Hello everyone! Just wanna say thanks for the continued support. Now that Juleka knows Nathanael's secret and we have a new villain out there, it's time for Hawkmoth to execute his plan.
Disclaimer: I do not own Miraculous Ladybug or the characters.
All OC's in this story are owned by me.
However, the character of Matthew Bell as well as his Akumatized persona were created and submitted by Liz The Sweet Writer, so a special thank you to her.
Nathanael and Juleka had gone to the park, sitting by the fountain.
Strangely, the awkward nature of the situation had just vanished out of nowhere.
After finding out, it was surprisingly easier for them to talk to each other.
"All I'm saying is, after they showed me the footage of me as Reflekta, you'd think I'd look different." Juleka pointed out.
"Yeah, your akumatized form basically looked like the polar opposite of you." Nathanael said.
"But then again, you did seem to want everyone to notice you, you have to admit that form does grab people's attention." Nathanael added.
Juleka nodded in agreement, recounting more days with him, all the class had been through since Hawkmoth had first appeared.
"It seems like everyone in class has been akumatized at some point." Juleka said.
"Yeah, granted some of them were caused by Chloe, mine included." Nathanael said.
"Yeah, same here." Juleka said with a little laugh.
"Still, it always makes you wonder who's next, I mean like I said we've pretty much all been akumatized except…" Juleka says, trailing off.
"Except what?" Nathanael asks.
"Nathanael, have Marinette and Adrien ever been akumatized?" Juleka asks.
Nathanael looks at her, thinking about all of the villains from the past.
"No, they haven't." Nathanael says.
"Doesn't that seem odd to you?" Juleka asks.
"Not really, maybe they just have more will power than we do." Nathanael reasoned.
"Maybe, but, there's something else." Juleka says.
"What's that?" Nathanael asks.
"Well, have you ever noticed that, whenever an akuma attacks, Marinette and Adrien are always not around or are conveniently out of the way?" Juleka questioned.
Nathanael pondered this for a moment, realizing just like himself, at the arrival of a threat, they always seemed to rush off, just before Ladybug and Chat Noir arrived.
"You don't think…" Nathanael started to ask before being interrupted.
"Look out!" Someone yelled.
Turning their gazes elsewhere, Nathanael reacted quickly, picking up Juleka and jumping out of the way as a car cane crashing down into the fountain.
"What the?" Nathanael said.
People rushed the streets, running away from whatever was causing damage.
"What's going on?" Juleka asked.
"Well, let's see, a mob of people running for their lives, mindless destruction and panic, so either Jagged Stone is back in Paris or…" He joked.
"I am Mad Tomato!" The akumatized villain announced, interrupting Nathanael.
Mad Tomato was decked out in red and black attire, his hair lit up in red flames and in his hand, a staff with glass tomato on the top end, glowing the same red shade.
He stood there, on top of a giant platform, held up by what looked to be a plants, breaking out from underneath the concrete, binding close together to lift him.
"Yeah, there's a new akuma." Nathanael finished.
"Looks like I've got work to do." Nathanael said.
"Get to a safe place, I'll meet back up with you later." He tells her.
Juleka nods and rubs off, while Nathanael runs into the nearest alley to transform.
Unknown to him, Juleka remained there, hiding from him.
"There's no way I'm going to miss this." She thought.
"I have come for their Miraculous, hand them over and I'll spare everyone." Mad Tomato said.
All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a slow applause was heard.
Out from the alley, stepped Rev Rogue himself, being welcomed by cheers from the crowd.
He leapt onto a roof, gaining equal ground to the villain.
"You know, that's a really good offer." Rev said sarcastically.
"Counter offer, we beat you, we de-akumatize you and we can all go home." Rev quipped.
"Funny." Mad Tomato sneered.
"By the way, what is up with the name, I mean come on, Mad Tomato, sounds like a villain from a kids cartoon." Rev kept joking.
