Adrien had just begun stuffing his dinner into his mouth when his phone tinkled merrily from his pocket. He sighed quietly and pulled it out, expecting one of Chloe's emoticon packed rants. Instead, he had a new text from a number he didn't recognize. He opened it curiously, nearly dropping it into his soup. "We need to meet. Now.3rd street, the corner near my house- Marinette."
He flushed deeply, looking around for any of the constant flow of people employed by his father, grateful to see none of them hovering. Marinette, no Ladybug, wanted to see him! He ate his meal at record speed, grabbed his coat and Plagg, and sprinted out the door. He wasn't sure if his feet touched the ground at any point during his run there, but he wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't.
When he arrived, breathless, pink cheeked and huffing, to the corner, he saw Marinette's shape pacing nervously around a streetlamp. "Marinette!" he called warmly, grinning.
"Adrien!" she half sobbed, stopping the blonde in his tracks. That didn't sound like a "I'm glad to see you, Cat. Now, let's get married and move to the bahamas." not at all.
"Marinette, wha….what's wrong?"
"Hawkmoth. My parents. Note, there was bread on the floor andIdon'tknowwhatisgoingon-"
"Wait! Wait, slow down. Take a breath and talk to me." he said emphatically, shrugging off his coat the second he noticed she was shivering from the cold and without one. He wrapped it around her shoulders and took her hand gently.
"Hawkmoth. I think he took my p-p-parents!" she choked weakly "he must've seen me change back! He knows who I am now Adrien!"
"Well, let's go get them back."
"Where are they?" she asked pointedly, looking sadly at her hands.
"..." How the hell should he know? He glanced up, thinking hard. Hawkmoth would be...somewhere high. Somewhere dark, but open. He couldn't send akumas out if it wasn't open.
"There's….an observatory. It's near my place." he explained his rationalization when Marinette looked at him questioningly. Her blue eyes brightened, and she let out a little "oh" when he finished. "Yeah! That's brilliant!" she cried cheerfully, clapping her hands loudly in the now dark. Adrien frowned, seeing her struggle this hard to put up a brave front hurt him on a spiritual level. He felt a huge surge of rage. Hawkmoth wouldn't get away with this. He hurt Marinette's parents, and, by extension, Marinette herself. "Shall we M'lady?" they both changed and headed towards the observatory near Adrien's, were almost there when a cool voice stopped them. "Lady Wifi is here to stop you both!"
Marinette and Adrien looked at each other weakly, as if asking "do YOU know why she's here?" both shook their heads upon making eye contact. As the looked back, they saw not just Lady Wifi standing proudly, blocking their path, but at least half the akumatized victims lurking nearby. The Evillustrator, Princess Fragrance, The Pharaoh, and Rogercop, just to name a few. Cat felt Ladybug tighten next to him, and slowly breathe "how?" before awkwardly slipping into a fighting stance.
"Doesn't matter how, just matters that we take care of it and finish this soon." Cat replied, somehow keeping his voice even. All of them, ALONE, had nearly done the both of them in, forget about taking ten odd on at the same time.
Lady Wifi grinned sardonically "I doubt that you will Cat Noir. You see, we aren't just here to block you, we're here to take your miraculous! If that happens, you can be sure that Marinette will NEVER, EVER see her parents again."