A/N: Hey there! Thanks for coming! So this episode (wait-what?) I mean chapter o_o... Is basically just like the origins, but I'm using my own plot! I hope you enjoy! Oh yeah! I made the art on the cover, btw ^^
On to the story!
Rise, Ladybug and Chat Noir!
"A long time ago... Longer than any can remember, the Miraculous stones came into existence. Two of the stones however, wielded more power than the rest. The ladybug's earrings of life, and the black cat's ring of destruction. Legends say that whoever wields the two Miraculouses will receive godlike power. The gems must never fall into the wrong hands..."
•~•~•
"The powers of a god, you say?" A young, female voice whispered curiously.
"Yes! Sadly I myself do not possess that power" A small, pink, Venomoth-like creature replied.
"What is the 'moth' Miraculous' power, Nuru?" The female asked.
"With the moth's-or my power, you can grant anyone's desires while they're under your control! The Miraculous was created by Jirachi." Nuru said with a nervous smile. Last time he explained this, terrible things happened. He shivered in fear when he saw his master's wicked smile.
"I need that godlike power. But in order to get it, I'll need you, Nuru. I'll grant peoples wishes in return for the ladybug and black cat Miraculous stones! And if they refuse I'll take away their power!"
"What? N-no! You can't do such a thing! Not ag-gain!" Nuru squeaked.
"Nuru, transform me!" The girl exclaimed before the little pink moth could fly away. Small white Butterfrees surrounded her as her outfit changed. A tight, purple-ish pink suit covered her body and extended over the back of her head, stopping where her blonde bangs began. A deep pink Butterfree mask appeared on her face, and large, translucent, purple wings sprout from her shoulder blades.
"Ahahaha! Soon, I, Papilusion, will have that power!"
Meanwhile, in Lumiose City, an adult with golden blonde hair and green eyes felt a sudden chill.
"Plagg, did you just feel something weird? ...Plagg?" he asked, looking around for the kwami. The small black cat flew out of his hideout in a box like a bullet.
"Adrien! Did you feel that?!" He asked frantically. Adrien facepalmed before replying.
"I felt something, I don't know what though..."
"It was Nuru! Nuru has been used for evil again!" Plagg yelled.
"Wait, isn't Nuru the... The moth kwami!" Adrien gasped once realization hit.
"Exactly! But the Papillon is long gone..." Plagg muttered. He soon realized he shouldn't have said that out loud when he noticed Adrien frowning and pitifully staring at a picture of Gabriel Agreste.
"...You're right, Plagg. But how am I supposed to save Lumiose? Mari and I can't even do normal things like stopping burglaries anymore due to work schedules! We haven't fought in over 20 years!"
"Hm... Maybe it's time to find new heroes..."
"What?!"
"You heard me, Adrien... If you can't fight, then we need to find two new heroes."
"..." Adrien hesitated before replying. "... Perhaps, you're right."
"Of course I am! But we need to tell Marinette and Tikki before deciding anything." Plagg said.
"Yeah, let's go. I think she's at the bakery!"
•~•~•
"Are you kidding me?!" Serena exclaimed as her glass of water spilled on her when she tried to retrieve her toppled bowl of cereal.
The honey blonde haired girl sighed. She supposed she should be used to her bad luck by now, but it still was disappointing when she constantly failed at simple tasks.
"Serena! Are you almost done eating? You're going to be late for your first day of high school!" Her mother, Grace, exclaimed.
"Yeah, I'm pretty much done now!" Serena yelled back in exasperation. She quickly changed out of her pajamas into a pale pink dress with a gray shirt underneath. She also wore gray stockings and brown boots, and a long cherry red vest. A red fedora was placed on her head. The girl looked in the mirror and spun around to observe her outfit.
"Nice! Time for school!" she announced and walked downstairs, waving goodbye to her mother as she left the house.
Serena took a shaky breath as she walked. Not only was it her first day in high school, but it was her first day of school in Lumiose City. She had recently moved from Vaniville Town due to her mother getting a job in the city.
"Hopefully I won't get involved in any drama..." she muttered as she approached the school. She stopped for a moment to make sure she was still looking her best, completely unaware of the pair of blue and green eyes watching her.
"There she is..." Marinette whispered. Tikki, her kwami, nodded.
"Are we sure about this?" Adrien asked. The thought of giving away Plagg and Tikki upset him.
"Considering the next time we'll have enough free time to do this will be in a week, yes." Marinette replied.
"True... I guess this is goodbye to Tikki and Plagg, then..."
