Chapter 19: Darkblade vs. Whiteblade

(Quantic Universe Earth 139, April 22nd, 2015, Steel Butterfly's voice-over POV as he writes in his first Rorschach-inspired journal...)

Steel Butterfly's journal.

April 22nd, 2015.

First journal entry today.

Today, the Parisian mayoral election took place, and not so surprisingly, Andre Bourgeois won by a landslide for what I can only assume is his 2nd term. I don't really know despite my intellect, simply because I hate politics.

I kinda wish Mayor Bourgeois didn't win the election whatsoever, mainly because of Armand D'Argencourt's temper and eventual Akumatization at the hands of Hawk Moth, especially because of the fact that Andre Bourgeois has done many wrong things for years due to him spoiling Chloe due to her mother, but then again, how will I be kept informed about corruption in the Parisian Police Department at the present time? How will I be kept informed of pets being abused? How will I be kept informed about crimes in progress? How will I be kept informed of prisoners escaping from prison time and time again? And how will I be kept informed about any supervillain attacks coming to Paris from actual supervillains like Techno-Pirate or even Ignoblia?

Let alone the fact that Mayor Bourgeois has been keeping the situations in Paris behind closed doors because he doesn't want to risk Paris or even France in general losing money from tourists. But all the same, if the world does find out about Hawk Moth terrorizing Paris, there could potentially be lots of new non-chronological Akumatized supervillains being Akumatized and brought to Paris to terrorize the city. Alternatively, Hawk Moth could easily use his Akuma champions to terrorize other cities by amassing high murder counts and destroying objects and buildings of cultural, religious and historical significance. And that in itself could easily result in the UN imposing the death penalty in Paris for the first time in hundreds of years since Paris abolished the death penalty.

All the same, I also don't like the fact that Nadia Chamack actually breached school grounds to interview Armand D'Argencourt about his election loss – without proper authorization, I might add – and also bothering him about his medieval mannerisms and his medieval speech patterns, in addition to bothering him about whether or not he got involved in the mayoral election to seek revenge for the defeat of the original Darkblade who happens to be his ancestor in the Dark Ages who had lost the loyalties of the French people by a common wealthy man that "used his dirty gold to buy the loyalties of the common people."

Believe me, if I were to encounter someone like D'Argencourt who speaks proudly of their malevolent knight ancestors from the Dark Ages, I would've questioned their mental health at home where not even he can hear me.

If I'm being honest, I think that Nadia Chamack should be fired from her job, but I don't see how that can be possible as long as Gabriel Agreste is still active as Hawk Moth, The Collector, Scarlet Moth, Shadow Moth, Shadow Noir, Monarch, Scarlet Shadow, Dragon Moth, Tyranno Moth, Hawk Bug, Nightmare Chimera, and/or Rooster Moth.

And loathe am I to admit it, but I actually enjoy the battles against Hawk Moth and his associates soon to be met in the future.

Kind of like how the Transformers Armada Optimus Prime indirectly revealed to the audience and to Unicron that despite fighting for the end of the war between Autobots and Decepticons to bring an age of peace to the universe, the leader of the Autobots actually enjoys the fighting of the war for the Mini-Cons against Megatron/Galvatron and his Decepticon army.

All the same, I'm not sure if Manon Chamack will be able to understand that even for the likes of her mother, her actions have consequences.

Perhaps she'll learn when she's older. Who knows? But either way, readers, don't quote me on that. Not just yet.

Anyway, as I got myself ready to start the day, I went to the nearest Burger King, and I bought myself two platters of pancakes, six hash browns, an order of French Toast Sticks, three fully loaded Croissan'wiches, three fully loaded biscuits, and three bottles of water.

I paid for my meal while making sure to leave a nice tip for the cashier.

After privately giving thanks for my food, I enjoyed my breakfast thoroughly.

After having my breakfast without making a mess, I cleaned up the garbage and made my way to my primary headquarters to prepare for the inevitable battle with Darkblade.

I hope I can protect one of my contacts from his Akumatized election opponent.

And wait! I almost forgot; the version of me that went to that French Burger King is actually one of my clones! Surprise, readers!

But in all seriousness, I did make myself a nice, healthy, homemade breakfast with four different foods from the food pyramid while serving myself some water to wash it all down and some milk because of the fact that, like Sheldon Cooper from the stupid finished cartoon The Big Bang Theory, milk is one of the few beverages I can tolerate myself drinking for any meal or snack time of the day.

But now that I have had a well-balanced breakfast, I have to feed Leppey and prepare for the Darkblade incident.

Of course, I also made sure to ask Mayor Bourgeois if something can be done about reporters being nosy and asking questions to famous people that makes them uncomfortable. And he answered that something can be done about it, in theory.

(Dupain-Cheng bakery, third person POV...)

As Ladybug enters her room through the skylight from her balcony, she reverts to Marinette just in time for Nadia Chamack to give a news report on Marinette's computer.

Nadia announces on the news report, "Steel Butterfly, Ladybug and Cat Noir have saved Paris yet again. Surprisingly, Dragon Butterfly's dragon mode has been able to scare the Akumatized victims into surrendering. And the surrenders have taken place in no less than two minutes since the victims were victimized by Hawk Moth. But of course, since Steel Butterfly knows Hawk Moth all too well, SB states, and I quote, '"With the goal of reviving his wife still fresh on his mind, Hawk Moth will stop at nothing to overcome me and my crew, no matter if he thinks he's a match against my dragon mode."' That sounds very troubling, viewers. But thankfully enough, Steel Butterfly managed to give people angelic symbols to prevent them from being Akumatized again."

