Chapter 6: Battle for Paris

How things had suddenly been turned on its head. While Superman could move very fast, everything around him looked like it was moving so slowly. The flood left nothing untouched as it spread out from where the tentacles planted themselves, turning the bright pavements and the bottom of the colourful buildings into nothing but a dark stretch of liquid with red lighting beaming from its deepness. How much did the hero wish now he'd came here sooner to stop all this.

Rena Rouge and Carapace both looked shocked to see such a sight coming over their city. They were left speechless to see that such a dark sight as this was consuming everything of their homes. Carapace was very confused about this as well as upset. His shield could hold anything inside and out, yet here Manchester tore right through his shield with ease, now everyone was at risk of getting hit by whatever this thing was, and his shield couldn't hold it. He felt a swirl of heat turn inside his body as his eyes took in how fast this flood was going.

Superman was soon back by the street corner he left Bunnyx and Queen B at, using his hands to grab them by the scruff of their suits to lift them right into the air before the flood could get to them. Taking to the air, Superman lifted them high in the air so they could get a good enough look to see where best to go next. His eyes scoured around as a cold rush of fear ran through him as he could see this flood was going fast throughout Paris, and there was no limit to its rush. Keeping in mind of those he was carrying, he quickly spotted the rooftop of Bourgeois Hotel nearby, seeing the roof was flat for them to get on. Reaching over to it with a steady flight, Superman landed on the roof, gently putting the teen heroes onto the rooftop and releasing them from his grip. Their hearts racing hard, they ran to the edge of the roof to fully take it in on what was going on.

"Oh my god..." was all that Bunnyx could utter as they saw the flood continuing its onslaught throughout the city, with Queen B looking almost lost for words save for a question.

"Just...how the hell is he doing this!?" she almost shouted, nearly losing his grip on her sanity for what she was seeing while Superman looked to where the Eiffel Tower still stood, his eyes zooming in on Manchester as he saw his aura glow red.

He withheld a gasp as he saw Manchester begin to float from where he was on the tower and lowered himself to the ground, where he disappeared from Superman's sight until he used his x-ray vision to see through the building he landed behind. The grin on Manchester's face was full of twisted glee as he began to call out from where he was.

"C'mon, Supes mate! C'mon out and fight for the so called perfect world you think I'm trying to corrupt! Let's go at it again, the old Boy Scout up against the true modern hero! Let's see you try!" he yelled, his voice dripping with utter glee as to what he was daring Superman to do.

The heroic man in blue felt his face sharpen as he looked out to see how further the flood was getting. His ears rang as he heard the many cries of civilians getting blocked out by the flood as it began to penetrate their homes, taking them into its grip and trapping them. His heart raced as he saw the flood reaching the barricades set up by the police, who looked utterly confused and scared as to what they were facing. Even Roger, who had become more hardened in his recent experiences, looked confused as to what he was facing. He couldn't move fast enough to avoid the flood as it then swept over the barricades, crashing right on top of him and his officers. Their bodies were almost invisible even as Supes scanned for any sign of them under the liquid.

The sight of Paris being consumed by such darkness struck a fearful nerve in almost anyone who'd see this, and even Superman struggled to hide it. His stiffness was gone when Rena Rouge grabbed his arm, looking at him with a frightened look of her own. His eyes nearly went wide as he saw this, seeing how even she was struggling to take this in.

"Superman, we need to do something! We can't just stand here!" she yelled at him, her voice full of fright, thinking of what was happening to her family, how her little sisters were now or what became of her eldest and mother and father. Superman gave her a sharp look as he then floated off of the roof, beginning to fly towards the flood's direction.

"I'll try to drive the flood back! When I do, you rescue as many people as you can, get them to the nearest border!" he ordered, his voice full of seriousness as he then flew right after where the flood was going, his speed carrying him fast right over the long stretch of buildings and darkness to reach the clearest piece of land that had yet been hit by the flood.

Rena looked almost lost for words for a moment until it clicked into her that she needed to make a plan of her own for this. She eased her breathing and put aside her nerves, seeing that what mattered was the many people they could save, so she needed a clear head for this. Turning around to her friends, Rena saw they were looking uncertain of what to do now. She remembered how Ladybug and Superman did not let fear get the better of them and did what they could in this, and she had to bring their courage to her friends right now.

"Okay guys, I know it seems like it's doom and dark right now, but we still have a chance! Now Bunnyx, you can open more than one portal, right?" she said, her voice serious as she eyed the rabbit styled hero, who looked stunned for a second before nodding.

"Y-Yeah! I've been trying it more often lately." she said, wondering what Rena was getting at. A small smile came to her face as she then got hold of her shoulders.

"Sweet! Now, I need you to open up about four portals! One to the mayor's office, one to the border, one to Master Fu's, and one to the school! The rest of our friends evacuated there when Manchester arrived so we'll get them out quickly! Carapace, once you get Master Fu, get him to the border and create a big enough shield to cover the rest of the world, try and hold back this flood! Queen B, you get the mayor, I'll get to the school!" she ordered, her voice now full of confidence into what she just planned out.

