Toybot was wandering the streets of Paris, looking for the heroes whom it had sent running earlier. "Oh Miraculers, come out and play!" Latombe mocked over the monitor in the thing's chest. "I thought all kids liked action toys." Latombe snickered. It was then that a sound was heard behind the Toybot, which by instinct turned around and lashed by stretching out its arm. Only to find it to have slammed into a garbage can that was knocked over. It heard some more rustling and turned its head and fired lasers. It was only a pigeon and it barely avoided being fried. "My trigger finger is a bit itchy. I hope the heroes stop hiding soon or some innocent bystander may get hurt."

Latombe tapped with his fingers against the desk. He knew these heroes. They wouldn't remain hidden. It was a matter of time before they tried their next futile technique and his creation would deal with them properly. At least that's what he thought. Toybot found itself being hit in the back, stumbling forward as it soon regained its bearings and turned around. "Ah, look whom finally decided to show themselves." Latombe could make out a blur of black.

Chat Noir. Perfect. Toybot's stretchy arms and lasers aimed at the black cat hero. It would know its movements and patterns and would be easily able to cut him off even if he tried to dodge. However, when he fired or lashed...the cat didn't move according to his calculations. The feline brat was mostly moving like a cat playing, bouncing around, with a bit of edginess for lethal strikes. But this time...Oddly enough the hero in black seemed to be moving that looked like was stumbling but a the same time there were some weird acrobatics involved. It was an odd blend.

"You got some new dance moves, but we are still dancing to the same tune, my victory march!" Latombe said as he ordered his machine to remain on the offensive. The Black Cat baton weapon was thrown at Toybot, which backhanded it and it embedded into a nearby wall. Toybot stretched out both its arms and tried to get grabby, but the cat hero jumped up. Toybot fired lasers in the air at Chat, whom spins in the air to avoid and delivers a flying kick to Toybot's face, whom stumbled back...before being pushed in the side of a building. The baton that was embedded in the wall had stretched itself and had hit Toybot.

"I think it is about time the toy gets recalled." the voice came from the black cat hero, but it was not the voice Latombe was familiar with. Instead it was a voice from someone else. Only now Latombe noted the blue hair tied in a long tail-like braid. He now realized that it was Ladybug, now wearing the Black Cat Miraculous. She had removed her baton from the wall and now held it over her shoulder. "Whats up Latombe? Cat got your tongue?"

Latombe blinked. "Ladybug?" he asked, not able to believe it.

"It's Lady Noire now. I thought I tried a new look. What do you think, the suit's a purr-fect fit?" the Black Cat version of Marinette introduced herself. "And I'm not the only one whom tried out some different types of fashion."

"And now for the return of an old fav!" another voice said as something on a string shot out and hit Toybot. Adrien stood there again, wearing the Ladybug Earrings in his Scarlet Bug guise, for the first time since they deal with Style Queen. "You'll find our history is far from spotty..."

"What the...you swapped Miraculous?" Latombe asked.

"Oh so you noticed?" Scarlet Bug said sarcastically. "Whoa, we got a real genius here." Scarlet Bug spins the yo-yo around and lashed with it. When Ladybug used it, she uses precision strikes, trying to hit or find a weak spot. But Scarlet Bug's is like a whip, he lashes violently with it. And so the Toybot, instead of being able to avoid or block, is pelted by the yo-yo swings, one hitting him in the head and making his heads pin around.

As the Toybot stumbled, it was hit in the leg and tripped by a familiar green shield. It bounced back to its owner, or at least its temporary owner. Now Alya stood there in shades of Green. Best her costume could be explained is a genderbent Captain America with a Turtle theme. She now had goggles instead of her usual domino mask. "Have no fear, Olive Ridley is here!"

Toybot opened its chest and fired missiles. Olive Ridley spins her shield in front of her deflecting the missiles int he air, where they exploded harmlessly. When that failed Toybot reached out with its retractable arms, but she grabbed both arms in her own. She made the shield spin, put it on the arm, and it raced across the arm like a wheel on a racetrack, before whacking the robot in the face.

