(A/N: What up my readers and welcome to chapter 18, I hope you enjoy it because I had to put a lot of thought into this one so it would go off without a hitch as this one was a bit more complicated to write out, but don't worry because if I'm right then you guys won't have to worry about anything but my crap grammar and dyslexia, which I can assure you might be a bigger bitch than Chloe Bourgeois but not even that can stop me from doing what I love, and what I love is writing out stories, so to my dyslexia I say…FUCK YOU AND WHATEVER BASTARD THAT DROVE YOU! Okay I'm done being stupid, also just to let you know this chapter is going to have a bit of a dark turn in it but please don't worry too much about it, trust me when I say this, Dallas will make sure that it ends for the best.)

Chapter 18: To trick a trickster

It was dinner time in the Dupain-Chang household and as always Adrien was always a more than welcomed guest at the dinner table, for dinner Mrs. Chang pulled out all the stops for their guest, she'd prepared a magnificent gourmet meal made with several different Chinese foods such as fried rice, Peking duck, spring rolls, honey chili potatoes and vegetable manchow soup, all of which was devoured by the family and their guest happily, then after words Marinette began washing the dishes from dinner, even though he was a guest Adrien felt as though he should help her at least which was exactly what he did being the loving boyfriend he was, he offered to wash while she dried however he had no idea of what he was doing as he'd never had to wash dishes before, even though it was one of the simplest of things to do he was failing miserably and to his own expense causing Marinette to laugh uncontrollably. After showing him what he was doing wrong, and handing him a sponge…things began to go a lot smoother, and a lot quicker as well. After the last of the dishes had been washed the young couple retreated to Marinette's room for a private moment alone, not for anything romantic however, Adrien simply wanted to teach her how to speak Mandarin Chinese.

"I'm just not getting it Adrien." Marinette groaned as she failed once again to say a rather simple sentence.

He just smiled and said back patiently. "It's easy, just take it slowly…" He then began to utter the phrase that seemed to give her so much trouble. "Wo ai…ni de…yifu, now you try."

She took a deep breath and said nothing even close to what it actually meant. "Okay uh…Wo dale…yixle zhu?" Adrien just began to laugh at her poor attempt at her ancestral language. "What? What did I say?"

He wiped away a tear and translated for her. "Okay, what I think you were trying to say was I love your outfit, but what you just told me was you slapped some pigs." She then groaned again and started to rub the bridge of her nose feeling dumber than ever, even though she was still learning she felt embarrassed by how miserably she was failing at speaking her ancestral tongue. He just wrapped her up in his arms and said sweetly. "It's okay Mari, I was way worse than you were when I first started off, you actually came a lot closer than I did with my first Chinese phrase."

She looked up to him and asked casually. "What were you trying to say?"

He then rubbed the back of his neck and said feeling a little embarrassed. "I was trying to ask this guy in a Chinese restaurant where their bathroom was, but wat I actually said was…and this is a little embarrassing…I pooped in his hat."

She immediately began to burst out into laughter as she fell over onto his lap. "You're joking right?" She asked as she tried to catch her breath.

"I wish I was…" He replied with a blush and smile upon his face. "I just wish the guy didn't take me seriously though, he checked his hat after I said that, after I looked up what I'd said I felt so stupid for saying it, welp…that's what you get when you don't listen to your tutor about practicing simple phrases first…" He then got a clever idea on how he could turn this moment away from his simple shame. "For example…Wo ai ni gongzhu."

She cocked her head back before she asked. "What does that mean?"

He leaned in close to her and whispered in her ear very romantically. "It means…I love you princess." Then without warning he took both hands and placed them on either side of her head and guided her into a loving kiss. She slowly snaked her arms around his neck and pulled him closer, she slowly pressed her tongue into his mouth and simply curled it around his own and just began to melt into the moment.

While the two lovers simply melded into one another Plagg and Tikki simply watched on from a top of Marinette's bookshelf. Tikki just cooed as she witnessed their owners simply carry on with their tender moment, until things took a turn down a more…mature root. "Uh-oh…looks like the two love birds are at it again." Plagg pointed out with a grin as he wiggled his eye brows suggestively.

"Alright let's go you peeping tom." She replied as she grabbed Plagg by the arm and physically dragged him away. Plagg immediately began to protest as she pulled him out of the room.

"Oh come on just once, why can't you let me watch just once?" He whined as she dragged him out through the window and out to the balcony.

After she let him go Tikki turned to him and said with a stern voice. "Because it's not right first of all, also you should know better than that."

"Well excuse me for wanting to root my boy on from the sidelines." Plagg fired back as he crossed his arms and turned away from her and turned his nose up in the air. She sighed as she just sat down on the porch table atop the balcony.

Not long after both were startled with a loud thud landing on the balcony just behind them, both cried out with fright and rushed into each other's arms in a panic, until they discovered it was only Iktomi standing before them. "Aww how cute, you guys are on a little date, I gotta say though Plagg she's definitely a step up from your last date." He joked as he grinned under the mask.

Plagg just narrowed his eyes at Dallas and said. "You son of a…what the hell is your problem? Sneaking up on us like that."

"Well sorry…but I was taught not to be seen or heard unless I wanted to be." Iktomi replied sounding a bit sarcastic. "Anyway…I need to talk to Romeo and Juliet before the start of act two, meaning before they bang again."

Plagg just glared at Iktomi and said rather sarcastically. "You know the way you talk is like a true poet."

"It's a gift." Iktomi replied with a shrug of his shoulders, he then walked over to the trapdoor and knocked on it just in case they were…indecent. "Adrien…Mari…if you two aren't buck ass naked and screwing each other's brains out yet do me a favor and hold off on it for a while cause there's a matter that I need to bring before you, and NO Marinette it can't wait until after you remember that you two were too stupid to wear a rubber."

Plagg then began to clap his hands slowly as Tikki just shuddered at the thought of her owner and her lover in such a compromising situation. "Like I said, a true poet…Shakespeare would be proud." After a moment Marinette opened the trapdoor and glared up at him holding her pillow over her chest, Iktomi's eyes shot open and his face just turned as red as his mask.

"Whatever it is Dallas it had better be good." She snarled at him as she stared daggers at him, normally she would've been a little more embarrassed by his staring at her, but she was too angry to care.

Iktomi just looked down at her and just started to stutter. "Uh…I…uhm…you…" He then cleared his throat as he started over. "You know what…I'll…just give you a few minutes to get dressed."

"Thanks." She replied with an angry tone as she disappeared back into her room. "Worst timing, you have the worst timing…EVER!" She added from beyond the door.

Iktomi then released a breath he didn't even realize he was holding. "Holy shit…she has a rock'n hot bod…hey HEY down you!" He said to…'himself.' After about five minutes Adrien and a very annoyed Marinette had gotten dress just as quickly as vice versa then came out onto the balcony to speak with Dallas after he'd just de-transformed back into his civilian form, Dallas began to explain his findings. "Alright, so…I may have been doing a few solo missions of late, with someone you both may know very well." He said hoping that they wouldn't be too mad at him. "There are…a couple of assassins in town, two of them, well three if you count the one girl but she retired for…certain reasons."

Adrien already knew where this was going, sense he'd already met one of them, even if she wasn't in costume at the time. "So…are they working together? Or are they going head to head for the same job?" He asked hoping that Dallas wouldn't have to choose a side against his lover, especially sense he'd just gotten her back.

"Yeah…this is the…interesting part…" Dallas replied with a nervous grin as he rubbed the back of his neck. "One of them is…Valentina."

"WHAT?!" Marinette shrilled as she shot up from her seat and just glared at Dallas with even more anger. "Your girlfriend is an assassin and you didn't think we needed to know that?"

Dallas then stood up and tried to calm her down. "Mari listen to me, she's not a bad person, regardless of her profession she's on our side, if it wasn't for her then we never would've found out who the other assassin was, or who his targets were, which just so we're clear…are you guys." He said feeling no less nervous about this situation than before.

Both Marinette and Adrien's eyes shot open with those words. "Wait, you mean someone's hired assassins to hunt down Ladybug and Cat Noir?" Marinette asked with shock.

"No, not Ladybug or Cat Noir, you two…as Marinette and Adrien, and like I said we already know who the guy is so we can start coordinating a counter attack against the guy when he makes his move." Dallas replied firmly.

Adrien was shocked, and worried for his lover especially, of course he was worried about himself but not nearly as much as he was about her. "Who is he? How dangerous is he too?" He asked his foster brother.

Dallas was quick to answer him. "You already know him by his codename Adrien, it's the Chameleon."

Adrien's shock and worry grew to an all time high at this moment, after hearing about him and his M.O. he knew that the situation was even more dire than originally anticipated. He then stood up and asked with concern. "Are you sure it's him? Are you absolutely sure?" Dallas simply nodded his head once. "Oh god…oh this is bad, this is very very bad." He said as he began to pace back and forth while tugging on his hair.

"Wait just a sec, are you saying that Lila's been akumitized again and is once more using her shapeshifting powers given to her by Hawkmoth?" Marinette assumed knowing already that was once Lila's abilities until she was de-evilized.

But Dallas just shook his head and said. "Like I said this is a guy, and trust me he's way worse than any shapeshifting Akumaa, and for a damn good reason too, he's the number one assassin in the world, he's a master of disguise, trained in some of the most dangerous forms of hand to hand combat in the world and when you least suspect it he comes in for the kill disguised as one of your loved ones leaving them to take the fall and get himself out scot free, and the one he's planning to pose as…is Adrien."

Marinette then looked at her lover then back to Dallas and asked. "But why? Who would want us dead?"

"Oh there's no us Marinette, it's just you…" Dallas explained. "He's only getting paid to off you as long as he makes it look like Adrien pulls the trigger, but we're already working on how to fix that." Dallas then pulled a small device from his pocket and out stretched his hand to Adrien. "Hand me your phone." Adrien didn't ask any questions, he just figured that this was all apart of the plan so he just did as Dallas had asked and gave him his phone, Dallas then popped off the back of the phone then applied the device to the inside of his phone then placed the cover back on where it needed to be. "There, if we need to tell you guys apart then this device should be able to track your every move."

Adrien wasn't so sure how he felt about that. "Don't you think that's a little bit…extreme?" He asked with confusion.

"Maybe a little bit, but this way we can just figure out if you're the real thing just with a push of a button, which will make the phone start playing a song that only Val and I know about for the moment." Dallas confirmed. "Oh and Mari, Val's gonna be watching your back for a while until she's taken out the Chameleon, which I hope you guys can respect needs to be done. This guy is way too dangerous to let him live so Val has to kill him."

Both Adrien and Marinette were silent, until Marinette began to protest. "You know why we can't do that Dallas." She said standing by her moral codes. "Killing someone is wrong, no matter what even if they deserve it killing someone is wrong, that's why we can't kill him."

"I never said we'd kill him, I said Valentina would do that, if she does this then the rest of the world's deadliest assassins will back off you guys because odds are whoever hired him will likely try again, because after that they'll see her as the most deadly assassin in the world and if they find out you're her friends then they'll know not to mess with you guys, it's as simple as that." Dallas stated the facts.

But Marinette was just too stubborn for her own good. "No, we can't let you guys do this Dallas, I won't allow it." She said with a firm tone.

But Dallas wasn't backing down so easily from this. "I'm sorry too, because I don't recall asking for your permission to do it this way anyway." Dallas replied as he crossed his arms. "Even if it wasn't for the lives he's taken and also ruined it would definitely be for how damn dangerous he is, so whether you want to do it this way or not isn't up to you Marinette, Valentina's already accepted a contract to kill him and she will see it done and if I have to I will help her."

That's when Marinette chose to call Dallas's bluff with a bit of blackmail. "You know, now that we know Valentina's an assassin we could just call the police." She said with an angry tone simply because Dallas was having a different opinion on this situation. "And the last thing I want to do is send your son's mother to jail for the rest of her life Dallas."

