After fighting a werewolf, a spoiled child, and lady wrapped up in the past, Kaetlyn was exhausted. It was the weekend and it was the first hour all week where she could catch her breath.
She sat in her rolly chair, chatting with Sam over a video call on her computer.
"Sorry, but I don't think fast food can last long enough to take a plane trip to France." Sam shrugged.
"It's fine." Kaetlyn groaned, "I'm just craving some Nasty Burger right now. We haven't had fast food since moving here."
"Understandable. You get to eat some good food there, though."
Kaetlyn leaned back in the chair, spinning back and forth with her foot, "I suppose…" Her stomach growled.
"Changing the subject, how's it going with Reid?" Sam asked.
"Decent. I think him and Xack are getting along a bit better."
"He's vented to me a few times about how annoying this 'Xack' guy can get…" Sam snarled, "When he isn't talking about you or the beauty of Paris, he starts ranting about Xack. Or...was it talking about Paris and the beauty of you?"
"Saaam!" Kaetlyn stood up from her chair, her cheeks turning pink.
"It's obvious you two like each other."
"I know a certain dork guy and goth girl that obviously like each other too." Kaetlyn smirked.
Sam crossed her arms.
"You know I'm right." Kaetlyn pointed at the screen.
"Byeeee." Sam said before hanging up. Kaetlyn plopped back into her chair, letting it spin her around to face the other way.
"30 minutes talking to her and not once did you mention that 'Inviso-Bill' guy?" Lunna asked, sitting on the top of Kaetlyn's computer screen.
"As interesting as a ghost boy sounds, I've been swamped with akumas and could go for some normal time as a normal 14 year old girl."
"Speaking of a normal life...uh.." Lunna jumped around the keyboard to type something it. On the screen appeared a poster for an animated movie based on the lives of Ladybug and Chat Noir.
"You promised you'd attend this little thing…"
Tick. Tick. Tick. Ding!
"THE PREMIERE!" Kaetlyn jolted from her seat, "I completely forgot!" She rushed to her computer, looking for the clock on the bottom right of the screen, "What time is it?!"
When she saw that the premiere would be starting soon, she flipped out. Kaetlyn had to assure her parents she was just excited over the movie when they came in to see if she was alright.
"Why didn't you remind me?!" She asked her kwami.
"You want me to walk in front the camera and show your friend that your a Parisian superhero?" The wolf hissed.
"You don't walk, you fly!"
"Just turn into Lune already!"
"Moon, Rise!"
Lune jumped out her bedroom window and rushed to the theatre. She honestly didn't know why the movie director asked her to attend the premiere of the movie if she wasn't even in it. Lune would be the only superhero there, too. Chat Noir couldn't make it and Ladybug turned down the offer. The wolf ended up being guilted into it. A lot of people wanted at least one of the heroes to show up, so she said yes.
Lune arrived at the cinema, leaping down from the roof to wave at all the photographers and the camera broadcasting to the news. It felt odd with her hands and feet wrapped in bandages and her tail tattered, but that was still a problem she didn't know how to fix.
The bouncer let her in with a simple nod.
"I guess showing up in costume is good enough." She mumbled to herself.
Inside the cinema, Lune could see plenty of famous people. She saw Adrien Agreste with his father, Gabriel Agreste, and a woman and a young girl around her own age. The women must be some rich and famous family like the Agreste's if they're talking to each other. There was also Clara Nightingale and Jagged stone. Lune spotted Chloe arguing with Marinette.
Wait, what was Marinette doing here?
Lune saw a macaron stand near the back of the room, the girl's parents tending it. Marinette must be helping her parents serve snacks to everyone.
"Look, children, it's Lune!" A slim woman with short blonde hair said to a group of young children. Lune assumed it was a class field trip.
The children crowded the wolf. She thought she was going to be talking to adults and maybe some of their teenager children, but not elementary students! How do you even talk to a child? Give them candy? Ask their favorite color?
"Uh… H-hi, kids." Lune nervously waved.
"I can't wait to watch you in the movie!" One child said to her.
"Well, I can't promise that I'll be in the movie, but Ladybug and Chat Noir will be!"
The class lowered their heads in disappointment. What has she done?!
"Eh- Now, now… Uhm…" Oh, what was something her mom would say to her?
Lune crouched down to be at the class' eye level, "Now, I may not be the main character, but if you pay attention to the background, I'm sure you'll find me somewhere in the movie."
"Really?" One of the boys asked.
Lune smiled and nodded, "Yep! You'll have to be quiet and pay close attention, though. I'm pretty good at hiding if I do say so myself." She stood up and crossed her arms while soaking in the excited cheers of the small humans.
