#the last attack of shadowmoth

[nervousbelieverstarfish]

[iwasbored777]

I just figured it out that by the looks of it "The Last Attack of Shadow Moth" has similar meaning to "The Last Ceremony" in The Handmaid's Tale. Both titles mean that the worst things happening to the main characters will happen for the last time but both were the worst ones of all and both episodes were one of the most disturbing episodes for the main characters. But after "The Last Ceremony" it was downhill for the villains ever since.

So what I'm trying to say is that while the thing Shadow Moth did to Ladybug is the worst thing he did to her so far, this was the furthest he'll ever get. Just like Fred and Serena (the main THT villains), he will slowly start falling down the stars he's climbing until he ends up at the bottom. And Gabriel and Fred and Serena all thought they won in that episode. It's even more satisfying to watch the villain fail after getting so far than watch him fail before he nearly reached the top. I wish that happened without the main character suffering so much...

[princess-of-the-corner]

ML Plot Points: Bengala

I said I might elaborate in another submission and immediately after that I thought of an entire plot, character arc, theme and conflict. Fuck it. 

The Tiger villain is a Spanish woman going by Bengala. Referencing both her animal (bengal tiger = tigre de bengala) and the flashy, bright nature of her powers (sparklers and flares are called “bengalas” in Spanish). She showed up two weeks after the S3 finale by robbing a bank. She knows how to power down her Clouts at will so she uses only the absolutely necessary amount of force and how to use the clout from any part of her body to propel herself. Judging by how she fights, she’s also an adult martial artist, both being able to use her powers more than once and knowing how to use them for maximum effect.

Personality-wise, Bengala is not just a lightning bruiser, she’s also smart. Whenever Ladybug uses Lucky Charm, Bengala figures out the plan she’s going to try and takes steps to ensure she cannot be taken down with it. The second she sees Viperion she makes sure to target him in unpredictable ways because with him she’s in trouble (she thinks the snake’s power is to see the future, but the point remains). She’s good at using psychological warfare to trip up the heroes to make them distracted and get in each other’s way to win a fight. 

Légalsatian and Pierre Pietrain both try to capture her and fail. The heroes try to capture her and fail. Shadowmoth throws akumas and sentimonsters at her and they fail. She seems unstoppable.

During her next episode, we learn more about her. She’s a second generation Spanish immigrant called Irene whose parents went to France for work. She has a job at the gym where Nora goes to as a personal trainer, but it doesn’t pay a whole lot. After their house burned down in an electrical fire last year, they’ve been having financial trouble because their insurance company screws them over. Then, because it wasn’t enough, her father got fired and scammed by some random prick who promised him to help sue his former workplace. Bengala and her parents are living in a crappy, tiny apartment with very few possessions. Her criminal activities are supposed to help with that.

Initially, her robberies are very quick and without spectacle. Go in, threaten the bank tellers, get a small but significant amount money, escape. The superpowers mean she doesn’t need to think very hard about it, only needing to make sure people cannot trace the money back to the banks, but she’s still careful and does as little damage as she can get away with. At least at first.

As time passes, as she defeats heroes and villains alike, she starts to get cocky and she starts to show off a lot more. It’s no longer about getting the money, but about proving she can do whatever she wants, whenever she wants. She starts attacking the heroes so she can get their miraculi, attacking the akumas to prove that she can, absolutely wipes the floor with the fighters the Order throw at her (I cannot bring myself to see the Order as competent or smart). It’s no longer about having enough, it’s about having more and beating the people who stand against her, both because of arrogance and because of the stress of having everyone. against her. In her civilian life, her parents notice the change and try to help her. At some point, she is handed an easy way out. A way to fix her financial problems and help her parents at very little cost, but she refuses because the solution isn’t one that she figured out. It isn’t enough. Her parents find out and are rightfully pissed.

In the mid-to-late season two parter, after she beats an akuma-sentimonster duo, the heroes decide to just throw every temporary holder at her, not at once, but spaced out. Every time she gets close to winning, another set of two to three heroes come in to fight her.  Beating them doesn’t work, distracting them doesn’t work, causing collateral damage on purpose to get them off her back doesn’t work. Eventually, she gets tired from fighting for so long and the transformation finally gives out. She is promptly arrested and even her parents think it’s the best outcome.

I originally picked the tiger miraculous for this because I wanted a miraculous that would be difficult to take from someone (a bracelet and four rings attached to each otters by chains are not easy to take from someone in the middle of a fight), but the more I thought about it the better it got.

Irene works as a foil to both Marinette and Gabriel.

To Marinette: 

Aesthetically, she contrasts in colour (red and black versus purple, gold and black), motifs (spots versus stripes) and size (small and lean vs big and bulky). Thematically, Marinette’s arc this season is about being a leader; knowing how and when to rely on people and knowing how to use their talents. Irene always works alone, breaks down her opponents to know how to beat them and is gradually pushing the few people who care about her aside.

To Gabriel:

Aesthetically, they are both large, imposing people who wear purple. Power-wise, Shadowmoth works from a distance relying on other people to do the dirty work whereas Bengala is a close range fighter who refuses to take help form other people. Backstory-wise, they are both trying to help their loved ones form a terrible situation and are willing to do whatever they have to. Bengala, however is more like canon S5 Gabriel in that her motives are not even remotely close to justyfing her actions. She’s a spiteful control freak who threw away a way to get what she wanted because she wanted to solve the problem herself. In the end, even the people she claimed to be doing this for think it’s better that she got taken down. Gabriel realises their similarities after the Sentibubbler incident (halfway through the season) and, seing where that path leads, refuses to sink that low again.

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I LOVE HER.

[gale-gentlepenguin]

(I promise this is the last one i send, imma let other people have fun too) Shadowmoth's Final Attack

Marinette and Adrien discover the meaning of Irony

And

Felix screws over everyone

[10-dutchies-12-bicycles]

the fuck you MEAN Lila’s hair is a wig?!

- a person who refuses to go back to watching mlb but is still curious about the wackassery of it all

OK SO BASiCALLY

LILA IS ACTUALLY SOME KIND OF SECRET IDENTITY OF THIS GIRL CALLED CERISE WHO ACTUALLY HAS SHORT HAIR. SHE HAS LIKE A PIXIE CUT

She just puts on a wig and contact lenses for the lila persona or some shit. also she has a ton of wigs and colored contacts like shes in some kinda spy thriller shes insane shes constantly like undercover as like 5 different ppl idk

also she has two moms??? or like. lila rossi's mom and the Second (Secret) Mom??? (who uses sign language!! neat! :3) and i dont think lila rossis mom knows about her REAL(????) mom (sign language mom) but sign language mom knows abt lila rossi mom which makes me slightly concerned that lila/cerise stole the identity of the REAL lila rossi like a decade ago and has been living as a lila rossi stand-in for the past 10 years after she buried the body idfk lol (joke theory. not an actual theory. but lets just say that the fact that this "lila killed someone and stole their identity" theory is semi-believable is already enough to show how bonkers season 5 was)

but yea she just disguises herself like Constantly and turns out lila rossi was just one of her evil spy personas. she also has an evil spy basement lair with like hacking equipment or sth. and she used Remote Spy Manipulation (an earpiece and strategic wording lmfao) to manipulate chloe into becoming the mayor of paris for like a week. chloe then proceeded to sicc robot cops on everyone's asses

also also after gabriel kicked the bucket and went to heaven together with emelie or whatever the fuck nooroo's miraculous was lost (it fell into the water at the bottom of gabriel's evil basement) but its revealed at the end of the finale that surprise surprise! cerise/lila/weirdospygirl has the brooch and will presumably be the big bad for the foreseeable future. IF she survives being possessed or some shit. idk she got attacked by a white light or sth and she was like "GASP D:" and then the season ended ¯\_(:/)_/¯ 

other fun things that happened this season:

adrinette ACTUALLY CANON (NO YEA FOR REAL) ok ok so basically. at the start of s5 marinette gets a crush on chat noir and adrien crushes on marinette instead of ladybug. eventually marinette allows herself to love adrien again and adrinette slowly get together like halfway thru s5 or sth. everyone ships it. and no. they do NOT know each others secret identities :')

luka knows the identities of both chat noir and ladybug as established in... season 4...? iirc? unfortunately halfway thru s5 gabriel figured out that luka knows so luka fled the country and went on a fun father-son-crocodile bonding trip (so like. with jagged stone, penny, and fang) to become tibetan monks. under the guidance of master fu's superior who we got introduced to last season (one of the monks who were like magically frozen in stone for 150 years or whatever)

tikki and plag biblically accurate angels confirmed. they can combine into ANOTHER biblically accurate angel called gimmi. gimmi granted gabriel his wish and now the world ended, gabriel is dead, etc etc adrinette lives happily ever after or sth

oh yea also felix kagami and adrien are sentimonsters. if you remember last year on twitter when thomas astruc swore up and down that senti!adrien theory was bullshit? yea so. he lied. he played a longcon. felix and kagami are in a relationship and both know that theyre sentis but adrien is like,,,, VERY HEAVILY FUCKING IMPLIED to also be a sentimonster except he doesnt know that yet. rip adrien. i think marinette knows abt kagami and felix being sentimonsters!??!?!?!??!? it was a VERY confusing scene like felix and kagami explained it to marinette thru interpretative dance T_T

