Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug, Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly.
Chapter 13: Rogercop vs. RoboCop.
(Author's notes: For hilarious effect, when Hawk Moth calls Steel Butterfly and Ladybug liars, Steel Butterfly will demonically rebuke Hawk Moth by saying something along the lines of, "You choose not to inform your son what you're doing just because you don't trust your son enough to know whether or not he would join you, you're afraid of the repercussions of telling your son who you really are, and you would literally choose to lie to your wife about your actions if she's revived. So, who's the liar now?" I'm adding that for humorous effect.
Next-to-last, the circumstances leading to Roger Raincomprix becoming Rogercop is very different in this timeline thanks to the fact that Chloe is more cautious, Plagg is more responsible and smarter, and the bracelet Plagg gets stuck with is safe and sound. And also because Roger Raincomprix found out that the murderer who killed Roger's wife Hugette Raincomprix was still on the loose. BUT, will Rogercop get his revenge? We'll see.
Lastly, I've finally decided to give the Earth of the Quantic Universe in my story a name and number: Quantic Universe Earth 139.
Enjoy chapter 13.)
(Quantic Universe Earth 139, Paris, France, April 18th, 2015, third person POV...)
At the Dupain-Cheng bakery, Sabine is preparing Tom for his Parent's Career Day presentation at the school.
Marinette is sitting on the back of the sofa with Tikki.
Marinette then asks, "Are you ready, papa?"
Tom replies, "As much as I'll ever be."
Tom and Marinette leave the house with Tikki hiding in Marinette's purse.
Sabine then says, "Happy Career Day, my darlings!"
Tom and Marinette make it to the school.
In Ms. Bustier's classroom, Tom is explaining his job to the class.
Tom explains thoroughly, "My day begins at 4 in the morning because the bakery opens at 7. One would think that the life of a baker is pretty much the same routine every day, making the same pastries, rolls, cakes, cookies, muffins, and loaves of bread among others. But in reality, it's different every day. One day someone might order a cake in the exact same shape as the Eiffel Tower, and another day, someone else would order some cupcakes decorated with the French flag."
Everyone is listening very splendidly, including Gabriel Agreste, who surprisingly attended the Parent's Career Day presentations for a change.
Gabriel muses in his thoughts, "Hmm... The life of a baker is a very interesting one, but I'm glad I don't have to worry about handling food or food ingredients that I might be allergic to."
Tom then states, "Marinette will come around and pass out some croissants that were baked fresh this morning."
Ms. Bustier then says, "Thank you, Mr. Dupain. Now, let's meet Alya's mom, who is the head chef at the Grand Paris Hotel, coincidentally owned by Mayor Bourgeois."
Marinette is passing around croissants, and surprisingly, Chloe has nothing to say, as a sign that due to her turning over a new leaf – that's what people say in reference to Chloe suffering under the Ghost Punisher's Retribution Gaze – Chloe decided to practice this simple saying: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Marlena Cesaire then says, "Unfortunately, I don't have any dishes to share. But maybe Mr. Bourgeois will invite you all to the hotel and treat you to lunch!"
The students of the class start applauding.
Plagg stays in Adrien's bag, knowing that he could easily get Marinette in trouble despite not being gluttonous or acting of his own accord unless offered Camembert cheese.
Then, Ms. Bustier says, "Next on the list is Sabrina's father, a policeman, Officer Roger Raincomprix!"
The students applauded again.
Roger then explains, "I've been a police officer for fifteen years, and I firmly believe that every citizen is innocent until proven guilty."
After Officer Raincomprix finished, he was pulled over to the side of the class by Mayor Bourgeois as Gabriel went onto a long enough lecture about his job running a fashion design empire.
Mayor Bourgeois asks, "Roger, do you know who this is?"
He holds up a WANTED poster for added emphasis.
The name on the poster was Edgar Boullogne.
Roger answers while keeping his cool, "Edgar Boullogne."
Mayor Bourgeois continues, "Word has it he's been spotted heading to an abandoned warehouse at the docks. It's vital you and the others make this collar."
