Chapter 11
Nathaniel sat in the art classroom working on his comic, while his friend Alix worked on a wall with her graffiti can making a red bird on it.
Nathaniel growled and grabbed the rubber on his table again, then erased the wheel he was drawing on the comic.
"Are you having an art block?" Alix asked watching Nathaniel try to draw the wheel again.
"It's the 10th time I didn't draw the wheel well. I usually use my compass to make it, but I've forgotten it in my room,"
"Oh, why don't you continue on another part of the comic?" Alix asked making Nathaniel shrug his shoulders.
"I don't know how to move further. I only had this idea in mind," Nathaniel said grabbing his coke can to drink from then frowned as he noticed it was empty. "Alix do you want a soda?"
"Peach flavor, please" Alix answered earning a nod from Nathaniel, which got up and walked out of the classroom walking up at the cafeteria, where a few students sat doing their homework. Nathaniel got to the end of the cafeteria, where he encountered Mr. D'Argencourt sitting together with his fencing students showing them on a tablet a video about a tournament, and Nathaniel stopped at the vending machine looking at the clip the teacher was showing.
"This is how Tomoe Tsurugi defeated the glamorous Jeffrey Johnson," Mr. D'Argencourt told seeing most of the students look at Kagami, which got a little embarrassed at seeing all paying attention to her.
Nathaniel took out a five euro bill from his pockets and shove the bill into the machine and pressed a number on it to see the machine drop down one can then he pressed another number watching the second can get pulled forward dropping down into the container of the machine. Nathaniel looked at the snack corner, then took another bill out of his trouser and inserted it into the machine to pick out a red-colored chocolate bag watching it get stuck on the edge of the drill. Nathaniel frowned his face, then began to move on the vending machine trying to get his snack down the machine.
"Mr. Kurtzberg, could you please stop shaking on the machine? This is the third time this month someone damaged it,"
"My snack got stuck" Nathaniel complained, then the teacher nodded.
"I'll check it out later Nathaniel. My students are here,"
"I'm going back to the art class," Nathaniel announced walking back across the cafeteria out, then he heard a sound and looked behind him and around him appeared Ladybug's yo-yo, which caught Nathaniel and pulled him up at the roof of the schoolhouse causing him to yell.
"Ahhhhhhhhh…..."
Ladybug dropped Nathaniel on the roof, then looked down at him a little shocked about the drop.
"I'm sorry if I was a little harsh, I hope I didn't interrupt you in anything" Ladybug apologized making Nathaniel shrug his shoulders.
"I….got some drinks" Nathaniel mentioned holding the two cans up, then looked at Ladybug's hands to see, she had one compass in her hands. "Where did you get that compass from?" Nathaniel asked watching Ladybug hand it out to him. "How did you know I needed one?"
"I didn't, but I need your help," Ladybug said taking a silver-colored bracelet to show it to Nathaniel making him wide his eyes.
"Is that a….a….miraculous?" The redhead asked earning a smile from the superheroine.
"Nathaniel Kurtzberg, I will give you the miraculous of the snake, which grants you the power of Second Chance. Can I trust you with it?" Ladybug asked earning an excited nod from the redhead.
"I will do anything to help you and the others. I promise," Nathaniel responded accepting the miraculous, which he placed around his wrist, then in front of him appeared the kwami, which inhabits the miraculous and smiled at Nathaniel.
"Good afternoon, I'm Sass and I'll be your kwami for the next time," Sass introduced himself.
"I'm Nathaniel," The redhead introduced to the kwami. "How uh do I become a superhero?"
"It's easy" Sass hissed. "All you need to say is, Sass, scales slither,"
"Okay…..Sass, scales slither," Nathaniel repeated activating his miraculous to transform him into a snake-themed superhero, which consisted of a simple suit with red-colored boots, black legs and a diversity large spaces colored in the same colors and a thinner yellow loop going around each end making it resemble Coral snakes. His hair turned raven, besides his bangs, which earned a darker red tune and they were now brushed aside allowing him to have a better sight. "Woah!" Nathaniel announced then looked at the window to see his reflection, then passed his hands along his black mask noticing golden linings around his eyes. "Is this how I really look like?"
"Apparently" Ladybug answered shrugging her shoulders. "I was expecting you would be green or a similar coloring,"
"And who are we following?" Nathaniel asked.
