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Encouragement
Gilbert enters the building in his tuxedo, a beautiful black contrasted by his white shirt and black triangle tie. He glances around at the guests, trying to spot the person who invited him and was able to make this possible, Reiden and as if like magic there he is, behind Gil. “You look incredible,” says Reiden who’s dressed beautifully with a purple tux and golden accents, his hair tied in a ponytail, and his eyes shining with joy. Gilbert turns around, his jaw drops as he gawks, “I could say the same about you, your outfit it's… leaving me speechless.” They both blush as they look at each other, the last couple weeks have been a blast for them, every time they hung out together, they felt so much more inexplicably closer somehow and now they feel something new and awkward yet precious between them.
Reiden stretches his hand out to Gilbert and awkwardly states, “so… do you want to dance.” Gilbert looks at Reiden in shock, yet a sneaky smirk and blush danced on his expression layered over it, “I thought you didn’t like those dance classes your dad made you take, that they were what was the word… dreadful.” Reiden smirks as a blush of embarrassments replaces his blush of, was it bliss? He couldn’t tell yet he knew these feelings started with Gilbert, so he confessed, “well Gilbert, you have made my life a whole lot less dreadful than it was before you inspired me and, plus dancing isn’t as bad when I get to choose who my dance partner is.”
Gilbert gave Reiden a mischievous look that brought back those mysteries feeling crawling back to Reiden as his face was painted with the reds of mystery emotions. Gilbert wastes no time as he grabs Reiden's hand and says, “well you can show me all you know on the dance floor, Vamonos” he tugs Reiden to the floor as Gilbert sways in a very interesting way, a way Reiden found both new and a little sexy. Reiden was shocked but still those feelings prevented him from feeling anything but absolute bliss and a bit of intrigue not realizing that Gilbert may know how to dance, “I hope I don’t regret this.” Gilbert’s face turn back to look at Reiden still with that mischievous smile on his face, “you are so going to regret this”
Outside the ballroom the Dress Sentimonster is making its way to the Gala as Gentlebug and Caterina struggle to slow it down. “Hey GBug you know I like a challenge but this is getting out of claws.” Says Caterina as she jumps from building to building alongside Gentlebug “I have no other choice I have to use- “says Gentlebug as he launches his yo-yo up as they stand in front of the gala while the sentimonster Dress makes their way to them, “-Lucky Charm!” As the yo-yo spins in the air magical ladybugs fly around and create a red pillow with black polka dots. Gentlebug catches the pillow, “what am I supposed to do with this, take a nap” as he holds the pillow out. Caterina inspects the pillow, “well maybe you're supposed to take a catnap with the dress, I'm sure it just cranky cause it needs some Zs.” The dress sentimonster is crashing its way over to them. Gentlebug looks around as Caterina stands defensively ready to strike. “I think I know what to do,” says Gentlebug, smiling at Caterina.
Gilbert and Reiden finished their fast dance while a new song comes on a slower one. Gilbert and Reiden look at each other smiling, Raiden grabs Gilbert's waist and Gilbert puts his hand on Reiden's shoulder. “You really know how to dance, and man the way you move those hips” says Reiden while swaying with Gilbert, “I thank my Hispanic family and our endless family parties, my tia's were great teachers.” Reiden and Gilbert take longing stares at each other, shutting out the rest of the world as the song becomes the only thing that flows through them. “You know I’ve never had someone like you, it's scary” Reiden confesses, Gilbert takes Reiden in as he closes the already small space between them, “You know I’ve never had anyone like you either, but you don’t have to be scared I’m not some monster fusion, I’m just Gil, your lunch pal, arcade rival, and hopefully…” He pauses for a second as Reiden stands there, eyes full of wonder and intrigue, “more?” Gilbert finishes his sentence. They both lean in closer their faces so close as they close their eyes leaning in one inch away from-
Something crashes through the glass-stained window on the wall where the appetizers were, Gil and Reiden look over as they hold on to each other tighter. Gentlebug and Caterina slowly stand in the center of the floor as the wall in front of them is now broken open, a big hole leading directly outside. Floating in the air is SharpRoost the holder of the rooster miraculous, a flight ability being used, behind Gentlebug and Caterina voices are heard as two more villains appear ShadowPlume holder of the peacock and Thornbeak holder of the Hummingbird miraculous stand on the second floor looking over the first floor “that sentimonster was a distraction to led you right in our trap” says Thornbeak. ShadowPlume plucked out a feather from her Fan and empowers it, Thornbeak takes out an empowered calculator and multiplies the feather into an abundance of feathers all slowly falling at the people. Gil and Reiden run away but get lost in the stampede of people, Gil hides under a tablecloth and Reiden gets Amokotised and a dress sentimonster is formed around him, wraps him up as he falls into a closet. Everyone who's Amokotised gets wrapped in a dress that controls the body of the host as they are all measly attacking and chasing people.
