Breaking Into The Watchtower
Miraculous Ladybug-DC Universe crossovers are some of my favorite fanfictions. They are just a good match. I especially love ones where the Justice League either ignores the Paris situation or one of the League members gets the messages for help and doesn't believe them. Mostly, it's the Flash, Guy Gardner, Green Lantern, or Booster Gold.
In this story, some of the miraculous have changed hands for my story. There will be new holders and different holders for old miraculous. All of my OC characters will also be included. Nathaniel has the fox, Marc has the turtle, Rose has the horse, Juleka has the tiger, and Alix will have the bunny.
"This is most definitely not something that I would ever have thought that I would ever do," White Wolf says.
"We are magical teenagers that use the power of mini gods and mystical jewelry," Beautifly says. "Your statement pretty much sums up every day of our lives."
"Trust me, I never thought that I would be doing anything like this before I met Plagg," Cat Noir said.
"At least I can cross this off my bucket list," Ladybug giggled.
"Why is the name of the Olympian gods would this be on your bucket list," White Wolf looked at the teen hero weirdly.
"I put it on after they started to ignore our cries for help," Ladybug crossed her arms. "Or, when it was made obvious that they were ignoring us, at least."
"How much sleep have you gotten lately," Beautifly asks. "You only get this sassy when you haven't slept in about two days."
"I remember going to sleep on Wednesday," Ladybug put her hand on her chin as she started thinking.
"Uh… It's Saturday," White Wolf deadpanned.
"Oh," was all Ladybug could say.
"If you don't go right to sleep after we get back, I am sending Plagg over to destroy every device you have to make sure you are not distracted and can finally sleep," Cat Noir threatened.
"But what if there is an akuma," Ladybug protested.
"Then we will have to make sure that Cat Noir saves his power so that he can Cataclysm the moth when it comes out of the akumatized object," White Wolf says.
"And the damage," Ladybug continued to protest.
"We will get to that when we get there," White Wolf said.
"You are sometimes too selfless for your own good," Beautifly shook her head.
"Yeah, she tends to be like that," Cat Noir chuckled. "Why do you think I force myself between her and the villains we face when she tries to protect me because she will take the hit for me. But she needs to be the one that the attack does not hit because she is the one that purifies the akuma."
"We are a very colorful crew," Beautifly giggled.
"Says the butterfly girl whose hero outfit is almost entirely black," White Wolf said.
"Not my fault that Flutter is a monarch butterfly kwami," Beautifly shrugged.
"I certainly wish that I had some color on my suit," Cat Noir says. "While the black makes my eyes pop, the color doesn't match my personality at all. Why couldn't Plagg be a tabby cat or a white cat?"
"Because he is the literal god of bad luck and nobody thinks of either of those two other kinds of cats when bad luck comes to mind," Ladybug stated. "Deal with it, Chaton."
"Yeah, you really need some sleep before you become permanently sassy," Beautifly says.
"I blame Hawkmoth and his never-ending late-night akumas," White Wolf stated. "My ears are still ringing from that banshee akuma he created last week."
"And talk about unoriginal," Cat Noir rolled his eyes. "Scream Queen was probably the most obvious choice of name in the history of villain names."
"Even more so than that Poison Ivy woman in Gotham," Beautifly asked.
"Well, she could have called herself Mother Nature," Cat Noir shrugged.
"Point made," Beautifly said.
The four then looked at the rest of their teams preparing themselves for what was going to be done. The Greek hero team had stayed the same throughout the three years of fighting, but the French team had changed. Their current members were Vulpix, Emerald Turtle, Queen Bee, Viperion, Lady Unicorn, King Monkey, Ryuko, Shadow Cat, and Bunnix. The last two being the newest members of the hero team. The Greek team was Gladiator with the grizzly bear miraculous, Tigress with the leopard miraculous, and Ocean Mage with the mermaid miraculous. The last one being the only person to be currently using a magical creature miraculous on the planet.
All of the heroes were getting ready in their own ways. Ryuko, Ocean Mage, and Viperion were meditating. King Monkey, Bunnix, Tigress, and Gladiator were all getting themselves hyped up for the mission. Queen Bee was trying to find a way to take off her gloves to file her nails. Vulpix and Emerald Shell were cuddling, comforting each other, and probably trying really hard not to start making out. The same could be said about Shadow Cat and Lady Unicorn. Those four were always the more timid ones of the group, even though all of them were amazing heroes.
"Alright, does everyone remember their parts of the plan," Ladybug asked them, snapping them out of their trances.
"I will make sure that everything goes smoothly and no one truly gets hurt," Viperion says.
"White Wolf, Lady Unicorn, and I take out our biggest worries to being discovered before we are ready," Bunnix added.
"The rest of us force them into a position where they have to listen to us," Gladiator said.
The rest of the team nodded in agreement. Some of them were still looking nervous about what they were about to do.
"Are you sure doing this is the right thing to do," Lady Unicorn asked. "We could get into serious trouble for this."
