MIRACULOUS
Chapter 34
(This Is Not A) Swan Song Part 4
Elsewhere in Paris…
Luka was getting ready on the driver's seat of the bus as he tried to hotwire it. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and saw that survivors are approaching, lead by Rocket.
"Hurry, hurry, everyone in!"
Men, women, and children made their way into the bus.
"Thank you for this," Luka said. The engine turned on and adjusted the mirrors.
"No sweat kid," Rocket said. "Really takes gut to go out in the open on your own like that."
"Someone needs to help," Luka said. "Even with these heroes out there, someone needs to put things back together," he concluded. Rocked grinned and nodded.
"Everyone in?" Rocket asked as the last of the survivors got into the bus. "All right, go, now!" he shouted at Luka, who was at the driver's seat.
"What are you going to do?"
"Hey, I'm a superhero," Rocket boasted. "Somewhere I gotta be."
He closed the bus gate and went off. Luka looked out for a moment before starting the engine and drove his way to the shelter.
"Everyone sit tight!" Luka shouted as he drove. The situation was indeed grim as he looked back at the survivors for a moment. Some children were crying, some adults comforting them but mostly silent. No one brought themselves to say any words of comfort. Luka then quickly turned back on the road when a Cthulu claw struck the road, obstructing his path, causing him to steer abruptly out of the way. "Hang on!" he yelled as he struggled to regain control of the vehicle.
People were pointing out how Mister Bug and Lady Noir are struggling against the creatures as they dodge the attacks. Luka himself is dodging the strikes as best as he could, given the vehicle's limitations.
Rocket dashed his was jumping through the rooftops and jumped right on the creature's face, knocking it back.
"Rocket!" Mister Bug cheered.
"Looks like you forgot someone," Rocket pointed at the creature. He punched his fist in the air. "Ooooooooh!"
"Oooooooh!" Mister Bug joined in. Lady Noir looked at them back and forth, confused.
"Um, Mister Bug?"
"It's a long story…"
"KID!" Rocket shouted from the bus roof. "You're gonna have to take a long way there!"
"I can't!" Luka yelled. "That stuff is still out there! I have to take the route I know is safe!"
"Not so safe here with these monsters now, huh?" Rocket looked back up as he took another look at the situation and called Mister Bug and Lady Noir. "Guys, I'm a bit of a pickle right now…"
"I know," Lady Noir said. "You need to get the people in the bus to safety, right?"
"Yeah but…"
"Go for it!" Mister Bug conceded. "We got your back!"
"All right," Rocket conceded. "I'll cover you."
Luka grinned as he revved up his vehicle and hit the gas. Rocket got up on his feet and looked back up at the imposing threat still looming over Paris.
"BARRAGE!" Rocket shouted. A slew of transparent clones emerged from him and scattered around, all shouting indistinct taunts.
"Hey, over here!"
"Catch me if you can!"
"I'm ready for ya, bring it on!" He jumped off the bus roof then disoriented the monster once again.
"Hey, I said gimme the belt buckle!" Cartman emerged.
"Make me!"
"EEEEEEEEEEHhhhhhh!" Cartman sneered, as he gave chase. "Come on face me or are you not worthy of the raccoon?"
"STOP TALKING!" Rocket yelled and tackled each other.
Elsewhere…
"Mister Bug," Lady Noir called. "How much longer till the hourglass finishes?"
"Still halfway through," he replied.
"So we should just wait it out?"
"Got a better idea?" he asked. One of the other creatures struck again in which they dodged.
"Not really," Lady Noir admitted. "But all we can do now is to protect this bus!"
Luka was exasperated as he changed the motor set in an attempt to speed up.
"Hold on to your butts," he said to the people as he anticipated a claw heading their way and made a hard turn to the right as a claw barely missed the bus and the people inside screamed. "I know, I know!" Luka shouted at the people as he regained control of the bus.
The Rocket clones did whatever they could to steer the creatures away from the bus, but there were so many of them that the bug can be collateral damage by them even if they went unnoticed.
"Damn it!" Mister Bug shouted as he saw a large tower falling on the road ahead of them. Luka was hitting the bus and accelerated as fast as it could but saw that the building was about to fall and it will surely land on them before they could get to the other side.
"The refuge is on the other side!" Rocket shouted.
"They're not gonna make it!" Lady Noir shouted.
"Rocket, Do you spare any more clones?" Mister Bug said to his yoyo.
"I'm barely keeping these guys at bay! OW!" Rocket screamed in pain as the call got cut off when Cartman grabbed him via chokehold.
