At the Grand Palais the fashion show that the akuma Style Queen had crashed was finally resuming.
Adrien Agreste was strutting down the catwalk getting his picture taken by tons of photographers.
Ben was bored but was happy for Marinette that her hard work and dedication to fashion was being recognized and being shown off to the whole world. Gwen was too busy being relieved that she was no longer a golden statue to pay a lot of attention to the show but nonetheless was enjoying it so far and hoping that this could be her opportunity to push Ben and Marinette together.
Alya was meanwhile live streaming the whole event online. " Scoop. The hat Adrien Agreste is wearing was made by my BFF, Marinette! Anything you'd like to say during my livestream?" asked Alya
Marinette simply waves and squals at the camera awkwardly clearly a bit uncomfortable being live streamed. Alya looks behind Marinette at someone and looks surprised.
Marinette and everyone else turns around too, equally surprised. Everyone in the hall looks surprised eventually. Chloe's mom crosses her arms in disgust and Chloe mimics the same pose as her mother.
However there was one person still not surprised. Ben. "Um why is everyone staring at that old guy?" asked Ben bluntly clearly not knowing who that man was. Gwen elbowed him in the side.
"Ow what was that for." complained Ben.
"That's Adrien's father Doofus. He never shows his face in public." explained Gwen.
"Oh... no wonder this is a big deal then." replied Ben in understanding.
"I… don't… believe this!" stuttered Alya as Adrien turns around and sees his father standing on the catwalk with him. "Ladybloggers, a huge update! That's Gabriel Agreste; he hasn't been in public in ages!" exclaimed Alya
Mr Agreste walks on the catwalk towards Adrien and stops in front of him. Adrien stands there, frozen in shock. He takes off the hat as his father pulls him in for a hug. Adrien wraps his arms around his father embracing the hug. The paparazzi are having a party with this taking photos of Adrien and his father in an embrace non stop.
"Scoop number two! Gabriel Agreste has just turned up!" further exclaimed Alya
Audrey Bourgeois unfolds her arms and pulls her sunglasses down with her finger and Chloé mimics the same pose, Alya, Gwen, and Marinette stand up in excitement but Ben and Grandpa Max remain seated since they don't see it as an as big a deal.
"This means your hat will be in pictures all over the news Marinette!" said Gwen as The paparazzi continue snapping photos of the Agreste duo still hugging.
The Tennyson's and the Dupain-Cheng's walked up to the Agreste's and Bourgeois's on the red carpet outside the Grand Palais to find Audrey talking about Marinette's custom made hat.
"This hat is not a "Gabriel Agreste". Are you responsible for that?" asks Mrs Bourgeois to Marinette whilst looking at her in an intimidating manner.
"Uhm…" cautiously starts Marinette. She looks over to her parents who give her a thumbs up.
Adrien whispers; to Marinette "Stand proud!" Marinette smiles at him but remains Hesitant until she looks over to the Tennysons. Particularly at Ben who gives her a reassuring smile.
Marinette blushes then replies "I… I'm the one who created it."
"Marinette won a fashion design competition." explains Adrien's father.
Audrey lifts her glasses to get a better look at the hat then comments "It's the most… exceptional thing I've ever seen! You're a visionary, Marinette! Glitter's had its day. Feathers are the trend of tomorrow! (Marinette gasped in surprise) I haven't felt this much emotion since… you." said Mrs Bourgeois looking at Gabriel Agreste.
"She does have talent." replied Mr Agreste slightly smiling at Marinette.
Audrey redirects her gaze to Marinette, too. "You wanna be a fashion designer, right?" she asks Marinette
"Uh-uh… Yes ma'am." replies Marinette nervously.
"Then come to New York with me! I'll make you the biggest name in fashion! I'm sure you'll even upstage Gabriel." asked Mrs Bourgeois
"I'll be able to model for you!" said Adrien smiling at Marinette
Marinette looked towards her parents "We'll be here for you honey, no matter what you decide!" said her Mother
"My helicopter will be leaving for the airport at 8 p.m. tonight."stated Chloe's mom.
