Marinette curled up on the couch with her knees drawn up to her chest. Adrien fell in front of her on his knees and touched her calves.
He peered up at her with concerned eyes and Alya and Nino watched them with their lips parted in confusion.
"Bugaboo. You gotta keep it together. We have to keep it together. The faster we can get this done. The faster we can make sure your family is okay. Make sure Emma is okay." Adrien watched her slowly look up from her folded arms and she sniffed.
He backed up so that she could sit with her feet on the ground. A look of determination crossed her face.
"Alya, I need your help." Marinette held an ornate box out to her.
"And I need you, Nino." Adrien held his box out to his best friend.
"What?" They said in unison.
"We really need your help." More crashing happened around them and Adrien flinched.
Alya looked at Nino and bit her lip.
"This is your chance to be who you have always wanted, Alya. Take it." Nino smiled at his girlfriend.
Alya nodded and took the box. She opened it and an orange light flashed before her eyes, revealing a small fox kwami.
"Hi. I'm Trixx." The fox kwami smiled at her and did a flip.
Nino opened his and a green light burst from the box and he flinched. Wayzz spun gracefully out and sat with his legs crossed and floated in the air with a serene expression. "I'm Wayzz."
"All you have to say is Let's Pounce and Shield Up." Trixx and Wayzz spoke together.
"Trixx, Let's Pounce!" Alya called out and was over taken by an orange light.
"Wayzz, Shield Up!" Nino called out and a dark green light covered his body.
"Plagg! Claws out!" Adrien punched the air with a smirk.
"Tikki! Spots on!" Marinette flung her hair with her hand with a giggle.
Ladybug and Chat Noir watched their best friends look over their costumes in awe.
"This- is- so… cool!" Alya smiled and felt her body fill with excitement.
"So awesome, dude!" Nino took in his appearance and messed with his hood.
"Quick run down." Ladybug took charge of the situation, as more buildings crumbled outside. "You each have a power. You get one chance to use it." She suddenly shot Chat a look with pouty lips.
He jumped and looked at her surprised, licking the back of his hand. "What?!"
"SOMEONE! Didn't wait to hear that rule the first day out." Ladybug rolled her eyes. "Once you use it? You have a few minutes before you transform back. Find food in that time for your kwami so, that you can transform again. You can detransform by saying the opposite of what you said. Got it?"
"I think so." Alya smiled and spun her flute in her hands.
"Got it!" Nino was determined and ready.
"Alright, let's go find the akuma." Chat Noir opened the window and leapt from it, extending his staff.
"Is he always leaping ahead?" Rena Rouge looked at Ladybug with a raised eyebrow.
"Pretty much." Ladybug sighed and swung her yo-yo out to follow her husband.
Rena Rouge looked at Carapace and shrugged. She leaped from the window and followed behind them, while Carapace took his shield from his back. He leaped and the shield opened up and blades spread out like helicopter blades and took him up into the air to follow them.
Ladybug landed on a roof and looked over at what was causing the massive damage.
"How many akumas is that?" Her throat ran dry.
Chat looked at it and his knees trembled.
"Is this not normal?" Nino looked in the distance.
"Where have you been?" Alya nudged him, horrified.
"I-" Nino sighed and slumped.
"How are we going to do this?" Ladybug felt defeated.
"Well, there are four of them and four of us. We could split u-" Chat Noir had started to formulate a plan, but Rena Rouge stopped him.
"No! Splitting up will only end in death right now. I say we fight one at a time, if that's possible." Rena Rouge instructed with fierce determined eyes.
"Alright, which one first? The one spreading fire? The one flooding the streets? The one sending speeding winds? Or the one using earthquakes to bring down buildings?" Ladybug brought up their options. It didn't pass her mind that they were the four elements, Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth.
Chat thought for a moment. "Carapace will shield us. Rena Rouge will cause an illusion to lead them. Ladybug, you do your thing, and.. I'll do what I do best." He rubbed his chest with his fist.
"Annoy people?" Ladybug poked fun at him and he slumped, unamused.
Rena Rouge burst out laughing and Carapace chuckled.
"Ha- Ha, very funny." Chat stood up straight again.
"We got this. Let's go!" Ladybug swung her yo-yo and got closer to the four akumatized victims.
"How do you guys not kill each other on a regular basis?" Rena Rouge poked fun at the two heroes.
Chat nearly fell and Ladybug burst out in a fit of giggles.
"Very carefully." Ladybug winked at Chat and he wasn't amused by it.
"Look out!" Carapace jumped in front of them and his shield spread out to cover them all. "Pay attention! You're all getting distracted!"
"He's right! We gotta focus!" Ladybug shouted and looked around them to search for her options.
"Give us your miraculouses! All four of you!" The water akuma spoke with a sneer.
"Clearly, they're too much for you guys to handle." The fire akuma joked and rested their arm on the water akuma's shoulder.
"Clearly, you're too HOT to handle." Chat joked with a smirk.
Ladybug and Rena Rouge slapped their faces with their hands, while Carapace fist bumped his best friend. "What is wrong with them?" Rena Rouge shook her head back and forth.
"Children." Ladybug sighed and shot her yo-yo to the sky. "LUCKY CHA-!"
The building shook beneath her feet and collapsed. They leapt together to the next building with Carapace shielding them from behind. Wind blew them off course slightly and Ladybug shot out her yo-yo to pull them back on course.
