Okay! First off, I'm a bit disappointed about the zero reviews on the last chapter. Thought you guys would be happy to see Lila getting caught in her act and not get away with it for once.
As far as romance goes, don't worry, Adrienette will have some moments, but Renapace is going to be the primary focus in this chapter.
After Marinette brings Adrien to the nurse's office to tend to his wounds from a match, Lila's jealousy triggers her to attack the school with multiple duplicates of herself! And once again, Carapace has to intervene. But then we learn that the vixen and turtle romance is far from new.
Out on the field, the girls were once again watching the fencing team at their game.
"Go for it, Adrien!" The captain shouted.
"On it!" Adrien called back as he blocked someone's move, then landed a hit on the opponent.
"Nice move, Adrien!" Marinette shouted as she took pictures, paying special attention to the uniforms.
The girls decided to do a section on sports fashion for the blog, hence why they were hanging around the fencing team very often. The trio decided that Marinette would be in charge of photography and terminology definitions, meanwhile Alya would actually write the article. Chloé was there for other miscellaneous tasks for the project.
"Check out the captain's uniform, girl! Make sure you get a good pic!" Alya said.
"I will, Alya, but all the uniforms are the same!" Marinette laughed.
She continued to take pictures of the fencing team members, being sure to get everything from full profiles to head shots, to focusing on body parts for the uniforms.
The plan for the article was to explain the uniform's purpose, the terminology for the parts, amongst other things.
After a few shots...
"Hi! Can I look?!" Lila said as she bombed the next photo.
"Hey!" Marinette shouted in surprise, throwing her phone in the air. She caught it with both hands. "Lila, what are you doing?! Don't go surprising me like that!"
"Well, Adrien's in at least one of your pictures, right?" Lila asked, trying to be cute (didn't work).
She turned around to look at Adrien from a 135 degree angle from the right before coming up against Marinette and forming a "scene" with her fingers. She suggested to Marinette, "Maybe you should take a picture of him from this angle. What do you think?"
"Lila, I appreciate the advice, but I know what I'm doing." Marinette politely declined, barely disguising her annoyance. But when she looked up, the girl was gone.
Lila was now standing next to Adrien out on the field. She was waving to Marinette, shouting, "Hey Mari! Why not take a picture of me and Adrien together? Aren't we a cute pair?"
"No!" Marinette protested, face-palming in annoyance.
After Adrien forcibly chased Lila off the field, the team went back to practice.
One fencer from the other team was charging at Adrien with her saber, meanwhile Adrien had his body in a stance, ready to attack. The girl lunged at him, he made to defend, but he zigged when he should have zagged. Not only was he touched with the saber, but he was knocked over.
He landed on his ankle, it bent a little bit, and he loudly yowled in pain before falling over onto his side.
The girls gasped, Nino shouted his best friend's name, and Lila cried, "No!"
The other fencers ran and gathered around Adrien. Nino held his hand out to help Adrien stand up, and asked, "You okay, dude?"
"I... I think I'm gonna be okay," Adrien said while the girls (and Lila) came over to check up on him. As Adrien tried to move, he put weight on his ankle, and he winced in pain, holding back a roar. "Or... Maybe not."
"Dude, you gotta get that looked at," Nino said. "Don't argue about this."
"You're probably right." Adrien agreed.
"I'll bring you over to the nurse's office." Lila purred, holding Adrien's arm.
Adrien didn't hesitate to push her away, saying, "No thanks."
"But..." Lila began to protest.
"We can't have our team manager leaving the field during a game this important." Adrien said.
Alya and Chloé looked at each other with mischievous smiles, and together, they shoved Marinette over to Adrien.
She stumbled into his arms, and he caught her. They looked up at each other, both blushing at one another. Marinette looked away, shyly.
"So, why doesn't Marinette take Adrien to the nurse's office?" Alya suggested.
"Wha?!" Marinette squeaked.
"That should be a relief, captain," Chloé added. "This way Lila can stay on the field and do her job while your star player gets the treatment he needs."
"She's got a point, dude." Nino agreed.
"And it's a good fit. Marinette knows how to be gentle and nurturing with people when giving first aid." Alya spoke.
'Why?! Why are you doing this to me?!' Marinette thought, panic on her face. 'I only know how to give first aid because I'm constantly hurting myself either helping dad out or during my sewing projects!'