Marinette remarks, "And yet again, Marinette hopes that Steel/Dragon Butterfly lets Ladybug have a turn at purifying the Akumas once in a while. And I hope that I'll have enough time at finally completing my booby-trapped magic box."

Tikki asks, "What's the booby-trapped magic box for, Marinette?"

Marinette replies, "Well, it's for locking up my diary and all my secrets."

Tikki asks worriedly, "Every little secret? You're telling me that you write everything down in that thing?"

As she opens and closes the box repeatedly to make sure it works, Marinette replies matter-of-factly, "Heckle, no! Besides, I'm no stranger to anyone attempting to read it or pass off my secrets to anyone willing to sell such secrets to the highest bidder."

Tikki then inquires curiously, "And how exactly is your magic box booby-trapped?"

Marinette replies, "Well, in the event the diary is about to be removed by anyone that the hidden camera doesn't recognize as me, the blunted bear trap teeth snap shut over the intruder's wrist to cause total pain, but because the teeth are blunted, there won't be any spilled blood or severed hands. Trust me; Steel Butterfly's immense wealth from his undercover job and his clones really pays off, and he may love booby traps, but he always knows how to let go of his murderous urges."

Tikki secretly shook her head.

It was obvious that Tikki was still holding a grudge against Master Fu for choosing a well-trained "rookie" from another dimension to be the leader of the French Miraculous Superhero Team instead of Ladybug as Tikki was a holder of the tradition that the Ladybug Miraculous holders would be the leaders of their teams, and boy does Tikki hold a grudge.

Thankfully, Marinette discovered she can put limits on Tikki, so she forbade Tikki from ever interacting with Miguel and Leppey until she gets her act together because Marinette said in her own words, "Whether the Great Guardian made the right choice in choosing Steel Butterfly as our leader or not and whether or not Steel Butterfly is from our dimension makes no difference; he has all the powers and abilities needed to get the job done, he knows more about the Akumas and more about Hawk Moth than we do, and with the second Butterfly Miraculous in our arsenal, we easily have an advantage we can use in case Hawk Moth manages to Akumatize an army of supervillains in the near-future."

Marinette also said that if Tikki disobeyed her and tried anything to have Steel Butterfly removed from his leadership position, there'll be more limits placed as punishment.

Tikki didn't like it, but she knew better than to argue with the Great Guardian and with Marinette. If only because Tikki witnessed first-hand how scary Marinette is when she's in a bad mood for any reason, including disobedience from her kwami.

But of course, Tikki was slowly letting go of her grudge one day at a time.

Snapping back to the present day, Marinette states, "Anyway, nobody is gonna be able to get to my diary, even if the booby-trapped box was turned off or otherwise disabled. Try it, Tikki."

Tikki flies into the box and she tries to lift the diary, only to get locked into the box as the blunted bear trap teeth snap over her and around her without harming her in any way possible due to her small size and due to her being inside the diary box without being anywhere near the teeth.

Tikki cries out muffledly, "Hey!"

Marinette remarks, "Aaannnddd... it works!"

Marinette unlocks the box with her key to free Tikki.

Tikki states, "Oh, thank goodness! It was spooky dark in there!"

Nadia states on Marinette's computer, "Yesterday, Mr. Andre Bourgeois was re-elected as mayor of Paris for the fourth consecutive term. Here we see Mr. Bourgeois with his daughter, Chloe Bourgeois."

Marinette states, "Hhhhaaaa. It's gonna take a long time before someone can outrank Andre Bourgeois as the mayor of Paris. Oh! This reminds me. Class Representative Elections are tomorrow!"

Tikki asks, "What's so bad about that?"

Marinette replies, "There are all sorts of problems that my classmates have, to the point where Steel Butterfly said that they would be warped or made worse by the time Lila Rossi gets her oily claws buried deep into the mindsets of the class in terms of their beliefs about right and wrong."

Tikki suggests, "Well then, maybe you should run!"

Marinette replies, "Maybe I totally would in some other timeline, but don't you and the others think I already got enough to do with my fashion commissions, my duties as Ladybug, my temporary job of delivering pizzas for two weeks, and all the school work I get from my teachers just because they're being lenient with my tardiness just because of my duties to the city?"

Ever since Marinette revealed her identity to her teachers, she had gotten lots of leniency for her slipping grades, her tardiness and her out-of-wack sleep schedule due to her duties as Ladybug.

And it was also decided that she would get a temporary job of delivering pizzas to earn additional money so that way, she can continue to buy materials for her fashion commissions and so she can continue building up her college savings.

At the same time, in the aftermath of Steel Butterfly telling Marinette and Tikki about Lila Rossi's lies and her actions in both the original timeline and in other divergents of the primary timeline, including getting the class to force Marinette to resign from being the class representative, let's just say Marinette has since grown increasingly paranoid about the people she hangs out with, but not to the point of eventually becoming delusional.

Tikki replies back, "Yes, but if you truly believe in something, you have to try and make it work. It's better to fail trying than not having tried at all!"

Marinette mutters, "That sounds more like wishful thinking to me."

Nadia states from the computer, "Armand D'Argencourt, one of Bourgeois' opponents and one of the fencing teachers at Francoise Dupont High School, was pummeled in the polls. In fact, D'Argencourt acquired the least number of votes in Parisian History."

