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Chapter 21: Reflekta, Part 2
Chat Noir gave himself two seconds.
And then he was up on his feet again.
Reflekta tossed Ladybug across the schoolyard, but Ladybug stuck the landing - and on one foot! - and began spinning her yo-yo again.
Chat Noir looked around for some way to help, but couldn't find anything he could use.
"You look great," Plagg snickered in his ear. The Kwami has just appeared as Reflekta's beam had hit Chat Noir, and now he was hiding behind Chat Noir's back.
"I thought so," Chat Noir admitted. "Is there anything you can do to fight?"
"I'm a Kwami, kid," Plagg replied. "I help you fight, not fight myself. Besides, I need some cheese."
Chat Noir sighed and resigned himself to finding some other way to help.
Ladybug and Reflekta has made it up the stairs, Ladybug hopping more than walking. She positioned herself against the railing, and in one smooth motion, vaulted over, grabbed the rim of the basketball hoop, used her momentum to swing over and flip back to Reflekta, with the hoop in her hand. Ladybug landed the hoop over Reflekta's head, and it fell down and trapped her arms.
"Hey!" Reflekta complained.
Ladybug sent her yo-yo down for Chat Noir to grab and lifted her partner up.
"Let's go and regroup," she said. "While she's distracted."
Chat Noir nodded. "After you, my lady."
"We could attract her to the Tv station like we did last time," Chat Noir suggested.
Ladybug nodded. "We'll know this time to make sure she's actually Reflekta, and not the mayor or anyone else. But then again... did you see where Chloe went?"
"I think she was heading for the hotel," Chat Noir suggested. "Reflekta was targeting her, wasn't she?"
"Let's go there and see if we can find Reflekta," Ladybug decided. "Need a lift?"
"Yes please," Chat Noir replied.
Ladybug wrapped her hand around Chat Noir waste, threw her yo-yo, and soon they both were soaring through the skies of Paris.
It didn't take long before they were at the hotel.
"Looks like we beat her here," Ladybug noted, landing softly on the roof.
"Not by much!" Reflekta landed behind them, and Ladybug barely had time to dodge her attack. Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around Reflekta's legs and yanked, and Reflekta toppled to the ground.
She was up before Ladybug had a chance to make her move, and once again Ladybug was forced to dodge.
Chat Noir watched Reflekta and Ladybug go back and forth, neither making much progress.
Neither payed much attention to Chat Noir.
Chat Noir slowly but casually walked towards Reflekta, and her attention still remained Ladybug. Reflekta raised her arm to shoot, and Chat Noir grabbed on and yanked it towards him. He reached out to smash the bracelet, but Reflekta reacted too quickly and smacked him away, causing him to momentarily black out.
Ladybug threw her yo-yo just as Reflekta hit Chat Noir, and her wrist moved just enough for Ladybug's yo-yo to miss.
But in the half-second it took for the yo-yo to return, Ladybug managed to alter the angle, and the yo-yo smacked into Reflekta's bracelet.
The winds picked up just as Chat Noir was pushing himself off the ground. When they cleared, a lot of people giggled.
"Another nosebleed?" Chat Noir groaned.
"Not to mention that you still look like Reflekta," Ladybug added.
Chat Noir looked down at his outfit.
"I think you pull it off well," Alya called from the back of the hotel room.
Even The Unclocker was hiding a grin. "Looks like you had an... interesting time."
"I hate heels," Chat Noir grumbled as Ladybug helped him stand up. "So, who next?"
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