Chapter 33
Gabriel sat in his office in front of his computer, then took out from the table a black SD card he had lying on it and shove it on the tower, which was lying under the table, then he looked up at the computer again hearing a noise as the computer sensed a new device connected to it and on the screen appeared a pop-up notice, which asked him about a password, then he typed down a twelve-lettered word on it and pressed enter, so he could open the file, which showed several files and he pressed the first one, which was a video with the title Dinner of Adrien.
"There it is," Gabriel murmured quiet pressing on the clip to open it and he had the bird's eye view from above a counter to Adrien and Nino dining together the other night ago.
"Uh…...your mom?" Adrien answered making Nino shake his head.
"No, it's Miss Bustier,"
"Really? I didn't know she was married or in a relationship,"
"Apparently she is," Nino answered. "Explains why she was nauseous the past weeks,"
"Yep,"
"How was the fencing tournament?" Questioned the brunette boy. "Did your team win?"
"We ended in fourth place,"
"That's still great though," Nino assured earning a nod from the blonde. "Thanks, Nino….how's your superhero duty going? I haven't spotted you out a lot lately,"
"You know besides Ladybug and Onyx, there's also Hydra and Super Snake. They're the ones, who have the best powers to use, I'm more of a protector," Nino replied. "I'm happy when we don't fail together,"
"That's great. I wish I could be with you working against Hawk Moth, but we know this won't happen again after what happened back with Miracle Queen,"
"I know you do. Onyx has quite been a good help to Ladybug along with the others, but that's good as long as Paris doesn't get endangered by any more akumas," Explained the brown-eyed boy. "Ladybug made sure we all could train together and improve our skills. Probably why we made a good job the past times,"
"Sure I believe that. Keep up the good work and soon or later Hawk Moth will be in our hands," Adrien stated watching Nino pick out his smartphone as he felt it vibrate to check a message he received from Alya.
"Oh wow, I wonder who made it to take a picture of Ladybug kissing Onyx," Nino said surprised showing Adrien the picture making him smile.
"Wow, If you knew how much I would have given to have Ladybug kiss me the way she's doing right now," Adrien noted making Nino look neutral at him.
"If you think something is going on between them, there's nothing. Ladybug had a crush on him, but apparently, he is into someone else and both decided to stay as friends. But we know newspapers and all that like to make up stories," Nino explained making Adrien chuckle.
"I know, I still feel sad, that there's no way I and Ladybug could ever be a thing, but I've got Aja now and she's been so far really cool,"
"Cool. Make sure you treat her the way she deserves. Be attentive to her and all. You know sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until we lost it,"
"I believe you," Adrien agreed walking back to his table as the chef appeared carrying two salads for the boys.
"Oh field salad," Nino commented seeing the salad they got served. "This now makes me think on the one day I had with Alya, where I had to leave because Mr. Pigeon got akumatized. This guy can get pretty annoying with the time,"
"I understand you," Adrien agreed. "With the time it's easier to beat him, cause he always is akumatized by his whistle,"
"Yes, you're correct. Hawk Moth is trying hard to get closer to us and he never did….well he got closer on that day, where he turned Chloé into Miracle Queen and somehow got the miraculous,"
"Ladybug told me on the day I arrived what exactly led to that moment and it had to do with her having been…..in love with me," Adrien stated making Nino chuckle.
"Well, you were a goddamn model, the Dustin Beaver of Paris, of course, you would have her liking you too,"
"Yes…," Adrien answered slowly losing his smile at Nino's comment. "Right…...because of my career, but…..I don't know, is her…...was her love for me actually real and not…...you know, because of my fame?"
"No idea, I never got to know about her life that good,"
"Neither I just knew about her having a crush on someone who…..wait…..she meant me!….. Just we don't know her identity and…...well that's why it makes sense for her before to like me, but not Cat Noir"
"Okay….uh what exactly did you want to say about Ladybug loving you have to do with Miracle Queen?"
"Oh sorry…...well on that day I was eating ice cream together with Kagami and before we were going to have our first kiss Ladybug took her away from me, cause she needed her help to use the dragon miraculous. Ladybug said she supposedly had Chloé in her mind, but because she saw how close I and Kagami got she changed plans and took Kagami instead forgetting to transform back into her civilian self and because of that mistake Hawk Moth saw, where Ladybug went and after she left he took the opportunity to kidnap Master Fu,"
"Ouch, all this happened because of….her crush on you?" Questioned Nino earning a nod from Adrien.
"As far as I understood. She has realized that it was a big issue she did and that she paid for that. The one who is in my place is according to her a little older and wiser, so she can ask him for advice and he helps her out,"
"I haven't talked a lot with Onyx to be honest, but he is a hell of a dude. Really bad we can't know each other's identities, I really would like to know, whose behind his mask, I would have never thought back before, that you were Cat Noir,"
"Keep up with the work. Soon or later you'll all be able to defeat Hawk Moth and take his miraculous away."
