#miraculous ladybug crossover

[zoe-oneesama]

I finished "Kira Kira Pre Cure A La Mode" like a month ago, and I have brain rot that makes a Miraculous Ladybug AU out of anything with an animal theme so here we go. I would label this more as a crossover tbh and even thought of my own rules to make it coexist in the Miraculous Ladybug Universe.

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To start, they break a few Miraculous Rules: the Miraculouses themselves have no resemblance to the animal they're imitating, and their powers are closer to their Pre Cure ones, which are baking/cooking based. And the reason I have for this is that these are technically not Miraculouses and technically not kwamis.

They aren't the "Miraculous of [x]" representing a concept, they're actually fairies who desire to be heroes. As such, they're actually at odds with Kwamis and there's a bit of a feud between them - the Kwamis have always worked alongside humans and see the Fairies as reckless and violating nature's laws, while the Fairies see the Kwamis as hording all the fun and not even trying to bridge the gap between them.

I imagine akumas would start showing up in Japan in Ichigozaka, bringing out the six PreCure Miraculouses, and they'd eventually follow them back to Paris to have a showdown with Hawkmoth AND the existing heroes. While the kwamis and fairies are having it out, the humans are meeting in the middle.

Ichika uses Whipp to become Crème Fouettée (Whipped Cream), a Bunny Hero with the ability "Batter Up", which captures the enemy in a giant cake. It has the side effect of being able to extract an akuma, but it can't purify it.

Himari uses Flann to become Swirl Caramel, a Squirrel Hero with modified clacker/rope darts as a weapon and the ability "Cherry Bomb", which is pretty self explanatory.

Aoi uses Aisuu to become Glace Bleue (Blue Ice), a Lion Hero with the ability "Gelato Shake", which encases her fist in a block of ice for even more painful punchs.

Yukari uses Cookie to become Kitty Macaron, a Cat Hero with a spiked yoyo and the ability "Cat Scratch" which inflates the size of the yoyo and increases their strength, making them able to scratch through anything.

Akira uses Chocco to Chien Rouge (Red Dog), a Dog Hero with the ability "Chocolate Armose" which creates a chocolate shield.

Ciel "uses" RinRin to become Blande Volante (Flying Bands), a Pegasus Hero with the ability "Kiracle Rainbow", which fully purifies the enemy and all of the damage caused during a fight. (If you know you know)

[stars-obsession-pit]

A Chat among Bats (ML x DC)

Ladybug and Chat Noir manage to defeat Hawkmoth, unmasking him as Gabriel Agreste in the process.

Adrien does not react well to the realization that his father was the villain they’d been fighting all along. He’s Chat Noir, one of the heroes, he should have noticed. And the public suspicion on his civilian identity due to the familial connection does nothing to help that guilt

So he runs. No identity reveals with Ladybug (he doesn’t feel like he deserves one), no formal public goodbyes in his hero identity. Just… grabs a ticket and vanishes. Maybe leaves some notes at most. He had no idea where he’s going, but surely anywhere could be better than Paris.

He lives off of his savings and money from odd jobs as he wanders (and perhaps the occasional theft from criminals or the corrupt), eventually meandering path into the crime-ridden city of Gotham. There, his heroic instincts (plus the fact he still has the Black Cat Miraculous) lead to him taking up a new heroic identity, joining the ranks of the city’s vigilantes. And probably also causing Selina to fight Bruce over who gets to adopt him.

Marinette, unsurprisingly, took his vanishing poorly. She didn’t immediately know his secret identity, so from her perspective two of her favorite people just vanished at the same time. Learning that they are actually the same person maybe helps a little in that regard, but it also reinforces her thoughts that she failed him.

So of course she continues to look for him. She knows he probably wouldn’t want to return to the spotlight, but she still wants to help him out if she can. Or at least apologize for her (perceived) failure.

And thus, when she happened to recognize a certain individual in a news report from Gotham, she immediately booked the first flight she could. She needed to see him again.

[empressgemstone]

Miraculous Rosegarden

Some ML x Rosegarden cross over pics based off the movie I’m not the best with backgrounds so this got very experimental

[thecephalopodagency]

okay so im currently in a ladybug/batman/justice league phase and every time marinette is kidnapped by the riddler shes like 'your suit is so awful' but i was thinking, as someone who does love the outfit, what if she did too?

so imagine marinette gets kidnapped by the riddler who plans on doing the usual riddler thing leading batman on a multi riddle scavenger hunt to find her and the moment she wakes up and she sees his suit she loves it?

hes standing there trying to explain to her the situation she's in but she's gushing about the embroidery of the question marks and the quality of the suit and somehow, her hands are free and her sketchbook is out (how did she do that? he was watching her the entire time one second hands tied, the next shes scribbling away)

she starts designing a new suit and hes so confused and just shocked by her reaction that he just starts answering her questions about his style and color choice on autopilot while he tries to figure out what is going on

shes somehow got the tape measure out and taken his measurments (she was literally chained to the chair, maybe her hands werent secured tightly enough, but the chains?? what is happening?)

just as hes starting to pull himself together shes showing off a whole page of alterations to his suit and a whole entire new one that, not gonna lie, he instantly wants on his body immediately

one thing leads to another, a few days later marinette is walking out of his base of her own free will and the riddler is admiering his new suit and the MDC buisness card she handed him before she left

(during this batman is losing his mind trying to figure out riddlers game since he was too busy getting a new outfit to actually send the rest of his riddles so the information batman got from the first riddle never led anywhere)

[ririchanva]

Chapter Eighteen: Battling In New York~! (Part Four)

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Chapter Warning: Semi-violence (but mostly flashback), death of minor character(s), depicts of the occult, some dark imagery.

A/n: Oh my god, I can't believe it's finally here. When was the last update? *looks towards the date of previous chapter* Since February...okay so not too long ago. It's May now and after this chapter, WE ARE GOING TO THE MAIN STORYLINE! Meaning travelling to Japan and heading to U.A. :D How exciting! Not to mention that with this chapter out now, I can focus on making some fanart and Tiktoks for this story along with working on the newer chapters (and hopefully more frequently).

Anyways, let's get on with this finale of this arc, shall we~?

Also, who can guess where the inspiration comes from for the first part of this chapter~?

    Green eyes opened with a gasp, chest heaving as they looked around for a moment in confusion. Adrien’s eyebrows furrowed as he frowned, wondering why he was in a bright place. Wasn’t he fighting against the bad guy with Deku, Bakugo and Ladybug—

    Adrien’s eyes widened as he then looked down at himself, realising that he was no longer in costume.

   “Why aren’t I Chat Noir? Plagg?” He looked around once more, wondering where his cheese loving Kwami has gone, “Plagg! Where are you?”

    He started walking, his heart hammering against his chest as he called out the names of his companions.

   “Izuku? Marinette? Katsuki? Where are you guys?”

    “Have you forgotten the lessons I’ve taught you?”

    Adrien’s head snapped to the source of the voice and saw a prim and proper blonde woman in what seems to be a Ladybug costume, standing there with two other figures. Boys that were his age.

Walking over to them, Adrien reached out his hand to touch her shoulder.

    “Excuse me, Missus. Can you help—?”

    He blinked when his hand went through her, and stepped back in surprise. He squinted his eyes at the woman still sternly looking towards at the male teenagers before her, one dark haired boy being nervous while the other boy with blond hair was glaring down at her defiantly.

    “He’s still a threat until he’s dead…” The woman sighed, closing her eyes and then said coldly, “Finish it.”

    “No.”

    Silence was deafening to Adrien as he stared at the three, wondering what these people were talking about. Where was he? Was he…having a dream? Some sort of vision? Was this what’s happening right now?

    Or a memory? 

    But of whom?

    The adult looking Ladybug holder quirked a brow, narrowing her eyes, “..No?”

    “What good would killing do?!” The young blond man that spoke before argued, stepping forward as he ignored his dark haired friend trying to stop him, “When mercy is a skill more of this world could learn to use. OUR FRIENDS ARE DEAD!” 

    Adrien almost jumped at the sudden bodies on the ground surrounding them, a hand covering his mouth as he felt the urge to throw up. A lot of them…looked like fallen heroes. 

     “OUR FOE IS WEAKENED, THE…The BLOOD WE’VE SHED?! IT NEVER DRIES!” It sounded like the boy was choking up as if holding back the tears, but then suddenly growled in anger, “IS this WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HERO?!”

    “Toshinori, stop.” The other boy finally spoke as Adrien turned to look at him along with the blond young man, now named Toshinori, who was swatting his friend’s hand away.

     “…All Might?” Adrien questioned, but knew they couldn’t hear him.

    “No, Hisashi! Béatrice-san has to hear this!”

     Adrien’s eyes widened as he was taking a good look at the young man named Hisashi who looked hurt and looked away. He continued to watch them a little more quietly, not knowing what to do at this moment. What could he do, anyways? Not like they could see him—

     Adrien blinked when he thought Hisashi was staring right at him. But the boy turned his back to him as he looked back to his friend beside him, as said friend continued to talk to the woman.

    “We are not killing anyone today.”

    The Ladybug holder sighed, eyes looked tired as she murmured a ‘Spots off’ before de-transforming in front of them, revealing to be a normal middle aged woman with blonde hair and blue eyes. 

     “Reckless. Sentimental at best…I know that’s not what Nana has taught you, Toshinori Yagi.”

    Anger swelled in Toshinori’s eyes as he stomped his foot on the ground. 

    “Do NOT bring my Master into this! If she was here—”

    “But she’s not here, is she?“

    “…”

    Béatrice stared at him before letting out a defeated sigh.

     “…It was a mistake to take you on as a student. Hisashi Midoriya is the only one that I should be training. What good is training you since you’re not the same as us. I shouldn’t have agreed to Nana’s dying request and the insistent begging from Gran Torino of helping you finish your—“

    “That’s just like you,” Toshinori rolled his eyes, snorting sarcastically, “Why should I be surprised? Selfish, prideful and vain—”

     “Watch your tone, Toshi! She’s still our teacher!”

      “Your teacher, ‘Sashi-kun. Not mine. Never was.”

      Hisashi looked to the blond for a moment, as if lost on what to say next. Meanwhile, Adrien had to place a hand over his mouth. Midoriya? As in, Izuku’s…?

    “Say no more. I’m gone.“

     Hisashi’s eyes widened as he watched his friend start walking away, then looked back at the blank face of the older Ladybug heroine. Shaking his head, he caught up to Toshinori and grabbed his arm.

    “Toshi, please! Don’t go! Teacher just wants—”

    “Just how long are you going to take orders from her, Hisashi?” 

     Hisashi stared at him in bewilderment before his arm fell to his side when Toshinori pulled back from him.

     “…I’m her student. I’m to be the next Cat Hero alongside her until she is found again by Master Fu to retire. I need to—”

     “I guess this is goodbye then.”

     “…I thought you were my comrade? My friend?”

     “I am, and always will be…But I cannot be around someone that would cross the lines that no human should.” Toshinori paused, before giving a wistful smile, “I hope that you won’t lose [REDACTED] for this…”

     Confusion clouded Hisashi’s eyes as Toshinori vanished in a green light, Hisashi and Béatrice disappearing as well to signal the vision was over. 

    “So…what did you learn from this?”

     Adrien turned his head to look at an older man, and the Cat Holder had a feeling who this was.

     “…I don’t understand?” Adrien said softly, as the man gave a small smile.

     “I bet it’s all confusing, but I had to show you this to tell you…do not trust those that hold One-For-All.”

     “What?” Adrien breathed out as his eyes widened, “W-what do you—?”

     “I’m not saying they aren’t good people. But there are times that their ways are…questionable. Heroes like him and his Master are not always in our corner when they get involved with the Miraculous Holders and Celestial Guardians.” The man said with a tilt of his head, and sighed, “And as a fellow Cat Holder, I had to come to warn you when uniting with someone that has the power.”

    Fellow cat holder? 

    Adrien stared at him for a moment then gasped, “You’re…?”

    A Cheshire like grin appeared on his face as he then gave a small bow, “My name is Hisashi Midoriya. I was a previous holder of the Cat Miraculous.“

    Shock wearing off, Adrien asked, “Are you…Izuku’s Dad?”

     Hisashi hummed, tilting his head to the other side, “Izuku? Is that his name?”

    “And he’s holding One-For-All.”

    Hisashi closed his eyes, as he then murmured, “…Toshinori.” 

    Adrien frowned, “That’s All Might, right?”

    “So he kept that stupid name Shield gave him…”

     “You’re not answering my questions properly.”

     “You must feel disappointed…” The older man saw the confusion on the boy’s face and chuckled softly, “I mean about how I didn’t listen to Toshinori. What did you think of what you saw?”

       The blond looked thoughtful for a moment, but then murmured, “Despite that you are partners with your teacher. Toshinori was still your friend. And if I learnt anything, is that if your friend is voicing something not right…I would listen, even if it is against an adult you trusted.”

     Hisashi looked surprised for a moment, and chuckled, “I wonder…”

     Suddenly, the ground shook for a moment, making Adrien look around in a panic. Although Hisashi didn’t look surprised at all.

