One day, Adrien walked into his father's office. He stammered, trying to find the right words. Then he said, "Father, there's something I'd like to talk to you...about. Can I have a few minutes of your time?"

Without even looking up from his paperwork, Gabriel Agreste said, "Yes, of course."

Adrien was surprised to hear that. "Really?"

"I'll tell Nathalie to let you know as soon as I'm available."

Of course. "It'll be too late by then," Adrien said sadly.

Gabriel noticed his son fidgeting with the ring on his finger. He said, "Shouldn't you be practicing your piano?"

Adrien bowed his head and said, "Yes." before leaving.

Gabriel took out his phone and played news footage of Ladybug and Chat Noir. He zoomed in on Chat Noir's right hand and his eyes widened. He looked at a picture of Adrien's ring and compared it to Chat Noir's. They looked almost identical except for the color: Adrien's was white and Chat Noir's was black. "That's impossible!"

He burst out of his office and ran to Adrien's door, pushing aside the bodyguard standing by. He opened the door and gasped. What he thought was Adrien playing the piano was actually music coming from his phone. And that breeze he felt right now? The window was wide open. "Nathalie," he shouted angrily. "Where is my son?!"

Nathalie and the bodyguard came in and were just as shocked as he was when they saw the room was empty.

"Adrien has managed to leave his room without either of you noticing! Find him!"

Marinette was in her room, dreamily watching the new "Adrien" fragrance commercial. Yeah, they named a cologne after him. The poor girl was so distracted by the commercial, she forgot she was eating her yogurt and the spoon started to slip from her hand. Luckily, Tikki managed to catch it.

And where was Adrien? Hiding in a dumpster. He snuck out and tried to walk out of the alley as discretely as possible. Which was going to be hard since his face was all over the commercial like a bad rash ever since that commercial aired. He thought he was in the clear when someone recognized him. "Adrien?! The Adrien Agreste?! This is awesome!" It was Wayhem, his brown-haired lookalike.

Adrien gulped nervously. "Okay, bye!" He tried to walk away, but the dumb boy followed him.

"The first time I saw you in that ad, I told myself, 'Wayhem, I got to meet this guy. He's so cool!' What if I was, like, your biggest fan?"

"Yeah...sure."

Wayhem suddenly took out his phone and took a picture with him. He typed into his phone "Me-and-Adrien. This-is-the-best-day-of-my-life!"

"NO! DON'T SEND THAT ON THE..." Click. "...Internet." Oh, boy. Adrien knew his father was sure to know he was gone now. He had to get away from this kid and hide! But the fan stopped him.

"Hold up! Could you autograph my cologne bottle of Adrien? And my life-size cutout?"

That actually scared Adrien a little. Then he saw something that frightened him even more: his bodyguard's car coming around the corner. "Some other time. I've gotta get going."

"Wait! Hold up! Adrien!"

Oh, fate is so cruel. When people heard Adrien's name, they turned in his direction. In a matter of seconds, the poor boy was being chased after by a mob of screaming fans including the fire and police departments! He turned a corner and bumped into someone he did not expect. Big-Head smiled at him. "Yo."

"Oh, no! Not you too!" Adrien tried to run only to have Big-Head grab him by the arm. "Whoa, take it easy, lover boy," he said. "I ain't gonna hurt you."

"You aren't?"

"Nope!" Big-Head said as he popped his "P". "I'm here to make your problems disappear. Watch." He tore his clothes off, revealing a bouncer's suit. When he saw the mob of fans, he pulled out a machine gun and pointed it at them. "He said, NO CAMERAS!" The gun went RATATATATATATATA as he fired bullets at their feet, making them scream and turn tail. Big-Head nodded, satisfied. Then he turned to Adrien. "Come on, I know a good place for you to hide."

"Wait, wha-" Big-Head grabbed the boy by the underwear and they zipped off.

