Hello there,
Welcome my friends to the next chapter of Miraculous: My Iron Skin and the first chapter of "Season 2".
I hope you will enjoy it as much as I had writing it, and now on to the reviews.
SuperSaiyanVoilet: Yeah, it's a joke.
LegendarySteel1: Glad you think liked it. Okay, I do get why you would get Drakkon vibes from King Tyranno but why Mesogog?
James the Apple: Yeah, time traveling is a female dog. As for your questions,
1. I usually work with a single timeline which doesn't have a future set in stone.
2. I don't think the Ladybug Miraculous can revive the dead but those affected by akumatized victims powers can be restored like the destroyed buildings.
3. I think they are combined like what happened with Ladybug.
Happy you think my version was a bit clearer.
Boo the ghost: Yeah, I already have a 'Darkseid' like villain, so I wanted to try my hand at a 'Thanos' like villain. I know I didn't made a Community Joke, but I did made a reference, it's literily called the 'Darkest Timeline'. I was planning on him having a cameo at the end, but I thought it would be better to end on the 'King Tyranno Will Return' line. But I did promise he would make his first appearance in Chapter 13.
And now on to the story.
During the morning, Marinette was woken up after a long sleep. Wearing a white t-shirt with pink polka-dots and light pink sweatpants with a white string. Crawling out from underneath bed covers, she rubbed her eyes and yawned as she walked down the stairs.
When she got down, she jumped back in surprise when she saw who was standing in the kitchen.
"Hello there." A shirtless Travis said, wearing black sweatpants. He was holding an empty pan and from the two plates next to him on the counter, he was making pancakes.
"T-Travis." Marinette said, trying to look anywhere but the muscular upper body of her crush, "W-What are you doing here? In my house? Shirtless in the kitchen?"
"Why shouldn't I be in my girlfriends kitchen after spending the night?" Travis said amused, placing the pan in the sink, before picking up the two plates, "I also made breakfast."
The two sat down at the dinner table as they began to eat, Marinette smiled when she cut off a piece of her pancakes and putting it in her mouth.
"These are so good..." Marinette said, "How do you get them so fluffy?"
"Blood magic." Travis said with a smile.
Marinette and Travis where suddenly thrown back by an explosion, showering them in dust and debris.
Crawling her way out of a pile of rubble, blood dripping from a wound on her forehead, Marinette looked in the direction where the wall used to be. Fear overtook her as her eyes widen when she saw King Tyranno standing over her, lifting Travis by the throat making his feet dangling off the ground.
"Your nothing more than a clumsy little girl. You do nothing but hold your partners back, Iron Spider and Cat Noir would be better of without you." King Tyranno said, "How could you hope to take on a man who dominated the world." before snapping Travis neck.
Marinette lay flat on her back, breathing hard as though she had been running. Her body was drenched in sweat as she had awoken from her vivid nightmare.
"Marinette?" Tikki said, floating in front of her as she sat up, "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine Tikki." Marinette said, brushing her off.
"These past week, you have barely gotten any sleep, you have been avoiding Iron Spider and Cat Noir after patrol and after purifying akuma's." Tikki said, "And you have been talking in your sleep."
"I said I was fine!" Marinette yelled, a lot louder than she had intended, startling her kwami, "I'm sorry Tikki... I better get ready, the school trip is today."
On her way, Marinette had run into Alya and the two girls where now walking towards school together.
"Girl, this might be the first time your actually on time." Alya said, "Are you this excited to go to the TV station?"
"What?" Marinette said as they arrived at school, where students had already gathered for the school trip, among them where Travis, Nino and Nathaniel.
"Or are you excited because your going to be sitting next to our favorite British brunette?" Alya teased.
"Sitting next to?..." Marinette said, "What do you mean? Alya, what did you do?"
But Alya didn't say anything, all she did was giving Marinette a knowing smirk as she walked towards students who where queuing up for the bus.
"Okay, I get Nino sitting with Alya, being a couple and all." Travis said as they were getting on the bus, "But what do you mean your sitting next to Juleka on the bus?"
"Well we are both fans of Eirwyn." Nathaniel said, "And we're going to listen to her new album..."
"Whatever traitor." Travis said dramatically, "If your looking for a knife later, you can borrow the one you used to stab me in the back."
Travis was looking for a place to sit, Alya was indeed sitting with Nino, he ignored the open spot next to Chloe as he spotted a free place next to Marinette, who was staring out of the window.
