Well, this month went by fast, and this chapter was longer than I expected it to be.
February's coming up, and I have way too much on my plate.
I'm trying to work on a new story before the end of March, and I'm working on a chapter for this story I need to finish before the end of February 21st!
Question: Because of this, I'm thinking about not doing a Valentine's Day special for my stories this year. Thoughts?
Anyway, you may continue.
A few days later...
Okay, the school break's coming to an end.
Also coming to an end is the process of the students finishing up the movie they're making.
In Françoise Dupont Highschool's Art classroom, we see everyone who was a part of the production watching Zoé and Mylène get ready for the final scene.
Right when they were going over their lines, Chloé burst through the door with Sabrina behind her.
"How dare you all! Giving the lead role to my half-of-a-sister who just came out of nowhere?! And with daddy's money, on top of it all."
"Uh, it's not actually funded by me, sweetheart, but by the city." André said, on the other side of the room.
"Same thing."
"It's really not." Aaron said under his breath.
To her half sister, Chloé said, "You-I told you that you'd be sent back to New York if you ever crossed my path, and now, not only are you on my path, but on TV, too!"
Marinette said, "Don't let your sister walk all over you, Zoé. You are made for this part, you deserve it!"
"It's true, and we're meeting with the producer tomorrow, so it's too late to change anything now." Thomas followed.
Jean-Pierre then said, "Might I remind you that you were offered a chance, like all the students in the school, to participate in the film, but you refused because, and I quote, 'Mylène's sweater is too ugly, Nate draws like a 2-year-old, Alya is useless and Marinette is ridiculous, utterly ridiculous.'"
"I said that?"
"Less politely."
"Well, I still mean all of it. But if this stupid, childish film actually gets released in theaters and turns someone into a star, that someone should be me. So, you're gonna give me the part my half-of-a-sister is playing because everything she owns is mine."
She then left as Sabrina followed offering her a banana. André followed after her, promising that he'll set things straight.
Things seemed in the clear.
...is what I would say, but everything is not in the clear.
It's the next day, and to make a long story short of what happened later on yesterday, when film's cast and crew go to Bob Roth's office, Chloé sitting in Bob's chair.
He explained that Chloé will be taking the part in the film...as the major role. Marinette tries to have it work out but Chloé threatened her to have Zoé go back to New York which ticked off Marinette and Aaron. But Zoé calmed them down, stating that it isn't a big deal that she can have another role that is off-screen.
Chloé did not complain as long as Zoé wasn't in the movie. After Bob Roth kicked the crew out of his office, leaving Marinette frustrated looked frustrated.
Right now, as for Aaron, he's inside one of the movie vans.
He just finished his look as Generatron and is examining himself in the mirror to keep his anger in check.
On his glasses was a prop that made it look like he had a blue cybernetic right eye and there was a blue contact lens for his other eye, there's an antenna on the right leg of his glasses, he had a black spandex suit on, but the hands and feet of it were gone and replaced with gloves, boots, and metal bands for his wrists and ankles. There were white electric line patterns on his suit, and on his chest was the Alchemy symbol for life, also in white. Nilak painted face earlier, so now there were the same color electrical patterns on his face.
He didn't look half bad if he did say so himself.
"Bet my singing career Chloé's gonna ruin this movie." he said a knowing voice after he was done with a sigh.
"I'll take that action." Cody said, coming over, and was also in costume.
Cody was wearing the same getup: black spandex suit, gloves, boots, and metal bands for his wrists and ankles. The electrical pattern on his suit was a very dark violet however, on his chest was the Alchemy symbol for death in the same color, and on his face was painted the same color electrical pattern. On the left side of his head was an antenna prop, and he had red contacts on his eyes.
"You look good, man." "Thanks. So, should we get this over with?" "Let's."
The two walked to the door of the van. Well, Cody walked. Aaron rolled. There's three not-so-visible wheels on the bottom of Aaron's boots. Nino thought it was a good touch.
