10/14/24
5 Reviews, 6 Favs, 8 Follows
Blu Tembo arrived early in Paris with his space suit powered up, and he had to stay low so Shadowmoth wouldn't realize he was there. Otherwise, it would jeopardize his secret identity and endanger Ladybug and her teammates.
"Fold my ears!" He detransformed to Pelle and caught his kwami in his open hands, "Get your strength up, buddy. Ladybug should be here by now. I seriously don't wanna deal with that daughter brat of the mayor and…." Pelle nearly spots the billboard of Lila on the Gabriel brand, "…..her, as usual" He glared at it for the time she made a lie about his alter ego.
"Ok," Trunkk ate his chocolate.
Once eating it, Trunkk was fully charged, "Ready!"
"Trunkk, flap my ears" Pelle retransformed.
Jumping to the rooftop but stays hidden in case there's an Akuma around to alert Shadowmoth that the new hero is here. He's aware that the supervillain's goal is to steal the miraculous of Ladybug and Cat Noir as well as the rest of the other miraculous like his elephant miraculous which grants the power for memory restoration. But if used for evil like his former evil counterpart from another dimension, they can erase the victims' memories to forget.
"Wherever she is, I hope she's alright," He thought.
"Tembo?" Ladybug startled him.
He jumped in fright to almost whack her with his side blow horn but Ladybug blocked it, "Jeez, don't do that. I was staying low to make sure Shadowmoth doesn't know I'm here"
"Sorry. I didn't know you were here so early in the morning but glad you're here right now" Ladybug said.
"Better to be prepared. That is if that villain hardly sleeps at all whenever he sends out akumas at any moment" Blu Tembo puts his weapon behind his back.
"Yeah, he's wearing me down every day," Ladybug said.
"Hey, he has no chance at winning. He makes his akumas too predictable all the time whenever there's an Akuma on the victim" Blu Tembo said.
"Yeah like Mr. Pigeon," Marinette said.
"That pigeon tamer guy? Yeah, I've seen that. Anyways, now I'm here, what's your plan?" Blu Tembo asked.
"Well….the problem is…..Cat Noir has been absent for months and…..if Panthera finds Adrien….I'll use the horse miraculous to teleport them here so you can restore Adrien's memories to remember who he is. And hopefully, by then, I can figure out where Cat Noir is" Ladybug explained.
"You don't know his secret identity, huh?" Blu Tembo asked.
"No, he wants it to remain secret" Ladybug replied.
Blu Tembo raised a brow in disbelief since she's the leader of this while Cat Noir is second in command, "Seriously, you know the others but me, him, and Panthera" He replied.
"I suppose you want to remain secret too?" Ladybug guessed.
"I suppose so. But I can't risk it. I've seen you and your kitty in New York and Shanghai meeting new heroes. It's best to not let Shadowmoth know the rest or it jeopardizes the world, even Paris" Blu Tembo said.
"Okay," Ladybug agreed.
"I would always risk my elephants to have a sanctuary and a home. You would do the same for Paris. You always find a solution, Ladybug. Paris is always believing in you" Blu Tembo encourages her.
"You may not be Cat Noir, but you sure know how to encourage someone," Ladybug said.
"Part of being positive for people rather than negativity stops us from trying. Sometimes an elephant symbolizes luck too" Blu Tembo said.
"If Cat Noir ever returns, I just hope he can accept my apology," Ladybug said.
"Forgiveness is tough to earn, Ladybug. It's not how they can forgive you, it's how you can acknowledge your actions to never repeat the same mistake without breaking a trust" Blu Tembo said.
"I have, I really miss my kitty very much" Ladybug replied sadly.
"We'll find him. That is up to him to return or not. And I'm also counting on Panthera too. She always has ways of being the queen of the jungle as people call her" Blu a Tembo said.
"Yeah, but you need to lay low too," Ladybug said.
"Indeed. I'll be in contact with Panthera if she finds Adrien like you told me" Blu Tembo said before jumping off the roof.
x
Adrien managed to get men's deodorant from the mercenaries since he stinks a lot for months without it.
"At last, I get to smell better," He said.
"I for one was used to it," Plagg said.
"Good. Or someone else would complain" Adrien said.
They came to a chasm and there's a bridge to cross it but Adrien is very aware of bridges becoming unsafe. He checks the condition by measuring his weight on the first step of the bridge. Then he held onto the ropes as he carefully walked on the bridge.
"Seems steady at the moment. Looking down means certain death you don't want to fall in" Adrien shuddered at how deep below it looked with sharp rocks down there with the river, "Don't look down, don't look down" He prayed to himself he can do this.
"Kid, look!" Plagg saw another mercenary with a machine gun next to the cliff, ready to take out the bridge.
"Shit!" Adrien fell into their trap.
"LIGHT IT UP!" The mercenary shouted before firing.
Adrien ran as the mercenary fired at the ropes and planks. The planks of the bridge were giving out and the bridge would snap at any second.
"ARRRGGHHHH!" Adrien shouted as the bridge gave out but Adrien grabbed the bridge planks like a ladder as it swung to the side at the end of the bridge end, climbing as fast as he could before they tried to shoot him.
