Princess Justice - A Miraculous Ladybug Fanfic

Chapter 6 - Tricks

Princess Justice and Rena Rouge both turned around to see Cat Noir, looking frantic. He, however, wasn't looking at them. Suddenly, a banana was thrown in Princess Justice's direction. She jumped in the nick of time, dodging the banana as it fell to the ground with a tiny squeak, as though someone squished it like a toy. She looked in fury at King Monkey's direction, pinning him down as he writhed in pain.

"So this was an ambush plan."

"No! I swear! Cat Noir, what are they doing here?"

She asked, gritting her teeth as she looked at him in fury.

"They didn't trust you! They created a whole plan and-"

Suddenly, a pink surge was thrown in Princess Justice's direction as the Purple Tigress came from behind. Princess Justice saw both and dived to the side, ribbons covering the sharp plants. She fell to the ground, slowly crawling away from Pigella as she suddenly lunged at Purple Tigress, sending her flying to the floor with her. Purple Tigress groaned in pain as Princess Justice ripped her bracelet off, revealing her identity to be none other than Juleka Couffaine.

"Purple Tigress is Adrien's classmate?"

Hawkmoth said incredulously, then let out a loud, evil laugh of small victory. Princess Justice again rolled her eyes, before tossing the bracelet underneath a wall and crushing the section with her ribbons, leading the bracelet to be buried with rubble. She smirked as the heroes looked at Juleka in horror and shock. They couldn't believe that Princess Justice was able to make her miraculous so quickly and easily; like taking candy from a baby. Princess Justice quickly grabbed Juleka out of the garden and put her in a safe place; she didn't have anything against Juleka for she knew she was one of the only ones who believed her. She also didn't hurt people when they were in a vulnerable state; it's unhonorable.

After a moment, she walked away from Juleka and quickly hoped that the others weren't going to follow her. Sure enough, as she went back into the garden, three people came onto her at once; Vesperia, Rena Rouge, and Cat Noir. She sneered at them as she posed into a defensive stance.

"I should have known you were spouting nothing but lies."

"I wasn't lying. We do need to talk. But with your normal self, because of this? This isn't you."

"What would you know about me? You would willingly go against me, and make other people believe that I'm a monster just so you wouldn't have to go through anything. You're nothing but a coward, willing to let me take the fall. You don't know anything about me."

Rena Rouge winced, and Princess Justice took that chance to lunge at her, and they started to fight one-on-one. Vesperia was about to join in but Cat Noir stopped her. He shaked his head and she knew what he meant to say. This was between them. However, their short conversation made one thing abundantly clear to Cat Noir and Vesperia, which made things much, much more difficult for them, and the team. Princess Justice was not planning to give up her powers anytime soon.

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It didn't look like Princess Justice was planning to quit anytime soon. She kept dodging Rena Rouge's attacks with ease, almost as though she had been doing this for quite some time. She also was able to land a few punches, a jab here and there. It was obvious that Rena Rouge was getting tired of fighting, as she wasn't able to dodge or block any punches at all once the fourth punch in the gut was made. She fell to the ground and Princess Justice pinned her while kicking her in the stomach.

It was at this point that Cat Noir and Vesperia rushed to help, while the others were making a plan to stop Princess Justice once and for all. Rena Rouge groaned in pain, Vesperia helping her up before running away to put her somewhere safe where she could rest. Cat Noir looked at Princess Justice sadly, with apparent guilt in his eyes that somehow Princess Justice missed.

"I don't want to fight you."

"Hm, that's the exact same Rena Rouge said, and yet she and I have given each other rather large bruises. For me, that is to say, emotionally. For her, well obviously it was physical."

"Look, I can show you."

And with that, he threw his baton to the side, the baton rolling under the rubble that was created that held the tiger miraculous. Princess Justice seemed unimpressed but sat down in her original position. Cat Noir took that as an invitation to sit. As he sat across from her, the others looked at him in shock. Vesperia came in, and once she took in the situation, looked uncertain of what Cat Noir was trying to do. She stayed away from the two, and joined the others, on top of a building next to a garden. Princess Justice knew that they were there ever since she heard their footsteps, but decided not to say or do anything about it.

After a couple of minutes of silence, it was broken by a soft sigh from Princess Justice. Cat Noir looked a bit confused about what they were doing. After taking a couple of deep breaths to calm herself, she glanced at Cat Noir's direction and asked,

"Why do you not wish to fight me, if you expect me to believe that's true?"

"Because we need to talk. You can't keep doing this Princess Justice. We are going to keep going after you until you are de-akumatized. The others will not believe you. Not unless."

"Unless...?

"Unless me and Rena Rouge support you, tell everyone that you are innocent and get you back into your school."

Princess Justice looked at him in disbelief. She was not willing to believe that Cat Noir, the most egotistical superhero she had ever met, was willing to help her expose Lila to everyone and get her unexpelled for no good reason. There had to be a reason, something that Cat Noir gets out of it. She no longer believed that people wanted to help her because they cared about her.

"What do you get out of this?"

"Lila has done some pretty unforgivable things. She keeps hurting people and getting away with it. She has hurt a lot of people, and she can't keep doing it. She has tried to help supervillains so she could make m'lady pay for exposing her."

M'lady. That's why he is doing this. He wants to impress Ladybug. She should have known; the guy was head over heels for her, even though he knew that she loved someone else. She let out a big, wicked grin.

"Thanks. But..no thanks."

She exclaimed. Then, she used her ribbons to fly away. Cat Nor let out a sad sigh before going after her, the others hot on her trail.