Hey, I wanted this all to be out last week, but it took a while to write it like I wanted it to be, hard to get the words on the screen ya know, but my new system is working and I like it. Sooooo, I'm going to be putting up my first poll once the new month rolls around, it's about my Pokemon story. And about this one, I see at most two more chapters for this one, then we begin the first of a seven-part saga, and I've been thinking about making an 'Extended Edition' of this one, just a few ideas in my mind. So sit back and let's see what happens next here!
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As Enhancetress giggled evilly Shadowmoth looked at her and smirked. "So then Rodger saw everything then?"
"Yes, and a freelance reporter got everything on film! With him added in, the plan will work perfectly Lord Shadowmoth," Enhancetress purred and Shadowmoth grinned as he felt excitement burst out of him. After all his failed plans, this was working! Was this what the heroes felt when they won?
"Perfect my dear. I think your idea was right, we do see better results when they don't fight the transformation. Let this be a new beginning for us," Shadowmoth said as he grinned, ideas forming being his eyes. "For too long I looked only to what I was able to gather from that book. Let us look to other means, other ways. And we only looked at one source, perhaps we can find another way."
He didn't know what could work, but the fact that he had been so obsessed with the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous, that might have been the only reason that his wife was still lost to them. He had tried to craft stronger Champions, and how he had Lila do so much to make Marinette fall and become his masterpiece! He had a lot of respect for the girl, she was creative, caring, and had a nice reputation. But that creativity…. If he could make her his Champion then he knew beyond a doubt that she would have won with an army behind her, hence the mass attack.
He hated to admit it, but his planning ability wasn't even a faction of Marinette's, that was why he had decided to use Lila to try and get Marinette to feel a strong enough negative emotion to let one of his Akuma take control of her, to use her abilities for his goal. But he wasn't heartless, he planned to reward her if she defeated the heroes, and returned to the school even if she failed. But after Nooroo had told them everything about the wish and the price for it, he was glad he had failed.
But then there was the way things had spiraled out of control, and all because of Lila! He scowled as he thought of what that fool had done. After the attack failed because Nathalie was sick, he had planned to honor his contract with Lila, since "he" had no other knowledge about what Lila had done and why, since all he wanted was an 'unbiased' view of his son's school life. But then the little twit had lied about how his civilian persona had ordered Marinette's expulsion, he admitted that Lila's plan to get Adrien to think he had ordered everything that happened to Marinette so Adrien would 'play ball' with her was insulting, but then Adrien had exploded and this restraining order after he had run away….. nothing had turned out like he thought it would and he could only hope that he could pull off a win in the end, and with their new direction and goals the end game might have been different, but it was there for them to take.
While Shadowmoth had his internal revelation Enhancetress was having her own, and after a few moments decided to bring up what she had just realized.
"Of course, and I wonder if we should reach out to other possible pawns, non-magical ones," Enhanctress suggested and Shadowmoth looked at her and grinned as he started to see her point and the possibilities that they had ignored for so long.
"Yes, that might work. Alone we have failed so much, but only because we've been working with the same power as our foes! We can find a few gangs and empower them, send them against more civilian targets and then from there, make a war chest," Shadowmoth commented and Enhanctress nodded with a grin. I mean what was I thinking? With all, I've done all I didn't do was turn to crime, and with everything they'll charge me with if they ever catch me, why not go for broke? And with the Seven in my city, I just need to reach out and take it all. He thought as he grinned as he let his imagination run wild with the possibilities before him.
"A wise move, I'll have a list of people we can use and targets later today," Enhanctress said with a sly tone to her voice as Shadowmoth nodded.
Her past had shown her that such people were necessary to get some work done in the wilder parts of the world, and looking back it was stupid of them not to have reached out to that kind of people, there were so many other possibilities to look into that they hadn't even considered before!
Had they been so fixated on the Miraculous, so sure of what they had deduced based on their research that they ignored all the other possibilities? A doctor who knew about Magic could have found out what was wrong with Emile so much sooner, but they were so sure that the only way to save her was to get those two Miraculous, but then breaking the spells on Duusu and what they learned! The only way forward was to move and do things that weren't what they had done before, all they needed to do was keep trying and eventually they would have a win!
Ehancetress smiled as she got off her stool and curtsied to Shadowmoth. "Lord Shadowmoth, might I trouble you for passage to our secondary site?"
"With the power that the Miraculous of Emotion has granted us, that is but a trivial matter," Shadowmoth said as he summoned a feather and put it into his staff. As the purple blob formed next to him, Enhancetress grinned under her veil.
"I'll go and prepare the next stage my lord, good luck making it look real," she said and Shadowmoth just laughed as he shook his head.
"I did marry an actress my dear, I'll be fine. I have gotten some experience in directing our Champions. And these two can't be worse than the divas I've had to deal with," He said as his Sentimonster finished forming.