Gil under the tablecloth has his Kwami's appear Quetzzu and Maaw, “Good thing I brought you Maaw” Maaw smiles his built like any other Kwami's except he resembles a crocodile. He bowed and said, “well I couldn’t let you leave to dance without my fancy expertise.” Under the table covered by the cloth Gil transforms fusing both Kwami's powers together, and slides out and yells, “Plumage!!” As Golden Feathers flurry all around. GentleBug thinking fast uses the opportunity, and summons his, “Lucky Charm!!” As magic ladybugs swarmed around and created a big trash Bin. The New superhero slides beside Gentlebug and Caterina, controlling the feathers to flip the trash bin upside down, as above them it falls, keeping them safe inside the trash bin. The feathers layer over the trash bin on the ground creating a protective layer over it, the villains send their Attacks at the feathered layered trash bin as they try to ship away at the feathers. “You three can’t hide in there forever!” States Sharpbeak as he blasts the box with fire breathing.
Inside the trash bin Gentlebug and Caterina stare at the new hero. The hero adorns a suit-like jacket with a tie resembling teeth and feathers neatly adorned around his necklace and mask. “Hey guys, it’s me Serpentine or wait no, featherGator” Caterina scoffs, “Yeah noooooo that name needs some serious work.” Gentlebug's face lights up exclaiming “Wait Serp you're a genius!” FeatherGator smirks, “Thanks Gentlebug at least someone appreciates my“his cut off by gentlebug, “no not the name” he pulls out two magical jewels from within his magical Yo-yo. “These are what we need to win, ok guys here’s the plan.”
Outside the trash bin the three villains throw one attack after another slowly chipping away at the feathers protecting the trash bin. All of a sudden the feathers spin off and out of the now gone trash bin blasting the villains back. From within we see three heroes looking slightly different than before, “let’s go everyone” FeatherGator heads to Thornbeak, Caterina heads to Sharproost, and Gentlebug takes on of the Sentimonster Dresses.
Gentlebug stops and spins his YoYo, taking all the rest of the Amok feathers left in the room and purifying them then realizing them as outer white feathers. “I am OinkBug, and I am sure that here right now we will not stop until you all are defeated, Lucky Charm!” The magical ladybugs gave OinkBug two walkie talkies, he held them on both hands as he ran to a hallway on the first floor as all the sentimonsters followed.
Sharpbeack shoots balls of flame at the new cat hero, she adorned magenta colors with black stripes with gold accents. “Hey Hot beak, take a mint why don’t ya, those fire blasts stink.” Sharpbeak face angers and turns red as he charges up and blasts a giant fire ball, “Oh also you can call me catstripes!” She positions her Batton in front of her as Sharpbeak shoots and Catstripe activates her baton as it expands and shoots her up onto the sealing. She extends her hand as her “cataclysm” activates and destroys a part of the rook falling down at Sharp roost, as he gets buried under rubble. “Bet you didn’t see that coming hotbeak.” Purple electricity strikes the ruble as within it purple light glows and expands as a Fused monster forms in front of Catstrips adorned with a huge beak winged arms and a monstrous rooster like appearance, Catstripes looks up at the beast “me and my big mouth”
A roar is heard while Feathergator is fighting Thorn beak, “oh no, a Biofusion!” While Feathergator looks at the fusion Thornbeak uses her powered calculator and multiplies her weapon a long sharp sword and then multiplies the chandelier above Feathergator, as two chandeliers appear the one begins to fall directly on top of Fetahergator. He looks up just in time as he uses his “Scales” ability shooting the chandelier and “Minimize” it making it small as he catches it and throws it at Thorn beak, “here beak face catch.” The chandelier flies at Thronbeak as feather gator “enlarge”s it, Thorn beak slides under the giant chandelier as it shatters behind her.
Oinkbug hidden in one of the rooms hides a walkie there as a loud shattering Noice is heard, a stamped of running and fabric rubbing against each other is heard in the hallway's doors opening and shattering is heard. “Hope those two are holding their own. Now time to end this.” Oink bug jumps out the window of the room and climbs up to the second-floor window. There he moves slowly and quietly to the hallway on the second floor from there he peeks to where the balcony of the ball room would be and sees Shadowplume focused on commanding all the dress sentimonsters to find him he activates the “gift” ability of the pig miraculous and turns on his walky-talky and says, “I hope they can’t hear me here, this is the best hiding space” the building shook as all the dress sentimonsters ran to the room crashing and tearing noises could be heard. Shadowplum holds her head as all the chaos of the dresses affected her deeply. As she turns around, she sees Gentelbug.