"Chameleon," Ladybug answered. "Everyone she kisses, she takes that person's identity and uses it to outsmart others. At the moment, she managed to get Carapace's and now she's somewhere out in Paris. We have to find out, who she is now and how to find her,"
"That sounds harder than it looks,"
"That's why I came here to get you. With the second chance, you can use it as much as it is needed and we will catch her,"
"That sounds relieving,"
"Yes now follow me," Ladybug asked placing her arm around Nathaniel's back making him swallow hard in embarrassment at how the superheroine grabbed him, then with her yo-yo, she swung up at the roof with the superhero, then looked down at the houses around the school seeing everything was normal. Ladybug's yo-yo beeped, then she took it out to see Onyx was calling her and she accepted the video call to see him stand on the top of a house.
"Ladybug, I've witnessed Chameleon took the shape of a blue-haired teenage girl. I keep following her, meet me at the Louvre,"
"We're on it, Onyx," Ladybug answered putting her yo-yo back. "I think Kagami's identity was now stolen,"
"Wow, I wonder how Chameleon got here so quick,"
"What do you mean?" Ladybug asked watching Nathaniel point down at the school.
"She was there with the fencing class," The snake-themed superhero answered. "Or is there another one?"
"Never mind, let's meet Onyx at the Louvre and check it out," Ladybug announced jumping down off the building, then she looked up at Nathaniel, which looked down at the ground then he jumped off the building landing on his feet with a surprised face.
"Don't worry, the landings aren't as painful as they seem in the first glance," Ladybug mentioned earning a nod from the red-dressed superhero, then the two ran together on the streets heading to the bridge, which leads to the Notre Dame.
Later the two heroes arrived at the Ferris wheel near the museum, then Ladybug spotted on the right side of a road, houses and on top of it she spotted Onyx running on and looking to the other side of the houses, then Ladybug touched the newbie on the shoulder and pointed up at Onyx, then together the two ran along the road towards the houses, farther behind the houses was a crossroad with a road passing beside the house and a bridge leading to another part of the city, therefore on the crossroad appeared Mireille Caquette running across the road to the other side hiding behind the next row of houses.
"Follow the route she took, I'm coming from above" Ladybug ordered earning a nod from the red-dressed superhero and Ladybug threw her yo-yo up at the rain gutter of the house to swing up at the house and follow the girl from up the house.
"Great to see you again," Onyx said earning a smile from the heroine, then he widened his eyes as he saw the girl ran into a professional school, where he saw several people at the window talking with each other. "Uhm Ladybug, we've got a problem," Onyx mentioned pointing down at Mireille disappearing into the house, then the two stopped at the edge of the building and looked at each other.
"Okay, any ideas?" Ladybug asked watching Onyx shrug his shoulders and look down at the school. Onyx heard a car growl, then he looked down at the streets to see the snake-themed superhero jump towards a trash can as a wide car drove to the wrong lane to park on a free parking spot in front of a minivan.
"Is that Viperion's successor?" Onyx asked earning a nod from Ladybug, then Onyx jumped down on the ground landing on his four to encounter the new superhero. "You're okay?" Onyx asked followed by Ladybug land next to him to help the boy up.
"I'm fine," The newbie responded looking back at the driver leave the car, then walk towards the house.
"What's your name? Do you already have one?" Onyx asked watching the superhero shrug his shoulders.
"Not yet" The snake-themed superhero responded. "How are you planning to go in there?"
"I may have an idea," Ladybug pointed out, then placed her hand on Onyx's shoulder. "Can you go in there and act like yourself or something?"
"Yes but how exactly?"
"Make a conversation with them, ask them anything, the point is just to find out if Chameleon took the identity of someone else or not. Don't worry, Nathani…..erm…..,"
"Oh name….well…..uh….."Nathaniel started looking around him and look back at the black vehicle of the man who overdrove him almost before, then he looked back at the heroine. "Super Snake,"
"Super Snake?" Ladybug asked bewildered.
"It was the first name that came into my head,"
"By just looking at that car?" Ladybug asked watching Onyx look at the car and see the words written on the side panel of the car. "Oh now I got it,"
"Alright, I see what I can do" Onyx answered walking towards the entrance of the building to encounter major of the people talk with each other unaware of Onyx's appearance. He shrugged his shoulder, then moved forwards approaching a group of girls, which were chatting together loud, then one of the girls screamed as she saw Onyx and half of the group threw themselves at Onyx's arms to hug him. "Woah!"
"What are you doing here at this party?" One of the girls asked.
"Have you been attending this school before?" The second girl asked tipping on his bell watching him shake his head.
"No, I just came here out of curiosity. Wondering what's going on here," Onyx answered. "How come no one has invited me to?" Onyx asked jokingly.
"We're celebrating our passing from the first part of our exams. Will you stay with us for a while?" The third girl asked. "We'd love to get to know our city's new superhero"
"A bit won't hurt," Onyx answered, then the first girl whistled with her fingers to call the attention of the other students around the room.
"Hey the new superhero Onyx is here to party with us!" The girl shouted, then more students approached the superhero and began to take pictures.
