Adrien fidgeted nervously. Volpina had dragged him to the top of the Eiffel Tower and tied him to a chair.
"Ladybug and Chat Noir will know exactly where we are," she sneered. "That way I can wipe out Paris's heroes and no one will be able to stop me from getting what I really want."
"Lila," Adrien started, "I'm not something you can own." Volpina just pointed her staff at Adrien threateningly.
"I think you should stop talking, Adrien," Volpina growled, but her attention was drawn by the sound of feet hitting the metal.
"No, I think it's you who needs to stop." Volpina turned around to see Ladybug standing behind her. Adrien perked up at the sight of the superhero.
"Ladybug!" Adrien called. Ladybug darted around Volpina quick enough to untie him. Volpina was too stunned to react. She hadn't thought Ladybug would go for Adrien before her.
"It's going to be more difficult than that, Ladybug," Volpina shouted. With a note of her pipe, she created dozens of copies of Adrien. Each one of them claimed to be the real one, and they all asked for Ladybug to save them.
Marinette almost lost her cool. She was surrounded by so many Adriens that she was having a little trouble processing. Volpina used the distraction to escape and regroup.
The real Adrien, however, took the opportunity to sneak away from Ladybug and transform into Chat Noir. Chat Noir hurried to Ladybug's side shortly before the illusions disappeared, leaving the two of them standing there alone.
"Volpina is back, and she has Adrien, from the last incident, held hostage. She must've used those illusions to escape with him," Ladybug updated her partner. "We can split up to try and locate them," she said in a hurry. Without another word, she swung off on her yo-yo.
"Sure," Chat Noir shrugged and said to himself,"let's go with that." He took off after his partner and in search of Lila.
"STOP!" ChatNoir heard Ladybug screech. It didn't take him long to locate them after hearing her voice.
Volpina was dangling and Adrien illusion over the side of one of the taller buildings in Paris. Adrien rolled his eyes.
"Resorting to the same tricks again, Volpina? Where's your creativity?" Chat Noir joked. Ladybug looked at her partner worriedly.
"It's up to you two to decide if I'm bluffing or not. Either you two sacrifice yourselves, or the boy dies," she ordered. "I'll allow you one minute to make your decision because I'm so gracious."
"She's lying, Ladybug," Chat Noir said immediately in a hushed tone. "Take her out." Ladybug shook her head stubbornly.
"What if she's not?" Ladybug asked. "I know him, and I don't want to see him dead." Chat Noir looked at her so that they were eye to eye.
"I'm telling you to trust me. I know she's lying. I'll destroy that column so the debris will catch her. Take her necklace," Chat Noir ordered.
"Chat," Ladybug panicked, "what if she's not, though? We can't...I can't lose him."
"Times up!" Lila shouted at them. "Are two going to go out peacefully or send him to his death."
"Trust me," Chat Noir hissed to his partner. Against her will and ever instinct, Ladybug dove forward after Lila. Chat Noir used his cataclysm on the debris to trap her.
As soon as the debris fell on Lila, both she and Adrien disappeared. Chat Noir sighed.
"I guess I wasted my cataclysm," Chat Noir said frustratedly. Ladybug looked at him oddly.
"How did you know it was an illusion? You did last time too," she asked him oddly. Chat Noir laughed and shrugged it off.
"I told you, it's my feline sixth sense," he replied. "Now, we should really go track them down."
"She's probably going somewhere she knows he'll be," Ladybug thought aloud as the superheroes went back to the Effiel Tower to survey the town.
Chat Noir grinned. He had a small hunch as to where Lila would be. He pointed towards the movie theater where he'd been with Marinette.
"We should go that way. I have a hunch about where she is," he told Ladybug. Ladybug shrugged and nodded.
"We might as well try your idea," Ladybug agreed. Chat Noir winked.
"Milday, I'm pawsitive I'm right," he said before jumping off. Ladybug followed with a role of her eyes, but she couldn't keep from smiling at her partner's antics.
Chat Noir touched down just before Ladybug, and he hurried into the movie theater. Marinette recognized the place, and she wondered why Chat Noir had thought to bring them here. She just chalked it up to that "sixth sense" he mentioned.
"Give it up, Lila," Chat Noir called to the super-villain. Volpina spun around to see the two partners standing in the lobby behind her.
"I won't give it up until I find Adrien," she growled. Ladybug sighed frustratedly. This was costing her a date.
"It's time to end this. Lucky charm!" A long rod with a magnet on the end appeared in her hands.
"What am I going to do with this?" Ladybug asked herself. Chat Noir looked at her worriedly.
"I don't know, but let's wrap this up. I'm about to change back," Chat Noir told her. Ladybug's vision showed her the key parts of her plan, and she grabbed Chat Noir's hand.
"I've got it! Give me a hand," she ordered. Ladybug threw her yo-yo around one of the rafters and launched the two of them up above Volpina.
"Use the magnet to get her necklace," Ladybug hissed. It took her strength and both hands to keep them suspended above Lila.
While Lila tried to get away, Chat Noir swung the mganet down and pulled the necklace off of her neck. Ladybug broke it against the beam and used the dangling end of her yo-yo to purify the akuma.
Lila stormed off angrily. In her mind, she worried about becoming a villain twice ruining her popular reputation, and she didn't want to be anywhere near the two superheros.
"That was wonderful, Bugaboo, but would you be so kind as to let us down before we change back?" Chat Noir asked.
"Ch-chat?" Ladybug stuttered in a whispered voice. The movie theater had been evacuated, so they were left dangling alone.
"We have a problem," Ladybug said in an oddly quiet voice. All of her confidence seemed to be gone.
"What's going on?" Chat Noir said worriedly.
He twisted to try and face her in midair, and he went pale as he realized what she meant.
"The yo-yo string is in knots," Ladybug whimpered. "It's indistructable." One of Paris's greatest heroes took a shaky breath like she was more frightened than she'd been of any villain. Their miraculous made the familiar beeping noise that warned them their time was running out.
"We're stuck."
Yay, I actually got a second chapter done! I guess it was a little cliche, but I'm already trying to think of ways to make it up to you. I've been distracted by some Supernatural and Hetalia fanfics I've got in the works, so I'll try my best to keep my writing quality up. Thank you all so much for reading! ~Magine