Roger nods and goes over to Sabrina.
Roger whispers, "Sweetheart, I'm sorry, but I have to go. Feel free to hang out with your friends before your curfew."
Roger immediately speed walks down the halls before reaching his car.
At the same time, since Gabriel has finished with his presentation, he also heads to his car and heads home to his lair so he can Akumatize Roger.
Once he gets inside his car and makes sure that nobody was paying attention, Roger angrily slams his fist on the dashboard before muttering, "That motherf***** will not get away this time! I'll make him pay for taking my wife from me!"
(Ten years ago, Raincomprix residence, third person POV...)
Roger and Hugette Raincomprix were having the time of their lives with their daughter, Sabrina Raincomprix.
Suddenly, the door is busted down as Edgar Boullogne and his crime family held the Raincomprixes at gunpoint.
Thinking quickly, Roger and Hugette throw a smoke bomb to blind Edgar and his men while taking Sabrina to safety.
Suddenly, as Roger and Hugette return to take the fight to Edgar due to both Roger and his wife being police officers, Hugette was gunned down by Edgar himself despite wearing a bulletproof suit of armor in case of an emergency.
Roger gets so furious that he guns down Edgar's thugs while managing to brutalize Edgar himself.
But before Roger can deal the final blow, several security guards restrain him due to the fact that Roger killing his wife's killer in cold blood would lead him to losing his badge.
Once the Parisian Police Department was called and arrived, Edgar was arrested while Hugette was rushed to the hospital with an armor-piercing bullet lodged into her heart.
But by the time the surgery to remove the bullet was about to be considered, Hugette flat lined.
Despite the doctors' efforts, Officer Hugette Raincomprix was pronounced dead on August sixteenth, 2005, at five fifteen p.m.
The entire police department of the city attended the funeral three days later.
Roger was inconsolable and so was Sabrina once everything was explained to her.
Once the funeral was over, Roger was given a few weeks off of work so he and Sabrina can grieve in peace.
At Edgar's trial, he was sentenced to life in prison, but then, his remaining syndicate members broke him out of the police transport carting him off to Le Santé Prison.
Roger vowed from thereon that he would avenge his wife not through the strong arm of the law, but through the saying "an eye for an eye."
In other words, Roger Raincomprix vowed to outright murder Edgar Boullogne in retaliation for taking Hugette from the Parisian Police Department, from the Raincomprix family, and from the world.
(Present day...)
In Hawk Moth's lair, Gabriel has just returned from the Parent's Career Day presentations and became the terrorist of the city.
As the window to his lair opens, Hawk Moth monologues, "Parent-child relationships can be so complicated, even with the loss of a child's mother. And the perfect breeding ground for stress. When there's no more law and order, especially when the same criminals keep escaping, there's only chaos left."
Hawk Moth creates another Akuma.
Hawk Moth sends it on its way as he finishes, "Fly away, my evil little Akuma, and take control of this policeman!"
The Akuma flies off to the 21st Arrondisment where Roger is preparing to leave.
The Akuma merges with his whistle.
Hawk Moth states, "Rogercop, I am Hawk Moth. This city needs a true ruthless righter of wrongs, and that is where you come in."
Roger/Rogercop replies, "Yes sir!"
Roger is transformed into Rogercop.
Hawk Moth continues, "Steel Butterfly, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Lion Hunter, Rhinocharge, Blueclaw, Corvo and Cat Knight must be destroyed if you want to attain ultimate retribution! You will seize their Miraculouses for me! Do we have an agreement?"
Rogercop replies again, "Affirmative. Steel Butterfly, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Lion Hunter, Rhinocharge, Blueclaw, Corvo and Cat Knight will be powerless against me, and justice will prevail in the streets of Paris."
Rogercop walks to the school.
He sees Ms. Mendeleiev throwing a piece of litter on the floor.
Rogercop grabs the litter and flies to where Ms. Mendeleiev is.
Ms. Mendeleiev asks bewilderedly, "Huh?!"