On the outside Ladybug and Super Snake observed the situation, then Super Nathan noticed Ladybug seemed a little worried and he tapped carefully on her shoulder to get her attention.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm a little worried, that our plan might fail," Ladybug mentioned watching Super Nathan shake his head.
"But…..You have always made it out of everything, right?"
"Yes I did, but you know someone who's really good at blending into places like Chameleon, makes things really harder and I'm afraid we might fail,"
"I can always use my miraculous and bring us back,"
"I know Super Snake. I don't want to make you feel anxious or bad too,"
"It's okay. You didn't mean to" Super Snake responded gazing along with Ladybug from afar the situation, then saw Onyx move along the room to another group, then a guy in the group began to laugh and the second one grabbed his tail, then spoke to the first one making the group laugh and Onyx frown his face.
"Do you think those guys would find us ridiculous in our super suits?" Super Snake asked making Ladybug shake her.
"Looks aren't important," Ladybug commented watching Onyx get away from the guys and walk further into the hall staying out of sight of the two superheroes. "Where did he go?"
"Good question," Super Snake asked, then Ladybug threw her yo-yo up to summon her lucky charm, then she received a rubber band making her wide her eyes along with Super Snake.
"A rubber band?" Both asked looking at the red band, then she looked into the house and analyzed at the end the button of the fire alarm, then she looked around and she looked at the rubber band, then the trashcan. Afterward, she looked at Super Snake and the door of the building and she figured out, what she could use the rubber for.
"Super Snake hold the door up for me," Ladybug asked earning a nod from the superhero, which held it open for her and looked at the girl search through the trash can for something, afterward she took out a empty soda bottle and removed the cap of it and placed the rubber on her index and middle finger and pulled it back with the cap and aimed at the fire alarm across the room. "And shot!" Ladybug released the cap, which flew across the room and it hit the button to turn on the fire alarm shrieking the persons.
"Very well," Super Snake complimented, then stepped back and waited for the people to react.
"Great, maybe this helps us to find Chameleon faster," Ladybug stated stepping beside to let the students ran out of the building, then Super Snake looked into the room to see a couple of students looking around on what happened.
"Girls, please get out of here, I will check it out, where it burns," Onyx stated watching fewer girls obey the superhero and a blonde girl touched Onyx on the shoulder and pointed at the entrance to a small cafeteria, then he followed her making Super Nathan frown wondering, why the girl asked Onyx to follow her.
"Don't worry dear citizens, we've got everything under control," Ladybug announced entering into the house followed by Super Snake, which looked at Onyx disappearing with the girl into the cafeteria.
"I think we should check the….."Super Nathan began, then a girl ran out of the restroom towards the group of girls packing her on the shoulder.
"Jeanne lies unconscious in the restrooms," The brunette female warned making the girl furrow her eyebrows.
"But Jeanne is there with the superhero?" The friend responded making Ladybug wide her eyes.
"Super Snake, activate your second chance" The bug-themed superheroine commanded watching Super Snake slide the black-colored head on the miraculous back.
"Second chance!" Super Snake announced, then Ladybug ran into the cafeteria followed by Super Snake and both encountered Onyx bow down to take a closer look at the interior of the oven and the girl took the opportunity to jump at Onyx' back causing him to fall down, so she could lie over him and grabbed the hero on his hand to try to take the miraculous.
"Pull it forth!" Ladybug shouted watching Super Snake push it back to bring them back in time.
"Second chance!" Super Snake announced, then Ladybug ran into the cafeteria followed by Super Snake, and both encountered Onyx bow down to take a closer look at the interior of the oven.
"Chameleon is behind you!" Ladybug and Super Snake shouted making Onyx wide his eyes and look up at the girl which jumped onto his arms and pressed her lips on his cheeks to obtain his identity again.
"Second chance!" Super Snake shouted reversing back several seconds before, where he and Ladybug ran into the cafeteria both encountering Onyx bow down to take a closer look at the interior of the oven.
"Chameleon is behind you!" Super Snake shouted seeing Onyx look back at the girl, then he jumped aside watching the girl land on the floor and he grabbed the girl on her arms, then waited for Ladybug and Super Snake to approach and bow down next to her. Ladybug removed the earrings of the girl's ears, then showed them to Super Snake, which grabbed them and looked at Ladybug which nodded then he dropped them on the ground and broke them with his feet to release the akuma for Ladybug to catch it.
"Enough evil-doing for today, little akuma,"
Moments later Ladybug restored with her miraculous healing light everything back and watched the blonde girl turn back into the Italian exchange student Lila Rossi.
"Lila?" Super Nathan and Onyx asked at the same time surprised at the reveal.
