Protagonist Prep Ch 8
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In the kitchen area of the student room Chloe was trying to make her own breakfast, after six failed attempts of doing so. Luckily on her seventh try she finally got the perfect slices of toast, she began her walk towards the student table but the something tragic happened to her. A pair of strange metallic stretched out of seemingly nowhere and tripped her, the heiress fell down to the fell down the ground with heavy thud and that caught the attention of the other students. Some of them smirking, while others felt a little bit of sympathy for the blonde as she was having trouble getting up since Chloe was still getting used to her new weight. As she was getting up a surprising helping hand appeared in front of her, and it was an actual to see who offered the appendage. It was Nathaniel who had a caring/worried look on his face surprised to see it was one of her former targets Chloe actually took the hand, with her face frozen with a look of shock. With a hefty heave Nathaniel lifted Chloe back onto her feet
"Thanks." Chloe muttered out getting over her shock with disappointment with the fact it wasn't her Adrikins who didn't help her up.
"It's no problem, I sort of know what it's like to be tripped for laughs." Nathaniel told her and he immediately regretted saying that, as some of the students looked gob smacked while others had a future betting pool in plan. Chloe was currently feeling two things the first was sympathy for the redheaded artist and confusion on why she was feeling sympathy. He was just a simple artist how could he match up to the literal model perfection of Adrien, though as she thought she noticed that she was still holding Nathaniel's hand so she quickly and rather rudely ripped her hand out of his. This actually caused Chloe to feel a bit terrible as she saw the rather down face that grew on his face, but those feelings were quickly banished as she saw Adrikins turn towards her.
"Um, Chloe is that all you're going to eat?" Adrien asked her, his voice carried worry that would come from a brother or a good friend this caused her to look down at her breakfast which was now stuck to her shirt. Chloe blushed as she peeled off of her toast and put on her plate, she then walked to the nearest trash can and dumped the toast into it.
"Actually, I'm going on diet for now." Chloe said, while wishing she could just go find a hole and hide for the rest of her life. Normally she liked attention but in her current state now she'd rather be invisible, but to her future misfortune two figure had more pranks planed for her. With one of them smiling like a crazed maniac and the other just worried for their life at what could happen if they continued. Fast-forward to Behemoth's ethics class, hey school for heroes need to be taught right from wrong, Chloe was forced to take her own notes since Sabrina wasn't here to take them for him. As she was writing down the cliff notes of Behemoth's lecture on what to do when faced with grey moral decisions when she felt a small sting on back of her neck. On instinct she slapped it and began to look for the insect culprit that did it, but since she couldn't see one or hear one she went back to taking notes. Fifteen seconds later she felt another sting this time it was on her back, again she smacked the sting site but she had sneaking suspicion that some was messing with her. The third and final sting hit her were no girl would wanted to be hit, the third one hit her fessies which caused her to jump in her seat and yelp.
" is something amiss?" Behemoth asked the heiress who was now blushing almost at the same level as Marinette.
"No, it's nothing just some bugs." Chloe lied, trying not to embarrass herself even further. Next was one of Chloe's most treaded classes Drooler's magic class and it was a class day, the kids stood watching flasks filled with a shartuse color liquid boil.
"Now when the smoke begins to billow out of the flask, sit down. The fumes from this potion can be pungent to say the least." Drooler told the students while watching his own flask. Chloe was watching hers rather lazily, not really paying attention to her surroundings. When she started to smell a mix of garlic and sulfur she sat down, unaware of the whopper cushion that was placed on her seat. As the air was let out of the prank item most of the class busted out laughing nearly in tears at what happened, and Chloe was glowing like plutonium with embarrassment. The kids kept on laughing until they had tears in their eyes and the fact that Drooler had a glare on his face that could literally melt steel, the kids began quiet down as he walked towards the kids. He stopped in the middle of the row right where Chloe's table was, he turned to currently redder than him teen.
