Here's the next chapter guys! And I have two announcements to make! One, this has become a series, that's why all the plots are starting up, I have an outline for it and the titles and a few more plots to bring in a few revelations, and everything is going to go my way! And Two, I will be going over all of this and updating the chapters, finishing places I missed and everything will be up, new, and improved by the time this first part of my Saga is done. Oh and I almost forgot, I'm working on a 'Movie Story' to kick start a new spin-off of this based around the Miraculous New York special, hope to have it out before the end of next month! So on with the story, and the next chapter of this will be out soon.

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On one side of the bridge Carapace and Pegasus had made it back and were attacking the cat, forcing it to face them as Chat Noir and Arashiko dealt with the Fishmen with help from Viperion's newly discovered bow.

At the other end, Ladybug and Apisera fought together and held the line, in a lull as the Fishmen regenerated, Apisera looked to their left at the senti-skeleton pirates on the lower river bank, scowling as a Fishman lunged into the river before getting out and attacking the Senti-Pirates. So far the two of them had been able to keep the fish monsters away from the people, but they used the other staircase to get at them while the pirates held the other, but even Apisera could see that neither side was winning.

"We need something boss bug, we're losing ground!" Apisera said as she slammed back the same Fishman she had been fighting.

"Yeah… But where can we put them…" Ladybug said as a roar caused her and Apisera to look to the left and see another River Kraken appear and throw five Fishmen at Ladybug and Apisera, only for Viperion to fire arrows at them, hitting limbs and forcing them into the river.

A yell to the left let them know the senti-pirates were falling back to the stairs, and as the other River Kraken charged the Liberty, a blast of fire sent it back as Lady Blaze fought against it.

At the other end of the bridge, Chat Noir looked down at the river as he spun his baton-staff and tried to think up a plan; if he and Arashiko went over the side, would the people be okay? Still, he never thought he would fight side by side with Akuma! All that was needed was for Hawkmoth to appear and this would be the most improbable day ever!

Aboard the Liberty Lady Blaze and Princess Flora walked to the edge and looked at the heroes as they fought the monster cat. As she watched the cat Princess Flora sighed and Lady Blaze reached over and held Princess Flora's shoulder.

"What's wrong my princess?" Lady Blaze asked and Princess Flora just sighed.

"I just wish I could be up there helping them to kill that cat, she just hates all of the furry demons," Princess Flora admitted and Lady Blaze kissed her nearest check.

"She never knew that about your host my love, what happened to her?" Lady Blaze asked and Princess Flora was about to say something when they heard a loud buzzing. From under the bridge ten bee-like creatures the size of wolves flew out!

They were colored like normal bees, but under their wings were two yellow chitin-covered arms, one on each side right under the wings. The arms had elbows and ended in four clawed hands, their faces were normal for bees, with two large eyes and mandibles on their heads but their faces had lipless mouths and teeth stuck in a grin. Their stingers weren't normal either; it was instead of one stinger there was a longer one in the center of had three smaller ones in a triangle formation around it, with the larger one that half a foot long.

"All crew handle the sky threat! All secondary canons target and fire!" Captain Hardrock called out as she gripped the Liberty's steering wheel and glared at Giles as he hid under the bridge.

As the skeletons all turned the speaker canons toward the incoming bee things, Lady Blaze stepped forward and raised her hands before sending blasts of fire at the monsters; however, for every one, she killed two more appeared.

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Shadow Moth scowled as he watched Giles cast a spell on a bee hive of all things, more and more of the bee monsters coming from it. He had to use moths to spread his magic, but Giles was turning whatever was on hand into monsters he directed. His minions were all humans or creatures that they could destroy if they went rogue, but he worried that this fool didn't have anything like that in place. After a few moments of thinking about what he could do, he nodded.

He flicked the fan and two feathers flew out of it, they floated out the open window and moments later the window closed. Enhancetress looked at him in surprise, wondering if there was a special reason that he had done that.

"There is a real danger of those things getting free. If any one of them can reproduce on their own…" Shadow Moth said at her look and she winced and nodded.

Enhancetress went still and looked at Shadow Moth as he looked at what Optigami was seeing and looked at him, thinking dark thoughts as she realized why his comment bothered her.

"The giants that kept the shipment from reaching us…. You think it was something like this?" Enhancetress asked and Shadow Moth nodded.

"Yes, and if these things can track magic like the Kwami, we might be exposed, we can't have that," Shadow Moth said and Enhancetress nodded. She got out her phone and started to make a few notes, wondering if they should look into the mansion's defenses and if they should contact their silent partner about this, after all, non-thinking guards were good.

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At the bakery Sabine held her hands as she watched the TV, just seeing those kids fight was bothering her more than she thought it would. Thankfully the bakery was empty, as the attack had happened in a low period for the store. As Tom came upstairs and came over he winched as he watched.

