Chapter 2

The Hell Walker in Paris

It has been months since the Doom Marine last fought the slaves of Doom, as he was waiting for his adversary to make his move. Everyone in the classroom looked at the Doom Marine in awe, as he moved all the desks and chairs barricading the door out of the way with ease. Swiftly, he made short work of the possessed students and staff at the school upstairs with his shotgun and his fists. But that's not all, while Ivan's akumatized form is rampaging in Paris, a gore nest was built up from the remains of poor Mr. Damocles.

The Doom Marine headed towards the gore nest, rips out the heart-like organ, causing a loud roaring screech before exploding. With the gore nest eliminated, Imps, brown, man-sized, red eyed monsters with spikes on their bodies appeared, surrounding the Doom Marine. Out-manned, but not outmatched, the Doom Marine's speed, strength and firepower took him a few minutes to wipe the floor with the vicious demons before they notice whoever is left at the school. Emerging victorious, the Doom Marine follows the tracks of his akumatized prey. Seeing Paris in limbo, with civilians and police possessed or killed, monsters running amok, cars smashed in and buildings destroyed, the Doom Marine gets straight to work, cleaning out the streets of Paris from the evil that hell can conjure.


"I hate first days back at school…" Marinette tells herself while watching the lone Doom Marine in action through one of her windows before opening up the black box, revealing two red earrings with five spots in a pattern, similar to a ladybug. Along side these earrings, a small, bright red creature, 10 centimeters (4 inches) tall, with one black spot on its forehead and two more on both of its cheeks, appeared right in front of Marinette. Naturally, with what's going on, she freaked out extremely fast.

"Ahh! Help! It's a giant bug! A... a mouse! A... a bug-mouse!"

"Everything's okay! Don't be scared!"

"Ahh! Bug mouse talks!" all the while she is throwing things at the creature, not wanting to be ripped apart like the poor people on the streets, which the creature dodges with incredible speed.

"Listen, Marinette. I know everything may seem a bit strange to you…" as the creature tried to finish its sentence, Marinette traps it with a glass cup, making it's voice muffled. But the creature decided to comment on the glass cup, if it makes her feel safer.

"What are you, and how do you know my name?" the poor luckless girl asked the small creature.

"I am a kwami, and my name is Tikki. Now just let me explain." as Tikki tried explain, but not before Marinette tried to alert her mom and dad.

"No, no, no! Shh! No!" as the kwami flies out of the glass. "I'm your friend, Marinette! You must trust me. You're the one of the few who can stop the invasion."

"This must be some mistake! The only superpower I could possibly have is super-awkwardness... I know! Alya would know! That's my friend. Well, at least I think she would... She loves superheroes! She'd totally be up for the job! You should totally go see her!"

"Marinette, you are the chosen one!" Marinette was taken aback on the kwami said. With the Doom Marine, the demons, and all of Paris literally going to hell, Tikki could be right.

After a brief chat with Tikki, Marinette puts on her new earrings, still confused and terrified about the new ordeal.

"Okay, so all I have to do is to defeat the person who the whatchama-call-it is possessing?"

"It's called an akuma. Which you must capture"

"Got it! Capture it! And what's that charm thing again?"

"The Lucky Charm! It's your secret superpower!"

"This is all going too fast, Tikki. I-I... won't be able to pull this off!"

"Trust yourself, Marinette. Just say "Spots on"."

"Spots on?" as soon as Marinette says these two words, the earrings activate, transforming her. Gone are her usual clothes, her white shirt, black jacket, pink jeans, and reddish brown shoes, switched out for a red jumpsuit covered in black spots and a black collar with a red domino mask with black spots to conceal her identity. And to top it off, Tikki is missing from her view.

"How this thing come off? Tikki, if you can hear me, I want my normal clothes back. I'm not going anywhere!" as the news suddenly turned back on, she sees Alya on her bicycle, still tracking that monster, not noticing several cacodemons, large, floating, one-eyed, red spherical monsters covered with horns, having large mouths with a set of sharp teeth, set in a twisted, evil grin, coming behind her. Waiting on the cacodemons, the Doom Marine has a bunch of tasty frag grenades with their name on them. The moment Marinette sees her new friend between the Doom Marine and several cacodemons, she knew Alya is going to be in the crossfire and could be killed. Just before Marinette could do any thing, her mom asked her daughter if she got home okay. Marinette responded that she got home as she headed up to her balcony, falling on deaf ears.

"Okay, I have special powers!... and apparently this amazing super yo-yo thingy?" all confused, she threw her yo-yo at one of the gargoyles on the Notre-Dame cathedral. As Marinette yanked on her yo-yo, she was hurled off of her balcony, holding on for dear life.


Meanwhile, the Doom Marine, with the monsters stuck in a fight with him, ripped out one of the cacodemon's eyeball and pulling the brain out. With the fight done, he would've continue to follow the tracks of his prey if it wasn't for a 13 year old girl, crashing into him from the air. Tied-up and on the ground, the Doom Marine simply extended his arms, using his superb strength to untie himself from the yo-yo string, and got back up quickly. Now his attention is turned towards the amateur miraculous holder.

