Alya was heading over to Marinette's home due to an urgent text she received saying "Come over immediately! Emergency!". So she was rushing over.
She ran through the front entrance to the bakery briefly passing Marinette's dad at the register "Hi Mr Dupain. here to see Marinette bye." Alya ran up the stairs and as soon as she got to the trapdoor to Marinette's room she knocked on it. The trapdoor opened almost instantly and Alya slowly climbed through it while panting from all the running.
As soon as Alya got into Marinette's bedroom Marinette quickly shut the trapdoor, locked it and shoved her extra bed on top of it to ensure no one disturbs them.
"Girl... I got your text... What's the emergency?" asked Alya still catching her breath.
"This!" exclaimed Marinette as she showed Alya one of her many pictures of Adrien and another of Ben.
"Did something happen to them?!" asked Alya now worried.
"What no. I can't decide which of them I Like Like more!" exclaimed Marinette.
"Let me get this straight. You are having a panic attack about what guy you like more, and in response to it you sent me a vague emergency text and barricaded the entrance to your bedroom?" said Alya
"Mmm hmm" said Marinette.
Alya just now noticed that pictures of Adrien weren't the only one's up around Marinette's room. Her bedroom now had an equal amount of pictures of Ben.
"Ok girl where and when did you get all these pictures of Ben from. I mean I get Adrien he's a model there's pictures of him everywhere, but Ben? He is not in the public eye so how-" Alya stopped herself as she looked closer at the pictures and noticed a lot of them were blurry or had something obscuring or partially covering the camera.
"Please tell me you didn't." said Alya
Marinette's face burned pink as she nodded her head.
Alya groaned and replied "Girl that is so stalking! You can't just go around getting pictures of someone without them knowing like that. It's creepy."
"I know I know. But I felt that I needed at least one picture with him in it. So I went out to get one but I could never get a very good pose or angle of him so I kept taking more and more and one thing led to another and-" Alya covered Marinette's mouth because she was starting to hyperventilate and go into super panic mode.
"When I take my hand off of your mouth. Take deep breaths okay?" said Alya gaining a "Mmm hmm" from Marinette.
Alya removed her hand from Marinette's mouth as she took deep breaths and calmed down.
"Better?" asked Alya
"Yeah I'm ok now." answered Marinette.
"Ok so you got tons of creepy pictures of Ben now. So what are you going to do about it." asked Alya
"That's the thing I'm freaking out about! I don't know?!" exclaimed Marinette getting a little panicked again.
"Summarize the whole thing for me again I don't quite get it?" said Alya.
Marinette sucked in a lot of air and spoke in her typical run on sentences. "So My small crush on Ben has been growing ever since that party at Chloe's with the Werewolf akuma and now its rivaling my crush on Adrien and I don't know what to do and the one thing I did decide to do was get some pictures of Ben but then that led to stalking him and now I feel really bad about it and can't make up my mind on who I love more!" Marinette began panting after speaking for so long.
"Ok girl you need some help." said Alya
Marinette perked up at this awaiting to hear Alya's advice. "First you should at least scrap all the blurry or partially obscured photos of Ben." stated Alya
"Done!" said Marinette as she cleared a chunk of them off her wall and dropped them all into her trash bin.
"Second Are you really ready to give up on Adrien Girl?" said Alya
"I...I..." Marinette couldn't answer so Alya answered for her.
"You don't have to decide now but its ok to like more than one guy. You just can't date more than one guy. So this brings me to my third point. Who would you rather pursue. Ben or Adrien?" said Alya
Marinette stood still staring off into space for a moment and then replied. "I... I'm not sure. I mean Adrien is perfect in every way and so is Ben just perfect in different ways but I can never work up the courage to ask Adrien out. But Ben maybe I could?" Marinette didn't seem to sure on her answer so Alya told her "Tell me when you make a decision and I'll support you either way but go with what your heart tells you."
