บท 5: ch3 : origin 3
Meanwhile, back in Ms. Bustier's classroom...)
Ms. Bustier says to the class, "For those of you who have P.E, Mr. D'Argencourt is expecting you at the stadium. The rest of you can head over to the library."
Ivan calls out, "Kim!"
Ms. Bustier asks, "Ivan, what's going on?"
Ivan answers, "Its Kim! I'm so gonna get..."
Before Ms. Bustier can say anything, a simple glance at Alya's eyes turning orange in anger informed Ms. Bustier to do her job properly, or else Ghost Punisher will be unleashed, even though Ms. Bustier didn't completely remember.
But Ms. Bustier did the exact opposite as she said, "Ivan, go to the principal's office."
Ivan crumbled up the paper and growled but Alya's roar of pain turning into a demonic roar caught everyone's attention.
Ms. Bustier gasped in shock and horror at the sight before her.
One of her students, a budding reporter no less, had just demonically transformed into an unholy combination of the Cosmic Ghost Rider and the many counterparts of The Shredder!
Ms. Bustier was so scared she was about to run away when Ghost Punisher teleported in front of her.
Ms. Bustier was shoved against the chalkboard and pinned against it with chains, but they surprisingly didn't pierce her flesh, the chalkboard or her clothes because Ghost Punisher doesn't kill those like Ms. Bustier just because of her naive views on resolutions to problems.
Holding a samurai sword against Ms. Bustier's throat in a threatening manner, Ghost Punisher angrily stated, "Ms. Bustier, as far as I'm concerned, a true teacher should listen to both sides of the story before deciding who gets sent to the principal's office and who gets sent to detention. What you're doing could result in bad things happening, starting with Paris' first magic terrorist transforming and mutating Ivan into a rock-based supervillain with the simple goal of murdering Kim. If Ivan murdered Kim and was returned to normal, Ivan's parents would launch a series of lawsuits against you and Mr. Damocles over your teaching styles being the catalyst leading to a great tragedy and leading to severe problems for your students in their futures. Would you really sacrifice your career and perhaps your life just because of your naive, flawed, skewed teaching style, no matter if you didn't know the negative impacts it leaves on your previous, current and future students?"
Ms. Bustier began to see Ghost Punisher's point before sighing and replying in a slightly intimidated tone, "Very well. Ivan, please tell me your side of the story."
In Hawk Moth's lair, Hawk Moth was fuming about how there were currently no negative emotions from anyone for him to Akumatize into supervillains.
But Hawk Moth had since learned patience and self-restraint in terms of lashing out over his failures.
Hawk Moth mused, "It's only a matter of time."
Just then, he felt it: pure anger.
He determined that it came from Ivan since Ms. Bustier sent him a warning for almost starting a fight with Kim just because the jockey teased the more muscular boy about being unable to confess his feelings for Mylene.
Hawk Moth said relievedly and evilly, "Negative emotions. This is perfect. Just what I need. Anger, sadness... Burn a hole into his heart, my horrible akuma." Hawk Moth holds out his hand in invitation. A single white butterfly lands on his palm. He gently covers the butterfly with his other hand and infuses the very same butterfly with dark Miraculous magic, transforming it into an akuma. Hawk Moth finishes and says while twirling his cane in his hand, "Fly away, my little akuma, and Akumatize him!"
The akuma, the now single black butterfly with translucent purple streaks on its wings, flutters away to Francoise Dupont to create Hawk Moth's first supervillain.
(Meanwhile, back at Francoise Dupont...)
As Ivan is heading to the library, Ivan quietly growls angrily while crumbling up the piece of paper, the note Kim gave to him, thereby attracting the akuma.
The akuma flies into the rugged paper and infects it.
A pink and purple butterfly outline symbol appears over his face, and the area around his eyes darkened to a dark rust color.
Hawk Moth's voice states to Ivan, "Stoneheart, I am Hawk Moth. I will give you the power to seek revenge on those who have wronged you."
Ivan's dark reply was, "Okay, Hawk Moth."
Soon enough, the outline symbol disappeared and Ivan is enveloped in a magical dark-purple ether, and he becomes Stoneheart.
Ivan/Stoneheart shouts, "KIMMM!"
Meanwhile, Marinette and Alya were in the library, when suddenly, they were thrown to the floor by a sudden non-damaging earthquake.
As they start getting up, Alya shouts to Marinette, "Come on!"
A random student asks, "Did you hear that?"
The students see Stoneheart on the security camera screen. Stoneheart had somehow gotten outside and was throwing cars around.
Stoneheart shouts again, "KIMMM!"
Mr. Denis Damocles, the principal of Francoise Dupont, is on the phone in his office as he asks, "Hello? This is the police? Give me the army!"
Marinette asks, "What's going on? And why does he have Ivan's voice?"
Alya replies, "It's as if he's been transformed into a real-life supervillain! GPS, check. Battery, check. I am so outta here!"
Marinette shouts, "Hey! Where are you going?!"
Alya answers, "Where there's a supervillain, there's always a superhero close behind! No way am I missing this!" Then she runs off.
Briefly annoyed, Marinette retorts, "But don't you have that 'Ghost Punisher' transformation to help you out?"
Alya states in realization, "Ohhh. Right."
Alya runs off to transform privately, while Marinette looks back at the security camera screen. She sees Stoneheart pick up a car and throw it at the security camera, breaking it and showing a rainbow-error screen.
Marinette winces as Stoneheart shouts one more time, "KIMMM!"
Marinette bemoans aloud, "This is just not my day, isn't it?!"
Meanwhile, from his perch at the Eiffel Tower, Steel Butterfly is watching the whole thing from holographic video footage.
As the damage and casualties continues to rise in count, Steel Butterfly is getting angrier and angrier to the point where he made a silent vow to murder Hawk Moth if he came after his friends and family, interdimensional or not.
In Hawk Moth's lair, the first magic terrorist of Paris was watching Stoneheart's rampage with a slasher smile on his face when, out of the blue, he felt an extremely strong negative emotion.
It was so strong that it hit him like a combination of a raging fire burning him alive and a really painful sunburn in the summertime.
It was pure, unbridled, white-hot anger.
But that wasn't just it.
Whoever was the source of this anger was extremely bloodthirsty and outright murderous.
It was as if the person had in question had previously taken lives in the past without any remorse, without suffering the consequences for it, and wouldn't hesitate to do so again. Even if it meant being permanently declared guilty by God Himself during Judgment Day and then eternal death in the Lake of Fire at the end of days.
Hawk Moth was ecstatic, curious and frightened all at once.