Carapace looked unsure at first, that feeling still there in his stomach as he looked away.

"I'm not sure if it'll work, babe...this crap broke through my shield, I'm not sure if it'll protect them world from it." he said, not really hopeful at such use of a plan.

Rena gave her boyfriend a soft look as she walked up to him, seeing how much it hurt him to have watched the monstrous liquid get through his shield. She smiled as she took his hands in her own, making him look to her and saw that her eyes were full of utter warmth as she spoke to him, leaving his heart almost stuck in a heater.

"He just pulled a trick on you, honey. The next shield you'll make will be way more stronger than what he's thrown out at us now. If I know something, you'll do better, because you always do." she said, her voice full of utter belief in her boyfriend, who couldn't help but smile back at her, feeling her words hit his heart, which sent a warm feeling running through him.

Queen B, however, had her concerns when she spoke up.

"Sounds clever, but how many you think we'll save? This flood is nonstop!" she yelled, not liking the endless rush of waves hitting against the buildings around them. Rena have a look to where Superman flew off to, her head thinking over what he had planned.

"I think we'll get that covered soon." she said in a hard tone, ready to get to action.

Superman zipped right over to where he could see was a good bit of land that he could land on. As many people screamed and ran from the incoming flood, Superman put himself between them and the incoming darkness, which looked ready to devour him as it gotten closer. Only thing was, he had a plan in mind, and he knew it didn't involve having to throw his fists. But instead a good clap would do.

Stretching his arms out, Superman opened his hands and swung them forward to each other, causing a really loud, powerful clap to echo from the impact. If one were to look closely, they'd see the waves that shot out from his hands, rocketing right towards the dark flood in front of him. The fleeing civilians watched in shock as this action pushed the waves right back, as if a plaster was being unpeeled from a wound and being thrown away, leaving nothing but a fresh set of ground from where it once covered, sending it flying right back towards where it came from. But Superman wasn't staying where he was, for he then flew right after the liquid as it went right back towards its owner, who stood right in the middle of his empty dark area, watching on in shock as the waves came crashing right back on top of him. Manchester was soon knocked off his feet as it all hit him, burying him under its great mass and pushing him further into the ground.

Superman saw the work he had done but knew the flood would stretch back out. Not wanting that, the flying man let his ice breath unleash itself onto the swirling ball of liquid that had just come right on Manchester. His ice power spread right over the ball of liquid and was soon left was nothing but a giant ice ball that sat in the middle of Paris, leaving it contained for the moment.

This was seen by the teens on the rooftop, getting a grin out of Rena as she turned to her friends.

"There we go, let's start the evacuation right now!" she said, getting eager looks from her friends to go save the world.

Bunnyx obeyed, opening a portal to help get the Parisians out of the city and away from the darkness. Any civilians watching were spellbound by this magic act of a white circular hole just opening up in thin air in front of them. Nobody knew what to do at first until Rena called down to them.

"It's OK citizens! This portal will get you out of harm's way and to a safe place to stay until we can stop the chaos!" the vulpine heroine cried.

"Please go through it! It's for your own safety!" Bunnyx added, "If you don't, then we can't save all of you with the dark flood that's happening!"

Nobody was in the mood to argue or question the heroines. They wanted to be as far away from this horrific scene as possible so they'd do as they said for now. The Parisians all filed through the portals, a steady number heading through each the glowing white holes that Bunnyx had opened up for them. The evacuation was well under way and Rena allowed herself a rare moment to relax and feel good about the situation. It may well be a while until she could feel this way until this whole situation was over. She glanced over at the frozen dark mass, knowing that it wouldn't be contained for long. Whatever it was, at least nobody would be falling victim to it once the evacuation was finished.

"I hope we can stop that thing..." Rena Rouge murmured worriedly, still doubtful that it was possible to even stop it at all.

Meanwhile, Superman was keeping an eye out for any civilians that might still be in danger. He was glad to see that the Miraculers were carrying out the evacuations but he knew that people could still get left behind in these situations. It was always best to look out for any still lingering in these evacuation efforts. He noticed Roger, lying by the broken police barrier and shaking wildly as if he was on a vibrating chair that wouldn't stop. The Kryptonian flew down towards the officer and patted him softly on the shoulder.

"Sir, you have to get up." Superman said gently, "Everyone's clearing out of the city. You have to go too."

Roger either didn't hear Superman or was unable to do anything at all as he just lay where he was, trembling crazily and babbling uncontrollably.

"T-t-too...a-a-a-afraid...s-s-s-so s-s-scared..." he whimpered.

It was clear to Superman that this dark flood was amplifying Roger's fear tenfold and making him unable to move. Of course Manchester would carry out a scheme like this! He was one of those nutcases that believed fear was the way to control people! Superman wasn't going to leave Roger lying around so he helped him up onto his feet so he could get him evacuated as well.

He quickly flew Roger over to the portal and gently sent him through, making sure he was safe along with the others. Rena caught how scared Roger looked when Superman sent him through and this left her looking back at where the flood once was with worry.