"Thanks Alya." thanked Marinette
"Of course Girl. What are besties for?" said Alya
"Now if you aren't panicking about anything else can you possibly undo the barricade blocking your trapdoor cause I kinda need to get home." said Alya
Blushing in embarrassment Marinette pulled the bed back into its proper place and said goodbye to Alya.
After Alya left Tikki popped out from inside Marinette's purse.
"Alya is right Marinette go with what your heart says." said Tikki
"I know Tikki it's just so hard to know what my heart is truly saying when I feel like it is telling me to like both Ben and Adrien." replied Marinette.
"It's not just the stress of choosing who I like more Tikki. It's also if I should keep trusting the alien hero." added Marinette.
"Marinette I want to give you advice on this situation but never has there been a problem like this with any Ladybug before." answered Tikki
"So the best I can tell you is try to find more facts before acting on whatever you decide." added Tikki
"Thanks for the advice Tikki." said Marinette. She went to her designing desk and began to work on a new dress to help calm her nerves.
The Next Day at School
School was always a bore for Ben. He was once again sleeping through Ms Bustier's english class while everyone else was paying attention. Everyone except Marinette who thinks Ben looks cute when he's sleeping.
Ben began to snore. Marinette stopped thinking it was cute now but funny as she stifled a giggle. Gwen slapped Ben on the back of the head. Ben shot up and acted like he had never been asleep at all and pretended to take notes.
The bell rang and everyone left the classroom. It was the last class of the day so normally everyone would be heading home but it was not a normal day.
Before anyone could leave rock monsters stormed the school through the exit. Everyone ran in a panic to escape either by jumping out windows on the first floor or by hiding in classrooms.
Ben and Gwen recognized the rock monsters as Charmcaster's. So instead of following everyone into a classroom they hid in the bathrooms to transform.
Ben activated the Omnitrix. He chose Diamondhead and slammed the top down igniting the transformation.
Moments later both Lucky Girl and Diamondhead exited the bathrooms. Diamondhead accidentally broke the door off due to his size.
"Oops." Diamondhead said in his deep voice as he placed the door back.
"You distract Charmcaster's rock monsters. I'll try to find a spell to take control of them." said Lucky Girl flipping through her spell book.
"Works for me." said Diamondhead. He charged into one of the monsters smashing it also drawing the attention of the other rock monsters.
The rock monsters roared at Diamondhead and charged towards him.
"I think they recognize me." said Diamondhead to himself as he turned his arms into blades and began cutting the rock monsters into rubble.
For each one he shattered it seemed like another took its place and Diamondhead was starting to get overwhelmed.
In a last ditch effort Diamondhead summoned giant spikes of diamond to sprout from the ground to shield himself from the oncoming hoards of rock monsters. The rock monsters clawed at him through the gaps in the crystals. Diamondhead stabbed the monsters that were clawing at him to pieces but there were too many for him to break enough in order to free himself.
"Come on Gwen hurry up." thought Diamondhead.
Just as the rock monsters were about to break through the diamond pillars a yoyo went through every single one of the rock monsters destroying them individually.
Diamondhead lowered the diamond spikes back down into the ground to see Ladybug standing over the rubble that used to be the rock monster hoards.
"Thanks for the save. Although I had it handled." said Diamondhead
"Oh really. Then why did you seal yourself off from them?" said Ladybug with a smirk
"I was going to crush them with the spikes I erupted but then you came in and smashed them for me." rebutted Diamondhead
Ladybug scoffed at Diamondhead's self pride but knew she needed to get down to business with him.
"Aww man I missed all the action." whined Cat Noir as he swooped in.
"Next time get here quicker Kitty cat." joked Ladybug as she then went on to study the rubble. Ladybug bent down onto one knee and examined a pebble of the rock monsters.
"What were these?" wondered Ladybug out loud.
