The Incenerator

Today was the first day of school for the students who lived in Paris, the start of the new year, and what better way to start with fighting evil. Near the 12th arondissiment 4 heroes were all engaging a villain that appeared to be an ice monster with blue skin and icicle shards for shoulder pads as well as a pointed white beard. "you know, you should really 'chill out' man," Cat Noir gleefully chimed as he dodged more icicles launched in his direction, and a simultaneous groan emerged from the other three.

"You know you could just go to school we could handle this without you," Queen Bee said with an annoyed tone to her voice, "who knows it might actually be easier."

"If not easier it will at least be quieter," Volpina added on, "maybe I'll finally be able to hear myself think."

But they were all shut down, "guys focus," Ladybug said as she smashed some icicles with her yoyo, "we're all gonna need to work together if we want to beat Frostus."

"You will never beat me," Frostus boomed, "just give me your miraculous and I will let you go."

"Not happening snow cone," Cat Noir said slightly puffing out his chest, "because we are the heroes of justice, we are the heroes of Paris, we are AHHH," he was cut off by Queen Bee tackling him to the ground in order to avoid Frostus' icicles.

"Save the dramatic speeches for later furball, you nearly lost your life." Queen Bee scolded as she got back up to face Frostus.

"Relax," Cat said as he prepared his stick, "even if I did I still got 8 more."

"Guys focus," Ladybug scolded, she then threw her yoyo into the air with the familiar words," LUCKY CHARM." As soon as she said that, a flash of red and black appeared and formed into a small object that landed in her hands, "a blanket?" Ladybug stared at the object in confusion.

"Well at least we'll be warm when we get frozen," Cat chimed in.

"Keep him busy while I think," Ladybug shouted to her allies.

"You got it girl," Volpina shouted back, she planted her reed flute into the ground and shouted, "ILLUSION." Suddenly surrounding Frostus was no longer one, but 7 Volpinas. They all ran in a circle around him. "Come on find the real fox," they all said in unison, "and girl you better figure out what that blankets for quick before my minutes are up."

Ladybug then thought about everything she knew about Frostus. He was an ice cream cart salesman but seeing as how weather was cooling off early this year, his company immodestly fired him and replaced him with a hot dog vendor. He wasn't happy about that and Hawk Moth took advantage of that and put an akuma in his ice cream lapel pin which gave him ice powers which he used to freeze civilians in... ICE. She scanned the roof looking for anything she may need. The whole world went black and white and she could see clearly what she needed. The ac exhaust flashed red and black, as did Cat Noir, then the blanket, then Queen Bee.

" Got it," she shouted proudly, "Cat Noir, get that exhuast open completely."

"On it my lady" Cat replied before letting his power loose, "CATACLYSM." His hand then irradiated black aura, and when he gently scratched the ac exhaust, it crumbled before him, releasing a huff of warm air at him.

Ladybug then made her move. She took the simple blanket and began wrapping Frostus in it. Once it was nice and tight she called to her other ally," Queen Bee lock him."

Queen Bee knew what she meant. The Golden super hero jumped at Frostus and used her power to seal the blanket around him, "HONEY BEE." Immediately honey appeared on his chest where Queen Bee's hand was, locking the blanket around his body. Ladybug hopped off and the two heroines kicked the ice man towards the exhaust.

Frostus tried to get up, but couldn't find the energy. He was weak from all the heat, even his icicle shoulder pads were melting. Ladybug took advantage of this and walked over to grab his lapel pin. Then, like she had done money times before, she smashed the pin under her foot releasing the purple and black butterfly with her almost rythymic words, "no more evil doing for you little akuma." Keeping with her rythym, she opened her yoyo to reveal the glowing center and threw it at the akuma screaming, "TIME TO DE-EVILIZE." She caught the akuma in her yoyo and then brought it back to her. She opened her yoyo again to release a beautiful white butterfly and as she always did said, "bye bye little butterfly." Suddenly the blanket that was wrapped around Frostus was in her hand (none of her teammates quite sure how it got there) and she threw it to the sky with her famous, "MIRACULOUS LADYBUG." Suddenly a wave of red and black went over Paris and everything returned to normal, people unfroze, damage caused was fixed, and Frostus returned to his old self simply asking, "where am I," Like every akuma victim does.

The four then gathered together and simultaneously said, "pound it," As they did a four person fist bump, but their victory was cut short but the beeping of all of their miraculous. "We need to get to school before our powers run out", Volpina said quietly so the ice cream vendor couldn't hear.

Nodding in agreement, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Queen Bee, and Volpina all ran off toward the school to begin their first day of their second year.

They all had barely made it. They all took their seats in Ms. Bustiers classroom. Luckily she wasn't their yet so they wouldn't have to explain why they were almost late. Each of the heroes took their seats. Adrien sat in front with next to Nino and the two began chatting. Behind them was Marinette and Alya and behind them sat Chloe (she had to beg Ivan to move because she wanted to sit near Marinette and Alya. She only convinced when she said she'd buy the new Zombie Skull Crushers CD for him and he moved to sit next to Kim).

