Chapter 42
„Your father is Hawk Moth?!" Questioned Onyx holding his hand on his head shocked at the revelation of the blonde. „How did you not know that?"
„I was convinced as my father was akumatized the first time. I assumed it was impossible for him to be Hawk Moth. How should I have guessed it was possible the other way around?"
„I'm just wondering. You could have been afraid to tell it Ladybug or so,"
„No, I wasn't. The first time we came to the conclusion was because of Ladybug finding a clue about him being Hawk Moth. She told me what she found suspicious and tried to analyze it,"
„But you found nothing?" Questioned Onyx earning a nod from Adrien and Ladybug.
„He still seemed suspicious to me, but now this all is beginning to make sense,"
„What are we going to do now?" Hydra questioned looking at Ladybug, which looked at Onyx and Luka, which were waiting for Ladybug to respond.
„How well do you know your father's house?" Ladybug questioned the blonde, which pondered about his exact knowledge of his mansion.
„Well I know one thing for sure is, that he spends a lot of time in his office. A LOT in my opinion," Cat Noir's former alter ego theorized. „Also now that I'm mentioning this, behind a portrait of my mom he has a safe there, and in that safe, I found once the grimoire which Master Fu talked about.,"
„Do you think your house could have a secret passage?" Onyx asked making Adrien shrug his shoulders.
„It's a possibility. Our mansion doesn't actually have a cellar or a way that would lead us to one. I can't imagine Hawk Moth and Nino be somewhere else in my house except for a secret place,"
„Okay we need a plan, but I need to know how it looks like in that secret space and how to get in," Mentioned Ladybug, then Adrien pointed down at the car of the bodyguard.
„My bodyguard is down there. He could lead us in there," Suggested Adrien.
„Okay, that is one way," Stated the bug-themed superheroine. „As our team is under numbered, would you like to use the snake miraculous to help us out?" Offered Ladybug making Adrien nod.
„I'm grateful for you letting me join in order to save Nino,"
„Luka, if you're okay with it, I'll lend you out the bee miraculous. You're coming with us,"
„You can count on me,"
„Onyx, Hydra, You'll be around the city, making sure people feel safe with us around. Later on, I call you for further information"
„Okay, call us when you need us. We might pass by the Agreste mansion, „Onyx mentioned earning a nod from the blue-haired girl.
Hidden in the repository Nino sighed bored, then heard the activation of the secret tunnel elevator descent where Hawk Moth was in there coming down. Nino moved his head aside to see the man walk out of the capsule and glared at the man passing beside him.
„Hey dude what about some food for the prisoner?" Questioned Nino. „I'm hungry,"
„Don't worry, you'll get something to eat soon. It's just a matter of time," Hawk Moth mentioned approaching on the other end of the corridor a glass coffin which was connected with electricity. Hawk Moth stood there, then looked back at Nino, which looked neutrally at the supervillain. „You say to be Adrien's so-called best friend, right?"
„Yeah. Got a problem?" Nino asked making Hawk Moth frown annoyed at Nino's disrespect towards him.
„You know Nino. I understand your anger towards me in this situation, but I know your friend Adrien very well. He would do everything to save you right now and I know he would have done the same if he knew he could save his mother,"
„I knew you and Gabriel were such terrible persons, but this makes all sense now. After all, you're both the same person. If I get out of here and you land in jail I'm going to make sure Adrien gets to find a better family than being with you in the same house,"
„I'm not as terrible as you assume, young man. Remember I spared you life and promised you to get feed," Hawk Moth mentioned looking at an unimpressed Nino. „Do you even wonder why I exactly could be doing this?"
„Everyone does. Everyone knows you're looking for the miraculouses of Ladybug and Cat Noir…..Well, Onyx now. Cat Noir is gone, whatever you want, this is the most selfish thing you'll do. You don't imagine, what your son would think about you,"
„Do you think it would be selfish to want to get the miraculouses to bring this person back to life?" Questioned Hawk Moth pressing down on the mechanism of the capsule to open the metal cover to reveal it as a coffin-like glass capsule where Nino recognized Adrien's mother lying in there with a bouquet of flowers in her hand causing Nino to drop his mouth.
„His mother is dead?!" Nino asked in shock watching Hawk Moth shake his head.
„She's in a comatose state. This is why I need the miraculouses. Only with them together we can bring back Emilie to life,"
„And…..But…...But Adrien told me she disappeared…..that you told him, she disappeared. Why did you lie?"