"This is ridiculous." Ladybug sighed and panted when they landed safely onto the building.
"Look, we just have to distract, lure, and do you lucky charm dealy, while being shielded. We got this. Now, focus and think, everyone!" Rena Rouge looked over at a distracted Chat Noir. "Seriously?"
"There was... a mouse?" Chat shrugged with a nervous chuckle.
"Just focus, pussycat." Ladybug looked at him unamused.
"Hey, if you guys are done messing around and playing with each other! Ya gonna fight?!" The earth akuma called them out with his cane behind his neck and his legs spread in a power stance. "Or should I just drop this building too?! Up to you!"
Ladybug groaned and became serious. "Rena Rouge! Think of something they'd want, while Carapace shields. Chat!"
"Distract them, as long as, I can." Chat clenched his fist with determined glowing neon green eyes.
"Right! Do your thing." Ladybug shouted and Chat spun his staff out from his back and extended it to take off.
"Hey, four seasons!" Chat yelled and pointed at them.
"We're not- nevermind." The wind akuma grumbled.
Chat Noir ran around them in a circle and flipped and leapt over them, before pouncing and winking with his hands in loose fists by his cheeks. "Meow!"
"Oh Lord!" Rena Rouge rolled her eyes.
"Don't be distracted by him!" Ladybug ordered even though she was just as irritated by him.
"I'm trying!" Rena Rouge argued back and finally got an idea. She pulled her flute from her back and spun in a circle, playing a melody. She flung the flute out towards the horizon and Hawkmoth and Peacock stood in the distance.
Chat blocked one of their hits with a smirk and a wink. "Looks like your bosses are here. You probably should run like the WIND so this all BLOWS over."
"Why…" Rena Rouge smacked her forehead and her miraculous began to beep.
Ladybug laughed and threw her yo-yo into the air. "LUCKY CHARM!" A rope fell into her hands. She looked at the rope and everything around her.
"Shouldn't that be for later, bugaboo?" Chat joked and Ladybug blushed. "Not now…!" She ground out with irritation.
"Nice!" Carapace chuckled and air high fived him.
Rena Rouge burst out laughing, yet she was clearly irritated beneath it all.
Several things caught Ladybug's eye and she went around collecting them. "Alright, here's the plan."
The four elemental akumas went after the illusions of their bosses, while Ladybug and them set up their plan. "Carapace! Use your power once we get over there. I'm going to use it to wrap them with my yo-yo when they get close enough together and then we'll tie them up with this rope."
"Got it!" Carapace sprung off in front of them. He spun and held his shield up above his head. It sprang out into a transparent dark green shield that was about ten times its original size. He pulled it down in front of them with a smirk. "Ready when you are, Ladybug."
Ladybug swung her yo-yo out in around the shield and in front of them and wrapped the four akumas and pulled tight. They shouted and knocked into each other and fell to the ground on the roof of the building. They bounded up on them and Ladybug zipped around, tying them with the ropes. "Now to get their akumas." She smiled and looked them over.
"Ya know, it'd be easier if you'd just tell us what it is that is controlling you." Chat smirked and leaned on his staff.
"Why would we do that?" The fire akuma spoke. "I have no reason to live anymore. Just kill me."
"That's where we're different. We don't kill people. We SAVE people." Ladybug put her hands on her hips.
That's when she noticed each one of their weak points. She grabbed the fire's wedding ring, the wind's coach whistle, the water's glasses, and the earth's shoes. "Chat, would you be so kind?" She placed them all in a pile at his feet.
"With pleasure, m'lady." He purred and leaned into her, before holding his right hand into the air. "Cataclysm." She grabbed his face and kissed him hard on the lips and he smirked, as she let him go.
He slammed his hand on the pile of objects and they disintegrated, sending four purple black butterflies into the air.
Ladybug swung her yo-yo around and caught all four of them. She pressed down on the middle of her yo-yo and released the four white butterflies into the air.
"MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!" Ladybug shouted and threw the rope into the air, while the four akumatized victims turned back to normal again.
Chat ran over to them. "You okay?"
Red ladybugs flew through the air, fixing everything around them. Rena Rouge's necklace rang out quicker.
"Go, feed your kwami. We're good here. Carapace, you too." Chat gave orders to their best friends and they nodded and took off.
"We got a kitten to get." Ladybug panicked suddenly and went to fling her yo-yo when beeping rang out.
"Sweetheart. Bugaboo. We have to change back first." Chat grabbed her and yanked her into his chest.
"I'm scared." Ladybug finally let go and sobbed into him.
Chat sighed and picked her up with his arm beneath her knees and the other around her upper back. "Hang on, tight." He sprang up and landed on the next building and crouched down behind a short wall, while green and red lights overtook them.
Hawkmoth growled and clutched his cane in his right hand. Peacock circled around him and rubbed his shoulders.
"You'll get them, my moon. Just you wait." Peacock kissed his cheek and he relaxed.
"Soon, we'll get what we always wanted." Hawkmoth's lips curled up in a sinister smile.
"Yes, Gabriel. We'll bring our other son back to us." Peacock smiled up at him with tear brimmed eyes.
Gabriel touched her hand and kissed her knuckles. "It's a shame that he didn't make it past the age of six. He was so perfect and so well behaved."
"Soon, my love. Soon we will have him back." Adelina smiled up at him and kissed him on the lips.
They both peered over at the coffin with sad expressions.
