She was falling. The wind whipped through her hair and she squeezed her eyes shut in an attempt to brace herself. She had fallen from the top of the Eiffel Tower. She had thrown her yoyo up, confidently, reaching for a beam to wrap around and stop her decent. But she had missed the mark, and now her and the yoyo were falling fast. It would only be a second before she made contact with the ground below, and she did not have the time to try and catch herself again.
Chat Nior was falling too, but not helplessly. He had jumped after her to try and rescue her, but he did not fall fast enough to catch her, and his elongated baton was just not the tool for the job.
Thay had just defeated another of Hawkmoth's akumatized villains, and she had purified the akuma and set everything back to normal. She had gone to help the akuma victim up, but had taken a step back and found nothing but air. She had thought that, as Ladybug, her klutziness would have been eradicated. But she had fallen. And she fell fast. And her small frame hit with a smack.
She felt the air flee from her lungs as she hit the concrete. She gasped, and her chest filled with oxygen but she could not get enough of it. Her skull, it felt, had been split open and her brain had leaked all over the ground. Her skin and flesh and bones sung out in a symphony of pain. It hurt. It hurt so bad.
She heard him before she opened her eyes. Wide green ones were staring back at her in horror. "Milady!" He tossed his baton aside and gently cupped her face in his gloved hands. She inhaled sharply at his touch. "Are you hurt? Tell me where it hurts," Chat said urgently. He had tears building in his eyes that threatened to roll down his cheeks. His cat ears where angled down and his ring beeped as another pad disappeared.
How could she answer that? It hurt everywhere. Her body felt like lead and each breath she took felt like poison. Her head throbbed terribly and she thought that her brain might explode any second. "Ah... my head..." Ladybug managed to moan. Her earrings beeped impatiently in her ear, warning her.
"Your earrings... you've only got one spot left. I've got to get you out of here." Chat grabbed his baton and then positioned his arms under her. He stood up carefully with her cradled in his arms. Ladybug cried out in pain and he winced. "I'm sorry, milady." He extended his baton and they were rocketed up into the sky.
Ladybug held on as tight as her shocked muscles would let her and closed her eyes as Chat Nior raced across Paris rooftops. She felt him leap into the air and felt the subtle temperature change as he landed them indoors. She opened her eyes as he set her down gently on the softest bed she had ever had the privilege of passing out on. They were in Adrien Agreste's room. She remembered thinking how odd it was to have ended up here of all places, and then her eyes involuntarily fluttered shut and her mind blacked out.