Immediately, most of the class clamoured around Lila while Chloe, Marinette, and Alya just gaped at what she had claimed to be doing. Adrien just felt a pang of hurt from Lila. One by One, Chloe, Marinette, and Alya stomped to stand up. Adrikins doesn't deserve this!

"Alright Lila, cut the lies!" Chloe yells.

"Yeah, what Chloe said." Alya swore she popped a vein by frowning too hard.

"I'm not lying, I really do know Michelle's actress. You're probably just jealous."

"Okay, prove you're not lying by telling us the name of the actress."

"I… don't know, she prefers to be called by her stage name."

"Ugh. Her name is Emilie Graham De Vanily! Anyone know her surname?" Chloe yells.

"Google is free people! Google it!" Max looks up the name and blanches.

"Emilie... Agreste…" Gasps fill the crowd of students and look at Lila accusingly.

"Mother of Adrien Agreste, who has disappeared over a year ago now." Alya flatly says.

Marinette was looking forward to this. She researched this in case she did lie about her. "So Lila, since you are buddy buddy with Adrien's mom, you know where she is right? Her missing person's case is still active, so. Either admit everything now, or I play along with your lie and call the police that you know where she is. If you're telling the truth, you're withholding information from the police. Surely able to give you 6 months in juvie and around $1000 fine."

"How dare you threaten me!" Lila was offended she was speaking to her like that. In Chloe's P.O.V. Perfect, time to bring up my trump card.

"Oh, like how you threatened Dupain-Cheng?!" Chloe smugly remarked.

"Okay, I know we're in full agreement that Lila is the devil but I think you are pulling this out of nowhere." Kim tells Chloe.

"You guys want proof? Fine, I got proof." She brings out her phone from her bag. "Ms. Rossi didn't know that moi was in the bathroom. I initially recorded it to get Marinette in trouble, but I landed on something even better."

Marinette paled. If she was in the bathroom, did she hear what happened afterwards? Does she know? Chloe hit play.

"I can sense that you don't like me, but I don't understand why. We barely know each other. Don't tell me it's because of this new seating arrangement in class? It is! Of course! You're jealous because I'm sitting next to Adrien." Lila pleaded.

Adrien was confused. Wait. Why would Marinette be jealous?

"Because you would've given anything to sit there yourself. You know what? It's really not worth fighting over a boy. You and I could be friends. And who knows, I might even be able to help you with Adrien." Lila offers Mari.

"You and I will only be friends the day you stop lying, Lila." Mari, rebuts.

Lila gasps

"I can't prove it, but I know for a fact you don't have tinnitus, that your wrist is just fine, that you don't know Prince Ali and have never been to Atchoo, and despite what you got Alya to write on her Ladyblog, Ladybug has never saved your life!" Mari becomes infuriated.

Here comes the confession, Marinette thinks.

"I only tell people what they want to hear." Lila admits

Everyone in the class glares at Lila.

"It's called Lying!" Mari exclaims.

"There's nothing you can do about it anyway. People can't resist when they hear what they like to hear. If you don't want to be my friend, fine. But soon you won't have any friends left at all. And trust me, I'll make sure you never get close with Adrien in class or anywhere. You seem a little less dumb than the others, so I'll give you one last chance. You are either with me, or against me. You don't have to answer right away. I'll give you till the end of class today." Lila threatens Mari.

Chloe skips a few seconds to hear the sound of a fluttering akuma. A voice is heard, assumed to be Marinette.

"An Akuma!"

Chloe stops the recording. The room is frozen. The drop of a pin could break the tension. Marinette could've been akumatized. Adrien paled, he couldn't even think what an akumatized Marinette would look like. Looks wouldn't even matter as an akumatized Marinette would bring doom upon the world.

"T-that video is fake, I never said anything of sorts." Lila denies.

"Ugh, Max, bring out your toy." Chloe, says, annoyed.

"Markov's not a toy Chloe, he's my friend." Max corrects.

"Whatever, bring him out and analyze the recording." Chloe says, even more annoyed. Max does what Chloe orders and Markov analyzes the recording.

"I can 100% confirm that this video isn't edited in any way." Markov states

" *gasps* You have a personal vendetta against me! You're biased." Lila, admittedly, is grasping straws.