"If he was left so frightened after getting hit by the flood, who knows how many others were there..." she wondered aloud as Superman shared her view, looking back to where he left the giant ice ball that was holding Manchester.

"I'd hate to imagine how many others are left paralysed by that thing he sent out. Bunnyx, you think you can create more portals but send them after as many people near where the flood was?" he asked, his voice sounding hopeful to what her answer would be.

Bunnyx gave him a smile as she opened her hands up and began to draw more runes to open more portals.

"As much as I can, Super-Sir!" she replied as many more began to open up all around her, silver blue glows casting their light around the city. Superman watched with some soft relief to see the portals begin to move forward and rounding up as many trapped civilians as they could, scooping them. The more people saved, the better.

Of course, this moment of relief was short lived for the Kryptonian, for his ears picked up to the sound of heavy crunching coming from within the ice ball he created to hold back the flood. His chest twisted slightly as he realised someone was getting his way out of there, which meant the flood would start speeding up again. He looked back to the gathered teens and lifted off from the ground.

"Make sure every last person is out of Paris! I'll hold him off!" he told them, before zipping right back to the ice ball, not wanting Manchester to continue with his plans.

"Okay, while the big guy keeps him busy, how about we get those other portals open, Buns?" Carapace asked, wanting to get the others out quickly. She gave him a nod as she opened up three more portals behind each of her friends, beaming.

"I'll do my best to keep these open. Be fast." she told him, which set them off with no further word, ready to go and evacuate the remainder of people that were still hiding.

Just shortly after Rena Rouge, Carapace and Queen B disappeared, Tom and Sabine came running by, their faces full of shock as they reached Bunnyx, who looked stunned to see them.

"Oh, uh, you two made it, good! Get through now, no time to lose!" she said, ushering them towards another portal, but Tom was being too hard to push.

"But what about our daughter? Did she get through?" he asked, his voice full of worry as he faced the rabbit heroine, who held off a grimace as she quickly answered him.

"Yes! She made it through with her boyfriend! You'll have to find her among everyone else! Now quickly, go!" she ordered, giving him and Sabine another push through a portal, sending them out of Paris. She sighed miserably as her thoughts turned to Ladybug, worry on her mind.

"Oh Marinette, whatever you're doing now, you need to hurry up!" she said, not liking how they were gone for in Tibet. If only she knew...

Superman reached the ice ball in seconds and made a landing through the roof, chunks of ice crashing down into the empty white pit below, where he softly landed once he got inside. His eyes shifted as his x-ray vision came to life, scanning all around him to see any sign of Manchester.

He was caught off-guard as something shot out from nowhere and sent him hurling aside. Despite his enhanced strength and endurance, the blow was still enough to leave Superman reeling for a moment as he crashed down onto the pavement just beside the Notre Dame cathedral. He picked himself up and watched as the thing that had hit him rose up high and aimed at him. It was one of the tentacles that grew out of the black mass, massive in size as usual and ready to smash him into the pavement. Superman reacted quickly, firing his searing hot laser eyes at the tentacle and slicing it to pieces in seconds. The chunks of tentacle dissipated into puffs of smoke as they hit the ground. Superman flew up high again, wanting to resume his search for Manchester Black but he was caught off-guard as another tentacle shot up unexpectedly and punched him hard, throwing him straight up and leaving him to plummet straight down. Superman crashed hard, leaving a crater where he hit and groaning in pain. He shook it off quickly, standing up so shortly after he'd crashed that one would wonder if he was even hurt by the impact, simply brushing dust off himself as if this whole thing was a minor inconvenience.

He soon saw that his being hit by the tentacle again was a blessing in disguise as he had finally found the man he was looking for. Manchester Black stood before him, his smug face oozing confidence as he grinned deviously. The British metahuman didn't even seem worried that Superman was there and could easily grab him with no protection to keep him away. Superman was used to that look for Manchester was a man with an ego so big that Lex Luthor looked modest by comparison. He would take him out quick and put a stop to all this.

"Having a bit of trouble with my newfound abilities Super-pacifist?" Black taunted, "And here I thought you could handle anything. You're the Man of Steel aren't you?"

"Even a man of my power has his limits, as do you." Superman said sternly, "You won't spread that liquid any further than this city! You won't turn the world into a planet consumed by fear!"

He then lunged towards Manchester, only missing him by millimetres as the tattooed man suddenly flew out of his way. Manchester sneered at him, waving his finger while hovering above him.

"Aw, did you think you'd get me THAT easily?" he scoffed, "Did you forget I could fly as well? I sure hope you didn't forget I could do THIS as well!"

He then thrust his arms forward and tackled Superman with a powerful psychic blast. To Superman, it felt as if the air itself had balled its hand into a fist and uppercut him. His head snapped backwards and he was thrown off his feet. Superman grunted as he fell down on his back. Of course he hadn't forgotten Manchester could do that. Any psychokinetic with a sick mind like his could use his psychic powers to hurt his enemies in various ways. Unfortunately for him, it was worse than just simply hurting him. Superman picked himself up and massaged his temples. He opened his eyes...or at least he thought he did. Despite opening them, he suddenly found himself unable to see anything. The world had mysteriously become a blur to him, a mismatch of colours that didn't form any discernible shapes. He gasped.