"Alright, let's leave Lune alone now. We can't bother her all day." The teacher said.
"Awww….."
Lune giggled and waved goodbye. Once the students were out of sight, she let out a large sigh of relief. "I never knew talking to kids can be so mentally exhausting… No way am I gonna be a mother…"
The wolf looked around. She could go for a Ladybug themed macaron right about now. Dealing with Marinette's excited parents was another thing. She just wanted to get a small something to eat, but she had to sit through Mr. Dupain's clumsiness and Mrs. Cheng's nervous stuttering just to get a single red macaron.
Being a celebrity was harder than it looked. And this was only socializing! What about the actual work they had to do?! Modeling, performing, dealing with the stressed co-workers who put together the modeling and performing. Ugh...Lune doesn't pay attention to many famous celebrities, so all she knows is that some are models, some are actors, and some sing. Well, some are superheroes, but that's a different story.
Shoving the macaron in her mouth, Lune noticed a man dressed in all black. His shirt, his jacket, his pants. His hair was even black. The only thing colorful was the red and black spotted tag and blue lanyard around his neck, which meant he was… gasp! The movie director!
Finally! Someone interesting! Someone who helped make the movie! Someone who took charge and made sure every detail was as it should be! Someone who takes part in creating stories and characters that fans love watching! Well… all the characters in the movie were real, but he took part in everything else!
Lune loved watching movies with her parents every Saturday night growing up. They would gather around the couch with popcorn and candy and watch all their favorite movies. And, sometimes, they would surprise her by playing a DVD with a brand new movie she hasn't watch yet! As she got older, they haven't been able to have movie nights as often, but she still enjoyed watching TV all day!
The wolf walked up to the movie director, not knowing how to start a conversation. Actually, she did have a question for him.
"E-excuse me?" Lune asked the man. He had grey-green eyes and a thick beard.
"Oh! Lune, what a surprise to see you." He said. The man's voice was deep yet had a bright tone to it. What was his name again..? Darn it! Lune never paid enough attention to the credits…
"Well, you did ask me to be here." Lune smile nervously, rubbing her head only to remember she had ears on top.
"I'm surprised because Chat Noir couldn't make it, and Ladybug turned down my offer to appear." He seemed disappointed. I guess a person tends to feel that way when the main characters of their movie don't decide to show up to the premier.
"Well, there aren't any akuma attacks taking up my time, and I would love to see your movie! The art style is so good! And the voice actors sound pretty accurate to the real thing. Too bad Ladybug and Chat Noir couldn't take time to voice in it, but you tend to be busy when trying to live two lives.. Eh-" Lune's face turned pink from embarrassment, "Sorry! Sorry! I didn't mean to ramble!"
The movie director smiled and waved it off, "It's completely fine. Actually, it's great!"
"Huh?"
"I haven't seen anyone so excited over my movie past the fact that it involve two of Paris' greatest heroes."
"Oh! That's brings me to a question. You see-"
"LADYBUG!" The same class that bombarded Lune from before did the same to the movie director, nearly knocking him to his feet. Lune had trouble containing her giggles.
"Hey there kids!" He said excitedly. Lune walked away, letting him deal with the small children. It was his time to shine, afterall. Lune would prefer the spotlight to be off of her for a while.
She went back to the macaron stand. She felt a little guilty for eating so many of the sweet candy sandwiches of goodness -as Lune preferred to describe them, but Marinette's parents were completely fine with it, so long as they are able to help a famous superhero like Lune.
The wolf heard what sounded like a fight at the entrance of the cinema. She shoved the half eaten macaron in her mouth before rushing to the scene.
The bouncer had been knocked to the ground by..by… what is this thing? It looked like the movie director, but he was.. Well.. drawn.. With white outlines and black scribbles. The ladybug mask over his face was the only thing solidly colored.
Everyone scattered, screaming in terror over the akuma. Lune glanced around for something that could be used as a weapon. She tore off two legs from one of the chairs. Uhm.. eheh.. Ladybug could turn everything back to normal, so it was okay, right…?
"Come on now, don't leave!" The movie director said. Why couldn't she remember his name?! "This show's just getting started!"
His mask emitted a blinding light, a pink, animated, poof..thing..exploded from the building with a very cartoony sound effect. It seemed like Lune's childhood dreams of cartoons becoming real had finally been fulfilled, just that it was only the villain who came out to play.
The akuma transformed into a 2D drawing of a green dinosaur with a ladybug mask. He towered over all the buildings, spitting lasers at them. It sure has been a weird week in Paris…
Lune leaped to the roof of a building the dino hadn't destroyed yet. Ladybug and Chat Noir followed.
