(A/N: Hello and welcome everybody to chapter 9 of web of secrets, I hope you guys like it, now just so you know the title of this chapter is a little obvious so I'm not even going to bother telling you what's going down, but let me tell you this much, there will be a plot twist by the end of this chapter that I don't think any of you saw coming, and no it's not the obvious reveal coming, alright let's see how this turns out for everybody.)

Chapter 9: Dallas Noir

Dallas was the first one to regain consciousness, his head was throbbing in pain. "Fuck me…I think I might have a concussion again." He saw that both he and Adrien were cuffed to a structural pillar in the center of a room with no windows and only one working light and only one visible way in or out. "For fuck sake how cliché are these guys?" He then turned his head around to see Adrien was finally starting to wake up. "Adrien? Adrien listen to me, you probably have a concussion so don't try to move a whole lot, also give me your thumbs." Dallas asked in order to help his foster brother out of their predicament.

"Where…where am I?" Adrien asked feeling the throbbing pain of his head, he then noticed that he was hand cuffed to Dallas as well as to a pole. "Really? How cliché are these guys?" Adrien asked the same question Dallas had just asked not even a minute ago.

"Never mind that just give me your thumbs damnit." Dallas demanded while trying to keep his voice down as to not let anyone know that he was trying to get Adrien out of where ever they were being held in.

Adrien was confused by the odd request then asked. "Why? What are you gonna do?"

"Just give me your damn thumbs so I can get you free from your cuffs." Dallas demanded yet again.

Adrien didn't see how that was going to help but he did it anyway and just let Dallas have his thumbs, he spent a moment just feeling them which Adrien found to be very weird. "Seriously dude, I thought you were going to get me out of these cuffs not feel how soft my hands are." Adrien stated feeling awkward about this whole situation, which quickly changed when Dallas finally gripped Adrien's thumbs.

"Okay sorry in advance for this bro." Dallas apologized as he tried to brace Adrien for what was about to happen.

"Sorry in advance for…" Before he could finish Adrien heard and felt a very loud and painful popping sound in both his hands. "OW!" Adrien cried out in pain as he felt both of his thumbs dislocated from there sockets, he let out a few tears of pain with a small squeak of anxiety. "Why?" He asked squealing.

"Hey I said sorry in advance, now pull your hands out of the cuffs, oh uh…might I suggest you do it slowly?" Dallas advised as he talked Adrien through their situation step by step until Adrien finally freed himself from the cuffs.

"Seriously…why did you do that? Couldn't you have just picked the lock or something?" Adrien asked as he tried to breathe through the pain.

"First of all no I couldn't have because hand cuffs are special made with locks way too small for any lock pick, second of all that was literally the only way to get you out of the cuffs without a key, you know unless you happen to have a blow torch on you." Dallas elaborated just before he grabbed Adrien's thumbs again and popped them back into place.

"GOD…damnit dude, why do you keep doing that?" He asked as he tried to keep himself from crying.

"Oh you big pussy, I've been shot, stabbed, electrocuted, ran over and attacked by a god damn mountain lion and I didn't cry once through any of that, I dislocate then relocate your thumbs back into place and your balling like a baby who just shit himself." Dallas criticized as he prepared himself to do the same to himself, just before he could he heard footsteps coming. "Shit someone's coming…" Dallas whispered as he pushed the rings of the cuffs out and resetting them into the open positions. "Quick put them back on." He said as he set himself up back behind the pole, Adrien didn't feel like putting the cuffs on again, for fear that Dallas would have to dislocate his thumbs again, but he couldn't run the risk of getting caught trying to escape, so he got back to the pole and put the cuffs back on his wrists.