OH YEA ALSO ladybug (fused w the cat miraculous. i forgot what name she gave herself) WAIT NO. BUGNOIR OR SOMETHING. ok so bugnoir fought hawk SHIT NO shadowmoth one-on-one and discovered he was gabriel and also saw his evil lair and emilie in the fridge coffin yanno. but yea adrien doesnt know. gabriel died and paris assumes he was the hero who defeated haw-SHADOWMOTH and adrien thinks so too. marinette is i think? the only one who knows gabriel was the big bad. aside from lila/cerise bc she knows everything with her stupid evil spy skills 🙄 oh yea lila also got a hold of all of gabriels secret files, including his photocopies of the grimoire

ON THAT NOTE gabriel was suuuppeerrr manipulatively nice to adrien this season and nathalie came SOOOOO SO SO SOOO CLOSE to throttling him on like at LEAST 5 occasions bc she cares for adrien more than she does for gabriel and she was SO gaslight gatekeep girlboss this season it was great like shes a few hours away from dying herself and she STILL tried to shoot gabriel with a crossbow lmao

[yolowritter]

A Case of Ladybug Luck Chapter 5

[...]

Gabriel paused again. His mind examined yesterday’s events. It strayed from the look of Verity Queen glaring daggers into his soul, away from the thunderstorm that echoed above, and moved back to his lair. To before. To when his hands were still clean. Only thanks to Ladybug, only because you haven’t won yet. His inner voice was silenced by the memory of searing pain setting his nervous system on fire, of absolute heartbreak comparable to that blasted moment when he realized that Emilie wasn’t waking up on her own, that single second where his entire life had been upturned, and the moment he realized things were never going to be the same again.

That moment had haunted him ever since. To say that Princess Justice was also haunted, by words that tore through her very core and broke her life to pieces, that placed a finality on what had been years of companionship and memory…the apathetic, indifferent part of him, the Hawkmoth who considered emotions carefully, he thought it was comparable. And Gabriel had been responsible for it. He understood, now. Perhaps not everything, but he had most of the picture. Blinded to the danger that Rossi presented, he mistakenly allowed her into his house, close to Adrien.

Gabriel wasn’t blind. He’d felt Princess Justice’s admiration for Adrien. He- he was doing it again. Marinette Dupain Cheng. Marinette. Dupain. Cheng. That was her name. The name of the girl he’d ki- the name of the girl who was dead. Being close to his son from school, she saw what his other classmates, what Gabriel himself, in his rush to claim another advantage, to crush this rebellious streak he had seen building in his son, had dismissed. Miss Marinette had seen it in all its hideous, rancid glory. She saw Lila Rossi taking advantage of her friend.

Hawkmoth had hoped to feel her anger the day that miss Kagami had been Akumatized the second time. He had felt it, but it wasn’t a strong, blazing bout of jealousy. It was part worry and part horror, because she’d been afraid for Adrien’s safety. He hadn’t understood it then, too concerned with finding a powerful Akuma for the day, but looking back, in hindsight, it was clear. It was clear how much she cared for his son. And Adrien had been so upset last night…

Whatever exactly caused miss Dupain Cheng’s suffering, had also terribly hurt his son, almost by default. Gabriel thought back to the protectiveness he’d felt. It must have been extended towards Marinette. That…made a terrifying amount of sense to him. And he’d barely held off on Akumatizing Adrien for it. Why had he even considered it? Because…because it would get him the Miraculous. Somehow. How?

Gabriel hang his head low. He saw Nooroo in the edge of his vision, hovering nearby. Gabriel sighed. He could usually tell when someone was lying if he had his Miraculous on. There was a delicate mix of emotion that caused a lie to be successful, and he’d quickly figured out how to detect it shortly after first meeting Nooroo, so many years ago.

He did not need a magic jewel to see the Kwami was telling the truth. Gabriel himself had ordered Lila get close to Adrien, allowed her to harass his son and attack his best friend. If he had put a stop to it…but no, the opportunity had been too tempting to let go of. Shadowmoth had ignored the greatest pain he’d ever felt in his life, had fought through it tooth and nail, for the sake of capitalizing on miss Dupain Cheng’s suffering and destroying Ladybug and Chat Noir.

When had it gotten like this? When did it go from targeting a teenager who’d been rejected by his crush to deliberately tormenting a girl for months out of some obsessive need to capitalize and turn her into a destructive monster? When had it gone from just making a flashy mess to force the guardian out of hiding, to attacking Paris every week, to creating Akuma with the express purpose of stealing the Miraculous, to simply deciding that the teenagers fighting him had crossed some imaginary line symbolizing his patience, and that they had to die?

How long had it been since he’d first gone too far?

[...]

[piromina]

WIP Reblog Game

I saw this going around and thought it might be fun soo...

List the titles of your top five priorities for WIP updates (link your fics for new readers!)

An upcoming scene, event, or detail in each fic that you're looking forward to writing

Bonus: make a poll for your followers to vote on which top 5 WIP they are most excited to see an update on!

Then tag 10 writer friends!

WIP TITLES (only one of these is actually up tbh...)

a breach in the brooch – So this one is an AU idea I have had in my head for...longer than I care to admit, but basically, Adrien has been in on his father's plan to become Hawkmoth since he first came up with it. Now, on the day of the Stoneheart attack, Adrien is questioning why he went along with his father's plans so easily. I mean, becoming a supervillain isn't exactly a healthy way of grieving. And so, when he finds the cat miraculous in his room, he decides to become a superhero despite living under the same roof as his enemy.

to defy a reality – AU where when the sentikids were created, because of the broken miraculous, it accidentally gave them all magical powers, dubbing the three of them "superhumans." Unfortunately, the Order of the Guardians (which Marinette and Nino are part of) is dead set on finding and killing any known superhumans. VERY Feligami, Adrienette, and DJWifi centric.

penumbra – Sometimes I think about how Master Fu was a holder of the peacock miraculous once. Sometimes I think about how Félix has the peacock miraculous. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if the two of them ever met.

identity theft – Everyone thinks Hawkmoth and Shadowmoth are two different people. Chat Noir thinks Shadowmoth killed Hawkmoth and took his miraculous. Ladybug thinks Hawkmoth actually gambles and lost a bet to Shadowmoth, and ended up handing over the miraculous.

nonexistent happiness (the name will probably change) – Gimmi is the kwami of reality, right? But everyone knows reality is just a web of lies. So when Gimmi creates a new universe, and rewrites reality, they're really making a universe that doesn't really exist. And a nonexistent universe will have to fall apart eventually...

UPCOMING

I've written most of the fic except the last two chapters, where things get very...interesting, you'll see. Not to spoil too much, but there's a really big fight scene I look forward to getting to.

There is something VERY big happening in chapter sixteen, but I really don't want to spoil it. Yes you heard me right this fic will have more than sixteen chapters. I think the very most information I can give you about it is that it's...quite a revealing conversation Master Fu has.

I'm looking forward to Master Fu's perspective on this one, I've never written that before so that should be exciting.

Félix comes in at one point. Need I say more.

The part where the universe just kinda....dies..........I mean YES thats the premise of the whole fic and should happen pretty early on but for some reason im not there yet. ANYWAYS

And for the tags....I think everyone I know has been tagged already so. if you want to do this you can just say I tagged you or something I dont know

[black-rose-writings]

MLB - Season 4 - Episodes 25 and 26

Risk (ShadowMoth's Final Attack 1)

He's so mad. And such a disaster. And that two-Miraculous-at-once-constantly brain damage is starting to show. He's so losing it. Nathalie is concerned.

Okay, wow that is actually really cool, we get to see how his powers work inside of his brain for once.

Well, that is going to backfire on Gabe very, very quickly.

Oof.

Yeah, but the invisible force in her case is dumb ADHD brain and not being a literal atificial construct forced to obey his father's every word.

Just let her fucking confess this time, since she finally has the balls to do it.

Gabe is not going to fall for this one, I'm afraid.

This is... interesting.

Oh for fuck's sake, when Adrien finally tried to do anything, his dad is not there because he's too busy being a supervillain.

Tikki is like "you gotta be kidding me".

Strikeback (ShadowMoth's Last Attack 2)

She's being very normal about this.

Sadrien strikes again.

Why is Félix acting like that? Does he feel bad for the sentimonsters? Like, does he see that as murder?

Also, don't despair Gabe.

He's very normal about this.

Aww, poor baby.

Even Chloé is disturbed.

[gwennavierre]

Ladrien June: Tongue Tied

Summary: Ladybug stops by to check on Adrien

She hadn't meant for her patrol to lead her there. In fact, she'd been trying to push the blonde model from her mind all day. Yet she found herself on a rooftop near the Agreste mansion, glancing wistfully towards Adrien's window.

