Here it is, the 127th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks released on time as always. The time skip arc stops for no one and our heroes are still doing all they can to grow during it without knowing what is awaiting them at the end of it. One of those areas of growth is their work studies so let's see how that is going and it looks like something unexpected is about to happen as an old aspect of Lucky Charm finally returns to the surprise of those in the know but who will it be referring to? Anyway, that is all the administrative stuff that I have for you, however, and there are no guest reviews to respond to or questions to answer so I will end this note here. Do keep the reviews coming as I enjoy hearing from y'all. That is all I have for this pre chapter note so that means that it is time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the 127th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks.
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Chapter 127: An Ally Is Needed
"Well this went to hell in a handbasket fast."
Mage's observation to Marinette and Adrien as they stood on the rooftop of the building that was one of several in the rundown neighborhood that they were currently in was one that the couple couldn't disagree with, mainly because it was punctuated by a well timed explosion and the crack of gunfire. They were in their hero costumes and had come here at a team up request by the hero who's jurisdiction that they were currently in, the Magic Hero: Majestic, due to one of his sidekicks identifying a wanted fugitive from Cambodia and what had seemed to be a normal mission had turned into this mess almost at once.
The problem had been that the fugitive was here due to having ties to a local gang that was affiliated with the one he was part of back in Cambodia and part of a grander east Asian criminal network, a fact no one had picked up, and which was now biting them in their collective asses. This was because the fugitive had fled to the hideout the moment Mage, Marinette, and Adrien tried to apprehend him.
Said hideout had been under observation by Majestic and his sidekicks for a planned raid that day. One of the main reasons for the team up was that the fugitive arrest providing the perfect cover as they'd surrounded the location, blocked off both street and undergrown exit routes, and gear up for a full sweep with the cops to get them all while the rest of the area was distracted by the arrest of a wanted, international fugitive. At least that was the plan until the fugitive identified Mage as he approached the fugitive who proceeded to steal a motorbike speed off to the hideout were things went bad.
It turned out that the hideout, a building in a traffic circle so they were all on buildings surrounding it or barricading the 5 roads that led into it, was covered in concealed weapons smuggled in from abroad and that the goons of the gang were more than willing to fight from the hideout rather than surrender. Several were at various windows with a good number on the roof to shoot or attack with Quirks anyone who approached them and as such they were well protected.
To make matters worse and why they were in this standoff, Mage only had Marinette and Adrien with him as he'd not expected something like this to happen. The rest of the agency was off doing investigations into international members of the Meta Liberation Army in case there was a rise in that after the planned takedown of the Japanese branch so the HPSC had them busy with that. He would have brought BB and Fei just in case, both that the talent or durability to go to the roof without issue and create the needed opening, something no one in Majestic's agency had, but neither were present.
BB was currently on a prisoner transport plane to Colorado overseeing the transfer of Boom back to the States for her trial and she'd be gone until just before the MLA raid to see family back in the States while Fei was running the bakery as was her primary mission thus leaving them like this on one of the rooftops looking at the carnage unfolding before them. It wasn't going well with the only thing going for them being that the area was evacuated and not the best, so the news crews weren't here, yet.
To make matters more complicated, because of course they were, they couldn't get much surveillance on as the only one who could really manage it subtly was Setsuna Tokage who along with Momo was one of Majestic's work study students. Momo, like Marinette, could create drones but there was some electronic sensing villain there as the police ones were shot down so they heroes relied on Lizard Tail Splitter to try and see but that too had been discovered and Tokage hurt when her eye was attacked.
She let it die rather than bring back an injured body part and regrew a new one but the pain was still there and she was out of commission for the moment. Tokage joined several of Majestic's sidekicks who'd been knocked out or injured during the initial chaos that had led to this current stalemate.
Things were looking dire and so Marinette did what she always did in situations like this, used Lucky Charm. If anything could get them what they needed it was Lucky Charm and while it had been a while since Marinette had really used it for the full purpose, her training and the nature of this world helping her rely less and less on the strength of Lucky Charm but use it more as aid to her hero work alongside her skills, now was clearly a time to use it to its fullest. As such she held out her hand to create an item that would allow them to win and capture both the fugitive and this gang.