The two kwami in question frowned at the statement. They turned to their masters with teary eyes. Marinette cupped her hands together to hold Tikki.
"I'll miss you..." she cried quietly.
"Don't wory, Marinette... We'll see each other again, I promise!" Tikki sobbed in response. Marinette nodded sadly and slowly let go of the little ladybug.
She reached for her earrings, giving Tikki one last smile before taking them off. The kwami disappeared into the jewels as they adapted a spotted pattern. The black haired female placed the earrings in a black and red box and started walking into the street.
Meanwhile, Serena was just about to walk into the school when she heard car horns and a woman screaming. She turned around quickly and saw that a woman was about to get run over.
The honey haired girl dropped her bag and ran into the road to push the woman out of the way. She saved her just in time, thankfully.
"Oh, thank you, miss!" The woman said gratefully.
"I-it was nothing!" Serena replied nervously before helping the woman stand up.
"Again, thank you! Oh, I'm Marinette, by the way."
"I'm Serena. I'm just glad you didn't get hurt."
"Aha, so am I! Here, take this as a token of my gratitude!" Marinette handed her a black box. Serena stared down at the box in her hands in awe, intrigued by the delicate red swirls on the surface. As curious as she was about what was inside, she couldn't accept it.
"Wait, ma'am, I ca-" she stopped speaking when she realized Marinette had disappeared. "Where did she go?"
Eventually she decided to look for her later and shoved the box into her pocket. Serena then walked into the school across the street. As she made her way to her class, she caught the attention of many students.
"Who's she?"
"A new girl?"
"I haven't even seen her in the city, who is she?"
Serena pulled her hat down a little in embarrassment and was relieved when she finally reached her homeroom class. She quickly sat in a random seat and looked around for her backpack before realizing she forgot it at home.
"Oh no! What do I do now?!" she whined and hit her head on the desk.
"Hey newbie, get out of my seat!" A sassy voice suddenly snapped. Serena lifted her head up to see a girl with short, blue hair and red eyes.
"Huh? Your seat? So-" the honey haired girl was about to apologize, but the other girl cut her off.
"Yes, my seat! Now get up and go sit next to her!" She pointed to a girl with orange hair and blue eyes.
"Who made you the queen of seats, Miette?" The girl in question asked.
"Well, Misty" Miette sneered. "Ash is sitting in the seat next to this one, so its mine!"
"Oh? Well that sure is great reasoning!" Misty replied sarcastically.
"Shut it!"
"Whatever, come on." Misty grabbed Serena's wrist and brought her to a different seat.
"What's up with her?" Serena asked bitterly.
"She's just a self obsessed jerk." Misty answered bluntly. Serena sweat dropped then remembered she had forgotten her bag.
"Oh no! What am I gonna do without my bag?!"
"You don't need it today, don't worry." Misty assured her. "All we have today is an assembly and a few classes to introduce us to our teachers."
"Oh, thank goodness..." The honey blonde girl sighed in relief.
Meanwhile, outside, a boy with spiky, jet black hair and golden brown eyes was enjoying the school roof's view of Prism Tower.
"Mmm! Its so beautiful! Imagine the view from the top! Must be great, huh Pikachu?" he asked his Pokemon partner in crime.
"Pikachuu~" the tiny mouse Pokemon replied in agreement.
"Ash? Are you up here?" another boy asked as he opened the door to the roof. "Oh, there you are!"
"Oh, hey Clemont!" Ash replied with a smile. Pikachu waved at the blonde boy.
"I've been looking for you everywhere! The assembly is about to start!"
"Do I have to go? Its probably going to be boring..."
"Nope! It's actually going to be awesome! Dawn and May will be competing against each other." Clemont explained.
"Really? That actually sounds fun! Those performances of theirs are amazing!" Ash exclaimed happily when he heard someone scream. "What was that?"
Ash, Pikachu, and Clemont turned to see that a large tree branch had fallen on a man nearby. Everyone had scattered away in fear that something would fall on them too.
"We have to help him!" Clemont exclaimed frantically, heading for the stairs along with Pikachu. "C'mon, Ash!"
"That'll take too long, we have to help now!" Ash replied and jumped off the roof.
"ARE YOU INSANE?!"
"PIKA PI!"
Ash landed perfectly, although the fact that he appeared out of nowhere did surprise people. He ran over to the man in need and used almost all the strength he had to pull the branch off before helping the man to his feet. The man fixed his green eyes on him.
"Thank you, I was beginning to think nobody would help me!" He said.
"No problem, glad I could help! I better get to school now!" Ash replied with a smile and started to leave.