     “What’s happening?” Adrien asked, trying to keep his footing.

     The older man looked at him with a small smile, “I don’t have much more time. Especially since it seems the fight is going to be over soon. I wished we had more time to talk….”

     Adrien blinked as he felt himself vanishing, seeing Hisashi’s back turning to him, and the blond was trying to reach out before Hisashi spoke once more.

    “We’ll see each other again, little kitten. Tell the new Bug I said hello~”

  “Adrien?…Adrien!….Wake up, my son…”

   A groan escaped the blond as his eyes open slowly, feeling pain all over his body. Once his vision cleared, he saw a worried looking Amelie and Aizawa staring down at him, Felix behind them.

   “M-Mom? What…what happened?”

   “I can explain that, if you don’t mind~” Rody also appeared in his field of vision, smiling with Pino and Talli resting on top of his head, “You see…”

   He saw lines of green and orange strings around not just Bakugo and Deku…but around Ladybug and Chat Noir as well. It was then light emerald and pink strings were surrounding them as well.

   “What are those…?” Thunderbird asked himself before looking around to his fellow heroes, “Is anyone else seeing this?”

    “Seeing what?” Rayures asked as she looked confused.

    “The fact that Deku, Bakugo, Ladybug and Chat Noir are glowing?“ Carapace supplied, humming a bit, “I mean we all see that~”

    “You guys can’t see the strings?”

    “Strings?” Shinso asked with a quirked brow, “What strings?”

    “They can’t see it, Young Thunderbird,” Talli appeared beside the bird hero, who jumped in surprise, “If you’re going to ask how I am here, your friend Pino allowed me to come out to support you thanks to your quirk. Interesting power, I must say so myself.”

   “Then…? What are they?”

    “Have you not ever heard of Strings of Fate before?“

    “…Those are real?”

    Talli nodded, “And watch. They are going to help your friends win~”

   Thunderbird turned his head to just see all four heroes racing towards the insane Nine, who was screaming and yelling stuff at them before using his quirks against them. The villain engages Deku, Chat Noir, Bakugo and Ladybug in an intense combat, dodging and going on the offensive as Nine was releasing all his Quirks at their maximum power. Somehow Chat Noir and Ladybug jumped up in the air while the other two heroess were powering themselves up in shared forces, beating Nine down along with the tornado dragons he conjured up. Combining their special powers, Bakugo and Deku managed to shake all of New York, shocking both young and pro-heroes around them while they were protecting the citizens. 

     Delivering the final blow, Chat Noir and Ladybug summoned some sort of magical blast, a mix of the Miraculous Ladybug and Cataclysm. Once Nine fell in defeat, the four heroes were powered down and started falling from the sky. Thunderbird was ready as he and Lady Dragon flew to the skies and caught a now transformed Adrien and Marinette, Tikki and Plagg landing in their arms, unconscious. Their friends gathered around them quickly, with Hawks and Majestia catching Bakugo and Deku in the process.

   “And so, Nine is done, and he along with his crew are captured by the American Heroes Safety Commission and United Heroez are taking them in along with Techno-Pirate.“ Rody finished off his story as he smiled tiredly, giving a thumbs up, “We won.”

   Adrien blinked but then slowly grinned, “We…we actually won?”

    “Yes, Adrien. And we are very proud of you all,” Amelie said softly before hugging him gently, “But you really worried us, you know? Never do that again, you hear me???”

    “S-sorry, Mom…” Adrien smiled weakly before he tilted his head, “What else happened? Where are Deku, Bakugo and Ladybug?”

   “Well they are fine for the most part,” Fei came to Rody’s side with a sigh, “All Might and President Hombee are seeing to them right now.”

    Adrien turned his head to see an unconscious Deku being held by All Might, the heroine Victory placing a hand onto his shoulder in support. It seemed Bakugo and Marinette were being carried into ambulances along with some other heroes.

    “…So it’s over now?”

    “For now,” Aizawa said solemnly, “We are still trying to pinpoint the location of one person. The very one that was transporting the Nomus around but somehow made them vanish when the fight was over.”

    “How…is New York in one piece though?” Adrien looked around, seeing minimal damage, “I thought that with all four combined powers, we would’ve made a huge crater of maybe the whole state…”

    “This I can explain,” Felix murmured as he pulled out his phone and showed his twin the footage of Thunderbird of all people using Miraculous Ladybug and fixing everything and healing some people, “While it’s not as powerful as the real Ladybug, apparently Thunderbird’s Miraculous is able to utilise his quirk into borrowing one’s soul. So, I suppose it’s magic bullsh—“

    “Language.” Aizawa interrupted before Amelie laughed.

     “So Rody managed to do some of Marinette’s work, and had a bit of help from the Ghost Force, Pixie Girl and Sorcerer into cleaning up the rest of New York. The other young heroes also helped out as well.”

    Adrien hummed a little, but then winced as he realized that it hurt to move. Felix noticed this and then gestured his mother to move back before helping Adrien up.

   “Come on, brother. We’re going to have to take you to the hospital as well…”

   Not far from them, Hawks was listening in on the conversation before slipping away for a moment, walking to an alleyway and pressing onto an earpiece he was wearing.

    “Looks like your plan worked a little too well, eh~?”

    “It’s all according to Boss, after all,” A familiar deep raspy voice spoke into Hawks’ ear, chuckling, “It wasn’t like we expected Nine and them to actually win against those brats being aided by Pros. But at least we learnt some interesting things.“

    “Oh yeah?” Hawks tilted his head, “Like what?”

     “As if I would tell you. You’re not initiated fully just yet.”

      Hawks pursed his lips before the voice let out a chuckle. 

    “Anyways, keep playing your role like the good birdie you are and don’t do anything stupid. Until next time, Keigo~”

     Hawks tapped his earpiece with a frown, but then blinked as Tokoyami approached him, “Hey Tsukuyomi~ You doing okay?”

    “I’m fine. Much more than Midoriya and them,” The bird headed male hummed as Liiri rested on his shoulder, “It is good you and the heroes were there on time.”

    “Of course~ As if I’d let my best sidekick be killed,” Hawks noticed Liiri and hummed, “Who’s the chickadee?”

   “Liiri. My companion Kwami of the Eagle Miraculous of Freedom.” A sigh escaped Tokoyami before touching the talon pendant around his next, “I was trying to return it to Pixie Girl-san and Sorcerer-san, but apparently they told me that I was the true holder of the Eagle Miraculous now…”

    “As if I’d let my fledgling go after finally uniting with him!” Liiri huffed as she rested on top of his head now, puffing their cheeks, “You cannot get rid of me that easily!”

     “I do not wish to ‘get rid of you’ as you put it,” Tokoyami said to them softly, “I just did not think I am worth such a powerful artefact in my hands.”

    “It looks like you’re the right person for them, Fumi,” Jess walked beside him as she grinned, “I’m pretty sure that it suits you better than anyone else~!”

    “I would’ve figured it would’ve gone to someone like you, Jessica-san,” Tokoyami tilted his head before looking worried, “Aeon-san is okay?”

    A sigh escaped Jess as she looked conflicted, “Ah, she’s…physically okay. But our moms are kinda having a talk with her.”

    Understanding crossed Tokoyami’s features as he nodded.

    “It is for the best she knew the truth now rather than in an even more dangerous situation just like hours ago.”

    “Still…I am just concerned what this is going to do with her confidence. It was just yesterday she thought she could take on the world and not get hurt.”

    “Better to be realistic than to let her live on in a fantasy of being invincible.”

     “I guess…” 

     Tokoyami reached over to touch her shoulder, almost as if comforting her. Jess looked over at her feathered friend and smiled gratefully at him. 

     “Why don’t we go and see Aeon-san, hm?”

     “…Yeah, let’s go.”

     “You okay, Young Midoriya? I’m so sorry that I’m late…”

     “…Is…Is Kacchan, M-Mari-chan and Adri-kun a-alright?”

     All Might smiled softly, hiding his worry as he tried to joke, “Heh, as usual, you’re more worried about other people than you are of yourself. And they are fine. Beat up and tired…but they’ll live.”

     Izuku tilted his head as he and All Might looked over at the hospital beds nearby them, seeing Bakugo, Marinette and Adrien close together. Izuku had woken up first and naturally All Might was the first to check up on him. 

    “Although Young Bakugo woke up first in a panic trying to look for you three, to the point that the doctor had to put him back to sleep by force. He was real worried about you, Young Marinette and Young Adrien.”

    A sigh of relief escaped the green haired male as he smiled, “Thank goodness…I-I made them do something pretty crazy…”

     “You made them do something…?”

    The former One-For-All Holder looked questionably at him, as his student continued on with a sad look, almost looking like he was about to break.

    “I’m...I'm s-sorry…” He whispered, closing his eyes, “But…I-I transferred it to him...I-I gave One-For-All t-to Kacchan…”

    All Might’s eyes widened in shock, heart stopping for a moment, “You gave him One-For-All?”

    Izuku was quiet for a second, before shakily breathing out in reply.

    “I-If we hadn’t combined the power of One-For-All itself along w-with the power of both t-the Ladybug and Cat…there was no way we could’ve saved everyone…” He explained while All Might listened with bated breath, “The villain would’ve defeated us. That’s why…I don’t regret what I did.”

    All Might knew there was more.

    “B-But I feel terrible…because you chose me to be your successor…” More tears fell down the boy’s face as he sniffled, “B-Because you said that I could become a hero like you…I-I just wanted to protect everyone…no m-matter what it took…”

    “…And that’s just what we did. Together.”

    All Might was surprised that someone cut him off, looking up along with Izuku. Marinette was awake and staring at them with shining eyes. Before the man could stop her, the girl was already getting out of bed, limping all the way to Izuku’s bed and crawled onto it before sitting in front of him. She raised her hands up to touch Izuku’s face, cupping it gently to wipe his tears away.

    “We did it. Your plan worked perfectly and everyone is safe. You may have sacrificed big time by giving up your powers to Katsuki, but we defeated Nine and New York is once again at peace. All thanks to you.”

    Izuku couldn’t stop crying, as Marinette slowly wrapped her arms around him into a gentle hug, letting him sob onto her shoulder. All Might watched with a heavy heart, deciding to give them a moment before getting up and quietly leaving the room.

    As he closed the door behind him, he was surprised seeing the President of the United States and also heroine, Victory, standing close by.

    “Camilla…” 

    “How are the children?”

    All Might walked side by side with her down the hospital hallways, sighing.

    “Resting easy now. I think this battle took a toll on them. Young Midoriya, especially. How are the rest of them?” 

    “Not a lot of casualties. Only just bruises and mild concussions but other than that, the rest of the Miraculous team are alright,” Camilla hummed as she then tilted her head to Toshinori, “Doesn’t the Midoriya kid remind you of—?”

    “Yes. Too much of him, in fact.” The blond rubbed his temple before glancing at the woman, “…And the League? Any signs of their involvement?”

    “None. And the mission from Eraserhead and Nighteye about that cult you were looking for? Also a no go.”

     “Hmmm, it’s almost as if this battle was just a taste of what’s to come.”

    Camila frowned, “…Is this war of yours going to be global?”

    “I am hoping not.” All Might said but looked out the window, “For all our sakes, I am just praying that this will not be a whole World War again.”

    “THAT HUUUUUUURTS!”

    Marinette’s eye twitched for a moment as she was curled in the four hospital beds that were squished into one giant bed, Adrien and Deku on either side of her, wide awake. After an hour nap, Bakugo woke up and was now being checked by Recovery Girl. Apparently the woman was transported here, thanks to Star Stallion, to heal everyone that was part of the battle. 

    “WHAT IN THE HELL HAPPENED TO MEEEEE?!” Bakugo yelled once more, but was silenced by a puckered up Recovery Girl. 

     Both Marinette and Adrien blushed, covering their eyes when they witnessed the woman smooching his cheek, embarrassed of the scene. According to Deku, that was all part of her healing quirk.

    “It’s still a surprise that you still kept One-For-All…” Adrien spoke up after Recovery Girl left, all four of them facing each other, “I wonder what happened?”

    “My theory is that Kacchan was knocked out before the power could be transferred fully,” Deku responded with a shrug while cuddled up to Marinette and Adrien resting his head onto her shoulder, “But somehow he doesn’t have the slightest memory of the battle and using it.”

     “To be honest, I’m not even sure myself how we won the fight. Sorta blanked out when you guys connected hands,” Marinette then looked to Adrien, “What about you? Do you remember anything?”

    Adrien was quiet for a moment, almost alerting Deku and Marinette on how nervous the blond was looking.

    “…Adrien?”

    “I saw something. And met someone…”

    Bakugo was scrubbing his face for a moment before looking up at him, “What’cha see, Furball?”

   Adrien glowered playfully at him of the nickname before he turned serious, “I saw a vision…o-or maybe a memory? It's of a former black cat…”

    “Who was it? Did he speak to you? Aw, I wished I met a past Ladybug, what was it like?” Marinette asked excitedly before Adrien raised his hand up, “Adrien?”