When they exited the van they walked to their friends who were by the other van. They got compliments on their looks when Nino then spoke, getting everyone's attention.
"In this scene, the entire population has been put into an enchanted sleep, so we need tons of extras."
Marinette then ran to the others runs over to the rest, and Aaron and Cody moved out of the way to Cyrus and Nilak who had their harnesses with the arms ready.
"You guys are gonna lay down here." They laid down on the ground. "Perfect!"
At that moment, Chloé burst out of the van.
"Hey! All of you! Someone just told me I'm supposed to play the role of the supervillain of destruction and Mylène is the superhero of creation. Are you kidding me?! I get the lead role, I am the good guy, okay?"
"Are you?" Aaron said as Cyrus put his harness on him, earning a snicker from Marinette. He got a glare from Chloé but he did not care.
Nino said, "Chloé, those two roles are equally as impor-"
"Blah, blah, blah, I don't care. I get to be the good guy.
Marinette said, "We don't have time for all of these changes, Chloé!"
"Oh yeah? DADDY!"
All it took was that for Nino to change the script.
This went on for a while; whenever there was something Chloé didn't like that was in the movie, she'd always demand for it to be changed into something she would approve of.
First, she wanted the role of a 'real' superhero. She had the idea of herself as Queen Bee, but after being reminded of a super-disaster she was as that 'superhero' by Mari, she came up with, get this, Queen Banana. I know, super original and clever. She even got a new outfit for it.
Then, she wanted a banana-themed car to go with her superhero self, after saying she didn't want a 'dumb robot' working for her, so Aaron's part of the movie was revoked.
Then, she decided to change the plot entirely, so instead of saving everyone from Mylène, she wanted to save Adrien from a cage hanging from a helicopter. He got part of this movie when his dad said it was for the good of the film.
I swear, the girl's like Angelica Schuyler; she can never be satisfied.
Aaron was fed up with it all though.
Aaron came out of the second movie van in his normal attire, with the harness with the arms in his hands.
He had a blank expression on his face, but he was next level mad.
"I believe this is yours, Cyrus." Aaron said, coming over and handing Cyrus the arms, before walking away from everyone.
"Aaron, where're you going?" Mylène asked.
Aaron turned around to face everyone before saying as calmly as he could, "Look, I can handle Chloé taking the lead role. I can handle not being in the movie. But I draw the line at her changing the plot completely. Effective immediately, I quit. *puts on headphones and plays music* Have a nice day, everyone."
While Aaron was leaving, he failed to hear the pleading from everyone asking him to stay. The sound was blocked by his headphones.
"I'm not listening! I can't hear you! Bye!"
Okay, even Sabrina, who was waiting outside the other van that Chloé was inside, started to feel bad.
When Chloé finally came out, she was told that Aaron quit. She couldn't care less.
Next, she had a ridiculous demand: she wanted a supervillain to fight. The one she had in mind was a giant yellow gorilla that throws exploding bananas. After she got one made of cardboard, she made a fuss and said that she wanted a real one, and Marinette said that wasn't possible because they don't exist.
To which Chloé replied, "There are tons of giant gorillas doing stuff in all the good movies, can't you just hire one of those? Ugh, I'm so tired of all of you!"
She walked to her limo, followed by Sabrina.
"I'm getting some beauty rest at the Palace, tomorrow you'd better have this monkey business figured out."
She slams the door of her limousine, which drives off. Sabrina looked at everyone with a guilty look before walking after it.
Kim then said, "Maybe the zoo will lend us an ape if we take extra good care of it."
"You're not really gonna look for a giant dynamite-flinging gorilla?" said Marinette.
"It's for the good of the film, Marinette." Max said.
"It's not for the good of the film, it's not even a film anymore, it's just Chloé's fantasy! The only thing we're gonna do right now is get Adrien out of that cage. *Gets onto Chloé's banana car.* Then, we're getting Aaron back here so we can shoot the story that we all thought of together. That's for the good of the film!"
