Ladybug ran over the rooftops, looking for the akuma and Chat Noir, thinking she probably should have told Maxie what the akuma was, but she could do that later
when the akuma had been dealt with. It should have been easy to find a flying chariot pulled by deer with a girl shooting arrows at people, but for some reason she couldn't find the akuma.
"Ladybug!" she heard from her right. When she looked she saw Chat, coming across rooftops to get to her. "I saw the akuma by the Louvre."
"Good work, let's go." she said as she started to head in that direction.
When they got there, the akuma was gone, nothing but wild animals running away from girls in togas wielding knives and bows. They were looking for clues as to where the akuma had gone when they heard a bloodcurdling scream. It was pretty easy to figure out where the akuma was then. When they got to where the scream had originated from, they saw the akuma had cornered two students, Lily and Nathaniel, Nathaniel acting as a shield for Lily, willing to get hit with an arrow then let his new friend be hit. The akuma let an arrow loss but before it could hit Nathaniel, a blur of green ran from out of the shadows and went in front of Nathaniel, tacking the arrow instead of him. When the arrow had disappeared, they saw that the girl was Maxie, and then she collapsed to the ground, a look of horror on Lily's face as it happened.
"Not you again! Fine, the goddess Artemis doesn't need that girl anyway, I'll just get some stronger girls to join my hunt." the akuma, Artemis as she said, left and Ladybug and Chat came rushing to the two frightened students with their friend on the ground.
"It's not safe here she could turn into a huntress, I guess is what they're called, any second now. We have to…" Chat started to say when before they knew it, Maxie was on her feet, stretching, toga free, as if nothing had happened.
"Well, the were off time took longer that time, so I should probably avoid the arrows for a while, maybe use that shield I've been working on, though I would need to finish it first, ah well, It doesn't matter if I can't find how to stop the greek geek."
"Wait, how are you not one of her evil minions?"
"Magical hoodie, it's virtually invincable, comes in handy in times like this, now if you'll excuse me, cosplayers, I need to go anger the greek gods by stealing the arrows of the moon goddess."
"Wo wo wo, you're going to confront a villain who wants to turn paris into her hunting grounds, without help might I add, and armed with only a hoodie?"
"Yes, but I'm not armed with only a hoodie, I also have 13 boomerangs and a really, really, really, long piece of rope, besides it's what I always do when by home is threatened, I confront it head on, ever since I was seven."
"You are not fighting a villain."
"And you expect me to let two cosplayers, I have been fighting the bad since I was seven, when I swore to myself to fix every wrong doing, stop every bad guy, and I will not stop today, nor tomorrow, nor the day after that, nor the next, nor the next, nor for the rest of eternity, I will always protect my home from evil."
"We are not cosplayers," Ladybug said, halting the argument for a little bit, "we are superheroes."
Maxie looked them up and down, then said, "Well at least your costumes are practical, they're not flashy like some I've seen and they aren't like 'hey I'm this guy give me praise and adoration with or without the mask so I can be famous and get lots of money' and the masked aren't full head masks, so more trust involved, but the body suits look like they might cause a bit of creepers and all that stuff, but it's more easy to move I bet, and no capes, and they look comfy, so what are your names?"
"My name is Ladybug, and his is Chat Noir."
An excited screech come from behind them, and before they knew it, Lily was everywhere around Chat, in front of him, behind him, even sitting on his head. "Oh my gosh! It's a cat superhero, and he's got cat ears, and cat eyes, and a cat tail, and cat claws, and cat paws! Simcha! This is the best day of my life!" Then she was jumping up and down repeatedly, squealing like a toddler on christmas morning.
"Ok Lily, why don't you go inside with tomato boy, you know, be safe, while I talk with the supers here, and you know, get some autographs for you from cat boy ok, now, shoo, go hide." Maxie said to get Lily to get to safety, then once Lily and Nathaniel had left she turned Ladybug and Chat Noir. " So let's go fight the moon!"
"You are not fighting anything, you are to go hide with the rest of the remaining citizens of Paris."
"Oh come on, you need me, I'm the only one who knows where to find the evil one, and I have the only defense against her, so come on, let's go."
"There is no way you know where she is going, now if you could please hide that would be appreciated."
"FINE, try to find her on your own, but when you can't find miss am-arrow-ca, don't come crying to me." And with that, Maxie left, pushing past Ladybug and Chat.
"Well, that wasn't as crull as it was with Chloe that one time, but it was still kinda mean. You really need to work on your attitude a little bit. I mean, you have already akumatized two people by being rude to them, at least I'm assuming you caused Lila's since after she turned back to normal you said sorry to her." Chat tolled Ladybug, rushing the last bit, mentally slapping himself for letting something like that slip, but luckily for him, Ladybug didn't notice it.
"You're right, I really need to work on that. Superheroes don't need to make their own bad guys to fight. Come on, let's go find Artemis."
Three hours. They were looking for three hours but could not find Artemis. When they took a break from looking, Chat pulled out his stick to check the news to see if they could find Artemis that way. But when they were watching the livestream they got more than a little shock. It turned out that the only reason that all of Paris hadn't been turned into huntress or wild animals was because Maxie appeared seconds after or before Artemis did at her next stop and slowed her down.
