Golden Eagle
Chapter V:
Gone at Once
"Lucky Charm!"
Ladybug's yoyo spun over her head and an extremely long silk scarf appeared. She looked around and a plan formulated in her mind. It would be a tricky one, though...
"Eagle, you're gonna have to hold it up yourself for a moment!" she called.
"WHAT?!" Golden Eagle screamed.
"For just a moment! Cat, I need you to secure your staff in the ground as much as you can and make sure it can't move!" Ladybug yelled "On three... one, two... three!"
Cat Noir retracted his staff and ran into the middle of the street. He stabbed his staff into the concrete and extended it to about three stories high. He then stacked cars and benches and more around the base to keep it steady. Ladybug bounced around the broken legs of the Eiffel Tower, tying the endless silk scarf around them. She then started pushing the scarf towards Cat Noir's staff to use it as an anchor. Golden Eagle saw two segments of her Miraculous go dark and she looked down to see what Ladybug was doing. Fun Fact: when woven together, silk is stronger than steel! Seeing that the knots tying the scarf to the Eiffel Tower were coming loose, Golden Eagle used a crossbow to fire arrows to staple them in.
"Sorry, guys! I'm out!" she yelled.
Just as Ladybug managed to hook the scarf to the staff, Golden Eagle lost power and she collapsed from the sky. Exhausted, Alicia looked around to see no one had spotted her detransformation and picked up Dono in her hands.
"You okay?" she asked.
"Ice-cweeeeeeaaaaaaaam..." Dono whined "Caramel... ice-creeeeeeaaaaammmmm!"
Alicia looked around and spotted an ice-cream parlor on the other side of the street. She peeked out to see Ladybug and Cat Noir had completed the plan to temporarily stop the Eiffel Tower from collapsing. With a sigh of relief, she made a break for the ice-cream parlor. The moment she got inside, she ran up to the counter and slammed a handful of notes onto the counter.
"I need a pint of caramel ice-cream now, please!" Alicia gasped.
With a pint of caramel ice-cream in her arms, Alicia hid in an alleyway and pried off the lid. She took the exhausted Dono out from her jacket, gave him the spoon and dropped him in the box. Dono weakly tried to scoop some ice-cream up only to collapse. Frantically, Alicia took the spoon and gathered some ice-cream on the end to feed to the Kwami.
"We gotta hurry and take down Prankster. I doubt a silk scarf can support the Eiffel Tower forever," she said as she continued to spoon-feed Dono.
She looked out and saw Ladybug and Cat Noir run into hiding too as they lost power as well. Dono got stronger with every spoonful until he was floating around like before.
"Dono, wings out!"
Golden Eagle glided on the wind, her Eagle Vision scanning the city for Prankster to no avail. She glided back down to Ladybug and Cat Noir on the rooftops and her wings flapped in frustration.
"Couldn't see him..." she panted "He couldn't have disappeared off the face of the Earth! I'll find him just... give me a minute,"
"Akumatized villains tend to want revenge on somebody. Who would Prankster want revenge on? That's probably where he's gone," Ladybug said.
"Excellent deduction, my Lady," Cat Noir purred.
"I saw him before he was akumatized," Golden Eagle said "He was covered in paint and feathers and wasn't looking too happy,"
"Sounds like he got pranked," Cat Noir said "Heeey, now that I think about it, there's a university not far from here that has this yearly prank week. It can get pretty rough. I remember they had to call the police to deal with it once,"
"Sounds right. Let's go," Ladybug agreed "Golden Eagle, glide over and check it out ahead of us. Call us if there's something,"
"Call you on what? Don't exactly have your number,"
After receiving a quick tutorial on her communicator, Golden Eagle caught a breeze and glided in the direction of the university. Her vision zoomed in on the campus and she saw Prankster terrorizing the students. Confirmation.
"Ayer! P-Please! This isn't- this isn't funny!" a student yelled.
"Aww, don't like it when you're the one being covered in paint and feathers in front of the girl you like?" Prankster coo'd "HAHA! This is hilarious!"
He pulled a giant pillow from his bag-o'-tricks and slammed it on the ground. Feathers burst out and stuck to the poor guy as he struggled to see through the paint. Prankster cackled and was about to do it all again when a blur of yellow pulled the guy out of the way of the floating paint can.
"He-ey! No fun!" Prankster complained.
He pulled out another prop hammer and tried to squash Golden Eagle with it. She pushed the civilian away before jumping back.
"I heard what that guy called you. So, your name's Ayer? Cool name," she said.
"Ayer was a loser computer emo who couldn't even talk to the girl he liked. I'm Prankster, the colourful clown who'll make sure everyone... dies laughing," and Prankster pulled a twisted grin.
"Okaaaay, Joker, but this ain't Gotham so your butt's gonna be kicked by a bug, a cat and a bird. You okay with that?" Golden Eagle chided.
Ladybug and Cat Noir dropped down from the rooftops so they were covering him from all corners. All at once, they attacked him and he swung his mallet around. However, Ladybug eventually managed to kick the joy-buzzer out of Prankster's hand and captured the akuma (luckily, this fixed the Eiffel Tower too).
"A-Alicia?! I'm so sorry I disappeared, I-"
Marinette entered her bedroom to see her project partner hadn't returned from the bathroom yet. She heard the sound of running from below and Alicia came frantically running into her room. Alicia clumsily tripped and slammed into the floor at Marinette's feet.
"S-Sorry, I-I just... I was feeling, uh, homesick so... so I was talking to my mum... on my phone... in the bathroom," she stammered.
Marinette looked at her before giving her a helping hand up. She looked at her curiously before they got to their science project again. Alicia hadn't even noticed she was gone...
Okay... the silk scarf bit is kinda farfetched but I couldn't come up with anything else. This chapter is also shorter than the others just because the perfect time to finish came earlier than usual.