prologue

So, in order to vent to myself without destroying anything in my residence, I write my own fanfiction stories detailing what I believe should've happened in the cartoon. Just like almost every other fanfiction writer on this Earth and in this very dimension. I occasionally get very bad reviews, and because I'm vindictive enough to not listen to what people have to say about my stories if they don't like them, I delete those reviews.

So, that night, my siblings were sleeping while I was rewatching the ending of the finale of Miraculous Ladybug. As I was about to finish rewatching the final episode of the show featuring the children of the previous present day Miraculous heroes taking up some of their parents' previous and current mantles and the heroes making a vow to protect the future generations of humankind from many villains to replace Hawk Moth, Mayura, Volpina/Chameleon/Hawk Moth II, Felix Graham de Vanily Fathom, Chloe Bourgeois, Cash, Techno-Pirate and Ignoblia among others, I made a wish. I wished for the opportunity to help Ladybug and Cat Noir in any way I can, with my combat training in my childhood and my teenage years spanning nearly past fifteen to forty-five years of practice in hand-to-combat in the event of being cornered by either version of Hawk Moth with my pants down, along with my foreknowledge being one hundred percent untraceable, irrefutable, irreversible, tamperproof and unable to be abused by anyone.

After making my wish, I finished rewatching the Miraculous Ladybug series finale with a quiet victory dance while playing the JW Superman theme. After I changed the channel to the News 12 weather and news channel and turned off the TV to save power and be ready for the morning news, I brushed my teeth, took my nighty-night medicine to help me sleep, and went to bed.

But little did I know, as I was drifting off to sleep, I was being transported to the world of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, all thanks to the current and soon-to-be former Great Guardian of the Chinese Zodiac Miracle Box waiting to grant me my wish.

So, basically, what I was about to find out was that this was the beginning of a special legend in the Quantic Universe... the legend of Steel Butterfly.

(Unknown Miraculous Ladybug Earth, January fifteenth, 2000, Miguel's POV...)

I awoke to the smell of tea being made and the UV rays of the sun beaming into my closed eyes.

I blocked the sun from my eyes with my hands as I tried to completely wake myself up.

However, when I awoke fully, I was in for a shock.

I found myself in Master Fu's massage parlor!

And that can only mean one thing: I was somehow transported into the fictional world of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir!

And if that sign wasn't obvious enough, I was shocked to see that my entire person was completely computer animated to the standards of Adobe Animate CC!

Don't get me wrong, I always firmly believed that the multiverse would've had specific universes where some fictional stories in the forms of comic books, cartoons, movies, video games and non-sentient toys took place in real life. But I didn't think that it was all too true until now. And I got the whole world of fanfiction in my universe to thank and blame for that.

Just then, I saw Master Fu and Wayzz approach me. Master Fu asks me, "Are you alright, Mr. Guevara?"

I wordlessly nodded, as words failed me.

Master Fu continues, "Why don't I explain everything with some tea and a light, healthy breakfast? It'll help to clear your mind."

Soon enough, Master Fu and I had a light, healthy breakfast consisting of oatmeal with blueberries, apple slices, orange slices, and Honey Oat Cereal with bananas. Granted, I hated cereal before I came to this dimension, but apparently my palettes adjusted well to the smell, texture, and taste of cereal all too easily without me having to get my palettes used to the taste of cereal myself. After we had some water to hydrate ourselves, we drank the tea that Master Fu served us. And surprisingly, it tasted good.

Once we finished, I finally started to form words as I asked, "Master Fu, that was a nice breakfast and all, but if you don't mind me asking, what exactly am I doing here in your dimension?"

Master Fu answered, "There are two reasons as to why you are in my dimensional space. One, I overheard your wish and wanted to grant you your wish. And two, because the Rabbit Kwami, Fluff, informed me of what will happen in the foreseeable future, starting in September of 2014. This Hawk Moth character is trying to steal the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses. For whatever wish he intends to make when he combines them, I know not. Now, tell me, who is Hawk Moth?"

I replied matter-of-factly, "You know how I have foreknowledge of events in the future? Well, I'm afraid that I'll be telling you specific events of the future only when they come around. If I were to so much as tell you anything about the future before those events' first stages come around, things might spiral out of control. Take Hawk Moth's identity, for instance. If I told you his identity here and now, if you were to retrieve the Butterfly Miraculous, the Peacock Miraculous, and the grimoire from Hawk Moth this early, there's a good chance that he'll try to track you down and potentially steal the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses from the Miracle Box while your guard is down. Presumably if you were asleep. On top of that, any small alterations to this point of the past without careful planning and precise precautions will result in a disastrous disruption of the space-time continuum, prompting interference from a guardian of time and space. And besides that, if we apprehend Hawk Moth and his allies before they commit any of their minor or serious crimes in the future, the charges won't stick when we use just our word, and if we use any form of recorded evidence, by the time Hawk Moth and his allies get exonerated from serving time in prison, they could potentially commit their crimes while using different identities and different missing or stolen Miraculouses to avoid getting sent to prison successfully the second time around. And we wouldn't want any of that to happen, now, do we?"

Master Fu remarks, "You make a lot of interesting logical points. Alas, I'm granting you an opportunity to become the hero you always wanted to be."

Once I realized what Master Fu meant, I protested, "No offense, Master Fu, but when I said that I always wanted to be a hero, I didn't mean by using magic jewelry. Besides, whenever someone uses magic jewelry even once, they run the risk of getting demonically possessed. And any human being using magic in any way, shape or form will most certainly be condemned and tossed into the Lake of Fire after Judgment Day. After all, as my parents told me when they were educating me about the Bible, they got to the part where Jesus Himself said that among the types and categories of evil people that will be utterly and permanently obliterated includes any type of magic practitioner; in other words, anyone who so much as uses even magic jewelry."

Master Fu states in response, "I understand how you feel about magic jewelry because of your religious upbringing, but trust me; the Miraculous I will give to you will protect you from even demons, in addition to protecting you from the power of the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses. And if God Himself disapproves of you using a magic jewel no matter the dimensional realm, I'll take the fall for you and every Miraculous champion of the past, present and future on Judgment Day with dignity and humble feelings, as I was brought into the job of protecting the Miraculouses by the Order Of The Guardians against my free will. And you already know this because of your foreknowledge, correct?"

I nodded, as I was unable to argue with that.

Standing up, Master Fu went over to the phonograph, put in the secret code, opened the phonograph and took out a peculiar-looking Miraculous jewel that wasn't supposed to be part of the initial lineup of the Miraculouses in the Chinese Zodiac Miracle Box if it wasn't for his mistake in 1844 and if it wasn't for the fact that no other Miraculouses were invented through either using the Peacock Miraculous or by simply having more kwamis automatically become created when new concepts become introduced to the universe, such as, oh, I don't know, hope.

It looked like a combination of the current Butterfly Miraculous and the and at least 2 different depictions of the Butterfly Miraculous from 2 different Miraculous Ladybug fanfictions that feature a different kind of Butterfly Miraculous, one involves having the ability to paralyze any enemy target with an arrow along with a butterfly version of the Miraculous Ladybug, and the other involves having some kind of special superpower that I can't remember off the top of my head. Sue me for all I care; it's been years since I last read a fanfiction story about that Butterfly Miraculous.

To put it in semi-short details of what it looks like, this Butterfly Miraculous looks like a red and purple circle/oval-shaped silver-rimmed stone with purple diamonds and white-gold spots on the wings. The wings look like a combination of the flower petal stylized wings of the original Butterfly Miraculous and the wings of an actual butterfly. It also had the body of a butterfly, with the large stone in the middle of the body. It also had the colors of the various iterations of the Butterfly Miraculous to boot.

I asked in awe and confusion, "Is that... the Butterfly Miraculous?"

