Toontown Showdown 2

[wingedcatgirl]

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- A cackling villain has just tied your friend/love interest/etc to train tracks and a train is barreling down on them. How do you save them - and make it look like you're a last minute hero for our film?

"Oh no, Marinette, my very good friend who is just a friend! What am I going to do? I can't transform here, everyone in Paris who watches this film will be able to figure out exactly where Cat Noir came from!

"... of course, that's it!" Adrien swiftly transforms into Cat Noir and absconds!

Carefully keeping off-camera, Cat Noir sneaks into the train tunnel and cataclysms the tracks, blocking it off before the train arrives!

"Good thing these trains are always empty. How do I know that? Because if there were people on it, the engineer would just stop the train in the first place."

Adrien transforms back and rushes over to untie Marinette and carry her off into the sunset. In a totally friendly and non-romantic way. This is a normal way to feel about friends.

- Uh oh, the sheriff doesn't like you and you're being strung up to hang for a crime you didn't commit. It's a big scene! Get out of this one and don't spare the drama.

Uh-oh, someone wasn't paying attention to the film's runtime. You can't be done when you're only 25 minutes in! Now Adrien's moments away from a hanging! Transforming into Cat Noir again would be a sure-fire way out of this, but everyone's watching! No, he has a better idea.

He carefully waits til the last moment, when everyone's eyes are on someone else, and whispers the words: "Super-duper mega Cataclysm!"

And all of a sudden, the entire gallows collapses into a crater! The rope disintegrates, fleeing Adrien, and he flees unnoticed in the ensuing panic!

- Ok, this time you'll actually commit the crime. Rob the bank, have a shootout, and ride off into the sunset with the money! What are you going to do to keep your paint intact and the shot looking great?

Well, after that, Cat Noir is feeling mighty unappreciated. He digs up a wooden box he never expected to use... after blowing the dust off, he opens it to reveal a pair of six-shooters.

"Hey, Marinette, wanna be an outlaw? This town kinda sucks."

"S- sure! I love yyillegalactiVITY I mean I love illegal activity yes! Breaking the law, breaking the law!"

"Great!" He hands her one of the revolvers and transforms into Cat Noir while she puts on her obligatory robber's domino mask. "Let's go!"

Jump cut to the deadly duo kicking in the bank door, and with a pair of well-aimed opening shots, they knock down a support beam, trapping all the customers and tellers inside. "This is a stickup! Nobody move!"

Cat Noir saunters up to the nearest teller and hands them a big burlap sack with a euro sign on it. "Fill 'er up, kiddo."

But just then! A purple butterfly flutters into the bag, turning it jet-black! "Hello there, Ultra-Teller. How unfair that this catboy can saunter into your bank and take all the money, and meanwhile you're getting paid minimum wage. How about you kill him and take the money for yourself?"

"Sure, anything is better than working with customers again."

The teller transforms into a floating masked supervillain with six six-shooters hovering around them!

"Hawk Moth!" Cat Noir spits. "I should've known you were involved in this somehow!"

Ultra-Teller begins blasting lazer beams everywhere just as the corrupt sheriff shows up! Conveniently, they vaporize the sheriff in one hit.

Cat Noir baits Ultra-Teller into blasting the vault open, freeing the money for anyone's taking, and shouts "Now, Calamity Mari!"

Marinette spins the barrel of her revolver and fires her ace in the hole.

~WIBBLY FLASHBACK NOISES~

"But before we head out," Cat Noir says, "I wanna make sure you have an ace in the hole." He takes one bullet, does some mystical motions, and intones "Cataclysmic bullet! There, now that'll destroy anything in one shot. Save it for something really important. Probably the vault door, but if Hawk Moth decides to butt in for some reason you can also use it to destroy his akuma."

~WIBBLY UN-FLASHBACK NOISES~

The bullet impacts the enchanted money bag, disintegrating it and the butterfly inside, causing Ultra-Teller to revert back into a normal person and fall to the ground.

Everyone is so terrified of all the destruction that there's nobody stopping Cat Noir and Marinette as they shovel all the money into their bags, load up their horses, and ride off into the sunset for real.

"Nice plot pitch," Plagg says, reading over what Adrien has written. "But, uh, aren't you meant to be keeping your identity a secret?"

"It's a story, Plagg. I'm presenting it as 'what if' I was Cat Noir. On top of all those fake powers I made up, I even suggested adding a scene in the intro to explain how I transform - and since the writers here don't know what a Miraculous is, they'll get it all wrong for sure!"

"Oh, is that what all those calls with Pigtails were for? I was worried you were getting all mushy, but you were actually doing work? That's worse!"

"Well, I had fun, and that's all that matters."

"That and whether you win! But... it is a good little story. Perfect for munching popcorn to."