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Chapter 17

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Sorry it’s been so long. My New Year promise is this, I will try and write, I will not let the whispers of timidness get the better of me, I will put the story I create out and I will revamp my Patreon starting next month, and I will try and get another of these chapters out within then next 2 weeks and I will finish my novel!

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Ladybug threw her yoyo into the head of one of the arm cannon monsters and jumped backwards, letting her head take a glance at the battleground. Apisera was attacking the other cannon monster as Chat Noir and Canixia were fighting the two clawed monsters as they kept them away from her Apisera as the Akuma and the newcomer fought each other, so far the other monsters were ignoring Cameraneer, and that was good, if the Akuma was in the camera-backpack, then if it was destroyed then Villains civilian form might be hurt if these things released the Akuma, and if it multiplied then she didn’t know what they could do, they had never dealt with a duel Akuma that multiplied before.

As News Jaharl slashed his right sword sideways towards her, Nekhbet just laughed as she jumped over it and spun around, slashing out with her weapon as she looked at News Jaharl with a mad grin on her face.

“Foul Wench, how dare you!?” News Jaharl snarled and Nekhbet jumped backwards and glared at him with a look of such hate that for a moment News Jaharl went still in shock.

“You called me Wench…….. IT’S TIME TO HARVEST!” As Nekhbet’s voice rang out and every hero turned and saw Nekhbet smirk as her weapon’s blades were suddenly coated in black energy as she slashed it down through News Jaharl who screamed before he reverted to Robert and fell to the ground not moving, while that happened Cameraneer suddenly seemed to gain more power for a moment before he went limp as a purple egg that had blue lines spiraling down it formed in front of Nekhbet before she grabbed it and laughed as she caught it as her weapon gained a black glow around it.

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Hawkmoth stumbled and Nathalie was by his side in an instant, holding him up as he breathed deeply for a few moments.

“Are you okay?” Nathalie asked and Hawkmoth stayed silent as he panted.

“I’m fine,” He said as he steadied himself. That was……beyond anything I’ve ever felt before. Could that be what my love felt when…… no I’m still awake so it couldn’t have been but I need to ask Nooroo what happened when this is over! He thought before he felt Nathalie’s hand on his shoulder, looking up at her face.

“Sir, you blanked. Are you okay?” Nathalie asked and Hawkmoth nodded.

“Yes, but I have never felt anything like that before, not even when Ladybug cleanses my Akumas……… this almost tried to drink my power. I think we might need to have you come with us when I go and meet this woman and her ‘friends’,” Hawkmoth said and Duusu grinned and laughed as they somersaulted in the air.

“Oh that’s terrible, I don’t know how many more times you can handle this Miss Nathalie!” They said cheerfully and Hawkmoth frowned. He truly wanted the Miraculous to be fixed so the Kwami would get its mind back to normal, at least then he might be able to handle the little monster! And given what he learned about duel wielding Miraculous, when it was repaired he would use it normally. A moment later a beep caused him to look down at his Miraculous as one of the wings suddenly went white.

Everyone looked at it in shock and confusion, Hawkmoth slowly looked at Nathalie as she stared at him, a thousand questions behind her eyes, nothing that they knew about the Miraculous showed any hint about how this was even possible. Nathalie just knew that this was something new, but she didn’t know that this was only the beginning of what was to come.

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Ladybug starred at Nekhbet in horror before she jumped back as the monster she was fighting suddenly roared and attacked her harder, from the other cries she heard the other monsters were doing the same.

As she tried to get back enough to risk another look as the monster attacked her, Nekhbet meanwhile looked down at Robert’s body with a leer as he slept on.

“Oh, this was who that warrior was?! I wonder just what are the limits for that power he uses? And the other is still up and around, I wonder if I harvest him, will I gain more power?” Nekhbet purred as she looked around the battle and saw the four heroes fighting off her Legion and chuckled. Truly this is amazing, I wonder…….. does it take into account the person, something about them when it gives them powers? Does he choose or does he only have options about what he turns them into? He might be worthy to join our group after all, or at least we won’t fight him……… but this one. Ooooohhhh I need to look him up later, such a wild will somewhere deep down there! She thought as she looked up around the battle and smirked as she saw the news helicopter flying near the street and snorted. “So the mammal bitch isn’t coming, then I got her the other day, then all we need to do is search the possessions of the victims and we’ll find the dolphin at last, perfect!”

Nekhbet looked around and saw her monsters dealing with the heroes and frowned, one of them was missing.

Chat Noir dodged the blast from one of the range monsters as he tried to figure out a way the take it out without using his power, he might need it to free the Akuma! As he dodged he saw Apisera throw her top around the neck of her foe and pull it towards her, jumping in a circle to spin kick it away from her. He smirked as he lunged to the side away from another shot, he always knew his sister has hidden depths to her, but he hadn’t expected her or Sabrina to be such good fighters!

As Ladybug dodged to the right as the monster she was fighting fired at her and missed a red staff suddenly came down and dented the head before it screeched and flashed white before it dissipated into nothingness. She looked up and saw Roi Singe running towards her as his staff shrank in his hands, he grinned at her and slammed his staff against the other one and looked at her.