The door clicked and swung open, and in stepped Antonio Lorenzo. "Dallas…fancy meeting you here…" He said with a creepy smile. "And look at this, a little friend to keep you company…until I sell him to the next Greek sex addict…" He grabbed Adrien's jaw and forced him to turn his head so he could inspect him like a piece of meat. "Yeah…you'll fetch a nice price in the sex trade Agreste, hope you know how to give head cause you'll be tasting it for the rest of your life." Adrien immediately showed Lorenzo how he felt about that idea by biting his thumb as hard as he could causing him a severe shock of pain, he bit down as hard as he could until he could taste Lorenzo's blood, he tugged as hard as he could trying to pull his thumb out of Adrien's mouth. "Get this freaken kid off of me!" He bellowed ordering one of his men, but it took two to try and pry Adrien off of Lorenzo's hand. "You little son of a bitch, you're lucky I can't afford to kill you other wise I'd ring your god damn neck, but I sure as hell can beat the hell out of you for that, teach him a lesson, but avoid the face and no blunt objects…our customers hate bruised fruit." He ordered his two men, they both popped their knuckles as they made themselves ready to beat Adrien for what he'd done, when Dallas managed to free himself from his cuffs then threw Adrien across the room away from them, then he threw a punch at one of the thugs knocking a few teeth loose then he kicked the other thug in his stomach, while he was winded Dallas kneed him in the face then turned back to the other thug who'd just pulled a knife on him, he thrusted it forward at Dallas but he just caught the guy's arm putting the knife under his armpit then he slid to the side and pulled the thugs arm into the pole with the length of his arm crossing that of the pole, he then gripped the gangsters arm with both hands and pulled from both sides with all his strength and broke his arm, he screamed in pain as he fell to the ground.

Dallas then turned to Lorenzo, then growled through gritted teeth and narrowed eyes. "Touch him again…and your dead."

Lorenzo just laughed and said. "You think your threats mean anything to me? Your just some punk kid who can't even make it as a pro-thief, what makes you think you can kill me…"

Dallas then took a deep breath and said. "I want to make a deal…believe me when I say this you have nothing to lose and everything to gain if you say yes."

Lorenzo cocked one eyebrow sensing that Dallas was being serious about this offer. "And what if I say no? What if I decided to kill you then sell this little bitch to some horny little fucker from Japan so they can live out their sexy little fantasies for the rest of his youth?" Lorenzo said trying to persuade Dallas that this deal had better be worth his time.

Dallas just smiled a devilish grin then said with confidence. "Because I know who Hawkmoth is…" Lorenzo's face went from a smile to fear in an instant. Bingo, Dallas mentally celebrated that he'd bought it. "Yeah that's right asshole, I know who the biggest baddest bad guy in all of France is and it's not you, you see Lorenzo…he hired me to do him a little favor, in return all he had to do was force you to call off the hit on me, that favor was to teach him how to understand a little something he had just laying around the house, so if you kill me and sell the Agreste kid he'll come after you with a vengeance, now I know what you're thinking, why would he care about the kid? Well let me tell you why." He leaned in and told him what he knew in a whisper. "Hawkmoth…is his father." Of course he wasn't actually sure if Mr. Agreste was really Hawkmoth, but he had his suspicions now and vowed that if he survived this he'd look into it, no matter how unlikely that was.

Lorenzo's eyes widened with fear with those words, and it only made sense to him the more he thought about it, Gabriel had been seen by some of his men with Dallas earlier that night, there was no way he could ignore Dallas's offer. "What…do you propose?" He asked with a deadpan look on his face.

Dallas then laid out his terms. "You've already given Gabriel your ransom letter right, once the ransom is paid you will let Adrien go free, safe and sound and untouched by your men…and your customers for that matter…"

Then Lorenzo asked casually. "And in return?"

Dallas then let out a sigh and said. "In return…I'll let you kill me…in front of all of your men…no more running…no more hiding, all you have to do is let Adrien go home and live the rest of his life the way it should be…and you can kill me in any horrible painful and horrific way there is, and just to show you that I'm serious…" He pulled out one of the downed thugs phones and put in Mr. Agreste's number then texted him a phony message of how he made a deal with Lorenzo to save Adrien and asking not to avenge him. "Just send that to Mr. Agreste and he'll know to leave you alone by my final request. Do we have a deal Lorenzo?"

Adrien couldn't believe what he was seeing let alone hearing, Dallas was quite literally sticking his neck out for him, and all under the pretenses that Lorenzo actually believed his father was Hawkmoth. "Don't do this Dallas please." Adrien begged trying to stop Dallas from making the biggest mistake of his life, and the last.

"I don't have a choice Adrien, I have to keep you safe…otherwise the big bad moth will kill me for letting this fucker sell you for a few million euro. So what do you say Lorenzo, do we have a deal?" He asked again to the mob boss.

Lorenzo thought about it for a second, Dallas was right, he would have everything to gain by killing him including the full respect of his men again and nothing to lose if he'd already asked Hawkmoth to back off. He extended his hand and smiled then said with a chipper voice. "Deal." They shook hands sealing the deal, and Dallas's fate. "Alright you little shits get up, we've got an execution to prepare." He said to his men as he began to drag Dallas out of the room.

