This Akuma was based on a "Marionette" Akuma idea by .com

Kat almost cried when Tikki flew over to her with Ladybug's earrings. She knew exactly how this happened and she blamed (Felix a little bit) but mostly just herself for not being of enough help. She could have prevented this!

~ Flashback ~

It was a couple days after the twins birthday party when Felix felt he needed to confront Kat about her schemes to make him fall in love with Marinette.

The two didn't even know how it escalated to this, but it ended up in a loud screaming match. As every argument the two controlling, egotistical best friends did.

"Stop setting me up with Marinette! I. Don't. Even. Like. Her." Felix snapped angrily, his cheeks turned red.

"You would!" Kat growled back. "You would if you just gave her a chance. But you just refuse to!"

"No, Kat! There is no way I would EVER fall for someone like Marinette Dupain-Cheng!" He yelled back.

Kat had to mumble. "You already did, you idiot." Before they heard a strangled sob from the doorway.

They turned and saw Marinette, who had seen at least part of that argument. She looked like she was gonna sob, she left the room quickly, trying to cover up her emotions.

Kat shoved Felix and gave him the dirtiest look before going after Marinette. They ended up near a secluded area near the beach. "Oh Mari, it's okay, everything is fine." She held the girl in her arms and tried to calm her down.

"No." Marinette sobbed. "I should've known. Heck, I KNEW. I I was just in denial. What am I? I'm plain a-and stupid and-"

"No, you're not!" Kat argued immediately. "Mari, you are sweet and kind and strong. Felix should feel GREATFUL that someone as great as you likes him." She said seriously.

"B-but he d-doesnt. D-didnt you hear? He-he won't even c-con-sider even liking me!" She sobbed as Kat held her.

"Yeah. Felix is an obstinate brat who would much rather fight his feelings than actually admit how much he cares." The both of them are like that. Kat and Felix both care and feel so much more than either would ever let on. "But you knew that already. The thing is, Mari." Kat whispered to her, as if it were a big secret. "He's so wrapped up in you that he can't even notice YOU."

"You…you really think so?"

Kat smiled softly at her. "Have I ever steered you wrong before, Mari?" Kat teased affectionately, trying her hardest to make her feel better.

~ End Flashback ~

Kat thought she was doing well, spending her time with Mari and trying to help her through her heartbreak. But it clearly wasn't enough. Kat seemed to be unable to ever do enough to help.

She pushed that thought to the back of her head before turning to Tikki with a frown and questioning. "What do you expect me to do? Marinette is the strong one. I can't do anything myself. And I can't FIGHT her. I can't hurt her."

Marinette was akumatized now, from all the different feelings that coursed through her. She tried to feel better and keep it away from her, but she didn't FEEL like the Ladybug anymore. She took the earrings off momentarily as she sobbed. Tikki tried to make her feel better but it was all in vain as a black butterfly flying to her sewing supplies.

She touched her knitting needles and was transformed into the Marionette. Her lips were turned blood red and her eyes were colder than they usually are.

But Marinette was still in the core of this stringed up perversion of her natural form. It even showed in her powers. All she wanted most times was to help everyone and make everyone understand eachother.

The sewing supplies that floated next to her immediately scrawled out the deepest, darkest secrets of those who looked upon it or whom Marionette pointed it towards.

Kat ran from it the second she saw it. She refused to even look at it as it sewed too many secrets and thoughts that Kat tried to repress and ignore. Because she WAS weak and she WAS a failure. And her father may love her but she would NEVER match up to his expectations. And sometimes she wished that she could choose to stop breathing because it hurt to do so.

Marionette froze when she saw it, because beneath her own hurt and pain, Kat was still the person that she would take a bullet for and she KNEW would do so for her.

Kat bolted, not even seeing all the things it started saying about Chat Noir. She wouldn't have looked if she could, because she respected him much too much for that.

"But, you need to!" Tikki argued. "You're the only person who can. You need to help Marinette."

Kat rubbed the tears from her eyes. "Why? Why me? I'm not that great at all." She replied. "You saw the tapestry. You know who I am." She held her ring and sighed. "Why don't you go to one of the boys. Felix is already good enough to get his own powers."

"Oh, Kat. You're good in your own way. And you're GOOD. And I need your help." Tikki repeated. "Marinette needs your help."

That was the statement to push her out of her existential crisis. She couldn't help but do anything for Marinette. She loved her best friend so much.

Kat grabbed the earrings and sighed, taking out the alexandrite heart-earrings out of her ears and replacing them with the Ladybug earrings. "If it's what I need to do." She wiped her tears one last time. "Spots on."

She gasped as she transformed into the spotted Ladybug. This was a rush of magic, caused by Tikki's powers. She had never felt like this before. Like she could do anything. She felt….powerful.

"Is this how the others feel all the time? No wonder Chat Noir and Chat Blanc are both so reckless." She was busy laughing and running around with her new powers. She hurt herself several times as she tried to use Ladybug's yo-yo to spiderman across the city. "That is certainly not as easy as Mari makes it look." She practically whined.

Kat kept missing with the yo-yo and hurting himself. Without the added luck from Tikki's powers, Kat would've fallen to the floor and splattered like a bug by now.

She finally got to the other two boys and Kat ordered them to do what they needed to do.

"Cheshire Chat?! W-why are you Ladybug? And where is the real Ladybug?!"

Kat growled at the two of them. "Ladybug can't help with this Akuma. Because Ladybug IS this Akuma!" She yelled at them before freezing and covering her mouth. Oh my god. She WAS a failure. The first thing she did as Ladybug was hurt herself and give up her best friend's identity for nothing! What is wrong with her?!

"Well, actually what I meant to say was that due to the colorful spots of a Ladybug she was unable to come about while an imposter was about. This is due to the-" She TRIED to ramble on and distract the two of them from her admittance.

"LADYBUG IS MARINETTE?!" Chat Blanc's yell was several octaves higher than his regular voice.

Chat Noir's jaw dropped and he simply had no response for this turn of events.

"We purrtainly don't have time for you two to cast a kitten about this." She snapped, hitting them both upside the head with the yo-yo. "Hey, I'm starting to get a hang of this. Now onto catching Marionette."

Neither Chat was anywhere NEAR ready for that declaration and they were both not 100% focused on the battle. Kat wasn't used to Mari's power, but she was good at thinking on her feet and knew every single weakness that Marinette had.

It was an epic battle of wits and fighting, which lasted almost the entire day and involved every Kwami being fed multiple times. However, in the end Kat was able to subdue her best friend and purify the butterfly.

When Mari came to, both Chat Noir and Chat Blanc stormed her, making sure she felt better because she was the real Ladybug and she was their teammate.

No one noticed Kat's hands shaking as she removed rhe earrings, having to give up the only thing that she ever had that truly made her strong. No one noticed Kat's melancholy because deep down she didn't believe anyone would really do this much for her. No one noticed as Kat gave the powers to Marinette, mumbled some half-assed excuse and went home to get her ring.

It may be artificial power that she built herself. It may not come with a loyal friend to stay with you through thick and thin. But it was hers.

Kat was still determined to never become an Akuma. She never really did cross that threshold of being honestly upset at a certain source. She was just this way naturally.

She would feel better in the morning. For now, a bunch of old Disney and desserts and more updating on her ring. Always keeping busy, Kat was. Sometimes it was as if Kat couldn't sit still for more than 5 minutes.