"Remind me why we came here." groaned Ben in boredom. He, Gwen, Grandpa Max, and Marinette's parents and other friends all were at the Grand Palais exhibition hall sitting on a long bench by the catwalk for one of Adrien's fashion shows. However unlike his usual fashion shows in this one he was showing off on of Marinette's hats.
Ben was bored because they had been waiting 20 minutes and Grandpa Max wouldn't let him play a game on his phone.
"Because we came here to support Marinette. This is the first time one of her designs is being featured in a fashion show and we're her friends so supporting her is what we do Doofus." answered Gwen rudely
"Yeah but it's fashion! I know nothing about fashion much less care for it." further complained Ben.
"Ben. Like Gwen said we are here to support your friend. I know you don't understand it or care much for it but she does. So it would probably mean a lot to her for you to be here." explained Grandpa Max
Ben sighed and reluctantly agreed "Yeah I understand Grandpa. But why can't I play a game on my phone?"
"Because when Marinette comes you should congratulate her and not be sucked into one of your sumo slammer games." further explained Grandpa Max.
Ben grumbled silently to himself. However shortly after that an obvious narcissist entered the room with Chloe and her father. She wore a white sleeveless jumpsuit with a thick black stripe down the right side. The romper is long in length and bares around the shoulder blades. On her head, she adorns a black hat with black-and-yellow color stripes on the underside, yellow hat band, and a black-and-yellow flower on the left side. Her hair was golden color and in a sharp bob and sunglasses covered her eyes.
The group approached the first row however the Tennysons were sitting in the second row so fortunately for them they didn't have to sit by the bourgeois. Or so they thought after the golden haired one sat in the front row by Marinette's parents and Alya.
"How dilapidated is this place? And I have to share the front row with this group of low-lifes? Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous." complained the golden haired woman that everyone could now tell was obviously Chloe's mother.
"Uh, sorry, but that seat is reserved for Marinette." said Alya
"This Marinette girl, again?" complained Chloe's mom
Chloe interjected into the conversation "Let me handle this, mother. Hey losers, do you know who my mother is? She's Miss Style Queen: the most powerful woman in the world of fashion. This show is for her, okay? So, get lost!"
Before the situation could escalate Marinette and Adrien's father's assistant walks up. The assistant speaks "Mrs. Bourgeois. Mr. Agreste has reserved a seat for you"
"Ah, finally." said Chloe's mom standing up
"in the second row." finishes the assistant.
"What?!" exclaims Chloe's mom
"My mother always sits in the front row." stated Chloe
"Not today." replied the assistant emotionless
"This is unacceptable! Gabriel cannot do this to me! I'm the one who discovered him. Without me, he'd still be drawing his unworthy designs in his dismal, grim studio!" growled Mrs Bourgeois
"I can offer your seat to someone else if you don't want it." added the assistant still emotionless
"How dare you? You're fired!" exclaims Chloe's mom. Ben and Gwen snickered at that seeing where Chloe gets her bad attitude from.
"I don't work for you, I work for Mr. Agreste." simply replied the assistant clearly not worried about her job.
"We'll see about that!" replies Chloe's mom as she takes out her phone and calls Mr Agreste.
Her call just goes to voicemail instead and she growls at that.
"I assume from your expression that I'm not fired." said The assistant
"This is unacceptable! I will not view a fashion show from the second row, ever!" yelled Ms Bourgeois then stomping away to the exit. Chloé follows her mother.
Mr Agreste's assistant points Marinette to her reserved seat; Marinette sits down.
Everyone was silent for a moment until Ben broke it. "Guess we know where Chloe gets her jerkiness from."
All of the teenagers just laughed and the adults weren't really sure how to react to the situation.
After a moment the photographers by the catwalk began taking pictures indicated by the flashing from their cameras. It also meant that Adrien had appeared wearing the hat as expected.
Marinette looked nervous for a moment until she reassured Alya that she was fine, then smiled.
Adrien then began his strut down the catwalk. As Adrien walks forward, he glances back at Marinette. At the end of the catwalk he stops and strikes some poses.
Suddenly a bright and sparkly golden skinned woman appears out of thin air. She wears sunglasses with dark shades over her eyes and her head appears to have pulled-back gilded hair in the style of a crown with five black pointed stones attached around the front. She wears a golden leotard designed with vertical strips of cloth, with a black strap on her left shoulder and pointed black edges around each leg. She also has medallion high heeled boots. She holds a long gilded staff, having a bud-shaped tip with a black chevron line around it on top.
"A fashion show without the queen of style? Glitteraly unacceptable!" complained the new akuma that base doff how she spoke is obviously Chloe's mother.