"Wait…" Adrien begged with fear in his eyes. "At least let me say good bye to him sir, please he's my best friend I just want to say good by to him…just one minute alone is all I ask sir."

Lorenzo groaned then said. "Make it quick." Then he shoved Dallas back over to Adrien. "Because once your time is up…" He dragged his thumb across his throat as if it were a knife with a smile on his face. All three men left the room shutting the door behind him.

Once the door was closed Adrien then began to explain his plan. "Okay listen to me because we don't have a lot of time, Plagg get out here now!" He demanded his kwami who was still hiding in his suit pocket, but he didn't listen to him, until Adrien had to physically pull him out of his pocket.

"Adrien no you can't…" Plagg objected as Adrien presented his kwami before Dallas who was startled by the fact that he'd already met him before.

His jaw dropped when his eyes met with Plagg, then he closed his mouth and narrowed his eyes just before saying. "You…your that little fucker from the hospital."

Plagg then began to try and convince Dallas that he was only seeing things again. "Uh…I'm only a figment of your imagination Dallas Jones, OoOooooOOOooh…" Sadly for him it didn't work as Dallas just Narrowed his eyes at the little thing. "Eh…it was worth a shot."

Dallas then looked up at Adrien and said. "What…the literal…fuck…is he doing here? And I thought you said you couldn't see him."

"Oh will you shut up and listen to me…" Adrien stated with annoyance. "This is Plagg, my kwami…and the source of my power…to turn me into Cat Noir…" Adrien confessed everything.

To say that he was surprised was an understatement, Dallas's mind was completely blown. "Your…you're the gimp cat?" Dallas asked confused.

"And stop calling me gimp cat, I'm not a gimp. Now pay attention because I can only say this once to you. To activate the power you just have to say Plagg's name and Claws out, exclusively in that order, as for your one time power you only have to say cataclysm and you can destroy everything you touch, but it only works once per transformation so use it wisely." Adrien explained everything as fast as he could just before Lorenzo's men came back in for Dallas, Adrien quickly slipped off his miraculous and slipped it on to Dallas's finger then wrapped him in what appeared to be a genuine hug to the gangsters as apart of his final fare well. "Don't you forget what I told you…" He said with a convincing sob to make it look more convincing.

Dallas then 'returned' the hug and said back with an equally convincing sob. "I won't…I promise." He was dragged away from Adrien and out of the room completely unaware that Dallas was about to show them his new toy. He smiled as he thought to himself for a moment, poor bastards don't even know what's coming for you.

Outside of the packing plant Ladybug was just across the street over seeing the plant, observing the number of guards, the patrols around the outside of the building, and most of all finding a way to get inside without being seen if it was at all possible. "Grrrrrr…" She growled to herself. "Why can't things just go my way just once, just ONCE!" She paced back and forth as she tried to formulate a plan of attack. "I can't just go in all guns blazing like usual, without Adrien I'm toast if I do it like that." She stopped to realize that she'd called him Adrien instead of Cat Noir. "Okay that was weird, No no no focus Marinette, you have to find a way to get both of them out of there alive, but how?" What she needed was a distraction, that's when she got an idea. "LUCKY CHARM!" She exclaimed as she summoned her one time power, out of the flash of light in the sky fell into her hands her latest lucky charm. "A cigarette lighter?" She wasn't sure how she was going to use this one, she started to look around the surrounding area and saw exactly what she needed in order to save the boys, she hooked her yo-yo on another building and swung towards it then landed in front of a gas line connecting to the outer wall of the packing plant. She hooked her yo-yo around it and pulled it just enough to cause a leek to flow. "Now to retreat to a safe distance." She said as she flung her yo-yo toward a nearby lamp post which was just beyond the blast radius, she then took the lighter and sparked the small flame then she tossed it toward her target which exploded in a fiery fury. "Worked like a charm…" She then realized that she had just punned then said. "Huh…I guess dating my partner is making him rub off on me." She then threw her yo-yo to another building then swung to the other side of the packing plant. Just as she had landed on top of an eighteen wheeler inside the outer area of the compound a Romani roller was thrown out a window from inside the building itself. "What the…? She said confused as to why some random man was just thrown out a window.

1 minute ago…

The thugs escorted Dallas to the upper floors of the packaging plant where Antonio had just decided to execute him, in the most horrific way he could think of. They brought him up to the opening of an industrial meat grinder, that one of his men had just turned on.

