MIRACULOUS ALLIANCE
EPISODE 11: SILENCER PART IVThe heroes made it back to the TVi building, Queen Bee arriving a bit later then the rest. She briefed them quickly: "Jean found my father in his office tied down, but unharmed, aside that his voice was taken. That was how he was able to mobilize the entire police force." she explained.
"And get Roth in his claws." Chat Noir added. "We should stop Silencer, but can we wait until he has Roth blurt out his secrets on tv?"
Ladybug messages him: "It would be revenge, not justice. Being coerced in telling the truth is meaningless."
"Not to mention he would try to write it off as being forced to lie under Silencer's threats. He is good at bullshitting his way out of things." Rena said through a message of her own.
"We will deal with Bob Roth when the time is right. But right now, we have one our friends to de-evilize." Queen Bee noted. "So...we have a plan to deal with Silencer?"
Ladybug sent a message. "It's going to be risky, not to mention we'll need a lot of luck, but I have a plan, yes. Now this is what we're going to do..."
Inside the Tvi building, Silencer was speaking to the audience, though off-screen, in the voice of Alec Cataldi. The accents on his outfit flashed in the same shade of blue as Alec's shirt. "Dear viewers, we're back on the air for a exclusive interview with Bob Roth. He has something very important..." It was at that point the heroes busted into the room. "What the..."
"I'm sorry, but the show is cancelled due to reasons of us going to kick Akuma Butt!" Chat Noir quipped.
Silencer spoke, his suit's accents flashing in the same shade of orange as Rena Rouge's suit, and speaking in the latter's voice: "Keep your nose out of other people's business, Miraculous Team, or I'll silence you, and not in the same way I did earlier."
"That would be a shame considering how hilarious I am." Chat said with his usual catty smirk. He then got send multiple messages at once by his teammates, all saying: 'No you're not!' Chat sulked. "Nobody appreciates a good joke anymore."
"Moth Swarm!" Silencer said in Carapace's voice, the accents on his suit glowing in the same green as the turtle hero, as several Moths appear in burst of black smoke. The heroes pulled out their weapons and fought the Moths. However, Queen Bee herself confronted Silencer himself. "I was so close. Why would you want to protect a scumbag like Bob Roth?"
"I don't want to, believe me. But we are heroes, and we vowed to protect all citizens. And while Bob Roth will pay for his crimes, it is not going to be in this way." Queen Bee said as she extended the string on her trompo and swung it by her side in a circle. "Roth will face charges, and I will help de-evilize you."
"Once I was idealistic as you, Queen Bee." Silencer had switched to XY's voice. "But rich powerful people like him always get away with their scheme because they walk over other people, breaking and ruining them, not caring on whose lives they will destroy to get what they want. Now he will feel what it's like to be on the other end."
"You don't understand, there is evidence against him. The Ladyblogger made a recording of the conversation earlier, so he can be taken down. Some of his old allies also cut ties with him, like the mayor. So we can't expect anyone coming to his defense this time." Queen Bee explained.
"How do you know all this?" Silencer asked.
"I spoke to Chloé Bourgeois on my way here, as soon as we heard the news about your Akumatization. She asked me to do anything to save you...and I promised her that I would do just that?" Queen Bee said.
"Angel?" Silencer asked, his eyes widening and looking down.
"Yes, she is worried for you. You know how much it hurts her, your sister and all your friends to see you like this?" Queen Bee asked.
"I..." Silencer was at a loss of words, no matter, whose voice he used. It was then that a holographic mask appeared over his eyes and he grabbed his head in pain. He groaned in his own voice as suddenly he was enveloped in a dark aura and roared in a mixture of the voices he stole and charged at her, consumed by rage.
"Damnit, Hawkmoth!" Queen Bee grumbled under her breath.
