Thaumaturgic (Bakugou Katsuki x Reader - Miraculous Ladybug AU)

New Strength and New Plans

Ch.31 - New Strength and New Plans

He had been inactive these last few weeks, wanting to bide his time and work out all the possible edges of this new scheme. And now that he had run through all the possible outcomes, and waited patiently for the emotional event that would cause it all... the man with the purple cufflink attached a near-matching cufflink onto his other side. This one a dark blue color.

He had come close last time, and it was now that he realized exactly what he did to make it work so well. He needed to stop focusing on people who were facing a little dip in their emotional state. He needed someone in the same state (Name) had been left in.

So low and defeated that her life no longer had any sort of fix... and thus made her open to his aid. People who were backed against a wall... were much better subjects to receive his gifts. And he knew it now, so he would act upon this new discovery now.

He smirked to himself proudly, seeing as already he could feel the effects of using two different miraculous. The dormant powers were bouncing off one another and molding already. And with the butterfly miraculous lighting up to alert him that the person in question he had become familiar with through his emotional powers these last two weeks was having a rather bad episode... he knew it was time.

The downfall of the heroes who had gotten in his way from the beginning was now... and he was eager to see exactly how this peacock worked and if it would be as powerful as the ancient texts described its power as.

Transforming himself, seeing the new color mixed with the old, he pulled out a feather and a butterfly. A little energy absorbed into them and soon, they were flying off towards his new muse.

The small child who was once more hiding in fear... asking for someone to come save her. Time after time of abuse and protective services unable to do anything made her emotions particularly open. Her one wish... was for a hero. Soon enough... she'd be able to get plenty of heroes thanks to her wish being granted by him. And in return, she'd be the starting strand of his new scheme and the power he was blessing her with.

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The freshly fallen snow was not helping his mood. Nor was it helping in his quest to find wherever the cat had run off to. She had insisted on them meeting up in costume tonight, but it seemed his idea of her having found some lead on Monarch was false.

Red Beetle felt a sudden coldness hit him, literally. The snow falling off his red dipped locks and onto his back. The sounds of chuckling coming from his back right. He grabbed a ball of snow himself and tossed one back.

Kuro's chest being hit directly, and she scampered off somewhere else to prepare her snowballs and try to ambush him again. RB was not having any more of it though, and so while Kuro was distracted, he jumped above silently, spotting her and watching for a moment.

She was quietly laughing to herself, Throwing a snowball to an empty area in an attempt to make him think she was over there. And then looking out and throwing a snowball to where he guessed he would be.

Instead, she looked worried to not see him, and RB took it as his time to jump down from where he was. He wrapped her up in his arms, rolling on the snow-covered rooftop with her for a moment. The sounds of her happily laughing.

"Okay! Okay! You win, buggy boy!" Kuro's laughter was making it hard for her to breath.

"Shouldn't have underestimated me, cat." RB blew air into her ear, making the catgirl squirm.

"So cruel!" She chuckled, relaxing in his arms.

"Done being a little scamp?" He asked her, letting her go once she nodded. "Dumb girl... making me come out into this cold ass weather cause you were bored."