Red Strings And Markers

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"We have to get ahold of that mirror before she starts zapping everyone." Ladybug rubbing her hand across her face with a sigh. "This is all my fault." She mumbled.

"Don't fret my lady, we will fix this issue. After all, you are the fairest of them all." Chat gave her a smirk.

"Not for long though!" A cackle rose from the skies and the two were blinded by a strong light. "It's too bad for you that you're going to meet your doom today. Chat Blanc, Lady Beetle, I call upon you to take Chat Noir and Ladybug's miraculouses!"

Whenever the light faded, Chat Noir and Ladybug were faced with identical copies of themselves, however Chat was white and Ladybug was Chloé's version of Antibug.

"You've made the Queen very upset Ladybug." Lady Beetle had the same voice as her.

"Un-fur­-tunately fur you, you're going to meet your doom today." Chat Blanc added.

Ladybug let out a surprised sigh. "Even he has the shitty puns too, oh my god."

Chat Noir snickered before the two engaged into battle with themselves, leaving Evil Queen to go to the Eiffel Tower with plans to have all of Paris under her will.

Battle tactics were exactly the same, the four were equal in combat. Ladybug and Chat Noir were to their limits almost, Lady Beetle and Chat Blanc just about the same.

"Lucky Charm!"

"Luckless Charm!"

For Ladybug came out a compact mirror while Lady Beetle a sabre.

"What? How come they get a sabre?" Chat Noir pouted and Ladybug shrugged.

Lady Beetle passed the sabre off to Chat Blanc and an evil smirk possessed his lips as he started heading for Chat Noir.

Chat Noir stood defensively with his baton in hand, taking steps back as Chat Blanc took steps forward. "It's unethical to attack your opponent when they're not properly equipped."

"I'm paw-fully sorry, but the rules of fencing don't apply to me." He paused before giving the cat-like signature grin. "En garde!" Chat Blanc started to attack and Chat Noir had no choice but to play the offensive, trying to avoid getting touched by the seemingly real blade.

While Lady Beetle was distracted by the two Chat's fight, Ladybug had the time to see what she could use the compact mirror for.

When she opened it, it had two mirrors on each side, the sun catching on one of them and reflecting the sun into her eyes. She flinched and closed it quickly, rubbing her eyes.

"That's it." Lady Beetle turned her attention to Ladybug, prepping herself for an attack.

Instead of engaging in a yoyo to yoyo battle, Ladybug decided to go in head on, surprising Lady Beetle with the start of a hand to hand combat. Lady Beetle tried to avoid Ladybug as much as she could and while all of the shuffling around brought up a small dust cloud, Ladybug opened the compact mirror and shone the sunlight into Lady Beetle's eyes.

Lady Beetle hissed and covered her eyes with her arm, Ladybug seizing the opportunity to wrap her yoyo around Lady Beetle and swinging her over to an unsuspecting Chat Blanc.

If Ladybug knew better, Chat Blanc would immediately drop everything to help Lady Beetle. And to her expectancies, Chat Blanc did just exactly, dropping the sabre and was quick to help Lady Beetle, Chat finding the opportunity to grab the sabre.

As Chat Blanc was reassuring if Lady Beetle was okay with some shitty pun, Ladybug wrapped them in her yoyo, trapping them together.

"I hate to bearer of bad news, but un-fur-tunately, we have to go."

Chat Blanc looked at the Ladybug standing before him, his eyes sparkling. "Did you just make a cat pun?"

Lady Beetle scoffed. "You're supposed to be in love with me." She elbowed Chat Blanc and the white cat couldn't help the embarrassed chuckle.

"Sorry lover boy, but this Ladybug is mine." Chat Noir came to stand beside Ladybug and held onto her chin, planting a kiss on her lips tenderly.

Chat Blanc's jaw dropped. "Why couldn't we be like that?" He whined and Lady Beetle groaned.

"Just get this over with."

Ladybug chuckled. "My pleasure." Ladybug stepped closer to the two and removed Lady Beetle's earrings and Chat Blanc's ring. "Chat?"

"My lady. Cataclysm." The black magic rose in Chat Noir's open palm and Ladybug put the two pieces of jewelry in Chat's palm and he closed his hand.

"Bye bye Lady Beetle."

"Maybe you'll get lucky next time." Chat winked to his white counterpart and the two disappeared.

"Let's hope we don't meet them again." Ladybug sighed and looked at Chat's hand. "You were able to keep it."

"The sabre, it didn't disappear." He held it in his hands, also looking down at Ladybug's compact mirror. "Well with these two, we should be able to do some damage to Evil Queen and cleanse her."

Ladybug nodded and the two headed towards the Eiffel Tower.

Evil Queen was at the top of the tower, taking in a deep breath and the view. "This is the view a Queen should have." She let out a happy sigh. "From here, I can make everyone my trusty servant."

"Sorry Evil Queen, but that won't be happening today." Ladybug and Chat Noir appeared just below where she was standing, Evil Queen glaring at the two of them.

"I see that Chat Blanc and Lady Beetle were useless." She snarled and she opened her mirror, pointing it towards the two of them. The two of them split ways, avoiding Evil Queen's beams.

"What's the plan my lady?" Chat called.

"Distract her while you can!" Ladybug called back and Chat nodded, jumping up to Evil Queen's level.

"Excuse me, my Queen, but it looks like I'm going to disrespect you. En garde." Chat positioned himself and began to attack Evil Queen consecutively.

"You disrespectful feline!" Evil Queen spat as she tried to avoid his attacks.

"Evil Queen!" She turned to the sound of her name being called and Ladybug was able to angle her compact mirror to reflect the sunlight into Evil Queen's eyes, blinding her.

As she rose her arms to shield herself from the bright light, Ladybug found her chance. "Chat, knock the mirror out of her hand!" Chat leaned in with his whole body and managed to pry the compact mirror out of Evil Queen's hand, toward Ladybug. She caught it and threw it on the ground, stomping on it, releasing the black akuma.

The akuma was cleansed, the pure white butterfly floating into the skies. The two knelt by the tired Chloé, who recalled none of the recent events.

"Chloé, sometimes... Sometimes we get our heart broken by people we like." Ladybug started.

"But there's always someone who will always stand by your side whenever you need to vent to someone." Chat Noir pointed to the fainted scribbles on her arm.

"All they wanted was for you to be happy."

Chloé looked at the scribbles on her arm and began tearing up, finally coming to terms that Adrien Agreste wasn't her significant other and that there was someone out there who truly cared about her.