Miraculous: The Dark, The Light, and The Grey

A/N: This story picks up during another. If you wish to understand the start, then please Read The Misadventures of Anton Sonreef Chapters 44 and 46.

Chapter 1: A Day Ends, A Knight Rises

Ah the city a Paris, the city of love, compassion, an-

KABOOM

Explosions … … … and explosions, why is it always explosions?

"I AM TNT, DEMOLISTIONIST AND DETROYER OF CITIES!" A young kid yelled out as he stood above The Eiffel Tower. His get up was rather strange his face was plastered with white makeup, he wore red pants and a black shirt with an unbuttoned red vest and a red hood covered his head as he wore a black backpack with a never ending supply of TNT.

"LADYBUG AND CHAT NOIR I'M CALLING YOU OUT FOR A FINAL SHOWDOWN!"

Cops began to surround the grand tower that stood above everything in this grand city. The heroes he was calling sure took their time. As the cops began to evacuate the people from the area TNT just stood there waiting. TNT has been quite the recurring villain, though he has been around for some time after his first appearance where he almost destroyed the Le Sante Prison. But he's been more of a sparring partner for the duo in these last few weeks. The Kid has never let go of his depression and Hawkmoth has been using him repeatedly because it was so easy. The Police Department eventually just gave no notice and started anticipating their matches and clearing the areas they always showed up in.

"So um are you just going to stand there and wait or are you um going to blow something up?" One of the cops called out.

"This is a sparring match, I'll wait till everyone is out of danger!" TNT called back.

"Umm … … … Ok!"

Little to both of their knowledge's our Heroes were preoccupied at the moment. Back at one of the local High Schools, our Heroes were dealing with a different issue, death from pure boredom. Science Class wasn't exactly everyone's favorite subject. Marinette sighed as the day grew out longer, she looked out the window towards The Eiffel tower hoping something would come up. As for Adrien he was deep in his studies, taking notes, writing down everything he could to make sure he learned as much as he could. It wasn't until the loud explosions when everyone looked out the window to see TNT demanding Ladybug and Chat Noir to show.

"CAN I USE THE BATHROOM PLEASE!" Adrien called out!

"I NEED TO GO CHECK WITH MY PARENTS!" Marinette called out!

TNT stood there waiting for his opponents, tapping his feet with impatience. He pulled his wrist to his face to check the time and shook his head when a purple light formed in front of him.

"TNT What are you waiting for, cause some havoc to bring them faster?!" Hawkmoth questioned.

"Don't worry Hawkmoth, they're not the only ones I'm trying to attract." TNT stated as he looked to the skies.

"TNT!" Ladybug yelled as she swung to land behind him.

"Whoa cool off the fuse man." Chat Noir punned as he stood next to his lady.

TNT smiled as he turned to them. Without warning he held out to Pipe Bombs and tossed them at the Heroes before leaping away off the edge of the platform. Chat Noir threw himself in front of Ladybug and used his staff to bat the bombs away from them as he jumped after TNT and began sliding down the side of the Eiffel Tower. Ladybug soon followed as she began swinging herself around the Tower coming to a soft landing as she raised her feet in front of her. TNT began throwing more bombs of all sorts at Chat Noir as he got in a batter stance as if he was playing ball with the bombs. Ladybug smiled as she came swinging in sending TNT flying across the concrete with her kick.

"Strikeout!" Ladybug called out as she cheered herself.

"I don't believe that's the right sport M'lady." Chat said as he rested his hands on his staff.

"Oh come on, I can't do puns too?" Ladybug questioned as she gave Chat an annoyed look.

"Well isn't that great the whole team is almost here, all we have to do is keep going until he shows up?" TNT said as he stood up and got into a boxing position.

"Yeah right, Steel Wing isn't going to show, he's busy somewhere else." Ladybug mentioned as she readied her Yo-Yo.

"Oh well that's to bad, guess he'll miss out on all the fun then." TNT called out as he began throwing more TNT at the dou.

"LUCKY CHARM!" Ladybug yelled as she swung her Yo-Yo into the air producing a bright light that dropped a Mirror with a silver handle.