Everyone cheered for that.
Tomorrow, at the Sorbonne...
To make a long story short, they got the movie into action overnight.
They got Aaron to come back after Marinette tried calling him twice. He didn't pick up both times because of two things: his mom wanted to talk about something, and he wanted nothing to do with the movie if it meant that Chloé was a part of it.
Then Zoé tried calling him. Before he could hang up, she said that they were doing the original idea they had for the movie without Chloé knowing about it.
Aaron came over straight away saying, and I quote, 'Why didn't you start with that? I'll be right over.'
Anyway, they got the movie done and the four with important roles got to play their parts: Zoé as Kreatika, Mylène as Destroika, Aaron as Generatron, and Cody as Wreck-R.
Everyone's in the Sorbonne right now, watching the movie in action.
As we see Chloé burst in through the doors furiously, we see the scene that everyone's watching.
We see Kreatika and Destroika facing each other, blades in hand. To the side was everyone lying on the ground.
Out of nowhere, a surprise attack came from Wreck-R. How was it a surprise attack? He had cloaking tech [thank editing for that]. He appeared right in front of Kreatika and was about to throw a punch at her.
But on his wheels came Generatron and in a high speed, he caught the fist with his hand.
"(robotic voice) I'm afraid I cannot allow you to do that."
"(robotic voice) Well then I'm afraid that I'll have to dismantle you."
The hero of creation and the villain of destruction both stood back as their robots started to tussle.
After a bit, we now see them charge at each other, both having their extra arms push against each other.
Then suddenly, one of Wreck-R's hands let go before hitting Generatron to the ground, which caught him off guard.
Flat on his back, he tried to get up, but Wrech-R stepped on his chest, stopping him from getting up.
When all seemed lost, Generatron suddenly boosted himself onto his feet and got Wreck-R off him.
He aimed his arms and two fists at him, and they glowed white.
"Heart-illery!"
With that one word, a glowing beam from all six arms shot at Wreck-R sending him flying into a tree. He tried to get up, but that blast was too much. It took him out for the count.
But on the bright side, it's good to see Generatron still still standing...even if it's for a few seconds.
When Generatron turned back around to see Kreatika,
*SLASH!*
Destroika struck him in the back, and made him fall to his knees. Then on his side.
Seeing her partner on the ground and out of commission, Kreatika looked back at Destroika with a glare.
The two of them then charged their swords.
"Ultimate Nightmare!" "Harmonic Wind!
After the swords glowed, they fought using them. After a bit, Kreatika uses her power to stop Destroika, making her take a knee.
She then went to Generatron and used her power to heal him and get him back on his feet. They smiled at each other before Kreatika went to wake up the citizens.
"*taking her mask off* I've freed you from evil!" Kreatika said after finishing.
Destroika removed her mask before saying, "Why did you wake them, Kreatika? Humans have destroyed the planet! They don't deserve to be awake! *prepares her sword*"
When she was about to be struck, Kreatika blocked with her sword just in time.
"You're wrong, Destroika. Each one of those humans carries the hope of a better world within them!"
"You're just like them, I hate you! *falls to the ground*"
"You may hate me, but I love you," She knelt down to her. "and I always will, even if the whole world hates you, *places hand on Destroika's* sister.
Destroika looks up at her before the two hug each other as the citizens cheer for them. And in the background, we see Generatron helping Wreck-R onto his feet.
There was a standing ovation! The movie turned out great.
Shame that there was only one person who didn't think the same thing.
Furiously, Chloé said, "This is ridiculous! Who authorized shooting this without me?! Where's my monkey?! And what is my half-of-a-sister doing in my movie?!"
Adrien walked over to Chloé with a tablet in his hands, with his father on the screen, with Marinette and Aaron following behind.
From the tablet, Gabriel said. Miss Dupain-Cheng convinced me to watch this first scene. I found it very moving and...Adrien is exceptional in it. I've therefore decided to privately finance the movie based on the original screenplay."