"Could you please get up ." He kindly ordered the blonde French girl, his tone was surprisingly soft and fatherly, so she slowly got up from her seat. When she was standing Drooler picked up the prank item with his lower left arm in between his claws, he then walked back to the front of the class he tried to scan out the guilty party or smell any rubber on the kids. So he decided to give the pranksters a little warning.
"Now some of you may think that this is funny, amusing or downright hilarious but let me tell you this." Flames started ignite on his arms and traveled to his claw tips, the fire started to slowly melt the prank balloon.
"It's not, all these pranks are rather childish and can cause rifts to grow between people. If those rifts grow they can create some serious problems." Drooler just turned his vertically and let the now melted balloon slowly slid off his hand, where it hit the floor with a dull, sick sounding splat. He then returned to his desk in rather sour mood, both of the pranksters did hearing the warning but had rather different views. One of them wanted to continue the pranking to see how far the teachers would go before they snapped, the second one was ready to call quits. After magic it was Zizzoro's tactics class, and Chloe had it up to Behemoth's height dealing with the jerk who was messing with her.
"Now one of the most important details of using a battle tactic is not to use it." Now that confused most of the kids while one of them signaled his partner to begin the final part of his master plan.
"Okay I guess I have to explain, what I mean is that if you make a tactic too obvious the enemy will know what's going and will never fall for it." Zizzoro explained to the class as he began to use his lower arms to draw squares and circles on the chalk board. While a small figure crawled out of the ceiling carrying a medium sized round container with a lid and slowly made it's way to where Chloe was sitting.
"First you have to lull the enemy into a false sense of security, making them think they have the advantage." Zizzoro told the class as he started to erase a few of the squares and circles, he then redrew some of the squares retreating and the circles advancing on them. While he was explaining the lesson the small figure crawled to the target, and it's fear slightly diminished by the fact that none of the teachers noticed yet.
"When the enemies get overconfident with the said advantage they'll make mistakes, and when they make mistakes it causes them to reveal weakness that you could exploit." The circles on the board then began to cluster together and they turned into one big circle and the lid on the round container popped open revealing a rather pungent smelling, dark grey brown, mud like substance. Which the smell hit the nostrils of the tactics teacher now knowing what to and knew where to take down the target.
"After they expose the weakness, then you strike with ferocity!" Zizzoro yelled out as the chalk squares then surrounded the large circle and Zizzoro threw the piece of chalk he had at the small figure. It let out a small scream of pain and fell to the floor with a thud, along with the container that landed on the figure and covered it in the mud like substance. As the figure wiped the mud from itself Zizzoro noticed it's design and the peculiar smell, not from the mud, but from the metal the figure was made off,
"Zim care to explain why your robot is here and why is it tormenting Ms. Bourgeois?" Zizzoro asked the Irken Zizzoro's voice cold, demanding and authorative with no room for any emotions. While Zim in his mind he looked calm and collected but in reality, he was sweating so much that river was running down his face nearly creating a waterfall. Chloe was infuriated her entire face was red with rage and she huffing like the big bad wolf, some of the students swore that they saw steam coming from her ears.
"YOU AND YOUR STUPID ROBOT CAUSED ME ALL THIS AGONY!" Chloe yelled out her voice almost shaking small objects, she was livid at the small alien who almost looked scared of the human. Zim just ignored the feeling of fear and prepared the defenses he had if the pranking failed.
"Oh please, I've heard you did worse at your old, pathetic school." Zim told the heiress, most of the kids were in shock at this fact but some of them knew better yes Chloe was a bully but not this extreme.
"It's going to be nothing when I get my hands on you!" Chloe again yelled out at the alien as she began stomp towards him.
"Well at least I don't look hideous!" Zim lamely insulted the blonde, still trying to break down her defenses but her anger was too great.
"At least I look better than a green cockroach like you!" Chloe retorted with an acidic venom in her voice, she stopped stomping towards the alien and her new-found weight moved by itself at the sudden stop. Seeing that gave the invader an entire new list of insults for him to throw at the blonde.