Rogercop states, "You're under arrest!"
Ms. Mendeleiev inquires, "What?! What for?"
Rogercop answers, "You threw litter on the sidewalk, jaywalked and crossed the red light."
Ms. Mendeleiev says in response, "Well, I suppose I did. But you can't arrest me! Who are you anyway? You don't look like a policeman!"
Rogercop throws laser handcuffs at Ms. Mendeleiev's wrists.
Rogercop declares, "I sentence you to trash duty."
He blows his whistle, which can control the handcuffs.
The handcuffs force Ms. Mendeleiev to put the litter in the trash cans.
Rogercop then says to himself, "Next mission: Seeking justice for Hugette Raincomprix."
Rogercop gets in his car and takes off in flight.
Meanwhile, in Steel Butterfly's lair, SB looks out at the entirety of the city as he muses, "So, Rogercop's come along to 'ensure that justice prevails in the streets of Paris,' huh? Well, Hawk Moth, two can play at that game!"
Steel Butterfly creates another Tenshi and says, "Fly off, my little Tenshi, and find myself a true RoboCop!"
The Tenshi finds a Parisian police officer by the name of Aurelien Azema and merges with his police badge.
The same colorful butterfly symbol appears as Steel Butterfly monologues, "RoboCop, I am Steel Butterfly. I'm granting you the powers and gadgets you need to ensure that crime goes to zero. But I also need your help in deakumatizing your Hawk Moth counterpart, Roger Raincomprix, aka Rogercop. Do we have a deal?"
Aurelien/RoboCop, "Yes, Commissioner. We have a deal."
Aurelien transforms into an exact replica of the original movie version of RoboCop, but without the limited mobility as he's now a cyborg by human standards and a techno-organic by Transformers standards.
RoboCop summons his jetpack and takes off to rendezvous with Steel Butterfly at the Eiffel Tower so they can look for Rogercop.
Once RoboCop arrives at the Eiffel Tower, he asks his new "Commissioner," "Where do you think Rogercop is, Commissioner?"
An explosion from the docks caught our attention.
Steel Butterfly remarks, "Bingo."
Steel Butterfly messaged Ladybug and Cat Noir to meet them there, in case it was Rogercop.
At the Parisian City Docks, Rogercop is having the time of his life by killing the same criminals responsible for helping murder his wife many years ago while sentencing the living ones into doing what he orders them to.
Suddenly, Steel Butterfly, Ladybug, Cat Noir and RoboCop appear in the sky as they descend.
Rogercop says, "Steel Butterfly, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Paris has a new righter of wrongs. Your services are no longer required."
Steel Butterfly sneers in response with hand signals for added emphasis, "I beg to differ. Our services are no longer needed when 'I' say they're no longer needed."
Ladybug rolls her eyes as she says to Rogercop, "We can't just let you go around accusing everyone of any little wrongdoing!"
Rogercop notices RoboCop and asks, "Is that supposed to be... RoboCop?"
Steel Butterfly smiled demonically as RoboCop replies, "I am most defiantly RoboCop. I am the only robot police officer here in this world as much as in my world."
The Heroes observe the damage and carnage Rogercop did and Steel Butterfly asks in a horrified tone, "Rogercop... WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?"
Rogercop replies, "I avenged the murder of my wife Hugette Raincomprix."
Rogercop holds up the decapitated head of Edgar Boullogne for added emphasis as he finishes, "This murderer took my wife from me ten years ago, so I took his family of crime and his friends from him. As they say, an eye for an eye. Now, it is time for you to surrender your Miraculouses so they can be distributed to the right owner, Hawk Moth."
Rogercop prepares to fire his laser handcuffs, only for Steel Butterfly and RoboCop to cancel out Rogercop's handcuffs.
Ladybug states, "Listen to me! You're Sabrina's dad, and a good cop! Don't let the evil person who gave you these powers make an evil cop out of you! And you can easily lose your badge for killing your wife's killers in retaliation!"