Marinette took a brief look around the classroom and noticed how the class had changed. Apparently Mylene's father was going on tour with his troupe and she went with him, so she would be gone until midway through the year. Max was so smart that he got bumped up a grade, so he wasn't here. Chloe asked her father to stop having Mr. Damocles put Sabrina in the same classes as her, seeing as she was an exemplary student she was transferred to the advanced classes. Lila had gone to another school, no one was sure why. But what really caught Marinette's eye was the new kid.

He was sitting where Chloe had sat last year and was leaning back in his seat with his left knee against the desk and his right leg kicked out in front of him rocking his chair back and forth. He was wearing a black leather jacket over a Jagged Stone t-shirt, as well as brown combat boots and blue jeans. He had headphones in so Marinette doubted he could hear her and before she even had a chance to talk to him, Chloe interrupted shoving her phone between Alya and Marinette.

"Look, look, LOOK," Chloe said with all excitement as she shoved the phone into their faces.

Marinette read what it said out loud, "heroes stop early winter." It was a story about them stopping Frostus.

"It's amazing," Chloe said giddily, "this is the front page of the paper today. We made the front page."

Marinette rolled her eyes, "Chloe I don't care about the front page."

"I do," Alya said as she grabbed the phone from Chloe's hand and began reading the article, "I was hoping the Frostus fight would be an exclusive for the Ladyblog. And where did this photo come from, I didn't see any photographers there did you."

"Why am I not surprised that you were at the akuma attack, Alya," Nino said in his normal relaxed tone, "you always risk yourself for the sake of the story, and did you drag poor Marinette along with you, for shame."

Alya gave Nino a stare that screamed, I will end you, and quickly he turned around and looked at his tablet. Adrien laughed as Nino faked working."Come on Alya," Adrien said, "its one story, can't you let it slide?"

"Says here that Ladybug, Queen Bee, and Volpina stopped him," Alya said, "weird I guess Cat Noir wasn't there."

This caught Adriens attention, he jumped up and stared at the phone. "what do you mean I...uh... Cat Noir wasn't their," he shouted, "He's always there, it's what he does."

"Well according to this he wasn't there," Alya went on, "he's not even in the picture."

Adrien continued to read the article. "Well clearly this is wrong," Adrien complained, "I mean Cat Noir is always there, Alya you're going to have to report the truth."

"I don't know Adrien," Alya replied smugly, "I don't think I saw Cat there."

"Don't mess with me Alya we both know he had to be there," Adrien said, but immediately turned towards Marinette, "Come on Mari you were there you saw him."

Marinette smiled and thought before answering, "I don't know, I don't remember seeing him."

Adrien then leaned over and whispered in her ear, "that sounds like the talk of a single girl."

Marinette immediately changed her answer, "actually I think I saw him, maybe, probably, I mean there was something black there right? Right."

Adrien laughed and then leaned over again but this time gave Marinette a quick kiss.

"Mr. Agreste, Ms. Dupain-Cheng, I'll admit your love is adorable, but public displays of affection are frowned upon in school," both of them jumped at the voice and turned to see Ms. Bustier had walked in, "you two can happily show it off on your own time now take your seats." The two laughed then sat down to look at the board. "Good," Ms. Bustier said, "now that everyone is seated, I should introduce our new student."

Everyone turned toward the kid in the front row, who was still listening to his music."Mr. Firgate," Ms. Bustier called to him, but he couldn't hear her. Mildly irritated, Ms. Bustier walked over and pushed his knee off the desk. The front legs of his chair fell to the floor. Surprised, the new kid quickly jumped in his seat and then sat up straight and crossed his fingers and placed his hands the desk, the way the stereotypical good kid sits. He then pulled out one ear bud and in a joking voice simply said "yeees".

Ms. Bustier was not amused,"wouldn't you like to introduce yourself to the class."

"No, but I assume I don't have a choice." He said as he got up. As he walked to the front of the class he took out his headphones and wrapped them around his hand, only to clip them on a carabiner on his belt. Now that he was at the front of the class, Marinette got a good look at his face. He had hazel eyes and brown hair with his bangs dyed purple. He clearly had trouble sleeping by bags under his eyes. He also wore glasses, black frames without bottoms under the actual lenses.

"My name Samuel Edwin Firgate, but I'd prefer if you call me Sam," he then took a long bow, crossing his left leg behind his right putting his right arm across his stomach and his left across his back, "a pleasure to meet all of you." This got a small chuckle among the class. Sam stood up straight to reveal he was very tall. If Marinette had to guess at least 190 cm. "May I go back to my seat," Sam said, looking at Ms. Bustier.

Ms. Bustier gave a slight nod and Sam went back to his seat and sat the way he was sitting before. Chloe then leaned forward and whispered to Marinette, "not much of a looker is he."