Marinette puts her hands in front of her face, not knowing what to choose "Isn't this awesome for Marinette, Chloé?" asked Adrien.
Chloe at first didn't respond and was just seething with her head down. But she eventually raised her head and said something very Chloe of her. "It's... It's ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous! I've never been to New York with you and you're taking Marinette Dupain-Cheng!?"
"I'm taking her because she's exceptional Claudette. Uh— Chloe." said her mother saying her name wrong on purpose.
"I'm exceptional, too!" exclaimed Chloe
"Exceptionally bossy and mean." added Ben getting a glare from Chloe however Chloe's mom laughed at that.
"Hahaha that's hilarious. But the only exceptional thing about my daughter, is her mother. Marinette and Adrien look at each other, they look sympathetic towards Chloe and Gwen isn't sure how to feel since she knows how mean Chloe can be but does she deserve this?
"Audrey, dear-" Began Chloe's father holding Chloé by the shoulder, but Chloé pushes him away "Chloe!" he exclaims
"Ugh! I'll show you how exceptional I can be!" yelled Chloe taking out a Miraculous Jewelry Box, she opens it, revealing a yellow, glowing orb
Shouts of "Chloe!" and "No!" were said as the glowing orb became a bee kwami.
"How may I please you, my Queen?" said the Kwami
"What is that thing?" asked Chloe's mom rudely
"Chloé… what are you doing?!" asked Adrien as Chloe throws her sunglasses away and puts the Hair comb in her hair.
Chloe ignored Adrien and said the transformation words to the Kwami "Pollen, Buzz On!" transforming Chloe transforms into Queen Bee.
The new Queen Bee flips backward landing on a board with the Agreste logo in the center of it.
"I am Chloé Bourgeois and from now on I'll be your new superhero, Queen Bee! We'll soon see if you think Dupain-Cheng is still more exceptional than moi!Spinning Top!" shouts Chloe to the whole viewing world as she then uses her Spinning Top to exit the Grand Palais.
"What is happening to our beloved daughter?!" cries Chloe's dad in panic
"She always was such a show-off. See you tonight, Marinette. I'll meet you at my helicopter." was all her mom had to say as she left with her husband running after her.
"We better be going home, Adrien. Thank you all for coming." said Adrien's father sternly. Adrien sighs as his father escorts him past Marinette and her parents to their limo.
"Man the Bourgeois's got problems." said Ben earning himself an elbow to the side from Gwen.
"We'll open a bakery in New York and introduce our Dupain-Cheng pastries to the Americans!" said Marinette's father as both his family and Ben and Gwen were heading back to his home. Ben and Gwen to hang out with Marinette whilst Grandpa Max stayed in the Rustbucket.
"Are you sure, Tom? You've always been afraid of flying." asked Marinette's mom
"I'd fly to the moon and open a bakery for my daughter if I had too." proudly declared Tom
Marinette smiles, then looks to Ben and Gwen. "Say you're both American. Are you two from New York?" asked Marinette.
"No we're from more out west than New York." answered Gwen
"But we've been to the Big Apple." added Ben
"How was it there?" asked Marinette.
Ben and Gwen both shared a wary look but it vanished from their faces quickly.
"It was... well how about you tell it Ben." said Gwen shifting the question to Ben.
"We uh... didn't get to see much of the city cause we were... busy." replied Ben pausing in the middle of the sentence a few times.
Marinette gave them a confused look and was about to ask why they wouldn't talk about it but then the metro train sped up suddenly and Queen Bee appeared on the trains ad displays.
"Passengers, have no fear. Watch Queen Bee in action. You can thank me later." simply said Queen Bee over the displays.
This caused some murmurs amongst the passengers about her. One passenger said "Is she gonna save us or not?"
"She's not going to pull it off." simply said Marinette in response.
Marinette's dad burst into the train operator's room to find the driver paralyzed with his arm stuck pulling a lever. So in hopes of stopping the train he started pressing random buttons.
