Later that night, Adrien and Marinette were about to go to bed. Marinette realized something about Hawkmoth.

"Have you noticed that Hawkmoth really hasn't akumatized anyone for the past two days?"

Marinette was genuinely confused, there was usually one every day, and he usually only skipped one day at a time.

"Yeah… that's pretty odd."
Adrien was worried that it was because of him, he secretly wanted his father to be spending his time looking for him instead of people to make into villains. He might be evil, but Adrien still really wanted his father's acknowledgement and validation. They both sat in silence for a minute, Marinette really wanted to have a good conversation with Adrien, but she had no idea what to talk about. Then, it hit her. She didn't really want to talk about it, but she knew she had to.

"Hey, you know the other day…"

Adrien's first thought was about everything that happened with his father. What? How does she know? What could she possibly be talking about. Then he realized she meant when she confessed her love and he said that he didn't share those feelings.

"Yeah?"

"Well, I just don't want it to be awkward y'know, like with us being friends and everything."

"I don't think that it's awkward between us."

"Well, I-I just want to know if everything that you said was the whole truth and all."

"Oh. Yeah, I don't really have a lot of time for a relationship. But… I guess that's not the whole reason."

"Well… What is it? Did I do someth-"

"No! It's just that I like another girl!"

He was embarrassed that he cut her off, he usually didn't do things like that while talking to people.

"Oh."

"I'm sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, I don't think that she likes me back."

"What?! How could someone not like you!"

Adrien let out a small laugh,

"Well, you when we first met."

"Yeah, but that was because I thought you were putting gum on my chair!"

"Well, I haven't been putting gum on her chair."

"This girl must be an idiot."

"She's not. She- well she's just great."

"Oh god, I'm so sorry, I mean- I shouldn't badmouth the girl you love."

"No, it's ok, I probably shouldn't talk about her anyway, I didn't even think about how you must feel right now."

"Is… is she really so much better than me?"

"No! I just think that love works in mysterious ways. You're a great person."

He thought for a second, Marinette is amazing and talented, she's almost as wonderful as Ladybug. They didn't talk for a few minutes. Adrien broke the silence this time.

"Hey… do you ever feel like nobody really knows you."

"Well, I guess sometimes I feel like that. Why?"

She felt like that a lot, not being able to tell anyone her secret identity made her question how well everyone knew her. It also made her question if any of her friends had big secrets as well.

"I don't know… I just feel that I nobody knows who I really am. Maybe… I don't even know who I am."

"You're a great friend, a super talented kid, and… well, you're really, y'know… attractive."

"Thanks. But is that all that everybody sees me as?"

"As what?"

"Does everybody just see me as a pretty face?"

"Well, I don't speak for everybody. But I don't think that's true."

"Is it bad to say that I don't like being a celebrity model? I don't like that my face is plastered all around town, and sure it seems nice to have fans." He sighed. "But they love me because I look nice, and it kind of sucks. It sucks to know that people are always going to act different around me because I'm a celebrity or whatever, I don't know."

Marinette felt a little bit targeted because he talked about people loving him. I don't just love him for his appearance, I love him for the sweet boy that he is.

"Hey, its okay to not like that people only like you for themselves, I kind of get what you mean."

Or Ladybug does at least.

"Thanks. I think I'm going to go to bed, thanks for talking with me, Marinette. You're truly a wonderful friend."

Even after finishing talking, there was only one thing left on Adrien's mind, Why does everybody love me, but nobody loves Chat Noir? Does anybody really even love me? If Marinette could read his mind, she would tell him that, yes she did indeed love him. But, unfortunately, mind-reading is not part of the Ladybug miraculous' repertoire.

The next morning, Marinette and Adrien were on top of their game. If any akuma came that day, Hawkmoth had no chance. Adrien was still a bit sad from the night before, but his mind wasn't focused on that. Everything was running smoothly, Marinette and Adrien were closer than ever, and school lessons were easy to pay attention to. Unknown to them, Hawkmoth's next victim was a small boy in elementary school. He was sitting in class, and as soon as recess started he went to grab his backpack. One of the meanest girls in the class came up to him,

"I heard you got all the spelling words right on the test. Nobody does that."
The little boy was excited, he thought this was a compliment.