"We wouldn't be doing this at all if they stopped ignoring us," Tigress crossed her arms. "Even with all these miraculous being active, Hawmoth's akumas are getting more and more dangerous."
"He is also akumatizing more dangerous people like con artists, martial artists, and policemen," Ocean Mage says. "What's to stop him from going all Scarlet Moth and sending his moths to a prison if he gets desperate enough?"
"That is why we need their help," Ladybug said. "If contacting them through official means does not help, then we must do what we have to."
"I just hope that we don't get labeled as criminals for this," Beautifly said.
If there was one thing that Robin currently was, it was bored. He had to stop himself from yawning as he sat in another long and boring meeting of the Justice League.
One would think that a young hero like him would not be a part of one of these meetings. But this was less of a war room and more of a meeting between all heroes to discuss general things involving heroes in general and not entirely league business. It was always the same things being discussed in these meetings. Egotistical politicians trying to control the league, villains breaking out of prison again, as well as discussing potential new members of the League and the Young Justice team.
Other than Robin, the rest of the Bat-family was there as well. Batman, Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, Oracle, Spoiler, Orphan, Batwing, and even Batwoman. The Super family was also there. Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, and the former Superboy that now called himself Krypton. Robin smirked at how Conner had finally broken the trend of having "Super" in his hero name. He may be a clone, he knew that both Kara and Jon both adored him. The other young heroes that were there were Red Arrow, Artemis, Aqualad, Tempest, Miss. Martian, Beast Boy, Starfire, Zatanna, Kid Flash, and Impulse.
And other than Batman and Superman, there were also the mentors of the other young heroes as well. Green Arrow, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, , and the Flash. The other adult heroes in the room were Hawkman, Hawkwoman, Wonder Woman, Sparton, Black Canary, Red Tornado, all three Green Lanterns, Black Lightning, Captain Marvel, Captain Atom, the Atom, and Katanna.
As Robin looked around, he noticed that he was not the only bored-looking young hero. The entire Bat-family looked to be wanting to be anywhere else, especially since they lived in a city where a crime was committed every five seconds. But the other heroes that looked bored were Superboy, Krypton, Red Arrow, Aqualad, and Beast Boy. They were all probably like him. They were excited to be part of league meetings until it was discovered that there was a lot more politics involved than actual hero work.
"Does anyone have anything else that they would like to add," Superman asked the room.
"How about we talk about actually saving people instead of dealing with politicians," Nightwing muttered, making the Bat-family hide their snickers.
"Especially that psycho Lex Luthor," Krypton muttered from his place next to Nightwing.
"Well, if that is all…" Superman was about to wrap up the meeting.
"Wait," Zatanna shot up from her seat, her hands on her head. "I sense something."
All the younger heroes were all now thinking how something interesting was finally going to happen during one of these meetings. But the heroes were also all reaching for their weapons if they had them.
"What is it," Wonder Woman asked the magician, her hand on her sword.
"There is an incoming magical…" Zatanna was cut off.
A bright blue portal opened up right under her feet. She fell in before she could finish her warning. The portal closed right after she fell into it.
"What in the world," Flash gasped.
"ZATANNA," the members of Young Justice yelled their former team member's name.
"Oracle," Batman did not even have to say the entire order.
"I'm on it," the wheelchair-bound hero immediately started typing on her holographic computer. "She's… I can't find her."
"What do you mean you can't find her," Captain Atom demanded to know.
"It's like she vanished into thin air," Oracle continued typing. "She's nowhere in the Watchtower, or on Earth, not even on my planet in our galaxy. There is no sign of Zatanna anywhere."
"She managed to say that it was something magical that was approaching," Wonder Woman says.
"Dr. Fate, can you do something," Superman requested of the lord of order.
The master sorcerer stood up from his seat. While he, personally, did not care for Zatanna other than a fellow user of the mystic arts, his current host body was that of her father. So finding her will hopefully silence all the yelling that Zatara is currently doing inside of the helmet.
But before the lord of order could do anything, another portal opened up behind him. But unlike the bright blue of the first one, this portal was a ring of blue surrounding a white portal. Something had quickly reached through and was instantly turned into an ice statue. An invisible figure sneaked through the portal before it closed.
This caused all the other league members and Young Justice members to all jump and, drawing their weapons or preparing their powers. They all looked around and were on guard just in case another portal opened up.
"Oracle," Batman ordered her again.
She was typing as quickly as humanly possible.
"I can't find anyone else in the Watchtower," she said, still typing. "I've run heat scans, x-ray scans, even the program to search for invisible opponents. I still can not find anyone else in the Watchtower."
A soft tune suddenly played throughout the room. It was like a theme song for a peaceful day in the Fall played on a flute. A ball of light soon soared to the end of the room and brightly flashed. When the flash died down, the heroes were all shocked to see a message had been written in light in the air.
"We Just Want To Talk."
It floated there for about a minute before Superman and Maritan Manhunter flew over to the message to examine it. But the moment that one of them touched it, it vanished in a burst of orange smoke-like light.
"It was an illusion," Nightwing was the first to realize it.