"Well this is it for you Jones, death by meat grinder…a personal favorite of mine really…" Antonio began to monologue to Dallas as he felt victorious that he would soon have the respect he deserved from his men back. "You see…this little baby takes it's time grinding up all the meat and bones that go into those grinding teeth down there, and when they come out…"

Dallas quickly cut him off as he'd already stopped caring. "Yeah I know what a meat grinder is you fat fuck, look if it's all the same to you I'd rather you just kill me already so I don't have to listen to your evil Villain monologue speech because if I know you your just gonna rant on and on about how great you are and how much of a disgrace I am and blah-dee fucking blah-dee fucking blah blah blah." He sassed as he managed to free his hands from the cuffs without any of the thugs noticing somehow.

Antonio just boiled with rage at Dallas's smart mouth, he had been sick of his disrespect ever sense he'd joined the rollers, no matter how brief it may have been. "Well if that's the way you want it…THROW HIM IN!" He shouted to one of his men, just before they could obey his orders all their attention was pulled away as they all heard a loud explosion from outside. Seeing an opportunity Dallas tossed his cuffs into the meat grinder and it getting caught in between the teeth of the grinder and causing the machine to stop functioning all together.

"PLAGG, CLAWS OUT!" Dallas shouted as he leapt forward over the large machine, with a bright flash of green light Dallas instantly turned into his own version of Cat Noir. He quickly grabbed the staff on his back then started to fidget with the buttons. "COME ON EXTEND YOU STUPID STI- WHOOOOOAAA!" It was clear that Dallas was way too unprepared to know how to use the staff properly, but he had just managed to get it to do what he wanted so he wasn't complaining. He landed on a cat walk just across from Antonio Lorenzo and his men, all three of them slack jawed at what they'd just witnessed.

"I don't fucken believe it…" Lorenzo voiced his surprise as he just marveled at the young man who'd just turned into one of Paris's most famous super heroes. "This whole time…Cat Noir was just Dallas Jones in disguise? Or is that who you really are under that mask kid?" Antonio snarled as he tried to keep his shock at bay as to not let his men know he had lost his composure.

Dallas just smiled back at him and shrugged as he said. "I guess you'll never know Lorenzo because there's just no PAW-ssible way to know for sure." Oh great now I'M making cat puns, Dallas thought to himself, what's next coughing up hairballs? And why do I have a belt hanging off of my ass?

Antonio just growled with rage before he shouted. "KILL THAT FREAKEN KID!" The sound of guns cocking filled the room as it was replaced by the sound of a hundred bullets being fired at Dallas.

He didn't know if it was his survival instinct kicking in or if the ring gave him actual cat like reflexes but either way Dallas quickly retracted the staff back to a more manageable size so he could spin it around as fast as he could blocking every single bullet that came flying his way while at the same time he rushed down the cat walk at top speed trying desperately to evade enemy fire. "Holy shit I've never been this fast…" Dallas voiced his astonishment in his new found abilities, Dallas then took notice of a few thugs charging at him from the direction he was coming from, he spun the staff from side to side as he got closer and closer to the three gangsters, he leapt at one of the gangsters with a flying kick which sent him flying back all the way to the wall. "And I'm strong too…AWESOME…" He sang as he swung his staff into the stomachs of the remaining two thugs, then he cartwheeled over him while bringing the staff down on the other thug's face as he landed on his feet, the thug grabbed his face as he felt the stinging pain envelop his face. "And I have acrobatic skills too? SWEETNESS!" He sang again as he booted the thug with all his might and sent him rolling in somersaults all the way to the end of the catwalk, from behind Dallas the final gangster got back up, he gripped Dallas's shoulder in the attempt to turn him around to face him, but before he could Dallas grabbed his wrist then put his free hand on the thugs bicep then used a judo throw and sent the thug flying out the closest window, he didn't mean to do that but he still felt satisfied with the result. "I've gotta get me one of these miraculous thingies."

Dallas turned as he heard the sound of running footsteps coming from the other end of the catwalk, he saw ten times as many armed men charging for him. "There he is…" One of the thugs in front cried.

"Okay, what did he say the activation word was? Uh…catastrophe?" He said as he flexed his hand. "Nope…oh shit!" He ducked as one of the thugs swung a bat at his head, Dallas quickly put his staff in between the thugs ankles as he held it vertically, with a sinister grin he pushed the button and extended it, and hitting the man in his family jewels, his eyes bulged out of his head as he fell to his knees and holding his groin. "I don't know about you guys but I think this has gone on long enough…CHAOS!" He exclaimed as he put his hand into the air once again trying to activate his one time power. "Oh for shit sake…" He cursed as he started to swing his staff all over the place hitting thug after thug.

