Detective Perry and the Lively Ladybug!
The starlit night sky was reflected in the broken glass of shattered storefronts and stagnant water overflowing from the storm drains. As she bent space from a burnt out apartment across to one of the many abandoned warehouse on the water front, Vista wondered crimes she could have committed in her previous life to end up here.
"Wait, backup, what do you mean I'm the omega? I'm the tip of the spear, the denial of danger, the blocker of clocks! I'm the big damn hero who arrives to end the fight, you can't call me the omega." But even as he spoke she could see Stalker roll her eyes and purposefully ignore him go off on her own down an alley towards a depression in the next street over where runoff had blocked the road in a massive puddle. "Hey! Vista back me up here, we're partners aren't we? A dynamic duo for the modern age, they who reach ou-." "Shadow Stalker, come on, can you stay on the patrol route just once?" Nope, looks like she cant. What a surprise, even with all this new tall about wolf-pack this, alpha that, she still does whatever she wants. Dennis continued ranting about the their lack of appreciation but Vista was more interested in what Stalker was peering at over the roof.
"Some Empire goons moving into ABB territory, looks like." Stalker looked back and Vista saw an evil glint in her eye as Clock finally caught up, but before she could say anything else an engine roared down the road to stop just before the goons. "Is that Stormtiger and Cricket? Without Hookwolf? No wait, I think that's him...." Looking closer, she noticed the goons were gathered around the only fully lit building nearby, jeering at it even as one broke off to speak with the capes.
With an false deepness and put upon air of authority, Dennis began to say "You know, I am the oldest present. Soon I'll be leading the Wards into glorious battle against-" "Please stop. You're the Omega because you're all bark and no bite; now could you please call Console before Stalker goes off without us again. Looks like that Empire are hitting an ABB stash house maybe." Personally she thought three capes was bit overkill and was about to say as much when suddenly the front face of the building blew outwards in a headache inducing pretzel of physics that she could barely wrap her head around. Bakuda strode out, cackling, while red and green gangers rushed the disorientated goons, Cricket alone having dodged the blast with preternatural swiftness. It seemed like a massacre would break out right in front of them when suddenly-.
"Halt evildoers! Justice comes to stand against you and found it's opponent... lacking." That's right! Detective Perry and I are on the scene, surrender now for we always prevail!"
And to Vista's growing horror, standing on the building next to them was a bipedal platypus, maybe four feet tall at best, wearing a trench coat and deerstalker cap while holding a Victorian pipe. Next to him was an unusually tall and lanky girl, almost six feet and covered in red and black polka-dots. Not even a costume, but somehow actually her skin, but also not?
"Criminals, heed me now for I am Ladybug, your doom! With my invertebrate intelligentsia it was no trick to track you down, you cannot escape us now. Detective Perry is the smartest Platypus around, no two-bit tinker or unwashed viking can hide from his mind!" The platypus, Perry apparently, began to pace across the roof, moonlight suddenly providing a back light to his monologue as he cut off Ladybug.
"Now now, my dear and lively Ladybug, don't scare the poor things. Criminals and thugs, as you well know, are a cowardly and superstitious lot. If we route them with the righteousness of our cause and the truth of our power to early they might scatter in every direction." Three underage heroes, a blockade of skin headed idiots and a few desperate Asians all watched in fascination as the talking animal lit up his pipe and took a puff. Something sweet? Even worse, out of the corner of her eye Vista saw that Dennis's grin had begun to split his face and he approached Ladybug... who appeared to be trembling in anticipation?
What.
As Clockblocker put his hands to his hips and struck a pose, Vista and Shadow Stalker shared a horrified glance in mutual understanding of what was about to happen. As they watched he and Ladybug began to exchange terrible puns and heroic declarations filled with naive enthusiasm, the two saw Stormtiger and Hookwolf break off in their direction even as Cricket danced in avoidance of Bakuda's bombs. Things were getting serious but the two hammy heroes kept going at it under Perry's amused eye. Just as the villains entered engagement range, Ladybug broke off and said; "Forgive me noble Blocker of Clocks, I have let myself grow distracted. But I won't fail Sir Perry, you'll see!"
And then suddenly, she was gone, a great cloud of insects rising into the air as more joined from further than Vista could see, all joining together and blocking out the moonlight across the city.
What.
Just as suddenly, the greater mass of the horde briefly came together into the shape of great Ladybug in the sky before smashing back down into the gangers below like the fist of an angry God. And before she could prepare to call console, to jump in and help, anything: the cloud cleared back into a young girl, leaving behind a street of capes and normals strewn across the street, covered head to toe in some sticky white substance she couldn't quite recognize and looked back at Clock with an enormous smile that reached her green eyes. "Never fear! Detective Perry and Ladybug are here. Brockton Bay's sunrise is soon to appear!" And with that statement, the platypus reached into his coat, fiddled for a moment, and the two were gone in flash of light, leaving three teenage heroes with four villains that they had never gotten to report and a ridiculous encounter of all of five minutes to debrief.
But even as Sophia's shoulders fell in disappointment and Dennis laughed at their new hammy heroes, Vista wondered why she deserved this.
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So that was Detective Perry, a Platypus thinker and tinker, agent of K.E.T.T.L.E., and his wonderfully enthusiastic and overpowered sidekick, Ladybug.
I am not good at writing.