Toybot shook its head before it was stepped on, the owner of the foot kicking and landing in front of him. Nino in some fox-inspired gear. It had an orange sleeveless jacket with a collar that covered his mouth. He had baggy pants and knee-high boots with fox paw patterns. The fox tail lazily hung form the back of his belt. He had bandages wrapped around his upper arms and orange and white biker gloves, though those couldn't be seen due to having put his hands in the pockets of his jacket. He had a domino mask, and a pair of headphones with speakers on top that resembled fox ears, not unlike those 'cat ear' headphones. "Urban Fox is on the prowl!" he muttered softly.

"You look ridiculous." Latombe said bored. "Get him!" Toybot charged in. While Nino as Carapace sometimes used dance moves in combat...as Urban Fox he was way more agile and could use these types of moves more freely. So when he agilely danced out of the way dodged the Toybot, it started to get on Latombe's nerves. "Stand still!"

"Can do, I got the music in me!" Urban Fox said as he jumped up, did a spin mid air as he pulled out the flute and whacked Toybot in the face, as it stumbled back.

Before it could regain its bearing an amber brown blur. It had the speed of the Horse Miraculous, but the one using it was way more heads on as it didn't give the robot time to react properly. It zipped around him delivering rapid kicks at any good spot it could plant its boots. The new Horse wielder kicked off the ground and in mid-air launched a series of rapid mid-air kicks to the robot's face. The last kick knocked it on its back. As it got up it finally could take a good look at its attacker.

She flipped her blonde ponytail. She had a brown bodysuit, with a short sleeved jacket of a different brown shade over it. The glasses had taken on a more fashionable shape, and part of the bodysuit were glove and suit parts of a darker brown color. A horse tail also hung from a belt-like accessorize. "You thought Queen Bee had a bad sting, well Carolina has a mean kick, Darling!" Chloé introduced herself in her new form.

"Don't you mind if I butt in?" Max came in, now wearing the Dog Miraculous around his neck. His Miraculous outfit looked unusually sporty for someone like him. Though Latombe couldn't tell which sport the outfit belonged to. He had his hands behind his beck, like he tired to make himself look tall. He still had the dreads, but they were of a darker color, the dog ears stuck out from on top of his head and instead of glasses he had a domino mask. "Border Collie, at your service."

"Give it to me, you mutt!" Latombe growled. Border Collie's hands came from behind his back and on one of his hands was a huge baseball glove, with a dog paw pattern. The ball weapon also looked more like a baseball. He put the finger of his free hand in his mouth and then int he air, as if to check the wind direction. He then appeared to make some calculations in his head. And then with a good throw, the ball shot towards Toybot. He aimed with his eye lasers but the ball was a curve ball, the lasers missed and the robot was hit in the forehead.

Toybot shook its head after it received its previous blow and steadied itself. It turned on to the heroes again. Latombe wondered which is the next hero to blindside him again. However he didn't expect for music to as a young girl in black and yellow came in. Its uniform was similar to a cheerleader, even carrying two yellow and black pom-poms, her hair in pigtails and of course the standard domino mask. "Look at me, Honeybee, cheering on my friends to victory. M-I-R-A-C-U-L- O-U-S, goooooooooooooo Miraculous!" she chanted and danced, waving her pom-poms.

"One, two, three, four! You'll drop down dead on the floor!" Latombe rebutted as Toybot stretched out his arms and grabbed at her. However, she danced out of the way, doing some impressive flips in the process.

"Dumb Latombe, he can't win! Now he tastes Honey's Sting!" She chants as she thrusts her arm with one of the pom-poms forward, the trompo weapon shooting out of it and hitting Toybot. "Sting! Sting! Sting!" She alternated between thrusting her left and right arm, the trompo shooting out, retracting and shooting out again when she altered hands. It resulted in a series of rapid jabs that pushed Toybot back and dented him.

"Good one, Honey!" Carolina said as she gave her friend a thumbs up.

Border Collie looked at Sabrina's new Bee-inspired cheerleader outfit. It made her look hot. He blinked a few times before he let out a howl. Be quickly put his hands on his mouth as everyone looked at him in confusion. "Pardon me, not used to the side effects of this particular Miraculous."

All attention was luckily taken from the temporary dog wielder as Toybot got up again as an angry looking Latombe looked from behind his screen. "You caught me off guard, but I'm onto you. I just have to synchronize the footage of the current battle with Toybot's CPU..." Latombe said as Toybot's eyes blinked and the monitor now displayed a screen of zeroes and ones, more data.

"BC, smoke cover! Everyone, changez!" Lady Noire said.

