Protectors: Clash of Gems
By adventuremaker16
Chapter 6: Another day, another akuma part 1
"DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE AFTER LOVE!" Star shouted as she jumps on top of Adrien's bed. Screaming her head off to the loud music that was Cher. Adrien was twirling around in his rolling chair with Steven as the two listened to the blonde lip sync to the words on Adrien's computer screen.
Downstairs, Gabriel was clenching his pen with all his might, trying to ignore the loud sounds coming from his sounds bedroom. "I swear, my son is going to be the death of me." He whispered to himself. "I knew I should have just akumatized someone today."
A few seconds of loud music and joy later, Ladybug, Queen Bee and Connie enter Adrien's room by opening his window. What they got, was a hyper group of young teens singing to American music.
"Do you believe in life after love! I can feel something inside me say! I really don't think you're strong enough!" Star shouted before jumping so high she nearly hit the rooftop. Adrien and Steven were so busy spinning around the room, they barely notice the girl nearly killed herself when she landed face first onto the wooden floor.
"Okay, who gave rainbow princess here sugar?" Ladybug asked with worry.
"Who introduced Cher to Adrien?" Queen Bee asked with a small hint of fear. Connie ignores the two girl's before walking over to the computer. Turning off the music, the three hyper happy children looked at the Connie.
"Why!?" Adrien shouted. "We were having so much fun!"
"Fun? You mean playing pinball like a bunch of idiots?" Queen Bee asked.
"Rude!" Star said before jumping down from Adrien wooden floor, leaving a face print hole on the wooden surface. "If you must know, we were getting along! We have to become friends in order to be stronger!"
"That makes no sense." Ladybug said.
"Actually it makes wonderful sense!" Steven shouted. "The more time we spend together, the more kick butt action team we become!"
"We are not comic book or cartoon characters." Queen Bee responded.
"But we are the protectors! Saving the day while looking good!" Star shouted. Before Adrien could say anything, his door swung open to reveal an angry father and a nerve wrecking assistant.
"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU PLAYING YOUR MUSIC SO LOUD!?" Gabriel shouted at his son. Adrien quickly looks over his shoulders to see his friend were gone.
'Oh my god, Star was right! We are ninja's!' Adrien thought, not noticing the cracked opened closet door near the entrance of his bathroom that all his friends just squeezed into.
"Why couldn't you teleport us to the second floor?" Queen bee growled as she tried to remove Steven's gem encrusted stomach from her face. Even though Adrien was rich, his closet wasn't big enough to stuff two superheroes, a hybrid, a knight, a lion and all of Adrien's manga.
"I panicked…" Steven muttered.
"So are we going to ignore the lion in the room?" Ladybug asked as she stared at a pink Lion that was staring straight down at her. "Literally?"
"We have more pressing matters to attend to, Ladybug!" Connie muttered loudly.
"Really?" Ladybug asked. Back out front was Adrien explain to his father why he was listening to music. His lies were not convincing to the older male.
"So yea! That's why I need the music that loud, father." Adrien explained, Leaving confused and almost scared expression on the adults faces.
To this, the older blonde turned to his assistant and said "Schedule a meeting with Dr. Pende on Monday, I feel that my son needs to talk to someone."
"Like his father?" Nat asked. All Gabriel did was scoff at his assistant's comments.
"Your lucky your in too deep with the plan, my dear assistant. And your even more lucky it'll take both of us to take the miraculouses from Ladybug and Chat Noir. Never forget that the peacock works with the butterfly."
Roughly 20 minutes later, all 9 of the squad mates are outside the mansion as they were walking off into town. Luckily Ladybug and Queen Bee turned back in secret to their alter egos. Lion teleported to who knows where to do what Lion does best, but not before Connie put her sword in his magical mane so she wouldn't draw attention.
"So whats with the meeting?" Connie asked the native french members.
"Oh, its gonna be awesome." Alya started to explain. "Two of our classmates, Kim and Alix, are about to have another contest and we thought it would be cool to introduce you guys to our class."
"And don't worry about translating, we got that covered," Chloe added on.
The squad headed on until they got to the park in Paris where the squad sees a bunch of people their age there. When they arrived, a meekly girl with orange hair, a well dressed outfit and glasses rushed up to them.
"There you guys are," She said to them as she saw the 4 others. "New friends, Chloe?"
"Not exactly new, Sabrina," Chloe told her. "This is Marco, Connie, Steven and Star. Their just visiting from out of town."
Sabrina then realized where she heard those names before as her eyes widen. "OOH, Your American friends, of course. Now I remember," and she turns to them. "Sabrina Ranixcorn, It's a pleasure to meet the overseas friends of Chloe and the others. Why don't I introduce you all to the others?"
The 4 out of town visitors all agree and see the others: a goth chick named Julika and her adorable pink girlfriend Rose, another nerd clad in green named Max, a shy red haired tomato child named Nathaniel, a short skater with pink hair named Alix, a tall confident one named Kim, a tough blue haired japanese girl named Kagami, a tall beefy one named Ivan and his shorter plus sized girlfriend Meyline, a dark skinned boy in a red hoodie named Marc (in which Marco thought it was like looking in a mirror), and an older teenager with a guitar with no eyelashes named Luka. After they all met each other, Alix and Kim got ready for their race.