And back to the fight they'd go. Ladybug flashed the Mirror in TNT's eye's blinding him for a moment and giving her an opportunity to slide under TNT in between his legs and wrap her Yo-Yo around his feet causing him to trip and fall, giving Chat Noir the opportunity to jump on him.

"CATACLYSM!" He yelled as he reached for his red backpack.

Ripping off the Backpack and tossing it to Ladybug she blew on it gently revealing a black butterfly.

"TIME TO DE-EVILIZE!" She yelled as she threw her Yo-Yo at the Butterfly capturing it in a pink glow as she reeling it in.

"Bye-bye little Butterfly." She said softly as the Butterfly turned white and flew away.

TNT began to shift back into his civilian form as Ladybug and Chat Noir bumped fists. He was now known as Garth, a young teenage boy who was in middle school. Ladybug looked at him and winked before running off and swinging away into the day. Chat stayed and helped him up before he too just ran off. Garth stood there and watched them run off with a smile, not knowing he was being watched from a distance as Police began to clean. A young man wearing a green coat and hood sat down just outside at one of the tables belonging to a local tea shop. He had watched the whole thing, he turned his head to the newspaper in his hand as he took a sip from his tea. The front page caption said Steel Wing Still At Large? He chuckled to himself as a waitress brought him a plate filled with biscuits and gravy.

"Thank you." He said to her with a smile as he set the newspaper and tea down.

"Anytime monsieur." The waitress said as she bowed and walked away.

He looked at the food and nearly began to drool, quickly he began to chow down before he looked at the time and nearly choked on his food. The time read 11:45 A.M.

"Shit." He said to himself quietly as he quickly scarfed down the food and ran off after leaving cash at the table, enough to pay for the food and tip the waitress.

School isn't really the best option for staying incognito, but Marinette and Adrien didn't really have much of a choice, being their age the only choices they had were either being homeschooled or private schooled and neither seemed to fit the bill for either of them.

"Okay class settle down, now we all know how exciting it is to watch Ladybug and Chatnoir but learning can be just as fun." Miss Bustier said to her class as they began to settle down after the fight.

"Yeah like that one time Mr. Jefferson substituted for you and taught us about the whole um … … … what was it again?" Nino questioned himself as he sat down.

"You mean The Multi-Verse Theory?" Alya questioned her boyfriend as she sat down behind him.

"Yeah that." Nino stated as he turned to her.

"Exactly, which reminds me I'm sure that he left you all an assignment to do while I was away for that time-" Before she could finish there was a knock on her classroom door. "Excuse me a moment class." Miss Bustier said as she walked to the door and opened to Mr. Damocles.

"Oh Mr. Damocles I wasn't expecting you." Miss Bustier said she opened the door wider for him to enter and behind was a boy wearing a grey shirt, a leather jacket, jeans, and what looked like a pair of biker boots. His hair had a red tint to its dark brown and his aviator sunglasses covered his eyes all too well. Everyone was looking at him with curiosity except for Marinette who couldn't keep her eyes off his finger cut gloves, or namely the white wolf imprinted on them.

"Well this is a little sudden, I think this boy beat Adrien and Marinette's late to school record, which reminds me." He readjusted himself as he turned to the class. "Class this will be your new classmate and hopefully friend, his name is Arthrin Davis, he will be starting here as a Junior like the rest of you, Arthrin why don't you introduce yourself." Mr. Damocles said.

"Sup, my name's Arthrin I moved here from America, so I apologize if my French ain't the best." Arthrin stated with a rather pitched voice with attitude as he waved his hand to everyone.

"Very good, now I'm assigning Nino and Adrien to escort him around and show him how similar or different schools in Paris are to America, Have a good day." Mr. Damocles said with a smile as he left the room.

"Alright well most of the seats are taken so Arthrin why don't sit in the front row with Adrien and Nino for now." Miss Bustier suggested with a smile.

"Sure thing teach." Arthrin said as he sat down next to Adrien.

"So uh what did I miss?" Arthrin asked as he turned to the dou he was sitting with.

"Not much really." They both said.

Class afterwards went by as simple as you'd expect. The teacher talked about whatever subject they were teaching, gave some assignments, and the class was done. The Students began packing their things as the bell rang and off they went to lunch period.

