The wind continued to tear at the hallway of the museum, keeping Vixen and Ladybug off their feet as they clung to the yo-yo wire. The sculptures were flying out into the city, sucked up into the storm cloud. Vixen peeled her eyes away from the destruction. "Now what do we do?!"

"Uh…"

"You have a plan for getting us out of this, right?!"

"…Just hold on!"

"Seriously?!"

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, with their arms growing sore and grip weakening, the duo found the wind beginning to die down. There were so many sculptures being suck out of the two broken windows that they were clogging the frames. Vixen gently got to her feet, singular winds tugging at her hair. "We should move out before the sculptures pop out into the night and we get caught in another wind tunnel."

Ladybug hopped to the ground and whipped her yo-yo back onto her hip. Together they ran out of the hall and down to the meeting spot.

Hope Chat and Queen are doing better, Ladybug thought as Vixen followed her past withering glares from artwork, and that the Sully Wing is more peaceful.

"No one tugs on my pigtail!"

Chat Noir almost felt bad for the lamassu as Queen Bee wrapped her honey whip around their necks and slammed their heads into one another. One by one they fell and shattered. Chat used his baton to slam their sides into the walls. "Queen," she shouted over her ranting about correct hair procedures, "we need to get out of here and meet with the others!"

Queen Bee hovered over the statues as they began stepping on each other's feet-er, paws. With a snap of her finger all eyes were on her. "Then we should just let them do the fighting for us!" It was masterful the way she then stood in the center of the lamassu and started to…to…Chat had to actually do a double take.

Why is she FLIRTING with them?!

The lamassu were staring at Queen Bee in what had to be expressionless awe as she wagged her hips and fluttered her eyelashes. "You big strong llama sues would never want to really hurt a princess, would you?"

Of course, Chat smiled as the lamassu actually listened to her, the lamassu were Babylonian protectors who watched over the cities!

Queen Bee sauntered around their legs. "How can you let HawkMoth tell you what to do? You are all way too good for him! Why not go about saving me rather than hurting me?"

Chat could have kissed her. The lamassu bowed their heads and took to either side of her as she giggled. "Queen, you are amazing!"

She flipped her pigtail over her shoulder. "You needed proof?"

"How did you know the lamassu were guardians?"

She blinked a few times before shrugging. "I was just giving them all I got. I had no idea they were actually guardians or whatever."

Chat Noir smacked his forehead, but he also gave her a hug. "Never change."

"Well duh! Now," she snapped her fingers, raising the lamassu to their feet, "we have a meeting to get to."

Vixen and Ladybug waited outside the Egyptian antiquities for the other two. It was nice to have peace and quiet after all the wind and sculptures smashing against one another. Ladybug looked over her yo-yo with a frown.

I hope my magic can fix this…losing all those sculptures…all that history…would be all my…I could never live with myself.

"Hey," Vixen gave her a hug, "things will work out. Your plan is going to work."

"And if it fails? If I fail? The city would hate me, Marinette Dupain-Cheng or not." She felt her chest tighten. "Adrien would hate me."

Vixen chuckled. "Girl, nothing you do could ever make that boy dislike you, let alone go so far as to think of hating."

"…You think?"

"I know."

Ladybug hugged her back. It was way better knowing her best friend was at her side in the final battle. She would have held on sooner had the sound of heavy footsteps not been coming up from the other wing. "What the-?!"

Chat Noir walked over to them, followed by Queen Bee – who was being followed by at least ten lamassu. Ladybug and Vixen gawked as she stepped over and smirked. "You two look like you saw a ghost. By the way, like my new entourage?"

Vixen was going to say something, but Ladybug shook her head. Explanations could be made later. The four heroes took their places around the entrance to the antiquities section and peered inside. "Whoa," Chat gasped, "what is my bodyguard doing here?"

Gorilla stood in front of the center sarcophagus as if on guard. There was no one else around, and he wasn't akumatized, but something about the room felt off to the group. Especially when they heard muffled cried from inside the sarcophagus. "I hate to say this, Chat Noir," Ladybug looked to her partner, "but…I think your bodyguard might be with HawkMoth."

Chat Noir wanted to argue that it was a misunderstanding…until his mind flashed back to when he and Marinette had gone out shopping for Chloe. Gorilla had been with them in the car when they revealed their identities, though the screen was up between them.

What if he HAD heard us talking? What if HawkMoth HAD hired him? Could that mean…all this time, Gorilla has been…a double agent?!

Ladybug squeezed his hand. They needed to focus. He gave her a firm nod. "Whatever Gorilla being here means, we need to get to the bottom of this."

Gorilla looked around the exhibit with keen senses and narrow eyes. Vixen was afraid that at any second they would be discovered. "How do we get him away without drawing attention to this part of the museum?"

Queen Bee scoffed. "Little late to be worrying about attention."

Ladybug looked Queen Bee and her lamassu over, slowly grinning. "You know, you may have a point there…your highness."

Yes, that is right, Queen Bee is actually a queen now - the queen of llama sues XD I got to learn something new with this chapter, so that was an added bonus. Now we get to see how Chloe can use these new followers of hers to her advantage. Time for operation save-Jalil-from-the-bodyguard-working-for-the-evil-HawkMoth-using-flirtation!

Until the next chapter!