Fox Rain is an AU where a chance encounter immediately after Volpina's defeat pushes Lila toward a heroic career, and has a few moments:
- The original chance encounter: as she's going to the embassy she stumbles on four thugs trying to mug Master Fu, and, not knowing he'd be fine but that Ladybug decided to not out her and that a horrible flower print shirt is no reason to attack someone, she shouts “Ladybug, I know it was a bad day, but go easy on them!”. The would-be muggers are immediately dealt with, without even touching them. This also earns her the Fox Miraculous.
- Turns out that Lila had been suspecting that Papillon was Gabriel by his attempts at reinforcing the cover given him by the Butterfly Miraculous, with the Miraculous Book all but confirming it... Something she quickly reports to Ladybug, also anticipating him being about to Akumatize himself to throw off suspicions after the Miraculous Book disappeared. Had Trixx not informed Lila soon after that the Holder of the Butterfly Miraculous cannot Akumatize himself (just as Master Fu would do later off-screen with Ladybug), she would have won the whole conflict in a day.
- She's not the only one who suspects that. Papillon was this close to defeat, and didn't even know.
- Ladybug casually defeating the Akuma villain Rose Bride in less than thirty seconds, without using a Lucky Charm, only her cunning. It's through experience (Chloe says Rose Bride attacks so often that only Alya can keep count), but it still counts.
- After Akumatizing himself, the Collector decides to attack the Italian Embassy to push Lila where he can manipulate her. He finds out the hard way the Italians massed up enough firepower to actually fend off an Akuma villain — and even come close to defeat him with the surprise flamethrower shot.
- The fact they did it with actual Italian Army issue weaponry. No superweapons, no magic, only machine guns, anti-aircraft autocannons, anti-tank rockets, and a flamethrower.
- Lila's debut as the superhero Vorpika, utterly thrashing the Collector through judicious use of her illusions (she spent the whole night reconstructing Volpina's multiple illusions trick) and her cunning. She followed that by repeating out her reasoning on why Gabriel was Papillon before disproving it to scare Gabriel for keeping Adrien locked in his home so long he was naive enough to bring out an antique book and simultaneously covering for Adrien by claiming she had hypnotized him while investigating Gabriel and ridiculing Papillon with a paraphrased movie quote.
- When Gabriel, through Natalie, tries to sever Lila's friendship with Prince Ali and turn her against Ladybug for future manipulation by revealing to the Prince's chaperon the truth about Volpina's akumatization with a phone call, Trixx turns it against the villain simply by pointing out the caller had been a woman. Immediately followed by Ladybug (summoned by Chloe, of all people) calming down Lila's all-consuming anger with a simple phrase.“And you’re going to let him anger you and give him power over you?”
- Prince Ali giving Papillon a reputation as a paedophile.
- To keep character in his supervillain persona and make it seem he's insulted by his newfound reputation (that he was willing to accept for his goals' sake), Papillon unleashes a dozen of Akuma villains in quick succession-and the heroes take them down with ease.
- One for Papillon: as soon as he realizes his latest villain is a homophobe that wants to "cure" Lila of presumed homosexuality, he recalls the Akuma and leaves him exposed for what he is: a supervillain he may be, but he's not that evil.
- Marinette was getting irritated by the squadron of Akuma villains, enough to be given an Akuma... And promptly rejected it.
- In chapter five, we get some details on past superheroes-and they're formidable:
- Past Ladybugs include: Joan of Arc, whose attack on Paris was actually aimed at Darkblade's sword; La Mariquita, who single-handedly cut short the Mexican War of Independence; Bo Rùa, who caused the tensions that would have erupted in the First Indochina War to be solved peacefully, thus preventing that war and the Vietnam War; and Benten-chan, who destroyed a terrorist organization (losing her life in the process).
- There's only one Fox heroine mentioned, but Nǚwáng Húlí, also known as Donna Volpe, cut short World War II. The details aren't explained, but it's implied in 1943 she caused the destruction of seventeen German divisions in Italy (and it's stated she outright saved the country), straining the Wehrmacht enough that at some point in 1944, it just collapsed.