If anyone saw her they'd think she was spying on him! Was she? No.. she was just.. concerned about him. Adrien had seemed subdued in class that day. The whole class had, actually, but she noticed it moreso in him. Every time someone brought up fears about Shadowmoth -Monarch now, apparently- and his current possession of most of the miraculous, he seemed to flinch.

Of course, Marinette had also been on edge about it but she had a reason for that. It was her fault, after all. That's what she kept telling herself. Though, maybe Adrien felt guilty about his supposed role in everything?

Pulling herself back to the present, Ladybug made a decision. She was going to check in on Adrien and make sure he knew none if this was his fault.

She swung over to the mansion and lowered herself to his window. Was this weird? He wouldn't be expecting her so late at night... would he be upset?

No, she shook those thoughts out of her head. This was Adrien she was thinking about. Patient, kind, trustworthy...

Ladybug gathered her courage and gently rapped her knuckles against the glass.

Adrien, who had been sitting at his computer desk, spun the chair around and when he saw her awkward wave, he strode over to open the window.

"Ladybug? Is everything okay? Is there an amuma?"

"No, I mean yes everything's gine. Fine! No akuma. Just.. um. I just wanted to check you out. I mean! Check on you. Yeah."

He wondered for a moment if she'd figured out his identity but the look on her face made him forget his own concerns.

She looked so, so tired. He couldn't blame her. After the past couple days, with Monarch being relentless in his attacks, he was exhausted too. But right now she needed him. Or.. at least wanted to check on him? Had he caused her concern? Shaking his head subtly he reached out to help her down.

She put her hand in his and gingerly stepped into his room.

They both stood for a few seconds, hands still joined, before Ladybug seemed to register their position.

"Oh sorry!" she pulled her hand back far too quickly and it smacked into the window behind her. Adrien grimaced at the sound (and also at how fast she seemed to want to stop holding his hand).

"Ow! Ugh. This.. that was.. anyway.."

Ladybug glanced down at his feet for a moment. Adrien felt like she didn't really want to be here, and the thought stung.

She took a deep breath and then looked into his eyes.

Adrien looked back expectantly. She definitely looked like she wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to help her without making things.. awkward. Last time she was in his room she had lost her yoyo to Felix, who then apparently gave the miraculous to Shadowmoth. He didn't blame her for not looking comfortable in his presence.

"Chicken... Checking! On you. How are you?"

Adrien blinked.

"I'm... fine?" He couldn't exactly tell her how torn up he's been that his plan to switch with Felix screwed everything up for her. She already knew and he didn't want her to feel obligated to reassure him.

Ladybug narrowed her eyes slightly. Had she seen through his response that easily?

"What about you?" He quickly asked. Maybe he could help her instead.

The question seemed to catch her off guard.

"M-me? I'm... " she wanted so desperately to say she was fine. That she had everything under control. That he was a civilian and she would protect him from Monarch.

But the look in his eyes was so full of genuine concern. He reminded her so much of Cat Noir that first night.

Maybe he could tell she was hesitating, because he stepped closer to her and gently squeezed her shoulder.

"Come, sit down. We can talk if you want."

He gently led her to the couch and they both sat. He turned towards her and smiled encouragingly.

Ladybug knew this wasn't a good idea. She had come to check on HIM and he was turning that around on her?

But something scratched at the back of her brain. What if... what if this wasn't Adrien? What if it was Felix again? Trying to get information out of her??

Her breathing started picking up and Adrien grew more worried.

"Ladybug? What is it, are you ok?"

"Are.. are you really Adrien?"

It was barely a whisper but he understood her. His face softened.

"Yes, but... I get why you're cautious. Here," he reached into his pocket and pulled something out. "This is a lucky charm my friend Marinette made for me. I always keep it with me and it's probably my second most important item.. Felix wouldn't have this. I know it may not be the best proof, but... oh!" He slapped his hand to his face.

"You gave me the snake miraculous. No one else knew about that except for Luka, before you gave it.. to him. Right?" It was a sore spot but right now getting her to know he's really Adrien was more important. He looked back at her, hoping she'd be calmer now.

Ladybug hadn't taken her eyes off the charm in his hand. She seemed oddly interested in it and her face seemed a bit pinker than normal where the mask wasn't covering it.

"You.. still have that?"

Adrien looked down at the charm. He didn't think she knew about it, but she seemed oddly distracted by it so he took advantage of the shift in her mood and smiled brightly.

"Yeah! My friend Marinette gave it to me to help with a video game tournament. It's really special to me. I made her a matching one for her birthday. Though... it's not as good as this" he self consciously rubbed the back of his neck.

"IT'S GREAT!"

Adrien startled at Ladybug's outburst, unsure of what she meant. She must have noticed the confusion.

"You're charming. I mean your charm. That you gave. Made. For m-Marinette! I'm sure she loves you. IT! The charm..."

Her face was getting redder with each jumbled word and Adrien was feeling more than a little bit of Deja Vu...

Marinette had seemed really down lately, flinching anytime anyone mentioned Monarch. He had thought she was just more worried about her family and friends, being more caring than most people he knew. But... what if....

He knew Ladybug didn't want them to know each others identities. If he said anything now it would only make her worry more.

He eventually turned the topic of conversation to what he'd learned regarding Felix. He hadn't been able to reach his cousin or his aunt, so had no leads on anything there, but assured her he'd keep trying.

....

After a while, he watched her swing away. Most likely towards the Dupain-Cheng bakery. He smiled to himself. He could always ask Plagg about it but he knew the kwami would just deflect with something about cheese.

He had a lot to sort out in his mind before school the next day. Hopefully Monarch wouldn't send anything to fight them tonight.

Adrien tucked himself in, smiling at the lump under the blanket he knew was a sleeping Plagg.

Tomorrow was going to be an interesting day.

[nervousbelieverstarfish]

You, the best superhero there ever was, them, the people of Paris... And me, your loyal partner

[flightfoot]

Multiverse movie prompter. Just thinking about what else it would need. So far I have:

Akumanette main villain: Lost Lover who travels the multiverse to any world where Cat Noir exists.

Multiple versions of the Butterfly holder, Lilamoth, Emilie and ofc Monarch.

Even some alternate versions of the duo, including KittyBella, and WWII Fu and Marianne.

Lost Lover will try to have romantic moments with Cat Noir but he loves his own Marinette which breaks her heart even more. She requests one of the Butterfly holder augment her powers even further.

Lost Lover will defeat KittyBella and ofc betray the Butterfly holders and escape through a portal. Her portals are becoming more erratic due to her emotional state and are causing incursions.

Ladybug Prime will ask Cat Noir to let him borrow her Miraculous, because she's planning on letting Marinette use it. Only a Marinette can reason with Lost Lover.

Cat Noir is like "No I'll give it to her" and ofc he can't because then he would be revealing his identity. So Marinette will unify the Cat and Ladybug to idk become LadyCat, BugNoire?

Lost Lover is in a void between worlds about to make the wish (which she read in Fu's guardian book), she will destroy all of existence and create one world that will be exactly how she wants it to be. No more multiverse, only her and her Cat forever.

Prime will attempt to fight with Lost Lover, but their fight only causes more portals to appear pulling in more versions of Marinette. We see some Lady Noires, Guardian Marinettes, etc.

Prime uses her Lucky Charm which is a cat bell. Instead of fighting she gives Lost Lover a hug, saying that she knows she can't understand what she's feeling but it doesn't mean she won't try to fix it. The other Marinette's surround Lost Lover and join the hug.

Lost Lover starts to cry, and breaks the akumas finding love from alternate versions of herself. The void begins to break apart and Prime is forced to use her Lucky Charm. All the other versions of Marinette disappear and while the portals are being repaired the two remaining are left to talk.

Lost Marinette will ask what she's supposed to do now. Prime says that she'll do what she's always done before the ladybugs wash over them returning to their Earths.

Lost Marinette is returned to her world and ShadowMoth tries to attack her but he is swatted away by Cat Noir's staff. He was restored by Prime's powers and they have an emotional moment. He returns her Miraculous so she transforms and the scene cuts away before we see the fight.

The movie will end in Prime at the usual rooftop at sunset. CN will ask where Marinette is, for LB to say that she's back home. CN will be a bit surprised that someone like Marinette could really go that far over him. LB says that she could imagine doing the same if she lost someone important too. They each think about their respective love interests and do one last Pound It, before the movie ends.

The credits can have like images of alternate Earths and the last one can be Lost LB and CN kissing after defeating ShadowMoth.

Ah that's nice! Glad that Lost!Marinette got reunited with her kitty at the end XD.

[bard-of-worlds]

Chapter 27

Sorry everyone, this month just hit me in the pants ya know?  Anyway I found a mental trick to write faster, so I hope to have stories out faster. Any way, Happy Halloween everyone!   And the story will be on Fanfiction and Archive by 7PM tonight!

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  As the last of the civilians left the courthouse Arashiko jumped down as Viperion started to look over the area, his bow deployed and ready to fire down.  As Chat Noir led the last group out with Carapace and Roi Singe watching their back, the civilians ran away, Alya looked for any way that she could slip away as Nora pulled her along.  