"So not Akuma if they're fighting the same enemy…. What is happening in this city," Tom muttered and Sabine sighed.

"Another reason to find whoever gave her that item and talk to them with my staff," Sabine muttered darkly and Tom chuckled and flexed his free hand.

"Save some for me if you find him. Should we talk to them about this?" Tom asked before their phone rang. Looking at each other they shrugged and Tom walked over and got it and smiled. "Oh, hello!"

Tom nodded and smiled. "So you've gotten a replay about the hearing, good!"

Tom listened and grinned. "A few days to make their case then it'll happen? And you've got the raws of what was sent to us? Impossible to lose based on what he did? Good…. After? Do you think so? We'll think about it, might be a good nest egg. Good luck with the attack….. well you don't know what happens until the butterfly is cleansed… goodbye."

"The lawyer?" Sabine asked and Tom smiled.

"Great news, with what he did the hearing must happen within the next few days or well…. Worse things than what will happen. And we probably have a good case against either the school board or a few people at her school," Tom said and Sabine grinned, happy that it would soon be Owl Season.

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"We need help!" Lady Flora snarled as she called up plants from the river, the vines grabbing the bee monsters and pulling them down into the water and letting them drown. As she looked at them one of the bee-things fired its larger stinger at them and moments before it reached her Lady Blaze burned it with a blast of fire. As they stood there two feathers floated into Princess Flora's magenta bands on her left arm and the other into Lady Blaze's right glove.

"Two feathers just merged with the Akuma at the front of the boat! More Sentimonsters are incoming! I'm dropping back to recharge…. Good news, reinforcements are incoming on the Bug side!" Viperion called over the comms moments before the sound of gunshots came from the side Ladybug and Apisera were fighting on, moments before the five Fishmen all fell as their legs were shot off!

Ladybug and the others all looked towards them and saw SWAT armed with rifles and shields with police coming behind them as they moved towards the heroes, and behind the regular officers was a forklift with a wooden pallet on it. As the driver poked his head out Ladybug saw Commissaire Laborous grinning at them as the SWAT officers attacked the Fishmen, the police moving with the forklift holding long poles.

"Handle the other side, we'll try and move the people to give you more room! As we planned people, let's save them!" Bertolfo called out and the police officers all roared and acted. As the SWAT members pushed the Fishmen with their shields and the police officers succeeded in using their poles to move a paralyzed person onto the pallet and cover Bertolfo as he drove away. Looking at each other the two bug heroes shook their heads and charge across the bridge to help the others, striking with their weapons at the bee monsters as they flew out from under the bridge.

Below on the Liberty Lady Blaze and Princess Flora had gone still and were covered in a blue glow, as this happened the glow brightened on their feet and flowed along the deck behind them until it was three feet away from and then both grew into five foot round half spheres. Ask and you shall receive girls, two monsters to help you handle that monster. And if you get me some Miraculous in the process; then that's just a good thing. Shadow Moth's voice said in the Akuma's minds as the spheres both cracked and revealed the Senti-Monster that had been created.

Behind Lady Blaze was a large five-foot-tall vulture made of black flame with white emeralds for eyes. It had black metal on its claws, beak, and front of its wings. It took off and shot at the bees trying to get out from under the bridge

From the other half sphere was a unicorn made of block wood with wings. It had a horn that was shaped like a cutlass and was a brilliant white that seemed to grow from a flower on its head and the wings were a crimson color and seemed to be made of three layered flower petals with three vines growing downward at the end of the wings. It had a tail made from a spiked vine and was long enough for it to be used as a whip and its hooves were crimson with spikes and as it walked towards the two Akuma before firing a blast of energy at one of the River-Krakens and screeched as it jumped off the ship flew towards the Krakens.

"Your Dark Phoenix is wonderful my Lady!" Princess Flora said and Lady Blaze looked at the wooden unicorn as it flew past one of the River Krakens and tore off one of its upper limbs with its horn.

"And your Death-horn is fierce my Princess," Lady Blaze said and stepped in front of Princess Flora suddenly as she saw a bee monster charging at her and she turned it to ashes with a single blast.

"My favor for helping me my Lady," Princess Flora said as she kissed the right side of Lady Blaze's face before she looked at the battle as her Death-horn slashed

As the cannon-speakers fired at the bee-monsters Lady Blaze smiled and grinned as she directed her Dark Phoenix to attack some of the Fishmen fighting Hardrock's Sentimonsters, it fired a blast of fire from its beak that burned one to death, but another grabbed it and jumped into the river, the second one came back up and moments after it left the river the burned one came back, only darker scales the sign the monster had been hurt. She glared and then looked up at the street level and raised an eyebrow at the police she saw.

"Oh look my princess, the police are actually trying to fight back," Lady Blaze said and Princess Flora looked towards the road and giggled.