"Ugh...what happened? I can't see!" Superman cried.

"Just gave you a psychic blast to the face Super-twat." Manchester sneered, "I doubt it'll blind you for life, I imagine it's only temporary but let's face it, you don't want to see what your demise is going to be. Consider it a mercy-kill that I robbed you of your sight so you don't have to witness how you're going to die!"

Superman couldn't even see the many dark figures that now surrounded him, all of the Ziszhui hissing in delight as their mouths watered. They brandished their weapons as Manchester Black floated back further inside the iced over centre of Paris, watching as the Ziszhui surrounded Superman like a hunting pack ready to eat their prey.

"Have him, lads! Make sure he screams!" he sneered as he watched them pounce on the blinded hero, who felt their bodies ram on top of his, nearly knocking him off his feet given their great weight and numbers. He winced as he tried to keep himself standing, hoping to hold out until his sight gotten back.

One of the Ziszhui pulled out its four swords and made a circular spin towards him from behind, hoping to cut the alien hero in half. Instead, its swords just completely shattered upon contact, sending shards of metal flying everywhere. It hissed questionably, but it was enough for Superman to throw his foot back and hit the Ziszhui right in the gut. He kicked it so hard that his foot drove right through it, killing it instantly. This alarmed the others that were on top of him, looking at the very death he just delivered with one kick from his foot. This was enough for Superman to grab two of the ones on his head and squeezed their legs hard, making them squeal in agony as he then took to the air and tossed them right into the wall of ice far around them, causing them to explode in chunks of guts.

He was still blind though and this caused the rest of the Ziszhui on the ground to fire their webs up at the flying hero, getting hold of his feet. His confused and blinded stare was enough for them to pull him down into the ground right on his face, getting a grunt out of him. Manchester just smirked as he saw them web his hands up and held them to the floor, allowing him to walk over calmly to the downed Kryptonian, who groaned as he tried to focus on his sight.

"Face it, big man. The world's new era is coming in now, and you'll be in the ground by then. Just let it consume you." he said coldly as the dark liquid began to rise up from within the cracks of the ice, coming up fast to flood the inner surface of the iced off Paris street.

Manchester turned from the struggling hero back to the four large tentacles that had gotten free of the ice that held them. He gave them a grin as he shot his hands out. In response, the tentacles shot out through the iced prison they were confined in, reaching back outside into the daytime, where they planted themselves right into the roads, where they began to unleash their flood again.

Superman grunted as he felt the liquid reach his legs. It was cold, more cold than the Arctic winds, only it felt like it was really trying to bite into him. His head shot forward in pain as the cold began to eat through him, the water thickening as it began to cover his body. He never felt such a thing in a long while. It was like he was feeling the whole dark confines of his inner self begin to push their way to his head. The emotions he long had, of light, kindness, love and strength, were getting consumed by this bitter cold. All of those emotions he had for they were genuine, towards the world and to the people he loved. His parents, his wife, his son...the thought of them getting consumed was enough for a searing heat to come over his eyes. He might've been blind, but it didn't block his heat vision.

The cold melted from his body as his eyes opened fired down onto the restraints that had formed over him, burning them away from his body, which he began to lift with slight ease, reaching his hands to his back and tearing off the last of the liquid that had gripped him, causing it to disperse into smoke.

Manchester turned up in hearing this, the alarm in his eyes clear and a look of utter shock on his face was enough to make you think he wet himself for Superman was standing there, tall and ready for a fight. Even the Ziszhui looked shocked at this, staring at him in utter awe and confusion as to how he managed to get free of their grip. But Manchester noticed he was still blind, and this left him with an advantage, so he began to float around Superman, who began to talk.

"You think I'll ever submit to a monster who murdered his own father? You think I'll let fear conquer the lives of those who live in this world? I'll never do that, Manchester, not while I breathe. And if there's something I value more than anything, it's the lives of those around us. They are what are important." he said, his voice full of confidence as he lowered his head. Manchester breathed in annoyance, getting angry that the hero just wouldn't stop talking and how he wouldn't stop ranting his ideology. It infuriated him that much that Manchester went to punch him the closer he got, hoping to knock him out...

He ended up gasping as Superman raised his hand and caught his fist, his head still low despite this action. Manchester was almost lost from his emotions as Superman spoke again.

"And case in point: a blind person doesn't lose their hearing." he said, strong with his words as he then pulled Manchester towards him and shot his other hand right into his face, sending the Brit flying right through the Ziszhui that was behind him, getting covered in their guts as he was sent crashing into the wall behind him, crying out as pain tore right through his back.