"Can I sit next to you?" Travis said, "I think the bus might become a crime scene if I have to sit next to Chloe."
"Oh, Travis." Marinette said looking to him, "Yeah, sure."
"Are you okay?" Travis said, sitting down next to her, "Your looking tired."
"Oh, I've just..." she said, knowing she couldn't explain what had happened to her in the Darkest Timeline, "Not sleeping well lately."
"It's a problem I know all too well." Travis said, "No time for sleep, my mind's a flood tide when obsession sweeps."
"You got that right." Marinette said with a light chuckle, "So why aren't you sitting with Nathaniel?"
"Oh, he sitting with Juleka." he said, noticing that his friend exchanged a thumbs up with Alya, "They are listening to a singers new album."
"Alya is sitting with Nino." Marinette said, hiding a yawn behind her hand.
"So after this trip, we are allowed to go home early." Travis said, feeling uncertain and nervous, "There is this restaurant I wanted to visit... So would you like to go there... With me?"
But he heard a small snort next to him, turning to his side he saw that Marinette had fallen asleep next to him, her head resting on his shoulder.
With a light smile, Travis rested his own head against the girl who made him feel things he was not used to feeling and soon he too fell asleep. During the ride towards the television studio, Alya, Nathaniel and Nino looked at the sleeping duo, happy that their mission was a success and Alya took a quick picture of the sleeping duo for save keeping.
An hour or so later, the students where waiting outside the television studio. Travis and Nathaniel where waiting for the Nino and the girls, who had gone to the toilet because they hadn't gone before they boarded the bus.
"Say Travis." Nathaniel said.
"Judas." Travis said.
"Okay, are you actually angry with me for sitting with Juleka?" Nathaniel said, cutting to the case.
"Of course not." Travis said as Nino got back, "I just like annoying you."
"Excuse me."
The trio turned around to see a handsome fair-skinned slender teenage boy maybe a year or two older them them. He had combed-back blond hair that is swept to the left, emerald green eyes.
He was dressed in a dark blue hoodie under a light grey blazer, which is left open, dark skinny jeans and silver colored sneakers with white laces. On the ring finger of his left hand, he wears a golden ring the top being shaped like a bird.
"Are you perhaps students at Françoise Dupont High?" the young man continued.
"Yes, what's up?" Nathaniel said.
"I happened to be passing by, so it seemed polite to greet you." the young man said, "We'll be filming together, after all."
"Filming?" Nino said, "Dude, are you a celebrity?"
"Only to the extent of appearing on TV a couple of times." the pleasant teen said, before receiving a message on his phone, "My apologies, I truly was just passing by. I must be going."
The young man walked away towards the elevators, as the trio watched just as Marinette and Alya returned.
"Did... that guy seem familiar to anyone?" Travis said, "Or just me?"
"No, not just you." Nathaniel said as the students began to gather to go to the studio.
The students of Françoise Dupont High stood in the television studio, specifically the set of a populair talk show. "And that's why we recruit sponsors to help make TV shows." the PR Woman said.
"So sleepy." Travis yawned, hiding it behind his hand.
"Are you even listening?" Nathaniel said.
"For example, soap-opera reruns are shown in the day, whereas alluring newswomen are broadcast at night." the PR Woman continued, "Thus, the scheduling department is where we decide what time we broadcast which program."
"Can it get be more obvious?" Alya whispered.
"So sleepy." Marinette yawned.
"Jeez, they are like two peas in a pot." Alya said.
"Seriously how long is this gonna go?" Travis said, "I don't think I'm going to last... "
Two hours later, the students where sitting in the audience as the recordings of the talk show were on the way. "And here our special guest." the host Alec Cataldi said, "He's the Teenage Ace Detective himself. Give it up for Milo Graham de Vanily!"
The young man they had met earlier that day under loud applause and to much delight of some of the females in the audience.
"It's Milo!"
"Oh, he's so cute."
"Your breathtaking!" a voice shouted, which Travis recognized coming from his least favorite blonde.
Milo stopped himself from bursting out in laughter before pointing in the direction of where he heard it coming from.
"Your breathtaking!" he shouted back, "Your all breathtaking!"
"Thank you for taking the time to join us today, Mr. Graham de Vanily." Alec said, shaking hands with the teenage detective, "Your popularity is stunning."
"Honestly, even I'm surprised by it." he said as the two sat down on their respective seats, "Please, call me Milo. Mr. Graham de Vanily was my father."