"Yeah, seriously, I mean, I didn't even get to pick my own name, what is that?!" Mad Tomato complained.
"Seriously, I think your boss is running out of ides." Rev continued.
"Yeah I mean, to be fair Kung Food, Bubbler and Lady Wifi all sound kind of silly." Mad Tomato tried to defend.
"Yeah, but at least they sounded somewhat menacing." Rev said.
"Yeah I mean…wait a minute, what are you doing, do you think this is game is something?!" Mad Tomato yelled, realizing they had just been chatting.
"No, just a pretty good distraction." Rev said with a smirk.
Mad Tomato's platform began to rumble.
He looked down and to his shock, Ladybug and Chat Noir had arrived, all the time he had spent talking to Rev Rogue, they had been damaging his platform.
Mad Tomato looked looked back at Rev in anger, his flaming hair burning brighter from his rage.
"You!" Mad Tomato growled.
He stepped back, getting a running start, jumping off as his platform collapsed, raising his staff up high as he smashed into the roof, ready to strike at Rev.
Rev pulled out his flute, Mad Tomato wielding his staff, the two charged at each other, engaging in a classic duel.
The sound of clashing metal rang out as the two's weapons collided with one another with each move.
After another clash, they each pushed each other back.
Rev began play his flute, the image starting to take shape.
Mad Tomato seeing this, pointed his staff towards Rev, blasting him back, almost knocking him off the roof.
"Okay, long range attacks, bad for my illusions." Rev noted.
The next second, Ladybug and Chat Noir had made it up to the roof, Chat engaging him in the duel similar to Rev's.
"Any time now, Hawkmoth." Mad Tomato thought.
With Hawkmoth.
"The time has come, fly away my little akuma, the wrongs of the past shall take form."
The glowing akuma began its flight to the scene.
Back to the fight.
It was an all out brawl.
Mad Tomato had managed to fend off each of their attacks as they continuously fought against him.
Finally, the akuma had reached its destination.
"Perfect." Mad Tomato thought as the akuma flew in, grinning as it made its descent.
"What's so funny?" Chat asks.
As soon as he uttered those words, the akuma landed on Rev's necklace, disappearing as the pendant turned the familiar dark purple shade.
"That." Mad Tomato said.
"Rev?" Ladybug said in concern.
Rev's sight grew blurry, his eyes slowly shutting as he stumbled back, as unconsciousness overtook him, he fell down to the ground below.
"Rev!" Ladybug and Chat screamed in unison.
They went to look for their friend, only to be stopped by Mad Tomato, as plants grew around the edge, blocking their view.
"Your friend isn't going anywhere, however, I think it's time to invite a few friends to join in the fun." Mad Tomato said.
Mad Tomato raised his staff, aiming it to the crowd, shooting them with a beam of light.
With each shot, they collapsed to the ground.
With this, vines began to protrude from their skin, skin turning a sickly shade of red.
Each of them sprung up, running at instense speeds towards the building, digging their fingers into it, as they climbed up.
Meanwhile.
Juleka had rushed to Nathanael's aide, picking him up and carrying him off to a safe location.
At their arrival, Nathanael spasmed as she set him down, transforming back into his regular form.
Trixx, falling to the ground beside him.
"Trixx, what's happening?"Juleka asks in worry.
"I don't know." Trixx says, almost sounding tired.
Unknown.
Darkness, as far as the eye can see, just darkness.
Nathanael stood there, looking in every direction, only seeing the endless dark void surrounding him.
"Hello!" He called out.
"Ladybug!" He called.
"Chat!" He called.
"Juleka!" He tried once more.
But no answer would ever come.
"I need to get back." He said to himself.
"I'm afraid that's not possible, Nathanael." Someone said.
Nathanael turned to look where the voice came from.
With one look, Nathanael fell back in pure fear.
There, stood in front of him, was the darkest version of himself.
The Evillustrator.