"Oh my, they're actually trying? After all the times they've failed they're still trying?" Princess Flora asked as she giggled. The police had tried to deal with the early Akumas, to their failure and after a grandmother, Akuma had turned most of the squad sent to deal with her into literal babies, they had gone the other way, letting the Heroes handle the Akumas while they evacuated civilians.

As the two of them fought and directed their Sentimonsters to strike Gile's monsters, Princess Flora kept an eye on the heroes, waiting to strike at them when the flow of battle allowed it.

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Above on the bridge Ladybug and Apisera had reached the cat monster and Apisera took stock, besides the bee-monsters and the saber tooth two-headed cat there were ten Fishmen, as energy arrows started to rain down from above singling Viperion was back, she grinned and looked at the cat.

"I'll handle the cat and get out of here, if I wait it'll stay paralyzed right?" Apisera asked and Ladybug nodded moments later Viperion's voice came over the comms.

"On overwatch and ready to take another Chance…. The Sentimonsters are dealing with the Krakens? And…. A Kraken is staying back… I think it's the one that came up first, is that important?" Viperion asked and Ladybug went still.

She went over everything that she knew about magic and other draining Akuma and Sentimonsters she and Chat Noir have faced. As she looked around she nodded as he saw the dead River Kraken, the police and SWAT dealing with the Fishmen and bee monsters, how the bees seemed to not need to stay wet and she knew what they had to do.

"Everyone, listen! We need to get the other River Kraken onto dry land, let it dry out and we might win! Second Chance now, if anything goes wrong stop us! Apisera handles the Two-faced cat and then she goes time out, Pegasus Portal, Arashiko water to bring the third Kraken onto land, Carapace Shelter it! After that Pegasus goes to recharge. Arashiko, Chat, we're keeping the bees off him!" Ladybug ordered and they all nodded.

"Second Chance! Plan is a go with changes! Chat cover Apisera's escape and watch the sky! Get away Bee-Girl, go over the fanged monster on the left side! Then get to the rooftops and run above until you're at two and hide! Ladybug the Winged Unicron will attack you once the Kraken is caught! Arashiko leave the man under there and the sewer entrance alone, focus on the Kraken for now! Carapace make a dome with while facing the bridge, and Pegasus make the portal start point on the other side of the bridge from the Liberty and the endpoint ten feet down the street !" Viperion barked and they all acted.

"Venom!" Apisera cried out and as her stinger formed around her top she ran at the monster cat as Chat Noir and Pegasus following behind her. She jumped and stung the right head as she spun overhead and landed on the paralyzed creature and then bounded for the nearest rooftop. As the bees came at her Chat Noir jumped and swung his baton-staff and sent them flying as she escaped the area. As Pegasus rushed by the paralyzed monster Carapace followed behind him and as Chat Noir landed he show past them towards the bridge and bashed a Fishman into the air.

"Portal!" Pegasus barked and formed a portal away from

Arashiko jumped off the bridge towards the Liberty and at the top of her jump cried out. "Water Dragon!"

As she turned into water she hit the river and moments later a wave rushed under the bridge and carried the hidden Kraken into Pegasus's portal. As the monster and water hit the ground the water flowed towards the bridge and formed back into Arashiko moments before Carapace cried out.

"Shell-ter!" He barked as he thrust his shield towards the monster and a large dome appeared around it as it used its tentacles to carry it and try to get back into the water. As he stood there, the Kraken slammed against the dome as the bee monsters flew at him. Ladybug's yoyo flew out and caught one that she used as a frail against the black wood unicorn as it flew at her. Chat Noir growled and shot forward as Pegasus fell back as arrows fell from the sky.

"Viperion here, dropping back. Sorry but this is my last recharge," Viperion said and Ladybug bit her lip as she tried to figure out how to handle this, how to plan this just right.

Arashiko slashed one of the bees in two and as it fell she looked around and for a moment she thought she saw something. Looking back along the bridge she saw knew she saw something and looked towards the bridge, however some of the bees flew by her towards Carapace and she jumped after them, slashing out with her sword again and landing on the dome. "Viperion, the people on the bridge, are they moving?"

Ladybug dodged a bee monster's attack and looked at Arashiko for a second, moments later she saw the Twin Fang was starting to move and Arashiko was close enough for it to attack her, and Arashiko was facing away from it.

"Arashiko; the cat's free! Move!" Ladybug barked and Arashiko didn't hesitate, she lunged towards the bridge moments before the cay thrust out with its paw before it fell to the ground, both heads growling at each other before they screeched and bound towards the dome and attacked it, only for Chat Noir to hit it's right head as Viperion rained arrows down at it.