Master Fu answers, "Yes, it is. It is the real Butterfly Miraculous. The Order of the Guardians invented it as a failsafe against the original Butterfly Miraculous in case anything happened to it. And it happens to be more powerful than the one currently in hiding. Here's how that is. It not only grants you the same powers and abilities of the original Butterfly Miraculous along with the Peacock Miraculous, including whether or not they're used conjointly or they're given additional power from an external source, but it also grants you the power of divine resurrection. Meaning that you're able to use divine magic to revive anyone accidentally or purposefully murdered while healing them of any fatal injuries or anyone who died of any illness while curing them of their afflictions. I would've said transformation, but that lies in the special superpower of the original Butterfly Miraculous. But admittedly, the transformation aspect and superpower of your new Miraculous lies in your new ability to give yourself any transformation you want for battle, for stealth missions, for search and rescue missions, or for anything in between, as a form of shapeshifting. At the same time, you can also grant other people and any object their own transformations if you ever need to build an army or an expansive city-wide network of surveillance among other things. But the transformations will be under your own control, especially in terms of whatever appearance you happen to have in mind. The resurrection part of your superpowers also grants you the ability to revive yourself from the dead in the divine sense immediately after you die. But the cream of the crop as you people say it in the modern age is that this Butterfly Miraculous grants you the power of numerical unity, meaning that you have the powers and abilities of pretty much every superhero and supervillain in existence, both in real life and in fiction. Um, with the exceptions of the powers from godlike beings so as to prevent you from becoming overly powerful or becoming mad with power."

In particular, I was fascinated, simply because as far as the both of us knew, there was absolutely no Miraculous jewel that can grant its user nearly godlike power by itself without having to be merged with the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses, while also not giving the Miraculous user in question every superpower of all forms of godlike beings like God, Knull, Doctor Doom, Superman, Doctor Manhattan, Jean Grey, Galactus, Spawn, Shazam, Kyle Renner, Daniel Hall, Franklin Richards, Elaine Belloc, Trigon the Terrible, Doomsday, Darkseid, while not giving the Miraculous user the powers of the most powerful heroes and villains in history, and so forth.

Master Fu finishes with this closing question, "Lastly, since you're the first of my Miraculous champions, I'm placing you in charge of a special team of Miraculous heroes from other dimensions similar to yours. I'm also placing you in charge of the heroes soon to come after the future holders of the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses, Ladybug and Cat Noir, come into the picture. I'm hoping that you will all succeed in your special mission. Will you help me?"

I thought this over, and though my family will most surely disapprove, I have no other choice since I'm otherwise stuck in this very fictional dimension. And I did say I wanted to help my two favorite heroes in any way that I can.

So I accepted the offer.

Once I clipped the brooch to my shirt, a purple and red globe of light emerged and faded to reveal a butterfly kwami.

This butterfly kwami looked a lot like a combination of Tikki and Nooroo.

The butterfly kwami said to me, "Oh, hello there, young man. I'm Leppey, the butterfly kwami of numerical unity, the most powerful kwami in existence, fifth only to the snake kwami Sass, the rabbit kwami Fluff, the ladybug kwami Tikki, and the black cat kwami Plagg. And you are?"

I then stated in response, "Nice to meet you, Leppey. I'm Miguel Guevara, your new owner. And for the record, I'm already familiar with everything about this universe, including the powers and time limits of the Miraculouses if the holders have yet to become adults."

Master Fu smiled and Wayzz stated, "How remarkable. A new champion who already knows what he's dealing with."

Leppey beamed as he said, "In that case, I'll cut to the chase. To transform, all you need to do is say, 'Leppey, Elegant Wings Live.' To detransform, just say, 'Leppey, Elegant Wings Die.' "

Standing in a "spread your wings" pose, I called out, "Leppey, Elegant Wings Live!"

Leppey was sucked into the brooch as I transformed while standing still.

However, what was most unexpected was the fact that my transformation wasn't just magic. It was also divine cosmic energy the equivalent of God's power itself.

My guess is that this real Butterfly Miraculous was forged by both a Miraculous mage and a small army of God's angelic craftsmen.

When I looked at myself in the mirror, I was amazed at what I was wearing.

I was wearing a form-fitting suit of metallic armor faintly resembling many different forms of Hawk Moth, including his Scarlet Moth and Shadow Moth forms, but without his Collector form, his Shadow Noir form, and/or his Monarch form. That is, if he ever thought of using body armor for his transformations. The rest of my armor resembled many different forms of The Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ranging from comic book iterations to concept arts to animated cartoons to even live action blockbuster movies, but without the overly buff and extremely tall stature of the Super Shredder armors, much to my relief. Such cartoon iterations of my Shredder-inspired armor happen to include elements of the armors worn by the Utrom Shredder, the Karai Shredder in the male version, the Demon Shredder, the Tengu Shredder and the Cyber Shredder. Meanwhile, my armor was also using design elements of The Shredder's mechanized armor from the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. As for my armored helmet and mask combination, it looked like a combination of Hawk Moth's chronological mask, the "later concept Hawk Moth mask" with the butterfly visor and the closed mouth, Scarlet Moth's mask, Shadow Moth's mask, and many depictions of The Shredder's helmet. Except for depictions of the Super Shredder's helmet. On top of that, my armored back also had retractable metallic butterfly wings attached to a jetpack that would help me fly in the air in case my own wings aren't powerful enough, or in case they're too weakened to help me fly in the air on my own. At the same time, my wings will also help me fly in case my jetpack is damaged, running low on fuel or completely out of fuel. To top it off, I was given a cane swordstick which was as tall as I was, and a combat hand fan covered in metal plates. As for the cane swordstick, it looks like every version of Hawk Moth's cane swordstick, even from his Scarlet Moth and Shadow Moth forms. As for the combat hand fan, it looked like a combination of Mayura's hand fan, Shadow Moth's hand fan and April O'Neil's tessan from the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. In fact, because I have the powers and abilities of every single Miraculous jewel in the Chinese Zodiac Miracle Box, I was given a sword that looks like the Sword for the Dragon Miraculous in a colorful assortment of the colors the sword appears in whenever one of the elemental transformations are used. I was given a metal staff similar to a combination of the staves that Cat Noir, Cat Walker, and Cat Blanc use respectively. At the same time, I was also given an umbrella that looks just like the one used by Bunnyx, except that my umbrella is colored in the same colors as my armor. I was also given a mallet that looks like the one used by Minatourox, the tambourine used by Razor Pyg, the flute used by Rena Rouge/Rena Furtive, the spinning top used by Queen Bee and Vesperia, the shield used by both Carapace and Jade Turtle, but without the conical shape to reflect Jade's Chinese heritage, the lyre used by Viperion, the skipping rope used by Multimouse and Polymouse, the bolas used by Purple Tigress, the horseshoe used by Pegasus, the paint brush used by Caprikid, the ruyi jingu bang used by King Monkey, the fountain pen used by Coq Courage – oops, I meant Songhorn, the ball used by Traquemoiselle/Backcrosser, and even the bullroarer used by Eagle. And of course, at the same time, I used my Sublimation superpower to give myself the same amount of guns and other kinds of weapons from many heroes and villains as Jonah Hex, Silver Sable, Wild Dog, War Machine, Rocket Raccoon, Deadshot, Cable, Judge Dredd, Deadpool, The Punisher, Crossbones, Hellboy, RoboCop, Spawn, Red Hood, Arsenal, The Comedian, Agent 47, Deathstroke, Deathlok, Moon Knight, Elsa Bloodstone, Big Daddy, Hit Girl, Blade the Vampire Hunter, Ra's Al Ghul, the various counterparts of The Shredder, the Justice League, the Suicide Squad, the Avengers, and so forth. As for the colors of my armor, they were dark purple, lavender, black, burgundy red, indigo blue, pink, sea green, silver, and regular blue. Lastly, my wings and my jetpack were purple and red. In fact, I could've sworn that the jetpack and wings were designed in a similar style to many versions of The Vulture and The Falcon from Marvel Comics. But then again, all of that was what I wanted deep down. Because, as it just so happens, I'm literally obsessed with seeing my favorite superheroes wearing metal suits of armor, along with jetpacks that have either retractable wings or non-retractable wings. And as a matter of fact, my wings not only looked like butterfly wings, but they also looked like falcon wings and vulture wings. And the entire ensemble resembled many different iterations of the winged jetpacks used by The Vulture and by The Falcon, both as himself and as a flight-capable iteration of Captain America.

As I was admiring my appearance, Master Fu asked me, "Well, what do you think?"

I replied, "I look stunning! I can't believe that this was what I always wanted deep down! So, from now on, all sorts of magical terrorists and mass murderers will learn to cower in fear by the very mention of my name... Steel Butterfly."