Border Collie took out a small pellet and threw it to the ground. A smokescreen flared up. There were some colorful flashes, some moments pause and more colorful flashes. The smoke cleared and now everyone stood in different gear again.

Marinette once again had the Turtle, for the first time since Queen Wasp. "Malachite!" she introduced herself.

Nino was also back in a familiar form he had used last time in an emergency. "Nightprowler!"

Chloé now wore the red and black with the Ladybug. Almost all her bodysuit was black, only with red boots with black spots. Over her bodysuit she wore a red jacket with sleeves that came up to her elbows, and in the back split at the end like a pair of ladybug wings. Scarlet Lady!" she said softly.

Alya now had a new form with the Horse Miraculous. A brown leather bomber jacket with a furry collar, a white horse tail hanging from her belt, brown leather gloves, brown boots with horseshoe patterns, her wavy hair in a ponytail and two horse ears spouting from her head. "Amber Beauty!"

Adrien now had the Dog. The irony wasn't lost on him. It was still a leather bodysuit he wore, though it had more of a blonde, brown coloring. A fluffy tail that wagged and floppy ears on top of his head. He had the ball in his mouth and removed it briefly, tossing it up and down in his hand. "Updog!"

Max had the bee. Unlike when Queen Bee worse it, the bodysuit was merely and undersuit in all black, while the yellow and color came from armored parts around the chest, shoulders forearms and lower legs, with the trompo integrated int he arm armor, and sporting a helmet with antenna and a yellow visor over his eyes. The yellow was mixed in with some metallic green. "A-Metal."

Finally, Sabrina had the fox. Her outfit looked like a female spy outfit, only with an added fox tail and the fox ears on top of her head. She worse some shades over her eyes that were tinted brownish red. The orange was a darker orange head on her suit and her hair now was in a bobcut, her hair a darker red. "Red Fox!"

"What?" Latombe's eyes went wide. "No, I'm not done processing..." Latombe said. He honestly was baffled the heroes were wiling to trade the Miraculous so easily.

"Too late!" Amber Beauty shot forward dodging the retractable claw hands with her maneuvers, whom were more zig-zagged then either Carolina's or Pegasus' movements. She grabbed the horseshoe weapons and used them to pin the arms to the ground when she saw an opening. She then shot towards Toybot, delivered a few rapid kicks, stood on his shoulders and then began spinning around quickly. Then she shot up and shot down, stomping her foot down on the robot's head, whom shook. His arms came loose form where the horseshoes pinned it down the weapons coming loose and being thrown in the air, but Amber Beauty caught them and threw them into Toybot before they bounced back and she caught them in her hands again.

"Play!" Updog said as he put his ball between his fangs, dodging the laser fire by hopping around like an excited puppy, going under between Toybot's legs, grabbing them and knocking him on his face. He then jumped on the back. "Isn't this fun? Isn't this fun? Isn't this fun?"

Toybot turned around and grabbed Updog and held him in a vicegrip. Latombe eyed him angrily. "I had it up to here with you and your friends..." (squeak), "Cheap tricks whom will buy you only..." (squeak) '...more time but in the end I will..." (squeak) "Will you stop that?"

The entire time Updog has been trolling Latombe by squeaking using hte ball in his mouth. He spat it out in Toybot's face, distracting him enough to squirm out of his grasp and kick him back. "That does it you mutt! By the way, your name sucks. I mean, what even is Updog?"

"The sky!" Updog answered before he laughed.

"Of course." Latombe said somberly. "Laugh while you can, because I will have the last one!" Toybot raised its claw, ready to bring it down on Updog. However, it hit a solid surface, courtesy of Malachite, her head held high, her shield hat taking the blow. Latombe wouldn't let up and ordered Toybot to fire several missiles. Malachite took of her hate and scooped up the missiles before throwing them back at Toybot, whom was blown aback by his own attack, sent into the air.

Nightprowler positioned himself under where Toybot was about to land, landed on his head to do a breakdance spin while holding the baton with his feet. As Toybot landed on it, he was being juggled on top of the spinning cat hero. "Stabilize yourself, you junkheap!" Latombe said as he pushed buttons on his keyboard. The world was spinning on his monitor. "This is going to give me motion sickness."