On the one hand, if he could find the source of that white-hot remorseless anger, he could create the ultimate akuma to get his heart's desire much faster. And Hawk Moth theorized that with the ability to grant his Akumatized champions the powers of their dreams, taking the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses would easily be a piece of cake.
But on the other hand, as tempting as it was to send an Akuma after the source of this murderous emotion, Hawk Moth knew that if this anger turns out to be too much for him to handle, he'd immediately lose control of his future champion and his traitorous champion would literally murder him in cold blood should any harm come to the champion and the champion's allies and family.
If Hawk Moth was murdered, not only could he possibly be exposed as fashion mogul Gabriel Agreste without being able to stop his future killer before succumbing to his fatal injuries, but he would also be unable to say goodbye to his comatose wife, let alone be able to save her.
Never mind the fact that despite not growing up in a religious household as a kid, Gabriel Agreste knew that God's wrath, Satan's temptations, the total number of people who won't be allowed into Heaven for their despicable actions and the fiery inescapable pits of Hell and the Lake of Fire were all too real, if his online Bible subscriptions and biblical DVDs were any indication.
On top of that, if he lost control of his champion without being murdered himself the first time around, the champion would become the biggest mass murderer in history, willingly or not.
And if almost everyone on Earth was murdered, including Gabriel's son Adrien, Hawk Moth would be the next victim to die.
Hawk Moth asks out loud, "Who could this be? Who could be letting out such unbridled anger that can only be described as murderous?" After trying to pinpoint the location of the emotions, only to find negative results, Hawk Moth remarks, "I can't find him. Whoever this is, they must be masking their location by bouncing their negative emotions all across the city. Very clever. But I won't fall for the same scheme twice. This requires further investigation. I'll find out who's feeling murderous and I'll create the perfect champion, no matter what! But wait. If this person is truly feeling murderous, he or she could double-cross me and outright murder me. If my future champion does murder me, I'll become exposed on TV. And I won't be able to save Emilie. Never mind the fact that I could easily be sent to Hell until Judgment Day and I'd be sent into the Lake Of Fire. I'll need to be extremely careful. Emilie, in case I die, I want you to know that I'm sorry I couldn't save you."
(Meanwhile, at the Agreste Mansion...)
Master Wang Fu is standing outside of the famous mansion, holding in his hand the box containing the Black Cat Miraculous.
Inside the dining room, Nathalie asks Adrien, "Who was the first president of the 5th French Republic?"
Adrien boredly replies, "Everyone thinks it was de Gaulle, but it was actually Rene Coty before the first elections."
Nathalie states, "Excellent, Adrien."
Suddenly, Gabriel arrives and asks Nathalie, "Give me a minute, would you, Nathalie?"
Nathalie replies, "Yes, sir."
Nathalie steps off to the side.
Gabriel coldly states to Adrien, "You are NOT going to school. I've already told you."
Adrien stares at Nathalie for a second before regarding his father with a hideous scowl on his face.
The scowl causes Gabriel's eyes to slightly widen in fear, knowing how violent his son is when he's mad.
Adrien replies two-fold with venom in his tone, "If Mom was here, she would NEVER have hesitated to show you the consequences of you neglecting me and micromanaging my life. I've tried so hard to earn your praise, I've tried so hard to earn your respect and familial love by doing the things you tell me to, yet I earned nothing! Well, guess what? I've had it. I hate you and I hate you, Nathalie." Adrien finished while scowling at Nathalie, causing her to shiver in fear for a little bit.
Adrien speed walks up to his room in pure anger.
Gabriel looks past Adrien, and then looks back at Nathalie.
Nathalie states, "Sir, I hate to say this, but I'm worried that Adrien might lose his temper if this trend continues."
Gabriel sighs and says in response, "I'm aware of that, Nathalie. But I'm afraid that Adrien might find out something about me he's not ready to learn about." He pauses before continuing, "What kind of compromise do you think will work best before Adrien brutalizes me?"
Nathalie looks lost in thought for ten seconds before answering, "I don't really know, sir. All we can do is hope for the best."
Gabriel returns to his lair and resumes his Hawk Moth form before considering the ramifications of his actions.
Hawk Moth starts to wonder, "If Adrien finds out who I am, will he ever forgive me for being too controlling, prejudicial towards the people he makes friends with and constantly micromanaging his life while neglecting him? Would he rat me out to the French authorities despite the fact that I'm his only family left, not Emilie's stupid twin sister and my thieving nephew Felix? I've gotten this far; I can't stop now, not when I have a promise to keep. But if Adrien does throw me in the slammer, I'll gladly suffer the consequences with dignity."
Meanwhile, in Adrien's bedroom, Adrien hears some thumping noises.
Adrien rushes outside and sees the police about to open fire on Stoneheart.
Officer Roger Raincomprix says to his fellow officers, "Ready? Fire!"
The officers fire their laser stun guns at Stoneheart in unison, only for him to grow slightly bigger.
Stoneheart lets out a roar, causing the officers to chicken out.
As Officer Raincomprix runs away like a scared chicken, Stoneheart grabs one of the police cruisers and throws it at Officer Raincomprix.
Despite his athletic stature, Officer Raincomprix was still unable to outrun the oncoming police cruiser.
Adrien returns to his bedroom and turns on his TV.
The Mayor of Paris, Andre Bourgeois, states to a crowd, "I'm asking all Parisians to stay home until this situation is under control."
Members of the news crews state to the mayor, "Mr. Bourgeois! Mr. Bourgeois!"
Nadia Chamack, one of the news anchors for TVi Studios, says to the camera, "As incredible as it seems, it's been confirmed that Paris is indeed being attacked by a supervillain. The police have been struggling to keep the situation under control."
The screen shows Officer Raincomprix with his right arm in a sling. He states to one of the reporters, "Be confident, the strong arm of the law will come crashing down on the..." He raises his broken arm, causing a cracking noise to happen, and causing the reporter interviewing him to wince and gape at the same time. He clutches his arm as he reiterates, "I mean, the other arm."
In Marinette's bedroom, Marinette and her parents are watching the news report on her computer, although Marinette is unaware that her parents snuck in and decided to keep quiet until the time came.
Marinette states to no one in particular, "I hate first days back at school... On the other hand, Chloe and Sabrina finally got the chance to face the music." Marinette manages to give a small smirk.
Marinette gazes downward to see a small, lacquered box that she never recognized in her entire existence.
As she was alone in her room, or so she thinks, she asked aloud in her bewilderment, "What's this doing here? I don't think I've seen this particular box before."
She reached down and grabbed the box with the utmost delicacy. Marinette looked carefully at the intricate red designs inlaid into the treated wood. She noticed that there was only one hinge on one side of the box.
Marinette opened the box, to find that it opened all too easily, much to her satisfied relief.