Adrien moaned and slumped on his good foot.
"Adrien, you okay?" Marinette asked him. "Take my arm. I'll be your crutch."
"Thanks." Adrien thanked as he leaned on Marinette for support and started walking with her to the nurse's office.
"Adrien, no..." Lila cried, tears (most likely fake) streaming down her face.
"Don't get your hair in a knot," Chloé laughed. "It's not like those two are going to get up to anything they shouldn't be in a nurse's office."
"What?!" Lila asked, whirling on the others.
Alya laughed, saying, "Stop it, Chloé! There's no way!"
"Come on, Alya, things like that happen," Chloé scoffed. "Especially when a dapper young man gets treated with tender loving care by a cute nurse. I mean, who wouldn't get all lovey-dovey in that situation?"
"Wh-What do you mean by "lovey-dovey?!"" Lila spoke, her eyes wide in panic, her imagination running wild.
~Fantasy~
In the nurse's office, Adrien's shirt was off and he was lying on the bed, covered from the waist down and had a cold compress on his forehead, smiling at the nurse. Sitting on a chair besides the bed was Marinette. She was wearing a pink nurse uniform with a short skirt, cap on her head, and all.
Marinette was pressing a gauze dressing to a bandaged area of Adrien's arm. Adrien took his other hand and held hers.
Marinette blushed with a shy smile, looking at her patient.
"Mari, every cloud has a silver lining," Adrien admitted, also red in the face. "And the silver lining in me getting hurt is that if I hadn't, I wouldn't have learned what a sweetheart you really are."
Marinette giggled before saying, "Oh, you..."
Marinette sat on the bed, getting close to Adrien, only their silhouettes against the curtains
~End of Fantasy~
Lila started growling, her fists shaking, and fire surrounding her in rage.
"I hear the nurse's office, when it's just two people in love, all alone, the atmosphere can be dangerous." Chloé giggled.
"D-D-Dangerous?!" Lila shrieked, as the scene went black and white and she felt something crack.
~Fantasy Continuation~
Adrien was now sitting on one of the tables, his shirt still off, and looking at Marinette. She had her stethoscope on, pressing the end to his chest.
"I feel your heart beating loud and clear, Adrien." Marinette reported.
"Listen to it, Mari," Adrien said, looking at her as if he were a man who had the woman he loved right where he wanted her. "Listen to it telling you my true feelings for you."
Marinette continued to listen to his heart pounding, strong and clear. She blushed at the sound.
"Wow... You feel that way?" Marinette squealed. Adrien gave a nod.
Marinette ditched the stethoscope, letting it fall to the ground, and she leaned into Adrien's embrace. He hugged her back.
"I'm so happy to hear this!" Marinette sighed.
"I feel the same way." Adrien replied.
~End of Fantasy~
"No, no, no, no, no!" Lila cried, tears streaming down her face. Chloé was giggling. Lila's emotions went from sorrow to rage. She shouted, "I won't let that happen! Adrien is MINE!"
She ran off the field to chase after Marinette and Adrien.
Chloé started laughing, saying, "Ooh, those two will get close, and then rudely interrupted! How funny!"
"Chloé, if any drama goes down today, it's all your fault!" Alya scolded angrily.
Lila burst through the door of the nurse's office, and she gasped in shock, the scene turned black and something cracked.
Behind the curtain that hid the bed, she could see the silhouettes of Marinette and Adrien getting closer. Lila backed away hit the wall, and slid down. Her eyes were dizzy.
"Ow!" Adrien shouted.
"Sorry about that." Marinette apologized.
It turned out that Adrien was sitting up on the bed while sticking his hurt leg out, and Marinette was sitting in such a way that depending on the angle, looked like it she and Adrien were snuggling up together.
Marinette was putting a dressing and bandage on his ankle with and ice pack on it.
"Now, give that leg some time to rest, okay?" Marinette requested.
"Okay," Adrien agreed. "Thank you, Marinette."
Adrien looked up at his "nurse," a blush on his face. Marinette was looking at him, too, mirroring his expression.
"Mariboo?" Adrien prompted.
"Yes?" Marinette replied.
"I..." Adrien began.
