Edited: Changed a mistake where I wrote Adrien instead of Ben.
The Rustbucket was on its way back to Paris from Normandy. The Tennysons had tracked SixSix there after Grandpa Max shot him off through the sky during their last encounter.
It was surprisingly easy for them to capture him and send him to the Null Void. SixSix didn't have the technology to repair his jetpack so he was without flight and Ben hijacked his suit as Upgrade and disabled all of his weapons making him mostly harmless.
This of course didn't take long but the family thought since they were there why not visit the D-Day sight and do some sightseeing. So Grandpa Max pulled them out of school for the day to visit the sights.
Apparently they missed fighting an akuma called Reverser who reversed people's personalities. Ben honestly was glad he missed it since he really did not want to find out what his personality looks like being reversed. Fortunately Ladybug and Cat Noir handled it without him and Gwen being there to help so no harm done.
The Tennysons got back to Paris in the evening so school was already over as they entered the parking garage for the Rustbucket. As Grandpa Max pulled his key out of the ignition he checked the time as well. It was 5:49pm and the sun was setting, of course they couldn't see from within the parking garage.
Grandpa Max got up and offered up dinner options. "Who wants to try my famous mealworm stew? Or maybe my cow tongue burgers?" suggested Grandpa Max. Ben and Gwen both shared looks of disgust before Gwen suggested going out to eat. Grandpa Max reluctantly accepted that knowing that his grandkids wouldn't eat what he made them anyways.
So the Tennysons ended up eating out at a local restaurant and by the time they got back to the Rustbucket the Sun was nearly set. So after doing some entertaining things they got in their pajamas and brushed their teeth. Then they went to sleep.
A few hours later Ben woke up to find Grandpa Max shaking him and Gwen awake.
"Grandpa its 11pm. groaned Gwen.
"Yeah Grandpa what's wrong?" asked Ben yawning.
"Just got a ping on the plumber radar. There are several possible alien activities going on around the city." explained Grandpa Max turning on the lights. This stunned Ben and Gwen's eyesight for awhile before their eyes adjusted to find that he was in his plumber's uniform minus the helmet.
Grandpa Max sat down in the driver's seat and started the Rustbucket. He drove out of the parking lot to find Paris in chaos. People were being chased by monsters, animals, garbage bins and other looney objects and out of place creatures.
Ben and Gwen stared out the windows. "Grandpa, what's going on?" asked Gwen.
"I don't know kids. But this doesn't look like aliens. It's too random to be an invasion. It also just looks to be chaos without a goal." replied Grandpa Max.
"This is probably an akuma spreading chaos to grab attention."added Ben
"Yeah let's get a move on and find the akuma before the situation gets worse." said Gwen as they drove by more nightmares.
Meanwhile at the Dupain Cheng Bakery
Marinette was having a pleasant dream about being married to Ben and having a family with a pet cat then a pet hamster. Her dreams were weird. But she was awoken by magic sand falling over her face and a creepy voice.
"Marinette." spoke the voice from the foot of her bed.
Marinette's eyes snapped open as she gasped and sat upright in bed "What? What's going on? Tikki? Are you back already?" asked Marinette nervously.
A hand grabs the end of Marinette's bed; she screams in response.
"Marinette. Do you wanna know my secret?" said the voice it climbed up to bring the upper half of its body in front of Marinette. It was Ben but something wasn't right. There's an ominous green glow eminating from below him and his body was posed strangely.
Marinette gasps again but this time spoke as well "Ben?!"
"I'm in love with a girl and her name is Chloé!" creepily said Ben tilting his head to the side but still staring directly at Marinette.
Marinette screams again and panics. She traps Ben in her blanket and uses him as a step-up to get up on her balcony; she closes the hatch.
"What kind of a nightmare is this?" mentioned Marinette to herself. She looks down and sees several people running from their nightmares which varied from a T-rex to a ginormous spider. She also saw the source of the nightmares come to life. The Sandboy whom was flying over neighboring apartments spreading more of his nightmare dust and creating more nightmares.
"The Sandboy just checked in! Now nightmares can begin!" chanted the Sandboy.
"Tikki, spots on! Oh, no! I forgot! It's… I've gotta find Tikki!" realized Marinette as she recalled that Tikki is still at Master Fu's trying to commune with Nooroo.
