Chapter 2 – Round two Multi-man!

"Tikki, have you eaten your cookies? We need to go now! We were supposed be meeting Chat now!" The blue haired girl told her Kwami

"I've just got a bite left Marinette, I'm sure Chat Noir wont be mad if we are only a minute or two late" Tikki responded whilst trying to stuff her little mouth with the last of the cookie

Marinette was anxiously looking out at the city, she paused before replying to her Kwami, "I'm not worried about Chat Tikki, I'm concerned for the poor man who's still Akumatised and what damage he could be doing the longer we leave him"

Tikki, also knowing how serious the situation was silently finished the treat and flew to her chosen's side. Marinette had already checked that everything was okay. Her parents were asleep, she had put her pillow under her covers in case they checked she was in bed during the night and the lights were off.

"Ok Tikki! Spots on!"

Instantly after the words left the girl's mouth Tikki became a red blur as she flew into Marinette's miraculous, the red earrings she always wore. The earrings gained 5 black spots to indicate the time she would have as Ladybug after using her Lucky Charm. She moved her hands across her eyes and as they passed a red mask with black spots covered her face to hide her identity, she then extended her arms out which became covered in the sleeves of her suit which matched her mask, the suit spread down her whole body covering her in the skin-tight red and black latex. Her yo-yo then appeared on her hip and after a few flexible poses she was transformed into Ladybug.

As she landed on the roof of the school, their agreed meeting point, she was surprised to see that Chat Noir was not there. No way could he have been later than her, he was always excited to be with her and would always be early any time they met that was not unplanned like the Akuma attacks. Something was up.

"Chat? Are you here?"

Ladybug called out in hope that maybe he was near but not directly on the roof. No response.

"Chat if you're trying to make me jump it isn't funny" She said trying to make herself less anxious, but clearly it wasn't working since she did not notice a certain black cat sneak up behind her and tap her shoulder.

"AHH!" Ladybug screamed whilst Chat now burst into laughter

"Chat Noir you know very well I hate it when you do that!"

"But don't you get a good feline when you see that it is your pawsome partner and not a criminal?"

"Okay you can stop that right now!"

Chat Noir began to smirk, "Stop what M'Lady?"

"The puns! The stupid puns! I despise them and I will not be spending the night with you if you keep making them"

"Woah M'Lady! It's a bit too soon to already be spending the night, we haven't even kissed yet!"

Chat Noir winked and grinned as Ladybug involuntarily blushed, she slapped him lightly for the innuendo whilst being thankful for the fact that he is unaware of when she kissed him last Valentines day. He would never shut up about it if he knew.

"Okay okay! I'll stop the puns! At least for tonight."

"Thank you. Now! Where are we going find Multi-man?"

"Well, since you were so late I had time to think about it and I think that our best bet is to go to where he works since that where he was Akumatised, he may be there or at least give us some leads"

"Sounds like a plan! Where does he work?"

"An office complex the other side of the Eiffel Tower, just follow me, I know the way"

"Sure thing Kitty! Lead the way"

And with that Chat Noir extended his staff using it to vault from building to building whilst Ladybug threw her yo-yo wrapping it around chimneys and swings from the rooftops. They sure had style when it came to travelling across Paris.

"Hawk Moth, I have almost finished re-charging and then I'll be ready to fight Ladybug and Chat Noir again"

"Good. See to it that you don't fail me this time, I could always take your powers away from you"

"No no please Hawk Moth I will not fail!"

The purple outline of a butterfly disappeared from Multi-man's face as he stood up and began pacing the room whilst impatiently looking at his watch. The room was dark, there were desks and chairs everywhere, a door in the back and only one window were the only source of light, moonlight, entered allowing sight without very good colour but at least able to see shapes.

Ugh, just 2 minutes left for the fourth one to re-charge. Why couldn't Hawk Moth make quick-charging clones?

Multi-man's thoughts were interrupted by the door slamming open to reveal the Parisian heros.

S***! I'm not ready yet! 1 minute 30 seconds

"Multi-man! We don't need to fight!" Chat Noir called out to the villain

"Well sure! Just hand over your Miraculouses and I'll be peaceful" Multi-man replied deviously

"Not gonna happen!" Ladybug retorted

"So be it" Multi-man said with an evil smirk on his face, he slammed his hand on his watch and 2 clones of himself appeared, the first launched itself at Chat Noir with a dagger and the second leaped backwards and began to throw smaller blades at Ladybug.

Chat used his baton to parry the dagger, the clone tried jabbing at a different angle but Chat was too fast, after a few attemps the clone lost its stamina and Chat took the opportunity to smack the dagger out of his hands and he quickly followed up by jabbing the end of his staff into the clone's stomach sending it flying back into a desk knocking it over. Chat ran up to the clone and pinned it down with his foot and held the end of his staff to the clone.

Ladybug dodged the first two blades by jumping to the side and quickly shot her yo-yo at the clone but missed. The clone then threw five blades at her, time appeared to slow as she jumped the first, ducked under the second, did a backflip dodging the third and fourth and then on landing just barely dodged the last one by leaning back and letting it pass over her. The clone, shocked and out of blades, panicked and jumped behind desks as Ladybug relentlessly hit them out the way with her yo-yo until the clone was cornered and she was spinning the yo-yo ready to strike.

With both clones pinned Ladybug and Chat Noir took their watches, about to destroy them. But suddenly both were tackled to the ground from behind, dropping the watches. Ladybug hit her head as she hit the ground and everything went black.