Outside, Lila snapped out of her dizzy spell, stood up and shouted, "What right does she think she has, laying her filthy hands on my Adrien?!"
She roared in anger, changed back into Volpina, and shouted, "Now I'm angry! REVENGE!"
Volpina blew into her flute and created duplicates of herself, for a total of six, including the real Volpina.
"Now I'm going to blanket the entire François-Dupont campus with my anger and hate!" She cackled.
The sky turned dark purple, and the school was turned the same color.
"Mariboo, I..." Adrien began, but as the room turned dark purple, he collapsed on the bed.
"Adrien!" Marinette shouted as she looked around.
Tikki and Nooroo came out, with the former saying, "Looks like we've got akuma trouble again."
"No kidding!" Marinette said before dashing out of the room.
Out on the fencing field, the fencers were shouting in pain as akuma electricity was pulsing through them, causing them to collapse on the ground.
Above them, the Volpinas were flying overhead, and she said in an evil, angry voice, "Hi, everyone! I'm Volpina, the adorable illusion akuma from the akuma realm. And you know what? I am NOT happy!"
"ENOUGH, VOLPINA!" Ladybug shouted.
She and her team jumped in, all decked out in their wedding dresses and ready for a fight.
"So, there you are, Love Angels!" Volpina said, her smirk wide as ever.
"You say you're angry? Well, neither am I! Attacking innocent people in the middle of an important fencing game? You've got balls, I'll tell you that much!" Ladybug shouted as she started spinning her yo-yo again.
Volpina cackled again before telling Ladybug, "Go ahead and blow your top! I don't care!"
"Cocky, much?" Queen Bee said, crossing her arms.
"I think she's just acting that way because she's created duplicates of herself. Not sure if they're illusions or not, though." Nooroo explained.
"Let's be careful," Ladybug added. "I'm sensing a lot more evil coming from her than before."
"Got it, LB!" Rena spoke.
"Ready?" Ladybug asked her team.
"Bridal Change! Wedding Dress Transform!" "Angel Creation Ladybug!" "Angel Illusion Rena Rouge!" "Angel Subjection Queen Bee!"
Queen Bee got her Miraculous Something Blue weapon out and she started spinning her baton.
"Bride's Bashfulness! Honey Star Shower!" Queen Bee hollered, firing her weapon. But she missed the two Volpina duplicates.
"How could I miss?! Ridiculous! Utterly-" Queen Bee began.
But the Volpinas took out their flutes, conjured up sharp, crystalline spears and fired them at Queen Bee. Queen Bee used her top as a shield, but the spears knocked her off her feet, throwing her into a nearby wall.
As another Volpina duplicate was flying around, Ladybug used her yo-yo to zip up onto the rooftops to chase after her.
"Hey! Get back here!" Ladybug shouted, but another duplicate fired more crystals at Ladybug.
She used her yo-yo shield to block it, but more were coming from another angle, so she jumped out of the way. Ladybug kept spinning her yo-yo while looking at the two Volpina's circling around her from overhead. Ladybug was looking at the two of them, trying to figure out how to determine which was the real Volpina.
Over with Rena Rouge, she was looking up at three duplicates.
"Alright, you phony fox! It's my turn to take you down!" Rena Rouge said.
She got her wand out, shouting, "Love's Tribute Candle! Miraculous Fantasies!"
"You know the drill!" The real Volpina said.
She and her two duplicates made a triangle formation, and orange akuma energy radiated from the three of them to create a triangle, which opened up a black hole of some sort. Rena's foxtail lights harmlessly flew into the hole, not even hitting one of the duplicates.
"What the hell?!" Rena shouted.
"Hah! This is the power of a cute girl writhing with jealousy and resentment! I'm more dangerous than a tiger ready to hunt!" Volpina cackled. "Now we're going to be ones to win!"
Out of the triangle, two bright, solid teal eyes started glowing. A giant, dark purple butterfly with a huge stinger, massive wings, and fur around its body emerged from the dark.
"What the hell is that thing?!" Rena Rouge hollered.
Before she could dodge, the butterfly monster charged at Rena Rouge, and used its stinger to stab Rena Rouge in the arm, piercing the suit. The angel let out an anguished, bloodcurdling scream in response.
