chapter 11: Stormy Weather

Paris, France, March 2nd, 2015, 8:15 p.m, third person POV...)

Marinette, Tikki, Adrien, Plagg, Ryoka, Grrimm, Miguel and Leppey are sitting in Marinette's bedroom watching the ending of the Superbook episode, Revelation: The Final Battle.

Even Marinette was pleased that the creators and producers of the show made the reborn planet Earth look as extremely elegant as preachers have been partially describing in their sermons for years, as well as giving viewers an idea of what will happen when God rebuilds the entire planet after Roarke's demon army is destroyed once and for all.

As the credits start rolling, Miguel says to everyone in the room, "Now, bear in mind that what we witnessed right now was nothing less than a fictional representation of what could possibly be the aftermath of the Battle of Armageddon thousands to millions of years in the future during the end of days. And remember, even if this episode of the show was real, there were no more human beings for Mephistopheles to enslave by then, as almost every one member of the human race – with one hundred and forty-four thousand exceptions – had all died in the Battle of Armageddon, the very last battle human beings will take part in before God makes hatred, violence, anger, sadness, jealousy, depression, war, and pollution become completely and permanently forgotten. Bear in mind that even though the Battle of Armageddon is the last ever battle in human history, it's also the seventh sign of Jesus Christ's return, as taught in our families' respective religious upbringings and teachings. And bear in mind that even if we do become angels after Judgement Day, there's a fifty-fifty chance we're probably not actually gonna see a final destructive battle between God's army of angels and archangels against Satan's army of demons and fallen angels. Rather, we might witness Jesus descending from the heavens on horseback after the final casualties of the Battle of Armageddon and use his almighty power as he judges very harshly all of the godless nations of the world while simultaneously tossing all of God's enemies into the Lake of Fire. Or we might just see Jesus leading the entire army of God's benevolent children combined with His army of zillions of angels against the original forces of darkness while being clad in full suits of Heaven-forged battle armor and wielding different kinds of Heaven-forged weapons, including Heaven-forged swords. Who knows? But when God does recreate the Earth to wipe clean the devastation to all of the cities built by our ancestors and the devastation of our various resources and inventions, let's just say the newly reborn planet Earth is gonna be something twice as or just as beautiful as what we saw in this computer screen."

Marinette, Tikki, Adrien, Plagg, Leppey, Grrimm and Ryoka nodded in unison, signifying that they were gonna take what they saw with a dump truck shovelful of salt.

Adrien then asks, "What should we do before we pummel my father as we take away his Miraculous?"

Miguel replied jokingly and seriously at the same time, "One thing's for sure: even I ain't gonna be monologuing about his defeat. Because monologuing before pummeling an enemy literally gives the enemy a chance to pummel you into guacamole."

Everyone laughed at Miguel's joke while simultaneously keeping in mind that he was joking and being serious at the same time.

After closing out the tab of Marinette's computer and turning it off to save power for the night, Marinette asks Miguel out of the blue, "Miguel, can you please help me babysit Manon Chamack tomorrow?"

Miguel whirled around and quietly exclaimed heatedly, "(Softly) What?! Absolutely not!"

Slightly appalled, Marinette inquires, "Why not?!"

Miguel replies with a snarl in his voice, "I f****** hate children."

Everyone gasped in horror at what their leader had just said.

Even Marinette couldn't imagine how much horror was on Leppey's face when he first found out his owner hated children.

Then Ryoka asks with a challenging tone, "Why do you hate children?"

Miguel explains in thorough detail, "After seeing all different kinds of horrifying reproductive hormone abnormalities, after seeing all kinds of spoiled brats on 'Supernanny,' after seeing history-based media detailing the most evil children in history, and after seeing children grow up to become the villainous country leaders, murderers and so forth that they became when they lived in the past all the way to the present day, let's just say I always hated children with every single carbon-based fiber of my physical being. Plus, if there's one thing that I hate more than anything else in the world, it's the sound of babies crying. The sound of a baby bawling literally drives me nuts and it really gets on my nerves. And for the record, before any of you even thinks about interrupting me, I DON'T F****** CARE IF BABIES CRY AS THEIR ONLY MEANS OF DEVELOPING COMMUNICATION OR NOT. I can't f****** stand babies at all. Plus, raising or even babysitting children is a big responsibility, one that I will never get used to. When it comes to babysitting or raising children, there are all sorts of things to take into account in terms of their physical and mental growth. Chief among them being developing food allergies. Developing animal allergies. A compulsive need to constantly tell lies. A compulsive need to watch horror movies without adult supervision. A compulsive need to watch all sorts of inappropriate things. A developing case of autism. A developing case of ADHD. A desire to own a dog – which I literally f****** hate and will never tolerate. An inability to understand the plots and storylines of fictional stories and stories that are non-fiction. Constantly asking the same questions over and over again. Becoming spoiled brats. Never learning to watch their mouths in the presence of others. Refusing to believe that God exists later in life. Doubting the existence of Santa Claus even before reaching adulthood. Being inconsiderate of germaphobes anywhere near them. Always taking a liking to junk food. Always getting hooked up on movies, TV and video games. Loss of sleep due to children waking up from nightmares. Loss of sleep because of children being hyperactive at night. Always being greedy, even without Christmas presents or birthday presents on their minds. Always being selfish. Always being ungrateful. Always fighting among siblings. Always doing the exact opposite of what you tell them to do. Sometimes turning into schoolyard bullies. Sometimes turning into smart alecks. Sometimes refusing to exercise. Sometimes doing all sorts of mischievous or lawbreaking things like hacking your Amazon account to order large amounts of their favorite foods that cost a lot of money in large portions. An inability to understand the differences between fiction and reality. And, most importantly, an inability to understand that no means no."

Tikki, Marinette, Plagg, Adrien, Leppey, Grrimm and Ryoka were stunned silent by Miguel's tirade of the reasons why he hates children.

Marinette comes up to Miguel despite the obvious height difference and says, "You don't have to like children to show compassion and responsibility, even outside the superhero life. But I will admit something: I actually refused to babysit Manon."

Everyone gasped in shock while Miguel stayed silent.

Adrien asks incredulously, "Why would you refuse such a responsibility, M'Lady?"

