Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug, Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly

by bigvic150

A young man is brought to the world of Miraculous Ladybug by Master Fu to help Ladybug and her allies. But the twist is, there's a different kind of Butterfly Miraculous in the Miracle Box that's completely different from the Moth Miraculous. Will Steel Butterfly fulfill his destiny, or will threats like Hawk Moth succeed? Rated T. Chloe redemption. Bunnyx salt and redemption.

4. Princess Fragrance Averted

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug, Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly.

Chapter 3: Princess Fragrance Averted.

(Author's notes: In this chapter, just like in the "other" one, Tikki will not be sick in this chapter. The reason why this time is because Ladybug had previously visualized waterproof materials for her supersuit – a combination of causal wear and magical body armor with ladybug wings – in the event of being caught in the rain, which proved to be prudent. The same goes for Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly.

Also, like my "other" story chapter, Rose Lavillant will NOT be Akumatized into Princess Fragrance in this chapter. Not in my story. Not in my town.

Lastly, something to point out: because of the fact that Bunnyx still chose not to spill the beans to Marinette about the Cat Blanc timeline or Hawk Moth's identity or the identity of his successor, because of Chloe's betrayal and because of the fact that absolutely nobody did a thing about it, because of Gabriel's dangerous obsession with reviving his wife preventing Adrien and Marinette from having an honest and healthy relationship with either each other or other people, because Adrien chose to befriend that B**** Lila Rossi to "protect" Marinette just because of the fact that he doesn't know the difference between taking the high road with tabloids and taking the high road with those like Lila in the presence and power of those like Hawk Moth, because of the fact that Adrien never took into consideration how powerful Marinette would be as Princess Justice if she turned out to be Ladybug, because of the fact that NOBODY – Bunnyx included – decided to expose Lila and Chloe's actions and have them arrested, because of the fact that Andre Bourgeois prevents the news of everything in Paris spanning nearly two years from spreading to the rest of the world, because of the fact that Cat Noir is being pushed to the side because of a massive hint from Thomas Astruc's answer to a question that turned out to be true in Optygami and Sentibubbler, because of the fact that Lila Rossi is now the face of the Gabriel Agreste fashion brand and because of the fact that no one is doing a thing about it to prevent it from being destroyed after The Last Attack of Shadow Moth ends, because of the fact that there's no Adrien salt or bashing WHATSOEVER, because of the fact that there's no Alya salt or bashing whatsoever, because of the fact that Marinette's Akumatization into Princess Justice was f****** averted, because of the fact that Mr. Damocles and Ms. Bustier NEVER DID THEIR F****** JOBS THE RIGHT F****** WAY, because of the fact that none of Lila Rossi's followers are being served their ultimate forms of karmic punishments after learning the truth, because of the fact that SOME PEOPLE NAIVELY BELIEVE THAT CHLOE, FELIX, LILA AND MANY OTHERS LIKE THEM WOULD CHANGE IF "PROPERLY CONVINCED", AND because of the fact that Hawk Moth was never defeated in the New York Special – all because that f***** Thomas Astruc loves ruining our expectations for his now stupid excuse for a superhero TV show, I'm left with no difficult choice than this. Effective immediately, I'm no longer watching the original cartoon in terms of original or new episodes whatsoever outside of making my fanfiction stories based on them, and as a result of Astruc's stupid vision of his "perfect" masterpiece, I'll be doing something that some people SHOULD'VE been doing: making more and more Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction stories featuring all of our destroyed expectations being fully realized. They include Adrien salt and bashing, Cat Noir having his Miraculous taken away, Bunnyx ceasing to exist in favor of a different Time Guardian who'll show Ladybug what really happened in the Cat Blanc episode regardless of the consequences, Bunnyx's permanent replacement carrying out SOME of the rules of time travel while making sure that Ladybug and Cat Noir are deeply informed of apocalyptic timelines, Lila Rossi getting exposed in Mayura: Heroes Day Part 2, Chameleon and/or Ladybug, Alya salt and bashing, class salt and bashing, the entire class – Adrien included – getting their comeuppances without any way out of their punishments whatsoever, Ms. Bustier and Mr. Damocles being fired, imprisoned and replaced, Chloe suffering the consequences for her actions in either Despair Bear, Queen Wasp, Miracle Queen or Queen Banana, Hawk Moth and Mayura being arrested in Heroes' Day, Cat Blanc, Ladybug, the New York Special, the Shanghai Special, and Battle of the Miraculouses, Gabriel being brutally murdered in Cat Blanc just before he can make the blackmail or the attempt to create Cat Blanc, Adrien having his memories as Cat Noir permanently and irreversibly erased after having his Miraculous taken away, Marinette finding her true soulmate regardless of whether or not its Adrien, Luka or someone else entirely, and Mayor Andre Bourgeois suffering the consequences of his actions much earlier than Astruc intended. And I'll keep doing so until such a time when the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir cartoon gets rebooted at some point in the future and someone makes the show's expectations come to life, BUT NOT IN THE WAY ASTRUC F****** SCREWED IT ALL UP.

