(A/N: Hi guys I've gotten chapter 21 done, I hope you enjoy it because I had no idea of how I was going to write this one out let alone what to call it but I'm sure it will be fine. Now before I get started theirs going to be a minor spoiler for this chapter, as I've already written in the last two chapters some people have been affected by the negative side effects of peyote while others like Marinette and Chloe haven't, just so you know those negative side effects are a real thing to worry about assuming you take it, but not the way I've described them, mainly because I kind of thought that was kind of boring and I don't want to bore you guys, if anything these negative side effects are actually a little more mild mannered, and in case you're wondering no I wouldn't know from firsthand experience, I just do my research on line for everything I need to know in order to be accurate for this fanfic, okay now that I've cleared that up I'll get back to what I was going to say, part of this chapter will explain why Marinette and Chloe didn't get fucked up in the bad way after ingesting peyote and everyone else did, and I can honestly say this in not foreshadowing in anyway. Or is it? Okay I'm done let's get to it.)

Chapter 21: Sins of our Fathers Part 1

It was 11:25 PM, the chameleon was in his hideout preparing for his latest job, to kill Marinette Dupain-Chang, he'd made sure to prepare for any eventuality he may face when dealing with her. If her boyfriend had hired an army of body guards he'd have a few guns ready for them, if their was a crowd he'd use a knife on her, if his escape route was blocked off he'd use a portable satchel charge to blow a hole in the wall and use a rope to get him to a lower floor before law enforcement could get to him. There were several reasons he was the worlds deadliest assassin and one of those reasons was his ability to plan ahead. After he'd finished loading his last side arm he received a call from his latest and youngest client. He answered the phone and said casually. "You've got your main man here."

"Are you ever going to do what I've already paid you to do in full or what?" Lila asked with anger over the phone, when she'd hired him to kill Marinette Dupain-Chang she'd expected him to do his job a little faster than what she'd actually seen.

"Don't worry Miss V…I've got it covered, I'm heading out tonight to take care of your little pest problem. And you couldn't have asked for a better setting for me to do it in." He replied with a smile as he began to holster his guns. "Turns out Mr. Agreste is having his birthday tonight at his friend's place, and the best part is that it's an open invite, and according to Adrien's latest Facebook update he's running late for the party, if I leave now I'll be there in twenty minutes, get the job done in one minute and be out of there in thirty seconds with hardly any kind of resistance. What more could you ask for?"

"A motive to sell the act would help." Lila pointed out. "People know Adrien too well to just believe that he'd go and kill someone without proper cause or reason and you still haven't…"

The Chameleon was quick to object. "Relax, he doesn't need a known motive, not with a whole penthouse full of people surrounding him and baring witness to Adrien Agreste killing her at point blank range. Besides if you want the other half of your plan to work he can't have a known motive or else everything will fall through and you won't get your boytoy like you want miss V."

Lila just growled on her side of the phone. "Just get it done tonight, no more waiting. I wanted her dead weeks ago." She stated with venom in her voice.

"Miss V please, I told you all ready that it's not as simple as you think it is for us. When working a job you have to learn everything about your target before you move in and kill them, for example what their talents are, what their favorite foods are, where they like to go to see a movie they've wanted to see, where they go to dance or even where they like to go shopping. Bottom line if you learn your target's routine you stand a better chance at killing them with out difficulty." He explained as he finished arming himself then putting on his over shirt to his suit. "Trust me miss V, what time Ms. Dupain-Chang has left is running out."

"Just remember to get her earrings like I asked." Lila reminded him.

The chameleon just groaned and asked. "Why do you need her earrings so damn bad? Can't you just get your own pair?"

"It's not just because I like them Mr. C, I want them as a trophy to remember the moment when Adrien's poorly chosen lover was taken and I ended up getting him in the end, or at the very least I'll make him wish he'd chosen me in the first place, either way I'll have the last laugh." Lila replied coldly.

Chameleon just sighed and spoke his mind. "You know I'm starting to see why he didn't want anything to do with you in the first place, you're an absolute sociopath. You know there are plenty of fish in the sea and it's a lot better and a lot simpler to just get another guy especially when the guy you wanted isn't really that interested in you, so why do you want this kid so bad that you have to kill this other girl?"

"I already told you why damnit! I didn't hire you to judge me I hired you to get rid of that little skank! Now shut up and do your damn job or I'll find someone who doesn't care as much about the target as much as they do the money!" Lila barked just before she hung up the phone.

