When Bloom and Adrien walk into class, they see Miss Mendeleiev's computer going haywire - there's a lot of scrambled code, and Damocles and Mendeleiev are stumped. Max and Marinette walk in shortly after, and Damocles tries pressing a series of buttons on the laptop. It seems to work…until a picture of a dinosaur appears on the screen.
Max quickly identifies it as 'Dino-33' - a malicious computer virus. He offers to try something, but Mendeleiev sends him to his seat…and then Max's bag starts talking to him in a robotic-sounding voice.
Bloom leans over to Marinette, and asks "Have we had a few too many late nights, Mari, or did Max's bag just talk?"
Longg says "Nope, Hatchling, it did." There's having a Kwami hiding in your bag, and then there's that - Kwamis don't talk robotically, some of them haven't been active since before robots were invented!
The talking bag informs everyone that they only have 75 seconds before the hard drive is irreversibly damaged, prompting Damocles to let Max try to save the computer and the school's data. Max plugs a hard drive he invented in, handed to him by a robotic arm, which not only sucks up all the virus but cleans the laptop's hard drive in the process, and then Damocles and Mendeleiev congratulate him as everyone else gathers around to see the little robot introduced as Markov.
And then Mendeleiev tells Max that 'his toy he manufactured is very impressive, but to put it away now and go back to his seat.' That instantly sparks outrage on Max's face, even as Markov insists he's not a toy but Max's best friend. Mendeleiev insists that Max just programmed Markov to say that, even though Max swears he didn't, and Markov 'yells' that she's being unreasonable. Damocles confiscates Markov, saying Max can get him back at the end of the day, and refuses to listen to Max's pleading or Markov's cries.
Most of the class moves on from Markov's confiscation, but Max stops at Bloom and Marinette's desk and says "Markov's never been away from my side before, I'm worried about how he'll handle this emotionally."
Marinette promises to see what she can do…then, when Miss Mendeleiev refuses to let her see the principal as Class Representative, she gets herself sent to the Principal's office.
Of course, about a minute later…a wave of green energy goes through the room.
Everyone goes dead quiet, even as all the electronics in the room start rattling, and Bloom swallows before saying "Miss Mendeleiev, I think we're about to get proof that Markov does have emotions…"
The laptop suddenly floats in the air, along with all the tablets in the classroom, and Adrien yells "Everybody out, now!"
Nobody, not even Miss Mendeleiev, argues with him about that - they've all been at ground zero for Akuma attacks, they know what one generally looks like! What it looks like being…everything going absolutely insane in the space of a few moments to a few minutes.
When they all get to the courtyard, though…they find an Akumatized Markov getting into a giant amalgamation of machines - 4 excavators, along with a car at the top and what looks like a generator on the back of the giant robot. He scoops Max up, declaring they'll never be separated again, and hangs Miss Mendeleiev from the school roof to keep her from separating them…and then Ladybug catches her right before she can hit the ground, the yo-yo wrapping around her shoulders mere inches away from the pavement.
Ladybug yells over "If you truly love your friend, you should listen to him!"
Max tries to convince Markov - Robostus, now - to give up, but the small robot says "I'm doing this for our friendship, Max, they want to keep us apart!" And he won't let that happen, he won't! Luckily, Robostus has the perfect way to make sure they can be together forever.
Ladybug struggles in the excavator's grip, trying to squirm free even a little - Cat Noir's stuck upside down, and Dragon Fyre went to save some civilians from four raging cars while they went on ahead, so…they're pretty screwed. She hears something about a wish, though, and it making Markov human…before she can even begin to wonder about that, though, she hears something even more amazing. Robostus turning against Hawk Moth, saying 'his friends will look after him' while he takes the Miraculous for himself.
And then two incredible, fantastic things happen.
Max frees them, knocking the small robots away from them with his bag and using the excavator's controls to dump them onto the ground.