But until then, enjoy chapter 4 for now. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)

(Paris, France, September 24th, 2014, third person POV...)

Nadia Chamack is on the TVi News channel reporting as it rains outside. She says, "Welcome. Steel Butterfly, Ladybug and Cat Noir have saved Paris once again. Jean Duparc was akumatized into the very menacing Magician of Misfortune, threatening to make the Eiffel Tower disappear in a puff of smoke. However, somewhat ironically in contrast to his now-known religious upbringing, Steel Butterfly Tenshized an undisclosed young woman from the Twentieth Arrondisment into Lady Vulture, a vulture-themed superhero with the power to reverse magic spells. Steel Butterfly informed me that just because he transforms people into superheroes to fight Hawk Moth's supervillain creations doesn't mean he's gonna teach all of them, let alone all of US, about the Word of God. After all, even he knows there are different kinds of naysayers that he won't tolerate. We all know now that Steel Butterfly will never disclose the names of people he Tenshizes into superheroes to protect us from those like Hawk Moth and from those that are twice as worse as Paris' first magic-abusing terrorist. But what will Steel Butterfly come up with next in terms of finding a new superhero to create temporarily?"

Back at Francoise Dupont, Marinette and Adrien were thankful that Steel Butterfly's ability to amplify and bestow powers granted them the ability to create clones of themselves to fulfill their civilian obligations in case they have an Akuma attack on their hands.

In fact, the clones worked so flawlessly that their memories interconnected with the real Marinette and Adrien so as to share memories of any schoolwork that the real Marinette and Adrien might've missed or needed to prepare for. Especially when it came to very important tests.

In addition to that, Marinette and Adrien's clones worked so flawlessly that the classmates of the real Marinette and Adrien fell for all of it hook, line and sinker.

And thanks to Steel Butterfly, the students in Ms. Mendeleiev's science class were smarter, less likely to fall asleep, and had a boosted morale to complete their science work and science homework, no matter if they disagree with some of Mendeleiev's methods of how to do it or how she disciplines her students.

As for Ms. Mendeleiev in question... Steel Butterfly once told his friends that it was a tad difficult to convince the strictest science teacher in the entire school to be a tad kinder to students so as to avoid accidentally getting them Akumatized just because she called them out for any minor or serious unruly behaviors in class.

But once Steel Butterfly crossed that bridge, Ms. Mendeleiev always made sure to inform her science students that as long as they do their work the way she tells them to, as long as they don't use their phones during school hours, as long as they don't play around with any flammable chemicals in certain fragrances inside the science lab, and as long as they respect each other as GENUINELY as possible, she will gladly reward them with higher grades, less science homework for a day, and a few minutes of sleep in order to rest long enough to be ready for the next science assignment or school assignment in general.