As the stinger wriggled about in Rena's skin, it started turning a sickly wine-purple color, spreading from the wound out. The butterfly took Rena in its legs, cackling in response at the success of the attack.
Rena was groaning while in the arms of the giant butterfly. The akuma poison was spreading fast, she was turning blue in the face from the toxins in her body, and unable to fight back as a result. She was groaning, trying to breathe, her heartbeat was accelerating, and she felt her muscles grow lax.
But there was a loud clang and the sentimonster vanished in a flash of red, after groaning in pain. Rena Rouge fell to her knees, breathing heavily, holding her arm for support, and coughing.
Up in the air was Carapace, who'd thrown his shield like a discus again.
"Rena, you okay?" Carapace asked as he caught his shield, landed, and went to check on the fox.
"Carapace..." Rena said weakly. "Boy, am I glad to see you..."
He saw the purple bruise on the arm, and he said, "Damn!"
He got down and took Rena's arm, before saying, "It's spreading fast. If I don't do something..."
"What..." Rena began.
He put his mouth to the wound and started sucking the poison out of Rena's arms.
"Hey, don't do that! You'd better not do that! If you do, the sentimonster's poison is going to overwhelm you, too!" Rena barked.
Carapace paused as a bolt shot through his head, an image of a helmet and visor going through his eyes. He looked at Rena, a breeze blowing around them. The two of them kept their eyes held on to each other.
"...Deja vu, dude," Carapace began. "I could've sworn something like this happened once in the past..."
"Huh?" Rena spoke, with a questioning look on her face.
Carapace once again saw an angel in an orange and white combat suit with the same helmet and visor, and fox ears coming out of her helmet. His eyes widened as Rena's reflection was in his iris and pupil. Rena's reflection was overlapped with that of the same helmeted angel.
"Hey, don't do that! You'd better not do that! If you do, the sentimonster's poison is going to overwhelm you, too!" Rena's words echoed in his mind.
"Rena Rouge... Rena, it was you, after all!" Carapace spoke, as if he'd made a mental connection of some sort.
And explosion of white light occurred. On the battleground that was the angel realm, there were white orbs of light in the air that were going on and off frequently, explosions and the accompanying sounds ringing out, and more.
Out on one of the battlegrounds, which was under siege by Mayura's army of akumas and sentimonsters, was an angel in an orange woman's combat skirt and suit. She had an orange, white, and black helmet on her head (with a black visor over her eyes), fox ears coming out of her helmet, and holding on to a battle staff in a similar color scheme.
She was bracing herself from the occurring blast from one of the akumas. She then used her staff to fire off love wave blasts at some akumas and sentimonsters that were up in the air. She hit one, but the others returned fire. The angel jumped out of the way.
But another sentimonster, one resembling the Man-Bat from the Batman franchise, including huge eyes and bat wings, came up and grabbed her by the arm. She screamed.
"Curse you, angel! Learn to be our servants, and have a taste of the power of the akumas!" The akuma spoke before biting her in the arm.
She screamed in agony as the poison infected her. But something from behind slammed on the akuma, causing him to disappear in a flash of red. Then, Carapace, who was wearing slightly bulkier armor and had some blades on the edge of his shield, came up behind the angel as she was about to fall to the ground.
Carrying her like a princess in his arms, Carapace floated to a safer area in the angel realm. It was a lake that seemed to be in a cloud, with a rainbow ending at it, too. There was also a giant, glowing pink orb of light above the lake water.
He gently laid the angel down so she was sitting up. Carapace took her arm and examined the wound.
"Damn! It's spreading fast. If I don't do something..." Carapace said, before putting his lips against the wound and started sucking the poison out.
"Hey, don't do that! You'd better not do that! If you do, the sentimonster's poison is going to overwhelm you, too!" She protested.
But the color on the arm was receding as the poison was being removed.
"There, that should do it," Carapace said, pulling away. "How are you feeling, dudette?"
"I'm feeling better now." She said, a blush on the lower part of her cheeks.
Carapace's face turned blue and he started groaning in pain from the poison. He stood up, his shouts becoming louder.
"Fight it! You have to fight it off!" The angel shouted in response, encouraging him to resist the hate.
He groaned in pain and grabbed his neck in a choking gesture, his cheeks growing red marks. He moaned out, "I know I can... Fight this with my love waves!"