Mister Bug looked back and forth, not really sure what to do. He took another look at the red hourglass with black spots and saw that the sand was still ways away to the other side.
"No choice, let's focus on the bus!" He jumped in to protect the bus, Lady Noir followed. Mister Bug then grabbed her by her waist, causing her to yelp. "Listen to me, my little kitty, I'll swing you by the falling tower. I need you to destroy as much as you can to minimize the mass then I'll try to hold it long enough until the bus goes through. Got that?"
"You got it!" Lady Noir made her fists as she tightened her shoulders. With a look of determination, she closed her fists to her chest like a little girl in excitement.
"So cute…" he thought with a grin. He immediately focused on the task at hand. "Ready!"
"CATACLYSM!" she shouted as Mister Bug swung by the falling building and destroyed as much as her power reached.
Mister Bug swung his yoyo over the already horizontal mass of what was left of the building and swung under it. Once he reached upward he threw Lady Noir up in the air and landed a few blows to the approaching Cthulu sentimonsters and landed on another rooftop safely. She turned back and saw what Mister Bug was doing. He was tying the falling building.
"My lady!" Mister Bug shouted with a smile and threw the hourglass for her to catch it. She caught it and was about to ask why he threw it at her.
*GASP*
She realized what was he doing. He knew there were too many Cthulu sentimonsters, approaching him. He was about to sacrifice himself to save the people in the bus as it made its way to the refuge.
"CAT NOIR!" she shouted exasperatedly as she hugged a frozen Cat Noir.
"Gimme the miraculous!" a brainwashed Cat Noir shouted in an operatic voice.
"I know you can do it, my lady…" Cat Noir soothed as he pushed back against a group of attacking citizens, brainwashed by Zombizou before he was eventually overwhelmed.
"Do you think I have it easy!?" Mister Bug shouted angrily at her, which was the last time they had switched miraculous.
"My lady," he called in a very embarrassed whimper as he hanged tangled helplessly of a web of cassette tape. "Would you mind not telling anyone about this? Summertime Lovin' is not an opponent anyone would want to lose to…"
Lady Noir snapped back to the present and saw the Cthulu sentimonster fast approaching Mister Bug as he held his yoyo long enough so the building won't fall on the bus, thus vulnerable to the monsters. Unwilling to let him do this again, especially since he's the one with the Ladybug powers now, she knew he couldn't do this again. With the energetic boost she felt with Queen Bee's top, she had to try. She jumped on the way of Mister Bug and between the three nearest Cthulu's…
"CHAOS!"
A wave of black energy emitted from her, pushing back the giant creatures as well as obliterating everything in its path, including what was left of the falling building. Mister Bug was the only one unscathed. She gave herself a smile as she managed to avoid hurting those she didn't target.
People in the bus screamed as it jumped as Luka once again did his best to land as safely as possible.
"Hard landing!" he yelled. "Hang on!"
The bus made a hard landing as his heart shattered when he heard people screaming and children crying.
"Hold on, we're almost there!"
"Mommy, are we going to die!?"
"Everything is going to be okay!"
That last one hit Luka in the chest because of how it was weighing on him now.
*WHAM!*
The bus landed upright. He revved up the bus and continued on. They made it to the safe zone and should be smooth sailing from there.
"YES!" he shouted as he hit the gas. "Good luck guys," he said as drove on back to the shelter.
Meanwhile, Lady Noir landed on her feet and broke down on her knees.
"My lady!" Mister Bug shouted, running to her.
"I'm okay…" she said, weakly. "A cat always lands on her feet, right?"
Out of nowhere, another Cthulu sentimonster appeared behind him and whipped out a longer tentacle from its mouth. Everything suddenly went silent on Lady Noir's ears…
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Lady Noir mustered what was left of her adrenaline and dashed towards him. She jumped over him, she was now between him and the Cthulu sentimonster and the tentacle grabbed her.
"NOOOOOO!" Mister Bug yelled and grabbed her by her hand and attempted to pull her out of its mouth. "Hang on!"
After a few seconds of struggling, Mister Bug put on a challenging tug of war to the creature but was still no match.
Lady Noir saw more Cthulus approaching… She gave a gasp and turned to Mister Bug again.
"Mister Bug…" she said, resigned. "Let me go…"
"Like hell, I will!" he yelled as he pulled.
"It's okay…" she smiled. "Please…"
"My Lady," his voice cracked.