Nightprowler bounced Toybot upwards as he got back to his feet, stopped spinning and instead whacked Toybot by extending his baton, out of the air, and onto the ground. Toybot got up but was confronted by A-Metal. He fired the trompo from his wrist like grappling hook. He fired it in the back of Toybot.

Toybot detached the key from its back, deploying like a drone. Its attention was drawn when Scarlet Lady wrapped her yo-yo around it and pulled it away. This gave A-Metal another opening to attack. He jumped up, and transformed the trompo in its gauntlet form. Toybot fired lasers in the air, expecting an aerial attack. However, A-Metal instead shot down and burrowed into the ground using the gauntlet like a drill. He then shot back up from the ground.

At the same time Scarlet Lady was wrangling the giant key. At first she used a few predictable swipes with the yo-yo, which the key dodged before shooting forward. Then, Scarlet Lady wrapped the wring of the yo-yo around her hands and then when the flying key came close enough she wrapped it around the key, jumped on top and rode it as a hoverboard, using the string as reigns for the mechanical flying steed.

Red Fox rushed in towards Toybot, whom grabbed at her with his claws, but she jumped over it, swings around the arm before propelling herself upwards and landing on its head. Another of his clawed arms grabbed at her but she did a handstand, caught the claw in between her legs, then dropped backwards to behind Toybot, and while not exactly tied up, he was boundby his own arm. "Let go, you fake fox!" Latombe said.

"As you wish!" Red Fox said as she let go, but the whiplash from trying to retract the arm made Toybot stumble, before it was run down by something. Knocked on its back by its own flying key, which Scarlet Lady had steered into him.

Toybot was now sparking and stumbling. "Come on you piece of junk! Adapt!" Latombe was rapidly dialing away at his console. It was then that his console started sparking as an error message appeared on his screen. Latombe growled and raised his fist but he stopped himself. "No, I am an intelligent human being with several doctorates and PhD's. I am not going to give in to my anger and smash things like a Neanderthal." as he sat down again.

"Going great, everyone. One more!" Malachite said. Another smoke bomb was thrown and from behind the mist there were more colorful flashes of light.

"Stop playing Musical Miraculouses! Do any of you have any respect for the relics? They shouldn't be passed around like that!" Latombe growled at them.

"We respect the Miraculouses. But we also respect the people whom wear them. We are a team and we trust each other." the voice of Marinette sounded, but as the smoke cleared she now stood there in and amber and white Qipao suit, her hair in a bun, with a wolf-like ears and a tail, in addition to a pair of long clawed gloves and boots. With the Dog Miraculous she was Langren.

"We know that your generation of Miraculous wielders were more secretive. But we have broken that barrier long ago." Adrien came from the smoke, now with the Turtle Miraculous. His bodysuit may initially appeared to look like Carapace's but it had some skater elements like elbow and knee pads, and instead of a domino mask he had a bandanna-like eye mask. Now he was Terrapin.

"Though even if they thought of doing it at the time, everyone knew what a little scumball you were, so they would never trust you." Chloé stepped forward and now she had the Black Cat Miraculous. She didn't look like anyone would expect, with a punk rock look, her hair messy and combed to one side and streaks of dirty green in her hair. She was now Ebony.

"Because you...you were a mistake." Alya stepped forward, now holding the Bee. Her bodysuit was similar to Chloé's but the black and yellow was arranged differently and her hair and bangs were woven in a more stinger-like shape. She was Abeille Jaune in this from.

"And boy what a mistake! Pissed at the world, and the best thing he decided to do about it was trying to tear it down. Like a child throwing a tantrum." Sabrina stepped in, now wielding the Horse. She now had a very cowgirl-like look to her, her hair in a braid, a stetson jacket and a domino mask replacing her glasses. She was now Sorraia.

"You think that because you had a hard life you had the right to ruin it for others? I know a fair amount of people whom led difficult lives but managed to rise above and become better, while you, you didn't." Max rose from the smoke as Lupinard. His suit had a phantom thief motive, with the Fox's orange and white and the coattails actually becoming a fox tail.

Finally was stepping out Nino with the Ladybug, aka Axion. "You think you are a bigshot, but you are actually the weakling. Held back by hatred and contempt. You know, I held nothing but said hatred and contempt for you. And while I will never forgive you...I am not going to become like you. I will not let it dictate my actions." Nino's suit had the Ladybug motif. But it looked more casual with the hoodie. He even had a cap he wore backwards with the ladybug motif. "So in short, you suck, dude!"