Ladybug looked towards the bridge and saw her eyes went to the police officer holding onto the person covered in mucus and saw that he was starting to try and break free. She turned and saw the captured River Kraken and saw that it was slowly losing its strength. I was right, if we take out the drainer, then we save the people! And with the police getting the people out, we can handle the Akuma and this Giles! Ladybug thought as she looked around and then straight down at the other shore as the Fishmen and senti-pirates fought on as they were forced back towards the stairs.

Ladybug jumped onto the monster cat and If they took out the Akuma within the Liberty, the skeleton Pirates would disappear and the other monsters would swarm the street. They had to deal with Giles first, that was something they had to do. But they couldn't leave the people on the bridge unprotected. Ladybug looked from the SWAT officers handling the monsters while the normal Police moved the civilians back and out of danger. As the Death-Horn flew back upwards and roared it fired a blast from its horn at Ladybug, she dodged and the blast hit the cat monster and sent it backward.

The River Kraken under the dome gave a last halfhearted roar before it collapsed to the ground moments before the Shell-ter dropped as Carapace's Miraculous started to beep. A scream of fear caused all the heroes and police to look at the people on the bridge, all of the mucus had dissipated and they were all free, and in the middle of an Akuma attack.

Below Giles stumbled and the glow hitting the hive sparked and things flew out of the hive, five of them slipped by him and disappeared into the sewer. As Giles got back up he paled at what he felt. That's a reaction, but how!? The surge just now, I must have pushed too hard, I have to destroy this The glow around the hive turned black and as it crumbled away but not before four final bees shot out, and he looked at them and paled, this time in fear. "No!"

As the bees started to grow, the first two grew into normal bee monsters, but the third grew twice as tall and the hands seemed to be even larger, but it was the final bee that was a true monster.

As it flew out from under the bridge it kept growing until it was as large as the Liberty, and unlike the others, this creature had four arms where the others had two and it had four wings, two on each side and a distance of ten feet between each set. And where its stinger would be was one a foot long in the center of three smaller ones each half a foot long with three small inch long needles around them. Its mouth was lipless like the others and it opened it before it roared and the other monsters started roaring back.

Above the heroes and police could on stare in horror at the ship size bee that floated in the sky before its stingers started to spark energy before firing a blast of lighting at one of the two remaining River Krakens.

Giles only looked at the ship-sized bee before his eyes flashed gold and above on the bridge, the cat monster's eyes flashed the same color before it bound towards the bridge and jumped, landing on the back of the ship-bee near the other side of the stinger and with a roar and it started to tear at the monster it was on. The vessel bee shrieked and the bear-sized bee flew and forced the monster cat off and rammed it against the opposite concert wall under the bridge on the other side from the from that the heroes were on, the monster cat going still as the bear bee tore one of the creature's throats open before attacking the other.

Giles looked at the Drone and his eyes flashed gold before he ducked into the sewer, grabbing a rat that he mutated it into something he could ride, he and his mount escaped beneath Paris as his monsters all roared and attacked anything they could, the River Krakens attacking the Drone before it could fly off.

Bertolfo scars started to hurt as he looked at the monster before the bees redoubled their efforts and attacked everyone with electric blasts from their stingers. As he watched the SWAT members cover the freed civilians, the bridge was now clear of all but the heroes who fought on. Hearing a cry he looked around he saw a building's door was open, a tall teen with a goatee was trying to get his attention and when they locked eyes he knew what the teen was trying to say.

"Get the civilians into that building now! SWAT switch to guns and cover our retreat!" He barked as he pushed one of the civilians by him towards the door, the teen now armed with a fireman's ax right by it. As his men dropped back, the SWAT started to fire their pistols as they retreated, keeping themselves between the monsters and the civilians, Bertolfo with them. Within moments they reached the door, the teen had used his ax to kill one of the bees, the gash he made in its head through its right eye telling Bertolfo it was dead. As he pushed the teen inside he saw the other bee monsters grabbing the captive Fishmen and he scowled as he slammed the door closed.

Looking around he saw that they were in a lobby with tables, sofas, and chairs plus glass-covered windows. Hearing the buzz from outside he whistled, all eyes going to him.

"SWAT; get to the windows and keep them closed, use your shields if you have to! Everyone else helps barricade this door now! And good job kid," Bertolfo barked and the teen grinned back moments before the door bucks and they heard the buzzing outside increase. "We hold here until help comes or the heroes put these things down! Now move kid!"

"The name's Theo by the way!" Theo said as ran towards a sofa and started to pull it towards the door as some of the police came to help as the rest moved to defend the room.

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At the other end of the bridge, the heroes fought back to back as the bee's attacked them, Carapace having run off to recharge. Viperion stayed where he was and fired down at the bees, they all watched as some of them grabbed the bound Fishmen and flew towards the ship bee, Pegasus saw the bear bee break the water's surface as it fought the River Krakens and in a second he understood what they were seeing.