As Queen Bee started her fight with Silencer, Ladybug snuck in and dragged Bob Roth out. Roth wanted to use her as a shield again but she turned around and raised a finger, while her look wordlessly said: 'Do not touch me!' Bob took a step back, apparently remembering the last time he tried to do that and was thrown around by her like a rag-doll. She just signaled for Roth to follow her and be quiet.
Queen Bee launched several punches and kicks at Silencer, whom blocked them equally skillfully with the combat experience forcefully programmed by Hawkmoth. He launched a sweep kick, but she jumps over it, before launching a spin kick in mid-air, but he caught her ankle before it could hit her and threw her off the floor. He leaned in to take her voice but she headbutts him, knocking him back, while rubbing her head, feeling the sting from headbutting a helmet-wearing Akuma. She got up and threw her trompo but he batted it away with his arm. But Queen Bee got into an angle with her trompo so she could swing around and smack it in Silencer's side, making him stagger. "Silencer...Luka...Please stand down!" she said.
"Get away from me!" Silencer said in his natural voice, shooting a soundwave that blew Queen Bee away. However, she reacted in time, planting her trompo into the ground, then used the wire as a makeshift catapult to shoot herself forward to launch a flying kick that knocked him back. As he was downed she rushed at him but he got up, kicked off the ground, standing on his hands at a diagonal angle to kick Queen Bee down. He leaned over her and inhaled. Queen Bee grabbed his chin and tilted his head upwards as he said: "Stay down!" The soundwave shot into the ceiling instead and broke pieces of it off, Silencer and Queen Bee jumping back to avoid it.
Silencer was ready for another round as he suddenly remembered something. "Where are Ladybug and Bob Roth?" he said in Alec's voice as he looked around, the two nowhere to be found. To add insult, a Moth Drone landed by his feet and poofed. He turned his head to see his Moth Swarm defeated again, and the other heroes having caught up.
Chat's baton was now near Silencer's throat. "One word out of you, and my baton will stretch, rendering you silent." Chat said. "You cannot escape this time."
Silencer growled under his helmet. He was cornered this time. However, suddenly the holographic mask appeared over his eyes and he then smirked. "Not to worry, Silencer, I have an ace in the hole. A being called Feast is going to join you really soon." Silencer smirked.
The heroes didn't like the looks of that. "Why are you smirking?" Chat ask.
"Because there is going to be a Feast." Silencer said in André's voice.
"Why do I have the feeling something bad is going to happen?" Chat muttered. Then all of a sudden, something busted through the wall of the studio, startling the heroes, allowing Silencer to slip out to resume his hunt for Roth. When the dust cleared, they suddenly found themselves face to face with Feast. "Hello, something bad!" Chat said.
The frog-like Sentimonster looked like it did when Mayura initially summoned it, but it now it was colored in shades of purple and black, more like Hawkmoth's color scheme. It croaked as it eyed our heroes. "That's not an Akuma, is it?" Chat noted. "Hawkmoth cannot create more then one at the time."
"It's a Sentimentel...no, a Sentimonster. But why would Mayura help Silencer?" Queen Bee asked. Then Feast just rushed forward, causing the heroes to spread out and dodge. "Never mind, we'll have to figure this out later. Chat, can you and the others keep this thing busy? I am going after Silencer!"
"No problemo, Queenie." Chat said with a mock salute. Rena and Carapace just nodded. "Just be careful you don't lose your voice either."
"I'm not planning to." Queen Bee said as she chased after Silencer.
Chat, Rena and Carapace readied themselves, as they knew this Sentimonster would be a tougher cookie then some Moth Drones. Feast eyed them, croaked and jumped at them again. The heroes scattered again, and dodged the huge amphibian Sentimonster. Feast shot out his tongue, which Carapace blocked by holding his shield in front of him. However, the sticky tongue had latched onto the shield and retracted the tongue, dragging its owner along with it. However, Carapace managed to get his shield in such a position that it got stuck between the jaws of Feast, so he couldn't swallow or close his mouth. Carapace then grinned and through his link with the shield, made is spin around like a buzzsaw, making Feast spit out the shield and purple smoke bled from his wounds.