"This is the last time I take a contract from a teenage girl." He said as he stuffed his phone in his pocket. Outside his hideout he heard the sound of a horn honking. "Ah…looks like my ride's here." He checked himself in the mirror one last time and headed out to do his job. As he predicted he'd arrived to the hotel within a twenty minute period. He paid the driver for the ride then headed into the lobby of the hotel. He went to the front desk to rent out a room just so he could give any police the slip by hiding in the very building he'd performed the deed in, which would be the last place they'd ever think to look for the killer.

As he made his way into the elevator he pressed the button to close the door then he told the elevator to head up a few floors so he could disguise himself as hotel staff and acquire a key to the penthouse due to the fact that access to the penthouse was only permitted to those who had a key. But just before he was about to find a janitor or someone from housekeeping or room service his phone began to ring, he groaned as he fished it out of his pocket and answered sounding very annoyed. "What is it now Miss V?"

But to his surprise it wasn't Lila at all, it was someone else, an informant he'd hired to gain intel on Marinette and Adrien and who had also been arrested by police. "Mr. C…it's me, we've got a problem and by we I actually mean you." The informant said.

The Chameleon then cocked one eyebrow and asked. "What's the problem?"

"Interpol, they know your in the city, they know someone hired you to kill Marinette Dupain-Chang!" The informant replied.

This of course wasn't news to the Chameleon, he had already been informed of this by Lila after she'd left the hospital and told him of her new job that she'd had for him. "I'm already aware of this situation you idiot, you're damn lucky that I don't have time to kill you for your fuck up." He stated with anger as he kept looking for a member of hotel staff.

"It wasn't my fault…" The informant cried. "It was that damn bitch black widow!"

Upon hearing this name the Chameleon stopped dead in his tracks. "What did you say?" He asked hoping he heard him wrong.

"She's here, in Paris…she's gunning for you just like she always does and she's working with one of the miraculous users too." The informant answered with everything he knew up to this point.

"Which one is it? Ladybug? Cat Noir? Rena Rouge?" He asked as he went down the list.

"No…it's the new guy, the one who call's himself Iktomi, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. Apparently they've got a history too, I'm guessing old lovers." The informant replied.

The Chameleon started to scratch his chin then said. "I think I could use that to my advantage, if I cross paths with her maybe I could use that as a scare tactic against her, maybe to finally make her back off."

"Uhhhhhh…yeah, that's the other thing I wanted to tell you." The informant added. "Turns out one of your old clients put a hit out on you, and…she was the first person they called to take the job."

The Chameleon started to growl at his bad luck. "Fine, looks like I'm laying low after this next job, until then find out who it was who put a hit on me so I can kill him later." He ordered just before he started to hang up but was halted when the informant screamed into the phone because of one last bit of information he had to share.

"Wait! There's one more thing you need to know, Interpol is heading for the Bourgeois hotel right now, they've got an arrest warrant on someone in the penthouse too so if I were you I'd wait until after they take off to take out the girl." He informed plainly.

"Fine by me, thanks for the heads up, see you soon. Oh and one more thing, the next time you fuck up you better not stay in town other wise I'll be gunning for you." The chameleon stated as he hung up the phone, and got an idea which he could use to infiltrate the S.W.A.T. team. He didn't have to wait too long because as luck would have it the S.W.A.T. team arrived only a few seconds he did. So all he had to do now was allow them to take the elevator key to the penthouse from the front desk then his way up to the penthouse would be clear. He managed to sneak back down to the lobby where he froze with shock as his eyes locked onto that of agent Elisa Menendez. "Shit, she's here too?"

"I don't care if this is a private event, I have a warrant to go up there ma'am and your preventing that which in itself is a crime. Now are you going to hand over the key or do I have to arrest you for obstruction of justice?" Agent Menendez growled, she clearly wasn't in a good mood and was more than ready to arrest anyone who got in her way. The lobbyist finally and reluctantly agreed to hand over the key to the penthouse, mainly because she didn't want to get arrested, also because agent Menendez scared her something fierce. "Gracias, let's go boys. Oh and one more thing, don't you dare call and warn her that were coming or you're an accomplice to her escape." As she and her S.W.A.T. team headed toward the elevator the chameleon quickly took a photo of one of the officers, then with a special app on his phone linked to his watch he set up the watch to disguise himself as an officer and sneak in among the group without being noticed.