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As Thunder Lord looked at her, Salacia looked around and tried to figure out if there was any way that she could get away. She pressed one of her legs into the roof and glared at Thunder Lord. "You think I'll give her to you?"
"No, but I hoped you would see reason, but then your kind rarely do," Thunder Lord said softly and shook his head. "Well, I guess I'll just have to take it by force then. So your answer then my dear?"
Salacia just took a stance and readied herself as Thunder Lord shook his head releasing a sigh.
"I suppose I expected this, really I did. But then I had hoped the time you've had that little god wouldn't have let you bond, but then I suppose I was expecting less from you than I would have from myself if I'm honest about all this," Thunder Lord said dramatically and looked at Salacia and sighed again as he shook his head. "How do you want to die then?"
Without a word, Salacia threw herself to the side moments before another Lancer appeared and attacked the place she was standing. As the two Blaster Legions fired at her she didn't even wait until she landed, as she was horizontal with the roof and away from it by inches she shot out her arms and pushed off the roof, somersaulting into the air and spinning to the right dodging the blasts as she threw herself off the roof.
Thunder Lord watched with a bit of shock on his face and started to laugh. "Well done! Perhaps I won't let her go after all. A few weeks of conditioning and I'd have a good warrior for one of the other jewels I have! And she might be cute under that mask."
The Lancers chittered at him and he looked at them for a few moments. "Well, go get her, alive please!"
The Legions all roared and ran, jumping off the roof to chase down Salacia as Thunder Lord drew his sword with one hand and reached for the hilt with his other.
Below Salacia ran, going away from where the people and the Akumatized villain was, hopefully, she would be able to handle this without going there, letting the others handle the other problems without adding this to it. She ran on as blasts from the Blasters fired down at her as the Legions and Thunder Lord chased after her above on the roofs.
As she reached a park she smiled as she knew that the space would let her try and handle the monsters one by one, hopefully, she could get a Blaster or one of the Lancers with her power and have them cover her back as she escaped. Looking over her shoulder she saw two Lancers ahead of the pack with the Blasters staying back. She looked around and noticed a tree ahead of her, dashing at it she jumped at it and somersaulted, landing against the tree she pushed off and spun in the air and punched out at the Lancer's spear as they tried to strike her as she passed over their heads.
Running at the Blasters she dodged their attacks and sent a savage blow against one of them, cracking its head as it screeched in pain as it fell, bleeding from the ruin of one of its eyes. As she dodged to the right as the Lancers caught up and attacked her, she smiled as she saw that the maimed Blaster looked like it was dying. She felt a small amount of pride, she had taken one down on her own, but there were so many more to go.
As one of the Lancers charged at her, she landed and pushed its lance aside with her right arm as it tried to attack her, then she punched with her left arm and it moved backward for a moment, stunned but that was all she needed to do as she jumped and did a spin kick and tore off its head!
As the dead body of the Legion crumbled to the ground, Salacia looked at the other Legions as they stood there growling at her. Her Kwami had told her that they were just large insects with larger versions of the same organs regular bugs had so she didn't feel too bad about this, but they were still alive and they might have a small sense of loyalty to their broodmates.
As the last Lancer stood there protecting the lone Blaster the sounds of an incoming energy blast caused her to jump to the right in a lunge that made her horizontal for a moment.
As she landed in a roll a roar from two more Legion Slashers charged at her. She jumped up and in the air she prepared to attack them as soon as she landed when suddenly the Slashers were both lassoed by a red yoyo! As soon as that happened they were pulled into the air and a spin by Ladybug before being thrown at the remaining Lancer!
As Salacia landed she saw Ladybug was suddenly there, smiling at her as Miss Hound took a defensive stance before them.
"Thanks, Ladybug!" Salacia said and Ladybug grinned back. "How'd you find me?"
"We were on patrol when we saw these things chase you, where's that girl from last time?" Miss Hound asked as she looked at the monster
"She's not here, it's…" Salacia began only for loud clapping to sound.
"ME! So this is the famed Ladybug? My my, your photos don't do you justice my dear! And who is this canine beauty?" Thunder Lord's voice came from behind them. The heroes whirled around and saw Thunder Lord looking at them with four more Lancers guarding him. "And you handled the Lancers so well, that Lusty wrench will be so disappointed that her works were done away with so easily. Oh wait, where are my manners? I am currently Thunder Lord, leader of those who call ourselves the Seven Deadly Sins!"
Ladybug looked at Thunder Lord and let her eyes roam over his body, trying to find anything that might let her figure out was his Miraculous. "So the woman with the scythe, she was under your command? And what does a life-taker want in my city?"
