The stadium was empty, except for a few faces that Gracelyn recognized... Adrien, Marinette, Alix, Nino, Alya... They watched from the crowd as Gracelyn dropped to her knees. Everything was silent, no one dared to speak. Gracelyn looked to the sky as rain poured down and from the distance, she saw... a butterfly. A black butterfly with a black trail of smoke. Very slowly, it fluttered to her and when it landed, a shout of terror filled her brother's lungs.
"NO!"
The butterfly landed on the microphone still in Gracelyn's hands and it vanished within the microphone. And now... Gracelyn was full of rage. Anger. Hatred. She glared at the people surrounding her as a voice entered her mind.
"Twisted Sister... There they stand, watching you, judging you... I am Hawk Moth. I can help you get revenge on them all. All that did wrong to you ever. All you must do in return is bring me the Miraculouses of Ladybug and Chat Noir. By any means necessary."
"Yes, sir." Twisted Sister stood to her feet and slowly, her body was covered in bubbles and black smoke and her friends gasped as she changed before their very eyes. Her once torn outfit had become exactly what it once was, except a black lace mask was over her eyes and both of her eyes were pink and blue with heart pupils. Her microphone became a whip and as she stood to her feet, she began to laugh the most twisted laughter Adrien has ever heard from her.
And before they could register what was happening, her friends began to hear her sing.
"Oh, Mrs. Potato Head, tell me... Is it true that pain is beauty?" And with those lyrics, everyone dropped to the ground, screaming in crippling agony. And Twisted Sister laughed.
Alix began to cry as it felt like every bone in her body was being snapped. Alya felt burning heat and it resembled the feeling of her skin searing straight off of her body. Nino couldn't breathe over the feeling of his guts twisting inside of his body.
Adrien felt the pain of a thousand claws digging into his body at once. Marinette felt her limbs begin to contort with every breath, her lungs tightening in her chest.
"The friends don't walk... THEY RUN!" The pain ceased for them all and they all jumped to their feet and ran from her, tripping over railings and fliers in the process. Twisted Sister giggled happily and jumped from the stage, and began to run towards a single direction... The direction of the hospital where her mom was kept. She gripped the whip in her hands and if anyone attempted to approach her, she reached with her whip and snapped them in the chest, making them fall over, paralyzed. They turned to porcelain dolls.
With a twisted grin, she approached the hospital her mother was being held in but before she could reach the door handle, a metal pole hit her in the hand. She growled in anger and turned around to see the incredibly sexy boy in the cat suit that she has admired for quite some time. But except this time, he was her enemy and she was to dispose of him. But... She will do that in her own way.
Twisted Sister turned to meet her assailant and grinned happily, twirling the whip in her hands.
"Hello, kitty... Where's your partner? Is she scared?" Twisted Sister laughed, leaning against the door and waiting for a response.
"You don't have to do this Gracelyn," Chat Noir spoke, trying to be the voice of reason. Twisted Sister growled and snapped her whip in his direction, making him move away with the snap.
"Don't you dare call me that. I was Gracelyn. But I'm someone much better now. I am Twisted Sister. And you are nothing!" She lunged in his direction and extended her whip, wrapping it around his neck and pulling him towards her. Chat made a strangled noise of pain as she yanked him to the ground and she stood over his body, grinning. Kneeling down and approaching his face, she very quickly sat on his hips and grinned from ear to ear as she slid her body against his and licked his cheek.
Chat gulped with fear as he felt her grab his wrist and reach for the ring on his finger but before she could, she was hit in the face with a familiar spotted yo-yo. Twisted Sister fell off Chat and to the ground, groaning as she reached for her cheek and whimpered in pain.
"Chat, are you alright... is that lipstick?" Ladybug helped her partner to his feet and looked at his cheek which was smeared with purple lipstick. He blushed and wiped it off, rubbing his throat in the process.
"Thanks for showing,"
"I wouldn't let you down, Chat."
