MIRACULOUS ALLIANCE

EPISODE 9: POWERFIST, PART V

Agreste Mansion was under siege. An Akumatized Champion who Hawkmoth has lost all control over, and one whom somehow managed to hijack his Moth Swarm Soldiers. They were busy tearing away at the defenses, which were impressive but would prove to have nothing on magically enhanced creatures. Powerfist smirked as he was slowly letting his moths chip away at the walls that separated him from Gabriel. Oh, the man would pay.

"Stop right there, Powerfist!" the voice of Ladybug sounded. Oh, great. Those annoying spandex kids are back. "You had your chance to stand down and come quietly. We won't like this one bit, but we are done holding back on you."

"We don't want to hurt you, we want to help you..." Chat said softly.

"You kids are starting to get on my nerves, you are nuisances, roadblocks. But on the other hand...If you want to help, you could always let me add your power to mine." Powerfist said as his gauntlet was set on the draining rune. "Not that I expect much resistance from Gabriel Agreste, but I'd like to have multiple choices in how to kill him."

The heroes wanted to ready themselves for battle again, as something shot out from inside the Agreste Mansion. it went for the skies and they could make out a humanoid female shape, as they saw blue wings and long tailfeathers made out of magical aura, which then wrapped around the figure as a dress formed around her, and the figure then landed.

The figure's eyes have pink irises and scleras that are pink which fade into dark indigo, and black liner around her eyes, resembling glasses. Her skin is a light indigo and her hair is dark blue, and part of it curls up underneath her left eye. She wears a peacock-feather-like cocktail hat, which is blue and tear-shaped with a light pink mark in the centre and a light blue, translucent veil over her right eye. She wears a blue dress with a fuzzy black collar and sleeves that end in a point on the back of her hand. The dress appears to have a set hexagonal texture, as well as a Peacock Miraculous in the centre. The bottom of the dress has a front-slit skirt, and the end of the skirt has rounded points with dark blue, light-pink-centred spots, resembling a peacock's tail feathers. The rounded points are edged with translucent light blue material. Underneath the dress, she has translucent indigo tights that are opaque from the knees down, making the opaque section resemble high-heeled boots. She stomped the ground twice with her left leg and folded out a battle fan.

"What is this? A masquerade?" Powerfist quipped.

"I don't know who that is but man, she made her entrance like a boss!" Carapace noted.

"Couldn't Hawkmoth make more than one Akuma at the time?" Queen Bee asked.

"I don't think that is an Akuma." Ladybug said. "I can almost sense it, she is a Miraculous wielder. And if I'm right, and from Fu's description, she has the lost Peacock Miraculous!"

"I am Mayura!" the peacock lady introduced herself. "And this is as far as you'll go!" she said as she pointed her fan at Powerfist.

Powerfist chuckled a bit. "What are you going to do? Give me a feather allergy?" For some reason, Chat slightly flinched at that.

"There are a lot of things I can do with feathers." Mayura said as she plucked a feather from her fan. She held it in her hand and infused it with energy. She opened her hand and the now blue feather floated inside a small piece of debris, caused by the attack of the Moth Drones. The piece of rock turned blue, as Mayura picks it up and chants: "My beautiful Amok, allow my desire to protect to give birth to a beautiful Sentimonster!"

In an aura, dark and oily like that of an Akuma transformation, but a dark blue instead of black and purple, a huge creature appeared. It was a golem, but it was not like Stoneheart. Stoneheart looked like a piece of runaway mountain, crude. But this golem was smoother, and looked like pieces of a castle were crafted into its armor, with the towers as arms and shoulder pads...or maybe it was an anthropomorphized castle, hard to describe. "Fortress, protect the manor at all costs!"

The huge golem/Castle thing let out a roar as it swiped at the Moths on the manor, tossing the insects off, but not harming the manor in the process. The moths shook their heads as they were dazed. Then they saw the lumbering rocky giant lift its passive foot and brought it down on a bunch of Moths, only a few managing to flee before they were crushed.