"Life harvester as I told you friend behind you both. My works only gather the leftover life energy that people release after they die violently," Thunder Lord said and he grinned at her. "I wonder my dear, what a few hundred years of experience with that Artifact would do for you, want to find out?"
Miss Hound was doing the same thing as both noticed something on his right leg that drew her eye and she wondered if was it, thankfully Thunder Lord hadn't noticed her eyes, he had looked right at Ladybug and kept his attention on her.
Ladybug looked at him and clenched her yoyo as she glared at him, keeping an eye out for anything else as she kept her focus on him and his monsters. So far his team seemed not as bad as Hawkmoth, they had only fought the heroes and used monsters, not civilians as the 'villain of the day' as he does.
Thunder Lord only looked at Ladybug and he could barely keep a smile from his lips. The girl was as strong as he hoped but her magic, it was there under the locks of the Order just waiting to burst free. He had to admit that Hawkmoth's campaign was a good thing if it led to her being given a Miraculous before one of those things found her and claimed her. The death and carnage such a corrupted birth her power would have resulted in, that was almost unthinkable.
Salacia looked around covertly; so far the two Lancers and Blaster were just staying where they had been thrown to the ground. How did Thunder Lord and Nekhbet control them? Bolla didn't know much about the magic the Legions were created by, but she had said that golems needed an artifact to let others control them. So by that logic then, Thunder Lord had to have something that let him work his will on them, and he had to have it on him, if they could get it away from him then maybe they could escape.
"You offering to share your stolen lives?" Ladybug asked and Thunder Lord shrugged.
"The wars on this continent would have been so much worse if I hadn't gathered the life force of those who passed on my dear, truly it would have. But ask those little ones of yours about the Elementals and watch them clam up, like all the Kwami the self-named Guardians took," Thunder Lord said Ladybug went still as she tried and failed to hide her surprise.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Ladybug said as she looked at Thunder Lord and hoped that he believed her. To have another person, even an enemy, confirmation that the Order had cast spells on the Kwami; it was something. But then his words about how the last two wars might have been worse if they hadn't taken the stray life force, that was shocking and it only showed that they didn't know everything there was in the world. If there was something that they needed to know, then capturing one of Seven's Kwami and Miraculous to question them was something that they had to do.
"We gonna keep talking or we gonna do something?" Miss Hound asked as she spun her escrima sticks in her hands and Thunder Lord just sighed and gestured at the three girls, the Legions responded with a roar.
As two Lancers charged at them, the Blaster and other Lancer behind them fell back as the Blaster fired at them.
"Handle range, Miss Hound follow me!" Ladybug called as she moved to attack the charging Lancers, Miss Hound falling in behind her as Salacia ran towards the Blaster. As the guardian Lancer tried to get at her she spun to the side and lunged at the Blaster, it dodged but she landed and dealt a spin kick that tore off its head.
Meanwhile, Ladybug and Miss Hound attacked the two Lancers. Miss Hound blocked her foes with her right stick before piercing the Lancer's left eye. As it fell back with a screech she punched through its throat and as it wheezed to death as it fell she grinned and moved to help Ladybug.
Ladybug had made sure to keep the lance away from her with her spinning yoyo as she tanked the blows from the Lancer with it and kept moving backwards until Miss Hound was there and killed it from behind.
As one the two heroines nodded to each other they charged at the Lancer fighting Salacia and within moments it was dead on the ground and then the three stood together glaring at Thunder Lord who watch with a stage look on his face.
"Well done, but then I can do this!" He called out as he threw two large fleshy eggs into the air, as they reached the top of its arc, they glowed black and broke apart, each one releasing four energy stars that shot out and hit the ground, revealing eight Slashers. As the two Lancers moved forwards slowly toward the heroines' as Thunder Lord just laughed as he looked at the girls.
"Did you two think that three of you would be able to run in and win without a plan? I mean really! Two Rookies and a semi-experienced Wielder?" Thunder Lord asked and Ladybug grinned.
"You forgot the other semi-experienced Wielders on our team," Ladybug said and Thnderloord look at her before he went still and fell forward.
As he fell behind him a portal was revealed, Apisera grinning as she held her top and from her stance, she had stung his back. Apisera grinned at them as she stepped from the portal with Pegasus.
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"We can't run in without a plan, so ideas?" Ladybug asked the others as they ran after Thunder Lord, Miss Hound leading the way.
"I've got one, it might work… but you'll be alone with….. Salacia," Pegasus began, causing the others to look at him as he continued. "I'll go with both Miss Hound and Apisera, we'll move along the rooftops until I have line of sight on the battle. You meanwhile backup Salacia fight off the monsters. Then I create a portal behind him, he's stung and then we'll take his Miraculous and whatever he's using to control those things."
"No, I'll go with Ladybug, it looks like it'll take more than two heroes to handle them," Miss Hound said and the others looked at her.