This would normally scare Dallas, if he didn't already have an even better hand to play. "You do that and I'll expose BOTH of your identities to the city of Paris." He said with a firm tone as he pulled out his phone. "Not only your secrets though but also the secrets of the rest of the team, and it would be a real shame if Hawkmoth found out where everyone lives if you chose to out Val's secret, I'll keep it simple Mari, keep your mouth SHUT…and I'll do the same."

Both Adrien and Marinette just stared at him with shock as he swiped through the numerous pictures of all of their teammates transforming into their personas. "You'd actually do this? To us? To Adrien? Who's basically your best friend up to this point?" Marinette asked with shock in her voice.

"Only if you make me do it, are you going to make me?" Dallas asked rhetorically knowing that he'd already won the argument. "He dies, end of story Marinette, believe me I don't want to do it this way but you're not giving me a choice in the matter, I just got Valentina back I'm not losing her again just because you want to honor your code and protect someone who doesn't even care about who he hurts and who gets in his way, especially when said someone has been hired to kill you and frame your boyfriend for it." He then turned away from them both and transformed back to Iktomi, just before he took off he offered one last bit of advice. "I told you once Mari, sometimes there's no other way but to kill, sometimes killing is a necessary evil, sometimes to defeat evil forces we must allow ourselves to commit evil deeds for the right cause, the sooner you wake up and realize that the better." With that being said Dallas simply took off, he leapt off the balcony and landed gracefully on the ground, then he hopped on his bike and drove off at top speed back to the mansion leaving a very concerned Adrien and a now very angry Marinette.

"I can't believe him…" She raged as she just paced back and forth in her room. "He even promised that he wouldn't kill anyone as Iktomi but now he's going to just go and break that promise like it doesn't even matter, and the worst part is we can't do a thing about it now that he knows everyone's secret."

"Mari…" Adrien began to try and calm her down but was interrupted as she continued her rant.

"And not only that but he made it an issue about love too, for god sake this is just the biggest bunch of bull shit I've ever had to deal with from anyone, and I've dealt with a lot of it from Chloe over the years." She stated as she finally stopped pacing.

Around that moment Adrien tried to speak again. "Marinette…" He voiced, only to be cut off yet again.

"And not only that but he's even willing to stab you in the back just to keep her safe and so she can just go out and do what she wants to do to this guy." She ranted onward.

Feeling as though he wasn't going to get anything out at this rate Adrien began to shout. "MARINETTE!" She finally stopped her rant and just looked at him with a puzzled face, he then took a deep breath and just began to voice his opinion. "I agree with you completely, but if Dallas is right and this guy is as bad as he says he is then we really need to consider all options."

She then began to groan. "Not you too Adrien…" She said shaking her head in disbelief. "You have to know that this is wrong even if…"

"Mari please…" He cut her off so he could finish. "Now I'm not saying that we should consider just going out and killing every single Akumaa that Hawkmoth throws our way, but sometimes…we have to be willing to do the things that we're not always comfortable doing, even if that means taking a life."

Marinette was in shock, the last person she ever expected to say something this relatively close to this was her lover. "How can you even consider this? And after everything we've been through?"

"Here's an example for you, Adolf Hitler…the man was pure evil if not just insane, why? Because he singled out an entire race based on their religion and tried to wipe them out, do you really think the allies had the time to try and find a third option like we do all the time? No of course not, he was a monster Marinette, a monster that had to be put down and destroyed because if they didn't he would've done the same thing to the rest of the world." He stated firmly to her and standing by his argument. "Even if there was another way…"

She cut him off before he could finish. "That's different though, this is just an assassin we're talking about not some psychotic dictator hell bent on ruling the world." She countered plainly.

He simply looked up at her and said with a calm voice. "I see no difference, he kills innocent people everyday of his life, all for a paycheck, and the worst part is he knows it's wrong but he still does it and he doesn't care, he doesn't care who he kills, he doesn't care who he frames and he doesn't care who's family he hurts. I'm not saying it's the easy thing to do, but for once…it's the right thing to do."

She just turned away from him unable to look at him for what he'd said, he stood up and walked over to her then just wrapped his arms around her. "I'm not in the mood anymore Adrien." She assumed poorly what his intentions were.

"Neither am I princess…" He replied with a woeful voice knowing very well that this was not going to be easy for either of them to move on from. "Just…promise me that you won't think any different of me for this, believe me I don't want to help anyone kill anybody, but if it means keeping you safe…"

She then shoved him away and said with anger clear in her voice. "Don't you dare use me as an excuse for this!"

"I'm not…" He denied. "I'm just looking out for you, you know I'd never want anything to happen to you, I love you too much to let anyone try to hurt you Mari, and no matter what I have to do to keep you safe I will do it, so please…try to understand." He then re-wrapped his arms around her and placed a small kiss on her head. "You are way too important to me to let any kind of harm come to you."

"It still doesn't matter, it's wrong and that's all there is to it." She stated firmly not backing down from her beliefs on the matter.

That's when Adrien pulled out his final ace up his sleeve. "So your saying that if this situation was reversed you'd still hold true to that argument?" He asked bluntly.

She then turned around to face him just before she said. "That's not fair Adrien."

"Life isn't always fair princess, besides…we're not actually taking a life, Valentina is and once she's done that we can at least try to go back to some version of our previous lives." He said back to her.

She just sighed knowing that she couldn't be mad at him over this, she also couldn't deny that she might consider the same thing he was if he was the intended kill for this hit, she then pulled him into a hug and whispered softly. "I hate that we have to even consider this."

"So do I." He replied as he returned her affection with a kiss. After an hour of just trying to make peace with this Adrien finally had to leave hoping that this wouldn't affect their relationship negatively. They were both stood outside of the front of the bakery sharing a goodnight kiss. "I'll call you as soon as I get home princess."

"Stay safe kitty." She said lovingly as she placed a single kiss on his cheek then walked back inside to retire to bed.

Around that same moment Tikki flew out with a concerned look on her face. "Are you going to be alright Marinette?" She asked hoping that this choice wasn't going to haunt her for the rest of her life.

Marinette sighed and said with honesty. "I don't know Tikki, I've never even had to think about this before, part of me still thinks that I shouldn't let them do this, but another part of me says I don't have a choice but to let it happen, I mean who knows how many other people are on his list after me."

"Believe me Marinette, your not the first Ladybug who's had to come face to face with a situation like this, usually it ended well for them of course but…well, sometimes it changed them, and not for the better either." Tikki stated as she recalled her previous owners dealing with a similar situation.

"How did they deal with it though?" She asked hoping her friend could help her.

Tikki aptly replied. "They spoke to a friend they could trust with their secret actually, I know it's not really the best thing to do but it is the easiest."

Marinette sighed and said. "Do you really think I should?" Tikki simply nodded her head yes, even though it went against both their better judgement they knew that Marinette needed to confide in someone with her problem. "Alright then, I guess…if that's really my only option, I'll talk to her later about it, after it happens that is."

Inside his car Adrien and Plagg were having a similar conversation as Adrien felt the same way that Marinette did. "I never thought we'd ever have to help someone commit murder Plagg, I mean sure this guy deserves it but still, this is wrong." Adrien voiced his true thoughts.

"Trust me when I say this Adrien, your not the first of my owners that's been faced with this kind of problem." Plagg said back knowing fully well how difficult it would be once this whole thing was done and over with.

Adrien then looked over at Plagg and asked rather casually. "How did they deal with it?"

"Well talking to a friend usually helps, though I think it's probably better if you speak to someone who've actually taken a life before, mainly because they know how to deal with how you're feeling, also because they've gone through it themselves." Plagg answered him and mentally cursing the fact that he'd have to once again watch one of his owners go through this.

Adrien of course already had a friend like that and knew just who to talk to. "Guess Dallas and I are gonna have a little chat about this." He said hoping that his foster brother could help put his mind at ease.

Meanwhile just outside of the mansion Dallas had just pulled up to the gate connecting to the driveway, he opened the gate and drove on into the garage and parked his bike in the usual spot where he'd hide it. "Spizz, web down." He said turning himself back into Dallas Jones, around that same moment Spizz flew up to his face and started asking him several questions.

"Dallas are you sure you want to do this? Don't you think there's another way? I mean how are you so calm about this? I know you're my first owner but shouldn't you feel a little guilty knowing what your about to do?" He asked a quartet of questions while desperately trying to figure out a way to talk Dallas out of his choice to take a life.

But Dallas had already made up his mind on the subject, and seeing as he held all the cards he had no intention of backing down from this. "I don't feel guilty about this Spizz, mainly because I've taken a life before, in self-defense of course but still…I've gotten used to it, sadly that's the only way you can get over killing someone is by getting used to it." Dallas admitted to his kwami as he thought back to the day he'd first taken a life.

Five years ago…

Only four months had passed after his grandfather had died, his grief was still great and his loss weighed greatly on his shoulders. The only one he could gather comfort from was his own mother as most members of the community rarely ever spoke to Dallas now, mainly because of his father's dark reputation but even though he had no intention of following in his father's footsteps they still treated him as a thief, feeling fed up with it Dallas asked his mother just to take him away from the reservation, not even he knew if he'd ever return but if he ever did he knew it would be a long time coming. They were driving through the badlands of Montana on their way to New York state to visit family from his mother's side in hopes that he'd get out of his depressed mood.

She'd constantly look back in the rear view mirror just to see that he was alright, he simply rested his head on the table just drawing a circle with his finger and still trying to come to terms with his grandfather's passing, he was Dallas's closest father figure, even more so than his actual father was, not that he ever considered him that. "Honey? You doing okay back there?" She asked with concern.

He just sighed and said. "How much further till we get out of the desert?" He clearly didn't feel like engaging in any kind of conversation with anyone right now, and his mother knew it.

She simply looked at the GPS on the dash board and said. "It looks like we've still got about nine hours before we get to the nearest pitstop sweetie." She couldn't help but feel upset for her son, she knew just how close that he was with his grandfather, he was the one who taught him all about the legends of their tribe as well as all the others, he taught him how to use a tomahawk and knife together in a fight, he even taught him their ancestral tongue as well, and now that he was gone Dallas felt as though a giant hole in his heart had been left in the wake of his grandfather's passing. She knew that he would eventually end his grieving process, but that would take time, which she had to allow him to have. After they'd finally gotten to the nearest truck stop it was 8 o'clock at night, Dallas's mother had pulled into the parking lot meant for RV's and large trucks and simply parked in the first available spot she could find, then she and her son headed inside the diner of the truck stop for dinner. They both simply ordered a cheese burger with a side of fries.

Dallas didn't really eat much though, his depression was simply too much for him to even think about food, so he just headed back to the RV where he knew he could sulk in peace, his mother offered to go with him but he said he'd rather be alone, however on this particular night his grandfather's death would be the least of his worries, as he was almost half way back to the RV he found himself being put into a head lock from behind and then felt a rag placed over his face forcing him to inhale an extremely foul smelling chemical and knocking him unconscious. He woke up almost an hour later feeling extremely groggy in the cab of an eighteen wheeler's bed, and he was naked, his first thoughts were typically the first of any in this situation. Where am I? How did I get here? And why am I naked? He quickly got over his groggy feeling and decided he had to get out of this strange place, he had hoped beyond all hope that he was still in the same truck stop that he and his mother had arrived in after their long drive, he also discovered that he was hand cuffed to a bolted rail in the side of the cab, he began to panic as he slowly came to realize why he was naked, he was being held prisoner by a traveling pedophile, he couldn't see him anywhere though but that wasn't important at the moment, what was important was that he had to escape if he could, he knew that time wasn't on his side so he had to act quickly, he quickly proceeded to try and dislocate his thumbs from their sockets to slip free from the cuffs, he managed to get at least one hand free from his cuffs when he heard the cab door open. "Oh shit…" He whispered knowing fully well that his captor had returned, he climbed into the driver's seat with a six-pack of beer and a pack of cigarettes, he was a fat and burly man, he wore a gray beard on his face and a red cap on his head, he also wore a red flannel shirt with blue jeans and yellow work boots, Dallas simply laid back in the bed staying as quiet as he could not making a move or even breathing, his heart beat began to quicken as he feared what he knew this man would do to him, Dallas knew he had to think of a plan to get away before that even came close to happening.