Not long into this part of the fight Ladybug had just hopped through the broken window to see Cat Noir…or who she thought was him fighting for his life against impossible odds. "Hang on Cat I'm here…" She said as she swung in from above and landed by his side while at the same time helping him fight off every single thug that came their way. "I don't suppose you know where Adrien and Dallas are by chance?" She asked the fake Cat Noir while she kneed a thug in the face with a forward leap then quickly swept him out from under his feet causing him to hit the ground hard, she had to keep up the appearance that she didn't' know Adrien was under the mask, she told herself that if he was going to tell her it had to be on his terms.

"Uh…I'm prrrrretty sure that their down stairs in the basement my lady." He replied trying to keep up the appearance that he was Cat Noir for Adrien's sake. God damnit I did it again, he cursed himself mentally.

Ladybug suddenly realized that his voice sounded different, she took one quick look at 'Cat' only to realize that this wasn't her usual partner as he had brown hair in place of his usual blond, his skin had a slightly darker hue to it and he had a scar on his right cheek. "Hey your not Cat…" She said with a glare just before she punched a charging gangster in the face then grabbed his arm then spun him around and flung him colliding into several of his companions so she could have at least half a minute to figure out who was wearing Cat Noir's miraculous. "Who the hell are you and how did you get Cat Noir's ring?" She yelled as she grabbed him by the collar of his shirt with one hand and balled up the other into a fist ready to punch him if he dared to lie.

"Okay um…your probably not going to believe this but…he sort of gave it to me…but only temporarily I swear to you I have no intention of keeping it, even though this thing is fucking awesome by the way, I have to get me one of these things." Dallas answered honestly and hoping that Ladybug would believe him, mainly because his nose still hadn't recovered due to Alya's most recent blow to his face.

Ladybug was about to ask him who he was again but before she could she then heard a very familiar sound, it was the sound of a rocket shrieking toward them, she whipped around to the sound of the rocket and had confirmed to herself that she wasn't hearing things. "Jump now!" She shouted to the would be Cat Noir as they both leapt over the edge of the catwalk and just out of the way of the rocket's explosion, once they were on the ground and behind cover Dallas peaked around a corner to search for the rocket's point of origin. "Do you see anything?" Ladybug asked as she did the same from the opposite side.

"Nothing, I don't see any trace of the shooter anywhere my lady." Dallas replied while unknowingly flirting with her.

She quickly punched him in the shoulder and glared at him then quickly said. "Don't call me that again, I'm not your lady I'm…someone else's lady."

Dallas rubbed his arm where she'd hit him. "Yeah I know you've said that before spotted wonder." Dallas replied sharply.

Ladybug then realized who she was talking to under the mask. "Jones?" She said with a dumb stricken look on her face. "But why would…never mind just help me get Adrien out of here." She ordered as she bolted out from behind cover with him in tow.

The two of them looked up and saw the rocketeer reloading a fresh rocket into the muzzle of the weapon. "Crap, hear comes another one!" Dallas shouted as he watch the rocket fly toward them both. Dallas tackled Ladybug out of the path of the rocket, the rocket exploded taking out a packing machine. "We need to destroy that launcher otherwise we're never getting out of this fight alive." Dallas voiced from behind cover. "I could do it…if I could remember the damn word to turn on the stupid one time power." He griped as he glared at the ring.

Ladybug narrowed her eyes at him as she frowned with disbelief. "Really, are you that dense?" She asked rhetorically. "It's just one simple word and you can't remember it? It's not even my miraculous and I know what it is."

"Well excuse me Ladybug but I'm not with the stupid gimp cat every time there's an Akumaa afoot." Dallas pointed out.

"You do realize that your now wearing this so called gimp suit right?" She retorted with a smile.

Dallas then realized that she was right, he then growled at her then said. "Just tell me what the word is spot, otherwise were screwed six ways to Sunday."

Ladybug smirked at him knowing that she'd finally gotten under his skin then casually said. "The word your looking for Mr. Jones…is cataclysm."

"Thank you my lady, you have been very helpful." Dallas replied with a hint of sarcasm. Dallas then began to figure out a way to get up to the rocketeer without getting blown up, he quickly realized that the only way was to split up as a rocket launcher can't fire at two targets at once unless they are close enough together. "I've got an idea but I need you to trust me and do what I tell you to do." He requested as he began to explain the plan.

Ladybug nodded and asked jokingly. "What's the play then coach?"