"You sure about that?" Ladybug asked and Miss Hound nodded.
"Yes, I need to be better, so yes," Miss Hound said and Apisera looked at her oldest friend and smiled.
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"Well, that worked great!" Apisera said with an edge to her voice as the Legions went still.
However a moment later the Legions roared and four Slashers and Lancer charged at Ladybug, Miss Hound and Salicia while the rest charged at Apisera and Pegasus.
"Quick, grab the items with magic and throw them through the portal!" Apisera called out as she put herself between the Legions and Pegasus.
"Try around his feet for the Miraculous!" Ladybug called out before dodging a blow and throwing her yoyo around the neck of a Lancer that tried to attack the others.
As Asperia punched the Lancer, Pegasus felt around Thunder Lord's feet and found something that he felt around and found a clip that let him remove it. He pulled away a small grey circle as the bodysuit of Thunder Lord started to change, the yellow becoming ruby with black streaks that went to the sides.
"He has two Miraculous?!" Pegasus stammered as he stared at the transformed wielder before the roar of charging Legions made him jump backwards as he clutched it. A ball of light formed and be a green chibi Kwami.
The new Kwami had a yellow body, two antennae above large blue eyes on an oversized head and four single limbs on a small humanoid body with a small light from its behind and two short insect wings on its back.
"You freed me! No, he's still alive?! His power lets him make an explosion! Dodge his Wraith Bolts if you want to live!" The Kwami screeched in a feminine tone.
Pegasus looked from the Legions to the Kwami, his mind going at lightning speed as he tried to figure out what to do before he nodded, coming to the only decision that he could make. He held his hand with the Miraculous towards the Kwami and opened it. "Take it and go! Stay safe!"
The Kwami looked from Pegasus to the Miraculous and nodded with a small smile. "Thank you!"
The Kwami flew away and one of the Slashers roared and lunged for the Miraculous but Pegasus intercepted it and with a few blows he killed it. As the depowered Thunder Lord roared and jumped to his feet he looked around, finally spotting the Kwami flying away with its Miraculous clutched tightly to its body. Looked around he saw the heroes in combat. He zeroed in on Pegasus and he saw red as he roared, drawing his sword and charged at him.
Looking up Pegasus saw Thunder Lord charging at him, he dodged the blows as the others dealt with the Legions, however, a beeping told him that his transformation as a hero was almost done for now.
"You worm! Do you know what I had to do to take that power from the fools who held it?! The chaos I had to engineer to even find out who had it!? With that power, I was able to do so much, much that is now gone!" Thunder Lord spat as he locked blades with Pegasus.
"So I what, stopped your ability to use lives?" Pegasus asked and Thunder Lord laughed and shook his head as he glared at the hero.
"No, all you did was keep me from killing things and then leaving their bodies intact, now my rage has returned to those who earn my wraith," Thunder Lord said before a yoyo wrapped around his arms. They looked to see Salacia, Ladybug, Miss Hound and Asperia ready to attack Thunder Lord and
"If I'm right we took your thunder, so what? You still call yourself Lord or something like that?" Asperia asked with a smirk and Thunder Lord laughed.
"No, for now and forever I am Wraith Lord! And you will feel this drake's fury! Wraith Bolt!" The self-named Wraith Lord cried as he pointed his sword at the heroes and a beach ball-sized energy ball formed at the tip before it shot at them. They dodged but it hit one of the Legion that got back to its feet, setting off a large explosion.
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As the police and Heroes moved down the street to get away from the tsunami of Midnight Crew Sentimonsters after them, Chat Noir looked around for anything that might let them turn the tide, let them get ahead. Viperion had been following after the horde, keeping an eye on the two Villains who followed after their minions, ready to attack when the heroes were occupied with the Midnight Crew. While they had tried to keep from killing them, the Sentimonsters had done everything but kill themselves, moving into the blows or taunting the police so they would fire at them, then dodge so one behind them would be hit in the head. These tactics had raised the number of Sentimonsters to just below one hundred, but Roi Singe was thinking that something was wrong, but he couldn't see just what it was.
"Any change?!" Chat Noir called out and Viperion called back.
"No, they're still too protected for me to even think about getting a shot off! Keep running, should I try Second Chance?!" Viperion asked and Chat Noir cursed. He saw Arashiko falling back next to him as Carapace helped an officer move faster while Lieutenant Eduardo was carried over Roi Singe's shoulder. The good Lieutenant was cursing up a storm, but nothing he said had any value to it at all.
"No dude, we need you to stay as you are man! If something happens we might need you to rock and roll!" Carapace said and looked around for any place that they could use to make a stand!
