Project: Scrapbook

Project: Scrapbook - Antibug (P. 4)

Comic By: texmexchexmix & rionydal & artgraveyard

Written By: kasumiafkgod & the-noble-idiot

Beta'd By: miraculousandcute

Summary: N/A

Words: 581

Ladybug fought like she spoke; fluid and deadly. Her strokes spoke of her practice and training, time that, and Antibug was loath to admit it-, put Antibug at a disadvantage. Even so, it seemed they were evenly matched.

In a brief moment of reprise, Ladybug summoned her Lucky Charm. Antibug couldn't help but laugh. Ladybug thought of her as so much of a threat that she needed to summon her magical power! And that was the ticking time bomb. Five minutes, and Ladybug would be finished.

In spite, Antibug summoned her own Anti Charm.

The result?

"A bag of marbles? What am I supposed to do with this!?"

Antibug hefted her Anti Charm over her shoulder, a heavy dual blade with jagged edges, the perfect thing to symbolize the sharp and jagged hate that Antibug felt for "Paris's hero." She let out a cackle, her entire body shaking with the force of it.

"You intend on defeating me with little marbles, is that it!? You're so pathetic!"

"See, that's your problem!" Ladybug shouted back. Her voice betrayed no fear of her impending defeat, which only made Antibug shake with anger. "You only trust appearances!"

Ladybug and Antibug ran at each other, each with their own determined focus. Antibug waved her Anti Charm in a huge arc, aiming for Ladybug's head but she dodged, sliding beneath the swipe before continuing her run at Chat Noir, who was raising his bo staff like a baseball bat.

Oh no no no, none of that! Antibug adjusted her momentum and flipped around, running after Ladybug. A shout, a crack, and then dozens of red and black marbles were casing her to misstep. She instinctively released her Anti Charm to catch herself as she fell, and Chat Noir took advantage of that to fling it away.

Antibug was struggling to regain her pride. "Look at that!" sShe sneered from where she lay. "You can't do anything without your Chat Noir!"

"Chat Noir and I are a team," Ladybug said, coming to stand beside her sidekick. "If you want to fight me, you have to fight him, too. It's not my fault you don't have any friends!"

Antibug lurched to her feet just as both her and Ladybug's earrings let off the first warning beeps.

Take her Miraculous before it's too late! whispered Hawkmoth.

In hindsight, Antibug mused, Hawkmoth talked too much. His distraction had deflected Antibug's attention for long enough that Chat Noir could summon his own ability and crack the glass pool cover beneath her feet. She fell right through the crack, her feet entirely submerged in the chilly pool water.

It all happened so fast that Antibug didn't have time to cover her ears before Ladybug was flying towards her, hands extended. Antibug barely felt it as the earrings were unclipped with deft fingers and pulled from her ears.

Ladybug crushed her precious earrings underfoot, and the black butterfly escaped its confines. Antibug stopped fighting. This was the end for her, she knew. In the end, she wasn't stronger than Ladybug. She had failed to recruit Chat Noir to her side. And even her Anti Charm was no match against the simplicity of Ladybug's true power. Antibug wanted to cry, but then she remembered that she was a villain. Villains weren't allowed to cry.

Antibug may have lost, she mused as a hoard of Ladybug's Miraculous Cure ladybugs swarmed towards her, but she would never ever forgive Ladybug. Of that, she could be sure.