"Don't forget this." The man said, handing him his backpack.
"Oh, thanks! Now bye!" Ash thanked him and ran back into to school building, unaware of the object that was placed in the bag.
•~•~•
"Welcome everyone! This is the start of a brand new year! And to start it off, we have two special performances by Dawn and May! In the end, you will decide who wins!" Professor Oak, the principal, exclaimed.
"This sounds so cool!" Serena squealed.
"It is! May and Dawn are great performers! I prefer May, though. She's much more experienced and gives the best shows!" Misty replied excitedly.
"I'm sure Dawn is great too,"
"Not as great as May!"
Serena sighed and accepted that Misty would always love May more than Dawn. She just hoped she didn't hurt Dawn's feelings.
Soon, the performances began. Dawn used her Mamoswine and Cyndaquil to create a beautiful display of fire and ice. May used her Glaceon and Beautifly to make an amazing Silver Wind and Ice Beam combination.
In the end, everyone was told to vote for who they thought was best. After everyone sent in their votes and the judges (who were actually teachers) made their decisions, May won.
When people cheered and applauded her, Dawn pretend to be happy for her brunette friend. Inside, she was fuming. She thought it was her who should've won. The bluette walked into the nearby hallway and ranted.
"It should be me they're applauding! May's performance was terrible and unoriginal! I should've won!" Dawn yelled at thin air.
Meanwhile, Papilusion smiled when she noticed the negative emotion.
"Yes... Being fueled by anger will make her desire stronger! She will bring me the Miraculouses!" Papilusion summoned a small and pure, white Butterfree. She held it in her hands until it became black, and let it go, and find Dawn.
"Fly away my little akuma! And blacken her heart!"
The akuma found its way into a bracelet Dawn had worn for her performance. Her expression darkened as a purple outline of a Butterfree outlined her face.
"Platinum Performer! I am Papilusion. You now have the power to make anyone love you! Nobody will like May's shows anymore, and you will be the best Coordinator!" Papilusion's voice rang in her mind. "All I ask is that you bring me special stones..."
"Okay, Papilusion..." Dawn said monotonously. Her body was enveloped in black until she emerged as someone else.
Her hair had turned bright pink, and was put into two high ponytails that curled into tornado like shapes, her dress became pink and white with purple spirals on it while the bottom flared out like a tutu. Her top was evidently swimsuit like as it was the only thing covering her lower half besides pink tights. Her shoes were purple with sparkles and her face closely resembled a dolls, with a white face and over exaggerated makeup.
'Platinum Performer' tested out her power and discovered she emitted beams that did different things depending on the color it was. She could set what each beam did using her bracelet.
"Ahahaha! Now everyone will love me!" Platinum Performer blasted the doors to the auditorium open and strut inside. She moved onto the stage, causing the teachers on it to flee in terror.
"Call the police!"
"What is that?!"
"We're all gonna die!"
Everyone kept screaming until Platinum spoke.
"Greetings, everyone! So, I believe you wrongly chose who should win a competition, no?" she said into the mic. Everyone stared in confusion until the villain spoke again.
"Allow me to answer the question... You HAVE!" she exclaimed and fired pink and yellow beams from her bracelet. The pink beams made people adore her, but the yellow ones felt like bullets.
"Everyone, go home, now!" Professor Oak ordered before getting hit wit a pink beam.
Everyone who hadn't been affected scurried out of the room quickly and tried running home. Platinum followed them outside.
"Aha! Out here I'll find even more people to adore me!" she yelled maniacally as she kept using her magic.
...
"What's happening?!" Serena exclaimed as she reached her room. She was shocked. Nothing could've prepared her for that. She watched the news channel on her TV, hoping the police had it under control. They didn't. Instead Platinum shot them and they served her.
"How is she gonna be defeated...?" she asked aloud and suddenly remembered the box in her pocket. "Oh right, what's in here, anyway?"
Serena opened the box. Inside were a pair of Ledian earrings. But here's the thing, they were glowing!
"W-what's happening!" she shrieked as a Ledian-like creature appeared.
"Hello, I'm Tikki, y-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Serena screamed and dove under the covers of her bed.
"Oh not this again..." Tikki muttered. "Serena, calm down! I'm not gonna hurt you!"
"WHO ARE YOU?!"
"I tried telling you. You interrupted me! I'm Tikki! Your kwami! I'm here to help you save the world!" Tikki said.
"Save the world?" Serena poked her head out of the covers.
"Yep! But for now, Lumiose. You're the only one who can stop Platinum Performer!"