Marinette replies, "Because I took into consideration how hyperactive Manon is, especially if it comes to her touching a design I have yet to finish. And I realized that Manon is a little too hyperactive for my liking, to the point where she is a little disobedient. Plus, I started learning how to say no, since it's vital for any situation such as being bribed with money for babysitting."

While Plagg, Tikki, Grrimm, Leppey, Adrien and Ryoka were a little appalled and disappointed, Miguel was secretly smirking evilly as he realizes Marinette was finally learning how to be firm when saying no.

Soon, Miguel, Adrien, Ryoka and their kwami companions left Marinette's bedroom on a good note. If only because Miguel's Butterfly Miraculous also allowed him to unlock the power of absolute persuasion that allowed him to persuade Leppey, Plagg, Adrien, Grrimm and Ryoka that if it weren't for Marinette learning how to say no, she'd be stuck babysitting for Alya and Nino in the future just so they could go on dates.

Soon, Miguel went to his primary lair and went to sleep as it was nighttime.

(The next day, Steel Butterfly's voice-over POV as he writes in his first Rorschach-inspired journal...)

Steel Butterfly's journal.

March 3rd, 2015.

Today's the day that Aurore Beaureal becomes Stormy Weather.

I hope that my new foreknowledge-based plan will come to fruition.

But let's just say that we're gonna need mellow weather to take care of Stormy Weather.

Hey! Mellow Weather. Now that's a Tenshized superhero name.

But in all seriousness, I hate the fact that Aurore Beaureal got Akumatized into Stormy Weather because – as a few fanfictions theorized – Alec Cataldi rigged the weather girl votes for Mireille to win and rubbed salt in the wound when he made that unpleasant comment to Aurore when the vote count was shown.

Somewhat unthankfully, I quadruple-checked the vote counter by going ahead in time, and it turns out that the vast majority of votes were for Mireille without any form of tampering whatsoever.

I had hoped that Alec would rig the vote counts so I can expose him, have him fired, and have him executed by my Judge Dredd Tenshi.

Okay, now, most of you might be saying I'm going overboard and I'm disobeying God's laws against execution, BUT I DON'T F****** CARE.

Point is, as long as scumbags like Alec Cataldi, Hawk Moth, Mayura, Lila Rossi, Felix Fathom, his mother, Cash, Techno-Pirate, Ignoblia, Bunnyx, Bob Roth, XY, specific counterparts of the Akuma Class completely enthralled by Lila's lies, etc. were allowed to live, their crimes will progressively make things worse for the lives of innocent people.

On the other hand, admittedly, I realize that in certain cases, some scumbags do deserve to live just because they haven't committed their more serious crimes just yet. Such as Nathalie, Lila and Gabriel.

But if they do commit their more serious crimes, I will have to kill them, laws of the universe be damned.

BUT this does not make me as psychotic as Venom, Injustice Superman, Injustice Wonder Woman, or even Deadpool, for that matter.

Although, I do maybe want to have my head checked by Master Fu or maybe a superhero therapist employed by the United Heroez.

Let's see how well the Stormy Weather episode happens with me and my crew here.

(Third person POV...)

At the KIDZ+ Studio, Alec Cataldi announced to the cameras, "Welcome to the finals of our KIDZ+ competition! Today's finals will determine one fortunate winner, and the winner of our competition will be announced as our brand new KIDZ+ weather girl!"

Outside the studio, a limousine arrives, and out the rear doors come Aurore Beaureal and Mireille Caquet, the final two contestants of the weather girl competition.

Two sections of the crowd on different sides respectively chant Aurore and Mireille's names.

Aurore and Mireille greet the audience while blowing kisses at them as they enter the building.

Alec continues, "We started off with 5,000 contestants. But with the help of our audience at home and online, we whittled our talent down to just these two amazing young ladies! So, let's welcome our fantastic finalists! To my right is Aurore Beaureal, and to my left is Mireille Caquet! Who will be the fortunate winner, I wonder? Vote now! Text 1 for Aurore and text 2 for Mireille. And remember, standard text messaging rates apply."

Alec finishes with a wink at the camera.

In Steel Butterfly's lair, Miguel was laughing maniacally as he watches Marinette refusing Nadia's request to watch over Manon and firmly saying no to Nadia's offer of payment.

But Miguel was watching the whole thing on remix loop, which is the cause of him laughing maniacally.

But what Marinette didn't know was that Steel Butterfly secretly possessed her and made her say no, while simultaneously making the extra voice unheard and undetectable.

And Steel Butterfly's angelic/demonic possession ability was so untraceable, not even the mighty angels of Heaven could detect him.

Deciding that enough was enough, Miguel stopped the playback video and closed out the tab on his computer.

And to ensure that no one sees his plans, he programmed the computers to delete all files of his missions, his powers, his identity, his origins, his hobbies and other kinds of information in case anyone other than himself tries to access the computers from outside or inside his lair.

At the same time, he also programmed the computers to secretly store all information on a secret file so encrypted that it'll take more than a playback of his voice recording, a few lines of code or even a DNA scan to unlock it.

Thus, this shows that Steel Butterfly is so smart he could easily eclipse even the likes of the greatest physicists and other great minds of the twenty-first century, the twentieth century, the nineteenth century, the eighteenth century, the seventeenth century, the sixteenth century, the fifteenth century, and so forth.

Miguel made his way to the Dupain-Cheng bakery to advise Marinette about Aurore's Akumatization into Stormy Weather.

Meanwhile, in the Dupain-Cheng living room, Marinette was watching the competition on her TV and had just voted for Aurore despite the fact that Marinette hates voting.

Upon reaching the door to check upon her parents downstairs, Marinette found herself facing Miguel Guevara and Leppey.

Marinette asks politely, "Let me guess: you came to warn me about someone's Akumatization about to happen soon?"

Miguel replies, "Ding ding. The next Akumatized villain to look out for is Aurore Beaureal, aka Stormy Weather."

Marinette asks again, "Okay. And what is there to know about Stormy Weather?"

Miguel explains, "She can fly, and she can use her parasol to control and manipulate all forms of the weather – rain, sleet, snow, hail, stormy winds, lightning storms, deep freezes, and heat waves. Oh, and the reason why she gets Akumatized is because she lost the weather girl competition by a few million votes, but she's too arrogant and prideful to accept defeat, no matter if Alec Cataldi practices what he preached last time around or if he doesn't."