Superman blinked and the clear white surface of the ice returned to his eyes, which returned to their normal colour, the effect of Manchester's power now gone from him. He turned to where the impact was made, where he could see the British villain trying to pick himself back up. The Ziszhui around Superman began to retreat as he lifted himself into the air, looking right at Manchester. He said no more words as he then rocketed right to Manchester, who didn't have time to blink as the flying man ploughed right into him, their fight now getting vicious. Superman was determined to get Manchester down, hoping it would do something to stop the new flood that was now overtaking Paris...


Master Fu was greatly frustrated when looking out of the window of his home.

The Asian man had spent a long time in Paris and had loved the beautiful sights he would see every day he looked out his windows. To see the city falling victim to the dark powers of Abyss made him sick to his stomach. Watching a city as beautiful as Paris become overrun by this fear-inducing black ooze was worse than watching Hawk Moth akumatize any of his victims he'd corrupted in the past, worse than having to deal with Grail and especially worse than the fear of Paris being corrupted by a villainous organization like the Light. It was especially heart-breaking for Fu to watch for this madness was being initiated by a rogue Kwami, the very species he was the guardian of. It would be like an army general watching some insidious terrorist attack be carried out by one of his own, a more devastating and gut-punching blow than anything in the world. He'd hoped he would never have to face Abyss and whatever scheme she had in mind but now was unfortunately the time he would have to do so. Pinching the bridge of his nose, he sighed heavily.

"I cannot stand by and let this madness continue. Abyss must be stopped, no matter the cost..." Master Fu said grimly.

He was in so much deep thought that he didn't notice Carapace coming through a portal Bunnyx made for him to get through. Nooroo flew over to the turtle hero, his eyes full of worry.

"We can see what's going on! What's the plan now?" he asked him. Carapace cupped him in his hands and gave him a soft look.

"Evacuating as many people as we can, lil guy! We need to get everything of importance and leave now!" he said, running towards Master Fu to pick him up and carry him through.

Instead, though, he came to a stop when Master Fu held his hand out, a large huff of breath escaping him that was loud enough to tell Carapace the old man was not in the mood. He stared at him, watching as his head lowered when he began to turn around, with Nooroo's face looking nervous as he saw the bitter expression on his face. It was so unlike the old man to have such a look on him, but it was enough to tell them both this was big.

"I'm not leaving." Master Fu stated, his words hard as he looked at Carapace and Nooroo, who looked at him like he grew another head.

Carapace waved his hand to the window as the flood began to retake the streets.

"Dude! The flood will bring down your house if we don't go! You need to leave!" he argued to the old man, who looked uninterested in such protests from Carapace.

He walked right up to the green hero and took hold of his arms, giving him a hard look in the eyes.

"Nino, I have spent my life running away, I ran from the destruction I left in Tibet, I ran when the Nazis invaded, and look what happened. I lost Nooroo and Duusu, Gabriel abused Nooroo's powers, the Nazis did so much unspeakable things while I ran away. I can't run anymore, not when this is all partly my fault. I need to stand with you and help. Even if you tried to push me through, I won't go. I'm staying to help you." he said, his voice clear in what he was saying, standing straight as he put this all out to Carapace, who couldn't help but smile at him, seeing how determined he was staying to fight.

"I don't blame ya for wanting to help. But I'm not sure how you can." he said, his voice being careful so to not insult the old man.

Of course, in this case, they nearly forgot about the Kwami that was with them, who listened to everything Master Fu just said right in front of him. Nooroo couldn't help but feel a swirl of energy form inside of him. His face felt it strengthen his look. He then floated right off of Carapace's hands, stunning him as he then watched him sit on Master Fu's shoulder, the old man looking stunned by his action as well.

"He'll get his help from me." he stated, a confident look on his face at this. Carapace looked nervous at this before looking back at Master Fu.

"I'm not sure about this, you're like, ancient dude! Won't this kill you!?" he yelled, not liking the idea of putting him at risk. Nooroo ended up answering this though, his voice hard.

"He'll be okay as long as he keeps his distance. But I want to do more to help. I helped stop Joker but I feel I haven't done enough. If the master desires to help us now, then consider him and I joined up." he said, not wanting anymore arguing with the young hero, who looked at them both in disbelief. He could see the slight push of Master Fu's moustache to see he was smiling, which Carapace himself often had when he felt daring.

He sighed and lowered his body, looking defeated.

"Okay! You win! But what are you gonna do?" he asked as he stood back up, seeing the Asian man was now thinking away of what to do. He led Carapace towards the table in the middle of the room, where the Miraculous book and Butterfly Miraculous sat. Master Fu opened the book to the page where details of this Miraculous was, the eyes of the turtle hero following him when he started reading.

"As you've seen with Ladybug and Chat Noir, they've accessed more abilities with their powers. If I can find it in here, I can access more abilities with the Butterfly one." he said as he read over the text, his eyes going narrow as he read back over the list of abilities. Nooroo could see something though, and it wasn't what Master Fu was looking at. He grabbed Master Fu's hand and then guided him back to the main text, where he began reading it out to him.

"The Butterfly Miraculous serves a limited amount of multitude of purposes, for like a butterfly, its limited to what its wings can carry." he read to them, his voice light as he did so, smiling to what he said. Master Fu looked confused with Carapace, not getting it, leaving Nooroo to giggle at them.