Stroking his beard, Master Fu remarked, "Steel Butterfly... a wonderful superhero name. A wonderful name for a superhero, indeed."

After twelve days in frozen time, in a place and time similar to Heaven where we're outside of linear space and time itself, I was taught about everything I needed to know about how to use all of my powers. In particular, I was taught how to use my Tenshi butterflies to change the negative emotions of an Akumatized supervillain into positive emotions, effectively "reprogramming" them into superheroes. In the process, my Tenshi merges with the Akumatized object, only to drive out Hawk Moth's Akuma and reprogram it into another Tenshi, waiting for my direct order to Tenshize someone else to help my primary champion.

At the same time, I also used my foreknowledge to self-teach myself in Mirakung Fu, a martial arts style introduced in season 4 of Miraculous Ladybug, said to be created by and devised by the Order Of The Guardians to take down rogue Miraculous users, even the ones as skilled in martial arts equivalent to Hawk Moth and Mayura. Also at the same time, I had Master Fu help me combine several different current fighting moves with Mirakung-Fu to create a martial arts style capable of subduing rogue Akumatized supervillains and rogue Tenshized superheroes. It wasn't easy, but we managed to pull it off. Heck, I even used my powers to observe different points of time in the past to teach myself every combat move, technique and maneuver that would be needed to take down Hawk Moth, Mayura and any other Miraculous wielder villains of the future that arise to take their places. At the same time, I also taught myself how to counter Mirakung Fu, just in case Su-Han tries to take the Butterfly Miraculous in the event he arrives in Paris during the time period taking place after Marinette has become the new Guardian of the Chinese Zodiac Miracle Box. As I was teaching myself how to fight, how to combine martial arts with street fighting, boxing, wrestling and many other forms of combat, as well as how to copy my opponent's moves and warp their combat experiences against them even without being seen, something truly unexpected happened. I accidentally used one of my Tenshies to de-age Master Fu's appearance and physical body by one hundred and fifty years, making his body and overall appearance look and feel like he's thirty-six years old again. Figuratively and literally.

Master Fu knew I didn't mean to, but it brought to us the benefit of me teaching Master Fu Mirakung Fu, as well as how to translate more Guardian symbols from the grimoires, thanks to the Butterfly Miraculous also granting me the powers of wisdom, knowledge, and the ability to flawlessly speak and translate any of the world's languages, as well as languages invented by the Order Of The Guardians.

All the while, we managed to have three consecutive headquarters built in three locations: one underneath the library of Francoise Dupont High School, one underneath the massage parlor, and one in the basements of the Dupain-Cheng bakery and the adjoining buildings after giving the two residents of the bakery our consent and after telling them everything. I said two residents because our main protagonist isn't gonna be born for another year and because her older brother was not old enough to understand everything just yet.

And that shocked me as Marinette Dupain-Cheng didn't have any siblings or cousins in the original cartoon whatsoever, and fanfictions don't count.

Of course, another benefit of the power of the Butterfly Miraculous is that it provides me the ability to transfer memories of my foreknowledge to chosen subjects without anything happening to my own memory whatsoever.

Because of this, I transferred copies of my foreknowledge of this dimension to only two chosen subjects: Tom Dupain and Sabine Cheng.

To say the least, they were partially unhappy that Marinette was chosen to wield the Ladybug Miraculous as a first-time child soldier of magical origin without any form of training in the world of magic or any combat training whatsoever.

But more on that another time.

I don't really know if Tom and Sabine will try to prevent Marinette from becoming Ladybug or not, but what I do know is that Marinette and Adrien becoming Ladybug and Cat Noir is a fixed point in time throughout the Quantic Multiverse, alternate universe-style fanfictions excluded.

And with the ability to communicate with my kwami while I'm transformed, I was able to successfully learn how to fly, even and preferably without being seen.

After a few months of trial and error, I was able to reach the levels of combat experience of The Kingpin, Daredevil, Iron Fist, Shang-Chi, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Superman, General Zod, Supergirl, Martian Manhunter, Black Cat, Catwoman, Batman, Ra's Al Ghul, Hawk Moth, Grandmaster Su-Han, Furious Fu, Bunnyx, the Transformers Prime Airachnid, the Transformers Prime Arcee, most incarnations of Optimus Prime, most incarnations of Megatron, the Transformers Prime Soundwave, the Transformers Animated Prowl, the Transformers Animated Jazz, the Transformers Animated Lockdown, the Transformers Prime Ultra Magnus, the Transformers Prime Predaking, the Transformers Prime Wheeljack, the Transformers Prime Hardshell, most incarnations of Bumblebee, most incarnations of Cliffjumper, Gamora, Mantis, Karnak, Quan Yaozu, The Cat from Marvel, Junzo Muto, Mister X, Gorgon, Master Izo, Fat Cobra, Elektra Natchios, Moondragon, Temujin, Black Panther, Shuri, The Mandarin, Captain America, Batroc the Leaper, Echo, Steel Serpent, Orson Randall, Daken, Cyburai, Misty Knight, Bullseye, Lady Bullseye, Cable, Erik Killmonger, Wolverine, X-23, Betsy Braddock, Deadpool, Black Widow, Colleen Wing, Viper, Matsuo Tsurayaba, Kwannon, Silver Samurai, Bucky Barnes, Ogun, Gambit, Black Tarantula, Hawkeye, Mystique, Lady Deathstrike, Crossbones, Domino, Night Thrasher, Silver Sable, Wah Sing-Rand, Yukio, Kitty Pryde, Marrow, Tyger Tiger, Wong, Slaymaster, Moon Knight, Shatterstar, Fahd Alireza, Elsa Bloodstone, Amiko Kobayashi, The Red Skull, Diamondback, Taskmaster, Maverick, Fantomex, Sabretooth, Typhoid Mary, Jubilee, Nick Fury, Mockingbird, Abigail Brand, Maria Hill, Sharon Carter, Captain Britain, Cloak, Dagger, Absorbing Man, Agent X, American Dream, Arabian Knight, Armadillo, Armor, Athena, Aurora, Avalanche, Banshee, Barracuda, Base, Battlestar, Baymax, Beast, Bedlam, Bengal, Bishop, Kate Bishop, Scorpion, Blade the Vampire Hunter, Blink, Ulysses Bloodstone, Madame Web, Coldblood, White Tiger, Collective Man, the Cosmic Ghost Rider, Crimson Commando, Crusher, Cyclops, Darkhawk, Dazzler, Deathbird, Demolition Man, Doctor Strange, Dum Dum Dugan, Ebon Samurai, The Falcon, Fatale, Feral, Finesse, Richard Fisk, Flag-Smasher, Ant-Man, The Thing, Guardian, Havok, Hit-Girl, Hit-Monkey, Happy Hogan, Howard the Duck, Husk, Iceman, the Invisible Woman, Jack Flag, Jack of Hearts, The Jackal, Jackpot, Edwin Jarvis, The Jester, Kaecilius, Kangaroo, Longshot, Multiple Man, Masked Marauder, Lynn Michaels, The Punisher, Midnight Man, Midnight Sun, Mole Man, Nomad, Danielle Moonstar, Baron Mordo, Jack Murdock, Nebula, Lilandra Neramani, Nightcrawler, Dakota North, Agent Zero, Northstar, Nuke, Okoye, Omega Red, Paladin, Phantom Reporter, Prodigy, The Prowler, Puck, Clay Quartermain, Monica Rambeau, Razor Fist, Red Guardian, Red Sonja, Red Wolf, the Scarlet Spider, Rogue, Ronin, Sage, Saracen, Sersi, She-Hulk, Red Hulk, Red She-Hulk, Shroud, Silhouette, Sin-Eater, Jasper Sitwell, Time 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Slatterus, the Transformers Dark of the Moon Sentinel Prime, Bloodshot, Ms. Marvel, Magneto, Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Corvus Glaive, Spawn, Anti-Spawn, Cagliostro, Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto 4, Carl Johnson from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Darkman, Ash Williams from the Evil Dead franchise, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, John Wick, Freddy Krueger, RoboCop, Jetstream from Sky High, The Doom Slayer, Agent 47, Quan Chi from Mortal Kombat, Alex Mercer, James Heller, John Marston from Red Dead Redemption, Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2, the various protagonists of Resident Evil, Hellboy, Kratos, Shao Kahn, the various G.I. Joe characters, the various iterations of the Power Rangers, the various antagonists of the Power Rangers franchise, the different iterations of Eric Draven, Ashe Corven, Alex Corvis, James Cuervo, Hannah Foster, the various incarnations of the Mortal Kombat Scorpion, the various incarnations of the Mortal Kombat Sonya Blade, the different counterparts of the Mortal Kombat Subzero, the similar and different versions of the Mortal Kombat Raiden, the various counterparts of the Mortal Kombat Johnny Cage, the numerous incarnations of the Mortal Kombat Kano, the different iterations of the Mortal Kombat Liu Kang, the similarly different counterparts of the Mortal Kombat Shang Tsung, the numerous counterparts of the Mortal Kombat Goro, the various iterations of the Mortal Kombat Jax, Thunder, Blackbird, Thunder, Gravedigger, Wylde, Looker, Homo Magi, Zatanna, Artemis, Persephone, Aqualad, Ocean Master, Kaldur'ahm, Jenny Blitz, Tattooed Man, Fisherman, Killer Frost, Godiva, Miss Hyde, Icicle, Cheetah, Pied Piper, Sonar, The Top, Nobu Yoshioka, Venus de Milo, the Transformers Generation 1 Nightbird, Ermac from Mortal Kombat, Reptile from Mortal Kombat, Noob Saibot from Mortal Kombat, Smoke from Mortal Kombat, Cyrax from Mortal Kombat, Sektor from Mortal Kombat, Kitana from Mortal Kombat, Mileena from Mortal Kombat, Jade from Mortal Kombat, Sergeant Kabukiman, and many other extremely skilled superhero and supervillain combatants in the fictional world combined. I was able to learn all of their fighting styles with ease and practice, most especially thanks to my various DVDs of movies and cartoons featuring extensive fight scenes between heroes and villains alike. Along with the various video games to boot.