"I'm sorry Lila, while Markov does have feelings, he is programmed to tell if things are true or false. Unlike Markov, those 2 over there are furious, biased and ready to gouge your eyes out." Max points out.

"YOU THREATENED MARINETTE?! SHE WAS ALMOST AKUMATIZED BECAUSE OF YOU!" Adrien and Alya scream from the top of their lungs.

"THROW HER IN AN ACTIVE VOLCANO!" Alya screams

Nino and Marinette took hold of Adrien and Alya keeping them from tearing Lila limb from limb.

"Adrien, Alya calm down." Mari and Nino say.

At this point Ms. Bustier had walked into the classroom.

"Ms. Bustier, the class is ganging up on me. They're bullying me."

"Now Lila, I'm sure that's not the case."

"And we can prove it, Chloe?" Mari asks Chloe. Chloe plays the recording for Ms. Bustier as Lila tries to wiggle out of it.

"Lila, let's go to the principle about this. Marinette, I need you to come too. Markov, could you come with us? Finally, Alya, I need you to take care of things here." Ms. Bustier says.

"I will uphold my class deputy duty Ms. Bustier." Alya declares. Ms. Bustier, Lila, Markov and Marinette leave the classroom and head to Mr. Damocles.

"I have a few questions about this Lila thing. One, Chloe, why didn't you come out with that recording sooner?" What is going on? "Well Cesaire, if you must know, I wanted to destroy Rossi's reputation, so I was waiting for a moment of weakness to release it."

"Okay, got it. Two: Why wasn't she knocked down before?"

"Well, I kind of told her to take the high road because her lies weren't hurting everyone. At least, as far as I knew." Alya facepalmed as hard as she could the entire class was exasperated

"Agreste!" Most of the class chorused. Chloe ran in between Adrien and the class

"Hey! Adrikins doesn't have much social skills as we do. Don't accuse him, he was trying to help Dupain-Cheng."

"She does have a point, babe." Nino agreed with Chloe.

"*sigh* okay. Okay. I'm sorry Adrien." Alya apologized

"It's alright Alya. I tried helping Marinette, but I only added more stress onto her. If I hadn't told her to take the high road, Lila probably would have been dealt with." The class was left to their thoughts in the classroom while Marinette, Lila, Markov, Bustier and Damocles listen to the recording once again. Markov analyzed the recording again, proving that it is 100% genuine.

"Thanks Markov you go back to Max." Ms. Bustier thanked the robot.

"This is a pressing issue. I'm going to need to call the parents and tell them what's going on." Mr. Damocles rationed

Tom and Sabine had picked up the call, closed up the bakery and came to the school to talk with the principal. They were wary, mainly because the last time they were at the school, Marinette's class was swarmed with scarlett akumas. Damocles went to call Mrs. Rossi when something unexpected happened. Lila's phone started ringing. Mr. Damocles looked between his phone and Lila's pocket.

"Are you gonna get that Lila?" Lila sheepishly grabbed her phone and answered. That was when Damocles's call was answered.

"Lila, why did you give us your phone number instead of your mother's?" Mr. Damocles questioned the girl

"Likely because she didn't want her mom figuring out what she was doing at school." Mari quickly shot a one-liner about it.

"Since my mom can't come, we can't go through with anything right?" Lila hopefully praised that was the case.

"Actually Mr. Damocles, since her mom is an Italian diplomat, why don't you call the embassy?" Mrs. Bustier offered

"Good idea Ms. Bustier." Mr. Damocles brightened up

Shoot - Lila

At the Embassy

Mrs. Rossi's phone rings and picks up the phone.

"This is the Italian embassy, how may I help you?" Madam Rossi nicely asked

"Uh yes, I am looking for a Mrs. Rossi."

"That will be me, what do you need?"

"Uh yes, this Mr. Damocles the principal of your daughter's school. Your daughter has been having some behavioral issues during school that we need to talk about."

"Surely my daughter didn't do anything, she's an angel." Mr Damocles was worried that Lila's mother was not in loop with her daughter. He didn't want to deal with a karen.

