Antimena, Ryuko, Kempfhahn and Pan went through their portal and ended up in a desert area. "Thank the Miraculous suits for having the comfort of sand not getting into uncomfortable places." Kempfhahn noted.

"The reptile part of me likes the heat, I feel good." Antimena said.

"Something tells me will not be able to enjoy the good weather." Ryuko noted as she pulled out her sword.

Pan closed his eyes for a bit as he felt he needed to concentrate. His eyes snapped open and his head jerked. "Move!" he said as he and the others jumped aside as something shot out of the sand and barely missed them.

The combination of the Kwami Sasoori and the body of Brie Masterson, the Scorpion Venomous wielder, Deathstalker. "Hi there. Didn't try to sneak up on you. Wanted to just play 'Guess who?' with you!"

"With those pincers?" Kempfhahn asked. "You're no Scorpia."

"Look at this face, does it look like a dishonest face?" as Deathstalker tried to look way too cutesy."

"We know you're a liar. Like the one of the scorpion and the turtle." Pan said.

"I definitely didn't inspire that or anything." Deathstalker said with a grin. "And I am totally not setting up a cataclysmic event either; I'll just dig my tail in the ground because I love the feeling on sand on it." She said as planted her tail into the ground. A sick purple glow came form it a spikey pillar shot from the ground. And then another. And another…and they kept coming up.

"What are those?" Antimena asked, even if she wasn't sure if she wanted to know.

"Oh, totally not crystallized magic poison that is slowly crawling towards all populated areas and wiping out the pathetic people of the world. Not at all. I swear is a nice bit of gothic…decoration." The scorpion villainess said as she threw a wicked grin.

"Then we just elimiante you to stop the spell." Ryuko said, pointing her blade at her.

"I'm sure you will succeed." Deathstalker said as she dove into the ground.

The four heroes were back to back, waiting for the scorpion villainess if she even popped up. At times she would, or at least her tail, striking like a projectile, with the heroes deflecting it. Sometimes she would come out lashing with her pincer, which they also deflect with her weapons. For the moment, standing in a circle back to back worked defensively but she could now be anywhere to pop up from. They couldn't defend forever.

Then the heroes felt the sands shift underneath them and they jumped out of the way as she shot from the spot the four of them stood, then dove back into the ground. Now they were separated, she could work on picking them off. First, Kempfhahn felt his ankle being grabbed by the pincer, but he grabbed his quill-dagger and stabbed making her let go. Antimena went invisible. But Deathstalker could still feel her, the steps she takes and the vibrations in the sand. She shot up and Antimena was hit, knocking out of the invisibility by her foe's tail and sent flying.

Antimena held her side as there was a cut in her suit, and a purple looking scratch. She suddenly felt a fever building in her, she was in pain as if she was burning from the inside out and screamed in pain. "I thought you looked cold, I heated you up a bit." Deathstalker said.

"Hang on, girl. We'll think of something." Pan said as he came to her aid. Deathstalker jumped at them but Ryuko jumped in her path. She swiped with her sword, but Deathstalker kicked off the blade and jumped in the other direction and dove back into the sand.

"We can't keep fighting like this, she controls the terrain." Pan noted. "Anyone has an idea."

"There is too much sand to blow away, and water would turn this place into mud…so that leaves…LIGHTNING!" Ryuko said as she raised her sword and slams it into the ground. The lightnign traveled as a shockwave across the desert, and traveled for miles. The electric pulse soon turned all the sand for miles in the desert into glass.

Now instead of a shifting surface of very tiny particles, it was all solid ground. Deathstalker had been forced to jump out or she'd have been trapped into the new glass surface. "I needed the sandy terrain to be any match for you." She said.

Ryuko panted a bit as she put a lot of her power in the lightning strike. But at least she's in the open. She stood up and raised her sword. "There is nothing I can't cut down with my blade."