Chat jumped on the frog's back, and planted his sharp claws into it. The huge beast roared in pain before he rolled on his back. But Chat was quick enough, and ran on the rolling frog so he would not be crushed underneath. But as the frog rolled in a position that he was near its throat, it inflated and send Chat flying. He landed on his feet, though. Rena then got into the view of the frog, sticking out her tongue and pulling her left lower eyelid down with her finger, anime-style, to taunt the beast. It raised its massive leg and tried to crush her under, it but she was too fast. She then giggled, turned around to wag her butt and tail. The frog huffed, looking more bull then frog and charged at her. Rena was staying ahead of the lumbering giant frog.
However, as he was chased he felt something hit him in the back of his head. The frog shook his head, dazed as he saw Carapace catching his rebounding shield. As Carapace had caught his shield, he squatted down on hand and feet and puffed his cheeks and stuck out his tongue, mockingly imitating the frog. Feast was angered and instead focused on Carapace as he hopped towards him. Only to find himself getting poked in the eye by an extending baton. The baton then shortened again to his original size as Chat stood there, smug as ever. "You know, if we buy a ton of butter and a garlic patch, you could keep a restaurant running for days with this nice thick legs."
Feast croak/roared angrily as he then charged at Chat. It soon became a game where one of the heroes would draw attention, the other got a hit in to draw the attention of the Sentimonster Frog, and it would repeat for a while.
"You're gonna have to do better than that, Ladybug, if you're gonna defeat this supervillain. Isn't that you and Cat Noir's job? This is all that band's fault - those Kitty what-ya-ma-callits. None of this would've happened if they hadn't made a fuss about their so-called ideas." Bob Roth ranted. Ever since they got out of Silencer's hearing range, he had been complaining and criticizing the heroes non-stop.
It made Ladybug incredibly frustrated. While Bob rants, Ladybug creates a fake Lucky Charm by painting a lamp red with black spots. It would be a miracle she didn't use this fake Lucky Charm to bash that bumbling buffoon's brains in. But she thought about needing him alive and the need to save her friend from Akumatization so Bob would go unharmed, for now.
Queen Bee was running through the TVi Studio hallways, having lost track of Silencer. "Where did he run off to? Where is Ladybug?" she muttered.
Silencer was down in the hallway, around the corner. The accents on his suit flashed red as he spoke in Ladybug's voice: "Queen Bee, I'm over here, I managed to recover my voice from Silencer."
Queen Bee smiled. "Oof, that's a relief. So the danger is over?"
"It is indeed." Silencer continued in Ladybug's voice. "Meet me outside the studio, I'll wait for you. The others will catch up later!"
Queen Bee nodded. "Okay, I'll meet you outside the studio door!" she answered. She played dumb, letting Silencer think everything goes according to his plan, but it actually went according to Ladybug's.
Speaking of which, she was still in the dressing room, working on the fake Lucky Charm, and Queen Bee having sent a message that everything was going according to her plan. The Sentimonster wasn't planned, but she knew her friends could handle it long enough for them to carry out the rest.
"You've got to be the dumbest superheroes ever!" Bob Roth's voice sounded, and there went her good mood. "How could you let the bad guy in on your plan? And what's with this fake Lucky Charm? I thought it was supposed to be magic or something, but it's actually just some crafty special effects."
Ladybug now fumed, but then she got an idea and sported a devious smirk as she pulled out some ducktape. "Er...what are you going to do with that?" Bob Roth asked, not liking where that was going.
A few moments later, Queen Bee is running towards the film set from the Studio Hallways. She is soon joined by Ladybug, whom gave her the thumbs up. It was at that moment Silencer also appeared in front of the both of them. "I admit you are a tough foe, Silencer. But if you think you got us crippled, you were wrong! Ladybug still has her superpowers." Queen Bee gestured at Ladybug, whom showed her fake lamp Lucky Charm.
