It's really him, Ladybug would never be able to forget that unnaturally large-toothed sneer Ramsey gave her as he ran off, and he's really looking like a bovine…person now. If I anger him any further…

"Ladybug!"

She looked back to see Chat Noir running up along the other railing as people moved back. "Corner him before he gets close to the Bourgeois'!"

She nodded. The crowd was focused on them now, chanting their names as they focused their attention on Ramsey. "Raven is on the roofs somewhere," she told Chat as they closed in, "let's see if he can keep up now that we're on the case."

"Oh gosh," Chloe squealed over the crowd when she spotted them, "yoo-hoo, Ladybug, over here! It's your number one fan, Chloe Bourgeois! Not that you don't already know that!"

And now all of Paris knows it, too.

Ramsey was at the end of the bridge now. Any further and he'd be close enough to leap onto the stage. With little time left she grabbed her yo-yo and whipped it out at his legs, wrapping around them and throwing him face first to the ground. The crowd gave him a wide berth as she and Chat Noir jogged over to his sides. "There's nowhere to go now, Ramsey," Chat warned him as the scientists got to his elbows, "it's time to pay for your crimes."

This wasn't so hard, Ladybug looked up to the roof where she'd seen Raven, guess he was all bark and no bite-?

Ramsey didn't plead for freedom or call them meddling kids. Instead he began to chuckle; cackle, really. "I didn't come all the way to Paris to be caught by a pair of foreigners," his voice was gruff as a bear, "I came to make the perfect getaway, and that's exactly what I'm going to do!" When his back arched up Ladybug knew they were in trouble. "No one bests me – no one bests Killer!"

He was growing, short dark hair reaching over his skin as his face grew, snout lengthening. As his shirt stretched over his hulking shoulders he got on his hind legs, hooves where his shoes once were. He turned to the lucky duo, sunglasses gone. Dark eyes glaring.

He had grown into a Minotaur, caught in the middle of a huge crowd of unarmed pedestrians.

"Everyone," Ladybug yelled at the top of her lungs, "get out of here, now!" She leaped over Killer and onto the stage, grabbing a microphone from Chloe. "Evacuate the premises," she commanded, "monster on the loose!"

Chloe screamed and nearly fainted as the crowd began to disperse in a panic. Chat and Killer circled each other, giving people time to get out of their way. It didn't take long for the bridge to clear, but even with all the extra space to fight she didn't see a way to overcome Killer's huge body. "Chat," She spoke through the microphone, causing both to wince, "oops, sorry. Take the front!"

She dropped the mic and leapt up onto Killer's shoulders, holding onto the large horns sprouting from his head. As he tried to shake her off Chat stuck his baton under one of his hooves, tripping him back as Ladybug flipped onto his chest. "Pests," he grumbled, "bugs under my hoof!"

"This is over before it begins, Killer," Ladybug told him as Chat smiled, "we know who you are, and we're here to stop you."

"Better use past tense, m'lady, because I think this fight is over."

Killer gave a chuckle. "Arrogance. What a favourable weakness in my opponents."

Not liking that confidence.

Killer jumped to his feet, throwing Ladybug off and right into Chat Noir. They tumbled to the ground as he snorted at them, dragging one hoof along the ground. He was getting ready to charge. "Up, up, up," Chat grabbed her in a bridal carry and ran up to the stage as Killer charged past, "too close!"

"Running away?" Killer jeered their way as Chloe and Mayor Bourgeois huddled on the back corner of the stage, the technician long gone. He looked around at the few people still staying behind, including Alya and Lila on the bridge and a couple other pedestrians around the legs of the Eiffel Tower. "You would run from your…responsibilities?"

"That's enough out of you," Ladybug snapped back, "we will defeat you!"

Chat tapped her shoulder. "Uh…how?"

"How about by putting me down first?" He let her stand before taking a step back as she cracked her knuckles. "Don't lose your cool. We've handled worse – we rode a dragon, remember?"

"Good point."

"And Roger Cop was about as big as Killer is now, and we took him down, too."

"Another good point! Okay," they readied for battle as Killer snorted, "akuma or not, this lucky duo is putting you behind bars!"

"You will not."

It was a new voice from above their heads. They all looked up to the metal bar high over them on the tower, where the lights weren't as bright. Standing with his cape whipping in the wind was Raven, and despite the mesh over his eyes, Ladybug knew he wasn't in one of his good moods.

If he even has a good mood.

"Raven," Killer griped, "you followed me all the way here!"

"Listen to me, Albert," to her surprise he spoke to Killer in an almost calm tone, "you were a great scientist, and you can be one again. Give up your life of crime and allow me to help you!"

"We're beyond that," he waved his bulged arms around, "I've seen how your hero allies treat me, how the people look at me when I transform. I'm a monster, and so I'm going to be the monster, the greatest monster! Thievery was only the beginning!"

He bent his head back and let loose a maniacal howl that shook the lights on the tower. Ladybug felt shivers run down her spine as Killer seemed to grow another inch, then two more.

He's…he's truly lost it…and now there's no on at the reigns!

Oh yeah, people, we've got a Minotaur on the loose! Never has the lucky duo faced such a terrifying beast...well, save for the dragon, but at the same time, they had hair gel. No hair gel to get them out of this jam. And how can the arrival of Raven help them to overcome Ramsey's insane new strength? Ooh, the twists just keep coming!

Until the next chapter!