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No… no… this couldn't be happening, right?
Snack Girl stood motionlessly in the ruinous disaster she caused, by accident, yeah, accidentally slipped up! She didn't mean to kill an innocent bystander, but she did. Her polka-dotted pink and black suit was ruined.
She was ruined.
Hawk Moth got ahold of her head, manipulated her, and she snapped. That's all it took.
Kareem knew that wasn't his Penny that he loved, Marinette gasped at the scene and immediately walked up to Snack Girl, “Did you do this… destroy Paris–?”
“I had to!” Snack Girl screams before summoning her sharp claws that came with her new look, “Do you honestly expect me to–” She choked up, now clawing at her braids, trying to calm herself down, but when she cries, she just has to let it out, “–save Paris alone, by myself, really, Ladybug?! If it wasn't for Cat Noir, me and–”
Honestly, who is Kareem to you?
Hawk Moth– get out of my mind! You caused me to do this! Destroy Paris?! That's not the real me–
“Penny,” Kareem's voice yanked her back to the present, right, the destruction, “... This isn't you, he's twisting your mind into doing things my girl would never do.”
Penny pushes him away, now breathing heavily, “He'd told me you'd say that. But I have a good reason for why I destroyed Paris.”
“Tell me why.” He said softly, but he was serious just by deciphering his tone, and she showed him why, her claw immediately made contact across his face as she screamed viciously, and before she could even do more harm to him, he easily used cataclysm, and Penny knows it's painful because he accidentally hurt her with it.
Luckily, Ladybug has a plan and pulls Cat Noir aside.
“I know where her akuma is! It's in her shoes.” Ladybug said determinedly, and Cat Noir smirked at her, “You're thinking what I'm thinking, right?”
“Yeah!”
Ladybug swings her yo-yo in a circular motion whilst saying her famous catchphrase ‘lucky charm!’, and she furrows her eyebrows when she sees a… tiara?
“Oh! I think I can make this work, just distract Kareem– I'll take it from here.” She said determinedly, and Cat Noir shrugs, “Whatever you say, m'lady!”
“Just go, kitty.” Ladybug deadpanned, and she quickly tackled Penny to the ground, now struggling to hoist her down, and she managed to backflip the girl.
“Stay still! You're akumatized right now, Snack Girl, and I wanna help you–” Snack Girl's elbow flung into Ladybug's chest as she saw her rolling down the street, but she managed to stop herself before she accidentally collided with a destroyed bus behind her back; and Snack Girl wiped the dried up blood off her cheek as she scoffed.
“You couldn't defeat me even if you wanted to.”
“I can and I will.” Ladybug said smugly before Snack Girl laughed sinisterly, shaking her head, “Oh really? I'd like to see you putting that “defeating me” into effort, WhinyBug!”
“I have to admit, her nicknames are impressive–” Ladybug groaned and smacked Cat Noir's shoulder, “That was not impressive! I mean, WhinyBug?! That's so mean–”
Snack Girl groaned. “Stop arguing with that boy toy of yours and attack–” She groaned before she realized that a certain someone's arms were holding her back, and Marinette quickly swings the tiara at full speed before they aimed at Penny's shoes as she groaned painfully and slowly transformed back into her original form, and she collapsed into Kareem's arms as he signed in relief.
“Bye-bye little butterfly,” Ladybug said calmly before clearing her throat, “Time to de-evilize!”
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A few hours later, Penny woke up from being unconscious, and she screamed before a hand muffled her mouth, then her eyes widened astonishingly to see Marinette hovering over her as she sighed. “Thank goodness you're awake! I contacted your parents to come get you.”
“Can a girl get a rundown of what happened to her boyfriend?” Penny panted heavily before letting out a whistling breath. “Seriously, what happened a few hours ago? Who was that man's voice I heard in my head, and why am I here?”
Marinette blinked confusedly. “You… don't remember what happened?”
“Nah.”
“Well, you might wanna get comfortable because this is gonna be a short and not-so-sweet story…”