Ayla and Marinette stood outside of Montparnasse Tower. Alya still had her gleeful expression on her face and hadn't spoken a word of her plan on the way over. She was staring at the glass building, like she was on the verge of the greatest discovery in history.

"What are we doing here?" Marinette asked her as she stared up into the sky, trying to see the top of the tower.

"We're going to retrace Ladybug and Cat Noir's steps. This is where all of the action happened, right? So, this is where the answers are going to be."

Alya took a step forward to enter the building, but Marinette grabbed her hand, unsatisfied with that answer.

"How are we supposed to retrace their steps? This is an office building, Alya. We can't just go prancing around. Only the terrace is open to the public."

It had been a good plan, one Marinette wished she'd thought of herself. But there was no way they'd be able to do that, since it had only been accessible to the students because of their school trip. Not to mention that the building was 56 stories tall. Even if they could find a way to look around, how would they know which steps to retrace?

"Just follow my lead, Marinette."

With determination, Alya yanked her forward, and together they entered the tower.

It was a busy place. People were coming and going, some were in line for tickets to the terrace, others were standing around chatting. It had been much the same when the class arrived the day before for their school trip. Alya stood on her toes and scanned the crowd for a moment.

"Ah, follow me." She told Marinette.

Curiously, Marinette did as asked, and Alya led them to a security guard. Without hesitation she pulled a lanyard out from inside her shirt.

"Alya Cesaire, The Ladyblog." She presented her pass to the guard. "I'm doing a story on the events that took place here yesterday, and I'd like to take a look around to see if I can find some information for my article."

The guard studied the pass and then Alya and then the pass again. He glanced over at Marinette and raised an eyebrow.

"She's my assistant." Alya said, pushing her glasses forward on her nose.

He handed her back her badge and pointed her towards the elevators used by the employees who work in the many offices.

"Thank you."

The girls headed in the direction they were told and Alya placed her lanyard back inside her shirt. She laughed when she caught the questioning expression that Marinette was giving her.

"It's a press pass," she said, pointing to where it hung under her shirt. "There aren't too many places that are off limits to the creator of the Ladyblog." With a wink, and a smug grin, Alya reached out and pressed to button to go up the elevators.

And just like that, they were in. Operation Remembero was in full effect. Marinette hadn't thought they'd get this far, but now that they had, she really gave thought to Alya's plan. There were both pros and cons to what was possibly about to happen.

Marinette was dying to fill in the gaps in her memory, and while Alya's plan wasn't exactly solid on its own, Marinette was hoping she'd find something that could jog her memory or at least give her a hint as to what took place. Pros, if this worked, Marinette would find out why she kissed Cat Noir. Cons, Alya could find out vital information about her secret identity.

Marinette snuck a sideways glance at Alya. Yup, that look was still there. There'd be no talking her out of this one even if Marinette wanted to. But honestly, she didn't. Nodding inwardly to herself, she tightened her firsts and got ready to be on the look out. If there were any clues, she'd have to make sure they weren't too revealing.

The elevator doors slid open, and the girls stood aside to let the passengers off before entering. There was only one, and to their surprise, they knew him. He seemed to be in his own world and didn't even notice that the elevator doors had opened.

"Adrien, hey." Alya said with a wave and a glance over at Marinette whose eyes had glazed over with a grin spread across her face.

He shook off whatever he'd been daydreaming about and noticed the girls standing in front of him.

"Hey Alya, hey Marinette." He said, returning Marinette's smile and adding a wave. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Research. How about you?" Alya answered.

Adrien scratched his head, "I was just uh, checking out the terrace. Yesterday was so crazy, I didn't really get a chance to appreciate it."

"Sorry about that."

"Don't worry about it. What are you guys researching?" he asked, looking between the both of them.

"We're blogging for the Lady. I mean the steps are for the research we're tracing." Marinette blurted out. And just when she thought she'd been making progress, too.

"What she means is, we're doing research for the Ladyblog. Since Ladybug and Cat Noir lost their memories, we're going to try to retrace their steps and learn a little more about what possibly went down."

Adrien's eyes widened a little. Not that he thing he said about not having a chance to check out the terrace yesterday hadn't been true, but what he hadn't told them was that he was trying to jog his lost memory. He'd been unsuccessful and ready to leave when he ran into them, but maybe…Alya's a pretty good detective, he thought. Maybe with her help, I'll have better luck at finding out what made Ladybug fall in love with me.

The elevator doors began to beep after staying open for so long. Alya glanced over at Marinette who'd begun fidgeting and back to Adrien who hadn't seemed to make up his mind about getting off of the elevator or not.

"You know Adrien, if you're not busy, we actually could use your help. What do you say?"

She felt Marinette freeze next to her momentarily, and pushed her onto the elevator.

"Uhh, sure it sounds like fun. What do you need me to do?"

Now that they were all on the elevator, they let the doors close. Alya pressed the button to the top floor, since that's last place Ladybug and Cat Noir were before losing their memories, and began explaining her plan to them on the way up.