'Exactly what I needed, a kid who's using a kwami as if she just found her dad's gun. Someone must be that desperate enough to entrust a 13 year old with a miraculous.' the Doom Marine thought to himself while Marinette is still lying on the ground, terrified, seeing who is clearly the most powerful individual currently in Paris in her eyes.

The Doom Marine's thoughts were quickly snapped, when he hears the footsteps of a blond teenager in a black cat suit, with his staff extended out to strike him. The Marine anticipated this move, parried the blow before throwing the blond kid into a brick building. The blond teenager isn't hurt too bad, but he's going to be out for less than a minute.

"I've pinpointed your target, Stoneheart is heading to the Parc des Princes, however, several civilians are still in the stadium." a voice coming from the Doom Marine's helmet tells the heavily armored demon killer.

"Thank you, VEGA." The Doom Marine tells his AI assistant, before using his double-barreled shotgun with a grappling hook to grapple onto one of the buildings, pulling himself up, heading towards his prey.

Marinette got up to check on the blond boy in the black cat suit, but he was up, albeit with his back hurting. To the shock of both of them, they recognize each other through their voices very quickly.

"Cousin!?"

"Adrien!?"

"You're my partner my kwami told me about?"

"I guess."

"As much I like to hangout with you, it's not a really good time to do so." As Adrien tells Marinette as he looks at the direction where the Doom Marine went.

"Where are we going?"

"To save Paris, right? Follow me." As Adrien tells her before heading to where the Doom Marine is going. Marinette did the same as well, having to trust her instincts for once.


At the Parc des Princes. The students are done with their PE class, oblivious to what's going on in Paris until Stoneheart, Ivan's akumatized form, jumps onto the wall of the stadium to get revenge on Kim for earlier.

"KIMM! So, who's the wuss now?" the monster taunted.

In terror, Kim attempts to run away, but he trips and falls. As the monster tries to land his hand on Kim, Adrien extended his staff to block the monster, stopping him from getting his revenge.

"Hey, it's not very nice to pick on who are smaller than you."

"I guess you're talking about yourself." the monster replied before hearing a loud boom and feeling severe pain behind his back. Stoneheart turned, revealing the source, the Doom Marine loading his twin 12-gauge. Enraged, Stoneheart grew a few feet, charged at him, only for the Doom Marine's super shotgun's grappling hook latch onto him, pulling the Doom Marine to his prey with his left fist, sparking with red electricity, punched Stoneheart square in the chest, pushing him all the way towards the stadium seats.

Suddenly, possessed police officers, imps, and cacodemons enter the stadium, itching for a fight, as Alya of all people who survived on luck, enter the stadium for the scoop of a lifetime. All the while, Marinette is watching all of it as if two gladiators are going fight a bunch of beasts in the Coliseum during the Roman times, all in horror.

"What are you waiting for, super red bug? The world is watching you!" Alya encouraged the poor timid girl, gaining enough courage to enter the fray as she pulled her partner away from one the imp's claws.

"Sorry it took so long."

"It's cool."

All the while, the Doom Marine wipes out all the cacodemons with his plasma ballista, leaving only the imps, the corrupted police officers, and the akumatized monster to deal with as it is getting up from the blood punch the Doom Marine delivered a few moments ago. Enraged even more, the Doom Marine has the akumatized monster's undivided attention, letting out a massive roar that shook the entire stadium. The roar galvanized the rest of the monsters, while terrifying everyone else but the Doom Marine, who simply switched to his advanced minigun. Stoneheart made his move by chucking the nearest field goal at the Doom Marine, only for his opponent shoot it to pieces by activating the mobile turret module on his minigun before turning it towards Stoneheart, chipping many pieces off his skin and staggering him in the process.

While the Doom Marine and Stoneheart fight each other, Marinette and Adrien are barely clinging on for dear life, surrounded by evil on all sides. Every time one of them pushed one of the monsters back, a few more come in and try to take advantage by separating them, sending cousins back to defensive. 'There's gotta be a way to get out of this way but I don't know how.' Adrien thought to himself as he and his cousin are getting increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of monsters, while Marinette watched the Doom Marine fight and kill lots of monsters. That's when the cousins realize that the Doom Marine is their best bet, as he is the only person that can go toe-to-toe against all these monsters and win easily. As quickly as possible, Marinette used her lucky charm power, summoning a wet-suit.