 “Who’s the Victim?!” Arashiko asked as she looked around, trying to find the supervillain.

 “Two of them, Damocles and the teacher!   Look for a dark Knight-Owl and a kissing zombie maker!” Chat Noir called out and Arashiko just looked at him and shook her head in disgust.

 When she heard the whole story about what had happened to Marinette, she had originally planned to let the teachers have a piece of her mind for their actions, but then she heard the school was closed.   And she didn’t want her mother to look too into Marinette at this time.

 A crash from the door showed Night Owl, Lunar Raven and the Midnight Crew charging toward the heroes moments before arrows from Viperion rained down.

 “Be careful, and don’t destroy the Sentimonsters, they multiply a minute after they’re destroyed!” Viperion called down and fired another arrow at Lunar Raven who dodged backward as Lunar Raven threw four feather-shaped knives towards him at half the speed of bullets that he dodged and fell back.  “And the knives explode when they hit people and stun them!”

 As the midnight crew moved towards them Chat Noir looked at the others and nodded.   “Fight them to wound only, if you got a chance try and maim them, stay away from the heads!”

 “Right!” The others called out and attacked.  As Viperion fired down at the Akumas, Dark Owl and Lunar Raven both dodged his attacks and the female Akuma laughed.

 “Not too bad, want me to go around and take him from behind Dark?” She asked and Dark Owl laughed.

 Carapace blocked with his shield a punch from one of the Midnight Crew and moved backward cursing the fact that he only had a shield.   He and Adrien had been talking about how he could set enemies in the ‘game’ for others to knock out, but they had nothing to do that now!

 As Roi Singe dodged a blow from his Midnight Crew opponent he scowled as it took out a staff from its cloak and they clashed weapons.   So far this thing was behaving like a lesser version of him, if Viper-Bro hadn’t told them that they could multiply then they would have been in trouble, these things seemed to be just strong enough to make them work at defeating them, but if they had to deal with three times their number then it would have been really bad.  

 As Chat Noir and Arashiko charged at the two main Akuma, Chat Noir attacked Dark Owl as Arashiko attacked Lunar Raven with a battle cry. Lunar Raven dodged and drew a long feather-shaped dagger that met Arashiko’s blade.   As the sparks flew Arashiko tried to find anything that might be the item with the Akuma-Butterfly in it, but she couldn’t see anything that might be it!

 Dark Owl moved away from Chat Noir and threw a few owl-themed boomerangs at the Cat hero who deflected it with his baton staff.  As Chat Noir glared at Dark Owl as he jumped backward and landed on the wall, throwing more boomerangs at his opponent.

 “Cat’s never hunt owls, owls hunt cats!  I’ll win this time and give your gems to Commissioner Shadowmoth by dusk!” Dark Owl called out as he jumped forwards and landed before Chat Noir, slashing out at him with his gloved hands.  

 As Chat Noir moved backward blocking with his weapon, he tried to keep his anger down as he glared at the filth before him, something about every action this man did to Marinette was bothering him fiercely, there was something that he just couldn’t see. But then he realized just what the Akuma villain had said. Shadowmoth?! That must mean!  I have to tell the others once I’ve got a chance! He thought as he moved backward and looked at Dark Owl.

 “Tonight I’ll dine on an owl and raven with m’lady instead,” Chat Noir called out as he moved backward before energy arrows flew over his head and Dark Owl lunged to the side.   Okay you bird, this time I’ll shred your clothes if have to.  I just hope none of those things went after Mari!  He thought, roaring as he attacked his foe.

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 Marinette looked at her parents as they ran through the streets, their phones had chimed with the Akuma alert as they left the building so some of the others had gotten away.   Part of her was beating herself up, she knew that this would happen eventually!   She had expected to be able to run away once she was free if an Akuma happened at the hearing, not that she would be carried along by her parents.   She looked around, trying to find any pretense she could use, she had to get away and tell the others where the Akuma was!   She felt Tikki in her purse and cursed, she knew that something was going to have to happen to let her go help the others, even transforming in front of her parents; but she couldn’t think of anything that would let get her out of it.

 As they ran down a side street, Marinette looked around and saw a small ally that she could use to get away and transform, thankfully she had an idea to use to get away from her parents.   “Okay, it might be after all of us, so I’ll go another way.   If they can track me, then you’ll be safe.”

 “Marinette,” Tom began only she kept talking, not letting her father get a word in edge-wise.

 “No, we need to do this!” Marinette said forcefully.   As she closed her eyes she kept talking.  “This is what has to happen.  You keep running towards home and I’ll contact you once I get away and find a place to hide.  I won’t tell you where I’m hiding and you don’t tell me where you are until the all clear, this way if it’s a mind controller they won’t know where either of us is hiding.   It’s the best way to keep us all safe.”

 “You need to go, don’t you?” Sabine said and Marinette stopped and looked at her parents who looked at her with caring eyes.

 “Yeah I mean I have to hide away from you two.  I know it sounds bad but it’s the best idea I have for dealing with the Akuma so please don’t argue and …….” Marinette trailed off as she saw Tom just shake his head as Sabine sighed.  As Marinette watched her parents looked at each other and after a few moments, moments that caused Marinette started to slowly feel scared as an impossible idea echoed just out of sight of her understanding.

 “Marinette, we know,” Sabine said as she brought out her wallet and pulled out the corner of a red card with black dots on it out before putting it away.  Sabine and Tom smirked as they saw how Marinette’s eyes widened and her face paled.

 Marinette looked at her parents and tried to figure out how and when they could have learned her secret. As she started to spiral about how Master Fu would have to mind wipe her, how it would go wrong and reduce her to an infant, and how her parents would come under investigation for how it happened to her.  As she thought of even worse things her mother shook her shoulder, snapping her out of it.

 “Spiraling again dear? Go, just come and talk to us with the others after, okay?” Sabine asked softly and Marinette nodded and dashed off. Tom sighed and shook his head.

 “I wonder where she gets that from, something that witch Bustier got in her head?” Tom asked and Sabine scowled.

 “That one is lucky she’s not in range of my staff!  And that the magic heals or I’ll have broken her back!” Sabine growled and Tom nodded.

 Both of them hated everything that Marinette told them and with what Bustier had done to her when Marinette was the Class representative, it made them so mad that Tom thought Sabine would attack Bustier once they saw her.   To say that the parents wanted to ‘talk’ to the woman alone for a while was an understatement.

 Marinette ran into a side alley and stopped at a dead end out of sight of the main road and sank against the wall as Tikki her purse.

 “That was surprising, I thought that we had covered our tracks better,” Tikki said and Marinette was dead quiet as she held her head against her legs.  Tikki flew over and smiled at Marinette and tried to get her to react.  “Come on Marinette, it’s not the end of everything.”  

 “Not the end!?  They know!  Oh, Master Fu will be so disappointed and if Hawkmoth gets them, they’ll know and……..” Marinette went still as she looked at Tikki with a strange look in her eyes.  

 “They know….. could they have known since before or after Weredad?   If it’s before then his reaction makes a lot more sense.  But then we always thought Hawkmoth was able to get knowledge from his slaves……. Could it only work on Champions?  No, we can’t risk it.  Tikki we have to work on trying to make a blocker to give out to people!” Marinette said and Tikki tried to follow everything but she nodded, that goal was something she could get behind.

 A beeping from her phone caused Marinette to gasp as she read what was there.   She sat there before nodding and looking up at Tikki with a hard glare in her eyes.  “We can talk about this later, for now, we need to get to Chloe and Sabrina, they’ve found something that might make the Akuma situation impossible.  We have to deal with some of those insect monsters first!”

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 As Chloe and Sabrina ran through the streets of Paris, Chloe scowled as she saw the alert on her phone.   The two of them and their Kwami had been going to a store near the courthouse when Audrey had come into the hotel and made a commotion that took up a lot of their time before they could escape.   Sabrina had said that after thinking about it, she would change her name to Miss Hound, it just seemed better to her.

 Chloe didn’t have any thoughts about the name change, but she had nodded along.   The name she had chosen first, Chloe understood where it came from but then Sabrina had a second thought and talked with Barrk and Chloe about it.  Chloe felt that Sabrina had chosen a much better replacement.

 As they dashed through the streets Chloe smiled as she saw people still going about their lives.  So far the alert was only at stage I; that meant that the Akuma was being contained in one block of where the attack happened, if it became stage II then people were encouraged to shelter in place until the attack was over.

 They had to get a location where they could transform before they were found.  As they ran a beeping caused Chloe to pull out her phone and smirk. “Paparazzi girl is still with her sister and inventor boy is inbound, from the south.   No word from our rep yet.”

 Sabrina nodded, hoping that meant that Marinette hadn’t been captured by the Akuma.    She didn’t know who they expected to fight, either Dark Owl or Zombizou and she didn’t know who she wanted to fight less.   With how Hawkmoth had been lately, fighting against either of them with greater power was just looking for trouble as far as she was concerned.   But she hoped her ramblings last night were wrong, but then they might not be that lucky.