"Me? You think I am the problem? I don't know what Fu was thinking, letting you all know each other's identity, even allow you to swap Miraculous. Even when he trained me as a so called replacement, he still kept his secrets and motives close to his chest. We were all pawns to him. I may be a twisted bastard, but I was taught by one. He told me I'd be great, that I'd be what the world needs. And over one disagreement he outed me? Do you know how hard it is to hear at a young age as a kid, to be unworthy?" Latombe growled. Apparently they had opened some old wounds as Latombe's eye was twitching and he was foaming at the mouth.

"I heard it all through my childhood and I am not a psychopathic murderer." Ebony said.

"And Fu may have made some mistakes, but he is a good man. I know him, and I trust the man I know!" Langren said.

"That's the problem with you. You made the entire thing about yourself. anything you did, these inventions of yours, you stunt with the Miraculous. Ironically you would have been the best, your work benefiting mankind, you'd be the greatest hero, if only you looked beyond your own self-pity." Axion said as he rubbed his thumb across his nose.

Latombe's face went red as his eyes bulged. He smashed a button on his console. "Overclock! Take all your power and wipe these little brats form the surface of the earth!" Toybot turned red as it heated up and steam came from its joints as his head spins and it eyed the heroes menacingly. Missiles and lasers flew everywhere. Its arms stretched out and lashed wildly. The key flew form his back and shot everywhere.

The heroes moved in. They witnessed it the first time when the thing overclocked and went berserk. But this time they were ready, they knew what to expect. Langren and Ebony charged in on all fours. They strafed from one side to eh other to avoid the onslaught of lasers and missiles.

One laser came dangerously close. "Cowabunga!" Terrapin, riding his shield like a skateboard, skated down the street, did a trick of the walls, and skated, with his shield deflecting the lasers. It pushed him back but allowed the ladies to move in closer. Axion and Abeille Jaune swung around the place by their string weapons. At times they swatted missiles out of the air. The flying wind-up key flew in and tried to skewer them, but Lupinard threw himself on top of it, from above. With one projectile down the two continued onward.

Sorraia zoomed in, trying to move in a pattern none of the other Horse wielders had used. She did fine, she wasn't fried to a crisp yet. She threw the horseshoe, but it was shot out of the air by a laser (though not destroyed) but then she took her hat of her head and threw it as an additional weapon and it hit Toybot in the face.

The heroes now had come close enough. He tried firing lasers and missiles, but he couldn't properly aim at a short distance like that. So he stretched his arms, which started to crack the earth as he tried grabbing at them but missed. They realized he was getting sloppier, Latombe was getting sloppier.

Abeille Jaune took a page from A-Metal's book and used the bee gauntlet in stinger form to burrow underground. Latombe thought the same trick would be attempted twice, now the 'stupid kids' thought they had exploited a so called weakness in his creation. Toybot stretched its arm out and followed into the tunnel Abeille made. "Cataclysm!" Ebony said as she touched the arm, which rusted and broke apart. Toybot detached the arm before the decay could reach the rest of the body. But it was already partially crippled.

Abeille Jaune shot up from the underground again and this time shot the trompo at Toybot. It was still processing its loss of limb and wasn't in time to react to the drill-spinning trompo being shoved into its optic, breaking it.

Latombe pulled at his hair as his screen spelled out 'Error!' over and over again. He ave in to his anger and punched straight through that screen. As he pulled back his hand he seemed to realize to have lost his temper.

"Your inner Neanderthal is showing." Mahamayuri droned.

"Oh, now you have a sense of humor!" Latombe groaned.

The flying wind-up key had Lupinard in his sights. He put his flute to the lips with a 'Mirage!' Though there were multiple, the key could sense the real one. As if that would work. It charged at Lupinard, whom jumped aside...but the flying key couldn't stop in time as it flung into its owner, again. The illusion didn't work in the traditional sense, but it still had been a distraction. Now the thing was embedded in the shoulder of Toybot, sparking heavily as its arm lay there, limply.

"Booyakasha!" Terrapin said as he he used his shield to smash the key in further, sparking even more heavily as the arm fell off, the the wind-up key was sent flying.

Langren then clamped onto the head and clawed away a the robot's remaining optic in a feral manner, before finally gauging it out. The machine was on its last legs now. It opened up its chest and fired missiles, the only thing it has left.

