Today was a very special day. Today was the finals of the KIDZ+ competition. When today, one lucky winner would be announced as the brand new KIDZ+ weather girl. They started off with 5000 contestants. But with the help of their audience at home, including me, they whittled our talent down to just two lucky ladies: Aurore Beauréal and Mireille Caquet. I managed to hear Alec announce it.
"So, let's welcome our fantastic finalists! To my right, Aurore Beauréal, and to my left, Mireille Caquet!" He said on the television. "Who will be the lucky winner? Vote now! Text 1 for Aurore and 2 for Mireille. And remember, standard text message grades apply."
I know what you're wondering. Why did I say I managed to hear the announcement? Well, I was kind of busy with something else. You see, me and the gang were at Marinette's house helping her babysit a girl named Manon, and she was a handful.
"Come on, Manon, give that back!" Marinette said as she chased Manon, who was wearing one of her designs.
"But I wanna be a fashion designer too!" Manon said as she jumped on the couch.
"I got her!" Both me and Jay said as we jumped to catch Manon, but she jumped off and ran away, making us head-butt each other.
"How did she talk us into this?" Jay said as he rubbed his head.
"Manon, please, it's not finished! You're gonna ruin it!" Marinette said as she tried her hand at catching Manon, but she crashed into the table.
I looked around for and saw her hiding behind the curtains. I laughed a bit as I snuck over there and opened them to catch her, but only found a doll wearing the hat.
"I'm gonna vote for Mireille, she's the best!" Manon said as I turned to her actually voting for Mireille on my phone.
"Hey, my phone!" I said as took my phone away from her. "There's a chance I'll never get back."
Manon then grabbed Marinette's hat and I began to chase her again.
"Ughhh…" She groaned for keeping an eye on Manon seemed impossible. "Why did I agree to do this again?" Then Tikki appeared on her shoulder. "Stay low, Tikki!"
"Don't worry." Tikki said. "You know what? If you can handle Manon for a day, any villain here on out will be a piece of cake."
Then the doorbell rang and Tikki went back into hiding. Marinette went to the door and opened it to find Alya behind it. "Alya?"
"Hey, I got a huge scoop for you. Guess who's on a photoshoot in the park?" She said as she showed Marinette her phone with a picture of Adrien on it.
"Now? Adrien is in the park right now?" Marinette asked surprised to hear this.
"As we speak!" Alya said, confirming it.
"Oh, gosh! What...what am I gonna say to him?" Marinette asked.
"Maybe 'I… uhhh… dahee… wha… ahh…'" Meri said as she mimicked Marinette.
"Stop it." Marinette said. She then looked down and see Manon between her legs.
"Uh, who's she?" Manon asked as she looked at Alya.
"Whoops! I forgot about this little detail." Marinette said as she remembered she was still babysitting Manon.
"And who's she?" Alya asked, pointing to Manon.
"This is Manon, one of my mom's friends' daughters." Marinette said. "I'm watching her all afternoon."
"Yeah, and we're helping her." I said.
Then Marinette gasped from realizing the problem she had and said "Oh, no! I can't go out!"
"Let me guess. Another 'you couldn't say no' favor?" Alya asked.
"No." Marinette answered. "I just couldn't… say… no." She then came up with an idea and said "Axel, you wouldn't mind…"
"Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no." I said, seeing where she was going. "Don't you think you're leaving us here. We're in this together. So we're coming with you."
"What? Is she too much for you?" Alya said.
"No." I said, the next few words through a forced smile. "She's…an absolute angel!" I then heard a crash and ran after Manon, who was carrying a pot and a spatula. "Manon! Put that down! Ugh! Come back!" I managed to catch her and put the pot and the spatula back. "I have some experience with baby-sitting. I mean I did have two older sisters." That was true and I had Nooroo. He's known me ever since I was a baby, so he haves experience in babysitting. I then looked at Manon and said "Would you like to play horsy?"
"Yes, please!" Manon said as I put her on my shoulders.
"Okay, let's all go to the park!" I said.