"Okay guys so here's my plan: it's safe to assume that Ladybug and Cat Noir had no idea who they were or what was going on after they got hit by Oblivio's blasts, which means they weren't Ladybug and Cat Noir fighting a villain, just acting regular people trying to figure out what to do. So that's what we're going to do. We're just going to put ourselves into their shoes, and pretend we have no memories either. Marinette, you act as Ladybug; Adrien, you act as Cat Noir. I'll act as though I'm Oblivio, but I'll also help out as Alya. The last piece of footage we have from the news had Ladybug and Cat Noir on this elevator. So, we go back to the top and start from there. If we take this one step at a time, we might be able to recreate the situation that followed. Any questions?"

The three of them looked at each other.

"It sounds like a good plan Alya, but how can we be sure we're making the same choices they made?" Marinette asked.

"Well, nothing is for sure, but we have three heads to put together."

"I think it's worth a shot." Adrien said.

Alya squealed with excitement. "If this works, we'll know the story behind 'The Kiss!"

"Wait," Marinette said, "I thought we were just trying to find out how they fought through the memory loss and remembered that they were heroes." She looked at her friend through squinted eyes.

"Well yeah, that's part of it. But my readers are dying to know the full story, and quite frankly so am I. Aren't you?"

"Not really. That kiss couldn't have meant anything if Ladybug said she's in love with someone else." She shrugged.

"I don't know, Marinette," Adrien chimed in. "I wouldn't say it couldn't mean anything. At the very least it means that Ladybug could fall in love with Cat Noir. And if it happened once, it could happen again."

As cute as Adrien was, there was no way Marinette was going to let him have this one. And Alya was content to listen to them argue it out. It was great to see her friend talk to her crush without stuttering or being nervous.

"What? No way, nuh uh!" she argued, "Cat Noir is way goofy, and I'm sure whoever Ladybug is in love with is much cooler, and probably way more handsome too."

"Well I think he's cool, and…wait…weren't you in love with Cat Noir once?"

Adrien had his hand on his chin as he tried to remember the details. He didn't understand why Marinette was saying these things about Cat Noir when just the month before she'd confessed her love to him. Hopefully, she wasn't harboring any bitterness since he had to let her down.

"OAOEJLA WHAT?"

"You never told me about that." Alya said, failing to hold back her laughter.

"That was…I…never mind. It's a long story." Marinette said, crossing her arms and leaning back against the elevator wall with a blush. "Anyway we're almost to the top."

Marinette was skeptical, Adrien was pumped, and Alya was determined. Each one of them had their own reasons for wanting to know the truth behind the previous day's events. The elevator reached the top of the terrace and opened its doors.

"Okay so according to the footage, after they were hit, the elevator went down and stopped at the thirtieth floor." Alya said as she pressed the close door button.

"Then why'd we come all the way to the top?" Adrien asked.

"That's the only thing we know that happened for a fact, and it's our biggest lead. So now, we're riding the elevator down, and we have no idea what's going on. First thing's first. What do we do? According to the people I interviewed, Oblivio's blasts knocked them out for a few minutes. So you guys get down on the floor. "

"What?"

"You heard me, you're knocked out!"

Marinette and Adrien exchanged glances with each other before following Alya's orders. They got on the floor of the elevator and closed their eyes to wait for their next instructions.

"Okay, now open your eyes and pretend you have no memories." Alya commanded. "What's the first thing you do?"

Marinette opened her eyes and blinked. She looked up at Alya, and then over to Adrien, and back to Alya, who had pulled out her notepad and a pen.

"Well, first I want to know who you guys are. And where I am."

"Well that's easy, we're on an elevator and I'm…I don't know." Said Adrien after catching Alya's warning glance.

"That's probably when she realized that she didn't know who she was either. I guess the next thing would be to get off of the elevator, right?"

"And don't forget, I'm chasing you. So, you're both probably really freaked out on top of that."

"Right. So how do we get out of here?" Adrien asked.

Marinette looked around.

"Well the only way off of the elevator is through the door right?"

"Or the roof." Adrien answered.

"Oblivio probably tried to get in through the roof."

Just then, the door opened to let them off on the 30th floor.

"This is where the elevator stopped," said Alya, "so lets assume this is where they got off. So you don't know where you are, but you know something is chasing you and you have to get to safety."

Alya looked around at the office level she was on. They were in a hall that had lots of doors to choose from.

"Where would you feel most safe?"

"At home, under a blanket." Marinette replied.

"Very funny," Alya replied while Adrien laughed, "but something is chasing you and you have to get out of here quickly."

"Well there are a lot of doors," Adrien said, looking around him, "so we wouldn't want to waste time trying all of them because they could be locked or lead to dead ends." He spotted a bathroom sign. "The bathroom! You don't have to worry about locked doors, and it's at the end of the hall so it would buy you a little time."

"Good thinking Agreste." Alya said as she began marching her way down to the bathroom.

The three of them stood in the bathroom, unsure of what to do next.

"I feel like this is a dead end." Said Marinette.

"Well, Ladybug and Cat Noir probably transformed back by now, which means they had their kwamis to help them. So their kwamis probably told them that they were superheroes and that they had to defeat oblivio." Alya had a discouraged frown on her face. The answer shouldn't have been that simple.

