Chapter 9: For the Fate of the World

Immortal.

Abyss's words were as chilling as the snow around them all, adding up to it was her calm stance on where she was, for she stood still, her hands raised and threads of web lowering from her fingers into the snow below her. Ladybug, however, stood equal in a position opposite her, raising her Ladyblades.

"We'll see about that!" was what she simply called back, her friends still full of energy as they stood beside her.

Chat Noir twirled his baton around, Constantine rubbed his hands together and felt them burning as he restored his own magical touch, La Paon felt her fan sharpen, Kagami's jewel in her sword glowed, Kyle levitated off the ground and Shader readied her visor for another blast.

Their hearts beating faster, the heroes ran right at Abyss, their weapons ready to hit her at any moment. The spider woman just stood there, though, a smile on her face as she saw them coming closer towards her, not afraid with the large number she was up against. She felt her hands tingle as she felt a connection of sorts. Abyss then suddenly pulled her hands up, her red webs lifting up from under the snow, looking stiff at first. She then pulled her hands together and the webs followed, cutting right to the heroes, who noticed the webs coming at them.

"Everyone, move!" Chat Noir yelled as he jumped forward, Ladybug, Shader and La Paon following after him, while Kyle flew above the webs, with Constantine and Kagami sliding underneath them...

Some weren't fast enough, for the webs made contact with the legs of Ladybug and Chat Noir while hitting La Paon across the stomach. Their eyes widened as they felt something slice right into their skin, with trails of blood shooting right out of them, flesh exposed under cut spandex and leather. The injuries they received made them come crashing into the snow on their sides, crying out in pain at the wounds they suffered, stinging from the bitter cold of the snow. Shader landed on her feet, having avoided being hit, but this didn't stop her and the others looking at their injured comrades, who clutched at their wounds.

Chat Noir tried to ignore his pain as he crawled to his girlfriend and mother, turning them onto their backs so as to stop the stinging their wounds were getting. Gasping, they looked down to see their injuries cut deep, forcing them to bite down on their teeth to stop themselves from crying out. Abyss laughed from where she was, raising her hands with the threads if web following them.

"My webs do a lot of damage. It'll take you a lot slower to heal up. Best you do so as well, Emilie, you're the only one I really need." she informed them, with their respective colours glowing only slightly as they tried to heal up their wounds. Kyle scowled angrily at this before looking at Abyss.

"Stay down, guys, we'll get her!"

She then launched another attack with her webs, throwing her right arm towards Constantine and Kagami while throwing her left arm towards Kyle and Shader. The four of them did their best to dodge them, with Kyle flying in between the gaps of the threads while Constantine formed a flame barrier around himself and Kagami, melting the webs before they could even hit them both. Kyle followed up with a construct of a sword, slicing through the webs with ease, giving them all an opening to attack her. Constantine threw a flame at her, but Abyss swatted it aside before shooting her leg up and kicking Shader away when she got closer, before jumping over the sword construct Kyle slashed at her, firing a web down at him from above. Kyle felt the web pierce his foot, making him cry out as he saw blood seeping onto his white boot, but this did little to make him loose concentration as he slashed the web off with his construct, freeing him from Abyss's grip.

While he tried to pull the thread out of his foot, Kagami ran past Kyle towards Abyss once she landed, her sword glowing as it extended into a dagger tail. Abyss saw her too late as Kagami slashed her weapon out, watching as it surrounded Abyss, going around her back before flying right around to her front, where it found its target. Kagami watched on as the sword ran right into Abyss's chest under her large breasts, seeing her sword sticking out the other side of Abyss. The blue haired girl was sure she just dealt the Kwami a nasty blow, seeing she slumped forward slightly. But her heart froze as she saw the spider woman raise her hands slowly, putting them onto the sword that ran right into her. She smiled as she pulled the sword out of her chest, seeing it left no wound under her large round breasts. She gave Kagami a smirk.

"I am immortal, little one. Forgot that?" she taunted.

Kagami couldn't respond as Abyss then pulled her forward by the sword, ripping her off the ground at high speed. Kagami quickly fought back by putting her feet forward and kicking Abyss in the stomach, pushing herself away from her with a back flip and pressed the button on her sword to recall it. Abyss responded by sending her hand out and her threads of webs slashed through Kagami's leotard, making the girl cry out as she was knocked away from her, a slight cut running over her stomach as she was sent flying back.

Constantine wasn't done though, for he charged a construct made by Kyle with his fire, this construct being a flamethrower. They fired right onto Abyss, who didn't look the slightest bit concerned as her whole body was consumed by the fire. Her eyes narrowed in on them, walking calmly towards them like she was having a nice walk in the park. Of course, she noticed a blue figure running towards her from the left. The Kwami giggled at this, seeing the figure get closer. She then latched her hand out and squeezed it around the neck of Shader, who let out a strangled cry of shock as the Kwami caught her. Shader tried to meet her face, but Abyss was quick to punch her right in her own, stunning her enough for Abyss to turn her around in her hand and aim her towards Constantine and Kyle.

"Look away!" Shader exclaimed frantically, knowing what was coming next.