Suddenly Nightmare Ben burst through Marinette's trapdoor saying "Marinette. The prettiest and smartest one of all is Chloé!" He crawled on the ground as he said this like a horror movie monster.
Marinette gained a determined look on her face and leapt onto her balcony's table then leapt onto the stone wall next to it to avoid Nightmare Ben's lunge at her. Lastly she leapt to the trapdoor and escaped back to her bedroom through it. She then runs out of her room and down the stairs where her father is rolling dough and singing only to have his nightmare come to life as well.
The dough he was rolling came to life and spoke about wanting to gobble him up.
This shocked Marinette's dad as he fell onto his butt. "Ahhh! What kind of nightmare is this?" he exclaimed.
Marinette rushed out of her home to the streets to see the chaos going on around the city. Even the police were in disarray as officer Roger tried to get the SWAT team under control but couldn't. The situation was only worsening as the Sandboy continued to spread his nightmare dust throughout the city and onto its residents.
"Marinette. I'm in love with Chloe!" creepily spoke the nightmare Ben as he emerged from the bakery. Marinette ran and the nightmare version of Ben chased after her. She continued to twist and turn around Paris trying to ditch her nightmare crush but to no avail. At the same time Marinette was also trying to reach Master Fu's place so she can get back to Tikki.
After some more attempts to ditch the nightmare of Ben, the Rustbucket pulled over at a crosswalk in front of her. Ben came out of the door and shouted "Get in!". Marinette rushed inside and slammed the door on the nightmare Ben.
The Nightmare Ben clawed at and clung on to the door of the Rustbucket still creepily saying "Marinette...I love a girl and it's Chloeeee!". Grandpa Max slammed on the breaks and the faux Ben flew off and onto the ground unscathed. He then began crawling towards the RV but Grandpa Max stepped on the accelerator taking off and too fast for the nightmare to catch up on foot.
"Phew thanks." sighed Marinette taking a seat at the table in the Rustbucket. Ben sat opposite of her and Gwen was in the shotgun seat.
"Uh Marinette mind explaining why my doppelgänger was chasing you like a creep and shouting about his love for Chloe?" asked Ben.
Marinette blushed and nervously replied "It was uh my nightmare created by the akuma.".
"Why would you be afraid of me loving Chloe?" further questioned Ben. Gwen turned around in the front and mouthed to Marinette "Tell him."
"uhhhhh... because I...I..." stuttered Marinette. There was a long awkward pause and Marinette's face looked like it was getting redder by the second. "IReallyLikeYouALotNotLikeYouLikeYouButLikeLikeYouBen!"hastily blurted out Marinette.
Ben looked puzzled for a moment before he said "Uh can you say that again in words this time cause uh I didn't understand any of that." Gwen face palmed at that statement and silently hoped Marinette would say it again but she never got the chance.
Grandpa Max spoke up. "Marinette is there anywhere safe we can drop you off at?" he asked.
Marinette eager to change the subject responded quickly "uh yeah there's this uh meditation place I sometimes go to to relax. I'll be safe there." she replied. Marinette gave Grandpa Max the address and the Tennysons dropped her off there but not before Ben was able to ask her "Uh what was it you said earlier about the whole nightmare of me liking Chloe thing?"
"Oh uh that uh... I'll tell you later you know after this akuma gets stopped." replied Marinette once again backing away from spilling her feelings from her crush.
"Alright stay safe." farewelled Ben returning to the Rustbucket and closing the door before it took off leaving Marinette at Master Fu's place.
Ben returned to his seat in the Rustbucket.
"So what'd Marinette say?" questioned Gwen
"She said she would tell me later." replied Ben. Gwen was going to ask another question but Grandpa Max spoke first. "Any ideas where we'll find this akuma?"
"Well it's creating nightmares so it would need people in order to bring them to life right?" suggested Gwen.
"Of course. That guy is probably flying around apartment buildings. Good thinking Gwen." replied Grandpa Max as he made a fast u turn and began driving towards the more residential area of the city.
The Tennysons were driving around and following the trail of nightmares left behind by Sandboy but still hadn't found him.
"Ugh where is that guy?" grumbled Ben as he got up from his seat to stand in between the two seats up front.
"We're playing catch up Ben. So too find we just need to keep following the nightmares." explained Grandpa Max.
"Don't worry Ben we'll find him." reassured Gwen.
