"This is bad. This is bad." Marinette said as she was on her way to school with Francis and Alya. "Chloe…. Chloe of all people knows we're rangers now!"
"This is really bad. She'll blab to everyone and reveal who we are." Alya said.
"We're in luck." Francis said as he looked over the news on his phone. "So far, there's been no reports on the rangers' identities. We've got to find some way to convince Chloe not to tell anyone."
"Easier said than done." Marinette said. "She'll tell everyone and everyone will hound us like celebrities and that will mean Hawk Moth will do whatever he wants because those people will get in our ways." She was acting like she was having a panic attack.
"Marinette, breathe." Alya said and got Marinette to breathe. "Isn't there anything we can do?"
"I'm not sure. Neitherr does Master Fu." Francis said. "All we can do is hope for the best." All of them made their way to school and met with Nino and Adrien. They seemed just as concerned as the others.
"You don't know what to do about Chloe either?" Nino said.
"No. This could ruin everything." Marinette said.
"Maybe we should just talk to Chloe." Adrien said. "We can ask her not to tell anyone. I'm sure Chloe will understand." The others had high doubts. "Look, I've known Chloe for a long time. I'm sure she's a nice person. She just doesn't like to show it."
"I hope you're right. Here she comes." Francis said as they saw Chloe and Sabrina. Chloe smiled at them, but they all knew it was just a mask.
"Well, how are all of you doing? You haven't run into any monsters, have you?" Chloe asked.
"Don't taunt us, Chloe. This is serious." Marinette said as they were in no mood for the games. Chloe didn't respond. She just headed straight for school with Sabrina following her.
"You know, I've been thinking." Chloe said. "I should become a ranger myself. I look absolutely fabulous in a gold or platinum uniform. If only I knew who they were. Oh wait…." Francis went over and pulled her aside and made sure no one was listening.
"Chloe, you're playing with fire." Francis said. "It takes more than just wanting to look good to be a ranger."
"Maybe you can explain something to me." Chloe said. "How did you guys end up becoming rangers in the first place? Adrien, I can understand since he's perfection, but not the rest of you losers."
"That's none of your business." Francis said. "Chloe, there's no way someone like you can become a ranger." Chloe wasn't just going to sit with that.
"The rangers should really consider making me a ranger. I wouldn't want their identities to be spilled." Chloe said. "They should really think about it." Chloe and Sabrina went on with Chloe feeling confident they'll come around.
"Is she really blackmailing us to be a ranger?" Alya said.
"A good person deep down?" Nino questioned Adrien and Adrien was starting to wonder that as well. All of them went to class, but what they didn't know was that Lila was eavesdropping. She didn't get all of it, but she did see something was going on with Chloe.
"Chloe's acting like she knows the rangers. As if, but I better check with it." Lila said as she pulled out her phone.
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Gabriel
Gabriel made his way into his hideout. Right where Miracle Queen was waiting for him.
"So what's today's big idea?" Miracle Queen said.
"I'll let you know when you're actually needed." Gabriel said. He heard his phone go off and saw it was Lila. He answered it and wanted to see what this about. "Lila Rossi? What is it?"
"Hawk Moth, I have some information you might be interested in. I think Chloe might know something about the rangers." Lila said. "She keeps going on about her being a ranger and such."
"Does she? We'll see soon enough." Gabriel said and ended his call. "So Chloe has some knowledge on the rangers and thinks she might become one."
"It's probably her just bragging away." Miracle Queen said.
"Perhaps, but there might be something she has that I can use." Gabriel said as he pulled out his miraculous and became Hawk Moth. "I say we test her. The sooner I get the miraculous power, the sooner I can make my wish a reality and Adrien will be happy."
"Adrien… His son doesn't know Hawk Moth is his father." Miracle Queen said and that was giving her an idea.
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Natalie
Natalie was being driven by Adrien's bodyguard. She heard her phone go off and saw it was Mr. Agreste.
"Yes, sir?" Natalie said.