Marinette and Tikki hummed in curiosity.

Just then, Miguel and Leppey sense someone coming and Miguel immediately teleports outta there while Leppey phases into Marinette's room.

Alya comes in and says, "Hey, I got a huge scoop for you. Guess who's on a photoshoot in the park right now?"

Marinette replies non-caringly, "Let me guess: Adrien Agreste."

Alya says in reply, "Bingo! So, what say we give him some company on his break?"

Marinette replies back, "Sorry, no can do. Steel Butterfly informed me that one of the contestants of the weather girl competition might get Akumatized. Therefore, I gotta be ready to bail."

Slightly disappointed, Alya replies, "No prob. Just let me know when you want to have the next opportunity."

Alya leaves the Dupain-Cheng bakery and Miguel teleports back into the living room with Leppey joining him.

Marinette whirls around and asks, "So shall we get going and be ready to mobilize against Stormy Weather?"

Miguel replied with a knowing smirk, "You know the answer and the transformation phrase."

With a cry of "Tikki, Spots On!" and "Leppey, Elegant Wings Live!" the two heroes took flight to prepare for Stormy Weather's Akumatization.

Meanwhile, at the KIDZ+ Studio, the new weather girl is about to be determined.

Alec announces, "This is the moment we've been waiting for! The viewers at home have made their decision, and the new KIDZ+ weather girl is..."

As a drum roll plays, the votes are shown onscreen, and much to Aurore's surprise, Mireille has more votes.

Alec finishes, "...Mireille!"

Mireille's theme song plays as Aurore scowls.

Alec turns over to Aurore and says insensitively to show he didn't practice what he preached, "Man, she crushed you, eh? Better luck next time!"

Suddenly, the studio doors fly off their hinges with a bang as Steel Butterfly angrily marches loudly into the studio, his sights focused on Alec.

Alec starts to nervously back away, but he doesn't get far because of Steel Butterfly's longer strides.

Steel Butterfly punches Alec hard in the face to make him fly backwards as the butterfly hero bellows in his demonic voice, "YOU F****** PIECE OF S***! YOU SHOULD'VE PRACTICED WHAT YOU PREACHED AFTER THE SIMON SAYS INCIDENT, BUT YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE! GHOST PUNISHER!"

Ghost Punisher marches into the room and restrains Alec long enough to use her Retribution Gaze on the mocker of a TV show host.

As Ghost Punisher did her "magic," Steel Butterfly pulled Aurore over to another of the cameras and said gently, "Aurore, I get that you lost, but your arrogance and pride won't allow you to see that not everything ends in a success. Like it or not, Mireille won fair and square."

Aurore sneers, "But it's still not fair! I should've won! I worked hard to get that job!"

Steel Butterfly pulls out a revolver and snarls back, "Watch your mouth, young lady. What you're doing is setting you up to get Akumatized, and we wouldn't want any accidents to do with you, now do we?"

Even though she's shaking in fear a bit, Aurore seemed to take this into consideration as Steel Butterfly puts his gun away.

Uncaring about whether or not he's being filmed, Steel Butterfly continues in a soothing tone as he puts his gun away, "But on a more related note, you'll be happy to know that I voted for you, and so did my crew for that matter."

Aurore asks shakily, "Y-you and your crew voted for me?"

Steel Butterfly wordlessly nodded.

Aurore started crying tears of joy as she hugged the butterfly hero, with the two of them completely uncaring about the whole thing being filmed and broadcasted at the same time.

Everyone around the studio, including Mireille, were in shock at the sight of Steel Butterfly hugging Aurore to comfort her about her loss after putting her arrogance and pride in their places in a very harsh manner.

Even Ladybug took a picture of the whole thing.

Of course, everyone soon bore witness to Alec's motionless form, his eyes burned to a crisp.

Steel Butterfly asks in an astonished tone, "Ghost Punisher... did you just kill him?"

Ghost Punisher looked sheepish despite having a skull for a head.

Ghost Punisher replies, "I didn't know my Retribution Gaze was suddenly that powerful to be like the Ghost Rider's Penance Stare."

Steel Butterfly exclaims, "Ghost Punisher, I didn't tell you to kill him! Some things about his character still need to happen in chronological order!"

Ladybug looked horrified.

Steel Butterfly stroked his armored chin and hummed in curiosity before asking himself, "Should I revive Alec and let his character play out in chronological order despite the fact that he chose not to practice what he preached? I feel like I should."

Steel Butterfly runs the numbers of logic and certainty in his head as people look at him expectantly, some waiting for him to revive Alec while others are waiting for him to just leave without reviving Alec.

Just then, a small-sized angelic version of Steel Butterfly appeared in front of his face, shocking everyone in sight as he says, "Yes, you should revive Alec. Just because he didn't practice what he preached doesn't mean he won't do so in the near-future. But remember, it is God's right to decide who gets revived from even accidental death or who doesn't. It's God's right and His right alone. But even He knows your slightly darkened heart. I got in contact with Him and He said that even though it's his right to decide who lives and who dies, you also have the power to revive dead people. So, allow one of his angels to help you make your decision for you."

Steel Butterfly suddenly comes to a realization as he realizes his angel was right, even though it was slightly dampened by him muttering out loud, "I'm truly gonna somewhat regret this; I just freakishly know it."

An angel clad in a white and yellow armored robe descends from the ceiling and helps Steel Butterfly accept God's silent voice telling him to revive Alec and have faith, no matter if he retains his foreknowledge of the Miraculous Ladybug cartoon or not.

Steel Butterfly glows an angelic white as he calls out, "RAISE HIM FROM THE GRAVE!"

A large enough white, bright purple and gold butterfly comes up to Alec and revives him from the dead while healing him of the Retribution Gaze's now murderous effects.

Alec jolts awake with a sharp gasp of air before coughing a bit hard.

Aurore comes up to Steel Butterfly and says, "Steel Butterfly. I appreciate you and your crew voting for me, but at this point, what does it matter?"

Aurore walks away, leaving Steel Butterfly to scowl at Alec, who is showing fear in the presence of the butterfly hero for once.

Steel Butterfly snarls in his demonic voice, "If Aurore becomes Akumatized and she manages to kill you, don't expect me to revive you a second time, motherf*****."

Steel Butterfly, Ghost Punisher and Ladybug leave the studio while SB's butterflies repair the door.