"Is this supposed to happen? I've never attended a fashion show before." asked Marinette's dad rhetorically.
"Where is that ungrateful Gabriel Agreste? I demand that he kneels before me!" demanded Chloe's golden mom
"My father isn't here!" stated Adrien confidently
"Well then. If fashion-disaster daddy isn't here, I'll just have to settle for Agreste Junior! You're fired!" said the akuma. She shoots a gold dust at Adrien and turns him into a golden statue on the spot. The crowd panics then panics
"Adrien!" exclaimed Marinette.
Everyone then began running and screaming out of the room with Chloe's mom aiming and blasting more of her golden blasts at fleeing people.
Gwen looked behind her and saw that the akuma's scepter was aimed directly at Ben and about to fire.
"Ben!" exclaimed Gwen shoving him out of the way just as the blast of gold was about to hit him. Unfortunately for Gwen she ended up taking the hit for him and was now a golden statue like Adrien
"Gwen!" exclaimed Ben. He glared daggers at Style Queen who just petrified her own husband who was begging her to stop.
Ben pressed the button on the Omnitrix activating it. He was about to slam the dial back down when Grandpa Max grabbed his hand.
"Not here Ben. Get somewhere private." ordered Grandpa Max
Ben silently agreed and followed Grandpa Max out of the hall.
"Style Queen!" shouted Ladybug from atop the rafters.
Style Queen responds by shaking her head in disapproval and then commenting "What an atrocious suit. That bug looks so last year."
"But the yo-yo makes a strong comeback this year." quipped Ladybug. She threw her yo-yo, it goes right through Style Queen.
"You're a couple of sizes too small to beat me, Ladybug." taunts Style Queen
Style Queen then shoots out a beam of gold, Ladybug tries to block it, but the recoil is too much for her; she falls backwards; Style Queen laughs in an evil manner; Style Queen holds her glowing wand out towards Ladybug's face.
"Mom! Uh— Style Queen. If you want to find Gabriel Agreste, I know where he lives. You can take care of Ladybug later, she's worthless anyway." interjected Chloe saving Ladybug from being goldified.
"Hmm... It's not a completely idiotic idea." replied Style Queen.
She was about to hit her wand on the ground when suddenly a black and blue blur passed by swiping her staff in the blink of an eye.
The blur slowed down by Ladybug's side and could now be seen to be XLR8 with his visor down. His visor retracted upwards before he spoke. "You're not going anywhere without this."
Style Queen just grinned before saying "That is my staff I control it!". The staff fell apart into gold dust in XLR8's claws and flowed back into Style Queen's hands like metal to a magnet and reformed back into a staff.
Style Queen then slammed down the staff and Adrien's statue crumbles and gets sucked into the wand; she then flies away as a gold dust cloud, taking Chloé with her as well.
Before they escaped though XLR8's visor went down and he picked up Ladybug bridal style and followed them.
Style Queen and Chloe arrived at the Agreste mansion and quickly flew around it searching for Gabriel Agreste before Style Queen reformed herself and Chloe in the foyer where they were met by XLR8 and Ladybug. XLR8 set her down and the two heroes got into battle poses.
"Ugh first Gabriel Agreste isn't here and now you two somehow followed me! ridiculous utterly ridiculous!" complained Style Queen
"What's more ridiculous is your overuse of gold in your style." said Ladybug as Chloe hid behind vase.
Style Queen gaped at the comment then scowled before replying in rage "You dare mock the Queen of Style's style! You will pay for your insults you no fashion brats!". She then attempted to blast both Ladybug and XLR8.
XLR8 easily dodged every shot and Ladybug swung around the foyer with her yoyo and narrowly dodged and blocked a few blasts. XLR8 saw an opening when Style Queen was focusing on Ladybug and went to take it. However when he struck Style Queen with his jabs and cuts they went right through her and easily reformed. This also got her attention on XLR8.
Style Queen shoved XLR8 away and fired at him by he zoomed away from the blast of gold.
"I don't have time for you two." growled Style Queen before she turned back into a gold dust cloud, picked up Chloe again and flew out of the mansion to the Eiffel Tower.
XLR8 was about to pick up Ladybug again and follow Style Queen but Ladybug told him to wait.
"There's no time to wait she's getting away!" replied XLR8
"No she's not. She's an akuma she is going to attract attention on purpose they always do that. Whether its just me and Cat Noir or the entire public." stated Ladybug
"That doesn't mean we should let her escape." argued XLR8
"I'm not saying that. We need a plan to beat her, especially since she isn't solid." said Ladybug
"Well then maybe I should freeze or melt her." suggested XLR8
"No we need to find her akuma. If I purify it we win and everyone gets restored." explained Ladybug
"Well I have no clue where it is and maybe directly fighting her will give us that clue." added XLR8 clearly losing patience.