"Maybe that is how they are hiding," Red Robin opened up his own holographic screen over his glove and started typing. "Under an illusion."
"And if they are magical like Zatanna said, it would not be possible to detect them since the technology that can detect magic has not been invented yet," Oracle added.
"There is no such thing as magic," yelled out Kid Flash.
Young Justice rolled their eyes, used to the constant rants that the speedster goes on about his disbelief in magic. It certainly annoyed those like Aqualad and Tempest, who both were born in Atlantis and attended the conservatory of sorcery there. Few other magical heroes tolerated the loud-mouth. Which was why heroes like Phantom and his brother Gold Siren wanted nothing to do with the team. (Reference to my fanfictions on Wattpad, Phantom Music and Home.)
"Try to find out where the illusion came from," Superman ordered.
"You could try looking right in front of you," a female voice was suddenly heard.
The heroes all turned and saw three masked teenagers standing there. Two boys and a girl.
The first boy was a redhead with his bangs covering his right eye. He had on a fox-themed skin-tight orange and white outfit with red boots, gloves, and a red jacket. He also had real fox ears and a real fox tail as well. A flute was strapped to his back.
The boy next to him had black hair with green tips, which matched his turtle-themed outfit. The outfit also had a dark green leather jacket and boots with a green shield on his back, going with the goggle-like mask over his eyes.
The girl was blond with a single black streak in her ponytail. Her outfit was definitely themed by bumblebees. But unlike the shoes of the two next to her, her shoes had a slight heal to them. Like a two-inch-high wedge heel. Around her waist was a spinning top on a string.
"What have you done to our allies," Captain Atom demanded of them.
"They are perfectly fine," the turtle boy informed them.
"Why should we believe you," Robin held his katana in his hand.
"Because we need your help and harming your fellow heroes would not help our situation," the fox boy crossed his arms.
"What could you possibly need from us," Black Lightning's hands sparked with his powers.
"How about for you to stop ignoring us while we have been fighting a terrorist for three years," the bee girl yelled at them.
"We also are not lying," the fox boy said. "We have no reason to lie when surrounded by most of the world's heroes."
Before they could say anything else, all three were surrounded by separate green spheres that floated them up into the air. The Green Lanterns all had their rings pointed at one of the masked teens.
"This is ridiculous, utterly ridiculous," the bee girl complained as she crossed her arms.
"I got captured by the original Green Lantern," the fox boy looked to be almost fanboying inside of his sphere.
"Lucky, I got that class clown Guy Gardner," the turtle boy almost seemed to pout.
"Hey," Guy Gardner protested, offended.
"Why are you here, where is Zatanna, and what did you do to Dr. Fate," Superman demanded of the three as he flew close to them.
"You know, you are a lot less threatening than you think you are," the bee girl stated with a smirk. "By the way, whoever told you that underwear on the outside of your pants was a good choice needs to be thrown into fashion jail."
Most of the Young Justice team had to stop themselves from laughing. Even Superboy, Supergirl, and Krypton were trying not to laugh. They had no idea who this girl was, but she was certainly sassy.
"How did you get into the Watchtower undetected," Superman continued to demand answers from them.
"That is for us to know," the fox boy started.
"And you to find out," the turtle boy finished.
The smirks the three had told the league something, alright. Batman was the first to realize what it meant.
"There are more of them," he said.
As if him saying that was their cue to come in, three more masked teens almost seemed to materialize into the room. A guy in a monkey-themed outfit hit his Ruyi Jingu Bang against the ground and then threw it into the air.
"Uproar," he yelled.
He threw his now glowing staff into the air, the staff letting out a flash as it spun in the air. With a swift flick of her lasso, Wonder Woman grabbed the weapon before it could fall back into the monkey boy's hand. But something else fell into his hands that they did not see.
But then came the second masked teen, who looked like he had been born of the ocean. He took out what seemed to be a hilt made out of sapphire. Water came out of the hilt as the masked boy flicked his wrist, the water forming into a whip. Before they could move, the teen whipped all of the Green Lantern's hands at once. Pulling his whip, the masked teen caused their hands to collide together.
That was when the monkey boy threw the object that he had caught out of the air. Katana was close enough to try and slice through it with her sword, but she was intercepted by a second masked girl, this one appearing out of nowhere and seemed to have a tiger theme to her. Even if she was purple and black and not orange and black. Katana's sword was met with a metal tiger-claw gauntlet. While they fought, a bunny-themed girl showed up and intercepted Green and Red Arrow, fighting both archers at once. Then, to the shock of the Green Lantern trio, a stuffed octopus child's toy landed on their connected hands.
For a moment, nothing happened and they wondered why a stuffed animal had been thrown at them. But then their rings all started to malfunction at once. The rings stopped glowing and all three trapped teens were released from their bubbles. And since the rings were no longer working, the Lanterns all fell to the ground without their ability to fly.
"We're teenagers, not stupid," the bee girl smirked.
No longer wanting to underestimate the masked teens, the big hitters of the league all started to move toward them. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Red Tornado, and Captain Atom.
"Venom," the bee girl shouted.
