Chapter 6: Resolution
Chat's green eyes found the pale blue of Gabriel Agreste, before he could stop himself one word fled from his lips, "Father?"
Gabriel's eyes went wide at those words, causing him to glare at the hero before him. He pursed his lips and gazed down at Chat Noir, "I…I know what I did was wrong… but I had my reasons," soon after, with a cold, hollow gaze, Gabriel held his head high and walked toward the forming police blockade in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Catalyst threw her hands to the floor, "No! Not when we're so close!" A smile overtook her frown, curling her lips into a sinister grin, "I can't help him like this, but maybe I can in another!" She turned on her heel, disappearing from Hawkmoths Lair.
Gabriel held a hallowed gaze as the police read him his rights. His frown had fallen, he knew he would be tried and convicted for his crimes against Paris. Crestfallen he turned his gaze to Chat Noir, hoping for him to return it. Chat Noir, however, turned his gaze toward Ladybug.
"It's finally over Chat!" Ladybug smiled, grabbing chat's shoulder a shaking him, "I can't believe it's over! Two whole YEARS…"
Ladybugs words faded out, the roaring wave of uncertainty overshadowed her words. What would happen to his father, what about Nathalie and the gorilla? What about him? The uncertainty roared into a deafening force, blocking out anything he could say or do otherwise. It surrounded him, covering him in its deafening tone, threatening to make him deaf to anything other than its own message.
He could feel a hand on his shoulder, he could hear three words rip through the endless waves of doubt that surrounded him, "You okay Chat?"
These three words pulled him from the depths of the wave, he blinked at the girl. Ladybug was back in front of him, not far away out in the wasteland of doubt. A concerned gaze piercing the fog that had surrounded Adrien's mind.
"Chat, you okay?" She repeated, firmly grabbing her partners shoulder.
Chat grinned at his lady, "Purr-fectly fine, My Lady!"
Ladybug groaned, "You're hopeless!" Chat began to laugh all senses of doubt obliterated by the presence of his lady love.
Queen Bee groaned, "I'm fine dad really!" She facepalmed at the sound of her mother's concerned voice, "I'm a superhero mom, it's kind of what I do!"
Meanwhile Rena Rouge rested her head against Carapace's shoulder, his arm wrapping around her pulling her close, "You were so brave," she spoke, a smile on her face, "Facing Hawkmoth by yourself, protecting Chat, you really pulled your weight."
Carapace's thumb rubbed Rena's shoulder, "You weren't so bad yourself," He brought his head down, giving a quick peck to Rena's forehead, "You went against almost half of them by yourself and even saved Tony Stark from being in the crossfire."
As the heroes discussed their thankfulness that the battle between Hawkmoth, Ladybug, and Chat Noir was over, how they weren't hurt because they were a superhero, or how their partner fought well a new villain began to stretch their wings.
Mayura, walked into the light, a dark blue mask surrounded her eyes, "Gabriel Agreste," she plucked a feather from her fan, sending dark energies within it, "I give you to aid you so desperately need in this battle, your very nature." She brought the feather to her mouth, and blew it into the wind, sending it floating toward its target.
"We're getting very impatient Tony, you've almost spent an entire week accomplishing nothing, may I remind you that you are not on a vacation." Ross' neutral voice nagged at Tony's ears, who unimpressed simply gave a smile back.
"I couldn't help but relax, fighting fires, supervillains, and an evil fashion icon it's the best place to have a vacation," Tony replied, a sarcastic smile growing larger on his face.
He could hear Ross frown at him, "Tony, you are on thin ice. Get them to sign the accords, or we will have a problem with you." Without giving Tony the chance to respond to the secretary hung up.
Tony sighed, his gaze found the younger heroes, all complementing each other or talking to their parents, begging them to stop worrying. He couldn't help but smile at the heroes. They had faced and defeated their first supervillain, he couldn't help but be happy for them.
He made his way over to the group and cleared his throat, getting their attention, "As much as I would want to celebrate his defeat, I wasn't sent here to defeat an evil fashion icon." Chat winced at those words, "I was sent here to get you guys to sign the Sokovia Accords, while I would explain more about these documents I just want to take a nap and go to a doctor for my leg so in a couple hours meet me at Le Grand Paris."
Before he could do anything a scream pierced the air behind him. He turned on his heel and his eyes went wide, in front of him was a giant blue moth. It was currently flying just above Gabriel who was yelling just as loud as the crowd surrounding him.
"No!"
"Le Paon don't!"
"Don't do it!"
The month brought its wings backward, prepared to fire a large gust of wind at the heroes.