Marinette looks at the clock on her computer and smiles as she states, "Looks like I'll be on time for school again. God bless Steel Butterfly and my good fortune."

Marinette closes out the tab on her computer, turns it off, and heads downstairs in one of her many outfits.

In Ms. Bustier's classroom, Ms. Bustier announces, "Chloe is running for the class representative position and Sabrina will be her deputy. Do we have any other candidates, class?"

Nobody raised their hands, not even Marinette.

Surprisingly, Chloe stuck to her now "good girl nature" by staying quiet and swallowing most of her pride.

Ms. Bustier states, "Well, since nobody else wants to run for class representative, then I'll announce the final decision after the end of lunchtime."

Possibly signaling that she had hoped for Marinette to run in this school election, Ms. Bustier secretly sends Marinette a disappointed look, only for Marinette to dangerously scowl in response, forcing Ms. Bustier to back off.

In the courtyard, Marinette is sketching when she sees Chloe's shadow looming over her.

Marinette looks up and asks politely, "Is there something you need?"

Chloe replies, "I want to know how you would've solved the class' problems if you had gotten involved in the class election."

Marinette replies back, "Well, I would've just listened to all of their problems, comforted them as best as I can muster, and make changes to satisfy both the students and the staff of the school with EVERONE'S permission."

Chloe looked stunned as she didn't know how simple it was.

Chloe then said, "Okay. I'll make sure you get the credit for coming up with the idea."

Chloe left, and Marinette continued sketching.

Back in Ms. Bustier's classroom, Ms. Bustier asks, "So, are there any new candidates who would like to run against Chloe and Sabrina?"

Nobody answered except for some shaking their heads left and right in the universal sign for "no."

Ms. Bustier sighed heavily before announcing, "Seeing as Chloe and Sabrina are the only candidates, there really is no point in simply voting. So, Chloe is the class representative and Sabrina is the deputy."

Everyone affirmed through mutterings and sign language that they fully support Chloe and Sabrina, not just because they're good people now, but also because they've improved in some areas such as being shoulders to cry on whenever someone is having a bad day and might get Akumatized.

In the courtyard, Chloe is writing down everyone's desires with Sabrina occasionally giving gentle reminders on what she missed.

Chloe says, "Okay, so, among the problems of the class are that the chairs are rough and hard on everyone's rear ends, the students aren't allowed to listen to music while studying in the library, even if it's soft music played at low volume, and the security cameras in the class are malfunctioning every three days. I'll make sure to ask Daddy to see if the school can install new cameras."

Meanwhile, the next day, Adrien is in fencing class being taught by the aforementioned fencing instructor, Armand D'Argencourt.

A hidden Nadia Chamack sees them.

Mr. D'Argencourt stands still, pretending to be open to attack, only for Adrien to fall victim to the Darkblade technique.

A floored Adrien remarks, "Wow, Mr. D'Argencourt! I've never seen you skilled like this! That was such an awesome attack!"

Armand replies while balancing Adrien's fencing lance on the blade of his own, "It ought to be. This particular maneuver hither was invented and developed into perfection by mine ancestor, Darkblade."

Adrien asks, "Darkblade? Did I hear you right?"

Armand replies, "Aye, thou hath heard me correctly. In the days of yore, Darkblade was a skilled swordsmaster who conquered Paris and ruled it with an iron fist. That is, until he was overthrown vence by a wealthy Frenchman who used his dirty gold to buy the loyalties of the common people. To think that not so long ago, my ancestor's flag was waving above Paris... but to be concise, I did not run in the mayoral election to seek revenge on my ancestor's behalf."

Nadia Chamack comes to Armand from behind and asks, "So, you didn't run in the election to seek revenge on your ancestor's behalf, Mr. D'Argencourt? What did you run in the election for if you weren't seeking revenge for your ancestor?"

Armand replies, "Part le fer! Who dost we have hither?"

Nadia replies back, "Nadia Chamack. Don't be bemused, it's just the news! Do you have anything to say about your quote-unquote landslide defeat?"

Fred Haprele calls out, "Excuse me! Hey, you! How did you get in the school? And who authorized this interview?"

Nadia replies nervously while pulling her cameraman into a running sprint, "I think it's time to get back to the studio!"

Fred chases them and calls out, "Get back here!"

Armand scowls as he says, "Here endeth the lesson."

Armand walks off in anger.

In Hawk Moth's lair, the window opens as the magic-abusing terrorist of Paris remarks, "A loser and an utter failure in an election. But the perfect and only candidate necessary enough to lobby my own campaign. I'd like to see Steel Butterfly prepare for this one."

Hawk Moth creates another Akuma.

Hawk Moth sends the Akuma off as he finishes saying, "Fly away, my evil little Akuma, and take control of this defeated fighter!"

The Akuma flies off to Francoise Dupont.

Outside the school, Armand is leaving the building, only for Nadia Chamack to bother him again.

Nadia asks while holding out her microphone, "Mr. D'Argencourt, it has been said, and I quote, that you're '"stuck in the Middle Ages like a stubborn rusty old battle-axe."' What do you have to say to that?"

Armand replies rebukingly as he walks away with Nadia and her cameraman following him, "Poisonous wretch! Darest thou approach with such venomous questions? Be gone, now, pestilent pain in the neck!"

Armand bumps into a poster with Mayor Bourgeois on it.

Clutching his nose for a few seconds to check for blood, Armand raises his fencing saber and angrily slices the poster to pieces.