"You were always there for me… You always thought of me so I could move forward… You always gave yourself up for me and I did nothing in return… I know what you were doing just now again, but it's my turn now…"
"No…" Mister Bug whimpered, refusing to let go.
"Sorry, Bug-a-boy, but it's all up to you now!" she said, breaking down in tears, as she slapped his hands away.
"MARINETTE!" Mister Bug screamed.
"Don't worry, Bug-a-boy," she soothed with tears in her eyes. "I know you can do it!"
The Cthulu sentimonster slowly consumed her. Once she was absorbed by its mouth until only her right hand remained. She gave him a thumbs-up before it was gone as well. Mister Bug was clearly perturbed by the scene. His heartbeat was the only thing he could hear at that particular moment. The other approaching sentimonsters seem to be put on the back burner of his mind as everything seems to be in slow motion. He collapsed on his knees, not knowing how to continue his fight.
"MY LADY!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Cartman emerged once again and boasted. He childishly mocked for Mister Bug for a few seconds before turning serious. "Cthulu, Bon appetite!" the sentimonster whipped out its larger tentacle and shot. "That's for wasting my time!"
The tentacle was about to reach the paralyzed and forlorn Mister Bug on his knees.
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"KID!"
Rocket jumped in and grabbed the tentacle by the sides to avoid being caught by it.
"Rocket?"
"Remember what I asked when you have me the buckle!"
"Huh?"
"You want to prove yourself to her, right?"
Rocket pulled the tentacle and kicked the sentimonster in the face.
"Remember the hourglass!" Rocket said and then jumped up to Cartman.
"Gimme back my buckle!" Cartman shouted.
"AS IF! Bring it on, Meatball!" he said.
"Hey!"
*GASP*
After a moment of thought, Mister Bug realized what Rocket meant.
"Wha…" Mister Bug "Of course!" he whipped out the hourglass and saw that all the sand already made the other side. "Time's up…"
Before the beast was about to strike, it stopped and began to stumble.
"What the…" Cartman muttered.
The original Cthulu that he and Rocket were on top on, started to twitch, Its claws clenched its stomach as if in pain. Then one claw tried to cover its mouth.
"FIRE DRAGON!"
The sentimonster vomited a massive cloud of black feathers. It was a massive if not an uncomfortable sight. They were all paralyzed as the creature spent several minutes puking which almost looked like black smoke. Rocket was the first to react and punched Cartman in the face.
"Mister Bug, NOW!"
"Huh?" He turned to Rocket before snapping. "Oh, right!"
He jumped and grabbed all of the black feathers with his yoyo.
"Hey, Cartman!" he shouted, grabbing his attention. "Feast on this!" he released all the feathers, shoving them on him, knocking him off the original Cthulu's shoulder.
"WhoaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAHHHH"
The ground vibrated as a female voice elevated as a battle cry emerged from what appeared to be a void. The Cthulu creature puked once again though this time it was Ryuko, aided by the older Queen Bee. Much to Mister Bug's surprise, they were… holding hands…
They both landed on an epic superhero landing in a matter that he would've loved to see in a superhero flick. The two then looked at each other for a moment. They quickly let go of their hands and looked away for a second before shifting focus yet again.
"Mister Bug, remember the location!" Ryuko shouted. Then he remembered where he was when he was about to purify the amok. It took him a moment before the light bulb went on.
"Crap!" he shouted as he saw that Cartman was nowhere to be seen where he thought he had fallen. "Grrr… no time…" he muttered as he jumped to where Lady Noir had destroyed the picture so he could purify the amok before Cartman literally jumped on him.
As they saw Mister Bug jump off, Mister Bug and Future Queen Bee watched on. Ryuko took a look at Queen Bee.
"So, what is your story?"
"Huh?"
"It is my fate to travel to the past and stay there to ensure that the knowledge of the Altean era to be passed on to the civilization of our past. Why do you possess the knowledge and travel to the present? Why are you involved?"
"Oh…" Future Queen Bee rubbed the back of her neck. "You knew about the Altean era even before you know of your fate?"
"The Tsurugi family was part of keeping the knowledge alive for generations. Altean was one of the civilizations that existed for millennia before what we know as the 'stone age.'"
"Yeah…" Future Queen Bee meandered. "The island between worlds, that's where all the knowledge of the Altea remained and played a key role in developing our civilizations as well as the miraculous which they were more secretive.."