"Oh, I'll punch his face after we find out who he really is! Each one for each friend," Nino recounted making Adrien giggle.
Gabriel laughed at Nino's comment, then pressed on pause.
"Don't worry, we'll see if you're brave enough when you have Hawk Moth standing in front of you" Gabriel spoke, then he pressed on the button of his telephone in the office to call his assistant. "Nathalie, meet me in the office. We have a plan to discuss,"
"Yes sir, I'll be there in a minute," Nathalie answered, then Gabriel took his finger away and looked at the paused clip to see Nino laugh.
At the school, a few students were present, as they had special afterschool activities on Saturday morning. Nathaniel stood in front of the school using his smartphone, then Marinette passed by and waved at Nathaniel, which waved back.
"Wow, you're early," Marinette commented surprised at his appearance. "Doesn't the art class open up at 10?
"Yeah it does, but Lila has a casting thing this morning, and Marc and I promised to be there for her," Nathaniel answered, then gave out a loud yawn making Marinette chuckle.
"Didn't you sleep well?" Questioned the blue-haired girl making the redhead shrug his shoulders.
"I was watching the new season of Vortex and I fell asleep in the middle of the night I think. Sadly I forgot, what episode exactly was the last one I was watching"
"Okay, if you're curious why I'm here to sew for my parents something for Christmas and it's better to keep it here so they don't find it out," Marinette told earning a nod from Nathaniel. "What will you do on Hannukah?"
"I don't know. Maybe we will take grandpa home to us for the whole week," Nathaniel responded. "I'm not sure about my mom's work schedule,"
"Alright," Marinette said, then saw Marc appearing and wave at the two classmates. "Hey Marc!"
"Hello," Greeted the student, then looked at the time and spoke to the redhead. "Is Lila on her way?" Questioned Marc making Nathaniel shrug his shoulders.
"I don't know. She hasn't shown up yet and we're supposed to be there in five minutes,"
"I will go in" Marinette announced entering into the court to see a few fencing students sitting there waiting for the rest of their group, then Marinette went to the stairs and saw Kim Chien Le on there using his smartphone, then she waved at him, which smiled back at the girl.
"Oh did you get detention too?" Kim asked making Marinette shake her head.
"No, I promised Alya's group to deliver them fresh croissants, which Cody ordered for his birthday," Marinette answered. "Who else besides you and Alix is in detention?"
"No idea, I haven't entered the room yet,"
"You'll see, you won't be alone," Marinette mentioned arriving at the top of the second floor, making her way to the art class to encounter the class teacher putting all the materials out of the closets. "Uh morning,"
"Oh, good morning Marinette. Sit down if you want, I'm rearranging everything here differently," Explained the teacher watching Marinette nod and drop her bag on the table, then took a box out of her bag, afterward left the classroom and saw on the stairs Alya walk up along with Myléne, which made her way to the other side of the level.
"I've brought the croissants," Marinette commented showing the box to the friend.
"Thanks, Marinette," Alya said grabbing the box, then smirked at the girl making her look neutral at the girl wondering, why she was looking at her like that.
"Have I forgot something?" Questioned Marinette earning a nod from Alya.
"You and Luka had a movie night yesterday and you didn't tell me how it was,"
"We didn't go anywhere for that night, to be honest. I didn't want it to be awkward or so. I'm waiting for the right moment, which wasn't yesterday. Yesterday was….just weird day for me and for him and…...he offered me to talk and we ended up agreeing in watching a movie afterward at my house,"
"At least you're progressing more with him, than with Adrien,"
"I feel like life didn't give more chances. You saw how rarely it was for his father to let him out," Marinette pointed out. "I think now the best for him is London as his father isn't overcontrolling him now and his aunt Amelie seems more present to him…..Or not? He's in a boarding school, he practically doesn't see her as often as his dad too?"
"Nino mentioned her to have been present on Adrien's act, otherwise he's always inside the boarding school. He's allowed to go out, but has to be back as it's a boarding school and not a regular high school. He doesn't seem to worry about going out so much as he did here. There he has his roommate, his classmates, and other students, which are there longer than him,"
"Okay, that's better than being all alone," Stated the blue-haired girl earning a nod from Alya.
"I'm going to the locker after I brought the croissants back to the classroom. Do you need something?"
"I have my sketches in the locker. I need to get down too," Marinette mentioned.
"Go on, I'll be down in a sec," Alya announced, leaving Marinette to go the stairs down heading to the locker room, where at the moment she encountered one person glimpsing inside the locker of itself and Marinette walked up to hers, then looked at the person and recognized Jin which was taking out a writing block and looked into it. Marinette noticed Jin's hairstyle was different than usual, then greeted him.