And Dragon Fyre shows up as Robostus's asking Max why he did as much, getting Max to safety and leaping up to Robostus' windshield - landing so hard she puts a large dent in the hood of the car in the process. "YOU MECHANICAL NITWIT!"
Cat Noir gets Max to his feet, and murmurs "She's going off this time…"
Ladybug asks "You think she's angry because she nearly lost us?"
Cat Noir would say that's a contributing factor…but there's something else to it, to.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING, TRYING TO WISH YOURSELF INTO HUMANITY?! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WOULD BE?!"
Robostus says "I'd be a human boy like Max, and we'd never be separated again!" He reaches up with his remaining Excavator, only for it to suddenly explode.
Dragon Fyre slams her fist on the windshield, making a dent in the glass, and yells "That's only half the consequences, you digitized nearsighted twit! The Miraculous Wish isn't about right and wrong, good and bad! It's about balance! If you were to wish you were a human, someone else would lose their humanity!"
Ladybug and Cat Noir make strangled sounds of shock and horror, even as Max starts muttering about how nothing can be created or destroyed, only changed. And then Ladybug squints at Dragon Fyre, who's currently berating Robostus, saying how the universe demands balance in all things, and asks "Is it just me, Kitty, or is Dragon Fyre's suit…glowing?"
Cat Noir nods, then makes a strangled sound in the back of his throat once more as his pupils dilate to their full extent. "Um, M'Lady? Look up."
Ladybug goes slack-jawed in disbelief at the sight of a thunderstorm rapidly forming above the stadium. Max swallows nervously as the wind starts to pick up, and asks "That's not Robostus, is it?"
Cat Noir shakes his head, and says "I think…that's my sister's doing."
Ladybug mutters "Wind, water and Lightning. We got the wind here, the water's up there for sure…oh no!"
"You want to know the worst part, though, Robostus? There's a reason the expression 'Karma's a bitch' exists - for you to become human, the person that would lose their humanity would almost certainly be the one you value as much as yourself! It would most likely be Max who would lose his humanity!"
Robostus gasps, as much as a robot can gasp, and asks "What?!"
Dragon Fyre snarls "Balance, Robostus! That's what'll happen if you make that wish! Do you really want to just reverse your role with Max's? Is that what you want for him?!"
"No, of course not!"
"Well that's what'll happen if you go through with this! He'll be the one called a toy instead of you, he'll be the one locked in a cupboard, he'll be the one wishing he was a human instead of you! Looked down on, considered nothing but a bit of excellent programming! Is that what you want?!" And that's when her partners' cries reach her ears, drawing her attention from her furious rant to the surrounding area.
"Sis, you gotta calm down!"
"Dragon Fyre, get down from there!"
"Look up, you're generating a thunderstorm storm of sizable quantity above the stadium! And lightning off your own body as well!"
And that's when she glances over, seeing her two partners waving their arms in the air and jumping to get her attention and Max Kante staring up at the sky. Her brother points upwards frantically, and she finally notices the lightning that's arcing off herself, the glow that's coming from her suit…and the wind that's blowing fiercely. When she glances up, there's a jet-black thundercloud formed overhead, lightning crackling and arcing in it.
What the actual hell?!
Thinking quickly, Dragon Fyre smashes through the windshield, grabs Robostus, and leaps off the giant robot just as she feels something snap inside that cloud - how, she couldn't tell you…but magic is generally just something you have to feel to understand. And, somehow or other, she was connected to that storm cloud for a moment…and felt the exact instant it decided to let loose, or perhaps the instant Longg's power called that lightning strike down to earth.
Down to the robot.
Dragon Fyre's just cleared the giant robot when the lightning hits, resulting in herself and Robostus hitting the ground hard and rolling from the shockwave. When everyone else blinks the spots from their eyes, and Cat Noir stops using his Baton as a shield to deflect debris and shrapnel, Ladybug stares at the smoking husk of the robot they were struggling with and says "Well…that takes care of that."
Cat Noir glances around, then gasps and yells "Sis!"