"No that's definitely not the right move. Especially since Cat Noir and Lucky Girl still haven't shown up." replied Ladybug.
"Well then what should we do I can freeze her if I change forms! Which I plan on doing in order to give me the upper hand!" said XLR8. He then zoomed off leaving Ladybug behind in the empty mansion.
"XLR8 wait!" exclaimed Ladybug but XLR8 ignored her and went after Style Queen regardless.
"Ugh he's just as impulsive as Cat Noir sometimes." complained Ladybug to herself.
Thinking of only one possible thing to do she used her Lucky Charm and what fell into her hands made no sense for the situation. A mallet.
XLR8 zoomed after Style Queen but just as he was about to catch up he heard a familiar beeping sound.
"No not now." thought XLR8 quickly rushing into a back alley and transforming back into Ben in a flash of red light.
"I can't wait Omnitrix I need to save Gwen now!" complained Ben. He pulled out his phone checking the news for info on Style Queen. Fortunately Ladybug was right when she said Akumas attract attention.
After a few moments of searching he found a livestream of Style Queen delivering an ultimatum from the top of the Eiffel Tower. "Gabriel Agreste, if you refuse to show your face, your son will soon be nothing but glitter in the wind!" she said.
Ben growled in frustration and glared at the Omnitrix still bright red from timing out.
"Guess now I have to follow Ladybug's advice and think it through." thought Ben. He doubted Style Queen would be frozen for long if he used Arctiguana's ice breath but hoped it would buy him enough time to save everyone especially Gwen. Ben also knew he needed a backup plan incase freezing her failed but the only other thing he could think of would be to try and melt her as Heatblast and he can't go Grey Matter right now to think of a better plan.
Suddenly like a miracle Ben heard the Omnitrix make its unique dinging sound as it began to glow green again indicating that it had recharged. "Glad that wasn't long." sai Ben to himself dialing up XLR8 again and slamming the dial.
Ben fortunately got the alien he wanted again and zoomed all the way to the Eiffel Tower and up all the stairs to find Chloe by Adrien's petrified form on a gold table surrounded by a forcefield.
"Where's Style Queen." demanded XLR8.
"She's up top still I think. Please hurry whatever your name is. Her akuma is in the rose in Adrikins mouth." answered Chloe
"Of course it is." complained XLR8 looking at the rose inside the forcefield.
Suddenly Style Queen materializes on top of the forcefield. "It's really impossible to find qualified staff these days." said Style Queen. Chloé turned around slowly to face her mother. "You're fired!" shouted Style Queen petrifying Chloé into a golden statue
"And as for you. You may leave I have no use for you and neither does Hawkmoth. That is if you tell me where Ladybug and Cat Noir are so that I may take their miraculous." offered Style Queen.
"So tempting but I'll have to pass." said XLR8 slamming the Omnitrix dial. In a flash of green light in his place stood Arctiguana. Arctiguana breathed his frost breath the moment the flash vanished whilst Style Queen was still blinded from the bright light.
Style Queen was frozen solid.
"Now to break the forcefield." said Arctiguana.
Arctiguana transformed again but this time into Four Arms. As Four Arms he began pounding on the forcefield not noticing the cracks forming in the ice trapping Style Queen.
Four Arms's punches were doing no damage and all he was achieving was making himself exhausted. Still he wouldn't relent until he had saved Gwen.
The ice trapping Style Queen shattered freeing her. The moment she was free she fired a gold blast at Four Arms. Fortunately for him he had heard the ice shatter and dodged at the last second. The gold blast did nothing to weaken the forcefield.
"Ugh stay still you red beast!" complained Style Queen firing off more and more blasts at Four Arms until he ripped up a chunk of the meta floor and used it as a shield against the gold blasts.
"I'm not even after you! All I have to do is wait for Ladybug and Cat Noir. Take their miraculous and then I win!" said Style Queen before she dematerialized back to the top of the tower knowing Four Arms could do nothing against her.
Style Queen didn't have to wait long before she saw Ladybug returning. She dematerialized onto a support where Ladybug was offering Alya a miraculous.
"Ladybug! You're out of fashion. Give up!" shouted Style Queen shooting a gold blast at her. Alya pushed Ladybug out of the way taking the blast and knocking the miraculous to the bottom of the Eiffel Tower.