"I see you didn't take my offer serious as I thought," Ladybug mentioned seeing Lila look down at the ground.
"What offer?" Onyx asked making Ladybug groan at his curiosity.
"Do I really have to tell you that?" Ladybug asked.
"Well, you don't have to unless it doesn't have anything to do with that scene with Shape Shifter. It isn't, right?" Onyx asked.
"You know…..I've seen a long time ago a video of her of how she and I were friends cause I saved her life once. That thing was a lie and I…..called her out for it…..in….the grossest way possible," Ladybug explained making Onyx look a little unimpressed at her story.
"Okay I know lying is a bad thing. You were also lying too about that with Shape Shifter, but why did you do it in….the grossest way possible?"
"I stalked her behind her back and heard how she told Adrien Agreste, that she was a superhero and I couldn't stand how she was moving on him like that, so I appeared and yelled at her right in front of him, so he would know what type of…..girl she was….no offense," Ladybug replied with a small glance at the brunette girl, which frowned at her last words.
"Okay I know that this is in the past and all, but why did you have to be that rude?" Onyx questioned. "I know what she did was wrong, but why would you yell at her? That's ten times worse, as it sounds,"
"I know this was wrong, mostly I didn't know her to be judging her right at the start," Ladybug admitted. "After her second akumatization I have apologized to her again and I believed it was fine,"
"Was it?" Onyx asked looking down at Lila, which shrugged her shoulders.
"I'm not 100% satisfied with what she did in the past. She could have done it in private or told him the other way around," Lila mentioned watching Onyx look at Ladybug, which frowned at her partner.
"On which side are you?" Ladybug asked surprised placing her hands on her hips looking at the Chinese descendant superhero.
"I'm being as neutral as possible to you two. You both did a mistake, end of the story," Onyx mentioned. "I already know you're 15, Ladybug, but I'm just trying to make you see your mistakes,"
"I know those were mistakes, but they're now in the past,"
"Ladybug is 15 years old only?" Lila asked surprised. "I always thought you were a little older like 18,"
"To be clear, most of us are teens. So are Onyx and Super Snake,"
"I thought you were older, but you just looked younger as Alya said in her Ladyblog," Super Snake pointed out.
"This was just to hide my identity. You have to lie anyway if it comes to hiding your identity from someone," Ladybug added, then her miraculous began to beep. "Sorry guys I need to go before I transform back. Tell Carapace, everything over," Ladybug asked, then ran off and took up at the roof with the help of her yo-yo.
"So…...you got akumatized because….erm….you were caught lying?" Onyx asked, then Lila handed him out her smartphone and she showed him messages from various students and a few classmates.
Onyx took the smartphone then checked the messages to see, the major part of them were hate messages and rude comments towards what happened, which Onyx continued to look through while she sat down on the ground with her arms around her legs.
"Are people bullying her?" Super Snake asked earning a nod from the older superhero.
"I'd say so. People here are being very rude," Onyx mentioned. "Look uhm…..this will take time until it gets better for you, but if I were you I would try to speak to all at about your lies, tell them you're sorry and explain why you did all this," Onyx suggested earning a nod from Super Snake.
"Yes that could work out," The snake-themed hero agreed.
"Yes, but I don't think they will all forgive me that fast or at all,"
"Not everyone will forgive you, but maybe those who forgive you may understand you and want to help you out," Onyx mentioned. "For some reason, you must have lied…..attention, love, fright…..,"
"Well, I didn't want to hurt anyone in the first place. I just wanted to have as many friends as possible," Lila explained. "This is like the first place that people get along so well. Even the jerks here are likable, I don't know why,"
"Maybe you should only have one or two friends," Super Snake suggested. "Friends, that like you for who you are, not because you have a lot of friends or are like Adrien Agreste,"
"Yeah I will try tomorrow to talk to my class," Lila mentioned getting up with the help of Onyx, which gave her back the smartphone.
"You can ask Miss Bustier for help. She sure will be happy to help you," Super Snake suggested making Lila furrow her eyebrows.
"How do you know I attend Miss Bustier's class?" Lila asked making Super Snake shut his eyes up in shock.
"Uhm…...I've heard she was the nicest teacher," Super Snake answered, then his miraculous began to beep, shrieking Super Snake which ran off leaving Onyx back with Lila.
"Uh bye?"
"Bummer I was supposed to ask him for training," Onyx mentioned, then looked back at Lila, which stored her smartphone back. "You think you can handle it?" Onyx asked earning a shoulder shrug of the girl. "Don't worry, it will go fine," Onyx promised the girl, which nodded and Onyx took out his staff and catapulted himself up at the roof of the building making Lila smile a little comforted at Onyx's encouragement towards her.