"Now remember Students try outs for this year's Talent Show start today after school, I would encourage you all to give it a whirl and show some school spirit." Miss Bustier said as students continued to pack and leave.

"Talent show huh, you guys entering?" Arthrin asked as he followed Nino and Adrien.

"Well I'm trying to get a band together but drummer boy here says he can't." Nino said as he pointed to Adrien.

"Ah come on Nino, you know I have a tight schedule." Adrien said as he raised his arms in defeat.

"Yeah, yeah man being the son of Gaberial Agreste and younger Brother to Felix Agreste must have you always moving." Nino stated.

"Yeah thankfully I get some free time here and there." Adrien said as they walked down the steps and into the courtyard.

"Right okay so where are we going?" Arthrin asked as they dodged a group of students playing basketball.

"It's lunch time so unless you brought your own lunch we have to walk to the cafeteria to get you something to eat." Nino explained as they stopped and turned to each other.

"Oh it's cool dudes I always pack me a load of munchies." Arthrin said as he pulled out a brown paper bag from under his jacket.

For once Marinette wasn't staring at Adrien all lunch, Instead she kept staring at Arthrin's Glove. She couldn't make heads or tails of it but she swore she'd seen that Wolf head somewhere before.

"Hey girl checking out the goods again?" Alya asked as Marinette watched the trio across from them take a seat at one of the tables.

"Oh uh no, actually have seen that symbol on the new kid's gloves before?" The Bluenette asked her best friend.

Alya squinted her eye as she focused on Arthrin's gloves as he reached into paper bag. She examined the white wolf and looked deep into its red eyes. She had inspected his glove for what seemed like a few minutes before he reached his hand inside and pulled out a chili dog. They both must have been staring a while because Arthrin eventually caught on when he turned to get a good look at the school and when he saw them staring he gave them a look of question. They both snapped out of it and turned to each other.

"Actually yeah I think so, hold on." Alya stated as she pulled out her phone.

"Remember a few weeks ago there was this guy that showed up out of nowhere, people started calling him Steel Wing and he even worked with Ladybug and Chat Noir when TNT first showed up?" Alya asked.

"Yeah I do, people still talk about the rumors, some say he saved Paris from a near bomb explosion, others say he tried to kill Chat Noir." Marinette said as she frowned.

"Yeah there's a lot mixed feelings about the guy, but I was there when they first fought TNT together and I seem to remember getting a picture of him as he flew past me and well I think he wore those exact same gloves." Alya explained as she showed Marinette the picture she took of a man wearing what looked like a pair of metal wings and a metal mask that covered his entire face with red glowing lights for eyes. Alya pointed at the man's hands and zoomed in to show Marinette the same wolf the same finger cut gloves as Arthrin's gloves.

"No way, you don't think?" Marinette questioned as she turned to Arthrin.

His head was turned to Adrien when she looked, they were talking about something but she couldn't quite hear. She looked into his sunglasses as he turned to Nino and there was her proof, she looked at the reflection and into his eye and the color exposed everything. Those deep, sad, Golden eyes, hiding something, locking something away.

"But that's not the only strange thing going on right now." Alya stated as she swiped her phone left to show another article on The Ladyblog.

"What's this?" Marinette asked.

The Article was titled Strange Epidemics Afoot, it was about sightings of strange creatures and weird portals appearing all over Paris. The Creatures were black with white bone like armor and eyes red as rubies and most looked like various animals from around the world, others looked like mythical creatures. The more Marinette read from the article the more mentions of Steel Wing and Chat Noir she found. They were working together and stopping these epidemics.

"So wait this has been happening for weeks and I'm just now seeing this?" Marinette questioned in a fit of rage.

"Whoa girl calm down, I'd almost mistake you for Ladybug with that temper." Alya said as she raised an eye brow at the bluenette.

His eye turned in the reflection looking straight at her. He could have sworn she watching but this just proved it. He was exposed, she found out, well he sort of expected it but he didn't expect it to happen so soon.

"Hey Arthrin, what's with the sunglasses, is it a trend or do you think it's too bright?" Adrien asked as he took a bite from his sandwich.

"Ah right um well you see I was born with what you might call a defect, in my family it's a rare case but um, can you keep it a secret?" Arthrin asked as he leaned into the table.