What happened next was unexpected as there was a flash of sparkles and, of all things, a decent sized, ornate looking, vanity with a mirror, a small drawer on it connected to the part where the mirror was, and even a stool beneath appeared in the air and landed in front of Marinette. It had the expected Ladybug pattern but both Adrien and Mage turned to Marinette who stared at the large item in confusion.
"Er what's that Ladybug?" Adrien asked confused. "And how is it going to be useful?"
"Looks like something you'd find in a teen girl or young woman's room." Mage said. "I think at least as I've got no other suggestion as where it might be from."
"It is, it's a full vanity set and an oddly familiar replica at that." Marinette said looking at it as she tried to use the second half of Lucky Charm to get it to work but nothing was happening at all, she had no clue what it was for. "I…"
Then it hit her, and Marinette gasped in shock. The last time she'd had an item she couldn't use her second half with to determine what the item was for had been way back in the day, before the incident when they were in Paris and she'd gotten an item that corresponded with something in Master Fu's apartment.
Those times were rare but when they happened they were special charms that basically told Marinette that she was facing a goal she couldn't accomplish on her own or with Cat Noir's assistance and as such needed a third, or even more, ally to join her in the fight. It hadn't happened since her miraculous power had been made into her Quirk so she'd presumed by now it was no longer a feature of Lucky Charm but her was proof that she was wrong.
"You figure it out m'lady?" Adrien asked.
"Yes, it's, well, it's an ally charm." Marinette said surprising the others. "I can't use this, nothing's coming up when I try to use the second part of Lucky Charm, but it's telling me that I need an ally to aid in this fight and unlike before when it was Master Fu who I was sent to, this can't tell me to go to the keeper of the Miraculouses because that's us. Rather, I'm sure this is something from someone I know, it was like that with Master Fu's stuff after all, and thus is telling me who in particular I need to get and from there I should…"
"Let me guess." Adrien said as Marinette's eyes went wide as it all hit her at once. "You recognize this item."
"Yeah I know who's this belongs to, well the real one at least." Marinette said with a nod. "And she's perfect on so many levels. I understand now."
"Alright so who do we need?" Mage said simply. "And I really hope that this person is nearby, it could be a problem if they need to come in as I am seriously limited in what I can do. If need be you can use the Horse Miraculous to get the person, we can set things up to explain it away, but I'd prefer it if we save that as a last resort."
"Yes, the person is nearby and as I need to give her a Miraculous this is the only person we don't have to explain anything to." Marinette said with a smile. "We need Momo and I know just which Miraculous she needs."
"Alright, this is a feature of Lucky Charm though I'm as surprised as you are that it got transferred into your Quirk so looks like we will have to quickly sort out the cover but for someone else." Mage said as he pulled out the communicator he had and made sure that it was set to the frequency he had with Majestic while Marinette dismissed her item. "Hey, Majestic, I've got an idea to break this stalemate, but I can't do it with my current team. Can you sent Creati over to me right away, I need her specific assistance as I don't have what I specifically need on me but can get the info for how to make it hence the need for her aid."
"Sure thing, one sec she's just finishing helping make some first aid supplies, that last attempt got a little hairy for some of my sidekicks." Majestic's voice said back over the communicator. "I'll use my Quirk to transport her around, just hang tight."
"Roger that, I've got to make a call anyway to get the info I need for her." Mage said as he ended the communication and then put it away and pulled out his phone and used some function on it to quickly make a call. "Boss, got a favor to ask…yeah seems like I'm going to have to have a Miraculous activated briefly to sort a situation I've gotten in and can't get out of without my direct involvement…which one? The horse…gender? Female and go with French nationality what with Ladybug around and my cover story…yeah I know I'll owe Technus for this but he's the best at this what with his element and while you're at it can you have him send me a schematic for a highly sophisticated coms rig…yeah gotta really sell this with who we're using and don't worry she's in the know…yeah her…alright thanks."
