Ladybug jumped from rooftop to rooftop scanning the area for her partner. Off in the distance she could see a blur of black and another bigger blur of rainbow colours.
"There you are!" She quickly bounded towards the two.
Birthday Basher took another swing at Chat Noir with his giant bat. "I was expecting your girlfriend to show up?" He sneered.
"Me too actually. Maybe she needed time to look purr-etty for me?" Chat smirked at what he thought was an excellent pun. Out of nowhere ladybug jumped down between the two.
"Firstly I'm not his girlfriend," she held out one finger. "Secondly," she added another finger. "I don't need time to look pretty and if I did it wouldn't be for you. And thirdly, Chat, you need to work on your puns."
"W-what! I thought they were purr-fect?" He laughed and ladybug scowled.
"Why don't we focus on birthday boy here first?" She gestured towards the villain.
"Good plan m'lady." The two heroes ran towards the villain but he was too quick for them and stuck at them sending them flying backwards.
"This kid is stronger than I thought?" Ladybug puffed. "What would make him so upset?"
"Well it's his birthday? Maybe he didn't get the present he wanted?" Chat Noir shrugged.
"Look! On his head!" She pointed. "A birthday hat! That must be his akuma! Chat Noir you try to grab it while I distract him with a lucky charm."
"Sure thing m'lady." He saluted her and jumped away while ladybug flung her yoyo into the air.
"Lucky charm!" And object fell into her arms. "A clown costume? How am I supposed to distract him with this?" She scanned around but nothing worked. "Ugh useless clown costume!"
"CLOWNS I HATE CLOWNS!" Birthday Basher shouted.
"Aha!" Ladybug ran and hid in a street and put the costume on. "Come and get me!" She cooed.
"No clowns at this party!" He brought his weapon down close to where ladybug was and she fell to the ground.
"Take her miraculous now!" Hawkmoths voice rung inside his head.
"Uh Chat Noir I could use some help!" She called to him taking the costume off not knowing where he was.
Almost a second later Chat Noirs face appeared behind Birthday Basher he quickly took off the hat and threw it to his partner which she took and ripped in half; The akuma flew out instantly.
Ladybug threw her yoyo towards it. "You've done enough harm little akuma. Time to cleanse evil!" She caught the butterfly inside her yoyo. "Gotcha." She exclaimed.
With a press of a button her yoyo opened and freed a now clean white butterfly. "Bye bye little butterfly."
Ladybug threw her costume in the air. "Miraculous Ladybug!" Flashes of red fixed everything that was broken and freed everyone that was captured.
Chat Noir approached her and they fist bumped. "Pound it!"
The villains dark magic fell away revealing a little boy. "Where am I? What happened to my party?"
Ladybug walked over to him. "Are you ok?" She held out a hand and helped him to his feet.
"Yeah I think so? Where are my friends and my family? Did the clowns take them?"
"No the clowns didn't take them." She couldn't help but laugh. "Do you wanna go back to the party?"
"No.. I don't think they would care if I was gone." A tear swelled in the corner of his eye. "They just care about the clown."
"I reckon if you go back to the party you'll have a better time instead of out here on your own."
"Yeah ok." He agreed.
"Maybe even Chat Noir could stay?" She looked over to her partner. "Right!"
"No can do sorry I've got something that I can't avoid." He smiled.
"Oh well maybe next year we can both come."
Marinette ran home quickly and saw Adrien still waiting outside. "Adrien!? What are you doing here?"
"I was waiting for you. When you got taken away Chat Noir came and told me to wait because he was gonna save you. Why are you so late returning?" Adrien questioned.
"I got held up and I had to redo my makeup because I looked terrible." She lied.
"Well to me you look beautiful." He held out his arm. "Shall we go?" She took it. "Better late then never."
"We shall."