 As turned and ran down an alley they heard a crash above them and looked up, seeing some of the Legions jumping the gap between the buildings.  Sabrina almost gasped before Chloe slammed a hand over her mouth.  She looked at her friend and saw a similar hand over her mouth and nodding they ran farther away from the monsters, hoping that none of the beasts had seen them.

 Sabrina felt Barkk push his head against her own and smiled as she brought a hand to her hidden collar and smiled as she followed after Chloe.   A few moments later they were out of hearing

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 Alya ran after Nora, cursing that her sister had a death grip on her hand.   She felt Trixx purring in her breast pocket and wondered how she would be able to get away to help the others.   As she looked down she tried to figure out how to get away, hoping to find anything that might work and then she grinned as a thought bloomed in her head, she knew just how to get away from her sister and more importantly, have Nora let her go out of her sight.

 “Nora just wait a minute okay! Slow Down and talk for a few seconds before……” Alya began but Nora kept pulling Alya behind her and spoke over her sister, not letting go as Alya fought to free her hand.

 “Not now baby-sis! Stay with me until we can get home!” Nora said as she pulled Alya a bit faster, looking around for anything that might harm them.

 “Nora that’s why you gotta let me go!”  Alya said as she finally pulled her arm out of Nora’s grip.  Nora turned and glared at her sister and crossed her arms.

 “No way little sis, that thing might be after you!  I’m not letting you go back there to make it easier on those two!” Nora snapped and reached for her sister only for Alya to dodge her.

 “Exactly!  Whatever Ms. Bustier became will be after me and Mari, and I don’t want to lead them to the sibs!   I’ll head towards the Tower, if the Alert doesn’t upgrade then I’ll go to the Museum to hide!  She’ll never find me there!” Alya said and Nora looked at her sister and scowled.

 Nora started to think, remembering the flashes she had when she had been used by Hawkmoth and she had to admit, that seemed likely.  And the Failed Teacher had been behind that kissing Zombie outbreak, who knew what powers the scum had now?   As much as she wanted to deny Alya, her sister had a point so with reluctance she nodded.  

 “Fine, but you are not going back there for footage, you got me!?   I better not see you anywhere near that mess or so help me I’ll make sure you never leave my radius for a year!” Nora said and Alya nodded.

 “Cross my heart, I will not go back there for any footage!” Alya said and held out her hand and Nora grabbed her in a hug.   Alya hugged back and leaned into her sister, feeling the same protectiveness she always had with her family.   As Nora pulled away Alya smiled before her sister nodded and turned, dashing away towards what Alya knew was their sisters.

 Nora ran towards their home, the way Alya said about leading them to their younger sisters; that hurt because Alya might be right.   The girls were home alone with a sitter, she had to get there and get them away from the apartment and to safety.

 Alya looked at her sister before running towards the Tower, not to hide but to find a place to transform.

 “Quick thinking Kit!” Trixx’s voice came from below her ear and Alya smiled.

 “Thanks.”

 “I mean you used my concept so perfectly to deceive her!” Trixx said and giggled as Alya smirked a bit wider as she ran towards the Tower.

 “I didn’t lie exactly, I just said that I wouldn’t be at the scene to record, nothing about you and me going to mix it up!”

 “True…… that’s the messenger!” Trixx said as they heard a ringtone and Alya felt her clothes move as Trixx zipped to her phone.   “Bee and Dog found the Dolphin with more of those monsters, and maybe the boss of the other one!”

 Alya looked stopped and looked around as Trixx sat against her with her pocket.   The reaction to the information of the Dolphin had told them been the ‘forced silence’ that they were all coming to expect from whatever the Order did to the Kwami.   Personally, Alya was worried about what these Seven knew, what they were after.   The fact that it took them until now to come to Paris, how this ‘Day of Fury’ was coming, she was worried if they were connected.

 As she stood there she turned as she heard sirens and saw Police cars heading towards the courthouse she swallowed as she saw who was riding after it on a motorcycle.  Alya went still and ran down an alley and waited for a few seconds before she covered her mouth and screamed into her hands, the sound being muted as Trixx flew free and looked at Alya from level with her face.

 “He’s back!?  I thought he was transferred!   Oh Kwami!” Alya snarled and looked at Trixx who nodded.   The officer in question had a bad habit of trying to fight the Akuma victims and he didn’t mind collateral damage.   Alya had looked into him once and found nothing; the mind was a black hole.  She finally had the idea that he was related to someone who covered him so no matter what complaints came against him, nothing would happen to him and would come back on to whoever it was.   Politics were a messy business, and she had to admit that she couldn’t fully put that idea to rest, after all the person who covered for him didn’t have to be in Paris.  

 Finally, the office had disappeared.   The gossip at school was that the mayor had done something, and most people who had been attacked by him as Akuma had all breathed sighs of relief.  Chloe had been silent about it, and that should have told her there was more to the situation than what was obvious.    And now he was back, and that would mean a lot of bad things.  

 “We can go help the girls, or go and fight the Akumas.  Or we could warn snake boy about who’s coming and go help the girls.  But those are the only option we have,” Trixx said seriously and Alya looked at the little Kwami before sighing.

 Trixx was right, Alya knew that.   So the choice was to either help Chloe and Sabrina against things like Sentimonsters, or go and help the others fight against the Akuma……….. she released her breath as she made her choice.

 Pulling out her phone, she sent out a quick message before looking up at Trixx.    “We have to trust them to handle the Akuma without us, we need to help Chloe and Sabrina!   And I never thought that those words would ever leave my mouth.”

 “You know the magic words to let us go!” Trixx grinned and Alya grinned back and nodded.

 “Trixx let's pounce!”

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 Lunar Raven dodged a blow from Arashiko who glared at her, Arashiko moved closer as she slashed out with her sword.  Lunar Raven jumped backwards away from Arashiko who kept up the attack, every slash of her sword coming closer to hitting the Villain before she jumped backwards with a summersault.   As Arashiko scowled at Lunar Raven as she landed, her cape flapping in the breeze as she looked at Arashiko.

 “You should give up now my dear, after all the law is on my side,” Lunar Raven said with a hard edge in her voice.  Arashiko scowled and glared back at the Akuma, not moving back a single step and keeping her blade aimed at her foe.

 “Baka sensei should not talk about the law when one does not respect the rulings of the law!” Arashiko spat and Lunar Raven scowled back.  

 Arashiko shot forward and slashed out with her sword while Lunar Raven dodge until she grabbed Arashiko’s hands.  Pulling the Dragon hero closer, Lunar Raven glared at the younger girl.  “And one who does not know the truth shouldn’t speak of it!”

 “I know enough!” Arashiko said as she jumped upwards and kicked out, breaking free of Lunar Raven before the Akuma grabbed her legs, spinning before throwing Arashiko away from her.  Before Arashiko landed, Lunar Raven grabbed at the insides of her cloak with both hands and pulled free four feather-shaped throwing daggers that she threw at the Dragon hero as she landed, but Arashiko blocked each knife with her sword and glared at Lunar Raven.

 “Such language!  Once Marinette is our Sparrow and understands the proper order of things we’ll work on you my dear,” Lunar Raven said and Arashiko looked like she had a stroke before glaring at the Akuma.

 “You will not touch a single civilian as long as I am here!” Arashiko called out as she ran towards the Akuma who drew a long feather-shaped knife and met her blow for blow as they fought, Lunar Raven always a single inch from the blade.

 Chat Noir used his baton-staff to vault into a sidekick and Dark Owl gagged as he was hit in his stomach. As Chat Noir sprang back to his feet, Dark Owl threw a smoke bomb down, but Chat Noir moved backwards out of the smoke and he heard Dark Owl cry out as he hit the wall.  He looked at Arashiko on the other side as a banging on the door caused him to realize what this was.  “Dragon-Girl, move back now!”

 Arashiko kicked out at Lunar Raven and jumped backwards landing near Chat Noir as the door burst open and four more of the Midnight Crew charged out from the courthouse and moved between the two heroes and the Akuma.

 Roi Singe jumped backwards and looked at Carapace as he jumped over the Sentimonster he had been fighting and landed next to the monkey hero as Viperion shot arrows at the others, only aiming to wound not kill least they multiply.

 “Time’s up, dropping back to recharge!  Good luck!” Viperion said over their coms and the two of them looked at each other before they each dodged a blow from their opponents

 “What the? No…….Everyone to Carapace Now! Carapace Shelter once you’re all together!  Don’t ask questions do it now!” Viperion called out. Chat Noir and Arashiko dashed to Carapace as Roi Singe looked around, but he couldn’t see anything that might have caused Viperion to react as he had.

 “SHELTER!” Carapace bellowed as soon as the others gathered around him.  As he thrust his shield upwards the energy dome formed moments before they heard a voice that Chat Noir and Arashiko didn’t want to hear, and they instantly knew exactly why Viperion had reacted the way he had.

 “FIRE!!”  A voice from the far left called out, and a second later they heard the sound of guns being fired and all the Sentimonsters fell to the ground as bullets tore through them.  As the bullets hit Carapace’s energy dome, they fell to the ground as the heroes all stared out.  