Once they'd gotten to the penthouse floor agent Menendez lead her men to the apartment where she was more than ready to make an arrest, she needed this to work out for her as well especially sense her attempt to capture the black widow failed horribly. As soon as they'd gotten to the door they all paused for a moment. "I don't hear anything agent Menendez, perhaps there's no one home." An officer voiced as he pressed his ear to the door.

"It doesn't matter, we have our warrant and it expires in the morning and I am not going to let this arrest slip me by. Breach on my mark." Agent Menendez ordered to the officer holding a battering ram. As the door came crashing down the breach team stormed the room and took their positions as they all aimed inside and ordering everyone to surrender. Or at least that's how it usually went, and to the surprise of the officers there was only one person in sight, someone resembling Marinette Dupain-Chang. Agent Menendez pushed past the officers to see just how vacant the room was save for one person. "Ms. Dupain-Chang? What on earth are you doing here?" She asked with confusion.

"I could ask you the same thing agent Menendez." Valentina asked as she got into character as Marinette. "In fact I am asking you that, what are you doing here this is…or at least it was my boyfriend's party."

Elisa then turned to her men and signaled for them to fan out and secure the area, then she turned back to 'Marinette' and continued. "We're here to make an arrest actually…" She said as she pulled out the arrest warrant. "For one miss Chloe Bourgeois."

Valentina looked upon the warrant and read the name the arrest warrant was issued for, and there on the dotted line in bold print was the name Chloe Bourgeois. She looked up to Elisa and asked. "I don't understand, why are you arresting her? What did she do?"

"It's more accurately what she's been doing actually, and that is numerus counts of vigilante activity. The same can be said for her allies as well, however she by far will be the easiest to apprehend sense we already know of her identity behind the mask, lucky for us she was dumb enough to oust herself at a fashion show years ago." Elisa replied as she stuffed the warrant back into her coat. "But you still haven't answered my question, what are you doing here? You should be back at the safehouse."

Valentina knew she couldn't dodge this question, so she decided to state a half truth. "We were trying to catch the chameleon and get him arrested before he could do what he was hired to do. So we asked Chloe to get in touch with Ladybug and her whole team to try and do it, but somewhere along the way things didn't really go as planned because someone…and I don't know who…but someone spiked something in the buffet before the party, so they all had to take them home. To be honest though I kind of expected them back by now."

Agent Menendez simply cocked an eyebrow as she started to grow suspicious. "And why didn't you contact us to do this?" She asked bluntly.

"Well because we figured that a bunch of cops here might scare him away, so we figured that having the miraculous holders in their civilian forms would be less conspicuous. And before you ask no I don't know who they are nor did I see them when they transformed so please don't ask me about it." Valentina added hoping that she'd buy the lie.

"So if you're here then can I assume that Mr. Agreste is here too?" Elisa asked bluntly as she crossed her arms.

"No, we figured it would be much safer if he stayed back at the safe house, that way Ladybug and her team doesn't have to deal with two Adriens." Valentina pointed out.

Elisa just started to rub the stress from her eyes and said. "You kids and your vigilantes, I'm not surprised by this in the least. But I can understand the need to keep innocents from getting caught in the crossfire, however it still doesn't change the fact that they are criminals and they need to be brought to justice. Speaking of which, I still have an arrest to make."

As she tried to walk away Valentina quickly stood in front of her in the attempt to stop her. "Uh she's not here either. She…went with them…to…take everyone…home?" She said with a nervous smile.

But agent Menendez wasn't buying it. "Then you won't mind if we double check, just to be sure." She replied as she brushed past her.

Valentina started to chuckle nervously before she said. "Of course not, feel free to do as you please." Oh son of a suka, she said in her head as she watched as the officers all fanned out and searched for Chloe.

While they were occupied the Chameleon saw this as an opportunity to get Marinette…or at least who he assumed was Marinette away and off to a different place to finish the job according to Lila's specifications, he stepped out of the room and out of sight so he could transform himself into Adrien Agreste. Once he had changed he went back in completely unnoticed by the officers. But not unnoticed by Valentina. "Marinette, there you are I've been worried sick about you." He said using a voice modifier to disguise his voice.

Around that point agent Menendez took notice that 'Adrien' was now present at the penthouse as well. She groaned before she asked. "Mr. Agreste what in the hell are you doing here?"

