I'm sorry I didn't have Megamind and Roxanne or Dr. Cockroach and Susan kiss. But I did say they were dating, so that kinda makes up for it (believe me, I would love to have a kiss in here, but it just didn't seem to fit anywhere in here. So yeah, sorry)

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