"Yay!" Manon said as I carried her on my shoulders and we walked to the park.
At KIDZ+ studio, the new weather girl was about to be chosen.
"This is the moment we've been waiting for!" Alec said on the TV. "The viewers at home have made their decision, and the new KIDZ+ weather girl is…"
Then the votes were shown onscreen, charted on bar graphs. Mireille had significantly more votes, which meant one thing.
"Mireille!"
Mireille was surprised that she won as the crowded cheered.
"Man, she crushed you, eh?" Alec said to Aurore. "Better luck next time!"
"Ugh!" Aurore groaned as she ran off angrily.
"What's the big deal?" Alec said. "You only lost by half a million votes!"
In Hawkmoth's lair, Hawkmoth's window began to open.
"The vibrations are so strong, I can feel the eminent anger and sadness. The moment of weakness at my next victim… Such easy prey for my akuma." he said as he turned a butterfly into an akuma, and it flies out into Paris.
At KIDZ+ building, Aurore entered the elevator, still angry she lost to Mireille.
"I should have won, I have the talent, the star looks, everything!" She said as she rode the elevator. "But she took everything away from me. They took everything away from me! They…" then the power went down and the elevator stopped. "Uh? Ah!" She yelled as she saw the akuma edge through the door and enter the elevator. "Ngh! Ah!" She swung her parasol at the akuma, trying to protect herself. She then opened her parasol and the akuma infected it. Then the elevator powered back up.
"So correct you are." Hawkmoth said as he spoke to her telepathically. "You should have won. Yes…"
"I should have won. Yes!" Aurore said as she stood back up with an angry look on her face.
"Stormy Weather, I am Hawkmoth." Hawkmoth said from his lair. "I give you the power to seek revenge on them as my weather girl. All you have to do is bring me the Miraculous. Can you do that?"
"Yes!" Aurore smirked as the akuma energy began to transform her.
"That's my weather girl. Show the world who the best weather girl really is!" he said as the elevator doors opened, revealing that Aurore had turned into a purple, white, and black colored super villain. She floated out of it with her parasol, which was now pitch black with a sapphire blue spiral on it over her head.
In the park, Adrien was having a photoshoot, just like Alya said.
"Come on." Marinette said as she told us what to do. "We're gonna stroll over there real cool as if we just happen to be passing by."
"Then what?" I asked.
"Then? I'll invite him out for a fruit smoothie at the end of the photo shoot!" Marinette said. "Then, we'll get married! Live happily ever after in a beautiful house and have two kids? No, three. And a dog! Maybe a cat? Nah, forget the cat. A hamster! I love hamsters!"
"Marinette, sometimes I wonder what kind of craziness goes on in your head." I said as she giggled in embarrassment. "Let's just start with happen to be passing by and see if we can get to that smoothie."
We then starting walking past him as he continued his photoshoot.
"Magnifico! Super! Come on now, I want to see hunger in your eyes!" The photographer said as he took shot of Adrien.
"Remember, cool! Just be cool…" Marinette said as we continued walking.
"Um, we couldn't be more invisible." I said as we all stopped and Marinette saw that Adrien didn't even notice us.
"Okay, let's start over." She said as she began to push us back, which got Adrien's attention.
"Did you see that? He waved at me!" Marinette said as Adrien waved at us.
"Yeah, I saw it too." Alya said as she put Marinette's hand down. "Pretty normal, since we're in the same class."
Back at the KIDZ+ building, Mireille entered the elevator with her new trophy. But she exited and saw Stormy Weather.
"Hahahaha! I am Stormy Weather. The only weather girl who always gets the forecast right! And unfortunately for you, there's a freak icy front moving in right now!" Stormy Weather said as she attacked with her parasol and fired an ice blast, imprisoning Mireille within a wall of ice.
"Somebody get me out of here! Help! Help!" Mireille said as she cried for help.
Back at the park, the photographer was still taking pictures of Adrien, which I have to say the best picture of him is no picture.