"Hey, have you tried a new haircut?" Marinette questioned watching Jin close the locker.
"Hey…..what?" Jin questioned then Marinette pointed at his hair, then Jin saw he hadn't put gel on his hair and he had streaks of his bangs flocked down. "Oh, I forgot to comb it and take care of it," Responded the Chinese descendant boy. "You know per coincidence someone, who uses hair gel?"
"I think Kim from my class does. He's heading to detention class later,"
"Good so am I,"
"What have you done to get there?" Marinette questioned surprised watching Jin show Marinette an exam with a two in front of it. "Wow, I thought you were good at chemistry," Mentioned the girl watching Jin show the next three pages, which were all empty.
"I somehow forgot them," Jin stated and took it back into his bag. "Look I have to go, see you later,"
"Good bye," Marinette said watching Jin leave the wardrobe, then Marinette took a look into her locker to get her sketches and Tikki flew out of the girl's purse.
"Do you think Jin could need someone to talk with?" Questioned the kwami making Marinette shrug her shoulder.
"I think it has something to do with the rejection Luka mentioned the other day ago. He probably can't take it," Answered Marinette. "If I see him afterward I can offer him to talk with me. After all, I uhm…...got rejected by Onyx the other day. Except I say it was someone else I didn't want anyone to know about,"
"Good idea. He sure will be glad to at least have someone who understands him," Tikki agreed watching Marinette take out her sketch, then Tikki disappeared into the purse as the door of the wardrobe opened up for Alya Césaire to enter making her way to her locker.
"Did Jin forget to fix his hair?" Alya asked earning a nod from Marinette.
"It seems. I thought about talking to him in the next break if it has anything to do with his crush on Yi. It's sad if he can't stay focused on his tasks about that,"
"All that because of her?"
"Well he didn't tell me, but I was assuming that's the reason,"
"I guess you can still talk with him, but I'm not sure if it's because of that. It could also be family issues, health issues etc.,"
"Yes could be. I offer him a talk if he wants we can talk about it, otherwise we just let it go," Marinette spoke. "Oh didn't you say Nino got invited to eat with Adrien last night at the mansion?"
"Yeah he told me, but was he found strange is, that Gabriel Agreste was supposed to be present during the dinner, but never showed up,"
"Sounds usual from his side, to be honest,"
"That's what I told Nino. Also, he stated, that it was unusual from Gabriel's side to invite Nino over. The only person he eventually would invite would be Chloé or Kagami. Everyone else is a bad influence,"
"If you think something sounds strange there tell me….you know…..to be aware,"
"Don't worry I don't think Adrien's father is going to harm anyone of us…..unless he gets akumatized at some point as it happened on the day Lila got into our class,"
"Nowadays it's hard to trust certain persons. Mostly mysterious ones like him,"
"That would be a good topic for a journalist like me to search on it. Who's Gabriel Agreste and what hides behind this serious facade? Oh if Nadja, River, and Clara just knew this,"
"You don't know it yet, Alya,"
"But future star-journalist Alya will. River Langerak would kiss my feet for that,"
"I believe you," Marinette answered with a chuckle.
At the classroom Jin stood at the stairs in front of Kim, which was searching through his bag for anything, then Jin observed at the entrance Alix enter with a book in her hands, then she slapped with it on Jin's back shrieking him.
"Morning boys," Greeted the girl. "Did Mrs. Mendeleiev get you detention too, Jin?"
"I forgot the last pages on her chemistry exam," Answered Jin, then Kim found a gel tube for hair and handed it out to Jin. "Thank you,"
"Who else is coming to detention. Check the list on the table, Jin," Alix asked, then Jin passed by the list and widened his eyes. "Yi's got detention too?"
"Oh" Alix stated with a smirk, looking at Jin reading the rest of the list.
"Then there's you, me, Kim, Roland, Chad, Beatrice and Leah,"
"Roland and Chad are usually here, but I'm surprised why everyone else is here," Kim stated earning a nod from Alix.
"Probably they were in Mrs. Mendeleiev's class," Alix added earning a nod from the Vietnamese boy, then the school bell rang and the last detention students got into the classroom and sat down, while Jin was doing his hair.
"Hey Roland, go check out what teacher is coming up to us," A brunette boy asked, then saw the tan-skinned boy move to the exit to leave, seconds later he returned annoyed and sat down.
"Either Mrs. Mendeleiev or Mrs. Morane," Roland responded making Chad hit his head on the table.
"Fuck!"
"Isn't Mrs. Morane that Karen you saw the other day arguing with your dad because he had left one wheel halfway over the line of the parking spot?" Questioned a strong blonde girl looking at the boy, that had his face on the table.