At the same time, I also managed to gain the battle experiences of the various soldiers and famous combat instructors of the past and the future to boot. Whether they're fictional or not makes no difference to me, as I already got what I wanted.

Of course, I'm absolutely sure that Su-Han might try to take me down when we first meet in about seventeen years from now, but with my new ability to predict my opponent's next moves and my new ability to copy my opponent's moves by watching them fight just like Taskmaster and Wayhem as Party Crasher, let's just say Su-Han is gonna have a field day trying to subdue me. That is, if he can, because with or without Master Fu's assistance and guidance, I'm not going down without a fight. But even still, I'm not exactly one hundred percent invincible to the likes of God's angels should I turn rogue. But thankfully enough, God knows what He's doing and I know what I'm doing.

Oh, and speaking of my DVDs and video games, did I mention that I can also make things appear from my dimension by just thinking aloud? And did I mention that every time I talk, I sound like a combination of the Johnny Blaze iteration of the Ghost Rider from the first Ghost Rider movie and the Danny Ketch iteration of the Ghost Rider from the Fantastic Four and Incredible Hulk animated cartoons? Honestly, that combined with my newly discovered voice modulator programmed to make my voice sound like the first and second versions of the Ghost Rider was a big surprise, but at least I have another scare tactic.

Anyway, all that was left was to wait for the Origins episode to roll around, as the modern saying goes.

Obviously, that shouldn't be too hard, as I'm now angelically immortal, I have an enhanced photographic memory, I have an enhanced form of superhuman intelligence, I have fourteen to fifteen years before I can introduce myself to two of my favorite heroes of all time, and I have all of the powers and abilities of every superhero and supervillain in existence without the powers of any godlike beings to make me powerful enough to take part in the wars to come, fictional or otherwise.

I happen to be as smart as Batman, Spider-Man, Daredevil, the Ghost Riders, the Punisher, Velma Dinkley from Scooby-Doo, Brainiac, Lex Luthor, Darkseid, Superman, Composite Superman, Cyborg Superman, Cyborg, Gorilla Grodd, Doctor Doom, the High Evolutionary, M.O.D.O.K, Reed Richards, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Bruce Banner, Amadeus Cho/Iron Spider, the various identities of The Flash, the various identities of Kid Flash, the various identities of the Reverse-Flash, Thanos, Thor, Megatron/Galvatron, Optimus Prime, Shockwave, Ratchet, Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, April O'Neil from TMNT 2012, Jeremy Belpois from Code: Lyoko, Mad Thinker, Doctor Emmett Brown from Back To The Future, The Doctor from Doctor Who, The Thinker, Megamind, Cornelius Robinson from Meet The Robinsons, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Hawk Moth, Mayura, Su-Han, Master Fu, Bunnyx, Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Manhattan, Dr. Robotnik from Sonic The Hedgehog, Simon Seville from Alvin & The Chipmunks, Black Adam, Deathstroke, Martian Manhunter, Lobo, The Question, The Riddler, The Scarecrow, Vandal Savage, The Beast of the X-Men, Captain America, Iron Man, Kid Omega, The Leader, Sabretooth, Charles Xaiver, Magneto, Wolverine, the Green Goblin, Ultron, Sari Sumdac, Doctor Octopus, Perceptor, the War for Cybertron/Fall of Cybertron Jetfire, the Generation 1 Combaticons, the Fall of Cybertron Combaticons, the Generation 1 Computron, Jeanette Miller from Alvin and The Chipmunks, Iron Lantern from Amalgam Comics, Egghead, Mary Marvel, Mr. Terrific, Maximus The Mad, Valerie Richards/Brainstorm, Mr. Majestic, Miss Martian, Felonious Gru from Despicable Me, Vector Perkins, Pinhead from Hellraiser, Pennywise from It, Chloe Sullivan from Smallville, Cobra Commander, Nick Fury, The Kingpin, Cyclops from the X-Men, Agent 47, Lara Croft, Brainiac 417, Odin from Marvel Comics, The Kree Supreme Intelligence, Lunella Lafayette, Michael Myers from Halloween, Syndrome from The Incredibles, Medula from Sky High, Mr. Glass, Brainiac 5, Ozymandias from Watchmen, Spellbinder from Batman Beyond, Mephistopheles from the Ghost Rider franchise, Thomas Elliot/Hush from DC Comics, Doctor Hugo Strange, The Joker, Doctor Stephen Strange, The Mad Hatter, Rorschach from Watchmen, and every kwami in existence put together. But that doesn't necessarily make me as smart as God Himself. The highest form of super intelligence I have at my disposal comes from various smart heroes and villains – including the ones from kid shows like Scooby Doo – but those forms of super intelligence are used only separately so as to not give me a headache from having so much knowledge, to ensure that I don't end up contracting ALS like the Arrowverse iteration of The Thinker, and so as to ensure that I'm smart enough to not be apathetic along with the other disadvantages of having high levels of intelligence as a human being. And the power of the Butterfly Miraculous at my disposal doesn't necessarily make me a god. I may be powerful, but only God is the most powerful out of every force of good in both fiction and in real life.

But of course, I realized just now that the only way I can make myself as smart as the various smarty pants of comic book, cartoon, movie, and video game legend is by using one of my many Miraculous superpowers that belongs exclusively to the Rooster Miraculous: Sublimation, which basically allows me to create and bestow upon myself any form of superpower I need no matter if its temporary or permanent. It's purely a matter of wording the Sublimation superpower requests correctly.

In the process of preparing for my inevitable war against Hawk Moth, I prepared security systems for our three bases.

To put it in short details, I combined Hawk Moth's security system with those of Batman. The Utrom Shredder. The X-Men. The Avengers. Norman Osborn in the 2002 Spider-Man video game. The Justice League. Lex Luthor. Iron Heights. The Raft. The Cube. The Big House. Arkham Asylum. Azkaban Prison. Belle Reeve. Ravencroft Institution. Slabside Maximum Security Prison. Fisk Towers. Alcatraz Prison. The Cage from Marvel Comics. Crossmore Prison. The Ice Box Prison. Riker's Island Penitentiary. Seagate Prison. The Vault. Andru Correctional Facility. Blackthorne Prison. Arkham City. Blackgate Penitentiary. Fort Rozz. Gotham State Penitentiary. Stryker's Island Penitentiary. Long Bay Correctional Facility. Goulburn Correctional Centre. Barwon Prison. Stammheim Prison. Wallens Ridge State Prison. Le Santé Prison. Many other maximum-security systems from different superhero headquarters and different supervillain lairs. And many other supermax security prisons in both real life and fiction.