Deathstalker jumped at her, lashing violently with her stinger and pincers, but with the skilled swordswoman Ryuko was, she was able to block the strikes. She tried to strike Deathstalker in return, but she avoided the strikes, as she was still agile even without the cover of sand. As neither gained ground Deathstalker jumped up, did a landing where she stomped with her feet, cracking part of the glassy arena, and creating a small shockwave to send Ryuko flying back, but she landed on her feet.

Deathstalker almost got hit by a projectile, which she dodged and looked around to seen Pan with his pan flute to his lips. He kept blowing and fired psionic sand projectiles, but she couldn't be hit. "You are really fast. You keep hitting me." She said in her usual obviously lying tongue.

Though Ryuko and Pan would be double teaming her and keep her more on her toes, the Scorpion was confident she'd come out on top. Ryuko and Pan ran towards her, ready to strike. However, before they could, they were struck by something and sent flying back. But it wasn't Deathstalker. In fact, even she was surprised.

"Huh?" Deathstalker looked at another person. She saw it was one of her siblings. "Micruu, why the hell are you here? I was totally not enjoying myself or anything?"

The snake Venomous wielder, though in his current form of Ouroboros stood nearby Deathstalker. In the form of Noel Legrand it looked intimidating, but when it started to wax theatrically, he looked ridiculous; "I was able to defeat my opponents a little bit quicker then I anticipated. Guess none had the presence on the stage that I had. I barely got to show my talents so I thought I could turn to you for an encore."

"Oh, please go ahead, I don't mind you stealing my thunder." Deathstalker scoffed.

"Jealousy doesn't suit you!" Ouroboros said as he flipped his hair as if to show off. "But I don't want to upstage you too much as mediocre as your performance is, but I hoped to find at least life to snuff out. A death scene worthy for a great play."

"Fine, pick one. But only one, otherwise I'll totally NOT try to find a way to make you regret your immortal existence."

"You…You destroyed my friends." Ryuko said as she got up and sneered.

"Yes…and they went down begging for death. Shameful performance really, no dignity in death. That's an awful finale for the show I put up." Ouroboros said. Ryuko charged in anger, but Ouroboros kicked her in the stomach, and she dropped her sword. She was knocked down on the ground. Ouroboros stood over her and grabbed her sword. "I think it's a poetic ending to end you with your own weapon. You want to come closer and relish the life leaving her eyes, my co-star?" Ouroboros asked Deathstalker.

"I don't like that." Deathstalker said with a grin as she moved closer.

Ryuko looked at them fearfully as Ouroboros raised the blade. He brought down the sword…but not on Ryuko. Deathstalker screamed her lungs out as she saw her tail flying after it was cut off. Ryuko was up now as she charged at the bisected tail, as Ouroboros of all people threw her sword back, as Ryuko stabbed the severed limb, and then it shattered into pieces. And so did the poison crystal blight that Deathstalker had created earlier. "No…Brother, how could you have betrayed me?"

Ouroboros laughed as he said: "I am not your brother. I'd be disgusted to be." Then in a flash of smoke, he turned into Antimena. "PSYCH!" she said.

"What? But I poisoned you? How were you cured?" Deathstalker asked.

"I drew up antidote." Kempfhahn said as he twirled his quill in his hands and held up a bottle that said 'Scorpion Venomous Antidote.'

"Are your powers supposed to be able to work that way?" Deathstalker asked.

"No one told me they couldn't. I know I can't create or duplicate the Miraculous, that includes a Venomous, but the antidote is technically not that under the same category." Kempfhahn answered.

"I also copied the snake guy because he seems like the over the top and hammy like that." Antimena said. "Even if my acting wasn't good, if I deliberately overacted and be hammy, it would be convincing enough."

"And while my sleeping sands couldn't touch you, I still managed to spread enough of in the air around here to create a dulling effect." Pan noted.

"And I was not in any danger. Even if I was pinned like that I could turn into water or wind and slip out. And I would never be easily be knocked down like that." Ryuko said.

