With Cat Noir and Ashido...
The two of them hid behind a building as they watched LoudSpeaker use her quirk to find them. Silencer paced around her, looking for any sign of them.
"Can you stay still? I'm trying to find them," LoudSpeaker told him, "All I can hear is your stomping."
"You want them to sneak up on us, be my guest," Silencer said, using Ashido's voice to do so, "They might be planning something to stop us."
Ashido cringed when she heard Silencer using her voice to talk to LoudSpeaker. Cat Noir noticed a flower shop nearby earlier while they were looking for them and grabbed a pot to capture the akuma in. He and Ashido each held a pot, ready to start their plan.
Once LoudSpeaker gave up on finding them, Cat Noir directed Ashido to run around the building closest to them. She ran down the alleyway light on feet and slid on her shoes using her acid quirk to cross the street more quietly. She almost tripped, but caught herself right away and kept going. Soon enough, she reached them just in time.
Cat Noir waited for the two of them were looking away from Ashido's hiding spot and showed himself.
"Hey, Silencer! I like your new voice. It's suits you!" Cat Noir cried out to get their attention.
Silencer growled at him, but LoudSpeaker stepped up and got ready to send another sound wave at him. Cat Noir ran right for them, throwing LoudSpeaker off and slammed her fists to the ground. The sound wave headed straight for him, and he kept stumbling over the crumbling rocks. He caught up to Silencer and tried to hit his helmet with his baton.
Silencer grabbed it just in time, but Cat Noir kept going at him.
"You might've gotten my teammate's voice, but you won't be able to get mine!" Cat Noir yelled at him.
"Just hold still, kitty!" LoudSpeaker cried out, "Silencer, get his voice! That'll shut him up!"
"Hey! That's very nice!" Cat Noir cried out to his girlfriend, "I don't know why you were akumatized in the first place, but I'm going to bring to back, Kyouka!"
LoudSpeaker growled at Cat Noir in anger as she watched Silencer trying to take care of him.
"You have no idea why I was akumatized?! Maybe you should've figure that out before coming after me!" LoudSpeaker cried out.
Cat Noir kept fighting Silencer, but didn't really understand why Jirou was so upset. She got akumatized, so she was clearly upset about something.
"I'm sorry, Kyouka. Once this is all over, we can talk about this," Cat Noir said to her.
Silencer ran after Cat Noir while LoudSpeaker stayed behind him. She was looking out for Ashido, but she got ready for sneak attack on Cat Noir. Watching Cat Noir and Silencer fighting in the distance, she could tell Silencer wasn't doing so good with him.
"There's nothing to talk about!" Jirou yelled in anger, "You know what's going on, and you still don't see it!"
Cat Noir felt so bad for her, but he kept going after Silencer since the plan was still in motion. Ashido was going to show up at any moment.
"I'm going to save you, Kyouka!" Cat Noir cried out.
LoudSpeaker let a small smirk slip past her as she put her earphone jacks into her gloves again. Crouching down to the ground, she got ready for another move.
"I told you, it's LoudSpeaker! Sound Wave!" LoudSpeaker yelled out and slammed down her fists.
Cat Noir smirked once he saw the sound wave coming right at them. He smirked and kicked Silencer straight at it, causing him to collapse into it.
LoudSpeaker was shocked to see Silencer get caught up in it. Then, she felt someone sneak up behind her. Ashido stood there and quickly swiped her headphones away from her.
Ashido looked like she trying to say something to her, but couldn't since her voice was gone. She melted the headphones, causing the akuma to fly out of it. Before it could fly away, Ashido quickly put the pot over it and held it there with her foot.
A purplish cloud formed around LoudSpeaker, and she turned back into Jirou.
"Ash-Ashido...? Wha-What just happened?" Jirou asked her.
Ashido tried to explain things to her, but her voice was still gone. She then pointed to Cat Noir, who was still fighting Silencer by himself.
Cat Noir swung his baton at him, as he almost got close to touching him.
"No way you're getting my voice!" Cat Noir yelled, "Cataclysm!"
Cat Noir's power radiated through his hand, and he swung his baton right at Silencer's feet. He tripped over it, and Cat Noir quickly placed his hand on his helmet. It fell apart, making the akuma fly away.
Cat Noir smirked at it and caught it with his pot.
"That was a close one," Cat Noir said to him.
A purplish cloud formed around Silencer and turned him back into Luka. Jirou's eyes widened when she'd realized he's the guitarist at the party a while ago.
"Whe-Where am I...?" Luka asked Cat Noir, "Cat Noir...?"
"Lu-Luka?!" Jirou cried out, "He's Silencer?!"
Ashido tried to answer her, but she still couldn't talk. Her heart felt like it skipped a beat and wondered if there was something wrong.
