10/26/23
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Adrien in his bedroom thought of the times when he let his temper get the best of him when he nearly tried to cataclysm an akumatized villain. He intentionally only does that to intimidate them, not hurt them. Just like when he did that on his doppelgänger from a parallel universe, he did not hesitate nor feel intimidated.
Adrien was so traumatized when Claw Noir made him cataclysm his chest, he did not feel extreme pain. But Claw Noir no longer is evil as he allied with Betterfly and became Paw Noir. Speaking of that when he talked about his father, Adrien never asked if he was nice or not. His own father is always controlling, and strict, and never asks if he's okay or how his day is. Could his doppelgänger's father be the opposite of that?
"He must have been but I never managed to ask. If only his father could talk mine out of it" Adrien said.
"Thinking of your evil doppelgänger that became your second victim to get cataclysm by you?" Plagg swallowed his cheese.
"Yeah, but he managed to survive by Ladybug's lucky charm, unlike Monarch," Adrien said.
"Of course. But he better learn to not do that again" Plagg said.
"He's in his parallel universe, Plagg. He's a good kitty now and I never saw what he really looked like as himself. Probably a rockstar, a goth punk, or maybe emo. I don't know. Judging by the costume of his personality" Adrien said before looking in the mirror, reminding himself that his doppelgänger is the opposite of him but now good. The question is did he really have a crush on his Marinette?
He saw his reflection briefly become Paw Noir before it became his own, "I guess he might end up with her since they permanently discarded their bad sides" He said.
"Aww….are you worried that his own princess will reject him just like the times your lady rejects you?" Plagg teased him.
"Don't remind me" Adrien glared at him.
"You still remember those times, kid. But you moved on to a new cheese you love" Plagg bringing up cheese metaphors.
"Yeah, both she and Ladybug have helped me recover a little," Adrien said.
"To Cat Noir and Adrien" Plagg corrected him.
"Ah, yeah" Adrien nodded.
"Now move your nine lives already. You did say you were gonna meet your feline queen at the wax museum" Plagg said.
"She's not my feline queen. She's still my princess that I love" Adrien said.
"Suit yourself then," Plagg said.
"Well Marinette, here I come" Adrien got ready.
"And you've been getting less obedient to your father. Where's the coward Adrien I knew?" Plagg hides in his jacket.
"In the bag" Adrien joked.
"Funny," Plagg said.
As always, no matter how many times Gabriel twists Adrien's amok ring to get him to obey, Adrien does not again. Gabriel was getting suspicious that Nathalie gave him orders to be himself. So he started searching for her.
"Have a nice day, my son" Adrien mocked his father, "Thank you Dad" He said normally before leaving. He couldn't wait to see Marinette again.
x
The museum was releasing new wax statues of Shadybug and Claw Noir. It did scare most of the tourists to see what they were. The public never saw their new selves as Ladybug and Paw Noir. Not even Betterfly since he was being helped by the heroes.
Marinette was staring at her doppelgänger's pose which looked like a Spider-Man pose while Claw Noir's pose looked like a Black Widow pose.
"Such posers" She joked.
"Like you think Cat Noir was a better poser" Adrien chuckled.
"Oh, come on. Every cat woman would be a great posers. I guess his cat burglar ancestors passed it down to him" Marinette teased.
"Maybe" Adrien guessed.
"But still, he looks like a rockstar, judging by that hair," Marinette said.
"And she would be like a poisonous bug," Adrien said.
"Yeah, but what about that?" They saw the Celestial Cat's statue.
"Whoa, he looks like an Angel. Uh, you okay?" Adrien saw Marinette looking a little scared because of her encounter with Cat Blanc from an altered timeline that was erased.
"Um, what? Yeah, it's just I'd never imagine him as an angel due to his destructive powers" Marinette said.
"He may be destructive but he's no villain like him. He's a sweet kitty" Adrien said, blushing a little about his alter ego.
"Yeah, he is," Marinette said, proceeding to the next statues. The heroes suited power-ups of aqua, ice, and space.
"He kind of looks like a bat" Marinette noted Astro Cat.
"Ladybugs fly but cats can't. Cats and bats rhyme" Adrien said.
"Indeed," Marinette said.
"Heh, ladybugs and cats hate water" Adrien looks at his alter ego's Aqua form.
"But not tigers" Marinette looks at Purple Tigress statue.
"Yup, she's the only big cat here in Paris," Adrien said.
"You definitely love cats with nine lives," Marinette said.
"Mmhmm. Did you know that in ancient Egypt they used to worship cats and scarabs? Sounds like Ladybug and Cat Noir are the descendants from them" Adrien said.
"Maybe Cleopatra was a holder" Marinette guessed.
"Maybe or maybe not. She used birds as her symbol. While Cat Noir's ancestor is allergic to birds" Adrien said.
"Yeah. I could imagine one being a Spanish rider once." Marinette said.
Just then, they saw Véronique akumatized as Manipula again and she's now looking for the wax statues of Shadybug and Claw Noir due to Monarch's orders with the miraculous of the Rooster to have the power of invulnerability to make sure her statues don't die like last time.
Marinette and Adrien ran in separate ways to find a place to transform.
"Tikki spots on!" Marinette transformed.
"Plagg claws out!" Adrien transformed.