"Stay here you three, I'm gonna help my husband." said Marinette's mom following her husband to the front of the train. "Tom, make it stop!" she said
"I'm doing my best!" replied Tom.
That left the three superheroes behind looking for an excuse to leave and go transform.
"I'll uh go wait in the back cars that way if we crash I'll be ok." replied Marinette running to the back cars of the train leaving Ben and Gwen behind the other passengers that were too focused on their imminent doom to notice them.
"Was Marinette looking for an excuse to leave or is she just being selfish?" asked Ben.
"I have no idea." replied Gwen.
The two heroes ducked behind some seats Gwen transforming into Lucky Girl in a pink flash. Ben activated the Omnitrix. "Upgrade can stop this train no problem." said ben to himself as he selected upgrade and slammed down the dial transforming in a flash of green light.
However instead of Upgrade Ben got Grey Matter.
"Grey Matter! Seriously!" complained Grey Matter crossing his tiny arms.
"Well maybe you can mess with the control panel or the steering to fix the train." suggested Lucky Girl placing him on her shoulder.
"Yes Grey Matter may have been the next best choice after Four Arms." replied Grey Matter.
Lucky Girl ran to the operator's room with Grey Matter still on her shoulder to find the Dupain Cheng parents still trying to stop the train.
"Out of the way we got this!" shouted Lucky Girl. The Parents heeded her and stepped aside allowing her and Grey Matter to observe the control panel.
Grey Matter didn't need to look very long to know what was wrong. The operator was paralyzed and his hand was still gripping the accelerator. He turned to face the Dupain Chengs.
"Neither of you thought to remove his hand from the accelerator?" stated Grey Matter turning to face them
"We tried but he's stiff and won't budge." replied Mrs Dupain Cheng
"So we tried looking for the emergency brake or stop button." added Mr Dupain Cheng.
"Lucky Girl is there a spell to unparalyze him or move his hand?" asked Grey Matter now facing Lucky Girl.
"Not to my knowledge so we'll just have to pry him off." answered Lucky Girl as she made a claw of pink energy to try to forcibly remove the train operator's hand from the accelerator. Before Lucky Girl could do anything the train began slowing down.
A quick look out the windows showed that Ladybug and Cat Noir were stopping the train by wrapping Ladybug's yoyo to the train and holding it back as well as Cat Noir unbreakable staff blocking the train from moving forward. The combination of these two tricks slowed down the train right by the train stop where a camera crew were filming the whole thing.
"Guess we don't need to stop the train now." said Lucky Girl.
Grey Matter remained on her shoulder as she and Cat Noir began helping people off of the metro train while Ladybug investigated the driver's paralysis. Cat Noir was also giving out compliments and advice to the people like "stay pawsome" and "evacuate the station safely".
Queen Bee was meanwhile instead of helping evacuate the civilians claiming credit for the rescue "You're welcome. It was nothing. I was merely—"
"Queen Bee! This was your doing!" Ladybug yelled interrupting Queen Bee.
"Oh, Ladybug, you're too kind. This was teamwork. Oh, how amazing is this?! We're a team now!" said Queen Bee trying to spin the story in her favor.
But Ladybug wouldn't have any of Chloe's lies. "You're the one who paralyzed the metro driver, aren't you? You used your power to create this situation just to make yourself look good!" stated Ladybug.
"Who cares? We saved them, didn't we?" replied Queen Bee dismissively.
Just then the reporter at the scene spoke up "Queen Bee, or rather, Chloé Bourgeois, we're on the air with your mother, Audrey Bourgeois. Audrey, do you have anything to say, live, on TV?" she asked holding up a tablet with Chloe's mom on FaceTime.
"What? Regarding my daughter's ineptitude? I think it speaks for itself, doesn't it?" insulted Ms Bourgeois.
"Chloé. Give me back your Miraculous." demanded Ladybug
It didn't take a genius for Grey Matter or Lucky Girl to realize that the situation was escalating in a very negative way but before either could act Queen Bee spoke up.