"Natalie, head back to Adrien's school. Lila believe Chloe might be of use to us." Hawk Moth said. "Go and capture her. I'll send a creation of my own to help you out."
"Understood." Natalie said as she ended the call. "Pullover." The bodyguard stopped and Natalie stepped out. "You can head back. I have some errands that Mr. Agreste needs me to get done." She went on ahead and the bodyguard didn't question anything. Natalie headed straight back to the school and was walking into a possible disaster.
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The High School
Chloe and Sabrina haven't told anyone so far about the rangers' identities. That's what's making Francis anxious. He could barely focus on school with Chloe knowing the truth. As soon as the bell rang, Francis stepped out to get some air.
"Francis, are you okay?" Adrien asked.
"I just need to think." Francis said. The others gave him some space. They need to figure out what to do about Chloe and fast. Francis stepped out of the class to think, but he noticed Natalie walk pass the entrance and thought that was strange. Natalie kept herself hidden and believed no one saw her. She pulled out her miraculous and was about to transform. "And here I thought you were just a secretary." She was surprised as she turned to see Francis. "Nice cover, Mayura."
"I was wondering how long it would be before you learned the truth." Natalie said.
"Hand over the miraculous." Francis said.
"Come and get it, Red Ranger." Natalie said. Francis jumped down to her and tried to take it, but Natalie fought back. Francis grabbed her arm to take the miraculous, but Natalie kicked him in the back and kicked him again to the ground. Even when she isn't Mayura, Natalie can hold her own in a fight. Francis got back up as he kept fighting, but Natalie blocked each one of his attacks. She tried kicking him, but he caught it and spun her around. She landed on her feet and kicked him back. As they were fighting, they were starting to draw a crowd from the school. Adrien and the others showed up and they couldn't believe it. Natalie kicked him back with the others catching him.
"Francis, what are you doing? Why are you fighting Natalie?" Adrien said.
"Because she's really Mayura." Francis said.
"What?" Adrien said as they didn't really believe that. Natalie transformed into Mayura right before them with everyone running scared. Adrien couldn't believe what he saw. "Natalie?"
"Adrien, I don't want to keep fighting you. Be smart and surrender the miraculous power." Mayura said.
"Please." Chloe pushed her way through and faced her.
"Go, Chloe!" Sabrina cheered.
"You don't stand a chance against seven rangers." Chloe said.
"I think you mean six." Mayura said. Something came flying and absorbed Chloe when it made contact. It looked like a sketch book and landed in the hands of a new monster. "Collector."
"Sorry, I'm late. Looks like I've got a new piece of art." Collector said as he showed Chloe trapped as a drawing. "We'll see what she knows soon." Mayura turned to Adrien. She hated doing this, but she's only following orders.
"Think about what I said, Adrien." Mayura said and they made a retreat and left the rangers more confused.
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Rangers' Base
"Natalie is really Mayura?" Luka said. The rangers met up at the base and were talking about what they learned with Luka, Fu, and Sol Knight.
"It was a shock to all of us." Nino said.
"To think someone close to Adrien is really our enemy." Fu said. "Regardless, we must get the miraculous she has back. Also, regarding this Chloe, we must rescue her, even if she continues to blackmail you all to be a ranger."
"Mayura and Hawk Moth are still our enemies. They must be stopped." Sol Knight said.
"It's hard to imagine she's Mayura. Makes you wonder even more who Hawk Moth really is." Alya said. Marinette thought the same, but she saw Adrien was distressed about all of this.
"You okay?" Marinette asked as she came over.
"I can't believe Natalie is Mayura. I've trusted her." Adrien said. "How could she do this?"
"I'm sure she has a good reason. Right now, we need to focus on saving Chloe." Marinette said. "Did I really just say that?" Adrien could see she was right. Saving Chloe is a higher priority than what he's feeling right now.
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Hawk Moth
Hawk Moth and Miracle Queen waited at a quarry for Mayura and Collector. They arrived, but Mayura told Hawk Moth all that has happened at the school.
"They know you're Mayura now!" Hawk Moth said.
