So i was up late last night after finaly planning the plot for Influence,
and it just so happened i had some time left to kill so i thought,
'Hey, I'm gonna mess with my first story and try to make it a little better!,
so here it is!
Hope you enjoy!
"Chat look out!" Ladybug shouted to her partner, deflect a streak of lighting that was meant for her feline partner. Yet Immediately an armored knight charged, sword raised above his head before he attempted a deadly swing at her. However, a quick parry and counter strike from chat noir and his staff sent the armored being flying back into a group of them.
The spotted heroin flashed a smile for the returned favor, which earned a quick smirk from her leather clad partner, before he switched to a more serious expression.
"We're in a bit of a tight spot, aren't we m'lady?" he asked blocking yet another attack from a creature, this time from a rock like monster. "Yea, we need to finish this, and fast" ladybug agreed helping to drive the creature back.
Stealing a glance above them, she looked at the one who was responsible for their current situation, levitating in the air and dressed like a wizard. "His akuma has to be somewhere…" the heroine grunted in frustration under her breath as she searched for anything on his body that could be possessed, before having to dodge another attack. For now, the heroes of Paris had a much larger issue to deal with; currently they were surrounded.
A large horde of varied beings and monsters encircled them, all seeming to belong more in a fantasy world then modern-day Paris. All brought forward through a portal created by the akumatized villain, appropriately named 'Summoner' his small army managing to keep the duo pined underneath the Eiffel tower.
Although none of them were inherently stronger than either her or chat, their sheer numbers were giving the heroes trouble. Preventing them from attempting to gain the high ground from the towers upper levels, attacking in mass whenever ladybug tried to swing up with her yo-yo or chat using his staff to climb.
"No one can stand against my army!" the villain proudly sneered from his place above them, "Not even you ladybug and chat noir!"
With a simple wave of his hand he created a portal at his side, several more minions coming forward from who knows where to join the horde.
Ladybug growled in annoyance, barely blocking another attack.
At her back chat was doing the same, using his staff to dual a knight, "we can't keep this up forever ladybug!" he shouted knocking his opponent back.
He was right, the minions kept pouring through the Akuma's portals and at the rate they were going, her and chat would tire out long before any of them, unfortunately even with their miraculous they had limits. Luckily, they still had a few tricks up their sleeves, "cover me!" ladybug shouted tossing her yo-yo up into the air as she called for her trump card.
"Lucky charm!"
After the bright initial flash of light, ladybug held her hand out expectantly, almost falling over when she felt a rather heavy object fall into her grasp causing her to nearly drop it at the unexpected weight. "Is this…some kind of key?" she asked aloud, confused as she studied the red and black patterned object.
It was shaped like an older type of key, with a large bow that barely fit in her small palms and short stem, multiple teeth sticking out in random directions.
Ladybug quickly scanned the area around her despite the oddness of her charm, trying to find any clue on how the charm would help them around the horde and defeat Summoner.
However, while she was distracted a minion managed to get past chat noirs defense and get to her. The spotted heroin managing to dodge the attack, but the creatures weapon caught the key and wrenched it hard from her hands, sending it flying, right into the hands of the Summoner.
"Oh?" the villain said running a hand through a long white beard on chin, inquisitively fiddling with the key by spinning it around in his fingers, "what have we here?" he asked his eyes widening into mad excitement, halting the hordes attacks on the heroes with a motion. "Why, could this be a vortex key?" he asked joyfully, knocking the heroes down when they tried vault up towards him during the opening.
"How delightful of you Ladybug, now I can summon even greater warriors for my army!" he sneered at them with a taunting tone to his voice.
Both heroes' eyes went wide in panic.
Reacting quickly ladybug through her weapon towards the Akuma to try and knock the key from his grasp but was blocked by the shield of a knight as several of the beings from the horde charged at the heroes.
As the duo were once again occupied by his minions, Summoner called forward another portal to his side, however no random being emerged from it. Instead Ladybug and Chat noir could only watch as he inserted the key into the vortex till only the bow remained outside of it. The villain giving it a single clockwise turn before pulling it back out, the portal suddenly turning to a deep black from its original purple.
Then with a sinister smile; he called down to the battling group "be prepared heroes" he shouted, "for what I'm about to summon can never be sent back!"
Fending off a few more of the attackers the heroes of Paris gave themselves some breathing room from the horde, the pair resuming a defensive stance for whatever would emerge.
Yet rapidly, Summoners sure demeanor faded, his brow becoming furrowed in frustration, "come forward servants!" he demanded reaching into to portal "I command you!". The air suddenly filled with a scream as the villain cried in pain, withdrawing his hand from the portal before hooking ladybugs charm to a sash around his waist wrapped around the waist of his cloak and pushing both of his hands back in.
Ladybug and chat noir were left alone as the army surrounding them became still, stagnant in place without their master's attention giving the duo a much-needed moment of respite.
