"Ramsey," Ladybug pleaded as Killer stomped towards her and Chat Noir, Raven still unconscious by the Eiffel Tower's bent leg, "come back to us! You don't want to have your first two casualties, do you?"
The Minotaur snorted out real smoke, and she feared that there may be more of a literal fire in his heart than she could handle. "It's no use, Ladybug," Chat held his baton out in front of them, "we're fighting an animal now."
But Raven had such a resolve to save him…to save the scientist inside…
Killer made a painful bellowing sound and charged at them. They rolled to the side as he nearly hit the bridge, his horns shining in the light of the bulbs decorating the tower. "Distract him," she told Chat, "I'm going to get Raven out of here!"
"You can trust me," he ran at Killer and started deflecting his horns back with the baton, "but do hurry, m'lady!"
Ladybug ran to Raven and crouched down as he moaned. "Easy," she helped him to his feet, "he hit you pretty hard."
"Ramsey," he croaked, "the…syringe…"
She saw the syringe a few feet away. "Would it still work, even if he's gone full Minotaur?"
"It…has to…"
No. If I can use my Lucky Charm, maybe it can-
"Scary, scary, scary!" Chat Noir was on all fours, running from Killer towards the other tower leg around the stage. As he neared it he climbed up out of his reach as he slammed into the leg, bending it slightly. "Plan B, Ladybug?"
Raven staggered over and picked the syringe up as Killer continued to ram into the tower leg. "You say you have skill."
Ladybug nodded. "Good," he turned back to her, "prove it."
Creeeeeeaaaaaaaaak.
Slowly all eyes turned to the tower. Chat got to the higher bar as Killer took one last hit on the leg. Both front legs were bent now, and worse – they were bending further down. "The Eiffel Tower," Chat gawked, "we've broken it – again!"
We. Are. Dead.
Killer roared and charged at them, running through the stage's remains. Raven and Ladybug shot up to the metal bar beside Chat as the tower continued to fall. "Alya, Lila," Ladybug yelled, "get out of here, before it hits the bridge!"
The girls' eyes were wide as saucers as the tower fell towards them, the last of the crowd screaming in terror as they ran away in all directions. Alya and Lil began to follow suit, getting out of the glowing tower's shadow as it neared. The heroes got up to a higher bar before hearing Lila yelp. Ladybug could see her on the ground, heel broken on her right boot. "Lila, look out!"
She's going to be crushed!
Raven made another low cawing-croaking sound before running along the falling tower. He wrapped the end of the hoot shot around the bar closing in on Lila before jumping off the tower. As he swung down under it he grabbed her.
"Off," Ladybug grabbed Chat's hand as they jumped to the safety of the ground beside the tower, "hurry!"
With Lila in his one arm Raven whipped the hook shot from the tower to a streetlamp ahead of them. She wrapped her arms around his neck, screaming as they skimmed over the water, the Eiffel Tower crashing down behind him and breaking the bridge. They swung up onto the ground, where he placed her down. "You're fine."
"You're just assuming that?!"
"I don't have time for anything else," he ran back towards the tower with hook shot in hand.
Chat Noir surveyed the damage. "I can't believe we've destroyed the Eiffel Tower twice in our superhero careers."
I can't believe Killer was strong enough to bend that metal, Ladybug could see the Minotaur sniffing the fallen metal and broken bulbs, and he's way out of any akuma's league in terms of raw strength.
"Raven has a syringe, right?" She grabbed her yo-yo and looked down at it. "We need to give him time to get close enough to Killer to inject it." She tossed it up in the air. "LUCKY CHARM!"
Please be something good, something that can help us-!
She caught the red and black spotted charm in her hands. "…Oh."
Chat stared at the item. "…Where in Greek mythology did the hero ever beat the Minotaur…with a cowbell?"
As Ladybug tried to figure out what to do with the cowbell, Raven stepped towards Killer. "If you won't respond to me, Ramsey," he put his hook shot back, "then I will do this the hard way."
Killer charged at him but he flipped over his horns. Once on his back he gave a hard kick to the bottom of the neck, sending the Minotaur's face into the ground. He continued to dodge Killer's swings and bashes, focusing his punches and kicks on the center of the stomach, ankles and neck.
"Ladybug," Chat watched her give the cowbell a shake, "what's the plan?"
Normally it'd just be me and Chat Noir, she could see Raven and Killer fighting through all the lights stringed over the tower, but with three of us…wait…the lights! She looked from the lights, to the metal, then to Chat Noir's claws, Raven's hook shot and her cowbell. This can work…this will work!
"Raven," she called to him through the tower's remains, "I've got a plan!"
He jumped off of Killer and looked her way. "You have to trust me," she said, "because if you don't, we'll never be able to stop Ramsey!"
For a moment she thought he wouldn't listen and go about his own way. Finally, after a strenuous few seconds of silence, he gave her a nod. She grinned and held the cowbell up. "Then follow my lead!"
We've got all the tools to do this, she and Chat walked closer to the Eiffel Tower as it gave a moan, now we just have to get our timing right. She could see Alya across the water, trying to film with her camera.
Hope you're watching, HawkMoth.
Yes, Ladybug has a plan. But just what can she hope to accomplish with a cowbell against the likes of an entire Minotaur? And yes, I understand how unbelievable it is for Chloe to be able to light up the entire Eiffel Tower, but in my defense, this is a show about kids in super suits fighting evil akumas. Realism is bendable to a certain extent.
Until the next chapter!