Adrien was in his room when he got an alert on his phone. His eyes widened when he saw the headline. Eyewitnesses reported seeing Big-Head kidnapping Adrien Agreste. "He has my son?!"

When Marinette saw the report on her phone, she was just as outraged. "What could he be doing to Adrien?!"

"I dunno," said Tikki. "It can't be good."

"I'll stop him. Tikki, SPOTS ON!" Tikki was sucked into Marinette's earrings and in a flash of red and black, she turned into Ladybug.

Big-Head skidded to halt when he brought Adrien into a particular building. "Are you crazy?! What are you..." Adrien stopped his angry rant when he saw where they were. "The Cathedral of Notre Dame? Why here?"

Big-Head said like it was obvious, "I figured it would be the last place anyone would look. Think of it this way, you can claim sanctuary and no one will bother you."

An archdeacon overhearing them chuckled. "I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. Not to worry. I'll make sure no one knows where you are."

"Thank you, father," Adrien said.

"Although, it would be nice to have a signed Adrien cologne bottle." The boy's eyes widened, but the archdeacon chuckled. "Just kidding. But as for you," he pointed to Big-Head. "How dare you come into a House of the Lord, lunatic!"

"Uh... sanctuary?"

"That's not how it works! I should call the police."

"If you do, could you leave out you-know-who?" Big-Head gestured to Adrien.

The archdeacon sighed. "I told you, I won't tell anyone. I understand if a young celebrity wants to get away from the public's eye."

The old man left, leaving the two alone. Adrien looked up at the Rose Window. "Beautiful, isn't it?" Big-Head asked. Adrien didn't reply. "Thirteenth century."

"I know," said Adrien. "I took history class." He turned to the green-headed lunatic. "Why did you save me?"

Big-Head. "Truth be told, I thought it would be funny to see them tear off your clothes and take naked pictures of you, but I'm not that cruel."

"Thanks," Adrien said sarcastically.

Big-Head sat on one of the pews and took out a croissant. "So tell me," he said as he stuffed his mouth. "Why'd you run off like that?" Adrien didn't say anything. "It was your daddy, wasn't it?" Again, he said nothing. "You know, I just want to take that man and..."

"This is why I don't like you," Adrien said angrily. "Why do you hate my father more than anyone else?"

"Because parents shouldn't keep their children to themselves like a trophy. And besides, when has he ever been there for you, lover boy? I would think you're better off without him."

Adrien growled then shouted, "He's all I have left! My mother is gone! I know he hardly has any time for me but he's still my family!" Big-Head stared. "So don't you dare say I'm better off without him because I would be even more scared and alone!" He turned away from him. "And I didn't ask for your help, I'd rather be torn apart out there than have to be saved by you."

Big-Head gave him a look of pity before he walked to the church's pipe organ. He cracked his fingers and began to play. Adrien widened his eyes when he heard that song. "Is that..." He suddenly found himself singing and he couldn't stop himself.

"Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone. Gazing at the people down below me. All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone. Hungry for the histories they show me. All my life I memorize their faces, knowing them as they will never know me. All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day. Not above them. But part of them!

"And out there, living in the sun. Give me one day out there! All I ask is one to hold forever. Out there where they all live unaware. What I'd give. What I'd dare. Just to live one day out there."

Adrien smile and began singing. "Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives. Through the roofs and gables I can see them. Ev'ry day they shout and scold and go about their lives, heedless of the gift it is to be them. If I was in their skin I'd treasure ev'ry instant!"

Unfortunately, a church goer heard the singing and began recording the moment with his camera.

"Out there, strolling by the Seine. Taste a morning out there like ordinary men who freely walk about there! Just one day and then I swear I'll be content with my share! Won't resent! Won't despair! Old and bent, I won't care! I'll have spent! One day! Out there!"

Big-Head finished playing and turned to Adrien. "Well?"

"I think I get why you brought me here. You think I'm Quasimodo and my father is Archdeacon Claude Frollo."