"Bravo! That's it!" The photographer said as he took pictures of Adrien. "Give me the smile when your mom brings in spaghetti! Okay! And now, oh, no! Mama dropped the spaghetti! And now, you have to eat the spaghetti off the floor! Oh yes, you're angry! Show me angry, yes, yes, yes!"
While we watched, I gave the same look Mr. Agreste gives every day and closed Marinette's mouth after she left it hanging open. I didn't know it, but Manon looked and saw a man giving out Mireille balloons. She then looked me in the eye and said "Axel, I want a balloon with Mireille on it! Can I? Can I?"
"Okay, okay." I said as I looked back at her. I then looked at the others and said "Hold on, I'm gonna go with Manon to get her one of those balloons. Good luck, Marinette. Marinette?" There was no answer from her. I should've known she would be mesmerized by Adrien. So I went ahead to get Manon a balloon.
Outside the KIDZ+ studio, Stormy Weather exited as the crowd chanted Mireille's name.
"Where's Mireille?" a citizen asked as he and the crowd looked around for her.
"Ugh!" Stormy Weather groaned. "For all of you who voted for Mireille, I'd advise you to move indoors. It's going to get very blustery! Oh, wait…too late." She then attacked with her parasol, sending the civilians away with a windy blast.
"There you go, Manon." I said as I gave her the balloon.
"Thank you, Axel." She said. She then looked behind her and saw a merry-go-round. "I want to go on the merry-go-round! Come on!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I said as she dragged me to it.
"Wow! She's so energetic. Reminds me of someone when he was her age." Nooroo said as he showed up on my shoulder. I then gave him sarcastic smile as my response to it as he was talking about me.
"Uhhh!" Stormy Weather growled as she flew from above, seeing banners of Mireille and a balloon of Mireille.
"Here's another one!" The balloon seller said as he gave a boy a balloon.
Back at the Park, the photographer kept taking pictures of Adrien, who appears to be tired.
"Oh, no, no! The boy has eaten too much spaghetti! Ugh, we need more energy! More romance! We need…a girl!" The photographer said as he figured out what they needed. That sure gave Marinette a surprise. The photographer then headed over to her and said "You! I need an extra!"
"Who, me?" Marinette asked.
"Sì! To pose with Mr. Adrien!"
Seeing Alya motioning her to do it, Marinette said "Okay."
"Fantastico!" The photographer said as he brought Marinette into the scene.
Then Alya came up to me and I said "So, how did it go?"
"Marinette got in the photo shoot." She said.
I then looked over and watched as a group of makeup artists quickly applied powders and eyeshadow and blush to Marinette, then shoved her into the fountain with Adrien. I actually was a bit amused by it. Marinette then tried to wipe off the makeup.
"Ah, ah, ah!" The photographer scolded, positioning Adrien's arm to go around Marinette's shoulders. "No wiping off the makeup! Now, smile!"
"Okay, now kiss his cheek!" The photographer said, angling it at a different position.
Marinette leaned in closer as her face became flushed.
She puckered up her lips, still nervous.
I then felt akuma energy and saw the sky turned grey. I knew what that meant. Another super villain was afoot.
"Huh?" Marinette said as she unpuckered her lips and looked up.
Stormy Weather appeared and fired an icy wind at the civilians. The icy wind surrounded the merry-go-round and froze it, trapping me and Manon inside. Everyone ran away as Stormy kept on doing it.
"Time to transform!" Marinette said as she ran to a bench. "Tikki, spots on! Yeah!" She then transformed into Ladybug.
As people ran away from Stormy Weather's path of destruction, Adrien ran to a tree to transform.
"Uh?" He said as he opened his bag, but found it void of Plagg. "Plagg? Plagg!" He looked for his kwami.
"I'm not here! I'm sleeping!" Plagg said from somewhere. Then Adrien pulled out a piece of camembert and Plagg flew out of an equipment case and right to the camembert. "For your information, I can smell Camembert in my sleep. It's only one of my many talents."
"Great, but there's no time to talk cheese. Plagg, claws out!" Adrien then transformed into Cat Noir.