The heroes and Powerfist alike looked in awe at the Fortress Sentimonster. Mayura approached the Miraculous team and spoke in a strict tone: "Let me tell you something, under normal circumstances I would not be considered your friend. But right now I'm not your enemy. We both want Powerfist stopped so I suggest a truce."

Rena Rouge narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "Can we trust her?"

"I am not sure. But for now the enemy of our enemy is our friend, sort off. We turn Powerfist back to normal and then we see what happens." Chat suggested.

Ladybug pondered this over. Chat is just overjoyed to have extra help as he is really motivated to cure this particular Akuma. But despite that, Powerfist is a tough opponent and they could use some help. Even if she would try anything, they outnumber her five to one. "Fine, you have your truce, but don't have any funny ideas!" Ladybug said as she pointed at Mayura.

"It would be stupid to do so at this stage as it would not work to my benefit at all. You have nothing to worry about." Mayura replied. Her tone was cold and emotionless, so the heroes still were weary of her. But no time to dwell on that.

Meanwhile, Powerfist had focused on the big hulking stone giant which was protecting the manor. No matter how big or how strong it was, it was nothing but a giant obstacle for him. The Moths weren't going to cut it so he'd dirty his own hands again. Fortress was big and strong, but one thing he was not was very agile or fast. He swung his big limbs at Powerfist, whom jumped over it landed on Fortress' arm and ran over it, towards its face. He then punched the Sentimonster in the face, hard. The lumbering giant staggered but recovered quickly. Powerfist was like an annoying bug, small and not easy to grab. He could crush it if he got his hands on it. He grabbed at Powerfist, but the Champion was too fast. He then changed to the Power Rune on his gauntlet and delivered the building-wrecking power punch to his face. Fortress got cracks all over his body, but he wasn't completely broken. Though it was clear he was no match for the Akuma.

"Let's see if you can borrow me some of your power..." Powerfist said as he changed his gauntlet to the Drain Rune again. If he could hijack the Moth swarm by draining the Butterfly Miraculous energy from them, maybe he could create his own Sentimonsters with a bit of Peacock Miraculous Energy from the Sentimonster. However, as he touched the huge beast, nothing happened. He felt nothing. "That's odd...wait, the piece of rock, it holds that feather...Of course, this thing is a solid projection, the real energy source is in the possessed object." Powerfist concluded as he turned away from Fortress, whom was no longer a threat, to the heroes. He then charged at them.

He changed to the Reach Rune on his gauntlet and shot out his hand like a grappling hook, but Ladybug used her yoyo to swat it away as she batted it away. She then swung her yoyo at Powerfist, whom moved to the side to dodge and headed towards Mayura. Mayura just sidestepped him and delivered a roundhouse kick to the back of his head to knock him down.

Chat jumped in with his baton, delivering several swipes. The first few were blocked by his firearms before Chat delivered a swipe to his stomach, knocking the wind out of him, then pinned him against the nearby garden wall with his baton. "We can end this, without further hurting you, without further hurting anyone. Please stand down!" Powerfist retaliated by headbutting Chat and pushing him off. Powerfist activated his transformation Rune, and turned into a giant cobra. He swayed and swayed as Chat prepared himself. The cobra struck, but Chat dodged and swiped with his claws, making the Powerfist snake hiss and back off. Powerfist changed back and tried to reach for Chat, with his Draining Rune active, but he jumped back to avoid, then extended his Baton, right into Powerfist's face, cracking the helmet slightly, before swiping at his leg, throwing him to the ground.

Powerfist grumbled as he tried to get up. "Venom!" Powerfist heard Queen Bee coming from him with her stinger, so he rolled aside, switched to the drain rune and grabbed her by said stinger. Queen Bee sparked with yellow electricity, which started to flow in Powerfist's hand, the girl screaming as her energy was drained.

"Queen Bee!" Rena said as she whacked Powerfist with her flute, making him let go of Queen Bee. Queen Bee was still shivering and flickering, as the drain made her run out of time faster.

"Rena move! Shell-ter!" Carapace said as Rena let go and Carapace put a forcefield around Queen Bee. A none-transparent one, so you couldn't see Queen Bee detransforming.