Granted, I might've gone way overboard, but my paranoia is especially high because of the levels of power each Akumatized villain possesses. Especially the likes of Stoneheart, since he gets bigger and stronger with each enemy attack that manages to hurt him somewhat. Along with the likes of Cat Blanc, since his Mega Cataclysm can easily destroy a slightly weaker version of my security system in no time outside of his unakumatized Cataclysm uses. That is mainly because when Cat Noir is Akumatized into Cat Blanc, he has the infinite power of destruction, meaning that he's able to use his powers an unlimited number of times despite not being an adult and he's able to increase the intensity of his Mega Cataclysm Blasts and Spheres. And on top of that, while Darkblade is a bit of a lesser Akumatized villain compared to the likes of either Volpina, Lady Misfortune, Princess Justice or even Cat Blanc, Darkblade still has the ability to create his army of knights by brainwashing people with a beam from the hilt of his sword to kneel so he can knight them, thereby turning them into armored knights. And Darkblade could easily plant his ancestor's flag on the roof of City Hall, thereby turning everyone into knights, including me and Hawk Moth if we're not careful. Ergo, if Scarlet Moth were to be held prisoner by my security systems on Heroes' Day should he try to escape through other means if Nathalie is unable to retrieve the Peacock Miraculous for any reason, he would try to order his Akumatized supervillain army to break him out. And not even a strong enough dose of anti-magic would be able to counter thousands of Akumatized villains, let alone millions of clones of certain villains that they make from normal people to become their armies, such as Darkblade.

Anyways, I also had all sorts of booby traps put in place. Such as the El Macho dance floor tile trap, laser grid traps, the booby traps of the Home Alone film series, the booby traps of the Saw horror movie franchise, the booby traps of Tomb Raider, the booby-trapped Miracle Box from a Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction I liked, booby-trapped taser doors, and so forth.

Like I said, I might be going overboard, but it will be worth it in the long run.

At the same time, I also helped to mass produce the various power up potions, including my favorite, the space potion.

As far as I remember about the space potion, the space potion grants a ground-bound Miraculous user the ability to fly at great speed and high altitudes, in addition to the ability to breathe in the void of space for long durations of time. And the space potion works even if a Miraculous user has already unlocked the ability to fly.

And as far as I remember about the Miraculous suit that comes with the space potion, the suit itself is upgraded with spacesuit-like armor plating, a jetpack with retractable wings to enable the ability to fly, not that the wings actually move, and a special retractable helmet and a face mask in front of the user's domino mask with an optional mouth guard or faceplate mask. And on top of that, the helmets all provide breathable air, but I don't remember if the breathable air is unlimited or if it isn't.

But what I brought up to Master Fu is that I really don't understand why the space potion is the only potion that grants all Miraculous users the ability to fly, including those who take on aspects of flying insects and flying animals.

When Master Fu asked me why I don't understand, this is what I said: "I just don't understand why Miraculouses that resemble flying insects and flying animals don't grant their owners the ability to fly in their normal transformations, adult power or not. Seriously, that makes no sense to me. And yet, I was the only Miraculous user – in this timeline of this universe – that has the ability to fly, with and without a fully functioning jetpack and/or a set of natural armored wings outside of my space transformations. And I feel like I'm going crazy with confusion."

Master Fu strokes his beard as he asks me, "You really love flying superheroes, don't you?"

I replied meekly, "Yes, ever since the introduction of Superman to the fictional world of live action movies in the year 1978. The actor who played Superman in the 1978-1987 film quadrilogy literally inspired many fictional cartoons, movies and video games to introduce many fictional superheroes that can fly. Whether those superheroes can fly by gravity manipulation, usage of a jetpack, usage of mechanical and/or organic wings, usage of atomic energy manipulation, usage of magical technology, usage of cosmic energy manipulation, usage of density manipulation, usage of solidified digital data, usage of ectoplasmic energy manipulation, usage of elemental energy and matter, usage of an energy aura, usage of energy mimicry, usage of energy propulsions, usage of dimensional energy, usage of a forcefield, usage of energy solidification, usage of air solidification, usage of liquid solidification, usage of gas mimicry, usage of helicopter propulsions, usage of kinetic energy, usage of lunar energy and substances, usage of force manipulation, usage of magical energy, usage of magnetism, usage of mass manipulation, usage of molecular manipulation, usage or pressure manipulation, usage of radioactive particles, usage of rainbows, usage of spatial manipulation, usage of stellar energy and substances, usage of solar energy from a sun, usage of sound manipulation, usage of telekinesis, usage of weight manipulation, usage of zero-point energy, usage of a flying broom, usage of bubbles, usage of cards, usage of a carpet, usage of a cloud, usage of ink, usage of a parasol, usage of one's momentum, usage of teleportation, usage of a flying beast mode in the case of shapeshifters or even the Transformers, usage of air manipulation, usage of weather manipulation, usage of one's arms and hands – also known as using manual flight, usage of one's hair, usage of one's ears, usage of one's shell, usage of one's tail, usage of rocket boots, usage of astral projection, usage of one's flame powers, usage of a power ring from the emotional spectrum-based Lantern Corps, usage of a pilot's license, usage of glider wings attached to a jetpack, usage of a winged jetpack with nearly unlimited fuel, usage of anti-gravitons, or even those who have jet thrusters built into their battlesuits like Iron Man makes no difference to me."

Master Fu then inquires me something I always wanted to answer, "Which Miraculouses do you see and know about that may or may not grant their owners the ability to fly in terms of the ones that resemble flying insects and flying animals? Including Miraculouses that appear in alternate timeline versions of my dimension in the form of fanfiction stories from your world."