    “I don’t think I’m ready to share it yet, since I’m still processing what had happened. But I’ll tell you guys when I’m ready. It’s…it’s kinda a lot.”

    Deku looked understanding and nodded, “Take all the time you need.”

    Adrien winced at his words and smiled weakly, almost awkwardly, “Yeah…”

    Marinette and Bakugo looked at each other for a moment before Bakugo decided to change the subject.

    “So what’s the plan now? What’s our next move?”

    “Good question…” Deku hummed, almost closing his eyes when Marinette was scratching the top of his head affectionately, “We’ll need to head to Japan soon and get everyone prepped for U.A. High. Especially with Class A coming back from Nabu Island.”

     “Does that include the three new stragglers that you invited?” Bakugo grunted, closing his eyes when Adrien gestured him to come closer, the spiky blond’s head resting on the French boy's lap.

    “Yeah…why did you not only kidnap Aurore and Mireille, but you actually got one of my childhood friend as well?” Marinette asked as she looked at Deku, who gave a sheepish smile with a shrug.

    “I knew that Socqueline would fit nicely into our group~” Deku tiredly joked, almost yelped when the Ladybug holder pinched his side gently.

     “The dragon, though?” Marinette questioned.

     “It was the most logical idea I had so far.”

     Marinette hummed before she heard a knock on the door. All four of them looked over as it swung open, revealing Kirishima, Kagami, Todoroki and Chloe walking in. 

    “I hope we are not interrupting anything?” Todoroki asked as he and Chloe sat on one of the couches in the room while Kirishima and Kagami remained standing near them.

    “Don’t you all look cozy,” Chloe pointed out, raising a brow at the four in bed, “When did this all happen?”

    “It’s not what you think, Chloe,” Adrien said in a drawl as he shrugged, sort of combing his fingers through Bakugo’s hair, “After the fight, we just sorta…felt the need to be closer. Can’t really explain it, but when we first woke up and we couldn’t find each other—”

    “—It was like something was cut off, missing. Strange, but I almost thought that the boys…” Marinette closed her eyes, and Chloe shut her mouth from any teasing she had previously, “Tikki and Plagg then explained to us that because we used both combined Miraculous with another anomaly that was equal in power, our human bodies got too absorbed into it…”

    “So for now, we stick together until our physical bodies could regulate normally without us going into shock,” Deku added as he soon rolled towards Bakugo, who grunted tiredly. 

     “…So a cuddle party?” Kirishima questioned innocently before he winced when Kagami nudged at him with a shake of her head.

    “I guess so,” Marinette laughed a little as she felt Bakugo roll over to lay his head on her lap now, while  Deku nuzzled further into Bakugo’s back and Adrien mostly cuddled into Marinette more, “Tikki said that the tingling feeling of the powers will deplete tomorrow. So that’s at least good news.”

    “Makes sense that it would be a lot, considering all four of you almost destroyed New York and maybe the neighbouring cities,” Todoroki said plainly, making Deku, Bakugo, Adrien and Marinette groan.

     “If it wasn’t for the Ghost Force, Pixie Girl, Sorcerer and Thunderbird using their combined powers to clean up the cities, I think the government would punish us severely. Probably never to be allowed in American soil again,” Kagami said with a nod.

    “Gee, way to make us feel better guys.” Adrien rolled his eyes in sarcasm.

     “It’s the truth though, look,” Chloe pulled out her phone to show the news articles and videos talking about them, although Deku and Bakugo’s faces were blurred out, “All Might thought that you guys needed to stay low for now.”

    “Which is good. I don’t wanna some wannabe tabloids and gossip rags hounding me,” Bakugo said but then blinked when he suddenly felt a new weight on top of him and saw Todoroki laying on him, “…The hell are you doing, Icy Hot?”

    “Don’t friends usually have this kind of contact to feel better?” Todoroki asked innocently before Chloe made herself comfortably close to Adrien, still looking at her phone.

   “We aren’t friends, you bastard—Oi!” Bakugo looked down when Kirishima was laying his head onto the blond’s leg, Kagami snuggled up to him, “What are you idiots doing now?!”

    “Cuddle party! Like a bonding moment~” The red head chirped, while Kagami was patting Marinette’s hand in comfort, “Besides, you guys looked so comfortable, and when Todoroki made the move, we all joined in~”

    “Where is Yaomomo anyways?” Deku asked curiously, Kagami perking up at the question.

    “She is still recovering. Nathaniel, Marc and Alix are with her right now,” Kagami responded, reaching Kirishima’s hand and playing with his fingers idly, “But she should be better by tomorrow.”

    Suddenly, the door burst open and everyone looked over to see Rose looking bright eyed at them, along with a sheepish looking Juleka and deadpanned Shinso.

   “You guys having a slumber party?!” The strong girl clapped her hands, squealing in excitement, “Can we join?”

   “Someone say slumber party?” Nino’s head popped in as well, grinning as Sabrina and Felix also peeked in, “Awesome! I want in!”

    “Is Izuku awake? What’s going on?” Lila also was trying to push into the room, with Luka trying to reign her in.

    Bakugo felt his head throb at too many people in the room, comically yelling to the point of almost popping a blood vessel, “If none of you are the Nerd, Spots or Furball, WOULD YOU IDIOTS GET THE FUCK OUT?!”

      Rody stared down at the Miracle Box in hand for a moment with a confused look, before looking back up at Holly and Aster, the Ghost Force gang behind them in their civilian forms.

     “…Are you sure you’d want to leave this to me? I mean you guys seem the more worthy and experienced?” He asked slowly, while Aster chuckled in amusement.

    “Who are we to question the previous Master’s wish to make you Guardian? Besides, it is not like we can just take it from you?”

    “Not if you want your memories erased~” Holly said in a sing-song voice, making Rody sweat drop for a moment.

    “I already told you that you are the Guardian now until you have decided to retire, WHICH would be a long LONG time. Plus, you are holding the Thunderbird Miraculous, meaning you’ll have to lead your future team,“ Talli rested on Rody’s shoulder with a stern frown.

     Rody rolled his eyes upwards with a groan, “I still feel like this is all happening so fast and unreal at the moment…”

    Fei smiled as she patted his arm, “I mean, I thought that way too when I had the Prodigious the first time. But you gotta give yourself credit, Rody. You actually managed to be a hero and save the day.”

    “Ugghhh my street cred…” Rody whined playfully, making the others laugh. 

    “So, what now? I wish you could just stay in New York, ya know?” Liv joked, “It would be nice to have more allies our age here…”

    “You’re not coming with us?” Fei and Rody asked at the same time, making the American heroes look confused.

    “Why would we? We belong here?” Holly said with an unsure look, looking at her partner, “Right?”

    “Then again, with the Southern Miracle Box on the move, it is our duty to keep an eye out for it and it’s guardian,” Aster hummed, looking thoughtful while fixing his glasses.

    “But New York?” Holly was gesturing around her, “We swore to protect the city.”

    “You know there’s always us, right? And the United Heroez…as useful as they can be at times~” Andy quipped with a grin, making Mike and Liv roll their eyes. 

    Holly and Aster looked at each other before looking back to Rody and Fei.

    “As much as it would be an honour meeting other young heroes, particularly those holding the Miraculous, I’m afraid we cannot leave America alone.” Aster sighed solemnly as Holly nodded.

    “Especially with The Witch still prowling around,”

    “The Witch?” Rody questioned as Aster glowered. 

   “One of our mortal enemies. She wishes to harness the secrets of American Magic and, you know, rule the world by being the most powerful being in the universe and all that evil jazz,” He made air quotations with an eye roll, making the blonde beside him snort.

    “She’s a nasty piece of work. But it’s not only her, there’s also her boss, Dracula—“

    “A-are you seriously talking about the bleh-bleh-belgh, Dracula?!” Rody asked while making clawing gestures and front teeth out while making the sounds, Fei covering her mouth from laughing beside him.

   “Don’t laugh, he’s real dangerous. Not to mention he’s working side by side with Mama Witch,” Aster coughed and tried to be serious, but it was sort of hard considering the Ghost Force and Holly were trying not to giggle as well.

    “But we could handle Goblins, Trolls and Gargoyles too~ It’s not just ghosts we can whoop ass~” Andy countered, but then hummed, “But oh man…wouldn’t it be cool to go to a superhero school? I mean there’s I-Island, but they are mostly Support Crew and Science Nerds.”

    “Why don’t you come?” Fei asked curiously, but Liv gave a weak smile.

    “We have family here. Our parents don’t even know we’re superheroes that protect New York every single day, the very reasons why we keep skipping and failing school?”

   Mike agreed, “As much as we would love to join you…I’m afraid we can’t—”

   Andy let out a shout, making everyone jump.

   “Argh! It’s totally not fair! Why don’t we tag along with them?”

    Liv levelled a look to her twin brother, “Mom and Dad won’t allow us to go to Japan?”

    “Well not unless we had help from certain adults to get us there~?” Andy waggled his brows as Mike looked thoughtful for a moment.

    “…Dad is good friends with Rock Lock.”

    “Mike!” 

    “Liv, Andy has a point!” The Blue Ghost hero waved his hands in front of him when the girl glared at him with her hands on her hips like some stern parent, “Besides, why don’t we ask Miss Jones about it?”

   “I’ve been meaning to ask this, since you’ve mentioned that name a few times but…who’s Miss Jones?” Fei asked curiously. 

   Andy decided to answer with a chuckle, “She’s kinda like our boss. She’s also our science teacher in NYC High.”

   Liv continued, “She recruited the three of us to form a secret team, the Ghostforce, to protect New York City from the wild ghosts that terrorizes it. We also kinda have another team member who isn’t here.”

   “Who?” Rody and Fei asked before Andy snickered.

    “Glowboo.”

    “….Bless you?” Rody said slowly before Liv almost facepalmed.

   “Haha, that’s his name. Glowboo is an android created by Miss Jones to help us during our missions,” Mike explained properly, “We can go meet him and Miss Jones now if you like.”

  “Lady Holly and I should look into the missing Miraculous,” Aster spoke softly, glancing at the Pixie Holder, “With the Southern Miracle Box now in good hands, there’s hope that maybe the Miracle Box of the North and it’s Miraculous might be hidden somewhere.”

    Rody perked up at this, “…Did you want help finding them?”

    This made Holly and Aster look at him with bewilderment.

    “…You’d want to help us?” Aster breathed out, Holly’s eyes sparkling with hope.

    Rody chuckled, “I am a Guardian after all. And isn’t it a heroic duty as one to help all Miraculous holders?”

    A squeal came out of Holly as she swooped in to bring Rody into a hug, surprising both Fei and Aster.

    “You’ll really help us?! For really really!?”

    “Y-Yes, um, yes…c-choking, not breathing!” Rody wheezed out, almost turning blue but Liv separated them much to Rody’s relief.

    Aster looked unsure, “I’m afraid it’s not just going to take a day. In fact, it might take longer than the year we have tried searching, my friend. As we’ve told you before, we seem to be the only ones holding what remains of the American Miraculous other than the Southern Miracle Box you recently acquired.”

     Andy hummed, “We’ve tried helping them look since discovering them, but no go.”

    “As if science and technology can find magical artefacts as old as the Miraculi…” Hecca said with a drawl at the other red head, who shrugged at the Kwami.

    “The only clue I have was that Florra said that her previous holder knew of four Miraculous but they vanished. And then she was gone, thanks to Mama Witch.” A pained look came on Holly’s face, then braved it out when Aster patted her shoulder, “But even then, we don’t know where the four Miraculous are nor feel any sense of where they could be.”

    “That sounds awful. Again, I am sorry that you have gone through such ordeals.” Fei said honestly, hand over her heart them looked to Rody, “Aster is right. We cannot do much to help them since we are leaving as soon as the rest of the Miraculous Team checks out of the hospital.”

    “It is alright. Thank you for the sentiments on trying to help us, but I think our place is here in New York.” Aster smiled weakly at Fei, as Holly had to turn her head away with slumped shoulders.

    Fei honestly felt bad. She wished she could do more.

    Rody’s ears twitched for a moment as they continued to talk, his head turned to look off somewhere and Pino stilled. With the American teens and Fei still exchanging words, Rody let himself walk away from them for a moment, brows creased down and lips pursed.

    “…Do you hear that, Pino?”

    Pino shivered, cooing softly with a nod.

    “I see you feel it too.”

    Rody and Pino looked to Talli resting on the boy’s other shoulder, staring off in the distance to Central Park.

    “What is that?”

    “Spirits. Four of them.” Talli hummed, as Rody’s eyes glowed for a moment, “They are calling for help.”

   “Do you think it’s has to do with the Four Miraculous?” He asked his Kwami companion, as Pino’s wings fluttered with hope.

    “Why don’t we find out?“

     Rody looked at the knowing smile that was on the Kwami’s face and grinned, nodding his head and was about to step towards the park when he felt himself pulled back by his jacket. Falling to the ground, he looked up at a panicked Fei, Liv, Holly and Mike while Andy and Aster looked fearfully pissed.