Unfortunately, Constantine and Kyle weren't able to react in time and they were hit by the black, shadow blast of Shader's blinding attack. The White Lantern and occult detective staggered back, clutching their eyes and groaning in pain. To them, it felt as if somebody had punched them in both eyes and now they couldn't see because of it. Luckily, it was only temporary and they'd have their vision restored eventually but it would take time to wear off. Now they couldn't see, they couldn't aim for Abyss and would have to rely on their other senses to carry on the battle. Shader gasped, feeling guilty for her power being used against her friends and she wrestled free of Abyss's grip by elbowing her in the mouth. Despite being an immortal creature fuelled by fear, Abyss was surprised at how the elbow strike actually managed to hurt her. She clutched her mouth, feeling to see if any teeth had been broken. Now free, Shader spun on her heel and delivered a powerful roundhouse kick scything through the air into the side of the arachnid woman's head. Abyss was momentarily stunned by the blow and staggered to the side trying to get the world to stop spinning. Shade grabbed her opponent by the shoulders and tried again to blind her with her power but instead she was the one who was blinded as Abyss recovered in time to cover her visor with a web. Shader cried out in alarm and tugged on the web to try and regain her vision.

Abyss turned away from Shader and skittered quickly towards White Lantern. She wanted to take advantage over his blinded state the most as he was the most powerful opponent on the field to deal with. If she could kill him, nobody else would have even an inkling of a chance against her. But Kyle had experienced being blind before. There was one time where the Justice League had been attacked by the Legion of Doom. Said attacks had come from Batman, who had wisely pointed out that should the League ever be corrupted and turned evil, there had to be contingencies in place for each member so they could be incapacitated quickly and effectively until they were restored to normal. It had been a unanimous decision on the entire League as they agreed such a thing should be shared between them. The contingency for Green Lanterns was a post-hypnotic suggestion that would render them blind due to believing they were so. As scary as it had been at the time, Kyle had learnt how to deal with being blinded so he was already prepared for Abyss's next attack. He allowed his hearing to pinpoint where she was and used his ring to guide him. He dodged to one side as Abyss lunged for him, causing her to miss. Then he spun around and his ring aimed him towards where Abyss was standing. A blast of white energy shot out of the ring and slammed into the centre of Abyss's back. The spider-woman cried out as she was thrown forwards and slammed into a snow pile nearby. White Lantern smirked, hearing what had happened and knowing he'd successfully hit her.

"A true lantern doesn't always need his sight to handle the enemy." he crowed.

He then held his hand out and looked at it. He could just about make it out, a straight white blur in front of his face. His vision was starting to heal, no doubt thanks to the ring accelerating his healing so Shader's power wouldn't effect him for as long as anyone else. He still couldn't see fully so he would have to keep relying on his other senses for now. He looked ahead as his ears picked up the sound of snow falling and Abyss growling angrily. He could see a pinkish red blurr up ahead, meaning that had to be her. Now he at least had a target to aim at, he summoned a construct of a giant missile with his ring and tossed it towards Abyss. The missile was the shape and size of a nuclear warhead and he was sure it would do the damage. Or at least it would've done if he actually hit her. Abyss saw the missile coming towards her and reacted quickly. She fired a bunch of webs towards the missile. They weren't just any webs, but razor sharp webs that could cut through anything. The webs effortlessly sliced through the construct, creating an explosion of white energy in the air. White Lantern felt the shockwave punch into him and grunted as he was brought down on one knee. He had hoped he would've hit her as he was so sure the construct would've done the damage. He looked back to where Abyss had been standing, noticing he could make her out more clearly this time. His surroundings were still a blur but he could at least see Abyss. The spider-woman was using her eight legs to jump into the air and throw herself towards the white-clad superhero. White Lantern raised his arm and quickly formed a barrier around himself. Abyss slammed into the barrier, grunting upon impact and jumped back. She rubbed her jaw to make the pain go and grumbled furiously. She then clawed at White Lantern's barrier, trying to break through it so she can get to him. Her efforts were futile as the barrier withstood the attacks. White Lantern then focused all his energy into making the barrier explode outwards. A huge fist of white energy slammed hard into Abyss, making her feel as if a tank had come rushing into her. The Kwami of Fear spiralled through the air, screeching at the top of her voice as she crashed down heavily into a pile of snow.

White Lantern smiled to himself. He was glad he could still land decisive blows like this on his opponent despite his vision not being one-hundred percent. He took a moment to look around again. Everything around him was looking more clear and he could make out the smaller details of everything from the texture of his costume to the snow he was standing in. He heaved a high of relief, glad that Shader's power was no longer affecting him. He could see clearly again and now he was going to show Abyss what she was in for. He propelled himself towards the Kwami, forming constructs that looked like giant metal fists around his hands and he slammed them both into the spider-woman. He twisted the constructs and pushed down hard, determined to grind her into the dirt. Abyss was now beginning to understand what it truly felt like to be a bug under foot. But of course, her immortality would prevent her from being crushed to death. White Lantern wasn't going to let that deter him as he drew the fists back and slammed them into her repeatedly. Receiving punch after punch after punch, Abyss was unable to fight back. She screamed and grunted with every punch she received.

"Hey Abyss, you're the Kwami of Fear! How does it feel to be getting your abdomen kicked?! I bet that's scaring the living crap outta ya!" White Lantern taunted between punches.

But Abyss suddenly reached up with her arm and fired a web up towards some nearby rocks and as White Lantern punched her again, it caused her body to jerk and yank on the web so it pulled the rocks down on top of him. The intergalactic space cop realized his mistake too late and stopped punching Abyss so he could brace himself for impact. The rocks crashed down on him, pinning him to the ground and burying him in the snow. Naturally, he wasn't killed by the impact as his ring protected him but he was stuck having to try and push them away for the time being. With Kyle momentarily out of commission, Abyss picked herself up and cricked her neck side to side. Despite how heavy the punches were and how numerous they had been, she was surprisingly still standing and already shaking the pain off.

"You should know by now foolish man, the personification of fear itself cannot fear anything in return." Abyss purred.

She turned towards Ladybug, Cat Noir and La Paon, the only opponents currently left standing. They stood in a line together, ready to fight some more.