"Yeah, she's awful," Chad commented, then the door got opened back and Chad looked up serious, then furrowed his eyebrows as it wasn't the teacher but the girl Yi from another class. Jin took out his smartphone and used it to check out his hair, then tried to fix the front a little afterward a raven-haired woman entered into the classroom, followed by a few students groand at seeing Mrs. Morane was the one entering into the classroom, then she stopped as she saw Jin in the middle of the classroom.
"Uh huh," The teacher faked a cough, then Jin saw the teacher and placed his smartphone back in his pocket.
"I wanted to make sure my hair looked alright," Jin stated, then the teacher pointed to an empty chair next to Yi, then Jin walked back to a chair next to Kim, where Jin had dropped his utensils.
"Boy, what's your name?" Mrs. Morane asked.
"Jin," The raven-haired boy answered.
"And what did I tell you?"
"To sit down, I heard it," Jin answered, then the woman pointed at the chair next to Yi.
"I've told you to sit there, didn't I?" The woman asked sternly.
"I thought it didn't matter. I had before prepared my materials here,"
"And now I want you to get closer to me. Do you want me to go to the principal's office?" Questioned the teacher making Jin shake his head.
"No Mrs. Morane," Jin responded with a sigh, then took his utensils and brought them to the table next to Yi, then he looked at her, which felt bad for the way Jin was being treated.
"So as you kids already know, I'm Mrs. Morane. You're been sent to me either because of your behavior, your performance or anything else. Today the only thing you will be doing is to copy several pages from any book I pick you from that shelf over there. No matter what kind of genre it is, you will have to copy it otherwise I will order you to copy the whole book for the rest of the day and I know no one wants that, right?" Mrs. Morane said earning a nod from the class. "Good, prepare your notebooks while I will get the books," The teacher announced walking to the back of the class, followed by the class looking at the teacher, then Chad gave Roland a thumb up, which sneaked at Yi's place to take out a rubber, which she noticed and got annoyed.
"What are you doing?" The girl asked watching Roland sit back and throw it against Mrs. Morane's neck causing her to jump.
"Okay, who was that?!" Mrs. Morane exclaimed, then Roland pointed at Yi, which widened her eyes in shock.
"It was her Mrs. Morane,"
"Are you serious?" Yi shouted while Jin looked at Yi surprised at being blamed for something she wasn't guilty of.
"You're Yi, then?" Questioned Mrs. Morane earning a nod from the girl.
"Yes, but it wasn't me. I swear," Yi said, then Jin placed his arm up.
"Mrs. Morane. Yi is saying the truth. She didn't do anything, Roland was the one taking the rubber out of her case,"
"Did I ask you to talk?" Questioned the teacher making Jin shrug his shoulders.
"My bad, but still, ask everyone here who did that" Jin offered making the teacher roll her eyes.
"You know what, you all just copy a book for the rest of the day. Forget the other homework you haven't done for the due date," The teacher said making the students groan.
"It would be much easy if you just would assume your responsibility, Yi" Roland stated making Yi frown along with Jin.
"Hey you're the one, who threw that on her neck. If you want to cause trouble do it for yourself not for the others too," Jin said, then Roland got up and approached Jin and leaned his forehead on Jin's.
"Wow, I'm surprised to see you've got the balls to protect a girl, who's not worth the attention,"
"She's my friend!" Jin hissed onto the boy's face, then got up from his chair and was about the same size as Roland. "Don't you dare to speak about her bad without even knowing her,"
"Just get down you two" Leah ordered annoyed by the two boys, which were closer to start a fight.
"Jin, Roland, what's going on with you two?!" Mrs. Morane shouted shrieking the two boys, which looked at the woman. "I'm going to send you to the principal's office if you two don't calm down,"
Jin sat down, then Roland looked at Jin and winked before sitting down on his chair.
"This is going to be a looooong day" Yi stated earning a nod from Jin, then the door got opened back and a middle-aged man entered into the classroom.
"I need to speak to the principal. It's urgent!" The man shouted making the teacher roll her eyes.
"Sir I will have to ask you to get out of the classroom. School's only open for students now. If you need to see the principal so quickly, he's on the other side of the school,"
"I need to call the embassy, my neighbor got akumatized,"
"I don't think the embassy are the ones to deal with that," The teacher stated walking towards the man, then led him out to show where the office of the principal was.
Jin looked at the window, then spotted Super Snake jump up at the roof of the school making Jin take out his smartphone to turn off the flight mode afterward he received a message, which was from Super Snake.
"Akuma alert. One passed by the Françoise Dupont school. I'm on it right now,"
Jin looked around the class thinking of a way to get out of there, then he had an idea and placed his hand in front of his mouth making a swallowing sound.