„I couldn't just tell him at his young age, what happened to her. I was afraid he couldn't cope with not having her around anymore. What led her to this was her using the peacock miraculous during the last moment even though she had promised to never use it again, but…..we somehow needed it to and on that night she collapsed on the ground and never made it to wake up,"
„Where did that happen?" Questioned Nino. „Where were you fighting?"
„It's a very long story. It happened back in Tibet and the Lynx miraculous holder, one native healer suggested me to make my way to Mount Everest to find his old master Talon on the mountains. I never made it on the mountain and woke up in the next hospital in Kathmandu, but soon I escaped to go back home to Emilie. In shock, the police were there around and I had no choice, but to use the peacock miraculous I took off her to lure them out and to take her out of there. Thanks to an old friend of Emilie, who assisted her during the fights using the moth miraculous. Before our plane headed back to France he entrusted me the miraculous hoping I would treat it well and fight off the bad ones. He couldn't lose any more miraculouses after what had happened to the temple….,"
„But you became bad afterward,"
„Haven't your parents taught you to let people finish their sentences?" Hawk Moth questioned making Nino shrug his shoulders.
„Yeah, but not to a villain," Responded Nino making Hawk Moth frown, then he looked back at Emilie and placed his hand on the glass.
„Don't you worry Emilie, I know the superheroes are on their way here, they wouldn't leave their friend here to die," Hawk Moth stated making Nino roll his eyes. Hawk Moth's miraculous blinked, then Hawk Moth smirked and looked at his cane, where he had an akuma hidden, and looked back at Nino.
„Oh I sense someone very special that is worried about the certain boy's disappearance. Did you have anything special planned with this person?" Hawk Moth asked Nino, which widened his eyes as he remembered he was going to meet Alya for dinner.
„Leave my girl out of the game you monster!" Nino shouted watching Hawk Moth open his cane for the akuma to leave.
„Go my little akuma and evilize that girl," Hawk Moth announced while behind him Nino tried to free himself from the ropes, but he couldn't.
In the meanwhile, Alya Césaire sat in the dining room in front of the table, while her older sister Nora sat beside her noticing her anger raising due to the knowledge of Nino's disappearance.
„This should not have happened. I should have asked you or dad to take him here. But I wasn't expecting he would be kidnapped in the middle of the day,"
„No one was expecting it sister. Just try to keep your anger down. Hawk Moth might have sensed it and you soon will land under his influence," Nora explained. „Try out something to bring your anger down,"
„You know what? I got a message for Hawk Moth, which he would like to hear," Alya mentioned taking out her smartphone to get into her social network app and opened her smartphone camera to start a live record. „Hey Hawk Moth. I'm that girl whose boyfriend you have kidnapped. You're lucky I'm not wielding my miraculous anymore or I would personally track you down and rip out your heart to shove it in there, where the sun doesn't….ugh damn internet connection!" Alya complained afterward as her live stream was interrupted by a warning notice.
„Girls, get out of here, there's an akuma!" Alya's father shouted picking a spatula and tried to shoo it away, while Nora pulled her sister behind her.
„Let's get out of here!" Nora ordered walking Alya out, which looked back at her father slowly enraged as before trying to fight off the akuma.
„But our dad," Alya warned while her sister accompanied the family down.
At the repository under the Agreste mansion, Hawk Moth waited for the akuma to akumatize the Césaire girl, then he laughed as it seemed impossible to obtain the girl with the father being protective. Behind on the lift, Mayura appeared making her way to the supervillain, then Hawk Moth looked at her, watching her smile a little enamored with the man, then Hawk Moth shook his head at sensing another soul near the Césaire's grow in panic. „More souls around this girl are growing in panic with my akuma, they could create a great group to fight the superheroes,"
„You still have the chance to use me to be Catalyst again," Offered Mayura. „I believe this time we're getting really close to our girl, sir,"
„This is risky, but…...you're not using the miraculous during that time,"
„No sir I'm not," Responded Mayura making Hawk Moth smile and looked up at the large window thinking about Mayura's suggestion.
„Akuma, you're needed somewhere else. Come back and evilize Nathalie." Hawk Moth ordered afterward Mayura transformed back into Nathalie Sancoeur and the akuma got into her miraculous. „Catalyst I'm giving you the power to turn me into Scarlet Moth" Hawk Moth announced seeing Nathalie become Catalyst, which placed her hand on Hawk Moth's cane to use her power.