"Giles must have found a bee hive down there," Pegasus said in awe causing Apisera to glare at him.

"Explain, in simple words," She demanded as she spun her top next to him. Pegasus swallowed and took a deep breath.

"Bees have three castes that make up their hives; workers to well work, drones to mate with the queen, and the queen to breed more bees. We've been fighting workers, that's a drone and the big one is the queen," Pegasus said as they all looked at the vessel bee as it fired another blast at the Liberty, only for Lady Blaze to deflect it with a blast of fire.

"How many more times can it do that…oh, that explains why the workers are after the Fishmen," Arashiko said faintly as they watched one of the Workers drop a captive Fishman above the proposed Queen only for it to be caught in one of the upper hands, the Fishman screeched before the Queen put it into its mouth and with a crunch liquid went over the monster's teeth.

Ladybug felt faint and queasy at what they all saw, and she heard someone throw up, the muttered sorry telling her it was Apisera who had done the dead.

"Think my Cataclysm would kill it?" Chat Noir asked and Ladybug turned to look at him, seeing Arashiko standing there and how her amulet still had the power of wind and thunder, then she saw a mana arrow hit a Worker before another was hit by Carapace's thrown shield.

"Het dudes, last recharge…. What's that big thing with the mad smile?" Carapace asked as he saw the Queen as she attacked the Liberty again. As Death-Horn and the Dark Phoenix attack the bee the Liberty fired all of its canons and sent the bee against the bridge. Ladybug heard a crack and went wide-eyed.

"EVERYONE AWAY FROM THE BRIDGE!" She called out and as one they moved, getting off it moments before it cracked as the Queen was pushed through it. Looking at the destroyed bridge, Ladybug noticed how the Queen wasn't healing like the water monsters Giles had made. Looking at the battle, they all saw what looked like the last River Kraken rise out of the river and roar before the Queen killed it with a blast from her stinger. As the two sentimonsters attacked the Queen Ladybug swallowed and looked around at the others.

"We need to deal enough damage and then it'll die, that's the best I can think to do….," Ladybug began before she was interrupted.

"Giles is not under the bridge! He must have escaped into the sewers!" Viperion interrupted and cursed. "And ten of those Worker bees are trying to get at the civilians and cops! Falling back to cover them, I might need help!"

"Viperion, how many of the bees do you see?" Ladybug demanded and the replay was almost instantaneous.

"A total of maybe twenty, maybe more….the sentimonsters from the Liberty are attacking the bees that are after the people, I'm helping them!" Viperion said and the other heroes all looked and saw the skeleton pirates charge down the street towards the bees Viperion cursed and they could hear the anger in his reply. "Scratch that! More of the Workers are going after the news copter, I'm keeping them away but I can't use Second Chance, they have eyes on me and I'm barely keeping them away from me!"

"The Liberty is the main Akuma, we take it out and we win that part of the battle right?" Chat Noir asked and Ladybug nodded.

"But we need the Sentimonster to handle the bees? And if Akuma is defeated and the victims are freed, won't the bees just win? And the Queen might…eat then," Pegasus said with a hint of worry and the others imagined the Queen eating a human.

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In his lair, Shadow Moth and Enhancetress looked on as the Queen Bee ate another of the Fishmen and fired another bolt at the transformed Liberty, both had scowls on their faces. Optigami had been on the bridge watching Giles escape when the Queen and Liberty destroyed the bridge, and they found to their furry that Optigami was since the piece it had been on was now underwater resting on the ground away from anything man-made. Lucky the news had made it there and they were watching all the heroes fight and their minions fight against the bees and

"Captain Hardrock sent some of her crew to protect the civilians, it might help our public image…. But we will attack them as soon as the ship bee is defeated of course," Enhancetress said and Shadow Moth nodded, a strange feeling going through him.

As he stared at her tablet, his mind wondered. If we can find a way to force an answer out of one of the Seven if they can truly help her, but then there's other magic out there. And with the repaired power and Enhancetrees or Catalyst to help me even the odds against all of them, and then there's the possibility of using other powers to heal her….. why did I only look to these jewels to save her? He thought as he looked down at his chest and frowned. He wondered just what had caused him to focus on them so much, and what was different now, how could he think freely? As he thought about this he never noticed how the light gleamed off the Peacock Miraculous.

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The heroes stood there as they tried to figure out a way around this when Ladybug suddenly got an idea"Yes, that could work. Everyone, how many recharges do you all have?"

Arashiko wondered what she meant but how the others replied, not believing what she was hearing.

"One left," Pegasus said and Arashiko looked at him in shock.

"Three," Chat Noir said with a grin to Arashiko's growing confusion.

"Last one Ladydude," Carapace admitted and Arashiko looked at him shocked.

"Two more," Apisera said as she flicked her hair and smirked.