"Uh what are friends for yo." Nino said as he chuckled to himself.

"Yeah sure, we're pretty good at keeping secrets." Adrien said.

"Alright I'm trusting you guys." Arhtrin said as he slowly took off the sunglasses.

Now when most say defect they mean one eye has a different color than the other or has a spot that's different from the rest. But Arthrin, well he was a whole 'nether case, both of his eyes shined bright as Gold. A defect, or a gift?

"Dude, you have-" Adrien cut Nino off from speaking further by cover his mouth with his hand.

"Quiet the unique pair of eyes, man are you sure that's a defect?" Adrien questioned, swaying away from the fact they were Gold.

"Yup I'm pretty sure, guys back home would always get jealous and girls would always try to get with me because of them, they made me well too notorious to everyone." Arthrin explained as he slipped his glasses back on and looked to Adrien who gave him a shocked look.

Arthrin was about to ask them about the two girls looking their way but the bell rang and Students began leaving the school. Arthrin looked around him and watched as students began either walking or running out the front door of the courtyard.

"Hey ain't we supposed to be running towards the class and not running away?" Arthrin asked as he stood with Adrien and Nino as they walked towards the door.

"Oh umm, well afternoon classes don't start until two and it's only twelve, they give us two hours to well just chill." Nino explained.

"Or give us time to finish homework we haven't finished yet." Adrien stated towards Nino.

"Oh how you wound me bro, it was one time and what about you with all the times you've been late." Right then and there as they were leaving the door they heard a beeping sound coming from Arthrin's jacket.

"What's that?" Nino asked.

"Oh uh that's just my phone, probably my uncle, I uh I'll see you guy later." Arthrin said as he turned back towards the school but just as soon as he turned around he bumped into Marinette as she was just leaving.

"Hey watch where you're … … … going." Marinette said as she looked him straight in the face.

"Oh um sorry, scuse me sweet cheeks." Arthrin said as he turned and walked past her into the school.

Marinette turned and watched him run into the cafeteria. She couldn't put her finger on it yet but she was certain she knew him from elsewhere. Adrien had this hunch as well, and those Golden eyes were no fact to ignore.

"Uh I'll see you later Alya." Marinette said as she ran off towards the cafeteria.

"Girl, what about our history project!" Alya yelled as Adrien ran after her.

"I'll get her." Adrien said as he ran into the cafeteria.

"And there they go, I swear they're secretly dating." Nino said as he walked up to Alya.

"Oh please he's clueless and she stammers too much around him." Alya said as she shook her head.

Arthrin made his way past the tables in the cafeteria as he pulled out a silver and copper rod that was shaped like a screwdriver. A green light flashed every time it beeped, but the sounds of crashing metal drug him away from the screwdriver. He looked around to see the place was clear before he moved into the kitchen. As soon as he opened the door he was greeted with a can of beans to the face. He quickly wiped the beans off his face and gave a stern to look what looked like a baboon laughing and pointing at him.

"Ha ha very funny little guy." Arthrin said as he walked in the Kitchen to see there were at least three of them. His voice was much deeper this time and not as full of attitude.

Just like in the Article Marinette read earlier they were black with bone like armor and ruby red eyes, but unlike the articles there was more than one this time. Speaking of the Blunette she had just entered the Cafeteria when he entered the Kitchen and Adrien wasn't too far behind her. Adrien didn't want to startle her so he walked up to her a lightly tapped her on the shoulder. She squeaked as she turned to see him press a finger on both his and her lips to quiet her. But the silence didn't last as the sounds of crashing metal came from the Kitchen.

"Oi get back here!" They heard a familiar voice call out as Arthrin and one of the Baboons came running from the Kitchen.

The Baboon just laughed at him as it jumped to the roof and called for its two friends to follow. Arthrin gave the baboon a stern look as he jumped after it and grabbed its tail just as the two other baboons came from the kitchen yelping at him. Adrien quickly dragged Marinette behind a table and flipped it to give them cover as Arthrin swung the baboon towards the other two.

"Alright calm now boys, let's not do something we'll both regret." Arhtrin stated as he cracked his knuckles.