 As the shield dropped away, Carapace looked at the others as his Miraculous started to beep. “Dudes……”

 “Go Carapace, we’ll handle this!   Get to a safe place and get back here!” Chat Noir said as he looked at the downed Sentimonsters in horror, trying to figure out just what had happened to cause this. Roi Singe grabbed Chat Noir’s shoulder and Chat Noir looked at the Monkey hero and followed his gaze.

 “Isn’t that the police captain who was always a problem?   The one who fought the other Stone Hearts?” Roi Singe asked and Chat Noir felt his temper flare.

 Lieutenant Eduardo Monasterio grinned from the firing line down the side road, the ten police officers he brought with him from his station reloading their rifles.   As long as that idiota from the Super-Freaks office doesn’t come here and take my credit! Once that Ladywitch comes I’ll break the item holding their power and finally prove that she’s in on this like he said!   And once that Hawkscum is dead I’ll give him the gem and his gang will rule the county with me having this city! He thought as he curled his black short mustache.   In his police uniform with his tan skin and blue custom hat, he always knew he cut a good figure but winning this battle might get him a date with that lady reporter.

 As the shield dropped the heroes ran towards the police and he grinned at them.   “Ahhh, good you’re coming to let us handle the monster villain? Good, I knew you……”

 “You Idiot!” Chat Noir snarled as he grabbed Eduardo and pulled his face closer to his own.   The other police officers all looked at them and one raised his weapon slightly only for Atashiko to put her blade against his throat. “Who told you to fire on the death-multiplying Sentimonsters?!”

 “I judge the situation as I saw it!  From the scene that was the perfect choice!  And those things are nothing but monsters so there was no way to hurt civilians,” Eduardo snarled as he pulled himself free and looked at Chat Noir as the other heroes looked at the plaza as Dark Owl and Lunar Raven moved out into the open as the still ‘alive’ Sentimonsters took guard positions between them and the Police.

 “Now all we have to do is deal with the……Wait……what was that!? Death-Multiplying?!” Eduardo choked out as he paled in equal parts horror and fear as he looked at the ‘corpses’ of the other Sentimonsters as they started to convulse as they broke apart into piles of slime and from each pile two more of the Midnight Crew grew.

 “That’s right scum! Commissioner Shadowmoth granted our Midnight Crew the best ability to help us! Truly this was the greatest boon the Commissioner granted us!”  Dark Owl called out as the Midnight Crew all turned in unison and drew clubs.

 “Viperion back on and Chance is ready…… fall back now!   They’ll let the police ‘kill’ them and then overwhelm you with numbers!” Viperion called over the coms and Chat Noir paled as Carapace returned.

 “Everyone fall back, do not fire!” Chat Noir called out and without a word the police retreated, Roi Singe carrying Lieutenant Monasterio despite the man’s protests.

 “UNHAND ME!  And don’t run, we can still!” Lieutenant Monasterio barked and Roi Singe snarled back.

 “Get overwhelmed because those things will let you kill them to increase their numbers till they can fight us ten to one dude!” Roi Singe barked and Lieutenant Monasterio went still as he realized the tactical advantage the enemy had against them.

 As Chat Noir and Carapace held the rear as the Sentimonster horde moved closer to them, they never saw two of the Midnight Crew run past them into the city, one holding a briefcase and the other its guard.   The only one who saw them was a single individual that not even Viperion had seen, a figure who silently followed after them.

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 Salacia ran over the rooftops, a scowl on her face.   When she heard the alert she remembered how Kim had said that his school was closed until this his school and how he might go there to support Marinette.   With how everything had been quiet since she had told the heroes about the message, she was hoping Hawkmoth wouldn’t attack but then that was asking for something that she knew he wouldn’t give them.

 She hoped the other heroes believed her about the Day of Fury, when she had learned about it the first time she had nightmares that night about her Akuma form, only this time it was more deadly for the city.   She had to keep moving forward, and when the day hit fight tooth and nail to keep her city alive, there was nothing else she could do.

 Now all she needed to get to the courthouse, help handle the Akima and then, well then…….

 A screech caused her to throw herself to the side before something hit the rooftop where she had been.   Looking up she saw a five-foot black insectoid biped, it had two mandibles that were alongside a circular mouth full of at uncountable needle-thin teeth below two compound eyes.   Its right arm ended in a large lance that it rammed into where she had been standing and its right ended in three claws in a pyramid shape with two on top.  Its legs were backwards, with two thin wings on its back.  

 She rolled to her feet and saw another one on a rooftop to her right with one of the Blaster Legions with her.  As she looked for others she heard a slow clapping and scowled.

 “Well, that was nice.   I must say, you’re better than the old woman!”  A male voice caused her to turn and see Thunderlord standing there with two more of the new Legions standing in guard potion at his sides.   “To think you handled the Lancer’s attack that easy, well done.”

 “One of the Seven?” Salacia asked as she looked at the monsters and their controller.   Thunder Lord looked at her and just laughed, a deep dark laugh as he grinned at her.

 “Not just one of them my dear, but the leader himself,” Thunder Lord said and Salacia gasped and took a step backwards only for the Lancer Legion to chitter at her as Thunder Lord laughed.

 “You Mean!” Salacia gasped as she looked around, trying to find anything that might help her get away from here.

 “Yes, I am Thunder Lord, the Wraith Sin!  And you my dear misguided Dolphin have a choice to make,” Thunder Lord said as he looked at her, his eyes going up her body and detecting that the magic hadn’t changed it too much, but the masking aspect of the magic kept him from remembering any details and he held back a sigh.   He loved it but it made his plans so much harder when they came across other users.    

 “And what choice does a lifetaker want with me?” Salacia asked as she looked around as the Lancer

 “Life-harvester thank you!   My runes only take the life force that anything still had before they died violently.   Otherwise, it goes into the environment and it can cause such births of monsters,” Thunder Lord said stiffly and Salacia looked at him with a scowl.

 “What kind of Monsters?” Salacia asked and Thunder Lord laughed and grinned at her.

 “Nothing that matters right now but I do need an answer my dear, and I must instinct that you answer me,” Thunder Lord said as the Legions around them started to chitter.

 “Okay, and the question is what?” Salacia demanded as she clenched her fists and looked at the nearest Lancer, judging how to get away from them.

 “Oh nothing much my dear. Only you have to decide, will you die or hand over the Dolphin Miraculous?  That ability that grants is the only one in creation that can kill my clan with but a touch, and it will no longer be out of my control,” Thunder Lord growled and Salacia looked at him with a scowl.  

 When her partner told her about the Seven, the leader was the worst of them.  The Sin of Wraith, the strongest fighter and the most deadly.   But the name, the name had been different……… he must be using another Miraculous in unison, that’s the only explanation that made sense!   But then that didn’t matter, with those Legions she could see and any others that were hidden, this was going to be hard to escape, almost impossible but she had to try.

 As they stood there, they never noticed an eye in the shadows of a chimney before they went away, a hunter who had found them while searching for its prey.   It paid the interaction no mind but sent what it had seen to its mistress while it followed her will and charged on into Paris, hunting its target.

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 Back at their lair, Shadowmoth and Enhancetress both sat silently, Enhancetress looking at her tablet.   Part of him didn’t want the battle with his Akuma to finish in his favor, but then part of him wanted to win, this whole thing was just a smokescreen to let the others think he was still after both Ladybug and Chat Noir’s Miraculous.  

 And the more he thought about it, the more it was possible that something else could heal her.  They knew an Akuma was able to, both he and Nathalie had tried in two Champion forms, but maybe that was a problem with the Butterfly Miraculous, a master of all was a master of none after all.  

 It stood to reason then, that it was entirely possible that a Miraculous with the power of healing would be so much better, but then the power of Creation, that was the real prize.   Duusu didn’t know who the others were in that ritual he told them, the Kwami had only heard about it in passing once by the Ladybug Kwami.   Nooroo didn’t know anything or didn’t remember anything, and trying to figure out the truth from the grimoire but there was nothing at all about the spells on the Kwamki or Miraculous. He had realized that where ever the knowledge was, the Order had hidden it away from the actual proctors of the Miraculous, obvious that was in case whoever they were grew to care for the Kwami and wanted to free them.  

 Enhancetress looked on, after the last few revelations truly made her feel felt for Gabriel and all the time he had wasted trying to get both.   And Emile’s condition was the result of someone or something that attacked her, and then there was happening with Adrien, everything had to be a cause of stress for him.  She had argued against treating Adrien the way he had, but Gabriel justified it if they failed then he wanted no doubt that Adrien had done nothing to help them with their actions, and she agreed with it after a while.  

 She looked at Shadowmoth and hid a scowl, how he was using Lila on both sides of her mask had bothered her. But then both of them had no idea that the little idiot would have done anything like that at the photo shoot, but then their her plans for Lila were both something that would help them, punish her and maybe help Adrien out once he was found and brought back.