“Glad you made it, but how’d you know?” Ladybug asked him as she looked around at the battle, not seeing Rena Rouge and the others holding their own.

“I didn’t!” Roi Singe called out loudly as he grinned.

“What?!” Ladybug exclaimed and Roi Singe smirked at her.

“I just got lucky, figured it was a monster so go me!” Roi Singe smirked at her.

“Really?” Ladybug asked in shock and Roi Singe looked at Nekhbet who was examining Rob, trying to learn anything she could.

“No, I was told we just have to deal damage to them, break a bone or something and they die. And did ya hear about the people found knocked out, she’s behind it, there’s a new girl, she’s with Rena we just need to give them an opening,” Roi Singe said softly as he leaned towards Ladybug.

“Got it, anything else?” Ladybug asked just as soft and Roi Singe nodded.

“Yeah, see that egg on her belt, we need to get it to save a lot of people, we need to keep her distracted and moved her towards the right,” Roi Singe whispered and Ladybug nodded before she and Roi both sprung at one of the monsters.

Canixia had heard what Roi Singe called out as she blocked one of her foes blades with her right and grinned, she dodged a slash from her left and moved her right leg behind one of the monster’s and tripped it, then she slammed both of her weapons into its head, causing the monster to disappear after she broke its head.

Chat Noir ran in close and thrust out with his baton as it turned into a staff and hit his foe’s throat, it gurgled before it fell to the ground and died before disappearing. As the last of the ranged monsters looked around for its brethren before Apisera threw her top around its neck, pulling it towards her only for her fist to hit its throat, it coughed before Canixia slammed one of her weapons through its heads as every visible hero moved to stand before Nekhbet, their weapons raised.

“You know you could move away from the civilian and let us handle the Akuma before we talk, I mean you’re outnumbered, can you really keep fighting all of us? How long have you had that Miraculous since how long?” Roi Stinge asked and Nekhbet laughed and smirked at them.

She chuckled as she looked around, gripping her weapon tighter as she grinned. “Oh little fools, I made this with my group so many years ago, well before WW1,” Nekhbet purred as she spun her scythe and prepared to attack.

As the heroes' eyes winded they never noticed that the Akuma Cameranear had a butterfly energy mask on, letting them all know that Hawkmoth was listening in.

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Out o sight, both Rena Rouge and Salacia moved through the brush, Salacia keeping her eyes on the egg Nekhbet had on her belt and Rena swallowed as she heard Nekhbet’s boast. “What?”

“Keep it together, we need to get that egg, that’s what’s important right now,” Salacia said and Rena Rouge nodded and looked at her before nodding.

“Yeah, but you’re going to tell us all about that later on got it?” Rena Rouge muttered as they waited for the right moment.

“I’ll meet you and whoever you want tomorrow night on the Eiffel Tower,” Salacia promised and Rena Rouge nodded.

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Ladybug was shocked, how could she even be alive after all those years, and to have made a Miraculous? Who was this woman and what did she want, the way she fought Hawkmoth’s minions and did what she did, she had no idea at all what to do. A look at the others saw that they were all thinking the same thing, if she was that old then she wouldn’t time out, they needed to beat her or any friends she might have and then identify what her Miraculous actually was.

“We still outnumber her, all I need is one hit and we win!” Apisera encouraged the others and they all grinned and gripped their weapons tighter.

Nekhbet grinned and shot at them, her weapon still glowing. The heroes jumped away but she kept moving after Apisera who dodged the blows with a hard look in her eyes.

“Then if I take you out, then I’ll win!” Nekhbet snarled and Apisera dodged backwards and tried to figure out anything that she could do, she could activate her power but then she would have 2 minutes at most before she had to escape before she transformed back, and with the way Nekhbet was fighting she had experience, and if she had lived that long then that made sense. They had to find a way to take her down. She saw Rena poke her head out of a bush behind Nekhbet and gestured for her to come that was and Apisera grinned as Chat Noir and Roi Singe charged at Nekhbet, only for her to cackle and jump backwards with a cackle.

“You can’t beat me, after all, how will you free that one, none of you can do it without hurting him,” She purred as she looked around at the heroes who all look half convinced.

“But I can witch!” A Salacia called out as she attacked Nekhbet from the right who jumped backwards, letting Salacia jump at Nekhbet when from behind her another Salacia lunged at her and grabbed both eggs as they passed each other as the first Salacia passed through Nekhbet who realized what had happened.

“THE FOX!” Nekhbet screeched as she looked at Salacia who held the two eggs and looked at her and screamed out her power. “You stupid little whore, so I missed you last night!?”

“Disharmony!” At Salacia’s command, her hands glowed grey and the eggs cracked and from them rainbow energy streams flew out of them, one shot at Robert’s body, another shot to the east and most of them shot west.

As Nehkbet looked at her gritted her teeth and was about to attack Salacia when she heard something coming at her, she dodged backwards as Chat Noir and Roi Singe charged at her, dodging again when Canixa almost slammed her weapon into Nehkbet head. Looking she realized that she was in a lot of trouble.

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In a hospital room, the old woman who had given Ondine the Dolphin Miracouls lay in a bed and breathed evenly, even if she was unconscious. One of the energy streams followed into the room and then into the woman who shot up with a gasp and looked around smiling as she heard the commotion from outside starting up. Looking towards the door she saw doctors and nurses rushing about, and she heard enough to know the other victims were awake. “Good job girl, good job.”

