He extended his bo staff and landed up on top of the walkway in front of Hawkmoth.

Hawkmoth used his thumb to pop open his cane and he swung his blade out. Chat Noir blocked his swing with his metal staff and grounded himself with his feet spread apart.

"So, you are Chat Noir after all." Hawkmoth leaned into him with a sinister smile. "My own son!"

Chat clenched his teeth and knocked his blade up with his staff and Hawkmoth stumbled backwards. Chat spun his staff in a circle and grounded himself again. He cracked his neck and glared at his father. "So, what if I am?!"

"Then I'd say your miraculous is easily mine." Hawkmoth shrugged and leaped at him with his blade.

Chat extended his staff to dodge his attack. He landed behind Hawkmoth and knocked him to the ground with a hit behind his father's knees. "Gotta be quicker than that, Father."

Hawkmoth got up and swung his blade out at Chat Noir, but he blocked every advance and lingered against his father's blade with the last hit. "Did you forget that you put me in fencing for years?" Chat grit his teeth and leaned into his father's face with an equally dark smile. He kicked his father away from him and did a backflip. "You can't beat me."

Hawkmoth stopped fighting for a moment and looked at his son with a crooked smile. "Maybe I can't… maybe I can." He smirked at him. He snapped his fingers and a women in all blue came out, holding blue feathered fans in front of her stomach and face. "I believe she can."

Slowly her fans moved and Chat's ears went back flat against his head and his mouth fell open. "I- You- NO!" He yelled and backed up.

"Salut, Kitten." Adelina smiled at him and swirled her fans around her and smirked with a determined expression.

"So, now that you have two against you and no Ladybug… What are you gonna do? Oh!" Hawkmoth sneered at him. "Did I mention that this casket was empty?" He flipped open the lid to reveal that no one was inside.

Chat's stomach turned and his eyes burned. "You- you lied to me? Then what was that pamphlet?" He held his staff in front of him, to protect him.

"A little distraction from the public." Adelina smirked at her son. "So, I could get out of the media."

"I don't- I don't understand." Chat blocked his mother's fans.

"I'm Peacock, kitten." His mother smiled and slashed her fans along his staff, making a metal sound that ricocheted through the room.

"No, NO! WHY?!" Chat fell to the ground and crawled back against the bars of the railing.

"While we were in Tibet… We picked these up. I had no idea what they were at the time, but it's been a wild ride ever since." Adelina's eyes grew big with excitement at the thought. "Like electricity is running through your veins, hm?"

"Please. I can't fight you." Chat kept blocking her fans from the ground.

"Kitty?!" Ladybug yelled from above.

"Ladybug?" Chat heard his staff beep for an incoming call. He opened the end and let a small earpiece communicator fall out. He slid it into his ear.

"How do I get to you, Minou?" Ladybug's voice was frantic.

"Don't." Chat blocked another hit from his mother and then another from his father. "It's bad. Take care of Emma and leave me. It was meant to end this way, Bugaboo."

"What are you talking about?! Don't say that!" Ladybug's voice was shrill, as she turned everything in his bedroom upside down. "Emma needs you too. Not just me. So, Tell Me, Adrien Agreste!"

"Under couch. Hidden button. Code is 211." Chat quickly spoke and jumped to his feet and flung himself over the railing again.

Water splashed up around him and he ran for cover to catch his breath. He touched the ear piece and spoke. "My mother is still alive. She's Peacock." He cringed and dodged, as Hawkmoth swung out at him and Peacock landed on the other side. "I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to keep this up, Ladybug."

"I'm almost there." Ladybug spoke and let the trap door bring her down into the depths of the mansion.

She ran through the double doors and her eyes went wide at the sight of the giant room. She heard Chat's sounds of struggling and the sounds of his metal staff blocking something that sounded like it was made from a similar material. Ladybug swung her yo-yo and flung herself below the walkway into the water.

She stopped in her tracks at the sight of Chat fighting against two people. Two very familiar people. Ladybug swallowed hard, as she watched as Chat kicked his father across the space and then turned to block the fans of his mother.

Chat looked at her with saddened helpless eyes and she shook her head and swung to take on Hawkmoth. Her eyes widened and she screamed as his blade swung towards her neck.

"Ladybug!" Chat shouted, as he suddenly looked over to see her. He knocked his mother to the ground and leaped in front of Ladybug to catch the blade with his staff before it could cut her throat.

"You okay, m'Lady?" He looked over his shoulder and braced against his father's advances.

"Yeah. Look out!" Ladybug pointed out his mother that was quickly approaching.

She threw her yo-yo and grabbed his waist to yank them up onto the walkway. "We gotta go. We can't do this now."

They ran to the double doors and escaped from the mansion. They landed on Marinette's old balcony and slipped into the door on the roof and fell on her bed, panting.

"We can't defeat them now. We need more people. It's too much for only the two of us." Ladybug panted. "Spots off." A red light took her over and she laid there on the bed with her arm over her eyes.

Chat didn't say a word. He was too busy curled up with his knees to his chest, sobbing uncontrollably. It took Marinette a moment to realize that he was upset.

"Adrien?" Marinette reached out to him.

"My mother- my parents-" Chat choked on the words and his stomach turned at the thought.

"I know." Marinette touched his shoulder and he shrugged her hand off of him.

"No, no you don't!" He glared at her and shrunk away. "You don't know! Your parents are nice people, good people, Mari! Mine. Mine are villains!" Chat was horrified. "Not just any villains… no. The main ones!"

"I'm sorry. Just detransform and we'll grab Emma and go home." Marinette tried to coax him out of his rage and sorrow, but it wasn't working.

"No. I wanna end this. Find Master Fu. Ask him for more heroes. I want this to be over. I'M DONE, Mari." Tears fell down his cheeks and anger festered within his acidic green cat eyes.

A shiver ran up her spine at the sight of her husband and what he was becoming.

Songs I wrote to:

Sober, Aenema, Jambi by TOOL

Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace

NOTE: I didn't know his mother's name when I last wrote about her and the letter. I felt weird changing it suddenly in this story. ^-^