Chapter 11
Nathaniel sat in the art classroom working on his comic, while his friend Alix worked on a wall with her graffiti can making a red bird on it.
Nathaniel growled and grabbed the rubber on his table again, then erased the wheel he was drawing on the comic.
"Are you having an art block?" Alix asked watching Nathaniel try to draw the wheel again.
"It's the 10th time I didn't draw the wheel well. I usually use my compass to make it, but I've forgotten it in my room,"
"Oh, why don't you continue on another part of the comic?" Alix asked making Nathaniel shrug his shoulders.
"I don't know how to move further. I only had this idea in mind," Nathaniel said grabbing his coke can to drink from then frowned as he noticed it was empty. "Alix do you want a soda?"
"Peach flavor, please" Alix answered earning a nod from Nathaniel, which got up and walked out of the classroom walking up at the cafeteria, where a few students sat doing their homework. Nathaniel got to the end of the cafeteria, where he encountered Mr. D'Argencourt sitting together with his fencing students showing them on a tablet a video about a tournament, and Nathaniel stopped at the vending machine looking at the clip the teacher was showing.
"This is how Tomoe Tsurugi defeated the glamorous Jeffrey Johnson," Mr. D'Argencourt told seeing most of the students look at Kagami, which got a little embarrassed at seeing all paying attention to her.
Nathaniel took out a five euro bill from his pockets and shove the bill into the machine and pressed a number on it to see the machine drop down one can then he pressed another number watching the second can get pulled forward dropping down into the container of the machine. Nathaniel looked at the snack corner, then took another bill out of his trouser and inserted it into the machine to pick out a red-colored chocolate bag watching it get stuck on the edge of the drill. Nathaniel frowned his face, then began to move on the vending machine trying to get his snack down the machine.
"Mr. Kurtzberg, could you please stop shaking on the machine? This is the third time this month someone damaged it,"
"My snack got stuck" Nathaniel complained, then the teacher nodded.
"I'll check it out later Nathaniel. My students are here,"
"I'm going back to the art class," Nathaniel announced walking back across the cafeteria out, then he heard a sound and looked behind him and around him appeared Ladybug's yo-yo, which caught Nathaniel and pulled him up at the roof of the schoolhouse causing him to yell.
"Ahhhhhhhhh…..."
Ladybug dropped Nathaniel on the roof, then looked down at him a little shocked about the drop.
"I'm sorry if I was a little harsh, I hope I didn't interrupt you in anything" Ladybug apologized making Nathaniel shrug his shoulders.
"I….got some drinks" Nathaniel mentioned holding the two cans up, then looked at Ladybug's hands to see, she had one compass in her hands. "Where did you get that compass from?" Nathaniel asked watching Ladybug hand it out to him. "How did you know I needed one?"
"I didn't, but I need your help," Ladybug said taking a silver-colored bracelet to show it to Nathaniel making him wide his eyes.
"Is that a….a….miraculous?" The redhead asked earning a smile from the superheroine.
"Nathaniel Kurtzberg, I will give you the miraculous of the snake, which grants you the power of Second Chance. Can I trust you with it?" Ladybug asked earning an excited nod from the redhead.
"I will do anything to help you and the others. I promise," Nathaniel responded accepting the miraculous, which he placed around his wrist, then in front of him appeared the kwami, which inhabits the miraculous and smiled at Nathaniel.
"Good afternoon, I'm Sass and I'll be your kwami for the next time," Sass introduced himself.
"I'm Nathaniel," The redhead introduced to the kwami. "How uh do I become a superhero?"
"It's easy" Sass hissed. "All you need to say is, Sass, scales slither,"
"Okay…..Sass, scales slither," Nathaniel repeated activating his miraculous to transform him into a snake-themed superhero, which consisted of a simple suit with red-colored boots, black legs and a diversity large spaces colored in the same colors and a thinner yellow loop going around each end making it resemble Coral snakes. His hair turned raven, besides his bangs, which earned a darker red tune and they were now brushed aside allowing him to have a better sight. "Woah!" Nathaniel announced then looked at the window to see his reflection, then passed his hands along his black mask noticing golden linings around his eyes. "Is this how I really look like?"
"Apparently" Ladybug answered shrugging her shoulders. "I was expecting you would be green or a similar coloring,"
"And who are we following?" Nathaniel asked.
