Chapter 7, let's get started!

crystal ladybug One of your songs is in this chapter!

Chloe is sitting in the garage, bored out of her mind.

Chloe: Ugh, what is taking them so long? I think I'll go into the cafe for a while.

She enters the cafe and watches the T.V. The program is interrupted by a mysterious broadcast.

Jewel: Everyone, all I ask for is your full attention, for what I am about to show you will change your life forever! Superheroes, we all know someone in our everyday lives that we consider a hero, but I'm talking about the real deals, like Ladybug, Cat Noir, Apidae, Big Hero 7, now they are true heroes. Or, are they? Who are these extraordinary people behind the masks? I'm glad you asked, because I have them all right here! Now, over here in Exhibit A I have two iconic members of Big Hero 7, a teenage girl, and her magical Kwami. That's right, Kwami are real, ad believe me, this is all happening live and in no way am I editing this footage, this is all for real. So, let's take a closer look. The girl in yellow, called Gogo by her teammates, is, in reality, Ethel Tomago! Moving along, we have this boy in orange, or maybe you know him better as Tadashi Hamada!

Cass: Oh my gosh! Tadashi and Gogo?

Jewel: Next up, Ladybug! Or should I say, Marinette Dupain-Cheng!

Chloe: WHAT!?

Cass: Marinette!? I have to tell Tom and Sabine.

Chloe: Marinette is Ladybug? How can she be Ladybug? This is nuts!

Jewel: I'm sure you're all nice and shocked, maybe I should stop here, no, I think I'll keep going! Let's take a look at Exhibit B!

Cass is talking to Sabine on the phone.

Cass: Are you watching it?

Sabine: Yes, I can't believe it either! We have to do something, we can't just leave our children in the hands of that girl!

Cass: Wait, she's going to another ice cell.

Jewel: Well, this is an interesting assortment of characters, isn't it? Let's get to know them up close and personal. You know her as Honey Lemon, but without that helmet, she's none other than Isabelle Rodriguez! And over here we have Hiro Hamada, and his robot, Baymax!

Sabine: I can't believe this. Why didn't they tell us?

Cass: I'm not sure, let's keep watching.

Jewel: And look over here! It's Cat Noir! Hmm, he sure looks a whole lot like Adrien Agreste. Why, you may ask? Because he is!

Sabine: Adrien's in on this too? I'll have to contact Nino's parents, hang in there, Cass.

Nino: (answers phone) Hello?

Sabine: Nino, it's Marinette's mom. Are you parents home?

Nino: Nah, they're both at work. Why?

Sabine: Turn on your T.V., it's about Adrien.

Nino: (confused) Sure. (turns on) Whoa! He's a T.V. star now? What show is this?

Sabine: He's not a T.V. star, this is happening live from an unknown location, he's in real danger! And, he's actually Cat Noir! Marinette's there too, and she's really Ladybug!

Nino: Adrien? We have to find them!

Jewel: Last, but definitely not least, we have David Ginger, Fred Lee, and, whoa! Doesn't this girl look familiar? Let's see, yes, Avery Bourgeois, the escaped mental patient media's been buzzing about, is Apidae!

Evelyn is watching the T.V., horrified. Lindsey knocks on the door, Evelyn lets her in.

Lindsey: Hi, Ms. Bourgeois. I brought you some cookies, my grandma made them.

Evelyn: Thank you, now get in here.

Lindsey: Uh, ok, I guess. (enters)

Evelyn: There's something you need to see.

Lindsey: Avery! She's alive! Not that I was doubting her survival, but, this is great news, she's alright!

Evelyn: No, it isn't. I know this might come as a shock, but your best friend is Apidae, and she's in trouble.

Lindsey: What? Why would she lie to me? We tell each other everything.

Evelyn: Go get Katrina, I have to tell Cass, Hiro's there too.

Jewel: That's all for now, but don't worry, I believe we'll meet again very soon.

Chris turns off the camera.

Chris: Now what?

Jewel: Now we thaw them out, take the Miraculouses, and give the Kwamis their antidote. Must I explain everything twice?

Volpina: Freeze! Let them go.

Jewel: I was considering that, but now that you're testing me, I've changed my mind!

Paon: We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Surrender now, and we might just leave you alone in your freezer lair and never bother you again.

Chris: Sounds good, just one thing, we want those Miraculouses!

Butterfly: In your dreams!