"He has an interesting personality to say the least," Marinette replied, "although it's a little weird how he's wearing a jacket. I get it's cooling off early this year, but it's not that cold yet."

Without looking at her Sam pointed at Marinette, "the jacket has sentimental value." He then looked her dead in the eyes, "and personally I look amazing in it."

The whole class laughed at the situation, but Ms. Bustier was not amused. "Mr. Firgate," She yelled, "if you keep up your obnoxious behavior I will send you to the principle."

Sam looked at his watch. "and we're not even 5 minutes into class," Sam said, "that may be a new record for me."

"Well I'm not one to disappoint Mr. Firgate," Ms, Bustier said furiously, "go see Mr. Damocles. NOW."

Sam stood up threw his hands in the air and screamed, "WOO, personal best," as he walked out the door.

"You were right, Marinette," Chloe whispered, "he certainly has personality."

Class dragged on for what seemed like forever, about halfway through Sam got back and sat down like nothing had happened, simply taking out his tablet and copying what was on the board. Finally it was time for lunch and Alya was extremely excited, so much so that Marinette, Chloe, and Adrien were all scared.

"What's got you so excited," Adrien asked.

Alya looked at him with a gleam in her eye and a bright smile,"The new kid, Sam. He's mysterious and rebellious, and it's my journalistic duty to find out everything about him."

"So I guess that means you won't be joining us and Nino for lunch?" Marinette asked.

"Nope, I'll have to rain check but I'll see you guys later," Alya said staring at Sam sitting on the bench in the courtyard eating a sandwich.

"We'll be at the café down the street if you change your mind," Chloe said.

"Yeah, yeah I'll see you later," Alya was way to focused on Sam to care. The minute everyone left Alya walked over to the bench where Sam was sitting and took a seat next to him.

Sam looked at her, stopping mid chew. He quickly swallowed and then spoke,"Yo."

"Hi, I'm Alya," she put her hand out to shake, but jokingly Sam put a napkin in her hand.

"There you go, don't spend it all in one place", Sam said before focusing on his sandwich again.

Alya put the napkin back in her pocket and continued striking conversation," listen I just thought you seemed interesting and wanted to know more about you."

"Why?" Sam replied while still chewing.

"Well to put it simply it's my journalistic nature," Alya said proudly.

Sam stopped completely and then looked at her, "you're a journalist?" Alya nodded with pride. "My dad had a saying about journalists," Sam said, "he always said," he cleared his throat and made a deep mocking voice, "Son you should just answer a journalists questions to the best of your ability, then they will just leave you alone." He then stopped his mockery and looked at Alya," ask away."

Alya was overjoyed, "well if you want to treat this like an interview we can. let's start with the obvious, for the record your name is Samuel Edwin Firgate?"

"No, it's actually Samagator, destroyer of worlds and conqurer of souls," Sam answered in a dry, sarcastic tone.

Alya rolled her eyes and moved on, "where are you from?"

"America," Sam said in a way so Alya could tell he was being serious, "Chicago if we're going into specifics."

"What's it like there?" Alya continued.

"It's nice there," Sam said as he put his hands behind his head, "but here it's beautiful."

"Why did you come to France," Alya asked.

"Parents wanted me to study abroad," Sam said looking up in thought, "figured it would tech me some manners."

"What about your parents," Alya continued, "you mentioned your father, are you close?"

"Not at all," Sam said making a slightly upset face, "we're so far apart that they stayed in Chicago. Mom and Dad run a big company so they couldn't just up and leave, so they paid for my house and monthly expenses, but at least they visit during the holidays, wish they didn't though."

Alya could tell he didn't like his parents much, so decided to move on, "what about..."

"HEY NEW KID", a voice boomed across the courtyard

Alya jumped while Sam just stared at who the voice was coming from. It was Kim

"Hey new kid, pretty impressive how you got to see Damocles on the first day," Kim said standing next to them now.

"Yeah I thought so too," Sam replied with his standard cocky attitude, "personally I think I could've done it quicker though."

Kim laughed, "you probably shouldn't try that."

"Probably not, especially considering I'm just starting to make new friends," Sam replied as he forced Alya into a hug with one arm. She then pretended to be disgusted by removing the arm with her index finger and thumb.

"I can see that," Kim said, "clearly you've got some skill to get a trip to Damocles in 5 minutes yet somehow make a friend the same day."

"Yeah and that's just what I can do with other people," Sam said, "wait till you see what I can do on my own."

Kim made an interested face," you got some personal skill huh?"

Alya stood up,"No, Kim, no bets he just got here you can't make a bet with him on his first day."

"Why not," Kim said, "Someone needs to show him how things work 'round here, starting with my bets." Kim turned towards Sam, "I make a lot of bets."

Sam put his stuff down and then stood up to look Kim dead in the eyes, "I'm interested, what's the bet?"

"No, no, no," Alya said stepping between the two, "guys we're not doing this!"