"Well, yeah," said Big-Head. "Except I can't really imagine him lusting after that Nathalie chick. She ain't got the hips."

"Don't joke about that!"

"I'm just saying the similarities are uncanny, aren't they?"

Adrien hated to admit it, but he really did feel like his life was like Quasimodo's, except he didn't have a hunchback, wasn't stuck in a bell tower and adopted by a cruel archdeacon. "You kind of remind me of a kid I know at school. He hates my dad as much as you do."

"Is that so?" Big-Head asked as he played the Baseball Charge on the organ until the organist kicked him out.

"He'd probably say the same thing." Adrien sighed. "Still, I can't leave him. He's all I have left of my mother."

"Where is she anyway?" Adrien gave him a sad look. "Oh."

"She disappeared and never came back. Dad won't talk to me about it."

Big-Head gave him another look of pity. "Who was your mother?"

Before he could respond, Adrien heard the sounds of shouting and screaming coming from outside the cathedral's doors. "What was that?"

Big-Head peeked his head out and gasped. He brought his head back in and slammed the doors. "Oh, boy!"

"What is it?" Adrien asked, concerned.

"Let's put it this way, these people are from the Church of Adrien!"

"Church of...oh, no!"

Indeed, outside the church, a swarm of screaming fans were crying out Adrien's name. The bodyguard tried to get past them, but he was overwhelmed.

"I'll deal with this," the archdeacon said with anger. "How dare they try to barge to a House of the Lord only for one boy!"

"What do we do?" Adrien asked.

Big-Head pointed behind him. "Uh...the back door?"

The archdeacon shouted at the crowd, demanding them to leave. Suddenly, a red and black figure jumped beside him. "It's Ladybug!" The crowd screamed even louder.

Ladybug pulled the poor man back into the church and slammed the doors. "Thank you, Ladybug."

"Where's Adrien?" she asked.

"Oh no, not another one."

"It's alright," insisted Ladybug. "I just want to save him from Big-Head."

"Well, sure! They're right over..." The archdeacon trailed off when he saw no Adrien and Big-Head. "Well, they were there. Must have taken the back door."

"Thank you, father," said Ladybug as she ran to where he pointed.

At the moment she left, Adrien's bodyguard burst in. He glared the archdeacon, who fearfully pointed to the back door. The giant man grunted and nodded before walking toward the door. He stopped when he saw something on the ground. It looked like Adrien's good luck charm. He picked it up and inspected it.

Big-Head skidded to a halt and set Adrien down. It looked like they were next to a port of some kind. "Now where are we?"

Big-Head checked his phone's map. "Marseille."

"We're in Marseille?!"

"The Marseille-Fos Port to be exact," Big-Head said as he read his phone.

Adrien was panicking. "Oh, no, no, no! What's my father going to say?! He's going to freak! He'll never want me to leave his side again!"

"This," Big-Head gestured to him. "This is why I want you to cut ties with him."

"But..."

"ADRIEN!" The duo turned to see a group of tourists pointing at the boy and already taking pictures of him.

Big-Head grabbed Adrien by the arm. "Vultures!" he growled before taking off.

The bodyguard got back into his car and took off. His phone suddenly got an alert. He read it and his eyes widened. Adrien and Big-Head in Marseille?!

Big-Head skidded to a halt and set Adrien down. "I thought it might be best to take you somewhere outside of Paris."

Adrien looked around. He immediately recognized the city they were in. "Are we in Venice?"

"Yep. By the docks of Saint Mark's Square to be exact." Big-Head tore off his clothes and revealed a gondolier outfit. He walked over to a gondola and knocked the gondolier and tourist couple into the water. He reached out for Adrien. "Shall we?" Before Adrien took his hand, hundreds of Adrien's fans from Italy took one look at his face and immediately started taking pictures. "Oh, come on!" Big-Head reached down and pulled a plug from under the water.

"Hey, wait! Waaahhh!" Adrien screamed as they were caught in a whirlpool.