To top it off, the one speech that fully convinced Ms. Mendeleiev to follow Steel Butterfly's advice is this: "It's true that some students need a little motivation to do well in their science work, no matter how they do it, or who has an eidetic memory or not. But in order to avoid getting any one student Akumatized just because they got caught doing something that they're not supposed to until Hawk Moth is put in prison for good, the students need a combination of these things: a strong motivation to do better such as the promise of rewards that appeal to their high-strung minds. A resolve made of five thousand imaginary layers of triple-reinforced steel. And compassion. No matter how rotten some students turn out to be, no matter if some students like Rose Lavillant are overly sensitive, and no matter how naive some students tend to be because of sheltered childhoods or not being taught proper social lessons at the right time and place, everyone needs compassion. But when the time and opportunity comes, all of the most rotten of your students will get what's coming to them. And if it's not God or the laws of Paris or their parents/guardians they have to worry about, it's the fact that even Mr. Damocles will not put up with their rotten behaviors anymore. No matter if it's because they went through a tough time, or because they have abusive parents hardening their hearts, or because they're arrogant, prideful and greedy, they will get what's coming to them when Hawk Moth is arrested and no one has to worry about Akumatized supervillains ruining their day just because the Akumatized supervillains in question had a bad day and didn't get what they wanted. Think about it, Calixte. If any of your students got Akumatized and they were lynched for committing terrorism and murder with or without Hawk Moth pulling their strings like a puppetmaster, how will they learn compassion after being deakumatized? And what if one of your students who got Akumatized managed to kill you and the Miraculous Ladybug cure was unable to bring you back to life? That wouldn't sit right with the school board, even if they shared your views on how students behave, would it? Besides, anyone who unwillingly gets Akumatized has to learn forgiveness, superb problem-solving and humility after being freed from Hawk Moth's control."

Ms. Mendeleiev decided to practice what she preached to ensure that none of her students get Akumatized and kill her irreversibly.

In the present day, Ms. Mendeleiev says in her lecture, "Combustion is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel and an oxidant. Usually atmospheric oxygen..."

In her seat next to Juleka Couffaine, Rose Lavillant is doing her science worksheet while making sure that her new eidetic memory is capable of memorizing everything that Ms. Mendeleiev says.

At the same time, just before class even started, Marinette and Adrien managed to save for Rose a recording of a news report about Prince Ali making a visit to Paris and hosting a toy fundraiser for the terminally ill children at the Paris City Children's Hospital.

Of course, Marinette and Adrien were called to explain to the others the shorter meanings behind certain parts of Ms. Mendeleiev's lecture.

Surprisingly enough for the strictest science teacher that the Parisian School Board had to offer the high school, everyone made sure to do what they were told to do and they made sure to memorize as much details about the lecture as possible.

Soon enough, Ms. Mendeleiev made sure to promise the students any nice rewards they want, especially for those that did their science homework today.

Of course, Lynnette was smirking behind the scenes, as Steel Butterfly predicted that the brat had not learned her lesson from the Lady Wi-Fi incident. Not. One. Bit. And with the way she was smirking, she looked like she was gonna abuse Ms. Mendeleiev's promises of rewards for good behavior to avoid having to do the work herself and have more free time at home to role-play.

After that, outside of the school, Marinette and Adrien made sure to advise each other on anything they might miss during their patrols and during their homework time.

Of course, everyone could hear Rose vocally adoring Prince Ali.

But even Steel Butterfly found it a bit unprecedented because Ali is a kingdom prince from another country and Rose is a French teenage girl still in high school. But that didn't mean that he found it unacceptable like some people just might. After all, he's well aware that romantical love, in its purest form of kindness, compassion and communication, can be very inspiring.

That's why Corvo and Steel Butterfly knew each other's identities and confessed their feelings for each other after the second Stoneheart attack.

And they made sure to set up angelically magical protections to protect them from anything happening, such as Hawk Moth Akumatizing them at their lowest points – something that Miguel found unlikely to happen anytime soon – and making sure that any personal information about them that gets leaked to the public will be so outlandish that the terrorist alter-ego of Gabriel Agreste will never be able to learn anything about them. With or without the resources at his disposal.

