"Happy birthday!" the Grumps cheered for Barry, and he started carving up his birthday cake. He cut the cake into eight slices, despite the fact only Arin, Suzy, and Ross were with him at the Grumps' office.
After they had their cake slices, Suzy pulled out a thin, but wide present. "Hey, Barry, we all pitched in to get you a little somethin'."
Barry smirked. "You guys didn't have to get me anything."
"I know, but you're one of our best friends, so…" Suzy shrugged and gave him the present. He opened it to find a brand-new tablet. It was still in the box, so he opened the box to find a black tablet. Suzy continued, "We weren't sure if you wanted a specific color, so we got you the standard."
"Aw, guys, this..." Barry said as he looked over the tablet, and then at his three friends. "This is really great."
"Oh!" Arin exclaimed as he got an idea. "You know what we can do with a new tablet? Together?" He turned on the nearest computer and pulled up his Steam account. "You Don't Know Jack." The group agreed and gathered on the couch to play. As Arin set everything up, Barry used his tablet to look up the weather in New York, all the way across the country.
Meanwhile, in a nearby, but undisclosed location, a butterfly-shaped window opened, showing the sprawling city of Los Angeles in the distance. Hundreds of butterflies flew around, disturbed by the sudden light. "Someone wishes to escape the heat of LA?" Space Butterfly asked… well, nobody, really, but then he smirked. "I can work with that. Finally, a chance to show off my new powers."
A butterfly flew into his hand and as he covered it with his other hand, it turned into a dark Akuma. The Akuma fluttered out the open window and Space Butterfly said, "Fly, my little Akuma, and darken his heart!"
Near the bar in the Grumps' office, after the game, Barry looked forlornly over the weather in New York on the tablet: it was snowing there, and he had heard they might get up to a foot, maybe two. However, he was stuck in Los Angeles, where the weather was always pleasant, which was slowly driving him insane. Even though December had just started, he longed for the changing weather that anywhere, but Los Angeles, offered.
As Barry realized he was still with his friends, who were trying their best to throw him a good party, something collided with the tablet; nobody else noticed it but Barry, who only made out a small dark shape before contact. Something came over his face, and all he could feel was the need for snow, and cold, and whatever else he desired moments ago…
Then, he heard a voice: "Weathidor… Do you long for cold weather in this eternal heat? I am Space Butterfly, and I can give you that and more. But you must do something for me first."
"Anything you want, Space Butterfly." Barry grinned evilly, not really thinking about anything but the weather he wanted now.
"Barry? Did you say something…?" Suzy turned and gasped as she saw Barry covered in a black, bubbly mist. When the mist cleared, Barry looked completely different: His skin was pale; his hair was dark blue with a white, lightning bolt streaked through it; over his eyes was a mask with small curves under it; he wore a dark blue suit with a white collar, white lightning bolts on the sides; and an icicle-like belt. His tablet was still in his hand, but instead of being black, it was now pure white.
"I'm not Barry anymore, Suzy. I'm Weathidor. And unfortunately for you, there's a freak ice storm coming your way RIGHT NOW!" Using his tablet, Weathidor launched a frigid wind at Suzy that blanketed her and the bar in frost. Luckily, Suzy just shook off the frost like it was harmless.
Arin and Ross noticed what happened and came to Suzy's aid. Weathidor was ready to launch an attack at them, but someone grabbed his shoulder from behind. He turned around to see Suzy. She pouted at him, hoping Weathidor would listen to her as she said calmly, "Barry, please be reasonable. We want to give you a party you want, and we can't do it in a freezer." Weathidor stayed silent, which made Suzy think he was contemplating her words. Then, he turned for the exit to the office and walked away. Suzy, determined to stop his rampage before it started, followed him to the door. Despite being only a few steps behind him, she couldn't catch up to Weathidor before he slammed the door shut. "Shit," Suzy uttered. "I thought that would work." She tried to open the office door, but it wouldn't budge. "And Barry froze the lock. If we want to follow him, we'll have to try another way out."