    “What did you think you were doing man?! Trying to off yourself?!” Andy yelled straight at his face as Aster helped him up, “DO you know HOW MANY traffic deaths happen in New York? DO ya?!“

     “Easy An…” Liv murmured to her twin brother, trying to calm him down.

    “Rody, why did you do that?” Fei demanded as she checked her friend over, eyes wide and her face pale.

    Rody looked apologetic as he then looked behind her, “Something was calling us. I had to go check.“

    “Calling you?” Mike asked, glancing at his friend before looking back at Rody, “What was calling you?”

    “I didn’t hear anything,” Holly tilted her head in confusion.

    “It is thanks to his quirk and him using the Thunderbird Miraculous, his senses of the spirits and the beyond are heightened,” Talli looked proudly at her wielder, “To the point that I believe he has located four souls that might be owners of the Miraculous you are looking for.”

     “That’s impossible.” Florra spoke from Holly’s purse with big eyes, “We have been trying to sense the missing Miraculous and possible holders, and never had once felt or heard anything.”

    “It seems my chosen has~” Talli almost looked giddy at this, almost in pride, making Rody look sheepish.

    “Well, what are we waiting for? Why don’t we check it out then?“ Andy said, already excited.

    “Don’t you think we should tell Sister Marinette and Brother Adrien first?” Fei wondered out loud.

    “And what if it’s a trap?” Aster logically added, concern in his eyes.

     “But what if it’s a chance?” Holly countered.

    “Me and the boys will get Ladybug and Chat Noir,” Liv suggested, already powering up along with Andy and Mike, “Holly and Aster will following you two towards whatever it is that’s calling Rody.”

   Rody and Fei looked at each other before nodding.

   “Just meet us in Central Park, Fei can even text you our coordinates.”

    With the Ghost Force making their way to the hospital, Aster glanced at Holly with a nervous look.

    “Is it really this easy?”

     Holly knew that Aster had been disappointed through the year every time they were close to finding the Miraculous of the North, and took his hand gently to comfort him.

    “We won’t know until we find out? Besides, if it turns out to be another dead end…we’ll still keep on looking.”

    The red haired Brit felt a bit more at ease, squeezing his partner’s hand back to signal he was okay.

    Fei watched them for a moment before looking back at Rody, “Alright Rods, lead the way.”

    “It’s too bad Katsuki kicked us out. I really did want a cuddle pile and a slumber party,” Rose pouted softly, flopping onto Shinso’s lap and looked at everyone in the room with her while Juleka stroked the blonde’s hair while leaning against Shinso.

    “Let them rest. They did most of the saving by defeating Nine. They deserve a bit of peace and quiet before we leave,” Nathaniel spoke up from his seat, sketching something in his book.

    “Speaking of…” Nino looked towards Aurore and Mireille, “How did you two get dragged into this?”

    “The red head with the teeth and the pretty girl with him brought us here,” Aurore murmured before she looked at her former schoolmates with a frown, holding Stompp in her arms, “So I’m assuming that you are all working with Ladybug and Chat Noir?”

    “W-well yes…” Marc looked sheepish at her face towards them, and sweat-dropped, “I-It wasn’t like we could tell you…by the way, Aurore, how are you feeling?”

    “Traumatized? Exhausted? Just…I dunno,” The blonde murmured, hugging herself, “One minute, I’m in Paris’ hospital, the next I’m in this creepy place with creepy kids and a whack-job doctor—“

     “What creepy kids?” Felix questioned.

Mireille took this time to chime in, stroking Ziggy gently.

     “We were apparently kidnapped by the doctor that was handling Aurore. And there were others like us where we were held, and the kids there…they were acting like zombies. But Aurore and I managed to escape that place and was rescued by some Japanese policeman.”

    “You thinking human trafficking?” Alix wondered while eating some sliced apples by Sabrina, who seemed to be cutting up fruits she had apparently gotten.

    “More like quirk trafficking. Considering that Aurore and Mireille both have quirks now,” Shinso pointed out, figuring out Aurore had a Storm Quirk…but with Mireille, he wasn’t sure of since she didn’t even know if she had powers or not.

   “Really living up the Stormy Weather name…” Lila murmured with a huff, Chloe stomping her foot and smirked when the Italian yelped in pain. 

   Although the blonde felt eyes glaring daggers at her and turned her head with a huff, “What?”

   Socqueline almost sneered at the rich girl, arms folded as Longg rested on top of her head, “How are you a hero? Last time I met you, you got me expelled from school and I had to move to another part of Paris.”

   “Chloe is sorry about that, right Chloe?” Sabrina looked over at her best friend as Chloe huffed.

    “Says the martial arts tomboy that almost broke my face and destroyed my phone!”

    “You haven’t changed one bit, Bourgeois.”

    “Bite me, Wang.”

     “Hey now~” Nino got in between them as he raised a brow, then looked to Socqueline, “I’m sorry that you had experienced the Chloe Tyranny like everyone in the room here, but I can vouch that she has…halfway kinda sorta turned over a new leaf?”

    “Are you serious?” The Chinese girl was waving her hands around with gestures, “Did you forget that she, her lackey over there and the neanderthal of a jock that is Lê Chiến Kim basically tortured and broke Marinette’s heart?! How Chloe bullied all of us?!”

    Nino winced, trying to placate the girl, “I get it, and that was a long time ago—“

    “And you!” She poked her finger at his chest, surprising the DJ, “You’re the coward that let it all happen!” 

    “Stop it!” Nathaniel stood up now, frowning disapprovingly, “Socqueline, you were gone since we graduated from collège, and frankly not all of us are the same as you remember. While, yes, it was recent that Chloe has decided to slowly be a better person. However, she has shown a lot of progress.”

    Socqueline didn’t look convinced and huffed quietly, “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

    Todoroki decided to change subject, “What about Zoe-san? What happened with her?”

    “Ah, I talked with Aizawa-sensei about that. Apparently Zoe is now in All Might’s custody with the help of Victory and David Shield. Turns out, Mister Plastic had enough that he decided to sign his parental rights fully over to the State.” Shinso stated, remembering what his mentor had told him this morning.

    “That sucks. I mean, she kinda sucked before, but I don’t wish any family to abandon their own…” Alix said with a wince, making Marc look uncomfortable.

    Kirishima perked up at the sudden whoosh sound outside the hallways and peeked out for a moment, Kagami looking towards the red head curiously. The two of them then blinked as three coloured ghosts were holding both Marinette and Adrien’s in their arms and flying out the hospital building.

    The two looked at each other for a moment.

    “…Should we follow them?” Kirishima asked as Kagami smiled, feeling Orikko resting on her shoulder.

    “I think we should.”

    With a murmur of “Orikko, Sunrise!” and transforming into Onagadori, she picked up Kirishima in her arms easily, which surprised the red head for a moment. Conjuring some wings on her back, she soon flew out of the window to follow after the Ghost Force. 

    Nathaniel was the only one that watched all this, noting that his other friends didn’t seem to have caught on to anything that happened outside the room. Silently, he got up and decided to visit Momo’s room to check up on her. 

     “Where are you taking us?”

     Fury was thankful that Marinette stopped wriggling around, hitting his shoulder and chest after swooping into her room then taking her to the skies. Maybe he should’ve picked up Adrien instead, but Myst beat him to it.

     “I’m sorry, I know you’re recovering and all, but this was an emergency!” The green Ghost Force leader explained, while Krush floated beside them.

     “Rody has seem to have found other Miraculous at Central Park. And maybe it’s holders.” 

    Both Marinette and Adrien gasped.

   “Do you think it’s really them?”  Adrien asked, feeling excitement of meeting other Miraculous wielders from America before Myst looked concerned.

    “I hope so…” 

    Marinette noticed her expression, but before she could question it, she heard a whistle from below them. Looking down, she saw Thunderbird soaring towards them, along with Lady Dragon.

    “Good, you’re both here. I might need you to transform into Ladybug and Chat Noir before I show you what I, Lady Dragon, Pixie girl and Sorcerer found.” Thunderbird said promptly before flying down back to the trees below them, Lady Dragon following him.

    Exchanging glances for a moment, both the Ladybug and Cat holder transformed immediately, the Ghost Force landing and placed them down. Ladybug noticed that indeed, Pixie Girl and the Sorcerer were there and looking to the ground with pale faces and wide eyes.

   “What’s going on?” Chat Noir asked, looking worried for the two that looked like they were going to throw up.

    Lady Dragon turned into her humanoid form before looking awkward and horrified, “W-well…I’m sure the Ghost Force told you why we’re here?”

    Ladybug nodded, “You said you might’ve found other Miraculous and their holders.”

    Chat Noir looked around, before landing to look at Thunderbird, “Well? Where are they?”

    Thunderbird pursed his lips, before pointing a gloved finger down on the ground. This confused them at first, before Fury let out a curse word and gasps from Krush and Myst. Chat Noir was about to question what had them spooked, when Ladybug let out a distraught sound.

    Shakingly placing her hands over her mouth, she looked towards Thunderbird’s serious expression.

   “A-are they…?”

    “Not quite…” Thunderbird murmured as he crouched down and touched the matted forest floor, closing his eyes, breathing in and out slowly, “I feel magic underneath here. And it’s pulsing.”

    “Meaning they are alive down there,“ Talli appeared on top of Thunderbird’s head, shocking Ladybug.

    “H-How are you here?” Chat Noir stepped over, looking at the bird Kwami, “I thought Kwamis are stuck in the suits when transformed?”

    “Thanks to my Chosen’s quirk, I am able to be out and about~” Talli said haughtily, before turning serious as they looked down at the ground, “But yes, it seems there are four beings buried under here.”

    “Alive?!” Myst yelped, shaking and Fury had to calm her down.

    “Maybe they are in a comatose state,” The Sorcerer said softly before looking to Pixie Girl, “Did you not say that a year ago, the previous Pixie Girl landed in this park and passed Florra down to you before leaving this world?”

   Snapping out of her shock, Pixie Girl squeaked with tremor, “A-ah, well, yes! That’s right.”

   “Was she alone?”

    The caught the winged fairy like heroine off guard at her partner’s question, before looking thoughtful, “…S-She was…I think…?”

     The Sorcerer frowned.

    “I have a theory…what if the previous Pixie Girl wasn’t alone. What if she had a team, friends, who were also Miraculous Holders? What if she escaped something while they were cursed by some villain…?”

    Thunderbird caught onto what he was saying, “It would explain why I can feel souls down here.”

    “So…are they really alive down there? But how?” Chat Noir asked, hopeful and yet mortified.

     “It’s possible that they are still using their Miraculous. Meaning the suits has protected them and placed them into a magical coma.” Talli theorised as well, looking concerned, “But to do it for this long?”

     “How is it that I couldn’t have sensed them before?” The Sorcerer murmured, looking frustrated.

     “I think it has something to do with this?“ Thunderbird was pointing at something, and everyone looked to the direction…and saw nothing.

    “…Whaaaaaaat are you looking at, Thunderbird?” Fury asked curiously, Thunderbird looking surprised.

    “Can’t you see it?” He asked, making Lady Dragon look concerned.

    “See what?” She asked, making Thunderbird look even more puzzled.

     “The gravestones? Can’t you seem them?”

      “Gravestones?” Ladybug looked around once more, seeing nothing and then shaking her head, “I do not see anything, Thunderbird. I’m sorry…”

    “As I’ve told you, they can’t see what you can, my Chosen. It is because they are not powerful enough, and your quirk helps a ton with the powers of the Thunderbird. Honestly, I can understand why,” Talli chuckled, as she flew around for a moment, “It’s quite a powerful curse from a high level witch.“

    The Sorcerer looked up with a frown, “…Are you saying that is why no one, not even me and my family, could sense them all this time? Because of a Witch’s Curse?”

   “Correct! I assume this is why Pala also did not  know about this. From what I can guess, this sort of curse is to make sure that those buried down here are not to be found, magic or otherwise. If it’s true that perhaps the Previous Pixie Holder has escaped the grasp of the caster, then perhaps whoever cursed these poor souls was someone dangerous…”

    “And…t-the gravestones?” Krush asked slowly, before Talli hummed.

     “I believe they are more of Hex Tombs than markings of a grave.”

     “What are Hex Tombs?” Lady Dragon asked, seeing the ominous expression on Sorcerer.

     “With this sort of spell, it requires A LOT of power,” He explained, as he was summoning his spell-book in hand then flipping the pages with a frown, “Dark magic like this has some requirements. Think like how back in the day, Witches and Wizards used Blood Magic—”

     “T-There is THAT sort of magic?!” Myst, Ladybug and Lady Dragon yelped and hugged each other with exclaimed fear, making the boys sweat drop for a moment.

     Sorcerer raised a brow, “…Y-Yes? But I think the caster used Curse Magic. Less of a mess and hassle.”

    “Curse Magic?” Thunderbird questioned him, “What’s the difference?”

    “It’ll be easier to understand if you think of curse magic as something like a lock and key,” The wizard like hero explained, as he was waving a hand when a light illusion of a lock and key appeared before them, “You can place a lock to bound people with a curse, then set a key that will unlock it and dispel the curse…”

     Ladybug folded her arms across her chest while Chat Noir tilted his head to the side in confusion. 