I replied, "Well, as far as I remember off the top of my head, there are about 54 Miraculouses, minus my own, that don't grant their owners the ability to fly in their normal forms. I happen to remember them correctly and distinctly. The first is the Ladybug Miraculous. Ladybugs are known for being able to fly. And Marinette Dupain-Cheng using the Ladybug yoyo as Ladybug to swing around the city will definitely leave her arms at maximum muscle stress. The second Miraculous is the Moth Miraculous, also known as the Butterfly Miraculous, and not to be confused with the Butterfly Miraculous I possess. Butterflies and moths are also known for being able to fly, especially since they come from the same family species Lepidoptera. At the same time, even though Hawk Moth is not able to fly, some iterations of Marinette with the Moth Miraculous are able to fly due to fanfictions stories portraying her ability to fly as a reflection of her pure heart. Anyway, back on topic. The third Miraculous is the Bee Miraculous. Bees of all kinds are also known for being able to fly despite what scientists tried to disprove many years ago. Oh, and Chloe Bourgeois and her half-sister Zoe Lee are unable to fly as Queen Bee and Vesperia respectively. The fourth Miraculous is the Peacock Miraculous. Even though peacocks can only fly short distances, they're still able to fly. And thankfully enough, Mayura is also unable to fly. The fifth Miraculous is the Dragon Miraculous. Ever since their introduction in mythology, literature and films based on mythology in my world, and before they became extinct in your world, dragons became known as the ultimate apex predators that can fly. And Kagami Tsurugi is unable to fly as Ryuko outside of her wind, water and lightning transformations. The sixth Miraculous is the Thunderbird Miraculous in the Native American Miracle Box. Again, it may be mythological in my universe, but the thunderbird is also capable of flight. The seventh Miraculous is the Eagle Miraculous in the same Native American Miracle Box. Eagles are native to North America, and they're also able to fly. Jessica Keynes is unable to fly when she's Eagle, but an Akumatized Techno-Pirate with the Eagle Miraculous was perfectly able to fly during Hawk Moth's reign of terror in New York City during French American Friendship Week in the near-future. The eighth Miraculous is the Falcon Miraculous in the Native American Miracle Box. Also native to North America, falcons are also capable of flight. The ninth Miraculous is the Woodpecker Miraculous. True, I haven't seen anyone wielding the Woodpecker Miraculous after the New York Special episode I told you about two frozen days ago, but woodpeckers are also able to fly. Anyway, the tenth Miraculous is the Raven Miraculous in the same Miracle Box. Like their twins, the crows, ravens are also able to fly. The eleventh Miraculous is the Owl Miraculous. Despite being silent birds of prey of the nighttime and some species being dangerous, owls are known for being able to fly and take their prey by surprise. And when Conrad Damocles is Akumatized into Dark Owl, he has the ability to glide. Although, his enhanced jumping ability combined with his glider owl wings could be mistaken for actual flight. Anyway, the next Miraculous I remember that literally doesn't give the owner the ability to fly is the Goose Miraculous, the very last Miraculous jewel in the Native American Miracle Box. Geese are known for being dangerous if approached, and they're also known for being able to fly varying distances. The thirteenth Miraculous is the Parrot Miraculous from a fanfiction I once read. The fourteenth Miraculous is the Dragonfly Miraculous, although I'm pretty sure it would not count somewhat if it did grant its owner the ability to fly outside of the owner being an adult. The fifteenth Miraculous that would grant its owner the ability to fly is the Beetle Miraculous. Certain species of beetles are able to fly. The sixteenth Miraculous I remember is the Firefly Miraculous. All manner of fireflies are able to fly. The seventeenth Miraculous I remember is the Gryphon Miraculous. The eighteenth Miraculous I remember is the Condor Miraculous. The nineteenth Miraculous I remember from the top of my head is the Harrier Miraculous. The twentieth Miraculous I remember is the Vulture Miraculous. The twenty-first Miraculous I remember that may or may not grant their owners the ability to fly is the Sandhill Crane Miraculous. The twenty-second Miraculous I would remember from a fanfiction would be the Sparrowhawk Miraculous. The twenty-third Miraculous I remember is the Hawk Miraculous. Then there's the Caracara Miraculous, the Crow Miraculous, the Bluebird Miraculous, the Griffon Miraculous, the Dove Miraculous, the Culver Miraculous, the Blackbird Miraculous, the Peregrine Miraculous, the Canary Miraculous, the Magpie Miraculous, the Red-Tailed Hawk Miraculous, the Flamingo Miraculous, the Luna Moth Miraculous, the Rooster Miraculous, the Jackdaw Miraculous, the Swan Miraculous, the Hummingbird Miraculous, the Osprey Miraculous, the Kite Miraculous, the Secretarybird Miraculous, the Mousebird Miraculous, the Jay Miraculous, the Mockingbird Miraculous, the Sparrow Miraculous, the Phoenix Miraculous, the European Dragon Miraculous, the Andean Condor Miraculous, the Scarab Miraculous, the Hawk Owl Miraculous, the Bat Miraculous, and the Paragon Miraculous."

Master Fu strokes his beard while making a humming sound, like he was thinking about what I said.

Then, Master Fu answered my curiosity, "Well, Miguel, the reason why those Miraculouses don't usually grant their users the ability to fly in their normal transformations is because of a combination of six things: one, it is indeed an adult superpower in some cases like with the Eagle Miraculous. Two, it has to be something the Miraculous owner wants subconsciously as an adult and before reaching adulthood. This can be done by visualizing it mentally or in a sketch drawing. Three, it has to be a reflection of the Miraculous user's heroic nature, courage, strength, honor, compassionate nature, heightened sense of love, their moral honesty and purity of heart. Four, if those don't work, the Miraculous owner can fly thanks to the Akumatization and Tenshization powers of both the Moth and Butterfly Miraculouses in the wrong hands and the same Miraculouses in the right hands. Five, the ability to fly outside of one's space transformations is a superpower that must be realized and unlocked after the Miraculous user realizes that their powers are able to be increased by the Miraculous user in question, more specifically in terms of realizing their full potential. For example, if the owner of the Ladybug Miraculous were to concentrate hard enough to unlock any new powers that they wish, specifically in terms of specific situations requiring additional power, they would not only gain a new suit, but they would also gain a set of armored ladybug wings to enable flight. And six, many Miraculous wielders would also have to gain the ability to fly by usage of either your Butterfly Miraculous or by usage of the Rooster Miraculous."

To say the least, I couldn't even believe it.

And yet, I had my winged jetpack attached to my armored backplate whenever I became Steel Butterfly.

That's when I realized and said in my head, "Oh, duh! My courage, strength, honor, and purity of heart combined with my subconscious desires and my adulthood enabled the Butterfly Miraculous to grant me the ability to fly! Hmph! Imagine that!"

Master Fu chuckled at my dumbfounded expression of realization.

I then asked, "Okay, so it has to be either of those five things or a combination of all those five things to enable the users of the Ladybug, Moth, Peacock, Bee, Dragon, Thunderbird, Eagle, Falcon, Raven, Owl, Goose, Parrot, Dragonfly, Beetle, Firefly, Gryphon, Condor, Harrier, Vulture, Sandhill Crane, Sparrowhawk, Hawk, Bluebird, Crow, Caracara, Griffon, Dove, Culver, Blackbird, Peregrine, Canary, Magpie, Red-Tailed Hawk, Flamingo, Luna Moth, Rooster, Jackdaw, Swan, Hummingbird, Osprey, Kite, Secretarybird, Mousebird, Jay, Mockingbird, Sparrow, Phoenix, European Dragon, Andean Condor, the Scarab, Hawk Owl, Bat, and the Paragon Miraculouses to fly in their normal transformations?"

Master Fu added, "Along with other Miraculouses like the Fire Miraculous, the Ice Miraculous, the Alpine Chough Miraculous, the Whooper Swan Miraculous, the Crane Miraculous, the Mallard Miraculous, the Godwit Miraculous, the Stork Miraculous, the Albatross Miraculous, the Needletail Miraculous, the Swift Bird Miraculous, the Hobby Bird Miraculous, the Frigatebird Miraculous, the Merganser Miraculous, the Canvasback Miraculous, the Eider Miraculous, the Teal Bird Miraculous, the Woodswallow Bird Miraculous, Gull Miraculous, the Pelican Miraculous, the Petrel Miraculous, the Shearwater Miraculous, the Tern Miraculous, the Argentavis Miraculous, and so forth. But that is only for heroic users who choose to bury the past and move on to the present day and the future. If Hawk Moth chooses not to let go of his negative emotions and if he chooses not to let go of his past, along with overall being a supervillain, he will never unlock any additional superpowers at will. The same applies to every Miraculous jewel in the hands of a supervillain. Should they choose to become villains, should they choose not to let go of the past and their negativities, they won't unlock any additional powers. Period."

I pondered this for almost half a minute before asking, "Master Fu, if you were to choose a worthy candidate for the Rabbit Miraculous to become a guardian of time and space like Vector Prime from Transformers Cybertron and the entire Transformers franchise, who would you have in mind?"

Master Fu replies, "I will be honest with you, Steel Butterfly. I don't think anyone should use the Rabbit Miraculous whatsoever in the event of being Akumatized by Hawk Moth. Time travel is extremely dangerous to be abused by anyone, especially the likes of Hawk Moth, Mephistopheles, and any powerful villain who happens to be the ultimate incarnation of evil."

I retorted, "Well, that didn't necessarily stop your successor from choosing a schoolmate to be the user of the Rabbit Miraculous in the future. But I'll tell you all the details when the time is right."

Master Fu replies, "Very well. Now, it is time for you to take in the sight of Paris so you can become familiar with your new surroundings when the time is right."

I nodded as I headed to the roof to see it was now nighttime.

As I transformed, I took a flying leap before my wings started flapping and my jetpack helped me sustain my flight pattern as I stretched my arms in front of me, Superman-style.

I then realized that should the New York and Shanghai specials come around, and Ladybug and Cat Noir use their own space powers alongside me, I'm gonna stand out as the only one who uses my jetpack, my thoughts, my wings, and my arms to steer myself and adjust my altitude.

Pushing the thought aside for the time being, I eventually landed on the top of the Eiffel Tower.

It was indeed a sight from below the tower.

I soon deployed several robotic butterflies to act as surveillance drones to alert me if anyone comes up here and discovers me before I can make my debut much later on.

Thankfully, the search results came up negative, but I can only be so careful for so long.

As I stared off at the city below the Eiffel Tower, I started to wonder and hope if I'm making the right choice in accepting Master Fu's call of destiny and his offer.

