Dragon Fyre's just heading to her warehouse, Ladybug and Cat Noir on Patrol for tonight - because Cat Noir decided it was time he stopped trying to hide from Ladybug…and because she all but demanded as much during today's Akuma attack, the red-and-black clad girl ready to risk him finding out her identity afterwards if that's what it took to get him to just tell her what's bothering him.

She's just landed in front of the building when a white portal opens up…and an older woman steps out of it. The only reason she doesn't get a fireball to the stomach is because she's in a white and blue bunny suit, a watch that's clearly a Miraculous in one hand and an umbrella in the other.

An umbrella that's open in front of her, at that, being used as a makeshift shield to block any potential attacks.

Even still, Dragon Fyre's got her sword out and on fire in one hand, a ball of fire in the other as she hotly asks "Who are you, and how did you get here?" There's no way anyone but her partners should know where she lives, neither of them would tell a soul and she certainly hasn't been announcing it to the world!

A head of red hair peeks out from behind the umbrella cautiously, and Dragon Fyre nearly drops her sword in shock - that's Alix Kubdel! An older version of her, but unmistakably her. "Kubdel?! What in the world?"

Bunny-girl Kubdel sighs in relief and closes the umbrella, and says "Thank Kwamis you recognize me, Miniflame. At the moment, call me Bunnyx. I'm the Bunny Miraculous Holder in the future, which gives me the power to go back in time to any point in time. And…we've got a big problem."

A 'big problem' turns out to be, according to Bunnyx, an…Akumatized Cat Noir.

It takes a monumental effort on Bloom's part not to shriek as she asks "Come again?!"

Bunnyx nods, and says "Yeah. He's Cat Blanc in this timeline. I don't know what happened, but I decided to come before anything that could be remotely related to it happened."

"Explain. Now."

Bunnyx just gestures for her to head into the white light she came out of - she knows that look on Dragon Fyre's face, even if this version is ten years younger than she's used to, and knows she's not going to accept a 'go here, go get this Akuma' kind of explanation. This is her brother they're talking about, and she's seen Dragon Fyre beat Ignoblia to a pulp after the woman knocked out Cat Noir.

And that's damn near impossible to do, considering Majestia is nigh-on invincible on her own and Ignoblia is even worse since Akumas enhance super-powered people even further. Majestia is basically a living god, all on her own, Ignoblia even moreso.

Of course…so's she. She's on the level of any Kwami, or even Tikki and Plagg together, especially when she gets a few upgrades.

And that would be when she feels a familiar gaze burning holes into the back of her head - right, she can read auras…forgot about that.

Dragon Fyre's voice has gone an interesting - and terrifying - tone of voice as she half-deadpans, half-demands "What do you know, and how do you know it?"

Bunnyx swallows, then says "Time is kinda…fragile, Miniflame. And I'm currently tied to its continued flow. Telling you know could simply break the timeline altogether. My advice? Take things…slow. And wait for an old woman with white hair and her apprentice to find you." Little things, little variations from one timeline to the next, those don't threaten her existence.

Cat Noir being Akumatized, losing control of his boosted abilities and killing the world does.

Bloom Peters learning too much about her magic at once, deciding to experiment, and drawing the Shadow Phoenix - whatever the hell that thing is! - to Paris, resulting in her getting an Akuma enhanced with a spell from that creepy as all heck creature after he teams up with Shadowmoth does. And she'd really rather avoid that second scenario, it took until the trip to New York to free her from that one, even if she did find some wiggle room in the magic after the Phoenix was killed via an overpowered Cataclysm, from what she saw when her older self warned her younger self of a few world-ending ways things could go wrong to watch out for. 'Lord Darkar' and Shadowmoth - currently Hawk Moth - teaming up, and Ladybug or Cat Noir getting Akumatized made the top of that list. She still gets nightmares about those scenarios, actually.

And then Bunnyx finds herself magically turned around, made to look Dragon Fyre - Bloom Peters, her former classmate, Deputy Rep, the go-to girl for Healing any injuries during or after a battle, and the girl who always seems to have some idea of what to do or where to go, the girl who sword-fought Darkblade out of the suit so everyone else could get away - in her orange eyes, and sees a look she's not particularly familiar with when it comes to this particular red-head.

Desperation.

The Dragon Fyre she knows is a lot of things - highly emotional, with an explosive temper and magic to match, endlessly passionate about the things she loves to do and a fierce Guardian to the point that she regularly clashes with Su Han over her duties and how well she's performing them - but desperate isn't one of them.

And then it hits her, the full reality of Bloom's current situation, her situation for the past five years or so - she can't imagine what it would be like, to suddenly just get magical powers and have no way of knowing how to use them. At least the Miraculous' all come with user's manuals if you know where to look! And they were really good about showing their new teammates the ropes, making sure they knew how to contact them or that they'd show up to help if they needed it.

