BGM: FF5 Battle on the Bridge
"Remember. We need to find an akumatized victim of Udaspes Folus who can change the size of others."
"That or a size gun."
I quickly dashed along the city walls. Due to my speed I had caused the windows in each building to shatter. This was okay though. Given the high ratio of akumatized victims, this meant it was highly improbable someone not akumatized was harmed by my simply running parallel to the walls.
A bipedal lizard with 2 spears stuffed in a pouch behind his back, a human sized owl wielding a handgun in each of its talons and an extremely emancipated and wrinkly lady with a long javelin jumped out in front of me. The bipedal lizard roared, temporarily disorienting me while the human sized owl fired its guns at me.
40 dmg
43 dmg
I stretched out my hand, burrowed my eyebrows and quickly muttered, "hypnosis".
The human sized owl resisted while the emancipated woman seemed to back off a little. The bipedal lizard on the other hand drew out one of his spears and swung.
"Ouch!"
214 dmg
Status: Bleeding
I had caught the bipedal lizard's spear with my bare hands. The bipedal lizard got ready to impale me with his other spear when a nearby kid threw a rock at him. Somehow that kid must've been lucky for just then the bipedal lizard had reverted back into an old man, now deakumatized.
"Thank you. Be safe."
The kid nodded and fled and as for the other 2 akumatized victims, they looked at each other before nodding and rushing towards the kid.
"Not on my watch."
54 dmg
Damn! The spear's gone but I'm still bleeding. I'll have to remedy this.
"Curing!"
The emancipated lady hopped forward and lunged with her javelin. I leapt backwards only to be hit by 2 of the human sized owl's bullets.
52 dmg
44 dmg
Status: Normal
By now my psychokinetic skill had closed off the wound I had received. Looking at these 3 I shook my head. They were not the ones we were looking for.
"Psychokinesis!"
Psychically grabbing a hold of the 2 akumatized victims engaging me I hurled them into a nearby brick wall, the impact travelling through their bodies must've broke their akumatized objects. 2 more akumas flew out as I saw a middle aged woman and a man wearing a hard helmet stumbled about, confused.
My flute vibrated. Narue must be calling me. I ducked into a nearby store building.
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Hello?
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Chijinda. Come quick. I found an akumatized victim with the power to change the size of others. I'm fending myself against her but I don't know how much longer I can dodge her attacks.
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Right. I'll be there shortly. Hang in tight for me will ya?
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?
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My wife needs me. I paced as fast as I could to get to her location.
While Chijinda had been busy dealing with the 3 akumatized victims accosting him, Narue had been shaking every building in an attempt to flush out any akumatized who went into hiding. 24 minutes had passed and at this point Narue had travelled 1190.549 meters. Time for a bit of math, everyone. Remember back in the 2nd season how it's mentioned the Fox Miraculous increases the wearer's base agility by 8500%? Given that the average human being around Chijinda's age is expected to be able to run at or around 13.62 kph, 13.62 * 850 = 11,577 kph. For comparisons, on average a bullet travels about 2,736 kph. Do the math and you can figure out how long it should reasonably take for Chijinda to reach Narue. For the sake of simplicity, let's assume his speed is constant (because in real life, often times our locomotion speed varies over time).
In mere moments the Fox Miraculous holder had managed to simply step, which given his ridiculous speed is what the duration of his run amounts to and not even then, to where his wife was.
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I'm here Narue. Are you ready?
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Yes
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I ducked into one of the nearby barns sheds and then took out a necklace I had been carrying. Time to put our trap into action. With just a thought I had created a hallucinatory effect zone.
"There you are! You won't get away from me you little fox! Time to shrink!"
Off she ran into the department store chasing the hallucination of me. 12 seconds in, Narue punched the side of the building.
1,123 dmg!
The building now has a giantess fist sized gaping hole. Growling, the akumatized woman aim her size gun at the Turtle clad giantess in an attempt to shrink her down.
Yeou Lujeu drop kicks the akumatized woman from behind!
554 dmg!
The akumatized woman falls out of the building
49 dmg
As I kicked the akumatized woman, I also set off a couple of smoke grenades. I then leapt down to where she was. This smoke would serve as a signal for Narue to begin construction. Inside the smoke, the akumatized lady coughed. Picking up a beer can I threw it at her.
77 dmg
Now that I got her attention I began playing my little game of cat and mouse.