When Gabriel saw the report of Adrien being sighted in Italy, he had had enough. "Time to take matters into my own hands!" He stood up and marched out of his seat with Nooroo following him. He asked meekly, "Master, you don't really think Adrien could be Chat Noir?"

"I don't know. But he's hiding something for sure. Since his bodyguard has failed to keep an eye on Adrien, there's only one way for us to uncover his secret. But first, I must draw Big-Head back here to Paris." He sent a letter to the local news crew then placed on the butterfly brooch. "Nooroo, DARK WINGS RISE!"

Nooroo was sucked into the brooch and in a flash of purple, Gabriel turned into Hawk Moth.

"Seriously?" Adrien shivered as he looked around. Nothing but a bunch of snow and ice and a couple of curious penguins.

"Sorry, I was running out of options!" said Big-Head as he zipped up a parka. "I had to think of a place that had no people so I figured, why not Antarctica? No people here!" A camera clicked behind them. They turned and saw three men on a snowmobile snapping pictures of them on their phones. Big-Head groaned in defeat. "Except for the research crews." He stuck a wind-up key in the snowmobile's back, cranked it, then let it go as the snowmobile took off like a toy car.

Big-Head's phone buzzed. He looked at the alert and his eyes widened. "Oh, boy."

"What is it?" Adrien asked.

"For starters, I'm surprised I get coverage down here in the south pole and second..." He showed Adrien the news coverage on his phone, "In a shocking turn of events, Gabriel Argreste is offering a ten million Euro reward for the first person to capture Big-Head and bring back his son Adrien," said Nadja Chamack. "But with reports all over the world, it seems unlikely he would be found. Oh and he asked me to deliver this message. 'To my incompetent bodyguard, you're fired!' Ouch."

Adrien buried his hands in his face. "Oh, father."

"Not to worry," said Big-Head. "We'll just dig ourselves an igloo and..."

"No. No, I'm done, Big-Head," Adrien said with finality. "I can't go on a "'round the world trip" just to save myself from screaming fans and my father's potential wrath. Besides I didn't want my bodyguard to get fired. Just take me back to Paris."

"But what about all those people?"

"It's better than freezing to death with the penguins."

Big-Head sighed. "Fine. But I do know a good hiding place in Paris."

"Oh, here we go again!" Adrien screamed as he was grabbed by the hand and they took off.

While the media circus was still hunting for Adrien, Walter was in his room, comparing photos of Adrien with those of Chat Noir. He took note of their features. Same chin structure, same body shape, same blonde hair... He then took a closer look at their rings. Other than the fact that Chat Noir's ring was black and and had a green cat's paw on it, his and Adrien's ring were practically identical. He thought that Marinette...or rather, Ladybug must be colorblind not to see the similarities.

Meanwhile, another bodyguard in Paris was having the worst day. Adrien was gone and got kidnapped and because of his "incompetence", he got fired. He let out a growl and punched his car in anger.

The circular window to Hawk Moth's lair opened and butterflies swarmed around him. "A failed bodyguard who can't perform his duties. Anger and frustration, perfect fodder for my Akuma!" He grabbed one of the butterflies and turned it from white to purple. "Fly away, my little Akuma, and evilize him!" The butterfly flew out the window and out into the city.

The bodyguard punched the car again, hurting his hand. He winced, looking down at the only clue he could find: Adrien's bracelet. He didn't notice the butterfly coming toward him until it already absorbed itself into the bracelet. His face went blank as a baritone voice spoke to him in his mind. "Gorizilla, I am Hawk Moth. I'm giving you the tracking abilities you'll need to hunt down the person you've lost and accomplish your mission."

The bodyguard suddenly started making gorilla sounds as he pounded his chest and purple smoke enveloped him. When it dissipated, in his place was a giant blue-furred gorilla with red eyes. He pounded his chest again, letting out a roar.