"Stay here." Adrien whispered to Marinette before he ran off. She made sure he was gone and away from the cafeteria before she opened her pouch to let Tikki out.

"What exactly is going on here?" Tikki asked as she floated up to Marinette's eye level.

"I don't know myself but this can't be good Tikki, Spots On!" She called out as Tikki flowed into her earings.

The Baboons just turned to each other before they began throwing silverware, pots, and pans at the boy. Arhtrin smiled as he held the metal rod in his hand, at the twist of his wrist the rod extended itself allowing him to grip it with both hands as a beam of green light came from the extended end. Using it like a sword he was able to deflect the objects being thrown at him or slice right through them. Just as he was about to slice another pot a red Yo-Yo wrapped itself around the handle and pulled itself away from his phase blade. Both Arthrin and The baboons turned to see Ladybug standing atop of a table.

"Isn't this considered destruction of school property?" She questioned as she stepped down from the table.

"Well don't blame me toots the monkeys here started." Arhtrin said in his high pitched voice with a smile as he turned back to the said monkeys.

"Speaking of which what are these things?" Ladybug asked as she walked over to Arthrin's side.

"Short version, beings from another world, not necessarily friendly but not entirely dangerous." Arhtrin explained as the baboons tilted their heads in curiosity at them.

"Know which one?" Ladybug asked as she looked curiously back at the monkeys.

"Yeah mine." Arhtrin said as he took off his sunglasses and showed her his Golden eyes.

The monkeys grew bored and started yelping at them as they ran in their direction. Smiling Arthrin ran towards them with phase blade in hand. Ladybug ran after him and swung her Yo-Yo to wrap around the left most baboon and tugged the string to her right forcing them to crash into each other through the Cafeteria wall. Arhtrin retracted his phase blade and slide under the monkeys as they were flung to his right, giving him the perfect opportunity to run back into the kitchen. Just as Ladybug was about to pull back her Yo-Yo the string was pulled into the room the monkeys crashed into. Her face was about to met the end of another frying pan but luckily a metal pole punched it away, giving her time to catch herself and slide across the floor to regain her stance. She looked around her to see they were in the gym and when she looked up there was her knight in dark shining armor.

"Sorry I'm late M'lady, had to make sure a friend was safe." Chat Noir said as he jumped down from the basket ball hoop he was standing on.

"Chaton your timing is impeccable." Ladybug stated as she swatted away another pot.

"As always, so who's the Monkeys Uncle?" He asked as he swung at one of baboon jumping on him.

"Unfortunately it's a new kid at this school, right as morning classes ended I saw him fighting these things." Ladybug mentioned as she back flipped out the way of a baboon trying to jump her.

"Oh great, any idea where he is right now?" Chat asked as he batted a pan away.

"The Kitchen!" She yelled as she jumped next to Chat Noir.

Arthrin quickly ran into the frozen storage where he saw a bright light sitting there in between the shelves of frozen meat. He smiled as he walked up to it with his gadget in his right hand. He flicked his left wrist and a blue digital screen appeared on his sleeve as he pointed the rod to the light and the green light came on as a buzzing sound began emitting from the rod.

"Oh hello there." He said to himself in his normal voice, as he looked at the screen on his left arm. It showed a sound frequency radar whirling out of control and under it read Intense Frequency.

"Okay let's try this." Arthrin said as he twisted his right hand to the left. The screen on his left arm began flashing red as the text changed to Warning: Extreme Frequency.

"Oh okay not that got it." Arthrin said as he twisted his wrist to the right and the screen changed colors to green and the text now read Resonating Frequency.

"Yes, got it." He cheered as he looked up to see the light slowly fade away.

Once it was gone he smiled to himself and walked out of the freezer and made his way into the gym. But just as he was about to leave the freezer the light flashed back right where it was causing Arthrin to turn around in a was only there for a second and for that second it was there it spit out what looked like a blue gem wrapped in copper wire. It skidded across the floor and stopped by his feet, he looked at it curiously before reaching down to pick it up.

Ladybug had wrapped her Yo-Yo on one of the rooftop poles and pulled herself into a swing. Just as she was about to use the momentum to swing into a baboon they dissipated into thin air, causing her to accidentally swing right into Chat Noir sending them both into the courtyard. Arthrin stood there and watched as the dou landed right in front of him.