"Good thinking, Carapace!" Ladybug said with a thumbs up. "I see you have not been slacking in your training."

"Slow, not lazy!" Carapace said with a grin as he shot back a thumbs up.

Powerfist didn't care about identities though as he just sported a mean grin and aimed for the heroes. "Venom!" he said as a transparent yellow energy version of Queen Bee's stinger appeared around his hand and he rushed at them. The heroes quickly scattered to avoid being stung by their teammate's stolen power. Powerfist snapped the fingers of his free hand as several Moth Drones jumped the heroes to try and hold them in place. Powerfist then rushed at Ladybug, whom just pulled one of the Moth Drones from over her shoulder in the path of the stinger. The Moth dispersed upon being stung and the stinger construct on Powerfist's hand vanished. Ladybug then punched him in the face, as he staggered back.

The heroes wanted to lunge at Powerfist, but their path is blocked by more Moth Drones. Powerfist then decided to focus on Mayura, whom wasn't held up. He shot out his grapple fist, but she just held up her fan to block the blow. However, the fingers of the grapple hand unfolded and grabbed her fan. Mayura pulled back to get her fan out of Powerfist's grip, but Powerfist retracted his fist, not to pull Mayura towards him, but to pull himself towards her. He used the momentum to thrust out his feet and deliver a double kick to her chest, knocking her far back. She dropped the piece of rock with the Amok in it. He reached out to it, intent to absorb its power.

Mayura snapped her fingers, and the Amok flew out of the rock, and as Powerfist grabbed the piece, he felt nothing. "What the..." He then saw the blue feather rapidly flying around the wrecked garden, and it instead entered one of the roses in the rosebush. Fortress faded away and instead a feminine rose warrior with a thorny vine whip appeared in its place.

"Hesper, help me fight this intruder." Mayura asked. Hesper, the new Sentimonster nodded and lashed with her rose whip at the intruder. Powerfist was hit in the face and he staggered. He rubbed his chin, now finding a scratch upon it. He growled as he rushed at Mayura and Hesper. Hesper lashed again, but this time Powerfist managed to dodge the attack. He rushed at Hesper and invoked his Change Rune, and in a puff of green smoke, he became an elephant, grabbing Hesper with his trunk, smashing her into the ground and then crushing her underneath his massive feet. She faded away in a puff of blue energy.

Powerfist Elephant then let out the elephant's cry as he charged at Mayura, whom managed to jump aside to avoid being skewered by the tusks. The elephant turned around and charged again but a thorny vine came out and wrapped around his left tusk, and pulled him to the ground. He turned back in Powerfist, now the thorny vine around his normal arm. Hesper was back. "She is a projection of the Amok. As long as the Amok isn't purified or destroyed, she'll respawn." Mayura boasted.

"Good to know..." Powerfist said as he charged up energy in his fist, and slammed the ground. It let out a shockwave that travelled across the ground, at the rosebush, destroying it as Hesper let out a scream and faded. The Amok flew out of the remnants fo the rose bush, and Powerfist made a sprint for it. However, Mayura tossed her fan at him, which bounced of his head, knocked him back and shot back to Mayura's hand, as she gracefully caught the fan again.

Powerfist gritted his teeth. "Stop getting in my way. Why are you so intent on protecting Gabriel Agreste! He is a monster of a man, he needs to be destroyed."

"I have my reasons..." Mayura said, showing no emotion.

"I'll give you a reason to give up!" Powerfist charged at Mayura. He tried to punch her, but she dodged by leaning her head to the side, then folded her fan and whacked Powerfist in the stomach. The Akumatized Champion staggered back before he tried to kick her but she grabbed his leg and smashed her elbow in his kneecap. He screamed out in pain as Mayura let his leg go. As he stumbled around with his injured leg. She then folded her fan and slashed at his face, another scar being added to his chin. This and the scar caused by Hesper now formed an X-shape on his chin. Powerfist growled and tried to lash at Mayura but she dodged all his swipes easily and delivered a few devastating kicks and punches and then sent him flying with another blow.