'A wet-suit? How am I going to use it to my advantage?' Marinette thought to herself, but the pieces of the puzzle clicked together with the hose, Alya, and the Doom Marine. As quickly as humanly possible, dodging bullets, claws, and fireballs, Marinette connected the wet-suit with the hose, telling her friend turn it on before heading towards the Doom Marine. The Doom Marine, with the agility and precision of a hummingbird, used one of his hologram decoys to fool his akumatized opponent into thinking that the wet-suit was him before he threw an ice grenade. With Stoneheart frozen in place, the Doom Marine switches his attention towards the rest of the monsters as he switches out his minigun to his plasma rifle to finish off the rest of fodder. And with the heat blast activated from his plasma rifle, it only took the Doom Marine less than a minute to wipe-out the rest of the monsters before switching his attention to Stoneheart just starting being unfrozen, switching out his plasma rifle for his super shotgun to finish the job.

Stoneheart activated his large fiery blades from each of his forearm, before charging again, against his demon-killing opponent, only for the Doom Marine to simply just disappear from his view. Confused and terrified, the akumatized monster searched, not knowing the Doom Marine climbed on his back to rip out one of his horns to stab him in the face with it. All the while Marinette, Adrien, and Alya watched in awe of what went down as the monster grew smaller before grabbing the Doom Marine to get off of him. As the monster tried to escape, Adrien used his cataclysm to prevent the former from the doing by creating a deep hole to trap his right foot as the Doom Marine grabbed Marinette's yo-yo and used both the yo-yo and the super shotgun to pull his now beaten prey to him. And with one solid punch and a bone-crunching neck snap, the akuma pops into everyone's view as the Doom Marine grabbed Marinette's hand to activate the yo-yo trap to catch the hawkmoth and end the fight. As the wet-suit was thrown up in the air, the suit turned into a swarm of ladybugs, repairing the damage, cleansing out demonic corruption and resurrecting everyone killed during the attempted raid for the miraculouses and invasion of earth. As for Ivan, he turned back to normal, albeit with neck pain as the Doom Marine pointed his twin 12-gauge at his head.

"Who are you?" the clearly terrified young man asked

"I'm DooM." the Doom Marine replied before giving a killer glare at Alya, prompting her to completely stop recording and delete all of her recent video in pure fear, not wanting to contend with the wrath of someone very powerful coming after her. But, the Doom Marine didn't come after her as he simply used his smoke grenades to withdraw from the stadium.

"Pound it." the cousins tell each other as they pound their fists in a good-will gesture, before Marinette headed to Ivan who is still terrified from the Doom Marine pointing his twin 12-gauge at him, as she borrows the note Kim wrote, reading 'You haven't even got the guts to tell Mylène you love her, wuss.'

"Kim wrote it. He's always making fun of me."

"You know, you shouldn't get so bent out of shape about that. There's no shame in telling someone you love them, Ivan."

"Hey, how do you know my name, miss?"

"Uh…" as Marinette tries to answer the question before Alya asks questions of her own.

"Are you gonna be protecting Paris from now on? How did you get your powers? Did you get stung by a radioactive Ladybug? Oh, I've got a ton of questions to ask you, uh, miss... uhh…"

Then Marinette's mind clicked, Ladybug, it's just too perfect for her superhero name.

"Ladybug! Call me Ladybug." the newly christened superhero tells the amateur reporter, before heading back home with her cousin.


It has been 5 minutes since the fight with Stoneheart, as the city of Paris recovered quicker than expected, despite the fact the Duke Brothers left a terrible mark nearly a decade ago, but things were different. Instead of a week for the situation to resolve itself, it took less than an hour, all this, by three individuals instead of two superhero teams. Marinette, now back at her residence, couldn't believe what she pulled off with her cousin and survived the baptism by literal fire, while Adrien, who just got back at the Agreste Mansion, was glad that he was able to protect his home. However, his kwami is still hungry, despite the fact that his transition to a superhero is a lot smoother than his cousin, albeit a little jumpy on the gun. After some debating with his black cat kwami for something delicate, Camembert was decided on for Plagg's stable diet, at the expense of Adrien smelling like it. It was almost when his father entered his room for a discussion.

"Adrien."

"Yes, father."

"You're spending the night with Uncle Tom and Aunt Sabine, your mother will be coming with you. I've got an important business with my board."

"But father, I want to help out.."

"I know, but this meeting is super important. I want you take care of your mother and your cousin, they are just as important as my work."

"Father,.."

"Just do it for your old man."

"Okay, father." Adrien responded a little disgruntled.

"Adrien, I love you." Gabriel reassures his son, knowing that this is a stressful time for Paris. The entirety of Paris needed answers, so does the rest of the world.

Over the last several months, Gabriel pointed out targets of opportunity, Argent facilities, Lobbyists and corrupt officials, and a laundry list of other opportunities to the lone Doom Marine. As a matter of fact, he's a major reason why the Doom Marine is on planet earth right now, as he financed the expedition of the Kadingir Sanctum by the Union Aerospace Corporation to recover the Doom Marine, as he's the only person to fight what was observed in Paris. Of all things, receiving a phone call from the Doom Marine is completely unexpected, along with the confirmation of both the kwamis and their grand master being in Paris itself. As a matter of fact, the board meeting is a complete lie, it's a meeting between him, the Ultimate Demon Killer, and the Great Guardian of the Miraculous, starting tonight.