"Why did I leave Manon? I should have never done that!" Ladybug said as she went up to the merry-go-round. "No. Axel's right. She's in good hands. I must trust him." She then looked to me and Manon and said "I'll get you out of there! Let's wire cut this icy cake!" She tried to use her yo-yo on the ice, but it slipped off. "Or not? On to plan B! Don't worry, everything's gonna be okay!"
"Where is Marinette?" Manon asked.
"She hasn't forgotten about you, Manon." Ladybug said to her.
"How did you know my name?" Manon asked.
"Ah! Uhh... Marinette told me! She's coming right back, okay?" Ladybug said as she recovered.
Smooth. I said mentally as Ladybug swung away.
"Okay. Let's transform and get Axel and Manon out of there." Basar whispered to the others.
"But what about the villain?" Tricha said, reminding him that their first priority was to de-evilize every villain Hawkmoth creates.
"We can deal with her later." Basar said. "We need to save Axel. And we need him to catch the akuma, remember?"
"Oh. Right." Tricha said, realizing that I was the only who can catch akumas.
"Come on!" Basar said. So they went off to where no one could see them, transformed, and went off to break the ice dome.
In the city, Stormy Weather was leaving the park.
"Hey, Ice Queen, what's with all the terrorizing?" Cat said from the top of the fence as Stormy Weather turned to him. "Why don't you pick on someone your own temperature?"
"My name is not Ice Queen! It's Stormy Weather!" Stormy Weather said.
"Listen. I'm feline more generous than usual today." Cat joked as he jumped off the fence. "So cool down and we'll call it quits, okay?"
Stormy Weather then fired a wind blast at him, sending him flying into the air. He flew a long way and landed in a nearby street. Then Ladybug appeared and lifted him.
"I thought cats always landed on their feet." Ladybug said.
"Why, thanks, my lady, but I had it covered." Cat said.
"Huh? No time for your childish charms, Cat Noir. But you're welcome."
Then Stormy Weather appeared and said "We should be expecting lightning storms like right NOW!" She then used her parasol to create lightning. Then the sky turned dark. When the lightning struck, it sent Ladybug and Cat flying down the street. Cat landed on top of Ladybug, pulls himself up, and gives a nervous grin. Then Ladybug turned his head toward Stormy Weather.
"You just won yourself a cat fight!" Cat said as he and Ladybug got back up.
"Black ice!" She said as she used her parasol to turn the street to ice.
"Gotcha!" Ladybug said as she caught Cat from slipping on the ice.
Stormy Weather saw a screen with Mireille and blasted it.
"A little Cat Noir will take the wind out of her sails!" Cat said as he went to fight Stormy Weather.
"Whoa, kitty-kitty." Ladybug said as she grabbed Cat Noir by his tail. "You better think before you leap."
"You got a plan?"
"Just follow my lead."
Then Stormy Weather looked to see Ladybug and Cat on the approach.
"Not you again!" She said as fired a wind blast at them. They screamed as it blew them away.
"Huh?" Ladybug said as she saw a bus about to crash into them. She then used her yoyo as a shield. Her yoyo cut a circular hole on the side of the bus, saving her and Cat Noir.
"Ow!" Cat said as the yoyo stopped spinning and fell on his head. Ladybug giggled at that.
In the park, I was playing with Manon while we were trapped in the frozen merry-go-round and my team tried to bust us out. It was an old game I used to play with Nooroo when I was her age.
"Lemonade, crunchy ice, hit it once, hit it twice, freeze!" I said as I placed my hands in the air.
"Hey, no fair, you always win." She said. Wow. Was I really like that when I was young? But then I heard the ice cracking. I looked around and saw icicles forming all around.
"What's that?" She asked as she heard it to.
"It's alright." I said. Seeing how this was, I saw I had only one option left. But how can I do it without anyone else seeing? I then saw mist forming around the outside. I looked to my right and saw Icedra. He seemed to have read my mind for he gave me a thumbs up. He made some mist so I could transform with being seen from the outside.
"What's happening" Manon asked.
"Can you keep a secret?"
She then nodded and Nooroo then showed himself.
