Season 4 spoilers for all episodes
Chat Noir sat in the darkness of his own mind. This wasn't just some day dream, it was his subconscious. His mind, his dark dark mind. "Chat Noir." An eerie voice said. Chat looked around for someone, anyone, but there was no one to be found. No one except, a hand grabbed his shoulder. Chat Noir felt a chill in his body. "My brother." Chat turned around to find the chat in white look back. His eyes a cold blue, his suit and hair a chilled white.
"What do you want from me?" Chat asked as he turned around and backed away.
"I want you to give in. You are nothing without me and you know that. Now just give up, and let me take over." Chat Noir didn't know where this entity came from. One day he was perfectly normal and then the next, this impostor came into his mind, and so did the darkness.
"Never." Chat Noir replied.
"You say no to me, the one you can't live without, the stronger half of you, the half you will never become and can't live without? You would be so much stronger with me in control. So much better in every way shape and form. Ladybug wouldn't know what hit her if she saw me in control of you weak link." Chat Noir heard every word come out of the impostor's mouth. Every word. Every dark shriveled word, begging him to give up. If there is one reason why he isn't giving up, it's for his lady.
"You're wrong. I'm not weak, I'm stronger than you will ever be!" Chat yelled.
"Then why were you so easy to break?" The white version of him said, with a sly smile.
"What?"
"It didn't take long for you to learn the truth. Without you knowing, your acceptance was making you vulnerable. The more and more you saw it, the more it broke your heart. You realized that Ladybug was replacing you." Chat's eyes opened as a sharp pain stung his chest. He knew that more and more heroes were called in to help but he knew that they needed to be stronger to defeat their foe.
"You're wrong. Ladybug would never replace me!" Tears grew in his eyes but he blinked them away.
"Oh yes she would. Why would she keep someone she doesn't trust around? Why would she bring in new heroes, if it wasn't for another purpose than to defeat Shadowmoth? Let me refresh you memory." The other Chat snapped his fingers and then a random screen showed, revealing a past event.
"She asked me to call you and said we have a plan." Rena Rouge said.
"Perfect, what should I do?" The Chat Noir on the screen said.
With hesitation, Rena replied. "Actually it's a two person plan."
"What do you mean a two person plan? You mean she and you? What about me?" Chat said, anger rising in his voice.
"Well, that's the thing. In this plan you have to wait for instructions in your current location." Rena responded.
Without trusting Rena, Chat asked to put LB on the phone.
"She's busy at the moment. And if you see the Bubbler, don't cataclysm it, it's actually a sentimonster. Ok, I, I mean we, gotta go." Rena hung up, leaving Chat to angerly destroy a chimney.
"Ladybug's cure will fix it." The image disappeared.
"You see, she has already found someone more capable than you for the job. She doesn't need you." Chat looked down.
"No, that isn't true. We 're Yin and Yang. We are supposed to fight together. She needs me to fight with her." He mumbled.
"No she doesn't. You know she's better off alone than with you. And you know she doesn't trust you either." Chat Blanc's words were getting to his head. "Since she let Nino and Alya know who they are and you're still in the dark about everything."
"She does trust me!" Chat looked back up at himself. He then lowered his head back down. "Right?" He said, letting a tear fall.
"This is why you need me Chat Noir." Chat Blanc walked toward him and put a hand on Noir's shoulder. "As Chat Blanc, you won't need to hang your head down low. We can show Ladybug that she needs us." Chat Noir was considering the offer.
Ladybug's POV:
Ladybug met Chat Noir at their usual spot for patrol. She spotted Chat sitting on the ledge with tears in his eyes. "Chat?" She said, placing a hand on her partners shoulder.
"Ladybug." She heard Chat said in a deeper and creepier tone. Chat Noir started to stand up and Ladybug took her hand off his shoulder.
"Chat, is everything okay?" Chat turned around and Ladybug looked in fear as she saw the cold blue eyes of her nightmare. Chat Noir's outfit, once black, was slowly being changed from the mask onward until it bleached his entire suit and hair.
"Hello Ladybug." Chat Blanc said.