"Chameleon," Ladybug answered. "Everyone she kisses, she takes that person's identity and uses it to outsmart others. At the moment, she managed to get Carapace's and now she's somewhere out in Paris. We have to find out, who she is now and how to find her,"
"That sounds harder than it looks,"
"That's why I came here to get you. With the second chance, you can use it as much as it is needed and we will catch her,"
"That sounds relieving,"
"Yes now follow me," Ladybug asked placing her arm around Nathaniel's back making him swallow hard in embarrassment at how the superheroine grabbed him, then with her yo-yo, she swung up at the roof with the superhero, then looked down at the houses around the school seeing everything was normal. Ladybug's yo-yo beeped, then she took it out to see Onyx was calling her and she accepted the video call to see him stand on the top of a house.
"Ladybug, I've witnessed Chameleon took the shape of a blue-haired teenage girl. I keep following her, meet me at the Louvre,"
"We're on it, Onyx," Ladybug answered putting her yo-yo back. "I think Kagami's identity was now stolen,"
"Wow, I wonder how Chameleon got here so quick,"
"What do you mean?" Ladybug asked watching Nathaniel point down at the school.
"She was there with the fencing class," The snake-themed superhero answered. "Or is there another one?"
"Never mind, let's meet Onyx at the Louvre and check it out," Ladybug announced jumping down off the building, then she looked up at Nathaniel, which looked down at the ground then he jumped off the building landing on his feet with a surprised face.
"Don't worry, the landings aren't as painful as they seem in the first glance," Ladybug mentioned earning a nod from the red-dressed superhero, then the two ran together on the streets heading to the bridge, which leads to the Notre Dame.
Later the two heroes arrived at the Ferris wheel near the museum, then Ladybug spotted on the right side of a road, houses and on top of it she spotted Onyx running on and looking to the other side of the houses, then Ladybug touched the newbie on the shoulder and pointed up at Onyx, then together the two ran along the road towards the houses, farther behind the houses was a crossroad with a road passing beside the house and a bridge leading to another part of the city, therefore on the crossroad appeared Mireille Caquette running across the road to the other side hiding behind the next row of houses.
"Follow the route she took, I'm coming from above" Ladybug ordered earning a nod from the red-dressed superhero and Ladybug threw her yo-yo up at the rain gutter of the house to swing up at the house and follow the girl from up the house.
"Great to see you again," Onyx said earning a smile from the heroine, then he widened his eyes as he saw the girl ran into a professional school, where he saw several people at the window talking with each other. "Uhm Ladybug, we've got a problem," Onyx mentioned pointing down at Mireille disappearing into the house, then the two stopped at the edge of the building and looked at each other.
"Okay, any ideas?" Ladybug asked watching Onyx shrug his shoulders and look down at the school. Onyx heard a car growl, then he looked down at the streets to see the snake-themed superhero jump towards a trash can as a wide car drove to the wrong lane to park on a free parking spot in front of a minivan.
"Is that Viperion's successor?" Onyx asked earning a nod from Ladybug, then Onyx jumped down on the ground landing on his four to encounter the new superhero. "You're okay?" Onyx asked followed by Ladybug land next to him to help the boy up.
"I'm fine," The newbie responded looking back at the driver leave the car, then walk towards the house.
"What's your name? Do you already have one?" Onyx asked watching the superhero shrug his shoulders.
"Not yet" The snake-themed superhero responded. "How are you planning to go in there?"
"I may have an idea," Ladybug pointed out, then placed her hand on Onyx's shoulder. "Can you go in there and act like yourself or something?"
"Yes but how exactly?"
"Make a conversation with them, ask them anything, the point is just to find out if Chameleon took the identity of someone else or not. Don't worry, Nathani…..erm…..,"
"Oh name….well…..uh….."Nathaniel started looking around him and look back at the black vehicle of the man who overdrove him almost before, then he looked back at the heroine. "Super Snake,"
"Super Snake?" Ladybug asked bewildered.
"It was the first name that came into my head,"
"By just looking at that car?" Ladybug asked watching Onyx look at the car and see the words written on the side panel of the car. "Oh now I got it,"
"Alright, I see what I can do" Onyx answered walking towards the entrance of the building to encounter major of the people talk with each other unaware of Onyx's appearance. He shrugged his shoulder, then moved forwards approaching a group of girls, which were chatting together loud, then one of the girls screamed as she saw Onyx and half of the group threw themselves at Onyx's arms to hug him. "Woah!"
"What are you doing here at this party?" One of the girls asked.
"Have you been attending this school before?" The second girl asked tipping on his bell watching him shake his head.
"No, I just came here out of curiosity. Wondering what's going on here," Onyx answered. "How come no one has invited me to?" Onyx asked jokingly.
"We're celebrating our passing from the first part of our exams. Will you stay with us for a while?" The third girl asked. "We'd love to get to know our city's new superhero"
"A bit won't hurt," Onyx answered, then the first girl whistled with her fingers to call the attention of the other students around the room.
"Hey the new superhero Onyx is here to party with us!" The girl shouted, then more students approached the superhero and began to take pictures.