Mage hung up while Marinette and Adrien looked on in confusion before he turned to them just as the rings of energy carrying a crouching Momo shot around and stopped allowing her to fall onto the rooftop safely. It was good timing but then again Majestic wasn't a rising star in the hero world for being slack, the man had excellent Quirk control and quick efficiency when it came to hero work.
"Good, you're here Creati." Mage said as Momo arrived looking a little confused before he suddenly switched to French. "I just got things sorted with our HQ back in America, things are going to be processed back there right away but from this moment on speak French, it will help."
"Er sure but, um, why the sudden need?" Momo asked sticking with French as instructed. "Not that I mind, when I heard you were in town for this team up I was thrilled to work with you again sir, but this isn't exactly a situation where I was expecting a sudden request from you for my assistance."
"That's Ladybug for you." Mage said as his phone went off. "Take Creati to the stairwell and sort this out, I've got to make some more specific dealings with Technus and my tab with him is already way too long. Hey old friend…yeah, yeah, I know sorry…look here's what I…"
"Come on Momo, this is important." Marinette said as she led Momo to the door that led to the stairwell while Mage sorted out whatever it was that he needed to sort out. "And we do need to sort this out while out of sight just to be safe."
"Sure, you know I trust you Marinette." Momo said and she followed Marinette into the stairwell and the door closed behind her, both girls noting that thanks to the run down building there wasn't a camera in the stairwell, not that any kwamis would be seen on it but a transformation would. "So, what's this about? Must be serious."
"It is." Marinette said as she turned to Momo. "Do you remember when I told you my full, true, history what I said about my power before it became my Quirk?"
"Of course, I remember it all and I am still grateful for the trust that you showed me that day." Momo said. "The Ladybug Miraculous had more than just the standard use we've seen as your Quirk. In addition to the item Lucky Charm made it could heal damage associated with the magic of the Miraculouses so long as you were present or something like that."
"Something like that, honestly it was a little confusing back then anyway as I only used it to purify akumas and one or two sentimonsters before the incident that sent me to the future and it was always damage associated with those attacks." Marinette said. "But there was one other feature of my power, remember?"
"There was?" Momo asked as she thought on it and then it hit her. "Oh right, you said that at times you faced a foe you and Adrien couldn't beat alone, or in one or two cases Adrien wasn't even available at the time, so you needed an ally from one of the other Miraculouses and it made an item that would alert you to that fact though you had to decide who was best at the time, right?"
"Correct and that ally charm hasn't shown up since I ended up in the future and my power became my Quirk so I had come to believe that it just wasn't part of the Quirk version of Lucky Charm." Marinette said as she pulled out her yo-yo. "Until today that is."
"Wait, what?" Momo asked her eyes wide as Marinette ran her finger along the center of her yo-yo and it opened to reveal a bright white light that she reached into. "You mean…"
"The item I just got was a replica of something from your room Momo so it means that I need your assistance and when I realized that I also realized that that assistant required you to use a Miraculous, thankfully I know just the one for you." Marinette said as she pulled out a small, dark brown, hexagonal box with an intricate design on it and held it out in her hand to Momo. "Momo Yaoyorozu, here's the Miraculous of the Horse, which grants the power of Teleportation. You will use it for good to complete the mission we face. Once the mission is over you will return it to me. Can I trust you with it?"
"Of course you can." Momo said stunned but accepting the box and opening it without any hesitation. "I will not dishonor this trust Marinette."
As soon as the box opened a ball of light emerged from it and formed into Kaalki who Momo knew well seeing as the kwami lived with her these days and she stretched with a yawn. Beneath it was the Miraculous itself which Momo hadn't seen before but as Kaalki had told her back when Momo confronted Marinette over her past and learned the full truth, the Horse Miraculous was indeed a pair of sunglasses.
"Huh, well looks like I get to shine with my noble rider, bout time though I was expecting this earlier." Kaalki said in French her accent as posh as ever. "I knew that one day I'd get to aid you Momo."
