In HawkMoth's lair...
Chrysalis stood by the butterfly window, looking out at the city of Paris. She could spot the Eiffel Tower not too far from here. The neon pink light coming from it made her smile slyly. She knew exactly what was going on, especially since she could feel her emotions even from that far away. Zero really felt something for Midoriya.
But something about Bakugo was setting her off.
Chrysalis found this fascinating to watch. Her other teammates had arrived, including Chloe. She did not look happy.
"Miss Hound, I hope your power works from this far," Chrysalis said to her, "Ochaco is finally showing her true colors. Come, you should watch with me!"
Chloe looked like she was about to punch Chrysalis right then and there. She kept an eye on her, but noticed she was heading right for her.
"Chloe, I know you're mad at me, but this was the only way to get Ochaco finally on our side," Chrysalis said to her.
"This whole time, you just wanted this Pink Cheeks Girl on our side?!" Chloe cried out, "I could've taken her with me without getting the Dragon Miraculous taken away!"
"True, but I knew you couldn't pull it off," Chrysalis said to her, "That's why I had back up for you so you could get away easily. You should grateful I even got them to help you out."
Chloe growled at her and was about to go at her when King Monkey grabbed her arm.
"Kim?! You're actually going to side with her?!" Chloe cried out, "She's just using you! Maybe Broccoli Boy was right about you!"
Chrysalis's eye brow went up with curiosity.
"Oh? And what was he right about?" She asked her as she fiddled with her cane.
"That quirk of his was taken from HawkMoth! He took it and made it into that lame keychain!" Chloe cried out as she pointed at the Miraculous around her waist, "Ladybug never gave him that thing!"
King Monkey and Miss Hound looked at Chloe, shocked and then turned to their leader.
"Chrysalis, is this true?" King Monkey asked her, "I don't know what a quirk is, but it seems like it's his superpower."
Chrysalis stood there looking there and turned around to look out at the city. King Monkey and Miss Hound stood there and shared a look. They both knew something wasn't quite right here.
"It's true that Izuku's power was taken from him," She told them as she flicked the Miraculous, "This Miraculous is what's holding it. I need it to find out where they came from."
King Monkey and Miss Hound were shocked that HawkMoth was actually able to pull off such a thing. They both looked at it and felt a little sick to their stomach.
"But, they still came here out of no where even before then," Chrysalis said to them, "They came here thinking they could just do whatever they want. They don't even belong here, so we're going to go to their Japan and see how they like it!"
"Wait, their Japan?" King Monkey asked back, "You mean, there's another Japan?"
Chrysalis tapped her fingers on her cane and turned around to face her teammates. She didn't even move an inch.
"Kim, Sabrina, you two may want to know that these wannabe heroes aren't from our Japan. They came here somehow from somewhere else. That's why their powers are so different from a Miraculous. They have mutations some of them as well," Chrysalis explained to them, "They just showed up and thought they could just take what was ours."
"But... Aren't we doing the same thing?" King Monkey asked her, "You're taking their power and going to their Japan to do whatever you want."
"Exactly," She said back with a sly smile.
King Monkey and Miss Hound looked out the butterfly window. They watched Zero's neon pink glow float around the Eiffel Tower. Something didn't feel right about this, but they stayed anyway.
Chloe however snuck out of the lair and ran out of the mansion. She ran as fast as she could to get to Class 1-A and the Parisian's heroes.
To Ladybug.
"I'm sorry, Ladybug... Please forgive me..."
On the Eiffel Tower...
Midoriya really tried so hard to lift his arms, but he just couldn't do it. Even with his quirk, he didn't think he could do it either. Somehow, her quirk had gotten stronger. He looked up at her and noticed she was wearing gloves. Then he looked closer and somehow her fingertip pads were glowing on the gloves. Her quirk was somehow still working, even with gloves on.
"Ocha-Ochaco... Ho-How is your quirk still working...?" Midoriya asked her, "It shouldn't be working while you're wearing gloves."
Zero was still sitting with him, but this time she was floating above the floor.
"Oh, this? It's just a way to hold back my quirk," Zero explained to him, "You'll see soon enough."
Her face was still so bright and cheerful, and yet she had been akumatized. She didn't even seem angry or upset. There had to be something going on with her that he clearly didn't know about.