The top in her hand seemed to grow a bit in size and start glowing. As Superman flew at her, she dodged him and managed to touch him with her top. He fell to the ground and did not move from his punching pose. He was paralyzed.
"Confusion," a female voice shouted.
Wonder Woman turned around to almost immediately be scratched on her arm by a girl in a leopard-themed outfit. The scratch on her arm glowed purple and the hero suddenly became very dizzy and could not seem to focus. She had never been drunk before, but she was sure this was probably how it felt.
Captain Atom's hands lit up as he aimed one of his energy blasts at the masked teens. As he was just about to blast, another masked teen appeared. This one was themed by a brown-furred bear. Probably a grizzly bear.
"Roar," a male voice yelled just as Captain Atom blasted.
The bear boy's fist lit up gold and he punched right into the energy beam. To the surprise of the league, he was able to keep the beam at bay with a single punch.
Red Tornado was about to throw one of his twisters when he was hit on his robot head by a thrown horseshoe. It bounced and flew around like a boomerang-gone-wild until it landed back in the hand of a horse-themed girl.
All of the heroes and masked teens in the room were either fighting or dodging the attacks of another from one of the other groups.
"Enough," a male and female voice shouted at once.
Even the Justice League froze as the voices boomed throughout the room. Standing on the other side of the room were six more masked teens. Three boys and three girls. The two that had shouted were a ladybug-themed girl and a boy with an icy wolf outfit. The boy standing next to the ladybug girl looked to be related to Catwoman while the girl next to the wolf boy was like a butterfly turned human. The last two were a snake boy and a girl that looked to be dragon-themed.
"All of you, front and center, now," the ladybug girl ordered.
All of the animal-themed teens stopped what they were doing immediately. They put their weapons away and walked over to join the others at her sides.
Wonder Woman looked at the group for a few moments. The drunk feeling had been lifted from her and she could not focus. There was something about them that was making an old memory of her's rise to the surface. An old story that her mother used to tell her about when she had been friends with, who she had called, an adorable and wise little creature known as a kwami. A creature that she also remembered was bound to a magical object called a miraculous.
"The ladybug and black cat are active once more," she gasped.
The league looked at the Amazon princess in shock. She actually had an idea who these teens were.
"We thought that you would be the one to recognize our magic, Wonder Woman," the ladybug girl softly smiles.
Wonder Woman approached the group, putting her sword away as she did. And surprising the league again, she bowed to the ladybug girl and cat boy. The two of them and the wolf boy and butterfly girl bow back.
"It is an honor to meet the wielder of the ladybug miraculous," Wonder Woman said.
"The honor is all ours, daughter of Hippolyta," the ladybug girl says. "Tikki says to tell your mother 'hi' for her."
Wonder Woman smiled at that.
"Would you care to explain exactly what is going on," Batman ordered them, crossing his arms. "Starting with where Zatanna is and what you did to Dr. Fate and Superman."
The bunny girl got out a pocket watch from her pocket. She checks the time.
"We can answer the first question now," she smirked. "We're right on time."
She put her watch away and then threw her hands forward yelling "Burrow." Out popped the same type of portal that Zatanna had disappeared through. And seconds after the portal was opened, out fell the magician.
"What just happened," Zatanna immediately asked.
"The rest of your comrades will be fine somewhere between five to ten minutes," the butterfly girl says.
"Before we go into the full explanation, do you guys have a bathroom in this place by any chance," the leopard girl asked.
After recharging, the masked teens all gathered back in front of the heroes. Since the ones that had used their powers had to recharge, their power effects lifted from Dr. Fate and Superman. It allowed both heroes to be free once more. The Justice League and Young Justice all returned to their seats. If Wonder Woman was honored to meet them, then they should hear them out before deciding what to do with them.
The group was about evenly split to be on either side of who seemed to be the leaders of their group. The ladybug and butterfly girls as well as the wolf and black cat boys.
"Introductions would certainly be the best way to start," the ladybug girl said. "My name is Ladybug and I am one of the leaders of the Miraculous hero team of Paris. Right next to me is my partner, Cat Noir."
The black cat boy nodded at the heroes.
"My name is White Wolf and I am the co-leader of the Miraculous team along with Cat Noir, Ladybug, and my partner Beautifly," the wolf boy motioned to the butterfly girl when he mentioned her.
"Pleasure," she nodded to the heroes like Cat Noir.
"With us are all of our team members," Ladybug motioned to the rest of the heroes. "To my right is Vulpix, Emerald Shell, Queen Bee, Tigress, Lady Unicorn, and Shadow Cat."
"To my left is the rest of our team," White Wolf says. "Viperion, Ryuko, Ocean Mage, King Monkey, Gladiator, and Bunnix."
All of the other heroes nodded when they were introduced.
"For three years, Paris has been terrorized by a terrorist known as Hawkmoth and as have come to personally ask for your help," Beautifly says.