"Do any of you truly think you can stop me?" Abyss hissed with confidence, "I held you prisoner for months Emilie and the other two are mere children! You may as well give yourselves up to me!"

"We wouldn't surrender to Darkseid himself and he was worse than you'll ever be!" Ladybug spat.

"I've been your prisoner and been separated from my son for too long Abyss." La Paon said coldly, "I am never going back in that cave with you, not now or ever!"

"You can fight us all you like, we'll never stop until you're defeated!" Cat Noir yelled.

The three Miraculers leapt towards Abyss, weapons in hand and ready to strike her down. They would defeat this monster, even if it cost them their lives...


Back in Paris, the fight was getting very intense for Carapace and Hudie, for they were facing the Ziszhui that came crawling off the darkened Eiffel Tower. Hudie spun his staff around and the butterfly wings on the tips came to life, flapping constantly as they were about to be used for a different matter. Carapace went first in the attack, throwing his shield out like a frisbee, aiming it at the ground and watching as it bounced up and tore into two of the Ziszhui nearest to him and Hudie, slashing them right in half once they made a hit. His shield recalled to him in time for Carapace to block an incoming shot of web with his shield raised, pushing his shield down to split the web from it before throwing it back out to that Ziszhui, sending its head flying off.

Hudie breathed steadily as a couple of Ziszhui cane at him with their weapons ready. He might've been nearly two hundred years old, but he wasn't done fighting in his life yet. Raising his staff, Hudie blocked the incoming blades, his body pushing down from the impact. Gritting his teeth, Hudie pushed his muscles to their limit, getting his body back in the air and his arms gripped tighter on the staff as the wings flapped faster. The Ziszhui were stunned from this, for they didn't think such an old man could put up a fight. Hudie then turned his staff in a rotation at a quick speed, the wings slashing in their flapping as they slashed right over the faces of the Ziszhui, blinding them. Hudie, freed from the weight of their blades, let out a cry of pride as he then rammed his staff into the gut of one of the spider warriors. The Ziszhui lost all feeling as it felt a literal pair of butterfly wings tear through its stomach, Hudie pushing them out to the gut of the creature before slashing it up across the chest of the other Ziszhui, causing blood to spit right out, sending it crashing into the ground.

Hudie saw there was only two left at the moment just for him and Carapace, who gave him a grin as a idea came over his head. Hudie could only guess what it was when he saw Carapace aim the shield to him, with him following up by running right at Carapace and planting his feet onto the shield and pivoting off of it, spinning his staff in the air as the butterfly wings slashed right down towards the Ziszhui to the right. It couldn't react fast for it found itself split in half from the head to its mid section, while Carapace brought his shield down onto the other's head, which split open upon getting hit by the shield, making it fall onto its back in defeat.

On his feet, Carapace let out some breath as he patted Hudie on the back.

"Now that is an example of age just bring a number! Badass, dude!" he praised the elderly man, who giggled at his comments.

"Heh, I'm just as impressed as you are. Might have to get out in the field with you more after this!" he said kindly as they saw they were now right under the overarching entrance to the tower. They could see the seed right there, sticking out of the ground like a small rocket pointing to the sky. Carapace looked at his shield and turned one of the shell marks, pulling out the glass bottle that contained the poison.

"Right, this is it. I just put it on it, yeah?" he asked the elderly master, needing sone clarification, not seeing the rising shadowy figures coming out of the tower.

"Yes, now get going b-AGH!"

Hudie let out a cry of shock as another Ziszhui slammed down right in between them, its eyes staring right into Hudie's. Carapace was knocked back by the landing, giving him the chance to see more were coming down the tower. Hudie quickly shoved his staff into the Ziszhui's mouth, the wings tearing their way out through the other side of its head, killing it in seconds. Pushing it aside, Hudie have Carapace a hard expression.

"Run, Nino! Destroy the seed!"he ordered, his staff raised as he went to combat the other Ziszhui.

Carapace looked worried at the number of Ziszhui going after Hudie, but he had the key to victory right in his hand. If he wasted anymore time trying to help Hudie, he'd lose the poison. His face full of uncertainty, he turned to the seed, which was about thirty feet from him, surrounded by the dark liquid. Looking to his shield, Carapace felt his face harden as he threw his shield down onto the liquid.

"Gotta get this done!" He told himself, his choice made as he jumped onto his shield, using it as a boat so he could start making his way to the seed.

Outside, the fight was now a matter of a stalemate of sorts, Superman, the Miraculers and the Tenshis were just trying to hold back the Ziszhui and tentacles to give Carapace and Hudie time. Of course, they now had to put up with Manchester Black, who had pulled himself up to get back in, his eyes glowing angrily as he scanned the air for a certain blue and red hero. He was angry at seeing how persistent these teens were, just as stubborn as the Teen Twatans in America, and they certainly weren't slowing down as while they were now surrounded, they were putting up one heck of a fight against the Ziszhui, while those in the sky were giving the tentacles a hard time. Techno grabbed one tentacle and shoved his canon right into its front, firing away and reducing it to ash. The one that Petala had held down looked like it was rotting away, unable to fight on, while Super Nathan was using a flamethrower to burn down the third, with Superman punching the last one up in the air and shooting another blast of heat vision through it, slicing it down.

Manchester gritted Gus teeth as his hands glowed brightly, his eyes locked onto Superman and Super Nathan.

"THATS IT!" he shouted, his index fingers pointing up like a pair of pistols.

