Marinette fell down into bed. She was exhausted from having her soul drained from out of her and she needed a good rest.
Tikki was also drained from the soul sucking of Zombozo. Apparently it also affects Kwamis
"Night Tikki." yawned Marinette as she lay in bed.
"Good Night Marinette." said Tikki as she lay in her hidden bed Marinette made for her.
The two of them dozed off unaware of what was happening elsewhere.
At the Agreste Mansion...
As soon as he got home Cat Noir leapt through his window and passed out on his bed dropping his transformation. Plagg yawned and went to sleep in his camembert cabinet.
Both of them fell asleep nearly instantaneously also unaware of what was going on across Paris
The Rustbucket
When they had gotten back from Ozobmoz's circus Ben and Grandpa had let Gwen sleep to recover her strength from having her soul stolen.
They themselves were going to hit the hay as well when they heard screaming coming from outside.
Ben and Max both looked out the windows to see people running and shouting in fear of something. What they saw made their mouth's drop.
It was a giant balloon version of Zombozo! He was now all translucent red except his clown nose which was now purple. He was strotting or floating after the people with his butt aimed at them.
"Now don't be afraid it'll make you happy!" said the balloon Zombozo
Balloon Zombozo squeezed his nose and out came a pink gas cloud that covered the people like a storm. After the gas disappeared the people looked unfazed but after a few moments however they began convulsing in helpless laughter unable to stop themselves.
"Ahhhh music to my ears." said Zombozo as he glowed green for a moment as he grew larger and larger until he had nearly doubled his size to that of a building!
Zombozo floated down the street to look for more victims whilst laughing himself.
"Oh man." was all Ben had to say knowing what would have to happen next.
Adrien tossed and turned in bed. The constant noise coming from out across the street was frustrating him since he was mentally and physically exhausted from getting his soul drained.
He covered his ears with his pillow when his brain finally turned back on. These people were screaming and laughing! Adrien groggily got up and looked out his window to see a giant balloon clown farting at people he was chasing turning them into laugh zombies.
"I couldn't get one day of rest could I" groaned Adrien as he went to wake Plagg
Adrien opened the camembert cupboard to find Plagg sleeping on a pile of his precious cheese. He picked Plagg up and shook him awake whilst saying "Plagg. Plagg wake up."
Plagg opened his eyes and yawned. "Ugh kid gimme five more centuries."
"Plagg there's an akuma!" whisper yelled Adrien.
"No can do kid. I need to recharge my batteries. Maybe in the morning we can deal with it." yawned Plagg before going through Adrien's hand and back onto his pile of cheese.
Adrien ignored Plagg's laziness and exhaustion and said "Plagg Claws Out!" sucking Plagg into his ring and transformed him into Cat Noir.
"hah yes knew Plagg cou- beep beep" went Cat Noir's ring despite just now transforming.
"What I just transformed! Claws in" said Cat Noir turning back into Adrien.
An angry, grumpy, hungry, Plagg floated up to face him.
"I told you I need to recharge my batteries!" whisper yelled Plagg
"Ok here have some more cheese." said Adrien whilst grabbing some camembert from the cabinet. He gave the cheese to Plagg (who ate it in one bite). Before he could call out the transformation phrase Plagg stopped him
"Woah kid I can't transform right now. Getting your soul stolen really makes me so tired, not even cheese can fix it." Plagg said as he went to grab more cheese.
"But Plagg Paris is in danger I can't just do nothing!" said Adrien
"Ok if I may have a solution." said Plagg. He then continued "If I eat this entire wheel of cheese then I may have enough energy to keep the transformation sustained but if you use cataclysm then It'll probably cause an instant transformation back in yourself."
"Yeah but there's one problem with your plan Plagg. How are you going to eat the whole wheel of cheese!" whisper exclaimed Adrien.