Steel Butterfly adds, "Yeah, and besides, while I would've done the same thing for myself and for Corvo, Hawk Moth actually doesn't care about your problems; he only wants you to obtain our Miraculouses. And when he does get our Miraculouses, he'll not hesitate to kill you so that way you won't get in his way."
Rogercop looks confused until Hawk Moth's butterfly-shaped symbol flashes across his eyes.
Hawk Moth's disembodied voice rings out, "Don't listen to those liars! Take their Miraculouses! Their powers belong to me!"
Steel Butterfly rebukes Hawk Moth demonically as he states in response, "WRONG, HAWK MOTH. OUR MIRACULOUSES DO NOT BELONG TO YOU. AND YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO CALL ME AND LADYBUG LIARS?! HOW F****** DARE YOU, YOU F****** HYPOCRITE?"
Hawk Moth asks through Rogercop, "How the hell am I a hypocrite?!"
Steel Butterfly explains demonically, "You choose not to inform your son about what you're really doing just because you don't trust your son enough to know whether or not he would join you, you're afraid of the repercussions of telling your son who you really are, and the moment you bring your wife back to full health, you would literally have a full mind to choose to lie to your wife about your actions and to try silencing anyone who tries to contradict your lies in front of your wife. So, who's the liar now?"
Hawk Moth's butterfly symbol disappears as Rogercop is given back full control of himself. Rogercop then announces, "Justice must prevail in the streets of Paris!"
Rogercop fires handcuffs at Ladybug and Steel Butterfly, only for Ladybug to dodge them and Steel Butterfly redirecting them thanks to his telekinesis.
Soon, everyone bore witness to the fight between Rogercop and RoboCop.
Despite Rogercop being an enhanced hand-to-hand combatant with robotic metal armor, RoboCop had over twenty-five years of experience combined with Steel Butterfly's knowledge of how to expect someone's next moves.
The fight continued for about ten to fifteen minutes, with Rogercop unable to fix his heavy damages.
Eventually, Rogercop resorts to shooting laser handcuffs and laser beams at RoboCop, only for RoboCop to bring out his Auto 9 and disable Rogercop's weapons with a few three-shot bursts of live armor-piercing ammunition.
Eventually, RoboCop shot Rogercop's whistle off his neck armor and Steel Butterfly purified the Akuma as quickly as possible.
Then, Steel Butterfly casts his own Miraculous cure, freeing people from Rogercop's control and turning Rogercop back into Roger Raincomprix.
HOWEVER, the criminal victims of Rogercop stayed dead because of the fact that Steel Butterfly's Miraculous Cure and Ladybug's Miraculous Cure are influenced by their own emotions.
It took quite some time, but everyone managed to comprehend that if it had been Steel Butterfly that turned Officer Raincomprix into Rogercop, SB would've had Rogercop do the exact same thing as he did while under Hawk Moth's control.
So, plans were made to bury the dead criminals that Rogercop killed.
Thankfully enough, through some simple uses of Steel Butterfly's Absolute Persuasion, Roger Raincomprix was allowed to keep his badge while RoboCop was transformed back into Aurelien Azema and sent on his way with Steel Butterfly promising that he will call upon RoboCop's assistance again at some point in the near-future.
In Hawk Moth's lair, Hawk Moth growls as he monologues again, "Grrrrrrr... You and your heroes may have eluded me this time, Steel Butterfly, but one of these days, I'll be ruling the world! And neither one of you will be a part of it!"
The window to Hawk Moth's lair closes as Hawk Moth stews in his own anger.
The primary three Heroes of Paris went home to sleep for the night, thankful that they averted a complete disaster.
During morning patrol two hours before school started, Steel Butterfly informed Ladybug and Cat Noir about how the Rogercop incident played out in the original timeline.
To say the least, they were thankful that everything related to the original Rogercop incident didn't happen in this current timeline.
But then, Ladybug asks out of the blue, "SB, how exactly are we gonna ensure that Bunnyx doesn't turn rogue when she becomes the Time Guardian of the Quantic Multiverse just in case our plans fail?"