He fired a single blast from his fingers, the purple bolts tearing right through the air and sped right into their targets. Superman and Super Nathan cried out as the energy tore right over their bodies, numbing them. Concentration lost, they dropped out of the sky, their eyes closed as they tried to cope with the pain. They didn't get a hard landing, for Techno held his hand out and caught them both. Techno had his eyes zooming in on Manchester, who grunted as he saw the canon aimed right at him. He could only run as the canon fired down at him, not really able to create a big enough defence from the weapon. He was sent flying off his feet as the ground ripped up from beneath him, sending him flying under a piece of debris.

Techno made his huge form run over to the surrounded Miraculers and Tenshis, his feet crushing the Ziszhui in his way. Reaching his hand down, he gently slid Superman and Super Nathan off, seeing their eyes opening and their bodies only now slightly stinging from the pain Manchester used on them. Rena and Queen B ran over to them, helping both of the supers stand up steadily so they could ease themselves. Superman frowned as the pain wore off, looking up to see the tentacles were still re-growing.

"They just won't stop. Even if we cut them down far to the bottom, they just spring back up." he groaned, not liking how it was going.

Rena Rouge looked thoughtful as she took this in.

"It's gotta be to do with that Manchester Black. He did mention he is tied to the seed and its powers." she pointed out to him.

"Then get Bunny Girl here to open a portal to him and we can kick his ass ourselves!" Lightwing said, listening into what she was saying. Bunnyx shook her head.

"I could, but there's more of us around now, he'd use his powers to have you be used against us. There must be another way." she said thoughtfully, her mind occupied now.

Rena Rouge took this in and gazed down at her flute. Her mind began to spin with a plan now being formed. She realised this could be their one chance. She got hold of Superman by his arm and her eyes were full of determination, which he could see.

"I need you to provide a smokescreen for what I'm about to do. You think you can do it?"

"I'll see if it's possible." Superman said, hoping he didn't sound too doubtful, "What is it you need me to do?"

Rena quickly explained everything. Nodding, Superman mulled over the options quickly in his mind. A Kryptonian like him was a very fast thinker and he was able to run through everything he'd hear from the vixen girl as if his brain was a supercomputer. He concluded that the plan could possibly work.

"Like with any plan, it's possible it could go wrong but it's always worth a shot." Superman deduced, "You know, I think Lois would admire a bright young mind such as yourself if she were to meet you."

Rena blushed modestly. Her insides felt like jelly and she just wanted to squeal like there was no tomorrow. What other reaction could she have when she was being told by SUPERMAN HIMSELF that she was a bright, intelligent girl?! If she was at home right now, she'd be tempted to freak out about it on the Ladyblog. Of course fan-girling could come later, they had to save the world first so she kept herself calm and coughed in response.

"I really don't know what to say about that..." she said meekly.

"I think the look on your face says it all." Superman said brightly, "Now then, let's see if it works."

The caped Kryptonian flew up in to the air again while the Miraculers stayed on the ground. Manchester saw his blue and red nemesis flying up again and smirked with confidence. The poor bastard had to be close to exhaustion at this point! He would take him down! He wouldn't put up a fight for much longer!

"What's the matter you walking American flag?" Manchester taunted, "Can't lie down and die like a man, can you? I bet Abyss would love to feast on your fear of dying right now!"

Superman didn't say anything. Instead, he carried out Rena's plan. He blew hard out of his mouth, creating an icy wind that threatened to turn everything into a polar ice cap. But at the same time, he fired his heat vision from his eyes and aimed at the ice breath. The simultaneous use of powers started to create a mist that began to obscure everything around Manchester and he grunted in annoyance as he found himself unable to see. The mist was so big that Manchester was now unable to see anything further than his own hand. The tattooed man scoffed, realizing that this was seriously Superman's plan and that he didn't have anything better to try.

"Seriously? You think a little mist will stop me?" he sneered, "It's not like I even need my eyes to see where any of you are!"

Manchester walked right towards the mist, not even bothering to warm his arms up or his exposed torso despite the great drop in temperature. The Ziszhui followed him, hissing as they tried to see through the mist, for even they had trouble getting through the thickness the Kryptonian hero had made in front of them.

The British villain soon found himself standing at the top of a crater of sorts, making him stop where he was. Frowning, he peeked closer as he saw the mist began to clear in front of him. Figures began to emerge to his eyes, which began to widen as he made them out more clearly. He felt his lips twitching as he saw a big pit of bodies. Bodies of the teens that fought so hard against him. He could even see a few he recognised, Rena Rouge laying on her back with her head hanging lifelessly from her shoulders, Queen B was slumped against Super Nathan with blood running from her nose, Bunnyx was hanging from the web covering from her ankles, her body looking like it had its life sucked out of it, Petala and Beamer were laying side by side with deep cuts right over their necks, Skullstone's rock like body was split apart and had crushed Morpher, Lightwing was buried under Techno with his wings bent. What made Manchester grin the widest was seeing Superman laying there, his body out of energy, his body lifted by the webs over the crater, looking like Bunnyx was.

Manchester smirked as he gave a gun gesture to Superman's body.

"Heh, just like that, you gave up, mate. Typical yank, all macho and tough talking, but when the going gets tough, yer just another whimp" he taunted, his voice rising as he let it sink in that he had done it.

He'd defeated not only the Miraculers, but Superman. Finally, there would be a world where there wouldn't be a hero of false golden ideals. The world was his now. He would be the hero.


In Tibet, the fight was not over yet, for the last three Miraculous users were making a big charge towards Abyss, who stood there with a playful index finger of both hands whirling in the air as they felt a shiver run through them. She then fired two webs right at Ladybug and Chat Noir, wanting to impale them with her webs and take them out of the fight. However, Ladybug pulled her Ladyblades up in front of her like scissors, ducking under the web and slashing it to pieces, giving her a chance to get closer. Chat Noir sidestepped and sliced his baton down onto the web, turning it to ash with just a single hit. Abyss didn't have time to react as La Paon then split her feather fan in half while her cloak wrapped around her body. She shot off her feet and sent her hands out with her feather fan, her body spinning right at Abyss at top speed, tearing right into the Kwami like a knife.

