"Ladybug…Chat Noir. At last we've reached the end."

HawkMoth stood out of their view as he gazed over the city from the windows of his small observatory room. He could see the duo watching the blimp float up as they, without a doubt, discussed possible ways of dealing with the situation. He turned as the doors slid open, Domino entering. "The tremors will begin soon, HawkMoth. Only five more beams of energy to go before the city falls – in approximately ten minutes."

He held his hand out to her, and she gracefully stepped up and took it. "Soon, Domino, this city will know true fear."

"Tell me how you've succeeded."

"This," he rubbed the white brooch upon his neck, its pearl wings long and thin, "this is the key to my success. The earrings and the ring those two below wear once defeated a powerful witch from long ago. They thought they had killed her – they were wrong. They only forced her to hide herself inside a similar magical artifact, waiting for the right person to avenge her."

Domino eyed the brooch, and watched in awe as its white colour melted into a deep purple. "…That is the witch."

"I found her on a trip to Japan, where she had hidden herself away inside an old ruin, laid to waste by their battle. She chose me to hold her power. She told me everything about the luck charms. Now I shall destroy the city, and take their charms, so that I may rule the world."

Domino leaned up against him and placed her finger against the charm. "This witch…can we trust her?"

"Nuuruu is under my control," HawkMoth leaned in closer to her face, "every fight has merely been a diversion, so that I could place small sparks of energy all over Paris. Now," he lifted her chin up, "we rule."

He pulled her in and gave her a cold kiss, patiently waiting as she returned it. The night sky lit up through the windows as another beam struck the sky.

"How do we get onto the blimp?"

Ladybug and Chat Noir were forced to jump back as another beam formed between them and the blimp as it rose into the sky. "I'm not sure we can get close enough. If only there was a way to deal with all this dark energy."

"You don't think that HawkMoth could possess the same power we have, do you?"

"Unlikely…however," she grimaced, "him having some sort of dark magic isn't out of the question."

"Neither is your defeat, pathetic heroes!"

"What?" she turned, only to be hit in the face with a pigeon. It clawed at her hair until she tossed it away. "Oh, wonderful. Monsieur Pigeon."

He stood atop a chimney, sneering as his bird minions flew about. "This time you won't catch me by surprise! My birds will make mincemeat out of you and chew on your bones!"

She held her stomach down. "Ew, nice imagery."

He blew hard into his bird whistle and pointed their way. "Attack, my precious children!"

As Ladybug and Chat Noir stood back to back the birds circled above them. "Uh, m'lady? Any suggestions?"

She leaned back to his ear. "Use cataclysm to make them chaotic while I subdue Monsieur Pigeon."

"You mean…teamwork?"

She smirked. "Duh."

Chat Noir unhinged his claws and let his fangs grow out as he focused on the birds, who were readying to swoop down. Taking a deep breath he nudged Ladybug, who covered her ears and ducked down.

"CATACLYSM!"

The birds went askew and flopped around in confusion. "No, my babies," Monsieur Pigeon waved about for their attention, "attack them, attack!"

Chat Noir ducked as Ladybug stood up. She took her yoyo out and urged it to slim into a handle as a whip of bright pink energy slipped out and touched the roof. She swung it out and wrapped it around Monsieur Pigeon's leg and, yanking it back, swung him over their head and flat against a chimney. He hit it face first and fell to the ground. "Ooooooooohhhhhhh…"

There wasn't time to deal with the birds. Ladybug heard footsteps behind the chimney, followed by Melodie jumping overtop, brandishing her flute sword. Quickly Ladybug stepped right in front of Chat Noir and, forming her whip into her staff, blocked the swing, holding Melodie in the air for a few seconds. The hunter jumped back and onto the chimney. "You won't take me by surprise again."

"Don't need to," she spun the staff, "I have my skill for that."

Melodie lunged at her again. Ladybug ducked. "Chat!"

Swack!

"Uh!" Melodie spun to the right as Chat Noir spun over Ladybug and kicked her aside. She landed on her feet but staggered as he winked. "Sorry, but there's only one lovely lady I won't be hitting tonight…that sounded worse than it had to."

"Two against two," Melodie glared at him, "pleasant."

"Two against-!"

"Ha-ha-ha!" Monsieur Pigeon rose and whistled again. "You're no match for my birds."

"Stay out of my way, Pigeon," Melodie warned him as the birds organized themselves, "just keep them from running."

"Yeah, yeah, miss control freak. You see, this is why you don't have a boyfriend."

They may work for the same person, Ladybug realized, but that doesn't mean they can get along like we can!

"How sad," she said aloud, "having to hide behind a bunch of worthless birds, Melodie?"

"You can't taunt me."

"Worthless?!" Monsieur Pigeon was fuming. "How dare you call them worthless!"

Melodie took no time in taking another swing at Ladybug, who deflected with her staff. Chat Noir snuck behind them and swiped one of his glowing along a ledge of bricks.

"Whoa…sick."

All four glanced back to see the figure in blue from before standing before them, grinning. "So you're Chat Noir from the news, right? And this must be your teammate, the ladybug girl."

"Hey," Chat asked, "what happened to Monsieur Mime?"

"Oh, him? I ran him into the fountain and caused him to super blue his feet to it. And then I knocked him out with a couple hundred punches. Guy didn't squeal once – guess that's what I get for taking on a mime."

"Quick," Ladybug formed a plan in her head, "can you tie a knot?"

He glanced at Melodie and smirked. "You bet."

"Good!" She leapt back and shrunk her staff down into a small ladybug and tossed it to the ground. It began to glow pink, and suddenly burst into a cloud of pink, sparkly dust.

"Now!"

Melodie looked around, listening for sounds of movement, but all she could hear were pigeon wings flapping and squawking. Sparkles were clogging her senses. "Monsieur Pigeon, quiet your birds!"

Her weapon was swiped from her hands. She reached for it on the ground, only to find that it had been slashed in two.

He cut it in half with his claws-?!

Someone had her ponytail and was tugging it around. She tried to spin around and defend herself, but soon found her hands tied behind her back, in her hair.

Swack!

She flew into the brick ledge, which gave out and toppled over her. As the dust cleared she could make out the three heroes standing before her, Monsieur Pigeon on the ground again. She couldn't stand. "You…this isn't the end."

"Sorry," Ladybug wasn't smiling now, "but it has to be."

BOOM! Triple Team up. The fight if still going strong, but don't worry. Come the next chapter, Ladybug is going to be pulling out the ultimate move. I mean, you guys have seen it before, but I'm going to make it spectacular! Just wait and see.

Until the next chapter!