Silencer went wide eyed. The accents on his suit flashed red as he spoke in Ladybug's voice, in panic and to reassure himself that he still had her voice. "That's impossible! I took your voice from you! How could you possibly have summoned up your Lucky Charm?"At that moment, Ladybug's yoyo glowed and in a burst of light, a red, black-dotted vacuum cleaner appeared. "I walked right into that one, didn't I?" Silencer said, feeling a bit stupid for being tricked like that.
"I hope you can figure out how to work your Lucky Charm, Ladybug. In the mean time, I'll draw his attention." Queen Bee said, whom started fighting Silencer again, while Ladybug was looking around to see how she could use this Lucky Charm.
"I will not give in! I am so close, I will have revenge on those whom hurt me, my friends, and my Angel!" Silencer said in Ladybug's voice as he and Queen bee traded blows. "And if the Ladyblogger already has proof of his misgivings, I have no more use for the Roth family, and I can do away with them. And anyone whom gets in my way."
"That sounds quite brutal, don't you think? Stepping on people to get what you want. And while Roth may deserve it, you are now stepping over the heroes of Paris and stealing the voices of innocents to get what you want. Sound familiar?" Queen bee said.
"Are you comparing me to Bob Roth?" Silencer asked, angrily in Carapace's voice. "I am not hurting. The voices are borrowed, I am doing this for my friends."
"Like Roth did it for his son? True it is proven he doesn't care, but it shows how much people can justify themselves. But I am not comparing Luka to Bob Roth. I am comparing that twisted shell created from that good boy's anger and frustration. Silencer is everything Luka doesn't want to be. I know what an Akumatization does to you. I was before I became a hero. It takes your darkest thoughts, gives you the power to carry them out, without any human decency to act as a filter." Queen Bee said.
"I don't need your lecture." Silencer said angrily, now in Rena's voice. "Like you are an expert."
"You are not alone whom was in this boat. Certainly not the first one, over a reason of being wronged. Your friends, your sister...even your angel became a demon with an Akuma." Queen Bee continued.
"Angel..." Silencer hesitated again.
"It destroyed her, thinking she was slipping back into being a demon...and it destroys her that you are becoming one as well. So Silencer...no, Luka! Come back...to her!" Queen Bee said. She wondered how much of her own emotion she let slip out. How much she showed to the boy she loved but didn't know it was her.
Silencer panted heavily. "No...I'm not..." Silencer was now shifting between voices rapidly. "You don't understand. Just...get out of my WAY!" Silencer said, that last word being shouted in his own voice and his sonic wave stronger then ever as it sent Queen Bee flying.
Ladybug was tinkering with the vacuum cleaner, a power cable and some ducktape to use for her plan. She planned on turning it into a backpack. She just had to wait until they managed to break the helmet and collect the voices...However she saw Queen Bee flying from the corner of her eye. Dang, she was not doing so well. It then went further south when the ceiling above her collapsed and she had to roll aside, but the vacuum cleaner Lucky Charm was crushed. Oh no...
From the collapsed ceiling Chat, Rena, Carapace and Feast fell down in front of them. All four were dazed for a bit but unfortunately it was Feast whom was getting up much quicker and and looming over her friends. She threw her yo-yo, right into one of its eyes, making it stagger and screech in pain. It turned towards Ladybug, croaking in anger. He charged at her, as she jumped out of the way, distracting the beast as her friends slowly started to get up.
Queen Bee's ears wouldn't stop ringing from that last sonic wave. Her vision was still blurry but she could recognize the blur of colors whom came for her. Silencer was now really close. He crouched down beside her and held out her hand, soon putting his fingers on her lips to steal her voice. However, Queen Bee, as soon as she saw that the hand was close enough, bit down into it, Silencer screaming out in a mixture of voices. She then kicked him in the stomach to knock him back.