     “But, why even have a key? Why let the cursed person know you can break the curse?” The Cat hero asked, “Isn’t it better not to tell them from a caster’s point of view?”

     This made Sorcerer smirk in bitter amusement.

     “Curses always come with a cost.”

     Everyone was quiet at that, especially with Ladybug. This seems familiar, she would think.

      “If you try and change someone’s life, then there’s a huge price for that. But if you create a key to lift that curse, then the risk deceases.” The red head paused as he adjusted his hat, “Then what do you think will happen if you actually tell the victim the way to lift the curse?”

     Fury raised a hand, “So, it’s like a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card!”

     The Sorcerer chuckled, “That’s one way of putting it. The cost that you’ll pay for that curse decreases exponentially. So you would take the victim’s characteristics into consideration and pretty much tell them ‘I bet you can’t even do this~!’ And make that the key.”

    “But what if you don’t pay for it?” Ladybug asked, as the Sorcerer sighed.

     “That’s where Blood Magic comes in. It is not necessary to make a “key”, but if you don’t do so then something like the rest of your lifespan, health, a part of your body….or maybe someone’s life is payment enough. Equivalent Exchange.” It was then the red head said something in a dark tone and smirked, “I think you can even destroy a great country by taking the lives of ten thousand people?Scumbags that love to use the lives of others than their own…” 

    “That’s horrible!” Ladybug yelled, looking sick to her stomach as Chat Noir also paled.

     “But that was old practice. No one really does that anymore,” The Sorcerer assures, “At least, my family and many other good Witches and Wizards find that a bit taboo because it goes against Nature, the purest magic itself. I mean the Kwamis themselves are beings that are contracted entities that requires energy.”

    Ladybug thought about it before murmuring, “When…we feed them?”

     “Exactly,” The red haired magician nodded, “But they can also feed into your Mana when you bond with them in the form you are in now. I mean, did you not find it odd how you all feel tired after de-transforming?”

    Ladybug and Chat Noir looked at each other, and so did Thunderbird and Lady Dragon.

    “…Did you guys seriously not realise that?” The Sorcerer said in surprise, “It is why Pixie Girl and I don’t get involved so much in heroic affairs. Because it takes a lot of energy out of us…”

     “Is it also the same with our ghosts?” Fury asked, remembering his little companion, Dragoyle, the very being that gives him his powers currently.

     “Yes, actually. I am even surprised that you have tamed such creatures considering that pretty much Dark Types of Magical beings are untamable.”

    “But…we feed our kwamis?” Chat Noir said, dumbfounded, “Plagg eats a lot of cheese…”

    “That is not enough. Maybe that will sate them like a snack, but they would need more than normal food . To have them in fighting shape in power when bonded with their holders, your energies must be compatible to maintain your connection with one another. For example, I notice that Queen Bee is much more powerful than King Stinger when using the Bee Miraculous,” Sorcerer pointed out.

    “So…a human and a Kwami have to be compatible?” Ladybug did remember Master Fu saying that.

    “Correct. It’s sort of like a plug connecting to an electric socket. If the voltage is not matched, there is a high chance that one or the other might damage themselves or be corrupted.” 

    “Like Hawkmoth?” 

     The Sorcerer tilted his head, “This is the villain from your country, yes? The one that is missing?”

    “There was another. Mayura. The previous holder of the Peacock,” Ladybug sighed, “But she went missing too.”

     “That’s unfortunate…”

     “…So someone cursed these people below us?” Fury murmured after a minute, everyone else sort of reeling at Sorcerer’s words.

    “They were silenced by someone,” Myst looked sad but then gasped, “But if they are alive…!”

    “We have to dig them out!” Pixie Girl was soon bringing forth her magic and summoned vines from the trees, before Sorcerer stopped her.

    “If we try digging them out by force, we might activate the curse and hurt them more!”

     Ladybug’s head clicked, “The Hex Tombs? Are they the keys to this curse?”

    The Sorcerer gave a sharp smile, “Now you’re getting it. I think whoever the Witch that cursed these people didn’t think that someone would find them so quickly. Maybe they expected hundreds of years to go by before the curse’s time weakened and someone came across them.”

    “Luckily, we have someone that found them at last!” Lady Dragon said in hope, making the bird hero look perplexed.

    “M-Me? Free them?”

    “It is why the souls called for you. They can feel that you can feel them too. So they cried for help in hopes that you would come and rescue them.” Talli spoke to her holder dearly, and Thunderbird gulped.

    “…What if I screw up?”

    “You won’t.” Ladybug assured him as she patted his shoulder, “We’re here in support for you, you’re not alone. You can do this, Thunderbird. You are these missing Miraculous Holders’ only hope!”

    With those encouraging words, and the agreement looks from the rest of the teen heroes, Thunderbird felt a bit more confident. Nodding his head, he soon turned his head to  the Hex Tombs that he alone could see.

    “Okay…so what should I do?”

     “First, take look at the tombs. Are there any writings or some sort of markings on them?” The Sorcerer asked, as Thunderbird looked to the Hex Tombs.

    “…There are symbols on all four of them?”

     “Can you tell us what they are?”

    Thunderbird squinted his eyes for a moment, as he observed them.

    “Okay, well, the first one looks like…a squid ring?”

    Fury and Chat Noir looked at him deadpanned, as if not believing what he was saying right now.

    “Are…you sure?” Lady Dragon asked slowly, wondering if what her partner is saying is correct.

    “Wait, wait! Uh, there’s what seems to be like wings under it…oh, that might be a halo than a squid ring.”

     Ladybug sighed at this, while the boys snickered along with Pixie Girl.

     “What are the other symbols?” The Sorcerer urged the bird hero to continue.

     “Another one has a horse head that has a horn…a fish tail aaaaand a butterfly?”

     Ladybug and Chat Noir looked at each other in surprise. Another Butterfly Miraculous? Then again, they had Lady Dragon, so it made sense there might be other variants of Miraculous. Especially if there are some copying from the Original Chinese Miracle Box. At least, that was what Ladybug remembered from Master Fu’s lessons.

      “Good. Now that we know the symbols, we can use those as keys as a way to free them,” The wizard like hero soon was flipping through his spell book as he summoned his staff, “You’re just gonna have to repeat after me. Once you do, you’ll enter the same plane as the spirits and their indicators are the symbols you just saw. Once you find them, you contact me spiritually by reciting the words I will tell you in a minute. The rest of you? Be ready for anything in case something happens. There will be times that when breaking a curse, the caster might’ve set booby traps to stop us.”

     “B-Booby traps?” Krush yelped, as Thunderbird sat down cross-legged on the ground in from of the tombstones in front of him and felt Sorcerer kneeling next to him.

      “Remember, just go for the symbols and nothing else. Let nothing stop you, no matter what. There will be things that will try and distract you from reaching your destination and/or try and  scare you away by using your biggest fears and traumas of the past. But don’t. Especially do not interact with The Man in the Chair.”

     Thunderbird nodded, “Okay.”

      The Sorcerer then leaned in and whispered into his ear, the other hero listening attentively. Ladybug wished she could hear what was being said, but with a worried look from Chat, she decided to leave it alone. Thunderbird seemed to be silent as Sorcerer leaned back, giving him a moment to process everything. 

     “I’m ready when you are.” Thunderbird murmured, as he was holding his sickle in hand and closed his eyes.

     “Do you even know what you’re doing?” Lady Dragon asked, but then felt Ladybug’s hand on her shoulder.

    “Don’t worry, everything’s going to be fine.” She smiled at the other, and Lady Dragon relaxed a little. 

    The Sorcerer let his spell book float in front of him as he then began to glow a blue magical hue, the light soon embedded to his star staff, breathing out.

     “As above, so below. As I believe the world to be, so it is.”

     Thunderbird slowly repeated the words, and soon the two were chanting in sync, sort of creeping everyone out except for Lady Dragon and Ladybug. The Shanghai heroine felt nervous as she watched Thunderbird’s breathing slowed, and his whole body was glowing the same way she saw him handling Sole Crusher. 

    ‘Please let him come back in one piece…’

    Rody gasped as he saw he was in the same darkness when inside Sole Crusher…except this time, it felt like he was in a cold freezer. Shivering, he rubbed his arms up and down before looking around.

Nothing.

    “Well, so much for that…” He murmured but then realised that neither Pino or Talli are with him. 

     He was alone.

     Rody sniffed, trying to keep calm at the fact that not only was he powerless since he was not in his Thunderbird form, but the fact that with this sort of silence and feeling of loneliness…

    …this could make him go mad.   

    “Okay, focus and find the symbols. Nothing to distract me, yup yup…” He said out loud, trying to walk towards where he was feeling the calls were coming from. He just had to focus on finding those symbols and—

    “Where you going, son?”

     Rody almost froze in shock at the voice, but kept walking as his eyes hardened. Do not turn around.

    “Are you still mad at me for leaving you and your siblings, Rodster?”

    ‘Don’t turn around, no matter what. Focus.’ Rody would think to himself, and closed his eyes when he felt something block his path, breathing heavily as the voice distorted demonically.

    “YoU tOo gOoD fOr mE nOw, hUh, LitTLe bAstard~? I rAiSeD yOu bEtTeR thAn tHat~“

     Rody just walked around the entity and kept walking, ignoring the growls and mocking voice beckoning him to open his eyes and pay attention to him.

    ‘There is no way that I would even want to look at my old man…’

    “Big Brother?”

     Twin voices of children next. A boy and a girl.

     Rody almost faltered for a second, but remembered this wasn’t real and kept pushing forward.

    “Big Brother? Why are you ignoring us?”

    “Did you abandon us, too?”

    “You’re worse than Dad.“

    “We hate you, Rody.”

     “We’re better off without you in our lives.”

     “Should’ve died instead of Mom.”

    As much as it pained him to hear Roro and Lala’s voice saying those things, Rody couldn’t stop. He can’t stop moving until he finds those souls…

    Ladybug gasped as she watched Thunderbird convulsing in place for a second, Lady Dragon already at his side and holding his hands.

    “Is this supposed to happen?!” She asked frantically.

    The Sorcerer looked solemn but nodded.

    “Thankfully, he’s on the right track. Currently, there are forces that are trying to break his spirit and cut the connection to return to his physical form.”

    “W-what happens if something does, ya know, cut him off?” Chat Noir wondered in worry.

    “Hopefully with the Thunderbird Miraculous, Talli could pull him back out. Pino could do the same, considering how powerful Rody’s quirk apparently is. Gotta say, it’s a good thing his quirk and Miraculous match up to be an all-in-one superpower weapon,” The Sorcerer murmured, keeping his staff focused over Thunderbird’s head.

    “I think we lost them…”

    “We couldn’t have? We were going the same speed as them. I even used Speed with my Miraculous.” 

    Kirishima looked at Onagadori in concern for a moment before sighing, knowing it was pointless to go on. As he was about to suggest to go back, a sudden feeling washed over him. Astonished, he heard something from a distance and strained his ears to listen. It almost sounded like some sort of song…and it was coming from—

     “…Dori-chan, wait!”

    Onagadori stopped mid-flight in the air as she lookeed over at the red head, “What is it, Ei?”

    “There’s something calling me. Over there!” He pointed over to the east, the Rooster heroine looking over, “I think we should go over there.”

     “What about the Ghost Force, Adrien and Marinette?”

     “We’ll catch up to them later. Right now, I think someone needs our help.” 

     Trusting his instincts, Onagadori decided to follow Kirishima’s instructions and started flying to where he was pointing, hoping that this wasn’t some sort of trap. The red head kept his eyes trained as he told the Rooster Heroine where to go, the feeling and the sound that was calling to him growing stronger and stronger. Until eventually, they ended up in some sort of beach. Kirishima told Onagadori to land, the two then stepping onto the sandy grounds before looking around.

    “So? Do you still hear anything, Ei?” The Rooster heroine asked as Kirishima looked around some.

    “I do…I think we’re getting closer…” He murmured before he stepped off near the sea for a moment, but paused, as he then felt a warm sensation flowing through him, “What in the…?”

    “Ei?”

    The Hardening Quirk user placed a finger up, signalling for Onagadori to lower her voice, as he crouched down on the ground. Eyes narrowed and lips pursed, he placed a hand on the wet sand, feeling it for a moment with deep concentration. He suddenly stood up, whirling around to Onagadori with a panicked look.

    “I think there’s someone down here! We need to dig them up now!”

    “Sublimation!”

    Copying Kirishima’s Hardening quirk as he quickly activated his, the two started digging the spot that the red head at pointed at, creating a large hole until suddenly Onagadori felt something touch her hand.

     “Wait!”

     Kirishima paused as he reached out and touched the object that the Rooster heroine hit, blinking as the two noticed it was—

     “It’s a Mini Miracle Box…but it looks different than our ones,” Onagadori murmured as the box started glowing slightly, almost pulsing like a heart beat, “…What if this is calling to you specifically because you are it’s Chosen?”