"I have been told that they receive the knowledge from an island, the knowledge was neatly left behind. Someone has prepared everything to be discovered, someone with knowledge of this era. I have suspected my mother was preparing me for this one-way trip… That I was the one to rediscover what was buried.
"Kagami…" Future Queen Bee soothed affectionately. Probably forgetting it was present Kagami. Ryuko's voice broke.
"I did not want to believe it," she said. "I wanted to make my own life, carve my own destiny!"
"Kagami…" Future Queen Bee was about to calm her down but Ryuko immediately stopped her as she quickly got a hold of herself and wiped her tears. Ryuko took a deep breath before speaking again
"So tell me…" Ryuko asked. "What is your stake in this?"
"Well, do you know Cat Noir's kwami?"
Meanwhile…
Mister Bug eventually arrived at the place and saw the picture again. Only this time it was black. He immediately grabbed it and was about to tear it down with his own strength, but to no avail,
"Ugh," Mister Bug muttered. "Damn it," I gotta finish this!"
"AAAAAAHHHH!" Cartman once again jumped in and was to body slam Mister Bug once again.
"NOT AGAIN!" Mister Bug yelled and curled in a fetal position, too intimidated to dodge. But a massive amount of pollen appeared with the wind, levitating from his target. Someone then grabbed him by the foot.
"AAARGH!"
"Not this time!" It was Rocket and he spun him midair and threw him through an abandoned building. He landed on the ground and shouted at Mister Bug. "Bug boy! Over here!"
"Go long and go full circle, Rocky Raccoon!" Mister Bug threw the darkened picture like an American football.
Rocket was running long for the catch, only for Cartman to ambush from behind.
"No!"
"WATER DRAGON!"
Ryuko's water form busted out of the Parisian street pavement below him, catching him amongst the waves and frozen him. Future Queen Bee stepped in and summon the coldest winds she could muster. Cartman, however, quickly broke free, knocking out both her and Ryuko and continued his pursuit on Rocket.
"You're mine!" Cartman shouted as he was about to snatch the picture from Rocket.
Out of the blue, Mister Bug's yoyo enveloped her and tightened his arms, and was tied up, causing him to land on his face.
"Nice," Rocket whispered as he turned and jumped on Cartman's back and boosted himself to catch the picture and landed on a roll, literally. He ran towards Mister Bug and tore the frame, releasing the black feather.
"No more evil doings for you, little amok." Mister Bug said, opening his yoyo and spun it. "Time to de-evilize!" he shouted as he purified the amok. "Gotcha! Bye-bye little feather," he opened his yoyo releasing the now white feather.
"Whew!" Rocket wiped the sweat off his forehead. "That was pretty rough!"
"I say you did quite well," Mister Bug winked at him. "I was wrong."
"AW YAYUH!" Rocket boasted.
"MIRACULOUS MISTER BUG!" he threw the red hourglass up in the air. It burst into the usual red shining beam which swooped around Paris as it always had. On a bittersweet display of Paris's recovery from its near decimation, he could not help but feel the weight of those he could not save. The Cthulu monsters all disappeared and the other previously consumed heroes also emerged. They quickly made their way back to Mister Bug and gathered around, with Lady Noir being the first to arrive.
"I knew you could do it, Bug-a-boy!" she jumped with her arms spread and hugged him. Despite it all, Mister Bug couldn't help but give a light chuckle and hugged her back.
Rena, Carapace, Pegasus joined in with enthusiasm. Present Queen Bee was a little more hesitant as she approached. Rocket was not too far behind, helping Ryuko and Future Queen Bee on their feet. Ryuko was watching how Mister Bug spun her around with the biggest smile on his face. Considering what she knows now, it finally clicked with her that she will never have him. Not only because he has his eyes for someone else but as well as fate has other plans for her.
"Bour… Chloe…" Ryuko mustered to say, catching Future Queen Bee's attention. She bit her lip and asked. "Are you…?"
"HOLD IT!" Rocket shouted, looking around. "Where's Cartman?"
Everyone was immediately on the alert. Looking around as they had completely had forgotten about their target.
"Oh dudes," Carapace groaned. "It'll be for nothing!"
Future Queen Bee immediately stepped in.
"Not quite," she said. "Anyone has an ability to track him down? Anything my healing shot gave you?"
"I'm all used up!" Rena said.
"Me too!" Carapace.
"Maybe I can catch him with my teleportation but, where do I begin?" Pegasus said.
Lady Noir stepped away from the small group and kneeled. She placed her fingertips on the ground.
