Chapter 3
"Sooooooo. Agent Ladybug, I like the spots."
Marinette turned to look at the leather clad man next to her.
"Do you usually start conversations like that?" she asked.
"No, but the spots are quite attention grabbing. I suppose it's the red though; I don't often see Agents in red."
"I don't see agents with cat ears either. Yet alone a tail."
"You have a point there. So let's change the subject. What's the plan."
"I don't usually have one," she replied which was completely honest.
"Did not see that coming."
Most of her teammates didn't.
"Here's a plan. Don't get killed," she said looking out the window.
"I'm so assured right now."
"If I think of a plan, I'll let you now."
"How on earth did you survive this far."
"Sheer dumb luck," Marinette replied before pulling out her grapple and pushing the door open a swinging away.
Hopefully, he could keep up.
Adrien would admit that he didn't expect her to jump out of a moving vehicle. He kept his eyes on her as the car came to a stop.
This woman was going to be the end of him. He could already tell.
Pulling his favoured weapon off his back, he quickly got to work catching up to her. Vaulting up onto the roof she had perched on he falls into a crouch.
"Took your time," she commented with a small smirk.
He was about to defend himself when she grabbed his jaw and turned his head to view the scene.
The akuma was attacking the park. The akuma was wearing a tight indigo body suit with white gloves and boots. The white parts had white thunderbolt shooting into the purple. Her hair was a swirl of purple highlights pulled back into two low ponytails.
The akuma was holding an umbrella, which wasn't the weirdest choice of weaponry. Especially considering this one could produce electrical currents that formed artificial lightning. And who knew what else.
"We need to find out what else that umbrella can do. Let's play a game of cat and mouse."
"So the plan is playing cat and mouse."
"Mine part is anyway; you are going to go evacuate as many people as possible."
"Okay, I can get behind that," he replied standing up.
"Points to whoever ends up disarming the akuma!" she calls out before firing her grapple gun again and swinging away.
"Well, she's not like any of the agents I've ever been paired with," Adrien says to himself before moving to jump off the roof. Only last second he fumbles the jump and falls off the roof instead. A quick tuck and roll saves him of broken bones but leaves him sprawled on the ground.
"I have got to stop doing that," he grumbles before picking himself up and jogging towards the fight.
The akuma had done something to stop civilians leaving the park. As he reaches the gate where quite a few people have gathered, and he vaults over to the other side and investigates.
The lock is completely frozen over.
"Okay folks, your friendly Cat Noir is here, please take a step back!"
He gets a few untrusting looks and a few hopeful eyes as they take a step back. Grabbing his baton, he flips it over once before swinging it like a baseball bat into the fence. The gate clatters as he swings back and hits it again. The ice shatters under the blow, and he yanks the fence open before jumping back as people flees past him.
He turns back and heads into the park to see what else needed doing.
Marinette was getting a pretty decent workout from this. She was forced to flip here, there and seemingly everywhere as bolts of artificial lightning were flung at her. Unfortunately, her dodging ability was the only thing that seemed to be annoying the akuma.
Although it was slightly satisfying to know that she wasn't an annoying person.
She rolled out of the way of another bolt where she was suddenly right in Chat's face.
"Well my Ladybug, I didn't know you'd be rolling my way anytime soon."
"That was terrible," she replied before pushing him to the ground and ducking as a bolt of lightning was flung at their heads.
"Having problems with Ice Queen?"
"I am not Ice Queen! I am Stormy Weather!" The akuma shouted angrily as they both dodged out of the way of a particularly vicious bolt of lightning.
"Oh really because with your cold disposition I was thinking otherwise," Chat said coming to stand up.
"I'll show you cold!" she screamed before opening her umbrella for the first time.
Both agents were thrown off their feet as a fierce gale of cold wind battered through the park.
Ladybug was quick to fire her grapple at a lamppost grabbing Chat's tail so that they wouldn't fly away.
Just as suddenly the wind died off, and they were both falling the short distance to the ground. Ladybug managed to land in a kneeling position while Chat felt on his butt.
"New plan," she said. "You're now in charge of being as annoying as possible."
"But I don't know the first thing about being annoying?"
"Don't worry; you're a natural. Just be yourself."
"Okay, you are definitely insinuating something there."
"Only insinuating? I'll have to work on being blunter then."
"Killing my ego right now," Chat commented holding a clawed hand to his chest.
"I'm sure you have enough to spare. Come on we have to follow that akuma," she said firing her grapple into the rooftops before leaving the man behind.
Marinette wasn't sure what this man was doing to her. Alya wouldn't believe her when she went over half of the things she'd said over the course of half an hour.
Edited July 8th 2016
Edited Again May 24th 2017
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