"Oh really, because I believe that cockroaches are actually cleaner than a certain type of pig." Zim told Chloe, which actually confused the blonde while Zizzoro started to gain a mix of a glare and a look of worry.
"Oh you don't know, how surprising considering you are a pig!" Zim told her, that insult actually threw her for loop and she could actually feel something inside of her crack. At the same time Zizzoro felt something inside of him ignite and that something wanted him to tear apart the miserable little Irken from limb from limb, but that would probably be a bad idea. However Zim was currently ecstatic that his insult was working but couldn't read Zizzoro's current behavior, even with a stormy grey blue lightning energy that was zapping off of him and granted not even Zizzoro noticed. So the persistent green invader continued his barrage,
"You know I bet whenever you walk the ground shakes." Zim taunted Chloe his voice carrying some sadistic joy, again something inside of Chloe broke and Zizzoro started to get angrier. Inside of Chloe's mind was a mess she thought insults but she when wanted to yell them out it was like her voice was dead and the words were in a trap. Even though Zim couldn't read the room the other kids and Gir could see that Zizzoro was getting angrier, all them were worried what would happen if the Zizzoro blew his top.
"Ummm, master maybe you should stop." Gir suggested his voice almost shaking in fear and worry, but Zim didn't listen as he let lose another insult.
"You have so much mass that you're practically planet." Right now Chloe's pride was currently at an all time low and the energy surrounding Zizzoro became more jagged, darker, as well as fiercer.
"Okay Zim I think that's enough." Steven told him, his voice carrying hints of disgust and anger aimed at the invader. Who just continued to ignore the others as he was caught up in the thrill of belittling other humans and released his final taunt.
"Oh, at least you don't have to worry about a broken heart because no male will ever want to mate with a blob that will eat them up!" Zim yelled out and with that final insult Chloe's pride was shattered, the girl just ran out of the classroom her eyes filled with real tears. Zim just stood there with a big smile on his face but what he was faced was nothing like the crowd of smiling faces he saw in those human videos he used to watch. Instead he was greeted with looks of disgust and anger, most of the anger coming from Zizzoro as he stomped towards him with each step feeling like an earthquake, energy lightning off him, each stray bolt frying small objects. Even Zizzoro's eyes seemed imbued with power as they glowed a dark stormy blue, he stopped stomping and the air was deadly silent for a few seconds until.
"If you see me light up again you either stop what you're doing and apologize, or you'd better be prepared for pain that will last centuries." The Godzilla like creature warned, his voice cold and harsh that caused Zim to flinch. The invader just slowly nodded to afraid to say anything that could anger the creature any father, then Zizzoro just closed his eyes and the energy surrounding him just disappeared.
"Good, now class is temporally dismissed while we look for . Also Zim once this ordeal is over you will be contacted by Drooler to see how you'll be punished." The teacher told them and walked past the small alien, as did the others who just gave him dirty looks even Steven and you know it's bad when he's angry at you. Meanwhile with Chloe she got lost while running from the classroom and was now slumped against wall, her tears making her mascara running and sobs were racking body as she kept mumbling to herself.
"That insect is wrong, hundreds of guys would still line up for a chance to date me." Though it did nothing to rebuild her pride as new tears began to flow down her cheeks and sobs again made her body convulse, Zim's insults hurt the blonde. Her ego was already devastated from the potion incident, then the impromptu haircut, now this the blonde really couldn't take much more and now she just felt worthless. Chloe even believed Zim's insult that no one would love her, her reasoning that the only guys who would be interested in her would be creeps. As most of you know there is one person in the Miraculous Ladybug dimension that loved to take advantage of emotionally vulnerable people, even if the person is in an entirely different reality. In a dark, secret part of the Agreste household a metal covering was retreating to reveal a huge glass window that had metal bars in shaped like a butterfly and in the middle of the ray of light was a rather odd man. This man was wearing a dark purple dress suit, with similar colored dress pants, as well as a grey under shirt, on his face was silver mask and finally in his left hand he had a near black cane with a sphere on the end.
