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The team of superheroes made their way from Master Fu's to where the minion army was. The minions were searching methodically through Paris for something - or someone. Ladybug patted her suit's pocket to make sure her lucky charm earplugs were still there. They weren't much use, but she would need them to fix everything. Now it was time to come up with a plan. Her mind began working in overdrive trying to incorporate twelve moving pieces from her side and the numerous minions on the other. Scanning the opposing side gave her no clue as to where the akuma could be. Of course, the original Minion might not even be among this group. Ladybug thought hard, scanning over her team. Without warning, Tigress, tired of waiting, jumped up.
"No, Tigress, don't!" Ladybug hissed, but it was too late.
"Hey, uglies!" Tigress roared. "We're over here. Think you can beat us?"
"That was the stupidest move you could've made," Venom groaned. "There is a 95.738% chance that they can beat us with a 74.387% chance that we won't survive. Our best move would have been to wait for Ladybug, because her plans have a 99.999% success rate. Now, we have to beat the odds."
"Never tell me the odds!" Drakon roared. "Move, Venom!"
The heroes scattered as a minion clone swung its gun hand at them, smashing the building. Chat Noir popped up quickly, taking a head count to make sure they were all okay. He looked everywhere, but only saw ten of the twelve team members.
"LB, we got a problem."
"What is it now, Chat?" Ladybug grunted as she dodged a laser blast.
"Chimp and Rabid are missing."
Ladybug sighed but kept moving. "Honestly, so long as I am still around at the end to clean everything up, it really doesn't matter. I brought you back from the dead once." She tied up a minion with her yoyo. "It may be terribly heartbreaking at the time, but despite time being frozen now, we don't have the time to grieve. Especially when they will be back."
Chat nodded and motioned for the majority of the team to follow him. Chat yelled out his usual taunts as he lead the charge against the minions. Ladybug, Rena Rouge, and Venom stayed behind to plan how best to defeat the enemy. They stood out of the way, watching the team in action to get a feel for how the new recruits would interact. Tigress ran circles around the minions before knocking them on their faces. Black Beauty swung her heavy fists and feet at the muscle-laden giants, crippling them. Roost King was a minor nuisance to the minions, but kept bragging about his success. At least he distracted them from Drakon, allowing the stocky guy to barrel over the enemy with abandon. Dog Boy seemed kind of shy about getting involved in the fight, but he did his best to dent the gun barrels. In the center of it all, Chat and Carapace stood back to back, clearing away the minions that seemed to gravitate towards them. They acted as if they had been working together like this for the entire time. Ladybug wasn't surprised, as she knew the identities of both, but Rena and Venom murmured comments about it under their breath.
Suddenly, the three onlookers saw something that surprised them. Hanging from one of the minion's gun was Chimpanzee. She looked oddly calm, but Ladybug could tell she was terrified. Knowing who was under the mask helped her understand the masquerading superheroes a lot more. Ladybug, Rena, and Venom watched as Chimp caught Rabid who had leapt from the minion's hip. Rabid then swung up and gnawed on the gun. Soon enough, a crack appeared and the minion fell to its knees. From the crack flew a small purple butterfly. Thinking quickly, Ladybug snatched the akuma up with her yoyo and purified it. The minion de-evilized and froze again. Ladybug noted that the person's left hand seemed broken. Suddenly, it made sense.
"Chat!" Ladybug hollered over the din of the battle. "The akuma was cloned for each minion. It is in their left hand, but when you destroy the gun you are breaking the person's hand. That can be fixed later, though."
Chat nodded, and the team began to target the left hand guns on the minions. Rena and Venom leapt from the roof to join in, but Ladybug stayed separate to purify each akuma as the team freed them. Within a few minutes, all the minions in that area had been cleansed and re-frozen in time. None of the team had activated their miraculous powers. They leapt away to find the next hub of minion akumas.
"How did Hawkmoth manage to produce a second akuma victim at the exact same time as Mystic?" Ladybug asked Chat.
"For one, it's not at the same time. Nothing is in time." Chat ducked at Ladybug's glare. "Sorry. I suspect it has something to do with Mystic controlling him. She's effectively omnipotent, remember?"
"I forgot she was practically all powerful. That's annoying." Ladybug shook her head. "No matter. We know how to defeat Minion, and that is what matters right now."
Defeating all the minions around the city of Paris took the better part of what should have been a day. When the hero team stood over the final group of re-frozen people, they all felt exhaustion sweep over them. Ladybug and Chat looked at their team. These people could be helpful, but how were they supposed to keep them from seeing each other's true identities when they were the only ones unfrozen? Ladybug sighed. The team had to return their miraculouses, just as had been planned.
Everyone returned to Master Fu's and one by one were taken from the third room into the second. There they detransformed, were told to get into the position they had been frozen in, and had their miraculouses removed. The frozen class and the miraculouses were taken to Master Fu's room. Once everyone had returned their miraculouses, Chat and Ladybug took the class back to the akuma shelter. Master Fu took back his turtle miraculous and returned the ox miraculous to the box. Everything went back to the way it was before Minion. Well, not everything. Ladybug remembered all the people who were left with broken hands. She would fix those, just as soon as the two original heroes defeated Hawkmoth. Chat took her hand and led her back to the Dupain-Cheng bakery. Though the sun was frozen high in the sky, the two heroes detransfomed and went to bed. Hawkmoth's identity and Master Fu's input would have to wait another non-day.