"None," Arashiko admitted as she clenched her sword tighter, not understanding how they all had so much food on them to give to their Kwami partners.

"The same as the Dragon girl Ladybug, I only had the one candy bar," Viperion said and Ladybug nodded.

"Okay, this is the plan. Carapace, Pegasus with me; we're on defense duty until we can kill those bees after the people. Viperion, keep them away from the news. Chat, Arashiko, Apisera; you three are the heavy hitters here, you keep any of the bees from getting into the city, once everything but the Queen is dead, kill it. Once that happens Chat, you need to destroy the Liberty, I'll catch the Akuma then I'll summon a Luck Charm to repair everything, but remember to call for me so it won't multiply," Ladybug outlined and the others all nodded.

"We've got nothing better, and this should work," Apisera admitted and the others nodded.

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Bellow on the Liberty, Captain Hardrock scowled as she gripped her ship's steering wheel. Her girl and the flower princess were directing their beast to attack the giant bee that was trying to scuttle the ship and the other Fishmen had all been caught and were waiting to be fed to that giant thing. She played with the idea to have the girls try and kill them first, but then they would probably be dropped into the water and then they would heal, and then they would be back at the start of this again.

"Our foes are doing something cap'n! Should we attack or keep it on the bugs?" Her second officer asked and she looked at him, seeing that he was still wearing his triangle hat. She followed his gaze and looked on, frowning as she saw Ladybug, Carapace, and Pegasus jumping over the river, landing on the bridge and running towards the other bees.

Captain Hardrock looked around the other side of the river, not seeing the other three heroes and scowling as another of the Worker bees flew at them only to be struck by the secondary speaker-canons. As the Queen bee hovered beyond the broken bridge, Captain Hardrock kept her eyes on it. Part of her wanted another raid on Ladybug for what she had done to her last time, but

"No, if the Admiral doesn't say anything, then we don't. Our targets are those things, nothing else. Girly, you and princess take down that big thing!" Captain Hardrock barked and the Sentimonster nodded.

Farther down Lady Blaze looked on as her Dark-Phoenix came around for another run on the Queen from above only for a Worker to get in the way and send them both falling to the ground on the other side of the river. As Dark-Phoenix tried to get out of the building the bee had tacked it into before the bee burned to death three more of the Workers appeared and started to aim their stingers at the Sentimonster. As the stingers started to sparked Apisera's top flew out and lassoed one, pulling it done as Arashiko's sword slashed off the head of another before Chat Noir's baton-staff slammed into the last one and tore off its right wing. Before the bee could get back into the air Arashiko was there and cut off its head

As Dark-Phoenix looked at the heroes they stood there and moved aside.

"Listen Juleka or whatever Hawkmoth named you until that thing is defeated we won't attack you, do the same to us and we won't have a problem with each other," Chat Noir said with his weapon raised and the Sentimonster just looked at them before it nodded and took flight, flying to attack the Queen near its stinger. Apisera looked at Chat Noir and sighed, hoping that they had made the right choice as the queen suddenly screeched and three eggs fell out of just before the stinger and fell into the river. They grew larger as the three heroes watched and from each egg, two more Worker bees were birthed.

"Keep them away from the rest of the city!" Chat Noir called out as the bees flew at them. The heroes attacked, each one hoping that the Queen wouldn't create more.

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As they ran towards the bees swarming the building, they saw the Sentimonsters defending the doorway and Ladybug clenched her fists and scowled. There were more of the bees here than they thought, at least thirty. As the fiver pirate Sentimonsters charged the bees, Ladybug and the others found themselves in the strange situation of fighting side by side with their enemies.

With a yell Ladybug jumped and punched one attacking a pirate from behind as Carapace threw his shield and hit one fighting another.

"So you're fighting with us? Down!" One of the skull pirates called out before he slashed out with his sword and blocked the stinger of a bee that was trying to attack Ladybug.

"Don't be too happy, once we deal with the Queen Bee then it's a free for all, and I know it's the same with you!" Ladybug said as she threw her yoyo at another of the bees as it came too close to one of the pirates. The one she was talking to nodded and with a yell he charged at one attacking the door as Ladybug lassoed another one and pulled it down, letting two of the pirates kill it.

"Right! Keep fighting you dogs!" The first one bellowed as it thrust its sword into a bee's head and killed it.

Pegasus slashed out with his ax-horseshoe and looked around, trying to find a way around this problem. As another Bee attacked him, he dodged to the left as one of the Sentimonsters slashed out with its sword and cut off the bee's right arm. As it bleed out it started to fly towards the river before it fell before it could get six feet.

As Carapace blocked a stinger from one of the bees, another of the Sentimonsters killed it before Carapace threw his shield and it hit and bounced off another bee before it hit the wall of the building above a widow before it hit another bee and bounced back to him. As he fought he saw shapes in the windows and he hoped it was all of the people the police had rescued, that the bees hadn't grabbed someone and flown off with them.