"Unless the kwamis lost their memories too." Adrien and Marinette said at the same time. They looked at each other with startled expressions and followed up their unison phrase with,

"Just a guess."

"I mean, it's possible right?"

Alya was too caught up in her investigation to notice anything weird about their behavior, but what they said made sense. From her own experience with being a superhero, not that either of her friends knew, was that the suit was powered by the miraculous, and the miraculous was powered by the kwami. So it's possible that the blast that affected the heroes, affected the kwami as well.

She was suddenly excited again. This wasn't a dead end after all!

"Okay, so we'll go with that. The kwamis had amnesia too. But amnesia or not, before they could transform again they would need to recharge."

"So they'd head to the food court then?" Adrien suggested.

"That's it!" Exclaimed Alya. "So they'd have to figure out how to get there from here."

"Hmm, I'm not sure about that." Marinette spoke up, "Ladybug and Cat Noir transform almost every day. Sometimes more than once. It would make sense that they carried food with them for emergencies."

"Good point," Alya said. She checked her watch. They'd been talking in the bathroom for a few minutes now, long enough for Oblivio to have caught up with them.

"Okay guys, we're going to have to raise the stakes. Don't forget you're being chased, and the villain is closing in. How would you escape this bathroom?"

"Well in the movies, the quickest way to escape is always a ventilation shaft." Said Adrien. "Let's look around and see if we can find one."

They split up and checked each stall.

"Found it," called Alya to her friends. "We'll see where this leads."

She stood on top of the toilet and removed the grate so that they could crawl through. One after the other, they made their way through the air duct until they saw a light. They followed it to then end and popped out the grate on that side. First Alya came out, then Marinette, then Adrien. They were in a large office space.

And being the middle of a work day, they were not alone. Each desk had a person sitting at it, some were on phone calls, others were sending emails, and they all stopped to stare at their new guests.

Alya pulled out her press pass. "Alya Cesaire, The Ladyblog. Don't mind us, we're writing an article."

Everyone stared for a moment before going back to work, and the sounds of the office resumed.

"Okay guys, we've bought ourselves a few more minutes before you-know-who shows up." Alya said to her 'assistants', careful not to say anything that could cause panic in the office. "Let's look around and see if there are any clues here."

They split up and strolled through the office, looking for answers.

Marinette went to the left. She walked past a few cubicles, smiling at those she past, and made her way to the end of the aisle. She spotted what appeared to be a utility closet and made her way towards it. She looked around her to make sure the coast was clear before ducking inside.

"Does any of this seem familiar to you, Tikki?" She asked immediately opening up her purse.

"No, nothing rings a bell." She answered. "But Marinette, if I lost my memories too, then I couldn't have been able to tell you how to turn back into Ladybug."

"So, do you think you kept your memories instead?"

"No, I think we had help from someone who knew our identities."

"Master Fu?"

Tikki nodded.

"But how?"

To this, Tikki shrugged, and Marinette let out a sigh.

"We'd better get back to the others.

Adrien went to the right and trailed along the walls of the office. He noticed a few boxes laying around, but that didn't seem to mean anything to him. He wasn't paying attention to where he was going and almost ran right into Ladybug.

Huh?

His eyes adjusted to what he thought he'd seen, and realized it was only just a picture of Ladybug. It was the poster for the animated Ladybug and Cat Noir movie that was coming out that summer. He'd been the one to do the voice for Cat Noir, which he hadn't wanted to do since someone might have recognized his voice as the real voice of Cat Noir, but his father had insisted.

He realized that this poster might've been a clue. He had to tell the girls!

Alya went straight. What would I have done if it were me? She asked herself. Theoretically, Oblivio is searching the building for them right now, and they have limited time to hide. Something about what Marinette said in the bathroom was nagging at her mind, but she couldn't figure it out. All around her the office phones were ringing, and it was making it a little bit harder for her to concentrate.

She pulled out her phone to check the new footage, and then it hit her! Marinette said Ladybug and Cat Noir must've kept food for the kwamis, but they didn't think about what else they wouldve had with them. They must have had their phones! Memories or no, Ladybug is smart. She would've done the same thing that I'm doing, and checked her phone for answers!

Alya made an about face and headed back to regroup with the others.

Once everyone was back together, Adrien took them to the poster to show them his discovery.

"They must've seen this poster and that's how they figured out that they were superheroes!"

"And check this out," Alya began, "What if they used their phones to find out more information about themselves? Let's check the news footage again."

They checked the footage, and Marinette was the one to point out that Ladybug had to have left herself a message on the wall. After her conversation with Tikki, it made so much sense. How else would she have known to contact Fu?

"Look there, she leaves a message. That was their clue to their powers, maybe?"

"But that still doesn't tell us what led to the kiss," Alya said.

Quick Authors note because a couple of people have mentioned it: I assume Alya has written about Kwamis in her blog and expects her friends to know about them because the episode "Sapotis", when Ladybug firsts give Alya the fox miraculous, Alya already knows about Kwamis because "im an expert."