As she leaned back, she sighed and closed her eyes as she fell asleep.

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“Damn you!” Nekhbet spat as the heroes and glared at them as all the heroes cornered her. Looking around she tried to find anything she could do to turn the tide and scowled as she realized what she had to do. “She’s going to be such a bitch about me using this but so what! You heroes think you won! THEN TRY AND DEAL WITH THIS MONSTER!”

Nekhbet withdrew another organic egg from her weapon and threw it down to the side, with a flash that died down to reveal a ten-foot-tall green insect creature with a large scorpion lower body and a mantis upper body growing where the eyestalks on the scorpion would be. The lower scorpion body had two scorpion claws and the upper body had mantis claws. As Nekhbet dashed away the monster spat a globe of white mucus at the heroes who dodged.

As she landed Salacia heard a beep and cursed as she ran from the battle as Roi Singe looked from her to Nekhbet and wondered who to go after. Rena Rouge suddenly appeared and tackled him, getting him away from the stinger that hit where he was. “Eye in the game Roi Singe! We’ll talk to her later but we can’t let this thing get to the civilians!”

Roi Singe saw the monster roar and look towards the other end of the park where the police were and he nodded. As he lept at it he swung his staff down and it blocked it with the right mantis claw, throwing him back into the air and it spat another white globe at him, but before it could hit him Apisera threw her top and lassoed him, pulling him away, the globe missing him by inches.

Ladybug landed from her jump and looked at the battle for a moment before shaking her head, quickly coming to a decision. “Chat, Roi you’re on intercept duty, take down that tail! Apisera once you’ve got a shot use it! Canixia you’re with me, we’re going after the scythe user, Rena fall back to the insertion point you used!”

“Got it chief!”

“As you order my lady!”

“On it Ladybug!”

As Roi Singe, Chat Noir and Apisera called out, Ladybug shot towards the edge of the park with Canixia following behind her. As they reached the street they saw police holding back the civilians as they did when an Akuma made its first appearance, with simple ones like Mr. Pigeon and others like him, they treated them like street performers.

“Did you see a woman in silver come this way?!” Ladybug called out to a police officer who pointed towards one of the buildings and Canixia cursed.

“I could activate my power, but if she still hasn’t turned back……..” Canixia said and Ladybug nodded and looked at the police as Officer Rodger came closer. Canixia kept looking away and hoped her father wouldn’t notice anything about her that would clue him into her identic

“Ladybug is the Akuma down?” Officer Rodger as he reached the heroes, wondering who the new one was.

“It’s a double Officer Rodger with extras, one is down but the other is still active, and there’s something else. Chat Noir and I will stop by the station and talk to the task force once we get a handle on whatever it is,” Ladybug promised and Officer Rodger looked at the park as a loud animalistic roar sounded from within, causing Officer Rodger’s mouth to drop open. “Stay out until you see the cure. Canixia, come on!”

As the two heroes ran into the park, Officer Rodger saw the News Helicopter land nearby and sighed as he knew he would have a hard time keeping the reporters back.

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The two heroes ran back towards the battle, Roi Singe and Chat Noir were wailing on the monster as Apisera panted. Looking towards them she smiled at them as they came towards them.

“Oh she got away? Great so how do we kill this thing?” Apisera asked as both of the boys kept striking the monster. Ladybug was about to say something when she noticed something. She lunged and tackled Apisera moments before a beam shot over their bodies. Looking towards Cameraneer she and Apisera him breaking free of the material holding him in place, moments before Apisera’s Miraculous beeped.

“Oh no,” Ladybug moaned as she remembered what she had learned from Master Fu, when a Miraculous that caused a continuing effect on an opponent like the Bee times out, the effect is gone. If the monster that Nekhbet had summoned was free with the Akuma still on the loose, that would be terrible. Looking at the monster she stared at it and knew she had no choice. “Lucky Charm!”

Throwing her yoyo up a red energy sphere formed and from it dropped a small spray can. After she caught it, Ladybug looked around, the whole area was grayed out to her. As she looked around, she saw Cameraneer’s eyes flash, the monster, Chat Noir, Roi Singe. Then Ron and Canixa flashed a blue color and she understood everything.

“Apisera, fall back and recharge, once the monster is destroyed hit the Akuma. Chat Noir, Roi Singe get the monster in front of the Akuma once it’s free! Canixia grab the former Akuma!” Ladybug ordered as she shot at the Akuma.

“Wait what?!” Apisera demanded as she watched Ladybug but shot away towards the forest and saw Rena Rouge waiting for her and looked at her as she dropped her transformation.

“What’s the plan?” Alya asked as Chloe reached into her pocket and handed Pollen a few seeds to eat to recharge.

“Trust our lady I guess, ready Pollen?” Chloe asked and smiled as Pollen nodded causing Chloe to grin.

As Canixia grabbed Rob and jumped away she looked on, partly excited to see a Ladybug Plan up close.

Ladybug dashed at Cameraneer, dodging the shots the Villain fired at her from both arms. and sprayed its eyes and the camera on its back.

