Kwami swap. It's so much fun, to have someone take a Miraculous they didn't have in canon. And today, I present you with an insane idea I've had some time ago but never had the chance to put into a story: the most terrifying heroic Miraculous Holder.
Day 6: Kwami Swap
"AAAAAAAAGH!"
Lila had always suspected Marinette was somewhat crazy, and her stay in Paris had been providing ample evidence.
"Chok chok chok chok! Apa Punch!"
Not that she didn't have evidence before, such as when she had dropped the Eiffel Tower on the Mime, or jumped in the mouth of a T-rex, but witnessing it was something else.
"Te te te te! Chai Kick!"
The first time had been during the Sapotis incident, when Ladybug choose her for the Fox Miraculous. Sure, she was certainly better suited to it and more creative than Alya (who she expected would call herself something as obvious as "Red Fox" in some language), but giving such a tool to someone who was apparently the best liar in history, recorded or otherwise, was just tempting fate.
"Stop turning into glitter and take my punches!"
Then there had been the battle with Anansi, where the plan had included for Lila to have the Miraculous and engage into single combat an Akumatized kickboxer who was training for the World Games(1)-and dropping the Arc of Triumph on her had only just slowed the monster down.
"YOU THINK I'M STUPID?!"
This, however, took the cake. Ladybug herself was looking at it in fascination and horror as the absurdly fast fighter throwing Muay Thai terms and Kenichi(2) quotes around was reducing Style Queen into a quivering mess even without being able to actually hit her. And it wasn't just her: Vorpika (that being the name Lila had chosen as her heroic persona), Chat Noir and Carapace were equally fascinated and scared by what was happening.
"Bugaboo, what the hell were you thinking?" Chat Noir finally asked, voicing what everyone was thinking.
"Well, I had this plan that required us four and the Bee Miraculous, so I took everything, gave you the Miraculous, and went to give the Bee to Alya Cesaire... But then her sister came out of the other pavillion just as I found her-"
"Oh, god."
"Well, better than I thought." Carapace said, much to everyone's surprise. "Imagine if it wasn't her but someone just as strong and crazy..."
The other three Heroes shuddered in horror, before seeing that Chloe was approaching with the Villain's hat.
"It's the Akumatized object, I saw it." the girl said in a monotone, even more horrified than everyone else-after all, the one who was facing a superpowered Nora Cesaire was her mother.
Chat wasted no time in ripping the hat, freeing the Akuma for Ladybug to purify and turning Style Queen back into her normal self, just as the superpowered fury was throwing a punch at her face-punch that she stopped a single millimeter from the target.
"Hey, warn me next time! Don't risk making Nambi(3) a killer unless necessary!" the Bee heroine shouted.
"Assuming there is a next time." Vorpika said. "Because I may have just figured who Papillon is..."
"Really?!" the other three heroes around her exclaimed.
"Maybe. Or maybe not. I'll tell you latMPF!"
Vorpika couldn't finish, as Ladybug had decided to show her happiness at the chance of finally being done with that by kissing her deeply, to everyone else' shock.
"Told you I'd move in with the capra 'nculata wasting his chance!" Vorpika said before Ladybug dragged her away.
Notes
(1)Second most important multi-sport event, dedicated to important sports that for whatever reason aren't contested at the Olympic Games. Freestyle Kickboxing and Muay Thai are two such sports.
(2)History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi is a fighting manga, most notable for being quite accurate to actual martial arts in spite of increasing exaggerations and the utter insanity of the series. One of the strongest characters is Apachai Hopachai, a ditzy Muay Thai master that is nonetheless one of the world's strongest men.
(3)In the mythology of the Ganda people of Uganda, Nambi is one of the daughters of the creator god Ggulu, and assumes the form of a bee to help Kintu, the first man, passing the last of the tasks to take her as a wife. With Nora having already (mis)used Anansi's name, I felt she'd go for (mis)using the name of another figure from African folklore.