Yet it was short lived before it could be exploited as the Akumatized villain seemed to finally find what he was after, managing to pull something through his portal. His sneer returning when, with a final push, he threw two bodies from the portal at the heroes, armored bodies landing beside Ladybug and Chat noir with a metallic clang and an audible 'ooofff' as they hit the ground. "Now you serve me!" Summoner shouted pointing to the limp forms, "Rise, and seize the heroes Miraculous!" he commanded.
Slowly the armored beings stood seemingly trying to shake off their rough landing, Ladybug spinning up her yo-yo in a rapid circle and Chat readying his staff as they prepped for a fight, each aiming for one of the new foes while trying to spy any weaknesses in their armor.
But when the two stood fully that's all they did, just stand in place as if they were completely confused with everything, looking from the heroes, to the horde, then to each other in rapid secession.
The situation gave Ladybug a chance to study the two, the spotted heroine giving the one in front of her a once over before looking over her shoulder towards the one posted in front of chat.
The first thing that stuck out to her was the fact that both armored men looked the exact same, practically twins. Save of course, by a red glow illuminating through narrow eye slits of the helmet of one in front of her, and a ghostly blue from the one in front of chat. Besides that, their armor was vastly different from the medieval fantasy theme than the other knights that were summoned by the akuma, the plates encasing the two being thinner, probably lighter, and covering more of their bodies with a greyish tint to the metal. They also stood shorter than most of Summoners other minions, only a few inches taller than chat and the exact height of the other. Their similarity with each other was so uncanny that she wouldn't be surprised to find the same face under the rather featureless helmets.
However, with closer inspection it seemed that the armor of the one with red eyes was a bit darker, like it had been burned. Yet with his twins, it seemed; to have frost on the plates?
All in all, they didn't fit with Summoners horde not even carrying a single weapon to fight with, maybe her charm had messed with them somehow?
"What are you doing!" Summoner demanded, the shielded heads of the twins turning to look at the villain. "I commanded you to take their Miraculous!" he ordered again frustration clearly adding an edge to his voice.
They still just stood there however, the twins turning to look to each other silently, before angling down to the heroes, then to the villain. Chat looked over his shoulder to ladybug shrugging his shoulders in confusion, the spotted heroine shaking her head that she didn't understand their behavior either.
The horde remained forgotten, waiting for their master to order them although he seemed unable to concentrate enough to do so thanks to the twin's reluctance.
"Fine!" Summoner shouted, "just stand there you pathetic excuse for warriors, the rest of my army can do the dead!". The horde quickly moved back into motion ready to charge the heroes of Paris with full force.
But then the twins did something unexpected, with a fast look to his brother the armored one with red emanating from his helmet gave a quick nod that was returned by the one with blue. Then with a sharp turn, both twins faced away from the heroes and charged.
Right into the advancing horde.
"No!" the villain shouted at the men, "how dare you rebel against me, YOUR MASTER?! Teach them to obey my horde.
As ordered the Summoners army charged against the twins but failed to slow them down as the armored bodies barreled through them punching, kicking, even taking weapons from their owner's hand to use against them.
The full attention of the minions then became solely directed at the two, leaving the heroes of Paris alone, virtually ignored.
Normally ladybug and chat noir would jump on this chance to find the possessed item and destroy it to purify the akuma. Yet a certain spotted heroin was having trouble wrapping her head around the current situation, had her lucky charm cause those two to rebel, or are they free to act of their own free will?
Unfortunately, before she could think of any rational explanation for their new 'friends', a familiar beep sounded from her miraculous.
Her hand shot up to her earing as a spot blinked rapidly and disappeared, warning that she had only four minutes left before her transformation would end.
She looked to chat, who nodded in understanding, the feline ears pinned on the top of his head perking in attention, ready to hear a plan. The spotted heroin quickly scanning the area around them, her eyes landing on a beam above them before returning to her leather clad, a confident smile on her face.
"Chat, go high!" ladybug said pointing to the support, chat using his staff to launch himself up onto the steel beam.
Once he was in place, ladybug turned back toward the ongoing fight, poised to enact her plan, just in time to dodge a streak of lighting cast from summoners hand.
The bolt struck harmlessly in the place she once stood in, the backlash of it however sending the heroin stumbling back as she tried to regain her balance, managing to right herself into a defensive stance. Shooting a glance up to her partner, she could tell that he was ready to jump to her aid, but a firm look from her stopped him. 'Not yet' she thought silently, hoping that after fighting together for this long that he would understand.
"What's this? The insect has been abandoned by her chat?" Summoner taunted as he levitated closer, but still out of the range of her yo-yo, his hands sparking with electricity. "Oh well, it just makes it easier to defeat you, ladybug!" he sneered, raising his hand to cast another lightning bolt.
But behind him; what he failed to see.
Was the white vaper and smoke coming off the two armored men behind him.
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