"I, I'm still surprised at this." Momo admitted. "Um, what do I do again? I saw Marinette use the Mouse Miraculous but still…"
"Just put on the glasses and say 'Kaalki, Full Gallop'." Kaalki explained. "That will start the change that bonds us. By the way, my power is called Voyage and you need to say it to activate it. Voyage allows you to create a portal between your current location and one in your mind be it visible or with specific coordinates that you have in your head if you can't see it. As you are a minor you can only use my power once before the time limit begins to count down but that should be enough, right Marinette?"
"Correct we only need to use Voyage once and if need be we'll explain the lack of a second use as a cooldown associated with the 'Quirk'." Marinette said as Momo picked the glasses out of the box, opened them, and put them on while Marinette took the box back and put it in her yo-yo. "Kaalki, what's your detransformation phrase? Momo will need to know that as well."
"Dismount." Kaalki said looking at Momo. "Say that when we're done and have food for me to recharge with."
"I understand and I have some substance to recharge with though I'd not really call it food." Momo said understanding what she had to do as the glasses changed into camouflage mode on her face, in her case a pair of normal reading glasses red half frames on the top that did nothing to change her vision and looked exactly like a pair she already owned but rarely used. "Let's do this. Kaalki, Full Gallop!"
Kaalki just nodded as she was sucked into the glasses. Instantly they changed back to their normal sunglasses style when they were a Miraculous with 5 blue dots in the bottom right curve of the right lens to signal her time limit after Momo used Voyage.
Then the change began as the magic took over and Momo's hair suddenly burst from its hair tie to trail behind her at full length as if it was in a strong wind before it suddenly turned snow white from the roots to the tips. When that was done it formed into a high, normal, ponytail while a line of hair along the center stood up before flopping over the left side like a horse's mane which was, well fitting.
Then came the costume. Marinette was so used to seeing Momo's hero outfit which was, well, right on the cusp of the regulation so the full body suit of the Miraculouses was strange to see on her friend, though as it was skin tight still showed off Momo's impressive assets, as it formed from her hands up with black on the hands, brown from the wrists to elbows before turning white as it covered her chest, back, hips, and upper thighs, and then going into brown again from her knees to her ankles and black over her feet. Lastly the horseshoe that was the weapon of the Miraculous formed on her back as she finished her transformation.
"Woah." Momo said as she finished as she flexed her fingers and looked down over the suit that now felt like it was a part of her because in essence it was part of her now but more she could feel the enhancements and they felt natural, as if she knew what to do with them and that they were a part of her. "This is unreal. It feels normal but I know that I'm stronger now. Is this you normal Marinette?"
"It was when the change first happened." Marinette said. "But now it's more than that because of the work I've done but my current baseline is my own following the change so not a good comparison to what a fully transformed Miraculous is like. What you're feeling is the enhanced durability, strength, speed, and what not of the Miraculous and you will know how to use it to some extent. Magic can be rather useful I've found."
"Yeah it's amazing." Momo said as she looked over herself some more. "But I wonder…oh I can still use Creation."
"That I was not expecting." Marinette said her eyes wide as a steel rode was formed out of Momo's forearm, coming out through her costume, and clattered to the ground. "Er, well, I think we should let Mage know."
"Agreed." Momo said as she began to head to the door.
"Wait, one more thing." Marinette said getting Momo's attention. "You need to have a hero name to go with it, a new one that is. This will be necessary to protect your identity, though the magic will make sure no not already in the know can tell that it's you, and likely be needed because I am sure Mage is going to try and pass you off as some French hero and somehow get the paperwork to prove it. My friends who I trusted back in the day came up with names so now it's your turn."
"I see, then how about…" Momo said thinking and knowing she'd go with French for it. "How about Cavalerie? That can be translated as cavalrywoman, right?"
"Roughly yes." Marinette said with a nod. "And fitting, alright let's go then. Don't forget to stick with French from now on, we can't have anyone realizing you're Japanese I feel."
Momo nodded and the girls came out as Mage and Adrien were chatting about gods know what. The moment they were out Adrien turned to them and a smile flickered in his eyes as they approached.
"Ah good, now I see the change that the costume went with, it's different for each person so this is what it looks like on you." Mage said with a nod. "And the name you've gone with?"
"Cavalerie." Momo said looking at them as she stuck with French. "Er, I presume you know it's me, right?"
