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Citizens sheepishly walked past a small café, because there casually sat the two heroes of Paris and a weirdly dressed stranger.
“So let me get this straight” the red heroine began, her arms crossed on the table. “In your universe, the miraculous don’t have a guardian? They just wait for some string of fate to guide them places??” Disbelief clear in her tone.
Bandit sat across from her, happily chowing down on a pastry,
“That I know of at least” The aforementioned Bandit said, wiping off a few crumbs. “All I know is that my little buddy came out of fuck knows where and now I’m a legally questionable hero”
“don’t think you’re getting away from explaining that ‘legally questionable part..” Chat Noir pointed out, idly picking at their food. Ladybug spoke up again “but for now, as I understand it, The reason you are not aware of a ladybug, cat or butterfly is because they aren’t actively in use?”
“id have to ask Roarr, but yeah that sound about right” He said, leaning back in their chair. “only the bunny and the peacock are active back in my world”
Ladybug immediately put a hand to her head, as if to nurse a headache (she probably was), mumbling under her breath about the reveal of the peacock being in use. Her partner jokingly fanned their food wrapper at her, which earned them a slap on the arm.
Bandit looked on amused by their antics and shrugged their shoulders “different universes” they singsonged.
Chat threw their wrapper at them.
“we’ll need to investigate whatever we can about that portal” Ladybug said, bringing the conversation back to topic. “Based off of the descriptions, I would assume it’d be a Bunnyx portal but noooo that would be too easy” she mumbled under her breath, rubbing her temples.
“So, your bunny can create portals...” Bandit whistled in reply and Ladybug answered with an exhausted groan.
“Bandit, buddy, I think it would be best for you to stop talking about the universe differences” Chat Noir laughed.
Ladybug slapped the table having broken out of her spiral, “well for now..” Ladybug walked out of her chair and laid down on the ground in front of Bandit in a begging position.
“Woah there bud” Bandit panicked
“Bandit please be a dear and help us out in akuma fights.” Ladybug stood back up, her hands still in a prayer.
“we could really use all the help we can get”
Bandit looked to Chat for help, but all Chat did was give them a confused shrug.
Ladybug brushed off the dust on her legs and finally explained the specifics.
“well based off of what you said about how kwami’s work in your universe.”
“I’m theorizing that your universe’s kwami’s can’t be used wrongfully” Ladybug continued
Bandit thought for a moment before replying, “well my universe’s kwami’s certainly seem to be in more control than yours..” taking a sip from their drink before continuing “Roarr always talks about never taking shit from anyone, so I guessss its plausible”
“id have to check with Roarr though.”
Chat noir clapped their hands together, “great! That means there’s a possibility Hawkmoth can’t even steal your miraculous”
Bandit mulled it over, “most he could is reveal my identity, which wouldn’t really do anything considering…” Bandit gestured to everything around them.
“About that, me and Chat don’t know each other’s identities, so we can’t exactly offer you a place to stay without risking each other finding out” Ladybug suddenly spoke up, scratching her chin.
“Oof yeah, are you just going to be homeless while you’re here?” Chat noir crossed their arms, looking over to Bandit. The tiger thought for a moment before casually shrugging, “just letting you know my civilian identity should be enough, right?” They suggested, taking a long sip from their basically empty drink.
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“This should be enough for one night, right?” Chat noir huffed; their head barely visible from behind the stack of blankets they were currently carrying. Walking towards a pillow fort the three had set up in an empty shipment container.
The tiger hero stretched themselves across the already blanket strayed floor; pleased.
“More than enough, thanks a lot.”
Ladybug sat down the rest of the pillows she was carrying, “we’ll come check on you as soon as we can tomorrow” she stated, wiping off a bit of dust on her legs. The tiger happily purred as they continued contorting their body in a way only a miraculous could allow.
“imma detransform now then” Bandit said, standing back up “before ye go”
Ladybug and Chat noir’s antenna/ears poked up in intrigue
Bandit huffed a laugh before saying their detransformation phrase:
“stripes off!”
a color close to amaranth washed over the trickster hero and tired looking teenager was left.