Adrien and Marinette saw the whole akumatization, they needed to figure out a way to go and transform.
"Man, poor woman, she must be so stressed trying to do everything at once." Adrien understood how she felt.
"Yeah, no kidding. No wonder she got akumatized."
They stood there for a second trying to figure out an excuse to go and transform. Marinette decided to go upstairs, to tell Adrien she said,
"I-I uh… I need to go up to my room, but I need to do it alone! Ok bye!"
Adrien snuck outside to transform, while Marinette transformed in her room and left through her balcony. The two superheroes started making their way towards the target and realized that they were coming from the same direction and ran to Bridezilla together.
"A wedding themed fight! Isn't that romantic m'lady?" Chat batted his eyes and wore a cheesy smile.
"If I were getting married to you, I'd get akumatized as well!" She smirked back at him. Chat put his hands at his heart and gasped dramatically.
"If we were getting married I'd make our wedding purr-fect."
"I'm sure you would, kitty. But you'd have to get there first." Ladybug giggled.
"Don't be so certain I won't." He winked at her.
"Yeah, never in a million years."
"I'll be waiting for a million and one year." They both laughed.
"I don't think that the Ladybug's lifespan is that long."
"Well, I mean we don't know all that we're capab-"
Bridezilla had turned around at that point.
"Will you two shut up! I am trying to fix everybody for my wedding! Your stupid conversation is really distracting!"
Telepathically, Hawkmoth screamed at the woman "Ladybug and Chat Noir are right there, fight them! Get their miraculouses!"
To fight them, her plan was to control Chat Noir's mind, because she could only control one mind completely at a time, and all the other villains seemed to go to Chat Noir first. She could control multiple minds at once, but not with her full attention, the other people would continue doing the last thing she told them to do.
"Little kitties aren't suited well for weddings! Oh the trouble you could cause, Chat Noir!"
She started to control him, but the second before she did, he screamed "cataclysm!" She wouldn't be able to take his ring without getting hurt. Even though it seemed like a good plan, he couldn't account for the fact that she could just tell him to touch something.
Bridezilla was in control of Chat's mind, she picked an empty can off of the ground and handed it to him to get rid of the cataclysm. Right before she could hand it to him, Ladybug grabbed Chat's arm and put it down on the building below them. Fortunately, it didn't destroy the building, just the ceiling. It gave Ladybug time to grab Chat, who was basically unconscious without control over his actions, and find a place where she could come up with a plan. It was hard to swing around holding Chat, he threw Ladybug's balance off. She decided to land in a park because the sprinklers were on, and Bridezilla wouldn't want to mess up her dress or shoes.
"I guess I'm doing everything by myself this time." Ladybug laid Chat on the ground and sighed.
"Lucky charm!"
The miraculous conjured a bouquet of flowers.
"Now what am I going to do with this?"
Without time to think, Bridezilla arrived to collect Chat, and to fight Ladybug. She was followed by an army of civilians that were ready at her command.
"Hi there Ladybug. I realized that my wedding would be much nicer if I had your beautiful earrings, and of course, I need my ring from Chat Noir." She smiled as if she had just told a compliment.
"You don't need our miraculouses for a good wedding!"
"My guests think otherwise! ATTACK LADYBUG!"
Everybody started swarming at Ladybug. She panicked, there were so many people. She did the only thing she could think of doing, she threw the lucky charm. The guests chased it, Chat Noir included. He ran like a cat, on all fours. Of course, whoever catches the bouquet is the next one to get married! This caught Bridezilla off guard.
"No! Come back! Fight her!"
As her head was turned, Ladybug yanked the akumatized wand out of her hand and smashed it on the ground. The butterfly flew out and everything went back to normal. Chat stood up and walked over to Ladybug.
"Hey." He sounded defeated. "I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what?"
"I'm sorry that she affected me. I'm sorry that I was useless again. I feel like we're supposed to be this team, and I'm letting you down."
"You're not letting me down! It would sure be nice to have your help every time, but you try your best."
"Maybe I should just stop being a superhero. It would be a lot easier for you if you didn't have to carry me around."
"No! I need you, like you said, we're a team. I need you!"
"It sure doesn't seem like it! Plus, you don't even like me either, why are you trying to convince me that I'm better than I am!?"
"It's not my fault that I'm not madly in love with you. We were chosen for this! You have a purpose being Chat Noir! I'm not convincing you that you're better than you are. You're not perfect, not by a long shot. You're no Adrien Agreste, but I need you. You are important."
"What does Adrien have to do in all this? How is he so much better than I am?" Chat blushed a little bit, but he hardly realized over his anger and confusion.
"I-I don't know I just thought of somebody perfect! Sorry… Five minutes is probably almost up anyway! Goodbye!"
As they both left to transform back, their whole conversation kept ringing in Chat's ears.
Why did that hurt so much? She said I was perfect but yet I don't feel like she called me perfect. She told me I wasn't as perfect as me. Am I really that different when I'm Chat? Man, shouldn't I be happy about her complimenting me? But I'm not happy, I'm not happy at all.
Marinette got back to the bakery first, she had gone straight there and transformed back to normal.
"This one wasn't that hard, Tikki. It wasn't easy, but we've fought worse."
"You don't want to talk about the conversation you had with Chat Noir afterwards?"
"Not really, I think I just need to process what he said for a minute." Instead of stopping there she continued, "I mean, does he really think that he's not important? That's ridiculous! He's Chat freaking Noir, the wielder of the miraculous of destruction!"
"Yeah, but I don't blame him for feeling like that."
"Why not?"
"Well, it does seem like he ends up being influenced by the akuma much more than you."
"Yeah, but that doesn't change his vitality to our fighting."
The bells on the bakery door jingled, Adrien entered.
"Were you mind controlled?" Marinette asked, that was the only reason she could come up with for his later return.
"Yeah, it was pretty weird. What about you?"
"Nah, just stayed here waiting for Ladybug and Chat Noir to save the day."
"Well, they always do."
"And they're really, really good at it."
"...Yeah. They are."
He walked upstairs. Marinette waited a couple minutes and then followed him.
"So… uh… Do you think the wedding went okay?"
"I hope so! Weddings are so special. It sucks that the bride got akumatized."
"Yeah, makes for a great story though."
"Maybe she'll incorporate it into her toast."
They laughed.
"It was fun earlier."
"What?"
"Making the desserts for the wedding. It was fun. You're really nice to be around, Marinette."
"Thank you! I thought it was fun too!"
"Maybe we can do something together sometime that doesn't result in somebody having a meltdown and trying to destroy Paris."
"We can never be too sure here with Hawkmoth." She laughed, and looked at Adrien. It was like the sun was shining right at her but it didn't hurt her eyes. She knew he didn't love her romantically, but being with him was wonderful, no matter what.