The audience laughed at his joke, but from Milo's subtle facial expression, Travis noted that he was quite grim about his father.
"So are you here for a special case?" Alec said.
"Actually, I'm on a personal vacation... Though I admit, there is a case that caught my attention." Milo continued to talk, "It's what we at the I.W.P. call the Akumatization case."
"There it is! All this superhero excitement has caught your attention too." Alec said, "Allow me to be blunt for a second. What do you think of the Paris heroes?"
"While it's true they are stopping a bigger evil, the fact remains that they are taking the law into their own hands. It is far from justice." Milo said, "What happens when they stop Hawk Moth? What stops them form deciding that they know whats best because they have the power. What stops them from deciding that they should make the rules? Who keeps them in check? The answer is simple. It's nobody, because they answer to nobody."
"That's actually an interesting perspective, Milo." Alec said, "I could listen to you all day. But how about we get some audience opinions of the heroes... You there."
He pointed in the direction where Travis was sitting, before he knew it the camera's where turned to him and a stage hand was holding a microphone to him.
"What are your thoughts on the Paris heroes?"
"They are necessary." Travis said full of conviction.
His answer surprised, but also made Marinette feel happy that at least Travis was still on her side.
"His opinion goes completely against yours, Milo." Alec said.
"Indeed. It's rather intriguing to hear such a strong acknowledgment." Milo said, "Let me propose another question. If someone close to you, for example the girl next to you, was suddenly accused by the hero trio being Hawk Moth?"
He gave an aside glance to Marinette, "They wouldn't. Not without evidence." he said, "They would only go after her if she was an akumatized victim, and only then to save her."
"I see." Milo said with a nod, "Whether these heroes actions are necessary or not, I feel there is a more important issue at hand."
"What do you mean?" Alec said.
"The matter of how they gained their powers. Cat Noir as the ability to destroy anything, Ladybug can create anything, Iron Spider is like a swish-army knife." Milo said, "Would it be possible to replicate those powers? And if it can, there might be crimes that seem ordinary but are actually perpetrated by beings above human."
"Like that warehouse in Los Angeles?" Alec said, remembering a news article from a few weeks ago, "How an entire faction of a street gang was killed by an unknown assailant?"
"Yes..." Milo said, "Like that."
At the end of the school trip, students where making a last use of the restroom before boarding the bus back to school.
"Hey Mari." Travis said as he stood with her waiting for their friends, "Did you had a good sleep on the bus?"
"Actually yes." Marinette said, "You make for a surprisingly comfortable pillow."
"Happy to oblige." he said, "So, I'm not sure if you heard what I said, but I there is this restaurant I wanted to visit and I wondered if you wanted to go after the school trip."
"Oh, I can't." Marinette said regretfully, "I have to... help my parents at the bakery."
"Ah... Well another time." he said, as he watched her walk away with regret when he heard a sudden voice coming up behind him.
"Oh, it's you." Milo Graham de Vanily said walking up to him, "I'm glad I still found you. I wanted to thank you in person."
"For what?" Travis said.
"To paraphrase Hegel." Milo said, "Advancement cannot occur without both thesis..."
But it was Travis who finished for him, "And antithesis."
"It's not often I find someone who can paraphrase that for me. Your interesting." Milo said with a nod, "You believe that these heroes are truly good. But I believe, if a truly powerful opponent were to corner them, they would flee without a second thought."
"I don't think so." Travis said shaking his head, "Ladybug, Cat Noir and Iron Spider would fight to the bitter end."
"Your really are intriguing. Few people around me are so willing to speak their minds as freely as you do." Milo said, "I bet you'd make for a worthwhile debate partner on the subject. Would you mind continue sharing your thoughts with me?" holding out his hand.
"Fine by me." Travis said, shaking hands with the teen, "I have to warn you, I have lots of thoughts going through my head."
"It makes me glad to hear that, thank you." Milo said with a smile, "I sense something in you that's quite different from other people... Oh yes, we should exchange contact info."
They both took out their phones, exchanging contact information with each other.
"...And registered." Milo said, seeing that he just got a message, "Oh, I have to go. I will be staying with family while in Paris and I need to meet up with my uncle soon, I hope to see you again sometime soon."
That afternoon, inside 'Fu's massage shop', where Master Fu himself was meditating, facing towards the door.
"Master, are you okay?" a small, light green creature said.