As Armand finishes, the Akuma merges with his fencing saber.

Armand looks ahead of him as the butterfly symbol flares on his face.

Hawk Moth monologues, "Darkblade, I am Hawk Moth. In return for the powers I'm giving you, you'll capture Steel Butterfly's Miraculous, Ladybug's Miraculous, Cat Noir's Miraculous, Lion Hunter's Miraculous, Rhinocharge's Miraculous, Blueclaw's Miraculous, Corvo's Miraculous, and Cat Knight's Miraculous for me."

Armand/Darkblade replies, "When the flag bearing the emblem of mine ancestors lies once again on the roof of City Hall, then to thee I shall indeed be indebted!"

The Akuma turns him into Darkblade.

As she directs her cameraman to continue filming, Nadia starts to nervously ask, "Anything y-you'd like to say about your t-transformation into a—"

Darkblade interrupts her matter-of-factly, "Darkblade! The lord of Paris!"

Darkblade holds up his sword in a position that allows the cross-guard to shoot its knighting ray into Nadia's eyes and into her cameraman's eyes.

They both kneel in front of Darkblade.

Darkblade taps his targets' left and right shoulders, knighting them and transforming them into armored knights in the same full suit of armor as him, but with bright neon green in place of the red on some parts of their armor such as their epaulets and their helmets, and they each carry a generic dark gray and neon green battle axe, with the blade being green with a black design and the holding handle having the same Darkblade/D'Argencourt family crest on it.

Sadly, Darkblade's knights have the same height, size, weight, muscular shape, and suit of armor regardless of what they looked like before they were knighted.

Darkblade states, "Thou shalt become my knights! Soon, my army shalt be immense and unstoppable!"

Darkblade slices the billboard in half with his sword and finishes his monologue, "We shall take City Hall by storm, and reclaim the throne from Bourgeois the usurper!"

Unknown to Darkblade and his growing army of knights, Adrien and Plagg are watching the whole thing.

Plagg quietly remarks, "(Softly) Whoa, that's some medieval madness!"

Adrien rushes back into the school and calls out, "Time to transform! Plagg, Claws Out!"

Adrien becomes Cat Noir.

Darkblade approaches Gustavo and remarks, "Zounds! What a great beast to join our conquest!"

Darkblade transforms Gustavo into a knight.

Soon, every civilian continuously chants "Part le fer!" as Darkblade expands his army, one person at a time.

Darkblade leads the slow march to City Hall as he calls out, "Let us do battle, knights! Part le fer!"

Cat Noir hovers in the air via his moving bat wings and his functioning jetpack in front of Darkblade, catching his attention.

Darkblade swings his sword to his right, signaling his knights to halt.

Cat Noir states while pointing his staff at Darkblade, "The people had their say and they chose Bourgeois over you, D'Argencourt!"

Darkblade replies, "Thy peoples matter not to me. D'Argencourt was defeated, but not Darkblade! En garde!"

Cat Noir and Darkblade start a sword fight, beginning with Cat Noir's staff transforming into a knight sword merged with angelic and demonic sword designs and merged with the designs of Japanese swords.

Meanwhile, at City Hall, Chloe is listening to her classmates' problems, one student at a time.

Eventually, Chloe listens to everyone's problems and makes genuine promises to fix those problems as best as she can muster.

Meanwhile, at the Lock Bridge, Cat Noir and Darkblade are still fighting.

Darkblade tries the same feint-and-strike technique, but Cat Noir sees it coming this time and knocks Darkblade's sword away.

Darkblade exclaims, "Part le fer! How didst thou see that coming?"

Cat Noir replies like he had practiced, "A good friend of mine taught me to look out for techniques like that."

Suddenly, a war horn blares, causing everyone to look behind Darkblade's army to see... an angelic white and blue counterpart of Darkblade with his own army of knights that have armored angel wings on their backs!

(Twenty-five minutes earlier...)

Steel Butterfly had sensed Armand D'Argencourt was gonna become Darkblade soon, so SB decided to have his own "Whiteblade" to take on the likes of Darkblade.

Sensing positive emotions from the nearest house that came from a man who loves watching angels fight demons and other abominations, Steel Butterfly creates another Tenshi and says, "Fly away, my heroic little Tenshi, and give power to this victorious role-playing demon fighter!"

The Tenshi finds the positivity is coming from Adhemar Arquette, merges with the cosplay angel saber and establishes the connection between Adhemar and Steel Butterfly.

Steel Butterfly states, "Whiteblade, I am Steel Butterfly. I'm granting you the power to defeat the next Akumatized victim with an army of your own. Do you accept my offer?"

Adhemar/Whiteblade replies, "I shall be indebted to thou, Steel Butterfly!"

Adhemar transforms into Whiteblade, an angelic white and blue opposite of Darkblade, but with his own suit of armor looking like a combination of Darkblade's armor, Riposte's samurai armor in the male version, the Superbook angel Michael's battle armor, Batwing's armor without the bat theme, Superman's Injustice 2 armors without the Superman or Brainiac themes in terms of appearance, various forms of metallic medieval knight armor with every single metal armor piece merged together, including armpit armor, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 Shredder's mechanized armor without the Shredder theme in terms of appearance, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 Cyber Shredder's armor without the theme/appearance of a digital engram of anyone, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 Demon Shredder's first suit of armor from the fourth century on his Earth, with the various armor designs merged together. And he had a set of armored angel wings on his back that gave him the ability to fly.