Bloom, though, she got her magic awakened prematurely and had nobody around to help her learn to control it. Of course she's desperate - desperate for information, for answers…for even a name to put to her magic.

…shit.

This is why she tries to stay neutral in this stuff. Most of the time, anyway.

Bunnyx goes to put a hand on Bloom's shoulder…only for it to disappear. Bunnyx yelps, even as Dragon Fyre's jaw drops to the ground - look at that, she just shocked the unflappable Dragon Fyre speechless! - and says "Alright, this talk can wait for after we fix the timeline so I don't disappear!"

Dragon Fyre nods, then says "Yeah! Your right, emergency now, long-overdue discussion later!"

About ten minutes and a mini-movie of sorts later - that has Bloom swearing to tear Gabriel Agreste limb from limb! - Bunnyx sends the red-head through. Cat Noir is the only one Dragon Fyre listens to when it comes to convincing her of something, and Dragon Fyre's the one that Cat Noir will automatically seek out if he's upset or hurt. She's just hoping Dragon Fyre will be able to get through to him - because it was that or bringing in Minibug and hoping she could defeat an overpowered and semi-insane Cat Blanc.

Plus, if she didn't tell whoever she brought everything, Dragon Fyre would've had her head after being told. Stuffed and mounted on a wall somewhere, no doubt - that, or she'd never get the Bunny Miraculous in the first place. Dragon Fyre ends up the next Guardian, she knows it for a fact - even when Darkar's spell had a hold of her, she did what she could without losing what little control she strong-armed her way into - so she could absolutely decide the Bunny Miraculous is just too dangerous...or that she's not a good Miraculous Holder.

Cat Blanc is sitting on the edge of a building, mumbling "Little kitty on the roof, all alone without his lady…" Now he gets why his sister sang sometimes, it's all he can do now. His beloved sister, who tried to save them all by taking the first Cataclysm he couldn't stop - they thought she'd come back, or she'd be protected from the worst of the effects by her own magic…she didn't, wasn't. The resulting backlash of her own magic is what knocked the Eiffel Tower onto its side and flooded Paris. He killed the world, though, finished the job Hawk Moth forced him to do.

"…ther."

He couldn't Cataclysm his Lady, but with that Akuma in him he couldn't disobey Hawk Moth either…and he couldn't control the raging destruction magic in him either, despite his best efforts to keep it contained in his body.

"…are you…other?" One of Cat Blanc's ears flick, catching a voice on the wind he'd known to be long-gone.

No, it can't be. Just a trick of my imagination. Again.

His sister - everyone - has been dead for months, after all. All because of him.

And then, his imaginary sister apparently gets fed up with calling out for him…because he sees a bright orange explosion much like a firework appear in the sky.

Imagination or not, he can't not investigate - his sister is the only person besides Ladybug that could possibly put things back the way they were, and the only one of the two he could keep his control around. If he sees Ladybug with her Miraculous…well, as much as he knows the Wish is a bad idea…it's his only option unless his sister can snap her fingers and put everything right.

But first…he's got to find her.

A second firework appears over the Eiffel Tower's foot, and Cat Blanc is off like Lightning.

Dragon Fyre's sitting on top of the Eiffel Tower's foot, waiting for Cat Blanc to arrive - she's really going to kill Hawk Moth for this, she thinks. He tried to tear her best friend and brother apart, Akumatized her brother knowing he was Akumatizing his own son, tried to Akumatize Marinette after forcing her to break up with Adrien…looks like she knows what the backlash Gabriel Agreste is building up is, and she's not talking about the consequences of the Wish.

Using a Miraculous has consequences, good and bad. If you use a Miraculous for good, karma tends to smile on you. If you use it for evil, though, there's a price to pay for it. And she thinks she's figured out what the price for Gabriel Agreste is.

Even if he manages to bring his wife back, Gabriel Agreste will lose his family.

Adrien is already disgusted with his father, can't stand to be in the same building as him most of the time anymore. He's lost all respect and positive feelings for the man. Not taking into account the consequences of the Wish, Adrien and quite possibly Emilie will almost certainly leave him if he doesn't do something overly-complicated like sending his mind back in time to when they first found the Miraculous' and tossing them back wherever they were. And, the consequences of the Wish are something she doesn't want to think about, right now.

Of course, this is the same guy that, instead of simply explaining what's going on, terrorized a city day after day and has KILLED his own son multiple times…

A muted thump brings her out of her thoughts, and she sees a blur of white jumping into the tower. Maybe a minute later, Cat Blanc is crouching on one of the metal beams of the tower, head cocked as he studies her a few feet away. After a moment, he asks "Are you a ghost?"