In Hawk Moth's lair, the window opens as the magic-abusing terrorist of Paris remarks, "The vibrations are so strong, and I can feel the eminent anger, fear and sadness. The moment of weakness for my next victim... Such easy prey for my akumas. And while Steel Butterfly would make an appropriate villain, I'm gonna make do with what I have for now."

Hawk Moth creates another Akuma and sends it off without saying a word for once.

Once Aurore steps into the elevator, the soon-to-be Akumatized Stormy Weather mutters crossly, "I should've won! I have the talent, the star looks, everything! But she took everything away from me. They took everything away from me! They—"

But Aurore is interrupted as Steel Butterfly's demonic voice rebukes her telepathically, "You're only seething in rage because you're too arrogant and prideful to even accept defeat like a true human being would in a competition, even in biblical times."

Aurore shook her head to clear her thoughts of Steel Butterfly's rebuking words.

Suddenly, the power in the elevator goes bye-bye.

Aurore is thrown to her knees by the sudden stop without hurting herself.

The Akuma manages to enter the elevator without so much as a wing part missing.

Aurore tries to swat the akuma with her parasol, only to keep missing.

Aurore opens her parasol to shield her from the Akuma, only for the tainted butterfly to infect it.

Then the power in the elevator turns back on as the parasol closes.

Hawk Moth's disembodied voice rings out, "So correct you are. You should have won. Yes..."

Aurore/Stormy Weather remarks, "Yes, I should've won!"

Hawk Moth continues his traditional monologue, "Stormy Weather, I am Hawk Moth. I'm giving you the power to seek revenge on the victory-stealers as my weather girl. All you have to do in return is bring me the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses. Can you do that?"

Aurore/Stormy Weather replies, "Yes! You got it!"

Aurore becomes Stormy Weather as Hawk Moth remarks, "That's my weather girl. Show the world who the best weather girl really is!"

The elevator doors open as Stormy Weather walks out.

Meanwhile, Steel Butterfly is growling like an extremely angered lion over how his plan to avert Stormy Weather's Akumatization failed.

But Steel Butterfly wasn't worried at all; the Butterfly Miraculous protects him from the powers and abilities of every Akumatized supervillain Hawk Moth tosses into the city. And the Butterfly Miraculous works even when Steel Butterfly is the previously unknown Miguel Guevara.

Steel Butterfly creates another Tenshi and after locating positive emotions in the alleyway leading to the school, he sends the Tenshi on its way to find its new partner.

The Tenshi finds a Francoise Dupont custodian by the name of Carina Caillebotte and merges with her sun umbrella.

Steel Butterfly's disembodied voice monologues, "Mellow Weather, I am Steel Butterfly. I'm granting you the power to mellow out the disastrous power of Aurore Beaureal, aka Stormy Weather. I need your help in purifying her Akuma. Do we have a deal?"

Carina/Mellow Weather replies, "You bet we do. I'll make sure that everyone has a nice day in the appropriate March weather!"

Carina becomes Mellow Weather, an armored version of Stormy Weather in opposite colors in terms of different shades of yellow, dark gray, orange, white, and black in the same positions as Stormy Weather's appearance to signify being her opposite.

Meanwhile, Adrien has just finished his photoshoot in the park and spies Ladybug, Steel Butterfly and Mellow Weather flying overhead.

Suspecting that something's up, he takes advantage over the fact that he has three hours before he has to return home and sneaks off to transform.

Thankfully enough, Plagg had managed to get his exercise and sleep both last night and earlier that day before Adrien woke up in the morning.

Adrien quietly calls out to avoid attracting attention, "Plagg, Claws Out!"

Adrien becomes Cat Noir and takes flight via his jetpack.

Meanwhile, in the KIDZ+ Studio, Mireille enters one of the elevators holding a trophy.

She exits after a minute or two, and comes across Stormy Weather.

Stormy Weather cackles, "Ah hahahahahahaha! Just in case you ask, I am Stormy Weather. The only weather girl who always gets the predicted weather forecasts right! And unfortunately for you, there's a freak icy front moving in right now!"

Stormy Weather holds her parasol like a rifle and shoots a blast of instant-hardening ice at the elevator entrance. BUT unfortunately, the ice is so hard that not even the elevator doors can close.

Stormy Weather leaves as Mireille calls out muffledly, "Somebody get me out of here! Help! Help!"

Meanwhile, one of Miguel's clones manages to have his deliveries finished before Stormy Weather can arrive at the park in a few minutes.

Noticing an attractive teenage blond girl up ahead talking on her phone, the Miguel clone immediately identifies the girl as Jeanette Agreste, Adrien Agreste's secret older sister.

Steel Butterfly remarks mentally, "Well, well, well. Small universe in the multiverse to encounter Gray Marmalade twice."

Filing this information to be revealed at a later date, the Miguel clone immediately leaves the area just before anyone can get suspicious.

Outside the KIDZ+ Studio, Stormy Weather is exiting the building as a crowd chants Mireille's name.

Upon noticing Stormy Weather, one of the crowd members unwisely asks, "Where's Mireille?"

Stormy Weather sneers in response, "Ugh... For all of you who voted for Mireille, I'd advise you to move indoors. It's going to get very blustery! Oh wait... HAHAHAHAHAHA! Too late!"

Stormy Weather swings her parasol from one direction to another, blasting away several civilians with a gusty blast of strong wind, probably causing some of them to get hurt after making impact with either a building, a street lamp or a parked car.

Seeing her work done at the studio, Stormy Weather takes off into the air by simply jumping into the air.

Stormy Weather takes flight towards the Place des Vosges Park.

In the park, Steel Butterfly is disguised as a park ranger thanks to his replica of Megamind's watch-looking disguise generator.

He walks around while humming the Lex Luthor's Lair theme from the Superman movies.

But to satisfy himself, Steel Butterfly continuously hums the beginning part of the instrumental Lex Luthor's Lair theme.

As his stomach starts growling big time, Steel Butterfly eventually decides to treat himself to a nice salty snack for the time being, so he goes to the concessions stand at the park and orders himself two pretzels and two bottles of water.

After paying for his pretzels and his bottles of water, Steel Butterfly hungrily eats the first pretzel while walking away.