Sorraia charged in, and threw her horseshoe in a boomerang fashion, destroying most of them. She then used her hat to catch the last one and threw it at the flying wind-up key, destroying that flying little annoyance as well.

Axion wrapped the yo-yo and the string around his fist as he shot at the crippled Toybot. Using it as a makeshift knuckleduster, he screamed to the heavens, putting all in his punch, and straight through the monitor on Toybot's chest. The robot twitching and sparking. Axion retracted his fist, in his hand now some robotic parts from its internal compound in his hand. Toybot went still and it fell over backward. A small explosion came from his chest and it smoked.

The heroes panted and they dropped down on their knees, bums or lay down. "Well, I'm knackered." Terrapin said.

"At least that's over." Langren said as she turned to Axion. "So, how are you feeling?"

"I think I managed to vent a lot with my frustrations. Only thing better if it was his actual face though, instead of his little screen." Axion said. "You know, in hindsight Latombe is a pathetic man. He did horrible things but he is sad and lonely and I almost pity him. He thinks he has something to fight for, but he is in hindsight fighting for nothing."

"You'd still kick his ass if you saw him if you saw him in real life?" Abeille Jaune asked.

"Of course." Axion added.

"You know, it was an interesting experience to use another Miraculous for a change. I like Kaalki though and I want her back, but is quite educational nonetheless." Lupinard pointed out.

"I'll say. I feel energized with the Horse, and with the Bee, it was like I was on top of the world. Different from Barkk's playful energy." Sorraia noted. "Though I miss the little pup."

"Maybe we should have the others practice with swapped kwamis too. After all, it may be handy if we need a specific Miraculous but the person itself is unavailable, or another situation where there is a copycat or something else similar is in place." Ebony suggested.

"Me and Bugaboo spoke about it a while back" Terrapin said. "Though we thought we wouldn't have to do that until later. But knowing what Latombe can do..."

"We may need to speed up the training. Because thaat monster of a man may have more tricks upon his sleeve." Langren said. "It was most likely only the first of many dangerous inventions he sends after us."

"At least this invention is not completely destroyed. I can perhaps study it to learn more about it." Lupinard said as he picked up Toybot's severed arm.

"Will the Miraculous Ladybug erase him, repair him or...?" Sorraia asked as she pointed at the defective Toybot.

"In principle not. The Ladybugs bring order. Not necessarily a hundred percent like before, but the most stable state of order. So it will remain wrecked." Langren said.

"Well, in that case, may I?" Axion asked. Langren nodded. "Lucky Charm!" An toy dragon in ladybug colors fell from the sky. "Miraculous Axion!" he said as he threw it to the sky. Th damage done by Toybot was undone, but not the damage to Toybot itself.

"Now, we need a place to detransform and swap kwamis back." Langren said.

"Can it wait until I'm back home...I was only wearing a towel when I transformed. And in between transformations it was getting really chilly." Ebony said.

"Luka would nosebleed to dead if he heard that. He may still get that if he sees you like this. I mean, punk rock black cat?" Abeille asked.

"I just wanted to know what it felt like to wear that style." Ebony said as she huffed.

"I'll say we get our kwami's back, go home and rest." Axion noted. No one disagreed with him.

At Latombe's lab, the madman himself was angry wand was throwing stuff in his lab around and breaking them. "I hate those kids! They have no right to call me out...They think I'm unworthy but those naive children, spoiled by power, no vision...It should have worked! My invention was..." He panted after some ranting.

"Got that out of your system?" Mahamayuri asked. Latombe didn't answer and just sat down in a chair and pouted. "It was a good idea on paper. But a machine without a soul, it would never keep up with a human. You can give it any command, but it would not be able to think outside of the box. Not like those kids."

"You are now praising them too, they are the enemy." Latombe said.

"They are your enemies. They are obstacles to me. But like myself, they fight for what they believe in. I don't fault them for that. Ideals will tend to clash." Mahamayuri said. "I hope you have learned something from this Latombe. It is not good to become overconfident. Even less by taunting a powerful enemy."

"Wait, you expected me to fail?" Latombe asked. That's what he got from the way Mahamayuri spoke.