Big-Head skidded to a halt in front of the cinema. "Why here?" he asked as he set Adrien down.

"I wanted to come here before those crazy fans showed up. At least with everyone thinking I'm somewhere else in the world, I can at least see this particular one without my dad knowing."

"He won't let you go to see the movies?" Big-Head asked as they snuck in the theater.

"He does. But only when I am with my bodyguard and Nathalie. But I'm not sure my father would've allowed me to see this particular movie."

"Is it a porno?" Big-Head asked with a perverted smile.

Adrien slapped him. "No! It's a very rare movie that I've never been able to see. It's not on the Internet and my father's hidden the only DVD somewhere at home. See, my mother played the leading role."

Big-Head gave him a weird look. "What about VHS tapes?"

"I said they are rare."

They found the theater and took their seats. No one was inside. Perfect. The movie screen showed the "Graham Films" logo on a black background. The opening showed a scene of a rainy day in Paris with the text "Production A. Bourgeois" shown on-screen. The next scene showed a woman walking on the riverside of the Seine with an umbrella, with the title of the movie, Solitude appearing next to her. Adrien gasped when he saw the text "Starring Emilie Agreste" at the next scene.

So that's Adrien's mother?

"It is, Rudi," Big-Head whispered.

They were barely even five minutes into the film when a giant hairy hand burst through the roof and ripped it off. Both Big-Head and Rudi screamed at the sight of the giant gorilla leering at them. It grabbed Adrien, lifted him out of the theater building, and let him sit on his palm. Adrien took one look at the beast and gasped. "Are you...my bodyguard?!"

Gorizilla let out a roar of pain when something shot his arm and chest. He looked down to see Big-Head holding a shotgun. "Drop him you dumb ape!" SMASH! Gorizilla smashed his fist, flattening the green-headed lunatic. "Ow."

"Gorizilla! You have fulfilled the first part of your mission," Hawk Moth said in the ape's head. "Now don't let go of Adrien! Not until Ladybug and Chat Noir come to rescue him!"

Meanwhile, Ladybug was still looking for Adrien when she saw Gorizilla stomping down the street with Adrien in his hand. Wait. ADRIEN?! "Put Adrien down right now!"

At the same time, Wayhem saw the same thing Ladybug saw and he put on his biker helmet, hopped on his bike and gave chase. "Put Adrien down right now!"

Ladybug swung to a rooftop and ran along it as she watched Gorizilla reach Montparnasse Tower and climb to the roof, where he let out a tremendous roar. Ladybug then arrived at the top of the tower. "Let him go!" Ladybug tossed her yo-yo at the giant ape, only for him to duck.

Hawk Moth spoke in Gorizilla's mind, "She's alone! If Adrien is Chat Noir, then he'll have to transform to help her. Gorizilla, attack Ladybug!"

Gorizilla was about to grab Ladybug, but she dodged him and goes up to his shoulder. She tried to open Gorizilla's hand to free Adrien, but his grip was too tight. "It's no use," cried Adrien. "He's too strong!"

Gorizilla roared at Ladybug, which caused her to almost fall off the building. She managed to catch herself by using her yo-yo. She tried to call Chat Noir on her yo-yo-'s phone, but got no response. "Come on Chat Noir, where are you?" Gorizilla was about to grab her again, but Ladybug ran along the face of the Tower while Gorizilla tried to swat her. She then used her yo-yo to get herself back up to the roof.

It was magic time. "LUCKY CHARM!" She twirled her yo-yo in the air and its magic created... "A toy helicopter? It really isn't a good time to play." Before she even got a chance to use the toy's remote control, she was grabbed by the giant ape.

Hawk Moth spoke to Gorizilla again, "Excellent! Now take Ladybug's Miraculous while we wait for Chat Noir!"

Gorizilla slowly began to reach for Ladybug's earrings, but he ran into a problem. He couldn't really take them while holding Adrien at the same time. "I'm so sorry, Ladybug," Adrien said.