"Ochaco, I don't understand... Why are you doing this?"
Before she could answer however, Ladybug landed inside the Eiffel Tower. The wind around her wings blew all around them, causing Zero to stand up in a fighting stance. She was still floating as she faced her opponent.
Ladybug looked down at Midoriya and noticed that he wasn't getting up. He looked like he couldn't move.
"Izuku, can you move?" Ladybug asked him.
He tried to move again, but he didn't feel any different.
"N-No, I can't. It must be her quirk... bu-but for some reason, she has to wear--"
Suddenly Midoriya felt something lift him up, but he still couldn't move. Zero had somehow floated him up without touching him.
"Don't spoil the surprise, Izuku!" Zero cried out, "She needs to see for herself what my quirk can do now."
Midoriya couldn't budge one bit even if her floating him up and off of the floor. He wanted to do something to get through to her, but he couldn't move. If he could just get her to let him down, he might be able to bring her back to the school. Then he noticed someone heading right for them.
"Ka-Kacchan...?" Midoriya said.
Zero's smile widened as she put her helmet all the way back on. Bakugo landed right in front of her with a smirk on his face.
"Uraraka, I never thought you of all people would get akumatized," Bakugo said to her, "But here we are, and you still managed to sweep Deku off of his feet."
Midoriya felt a blush forming while he still couldn't move. He tried to hide his face, but Zero moved closer to him making him blush even more.
"Of course I can sweep him off of his feet," Zero said as she brought him closer, "I mean, he's so cute."
Zero spotted Ladybug slowly surrounding her, realizing what Bakugo was doing. He was just buying time for Ladybug to get the upper hand.
"I don't think so," Zero said to them.
She flew over to the edge of the Eiffel Tower, using her quirk to bring Midoriya with her. Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around Zero's ankle and was able to pull her back. Zero looked back at the yo-yo and got really annoyed with that thing.
And then, Ladybug's yo-yo suddenly unraveled and became really heavy. The yo-yo fell over the edge of the Eiffel Tower, but Ladybug still held onto it. She tried to lift it back up, but it wasn't budging. She even tried using One for All's power like Midoriya told her, but it still wouldn't move.
Bakugo ran over to help her with it, but it wasn't going anywhere.
Zero floated in place with Midoriya by her side. All he could was watch as she made Ladybug's yo-yo much heavier.
"Come on, Uraraka!" Midoriya yelled at her, "You need to break free from this akuma!"
"I thought I told you, the name's Zero," Uraraka said to him as she floated him closer.
Before she could fly away with him, a laser flew past her and almost hit her helmet off. She looked down to see Class 1-A coming after her, and Aoyama pointing his belt at her.
"This isn't very twinkling of you, Uraraka," Aoyama yelled up to her.
Then she felt something freezing cold wrap around her foot. It was a block of ice going all the way up to her. Todoroki stood next to him with frost bite all over his right arm.
"Uraraka, put Midoriya down! You don't want to do this!" Todoroki yelled up to her, "He's your boyfriend, isn't he?"
Zero tried to kick her leg free, but couldn't get out of the ice. She felt her grip on Midoriya start to slip away from her, and he even felt it too. He fell towards the ground, but Todoroki quickly made an ice slide for him to safely land on.
"No!" Zero cried out.
Class 1-A stood in front of him as Zero narrowed in on him again. She felt her fist clench in anger and slammed her gauntlet down onto the ice, setting her free. The bits of ice everyone expected to fall to the ground started to float along with her. Even the biggest pieces of ice lifted off and floated over her head.
They all looked at her in awe at how strong her quirk had gotten. She about to throw it down at everyone, when someone had launched themselves at her and took her down to the ground. He rolled on the ground along with her, holding her down.
"Ba-Bakugo?!" Class 1-A cried out in unison.
He crouched over her as he made sure she couldn't get away. She tried to kick him off of her, but he wasn't going anywhere.
"Zero, was it?" Bakugo asked her, "You need to stop this before you hurt someone!"
Zero suddenly let out a burst of laughter, surprising even him. He didn't dare move from his spot as she laid there under him.
"Like you've never hurt anyone!" Zero cried out, "What about Izuku?! You were a bully to him for nearly a decade, and you think can just be friends with me?! Just like that!"