His appearance includes yellow sclerae, green eyes, and an antenna on his head. He also has a slightly darker green turtle shell on his back and a short pointed tail.
"Wayzz. She's here." Master Fu said, opening his eyes as a knock was heard on the door, and the green kwami flies off and hides inside the phonograph.
"I know you never wanted me to bring her here but..." Tikki said as she and Marinette stepped inside, "You must see it for yourself. Show him, Marinette."
"I've met you before." Marinette said, recognizing the elderly Asian man, "The first day at school..."
"That wasn't a chance meeting either." Master Fu said, "Marinette, you're always ready to help others. I knew that day, that very moment, that you'd make a fantastic Ladybug!"
"But, who are you?" Marinette said.
Master Fu stands up and guides Marinette to the phonograph and uses the code which unlocks access to the Miraculous Box.
"Master Fu is the last known member of the Order of the Guardians!" Tikki said.
"Guardians of the Miraculous!" Wayzz corrected her as he got out of the phonograph, "I'm Wayzz, Master Fu's kwami. It's a pleasure to meet you, Marinette."
"You too!" she said before Master Fu began to explain.
"We guardians are responsible for protecting and distributing the Miraculous, for the good of all humanity. We are chosen in childhood and trained for many years, specially for this mission. When we were much, much younger, we... I made a mistake. The guardians' temple was destroyed, all because of me! Three of the Miraculous were lost that day. The Butterfly, the Peacock and the Hawk. Also gone forever was the ancient Spellbook!"
"Spellbook?" Marinette said.
"These pages in that book contain various spells capable of giving Ladybug and Cat Noir special abilities we haven't known about, until now..." Master Fu said, "I've always believed that whoever possessed this spellbook must also have the Peacock, the Hawk and the Butterfly Miraculous."
"Wait a sec." Marinette said, "You mean whoever owns the spellbook could be Hawk Moth?"
"I believe so." Master Fu said, "Now what did you wish to show me?"
Ladybug reached into her purse, pulling out a box containing the Cat Miraculous from the Darkest Timeline.
"Where did you get this?" Master Fu said, accepting the box, "This should be with Cat Noir."
"It's a long story..." Marinette said, as she prepared to share what had happened a week ago.
After finishing the modeling job, Adrien had arrived back home and was being escorted to his father's office by Nathalie immediately once he got home. Walking through the foyer of his home and as they approached he heard voices coming from the room.
One he recognized as his father, and the other he hadn't heard in a long time. Knocking on the door before Nathalie let him in as Adrien saw his father standing with a familiar face.
"Look how tall you have become." the other person said, holding out his hand.
Adrien's confusion changes to surprise as he walked up and hugged him instead. "Milo! Good to see you again!" he said as he felt the hug being returned.
"Likewise cousin, I almost mistook you for Felix." Milo said before turning to Gabriel, "As I was about to say, you're still wearing your wedding band, uncle. You must have Emilie's too. Mother still wishes the rings back."
"These rings are obviously very special to me." Gabriel said.
"Completely understandable." Milo said, "Mother requested me to talk you into giving those rings back, with them belonging to the Graham de Vanily and not the Agreste family. But since it was a unreasonable request, I decided to ignore it."
"I..." Gabriel said, "Thank you for understanding, Milo."
"What is family for?" Milo said, "Just see it as a warning in advance for when mother comes to visit."
"I will keep that in mind." Gabriel said, "It's been a long journey from London, you may want to rest a bit."
In the streets of Paris, Marinette was walking home. She decided it was best to leave the Cat Miraculous from the darkest timeline with Master Fu for save keeping.
"Tikki..." Marinette said and her kwami pops out from her purse, "I think I have seen that Spellbook Master Fu was talking about."
"You did?" Tikki said, "Where? We need to get it."
"I think Travis was reading it, when he was hanging out with Lila." Marinette said, "But Travis can't be Hawk Moth! Th-That would mean that I'm crazy in love with a supervillain! I can't be crazy in love with a supervillain... I... I'd have to fight him and..."
"Calm down Marinette." Tikki said, already knowing that Travis wasn't Hawk Moth, "I'm sure there's an explanation."
"I need to get to the bottom of this." Marinette said.
A little while later at the Agreste Mansion, Adrien with Milo in his room, standing in the basketball court.
"Do you remember our shooting contests?" Adrien said, bouncing the ball in his hand.