Steel Butterfly replies, "Regrettably, I'm gonna have to take Alix Kubdel under my wing so I can instill almost the same discipline and good sense of judgment her future counterpart had while also making sure that Present Day Alix Kubdel is made aware of the consequences of her actions. That way, we get the best of both worlds in terms of this: Alix doesn't turn rogue and we won't have to worry about her changing the past to preserve her future. Besides, before the Cat Blanc incident came along in my viewings of our multiverse, I had seen potential in Bunnyx, but because of what she did in the original timeline, that opinion has since soured. But we will all need to teach her the lessons of right and wrong in regards to having the ability to travel across time and space, and instill the same discipline and judgment skills I have in mind for her. Basically, it's like teaching a child right from wrong at an early age. Besides, my dear friends, the Book of Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 6 explicitly states, '"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it."' But in modern terms, if a child is taught in the ways of righteous actions at a young age and how to avoid the temptations to do bad things – the age requirement being that the child is able to understand what you say and being able to memorize everything – then that child won't disobey those teachings when they become older all the way into adulthood. BUT, if by any chance Bunnyx does turn rogue just because she found out about our plans and what I intended to do in the first place, I'll handle her."
Ladybug and Cat Noir asked their questions of concern about how Steel Butterfly will be able to handle Bunnyx, outside of violence. Especially because the Rabbit Miraculous grants its user the ability to freeze time, the ability to freeze people in any moment in time, the ability to accelerate and decelerate someone's aging to prevent that someone from revoking her of the Rabbit Miraculous, the ability to rewind time and fast forward time like a universal remote control, the ability to control people's actions within the active timelines, the ability to simulate supernatural reflexes, the ability to simulate supernatural speed, the ability to simulate teleportation, the ability to save a future moment in time and reset forward to that saved moment in time, the ability to perceive the probabilities of anything in general, the ability to possess irrefutable knowledge of dates and times, and the ability to summon temporal duplicates of herself among other time manipulation-related abilities.
Steel Butterfly revealed that among his contingency plans include tickle torturing Bunnyx – again – along with permanently erasing her memory of ever being a Miraculous holder, opening a door into Steel Butterfly's latest pocket dimension to show Bunnyx the consequences of her actions, inflicting an ancient curse that the Order Of The Guardians invented to prevent unworthy, disgraced former Miraculous users from using a Miraculous jewel again, keeping her imprisoned until she truly wishes to change, booby trapping his prisons three times as bad in case Bunnyx manages to avoid most of his original booby traps, and sending Bunnyx into the future to witness her final fate during Judgment Day at the end of days.
Ladybug protested against showing Bunnyx her final fate at the end of days since Bunnyx can easily try to abuse such foreknowledge, but Steel Butterfly asserted that, knowing the existence of God no matter the dimensional space, God always was and always will be all-knowing as a Supreme Being and a multiversal singularity. Therefore, should Bunnyx try to lie during her judgment, God will able to show Bunnyx's actions via ethereal holograms to refute any lie that comes out of her pie hole. But Steel Butterfly also says that should it come down to it, he'll easily wipe all of Alix's memories of being a Miraculous user permanently.
Soon, it was all systems go, especially because Master Fu and Wayzz thought that SB's plans were one hundred percent ingenious.
Over the course of the next three months while time traveling into the year nineteen ninety-nine, Alix was trained to prepare for eventually getting the Rabbit Miraculous while being taught good judgment when it comes to whether or not anyone should be informed about an apocalyptic future about to take place, how to keep her emotions in check when viewing time portals of the past to learn how to erase apocalyptic timelines from existing, how to resist an Akuma and push it off, and being taught right from wrong in terms of which timelines in the Quantic Multiverse to preserve and which ones not to preserve.
In addition to that, Alix was taught everything about how time travel and the multiverse work, and how they don't work compared to what some people think or believe.
