Authors Note: I'm Zina the Strongest Anything Good Princess, and I want people to read my story. It will relate to Author-Me's stuff, as I am a part of Author-Me's imagination, and she can't write it a different way.
Hawkmoth couldn't ignore the intense feeling anymore. It nearly pulled the akuma from his current supervillain. A type of disparity, immediately followed with a longing- no, no, no, not longing but a need- a need to help and heal.
Hawkmoth let Ladybug and Chat Noir defeat that villain. He had something new after all. His own feelings of hope. Hope that he could get his wish without hurting anyone else.
Gabriel let his mask drop. "Nooroo, I think I want to change course. Could you tell me how to make a true superhero?"
…
"That's weird, we haven't faced an akumitized victim in over a week!" Marinette contemplated. The last one, Mr. Pigeon, for the 50th or so time, they faced just about ten days ago. And even then, Hawkmoth didn't talk to him after some of his pigeons dropped a car on a bystander. Luckily, the guy didn't die, but her miraculous cure didn't fully heal him either.
"I know! It almost makes it seem like you beat him," Tikki replied. The him she was talking about was, of course, Hawkmoth. "And your training to be guardian is also going quite well."
Marinette had been training to be guardian for a while. One of the things she'd been training to do was put aside her emotions when choosing miraculous wielders. She had passed a true test when she chose Chloe up against Heart Hunter.
Not that she knew that in a different timeline she had chosen differently. But, neither did Hawkmoth.
Meanwhile, Plagg was trying to prepare Adrien. "Girls always like guys that can help at the house! She'll love your casserole!"
"But, Plagg, what if she has better cooking at home and doesn't want to deal with my hamster!" Adrien took something out of Marinette's book and could only focus on the bad. And he had reason. After breaking up with Kagami, he wasn't sure he could handle another heartbreak.
"You don't have a hamster." Plagg's voice was plain, stating the obvious.
"Exactly! What if she doesn't want a hamster? What if she despises casseroles? What if she secretly hates me?" Adrien continued, crying.
Mr. Fu had said that she did like someone, but wouldn't drop any clues as to who it was. But he did say that if they returned Hawkmoth's miraculous to its box, he would host an identity reveal.
And somehow that lead here, to Adrien planning a patrol date.
Hopefully, he would stop sobbing and go to patrol.
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Elsewhere, Hope Elizabeth Eccleson was at the hospital with her father. Mr. Eccleson had a broken bone. Somehow Ladybug's miracle cure didn't work fully. But at least it had removed the chunk of car and fixed his spinal cord. Hope was so glad her dad could wiggle his toes after the battle.
But that didn't change what she felt. She wanted to be able to heal him, and everyone else around her. That's when the butterfly bonded with her own heart locket necklace.
"Healer, I am Hawkmoth. I give you the power to heal people. I need your help getting my greatest wish: for my wife, Emelie, to wake from her coma and be with me, and be the mother my son needs."
"Ok, but no costume please," Healer Hope replied.
"That makes sense, if you want to get to my place then you need to be able to go places," Hawkmoth agreed.
Healer Hope felt what surrounded her. A light rather than a darkness. When it cleared, Healer could feel a warm sensation in her hands. Her locket changed as well, instead of silver it was gold.
She gently touched her sleeping father's leg. Upon contact, warmth spread through it and the rest of him. He was healed. Healer asked what room the generator was in. Surprisingly, someone told her. Pressing her hand to the door, she sent the warmth there, where it was spread through the entire building – in the lights, the machines, and even the hospital workers and visitors' own personal devices.
"Okay, now to… Where's your lair? I can't heal your wife if I don't know where she is," Healer pointed out, leaving the building. Somehow, no one paid attention to the light purple mask that appeared as she asked.
"It's in the Agreste mansion," Hawkmoth said.
"I don't know where that is," Healer stated.
"I forgot that your not from one of my usual circles of people," Hawkmoth said, then decided "I'll just tell you directions as you go."
"Okay."
Just then, Ladybug swung past. She actually paid attention to the faint glowing outline.
"What? An akumitized victim? I thought Hawkmoth was done, not plotting," Ladybug said to herself. While doing that, she glanced back. So, instead of landing gracefully, she crashed into Chat Noir. Suddenly, they were both on the ground, tied to his stick by her yoyo and covered in a green bean casserole. By the time they had untangled themselves, Healer was out of sight.
