Chapter 4: Part 2 Chapter 1: If the sky comes falling down
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"Are you trying to tell me demons are possessing the famous missing people?" Andre Bourgeois said.
"I know it sounds insane, but I wouldn't tell you something like that without reason," Ladybug said, "This is Plagg. He's Chat Noir's Kwami. They're our partners of sorts." Plagg floated into view. "He saw this happen."
"Ladybug's right. May I have some cheese?" Plagg said. Andre Bourgeois poked at the kwami, encountering a solid floating body who growled at him, before pressing a button,
"Could you bring up some cheese?"
"What kind?"
"Camembert!" Plagg said. The waiter arrived and placed the cheese on the Mayor's desk and left after being dismissed. Plagg devoured the whole wheel.
"What exactly are you?" he asked.
"Like Ladybug said, I'm a kwami. I'm a millennia old godly being of bad luck and destruction," Plagg said patting his belly, "I work with Chat Noir."
"I can't just order an evacuation without a visible cause, Ladybug. I believe you, but I don't want to start a pan-." There was something that made the windows rattle.
"It's too late, they've broken through. Mayor Bourgeois, you need to order an evacuation of Paris now! I'll hold them back as best I can," Ladybug said opening the window and swinging away. Chloe burst in moments later.
"Papa! Ladybug was here and you didn't tell me!"
"Not now. Gather your things, we're leaving Paris!"
— —
Ladybug arrived to see nothing but destruction where the demons had emerged. The pit was at least a kilometer wide and it swallowed buildings all around it and from the looks of things, to Ladybug's despair, there were crushed cars in the rubble.
"You forced our hands, Lady of Creation." She saw it was the one possessing Adrien.
"Touttais, I presume?" she said flatly.
"I'm touched. You did your research," he said before he leapt up and joined her on the roof of the building she'd been standing on to survey the damage to the 12th arrondissements.
"Ah, so you're the bad luck kwami. I must thank you for conditioning this body so well," Touttais said. Plagg hissed at him.
"Use me too, Ladybug!" Plagg said.
"How?" Ladybug said leaping away from Touttais who laughed and gave chase.
"Claws Out!"
"Plagg, Claws Out!" The magic washed over her and she nearly fell from the rush of power. It was dizzying. She leapt away farther than she'd ever expected to and saw a confused Touttais behind her. She looked down at her new mismatched hands and pulled a staff off her back. It was a swirl of red and black topped with a yin-yang shaped head piece with the red part having a black dot but the black part having a green dot. She had the powers of creation and destruction at her command and didn't know how to use it! She led Touttais back to the crater and saw the other minions were missing. No! Then she heard something armored land next to her. It was Dark Blade? No. This armor was white.
"My lady! I am Hawkmoth's Champion, White Knight!" It was Mr. D'argencourt but he was not evil.
"Can you summon an army to stop his six friends?" she asked.
"I can form an army of volunteers!" White Knight said.
"Please do so, we need to get Paris evacuated!" she said. She blocked an attack from Touttais and kicked him back as White Knight leapt away.
"Lady of Fortune needing help? What a pity. Here I thought this would mean you were more formidable!" he said.
"You've had that body for two hours at most, I've had these powers for a few moments," Ladybug said. No. Calling herself "Ladybug" while like this didn't seem right. Without Chat Noir, there was no Ladybug.
"And it's Fortuna to you, demon!" she said getting in another good hit, this one sent him deep into the crater.
"You presume the name of a goddess and call me a demon? You're bold," Touttais said.
— —
Nathanaël was helping his grandmother pack up her house and get out the door. Paris needed to be evacuated. There was some sort of monster even Ladybug couldn't stop. His parents were downstairs helping others.
"My neighbor. Mr. Fu. He lives alone. Please, help him," his grandmother asked.
"Of course," the redhead said before he helped her down the stairs to the waiting car. He saw the house next-door to the complex his grandmother lived in was also some sort of business.
"Sir, do you need any help getting out of here?" Nathanaël asked, entering.
"It's not safe," the man said, "You had better join your family. I'm old and I've lived my life."
"No, sir," Nathanaël said, "Gather whatever you need to and I'll make room for you with my parents." the man nodded before he gathered up a few things including an old phonograph. He helped Mr. Fu out the door only to see something headed right for them.
"Dude, duck!" Nathanaël and Mr. Fu were tackled out of the way by Nino.
"Nino, are you alright?" It was Alya.
"We're all ok in here," Nino said helping Mr. Fu up, "Nathanaël , what are you doing here?"
"My grandmother lives next door, and I was helping Mr. Fu," he said.
"We were covering the evacuation of Paris but one of those demons deiced to head this way," Alya said. She looked outside and they were trapped. Nathanaël joined her and called his parents.
