Updates are going to take a little longer, I don't have as much time to write in my free time anymore.

But I'm not stopping anytime soon! Not until I can finally stop hitting my head against the wall after every episode.

"Thanks for agreeing to this, I've been wanting to interview you guys for a while." Alya looked up from her notepad, facing the cluster of kwami's crammed in the fluffiest, pinkest chair anyone will ever find. "And thank you too, Rose, for having me over to do this!"

The pig heroine grinned, bringing over a tray of snacks for their tiny guests. "It's my pleasure Alya! With my parents gone until late tonight, we don't have to worry about anyone walking in on us!" When on patrol a few days earlier, Rena Rouge mentioned how she never had enough privacy at her own house to interview the kwamis. Pigella had brought up that she'd be home alone for an evening and with permission, all the kwamis were allowed to come over for a little while.

The tiny gods gathered around the snack tray and picked up what they liked, Wayzz grabbed a grape and looked at Daizzi "I must admit, when you said your holder's room was really pink, I did not expect it to be… this much pink." Rose's bedroom was the pinkest, plushest room any of them had ever been in. Posters of kittens and unicorns lined the wall and cute flower patterns decorated the furniture.

"I know, isn't it adorable?!" Daizzi shared his partner's enthusiasm for all that is pink and cute. She had even made him a tiny bed out of a plush pig hat.

Alya remained in her seat while the kwamis ate their snacks. "Which of you would like to go first?" some of the tiny creatures raised their tiny hands, while the others sat back and enjoyed the snacks. "Ok, how about you, Orikko?" she motioned to the little rooster who flew up to face her.

"How does this work?" he asked. Alya had explained that the interview would only be shared between the Miraculous holders, but she hadn't mentioned what she wanted to ask them about.

"Well, for starters, how about you tell me more about your power? Sublimation is the ability to grant yourself any power, so how does it work if you use it on your own?" Alya started, curious to uncover the exploits that only the kwami's themselves can recount.

Orikko flipped his feathers (are they actually feathers?) back. "Oh, is that all? Easy. It works just about the same with or without a holder, since it only affects me. For example, one time I only had a short amount of time to eat an entire ear of corn so I gave myself the power to swallow it whole!" While it wasn't a big deal to the rooster kwami, his holder at the time was unnerved at the sight of the tiny god's jaw unhinging and enlarging itself to devour the corn in one loud slurp. Orikko was asked to never do that in front of anyone again.

"Ooh, are we talking about times we used our powers without a holder?!" Xuppu butted in front of the rooster kwami. "Then you gotta hear about the time I used my Uproar to end a war!"

FLASHBACK

"The year was nineteen-aught-seven… I think." Xuppu narrated over visuals of a sepia-colored battle. A single warrior looked down from a hill, a tiny monkey by his side. "My holder had gotten an arrow to the leg, leaving him unfit to transform. So I heroically stepped in and finished the war for him!" Flashback Xuppu flies high into the clouds above the battlefield. "Uproar!" He called out his power. The battle below only barely noticed the rubber chicken falling down from the heavens. But they all certainly noticed all of their weapons became pool noodles and live fish… and one man turned into a rampaging monster that tried to eat the rest.

Flashback over!

Alya stared unblinking at the tiny monkey. "Did that really happen?" She looked to the other kwamis for confirmation. Most simply shrugged. Only Xuppu was there to see the end of the war. Really, Xuppu was the only survivor of the battle. He had to fly all the way back to the Guardian's temple carrying his Miraculous.

"Pfft, that's nothing!" another kwami piped up, the mouse kwami Mullo to be exact. "I once used Multitude to create an army of tiny me's that overthrew an evil empire!" The tiny mouse boasted.

Rose let out a tiny 'awe' noise and pet Mullo on her head. "That must have been the most adorable uprising anyone has ever seen!"

"No one saw it!" Ziggy interjected. "The tiny Mullo's were so small everyone thought it was an ant infestation! I should know, I was there too." Ziggy recalled that same night. While the evil warlord was spooked by the apparent 'infestation', the goat kwami snuck into the war room for her own purpose. "I, on the other hand, had a real part to play. I used my Genesis to create… a whoopee cushion."

