What if Pixilator didn't go for Ladybug's deal?

Pixilator Picks
Chapter 1 No Deal

Pixelator was strutting around the Champs-Élysées, digitizing everyone he saw with the camera lens that concealed his right eye.

Lieutenant Raincomprix charged him, baton in hand. Zap!

Pixelator advanced on the other police officers who were cowering behind their cars.

Ladybug swung in and landed a few meters away from Pixelator. Onlookers in hiding cheered her arrival, and so did the police.

"Got an itchy trigger finger, eh?" Ladybug asked.

Ladybug tried to project confidence, but she knew this fight was going to be difficult. Ladybug's right arm still felt real to her, but she couldn't touch anything with it. Using the yo-yo left-handed was tricky. Where was Chat Noir?

"I was expecting you, Ladybug," said Pixelator.

Pixelator sent zaps after Ladybug. She dodged, ran around the side of a building, and slid back to the ground on a lamppost. Ladybug's missing arm threw her off balance, and she stumbled. She slid under a car.

When she peeked out she saw Pixelator standing on top of the car, aiming his camera at her.

"Look into the lens!"

Ladybug slid out on the other side of the car and ran, with Pixelator following and zapping at her.

Ladybug needed to get behind him to have a chance of grabbing his camera. She aimed her yo-yo at a nearby lamppost for a swing.

Thunk! It hit the lamppost instead. Left-handed was really not working well for her. Ladybug had already leaped for the swing and the failure of the yo-yo to catch hold made her fall.

Pixelator was almost on top of her. Ladybug crawled backwards until her back was against a car. Her yo-yo pulled back to her and automatically re-attached itself to her belt, but she had no time to use it.

Ladybug said desperately, "I have a proposition to make! If you free those innocent people, I'll organize a photoshoot with Jagged Stone!"

A butterfly-shaped mask of light appeared around Pixelator's eyes.

"Hawk Moth is telling Pixelator not to listen to me," Ladybug thought.

Pixelator asked, "Why should I believe you, Ladybug?"

Ladybug said, "Because you have no choice. I'm the only one who knows where Jagged is."

"How about I free half of them now and the other half after the photoshoot. Deal?"

"Okay. It's a deal," said Ladybug. Under her breath she added, "Yeah, right..."

"I heard that," said Pixelator. "The deal's off."

Pixelator zapped Ladybug with the camera.

Ladybug was in a realm of complete white. There was nothing in any direction except for two people.

Mireille Caquet and Théo Barbot ran to Ladybug.

"Ladybug, you got caught!" said Mireille. "Who's going to save us now?"