"Your Miraculous. Remind me of its powers again?"

"The Moth Brooch allows you to give someone their own superpowers and to make that person your devoted follower."

"And when it comes to luring superheroes, what could be better than creating supervillains?"

"But Master. The Miraculous are not meant to be used for evil purposes."

"I must have this absolute power! Your Miraculous is in my control! I am your master now and you must obey me!"

The kwami shakes in shock. This was unprecedent. Stammering the kwami replies

"Yes, Master."

Taking the Moth Brooch in his hand and then equipping it, the Parisian man declares

"Nooroo, Darkwings Rise!"

Nooroo gets sucked into the Butterfly Miraculous as a glow of purple energy fills the room spawning where his new master stood at. A bunch of butterflies fly off. Tilting his head to the glass window, Nooroo's master he looks out over the city structure of Paris.

"From this day forward I shall be known as Hawkmoth! Mwahahahaha!"

Another day in Paris, another chance for villainy. Hawkmoth waits in his secret lair. Then he feels it. The window to his lair opens up.

"Negative emotions. This is perfect. Just what I need. Anger, sadness. Burn a hole into his heart my horrible akuma."

A butterfly lands gently into Hawkmoths open palms. He clasps his hands around it as a swirl of sinister black energy surges into the butterfly. Now taking hand off, he let's the charged butterfly go.

"Fly away my little akuma and evilize him." Hawkmoth says while swirling his cane. Off into the distance the akuma flies, looking for its target.

Some time later, like say maybe a week or so…

"The vibrations are so strong. I can feel the imminent anger and sadness. The moment of weakness of my next victim. Such easy prey for my akuma."

Sending off another akuma, Hawkmoth patiently waits.

Meanwhile inside some studio…

Aurore is pushing the down button to the elevator repeatedly, holding back her tears. As she steps inside her emotions became too much for her to bottle inside.

"I should have won. I had the talent, the star looks, Everything! But she took everything away from me! They took everything away from me!"

As they say, be careful what you feel as in that point in time the elevator suddenly malfunctioned, startling Miss Aurore. As the emergency light went on she could see a dark purple butterfly make its way inside the elevator shaft with her. Frightened she tried fending off the creature, opening her umbrella to defend herself. The akuma got absorbed into her umbrella.

"So correct you are. You should have won, yes."

Standing up, Aurore's face had on a scowl.

"I should have won, yes!"

"Stormy Weather, I am Hawkmoth. I give you the power to seek revenge on them as my weather girl. All you have to do is bring me the Miraculous. Can you do that, hm?"

"Yes."

"That's my weather girl. Show the world who the best weather girl really is."

Aurore now Stormy Weather walked out of the elevator to cause some havoc.

This would repeat. Every time someone in Paris was feeling significant negative emotions, Hawkmoth would be there along with his akumas. Fortunately for the people of Paris, he could only produce one active akuma at a time. Unfortunately for them however this didn't mean he could only akumatize one victim at a time.

"I didn't steal that doll! I want that doll!" Manon Chamack was furious. How could her own mother not believe her? Marinette had given her the doll, she had her permission and yet here she was being accused of theft and of lying to her mother. Meanwhile back at Hawkmoth's lair…

"Ahh… What could be more pure than an innocent child's emotions? Especially anger! I love it!" Creating yet another akuma Hawkmoth mentally prepares himself.

"Fly away evil akuma and commiserate with this frustrated child!" The akuma flies off while evil laughter can be heard.

Present Time:

Narue has her hand covering her mouth. A look of disgust.

"What- what kind of man was he? This Hawkmoth? Did he have no restraint? Why? Why would he doing something like that? He's harming a child!"

Turning to face his master, Wayzz responded.

"The rogue Miraculous holder Hawkmoth has no such restraint. He would akumatize anyone who felt a significant amount of negative emotions. It doesn't matter who they are or how old they are. He even akumatized a baby!"

…

"Um… what?"

"Well it wasn't his proudest moment however." Trixx

"What do you mean?" Narue asked.

"Just because he was able to akumatize others did not mean he had control over them. Hawkmoth specifically went after people with negative emotions so he could easily manipulate them to do his bidding. Should his target lack the mental capacity to understand his demands-"

At this the chief burst out laughing.