"There I see him!" exclaimed Ben suddenly whilst pointing at the Sandboy up in the sky.
Ben activated the Omnitrix. "Stinkfly'll catch him." Ben ran to the exit and slammed the dial transforming in a flash of green light. Ben ended up as Ditto instead of Stinkfly.
"Awww man I need a flier not a cloner." groaned Ben.
"Relax Ben I can get you up high." said Gwen. She stepped up from her seat and transformed into her Lucky Girl appearance.
"I'll keep the Rustbucket going after him you two catch him." said Grandpa Max.
"Got it Grandpa. If everything goes according to plan this'll be easy." replied Ditto
"Since when do you ever have a plan Doofus?" asked Lucky Girl
"Since always. Beat up the bad guys and win. That's always the plan." answered Ditto
"Of course it is." groaned Lucky Girl.
The two opened the door to the Rustbucket whilst it was driving. Lucky Girl created a mana platform beneath them and rode it out of the Rustbucket like a hoverboard with Ditto clinging to her leg for balance.
"Hey would you let go of my leg." complained Lucky Girl.
"I need to hold on or I'll fall." replied Ditto not letting go. As they gained on the Sandboy who was apparently chasing something Lucky Girl got an idea."Hey Ben go knock him off that pillow!" She then picked Ditto up.
"Hey what're you doing!" asked Ditto panicking a bit.
"Just a little game of Ditto Tag." replied Lucky Girl
"Ditto Tag what's that?" asked Ditto
"Simple you tag the bad guy by tackling him off his pillow." explained Lucky Girl.
"Wait that's not a game and I never agre-" Ditto started but was cut off as Lucky Girl tossed him at Sandboy.
'Waaaaahhhhh!" cried Ditto as he soared through the air without any control. Just as Ditto was about to make it onto Sandboy's pillow The Sandboy entered downwards into the metro.
"Oh this is gonna hurt." said Ditto bracing for impact. Ditto hit the stairs and fell down them. "Ow oh eech man this hurts!" exclaimed Ditto as he fell. When he hit the bottom he had landed on his belly.
Ditto slowly got back up, rubbing his head. "Thats gonna hurt come tomorrow." As he got up he brushed some dirt from the stairs off of himself.
"Hey did you get him?" asked Lucky Girl coming down the stairs.
"No! and remind me to never ride with you on that floating whatever you call it again!" complained Ditto
"I'll just make stairs next time." replied Lucky Girl.
"You do that." approved Ditto. Just then a subway train stopped at the station and people got off giving the heroes weird looks but otherwise ignoring them or brushing them off as cosplayers.
"Huh I would think they'd rect to us like they would Ladybug and Cat Noir?" said Ditto turning to face the passengers leaving up the stairs.
"Yeah me too. I guess we're not as popular though." replied Lucky Girl.
The doors on the metro train closed and a moment later the train zoomed off to its next destination.
"Now where is that akuma?" Ditto wondered. Of course saying that is a jinx and the Sandboy appeared behind him above the railroad track.
"Uh B-errr Ditto behind you." stated Lucky Girl.
Ditto's frills flopped downwards and he said "He's right behind me isn't he."
"Yup" confirmed Lucky Girl. Ditto turned to face the Sandboy behind him.
"The Sandboy just checked in! Now nightmares can begin!" chanted the Sandboy. He fired some of his nightmare dust at Ditto who split himself into two and each Ditto clone leapt to the other side.
"Hey watch where you shoot that uhh is your weapon a pillow?" said Ditto confused.
"So what. It gets the job done." replied the Sandboy firing at the Ditto that spoke. That Ditto leapt out of the way and back to the base of the stairs.
"Uh so, it is such a lame power dude. If you want to be a cool villain you gotta have cool weapons and powers." spoke the other Ditto. Sandboy turned and fired at him but that Ditto leapt over the shot then multiplied to form a Ditto ladder reaching towards the Sandboy and smacking him off his pillow. The Ditto's reabsorbed each other into the one above them so that the blast of nightmare dust wouldn't hit the original leaving just two Dittos. The one that was at the base of the stairs and the one that smacked Sandboy.
"I don't have time for this I've got some miraculous to snatch and nightmares to create." said Sandboy. His pillow returned to him like magic. He then flew out of the subway but before he could escape Lucky Girl snagged him in a mana claw keeping him in place.