As the monster started to move Roi Singe looked at Chat Noir and shrugged before hitting the monster in its eyes and jumping away as it screeched and followed him towards Ladybug and the Villain as Chat Noir followed behind them.

Cameraneer roared and broke free of the last of the material holding him down and fired both its arms, Ladybug dodged both beams and a bench was hit, being pulverized as both energy attacks affected it at the same time. Ladybug grinned and looked away from the Villain, smiling as she saw the monster and others run towards them.

“Come on, you couldn’t record the side of an aircraft carrier from five feet!” Ladybug called out as she stood between the monster and the Villain.

“FINE! I’LL TAKE YOUR MIRACULOUS FROM YOUR CORPSE!” Cameraneer roared and thrust both his arms at Ladybug, firing from both of them again. As the beams moved closer to her Roi Singe was suddenly there, grabbing Ladybug with one hand, the other held his staff as it grew and shot them away as Chat Noir went the other way, the beams passing beside it by an inch on both sides and hit the monster, destroying it as the beams hit the monsters scorpion claws, breaking the bones and causing the monster to dissolve.

Apisera was suddenly there stinging Cameraneer as Canixa put Robert down as Ladybug, Chat Noir and Roi Singe landed by the still active Villain.

“Five Minutes gang! Find that item!” Apisera called out and they all descended on Cameraneer and tried to pull things free, most breaking with nothing else happening but it was when Roi Singe pulled the camera on Cameraneer’s shoulder and dropped it to the ground it didn’t break that they knew they found it.

“Got it! Cataclysm!” Chat Noir called out, calling on his power and as the camera dissolved, as the Villain turned back into the cameraman a black butterfly flew free until Ladybug caught it in her yoyo.

“No more evil-doing for you little Butterfly,” Ladybug said with a grin as she released a pure white butterfly that flew away before she picked up her Lucky Charm and looked at the others as she held it out, they grinned back at her and put their hands under it, Roi Singe looked around than coughed and joined his own to the others, and then as one, they threw it into the air.

“MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!” They all roared out as the spray paint climbed into the air until it exploded into a ladybug swarm that flew around the park, fixing everything that the battle had destroyed, and the victims both woke up.

“What happened?” Rodger asked before his phone beeped, looking at it he saw that the Akuma Alert was turning off and he frowned.

“That was something LB!” A voice called out and Robert looked up and saw the heroes, gasping as he stared.

“Yeah Monkey boy, I mean a new Miraculous wielding villain and she comes with her very own nemesis who I hope is on our side!” Chat Noir said as he put his staff baton over his shoulder. Robert gasped and looked around her either of them, the chance to interview a new depowered villain or hero, but he only saw his cameraman sitting up as he held his head, where was the villain the heroes had fought?

“Talk later, let’s move people!” Ladybug called out as Robert looked at the heroes as they left, realizing what he had done

“Wait!” Robert called out but the heroes didn’t hear him as they dashed away and out of sight. Robert could only look in the direction of where the heroes had gone before he could even say anything. He couldn’t see the Ladyblogger around so the Ladyblog wouldn’t have any new content, so maybe that was a win? With how that teen was getting her footage they were being told to be like her, but with how she was so cavalier with her safety, he would prefer to stay alive. But he had overheard the heroes, there were two unknowns in this fight, an unknown hero and a new villain, that was something that he could use.

“Wonderful, new heroes and villains, I’m dead center and I’ve got barely anything!” Bob snarled and looked down, while he was spiraling about how after he lost his internship and his school expelled him the laughter of his cameraman caused him to break him out of his thoughts. Scowling as he looked at the source of the laughter as his cameraman looked at his machine with a grin on his face. “What’s so funny?!”

“Tell you after we’re done with them boss,” The cameraman said as he pointed behind Bob, who turned and saw the police coming towards them. Bob almost said something before he stopped, feeling dizzy so he sat down and tried to catch his breath. Moments later police, members of the Akuma Taskforce came towards them and he knew turned, not seeing his cameraman pocket the recording and slip a new one into the camera.

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Hawkmoth detransformed and Nooro fell before Gabriel caught him. “Who were those two?”

“I don’t know…….. I’ve never seen the first one’s Kwami before……but the Dolphin, I’ve heard of her from Xuppu after the Destruction of Atlantis……. She was his,” Nooro said as Duusu laughed and floated in the air.

“Oh yeah! He was so sad that she and the others never made it to the Order, he even lost his happy for a few decades!” Dussu said with a laugh and Nathalie looked at the Kwami and hated the effect the broken Miraculous had on the creature.

“What will we do, and if you think I’m letting you go alone!” Nathalie snarled and Gabriel nodded and sighed.

“No, you wouldn’t,” Gabriel said and looked at the window his Akuma always flew out of, a frown on his face. With everything his agent had found out about Lila, Adrien and now this, he didn’t know how he was able to stay above water. She said she made her Miraculous, and then invited me to me meet her leader, leader not partner……. It could be a trick but more Miraculous users not aligned with Ladybug or myself? Who are they, where did they come from and what do they want? I can’t believe this, with everything else that’s happening, I can’t understand how everything seems to go wrong now! He thought as he looked at the window, not noticing the looks

“Yes, we should…….Wait Atlantis!? Atlantis was real!?” Nathalie asked as her head turned fast to gaze at Duusu and Nooro as the two floated in the air.

