Miracle Box - an MLB rewrite

Book 2 - An Epic Battle to Ensue, Plus the Epilogue

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This is the final chapter for book 2! I didn't have plans to do the Shanghai special, so after this we are just jumping right into book 3, which will be the final part of this mega fic.

Volpina was going to die.

Reverser was bent on it. He dropped all attention he had on Ladybug and Chat Noir, exchanging it with his fueled hatred for Lila Rossi to murder her. He chased her across Paris, having the power now of Reverser, Roosterbold, and Chat Noir combined. With the seeming unlimited power, he destroyed everything in his path with ruination and cataclysm, while also sending paper airplanes at Volpina to cripple her if they chanced touching her. She could only play the game of evade, never once able to properly defend herself even with her own power. Even illusions she sent weren't thwarting him. Those didn't last long, because soon he caught up to her and stole her power.

Now, he also had the power of the fox. This wouldn't be possible ordinarily, given the parameters of how the rooster miraculous worked. He couldn't give himself a power that already existed from his box, and he also couldn't take them either. But now? Hawkmoth tapped into his existing power and broadened it, the exact reason the kwamis feared the loss of Orikko.

Ladybug and Chat Noir were not faring well. Ladybug was clumsy and dumb now, hardly able to chase without falling off a building or tying herself up in her yoyo. And Chat Noir lost his powers. He could run after Reverser, but what was he supposed to do when he caught up? Reverser was the perfect hero Hawkmoth had been striving to create all this time. It just so happened he got lucky, discovering his akuma happened to possess the rooster miraculous.

"Reverser! Roosterbold, stop!" Chat Noir shouted, vaulting himself in front of Reverser as if that would do anything. Reverser ignored him, soaring over the hero on his glider. He nearly lost sight of Volpina but quickly found her again.

Reverser shook Chat Noir off his tail, just as he cornered Volipina to the street below. She cowered against a wall, having nowhere to run. She started trying to negotiate with him as he closed in on her. He was now barely a foot away.

"Dumbass," a girl whispered in his head.

The end of a bow struck against Reverser's temple, catching him so off guard he nearly fell. Volpina was standing behind him, and what he had pinned was her illusion.

"I stole your powers," he said angrily, "how?!"

"You thought you did," she sneered, "did you really trust you were winning a fight against an illusionist?"

Reverser felt ridiculously stupid at that moment. He stepped away from her, shooting daggers at her with his glares. "What do you want?" he asked venomously.

"I can be the hero this world needs," she said, tipping her head down. Her eyes twinkled beneath the slits of that fox mask, making her appear more villainous than previously perceived.

"I thought so too," he said, still keeping a distance, "that's why I'm here. But hatred blinded me. I'm the furthest thing from a hero. I'm selfish. I put the life of one person over thousands. And somehow, you're even worse."

"I don't care what you think of me. Again, we could work together and get what we both want."

"What will be changed?" he asked, "I reverse the evil ways of people and you wish for a safer society? What happens then? Won't evil always crawl back?"

"We'd be there to stop it."

"No, we wouldn't. I'd have what I want and would feel no inclination to prevent small evils in the world. And you were evil to begin with, you'd be eradicated with everyone else."