It was finally the night. The night Gwen, Marinette, and Alya are having their sleepover at Alya's home (which is an apartment). Alya was currently putting her younger sisters to bed whilst Gwen and Marinette set up a movie and got orange juice.
Alya came out of her sisters bedroom and joined Gwen on the couch whilst Marinette got out some plates and spoons.
"You seriously have a technique down with your little sisters. But...uh, who are the Sapa...Sapo...?" asked Marinette from the kitchen area.
"The Sapotis? They're little monsters from a créole fable...who are always pulling pranks and making all sorts of mischief." Alya answered walking over to Marinette.
Marinette takes a tray with two slices of cantaloupe out of the refrigerator before Alya says "Now that the three of us are all alone I can finally tell you."
Alys pulls out her phone and says "Apparently Ladybug has been around at least since the pharaohs. But no way can the Ladybug we know can be five thousand years old! So, I downloaded a great app that analyzed some recordings I had of her talking. Based on the frequencies of her voice, it turns out she's a girl our age!"
Marinette grunts nervously, then looks away from Alya's phone To see Gwen coming over to them
"Alya I thought you put your sisters to sleep." says Gwen
"I did." answered Alya
"Then why did they just steal the orange juice and rush back to bed?" said Gwen. They then hear Ella and Etta chuckling.
Alya looks over the couch to see that the pitcher of orange juice has been completely emptied. She groans. Alya then puts the two of them back to sleep with them blaming the Sapotis for stealing the orange juice. After that she leaves.
"What were we saying again?" asks Alya
Marinette sets the tray of cantaloupe on the coffee table, then runs over to the TV and picks up some DVD cases
"Uhh...we were about to watch a movie!" she chuckles and grins as she holds out three movie cases, but then notices that she's showing a DVD of a Ladybug anime; so she switches it to show some other movie before chuckling again.
"Oh, yeah! Ladybug! She's like, a high school girl. So to figure out who she really is, all we need to do is to find a girl our age who's always late to—"
Gwen interrupts Alya
"Don't you think there's a reason why she keeps her identity a secret? I mean haven't you seen superhero movies or read the comics? They keep a secret identity to protect their family." said Gwen
Everyone gasps when they hear Ella and Etta chuckling again. They look to see that the two pieces of cantaloupe have been eaten. Alya groans a second time.
After giving her sisters a scolding and threat Alya then leaves them to go to sleep in their bedroom and returns back to the the kitchen area where Marinette was washing her hands and Gwen was looking for something else to eat in the fridge.
"So Gwen can you repeat that" asked Alya
Gwen repeats the whole secret identity for a superhero thing but gets interrupted by Alya's sisters again. The two toddlers were watching the dog movie on the TV. This time though Alya was fuming at them as she stomped in front of the TV.
Alya then tosses them back into bed and takes away their amusement park trip for the next day causing them to cry in bed.
Alya comes back after that drama and explains "Well, if I knew who Ladybug really was, I'd keep it a secret. I would even help her! Like say, if you were Ladybug, I'd cover for you — when you needed to transform in school, go fight the "baddies", you know?"
"Yeah but the less people who know the better." replied Gwen
"You serious? If I was Ladybug, I'd totally tell you! Because I tell my best friends everything." said Alya
Marinette then joins the conversation "You're right, Alya. You should always tell your best friends everything. So come on. Spill the beans. Are you actually Ladybug?
"Right. Like I'm telling you. Nuh-uh." The three friends laugh at this.
They then begin to watch the Dog movie when suddenly they hear laughter coming from Ella and Etta's room.
"That's it! I've totally had it with these kids!" yells Alya as she marches over to the twins' room and slams open the door saying "Don't even try to blame this on the... Sapotis?" Upon opening the door Alya could see that her sisters were now actual Sapotis thanks to the power of an akuma.
The two then leapt out of the bedroom and began eating all of Gwen and Marinette's snacks.
"Maybe you were a little too strict with them." says Marinette standing on the couch to avoid the Sapotis.
"She should have just glued them to their beds." said Gwen as sorta a joke.
The Sapotis suddenly multiply themselves and start to cause chaos in the room.
"Normally when you're firm with kids they don't turn into monsters!" exclaims Alya from beneath the kitchen table.
Alya then notices that one of the Sapotis is drinking from the fish tank. She tries to catch it but it leaps away. More Sapotis appear out of the fridge and make an even bigger mess in the apartment.