Gabriel looked on with a raised eyebrow, he had always thought that the mage might not have been from the area of China, how they appeared in the hidden history he had found seemed to point towards them from being from the west of Europe. So that they had been on Atlantis wasn’t too out there for him to accept, really didn’t he ever tell Nathalie about it? He had thought he had but then it seemed he was wrong. He looked on as Nathalie kept speaking, he decided that he would see what she was after.

“Oh yes, it was wonderful back then, after the Mage created all of us we spent years keeping it safe until the end, it was wonderful,” Duusu said sorrowfully and Gabriel sighed as the Kwami talked before he did a double-take at the fact that the Mage had come from Atlantis.

“Yes it was, Atlantis always seemed to prepare for the worst, all but the last terror that ended them, sad that. They even set up catches from what they could rebuild if they ever lost their homeland, catches that had all their knowledge from Magic to Medicine and some things that bridged some subjects,” Nooro said and Gabriel blinked and looked at Nathalie who kept her eyes locked on Nooro.

“Could we find anything about hidden catches of their knowledge, say as a Champion?” Nathalie asked and Nooro frowned and seemed to be struggling with something.

“Answer her Nooro,” Gabriel ordered and Nooro frowned and looked down.

“Yes, a Champion would at least be able to see if it was possible, but you would need to translate whatever you found…….. we don’t know how to read the code……reading things like that was judged to be only for the High Class so they had a special language …… it’s the same as the Guardian Code....... And the rest of the nation used another language but whatever was recorded in the catches had to have been in the first code,” Nooro said reluctantly and with something that might have been shame.

“What are you thinking Nathalie?” Gabriel asked and Nathalie grinned.

“Atlantis created the Kwami…… if we could find anything that might have survived, then maybe it might help her, we might not need the Ladybug and the Black Cat!” Nathalie exclaimed and Gabriel looked at her and then turned to look at Nooro who nodded.

Gabriel looked from one to the others, could it be possible that they didn’t need the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous to save his wife after all? Could there be a way that they hadn’t even thought?

As Gabriel looked into space Nathalie smiled. She wanted Emile back, but with all the ways they had failed, if they could do it by something that was less effort or random as hoping to make a silver bullet, then they should do it.

“Atlantis could make wonders and horrors, if they knew anything that might help Ms. Emile then it might be possible,” Nooro said but frowned. “But how would we find them throughout the world?”

“Let me think about that for now, hopefully, I’ll have an idea after I go over our resources on magic, maybe something will spark an idea,” Nathalie said and Gabriel nodded as he looked at her. “And we should prepare the tunnel out to the river, we shouldn’t any other exit tonight.”

“Of course, and how are pictures for the new line with Adrien being gone for now?” Gabriel asked and Nathalie looked at him with a small smile.

“So far I’ve looked over more portfolios and I’ve identified a few models that might work, and I’ve looked over the hours Adrien’s been pulling…….. it might have been against the law, and that might hurt our case,” Nathalie admitted and Gabriel looked at her before sighing and rubbing his eyes.

“I made him the face of the company so we wouldn’t have scandals that destroyed so many of my rivals, and I guess he just wanted to help that he kept working or he thought it was normal……… wait, why did he become a model in the first place?” Gabriel thought out loud and Nathalie frowned.

“I don’t know, it happened when my sister died and I spent a few months away remember?” Nathalie said and Gabriel, frowning as he tried to remember just why Adrien had become a model.

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As an office building came back to life as the Akuma alert turned off, one lone office worker picked up a large envelop package and frowned as he saw the name on it. As he opened it he took out a packet and started to read the front page before he frowned, looked down at it and then read it closer, frowning before he got up and left his desk. Walking through the building he eventually came to an office and knocked on it, waiting for a few moments before he walked into an office with rewards on the wall and a photo of a graduating class in the center. Behind the desk by the windows sat a woman who looked to be in her 30s wearing a blue power suit with short red hair in a bun, glasses on her nose before her blue eyes.

She looked up and saw the man, the light revealing him to be in his forties wearing a white shirt, black jacket, pants and a bald head. “George, what is it?”

“Sorry boss, but you’ve got to read this, our least favorite college messed up again Rebecca,” George said and Rebecca took the papers, looking down and reading before she shot to her feet and started to growl.

“WHAT THE HELL!?” Rebecca said and George nodded, a scowl on his face.

“I know, when I read it I had to look over it again before I was sure it was real……..

“Who the heck is in charge over there?!” Rebecca demanded and George look upwards as he tried to recall the name he had seen on the paperwork one time nodded after a while.

“Damocles I think, I can’t remember his first name but I’m sure of the last,”

Rebecca sat back down and started to look over the records for Marinette and frowned before she looked up at George. “None of the so-called bully’s files looks like someone who would do this. All in all, it seems like she’s one of the good ones, class president, good grades………. Wait this was a practice test?! And the teacher couldn’t grade the rest of them?” Rebecca asked and George shrugged.

Rebecca looked over the schedule the teacher had sent them and frowned as she opened another file and saw all the tests were graded on the day of the test and frowned as she looked at George. “I don’t see anything that shows she had a problem grading the tests…….. and if she lost them shouldn’t she have not down them or changed the test?”