"Ashido? What's wrong?" Jirou asked her, really worried for her friend.
Cat Noir noticed Ashido still didn't have her voice back. He looked down at the akuma in his pot and then hers. She was able to catch hers successfully. He realized why she couldn't talk and was relieved. He helped Luka up and led him over to the others.
"Mina, you're okay. Your voice will come back once Ladybug captures all of the akumas," Cat Noir explained to her.
Ashido looked down at the pots of captured akumas and sighed. She took a deep breath in and out and smiled at them.
"I'm sorry I did this to you," Luka said to her, "I didn't mean to. I didn't know there were akumas around until they got to me too late."
Cat Noir placed his hand on Luka's shoulder for support.
"It's okay. You didn't mean to," Cat Noir said to him, "Right, Kyouka?"
When Jirou didn't say a word, Cat Noir and Ashido looked up to see her crying. They both were surprised to see her like this. Ashido tried to say something, but of course nothing came out.
"Kyouka? What's wrong?" Cat Noir asked her as he reached out to caress her face.
She stepped away from Cat Noir, causing his ears to droop. His green eyes looked so sad, that she couldn't handle it any longer.
"Adr--... Cat Noir," She said when she realized Luka was watching, "I can't do this anymore. Not when we're going to be leaving soon."
Cat Noir's stomach felt like it had a pit in his stomach. He really wanted to pull her into her hug, but with Luka standing there, he couldn't do anything about it.
"Kyouka, please. You didn't mean any of those things you said back there," Cat Noir said to her, "It was the akuma."
"No... it wasn't. I've felt this way ever since Uraraka sent that video to all of us," She confessed to him as she hugged herself, "We're leaving soon, and now it's time for me to break up with Adrien Agreste."
Ashido's eyes grew wide with shock and ran over to her friend. Even though she couldn't talk, Jirou could tell she was worried about her. She felt more tears run down her face and hugged her friend for support.
Cat Noir stood there, feeling helpless about what Jirou was going through. He couldn't embrace her with Luka around, and Jirou didn't want to be together with Adrien.
Luka noticed the look on Cat Noir's face and felt so bad that he couldn't console her. He knew what was going on and was happy to help out.
"Cat Noir..." Luka said to him, "It's okay... You can go to her."
Cat Noir straightened up, looking confused as to what he meant by that.
"Luka? I-I don't know what you--"
"Cat Noir... I know that you're Adrien," Luka confessed to him.
Cat Noir's eyes widened as his ring started beeping. He couldn't believe it. Luka Couffaine had known all along that Cat Noir is Adrien Agreste. If he knew that he was Adrien, he wondered if he knew about Ladybug being Marinette.
"H-How d-do you know that?" Cat Noir asked him, dumbfounded.
"That's not important right now. What's important is that you go to Kyouka. I can tell that she really cares about you," Luka said to him.
Cat Noir looked back at Ashido hugging Jirou, who was crying pretty hard. She really liked him, he could tell. He should've known this video that Uraraka sent would affect her somehow. He just never got around to checking on her and this happened.
His ring started to beep again, and then he automatically detransformed back into Adrien. Luka smiled, seeing a friend.
"Go see her," Luka said to him, "I'll be okay."
Adrien nodded at him, happy to have a friend like Luka around.
"Thanks, Luka."
Adrien ran up to Jirou and Ashido with such concern in his eyes. Jirou thought she saw Adrien running towards him in the corner of her eye, but she looked up again and saw him so clearly.
"Kyouka!" Adrien cried out.
Jirou let go of Ashido and faced her ex boyfriend. He looked so sad for her, but still wanted to be there for her when they leave.
"You may want to break up with me, but I still want to be still there for you when you leave," Adrien said to her, "I care about you, Kyouka."
Jirou felt more tears coming over her, but this time they felt warm and comforting. She felt her knees buckle, and Adrien quickly caught her. He held her close and let cry it out for a while.
"Yo-You're s-such a do-dork," Jirou said through her tears.
He gave her a kiss on the cheek, making her smile.
Another amazing chapter!
This was a tough chapter, but it was still fun to write! I really wanted to fit in Jirou's breakup somewhere in here so yeah, Jirou and Adrien broke up. Sorry, but it was going to happen anyway. This wasn't going to last the whole book, it just made the most sense for them to break up before they leave. Jirou isn't really a character that I can see keeping a relationship like that for very long. They will still have moments, but that's really it.
LoudSpeaker and Silencer were fun to write together! Luka revealed that he knows Adrien is Cat Noir!
They finally stopped the akuma and have them in a couple of pots. Ashido's going to have to wait for Ladybug to get her voice back LOL!
What's going to happen next??
More to come soon!