„Hawk Moth, I will give you the power to release as many akumas for an unlimited time as you desire," Announced Catalyst watching Scarlet Moth walk behind into the bushes to open a cage, where akumas began to fly over him to leave the repository making Catalyst smile and Nino drops his mouth in shock at the many akumas he spotted.
Ladybug and Luka now under the skin of a bee-themed superhero ran on the road making their way to the house of Alya Césaire from where help was needed.
„I should have known this was a bad idea. It would have been easier to have her just focused on trying to stay positive after Hawk Moth instead of making promises," Complained the bee-themed superhero.
„It's alright, you tried and it didn't seem to have worked out. We're on the way to help her," Ladybug comforted the friend. „I try to distract her and you sting her with your spinning top to immobilize her,"
"I'll do it!" Luka commented then as they reached the apartment of Alya's family Anansi broke through the door shrieking Luka as he encountered the spider-themed supervillain. "Whoa!"
"Don't worry Sting, just do what I told you" Ladybug announced using her yo-yo to catch the villain by her arms and the bee-themed superhero used his top to activate his special power and jumped against Anansi to hit her on the limbs causing her to stay frozen.
"Well done," Ladybug complimented taking off the boxing helmet of the villain to break it into two pieces.
"Watch out!" Sting shouted jumping at Ladybug to dodge a purple arrow, which almost hit them.
"What's going on?" Ladybug asked then saw Lady Wifi on the window with her smartphone making Ladybug frown neutrally. "Not Scarlet Moth again,"
"What?" Sting questioned looking up at Lady Wifi, then saw from the window a squirrel jump out landing on the ground, afterward it transformed into a black panther, which growled looking at the two superheroes.
"Are you kidding me?" Questioned Ladybug getting up, then both ran away from the supervillains, which pursued them. Lady Wifi used her smartphone to create a fast-forward-shaped hoverboard and got on top of it to approach the superheroes faster than the panther and used her smartphone to throw a pause sign at Ladybug, which blocked it by using her yo-yo as a shield protecting herself and Luka.
"This will be a catastrophe if Hydra and Onyx don't manage to soothe enough citizens to avoid a chaos like Miracle Queen did," Sting mentioned, then used his spinning top against the head of a light pole and swung around it, then used his hands similar to a diver heading down at Lady Wifi to push her down on the ground afterward he used her hand to smash the smartphone on the stone ground to break it, causing Lady Wifi to turn back into Alya Césaire.
"Ladybug!" Sting called watching Ladybug jump at the light pole followed by the panther, then she swung at the next light pole to land beneath the raven-haired superhero seeing the akuma about to make his way out of the place, but was caught by Ladybug.
"Good job Sting," Complimented Ladybug freeing the akuma, then Sting used the spinning top as a shield to avoid the panther to pass through it, then it turned into a rhino having the top wrap around its horn making Luka's alter ego wide his eyes.
"Crap!" He complained removing the spinning top of the horn, then Ladybug pulled the superhero to ran along with her while the rhino stomped behind them on the street.
"Luka look I've got an idea. There's an alley after that crossroad, I'll hide there with my yo-yo, you lure him there and I cause him to trip and you immediately remove the bracelet of his leg." Ladybug told earning a nod from the boy, then Ladybug's yo-yo rang and Ladybug attended it.
"Bad timing Onyx, I'm being pursued by a rhino-akuma," Ladybug warned looking at Onyx on the screen, which seemed to be running too.
"That sounds relieving. A large pyramid is going after me. Hydra managed to take down before a stone-made monster and I think it might akumatize the boy Ivan again," Onyx explained, then jumped in the air to dodge a laser shot by the pyramid. "Aspik is around at the Louvre dealing with a pharaoh akuma and a Cat Noir impostor right now,"
"Okay, look we're about to lure our akuma into a trap. Hold on, we will be there," Ladybug promised turning the yo-yo off and use it to jump up at the buildings. Sting looked back and waved at the rhino, which puffed air through his nose angry.
"Hey have you tried to run faster?" Questioned Sting getting a little faster watching the rhino turn into a cheetah to race faster coming closer to Sting, then jumped at him bringing him down on the ground, growling at his head.
"Whoa, you really should take a mouth wash" Sting complained, then watched the cheetah lift his paw up in the air extending his claws making Sting drop his mouth in shock and Ladybug's yo-yo got wrapped up around the animal's stomach to pull him up. Sting smiled and used his top to cover the feline's snout afterward he removed the bracelet off the animal's leg watching the animal turn back into Otis Césaire, the dad of Alya.
Ladybug came down to collect the akuma, then high-fived Luka's alter ego which smiled at their next success.