"simple kid. Us kwami's instantly convert what we eat into pure energy to fuel us. Unlike you humans who gotta use toilets ugh." answered Plagg disgusted
"However there is one good thing about being drained of energy! I get to eat so much camembert!" exclaimed Plagg forgetting to whisper
"Plagg keep it down. Do you want to wake my father." said Adrien
"Right sorry. Well better get started eating" said Plagg as he began to eat the whole wheel.
"This is going to take awhile." groaned Adrien knowing Plagg at his current rate of eating would finish in about 5 minutes which gives the akuma five minutes to wreck Paris and Ladybug alone to fight it! Well and Lucky Girl and the alien guy unless they were dealing with the same predicament.
Marinette's room
Marinette was sleeping harder than she had ever slept. Of course after about five minutes of hearing screaming and laughter it would kinda wake one up.
"Ugh mom turn off the TV" groaned Marinette with no response.
After about another minute later with the laughter and screams still coming in her brain had finally turned back on. She shot out of bed and stumbled towards Tikki
She found her in her little secret bed and shook her awake.
"Ugh Marinette just a few more minutes." groaned Tikki
"I'm sorry Tikki but there's no time! I think there is an akuma out on a rampage." said Marinette
Tikki slowly floated out of her bed and then said "Marinette I can't transform you right now I'm too tired from getting my soul stolen." yawned Tikki
"But Tikki what should we do then! How will we save Paris!" exclaimed Marinette earning a SHUSH from Tikki
"Right sorry but what are we going to do?" asked Marinette.
"I might be able to transform you if I eat a lot of food but if you use lucky charm it may instantly end your transformation." answered Tikki
"So if I feed you a lot of sweets then we can transform but I won't be able to use my lucky charm?" asked Marinette just to confirm what she had heard. She got a nod from Tikki in response.
"Alright I'll sneak down to the kitchen to get you your snacks Tikki." said Marinette as she opened up her trap door hoping her parents were still asleep.
Ben went chasing after balloon zombozo while Grandpa Max took care of Gwen whom was still exhausted and sleeping from getting her soul stolen.
Zombozo also continued to fart at people and make them into laughing machines. Ben dove under a public bench and activated the Omnitrix.
As the rhombus appeared he then though to himself "Who to choose?" Four Arms would just be punching a balloon, The farts he makes may be flammable so no Heatblast, Upgrade has no tech around except cars and the metro so that's out to. Just then it hit him. Diamondhead could pop him easily and isn't made of flesh but diamond so the gas shouldn't affect him.
Ben dialed up Diamondhead. "Its Hero Time." said Ben as he pushed down the dial beginning the transformation.
Of course Murphy's Law happened once again and he ended up with the wrong alien. Instead of Diamondhead Ben got Wildmutt. Wildmutt is a dog like alien with orange fur, no tail, and no eyes who sees with echolocation.
Wildmutt snarled at the Omnitrix in frustration after he leapt out from underneath the bench and began to pursue Zombozo.
Zombozo was continuing his fart attacks when he heard some snarls and growls. He rotated himself to see Wildmutt in pursuit of him.
"Ahhh wondering when you would show up! I've got a big one to release just for you!" said Zombozo as he aimed his rear end at Wildmutt. He fired the fart but Wildmutt leapt over the gas and slashed at Zombozo's arm cutting him.
Zombozo began to deflate "Hey cut that out!" he growled as the cut then resealed itself.
"Stupid mutt. You can't pop me like a regular balloon I am Zombloon!" boasted the now akuma named Zombloon.
If Wildmutt could speak he would've commented on ow terrible such a name is. Instead he snarled and leapt at Zombloon again this time for the leg. Zombloon's leg broke upon being cut but resealed itself like the last cut.
"Foolish child. You've already tried this what makes you think it would work!" boasted Zombloon.
Wildmutt however wasn't trying to defeat Zombloon, but buy the people time to escape whilst Zombloon was distracted.
Wildmutt decided to take another approach he sensed with his echolocation that Zombloon aimed his buttocks at him and was about to fire so he leapt onto a lampost and then leapt off of that onto a stone wall as he then clawed his way to the top as Zombloon cut the cheese on the street.