"So whats the story behind these two?" Connie asked Max, curious about the rivalry.
"Alix and Kim have this petty rivalry in which they need to show off whenever they can, which involves physical feats of the human body," He gladly told her. "It's quite fun to observe."
"But last time didn't count," Chloe added on. "I was still in my bitch phase, broke Alix's hologram pocket watch and got her akumatized into Chronogirl. But we've patched things up."
"Along with a week of you being my servant, but yes, Chloe and Sabrina pretty much welcome with all of us after what they've did to Lila," Alex finished it up.
"Who's Lila?" Steven asked curiously.
"Hologram pocket watch?" Star asked herself, wondering about how a human got their hands on extra terrestrial technology.
"She's the worst person in our grade. She lies constantly, she cheats, she makes everyone feel bad for the sake of making people feel bad and she tried getting everyone to think shes the fox hero. Alya and Chloe disproved her somehow and that's how she was shunned from our group," Kagami told them. "Plus Chloe slugged Lila across the face after making Adrien feel like crap on mother's day. To be honest, I kind of disliked Chloe until she did that to her."
"Pretty sure we all did that beforehand, Kagami," Julika added on. "She honestly tries not to go back to who she was before, but one by one, she made up with each one of us."
Steven understands all too well how Adrien and Chloe feel about their mothers. Adrien's mother has been dead (or was it missing) for about two years now and Chloe's mother couldn't care less about her daughter, even abandoning her when she was just a toddler. He then goes over to Adrien and Chloe and gives them a hug to make them not remember that day.
"It's ok, Steven. Lila made sure not to go that far again," Chloe assured Steven.
"Steven's mother died giving birth to him, so he knows more then any of us what it's like to not have a mother," Connie told the others.
"That's so sad," Rose said, tearing up.
"He's so selfless," Meyline added on.
"But I'm at peace with it," Steven told them all, not wanting to make them upset. They understand and they were about to start the race as they see a groundskeeper on the other side of the park being yelled at by his banding boss about what not to do while trimming the hedges in the shapes he was contracted to do. The boss walked away as the groundskeeper fell to his knees and started to sob into his hands.
"That can't be good," Alya said, accidentally jinxing it.
In an unknown location, a huge window slides open mechanically, revealing a room filled with white butterflies and in the middle was Papillion himself, ready to akumatize the unknowing victim.
"Once again," he began, "The poor souls are in need of a restoration, unable to bloom as the shadow looms on them." At that moment, he held his hand out as a butterfly landed on it, then infused it with his dark miraculous magic. He lets him go into the world, saying "Go my akuma, and darken his heart."
Back at the park, the akumatized butterfly landed and absorbed into the poor man's spade. He then begins to hear a voice in his head, but the voice sounded pleasing and hopeful to the poor soul.
"Gardener, you probably know who I am by now, but just in case, I am Papillion, and I'm here to sign a contract with you. I shall let you turn Paris into your own garden if you give me Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculous."
"What about Queen Bee and the other two?" He asked honestly.
"The Bee and the Turtle miraculous serve no purpose to me, but if you can, try to get me the Fox miraculous as well. It'll come in handy later on."
"Then consider it a deal," the man said, smiling as the akuma takes over his body, transforming him into a plant based humanoid with tools around him, hellbent on making Paris his personal Eden.
The huge squad sees this and knows whats about to happen as they try to panic. Star, knowing what to do in panics, screams at the group, particularly at the non-miraculous Parisians, to get their attention. Since she is the leader of the Protectors and they've been known world wide as a start up superhero team, they start listening to her.
"OK, here's what were gonna do," Star told them all, assuming command over the situation. "Connie, since your sword's with Lion, you and the Parisians help with the evacuation of the citizens. Make sure everyone is inside and safe from this plant thingy. Once you get your sword from Lion and everyone is safe, come back and join us. Steven, Marco, your with me. We'll distract planty here until the miraculous heroes arrive. Were gonna need our friend Ladybug to help purify this thing."
Everyone unanimously agrees to the plan as Connie and the Parisians all bolt off, trying to help the citizens to find shelter in anything they can: buildings, restaurants, homes, schools, even the Grand Paris Hotel. As they left, Marco flipped out his scissors and split them in two to turn them into makeshift dimensional daggers, while Steven summoned his shield over his right arm, and Star whipped out her wand from her purse and it begins glowing.
"Alright Squad, lets go gardening," Star proclaimed as they all rush into battle, ready to save Paris from the weekly act of Akuma based terrorism.
Inside the dome, Papillion was shocked to learn of this development. "So the hybrid, the crazy girl and her so called boyfriend are battling me instead?" He said, smiling. "Well, they surely have a death wish, but if you wish to make an enemy out of me, Protectors, then you've got one. Just say I didn't warn you."