Ladybug gasps as well, upon seeing her best friend, and shouts "Dragon Fyre!"
Max yells "Markov!"
All three go running towards the red-head lying on the ground. Dragon Fyre groans, turning over slowly as she does - until Ladybug forcibly rolls her over and pulls her into a sitting position anyway - her whole body is tingling like she got hit, but it doesn't just hurt. Yeah, she's sore from the shockwave, and hitting the ground, but her skin is tingling like there's an electric current just under the surface. She's not a fan, even if she does recognize it as Longg's magic. Cat Noir slides to the ground on his knees, wrapping his arms around her and saying she had them worried sick.
It'll get better as you get used to it, Hatchling. I must admit, I hadn't expected that big of a lightning strike. Erm...oops.
Robostus bring the two of them from their mental conversation, asking "You saved me? Why?"
Dragon Fyre holds herself up by one hand, saying "Part of being human, Markov. We're stubborn, unreasonable, occasionally selfish and stupid creatures...but we can also put ourselves aside for other people."
Robostus says "Being human sounds complicated. And difficult."
Ladybug huffs, crossing her arms and giving Dragon Fyre a stink-eye, and says " And that's without magic."
Robostus hovers for a moment, then says "What you said about the wish..." Everyone goes dead-silent at Robostus' words, and he continues "I don't want it anymore. Not if the cost would be Max's humanity."
And then, suddenly, purple energy washes over Robustus, turning him back into Markov as the Akuma suddenly emerges from his body.
Once the Akuma is purified, Cat Noir asks "Um, quick question. Where was Hawk Moth during all of that?"
Ladybug nods, even as they pull Dragon Fyre to her feet, and asks "Surely he would've done something about you rebelling against him?"
Markov says "Oh, simple. I kept him busy with his security system, had it fire a lot of his missiles at him."
Ladybug near-shrieks "He's got missiles?!"
Cat Noir asks "You remember what happened?" Focus on that, not on the detail that he's willing to blow people up.
Ok, kitten, I've got nothing. He's off his rocker, as the expression goes.
Markov nods, as much as the tiny robot can nod, and says "I remember everything I did. I'm sorry, by the way. But Hawk Moth has several dozen missiles in his lair, or he did anyway."
Cat Noir looks absolutely horrified, but Dragon Fyre says "Maybe he remembers because he's a robot? Or because the emotion the Akuma was attracted to dissipated?" Cat Noir's just grateful, right then, that his sister is giving him something to focus on other than the detail that his father is apparently homicidal.
"There was also a heart-monitor and life-support system running in there, but I didn't interfere with them."
Dragon Fyre sees her brother go pale as a ghost, but before she can say anything the world starts spinning. "SIS!"
Ok, Hatchling, I may have used more of your magic to fuel that storm than I thought…
Cat Noir feels relief flood him when his sister groans - she just collapsed to the ground, would've hit her head had he not caught her! - and pulls her up asking "What happened, Sis? C'mon, open your eyes…"
She groans again, eyes blinking open and closed a few times, and she finally says "Longg used my excess magic to fuel the storm you guys saw, but more energy went into it than he intended." New avenue for her magic to go, it flooded Longg once he started it. Normally, something like that would only start to happen when she was old enough, but…perks of magic. And perks of being close with your Kwami.
Ladybug worriedly asks "Why'd that happen now? I get that magic is unpredictable at the best of times, but…"
After a moment, Dragon Fyre says "According to Longg, it's not supposed to happen for a few years. Until we're older, better able to handle the drain. But, with my magic…" With her Fairy form having been forced by Befana, unlocking a power level with it...well, she has energy to spare and then some.
Max throws his hands up, saying "I give up. This is so far out of the realm of science and logic that I just can't follow."
Dragon Fyre grins, and says "Saw what you did back there, Max. Thanks for saving my partners." He'd make a decent Miraculous Holder…if he can be convinced to stop relying so heavily on logic all the time.
Some things, as she well knows, simply defy all logic. She's one of them.