"Thank goodness you guys are here!" She exclaimed, "I don't think I could fight a laser-spewing dinosaur with two legs of a chair…" She held up her temporary weapons. No matter how many times she's transformed since getting Lunna back, her hook swords never popped up. At least she had her Midnight Howl.
Chat Noir called the akuma's attention by shouting, "We'd have come to your movie premier if we knew how upset you were gonna get."
"What's with that trailer, too. I am not scared of cats… at all!" Ladybug criticized, crossing her arms.
"You haven't even seen the movie and you're already slamming it!" The villain roared furiously.
"He does have a point, you know." Chat Noir agreed.
Lune rubbed the back of her head, both hands holding the chair legs, "That's..actually true. Yeah…"
The three of them dodged the laser the dino fired at them.
Ladybug spun her yoyo before throwing it and letting the string wrap around the villain, tying his to the skyscraper behind him.
His mask lit up again, this time, turning into a giant black and white robot with gold and blue designs. Reminded Lune of an old cartoon her father use to watch all the time as a kid. Well, it could also be one of the newer cartoons.. Hrm.. The design was too vague for the wolf to decide on anything specific.
Next thing she knew, Chat Noir shoved the girls out of fire from the giant robot's lightning beam. When it comes to cartoons, anything can happen. Just might as well accept whatever crazy thing happens next…
The robot's ladybug mask glowed again, turning him into a talking sheep with the outline looking as if it were from a really old animated cartoon. You'd just have to watch one to understand.
"I am the only true hero!" The sheep exclaimed. His voice changed drastically too. Lune supposed it came with whatever character he played as.
Lune threw one of the chair legs at him. The sheep tossed a black drawing at it. Chat Noir charged when the drawing fell to the floor. He didn't stop in time and fell in. Looks like the drawing was a dark hole, and the chair leg fell inside, so it seems she only had one weapon with her.
Ladybug wrapped her yoyo around Chat's hand and pulled him out. They leaped to the roof of a nearby building, only to leap away again when fists of boxing gloves were thrown at them.
The three heroes continued running down the streets, dodging the fists.
"How do you beat a 2D character?" Chat asked.
"Get an oversized eraser?" Lune suggested.
"No. the only thing that doesn't transform when he changes is his mask." Ladybug said. Lune should've probably realized it isn't the appropriate time for jokes. Oops.
"The akuma must be in it."
"Now just to get to it..." Lune said.
The trio skidded to a stop. Lune saw the sheep leap into the air and transform into a blonde woman dressed in a blue and red superhero costume.
"Feel the power of cartoons!" She yelled.
"How about you feel the power of the Lucky Charm!"
A small spotted camera fell into Ladybug's hands.
"What are we supposed to do with that thing? Give the cartoon its own photoshoot?"
Shaking her head, Ladybug wrapped the camera around her head.
The trio screamed when they saw the cartoon's eyes spark. Green lasers shot from her eyes, creating a massive explosion that broke through the ground below he heroes.
"He really doesn't take kindly to competition." Chat grunted in pain. Lune winced when trying to stand up. Falling several feet into the subway will do that to you.
The cartoon changed again into a ninja. After doing a few ninja hand movements, he dropped a purple smoke bomb.
"I can't see anything…" Lune informed, though no one could see anything.
"Protect your miraculous! He can be anywhere!" Ladybug ordered. Lune wrapped her hand around her wrist that wore her bracelet.
The three were back-to-back-to-back in the purple smoke.
Lune opened her stinging eyes. She saw the villain in his original form running at Ladybug.
"Watch out!" Lune grabbed the villain's arm and threw him over and onto the pavement while Chat and Ladybug got out of the way. She dropped the broken chair leg somewhere, but it would be pretty useless in this fight. What even made her think it was a good idea?
Lune couldn't keep her eyes open. They were tearing up from the smoke and it was kind of hard to breath.
The heroes could hear confused grunting from the villain.
"Over there!" Ladybug shouted. Lune heard her teammates throw their weapons at him, but the sound of the villain transforming followed by bird chirping suggested he got away. Lune supposed he turned into a bird to fly out the subway. Again, today is just weird, there's nothing that could happen to change that at the moment.
The smoke cleared out and Lune could see again.
"Where'd he go?" Chat asked, "Why didn't he attack us while we were blinded?"
"To your first question; I think he flew off after transforming into another cartoon character, and to you second...beats me…" Lune half answered.
"The camera was recording the whole fight. Maybe it'll show us something we didn't see before." Ladybug suggested, taking the camera off her head.
Chat and Lune crowded around her. She pressed play. The purple smoke was still everywhere. The screen turned to Chat.
"Protect your miraculous! He can be anywhere!" Ladybug's voice called from the camera. The villain leapt at them, pausing mid-leap.