Anyway, in the present day, Rose has just finished her letter for Prince Ali and Lynnette approached her.

Lynnette asks in a sickeningly sweet voice, "What are you doing?"

Rose answers meekly, "Um, I'm writing Prince Ali a letter professing my complete adoration and utmost respect."

Lynnette replies back, "Well, I got word that Prince Ali's staying at the Grand Paris Hotel. Chloe describes it as, and I quote-unquote, 'The only hotel fit for a prince, and Lynnette and I are gonna be the first ones to meet him. Isn't he lucky?' To be honest, I don't even know what I'm gonna say to him."

With the two girls unaware that Steel Butterfly is watching in his masked civilian form with a razor-sharp scowl over Lynnette saying the word "lucky," Rose asks, "Oh, please, could you give him this special letter for me?"

Lynnette lyingly replies as she is handed the letter, "No problem."

Rose states naively, "Oh, that is so amazingly sweet of you to do that for me."

Lynnette suddenly bursts out laughing as she reveals the big lie, "Hahahahaha! You thought I was serious? You think I wanna get anywhere near this pink-wearing, obedient fish funk?"

Lynnette starts to laugh, but before she can rip up the letter, a demonic voice sounding like Mephistopheles from the first Ghost Rider movie angrily said, "Not so fast, you bratty little b****."

As Rose winces at the profanity and gasps in horror at the person behind the brat, Lynnette whirled around to see... a grown man wearing red, purple, black and white formal clothing merged with a suit of knight armor. He also wore no less than a red, purple, black and white fedora and a red, purple, black and white armored and visored Hawk Moth mask with some red, purple, black and white Rorschach-style paint added to the helmet ensemble. This man also had red, purple, black and white butterfly wings on his back.

As Rose starts to cry and shiver in fear, she walks away, having taken back the letter before it could get crumpled up or ripped to pieces.

As Lynnette starts to run away in fear, she runs into Ghost Punisher, whose flaming eyes are glowing brightly to signify her anger.

Lynnette is so scared that she faints almost immediately.

But the whole thing didn't go unnoticed by Marinette and Adrien.

Thankfully, they recognized the shape of the "unknown" man's butterfly wings, and that only meant one thing: this man was Steel Butterfly in undercover clothes loosely resembling his winged jetpack and his suit of armor while sharing design elements of what Mephistopheles/Roarke from the first Ghost Rider movie would wear in broad daylight.

Looking around to make sure that no one was seeing the whole thing, which there wasn't, Marinette asks, "Steel Butterfly? Is that what you normally wear when you're undercover?"

The now-privately revealed butterfly hero replies, "One of many undercover outfits, actually. And they're very useful in the event I find myself in unknown, dangerous territories with only a few installations of headquartered lairs that may or may not be adequate to the task at hand." Steel Butterfly looks at the unconscious brat and growls, "Rrrrrrr. I had a feeling she wouldn't learn her lesson from the Lady Wi-Fi incident. This is why I am left with no choice but to administer an ancient Chinese form of kid-friendly torture as her first punishment."

Adrien starts to ask, "You don't mean...?"

Steel Butterfly finishes with his answer, "Yes. I am going to tickle torture Lynnette. And should she try to tattle on me afterwards or should she decide to fall back into her old habits, her final punishment will be..." He makes the universal decapitation sign to signify he would be left with no choice but to DECAPITATE Lynnette Bellecourt if she doesn't learn her lesson and decides to be a snitch or if she decides to lapse back into her old habits.

Marinette steps in and says, "Absolutely not! All superheroes should know that killing even a schoolyard bully who gets people Akumatized without remorse isn't justice."

Steel Butterfly snarls in warning, causing Marinette to take two steps back as she sees Steel Butterfly's wings and eyes glowing in purple, black, white and red.