The impact was enough to lift Abyss off her feet, ripping her through the air, driving her right into the wall of fire all around them. Abyss grunted as she hit the wall, her body growing hot as the flames bit into her. La Paon didn't stop there, for her cloak opened and she brought her heel down onto the spider Kwami's head, sending her crashing down onto the snow below. She didn't have time to react as Chat Noir then planted his staff right into her back, sending the glowing tip right right her body. She screeched angrily and in agony, before sending her legs up and kicking out, hitting him in the chest and sending him flying through the air, the staff getting pulled right out of her. Chat Noir landed on his feet his claws sharpened as Abyss pulled herself back up, scorch like marks on where she was stabbed.

Ladybug then stepped in, her Ladyblades slashing right against her body. They went right through her but this didn't stop Ladybug from kicking her feet up and sending her staggering back before slashing across the stomach. Abyss went to slash her with her claws, but Chat Noir grabbed her hands and dug his own claws into her wrists, pulling her hands down before whacking her across the face with his baton, leaving a dark scorch mark on her head. La Paon then went to slash her on the arms, but the Kwami had enough, for she grabbed La Paon's hand and twisted it down, pulling her forward into a painful headbutt, sending her staggering back. Chat Noir snarled angrily as he went to whack her again for what she just did, but she easily caught his staff and pulled him forward, slicing her claws right across his arm, his leather torn and blood running from his wound. Biting down, Chat Noir brought his feet up and kicked her in the face, but Abyss didn't seem bothered, for she grabbed his foot and threw him at back to his mother.

Ladybug gritted her teeth as she then sliced her blades right across her eyes, hoping to blind Abyss, but this did nothing, with Abyss kicking her feet out and hitting Ladybug's hands, sending the swords flying out of her hands, but Ladybug went on, landing a punch right on her face before going to punch her in the stomach, yet she found her fist caught by the Kwami, who grinned as she then squeezed hard on the blue haired girl's fist, making her cry out as she felt her fingers bend the other way. Abyss then pulled her right off her feet and headbutted her viciously, sending Ladybug flying right back at Chat Noir and La Paon, her hand throbbing as her fingers tried to get back in place.

"I don't know if this is a fight or a game I'm in right now. Either way, I'm thoroughly enjoying myself!" Abyss crowed, "You've all been most entertaining in your pitiful attempts to stop the inevitable fate that befalls your world! But as we all know, games are only fun for so long so it'll be best I end it now before it gets boring."

Ladybug picked herself up, softly rubbing her fingers as they slowly knitted back into place. Her ribbons had come undone again, leaving Ladybug's hair free-flowing in the wind that blew over them. With her hair down and the numerous other injuries that Abyss had inflicted on her, she looked a sorry sight to say the least and she was panting heavily, the fight clearly wearing her down.

"So this is a game to you?! You think you can just toy with us and call it a day?!" she cried, her voice hard and hoarse from the battle.

"Isn't that what I'm doing right now?" Abyss taunted.

"We'll see how fun you think it is when you're down and out for good!" Ladybug growled, her fingers back in place at last so she could move them as normal.

"Oh really dear, you have the Lantern of Life on your side and you're still no closer to defeating me. What makes you think things will change in your favour?" the spider-Kwami crooned smoothly.

"The fact we've actually found a way to hurt you." Ladybug noted.

It was now her turn to smile confidently as she noticed the look of horrified realization on Abyss's face. She'd noticed the same thing Ladybug had noticed. Some of the injuries she'd received from Cat Noir were still visible on her. The scorch marks from the feline hero's staff were ugly reminders that she wasn't invulnerable. Cat Noir smirked along with his girlfriend.

"Makes sense that the Kwami of Destruction can hurt you." he boasted, "Fear isn't indestructible either! We can destroy fear as easily as we can destroy a building! Seems we've got your Achille's Heel at last, although you lack heels yourself." he added tauntingly.

Abyss clenched her teeth angrily and narrowed her eyes. Her fists shook with uncontrollable rage. The Miraculers watched her with interest. Was it their imagination or did Abyss look...scared? She was trying to hide it with blind fury but they could see it in her eyes, from the way she was shaking. She was afraid and there was no denying it. The Kwami of Fear had something herself to fear.

"You think the powers of Plagg will magically fix everything and put me down?!" Abyss exploded, "I'll have you all bleeding on the floor before you get a chance to finish me off!"

"Oooh, she's getting pretty mad now!" Cat Noir sneered, "What's the matter? Is the Kwami of Fear suddenly getting afraid that she might not survive this battle?"

"How does it feel to be scared of something Abyss?" La Paon added, glad to finally stick it to her captor.

"I FEAR NOTHING! I AM FEAR ITSELF!" Abyss roared, throwing herself towards her opponents and bearing her fangs.

But before she could reach her targets, something shot out of nowhere and slammed into her, throwing her backwards and sending her crashing into a rock nearby. The rock was reduced to pebbles as Abyss hit it. Ladybug, Cat Noir and La Paon turned to see what had happened. Their eyes widened with delight as White Lantern hovered before them, his white glow as radiant and heavenly as ever and a construct of a giant baseball bat emitting from his ring. He'd managed to break out from under the rock pile and he stood beside the Miraculers, looking unhurt despite everything. He smiled, looking pleased with himself.

"I'd call that a home run." he remarked.

"White Lantern! Good timing!" Ladybug cried.

"We've found a weak spot on Abyss!" Cat Noir excitedly explained, "My powers are able to hurt her!"