Steady… steady… now!
Kaiju Plastra stomped the ground nearly missing the akumatized lady. She did however cause the billboard sign to fall. Kaiju Plastra then started kicking up a storm.
Now it's time for us to set the lure.
"Psychokinesis."
Psychokinetically grabbing ahold of myself I lunged forward. The akumatized woman hopped back and fired.
50 dmg
She missed thanks to the brick I had psychially thrusted at her. That's when she drew her knife to stab me.
Stomp!
1054 dmg
Slowly...slowly…
"Damnit! Hold still so I can shrink you down to size."
"The only thing that needs to be shrunk down to size is your ego."
"What?"
"Look at you. Giving in so easily. What? You couldn't handle life?"
"Sh-shut up!"
This must've enraged her for she began to blow a whistle. A 3-eyed kid along with 3 headed rottweiler, a buff mailman with green skin, a couple of bipedal lizards carrying spears accompanied by a troll wielding a large spikey club jumped in and cornered us. This part is essential, we can't fail this.
Snarling the akumatized woman with the size gun fired at the newcomers drastically increasing their size.
"Ha! Let's how you do against these bad boys!"
Kaiju Plastra just flicked her hair.
"Hmph. Amateurs."
Smiling at each other the enlarged akumatized group charged at her.
"You lot deal with her. I'll take care of foxy boy here."
I ran.
"Don't think you're going to out run me!"
Taking aim she fired her size gun at me.
40 dmg
Spitting she tried to readjust her aim but then I had already thrown a flash bang.
"Gah! Where is he?"
In her momentary blindness I had taken out my cellphone. Knowing what needed to be done, I quickly created an area of hallucinatory effect zone. Pounding a few keystrokes I then activated the other hallucinatory triggers I had placed around the area.
By the way this skill is something new that I've learned and I can only use it while in this form, that is to say when I am actively using the Fox Miraculous. Back during my travels overseas when Narue and I were in search for the Miraculous, I learned how to drastically increased the perimeters of my hallucinatory area of effect zone. Just recently I've developed the skill to remotely activate these hallucination triggers.
"There you are! You're not getting away from me!"
While the akumatized lady fought with my fake I ran into a hotel building 2 blocks down. Entering the elevator I headed down to the 3rd basement level and situated myself into an office cubicle. I then took out a flash drive and plugged it into the computer right next to me. On the screen I could see the akumatized lady and her giant compatriots doing battle against my fake as well as that of Narue's. I smiled. This was going all so well. They don't know it's not us and to further convince them, I've programmed that specific trigger to say the superpower activation phrase of our Miraculous. Ah, but since we're not the ones actually saying it, that means we can still use ours later.
"Got it! Haha. You weren't so tough. Now it's time to make a delivery."
My fake as well as that of Narue's had been beaten and brutalized beyond any hope of facial recognition.
"Good work boys. It was tough but we did it. Now-"
"Are you really going to hand that freak those jewels?"
"Of course not. He may have given us these powers but he can't control us. We'll just take these magical gems for ourselves."
"I like that."
"Yeah, good riddance."
They smiled as the akumatized woman with the size gun picked up our fake's necklace and bracelet.
Any moment now…
The akumatized woman smiled as she placed on the necklace
Just a bit longer…
"Here. Take this."
The 3-eyed kid beamed as the lady with the size gun handed him the bracelet. By now their size had reverted back to normal.
I held my breath with anticipation. At last it was our moment to finally end this. All we have to do is sit back and-
Just then all the billboard screens flickered to show a masked man with long pink hair.
"I see you've managed to their necklace and bracelet."
"Yes, now all that's needed is for you to come and get it."
"Hmm. I think not. Do you not think I don't comprehend the effect I have on others?"
"Hmph. Well if you want it, you'll have to come and get it."
"And waste my time picking up a fake? C'mon. I wasn't born yesterday."
"Well we're done working for you."
The man smiled.
"That is all well, after all I could just akumatize someone else."
One of the lizardmen snarled.
"You think you're so tough, punk? Why don't I fix your face?"
"Ooh, how intimidating. Sounds like you got a bone to pick with me."
"Do I ever. I'm going to work your face in."
"Ha! I welcome you to try and as for you, Yeou Luejue and Kaiju Plastra. I know you're still out there and I will succeed and get your Miraculous!"