Above them on the rooftops Viperion ran away from three of the Workers, he spun around and fired three arrows rapidly and hit each one dead center, killing them. As they fell to the ground Viperion looked down at the battle and took stock, blinking to make sure he was seeing this right. Ladybug and a Sentimonster were fighting to the door as Carapace, Pegasus and the other Sentimonsters were fighting the other bees. He shook his head again before firing down at the bees trying to leave, hoping to keep them here so the bees wouldn't get away.

As he fired down, Ladybug and the Sentimonster made it to the door, the Sentimonster killed a bee as Ladybug used one she lassoed as a flail to kill another one and the one acting as the flail.

"Now what?" The Sentimonster asked as it slashed down at a bee that got too close

"Ladybug, Ladybug is that you!? We're in here!" Bertolfo called from a hole in the door. "The civilians are farther in, we're safe but keep them off us!"

"Fuck! The queen can make more of the Workers! It laid three eggs and two hatched from each of them!" Apisera cried out before roaring and Ladybug looked at the bees in horror as she froze. A bee went after her but the Sentimonster next to her defended her and cursed.

"Back in the game girl, what happened?!" The Sentimonster demanded and Ladybug looked at the bees and tried to figure out a plan.

"The queen can make more of the smaller ones!" Ladybug said and the Sentimonster looked at Ladybug as she nodded before it growled and blocked a bee's stinger. Ladybug struck out with her yoyo and bashed in the head of one of the bees as it tried to attack them and she looked at the body and shuddered.

"Viperion, you've got the eye on the battles, your turn to try and come up with a plan," Ladybug said and Viperion blinked as he fired his bow. As he watched one of the bees tried to carry off one of the Sentimonsters only for Pegasus to kill the bee before it could fly more than five feet. As the pirate Sentimonster got back to its feet, Carapace's shield knocked down another one that attacked it.

The Sentimonster cried out its thanks and killed the bee, charging at another two attacking Pegasus. As Viperion looked down, he tried to figure out a plan as he fired. What do we have to work with? Portal, Shield and Time here, Wind, Thunder and Paralyze there… civilians and police in a building… a building that Shield can protect probably… what does Portal need? Viperion thought before a screech killed his thoughts. He looked up to see the Queen trying to fly higher, aiming its stinger right at Lady Blaze and Princess Flora on the Liberty's bow as their Sentimonsters flew to defend them.

Charging up his bow to the maximum he fired the arrow and it hit one of the Queen's wings and it dropped towards the water but stopped at the limit, the stinger touching the water, and a bolt of energy sparked from it before electricity flowed over the queen as it screeched in pain moments before Dark Phoenix used its fire breath on the Queen's injured side until one of the Workers flew and forced it into the water with an explosion of steam!

Looking down at the battle by the building, he tried to figure out everything that he could see, counting the remaining bees and the Sentimonsters he thought of the area and after a moment a plan formed.

"Pegasus, the wide area that band, Kitty Select used to throw a concert a month back, say the word protocol in a sentence if you can make a portal to there," Viperion said as he waited for his bow to recharge.

"These bees are terrible, their attack protocols are almost robotic!" Pegasus said and Viperion breathed a sigh of relief and looked down at the battle.

"Good, everyone get ready, once there are an even number of Sentimonsters and Bees, we go on my word without Second Chance!" Viperion said and he smiled as he pulled back a string and an arrow formed, firing it at a bee that tried to fly towards the river, the arrow killed it and the body crashed ten feet from the river.

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"Dark Phoenix!" Lady Blaze called out in fear before she felt the presence of her Sentimonster as it shot at the Queen and tore off one of its arms before it flew away and killed one of the guard bees as Death-Horn hovered protectively in front of the two Akumatized Villains.

As Dark Phoenix flew upwards Lady Blaze saw a bee break away from the Queen and fly towards the corpse on the road that Viperion had just created. The bee grabbed the corpse and flew back towards the Queen, it dodged an attack by Black Phoenix's flames and dropped the corpse above the Queen's head. The body dropped before the Queen caught it and shoved it into her mouth, the sounds of her chewing as the blood ran down her face caused Lady Blaze to hug Princess Flora to her body as both of their Sentimonsters attacked the Queen. As soon as the Queen had finished eating it, it dropped two more eggs, but Lady Blaze had seen it happen through Dark Phoenix's eyes. She sent it to attack them with a screech, dodging the Worker bees until it destroyed one of the eggs before they hatched, and then it killed one of the newborn Bees before the last one attacked it.

As Dark Phoenix fought on, back on the Liberty, Princess Flora looked through her Sentimonster's eyes as it flew above the battlefield and saw the group of Chat Noir, Apisera, and Arashiko surrounded by the bodies of six Worker Bees and they were looking at the Queen. Those three what are they…Chat Noir's power! They must be waiting for an opening to use it on the Queen! Once he kills it we can attack the heroes and claim their Miraculous for Master Shadow Moth! She thought with a grin as she started to giggle.