"They're multiplying after they eat!" exclaims Marinette. She ducks down when a book flies toward her head with an "Aah!"
"Window!" says one of the Sapotis
"Gwen, the window! We can't let them out!" says Alya now wearing a pot on her head. Gwen gasps, and tries to catch one of the Sapotis, but without her magic to trap them it was hopeless. It and all but two of the clones escape from the apartment.
"Marinette, take care of these two! We've gotta bring them back!" says Alya as she rushes out to the street to catch the others only to find them gain the world record for worlds fastest made chaos.
The two remaining Sapotis leap from the apartment balcony followed by Marinette.
"Marinette I gotta go make sure my family is ok and that those Red Devils haven't gotten to the Rustbucket yet." says Gwen rushing out of the apartment and slamming the door behind her.
"Tikki flies from Marinette into view next to her on the balcony."
"Time to transform!" said Marinette
"Tikki, spots on! Ha!" she says as she begins transforming into Ladybug.
Ben was fiddling with the Omnitrix hoping to unlock a new alien and Grandpa Max was had the radio on listening to local French music. His music was interrupted by a breaking news alert catching his attention
"This alert goes out to everyone in Paris. The capitol is being overrun with red monsters, most likely akumas. Until the situation is resolved The Mayor advises all Parisians to flee and has declared a state of emergency." said the reporter through the radio
"Ben you hear that?" asked Grandpa Max turning around to find Ben not paying any attention at all and still fiddling with the Omnitrix.
"Ben!" Grandpa Max spoke up to catch Ben's attention. It did and Ben turned to him and asked "What?"
"Akumas you better transform. Also how many times do I have to tell you to stop messing around with the Omnitrix. It's not a toy Ben." stated Max.
"Yeah yeah Grandpa I got this." said Ben stepping out of the Rustbucket to see Paris in complete chaos and anarchy.
Everywhere there was at least two Sapotis trashing something.
Ben watched as the Sapotis ate garbage and then multiplied. "Clones huh. I know just the alien to match them." said Ben activating the Omnitrix.
As soon as Gwen burst out of the Apartment lobby doors she saw Alya chasing some of her Sapotis sisters to the park carousel. She also saw all of the anarchy that had broken out in less than a minute and it was spreading faster then she could think.
"Oh man." Gwen said at that.
She then looked around for a place to hide. Before she could find it she saw Ladybug swoop in and begin trying to fight off the Sapotis. Gwen knew this was her chance to escape and transform.
Gwen resumed her search for a spot but there were no alleys or benches or any secluded areas here. She also knew she couldn't transform here or Ladybug and the akumas could figure out her identity. The Rustbucket was also a mile away by foot and that was if it was parked in its usual spot and the Sapotis hadn't hijacked it.
Gwen looked behind her to see the Apartment lobby was empty. Everyone probably hid in their own apartment or fled the building since it was the source of all this madness. She went in there and after a quick glance to the left and right transformed into Lucky Girl to go help Ladybug.
A Sapotis was looking at an opened traffic light control panel when Ladybug and Cat Noir both appear surrounding it.
"It's forbidden..." began Ladybug " ...to play around with traffic lights!" finished Cat Noir pushing the Sapotis off and tangling it in the wires.
Lucky Girl then appeared and threw a mana disc at its hat breaking it and making the Sapotis poof out of existence.
"Nice shot LG but how'd you know to aim for the hat?" asked Cat Noir
"Woman's intuition." answered Lucky Girl walking up to him and Ladybug
"Also why hasn't an akuma been released?" asked Cat Noir
"Cause that monster was a clone! These Sapotis multiply every time they eat. To get to the akuma, we'll have to destroy the original one — the very first one Hawk Moth akumatized." answered Ladybug
"So you mean we've gotta catch 'em all." said Cat Noir
"Come on! I thought you liked a good challenge!" teased Ladybug
Cat Noir groans knowing it's going to be a long night. He, Ladybug, and Lucky Girl then work together destroying Sapoti clones in order to find the original Sapotis' akuma, but without success.
Their crusade to defeat the Sapotis eventually leads the to the Pont Des Arts bridge where they were stealing Andre's ice cream and jumping on him like a trampoline.
"Hey, don't eat that ice cream or things'll get catastrophic!" punned Cat Noir
"What is it with you and puns?" asked Lucky Girl
"It's my thing." answered Cat Noir
The Sapotis all charge forward, leading Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Lucky Girl to try to take them all down; but the heroes end up surrounded.