"We're not done yet." said Lucky Girl as she pulled him back down into the subway and off his pillow.
Sandboy got up and his pillow returned to him. "Oh but we are." replied Sandboy. He quickly fired a blast of his nightmare dust at Lucky Girl. She put up a mana shield to block it. The shield barely appeared in time and blocked the dust. Sandboy continued to fire at her shield in hopes of breaking it.
"You can't keep that shield up forever. When you drop it you'll be too busy facing your worst nightmare to face me!" said Sandboy continuing his barrage.
Lucky Girl knew he was right but also knew that she didn't have to keep it up forever. "Hey dork. Behind you!" she shouted.
Before Sandboy knew what hit him a pile of Ditto's came upon him. "I got him, No I got him, We all got him!" shouted the various Dittos on top of Sandboy. There were too many for him to throw off and he couldn't focus on controlling his flight path anymore. The pillow started floating around slamming into the walls knocking a few Dittos off here and there but they'd only multiply again to make up those numbers.
Eventually the out of control pillow flew out of the subway and into the Parisian streets. Nightmare Dust was still falling from the pillow creating more Nightmares.
"Get Off!" demands Sandboy. The pillow flipped upside and all the Ditto's fell off onto a rooftop. But Sandboy stayed attached to his pillow as he flipped it upright again. He smirked but before he could attack the Dittos Ladybug and Cat Noir appeared and began attacking him.
Cat Noir slams his staff downwards at Sandboy. He narrowly avoids the strike. Then Ladybug threw her yoyo at Sandboy which he narrowly ducks. The two heroes land beside the recovering Dittos on the rooftop.
"You won't be able to fight your worst nightmare for long!" said Sandboy before shooting more sand from his pillow, the sand explodes once it comes in contact with the roof. All of the heroes narrowly avoided it and split up. Ladybug went left and Cat Noir right. Each were followed by several Dittos that later remerged once they took cover.
"He's moving around too much!" stated Ladybug from behind a chimney with one of the remerging Ditto clones
"And his evil sand is blowing everywhere." added Cat Noir before leaping off of a rooftop with the other remerging Ditto clone between his arm and body.
Ladybug activated her lucky charm but before it could create something she is then hit by the nightmare sand. "Oh, no!" worries Ladybug noticing the absence of an item.
"Who's about to get a pretty magic jewel?" rhetorically asks Sandboy floating down towards Ladybug and a Ditto clone. Ladybug whimpers in fear.
"Ladybug!" exclaims Cat Noir running and climbing up the rooftops back to her.
Ladybug tries to defend herself but her yo-yo has become useless. She then tries to jump away, but can no longer jump higher than a normal person would be able to.
"What's happening?" wondered Ladybug in shock of losing her powers.
Suddenly Sandboy lunged for her earrings but knocked her off the rooftop instead "Aaah!" exclaimed Ladybug as she nearly falls off the roof, however she manages to clamp onto the edge of the roof preventing her from going splat on the pavement.
Sandboy would have gone for stealing Ladybug's earrings if he didn't have to fight Ditto. Ditto had split in two (not including the one with Cat Noir). One went to save Ladybug and the other to keep Sandboy at bay.
Just as her hand slipped Ditto grabbed it and formed three other clones behind him to pull Ladybug up. She gave him her other hand and the Four Dittos pulled her up before remerging into one.
"What happened to your powers?" asked Ditto.
"His nightmare sand or dust or whatever its called must have stripped me of my powers." hypothesized Ladybug as Cat Noir swung up with the other Ditto. The two clones merged back into one.
The heroes suddenly felt the nightmare dust fall onto themselves. When they looked up they saw Sandboy above them sprinkling it from beneath his pillow above them. "The Sandboy just checked in! Now nightmares can begin!" repeated Sandboy with a wicked grin on his face. His grin didn't last long as Lucky Girl appeared on a gloating platform and hit him with several mana discs.
The discs were tossed lightly meant more to annoy him and they worked. Sandboy turned to angrily glare at Lucky Girl. "I told you before. We're not done yet." said Lucky Girl igniting her fists in mana. Sandboy didn't reply and instead went after Lucky Girl trying to inflict her own nightmare against her. She however avoided his dust and countered with her mana attacks.