White Lantern's face changed. He withdrew his construct and looked back to the teen heroes. He was no longer smiling. Instead, he looked serious as if this news didn't change anything.

"It's great there's a weak spot on her but it won't do us any good." he noted, "We can hurt her yes, but we won't be able to destroy her. It may as well not be a weak spot at all. If we could contain her in some way, that would do the trick."

"But we haven't got anything to contain her with." La Paon noted, "Your constructs won't stay up forever as we know and none of us can contain Abyss."

"Maybe we can..." Ladybug murmured thoughtfully.

Cat Noir beamed. He loved it when his girl was all thoughtful like that. She was always the smart one with the clever strategies in their previous battles with akumas and gods and villain organizations so he knew Ladybug was already thinking away on the perfect strategy on how to stop Abyss. A second or so later, Ladybug snapped her fingers.

"I think I've got it!" she cried.

"You have a plan? What is it, kiddo?" White Lantern asked.

She didn't need her Ladybug vision to tell her what she needed to look at. Her eyes trailed down to his ring and a tiny nerve of shyness came over her as she looked up at him.

"Kyle...I need something of yours".

That was all she needed to say. She just knew now on what to do.


In Paris, Manchester Black laughed loudly as he pointed a finger down at the dead webbed heroes in the crater, looking to the Ziszhui as they began to crawl over the web that held them down there, the mist around them still thick as they hungrily gazed upon their food.

"Feast upon their remains, mates! But spare me Superman's! I look forward to presenting to everyone he's fallen by my hand!" he said, hardly holding back his excitement as he saw victory just ever closer to his hands.

If only he saw a glowing yellow tip behind him in the mists.

Inside the giant ice ball, under the Eiffel Tower, Hudie was getting pushed back as the Ziszhui slashed their weapons at him, their hands like machines as they continued away at him. The old man was already sweating as he could only keep blocking their attacks the best he could while hoping for an opening or at least hoping Carapace was close to the seed. He nearly got a cut on the shoulder from one Ziszhui but dodged in time to quickly slip through the small space between it and another, his butterfly wings on his staff slashing it on the back and pushing it to the other, knocking it right into the other and sending it spinning onto its back. Now in the open, this gave Hudie the chance to cover more ground as he ran back from the remaining Ziszhui, his staff still out to defend him.

Carapace was using his hands as paddles of sorts to push him forward right at the seed, his face focused right on the seed as he got closer to it. He clutched the bottle tighter as he saw this was it. Just put the poison right on the seed and it'd be over. His shield was in bumping range as he got closer to it, so he began to unscrew the lid, not second guessing what he was doing. If only he did, he'd have seen the web reaching down to him from above.

Chest hard and his hands tight, Carapace stood up, his eyes right on the seed as he raised the bottle.

"Alright. Kiss goodbye to your crap, spiders!" he declared as he sent the bottle out, ready to release its contents onto the seed...only for the web to then latch right onto his ankle, pulling him up into the air.

Carapace gasped as he nearly lost focus, but he kept his hand out and as he went up in the air, he released the purple coloured poison right out into the air. Time slowed as it ran right out of the bottle, looking like it was about to drop onto the surrounding liquid. But he felt his chest release its intensity as the poison found its target.

Just a single touch from the tiniest droplet was enough. Enough to cause the seed to stop its ripples across the ground. Enough for it to shake as the poison ran right over it like cracks forming on a rock as it was being split open. Carapace's eyes widened as the seed continued to shake, like it was left out in the cold for months and was finally letting go of its grip on life.

It then stopped...and then it popped. Popped like a balloon that held water inside. Its dark remains went up in fire as the poison eaten the rest of it, ending its place on Earth.

This caused a reaction that greatly affected the whole surroundings, for the dark liquid that filled the underneath of the Eiffel Tower began to steam up fast, rising into the empty air as it was somewhat burnt off the ground like a plaster being peeled from a scratch, leaving only the grey concrete below. Carapace threw his fist out with a grin as the web around his leg then turned to dust, freeing him from its grip.

Carapace landed on his feet, where he ended up seeing just what the affect the seed's destruction was having in the battle. He could only look on in awe as the darkness covering the Eiffel Tower faded, bit by bit revealing its real golden look underneath. What's more though was that he saw the figures of the Ziszhui fighting Hudie ended up freezing where they were. A sense of confusion ran over him as he watched what was going on, not sure if he was seeing it right or if this was a trick...

It was no trick, for he and Hudie watched on in gladness as they saw the Ziszhui let out one last hiss as their skin began to turn to little pieces of dust, their remains softly being blown into the air as nothing was left from where they were standing, as if they never existed at all. Feet guiding him over to his elder master, Carapace saw the ever so present happy smile return to him as Hudie himself let it settle in on what just occurred.

It was having an affect outside as well, for suddenly, Manchester Black felt as if his whole head nearly exploded when he felt something burning inside of him. His face twisted in agony as he cried out in pain, his eyes wide as he staggered forward, nearly falling into the pit below. Voice shaky, he looked around as the Ziszhui with him began to turn to nothing but dust, their remains flying off into the air as their power was cut from them. He didn't even notice the glowing tip coming closer to him as he called out to the area around him, his body now shaking.

"Abyss!? ABYSS!" he screamed as his eyes focused right onto the pit of bodies on front of him, a twisted feeling of horror coming over him as the bodies turned to nothing but orange smoke, like they were never there. An illusion. Manchester's face dropped as the figure came closer behind him, her weapon going right for his back.

"VENOM!" Queen B shouted as she then planted the stinger right into his back, her energy running right through him.