"Yeah we were here for it, so the magic didn't work on Adrien." Mage said as he typed something into his phone and then turned it to snap a pick of Momo's face and tapped some more on the phone. "And I'm immune seeing as I made it. Anyway, it's sorted now and Technus is going to own me for a while but this is important. Alright, Cavalerie, time to make your pro hero debut."
"Come again?" Momo asked blinking under the sunglasses though the others couldn't see that.
"I've just had it sorted out." Mage said. "You are now officially registered as a hero with the Guardian Agency in Paris with full international credentials by the name Cavalerie and with a Quirk called Voyage, the name of the power of the Horse Miraculous. Don't worry, you're listed as special activation status only so can only be activated on my direct orders thus making your status classified to only those in the need to know, so it is all worked out. It's great what you can accomplish with the Guardian of Technology on your side."
"Er, ok, seems a little illegal." Momo said. "I am only 15 and only have a provisional license at the moment."
"I prefer to call it a necessary bending of the rules though I don't intend to have you active that often." Mage said. "Also, can you use Creation? I've never actually had a Miraculous used by a person with a Quirk, usually they're reserved for Quirkless people who prove their worth but these days finding someone who's Quirkless is next to impossible seeing as over 80% of the world has a Quirk."
"Oh yeah I can." Momo said with a nod.
"Fascinating but best to avoid using it." Mage said. "When you're like that you're Cavalerie not Creati and Voyage is going to look different to Creation, a lot different, so best to avoid needless complications. With the enhancements and your weapon you can fight just fine without Creation."
"Yeah I get that." Momo said. "I can avoid using it, I think. My fighting style does rely on it to some extent but the new feeling while wearing this somehow helps."
"Good to hear, now I just need to radio this in and we can end this annoying stalemate." Mage said as he pulled out his radio and contacted Majestic. "Hey, Majestic, thanks for that I needed Creati to make a com device to specific instructions from my colleague Technus as I needed to make some calls that required specialized equipment to make as they required the Guardians' personal network. This is because I realized that if we're going to get past the situation at hand I need to activate a special circumstance hero I have on staff in the Paris office and bring her here to assist. Don't worry everything is approved and I've got Creati working inside to coordinate things."
"That's great but, um, did you just say that this is a hero from your Paris branch?" Majestic's voice said over the line. "I can't see your position well from where I am so I may be missing something."
"Yup and she only speaks French so best to let me and my work study students translate if she has to speak." Mage said which Momo was glad for though her French still had an accent to it that wasn't from France seeing as it wasn't her native tongue. "But she's here now and ready to help. I'll send her and my work study students over to clear a path and coordinate from here."
"Ok but I thing I wasn't clear before." Majestic said. "So I'll rephrase. How is she here?"
"Oh right, well she's here because she has a warp portal Quirk, that's why she's a special circumstance hero." Mage said with a grin as he looked at Momo. "Show them Cavalerie."
"Yes sir." Momo said in French as she looked out to the rooftop that had a good dozen or so villains on it as well as very illegal weapons that they were using to keep them at bay. "Voyage!"
It was a strange sensation to Momo to use a power that wasn't her Quirk but at the same time it felt oddly natural to her thanks to the magic of the Miraculous as the portal, a circle with white inside it, appeared before her and another on the rooftop where the villains were. It was strange and they reacted to it while Majestic's voice came in over the radio.
"Oh now I see, yeah that's just what we need." Majestic said. "Clear the roof and I'll come with sidekicks, and we'll storm the place. I'll need one of your work study students to assist though as they know the fugitive you're after."
"We'll have it done in less than 5 minutes and Cat Noir will stay to assist you." Mage said as he looked at the three who knew exactly what that meant. "Go!"
They didn't hesitate as Marinette, Adrien and Momo ran through the portal, the first two with weapons out, and onto the rooftop to the shock of the villains. The moment they were there the portal vanished and the trio stood in a triangle as the villains closed around them.
"Handle the villains, I got the armaments." Adrien said in French as he leapt up and towards one of the weapons that was mounted around the roof with Cataclysm flaring in his hand. "They need to be taken care of as well and I'm the best for that."