"Oh oh," Jin began making Yi tilt her head.
"Are you alright?" Yi asked, then Jin got up and ran out of the classroom making Yi scratch her head in confusion. Yi's smartphone vibrated, then she took out her smartphone to see a message from Carapace.
"I'm far away, but I will do my best to approach you,"
"Oh an akuma attack," Yi said putting her phone back in the bag, then she got up and before she ran, someone grabbed her on her arm shrieking her and she saw it was the boy Roland, which grabbed her on the arm.
"Hey, where are you going?"
"Toilet, why?" Yi lied, then tried to get off the boy's hand.
"We're in detention. We've got to wait until the break," Roland stated, then Yi growled and punched the boy in the face making him yelp. "Hey!"
Mrs. Marone returned to the class, then saw Roland holding his hand in front of his eye and Yi glare at him.
"Yi, get to the principal's office, immediately!" Shouted the woman shrieking Yi, which then sank her head and passed beside the teacher and got the door behind her closed, then Yi chuckled as getting out of the class still worked out and she ran to the next classroom to see students all around a computer and Alya was on the front talking to a boy about her plan, then Yi moved further to the next classroom to only see the art teacher store color bottles into a closet and Yi looked around hoping to not see anyone and Longg came out of her pocket.
"Ready?" Questioned the kwami earning a nod from Yi.
"Longg, break the storm!" Yi shouted transforming into Hydra, then she looked down at the court to see Onyx ran on the other side of the court and Hydra jumped down to follow him.
"You're quick," Hydra mentioned meeting up with the cat-themed superhero.
"Just heard it right now and took the opportunity to transform," Onyx answered. "Any idea, who we're following?"
"Good question," Answered the superheroine, then on the outside they encountered Marc Anciel, which was writing in his book and they stopped in front of the boy.
"Hey Marc, you better get into one of the classrooms and hide there until the akuma is caught," Hydra advised earning a nod from the student.
"Yes…...Also, this akumatized villain is my friend Lila and she's looking for her mother, which must be working now at the Italian embassy. The neighbor passed by trying to find someone with the embassy's contact," Explained Marc.
"Okay, any idea, where the embassy could be? Onyx asked looking at Hydra, which shrugged her shoulders.
"I know it's in the 7th arrondissement near an art museum. There are a couple of museums and other embassies around too,"
"Okay I know, where to go," Onyx announced then glanced at Hydra. "We go to the other side of the Seine and go to the direction of the Eiffel tower," Told Onyx making Hydra nod. "Thank you, Marc," Onyx said, then he used his staff to jump at the building next to the school followed by Hydra, then Onyx grabbed Hydra by her hand to jump over the river to go to the center of the arrondissement.
Super Snake arrived at the quarter, where the embassies were located and squinted his eyes to search for the supervillain, then jumped at the balcony of a building to check out the buildings in front of him and encountered the Swedish embassy and jumped back at the roof as he noticed he was on the wrong part.
"Where could she have go?" Super Snake asked himself and noticed someone disappear behind a building, then Super Snake ran above the buildings jumping from one to one approaching the place, where he saw the person disappear and encountered a building with Italian flags hanging in front of it, then Super Snake raised his fist in victory. Super Snake encountered the broken window, then jumped at the top of the flag and bounced on it, so he could fly into the broken window, then he saw he landed in an office, where he saw a man lying on the ground and a broken door.
"She went there. She's…..shes' looking for Mrs. Rossi," The man explained earning a nod from Super Snake, which went into the corridor seeing at the end of the corridor a fluffy tail disappear making Super Snake frown, then he leaned himself on the wall and made his way slowly to the end of the corridor, where he heard a man complain about the supervillain's appearance, but he couldn't understand, what was going on as the chat was in Italian.
Super Snake glanced carefully into the room to see the raccoon-themed supervillain yell at the man in Italian, then Super Snake tried to comprehend, what the chat was about, then he widened his eyes in shock as the man on the table noticed Super Snake and got happy.
"Il serpente!" The man cheered making Super Snake groan and the raccoon-themed supervillain look back at him.
"Oh you made it here," The raccoon-villain stated surprised seeing Nathaniel's alter ego at the entrance, which observed the black clothing resembling the ones of a thief, while the rest of Lila's head resembled one of an animated anti-hero, and her face stayed the same, but had the taint of a raccoon mask.
"Cattura, can we just stop and try to have a normal talk with your mother?" Suggested Super Snake. "She sure will listen to you without you having to harm any of her work pals. What do you say?"
"The same I said to anyone else," Cattura answered picking up from the gray-black striped belt a smartphone, then made a picture with a white flashlight, which made the snake-themed superhero disappear and show up in the gallery of Cattura's smartphone. Cattura looked at the smartphone with a smirk, seeing Super Snake knocking on the display.