"What's this, I feel one's negativity in another world?" The man questioned but he ignored his inner curiosity for his thirst for greater power.
"It doesn't matter, I can use this to finally get Ladybug and Chat Noir!" The man yelled, the man held out his right hand and a pure white butterfly fluttered right into it. He then clasped his left hand onto the insect causing some type of dark purple energy to flow into and corrupting the butterfly, turning the snow-white insect into a dark purple corrupted version of itself. The man unclasped his hand and let his dark creation fly out of the room.
"Now go and evilize this scorned princess!" As the butterfly flew out of the window an interdimensional portal opened up, how the heck did that happen?! Anyway the butterfly fluttered into the portal and appeared instantly a few feet away from Chloe, possessing more speed that it naturally should the butterfly quickly closed the distance and landed on her necklace. Something happened to the butterfly as it just disappeared into the necklace and the area around her eyes became red, as well as a butterfly shaped hologram appeared in front of her face. Chloe then heard the man's voice echoed in her mind.
"Giantrincess I am Hawkmoth, I'll give you the power to grow your empire and crush your enemies underneath your feet. All I ask for in return is Ladybug's and Chat Noir's miraculouses. Do we have a deal?" The now titled Hawkmoth asked the teenager, who just grinned evilly as a vengeful fire.
"Of course, Hawkmoth I'll show those peasants how to treat royalty!" Chloe shouted out as some sort of purple go began to cover her and it changed her mind, body as well as her clothes to make her a villain. In another hall Zizzoro and the kids were looking for Chloe, while some of the students just gave Zim glares that could melt steel. Zim tried to look for support but saw none and he knew better than to go near the teacher, he was brought out of his musings as he could feel the ground shake. At first many of them thought it was either Behemoth or Jack but they didn't hear claws scrapping across the floor, and most of the them were sure that they didn't wear heels since they could hear a pair clacking against the school floor. As the stomping got closer the group saw who the cause for the noise was, it was Chole but she was vastly different from the last time they saw her. Chloe was now the size of Zizzoro, her attire was now something fitting a 17th century royal complete with a long flowing dress, last but not least her necklace was no longer a simple locket but was now an elegant golden princess necklace with rubies, diamonds, and sapphires ingrained in it. Not to mention her hair was now styled something similar to a powdered wig and her physical features would make most female models cry in shame. Wait Zizzoro why are you unsheathing your tachis, oh no Zizzoro look I didn't mean-AHH my spleen, why?!
"Because of reasons, so would someone like to explain why is now a giant member of royalty?!" Zizzoro hissed out to the kids, who were hiding behind him, as far as he knew human puberty didn't do this or did it. Although most of the kids were in same boat as this transformation caused confusion among them, except for a few select of them that saw this happen before.
"She's been akumatized." Alya told the giant lizard folk, who just looked even more confused than he was before.
"What in the name of Coularin does a person from the Street Fighter dimensions have to do with our current situation?!" He hissed again, hating that he was in the dark about deadly situations. Seeing how the statement caused more confusion than solving it Alya elaborated.
"Basically, a villain from dimension called Hawkmoth will sense any negative emotion he sends these things called Akumas to transform them into his super powered lackeys." Zizzoro just growled in anger but before anything else could happen the villainized Chloe stamped her foot to gain attention and began to speak.
"I, Giantrincess, wouldst liketh to hast the green pest." The newly named Giantrincess demanded, though the kids couldn't understand most of what she said but the green pest they could gather was Zim. The green alien actually felt a twinge of worry in his body as most of the kids were actually thinking about handing him over to the towering teen. Even Zizzoro seemed to be thinking about it, but while Zim was shaking in his boots he failed to realize that Zizzoro wasn't thinking about handing him over however he was actually thinking up a plan to make sure that one of the students to become a stain. His eyes then lit up a bright ocean blue which honestly added to the kids fear, he then whispered to the kids a plan.
