Star: Hey guys, M&M, DJ, and I decided to take a short break from Team Miraculous the series of one shots and do this short little Nino based fic.
DJ: Guys, don't worry, my debut will still be May 10th and you can obviously tell which name got chosen.
M&M: You guys didn't make it that hard to choose, only two people voted!
Star: M&M, don't kill the readers, it's not their fault they didn't see the announcement.
M&M: *mutters* Yeah right.
DJ: Anyway, on with the fic!
There was one thing Nino was not, and that thing was stupid. Sure, he might be laid back and more focused on his new mixtape than school, but he kept up his grades and did his work like he was supposed to.
Of course, whenever he had a study group with his friends, it was kind of hard to study when two of your best friends are Ladybug and Chat Noir and got whisked off to go fight another akuma. It also wasn't fun when his girlfriend dragged him to go film the akuma.
He loved being Carapace, even more so when he learned Alya was Rena Rouge. The fun times he had chasing his girlfriend across rooftops and kissing on the top of Eiffel Tower. Wayzz was awesome, but he couldn't help but be worried for his friends. What if one day they don't come back from lunch in a huffing mess? What if one day the heroes of Paris and his best friends wound up dead?
He's known Nettie since they were kids, always playing and laughing. Actually, she was the one to make him his red cap. He couldn't imagine a world where she wasn't in it.
Adrien was his dude, his bro, his best friend. He taught Adrien horrible jokes and they would always have punning wars. It would be soul crushing if he lost him.
Nino wanted to make sure that no matter what he would protect his friends, no, his family. He loved every single one of them and would die for each and everyone of them, until the day he died.
Five years later after he made this decision, it was finally time, time for him to fulfill his promise,it was time to die, time to protect his family.
One final blast, that's all it would take to kill Ladybug and Chat Noir if Nino hadn't leaped.
He lied on the concrete in front of them, blood dripping from his mouth, tears in his eyes. Ladybug lunged forward and kneeled at his side. She took his hand, tears running from her bluebell eyes, the same ones he used to stare at when they played. Memories of her started to play a film in his eyes. Nino chuckled softly at the time they had flour all over them after a flour fight in the bakery. Then he shifted to look at Chat.
Chat Noir was weeping his eyes out, he whispered, "I should've protected you, now you're dying because of me."
Nino grasped his hand a forced out, "You were my best friend, I'll never forget that."
At those final words, Nino took his last breath and closed his eyes, mission accomplished.
Ladybug and Chat wept over his body, not caring when their transformations fell. Rena jumped in and asked, "Where's Carapace?" By the looks they gave her, she already knew the answer.
She crumbled at his side and cried, whispering words of regret, words of love, words of sadness, and finally words of anger.
"Paris has lost a hero, not just a hero, a friend, a husband, a father," spoke Mayor Bourgeois, wistfully.
The heroes cried tears of anger, regret, and sadness at Nino's funeral. Everyone had something to say for the hero, memories, wishes, and hopes. But they knew he would never hear them, for he had passed on to a better place.
Hawkmoth looked out from his lair with a sense of fulfillment. He could finally do what he has always wanted to, he just had to wait for that insolent fool to die for his friends. Now with him out of the way, he could finally akumatize Paris' symbols of hope.
He summoned one his butterflies to his hand and infused it with darkness. Hawkmoth instructed it to evilize the heroes.
The day had come, the day Bunnyx couldn't fix, the day the world became dark, the day known as The Triumph of Evil.
Star and DJ: *crying in a ball in the corner of the loft, far away from the computer*
DJ: *wiping away tears as he walks towards the computer*Star, I have to do this.
Star: No! I don't know if I can face it. *puppy eyes*
DJ: *can't face Star's puppy eyes* Ok, I won't.
M&M: But I will! *she presses publish as she cackles*
Star and DJ: NOoooo!
M&M: * snaps fingers and duct tape covers their mouths*
M&M: *looks at the camera* That was our addition to Murderous May. I've been trying to get them to write about death for months, but being the softies that they are, refused. Back to your regularly scheduled program.