"Hey kid, you up yet?" The trucker asked back to his prisoner curiously, but Dallas didn't answer of course. The trucker simply groaned and said. "God damn it, it's not fun if their asleep, aw well…guess it don't matter, gotta get out of here while the getting's good anyway, only a matter of time before someone knows he's gone." The trucker then reached for the ignition and turned the key, only for the engine to fail to start, he kept turning it over and over with no luck. "Aw come on baby don't do this while I've got company."

Dallas knew he couldn't wait any longer, if he did he would be made a victim of this man and he had a feeling that after he was done with him he wouldn't simply let him go, or let him live for that matter, he could plainly see the trucker was more focused on the ignition of his truck, simply looking down and not even aware that Dallas was slowly standing up on his knees, Dallas gripped the open hole of his cuffs in his free hand then slowly pulled the chain tight, then summoning all the bravery he could muster he cried out and wrapped the chain around the truckers neck using his cuffs as a garrote and while using all of his strength he press his feet against the back of the driver's seat and pulling the trucker back effectively choking him, Dallas kept on screaming as he could feel his captor struggling to try and get loose, but by this point in his life braves brew had already given Dallas the strength of five men causing the truckers struggles against him to be in vain, Dallas could see the truckers face in his rear view mirror as he continued to choke him out, he saw his eyes bulging out of his head turning bloodshot as he kept on choking the life out of him, the trucker just clawed at the chain desperately trying to pry it off his neck, slowly his face began to turn blue and his mouth began to foam signaling that he was close to death, but Dallas knew he couldn't stop, not until he knew for sure that this man was dead, the struggle lasted for almost five minutes until finally the trucker's hands fell limp at his sides, he stopped gurgling and his pupils had dilated fully. Dallas finally let go of his grip on the cuffs, he finally began to breathe again thankful that he had won, and saved himself from whatever horror's this man would've subjected him too. But he also felt something else, a feeling in his gut that made him feel uneasy, he then crawled up into the front of the cab and saw just what he had done, he could see that he pulled on the chain so hard that he broke the skin of the trucker's neck, blood had soaked through his beard and was all over his front and his fingers from when he tried to pry the chain away from him, Dallas then looked at his own hands, he saw that his wrist that was still cuffed had been cut by the cuff itself causing him to bleed as well, the chain on the cuffs was covered in blood too, but that's not what he was focused on. "I…I killed him…" He said to himself staring at his hands as if they'd betrayed him. "Not again…oh god not again…this is worse than…" Dallas instantly began to feel sick, he then leaned over and simply threw up all over the floor of the truck, his legs felt weak, his blood ran cold, his heart just began to beat faster than it normally would, Dallas slowly began to reach for the door handle of the passenger side of the truck, as he tried to find the step he missed it completely and fell to the ground.

"What the hell was that?" A voice asked in the darkness, Dallas slowly looked up and saw a flashlight from behind another truck, the holder of the light came around the front of the truck revealing him to be a police officer, he flashed the light onto Dallas who immediately became blinded as he held up his hand shielding his eyes. "Oh my god, JOE I THINK I FOUND THE KID!" He cried out as he rushed over to Dallas's side, but he was still shaken from the traumatic experience and just cowered away from the officer as if he would try to hurt him next. "Easy kid easy, I'm not gonna hurt you see…" He pulled on the badge on his chest to try and reassure Dallas that he had nothing to fear. "I'm a cop, your mom called us when you went missing."

Around that moment another officer and Dallas's mother came running up to the sight of her son curled into a ball sitting naked on the ground shaking with fear. "SWEETIE!" She cried as she ran up next to her son with tears in her eyes thankful that her son was safe. "Oh thank god your okay." She sobbed as she just held her son in her arms, finally Dallas registered that his mother was there, he then began to sob himself as he wrapped her tight in his arms and just as thankful that it was over.

The officer that had first found Dallas then looked inside the cab of the truck and found the now dead trucker sitting in the driver's seat. "Oh Christ, Joe get the morticians up here asap, and…call an SVU too, just in case." He said knowing fully well why Dallas had to do what he did.

Almost half an hour later the truck stop was swarming with police officers and crime scene investigators questioning everyone in the truck stop for information about the dead man, as it turned out he was in fact a regular in this particular truck stop who'd leave almost as soon as he'd arrived, sometimes sooner than that, and almost as soon as he'd arrived a child would go missing and never be seen again almost, however no one was ever able to connect the dots as he always seemed to keep to himself mostly. After pulling his driver's license the officer's found out that he was a suspect in several similar cases all across the state of Montana with children aging from as young as six to as old as fifteen, not long after they pulled his license and found his home address the state police found his home and discovered in his basement a very dark and gruesome scene, it was essentially a torture chamber meant for all of his victims so he could live out a very sick and disgusting fantasy, and just behind his home was a mass grave of bodies, some were so decomposed that they were unidentifiable while others were still fresh enough to identify, the cause of death seemed to be the same for them all, death by strangulation, which in this case was truly poetic justice.

Now fully dressed and still very shaken up by his trauma Dallas was sit in a police conference room with his mother by his side awaiting a psychiatrist to help evaluate Dallas's mental health at this time, Dallas's mother even insisted that someone come in and give him a psycho analyses as she was absolutely convinced that her son had been raped as he simply refused to talk to anyone about what had happened to him in the truck. After what seemed to be an eternity the psychiatrist had finally arrived. "Ms. Jones I presume?" She said as she opened the door to the conference room, she was black with long flowing hair with a cream suit and high heels, she was holding a clip board and a pen so that she could take down notes and try to see if his mental status needed anything to help keep his sanity.

Dallas's mother stood up and said with a hopeful voice. "Please tell me you're here to help my son." She begged folding her hands together. "He won't talk to anyone about what happened to him, he's just been sitting there sense we got here."

The psychiatrist raised her hand and said. "Ms. Jones I need you to remain calm and let me do my job, I can't guarantee your son's mind is sound but I will do everything in my power to help him through this one step at a time." She nodded back to the therapist and returned to her son's side on the sofa while the therapist sat just across from them both in an arm chair. "Hello young man, my name is Dr. Alice Grimshaw I'm here to help you with your problem." She introduced herself, but Dallas simply paid her no mind. "Would you mind introducing yourself?" She asked hoping that Dallas would break his silence.

He looked up to her finally acknowledging where he was and simply stated. "Dallas, m-my name is Dallas."

"Dallas…such a pretty name, it's my favorite city in Texas you know, I used to spend the summer there with my parents when I was your age." The doctor replied. "Where are you from Dallas?" She asked hoping that her tactics of small talk would help him open up.

He slowly began to answer her feeling slightly sheepish. "I…I don't really come from anywhere really; mom and I move around the country in an RV most of the time."

"Oh nonsense everyone has to come from somewhere, isn't there a place that you consider home? Anywhere that you frequently visit that you love to see?" She asked feeling that she was off to a good start.

Dallas thought about it for a minute and answered her very nonchalantly. "I…guess you could say that…the reservation is my home."

The doctor cocked her head back and asked. "As in an Indian reservation you mean?"

Dallas looked up at her with a slight scowl and said. "Don't insult my people, It's not an Indian reservation it's a native American reservation, there is a difference."

The doctor then wrote down that he had a slightly short temper, and a true passion for his people and heritage. "My apologies, I never meant to offend you, so what's this reservation called? Which tribe are you from?" She asked casually.

"We call it the Shadow range reservation, it belongs to the Lakota tribe, it's located in southern Arizona ma'am." He answered just as casually.

She then smiled softly and said. "Ah the Lakota, your tribe were mostly a nomadic tribe weren't they?"

"Excuse me Doctor but what does this have to do with helping my son?" Dallas's mother asked feeling as though their time was being wasted.

The doctor then looked over to her and said calmly. "Believe me Ms. Jones, this is all a part of the process for a situation such as this, it also helps for me to better understand your son before we even get close to the heart of the problem."

"You have got to be kidding me. This is your solution to my son's trauma? Meaningless small talk?" She fired back at the doctor.

"No Ms. Jones…" She replied with the same calm tone as before. "To be fair I don't even know how to help him, yet, but I promise you after a few minutes I will have sent your son on his long road to recovery, but I need you to do me one thing first, let me do my job as I'd already asked of you." She clearly didn't like this idea, but she had to trust that the doctor knew what she was doing, so she just sat back and let her work. She and Dallas had a very casual conversation about his heritage as a gypsy and native American for almost half an hour, eventually they'd come to the point of his grandfather dying so suddenly. "I see you've already experienced a terrible kind of trauma Dallas, no one should ever have to lose their loved ones in such a way."

Dallas simply stared at the floor as he let a single tear fall. "You know to make things worse, we didn't find out until a week before he died, the tribal elders said that he didn't want…me…to see him suffering, so he just pretended that he was okay, until he discovered his time was coming soon." He sniffled a little bit before he continued. "I'm just glad that…I could say goodbye to him."

The doctor made sure to write this down just in case she could use it as a stepping stone. "I can relate, I'm sure anyone can as well." She replied. "So how long has it been sense he passed? If you don't mind me asking."

"About four months, I stayed in the reservation with mom for a while hoping that maybe the rest of the tribe could provide me with some kind words for my loss at least, no such luck." Dallas answered honestly, and bracing himself for her next series of questions which he knew would be about his capture.

"I see, I'm terribly sorry. Now then…" She began to ask slowly knowing that this would be a sensitive subject as did anyone. "Before you were abducted, what was the last thing you remember?"

Dallas closed his eyes and thought as hard as he could. "Mom and I went into the diner for something to eat, I wasn't hungry so I just headed back to the RV, then I was put in a head lock by someone I didn't see then he knocked me out with chloroform, I don't know how long I was out but…I remember waking up naked handcuffed to a pipe bolded into the side of the cab…" Dallas paused for a moment as he tried to brace himself to relive the memory of strangling his would be rapist and murderer to death. "I managed to get myself free from the cuffs before he got back to the truck, but he came back before I could escape, I heard him say that he had to get out of there while he could, lucky for me though his truck didn't want to start, but I knew I couldn't fight him off as I was, he was way bigger than me, so I…I just…choked him from behind the seat, I could hear him gagging on the chain as he struggled to get free, but that wasn't the part that scared me the most, the part that scared me was…the look on his face as I was killing him, he had a look of fear, the same kind of fear that I was feeling. His eyes were pleading for me to stop, up until…he just…stopped fighting."

Dallas's mother took him in her arms and just held him. "It's okay baby, you did what you had to do." She said softly trying to comfort him.

"I'll never forget what I did to him, I can never atone for…" Dallas was deeply disturbed by his own actions, even though they were justified and for his own survival the guilt upon him was heavy.

"Dallas, listen to me…" The doctor interrupted him. "You have nothing to atone for, that man was a serial rapist and a killer, he would have done horrible things to you if you didn't do what you did up to the very moment when he killed you, believe it or not you're a hero for what you did, how many other children would he have abducted if you hadn't killed him?"

This only managed to bring him slight comfort, he then looked up to her and said. "But every time I close my eyes I can see him, I can see his face…I just can't get that image out of my head.