Whiteblade is escorted by Steel Butterfly to the tourist attractions where there were large groups of people, minus the press.

Whiteblade transforms the numerous large groups of people into his army of angelic knights who each has the same suit of armor, but with orange replacing the blue parts, and they each carry one medieval knight weapon.

BUT the catch is that, unlike Darkblade, Whiteblade has the ability to make his knights multiply themselves by simply knighting each other and shaking hands.

Whiteblade's army soon multiplies by the thousands all the way to ten thousand.

(Present day...)

Whiteblade held up his sword and shouted, "CHARGE!"

The armored knights in both armies really went at it, really beating the crap out of each other despite being clad in full suits of knight armor.

While his knights were busy, Darkblade went about knighting more and more people into knights.

Even though Darkblade's knights were vastly outnumbered, they put up one heck of a fight. If only because their armors granted them extra protection while their physical shapes allowed them to go on for nearly an hour without tiring.

After getting the desired amount of knights, Darkblade's army forces Whiteblade's army to retreat.

Darkblade calls out, "Nary a minute to be wasted! City Hall awaits us!"

Steel Butterfly whispers to Whiteblade through their telepathic link, "(Softly) See if you can severely outnumber Darkblade."

Whiteblade's army sprints towards City Hall through a shortcut while simultaneously multiplying more than once.

However, Darkblade's army somehow manages to get to City Hall first.

Some of Darkblade's knights start playing trumpet fanfares to get everyone's attention at City Hall.

One knight calls out, "O-ye, o-ye! Darkblade shalt speak now! Listen or be imprisoned!"

Darkblade proclaims, "Henceforth, my flag shalt fly over thy kingdom! Bourgeois, pathetic knave, come hither and do battle!"

Inside City Hall, Mayor Bourgeois asks Chloe, "What did he say?"

Chloe replies, "In medieval knight terms translated into modern terms, he's gonna fight you to the death, and whether or not you're fit for battle, he's gonna kill you."

Mayor Bourgeois replies to Darkblade, "Ehh... Ask my secretary for an appointment!"

Mayor Bourgeois and his security guards shut the doors and initiate the lockdown protocols.

Darkblade remarks, "Ha ha ha ha ha! Bow down to Darkblade, or feel the wrath of mine sword!"

Darkblade's army of knights charge while shouting, "Part le fer! Part le fer! Dahhh!"

Cat Noir flies onto the scene with Steel Butterfly, Whiteblade and their respective armies.

BUT Steel Butterfly's army was nothing short than an army of knights resembling a combination of the Superbook angels, the Superbook demons as angels in the first episode, Oroku Yoshi from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books, the Utrom Shredder, the Demon Shredder, and the Tengu Shredder merged together, but with added armor parts in areas that are not covered in armor.

And Steel Butterfly's army has two sets of angel wings on their backs, signifying that they're more angelic than demonic despite some of their numbers having black armor.

Whiteblade's army and Steel Butterfly's army were each amounting to sixty thousand, which makes one hundred and twenty thousand angelic knights in total.

Darkblade exclaims in horror, "Part le fer! We are vastly outnumbered!"

Steel Butterfly calls out in a quoting voice, "Decepticons, attack!"

Hearing their command in quoting code, Steel Butterfly's army and Whiteblade's army charge Darkblade's army in flight.

Darkblade tries to run like a coward, only to encounter Steel Butterfly and Whiteblade.

Steel Butterfly holds up a hand to signal Whiteblade to stand down as he takes out his cane and morphs it into a knight sword made out of six feet of titanium, triple reinforced steel, and six feet of chromium, six feet of palladium, and six feet of tungsten steel.

Darkblade gawks in horror from inside his helmet.

Steel Butterfly quotes again, "At the end of this day, one shall stand, and one shall fall."

Steel Butterfly and Darkblade charged each other, going all out in their big swordfight.

As the theme from the ending of the first Percy Jackson film plays on SB's radio drones, everyone witnesses the big swordfight between the two swordsmen.

Despite Darkblade having enhanced swordfighting abilities, Steel Butterfly was a grandmaster of using a sword or any other bladed weapon. Therefore, with a combination of his nearly godlike fighting abilities combined with his own version of Mirakung Fu capable of taking down rogue Tenshized and rogue Akumatized champions, it was only a matter of time before Steel Butterfly triumphed after six minutes.

When Steel Butterfly's sword shattered Darkblade's helmet without any of the pieces embedding into his skin, Darkblade conceded defeat as his sword was shattered and Steel Butterfly purified it.

Every one of Darkblade's knights were returned to normal.

Steel Butterfly's army of angelic Shredder-inspired knights and Whiteblade's army of normal knights cheered in victory.

Every citizen that wasn't turned into a knight by either Darkblade, Whiteblade or Steel Butterfly rushes over to hug the two heroes that saved the day.

Whiteblade calls out, "Please, please, everyone shalt have a turn!"

Everyone goes around hugging Steel Butterfly and Whiteblade.

After the whole thing is over, Steel Butterfly and Whiteblade assemble their armies and take off to Steel Butterfly's lair, unaware that Ladybug and Cat Noir are following them.

In Hawk Moth's lair, Hawk Moth utters, "Our duel is not over yet, my dear Steel Butterfly. At the end of our battle, I will rule!"

The window to Hawk Moth's lair closes, leaving him to stew in his own anger once again.

In Steel Butterfly's lair, the room itself is extremely large due to it being part observatory and being part underground-based, in addition to being large enough to host a universe-sized legion of heroes and troops.