Cat Noir and Ditto got into combat stances ready to fight (in Ditto's case it was just raising his fists and being ready to split himself) as Lucky Girl drew Sandboy closer to them, Cat Noir however was in a more defensive stance to protect Ladybug.
"Stay behind me, M'Lady." said Cat Noir
"You both still have your powers." said Ladybug astonished.
"Losing mine is not what I'm afraid of." replied Cat Noir. "Me too" added Ditto
"Then… what?" asked Ladybug
"Cat Noir!" shouted a voice from a neighboring rooftop across the street. The heroes looked to see an exact duplicate of Ladybug only angrier and meaner.
"Bad kitty! I'll never love you! I've always wanted to get rid of you!" yelled the Evil Ladybug.
"You have weird dreams too." stated Ladybug
"My bad." replied Cat Noir
"Wait if that's Cat Noir's nightmare than what's yours?" asked Ladybug to Ditto.
Suddenly a roar could be heard from above them. The heroes all looked up to see a giant being coming straight for them. They all leapt away (In Ladybug's case Cat Noir grabbed her and pulled her away) off the roof and into the streets.
The giant has tentacles dangling in the front of his face, like a beard. His skin is pale-green with yellowish spots on his face and tentacles. It doesn't appear to have a nose or ears but it does have red eyes. It has a mask covering its mouth and armor, attached to the armor are shoulder and leg pads. It also has metallic gloves with small fingers as well as reddish brown cylinders-like objects piercing his arms, giving him much stronger and more muscular limbs. This was Vilgax as Ben's worst nightmare.
The frills on Ditto's head sagged down and he gained a fearful look on his face. "Oh no. Not Yet." panicked Ditto.
Vilgax leapt off the rooftop and right in front of the heroes. "I will destroy everything and everyone you love!" boomed Vilgax. He charged straight for Ditto who split into two and ran around the charging Vilgax before remerging. Ditto than slammed his palm over the Omnitrix on his head triggering a flash of green light to appear.
In Ditto's place now stood Diamondhead. He looked at himself. "I was going for Four Arms but this'll work too." remarked Diamondhead before facing Vilgax.
"What is that!" exclaimed Ladybug.
"Vilgax. I'll deal with him you two handle your own nightmares." ordered Diamondhead charging at Vilgax. Vilgax had stopped charging and turned around to see Diamondhead going straight for him. Vilgax got into a battle stance and waited.
As Diamondhead got close Vilgax swung his fist at Diamondhead. Diamondhead ducked and formed a diamond column directly underneath Vilgax and shot it upwards launching him directly off the ground and into the air. Vilgax landed on a car in the street crushing it.
Vilgax got up without having taken a scratch. "That didn't even hurt and will do nothing to stop me from killing your loved ones!" roared Vilgax. The cylinders on his arms sank into them causing him to bulk up as if he was on instant power steroids.
Diamondhead pulled three giant diamonds out of the ground with his crystalkinesis(He can make crystals float. He has done this in the show before) and threw them all at Vilgax simultaneously.
Vilgax batted two of them to the side with his arms and caught the third and final one before throwing it back at Diamondhead. He leapt out of the way to avoid being crushed by the giant diamond.
Diamondhead turned his hands into diamond shooters and began firing diamonds vigorously at Vilgax out of his hands like a machine gun. Vilgax just stomped forwards directly towards him completely ignoring the diamond shards as if they were nothing. Diamondhead gave up on shooting diamonds seeing as it wasn't working. So instead he slammed his fist into the ground.
Diamond spikes suddenly started erupting out of the ground and more kept coming. It was like a wave and it was going directly towards Vilgax. The diamonds hit but what happened shocked Diamondhead. The diamonds broke on impact with Vilgax as if they were glass.
"That's not possible!" exclaimed Diamondhead in shock and fear.
"You have no idea what is and isn't possible." growled Vilgax resuming his march towards Diamondhead.
He wasn't sure what he was going to do but Diamondhead knew that he would fight to his last breath. Before the final fight could continue Lucky Girl swooped in and grabbed Diamondhead's hand trying to pull him up and onto her floating platform that she was using like a hoverboard.
"Gwen what are you doing!" said Diamondhead pulling himself up onto the moving platform whilst Vilgax followed them.
"Saving you thats what. Ben there's no way you could have beat him." replied Lucky Girl.
"You don't know that. I would have thought of something." replied Diamondhead matter of factly.