"They're ok. Please, go without me," he said, "We can get out a different way." He was terrified but his parents and grandmother needed to get out. He'd daydreamed about being a superhero in the past. Now it was time to try to act like one.
"That was very selfless," Mr. Fu said.
"Do you have a way out the back?" Nino said.
"Of course," Mr. Fu said.
— —
They saw the old man to his car and watched as he drove away after tucking something into Nino's hand. It was the bracelet he'd been wearing but now it was green?
"What's this?" Alya said finding a box in her purse. Nathanaël looked into his messenger bag and found the same box. They opened them just as the bracelet glowed and soon three small floating beings were before them.
"I'm Wayzz." said the green turtle one.
"I'm Vulpii!" said the small red fox one.
"I'm Nambii!" said the small fuzzy bee one.
"You three were chosen by the Guardian to wield Miraculous stones. In this time of crisis, Ladybug will need all the help she can get," Wayzz said, "You hold the Turtle Miraculous known for Order and Protection, Nino."
"You, hold the Bee miraculous, Alya, known for Diligence and Rebirth."
"You hold the Fox Miraculous, known for Illusions and Creativity, Nathanaël . You know, you're my most adorable chosen yet," Vulpii said batting her violet eyes at him. He blushed.
"Does Ladybug have someone like you?" Alya asked as she placed the now silver comb in her hair, pinning part of it back. The others slipped on their Miraculous too.
"Her name's Tikki. Chat Noir's is called Plagg," Wayzz said, "Unlike Ladybug and Chat Noir, you three work better alone or with your opposite. Bee has no opposite and the Peacock is inactive and the Butterfly is Hawkmoth," Wayzz said, "Poor Nooroo."
"How do we do this?" Alya asked.
"For you, it's Stripes On," Nambii said.
"For you it's Shell Out," Wayzz said.
"Fangs Bared." Vulpii demonstrated, though because of her size, it looked adorable.
"Here goes everything. Stripes On!"
"Shell Out!"
"Fangs Bared."
Nathanaël watched as Vulpii was pulled into the necklace turning it back to its foxtail form and the magic washed over him in red-orange light. He blinked when the lights cleared and his eyes felt different.
"Looking good!" Alya's costume was streamlined like Ladybug's with black stripes going up and down her body, but it looked like she had black boots and gloves with a pair of fluttering wings and a top on her hip. He hair had been re-arranged into and undo and it looked golden instead of the two-toned brown-red it had been before. Her mask was a simple yellow and black striped domino mask. Nino wore what looked like a letter vest over a green racing jumpsuit tucked into green boots. His hair was the same, but his mask was a broad strip of green cloth a lot like a certain cartoon team of turtles. On his back was a shell-shaped-shield. Nathanaël looked down at his costume and it was form fitted too, not spandex, but something similar. It was an autumn tree color versus the bright red-orange of the tail he saw swish into view. His gloves were an orange-brown, tipped with claws. His boots were the same color as the gloves and across his back was a giant paintbrush instead of a flute. It looked a bit like a calligraphy brush. He saw his reflection and his mask was bright red with a white edging and his eyes were slitted like a fox. On his head was a pair of short fox ears, but his wilder, longer hair covered his read ones. He know knew how Chat Noir felt.
"Looking good! Let's go save Paris!" Alya said before she took off, literally, flying ahead of the two guys who exchanged looks and took off running after her.
— —
Alya arrived at the scene of one of the possessed first and saw a man in armor fighting her. She looked closer and it was a possessed Aurore Beauréal.
"Who are you supposed to be? Buzzkill?" the possess Aurore said.
"Who are you supposed to be? Xena?" Alya said.
"My name is Andraste!" she screamed.
"I have this fell beast contained, fair maiden. but there are those who also need your help," the knight said.
"If you're sure. By the way, it's Rumble-Bee!" Alya/Rumble-Bee said before she buzzed off to find someone else to fight.
— —
"Thanks for the save, Ninja Turtle."
"It's Hero Turtle, dude!" Nino/Hero Turtle said whenever he came across a possessed dude throwing giant heads at people.
"Who are you, the Horseless Headsman?" Hero Turtle said.
"The name's Rudianos!"
— —
"Get back here you little rat!" Nathanaël /Red Fox had used his ability of illusion to buy a whole group of people time to escape but now his miraculous was close to powering down. He needed to hide. That looked like Mireille but it wasn't.
"Watch it, Touttais!"
"Like I can control where I land when the Lady of Fortune sends me into the dirt." With a beep and a tired Vulpii, it was Nathanaël who looked up to see someone he thought was Ladybug but her outfit was way different.
"Two for one?" she said before she changed with a staff no one had ever seen her use before.
"You're tiring trying to contain that power, Lady of Fortune. Whereas I'm just getting warmed up!"