"Finders keepers, losers weepers!" rebutted Queen Bee.
Cat Noir gasped then asked Ladybug "Did you… lose a Miraculous?"
Ladybug looked embarrassed for a moment in front of the camera but quickly took Cat Noir away from camera and began whispering to him.
Lucky Girl was going to try to get in on the whispering behind the cameras but Grey Matter stopped her. "Don't let her get away!" he exclaimed catching Lucky Girl's attention as well as Ladybug and Cat Noir's. The heroes looked over to the exit to see Queen Bee trying to sneak away up the stairs but when she realized she was caught she began to sprint.
"Oh no you don't!" said Lucky Girl Placing a magic barrier blocking off the stairs. Queen Bee however didn't stop and tried to use her venom on the barrier but instead just hurt her fist trying to break it. She then repeatedly banged on the blockade and demanded to be let out.
"Um no and I'm pretty sure your power only works once Dweeb." replied Lucky Girl
"Which you already wasted on the metro operator." added Grey Matter still on Lucky Girl's shoulder
Queen Bee still pounded on the barrier trying to escape the real heroes regardless that it was futile.
"Chloe please stop you're only embarrassing yourself." said Cat Noir.
Queen Bee stopped as her transformation fell reverting her back into Chloe Bourgeois as well as Pollen coming out of the miraculous floating but barely and very fatigued.
Ladybug swiped the miraculous off of Chloe's head before she could react. As soon as the miraculous was taken Pollen was dragged back inside of it.
Lucky Girl dropped the mana barrier letting Chloe run off back to her home. This also left behind an awkward silence which was broken by Ladybug.
"Well I need to be going I have other things to do." simply said Ladybug.
"Right well I don't suppose you want to explain to us how Chloe got a miraculous in the first place? asked Grey Matter.
Ladybug quickly looked over her shoulder to see the news camera still filming. She turned her head back and replied "Later when we're not being watched by the entire viewing world please." She then left the metro station.
"Im going to go make sure Chloe's alright. She's probably went back home." said Cat Noir also leaving the metro.
Lucky Girl didn't say anything to the camera despite the pestering of the reporter and left the same way Ladybug and Cat Noir did. Up the stairs. She then leapt onto a mana platform and began climbing them like stairs until she was high above the road and crossed them like stepping stones. Grey Matter also was still riding her shoulder.
As soon as Chloe got back home she into the elevator and rode directly up to her room. When she entered she slammed the door shut right in front of her butler stopping him from offering her his services.
Chloe stomped over to her closet and opened it to show her Ladybug costume inside. She tore it off of its hook along with the mask and threw it onto her floor and began stomping on it.
However it was clear that she was feeling a mix of sadness and rage based off of the fact that she was stomping on Ladybug's costume furiously but her face held nothing but a sad frown on it.
Chloe didn't notice when a purple butterfly flew in through her open balcony. The akuma fluttered over to her ladybug mask which currently had her foot stomped on top of it. The moment it touched the mask it merged with it turning it the same dark purple as itself. Also the usual purple outline appeared over Chloe's face as she immediately stopped what she was doing to hear what Hawkmoth had to say.
"Queen Wasp, I am Hawk Moth. Ladybug, Cat Noir, Lucky Girl, and that utterly ridiculous alien shapeshifter don't want you as their friend, so you will be their most powerful enemy. Nobody has managed it yet, but you will defeat them, because you are… exceptional. In return you must seize their Miraculous." said Hawkmoth brainwashing Chloe through the newly formed psychic connection.
"You can count on me, Hawk Moth. I'll teach them all to respect me." replied Chloe picking up the purple domino mask and placing it over her eyes as purple energy began to cover her whole body from head to toe morphing her into Queen Wasp.