"Stay still!" demanded Zombloon. Wildmutt roared from atop the building and then leapt off of it and onto Zombloon's hat. The Hat was like another part of him it was attached to his head.
"Get off!" shouted Zombloon who tried to shake Wildmutt off with no success. His claws tore into the hat cutting it and a second later he lost his grip and was flung onto the street in front of Zombloon.
Zombloon grinned and re-aimed his butt at Wildmutt and prepared to fire but was hit in the gut with a projectile nocking him to the side causing his fart blast to hit a building instead.
"Hey put me back up!" demanded Zombloon as he tilted 90 degrees to his right. The projectile boomeranged back to its owner as he caught it in his hand. The projectile was a baton and the owner of said weapon was Cat Noir. He was standing on a rooftop of a building adjacent from the street they were fighting in (imagine where they fought Stormy Weather for the first time in the streets but without the ice)
"I am totally putting you on my list of top stupidest akumas" taunted Cat Noir.
"Stupid! Who you calling stupid you mangy alley cat!" yelled Zombloon as he rotated back up 90 degrees to his left and back to standing. Just as he got back up however he was hit in the head with a yoyo sending him back down to the ground with a shout of frustration.
The yoyo retracted back into Ladybug's hand as she landed on the same rooftop as Cat Noir. She rose up to stand beside Cat Noir and then asked "ANy idea where the akuma is kitty cat?"
"Nope bugaboo but you are looking wonderful tonight." said Cat Noir
Ladybug groaned at this "How many times do I have to tell you to stop calling me bugaboo!"
"You don't M'lady." answered Cat Noir earning another groan and a facepalm from Ladybug.
"Just follow my lead." she said as she leapt off the roof top and wrapped her yoyo all around Zombloon trapping him down before he could get up again.
"Hey NO FAIR!" boomed Zombloon. He then cringed as he began charging up a powerful toot. The sounds of such could be heard from his belly which sounded like he has an upset stomach.
"Cat Noir quick find his akuma I'm not sure how long I can hold this." warned Ladybug
"On it Bugaboo, I bet it's in his hat." replied Cat Noir.
Wildmutt had heard everything they had said and knew they were wrong since he had torn the hat before. So before Cat Noir could land on the hat Wildmutt tackled him off and tried to shake his head no it isn't the hat its in. However Vulpamancers were never good with communication.
"Hey get off!" said Cat Noir as he kicked Wildmutt off of himself and leapt back at the hat. Wildmutt internally groaned at that and tried tearing the shoes to see if the akuma was in there.
"Gotcha you nasty butterfly." said Cat Noir as he clawed Zombloon's top hat but nothing came out of it. The hat then resealed itself again and looked as if it had never been touched.
"Its not the hat!" Cat Noir shouted to Ladybug. Just then Zombloon's dam burst unleashing a sickening green cloud of his farts and propelling hit towards Ladybug. He collided with Ladybug and Wildmutt whilst laughing like a maniac and Cat Noir gripping onto the hat so as not to fall off.
He was farting like a rocket shoots fire from its engine and Ladybug and Wildmutt couldn't move due to the velocity keeping them restrained.
Ladybug and Cat Noir both screamed whilst Wildmutt was screaming internally.
Zombloon wasn't slowing down any time soon and was quickly approaching a building; so Ladybug knew she had to do something. She reached for her yoyo and tried to toss it out to act as a barrier but it just trailed behind them bouncing off the ground.
They collided with the building squishing Ladybug and Wildmutt between it and Cat Noir was thrown off of the hat and through a window landing in someone's living room.
Zombloon however had released too much gas and looked like a deflated whoopee cushion as he curled up into a large pile that Ladybug and Wildmutt fell onto. Ladybug was unconscious but Wildmutt was just stunned instead because his skull was stronger.
Wildmutt climbed off of the pile. Zombloon had begun to re-inflate himself "Gimme a moment and you'll all be destroyed in a moment and your miraculouses will belong to some grouch who gave me superpowers."
