Author's Note: Hey everyone here's the new chapter! Sorry for taking so long I have to cycle through my other projects and such and writing takes a bit on top of that but here we are. This chapter is short not much to it it's filler really but it moves the story along and that's what counts. Two things here um, first there's a drawing that goes along with this chapter and you can find it on the other sites I use. The second is a big nod and thank you goes to my beta reader Warmach1ne32 of this very sites who actually helped to co-write this chapter and gave me their blessing to post it. That's it. I hope you like the chapter. I don't own Miraculous Ladybug or CardCaptor Sakura in any way, shape, or form. Reviews welcome.

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Chapter 07
Application

HONK! SCREECH!

Sounds like those were going off all through the area as a runaway bus roared and swerved its way down the street. Trying to keep their footing atop the bus, scarf and cape fluttering behind them, was Ladybug and Chat Noir. Standing across from them was a figure with purple skin and dressed in the classic outfit of a mime and was the perpetrator behind today's fiasco.

It had been a normal day for Marinette. Get up, do homework, and finish repairing her friend, Mylene, dad's hat for a show he has later today.

After passing the hat off and watching as he put his lucky charm, a photo of Mylene into his hat, Marinette had waved them off and had gone back upstairs to work on a possible new accessory and kick herself for the incident with Alix and her watch a few weeks ago for the umpteenth time and how sloppy she had been, before the sounds of screams and chaos in the city reached her. As did a familiar slimy feeling.

Transforming and flying towards the sources of the chaos Ladybug found Chat sword fighting the being before them who had been holding some sort of invisible weapon.
And of course, her arrival had coincided with the moment Chat had taken a punch to the stomach that had Ladybug wincing.

If their costumes weren't armored…

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After a long day of modeling, Adrien had been ready to relax in bed, listen to music, and just zone out until dinner time. Luckily today is one of those, once in a blue moon days, where he has no school today, he finished his homework yesterday, all photo shoots are done, and no business meetings with potential business partners today. The only thing that can ruin it would be an Akuma attack.

And it is with that thought, a purple mime just silently sped past the car on an invisible motorbike. Hoo boy.

The Gorilla saw the Akuma too and quickly stepped on the gas back to the mansion. Once there, Adrien bolted to his room, locked the door, transformed and jumped out of the house. He quickly traversed the rooftops in the direction he saw the Akuma float towards. He found him on top of a bus near the Eiffel Tower. With a brief chase and jump, Chat landed on top of the bus and engaged the Akuma who fought back with an invisible sword.

Fighting someone with an invisible weapon is very difficult. Since Chat can't find how long the weapon is, he can't find where he would be safely out of reach. Another disadvantage is that the Akuma Mime could change the shape and length of his weapon. Making it inconsistent and difficult to predict. The good news is that Chat had formal training in swordplay and the Akuma does not. So, he can at least read what the Akuma intended to do to a point.

Suddenly when Chat does an overhead slash, something caught his weapon and it can't be moved. In his surprise, Chat got a punch to his gut and another to his face. Chat, stunned at the blow, was left open for the Mime to stepped on Chat's weapon to keep it in place with his hands overhead for the final blow. Chat quickly let go of his weapon and rolled to the left as the invisible sword came down. Immediately afterwards Ladybug swung to the scene in a flying kick which connected and pushed the Mime back, toward the front of the bus.

"Purrfect timing, my Lady."

Cue the rolled eyes, "Haven't you used that pun before?"

"There are only so many cat puns in the English language, my Lady."

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Ladybug had landed front of Chat and the Mime (what else was she supposed to call him?) had gone after a tour bus and after making sure Chat was ready the two had gone after him which is where they are now.

The foe before them had hijacked the bus somehow with one of his invisible constructs and was now considering them carefully while the two magic users stood wary. Then after a moment the Mime mimed something else and the bus proceeded to swerve for some odd reason and in that moment the Mime struck.

He threw whatever it was and Ladybug dived out of the way and off the side of the bus before there was a flash of pink light and a cry of "FLIGHT!". Chat though was caught by whatever the Mime had thrown and it was quickly apparent that it was a box as he tumbled to the road with a rather comedic and indignant "meow!" Again, sparing Chat a glance to make sure he was OK as he pawed at the box she flew off after the Mime.

It wasn't long before she caught up to them right in front of the Eiffel Tower with the bus making skid marks in the grass in the plaza hosting the Eiffel Tower and as it came to a stop the bus door opened and a man stumbled out, got to his feet, and tried to run away.

But the Mime immediately went after him making his target clear.