Ghost Punisher states for him, "As you may or may not have forgotten, not all heroes share this sentiment. Some heroes believe and have oftentimes proven that sometimes, the laws of our cities are not always gonna be enough to keep people safe as long as criminals and supervillains alike keep breaking out of prison to kill people just because specific heroes choose not to kill said criminals and supervillains. Because of the fact that some heroes choose not to kill their supervillain and criminal enemies, that leaves even more innocent people soon to be born in the future in mortal danger. Besides, some heroes believed and proved that sometimes, you gotta be the anti-hero to get the job done, even if you don't have to like it. Besides, if the Ghost Rider was real and he confronted Hawk Moth at some point in the future after Hawk Moth kills someone, not only will Judgement Day come for Hawk Moth thousands of years early, but also the Moth Miraculous would be permanently and irreversibly destroyed so as to prevent anyone else from becoming his successor and abusing the Moth Miraculous even more, thusly preventing anyone from trusting any heroic users of the Moth Miraculous. And besides, some heroes have revealed that if threats like Hawk Moth are taken out of the picture for good, then we wouldn't have to worry about anymore innocent people being murdered or Akumatized in the foreseeable future. Multiple particular examples of anti-heroes who choose to murder their enemies to prevent them from harming or killing anymore people in the foreseeable future include the many iterations of the Ghost Rider, Frank Castle/The Punisher, a version of The Punisher as the Ghost Rider called the Cosmic Ghost Rider, Walter Kovacs/Rorschach, Edward Blake/The Comedian, Wade Wilson/Deadpool, Jason Todd/Red Hood, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Elektra Natchios, certain iterations of Venom, Nathan Summers/Cable, Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier/The White Wolf, James Logan Howlett/Wolverine, Laura Kinney/X-23/Wolverine II, James Bond, Carrie White from Carrie, Rick Deckard from Blade Runner, the T-800 from The Terminator, Peyton Westlake/Darkman, Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Eric Draven/The Crow, Ashe Corven from The Crow: City of Angels, Alex Corvis from The Crow: Salvation, James Cuervo from The Crow: Wicked Prayer, Hannah Foster/Talon from The Crow: Stairway To Heaven, Max Eisenhardt/Magneto, Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, Hellboy, John Constantine, V from V For Vendetta, the Flashpoint Batman, Sherlock Holmes, Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass, Mindy Macready/Hit-Girl, Shrek from the Shrek film series, Severus Snape from Harry Potter, Agent 47 from Hitman, John Marston from Red Dead Redemption, Kratos from God of War, Shadow the Hedgehog, Felonious Gru, Judge Dredd, Maleficent, John Wick, N'Jadaka/Erik Stevens/Killmonger, Tommy Oliver from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Al Simmons/Spawn, Alex Mercer from Prototype, and James Heller from Prototype 2. Believe me, if Lynnette doesn't change, no matter how many times I use my Retribution Gaze, we would have to consider putting her in jail for her actions. But should it come down to it because she killed someone in the future, I would have to fulfill my duty as a combination of the Ghost Rider and The Punisher and kill those like Lynnette, as long as they have already killed someone. Alya Cesaire might feel remorse afterwards, but it's for a worthy cause."

Steel Butterfly added, "Yeah, and you'd also have to consider this possibility: if someone exactly like me has nearly every single superpower from every single superhero and supervillain in existence, that would have to include Corruption Inducement. The ability to corrupt even the most good-hearted of people into doing things they normally know that they shouldn't do. And in the case of superheroes like us, such a user of this ability like Hawk Moth through the abused power of the Moth Miraculous would easily be able to force us to commit serious crimes. Including outright murdering villainous characters of our stories, such as any sort of compulsive liars with no remorse for their actions who would willingly aid and abet even a magic-abusing terrorist just to settle a petty grudge against any superhero who calls out the liar on their lies. Either in private or in public, either harshly or gently."

Marinette retorts, "Even still, killing those like Hawk Moth or Lynnette isn't justice."

That turned out to be the wrong thing to say, as Steel Butterfly quickly bopped Marinette on her head with his sheathed cane swordstick, causing a small yelp of pain.

