Miracle Box - an MLB rewrite

Book 3 - Reveal.

A/N Short chapter cause the next one is LONG.

Incomprehensible monsters swarmed the streets.

Oh god.

Ladybug was going to throw up.

Her knees buckled at the sight of a monster so large it had to tear apart miles of the city just to emerge from the ground like a kaiju. Chat Noir caught her, and held her limply, for both were stunned beyond words. The largest monster really did look like it was some sort of kaiju from Pacific Rim. Before it birthed from the ground entirely, it was already smashing its claws through buildings and making a sport of knocking everything over within its reach.

And it wasn't even their biggest concern.

Already, thousands of hound-like creatures darted through the streets. They attacked cars and people as they searched for something: for Ladybug and Chat Noir.

"What can we even do?" Ladybug's voice broke. That kaiju thing was bigger than Godzilla. Really, it closely resembled Slattern, if you know what that fucker is. Somehow bigger than that.

"I must find Dusuu," Chat Noir insisted.

"You can't! He's clearly gone insane!"

"What choice do we have, Ladybug?!"

She bit her lip in frustration. Tears were streaming down her face which she did not bother to wipe away. She regathered herself, planting her feet firmly on the ground as if what she was about to propose would knock her off the side of the building.

"We need a kwami to fight this," she said, "neither of us are powerful enough."

It clung to the air between them. She could hear the thoughts in his head, rationalizing and understanding what she'd just said. Only a kwami could defeat a kwami. But Dusuu was the most powerful one in the miracle box now that Orikko was gone. Second to him was Nooroo. In other words, no matter what they were fucked.

"We could get Fluff," Chat suggested, "she could reverse all this with time."

"With how her time travel works, if she went back in time to stop this from happening, it would just create a reality where it didn't. We would still be in this reality, dying. If she went back and prevented Hawkmoth from taking the miraculous to begin with, we would still be here in this timeline fighting him in this specific situation."

"I understand.." he continued to think, "then Sass? His time manipulation actually does affect this timeline."

"True, but we would have needed him to set a marker prior to that monster wrecking the city."

"Then who?!" he asked, frustrated and wanting to tear his hair out. "Who stands a chance against Dusuu?! Tikki and Plagg? You want us to give up? Fluff really is useless?!"

"I mean... I only know how the wielder or her miraculous works. She might not be bound to the same logic..."

"Then let's get her and see!"

"Chaton," Ladybug cut him off as he was about to leave. "I am asking you to trust me now."

He stayed quiet, but looked at her. His eyes were mourning something she didn't understand.

"I'm going to let Tikki take care of this. She's powerful. She could surely hold him off. I know you're scared of letting Plagg out, in case he never returns to you. So I will not ask that of you."

"I will go then," Chat said, "so I will not see your identity."

"No," said Ladybug, preventing him from leaving once again. "I need you to know."