Queen Bee breathed heavily. She hated this. It was the same old song each time. Someone she knew, often a friend, sometimes a relative, and now one whom has captured her heart, and Hawkmoth twisted them. She was getting sick of it. She worked so hard to become honest, to keep herself honest but life keeps throwing these curve-balls at her. It was getting so difficult.
She wondered what would happen if she didn't turn her life around. Would she be alone? Would Luka still have been Akumatized? Would there be someone else whom made his heart sing? Someone whom deserves it? NO! No more 'what ifs'. No more dwelling. Ignore the blathering of a slimeball like Roth. Don't be brought down by a monster called Hawkmoth. She was Chloé Bourgeois, she was Queen Bee. She had been fighting to get where she is now. And she would keep fighting.
"VENOM!" Queen Bee shouted, her trompo morphing in her stinger gauntlet, and she took a huge leap. She had never made quite a leap like this, it was like she was gliding. She trusted her gauntlet forward, and planted it right in Silencer's collarbone. He had wanted to open his mouth to raise his voice again, but no sound was heard, as he stood there, frozen. Queen Bee let out a big 'Oof!' as he removed the helmet. Luka's face was under it, but it was the unnatural skin tone that Silencer had, and the lips were black. "It will all be okay." she said as she stared in Silencer's eyes. There were a few moments of silence as the eyes stayed locked, but then she threw the helmet to the floor with such force that it cracked.
Chloé sighed in relief as she saw the jellyfish-like blobs float out of the cracked helmets and fly away, back towards their owners. She smiled softly, she felt her limbs relax and her wings fluttered softly...wait, wings? She turned her head around and indeed, she found a pair of translucent, light-blue wings on her back. Oh, that's how she was gliding earlier. Guess she had caught up with Ladybug in that aspect.
However, something else also floated out of the helmet, the Akuma butterfly. "LADYBUG!" Queen bee shouted.
Ladybug, whom was helping the others with Feast, turned around, and also saw the butterfly fly away. All while at the same time a red jellyfish blob headed her way. It flew in her mouth, and after swallowing, she spoke again in her familiar voice: "No more evildoing for you little Akuma! Time to de-evilize!" she opened her yo-yo, swung it around and then launched it at the butterfly, catching it inside. "Gotcha!" She then let the purified butterfly go. "Bye-bye, little butterfly!"
"While I love that I can hear your heavenly voice coming out of your mouth again, Milady...can you help us with this overgrown swamphopper, please?" Chat said as he was pinned down under one fo the giant frog Sentimonster's huge webbed feet.
"No worries, bro! Now I got my voice back..." Carapace said as he lifted his shield. "Shell-ter!" Carapace said as he formed a huge forcefield around his fist, like an oversized boxing glove and punched the frog in the face, really hard, making it stagger and get him off Chat.
Ladybug helped Chat up as Rena spoke up. "Now it is my turn. The natural enemy of the frog is the snake! Mirage!" She blew her flute and the image of a giant snake that would make the Basilisk of harry Potter look tiny, and the frog Sentimonster whimpered as it clumsily scurried back.
The Lucky Charm had been destroyed, but she still had that power cable she was working with, and it was also still plugged in. She took the cable, then jabbed it in the side of the overgrown amphibian, whom now sparked and spazzed with the electricity going through his body.
"If you think that was the most shocking thing you've ever felt..." Chat said, as he raised his hands. Now the Akuma is purified he could use his signature power again. "Cataclysm!" he touched Feast, whom turned completely black, before turning into a huge pile of dust. "We TOADally owned him!"
"Why didn't Silencer take your voice?" Ladybug said, but the smirk on her face showed it was her usual playful banter.
"Oh, how I missed you chastising me over my puns." Chat shot back.
"Er...dudes? Since when does Queenie have wings?" Nino said as he looked at Queen Bee comforting Luka.