"Of course I do, but I would hardly call them a contest. Because I remember whipping the floor with you and Felix." Milo said, stealing the ball from Adrien with a swift movement, who with a jump dunks it into the hoop behind him.
"Kinda like this." Milo said with a smirk, spinning the ball on his fighter before passing the ball back to Adrien.
"Milo... I'm really sorry I didn't come to your dad's funeral. My father thought it would be too hard on me, considering..." Adrien said, as he caught the ball, "Everything that's happened this year. You've every right to be mad at me."
"Why would I be? I could never be mad at you, cousin." Milo said, rubbing a hand over Adrien's head, "So you always do everything your father tells you to do?"
"He's just..." Adrien said, fixing his hair, "Very protective of me."
"As he should." Milo said, "I would be forced to arrest him if anything bad happens to my favorite cousin."
"Oh! Your going to like this." Adrien said, running upstairs to the second floor of his room, before returning with something Milo recognized.
"You still have that chess board we used to play all the time?" Milo said with an amused smile.
"Of course!" Adrien said, "I challenge you, so let the best man win!"
"Prepare the board cousin." Milo said, as they took a seat on the couch, "Though it's been a while since I played."
"Then it might be a fair game." Adrien said as he moved his pawn, "So you still do archery? Or have you started practicing karate?"
"Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts? That's more of a Felix thing. I have been trained in Krav Maga and of course I still do archery. " Milo said, moving his own pawn, "So your father said you go to an actual school now?"
"I do, and I really enjoy it." Adrien said, moving his knight, "I have a lot of friends now."
"Why would you need more friends when you have Chloe Bourgeois?" Milo said, capturing a pawn, "I actually made a friend today. At least I think so, I find him very interesting."
"It almost sound like my cousin has a little crush." Adrien teased him.
"Well he isn't bad looking, I dare say, he's very handsome actually." Milo said, joining his cousin in on the fun, "So what about you? Do you have a girlfriend?"
"W-what?" Adrien said, turning his gaze to the board to hide the blush on his face, "N-no, not yet."
"What? Are you sure your my cousin?" Milo said, deciding not to react to the clear signs that his cousin did have at least a crush on someone, "I can't have my cousin not be populair with the girls."
"Well... There is someone but..." Adrien said when the door to his room opened revealing Natalie.
"Adrien, your father is requesting you to his office." she said, sounding very concerned.
Inside Gabriel's office, Adrien was sitting in a chair as Nathalie shows CCTV images of Adrien stealing the Miraculous book from Gabriel's safe.
"Why did you take the book?" Gabriel said.
"I... I just wanted to know what you were hiding behind that portrait that was so important." Adrien said, "You.. you never told me about those things. I was intending to give it back to you, I swear! But then... I lost it."
"How can I possibly trust you again, Adrien?" Gabriel said, turning away from him.
"Sorry..." Adrien said, "I'll get you another copy."
"It's one of a kind!" Gabriel yelled suddenly, taking Adrien back by his sudden outburst, "The book's the source of my inspiration."
"I didn't know that." Adrien said regretfully, "I hardly know anything about you, Father."
"You won't be returning to school." Gabriel said as he collected himself, "You'll be home-schooled again... with Nathalie."
Music blasted through the secret base as Travis was standing at one of his stations where he build and program his suits. Having a holographic depiction of a gauntlet around his arm, having his ear piece with the lens covering his eye.
He moved his arm and the suit mimicked the motion. He had been working on a new armor, instead of the red and gold color scheme of his standard armor, this one had a black and silver color scheme.
He was designing the black and silver suit with stealth in mind, exchanging the firepower and flight capabilities of the standard one but made up for it by being capable of using the fluid to swing, slightly better protection and the ability to send electric discharges.
"Okay." Travis said, putting in some code through his ear piece, "Double tap to release and twip again."
Using two fingers to press a button on his palm and his suit mimicked the movement, shooting a strings of web against a barrel which was used as target practice.
"My genius..." Travis said, pressing the buttons again as this the suit shot a long string of web, sticking it against the practice barrel, "Sometimes it frightens me."
Just then someone called him, on the lens he saw that it was Adrien calling him. Picking up the call, he said "What's up A?"
"Hey, T... Listen, this is important." Adrien said, sounding very serious, "Remember that book I was reading in the library a few weeks ago?"
"The one you were reading when I had that meeting with Miss Bustier?" Travis said, looking at the Grimoire in the display case, which now had a translated copy in his database, "Yeah, I remember."