"Don't worry. Let me try to maneuver this...thing!" Inside Gorizilla's left hand, Ladybug managed to maneuver the joystick of the remote to control the helicopter in order to distract Gorizilla. The helicopter first went into his nostril, before it flew up and hit his eyes with its blades. Gorizilla roars in pain and ends up setting Ladybug free. He then tried to attack the helicopter.

"Get Ladybug back!" Hawk Moth ordered Gorizilla.

Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around the thumb of Gorizilla's right hand in which he was holding Adrien. "Hold on!" She leaped off the building and entered through a window to a business office, where she ran past the surprised and confused workers to get to a window on the other side of the building. She apologized and jumped back onto the roof, and passed under Gorizilla between his legs. "Let go of Adrien now!" Ladybug pulled her string, causing a table inside the office to be knocked over, and forced Gorizilla's thumb away from Adrien.

"Jump now!" Ladybug shouted. Adrien stares down at the vast distance below him. "You have to trust me!"

Adrien nodded. "Always!" And then he jumped out of the giant ape's hand and off the building.

Hawk Moth cried out, "NO!"

Plagg popped out from Adrien's shirt and said, "If you don't transform soon, you might wind up like a gooey pile of Camembert!"

"I can't, Plagg! Not in the open like this! I'm sure Ladybug has a plan. I trust her!"

Ladybug tried to escape from Gorizilla's grip, but he was too strong.

Down below, a crowd of fans gasped in horror while Wayhem ran around in circles with his arms out. "Don't be scared, Adrien! I'm gonna catch you!"

Meanwhile, Hawk Moth was starting to panic and he was starting to doubt himself. "If indeed you are Chat Noir, then transform, son. Please..."

Ladybug looked down at Adrien, then raised her head, eyes closed and screamed, "Chat Noir, HELP!"

Hawk Moth couldn't take it anymore. "Drop Ladybug!"

Gorizilla let go of Ladybug and ran to catch Adrien... only somebody beat him to it. Walter jumped out of nowhere, grabbed Adrien, and used his knife to slid down the tower's wall. He set Adrien down.

"Adrien!" Wayhem ran up to greet his idol, only to stop when Walter gave him a piercing glare. "Uh..."

While relieved, Hawk Moth was still angry. "Gorizilla, get them back. And don't mess up this time!"

"I just knew I could count on you, M'Lad— uh, Ladybug," Adrien said. He then noticed her earrings blinking. "Your earrings are flashing. Is there a problem?"

"It means it won't be long before I transform back. But don't worry. Cat Noir will be here soon to take care of things."

Gorizilla suddenly appeared and tossed Walter aside. Wayhem blocked the giant ape's path. "You can leave, Ladybug! I'll keep him at bay!"

"No. I want you to find a safe place to hide," Ladybug said as she took his helmet and put it on Adrien's head and took off swinging over the rooftops.

Mayhem nodded. He started to run away, but stopped when Ladybug and Adrien swung away. Gorizilla started to follow them, but Wayhem grabs onto Gorizilla's leg. "You shall not pass!" Gorizilla picked up Wayhem to examine him. Wayhem suddenly remembered the commercial for the cologne. "Radiant. Carefree. Dreamy. Adrien... the fragrance!" He took the bottle from his pocket and sprayed directly into the giant ape's nose.

Gorizilla let out a yell and covered his nostrils as they stung from the smell.

Wayhem laughed in triumph. "Ha ha ha! Now you won't be able to sniff out Adrien, will ya, you big hairy ape! Go ahead, try!" Indeed, Gorizilla tried to smell Adrien's scent, but the cologne was so powerful, he couldn't pick up Adrien's trail. With the giant ape distracted, Wayhem hopped onto his bike and went into the direction he saw Ladybug and Adrien go. "I'm coming, guys."

Ladybug sat Adrien down on one of the rooftops. "I think you lost him," he said.

