"Let me get this straight," Eagle said, running out of breath. Queen Bee and Eagle had been fending Style Queen off together for a while now. "That's Audrey Bourgeois, this guy named Hawkmoth possessed her into a villain, and the only way to get everything back to normal is to break a special object and purify an akuma?"
"We can't purify it without Ladybug, I don't think. She had restoration powers, you see," Queen Bee stated. Style Queen was surrounding them in a cloud of glitter.
"So how do we get Ladybug?"
"I don't know! I don't know how to do any of this!!" Queen Bee said, falling into panic.
"Hey, calm down, this may be my playground but this is a villain you have experience with. Together, we have an advantage."
"Not without Ladybug we don't! Even if we defeat her we need to catch the akuma! I can't do shit with it!"
"I know how to help you," Eagle said, putting a hand on Queen's shoulder. She closed her eyes and suddenly Queen Bee could hear Eagle's voice in her head. "Liberation!" she said before speaking to her mind, "I am freeing you of your reluctance and self pity. You will be able to see yourself the way you want everyone to see you."
"What?!" Queen bee rose a brow. Eagle pulled her hand away.
"Feel better?"
"Yeah, I guess?"
"I am the hero of emancipation. Freedom is sort of my thing."
"What else do I expect from an American superhero," Queen deadpanned. "Alright, let's kick her butt." She felt a thousand times more confident now. She felt the eyes of the world on her, but never was it overwhelming. She felt proud, excited, and eager to show New York who the best hero on the Miracle Team was.
"She's made of glitter, maybe if we can trap portions of the glitter in different locations, we can defeat her!" Eagle suggested.
"Eh, it's worth a shot," Queen Bee said.
"Excellent idea!" came a new voice. A bald masked man in a purple dress suit leapt into the hoard of glitter with them. He had little antlers coming from the side of his mask which told Chloe that this was another miraculous user. "I am Doorman! The hero of teleportation!"
"Doorman!" Eagle exclaimed in relief, "we need to separate the glitter piece by piece, can you-"
"Of course I can!" Doorman boasted, suddenly disappearing into the golden sparkly cloud. There was a flash of purple, and then another, and then another. As the golden haze thinned out, Queen Bee was able to see Doorman opening doors and windows, transforming them into portals, and capturing the glitter in them. After about a minute, there was not much left of Style Queen. She reformed herself but huge chunks of her glittery body were missing.
"You brat!" Style Queen snapped, pointing a hooked finger at Queen Bee. "Hawkmoth wanted me to unmask you and I chose not to for your safety! And this is the thanks I get?! Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!"
"Wait, you keep your identities hidden?" Eagle whispered to Queen Bee who nodded in response. "Oh. Well, you're fucked."
"Ha... I know..."
"You're grounded!" Style Queen said.
"You can't ground me!" Queen Bee argued.
"You're my daughter! Of course I can! You're staying with me for the rest of your trip here in New York, and you're going to deal with it!"
"What?!"
"Audrey Bourgeois is your mom?!" Eagle held back a laugh.
"Shit..." Queen Bee grimaced. She looked around and, to no surprise, there were cameras everywhere, "Shit..."
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Miracle Box - an MLB rewrite
Hayran KurguTikki went with who her heart knew the best person to be the next Ladybug would be, for the good of humanity. Plagg... did not. Paris has two new superheroes, Ladybug and Chat Noir, but what they don't know is that both teens carry an intense secret...