"Yes excellent. Shame that she doesn't have the bee miraculous on her. Otherwise she would be even more powerful. Still I believe that she is the perfect choice to defeat Ladybug and Cat Noir as well as Lucky Girl and that alien shapeshifter." thought Hawkmoth to himself as he launched his latest attempt to secure Ladybug and Cat Noir's miraculous.
Cat Noir landed on Chloe's balcony and entered her bedroom via the balcony. "Queen Bee?" he called out looking for Chloe but her bedroom was empty and the only thing in it was a discarded Ladybug costume torn to shreds on the floor. Cat Noir examined it.
"Who did this? Was it Chloe?" wondered Cat Noir also noticing that the mask was missing from the remains of the costume.
He took the elevator down to the lobby to find it filled with people all paralyzed with black yellow ringed sting marks on various places on their body. The people included Chloe's parents.
"What's that, an insect bite?" said Cat Noir wondering out loud however he didn't expect to get a response.
"Doubt it. But it does look like what happened to the metro driver happened to all of these people." said the voice. It was clearly female and Cat Noir recognized it. He angled his head to the left to look behind Chloe's mom to see Lucky Girl standing by another paralyzed person by the lobby exit.
"Lucky Girl? What are you doing here?" asked Cat Noir.
"Well my co-err Grey Matter didn't want to go with you to check on Chloe but I did so I dropped him off then came here only to find everyone in the lobby like this and then you show up." explained Lucky Girl.
Suddenly the two heard Chloe shouting "Your reign is over, Ladybug and Cat Noir! I don't even care if you don't give me your Miraculous; I'll just paralyze you and, hey wait you're not Ladybug! Where is she!" demanded Queen Bee but something was wrong with her. The colors on her outfit were inverted from yellow with black lines on her torso and upper legs to black with yellow lines on the same places. Her eyes were also now purple instead of blue and her hair was now Black with yellow highlights instead of blond with black highlights.
Cat Noir grew a cocky grin and placed his staff on his shoulders. "Now that would be telling. But I'm sure she'll be here any minute now to de-akumatize you Chloe" said Cat Noir clearly not threatened.
"The name is Queen Wasp and I will take your miraculous and whatever the pink one has. Ugh pink hair is so unstylish." complained Queen Wasp.
"Hey what would you know of fashion! No one dye their hair black and then adds yellow into it!" rebuttaled Lucky Girl.
Queen Wasp growled then raised her hand and shouted "Venom!" causing a black with yellow stripe patterned wasp stinger to appear over her hand. "Now you two will look much better as statues just like everyone else!" retaliated Queen Wasp. She then leapt at the two heroes but Lucky Girl was faster and placed up a mana barrier.
Queen Wasp hit the barrier and bounced off of it. She then quickly began striking it placing cracks into it.
"Can't keep this up!" said Lucky Girl as more cracks appeared on her barrier with each strike.
"Not a problem I'm calling backup." said Cat Noir pulling out the phone option on his staff and speed dialing Ladybug only to find that she isn't picking up.
"What oh come on I know she was active just five minutes ago! What could she be doing!" asked Cat Noir rhetorically right before the barrier shattered knocking Lucky Girl off balance.
Master Fu's Place
"Here you are master. I'm sorry I lost it." said Marinette handing the bee miraculous back to Master Fu and Wayzz.
"Thank you Marinette. You did the right thing taking the miraculous back from that Chloe Bourgeois. Now would you like some tea?" replied the Master offering up his tea pot.
"I wish I could but I have to get home before my parents begin wondering where I am." replied Marinette politely declining his offer.
"Tikki Spots on!" said Marinette as she morphed back into Ladybug only to get a message on her communicator before she left. She pulled it open to see a message from Cat Noir on it. She played it.
"M'Lady I don't know where you are right now but I could really use your help right now to take down Chloe! She's been akumatized again agh!" said Cat Noir ducking under on of her venom strikes then parrying her attacks and kicking her away before concluding the message with "Please get to her home quickly."
"Gah I need to go now!" exclaimed Ladybug rushing out of Master Fu's place.