"It's alright Dallas, believe me this is normal what your feeling, I've spoken to police officers and soldiers with similar issues, I'd actually be worried if you weren't feeling this way about it." The doctor announced and thankful to a degree that he was in turmoil over this. "Believe me Dallas you will eventually move on from this, but it's going to take some time, if you'd like I can schedule you for a support group meeting while your in town, or perhaps you'd rather see a specialist, I happen to know a few who could help fix you up in no time at all." She offered knowing that his options were few but effective none the less.

Dallas chose to accept all the help he could get as he simply wanted to wake up from this nightmare, he agreed to see a specialist for teens with disturbed minds do to traumatic experiences of numerous varieties, after eight months of sessions and prescriptions to help him sleep through the night without any kind of nightmares as well as to keep his mental stability healthy he was nearly back to normal, he still felt the memory of that night haunting him, but he no longer felt guilty for killing the trucker, he actually felt glad that he'd killed him once he'd finally come to realize that everything that Dr. Grimshaw had told him was true, after that moment had finally came Dallas vowed he would never go anywhere without a way to protect himself ever again, so he started to carry a knife on him wherever he went, specifically one typically used for tactical situations, he eventually found the kind he was looking for and favored most, a karambit made with Damascus steel with a ram horn grip for it's handle, he made sure that the smith crafted it to have two edges so that he would be able to get out of any situation he was in while using this knife.

Not long after Dallas had gotten his new knife he and his mother finally chose to visit his grandfather on his mother's side of the family in upstate New York for the holidays, they had just pulled up outside of his home and parked on the street just as the snow began to come down. Even though it had been months sense his endeavor Dallas's mother couldn't help but worry for him, he seemed fine on the outside but she had no idea how he felt on the inside. The two both walked up to the door together and rang the doorbell, eventually Dallas's grandfather came and answered the door for his daughter and grandson, he was dressed in a red Christmas sweater decorated with pine trees and reindeer, he also wore a typical pair of blue jeans and a pair of fuzzy slippers to keep his feet warm, he also wore a pair of thick glasses on his face to help him see and held a cane in his hand to help him get around. "Merry Christmas dad." She greeted her father with a warm hug.

"Good to see you Maria…" He greeted his daughter back and returning her hug. "I've missed you two so much." He then pulled Dallas into a separate hug which he accepted gladly as he was happy to see his remaining grandfather.

"I've missed you too grandpa it's so good to see you." Dallas said with a smile.

His grandfather then ushered both his daughter and grandson into his home where he had dinner waiting for them, after words the three of them all sat down in front of the TV and simply watched the three stooges until bed time rolled around, when ever they'd visit his grandfather he'd usually sleep in the RV as he could never quite get as comfortable in an unusual bed, but sense their heater was broken he had little choice in the matter, he chose to try to sleep on his grandfather's couch if he could, but with very little luck, he thought he could sleep faster if he had a cup of tea to help him sleep, while he waited for the herbs to brew he simply sat at the kitchen table staring out the window, it was very calm and quiet with the snow coming down softly outside, he felt very peaceful and at ease, until something caught his eye, a mysterious figure sneaking around the back of a house just across from his grandfather's home. This figure looked to be wearing a ski mask and a black winter coat, he held something in each of his hands, one item was a role of duct tape while the other looked like a gun. It didn't take Dallas long to know this man was not there for anything good, that's when Dallas picked up the phone and called 9-1-1 and informed them of what he was baring witness to, at first he thought this man was a simple burglar, but that opinion quickly changed after this thug left the house carrying something over their shoulder, or more accurately someone, it looked to be the size of a child, upon turning to a different angle Dallas saw that it in fact was a child, a little brunet girl no older than seven or eight with her hands bound and mouth gagged with duct tape being carried off to who knows where.

Dallas's instincts couldn't let this man go, he had a feeling that he'd either rape her or hold her for ransom, but he wasn't going to wait around and find out which. He quickly grabbed his knife and dashed outside the front door of his grandfather's house and down the sidewalk, it was cold to run on with barefeet but he didn't care, he refused to waste anytime to try and save this girl, he rushed down the sidewalk like a mad man making sure to keep out of sight, he followed the masked man and the girl to a run down factory, the thug simply pushed open the door and walked inside with the girl, Dallas crept up to the door and pushed it open slowly and tiptoed inside being mindful not to make a sound. He could hear the sound of muffled crying from the girl as he made his way in deeper and deeper, and that's when he saw it, his worst fear of what this man planned to do to her was unfortunately correct, especially as he began to strip her of her pajamas, seeing this just enraged Dallas, he decided right then and there that there was only one thing to do. He pulled his knife and stepped out of the shadows and slowly crept up to the thug from behind while he was too busy trying to undress his victim to notice that he was about to be made the victim of god's wrath.

"Hold still you little brat…" The thug ordered as the girl began to scream and thrash about on the floor as he knelt over her. "Shut up already or I swear to god I'm gonna AAAAAAHHH!" The thug screamed in pain as he felt a slash across his back, he quickly turned around and saw Dallas standing there with fire in his eyes in a boxer's stance and ready to fight to protect this girl. "You little SHIT! I'm gonna SKULL FUCK YOU SO HARD YOU'LL BE SHITTING YOUR TEETH FOR A YEAR!" He stood up and grabbed a hammer off the ground then swung it at Dallas from the side, but he simply ducked under it then he wrapped his left arm around his arm holding the hammer then stabbed his knife into his bicep causing him to drop his hammer to the ground, he wailed in agony as the cold steel broke through his flesh with razor sharp precision.

Dallas then pulled the knife out of his arm and slashed the thug across his belly then he slashed his thigh from the back to the front then he did the same in reverse just before he kicked the thug in the groin with all his strength causing him to fall to his knees, then Dallas slashed the thug across the face at an angle cutting through his right eye, his nose and down his cheek, he howled in pain as Dallas then kicked the thug in the face knocking him down, then Dallas grabbed the thugs hammer and marched over to him just as he was reaching for his gun, but before he could even pull it out Dallas turned the hammer around and brought the hook down into the thugs arm, he wailed in pain as he dropped his gun and grabbed the spot of his arm that felt pain, then Dallas picked up the gun and took aim at the thug with it and said. "I'll bet you were thinking that no one would know what you were doing tonight, that no one would've suspected what you were up to, you thought wrong asshole." He then lowered the gun and went over to the girl and began to cut her free. She began to scream as soon as she saw the knife in his hand. "It's okay, I'm not gonna hurt you." He said as he cut her loose. While he was doing this the thug slowly began to stand back up, he began to pull the hammer out of his arm wincing in pain as he felt the hook slowly leave his flesh, he started to hobble over to Dallas with the weapon raised over his head ready to strike him, but Dallas already knew he was there as he quickly put the gun under his arm and fired off every last shot in the magazine right into his chest, the gunshots echoed in the building until they slowly faded. Dallas then turned around and said to the thug just before he fell over. "You really are dumber than I thought." The thug dropped the hammer and fell to his knees just before he fell onto his side. "Any competent criminal would've known I was setting you up for that, now this way it's classified as self-defense for sure and not murder, so no matter what anyone thinks they will all know that I was the hero here, and you were just a sick bastard who needed to be put down."

The thug looked up at Dallas as he spoke coughing up blood and feeling his body going cold, eventually he laid his head down on the ground and gave in to death's cold embrace, after words the girl pulled off the tape her kidnaper had gagged her with then she pulled Dallas into a hug and just sobbed holding him tight and thankful that someone had come to her rescue. "Thank you…thank you…" She cried as she just buried her face into his chest. Dallas simply stood there and let her vent as he held her close.

"It's okay…" He said as he patted the back of her head. "It's all over now. He'll never hurt you again." After letting her get dressed Dallas took the girl back home where he saw a squad car taking a statement from the girl's parents who were relieved to see their daughter alive and unharmed, after telling the police what had transpired Dallas took them to where the girls kidnapper's body was so that they could have it collected by morticians and processed, after examining the body thoroughly police came to conclude that this man wasn't in any known data basses or on the registered sex offender's list, it would seem that he was only getting started with his sickening lust as a pedophile, but thanks to Dallas his crime spree ended right as it began, and because of this Dallas found a sense of peace, he felt a similar twinge that he had before when he'd first killed the trucker several months ago, but this time it was almost completely numbed, he didn't like to kill anyone, but he knew that if their was no other way then he would take the life of another human being to either protect himself or someone else, and if they were what he considered evil then he wouldn't hesitate to end them, nor would he lose sleep over it.

Present day…

Dallas and Spizz quickly made their way to his room where he began to brainstorm ideas to try and deal with the chameleon, so far he was stumped. "Maybe some kind of big charity event, no…he'd never risk exposing himself in front of a huge crowd like that, way to many variables to try and escape, what about…" Just as Dallas was about to think of another play he heard a knock at the door. "Spizz hide…" Dallas whispered to his kwami who obeyed and hid as quickly as possible. Dallas then walked over to the door and opened it wide to reveal Natalie standing before him in front of the door. "Oh…hi Natalie, do you need something?"

"Mister Agreste would like to see you in his office, in regards of your son's birthday being shared with Adrien's." She said nonchalantly.

Dallas nodded his head and said. "Okay sure, I'll be there in a minute." Dallas then began to turn back into his room to clean up a stack of papers he was using to coordinate an effective attack against the chameleon.

Both he and Natalie then quickly made their way down to Gabriel's office where it would seem he was working on a new design for an outfit. Dallas knocked on the door frame signaling that he'd arrived to meet with his foster father. "Ah good you're here, thank you Natalie you may go home now." He said warmly as he set down his sketch pad.

Natalie nodded then she turned and walked away. Dallas entered the room calmly knowing that he wasn't in any real danger, he might've known the Gabriel was Hawkmoth but that didn't give him much reason to be hostile against Dallas, and sense it was still likely that he didn't know about him having his own miraculous yet that would give him a very distinct advantage. "So Natalie says that you wanted to discuss a few things about the party." Dallas stated as he walked closer to Gabriel.

"Indeed I did, the venue that Adrien has chosen will definitely be large enough for them to share, all we need to do is choose how to divide it up, assuming that's what you and his mother would prefer." Gabriel stated as a possibility.

Dallas simply thought about it for a moment, then realized that the party would be a prime candidate for the chameleon to deal with and figured separating the parties would be for the best. "You know I'm not really sure what Val would prefer, I guess I could call her though and see what interests her." He said simply playing dumb, he reached for his phone and started to scroll through his contacts list until he found her number, he hit call but sadly only got her voicemail. "Damn she must be asleep by now, eh I'll just leave her a message. Hey Val it's me, just calling you about details for the party, Gabriel just wanted to know if we wanted to divide up the parties or not so please call me back as soon as you get this, talk to you soon babe, oh and give Yuri a kiss for me, bye." He hung up the phone and returned it to his pocket.

"I honestly never thought that you would be a father at such a young age." Gabriel said casually.

Dallas turned back to him and said. "Neither did I, it feels amazing you know, like someone actually needs me in their life to try and make it better, and I wanna do that for Yuri."

Gabriel smiled warmly at Dallas and said. "I can relate, I felt the same way after Adrien was born."

"Well at least you knew he was coming, though in hindsight I probably should've seen this coming at some point in my life, what with how many girls I've been with…" That's when Dallas realized that it was still very possible that he had more kids out there that he'd possibly fathered over the years. "Oh god…IIIIIIIIII…think I should probably start making a few phone calls soon."

"Is there anything that your son would like for his birthday in particular? It's only fair that he receive something special on his…" Just as he was about to finish Gabriel was cut off by the sound of shattering glass from across the room, both he and his foster son looked over to see standing in a hunched position a man dressed in an elegant looking purple suit with a full head mask holding a cane, he slowly rose to his full height and simply grinned fiendishly at them both.

