The Bats Meet the Bug CH 12: ML DC AU
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Sorry it took so long to post get this chapter written. I have been busy due to personal issues so I made this chapter a tad bit longer. Character designs will be posted at a later date for each transformation. I hope you all enjoy the chapter.
How had Lady Mouse found herself in this situation? She was surrounded by twelve of the Joker's goons and could not see a way out besides fighting them off alone. To explain how she got there we need to go back to when she woke up at noon. Marinette changed into a simple pale pink dress with the same embroidery flower design from when she was younger except it has three branches to the design now and goes up both sides. The flowers are on vines decorating the neck and bottom edges of the dress as well.
It took some struggling from Marinette to get down the stairs. She found Alfred prepping dinner for everyone. Alfred stopped what he was doing on the chopping board to look towards the doorway. It was the crutches hitting the tile that gave her away.
“Miss Marinette are you hungry?” Alfred offered the girl and walked around the counter and pulled a bar stool out for her.
“Thank you, and yes I’m very hungry.” Marinette accepted both. She slid onto the bar stool by propping the injured side on it first then hopping up on it. Alfred smiled sadly and Marinette worried she knew where this conversation was going to go. Alfred held back until he had been on his way back from the fridge with a parfait and a spoon until he began to apologize for that morning’s events.
“This morning was uncalled for on Master Damian’s part. We sincerely apologize for everything he said. It was completely uncalled for. Master Bruce has spoken to him and believes he found the root of the misunderstanding.” Alfred began. As he set the parfait that was in an elegant swirling glass in front of her, he handed her the long-handled spoon, then asked her if she’d like granola.
“You're not the one who did it so please don’t apologize, and I don’t need granola. Thank you though.” Marinette placed her hand on the elder’s hand in appreciation and smiled. “So, what are you making and is there anything I can help you with?” Marinette offered her services. She no longer felt like being alone. The Kwamis who were to accompany her tonight were making the preparations they needed to so they were ready for what was planned.
“Tonight's dinner will be a rump roast stew. Do you mind chopping vegetables and herbs?” Alfred asked Marinette who finished her parfait and stretched her arms out.
“Sign me up. I don’t mind helping out.” Marinette helped with the chopping of vegetables then the mincing of the herbs. Once they finished assembling the stew to let it slow cook for the next few hours until it was ready, they sat and chatted until the children returned with Dick and Kori at four in the afternoon with bags in all of their hands.
“MOMMY!” Shouted out Emma as she seeked out her mother’s whereabouts in the manor.
“In the kitchen!” Marinette called back in response to her daughter. Alfred had already cleaned the parfait glass and returned it to its proper place long before the young child ran into the kitchen followed by Mar’i and the two adults.
“Mommy look what Dick and Kori got me!” Emma threw herself onto her mother’s lap as best she could but ended up slipping off. This earned a barely audible hiss from Marinette as she held it back, so she did not worry her daughter. Emma was so much like her father when it came to worrying about others, and if she realized she had hurt her mom she would have started crying.
“What is it?” Marinette asked sounding very interested as she leaned in to listen. Her daughter pulled a fully stocked baby blue backpack with a fluffy pink cat out of the bag in her hand and grinned a big toothy grin.
“Tada!” Emma unzipped the backpack to show her mommy the supplies that filled the bag. “Mar’i got a pink one!” Emma informed her mother. Marinette chuckled as she watched Mar’i wave her’s for Marinette to see.
“Well aren’t those beautiful. Why don’t you go put them up in your rooms?” Marinette suggested to the two little girls.
“Ok!” Mar’i shouted and the two little girls ran upstairs. Marinette let out a sigh once the two were gone.
“You guys…” They knew Marinette was going to feel indebted to them, but they felt like they had to. Emma was Mar’i’s first friend at school, so this was just one of their ways of showing their appreciation.
“Marinette don’t worry about it.” Dick quickly assured her before she could say anything. Alfred glanced at the surveillance camera feed for the front door and excused himself. Kori fought, and lost, the battle of not laughing as the two went back and forth as Marinette asked how much it cost for the supplies and backpack so she could pay them back. She could have had the supplies same-day delivered. She had more than enough money left over after her bills from her commissions.
“Fine how about this.” Marinette heard four sets of footsteps approaching but paid them no mind as she figured out a sure-fire way to not be indebted to the couple. “Kori, tell me how many of the embroidered summer dresses cost and I’ll make you triple it.” A sly smile brought itself across Marinette’s lips. She watched as Kori looked excitedly from Dick then Marinette, but her excitement soon faded to nervousness. Kori knew her husband didn’t want her to say any, but she absolutely loved the designs that Marinette came up with.
“Dick, sweetie, you know I love you.” Kori gave him a grin. She was going to do it and he knew it.