Cr-crap! He didn't just-
Oh my god. He just revealed the existence of the Miraculous. Not only that, he saw right through our trap. Seeing no point in hiding any longer I fled to the spot me and Narue had agreed to meet in the event this supervillain didn't fall for our ploy. Well so much for that. All we really can do is keep on fighting. No matter what, we mustn't let him win.
1 week later…
After battling countless akumatized victims, me and Narue had amassed enough exp to gain 5 levels and we've improved on some of our skills.
"Hey Trixx. Why isn't my range for my Miraculous enhanced powers not increasing?"
"What do you mean? I've calculated the efficiency rate of your hallucinogenic triggers has increased by 25% and that anyone leaving your zone of influence will still feel the effects for up to 15 minutes."
"No, I meant, why hasn't the total range exceed 150 miles?"
"Ah, that. Pardon me, but I've just noticed there's something I should've explained a lot better but here goes. It's impossible to increase the absolute range of the Miraculous's power. Outside of being akumatized, which we don't want, or powered up by a sentimonster curtsey of Duusu, the maximum limit that your Miraculous related powers will always be as follows."
I nodded as I gathered the data. Come to think of it, why didn't I bother asking him this beforehand.
"Since my Miraculous can be said to be a support type and given that you're around the typical height for a human being-"
I felt my cellphone vibrate.
"Hold that thought Trixx."
Looking at my cellphone, I saw that it was a text from the Chief.
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How are you and Narue doing?
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I texted him back.
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We're managing. If only there was a way to draw him out.
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I think we may have discovered a way to do that.
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What do you mean, Chief?
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You know how your wife's kwami stated the holder of the Butterfly Miraculous can only create one akuma at a time?
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Yeah, but he's a mage, so wouldn't his skills allow him to bypass this limitation?
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Maybe. Anyways, I had our analysts analyze the flight paths of those akumas and I believe we may have found our subject zero.
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Subject Zero?
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Remember that sudden surge of akumas you witness on that day Mia learned about your secret identity?
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That's when we met Udaspes for the first time
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Right, well looking at the akuma's trajectory path, we noticed we may have missed some.
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Missed? What do you mean by missed? Are you saying Udaspes may be able to create akuma sleeper agents?
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It's a possibility
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And you're certain one of these sleeper agents might be the reason why he's able to create as many akumas as he desires?
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Maybe. At the very least we have to try.
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I pondered the information for but a brief moment.
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Tell us the target, their akumatized object and we'll be on our way.
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20 seconds passed and I was texted all the info I needed on this Subject Zero including their last seen coordinates. I then spoke into my flute.
"Get ready, Narue. The Chief says he thinks he's found our Subject Zero."
It was a day like any other in Yabaize, Japan. The goblins were singing, harpies screaming as they gorged themselves on the rotting flesh of tender fetus they had ripped out from various pregnant woman, speaking of which, would you like to hear how-
"Remember Narue. If we stop Subject Zero, we should be able to put a damper on that freak show's powers."
"That or at least slow down this ridiculous akumatization process."
It's finally time. So many lives have been killed, mutated and changed passed anything resembling a human being. I don't know if taking down this Subject Zero will stop you, but at least you shouldn't be able to create as many akumas as you now desire. That or the rate by which these akumas are spreading should dramatically decreased.
As Narue carried me to Yabaize, I relayed the message the Chief had sent us.
"So if we find and defeat this Subject Zero, we'll weaken that supervillain's powers?"
"That's the plan."
Narue nodded in understandment. It wasn't long until we had reached Yabaize. Narue let out a sigh while shaking her head.
"I know. It's-"
"No time to dwell on the fact, Chijinda."
"Right. We've got a district to save. Our home district. Udaspes. You've transformed way too many of my loved ones and you have killed countless innocents. It's high time you pay for your crimes. Remember Narue. If we stop Subject Zero, we should be able to put a damper on that freak show's powers."
"That or at least slow down this ridiculous akumatization process."
We began searching Yabaize for this Subject Zero. Roughly 34 minutes later I let out a sigh. This was getting nowhere. I was about to pick up my cellphone to text the Chief when I saw him.
And unfortunately he seemed to recognize I had become aware of him.