Chloé tried crying to her dad again, but before he could answer Bob Roth said while counting the money in his hand, "Like we said before, kid. Movie making's all about compromise." He then put the cash away.
Aaron wanted to say something, but Bob Roth helped start the movie, so he stayed quiet.
Marinette then said, "Sorry, Chloé. It was for the good of the film."
Chloé then left angrily saying, "Ridiculous! *slams the door open* Utterly ridiculous!"
Adrien went after her after a second, and Aaron looked at Marinette and said, "You got a bad bad feeling about this too, or just me?"
"Yeah, but I'm not surprised. It's Chloé."
Literally a few seconds later, the theater started rumbling.
"Please tell me this is a short earthquake." Aaron said.
As if he jinxed it, the roof was pried off the building as Adrien came back in, showing the cause of it was a noticeably large, bulky banana-themed gorilla. It had red eyes with purple sclera, a pale yellow face, black V-shaped eyebrows, and two sharp canine teeth. It's carrying some bananas tied around its chest.
Its head was perfectly shaped to fit the car that Chloé was in on top of it.
She had vivid crimson colored-eyes with the light violet sclera, pale, light grayish amber-colored face, yellow lipstick, two solid bananas as her front hair, a black mask with a yellow outline, a black and yellow jumpsuit, and a skirt consisting of five large bananas with a circular hole for her gun. She also has four mini bananas attached to a black circle on her chest and has yellow skin.
"Queen Banana in action. Never thought I'd see the day." Aaron said.
"Where is my useless half-of-a-sister?" Queen Banana said before ordering her sentimonster.
"Banana Boom-Boom, peel them off!"
The gorilla threw a banana off it's chest and into the room.
Aaron and Mari ran just in time before it exploded. When it did, it turned the surrounding people into bananas.
Adrien ran back out of the room, and Aaron and Marinette legged it to the emergency exit, bringing Zoé with them.
Zoé said as she was pulled up the stairs, "She's mainly mad at me, so I should try and reason with her."
Marinette: "Unfortunately, no one can reason with your sister, Zoé." Marinette said, "Stay here you two, I'm gonna...try to find a way out." She then ran up the stairs.
From the outside, we hear Queen Banana saying, "If you don't come out from your hiding place, Zoé, I'm gonna turn all of Paris into bananas, and it'll be all your fault!
"My fault... *gets on the floor*"
Hearing her say that, Aaron looked at Zoé who had a guilty look.
He crouched down and faced her saying, "Hey, look at me."
He put his hands on her shoulders, making her look at him.
"None of this is your fault, don't listen to her. She's never been right about anything. Blame your sister's pride and jealousy for this. You know she can't stand to see you or others happy. You're better than her. Now, there's two things you can do right now: you can either sit there and feel guilty about something you didn't even cause, or you can get up on your feet knowing that everything will be alright, and be the opposite of what she says you are. Okay?"
"...Okay." she answered, with a faint blush appearing on her face.
"Great, I'm gonna go through there. You'll be alright on your own?" "Yeah. You go ahead."
Aaron ran to a door on the staircase and went from in the hallway into a empty room.
When his kwamis came out, Shadow was the first to speak.
"This is it. You finally have an excuse to punch Chloé in the face."
"You read my mind, Shadow." Aaron replied.
Glare just looked at the two saying, a little concerned, "I think you two spend too much time together."
After Aaron transformed, Twilight called out his light speed and ran out of the room, up the stairs, and out the emergency door. He noticed that Zoé was gone, but he'd worry about that later.
He ran across the rooftops and found the Cat and Bug, and ran over and moved them just in time to avoid them from one of Banana Boom-Boom's bombs.
On the ground, Twi said, "I'd say this is bananas, but I'm not the jokester. Cat can keep that job."
"We should be careful. Shadow Moth has been very generous to Chloé." Ladybug said.