"Chat, I think that our vacation may be over," Ladybug said once they were on the roof. "Also, what was the casserole for?"
…
"Okay, you were right about it being a mansion. But how do I get in? You didn't exactly give me a power to do that," Healer said.
"Go to the gate. A camera will come out. When your asked why you're here tell it that Gabriel sent you," Hawkmoth directed.
"Okay? But wouldn't that be lying?" Healer said.
Hawkmoth found him at a standstill. Obviously, this girl had standards of honesty, and may refuse his power if he didn't comply. And she was the only one that Hawkmoth could find with that willingness to heal. But if she refused anyways after he told Healer his secret identity, he would never be able to try healing her again. But even so, he decided to risk it.
"Behind this mask, I am Gabriel Agreste," Hawkmoth said. "So no, it wouldn't be lying."
"I'm shocked you trusted me with that. Does the person behind the camera know?"
"Yes, Nathalie knows."
Healer walked up to the wall, and requested to enter. She was denied access at first, but then she said, "Gabriel Agreste sent me." Nathalie couldn't argue against that.
And so, she proceeded to Paris's residential terrorist's lair.
…
After finishing cleaning up the casserole, Ladybug and Chat Noir asked a taxi driver who they thought had given their supposed supervillain a ride. And he had.
"I gave her a ride to the Agreste mansion. She didn't know that's where she was heading, though. She used the address number," the cab driver informed the superhero duo.
"What could she or Hawkmoth want with the Agrestes?" Ladybug huffed. Chat Noir was secretly dying inside. What was with villains having it out for his civilian self and his father?
Just then, the news caught on to the Healer affected hospital. "Don't be amused, it's just the news. Miraculously, every person in this hospital has been healed, even the doctors. One man even watched his amputated arm grow back, painlessly," Nadja announced. "People are trying to track down who did this amazing deed, but to no avail. The only clue they have is that a visitor with a golden locket asked where the generator is. To you (name of the blonde flying reporter), for interviews with the healed."
Ladybug looked shocked. The girl she had seen had a golden locket as well. Could that be her power? Could she be Hawkmoth's first… superhero?
"Ladybug?" Chat asked.
"What?"
"Care to share why you are so shocked?"
"It's just that… I don't know how to explain this… That sounds like the girl I saw," Ladybug said.
"Either way, shouldn't we hurry to the Agreste mansion?" Chat Noir pointed out "We still need to get his miraculous, even if he's started creating superheroes."
"Okay. Let's be on our way!" Ladybug said, already swinging her yoyo.
Arriving, they found the gate closed. Whoever their mystery hero was, she has politely closed doors after herself.
The looked at the outside of the house before looking inside. The only ones home seemed to be Nathalie and the bodyguard. Both faces screwed with concern. Where was Gabriel? (And, in Ladybug's case, where was Adrien? And why did a tablet in the kitchen have a recipe for green bean casserole up?)
That was until Marinette's clumsy nature bled into her superhero persona and she tripped. She accidentally pressed hidden buttons on a painting, and the two heroes felt the floor lower beneath them.
Already down there, Healer was just touching the coffin-like life preservation machine. Her power flooded it, but couldn't get through the barrier. Apparently, it was impenetrable for good or evil.
"You need to tell me how to get in, sir," Healer said.
"Where did I put that button again? Oh yeah, I need to get over there. It's fingerprint based, and can somehow work through my gloves," Hawkmoth said.
Then Healer noticed the heroes behind her.
"How did you get down here?" Healer's voice was curious more than hostile.
Healer could feel the weight of Ladybug's eyes boring into her. Not hostile, but searching. Also, she sensed a pain. A rare scrape Ladybug had gotten as Marinette had bruised a surprising lot.
Then Hawkmoth appeared behind the superhero duo. "Oh, crap."
"Please let him through," Healer said. Ladybug found it strange that one of the Hawkmoth-effected-superpowered people wasn't shouting for her to give her miraculous over. So was Chat. Shocked enough that they obeyed the command.
Watching their general nemesis run, they could tell he was desperate. He still had a wish. And he was going to get it. But not in the same way as he'd tried.
"He just wants her back," Healer told the big and cat team. "So he gave me the power to heal her."
Turning to the strange not really a coffin thing, Healer stepped forwards. Touching a form that Chat Noir and Ladybug couldn't see yet, she let the warmth flow from her hands and into the near lifeless woman. Emelie Agreste woke up.