Inside the box is a pair of ladybug-colored earrings. They are circled earrings with a smooth surface and a silver lining. For some reason, the earrings were red with five black spots in a quincunx pattern, like the pattern of spots on an actual ladybug.
However, before Marinette could even think about taking a closer look at the earrings, the earrings were encased in a shimmering globe of red-pink energy, which quickly tripled in size and shot up towards her, staying in one place.
For a few seconds, there was no sound except for the quiet continuation of the news report on the computer monitor. Then the creature's eyes opened.
Anticipating Marinette's reaction, Tom and Sabine stepped back, if only because they didn't want Marinette crashing into them.
Marinette drew back in her chair, got up quickly before she could fall down with the chair and shrieked, "Ahh! Help! It's a giant bug! A... a mouse! A... a bug-mouse!"
Tom and Sabine couldn't help but quietly snicker, as Steel Butterfly told them Marinette's reaction in both timelines.
The creature calmly stated in a high-pitched voice, "Everything's okay! Don't be scared!"
But that only caused Marinette to panic even more, even throwing things at the creature as Marinette shouted, "Ahh! The bug-mouse talks!"
Soon enough, Marinette started to throw things at the "bug-mouse," all of which the creature successfully dodged.
After about fifteen seconds, Marinette started running out of things to throw as the creature said, "Listen, Marinette. I know everything may seem a bit strange to you..." But the creature is interrupted as Marinette trapped it into a glass cup. The creature continues, "Okay, if that makes you feel safer."
Upon further inspection, Marinette realizes just in time that she received Tikki and the Ladybug Miraculous today.
Marinette asks, "Are you Tikki, the Ladybug Kwami of good luck and creation?"
Though slightly dumbfounded, Tikki replied, "Yes. I am Tikki, the kwami of creation. But if you don't mind me asking, how did you know if you were freaking out just now?"
Marinette answers, "I had forgotten in that moment of temporary amnesia."
Tikki then asks, "How did you know about me?"
Tom and Sabine came forward as Sabine answered, "We've been training Marinette for the day she'll be called into action with the power of the Ladybug Miraculous."
Tikki's eyes widened in shock, disbelief and fear.
Tikki exclaimed in a high-pitched tone, "NO! You guys weren't supposed to know!"
Sabine replied sternly which made Tikki stay quiet for the time being, "Our mutual benefactors believed it was absolutely necessary for Tom and I to know about Marinette's double life so that way, there'd be no secrets, she'd get additional support from the sidelines, she'd get leniency for any slipping school grades, she wouldn't have to lie to us as we respectively hate liars, and she wouldn't have to worry about being overly stressed out about keeping her identity a secret from us. Also, we felt it was necessary for Marinette to be trained for the day she would be called into service."
Tikki pouted but still managed to say, "Well, as long as you guys and Marinette's partner know who each other are, I'm sure we can work something out. But I don't have to like it. I still believe Miraculous superheroes should keep their identities a secret from each other just in case any evil holder of the Moth Miraculous manages to turn Marinette and her partners against each other."
Blissfully unaware that time was frozen again, Marinette stated matter-of-factly in response, "Tikki, from what I know about superheroes, they can't exactly keep their identities a secret from even their parents. The reason why is because if the hero's parents were strict disciplinarians, they'd ground their heroic offspring for a long duration of time, even if they're aware of the consequences of doing so. And besides, even if I have to keep my identity a secret, I hate liars. Also, if I kept my identity a secret from my partner, there'd be serious trust issues between me and him or her."
Tikki sighed in reluctance, as she finally understood Marinette's point of view.
(Meanwhile, in Master Fu's massage parlor at the same time...)
As Master Fu closes the Miracle Box, Wayzz asks his owner, "Do you think they'll be up to it, Master?"
Master Fu responds, "I only got it wrong once. It will never happen again. At least, I hope not."
Steel Butterfly says, "Well, if it's all the same to you, I'm gonna get ready for the rendezvous tomorrow. Hopefully, I make a great first impression when I meet my two favorite heroes."
Steel Butterfly starts heading to the roof, his jetpack and his wings starting their activation countdown thanks to his thoughts telling them to do so. The reason for that being that Steel Butterfly's wings and his jetpack are symbiotically linked to his thoughts and are capable of responding to his thoughts. Whether those thoughts involve retracting into his back for later use, turning off to conserve power, activating only one of them just in case the wings or the jetpack are in need of repairs or activating themselves at full power for a blastoff, the responses are the same in the sense that the wings and the jetpack will always obey Steel Butterfly's mental commands.
Master Fu calls to him, "Steel Butterfly... in case you fail, which I find highly unlikely, may God protect your soul, as well as those of your favorite heroes."
Turning his head to look back at the reverse-aged Great Guardian of the Miracle Box, Steel Butterfly replies, "Thanks, Master Fu. May God help us all." And Steel Butterfly made a tipping your hat gesture on his helmet like it was a hat before continuing up to the roof.
As Steel Butterfly heads for the roof, Master Fu sighs and states in an internal monologue, "I hope all goes well with the power of the real Butterfly Miraculous in the hands of an original character from an alternate dimension where my own dimension is a fictionalized television cartoon to entertain children and teenagers alike. If Steel Butterfly fails in the slightest unlikely scenario, either because he was erased from existence by a rogue Time Guardian, either he was murdered by Hawk Moth and his Akumatized or Miraculous associates, or he was imprisoned and depowered permanently, all of existence will be doomed. Including Steel Butterfly's own home dimension. No matter how powerful or how smart Steel Butterfly is, even without the power of the Butterfly Miraculous to upgrade his physical prowess and his intelligence, there may be a small to big chance for Hawk Moth to overpower and outsmart him, either at different times or all at once. Whichever one comes first in those scenarios. Let us all hope that it doesn't come to that, for the sakes of our dimensions and many others to come into existence, thanks to our choices in one dimension splitting them in two to create more dimensions. All thanks to the theory of the multiverse being true due to my powers proving it during my attempts to find a champion to fight for the chance to liberate the Moth Miraculous, the Peacock Miraculous, the grimoire, and everything from the Guardians' temple being eaten by my Sentimonster. Hhhhaaaa. I hope Steel Butterfly's foreknowledge and enhanced superhuman intelligence will not be abused by anyone affiliated with Hawk Moth or two to three times worse than Hawk Moth and Satan combined. If Steel Butterfly's foreknowledge and enhanced superhuman intelligence is respectively abused by anyone affiliated with Hawk Moth or by someone two to three times worse than him, we will need a Time Guardian to fix everything. And if what Steel Butterfly says about Bunnyx is true, we will need someone to ensure that Bunnyx does not come back into the present day to be able to undo my actions regarding Steel Butterfly and his allies coming to our dimension to help his two favorite superheroes with defeating Hawk Moth and his associates. I just wish I can help with Steel Butterfly in more than just in the role of a mentor, even though I'm younger once again. But Steel Butterfly's right; if I enter the field, something's bound to go wrong, not including Hawk Moth trying to follow me without me knowing about it. May God and the Order's spirits watch over you, Steel Butterfly."
