Marinette lay exhausted in her bed; it had been a really long day, with the time-travelling akuma at dawn and then it was a busy day at work. Life was always full of excitement…too much excitement.

"Hey, Bugaboo, in bed, already? It's only 6!" a familiar masculine voice ringed in her ears making her smile.

"Busy day…" she groaned as she rolled to the side to face him.

Adrien leaned to the bedroom door sipping onto a mug of coffee…as he playfully flicked his golden hair at her gaze.

"Oh my god, stop it, you dork." She babbled as he broke out into series of chuckles.

Her gaze drifted to her desk and smiled to see a cup of coffee waiting for her.

Marinette reached out to grab it but she was too late as another pair of hands took it away.

"Uh…uh…what do you have to do to get the coffee?" Adrien said playfully placing his empty cup on the table.

"Please, Adrien!"

"Nope, wrong word!"

"Ugh…fine…Pur-lease may I have some coffee?"

Adrien handed the cup to her.

"Now, that's more like it…now drink up, Bugaboo!"

Marinette giggled as he winked at her and raised the cup to press it against her lips-abruptly, she felt the glowing of her earrings and gazed at Adrien's fingers to see his ring glowing too.

"It's one of those days with double akumas, Yay!" Adrien said sarcastically.

"And just when I was going to drink my coffee." Marinette mumbled as he giggled at her, "anyways, time to bring in the alter egos!"

"Plagg, Claws Out!"

"Tikki, Spots On!"


Cat Noir and Ladybug scanned Paris trying to figure out the source of the havoc. After a few minutes of searching, their eyes caught a familiar streak of yellow.

"Ladybug, Cat Noir!" Queen Bee yelped as she spotted them.

"Queen Bee, so what is this new akuma all about?"

"He calls himself Chaser; and seems to have powers of super speed, he's as fast as lightening making it impossible for us to see him clearly; Pegase is trying to track him own."

"Who else are out and about?"

"Rena and Carapace: they're taking care of the participants of the marathon as Chaser wreaked havoc there."

"Did Chaser directly attack any of you?"

"No, he's a queer akuma, it was as if he didn't sense our presence."

"Hmm…Cat Noir, go and help Rena and Carapace protect the marathon runners: me and Queenie will go help Pegase."

"As you wish, Milady!" Cat Noir said with a bow and set off on his baton.

"C'mon, Chloe!"

"Pegase! What happened to Chaser?"

Ladybug and Queen Bee had arrived to the Trocedaro where Pegase had mentioned he last saw Chaser.

"I don't know, Ladybug, I was on his tail for a long enough time but then just before you called, a green spot on his right air pod beeped and he vanished into thin air. According to my calculations, he appeared to be looking for someone in particular and it didn't seem like the marathon runners either."

"The air pod must be where the akuma is hiding! Turns out super speed isn't his only power, say, remember Oni-Chan."

"You mean when Kagami was akumatized for the second time about 10 years ago?" Queen Bee questioned.

"Yes, Oni-Chan had powers of teleportation: she could detect anyone she casted her horn upon, in that case it was Lila. The horn on Lila's head acted like a relay antenna, Oni-Chan would displace the person Lila was interacting with if they checked the notification on their phone."

"But…how is this related to Chaser?"

"Hmm…Chaser has similar teleportation powers; his teleportation powers helps him find the person he's searching for as well but this time it's as if the roles have been reversed. Instead of the victim having something of the villain's; it's the villain having something of the victim's. The air pod must belong to the victim that's the reason Chaser can detect his location."

"Hmm…you seem to be right, Ladybug, but then there is something strange about all this: why is Dark Butterfly enabling Chaser to go after the victim first and completely ignoring the miraculous unless- "

"-Chaser is looking for one of us!"


Flashback:

Marcus stood in Monsieur Agreste's office to collect the papers and hand them over to Ms. Dupain Cheng. As he reached to the top cupboard, he felt something solid and small at the tip of his shoe. Kneeling down, he took the white air pod in his hand and he recognised it to be Monsieur Agreste's. God…money makes you even forget tiny precious items like this.

"Ah…so you're still rummaging through papers, Walrus!" a high-pitched familiar female voice came from the doorway and it made him scowl.

"Anais, so what brings you here?" he questioned turning to face her.

"Oh…what brings me here? Hmph…I came here to inform you that the papers you're looking for aren't here as I've already handed them to Ms. Dupain-Cheng!" Anais said boldly as she held a sly grin on her face.

"Oh…thanks for the information." Marcus turned away from her to rearrange Monsieur Agreste's cupboard.

"Geesh, you're so untrustworthy that Monsieur Agreste didn't even bother to give you all the responsibility for once!"

"He must've forgotten." Marcus muttered through gritted teeth.

"Forgotten your existence!" Anais cackled.

Marcus flung around agitated with clenched fists as he glared at Anais.

"Just tell me what you want, Anais!"

"What do I want? Oh…I simply wouldn't need anything…I practically rule this place! You on the other hand…should be the one worried for speaking to me like that!"

"Oh yeah, you're just jealous that she chose me over you!"

The smirk on her face vanished as she began to glare daggers at him.

"Ms. Dupain Cheng may be the boss of this company but I'm the boss of you so watch your mouth; in a snap, I could destroy your reputation and even get you fired! You and your family could have nothing to live on anymore and you'll regret ever speaking to me!"

Anais turned and left the room leaving Marcus in a mixture of emotions as he felt his blood boiling with rage in his veins; he failed to notice the purple butterfly entering the air pod in his hand.

End of Flashback


"Quick, call Rena and tell her to meet us with the others at the Eiffel Tower, the marathon runners must've been a mere distraction to keep us all apart!" Ladybug cried as she swung on her yoyo with Pegase and Queen Bee at her heels.

"Okay, Ladybug!"

Queen Bee pulled apart her spinning top to call Rena; she proceeded to explain the situation to Rena.

"WHAT?" Queen Bee's outburst alarmed Ladybug as she turned to face her on concern, "what do you mean he's not there?"

Rena's voice came out in muffled squeals from the receiver's end as Queen Bee nodded her head worriedly.

"Okay, I'll tell Ladybug, meet us at the Eiffel Tower anyways!"

Queen Bee raised her head to face Ladybug, she bit her lip anxiously as Ladybug arched her brow.

"Queenie, what's the matter?"

"Well-er-Ladybug, according to Rena, Cat Noir had never arrived."

"But it shouldn't take him that long to reach where Rena and Carapace were, unless…" the words drifted away from her mouth as her face froze in horror. Ladybug now knew exactly who Chaser was after and that he had already succeeded.


"Dark Butterfly, I've done what you've asked of me!"

The words that Lila heard from behind her made her smile: everything was going according to plan.

"Excellent! You've done well, Chaser! Now, it's time for the real fun to begin, get ready, Ladybug!"


Note: Pegase is the horse hero and his civilian identity is Max; he has the power of super speed thus he was necessary for the fic.

Anais may have seemed nice in the first chapter, but smiles say nothing.

"There's daggers in men's smiles"-William Shakespeare