"I came here to take Marinette back to the safehouse where it's safer for her, you should've called me to tell me that the party ended early." He said as he came over and tried to give 'Marinette' a loving hug.

Only for her to shove him away, and not gently either. "You're definitely not Adrien! He agreed to stay in the safehouse no matter what! Agent Menendez, arrest him at once, he's the chameleon I just know it." She said as she prepared herself for what she assumed would break out into a huge fight.

That's when 'Adrien' just placed a hand to his chest and acted very surprised by her accusation. "Marinette how can you say such a thing? You can't actually believe I'm the Chameleon." He replied sounding shocked, but he didn't really have to pretend due to the fact that she'd guessed so quickly. But he was still confident that he could pull this off.

"Ms. Dupain-Chang while his arrival is rather convenient that hardly proves that this is the Chameleon…" Agent Menendez stated, but that didn't mean she let her guard down as she was well aware of his ability to camouflage himself to look like literally anyone. But the fact that 'Marinette' called him out so quickly wasn't what got her attention, it was the color of his eyes, they weren't his usual green orbs she was staring at, rather a pair of brown eyes. It has to be him, she thought to herself, but just to be sure. "Look, the two of you sit tight while I do my job alright? I'll be right back." She then started to head into another room but stopped when she got right next to one of her officers and whispered into his ear. "Tell me if he answers his phone in the next ten seconds." Then she continued into the next room where she pulled out her cell phone and called Adrien's phone number, only to receive a pre-recorded voice mail. Clearly she didn't know that his phone was broken from the other night but that was all the conformation she really needed.

And ten seconds later her officer whispered into his com. "Ma'am, he hasn't touched his phone. But it didn't even ring either, he didn't even acknowledge it if it was on vibrate. Might I ask why you needed to know this?" He asked calmly and quietly.

"Never mind that, just keep them in the same room while I make a quick phone call, tonight I'll be dealing with two birds with one stone." Menendez replied as she started to make another phone call. "Director it's me, I think we may have found the chameleon, he's at la Bourgeois hotel disguised as Adrien Agreste, I don't think he knows I'm on to him yet but I have a plan to deal with him, just make sure you send as many of our agents as you can to warehouse eight. Tonight we put this bastardo behind bars." She said with a smile knowing that for once she'd gotten the drop on the world's most dangerous assassin. She then returned to the two disguised assassins in the next room and declared to the two of them. "I've called you each a ride to take you back to the safehouse. They should be here to come pick you up in five minutes, but until then I still have a job to do."

The Chameleon was quick to protest, he liked the idea that he was being taken to the location where Marinette and Adrien were staying without anyone being the wiser but he would much rather be close enough where he could finish her quickly, and make sure the job was done in a heavily populated area. "What? No-no-no-no-no you can't separate us, we'll be safer together."

"Trust me when I say this Mr. Agreste, you'll be safer if it's just one person per cab." Menendez replied as she saw right through him.

That's when Valentina picked up on what she was planning, she was luring him into a trap where she'd arrest him at the last minute, but that wasn't what she wanted at all clearly, but she also knew she couldn't stop her without exposing herself to Interpol. "I actually like that idea, it's much safer if we're separated. That way the Chameleon can't sneak up on the both of us." Valentina stated reluctantly.

"Exactly, the harder we make it for him the better. Your first Mr. Agreste, especially sense there's still a chance that Hawkmoth might be after you too." Elisa replied as she called an officer over. "Escort him back down to the lobby and see to it that he get's in the cab I've called for him to take him back to the safehouse."

Before the officer could carry out his orders Valentina quickly embraced her enemy in her arms and whispered. "I'll see you again soon dorogoy. Do svidanya." At first he was puzzled that she was speaking Russian, but as she pulled away from him he took notice of something, her eyes weren't the same color as he'd studied about her, and the way they peered into his soul just started to unsettle him. That's when it hit him like a ton of bricks, he had walked right into a trap which was already ruined thanks to Interpol. His face took on a look of shock as he realized he'd come face to face with the black widow and he never would've seen her coming until it was too late.

This bitch stole my shtick, he thought feeling slightly enraged that she had played his own tactics against him for a change, needless to say he didn't like being on the receiving end of his own play. For the moment he decided that being separated from her was the better option. After the chameleon left the penthouse with the officer he breathed a sigh of relief as he knew that this was the closest he'd ever come to her actually killing him and if it hadn't been for the Interpol agents she would've succeeded.