He started glowing the same color green as his suit, love waves bathing himself. The pain was agonizing, and his shouts became louder and louder as the pain got worse and worse.
But the marks were still on his face. He fell down to one knee, and groaned, "I... It's useless..."
He turned to the angel.
"Angel, since I don't know your name... You can't let me become a servant of the akumas... There's only one thing to do: you need to..." He began, but he started groaning again, before the marks on his cheeks faded away for good.
"Kill me! You need to kill me right now, dudette!" Carapace shouted in pleading.
"No! I can't!" She refused.
"Please! Hurry!" Carapace begged.
"I can't do it! I won't do it! Don't you DARE ask me to do that ever again!" She angrily shot back.
Carapace stood up and looked at her, only for the sound of their enemies to roar out behind them. He turned around to see more akumas and sentimonsters coming at them from the air.
"Here they come!" He said, getting his bladed shield out. He did a discus throw at the akumas and sentimonsters with the shield, and when it collided with one sentimonster, the other akumas and sentimonsters exploded in white light.
Once it faded, Carapace retrieved his shield, put it back on his back, and turned to the angel. He pointed to the pink orb.
"Check it out: more love waves!" Carapace spoke. The angel looked at him in confusion, then over to the love wave orb. "True, Mayura's army's whittled the angel population down, but there are hole-in-the-wall places around the angel realm where large clusters of love waves continue to rule. They're like beacons of hope that we can restore the angel realm to the paradise that it once was before, dudette!"
The angel turned back to Carapace after his spiel, and he told her, "Listen, Angel. I'm going to lead the akumas and sentimonsters right into that orb. Once they're in, I need you to fire your strongest love waves after us."
"But if I do that, you'll get blasted to death, too!" She protested.
"Listen, all I want is to die as an angel, knowing I fought to protect this realm, dudette." Carapace told her. She held her breath, moved at his nobility.
The akumas and sentimonsters rose back up from the blast.
Carapace took this chance, he rose up, and flew away, leading the enemy.
The angel took her weapon, stood up and looked after him, tears streaming down her face, the sight of Carapace leading the enemies into the love wave orb reflected in her visor, all the way to seeing them fade away from sight.
"All I want is to die as an angel!" Carapace's words echoed as he was fighting off the monsters inside the orb.
"My love wave will fight back with every drop of energy I have left!" She shouted, before spinning her staff, firing off orange and pink love wave bolts at the large love wave orb. She kept going until the scene faded to white.
Once all was said and done, the helmeted angel was running through the battlefield, where there were numbers of akumas and sentimonsters dead on the ground. But she didn't let the corpses faze her. She was looking around for Carapace. She gasped at what she saw up ahead.
She ran over to Carapace, who was lying on the ground, almost dead from the fight.
"No!" She shouted as she covered her mouth. "I... Can't save the person who saved me?! How can I let this happen?!"
Her knees were wobbling, she was shaking, about to break down in tears...
But again, Carapace started glowing green with love waves. His wounds were healing instantaneously, evaporating into sparkles. His suit was repaired, and all the dirt, grime, and soil that he sustained was washed away. He stirred and his eyes opened.
The angel sighed in relief as Carapace stood up.
"I guess taking in your love waves helped me survive this, dudette." Carapace chuckled.
"Damn, you had me worried." The angel said, a slight flirtation in her tone, a sultry smile on her face, and a hand on her hip.
"Thank you much, you brave angel," Carapace thanked. "Your name..."
Rumbling of the ground interrupted the pair's moment, forcing them to regain their foot. Carapace hid the angel behind his back. They saw that more akumas and sentimonsters were on the attack. They'd already fired a huge blast on the ground, and there was a huge plume of smoke coming up from it.
Carapace stepped away, turned to the girl, and said, "Maybe we shouldn't tell each other our names right now?"
"What?" She spoke, surprised. "Why not?"
"I think right now, in this angel realm, we're in a situation where we can only use our love waves for one reason - to protect Master Fu..." Carapace admitted to her. "But once this war is done..."
"How are we going to-" She began to question, but...
Carapace took his shield up and jumped away to follow the smoke, with the full intention of fighting the war to the fullest. The angel girl looked on with a small smile. The angel took her helmet off, but the scene was looking at her from the back.