Ladybug then stepped forward and took the yo-yo off of her wait. She opened it and typed in a few commands. A hologram appeared out of it, like the holographic screams and projectors that the league uses. Ladybug put her yo-yo on the ground so that the others could use their weapons/communicators to control the images that are seen. Cat Noir took out his staff and used it to punch in a command. The hologram then showed images of a few of the miraculous. The most well-known ones, such as the ladybug and black cat as well as the moth/butterfly.
"The miraculous are an ancient set of jewelry enchanted and bonded to gods known as the kwami," Ladybug explains. "Each piece, along with the kwami that it is bonded to, represents a specific aspect of magic. Creation, destruction, illusion, protection, and more. But that is specifically the miraculous of ancient China, where most of our miraculous come from.
"The miraculous that are used by myself, Beautifly, Tigress, and Gladiator use miraculous that originate from ancient Greece," White Wolf says. "Our representations are more general but also more specific at the same time. Mine represents Winter's Hope, as in the hope that comes when you know and hope about how the frost protects the earth before it gives way to the flowers of spring. Beautifly's represents Spring Love, coming from the original belief of flowers and Spring being associated with love."
"My miraculous comes from the mystical creature miraculous, where each represents a magical creature and what their core is all about," Ocean Mage said. "Mine is the miraculous of the mermaid."
The Justice League paid close attention to what the group was saying. Most of Young Justice was looking at Kid Flash, who was glaring at the teen heroes. He was probably itching to yell at them that "magic wasn't real" because of his extreme disbelief in it. But the Flash was next to him and making sure that he did not let his former sidekick's delusions interrupt the Miraculous Team.
"So, it would be a magical threat, right," Aqualad guessed. "That would be the only reason why the miraculous would be called into action, correct?"
"Exactly," Beautifly answered the Atlantean.
Cat Noir punched in a command into his baton and the hologram changed. It now showed an image of Hawkmoth.
"He looks like a Mexican wrestler reject," Red Hood said.
Most of Team Miraculous had to hold their hands over their mouths to stop them from bursting into laughter and ruining their aura of seriousness.
"This is the terrorist that we have been fighting," Cat Noir says. "He showed up about three years also, almost four. He has been using the stolen butterfly/moth miraculous in order to turn unsuspecting people into superpowered villains."
"How can he do that," Flash asked, curious. "What exactly is the power of his miraculous?"
"The power is originally known as Empowerment," Cat Noir said. "The miraculous are not meant to be used for evil, so Hawmoth has turned the power into Metamorphasis. He uses it to sense those that are feeling intense negative emotions and takes advantage of them in order to turn them into his villains. Anger, sadness, betrayal, heartbreak, anything negative."
"His goal has remained the same for the entire time that he has been active," Viperion says. "He desires to obtain the ladybug and black cat miraculous."
"What is it about those two that he specifically wants them above all the others," Black Canary asked them.
"The ladybug and black cat are the most powerful of the ancient China miraculous," Ryuko tells the league. "They're the complete opposite of each other with the ladybug being creation and good luck while the black cat is destruction and bad luck. When you combine them, the person wielding them is given the power to bend reality in order to make a wish."
"So this guy is terrorizing your city just to make a single wish," Green Arrow raised an eyebrow.
"Must be something that can not be obtained any other way or he is just really desperate for a quick solution," Red Arrow said.
"If it was a simple wish, there would not be much of an issue," Ladybug says. "But because the ladybug and black cat need each other to balance the other, the wish itself would also require balance."
Viperion was the one to put in the next command. How he was able to do that with a harp, none of them ever asked. Three more images appeared, replacing Hawmoth's. Pompeii, the Black Plague, and even the Salem Witch Trials.
"All of these things were caused by a wish," Superman sounded skeptical.
"There are many examples of magic throughout history," White Wolf says. "You just have to know where to look."
Vulpix took his turn to speak. He used his flute to point at specific images when he was talking about them.
"In Pompeii, someone wished for their family to not be killed by disease," Vulpix said. "But that ended up causing a volcano that wipes out a majority of the city and most of its population. A man's wife was sick and he wished for her illness to go away. But then the illness spread since it left one person and turned into a plague. Last was a miraculous holder that was deeply afraid of being discovered and wished to never be accused of using magic. But then dozens upon hundreds of innocent people were convicted and executed during the witch trials."
"The balance is why the wish is so dangerous," Emerald Shell says. "Everything that is wished for usually ends in disaster. Even those with pure intentions are not spared. But since Hawkmoth definitely is planning on using the wish, it is either for something extremely wrong or just extremely selfish. Either would end in hell on Earth."
"It's so hard to believe that a wish could do all of that," Black Lightning was shocked.
"Magic does that," Beautifly says. "It makes the impossible turn possible."
"If it is the miraculous of ancient China that Hawkmoth wants, why not use the others you have access to," Red Tornado asked. "It is the logical choice to keep the miraculous that he desires out of his reach. You do have access to the ancient Greek miraculous, given White Wolf, Beautifly, Gladiator, and Tigress."
"We wish it was that simple," Lady Unicorn said.