"Is it buffering?" Lune asked. She got weird looks from the others. Oh wait… it's a digital camera… The wolf smiled and laughed in embarrassment.
"Did you pause it?" Chat asked Ladybug.
"No…"
To make up for her stupid comment, Lune pointed out, "We all had our eyes closed, right?"
"So that's why he didn't take our miraculous." Chat said.
"If nobody's watching him, he stops moving." Ladybug added.
"Like an actual movie! If nobody's watching it, it's as if it never existed! That's amazing!" Lune jumped in excitement, her inner geek coming out.
"Now we know how to defeat him!"
The trio leapt out the subway and easily found the akuma. This time, he was a giant unicorn spewing rainbows. The rainbows hit the buildings, and they vanished.
"Please tell me I'm not the only one watching this?" The wolf asked in confusion.
"You're not."
"We need to get everyone to stop watching him." Chat said.
"Kinda tricky to do that when this movie is a sellout." Lune replied.
Ladybug's earrings start to beep. They were running out of time to beat this thing.
"Time for the end credits, you two."
The cat and wolf followed the ladybug, spreading out to tell everyone they needed to close their eyes. Thankfully, they did, but the TV crew came. Leave it to the news to ruin a hero's whole plan…
"Chat Noir, Lune, you keep him busy." Ladybug ordered. Chat and Lune nodded to each other.
Chat took his pole. It grew so it would be easier for the unicorn to see him. Lune grabbed on as it shot up. Her white suit would be easier to see on the black roof, but she felt cooler this way.
"Jealous of success, huh?" The cat called out to the villain, twirling his tail.
"You can play the smart alley cat, but once I have your miraculous, everyone will forget about you soon enough!"
"That voice doesn't get annoying…" Lune said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
The cartoon growled, changing into a muscular man in a white, sleeveless one piece outfit.
He brought his hands back, blue magic of sorts charging up in his palms.
"Hey! White is suppose to be my col- AAHH!" Lune dodged beams of blue power that the villain shot at them.
"I suggest we run!" Chat said, taking his metal pole back.
"I second that!" Lune agreed. The two heroes ran from the cartoon, dodging the lasers he shot.
They stopped when his mask glowed and turned him into a petite girl with long blonde hair and large pink eyes.
"Oh great, we got a Sailor Scouting knock-off." Lune said to herself.
"Huh?"
"Eh- Nevermind."
The cat and wolf ran when the magical girl used magic to create a large golden explosion. They then regrouped with Ladybug, who wasn't too far away.
Chat called forth his Cataclysm. His right hand swarmed with dark bubbles.
"Everybody must watch animation!" The girl yelled, her hand charging up with magic.
The tio leapt away to dodge, landing on the ground simultaneously.
"Funny, because I think we're the last ones." Chat said, glancing at Ladybug and Lune.
Lune, Ladybug, and Chat Noir watched the girl change back into his original form of black scribbles with white outlining.
"Shut your eyes tight, Chat Noir and Lune." Ladybug told them.
"Chat if you make a pun…"
"You know I trust you blindly." The cat told Ladybug, mainly to tease Lune and be funny.
With an annoyed sigh, Lune shut her eyes, and so did her partners. She opened her eyes when she heard the fluttering of an akumatized moth. Chat had broken the mask on the villains head face.
Ladybug de-evilized the moth and turned Paris back to its original state. The villain turned back into the movie director from the cinema? Of all people to be unhappy, it was the movie director at his own movie premiere.
"Why don't you guys come to the premiere? It's a little weird being the only hero there, especially when the movie is about you two." Lune asked Ladybug and Chat. They looked at each other, giving unconfident answers.
Lune rolled her eyes, smirking. It was sort of funny seeing them speak over each other, trying to come up with an excuse.
"Nevermind. I get that you can be busy. Plus, I don't need to recharge after using my special ability." The wolf helped the movie director up, offering to take him back. "I'll see you two later!" She called back to her teammates.
Lune returned to the cinema, taking a few more macarons before the premiere started. She was walking into the theatre when Marinette -standing by the theatre entrance to serve macarons- started freaking out when the movie director gave her his pass to watch the movie.
"Of course I know you. You're Thomas Astruc, the movie director!" Marinette squealed in excitement. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She happily strolled into the theatre finding a seat. Meanwhile, Lune was trying to contain her own squeal that she finally knew the movie directors name.
"I love movies so much!" She yelled, pumping her hand into the air. She stopped and turned around to see the whole theatre looking at her. She blushed. Her face turned even more red when she saw Thomas Astruc was still in the hallway where he could hear her.
Wanting to hide from the world, she hurried to find herself a seat in the theatre and began watching.