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The hero team lay dead, strewn across the floor where Hawkmoth had left them.
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Marinette hung limply from a rope. Her parent's screams split the air.
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Ladybug was crushed under Stoneheart's foot. Chat Noir was lying in a pool of his blood a few metres away.
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Adrien lay, bleeding out in an alley, paralysed with horror at what his 'fans' had done.
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Marinette stumbled, a shadow standing over her with bloody earrings in their hand.
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Timebreaker slammer Ladybug into the ground.
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Ladybug crumbled under a misplaced cataclysm.
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Chat Blanc screamed in triumph.
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Bunnyx stepped away from the fading timeline. She turned to another.
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Another timeline. Another death. Another tear. Another breakdown. Another reality where she wasn't enough. Another nightmare for only her to live.
She couldn't look at any of them anymore. Not without a thousand of their deaths flashing before her. Ladybug finds her crying on the Eiffel Tower.
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She was the hero of last resort, barely used. Hah. They could never know how often she was used. She could cope. They couldn't.
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More dreams, more nightmares. Or was that real? It's all bleeding together.
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Finally, they've win without catastrophe. Have they won, everyone seems happy. What were they fighting against this timeline? All she can picture are the piles of bodies again and again?
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Someone is screaming. Why, they've won haven't they? This time...
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She's screaming.
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Why? She can cope. She has to.
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They can't see the blood. She can.
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The blood is on her hands now.
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Someone else is screaming with her.
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She isn't the only insane one then.
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That's okay. She can fix whatever's wrong. It's her job, isn't it?
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Why does it have to be HER job?
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They need her, she can't just vanish. Can she?
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Only Bunnyx is needed. Alix Kubdel can disappear.
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