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Chat Noir landed on a road in east Paris which had been, just a moment before, the scene of an akuma attack.
The most obvious evidence of this came in the form of his ladybug themed companion. She looked ruffled, her normal pigtails missing. It appeared that she had used one of the ribbons to tie back her hair into a ponytail. However, this wasn’t what Chat noticed first, the first thing that he noticed was Ladybug sitting on a ladybug themed Harley-Davidson.
“Hurry up and get on Chat! He’s getting away.” She yelled, he barely heard her over her revving the engines.
Trusting her, he quickly bounded over and slid onto the seat behind her. He gripped her gently on her sides, so he wouldn’t go flying, and replied: “Go!”
She revved the engine again and they set off… at a snail’s pace.
“Ladybug, why aren’t we going fast?”
“Oh shush Chat! Not like I’ve ridden one of these things before.”
“You rode a dragon once. Surely this isn’t more difficult?”
“Aha!” She grinned as they accelerated quickly. Soon enough they were speeding along the road at a tremendous speed.
“My Lady, what is the akuma?” He asked into her ear.
Ladybug didn’t stop focusing on the road as she answered him. “A bus.”
Chat look confused. “A what?”
Ladybug turned them suddenly, making Chat yelp. They shot off the roundabout that was also an overpass, Ladybug cheered confidently as they soared through the air, Chat gripped onto his lady a bit tighter, and then they landed on the highway.
Chat’s expression flattened. “Oh. The akuma is a bus.”
He thought he heard Ladybug scoff at his statement as he took the giant bus in. The thing was two lanes wide and barely short enough to pass under the overpass they had just jumped off. Other than that it looked like a normal city bus, which only made its large size that much stranger.
“How do we fight a bus?” Chat frowned.
“We just have to get to it and break its engine, that’s the akuma object!” She called out, her earing beeped down to three spots.
“Surely you’re not serious?” He was a little worried about a plan that called for him to jump on the hood of an akuma bus to cataclysm the front of it. Especially when he would be doing it at this speed.
“Yes I’m serious and don’t call me Shirley!”
He only had a moment to feel outraged at her joke before they were right behind the bus.
“Jump on it Chat! On three!”
“What? No I…”
“Two!”
“Where did three go?!”
“One!”
“Oh god.”
“Zero!” She grabbed him, stood on the motorcycle for a moment and then lobbed him onto the bus. “Destroy the engine Chat! I only have two minutes!”
“Right.” He said as he clung desperately to the bus. The bus that was moving at a ridiculous speed around Paris.
Using his claws to get a grip he crawled forward slowly, wondering where the actual akuma victim was. He couldn’t have actually transformed into the bus, right?
His questions were finally answered by the bus door opening and an old man dressed in typical bus driver wear stepping out onto the bottom step.
“Ladybug! Give me your Miraculous and I won’t crush you with my magnificent bus!” He yelled out, grinning viciously at the spotted hero riding alongside the bus.
Chat noticed Ladybug lose another spot. He shook his head and focused, clawing forward as his lady started taunting the akuma. The bus driver seemed to be able to control the bus even standing where he was as he moved it to try and pin Ladybug to the wall.
Chat gulped as he reached the end of the bus roof. The turbulence of the bus moving to crush Ladybug as well as the time restraint making him nervous. He tentatively put his claw down on the glass and slid slightly. His immediate reaction was to move back slightly and clamp down hard on the roof.
“Chat Noir!”
He blinked and glanced over to see Ladybug grinning at him. “You can do it!”
Chat nervousness cleared and he moved forward. He took a deep breath and slid down onto the hood of the bus. He called Cataclysm and did his best to ignore the likely consequence of him using it on the front of a moving vehicle. He looked into the bus drivers eyes and smirked as he brought his hand down.
The next thing Chat saw was Ladybug’s concerned face as she held out a hand to help him up.
“You alright Kitten?”
He glanced around and noticed that they were now on a roof. “Ugh, how long was I out?”
Her smile was slightly tense as he took her hand and let her pull him up. “A couple minutes. I dropped you off on the roof and recharged as quickly as I could.” She glanced down at his ring as it pinged him down to one minute.
“I better go… Seriously are you alright? You didn’t answer me.”
Chat smiled at the concern. “I’m as dashing as ever, My Lady.”
She relaxed and smiled for will. “Good.” She held up her arm and he grinned as he did the same.
“Pound it!”