 A beep from her tablet caused her to look down and scowl.  As she listened her eye’s widened before she looked up at Shadowmoth.

 “Sir, Thunder Lord is talking with another Miraculous user, and he said something about how their power could kill them.   Should we send the Akuma or Sentimonster after them?” She asked and Shadowmoth looked at her and stared for a few moments as he went over the possible pros or cons.  

 “No, so far we only know of two of them, maybe in the future.  But for now, we stay the course.  Send Optigami to find Lila and I’ll bring one of the spare Sentimonsters to follow it, it’s time to see if we will move to plan 2A or 2B,” Shadowmoth said and Enhancetress nodded, her mental command to her Sentimonster sending it away from the battle.

 As she watched what Optigami saw, Enhancetress tried and failed to keep a grin off her face as it noticed Lila and her mother.   As Optigami flew closer she frowned as she saw the way Lila’s face was slack, something was wrong here.    Enhancetress scowled as she looked at her screen before a beeping caused her to smirk. “It seems Payday is back sir, shall I tell him to bring some of his particular brand of help to the fight against the heroes or to attack Thunder Lord?”

 “No, not now.  We do as we planned, for now, we just gather resources and personnel while we wait for our chance to strike,” Shadowmoth said and Enhancetress nodded, sending off a reply.

 “Yes sir, I’ve found Lila she doesn’t seem to be ready to accept anything….. but you should send a butterfly and a feather so she can be ready for her part.   This is after all the final performance of Lila Rossi,” Enhancetress suggested and Shadowmoth nodded.

 “Of course, better early than never as she used to say,” Shadowmoth said as he focused his powers and sent off the two tokens.

 “Yes,” Enhancetress said absently as she looked around the lair and frowned, something was bothering her, something she couldn’t place.   When the Sentimonster she was controlling had made it to Lila, the girl looked like she was in a trance but moving after her mother.   She knew that something was wrong with what Lila was doing, but she couldn’t actively see it.  But Enhancetress had learned a long time ago to trust her hunches and Lila, how the girl was acting was setting one off.  

 “Nothing, I can sense nothing from her!   Someone sleeping makes more of an echo than she does!  What is this!?” Shaodwmoth growled and Enhancetress looked down and willed her Sentimonster to fly ahead of Lila, to get a view of her eyes and face.

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 Pegasus dashed over the rooftops towards where he hoped the others would meet up before chasing down those insect monsters.   If he was honest, he was dying to find out how they were created and the laws behind their creation, anything to let him understand magic.  So far Kaalki hadn’t been able to tell him much, the cult Miraculous Guardians had done a wonderful job of keeping the Kwami from knowing anything about the other magics besides their own.   But then what happened to Nooroo made that argument a moot point he guessed but the scientist in him was almost mad with how he couldn’t understand half of what Fu had told them about the potions he needed.

 As he jumped over another building he heard the retreat from the courthouse, Viperion and Carapace were following the two Akuma who seemed to be trying to find Marinette or anyone who escaped before they left the building.   And so far the other three were keeping the police safe from the Midnight Crew as they fell back, a good strategy as the Midnight Crew’s death multiplication ability made defeating them a true challenge.

 He gritted his teeth as he acknowledged that even then, dealing with the twin attack of Dark Owl and this Lunar Raven would be hard, maybe even impossible with help from their Sentimonsters.  Okay, thing.  We can handle them by sending them away from the battle but then I’ll need to recharge.   But where to send them, the outskirts or the stadium, but is anyone there now?  I need to figure out places to send enemies for situations like this.  He thought as he jumped onto another rooftop and dashed over it, moving ever onwards towards the meeting spot Apisera had sent him.

 As he jumped over the last gap between buildings he saw the others were already waiting for him. Ladybug, Rena Rouge, and Apisera stood around a chimney stack, each looking down at their weapons.  

 “Greeting girls, where’s……” Pegasus asked and Apisera spoke up.

 “Miss Hound is a bit closer and below them.   We tracked them but we dropped back when we saw that those things are with another of the Seven is leading those things,” Apisera said and Pegasus looked at her and shook his head.

 “So the plan was for us to drop Apisera through a portal for a point-blank shot at them, get their Miraculous, and then go deal with the Akuma situation before we deal with what happened,” Ladybug said and Rena Rouge looked at her with an exasperated look.

 “Gurl, you gotta relax.   They’ve had to know for a while, and they didn’t tell you until they had to so relax and get your mind on what’s happening here,” Rena Rouge said and Pegasus looked from one to the other and tried to figure out what they meant before his mind went to the worst possible outcome.  

 “You’re parents know!? How!?” Pegasus asked and then they heard their coms beep.

 “Miss Hound here, Dolphin girl is running from the monsters and the villain!  And I was close enough to hear that this guy is the leader of the Seven!   She’s running to the west, need instructions now!” Miss Hound voice came from their weapons and Ladybug looked around as she quickly created a plan that she thought would work.

 “Then there’s no time to lose!  Miss Hound follow far enough back they won’t see you, we’ll be right behind you! Rena, you’re with me! We’re backing up Miss Hound

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 Lila blinked as she looked around, realizing that she had fallen to the ground.   She was outside the courtroom, and the last thing she remembered was Mari-Trash winning the case, Damocles and that teacher Bustier were both turned into Akuma Villains, the butterfly had just hit the papers, and then she was here how?   Looking around she saw she was on a street outside the courthouse and her mother was farther down the street from her.  Her mother ran on before looking back at Lila who was crawling away from her back towards the Akuma.

 “Lila come on!  We need to get away!” Dolores said and Lila shook her head.

 “Stay away!  You took my mind like when you did at our apartment!” Lila said before she slapped a hand over her mouth and paled in fear as she looked at Dolores who blinked before grinning evilly.

 “So you know, how I wonder?   Something to find out when I peel your mind away for the last time before I change my clothing,” Dolores said as

 Lila grinned as she saw the Akuma butterfly flapping towards her and grabbed it and it into her necklace as a blue feather floated into it.   Lila glared at her mother as the logo of Shadowmoth formed over her sneer. Volpina, in a bind are you? follow my commands and what you saw will be the truth, while Dark Kitsune will be your protector! Shadowmoth’s voice came into her head.  Lila grinned and Dolores looked at her with a scowl.

 Lila’s eyes went wide and Shadow Moth heard the fear in her voice.  “You won’t control me anymore!”  

 Before Dolores could say anything one of the Midnight crew was suddenly there behind her and it slammed its weapon into her head, knocking her out.  As she started to fall the Midnight Crew caught her and laid her down on the road before dusting off its hands and turned away from her with its head in the air.

 Lila nodded as she accepted the Akuma, the energy flowing over her.  As she felt the transformation, it seemed stronger than last time.   As it finished she looked at a window to use it as a mirror and took in the changes.   Across her eyes was an orange mask with black edges, but her eye’s sclera were now pitch black with orange slit iris. Her hair was the same, black at the top but the color changed to light brown with the tips pure white like last time and fox ears on top, but now there were streaks of white that went to the black and the fox ears were now real. She made them move and laughed, bringing her attention to her mouth she saw she now had orange lipstick on but she had fangs in her mouth’s upper jaw.  Her outfit was the same, orange with a white section going down the front but the section had an orange fox face above her breasts.  Around her waist was an orange sash that ended behind her in two fox trails instead of one like last time, and her collar and upper arms still had black lines with her forearms and lower legs still a solid black but her hands ended in claws. Her feet were covered in the same black boots as last time the toes were covered by steel claws, on her back was a large black staff, she didn’t need to use a flute to channel her powers.

 Next to her a purple blob formed and grew until it was a ten-foot-tall sphere, breaking apart to reveal her Sentimonster.   It was a large orange fox the size of a horse, with a black face and three tails, each which ended in a black crystal sphere and its head had three eyes with the third above its noise and closed.   Volpina looked down at her ‘mother’ and kicked her savagely before getting on her Sentimonster and laughed as Shadowmoth’s emblem in light formed over her face.  Go quickly Volpina, yours is the most important of the plan today. Shadowmoth’s command’s echoed in her head and she grinned.

 “Of course my master, what is it?”   Volpina asked and another of the Midnight Crew appeared and handed over a briefcase.   Volpina looked at the case, looking it over, and saw a symbol, Shadowmoth’s symbol on it and looked at it in confusion.  That is the Akuma, take it and run from the ‘heroes’ until I recall it!  Volpina looked at the case in shock as her right eye started to twitch.

 “Wait, recall it?!  What about my mother?!” Volpina snarled and Shadowmoth chuckled.  Don’t worry my dear, the plan will handle everything.  Just make sure that you get to where you have to no matter what happens once I give you the go-ahead. Shdowmoth sent and Volpina nodded.

 As she rode away and the Midnight Crew both jumped to the rooftops Officer Roger appeared with a few policemen from a side street, looking shocked at what they had seen.  

 “Wasn’t the Akuma at the courthouse nearby, what was that?” One of the officers asked and Roger looked at him and shook his head.

 “New turn in our war against Hawkmoth Joe, a new turn for his side,” Roger said bitterly and Joe swore as the others took positions around the two officers.