"Your fighting prowess are programmed into you with the Akuma, but I am a real fighter, with or without the Miraculous." Mayura said as the Amok she already used twice earlier floated to her side. "You should give up!"

Powerfist growled as he raised his hand. The Moth Drones the other heroes were fighting vanished, turning back to white butterflies as the energy that animated them flowed out of them and into Powerfist's gauntlet. They saw something before, with Steeleo, whom had used the power to grow. However, Powerfist used the energy to heal his injuries, his leg moving normal again and the scars on his face vanishing.

The heroes looked confused at first but regained their look of determination. Queen Bee had been able to feed her kwami while under the forcefield and was able to recharge and get back in action.

"Al you did now is reducing the amount of targets to hit." Mayura mocked. "And I can increase the number on our side further. Mayura wanted to look out for another object she could create an Amok from, to channel her desire to protect into another Sentimonster. But before she could do so, she stopped in her tracks, clutching her chest as she felt she couldn't breathe, her lungs on fire as she coughed violently.

The heroes looked in concern at Mayura. They may have not known where she came from or what her motives are, but she was helping them. "Are you ok?" Ladybug asked. She opened up her yoyo, the white light inside glowing bright. "Maybe I can heal..."

"Stay away from me!" Mayura said, panicking. This was what caused Emilie to be in the state she is. She had hoped the potion would keep the pain in check for a while, but it couldn't do it forever...And while she agreed to help Ladybug, she was also Gabriel's enemy and he was still doing all of this for Gabriel.

Powerfist smirked as he saw an opening. He raised his fist, it glowed thanks to his Power Rune and smashed the ground, creating a shockwave that knocked all of the heroes of their feet, and onto the ground. The weakened Mayura, whom was barely able to breathe, could now not even move a muscle after that. Powerfist closed in on her and reached out to her Miraculous. "I'll take that, thank you...Or at least its power." Powerfist's fist was set on the Draining Rune, and wanted to grab it...But as soon as he did, as the blue energy was sucked into him, he screamed out in pain and stumbled back.

"W-what?" Chat said as he managed to get up. He cleared the cobwebs in his head as he then strolled towards Powerfist, whom also coughed violently, as he was on hand and knees. "You are hurt...You need..." Powerfist quickly turned into a cobra and hissed, causing Chat to jump back slightly. However, Powerfist quickly turned back, not able to sustain the transformation as he was still writhing in pain. "Please, let me help you!"

"I can only be helped..." Powerfist said as he initiated the Draining Rune, holding out his hand so Chat wouldn't dare to get closer. "With the death of Gabriel Agreste..." As long as he let the Drain Rune on, they couldn't touch his gauntlet, let alone remove it to get the Akuma out, without him stealing their power. "Stay away from me." He could barely stand, but he could still do damage, so while Ladybug moved towards a sick-looking Mayura, the others stood in a circle around Powerfist, weapons ready but not within grabbing reach.

Ladybug had her yoyo open, the white light inside glowing. "I have not tested my healing powers on humans yet, and I'm not sure if I can take the pain away, but I can lighten it." Ladybug said as she put the yoyo onto Mayura's collarbone, and the glow spread to her as well. As the energy washed over her, Mayura felt the pain reduce to mere discomfort.

Mayura thought to herself, in any other circumstance she would have donned the Miraculous, she'd be fighting Ladybug and refuse all help. But this was not one of those cases. Yes, she and her team stood in the way of Emilie's return due to them owning the Miraculouses that are needed to bring her back. But this girl had no qualms to help someone in need, even a complete stranger. She was happy that she intended to make this a one-time thing because she wasn't sure if she could put her heart into it if they were to stand against each other on the battlefield.

Meanwhile, Chat looked at Powerfist. He looked in pain as well, more than before. His heart sank. He never even knew his uncle was holding in that much pain. But he should know, the happy-go-lucky and easygoing attitude...It is something he puts on as a mask too. He then realized something. Maybe he didn't have to fight to resolve this... "I have an idea, a stupid idea perhaps, but I want to ask you guys to trust me." Chat asked.