Twisted Sister seemed disgusted by their display of love and began to gag. "How cute... the two heroes are in love..." Ladybug and Chat Noir shared a look of confusion and Twisted Sister shouted at them.
"Love doesn't exist. You don't love her! Stop lying with those words!" She snapped her whip at them and hit Ladybug across the cheek with it. Twisted Sister giggled happily and turned on her high heels.
"While I would love to stay, I have an alcoholic to dispose of."
The voice inside of her head began to whisper to her. "Dispose of your sorry excuse of a mother. She is a disgrace to your name..." Gracelyn wasn't agreeing with this. She wasn't happy with what he was telling her to do. But what choice did she have? Maybe things would be better this way...
But Twisted Sister wanted her mother to suffer. She was a sad excuse for a human and needed to die. So the Twisted Sister took control and marched right into the hospital and ignored everyone that gave her funny looks. With the whip in her hand, she swung it in the receptionist's direction and grabbed the woman by the neck, pulling her to the edge of the desk. Twisted Sister grinned.
"Melanee Agreste." The woman coughed and gagged as she quickly typed it into the keyboard and pointed down the hall.
"Top floor... Room 34-A." The woman gasped for air as Twisted Sister let her go, smiling happily.
But just as she let her go, the woman slammed her hand on the telephone pad and within seconds, police were bolting down the hall and towards Twisted Sister who lifted the microphone to her mouth and sang.
"Plastic... Go back to being plastic!" The police froze in place and fell to the ground, no more than plastic dolls in their place. Twisted Sister cackled and stepped towards the elevator, snapping her whip at everyone possible in her path, turning the entire hospital to porcelain and plastic.
When she reached the top floor, she stepped out and found the room almost immediately.
The sweet melody of her singing rang throughout the room as her mother stirred in her sleep.
"I need to kill you
That's the only way to get you out of my head
Oh I need to kill you
To silence all the sweet little things you've said
I really wanna kill you
Wipe you off the face of my earth
And bury your bracelet
Bury your bracelet
Six feet under the dirt..."
Melanee opened her eyes and looked towards the door where Twisted Sister stood.
"Gracelyn?"
"No, Melanee... Gracelyn is gone. Twisted Sister is here," Twisted Sister marched towards her hospital bed and kicked the side of it, making it turn and slam against the wall, Melanee's head hitting the side of the bed. Twisted Sister cackled and grabbed the woman by the paper dress she wore and snarled.
"You are a disgrace to the Agreste name... This is for Adrien, may he have a better mother." Gracelyn was about to start singing again but the hospital window shattered and something wrapped around her wrist. She looked up at the yo-yo string and it pulled, making her let go of Melanee and fall out of the window and get pulled up to the roof. Twisted Sister rolled across the concrete and slammed against a power box, her back making a sickening sound of discomfort.
Groaning in pain, Twisted Sister looked up at Ladybug and Chat Noir and she snarled angrily. "You persistent bastards. I was this close!"
"Please don't do this, Gracelyn." Ladybug begged the girl.
Twisted Sister growled in anger and swung her whip at her, smacking her across the face with it.
"THAT IS NOT MY NAME!"
Chat roared angrily and ran head first for the girl and tackled her to the ground, holding her down on the ground with both her wrists to the floor.
"I don't want to fight you, Gracie!" Chat said, the most angered but distressed look on his face that Ladybug has ever seen.
"Good... Then this should be easy!" Twisted Sister slammed her head against Chat's making him lose his grip on her wrists and she grabbed him by the front of his suit and pushed him into the air with her foot, slamming him over her and onto his back. He groaned in agony and she stood up, facing Ladybug who looked terrified.
"This isn't you Gracelyn... Please... I know who you are! Don't do this!"
Twisted Sister's face changed from anger to fear. Gracelyn felt herself beginning to take back control over her body and she whimpered in the direction of the girl standing over her, staring into familiar blue eyes...