"Forgive me. I didn't expect Red Ranger to show himself." Mayura said.
"About time you messed up." Miracle Queen said.
"Silence!" Hawk Moth shouted. Miracle Queen got irritated with him sounding angrier with her than Mayura. "Did you at least managed to capture Chloe?"
"She's right here." Collector said. He opened up his book and released Chloe. Chloe was surprised to see where she was.
"Chloe, how nice of you to be here." Hawk Moth said.
"I'm warning you, if you touch me, my father will sue you all." Chloe said, but Hawk Moth grabbed her arm.
"Your father won't be able to save you." Hawk Moth said. "I hear you have vital information of the rangers. You might be a ranger yourself soon. Tell me everything you know or else."
"I'm not telling you anything." Chloe said as she tried to get free.
"I highly suggest you rethink that." Miracle Queen said as she and the others were ready to attack her and Chloe thought she was in real danger.
"Hawk Moth!" All of them looked and saw Francis and the others arriving to face them.
"About time you showed up." Chloe said.
"Just in time to hand me the miraculous power." Hawk Moth said.
"I don't think so. It's morphin time! Ready?!" Francis said.
"Ready!"
"Miraculous Power!" All of them morphed and ready to face their enemies.
"Get them!" Hawk Moth said as the three of them charged and they each fought one of Hawk Moth's servants. "You're coming with me." Hawk Moth dragged Chloe away so they could talk. Adrien spotted them and he wasn't going to let them escape.
"Not so fast, Hawk Moth!" Adrien said as he made his way through and tried to attack him as he pulled out his staff. Adrien tried attacking him, but Hawk Moth used his cane and blocked each one of his attacks. "What have you done to Natalie?"
"Natalie?" Hawk Moth questioned.
"I know you had to have done something to her!" Adrien said as he took a swing at him, but they both held each other's weapons back. "There's no way she would help you without a reason."
"Adrien, there's so much more to this than you know." Hawk Moth said as he pushed his staff out of the way and slashed against him. Luka and Francis were fighting Collector as he kept swinging his sketch book at them, but they were careful not to get touched by it.
"I can't wait to add you two to my work." Collector said.
"I'm more into the music version of art." Luka said as he swung his leg at him, but Collector jumped back. Francis pulled out his blaster and blasted Collector. Nino and Alya tried double teaming against Mayura. Both of them tried their sabers, but she grabbed them and kept them back.
"How could you do this to Adrien when he trusted you?" Nino said.
"You do owe him an explanation when he had so much respect for you." Alya said.
"I don't need to explain myself to you children." Mayura said as she broke free and slashed her fan against both of them. Marineete and Sol Knight tried fighting off Miracle Queen.
"You're really starting to bug me!" Miracle Queen said as she formed her wasps and unleashed them at the two of them.
"Not this time!" Marinette said as she acted fast and used her blaster to shoot her wasps. Sol Knight jumped over them and went straight for Miracle Queen as he slashed against her.
"Surrender." Sol Knight said.
"Never!" Miracle Queen said as she got up and kept fighting the two of them. Hawk Moth and Adrien kept fighting each other as well with Chloe being tossed around.
"Let go! You're stretching out my outfit!" Chloe said. Hawk Moth ignored her as he swung at Adrien again, but Adrien rolled under his attack. Adrien decided to let Chloe helped as he kicked her leg and it caused her to kick Hawk Moth right in the gut. Adrien grabbed Chloe and pulled her away.
"You okay?" Adrien asked.
"Better." Chloe said as she enjoyed being in his arms.
"You won't be!" Hawk Moth said as he unleashed some energy blasts from his cane and knocked the both of them down. Adrien tried getting back up, but Hawk Moth held his cane near him to prevent him. "It doesn't have to be this way. All I'm asking is to have the miraculous power and make my greatest wish come true."
"What wish could you want that you would go through all of this to get?" Adrien asked.
"Something that would be a benefit." Hawk Moth said. As Hawk Moth had Adrien pinned down, Miracle Queen continued to fight Marinette and Sol Knight, but she was pushed back and backed into a corner.