"Listen up, I have an idea that might just be crazy enough to work. First we split up into two groups one offense and one defense, since Marinette and Adrien know how to deal with these threats they'll lead the offense which will comprise of Ms. Butterfly, Mr. Universe, and Ms. Cesaire. The rest of us will try and be the defense to make sure that Zim won't become a stain on the floor." Though the kids had some complaints but they really didn't time to voice them since Griantrincess made the first move, by stomping her foot down hard and causing a small earthquake. However Zizzoro countered this by charging his fist full of energy and slammed the ground creating his own earthquake laced with energy, but since he was fighting a student he had to use a low level energy blast.
Still it did the job not only forcing her back but obscuring her vision long enough for Marinette and Adrien to transform, the offense team then rushed Giantrincess not waiting for he to recover. It was a tense fight between the group and Giantrincess with Steven using his shield to defend, Marinette and Adrien doing what they do best, and Alya somehow gained super strength and began to hurl pieces of debris at her. However their advantage ended when Giantrincess broke off two sapphires from necklace and threw one of them at the group which caused something strange to happen, ice shoot up from the ground and trapped the group. Chat tried to activate his cataclysm but Giantrincess planned for that and threw the second sapphire at his ringed hand which then became encased in ice, seeing this Zizzoro rushed towards the villain ready to attack. But when Zizzoro got close to her he didn't see a villain, no he saw Chloe crying and her eyes filled with hurt he just stood there mid-attack frozen like a stature. Seeing an advantage Giantrincess plucked off a diamond from her necklace and cracked it against Zizzoro's skin, she walked away as she did diamond began to encase him in crystal and he did nothing to stop the progress of it.
In a short amount of time Zizzoro was encased in a crystal cocoon, Giantrincess just smirked a little as she stomped towards the defense group and to say that they were nervous was an understatement. The nerves didn't stop them though as they began to go into defense positions, still smirking she reached to her necklace and plucked off a few rubies she then threw at the team. With those few rubies a crystal prison erupted from the ground and when Dib tried to touch it he got burned, luckily one member of the defense team was still free to protect Zim. That one member was Nathaniel who stood bravely in front of Zim, though he currently disliked the alien he knew that having him turned into a stain on the ground wasn't the right way to deal with the problem. Nathaniel just looked defiantly at the incoming villainess, even though he wanted to ran away and hide but that really wouldn't solve anything.
'Oh, that gent couldst beest mine own knight after I desroyeth yond insect, waiteth what didst I just sayeth?!' Giantrincess thought to herself and a slight blush creeped up onto her cheeks, she quickly banished that thought as she reached her target as she glared down to the two and she ordered Nathaniel.
"Moveth hence, I only wanteth to destroyeth yond annoying insect." Instead of doing so the red headed artist just looked up to her and said one simple word.
"No." That little word threw Giantrincess for a loop, she always knew Nathaniel as a shy kid hardly seeing him stand up for himself and now he was standing up for someone else since when did he have that much courage. Meanwhile Nathaniel was internally panicking he saw on the news and the Ladyblog what happened to people who stood up to akumatized people, it didn't end well but here he was doing the same thing. Rather angry at being denied what she wanted Giantrincess began to rant.
"Doth thee knoweth what yond annoyance didst?! That pest embarrassed royalty and hath tried maketh the insulsts seemth liketh something valorous! Doth thee has't any idea what it doth feel liketh to beest broken liketh yond!?" Her voice filled with anger and rage but Nathaniel could hear sadness in her voice as well, he actually felt bad for Chloe as she told him that. Sure Chloe caused him torment but he could handle, however Chloe couldn't even handle a little teasing let alone a full on prank attack like Zims. She even had to face some major changes she did want to happen and almost no one wanted to help her.
"I do." Nathaniel told her his voice so quiet that Giantrincess had strain to hear him, then Nathaniel began his own speech.