"What's the wager," Sam said perking his eyebrow.

"5 laps round the courtyard, first one done wins," Kim said

"I'm game," Sam said with a smirk, "what're we betting?"

"If I win I get that 'sentimental jacket' of yours," Kim said.

"Hmmm," Sam thought deeply, "alright, but seeing how you like you to bets a lot, if I win you can't make bets for the rest of the school year."

"THE WHOLE YEAR," Kim shouted, "doesn't that seem like a long time."

"Well you asked a lot from me," Sam said, "I'm asking a lot from you."

Kim froze for a second to think. Alya took advantage of this,"Ok Kim's hesitant guess that means he doesn't wanna do..."

"It's a bet," Kim said.

Before Alya could even finish her sentence the two were shaking hands and going over the terms. Alya quickly pulled out her phone to text Marinette. She quickly typed.

Alya 12:02pm: Girl, get over here quick. Kim and Sam are making a bet and I need help stopping them.

Marinette 12:02pm: what's wrong with that? Kim makes bets all the time.

Alya 12:02pm: it's not Kim I'm worried about, I'm worried about Sam, the kid from out of country who doesn't know what an akuma is and just bet a sentimental jacket, if he loses the race, he loses the jacket and when someone loses something sentimental it doesn't make them happy.

Marinette 12:03pm: that's not good, I'm on my way Adrien and Chloe are coming too.

Alya put her phone away and put her focus back on Sam and Kim. The two were prepping to start.

"Hang on Kim," Sam stopped before they took off.

"Chickening out," Kim mocked.

"Only in your dreams," Sam said as he ran over to Alya, he then took off his jacket and put it in Alya's hands, "hold onto it I don't want it dirty, and if Kim somehow miraculously wins, then I'm sure he wouldn't want it dirty either."

Alya stared at him for a second before talking, "listen, you shouldn't do this."

"The bet's already been made," Sam said, "and I'm not one to go back on my word."

"But if you lose it could be disastrous," Alya said, "I know it's different in America, but in Paris emotions can be dangerous. There's this guy called Hawk Moth and whenever someone gets angry or sad or scared he makes them into some form of supervillain. And if you lose this race... that 'sentimental jacket' you have, Hawk Moth may do that to you."

"Let's assume what you say is true," Sam said, "you want me to stop living my life just because of some hawk jerk, I don't think so."

"But you could get akumatized," Alya said with worry in her eyes.

"Listen Alya," Sam said putting a hand on her shoulder, "I personally like helping people and hate seeing them get hurt, but I'm not going to stop because of one guy. Besides Kim is more likely to get... uh... what did you call it... akumatized?" Alya nodded, Sam continued, "Kim is more likely to get akumatized than me. now please hold my jacket.

Alya knew she couldn't stop him, no matter what she said, Sam would go through with this. Most of all, she knew somehow knew she was gonna regret what she was about to say, "just make sure you're the one taking it back."

"I can guarantee that," Sam said with an unwavering certainty in his voice. He then took his place again. Kim prepped himself in a running position, while Sam stood up straight, plotting his moves in his head.

"What's the matter aren't you gonna get in position," Kim asked with confidence, "or are you having second thoughts?"

"Nah I'm ready, just say when," Sam said with a thousand yard stare down his path.

"Alright if you say so," Kim taunted, "3...2...1...GO"

The two bolted off with Sam immediately taking the lead leaving Kim in the dust. Suddenly the regret Alya had for letting him do this was gone. She knew he could do it as much as he did. But someone else didn't.

"ALYA,"the yell made Alya jump, she turned to see Marinette, Chloe, and Adrien. Marinette did not look happy, "How could you let this bet happen, what if Sam loses?"

Alya shook her head, "I told Sam what could happen if he loses, and he didn't care. He won't stop living his life just because of Hawk Moth. Besides," She paused to look at Sam and Kim running, "I think he can win this."

Marinette got a little angrier,"How do you know."

"Call it a hunch, and how many times have my hunches been wrong."

Marinette looked at her and the anger left her, "alright but if you're wrong you'll never live it down."

Alya smiled," it's a good thing I'm not wrong."

The four miraculous holders looked at the race. Two laps had passed by, Sam was still in the lead but Kim trailed close behind. They both were moving top speed, neither letting up an inch. Lap three, Kim was slowly catching up because Sam put to much in at the beginning, they were neck and neck speeding around the court. lap four, Sam was pushing himself as hard as he could pushing to beat Kim, the two stayed neck and neck as they went into the final lap. Sam started to stray behind Kim but kept going in order to win, Marinette, Chloe, and Adrien were all staring daggers, but all of them were surprised when Sam did the unexpected.

Sam ran towards the wall near the track they were running around, and then ran on it. Sam was running on the wall, granted only a couple steps but that's all he needed, because while Kim was making the last turn, Sam kicked off the wall, passing Kim in the air, and rolling across the finish line. Sam rolled to the point where he lands on his knees and threw his arms up in the air and screamed, "YES, YES, YEEEEEEEES. THAT IS HOW IT IS DONE."