"It's over, Miracle Queen. Nowhere to run this time." Marinette said as she and Sol Knight were ready to finish her.
"Any last words?" Sol Knight asked. Miracle Queen looked around because she refused to be defeated. She looked and spotted Hawk Moth. She formed more of her wasps and gathered them in her hand.
"I'm not going down. Not without doing this!" Miracle Queen said as she tossed the wasps, but they headed for Hawk Moth. Hawk Moth was surprised by the attack and took the full force of it. Seeing Hawk Moth being betrayed was a surprise to all of them.
"Miracle Queen, what do you think you're doing?!" Hawk Moth said.
"I'm sick of being you're little pawn. I was never made to take orders, but to give them!" Miracle Queen said as she attacked him again and it blasted his miraculous with a crack forming. With the miraculous damaged, he had a hard time holding his transformation.
"Look! He's changing!" Luka said as they all looked to see who Hawk Moth really is. Miracle Queen used this opportunity to escape. Hawk Moth couldn't hold it together and he was forced to change back into Gabriel Agreste. When they saw who Hawk Moth really was, none of them could believe it, especially Adrien.
"Father…?!" Adrien said.
"Adrien, I was hoping you wouldn't see this." Gabriel said.
"No way…" Alya said.
"Hawk Moth is really Adrien's father?" Nino said. Mayura slashed against the both of them and ran to Gabriel as he helped her.
"Are you okay?" Mayura asked.
"I will be once Miracle Queen pays for this." Gabriel said. They were in a serious situation now and Mayura could see that.
"Collector! Over here!" Mayura called out. Collector pushed his way through Luka and Francis and joined them. "Hold off the rangers." She pulled out a feather to him. "Take this amok and grow." Collector grabbed the feather and grew to giant size. Father and son looked at each other with Adrien not sure what to think.
"Adrien, make the right choice and give me the miraculous power." Gabriel said as he and Mayura made an escape.
"Adrikins…." Chloe said as she felt so bad for him.
"Adrien, snap out of it!" Francis called and snapped Adrien back to reality.
"We need the megazord now!" Luka said.
"Right." Adrien said as they all pulled out their zords. They summoned their zords and formed the Sun Megazord.
"Nice try, but you can't stop me!" Collector said as he held out his sketchbook and unleashed papers to attack the megazord. The papers slash and exploded against them and did some real damage.
"This guy is a lot tougher than he looks." Alya said.
"It's all that sketch book of his. We have to do something about it." Marinette said.
"Here he comes!" Nino said. Collector charged at them as he had the intention of absorbing them into his book. They grabbed him by the arms and tried to prevent him from doing so.
"You can't win, rangers." Collector said as he kept trying to push through.
"Any ideas?" Francis said.
"Just leave it to me. I need to blow off some steam." Adrien said as he was plenty mad with his father. The others decided to give him a shot at it. The megazord lifted its leg and drove it against Collector. When he was thrown off balance, they took the book from him.
"Give that back!" Collector demanded.
"Sure." Adrien said as they tossed the book back. Collector held out his arms to catch it. "Miraculous Sun Blaze!" Adrien didn't waste a second. He unleashed the finishing move and Collector got caught in it with his guard down and with him being destroyed. The rangers may have won, but it didn't feel like a victory. All of them felt bad for Adrien. "Father, how could you?"
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Gabriel
Gabriel was beyond furious. He thrashed around in his hideout, letting out all his anger and frustration. All Natalie could do was just watch.
"Because of Miracle Queen, she's made things more complicated between me and my son." Gabriel said. "I wanted to avoid all this, avoid suspicion and such until the moment was right."
"I'm sorry, sir." Natalie said. "Miracle Queen managed to escape, but she will suffer for what she has done today."
"You're right." Gabriel said. He held out his miraculous and saw it was actually damaged, but he didn't care. "Miracle Queen will pay and I will not stop until the miraculous power is mine." Gabriel hasn't accepted defeat, but with a broken miraculous, what will become of all this.