Dallas knew exactly who it was standing there, he then looked back at Gabriel then back to the intruder several times trying to wrap his head around this. "I…I don't understand…" He voiced feeling confused. "How is this even…" Could I really have been wrong this whole time, he thought to himself, no I know I'm right I just know it but how is…oh I get it. Dallas began to mentally theorize a sound explanation for this sudden look alike, he's just a paid actor dressed to look like Hawkmoth to try and throw me off the trail, I'll bet he even told the guy it was all just an elaborate prank, clever Gabriel very clever indeed I must give you that, but sadly for you I'm not that dumb.

"Good evening Mr. Agreste…" Hawkmoth said with a chilling voice. "And who might this be? Your latest muse? I'm surprised that you would actually allow trash such as this into your home."

Okay I don't care if he's just an actor that just warranted a broken nose, Dallas thought to himself just before he said to keep up the act that he knew nothing. "Oh you did NOT just call me trash!" Dallas said as he pulled a knife from out of the inside of his jacket, it was a simple switch blade which he rarely ever used, don't actually cut him just make it look good, he reminded himself, he then bull rushed the supposed Hawkmoth double acting as though he had to protect Gabriel.

"DALLAS DON'T!" Gabriel cried out in vain as his foster son slashed at the supposed supervillain, who only seemed to block his attack then with full force kicked him into the wall leaving a large indent in the side.

But it would take more than that to keep Dallas down as he quickly hopped back up and said with a lot of sass. "Nice move, who taught you how to kick? Your husband?" Guess Gabe told him this might turn into a real fight, Dallas thought to himself, Nice reaction time I must give him that. He then charged at him again only this time as he swung his cane Dallas simply slid on his knees and under his blow then he quickly whipped around, jumped up and performed a high style kung-fu kick into his opponent's back knocking him over. "HA! And you call yourself a supervillain, no wonder you use other people to do your dirty work, when it comes to fighting you suck shit." Dallas sassed as he waited for his foe to stand back up, he then turned around and extended his cane to a larger size similar to that of a bow-staff. "Wow that's a big stick, what are you compensating for something?" He quipped just before the supposed actor charged Dallas while whirling his staff from side to side. "Oh looks like we're in it now huh?" Dallas said as he ducked and dodged out of the way of all his enemy's attacks left, right and center. "Seriously what's so bad about you? I mean you've had that stupid broach for two years and you haven't even come close to getting Ladybug or Cat Noir's miraculous, not only do the people you turn into your lackies get their butt's handed to them every time but it's also being done by a couple of kids, KIDS for god sake…" Dallas then performed a sucker punch into the Hawkmoth lookalike's stomach then quickly performed a single handstand and kicked him in the chin then dropped down and swept his legs out from under him. "…and now you're getting your but kicked by me and I don't even have super powers, I mean you have a literal magical piece of jewelry and your losing to some dumb kid from the streets how can you be so incompetent to pull off a fight against a regular guy?"

Gabriel felt the sting of Dallas's words greatly, Now that just hurts, he thought to himself. "Dallas get away from him!" Gabriel cried out to his foster son. "We have to get to the saferoom and call the police!"

"What for Gabe?" Dallas asked just as he backflipped over the cane and performed a round house kick into his foe's face. "I'm kicking his ass, he's just a total pushover." Just as Dallas then turned back to his opponent he felt his weapon connect with his face, and once again causing his nose to break, he fell to the floor and wiped the blood from his face and just began to teem with rage, he quickly whipped around and caught his weapon in his hand just as it was coming down on him and just growled up at his foe with rage. "Mother…FUCKER!" He barked as he pulled the weapon out of his hand and swung it around in a perfect 360 degree angle and whacking his foe with all his might. "I have had it up…TO HERE WITH PEOPLE WHACKING ME IN THE GOD DAMN NOSE YOU SON OF A BITCH!" That's when Dallas just let out all of his rage and anger on the Hawkmoth stand in, with a series of flips and spins he bashed this foe in the head several times swinging the cane like a baseball bat, he then spun around on his heel and crouched down and performed a reverse stab like motion into his opponent's gut then swept his legs out from under him with the cane causing him to fall onto his back, Dallas then raised the weapon over his head like a war hammer then brought it down into his face. He just started to pant heavily just before he said as his final words to his enemy. "Take that…you…sack of shit." He then tossed the weapon down on the ground and walked back over to Gabriel and said with confidence all the while still trying to catch his breath. "See…he…wasn't…so tough." Just as he said that the supposed actor stood back up and collected his weapon, Dallas slowly turned around and just began to groan. "Oh come on man, how many times do I have to kick your ass before you figure out that you suck at this?"

"You've only survived this long because I was sizing you up, now that I know what I'm dealing with…" The alleged villain paused for a moment and reduced the size of his weapon back to normal and drew his sword before he continued. "I won't hold back anymore."

Dallas just grinned and thought mentally, aw how cute he's got himself a little prop sword to help sell the act, just adorable. He then reached around to his lower back and pulled another knife to make it look good. "Alright you creepy gimp-pimp crossover, lets dance…" He stated just before he asked himself out loud. "What is with me and gimp jokes these days?" Dallas then rushed back into combat with the intruder just as his foe did the same each shouting a war cry as they closed the gap, as the alleged Hawkmoth impersonator lunged with his sword Dallas deflected it with one knife and pushed it away while he slashed at him with his other knife trying to make it look like he was trying to cut him. Just then he felt his foe's knee suddenly hit him in the stomach effectively winding him, then with another swift motion he performed a side kick into his chest knocking him over onto his back, he then performed a quick sting down at his shoulder and to Dallas's surprise causing him a quick wince of pain as the razor sharp blade cut through his jacket and into his flesh. Holy shit it's real?! He asked inside his head rhetorically he quickly flipped with a backwards somersault, then on a hunch he threw the knife at his foe, and just as he thought might happen his attacker blocked the attack with his sword. Oh crap this isn't an actor, he finally came to discover his foe wasn't as they appeared to be, he's a god damned assassin, who apparently wants to cosplay his boss for some reason, assuming that he told him who he was that is, geez I figured he'd want to keep things very hush-hush but to try and kill me? That's a bit too far Gabe.

"Give up while you still can child…" His opponent taunted as he swung his blade left and right with Dallas jumping back each time. "I've never lost a fight and I don't aim to start now."

That's when Dallas started to laugh at his statement and said. "Oh please, you've literally lost every single fight you've been in with Ladybug and Cat Noir, so if anything you should try to start winning because spoiler alert…you've lost more battles with the same couple of teenagers than the Chicago Cubs have won the world series and that's saying something." Oh I gotta remember to write this down later, he mused to himself mentally. His foe rushed in and slashed at him again only this time Dallas was ready to counter and was no longer holding back, he slashed at his enemy's throat with the knife but to his surprise nothing happened. "Hmm…kevlar suit, pricey." Dallas assumed, he knew now that he wasn't an actor but he still believed at the very least that he had the common sense to prepare for a fight.

"Actually it's more along the lines of magic my boy." The Hawkmoth double corrected as he swung his sword at Dallas once before Dallas kicked him in the stomach, then he summersaulted forward and quickly kicked him in the back of the knee, Dallas then went in for the kill as he raised his knives over his head and rushed in after him, but just as he brought his knives down his enemy quickly spun around and punched Dallas in the face with full force, Dallas skid a few feet on the floor until he came to a stop. "Foolish child, this fight was over before it even began. Now then…" The intruder then turned to Gabriel and began to monolog. "You have something I want Mr. Agreste something I need and I won't take no for an answer." He said as he walked ever so closer to Gabriel, until Dallas tossed both of his knives at his foe's back, they stuck into the suit but did no damage as expected, but he wasn't trying to hurt him, just distract him.

The attacker turned back to Dallas and saw him charging in again. "I'm not done with you butterfly boy!" He shouted as he leapt into the air and socked his enemy in the face, the Hawkmoth lookalike swung his sword again and just missed Dallas as he quickly leapt back and grabbed a bust of Napoleon off a pedestal and tossed it at his enemy who quickly sliced through it as if it were paper, after he did so Dallas used this split moment when he was vulnerable and rushed him, he grabbed the hand currently holding his sword and twisted it behind his back into a half nelson then pulled it out of his hand, he then kicked his enemy in the back and began to whirl the sword from side to side in a figure eight pattern. "Geez if you sucked any more than this you'd be a blackhole." Then his opponent quickly whipped around and swung the other half of his cane at Dallas as a substitute sword, Dallas quickly took up a fencing position and shouted. "ON GUARD ASSHOLE!" Both figures quickly began to duel each swinging their weapons with lightning fast reflexes, the clanging of steel upon steel filled the room, sparks began to fly as Dallas stood his ground against his foe.

"You fight well, it's clear that I underestimated you." The would be Hawkmoth complimented as he lunged forward trying to stab Dallas in the chest only for him to deflect it and push it away. Then both swordsman dashed forward and found themselves in a deadlock, then the intruder continued. "Perhaps you should join me."

"Join a guy who's never even come close to getting the miraculous? HA, thanks but I'm not interested in working for an absolute tool, especially one who can't beat a kid without SUPERPOWERS!" Dallas stated as he quickly grabbed the collar of his foe's shirt and headbutted him, then he fell backwards while still holding on to his shirt and quickly kicked him over him and into the far wall knocking down a few pictures of Gabriel and his son. "Now STAY DOWN!" He barbed as he tossed the sword to the ground, he then turned back to Gabriel with a grin on his face and walked back over to him and said. "That's two for me now, no wonder he always loses the guy…can't…huh?" Dallas stopped bragging as he heard the creaking of furniture from behind him, he turned around and saw that his foe wasn't done just yet, also that he had lifted a very large couch over his head all by himself. "Oh…come on." He said just before he grabbed his foster father and pulled him to the ground ducking out of the way of the couch as the man who he no longer believed was just an assassin but the real Hawkmoth now had just thrown it. "Well I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong." He said to himself just before he help Gabriel onto his feet. "Come on Gabe move that overpriced suit of yours!"

He pulled Gabriel out of his office and lead him to the garage to try and make their escape in one of the cars. "Wouldn't it be safer to head to the safe room instead?" Gabriel asked as Dallas dragged him along with an amount of strength that actually managed to surprise him.

"No time, plus I think we stand a better chance of out running him in a car than we do out lasting him in a big metal box, which I'm sure he could just tear open with an Akumaa." Gabriel was about to open up the lock box to grab one of the keys when Dallas just yanked him away and dragged him to the nearest car. "We don't have time for that either, besides we don't need the keys to any of these, my dad taught me how to hotwire a car." He said just as the garage door began to open up and revealing that Adrien had just gotten home. "Oh…well that was lucky."

Both Gabriel and Dallas rushed over to Adrien and quickly hopped inside. "Uh…what's going on? Why are you both…?" Before Adrien could finish Dallas simply shoved him out of the driver's seat.

"Move over Miss Daisy if were gonna get away from that fucker than I'll have to drive." Dallas declared as he got in the seat.

"Wait what are you…" Before he could even ask the door connecting the house to the garage was then kicked open and showing Adrien what they were running from, or rather who. "Hawkmoth? What is he doing here?"

"Ask your dad, and hang on both of you!" Dallas said as he put the car in reverse and sped out of the drive with the skill of a stunt driver leaving Hawkmoth behind and standing in the opening of the garage.

He smiled fiendishly, he then popped open the top of his cane and said. "Step one has gone off without a hitch, it's up to you now Mayura."

Dallas just kept the car running at top speed as he tried to get as much distance between them and the mansion. But completely unannounced to either of the three in the car things were far from over as Mayura was stood atop a building holding a small item in her hand, an item that belonged to Adrien, the lucky charm that Marinette had given him a while ago, she then plucked a feather from her fan and charged it up with dark energy turning it blue then she placed it into the charm and created a new sentimonster, she began to craft the being into someone she knew they would stop for. "Marinette Dupain-Chang…" She began to address her servant. "You are to step out in front of that car and force them to stop for our mission to succeed, do you understand?"