"Got it." Marinette said sticking with French as she tossed her yo-yo at one of the villains to ensnare him. "Be careful Cavalerie, they may not be the most durable so bear that in mind."
"Understood." Momo said also in French as she ran at a villain holding a machete in her hand as Marinette pulled the villain to her and knocked him out with a punch to the face while a villain behind her suddenly transformed into some tentacle monster that might give Marinette some troubles. "Let's see what this can do."
The woman swung the machete at Momo, but she deftly leapt up and over the woman's head with a twisting flip showing a level of acrobatic skill she'd never had but was reminiscent of what she'd seen Marinette do in battle and landed behind the surprised villain. She then crouched and swept the woman's legs from her before getting up and punching her in the chest to drive her down and into the roof with enough force to crack it and knock the villain out. The feeling was unreal and yet natural to Momo as she almost sensed the attacks coming at her from either side.
With a duck, she got low and avoided a metal bar that was swung at her head before snapping up to hit the man in the jaw with the crown of her head, whipping his head back and lifting his body off his feet and tossing him back a few feet to land in an unconscious heap. As she did this, Momo turned and got her arms up in a cross guard to intercept a punch from a beefy man with bull traits showing he was a heteromorph with some level of enhanced strength.
That did nothing to Momo though as she took the blow there and slid a little from it but barely felt a thing, which really amazed her because a blow like that should have broken her forearms if she wasn't using a Miraculous, and she withstood it for a moment. Then she pushed back on it as she uncrossed her arms and the man staggered from the push but she didn't give him a moment's pause as she leapt up and unleashed a flurry of kicks to his face and upper chest that brought him down in seconds. She followed him down to land on his chest just as she heard the groan of metal bending behind her.
Momo turned in time to see a steel girder bending in the air and coming down towards her that was attached to a woman who'd produced it from her back. Without thinking, Momo punched the girder and connected with it with a boom that dented into the metal a little and held firm. This time though it hurt a little and she let out a hiss of pain as she put her left hand on her right arm to hold it as she pushed against the girder that was working to push her back in the process.
"Don't rely solely on your enhanced strength." Adrien said as he leapt onto the girder that Momo had held in place a flare of Cataclysm from his foot fusing into it to cause it to disintegrate showing that it was indeed made of steel. "There is still a limit to what you can take though it's high. Your weapon is key, and the horseshoe is especially useful for combat against several villains at once."
"Huh, oh right." Momo said as she pulled the horseshoe off her back, she'd briefly forgotten that it was there, and threw it at the stunned villain who's girder was now dust. "Yeah, I get it now."
Momo did get it as the horseshoe flew like a boomerang and slammed into the woman gang member's face, blasting her back to hit the roof unconscious as the horseshoe flew back to Momo's hand. The weapon was like a boomerang but more so and the glasses over her eyes suddenly showed Momo precises calculation as she looked around the roof to take in the situation.
She noted that there were 5 still standing villains who were backing away from some tentacle villain who was keeping Marinette preoccupied in the center of the roof while clearly also not wanting to deal with Cataclysm thus giving Adrien the time he needed to destroy the weapons. That said it seemed that the stalemate was more due to Marinette currently not using Lucky Charm than anything else.
That wasn't all though, the calculations showed Momo the right angles and trajectories in seconds and between that and her already strong mind she knew exactly how to throw the horseshoe to take them all down with one move. Knowing that Marinette would trust her, Momo did just that as she tossed the horseshoe at an air vent.
Momo may have known the trajectory but it was still a shock to her to see the horseshoe spin through the air and bounce off the vent with enough force to dent it and into the jaw of one of the villains still standing dropping him. It continued through the hit to hit the next villain in the chest and throw her back but the angle sent the horseshoe down to bounce off the roof and up at the third taking him under the chin and sending him heels over head from the impact.
That spin caused his leg to hit the horseshoe and send it to the side where it hit the 4th villain in the side of the head at an angle that sent it into the wall around the roof where it cracked the bricks there before bouncing back and into the back of the 5 sending her forward. That put her directly into Adrien's path as he moved to the last weapon, something Momo's projections had shown her would happen.