As he walks away, Steel Butterfly takes two big enough sips of his first bottle of water and he starts taking his time eating the second pretzel while making sure to go not too fast so as to not give himself the hiccups.

Meanwhile, Stormy Weather is flying above the buildings of Paris, and scowls further and further as she continues seeing banners of Mireille.

Stormy Weather comes to a stop when she sees a balloon with Mireille's face on it floating up into the sky.

Stormy Weather growls and notices a kid crying over the loss of the balloon, giving Stormy Weather the answer to her mental question of why there was a balloon of Mireille floating away.

The balloon salesman says to the stupidly crying young boy, "Here's another one!"

The boy starts to take the balloon, and Stormy Weather gets so boiled over that she swoops down and electrocutes the young boy, freezes the boy's mother in a huge block of ice, and blasts all of the remaining Mireille balloons with lightning bolts.

Steel Butterfly is thankful that he left the park before Stormy Weather appeared, as he was NOT gonna put up with a bratty kid crying over a balloon floating away due to being unable to properly care for a balloon. And also because Steel Butterfly hates balloons.

Then Stormy Weather fires a blast of icy wind at the civilians at the merry-go-round. The icy wind encases the whole thing in a layer of ice so solid and so slippery that not even the cord of Ladybug's yoyo could be powerful enough to slice through it without slipping off.

Steel Butterfly turns invisible and flies back to the park, where he finds the merry-go-round covered in ice.

And among the civilians trapped inside was... Alya Cesaire and her sisters.

Ladybug arrives and says, "Don't worry; I'll get you three out of there!"

Ladybug wraps her yoyo around the ice dome and tries to slice through it, but the cord just slips off the ice, much to Ladybug's surprise.

The yoyo hits Ladybug in her armored head, not really causing any damage to her armored head, but just impacting hard enough to create a small headache that'll eventually go away.

Steel Butterfly gets an idea, and jumps to the top of the ice dome, unsheathes his swordstick, and slices through the top of the ice as clean as possible.

Upon removing the ice chunks, Steel Butterfly sheathes his swordstick and uses it to help Alya and her sisters climb out.

Upon getting the three Cesaire siblings to ground level outside the ice dome, Steel Butterfly says to them, "Get to safety." He turns to Alya and continues sternly, "I mean it."

Of course, Alya knew that Steel Butterfly's stern tone was meant to be his way of saying, "Do not get involved in the battle in any way, especially as Ghost Punisher. Your sisters will most likely rat you out to your parents if they see you transforming as you leave them without supervision."

Steel Butterfly takes flight to where he knows Cat Noir will be taunting Stormy Weather.

Stormy Weather leaves the park while blasting two more lightning bolts at two more Mireille balloons.

Cat Noir calls out from his perch, "Hey, Ice Queen! What's with all the terrorizing? Why don't you pick on someone your own temperature?"

Stormy Weather replies angrily, "My name is not Ice Queen! It's Stormy Weather!"

Steel Butterfly comes into the scene and says to the cat hero, "You would do well to take a cue from a French mime and keep silent. There's a time for puns, and there's a time for something not related to telling jokes. Like, oh I don't know, being serious on mission for once?"

Stormy Weather remarks, "Yeah, kitty cat! You should know better than to make horrible puns all day!"

Steel Butterfly looks at Stormy Weather and replies demonically, "I wasn't asking for your opinion."

Stormy Weather scowls at Steel Butterfly's dangerous, demonic tone, not caring one bit how dangerous Steel Butterfly really is.

But Cat Noir remarks to signify he chose not to listen to Steel Butterfly, "Listen, I'm feline more generous than usual today. So cool down and we'll call it quits, 'kay?"

Steel Butterfly growls, "Again, there are more people capable of holding their tongues than others."

Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly start to get into an argument over priorities, especially with Steel Butterfly rebuking Cat Noir for making the excuse of blaming his comedic side on Plagg.

Stormy Weather casually blasts Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly away with a gust of wind while still scowling.

Steel Butterfly manages to regain control and break off his momentum.

Cat Noir, on the other hand, flies a long way, and lands in a nearby street while hitting himself between two cars real fast like a pinball in a pinball machine.

Steel Butterfly even hears the pinball machine noises with a wincing smirk on his face plate.

Steel Butterfly lands next to Cat Noir and remarks cockily, "I thought that cats always landed on their feet. I mean, where's the righting reflex?"

Cat Noir growls as he replies, "Rrrrrrr. You can't blame me for Plagg fueling my sense of humor. Being Cat Noir gives me the chance to explore my hilarious character without any of the restraints my father had instilled into me."

Steel Butterfly replies sternly, "That may be so, but never forget that there's a time and a place for humor, and with the exceptions of everyone on our team, there's always gonna be those who harshly criticize your sense of humor. And one of the painful truths of comedy is you always have to take shots from the folks who just don't understand the joke."

Cat Noir seemed to be lost in thought for a few seconds before he meowed softly as he rubbed his face against Steel Butterfly's leg armor.

Steel Butterfly started to affectionately pet Cat Noir's fluffy head.

Cat Noir started purring loudly just as Ladybug, Gray Marmalade, and Mellow Weather came along quietly.

Ladybug asks teasingly, "Having a bonding moment with Cat Noir?"

Steel Butterfly and Cat Noir turned to look at Ladybug, Gray Marmalade, and Mellow Weather.

Mellow Weather adds, "And also, I thought cats always landed on their feet?"

Gray Marmalade replies, "They actually do, most of the time, anyway."

Cat Noir replies as well, "And I thought I had it covered, but it seems that no matter how careful I am, I still turn out to be reckless."

Steel Butterfly snaps his fingers and Cat Noir, Ladybug, and Gray Marmalade suddenly jolt in unison like they got shocked with electricity.

Cat Noir remarks, "Whoa. It almost felt like I just got smarter."

Gray Marmalade replies, "Yeah, I felt it, too."

Ladybug asks, "What just happened?"

Steel Butterfly answers, "I gave the three of you an upgrade in your levels of intelligence to the point where neither of you will become apathetic, yet now the three of you are so smart as to comprehend the consequences of your respective actions in terms of recklessness, keeping girls away from Adrien Agreste, and other decisions to make and to avoid making. And also because of your new intelligence upgrades, the three of you are now capable of coming up with intricate plans on the sidelines in case any of you and the rest of our teammates are either incapacitated, delayed, severely wounded, unconscious, comatose, or otherwise occupied."