"Me? But all I do is have bad luck..." Serena mumbled.
"That's just fine! No matter the flaw, you are the chosen one!" The little Ledian said. Serena reluctantly left the safety of the bed due to curiosity.
"So... What are you, a Ledian?" she asked.
"No, a ladybug!" Tikki suddenly snapped. "Anyways... I should let you know about your power.."
Meanwhile, at Ash's house, he had just discovered the box in his bag.
"What's this?" He asked aloud as he opened it. There was a ring inside that immediately started glowing, revealing a small, back, Meowstic-like creature.
"Pika?" Pikachu nudged the small being curiously, only to jump back in surprise when it talked.
"Hey! Don't touch me you yellow rat!" it snapped.
"Pika?! Pi pi chu..." Pikachu's cheeks started sparking dangerously. Ash sweat dropped and moved him away from the tiny entity.
"Um... What are you?" He asked.
"I'm Plagg, a kwami. Ya got any cheese?" the creature replied.
"Um... No...?"
"Hm... I wonder if there's anything edible here..." Plagg was about to start flying around the room to look for food, but Ash grabbed him.
"What are you doing here?" he asked in curiosity. Plagg sighed and wriggled around to face him.
"I'm here to help you beat that thing." the kwami motioned to Platinum Performer on the news channel.
"Huh?"
"Ughh... Listen, you transform with that ring, and you get the power to destroy. Of course once you use your power you have five minutes before you detransform and have to feed me."
"... What?" Ash didn't understand a word he was saying. Plagg sighed in annoyance and hit his head on Ash's hand.
"I basically make you a superhero."
"Wait... So... I use the ring to transform, but if I use my power I have only five more minutes of the transformation? Well how would I get it back?"
"Feed me. Its the quickest way for me to regenerate." Plagg replied.
"Hm... I think I get it... How do I transform with this?" Ash let go off Plagg to put the ring on. The kwami flew around the room for a moment before answering.
"Just say 'transform me', but you can say 'claws out' if you like..."
"Hm... Okay! Plagg, transform me!" Ash exclaimed. The kwami suddenly sped into the ring, almost knocking over Pikachu in the process.
Even though he had purposefully tried to transform, it took Ash by surprise. First, a black mask materialized over his face, and black Delcatty ears popped up on his head. Black leather enveloped his body from his neck to his feet (along with a gold bell). Next, a long belt appeared on him, left loose in the back to form a tail along with a baton. Finally, he stuck a pose!
"Woah!" Ash said in awe as he looked on the mirror. He noticed his brown eyes became more Meowstic-like. His pupils became sharp ovals and the whites of his eyes turned to a glowing amber color. "This is so cool!"
Meanwhile, Serena was panicking. Tikki had explained everything to her, but she was still confused. And when she suddenly changed into some sort of Ledian patterned spandex suit, it freaked her out.
"What the heck?!" she exclaimed as she examined her appearance in the mirror. She was wearing the aforetold Ledian-or ladybug, according to Tikki- suit, with a yoyo placed on her hip. A spotted headband appeared in her hair, which let red and black ribbons trail from the ends of it. Finally, a 'ladybug' mask adorned her face.
"So... This is me as a superhero? What the heck can a Ledian do? Tikki?" Serena looked around for Tikki, but the kwami disappeared.
"I guess I'm on my own now..." Serena sighed and decided to test out the yoyo.
She stood on her windowsill and threw it into the distance. After a moment of staying still, she experimentally tugged on the string and screamed when she was suddenly pulled to where the yoyo had anchored itself.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH" the honey haired girl screamed. She continued to fly through the air until she reached the end of the string. Serena pulled the yoyo back into her hand. She never wanted to do that again.
Then, in the distance, she noticed Platinum Performer. She was shooting everyone in sight with a variety of beams.
"Tikki said something about an akuma... It must be in that bracelet..." Serena murmured.
Then, someone suddenly appeared behind her. She jumped in surprise and turned to see a boy clad in black leather and a mask.
"Who are you?!"
"My name is A- um... Its..." he thought for a moment. He looked like a black Glameow (Glameow because he looked purrfect), and Glameow is the Catty Pokemon, so maybe something like black cat? 'Aha!'
"I'm Chat Noir, and what's your name?"
"I'm Se- um..." Serena decided to not give her real name. Tikki had told her she was a ladybug-whatever that is- superhero, so...
"Call me Ladybug."
"Well, nice to meet you. Now, what are we gonna do about that creepy doll thing?" Chat asked.