"They're magic rock golems." answered Lucky Girl walking over to Ladybug and Diamondhead with her spellbook in hand
"Like created from a miraculous?" said Cat Noir
"No with magic. Like mine." further answered Lucky Girl. She elaborated "I only know of one person to make these. Charmcaster."
"Who?" asked Ladybug
"My sorta arch enemy. She has the exact same powers as me and is super jealous that I'm stronger than her. But she's also an evil sorceress." explained Lucky Girl.
"If she's around Hex could be here too." stated Diamondhead.
"Let's hope not." replied Lucky Girl.
"Wait wait go back a minute. Who is Hex?" asked Cat Noir
"Hex is Charmcaster's uncle and arguably way tougher than her." answered Diamondhead.
"Ok so two evil sorcerers are here in Paris. But why send these rock monsters to the school?" said Ladybug.
"Likely to send me a message." answered Lucky Girl
"What message?" asked Cat Noir
"Probably letting me know she's here and coming for me." further answered Lucky Girl.
"So is there any good news?" asked Ladybug.
"Maybe but let's not discuss it here. Meet me at the Eiffel Tower at 6pm tonight and I'll explain more." said Lucky Girl gesturing to all of the students and teachers starting to come out of hiding.
"Alright see you then." said Cat Noir leaping away followed by Ladybug.
Diamondhead was about to leave the school to go transform back but Lucky Girl grabbed his arm to stop him.
"Hold up I want to try something." said Lucky Girl flipping open her spellbook to a marked page.
"Ianuae Magicae" read aloud Lucky Girl. A magic sphere formed around herself and Diamondhead. The orb disappeared with the two of them inside it and reappeared on the roof of the Rustbucket which was currently in an underground parking lot.
"Woah how'd we get here?!" exclaimed Diamondhead still taking it in.
"I teleported us." answered Lucky Girl reverting back to Gwen and puking over the side of the Rustbucket. "And am never doing it again unless absolutely necessary." added Gwen
"What The?!" exclaimed Grandpa Max as he came out of the Rustbucket to find Diamondhead and Gwen on the roof of it and puke lining the side of the RV.
"Care to explain you two!" said Max with a stern expression on his face saying "Whoever's responsible is in big trouble!"
"Crud." groaned Gwen.
Eiffel Tower 6pm
Cat Noir landed upon the viewing platform. The tower was closed today for maintenance on the lower half so it was the perfect time to have a meet out on the viewing platforms.
Ladybug and Lucky Girl were already there waiting for him however the alien hero was no where to be seen.
Cat Noir looked around then asked "Where's the alien guy?"
"He's not coming." answered Lucky Girl
"Why not?" asked Ladybug getting suspicious that something was going on.
"He doesn't need to be here so I'll call him over once we find Charmcaster." answered Lucky Girl. "Anyways lets get down to the good news I promised you guys earlier." added Lucky Girl pulling out her spellbook.
"I have a spell I can use to scan places for other sorcerers or creatures of magic." stated Lucky Girl
"I'm assuming there's a catch?" asked Ladybug getting a nod from Lucky Girl.
"The catch is the spell can only search one area at a time unless I have something of incredible power." explained Lucky Girl
"By something of incredible power what do you mean exactly?" asked Cat Noir
"Something like an ancient mystical artifact or something that boosts the magical power of its bearer drastically." answered Lucky Girl.
"So something like a miraculous then?" suggested Cat Noir
"Are those magical?" asked Lucky Girl getting surprised faces from Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Ladybug regained her posture and answered "Yes they are. Our miraculous are the source of our powers."
"Oh so like the Omnitrix it transforms you guys into superheroes or as long as you hold it you guys got your powers?" said Lucky Girl
"Uh it's like a transformation." answered Cat Noir.
"Great. Now I just need to borrow one to perform the spell and hopefully it'll work." stated Lucky Girl but both Ladybug and Cat Noir visibly hesitated.
"Uh guys I'm not going to steal it just need to have it for a minute to do the spell is all." explained Lucky Girl.