"Nooroo, let's fly!" I then transformed into El Dragon. "Come on, Manon." I then picked Manon up and ran to the back. I then used my fire breath to melt a hole through the dome. I then jumped through just before it repaired itself.
"Nice to see you made it out." Icedra said as he came over to me.
"Thanks for covering for me, Icedra." I said. We then looked and saw Alya.
"El Dragon." She said as she came over. "Thank goodness you came. Where's Axel?"
I looked at Manon and she zipped her lips, showing she'll keep a secret. I smiled and then said "Your friend is fine. He just went home to warm up. Keep her safe. Me and the gang got a storm to stop." I then gave her Manon."
"Okay." She said as me and the others went off to fight Stormy Weather. "Nooroo, let's fly!" I then transformed and went to action.
Back in the city, Stormy Weather continued to rain terror.
"You showed them all who the real winner is, my weather girl." Hawkmoth said to her. "But now is the time for you to fulfill your part of the agreement. And here's my plan."
"Maybe she's got some anger issues!" Ladybug guessed.
"Or she didn't pass her driving test!" Cat guessed.
"Or she likes to give people the cold shoulder." I said as me and the gang showed up behind them.
"Nice of you to show up" Cat said.
"Sorry. Kinda got snowed in." I said. We then looked up as a cracked screen turned on with Stormy Weather on it.
"Hello, viewers! Here's the latest forecast for the first day of summer." She said from the screen. "Looks like Mother Nature had a change of plans. Summer vacation is officially over!"
"Already? But I look so good in a swimsuit." Cat said as he smiled and wiggled eyebrows at Ladybug.
"The cat suit will do, thanks." I said. "At least now we know where to find her. Come on!" We then went off to fight Stormy Weather.
"Prepare for the worst weather in history!" Stormy Weather said.
When we got there, I managed to find one thing that caught my eye.
"Hey, guys, check this out!" I said as I held up an Aurore Beauréal poster.
"Can you focus on the mission and not your fandom?" Posidacus said.
"Hey!" Cat said as he came over and looked at the poster. "That girl reminds me of someone!"
We then looked at the screen and then looked back and forth between the poster and the screen. I then realized it. "It's Aurore Beauréal! She must have gotten evilized." I said. "And I bet that the akuma is in her parasol. She never leaves without it."
"Then let's get it!" Apolloid said as we went off the find Stormy Weather.
"In Stormy Weather's world, it's winter wonderland FOREVER!" Stormy Weather said.
We entered the studio, but saw no one in there. I then looked and saw what was being broadcasted on the screen.
"It's a recording!" I said as I pointed to the phone. We then turned around as we saw Stormy Weather behind us as she laughed and fired a lightning bolt at a light, leaving us wondering in the dark.
"This is all going wonderfully according to plan." Hawkmoth said from his lair. "Soon their Miraculous will be mine. Bring them to me!"
From Cat's view, he saw Stormy Weather run out of the studio.
"Frosty the Snowgirl's getting away!" He said.
"I can't see a thing." I said. We then heard Ladybug trip and fall.
"Oh, do I hear a damsel in distress?" Cat said as he walked up to Ladybug.
"You got it easy, man." I said as I tried to see where I was going.
"Yeah. Most of us don't have night vision… Whoa!" She said. I then felt something grab my tail and felt being pulled. I managed to find the others and grab them.
"No need to bug out. Just trust me!" Cat said as he pulled us through the hall.
"I should've brought some night vision goggles." I said, being dragged by Cat.
"Oh, now we need them?" Posidacus said, remembering when I told him he couldn't have any for his elemental form.
"Don't start with me, water mouth." I said, stopping the argument before it began. We were looking for Stormy Weather, using Cat's night vision.
"Okay, that's enough." Ladybug said as she got pulled by Cat. "I think I can manage to…"
"Duck!" Cat said as we all dodged a blast from Stormy Weather.
"…follow your lead on this one." Ladybug said as we continued our way to Stormy Weather. We finally caught up with her and reached the top of the building, where Cat let go of my tail, I let go of the others and we all faced Stormy Weather.