"We need to get the akuma away from her, I think..." Ladybug replied.
"Okay! How do we do that?"
"... I have no clue..."
"Well we won't be able to do anything here, let's get closer!" Chat said, and began jumping from roof to roof.
"Are you crazy?!" Ladybug exclaimed and followed him with her yoyo. Bad choice on her part, she kept on hitting walls because she couldn't control her body in mid-air.
Eventually both heroes made it to the street Platinum was on.
"Hey, doll face!" Chat exclaimed.
"Doll face? That sounds like you're flirting with her..."
"I'm not!"
"Did you just call me dollface? How sweet! I'll spare you, silly kitty!" Platinum Performer said with a wink once she noticed them.
"...Well I'm gonna have a nightmare about that later..." Chat muttered with a sweat drop. Ladybug couldn't help but laugh.
"What do you people want, anyways? I'm trying to gain fans, here!" Platinum snapped.
"You'll never gain true fans if you act this way!" Ladybug retorted.
"Excuse me? Looks like I need to crush a bug today..." Platinum started fiddling with her bracelet when a purple outline of a Butterfree appeared on her face.
"Platinum Performer! Get me their Miraculous!" Papilusion's voice exclaimed. Platinum pouted.
"Darn... I really wanted to hurt the bug girl..." she sighed and started firing blue beams. Apparently their power was to freeze whatever they touched.
"Chat! What do we do?!" Ladybug exclaimed as they dodged the beams.
"I don't know!"
"Wait! I have an idea!" Ladybug stopped running for a moment and faced Platinum. 'Please work...'
"Lucky Charm!" she exclaimed. She threw her yoyo up and it spun around, producing a spray bottle full of soapy water.
"What in the world are you gonna do with that?" Chat asked.
"Hmmm..." Serena looked around and noticed a few things take on a Ledian pattern. "Got it! Chat, you can destroy things, right?"
"Of course!"
"Good, use your power when I say, okay?"
"Got it! Cataclysm!" Chat exclaimed, letting his hand be enveloped in black energy. Ladybug took the spray bottle in her hand and started running toward Platinum Performer, dodging the blue beams in the process.
"Remember to wash your face!" she yelled and sprayed the soapy water in her face.
"No! You'll ruin my make up!" Platinum screamed and cupped her hands over her face. Ladybug used her yoyo the grab her wrist and pull her under a billboard.
"Now! Use your power on the railing up there!" Chat looked up and saw the railing that surrounded the front of the billboard.
"Okay!" he extended his baton until he could reach the bottom of the railing and broke it, letting steel bars fall around Platinum like a cage. She tried using her own power to shoot at them, but discovered that one of the bars made her bracelet slip off.
Ladybug walked over to the makeshift cage and ripped the bracelet. She watched silently as the black Butterfree flew out.
"Tikki warned me not to let you get away!" she exclaimed as she opened her yoyo and threw it. It closed around the akuma and purified it. When she let it out, it grew to the size of a normal Butterfree and changed to its original purple color.
"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug threw up the spray bottle and it exploded into pink magic and changed everything back to the way it was before, including Platinum Performer.
"Where am I?" Dawn groaned in confusion. Ladybug sighed in relief knowing that her work was done and yoyoed away.
Meanwhile Chat watched everything in awe.
"I don't care who lies under that mask, I love that girl..." He sighed dreamily and jumped away to his home.
•~•~•
The next day, the whole school was buzzing about Lumiose's two new heroes.
"Did you hear about what happened yesterday?!"
"Ladybug and Chat Noir are so cool!"
"Chat looked pretty cute!"
"But Ladybug saved the day,"
Both Serena and Ash avoided discussions, thinking they might give away their identity.
"Serena! Did you hear?" Misty asked. She didn't need to say anything else for her to understand.
"Of course, who hasn't?" Serena replied.
"Y'know, those two looked our age... Maybe they go to this school!" The red head gasped.
"Uh... Maybe! B-but they probably don't..."
"They could! You never know!"
"I guess so..." Serena mumbled.
"I wonder what its like to be a superhero!" Misty said as the two girls walked by Ash and Clemont. Both Ash and Serena sweat dropped and looked at their bags, where the kwamis were hiding.
"Yeah, I wonder..." they muttered.
*to be continued*
That was long af o_o hope you enjoyed! I applaud the writers on coming up with things for the villains, because that was hard XD I stared at my screen for an hour trying to figure out what would come from Lucky Charm and how Ash would help lol.
Also, fun fact! Papilusion is Butterfree's name in the French dub of Pokemon!