"I guess I could for a mome-" Cat Noir was interrupted by Ladybug "-It is our duty to protect the miraculous from falling into the wrong hands. So how do we know we can trust you?"
"Well I have worked with the two of you to stop akumas for well over a month now. And never before have I tried to get your miraculous." answered Lucky Girl
"True but it's more than just that. Without our miraculous we're powerless to stop Hawkmoth." added Ladybug
"Well I'm not going to have it for more than a minute and I just need to hold it not use it." replied Lucky Girl
"We can't give you our miraculous Lucky Girl and that's final. Come on Cat Noir let's go." said Ladybug as she hooked her yoyo onto an adjacent building and swung away.
Before Cat Noir could follow Lucky Girl grabbed his wrist and said " Cat Noir we don't need her to do the spell. I only need one miraculous. I can just use yours and then give it right back to you I promise."
Cat Noir hesitated then said "I want to try your plan but I don't want to just do this without Ladybug on board. We're a team and we need to make decisions like this all together." Cat Noir extended his baton and swung off after Ladybug leaving Lucky Girl alone at the Eiffel Tower.
Lucky Girl sighed and said the magic words "Ianuae Magicae" teleporting herself away despite the fact she knew it would make her sick and tired.
The Next Day at School
Things resumed normally as if the rock monster attack had never happened since the school was used to all of the akuma attacks. The day was very normal except for two things. One being Marinette was still stumped on who she should pursue a relationship with. Ben or Adrien. Two being Gwen was regretting just teleporting off because it made her sick and she knew she just should have accepted the fact they weren't going to give up their powers like that.
Marinette was staring at Ben from the table behind him in Ms Mendeleiev's science lab. They were currently doing a simple baking soda and vinegar experiment. Ms Mendeleiev explained that even though everyone knows what will happen they don't know why so everyone has to take notes on the reaction and why/how it happens.
This annoys Ben for two reasons. One being he hates taking notes so he just completely skipped that part. Two the baking soda mixed with vinegar reaction was so small and boring to Ben. So instead of following the instruction of only adding the instructed quantity of the ingredients Ben poured a whole bottle of vinegar and a whole box of Baking soda into his flask causing a large reaction.
Bwoom! The baking soda and vinegar blew up all over Ben and his table. It looked as if Ben now had a beard made of foam causing everyone to laugh except Ms Mendeleiev.
"Class this is why we follow the instructions. So science doesn't blow up in our faces!" Ms Mendeleiev said disapprovingly at Ben.
Marinette particularly found this event funny but it also brought her thoughts back to her inevitable decision of who to choose. The cute, handsome, famous Adrien Agreste or the Funny, (Seemingly) Average, American Ben Tennyson.
Gwen wasn't really paying attention to class because she was trying to think of where else she could get her hands on a magical object for the searching spell. Upon seeing the foam explode onto Ben's face it gave her an idea. She didn't really know how Ben getting foam in his face lead her to think of this but she decided not to question her luck.
"Mr Tennyson go clean yourself up in the bathroom." ordered Ms Mendeleiev. Ben complied and went to go wash his face off leaving the rest of the class to finish their own Chemistry experiments.
Back to Marinette, she had completely zoned out thinking about Ben that Alya had to tap her on the shoulder to reconnect her with reality.
"Earth to Marinette. You okay? You zoned out and weren't responding." said Alya
"Uh yeah sorry just thinking about... stuff" replied Marinette.
Alya grinned and said " Stuff such as who to crush on?"
Marinette blushed and nodded.
"Don't worry yourself so much Marinette you have all the time in the world to decide." said Alya. The two then resumed their boring science projects.
After School
Gwen ran towards the top of the Arc De Triomphe on mana pads in her Lucky Girl disguise. She made sure people saw her so that Ladybug and Cat Noir would know to show up. Her plan worked and after roughly 10 minutes the two heroes showed up on the top of the Arc.