"After that, I tried to look for you everywhere, multiple times, but I couldn't..." Carapace in the real world spoke. "But now I have!"
The scene changed angles to reveal that the angel in question was an adult Rena Rouge. Her hair was blowing in the wind, as she watched Carapace go to battle.
Rena Rouge was wearing a happy smile, but she was crying tears of joy as her memories of a past life were rushing back to her.
"It's you... You're the reincarnation of that unnamed angel I met all that time ago." Carapace said, wiping her tears away and resting his hand on her cheek.
"Looks like we've found each other after all this time after all, Carapace." Rena laughed as she used both her hands to hold his wrist. She was clearly still trying to be mischievous as she rubbed her cheek in the palm of his hand.
Carapace gave her a loving look and a loving nod. He was about to lean in for a kiss, when...
He suddenly grabbed his neck again in a choke hold, shaking in pain.
"Carapace!" Rena spoke.
"Th-The power of the akumas..." He groaned as he stood up.
"What's going on?!" Rena shouted in askance.
He shouted in pain again as the red marks appeared on his cheeks once more.
"Carapace!" Rena shouted again.
"R-Rena..." Carapace moaned, the red marks fading in an out repeatedly. "We don't have the love waves to save us this time, so we don't have a choice... You... You need to kill me! Right now!"
"I can't do it! I won't do it! Don't you DARE ask me to do that ever again!" Rena protested, almost the exact same way her previous incarnation did in the past. She looked up, looking the turtle angel in the eye, tears about to leak again. "I could never hurt you, Carapace! Not in the past, not now... And not ever! I'm so sorry!"
The marks faded once again. With a smile on his face and one eye open, Carapace told Rena, "I... I'll miss you, dudette."
Using what little energy he had, he snatched up Rena's flute, and turned it into a sword.
Rena's eyes widened and she gasped as Carapace took the sword, and with both hands, shoved it through his chest, with the blade coming out of his back, a la Juliet in her suicide.
"NO~!" Rena screamed, tears falling from her face and sparkling in the dim light.
Carapace dropped the sword, which magically changed back into a flute.
He stumbled, holding on to his self-inflicted wound. Rena ran up and tried to support his body by holding on to him.
"No! NO, Carapace!" Rena shouted in worry.
"R-Rena... I... I tried to find you for so long... Oh, Rena..." Carapace weakly admitted before collapsing to the ground.
"Carapace, no!" Rena hollered.
"Rena!" "Carapace!" Ladybug and Queen Bee shouted as they ran over to the two angels.
"Is Carapace gonna... Gonna die?!" Nooroo asked.
"No, not if we have anything to say about it," Rena Rouge declared. "Queen Bee, Ladybug, I need both of you to give me your love waves!"
"Say what?" Queen Bee questioned.
Rena stood up and told her friends, "We need to concentrate every single microscopic droplet of our love waves onto Carapace!"
"That's ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!" Queen Bee protested, shocked.
"Any idea what might happen, Rena?" Ladybug gently questioned.
"...No clue," Rena admitted before growing firm. "But we won't know what'll happen if we don't try."
"Rena..." Queen Bee began.
"No, Queen Bee," Ladybug said with a smile. "She's right. We have to try."
The girls stood in a triangle formation around Carapace. Their Miraculous were beginning to glow in their respective colors while they were radiating the same colors in their love wave auras.
"I am Ladybug," Ladybug said, her eyes closed and smiling. "And I give my love waves to Carapace."
"To Carapace." Queen Bee chanted, her expression the same.
"To Carapace!" Rena declared, her passion the strongest out of the three.
The love waves were radiating on the ground, going into Carapace. They were creating a sort of backwards ripple effect. Instead of the ripples going from one point outwards, it was inwards to one point instead. In this case, the ripples were going into Carapace, who was still lying on his back, but he started floating in the air, radiating green like in the past.
Once he was up in the air, Rena Rouge activated her Miraculous Something Borrowed.
"Carapace, please accept my love for you!" Rena declared as she began to summon up her wand.
"Whoa, Rena! What are you going to do?!" Queen Bee asked.
"Rena, stop!" Ladybug pleaded. "Not on Carapace!"
Rena took the wand in her hand, she charged it up with more love waves than usual, and she shouted out, "LOVE'S TRIBUTE CANDLE! MIRACULOUS FANTASIES!"