"You use your yo-yo to swing yourself up there in the rafters to draw his attention, I'll extend my staff to get me up to the catwalk and come at him with everything I got." He laid out flatly. "Either way he'll have to follow one of us while the other can get close enough to him."

Seeing as there was nothing better she chose to go along with his plan, she nodded then hooked her yo-yo onto the rafters of the building, she zipped up into the air and up to the ceiling. "Hey stupid up here!" She shouted to try an get the rocketeer's attention, and of course it worked, he fired another rocket at her just as she swung to another rafter.

While he was trying to reload Dallas called out to him. "Hey shit for brains over here!" He waved his arms in the attempt to get his attention, the rocketeer pointed and fired the next rocket, it whizzed past him as he leapt out of the way. "Going up…" He said as he extended his staff to the catwalk like he said he would do then he hopped on to the cat walk then ran at the rocketeer after retracting the staff to a normal size, the rocketeer loaded up another rocket then aimed it at Dallas, who quickly extended the staff again and used it to pole-vault over the rocket and the rocketeer and land just a few feet behind the guy. Ladybug then dropped down from the ceiling and landed next to him spinning her yo-yo and ready to fight. "Okay fuck tard, time to end this. CATACLYSM!" He flexed his hand again and finally was rewarded with the power of destruction, Dallas examined his hand. "Cool…okay then, lets fuck this guy up."

Dallas then made the mistake of patting the palm of his powered up hand with his staff. "No don't…" Ladybug cried in vain as his weapon disintegrated into dust. "You…IDIOT!" She blasted at the top of her lungs. "Not only did you just waste your power but now you've disarmed yourself, didn't Cat Noir explain this to you?" She shouted as she scolded him.

"How was I supposed to know that the stupid staff would be affected too?" He asked back as he shrugged. "I thought it was supposed to be indestructible." He assumed feeling somewhat annoyed by his own stupid mistake.

"It literally destroys anything you touch, what did you think was gonna happen?" She asked rhetorically as she shook her hands with frustration.

"Well I would've thought that the idiots who made the damn ring in the first place would've made sure that the staff would be invulnerable to the power, I mean it's just common sense." Dallas elaborated.

"Well that's magic for yah." Ladybug said in retort, both teens whipped their heads back to the rocketeer who fired yet another rocket at them. "Look out…" Ladybug cried as she shoved Dallas to the ground with the both of them in the fetal position, Ladybug blushed as she realized what had just happened.

"Why Ladybug…" Dallas began to smirk as he looked up at the girl laying on top of him. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you were…."

She slapped him so hard for that remark, he just looked up at her with a grin, apparently he liked it. "Come on you stupid cat wannabe." She ordered as she pulled him up and onto his feet.

"As you wish my ladEEEEE…" Dallas was quickly yanked behind an office looking structure for cover. Ladybug's earrings began to beep signaling her detransformation was coming on soon, Dallas took notice as his loaner miraculous began to beep as well. "Shit, we're running out of time and I don't have a…" Dallas paused as he saw a fire axe on the wall placed there for an emergency, he then got a new idea. "Okay new plan…hand me that axe." He said as he pointed to the axe on the wall.

Ladybug was afraid of what he was going to do with it as she'd seen he wasn't too shy about killing first hand, but ultimately she agreed that he needed a weapon of some kind after he'd just destroyed his own. She pulled the axe off the placement station and handed it to Dallas, who then put the head of the axe on the ground then broke the axe in two just about a foot below the head itself. "What did you do that for?" She asked very confused as to why he'd just broke his new weapon.

Dallas then picked up the axe by what little handle he had left, he started to swing it around as if he was actually in a real fight. "A little heavy…but I've made due with worse than this." He then picked up the other end of the axe handle and held it in his fist like a dagger as he prepared himself for what he was about to do.

"What do you think your doing?" She asked as she tried to stop him from walking out to his death.