"Hey!" Complained Super Snake, then Cattura pressed the home button and placed her smartphone back on the pocket, which resembled the ones for weapons and she went to the corridor descending down the stairs. The villain arrived at the third floor, then encountered the office of her mother and she opened the door to see it was empty, then she entered into the room approaching the desk to see the computer was locked, then saw the desk had a few picture frames all from times her mother had a special occasion, then she growled throwing all those frames at the ground. Cattura stepped on them to damage them, then heard on the outside the engine of the car and she looked out of it to see a sedan drive off quick, making Cattura growl in annoyed. Cattura opened the window to jump out, then ran behind the vehicle.
"I'm right behind you!" Announced the supervillain recognizing her mother and another ambassador, that sat in the back row of the vehicle.
On top of the roof appeared Ladybug landing with the help of her yo-yo, then pursued the supervillain watching the vehicle get closer to a crossroad, then Ladybug swang her yo-yo at a light pole to jump forward passing by Cattura and landed on the top of the vehicle, then observed the villain frown, trying to keep up with the car. Ladybug aimed her yo-yo again at a light pole, then flew away from the car against Cattura crashing against her, bringing her down to the road.
"You're not going anywhere," Ladybug warned, then got pushed away from Cattura, then ran off leaving Ladybug back. Ladybug growled, then used her yo-yo to swing over the light poles to pursue the alter ego of the Italian girl, therefore from the other side she saw Onyx come along with Hydra, then Ladybug pointed down earning a nod from Onyx, which jumped off the building leaving Hydra back, which observed the friend.
Ladybug saw Cattura jump aside as Onyx tried to cause the villain to trip, then ran behind her on the road slowly getting closer to her making her bite her lips at the speeding skills of the cat-themed superhero. Onyx smirked as he was almost going to catch the villain, then she stopped, so Onyx crashed against her afterward she took his staff from his back mistakenly clicking on the extend option, causing her to jump up in the air before Onyx quickly could take it away from the villain.
Cattura landed with her butt on a pole, then analyzed the staff and slid back down at the road, then held it up against Onyx nudging him on his chest with it, making him lift his hands up.
"You may have had luck, but you're not able to use it anyway against me," Onyx commented followed by the villain hit him with it on his head. "Except like that,"
"Where's your lady?" Questioned Cattura shoving him down on his back, then he pointed behind Cattura, which looked back at Onyx took her distraction to take the staff away, but Cattura held it tight in her hands and both tried to get the staff into their hands as if they had a tug of war match with the baton. "Nice try, kit cat" Commented the girl, watching Onyx pull harder managing to get Cattura to weaken a little afterward Cattura had an idea and let the staff, so Onyx ended up walking back fast falling on his butt. Cattura took out her smartphone, then held it in front of him making him furrow his eyebrows in confusion and before she pressed the picture button on the display the wind element came from up the building flying around Cattura, then took her up in the air, shrieking her as she was clueless about what was going on. Onyx smiled as he saw Hydra' dematerialized playing around with the villain afterward Ladybug appeared with a large locking clip in her hands, then looked up at the villain, then she got thrown on the ground followed by Hydra materialize herself back to hold out her hand to Onyx, making him smile, which took it so the heroine helped him up.
"Very cool," Complimented the superhero making Hydra smile, then both looked at Cattura lying on the ground, then Ladybug stole the pocket with the smartphone, then threw it at Hydra making her smile and look at Onyx, which signaled her to take her chance to destroy the object. Hydra took out the smartphone and threw it hard against the wall of a house causing it to break, then Super Snake along with a senior and two ambassadors flew out of the smartphone, landing on the ground gasping in pain from the hard landing.
"Oh there you are," Hydra mentioned seeing Super Snake get up while scratching his butt, then noticed Cattura on the floor still in her akuma form, then Ladybug looked at the supervillain, which ran off leaving the superheroes back.
"The akuma wasn't in the smartphone!" Complained the superheroine.
"Then follow her!" Commanded Onyx departing along with Hydra and Ladybug to follow the villain.
"By looking at Cattura, I have no slight clue, where the akuma could be," Ladybug stated. "This is like the day where she was Chameleon for the first time. It ended up being one of her earrings," Explained Ladybug, then she widened her eyes as she figured it out. "That's it!"
"Okay, how are we going to get under her hairrr…..fur…..fur-hair, whatsoever that is," Questioned the raven-haired superhero making Ladybug smirk as she figured out for what she could use her clip.
"I have an idea," Ladybug stated holding the clip up in the air, then used her yo-yo go get up at the roof to pursue the supervillain.