"Something funny beloved?" Lady Blaze asked and Princess Flora grinned and kissed Lady Blaze on the lips. Lady Blaze stepped back with wide eyes and looked at Princess Flora in shock. "What was that for my dear?"

"I just made a plan to win it all my love! We just need to get Chat Noir to attack the big one, and then we can attack them!" Princess Flora exclaimed and Lady Blaze looked at her before grinning as she realized what she was suggesting and turned towards Captain Hardrock.

"Then let us tell the Captain, and from her, Lord Shadow Moth will judge!" Lady Blaze said as she led the way to her mother's Akuma form.

"Mother, my love has a plan, but we need to work with the heroes before we stab them in the back," Lady Blaze said once they reached Captain Hardrock.

Captain Hardrock turned towards them and raised an eyebrow as a butterfly energy mask formed over her face. Princess Flora stepped forward and started to explain her idea, Captain Hardrock and Shadow Moth listening to her, the grin the Captain sent her was all the signal that she needed to know that their lord liked it.

"That is perfect lass, the admiral is happy! You go and get them to dance to our tone while we handle the rest!" Captain Hardrock said and Princess Flora nodded.

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Chat Noir looked at the Worker Bees as they guarded the Queen, something had to change, they needed a way to give Arashiko a clear path, the last time she had used her Lightning powers against an Akuma…. well it just hadn't worked like anyone thought it would.

The only good thing about this was the Queen and her Workers seemed to be content to stay here and attack the Liberty, and only the new ones seemed to be trying to escape. Why that was they didn't know but Apisera wasn't looking into it too closely. Arashiko thought that maybe the creatures were damaged by their mutation, maybe the newborns were healthy for lack of a better term.

As they watched the Liberty's weapons fired on the swarm as the ship was attacked, the bees were forced back but each one survived.

"We can't get a clear shot, we can only watch!" Chat Noir said bitterly and Arashiko scowled and nodded. As they stood there they heard what their comrades were talking about as they fought across the river, the three of them had turned their earbuds into receive-only mode.

"Still I think I get why people watch you guys fight Mr. Pigeon so much," Apisera said absently and oooed as a Bee was killed by a Sentimonster Pirate's sword being buried into the Bee's head.

"He's not that bad really, and most people think of his Akuma form as a joke villain, some even say he's not a violent man so his Akuma isn't, at least at my school," Arashiko admitted and Apisera looked at her and shrugged. As they listened in they heard Carapace cry out as he killed another Bee, and Ladybug and Pegasus both killed another, making the time for them to do Viperion's plan that much sooner, but they needed to do their part and figure out what it would be soon.

Chat Noir nodded but tensed when he saw Princess Flora coming towards them. "Akuma victim incoming, get ready!"

"Well not the way I was hoping to start this off," Prince Flora said as she used a vine to drop herself before the three heroes who all readied their weapons. "Hold on, I'm not here to fight

"Talk fast, I don't expect much from Hawkmoth's servants," Chat Noir growled and discreetly turned his earbud on from his baton-staff while Princess Flora just shrugged.

"Well Shadow Moth really, but that's not important. We need to kill that giant bee before it swarms the city, and we need Chat Noir to kill it. We can open the way, and then we give you a five-minute head start before we attack you all," Princes Flora said as the Liberty, the two Sentimonsters and Lady Blaze killed five of the Bees as the heroes watched over Princess Flora's shoulder.

"Any ideas you mad planner?" Arashiko asked and Chat Noir grinned as he looked at Princess Flora.

"This is the best thing that could happen to us, I've got a plan and you need to listen well all of you because every step needs to be perfect," Viperion said as they all heard him fire another energy arrow and chuckle. "Another one down, that leaves seven! Heroes by the building do the plan! Heroes by the river here's what you'll do, for now work with them, but Dragon girl od is the main player!"

Lady Flora watched as the three heroes all listened to who she assumed was Ladybug give them a plan to use, and she hoped that her plan worked, they would of course give them five minutes, the five minutes to let their powers fail of course. After a few moments, the heroes looked at each other and nodded before Chat Noir stepped forward.

"Fine, for now we work together until that giant thing is dead. You just get those bees to clear a strike from outside and high, Arashiko can carry me high enough to let me kill it in one shot," Chat Noir said before a screech caused them to turn and see the Queen eat two of her defenders before it laid four eggs. From the eggs came four new bees as the last three of the original Worker Bees flew towards the Queen's mouth.

"Go, tell Hardrock now!" Chat Noir called out as a hurt bee came from the other heroes and flew towards the Queen, dodging Viperion's shots.