"I guess we better go find Maxie." Ladybug said, getting ready to throw her yoyo. "I'm just hoping we can find her."
"Found her," Maxie said, suddenly appearing behind them, "you guys are way too easy to track, and that's not a good thing when fighting the goddess of hunting, she can tell you're coming from a mile away and then moves to a different area, you need more stealth with this girl."
"How did you get up on the top of a building?!"
"I have my ways, anywho, first we have some business to take care of, what do you have to say?"
"I'm sorry for doubting you."
"Good, now here's what we need for my plan, we need a net, some duct tape, a desk, chicken broth, a tube a toothpaste, popcorn, the sword excalibur, one used tissue, a hair styling kit, a makeup kit, a flag, a tutu, a plant, and a victim, so, who volunteers?"
"Wait, aren't you going to tell us the plan first?"
"Thanks for volunteering cat boy, now, you go get the net and popcorn, you stay here, and I'll get the rest, ready break!"
"Stop, stop, stop, stop. Just stop. You need to tell us what the plan is first."
"No I don't, you just need to trust me and hope I'm not evil, ooohhh, I'll give you guys time to talk it over."
She walked to the other side of the roof, giving them privacy. "So, should we trust her or not. She seems good, but I'm not willing to be bait for her 'trustworthy non-evil plan'."
"It does seem like we should trust her…"
"I could be evil though, and I can hear you guys, you need to be quieter."
They both looked at her and then went back to talking, quieter this time. When they were done, they walked over to Maxie. "Alright Maxie," Ladybug started, "we will trust you and your plan on one condition, you never leave our sight till this is done."
"Great, now, you go get the stuff I told you to get, and I'll get the stuff I was going to get, ready break!" As soon as Maxie finished talking, she was gone, and she came back a minute later. "Did you get the net and the popcorn like I said?"
"There is no why you got all of that stuff in…" Chat was cut of by Maxie pulling all of the stuff she needed out of her bag, except for the net and the popcorn. "I'll go find the net and popcorn, and where do you find the excalibur?"
Chat came back five minutes later with the net and the popcorn. "Now cat boy, stand there while I get you ready." Maxie said, a menacing look on her face as she held up the tutu and a tube of lipstick. 10 minutes later, Chat had the tutu on and so much makeup he looked like a clown.
"This had better be worth it, I don't want anyone to see me like this unless it's totally worth it"
"Don't worry, just go out there, and mock some annoying girl you know, It'll drive her crazy, hopefully, and she'll focus all of her attention on you, while I get the rest of the plan carried out."
"So, are we going to find her, or…"
"Shush"
"But…"
"Shhhhhhhhh!"
They waited there for a minute in silence, then Maxie led them to an alleyway.
"When do we go!"
"Three, two, one…"
Right after Maxie said one, Artemis appeared across the street, her Huntresses in tow.
"Right on time, now, do what I told you to do, and the plan should work, or she'll notice me and bug girl before we get the chance to trap her and the world ends, now, unleash the anger of the Gods!" Maxie whisper yelled, as she shoved Chat out in the open. "I'll send you a picture of him when the chaos dies down."
Chat called out to Artemis pretending to be a girl, to which Ladybug realized that it was Chloe that he was imitating.
"Okay, take this net reinforced with the tape and the plant, I'll throw the tissue with the toothpaste and chicken broth inside it at her, then you'll throw the net on her, then she'll trip on the desk and I'll use the sword to pin the net to the desk, let's … where's the desk, I must have let it on the building, argh, now what are we supposed to do!?" She was looking around and then looked at Ladybug. "Do the thing."
"What thing?"
"The magic thing, you've got a magic 'make something' thing that you do."
"How do you know that if you just moved here?"
"How do you know I just moved here?"
"Well I…"
"It doesn't matter, lets just do the magic thing and get this done with."
Ladybug sighed a breath of relief, then took out her yoyo, threw it up in the air and yelled, "Lucky charm!" Ladybugs swirled in the air above Ladybug, and when they disappeared, a red and black spoted office chair fell in front of Ladybug.
"Poifect! Now after I throw the tissue at her, throw the net and we got her!"
When they left the alleyway, Chat was screaming like a little girl, running with his arms waving like noodles in the air, with Artemis hot on his trail. Maxie brought the office chair, which had its wheels taken off, into Artemis' path a few yards ahead, then yelled, "Look out, Catboy!" and through the tissue. It soared over Chats head, as he moved to the side, and hit artemis in the face. She yelled not very nice words about how the soup was like dog drool, then the net fell on her, and she stumbled around until she tripped on the chair and landed on it. That's when Maxie practically falls from the sky and stabs the sword through the net and the chair, trapping Artemis.
"Tada!" Maxie proclaimed with a smile on her face and a bow.
"How did you fall from the sky?"
"I jumped really high."
"Can-can we sit down?" Chat panted as he came up to them.
"There's plenty of space on the ground and you don't need my permission, so… sit!"
After everything went back to normal, Maxie went to find her new friends, and found them in Marinette's house. They worked on the project, cut some stuff out, and had an epic battle to see who could catch more food in their mouth, the events of the afternoon fading from their minds as they bonded over food.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Sorry for the wait! School and stuff. I hope you like it! Comment, tells others, and give me ideas you have!
