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It was an army of runaway gingerbread men.
It was an akuma that made an army of gingerbread men. And she thought that Mr Pigeon was ridiculous.
"Good evening milady," Chat said as he landed beside her with a grin. "Shall we handle the situation...gingerly?" he asked with a grin and Ladybug rolled her eyes. Trust her Chaton to make a pun out of it.
"They don't seem to be actually doing anything," Ladybug said with a slight frown as the gingerbread men ran through the streets. One or two Parisians actually grabbed one as they ran past and ate them, apparently without any ill effects.
"Well, at least we can eat our way out of any trouble," Chat said with a smile as he saw Alya bite down on a gingerbread man that she had captured. "Unless we can't catch them, they're the Bonhomme en pain d'épice!"
Ladybug stared and Chat shrugged.
"What? I loved that story when I was younger," he said nonchalantly.
"I would have thought that Chat Botté was more your style," she said with a smirk. Chat chuckled with amusement.
"That was my favourite!" he said with a smile. "Although I think that Le Petit Chaperon Rouge has taken my heart."
Ladybug blushed, much to her chagrin. Chat smirked.
"Run my pretties, run!" the akuma said and Ladybug winced. Akumas could be pretty gaudy, that much was true, but this offended her baker's daughter heart.
It was a giant gingerbread man, around two metres tall at least. But it was his design that really hurt. Instead of the normal designs and colours, it was covered in swirls of pink and red, purple and yellow, orange and green and a variety of other colours that didn't belong together. At all.
"I don't know...maybe there's no harm in letting people enjoy a few more gingerbread men before we-"
"Chat, help me take this akuma down now and I'll give you a massive box of them tonight," she said quickly and Chat beamed. They leapt down and less than five minutes later, Ladybug smashed the akumatized object. She didn't even need to call out her Lucky Charm.
"I'll see you tonight," Chat said with a grin as they left.
"I'll see you tonight!" she shouted back. "And I'll bring the gingerbread men!"
Bonhomme en pain d'épice = Gingerbread Man
Chat Botté = Puss in Boots
Le petit Chaperon rouge = Little Red Riding Hood