"A Whoopie cushion?" Alya raised an eyebrow.

Ziggy nodded. "It would have been perfect… but more whoopee cushions kept getting created and soon there were a hundred of them in the room. It still embarrassed the warlord enough to distract him from conquest, but no one ever sat on any of them!"

Alya scribbled down more notes after hearing Ziggy's side, the cat and ladybug kwami's flew up and read over her handwriting "Hey, how come the notes for me and Sugarcube are crossed out already?!" Plagg huffed while Tikki just eyed the fox heroine curiously.

"I've already seen Cataclysm and Lucky Charm used by the two of you." Alya had seen the massive galette over Paris when Tikki got her craving. Trixx had been terrified that her friend's insatiable hunger had returned. There had also been twice where Plagg had to use his power on his own to save his chosen… and one instance where it was used to get rid of some 'evidence' that would implicate the tiny cat god of rigging an election in school. Not that anyone other than Plagg or Zoe would know.

"I mean, they aren't the only ones who we've seen use their powers before." Rose reminded Alya, petting Barkk behind the ear and making her tail wag. "There was the time Sabrina was worried about forgetting to bring her own bag to school when Chloe was making her pack for the field trip. Barkk touched the bag and sure enough, she forgot it in the rush, but Fetch brought it right to her!"

Remembering the incident, Alya added that to her notes and added another thought of her own "And it also brought with it the chair she had set it on. But it's still the tamest of the side effects so far. I mean, some of them can be really bad."

Sass nodded. "Yesssss, using Second Chance on my own can bring terrible collisions in the time stream. While Fluff's Burrow only affects herself." He meant to gesture to the rabbit that had been beside him, but Fluff was nowhere to be found.

With no warning, a small wormhole opened up and Fluff popped out. "THE CULPRIT IS SAUSAGE HAIR!" her right eye twitched rapidly. While Burrow did not cause any effects on the world, it did take its toll on the kwami, making her lose track of time, sending her to random places in time she didn't intend, and sometimes passing alternate timeline versions of herself.

"Umm… will she be ok?" Rose glanced aside to the other kwami's, who gave mixed responses.

Moving on, Pollen flew up next "I've found that using Venom on my own makes the target permanently paralyzed. I have only used it myself in dire circumstances once I realized this." The only time the Venom had been reversed was when she accidentally froze one of the Miraculous guardians at the temple. Thankfully, the kwami of restoration from the European Miracle Box was able to cure him. The 'Freeze tag' version of tag was permanently banned as a result.

Alya jotted down what Pollen had told her, wondering to herself if it would be morally unethical to have her use Venom on Hawkmoth. The ox kwami went up to the reporter next, eager to share how his power worked. "If you really want a good story about raw kwami power, then you must listen to how I saved a village from a hurricane single handedly with my Resistance!"

"Ooh, go on!" That hook got Alya hooked.

Stompp gazes with a faraway look in his eyes, the camera slowly zooms in on his face as he goes into his story. "It was centuries ago in the land of Spain. My human had come down with an illness as the dreaded hurricane Pocho, was on a direct collision course with the small village where we lived. Knowing the danger my partner was in, I went to protect the town alone. I rounded up the bulls in the pastures. They were like the cousins I never had, and we charged to the village entrance. I used my Resistance to empower myself and spread my strength to by bovine brethren and when the first wind hit we-"

"OHMYGOSH THAT IS THE CUTEST THING EVER!"

All eyes left the tiny ox and turned to the blonde excitedly holding her phone. It was a moment before Rose realized every kwami and Alya were staring at her. "Oops. Sorry for blurting that out, but Juleka just sent me the most absolutely adorable photo of a blobfish in a top hat!" Rose thrust her phone out to show off the majestic picture.

