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Adrien's heart was filled with rage and he was already constantly worried about what Hawkmoth would do. So, he definitely didn't need the stress of wondering what Lila would do. His fear came with the anger that neither of them seemed to let him just be happy with Marinette. However, based on the still fresh experience, he knew better than to let those feelings consume him. So, he forced himself to focus on the love of his life. She was smiling and laughing with Nino and Alya. Her blue eyes met his and sparked in response. He couldn't help but smile like a fool when she looked at him like that.

Lila growled seeing the blond sitting next to Marinette. The bluenette immediately having the audacity of laying her head over his shoulder. Just like a hunter that found its prey, Lila snatched the akuma from the air and placed it on her earrings. "Hello Hawkmoth. I accept the deal! Just give me the powers."

Gabriel was very happily surprised with her enthusiasm. "Very well then Truthteller. Remember to bring the miraculous. May I just suggest not hurting Chat Noir or..." After a long pause that even Lila began to wonder if he was going to continue or not, he finished, "...or Ladybug. No harm needs to be done to them, right?"

Not listening to his advice, she just asked, "What is my power?"

"The strongest of them all," he assured her. Satisfied with his answer, she quickly let herself be engulfed by the akumatization. Her clothes were replaced with white. Her hair changed slightly to an almost fiery red tone. Her skin became deathly pale, contrasting with her hair, eyes, and lips. Her once green olive eyes became tainted with a violent angry scarlet tone that only seemed outmatched by the even bloodier tone of her lips.

As Adrien laughed along with everyone, he suddenly got a queasy feeling in the back of his head. It was in the split-second he saw the fearful expressions of Alya and Nino he, by instinct, ducked over to protect Marinette. Something passed him by, too close for his comfort. Unexpectedly, Truthteller jumped in the middle of the group. "How sweet. You trying to protect her?"

While still protecting Marinette, he warned, "Lila, you don't want to do this!"

"But I do. I really do." She began to prepare her attack.

Taking advantage of her being distracted, Alya wrapped the wire of Nino's headphones around her while he covered her eyes with his cap.

Marinette and Adrien were still recovering from shock with the akumatization and with her friends quick thinking, when Alya ordered them, "Both of you go. We will hold her off as long as we can. Hopefully until Ladybug and Chat Noir come." The smirk that came with her words was missed by Marinette and Adrien as they immediately took that opportunity to run away.

Alya and Nino struggled hard as the villain tried to free herself. Both gave their best. Eventually it was enough as they managed to survive until their friends were out of sight. The second Truthteller broke free, she growled in frustration. She took one look at them and eventually decided they weren't worth her using her powers on.

Happy to still be alive and to be able to fight an akuma without any powers, Nino celebrated. "It's so cool that our daily superhero partnership couple training has been working." Alya smiled seeing how proud he was. Without needing to say anything, they both bumped their fist and exclaimed the famous, "Pound it!"

Meanwhile, Adrien and Marinette tried to catch their breaths after their sprint. Lucky they were now safely hidden. With the adrenaline still pumping in her blood, she began calling her transformation but was interrupted by Adrien. "What are you doing? You aren't really about to transform, are you?"

"Not this again!" She exasperated. "I already told you that the suit protects me and Kitten. Besides it's not like I'm the one that goes around and likes to be hit." Her expression showed how tired of having this conversation before every single akuma she was... and his face showed exactly the same expression.

Trying to make it even clearer, he obviously explained, "You're pregnant. You must stay safe and hidden. Let me handle this one."

"Whatever happened to we're a team? We are in this together?"

"We are. But we can still be together if let's say one goes to fight while the other stays here where it's safe?"

"I can agree with that," she said with a mischievous smile that didn't ease Adrien at all. His suspicions were proven correct by the fact she called her transformation and immediately began running towards the akuma. "You'll be the scaredy-cat then while I go save Paris," she shouted as she continued full speed towards the akuma. He exasperated before transforming and following her.

Red eyes met blue as Truthteller faced Ladybug. Immediately the heroine tried to wrap her yoyo around the villain, but it didn't work as Truthteller easily untangled herself. Responding to the attack, she sent a bean of white light out of her hands and into her opponent's direction.

Luckily, Chat realizing his lady would not have enough time to dodge, stepped in just in time to deflect it with his staff. Truthteller growled furiously and increased her efforts to hit either of them by sending bigger and more powerful beams. Chat still protected his lady a couple times and she did the same, but it was hard to protect the other while avoiding being hit at the same time.

After pushing him away from what would have been a certain hit, she got blasted by an unexpected second beam. All the cameras and people in Paris froze. Horror reflected on everyone's faces, especially on Chat's. The attack only lasted seconds, but it felt like a lifetime as the tension became palpable across the city. So far, no one knew what the rays did, so everyone watched in terror. "My lady, are you okay?" Chat asked completely terrified.

With panic in her eyes and looking at her body to certify she was still intact, she answered, "Maybe? I don't know! What if that hurt our child?" The moment she said those words she knew what Truthteller's powers really were. She couldn't lie or deflect. Anything she thought came out of her mouth.

Everyone gasped in surprise realizing Ladybug was pregnant. She just hid her face in her hands trying not to panic with the fact that now everyone, especially the media, knew. Chat, trying to calm her down but also trying to make sure she wasn't hurt, decided to pull her into a hug.

Truthteller complained, "That's it? She didn't get zapped or anything?"

