Yes, autocorrect. I know Horrificator isn't a word. Or Marinette. They're names. Please stop it with the red wavy lines already.
Disclaimer: I am only doing this for the learning experience of writing, formatting, and publishing a multi-chapter story. Oh, and to shut the plot bunnies up. I make no claims to the world represented herein.
Chapter 29: Horrificator, Part 4
Marinette may have been exhausted, and she may have had an injured ankle that could no longer withstand any weight, but she refused to let that slow her down.
She timed herself. It took her four minutes and fifteen seconds to retransform and get back to the school.
Ladybug raced through the school, glad to see her classmates evacuated safely, and tracked the slime back to the basement of the as she turned the corner, she heard Chat Noir's ring beep.
Reacting as fast she could, Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around Chat Noir's torso and yanked him back through the hallway. He disappeared behind the corner almost immediately, already beginning to glow green, and Ladybug turned to face Horrificator.
Horrificator swiped her tail, and Ladybug rolled out of the way. She came up on the opposite side of the room, keeping Horrificator's focus away from the hallway where her partner was detransformed.
Ladybug scanned the room, searching for something to help. She had to figure out some way to neutralize the slime so she could reach the akuma.
Horrificator blasted more slime at Ladybug, and Ladybug spin her yo-yo to shield it away.
Ladybug ducked under another tail swipe and wrapped her yo-yo around Horrificator's legs. With a tug from Ladybug, Horrificator's legs were pulled out from underneath her and she slammed into the ground onto her back.
Horrificator roared and rolled over to her stomach, but Ladybug kept her yo-yo tight enough to keep her from standing up.
Horrificator looked back at the superhero and roared.
"Yeah, yeah," Ladybug replied. "You've said that already."
Horrificator swung her tail low, but Ladybug jumped over it and landed on her good ankle.
The tail kept moving, and a second too late Ladybug realized her yo-yo was moving with it. She was yanked off her feet and she slammed into the concrete wall.
Ladybug retracted her yo-yo, and Horrificator stood to her full height again. A smile crept onto her face as Ladybug noticed that her opponent had shrunk during her time on the floor.
"Looks like you're running out of fear to feed off of, Horrificator!" Ladybug called.
Horrificator roared and sent another blast of goo that Ladybug easily blocked.
Ladybug's focus drifted from Horrificator to a shelf on the opposite wall, and a plan began to form.
Her thought process was cut off when Horrificator's tail slammed into her and shot her back across the room. Ladybug easily rolled onto her feet, but was hit again by a blast of goo, sticking her to the wall.
Horrificator roared again as she approached the trapped superhero. With her back turned to the hallway, she had no chance to see an approaching figure in black.
Ladybug grinned as Chat Noir's baton rammed into the hardened slime, freeing Ladybug from the wall. Landing with a roll and coming up with her weight on her good leg, Ladybug watched as Horrificator turned to Chat Noir and roared.
"You need breath mints," Chat Noir complained, making face.
"Good timing," Ladybug called.
Chat Noir gave her his unique grin before ducking under a tail swipe from Horrificator, and he stepped away right next to the shelf where Ladybug's plan rested.
Ladybug started to spin her yo-yo. "Chat Noir, behind you!"
Chat Noir took a quick glance behind him, quickly finding the shelf, and extended his baton to smash it from the wall.
Ladybug swung her yo-yo, cutting two bags of water softener salt open.
Chat Noir spin his baton to deflect the salt towards Horrificator. As the salt made contact with the slime, Horrificator slowly started to shrink.
The goo surrounding the girl became water, and it wasn't long before a small but still pink girl was curled up on the floor.
Ladybug took a breath of relief before walking up to her classmate. She easily removed the pin and snapped it into two.
Big shout out to my mom who was a great idea bouncer for this chapter!