Adrien just struck the villain in the head to get her away and carried on the horseshoe flipped up from the final hit and spun vertically as it gained height and then came down right on the tentacle villain's head stunning him and bouncing off back to Momo who caught it in her right hand. As this was happening, the stunning blow allowed Marinette to get close and punch the tentacle villain in the face to knock him out.
In total it took the three students just under a minute to take down all the villains. They knew this because just as Marinette took down the last of the villains the first of the lights on Momo's Miraculous beeped and went out but she was too stunned by what had happened as she stood there with the horseshoe in her hand and looked at Marinette. The weapon was something else and now she really understood how good the couple were with their chosen weapons if this was the kind of boost they'd had with them in the past.
"Impressive." Adrien said in French as he walked over to them while Marinette turned and smiled at Momo. "That horseshoe was always useful like that. Not a great close combat item if I recall but one hell of a ranged weapon, especially at mid-range, and this was a rooftop. Imagine what it would be like in a corridor."
"I can bet it's really good." Momo said just about remembering to use French as she looked around. "I wasn't expecting it to be that efficient though."
"A good outing for your first time, about the same as I'd say the others were when they first used it." Marinette said as she flipped open her yo-yo to contact Mage. "Mage, the villains are down, I'll come back with Cavalerie and Cat Noir will stay here to assist as you told Majestic he would. You can send Majestic over with his sidekicks as soon as we leap away and make sure he knows that he'd going to need at least one or two with restraint Quirks."
"Got it, leap back, you've got less than 4 minutes." Mage's voice said over the communicator.
"Roger." Marinette said as she closed her yo-yo and Adrien went to a clear patch of roof and activated Cataclysm in his feet before leaping back and controlling it to make another entrance point into the building right there so that they could storm it from two points. "Let's go Cavalerie, the rest is up to Majestic, Cat Noir and the former's sidekicks."
"Ok but how?" Momo asked as Marinette ran to the edge that faced the roof that Mage was on.
"Jump, you have the strength to make it and survive a fall if not, or survive crashing through the opposite building if that happens." Marinette said as she leapt up and onto to the ledge, planting her foot on it and leaping off it with a flip.
Momo just shrugged and ran after her friend. She knew Marinette was right as she felt her running speed was significantly faster than normal and she was able to leap up like Marinette and plant her foot before leaping of that and at the roof that Mage was on. Momo did make one mistake, she used too much strength as she wasn't sure how much would be needed and leapt in a high arc as she ran in the air trying to control herself while Majestic and his sidekicks zoomed on his Quirk to join Adrien on the roof from all sides.
Therefore, while Marinette landed gracefully on the roof next to Mage with her usual controlled grace that she showed when in costume, Momo soared over her and then crashed into the roof with a yelp midway along it. She proceeded to roll over it for several feet before crashing into the wall around the roof and coming to a stop as Marinette hurried over to help her.
"You're not hurt, are you?" Marinette asked though it was a little rhetorical.
"No, just stunned and a little embarrassed." Momo said as Marinette reached her and offered her friend her hand to help her up. "That was a little too much force I think. Wasn't sure how much I'd need and kinda overcompensated for it."
"It takes some getting used to though it is better to use a little too much for something like this than not enough." Marinette admitted as the second light on the glasses beeped and flashed out. "But come on, we need to get you back to the stairwell to detransform."
"Good idea, I'll let Majestic know that you had to rest due to overuse of your Quirk, it's a powerful one that will have a draining effect in the reports and allow us to justify having Cavalerie around for a few more days just in case." Mage called out as the girls headed to the stairwell. "And don't worry about the rest of the mission, Cat Noir, Majestic, and his sidekicks have entered through the door on the roof and a hole Cat Noir made while a few are rounding up the roof villains. This is over now, it's just a matter of time at this point."
Mage was right, it would take less than 10 minutes to clear the building and capture all those inside as the police closed in the moment that they could, but Marinette and Momo wouldn't know this. They had to sort out the detransformation first.