"Get Back!" shouts Lucky Girl as she creates a barrier and launches it at all of the Sapotis pushing them all off the bridge along with Andre's ice cream cart.
"My cart!" cried Andre watching it sink along with Ladybug and Cat Noir destroying their hats with their yoyo and Staff from atop the bridge.
"Ooh sorry about that." said Lucky Girl
Once they had taken out all of the Sapotis here at the bridge the team then regrouped to make a plan.
"Alright we can't just keep taking them all on. We need a plan." said Lucky Girl
"I know but how are we going to get them all when their everywhere?" asked Cat Noir
"Hope I have an idea then." said Ladybug
"Lucky Charm!" Shouted Ladybug using her special power. What fell into her hands was a teapot.
"A teapot? Is there something inside it?" asked Lucky Girl
Ladybug looked inside and saw nothing.
"Nope wonder what it's for." said Ladybug
"Well our powers and kung fu aren't enough to beat them so it's all riding on your magic teapot or something." said Cat Noir
"Of course! I know someone who can help! Gotta go!" says Ladybug turning to leave)
"Right now? Can't it wait?" asked Cat Noir
"No, it can't. You've gotta trust me on this one." said Ladybug
Cat Noir nodded in understanding "Go on M'lady." he said. Ladybug did as he said and leapt across Paris towards Fu's place.
"Does she do this often?" asked Lucky Girl
"No this is the first time." answered Cat Noir, quite curious himself about where she is going.
Cannonbolt was not who Ben had in mind when he wanted to fight fire with fire. But well Cannonbolt was doing a good job of rolling straight through the Sapotis and squishing a lot of their hats but of course he could nevr find the right one.
He was also looking for Gwen who had likely transformed into Lucky Girl by now. Cannonbolt just hoped she was safe.
Cannonbolt saw a large crowd of Sapotis attacking the Grand Paris Hotel. He rolled over there and came out of his ball form to find windows shattered and the Sapotis helping themselves to everything in the place. Not just the food but the furniture to.
"Okay that is so messed up." said Cannonbolt.
Cannonbolt rushed in there on his feet and slashed and threw the Sapotis across the place destroying several of their hats in the process.
"Get em!" shouted one of the Sapotis as all the rest piled on top of Cannonbolt knocking him down.
"Hey get off!" growled Cannonbolt. He converted into ball form capturing several Sapotis inside him and then sun in place to shoot the Sapotis off of him and if they wouldn't let go they would be crushed underneath his weight which would smash their hats.
Most of the Sapotis did let go thus getting themselves flung across the room and banging their heads on furniture and the wall as well as smashing their hats.
Cannonbolt then unrolled unleashing the Sapotis on his belly out and onto the ground. Cannonbolt stomped on them and destroyed their hats.
Cannonbolt continued to finish off the rest of the Sapotis in the place. It took him a while but after he finally squashed the last propeller hat he was left panting and out of breath.
"Man heh heh that was exhausting." said Cannonbolt
Cannonbolt then heard a familiar zipping sound. He walked over to the broken down entrance to see Ladybug leaping and zipping across Paris with a teapot in hand.
"Knowing her she has a plan." thought Cannonbolt rolling after her.
Of course something had to go wrong and Cannonbolt heard the familiar beeping of the Omnitrix.
"Not now!" exclaimed Cannonbolt changing direction towards an alley.
Right before he entered the red light washed over him turning him back into Ben who ran into the alley.
"Why is it you always time out when I need you the most!" complained Ben staring at his now red watch.
Cat Noir and Lucky Girl were being chased down the street by a mob of Miraculous hungry Sapotis. They stopped running in front of the mayor's residence and took up fighting stances.
The Sapotis surrounded them and climbed vehicles. The Sapotis then leapt at Lucky Girl and Cat Noir. Lucky Girl threw mana discs at them to keep them away whilst Cat Noir deflected their advances off of his staff.
The Sapotis however were to great in number and overwhelmed them. Cat Noir and Lucky Girl were tackled down and restrained. Of course at the last second Ladybug comes in wrapping her yoyo around every one of the Sapotis's hats and snaps them off poofing them out of existence.
She and a fox hero leapt in and fought off the rest of the Sapotis in the area.
"This is so insane! I've got powers and I'm fighting supervillains!" exclaimed the fox hero
Cat Noir gets up to see both Ladybug and the fox hero in heroic poses.
"Whoa! Who's this superhero friend of yours? No offense, but I thought we were the only ones. Well and all the aliens."