   “Nah, there’s no way…" Kirishima laughed, shaking his head but then was quiet for a second before looking at the girl, “…There’s n-no way I’m supposed to have this, right?”

    Onagadori shrugged, then urged him, “Why not open it and find out?”

    An audible gulped sounded from the red head for a moment as he looked down at the box, frowning a little with an unsure look. How was he supposed to feel about this? While, yes, he is one of the Guardians of the Miraculous…but he didn’t think he was going to get his own Miraculous. He gave up that idea when he gave the Turtle mantle back, couldn’t be Mandrake again and thought he was going continue on without a Miraculous.

     Was this fate?

    Closing his eyes, he quickly opened the box and felt warmth at his face and opened his eyes to see a floating Kwami staring back at him. This Kwami was coloured blue with red and black linings and red eyes, almost looking shark like with the way it was grinning at him.

    “Hello, my Chosen~! I am Nepp, the Kwami of Waters~!“

    “Er, hi?” Kirishima greeted with a grin of his own, Onagadori smiling at the scene before her, “S-Sorry to disappoint you, but you got it all wrong. I’m not your Chosen? I can’t be…”

    “But you came when I called!” Nepp tilted their head to the side as they stared up at the young hero, “I have been trying to summon and wait for my Chosen for centuries now. But I felt you close by. If you really weren’t my chosen, you wouldn’t have heard me and come to my rescue~”

    “I told you so.” Onagadori said with a smile, Kirishima looking at her with a pout.

     Nepp floated around Kirishima’s head, observing him for a moment before smiling, “You look strong. And you feel like you are honest and have a heroic heart~ That’s what I look for in my Chosen~“

     This made Kirishima look sheepish, rubbing the side of his neck.

     “They’re not wrong. You are all those things and more,” Onagadori said before the red head could retort, shutting down any negative words that Kirishima was about to put on himself, “You should take Nepp.”

    “What a wise heroine you are,” Nepp cooed, then blinked, “…You seem to have a Miraculous as well. From the Chinese Sister Box, I assume?”

     “You are correct,” Onagadori nodded, making Nepp look impressed, “And there are more of us too.”

    “Then what are we waiting for? Let us go see them,” The shark like Kwami looked to Kirishima once more and chuckled, “To transform, all you have to say is: Nepp! Rising Tide!”

     Kirishima looked nervous, glancing over at Onagadori for a moment before his shoulders slump. But with a touch of her hand, Kirishima felt his heart skip a beat and looked at the Rooster heroine again, who smiled. Her eyes seemed to say she believed in him, and that was all he needed. With a confident smile, he turned to Nepp, who already had a knowing excited smile.

     “Nepp! Rising Tide!”

Rody blinked when he felt warmth all over him, and glanced over to see four sets of lights. 

    Bingo! 

    Smiling, he was about to step forward when he felt the ground give way under his feet. Eyes widened, he felt his world shift. He tried to scream, but nothing came out of his throat as it felt like he was falling, staring up at the darkness…the nothingness. He tried to flail his arms out, as if to grab something, ANYTHING, that could stop him from falling further and further into the darkness.

    ‘No no no, I can’t be lost in here! I can’t! I have to get out and get those souls…’

    He gasped when he felt something slithering over his arms and legs, dark tendrils wrapping around his limps and dragging him further down into the abyss below him. Silver grey eyes kept looking around in a panic, trying to struggle free but it seemed to make the bindings on him tighten the more he wriggled.

   “…Am I going to die here?”

   Yes.

   Rody felt a shiver down his spine, hearing that deep and calm voice in his head. A presence was made known to his left side, and curiosity got the better of him as he slowly turned his head. He saw a person sitting on some fancy looking resting chair, their back turned away from Rody. Slowly, the shadowed person was turning their head towards the teen, but Rody couldn’t see their face. But somehow…it felt like his heart was constricting, and the air turning hot. Like he was in Hell.

    “Do not interact with the Man in the Chair.”

    Rody wished he could turn his head away, but somehow his eyes were glued to the being that was taking forever to turn and look at him, but it already felt like Rody’s soul was being sucked away.

    “…H-Hello? Is someone there?”

     Rody heard a boy’s voice, almost teenage like, as he looked up and saw a blue light floating above him. It laminated so brightly, that it started to form a symbol. Wings with a halo.

    It was one of the souls.

    “Y-Yes! Yes! I’m here! I’m here! I’ve come to rescue you and your friends!” Rody called out, feeling the bonds on his arms and legs weakening, and soon fought to get free, “I’m coming! I’m coming to rescue you!”

    Soon, another glowing light appeared, this one pink and having the fish tail. And another appeared, this one being a green light that had the symbol of a horse’s head with a horn. And finally…a purple light with a butterfly.

     Rody had found them.

    He struggled harder now, even when he didn’t have to look to see that the man in the chair was now floating closer to him. 

    “Let…me…go!”

     He was reaching his arms up to the light, hands outstretched and desperate hope in his eyes.

    Sorcerer’s eyes widened as he sensed power coming from Thunderbird and soon waved his staff in the air.

    “Ready yourselves, everyone! He’s found them!”

     Ladybug jumped up before she was soon side by side with Lady Dragon, Thunderbird’s body convulsed even more sporadically, almost as if having a seizure. Chat Noir was tense along with the Ghost Force and Pixie Girl, watching as the Hex Tombs appeared and started to shake. Sorcerer was murmuring under his breath in another language, waving his staff around as everything around them was growing dark, almost as if it was night time.

    “Ladybug, use your spell! Pixie Girl, ready yourself as well!”

    Ladybug looked confused for a moment at the British wizard, “W-what? Why?”

    “Use the spell you use when defeating Akumas. Do it now!”

     Pixie Girl was already waving her hands around, summoning the tree roots to help her dig up the ground that was breaking under them, giving a chance for whatever is coming to be brought up faster. Deciding to go along with it, Ladybug was soon bringing her yo-yo up and throwing it in the air.

    “MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!”

    Sparkling ladybugs were magically conjured, flying towards the Hex Tombs as the stones cracked, the ground erupting as glowing figures were starting to uprise from the ground. Thunderbird screamed out as his body froze for a moment, twitching for a few seconds before going slack. Lady Dragon’s heart dropped as she went to feel his pulse, and paled as she felt none. 

     “Thunderbird! No, no—RODY!” Lady Dragon pressed her hands to pump rapidly against his chest in a panic, Chat Noir immediately rushing over.

     “Shit, shit, shit, he’s…he’s not…?”

     “Chat Noir! Fury, Krush and Myst need your assistance!”

     The feline hero snapped out of his own fear, and looked up seeing the Ghost Force pulling out what seemed to be glowing bodies from the ground, and one seemed to be waving an arm as if needing help to be free. Chat Noir rushed over, grabbing for what seemed to be a glowing purple and white gloved arm, and pulling them up. His eyes widened seeing that the glowing figure was an older African American girl in a white and purple costume and mask…and had beautiful butterfly wings behind her. She coughed, and Chat Noir looked her over to see if she was alright.

     “U-Um, Miss, a-are you okay?” Chat Noir spoke in English, gaging the young woman’s reaction.

     “H-Huh? Where…where am I? And who are you?” The butterfly heroine looked to the feline hero, glanced her surroundings then eyes widened, “Pixie…W-where are Pixie Girl and the others?!”

     Pixie Girl, hearing her name had flown over to them and tilted her head, “Yes? You called me?”

     The mysterious girl with the butterfly motif then looked upset, staring at her with confusion.

     “…Why do you look different?”

     The winged heroine looked confused before the girl narrowed her eyes.

     “…You’re not the Pixie Girl I know.”

     Before Pixie Girl could question it, Fury’s yelp sounded loudly as a loud smack echoed around them.

     “Ow! What the hell?!” The green ghost yelled at some girl with pink hair and suit, having noticeably aquatic features. 

     It almost reminded Ladybug in her Aquabug form.

     The new girl in question was waving her hands in gestures, her face pulled into frown as she soon was smacking Fury again.

     “Ow! Make her stop!”

      Myst looked over and almost laughed, “Maybe she thought you were a bad guy.”

     “…Who are you people?” The voice next to Myst spoke softly, and the magenta coloured ghost girl looked over to see a confused looking dark haired male in a blue hero costume…although his look was unique considering he had six wings floating behind him and his mask had three pairs of eyes.

    “Er, the name’s Myst. And who are you and your friends?” She introduced herself calmly, “Do you remember anything about what happened to you guys?”

    The angelic like male placed a hand over his heart.

   “My name is Seraph…I came with my companions Greenhorn and Miss Mermaid to go against—”

    He paused for a moment as suddenly a blue light surrounded his body, and the lights died down to reveal a teenage boy with dark almost bluish hair like Marinette’s, blue eyes behind his glasses and dressed in casual jeans, hoodie and tennis shoes. He seemed in shock for a moment as a little Kwami  with tiny wings and a halo fell onto his lap, looking exhausted.

    “Their Miraculous must’ve timed out.” Krush said logically, watching the young man that he helped out also glowing green before revealing a young dark skinned male with green highlights in his dreadlocks, his street clothes looking more like Andy’s style and a green coloured Kwami with a horn on it’s forehead also fell onto his lap.

     The girl still silently smacking Fury also powered down as she was just an ordinary pink haired girl in gothic casual clothes, her eyes narrowed as a pink Kwami with a cute tiny tail fin fell into her hands.

     Chat Noir then felt a warm glow in his arms, as the girl with the butterfly motif soon transformed into a normal older girl with a beanie covering the top of her head, but her braided locks cascaded down past her shoulders, wearing a grungy like styled clothing. A little Kwami that looked a little like Nooroo fell into her hands gently, but the creature was more white than purple with violet linings around their body.

    “You said…Miraculous?” The boy that was called Seraph murmured, tilting his head, “Does this mean you’re also like us?”

     “Yes!” Pixie Girl immediately spoke as she soon quietly de-transformed in front of them, Florra appearing over her shoulder solemnly, “My name is Holly Rosewood…the new Pixie Girl.”

     “Miss Mariposa?” Florra spoke quietly as the girl with the Butterfly Kwami looked up, along with her small companion, “Letta, my friend?”

     “Florra? W-what happened? The fight—W-w-where’s Diana?” The girl, now named Mariposa, spoke softly, looking around then back at the Kwami. 

     Ladybug and Chat Noir looked at each other for a moment while this was going on, as Holly looked uncomfortable.

     Florra sighed, shaking her head, “I’m afraid Miss Diana is gone, Miss Mariposa. Miss Holly is my new holder now. You…you were gone for so long, and…she tried looking for you, Miss, she did…”

     Mariposa looked shocked, shaking a little as her lower lip quivered, “…How long?”

     Florra closed her eyes, “Four years…it was only last year she was defeated and had to pass me onto another so I would not fall into the wrong hands…”

    This made Holly look surprised, and Ladybug could sense that probably Florra had not told her that part.

    Sorcerer sighed as he too de-transformed, Hecca appearing over his head as he looked over the remaining three new people, “My name is Aster Orion, I am the holder of Hecca and from a family of wizards. We have been looking for more Miraculous holders like you for a while.”

     A coughing sound was heard and everyone looked towards Thunderbird, who seemed to move and gave a shallow breath, making everyone relieved. Lady Dragon looked over Thunderbird as he seemed to have automatically de-transformed, revealing an unconscious Rody with Talli and Pino collapsed over his chest.

     “I-Is he going to be okay?” The Chinese heroine of the Dragon asked, as Chat Noir looked over and de-transformed as well, feeding Plagg then looked over Rody.

     “He’s still breathing. So at least he’s alive…” Adrien said with a small smile, and watched Ladybug de-transform as well, Tikki nuzzling onto her shoulder.

     “My name is Marinette Dupain-Cheng. I am one of the Guardians of the Chinese Miracle Box,” She introduced as she looked at the three before her while standing beside Aster, but then noticed something off, “…It’s okay, you can trust us since we are all on the same team. Whoever you are won’t be revealed, but we should make sure that you get to your families, they must be real worried—“

    Marinette was surprised when the one that had the angelic like Kwami started laughing, but it sounded more bitter and sarcastic than anything. Confusion was coloured on her face as she looked at the boy, who’s faded looking eyes locked on her direction.

    “I don’t think my family would be worried for me in a good sense. Because it was my own father that buried me alive down here~” It sounded in a joking manner, but it caused some of them to look at him as if he was crazy.

    “Y-Your father?” Liv, who de-transformed already, said slowly while looking puzzled, “Why would—?”

     “Does the name Nolan Kasenti mean anything to anyone?” 

      Mike raised his hand up, “U-um, yeah? He’s the…He's like a famous philanthropist and the CEO of Kasskorp Tech, the world's biggest tech empire next to Tsurugi Industries? My dad has met him a couple of times?”

     The boy smirked for a bit, as he adjusted his glasses, “Yeah. I’m his son, Grady Kasenti.”

     A gasp left some of the teens, as Andy’s eyes widened in recognition.