"Yeah, I studied really h-"

"That's why you don't need these, right?"

She picked up his bag, and ran to the door, distributing miscellaneous notebooks and writing utensils to her fellow angry peers. Everyone was laughing at the little boy. He ran outside to get all his belongings.

"Where did you put them?" He demanded from the mean little girl.

"We're not telling you, we've hidden them all around. I hope you're as good at searching for things as you are at spelling things!"

With a mischievous smile, she threw one of his pencils at him, then ran off to play with her friends. The little boy sat down and started crying. He would have to search the whole school to find all of his supplies, all because he did well on a test. This wasn't fair! Up in his lair, Hawkmoth was excited, he took a break for a couple days because he was slightly upset about his argument with Adrien. A little break in the plan wasn't going to stop him from getting those miraculouses. He casted the akuma out to the little boy, which flew into the pencil he was holding.

"Your peers don't appreciate your knowledge, they mock you and ridicule you, they hide your belongings. I am Hawkmoth, and I can give you, Magneteur, the power to attract any object you think of, and know the location of any other object you've seen before. In exchange for these powers you must get me Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculouses."

"Thank you for the powers, Hawkmoth. I will get you those miraculouses and get my revenge."

Hawkmoth didn't just give the child these powers to retrieve the miraculouses, he also gave them to him in hopes of finding Adrien. A longshot, but an idea nonetheless. The other children in the playground started screaming. Magneteur, who's pencil had been changed into a magnetic magic wand, stood before them. He was still his normal size, but he had transformed similarly to other akumatized people before. Really, nothing about his evilization had been in any way unique.

"You want to take my stuff?! I will take your stuff!"

He started pulling his own belongings back to him, and assorted belongings of the other children. Assorted toys, shoes, school supplies, and for his main bully, he stole her whole backpack. All of these items swirled around the boy in a chaotic manner, as he left to fulfil his promise to Hawkmoth.

"These, and Chat Noir and Ladybug's miraculouses will be ours. Me and Hawkmoth! I will stop all you meanies out there, nobody mean will own anything!"

"Yes, Magneteur, and Chat Noir and Ladybug are very mean, they won't even let me get that magical wish I want with their miraculouses!"

"Oh, I'll show them!"

The little boy wandered around the city with his new objects trailing behind him, suspended by his magic wand.

Marinette and Adrien had no idea about the akuma. The sirens were a bit delayed, Magneteur had pulled a few of them toward him. He couldn't just attract the miraculouses, he had to get closer to the superheros. Fortunately for him, he had the power of location, but only with objects he has seen before. He had never seen one of the miraculouses in person, only on the television. That didn't count though. Finally, the sirens reached Marinette and Adrien, they both ran into seperate parts of the school to transform. Adrien reflected on this new attack.

"I guess he's getting back in the game. That didn't take long."

"Ugh. I wonder what the little break was for."

Both superheros shot out of the school and met up on a random rooftop.

"So, who are we fighting?"

"It's a little kid. He has the power to attract objects."

"Oh, so the miraculouses are in danger."

"Well, I don't know. I think that their magic would keep them on us, I don't think he could just pull them off."

"Yeah, but he may be able to pull us toward him with the miraculouses."

"Well, I'll come up with a plan. You look out around and see if anything seems suspicious."

"Ok, fine."

He was still sick of being on the backburner, but it wasn't like he could change anything. Looking for their target was a good idea anyway, so at least he was being helpful. Looking around there didn't really seem to be anything nearby, but then he saw something. There were pencils, and they were floating. They were getting closer to the center of town.

"M'lady, do you see that?"

The pencils were followed by assorted textbooks and notebooks. Along with wallets, jewelry, and other knick knacks.

"That must be what he's been attracting. Most of that stuff is useless, why is he hoarding it?"

"He's a kid. Maybe someone took his stuff."

"Follow my lead." Ladybug snuck to the other side of the rooftop and propelled herself to one closer to their target. They were right above a clothing store. They snuck down and entered. The shop owner wasn't there.

"What are we doing here?"