The others raised an eyebrow. Ladybug, whom was still trying to help Mayura and hence couldn't summon her Lucky charm for now, thought about it. "We trust you with our lives Kitty. We believe you know what you are doing. As long as you don't fall in that back habit for taking hits for us again."

"It won't be Chat whom is taking the hit." Chat said as he left the garden. He stopped at the gate and turned back. "I am just going to pick up someone to help." Then, he continued on his way.

"You think he is going to pick up a reserve Miraculous user?" Carapace wondered.

"It would be helpful but it would also be giving Powerfist someone else to steal power from." Rena said.

"We just have to trust Chat to know what he's doing." Queen Bee said.

They got their answer as soon as Adrien Agreste walked in the destroyed Agreste Mansion garden. The others, including Mayura, had to really hold themselves back to not shout out his name for the sheer perceived stupidity of Adrien waltzing in without protection of his Miraculous. Powerfist, not knowing his godson's identity, didn't have to hold back. "Adrien?"

"Uncle Greg..." Adrien said softly.

"I told you to stay put. You don't have to get involved. You got to stay safe..." Powerfist said, concern apparent in his voice.

"I'm sorry, but I couldn't let you go through with this. No matter what Gabriel did..." No one missed it when he no longer called Gabriel Agreste his father. "I don't want you to hurt him. I don't want anyone to hurt, no matter how much they deserve it. But not because I still care for Gabriel...I'm still uncertain on that. But the one whom would be hurt most by this...is you." He slowly approached Powerfist.

"Agreste, stay away from him, he's still an Akuma!" Queen Bee warned.

"It's ok...He won't hurt me. I know it." Adrien said as he continued on. "Uncle Greg...You know what you always told me? 'Don't hold anything back.' You yourself told me that I should not be ashamed of my feelings and express them. But the problem is...you have not been doing the same."

Powerfist lowered his namesake, his hands both to the floor as he stood there for a bit, his head hung low. "I have?" he asked.

"You carried all this anger, this resentment within you, but you never showed or vented it, talked about it. You allowed it to pent up to the point that...the Akuma, the one you tried to keep away from me, it now has made you become...this." Adrien said.

Powerfist looked at his hands as he punched the ground and tears flowed from his eyes. "It's true! I preached it, but I didn't follow myself. I...am worthless. I never felt worthy of your mother. Hence I didn't fight for her when Gabriel came around. She changed, and I thought it was a part of growing up. She kept assuring she was fine, but she wasn't. I could tell. But she wanted to make it work with Gabriel and I supported her, I should have talked her out of it. He...He controlled everything she did, she wasn't able to do things or spend time with people she liked as much as she wanted. I should have spoken up...and when she vanished, I let myself get talked into leaving for Africa while I should have stayed behind. I messed up...It's my fault, for letting it get this far! It's my fault!"

Adrien now closed in at Powerfist, and hugged him. "I'm sure you tried..."

"I didn't try hard enough...You...you should hate me! You should not be near me. I am the one whom failed to protect you and your mother from Gabriel Agreste. To save you from your pain and sorrow." Powerfist muttered.

"I don't hate you. I cannot hate you. I don't want to hate. And while I am mad at Gabriel, I don't want to hate him too. Hate will lead to suffering. And for everything that's happened, we cannot change the past. But I don't think I want to. Because right now, in this moment, I have what I always wanted. I have a loving girlfriend whom means the world to me..." Ladybug tried not to flinch. "I got a sister..." Queen Bee did the same. "I got to have wonderful friends..." Now it was Rena Rouge and Carapace's turn. "And I have a godfather whom cares a great deal for me." Adrien also took a brief look at his ring, and felt Plagg wiggle in his pocket. He could not mention him but Plagg could sense he was glad he got him. "And we can only move forward now, because I know with all these wonderful people by my side, and that includes you, I know my future will be better, happy, and bright. But to do that, you would have to let go..."

Powerfist looked at his gauntlet. "The Akuma...It was going after you..."

"But you took an Akuma for me, I would have become Akumatized if you didn't step in. But I'm calm now, it won't harm me anymore. Ladybug is here. So you can let go, everything will be all right now. Nothing bad will happen to me." Adrien tried to assure him.