"Where's Cat Noir?" Oh, lemme guess. He's hiding because he's ashamed of his outfit." mocked Style Queen.
"We don't need Cat Noir!" shouted Four Arms tackling Style Queen off of the Eiffel Tower.
As the two were free falling towards the pavement Four Arms was punching and punching Style Queen again and again but doing no damage since she just kept regenerating faster than he could hit. Style Queen also couldn't petrify him because she dropped her staff onto the floor of the Eiffel Tower after she was tackled.
The two smashed into the pavement creating a crater and scaring off any watchers from nearby. Four Arms continued punching until Style Queen dematerialized and rematerialized in front of him.
"Enough of the you vile Ogre!" growled Style Queen summoning her staff. She aimed and fired at Four Arms who leapt out of the way and smashed his fist into the ground creating a fissure that ate Style Queen.
Style Queen simply flew out as a gold cloud and reformed in front of the chasm.
"I am invincible!" boasted Style Queen firing at Four Arms again. This time it would have hit if Ladybug hadn't landed right in front of him twirling her yoyo as a shield.
"What part about we need a plan did you not understand." said Ladybug blocking any shots of gold fired at them as the two took cover behind some cars across the street.
"The part where you didn't have one." replied Four Arms ducking as a shot went overhead.
"Well I did have one but Style Queen ruined it." shot back Ladybug clearly frustrated.
"Here's a hint. the akuma is in the flower from her hat." stated Four Arms.
Just then Style Queen appeared in front of them. "You're both fired!" she shouted as she shot at them. The two heroes split in opposite directions to avoid being turned to gold.
"Well where is the flower!" asked Ladybug running from Style Queen.
"In the Agreste kid's mouth at the tower under a forcefield." answered Four Arms narrowly dodging another blast.
"Well normally I would have Cat Noir break that forcefield but he isn't here so how else are we supposed to get to it?" asked Ladybug as the two heroes regrouped away from Style Queen at the base of the tower.
"I don't know ummm... underneath it the force field doesn't cover the floor so we break into the forcefield from underneath!" exclaimed Four Arms!
"You do that I'll distract Style Queen. Hey Style Queen. Gold was so last month now polka dots are so in!" shouted Ladybug.
"You dare tell me what is in! Only I can decide what is in and what is out I'll fire you a million times Ladybug!" threatened Style Queen as she began chasing Ladybug around and up the Eiffel Tower as Four Arms went up to the floor beneath Adrien's petrified body.
Four Arms gripped his fists into the floor underneath Adrien's body and tore it out from underneath the forcefield and pulled it down to the floor he is on. He set it down and took the golden flower from Adrien's mouth. He looked over the edge of the tower in search of Ladybug and found her swinging to the floor above him.
Four Arms leapt up to that floor to find Ladybug swiping a glue covered flag through Style Queen.
Style Queen seemingly unaffected by it began to gloat "A glue diet? Ha! That's original. But I'm still going to— oh!" she stopped gloating when she noticed the big chunk of her abdomen missing.
"Oh, what's the matter? Do you have indigestion?" taunted Ladybug
"How dare you? I'm gonna squash you like the nasty bug you are!" shouted Style Queen pushing Ladybug in the back making her fall over. She then began gloating again "Hahaha! You're no match for Style Queen, my poor Ladybug. Soon, you'll be nothing but a bad memory, like shoulder-pads!"
"Ladybug catch!" shouted Four Arms tossing the gold flower to her.
"What? Noooo!" shouted Style Queen once she realized that her akuma was in danger.
Ladybug grinned and snapped the flower in half releasing the akuma. She then caught it in her yoyo, Style Queen reverted back into Chloe's mom and Ladybug used her miraculous ladybug to undo all the damage whilst Plagg who was going to intervene realized he didn't have to now and decided to go hide in the restored Adrien's pocket.
"Thank you Four Arms." said Ladybug.
"No problem helping is what I do." replied Four Arms leaping off the edge of the Eiffel Tower's balcony as he began leaping back towards the fashion event to check on Gwen.
After all of the madness of Style Queen and Grandpa Max having helped evacuate everyone from Style Queen's path during the chaos. The fashion show resumed. But not until after Chloe found a certain box...
To Be continued...
I wasn't originally going to put in the part with Ben timing out as XLR8 but I thought that wasn't very realistic of the Omnitrix since it isn't the alien force Omnitrix...yet. So I changed that part but anyways onto Part 2 in the next chapter which thanks to me making them all at once is of no wait between chapter releases. Also this chapter was mostly to set up the next two which I promise are much better and lengthier.