"You airheads! You fell right into my trap!" She said as she made a whirlwind appear around the building with her parasol.
"The time is now!" Hawkmoth said from his lair. "Bring me the Miraculous!"
"We're just…" Ladybug said as she saw Cat holding her hand.
Cat laughed nervously as he let go of her.
"We're just getting started, Stormy! Lucky Charm!" She said as she used her powers. Her Lucky Charm gave her a bath towel. "A bath towel? What am I supposed to do with this?"
"Great. So, we're about to be obliterated, but…" Cat said, where I sensed a pun coming up. "At least we'll be dry."
"Hang on!" I said as I saw Stormy Weather ready to attack.
"Hail!" She said as made it hail on top of us.
Cat and I used our staffs to make shields and protect our teammates from the hail.
"So what's the plan for getting the akuma back?" Cat said as he kept spinning his staff. "My arm's starting to get a cramp!"
Ladybug used her Lucky Vision and it showed her an HVAC tube, the bath towel, and a sign.
"Cay Noir, see that sign over there?" Ladybug said as she looked at Cat. "Check it out!"
"All right. Cataclysm!" He said as he activated his powers. He then started running to the sign, looked at Stormy Weather, and said "Hey, Coldilocks! Is that all you got?"
Stormy Weather attacked Cat with lightning, but he dodged them. He then used his Cataclysm to make the billboard fall down, its aim toward Stormy Weather. She blasted a hole in it and Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around Stormy Weather's ankle. Ladybug took off running under pipes and against a crane before jumping over an HVAC. Opening the towel, Ladybug soared in the air, pulling down Stormy Weather. The speed at which she fell and the angle of the crane caused her to lose her parasol. Cat Noir caught it, tossing it to me.
"Get out of here, you nasty bug." I said as I broke the parasol. Then the akuma flew away from the parasol. "Chill out, akuma." I then placed my staff in capture mode. "Time to de-evilize!" I then caught the akuma and purified it. "Gotcha!" Then I released it as a butterfly. "Goodbye, little guy."
"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug said as she tossed the bath towel into the air. The miraculous light fixed the damage caused by Stormy Weather and turned the weather back to normal.
Back at the park, the glacier the merry-go-round was trapped in melted.
Back at the KIDZ+ building, the akuma energy then turned Stormy Weather back into Aurore.
"Uh, what am I doing up here?" Aurore asked as she looked around.
"Pound it!" Me, Ladybug, and Cat Noir said as we pounded for another victory.
"Someday, your Miraculous will be all mine. I don't care how many enemies I need to throw out to win, but I will be VICTORIOUS!" Hawkmoth said in his lair as the window closed.
Back at the park, Adrien and Marinette continued with the photoshoot.
"Well, this is something she'll be talking about for a while." I said as I watched.
"Hey, she's finally alone with Adrien." Alya said as she came in with Manon.
"That's what I'm worried of being reminded of." I then looked at Manon and said "Are you okay, Manon?"
"Yeah. Thank you, Axel." She said. "This was the best day ever!"
"You're welcome, Manon." I said as I picked her up and put her on my shoulders. "Though if my kid is like you, I might go nuts."
"I'm going to be sick if they put any more of this gunk on me." Marinette comments, sitting on the fountain next to Adrien.
"You'll get used to it." Adrien said.
The photographer grins and insists on putting makeup on Marinette, but she only accepts the lip gloss. "I'm only putting this on, if you put anymore, I am done with this, okay?!" She threatens, and the assistants smile fakely, scared on the inside. I bet that really made her snap. Marinette, wishing she had makeup to cover her real blush, puckers up her lips, pressing them to Adrien's cheek for a few moments before pulling away. The next day, I got a magazine with the cover as of the two of them, with Marinette's kiss on Adrien's cheek. Great, just great. Another reminder of my friend kissing that overgrown cat.
Well, that got me blown away. It might take me awhile to get rid of the frostbite on my tail. Though now I know there is one person I can trust with my secret.