Viperion nodded and cursed that he forgot he was alone at the other end of the horde overlooking Dark Owl and Lunar Raven as they hid behind a large France flag Dark Owl had ordered some of the Midnight Crew to use to block the back from anyone seeing them. Viperion knew he could attack but if he was wrong and the Akuma Item wasn't where he thought it was then…. Maybe I can try Second Chance and see what I can learn about them? Need to run it by the others but it might be the only chance we've got to turn it around and pull off a win! Viperion thought as he looked down at the street and tried to judge the best place to try and attack them on his own.
"Who could have the Akuma?! Can you see anything Viperion?" Arashiko asked and Viperion was about to respond and then a feminine chuckle was heard over their communicators.
"Neither of them has it heroes, but I've got my eyes on them," A sensual female voice said as the heroes all looked at each other not knowing who was talking to them.
"Who are you?" Viperion asked and the voice chuckled.
"Well in honor of the cute Archer-Boy's question, the names Arachne. And let's just say I've been watching you all for a while and my little partner recently met Chat-boy's, so after the problems at the river and park I decided to throw my towel into the ring so to speak. I've heard about the issue that probably caused this from a few sources I've got. And how both were Akuma before, I wanted to be on guard nearby in case of another attack using one of them. I didn't expect to see two at once through," Arachne said and Viperion blushed as he looked around, trying to spot her.
"Fuck, I forgot the item doesn't have to be with the Akuma!" Chat Noir's voice said from over their communicators and Viperion winced as he saw how bad this could get.
"Yeah and the guard is another separate Akuma, two of the first group of Sentimonsters and one of her own," Arachne said and Viperion looked down at the throng of Sentimonsters and then at where he thought the two Akumatized villains were. If they didn't have the Akuma on them, then they had to go and get it to Ladybug, but they couldn't let them rampage until they could find the butterfly Akuma!
Chat Noir meanwhile thought much as the others did, and he could see a few options to handle this but all of them required Viperion to go off on his own, and that was a problem. He couldn't see anyway for Arashiko to disengage without letting the enemy know, and then when you add in the question of how Hawkmoth had done this, with the name change he thought Hawkmoth had merged Miraculous, and that just meant that things will be a lot worse in their future, plus then there was the fact that two separate Akuma, this was looking very bad.
"No choice dudes!" Carapace said and looked at the other heroes with a troubled look. "I've been running plans, and I can't think of anything to let anyone beyond viper-dude leave!"
"Me either, we need to stay here and hold the line," Chat Noir said as Roi Singe and Arashiko both nodded and Chat Noir looked at the horde of Sentimonsters.
"Yeah. Go Viper-bro, we'll hold the line until you and the others can
"And where are the others?" Arashiko asked before they heard a large explosion from somewhere else in Paris that shocked the Sentimonsters.
"I can guess where they are bro," Roi Singe said dumbly before picking up the pace, the others putting on speed as the Midnight Crew stayed where they were for a few moments, moments that would make all the difference.
"Viperion, go!" Chat Noir commanded as he looked at the police and took a deep breath. "We'll draw their fire and keep moving until you can get the Akuma and find Ladybug!"
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Rena Rouge stopped and looked from the explosion in the distance to her left and the courthouse to her right. She had moved towards the courthouse after she transformed and she expected to make it there soon, but she grew worried as the longer she ran, the more time passed that she hadn't heard from anyone and then there was that explosion that she just heard. She didn't dare try and contact anyone either, if they were in combat that might let whoever they were fighting win. On one hand, she should go help out with the double attack, but on the other the explosion… people might be hurt or need help. But a moment later before she could do anything she heard the sounds of something large running nearby. Ducking behind a chimney, she looked around and saw Dark Kitsune carrying Volpina who had a briefcase in her hands with two Midnight Crew members following behind. Rena Rouge knew instantly that they were only along as guards.
As soon as she locked eyes on Lila's Akuma form, Rena Rouge felt nothing but anger. With all the revelations that Marinette had given her and then the talk about Adrien's book, Alya had figured out fast that Lila had been bullying Marinette for a while now and tried to use Alya and their other classmates to isolate her, the incident that caused the hearing just her most explosive yet.
But Rena Rouge had seen a briefcase in Volpina's hands, but one hero against an Akuma plus three Sentimonsters? She wasn't suicidal but that just seemed to be too much for one girl alone. She was about to move when suddenly something covered her mouth and whatever it was pulled her into the shadows. She started to try and break free before someone spoke next to her right ear.
"So fox-girl, but I thought one of those things was gonna see you. If I let you go will you please calm down and talk quietly?" A sensual voice asked and Rena Rouge went still before she nodded before whatever was covering her mouth moved away and released her.