The Marinette sentimonster opened her eyes and said to her master. "Yes Mayura, I won't let you down." Without hesitation she leapt ahead of the car from one building to the next, as soon as she was far enough a head of them she dropped down to the ground and ran out into the street after she allowed them time to get closer to the crosswalk.

Around that same moment Adrien took notice and saw who he assumed was Marinette and cried out. "STOP THE CAR!" Dallas saw her too and quickly slammed on the breaks hoping that they wouldn't hit her. Adrien then hopped out of the car and ran over to the sentimonster completely unaware that she was a fraud. "Mari what are you doing out here so late at night?"

Mayura then began to speak through her creation. "Mayura attacked my house, she hurt my parents and now she's chasing after me." She said using the monster to deceive them all.

Adrien instantly felt scared, he instantly began to wonder if their identities could be compromised. He then began to ask her. "Do you think that Hawkmoth might know about…"

"Hey love birds, I don't know about you but I for one don't want to be caught in the open by a supervillain so quit staring into each other's eyes and lets go!" Dallas shouted from the car. Adrien needed no convincing as he helped the sentimonster in to the passenger's seat, as soon as he was about to get into the back seat with his father his phone began to ring, he quickly pulled it out about to decline the call when he read the caller ID, Marinette. "Really? Your checking your phone right now? While there are supervillains chasing after all of us?"

Adrien was completely confused, he had no idea what was going on or why she was calling him when she was right in front of him, but he just chalked it up to a pocket dialing as he just swiped left then began to enter the car, that's when Dallas gunned the engine again and took off at top speed, around that moment Adrien's phone began to ring again, and once again it was Marinette. "Hey Mari, I think your pocket dialing me."

The sentimonster turned back to him and said in response. "I actually didn't have time to grab my phone when I ran out. It's possible that Mayura could be using it to try and find you."

Adrien of course found that to be a reasonable assumption, but this whole thing felt very fishy to Dallas, just as he was about to ask her how she got to this part of town so quickly on foot his phone began to ring, instead of just answering and talking to whoever it was he just hit accept and handed the phone to Adrien. "See whoever that is and tell them to call me back later." He said while he focused on the road.

Adrien took the phone and placed it to his ear. "Hello? Whoever this is could you please call Dallas back later, we're kind of in the middle of something that requires our attention." He said politely just as he was about to hit end call.

"Well maybe if you would answer my calls or at least call me and let me know when you've gotten home I wouldn't have to call Dallas and bother him kitty." The caller said sounding annoyed.

Adrien's confusion quickly returned as he heard the voice of his lover on the other end, just to make sure though he checked the caller ID and saw Marinette's name right on the screen, at first he thought it was Mayura using her phone like their new passenger said, but that thought quickly disappeared when he remembered one thing, the caller used her nickname for him, he was about to ask how it was possible for her to be in the car with them at the same time as talking to him over the phone from somewhere else when he remembered something else about Mayura's abilities, he remembered that she could make sentimonsters that looked exactly like other people, Adrien then dropped the phone and lunged forward and put the sentimonster in a chokehold and keeping it right where he wanted her to be. "Adrien what the hell are you doing?!" Dallas cried out as he briefly looked over.

"It's not her, it's one of Mayura's sentimonsters!" He cried just before the sentimonster bit down into Adrien's arm as hard as it could forcing him to release her. Before Dallas could even react the sentimonster then kicked Dallas with both legs and full force out of the car breaking the seatbelt and nocking the door off the side of the car. "DALLAS!" Adrien cried as he watched his foster brother being forced out of the car. Without hesitation the Marinette imposter hopped into the driver's seat and took the wheel, Adrien knew that he and his father had to escape while they still could, so he unlocked the doors and cried to his father. "Tuck and roll!" He then unbuckled both their seatbelts then Adrien opened his door and bailed out of the car, he tumbled and bounced on the road as the car sped off, as soon as Adrien stopped he stood back up and started to groan as he rubbed the soreness from his body, when he looked around for his father and saw he was nowhere to be found, he then looked back to the car and saw he was slumped over in the back seat seeming to have been knocked unconscious. "FATHER!" He cried with fear as he watched the sentimonster drive off with his father to a place only god knew. Adrien knew their was only one way to save his father now. "Plagg, Claws…"

"NO!" Dallas quickly stopped him before he transformed. "Not in the open, Mayura or Hawkmoth could be close by, we'll transform over there in that alley." Dallas said as he pointed to a secluded place. Adrien nodded and followed Dallas into the alley completely unaware that Mayura was stood atop a nearby building.

"Hawkmoth…" She spoke into her fan contacting her master. "Your plan has succeeded and the boys know nothing." She said with a smile.

"Masterful work Mayura, now deliver the ultimatum to the boys." Hawkmoth replied as he spoke to her through his cane.

Just as the boys were about to transform and go after Gabriel and the sentimonster they were both startled as Mayura dropped down from the roof tops, they both whipped around to see her figure standing before them with a smirk. "Evening boys…" She greeted with a chilling tone.

Adrien just gritted his teeth at the villainess as he felt rage building up inside of him. "Your gonna pay for this!" He shouted as he grabbed the lid of a trashcan and threw it at her head, only for her to slice through it with her fan, Adrien then rushed at her at top speed with a fist raised but she simply sidestepped out of the way, he quickly came to a screeching halt and ran at her again throwing a series of punches and kicks at her only for her to block them each time.

Growing board of this Mayura quickly grabbed his wrist and twisted it into a half nelson then she kicked the back of his knees forcing him to the ground. "If your quite done with this display of pointless anger I have a message for you…" She began to lay out Hawkmoth's demands. "Your father has something that Hawkmoth wants, something that he stole from him a long time ago, something he wants back and if he doesn't get it…well let's just say that not even your father's infinite wealth will be enough to bring him back."

While she was talking Dallas took this as a chance to pull out a set of throwing knives that he kept strapped to his forearms, he casually pulled out two knives and prepared to throw them at the villainess. "And what is it that he's after pray tell?" He asked calmly waiting for the right opportunity to strike.

Mayura looked up to Dallas and replied just as casual. "He wants his spell book back, Gabriel stole it from him years ago and he wants it back and if it's not delivered to him by midnight tomorrow then Gabriel will feel the full wrath of my lord Hawkmoth."

"That's what this is about? Some stupid book?" Adrien asked with slight annoyance.

Dallas started searching for any part of his environment he could use to try and gain the advantage, but it was far too enclosed and the only thing that seemed to be helpful would've been a dumpster on the far end of the alley, he knew he had no choice, if he was going to take her down he'd have to face her head on. "It's not just some book boy, it contains the knowledge of all known miraculous in the world, it also holds the secrets to unlocking greater power to each miraculous." Mayura stated as she looked back down at Adrien, that's when Dallas took his shot.

"ADRIEN STAY DOWN!" With a quick overhand throw he quickly threw the knives at Mayura hoping that Adrien wouldn't be hit, Mayura looked up to see two knives being hurled her way, she quickly jumped directly into the air and out of the way of the knives, Adrien quickly stood up and took a fighting stance. But instead of returning to the ground Mayura simply landed on a fire escape and glared down at Dallas.

"How ungrateful of you, and after my lord and I convinced Lorenzo to leave you be, I would've thought you'd show us a little gratitude for our service to you…say translate the book for us for example." She growled with annoyance.

Dallas had already guessed that's why they did it, but he still played dumb. "So that's why Hawkmoth threatened him, he knew that I could read the book but needed me to be as safe as possible in order to get it done." He said sounding stunned.

"It would seem he was right about you, you are a clever young man after all, but I'm curious though if your smart enough to accept his offer to work for him." Mayura replied with a devilish smirk.

"And go back to a life of crime after I've already gotten away from it? Thanks for the offer Lady Gah-gah but I'm not interested in working for some freak dressed like a gay pimp." He declined just before he threw a trio of knives at her, she leapt out of the way and started to make her retreat using parkour up the walls.

She stopped atop the roof of the building and called to them below. "If you ever want to see your father again Adrien then bring the book to the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysees by midnight tomorrow, but come alone and don't even think about calling to police!" And with that said she took off out of sight.

Adrien looked as if he was going to transform again but Dallas had to stop him. "No you can't! If Cat Noir shows up this fast don't you think it'll be a little too convenient?" He said as he grabbed his wrist.

"We can't just let her get away they've got my dad!" He shouted at his foster brother as he pulled his arm free.

"And we will get him back, we just need to be smart about this…" Dallas began to think of a way to defeat Hawkmoth and Mayura as well as rescue Gabriel, he knew that they'd have to bring in the team in order to over come Hawkmoth, but he knew if Adrien didn't show up with the book then they would most likely follow through on their promise, and if Cat Noir didn't show up then that would look suspicious, he then figured out what to do. "Okay here's the plan."

It was clear that neither of the boys got much sleep that night, especially Adrien, his stomach just kept on churning at the thought of his father being at the mercy of Hawkmoth. Almost twenty-four hours later atop the Arc de Triomphe Hawkmoth and Mayura waited patiently for Adrien to show up with the book, it was almost eleven o'clock when he finally arrived with the item of interest. "Ahhhhh…just in time." Hawkmoth mused as he and Mayura leapt down to the ground, they slowly made their way over to Adrien as he exited the car with the book in hand. "I see you brought my book, good boy." Hawkmoth grinned as he reached for the book, only for it to be pulled away from him.

"First I get my father back, then you get your book, nonnegotiable." Adrien stated firmly as he pulled out a small lighter and flicked it on and held the flame close to the book's pages.

Hawkmoth and Mayura flinched slightly as they saw he was being serious. Hawkmoth then smiled with admiration that Adrien showed such tenacity in the face of a negotiation with a supervillain. "Very well, Mayura be a dear and retrieve Mr. Agreste for me." Mayura did as he asked and went over to a van parked on the curb, but before she got close enough to unlock the door she was wrapped up with a certain red spotted yo-yo and pulled off her feet and flung halfway across the round about circling the Arc de triomphe. "WHAT?!" Hawkmoth bellowed just before he was punched in the face by an invisible force.

"Play times over Hawkmoth." A voice declared as the owner turned visible again revealing none other than Rena Rouge. "Kiss your book…and your freedom good bye, because tonight we're taking you DOWN!" She lunged forward swinging her flute at Hawkmoth just as he leapt back and blocked her attack with his cane.

"How did you do that?!" He bellowed as he swung his cane at her feeling completely surprised that she was able to use a private spell meant for her miraculous without ever even reading the book.

"Same way she did this Hawkmoth!" Adrien then leapt forward and hit Hawkmoth in the face with the book, then much to his amazement both Adrien and the book we're revealed to be Cat Noir and his staff simply miniaturized.

Hawkmoth was startled by this display and strategy. "An illusion?!" He gasped as he felt the shock of trickery wash over him.

"Prrretty cool huh? Thanks to our new friend Dallas Jones everyone on the team has even more powers to use against you…" Cat Noir grinned as he extended his staff. "I don't know about you Rena but I have a 'feline' that he wasn't expecting us."

"But…how did any of you…?" Hawkmoth began to ask when Cat Noir cut him off.

"Well duh…Adrien told Queen bee, she's a member of the team too you know, so naturally she contacted us and we came rushing to the rescue." Cat said with a smirk as he rushed in with Rena at his side. Hawkmoth quickly drew his sword and swiped at Rena just before Cat Noir cried out. "CATACLYSM!" And threw a black sphere of energy at his sword and disintegrated it before it could connect with her, Rena then whacked Hawkmoth in the face with her flute then she spun on her heel and kicked him in the gut with full force. Hawkmoth slid back a few feet stunned at this new attack that Cat Noir had used. "I did mention Dallas helped us understand the book didn't I? Thanks to him we can use our powers in a whole new way, along with a few other neat tricks too, like this…RAZER CLAW!" A flash of green light formed around Cat Noir's hands and out popped a large set of blade like claws from each. "Apparently with this spell I can cut through literally anything as easily as butter."