While most recoiled at the unexpected appearance of the blobfish, Roaar zoomed over to her holder's girlfriend "Speaking of my chosen, how about I tell my story next!" Stompp raised his hand sadly "But I was already-" "So one time I couldn't get a walnut open, and I used my Clout on it, but hit the walnut so hard it disintegrated and left a twenty-mile crater in Tijuana!" Roaar went on without noticing the dirty glare Stompp was giving her.

"A twenty-mile crater?! People had to have noticed that!" As the stories went on Alya started to wonder how kwami's hadn't been accidentally outed to the masses.

"It's Tijuana. Everyone thought they'd drunken too much tequila." The little tiger replied, completely sincere. The other kwamis backed her up with agreeing murmurs.

With so many stories told, Rose realized she hadn't heard one from her own Kwami, "Daizzi, how about you go next?"

The little pig seemed nervous all of a sudden. "Umm, I don't think you want to hear what Gift has done without a holder…"

"Oh, come on, Daizzi, your power gives people what they want. What could go wrong with that?" Alya tried to reassure the kwami. Daizzi flew up to Alya and whispered his story in her ear "… oh. Um, yeah. That's-that's actually really depressing." Whatever the little pig had told her definitely wasn't the amusing and humorous hijinks this fanfiction was known for. Alya's eyes settled on Wayzz and she forced the attention into him. "Hey, how about you tell us what your power can do?"

Wayzz looked unexpectedly embarrassed "I… when using Shell-ter without an owner, I have some difficulty… removing the barrier." He was not about to tell his tale of being stuck in his own shield for a week with not only his then-holder unable to get him out. It was like being a turtle stuck on its own back, and Wayzz IS a turtle!

The other kwami's snickered at Wayzz's past misfortune. The dragon one gave his friend a pat on the shoulder. "There, there, Wayzz. Being unable to turn off your power is nothing to be ashamed of."

The horse kwami scoffed at her friend "My, aren't we being hypocritical? I seem to remember a time when you used all three Dragon powers at once and caused a three-week 'longg' storm." Kaalki emphasized the pun using his name.

Longg was slightly ticked at Kaalki for calling him out, but he was prepared to return fire. "And I seem to remember a Voyage portal you created that never disappeared. I believe you humans know it as the 'Bermuda Triangle."

Neither of the humans had ever seen a Kwami blush before, but Kaalki proved it was possible. "It was under very stressful circumstances!" she defended herself.

"You created the Bermuda Triangle?! The Bermuda Triangle is real!?" Alya couldn't believe what she had heard. She'd go down in journalism history for uncovering the truth of… "And no one can know of my discovery." She couldn't put 'ancient tiny horse god' as a source without sounding insane or blowing the Miraculous secrets.

Rose placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "That sucks. That really sucks." she sweetly nodded, not even she could sugarcoat everything.

Alya finished off her notes and flipped through her writings while her eyes darted from kwami to kwami. There was a discrepancy: there were seventeen kwami's and her notes only had sixteen sections. Who did she leave out?

"... Trixx. I forgot to interview my own kwami." Alya realized.

The little fox approached his holder, smugly smiling, before revealing the information he withheld. "They do say 'save the best for last', and the greatest trick of Trixx is, without a doubt, the best!"

Wavy flashback lines go across the screen, turning everything into a low quality recording from decades ago. "Wayzz had convinced Master Fu to let me out of the miracle box in order to protect one of the greatest secrets unknown to man." The little kwami flew high up into the atmosphere. He wasn't bothered by the lack of air at this altitude. All of his focus was on his power. "Mirage!"

The illusion was in place, just before the rocket reached the moon. The spacecraft landed, and an astronaut stepped out. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

The flashback faded to the shocked faces of Alya and Rose, whose jaws could have come unhinged from how wide their mouths were open. "YOU FAKED THE MOON LANDING!?" Rose screamed first, Alya yelled the same a second behind her.

"Yup. That was all me." The fox kwami smugly posed.

Alya had so many questions, and even though she couldn't tell anyone, she had to at least know for herself. "Why?! Why did you fake the moon landing?! What's on the moon?!"

"You're not ready to know the truth about the moon." Trixx answered. Every other kwami backed him up. After all, some information is better left unsaid.