"I don't think we should find a way out," Ross replied- he and Arin had just caught up to Suzy. "There's nothing we can do about Barry's sour attitude, or the weird powers. Maybe we can adjust the thermostat to unfreeze the l-"
"Ross." Arin nudged him to get his attention, and he pointed to a nearby window. Ross and Suzy looked in the same direction, and their expressions changed from saddened to shock: the windows were frosting up, and the frost was spreading into the room.
"Crap!" Ross exclaimed, but he had an idea; he ran to the thermostat to try and adjust it higher, but the sudden cold spike left it flashing ERROR. "The thermostat's busted because of the frost- what are we gonna do now!?"
"We need to find a way out," Suzy answered, sounding determined. "If the whole place freezes over, we could be stuck here…and freeze to death." Suzy, Arin and Ross tried to open the windows before they freeze over, with little success.
Jack sighed as he looked over his grocery list. Amongst the usual items that he got for himself, he'd put "Camembert cheese" on the list, for his Kwami, Plagg. Over the past few days, he learned that all he ate was the cheese. As he looked over the list one more time, he lamented to himself, "Camembert cheese. Fantastic. All he eats is Camembert, which means I'm gonna smell like stinky old cheese."
Jack looked up from the grocery list as the television he turned on for background noise got his attention with a breaking news alert: "As incredible as it seems, it's been confirmed that Los Angeles is indeed being attacked by a supervillain." At those words, he turned up the volume to make sure what he was hearing was correct, and maybe alert Plagg. "This supervillain has been caught by amateur footage covering Los Angeles in snow. Civilians are advised to stay indoors until the authorities can capture him and put him to justice."
The amateur footage played, showing Weathidor summoning snow clouds. Then, Weathidor noticed the cameraman and the cameraman gasped. Jack's eyes widened as he watched the cameraman and his phone get frozen before the footage stopped altogether. Plagg had made it downstairs and pointed to Weathidor. "That's definitely an Akuma."
"Well, I'm gonna fight it." Jack got up from the couch. "That's my second job now, apparently."
"Do you think you're ready?" Plagg asked, getting in front of Jack's chest. "Remember, only Ladybug can capture Akumas and repair damage caused by supervillains. You're basically a sidekick."
"Cataclysm, powers of destruction, need Ladybug, he'll probably be there anyway- got it." Jack made sure his ring was secure before holding out his arm. "PLAGG, GET YOUR FECKIN' CLAWS OUT!"
The police glared down at Weathidor, and he glared back. The police chief announced, "Stand down, or we'll be forced to shoot!" Weathidor only replied by shaking his head. The chief huffed and signaled for his men to start shooting. Unfortunately for them, Weathidor was prepared: with some quick moves on his tablet, a gust of wind pushed not only the bullets back, but the police, and finally their cars!
Chat Noir was getting used to pole-vaulting to get around. Despite his fear of heights, he knew Spider-Man once had a fear of heights too, at least in some versions. If Spidey could overcome it, so could he. What he did not expect as he parkoured around, was a car flying overhead. He watched it spin in the air, and then crash to the ground close by.
He turned from the car to see Weathidor walking towards him menacingly. Chat Noir thought it'd be a good time to make his first superhero quip: "Hey, Jon Snow, don't you know that winter is coming? I think it's time you…cooled off."
"My name is not Jon Snow, it's Weathidor!" The villain put his finger to the tablet, and when he pushed his finger forward, he launched another huge gust of wind towards Chat Noir.
As Chat was fired back, he managed to grab onto a lamppost for dear life. "GOD!" he cursed, holding on as hard as he could as Weathidor tried to throw him back again. "WHERE THE HELL IS LADYBUG!?"
Mark was setting up to record a new game, when he saw snow falling outside. His eyes widened, and he asked, "Tikki, do you see this?"
Tikki flew to the window and gasped. "Do you think it's an Akuma?"
"Well, I can't really think of any other explanation."
The Kwami looked to Mark, determination in her large blue eyes. "Do you think you're ready for this?"
"Lucky charm, powers of creation, I'm the only one who can really save the day, hope Chat Noir is there," Mark listed off. "TIKKI, TRANSFORM ME!"