She fired her love waves in the form of the fox lights at Carapace, who was still levitating while lying on his back, glowing green.
Once the fox lights collided with Carapace, there was a big, white flash created from it. Rena Rouge was now standing in a big, white void.
"Oh, Carapace..." She cried, looking around for him in the big, white expanse. "Carapace! Carapace!"
She kept shouting his name, but she got no reply.
"Oh, Carapace..." Rena cried, tears about to fall from her eyes again. She hung her head. But she almost immediately felt a hand clap her shoulder.
She turned around, and there, standing strong, was Carapace, fully healed and giving her a loving smile.
Rena gasped in relieved delight, then leaped into his arms, shouting, "Carapace!"
He returned her hug, and the white faded back into the black-purple scene they were in.
A little way's off, Ladybug and Queen Bee were watching.
"Aw, that's so sweet," Ladybug cooed. "Aren't they cute together, Queen Bee?"
"Maybe, but it's so unfair! We all busted our asses giving Carapace our love waves." Queen Bee pointed out.
"True, but I think that the love waves from Lady Rena Rouge were the most powerful because of how strongly she feels for Carapace." Nooroo suggested.
Queen Bee used her top to bonk Nooroo on the head. The poor kwami was whining in pain.
The moment was interrupted when Volpina arrived.
"Aha! So that's where you fled to!" Volpina shouted, and all her duplicates came to rally behind her. The real one pointed out Rena and Carapace. "Hey, don't think I don't see you two, acting all lovey-dovey! And that's the last thing I wanna see right now!"
Her duplicates started charging in head-first to attack the angels. They all blew into their flutes in tandem and fired off black akuma energy.
"Incoming!" Queen Bee shouted.
With a determined smile, Ladybug said, "I've got this!"
"Lady's Crystal!" Ladybug shouted, conjuring up her crystal and activating it. She took the akuma energy into her crystal. "Engagement Present! Lady's Crystal, L'amour Pour Vous!"
She fired a large blast of white light at all the Volpina duplicates, who were all shouting in pain. They turned into sparkles and flew up into the air. Once they were gone, the sky turned back to normal.
But the real Volpina was spared, granted she was now sitting head-first in one of the trash bins, moaning.
"Ugh, gross! You haven't heard the last of me, Love Angels!" Volpina vowed before vanishing in a fire.
Ladybug used her Miraculous Ladybug to fix all the damage that occurred, and then the angels sans Carapace ran for cover to change back.
Everyone on the fencing team was still unconscious. Carapace floated down to the ground, looked around a few times, and closed his eyes.
He slowly collapsed to the ground, and as he did, he slowly started transforming... Back into Nino Lahiffe. He fell on his stomach on the ground, just as a small turtle kwami appeared out of a bracelet he was wearing. The kwami ducked to hide.
Nino sat back up, looked around, and muttered, "Damn, dude... What was I doing just now?"
The next day at school, Alya was standing at the window and looking at the sky. Trixx was sitting there, too.
"Me and Carapace..." Alya said, her signature smile of mischief on her face. "A romance born from a war, huh? That's unexpected."
"You gotta expect the unexpected when it comes to love, Alya," Trixx spoke. "The two of you had quite the moment on the field."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Alya laughed.
Meanwhile, Nino was running to school, almost as if he was going to be late for the school radio station. He ran past the window where Alya was. Almost as if they were in slow-motion, Nino turned his head to look Alya in the eyes.
Alya blushed a little bit, but she shook her head when she thought of her beloved turtle. As Nino passed her by, Alya went back to thinking of Carapace, meanwhile Nino was focused on his own personal task.
...Wow! I'm sure a lot of you guys didn't see that coming. But then again, I'm sure you all knew from the beginning that Nino's Carapace. But the way their romance started? Wasn't that impressive?
And for those who have seen "Wedding Peach," you know that most of the Adrienette moments in here were just from Lila's imagination running wild, but I added a few bits just to satisfy you guys without taking away from the Renapace romance in this chapter.
Coming up, Adrien's being controlled by akumas, particularly one called the Puppeteer, and the girls have to figure out a way to stop her! And WHY is Lila visiting Marinette at her house?! What the hell?!