The man wasn't anything impressive. He stood about 6ft tall, had a medium-weight built, wore a white buttoned up collared shirt along with a deep navy dress pants. By all accounts he didn't look like he had been akumatized. Still, if what the Chief suspects is true-
"Help! Help! There's a crazed fox over here!" the man shouted. As soon as he did so, I could feel rumbling. I looked up to see an entire army of akumatized victims surrounding me.
"Stay back!"
Sensing the ground move like sand I immediately jumped back, just in time too for a dog sized scorpion lunged its pincer from out under the ground. It was like the ground was made of sand. As I landed, I noticed I had landed in someone's hand.
"Let's finish this, Yeou Lujeu."
I smiled up at her.
"Yes. Let's."
Boss: Subject Zero (akumatized)
BGM: Atelier Iris Ferocious Drive
The dog scorpion crawls out of the ground
Dog Scorpion has joined the fray!
"Swack! Swack!"
A pair of harpies have joined the fray!
(rumbling noises)
A troll wielding a giant spiked club, 2 goblins and a lizardman carrying a spear have all joined the fray!
"Ignore them. All we really need to take out is that guy there."
"Right"
The dog scorpion scurries forward
"Hypnosis!"
The dog scorpion has fallen asleep
The Troll resists
Goblin 1 has fallen asleep
Goblin 2 resists
Lizardman resists
"Psychokinesis"
With a flick of his wrist, Yeou Lujeu sends the sleeping dog scorpion and goblin at Subject Zero
415 dmg
Subject Zero dodges
Dog Scorpion's akumatized object has been broken.
"Wha? Where am-"
Before the burly man could come to understand his situation however, the akuma which had left his broken flip phone suddenly entered into the gash in his chest cavity before being absorbed into his pacemaker. The man doubled over, looking like he was in agony. Just the sight made me want to vomit, but we can't afford to-
The man suddenly shone with a sinister bubblegum pink hue and soon he bubbled over with fuchsia, which then grew to 40 meters. The Dog Scorpion had returned and this time his exoskeleton appeared to be much harder even when you took its increased size into consideration.
The dog scorpion rushes towards Kaiju Plastra
Kaiju Plastra jumps 164.34 meters into the sky
the dog scorpion readies his pincer tail
Kaiju Plastra throws her turtle shell shield from out under beneath her
Kiaju Plastra lands on the dog scorpion
Kaiju Plastra's turtle shell shield protects her from the dog scorpions pincer tail
43 dmg
Kaiju Plastra bounces off.
Whelp. So much for using that move. How come it works in Super Mario?
Goblin 1 has awoken
The lizardman runs at Yeou Lujeu with his spear.
Yeou Lujeu catches the attack and throws the lizardman into goblin 1
Goblin 1's akumatized object has been broken.
The lizardman's akumatized object has been broken.
Sitting in a daze, the young postal worker along with the librarian were easy pickings for the akumas which had left them. Not this again, Chijinda thought to himself as he helplessly saw the 2 previous akumas which he had removed simply land on the postal worker's stopwatch and the librarian's book respectively. Once again, the same transformation that had happened to the dog scorpion was happening to them as well and likewise they too grew.
Kaiju Plastra took a step back
This isn't looking so well, she thought to herself as she quickly grabbed her husband
Kaiju Plastra and co have fled!
"Damnit! Everytime we deakumatize one of them, the akuma just hops onto another object they were carrying and makes them more powerful them before."
"Not only that, but there was like a huge army of akumatized victims headed our way."
I sighed.
"Just what are we going to do, Narue."
Narue simply shrugged.
"Th-there's gotta be a way to stop them. I-if we can remove the akuma from Subject Zero we should be able to stand a fighting chance."
Narue nodded.
"There has to be a limitation, a weakness somewhere."
"-tch! But where?!"
So here's what we know so far. Normally the holder of the Butterfly Miraculous can only create one active akuma at a time, the only exception is when they are under the effects of one of their akumatized champion specifically designed to help them get around this limitation. Even though Udaspes Folus's akumas are pink and Udaspes is definitely a mage, there's no reason to believe his ability to send as many akumas as he desires is the result of him being a mage. That's where Subject Zero comes into hand. Now as to what we know about Subject Zero or rather his powers.
Subject Zero doesn't seem to possess any extraordinary power with one caveat. That reakumatization was way too fast, plus why were the other akumatized victims drawn in? My guess is his main ability is rapidly speeding up the reakumatization process while serving as a homing beacon for his fellow akumatizaties.