Ladybug was going to introduce Alya as a superhero but realized "Cat Noir, I like to meet...uh..."
"Uh...Rena Rouge! Yeah, my name is Rena Rouge!" declared Alya now Rena Rouge
"Well, sneaky fox, think you'll be as sneaky as a cat?" playfully spoke Cat Noir
"Um..." said Ladybug trying to interrupt.
"I don't know. Should we take bets?" jokes Rena Rouge ringing Cat Noir's collar bell.
Lucky Girl got up to see this all going down and was confused by it.
"So you a new superhero?" asked Lucky Girl walking over.
"Yes ... hopefully." said Rena Rouge.
It was easy to tell based off of that that this was her first night out.
"Don't worry I'm sure you'll get the hang of it." said Lucky Girl. Rena Rouge smiled at that but they were interrupted by Ladybug.
"Guys! Sapotis on our everywhere!" exclaimed Ladybug getting everyone's attention.
All the heroes looked around them and there were Sapotis as far as the eye could see.
"We're surrounded!" said Rena Rouge in panic
"We're retreating!" said Ladybug as Cat Noir grabbed and pulled Rena rouge away from the Sapotis.
A purple outline appeared on the face of every Sapotis.
"Sapotis, listen to me! You have the four superheroes on the run and they are nothing against you! There are still enough of you to destroy everything! So band together and take their Miraculous in the Square, or I'll remove your powers and there'll be no more mischief!" ordered Hawkmoth.
All of the Sapotis began to converge on the square.
The heroes all leapt (or in Lucky Girl's case levitated) onto the mayor's office rooftop to retreat.
"There must be thousands of them!" said Cat Noir
Ladybug was about to use her Lucky Charm but someone interrupted her.
"Not as many as there is of me." said the silly voice.
Everyone looked over to see on their right was a short person with black frills on his head with black and white skin as well as some green spots on his shoulders. (really hard to describe Ditto so just google him if you don't already know what he looks like.)
"Um there's only one of you." said Rena Rouge
Ditto grinned and then duplicated himself.
"How about now." both of the clones said simultaneously.
"Two is not greater than however many of them there is." said Ladybug.
"Trust me knowing him he's already made more." said Lucky Girl
"You know it." both of the clones said giving themselves a high five.
It was then that Ladybug realized that the Sapotis weren't chasing them. "Why" she thought. Everyone else had the same thought and looked over the edge to see all of the Sapotis fighting a Ditto.
"Whoa." was all Rena Rouge could say. Ladybug was shocked to see all of these short child like creatures fighting the Sapotis and winning.
"Who are you?" asked Ladybug to the clones.
"Ditto!" they both said
"Take their hats and break them." said Cat Noir.
"No wait if they do that and the one with the akuma is across Paris I won't be able to get the akuma." said Ladybug.
"So then whats the plan?" asked Lucky Girl
Ladybug thought for a moment and then used her lucky charm. A large vacuum fell into her hands.
"A vacuum?" said Ladybug surprised and unsure what to do with it as she examined it.
"So are you going to suck up all the hats or something?" asked Cat Noir
That was when Ladybug realized that there was a setting that says "Super suck." on it.
"Cat Noir that's it!" exclaimed Ladybug.
"It is?" said everyone in confusion.
"Yep. Everyone I need you all to gather the Sapotis into this square. Can you do that." said Ladybug
"You know it!" said the Dittos who then leapt off of the roof and joined their other clones to spread the word.
"I can push a lot of them into the area with my magic." added Lucky Girl leaping off the roof and she began pushing Sapotis into the square.
"Rena Rouge we need you to create an illusion to lure the Sapotis into the Square." said Ladybug
Rena takes out her flute and says "I've never tried it. I hope it works."
"Just think of the illusion you want to create. Stay focused!" explained Cat Noir
"What should I make though?" asked Rena Rouge to Ladybug
"Anything that can lure the Sapotis into the Square." said Ladybug
"I can do that." answered Rena Rouge confidently. She blows onto her flute and forms a ball of energy at the far end of it "Mirage!" Rena throws the ball of energy and creates an illusion of a buffet everywhere around the square in front of the mayor's building.
The Sapotis stopped fighting the Dittos and then tried to grab the illusion of food. The Dittos held them back and continued to multiply themselves to overwhelm the Sapotis.
"Phase 2. All of you spread the word to the Sapotis of the buffet to lure them in." said Ladybug.