He turned to Alya and walked over slowly and extended a single hand,"I... huff... would... like... my jacket bacl."

Alya handed the jacket to him and he slipped it on, then adjusted it so that it lay flat across his body except where he had stuff in his pockets.

Sam walked to Kim and extended a hand," You lose man, better luck next time."

Kim looked at him still wheezing from the run and instead of grabbing Sam's hand, he grabbed his sleeve with his fingers inside it, and his thumb out. "You... cheated," Kim wheezed," I earned the jacket, you didn't play fair."

Sam's cool expression with his cheery smile turned cold, his smile faded and his eyes went dark. "Let go Kim."

Kim held on, "you didn't play by our rules man, I win by default. I get the jacket."

"Let go," Sam was progressively getting more frustrated, and then both of them pulled hard.

Sam's jacket ripped down the sleeve, a long tear all the way to the sleeve. Sam stopped dead in his tracks. Kim looked shocked, "man I'm sorry, I just don't like losing, I'll do anything to make it..."

"SHUT UP," Sam's cool expression was now gone in every sense it was flaming burning rage. "SHUT UP, JUST SHUT UP," Sam shouted at the top of his lungs, "YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO MAKE THIS UP. YOU RUINED MY FATHERS JACKET."

Sam didn't even look as he ran out the front of the school. Marinette, Alya, Chloe, and Adrien all ran after him, but by the time they made it to the main entrance, Sam was gone.

Marinettes satchel shook a little bit, she opened it to reveal the little red and black kwami. "Marinette," Tikki said, peeping out of the satchel, "we need to find him before he anything bad happens."

"Well in that case maybe this is a job for Ladybug instead of Marinette." Chloe added

The little black and yellow Kwami popped out of Chloe's jacket. "Chloe's right," Pollen said, "we should transform in order to find him, we can search faster from the rooftops."

"Awww," a little black cat popped from Adrien's shirt. "and I was just enjoying my Camembert," Plagg added.

"Well you'll have to enjoy it later, we have to catch the akuma before it reaches Sam," Adrien scolded the little cat.

"Right," Alya said, she opened her shirt pocket to see a sleeping fox kwami, "TRIXX."

The fox jumped up and looked at Alya. "I was sleeping," Trixx said sleepily.

"Well if you weren't sleeping you would know there was a bet and now a possible akuma," Alya scolded.

"Oh no I was awake for the bet," Trixx said, "it just seemed way to fun to stop."

Alya got frustrated, "Not like you could've done anything anyway."

"We don't have time for this," Marinette added," we have to find him."

"Right," everyone said simultaneously. They all ran off behind the school and into an alley where no one can see and began their transformation

"Tikki, Spots On!"

"Plagg, Claws Out!"

"Pollen, Stingers Out!"

"Trixx, Tails Up!"

And with a flash the four switched from being average teenagers to miraculous superheroes.

"Alright," Ladybug commanded, "let's find Sam."

Sam ran and ran until he couldn't anymore and then ran some more. When Sam finally looked around he saw no one around, he was in some sort of alley. He took the chance to sit down and rest. He needed to get away, to escape before he really got mad, who knows what he would've done then. As Sam looked at his jacket he got more angry. This wasn't fixable, not easily at the least. He stared at the rip down his sleeve and just thought of his father, of when he gave him this jacket, and all that did was make him angrier that it was ruined. Sam was just glad he got out of there before he hurt someone or did something else he might regret.

Then out of nowhere Sam saw it, a small purple-ish black butterfly, he stared at it with fascination. Then it landed on his ripped sleeve and disappeared like magic, and to go along he could hear a voice. "Greetings Incinerator, I am Hawk Moth. You have a lot of burning rage inside you, and you want to release it on those who have wronged you. I can grant you that power but in return you must bring me the miraculous." Upon that last word, images of a pair of red earrings with black spots, a necklace that looked like a fox tail, a hair comb with a bee design on it, and a black ring with a green cat paw popped in Sam's head. "do we have a deal," Hawk Moth asked.

Sam didn't want to say yes, he knew that people would get hurt, but his rage took control. Before he had a chance to even think, he spoke against his will, "I will burn them all."

And then everything went black in Sam's mind.

Volpina searched up and down to find Sam. She checked every crack, every alley, every crevice that she thought Sam could fit in. She kept switching her reed flute to comms mode to ask if anyone else found him, but no such luck. She was worried.

Then she heard it, a low but faint noise she only picked up with her fox ears, screaming and crashing. "Well this can't be good," Volpina said to herself, before following the noise.

When she found where the sound was coming from, she panicked slightly. The area was surrounded with fire, cars were burnt, people were running, luckily Volpina could tell no one had gotten hurt by looking around for a while. Eventually she saw the cause, a man walking down the street covered from head to toe in flames. Volpina rushed down to meet him.