"Sense…" Lady Noir whispered. She opened her eyes which were all white. In a sonar radar vision, he spots a panicked Beefcock trying to make a break for it on all fours.
"Eeeeh, eeeeh, eeeeh," whimpered as he patted his way to escape.
"I know where he is!" she said.
"We must bring him in. We must capture him at all costs! He cannot escape again…AH!" Ryuko tried to get up but collapsed in pain and exhaustion.
"Ryuko," Future Queen Bee held her up though on the brink of collapsing herself.
Rocket, Rena, and Carapace's warning signals have sounded at the same time.
"We can't let him get away again!" Mister Bug said. "Come on, my lady we can catch still him!"
"Hold on, Bug-a-boy!" she said. "He's sticking to the streets, try heading down the valley," she pointed towards one alley in a different direction. "It leads to a street where he is heading, you can ambush him there."
"Gotcha!" Mister Bug affirmed and the two split and went after Cartman.
"Mister Bug!" Rena stopped him.
"You stay and rest," he said before she could protest. "You've done enough, you should be proud."
"Dude," Carapace began.
"We'll talk later," he gave a two-finger salute and went off to the alley Lady Noir just pointed to.
"*groan* why does he think he has to protect us all the time?" Present Queen Bee. Future Queen Bee placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled.
"It's just the way he is," she said with a grin. "That's the boy I admire so much, the one I took for granted."
"Bourgeois?" Ryuko asked.
Meanwhile, Lady Noir made her way through the rooftops. With her sense of power still somewhat active she can tell where Cartman is going. Before she could realize it, Cartman changed course and lost him almost immediately.
"Damn," she whispered. She kneeled again and saw that he went up the roof. She looked around and saw that he was keeping his head down but saw where he was. Only this time she went down the streets in the hopes of keeping the element of surprise. She went around the building and climbed up to where she thought he had his back turned. Once she reached the top, she was greeted with something else.
"Welly, well, well," Cartman mocked. "Looks like my Cthulus left me a parting gift," he said as he had Luka on a chokehold.
"Luka?"
"Ladybug!"
"Now, now," Cartman taunted. "One false move and his neck splits in two!" he threatened as he readied his arms to snap his neck.
Out of the blue, Luka took the chance to break free from one of his arms and slammed the back of his head to the face, and ran off.
"AAAAAAAAAARGH! You son of a bitch! You broke my nose!" Cartman held on to his nose, stumbling painfully.
Lady Noir grinned and ran up to him and jump kicked him in the face. He quickly got up and threw an uppercut, but she dodged it. A yoyo appeared and tied his wrist. Mister Bug pulled his yoyo string in, causing him to fall backward. Lady Noir split her staff and turned them into batons. Cartman's brooch's alarm went off.
"Looks like your powers are up!"
"Time's up for you from the moment the hourglass ran out!"
"Shut your goddamn mouth!" he went charging at Mister Bug. Who dodged his attack and, hit him on the chest then punched him in the face with a haymaker, knocking him down on the ground.
"My lady?" he said as he kicked on the face and began rolling uncontrollably towards her like a soccer ball. Lady Noir then slammed him with one of her batons.
"Bug-a-boy?" she hit again, square in the face, causing him to roll back again. "How about a little ping pong?"
"I strike up, you spike it," he said as he grabbed him with his yoyo again. "You really gotta take a walk in the park once in a while," with a hard pull, he levitated him and began spinning around overhead like a sling.
"EEEEeeeeeeeeeh!" Cartman bellowed as Mister Bug spun him.
"Attyoop!" Mister Bug threw him up in the air. A portal appeared behind him where Carapace showed up appeared and stopped the density of being tossed up. Cartman bounced off his barrier and pushed him up in the air.
Rena played her flute and created a mist, before Cartman could react, a barrage of Rena Rouge clones and all collective punch him in the stomach, further pushing him up in the air.
"EARTH DRAGON!" Ryuko shouted as she dropped a queen-sized boulder on him.
The two Queen Bees appeared under him, thanks to another Pegasus portal with their tops in the ready.
"STING!" They shouted together and stung him with their tops while sending a painful electric shock through his body.
"AAAARGH! Goddammit!"
The boulder hit the park's ground on top of him.
"Pegasus?" Lady Noir called.
"Yes, ma'am!" Pegasus affirmed as he summoned a portal to bring Cartman in. He struggled to get up as he panted.
"So you finally hit rock bottom, eh?" Lady Noir put her hands on her hips.
"Screw you!" Cartman. The yoyo tied him up once again. "Uh, oh!"