"Kill that brat!" More mercenaries aimed at him.
"Kid, hurry up!" Plagg said.
Adrien made it to the ledge and quickly jumped behind the tree to avoid getting shot, "I gotta take out the rest! My arrow won't shoot far enough!" Adrien aims and fires, hoping it can reach a mile away or not.
It missed a mile away and Adrien growled in frustration that he's gonna need to borrow a rifle gun from the mercenaries trying to ambush him.
"Find him! Don't let him get away! He killed our men!" They ran to his hiding spot but Adrien smacked one of them with his bow to quickly grab their rifle gun.
"Hey, you!" He shouted before shooting them down.
"Holy shit! Someone could get hurt with that!" Another tried to outsmart him.
But Adrien strikes him with the rifle, "Get the hell out of my sight! Now!" Adrien demanded or get shot if they didn't comply.
"Retreat!" They all ran off since his weapon had more ammo.
"Now you're mine!" Adrien came out of his hiding and aimed at the hornets' nest a mile away, "Bon voyage!" He fires.
The nest fell onto them and they got stung repeatedly.
"Ouch, that's gonna kill them eventually" Plagg cringed.
"Whoa, I just used a rifle my first time without any knowledge of it," Adrien said, shocked that he was far too young to use a gun.
"You've seen those movies, right?" Plagg guessed.
"Yes, but it's not the same as realism," Adrien said before he saw the wounded men with swollen red marks from the stingers.
"You are so dead you annoying little brat!" They shouted.
"Don't move!" Adrien armed, "I don't care if you say I'm a kid but I'm not afraid to shoot you!"
"Go ahead and shoot! Be the man you want to be!" They all laughed knowing he would hurt himself with the rifle.
Adrien glared and fired a warning shot.
"Agh! Fuck! You almost shot near my face!" They screamed.
"I'm not a man like any of you!" Adrien quickly got them off guard by taking out his blow tube to blow poison darts at them.
"Argh! What the hell?!" They got stung and collapsed as the venom took effect.
"You kill innocents for money, this time, you suffer the consequences," Adrien said coldly before walking into the jungle, leaving them behind for predators to eat them.
"Oh dear," Plagg said as they walked.
"I had no choice," Adrien said.
"Do you really think your God will forgive your sins?" Plagg asked.
"I guess" Adrien replied.
"How is my kitten unleashing his claws when he's the kind and passionate kitten in Paris everyone knows?" Plagg asked.
"I guess the jungles brought out the beast in me," Adrien said.
"And you're forgetting why animals don't like to be in cages. If you get captured, you'll know what that's like to turn into savage" Plagg said.
"Yeah, but even if they knew it was me, I'd be kept for ransom," Adrien said.
x
Panthera came across corpses in the jungle which were covered in flies. She gasped at her clairvoyant vision that Adrien killed them out of fear but to survive. He also stole the supplies he needs to survive since the jungle has no equipment for the poor boy but at least he finds something useful to help him live. Even a walkie-talkie to help him find service to get in contact with.
"The walkie-talkie. I hope I can get in contact with him" Panthera grabs one in hoping it still has fresh batteries which it did but is unsure for how long it will last.
"I don't blame you, Adrien. You were alone but had to survive your way through" Panthera said, recognizing these corpses were mercenaries to capture animals in exchange for money.
"These men are poachers" She figured before she tried to call him.
She smacks the walk-in talkie to get it to function but she realizes that Adrien is too far away from her. All she got was static noise from it.
"Damn it, he's too far away. Who knows if he runs into the natives, it's not good" Panthera said until her cat ears twitched at the noise close by, and ducked from the arrow from the natives.
They ululated at her and tried to ambush her. She deflected the arrows with her spear before running off into the jungle.
"Hang on, Adrien! I'm on my way!" She kept running.
Dodging the arrows before made a huge leap at the gap to get land on the other side as she rolled roughly before getting on her feet.
"That should keep them away," She said.
She had to inform Ladybug right now that the traces she found had led Adrien to become the predator of poachers and mercenaries in the jungle.
"Ladybug! Come in!" Panthera called from her spear phone.
"Ladybug here" Ladybug answered.
"I found more tracks of Adrien in the jungle and you're not gonna believe what I saw in my visions," Panthera said.
"What? What did you see?" Ladybug asked.
"He has taken down several poachers all by himself" Panthera replied.
"What?! You mean..?" Ladybug gasped.
"Yes. He's becoming a predator but he's doing this to survive. It's not his fault. He's alone, scared, and struggling to fight through the jungle. Let's not panic but there's is a possibility he'll remember a bit of his social life" Panthera assured.
"Oh my god" Ladybug was still shocked that Adrien actually killed them, "If you find him, remember to bring him to Paris. Your elephant partner could help his mind"
"Please don't think he's a killer, Ladybug. I saw in my vision they were gonna kill him but he took that chance to eliminate them. Mercenaries and poachers show no mercy to children" Panthera explained about them.
"Okay, it's just a lot to process," Ladybug said.