"No you wouldn't. Because that isn't the real Vilgax. It's your nightmare. Meaning it exists only to make you afraid." explained Lucky Girl.
Diamondhead thought about that and the more he did the more Lucky Girl's theory made sense. Not only because Vilgax seemed (more) invincible but also in his choice of words. He mentioned nothing about the Omnitrix and only how he would harm everyone Ben loved.
"You're right. And that means in order to beat him we have to beat the akuma." agreed Diamondhead.
"Good because you're up." said Lucky Girl.
Before Diamondhead could question what that meant Lucky Girl flipped the platform upside down dropping Diamondhead off. She didn't drop Diamondhead off above Vilgax or the street or even the Seine but right above Sandboy.
Diamondhead also saw that Ladybug and Cat Noir were leaping at him too or rather Cat Noir carrying Ladybug through the air directly at Sandboy with a shard of Ladybug's doppelgänger's sword. Diamondhead beat Ladybug and Cat Noir to the pillow however instead of cutting it he landed directly onto Sandboy crushing him between the pillow and himself.
The pillow couldn't support the extra weight of Diamondhead and Sandboy couldn't steer it because Diamondhead was right on top of him keeping him from getting up. So the two and the pillow crashed into the middle of the street leaving a small crater beneath them.
When Diamondhead got up he saw Cat Noir land onto the street with Ladybug in his hands. He then turned his gaze to Sandboy and rolled him off of his pillow before he could get up. Diamondhead formed his right arm into a blade and was about to slice the pillow but suddenly Vilgax appeared and tackled him away from it.
Vilgax slammed Diamondhead into the street after the tackle and kept him pinned so he couldn't escape.
"Any last words before I obliterate you and then your loved ones." rhetorically asked Vilgax
"Yeah look behind you Squidface." answered Diamondhead.
Vilgax turned his head to see Ladybug holding the pillow and cutting it with the shard from her doppelgänger's sword.
"Nooooooo!" boomed Vilgax as he rushed off of Diamondhead to stop Ladybug. Vilgax was already too late though for the akuma had been released and Ladybug just then activated her miraculous ladybug with the shard.
The miraculous ladybug power restored everything to normal including getting rid of Vilgax, Ladybug's doppelgänger, and every other symptoms of nightmares created by Sandboy and Hawkmoth.
Ladybug then now having her powers restored caught the akuma in her yoyo and purified it before releasing it now as a white Butterfly fully undoing everything Hawkmoth did and reversing Sandboy back into his pre-akumatized state.
Lucky Girl landed her platform by Diamondhead and ran over to him. "You okay Doofus?" playfully jabbed Lucky Girl smirking. She offered out her hand to pull him up.
Diamondhead grinned and took her hand. "Never better Dweeb." he replied. The two then laughed a little before joining Ladybug and Cat Noir as they heard what happened to the Sandboy.
"Oh, Ladybug. I watched a movie on TV. It was kinda scary. And then I went to bed and had a really bad nightmare. I woke up and there was a black butterfly in my room a-and a weird man spoke right in my face." explained the boy.
"Hawk Moth. He fed of the negative emotion from a nightmare." said Ladybug realizing what happened to upset the boy and akumatize him.
"That's what happens when you let kids watch anything they want on TV. Oh…" Cat Noir's ring began beeping signaling his transformation wearing off soon. "Can I leave you to take this young man back to his parents?" asked Cat Noir
"No problem. Right, big boy?" asked Ladybug
The boy hugs Ladybug shouting "Yay! Awesome, Ladybug!"
Before Cat Noir could leave though Ladybug stopped him to say one thing "Cat Noir? You don't really think I'm as evil as your nightmare, do you?" she asked.
"'Course I don't. You're the lady of my dreams." flirtatiously answered Cat Noir before leaping above a building and disappearing.
Ladybug smiles to the spot where Cat Noir had disappeared before turning to face Diamondhead and Lucky Girl. "After I take him home we'll need to talk." said Ladybug. Her expression showed that she was being serious.
"Alright how about you meet us at the Eiffel Tower as soon as you get the kid home?" suggested Lucky Girl.
"Alright." agreed Ladybug taking off with the kid back to his place.
Ladybug swung towards the Eiffel Tower but she didn't see Lucky Girl or Diamondhead there. At first she thought that they lied to her but then she saw Lucky Girl standing by a closed closet area.