“I don’t know, but since school starts up again tomorrow we can send people in to talk to everyone, and I could go and talk to miss Marinette to get her side of the story,” George said and Rebecca nodded as she looked at the paperwork before paling as soon as she saw who had sent it in, causing George to look at her in concerned. “What is it?”

“Did you see who’s sent this in?” Rebecca asked faintly handing it over to George who looked it over before wincing as soon as he saw who was responsible. For a moment George only looked at the name before he remembered where he had seen that name before, and then he remembered the connection the school and then he swallowed and looked up at her as he paled.

“We’re going to be dragged over the coals, aren’t we?” George said faintly as Rebecca nodded, already wondering just what he would want from them when he won whatever lawsuit that the Dupain-Cheng family would bring against the city or education department.

Rebecca only held her head and kept quiet; she knew that this was going to be bad for them. If half of the things that she thought might have happened to the family’s daughter at the school, then they could sue for a lot of money. As she looked up the records for Damocles she frowned as she saw who had signed off on his appointment shooting to her feet in shock. “He sent him there!?”

“He, no not him?!” George demanded as he looked at the records and Rebecca nodded causing him to start to curse as he held his head. “Oh hell, this means that she has that much of a better case! I mean remember how he was with what happened to his goddaughter? I thought we fired him!?”

“We did, but he might not have sent the message………. I need to schedule a visit to the prison after all,” Rebecca muttered as she looked at George and scowled, causing him to snap to attention.

“Your orders ma’am?” George asked and Rebecca sighed and shook her head.

“George I want you to get a team together to go and talk to everyone at the school on Monday, and after that I want you to go and talk to the victim, I want this done soon, collect all the reports on the incident, I’ll schedule a hearing for two days after your talk, get the email of the parents so we can send official notice, oh and collect the recording tapes from the school for as long as they keep them, and record anything that you can about that school!” Rebecca ordered and George walked off.

Rebecca rubbed her eyes as she turned to look out her windows, a strange and cold feeling going through her. She had gotten this job after her predecessor got into that coma about two years ago, and then his first replacement turned out to have been part of a slavery ring that was trying to use the school to find profitable merchandise. Thankfully he was found out during a raid by the police and he now was spending the rest of his life in a prison in Spain. As she looked out over the city, she didn’t know it at that time but she would slowly start to unravel a conspiracy that had been in place for a long time.

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As they dropped down into the sewer Roi Singe saw Rena Rouge waiting for them as they landed, a smile on her face. “You’re all okay!”

“Shouldn’t you go and recharge Rena, unless you don’t mind letting me know who you are?” Roi Singe said and Rena nodded at them all.

“Yeah, I will but not here, we’re ready for pickup driver,” Rena said into her flute before a portal opened and Roi Singe saw Pegasus on the other end with Master Fu standing there waiting for them.

“Me and Chat Noir needed to get back to where we were before, we’ll video call you as soon as we get back,” Ladybug said as she ran off, Chat Noir following behind her.

“So they know who each other are now?” Roi Singe asked and Apisera nodded.

“Yeah…… let’s just say someone thought they knew and brought down the masks and then these two followed us,” Rena Rouge said as she put her arms around Apisera and Canixia’s shoulders.

“So you don’t mind if I know who you all are?” Roi Singe asked and the others smirked at him.

“If you don’t,” Canixia said with a soft smile and Roi Singe nodded, smiling as they walked through the portal. When it disappeared Roi Singe looked around and grinned.

“Nope!” Roi Singe said as he detransformed into Kim, grinning at the looks on the faces of the other as Xuppu floated next to him laughing. Apisera even facepalmed and Canixia’s mouth dropped open in shock as Rena Rouge’s eyes widened.

“What?! Kim!? And she didn’t choose him!?” Apisera demanded and Master Fu laughed softly and smiled with a twinkle in his eye.

“It was a spur of the moment, but it worked out quite well,” Master Fu said with a grin as Kim looked around, surprised and a strange feeling going through him as he looked up at Xuppu.

“What’s that mean?” Kim asked and the others all laughed.

“You’ll get it in a moment lover boy,” Apisera said as the girls all detransformed. Kim’s mouth dropped open as he looked at the grinning faces of Chloe, Sabrina, and Alya as Max detransformed and Markov flew in from the door with the other Kwami.

Kim was dead still, not even moving with his eyes wide and his mouth had dropped open in total shock,

“Surprise!” Sabrina said as she and Chloe started to laugh at the face Kim made, even Max started to chuckle.

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Salacia dashed over the rooftops, a strange feeling going through her as her Miraculous beeped again, as she landed the final beep sounded and Ondine was on the rooftop, Bottla floating next to her with a grin on her small face.

“I knew you would do great! I just knew it! And that was the other Miraculous users, right? That redhead seemed to be familiar, I would have loved to have seen his power!” Bottla said and smiled at Ondine as she stood there and recovered from her first outing as a hero.

“Thanks, Bottla, I’ve got something for you to eat here,” Ondine said as she reached into her purse and pulled out some lettuce that Bottla shot at and started to eat. “And I think he’s Roi Singe and his power was……. Roar something or other.”