"hmm it appears that taking away the bee miraculous from that Chloe girl has created unintended consequences." said Master Fu to Wayzz.
"Indeed it has master. We will have to keep an eye on this situation." replied Wayzz.
"Yes and we will need to learn more of the alien's and Lucky Girl's miraculous whatever those may be if they even have miraculous." added Master Fu taking a sip of his tea.
Back at the Grand Palais
Cat Noir rolled out of the way of Queen Wasp's venom jab and she struck the check in table instead. "Argh hold still!" growled Queen Wasp. She rushed up towards Cat Noir who was in a defensive position when suddenly she was grabbed and flung across the room by Lucky Girl who grabbed her with mana. Queen Wasp landed by the elevator entrance.
"You can't keep avoiding me forever. Sooner or later one of you two will make a false move and when you do!" threatened Queen Wasp gesturing towards her still glowing venom power on her right hand.
"We don't need to stop you just need to find out where your akuma is and break it." replied Cat Noir still in his defensive stance.
Queen Wasp charged at him and Cat Noir charged as well beginning a clash between the two. Venom hitting staff along with several tries to leg-sweep and jab at the other enough just to score a hit.
Cat Noir was able to get some hits in but had to remain on the defensive, since if he was hit by Queen Wasp's venom then it was likely game over for him. This gave Queen Wasp the advantage as you cannot win a battle with defense but you can with offense which is what she was focusing on.
Meanwhile Lucky Girl was trying to call Ben to get him over to the hotel but he wasn't picking up his phone. "What is he doing?" thought Lucky Girl after leaving him a message.
The Rustbucket
Grandpa Max was taking a nap in the back whilst Ben was sitting in the booth at the table playing one of his many sumo slammer games hoping to get a new high score.
Ben didn't notice his phone ringing at all since it had fallen out of his pocket when he sat down and landed on the seat next to him so he couldn't feel it vibrating. He also couldn't hear it because he had headphones n to improve the games sound quality and not to wake up Grandpa Max from his nap.
After the third call attempt and third message left Lucky Girl gave up and hoped Ben would get her messages soon.
Paris Streets. In front of the Grand Palais
Queen Wasp had forced their fight out into the streets in front of the Grand Palais but rather than let their fight disrupt traffic and risk civilians Lucky Girl and Cat Noir took to the rooftops
As the two landed on the rooftops the saw Ladybug land beside them. "Am I too late to join the party." said Ladybug.
"The more the merrier M'Lady." replied Cat Noir.
"Any ideas where her akuma is?" asked Ladybug as Queen Wasp leapt up to their level.
"Can't be in her hair she doesn't have the bee miraculous so what else does she have on her other than her costume." said Lucky Girl.
Before the three heroes could continue Queen Wasp interrupted them. "Finally you showed up Ladybug. I was getting bored of fighting your sidekicks."
"Hey I'm not her sidekick!" shouted both Cat Noir and Lucky Girl.
"Whatever" replied Queen Wasp not caring. She then continued "Hand over both of your miraculous and I wont paralyze you three for all eternity. Hahahahaha!" cackled Queen Wasp in the stereotypical evil laugh.
"Man you're daft. I've said it before and I'll say it again I don't have a miraculous." said Lucky Girl.
"Don't lie to me! All superheroes have a miraculous!" growled Queen Wasp.
"Yeah well guess that just means I'm better than you if you need to have some magic object to give you powers." taunted Lucky Girl sticking her tongue out.
"Um hey that insult applies mmm-" Ladybug interrupted Cat Noir by putting her hand over his mouth as Lucky Girl and Queen Wasp began their shouting match and trading insults.
"Cat Noir she's just distracting Queen Wasp so we can search for the akuma." said Ladybug before letting go of Cat Noir's mouth. He looked over to their verbal argument which quickly turned violent but the two weren't using their powers. "Now I get it." said Cat Noir as the two heroes began studying Queen Wasp.