Taking to heart Steel Butterfly's desire to spread the existence of God and the Holy Trinity to those willing to be declared innocent during Judgment Day and be given eternal life after death for various good deeds and following God's Word to the letter, Master Fu did the last thing Wayzz expected. Master Fu gets to his knees, places his hands together, bows his head with his eyes closed, and sends a lengthy prayer of apologies to God for disobeying his laws about usage of magic jewelry, a prayer for forgiveness for previously refusing for years to believe He exists. And then, the Great Guardian prays for an opportunity for redemption to fix his mistake with the Feast Sentimonster and restore the Order of the Guardians, no matter if they believe in Him or not.
(Meanwhile, back in Marinette's bedroom...)
Marinette smiles as she looks about at the things Tikki can do with and without being merged with the Ladybug Miraculous.
Even though Marinette was raised in a religious household, even her parents have to admit that once a Guardian of the Miraculouses chooses someone to be a Miraculous wielder, it's almost impossible to decline unless there is a solid reason with the pros and cons.
Marinette asks Tikki, "What do I say to transform?"
Tikki replies, "To transform, say 'Tikki, Spots On.' To transform back to normal, say 'Spots Off.' That's basically it in a nutshell. And if you have any other questions, don't be afraid to ask."
Marinette asked Tikki, "Okay, Tikki. Is it true that when I become an adult, I'll be able to use the Lucky Charm an unlimited number of times?"
Tikki answered, "Of course, Marinette. But until then, you'll have to train yourself."
However, Marinette was not done, so she decided to get back on track with a small recap. Marinette starts with another question, "Okay, so, just to recap, I have to break the object where the 'akuma' is hiding, then I have to open my yo-yo and catch the akuma?"
Tikki replies, "Yes. It's a black butterfly with translucent streaks of purple on its wings. Your yo-yo is the only Miraculous tool capable of purifying an akuma created by the Moth Miraculous."
Marinette inquired her next question, "And what happens if I accidentally forget to purify the akuma?"
Tikki answers the question sternly, "Then, the akuma will fly away, and it'll multiply into thousands. When that happens, they will indiscriminately seek out any person nearby and touch them. Once that happens, he or she will be transformed into an exact physical duplicate of the original akumatized villain, and will remain frozen stiff like statues until the original villain is akumatized again. Once the original villain is akumatized again, the duplicates will unfreeze and they will become the original villain's personal army."
Then, with some thinking, Marinette asked Tikki another question, "Tikki, aside from the Lucky Charm and the Miraculous Ladybug cure, what other powers will I have?"
Tikki responded thoughtfully, "Well, the Ladybug Miraculous will grant you superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman agility, superhuman reflexes, superhuman flexibility, near-invulnerability to physical harm, the ability to stick to walls like an actual ladybug, and the ability to fly like an actual ladybug. In addition to that, you will also be given the ability to produce magical charms to protect akumatized villains from being akumatized again. But that's only for if you gain enough experience, as it happens to be a next-level superpower and an adult superpower as well."
However, there was another question about Marinette's powers that came to mind, so she asked Tikki, "Okay, and are there specific things that the Miraculous Ladybug cure cannot restore?"
Tikki looked at her new owner with a glint of sadness in her eyes, and she answered thoroughly, "Yes, there are specific things the Miraculous Ladybug can't bring back or do anything about in general. Chief among those things are returning lost Miraculouses, resurrecting destroyed Sentimonsters that were born through the Peacock Miraculous, and reverting anything on a mental and/or emotional state unless the change in someone's mind and/or emotion was directly caused by the crisis such as one done by Akumatized supervillains. At the same time, the magic ladybugs cannot restore the memories of a former member of the Order Of The Guardians in the event of passing on their roles, the ladybugs can only go as far as the damage range the Akumatized and Amokized champions have caused, the ladybugs can only fix disasters that are caused by Akumatized supervillains and evil Amokized Sentimonsters, but not pure natural disasters caused by the forces of nature, and the Miraculous Ladybug can only fix the damage caused by the villain or Sentimonster it was used against."
Marinette then asked, "How many times can I use my primary powers before I detransform?"
Tikki replies, "You can only use your primary powers once before you detransform. And in order for me to replenish my energy, I have to eat something. Oh, and chocolate chip cookies are my favorite food!"
Shaking her head fondly, Marinette had another question as the next-to-last of questions she had. Marinette asked Tikki, "Okay, next-to-last question. Can my yo-yo become any other weapon?"
Tikki nodded her head and said in response, "Oh, yes. The yo-yo can split in half to become a staff, generate a wing-like shield, and explode like a bomb. But don't worry, it'll regenerate shortly afterwards."
There was one more question Marinette had, and so she asked Tikki, "Well, what kind of costume will I get when I transform?"
Tikki replied, "The Ladybug Miraculous will grant you any costume you want. It can even give you magical body armor, if you wish."
Soon, Marinette closed her eyes and subconsciously decided what costume she really wants. Determined, she opened her eyes, she put on the earrings, thankful that they attached by magic and thus didn't require piercings, and she says for the first time, "Tikki, Spots On."
Marinette transformed in place, completely in shock as she starts to feel her normal clothes being replaced in a wave of warm, benevolent magic energy.
Marinette was wearing a ladybug-patterned suit of armor arranged like all versions of a suit of knight armor, different styles of motorcycle armor, different types of police armor, and different types of military armor. In addition to that, she had ladybug patterned boots that look like a combination of knight shoes and combat boots. It also comes with a black turtleneck and swan-necked collar and black spots on parts of her armored bodysuit to go along with the white ones. In addition, she was wearing a red and black neck guard. She was also wearing red and black armored gloves with retractable claws on the fingertips, along with microscopic ladybug legs attached to her armored hands to increase her wall-crawling ability, and black and white spots adorned her armored gloves. She also had black accents on her knee armor, her upper arms, her forearm armor, her armored waist, and her armored gloves. To further identify herself among the superhero community, her armored chestplate has the symbol of the Ladybug Miraculous. On her hips is a magical ladybug-patterned utility belt which has the symbol of the Ladybug Miraculous in the middle. In addition, Marinette found her face to be covered by a completely red mask with blue sclera, pink irises, a black mouth guard with a built-in voice changer, and robotic ears that fit snugly against her normal ears. At the same time, she had magical armored techno-organic ladybug wings on her armored back. They looked like a combination of Cosmo Bug's wings, the wings on the Flutter Ladybug toy, and the removable wings from two other Ladybug toys. Except that these wings are retractable. At the same time, Ladybug's armored outfit was merged with a skintight protective spiked motorcycle jacket with red and black sleeves, and a pair of lightweight protective pants over her leg armor, hip armor, thigh armor and waist armor. At the same time, there was also additional armor and comfortable clothing underneath the first layer. Lastly, Ladybug's hair was a combination of black, blue, pink and light platinum blue.