"Really Chat Noir, I could've handled it myself ya know." Arthrin said as he helped the two of them up. "Besides didn't you two like just fought an Akuma?" He asked, sticking to his normal voice.

"Yeah well, what can I say, my cat sense was tingling." Chat noir said as he dusted himself off.

"Not what I meant, what I meant was why did you drag her into this?" Arthrin asked as he looked at Ladybug.

"Excuse me, but you're the one whose been borrowing my partner for the past three weeks, so I have a right to know and be of assistance Anton!" She blurted out. The boy in front of them smiled, and that smiled soon turned into a few chuckles shared with Chat Noir, that turned into straight laughing.

"What, what's so funny?" She asked as they began walking out of the school.

"I'll explain later, meet me at the warehouse we first met at when you're free." Anton said as he walked out and hopped onto a steel blue moped.

"Are you going to show her the thing?" Chat asked as Anton started his moped and slipped on his sunglasses before turning to them.

"Which thing?" He asked in his Arthrin voice before he drove away.

"Thing, what thing?" Ladybug asked as she turned to Chat.

"Oh that you will have to see for yourself." Chat said as he pulled out his staff and pulled out the phone application to check the time.

"It almost one, so that gives me about fifteen minutes before I'm needed somewhere else, I'll have to see you later M'Lady." Chat Noir stated before he extended his staff and ran away across the roof tops. Which to Ladybug's surprise wasn't usually like him, normally he stays until she tells him to leave, or their timers or going off. Just what was going on today?

Marinette decided to go visit Anton at the Warehouse just to see what exactly was going on. Running across the roof tops of Paris was always her favorite part when it came to traveling around Paris. She always took time to stop by The Eiffel Tower and stand at the very top, just to get a good look at the view. When she finally got to the old Warehouse just outside Paris her transformation had worn off, leaving her just as Marinette and with Tikki by her side.

"Well that was certainly weird." Tikki stated as she followed Marinette.

"Yeah I know, today has just been full of mysteries, well time to get some answers." Marinette said as she reached for the sliding door.

"Wait Marinette, what if the answers we're seeking, aren't the ones we're looking for?" Tikki questioned as she floated in between Marinette and the door.

"Well if something doesn't add up then he's probably lying, at that point I'll have to interrogate him even further." Marinette stated as she grasped the handle of the door and pushed it open.

When she looked inside she saw that it had been cleared of most of the abandoned crates to make room for wooden platforms to be set up like a Hawaiian luau House, Christmas lights and all. There was a balcony set up at the left side of the entrance with a table and what looked like a bar that had a staircase behind it leading up to a second floor where she saw and least three computer monitors. The right side was mostly left alone safe for most of what was left of the crates being moved there like a wall. As she was about to step inside a small round metallic ball came floating down to her eye level and prevented her from moving forward.

"Please state your name and occupation." A female voice demanded.

"Umm Marinette Dupain-Cheng, uh high school student." The orb released a light beam that scanned over Marinette twice before the light blinked and began floating away.

"Acknowledged, please remain here." She said as the orb float to the second floor.

Marinette stood there for a few moments before she saw the orb float back down to her.

"Monsieur Sonreef will be with you in a moment, please come in and take a seat." The orb stated before floating to the first floor at the bar.

"Well this should fun." Tikki said as she floated onto Marinette's shoulder.

"Well let's hope this goes well." Marinette said as she walked in and took a seat in front of the orb. A small table and chair was set in front of the two of them as the orb floated in front of them.

"A seat and table for the Kwami?" She asked as she placed a tiny glass and a cookie on the table.

"Oh yes please!" Tikki said as she floated down to the table and took a seat.

"Why is there a Kwami sized table set here?" Marinette asked as Tikki started nibbling on the cookie.

"Chat Noir tends to visit here in Civilian Form quite often, his Kwami is always asking for Camembert." The Orb explained.

"No of course not … … … Tom, don't worry I can do afternoons just fine … … … sure I might have an answer, depends on the question … … …" Marinette heard the conversation going on upstairs, he was using his normal voice, she didn't want to listen in but the next part grabbed her attention. "Oh yeah I think she's currently down stairs … … … well I don't know about that, what … no she probably just wants to help me with the literature homework … of course, no worries I'll make sure she gets back on time it's only what one thirty? … Right thank you Tom, I'll see you later." Anton said before he put his phone away and as he walked down the stairs and stood in front of Marinette and reached into the fridge.