Once he was outside of earshot Elisa then whispered to the teenage assassin. "I don't know how you knew other than what you've already told me but I think you were right Ms. Dupain-Chang, but you don't have to worry, I've already called the Parisian Interpol office to set up a trap for him at an undisclosed location that only we know about. The cab that's picking him up is actually being driven by one of our agents too so he'll never see it coming. Things might not have gone the way I wanted with the past week but it looks like things are finally looking up."

Valentina was about to ask agent Menendez where they would be taking the Chameleon after he was arrested one of the officers interrupted their conversation. "Uh…agent Menendez, we found Ms. Bourgeois…but…she's in…a bit of a…state." He said as he tried to find the best way to describe her.

This didn't really surprise Valentina as she already knew that she had eaten one of the cupcakes that had been spiked with peyote, as for agent Menendez she had no idea what the officer was talking about, until she went into Chloe's room and was shocked to see her in a state of undress as well as being high on peyote, also to see a young man roughly around her age unconscious and also naked, with her on top of him in the fetal position. "Dios meo…" She uttered as she was absolutely disturbed by the sight she was faced with.

"Uh…ma'am, I know this is a bit of a weird question but…doesn't this count as rape?" The officer asked as he too was just shocked by what he was seeing.

But it didn't matter to Elisa as she just stormed into the room and shouted. "Ms. Bourgeois get off that boy right now!"

Chloe just turned to agent Menendez and said in a stoned voice. "What the ffffffffuck do you think I'm trying to dooooo you…who the fffffffuck are you anyway?"

She pulled out her badge and said in an authoritive tone. "Agent Elisa Menendez of Interpol and you are very much under arrest now get up because you're coming with me." She grabbed Chloe by the arm and dragged her off the bed and off of Nathan, who as one might suspect was…excited, regardless if he knew about it.

"Damn, that kid is gifted." The officer standing at the door voiced, even though he was also disgusted do to the fact he had just seen a younger man's…private area.

While agent Menendez was busy handcuffing Chloe she turned to the officer and said. "Grab her some clothes for when we get to the office and make sure to…" She stopped as she saw the officer wasn't even paying attention. Narrowing her eyes upon him she yelled. "STOP STARING AT HIS COCK YOU PERVERTED BASTARDO! And get her a blanket to cover herself, dios meo!"

Realizing that he'd been staring way longer than he should've been, which in all honestly should've only been half a second at most, the officer quickly snapped out of his trance and said with a salute. "Yes ma'am." After the thoroughly embarrassed officer had gotten Chloe a blanket to cover herself with both he and agent Menendez helped her out of the room, until the officer stopped and asked. "Wait hold on a second what about her boyfriend?"

It was around this moment when Chloe started to snicker. "Nathan…my boyfriend? That's…the thing I usually say when I thinks its stupid. I wouldn't date him in a million years, he's such a nerd…with a big pickle."

Agent Menendez just groaned and said. "Forget about him, let's just get her out of here." She then reached for Chloe's miraculous and pulled it off of her wig. Then completely out of no where her behavior started to change from a stoned mellow to a frightened panic.

She screamed as she began to hallucinate, in her mind the blanket she wore had turned into a giant leech like creature trying to eat her alive. "AAAAAAAHHH! IT'S TRYING TO EAT ME! KILL IT! KILL IT!"

"What the fuck is wrong with her?!" The officer asked as he tried to restrain her.

Agent Menendez was just as confused, she'd seen plenty of people stoned before but for a sudden change in behavior as this to happen without rhyme or reason made no sense. "I haven't got a clue, but we'll worry about it later after we get her to the nearest precinct and someone escort Ms. Dupain-Chang…" She paused when she noticed that 'Marinette' was no longer in the penthouse with them. "Where did she go?" She asked to literally anyone of the other officers.

Little did they know she had snuck out onto the balcony and ran through a portal that Pegasus had made for her to escape into. Once she was on the other side of the street she turned to the team and said. "I've got some bad news and some worse news."

"Might some of this news explain why Interpol just showed up to Chloe's penthouse?" Ladybug asked somewhat confused to see a S.W.A.T. team break into the Bourgeois's penthouse.

"Dah, they came with the intent to arrest her for vigilante activity." Valentina replied as she started to remove her disguise.

"What?!" Cat Noir exclaimed. "They can't do that, she's a hero she hasn't done anything wrong."