"Of course I did. You are in the end still a human being. A brilliant one, but a flawed one nonetheless. Confronting you with your flaws is a first step to reflect, to improve. Because no matter how harsh the words of the heroes were..." Mahamayuri turned around to see Latombe eye to eye. "They held the truth."

Latombe's fury reignited. It was bad enough to hear it from those snot-nosed brats but hearing it from one he could have considered and ally, that was too much. He stood up, threw himself at Mahamayuri, but something happened before his punch could connect. He felt a pressure around him. His chest compressed, he couldn't breathe. He felt empty, he felt despair, like all the joy in the world was gone...images flashed. He saw horrors, true horrors...he couldn't describe it, he couldn't comprehend it, the only thing he knew it felt afraid. he collapsed on the floor, panting heavily, almost hyperventilating. "Don't touch me." Mahamayuri said softly but firmly.

"What are you?" Latombe asked.

"I am the bigger fish, Latombe. I hope the lesson sticks this time. I need you for your intellect. But if I were to achieve my goal, you need to get your act together. And I'm not above some tough love to get through to you. Don't forget..." Mahamayuri said as he leaned in towards the ground and was at eye level with the mad doctor. "Without me you'd still be rotting away in that jail cell, you'd die in there. I own you. I am not your partner, I am your master. I am a patient being, but I am not a forgiving one." Mahamayuri then left the room, leaving the madman to recollect his thoughts.

Latombe always wanted to be feared, but now he felt a fear like he never felt before. And he still didn't know what Mahamayuri truly was. Aside from that he was dangerous. more dangerous then him. Latombe never thought he'd say it, but he almost wished he was left back at his prison cell.

"..And that is what happened." Marinette said as she had finished explaining; Master Fu most likely had seen the news, but he would wanted feedback from their point of view.

Master Fu stroked his grey beard. "It was indeed a lever technique. Though it was one that could not have worked, or at least would be very difficult if you didn't now each other's identities. It also shows he great amounts of trust the team has in each other, and it fills me with certain pride. Though with some shame as in several instances when I handed out the Miraculous I didn't extent the same courtesy to the other teams. Some of them could in hindsight have benefited from this."

"Well, the world hasn't gone to hell so they still must have done something right. That and I doubt they fought with an Amazo knock-off in their lifetime." Adrien noted.

"I managed to get the remains of that knock-off to my lab." Max noted. "I'll hopefully learn more from it. About how Latombe works, where he maybe. I can perhaps reverse engineer something from it. Markov is due to an upgraded body." Max noted.

"How will you explain that to your mom when she finds out?" Sabrina asks.

"Oh she normally leaves me to my own devices in my lab. She trusts me enough to be careful with my inventions, and besides, my lab is a private quarters and she respects said privacy. Also with her upcoming astronaut training it may be a blip on her radar anyways. And when it is time for her to join the next space mission, it will be my aunt looking after me, and she barely can tell apart a dvd player from a microwave."

"If anyone can figure out anything about it, it should be you." Sabrina said to Max, whom preened a little.

"Anyhow, we are still far form done. Latombe may be tinkering with his next death machine as we speak." Marinette said.

"But until we found out where he is, just like with Hawkmoth, all we can do is react to the danger until we gathered enough info to track him down." Chloé pointed out. "At least as far as we know, Latombe cannot akumatize half the city at once."

"I think we have a lot to talk about the next time everyone is around for the meeting, they'll want to know what they missed out upon. And about the change in lesson plans next time. We're going to need some aces up our sleeve." Alya added.

"I already plan to address possible swaps in the future for when there are emergencies. I thought to also start a bit early with fusions." Marinette said.

"Are you certain? A swap is drastic but bearable. But fusions can be physically straining." Master Fu asked.

"I am certain we can pull it off. We have strong people on our team. And no battle is won by taking the easy way out." Marinette said.

"I have utmost faith in you young ones, s you know. I can only advice you further that you be careful. Or as careful as you can be in this line of work." Fu replied.

"We promise, Master Fu." Marinette said.

"As for you, Nino...how do you feel?" Master Fu asked as he eyed Wayzz's new holder.

"Oh, he has reopened some old wounds and...I still hated him but...me hating him doesn't seem all that important now. He needs to be stopped, that's for sure but...I get tired of the hate now." Nino explained.