"Who cares about the wings? Look how cute they are together." Rena said delighted at the sight. Ladybug sighed. Things were back to normal, all right.
"Luka, are you all right?" Queen Bee asked worried.
"What happened?" Luka asked, confused.
"You were Akumatized. But everything's fine now." she said as she locked eyes with him again, this time with his normal, civilian self. "Your friends will be worried for you."
"Luckily I can always count on the heroes of Paris to fix everything. Thank you for your help." Luka said with a soft, warm smile. A genuine one. It fills Queen Bee's stomach with butterflies...or bumblebees in her case? It felt so good to see him back to his old self. If she wasn't Queen bee right now, she'd want to kiss him. But she couldn't now, stupid secret identity.
The mood was ruined though when Bob Roth, ducktaped to a chair, hopped into the room (and it looked funny as hell) and opened his noise-hole: "This is outrageous, Ladybug! You tied me up and imprisoned me in a dressing room!"
"Me? I did that? That doesn't sound like me at all." Ladybug said in a fake innocent voice. The part of Queen Bee that was still impish was proud of her friend for that.
Bob Roth notices that Luka has been de-akumatized. "The hero brigade got you. Serves you right! What did you think, kid? That I was going to tell everybody the truth? That I stole Kitty Section's song and costumes, so I could give them to my talent-less son, like I did with many other chumps? You didn't think that superheroes would come to save me, huh? That's right! They work for me now! ...What's up with you guys? Why are you all smiling like that?!"
Queen Bee had a smirk of her own. "We're smiling because you're on the air, Mr. Roth. Everything you just said was broadcast live." She pointed at Chat, whom was standing behind a camera. He peeked out from behind it, sporting a cheeky grin and waving. Boos were heard all over Paris when Bob Roth's deceit was revealed.
"There is no covering it up, Roth." Queen Bee said. "Between this recording and the Ladyblogger's, you'll never work in the music industry again. You will not receive any support from the mayor for attacking his daughter, and Jagged Stone like hell won't appreciate trying to drag down his honorary niece. It is not enough you are a filthy little cockroach, you are so proud of being a filthy little cockroach you can't resist bragging about it when you think you can get away with it. That just became your undoing."
"B-b-but..." Roth stammered, at a loss for words.
"I think it is time for us to clean up." Ladybug said as she took the broken vacuum cleaner. "Miraculous Ladybug!" After she tossed the thing in the air, the magical ladybug swarm coming forth every time, did the cleanup as was expected. "It's time for us to bug out. I think that Mr. Raincomprix is still around, and he will not have come here for nothing."
"And you, Luka...wait for your friends. They will have seen the Ladybug swarm and come to check upon you. Don't feel ashamed because this happened to you, they have been there before. Don't push anyone away, and treasure your bonds of friendship, or whatever other bond you may have." Queen Bee said.
"Thanks, Queen Bee. I will." Luka assured her. With that, the heroes of Paris would leave, probably to hide away and de-transform safely. Luka sighed. "Well done, Angel. Well done."
The heroes found a secluded spot and de-transformed safely. They all let out sighs of relief. "Before we go back in, there is something that we will need to address; what was up with that Sentimonster?" Marinette said.
TO BE CONCLUDED
ARTIST'S COMMENTS
The fight with Silencer continues. Chloé gets her wings and even with Hawkmoth messing things up with a stolen Sentimonster, the heroes save the day again.
But we are not done, a fifth and final part of the episode, the pairing will come true, the heroes will talk about what the heck was going on with the Sentimonsters, Bob Roth faces major consequences and Kitty Section is happy.
As of this part we have reached the 50th chapter of my fanfic (if you include the snippets) and I want to thank everyone whom has read and reviewed it so far. When I started it I feared that my past flaws may act up again and I may burn out but with your support I have been able to keep going like I do and it seems that fire hasn't stopped burning. Thanks for liking my fic.