Rena Rouge shot forward and looked at whoever it was and blinked. Staring at her was a girl her age with an athletic figure dressed in a grey bodysuit. Her head was free but a grey eye mask with two pure black coverings over her eyes. Her hair was jet black and in two buns on the side of her head, and her lips were pitch black. On her bodysuit above her breasts was a red spider whose legs reached out to both sides, and in her hand was a black gymnastic ribbon. "Sorry girl, but I couldn't let you ruin my tracking down that false fox! And I figured that it would be bad if the little witch over there caught a foxy girl like you!"
Rena Rouge blinked and blushed as she looked at the teen before her and she took a moment to shake her head and look at the spider heroine. "Who are you?!"
"Oh, yeah. My name's Arachne, nice to meet ya. Soooo. Some of your team is holding on against two Akumatized villains and these death multiplying servants of theirs… so I saw them send two of them away with a briefcase and then that witch become an Akuma told your teammates about it, then the explosion happened and here we are!" Arachne said and Rena Rouge blinked, her mouth dropped open in shock at what she had heard.
"Okay, so Ladybug and the others are holding the line and….." Rena Rouge began, trying to think about how to handle this and get the item to Ladybug without breaking it or Volpina trying to stop her. Okay, Lila's a liar with the power to make illusions, and she's probably got a powered-up Akunma with how Hawky's been lately. Add in that Sentimonster I saw her riding and the two guards… with just Viperion and the new girl this is gonna be hard! Maybe I can make an illusion of Mari being given a Miraculous….. not that would just put her in more danger! How to handle this? She thought before Arachne coughed and smiled awkwardly.
"Yeah, No not Ladybug. I just saw the Chat, Turtle, Viper and Ape boys with the Dragon-girl," Arachne interrupted her and Rena Rouge looked at her and then down at her flute.
"Okay, okay. That means time to call in some help before we strike!" Rena Rouge said as she smirked and activated her tool's communication function.
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As Ladybug blinked away the buzzing she looked around, and saw that everyone even Wraith Lord was shocked. As she got back up she saw Wraith Lord look at her with a bit of awe in his body language.
"You got up first, I guess that you deserve to hold the Ladybug after all," Wraith Lord said as the other heroes all stood up.
"Don't think you'll leave Paris the same as when you entered!" Apisera declared as she heard a beep and knew they had to finish this fast.
"You've lost your minions, the chances of you winning are next to nothing!" Pegasus said as Miss Hound nodded.
"You asked for my friend, we'll take your slave instead!" Salica said proudly as she looked at Wraith Lord.
"You've used that Miraculous for evil, we will stop you!" Ladybug declared as Wraith Lord looked around.
"You'll try," Wraith Lord said as he looked around and almost reached for his belt but he knew how many of Lust's creations he had taken and he had used all of them. That bolt was a lot stronger than the last time, I guess the ability to use magic does increase with age. Still this might be good, and this is done. I've learned a lot and I've taught them a bit. For now, I will leave that way. He thought before he started to grin and laughed as the heroes looked at him as they moved closer to him.
"Let me tell you all two things my foes. 1, this is not the end but the beginning of our fight! And 2, what I did just now? That wasn't my Miraculous's power!" He said before he was suddenly engulfed by a black energy sphere before he shot into the air like a bullet, laughing madly as he flew away.
As the heroes stared after him another two beeps caused Ladybug to turn and look towards a part of the park. "Follow me, there's a manhole nearby!"
She shot off with the others behind her, even Salicia who looked around for anything that might still be lurking around. After Ladybug had pried open the manhole both Pegasus and Apisera had dropped down, and as Ladybug covered they saw a flash as it was sealed.
"He wanted my partner," Salicia said as she looked at Miss Hound and Ladybug. Both of them looked at her with a scowl, the very idea of taking a Kwami from one of the other heroes was unthinkable to them!
"So another Hawkmoth then?" Miss Hound asked and Salicia shook her head.
"No, they said my power could defeat them, and how he didn't want such power outside of his hands…. And what he did at the end and that bolt wasn't his Miraculous, that what is it?" Salicia said as she looked at the two heroes. "I think they know something my partner doesn't know, I don't like this at all."
Before Ladybug could say anything her yoyo started to beep, removing it she saw Rena Rouge was trying to get in contact with her.
"Ladybug here, sorry we couldn't make it but we….. wait Volpina's back!? How? Wait a briefcase!? And at the courthouse a Sentimonster swarm that can multiply?! Okay, I got it, yes that makes sense. We'll be there soon!" Ladybug said as Apisera pushed open the manhole and climbed out.
"What's wrong Ladybug?" Apisera as she reached down and pulled Pegasus up.
"We've got problems, two of them. Rena Rouge and another Miraculous user like Salicia have their eyes on Volpina on a Sentimonster with two others as guards under orders from Hawkmoth! She's carrying a case that might be the Item for the Akuma at the courthouse, and the others are dealing with Sentimonsters that can multiply, while they have to protect police being led by our least favorite Lieutenant." Ladybug said and they all blanched as they saw the same horror they felt reflected in Ladybug's eyes.