"Having lived longer then most people, I had to deal with my fair share of losses and grief, more then most people alive. In a self-perceived mistake I thought I had to deal with it by myself. It may have explained some of the mistakes I made in life. Even after a century or two, some losses don't get any easier. But one has to accept these losses, as one needs to move forward and treasure what one had, and what one still has." Master Fu said.

"I think I get it. I still got my mom, my brother, my friends...and they're counting on me. Can't let them down." Nino answered.

"That's why you are a worthy bearer of the Turtle, Nino. You learned a lesson in a short lifetime the took me a century to learn." Fu said with a soft smile.

"I think you don't give yourself enough credit, dude." Nino replied.

Master Fu chuckled. "I think it is time for you youngsters to go home, you probably have worried parents waiting for you. That and this old man needs his rest. I'm still up for mahjong next week, Wayzz. I may actually beat you this time."

"You say that every time, Master Fu. But who knows?" Wayzz replied.

With that, the heroes went on their way, but before the parted, Nino to turned to Alya. "Hey Als, what about we have a proper date again? So I could make up for being a lousy boyfriend the past few weeks?"

"You haven't been lousy. Hot-tempered and bull-headed, but not lousy. But whom am I to judge?" Alya said. "But having quality time with my boyfriend that doesn't include kicking the crap out of baddies sounds fine." Alya grabbed Nino's hand. The two would be fine.

"Madame Millefeuille's? And a movie? This Saturday?" Nino asks.

"Sounds fine with me." Alya answered as she gave a peck on her boyfriends'lips."

Sabrina was on her way home as suddenly Max caught up. "Wait, Sabrina, there is something I want to ask." he said.

Sabrina turned around to face him. "Yes?" she asks softly.

"Well, er...Sabrina, you are a very clever and determined young girl and...I like spending time with you..." Max stammered. He didn't run his calculations because he is using all his brainpower to try and not make a fool out of himself at the moment.

Sabrina shushed him with a finger to his lips. "I like movies, we'll meet Friday after school, I'll buy the popcorn." she said with a soft smile.

"Really? Er...I mean, great! Friday it is." Max said. "Oh er, if you want to help me study Toybot's remains you can also hop by later this week?"

"I thought you didn't let anyone but Markov and yourself in your lab?" Sabrina asked.

"I can change my mind." Max stated.

"All right. Is it good if I come by tomorrow after school?"

"Yeah, sure." Max said.

"All right, see you tomorrow, brainiac." Sabrina said with a wink as she then walked home.

max stood there for a few moments. Even with his brain capacity, there are some things that take long to process. After a few minutes, Max pumped his fist and let out a loud and excited "YES!" He then quickly recomposed himself, adjusted his bow tie and walked home, whistling.

NOTES

This is what I've wrote the entire episode for! Kwami swaps! Seemed like a good idea.

Some names speak for themselves, other have a bit more context.

Marinette was malachite in season one, she has become Lady Noire like the tv show, and Langren, that's chinese for werewolf. A ref to her dad whom was Weredad in the show and Loup-Garou in my universe.

Adrien would have a punny name as Updog, knowing his joking nature. A Ninja Turtle vibe for Terrapin because he's a lovable dork and he returns as Scarlet Bug (my rename of Mr. Bug from the show which was a stuipd name).

Chloé's Horse form Carolina is named after a horse breed, Scarlet Lady is a popular fan name for Chloé with teh Ladybug miraculous and as Ebony..well, it is a shade of black of course.

Alya being the comic book geek would have a Captain America inspiration in Olive Ripley (named after a sea turtle species), Abeille Jaune hails from one of my plotbunnies (name means 'yellow bee' in french) and Amber Beauty (also form one of my plotbunnies, named after Black Beauty but a color swap)

Nino returns as Nightprowler, just like season one. Urban Fox with his girlfriend's miraculous and with the ladybug he's Axion, and Axion is a genus of ladybugs.

Sabrina as the horse wielder is also named after a horse breed, Sorraia. Honeybee is obvious. Red Fox is as well.

Finally Max. With the dog he is named Border COllie, which I've read that they are the smartest breed of dog, fitting for Max. Lupinard refers to Reynard the fox and Arsene Lupin, a pair of fictional theives and tricksters. Finally, with the bee, A-Metal he is named after the bee genus Augochloropsis Metallica.

So aside from that, Nino's doing better, a new pairing kicks off and Mahamayuri reminds Latombe whom is in charge.