"Fortune's Favor!" the staff was tossed into the air and the night's sky was clouded over, blocking the full moon , The staff descend just as a downpour hit. The demons hissed as the water hit their skin.
"You have merely stopped us for a short time with this purifying rain, Lady of Fortune, but this will not be enough to save this city!" Touttais hissed before he and the other melted into shadows and vanished.
As usual, Ladybug was amazing! She leapt away and Nathanaël could have sworn there were tears running down her face along with the rain.
—
Alya felt exhilarated whenever she arrived home after she helped evacuate Paris during that rain storm Ladybug had summoned. The rain had yet to let up even after nearly ten hours. Whatever it was, it kept the demons at bay. The TV flickered on and Ladybug in her upgraded form was on the screen.
"Hello, I'm not sure if this is broadcasting. I've looked over the internet today and noticed there were new heroes. I thank you. I must ask you too to leave Paris. This fight will be long and dangerous. I will be modifying this storm so that it surrounds the borders of Paris keeping these demons contained within the city limits. Hawkmoth, if you're listening, make any attempts for my Miraculous and you will only be helping these demons. Think about how you want to be known. To anyone outside of Paris seeing this broadcast, stay clear of this city until I manage to cleanse these monsters from it. I will do what I can as fast as I can. I promise."
Alya knew where the studio was and was out the door with Zambii following her gripping her bottle of honey.
She was not going let her chosen leave without her! It wasn't safe to go alone. Alya grabbed a bike and zoomed through the city. The storm changed like Ladybug had promised it would, and soon she wasn't even getting wet.
She arrived as the improved-Ladybug exited.
"Ladybug!" she looked over at Alya. Whatever she was going to say died whenever Zambii floated into view.
"Just because Paris is supposed to be deserted doesn't mean you can have your kwami floating out like that."
"What's with the upgrade?" Alya said.
"I'm using Chat Noir's Miraculous too. Claws in," the form changed back to regular Ladybug and a black cat floated out looking woozy.
"Cheeessee!" he moaned.
"You never change. I'm Zambii," Zambii said shaking her head.
"Alya, This is dangerous for you and those others. The ladybug and black cat miraculous are—."
"The two most powerful. Zambii told me," Alya said. Zambii nodded.
"Hey!" They turned to see Red Fox and Hero Turtle run over to them in the darkened streets.
"We totally kicked everyone out of out sectors," Hero Turtle said. Ladybug looked him over and massaged the bridge of her nose.
"Nino," she said.
"How'd you know?"
"Lucky guess," Ladybug said, "Nothing I can say will get you to leave Paris, will it?"
"Nope. You're stuck with us, Ladybug!" Alya said. Red Fox grinned.
"Fine. Follow me," Ladybug said walking down the road with the others falling in behind her.
"Where are we headed?"
"My house," Ladybug said, "I normally wouldn't even think of doing this but we really don't have a choice in this situation."
"Oh, Lady of Creation, I'm sure it's not that bleak." Ladybug growled and threw her yo-yo at Touttais who was lounging on a roof like Chat Noir had done on occasion. With his graceful dodge, she knew he'd done that just to remind her. Hero Turtle glared at Touttais who casually stretched and struck a pose. Hero Turtle was pissed. He recognized what famous person's body this particular monster was using.
"Get out of him!" Hero Turtle yelled.
"Oh, another person who wants me to leave this perfect vessel? Lady of Creation have you been coaching them so you can have your Black Cat back? More than one plea, not even from the Lord of Order, will make me give this up!" Touttais.
"Lord of Order?"
"We don't have time for this, Rumble-Bee," Ladybug said.
"Stripes On!" Alya said which caused Nambii to drop the honey. Rumble-Bee stood ready. Ladybug wasn't pulling any punches. She maneuvered Touttais into a position where she knocked him off the roof into a massive puddle of water. He screamed as he leapt out of it. It was still the blessed rain water.
"You ready, Plagg?" Ladybug asked. The others noticed there was a gourmet cheese shop next to them. Lucky. Oh wait, they were with the heroine blessed by it. Plagg came out with a chunk in his paws before throwing it in the air and swallowing it.
"Ready."
"Claws Out!" Her costume changed.
"So now you're "Fortuna" again. Am I such a threat?" Touttais said.
"You have someone we want, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to get him free!" Fortuna said.
"Well, this seems like a fight I can't win. Ta!" Touttais turned into shadows and vanished.
"So, your house?" Rumble-Bee said.
"Let's collect some of this water just in case," Hero Turtle said, "That was a gnarly advantage to have."
"I controlled the storm so that the water flows into Paris, these puddles aren't drying up anytime soon," Fortuna said, "Also, it's part of the Seine now."
"Sweet!"
"Won't you end up flooding Paris?" Red Fox asked.
"Possibly, but I have a bad feeling that more of Paris will be destroyed as we take out these demons. We need to get to my house before nightfall."