After Mark transformed, Ladybug swung over the city, searching for any sign of Weathidor. He found the villain still trying to blow Chat Noir back. Even though Chat Noir looked like he had been blown away multiple times, he kept getting up.
"Stop toying around with him!" Space Butterfly's voice echoed in Weathidor's head. "I need that Miraculous." Weathidor huffed at his superior's words but obeyed by launching himself to Chat Noir with a gust of wind. Chat Noir screamed, but fortunately, he was close to a few buildings; Ladybug caught Chat Noir with his yo-yo, pulling him into an alleyway.
Chat Noir sighed in relief, "Ladybug, thank God- I was wonderin' when you'd show up."
"Did you forget about me!?" Weathidor shouts as he turns into the alleyway. Ladybug grabs Chat Noir and swings up to a rooftop. Weathidor launches himself up with a gust of air and pursues Ladybug and Chat Noir closely. The heroes run from Weathidor, but the villain is happy to chase them.
Ladybug pants as he runs, "If we get Weathidor up to higher ground… he won't be able to throw as much stuff at us."
"So we just keep… going higher and higher?" Chat Noir replied, also panting.
"Maybe…we can take Weathidor…to the highest point…" Both heroes looked for the highest point around them, and Ladybug spotted a television station to their right. The station was a cylindrical skyscraper with walls that were almost entirely composed of windows with thin white railing between them. At the top of the studio was a large billboard, which gave Chat an idea. As they both have the same idea, the heroes jump from the roof they were running on to another roof on the right.
They continue jumping from roof to roof, and Weathidor stops to watch them. He hears Space Butterfly speak to him: "Well? What are you waiting for? Catch up to them to get their Miraculous!"
However, Space Butterfly realized Weathidor was looking past the heroes to the television studio. He smirked as he saw how close to the snow clouds it was and replied, "I think they'll catch up to me. It's time I make myself known to all of Los Angeles- nay, the world." Weathidor used his tablet to launch himself across many roofs, towards the studio. He jumps across the alleyway Ladybug and Chat Noir were hiding in, failing to notice that they weren't jumping towards the studio.
Chat asked as Weathidor jumped from the roofs, "Why are we hiding down here?"
Ladybug explained, "It's part of the plan- we follow Weathidor from behind and catch him off guard at the studio."
"Wait- wait a minute…" Chat Noir noticed Ladybug's yo-yo, which he hadn't used last time, and exclaimed to the heavens, "How come he gets a fuckin' yo-yo?!"
Ladybug looked confused. "Um…I'm not happy about having a yo-yo either."
"IT'S STILL BETTER THAN A FUCKIN' STAFF! I—" Ladybug covered his loud friend's mouth, as to not attract Weathidor's attention. Ladybug nodded to Chat once Weathidor ran past, and they followed the villain from behind, trying to be stealthy.
The television studio looked completely deserted, inside and outside, due to the snowy weather. So Weathidor wasn't surprised when he landed on the roof without interruption. With just a few movements of his fingers across the tablet, the dangerous storm got even worse: snow rained down in larger chunks, the wind picked up, and small bits of hail mixed with the snow. Weathidor laughed as the cloudy skies became darker. "In Weathidor's world, it's a winter wonderland FOREVER!"
"That's what you think!" Chat Noir declared as he and Ladybug came up from behind Weathidor. He turned to see Chat Noir announce his attack: "CATACLYSM!" He swished his glowing black claw against the hinges of a billboard, and then ran. Ladybug and Weathidor also ran, so they wouldn't get trapped under the falling billboard. The billboard crashed down, leaving half of the roof open for Ladybug and Chat Noir to use in the final battle against Weathidor.
Ladybug needed something more than his yo-yo to stop the villain at this point, but what? After a moment of thought, something kicked in like a deep instinct: he threw his yo-yo in the air and yelled, "LUCKY CHARM!" It swirled with pink magic, and above him appeared...a blanket. It fell into his hands and he muttered to himself, "What am I supposed to do with this...?"