"It's there in front of you! There are different ways of calling out the name to transform! Gabriel called for Dark Wings, Emilie called for Light Wings. In this text, there's a hidden call out: Nooroo, Multi Wings Rise. And with Multi, you know what comes with that." he said with a wink, seeing it hit them there.

Master Fu and Carapace looked stunned at this and gave Nooroo a grin, with Carapace giving him a finger bump.

"Now that is one hell of an expert eye right there!" he said, getting a giggle out of the Kwami while Master Fu gave him a knowing look.

"No wonder Gabriel didn't gain more Akumas. Clever of you Nooroo...Nino, where did the others go?" he asked him, his mind forming an idea right there. Carapace looked uncertain of what this meant at first.

"At the school, our friends usually hide there if there's something going on...wait, you mean...?"

It hit him what Master Fu was getting at, a grin coming over his face as he looked at the old man, who smiled.

"Give your lover a call. She needs to keep them there".

It was all that Carapace needed to hear, getting his comm out to start the call.

For Rena Rouge, coming into the school during such a time of crisis was almost normal for her. Except this time she had to be the one to keep everything under control, for she found her class of friends all locked into their classroom, every one of them looking nervous and too scared to even move, barely even registering the foxy heroine's entrance when she came through the portal. Her face looked pained as she saw the whole class looking like this, for she understood what this incident must be doing to their heads with their last lot of abductions and brainwashing. Yet she couldn't just leave them here, so she made herself known.

"Guys? Hey, look, Rena Rouge here!" she called, getting them all to turn their heads at her, Mylene hugging closely to Ivan, Sabrina clutching hold of her bag for dear life, Rose looked hopeless despite Juleka trying to ease her fear by rubbing her back, Kim looked like he lost his bravado as he just had his head hanging low, while Nathanael and Max were just holding their heads in their hands. Rena now felt more pressure come onto her at this.

"Listen, you need to get up and come through now, the portal will get you to the safe zone. Get yourselves up!" she urged, pointing to the portal behind her.

Everyone looked reluctant, though it didn't stop Kim from voicing his fears.

"What's the point, foxy? With how fast that flood is coming, what's to say the whole world is gonna get flooded!?" he yelled, his hands waving frantically to her, making her wince as she felt his voice hitting her hard.

"This'll kill us all..." Rose muttered, tears beginning to run down her face as more sourness risen in her.

Rena really felt gutted to see her friends reduced to this and she stood there for a moment with uncertainty of how else to approach them. She couldn't risk pushing them because she knew they'd react pretty irrationally.

It was then that Queen B then jumped through the portal, looking to Rena Rouge.

"Okay, just got the mayor out with a few ambassadors, need a hand in getting these guys out?" she asked the fox like heroine, who looked unsure.

"Unless you wanna loop them up on your spinning top and throw them to the portal, I'm not sure what else you can do." she said with deep uncertainty over what to do next, really not wanting to use psychical force as a last resort.

Her worries were then put to rest when her flute bleeped, making her open it up to find the face of her boyfriend on the screen of her weapon. The look on his face was that of a barely contained excitement, like he was just given the best gift he could get. This gotten a raised look from Rena Rouge, who asked him.

"Carapace? What's up with the smile?" she said, not getting why there was such a look on him.

"Oh babe, you gotta keep the guys there! We're coming through with a plan, you'll love it!" he said before turning off from his end, leaving her and Queen B confused for a second over what to get from him in the next few seconds.

Those few seconds came by when they heard a set of footsteps coming through the portal, making them look back to see Carapace coming through, looking really happy with what he just achieved just now. Rena folded her arms in slight anticipation while giving him a look.

"What's the plan then, Carapace? You said "We're coming through" so who do you mean by that?" she asked in a sharp tone, hoping this wasn't a joke. He continued to smile as he put his fists to his hips.

"We got a new friend. Well, he's already our friend, but he's getting involved now." he said in pride as footsteps were heard coming after him through the portal, letting them look to it to see who it was that was coming. The two girls couldn't hold back their gasps when the new one came through.

In his new look stood a familiar short Asian man dressed in purple and black, a purple tunic reaching down to his hips with a lighter sash around his waist, matching gloves and a familiar Miraculous sitting on his neck. In his hand was a cane with a purple jewel on top of it, while covering his face was a silver domino mask. His appearance picked up the attention of the rest of the class, who stood up with a look of confusion as they saw him. He gave them all a slight now as Rena Rouge and Queen B realised who this was, looking at him in confusion.

"Wait...no way! Y-you!?" Rena exclaimed at him, getting a giggle from him.

"Yes it is. I couldn't stand back any longer, my dear girl. So I'm here to help." he greeted warmly, looking over to the rest of the class.

Kim didn't like the looks of this.

"Hey, you're wearing that butterfly thingy that Hawk Moth used! Is this some team up between the hero and villain?" he asked in a form of scepticism, only to get a wave from Carapace.