"Looks like it. Do you have any idea where his Akuma could be?"

The boy saw that her earrings were blinking. "You're about to transform back. So you should just leave me here, and I'll stay hidden while I wait for Chat Noir to turn up."

"But what if the supervillain finds you before he gets here?"

"He's my bodyguard. He won't hurt me."

Ladybug looked down and saw someone going down the Métro, she got an idea. "Of course! I know how we can track him." She carries Adrien down to the ground.

Shortly, Adrien, carrying his helmet, watched as Ladybug leaves a message to Chat Noir. Oh, the irony. "...so, meet us at the subway station. Adrien agreed to act as bait, but we really need you and your Cataclysm to make this work. Hurry up!" She hung up.

"What if Chat Noir doesn't show up?" Adrien asked.

"Or me?" Big-Head asked, suddenly appearing out of nowhere. Ladybug angrily punched him in the stomach. "Ooh! Oh, my solar plexus," he grunted.

"Get out of here, Big-Head! You're the cause of all this! If you hadn't kidnapped Adrien, none of this would have happened!"

"I didn't kidnap him," he groaned. "He ran away! All I did was keep him out of his rabid fans!"

"Actually, he's telling the truth," Adrien said.

Ladybug looked from Big-Head to Adrien. She then gave the former a dark glare and said, "This conversation's not finished." She ran down the Métro with Big-Head, leaving the boy alone.

When he heard a panting sound, Adrien turned to see Wayhem. An idea popped in Adrien's head. "I got an idea." He ran to the lookalike and gave him his helmet. "Here. I need you to do something for me."

"Really?" Mayhem asked, excited.

Gorizilla was still frantically searching for Adrien when he saw what looked like Adrien shouting at him and waving his hands. Gorizilla was about to grab "Adrien", but Chat Noir appeared and used his staff to block him. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size," he taunted. The giant ape tried to grab him, but he dodged the giant hairy hand.

Hawk Moth said, watching the whole debacle through his Akuma, "Adrien and Chat Noir side by side. So I was wrong. Just as well. Gorizilla, grab Chat Noir's Miraculous and be done with him!"

Gorizilla tried to grab the feline hero, but he dodged him and danced around him, taunting him, "Missed me! Missed me! Missed me again!" He lured Gorizilla right to where the Metro was. "That's it, big guy. Come on, just a little more." He took another step... "CATA-" Then his eyes widened and he fell flat on his face. Chat Noir was shocked when he started snoring. "What the..."

Walter stepped out from behind the giant ape and walked over to one of his pockets and pulled something out. Chat Noir recognized it as his lucky charm from Marinette. Walter crushed it and freed the Akuma.

"Walter, wait, we should let Ladybug..."

Too late. Walter grabbed the Akuma in his hand and crushed it until it was nothing but dust.

Ladybug came out of the Metro. "What happened? Where's the Akuma?" she asked. Walter gave her her response by letting the purple dust fly out of his hands. "Uh...wait. I still have to purify it. No more evildoing for you, little Akuma! Time to de-evilize!" She caught the dust in her yo-yo and purified it. "Gotcha!" But when she opened it up, white dust fell out. She was greatly disturbed by this.

"Uh, the Miraculous Ladybug?" Chat Noir reminded her.

"Oh, right. MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!" She tossed the helicopter up into the air and it exploded into a wave of black and red spots that undid all the damage and turned Gorizilla back into Adrien's bodyguard, who grunted in confusion.

Ladybug and Chat Noir fistbumped. "Pound it!" Walter fistbumped them as well, only a lot harder. "YOW!"

Hawk Moth swore as the circular window closed, "One of these days I'll find out who Ladybug and Chat Noir really are. And when I do, I'll make them pay for eternity!"

While Chat Noir blew on his sore hand, he asked Ladybug, "Where's Big-Head, anyway?"

Ladybug chuckled, "Oh, I made sure he wouldn't interfere this time."