Cat Noir hugs the butterfly hero, causing him to affectionately pet his head.

Ladybug and Gray Marmalade also hug the butterfly hero, making him temporarily grow two additional arms to hug them.

All the while, SB asks his newest champion, "Did you manage to help those afflicted by Stormy Weather's power?"

Mellow Weather replies, "Yes. I even helped some kid who was electrocuted just because he wanted a balloon of Mireille Caquet on it, only for it to float away."

Steel Butterfly's faceplate morphs into a warm smile to signify he was proud of his newest Tenshized superhero.

Just then, Stormy Weather arrives to ruin the moment and says, "We should be expecting lightning storms like right NOW!"

Stormy Weather aims her parasol at the sky and shoots a purple stream of light at the sky, causing the skies to darken with deadly thunder clouds.

A purple lightning bolt shoots straight at the heroes, but only Ladybug, Cat Noir, Gray Marmalade. and Mellow Weather manage to get out of the way.

The heroes watch in horror as the whole things plays out in slow motion.

But when the lightning bolt strikes Steel Butterfly... his entire armored body is immediately flowing with streams and bolts of singular-colored and multi-colored electricity!

As the same "supernatural wrestler" theme plays on his radio drones again, the skies are immediately surrounded with supernatural lightning strikes as the sky turns a golden-white hue!

Lightning bolts flash through the brightened stormy skies and some lightning bolts constantly strike Steel Butterfly, tremendously increasing his power to godlike levels!

Stormy Weather and the other heroes of Paris are shocked to their cores as they witness Steel Butterfly handle that much raw power without so much as a strained look on his armored mask faceplate.

Even Hawk Moth in his lair was immediately horrified at what he's seeing.

Hawk Moth urgently says, "Stormy Weather, cut off his power flow!"

Stormy Weather aims her parasol at the sky to turn off the bright/stormy weather, only for Mellow Weather and Steel Butterfly's combined power output and combined control over the elements to cancel out Stormy Weather's powers!

The radio drones proceed to switch to some of Steel Butterfly's chosen heroic music from Transformers Cybertron.

Steel Butterfly calls out in an echoing angelic, demonic and draconic voice, "RRRRAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH! HAWK MOTH, YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO CAN GENERATE AND PROVIDE THE POWER OF THE ELEMENTS AND THE POWER OF EVERY SINGLE SUPERHERO AND SUPERVILLAIN IN EXISTENCE!"

As the music on the radio drones plays grandly, Steel Butterfly's armor starts to change!

Steel Butterfly's chestplate morphs into a light/heavy armored white, gold, dark purple, lavender, lilac, black, burgundy red, crimson red, scarlet red, indigo blue, royal blue, sky blue, pink, sea green, forest green, jade green, emerald green, forest green, neon green, silver, regular blue, steel blue, jet black, tan brown, chocolate brown, copper brown, cyan blue, lawn green, gray, dark gray, dark magenta, orchid magenta, orange, dark orange, tangerine orange, dark violet, grape purple, royal purple, dark red, blood red, snow white, and seasalt white draconic chestplate that happens to be a cross between angelic and demonic. The same thing happens to the rest of his armor. His jetpack disappears completely, and his wings morph into a combination of butterfly wings, demonic bat wings, dragon wings and angelic bird wings. His swordstick transforms into an angelic, demonic and dragon-themed knight sword with a hip-mounted scabbard, the sword in question being in the same shape as the Sword for the Dragon Miraculous, and his armored helmet, mask and faceplate are upgraded with the features of a human face, a butterfly head and the face of a dragon put together, all of it completely demonstrating his newly-discovered ultimate neutral power that's a combination of angelic and demonic.

Ladybug starts to ask in shock and awe, "Is that...?"

Cat Noir replies as he finishes for her, "...a new power-up? Yeah, I believe so."

The now angelic and demonic Steel Butterfly says in a booming voice, "Little Akuma of Hawk Moth, hold thy piece, and come out of her parasol immediately!"

Stormy Weather feels pain from all over her body as her Akuma struggles to disobey Steel Butterfly's angelic command.

Steel Butterfly says, "I said, come out of her parasol immediately!"

Stormy Weather screams in pain as she feels her Akuma starting to unwillingly come out of her parasol.

Just as Steel Butterfly was gonna make the final push, Hawk Moth's mask flares onto Stormy Weather's face as the Akuma completely returns to the parasol.

Hawk Moth says through Stormy Weather's lips, "Did you really think your newfound angelic and demonic power would be able to completely overcome my Akuma? It's not a demon, you know!"

Steel Butterfly replies, "Personally, I don't see the difference because akuma means demon in Japanese. Unless you're hiding something that I don't know about?"

Steel Butterfly's mask retracts to show his smirking face, and upon looking into his mouth from a distance, the Hawk Moth-possessed Stormy Weather could see... Steel Butterfly's teeth are now rows of sharp dragon teeth!

Hawk Moth is so scared that he gives Stormy Weather back complete control over herself.

Before Stormy Weather can do anything, Cat Noir calls out, "You just won yourself a cat fight!"

Cat Noir, Gray Marmalade, Ladybug and Mellow Weather start sprinting towards Stormy Weather.

Stormy Weather points her parasol over to the street and calls out, "Black ice!"

Her parasol fires a stream of ice at the street, completely freezing it.

But Ladybug, Mellow Weather and Cat Noir manage to use their jetpacks and wings in order to get off the frozen street.

Stormy Weather fires another wind blast at the four heroes, but Steel Butterfly raises his right hand, stretches it out, and Stormy Weather's powers are cancelled out.

Steel Butterfly says, "Now, enough is enough, little Akuma! Come out of her parasol NOW!"

The power of his commanding voice is so strong that the Akuma is forcefully driven out of Stormy Weather's parasol.

Steel Butterfly tosses his replica of the Ladybug yoyo and reels in the Akuma into his waiting hands.

Steel Butterfly closes his hand over the Akuma, and a golden light emerges from his hand as he purifies the tainted butterfly, much to the surprise of Ladybug, Cat Noir, Mellow Weather and a returning-to-normal Stormy Weather.

Steel Butterfly releases the Akuma, takes out his sword and releases a wave of energy from the blade into the sky while shouting, "MIRACULOUS STEEL BUTTERFLY!"