Bakugo was not expecting any of that from her. He felt his arms shake without realizing it, and she took advantage of that. She sweeped her legs underneath his and quickly pinned him down to the ground.
"This time, I win."
"Kacchan!" Midoriya cried out, "Zero, I'm sure you don't actually mean any of this..."
The helmet opened up to reveal her face once again. Only this time, she was crying. Crying tears for him.
"Izuku... All I ever wanted was for you to get your quirk back so we can go home... Chrysalis, she's going to do that for us..."
Midoriya's eyes widened as he realized what Chrysalis had done to her. She had gotten her on her side to help her find a way back home.
"Ochaco... This isn't the way to go about it," Midoriya said to her, "Chrysalis is trying to go to our Japan so she can akumatize our friends! I know you don't want that--"
Midoriya suddenly felt a tug on his shirt and a much stronger force pulling him straight towards her. Class 1-A tried to stop her as EraserHead wrapped his scarf around him and was able to hold him in place. She didn't even know she could do that. Then she noticed something was missing on her hand.
Bakugo had her gloves.
Midoriya's eyes widened in shock as she looked down at her hands. Her fingertips were glowing neon pink.
"This is where the akuma is, right?" Bakugo asked her, "You better stand down now, Uraraka."
Midoriya looked all around him and noticed some pebbles began to float and rumble all around them. Even the ice that Todoroki had made was starting to do the same. She levitated just above the ground, nearly inches from it.
He noticed her eyes were wide and shocked to see the gloves off of her hands. He had never seen her look so terrified.
"Kacchan, get out of the way!" Midoriya cried out.
Suddenly, a ripple around Zero spread all around them as pebbles, rocks and ice started floating. EraserHead held onto Midoriya as best he could, but the ripple effect caused the scarf to loosen it. He felt Midoriya being pulled away from him. There was nothing he could do, so he got his students to clear out.
Ladybug flew over to Cat Noir and pushed him out of the way. Her yo-yo was floating, so she had to tie it around her waist.
"Ladybug, what's going on?" Cat Noir asked him.
"I don't know, but it seems like taking off her gloves caused her powers to grow immensely," Ladybug said to him, "Wait a minute, where's Bakugo?"
They all looked around for Bakugo and Midoriya. They all could see was dirt clouding around them all. It felt freezing now that the ice was in the air. After a while of dirt clearing out, one of them was able to spot Bakugo.
"Bakugo!" Kirishima cried out.
He was walking over to them with one of Zero's gloves. There was dirt and bruises all over him, even his costume was a little torn. Kirishima ran up to him, and he collapsed in his arms.
"Bakugo! Are you okay?!" Kirishima cried out, "What happened?!"
Bakugo was knocked out cold.
They all ran over to him, worried that he was badly hurt. Ladybug noticed the glove in his hand and looked around frantically for the other glove. There wasn't any sign of it anywhere. She took it from his hand and ripped it.
Nothing came out of it. No akuma.
"What?! I thought Zero had an akuma in her gloves!" Ashido cried out.
"Yeah, but that means both of her gloves have to be ripped to get it out," Ladybug explained to them.
Class 1-A didn't like where this was heading. They all heard something coming this way, causing the whole class to get ready. Rocks, ice and pebbles began to float all around them again as Zero floated slowly towards them. As the dirt cloud began to clear out, they all noticed Midoriya was floating along with everything that was floating around them.
He could move, but he was having trouble getting on his feet.
Ladybug spotted the other glove tucked in Zero's belt. She let out an annoyed sigh realizing she would have to get close to her with her yo-yo that wasn't working properly.
"This'll be fun..."
Another amazing chapter!
Chrysalis is watching them all fight against Zero! Like I said, her quirk will be a little different since she's akumatized. It's like it is enhanced, but also acting up like when King Monkey hit her with his power. The gloves are way of showing that. I got the idea from Elsa, it's basically holding back her power.
King Monkey and Miss Hound know about them being from another Japan, but what are they going to do now?? Chloe's running over to Ladybug! Ooh!
Bakugo and Midoriya are trying to get Zero to stop, but it seems like things are going to get interesting with her quirk.
More to come soon!