"The problem is that the powers of Hawkmoth's miraculous can only be undone by the ladybug miraculous," Ladybug says. "And since the ladybug and black cat have to balance each other, both have to be active at the same time or neither of them can be active. I am the only one that can purify his akumas and then fix all the damage that they cause with my Miraculous Cure."
Queen Bee typed a command into her top. A video replaced the images of the disasters that the wish caused. The video was from the Ladyblog and it was of the first akuma attack. It showed Ladybug casting her first-ever cure and everything being fixed by it.
"This was only the first of Hawkmoth's attacks," she said.
"There is also the added issue that the Greek miraculous also have a wish tied to the most powerful ones," White Wolf says.
"They do," Wonder Woman did not know about the Greek miraculous since neither she nor any other Amazon came into contact with them.
"As we have said, the wolf and butterfly miraculous are each themed by elements of Winter and Spring," White Wolf says. "So you know that would leave the other two seasons. Those two exist in the power of Summer's Heart for the songbird miraculous along with the Wildness of Autumn for the panther miraculous. Combining all four seasons gives the same wish ability as the combined ladybug and black cat."
"But there is still the balance issue even with a different set of miraculous," Tigress added. "Magic always comes at a price. That is the universal law of magic."
The Justice League all nodded, most of them understanding the price that could come when you use magic. The Young Justice team remembered Zatanna explaining her powers to them when she had first met them. She had said that the power of her spells usually has to come from within, meaning that the more powerful spells would seriously drain her energy. Plus, there is also the known fact that Dr. Fate was never controlled by who wore the helmet. They were like a coat that the lord of order would put on in order to be active. Zatara was still in there but the price he paid was only being able to see his daughter once a year.
"So, what exactly is it that you need from us," Batman asked the teens.
He was surprised to have heard about the villain in Paris before. Sure, he rarely ever left Gotham unless it was an international emergency, but this was a serious problem. If this villain, or any villain, got their hands on the miraculous, it would be a complete hell on earth. Lord knows what disaster would happen if the Joker made a wish.
"We actually have been requesting help for years," Queen Bee glared at the league. "Ladybug has called, Cat Noir has called, even the mayor of Paris has called. You all brush us aside and have even told us to stop calling the League to trick them with 'such an unrealistic prank.' It's ridiculous, utterly ridiculous."
"While Queen Bee could have been a bit more diplomatic, she is correct," Ryuko says. "The miraculous are not so unrealistic when you have magic-users like Zatanna as a part of the League while also having Dr. Fate, whose helmet inhabits a lord of order that possesses whoever wears the helmet. That is not unlike the miraculous, only slightly different."
Guy Gardner looked particularly embarrassed by that. That made the rest of the league realize who had been ignoring their calls for help, waving it off as a prank. You would think that someone with a powerful piece of jewelry himself would believe in the miraculous.
"As much as it pains us to admit, we no longer know what to do," Cat Noir says. "Hawkmoth has been growing in power ever since Heroes Day almost two years ago. That was also the first time that his partner revealed herself."
Vulpix was the one that typed in the command this time, into his flute. The hologram changed to show Mayura. The elegant woman looked even more dangerous with her fan allowing only access to her deadly gaze.
"This is Mayura," Emerald Shell said. "She appeared on Heroes Day and foiled the closest time that the team had ever come to defeating Hawkmoth. She wields the peacock miraculous, which grants the power of Emotion, which allows her to make inanimate objects into guardians. Only they are now called sentimonsters. They are a monster created by a person's negative emotions just like Hawkmoth's akumas. While she is not as common as Hawkmoth, the two of them do combine their powers to give akumas a powerful allie."
Emerald Shell typed in a command and pictures of some of her sentimonsters appeared around the image of Mayura. The moth creature that she usually gives Hawkmoth, Refleckdoll, the lollypop monster, and Feast.
"Why does she not appear as often as Hawkmoth," Martian Manhunter asked.
"From our own research, and from what our kwami have told us, the peacock miraculous is broken," Ladybug says. "In an effort to repair itself, it takes away the energy and life force of the person using it. Each time that Mayura transforms, she is risking her life."
"You think she would actually risk her life just for Hawkmoth to succeed," Captain Atom asked.
"Mayura has shown to be loyal to a fault," Shadow Cat said. "The fault being that she is loyal to Hawkmoth. We also suspect that whoever she was had also allowed herself to be akumatized into Catalyst on Heroes Day in order to give Hawkmoth the needed power-up that he needed to do what he did."
"What exactly did he do," Green Lantern (John) asked.
"Catalyst gave Hawkmoth a power boost that he used in order to use his power on a massive level, allowing him to become Scarlet Moth," Beautifly says. "He akumatized almost everyone that had previously been victimized by him. Dozens of his akumas flooded the streets while more of his akuma waited for others to feel negative emotions to infect them as well if they were not under the control of the mind-controlling akumas like Darkblade or Queen Wasp."
Queen Bee shifted a bit at the mention of her second akuma form, but she got her composure back quickly.
"Hawkmoth had been able to accomplish that when he used a previous akuma to create an illusion of Ladybug being akumatized and killing Cat Noir," Gladiator said. "All those people feeling the same negative emotion of fear and hopelessness was what allowed him to akumatize so many people at once."
