LadyBugOut AU (Snippets)

Blocked Connection

Summary:
The ending of the fight between a portion of Team Miraculous and Lady Wifi.

Notes:
We've seen Lady Wifi so many times in the show that I see no reason to write this whole fight, lol.

Chapter Text
By the time Heavy Matal managed to catch up with Lady Wifi, she had already stepped off that stupid fast-forward symbol she could ride and was in the midst of throwing her pause symbols at Ladybug and Chat Noir. They were dodging skillfully, which Heavy Matal was grateful for since it meant he didn't cause any trouble by trailing behind.

Possibly hearing him, Lady Wifi briefly stopped, her phone still directed towards Ladybug and Chat Noir. She looked back at Heavy Matal, giving him a smirk. "You're definitely no Carapace."

Ladybug glared from the opposite side of Lady Wifi. "Mata doesn't need to be Carapace to help us take you down! Watch!" She took out her yoyo, then threw it up in the air. "Lucky Charm!"

The yoyo's light soared upwards, taking a large, rectangular shape. Ladybug looked confused, then held her arms out as a ladybug-patterned mattress fell into her grasp.

"Uh..."

Chat made no comment, though if he had, Heavy Matal imagined that it would be, "This is no time for sleeping on the job, m'lady."

Ladybug focused on the mattress itself along with her surroundings. Meanwhile, Hawk Moth's symbol flashed over Lady Wifi's face, almost like a flashing alarm.

Immediately, Lady Wifi placed a finger on her phone's screen. Ladybug noticed just in time, steeling herself up and throwing the mattress forward, vertically so. The pause symbol was shot in her direction, Ladybug pulling Chat behind the mattress alongside her just as the mattress itself was hit.

The mattress froze in place, essentially shielding both of them. Heavy Matal blinked, completely unsure of what was going on.

Had Ladybug glanced at him for a moment, or had he imagined it? Was he supposed to do something? Everything had happened so quickly.

Lady Wifi let out a laugh. "Seriously? That's your plan? Hiding from me?"

Heavy Matal flinched as she turned back to him, staring at him with a critical gaze. However, just as she began to hold her phone up, Hawk Moth's symbol appeared over her face again, causing her to frantically look back to where Ladybug and Chat Noir were.

Was that the plan? Using him as bait? As a distraction? A sacrifice?

Lady Wifi squinted, looking suspiciously between Heavy Matal and the mattress. After what seemed like a moment of internal debate, she turned her back on Heavy Matal, focusing on heading to where Ladybug and Chat Noir were hiding.

In a way, it made sense. She really didn't see him as a threat, and Heavy Matal wasn't exactly the stealthy type. She'd know if he ran at her to stop her plan.

But, at the same time, he didn't have to run at her, which he knew more than well from the time he saved Nino.

Without any more thought, Heavy Matal reached for his shell and threw it forward. It soared, spinning as it went, and Lady Wifi was expertly struck in the back of the head. She yelped in pain, her phone flying out of her hands as she fell to the ground.

The shell returned to Heavy Matal's grasp. It was no manhole cover in terms of weight and impact, but it served its purpose well enough.

The phone skidded against the concrete as it landed a sizable distance away. However, it was still in front of the mattress' path, and Heavy Matal immediately realized a problem.

Lady Wifi wasn't knocked unconscious. There was no way he could reach the phone before her. Ladybug and Chat Noir couldn't leave their place at risk of not making it in time and being promptly being shot.

Heavy Matal felt a spike of panic as Lady Wifi recovered from the hit and began to scramble back up. He needed a plan - a strategy - or Ladybug and Chat Noir wouldn't be able to come out behind their makeshift shield.

Shield...

Instinct kicked in, Heavy Matal holding his shell up. As quickly as he could, he yelled, "Shell-ter!"

The circular area around him flashed green, Shell-ter forming with its typical hexagonal pattern.

And, thanks to the size, it formed with Lady Wifi inside of it. She grunted as she ran into the inner part of the shield, looking around in confusion before noticing that, unlike herself, her phone was outside of the shield's radius.

Her hands tightened into fists. She glared at Heavy Matal, finally setting her sights on him as she charged in his direction.

"Let me out!" she demanded, pounding on his chest. Without her phone though, she was helpless, Heavy Matal easily trapping her with his free arm.

"Ladybug!" he called out. "Now!"

Ladybug rushed out from behind the mattress, eyes set on the phone. She stomped her foot down on it, the akuma flying out a moment later.

Heavy Matal watched as Ladybug captured and purified the akuma in typical Ladybug fashion. When the white butterfly went free, he considered it safe enough to drop both Shell-ter and Lady Wifi herself.

Lady Wifi groaned, falling to her knees as she was de-akumatized back into Alya. Ladybug picked up the restored phone, walking towards Heavy Matal and dropping the phone into Alya's lap on the way.

"You did great!" she complimented. Looking almost smug about it, she added, "I don't doubt my teammates for a second."

"Wait." Heavy Matal paused, processing that. "That was your plan?"

She nodded. "Sorry I couldn't say much about it. I knew from the start that Lady Wifi would underestimate you because-" She paused, mouth briefly closing. "...Well, anyway, I still couldn't say anything or she would've figured it out."

He gaped, surprised that she trusted him to such an extent. As he averted his gaze and sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck, he caught sight of Chat glancing at Ladybug only to then look away.

That relationship was still tense after the livestream, it seemed. Heavy Matal pretended not to notice and fist-bumped Ladybug on his own.

He and Ladybug then grabbed the mattress together, throwing it up in the air as Ladybug called out for Miraculous Ladybug. The magical ladybugs swept over the city, and though Heavy Matal had considered taking Alya back himself, Chat was already heading in her direction.

Thus, he left alongside Ladybug, leaving Chat and Alya to themselves. Chat attempted to comfort Alya, but she brushed him off, saying nothing as she stared at the phone in her lap.

Then, still without a word, she picked up her phone and scrolled through her contacts. Apparently, she was looking for Max, though Chat didn't know why.