"Before you ask yes that was your father." Anton said as he grabbed a bottle of soda for Marinette.

"Why were you talking to my Father?" Marinette asked as she took the soda.

"Well you see the real reason I was late to school was because I was at an interview with him, I need work and he offered me a place at the bakery." Anton said as he reached back into the fridge and pulled out a brown bottle.

"Wait I thought you were leaving soon, after we defeated TNT the first time, you said that you were leaving." Marinette questioned. Anton just reached under the bar and pulled out a bottle opener.

"I did, but that was before one, my partner Wrekts decided to go on a three month adventure without me, and two these things started showing up." Anton said as he popped open Marinette's soda. As he reached to pop his bottle The Orb showed a holographic article that was the same as the one Marinette saw on The Ladyblog.

"Those Creatures that have been coming through those ruptures are known as Grimm on my world. They seek out negativity just like your Akumas only they don't posses it, they feed on it. They've nearly destroyed my world countless times, I didn't ask Chat Noir to aid me, he volunteered; we decided to keep you out of it because we figured you had your priorities." Anton explained as he put down his drink and grabbed a green coat from under the counter.

"Hey I may have my priorities but saving this city comes first, I need to know what damage has been done so I can fix it!" Marinette stated as she stood up from her chair.

"Huh wait for me." Tikki said as she floated towards them.

"Oh see there you go making it your problem, this is my problem I'm the one who started this whole issue." Anton said as he put his coat on and walked up the stairs.

"And you just want to take it on all by yourself, whatever happened to the time where we all worked together, as a Team?" Marinette asked as she followed him up the stairs.

Once through the door at the top of the stairs she saw a big desk with at least six holographic screens. She watched as he sat down in front of the desk and began typing on the keyboard. She looked across his desk and noticed several pictures lay in front of him all of different people. She watched him get ready to set down his gadget on the desk but he stopped for a moment, like he was starring at a certain picture before he finally set it down in front of it. The Picture was that of a young girl, probably around Marinette's age, if not older. She wore a black dress with red lining and her hair was styled in a similar way, and her eye's shined like silver. Anton turned to see her eyeing the pictures of each person, he sighed as rolled his chair out of the way.

"I had a team, once, each of them were invaluable to each other, we took on every dark force that came our way, it started small but as time went on people began to recognize us, they would scream our names whenever we'd enter a town or village, we gave them hope, Team Ranger they'd call us, we'd uh we'd look out for each other, keep each other safe." Anton explained. Tikki floated over Anton's head to get a good look at the pictures.

"So what happened to them?" Marinette asked. Anton just sat there as he over looked all the pictures.

"A lot, one left the team to pursue a different dream, someone else decided to stay behind, and one of them … died, eventually I ran away myself after the team seemed to split." Anton said with sad eyes. Tikki floated in front of his face and tried to comfort him.

"How long ago was it?" She asked.

"Not long enough." He answered.

"I'm sorry, I-I." Marinette couldn't finish her sentence.

"You didn't know, that's okay, Chat asked the same questions you did when he found out, and honestly … … … I'm tired of running and not doing anything about my mistakes." Anton said as he scooted his chair back to the desk and began typing on the keyboard.

"We need to get back to school, don't want anyone thinking Arthrin Davis just up and disappeared." Anton said as the screen blinked off and he stood from his chair.

"Wait why did you start going to our school, it doesn't really seem like your thing?" Marinette questioned as Tikki floated back into her purse. Anton smiled as he turned to her.

"Because I want to learn, I'm not in my world so I better learn what I can about this one while I'm here." Anton said before he turned back around and walked down the stairs.

Marinette smiled as she followed him. Sure things were confusing now but she had a feeling that it would all make sense sooner or later. Sometimes not everything will be understood right off the bat, but they're not supposed to, otherwise what would be the fun in learning on the fly. Though She and Chat were The Light, and Hawkmoth The Dark, he stood in the middle as The Grey.