"Alright Onyx or Aspik are the next ones we have to help," Ladybug announced before jumping up at the building along with her romantic interest therefore both spotted the black pyramid's head near the place de la Concorde and Ladybug pointed at the pyramid earning a nod from Luka.
"If you're able to charge, do it and meet me afterward," Ladybug commented earning a nod from the older superhero.
"Sure, I'll stop at the grocery store," Sting announced, then continued his way to the other side and Ladybug jumped at the road to head to the road on the side of the Champs-Elysées to get to the Place de la Concorde.
At the place de la Concorde Onyx kept running away from the large pyramid, which kept shooting at the superhero with lasers missing him as he moved aside after every arrow, that got aimed toward him.
"Honestly what sort of akuma are you?" Onyx asked looking back at the pyramid, which shot another laser towards the superhero, which jumped up in the air with his staff to miss it. Onyx landed like a cat, continuing his way to on the road, then he saw in front of him the Luxor Obelisks in front of him and had an idea but continued to run while being pursued by the akuma. "I will make it! I will make it!" Onyx chanted dodging the next laser, then he tripped over the curb falling down on the ground. Quickly Onyx got up on his feet, sprinting away seconds later he was unlucky and got hit by the laser and vanished.
The pyramid moved on normally, then followed his way into the Jardin des Tuileries passing between the standing threes. From behind a tree, Hydra looked out at the supervillain, then ran behind it and got beneath the akuma and whistled.
"Hey pyramid!" Hydra shouted causing the pyramid to stop and check the surroundings to not see anyone. "I'm right behind you!" Hydra exclaimed followed by the pyramid spin around to check his back but kept seeing nothing from the angle. Hydra jumped at the pyramid, then tried to climb on it, but ended up falling and slid the metal down on her back to fall down on the ground. The pyramid retrieved a few meters back to spot Hydra on the ground getting up while scratching her head and she glared up at the object taking out her sword to jump up at the pyramid again while aiming it against the metal, but the pyramid moved away from the heroine to have her fall down on the ground again. Hydra growled at the next failure, then saw the pyramid shot a laser at the heroine and she rolled aside to miss the aim and got up on her feet again, staring at the pyramid.
The pyramid suddenly vanished releasing in mid-air Onyx along with Max Kanté and an akuma, then Hydra opened her arms to catch the boy, while Onyx landed on his face next to the two.
"Did you really just land on your face?" Hydra asked confused as she saw Onyx sat up to look at the two.
"Good job, Hydra," Onyx complimented while passing his hand through his hair. "How did you do this?"
"UH I did nothing," Hydra responded making Onyx bewildered, soon Ladybug showed up to see the akuma, which she caught upon her arrival,
"Did Hawk Moth stop his akumas again or did you two stop him?" Questioned Ladybug making Hydra shrug. "Maybe it was Hawk Moth,"
"Okay, why would Hawk Moth do that?" Hydra questioned making Onyx shrug his shoulders.
"I have no clue, but one thing I know for sure is that Hawk Moth won't be able to have another akuma or two going behind us. It's the best moment for us to pass by the house of the Agreste's," Ladybug mentioned using her yo-yo to call the superhero Aspik.
"Hey Ladybug, you just missed me tricking Copycat into cataclysm Pharaoh's scepter. It was hilarious," Aspik commented with a snicker.
"Oh really was this right now?" Questioned Ladybug making Aspik shake his head.
"No for about 2 minutes. I'm running towards the Jardin the Tulieres right now,"
"Look Hawk Moth just deakumatized all the akumas around the city. Now it's a good moment for us to face him in the mansion. Head immediately to your mansion. We will be there,"
"Yes Ladybug," Aspik answered turning the call off, then looked at the team. "Guys you two will move on. I'm going to get Luka. He needed to charge,"
"Sure Ladybug" Onyx responded watching the superheroine leave, then Hydra looked at the tall superhero and shove her hand onto his to get his attention. "You're okay?"
"Do you promise?"
"What exactly?" Questioned the raven-haired boy.
"That we will all get out of there safely," Hydra asked making Onyx smile.
"Of course. We're wielding our miraculouses. As long as we have them, nothing can happen to us,"
"Promise me we will win," Hydra asked watching Onyx tap Hydra on her nose with his index finger with a smile.
"Yes we will," Onyx promised making Hydra chuckle, then Onyx pecked Hydra on her forehead and she leaned her head under his chin for reassurement, which he gladly gave her.