A steady stream of flame followed Catstripes as she jumps away from the flames, “look I’m sorry I made fun of your breath I was just kitten around” another blast headed towards her head. She ducked and rolled, stopping on a hero pose. The monster looked at her standing high in front of her, it breathed in a giant breath, “not today dino bird” she jumped up high calling out her “clout!” Ability as energy engulfed her left hand the hand with the tiger miraculous. She brought down the force of her attack down on her enemy's head. The force struck him right when the flame was about to escape its beak causing his mouth to smoke as he struck the ground knocked out.
Weapons clashing and swift movements come from both Feathergator and Thornbeak. Thornbeak moves as Feathergator scales activated right when she was about to be stricken, she moved out the way. “Haha nice try but you will never get me, now time to bury you under piles of glass.” She raises her calculator up about to shoot above her to another shandalear, “I wasn’t aiming for you, enlarge” said Feathergator as the calculator grows many times its size it falls on Thornbeak as it crushes her and knocks her out.
Both Catstripes and Feathergator take the miraculous of the person or in Catstripes case monster. They look at each other and swap places high fiving half way through. Catstripes cataclysms the calculator and Feathergator diffuses the giant raptor chicken. They take the two villains and place them together as they realize who these two people are.
Shadowplume looks at Genetalbug now caught by one of her dress sentimonsters. “Finally, I’ve caught you and your friends are next, now nothing in the world can stop me from becoming the best fashionista in the entire world!!!!”.
In the real world OinkBug has already trapped the villain and taken of the miraculous reveling her true identity, Madem Selene Jacks favorite fashionista now showing her true self in the pig miraculous power a villain with power craving total control of everyone’s lives. “I looked up to her I worked for her and now I see her for who she truly is.” Caterina and Serpentine look at Oinkbug feeling sorry knowing that seeing your inspiration turned out to be a villain you’ve been fighting is a lot to take in. “I’m sorry Gbug this really is terrible,” said serpentine, “there's no way you could have known, she clearly knew what she was doing.” Caterina tried to comfort him, yet he seemed distant. They took the villains outside were the police waited for them, then went to the roof of the ballroom, “I’m gonna be honest this sucks but at least now we know the truth and plus she did do something good, she inspired me and many others to do fashion, that’s something I can say was good, now it’s up to us to do what’s right and make sure no one else follows her lead but for now let fix this mess. Miraculous Gentlebug!!”
All the ladybugs flew around fixing everything caused by the villain's attack. “We also managed to get some new miraculous, were getting steadily closer to getting them all back.” Said gentlebug with a heroic stance and smile, “one of our biggest threats, now we must keep pushing forward and keep searching for the rest of the miraculous, together!” He put his fist out, both Caterina and Serpentine smiled as all three of them yelled out “pound it!”
Gilbert appeared behind a building looking around he couldn't find Raiden anywhere. He remembered how he fell into a closet and ran back inside to look for him. He called out his name until he got to the closet, he saw him fall in. He opened the door and found Raiden looking back eyes wide, “Gilbert, you're all right!” Gilbert didn’t realize how tense he was until he saw Raiden safe and sound, he was able to relax for once since the day began. “I was stuck in that weird dress thing the whole time it was terrifying.” Gilbert slowly made his way to Raiden as he continued, “and I’m sorry if what I said earlier was rather strange I don’t know how you feel about any of this-“ he said as Gilbert approached him getting ever more closer as he smirked, “ I know it’s selfish of me to assume you’d feel similarly but I just-“ before he could finish his sentence Gilbert managed to somehow both silences and comforted Raiden as they were now closer than ever before. As they broke from the kiss, Gilbert smiles and says, “I’d like to be more too.” Raiden laughs and hugs Gilbert, bringing him closer and kissing him before they get up and leave hand in hand heart in heart secrets to secrets as a new chapter begins for the lover, the Hero and the villain.
The villains in the cop car chained up, bicker and argue blaming each other for their mess up. “you're supposed to be a bodyguard you should have decked them easily.” Says Salina the ex-holder of the hummingbird miraculous, “try decking someone when your mind is fused with a chicken.” Selene snaps, “it’s both your faults you both are insufferable pieces of- “an Akuma lands on the cuffs of Selen as all three of them begin to transform.