I prayed to God to guide me all the days of my new life before and after Master Fu's sacrifice. I prayed that I would be absolved despite breaking his law about using magic jewelry without any protections from demons previously set up.

After another hour without being interrupted, I patrolled the entire city so I can become more familiar with my new surroundings, interdimensional or otherwise.

Once I got to the skies of Paris, I looked at a camera filming me.

Apparently, the people responsible for the cartoon started filming me due to the undetected ripple effect caused by my arrival. That, or it could be that among my many superpowers is the ability to break the fourth wall.

I said to the camera, "Prepare yourselves for the greatest adventures soon to come, ladies and gentlemen of the real world. For when Ladybug and Cat Noir arise to challenge Hawk Moth in the next fourteen years to come, the greatest legend that will come second to that of Christ will soon wipe the Earth clean of filth like Hawk Moth, Mayura, Lila Rossi, Chloe Bourgeois, Felix Graham de Vanily and so forth. This legend is so legendary that many villains will tremble in fear at the very slightest mention of my superhero name. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the legend of Steel Butterfly."

I took flight into the skies as the 1970s Superman March theme song starts playing on my drone's radio.

As I continued flying while making sure no one was watching me, I began to hum along to the Superman theme.

And of course, because of my years of practice, I was able to hum the Superman theme without messing up whatsoever.

As I entered space, my space transformation activated all by itself, apparently because of a force of will without requiring either Leppey or myself to ingest the space potion.

As I continued flying, I eventually smiled for the camera as I flew above it.

When I returned to Earth, I became inspired by Rorschach's journal from the Watchmen franchise to the point where I decided to write my own journal entries for my adventures here in the Quantic Universe.

Here I go.

(Steel Butterfly's voiceover POV as he writes in his first ever Rorschach-inspired journal for the very first time...)

Steel Butterfly's journal.

January 15th, 2000.

First ever journal entry today.

Yes, you readers read that right; this is my first journal entry. This is the first time that I ever wrote about my life experiences in a journal with infinite pages that I invented myself thanks to my innumerable powers.

It's kind of like John the Baptist from the Bible chronicling events of the future after his divine resurrection, but also it's entirely different as I not only write about my life right now, but I also write down things that can happen in the future, depending on whether I'm focusing on the future of the Miraculous Ladybug cartoon in this time stream, or if I'm focusing on the future of humanity from both a scientific perspective and a spiritual perspective all at once.

Anyway, this journal and its various copies are all inspired by Rorschach's journal in the Watchmen franchise, specifically the journal of the original Rorschach, Walter Joseph Kovacs.

I can't believe that I'm actually a part of the cartoon, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, starting today.

I always wanted to be a part of this show, but not as a Miraculous superhero.

I come from a religious family, for crying out loud.

But nevertheless, I have the powers I need to wage my war on Hawk Moth, Mayura, Lila Rossi, Cash, Techno-Pirate, Feast, Ignoblia, Bob Roth, XY, Felix Fathom, and many other humanoid antagonists of Miraculous Ladybug. Not including Sentimonsters since their Amoks can easily be purified, and excluding Akumatized villains since they were Akumatized by Hawk Moth against their will.

Of course, I think that my lectures to Master Fu about how dangerous and damning it is for human beings to use any form of magic under any circumstances is starting to plant the seeds of Master Fu finding Jesus before he can die of old age despite the fact that the Order of the Guardians have longer life spans than average modern human beings by magical forces.

Must remember to investigate further.

At any rate, I've been spending thirty thousand years time traveling from the past to the present day to train myself and perfect my powers to be used at half of full power.

I'm also training myself in every form of martial arts in existence, both fictional and real. And that especially includes Mirakung-Fu that debuted in season 4 of Miraculous Ladybug as well as all forms of martial arts in Transformers, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.

And of course, I was given the real Butterfly Miraculous, and it was significantly more powerful than the original Butterfly Miraculous-slash-Moth Miraculous.

I think that after the Origins episodes, nobody ever called Nooroo's Miraculous the Moth Miraculous anymore; instead, they called it the Butterfly Miraculous.

With the current Butterfly Miraculous in my possession, I have not only the powers, abilities and gadgets of every single Miraculous jewel in existence from season 1 to season 12, but also the powers, abilities and gadgets of the many superheroes and supervillains in fictional history. Including the Ghost Riders, Doctor Strange, Black Cat, Superman, Shazam, Blackheart, the Ray Carrigan iteration of Blackout, Michael the archangel, Angel, Martian Manhunter, Thor, Juggernaut, Magneto, Wolverine, Deadpool, The Mask, Doctor Octopus, Doctor Doom, Doctor Manhattan, Royal Pain, Max Thunderman, Phoebe Thunderman, Dark Mayhem, various other characters in The Thundermans, Black Bolt, the original Greek Medusa, Santa Claus, The Thinker, The Flash, Killer Frost, Doomsday, Green Lantern, The Reverse Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Ocean Master, Black Manta, Electro, Cole MacGrath, Lucy Kuo, Kessler, The Beast, Nix, Delsin Rowe, David Warner, Hank Daughtry, Brooke Augustine, Fetch Walker, Eugene Sims, Celia Penderghast, the Ice Conduits, Marvin Marvin, Circe, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, the Green Goblin, Kraven the Hunter, Venom, Carnage, Anti-Venom, Mr. Negative, Mr. Sinister, Vertigo, Domino, Psylocke, Cable, Grandmaster Su-Han, the Human Torch, Iceman, Rogue, Pyro, Storm, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Jean Grey, Charles Xaiver, Screwball, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Hawk Moth, Rena Rouge, Queen Bee, Carapace, Bunnyx, Ryuko, Viperion, King Monkey, Pegasus, Rooster Bold, Miss Hound, Minatourox, Pigella, Polymouse, Mayura, The Scorpion, Mesmero, Sabretooth, Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Ajax, Firefist, Shang-Chi, Daredevil, Black Lightning, Bluebird, Thunder, Lightning, Ant-Man, The Wasp, Yellowjacket, Nova, Firestorm, John Constantine, Raven, Trigon the Terrible, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Red Tornado, Iron Fist, The Atom, Doctor Fate, Blue Beetle, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Booster Gold, Moon Knight, The Spectre, Captain Atom, Vision, Blade The Vampire Hunter, Static, Gambit, Eric Draven, Ashe Corven, Alexander Corvis, James Cuervo, Hannah Foster, Hellboy, the Silver Surfer, Spawn, Emma Frost, Hector Hammond, Loki, Havok, Banshee, Silver Banshee, Livewire, The Sandman, Ra's Al Ghul, Poison Ivy, Floronic Man, Swamp Thing, The Mandarin, Deadshot, Darkseid, General Zod, Apocalypse, Deathstroke, Brainiac, Bizarro Superman, The Kingpin, The Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, Jubilee, Taskmaster, Kitty Pryde, Zatanna Zatara, Jonah Hex, The Lone Ranger, Lex Luthor, Jessica Jones, Black Canary, The Purple Man, Gorilla Grodd, Amora The Enchantress, Reign, Hela, Lord Drakkon, Batman, Titanium Man, The Beetle, Dreamer, Sharkboy, Lavagirl, Daydreamer, Angel Salvadore, Adam Warlock, Agatha Harkness, Arclight, Changeling, Dagger, Cloak, Elektra Natchios, Firebird, Graviton, Gressill, Hydro-Man, Magik, Iron Monger, Iron Patriot, John Wraith, Madam Web, The Living Laser, The Living Mummy, Mockingbird, Molten Man, Morlun, Multiple Man, Onslaught, Star-Lord, Silver Sable, Silver Samurai, Sunspot, Thunderbird, Toxin, Ultron, Wonder Man, Whirlwind, Zzzax, Robin, Red Hood, Red Robin, Nightwing, Catwoman (Selina Kyle,) Catwoman (Patience Philips,) Morbius The Living Vampire, The Hobgoblin, The Demogoblin, Mysterio, The Rhino, The Chameleon, The Punisher, Stick, Dragon Man, The Wizard from The Frightful Four, Nightmare, Dormammu, Mephistopheles, Mantis, Drax The Destroyer, The Ray, Captain Cold, Mr. Freeze, Heat Wave, Smallville's Bizarro Clark, the Meteor Freaks of Smallville, the various Akumatized supervillains of Miraculous Ladybug, the various humanoid Sentimonsters of Miraculous Ladybug, and various other superheroes and supervillains in existence, just to name a few examples.