"What is her idea?" Asked Hydra looking up at Ladybug, which pointed to the bridge, that led to the Place de la Concorde, and Onyx looked at Hydra and pointed with his thumbs at himself, then back at Hydra and formed afterward a wave with his hand earning a thumb up from the ladybug-themed superheroine.
"I rush the villain to the bridge, then you block with the Seine the end of the bridge and the rest will block her from going away," Onyx explained earning a nod from Hydra. "But you have to be faster," Onyx mentioned watching Hydra activate her lighting power to disappear in the light poles and disappear. Onyx went down like a cat to approach Cattura quicker, which got annoyed at the hero's approach, thereafter tried to distance herself away from the cat hero and approached the bridge, after she passed by the bridge she saw the car, where her mother escaped stood on the right side of the road making her angry and Onyx jumped at the supervillain to stop her, afterward she kicked Onyx off her and looked back at the vehicle and got up to run back, but suddenly from the side of the bridge Hydra had taken the Seine's form and blocked for her the passage making her angry.
"You can't pass through it anymore," Onyx warned, then Cattura ran against Jin's alter ego to fight him, but he ducked avoiding her to hit him.
"Stop Lila, you can't stay mad at your mother for whatever thing she's done," Onyx warned, then used his staff to deflect one of her attacks, which was her foot and she grabbed his staff to push him away from her. "Come on!" Onyx shouted watching Cattura jump with her other feet to attack him and he caught her by the foot making her unable to perform another attack, but hop with her other leg. "Please, you can trust me," Onyx assured, and from above the wave jumped Super Snake followed by Ladybug landing on the ground heroically with the exception of Super Snake, which missed his equilibrium on the landing almost falling with his hands on the ground.
"Grab her hair Super," Ordered Ladybug watching Super Snake grab the villain on the hair a little confused, then Ladybug clipped the hair together, shortly after that Cattura punched Ladybug hard on the stomach making her yelp and Cattura ended up falling down due to Onyx holding her on the feet and Super Snake saw on Cattura's ear a wireless earplug looking out of her ear, making him realize, that this was where the akuma was and he removed it and showed it to Onyx.
"Yes! That must it be," Onyx announced watching the superhero throw him the earplug, which he destroyed with the cataclysm and the akuma came out of that electronic device.
"Good job, boys," Ladybug complimented removing the clip to release Cattura's hair, then used her yo-yo to catch the akuma.
In the meanwhile Hydra materialized herself into her human form to see Ladybug about to purify the akuma, then she waved at the sedan of the embassy, which moved to the bridge approaching the superheroes, which stood there to see the miraculous healing light restore everything back including turning Cattura back into Lila Rossi together with her smartphone and earpods.
"Oh oh," Lila commented seeing the superheroes all around her, then Onyx came down on his knees holding out his hand.
"What happened between you and your mother?" Questioned the superhero watching Lila sink down her head ashamed of what happened.
"I'm sorry. I have let Hawk Moth take over me again. I'm sorry, but I couldn't get myself under control,"
"Your mom is here for you," Onyx stated showing the sedan stopping, so the mother could get out of the car to approach the heroes.
"Good morning," Greeted Mrs. Rossi watching her daughter look away from the mother, then Onyx pulled Lila gently on his shoulder while patting her on the other side of her arm.
"You two talk together now. Solve your issues together," Asked the cat-themed superhero.
"There was this letter in our mailbox, which talked about my father having died a couple of days ago. I've been annoyed with my mother on why she never spoke to me about him and she said she couldn't talk to me about it, because I wouldn't understand it. I was angry why she never told me he died years ago instead of making up excuses making me think my father was alive and I would see him sometime again," Lila explained earning a nod from Onyx along with Hydra, which felt sad for the girl also not having her father present in her life.
"Well I do have to agree, that your mother did wrong there," Onyx stated earning a nod from Mrs. Rossi.
"I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to tell her about her father's dead. I was afraid she couldn't take it at that age," The mother explained earning a nod from the raven-haired superhero.
"You know Mrs. Rossi, I myself don't have a father and that since a young age. Maybe you could have asked someone else about how to deal with that along with Lila. Sure it would take time, but she would get used to it in the end," Super Snake explained making Ladybug nod.
"Also for Lila's age, you're lucky Lila can count on the two boys that befriended her and us for having given her some assistance, mostly the boys obviously, we were not always present for her…..what I mean is…. You need to act real soon Mrs. Rossi. We almost lost Chloé the other day, because her parents were not present enough when she needed them the most. The same you were with your Lila. She needed you more than one time when she was in danger and you weren't there for her. We mentioned that the other day to you. If you keep ignoring her warnings she could have not only become one of Hawk Moth's puppets, she could go the same way Chloé did the other day or even worse," Ladybug explained earning a nod from the mother, which placed her arms around Lila to hug her, while she remained saddened.