Talking directly to her, Hawkmoth defended his choice of powers. "As a professional at bending the truth, I would expect you to understand the power that not being able to lie would have." He wasn't heartless and just because he was doing this didn't meant he wanted his child, or even his grandchild, in unnecessary danger. His akuma victim didn't seem happy about it, but he didn't care.

"I can't lie!" Ladybug confessed to Chat and he took a sigh of relief, while she kept panicking.

Largely unhappy, Truthteller began shooting her beams at civilians, almost hitting a certain blue haired guitarist and his fiancé. Chat let go of his lady to protect the people, while she still tried to compose herself. Realizing this opportunity, reporters began circling Ladybug and asking questions from how far along she was to if she had names yet... and the cleverer ones went straight to asking her and Chat's identity.

Just as she was about to answer, two hands covered her mouth. She looked at Alya there. She had pushed her way and toppled over a few people just to save her friend.

Repeating the same words Marinette had told her earlier, "The less people know about them, the better."

Looking at her friend, Ladybug's eyes went from thankful mode to I know what to do now. Taking Alya's hands away, she told Chat, "Hold the akuma off while you can." He nodded in agreement as she quickly made her way to Master Fu.

The black hero continued to face the white villain. "Can't you see Hawkmoth is just using you?"

"Please! You don't know him. He is so powerful. And for him, I'm an ally while you are just an annoyance and an obstacle." She mocked not realizing how Chat was preparing his move.

"Right back at him." Chat snickered before painfully pinning her to the ground and adding, "Tell him his time is coming and that he will pay for everything he has done. That's a promise!"

With a pit a fear, but mostly because he wasn't able to listen to this anymore, Hawkmoth ordered, "That's enough Truthteller! Focus more on the battle and stop bickering with my... my enemy." Even the word felt wrong coming out of his mouth, but it still wasn't his fault that he and his son were on different sides.

Before Chat even had time to figure out what the akumatized object was, Truthteller kicked him in the shin. The pain of her kick, along with her beginning to prepare her beam, forced Chat to get some distance from her.

Feeling like this was going nowhere with the constant routine of attack and defend and realizing that she still had to find Marinette and Adrien, she decided to just mess with Chat to see if she could get him to lose. "You talk a lot about Hawkmoth, being evil and akumatizing people. But you were akumatized also, right?" He didn't say anything, but his response time was slower, and she could see this was getting to him. "Tell me. Was it because of Marinette and Adrien being together?"

"I have nothing to do with Marinette." He tried to cover.

"Liar, Liar, leather pants on fire. Tell me. Was it just kissing, or did she actually let you into her bed?" She smiled mischievously. His only response was to attack... unfortunately, failing and barely escaping from being hit. "We could work together. Join me and Hawkmoth by giving me Ladybug's earrings and we would let you be with Marinette. Isn't that a good deal?"

"Shut up," Chat growled at the same time. Hawkmoth grew tired of Lila's behavior and decided to reinforce his role by causing some pain on Truthteller. She yelped both from the hero's direct hit to her face and from feeling Hawkmoth drain part of her powers.

"Focus!" Hawkmoth ordered, and so she did. She responded in fury, sending beam after beam hitting countless civilians and in the end Chat.

Hawkmoth closed his eyes, not being able to see his son get hit. From the safety of his lair, he refused to continue to look at the fight anymore. He knew his son wasn't hurt, but he still begged Emilie for forgiveness before checking in on what was happening. When he came back, he was surprised to see Ladybug had returned.

"That isn't very nice, but neither are you." The scarlet hero fired back both figuratively and literally as she used her yoyo against the akuma victim. "Are you okay kitty?"

"I'm fine, my lady. You know I never lie." The grin he sent his lady was enough to ease her heart.

Hawkmoth sighed in relief, seeing his son completely unharmed. He sent Truthteller another message. "Try to get Chat to talk about his family, it might help narrow down his identity."

As a man of opportunity, Gabriel decided to use this in his favor. He had been waiting for his son to introduce him to Marinette for weeks now, and so far, nothing. He also wanted to know if his son was suspicious of him. This could be the chance for him to get the answers that he wanted.

Truthteller asked, "Couldn't I just ask who he is under the mask?"

"Do as I tell you," Hawkmoth ordered.

Turning to Chat, with a mischievous smile, Trutheller asked, "Tell me Kitty. Is it father issues or mother issues that turned you into a black letter hero clown?"

"Neither," he answered angrily.

"Spoken as someone who has both," she commented out loud.

The blond was ready to attack, and even called on his power, when Ladybug stepped in his way. "It's not worth it. She is just trying to mess with us. Don't listen to her. She is a liar."

"Mrs. I left my partner to save Paris all by himself has the nerve to talk."

With a grin and slowly walking to the villain, Ladybug explained, "I didn't abandon him. I went to get reinforcements."

Rena Rouge and Carapace jumped out of their hiding spot and surrounded the villain.

"I suggest you surrender and give us your akumatized object," Chat spoke extending his glowing hand to receive it.

"Surrender? Never!" After those words, she pulled him in, and in a quick motion, overpowered him, slowly putting him to his knees.

Both Hawk Moth and the heroes exclaimed, "No," as Truthteller almost forced Chat to use his cataclysm on himself.

"Stand back or Chat is dust," she threatened, moving his hand even closer to his body.

Carapace and Rena Rouge looked at Ladybug for their next move.