The wave of energy becomes a huge swarm of magic multi-colored butterflies and they sweep around the city, reversing what damage Stormy Weather has done.

And that includes fixing whatever Stormy Weather destroyed with her lightning bolts, thawing out whatever and whoever she froze, healing whoever she electrocuted, brightening the stormy skies, and healing whoever was hurt in various ways during her rampage.

Stormy Weather is turned back into Aurore Beaureal as she looks around and sees she's on the ground.

Steel Butterfly lands, with his wings spread broadly as he raised his sword in victory.

The blade of his weapon gleams brightly in the rays of the sun as everyone watches in awe.

An angelic booming voice proclaims for the quintets to hear, "From this moment on, whenever Steel Butterfly enters this form, he is known as Dragon Butterfly. He will always call upon his new form whenever he needs additional power to save Paris, the world and perhaps the multiverse. Until next time, my children."

Then, Dragon Butterfly transformed back into Steel Butterfly, and he didn't even look exhausted.

Ladybug starts to inquire, "Did we just hear...?"

Mellow Weather finishes, "...the voice of God?"

Steel Butterfly nods to signify his answer.

After sending Aurore on her way, Steel Butterfly revoked Mellow Weather's Tenshi and sent Carina and informs her that should she want to help again, she'll be called into the line of duty again.

In Hawk Moth's lair, Hawk Moth sneers, "Someday, your Miraculouses will be all mine. I don't care how many enemies I need and have to throw at you all to win, but I will do it. I will be victorious!"

The window to Hawk Moth's lair closes, and Hawk Moth whispers, "(Softly) Nooroo, Dark Wings Fall."

Hawk Moth reverts to normal, transforming back into the near-sighted reclusive fashion designer Gabriel Agreste.

Gabriel asks Nooroo, "How did that happen, Nooroo?"

Nooroo replies in a neutral tone, "If I'm being honest, your guess is as good as mine, master. As far as I can muster enough to remember, I have never heard of a Miraculous jewel in existence having the ability to actually give an angelic power-up or a demonic power-up, let alone a combination of both. At least, that I know of. But we already know from the news that Steel Butterfly is not infallible in terms of how he acts similar to an avenging angel. Kind of like the so-called Ghost Rider from human comic books."

Gabriel muses, "Then I must find a way to harness that kind of angelic and demonic power and turn it into a permanent demonic power boost to allow me to retrieve the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses."

Nooroo said in his thoughts, "Master, you may have noble intentions, but your ignorance, recklessness, cockiness, overconfidence, delusions, arrogance, pride and greed are gonna be your downfall if you don't back down while you have the chance."

Meanwhile, at the park, Miguel Guevara was walking with Marinette to meet up with Alya for a Ladyblog update.

Apparently, someone filmed Steel Butterfly's power boost and sent it to the Ladyblog urgently and with a request to share credit.

When Marinette and Miguel were shown the video, they pretended to be shocked so as to protect their identities.

And surprisingly, the two heroes' acting skills improved drastically ever since the Christmas incident and ever since the Dark Cupid incident.

After Miguel and Marinette went on their way home, they respectively asked their kwamis how Steel Butterfly was able to unintentionally acquire an angelic and demonic power-up.

Tikki and Leppey revealed that the second Butterfly Miraculous was literally made by both a mage, by a former demon, and by God's finest angelic craftsmen because God wanted a somewhat angelic Miraculous user in the world of superheroes.

Miguel eventually remarked that he had been surprised by something that was originally not in the original timeline of the Quantic Universe for a change.

Yeah, Miguel eventually remembered that the Quantic Universe is the fictional universe where Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir takes place.

Miguel took a vow to use his angelic and demonic power with great responsibility, even if he has no other choice.

Meanwhile, Adrien was given the same answer by Plagg as what Nooroo said in response to Gabriel's question.

Adrien was wondering what will happen to Steel Butterfly once he gets captured by Hawk Moth.

The next day, as Ladybug and Cat Noir were having trouble with the first generic Akumatized supervillain, Dragon Butterfly managed to have the Akuma removed and purified while repairing the minor damages.

Soon, Steel Butterfly made plans to use his school custodian clone to see if Nathaniel Kurtzberg will become the Evillustrator despite the fact that Chloe and Lynnette are no longer bullies and Ms. Mendeleiev is a little less strict than usual.

Miguel remarks mentally, "Hopefully, it'll be a miracle so that Nathaniel can enjoy his birthday. I better be sure. God, please show me a sign that Nathaniel won't be Akumatized into The Evillustrator this time."

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

Steel Butterfly's journal.

March 3rd, 2015.

Second journal entry today.

Thanks to Stormy Weather's lightning attack, I just acquired a new power up somehow.

Apparently, when the situation calls for it, I become Dragon Butterfly, a draconic version of myself that looks like the following: my chestplate morphs into a light/heavy armored white, gold, dark purple, lavender, lilac, black, burgundy red, crimson red, scarlet red, indigo blue, royal blue, sky blue, pink, sea green, forest green, jade green, emerald green, forest green, neon green, silver, regular blue, steel blue, jet black, tan brown, chocolate brown, copper brown, cyan blue, lawn green, gray, dark gray, dark magenta, orchid magenta, orange, dark orange, tangerine orange, dark violet, grape purple, royal purple, dark red, blood red, snow white, and seasalt white draconic chestplate that's a cross between angelic and demonic. The same thing happens to the rest of my armor. At the same time, my jetpack disappears completely, and my wings can morph into a combination of butterfly wings, demonic bat wings, dragon wings and angelic bird wings. My swordstick actually transforms into an angelic and demonic dragon-themed knight sword with a hip-mounted scabbard with my sword being in the same shape as the Sword for the Dragon Miraculous, and my armored helmet, mask and faceplate are upgraded with the features of a human face, a butterfly head and the face of a dragon put together.

Anyway, I happen to be ecstatic to see what kind of powers I have as Dragon Butterfly.

But in any case, I can easily tell that the next Akumatization to avert if possible is Nathanael Kurtzberg, formerly known as Caprikid with the power of the Goat Miraculous in the original timeline, also known under Hawk Moth's control as The Evillustrator, the first Akumatized supervillain to ever experience Hawk Moth's ability to inflict pain onto his champions for disobeying his orders and for carrying them out incompetently.