"Sam, Sam is that you," Volpina called out to meet him, "Sam I know you're angry but you have to..."

"SHUT UP! I DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING," he shouted at her, then chucked a massive ball of fire toward Volpina," AND I'M NOT SAM, I'M INCINERATOR."

Volpina quickly dodged the fireball, then focused back on Incinerator. Incinerator continued on his war path, and Volpina quickly realized where he was going. Incinerator had set a path for the school. Volpina switched her reed flute to comms mode and contacted the other three, "guys I found Sam, he's been akumatized and is heading towards the school. He's got the ability to control fire from what I can tell."

"Well as much as I 'love' the idea of school cancelled due to akumas, we have to stop him," Cat Noir said, his image on Volpinas flute showed him already running toward the fight.

"Come on we have to hurry," Ladybug said, she then hung up on her end. Most likely to use her yoyo to travel around the city.

The other two quickly hung up not long after. Volpina quickly followed suit and ran toward the school.

"I'M LOOKING FOR KIM," Incinerator roared so it could be heard throughout the school," WHERE IS HE?"

"Sorry hot head," the tall black cat said," but I'm afraid Mr. Kim isn't here right now, leave a message after the beat... down. The beat down. Aw man... I'm losing my touch."

Incinerator threw a fireball towards Cat Noir, but the Cat jumped over it and did a flip in the air to land on his feet with on hand on the ground and one in the air. "Have you considered therapy," Cat taunted, "you seem to have a lot of anger issues."

Incinerator screamed at Cat, then his flames grew larger and brighter. Cat covered his face to block the light. "Should've brought my sunscreen."

Cat couldn't see due to the light and didn't notice the fireball hurling towards him. Right before he got hit, he felt something wrap around his waste and got pulled away. Cat looked to see Queen Bee wrapped her trompo around him in order to save him and caught him. "One day your jokes are gonna get you killed," Queen Bee scolded.

"You know if you're looking for a thank you kiss, I should tell you I'm taken." Cat said with a smile. Queen Bee dropped him.

"So how do we stop him?" Queen Bee asked while studying the flaming man.

"Well I assume we find the akuma, we break the object it's in, and Ladybug purifies it. I think we've been doing this long enough for you to know that." Cat chimed gleefully.

Queen rolled her eyes, "well then let's find the object, what does he still have that he had before transforming."

"Hard to tell with the literal inferno surrounding him," Cat said jokingly.

While Cat and Queen tried to figure out his akuma, Incinerator was more focused on other things, "KIM," he shouted pointing towards the scared kid in his red hoodie on second floor. "YOU WILL RECOMPENSE FOR WHAT YOU DID."

Flames burst out of Incinerator's hands towards the floor, propelling him upwards. Right before he made it to the second floor, a string wrapped around him pulling him back to the ground. Incinerator looked up in rage to see a small red and black yoyo returning to the spotted superhero alongside the fox he met earlier. "Sam listen," Ladybug called, "we know you're angry but you need to calm down."

Incinerator looked around only to see that one of the heroes was on each of his sides. Ladybug in front, Volpina left, Queen Bee right, and Cat Noir behind.

"I DID NOT WANT TO DEAL WITH YOU YET," Incinerator screamed at them, "BUT YOU ARE STANDING IN MY WAY, SO NOW I WILL HAVE TO."

Incinerator started spinning his arms around each other generating a small ring of fire around his body. He then thrust his arms outward, launching the ring at all the heroes and knocking them all back. "WHICH ONE SHOULD I START WITH!"

"Yo, Hot Head," Cat Noir shouted. Incinerator turned toward Cat only to be hit in the face with his stick.

Incinerator got madder, he shouted out and his flames intensified again. In return for getting hit with a stick, Incinerator threw another fireball at Cat.

Cat jumped away and landed next to the other heroes. "So he didn't like that," Cat said staring at his flaming foe.

Queen realized something, "guys his flames get more intense with rage, the more mad he gets the more powerful he becomes."

"So don't make him mad and he can't get more powerful," Ladybug asked.

"I think so," Bee answered, "every time Tomcat's made him mad he's gotten more powerful so it's my best guess why."

"So Cat," Volpina added, "Shut up before you get us all burnt to a crisp."

Cat made a motion symbolizing him zipping his lips shut. "Good at least he's quiet," Queen Bee added, "now we can focus on how to stop him."

"We need to put out the flames to find where his akuma is," Ladybug said.

Incinerator began throwing fireballs at them to stop them from planning, but Volpina already had a plan. "Hey matchbook," She shouted at the akuma. Incinerator turned toward Volpina with raging eyes, "try to keep track, ILLUSION!"

One Volpina turned to seven and six began dancing around the akuma. Incinerator kept chucking fire at the fake Volpina's, even trying his ring technique again, but to no avail, only getting more angry and brighter flames.