"So is there a reason you started showing yourself off to the public or did you want to just be famous or something?" said Cat Noir with his staff resting on his shoulders.
Lucky Girl rolled her eyes and replied "Yes there is a reason that I drew your attention here. I think I have a solution for the spell." answered Lucky Girl
Ladybug and Cat Noir awaited her response.
"So I don't need to have your miraculous to perform the spell. I just need to be touching them to draw on a bit of their power to boost my own enough to scan the whole city for Charmcaster and Hex." explained Lucky Girl
"That... could work." conceded Ladybug.
"Here touch my ring then and let's find this sorceress." said Cat Noir holding out his ring.
Lucky Girl smiled and placed her hand on Cat Noir's ring. She pulled out her spellbook and read the spell "Magicae quaerere".
A pink sphere formed from around Cat Noir's ring and expanded across the city. No one really noticed the pink sphere for it just went right through them and did nothing else to disrupt their lives. Lucky Girl took her hand off of Cat Noir's ring and paused for a second.
After a moment Lucky Girl responded. "I know where she is."
"Great where?" asked Ladybug.
"It's uh more like an internal compass thing than a I know her address thing." explained Lucky Girl.
"Ok we'll follow you." said Cat Noir.
"Alright I just need to make a call and then we can go." said Lucky Girl pulling out her phone and speed dialing Ben.
"Yellow?" came the voice of Ben from the other end of the call.
"I know where Charmcaster is. Have XLR8 meet us at the Arc De Triomphe and we'll find her from there." said Lucky Girl
"Got it on my way." said Ben. Lucky Girl ended the call.
"Now we just need to wait for-" whoosh! Lucky Girl was interrupted by the whooshing sound of XLR8's arrival.
"Wait's over let's go." said XLR8 raising his visor.
"Can't you just tell me where she is and then I rush over there scout the place and get back to you all?" suggested XLR8. XLR8 was feeling so bored having to wait for everyone else to leap across building when he could go at least 5 times as fast.
"No I already explained this to Ladybug and Cat Noir. It's more like an internal compass pointing me in Charmcaster's direction not exact coordinates." explained Lucky Girl.
"Fine." groaned XLR8.
Eventually they made their way to a rustic looking warehouse on the coast of the Seine. The heroes observed it from a rooftop on the opposite side of the river.
"Looks abandoned. The stereotypical place for a supervillain to hide out." said Cat Noir using his staff as binoculars somehow.
With a whoosh XLR8 vanished and reappeared 3 seconds later. "I checked the whole perimeter. No one is guarding the place. If she's here with her rock monsters than she is inside the warehouse." said XLR8.
"Alright let's go in but stealthily." said Ladybug.
"You all go in ahead of me. I need to hang back and recharge the Omnitrix." said XLR8
"Or we could just wait for you to recharge it before heading in." suggested Cat Noir.
XLR8 shook his head and added "To recharge the Omnitrix I have to change back and if I do it'll reveal my civilian form. Also I'm surprised it hasn't timed out yet." As if on cue the Omnitrix on XLR8's chest began to beep and glow red.
"Gotta go." said XLR8 prior to zooming off in the blink of an eye.
"We'll head in without him and he'll join us later." said Lucky Girl. She then said a spell "invisibilia" and she disappeared as soon as she finished saying the words.
"Lucky Girl where are you?" asked Ladybug looking around for her.
"I'm invisible now come on. This spell doesn't last forever and the longer we wait the more we risk her leaving." said Lucky Girl as she crept towards the Warehouse alongside Ladybug and Cat Noir.
XLR8 timed out before he even reached a good place to hide so in a flash of red light he transformed behind an old abandoned shipping crate.
Fortunately no one was around there so his secret is still safe.
"I wish you would work as long as I wanted. I can't wait until I unlock the master control." said Ben to himself as he waited for the Omnitrix to recharge.
In the Warehouse
Lucky Girl snuck in through the front door which was conveniently left open and Ladybug and Cat Noir went in through some holes in the building where some windows used to be. They all proceeded with stealth and looked around.