Clutching her head, Marinette scowls at Steel Butterfly as the butterfly hero that happens to be her leader states harshly, "Know your place, little ladybug, for in the future, you will come across a similarly different situation involving either Cat Noir or myself at the mercy of Hawk Moth's energized Akuma. And you'll have to ask yourself, will it be worth it to kill Hawk Moth before he gets his hands on Steel Butterfly's extensive knowledge or if he chooses to Akumatize Cat Noir into a white-colored version of himself with the infinite power of destruction?"

Marinette looked to be lost in thought at the idea of Cat Noir being Akumatized into a white-colored version of himself that would be called Cat Blanc.

Of course, Marinette didn't know just yet that Steel Butterfly was downloading into her memories his foreknowledge of Bunnyx, the entire story of the Cat Blanc timeline, and Bunnyx's f****** ridiculously stupid decision to keep the details a secret despite the fact that even time travel rules need to be broken once in a while to prevent falling outs between the time travelers and their protégés or teammates.

And Steel Butterfly set up a timer for the memories of the Cat Blanc timeline to kick in during their patrol tonight.

Additionally, Marinette didn't know that if it came down to it during either Heroes' Day, the incident of the Sentimonster Ladybug, the Battle of the Miraculouses, Miraculous New York, Miraculous Shanghai or something else entirely, Steel Butterfly plans to outright murder Hawk Moth and any of his allies. No matter if they include Chloe Bourgeois – should the mayoral heiress relapse into her old ways – or if Hawk Moth's ally list includes Lynnette Bellecourt, Steel Butterfly most assuredly wants them dead if the first opportunity comes.

Then Marinette said, "Alright. As long as Lynnette and Hawk Moth don't kill anyone, we will unquestioningly have no option other than to follow the law and implement whatever punishments Mayor Bourgeois and I deem necessary, SB. But should Lynnette and Hawk Moth do any of the things you said they would do without hesitation or remorse, you and Ghost Punisher may do as you wish."

Steel Butterfly nodded and hugged Marinette, taking her by surprise for a second or two before she awkwardly hugged him back.

But after Steel Butterfly stopped hugging his partner, the butterfly hero said, "Leppey, Elegant Wings Live" and his armored clothes transformed into his normal suit of armor and his winged jetpack.

Steel Butterfly takes off at space shuttle take off speed and blasts off to the Seine.

Ghost Punisher takes Lynnette's unconscious form and carefully takes her to one of Steel Butterfly's out of town prisons, which was previously established during his fourteen years of extensive preparations and training.

Of course, Marinette gave Ghost Punisher permission to do so. If only because she was a bit spiteful in the sense of wanting Lynnette to be tickle tortured.

At the Seine, Rose starts to cry as she clutches her letter to Prince Ali, now fully comprehending that she was very naive. Now, Rose fully understood that those like Lynnette Bellecourt are irredeemable enough to show no remorse for their actions – especially if they chose to willingly aid Hawk Moth for additional power or to settle a petty grudge against one of Paris' three heroes – and that not everything about the world is in black and white in terms of moralities between good and evil. Or in her case, pink and black.

Steel Butterfly lands as softly and as carefully as possible so as to ensure that he doesn't scare Rose, knowing that Rose was in a volatile state of sadness.

At the sound of Steel Butterfly's wings retracting against his back, Rose looked up at the butterfly hero whose helmet morphed its features to match his sympathetic expression behind his helmet.

Because of how tall he was, Steel Butterfly knelt to Rose's level and hugged her, his armor's anti-magic field repelling any trace of Hawk Moth's dark magic from trying to detect her or to Akumatize her.

Rose hugged back, literally crying her eyes out as she pours her sadness onto the armored butterfly hero.

Steel Butterfly whispered soothing words into Rose's ear, trying to comfort her as best as he could as he had lots of practice with kids at Rose's age back in his dimension.