"That book was my dad's, it's a one of a kind and I lost it." Adrien said, "And because of that, he has grounded me. I'm not allowed to go back to school."
"That's pretty serious." Travis said, "Do you remember where you last had it?"
"In the library at school." Adrien said, "I remember that I dropped my bag when I met you and spilled the books out of it."
"Maybe it's still there." Travis said, "I will go take a look at it first thing tomorrow."
"Thanks T." Adrien said, "I knew I could count on you."
"Always A." he said before hanging up.
"Adrien can't be Hawk Moth. When Alya was akumatized into Lady Wifi, I was with him the entire day. He couldn't have akumatized her." Travis thought, "But going by my theory, Adrien's father could be Hawk Moth. But that can't be it... An eccentric artist who never leaves his home. Mysterious, very intelligent, but cold, even with his own son..."
"Okay, maybe he is. A spider themed hero, who's best friends dad might be his primary villain... Where have I heard that before?" he thought, putting his arm down, "I need to call Ladybug and Cat Noir."
Having forgotten he was still testing his new suit, who still mimicked his movement. It pulled with enough force to pull the barrel back. Travis eyes widen and quickly dug to evade the barrel flying over his head where it smashed into the opposite wall.
Ladybug flings her yo-yo and flies above the roofs until she lands in front of a restaurant just as Cat Noir came jumping down.
"My lady, your on time as always." Cat Noir said, "So you got Spidy's message too?"
"Yeah, I did." Ladybug said looking at the restaurant, "But is this the right place?"
As if he was waiting, the door to the diner opened and Iron Spider poked his head around the door.
"Took you two long enough." he said, gesturing to follow him, "Let's get inside."
The trio of heroes where sitting at a booth at the back, Iron Spider leaning back into his seat while his fellow heroes looked around.
"Is there a reason you called us here?" Cat Noir said.
"There are a few things we need to talk about and I was hungry." Iron Spider said, as a waitress walked up to their table to get their order, "Double beacon cheese burger, with fries."
"Oh, make that two!" Cat Noir said.
"I don't..." Ladybug began.
"Make that three." Iron Spider interrupted her, "You'll work it off, LB."
"Coming right up." the waitress said, "By the way, I love your costumes. That's some very good cosplay."
"Cosplay?" Cat Noir said confused.
"It's a portmanteau of the words costume play." Iron Spider said, "It's a performance art in which participants..."
"I know what cosplay is!" Cat Noir said, "But what makes them think we're cosplayer's?"
"They think we're just big fans." Iron Spider said, "I had my photo taken with this girl from Françoise Dupont High for her blog. She's going to have her mind blown when I upload the same picture to my Bleeter."
"What did you want to talk about." Ladybug said getting straight to the point.
"Well first things first." Iron Spider said, "Are you alright, Ladybug?"
"Why? I'm fine." she said, "Why would you even ask that?"
"Because your not being yourself." Cat Noir said concerned, "It all happened after Timebreaker."
"Did something happen when you entered through that portal?" Iron Spider said, "Or whatever that was?"
"I said I'm fine!" Ladybug shouted, a bit louder and more irritated as she had intended, "Is that all because I have more things to do."
"Surely you have time for the best burgers in Paris." Iron Spider said as the waitress returned with their order, "Also I might have an idea who Hawk Moth is."
"What!?" Ladybug and Cat Noir shouted.
"Why didn't you open with that!?" Ladybug said.
"Because your acting like you have a stick up your ass." Iron Spider said.
"So, who's the suspect?" Cat Noir said, taking a sip from his drink.
"Gabriel Agreste." Iron Spider said, and his cat friend almost chocked on his drink, "Ever heard of him, he is a famous fashion designer?"
"You got proof?" Cat Noir said.
"It's all just theories and speculations for now. Gabriel Agreste is a secretive man and he never leaves his house." Iron Spider said, pulling up his phone and placing it on the table, "Also there is this."
It showed them images of Gabriel's fashion design logos, which looked remarkably like a butterfly.
"A butterfly?" Cat Noir said stunned.
"You okay, Cat Noir?" Iron Spider said.
"It's time to get the bottom of this." Cat Noir said with grim determination as he took a bite out of his burger.
"Your in too LB?" Iron Spider said, just as he got a signal on his phone.
"Whatever." she said stand offish.
"...Guys, we might have a problem." Iron Spider said, looking up from her phone, having gotten the signal that someone had been Akumatized.