"M-Marniette?" Gracelyn whispered in Ladybug's direction and fear struck across her face as she stared at Gracelyn, extremely confused as to what to say. And then, the blue eyes were gone and replaced with the eyes of the Twisted Sister.
"You know nothing..." Gracelyn grabbed the end of her whip and swung the microphone side in Ladybug's direction who backed away from the swing and tried to avoid fighting Twisted Sister as much as possible. But eventually, she was trapped at the edge of the building and she wasn't able to back away any longer.
"Chat! Help!" Ladybug shouted and within seconds, Twisted Sister was on her side once again, the long pole of Chat Noir's hitting her in the face, knocking her down.
She groaned in total agony as her face began to bruise over. Very slowly, she sat back up and turned to see that Ladybug and Chat Noir were trying as hard as possible not to fight her. But why? Why won't they fight her?
Grasping her whip, she stood to her feet and began to sing.
"Think I just remembered something
I think I left the faucet running
Now my words are filling up the tub,"
The two heroes were confused until Chat gasped for air and felt like he couldn't breathe. Very slowly, he rose into the air like he was in an ocean, his hair floating around him and ripples of invisible water dancing across his skin. He couldn't breathe. He was actually drowning in water that wasn't there.
"CHAT!" Ladybug screamed in fear and grabbed his hand, trying to pull him back down but as long as Twisted Sister stared at Chat, he was drowning. Ladybug growled in anger and swung her weapon in Twisted Sister's direction, making her blink and jump backwards.
Chat fell out of the sky and on the ground, gasping for air and making strangled noises of terror and fear.
Ladybug helped her partner to his feet and they both stared at what used to be Gracelyn as a purple butterfly shined around her eyes.
"Don't let them get away, Twisted Sister. Take them down! Now!"
Twisted Sister swirled her whip over her head and snapped it in their direction, both of them jumping out of the way and leaping from her wrath. The whip was moving as fast as a hummingbird's wings. It was almost impossible to touch Twisted Sister.
Ladybug wondered about something and then decided that this was the best choice. Using the string from her yo-yo, she wrapped it around Twisted Sister's body, running in circles and having it coil around her like a snake. Ladybug jumped up on a street light and pulled on the weapon, suspending Twisted Sister in the air.
Ladybug jumped down and walked up to Twisted Sister, reaching for the microphone but she was faster and began to sing.
"You got weights in your pockets, when you go to the doctor's," And Ladybug fell on the ground like a 300 pound weight. Twisted Sister began to laugh as the string tightened around her and she felt it rib through her clothes and cut into her skin.
"The friends don't walk, they run!" And with that, Ladybug began to run away against her will, loosening the string around her body and letting her drop down against the ground. Twisted Sister jumped back up and began to walk away from them. But as soon as her back was turned, she was tackled by Chat Noir once again. He sat on her back and put his pole under her chin and neck and pulled back.
"Give it up!" He shouted at her and it made her laugh.
"This is kinky, Chat. I wonder who you're fucking, I bet she's into this!" Chat snarled in anger and used his claws and smacked the girl across the face. Cutting into her cheek, she squeaked in pain and began to cough as the metal pushed against her windpipes.
"Uh-oh, she's coming to the attic, plastic,
Go back to being plastic."
Chat felt his whole body go stiff and Twisted Sister knocked him off of her and onto his back. He was powerless and couldn't fight back. With the most twisted laugh ever imaginable, Twisted Sister reached for his hand and wrapped her fingers around the ring and pulled.
The ring fell from his hands and into Twisted Sister's hand and Chat Noir vanished... In his place, Twisted Sister froze in fear at who she saw.
Gracelyn fought to regain control of who she was. "A-Adrien..." She said it with sadness and depression as the voice inside of her head whispered.
"Well done, Twisted Sister. Now for Ladybug." Gracelyn groaned as she put her hands over her ears and began to whimper with fear.