"I gotta admit, I'm a little jealous of her gear." said Cat Noir.
"Totally unnecessary, nothing can beat this team." Ladybug said, as the three of them put their ear comms on from their weapons.
"Yeah, what gadgets can triumph against a combo of luck, cunning, and swiftness?" Twi said.
"We do make a good trio." Cat said before they split up to deal with Queen Banana.
They tried attacking, but she didn't make it easy.
Cat tried attacking from the right, Ladybug from the left, and Twilight down the middle. They couldn't get close because if one of bananas touched them, they'd turn into bananas too.
Twi was an exception, he's immune; he didn't even block, dodge, or counter when bananas were fired at him. He even caught one and flung it back at her and hit her in the face, which made her mad.
Banana bombs though? That's a different story. He's immune, not invincible. Even he had to get away when Banana Boom-Boom threw bombs at him.
The three of them regrouped, then Ladybug used her Lucky Charm which was-
"Wood glue?"
She then looked over at Queen Banana. She spotted her weapon, the holster in her outfit for it, then the glue.
"Still, something is missing, but what?"
"Hey, Chloé!" a new voice said, "Here I am!"
Twi recognized that voice and looked and saw that it was Zoé.
"Crud." he ran in to go save her, while Ladybug got an idea when she saw her.
"Ready for a transatlantic voyage on the banana express?" Queen Banana asked her sister.
"Only if you promise to stop doing evil in Paris."
"(sarcastically) Of course, I promise I'll be really good." She immediately blasted a passerby.
"You'll never keep your promise!"
She laughed. "(normally) Of course not, banana head! Banana Boom-Boom, grab her!"
Yet, before the gorilla could, Twilight ran in and carried her bridal-style and got her out of the way.
"(over comms) Guys, I can use some cover for a minute!"
Afetr he said that, Cat Noir called his Cataclysm and tried to touch Queen Banana's car, but she moved it in time, and he touched Banana Boom-Boom instead.
And we all know what happens when you Cataclysm a sentimonster. It goes bananas.
...I do not regret the pun I made.
Ladybug facepalmed, Cat had a sheepish look, and Twi said, "Starting to take back what I said about you being cunning."
"*cackles* When he's out of control, Banana Boom-Boom is even more destructive! Have fun, you three!" Queen Banana then flew towards Twi and Zoé.
"Hold on!" Twilight ran off with a tight hold on Zoé, while dodging blasts from the weaponry on Queen Banana's car.
Up ahead, he saw the entrance for the subway, so he ran down it, leaving the queen to wait outside due to her car too big to fit in the entrance.
"You'll have to come out sometime, Twilight Fighter, especially if you don't wanna see my monkey make a banana smoothie out of Ladybug and her cat!"
Little did she know, Twilight used his Phantasm and got out of there to help Cat Noir, while Ladybug took his place by going in through a different entrance.
All Ladybug said over the comms while Twilight ran, was to get Zoé somewhere safe, tell her where he hid her, then help Cat Noir.
He didn't ask any questions.
It took Twi almost no time to rush over and help with the sentimonster.
When he got there, he saw Cat dodge another bomb from the gorilla. Another one came, but it was sliced away by one of Twilight's katanas.
When it came back in his hand, Twi just missed being blown up, and after that, Cat Noir was picked up by Banana Boom-Boom.
Twi was about to do something when another hero came.
From the look of it, she had the Bee Miraculous. Ooh, Chloé's gonna be livid when she sees this.
"Hey, you big ape! How about fighting someone your own size?" she said, before calling out her- "Venom!"
Banana Boom-Boom throws Cat Noir away, leaving Twilight to catch him and place him on his feet, and starts shooting bananas at the new girl, who dodged them. She ends up running up his arm and using the Venom on his head.
She lands next to Cat Noir and Twilight.
"Queen Bee?" The former asked.
"No, my name's Vesperia!" She said.