"I'll go with you after Volpina Ladybug, my sting would probably do more good there….." Apisera began but Salicia interrupted her.
"Wait, my partner said I can turn any magic ability backwards. If I can get to one of those Sentimonsters I might be able to make them all be absorbed back into that one," Salicia said and the others looked at her in shock and Apisera looked down at her top for a second.
"If you can do that, I can get one of the Villains and Carapace could trap the other one! Good idea newbie!" Apisera said as the others nodded
"Then I'll go with Ladybug, I can track Volpina down if she escapes us!" Miss Hound piped up and then Pegasus shrugged.
"I'll be able to help them all escape at least if things go bad, so I'll head to these two," Pegasus said and Ladybug nodded.
"Then we all know what to do, good luck everyone!" Ladybug said and without another word, they all ran off, each of them going to where they had said, each of them hoping that their actions would lead to victory.
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Dark Owl laughed as he saw the Midnight Crew move to charge at the villains and gangsters that dare stand against the cause of justice. Once he found Marinette and made her THE NEW SPARROW after he talked to her and taught her the right way to behave, then everything would be perfect in his city and they would be ready to defend it from everyone who would dare to harm it!
"Everything is going well Owl! Should we send some of the crew to encircle them?" Lunar Raven asked and Dark Owl smirked as he turned to her. He wondered for a moment if he should say anything but then he looked around and saw that there was no way for anyone to overhear him and he started to laugh. Lunar Raven meanwhile only looked at him and wondered what was wrong with him. "What do you know that I don't Owl?"
"Oh many things my dear, I made a special plan a few moments ago, I expect to see the results of that very soon!" Dark Owl said with a laugh and Lunar Raven looked at him and was about to speak when she went still. Dark Owl walked forward and then turned to smile at her, not seeing her he turned around and saw her standing completely still.
"Override active," Lunar Raven said suddenly and she started to spasm as she fell to the ground.
"RAVEN, HELP HER!" Dark Owl ordered. As two of the Midnight Crew came towards her she suddenly slashed out with two blades that formed on her arms. As the Sentimonsters died Dark Owl drew an owl-themed broadsword sword with two wings as a cross guard and looked at Lunar Raven.
"Have you lost your mind Lunar Raven?! What's gotten into you?!" Dark Owl demanded as Lunar Raven looked at him with a lifeless look on her face.
"Secondary Akumaization has happened, returning to base, hostile Akuma detected, defeating," Lunar Raven said tonelessly before she attacked him, slashing out with the blades on her arms.
Dark Owl blocked the blows, moving backwards as a Shadowmoth energy mask formed over his face. "Sorry Commissioner, but our Raven seems to have been brainwashed!"
As the two crossed blades, the two Sentimonsters 'killed' by Lunar Raven had already spawned two more, but these two each had pink glowing lines on them. As one of the normal Midnight Crew moved closer to the four new ones, before it could touch them suddenly two of the changed attacked the normal one, killing it swiftly.
As the other Midnight Crew Sentimonsters moved backwards the puddle the killed Midnight Crew had become rippled and spawned two more of the Corrupted Crew Sentimonsters. As the six Corrupted Crew looked robotically at the normal Sentimonster blades sprouted from their arms and they attacked the Midnight Crew with a cry.
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Shadowmoth glared as an energy mask over his face let him see what Dark Owl saw. As he tried to send his wraith at Lunar Raven, but shockingly he hit a mental barricade, the 'impact' causing him to develop a headache that forced him to his knees. He tried to 'reach' for the Corrupted Sentimonsters but he 'hit' another wall much softer. As he shook his head he glared into space as he tried to figure this out.
"What, no! I've lost control of both her and those Sentimosnter? But How! DARK OWL, SHE'S A SPY FOR THE VILLIANS, TAKE HER DOWN HARD!" Shadowmoth roared as he got back to his feet.
Shadowmoth closed his eyes as he felt the connection he had with Dark Owl lose some of its strength and then he formed another mask.
"Enhancetress, are you well?" Shaowmoth asked and he heard her reply.
"Yes, everything is ready on my end, why?" Enhancetress sent and Shadowmoth sighted.
"One of my champions broke free and is attacking everything, she also took control of some of the Sentimonsters! Watch yourself my dear I fear someone else has been planning something in our city and are only moving now," Shadowmoth said and he felt Enhancetress's worry and smiled. She was truly a good friend to be so loyal to him, but then they both cared about Emile.
Shadowmoth walked towards a computer screen and frowned as he called up a program and with but a few buttons pushed a file was brought up, a webbed list with the heroes, the Seven, the Giles figure and himself. He looked at it for a few moments and made another list, with Caline Bustier under an empty blank person with question marks as the name. "So there is another player, but what are they after?"