It was difficult to see due to it being dark and night time now but a few silhouettes could be made out. Mostly just square boxes and the rusted down machinery in the area.
Before anyone realized what happened a pink footprint appeared around Lucky Girl's foot followed by a pink cage. Ladybug and Cat Noir dashed behind a stack of boxes to avoid setting off a trap for themselves and to hide.
The lights in the room switched themselves on and a woman appeared in a pillar of pink light in front of the mana cage trapping Lucky Girl. The woman has a magenta coat with purple at the ends, underneath she wore purple long boots with black straps around them. She wore a weird creepy Bag around her waist. Her long silver hair is in a low ponytail, and she has light purple and pinkish eyes, along with purple lipstick.
The woman walked alongside two rock monsters. The same variety that attacked the school the day prior.
"Well look who I caught. Still going by Lucky Girl I see." said the woman to the rock monsters.
"Charmcaster." was all Lucky Girl had to say but she said it with clear dislike towards the woman now identified as Charmcaster.
"What that's all you have to say to me after all this time? No I'm sorry for stealing your spellbook! or I'm sorry for ruining your chance at recreating the charms of Bezel!"
"Why would I apologize to you? You and your uncle tried to gain ultimate power to conquer the world!" rebutted Lucky Girl
"Yes, yes we did so what? I would have made the world much better and where's your back up hmm? You know I forget his name but the kid with the alien power doohickey thing?" asked Charmcaster
"He'll be here and kick your butt." replied Lucky Girl.
Charmcaster bawled with laughter at that for a moment. "You really think he can defeat me alone?! He couldn't before and neither could you." laughed Charmcaster confidently.
Ladybug and Cat Noir were watching the exchange of words between Lucky Girl and Charmcaster.
"Cat, I'll get over to the other side behind those boxes and on my signal we leap out and attack Charmcaster." said Ladybug gesturing to the boxes on the opposite side of the warehouse.
"Understood M'Lady." replied Cat Noir as Ladybug silently swung over to the other side of the warehouse.
When Charmcaster had started laughing Ladybug gave the signal and she and Cat Noir leapt out of their hiding spots aiming their weapons at her.
Cat Noir had his staff behind his back aimed to swing it down atop Charmcaster and Ladybug flinging her yoyo towards her. Instead of hitting Charmcaster they hid an invisible barrier that glowed pink as they hit it. Cat Noir in particular for he crashed into the barrier and slowly awkwardly slid off of it.
"Fools did you really think I wouldn't set a trap without being prepared! Hah!" gloated Charmcaster. However when Charmcaster got a look a her assailants she recognized them as Ladybug and Cat Noir.
"Oh so you teamed up with the local hero wannabes. Cute but pointless." stated Charmcaster as she lowered her defensive shield and pointed her finger at Cat Noir.
"Take him. The spotted one is mine." ordered Charmcaster to her rock monsters. Obeying instantly the rock monsters roared and charged at Cat Noir who was just getting up and narrowly dodged them. Cat Noir continued to play tag with the monsters.
Meanwhile Charmcaster turned her attention to Ladybug who had gotten up and was spinning her yoyo as a shield.
"You plan to defeat me with a yoyo! You two are ridiculous." bragged Charmcaster
"Don't underestimate me." replied Ladybug throwing her yoyo at Charmcaster. Charmcaster simply raised a shield and fake yawned.
"Is that the best you can do because that is so weak." taunted Charmcaster.
Ladybug said nothing but aimed her yoyo above Charmcaster. What she had aimed at was the light hanging above Charmcaster's head. Ladybug wrapped her yoyo around and pulled the light off of the roof causing it to fall onto Charmcaster.
Before the light could hit Charmcaster it glowed pink as Charmcaster telepathically levitated it and then tossed it back at Ladybug.
Ladybug rolled to the side to avoid being hit by the light. Meanwhile Cat Noir was about to finish the rock monsters.