"Adrien is still trying to survive, mariquita. If he's holding on to his sanity as best as possible, there's a chance he's still Adrien. Although I just hope he's not traumatized by killing the mercenaries out of fear" Panthera said.
"That's what I worry about," Ladybug said.
"Which only proves he's alive. Through my vision, he never missed a shot with archery skills. I had never seen him so brave and fearless. It's like the jungle changed him into a whole new person" Panthera said.
"More like it brought out the beast in him," Ladybug said.
"Either way, he doesn't look skinny in my vision but he is learning how to hunt for food. Probably fish I believe" Panthera said.
"Thank goodness" Ladybug replied.
"Anyways, I just hope he's not too far from where I am. That is if he can remember Panthera without attacking me" Panthera hangs up.
Ladybug hang up as well, sitting down after hearing what Adrien did, even though the poachers deserved it. But she fears that he will suffer with blood on his hands haunting him for life.
"This is getting out of hand," Ladybug said, then got alarmed that another Akuma was on the loose.
"Even an Akuma is always out of hand" Ladybug groans in frustration at how much this feels like hard work without her kitty.
x
Adrien ran into another Jaguar territory and unfortunately, this was a female as he would call it the Empress. Like the lion is the king of the jungle in Africa, the female Jaguar would be known as the Empress of her own Amazon jungle.
"Shit. The one I killed was a male, this one is a female. The empress of the Amazon jungle" Adrien slowly backs away while trying to ready his bow and arrow.
It growled lowly as it was threatened by him to trespass on her territory.
"Kid, she looks angry. Don't turn your back" Plagg said quietly.
"She's testing me, Plagg. She can smell my fear" Adrien said quietly too, trying to not make any sudden rapid move to startle the Jaguar.
The feline growled, telling Adrien to back off.
"Don't use cataclysm or you'll destroy the continent" Adrien warned Plagg not to use his power without a holder.
"I wasn't planning on it," Plagg said.
The Jaguar roared in rage and tried to attack Adrien but he dodged it, but not fast enough when he got tackled.
"Argh! Get….off!" Adrien blocked her massive teeth with his bow.
The Jaguar only clawed his eye but not entirely which left a cut on his eyebrow and cheek, screaming in pain but pushed the predator aside.
"Fuck!" Adrien held his eye wound but he was still able to see fine, just bleeding from it.
The jaguar growls and tries again but Adrien climbs up the tree when she tears a chunk from his shirt. The beast climbs up and snarls to catch this brat. Adrien ran into the branch to find a way to lure them into some kind of trap or death. He soon saw a tired-out tree that wouldn't hold the weight of the much heavier feline.
"Come and get the kitten, empress!" Adrien jumped off of it and grabbed the vine to swing away.
The jaguar leapt and landed on the branch but it broke off and fell to her death. Adrien swung back to reach to the other tree branch before moving on into the jungle. He stops at one branch, touching his injured face.
"It's a scratch, kid. You're bleeding" Plagg said.
"Lucky enough to not lose an eye" Adrien hissed in pain from the air touching the cut. He grabs some band-aid and puts it over the wound.
"I suppose that scar is like a souvenir from the jaguar," Plagg said.
"They say scars are proof you've survived," Adrien said.
"Even if you manage to survive, your father is gonna kill you if that cut forms into a scar," Plagg said.
"He can go to hell for sending me to Colombia for no reason. All he ever says is he's my father and knows what's best for me. Best for what? To get me killed out there? Bullshit" Adrien scoffed and jumps down from the tree to continue moving.
"You really shouldn't be mad at Ladybug. Sure she's the guardian but she wouldn't forget you, you know" Plagg said.
"She doesn't want my help, Plagg. I rather rot in the jungle than let her keep secrets from me. Just like my father does the same to me" Adrien said before reaching the waterfall and needed fresh water to drink due to dehydration.
"So are you willing to let her die?" Plagg tested him.
"No, I'm just staying out of her way. No one is gonna need Cat Noir anymore. I bet my father already found a replacement for his brand that isn't me" Adrien scoffed and grabbed the snake without even looking, "Do you mind?" He tossed it away.
Plagg shook his head at how unreasonable he was.
x
With Gabriel, he was becoming more menaced that his goal was slipping away because his son disappeared in the jungles of South America and he hired the mercenaries to find him which was a failure. Neither of them contacted back as if they were killed in the jungle or they were ambushed by natives.
Nooro did warn him that the more he continues this path, the more he loses everything but Gabriel always silences him so much to hear any more nonsense.
The bodyguard did arrive back but not Adrien. The news had already been announced that Adrien was missing and it enraged Gabriel to believe his son could be dead or vanished but never does he want to hear the word 'dead' of his son's status. Even after four months with no success and little he knew Adrien killed them all.
"Have you found him yet?" Gabriel asked through the tablet.
"Negative. But I expect better money from you!" The mercenary said.
"Where are the other ones?" Gabriel asked.
"Dead, slaughtered by natives," The mercenary said.
"I don't want to hear an excuse! I want my son alive! Is that clear?!" Gabriel had enough of hearing foolish nonsense.
"Yes sir!" They said before logging out.
"There's something strange going on in Brazil," He thought.