Shadowmoth stared at the screen as he went over everything they knew, so far he and Nathalie hadn't been able to figure out where the Guardian could be hiding. And finding that one to talk about what his kind did to the Kwami was near the top of his list, if he had any information about the healing ritual Duusu spoke of then if he had to he would pray it out of the only Order member in Paris, by any way he had to.
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Dark Owl charged in and slashed out with his sword, Lunar Raven moved backwards and dodged the blows, parrying every third strike with her right arm as she led Dark Owl away from the heroes. As the two Akumatized villains fought Lunar Raven's face kept perfectly still, not reacting to anything at all as Dark Owl grew madder with each blow. Lunar Raven parried a blow and sent Dark Owl's sword to the side and she shot forward, kicking off Dark Owl as she jumped backwards and landed by a building.
Dark Owl looked around and saw that the Midnight Crew and the Corrupted were locked in a stalemate, and he watched as one of the Corrupted slew another and saw the taint spread to the puddle. He looked at Lunar Raven and knew that he had only one choice.
"FIGHT IT LUNAR! YOU'RE STILL IN THERE!" Dark Owl bellowed as he sent a mental command, cursing that he had to use his plan to fight his ally instead of defeating his foes with his strategy. With a roar, Dark Owl jumped upwards and slashed downwards at her right arm, only for Lunar Raven to keep her silence as she lunged to the side and kept moving in what seemed like a random pattern.
Meanwhile, as the Sentimonsters fought themselves the heroes and Police had been able to get across a car bridge. As Carapace and Roi Singe went to the rearguard position, both prepared to hold the line if anything went towards them. Looking back at the carnage, Chat Noir gripped his weapon tighter. I've never seen anything like this before, never! The Akumatized follow Hawkmoth's orders, the few Sentimonsters follow the orders of the Akumatized! They shouldn't be able to do this! he thought as he looked at the battle between the Akumatized villains and Sentimonsters.
"This is insane, I've never even heard of anything like this…" Arashiko said with a shocked look on her face.
Chat Noir nodded and looked at the carnage before them, seeing the strange mutated or corrupted Sentimonsters attack the normal ones. This was completely beyond anything that he had ever seen since he had gained his Miraculous!
So far the battle had stayed away from them, but everyone there felt like this as mad as it was, that it was only the calm before the storm. As they watched there was a cry from the right and suddenly a tide of the normal Midnight Crew Sentimonsters charged over the rooftops and attacked the corrupted.
"Where"d those things come from!?" Carapace demanded and Roi Singe went still and paled. As he watched the carnage, everything crystalized in his mind and he shook his head in shocked horror.
"Dude. We can't win here, we can only outlast them," Roi Singe muttered in horror and Carapace turned to him in shock.
"Don't you all get it!? Those things can damage themselves to multiply! Dark Owl must have sent some of the ones we killed away and ordered them to kill each other until he called them back in!" Roi Singe said the police officers and heroes all paled in fear as they understood the sheer craftiness and strategic mind of Dark Owl.
"Just like the last time," Chat Noir said as he shook his head, wondering just what caused a school principal to have such a strategic Akumatized form.
"So what do we do? And where's the Lieutenant?
"HERE!" Lieutenant Eduardo called out from a side alley that he poked his head out of. "There's an old bunker from the War down this alley! It has an opening to the sewers, we can hold them there as a chock….. why are they fighting each other?" Lieutenant Eduardo asked as he saw Dark Owl and Lunar Raven fighting as their Sentimonsters all fought each other, but one side seemed to be stronger to his eyes. "What happened?"
"Don't know, so far they seem to be evenly matched and are after us, probably due to the 'psych' of the Akuma," Chat Noir said as he looked at the 'battle' between Sentimonsters. A beeping from his weapon tool caused him to activate with a hopeful smile. "M'Lady?"
"Negative bro, this is Apisera moving towards the Courthouse from the south with the Dolphin and Horse, we've got a plan to handle the Sentimonsters, where are you all and what's the situation?" Apisera's reply caused the heroes to smile as Chat Noir felt a bit of relief hit him.
"To the east sis, bad but weird. The Akuma just started fighting each other and the Sentimonsters are too. We're on the other side of the Seine at the bridge for vehicles. And the side for Hawkmoth just got a lot of reinforcements too," Chat Noir said as he saw some of the Midnight Crew start to try and disabled one of the Corrupted only for it to kill two of them, the puddles they formed as they died having the same lines as the corrupted.
"Fuck. Stay safe, we're coming in and Horse-Boy got that look that he has a way to get you all to safety," Apisera said and Chat Noir nodded and looked at the battle as the tide started to turn again, this time towards the 'Corrupted'.
"Hurry, we might have a big problem," Chat Noir said softly as he looked at the police behind them.