 Roger looked down at Deloris with a frown, they had heard Lila call out her words and then they had run towards the scene, turning the corner and seeing Lila put the Akuma into her necklace.   Thankfully their body cams worked, so they had proof that Lila reached for the Akuma, the bug might not show up on the screen but her actions of grabbing for ‘something’ and then transforming into an Akuma would be front page news soon.   But that left one question, just why was Lila calling out, what was the reason that caused this, and what did this woman have to do with it all?

 “Sir, wasn’t that that Illusion making Akuma that caused that meteor a while back?  And didn’t Hawkmoth make people think Chat Noir killed Ladybug before the Scarlet Swarm?” Joe asked Roger looked at him for a few moments before face palming and cursing.   As the police moved away they never noticed a set of eyes in the shadows of one of the buildings look at them before it dissipated.

 “Yes, that was…… you two, pick her up, we’re heading to the nearest shelter to hold our ground there. As of right now, that girl is now a person of interest to be brought to the proper attention within the department.   For now, move!” Roger barked and after a few moments the police were gone from the scene.   Once they were out of sight, a man with a video camera with a sleazy air about him came out of an alley and grinned as he looked down at his camera.

 “Oh you’ve just got me my yearly bonus twice over!  A girl who was scared of her mother enough to reach out to Hawkmoth…. No a girl who reached out for Hawkmoth!   That’ll sell more papers faster!   And by selling you to the news stations after the papers, I’ll double my profits!   James my boy, you’re star is rising!” James said with a laugh as he walked away, already getting out his phone to call a contact that had taken him a while to get.  “Arlette, baby it’s your favorite independent news hound, James!   How would TVI like the first case of someone willingly reaching for an Akuma to help out Hawkmoth, plus the police saying she’s a person of interest?   Yeah, double sounds great!”

[raine-lennix]

Adrien's Depression Short Comic By Raine A. LENNIX (THIS IS A FANFICTION):

Part:2/7

* At the Agreste Mansion, in Gabriel Agreste's office, he's talking with his assistant via computer screen *

Nathalie:" ... And the next meeting with the investors is- "

* But she gets cut with a weird look on the Agreste's face *

Gabriel:" Ah... "

Nathalie:" Is everything alright? Sir? "

Gabriel:" Yes. I just felt one of the most powerful breakdowns I've ever felt. I can’t let this one slip away. We'll continue later. "

* But as Gabriel Agreste leaves for his lair, transforms and realizes who this perfect victim is... *

Shadowmoth:Adrien? Again...

* After a moment of consideration, Shadowmoth chooses another person to akumatize. But as he realeases the akuma out... *

Shadowmoth:Wait, what? WHAT IS IT DOING?!

* The akuma senses Adrien's depression. And chooses to go to him instead (like how it did in the Gigantitan with Adrien's bodyguard) *

Shadowmoth:What? What are you doing?! COME BACK!!!

* But the akuma doesn't listen, and it flies towards Adrien's open window... *

Plagg:Adrien! Look out!

Adrien:Huh?!

* Young man gets shocked, seeing the akuma getting inside *

Adrien:I... Pla- TAKE THE RING!!!

* He takes off his ring, throwing it to Plagg. But right before he flies out of the window with the ring, something... Unexpected happens... *

Shadowmoth:NO!

* Adrien and Plagg, both gets frozed by shock, seeing the akuma turning back to white as it was only an inch away from akumatizing him. Plagg gets relieved by that but it doesn't lasts long, that Adrien suddenly crumbles down to his knees, screaming in pain... *

Adrien:Aaarrh!!!

* Plagg rushs to him but before he could say anything, the door gets shut and he hides *

Gabriel:ADRIEN!!!

* Meanwhile at the warehouse *

Alya:Check this one out! It feeds on peoples depressions, and every single negative emotion they feel, until-

Marinette:I. Don't. Care. I thought we agreed we would start reading after we finish organizing!

Alya:Sorry. I'm just so curious to learn more about Senti-Monsters!

Marinette:Yeah, I know. You know what? Let's call it a night. You can take the book with you and read it at home if you want.

Alya:REALLY?!?!?!?!

Marinette:Just make sure to use a cover from another book so nobody finds out.

Alya:Thank you!!!

* An hour after, at the Agreste Mansion's dining room *

" So, are you feeling better now, Adrien? "

* ...The doctor says. Finishing his bottle of water, Adrien looked up to his father, and then to the doctor standing next to him, still pretty confused about all that happened (I didn't gave the doctor a name. Just didn’t feel like it 🤷🤷🤷) *

Adrien:Yeah... I-I'm okey.

Gabriel:No. You're not. You had two panic attacks in the same day, not to mention you almost got akumatized.

* Adrien didn't answer. He didn’t wanted to *

" It's okey. " The doctor said. " You're probably just stressed. That happens to a lot of people in your age. You just need to relax and rest for a few days. And I suggest you take at least one nap at day time during that. It usually helps. And if it doesn't, I'm sure your father can arrange therapy. "

Gabriel:Yes, I would.

* A while after that, Plagg finally gets to talk to Adrien when they get back to his room *

Plagg:Here's your ring back.

* While he puts it back on, Plagg gets even more worried, seeing the exhausted look on his face *

Plagg:You sure you don't want me to-

Adrien:I'm fine! Just... Tired. I'm going to sleep.

Plagg:Oh, no, you don't. You can lie to anyone you'd like, but not to me. Is that clear?

Adrien:I... I'm sorry. I just... I don't know. I don't know why did Shadowmoth retrieved the akuma when he had the chance to akumatize me, and... And I don't know if he did that on purpose! I mean... What if he figured out my identity? And... And then send that akuma on purpose? I...

Plagg:You can't know that for sure.

Adrien:But I have to tell Ladybug, and... And I'll be giving her a reason to take you. I... * Tears starts to fall down again * I don't want to lose you too.

Plagg:Calm. Down. You won't lose me. Tikki once told me something familiar happened to Ladybug too. It's no reason to take me. You don't even have to tell her if you don't want to.

Adrien:I don't? I... Thank you, Plagg.

* And... Here's the hugging scene *

Plagg:You're welcome.

* The next day at school *

Marinette:Where's Adrien?

Nino:He texted me last night. Saying he had a " Thing " that he won't come to school until next week.

Marinette:What? Did his father punished him again?

Nino:It didn’t sound like that, but, maybe.

Alya:He isn't missing much though. It's carrier day.

Marinette:And why wouldn't he be missing something?

Kim:Adrien's a model. He already has a carrier.

Marinette:First of all, modelling is not something you study in college, and Adrien would love to go. And second, I don't think Adrien would want to spend the rest of his life, just doing that.

Alya:I guess we'll see.

* To Marinette's luck, an akuma, the Wishmaker appears in afternoon. During the fight, Ladybug realizes there's a great risk fighting this akuma... *

Ladybug:We can’t get hit! If we do, we'll reveal our secret identities!

Chatnoir:Why's that?

Ladybug:When I was six, I wanted to be the Knitting Fairy, and the Knitting Fairy didn’t wore a mask!

Chatnoir:A knitting fairy? Seriously?

Ladybug:Tell me what was your dream then?

Chatnoir:I...

Ladybug:Hah! You make fun of mine, but you can't tell me yours?

Chatnoir:I don't remember it, okey?!

Ladybug:Oh. Well... We'll still need some help.

Chatnoir:Viperion, you mean?

Ladybug:Be right back!

Chatnoir:Wait!

Ladybug:What?

Chatnoir:I don't like it when you give the miraculouses to the old holders. Shadowmoth knows all of their identities. You're risking their lives too.

Ladybug:I... I don't have time to pick a new snake just now!

Chatnoir:Then why haven't you done it already?

Ladybug:I... I'll just be back with him. We have to deal with Wishmaker. We don't have time to argue.

Chatnoir:Clearly we don't. So be it. I'll just go keep him busy then, like I always do. Maybe I should change my name to " Mr. Distraction " as well, it suits me better.

Ladybug:That’s not what I-

Chatnoir:Tell me then, what did you mean? Am I ju-Aaarrh!

* Chatnoir was able to recognize the pain as he fell down, grabbing his chest. It was the same as what he felt yesterday right after he almost got akumatized *

Chatnoir:Aaaarrh!!!

Ladybug:Chat! Are you okey?!

* Realizing the status, he puts his hands on his head instead, standing back up, pretending it's not that bad, acting the part *

Chatnoir:I'm fine. It's just migraine. You go, I'll deal with the akuma.

Ladybug:But-

Chatnoir:GO!

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[goldenharmony]

So like as of now, I think these are my top 10 favourite ML eps, with bolded being my top 5 lol

- Miraculer (S3)

- Ladybug (S3)

- Chat Blanc (S3)

- Oblivio (S3)

- Gabriel Agreste (S4)

- Gang of Secrets (S4)

- Sentibubbler (S4)

- Rocketear (S4)

- Kuro Neko (S4)

- The Last Attack of Shadowmoth (S4, yes I’m counting this as 1 ep)