"And while he can do that I can do this…MIRROR!" Rena then activated her cloning ability and duplicated herself at least five times. "Let me ask you something Hawkmoth, do you feel lucky tonight?"

Instead of running like a coward he simply smiled devilishly and said. "Actually I do, NOW GOROZILLA!" The ground then began to shake as Gabriel Agreste's bodyguard who it would seem was once again akumitized came thundering forth to aid Hawkmoth and Mayura, both Rena and Cat Noir simply looked up at him and gulped. "Did you really think I wouldn't have prepared for the likes of you showing up? Oh but it's not just him you have to deal with…" That's when Hawkmoth pulled out one of Mayura's amucks and applied it to what he had left of his cane summoning a large moth sized sentimonster. "It's my own negative attitude as well."

"I'll take the bug you take the big guy!" Cat relayed to his teammate as he leapt at the giant insect and slashed with his massive claws. It roared as he sliced into its form desperately trying to shake him off.

Rena then sighed and said. "Oh sure leave me the bigger problem." Gorozilla raised up his fists and brought them down toward Rena who quickly rolled out of the way and leapt onto the gigantic Akumaa's arm along with all of her clones each one of them throwing their flutes into his eyes causing him to be temporarily blinded. But that didn't mean he was completely vulnerable, he quickly swatted at Rena and her Clones as if they were flies knocking them off of him. Once they were all on the ground he lifted up his foot and tried to crush them.

"SHELTER!" Carapace cried as he dashed out of nowhere and activated his shield to protect his lover from the massive gorilla's foot. "Don't worry babe I've got your back." He said as he looked down at her with a smile.

She smiled back at him and said. "Never had a doubt turtle boy." She then picked up her flute and began to play a tune, once the shield came down she aimed the end of the flute at Gorozilla and used it like a blowgun shooting a puff of mist into his face, once it made contact he began to feel something strange, he felt dizzy and very out of it, he then looked at his hands and began to see little eyeballs appearing on his finger pads and in the palms of his hands. "Wow…kid wasn't kidding, the hallucination darts really pack a punch."

"HEY GUYS?! LITTLE HELP HERE!" Cat cried out as he held on for dear life on the back of the sentimonster after it had taken off and flown fifty feet in the air.

"We've got this!" That's when Queen bee and Ryuko sprang into action and flew up to aid him. "Queen bee, use your stingers on that thing!" Ryuko cried out as they flew up to the sentimonster.

"But what about Cat Noir?" She called back. "If that thing falls he could get hurt, especially if he gets paralyzed!" She pointed out to her team mate.

"I'll grab him myself, once I'm clear let that thing have it!" She announced as she flew in faster, as soon as she got closer she extended her hand for Cat to grab. "Cat Noir take my hand!" She cried out to him. He needed no convincing as he stood up and leapt into the air and grabbed her hand and she carried him off. "NOW QUEEN BEE!"

Without any more need for hesitation Queen bee flew in and took aim. "VENOM!" She cried then hit the sentimonster with a rapid fire of stingers effectively immobilizing it, and without another word the monster fell to the ground crashing on top of the large arch below then rolling off and falling to the ground. "HA! Take that you ugly bug!" She cheered feeling victorious.

"Nice one Chloe, you really showed that thing who's boss." Cat Noir praised her as Ryuko hovered next to her.

"Why thank you Cat…" She replied just before she added sounding very annoyed. "And it's Queen bee!"

Back on the ground Ladybug, Monkey-king and Pegasus were stood next to the van that Mayura was drawn to, she turned to her teammates and began to give them orders. "You two get Mr. Agreste back home, we'll deal with Hawkmoth and Mayura."

"You got it Ladybug, I'll drive the van you throw up a portal dude." Monkey-king said as he and his teammates split up to do their duties. Monkey-king opened up the driver's door and hopped into the front of the car, he quickly began searching for the keys, he didn't have to look too long as he found they were already in the ignition. "Wow…how irresponsible." He said as he turned on the engine. He then opened up the window and called out to Pegasus. "Alright man, let's rock and roll!"

Pegasus nodded then said. "One one-way portal to Agreste Mansion coming up, VOYAGE!" He extended his arm and shot a light blue ring out in front of him creating a portal leading back to the mansion, Monkey-king wasted no time and drove straight through the portal, as soon as he was through it closed up and to the knowledge of the team Mr. Agreste was safe.

Mayura was just starting to stand back up when she was startled by the sound of someone landing right in front of her. "Did you enjoy your flight Mayura?" Ladybug asked as she looked down at her enemy and spun her yo-yo around.

"The Agreste boy will pay for his treachery, but not until after we have your miraculous!" Mayura declared as she lunged forward at Ladybug with her fan slashing at Ladybug left and right only for Ladybug to hop back and block each of her attacks.

"Come on Mayura…" Ladybug said as she began to taunt her foe. "Surely you can do better than this." And just as she wanted Ladybug managed to get under her skin as she leapt forward and delivered a swift kick into Ladybug's stomach. "Well…now I'm impressed."

"And soon you'll be powerless!" She ran forward in the attempt to tackle her opponent but before she could even touch her Viperion phased in out of his mamba strike and grabbed her while she was in mid air then spun her around and threw her into the air.

"Bunnix your up!" He cried out to his teammate as he just watched Mayura go flying.

Around that same moment Bunnix came running in and from behind Ladybug and Viperion. "SPRING FEET!" She cried as she launched herself into the air and went straight for Mayura, just as she was directly over her she grinned down at the villainess and used another one of her new spells. "FAST FORWARD!" In the blink of an eye Bunnix dropped like a meteorite as her feet collided with Mayura sending her straight back to the ground with a crash and a large amount of dust. The dust slowly began to settle revealing the pavement had been shattered with immense force. Bunnix quickly hopped out of the crater and began to dust herself off. "How did that look? Did it look super awesome?"

Before she could get an answer Mayura then leapt out of the whole and tackled Bunnix to the ground causing them both to tumble and role. Both Bunnix and Mayura quickly sprang to their feet and readied themselves for a personal one on one fight. "Don't worry Bunnix we got your back!" Viperion said as he and Ladybug readied their weapons.

"No I've got this go help Carapace and Rena…" Bunnix replied as she readied her parasol and spun in around herself to intimidate her foe. "Smurfet is all mine!"

Ladybug nodded then she and Viperion took off to help the others. "How brave of you to fight me alone little bunny…" Mayura smirked as she opened her fan. "But I'm afraid that you don't yet realize that this fight was over before it started."

"Your right…" Bunnix replied casually. "You never had a chance against me." In that instant Bunnix rushed in and swung her weapon at Mayura just before she dodged it with a cartwheel which she followed up by sweeping her legs out from under her, Bunnix quickly fell on her back then rolled out of the way as she saw Mayura attempt to stomp her into the ground. Bunnix quickly hopped back up and Cried out. "BURROW!" She then leapt forward and disappeared into a time portal. She then reappeared just behind Mayura and whacked her in the back of the head, she landed with a forward roll then disappeared into another portal and reappeared again as she sailed through the air and kicked Mayura in the chest knocking her down, but she quickly recovered and stood back up. "Catch me if you can Mayura…" She dared the villainess just before she fell backward into another portal then reappeared from directly above Mayura with her parasol held high above her head like a club, but Mayura was quick enough to react and jumped out of the way.

Mayura landed with grace then turned back to her opponent then began to ask with both amazement and anger. "How do you keep doing that? You've already used your onetime power you shouldn't be able to use it again until your kwami's had a chance to recharge!"

Bunnix just grinned and said. "A friend of ours translated the book for us, now we're twice as powerful and you can't do shit about it, FAST FORWARD!" She dashed forward with great speed then delivered a strong blow to Mayura's front taking her down fast as she flew into a dumpster. "BOOM! Right were you belong, with the rest of the trash, god that sounded so cheesy."

As she began to walk away from her opponent Mayura slowly began to stand back up, feeling enraged she used her enhanced strength to lift the dumpster over her head then threw it at Bunnix while she wasn't looking. "BUNNIX BEHIND YOU!" Pegasus cried out from afar, but it was too late, just as she'd heard him she quickly turned around only to see the dumpster coming crashing down on her. She was then knocked unconscious as the dumpster sat on top of her, Mayura simply walked up to her foe and smiled as she reached for the pocket where she kept her miraculous, but before she could even touch it Pegasus quickly warped in and took her down with a double kick to the face. "Get away from her!" He shouted as he pulled his boomerang off his back and threw it with all his might and anger. She quickly backflipped as it passed her by but out of no where Pegasus warped in again from behind her grabbing his weapon and whacked her in the back of the head without warning, she quickly turned around and slashed at him with her fan but hit nothing but air as he warped away again and reappeared above her and tossed his weapon at her again, she dodged it and it ricocheted off the ground to the wall and back to him as he ran across the wall toward her. "GALLOP!" He cried out as he activated his superspeed and delivered a lightning fast series of strikes all over her until he finally finished it with a quick kick sending her flying into the side of the paralyzed sentimonster. "Nobody messes with my friends!" He growled as his rage slowly subsided. He then rushed over to the dumpster and threw it off of Bunnix and quickly checked to see if she was okay. "Bunnix? Bunnix can you hear me?" He cried as he took her in his arms and tried to shake her awake.

She began to groan as she slowly opened her eyes. "Did…did anybody get the plate number of that truck that hit me?" She joked weakly as she smiled up at her teammate.

He breathed a sigh of relief as he found that she was alright. "Don't you ever scare me like that again." He asked as he slowly felt his fear disappear.

She grinned up at him and said. "I was right…you've got a crush on me." She then placed a small kiss on his cheek causing him to blush very heavily.

Just across from them Ladybug, Viperion, Carapace and Rena Rouge were also engaged in combat against Hawkmoth and Gorozilla who had finally come down from the darts he was tagged with, even though he didn't have much of his weapon left Hawkmoth still fought to the best of his abilities even without a weapon, using kung fu he was able to hold off against Ladybug and Rena while Carapace and Viperion kept Gorozilla busy, which was not an easy task for just the two of them to do. "Watch out!" Viperion cried out as he tackled his teammate out of the way of the giant's foot. "So lucky that we have the snake miraculous."

Carapace looked at Viperion and asked with a worried look. "Are you saying that he's crushed me a few times?"

"Uhhhhhh…yeah, but just about two or three times…OH CRAP!" Viperion pointed as he saw a very large fist coming down at the two of them.

"SHELTER!" Carapace quickly activated his onetime power protecting the two of them from the massive fist. "We're never gonna beat him at this rate, any ideas?" He asked Viperion who began to think of a way to over come this Akumaa as quickly as possible with only the two of them.

"When I tell you to…drop the shield." Viperion requested as he had come up with a solution to win this fight.

Carapace looked at him with shock and asked. "Are you crazy? This is the only thing that's keeping us safe from his oversized feet!"

"I know what I'm doing just trust me!" Viperion shouted just before he turned back to see the Akumaa's fist coming down on the shield again. Once he started to put his foot down Viperion shouted back to Carapace. "NOW!" In an instant the shield dropped and Viperion threw his harp right at Gorozilla's nose, as soon as the pain registered Gorozilla quickly began to hold his stinging nose as he was now completely distracted by his pain. "Hold up your shield and catapult me up to his face!" Viperion relayed as he started to run back to Carapace.

Carapace smiled and said. "Ready for lift off!" He crouched down and held out his shield so Viperion could get on to it easily. Viperion leapt into the air flipping like an acrobat as he landed on the shield's surface, then with all of his strength Carapace threw Viperion up to Gorozilla's head which was exactly where he needed to be.