Meanwhile, in Adrien's room, Adrien has just finished watching the news on his TV and sees a little box similar to the one in Marinette's bedroom, even though he doesn't know about it yet. He asks, "Huh?"
As Adrien holds the box in his hands, he asks, "What is this doing here?"
Once he opens the box, he finds a black ring with a green cat paw print inside it.
The ring glows in a yellowish-neon green light that triples in size and shoots up to Adrien's eye level, causing him to cover his eyes.
When the light fades away, Adrien sees a floating creature resembling a black cat, which completely yawned in exhaustion and says in astonishment, "No way... Like the genie in the lamp!"
The black cat-looking creature replies, "I met him once. So he grants wishes. Big deal! But I'm way more personable! Besides, he's much crankier than I am. I'm Plagg. Nice to meet you. Ooh, that looks nice."
As Plagg flew towards the arcade game's joystick, Adrien shouts, but not too loud for anyone else to hear, "No! Don't touch that! Come back here!"
Plagg answers sheepishly, "Relax, dude. I'm not gonna touch anything. I'm just curious to know what this is. That way, I'll know if it's edible or not. Besides, I've been cooped up in that ring for too long, and I'm starving."
Adrien shrugs and explains, "That's called a joystick. It's used as a video game remote control for controlling any character you play as. And no, it's not edible at all. But I'll get you some food. My father's mansion is filled with food, thanks to my father's wealth and fame that comes with being the world's greatest fashion designer."
Plagg states, "Well, any food you have will do just fine. Just make sure that the security cameras in the mansion aren't working, as well.
Fifteen to maybe twenty-five frozen minutes of explaining things later, and discovering that even Nathalie seems to be frozen stiff, Adrien asks Plagg, "You've been fed, my friend. But I still don't understand how time stood still after you showed up. Wait. My dad's pranking me, right? Wait, he couldn't be. He has no sense of humor."
Plagg flies up to Adrien's natural eye level and states matter-of-factly, "Well, that's true. However, your father must never know that I exist! Or anyone for that matter. Besides, based on how strict and emotionally abusive you described him as, you could wind up in even more trouble than we wouldn't ever imagine."
As much as Adrien hated to admit it, Plagg was right.
Meanwhile, in the Agreste Mansion, Adrien complains to Plagg, "But I'm stuck here! My father doesn't even let me go to school! What good is a superhero who's imprisoned in his own house?!"
Plagg answers, "No good. That's why it's all gonna change soon. That is, if you're willing to change."
This left Adrien pondering over whether or not it's the right choice to change his behavior, even a little. Then he made his decision as he put the camouflaged Black Cat Miraculous on his right ring finger.
Adrien asked Plagg, "How do I transform?"
As Adrien slips on the ring, Plagg responds, "Just say Plagg, Claws Out to transform. And well, you pretty much already know the rest."
Adrien states, "Yep. Plagg, Claws Out!"
Adrien transforms after doing a transformation dance.
Both Marinette and Adrien observe their new costumes, in amazement and shock, respectively.
Whereas Marinette already observed her armored outfit, Adrien could see that he was wearing a black cat-themed space helmet with a visor that allows him to see, a black mask around his eyes, a black mouth guard, and his hair was longer and untamed, thus covering his normal ears, but not necessarily making them disappear. His eyes have become cat-like eyes with green sclera, dark green irises, and oblong pupils. Adrien was also wearing an armored black skin-tight space-themed catsuit with metal details, green accents, matching gloves with claws on the fingertips, and black astronaut-style combat and space survival boots with a hidden wedge, silver toes, and paw-shaped treads. He also has a golden bell on his neck, connected to a zipper on the front of his armored costume, a long belt that wraps around his waist and hangs out from the back like a cat's tail, the symbol of the Black Cat Miraculous on the front of his belt and on the front of his armored chestplate. Lastly, Adrien was wearing a jetpack. Adrien suddenly remembered that Plagg told his charge that his jetpack produces neon green bat wings for flight stability and to steer him when in use.
Adrien, soon to call himself Cat Noir, exclaimed in astonishment, "This is too cool!"
Marinette, soon to call herself Ladybug, looks at herself in the mirror and asks, "Tikki, how does all of this come off?"
Tikki replies in Marinette's head, "Unfortunately, your entire outfit will only come off when you detransform."
Just then, Nadia continues the report as she says, "Stoneheart is heading towards the Montparnasse tower. The monster appears to be unstoppable!"
Ladybug looks closely at the computer screen and sees the last thing she wanted to see on her computer monitor: Ghost Punisher riding her new motorcycle behind Stoneheart in an attempt to follow him. Ladybug gasps in shock, "UGGHH! Ghost Punisher?"
Looking closely at Alya's transformed state, Sabine asks, "You know that armored flaming skeleton?"
Ladybug answers, "Yes. I met her when she was still Alya Cesaire. She was one of the new students in my class today. And because of her headstrong nature and love for superheroes, she literally thought it was a good idea to chase after Stoneheart, thinking that a superhero was gonna show up. AND, she seems to think that capturing footage of superhero and supervillain fights will cement her future as a reporter. But I didn't think she would actually be this serious about chasing Stoneheart. And I didn't think that she was this headstrong. On the other hand, her Ghost Punisher form was created by an unknown power for a simple multi-step purpose: to make sure that people like Chloe and Sabrina don't torment anyone ever again, to make sure that Andre Bourgeois and people like him don't ever abuse their statuses as mayors, governors, Prime Ministers and Presidents of every nation again, to make sure that people like Caline Bustier don't ever lecture bullied victims and cuddle bullies ever again, to make sure that people like Mr. Damocles do their jobs properly, and to ensure no one torments her friends again."
After processing this information, Sabine and Tom say in unison, "We'll be waiting for you, sweetie."
Smiling softly at her parents, Ladybug goes upstairs to her roof balcony.
Ladybug says to herself while managing to look at her back thanks to her flexibility, "Okay, I apparently have these cool retractable armored ladybug wings. Tikki, how do I use my wings?"