"Not like that, my dude! Ladybug gave it to him for safekeeping and he's here to give you some motivation!" he said in excitement, standing with the new Miraculer with his eyes beaming.

"What's an old man gonna do to help though?" Nathanael asked, still not looking convinced.

Giggling, the elder user stepped forward with a smile.

"My age might limit me from fighting, but I can still use the power of this Miraculous to better use. I am Hudie, consider me the good that Hawk Moth never used. So consider my desire for you a redemption for both your actions under his control and his handling of this Miraculous." he told them, his voice full of wisdom and softness as he held a hand out to them, giving them that lifeline that needed.

The students still looked unsure on this, though some of them looked only a little hopeful to what he said. Ivan then stepped up, his face looking more harder with determination.

"So you're saying you can get us to help with the problems going on?" he wanted to be sure with where this was going. He gotten an understanding nod from the purple styled hero.

"Yes. All of you have much to offer, I recognise that in all of you. You're all strong and talented in your own way, plus you've been brave in similar situations. Strong hearts is what I see in front of me. You don't want to give up and give into fear, do you? You see it in yourselves to help?" he questioned the teenager, who gave a look to his classmates in wanting an answer.

It was slow to start, but slowly, each class member stepped up, looking somewhat courageous with this, growing in them when Juleka spoke up, holding her girlfriend's hand.

"I...I didn't think I'd ever get to fight, none of us did. But we've always ran away and comforted each other while Ladybug and her friends put themselves at risk every time for us. We should start returning the favour." she said, giving warmth with her words as she sent them to everyone, giving Rose a smile that ended up melting her in a way. Nathanael looked to his art book and remembered everything he use to draw in there, how he once saw himself as a hero but ended up being the villain. He'd love to have that chance now.

"It's better to be a hero than be a deserter. So count me in." he said in eagerness, getting a warm smile from the rest of his friends.

"I might not be much of a fighter, but my other talents can help out." Max said, rising to meet with the offer. Mylene hugged closely to Ivan, a look of bravery in her eyes, sharing it with him. Kim sighed but grinned, raising his fists.

"Gotta show my worth! Give us what you got, old guy!" he demanded, ready for what was to come next.

Hudie smiled while Rena gave her boyfriend a similar look, a hint of pride in her eyes as she showed her impressed face to him for helping in this idea. He gave her a wink as Hudie then closed his eyes, holding his cane with both hands. He placed it onto the ground and hummed softly, easing his emotions to focus. He then spoke with great softness that you'd wonder who would've heard him.

"Tenshis, I summon you all to bring light and strength to these souls. Give them their finest looks, power but strengthen their hearts."

Following this command, flapping from behind the portal was in everyone's ears, getting louder as little figures began to come right through it...


Back at where the Eiffel Tower was, partially covered by the ice ball, Superman was still fighting Manchester Black, who was now forming shields of the dark liquid to protect himself from the punches the powerful hero was throwing at him. Each hit he took, however, sent him flying like he was a punchbag being thrown across the area. He was trying to think fast on his feet as he tried to avoid crashing into anything, but trying to counter Superman at high speeds was like trying to catch a bullet being fired around him.

He ended up getting hit from above when Superman punched his dark shield that ended up sending crashing to the road below. He turned himself to try and face his legs down to the ground but it was turning out to be difficult to do. However, his eyes caught sight that the road was actually covered by the flood, speeding back out. His face turned into a twisted smile as he reached his hand out and a swirl of the dark liquid came rushing him towards him. It wrapped around his hand and brought him to a stop, twisting his body around the liquid that had constructed itself, planting his feet right onto its body and put himself into a sitting position.

His construct aimed up, he saw Superman coming at him from above. His aura swirled as it slipped into the construct, which glowed a bleak red colour as it then began to shoot up at great speed, lightning zapping out of its form the sooner it got close to Superman, who was hit in the chest by the blast. He grunted in pain as it brought him out of the air, sending him crashing towards the ground with chunks of ice shooting up in the air from the landing he made. Manchester chuckled as he saw Superman picking himself up, seeing him trying to recover from the hit. Bunnyx could see this from where she was, getting the last people through the portals, leaving her nervous as the flood began to reach her. She felt her stomach twist as she saw many Ziszhui begin to crawl out of the ice ball, rushing after Superman while he found his feet.

Bunnyx turned to the last people running through the portal, seeing they were now out of the danger zone. This meant she had to change things up now, before the flood could reach her. She hardened her face as she faced the flood, her portals gathered in a straight line.

"Okay...here we go." she said to herself, closing her eyes as she opened her hands, drawing runes from them in a pattern that saw her portals begin to turn while another appeared behind her.

She could feel its beams pushing into her back, giving her time to step back inside it, where she heard the sound of water getting fainter as she exited the new portal. Her eyes opened to find she was now back on the rooftop, giving her a look to see what her work was doing.

She saw the dark flood running right into her portals, which took them in with ease and kept on going at it, getting her to smile.

"Done it. I gotten them to reopen to a empty form of space to drop it into. Should give Nino time to form a shield." she said to herself before glancing to where Superman was, her fists clenching.