Volpina: I'll distract them, you two try and melt the ice. (hands ear plugs to Paon and Butterfly) Put these in so my song doesn't affect you. Hypno Song! (plays Running with the Wild Things")

Butterfly runs over to a control panel with several unlabeled levers and buttons. She flips a lever and the room heats up.

Butterfly: Good! I was worried I would mess that up! Volpina, stop playing so we can get out of here.

Volpina: (stops) I need to catch my breath, that's a hard song to play!

Marinette: What just happened?

Paon: No time to explain. Come on, we found a safe exit.

Adrien: (to himself) Always trying to play the hero.

Chris: You aren't going anywhere. (presses button on the control panel, a boulder blocks the other cave exit.

Hiro: Wow, rocks that answer to a button? How do you do that?

Chris: Oh, it's real easy, I just...

Jewel: Chris! He's the enemy, remember?

Hiro: Oh yeah! Right! I almost forgot!

Hiro and Chirs start fighting.

Hiro: There has to be another way out! (dodges kick) I'll meet you guys there, don't worry about me! (grabs Chris by the wrist and throws him down)

Marinette: Hey, there's another tunnel in here! But, what's down there? There has to be some kind of trick to it.

Adrien: I say we go. I'm sure this is where they're keeping my mom.

Marinette: Ok, no more splitting up, if we all stand together, we can face whatever threat awaits us.

They all enter the tunnel. Avery takes one final look at Hiro and Chris.

Avery: Good luck, Hiro. (exits)

In the Lucky Cat Cafe, Cass is on the phone with Evelyn.

Cass: I know, I'm shocked. I never expected this.

Evelyn: I'm not, your nephew messed up my daughter.

Cass: He did not! I understand why you might think that, but I raised my boys better than that!

Evelyn: Look, I heard the full story from her friend at school...

Cass: Have you ever taken into consideration that this girl isn't really her friend? Has she ever visited your house? Has Avery ever mentioned her to you before?

Evelyn: Well, no, she hasn't.

Cass: Exactly my point. It's sabotage. She's no ordinary girl, she's a dangerous criminal who's going after our children, there's no use arguing with me.

Evelyn: You're right, but what are we supposed to do? We don't even know where they are.

Chloe: I know!

Cass: Who are you?

Chloe: I'm Chloe, Avery's twin sister, and, I know where they are.

Cass: Just to be clear, Evelyn, does Avery have twin sister named Chloe?

Evelyn: Yes, why?

Cass: She's in my cafe, and she says she knows where they are.

Chloe: Put me on the phone.

Cass hands the phone to Chloe.

Chloe: Mom, don't freak out, but I'm going to Hawaii through a portal. Are you staying home or coming?

The team is walking through the tunnel.

Tadashi: I don't like this place, it's so creepy. I just hope Hiro's ok.

Avery: I wouldn't be too worried. Chris can beat him up, for sure, but he's not too bright. One time, he asked to copy off one of my pages in health class, and you know what it was? A coloring page of the human heart. You didn't even have to label it or anything, just color it.

Gogo: That's just plain sad.

Avery: Yeah, he's lucky I was in a good mood that day.

Marinette: Ok, everyone be quiet, if we sneak through here, and Hiro's still keeping those two busy, we should be able to get in without a rock falling.

They quietly sneak into the next room, which is empty.

Volpina: A dead end?

Wasabi: Well, there's nothing to see here, let's go!

Adrien: Hold it, none of us are going anywhere until we find and rescue my mom.

Marinette: There has to be something more to this cave. If they can rig rocks to fall at the push of a button and freeze people into giant ice cubes, there has to be some secret feature to this room. (walks around the perimeter of the cave, feeling the wall with her hand) A weak spot, I wonder. (pushes into the wall, and a secret door opens) Whoa!

Honey Lemon: Let's see what's in here.

Fujita 1: Jewel?

Avery: You thought I was Jewel? Note to self: take a long shower when you get home.

Fujita 2: Who are you kids?

Marinette: We are Big Hero Miraculous, or at least, we were, before our Kwamis got poisoned.

Adrien: Do either of you know a woman named Patricia Agreste?

Fujita 1: Yes, we know Patricia, but she isn't here.

Adrien: Well, where is she?

Fujita 2: We are the Fujitas, or at least we were, years ago. We were a trio of criminals in Paris, fighting our greatest enemies, Butterfly and Paon.