"Start putting on gloves, he can't take your miraculous if you're wearing a lot of gloves."

"Won't he just attract them off?" Chat was pretty confused with this plan, they usually seem more thought out or complex. But, he wasn't going to argue with Ladybug.

"Yeah, but it'll take a while and he'll put all his focus into doing that."

Chat started putting gloves on his hand, a lot of gloves.

"How many should I use?"

"As many as you can fit." Ladybug was looking out of the window at the little boy. He was looking in windows of houses for items to take. He didn't really seem to notice that they were in the clothes store.

"What are we going to do when I'm done putting on gloves?"

"All you have to do is stand there and let him get the gloves off. With the amount you've got on, it's going to buy us a lot of time."

"That's all you want me to do? Stand and get gloves taken off of me?"

"Yeah, that's about it."

Well, at least I won't be able to screw that up.

"When you're letting him focus on you, I'll sneak up on him and throw his wand to you, then you'll destroy it."

"What if the wand doesn't have the akuma in it?"
"What else would? Everything else is floating around him."

The plan was set, Chat went outside into the little boy's vision.

"Ah! Look, this is going to be easier than I thought! It's like… like… taking cat from a baby? Wait no. Getting candy out of a bag! Shoot, that's not-"

Hawkmoth was getting sick of this child's lack of focus on the mission. He decided to send a message to him.

"That's not the saying! But that doesn't even matter! Get Chat Noir's miraculous! Do. It. NOW!"

During his fit of annoyed rage, Ladybug snuck behind Magneteur and tried to wade through the clutter to get to the akuma. Chat was keeping direct eye contact with the boy, who had tried to attract his ring moments before. In failing to do so, he realized that the gloves were prohibiting him from getting the prize for Hawkmoth.

"You think you're a sneaky cat? You're not! I'm getting your ring you dumb kitty!"

"Oh, goodness, I'm so offended."

"Good!" The boy tried to laugh evilly, but it came out as more of a giggle. He must've been too young to understand sarcasm. The gloves started slipping off one by one. Magneteur directed all of his attention into taking the gloves off of Chat. While Ladybug was behind him, she realized he was a bit too far away from Chat for her to throw the wand to him. The only idea she had was to whisper, "Lucky Charm!" Her magic created a large rubber band with the classic red with black spots of the Ladybug. Oh, I know what to do. Chat had about three gloves left on his hand, he was starting to get worried. For as much as he trusted Ladybug, even the best of plans can fail sometimes. Right as Magneteur was about to attract the third glove, he raised his hand and Ladybug snatched it from him and set it in the back of the rubber band. She pulled at the band and propelled it to Chat. He used his claws from his free hand to tear off the remaining gloves on his hand. He could've taken them off normally, but this way it looked much cooler. As the torn gloves flew off he shouted "Cataclysm!" and as he caught the wand, it crumpled into black dust. The butterfly flew out, and Ladybug trapped it and changed it back to its normal state. She cast out the Ladybugs and everything went back to normal. She walked over to Chat.

"Hey, thanks for trusting me. Pound it?"

They did their signature fist bump. The little boy was sitting on the ground, holding his belongings.

"What happened?" He was scared and confused.

"You were akumatized, here I'll take you back to school." Chat Noir picked him up and took him all the way back to the playground. Ladybug got about a block away from the school and detransformed. Akkumas were so prevalent that there would still be a regular school day after an attack. Considering today's attack was pretty much before school started at all, they would still have a school day afterward. Marinette went inside the school in hopes of talking to Adrien before they started class again, but he was nowhere to be seen. It seemed like he was the only thing she had been thinking about lately. But when was that not the case? Chat successfully brought the little boy to his school and then shot off into the distance to find his way back to the high school. He was happy that the fight was short and successful. I feel like Ladybug has been acting like she wants nothing to do with me lately. Maybe she is still mad at me? Ugh, she's always mad at me. The five minutes ran up and Chat changed back, just in time as the bell rang as he ran into class. He was the late one, not Marinette for a change. For some unknown reason, the rest of class Adrien kept thinking about Marinette, and Marinette couldn't stop thinking about Chat Noir. Or maybe they did know the reason, and just didn't want to admit it.