Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug, Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly

by bigvic150

A young man is brought to the world of Miraculous Ladybug by Master Fu to help Ladybug and her allies. But the twist is, there's a different kind of Butterfly Miraculous in the Miracle Box that's completely different from the Moth Miraculous. Will Steel Butterfly fulfill his destiny, or will threats like Hawk Moth succeed? Rated T. Chloe redemption. Bunnyx salt and redemption.

12. Copycat Averted

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug, Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly.

Chapter 11: Copycat Averted.

(Author's notes: The reason why I'm depicting my Miraculous Ladybug stories' heroic protagonists with suits of armor is because I think that their natural near-invulnerabilities are not enough to protect them from harm. Especially if it comes down to one of them being impaled on Hawk Moth's swordstick. But even though that outcome is unlikely in the chronological cartoon, it's only a matter of time before the setting changes in terms of its audience rating for a kid show. Again, might be unlikely, might not be, so it's best to be prepared. That's all I'll say for now.

Enjoy chapter 11.)

(Dupain-Cheng bakery, Paris, France, April 7th, 2015, third person POV...)

Marinette is on her balcony with Tikki talking about the power-up potions – the ones that Steel Butterfly still remembers so far.

Marinette asks, "So, do you and Steel Butterfly remember what the so-called green potion does?"

Tikki answers, "Yes. It grants a Miraculous user the ability to breathe underwater and the ability to swim more effectively and at faster speeds than usual. In terms of suit design, your armor will be given fish-like features such as flippers, fins and scale-like patterns."

Marinette inquires, "What about the blue potion?"

Tikki replies, "It bestows a Miraculous user an immunity to freezing cold temperatures below zero degrees and an enhanced proficiency in ice-skating. In terms of suit design, your armor will be given ice skates, snowflake and ice crystal accents, and an ice-like tiara. But the tiara appears only on you."

Marinette queries again, "And what about the purple potion?"

Tikki responds with, "Oh, as it so happens, Leppey informed me that the space potion is Miguel's favorite out of all the power-up potions. The purple potion, under normal circumstances, grants a ground-bound Miraculous user the ability to fly and the ability to breathe in the vacuum of space. But the ability to fly with the space potion was supposed to be given to Miraculous users who don't have the ability to fly, such as Miraculous users with the aspects and appearances of flying insects and flying animals who didn't visualize wings in their first and later transformations. Anyway, in terms of suit design with the space power-up potion, your armor is upgraded with spacesuit armor plating, a jetpack with retractable wings resembling the appearance of a real ladybug's wings, and a helmet with a mouth guard that provides breathable air. I don't remember if the air quality is unlimited or not, but I'll have to ask our mutual benefactor."

Suddenly, Steel Butterfly teleports behind Marinette with a soft metal clang from his metallic armored boots making contact with the brick ground of the balcony.

Marinette and Tikki turn around to see Steel Butterfly there.

Marinette asks, "What's up?"

Steel Butterfly answers, "Next Akumatization to avert is sculptor Theo Barbot, also known as Copycat, an Akumatized villain with the same appearance, voice, and powers of Cat Noir."

After explaining the reasoning behind Copycat's Akumatization and how to avert it, let's just say Marinette was not happy that her boyfriend would act so irrational out of jealousy without even clarifying with Theo about how old Ladybug really is.

Nevertheless, Ladybug and Steel Butterfly headed off to the Place des Vosges, where the statue unveiling ceremony is about to begin.

Theo Barbot and Mayor Bourgeois are facing the crowd with the giant statues of Ladybug, Cat Noir, Steel Butterfly, Lion Hunter, Blueclaw, Rhinocharge, Corvo, and Cat Knight covered with a big enough sheet behind them.

Mayor Bourgeois states, "I'm sure you've outdone yourself, Theo."

Theo Barbot, the man who will not be Akumatized into Copycat, replies, "It was my honor. And I can't wait to meet Ladybug. I definitely hope she'll autograph the photo I used as the primary inspiration for the statue."

Mayor Bourgeois checks the time on his watch and says, "Oh, my, it's nearly time. Ladybug, Cat Noir, Steel Butterfly and their crew should already be here."

Steel Butterfly calls out from above, "Ask and ye shall receive!"

Everyone looks up to see Ladybug, Steel Butterfly, Blueclaw, and Corvo descending from the sky in place thanks to their wings in place of winged jetpacks.

Lion Hunter came in running like a lion chasing a deer, Cat Knight came in running like a cat chasing a mouse, and Rhinocharge came in charging like a rhinoceros getting away from danger without anything to bulldoze along the way. Or at least a superhero version of The Rhino charging onto the scene without bulldozing anyone or anything in his path.

Surprisingly, Cat Noir also shows up, having finished his fencing lessons minutes earlier.

Cat Noir says to the crowd, "Hey, everybody!"

