Quick Disclaimer: All mentioned anime characters do not belong to me. They belong to their respective owners. I'm merely borrowing them.
Golden Eagle
Chapter XI:
Animeniac:
Part II
After passing by another group of brought-to-life anime characters, the trio of superheroes found themselves at the T.V studio. The police were holding back the civilians that happened to be in the area along with people from the studio.
"Ladybug! Cat Noir! Uh, Golden Eagle?" Lieutenant Roger called "The supervillain's on the roof!"
"Thanks, Lieutenant Roger," Ladybug thanked "Is there anymore intel on who it could be?"
"Ladybug!" they turned around and saw Alec with Akiko "I think maybe the villain's Beau Abel. He came in second on Otaku Trivia! but at the start, he was super confident that he was going to win,"
"Having the prize you thought you deserved being ripped away from you would make anyone upset, even enough to be akumatized," observed Golden Eagle "But, wait, what about the winner?"
"Amie James," Akiko chimed in "Kaito Kid kidnapped her!"
"I'll assume Kaito Kid is another anime character?" Ladybug complained "Great, another one. Okay, thanks for the intel but does anyone know the supervillain's name?"
Just as she said that, a projection lit up the sky and revealed a man wearing some kind of anime-style battle suit and visor. He grinned at the camera before turning it to reveal Amie being held back by Alphonse Elric.
"Heeeellllllooooo, Paris! I am Animeniac and today, I'll be proving that I am the biggest anime fan in the world!" he declared "Oh, and for the anime rejects that currently protect Paris? Bring me your Miraculouses or my kohei here won't stay so kawaii," and he cut out.
"So... normal plan? Find akuma, break the vessel, Ladybug captures the akuma and we break for lunch?" Golden Eagle asked.
"Pretty much," Ladybug sighed and she launched her magic yoyo upwards to latch onto the roof.
Normally, Amie would have been overjoyed to see her favourite anime characters brought to life. But since Animeniac was doing so to get his revenge against her, she wasn't so thrilled. Carefully, she focused on what the supervillain was doing. If anime had taught her anything, it was to be astute when captured. For example, when Animeniac brought a character to life, he put his hand on a copy of the manga that character came from. The manga copies then turned white, preventing him from summoning another character from the same franchise. The characters have all the abilities they have in their manga but no free will and did as Animeniac said.
"Who next?" he asked himself "Inaho Kaizuka with his Kataphrakt? Or Akame with her cursed sword? Hmm... so many options so little time,"
Animeniac reached for a copy of Danganronpa when a bright light shot out and knocked it from his hands. They looked in the direction the light came from and saw Ladybug, Cat Noir and Golden Eagle standing on the edge of the roof. The red light stopped to reveal itself as Ladybug's magic yoyo.
"Ladybug! Cat Noir! Golden Eagle!" Amie exclaimed "He can only summon characters using copies of their manga and can only do so once!"
"Thanks for the tip!" Cat Noir responded and he pounced onto the pile of manga volumes "This will be a great tragedy, to lose so much wonderful manga but it has to be done... Cataclysm!"
Animeniac tackled him but Cat Noir still managed to get his Cataclysm into contact with the manga pile and it turned to dust.
"Fine then!" Animeniac yelled "Doesn't matter! There's plenty more in the studio! Levi, hold them off! C'mon, Alphonse,"
Out of nowhere, Levi landed onto the roof and he disconnected his blunted blades from his 3D Maneuver Gear. He drew razor-sharp new ones and attacked. Cat Noir leapt back to his feet and drew his staff to block Levi's aimed blow to Ladybug.
"Get Animeniac! I've got Levi!" he said.
Ladybug nodded, understanding her yoyo nor Golden Eagle's bow-and-arrows could face up against swords.
"Eagle, you need to get Amie to safety!" she ordered "I'm going after Animeniac!"
"Aye, sir!" Golden Eagle *quoted.
Cat Noir blocked Levi again as Ladybug and Golden Eagle headed into the building to stop the akumatized villain and save his captive. He pushed Levi back when he heard his ring beeping.
"Darn, looks like I'm going to have to make this quick," he said.
Ladybug and Golden Eagle looked down the stairwell to see Animeniac and Alphonse already halfway down but no sign of Amie. But as Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was the first anime Golden Eagle ever saw, she knew Alphonse had a habit of putting people he's carrying inside of his armour body. Rather than run down the stairs for ages, Golden Eagle spread her glider-wings and jumped down the center with her wings slowing her descent. Ladybug wrapped one end of her yoyo to the railing and jumped down after her.
"You find Amie, I'll get the akuma," she said.
"Al's probably got her in his armour. That's where he always puts people he's got to carry," Golden Eagle said, casually.
"Wait, he's hollow?!" Ladybug exclaimed.
"Yup and there they are!"
Golden Eagle stepped onto the railing and leapt down the stairs, gliding along them to catch up. Ladybug jumped back onto the stairs and was reduced to running. Animeniac shoved the door open but Golden Eagle fired a warning shot from her bow.
"I thought Levi was dealing with you. So much for Humanity's Strongest Soldier," he complained "Alphonse, delay them!"
"Keep going, Ladybug, I've got this," Golden Eagle exclaimed "Golden Wings!"
Alphonse clapped his hands together and put them on the ground. The floor sparked and shot up to try to coat Golden Eagle's wings. She dodged only for the wall to shoot out and hit her in the back. She just managed to stop herself from hitting the ground.
"Amie, you in there?" she called.
"Yeah... I'm here," her voice echoed out from within Alphonse.
"Do me a favour and try to do as Martel did!" Golden Eagle asked "I know you can't stretch your limbs like she did but try!"