"I don't want to hurt him... He's my brother! I love him!" Gracelyn begged the voice inside of her head to let her go.
"You pathetic waste! He doesn't love you! He's your brother, you disgusting little slut! You're nothing but a disappointment to him and your family! Your mother is in the hospital because of you! Your friends hate you! You are nothing! And you will do as I say!"
"N-No... No I won't!" Gracelyn threw the ring from her hands and it skidded across the pavement and back towards Adrien who quickly put it back on and he became Chat Noir once again.
"You bitch! Stop this! Now!" He screamed in her head and Gracelyn once again, lost control. Twisted Sister took over again and she began to cackle as tears rolled down her face.
Before a reaction could be registered, she heard a shout of "Lucky Charm!" behind her back and turned around to see Ladybug and in her hands, she held duct tape.
"What, duct tape?! What the heck is this for?" She seemed more than a little confused and then Twisted Sister spun the whip above her head and whacked it in Ladybug's direction and she jumped out of the way and rolled to the side to avoid being turned into porcelain.
"Chat! I need you to-"
"Let me guess, distract her?" Chat spun his baton in his hands and quickly used it as a battering ram and smacked Twisted Sister in the side, making her double over in pain.
Twisted Sister looked up and began to sing again. "All the best people are crazy... All the best people are crazy..." And it felt like an earthquake struck the city of Paris.
Whatever the two heroes expected, it wasn't this. Suddenly, they were being surrounded by those that Twisted Sister had turned to porcelain. Ladybug began to frantically look around and then stare at Twisted Sister for a long time.
"I know what I have to do. Get the attention of the dolls! I'm going for the akuma,"
"Cause that's not terrifying at all!" Chat shouted at Ladybug who jumped up above onto the street lamps. Chat began to zig-zag through the crowd of dolls to get all of their attention and tried to repel them off without injuring them, due to them being made of porcelain and still human beings.
With Twisted Sister's attention on Chat and not on Ladybug she didn't see the red clad hero sneak up behind her and wrap her yo-yo string around her body once again, kick her feet out from underneath her and make her fall to the ground below.
"Show's over, Twisted Sister!" Before Twisted Sister began to sing, Ladybug put duct tape over her mouth and quickly grabbed the microphone/whip from her grasp and swung the weapon around and smashing the microphone on the ground, watching it shatter into a million pieces and a black butterfly fluttered out of the remains.
"No more evil doing for you, little Akuma..." Ladybug quickly cleansed the butterfly of evil and threw the remaining duct tape into the air. Ladybugs cleansed the city of havoc, turning everyone back into humans and no longer porcelain. Twisted Sister began to bubble away and all that was left was a half naked Gracelyn, covered in cuts, bruises, and crying like a wounded animal.
"Gracelyn!" Ladybug dropped down to her knees and next to the terrified pop star who was shaking and whimpering. "It's okay, you're okay... Calm down," Ladybug wrapped her arms around the girl and Gracelyn couldn't hold back the tears and pushed her head into the hero's neck, wanting nothing more than to hold onto her and never let go. Gracelyn knew exactly who Ladybug was now and she was so scared that she knew.
"M-Marinette... I'm so sorry," Was all she could say. Ladybug was shocked.
"Y-You remember? No one remembers after the akuma is cleansed!"
"I-I remember..." She remembers almost everything... She knows she saw Chat Noir without his miraculous but... she can't remember who he was.
"Please don't hate me! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to!" Gracelyn cried and cried as Ladybug gently began to pet her hair and shush her in the most gentle way possible.
"Sh... It's okay, don't worry... I'm not mad, it's okay," She whispered to her. Chat Noir just stared as he saw his own sister snuggling up to Ladybug. It was an oddly sweet sight but it also filled him with jealousy; whether it be Ladybug holding his sister, or his sister clinging to Ladybug like a lifeline, he couldn't be sure. But one thing was for sure... Gracelyn will never be the same again.