As Ladybug and Cat Noir try to enter, they encounter the dance tile floor trap.

Thankfully, Cat Noir remembers the steps to open the elevator doors without triggering any of the booby traps thanks to having previously watched Despicable Me 2 a couple of times to memorize the dance tile floor trap.

Following Cat Noir's lead without messing up, Ladybug and her boyfriend enter the elevator leading to Steel Butterfly's lair.

Ladybug and Cat Noir stick to the shadows and they stay quiet as they see and hear Steel Butterfly say, "Well done, Whiteblade. You did very well in using superior numbers and alternating tactics to defeat Darkblade's army. But now, I must relieve you of duty. But don't worry; I'll call upon your assistance again sometime in the near-future. That is, if you want me to."

Whiteblade nods.

Steel Butterfly snaps his fingers, and Whiteblade is detenshized back into Adhemar Arquette. At the same time, Whiteblade's army is returned to normal while keeping their memories intact.

Steel Butterfly says to his other army of foot soldiers, "Soldiers, escort these nice people home, and do be careful not to go out the main entrance because of the traps."

The foot soldiers nod as over 140,000 of them escort the civilians and carbon clones under different names to the back entrance after temporarily turning off the traps.

The remaining ones going into infinity remain still as Steel Butterfly states without turning around, "LB, CN, I know you're there. Come out of the shadows and face me."

Ladybug and Cat Noir come out of the shadowed areas with stunned expressions on their faces as their faceplates retract.

Steel Butterfly turns around as he remarks, "I had a feeling you guys would find out where my lair was, sooner or later."

Ladybug asks, "How did you know we were here?"

Steel Butterfly replies, "Chief among my numerous superpowers is my super hearing combined with my ability to sense friends and enemies alike in the vicinity. That, and I could hear you both breathing despite being quiet. Nice try, by the way."

Ladybug inquires, "Now, care to tell us about your new champion and your armies fighting Darkblade, SB?"

Steel Butterfly replies, "First off, I had created Whiteblade to create and assemble an army of knights to outnumber and outclass Darkblade so as to deakumatize him. Secondly, I have the many superpowers of every single superhero and supervillain in existence, not just fictional ones either. Therefore, I can create my own armies of either knights, military soldiers of the present day, clones of myself, angels, archangels, demons and fallen angels. But the big difference is that I can control every foot soldier in my armies, especially the ones that are normally the enemies of God like fallen angels and demons. Thirdly, among my various foot soldiers are the following mass produced human-sized generic characters from the Transformers franchise: the Revenge Of The Fallen Aerialbot Scouts, the Revenge Of The Fallen Aerialbot Warriors, the Beast Machines Aero Drones, the Generation 1 Air Sharks, the Generation 1 Air Warriors, the Beast Machines Artillery Drones, the War for Cybertron Artillery Specialists, the Armada Artillery Unit Decepticlones, the Revenge Of The Fallen Autobot Captains, the Revenge Of The Fallen Autobot Melee Warriors, the Revenge Of The Fallen Autobot Ranged Warriors, and the Revenge Of The Fallen Autobot Sergeants among others. Fourthly, I have my armies in legions going all the way to infinity because I'm preparing for any world-ending scenario involving the big bad having an army capable of crushing the armies of Earth's various militaries. Such as the Battle of Armageddon and the final battle between God and Mephistopheles. And fifthly, I just had to show off my prowess in using a sword."

(Quick author's note: Just because Steel Butterfly has created human-sized replicas of specific generic Transformers characters doesn't mean this is automatically becoming a crossover between Miraculous Ladybug and Transformers.)

Ladybug rolled her eyes fondly as she replies, "But are you sure that you need that many foot soldiers? I mean, even if Hawk Moth manages to Akumatize the total human population of the world, criminals and other kinds of bad people excluded, we wouldn't need that many foot soldiers just in case Hawk Moth manages to Akumatize even your armies."

Steel Butterfly replies, "I'm positive I need that many foot soldiers. I know what I'm doing."

Ladybug and Cat Noir departed from Steel Butterfly's lair on a good note.

During patrol that night, Bunnyx further proved herself worthy of the Rabbit Miraculous by informing everyone else about the next Akumatization to avert if possible: Mylene Haprele, aka Horrificator, a monstrous supervillain with the ability to spit a highly durable goo that can be used to barricade exits and trap people, the ability to grow larger when people show fear in front of her, and superhuman strength.

The heroes made plans to try to avert Mylene's Akumatization into Horrificator, while simultaneously taking breathing lessons and overcoming fear lessons in case their efforts fail.

(Steel Butterfly's voice-over POV as he writes in his Rorschach-inspired journal in his lair...)

Steel Butterfly's journal.

April 22nd, 2015.

This is my second journal entry today.

Darkblade has been defeated and deakumatized.

Whiteblade turned out to be a great temporary hero.

However, one of the things I didn't count on was that Ladybug and Cat Noir were gonna find out where my primary headquarters was today.

But I suppose it doesn't really matter because it was probably a fixed point in time. And even if it wasn't, I somewhat knew that they were going to find my lair sooner or later.

In any case, Bunnyx further proved herself by reminding me and informing Ladybug and Cat Noir about Mylene's Akumatization into Horrificator.

However, I have a distinct feeling that despite my efforts, Mylene is gonna still be Akumatized into Horrificator.

And I have a feeling that either way, I'm gonna have to fight Horrificator without freaking out. 'Cause, as much as I hate to admit it, Horrificator looks scary on TV, but she looks even scarier when you're in the same room as her.