     “Wait…I’ve heard of you!” The red head pointed out, looking at the male, “Aren’t you that genius boy that went missing? I’ve seen you all over the news four years ago��you and some other kids…”

     The male with the green high-lighted dreads was waving his hands for attention for a moment, and started making hand gestures, almost confusing some of them. The one that caught on was Fei, (who de-transformed during the talk) Aster and Adrien.

    The blond blinked when seeing the male make hand signs of pointing to himself, then his palms facing up while shrugging his shoulders, pointing both index fingers away and finally gestured his lips to cheek.

    “…You want to go home?”

    Marinette looked impressed, “You understood him?”

    “I took up sign language in French, English, Chinese and Japanese during my time with, you know who, before I met you,” Adrien explained, before he looked at the male signing once more, “He also wanted to point out that, yes, many kids have been taken. But him and his friends were trying to find them when they were ambushed.”

    The one with the Butterfly Kwami, Mariposa, raised her hand, “I was actually supposed to watch these kids with my partner, Pixie Girl…but it seems that she is gone. And now someone else took her place.”

     Somehow Holly looked guilty about this before Adrien raised a hand up.

     “Why…don’t we go somewhere else to talk about this?”

     Grady nodded, “Sounds like a good idea. With me and my team awake now, it’s only a matter of time before my father finds out I’m back and alive.”

    “How does it feel?”

    Onagadori watched the boy now in what seemed to be in a sleek suit like hers, only it almost had shark like features like in a video game Adrien showed her once. She had to admit, even though Eijiro looked good in red, blue and black suited him find as well. She watched him swim in the ocean for a moment, even using some of his new powers that apparently he just knew on the spot. Definitely, the Miraculous was made for him. 

    “Feels…awesome!” The Shark hero turned to her, smiling, “What hero name do you think I should use?”

    The Rooster heroine tapped her chin for a moment in thought, tilting her head as she hummed, “Well, I won’t call you Shark Boy that’s for sure.”

    Laughter sounded from the male, “Y-Yeah, I feel like that one’s taken?”

    “Well…if the hero name you use regularly is red themed….or something manly?” 

    A sheepish look was on the shark teen’s face, and Onagadori smiled fondly.

    “So? What’s it going to be?”

    The red head took a moment to think, before he snapped his fingers, “What about Shinkusame?”

    Onagadori tilted her head, taking moment before nodding, “…Sounds good.”

    “You think so?” Shinkusame looked down at himself, then at his weapon in hand, “For a moment I thought I was going to go for something like Hammerhead or Manly Shark—”

    “Shinkusame is enough,” The Roostter heroine raised her hand up to stop him, but suddenly felt an odd sensation run down her spine, and it seemed her companion felt it too, “What was that?”

     “I dunno?…Maybe there’s a bad guy on the loose?”

     “If there is, we should investigate.”

     The two soon were rushing to where they felt the weird sensation they were getting, which grew stronger the more they ran. Finally, they seemed to have stopped at an old abandoned factory that was close to a pier, and Onagadori narrowed her eyes. 

    Shinkusame pursed his lips, looking at the heroine, “The feeling stopped…?”

    “…Someone led us here.”

    “And you both fell for it.”

    The two looked up and immediately jumped away when giant hoofs stomped on the very spot they were previously standing in, almost flattened by the mystery monster. Both the Rooster and Shark Miraculous holders then took in the sight before them, with Onagadori paling and Shinkusame looking confused.

    “M-Mother?”

    Standing before them was Ikari Gozen,but something about her felt different.

    “Give me your Miraculous!”

    Onagadori was frozen for a moment, staring in horror at her akumatized mother but then yelped when Shinkusame pulled her out of the way before her bokken hit her.

    “Dori-chan, snap out of it!” Shinkusame scolded softly, as he was twirling his triton in hand to block some of the hits while dodging them, “We gotta defeat this foe or call the Team.”

   As he said this, however, he noticed a figure moving behind Ikari Gozen. This dark shadowed being leapt into the abandoned factory behind the Akuma, and the Shark hero couldn’t help but feel suspicious about it. Something wasn’t right here, and his gut was telling him that he had to follow them.

    “Dori-chan, you think you can handle this thing on your own?”

     The Rooster heroine looked puzzled, “I…think so? But what—?”

    “If not, call for backup. There’s someone there that’s getting away and might be someone that summoned this akuma! I’m going after them.”

     “Shinkusame, wait—“

     Wasting no time, the Shark hero jumped passed the horridly red color of an akuma and rushed into the building, aiming to capture whoever it was that ran inside. He paused, looking around for the person until he felt his senses kick in. Jumping out of the way, he looked over to see that it was…some sort of cane? He leapt away when the cane suddenly floated in the air and aimed for him again, but Shinkusame managed to swat it away with his triton.

    “Show yourself, villain!”

     “A villain? That’s a pretty rude assumption, boy…”

     Out of the shadows came a figure, a woman, to be exact. She was pale, almost looking light pastel purple with her almost silver lavender hair woven in a French braided crown twist bun held together with a violet ribbon. She was adorned in what seems to be in a purple turtleneck sweater, a black dress twin tail coat, tight black almost violet pants, and black high heel boots. Her face was covered in a beautiful looking masquerade butterfly mask, her glowing blue-violet eyes staring back at him calmly.

    “…Considering how you’re dressed, it’s safe to assume you might be. Especially when attacking me and my friend.” Shinkusame said with a sharp smile, as the woman had one herself painted on her dark lips.

    “Perhaps. But then again, I never expected someone to find the Shark Miraculous before me.”   

    “Too bad you can’t have it! And you won’t be getting away…” He spotted the familiar Butterfly Miraculous perched on her chest and his eyes widened, “You…?”

    “You won’t be getting this from me either~” The woman touched over her Miraculous and gave a a small chortle, “Unlike Hawkmoth, I don’t stoop myself lower to a mere child~”

    Shinkusame narrowed his eyes and was about to push forward to tackle her, but yelped when she suddenly vanished into butterflies, her titling laughter echoed around him.

     “Another time, young hero. We will see each other again soon~”

     Shinkusame growled as he looked at the empty space, but shook his head as he rushed to go outside to check on his partner. Although it seems Onagadori had it handled considering that she had the Akuma tied up.

    Looking up, Onagadori looked over at the Shark hero and rushed over to him, looking miffed, “Do not run off on me like that!”

    “Sorry! I had to try and capture that person…but they got away,” He paused, before looking at her, “They had the Butterfly Miraculous. The one that Hawkmoth used to have on.“

    “…It was well assumed there would be a new Butterfly Villain that was not Gabriel Agreste,” Onagadori  hummed, but then looked over at the Akuma, “For now, I guess we call Ladybug to de-akumatize this—“

    The two heroes gasped when suddenly the akuma started…melting into brown chunks of mud, giving a sadistic grin before completely just a puddle on the ground. 

    “…It was a distraction.”

    “And they were obviously after the Shark Miraculous.” 

    This caused Onagadori to look at her partner, “What makes you say that?”

    Shinkusame sighed, as he was rubbing his head, “Because the villainess I was chasing after admitted it to me.”

    “But why would she just…run away instead of fight the Miraculous off you?”

    “I dunno? But this is something we should tell Ladybug and them.” 

    And Onagadori agreed. The two decided to leave right there and then back to the hospital to tell the others, not knowing that pleased eyes were following them.

    “What was the point of that?”

     The woman sighed as she titled her head to the new voice next to her, and tutted gently.

    “Just an observation, if you will. After all, we don’t want to be making the same mistakes as Gabriel…don’t you agree, Tomoe-san~?”

     Tomoe snorted, walking beside the Butterfly Villainess as she tapped her cane to the ground once, and shook her head, “I figured that fool would be a failure to us. Especially when he was too emotional with his so called ‘family’ that he deluded himself with…“

     Something in the Butterfly Villainess’ facial expression twitched for a second, before she chuckled, “That goes the same for you and your daughter, my dear friend.”

    “I have no daughter. Not anymore since she’s as defective as my previous offspring.” Tomoe murmured with disappointment in her voice, before straightening herself up, “The Council have already prepared for the next steps. All we need now is our other partnered benefactors to uphold their end of the bargain.”

    “Does this mean 'that' is ready to be operational?” 

     Tomoe smiled a little, as she was holding what seems to be a small silver ring.

    “Thanks to some cooperation from Kasskorp Tech, Operation: Alliance can begin.”

    A satisfied smile was on the Butterfly Villainess’ lips before closing her eyes, nodding her head, “Good, good. Proceed with the next phase of our plans. Do not let me down, Tomoe-san.”

    “A Tsurugi never fails, Sovereign Pieris.”

   Sir Nighteye sighed as he looked at the old rusty train tracks for a moment longer, folding his arms as his eyes were narrowed and full of suspicion.

    “We’ve looked around these tunnels for weeks now. There’s nothing left for wherever those cult people used these tunnels for, even with the help of United Heroez intel,” Eraserhead murmured as he lifted his goggles up, looking to the other man with a tired look, “We’ll be flying back to Japan soon. Let’s cut our loses here and leave the rest to Victory and them.”

    “Something doesn’t feel right,” The future seeing hero murmured under his breath, still observing the tracks, “It feels like this is all one big goose chase to distract us.”

    “You think it’s to get us off track on something big?” Amelie asked not fair from them, lifting her goggles up and tilting her head to look at the two men, “What could be bigger than a cult of the rich and famous?”

    “All these names…does not make any sense.” Sir Nighteye pointed out to Eraserhead, “A lot of them aren’t even that rich nor famous. So it begs the question what they all have in common…”

    “Either way, this is officially a dead end. Maybe we can re-group with All Might and—“

     “Wait…”

      Both men stopped talking when Amelie spoke once more, looking down the tunnels with a frown.

     “Hime, what is it?” Eraserhead asked as he looked over at her, the blonde woman pointing down to the darkness.

    “Someone is here.”

    The three adults soon slowly stepped forward cautiously, careful to not set anything off in case it was an ambush of some kind, keeping their guard up. Sweat dripped down their foreheads as they prepared themselves for the worst, but then froze when they heard a shuddering breath. And it sounded female.

    Amelie quickly shed her flashlight to the source of the sound, and saw a figure hunched over, shaking. Going closer, despite Eraserhead’s warning, the blonde British woman approached the person and touched their shoulder, turning them around and gasped.

    Before them, was Bridgette…and she looked like hell. 

    “B-Bridgette?” Amelie breathed out as she checked the girl over, worry etched on her face, “What are you doing here in New York? Who’s watching Paris? Where is Onez?”

     “Ame, let her breath.” The erasure quirk user told the concerned woman, but then blinked when Bridgette grabbed Amelie’s arm tightly, her eyes blown in fear and looked like she was having a panic attack.    

     “I-I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Onez, h-he got dispelled a-and I managed to escape—my amok is with her!”

     “I-I don’t understand? Who are you talking about?” Amelie asked, trying to calm the girl down but Bridgette looked up for a moment and screamed in terror, making the adults look behind them.

     Suddenly, a snap of a finger sounded as a broken looking keychain of the Eiffel Tower dropped in front of them. Amelie cried out when Bridgette turned into feathers, then to dust, vanishing right before her eyes.

     “NO!”

      Both Eraserhead and Sir Nighteye were quick to search around for any other person nearby, possibly a villain that might’ve done this…but even when shining their light around the tunnel and hearing for any sounds of running footsteps…it was like no one else was here but the three of them. 

     “…Paris is in danger.” Amelie breathed out as she looked at the dust now covering her hands, the very hands that were holding that poor girl just seconds ago. She felt like she was going to be sick.

     “This seems like a warning to us. A warning to stop snooping,” Sir Nighteye said ominously, gnawing at his lower lip as he fisted a hand to his side, “Damn it. We have to call Lenoir-san and check up on them.”

     “Already on it.”

     Eraserhead was about to text but then paused when seeing Amelie still on her knees, looking at her hands with a vacant expression. His eyes softened as he quietly knelt down next to her, and took her into his arms.

     “Hime. We couldn’t…I’m sorry…”

      “…Whoever it is that did this. To those poor kids…they will pay dearly. No child is going to be hurt under my watch ever again.”

     And Shoto Aizawa knew that she meant that seriously.

Okay and that is a wrap! AND WHAT A END TO THIS ARC, AM I RIGHT?

Okay, so I know you guys have some questions you wanna ask, and you're free to do so by commenting below or just sending me an ask~! :D I'll be happy to answer any questions as long as it doesn't hit spoiler territory. Anyways, thank you all again for the lovely support and still reading this even when I take a long time to update :D

Until the next chapter my lovelies~ PLUS ULTRA, BUG OUT~

-Riri-Chan

[adamari2001]

I blame @hani.b6l on TikTok…. Someone take the internet away from me… Pinkie Pie x Hawkmoth

[dippygamer64]

Inktober 2024 — Day 14 — Roam

Alright, I’ll be honest, this is another drawing that is more loosely based on the prompt than others. I just really wanted to do another Chibi Mo Dao Zu Shi drawing. This time I’m returning to my idea with Marinette being Wei Ying and Lan Zhan’s niece/god daughter. I imagine they’re just out on a walk, no real destination in mind, just enjoying the day.