And at the same time, I acquisitioned various riches and resources like Ra's Al Ghul to not only set up my bases in Paris, New York, and Shanghai, but also to make everything I could possibly need.

And they include, among other things, a Food-A-Thinker machine to help me summon food from a medium without needing microwave radiation like the FLDSMDFR from Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. The various security systems and booby traps from different films, cartoons, and video games. Various pieces of kitchen equipment. And even an indestructible vault to store the Miracle Box in case Hawk Moth manages to find Master Fu in the event Hawk Moth manages to escape imprisonment on Heroes' Day even without Mayura using the Peacock Miraculous to save her boss.

But in any case, I have now become Steel Butterfly.

And the fact that I memorized my Steel Butterfly armor in a sketch drawing was truly an amazing feat.

The sketch drawing of my first ever Steel Butterfly armored suit I was making at the time of this journal entry is finished at last.

My armored suit is a form-fitting suit of metallic armor faintly resembling many different forms of Hawk Moth, including his Scarlet Moth and Shadow Moth forms, but without his Collector form, his Shadow Noir form, and/or his Monarch form. That is, if he ever thought of using body armor for his transformations. The rest of my armor resembled many different forms of The Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ranging from comic book iterations to concept arts to animated cartoons to even live action blockbuster movies, but without the overly buff and extremely tall stature of the Super Shredder armors, much to my relief. Such cartoon iterations of my Shredder-inspired armor happen to include elements of the armors worn by the Utrom Shredder, the Karai Shredder in the male version, the Demon Shredder, the Tengu Shredder and the Cyber Shredder. Meanwhile, my armor was also using design elements of The Shredder's mechanized armor from the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. As for my armored helmet and mask combination, it looked like a combination of Hawk Moth's chronological mask, the "later concept Hawk Moth mask" with the butterfly visor and the closed mouth, Scarlet Moth's mask, Shadow Moth's mask, and many depictions of The Shredder's helmet. Except for depictions of the Super Shredder's helmet. On top of that, my armored back also had retractable metallic butterfly wings attached to a jetpack that would help me fly in the air in case my own wings aren't powerful enough, or in case they're too weakened to help me fly in the air on my own. At the same time, my wings will also help me fly in case my jetpack is damaged, running low on fuel or completely out of fuel with no way possible to refill it. To top it off, I was given a cane swordstick which was as tall as I was, and a combat hand fan covered in metal plates. As for the cane swordstick, it looks like every version of Hawk Moth's cane swordstick, even from his Scarlet Moth and Shadow Moth forms. As for the combat hand fan, it looked like a combination of Mayura's hand fan, Shadow Moth's hand fan and April O'Neil's tessan from the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. In fact, because I have the powers and abilities of every single Miraculous jewel in the Chinese Zodiac Miracle Box, I was given a sword that looks like the Sword for the Dragon Miraculous in a colorful assortment of the colors the sword appears in whenever one of the elemental transformations are used. I was given a metal staff similar to a combination of the staves that Cat Noir, Cat Walker, Cat Blanc, and Shadow Noir use respectively. At the same time, I was also given an umbrella that looks just like the one used by Bunnyx, except that my umbrella is colored in the same colors as my armor. I was also given a mallet that looks like the one used by Minatourox, the tambourine used by Razor Pyg, the flute used by Rena Rouge/Rena Furtive, the spinning top used by Queen Bee and Vesperia, the shield used by both Carapace and Jade Turtle, but without the conical shape to reflect Jade's Chinese heritage, the lyre used by Viperion, the skipping rope used by Multimouse and Polymouse, the bolas used by Purple Tigress, the horseshoe used by Pegasus, the paint brush used by Caprikid, the ruyi jingu bang used by King Monkey, the fountain pen used by Coq Courage – oops, I meant Songhorn, the ball used by Traquemoiselle/Backcrosser, and even the bullroarer used by Eagle. And of course, at the same time, I used my Sublimation superpower to give myself the same amount of guns and other kinds of weapons from many heroes and villains as Jonah Hex, Silver Sable, Wild Dog, War Machine, Rocket Raccoon, Deadshot, Cable, Judge Dredd, Deadpool, The Punisher, Crossbones, Hellboy, RoboCop, Spawn, Red Hood, Arsenal, The Comedian, Agent 47, Deathstroke, Deathlok, Moon Knight, Elsa Bloodstone, Big Daddy, Hit Girl, Blade the Vampire Hunter, Ra's Al Ghul, the various counterparts of The Shredder, the Justice League, the Suicide Squad, the Avengers, and so forth. As for the colors of my armor, they were dark purple, lavender, black, burgundy red, indigo blue, pink, sea green, silver, and regular blue. Lastly, my wings and my jetpack were purple and red. In fact, the jetpack and wings were designed in a similar style to many versions of The Vulture and The Falcon from Marvel Comics.

I don't understand why I visualized the jetpack, as it should be more exclusive to the space power up potion.

But anyway, regardless of whether I wanted the jetpack or not, I actually have the ability to fly, so at least I'm grateful for that.

I am so glad I had my sketchbook with me when I was transported to this dimension.

The helmet is expressible, kind of like it's moving to match my expressions, almost like the way that Rorschach's inkblot mask changes depending on heat and pressure, but also different as it's metal, not shifting inkblots.

Either way, my helmet is perfect, a helmet of pure beauty and intimidation... a helmet that can shelter me from the harsh magical world and hide my identity and foreknowledge from the world. A helmet that can help to protect my tired senses from the world.

A helmet that I can easily stare down in the mirror whenever I'm in my Steel Butterfly form.

From this point in time onwards, I've decided to write and type down everything that I see, hear, and experience in general here in this realm on my twenty-four seven magical mission. And when I say that I'm going to type and write down everything that I see, hear, and experience in general here in this dimension, I do literally mean everything.

My journal entries will be nothing short of complete records of my actions which I can take a cue from in the future, a finished copy of my heroic and antiheroic deeds which I can reference to, and an attorney of sorts to show God's angels when my soul is collected on Judgement Day.

But for the time being, I've got lots of preparations to do for my war with Hawk Moth starting on September 3rd, 2014. The next journal entries will detail all of the things I see, hear and experience until that war with Hawk Moth begins.

I just hope that I can uphold the values and virtues of being a superhero and I hope that I can follow the laws of Paris when it comes to dealing with its new category of magical terrorists.

Because, either way, I don't intend to kill Hawk Moth, Mayura, or Lila Rossi. Not unless they spill the blood of the innocent bystanders first and not unless I have no other choice.

But of course, for the various guns I have at my disposal, I'll only be using them for armies of normal enemy soldiers and for other kinds of threats, including aliens and demons.

For now, though, let's let the good times roll.

(Third person POV...)

For the next hour and a half, Miguel explained the reasons why Ladybug and Cat Noir needed to know their identities right from the very start, and though Master Fu was hesitant, he was won over.

Miguel then explains that because of his new immortality, he's going to travel back in time for 32,056 years to train himself extensively so that way, in the event the Miraculouses in the Miracle Box are destroyed or otherwise rendered powerless, he could easily use his powers to wage a one-man guerilla war campaign against Hawk Moth. Especially if he amasses an army of supervillains as Scarlet Moth. But Miguel was careful to leave out the part of Hawk Moth's third supervillain identity of Scarlet Moth to save time for the future revelation to be revealed to Marinette, Adrien, and all of their appointed teenage and adult teammates in the event they all meet Master Fu personally during the day of the Volpina and Collector incidents.

To say that Master Fu was reluctant to see his champion travel back in time for thirty-two thousand and fifty-six years just to prepare himself for the war with Hawk Moth was an understatement, but he accepted after Miguel assured him that he'll be back five hours after he initially left, and he'll wake Master Fu in the morning with a nice nutritious breakfast.

Along with the assurance that, just like Batman, Steel Butterfly will come up with lots of contingency plans to neutralize himself and his future teammates in case they turn rogue, Akumatized or not.

Master Fu slightly approved of these contingency plans, if only because he's well aware of how dangerous superheroes like Superman or Majestia would become if they ever turned evil.

And the second part of Steel Butterfly's assurances is precisely just what happened five hours later into the morning.

The End.