Twilight whistled an impressed whistle before he heard beeping from his allies' Miraculous.
"You two might wanna recharge." he said, before turning to Vesperia, "Between you and me, it's nice to not be the only one on the team with two colors."
The two heroes went to recharge leaving Twilight to wait. When they retransformed, the three of them went to join Ladybug.
In the streets of Paris...
Ladybugs seen running while dodging and blocking the explosive bananas, but she tripped at one point.
Queen Banana from her car aimed her gun at her. "I'm going to smash you and then turn you into banana bread!"
"Luminosity." Twi said, appearing in front of Queen Banana, in her car, surprising her.
He pointed behind her right as we hear Cat Noir say, "Cataclysm!" and disintegrate the car with one touch as the Queen and Twilight jumped out. The latter going invisible again.
Queen Banana landed next to Ladybug, grabbed her, and Held banana gun to Ladybug's head. "Give me your Miraculous, or else I'll turn her into baby food!"
"Queen Banana," Vesperia said as she landed in, "you're not even capable of a fair fight with the new holder of the Bee Miraculous!"
"How dare you—I'm the one and only Queen Bee!"
"Oh, you were, but I am the real Queen Bee now."
While she was talking, Ladybug discretely puts the wood glue where Queen Bananas stores the banana gun.
"And you're only the queen of bananas! Ladybug chose me to defend Paris because you couldn't do it."
Queen Banana, livid like I said she would be, blasts Vesperia, turning her into a banana and freeing Ladybug.
Queen Banana cackled before saying, "And what are you going to defend now that you're a banana?" She puts her banana gun away. To Ladybug and Cat Noir, "Now see what happens to people who don't see things my way? Give me your Miraculous!" She tried to pull out the banana gun again, but it's stuck.
Ladybug said, "*shows the tube of glue* This Lucky Charm glue is really good. And so is Vesperia, don't you think, Cat Noir?"
"You counted your bananas before they were peeled, Queen Banana."
"No, not again!" Queen Banana tried to run off but she was knocked to the ground by an invisible Twilight, who punched her in the face.
He finally did it.
As he ran, he snatched the pin from her, threw it on the ground and while saying, "Luminosity." he stepped on it making it break.
Ladybug captured the amouk and akuma, she used her magical ladybugs to fix everything, and all was good.
...is what I would say, but then there's Chloé.
When she was back to normal she ranted on about how she hated the heroes, and before Ladybug could give her a magical charm, she stormed off.
Cat and Twi had to leave, but Vesperia had an idea of what to do.
We come back to the theater to see Chloé burst in though the doors angrily.
"I want to shoot my film!"
"That's enough, Chloé." said Zoé who came in from behind her, "It doesn't matter if you try to send me back to New York, I'm done playing the supporting role for the good of our family."
"DADDY!"
André actually grew a backbone and said confidently and sternly, "Zoé is right, Chloé. You can ask me for a new cellphone or to paint the limousine pink, but you can't ask me to hurt your sister."
"Don't call her that. She's not even half of a sister, she's nothing to me! I- *turns to Zoé* I hate you!"
Zoé just placed her hands on Chloé's shoulders and said, "You may hate me, but I love you, and I always will, even if the whole world hates you, sister."
She hugged Chloé. "Remember? We have the same mother! Look, she even gave me this gift." She showed her the Magical Charm from earlier.
"If it comes from mom, then I'm the one who gets to wear it. Give it to me!"
What's mine is yours. Zoé said, giving the Charm, "You and I are family."
Chloé puts the Charm on as a necklace.
Aaron, who got here earlier, saw an akuma fly in towards Chloé, but it is blocked by a pink forcefield.
"So that's how they work." Aaron said to himself.
"You just wait, real life is nothing like your stupid film. I'll get my revenge." Chloé walks off.
Adrien came in and asked if Chloé was okay, but she said, "Leave me alone, all of you!" She continued her leave.
Aaron rolled his eyes. That girl will never change.