His back threw itself towards her, Manchester's eyes wide in horror as the numbing feel ran right through him. He could only let out a cry of agony as his knees lost all feeling in them, causing his legs to bend forward. Hands shaking as numbness overcame him, Manchester fell right into his side, his eyes not able to close as he gazed up into the sky, where he saw his huge tentacles turn to dust, their forms unblocking the sun in the sky, shining down upon Queen B as she gave him a smirk. To make it even more frustrating for him, Manchester soon had them all in his sights standing over him. Even Superman stood with them, his eyes full of pleasure and pride as he looked over the result of the faith and teamwork he had with Rena Rouge, who stood by his side with a smile of her own, the sunlight bright as the Ziszhui's remains were no longer seen.

They had won. Manchester was defeated. Paris was free.


It wasn't done in Tibet, not yet. But for Abyss, she could go on longer. She might've been in a daze for a minute, but it wasn't enough to bring her down. Anger ran through her as she remembered what had occurred and what Ladybug found out. The Kwami got to her feet, her claws sharpened as she thought of Chat Noir, his Ladybug realised he could actually hurt her. Eyes zooming to her wounds, she hissed as she began to walk off the shattered rock she was thrown upon. Fantasies were already running through her head as she thought of making Chat Noir use his power on Ladybug, to see that annoying smile of hers fade from her face as she died, to hear him scream in agony and despair at the loss of his lover, to watch his mother cry out in horror as she would kill him in his grief. She would make them suffer.

She would've made them suffer if any of them were there at least. Her red eyes widened as she saw none of them were there. No Ladybug, no Chat Noir, no White Lantern, no injured...they were gone. Like they weren't even there. Her eyes looked all around, her chest heaving in and out as she tried to find them. Did they just decide to run? Where were they?

Her pincers planted in the snow, but they helped her sense she stepped on something else. Looking down, she saw the two ribbons of Ladybug's hair, unmanaged from the fight. Her eyes narrowed, confusion coming over her. It was foolish of Ladybug to leave that behind. She could easily use that to find her. She just had to pick it up and smell it. Then she'd know.

If only she didn't bend over. For what followed was like being pelted by bullets. Rising from the snow were several figures, all of whom went into the attack. Kagami whipped her sword out and slashed Abyss on the forehead. It did nothing to bother her, but a flame blast from Constantine knocked her back a bit, the fire turning to smoke as she waved her hands. She opened her eyes in time to see two more figures coming right at her. First came La Paon, who brought her feather fan out to stab her. Second was Shader, who's visor began to flash. Abyss reacted quickly, reaching her hands up and catching the two women by their necks, stopping them from coming further. This didn't stop one of them though, for Shader's visor then let out a flash right at Abyss, who tried to close her eyes before it could hit her. She only succeeded slightly as she closed her two right eyes but not her left ones, which turned black upon getting hit. She cried out in pain as she felt her head beginning to spin, not before clamping her hand over the visor to stop her from trying again.

Abyss snarled as she glared at La Paon, her remaining eyes now angry as she began to squeeze harder around her neck.

"What were you hoping for, Emilie!? What was this all for!?" she demanded, a slight taunt in her voice as she questioned her.

Despite the grip on her, La Paon ended up grinning at her as her eyes sparked in gladness.

"A distraction." was all she said, getting a frown from Abyss as she could only wonder what she meant.

Then it came as a dark figure stormed right towards her, his hand pulled back as it glowed. Abyss gasped in shock as Chat Noir leapt at her, very close now. He grinned as he sent his claws down with one word escaping his mouth.

"CATACLYSM!"

With that and a slash of his claws going down from her eyes all the way down below her large breasts, Chat Noir landed on his feet, panting heavily as he looked up to see the work of his power on Abyss. She looked like she had poison running through her, for darkness shot over her skin from the inside, her body shaking as she lost all feeling in it, releasing La Paon and Shader. They both landed beside Chat Noir, stepping back from the Kwami as she sunk on her pincers, her face split as her skin began to turn dark as the power ran right through her. It was as if her skin was about to come off and her body would fall down.

Her face split and her body sunken in the snow, Abyss managed to let out a chuckle as her eyes looked at Chat Noir, red mist slowly coming out of her mouth.

"You fool...the power of destruction might destroy my body. But I am immortal. My essence shall live on. And it'll rebuild." she said to him, a hint of seduction in her tone as more mist began to come out of her mouth, watching on as it began to build in size.

Chat Noir, though, didn't look scared about that. He smiled instead as he stepped back with his mother and Shader.

"Sometimes essences can be stopped as well, Abyss." he said in pride as a light shined up behind him. A light of energy. A light that seemed more powerful than ever. Powerful enough to make Abyss freeze where she was while Chat Noir smiled as he looked at who it was, his heart warm as he saw who it was that was floating out from the snow.

Floating there in white and silver was Ladybug. She looked utterly angelic with her hair flowing softly behind her, her eyes still blue. The only difference aside from the colour change was the silver arm muscles, fingertips, and her midriff that ran down to her knees. On her hand was the White Lantern ring, which shone brighter than ever as she raised it up, smiling as she felt it run through her.

"It's over, Abyss. Consider this your final punishment. For infinity." Ladybug spoke as she pulled her yoyo out from her hip, wrapping it around the hand that held its ring.

Abyss felt as if she couldn't move as she saw the light get brighter, with her voice now shaky as the mist began to shrink.

"N-No..." she could only utter as the ring began to produce a light, Ladybug's eyes wide with light when it began to form.

"PERMA CHARM!" she cried.

The ring and yoyo bleeped as the former's construct began to take form. It was small, round, but had its purpose. It opened like a slot on both sides, an extra light beaming from inside. It let off a pulling force that found its target. There was no escape.