"Gabriel...He..." Powerfist stammered.

"Will be dealt with. But not like this. Though, in your rage, in your Akuma-muddled mind, you think it would be right, whether or not Ladybug could fix it afterwards or not, you'd feel awful and destroy yourself over this. And I wouldn't want that. I just want you to come back to me." Adrien said as he broke the hug and stared his godfather right into his eyes.

Powerfist looked at the gauntlet on his hand. "Stand back." he said as Adrien took a few steps back. He put his hand on the cuff, where the Runes were printed upon, and then pulled, shattering the metal ring. The rest of the gauntlet crumbled, a pale green hand, same colour as his Akuma skin, becoming visible as the Akuma flew out.

"No more evildoing for you, little Akuma!" Ladybug said, breaking her healing spell over Mayura to catch the Butterfly. "Bye, bye little Butterfly!" she said as she released the white butterfly. "Now to fix this. Lucky Charm!" Ladybug tossed her yoyo in the air and a lucky bracelet, not unlike the one she made for Greg came down. She sighed as she tossed it in the air. "Miraculous Ladybug!" the standard swarm of magical ladybugs washed across the city, and most notably the Agreste Mansion, fixing everything like they normally do.

Powerfist turned back to Greg Cipica as he was still down on his knees. His godson held out his hand, smiling at his godfather, and helped him up, before the two shared another hug. "I'm so sorry, kid!" he muttered.

"It's ok, Uncle Greg." Adrien answered.

"Mr. Cipica, you showed great bravery and a great strength of character out there. You shielded a loved one from an Akuma. You resisted Hawkmoth and managed to pull yourself together long enough to force it out. I can count the people whom have done that on one hand." Ladybug complimented.

"I did quite a lot of damage though..." Greg said.

"Nothing my powers couldn't fix. And still, could have been a lot worse." Ladybug assured him. "Just...don't beat yourself up over it. Many people kind of...went out of control when having an Akuma within them. The people you care about, they need you right now."

Greg looked at Adrien for a bit and said. "I am not going to let them down." 'Not this time.' He silently added in his head.

Mayura managed to get up again after Ladybug had used her healing light. But she was still feeling tired and uncomfortable. At least the worse was over. And she then saw Greg and Adrien hug and a different sort of pain shot through her, emotional pain. If only she had acted more like a godmother, all this pain, all of this could have been avoided. The family could still have been whole, Adrien and Greg wouldn't have been hurt, she wouldn't have needed to use the Peacock Miraculous.

Ladybug had been speaking a few encouraging words to Greg and Adrien. She tuned them out since she was wallowing in self-pity right now. But she could kind of guess what was going on. Ladybug turned back to her. "Mayura...thanks for your help she said."

"I didn't do it for you. It was just...convenient for me to do so." Mayura answered.

"Still, I want to thank you." Ladybug said.

"You shouldn't. Because I only acted due to emergency. And if it was any other situation, you would not be so friendly towards me. You would have wished you hadn't healed me." Mayura replied. "You helped me twice, first with my personal mission, and again with your healing. So to repay my debt, I warn you. Do not hesitate if you see me in the future, because we may not be allies then."

"It sounds like you may want to use the Peacock again..." Ladybug said as she looked at the Miraculous. She hadn't thought about removing it when healing Mayura, because she didn't know whether that would make it better or worse. "But I know from a good source that the thing is damaged. It is painful and downright lethal if used too many times. I don't know what your reasons for using it are, but they are not worth risking yourself over it. Whatever it is, maybe I can help. Just give me the Miraculous, so it may not hurt anyone else, so we can fix it." Ladybug said as she held out her hand.

Mayura sighed. "I'm sorry..." she said. The Amok she summoned earlier was still flying around. It was now flying into a garden ornament, and in a flash of blue energy, a huge blue phoenix-like bird appeared behind Mayura, flapping its wings, kicking up a strong gust of wind and spreading blue feathers. Everyone covered themselves as they avoided being blown off their feet. Once the wind died down, Mayura and the Bird Sentimonster were gone. The Amok was the only thing left, turning from blue back to white and floating away in the wind.