At the sight of an Akuma coming for Rose, Steel Butterfly quickly and gently acted, catching the dark magic-tainted butterfly in his hands and purifying it entirely.

Rose hugs Steel Butterfly again and his empathetic field calms her down a little bit.

In Hawk Moth's lair, the terrorist of Paris is fuming because Steel Butterfly is stopping the rise of Princess Fragrance from coming to be.

After three more of his Akumas have been purified, Hawk Moth finally gets the hint and much as he doesn't like it, he finally decides to drop it for now, fully realizing that Princess Fragrance was a loss that he can't salvage and also because he can't afford to waste anymore butterflies for his Akumas if Steel Butterfly is gonna keep purifying them before they reach their targets.

Meanwhile, at the Paris City Children's Hospital, after Prince Ali reads Rose's letter, Rose is let down easy because it's not exactly a good idea for them to be dating due to Ali's royal heritage and Rose still needs to finish high school and college.

Rose tearfully understands and Steel Butterfly shows up to comfort her again, much to the surprise of everyone at the hospital.

After Steel Butterfly leaves the hospital, he takes off to his first out of town prison, where Lynnette Bellecourt is being held prisoner to be tickle tortured.

In a twist for this kind of kid-friendly torture on Miguel's part, Lynnette is blindfolded, she has her hands tied behind her back, and she's being hung upside down.

Lynnette starts to beg Steel Butterfly to release her, but he rebuffs her by saying, "You haven't learned your lesson from the Lady Wi-Fi incident in terms of you causing someone to get Akumatized and in terms of treating everyone as inferiors, as second-class citizens. You think you're above everyone else because of your parents. Well, guess what, b****. YOU'RE NOT ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE! NO ONE IS ABOVE EVERYONE ON THIS EARTH EXCEPT GOD HIMSELF! But since you refuse to repent for your actions, you shall be tickle tortured until I can determine that your desire to change is one hundred percent genuine."

Lynnette started whimpering in fear, knowing that she's deathly ticklish.

In particular, she remembers that her pretty feet are the most ticklish and every little touch tickles her greatly.

Steel Butterfly's fingertips morph into blunted claws as he starts tickling Lynnette's feet.

Lynnette shrieks in hysterical laughter at the sensations of her feet being tickled.

As Steel Butterfly alternates between slowly scratching Lynnette's feet softly and doing it pretty fast while making sure to be careful, Lynnette continues hysterically laughing.

Of course, no one could hear as Steel Butterfly invested in having soundproof rooms and soundproof prison cells for his out of town and out of country prisons, all of which were maximum security.

A few minutes later, Lynnette was released with clean underwear because she had peed her pants during the whole tickle torture.

But oddly enough, Lynnette genuinely vowed that she would change for the greater good. Not just because she wanted to avoid being tickle tortured again.

And so, Steel Butterfly rested for the rest of the afternoon before making it back to Paris for a rendezvous with Ladybug and Cat Noir for their nightly patrol.

Once Steel Butterfly is spotted hovering in front of his two favorite heroes/protégés, Ladybug asks him, "Steel Butterfly, why am I remembering a lot of details about a so-called Cat Blanc timeline?"

Steel Butterfly answers, "Oh, that's because I transferred and downloaded into your memories my foreknowledge of the apocalyptic future where Cat Noir was Akumatized into a white version of himself called Cat Blanc."

Cat Noir asks, "What?! How did it happen?"

Steel Butterfly explains that it all happened in an alternate version of the primary timeline, one in which Marinette's choice of revealing her secret identity to Cat Noir was averted on the first day, and later at the behest of Steel Butterfly's benefactor, Ladybug and Cat Noir were forbidden from learning each other's identity until Hawk Moth was defeated. And if the heroes violated that rule in any way, they would have their Miraculouses unfairly taken away and they would be permanently replaced.