"Oops missed me betcha can't kiss me." taunted Cat Noir blowing a raspberry at them.
The rock monsters charged again only to be sidestepped by Cat Noir then smashed by his staff. He redirected his attention on Charmcaster.
"Let's try this again." Cat Noir said to himself as he leapt into the air once again trying to slam his staff into Charmcaster. This time there was no barrier to protect her but Charmcaster heard him coming and grabbed him telepathically.
"uh oh" said Cat Noir as he glowed pink and floated in place." Charmcaster grinned and through him aside into the closed metal gate denting it.
"Ow." groaned Cat Noir picking himself back up.
Ladybug ran over to Cat Noir and helped him back up. "Cat Noir are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah but how are we supposed to hit her if we can't touch her?" said Cat Noir.
Ladybug knew this was the time. She tossed her yoyo into the air and called upon her lucky charm. Three sticks of Dynamite wrapped together fall into her hands. The dynamite isn't lit and has a black polka dot pattern on it.
"So are we supposed to blow her up?" questioned Cat Noir.
Ladybug looked around but couldn't see what she needed to use it for. "I don't know what to use it for." said Ladybug.
"You plan on defeating my with Dynamite! You two really are pathetic." taunted Charmcaster
Suddenly one of the few remaining windows shattered as an alien with green skin, six sprout-like growths on the back of his head, a dark-green patch of skin on his head, light-green skin on his face, and belly and a crooked teeth overbite. He also has whisker-like lines on his face and a green tail. The Gourmand wore a black open-front suit with white over-sleeves and white bands around his legs and white padding under his three-toed feet with the Omnitrix symbol on his left hand.
"Time's up Charmcaster! Release G- Lucky Girl now or else!" ordered the Gourmand.
"Or else what? you'll bite me and seriously your not even cute what's so special about this alien?" asked Charmcaster unimpressed.
"Name's Upchuck and no I won't bite you but I will eat, eat, and never stop eating!" exclaimed Upchuck. He opened his mouth and several tongues shot out and pulled into his mouth several crates and metal barrels within the warehouse. Upchuck swallowed them all at once whole.
Ladybug, Cat Noir and Charmcaster were shocked to see this but Lucky Girl always though Upchuck was just plain disgusting.
Upchuck's stomach glowed green as he finished swallowing the wood and metal.
"Eat This!" shouted Upchuck before barfing up the metal and wood as energy vomit laser blasts.
Charmcaster quickly shielded herself but the impact from the blast of barf shot her back into a bunch of barrels.
Upchuck turned his attention to Ladybug and Cat Noir who were still shocked to see an alien like this. "Save Lucky Girl. I'll distract Charmcaster."
By then Charmcaster had gotten up and laughed at that. "You can't save her. I placed several protection runes around her cage. The only way out for her is if I let her out!" bragged Charmcaster.
"Maybe not. Cataclysm!" said Cat Noir activating his power. The destructive energy gathered into his palm and he slammed it onto Lucky Girl's cage. The cage shook a bit as an image of some unknown symbol appeared then shattered and nothing else happened.
"Why didn't that work! Cataclysm always works!" exclaimed Cat Noir.
"It did work. It just only destroyed one of the many protection runes she placed on my cage." answered Lucky Girl as she was crouching down on the floor with a piece of chalk.
"What are you drawing?" asked Ladybug.
"A Rune to undo Charmcaster's cage. But it'll take time to make it since I have to get it exactly right." answered again Lucky Girl.
Ladybug turned to see Upchuck battling Charmcaster. Charmcaster through mana discs at him which he ate and spat back out as an acidic neon green. Charmcaster summoned a mana shield to block the acid discs. The shield did so and she shoved it at Upchuck who then re-ate his own barf and the shield. Upchuck re-hurled it at Charmcaster. She narrowly avoided it and it instead blew a hole in the warehouse wall.