Big-Head called out from the men's bathroom, "Hello! Anyone! I'm kind of tied up here!" Silence. "I'm all alone!" More silence. "I'm freezing!"

Ladybug thought she saw Adrien in the distance, wearing his helmet again. "Adrien, are you okay?"

Chat Noir stopped her. "He's totally fine! Right?" Adrien waved to her. "See? If I were you, I wouldn't hang around too long," the feline hero gestured to Ladybug's blinking earrings. "Unless you don't mind revealing your secret identity to all of us."

Ladybug nodded. "Bye, Adrien! Bye, Kitty! Bug out!" She swung away on her yo-yo.

"Now, Walter, I..." To the feline hero's surprise, the giant was gone. "Uh, Adrien? Did you see where he went?" Adrien shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "That's creepy. How is he so big and quick?" He decided to think nothing of it. He extended his staff and pole vaulted across the rooftops.

Meanwhile, Adrien, or should I say Wayhem, walked over to a building and knocked on its door. Adrien peeked his head out. Wayhem took off the hemet and said with glee, "That was AWESOME! I helped Chat Noir save Paris from that nasty big ape!"

"I'm glad I could count on you," Adrien said as he stepped outside. "I'm sorry I had to ask you to stand in for me earlier. You must think I'm not very brave."

"Are you kidding?! I got to be in your shoes for a few minutes! A dream come true!" Wayhem cleared his throat and calmed himself down. "I'm really sorry I posted that photo on the Internet. You must be mad at me." Adrien smiled and shook his head. Then he typed something down on his number one fan's phone. Wayhem's eyes widened. "Is this your email address?"

"Yeah. If you can manage to stop running after me screaming, I'm sure we can be good friends!"

"I promise, Adrien!"

The two boys nodded and separate ways. As Adrien walked to find his bodyguard and have him escort him home, he stuck his hand in his pocket and he stopped when he felt something. He took the object out and found a piece of paper. On it was an outline of a hand with a black cat's face in the center. Plagg said from his hiding spot, Adrien's pocket, "What does that mean?"

Adrien frowned at it before tossing it into a trash can. "I don't know. And right now, I don't care. I just want to get home."

Marinette sighed romantically as she watched the video of Adrien singing at Notre Dame. "His voice is so beautiful..."

"Did you forget he was kidnapped by Big-Head? I don't buy that whole 'saving him from rabid fans' story." Tikki asked. Marinette ignored her. "Why do I bother?" the little Kwami groaned.

When Adrien returned home with his bodyguard, his father demanded to know why he was with Big-Head. Adrien explained he just wanted to see that movie his mother was in and Big-Head ran off with him to save him from a pack of his fans. After explaining what happened, he begged his father to rehire his bodyguard. Gabriel, claiming Adrien caught him on his good side, did just that.

Later, Gabriel called his son to his private screening room. "Sit down." Adrien timidly sat next to him. He held up a remote and played Solitude. Adrien's eyes widened. "All you had to do was ask."

"I'm sorry, Father. I tried to talk to you, but you were so busy. In fact, I always feel like you don't want to talk at all, so—"

"Is that what you thought when you did this?" Gabriel showed him the video of him singing at Notre Dame. "I forgot you have a lovely singing voice. You can thank your mother for that."

Adrien's eyes widened with embarrassment. "I...I..."

"You should've trusted me, son. It's important for you and I to be able to trust each other. If you were to begin hiding the truth from me, then I'd naturally start imagining all kinds of things." He placed his hand on top of Adrien's hand. Adrien smiled at his father, who smiled back.

"Thank you, father."

They both turned back to watch the movie.

Deep below the Agrest Mansion was a room with a catwalk that ended with a garden with a large tree surrounded with white butterflies. At the far end of the room was a design identical to the "butterfly window" in Hawk Moth's lair. There, under the tree in a coffin of glass and gold, was the woman in the movie her son and husband were currently watching.