Over at the Agreste Mansion, Milo was walking down the hall where he passed his uncle's atelier, where sounds as if someone was trashing the place could be heard.
Nathalie was standing guard at the door.
"Is everything alright we my uncle?" Milo said but before the assistant could answer, the door was kicked open sending Nathalie towards the ground if it wasn't for Milo catching her.
The man that was once Gabriel now had pale purple skin. His hair sticks up in a point and is white with black vertical stripes, however, along with the back of his head and his neck is black. He wears a black dress suit with a white lapel, stiff shoulders, and black and red downward-bent stripes on the front. Each lower sleeve has a white stripe, and the Collector's hands have white gloves. Also, he wears black dress pants. His high heel boots are connected to his body suit, and they are black with black and white striped heels.
"Nathalie! Milo!" he said, "You'll be the first of my many inspirations to come."
"Uncle Gabriel?" Milo said.
"You will call me... The Collector." he said.
The Collector swings his book at Nathalie, but Milo tackles them out of the way, and traps a chair inside his notebook; then does the same to Adrien's bodyguard a moment later.
"You need to get Adrien out of here." Nathalie said as they stood up, "I'll try to hold him off."
"Of course." Milo said, turning to run to Adrien's room.
Milo barged into Adrien's room where he sees that the music he heard had been coming from a CD player perched on the piano. When he heard pounding on the door.
Meanwhile, the heroes enter the voyer where the door to Gabriel's atelier hanging open. Taking a quick look into the room, where they find many broken pieces of furniture.
"Looks like somebody had a little tantrum." Ladybug said.
Cat Noir sees a painting of him and his family that was thrown on the floor by his father, making him sigh with heartache.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Iron Spider said and his teammate nod, "Wait... He's got a son!" and he rushed out of the room.
Iron Spider flew out of the room where he found the akumatized victim standing in front of Adrien's bedroom door. With a swift kick followed by a back flip, he launched him through the door and into Adrien's room.
"Where's Gabriel Agreste?" Cat Noir said, realizing his cousin was in the room as well.
"There is no more Gabriel Agreste!" he said, throwing his notebook towards Ladybug trying to trap her inside of it, "There is only... The Collector!"
"Watch out!" Milo shouted, "He can trap people and things in that book."
With his warning, she manages to dodge the hit, which leads the notebook to trap the door instead.
The notebook heads back the way it came, towards the three heroes.
Cat Noir charged forward, tackling Milo to the ground and out of the way of the notebook as Ladybug knocks Iron Spider to the floor.
"Stay down." Cat Noir said as the notebook continues chasing Iron spider and Ladybug around the room.
"Wait!" Milo said but Cat Noir throws his staff towards the Collector, only to have it trapped inside his notebook.
"Well shit." Cat Noir said.
"You aren't the brightest, are you?" Milo said annoyed, "That thing, the purple butterfly, it must be in his notebook."
"Ladybug, Iron Spider and Cat Noir! you shall be the masterpieces in my new book of inspiration!" The Collector said.
Ladybug, Iron Spider and Cat Noir trying to avoid getting touched with the Collector's notebook. The Collector grunts when he vigorously tries to touch Cat Noir with his book but fails.
"Gabriel Agreste's son isn't at home?" Ladybug said, dodging under the book.
"Maybe the Collector's already captured him." Cat Noir said.
"You think he'd take it out on his own son?" Iron Spider said shocked.
Ladybug then attaches her yo-yo onto his arm, making his notebook released from his hand, which gives him the opportunity to touch Ladybug but that doesn't work either.
Iron Spider kicks the notebook away from his hand, but the Collector kicks the spider hero and tries to reach for his notebook. Ladybug uses her yo-yo and attaches it to the Collector's leg, pinning him on to the floor.
However, the Collector manages to grab his notebook and traps Ladybug's yo-yo inside. Ladybug shrieks as the loss of the yo-yo string throws her off-balance.
"Another fine addition to my collection." The Collector said, looking at his book before throwing it again, "Before I immortalize you, allow me to seize your Miraculous for Hawk Moth."
"That gives me an idea." Iron Spider said, bending backwards to evade the notebook, "Let's see how much it can absorb."
"Great idea, Spidy." Cat Noir said, before using the cataclysm on the bookshelf, with CDs dropping down.
Throwing as fast as they can, they began throwing CD's and everything they could throw at The Collector as he approaches them, capturing the CDs as he went thus neutralizing the pages inside his notebook.