"But if my daughter is in trouble I will come and hear what you have to say. See you in about 15 minutes." After the phone hung up Mr Damocles sighed a sigh of relief of Lila's mom not being a karen. At this point, Tom and Sabine had arrived. It took around 15 minutes to explain what was happening to her parents. They finished up when Mrs. Rossi arrived. The class noticed Lila's mother. They were extremely curious, so they went outside the office to eavesdrop.

"Mom! They are all bullying me. Falsely accusing me of threatening Marinette." Lila cries into her mom as she hugs her and sits down.

"What is this about threatening?"

"Yes, ma'am your daughter has threatened Marinette here that she'll take all her friends away from her." He plays the recording for Mrs Rossi, initially feeling confused then shocked.

"Wait, isn't Adrien my daughter's boyfriend? And wasn't the school closed down for months because of akumatisations?" Adrien burst through the door

"Boyfriend?! I was never, and will never be her boyfriend. *adrien pauses for a minute* Look at this." Adrien pulls up his left sleeve to reveal scratches, bruises and marks on his arm. Almost everyone in the room gasps at what they see. Lila was seething, everything she had built was falling apart.

"Lila was harassing me during our photoshoots for my father's company. If I was romantically involved, who knows what would've happened to me. What sucks is that it totally could have happened if it weren't for Ladybug helping me see the light when she pretended to be a hero to me."

Outside the office, Nino looked glum.

"I can't believe I never noticed. I'm his best bud."

"Actually Adrien, Lila did more to you that day than pretending to be a hero and being Ladybug's best friend. She stole your father's book. The one you were grounded for losing."

"Wait. Lila, you stole the book? I lost half a day of freedom thanks to you!"

"I saw Lila take your book, when you joined Lila in the park, she threw it in the trash. I fished it out intending to give it back to you. But I was curious what was in the book so I checked a look through it, and by the time I realized I should give it back, I heard your father was akumatized so I waited till he was saved by Y- Ladybug and Cat Noir to give it back."

Outside the office Alya was shocked at Marinette's composure when talking to Adrien, she possibly was thinking he was Chat during that.

"You're amazing Marinette." Adrien gave Marinette a hug.

"And I assure you, Mrs. Rossi, that Ladybug and Cat Noir have always been able to stop villains made by Hawkmoth within a few hours. It has been very rare that they make it through till the end of the day." Tom explained to her

"Well if Ladybug and Cat Noir aren't bumbling idiots like my daughter said, why hasn't this been brought to my attention earlier?" Outside there was a bunch of shuffling. FInally Alya burst in.

"LADYBUG AND CAT NOIR AREN'T BUMBLING IDIOTS!" Alya yelled. Mr. Damocles choked for a second then regained composure.

"Lila was telling us that you two had been travelling around the world and doing environmental charities with Prince Ali of Atchoo." Marinette explained

"And your contact information sent us to Lila's phone so we couldn't contact you." Damocles added on

Mrs. Rossi glared daggers at her daughter.

"Oh, Mrs. Rossi, you might want these." Marinette pulls out pieces of paper and gives them to Mrs. Rossi.

"What's this?" Miss Rossi asks

"All the disabilities and injuries your daughter claimed to have. Including tinnitus, Arthritis, Asperger's, oh, and here's my favorite, a disability that makes her say random lies, which everyone fell for after her lying about me, getting me suspended." If looks could kill, Lila would be dead from her own mother.

Lila had just enough of everyone picking apart her lies. Very angry. She hears the fluttering of an akuma. She smiles evilly and jumps to grab the akuma, akumatizing her. Everyone had chills. Did she just WILLINGLY ACCEPT AN AKUMA?! SHE WAS IN LEAGUE WITH HAWKMOTH/SHADOWMOTH?! Everyone flees out of the office as Lila is akumatized into Revealer.

Marinette and Alya run off into Ms. Bustier's classroom to transform.

"Alright Rena, get into position, me and A- Chat Noir will deal with the akuma." Marinette orders

Rena Furtive nods and they both leave the classroom and go to the Akuma battle to find Adr- Chat Noir fighting Revealer.

"You ready Kitty?"

" *blinks for a few seconds and shakes it off* Always."

"That was weird." Ladybug thinks to herself