"I'm gonna go Lakota brave on his ass." Dallas answered nonchalantly as he leaned up against the wall of the office structure then looked around the corner to see the rocketeer was ready with another rocket. "Wakan Takin…Deval…I've always believed you to be the driving forces in my life, I call upon you both now if you will see it in your hearts to set aside your differences to aid your servant in his time of need…" Dallas prayed as he made himself ready to charge. "And should the worst come to pass…please deliver me to where ever my mother is in the afterlife, so that we may be reunited once again." He then rolled out and charged the rocketeer at full speed, he leapt on to the railing of the catwalk as the rocketeer fired his shot, he quickly tried to reload as Dallas closed the gap between them, he leapt into the air with his weapons raised and shouting a native American like war cry, the sound of his voice echoed all over the room. "AY-AY-AY-AY-AY-AY-AY-AY-AY-AY!" Then he drove the broken handle into the rocketeer's left shoulder, blood began to spirt out as he screamed in pain, then Dallas took the axe head and swung the blade into the back of his knee causing him to drop to the ground with even more pain, then he pulled out the axe head then raised it over his head then brought it down swiftly into the back of his head, the rocketeer stopped screaming, blood began to spew out of his mouth like a fountain, his eyes rolled into the back of his head as he slumped over to the ground, dead.

"What've you done?!" Ladybug bellowed as she rushed over to the rocketeer that Dallas had just killed in the most brutal way possible.

"It was either him or us, I chose him…" Dallas replied without a shred of regret for what he'd done. "Besides…he was a criminal, worse yet apart of a sex trafficking ring, and I can guarantee if I hadn't been here tonight then Adrien would've been sold into the sex trade and no one would've ever seen him again."

Ladybug shuddered at this detail, she knew well enough that the rollers weren't beyond doing something like this to their captives, but knowing that he was right didn't change the fact that he'd just killed someone in the most brutal way possible. "But you didn't have to make him suffer, you could've just plunged it through his heart from the start, or even into his head, but no…" She shouted at him as she stood up to meet him at eye level. "You just had to make him suffer, you had to act like…" She almost finished her sentence but stopped just before she could.

But Dallas just finished it for her. "Like a savage? Is that what you were going to say? I had to act like a savage?" He said with clear anger and rage in his voice. "Well let me ask you something…Ladybitch…" He growled as he glared at her with narrowed eyes. "Was it civil what the U.S. government did to my people? Burning down our villages, taking our land, raping our women, butchering our only source of food and just leaving it to rot out in the sun? I don't know about you but I think it's clear who the real savages were and it wasn't us, so DON'T you dare label me as a savage, you don't know a damn thing about me and you don't know a damn thing about what it's like to know how far your people have fallen from greatness, all because the white man couldn't accept that the land was never theirs to begin with, as far as I'm concerned I'm the only civil one here, as far as I'm concerned it's all of YOU who are the savages!" Dallas took off the ring then shoved it into Ladybug's chest. "Take the damn ring…and give it back to Cat Noir if you see him, I'm going home." He shoved past Ladybug then went down stairs back to Adrien to get him out of the same room that they had brought him out of. He opened the door and stared right at Adrien, he could tell that Dallas was upset about something, he'd seen that look on his face before.

"Dallas I heard explosions up there, what the hell happened?" Adrien asked concerningly.

Dallas just turned around and said. "Ladybug was here, she helped me save you, she's got your ring though hope that's okay."

Adrien didn't know what was wrong with him but he knew it was bad, he walked over to Dallas and tried to put a comforting hand on his shoulder only for him to shake it off. "Dallas? Did something…" Adrien began to ask but was cut short.

"Let's just get the fuck out of this place!" Dallas shouted, already feeling tired of this place.

Back at the restaurant Gabriel felt nothing but worry for his son, as well as Dallas too. But he also felt another emotion, anger, anger towards Antonio for taking the boys in the first place, he decided then and there that Lorenzo would pay for what he'd done. "When I find that fat bastard I will make him suffer for taking my son." He seethed with anger, then he felt it, a strong negative emotion as his miraculous started to hum. At any other time he would use this to try and take the miraculous of Ladybug and Cat Noir, but not this time, this time he'd use this Akumaa to hunt down Lorenzo and every last one of his men. "Well now…this is a very fortunate turn of events." Gabriel then made his way to the men's room of the restaurant.

"Master? What are we going to do about Adrien and Dallas?" Nooroo asked timidly as he flew out of Gabriel's pocket.

Gabriel turned to his kwami then replied. "I think it's clear really, I'm going to Akumaitize Dallas and give him the power to destroy Lorenzo and the rollers once and for all."

Nooroo's eyes widened with fear. "Master please I beg of you don't use Dallas to do something so horrible."

But Gabriel ignored his pleas and said. "Dallas will thank me for this one day, as will my son. Nooroo, dark wings rise!" Gabriel exclaimed as he activated his miraculous, with a flash of purple light he was instantly turned into his alter ego Hawkmoth. He then popped open the top of his cane releasing a single butterfly for him to charge with dark energy. "Go now my little akumaa and give my foster son power the likes of which he's never known." And with that said the Akumaa flew off tracking down the source of negative emotion.