Apparently Lucky Girl taunted that she could beat Queen Wasp without her powers and she still wouldn't stand a chance. So Queen Wasp being the complete arrogant fool she is bragged how she didn't need her powers to win and began one on one physically fighting Lucky Girl who was kicking Queen Wasp's butt easily.
Lucky Girl ducked under Queen Wasp's kick ,grabbed her leg, then flipped her onto her back proving her fighting superiority. Queen Wasp being a villain of course didn't play by rules. "Venom!" she shouted before upwards jabbing at Lucky Girl who narrowly avoided the jab.
"Hey I thought no powers." said Lucky Girl. Cat Noir was about to intervene then but Lucky Girl spoke up before he could "I got this." she said to him right before Queen Bee answered her previous question.
"That was before you claimed the advantage. Something I will not let you take from me." replied Queen Wasp with malice.
"Well than I'm not going to let an utterly ridiculous brat like you keep it." said Lucky Girl imitating Chloe's usual insult to others.
"How dare you! That's my line!" growled Queen Wasp with more malice and hatred in her voice as she jabbed at Lucky Girl again. She quickly stepped backwards to dodge the jab just narrowly avoiding the wasp sting from Queen Wasp's fist.
Lucky Girl retaliated by tossing mana discs in her face catching her off guard. "Gah!" exclaimed Queen Wasp as she fell backwards onto her butt. When she got back up she noticed her mask was a little loose and grew a bit panicked but quickly readjusted it back on and hid her former fear.
"Checkmate!" thought Lucky Girl catching on to her brief panic. She was about to aim for Queen Wasp's face again when suddenly Queen Wasp began to get covered in slime from above. She looked up to see Stinkfly firing slime globs at Queen Wasp from his eye stalks trapping her in a pool of slime.
When he was done all that was left of Queen Wasp not in slime was her head.
"Ugh this is disgusting! Release me!" demanded Queen Wasp whilst struggling.
Stinkfly landed on the roof and said in his nasally voice "Yeah no."
"But you'll have to my akuma is underneath this disgusting substance and you need it to undo my akumatization and save everyone I petrified." gloated Queen Wasp.
"Well that complicated things." said Cat Noir as he and Ladybug walked up to the other two heroes.
"No it doesn't she's lying. the akuma is in her mask." replied Lucky Girl gaining a look of fear from Queen Wasp and she started struggling harder.
"How do you know?" asked Ladybug.
"Simple. I knocked her mask loose in our fight and she panicked when it nearly came off. She revealed her own Achilles heel." explained Lucky Girl before snatching the domino mask off of Queen Wasp's face. The moment after she snatched it Queen Wasp reverted back into Chloe but with a purple shadow over her face.
"Noooo! Release me! Release me at once you utterly ridiculous fools so that I can paralyze you all!" complained Chloe.
"Do you really think we're that stupid." rhetorically asked Stinkfly as Lucky Girl tossed the mask to Ladybug she then used her lucky charm "Lucky Charm!" shouted Ladybug what fell into her hands was a padlock. The padlock is red with black polka dots.
"Huh a padlock? What could this mean?" wondered Ladybug. She turned it over and noticed an engraving on it. It simply read "11". Ladybug then acted quickly ripping the mask and using her miraculous cure.
cue de-akumatization scene.
The miraculous Ladybugs cleaned up Stinkfly's slime, undid all the paralysis caused by Queen Wasp and reverted Queen Wasp back to being Chloe (Or rather just her mind since when the mask came off her body reverted to being Chloe again.)
"Great work team." said Stinkfly offering his hand up as a high five but the other heroes were repulsed by his smell. "Oh right my smell never mind." added Stinkfly.
"Where were you I called you three times and no answer!" complained Lucky Girl pinching her nose shut.
"I had my headphones on an my phone fell out of my pocket. I didn't hear your calls." explained Stinkfly as if it wasn't a big deal.
"When we get back you and I are having a serious talk about paying attention!" stated Lucky Girl angrily as she rode a mana platform off of the rooftops like a surfboard and back to the rustbucket. Stinkfly followed leaving Ladybug and Cat Noir behind with an awkward silence.