On the outside Ladybug and Super Snake observed the situation, then Super Nathan noticed Ladybug seemed a little worried and he tapped carefully on her shoulder to get her attention.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm a little worried, that our plan might fail," Ladybug mentioned watching Super Nathan shake his head.
"But…..You have always made it out of everything, right?"
"Yes I did, but you know someone who's really good at blending into places like Chameleon, makes things really harder and I'm afraid we might fail,"
"I can always use my miraculous and bring us back,"
"I know Super Snake. I don't want to make you feel anxious or bad too,"
"It's okay. You didn't mean to" Super Snake responded gazing along with Ladybug from afar the situation, then saw Onyx move along the room to another group, then a guy in the group began to laugh and the second one grabbed his tail, then spoke to the first one making the group laugh and Onyx frown his face.
"Do you think those guys would find us ridiculous in our super suits?" Super Snake asked making Ladybug shake her.
"Looks aren't important," Ladybug commented watching Onyx get away from the guys and walk further into the hall staying out of sight of the two superheroes. "Where did he go?"
"Good question," Super Snake asked, then Ladybug threw her yo-yo up to summon her lucky charm, then she received a rubber band making her wide her eyes along with Super Snake.
"A rubber band?" Both asked looking at the red band, then she looked into the house and analyzed at the end the button of the fire alarm, then she looked around and she looked at the rubber band, then the trashcan. Afterward, she looked at Super Snake and the door of the building and she figured out, what she could use the rubber for.
"Super Snake hold the door up for me," Ladybug asked earning a nod from the superhero, which held it open for her and looked at the girl search through the trash can for something, afterward she took out a empty soda bottle and removed the cap of it and placed the rubber on her index and middle finger and pulled it back with the cap and aimed at the fire alarm across the room. "And shot!" Ladybug released the cap, which flew across the room and it hit the button to turn on the fire alarm shrieking the persons.
"Very well," Super Snake complimented, then stepped back and waited for the people to react.
"Great, maybe this helps us to find Chameleon faster," Ladybug stated stepping beside to let the students ran out of the building, then Super Snake looked into the room to see a couple of students looking around on what happened.
"Girls, please get out of here, I will check it out, where it burns," Onyx stated watching fewer girls obey the superhero and a blonde girl touched Onyx on the shoulder and pointed at the entrance to a small cafeteria, then he followed her making Super Nathan frown wondering, why the girl asked Onyx to follow her.
"Don't worry dear citizens, we've got everything under control," Ladybug announced entering into the house followed by Super Snake, which looked at Onyx disappearing with the girl into the cafeteria.
"I think we should check the….."Super Nathan began, then a girl ran out of the restroom towards the group of girls packing her on the shoulder.
"Jeanne lies unconscious in the restrooms," The brunette female warned making the girl furrow her eyebrows.
"But Jeanne is there with the superhero?" The friend responded making Ladybug wide her eyes.
"Super Snake, activate your second chance" The bug-themed superheroine commanded watching Super Snake slide the black-colored head on the miraculous back.
"Second chance!" Super Snake announced, then Ladybug ran into the cafeteria followed by Super Snake and both encountered Onyx bow down to take a closer look at the interior of the oven and the girl took the opportunity to jump at Onyx' back causing him to fall down, so she could lie over him and grabbed the hero on his hand to try to take the miraculous.
"Pull it forth!" Ladybug shouted watching Super Snake push it back to bring them back in time.
"Second chance!" Super Snake announced, then Ladybug ran into the cafeteria followed by Super Snake, and both encountered Onyx bow down to take a closer look at the interior of the oven.
"Chameleon is behind you!" Ladybug and Super Snake shouted making Onyx wide his eyes and look up at the girl which jumped onto his arms and pressed her lips on his cheeks to obtain his identity again.
"Second chance!" Super Snake shouted reversing back several seconds before, where he and Ladybug ran into the cafeteria both encountering Onyx bow down to take a closer look at the interior of the oven.
"Chameleon is behind you!" Super Snake shouted seeing Onyx look back at the girl, then he jumped aside watching the girl land on the floor and he grabbed the girl on her arms, then waited for Ladybug and Super Snake to approach and bow down next to her. Ladybug removed the earrings of the girl's ears, then showed them to Super Snake, which grabbed them and looked at Ladybug which nodded then he dropped them on the ground and broke them with his feet to release the akuma for Ladybug to catch it.
"Enough evil-doing for today, little akuma,"
Moments later Ladybug restored with her miraculous healing light everything back and watched the blonde girl turn back into the Italian exchange student Lila Rossi.
"Lila?" Super Nathan and Onyx asked at the same time surprised at the reveal.