Just outside of the compound Marinette had just transformed back to her civilian form about to enter the court yard of the packaging plant to make it look as though she was only making an attempt to brave a dangerous area such as this, she then stopped dead in her tracks as she saw one of the front doors to the building open up, out stepped both Adrien and a severely enraged Dallas, she gulped when she saw the look on his face, she immediately began to regret ever opening her mouth to him for what he'd done to that gangster. Why couldn't I have just kept my big mouth shut, she thought to herself. She then ran over to Adrien to embrace him and thankful that he was unharmed. "Adrien…I'm so glad you're okay."

Adrien threw his arms around her as he kissed her tenderly, then he realized where they were then he pulled away and asked with concern. "Marinette what are you doing out here? This is gang territory you shouldn't be out here."

She frowned her eyebrows then said. "I can look after myself you know, I'm not just some damsel in distress."

Just a few feet away Dallas had just thrown an oil drum at an eighteen wheeler in frustration, Adrien and Marinette both looked over at him with concern, especially Marinette for what she'd said to him as Ladybug. He then started to kick one of the tires on the truck as well. "God damn Ladybug, no…god damn the ROLLERS!" He shouted out loud. "They always ruin EVERYTHING! They're nothing but parasites, and parasites need to die." He then aimed his face up to the sky and shouted at the top of his lungs for all to here, especially Ladybug. "YOU HERE THAT YOU LITTLE CUNT?! PARASITES NEED TO DIE!"

Then Dallas stopped his rage fit when he felt a strange tingling sensation in his bracelet, he stood as still as a statue unable to move, then he heard a voice in his head that was not his own. "You are so right my boy…" Dallas didn't know who it was talking to him, but he had no choice but to listen. "The Romani rollers have plagued this city long enough, it's time that they be exterminated, wouldn't you agree with me?"

Dallas began to realize who was in his head talking to him. "I take it you're the infamous Hawkmoth then?" Dallas asked rhetorically already knowing that it had to be him.

"Indeed my boy, I am Hawkmoth and it seems we share a common enemy, and his name…is Antonio Lorenzo…" Hawkmoth began to give Dallas his orders, and his powers. "From this moment on you are Hellcat, with the powers of stealth and the ability to become completely transparent no one will be able to stop you, no one will be able to see you coming and no one will be able to match you. You will use this power to destroy Antonio Lorenzo and his gang from the ground up, all I ask for in return is that you bring me the head of the man himself."

Dallas normally wouldn't just take orders from anyone, least of all a super villain like Hawkmoth, but he wasn't doing this for him, he was doing it for himself. "People have called me a savage my whole life, so if the world wants a savage then I'll give them one, I'll give them a savage beast the likes of which the world has never seen before." With that being said Dallas was surrounded by a dark black mass which engulfed him and turned him into a half man half mountain lion like creature, his face had feline like features such as cat like eyes and fangs, his fingers had grown claws, his feet turned into cat like hind paws and his legs began to bend backwards, he grew an actual cat like tail, his entire body covered head to toe with the fur of a cougar, his designer suit had been replaced with a black sneaking suit to help him become more stealthy.

Adrien and Marinette just watched as they saw Dallas Jones become a new victim of Hawkmoth. "Dallas?" Adrien asked with a concerned tone of voice.

Dallas looked back to Adrien and Marinette with big glowing amber eyes, he flashed a toothy feline like grin and said. "Sorry, I'm afraid Dallas isn't home right now, from here on out…call me…Hellcat, and I'm on the hunt for something big, fat and Romanian named Antonio Lorenzo." He then vanished into thin air with a sinister laugh mixed with that of a cougar's roar, there was only one thing to do at this point, stop Hellcat before he killed someone, it was safe to say for everyone involved that all of hell was about to break loose.

(A/N: Duh duh duh, Oh no Dallas Jones has been akumitized by Hawkmoth, told you guys there was a plot twist coming, how will it pan out for Adrien and Marinette when they challenge the likes of Hellcat, will they stop him from hurting someone? Will he succeed in his task? And will he ever stop calling Adrien a gimp? Find out in the next chapter, speaking of in the next chapter of WOS, Hellcat hits Lorenzo where it hurts the most...his wallet, Ladybug and Cat Noir have no choice but to call for some back up, and Cat Noir discovers Hellcat's one and only weakness. Well that's all for now folks, I will see you later, bye bye.)