Chapter 9: Facing The Akuma Army

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Marinette POV

"Everyone, run for cover! Get out of the streets and into your houses!" I called as I kicked an akuma away from the crowd and instructed everyone to remain in their houses.

Emerald picked up a crying girl and handed her over to her mother before throwing an explosive kunai at another akuma, knocking him out cold. Tigress fired arrow after arrow at the akumas, but more keep showing up.

"There's no end to them!" Purple Tigress called as she launched her bolas at a akuma, knocking her to the ground.

"Keep fighting! Paris is counting on us!"  Viperion replied as he threw his lyre at a group of akumas, knocking them out cold.

We kept charging our way through the akumas until we saw Adrien in Hawkmoth's attire. 

"Great

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"Great. It's Hawkmoth Jr." Flairmidable sighed.

"That's Lord Butterfly to you." He growled.

"Why not pick on someone your own size!?" I taunted.

"As a matter of fact, I will." Lord Butterfly replied with a smug grin.

He pulled out a sword and charged towards me. I blocked with my jump rope and pushed him back.

"Multimouse! Catch!" Ryuko shouted as she threw her sword at me. I caught it and parried another sword swipe at me.

We duelled tirelessly as the akumas around us fought the others. I tried to kick him in the chest, but he dodged and slashed my arm, forcing me back. An akuma was about to jump at me, only to get a kunai in his leg and fell to the ground. Emerald saluted at me before swinging his escrima at another akumatized thug, knocking him out. Lord Butterfly jabbed his sword at me, but I parried the blade and swung the hilt of the sword at his face, breaking his nose.

As he stumbled backwards, cursing at me, I used my jump rope to attempt to knock away the moth miraculous from his blazer, but was intercepted by Lady Wifi. She launched her lock notes at me, but Viperion and Tigress deflected them. Just before Lady Wifi could strike again, Nino in the ox suit used his mallet to knock her into a building.

"Thanks for the save." I said with a smirk.

"What are friends for? And besides, it's good to be fighting for the right team." Nino said as he twirled his mace.

As we took down akuma after akuma, Lord Butterfly started to panic and left. I rushed towards him, following him to the Eiffel Tower. He used his sword to slash the I beams and knocked them towards me. I managed to dodge a few, but was knocked back by another. As I rolled across the ground in pain, Lord Butterfly loomed over me.

"I wonder if in the new timeline, Lila will be Ladybug. Maybe a better Ladybug than you." He said as he raised his sword above me/

Just before he could finish me off, a ball scooped up the moth miraculous. We looked and saw Flairmidable, smirking with the moth miraculous in his hands.

"Looking for this, Adrien?" He taunted.

Just before he could react, a blunt arrow knocked him out cold. Tigress pumped her fist in the air with celebration while Emerald Shadow cuffed him near the lamp post. Suddenly, Adrien faded away. To our surprise, we saw Volpina cackling at us before ordering the akumas to fight us while she makes her way to Agreste manor along with Adrien with the real moth miraculous. Flairmidable cursed as he crushed the fake one into orange dust.

"We'll handle the akumas. You go after them." Viperion said as he twirled his lyre.

"Be careful." I said as I kissed Luka on the cheek.

"You too, Melody." He said.

Emerald Shadow, Ryuko, Flairmidable, Tigress and I made our way to Manor via the rooftops.

"Hope we're not too late." I muttered.

"Might want to rephrase that. Look." Ryuko said as we saw Gabriel Agreste with both the ladybug and cat miraculous.

"Holy.-" Tigress gasped.

"Shit." Emerald concluded in awe.

"Damn it. Guess we'll have to fight him for it." I said as we ventured towards Gabriel, only to be intercepted by Tank and Punchline along with a large group of akumas surrounding us.

"I got Punchline." Tigress said as she pulled out her arrow.

"Tank's mine." Emerald added as he twirled his escrima sticks and formed them into a staff.

"Then we'll deal with Gabriel. Hopefully convince him before it's too late." Flairmidable said as he and I went to Gabriel.

Nico POV

As we fought the akumas, I turned to face Tank. He chuckled as he darted towards me with a failed attempt of a shoulder barge, which I managed to dodge with a twist flip. As I landed, he tried to punch me, but I stepped back and swung my staff at his jaw, knocking off his visor. To my left, I saw Punchline deflecting arrows fired by Tigress. She cursed as the two engaged in close quarters combat.

As Tank and I traded blows, I spun my staff at Tank, but he managed to catch it. I unlocked my staff and swapped to escrima mode. He tried to throw a punch at me, but I used my escrima to parry his blow and struck him across the jaw, knocking him backwards. He roared in fury as he charged towards me. I sheathed my escrimas and threw a punch at his torso, fracturing his chest armour. Tank coughed up some blood as he stumbled backwards.

"That's for Knuckleduster." I growled as I threw another punch at his face.

"That's for Scarlet." I added.

Tank cursed at me and tried to grab me, but I ducked and kicked him in the stomach. As he stumbled backwards, I grabbed his collar and kneed him in the throat.

"And that was for torturing my godparents." I said.

"TO HELL WITH YOU!" He roared as threw a furious punch at me, but I dodged and kicked his arm so hard, that it snapped like a twig.

I threw a few punches at Tank until I kicked him in the stomach, knocking him off the roof and sent him falling backwards onto the ground. He landed on the pavement with a loud thud. Punchline was sent tumbling across the ground as she tried to get up, but an arrow embedded her in the leg, causing her to scream in pain.

"That takes care of them. Now, we-." 

We heard a thud from the Eiffel Tower and saw Multimouse and  Flairmidable on the ground, groaning in pain with The Akuma Squad surrounding them. Tigress fired a smoke arrow at them, blinding them. We leaped down and subdued them with ease.

"Thanks for the hand." Flairmidable  said as I helped him up.

I nodded and stared back at Gabriel, wearing both the ladybug and cat miraculous. He glared down at us and crossed his arms.

"You should give up while you have the chance. I have the power of creation and destruction in my hands. There is nothing you can do, but except the inevitable." He taunted.

"You may think your a god, Gabriel. But, in reality, you're a man with delusions of grander and lacks a moral compass or common sense." I said

"The fact you and your son are willing to commit genocide to revive a loved one goes to  show how simple minded you are." Tigress added.

"I would convince you to stop this. But, the time for talk is over." Multimouse said.

"It's time to finish this, Uncle. Once and for all." Flairmidable added.

We drew our weapons and prepared for the fight of our lives.  

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