Steel Butterfly claps the cat hero's shoulder plate and remarks, "We're glad you could make it."

Theo then asks, "Wait, what about your superhero champions?"

Steel Butterfly replies matter-of-factly, "Oh, I only summon them whenever we face an Akumatized villain that requires utilizing a polar opposite with either the same powers or with the opposite powers. AND the heroes I create through the power of my Miraculous are only temporary."

Theo then turns over to Ladybug and asks, "Could you please autograph this? It's a photo that I used as inspiration for the Ladybug statue."

Ladybug humbly autographs the photo.

Theo states, "Thanks, Ladybug. I hope you know that we have one thing in common, and it's that we have devotions to the things we love."

Ladybug smiles a bit before stating, "Please don't get any ideas, Theo."

Baffled, Theo asks, "What do you mean?"

Steel Butterfly and Ladybug reply in turns, "Ladybug and I are aware that you love her." "But I'm a teenager in my civilian life."

That caused a lot of people to gasp in shock.

Even Theo was slightly appalled.

Theo then states, "But you don't look older than eighteen."

Ladybug responded with, "That's because the magic of my Miraculous somewhat slows my aging as long as I'm in possession of it. That combined with my current lifestyle makes me liable to probably live past a hundred years."

Theo then looked down in shame, knowing that he would've been in serious trouble for dating a teenage female superhero.

Steel Butterfly then placed his armored hand on Theo's shoulder as he announced, "When the time comes, you'll find your soulmate. But until then, you just gotta be patient. As long as you have God in your heart, all wonderful things will be made possible."

Theo took this into consideration as Mayor Bourgeois announces, "It's only proper for Paris to pay homage to those who protect us all from the forces of evil. Give it up for these statues of..." A drum roll sounds as the sheet reveals statues of Ladybug, Cat Noir, Steel Butterfly, Lion Hunter, Blueclaw, Rhinocharge, Corvo, and Cat Knight. Mayor Bourgeois finishes, "...our best superhero team, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Steel Butterfly, Lion Hunter, Blueclaw, Rhinocharge, Corvo, and Cat Knight!"

Everyone starts taking pictures with their cameras and/or phone cameras.

Steel Butterfly is analyzing the statues very carefully before stating, "It's nice. Uh, except for three things."

Theo asks, "That being?"

Steel Butterfly counts, "One, Cat Noir is a head taller than Ladybug. Two, I'm not taller than six-four. And three, Ladybug's wings are not that long."

Theo looks over the statues before sighing dejectedly.

Steel Butterfly perks up with a smirk as he snaps his fingers and a stream of magic butterflies fix the statues to resemble Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly's physical heights and to shorten the length of the Ladybug statue's wings. In addition to bringing them into the correct colors.

Everyone was so shocked that they continuously took pictures of the whole thing, with Steel Butterfly standing in a Superman pose, with his indestructible cape hiding his wings billowing in the soft wind.

Interesting side-note: Steel Butterfly decided to sketch himself with the same armor with the same armored butterfly wings but chose to omit the jetpack, feeling like that was something required for his space power-ups.

Suddenly, Steel Butterfly's armor started glowing a golden white and demonic blackish-red as he felt his powers recharging.

Everyone around the area – including a filming Alya Cesaire – were surprised to the point where they asked each other if they saw it, only to receive the same positive answers.

Ladybug asks her team leader, "SB, did you just... recharge your own powers despite not having used up your Miraculous powers all at once? How did you do that?"

Steel Butterfly replies, "Believe me, I didn't know I could recharge my own powers by force of will, so your guess is as good as mine."

Soon, the eight heroes of Paris left the Place des Vosges to continue their civilian obligations.

After arriving home, Adrien is approached by his father, who has a bit of a longing expression on his face.

Adrien asks, "Dad, what's wrong?"

Adrien's older sister, Jeannette Agreste, comes out from behind Gabriel.

Gabriel states, "Adrien, this is your older sister, Jeannette."

Adrien's jaw dropped in shock.

Jeannette walks over to Adrien and hugs him.

Adrien melts into the bear hug, even though his Miraculous enhancements were not active currently.

After everything was explained, Adrien and Jeannette got along just fine.

Of course, Adrien was mentally contacted by Steel Butterfly to avoid revealing his true identity to Jeannette, as it would put her in danger of being a target of their respective father's never-ending obsession of reviving their mother.

Adrien mentally replied that he understood the risks now that he knows his father has family of his own.

But of course, Adrien couldn't help but mentally remark that it would be a shame if Gabriel's parents found out their youngest son was actually the magic-abusing terrorist of Paris.

Steel Butterfly retorted that even if Gabriel protested to his parents the reasoning behind his goals, they would be quick to remind him of the consequences of his wish that he so foolishly chooses to constantly ignore.