While the six Volpinas kept the akuma busy, the seventh began focusing on the sprinkler system jumping from sprinkler to sprinkler in order to break them. Water rained down upon Incinerator. Incinerator fell to his knees with a scream, but this time his flames went down.

"I knew it," Volpina rejoiced.

"Knew what," Ladybug shouted.

"That water would make his fire weaker," Volpina jumped up and down in joy.

"It doesn't just make him weaker," Queen Bee heaved, "tell me fox, what bee does good in water."

Volpina winced a bit. "Sorry Bee," she said, "I forget sometimes."

Incinerator didn't take kindly to the water, but used what power he had left to create a blinding light.

When the light died, Incinerator was gone.

"We have to find him before he gets his heat back," Cat Noir shouted.

"First can we get me out of here, I kinda wanna have power again," Queen Bee shouted

Ladybug and Volpina helped Queen Bee out of the school. All of the miraculous holders looked around in search of Incinerator, but he was nowhere to be found.

"We're going to need to find him," Volpina says, but is quickly followed by the beeping of her necklace.

"We're gonna find him, you recharge," Ladybug told her, "we'll catch up later."

Volpina nodded and took off. Queen Bee stood on her own and shook herself a little, "Well as much as I don't like it we're going to need to get Incinerator near water."

"Ok and how do we do that, we don't even know where he is," Cat added on.

"Well I got a plan but it involves illusions and an annoying cat," Ladybug said giving Cat Noir a sly grin.

"Why don't I like the sound of this," Cat added

A couple hours had passed. Incinerators flames were beginning to engulf him again. He stood up and began to move out of hiding and returning to his search for Kim. He knew that he would not be at the school and didn't know where to look from there. "I'll just burn everything in my path until I find him," Incinerator mumbled to himself, "and I'll need to avoid water."

As Incinerator stepped out of hiding, an annoyingly familiar voice rang to him. "You know an ice villain and a fire villain today, maybe you two should sing together. You know cause books."

Incinerator reared his head to look up at the muscular kid with his red hoodie. "KIM," he shouted out, immediately making his flames burn intenser than ever, and then chucked a large fireball at where Kim was standing. When the smoke faded, he flew up to see where Kim had been only to see nothing there.

"Hey hot head, you missed," Kim's voice rang across the gap that was between the buildings which perched Kim and Incinerator. Incinerator briefly thought of how Kim got over to the other building, but threw it out his mind as he took off in chase after Kim.

He chucked fireballs at Kim, but Kim simply kept dodging and jumping roof to roof. Briefly, Incinerator thought about how that was possible, but that was overshadowed by his pure rage.

"Come on I can't be that hard to hit," Kim yelled at the flying akuma, "or are you just that bad a shot."

"SHUT UP AND STAY STILL," Incinerator shouted. He continued throwing fireballs and every time he missed his flames burned brighter, every time Kim taunted his flames burned brighter, and every time.

"You know two akumas in one day, Hawk Moth must be trying to break a personal record." Kim shouted back at Incinerator.

"Ok that's enough Cat," Ladybug shouted.

Before he even had a chance to react, a red and black yoyo and a yellow and black trompo wrapped around him. Ladybug and Queen Bee had wrapped him up with their weapons.

"LET ME GO," Incinerator shouted, "I MUST DESTROY KIM!"

"Sorry but Kim's not here," Volpina said with a smile, and as she said that Kim stepped forward and the illusion wore off, changing him back into Cat Noir.

"WHAT! YOU TRICKED ME," Incinerator's flames got more intense as he said that.

"Well it wasn't that hard," Cat chuckled, "We knew that while you'd follow us, you probably wouldn't get near water because either you wouldn't want to get near it on your own accord or on Hawk Moth's orders, so we lured you here with the perfect bait."

"An exact replica of the person you're after, but we couldn't use a civilian, so we made a fake, provided by yours truly," Volpina chimed, "with the help of Cat's personal charm to make you more annoyed."

"And now we've got you where we need you," Ladybug added, "and we're gonna take your akuma."

Incinerator looked and realized that the building they were on was next to the waterfront. "HOW DARE YOU! TRICKING ME," Incinerator shouted, "I WILL BURN YOU ALL."

Before anyone had a chance to react, Incinerator blew. The light blinded all of the miraculous holders. by the time the light died, Incinerator had escaped the yoyo and trompo wrap he was in and was floating over the roof top, flames burning brighter than ever. "I DONT LIKE BEING TRICKED, FOR THAT YOU SHALL BURN!"

He began throwing fireballs across the roof aiming for the heroes. "BURN BURN BURN!", he shouted as fire spread across the roof.

"Well I think that went purrrrfectly," Cat quipped.

"Well time for plan b," Ladybug said, she then threw her yoyo in the air and shouted her signature, "LUCKY CHARM," and a small red sled with black dots landed in her hands, "a sled? What am I gonna do with this?"

"Figure it out fast before we become extra crispy," Cat shouted back.