"Chat Blanc? How?" Ladybug said in fear. She didn't want to fight her partner before, and she sure as hell didn't want to fight him now.
"I won't get into the scientific explanation. For right now, we just need to talk." Chat Blanc said with a sly smile that showed his pearly white fangs.
"What do you want to talk about?"
"Why have you been replacing me?"
"What are you talking about, replacing. I'm not doing that." Ladybug would never replace Chat Noir. He's a trustworthy parter. She couldn't imagine being a team without him.
"Yes you are. You have been getting more and more heroes our team, a team that should be two! You've been leaving me out of everything! You don't even trust me!" Chat Blanc shouted in anger.
"What, no. I only needed them cause our powers wouldn't have been enough for the akuma that we were facing." Ladybug tried to explain. "And I do trust you. I trust you with my life"
Chat Noir's POV
Chat Noir sat alone in the darkness. He was trapped in his mind, regretting every minute after he sent that menace loose. He had to hear Ladybug suffer. He had to hear her beg for mercy.
"I do trust you." Chat perked up. She-she trusted him. "I trust you with my life!"
"No you don't! You would let Nino and Alya know that who they are but not me and you. I have been begging you for a year for us to reveal but no. 'It's to dangerous. What if he finds out?'" His other half shot back.
"How did you know that?" Ladybug asked.
"Nino told me."
"Nino wouldn't tell just anyone? He would have had to told, no. Adrien!" Chat heard Ladybug's realization.
"Yes, it is I, Adrien Agreste." Chat Blanc replied.
"No. That's not true. Adrien?" Chat looked into Ladybug's eyes through Chat Blanc's. Ladybug was walking towards him. "I'm sorry, all this time." Ladybug put her hands on his chest.
"What are you doing?"
"Chat Noir, Adrien, if you're in there, come back to me." Ladybug went on her toes and kissed Chat Blanc. Chat Noir knew that at this moment he had to fight.
"CHAT BLANC! THIS HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH!" Chat struggles to get Chat Blanc out of his head. "Cataclysm!" Chat Blanc appeared in front of him.
"No, what are you doing? Don't you want to be stronger!" Chat held his hand up high.
"I do, but not like this." Chat started to lower his hand to the ground until he was hovering over the pure black ground.
"You're nothing without me! If you do this, you will always be nothing!" Chat Noir looked up.
"You can't hurt me anymore." Chat said before he placed his hand to the floor. Cracks grew out from where his hand fell.
"No!" Chat Blanc's yells were faded with his destruction.
Ladybug's POV
After she kissed Chat Blanc, she put her head to his chest. "Spots off." She whisper as she transferred back to Marinette. "Please come back." Tears fell from her eyes. Marinette felt hands touched her shoulders and she gasped. She looked up to Chat Noir's green eyes. "Adrien?"
"It's me." He replied. Marinette went on her toes again to give him a hug.
"Oh thank god." He was back. He partner was back. "I am so sorry I made you feel like you were being replaced." Chat hugged her back. Marinette released from the hug and put her fist out for a fist bump. "So I kind of have to tell you something now that we know who each other is."
"What is it?" Chat asked.
"I've kind of been rejecting you, for you." Marinette confessed with a light blush. Chat started to laugh.
"So you do like me?" He asked in confirmation.
Marinette did a little giggle. "Yes you silly chat." They started to lean in for a kiss.
Cut to 8 years later
"You may kiss the bride." The priest said. Adrien and Marinette kissed and everyone cheered.
"Yes!" They heard Alya yell. Someone whistled, probably Nino. Adrien and Marinette pulled out of the kiss and looked at their audience. Gabriel was on a tablet but this time, he was in jail. Adrien and Marinette started to walk down the isle as a married couple. "HEY!" Marinette looked over at Alya and she saw all the girls in the audience in one area. Marinette turned back around and threw her bouquet. She turned to see Alya holding it in the air and Nino blushing.
Marinette couldn't help but think, this is the best happy ending she could've dreamed off. She looked over at Adrien. "We did it." She said.
"Yes we did."
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