Still, I wonder how I'm gonna be able to pull it off now that Chloe Bourgeois and Lynnette Bellecourt are no longer spoiled brats.

Hopefully, I can pull something together.

And who knows? I might just give Nathanael a special gift for his birthday since it's coming up in a few days.

Hmm. I'm gonna have to think about how to best Tenshize him into a superhero version of The Evillustrator. And who knows? Maybe he might draw for himself a vegetable pizza into existence.

Now, wouldn't that be exciting?

Let's see how well I'll be able to pull it off.

In any case, Alec Cataldi is still mocking people, just like I knew he would be.

But somehow, I think even his accidental temporary death will allow him to learn from his mistakes.

But all the same, maybe Alec will be on thin ice for what he's doing.

Who knows?

Anyway, I just hope that I wouldn't have to take Alec into the near future to show him his final fate, because that's the last thing I want to do. Or at least, one of the many last things I ever want to do.

But who knows? Maybe Alec will learn his lesson.

But if not, I'll simply Tenshize someone into Judge Dredd to put Alec on trial, Street Judge-style.

But in any case, I shall be prepared to see what can be done to prevent Nathanael Kurtzberg from becoming Akumatized into The Evillustrator, and intervene if necessary.

Let's see how well the original timeline Caprikid's birthday will progress without him becoming Akumatized for the first time.

All the same, I wonder how I'm gonna be able to use my new dragon-themed powers to fight for the greater good of the world.

Maybe I'll find out during the Animan incident in a few weeks to a month. Who knows?

Either way, dragon-themed powers are somewhat of a gem, even the ability to transform into a dragon.

But in any case, I intend to make sure that regardless of whether or not Hawk Moth is in prison, Alec Cataldi's redemption will not go down the drain whatsoever.

Besides, even if Hawk Moth is in prison, Alec's redemption still needs to happen, and even if Hawk Moth isn't in prison, I'll make sure that Alec finally comprehends how much of his life was wasted just because he was bullied for wearing an afro as a kid several years ago.

That is one of my personal guarantees of what will happen, regardless of whether or not our city's enemies are imprisoned.

(Third person POV...)

Meanwhile, as the time for Adrien to return home was nearing, Miguel, Marinette, and Adrien were drinking some handmade smoothies.

Marinette questions Miguel, "So, what are these monks called again?"

Miguel answers as he explains, "They're called the Order of the Guardians. They have been protecting the Miraculouses ever since they were invented five thousand and fifteen years ago. They took to protecting the Miraculouses after seeing in person and theorizing the possibilities of how the Miraculouses can be used in the hands of good people, how the Miraculouses can be abused in the wrong hands, what could happen if kwamis use their powers without being merged with their Miraculouses to negate the side effects, etc. And unfortunately, they put many restrictions on the kwamis once a man named Su-Han was named Grandmaster Su-Han, leader of the Guardians and the Celestial Guardian of the first Miracle Box used to store my Miraculous and your Miraculouses, the Chinese Zodiac Miracle Box. First, the Guardians and the mage responsible for inventing the Miraculouses used some magic to put onto the Miraculouses a sort of spell that allows Miraculous users to have complete domination of what to tell their kwamis to do and the like. Secondly, ever since the first disasters revolving around secret identities, the Guardians put a curse on the kwamis that prevents them from saying the names of their owners and their current Guardians to each other and to other Miraculous user allies and enemies as long as the people in question are unaware of said names of Miraculous users and Guardians. Thirdly, the kwamis being dominated by their owners forced the Guardians to prohibit the kwamis from ever learning all other forms of information of their powers to prevent a Miraculous-wielding villain like Hawk Moth from ever learning secrets of the other Miraculouses. This was a sort of ideal contingency plan in case any Miraculouses fall into evil hands. And lastly for now, the Guardians also put into effect 144 of their rules called Perfect Precepts that every Guardian must follow, no exceptions. These rules include among others Precept 14: kwamis must not live outside the Miracle Boxes, Precept 52: Guardians mustn't lose a Miraculous jewel, Precept 133: A Guardian can't wear a Miraculous under any circumstances, and Precept 28: Guardians must not befriend the kwamis."

Marinette replies, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Guardians mustn't befriend kwamis?!"

Miguel answers again, "Yes. Doesn't make sense to me either. But anyway, immediately before and after Su-Han became the leader of the Guardians, over time, they started treating the kwamis like cosmic tools of power to be kept on a tight leash just because of disasters caused by Plagg in particular. You know, just like in Marvel Comics for example, S.H.I.E.L.D. under the leadership of Maria Hill tried to take control of the Avengers to put them on a tight leash with and without Nick Fury knowing about it."

Marinette and Adrien looked bewildered but they kept cool façades to prevent themselves from being detected by Hawk Moth's ability to sense negative emotions.

Adrien inquires, "And these so-called Perfect Precepts, every one of the Guardians have to follow them?"

Miguel answers, "Yes. No exceptions. Any one Guardian who refuses are either court-martialed, confined to their quarters, put through extreme rounds of training, or generally just expelled from the Guardians or imprisoned in the most extreme cases."

Marinette and Adrien looked at each other in shock.

Miguel then says, "Oh, and another thing: the Guardians had long since anticipated that there would be at least 1 Miraculous user who would turn rogue or try to lead a life of crime. So, the Guardians heavily trained themselves in a special Kung-Fu style martial art called Mirakung-Fu, a special martial arts style capable of defeating even adult Miraculous users. This was specifically designed to be used against rebellious Miraculous users, but sadly, this doesn't work against Akumatized supervillains or humanoid Sentimonsters invented by the Peacock Miraculous. This is mainly due to the fact that the Akumatized villains and the Sentimonsters invented to resemble humans can easily have various different powers. Because of this kind of unpredictability, the Guardians didn't exactly come prepared for if the Butterfly Miraculous fell into the wrong hands and if they weren't able to retrieve it in time."

Marinette replies, "Ah. I see."

Adrien notices his bodyguard standing by the car, waiting for him.

Adrien says, "Sorry, guys, but I have to go. And thanks for the smoothie, Marinette."

Adrien discards his empty cup in the garbage can and enters the car.

The car drives away.

Marinette makes sure that no one is looking and she does a short victory dance, making Tikki laugh a bit.