Ladybug scanned the area and quickly came up with a plan. Now to put it into action. "Cat Noir, use cataclysm on the bottom of that billboard so the top hits the water. Queen Bee seal the bottom of the billboard to the building to make a ramp."

"Got it!" The two heroes said simultaneously, and went to work.

"CATACLYSM!"

"HONEY BEE!"

The top of the billboard landed in the water, splashing water onto the building. Incinerator fell to the roof as soon as the water hit him. Then the bottom of the billboard was covered in honey, preventing it from falling into the water completely.

"Ok Volpina," Ladybug shouted, "kick him onto the sled." Ladybug held the sled out in front of her.

"You got it girl," Volpina said. As Incinerator stood up, Volpina kicked him in the chest toward Ladybug and he landed with his back against the sled.

"Alright, time for a ride," Ladybug said as she rode the sled, while standing on top of Incinerator, down the billboard and into the water. Both her and Incinerator splashed into the water. Incinerator's flames completely died out, and Ladybug could see the one thing Incinerator had that Sam also had, Sam's sentimental jacket.

Ladybug quickly grabbed the unconscious Incinerator and dragged him safely to shore, then took off his jacket and ripped it open to reveal the small purple and black butterfly. "No more evil doing for you little akuma," she said as she opened her yoyo. "TIME TO DE-EVILIZE," With that she flung her yoyo at the akuma and locked it inside, only to release it purified and white saying, "bye bye little butterfly." With that she took her sled and threw it into the air, "MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!" Like it always did, Ladybug's lucky charm burst into a wave of red and black, fixing all the damage that had been caused. She saw the billboard go back in place and the smoke from the rooftops die out. Finally the torn black jacket repaired itself so that is was once again in one piece.

"Where am I," Ladybug turned around to see Sam sitting up and looking around lost.

"You were akumatized," Ladybug explained, "It happens when people get mad or feel other negative emotions, a villain named Hawk Moth takes advantage of this and takes control of them. I'm sorry."

"I remember getting mad," Sam said, "bit out of character for me, but that jacket meant a lot to me." Sam's eyes went wide as he looked down and patted his body as if trying to find something.

"Looking for this," Ladybug asked, holding Sam's jacket in her hands. He smiled grabbed it and quickly put it back on and adjusted it.

"Thank you for helping me," Sam said, but his face quickly lost its smile, "I didn't hurt anyone, did I?"

"No, everyone is fine," Ladybug said, "but I respect you caring for others."

"My lady," Cat Noir shouted jumping down to meet her, "we need to get out before we change back."

As if it were clockwork, Ladybug's earrings beeped and signaled that she only had a couple of minutes left. "Stay safe," Ladybug said to Sam before wrapping her yoyo around a nearby light pole and pulling herself away.

"I will," Sam said quietly as he stood up and stared at where ladybug jumped off to.

"Yesterday was chaotic," Chloe said as the miraculous holders walked into class, "can't we get a day off, just once. I think I'm getting split ends."

"Could be worse," Pollen said popping her head out of Chloe's jacket, "you could be getting wrinkles."

"Don't even joke about that Pollen," Chloe said in a mildly panicked voice.

Alya, Marinette, and Adrien all laughed at the brief interaction before they all took their seats.

"Alright class, settle down," Ms. Bustier said as she walked into class, "we have a lot to cover today."

As Ms. Bustier began writing on the board, Sam burst into class, "sorry I'm late, I had to take care of some stuff before class."

"Well I'll let it go," Ms. Bustier said, "just don't be disruptive."

"Yes ma'am," Sam said as he sat down.

The minute Ms. Bustier turned back to the board, Alya moved over to talk to Sam, "Hey, sorry about yesterday."

"It's fine, at least no one got hurt," Sam said with a forced smile, "and the whole scenario got my jacket fixed," .

"I meant for letting you do that in the first place. I knew what could happen if you lost but I let you go anyway," Alya continued with her apology, "I should've stopped you, especially considering you bet something sentimental."

"My dads jacket you mean," Sam said, "he gave it to me when I started my studies abroad, said it would give me luck. It was the only gift I ever got from my parents."

Alya gave a depressing look, "certainly don't sound like parents of the year."

Sam let out a dry laugh, "no they are not. they want the best for me, it's just their idea of the best is different from mine. They want me to run their company, that's why they sent me to study abroad."

"But you don't want to," Alya finished.

Sam shook his head, "I just wanna help people, to make them happy, that's why I try not to get mad or try not to hurt people."

Alya had a new found respect for the black jacketed teen.

"Ms. Cesaire," Alya jumped at Ms. Bustier calling her name, "please return to your seat and focus."

Alya got up to go back to her spot next to Marinette, but before leaving whispered in Sam's ear, "well you helped me by helping me make a new friend."

At these words Sam let out a small smile, this one not forced in anyway.

END

This is not the end of my miraculous stories I am going to write more. This is just the first part