“Uproar!? Then it’s Xuppo, my monkey!” Bottla said with a laugh as she finished and somersaulted. “I can’t believe it, he’s here! Oh now, all we have to do is track down the others and then!”

“So you know this monkey?” Ondine asked with a smirk and Bottla laughed.

“Yeah, my monkey. I’ve loved him for most of my existence, and our holders have fought together and saved many lives!” Bottla said and looked at Ondine and grinned.

“That sounds romantic, but what should we do? If I understand won’t your old holder wake up since we broke the egg?” Ondine asked and Bottla looked at Ondine and sighed.

“Yes, but my old holder hadn’t used me to transform in years, we’ve lived in hiding for years, decades even trying to figure out any way to defeat them, we lost most of our team, those who weren’t killed by the Seven and a few of most of them lost their Miraculous to them, and some were just lost by unknown causes, we never heard from them again over the years,” Bottla said and Ondine looked at the Kwami, then her eyes winded as she realized what she had done and

“The Sins are that dangerous!? And they know what I can do to stop their plans, don’t they?” Ondine said and Bottla nodded. Ondine looked at the Kwami, she knew it would be dangerous when she did this, and she knew that villains didn’t let this go but to hear that others had been tracked down and killed for less, but then she had her reasons to fight. This was her home too, and if they were going to do whatever and hurt her friends and people, she would fight. “Okay, so how about we go and talk to your old holder at the hospital, her name was Melisa right?”

“Yeah, Melisa Giascorn. She’s great, and we found a few things over the years we’ve been together that helped put a few ideas together on what the Seven are after,” Bottla said and Ondine looked at her friend and nodded.

“Then let's head over to the hospital and talk to her, I mean she has to know something right?” Ondine asked and Bottla nodded.

“You know the words girl!” Bottla said and Ondine grinned.

“Bottla, Dance in the water!” Ondine called out and Bottla was swept into Miraculous and with a flash of light, Salacia was standing where Ondine had been before. With a new sense of purpose and a will to see this through she moved towards the hospital, hoping that Melisa was okay and could talk to her.

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Ladybug and Chat Noir landed on the rooftop of the Dunpain-Chang bakery and they quickly made it into the room, retransforming. Looking around they sighed as they realized that Marinette’s parents hadn’t come up to check on them, with a smile they moved down into the apartment and heard sounds from below in the store, causing both of them to smirk.

“We’re lucky m’lady, at least we’re still safe for now,” Adrien said softly making sure his voice didn’t echo.

“Yeah, come on let's…….” Marinette began before the phone in the hallway rang. Marinette frowned and walked over, looking up at Adrien with a confused look. “It’s that lawyer of yours,”

“Uncle Louise?” Adrien asked and frowned when Marinette nodded. “Strange, what’s he want? Go on ahead, I meet you back up there in a few moments.”

Marinette nodded and handed over the phone, both of their Kwamis grinned at each other, Tikki kissing Plagg’s cheek before following after Marinette. Plagg grinned and then he went still and looked towards the door and frowned.

“Hey Louise, what is it?” Adrien asked as Plagg shot back into his pocket as the door opened and Tom Dunpain came into the room.

“Hey kid, got some good news,” Louise said and Adrien could hear a grin in his voice, and he

“What, did you find out what my father’s deal with Lila was?” Adrien asked and Tom frowned and looked at Adrien with a hard glare and he shrugged.

“No, but I was able to talk to a judge and he’s granted you a no-contact order with Gabriel and Nathalie, I talked with your bodyguard and he’s sworn before the same judge not to help either of them to find you, so you can go to the hearing for that girl of yours!” Louise said, Adrien couldn’t help but grin.

“Great! But when will you send it to him?” Adrien asked and Louise laughed.

“Come Monday he’ll have a wonderful present, and then the real fun starts! And I’ll bring the big guy a legal document that says until your hearing he won’t try and bring you to your old man until after said hearing is done. He’ll be able to report that you’re okay and everything but he won’t bring you back, this is the best and I’ve almost got the paperwork for the primary hearing, sometime around next weekend I think, and I’ve heard a few rumbles I need to track down so I’ll get back to you about this, stay alive kid!” Louise said before he hung up and Adrien looked at Tom.

“So I’ll probably be leaving in a week or so, sorry again about this,” Adrien said and Tom chuckled.

“No problem what’s so ever my boy, we don’t mind when any of Mari’s friends stay over, especially when they need help!” Tom said and Adrien looked at Tom who sighed and shook his head.

“A long and private story, but let us just say that we’ve put up borders before this whole Hawkmoth thing started up. It’s personal to a few people so let’s leave it at that,” Tom said and Adrien nodded and sighed. Tom looked at him and hid a smile, Adrien was a good kid, and he hoped that Gabriel was only reacting to the loss of his wife by trying to be overprotective but something was bothering him about it.

“Dinner will be around 7 tonight Adrien, today’s one of our long days make sure to remind Marinette about that okay?” Tom asked and Adrien nodded and walked off, Tom smiling as he left.

Turning around he let the worry show on his face for a few moments, silently sending up thanks to whatever was watching over his the kids while they were fighting. As he walked into the kitchen he looked around at his few workers and smiled, happy that everything was going well. As he saw a few cookie sheets put into the oven, he smiled as he remembered Marinette helping them when they started to get more popular, how he had been so proud of how she helped whenever she could for those first few months before they could hire their first employee, how it got under control when Marinette entered Francis Duport last year.