"Chijinda. You don't suppose you could turn invisible and-"
I simply nodded.
"Better to take our chances than not" I said as took out my flute. "I have no ideal if Subject Zero or any of his buddies can see past the power of the Fox Miraculous, but here goes."
I blew a couple of notes into the staff-like flute.
"Mirage!"
Subject Zero's heartbeat was racing. That maniac fox and his giantess partner of a turtle were back. First that so called superhero Yeou Lujeu had went awry and started slaughtering people left and right, at times he would even drag it out so as to prolong their suffering. Then that oversized toddler began demanding everyone pamper her and should you refuse~
Subject Zero shivered. Just thinking about what they had done was enough to make any grown man become queasy. He could only hope that-
Jouichirou Iwane wasn't your typical Japanese citizen. In this day and age where your average citizen is not going to gawk up at the panties of giantesses due to, yah know, wanting to survive to the next day? Oh how he used to hold a fascination, how he used to be a macrophile, particularly of the female kind. And now he was normal, normal denoting not very different from what's typical regardless of whether the common denominator is healthy.
Wait a minute. Where was he? It was hard to come but- wasn't he at the downtown coffee shop? What was he doing in this crater?
"Ugh. My head hurts. What happened?"
Jouichirou turned to look at the burly man. So. He wasn't the only confused as to what was going on. Around him stood the burly man who rubbed his eyebrows, a young postal worker cracking his neck, a librarian holding his side as though he were sore, a girl with short white hair and a sailor's fuku held her knee wincing from the pain. Lying on the ground was a child no more than 11 years of age along with fox cosplayer bending beside her.
"There. You should be able to move now."
The little girl started to get up but stumbled.
"Careful now."
Yeou Lujeu breathed a sigh of relief. His plan was a success. After using the superpower of the Fox Miraculus to blot out his and Narue's detectability, Chijinda then used his psychokinetic powers in an attempt to subtly break every perceivable item on each of the akumatizies objects, starting with Subject Zero. To say this required precision would be an understatement.
"Who are you?" Jouichirou demanded.
"I'm Yeou Lujeu and she's Kaiju Plastra and together we're the superheroes who will defend Japan."
Jouichirou looked perplex. Yeou Lujeu? Kaiju Plastra? When did Japan start relying on cosplayers to save the day? Where was the JSDF?
"Yeou Lujeu? Is that you?" The young teen with short white hair wearing a sailor's fuku asked.
"But I thought they'd-" the burly man started before the young fox cosplayer started talking over him.
"We would never harm Japan, our home. As we swore we would do, we will protect each and every one of you."
The burly man scratched his head.
"So what you're saying is… there's been some sort of misunderstanding?"
Kaiju Plastra nodded.
"Is that so? Then who was that crazed red fox cosplayer? And how come that giantess turtle clad tyrant looked awfully like you?" The librarian asked.
"Because he wanted to set us up." Yeou said as he pointed somewhere behind the group. The octave turned around to see a man with long flowing pink hair and a mask completely obscuring his face appear the billboard sign.
"Give it up, Udaspes. We've deakumatized your Subject Zero and now we're coming after you." Yeou Lujeu stated.
Udaspes Folus just sighed, his face frowning.
"Not so tough now, are you?" Kaiju Plastra stated as her partner hopped into her opened right hand.
"You've ruined our beloved city, transformed the populace into rampaging monsters but that ends now." Yeou Lueju growled. "I hope you're ready, you sick freak."
"Yeah! Because this time, you won't have your army of magical pink butterflies to defend yourself with." Kaiju Plastra shouted nearly deafening every non-superhero within hearing distance.
"Heheheh."
"What's so funny?" Yeou Lujeu asked.
"So you're ready to face me, is that it? My. You've taken down Jouicirou. Now I'm all defenseless." The man's lips then curled up to form a cruel smile.
"Tell me. What makes you think I'm limited to just one akuma?" While the man was saying this, he lifted up his arms. "Ahahahaha! Oh you got me good. That's a good one. You didn't seriously think that would stop me, did you? Of course not."
A swarm of pink butterflies started flying off from the man's sleeves.
"I'm not like the previous holders as you can see, aheheheheheh. Look. I'm only going to say this once, so you best pay close attention. I can release as many akumas as I desire, gyah-ahaha! See you very soon!"