“Don’t you dare-” Dick began.
“Just over one dress because they asked for supplies for the teacher from each student.” Dick’s face feigned shock. He was well aware that she’d give in because he knew just how much his wife loved the dresses Marinette made her.
“My little flame, just you wait.” The warning in his eyes told the alien just what was in store for her. A mischievous grin spread across Kori’s face.
“Why wait?” She taunted leaning forward towards her husband and biting her lower lip. Marinette turned away blushing as did the other guest of the family who arrived with the Waynes who Bruce, Damian and Alfred had been entering the room with. Bruce and Alfred had not reacted, and Damian tried to follow suit but the pink tint to his cheeks had been there for a moment before he collected himself. Bruce cleared his throat; he knew that if he let the two continue as they were they’d started tearing each other apart and Kori would not be composed enough to hide her flight as they did so.
“Welcome home.” Dick said smoothly as if nothing had happened and everything was peachy keen again. Marinette knew he had not been offended by Kori telling her. The sight of Damian had soured Marinette’s mood lightly only, but she held it in and didn’t let it show. “Hey Kent. How’s it going?”
“Pretty good. The Daily Planet has an article coming out about Wayne Enterprises and Bruce invited me over for dinner. With Alfred’s permission of course.” Marinette noted two facts about the man; one was that he was THE Clark Kent that Alya gushed about every other day and had a custom cardboard cutout in her closet of him, and he was one hell of a polite man. A strange feeling ran over her skin and Marinette just couldn’t place it. It was a tickle like buzz that came on quickly and faded fast. He walked over to Marinette and held his hand out to shake her’s, “My name’s-”
“Clark Kent. Second leading publisher at The Daily Planet.” Marinette interrupted as she shook his hand. His grip was extremely gentle for such a muscular man and it was obvious that he was treating her more delicately than others. “Second only to Lois Lane of course. Of course, I only get this information from my friend Alya is in love with your wife by the way.” A devious plot came to mind as their hands disconnected. “Would you be willing to take a picture with me so I could send it to her? It would drive her crazy that I met you?” His boisterous laugh filled the room and Marinette was sure she felt the air filling her lungs get sucked out of her.
‘Fuck’ Was the only thing that crossed Marinette’s mind as a feint blush was airbrushed over her cheeks.
“Of course!” He came up close beside her and threw his arm around her shoulder and it landed even more soft than his handshake had been. Marinette had started wondering if he were actually a cloud.
“Thank you so much.” Marinette pulled out her phone and they got the picture taken. Dinner was taken and the children were ecstatic after dinner because Clark entertained the two young children and wore them out. They made him play tag and hide-and-seek until it was time for them to get ready for bed. Kori and Marinette stayed in the living room mapping the designs for the six dresses Marinette.
When Marinette got into the designs, she tuned out everyone else except for Kori. Once they finished Kori helped her up to her room and they ‘retired’ for the night. Kori really had gone to sleep while Marinette found her stash of energy dust that she was given by the monks in Tibet. A pinch of it goes a long way. As soon as she swallowed the powder, she felt wide awake and a wave of pure energy rushed through her.
“We got this!” Marinette transformed with Mullo then performed unified transformations with Tikki, Plagg, Trixx, Sass, and Kaalki. Lucky runner opened a portal and they all jumped through and they all were half a mile from Ladybug’s vantage point the previous night. “Remember to stick to the plan.” Lady Mouse said and held her hand out for the others. They stacked their hands above her’s then shrink down in size thanks to the power of the mouse miraculous. She hid them in her hood and from there they made themselves comfortable in the collar of her leotard.
One of the unifications were called the Fea Mouse since when she was just transformed with the snake miraculous, she was known as Azemiops or Fea after the fea’s viper she seemed to strangely take after when transformed. It surprised all of the Kwamis and the monks when she traveled to, which is strangely enough home to the fea’s viper who live in the mountains of southeastern Tibet and Vietnam, the color scheme changed from the normal greens and teals to steal greys and gold bands.
As Fea Mouse she had the signature hood that all her forms had developed that came out from just below the black of her signature collar that was the same as her Ladybug uniform. A scale pattern lined her abdomen like it did with the snake heroes before her in the same grey color as the rest of her suit except for the gold bands that went around her shoulders, under bust, hips, and above the pink border of her boots. Her boot pattern consisted of the pink and black of Multi Mouse’s boots topped with the gold band that matched her gloves as well. Two tails came from the back of her golden belt area one was the mouse’s jump rope while the other was a thin snake like tail that had a band going mid-way through it.
