Hiccup and Astrid had donned their costumes and then along with Toothless piled into Hiccup's car. They were now driving along farmland and Hiccup looked questioningly at Astrid. "Are you sure we are heading in the right direction?"

"Yes. It should be around here." Astrid stated. "They moved it to a remote area after the Titans crashed the get together three years ago."

"There's the entrance!" Astrid suddenly said as she pointed to a dilapidated barn.

"Eh okay." Hiccup said as he pulled into the overgrown area and drove into the barn. "Now what?"

Astrid rolled down her window and pressed a rusted looking button on a pillar. "Dr. Hofferson and Night Fury here."

Hiccup looked confused at Astrid before a mechanical voice replied "Roger that."

Toothless who had been lazing on the backseat snapped his head up and looked around wildly as the floor began rumbling.

"Woah" Hiccup said as they descended. They stopped in what seemed to be a gigantic parking garage and Hiccup drove off the platform which rose back up. There were a whole lot of cars and some busses already parked and people were walking to what seemed to be the entrance which was decorated with lights.

After finding a parking spot Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless headed in that direction as well. "Astrid are you sure that me coming here is alright?" Hiccup asked as he payed for the entry tickets.

"Don't you worry Hiccup." Astrid assured. "They like you so everything is fine. Also this place is neutral territory. There are even villains here who turned good." As Astrid said that she pointed out those coming out of a blue hovercraft. "I'm sure you recognize them."

"That's Dr. Drakken and Shego." Hiccup mumbled as he nodded. He remembered watching the award ceremony on TV.

"Yup" Astrid said as she proceeded to hold his hand as they stepped inside. Hiccup's eyebrows shot up as he took in the sights.

"Astrid this isn't a seminar, it's a whole convention!!" Hiccup exclaimed as he looked at the large underground space filled with booths and what not.

They walked past several booths. Some of them caught Hiccup's eye like 'Hero repellant', 'Ray guns R' us', 'Hench Co'. Hiccup began looking through the program they received at the gate and raised a brow at some of these events.

"Are these actually happening?" Hiccup asked as he pointed to some which read 'So you're a villain still living in your mother's basement' or 'Villainous brunch for the hungry warlord'. There were even ones titled 'Lair decoration' and 'Metaphysical power demonstrations'.

"I've been meaning to check out Lair decorations." Astrid said as she looked up the time. "Megs will probably be there as well."

"Megs?" Hiccup asked.

"A fellow scientist. You two should get along fine. He actually became a hero last year and is bringing his girlfriend along."

"AAAH" was yelled and Hiccup whirled around to see a fuming woman walking away from a man in a toga with flaming blue hair.

"Persephone! Sweetheart! Wait please!" The man begged as he rushed after the woman.

Astrid rolled her eyes. "That's just Hades and Persephone. She slaps him nearly every year. Honestly he should have learned by now not to blow kisses at the spear display and ignore his wife."

"....eh... Okay." Hiccup said as he and Toothless followed after Astrid.

"Astrid, Hiccup" Was soon called from a crowd as Heather, dressed in a dark blue revealing gown, made her way over to them. "So glad you could make it. The girls are already here. Come on."

Heather led the way to the cafeteria where Hiccup noticed a table full of female villains. Hiccup recognized them all. HQ was filled with their wanted posters. There was the Evil Queen, Malificent, The Red Queen, Catwoman, and Mercy Graves.

"Hi Astrid" they all greeted and then their eyes fell on Hiccup. "So this is your new beau." Catwoman said as she leaned slightly forward.

Hiccup's cheeks started flaming as all eyes settled on him. "Hello ladies." Hiccup greeted and then Toothless just had to be the curious one as he started sniffing the villainesses.

"Oh my he's so cute!!" The Evil Queen cooed at the dragon who was wagging his tail. "Here have a poison-free apple dearie!"

Toothless happily took the apple and gobbled it down as the ladies started fussing over him.

"I told you they'd like him." Astrid grinned as she watched Hiccup's shocked expression.

"Astrid!" Was soon called and Astrid waved a familiar blue alien over. Hiccup recognized him as the newly dubbed hero of Metrocity.