Tikki replies, "Start by taking a calming breath and start by thinking about flying. It'll help to have a clear and calm mind to start bonding with your wings. But remember, with no practice, you won't be able to control where you fly, and you could easily fall from thirteen stories if your wings refuse to work with you. And after enough practice, your wings will self activate when you jump up from ground level and when you take a jumping leap off a high enough structure. And they will also start bonding with your thoughts. From thereon, whenever you start thinking about flying or through a force of will, your wings will respond by letting you fly."
Ladybug did as instructed. She took a calming breath, and started thinking about flying.
Soon, her wings started vibrating and buzzing like an actual ladybug in flight and her thoughts about taking the baby steps helped her with the slow take off.
Even with excitement building up inside her, Ladybug kept her cool and did as Tikki instructed.
Soon, Ladybug could feel that her armored feet were no longer touching the ground of her balcony.
With newfound determination, Ladybug, with Tikki's encouragement, took off in the sky very slowly like a space shuttle in takeoff.
Now that she was getting the hang of flying after about five frozen minutes, not that she knew about Steel Butterfly just yet, Marinette decided to mentally increase the speed and thrust power of her winged flight by two percent.
Ladybug cheered excitedly as she was getting the hang of flying.
Ladybug could literally feel her wings moving and buzzing like an actual ladybug's wings, and she could feel her thoughts and emotions increasing her control over her speed, altitude and steering thanks to her and Tikki using their thoughts to better control the armored ladybug wings.
Ladybug thought to herself, "This is SO COOL! I'm flying!"
Tikki responded cheerfully, "I know, Marinette! I'm so proud that you're taking the time to enjoy yourself, but now, we must find your partner."
Nodding, Ladybug took off, seen by a concealed Steel Butterfly.
He moaned as he realized he was right about something from fourteen years ago when he first came to this dimension: whether in his normal transformations or with his space power-up, Steel Butterfly is definitely gonna stand out as the only flying Miraculous user that uses his arms to help him steer and increase and decrease his speed the way Superman does it. Or so he thought, as he didn't know how Cat Noir was gonna be able to pose as he flies. Whether he flies while posing like an angel, like Iron Man or like Superman is Steel Butterfly's need-to-know.
Pushing the matter aside for now, Steel Butterfly flew off as quietly and as concealed as possible to get ready for his "climatic rendezvous" with his favorite heroes the next day.
Meanwhile, Cat Noir started practicing flying with his new jetpack, with Plagg's help in his thoughts.
Cat Noir's jetpack was also producing actual neon green bat wings that actually worked like Batman having a winged jetpack with moving wings.
Of course, even Cat Noir couldn't resist stretching his arms in front of him while flying like he was Superman.
Cat Noir said to himself, "Hey, I'm starting to get the hang of this, Plagg. But let's not rush it."
Plagg replied, "No problem, Adrien. But remember, you can only use your Cataclysm once, and after that, you have five minutes before you detransform and I'll have to recharge by eating food. And I'll eat anything available."
Cat Noir then does a slow barrel roll and remarks, "I'm starting to get the hang of this."
Suddenly hearing the buzzing sound of insect wings, Cat Noir stops to hover upright in the air, the bat wings on his jetpack flapping slowly to help keep him hovering in place.
Cat Noir looks to his left to see Ladybug flying with her own armored ladybug wings.
Ladybug sees Cat Noir and flies to him at slow speed.
Ladybug hovers upright and Cat Noir bows while making his introduction, "Nice of you to fly in the superhero business just in time, so to speak. I bet you're the partner my kwami told me about. I'm... Cat Noir. Yeah, Cat Noir really fits my appearance. And you?"
Ladybug quickly replies while staying slow enough for Cat Noir to catch up, "I'm Marinette Dupain-Cheng, but I'm also known as Ladybug. No one else must know our identities."
Cat Noir then states, "Well, in that case, I'm actually Adrien Agreste."
Ladybug's eyes widened in shock, knowing precisely what she called the son of Gabriel Agreste earlier that day due to having reached the end of her patience with Chloe and Sabrina.
Ladybug quickly says in response, "Well, nice to meet the son of Gabriel Agreste. But just so you know, I know the real Adrien Agreste deep down, wanting a warm home and a loving family because you don't know what really happened to your mother and your father's changed in a bad way. Correct me if I'm wrong, kitty."
Cat Noir replies back in a somber tone, "No, you got that right. But you see, my father's reputation as a fashion mogul who keeps his emotions in check has always had a firm clasp on me. Because of that, I feel like he's my puppetmaster, a ventriloquist waiting to cut my strings when I'm no longer of use. Even when I'm with friends that my father allows me to have because of his overly strict and controlling nature, I feel like my father's secretary and my bodyguard are watching me wherever I go. I feel like I have to be the perfect son for him all the time because I'm paranoid in the sense that I feel like he's watching my every move, waiting for some excuse to keep me at home so he can keep a closer eye on me. And yet he has no idea that he can't make me perfect because NO HUMAN BEING ON EARTH IS PERFECT."
Ladybug states in response, "Oh. I see. Rest assured, Cat, if you and I ever enter a relationship in the future, I'll make sure you're well-loved by my parents."
Cat Noir smiles and hugs Ladybug, causing her to hug him back.
Suddenly, the ground shakes. However, Ladybug and Cat Noir were hovering above the buildings, so they didn't feel the rumbling of the pavement.
Cat Noir and Ladybug see a building fall.
Ladybug growls, "RRRR. Let's go save Paris!"
The two Heroes of Paris fly off at a high rate of speed to the source of the disturbance, secretly observed by Steel Butterfly.
(Meanwhile, at the Parc des Princes stadium...)
The students have just finished with P.E. But then, Stoneheart appeared.
Stoneheart bellowed, "KIMMM! So, who's the wuss now?"
The mere sight of Stoneheart was more than enough to send the kids running in fear.
Stoneheart lands in front of Kim, and this causes Kim to flee, prompting Stoneheart to chase him.
When Kim trips and Stoneheart advances, Cat Noir's staff blocks him.
The black cat hero says as he hovers, "Hey, it's not very nice to pick on people who are smaller than you."
Stoneheart replies ominously, "I guess you're talking about yourself."
After dodging two of Stoneheart's attacks, which consisted of Stoneheart trying to grab Cat Noir with his left fist and the cat hero clad in dark-colored battle armor managing to fly out of the way and Stoneheart trying to smash Cat Noir with his left hand, only to miss again, Cat Noir starts planning on how to take down the stone villain. Cat Noir was planning slowly and quickly all at once due to his own experiences of planning, thanks to his schedules provided by Nathalie.
In Hawk Moth's lair, Hawk Moth monologues, "Everything's going according to plan. The Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses have been activated. Here come the new holders of the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses to save the day, and now my first supervillain will destroy them. But why do they have causal clothing and bodysuits merged with battle armor? And why do they have ladybug and bat wings, with Cat Noir's wings attached to a jetpack? And yet I don't have moth wings. I better ask Nooroo about this later."