He typed in a command and the image of Mayura and her sentimonsters were replaced by a clip of what had happened during the parade played.
"And ever since Heroes Day, Hawkmoth has been getting a lot worse," White Wolf says. "His akumas used to be a lot easier and were relatively harmless to even those affected by them. Like Princess Frangrance only hypnotized those that smelled her perfume and Silencer only took people's voices. But then you compare that to Syren and Stormy Weather, both have caused natural disasters. Hawkmoth is getting deadly in his desperation for the miraculous."
He typed in a command and the image changed to show the range of akuma that have happened over the years. Harmless ones like , deadly ones like Queen Of Hearts, and natural disaster ones like Syren.
"We can deal with the akumas," Ladybug says. "But with Hawkmoth constantly sending them out, we have no time or energy to put toward finding him and taking him and Mayura down for good."
"Do you have any suspects," Nightwing asked.
"We had a promising suspect in fashion designer, Gabriel Agreste," Ocean Mage said. "He lives a secluded life away from people, butterflies are pretty common in a lot of his designs, and there was also that a lost grimoire had also been found in a secret vault by his son."
"But we had to cross him off the suspect list when he was akumatized," Tigress says. "But even our only suspect for Mayura puts him right back in the suspect pool."
"You mean his assistant, right," Red Robin was looking at the holographic screen over his glove, same as Oracle. "Nathalie Sancoeur."
"She had had multiple doctor's appointments ever since this Heroes Day you told us about," Oracle continued for him. "And every time it is for the same thing. Dizziness, fatigue, constant headaches, and multiple coughing fits."
"Yes, she is his assistant," Shadow Cat answered. "She has also shown that she is incredibly loyal to Gabriel no matter how inhumane the things that he wants his son to do are. His diets and constant photoshoots should never be given to a teenager."
"He also has a motive," Cat Noir looked to be the most reluctant out of all of them on this topic. "Gabriel Agreste's wife vanished about six months before Hawkmoth appeared and many assume that she is dead by now. He could desire to use the wish to either bring her back or to bring her back to life. Either would probably cause the balance to cause something horrible to happen."
"If you suspect those two, do you also suspect Agreste's son, as well," Red Robin asked.
"That is the thing that we want to avoid," Shadow Cat says. "Most of us know his son or have met him because he was targetted by an akuma. Adrien is known as the Sunshine of Paris. There is no way that he is involved even if those two are behind it."
"We also do not want it to be true because that would also mean that put his own son in danger by sending akumas after him," Lady Unicorn added. "It would also mean that Adrien would probably have his life destroyed if those two really are behind the attacks."
"I am sure that he would greatly appreciate you all standing up for him," Wonder Woman smiles at the teen heroes.
Robin had been staring at the group the entire time. He was not only the only blood son of the world's greatest detective, but he also had a trained assassin's eye. He noticed things that others didn't. Like there was an unspoken bond and closeness between the black cat boy and the wolf boy. The other obvious couples seemed to be the horse and tiger girls as well as the dragon girl and snake boy. The fox and turtle boys were also definitely together.
"Is there anything else," Superman asked.
The teens shared a look with each other. It seemed that this part was probably something that they had discussed before. Ladybug nodded to Cat Noir. He typed in a command and the image of a civilian girl appeared.
"Why does this girl have sausages on her head," Red Hood asked.
Most of Team Miraculous did not even try to hold in their laughter this time. But they had to soon get back their composure since this was a very serious situation.
"This is Lila Rossi, daughter of an Italian diplomate," Ladybug said. "She has been akumatized almost fifty times. She is mostly akumatized as Volpina, which is a poor copy of Vulpix and his powers. But she also has been akumatized into Chameleon, which is an akuma that can shapeshift into anyone or anything that she kisses, as well as Miracle Queen, which can create illusions that can hypnotize people. We believe that she is working for Hawkmoth since Volpina is the only akuma that could have created the illusion on Heroes Day."
"Why does that make her a suspect," Green Arrow asked.
"Because I didn't purify Volpina's akuma that day," Ladybug says. "And since Hawkmoth had to akumatize another person into Catalyst after the illusion that was created, that meant that she was akumatized and didn't tell anyone."
"There is also that the mayor's daughter, Chloe Bourgeois, sent us this," Queen Bee types in a command.
Next to the image of Lila appeared a video that was obviously taken on a cell phone while a person was hiding. It showed Lila running toward an akuma and literally jumping up to snatch it out of the air. She then placed the akuma into the necklace that she was wearing and actually smirked as a glowing butterfly outline appeared over her eyes.
"Because of Chloe's previous reputation of being a bully and a spoiled brat that likes getting others into trouble, she knew that only we would actually believe her when she gave us this video," Ladybug says.
"There is also the fact that Lila is a pathological liar that puts on a sweet and innocent front that makes it almost impossible for people to see her as the horrible person that she really is," Emerald Shell of all people basically growled.
