LadyBugOut AU (Snippets)

Catastrophe

Summary:
Team Miraculous versus an akumatized Adrien.

Chapter Text
By the time Ladybug, Hecattack, and Neurofoxin arrived at the scene, multiple buildings had already been toppled. People were fleeing left and right, and even the expected piles of debris were gray and depressing.

One of the last people to flee--a man--rushed up to Ladybug, grabbing her arms and lowering his gaze to the ground. "Please stop it! There's a monster roaming the street, destroying everything it touches!"

Ladybug calmly grabbed his hands and removed them from her arms. "Don't worry, sir. Get to safety and we'll do our best to take care of it, alright?"

The man gave a shaky nod, then ran past her to join the escaping crowd.

Hecattack scanned the area. A few of the streetlights had been taken out in the "monster's" rampage, so his night vision could more easily see anything that was out of place.

"...There." He pointed near one of the buildings.

Ladybug looked out, having to squint a bit to see. Far off in the distance, she could see a black, hunched over form, looking to be in the process of knocking out another streetlight.

Without warning, it turned its head to them. As its hand touched the streetlight, the area around its hand turned gray and grew dozens of tiny cracks. The cracks spread both up and down, turning the streetlight gray as it went before it finally toppled to the ground.

Ladybug kept a safe distance, but let the figure approach. It crouched down on all fours, silently stepping towards them.

"Get ready," she whispered to her team. She didn't look at them, wanting to keep an eye on Hawk Moth's new victim, but she sensed that they nodded at her.

The figure was cat-like, but rather than fur, it seemed as if it was covered completely in a leather suit. Its hands were charged with a black aura that looked too familiar to be a coincidence. The suit covered its face completely, excluding its glowing eyes, and the white pattern along the suit seemed suspiciously familiar.

Hecattack had his baton at the ready. "So, he's been akumatized."

Neurofoxin stood back quietly, staring at their foe--Catastrophe, though not that they would know his name--with a wary gaze. With each step forward, Catastrophe's hands caused a small area of the ground underneath him to crack and turn gray.

An endless Cataclysm.

Ladybug sharpened her gaze. "Chat..."

Catastrophe said nothing in response, only eyeing the three. As his gaze fell upon Hecattack, who held strong to his fighting stance, Catastrophe seemed to be looking for something.

And finally, his eyes fell upon Hecattack's ring.

Catastrophe's eyes widened. He glared, then suddenly charged for them.

Ladybug stiffened, throwing her yoyo to the farthest thing it could latch onto. As Hecattack and Neurofoxin fled, she swung herself up to one of the buildings that Catastrophe hadn't yet destroyed.

Catastrophe swung at Hecattack, who dodged expertly and ran in the other direction.

Ladybug watched, her eyes following the action as she tried to figure out where the akuma would be.

Chat. Adrien. She'd considered the possibility of him being akumatized, but actually seeing it was a completely different story. The idea of Adrien, giving into Hawk Moth...

Though, people had likely never expected someone like her to be akumatized either, yet it'd almost happened twice.

Out of the corner of her eye, Ladybug took notice of the remaining two members of the team: Fukiya and Heavy Matal. It likely wasn't hard to hear about what happened, especially given the helicopters far up in the sky and away from the action, so Ladybug wasn't particularly surprised to see them.