At the same time, Alix was shown via different time portals all of the wrong things her future self and Future Bunnyx's counterparts did to preserve their respective status as Time Guardian of the Quantic Multiverse, only to end up suffering the consequences and being shown the consequences of their actions. In addition to that, Alix was shown via time portals different counterparts of Bunnyx screwing up the timeline just because they were gonna be fired for anything even remotely close to lying to the other heroes about the future, especially because she was a coward dealing with the trauma of the Cat Blanc timeline and because of something unexpected in the timeline such as Cat Noir betraying the team just because his obsession with Ladybug after discovering her true identity had resulted in him being arrested for sexual harassment, aiding and abetting his terrorist father, and for abuse of magic power.
But the topping of the iceberg was showing Alix different counterparts of Bunnyx refusing to use her powers to ensure that Lila Rossi was arrested before she could cause irreparable harm, refusing to tell the other heroes who Gabriel Agreste's successor as Hawk Moth in the future really is, and completely disregarding the rules of time travel to make sure that timelines in which Bunnyx was revoked for siding with a naive Cat Noir and the entire team of temporary heroes in the event Marinette was Akumatized and had planned to use whatever powers she had to bring down all of her enemies. Including Hawk Moth, Mayura, Lila, Alya, Adrien/Cat Noir, and many others that were just as worse as them or twice as bad.
To say the least, Alix was horrified at all of the things her future counterpart and her various counterparts across the Quantic Multiverse did just because they all didn't want anything about their pasts and their futures to be permanently changed, even if it was for the greater good.
After another five weeks in the years 2001 and 2005, Alix Kubdel was finally gonna become the Bunnyx that Steel Butterfly molded her into being.
After a few weeks in the year 2010 of training with the Rabbit Miraculous, Present Day Bunnyx was ready for action.
BUT she was strictly ordered not to interfere with any timeline unless her actions are given the green light by either Steel Butterfly, Ladybug, Master Fu, or the Council of Time Guardians.
At the same time, she was also ordered not to abuse the Rabbit Miraculous to change the past in order to preserve her future just because she did something wrong and was gonna suffer the consequences. Unless she wants the Order and SB to inflict an ancient curse that prevents disgraced former Miraculous users from attempting to use a Miraculous jewel again. In addition to that, Bunnyx was also ordered to never question Steel Butterfly's orders, especially if Future Bunnyx shows up to get her revenge on SB for changing her past.
Soon, Alix was permitted to learn about Steel Butterfly with strict supervision so as to prevent fights from happening in case Bunnyx loses her temper.
When Alix found out about Steel Butterfly's original plans, she kept her cool as Steel Butterfly explained the reasons why he initially hated her and her future counterpart in the original timeline and in his home universe.
But, just as it looked like Bunnyx was gonna continue doing what her future counterpart did, she instead hugged the taller butterfly hero and she let it out.
After the whole thing was over, Steel Butterfly smiled evilly as he said, "Welcome to the French Miraculous Superhero Team. Welcome to the ranks, Bunnyx."
The End.
(Author's notes: That's right; Bunnyx is now among the ranks of the French Miraculous Superhero Team. BUT she'll still be closely monitored to ensure that she doesn't turn rogue since Steel Butterfly has every right to be paranoid.
At the same time, if Bunnyx proves herself only in situations where she would be needed as a last resort, Steel Butterfly will consider giving the young Rabbit Miraculous user the ability to fly.
Nextly, in the next chapter, Animan will have to go up against the likes of Dragon Butterfly. BUT, in reference to the Aligned continuity Dinobot leader Grimlock going up against Predacon hybrid Ser-Ket in the Retribution comic book series, Animan's Tyrannosaurus Rex form will have to contend with Dragon Butterfly's ability to transform into a dragon! Dragon Butterfly's dragon mode will look like a combination of Saphira from Eragon, the Beast Wars Transmetal 2 Dragon Megatron, the Demon Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 in his dragon mode, Chikara Shisho in her dragon mode, Hisomi Shisho in his dragon mode, the TMNT 2003 Leonardo in his dragon mode, and the Primeverse Predaking in his dragon mode.
See you all in chapter 14: Dragon Butterfly vs. Animan.)