When Chat Noir jumped in front of Ladybug he was expecting to save her or at least block the oncoming hit. However, he gasped as it went straight through him as well as his partner who shouted in surprise.
He felt himself go limp, everything going dark for just a moment, white flashing in front of him before he was staring up at the sky once again. He only heard a soft thud one moment later as his Lady fell as well, but it wasn't on the pavement where they were standing moments before, the sound wasn't as hard hitting as it should be, it was almost padded.
As the thought crossed his mind he hesitantly felt the ground, feeling the small blades of grass as he brushed his glove past it, forcing himself right back up.
It all happened so fast that he was honestly unsure if he had been knocked out briefly or only fell.
Their surroundings didn't resemble the city of Paris, nor anywhere he's seen.
It was a small countryside village full of hills and valleys, a small creek not too far off from them and just a few houses down the way.
"My Lady?" He hesitantly began, glancing to the side and relaxing a bit as he saw Ladybug beside him.
She drew her hand up to her head and gently pressed it against her temple, glancing over at Chat Noir before tensing, taking in their surroundings.
"I don't think we're in Paris anymore…" She sighed and shook her head, slowly standing up and dusting the dirt off her suit.
She takes a moment to briefly check that she had everything on her, yoyo included, and stretched before she continued, "We need to get back and fast. That akuma is still out there."
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Ladybug, but…" Chat's words dropped off for a moment as he noticed her exasperated expression. She knew as well as he did, that it might not exactly be the easiest thing to accomplish.
The akuma they had been facing moments ago had gone by 'Parallelo Gram', apparently her blasts would send you into a parallel dimension, so she could create the perfect world for her grandkids, where there was no fighting, bullying or mean people. One of her grandchildren had gone to her crying because of a bully from school and of course it angered the grandmother, who wouldn't be a little upset to find out there were kids making someone you cared about feel so down?
Hawkmoth presented her with the arrangement to make things right for her grandkids in exchange for Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculous.
Oh, speaking of, how happy would Hawkmoth be? To find out the thing he was after was now possibly lost in another universe? Probably not very happy.
"Before we do anything, we need to find out where we are." Ladybug gripped her yoyo in her hand and opened it up, planning on using the little mapping tool and GPS function, however to her surprise it showed they were somewhere in Germany, the map was fuzzy and incomplete, more than likely the whole dimension hop had messed with it.
"There's tons of houses around, I'm sure we could go ask someone." Chat suggested, watching Ladybug with a curious expression. This wasn't their typical situation to land themselves in, sure they had crazy adventures, but outside of Paris?
Let alone in another dimension.
Ladybug only shook her head, "We don't know what people will be like, let alone if they speak English or French."
"English, French or Chinese." He gave a rather proud grin, glad he had something more to bring to the table that he had learnt outside of the whole superhero thing.
Ladybug blinked and nodded, deciding she'd ask about why he knew Chinese in the first place later and why it seemed sort of familiar. He had probably already mentioned it before, "Alright, alright. We don't know if they speak any of those three languages. Though… If we needed to translate anything, lucky charm might help us out. I'll just have to run off after for a moment."
Good thing she always carried around a cookie or two for Tikki. She'd be able to bring them the translator, quickly translate and then go feed the small Kwami.
Chat grinned ear to ear, he wouldn't have thought of using Lucky Charm outside of combat. Ah, his Lady was truly remarkable. He strolled alongside his partner as she led him up to a friendly enough looking house, knocking gently on the door.
She blinks as a young blonde girl stands across from them, looking incredibly confused.
"Sorry," Ladybug quickly speaks as the door was answered, "What town are we in now? My map isn't quite working."
The blonde girl was still confused, seeing the two kids dressed up in such a fashion with masks. "Resembool," She replies calmly, glancing from the Ladybug to the Cat, these kids had to be at least fourteen, maybe fifteen. "Where are you trying to go?" She inquired, figuring the two didn't mean to come to their small town. They probably got off at the wrong station.
"Paris." Chat Noir chimed before Ladybug sighed. They didn't even know if Paris existed here… Resembool certainly didn't exist back home.
Surely enough, the girl shook her head, "I've never heard of that place before, sorry."
Ladybug quickly nodded, "That's alright. Thank you for your time, regardless."
She took Chat Noir by the arm and quickly lead him away, the girl going back into her house shortly after watching them leave.
Ladybug didn't really want to stay too long and give away their 'alienness' to this place, they already sort of did wearing these somewhat ridiculous in retrospective suits.
Chat Noir doesn't complain as his partner lead him by the arm back to there previous spot and raises an eyebrow behind his mask.
"So, what now, bugaboo?" The blond boy asked his leading lady, who didn't hesitate to respond with a plan in the making.
"We find somewhere to stay, see if we can find any others and find out what we can about this world for now. I can see a train station not so far away from here, I say we ride it and… Well, as bad as it may sound, eavesdrop. We need to find out what's happening, what's current and more about where we are."
Chat Noir couldn't help but smile again, "Brilliant as ever, my lady."
Ladybug simply rolled her eyes before heading to the station with him, as they waited the two superheroes glanced at one another.
There wasn't really a way to get out of here as of now. Well, Ladybug could see one possible way, but it wouldn't do them much good.
If they used their miraculous together for a wish, they could go back. However, someone will just replace their spots and they don't exactly know what this world holds yet.
Plus, Ladybug wasn't exactly eager to reveal her identity to her partner or find out his by having one of them use the other's miraculous, not when Hawkmoth was still around it just wasn't safe.
Besides, Master Fu had always stressed about the consequences of using the miraculous for a wish.
If something is gained, something of equal value must be taken.
Thus, is the law of Equivalent Exchange.
((A/N: Edited Paragraphs as per review suggestion. Hope this is nicer to read now 3 ))