The other was Illusionary Mouse whose outfit changed considerately. Her fox form was the more dominate of the two as the mouse was the more docile compared to the trickster fox. Her ears peaked through her hood the collar like the rest but she had a reddish orange suit with a white under belly that was shaped sort of like a vague version of her torso but rounder. She wore nearly crotch high boots were curved down like ‘ U’s in the back but came to sharp points at the end of curves much like a mouse’s tail could curve. A pink layer of color had been added starting from the curl and it went to a upside down ‘v’ shape on the bottom. Her gloves went to her upper triceps and had colored bands of pink on top and white on the bottom that swooped out and down the muscles of her arm. Around her hips was her detachable fox tail that had an apron-like skirt attached to it that had a ‘w’ design with a white trim. The white trim carried itself along to the bottom and the top which was the belt that locked in the front at an angle. Her tail paid homage to Rena Rouge. It was a solid orange until it got close to the tip where it became white from a shape like a three but its sides weren’t as sharp as her’s had been. The mouse’s jump rope tail was no longer used as a tail in this form. Tied around her hips in a neat bow was her jump rope.
She snuck past the guards and into the Joker’s Funhouse. Both of her yo-yos were in her hands and she was following the redrawn map she had photographed on one of them. When she turned a corner, she found herself face-to-back with a goon. Thinking quickly, she quickly struck him in the back of his neck and eased him to the ground. She continued on her way and was getting suspicious. She ran into only one guard on the inside whose back was to her. Not too soon after the thought crossed her mind hidden doors around her revealed the goons that had been hiding in ambush for her. The laughter from the walls around her was what clued her in before they emerged from the walls. Which is how Lady Mouse found herself surrounded by twelve of the Joker’s goons with seemingly no help while some held bats, others clubs, while the rest held, the longest range of three, guns. The laughter grew more eager and insane.
“I wonder if the boss will let us keep their costumes as trophies?” One goon said as they went running at the woman/women which made the men call him various slurs. They underestimated them as they mused over the idea and thought they were just weak little girls trying to play games, so they were going to use them as punching bags like the boss and Harley used them as. Hand-to-hand combat wasn’t as hard as it once had been as Marinette took lessons in her civilian lives.
The three guns cocked simultaneously, and they let the bullets fly. Their own men who were in the way just barely scrambled out of the way. Lady Mouse was smarter than those men though. She shrank down and her counterparts and her ran towards various goons. They grew back to their just barely full sizes and surprised the men as they sat their trying to find where she had gone.
They hadn’t expected one girl to turn into five so they were already at a disadvantage. Lady Runner activated a portable under the feet of one of the goons she was facing that took the that brought him down onto the back of the second. The one on top hadn’t been knocked out until Fea Mouse used their snake tail to trip one of their three opponents onto the pile.
Fea Mouse grabbed one of her one of her remaining two targets by the neck with her snake tail and avoided the attack coming at her from the bat of the other in a swivel. She let the blow hit the other goon and reared her head back and released one of the more non-lethal poison in the face of the not restrained henchman. His screams interrupted the fighting that was happing around them as he frantically wiped at his eyes trying, and failing, to relieve the pain.
The Illusionary Mouse brought her piccolo to her lips and played them a tune that brought a gun with a sling around her neck. She grinned mischievously and the two gulped as they only had clubs. They turned to run as she shot a brigade of bullets their way. As the bullets continued to fire as her one arm held the gun and it’s trigger, she played another tune to summon to more gun wielding versions of herself to the intersection that the men were approaching as she shrank her original form down. The men ran towards the center of the room near the pile of unconscious goons and swung her jump rope out at the men as they ran from her clones.
“What the Fuck!” The men shouted once they were within a foot of her as she sprang to her full size. She threw her jump rope around their waist and swung them up with all her might, so they slammed into the ceiling. The force knocked them out as she bid them a good night. She enlisted the help of the clones to drag the unconscious men to the growing pile. Illusionary Mouse went to the wall where Lucky Runner was crouched against and leaned against it next to her waiting for the others to finish or ask for help if they needed it.
Multi Cat bobbed and weaved in between the attacks from her attackers. She swiped at her opponents until they dropped their weapons. She left bleeding wounds on their arms and torsos. It wasn’t something she liked to do but she did what she needed to do to stay alive during the battles. Each battle grew even more deadly and she needed to be read to do what she needed to do what she was required of her.
Lady Mouse was back-to-back with Multi Cat. As one of her opponents threw a punch, she’d dodge the punch then hit the other with the energy she stored from the movement. Only did this happen when she was absolutely sure the hit wouldn’t get her feline counterpart. When Lady Mouse was certain her partners were safe from the repercussions of her actions, she would do that, but if she wasn’t, she would grab them by the wrist and toss them towards the wall. Once the two were close enough together she whipped out her yoyos and grabbed the man furthest to the left and threw him at the other. Then she wrapped them both with her second yoyo as the first yoyo released the first goon.
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