The blanket's purpose didn't become clear until Ladybug started looking around. Everything was grey, but a few key items turned the same ladybug pattern of the blanket: his yo-yo, a safety pin that had fallen on the ground, and the tablet in Weathidor's hands. Once it was clear what he had to do, Ladybug picked up the pin and secured the blanket around his neck with it, giving himself a cape. The blanket provided much-needed protection from the cold, but he knew that was not its only purpose.
"That's how you're going to save yourself?" Weathidor laughed, and he tried to blow Ladybug back with his new cape. The superhero struggled with the wind, but he wouldn't be wearing the cape for much longer. As he threw his yo-yo through the gusts, it grabbed the right item, Weathidor's tablet, and Ladybug attached the string end to the safety pin. All Weathidor could do was scream, "NO!" as the tablet flew out of his hands, and then hit the roof once the wind stopped.
Out of the broken tablet flew a dark-colored butterfly, and Ladybug announced, "Okay, time to free this thing from evil!" He swung his yo-yo around and grabbed the Akuma before it flew away. "Gotcha." He let it go, and then threw the blanket, sending a wave of magic that restored things to before Weathidor's attack on Los Angeles. The Grumps' apartment thawed, and Arin, Suzy, and Ross hugged each other, feeling warmth. As the Akuma's damage erased itself from reality, the snow falling from the sky quickly turned to rain, the air temperature rising back to normal. Finally, Weathidor turned back into Barry, and he groggily picked up his restored tablet.
"Where am I…?" he asked as he got up and looked around. Then he noticed Ladybug and Chat Noir. "Who the heck are you?"
Ladybug introduced himself. "I'm Ladybug, and this is Chat Noir. We just saved your life."
"You should probably get inside- rain and all that," Chat Noir added, and Barry went to the door on the roof.
Ladybug looked to Chat Noir and said, "We should probably get going."
"Wait!" Chat Noir grabbed Ladybug's hand. "There's something I need to do first…" He leaned in close to Ladybug's face, and then, instead of what Ladybug expected, Chat Noir yelled, "Holy crap, Mark! How many green-haired, Irish, JACKABOYS do you know!? It's me, JackSepticEye!"
"JACK!" Ladybug bonked him against the head with his yo-yo, but not enough to hurt. "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL ME!"
"It was glaringly obvious that you're Ladybug, and I'm Chat Noir!" Chat pointed out. "I jus' wanted to get it out of the way before you act like a complete weirdo about this secret identity thing! I mean, if we're gonna be workin' together, I think it's better we know who we are."
Ladybug sighed. "Fine, but Tikki and…your Kwami aren't gonna be happy with this."
Chat Noir smirked. "Fine by me. His name's Plagg, by the way. He's a lazy-ass, so he deserves this." His ring then beeped. "Fuck, it's forcin' me to change back. I'll see you downstairs, okay?"
Ladybug heard his earrings beep. "Yeah, mine too. See you around, Chat." He used his yo-yo to swing to somewhere safe, while Chat ran to the door that led to the stairs.
Mark came out of the building and felt rain hit his head. He was stuck without an umbrella, and on what would probably be the rainiest day of the month. Jack followed him out, and somehow, he had an umbrella with him. He waved to Mark and said, "Hey," but Mark didn't acknowledge him.
Jack frowned as his friend refused to acknowledge him. Was this because of the whole "secret identity revealed" thing? He was kind of afraid to ask, but he explained himself anyway. "I just told you about my secret identity because I thought… keeping secrets from you was stupid, ya know? You're a close friend, and this whole superhero thing is…new to me." Then, he covered Mark with his umbrella.
After looking Jack over, Mark took the umbrella…only for it to immediately snap shut on his face. Jack couldn't help but laugh as Mark cursed under the umbrella and pulled it open frantically. Once Mark was holding it properly, the two walked to the bus stop to get some transport home. Watching several feet away, Master Fu raised up his umbrella as Jack and Mark walked away, holding the umbrella together. He smiled, and said to Wayzz, "Those two are made for each other."
The Kwami gave a small shrug. "If you say so, Master."