"No more ammo!" Cat Noir shouted in a panic as they were out of stuff to throw.
As the Collector closes in on Ladybug, finally hitting her with his notebook but their plan had succeeded.
The entire notebook had been filled up with the CDs, the Collector is about to remove one of the CDs from his notebook, but Ladybug kicks the notebook out of his hand, with Cat Noir catching it and then throwing it to Iron Spider.
"My book! No!" The Collector shouted.
Iron Spider threw it into the air and incinerated it apart with a blast from his gauntlet and from the pile of ashes escaped the akuma.
Ladybug throws up her arm, unleashing the Miraculous Wave to turn everything back to normal, including returning Cat Noir's baton and Ladybug's yo-yo. Ladybug catches it and purifying the akuma back into a butterfly which was released as The Collector turns back to Gabriel.
"Pound..." Iron Spider said, holding out his fist.
But Ladybug already had used her yo-yo to swing out through the open window and Cat Noir was heading towards Gabriel, where he just realized Milo Graham de Vanily was kneeling beside him.
"Are you okay, F... sir?" Cat Noir said.
"Cat Noir... Iron Spider." Gabriel said, looking around the room, "What happened to me?"
"You were akumatized by Hawk Moth, uncle." Milo said.
"Uncle!?" Iron Spider thought as his mask lenses widen.
"But don't worry." Cat Noir said, "It's over now!"
"Thank you, thank you, all of you!" Gabriel said, gasping upon realizing that his son is nowhere to be seen, he immediately got back to his feet, "Adrien... where is my son?"
"He... must be hiding?" Cat Noir suggested.
"Interesting theory." Iron Spider said, "It must be true, otherwise your son would have reappeared right here."
"Nothing must happen to him. He's too precious to me." Gabriel said, putting his hands on the shoulders of Cat Noir, who gazes at him, "And if something did happen to him, my nephew would probably arrest me."
"You got that right." Milo said before turning to Iron Spider, "It seems I have to admit that I was wrong about you."
"What do you mean?" Iron Spider said.
"I believed that if a truly powerful opponent were to corner you, that you would flee without a second thought." Milo said, holding out his hand, "While I still hold my reservations about you and your team, you have my gratitude for protecting my family."
"All in a days work." Iron Spider said, shaking hands with him, "Do you have an idea why your uncle might have been akumatized?"
"From what I heard, my cousin Adrien has taken a book from my uncle, which is a big source of inspiration and one of a kind." Milo said, "And Adrien lost it."
"I see..." Iron Spider said.
The moment school had ended the next day, he once again entered the Agreste Mansion, but instead of the hero Iron Spider, he went as just Travis.
"I believe this belongs to you." Travis said, pulling the Grimoire out of his bag and handed it to Gabriel.
"Where did you find this?" Gabriel said.
"Adrien was reading it in the library at school, he dropped his bag and I think it slid further away than his other books." Travis said, "I found it under one of the bookcases."
"I see." Gabriel said, giving the book to Nathalie, "It seems Adrien has found a loyal friend."
"It's just what friends do." Travis said, "Are you going to let Adrien come back to school?"
"Well, considering he didn't actually lose my book and it's now safely back with me." Gabriel said, "Yes I will."
"Thank you. Can I ask you a question?" Travis said and Gabriel nods at him, "I couldn't help myself but flipped through the book and it was quite fascinating. Those illustrations of legendary heroes are impressive. Where did you get it?"
"I found it while I was on a trip overseas with my wife and brother-in-law." Gabriel said, "I've never seen another copy of it."
"Well then, you're very lucky to own it." Travis said as Nathalie guided him to the door.
And there you go, the next chapter hope you enjoyed.
Many thanks to everyone who read, review, favorite or follows this story, you beauties.
Milo is a mixture of idea's I when I was planning this story. Except proto-Travis (who wasn't even named Travis then) was going to be the twin brother of Chloe, but instead of being an spoiled brat, he would have been a spoiled sweet. So I made Milo the cousin of Adrien.
And I have him live with the Agreste's, which was also a story beat I was thinking about for Travis.
As for Milo's voice actor... Robbie Daymond (Mumen Rider from One Punch Man/Prompto Argentum from Final fantasy XV/Peter Parker in Marvel's Spider-Man/Some detective from Persona 5).
As for a possible pairing with Milo... I got an idea...
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