Hearing this, Amie slid both of her legs into one of Alphonse' and his leg went stiff. He tripped over his own feet but transmutated the floor to grab Golden Eagle in retaliation. Flapping her wings furiously, she turned around and pointlessly fired an arrow through Alphonse' hand. As Alphonse moved to transmutate the wall, Amie tried to stop him by stiffening his arm. However, she wasn't as strong or bendable as Martel was in the anime and as Al bent his arm, Amie's was broken.
"AAAAAIIIIII! OW! OW! MY ARM!" she cried, cradling it against her chest "G.E., help me!"
"Don't worry, I'll get you out of there," Golden Eagle promised "You've done enough so just sit tight for now, okay?"
Amie did as she was told and Golden Eagle examined the situation. Alphonse' weakness was the blood seal within his armour but she couldn't ask his captive to break it. She didn't know what would happen. In the anime, doing so would kill him but he was in reality now. Did the same rules apply? And if it sent him back into his manga then would Amie go with him? Golden Eagle needed to free her before she did anything else.
"Hey, Amie! You won Otaku Trivia! right? I can't remember how to open Alphonse up. Can you tell me so I can get you out of there?" she asked.
"The... the latches between his shoulder plates and his chest plate. Unlatch them then cut the chain mail," Amie answered "Ow... my arm's broken,"
Golden Eagle looked at her opponent as she dodged his transmutations in midair. She saw the latches and her bow turned into its crossbow form mounted on her wrist. But as she fired, Alphonse transmutated the entire stairwell to trap her wings between pillars of concrete.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Golden Eagle shrieked.
Despite the pain, she lifted her crossbow and fired two arrows at the latches of Alphonse' armour. The chest plate fell open but she still needed to cut the chain mail open. He was approaching her with his fist reeled back to finish her. She needed to get out of there. Her Miraculous beeped and gave her an idea. It was risky but it was necessary. Golden Eagle transformed back and Alicia fell to the ground, her shoulder blades aching. Alphonse punched the concrete pillars before reeling back for another strike. She had one shot.
Alicia grabbed the discarded arrow by the head and jumped up as Alphonse punched again. Holding the arrow tightly in her hand, she slashed it across Al's chain mail and it dropped open. She pulled Amie out before stabbing the blood seal. The seal began to glow and Alphonse turned into a Fullmetal Alchemist manga volume.
Amie began to groan as she came to. She heard the sound of footsteps running away and she sat up. She was alone in the distorted stairwell with a volume of Fullmetal Alchemist.
Alicia skidded round the corner and dived through a doorway onto some random floor of the T.V studio. She panted as she came to a stop and leaned against the wall. She was still clutching the arrow head and as her heartbeat fell back down to normal, a cold searing pain shot up her arm. Alicia slid to the ground and shakily looked at her hand. Crimson red blood dripped out of her fist and her heart skipped a beat.
"D-Donno..." she gasped.
The Kwami flew out from behind her shoulder and gently eased her hand. Alicia dropped the arrow and looked at her palm. There were two bleeding cuts that pointed together to form a V shape. Tears filled her green eyes and she bit her lower lip.
"It'll be okay, Alicia, your great-great-grandmother got through far worse," Donno exclaimed.
He flew off and came back with a First-Aid kit. Alicia used her good hand to open the kit and Donno took out the gaws. Biting back the pain, she held the gauze onto her cuts as the Kwami wrapped a bandage around her hand. They tied the ends together on the back of her hand before Alicia got back to her feet. She pulled out her Miraculous and looked at the onyx gemstone.
"We've... got to transform," she said "We need to help Amie and we need to regroup with Cat Noir and Ladybug,"
"Alicia... your hand," Donno said, his voice filled with worry.
"It's... it's okay. I'll just tell anyone who asks that I was baking with a friend at their house and accidentally cut myself with a knife," Alicia said, nervously smiling "Anyways, do you need to eat?"
Donno sheepishly looked away and nodded. Alicia put him on her shoulder and ran in search of the studio's kitchen/breakroom.
"I can't believe you, Plagg, you seriously couldn't hold out any longer?" Adrien complained as he searched the studio's kitchen for any kind of cheese.
"You were losing the fight to that Rivaille guy anyway," Plagg retorted "We're just lucky that he didn't recognize you as Cat Noir and didn't try to attack you again,"
"First off, he's called Levi not Rivaille. That's the incorrect romanization of his name," Adrien countered as he came across a plate of cheddar in the fridge "Secondly, if you want this cheese then stop ragging on me,"
"Deal!"
Plagg flew past Adrien and grabbed the cheddar off the plate. He sat on the counter and began chomping down the cheese when they heard the door open. Frantically, Adrien ducked under the counter and dragged Plagg down with him.
"You think they have salted caramel ice-cream? That's my favourite," said a small, horse voice.
"We don't have time to be picky, Donno, we've got to re-transform and go back Ladybug and Cat Noir up," said a softer, girl's voice.
Adrien went wide-eyed. It was Golden Eagle with her Kwami un-transformed! He had to do something before they mentioned any names.
"Eagle?!" he exclaimed.
There was a rattle as she dropped something in surprise.
"C-Cat Noir?! What are you doing here?!" she exclaimed.
"Feeding my Kwami, same as you," he responded "Neither of us are transformed, are we?"
"Seems not... I'm gonna grab some ice-cream for Donno then I'll duck out into the hallway. I'll... knock on the door to let you know I'm transformed," Golden Eagle said, nervously.
Adrien heard her as she rummaged through the freezer for ice-cream and saw the back of her as she left out the door again. He got up from under the counter and let Plagg hover by himself. The Kwami was still chomping on cheddar and seemed totally nonchalant about the close-call they'd just had. It was a few minutes before they heard a knock on the door.
*Who did she quote? :3