As soon as he was looking the Akumaa in the eye he put his plan into action. "COBRA SHOT!" He cried as a double shot of snake venom shot out of his open mouth and hit Gorozilla right in the eyes temporarily blinding him, while Viperion was still in the air he chose to go the extra mile and take down the Akumaa. "COIL!" He stretched out as far as he could and wrapped Gorozilla up with his body like before, only this time on a larger scale, he increased his grip more and more by the second squeezing the massive gorilla into submission. As he came down like a fallen tree Carapace took this chance to find Gorozilla's akumitized object which as he already knew from the first time that Gorozilla was akumitized was Adrien's lucky charm, which he found in his front pocket rather quickly.

"Ladybug, I've got the charm!" He cried out as he tossed Ladybug the lucky charm and rushed in to swap places with her in the fight against Hawkmoth, she quickly turned around and caught it in her hand and snapped it in two freeing the Akumaa.

"Play time's over little Akumaa, time to de-evilize!" Ladybug spun her yo-yo around and caught the Akumaa as usual. "Gotcha!" She praised herself just before she released the butterfly. "Bye-bye little butterfly…" She then turned around and saw Gorozilla slowly turning back into his normal self. "That's three down and only one to go." Ladybug turned her attention back over to Hawkmoth and saw that he was now surrounded by the entire team with little chance to escape. "Give it up Hawkmoth…" She barbed as she and Viperion joined the group. "It's over, you've finally lost and there's no way out." She pulled her yo-yo and began to spin it at her side.

But Hawkmoth simply smiled devilishly and asked rhetorically. "Have I?" This response was puzzling to the young heroes, up until Ladybug got a call from Monkey-king on her bug-phone.

She flipped it open and saw the look of shock on his face. "Ladybug, Mr. Agreste was never in the van." He said as he showed the empty inside of the vehicle.

This cause the team to feel worried, especially Cat Noir. "Where is he Hawkmoth?!" Cat shouted as he extended his staff and fully prepared to beat the answer out of him if he refused to cooperate.

But there was no need for it as he was more than happy to comply. "Well there is something inside that van that could help you find him, I'd be more than happy to tell you where to look…in exchange for say letting Mayura and myself of course go, or you could refuse my offer and search for it yourselves, but by that time it could be too late, you see children…I spent a great deal of time to set him up in a very…unique…facility. Now what's it going to be Ladybug? My freedom for Gabriel's life? Or My imprisonment for his death?" Hawkmoth offered to them.

Ladybug just began to grind her teeth, even when she'd finally had him cornered like a rat she'd lost, she knew they had no choice but to let him go. She put her yo-yo down and ordered her team. "Stand down…" Knowing this was their only option the young hero's all began to reluctantly put their weapons away.

Hawkmoth simply smiled and said. "A wise choice…" He began to walk out of the circle of heroes as they let him pass and headed over to Mayura and helped her up. "We'd best get going while we still can." He suggested as he help steady her.

"But what about the book?" She asked with confusion.

Hawkmoth quickly replied as he looked back at the heroes. "We'll worry about it another time." And with that said both villains took off down the street and began to leap up to the rooftops, Hawkmoth only paused for a moment to fulfill his end of the bargain. "Make sure you always check your tiers children, you never know when they'll need more air."

It was cryptic but easy to understand. "Monkey-king, check near the tires like inside of the wheel wells." Ladybug relayed to her teammate over the phone, he quickly began to search the car in the places she'd suggested and found just what they needed, it was a flash drive which was being held with duct tape just inside of the wheel well of the van.

"I got something, it's a flash drive or something, I'll bet anything that it show's Mr. Agreste's location." He relayed back to his team leader.

"Okay, give it to Dallas, I happen to know that he's a brilliant hacker he should be able to get through any kind of encryption on it, assuming there is any." Ladybug replied just before she hung up. "Come on gang, let's go home." She said with a defeated tone.

"But what about Hawkmoth and Mayura?" Rena asked with confusion. "We can't just let them get away."

Ladybug just turned back to her and said. "Doesn't matter, their probably long gone by now if not in their civilian forms."

"She's right, all they have to do is transform and it's like finding a needle in a haystack, it would just be a waste of our time, let's just be grateful that we're getting Gabriel back to his son." Cat Noir agreed with his lover, he felt glad that he'd saved his father, but he was kicking himself for letting Hawkmoth get away.

"I'll bet this would've gone differently if a certain spider themed superhero had even bothered to show up tonight." Queen bee growled as she folded her arms feeling bitter with Iktomi for his lack of appearance on this night. "Where the hell is he anyway?"

"He's out gathering intel for us…" Ladybug announced still feeling upset that they'd failed a task which should've been so easy for them to achieve.

The entire team looked at her with confusion. "Intel for what? Is something about to happen that we need to prepare for?" Rena asked her leader and idol.

Ladybug looked at Cat with a look that basically asked if she should tell them, he nodded his head yes, then she sighed and said. "Alright everyone…listen up because this is important, because there are lives on the line if we fail, which is why…that cannot happen, at any cost."

Twenty minutes after the fight Hawkmoth and Mayura had retreated to an old abandon house on the far side of town, it was rundown with paint pealing from the walls and the floor planks were rotted, holes had formed over time in the ceiling and had black water stains almost everywhere you'd look. "Duusu, fall my feathers." With a blue flash Mayura quickly transformed back into Natalie.

"Nooroo, dark wings fall." Hawkmoth also transformed back into civilian form then both headed inside with a brief case filled with money, they stopped as soon as they had found their way to the living room of the house where they were met with the site of a man who looked and dressed exactly like Gabriel Agreste. "We have your money, and I just want to say thank you so much for playing the role of my decoy…" Gabriel said warmly as he placed the case on the table and opened it wide revealing several thousand euros. "I understand this isn't the usual kind of work your used to, but I didn't want to risk the life of anyone who may or may not have similar skills if captured by a supervillain."

"Oh I understand…" The doppelganger replied as he turned to face his employer, he reached for his wrist which held a very strange and expensive looking watch, it was black with a blue flashing light on its face, he pressed a button and a series of pixels began to appear all over his body, suddenly his entire vision changed to that of a different looking man, a man in his forties whose face was covered in scars from years of working in his profession, he wore a very expensive black designer suit and carried a gun on his hip. "To be honest it gets boring doing the same job over and over again, it's actually a nice change of pace, but that doesn't mean I'm just going to change who I am, I'm number one in my field for a reason after all." The man then reached into his coat and pulled out a cigar and a box of matches.

"And for a very good one as well, if I'd known you were in Paris earlier than I would've hired you to deal with Lorenzo instead, but still the black widow did her job." Gabriel stated as he smiled knowing that in the end Lorenzo got what he deserved and more.

Just as this mysterious man heard him say that he then looked at Gabriel and asked. "The black widow of Chernobyl? She was here?"

"Yes she was, why?" Gabriel asked back seeming almost confused.

"Because that little bitch is hell bent on killing me that's why, god damn…this is the closest call yet." He replied as he lit up his cigar and started to take a long drag from it, he simply held in the smoke then let it out slowly as he felt the nicotine take effect. "If god ever created anyone to be the bane of my existence it would be her, the sooner I kill that little slut the better."

"Well best of luck to you then Chameleon, oh…and it's been a pleasure doing business with you." Gabriel replied as he and Natalie left the house, they proceeded to a car they had stashed close by for this very meeting with the famed assassin, then they drove off to the preselected location in which to stage for Gabriel's whereabouts.

Almost five minutes after another car pulled up to the house, a simple yellow taxi, and inside was none other than Lila Rossi, she too had business with the assassin, as well as another case full of money. "Stay here, this won't take long…" She said to the cab driver just before she stepped out of the car. She walked up to the front door and nocked three times then nocked two more times as instructed by the assassin.

The door cracked open and revealing the scared face of the Chameleon to his youngest client he'd ever accepted a contract for. "Oh good your finally here…" He said with a smile. "You got my money?"

"Yeah I've got your cash in full, but why couldn't we have done this with a wire transfer? And why did we have to meet here it feels like I'm gonna get tetanus in this neighborhood." She complained feeling very…unclean just by being there.

"Call me old fashion Ms. Rossi, now then…" He stepped back and opened the door wide ushering her inside. "Let's get down to business shall we?" Lila stepped inside minding where she stepped as she could see this place was not sanitary at all, the Chameleon closed the door and followed her into the living room, he walked over to his brief case and he pulled out a slip of paper. "I've taken the liberty of writing it out for you…" He then reached into his suit's front pocket and pulled out a pair of reading glasses then he began to read the contract to her. "This contract does here by state that I…the Chameleon, will kill one Marinette Dupain-Chang and frame one Adrien Agreste for the crime, temporarily…as instructed by one la Volpe, that's you…until he agrees to 'willingly choose' to be your one and only true love in which case I plant evidence that he didn't actually kill her in which case clearing him of all charges and giving you the chance to marry him and live in what is your sick twisted version of a happily ever after. I know it's not my place Ms. Rossi but there are plenty of other fish in the see, so why are you so hell bent on forcing this poor kid to be with you when he clearly wants nothing to do with you?" He asked feeling as though she was confusing love with lust a little too easily.

She just frowned her brow and said. "Because I saw him first, then that little slut Marinette came along and stole him from me, he should've been mine right from the start, so now I have to get rid of her and show Adrien the mistake he'd made by being with someone like her."

He just sighed and said. "Your as cold as they come you know that kid? Even after I kill the girl there's no guaranty that he'll agree to be with you, odd's are he'll probably take going to prison for a murder he didn't commit over being with you any day."

She then stood up and snarled at him. "I'm not hiring you to lecture me I'm hiring you to kill that little bitch, it's not my fault she couldn't take the hint while she still could…and what I was hinting at was that I ALWAYS…get what I want."

The Chameleon just sighed and said. "Fine, have it your way…" He then pulled out a small knife and cut his finger with it then stained the paper with it on the dotted line which was labeled contractor. "Your turn."

"Uh…why did you do that?" She asked with a little bit of confusion.

He looked at her with a stern look and said. "What did you think I meant when I told you this was a blood contract, people don't sign their names on these things anymore, way too risky." He handed her the knife so she could place her 'signature'. She took the knife and cut her finger, then she stained the line which was labeled client. "Alright it's official, we're locked in until the job is done, that means no turning back you know, period."

She grinned evilly and said. "Oh I never had any intentions of changing my mind, happy hunting." She then turned around and headed to the door, but before she turned the nob she turned back to him and said. "Oh…one more thing, when you finally kill her, let her know it was me, oh and take her earrings too, I've always thought they'd look cuter on me anyway." Without another word she stepped out of the house and returned to the cab, once she was inside the car drove off with her inside. She simply grinned to herself as she relished in the joy of what she was doing, with absolutely no regrets. "Soon…very…very…very soon Adrien, you will either be mine…or you'll spend the rest of your life in prison, either way…I…win."

(A/N: Duh duh duh…IT'S ON NOW YALL, hope you guys liked it, also sorry that I had to throw in that super dark part close to the beginning, I feel as though it's necessary to explain just how fucked up Dallas's life really is, as I've made it very clear that he has a lot of problems I think that there are still somethings that need explaining which I haven't done yet so I chose to throw that in there, also just in case if any of you are assuming this about me, no none of this dark stuff has happened to me, I'm only putting this in here because my brother's girlfriend who happens to be reading this story too made the assumption that I put in those juicy bits of romance with perfect detail because I haven't gotten laid in a long time, so just to be clear, everything I'm throwing into this story is just to add drama nothing more and nothing less, alright that's all for that, now time for the spoiler, in the next chapter of WOS, Gabriel travels to the united states, Max finally builds up the nerve to tell Alex how he feels about her and Dallas comes face to face with a demon from his past, how will that turn out, not good that's how it's gonna turn out. Alright then that's all for now, see you guys later, also sorry this chapter is late again, I had to re-write this one a few times because I didn't like how I originally did it and I just hated it, and trust me when it comes to my work I'm my toughest critic.)