Red Strings And Markers

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Ladybug and Chat Noir were struggling a bit with Princess Ivy. Her powers were botany related, being able to control and shoot vines with thorns in them from the ground at her will and the flowers that bloomed from her palm seemed to let out different colored hazes, depending on the color of the flower and had different effects. A yellow flower paralyzed the victim, a red one controlled and brainwashed them and the purple one caused illusions.

"Shit." Ladybug was hiding behind a large tree, panting and holding her right shoulder. She had taken a hit for Chat Noir from one of the thorn vines, a thorn digging into her shoulder. Ladybug hissed as she grabbed the largest end of it and yanked it out, blood seeping out of the wound and staining her red suit.

"My lady!" Chat was quick to get to Ladybug's side, looking down at her wound. "You shouldn't have taken that hit for me. You're bleeding." She shrugged with her good shoulder.

"I would have still felt the pain anyway, remember?" Another small side effect of their red strings being connected, if one of them got a surface injury, the other would have a bruise in the same location of the injury.

Chat brought his hand to his own shoulder, feeling how it was hot and throbbed. "Still, it would have hurt you less if I would have taken the hit."

"Chat, please stop talking about it, it's making it hurt worse." Princess Ivy was summoning her vines from under the ground, tearing the ground apart and breaking all the things in the park.

"How can we stop her? If only we had fire." Chat murmured. Ladybug hummed, throwing her yoyo up with her good arm.

"Lucky Charm!" Out of a small cloud appeared a fire hose and dropped into Chat Noir's arms.

"Thirsty?" He teased and Ladybug rolled her eyes, looking around at what she could do. Her eyes found two fire hydrants, the vines and Princess Ivy herself.

"Plants are weak to fire but they're also weak to very large amounts of water. Plants are capable of drowning if there's too much water." She turned to Chat. "I need you to use your Cataclysm on that fire hydrant over there, it should create mud, making it hard for Ivy to bring out anymore thorn vines. Chat nodded and was about to head out but stopped, looking down at her.

"But what about this?" Ladybug tried to take the fire hose in one arm, but she failed, not being able to use her other arm much. "Let me help." Ladybug let out a sigh and nodded as Chat took the hose in his arms again.

"You see that other fire hydrant over there?" Ladybug pointed and Chat nodded. "I need you to attach the hose there. I'll try to bring her down to the ground and if I looked correctly, she has a rose necklace I think might hold the akuma." Chat nodded.

"Got it." Before Chat left, he got close to her and one hand hovered over her shoulder and then up to her cheek, but he sighed and shook his head, going to do his job. He attached the hose to the fire hydrant before crossing the park and dodging any vines that would shoot at him.

"Cataclysm!" In Chat's hand, a black magic grew and he swiped his hand on the fire hydrant, making it rust. He got onto his hands and kicked the hydrant, causing the water to shoot upwards and to the sides.

"You rotten cat!" Ivy yelled at him and tried to shoot a vine at him, but the vines were lethargic with the weight of the newly formed mud on them. Ivy growled and opened her palm, a purple flower blooming in her hand.

"Chat! Don't breathe in that haze!" Ladybug called out. Ivy shot the haze at Chat and he quickly covered his nose, running out of the cloud perimeter just in time. Ivy snarled and looked over at Ladybug.

"Why you-!" Ivy turned towards Ladybug and Ladybug angled the hose to Ivy and let the water run. A hard spray knocked Ivy off balance and she hit the muddy ground. Ladybug turned off the power and just as Ivy was going to get up and attack, Chat swiped for her necklace and tossed it to Ladybug.