Either way, the Heroes of Paris will triumph in the end.

That is a promise I made to the citizens of the city during the second Stoneheart attack, and that's a promise I intend to fulfill, no matter what the cost. Even if it costs me my life, even if it costs me everyone I love, and even if it costs me everything I still have.

Even still, something in my head tells me that by the time we reach the Heroes' Day episodes and the Battle of the Scarlet Army, things are gonna come to a head as my plans to permanently defeat Scarlet Moth, succeed or fail, will finally decide the fate of Paris once and for all. Partially if Ladybug and Cat Noir manage to restrain Hawk Moth long enough for the police to put the handcuffs on him after the Butterfly Miraculous is removed from his shirt. Partially if that entails that we managed to retrieve the Peacock Miraculous and the Miraculous spellbook to prevent Nathalie from using the Peacock Miraculous to save her boss at the cost of having to experience fatigue and lingering health issues the more she uses the Peacock Miraculous in its damaged state. And especially if Hawk Moth does manage to escape being arrested from the shadows, with or without Mayura creating that ridiculous Butterfly Sentimonster.

Maybe we'll get very fortunate.

I sure hope so.

But I ain't gonna be holding my breath on that one.

But thankfully, if all goes well and we manage to apprehend Hawk Moth on Heroes' Day, we won't need to worry about Nathalie and Lila attempting to avenge him after we have them arrested as well.

All the same, I would love to tickle torture Nathalie and Lila before I can even think of beating them up for their actions.

Maybe I'll be fortunate enough to get that chance. Who knows?

Anyhoo, there's also the matter of whether or not I'll be able to assemble my own "Crimson Army" to combat the Scarlet Army.

Crimson Army... hmm... has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Maybe I can easily get my various superhero champions to assist in that manner.

I just hope that the sky won't be falling or anything like that.

And I would love to tell my protégés about the future, BUT I have to wait as long as I can until the events of the Volpina and Collector episodes come to be so that way, Master Fu can serve as the meditator in that regard to prevent Marinette, Adrien, and Alix from ripping me a new one for keeping them in the dark about my foreknowledge and my true origins and my true motives in their reality.

Either way, at the present time, it's time to prepare for when I have to confront Horrificator with my two protégés.

I hope that I can help deakumatize Horrificator without showing fear – oh wait. That's right. I'm not afraid of Horrificator.

Okay, maybe a little, but I've since learned not to show fear in front of anyone.

Yeah, I basically know how to somewhat keep my emotions in check.

In any case, I hope Ladybug and Cat Noir will be able to do their parts to deakumatize Horrificator without showing fear.

Now, I'm wondering what Ladybug's worst fears are now that I'm helping her with her love life and the mistakes of her counterparts.

I wonder if one of Marinette's worst fears is being tickle tortured in almost the same manner we tickle tortured Alix Kubdel on Valentine's Day.

Or could Marinette's worst fear be encountering the deranged and murderous Cat Blanc?

I don't really know. It's been months since I revealed to her and Cat Noir what really happened in that timeline without revealing a little too much to them. Such as how the original timeline came to be without my interventions just because I didn't exist in the original timeline at all.

All the same, I must remember to investigate further without pushing boundaries and while making sure not to make anyone uncomfortable. Including Tom and Sabine.

In any case, I hope that some of my future Tenshi Champions will prove to be worthy of becoming superheroes.

Lately, I've started to notice that the files on my personal computer has all of the same data as my computer on my Earth, including my saved bookmarks of my favorite fanfiction stories from Miraculous Ladybug to Smallville to Transformers, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, The Flash, Supergirl, Superman, Justice League Unlimited, Stargirl, Batman, Green Lantern, Doom Patrol, Teen Titans, Injustice, Shrek, Puss In Boots, Zorro, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Avengers, Ant-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Shazam, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Crow, The Mask, Sonic The Hedgehog, Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, The Defenders, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Superbook, The Incredibles, Arrow, Batwoman, Birds of Prey, Doctor Who, The Green Hornet, Kamen Rider, Knight Rider, Power Rangers, RoboCop, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Animorphs, LazyTown, The Electric Company, Mortal Kombat, The Thundermans, Henry Danger, Swamp Thing, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, Watchmen, Peacemaker, Static Shock, Legion of Superheroes, Young Justice, Blade, The Inhumans, The Punisher, The Runaways, Cloak & Dagger, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Spider-Woman, The X-Men, The Silver Surfer, The Guardians of the Galaxy, The Lone Ranger, Unbreakable, Spy Kids, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Sky High, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Megamind, Steel, Catwoman, Jonah Hex, Aquaman, Black Adam, Blue Beetle, Howard The Duck, Elektra, Deadpool, Black Panther, Venom, The New Mutants, Black Widow, Shang-Chi, The Eternals, Morbius The Living Vampire, Kraven The Hunter, Madame Web, Kick-Ass, Big Hero 6, Hellboy, Superhero Movie, Ultraman, Superboy, and so forth. Um, except for the bookmarks about the stories that were ultimately deleted for many reasons.

And of course, my own ability to manipulate technology ensured that my computer wouldn't be easy to hack into. Not unless all of the security protocols were passed through legitimately.

But regardless, I hope that Hawk Moth doesn't get the opportunity to actually invent a tickle torture Akuma like in those ridiculous Miraculous Ladybug tickling fanfictions I hated.