Tony threw his arm sideways and summoned an armored gauntlet to his awaiting fist. Bringing the now-armored arm to face the moth Tony fired a repulsor blast. As he did so a green shield, yo-yo, and spinning top all hit the moth.
The moth seemed to stagger backward, trying to keep itself upright. It suddenly flapped its wings towards the heroes, sending them backward in the excruciating winds. Tony had to sink his armored hand into the pavement to stay upright, tearing it to shreds. He brought his unarmored hand to block any flying rubble from getting on his eyes.
As the wind disappeared Tony brought his free arm down, the moth was gone. The cop car had been blown to one side, and Gabriel sat on the pavement, painful sobs erupted from his steely composure. Breaking the man who was known for his history of neutral faces and attitudes.
"What happened?" Tony immediately asked, summarizing everybody's thoughts on the matter.
As the day had worn on, Ladybug had answered the many questions of the press to the best of her ability. They ranged from, 'Is the fight really over?' To 'Are Rena Rouge and Carapace a couple?' And of course, 'what was that moth creature?' As the day went on and the blue sky turned orange and heroes day continued, Ladybug collected Queen Bee, Carapace, and Rena's miraculous.
After she did so she quickly ended up in Master Fu's massage parlor. As she handed him the miraculous the news channel showed footage of their fight with Hawkmoth. Master Fu watched the screen as the moth appeared and sent the heroes flying. He brought a hand to his beard and began to stroke the hairs deep in thought. He glanced down at the miraculous and then to Marinette, "You and your team fought very hard Marinette."
"We wouldn't have won without Mr. Stark help," Marinette immediately replied with a grateful tone, "If he hadn't been there I'm sure dark cupid would have overrun us with new Akuma."
Master Fu continued to stroke his beard, "You may be right, but Hawkmoth is now facing prosecution for his actions."
Marinette brought a hand to her chin and bit her lip, "I wonder what Adrien is thinking right now, maybe Chat Noir can talk to him since he has his own father issues."
Master fu couldn't help but smile as he pulled himself off the ground, "In any case, the fight isn't over yet."
"It's not?"
Master Fu nodded toward the TV, causing Marinette to watch the screen. It showed a news broadcast of the giant moth, showing how it had thrown all of them back before disappearing itself.
Master Fu looked towards the girl in front of him, "The peacock miraculous." He sighed, "I believed that I had lost it many years ago, and for it to now be against us." He took several steps toward the miracle box, before opening it, "If we are to combat them we will need to respond swiftly and with precision."
"How do you say we do that?" Marinette responded, tilting her head.
He turned away from the miracle box and toward Marinette, the Fox, turtle, and Bee miraculous in his hand, "We make sure that we can respond quickly no matter where we are and who it is. We will make a Miraculous Team."
Footsteps echoed throughout the halls if the Agreste mansion, deep breaths followed them. Stepping into the light the silhouette of a man overtook the doorway. The silhouette revealed a large trench coat with the neck turned up, business pants, and business shoes. He had slicked back black hair and bright green eyes.
He took several steps forward, and entered the dining room and began to scan his surroundings. Quickly finding the collapsed form of Nathalie nearby the ajar painting of Emilie Agreste.
As the man walked towards her he pulled out a phone and flipped it open, "We have found the bird."
He nodded, "Yes sir."
After receiving a reply he gazed down at Nathalie, "You'll be very helpful." He crushed his phone in his hands and grabbed the unconscious woman throwing her over his shoulder. He made his way to the window and gazed at his own reflection, "Fangs out."
A grey light engulfed him, covering him in a new look. He now had two black wolf ears atop his new wild hairstyle, he had glowing gold eyes and a grey mask on his face, he small shoulder pads and grey fur around the white leather around his neck. His hands were covered in white gloves with small razor sharp claws extending from the end of his fingertips, his wrists were covered by a dark grey leather gauntlet and on his left arm, he had a black bandanna with a white outline of a wolf. His sleeves faded to white as it moved into his chest and his waist was covered by a black belt with a grey whip attached to the side of it. The white went part way down his thighs before growing dark yet once more with black knee pads, boots with fur rims around his mid-calf and steel-toed shoes.
He grinned at his reflection, "Damn I look good." He shattered the window with one of his steel toed shoes and pulled the whip from his hip, he looked at the unconscious form of Nathalie over his shoulder once more as he said, "Huntsman is in need of a bird, and it would be rude of his hunting dog to ignore his needs."
With a grin the man took his whip from the belt and flew from the belt and began swinging in the direction on the industrial sector of the city, leaving the now empty mansion behind.
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