At the next patrol, Steel Butterfly granted Cat Knight the ability to fly in her normal transformations by usage of armored bat wings on her back plate.

At the same time, Steel Butterfly also granted Lion Hunter and Rhinocharge the ability to fly by usage of bird wings.

As all eight heroes flew across the skyline of Paris with their clones patrolling from the ground level, the flying heroes took to the skies spinning in flight, twisting, and loop-de-looping with their wings and winged jetpacks.

In particular, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Corvo and Steel Butterfly literally held their other half's hand while in flight.

Of course, even Steel Butterfly somewhat noticed that Alya was filming the whole thing, sans the holding hands part.

Alya said with the camera in her phone filming the flying heroes, "Look at Steel Butterfly, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Lion Hunter, Blueclaw, Rhinocharge, Corvo and Cat Knight flying! I can't even believe what I'm seeing here, peeps! All eight of our primary heroes literally have the ability to fly! And if you include the likes of Broadband Woman, Simeon Says, Cupid, and Mellow Weather, in total, that makes twelve heroes so far that are able to fly! Oh, and look! Steel Butterfly just did a nose-diving loop-de-loop! Unbelievable!"

Steel Butterfly and the other fliers notice Alya filming and fly into visible range.

Steel Butterfly remarks jokingly and sternly at the same time, "Shouldn't you be in bed, young lady?"

Alya looks at the time and yelps, "Yikes! I gotta go, bye!"

Alya takes off running while the heroes of Paris fly back into the skies of the city where they laugh hysterically at Steel Butterfly's little indication that Alya was gonna be in serious trouble if she didn't get her behind back home.

Composing herself, Ladybug asks, "I get that it was half a joke and all, but was that really necessary?"

Steel Butterfly replies, "Yes it was."

Soon, the eight Heroes of Paris left to their homes on a good note as it was nighttime.

The next day, the heroes encountered another Akumatized villain: Barthelemy Allard, aka Green Swordsman, a green armored knight/soldier hybrid who was kicked out of the French military for wielding a sword instead of a gun despite his protests against using guns in the modern age.

Surprisingly, despite the powers that Hawk Moth gives his Akumatized villains, Steel Butterfly was a grandmaster of using swords due to his fifteen years of training. That combined with his time travel and supernatural learning abilities enabled him to take on the likes of even a grandmaster using the Moth Miraculous in ancient China without causing any damage to the space-time continuum and without any further interactions that could disrupt the timeline.

As Steel Butterfly and Green Swordsman clashed swords, SB's crew was sitting on the sidelines with Ladybug and Cat Noir and they were all loudly singing the Saber Dance theme song.

Green Swordsman was definitely getting more annoyed, especially since Steel Butterfly joined in while the two combatants continued clashing swords.

Eventually, Green Swordsman managed to strike Steel Butterfly's chestplate, but the Akumatized Barthelemy's sword didn't even leave a scratch!

Everyone minus the butterfly hero was in shock.

Steel Butterfly's faceplate morphed to feature an evil smirk that had even Hawk Moth slightly frightened.

Of course, Hawk Moth will forever deny he peed himself, and if Steel Butterfly caught a picture of it, everyone can be assured Steel Butterfly would most certainly post it on the internet.

As the sword battle continues, Steel Butterfly does the impossible by even Hawk Moth's standards: SB makes his sword spin Barthelemy's sword spin and then hits Green Swordsman's sword with his armored hand so hard that it shatters into a lot of pieces!

The Akuma flies out, and Ladybug quickly purifies it and releases the Miraculous Ladybug cure.

After another victory fist bump, Steel Butterfly slowly took off into the sky while his radio drones played the Superman II music number from the deleted Concorde scene.

Even the other heroes took off into the sky while humming along to the music.

After a few seconds, as the music started to swell, the eight Heroes of Paris hummed along to the Superman theme in unison.

Later on, Steel Butterfly made plans to prepare for the Akumatization of The Bubbler, and to prepare an impromptu birthday party for Adrien.

At the same time, Steel Butterfly pondered over whether or not he should tell Adrien the truth about Marinette's scarf for him.

Steel Butterfly muttered, "Even though some things still need to happen in chronological order, even this is more than unacceptable. I don't think letting Nathalie Sancoeur become Catalyst on Heroes' Day is more important than telling Adrien the truth. Sorry, Nathalie, but it looks like you'll be out of a job."

Steel Butterfly went to sleep, laughing maniacally in his sleep.

The End.

(Author's notes: I get that people were kind of expecting Steel Butterfly to use his foreknowledge to point out Copycat for Ladybug, but exactly how would that turn out? Chances are, one of Steel Butterfly's crew would let Cat Noir's identity slip with Hawk Moth listening from a distance, and Roger Raincomprix was utterly useless!

See you in chapter 12: The Bubbler.)