Ladybug rolled off of Zombloon's re-inflated gut. Cat Noir had gotten up and reached the edge of the window he fell through. When he saw Zombloon he knew where the akuma is. Cat Noir knew it was in his nose because it's the only part of him that doesn't look droopy or deflated.
Wildmutt crawled over to Ladybug and roared in her face. Her eyes shot open instantly and she screamed punching Wildmutt in the face.
Wildmutt backed off after that and tried to communicate with his snarls and growls.
"Agh my head." moaned Ladybug.
"Ladybug the akuma's in his nose!" shouted Cat Noir as leapt off the edge to try and swipe it but Zombloon arched back and bounced him off of his gut and onto the ground.
It took a mont to process in Ladybug's head but she then snapped back to reality. She stood and threw her yoyo at Zombloon's nose.
"Ow!" said Zombloon as his nose was knocked off. "My nose!" he shouted. His nose had begun rolling down the street right towards the sewers! Zombloon tried to retrieve it but tripped on his currently re-inflating body.
Wildmutt charged towards the nose. He grabbed it in his mouth before it reached the sewer grate. He then ran back towards Ladybug with the nose in mouth. Wildmutt dropped the ball in front of her.
Ladybug picked up the ball and said "Thanks Doggy." whilst rubbing his head. Wildmutt didn't like it and backed away with a growl.
"My nose give it back!" yelled Zombloon who was nearly re-inflated by now. He began trotting over to Ladybug only to get slashed by Cat Noir cutting a hole in him which slowed down the re-inflation process.
"Hurry destroy it! I can't keep this up forever!" warned Cat Noir.
"Already on it kitty." answered Ladybug as she ripped the nose in half and out fluttered a purple butterfly.
(One de-evilising process later)
Zombloon glowed purple until he was back as the wither husk of a clown. He tried to run away but was tackled by Wildmutt.
"Agh get off of me you darn monster dog!" demanded Zombozo. Wildmutt kept him restrained on the ground.
"Um Ladybug shouldn't you use miraculous ladybug now?" asked Cat Noir
"I know but I haven't used my lucky charm and I don't know how to do it without it." answered Ladybug
"And you can't use you power or you'll instantly return back into yourself." said Cat Noir for Ladybug
"Yeah how'd you know?" asked Ladybug
"I'm in the same situation." answered Cat Noir
"Well I guess I'll have to use it as quick as possible once I get home and hope it'll last long enough to work." said Ladybug as she through her yoyo.
"Bug out." said Ladybug as she swung off.
"I hope it works." said Cat Noir as the cops pulled up to return Zombozo to jail.
Ladybug landed on her rooftop. "Ok here goes nothing." she said to herself.
"Lucky Charm!" she shouted. What fell into her hands was a badge of some sort. It had a white hourglass symbol on it and was surrounded but a ladybug patterned rim.
"Strange" thought Ladybug to herself suddenly her earrings began to beep rapidly, much faster than usual. She realized each beep signified a second so without time to lose she tossed up the badge into the air shouting "Miraculous Ladybug!" as fast as she could.
The swarm of ladybugs appeared right as her transformation dropped and Tikki came out of her earrings.
Tikki fell into Marinette's hands. "Oh I'm so sorry Tikki. I know you told me not to but I wasn't sure how else to fix all the damage." pleaded Marinette
"Its ok Marinette cough cough You did what was best cough cough" replied Tikki
"Oh no Tikki are you sick again?" asked Marinette
"Probably." answered Tikki coughing again.
"First thing tomorrow I'll take you to Master Fu to heal you." said Marinette.
"Thank you Marinette." said Tikki as she fell asleep in Marinette's hands.
Ok The final part of the Clown's Madness is done. So now I will probably do glaciator in the next chapter. So as for the goals I set we have reached the reviews one in fact exceeded it. As for favs and follows We are at exactly 70 as of this chapter so that goal has been achieved. Favs is nearly at 60 with currently 58 so lets get that up. As always thanks for reading and I'll see you all next chapter
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