Okay, maybe I'm being a tad paranoid about Hawk Moth's Akuma choices, but you can't deny that it'll be a disaster if Hawk Moth's tickle torture Akuma manages to find out one of Ladybug's few weaknesses.

And at the same time, not that I would admit it, but I also happen to be rather paranoid that Gabriel will actually make a Medusa-themed Akuma like in two particularly old Miraculous Ladybug stories on my Earth.

And like the original Medusa from Greek mythology, a Medusa-themed Akuma would be difficult to fight because of her Petrifying Gaze.

Yep, even an Akumatized Medusa would be tough to beat with your eyes closed if you don't have the training or experience in fighting an enemy with your eyes closed. And one look into either Medusa's eyes would turn anyone into a stone statue that can be damaged or obliterated by anyone with superhuman strength, their normal strength being augmented by size, or by anyone who has strong energy projectile powers.

Yeesh. And I'm absolutely sure that the Ghost Rider's Penance Stare would be useless against Medusa's Petrifying Gaze.

Hopefully, Hawk Moth won't be making a Medusa Akuma in the future in case we fail to apprehend him on Heroes' Day. But my hopes are kind of increased due to the fact that Hawk Moth never invented any Medusa Akumas or any tickling Akumas at all.

In any case, God help us in this dire time of need in Your own holy way.

And in any case, I intend to use my dragon mode to make Horrificator surrender unconditionally.

However, if Horrificator chooses not to surrender, I'll definitely have to absorb Horrificator's accumulated fear to make her shrink so Ladybug can grab the Akumatized pin from the Zombie Skull Crushers and purify Mylene's Akuma.

I hope that I don't accidentally eat Horrificator; I'd rather not turn into a cannibal in my dragon mode.

But of course, as explored in that fanfiction crossover between Miraculous Ladybug and The Mask before the release of the season 4 episode Dearest Family revealed how the real Mega Akumas can be made, any Akumatized villains who had their negative emotions amplified, specifically anger, they would become Mega Akumas, which were basically level four versions of themselves that were much harder to fight, even on equal grounds.

If Nooroo was to ask me which version of the "Mega Akumas" I would take over the other, I would say the ones Shadow Moth canonically made close to the season 4 finale.

But in all seriousness, if Shadow Moth as Monarch finds a way to make his own Magical Charms using the Rooster Miraculous' Sublimation superpower to prevent me from Tenshizing any of his Akuma victims that turned out to be my own allies, I would literally retaliate with my own Mega Tenshies while also making sure that they would resist all forms of Monarch's Anti-Tenshi Charms no matter how powerful he makes them.

Must remember to start testing this potential superpower in the future in case we are unable to apprehend Hawk Moth on Heroes' Day regardless of whether or not Nathalie has the Peacock Miraculous to save her boss.

Anyway, I must remember to investigate further on how I can avert Mylene's Akumatization into Horrificator.

Helping Mylene with overcoming her fears might be a little bit of the least I can do for her and her family. But a little bit of effort comes with a big reward.

(Third person POV...)

That night, a new Akumatized supervillain appeared, calling himself Screaming Venom.

Screaming Venom declares, "People of Paris, hear me! I am Screaming Venom, and I want you all to know how I felt being disturbed from my naps and sleep times by people who wanted something from me!"

Steel Butterfly in his lair bemoans, "Ugh. This is going to be a nightmare of a, well, night."

Steel Butterfly then makes a Tenshi and remarks, "Fly away, my little Tenshi, and Tenshize Darcell Antaya."

The Tenshi goes off to find Darcell, finding him hiding in an Akuma Shelter in the 9th Arrondisment.

The Tenshi merges with Darcell's collapsible bo staff.

Once the connection is made, Steel Butterfly remarks, "Fantastic Dancer, I'm Steel Butterfly. I'm granting you the power to silence anyone screaming loudly and the power to make your targets dance as carefully as possible to the point of exhaustion. I need your help in deakumatizing Screaming Venom. Do you accept?"

Darcell/Fantastic Dancer answers, "Yes, I accept, Steel Butterfly. Let's get this dance party started!"

Darcell becomes Fantastic Dancer, a Tenshized superhero who looks like a combination of Iron Patriot and Mister Fantastic.

In the vicinity of Francoise Dupont High School, Fantastic Dancer and Screaming Venom were locked in a fierce fight.

Because Screaming Venom had the same superpowers as Venom, that made the fight difficult.

But eventually, after 8 minutes of getting Screaming Venom on the ropes, Fantastic Dancer managed to force Screaming Venom to hurt himself by doing a complicated dance move from one of Michael Jackson's more complicated dance styles.

After Fantastic Dancer destroys the Akumatized object which happens to be Screaming Venom's own collapsible homemade Anti-Venom mask, Steel Butterfly shows up and purifies the Akuma as quickly as possible.

Screaming Venom was then identified as Dieudonné Authement, a cosplayer for Paris Comic Con who occasionally goes to the annual convention as either Venom, Agent Venom, Anti-Venom, or even Carnage.

Steel Butterfly then says to Dieudonné, "Monsieur, I'll take you home."

Steel Butterfly takes Dieudonné home and returns to his lair.

Once there, Steel Butterfly says, "Thanks for your help, Fantastic Dancer. You are hereby relieved of duty."

Steel Butterfly snaps his fingers and Fantastic Dancer is turned back into Darcell.

After sending him on his way, Steel Butterfly wills his detransformation and feeds Leppey before going to sleep in his apartment.