She leaped down and landed in front of Lucky Girl. "Where's Diamondhead?" asked Ladybug.
Lucky Girl responded by banging on the closet door and said "Hey time to come out. Transform already."
Ladybug was about to ask what she was doing when a green flash emanated from behind the door. When the flash died down Upgrade came out of the closet.
"Uh What's this one called again?" asked Ladybug.
"Upgrade." answered Upgrade.
"Right so now to the point. What did you do to Kevin?" demanded Ladybug.
"Wait how do you know about Kevin?" asked Lucky Girl.
"She was there when I fought him in the park." answered Upgrade "Also to answer your question (gestures towards Ladybug), we cut a deal."
"Are you serious! First you say he's not an akumatized victim, then you say you'll take him to prison! And Now you say you cut a deal with him! What could have possibly have made you do all this...this whatever is going on I need to know now!" yelled Ladybug letting out all her frustrations.
Lucky Girl was going to reply but Ladybug stopped her "I want him to explain it." said Ladybug pointing at Upgrade.
Upgrade explained to Ladybug why Kevin was there, what his powers are, and then got to the part about the deal.
"So you're saying that Kevin, Came here to warn you than decided to attack us to get even with you, and then you just let him go for something? What did he give you that would make you release someone like him?" asked Ladybug. There was still some hostility in her voice but she had mostly calmed down.
"Information" replied Upgrade.
"On what?" questioned Ladybug
"On... What's coming." answered Upgrade.
"Coming? What is coming!" Ladybug raised her voice again when she asked although it was more of a command.
"So you saw that big green squidfaced juggernaut that was after B-err Upgrade earlier tonight right?" Lucky Girl interjected placing herself into the conversation.
"Yeah what was tha- wait you're saying that that thing is real and out there somewhere and is coming her to Paris!" exclaimed Ladybug.
Lucky Girl merely nodded her head in response.
"Please tell me that the real one is not invincible like the nightmare." said Ladybug with some fear in her voice now and the frustration gone.
"He's not invincible." said Upgrade.
"Phew thats a relief." said Ladybug
"But he's so powerful he's nearly invincible." added Upgrade.
Ladybug groaned before replying "Please tell me he has some sort of weakness we can exploit for when he gets here."
"Nope. But we have beat him before." stated Lucky Girl
Ladybug sighed before asking "How much time do we have?"
Lucky Girl and Upgrade just shrugged.
"You two don't know great. Is there anything we can do to prepare?" further asked Ladybug.
"Not really. We got a weapon that'll hopefully get rid of him for good this time." answered Lucky Girl
"Great what is it?" asked Ladybug
"It's called a Null Void Projector. It's basically a portal gun that leads to a prison dimension." explained Upgrade.
"So if we send him there he'll never escape. That's good. Yeah. Anything else I need to know before I explain the situation to Cat Noir?" said Ladybug.
"Just that you'll know when he's here. He's got a big spaceship." answered Upgrade.
"Good to know. I... I guess I'll see you guys either then or the next akuma attack. Bug Out." said Ladybug a bit depressed but expected since she now knows of the upcoming danger. She swung away back to her home.
Lucky Girl and Upgrade looked at each other. "Do you think it was right not to tell her?" asked Lucky Girl.
"She has her mind blown already. We don't need to ruin the one thing she can hope will work by telling her that Vilgax has escaped the Null Void before." replied Upgrade before turning back to Ben.
Lucky Girl walked over to the balcony and looked over it and at the city "Yeah you're probably right." said Lucky Girl.
Ladybug landed on her rooftop and transformed back into Marinette. "That's really worrisome Tikki. Has there ever been anything like this before?" asked Marinette as she climbed down into her bedroom.
"Not to my knowledge Marinette. I wish I could be of more help." replied Tikki.
"I'm sure we'll get through this. Lucky Girl and that uh techno alien have that portal gun that'll hopefully keep us safe." said Marinette as she got into bed and under her covers thinking "That Techno alien sounds familiar but whose voice is it?"
And Done. So I know this is a little later than usual but I've been doing other stuff in my personal life and school has started again. I'll try to release the next chapter by early October but school just really drains me. Anyways Thanks for reading, If you have any questions regarding the story PM me and I'll answer them. See you guys next time and please fav, follow, and review :)