"This is very serious Mrs. Rossi. We can't afford to have another situation like the one with Chloé. Try to be more present in Lila's life mostly through the bad times, when we or her friends can't. Be a better parent," Commented Onyx earning a nod from the woman, then Lila's smartphone rang with an anonymous number and all looked at Lila, which looked at Onyx with pleading eyes and he picked up the smartphone to attend it and set it on loudspeaker.
"Hello," Onyx greeted, then a distorted voice spoke through the phone call making Ladybug frown along with Onyx.
"Little Miss Rossi, I have expected better from your this time. It turns out you're just as bad as the mayor's daughter Chloé. No wonder no one's ever around you, you're just another useless human creature who probably wasn't even meant to be here," The voice said hurting Lila, which dug her head on her mother's chest.
"Hawk Moth, if that's really you. You're the one who's being the great jerk here!" Super Snake shouted into the smartphone, then Ladybug pushed Super Snake back to stop him.
"Hawk Moth, you're talking with Ladybug here. Stop mistreating my people for your benefits and actually say why you're doing all this," Ordered Ladybug followed by hearing Hawk Moth's evil laughter.
"Don't worry Ladybug, soon or later I will crack your shell too. It's just a matter of time,"
"My shell has been broken a few times, but at each time it grew it became stronger and robust,"
"Sure I believe that, but I know something about one of your superhero friends, one of them I have met in person, and when the time is right I will take him with me and use him against you,"
"No, it's impossible. They are all my new recruits, it's impossible for you to know who they are," Ladybug corrected making Hawk Moth laugh.
"Sure they are but…...there is this one superhero. His powers aren't quite as good as yours or Onyx's, but he's been present during some of your missions too and luckily hadn't had any bad luck yet because of his identity. It would be so bad, if something happened to him. After all….he was good friends with your old partner Cat Noir or well…..Adrien Agreste,"
"Oh no," Ladybug said in shock figuring out Hawk Moth indeed knew about Nino's identity. Onyx noticed Ladybug's shock, then stood in for her.
"Hey listen Hawk Moth, you may know his identity, but there's no way you will find him that easy, even if you do, we will all track you down in the end and defeat you! You will pay for every akuma, for every life you have ruined with your akumatizations!" Onyx hissed then the call got declined, which made Onyx angry and throw it against a wall to break it.
"Thanks, that smartphone was only one year old," Lila commented unpleased with the superhero's deed making her mother shake her head.
"Forget it, Lila, I'll get you another one with a new number. I don't want him to have your number as long as he's around" Mrs. Rossi explained earning a nod from Onyx.
"That's an excellent idea," Onyx agreed then looked at his ring and back to Ladybug. "We talk about this with Hawk Moth later, I need to charge,"
"Good, Hydra join the Rossi's in their car," Ladybug ordered watching Hydra point at her logo, then Ladybug looked at Super Snake, which gave a thumb up.
"I'll do. In any emergency I try to contact you," Super Snake suggested earning a nod from Ladybug, which watched the superhero accompany the Italian women to the car and Ladybug looked at Onyx, which got fist bumped by Hydra.
"Thanks for standing up for me," Ladybug thanked. "We really need to inform Carapace about this, I think I may take the miraculous away from him in other cases,"
"For now on we should have him closer and chat with him about it. Have an emergency number for him so he can call us," Onyx suggested earning a nod from the heroine, which ran off using her yo-yo to fly away.
"I have to go too or I'll transform back," Onyx stated earning a nod from Hydra, then Onyx ran and got pulled on his tail by the dragon-themed superheroine. "Hey!"
"Sorry Onyx, I just wanted to apologize for yesterday,"
"Why?"
"Because of…...how I turned into water as you were….."
"It's alright…..We…..should better focus on our duty for now or I at least,"
"Sure,"
"Have you talked with your friend about how you feel?"
"Not yet. I need to think about it again," Hydra commented, then heard Onyx's miraculous beep and she turned around to ran away while Onyx did the same and at the end of the bridge both made it to hide and transform back into their civilian selves.
"Boy you could have let her see your identity again," Plagg pointed out earning a nod from Jin.
"You saw, what happened the other day. Even now with us working as superheroes and being unaware of our alter egos I'm afraid if it ruins our friendship. Like I need to lie to Yi and Hydra about my side as Onyx and as Jin. This identity secrecy nonsense is breaking my head. I don't even know what's worse a heartbreak or this,"
"Gees you're getting worse about love than Adrien did before you," Complained the kwami, then Jin took out from his pants' pocket a piece of cheese.
"Come we need to get back to school. A big surprise is there waiting for us….sadly," Jin said making his way on the sidewalk to the crossroad.