To the Kwami of Fear, it felt like invisible hands were pulling on her body and refusing to let go. Abyss tried to fly away but it was useless. No Kwami could escape from the Perma Charm of White Ladybug. As if to add insult to injury, the container was shaped like a ladybird shell. Not only would Abyss be trapped there forever, she was literally being contained inside the symbol of the girl who beat her. There was no way this defeat could be more humiliating for her. Abyss was pulled towards the Perma Charm, refusing to give up despite knowing it was useless. For the first time in her life, she was utterly terrified. The Kwami of Fear was now the one experiencing fear. She let out a horrified scream as her fate came ever closer.

"NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOO! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME! YOU CAN'T SEAL ME AWAY! I'M FEAR INCARNATE! I CAN'T BE DEFEATEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee..."

Her voice trailed off as she was finally sucked into the ladybird shaped container, disappearing into its light as the ladybird shell closed shut forever. The construct fell to the ground with a light bump, telling everybody that as Ladybug had hoped, the construct would remain solid and wouldn't fade away like a Lantern's constructs usually did after use. White Ladybug sighed with relief, glad that her plan had worked. She had to admit thinking back to it all, it had been a very risky gambit. Even Kyle had noted as such that there was a one in a million chance it could work the way she'd intended. Neither of them had experienced what it was like to combine a Lantern ring with a Miraculous. Worst case scenario, the two energies could've violently reacted and cancelled each other out, destroying everything and everyone in sight. But Ladybug had suspected that Tikki's strong connection to the White Lantern power as the Kwami of Life would make the two a perfect match and luckily for her, it had. Now they'd created a perfect prison to keep Abyss locked away for all eternity. She turned to the others, her face as bright as her costume and glowing aura.

"We did it everyone! Abyss is sealed away forever!" White Ladybug cried delightedly.

Cat Noir and Kyle Rayner punched the air with joy while Constantine shrugged and gave his own cheeky smile.

"No wonder they call you "Miraculous Ladybug"." he remarked, "Gone up against The Joker, Darkseid, The Light and now a literal creature of fear itself. I'd say that's pretty bloody miraculous."

La Paon and Shader embraced each other with the former shedding tears of happiness in response to the turnout. If anyone had any right to be happy this was over, it was definitely La Paon. Forced to be a puppet for Abyss and play a part in her scheme, her nightmare was finally over. She was well and truly free from the web of Abyss.

"It's over...it's finally over!" La Paon cried between tears, "I never thought I'd say this day come!"

"Well it's here now mom and you can enjoy it for as long as you want!" Cat Noir cried, embracing his mother tightly.

La Paon hugged him back and kissed him on the forehead. How long she had waited for this moment to be back with her son again. White Ladybug watched the scene in awe, glad that they had pulled through so they could all see this tender moment together. Kyle patted her shoulder.

"Great thinking Marinette." he complimented, "I never in a million years would've thought of combining my ring with a Miraculous. Who'd have anticipated such a powerful combination working so well for us?"

"And just the way I'd hoped too!" White Ladybug exclaimed, "I guess when the Kwami of Life and the Lantern of Life come together, we should've expected it'd be something...well, miraculous."

"Just wait til I tell everyone in the Justice League and the Green Lantern Corps..." Kyle murmured, "They'll LOVE to hear this. Knowing Hal, he'd think on how awesome it'd be if HE did it and John would find it impressive."

"I know I found it impressive!" Cat Noir added, he and La Paon walking towards the two, "And M'lady, can I just say you look absolutely gorgeous in white?" he added with a sly wink.

White Ladybug ran her hands down her white-clad body, appreciating that her boyfriend thought the colour suited her. She had to agree that she did look good in white.

"I was half-expecting you to make an obvious joke on me being an angel." White Ladybug giggled.

"You didn't need to wear white for me to tell you that." Cat Noir said cheekily.

"Although I think we can agree red's more my colour." White Ladybug added, taking the ring off so Kyle could have it back.

As she removed the ring, the white and silver costume disappeared and returned her back to her trademark red and black spotted costume. She handed the ring to Kyle, who slipped the ring back onto his finger so he could return to being White Lantern. He smiled back at Ladybug.

"Yeah, red definitely suits you more." he agreed, "Although I'd hate to see you in a Red Lantern costume..."

"I doubt I'd ever get angry enough for that." Ladybug chuckled.

Then suddenly she found herself being grabbed and pulled into a tight hug of gratitude. She was so surprised that she cried out. Of course Ladybug didn't have any reason to mind who it was for she quickly saw it was only La Paon. The blue-clad woman was still crying with happiness and she embraced the French girl warmly. Ladybug could already feel the love and warmth that this woman carried for her son and what a caring person she was. No wonder Adrien had missed it so.

"Young lady...you are the most incredible girl I've ever met." La Paon said kindly, "I'm proud that you are my son's girlfriend. He couldn't have fallen for a more brave, strong and intelligent person."

Ladybug blushed with pleasure.

"P-p-please Mrs. Agreste, y-y-you're t-too kind." she stammered, "R-really, I d-don't know what to say..."

"Just accept what she said, for it's the truth. Every bit of it!" Cat Noir retorted.

Ladybug nodded and returned the hug that La Paon was giving her. They could all breathe a sigh of relief and relish this moment. Abyss was defeated at last and the world was saved. Today had truly been miraculous for them all, and they couldn't be happier that they'd lived to see it to the end...


Abyss is defeated! Paris is cleansed of its corruption! The day has been saved and it's a happy ending for all our heroes! ^^

But it's not quite the end of this story. Tune in for the final chapter as we conclude both this story and the entire Ladybug/DC crossover universe as a whole as everything comes to a neat little close...