"Let's move." Marinette said and Momo nodded at that as she followed Marinette to the stairwell. "You've got some food right? With your Quirk you should and you said you kinda did earlier. If not I've got some protein cubes that would work but the kwamis don't really like them."
"I do but it's not the best and I really wouldn't call it food." Momo said as they got into the stairwell and the door closed behind her. "I just hope Kaalki doesn't mind, I'll get her some apples, carrots, and sugar cubes when we get back to the dorm, I usually have some for her seeing as she lives in my room. Now, Dismount."
With that the transformation fell in a flash and Momo was her normal self in her hero costume with the glasses on as a tired but supremely pleased looking Kaalki floated there. As soon as she was out, Momo flipped up a slot on her belt and pulled out a small bag and opened it.
"I'm sorry that this is the best I've got Kaalki." Momo said as she reached in and pulled out what looked like a gelatinous cube similar to the protein ones that Marinette carried on her only this one was much less rigid. "But it was designed especially for my Quirk, and I wasn't expecting this today, or ever really, so I didn't bring anything better."
"That's fine, just spoil me when we get back." Kaalki said as she took the cube and ate it before grimacing as she swallowed it. "Yeah definitely spoil me, that stuff is vile."
"Well it's basically pure, raw, fat." Momo said to Marinette's surprise as Momo ate one herself in solidarity with Kaalki and to show that she didn't like them either before putting the rest away. "It's not meant to be good; it's meant to be the fasted way I can replace lipids in my body. After basically running out of lipids in the first half of the provisional license exam I realized that I needed to have a source on me so I took inspiration from Marinette and Adrien's protein cubes and had some basically pure lipid cubes made. They're an emergency use only item because they really do taste vile."
"Makes sense." Marinette said as she held out her hand. "Momo, the glasses."
"Right, sorry." Momo said as she took them off and they returned to normal sunglasses that Kaalki was sucked into and handed them to Marinette as Marinette retrieved the box for them from her yo-yo. "Thank you, that was a lot of fun and now I feel like I understand you more."
"I'm just glad that it worked out." Marinette said with a smile as she put the glasses back in the box and returned it to her yo-yo. "Now let's go rejoin Mage and see this thing end. Well the action end, the paperwork on this is going to be an absolute nightmare."
Momo nodded and they left the stairwell to rejoin the Guardian as the mission that had gone south at the start was finally wrapped up and all because Lucky Charm requested a specific ally aid them in this mission. Momo knew that there was still a lot of paperwork and cleanup, a mission like this needed it seeing as it went so wrong, but still she couldn't help but smile as she joined Marinette and Mage in watching the end of the mission from the rooftop.
She'd gotten to use a Miraculous, something she'd never expected she would get to do, and now she really understood her French friends better than ever before. Still, there was on thing prevailing on Momo's mind as the mission came to an end, she really wanted to work with Kaalki again and hoped that this wasn't the first and only ride for Cavalerie.
Well there you go, at long last one of the MHA characters has used a Miraculous and of course it had to be Momo who did so given that she was already in the know and I did set things up for Kaalki to be the one used. This won't be the last time either Momo teams up with Kaalki or a classmate uses a Miraculous so stay tuned on that front. The one major change I made, and will do so if and when another is needed, is I didn't have Marinette mention 'greater good' because that's the one thing about her statement when she offers someone a Miraculous temporarily that I really dislike because to me the phrase 'greater good' is a euphemism to justify evil (prime example being Grindelwald's phrase in the Harry Potter universe) and as Marinette is not evil she shouldn't be using it. Anyway, that is all that I have for y'all, still a few more chapters to go in the time skip arc to enjoy before we get into the Paranormal Liberation War and with good timing as the English dub of season 6 ends in a few days so I should hopefully not catch up to the anime before season 7 providing there are no delays there. For now though it's time to leave this chapter off here. As always, if you like it or have any questions please let me know in reviews or PMs, I will try to answer them as best I could and post any questions asked between uploads at the start of the next chapter and do follow and favorite this, so you are alerted to future uploads. Do keep the reviews coming as I like hearing from y'all as you enjoy my work, it motivates me to keep producing the best work I can for y'all to enjoy. Until next time.
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