Mister Bug once again pulled him and spun him up in the air for a few moments. In these few seconds, the others couldn't help but to get a kick of what they were seeing, Rena, let out a giggle while Ryuko was rather almost hypnotized by the spectacle. He then threw him towards the approaching Lady Noir.
"My Lady?" he said as he threw him up in the air.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!"
Just then, another portal appeared, only this time it was not meant for him as Rocket had leaped out and grabbed the peacock brooch out of his breast.
"Guess you got the last laugh!" he said in a boasting voice. "YOINK!" he snatched the brooch from him, causing Cartman to lose his Beefcock persona.
"HEY!"
"Tootles!" he said and he kicked him down and propelled himself back up in the portal as it closed. Lady Noir then jumped and reached right beside him, midair.
"Time for this ex-peacock to get a spanking!"
"NO KITTY IS A BAD KITTY!"
*WHAM!*
Lady Noir slammed her batons onto him, propelling him hard back down, and fell at a fast speed.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
He landed on an old six-story building rooftop breaking his fall. He fell through the six floors and fell on his back on a pinball machine on the café on the ground floor.
"Hey you guys, my back, no seriously, you guys," he whimpered. "Eh, screw you guys…"
"Swan Song" by Dua Lipa plays
Lady Noir landed gracefully on her feet in the middle of an empty street. She panted with a smile creeping up her face, it was over.
"You did it, My Lady!" He jumped as he ran towards her.
"We did it!" she said before Mister Bug grabbed her with a hug and spun her around as they both laughed.
"Ladybug!" Rena and present Queen Bee shouted from afar as they approached her along with the rest.
"Or should we say, Lady Noir?" Carapace added.
"Now that was sweet, kid!" Rocket patted Lady Noir in the back.
"It wasn't all me!" Lady Noir insisted.
"Maybe not," Pegasus confirmed, pushing his glasses in. "But if it wasn't for your new sense powers, Cartman would've escaped again."
"My sense power is courtesy of…" she pointed at Future Queen Bee. "Chloe?"
"The one and only," Future Queen Bee confirmed with her hips on her shoulders and a grin.
"I don't believe it!" Lady Noir said with a laugh.
"Told ya!" Mister Bug boasted. They all took a glance at Present Queen Bee, who was embarrassed by the moment as she crossed her arms with a pouty huff.
Lady Noir took a look at the others. Ryuko, Rena, Rocket, and Pegasus all looked on smiling.
"Welcome back, Lady Noir" Ryuko bowed. Lady Noir disregarded the gesture and gave her a crushing hug instead.
"Oh, Kagami!"
"Ummm…Identities, Lady Noir?"
"You were pretty good, Alya," Carapace said. Rena kissed Carapace on the cheek.
"You're totally awesome, from where do you reign?" Rena crossed her arm with a smirk for a few seconds before the two burst into laughter.
Mister Bug lightly punched Rocket in the shoulder.
"Gotta hand it to you, Rigby," Mister Bug admitted. "You really came through.
"OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!" Rocket boasted. "Wait til Mordecai hears about this!"
"Mr. Rogers?" Lady Noir raised an eyebrow.
"It's a long story," Mister Bug said.
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Carapace mimicked Rocket's arm wave. "Mr. Quintel does that too."
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mister Bug and Lady Noir joined in too.
"Come on!" she nudged Ryuko to do the same.
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!" Pegasus and Future Queen Bee join in too and with a little more coaxing, Present Queen Bee and Ryuko joined in as well.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
They all burst into laughter, giving all-knowing nods to each other they punched their fists together in a circle.
"POUND IT!" they all shouted together.
Song ends
Meanwhile… In the sewer…
Mordecai moaned as he finally regained consciousness and stroked his head. He saw that he was in a janitorial room of the sewer.
"Uhhhh," he moaned. "Where am I? Rigby?"
Author's note: And that wraps up the "Swan Song" four-parter and boy let me tell you it was supposed to be a trilogy… yeah.
I have yet to catch up on recent episodes and I may have to do that before reaching a certain point.
In this story, Luka is older than Juleka and the other kids. I know Austric recently stated that he and Juleka are twins and I have to call BS on that. Speaking of which, I figured that this is the best way to indicate that Luka will play a small but important role later down the line as the threat of Bunnyx's ability is eminent.
Rena's complement to Carapace at the end is a very obscure "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" reference. I congratulate those who know where specifically.
Thanks for reading. Constructive criticism is appreciated.