"Megs good to see you again." She greeted. "May I introduce my boyfriend Hiccup aka Night Fury and that over there is Toothless." Astrid said as she indicated towards the dragon who was now being belly rubbed by Catwoman.

"Pleasure to meet you." Hiccup said.

"Hollo. I'm Megamind, and this is my girlfriend Miss Roxanne Richie and of course Minion." Megamind introduced but he only saw Roxanne next to him.

"Where is Minion?"

"He stopped to exchange recipes with someone." Roxanne mentioned and pointed to Minion who looked to be in a deep discussion.

"Wait" Hiccup said as he recognized the other man. "That's Eret, son of Eret, Drago's right hand man."

"Drago better not be here." Astrid muttered. "He's persona non grata at these things."

"Why is that?" Hiccup now asked as his curiosity took over.

"Because he gives Mad scientists and Evil geniuses a bad name." Megamind mumbled. "Especially with that debacle a couple of years back."

"Oh right Hiccup. I don't think you know about this." Astrid mentioned as they now had the attention of the villainesses as well.

"That man is an unethical slimeball." Mercy muttered and the others nodded.

"What happened?" Hiccup asked. He knew that Drago wasn't liked by the hero community but even the villains seemed to despise him.

"Drago wasn't always a villain." Astrid started explaining as Hiccup's eyes widened at her words. "We don't know much about his background except that he was a scientist for the government, and the head of a very shady project."

"They say it had something to do with the creation of super soldiers but those are only rumors." Mercy supplied.

"They say that he discovered something so powerful through his research that he kept it for himself and turned towards villainy. Like I said not much is known but we all despise him because he has been indiscriminately experimenting on people. Them being hero or villain makes no difference to him."

"So a couple of years ago...." Hiccup guessed.

"He kidnapped two up and coming villains and used them in one of his experiments, which failed and landed the two in the hospital." Astrid sadly stated.

"Damn" Hiccup muttered as Astrid finished the story and then something occurred to him. He turned to Astrid "There was nothing accidental about you blowing up his lair was there?"

A smirk graced Astrid's face as she simply hummed.

"Astrid might blow up her own lab on a semi weekly basis with all her experimenting" Megamind stated which elicited an indigent "Hey!" From Astrid. "but she knows her chemicals much too well to 'accidentally' blow up someone else's laboratory."

Minion finally made his way over to the group along with Eret. "Hello everybody" He cheerfully greeted. Eret in turn politely nodded to those assembled.

"Now now Eret don't feel down. I'm sure you'll find something at this convention." Minion assured.

"What exactly are you looking for?" Roxanne asked pensively.

"A new job." Eret grumbled looking down dejectedly, completely missing the looks of shock from those assembled.

"Wait what?!" Heather nearly shouted. "You're Drago's second in command. We may not like him but the job of a right hand man is a very cushy occupation."

"I was his right hand man. Up until he fired me and hired those Grimborn brothers in my stead." Eret angrily muttered. "He even insulted my double chocolate chip cookies." The statement elicited gasps from all the villains.

"That man has gone bonkers!" The Red Queen proclaimed looking agast. "Off with his head!!"

"I way to curious now hun." Catwoman said as she came to stand next to Eret. "What happened?"

Eret let out a sigh. "I disagreed with him on a project he was going to restart."

"That's it? You just disagreed with him?" Hiccup asked as he could not believe it himself. He had fought Eret a few times and he could tell that the man was loyal to his employer.

Eret nodded. "Yes, it was something called Project D."

Everyone jumped when an angry growl tore through Hiccup's throat. Astrid's eyes widened as she saw Hiccup's pupils contract much like how she had seen Toothless do when Hiccup wanted to give him a bath.

"Hiccup are you alright?" Astrid asked tentatively as she touched his shoulder.

Hiccup snapped out of it when Astrid touched him and his pupils dilated back to normal. "Why wouldn't I be?" Hiccup asked confused as he looked at his girlfriend.

"Because you just spaced out and your eyes slitted when Eret mentioned the project's name." Megamind stated. "Something weird is going on here and we need to get to the bottom of this."

"How exactly are we going to do that?" Hiccup now asked as he frowned.

"First off I'm getting some reinforcements." Megamind said as he sped off into the crowd. "Wait Sir!" Minion called after him but Megamind was already gone.