Butterfly: I'm Butterfly.

Paon: And, I'm Paon.

Butterfly: But you must be talking about the past heroes, that wasn't us.

Fujita 1: Yeah, we knew that.

Marinette: Wait, so if you were a trio, where's the third Fujita?

Fujita 1: We were just getting to that. In our final battle with our enemies, we tried to take their Miraculouses. Butterfly had another idea. She surrendered herself to us, and left her Miraculous behind. From there we took her with us to this island and molded her into a Fujita.

Adrien: My mom...was a...a Fujita?

Fujita 2: So you're her precious son she was telling us all about. We were actually thinking of recruiting you, until my son and her daughter came here and over-through us.

Adrien: First of all, I would never help you! And, where is mom?

Fujita 2: She's imprisoned in the Heart of the Cave, the very center of the Fujita base, only traitors are sent there. You see, when news spread of your daddy's identity as Hawk Moth, she realized that being evil wouldn't bring her any closer to her family, so she betrayed us and tried to go back home to Paris, but we locked her in there. And now, we're stuck here.

Adrien: So, the reason my mom never came home is because of you?

Fujita 1: Exactly.

Adrien: I can't believe this!

Marinette: Calm down. Forget these two, they aren't a threat, for now, anyway. How do we get to the Heart of the Cave?

Fujita 1: The path on the left leads to it, but it's a long and deadly trip, very few have made it there without the traps disabled.

Tadashi: That's a risk we're willing to take.

Fujita 2: Weird that we just mentioned the Heart of the Cave.

Avery: Uh, why is that weird?

Fujita 2: Because it sounds like Chris is taking someone there right now.

Avery: Hiro! Oh my gosh, we should have never left him alone with those freaks!

Marinette: Come on, let's go, we can't waste any more time.

Adrien: You guys go ahead, I'll meet you in a minute.

Honey Lemon: Don't you want to help your mom?

Adrien: I do, I really do, I just need some time before I go out there.

Honey Lemon: It's ok, we understand.

Adrien: Thanks.

All exit except for Adrien and the Fujitas.

Track 06: Tightrope

Tightrope

Adrien:

I woke up before the sun chased your ghost across the yard, through the fog and tumbling dark, 'til you were gone. Patricia, I can hardly breathe, and I've forgotten how to sleep, and your face still haunts my dreams when I'm alone. So now I'm walking on a tightrope wire, too far off the ground. I'm imagining the words you said when last I saw your mouth. Yes I'm walking on a tightrope wire, so afraid to fall. And I'd tell you that I miss you but I'm sure, it doesn't matter at all.

Patricia is alone in her cave, locked away where no one can hear her.

Patricia:

The things I gave away, they're not coming back for me. Should've learned from my mistakes, but I never do. And as I lay here all alone, I hang up before I call, and admit to all my faults to pass the time. So now I'm walking on a tightrope wire, too far off the ground. I'm imagining the words you said when last I saw your mouth. Yes I'm walking on a tightrope wire, so afraid to fall. And I'd tell you that I miss you but I'm sure, it doesn't matter at all.

Adrien:

There's a place we used to go, today I went alone. If there's a message in this song, well I don't know.

Both:

So now I'm walking on a tightrope wire, too far off the ground. I'm imagining the words you said when last I saw your mouth. Yes I'm walking on a tightrope wire, so afraid to fall. And I'd tell you that I miss you but I'm sure, yes I'm walking on a tightrope wire, too far off the ground. I'm imagining the words you said when last I saw your mouth. Yes I'm walking on a tightrope wire, so afraid to fall. And I'd tell you that I miss you but I'm sure, and I'd tell you that I miss you but I'm sure, it doesn't matter at all.

Patricia:

It doesn't matter at all.

Adrien joins the others, and they head on their way to the Heart of the Cave.

My last chapter update before school. I'll still try to be as frequent as possible, but it could lead to a break in the story. The first week shouldn't be too bad because I'll still be learning the ropes of the school, and another plus side is we have block scheduling, which means that for the first half of the year, we have only four classes, 90 minutes each. So for the first half of the year, I have math, science, PE/health, and vocal. And for the second half, I have English, history, Spanish, and vocal. (I have vocal year-round because it's my performance major. I also have dance, acting, and tech classes, I'm not sure when I take them) The best part is: less homework!