I’m starting to get better at drawing in a chibi style, and I am very happy with how this came out! I was worried about making sure Marinette looked younger than Wei Ying and Lan Zhan, so I’m glad it came out really well. I don’t really have much else to say about the drawing other than, I love it!

I guess I can talk more about the idea itself. Like I mentioned in the Passport drawing, I imagine Marinette goes to visit her uncles/godparents every summer ever since she was little. At some point, she started going by herself since her parents had to run the bakery. Thankfully she’s a well behaved child, much more than Wei Ying was at least. She’d likely learn some cultivation skills, but not as strictly as other students since she’s only visiting. I could also see her learning how to play the flute or a string instrument like either Wei Ying or Lan Zhan. Little things like that to make her visit enjoyable and relaxing. I don’t think Wei Ying or Lan Zhan would ever visit Paris, at least not unless something really big happened that they had to go.

Also, it’s debatable whether Wei Ying and Lan Zhan know Marinette is Ladybug or not. Like they’re smart, but they don’t see what’s going on in Paris. And I feel like Marinette would be trying to keep it a secret, but on the other hand maybe they can sense the power of her miraculous? It’s definitely something to think about. What do you guys think?

[ethereal-feline]

Miraculous Vigilantes!

Kuro Neko(Fuyumi Todoroki) and Red Beetle(Keigo Takami)!

yeah I am definitely a bit rusty 😅

I had good lighting! I had the shadows right! Then I used too much black 😭 it just went downhill from there lol

not me remembering I can post my own stuff shhh

[url-is-url]

Danny Phantom/Miraculous Ladybug crossover concept

Vlad Masters and Gabriel Agreste are Evil Rich Guy Buddies, so Danielle and Adrien are acquainted.

After flying off into the sunset, Dani travels the world and naturally ends up in Paris, where she befriends Ladybug and Chat Noir while fighting some awful ghost monster that crawled up out of the catacombs. Dani immediately clocks that Chat Noir is her old pal Adrien, because she obviously recognizes one of the very few fellow children she was ever allowed to hang out with, and if/when she meets Marinette she immediately clocks her as Ladybug because kwamis ping her ghost sense too. Adrien is totally oblivious, because why would his American pal be a superhero in France?

Later, Dani gets nearly akumatized. Unfortunately for Gabriel, Vlad trained her to throw off overshadowing with ease and akumatization is close enough that, not only does she resist it, she follows the mental link backwards and overshadows Gabriel instead. She wasn't expecting that her dad's rich asshole buddy would be Hawkmoth, but she's not surprised either. She also has a big chip on her shoulder about experimenting on small supernatural beings, so when she finds out what Gabriel's been up to with the kwamis, she proceeds to WRECK. SHOP.

Ladybug and Chat Noir aren't sure if they're impressed or terrified.

[secret-origins-crossover]

fic updates

this fic is a crime on hell to write- aka it keeps getting increasingly longer and i'm pretending i know what i'm doing, but okay- i figured i could post an additional silly wip because i am slowly going insane from not being able to post still! (this fic is a mess but i love it sm- i haven't written in a little while, i'm trying here-)

oh phantoms and felines (wip)

Morning hit unexpectedly, a half-groan leaving his lips as he blearily sat upright and took in his surroundings. The hotel was definitely luxurious but honestly it felt a little too suffocating for Danny’s tastes- which of course, led to him trying to find something else to do. Jazz had heard from someone there was this little bakery somewhere close by; there was seemingly nothing happening, and well, he was growing frustrated with the silence. Of course, he couldn’t expect this place to be like Amity Park but it was too still- it felt too peaceful. 

Rounding the corner, he paused as the wafting scent of scones and macarons filled the air. Danny could feel his mouth water, as his stomach rumbled- he still had the secondary effects of jet lag and he needed something to eat. Not to mention, the bakery was clearly well taken care of and looked like those made-from-scratch diners he recalled seeing back home.

[kashlyn]

Is there a fic of Marinette (Miraculous), Danny (Danny Phantom), Billy (Captain Marvel), and any Batkid being siblings? Even adopted? I need all four... I'm craving all four. I've only ever seen two or three but never four. Please.

[zoe-oneesama]

Since we're talking about Mahou Shoujos, what about a Miraculous Precure AU? I saw that you made fanarts of the anime last year and I liked it

That one's a little different because it's a crossover, meaning both the canonical ML AND Precure characters would exist at the same time.

I stated it in that original post, but I wanted the Precure's "kwamis" to not be real kwamis, so actually there's some beef between the Precure Fairies and the Kwamis. The Fairies don't represent concepts but want to work with humans to become heroes, they have hopes and dreams and desires of their own.

Kwamis think the Fairies are False Miraculouses and childish (and more than a little jealous that only some of the rules apply to them) and the Fairies think the Kwamis are selfishly hogging magic and glory for themselves (because while they're not supposed to, Kwamis can use magic by themselves while Fairies cannot).

But beyond that I didn't have much thought on this AU. Crossovers aren't really my thing.

[stars-obsession-pit]

What if Chloe Bourgeois was Stephanie Brown's long lost sister?

I don’t feel entirely confident in my knowledge of either of their characterizations/histories, but here’s an attempt at something!

So, before they even meet, Chloe has some differences due to being adopted.

In some ways she’s worse with her actions in trying to hold her mother’s attention and jealousy of Zoe who is her mother’s actual biological kid. But in other ways she’s better, due to feeling less like she fated to hold her high status and more like she has to earn it through being “Good”

Steph finds out about the connection first, so is the one to reach out to Chloe. Not exactly when this’d best fall in the timelines, but it’s probably either pre-canon or early-canon for Miraculous Ladybug

Chloe… doesn’t know how to feel about this. On one hand, Steph represents an actual blood-familial connection she could lean into (something she’s lacking) that might not have the same “I need to be good enough to earn their care” stress, but on the other she’s still caught up in her own issues about being “good enough” for her mother and is hesitant to act away from her adopted family

But Steph is perceptive enough to notice Chloe’s insecurities and whatnot just from reading their letters. She relates to parts of them (after all, she’d been overconfident and gotten in over her head before, and she recognizes Chloe’s at times arrogant attitude as a sort of defense mechanism), so she pushes for them to keep in contact since she believes that they could become genuinely very close with time.

Thus, they continue sending some messages back and forth, and over time this helps contribute to Chloe further improving as a person.

These changes are actually enough that Ladybug agrees to let Chloe keep using the Bee Miraculous sometimes, though not without some definite stumbles in their interactions along the way

Also would probably have to remove the “Chloe publicly declares her hero identity in one of her plans” thing to work with this

Neither tells the other about their hero work though. Steph can tell that something is up that Chloe isn’t telling (i’m including the crossover trope of an “information block to prevent foreign heroes from rushing in unprepared and getting akumatized” thing), but doesn’t know what and is hesitant to try to pry

A bit further into their communication, they decide they’d like to meet in person at some point.

However, Chloe is nervous about bringing her to Paris because of the Hawkmoth situation, and she’d be unlikely to get permission to go the other way (I could see her mother in particular forbidding it as “a ridiculous diversion” unless she knew Steph knows Bruce Wayne and thus their interactions could have “business potential”), so it gets kinda put off.

But then, after [some notable akuma event, IDK which would be ideal], the idea of her leaving Paris for a bit for safety gets brought up, and she jumps at the chance to push for going to Gotham to meet her sibling.

Well maybe it’s more like she pushes her parents to go to l New York, but then convinces the people she’s staying with there to bring her to Gotham

Alongside talking to Steph, she has another goal with this: to talk to the Bats.

Yeah, she’s still worried about heroes coming into Paris and getting akumatized, but she hopes that as detectives the Bats could give assistance remotely. Specifically, searching for Hawkmoth’s identity and/or base of operations.

And maybe, if she’s lucky, they’ll help her train to be an even more capable hero when she returns to Paris…

[empressgemstone]

Miraculous Rosegarden

Some ML x Rosegarden cross over pics, it’s not part of the film but how could I not do the umbrella scene, it’s one of the best scenes.

Be aware, I’m not the best with backgrounds so this got very experimental

[baedrien-agreste]

Returning from the void to share this...

Last night I was struck with the inspiration for a spiderverse au... enjoy this WIP! I'm probably gonna wdit the webbing on his legs, because it feels too cluttered, and also plan to make the spider legs a little longer

Rough design sketches under the cut

[pokenoire]

You mention that you have a lot of Anipoke fanfics ideas you never finished, can you tell a little about them? I'm just curious

Ok. This is going to be long, so as a cartoon from my childhood said, "Sit down because here comes a story."

The first time I wrote a FanFiction was in 2013-2014, it was basically an OC based on me and the people I knew, I even added the readers themselves to the story. It was a rewrite of XY, and took the early episodes from when Ash only had Froakie and Flechiling. I needed more characters for a revolution that would happen at least in a 2 story that would interrupt the Kalos League (funny that it was similar to the team flare arc) but with Lumiose's control I looked in practically 52 chapters and was close to Ramos gym, I changed some of Ash's Pokemon and included others keeping their Kalos mon at the same time as my Pokemon for them.

I also had an AU with Mirror Ash instead of an alternate character, a twin brother of Ash who was with his father, in fact this was before the Shudo novel was translated I didn't have much of an idea how Ash father is, the only thing i knew was "Ash will see his father for development" which i came across in the interviews looking for stuff about ash...As I had a cousin with an absent father similar to Ash and I witnessed similar situations with people close to me, I used this as a reference for Ash's father who ended up being very similar to Shudo. Less similar to Yuyama and Yajima UA (20 - 21 - 23 movie and Distant Blue Sky)

I started seeing a lot of real world stories without Pokemon so I decided to try something similar several times, always leaving Pikachu as some object, animal, plush, game or Ash's favorite thing in whole world.

Mirror Serena and Mirror Ash on their journey from leaving Kanto to arriving in Kalos

Mirror Ash autistic child non verbal, hiperfocous on Pokemon anime like it's your mirror version seeing your OG version if that makes sense lol Serena wasn't Mirror Serena, she was just normal Serena, so we can say it's Mirror Ash x Serena

The UA where Ash and Misty and Satoshi and Serena were a couple each with one was missing because I thought it would be fun to make a Pokeshipping fic BUT I COULDN'T PUT ANYONE with Serena other than Ash...so I reused it 💖😅

A whole journey, from Serena in Hoeen with a bit of Palleshipping and Rivalcrushshipping, with mention of the battle frontier and May's appearance.

A rewrite of Serena as Kalos Champion progress, while Ash was in Alola trying to practice all the things he learned from Ash after he failed in Hoeen due to the current chaotic state of the government on Pokemon world in 2017.

A story I've never written about Ashley X Serena, like Serena as sapphic Ash as bi, I think they's bi in pretty much 90% of my stories. Lesbian Serena only came to my mind for the first time because of the 2023 conflict, I admit, before for me they were both a Bi4Bi couple regardless of the universe I wrote, be it yaoi or not.

(Thanks to the Male Marinette and Fem Adrien Agreste versions - the concept of genderband as I only found out what non-binary was in 2019 to 2020 they were both cis)

Yaoi Amourshipping is the most recent of them all, I've simply been watching Serena's genderband for a long time but I've never been able to choose a correct name for it, so it was a bit "how do I can I write a character without a name?" so I was left without any idea updates and I stuck to that, just the desire in the back of my mind in 2015-2016 😭

- Crossovers -

A story based on a book I was reading, where Ash was an immortal and Serena was an incarnated soul that Ash would look for from time to time because in this story he loves her, but she doesn't know and has no idea who he is. I wanted to explore the concept of reverse crush UA but at the same time without going out of character, so it was a bit like Kanto- Diamond and Pearl - Advanced Generation and Kalos Ash mixed together in one character (a little bit of Dark Ash in the middle).

A crossover with Nisekoi, with the idea of recovering the two's memories of their camping days, taking advantage of the theory that Ash was the son of Giovanni and Serena by Lysandre for the first time. Just to give the same main idea of the anime I was basing it on.

A journey of May and Dawn as a crossover of DanMachi because a friend recommended this anime to me, I did something as if the gods were people with Pokémon powers like aura, electric, etc. Pokemon trainers were like the adventurers were like Pokemon trainers but I admit that Ash and Serena had a secondary role in 2016.

Many, many crossovers with Miraculous

A crossover where Ash was Chat Noir and Serena was Ladybug

A crossover where Adrien could go to school and wanted to be a Pokemon trainer and Marinette was there.

A crossover where Delia would work with Tom and Sabine, fleeing from Ash's abusive father in Japan (original Kanto) but they are in the Miraculous world itself. No appearance, no idea who he would be, keeping pretty much the anime, I didn't really involve his father outside of the sibling UA.

I picked up both ideas recently and now that I'm back writing, I thought about putting some of them together into one, but without a very definite spoiler.

I've already done a Bridgette and Felix journey too because they're my OTP in Miraculous but I admit I had a lot more ideas for them in the original universe of their own franchise.