Seeing this Ladybug knew how to use her lucky charm but she was still missing something so she looked in the crates and luckily found matches. "Good thing I'm in a match factory." thought Ladybug as she took a match
"I take it there's a plan?" asked Cat Noir.
"Yup kitty cat need you to switch places with Upchuck for this." answered Ladybug.
"Understood M'lady" replied Cat Noir. He leapt into the fray catching Charmcaster off guard and ending hers and Upchuck's stalemate.
"I got her Ladybug needs you." said Cat Noir to Upchuck as he sliced and deflected Charmcaster's mana attacks with his staff.
Upchuck went to Ladybug. "what'd you need?" asked Upchuck.
"When I light this I need you to eat it." answered Ladybug gesturing to the dynamite.
"Um ok tell me when to spit out the explosion then." replied Upchuck.
Ladybug lit the dynamite and Upchuck swallowed it.
"Get close to Charmcaster and then unleash the explosion on her." said Ladybug to Upchuck. He ran towards Charmcaster but suddenly started to bloat from the explosion barely able to keep it in.
"Cat Noir!" shouted Ladybug gesturing towards Upchuck. Cat Noir saw this so when he sees Charmcaster lunging at him with a mana dagger he sidesteps her into falling right in front of the now giant sized bloated Upchuck.
"Now!" shouts Ladybug. Upchuck unleashes the explosion which blasts him backwards and Charmcaster collides with Lucky Girl's cage. Charmcaster then falls to the ground.
Despite being down and exhausted Charmcaster isn't defeated. "You think you've won! I can still fight!" said Charmcaster through clenched teeth.
"Checkmate Charmcaster." said Lucky Girl from behind her. She had just finished with her chalk rune causing the cage to disappear into nothingness.
Charmcaster turned around only to get her lights knocked out by a glowing mana punch from Lucky Girl.
Her unconscious body fell to the floor. The heroes had won.
The Next Day After Charmcaster's Arrest...
It was the weekend so no school today which meant Marinette was spending the day sleeping in, crafting a new dress, drawing a new design, and most importantly thinking about her love dilemma.
Alya sent Marinette a text causing her phone to buzz and vibrate. Marinette grabbed her phone and read the message.
"Hey girl checking in to make sure you're ok." read the text.
Marinette replied back saying she was and set her phone on her desk and sighed.
"Something frustrating you Marinette?" asked Tikki
"Mmmhmm." mumbled Marinette.
"Let me guess. Still don't know which boy you like more?" asked Tikki rhetorically already knowing the answer.
"Yup." answered Marinette.
"Marinette I want to give you further advice but I can't. It's your decision to make and only you can make it." explained Tikki. She then went to a plate of cookies on Marinette's nightstand and began to snack on them.
Marinette thought to herself for about the next hour unable to take her mind off of it. Eventually she made up her mind and called Alya.
"Hey 's up?" greeted Alya.
"I've made my decision." replied Marinette.
"The one on who you want to pursue?" asked Alya
"Yes." said Marinette.
"Oh oh wow I was expecting you to take longer but ok. Who do you want more? Ben or Adrien?" asked Alya
"I...I want to give it one last try with Adrien before giving up on him and trying to move on." answered Marinette
"I think that's a good choice." replied Alya.
Marinette inwardly smiled and felt she had made the correct choice but was still doubting her decision a little.
The results of the poll are in. And in a landslide victory Making Benette a thing has won so that will happen but I need to make something clear. I will not just put them together immediately after this chapter I want to build it up more and have Marinette make one last shot at getting Adrien's hand before I have her pursue Ben. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter as much as I did writing it but I also have some bad news. I am going to start working at the story at my own pace until Christmas break. What that means is The chapters won't release weekly but just whenever I get them done because I have a lot of stressers right now and need to make school a priority at the moment. There will be a normal length chapter before the 20th but maybe only one. Once the 20th comes around I should be able to resume the normal update schedule. Thanks for understanding