Back at the battle, after dodging another of Stoneheart's attacks, which meant Stoneheart tried to pound Cat Noir into the ground with his right fist, but Cat Noir dodged it. And the armored cat hero manages to vault over the stone villain via his ability to fly without hitting him and manages to get away as quickly as possible without getting hit himself.
Cat Noir's instincts had warned him of Stoneheart's greatest advantage: his size and super strength increases with each hit he takes.
Cat Noir asks aloud in a shouting tone to no one in particular, "Where are you, partner?!"
Cat Noir dodges yet another smash hit.
On top of part of the stadium, Ladybug was watching the whole thing with great interest, her newfound confidence and intuitive mind working its organic gears in her head.
Ladybug mutters to herself, "What could be useful in this one?"
Meanwhile, Stoneheart throws a net at Cat Noir, but the cat hero dodges the net.
Of course, the net was gonna hit the Ghost Punisher, but she just slices the net in half with her samurai sword.
Cat Noir looks so astonished that he fails to escape from Stoneheart's grasp.
Looking up at the armored ladybug hero, Ghost Punisher calls out, "What are you waiting for, super red bug? The world is watching from my camera drones!"
As Ladybug hears her own heartbeat, her armored mask morphs itself to match her expressions as she is filled with more courage and resolve than before.
She jumps in the air, activating her wings, and throws her yoyo at Stoneheart's legs while quipping, "Animal cruelty? How shameful!"
Ladybug pulls back on her yoyo, making Stoneheart trip while releasing Cat Noir.
Ghost Punisher states, "Yes! This is getting good!"
As Cat Noir stands up, Ladybug says to her partner while she hovers upright, "We're not gonna make much headway because every time Stoneheart gets hit, he grows in size and strength."
Cat Noir then announces to his beloved opposite, "Well, I've noticed that his right hand is closed like the Russian dolls. He never opens his right hand because that's where his Akumatized object is. And apparently, if I use my Cataclysm on Stoneheart, I might end up accidentally destroying him as my Cataclysm can make any organic being petrified and their bodies will crumble to dust. Therefore, even if Stoneheart is returned to normal, whoever he really is would be turned to ashes."
Ladybug replies, "You're right! So let's be extra careful with our powers of creation and destruction. Lucky Charm!"
Ladybug's yoyo summons a wetsuit.
Looking around, Ladybug's Lucky Vision highlights Stoneheart's right fist, a nearby water tap, Ghost Punisher and the hose connected to the water tap.
Ladybug grabs the hose and ties it to the wetsuit. Then she ties Cat Noir's feet with her yoyo.
Ladybug states, "Don't resist. Trust me."
Ladybug spins Cat Noir around a few times to build up the releasing momentum as Cat Noir shouts, "This girl's crazy!"
Cat Noir gets thrown in Stoneheart's waiting left fist.
Ladybug flies in the air with the wetsuit as she taunts Stoneheart with, "Catch me if you can!"
Stoneheart fell for it hook, line and sinker as he drops his Akumatized object to catch Ladybug.
Succeeding in the first stage of her plan, Ladybug states, "And now... Ghost Punisher, the tap!"
Ghost Punisher goes to the water tap and turns it on. The water sprouts and inflates the wetsuit. Stoneheart lets go of Ladybug. Ladybug breaks the Akumatized object and slides her yoyo open as she says for the first time, "No more evildoing for you, little akuma. Time to deakumatize!" She swings the yoyo and catches the akuma. The yoyo snaps shut and traps the akuma in it, purifying it. Ladybug opens the yoyo and says, "Bye-bye, little butterfly."
Ladybug throws the deflated wetsuit in the air and cries out, "Miraculous Ladybug!"
The wetsuit becomes an enormous swarm of magic ladybugs that fly all across Paris, repairing the damages done by Stoneheart, healing anyone wounded by the stone monster and reviving anyone who actually died in the entire rampage.
Stoneheart is enveloped in a magical dark-purple ether once again, transforming back into Ivan Bruel.
Of course, some parts of Stoneheart's stone armor fell off him and landed on the ground as Cat Noir was released.
Then the rocks of stone armor disappear in a cloud of yellow and white smoke.
Cat Noir remarks in awe, "This girl is awesome. She's crazy awesome!"
Ladybug looks down at the Akumatized wad of paper reverting back to normal.
Ivan looks around and asks, "Whu-what's going on? What am I doing here?"
Cat Noir states to his partner, "You were awesome, Ladybug. You did it."
Ladybug replies, "No, we did it, partner."
The two first heroes of Paris bump fists and say in unison, "Pound it!"
Ladybug and Cat Noir look back at Ivan as he gets his bearings back.
Ladybug unwraps the crumpled up paper and reads it, "'You haven't even got the guts to tell Mylene you love her, wuss.'"
Ivan clarified, "Kim wrote it. He's always making fun of me."
Ladybug comforts Ivan and says, "You know, you shouldn't get so bent out of shape about that. There's no shame in telling someone you love them, Ivan."
Ivan asks confusedly, "Hey, how do you know my name, miss?"
Ladybug replies without hesitation and without stuttering, "A mutual friend told me."
Just then, Ladybug, Cat Noir and Ivan notice Ghost Punisher returning to normal as her transformation wears off, revealing a purple, white and red butterfly multiplying itself to form a holographic head.
The head looked like a man wearing a helmet that combines design aspects of an armored full head mask with a butterfly-shaped visor and various depictions of The Shredder's helmet, but without the depictions of the Super Shredder's helmet.
The hologram says in a soft, booming voice sounding like two different Ghost Riders, "Ladybug, Cat Noir, listen carefully. I am Steel Butterfly."
Ladybug and Cat Noir ask in shock, "Steel Butterfly?!"
Unfazed, Steel Butterfly continues, "I'm here to help you two. The one responsible for turning Ivan Bruel into Stoneheart is the first villainous terrorist of Paris who calls himself Hawk Moth. Maybe this will suffice as to what he looks like?"
A holographic drone produces a hundred percent accurate holographic photo of what Hawk Moth normally looks like, giving Ladybug and Cat Noir a clear picture of what their enemy looks like.