After thirty-five minutes of explaining everything about the primary timeline, the Cat Blanc timeline and Bunnyx's decision to keep the details a secret under the delusional belief that it's better if neither Ladybug nor Cat Noir knew about it, even if they had a right to know years down the line, let's just say Ladybug and Cat Noir decided that when the time came, they would implement all different kinds of plans. They would first meet Steel Butterfly's benefactor. They would make sure to have Lila Rossi be exposed and under the strictest of security to see if she will aid Hawk Moth in his endeavors just to settle a grudge against Ladybug and/or Steel Butterfly for exposing her lies. They would make sure to take back the Peacock Miraculous and the spellbook under Hawk Moth's nose before Lila first shows up. They would make sure to inform Alya and the readers of the school blog hours in advance about what kind of Hellspawn Lila Rossi really is. They would make sure to revive the Order of the Guardians. They would make sure to take care of the Trash Krakken and Techno-Pirate. They would head to Shanghai to ensure that Fei Wu would become worthy of the Prodigious and become Lady Dragon. They would keep the Moth Miraculous under strict lock and key to ensure that no one takes up the supervillain mantle of Hawk Moth after he's defeated and arrested. They would make sure to revive Hawk Moth's wife after Hawk Moth's defeat and bring her up to speed. They would make sure to learn more about the Miraculouses to prepare for Guardianship of the Miracle Box and to prepare for any more threats to the world that would try to steal every Miraculous jewel in existence, including demons. They would make sure to train themselves in the ways of the Order. They would make sure to show Su-Han that times have changed among other things to reveal to him. They would make sure that Felix Graham de Vanily and his dear mother get the twin rings back. They would make sure to heal Felix's father to save him from death. They would make sure to establish contact with the United Heroez. They would make sure to recover every lost Miraculous jewel starting with the Eagle Miraculous from the Native American Miracle Box. They would make sure to have the Akuma Class become heroes in different ways aside from wielding magic jewelry, getting bitten by radioactive insects/animals, coming into contact with alien technology, becoming superheroes by means of either the Moth Miraculous or the actual Butterfly Miraculous, and/or wielding gadgets and body armor. They'll make sure that people in the future – children of their own or otherwise – will rise into existence to take their places as heroes of the world and continue such powerful legacies until the end of days. And, most of all, they'll make sure to fulfill their destinies, no matter who or what gets in their way, and no matter what they have to do. Just as long as they're respectful towards the laws of every nation in the world and the laws of God.

After the three heroes patrolled Paris from the skies, they all went home to ensure that they're well-rested to prepare for the next Akuma attack.

Steel Butterfly lingered long enough to test out the fake excuse that Cat Noir invented in the Shanghai Special to see whether using the Arctic or Antarctica was the fastest way to fly around the world.

Surprisingly, after undertaking this little experiment, he found out the answer was more complicated than he thought. Mostly because no such answer came into this timeline as much as the original timeline, fake excuse or not.

After reaching his primary headquarters in the library of Francoise Dupont, Steel Butterfly said in a whisper, "Leppey, Elegant Wings Die" and Miguel Guevara stood in place before making it to his bathroom to shower.

After showering, he had dinner, waited an additional thirty minutes, brushed his teeth and went to bed with Leppey by his side.

The End.

(Author's notes: I hope you all liked this chapter.

Also, I deleted my Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction with Dove Papillon because of F****** NAYSAYERS WHO CAN'T STOP STICKING THEIR NOSES IN MY BUSINESS AND KEEPING THEIR NEGATIVE, UNCLEAN COMMENTS TO THEMSELVES! But even that won't stop me from doing what I love to do best. Naysayers everywhere, if you have fanfiction names and you leave unclean reviews on any of my stories, I ain't taking the high road like Adrien Passive Enabling Pushover Agreste.

Additionally, I'm hoping that you guys can help me with some inspiration for future chapters of this story in terms of fixing the things I hated about the "chronological" cartoon as mentioned in the beginning author's notes. Bottom line: if Lila Rossi discovers Shadow Moth's identity in the Gabriel Agreste episode of season four, then I'll safely say that the cartoon itself is trash. Bloody hell.

See you in chapter 4: Simon Says.)