Dragon Fyre shakes her head, and says "I was brought here from the past, Brother. I'm gonna put things right, here. And then I'm gonna make sure they never happen in the first place."

Cat Blanc blinks, surprise flickering across his face for a moment, and he cautiously asks "How?"

"The Bunny Miraculous. It lets the Holder travel to any point in time…even to the Stone Age if one were so-inclined. Bunnyx brought me here hoping I'd be able to help you."

The bleached Cat nods, saying "Smart, then. I don't think I'd be able to control myself if I saw M'Lady. Did she tell you what happened?"

Dragon Fyre nods, and says "Showed me, actually. We pieced everything together, Brother."

Cat Blanc's expression turns to a mix of guilt, sadness, and a near-feral snarl as he says "My mother, she…" Dragon Fyre gestures for Cat Blanc to come over, and almost instantly finds herself half-buried under his weight as he all but collapses onto her. "I thought she was dead for nearly three years, and then it comes out she's in a coma…under the Mansion!"

Dragon Fyre lets him rant and rave, a familiar routine ever since they realized Hawk Moth's identity. Albeit, much more violently than she's used to. Of course, much more's happened to this version of her brother.

"I couldn't resist, Sis, I just…couldn't. I couldn't even stop my own Cataclysm from…"

Dragon Fyre nods, and says "It's not your fault, Brother. It's his. He was almost certainly warned about what would happen if he Akumatized a Miraculous Holder, and he did it anyway. He made sure you were in the middle of an emotional breakdown, revealing your mother like that. That's on him. Using his own powers to force you to use yours, that's on him."

Cat Blanc simply breaks down crying at that, sobs echoing around the dead city as he finally has the breakdown he couldn't have in her time. Hawk Moth's dead underneath them, at the base of the Eiffel Tower along with the ashen remains of his Lady, so there's no risk to him finally having a meltdown over everything.

Ladybug and Cat Noir both nearly jump out of their skins - and suits, for that matter - when Dragon Fyre suddenly leaps up to the roof they're on looking…rattled, for once. She actually looks scared out of her mind, a first in the entire time they've known her.

Skin pale, eyes slightly widened, and her magic sparking and arcing on her skin wildly. And she's got an Akuma trapped in an orange bubble, held between her hands in a familiar scene.

"Spots, I can't explain right now, but I need you to purify this Akuma and use the Miraculous Cure!" She looks so very frantic that Ladybug doesn't even question where she got it, instead whipping her yo-yo out and doing as requested.

Dragon Fyre leaps a few buildings away, following the magical ladybugs as they head down an alley and just vanish, and then lets out a sigh of relief and slides down the nearby chimney into a sitting position. Cat Noir gets to her first, but before he can ask what happened he's yanked down into a hug strong enough to nearly break him in half - now he's really starting to freak out, something's definitely rattled his sister to the bone.

When Ladybug asks what happened, though, Dragon Fyre just says they don't want to know and then disappears using her Wind Dragon.

About three days later, after she's processed everything she saw, she takes Cat Noir down to the quarry and tells him what happened - she burns five Akumas that night, while her brother grapples with the revelation of not only his mother's current location and state, but the knowledge that his father is so far gone he'd knowingly Akumatize his own son despite all the reasons why he shouldn't.

Bloom had held out a tiny shred of hope that Gabriel Agreste was redeemable deep down, that he could be convinced to give up the Butterfly Miraculous…until she saw Cat Blanc and listened to what he told her.

Was told he knew perfectly well who he was Akumatizing, and didn't even hesitate for a moment.

He's going to die at her sword, painfully, after she makes sure everything he ever cherished - and, at this point, she's not even sure what that is - is safe from him.

AN: Hey, everyone! Yeah, I know - Cat Blanc is WAY early...but I like my version a lot better than canon's 'go here, Purify this Akuma, don't ask questions' version. I'd actually thought, maybe Agreste Sr. might be willing to give it all up if he got his wife back without the Wish...then I saw Cat Blanc.

And that went straight out the window. Because Nooroo, who's tried to get him to stop multiple times in canon, must've warned him not to Akumatize CN. And he knew that he'd be akumatizing Adrien - and I'm gonna point out his little line from Collector, about how precious Adrien is, how NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO HIM - and he did it anyway.

That man is going down. HARD. Like, a meteor - a real one, at that, not Volpina's fake ones.

Anyway, enjoy! More updates coming soon!

PS. How many times do you think he can make Akumas before there becomes a real risk to the Butterfly Miraculous or himself? Because, we've seen episodes where there've been multiple Akumas - Princess Fragrance, for instance, and Style Queen and Wasp Queen were supposedly in the same night. I was thinking...maybe ten or so? Before the strain on the Holder gets to be dangerous, or the Miraculous itself is in real danger of breaking like the Peacock did.