"I see you didn't take my offer serious as I thought," Ladybug mentioned seeing Lila look down at the ground.
"What offer?" Onyx asked making Ladybug groan at his curiosity.
"Do I really have to tell you that?" Ladybug asked.
"Well, you don't have to unless it doesn't have anything to do with that scene with Shape Shifter. It isn't, right?" Onyx asked.
"You know…..I've seen a long time ago a video of her of how she and I were friends cause I saved her life once. That thing was a lie and I…..called her out for it…..in….the grossest way possible," Ladybug explained making Onyx look a little unimpressed at her story.
"Okay I know lying is a bad thing. You were also lying too about that with Shape Shifter, but why did you do it in….the grossest way possible?"
"I stalked her behind her back and heard how she told Adrien Agreste, that she was a superhero and I couldn't stand how she was moving on him like that, so I appeared and yelled at her right in front of him, so he would know what type of…..girl she was….no offense," Ladybug replied with a small glance at the brunette girl, which frowned at her last words.
"Okay I know that this is in the past and all, but why did you have to be that rude?" Onyx questioned. "I know what she did was wrong, but why would you yell at her? That's ten times worse, as it sounds,"
"I know this was wrong, mostly I didn't know her to be judging her right at the start," Ladybug admitted. "After her second akumatization I have apologized to her again and I believed it was fine,"
"Was it?" Onyx asked looking down at Lila, which shrugged her shoulders.
"I'm not 100% satisfied with what she did in the past. She could have done it in private or told him the other way around," Lila mentioned watching Onyx look at Ladybug, which frowned at her partner.
"On which side are you?" Ladybug asked surprised placing her hands on her hips looking at the Chinese descendant superhero.
"I'm being as neutral as possible to you two. You both did a mistake, end of the story," Onyx mentioned. "I already know you're 15, Ladybug, but I'm just trying to make you see your mistakes,"
"I know those were mistakes, but they're now in the past,"
"Ladybug is 15 years old only?" Lila asked surprised. "I always thought you were a little older like 18,"
"To be clear, most of us are teens. So are Onyx and Super Snake,"
"I thought you were older, but you just looked younger as Alya said in her Ladyblog," Super Snake pointed out.
"This was just to hide my identity. You have to lie anyway if it comes to hiding your identity from someone," Ladybug added, then her miraculous began to beep. "Sorry guys I need to go before I transform back. Tell Carapace, everything over," Ladybug asked, then ran off and took up at the roof with the help of her yo-yo.
"So…...you got akumatized because….erm….you were caught lying?" Onyx asked, then Lila handed him out her smartphone and she showed him messages from various students and a few classmates.
Onyx took the smartphone then checked the messages to see, the major part of them were hate messages and rude comments towards what happened, which Onyx continued to look through while she sat down on the ground with her arms around her legs.
"Are people bullying her?" Super Snake asked earning a nod from the older superhero.
"I'd say so. People here are being very rude," Onyx mentioned. "Look uhm…..this will take time until it gets better for you, but if I were you I would try to speak to all at about your lies, tell them you're sorry and explain why you did all this," Onyx suggested earning a nod from Super Snake.
"Yes that could work out," The snake-themed hero agreed.
"Yes, but I don't think they will all forgive me that fast or at all,"
"Not everyone will forgive you, but maybe those who forgive you may understand you and want to help you out," Onyx mentioned. "For some reason, you must have lied…..attention, love, fright…..,"
"Well, I didn't want to hurt anyone in the first place. I just wanted to have as many friends as possible," Lila explained. "This is like the first place that people get along so well. Even the jerks here are likable, I don't know why,"
"Maybe you should only have one or two friends," Super Snake suggested. "Friends, that like you for who you are, not because you have a lot of friends or are like Adrien Agreste,"
"Yeah I will try tomorrow to talk to my class," Lila mentioned getting up with the help of Onyx, which gave her back the smartphone.
"You can ask Miss Bustier for help. She sure will be happy to help you," Super Snake suggested making Lila furrow her eyebrows.
"How do you know I attend Miss Bustier's class?" Lila asked making Super Snake shut his eyes up in shock.
"Uhm…...I've heard she was the nicest teacher," Super Snake answered, then his miraculous began to beep, shrieking Super Snake which ran off leaving Onyx back with Lila.
"Uh bye?"
"Bummer I was supposed to ask him for training," Onyx mentioned, then looked back at Lila, which stored her smartphone back. "You think you can handle it?" Onyx asked earning a shoulder shrug of the girl. "Don't worry, it will go fine," Onyx promised the girl, which nodded and Onyx took out his staff and catapulted himself up at the roof of the building making Lila smile a little comforted at Onyx's encouragement towards her.