Chapter 9
Vive la révolution!
A few minutes ago, Mr Kubdel was eating his usual dinner in the usual restaurant, until Mayor Bourgeois came in with his "adorable daughter" and demanded that it got shut down! He was forced to leave, but as he walked out the door, he heard the mayor tell his daughter "Now we can make this your very own sushi bar my dear." A SUSHI BAR! All for a spoilt brat? Now this was outrageous! He knew exactly what to do, he went back home and started looking for his saltshaker. He had bought it off a guy who claimed it used to belong to Gandhi, the man behind the salt march, but soon realised that whenever he held it, he would start getting rebellion plans in his head, so he kept it hidden where no one could find it, but he wanted to use it now! He found it in an old shoe box in his wardrobe and as soon as he grabbed it, he got so many ideas on how to overthrow André Bourgeois, but he would need help, but no one would even think to overthrow André, this thought just made him angrier.
A long way away, Hawkmoth had recovered from the previous night and sensed something,
"I can sense a man, who wants to take control, but with no one to help him, well my little Akumas, lets lend him a hand," Hawkmoth then reached out a glove hand and a white butterfly landed in it, Hawkmoth covered the butterfly with his other hand and dark energy started to flow into the butterfly, turning it into an Akuma. He then threw the butterfly towards the window and said to it "fly away my little Akuma, and evilise him!". The Akuma then started its flight to its target.
Mr Kubdel was even more annoyed than ever, all these ideas and not a single one he could do alone!
"I know that," came a voice in his head "if you had help, you could bring down the mayor and bring peace to Paris."
"your right, all I need is help" Mr Kubdel agreed.
"precisely," said the voice "Revolter, I am Hawkmoth, I give you the power to convince anyone to revolt against whomever you please, but in return, you must bring me Ladybug and Cat Noirs miraculous', can you do this for me?"
"of course, Hawkmoth" Mr Kubdel chuckled evilly, "it's time for the next Salt March!", black and purple smoke then covered Mr Kubdel, when the smoke disappeared, Mr Kubdel was wearing a red long coat, white trousers, white ruffles around his neck, and beige shoes, in his left hand was the saltshaker, and in his right hand was a revolution flag. Revolter then heard the front door opening,
"Dad, we're back!" it was Alix and Jalil, these two will be easy help as they were his family, they saw him and gulped, he then waved the saltshaker at them, as soon as the salt hit them, their eyes glowed red, and they waited for their orders.
"come with me my children," Revolter said evilly "we need more people to bring down the Mayor."
In warehouse terms, a "ping" is when an artefact starts causing problems in the world, both Ladybug and Cat Noir knew about this from their time with the warehouse agents, so when Artie said that they had a ping, both were extremely interested,
"where is it?" Myka asked, for this was her job.
"here, in Paris!" said Artie, "although, it might be one of those Akuma things that Adrien told me about". It was lucky that Ladybug and Cat Noir had already found out each other's identities a few weeks ago, or it would have been a disaster for Cat Noir.
"don't say my name so loud!" exclaimed Cat Noir, "anyway, can we help?"
"why would you want to help us?" Myka asked them, suspiciously
"well," started Ladybug "Claudia did help me last night, so it is only fair if you let us help you with your job, plus, everyone in town hates you and Pete, so you won't be safe without us."
"ok, fine," said Artie, rather urgently, "just get going, there is a weird gathering of people at the Eiffel Tower according to that device you made me Claudia, and they all seem to be shouting one thing."
"what?" everyone asked.
"Vive la révolution!" answered Artie.