Cat Noir broke it "Well... pound it?" as he offeredup his fist for a fist bump.
"sure kitty." said Ladybug putting out her fist and fist bumping back.
"So uh Ben, if I moved to New York would we be close to each other?" asked Marinette over the phone. She was calling Ben from her bedroom asking about America. She was originally going to decline Ms Bourgeois's offer to move to New York but the thought of living near Ben after he left for the summer was a possible motivator for her to do so.
"Not really. Me and Gwen live more out west. Not in the New England area so we would probably be able to visit from time to time but probably mostly during the summers." replied Ben from the other end.
Marinette visibly saddened at that but Ben couldn't see her face through the phone. Marinette was hoping to ask for a part time internship with Chloe's mom so she could visit Ben in New York at least and split her time between Paris and America but if she couldn't see Ben very often then it seemed kinda pointless to her to leave her family behind just to go to New York.
"Oh well I think I know the decision I'm going to make now." decided Marinette. Hanging the phone up and leaving Ben wondering what her decision would be.
Marinette decided to proceed with making a reconciliation with Chloe and her mother instead of taking the internship in America.
The Agreste Secret Basement/Tomb/Memorial or whatever the name of the place is where Gabriel is keeping his wife.
Gabriel Agreste is seen standing over his wife's coffin speaking to her body however it is unclear whether she is in a coma or dead.
"Ladybug, Cat Noir, Lucky Girl and that alien made a mistake today… and there will be others. Then, we'll finally be together once again… my love." spoke Gabriel before heading back to his office through his secret elevator.
As Gabriel comes out of the floor on his secret elevator in the floor. Nathalie is waiting for him.
"You said you were going to stop." states Nathalie clearly having expected him to give up being Hawkmoth.
"I can't give up, Nathalie. I miss her too much." replied Gabriel staring at the portrait of his wife on his wall.
"I understand… sir." concluded Nathalie before walking off.
Gabriel continued to stare at the portrait of his wife unable to take his mind off of recent events. "How am I supposed to beat them. They are always able to perfectly adapt to the situation no matter how difficult for them I make it." thought Gabriel
"Perhaps I need some help. But from who?" further thought Gabriel before returning to his work.
Dupain-Cheng Home. Second Floor
Ben, Marinette, Alya and Gwen are playing a video game whilst Marinette's parents are making dinner or a snack in the kitchen.
Marinette's father walked over and asked Marinette about her decision of moving to New York "Are you sure that you won't regret this, Marinette?" he asked while stirring some batter.
"I'm sure, Dad. Paris is my city. Our city. Besides, everyone I love is here." answered Marinette.
"Yeah… and one guy in particular." half whispered Alya gesturing towards Ben who was too engrossed in the game to hear her.
Marinette blushes and laughs before adding. "And my best friends" She then hugs Alya and Gwen whilst looking up at Tikki over Alya's shoulder she winks. Tikki winks back from upstairs in Marinette's bedroom.
Right as she got back into the game Ben speaks up but is still focused on the game. "I'm surprised you didn't go. Since that basically would have set up your financial future and set you on the road to getting your dream job."
"Do you really think I should have gone Ben?" asked Marinette. Ben paused the game then turned to face Marinette.
"Nah I much prefer being able to hang out with you Marinette. You're fun to be around and I think your talents are best spent working on them at your own pace." said Ben before returning to the game. The moment his head turned back to the game Marinette blushed a deep crimson but it also gave her hope. Hope that her feelings for him may just be reciprocated.
I know some fans out there may be like How do you know Ben lives out west. Short version I don't it's just an educated guess based off where they have visited in the show. I also do know that they don't live in New York since the visited it in one episode and Gwen's college in Omniverse was once referred to as "Out east" so that's probably on the east coast meaning Ben and Rook had to travel from out west to get there. Based off the hint I gave I think you all know what's coming next chapter. Anyways Thanks for reading and onto the next chapter...