Steel Butterfly continues, completely unaware of Alya still filming, "Basically, Hawk Moth's main power source is called the Moth Miraculous, also known as the Butterfly Miraculous. But the Butterfly Miraculous I have is radically different as it enables me to use multi-colored butterflies to create my heroic champions while Hawk Moth uses moths and/or pure white butterflies for his own purposes. Anyway, both the Butterfly and Moth Miraculouses have the ability to use energized butterflies and/or moths to grant people their own superpowers and make them devoted followers of the Lepidoptera species Miraculous users. In the right hands, the similarly different Miraculouses can create superheroes through positive emotions in the hands of someone like me. But in the hands of a madman like Hawk Moth, they can be used to instead create supervillains through negative emotions. The stronger the emotions of the recipient, the stronger their powers as a Tenshized superhero and as an Akumatized supervillain will become."
Taking this information to heart, Ladybug then states, "Thank you, Steel Butterfly. When can we meet?"
Steel Butterfly replies, "I'll meet you at the next Akuma attack. Just be on the lookout for a tall man clad in dark purple, lavender, black, burgundy red, indigo blue, pink, sea green, silver, and regular blue butterfly-themed and Shredder-inspired battle armor and wearing a jetpack with retractable butterfly wings. I gotta go now. My benefactor is waiting for me. Ta ta."
The Tenshies purify themselves and fly off back to Steel Butterfly's lair.
Alya says while continuing to film Ladybug, "Uncanny, amazing, spectacular! Are you three gonna be protecting Paris from now on? How did you get your powers? Did you get stung by a radioactive ladybug? Oh, I've got tons of questions to ask you, uh, miss... uhhh..."
Ladybug replies, "Call me Ladybug! As for your questions, they will be answered once I have fully rested and recuperated. After all, I may have cool powers, but even I'm only human."
Ladybug and Cat Noir activate their respective jetpack and wings as they jump and blast off, their wings flapping and fluttering in the process.
Alya remarks, "Ladybug... Super awesome!"
In Marinette's room, Marinette and Tikki are watching the news report.
Nadia says on the TV, "So, thanks to this amateur footage, the Parisians now know the identities of their new heroes! As for this Steel Butterfly, he says he's gonna meet Ladybug and Cat Noir at the next akuma attack. More on that later on."
Marinette says happily, "I did it, Tikki!"
Tikki replies, "I know! I always knew you were up to it, Marinette. I'm so proud of you. And your parents are proud of you, too."
Just then, Sabine's voice called out, "Marinette! Tikki! Dinner time!"
As the Dupain-Chengs gather at their table for dinner while the TV plays in the background, Tikki decides to say something.
She says, "Sabine, Tom. I hate to say this, but part of me wishes that you never knew about Marinette's double life."
Slightly offended, Sabine asks, "Why not?"
Tikki replies, "Well, if you ever got kidnapped by anyone like a terrorist organization who wished to steal my Miraculous to hand it over to Hawk Moth just because they disagree with Marinette resisting Hawk Moth, they would force you to reveal Ladybug's real name to make things easier for them. And if you ever got Akumatized, Hawk Moth could easily force you to reveal Marinette's identity by inflicting pain on you. And that kind of superpower was originally meant to prevent Tenshized superheroes from going rogue and to ensure that they follow orders."
Sabine says warmly, "Rest assured, Tikki, Steel Butterfly and the Great Guardian of the Miraculouses left us some amnesia dust to temporarily wipe our memories of Marinette's identity in the event we ever get kidnapped or Akumatized."
This left Tikki relieved that Steel Butterfly had thought all about lots of contingency plans for every occasion.
But that didn't necessarily mean that Tikki was gonna completely agree with Master Fu's decision to let Steel Butterfly be the leader of any future team of heroes that involve her chosen as a member.
Meanwhile, in Adrien Agreste's bedroom at the Agreste Mansion, Adrien and Plagg are watching the news on their TV.
The Parisian Mayor, Andre Bourgeois, makes the following announcement, "I am pleased to announce that we will organize a huge celebration in honor of our city's new protectors. Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Steel Butterfly!"
Adrien says with a heart, "Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the only baker's daughter in Paris, is Ladybug. I can't wait to get to know her soon."
Just then, Plagg took in the smell of a handheld fruit bowl Adrien got from his luxurious room service, and takes a whiff before saying in a satisfied manner, "Mmm. What's this, kid? It smells good."
Smiling at his kwami's reaction, Adrien answers, "It's a handheld fruit bowl. My father's personal chef made all of this."
Plagg took a liking to the handheld fruit bowl, so he ate its contents while making sure that he's taking it slow so as to not get hiccups.
Of course, Plagg stopped only once to drink some water and to assure Adrien that he wasn't gluttonous whatsoever, as even the kwami of destruction knew that gluttony was one of the seven deadly sins of mankind.
That meant that even kwamis believed in God as much as the majority of their owners in the past, the present day and the future, even if the remaining minority will be ostracized and outcaste by the majority who happen to be bullies of religious people.
Meanwhile, Steel Butterfly is telling Master Fu all about the fight against Stoneheart.
Master Fu gave his interdimensional protégé props for being honest and thorough with the details.
In particular, Master Fu was pleased to hear that his new chosen champions will meet his first one at the next Akuma attack tomorrow.
Of course, Steel Butterfly had another thing to say. He said, "Oh, and there's something you need to know. Ever since Marinette was six years old, she was physically and mentally trained in preparation for when she would receive the Ladybug Miraculous. Here's how it happened:"
(2007, Dupain-Cheng bakery, narrated by Steel Butterfly...)
Ever since Marinette turned six and was capable of learning how to keep secrets, trivial and personal, her parents told her about what will happen on the first day of school of this year, 2014.
At first, Marinette was not so excited about wielding magic jewelry to be a superhero as an older girl due to having grown up in a religious household.
But eventually, she conceded once she found out that it was her destiny, one that she couldn't back out from as such important matters of the future are extremely difficult and that attempting to avert such a destiny won't be so beneficial in the long run.
Marinette found out the easy way that if she didn't handle such big matters of the future carefully, the consequences will be most severe.
So, for the past seven years, Marinette was physically and mentally trained on the things she needed to learn before she entered the world of superheroes.
To start off, she was put on a strict nutritional diet and a rigorous exercise regiment.
Next, she was trained in acrobatic gymnastics and parkour maneuvers.
Then, she was trained to mentally resist the temptations of Hawk Moth's akumas.
Next, she was trained to keep her emotions in check to avoid getting Akumatized.
Then, she was trained to use her instincts to find out who might turn out to be good friends and who might not be. Especially if push comes to shove in the presence of a megalomaniacal liar who willingly collaborates with a magic-abusing terrorist just to settle a petty grudge on someone for calling them out on their lies.
Next, she was trained in martial arts and hand-to-hand combat.
Then, she was trained on how to use any melee or ranged weapon which is available to use.
Next-to-last, she was trained on how to communicate with angels through meditation, without magic.
And finally, she was trained to determine if someone is lying or not through common sense and foreknowledge of anything that the liar might be lying about.
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