"Ya done goof, Hawkmoth."

"Man, this guy's a moron. Also what kind of lame Miraculous is the Butterfly Miraculous anyways? It sounds so girly."

Chijinda rolled his eyes. Unbelievable. Why were they so concerned? This had to be the joke of the century.

"You should never underestimate your opponent, Chijinda." Wayzz rebuked.

"Okay, so this Hawkmoth guy must be really big deal. All it sounds like to me is that he was some coward who hid in his man cave tricking emotionally weak people to do his dirty work. Why didn't he ever do it on his own?"

"Because that's not how the Butterfly Miraculous works." Wayzz began.

"Huh?" Chijinda asked.

Flashback:

"I feel the wrath of a father betrayed by his own son. What perfect prey for my akuma."

Another dark purple butterfly is released from his hand.

"Stay close my little akuma."

Instead of flying off, the akuma stays put.

"Darkwings Fall!" With that the supervillain has returned back to his civilian self.

"Uh master? Why is the akuma still here?" Nooroo asked.

"I must become someone else to lead them astray."

"I don't understand master."

"Nooroo. I renounce you."

"Whaaat!" Nooroo is sucked into his Miraculous.

"Temporarily."

Now technically no longer Hawkmoth yet alone the Butterfly Miraculous wielder the akuma is now able to evilize him just as he plans.

Present Time:

"Okay. So he was able to akumatize himself as well. Man is he lazy." Chijinda chided.

"Not while he is Hawkmoth."

"I don't get it. Just what is the deal with this guy? Sounds like some sort of poser."

"Pardon my subordinate's rudeness but I couldn't help but remember you say that's not how the Butterfly Miraculous works. What did you mean by that?" The chief was curious as to know.

"All the Butterfly Miraculous really does is allow its wielder the power to sense another person's feelings and empower them via a butterfly or an akuma. In order to be akumatized the champion or victim must be feeling significant emotions and must consent upon which they will be transformed. Since this is a long range Miraculous as you may have guessed, the Butterfly Miraculous also allows for telepathy but not mind reading."

"So an akumatized person could theoretically turn on the owner of the Butterfly Miraculous." The chief suggested.

"Yes, and it's happened before. Of course after that Hawkmoth had learned to be careful about whom he empowered or what sorts of powers he gave them."

"Uh huh. Geez. This is sounding so lame." Chijinda said. "All this Butterfly Miraculous can do is empower others and it can only do so to those feeling strong emotions. Weak."

"Uh, actually master?"

"What is it Trixx?"

"While it is true the Butterfly Miraculous relies on the emotional intensity of its target, technically akumatization doesn't require a person to feel any emotion at all."

"What do you mean?" Chijinda's eyes widened.

Flashback:

Hawkmoth has created another akuma. Standing behind him is a woman with short black hair wearing a business suit.

"Are you ready, Nathalie?"

Nathalie Sanceour walks forwards.

"They been keeping you from achieving your dream for way too long. I will go to any length to stop the reign of Ladybug and Catnoir."

This pleased him.

"Good."

Hawkmoth then placed the akuma onto his assistant's tablet. It got absorbed.

"Catalyst. You have always been my most loyal supporter. I give you the ability to boost powers."

With a smirk on her face Nathalie eagerly accepts her transformation. Now as Catalyst she extends her right hand clasping it around Hawkmoth's cane. A surge of scarlet flashes out.

"Hawkmoth. I give you the power to release as many akumas as you desire. From now on you are the all-mighty Scarlet Moth!"

Present time:

Now finally realizing the dangers poised Chijinda stammers before catching his breath.

"This- this cannot be good. You're telling me- oh no. Now I can see why this is a problem."

"I'm quite surprised you didn't recognize it earlier Chijinda." The chief rebuked.

"Huh?"

"Every sentient being has emotions. It is impossible to always remain emotionally strong. You should know this better than anybody. Everyone has their breaking point. Including you."

"I- I apologize. I wasn't thinking. Still. Why did he want those Miraculous anyways and what does this have to do with us?"