"Lila has spent years telling tall tales about being Ladybug's best friend," Vulpix said. "As well lies about musicians like Jagged Stone and Clara Nightingale, comic book artists like the writers of the Miraculous Adventures comic, fashion designers like Style Queen and MDC, as well as Adrien Agreste himself. Anyone that has ever called her out has had their lives ruined."
"More research into her revealed that at every single school that Lila has ever attended, there has been either a suicide, a deadly accident, or a person getting greatly injured," Viperion says. "All of them have been about kids that were once popular and loved, but their lives went to hell once Lila attended their schools."
"You believe that this Lila girl is behind all of these things," Superboy asked.
"We connected everyone that we could that was connected to her past victims," Gladiator said. "They all said the same thing, that Lila came to the school with tales of grand adventures and their friend or child realized that she was lying. Then she would start whispering lies about these kids to all of her loyal listeners. She would make up stories about them bullying her, threatening her, stealing from her, talking behind their backs, anything that she could think of."
"She would turn everyone that she could against them," Ocean Mage crossed his arms. "Friends, teachers, principals, even family. There were those that killed themselves over the bullying they received, but it was actually worse for those that were too strong for that. Lila would then either cause an accident that would kill them or injure them in a way that broke them even further."
"Take a look at this," Tigress made an image appear of a kind-looking boy that looked to be from Spain from the background of the image. "This is Mateo Santiago. He went to the same school as Lila when she was in Spain. He was once a popular boy that had a gift for singing. He won countless youth singing contests all over Spain. When he heard Lila's tales, he did his research and found her to be a liar. But just like all the others, she turned everyone but his family against him. But Mateo remained strong and did not let her or anyone get to him, confident because of how much he performed in front of others. So, Lila took that away from him."
"See, Mateo was allergic to fish," Beautifly took over the story. "It gave his throat a bad reaction, so he stayed away from it to keep his vocal cords safe. But one day, Lila managed to get into his locker and pour fish sauce all over his lunch salad. So when lunch came, he had an allergic reaction. He was taken to the hospital and the procedure that saved his life also damaged his vocal cords. He would be mute for the rest of his life. All of that because he knew Lila was a liar and tried to expose her."
"Lila has been trying to do the same in Paris as well," White Wolf says, making an image of a Chinese-French girl be exchanged for Mateo's. "This is Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Lila's latest victim. See, Marinette is a fashion design hopeful and has already designed for those like Jagged Stone, Clara Nightingale, Adrien Agreste, and even been noticed by Style Queen herself for a simple hat. Since she has her own connections, she knew right away that Lila was a liar."
"You may notice from any research that you do that Vulpix, Emerald Shell, and Lady Unicorn have not always been those that wield the fox, turtle, and horse miraculous," Cat Noir says, making images of three previous holders appear next to Marinette's picture. "This is Rena Rouge, Carapace, and Pegasus. They were the previous holders of those three miraculous."
"Did something happen to them," Red Arrow asked.
"Lila happened," King Monkey crossed his arms. "These three used to be friends of Marinette's. Especially Rena and Carapace. But then Lila came along and Marinette tried to expose her. Lila managed to sway half of Marinette's class into being her attack dogs to attack Marinette even if Lila looks even the slightest bit upset."
"The three that were previously trustworthy heroes are now nothing but horrible and abusive bullies," White Wolf growled. "Rena went from a journalist hopeful to a tabloid attack dog that even when she is attacking Marinette one second, the next second she is still expecting Marinette to make her a new dress for a date and babysit her younger sisters. Carapace also is always attacking Marinette while also still expecting her to watch his little brother, but also blames her for his lack of work for his DJ career. And Pegasus actually has tried multiple times to hack into Marinette's grades and fashion design website to ruin them because of Lila's lies."
"Marinette is a sweetheart," Shadow Cat added. "She was the class president, got some of the best grades in her class, does charity work, babysits, helps her parents in their bakery, and has always bent over backward to help others. But Lila took most of that away with her lies. She probably would have destroyed Marinette if not for her having loyal friends."
"Marinette has been the victim of physical, mental, and emotional bullying for years because of Lila," Cat Noir looked ready to hiss. "But she remains positive the entire time. She's transferred classes, has gotten a new phone number, and even uses a secret identity when she designs to keep Lila from claiming her designs as her own."
"Lila has also chosen to act as a spy for Gabriel Agreste," Ladybug's fists were clenched tight. "She has used her lies to get close to him and he uses her to try and separate Adrien from 'bad influences.' Which is basically just Lila using more lies to try and isolate Adrien so that he would only have her. Adrien actually stays away as best she can, especially since she is sexually harassing him, but his father always gives them photoshoots together. She constantly threatens him by saying that with one word, Adrien will be back under house arrest by his father no longer letting him leave the house.
"Between her causing akumas, being akumas, Hawkmoth, and Mayura, we need help," Beautifly says. "There must be something that you can do to help us."
The league all shared looks with each other. These heroes have obviously been doing a great help if Paris is still standing, but they also look so tired and in dire need of their help.
"We'll help," Robin tells the heroes before the league actually answered.