"That mayor is so beyond stupid to listen to his daughter's obnoxious orders! I'll show him!" Manipula placed the cards on Claw Noir and Shadybug statues, bringing them to life.
"Claw, Shadybug, get Cat Noir and Ladybug's miraculous!" She ordered them.
"We'll get them all right!" Shadybug pushed Manipula aside, showing her aggression.
"As soon as we kill your master" Claw Noir cackled.
"Yoo-hoo! Did you miss me?!" Cat Noir extends his staff at the Claw wax statue, hitting him in the head, "What do we have here? Two wannabes returning?" Claw spun his staff.
Claw Noir regenerated his wax neck and smirked evilly.
"I just hit him hard. How is he standing?" Cat Noir said.
"The miraculous of the rooster and this time it's on those two" Ladybug spun her yo-yo.
"Man, I can't believe this is dejavú again!" Cat Noir ran towards his evil statue.
"This is the end for you two!" The Shadybug statue summons her sword to slash at Ladybug.
"Whoa! The real ones are reformed and you're just a copy!" Ladybug dodged.
"They were weak and you're going to hell!" Shadybug yelled.
Cat Noir was slammed against the Jagged Stone statue, causing the guitar to get caught in Claw Noir's hand, "I love electric guitars more than pathetic pianos!" Claw Noir plays electric guitar solo rock'n roll.
"It doesn't matter to me, Faker!" Cat Noir said.
"Here's comes the finale!" Claw Noir jumps and tries to smash the guitar on him but Cat Noir rolls aside.
"Finale this!" Cat Noir whacks him aside.
Ladybug managed to destroy the sword but not the statue. Monarch knew from last time they'd destroyed the wax statues easily but this time with the miraculous of the rooster, they couldn't beat them with invulnerability.
"There has to be a way to render them as statues," Ladybug said.
"You think you're so clever when it slows your defense down!" Shadybug summons her baseball bat with spikes.
"You're way different than the real thing!" Ladybug dodges and runs to find a hiding spot, "Lucky charm!" She summons her item and catches it, "A blowtorch? Ah yes!" Ladybug gave a smug grin at Shadybug.
"Go ahead! Burn me to death until this museum burns in hell!" Shadybug summons 2 gallons of Lucky Charm water tank.
"Don't wet yourself!" Ladybug slides under her and melts off her right arm with the torch.
"MY ARM!" Shadybug screamed.
Claw Noir kicked Cat Noir down the stairs to the melt wax boiler, "Time to die Noir!" Claw held him up to the boiler.
"We have nine lives, kitty. Don't think I can die" Cat Noir flipped over and restrained him.
"Let go you pussy cat!" Claw Noir struggled.
"You're no true cat, I AM!" Cat Noir shoves Claw's partial face into the wax.
"NOOOOO! AAAGH!" Claw Noir kicks him, but his face is ruined.
Cat Noir shoved him in to get melted, crucial but a way to get rid of the statue from taking his miraculous.
"Heh, Good riddance," Cat Noir said.
Then he saw Ladybug get shoved down by the one-armed Shadybug statue. Her face was half melted as well.
"Milady!" Cat Noir rushed to her aid.
"You're gonna suffer for this!" Shadybug was about to throw the other water barrel at Ladybug.
"Hands off my partner!" Cat Noir strikes her back with his staff, "NOW!" He signals Ladybug to kick her into the wax boiler.
"YAAGH!" Ladybug double kicks the living Shadybug statue into the boiler, melting her as well.
"Let's go! We gotta save Véronique!" Cat Noir said.
"Got it, Kitty" Ladybug ran up the stairs.
"Remind me to never let dejavú happen again. I dealt with Copycat like my evil clone" Cat Noir ran with her.
"And I've had enough of evil doubles," Ladybug said.
"Like Anti-bug and Sentibug?" Cat Noir reminded her.
"That's right" They searched through the museum.
"I thought those two wouldn't be dead! You killers!" Manipula roared.
"Those two aren't real things and you're letting Monarch get into your head!" Ladybug said.
"We've talked about this! What got you riled up again?!" Cat Noir asked.
"The mayor doing it again like last time! He thinks your doppelgängers are scary to the tourists!" Manipula said.
"They changed into better persons. We talked sense into them to let them become heroes of their world" Cat Noir said.
"No one saw it but my kitty and I did! Everyone can change if they want to!" Ladybug said.
"She's right. But not Monarch, he's beyond chance. Every chance we tell him to stop, he's just a psycho! Like his irrational obsession with us is endless!" Cat Noir said.
Manipula hesitated for a moment.
"Believe in yourself, Manipula. Monarch doesn't believe in anyone but himself. He doesn't know a thing about trust, teamwork, friendship, or loyalty!" Cat Noir said.
"Fight him!" Ladybug urged her.
The butterfly telepathy mask appeared on her face, "Don't listen to that liar! They just distracting you!"
"Keep trying! You can do it!" Cat Noir said.
Manipula then in a loud scream broke free from the akuma.
"Time to de-evilize!" Ladybug snatched the akuma to purify it.
Cat Noir aided Véronique from her incident.
"Bye Bye little butterfly. Miraculous Ladybug!" She repaired all the damages, including the statues of Shadybug and Claw Noir.