"Need to help him now." she said, ready to give him help.

Yet just as she was about to move, the rabbit styled hero gotten a bleep from her pocket. Frowning, she pulled out her Miraculous, opening it to find Rena's face in the screen.

"Buns, get a portal open now!" she ordered, getting a confused look from her.

"You sure? This guy will be hard work for us" she said, only to get a smile from Rena.

"Get it open, girl. You're in for a treat." she responded.

Down in the partially flooded road, Superman stood up from where he landed. He didn't need to turn to hear the massive amount of Ziszhui coming towards him. Didn't stop him though, his eyes glowing red as heat ran through his head, turning to the huge army coming at him. His eyes fired, turning each of the spider warriors to ashes with a single clean blast from his eyes. The first five waves of the army was turned to nothing from him, but this was cut short as Manchester then wrapped a construct of the liquid around his leg and pulled him back, throwing him down onto the ground behind the leather coated man, but this didn't stop Superman from tearing the construct off and throwing it aside, standing up to face Manchester as he turned to face him. The old enemy of Superman smirked as he was feeling the growing number of his army right behind him, feeling his power rise with his wit. Superman watched on as many more of the Ziszhui came to gather around Manchester, feeling a slight form of worry coming over him. He could handle them, he just didn't know if he could stop all of them, that was what worried him.

"Now would you look at this, mate, a whole army against you. You might be the world's strongest man but I know you won't last long. Where's the teens? Ran off? Your other mates ran from you, leaving this to you. You're weak and alone." Manchester said with glee, feeling like he had him in his grip. Superman just huffed in annoyance at the man's bragging, sad that he didn't accept the help offered to him when he got him locked up.

Before he could respond to him, though, Superman was stunned as something whizzed right past him and then hit Manchester right in the stomach. His eyes went wide and he was sent staggering back from the hit. Silence filled the air as Superman zoomed his eyes in on what hit him, with Manchester nervously grabbing the weapon. As soon as he did, it then popped and made him wince in pain, his body flashing in red sparks. He fell to his knees in pain as he felt the sparks bite into him, heat running through his body at getting this. The last bite felt like a stab, leaving him wincing to bite back crying in pain.

His face was filled rage as he looked up to see who shot him, looking onto the portal that had opened behind Superman, who picked up what had opened behind him. He turned to see there was indeed a portal, but who he saw had come through left him in awe as he saw it wasn't who he thought it was.

Standing there was Rena Rouge, Carapace, Queen B, Bunnyx and Hudie...who were joined by many other colourful heroes.

There was Ivan, covered in rock like armour that looked more human compared to his Akumatised form, his face obscured by the knight like armour that protected his face, his hands huge while a skull carving was in his chest. Next to him was Mylene, who's skin was a light purple, a yellow orb in the middle of her chest while her headscarf now looked to be a laser canon of sorts over her head. Standing with them was one who looked similar to the Evilustrator, only his face was now a normal skin colour, his hair was spiked up over his head, while his forearms were covered in purple gloves, his legs the same colour. Rose stood next to him, only her dress was a mix of purple and pink while her skin was normal, sitting in her chest was a few symbols of plant elements. Juleka stood in a dark version of her Akuma dress, her hands glowing slightly while her skirt looked more sharper, her head normal. Max stood there with a look similar to his Gamer outfit, only his glasses fully covered his eyes and he was wearing a gauntlet on his wrist. Sabrina was partially there, her body glowing in slight sparkles. Kim was there, having shot Manchester with his gauntlets that fired the arrows, light wings spread from his back while his suit was white and red. He grinned seeing he hit Manchester, who snarled as they joined Superman's side.

"I saved Superman's life! That I've gotta keep telling myself!" Lightwing said, giving Superman a pat on the arm. He couldn't help but give the winged teen a smile before looking to Rena Rouge, who had a bright look in her eyes as she joined him.

"You're not in this alone, Superman. Let's teach this loser a lesson." she said, her flute ready as she faced Manchester, who growled as he stood back up. He looked like he was about to yell his face off, his body's aura lighting up in rage. The newly gathered heroes didn't look nervous. They faced enough monsters to finally get use to such horrors. Now was the time to stop it themselves.

Manchester said nothing but yell in anger. Floating off his feet, he took off towards them, his Ziszhui following after them. Superman responded by flying from his feet, the teens following after him, heat running right through them as they braced themselves for the biggest fight they were up against. Hudie knew this was a fight he was not going to lose. He wanted to see it to the end. For the time was not to run away. It was time to fight. He was doing it beside everyone who now wanted to fight instead of running. He was proud to do this. It was time for the dark to meet its end. The Butterfly Miraculous hummed in eagerness, ready to bring the fight for the innocent.


Looks like Superman and the Miraculers have got all the help they can get! Manchester Black will be as good as defeated...or will he? Will these heroes be enough? And what about over in Tibet? Marinette and her friends are still in trouble so it's not over yet! Will Abyss have another trick up her sleeve to make this all meaningless in the end?

Tune in next time as the battle to save the world continues...