Cat Noir, Rena Rouge, and Lucky Girl nodded in agreement and left the rooftop to do just that. Before Lucky Girl could go Ladybug grabbed her arm and said "Wait here I have a special job for you." as she then explained to Lucky Girl what she is supposed to do.
Cat Noir and Rena Rouge were saying things like "Hey Sapotis unlimited food for your empty tummies in front of the mayor's place!" and "free food right in front of the mayor's office!" to every Sapotis he could find.
The Dittos let them all pass through towards the fake buffet but blocked them all off from the illusion since touching it would make it disappear into smoke.
"Gah can't keep this up." grunted one of the Dittos.
"Hold the line!" shouted another.
"Ladybug I think thats all of the Sapotis now." said Lucky Girl
"Wait just to be sure." said Ladybug
Right after she said this one of the Sapotis broke through the Ditto's blockade and touched the illusion turning it into orange puffs of smoke.
"Close the barrier!" shouted Ladybug knowing if Lucky Girl didn't act now the Sapotis could escape.
Lucky Girl place large Mana walls trapping all of the Sapotis in the Square.
As soon as that was done Ladybug turned on the super suck setting on the vacuum. The vacuum vroomed to life and began sucking things into it.
The Dittos and Sapotis held on to lampposts and bench and anything they could grab not to be pulled into the vacuum. The Sapotis's hats hwoever flew off of their heads and into the vacuum's bag.
After about 10 seconds the bag was filled with every Sapotis hat and Cat Noir landed back ok the rooftop with Rena Rouge.
"A cataclysm please." asked Ladybug pointing to the vacuum bag
"T'would be my pleasure M'lady." replied Cat Noir prior to catclsyming the bag with the hats turning it all into dust and releasing the akuma.
Ladybug saw this and caught it in her yoyo. Of course predictably she used her Miraculous Ladybug, tossing the vacuum into the air to revert all of the damage to public property in Paris. It also returned the Sapotis into Alya's sisters.
The Dittos all began cheering and remerging themselves into one.
"Is it always this complicated when you're saving Paris?" asked Rena Rouge to the Heros.
"Its usually more so." answered Cat Noir.
"Come on Rena lets get you home. Oh and Cat can you and Lucky Girl make sure the twins down there get home alright." asked Ladybug pointing to Ella and Etta down in front of the building who were also disoriented from being akumatized.
"No problem Ladybug." said Cat Noir followed by a "yes" from Lucky Girl.
Ladybug then took off over the rooftops followed by Rena Rouge back to her apartment.
The Dittos were nearly done rejoining themselves into one but before they could the beeping of the Omnitrix time out began and they all started floating.
"Aw man I hate this part." said one of the Dittos before they all were forced to recombine into one and then timing out with a red flash.
Ben sat up and said to himself "Man I hate that the Omnitrix always forces us back together like that.
He then looked around to see where in Paris he was in front of the Louvre.
"Aw man this is at least 10 miles from the Rustbucket." groaned Ben knowing it would be a while before he could either run back as XLR8 or for Grandpa to come pick him up.
Hawkmoth stood in his lair contemplating. He hypothesizes that there is a guardian to the miraculous but has no clue where to find him. Not just that but also that he needs to find more out about the aliens and Lucky Girl that kept appearing.
"Dark Wings fall Nooroo." said Hawkmoth turning back into Gabriel Agreste and returning to his study to be greeted by his assistant Natalie.
"Another failure I take it sir?" asked Natalie
"Yes. But even in failure my knowledge grows and one day I will gain an advantage of my enemies so strong they won't stand a chance against me." replied Gabriel as he sat at his computer desk and googled images of all the aliens that have made an appearance so far.
Gabriel then put them all side by side and was shocked to see something.
"Natalie come here." said Gabriel in shock
Natalie walked up to him and looked at the screen.
"Is that?" she started but Gabriel finished her sentence for her.
"Yes. They all hold the same symbol. Which means that all of the aliens are likely the same person and not only that but it is likely a miraculous. One I intend to get my hands upon." finished Gabriel.
Well this chapter took me awhile to finish so I hope you all liked it. My update schedule may get less frequent soon due to midterms coming up and may be some other things. Anyways I doubt my update frequency will go down anytime soon but after Halloween I may take a break until December and then another break til the new year but maybe not. Thanks again for reading and please do review I really REALLY would like some feedback and I haven't been getting that many reviews lately so I would like that number to go up.