"Every time someone or you else tried to make me feel like I don't matter or that what I do is stupid, I just have to remember something important. I shouldn't care what others think of me, I'm me and nothing ever should ever change that." When he was done talking Zim just inwardly groaned at the preachy talk that Nathaniel gave to the creature that was about to squash.
'I'm going to die, hopefully I get a good tombstone or this red headed fool better die first.' Actually, that little speech caused something in Giantrincess to stir and it was something that Hawkmoth didn't want to come to the surface.
"Don't listen to him, just destroy that insect and get me those miraculouses!" Hawkmoth yelled via telepathy to the teenager, who raised her arm high in the air and curled her hand into a tight fist. Instead of brining it down onto the two targets she brought down onto her necklace, well she tried but her fist was caught by some unknown force hovered in the air a few inches away from the necklace.
"Did you really think that would actually work, now you shall feel the pain of your betrayal!" Hawkmoth yelled out in rage and clenched his free hand into tight fist which caused a chain reaction to happen within the school. First Giantrincess began to scream in pain as if her body was being set on fire and electrocuted at the same time causing her to let out a pained scream that could be heard across dimensions. Second the crystal confines of Zizzoro began to crack and his eyes glowed a deep stormy greyish blue, he began to growl as he cracked the crystal and broke out with small shards flying out imbedding themselves in the surrounding area. He then began stomp towards the downed girl, the energy that arced off of him melting the ice that imprisoned the offense team, when he reached her he raised his hand in the air with his claws ready cut apart anything. In a flash he brought his hand down but instead it hit the necklace cutting through the chain of it, he just looked at and gave the puppet master one little warning.
"Hawkmoth you took advantage of one my students, made her into something she's not and made her feel unimageable pain. I hope when we meet I can I make you feel her pain times a thousand." He opened his maw which was glowing a dark, twisted, deep blue and let loose a huge beam of energy at the necklace turning into a melted pile of gold with some ashy remains of the jewels. After the necklace was destroyed the akuma began fly away from the debris, and Zizzoro began to charge another energy attack but Marinette placed a hand on his leg.
"I got this, time to devilize!" She yelled out as she lifted her left leg above her head and threw her yoyo at the small insect, the yoyo then split down the middle to show a glowing whitish pink center. When the yoyo was on the butterfly it closed on it trapping the butterfly and purifying it, Marinette then pulled the yoyo back into her hand. She pressed the middle of it releasing a pure white butterfly into the air, it took a few seconds but Chloe returned to normal she was unconscious though. The necklace on the other hand didn't it just remained a puddle of melted gold, however something odd distracted the students from the puddle of riches. Zizzoro walked towards Chloe and carefully picked her up with his upper left arm, as he cradled her in his arms Zizzoro turned his head to the students.
"I'm taking Chloe to the medical room, stay here while I get another teacher to get you. Also, Zim, if you ever do anything like this again I will hurt student or not." His tone so cold to Zim, one could see the alien shivering in the spot. Meanwhile Hawkmoth was livid at his current defeat, so livid that he didn't notice that he had a rather strange visitor.
"How could I lose to an overgrown reptile?!" Hawkmoth yelled out to what he thought was empty room, until he heard voice tell him something.
"Because you underestimate him." The voice sounded rough like sand paper and its tone condescending yet happy at the same time, Hawkmoth turned to try and find the owner of the voice but couldn't find one.
"Who are you and how did you get here?!" Hawkmoth asked the voice weary of it and how it got here.
"My name and my methods aren't important but I do have a proposition for you, I help you with your little hero problem and you take of my little problem. If you agree I can give you a power boost to help with our tasks, so what do say?" The voice asked, this caused Hawkmoth to think about this little deal while it did offer a way to destroy his common annoyances but this voice didn't exactly ring trusting to him. However, time was growing short for him to gain ultimate power and if Hawkmoth wanted the power he would have to find other means he would have to find creative ways to do so.
"You have a deal." That little phrase caused Hawkmoth to see one physical feature of the voice, a smile filled crooked yellow shark like teeth.
"Good."