"I don't know what that was about." Carapace said. Then his bracelet beeped. After using Shellter to protect Queen Bee's identity earlier, his timer was counting down.

"Let's worry about it later. Let's allow this...family to bond in peace, while we bug out." Ladybug said. "We'll figure out what makes Mayura tick later." She turned towards Adrien and Greg. "Good luck you two!" With that, she and the other heroes left the scene.

"So...what do we do now?" Greg asked.

"Is it ok if I stay at your place a while? The Agreste Manor is not feeling very home-like for now." Adrien said. He didn't add that it hadn't felt like home in like ever.

"You're welcome to stay. It is not a very big place..." Greg said, rubbing the back of his neck.

"As long as you are there, it will be home." Adrien assured him.

"I think we still have a lot to talk about." Greg said, looking down at his feet.

"Let's do that when we're home." Adrien said with a soft but sad smile.

Nathalie allowed her transformation to drop in private, as she turned back in a flash of blue. Duusu flew out of the brooch. He first looked annoyed as he said: "Told you so!" He then shifted in a more concerned look. "Are you all right? Ladybug's healing cannot have dulled all the pain..." he then became happy again. "But I must admit, how you used your powers and those Sentimonsters you create, so dang awesome!"

Nathalie leaned against the wall and slid down, letting herself drop to the floor as she shivered and breathed heavily. She then buried her face in her hands as the normally emotionless woman allowed herself to cry. Duusu looked a bit unsure, but then, patted her shoulder softly with its little paw in an effort to console the woman.

In his lair, Hawkmoth dropped his transformation. Gabriel Agreste sat down in a nearby chair in his lair. That was exhausting. An Akuma he lost control over, his son whom he lost control over...he hated not having control. And due to the circumstances under which all of it happened, he was unable to do anything at all. He was powerless, a feeling he didn't like. Without power there was no control...Why do people deny him? Why isn't he allowed his own piece of the world he can control, he is supposed to be able to do with it as he wants.

Nooroo, being a Kwami of empathy, tried to comfort Gabriel. "Master, are you fine? I know it is hard, with your son...with everything...But if you give him a chance to cool down, you can talk it out, you can apologize, and you can work on becoming a family again..."

"Apologize?" Gabriel asked as he looked at Nooroo menacingly. "I'm not in the wrong! He should apologize to me, for ruining all my hard work, for turning his back on me, the person whom gave him life and made him what he is today. He lives a life of fortune and fame and he still doesn't think it is enough?"

"Master...He didn't need all that glitter and glamour. All he wanted is for you to genuinely love him. I can know, I can sense it..." Nooroo tried to say.

"Silence! You will only speak from now on when you're spoken to, by me alone!" Gabriel ordered. Nooroo sagged again. He sat down in the chair again, a mad look in his eyes. "An apology? Aside from being undeserving it is useless. With the huge plan I have in mind, everything will be undone, everything will be as I want it, and therefore moot! But not right away, not now...I may first send a few normal Akumas, to avoid making Paris and the Miraculous heroes suspicious. Then, I will spring my trap..."

Nooroo didn't want to cry, he already had shown enough weakness in front of his Master. He had hoped that maybe there was a bit of goodness in Gabriel Agreste. That he was a lost soul whom just wanted to fix his family but went about it the wrong way. But now he could tell for certain...Gabriel Agreste was a madman.

TO BE CONTINUED

ARTIST'S COMMENTS

Fifth part done. Just one more part, containing this episode's epilogue and that would round up the longest episode I've written so far.

A few notes:

-Due to his behavior in Chat Blanc, I am convinced Gabriel is nothing wrong of a psychopath and he reached full circle in my fic too.

-The scar on his chin that Powerfist recieves in battle is similar to Kevin Levin's in Ben 10 Omniverse, and as you know Greg Cipes, whom Greg Cipica is based upon, voices said character.

-Hesper the Rose Sentimonster is basically the Digimon Rosemon.

-Next time Nathalie becomes Mayura she uses the show's transformation, but I couldn't resist her grand entrance here.