"How were you able to improvise and coordinate that well?" Deathstalker asked.

"Because we are a team. We fought and trained together. We would be prepared to take on anything." Pan said. "We knew that when the fake snake dude appeared, it wasn't the real deal. Because our friends would never lose to your siblings."

Deathstalker grits her teeth. "You'll leave this place with all your organs intact!" Deathstalker said as she rushed. The quartet of heroes did the same. However, she would find out that the tides have turned. Not only was the terrain still glass and no sand, she lost her tail. She was used to fighting with the additional limb and she stumbled because her normal fighting style was hampered. She was still agile enough to dodge several attacks, but she'd slip up soon.

One of the attacks she took was a swipe from Ryuko's blade, which she caught in her pincers, but she was struggling. "I'm a competitive fighter. I can read people." Ryuko explained. "I noticed something. You have been an evasive fighter. You dodge or travel through the sand. It means that you can dish out damage…but you can't take them. Ryuko then electrified her blade, as Deathstalker was shocked before Ryuko swiped her blade, Deathstalker now holding one of her bleeding eyeballs. Pan, having the strongest legs thanks to the Goat Miraculous, then kicked the back of her left knee hard enough to make the sound of bones breaking. Kempfhahn drew several arrows in the air, which shot at Deathstalker. With one leg down, she was unable to dodge them all, one hitting her in her shoulder, another in her right knee. Kempfhahn tried very hard to not quote a very old meme.

Her legs were essential to her fighting style, and now she was crawling around on her pincer hands to move around. But not as fast as she used to as Antimena's whip wrapped around her legs as she was thrown across the glassy arena.

Pan pulled out his quill again, and drew chains. She was plucked out of the air, her four limbs wrapped out in a way that she couldn't move. Deathstalker troubled but she could barely budge an inch. She looked at the four heroes. The auras around them…a satyr, a cockatrice, an Eastern Dragon and a giant chameleon, surrounding them. She gulped. "Would you believe me if I said I saw the error of my ways and you can let me go. I promise I'll only do good from now on?" They gave her a look that said: 'Really?' Deathstalker sighed. "Fair enough!"

Kempfhahn handed his quill blade to her. "Here, borrow this." Ryuko smiled and nodded. She crossed the quill and the sword in front of her. The auras of three dragons, a white wind-based one, a blue water-based one and a yellow lightning-based one surrounded her and merged into the weapons, the three elements glowing on the blades.

Antimena grabbed her whip, wraps around Ryuko and throws her in the air. Pan jumps up high and uses his strong legs to launch Ryuko forwards. The added boost provided made sure to launch her at the Venomous wielder like a speeding bullet.

Seeing the dragon wielder, with two elemental blade weapons shoot towards her with such intense power, the Scorpion wielder knew it was over. "I'm defeated…I'll be honest for once, didn't see that coming."

Two flashy slashed later, the Scorpion Venomous was cleaved clean in half, the broken powerless halves falling to the floor, and the body of Deathstalker following, bisected cleanly following soon after. Ryuko landed gracefully. She handed back Kempfhahn's weapon and sheathed her own. "We achieved victory. It was the only outcome."

"It got a bit scary for a bit though." Kempfhahn said.

"What do I have to say? I was stabbed." Antimena said.

"I meant what I said about the others. They wouldn't lose to the other Venomous. Like how we wouldn't lose to Deathstalker. Despite that…can't help but worry." Pan said.

Ryuko looked up into the sky. "Worries will become unfounded. Our friends will…putting it in more crude terms then usual 'kick their collective asses'." Ryuko said with a genuine smile.

"I have faith in all of them. In Marinette, in Adrien, my new family in Nino." Antimena said.

"We all do." Pan added. They looked into the sky, where the sun shone brightly over the desert.

"So…any idea how we get back to Paris?" Kempfhahn asked.

TO BE CONTINUED