Immune

Puppeteer

This video has nothing to do with the chapter but I was killing myself laughing at it. Please watch, it's fucking GOLD!

Also, quick note. This is a thing I do IRL so Ima do it in here. I call my friends "babe" as an endearment but I pronounce it "behb" and say it really fast. So if you see "behb" that's what it means.

Anyway, enjoy the chapter :)

"Glad to see you, Chat Noir," Mari says in a higher pitch than normal.

"Of course you are!" I respond in a low voice. "I'm the cat's meow!" Mari and I both laugh at my awful, yet accurate, pun.

"He shouldn't say that," a small voice sitting across from us sounds. Manon sits there looking unimpressed with our antics. Screwing my face into one of mock seriousness I prepare my next line.

"If y'all are done flirting, mind stopping the baddies?" I hold up the mini-me doll in my right hand.

Mari made little dolls for her and Manon to play with. She made a Ladybug one, a Chat Noir one, Evillustrator, Lady Wifi, Roger Cop, and me. Why? Mari said that half the things they do in battles are because of me, so it was only fair to add me to the group. Did this boost my ego? Yes.

"You're right, Y/N," Mari says in her higher voice, the Ladybug doll in her hand swaying with the words. "We need to stop these baddies before they..." She trails off. Looking at Manon she questions, "Actually, what do the baddies want?"

Manon looks down in thought for a moment. "Uhhh..." She picks up the three dolls in her hands and shoves them in our faces. "We wanna win!"

"Yeah, but win what?" I ask.

"I don't know," Manon lowers the dolls. "What do they usually want?"

Mari places her Ladybug doll down and leans forward to the tiny human. "That depends." She points to each Akuma voodoo doll in Manon's hands. "Lady Wifi wanted to reveal Ladybug's true identity. And Evillustrator wanted revenge on a girl who was making fun of him. Then there was Roger Cop..." I'm just sitting back on the floor enjoying the show. I'm not too good with kids, but I can manage. "But the evil Hawkmoth that makes them bad, wants to take Ladybug and Chat Noirs jewels from them, their Miraculouses." Mari says in a spooky-story-telling voice and waves her arms out in front of her all mysteriously when she said 'miraculouses'.

Manon looks sad and a little worried. "And what would happen if he did take them?" She asks.

"Then the bad guys..." I say leaning in close to the poor child, "Would win!"

Manon's eyes grow wide then she jumps up with the dolls in her hands. "I know! I know what the bad guys want!" She starts waving the dolls around like they're talking, "We want the Miraculous!" She's on her feet now and doing what looks like jumping-jacks but not in an exercise way. "Then we'll win! Forever and ever!" She places her hands on her hips confidently, "I'm gonna get your Miraculous, Ladybug and Chat Noir, you... You goodie-two-shoeses, or you'll be super-duper sorry!"

The tiny human lunges at me and Mari. Mari and I split so she doesn't squash us. I toss Mari the Chat Noir doll and go to pick up my voodoo doll.

Mari waves both superhero dolls in Manon's face. "You won't get our Miraculouses," she taunts in a sing-song voice.

The two stand and Manon chases Mari to the chaise. Again, I'm just sitting on the floor enjoying the show. They bat the dolls against each other like it's a close combat battle. From the sidelines, I'm cheering on the super-dolls with my doll. Pretty accurate to real-life battles I might say.

Mari bats the baddie dolls out of Manon's hand and starts cheering for herself. "Ladybug and Chat Noir have won again!" Mari looks so happy, it's adorable. We make eye contact for a second and I make my doll blow the Ladybug doll a kiss. Mari blushes a bit.