As usual, I do not own anything

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As soon as the transformation was complete, Chloé exhaled deeply.

"Okay, that felt weird.", she commented and looked down on herself. She felt the material that had covered her skin and held her hand before her eyes.

"Definitely weird.", she claimed once more before the noise from outside brought her attention back to the situation that was the cause of all this. She still did not actually feel up for the task at hand, but it looked like she had no choice. She took a deep breath and opened the window, then jumped onto a nearby small balcony. She was now only a few meters away from the action. She could see how the sand had already filled all the streets and narrow alleys, leaving to more option for Ladybug to flee to.

"Surrender now!", Sandman demanded while having his sand narrowing in on the heroine further.

It was now or never. Chloé did not really have a plan, she merely raised her voice towards the villain who had his back towards her direction.

"Oh shut up! Go play with your sand on a beach."

The Akuma turned towards her and shot her an angry glance. After he had taken in her appearance, he questioned: "What? Another pesky insect?"

Chloé felt insulted by his words. She readied herself to launch her weapon.

"I'll show you pesky!", she stated and released her weapon by calling: "Swirling stinger!"

Even though Chloé did not have any idea how a spinning top was supposed to function in battle when Imme had explained her weapon to her, it sure was enough to threw Sandman off his track for just a moment as it came at him. As he tried to close the distance between himself and Chloé, she quickly jumped out of the way and onto the street and called out to Ladybug:

"What are you waiting for, do your thing!"

The spotted heroine did as told and summoned her lucky charm.

As Sandman regained his focus, Ladybug was still busy figuring out what she was supposed to do with the item she had received. In order to buy her some more time, Chloé once more drew the Akuma's attention towards her.

"I'm still here.", she mocked him, "Wanna play catch?"

he came after her, but she successfully dodged the wave of sand he had sent out thanks to the training she had recently started.

Ladybug had finally come up with the correct use for her lucky charm, and managed to get rid of the sand long enough to grab the coat the Akuma was hiding in. She ripped the coat apart and caught the black butterfly with her yo-yo.

"Bye bye little butterfly.", she released the cleansed Akuma to the sky.

After making sure the man that had been akumatized was now fine, Ladybug approached Chloé with a curious look on her face.

"Thanks for the help.", she said, "But who exactly are you?"

Chloé was sure it was a bad idea to give out her real name, and she was still determined not to do this again, so picking an alias appeared useless to her.

"No one important.", she finally answered.

"I merely take a little cat nap and you already find yourself a new partner.", the voice of Chat Noir sounded behind them, "Meow-ch! That really hurts." He took a look at Chloé and then corrected himself: "Or should I say, it stings?"

Both Ladybug and Chloé rolled their eyes at his pun. He then faced Chloé directly with his trademark sheepish grin and said: "Nice to meet ya though, new-bee."

"Don't even get started, el gato.", Chloé retorted, "This was a once in a lifetime thing. I'm so not doing this again."

Now it was Ladybug who spoke up, with clear disappointment in her voice: "Aw, really? Chat and I could really use more helping hands."

For a second or so, the fact that her idol actually called her helpful had made it very hard for Chloé to come up with reason to leave, but she was saved by a beeping sound that, as she remembered from the explanation the Kwami had given her, was the signal that her transformation would be wearing off soon.

"You'll have to find someone else to help you, I have to go.", she excused herself.

"You mean you have to buzz off.", Chat remarked while shooting her another grin.

Chloé simply ignored him and made her way back to the gym's locker room.

A/N: I do not recommend writing while consuming alcoholic beverages. The blueberry vine I just had made my mind too fuzzy to come up with a proper lucky charm. I headcanon that miraculous users adapt their Kwami's personality in some way, so I had her use the spanish el gato instead of Chat/Cat