As Sabine looked at him she coughed, catching his attention and he nodded at her and she sighed, happy that the two of her the kids were okay. She hated that she and Tome figured out their daughter was Ladybug, it should have been something that she told them when she was ready! But she still wanted to give whoever got her daughter involved with it a good wrack with her staff!

She frowned, letting some of her emotions show in her eyes for a split second, how people were always more free after a battle was something she was happy about but since she learned who Ladybug was, she was so worried. And with everything that was happening she didn’t know when they would have to tell them she knew. As her frown deepened, she really hoped that they knew at least who had given them the Miraculous they used, if only so she could punch them.

As the door rang as it was opened, she smiled and turned back to the register, ready to greet a new customer and hope that today would follow the pattern Hawkmoth had been following.

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Robert walked into a room and saw the cameraman that he had been sent out with working at a station with headphones on going through something. After the police had questioned them, Nadja had come to check on them with Bob following behind her. Both of them had been there by coincidence, and Bob was there because all the ones who could handle flight were unavailable. Of course, they were, I know that little fool is trying to get me fired, he’s scared of my work. I know that fool is jealous of how she’s been looking at me! I think I’ll talk to Alec about giving him anything I get from now on, maybe if I work with him I can get ahead of that brat! I knew today would be bad, I should have called in sick! He thought as he looked up as the cameraman gave out a cry of triumph!

“What did you call me here for? I mean with everything that happened we lost everything

“Nope, I took out the tape before they got to us,” The Cameraman said and Robert blinked, shocked beyond words.

“Then you still have the footage we took before the Akuma?” Robert asked and a small laugh caused his heart to beat harder, could he dare hope?

“How about that and footage of our transformation? And while we were villains?” The cameraman asked as he stepped away and showed a screen

Robert looked at the screen with a wide grin as he sat on a chair in a room at the TV station, looking over the recording. They even had footage of when they were Akumas, the new villain and hero both, all in all, this was perfect. I knew I felt good today! This is wonderful, a new villain and we’ve got ground zero footage, let’s see Bob top this! With this, I’ve got the golden ticket, I’ll be the newest He thought as he looked at the scene and grinned as he watched Chat Noir fight one of the new monsters. “This……… is……gold!”

“Who knew Hawky would let me keep recording after I was turned?” The Cameraman said and Robert looked at him, a strange feeling going through him as he glanced back at the camera and then looked down.

“Yeah, real nice,” Robert said absently as he thought about that. In the past some Akuma’s had turned items they owned into parts of their abilities, could Hawkmoth not know he could do that? Or maybe he did but didn’t care? Either way, he didn’t want to bring that up, if Hawkmoth didn’t know then he might not

“Come on, we’ve got what nobody else has, firsthand account of an akumatization and ground zero footage of a new villain and a new hero! This will make us!

“Yeah boss, and the name is Fish by the way, Zack Fish!” Zack said as Robert laughed and shook his head as Zack continued. “And I’ve got a few ideas to use a few drones like Prime Queen had, I think we’ll be able to get some great footage in the future!”

“Yeah, we can. I did a little drone racing in college so I could……..wait what?!” Zack exclaimed and Robert turned to look back at him as Fish looked at the screen, his back straight.

“What is it?” Robt asked and Zack waved him down.

“Give me a second, let me find that……wow. Yo need to hear this,” Zack said as he directed what he heard to the external speakers. Robert listened in growing awe at what Fish had recorded.

“Oh little fools, I made this with my group so many years ago, well before WW1,” Nekhbet voice came from the speakers and Robert went still as he slowly looked at Fish whose mouth had dropped open in shock.

“Before WW1, did you hear that, before WW1! The things she must have seen, what she must have done to live that long! This is amazing, I mean you know how the old supers are! And this one is in Paris, what a scoop!” Robert exclaimed and laughed as Fish grinned back before he frowned.

“Yeah, isn’t there that supervillain down in Italy that wants to live forever? And wasn’t she unsealed around the time of WW2?” Zack asked and Robert nodded, a stage look coming over his face and he swallowed, remembering the carnage he had seen once when an anti-hero villain whose issue seemed to be mortality had fought that same super. Three whole blocks wrecked and then he felt faint as he stumbled backwards and leaned against the wall, a haunted look on his face.

“Boss? HEY, HEY! You okay?” Fish asked and Robert shook his head.

“I just had a terrible thought that our work could cause a supervillain to be Akumatized,” Robert said flatly and Fish looked at him and winced.

“Yeah, that would be bad, really bad. So what’s the plan boss?” Fish asked and Robert looked at him for a few minutes before he nodded.

“Right, you keep that tape somewhere safe and copy over anything until she beat me, don’t let anyone ever see the raw source. If one of them comes to Paris, it won’t be because of us,” Robert said sternly and Fish nodded, both of them never noticing two small eyes watching from the grating of one of the air vents.

#Miraculous Ladybug AU/ The Law is The Law #lila bashing #ladybug fanfiction #ladybug fic #miraculous tales of ladybug and cat noir #adrien x marinette

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