But Ladybug wasn't about to let whatever the Mime wanted to do happen as she landed right in front of him her wings dissipating before as she threw a card forward and slammed her staff down on it calling "CLOUD!"

There was an explosion of pink.

As Ladybug watched the Mime flail about it she couldn't but help wonder why he didn't create something to help him fight back when it occurred to her can it be that he can only mime one thing at a time?! Weakness realization had Ladybug looked about urgently.

Meanwhile back with Chat he was sitting in the box, arms crossed and he was pouting. There was no other word for it he was pouting. He did not want to waste a Cataclysm on this box but he didn't know what else to do so eventually in sheer exasperation he grabbed his sword and swung it towards the walls of the box picturing bars as he did so and to his surprise there was a rattling sound and Chat looked in surprise towards the sound before repeating the motion.

Sure, enough there was the sound of rattling bars again. Chat hesitantly reached out and confirmed that he could feel bars and even stick his hand out partially, whereas before it was just a solid cube. Then after debating internally for a second he reached thinking to grab the doorknob to a door. It worked. Chat's eyes half closed as his face morphed into the classic "are you kidding me" expression. He then fell to the ground as the box around him vanished.

Back at the sight of the battle Ladybug watched as the Mime turned a hand-cranked fan in an effort to dispel the fog created by CLOUD. It was only working so well. Running didn't work the magic just followed him.

Crouched down in the magic Ladybug looked at him and then down at an empty water bottle she had found. Standing up, she pointed her staff, focused pink magic before it, and chanted "Lucky Charm!" The magic engulfed can and when it faded the bottle had turned red with black polka dots splashed across it.

Ladybug let out a breath gauging her magic she guessed she didn't have a lot left and she'd be right as one of the dots was now blinking. Ladybug looked up just in time see Chat leap down swinging at his opponent who stopped cranking the fan to swing something at him and the smoke crept back in. Seeing two vague shadows darting about Ladybug looked down at what she held in her hands. Ladybug knew her power worked in a mysterious way so she could only trust that everything will be alright somehow so taking a deep breath she dropped the bottle down and swung her staff, batting it into the smoke.

Meanwhile on Chat's end he was dueling Mime and it was going so-so. It would be hard to tell who exactly was winning as they were both evenly matched and only seeing blobs of each other as the smoke obscured the finer details. Then there was a whooshing and smacking noise as something came whooshing in smashed itself into Mime's face and knocking his hat away into the smoke.

After a moment Ladybug's voice echoed out "Direct hit."

The Mime, holding his face in pain, didn't notice the fog thicken until suddenly his body froze, locking up as a pink glow shone in the smoke.

"Corrupted one, you bound by darkness by creations power, I bind. A concept I name of the form you give, in this I have mastered you, now take the guise I command, BARRIER!"

There was a flash of pink light and the smoke dissipated by Ladybug's mental command as she grabbed a new card from midair and looked at the now whole photograph and hat which laid on the ground. Looking back towards Mylene's father who was back to normal Ladybug watched as Chat approached him and while Ladybug wanted to approach him too she didn't have enough time, so she made do with an apology and farewell. "Sorry about this monsieur, but I'm almost out of time and have to go, have a nice day."

Taking a running start Ladybug jumped up and away over the roofs of Paris but as she left Ladybug saw out of the corner of her eye the man the Mime seemed intent on chasing approach…

Reaching the safety of an alleyway soon enough Ladybug dropped down and let her transformation break and she caught Tikki who appeared and looked up at her and Marinette said "How what that?" With a wink as she raised her new card.

The Kwami smiled "Nicely done Marinette."

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Meanwhile back with Chat.

"Are you alright monsieur?" he asked as he returned Mr. Haprele's mime hat.

"To be honest, not really. I was looking forward to my first major performance at the Eiffel Tower. But my understudy, Chris, sabotaged me to make sure I'm late for dress rehearsal so that he gets the part. Now I'm just sad I wouldn't be able to perform in front of my daughter, Mylene."

"I'm sure if you explained to your troupe what happened they'll understand. You only missed the dress rehearsal, right? so you can still have a chance to get the part."

"You're right, I'll go there right now." Another voice then cut in making them turn around.

"You don't have to, actually."

"Chris." Fred says with barely restrained cold fury.

"I know I tricked you and I want to apologize for that. I already told everything to Sarah and she says that we still have time for dress rehearsal before the show. So you can get the part and be part of the show."

"Thank you, but I'll need to revise your contract so something like this won't happen again. Deal?"

"Deal."

Later that night, thanks to Fred inviting Marinette and her family to the show in the Eiffel tower, she gets to enjoy the show with her friends right next to Adrien!