"Well that's not entirely true…" Rena stated the truth, in more ways than one.

"I meant in terms of the Law Rena." Cat said as he glared back at her.

"So did I…" She retorted. "While she has done a lot of quote unquote 'good' for the city, mostly as Queen bee, she's taken the law into her own hands by doing so thus making her along with the rest of us in the eyes of the law a group of vigilantes, regardless of all the good we've been doing for the city."

Normally Iktomi would argue with anyone about a subject such as this with or without the mask, but the truth was that Rena had stated the truth. "She's right, anyone who takes the law into their own hands is considered a vigilante. Which is considered a kind of criminal unfortunately. That means she can go after anyone of us as long as she has a warrant to do so." He said with a defeated tone knowing that they couldn't do anything to stop her from doing what she'd already done, and they all knew that agent Menendez was just getting started.

"We'll worry about Chloe later, right now we have to catch the Chameleon before Interpol does." Valentina stated as she started to grow impatient. Nobody but Iktomi and Death metal seemed to notice it but she seemed a little more concerned with losing her quarry rather than Chloe getting arrested let alone the others getting arrested.

Before Megan could even ask if she was okay Ladybug interrupted her. "She's right, the sooner we nab this guy the better."

"But what about the civilians?" Carapace asked voicing his concerns for literally all the party goers who were still passed out on the roof top, the same could be said for all the children standing atop the roof with them.

This drew concern for everyone of the heroes and both assassins atop the roof, even though it would be difficult the only thing for the team to do would be to split up. "Alright this is what we'll do, Pegasus and Bunnix, you two take the party guests home or back to their hotel rooms where ever they maybe, Death metal, they may need your help so you'll have to stay put."

"Alright love, I've been babysitting for about three to four years now so it shouldn't be too hard for me to watch over a bunch of drugged up morons." She replied with a mocked salute.

Bunnix and Pegasus simply nodded in agreement knowing that they were better suited for this job anyway, then Ladybug turned to the rest of the team and said. "As for the rest of us we take on the chameleon, we already know he's getting in a cab so all we need to do is slow it down any way we can without hurting the driver."

Rena Rouge was quick to interrupt her. "I've already got an idea for that LB, I'll use my mirage to make a fake sinkhole appear in the road forcing the driver to stop."

"Great idea, then once he stops I'll drop down, use tangle on him, then we hall him back here and interrogate him properly." Iktomi added.

Everyone seemed to be on board with this plan, but even though she just wanted to put a bullet in his head Valentina chose to go with their plan to catch him. I've waited this long for my revenge, she thought to herself, I can wait a little longer.

"Wait a sec, we still have the kids knowing our secret identities to worry about." Cat stated as he addressed the biggest elephant in the room.

"Don't worry about it Cat." Iktomi replied casually. "I…'ve…just…got a text from Dallas, and he said that he has something to fix that, and by morning they'll all have forgotten all about us being the miraculous holders."

"Wait, you mean they saw who you are too?" Rena asked with slight shock.

Oh shit did I just say that out loud? He cursed mentally. This obviously was an accident, but something he could easily cover up just as quickly as he'd made it due to the fact that they still didn't know who he was under the mask. "What the…no they don't know who I am you dope, and don't get on my case about this Ms. Outs everybody's secret identities in front of the whole team. Just be happy that everyone in the penthouse was high as a kite by the time you opened your mouth, and also that one of those stoned idiots was the only member of the team with the loosest lips of the entire team. Because if I'm being honest I don't really think Chloe could've kept her mouth shut for longer than an hour before she tweeted something like that."

"Okay seriously it should've been obvious. The only reason that none of us were actually enjoying the party like everyone else was because we were there to make sure the chameleon didn't carry out his orders to kill Marinette." Rena retorted. "I just didn't remember that Juleka was there too, speaking of which your not gonna tell anybody about this are you Jul?" She asked as she turned her attention to Juleka, who by this point had finally calmed down from what Dallas had just revealed to her.

"Oh god no…" Juleka pointed out, she wanted everyone to know that she didn't have any intention of telling anyone whose faces were hidden behind those masks. "The last thing I'd ever do is tell people who you guys are, especially now that I know my brother and his girlfriend are a part of the mix."

"Seriously?" Bunnix asked somewhat puzzledly. "Your not even gonna tell Rose? But you guys tell each other everything."

"Believe me I want to tell her because I hate keeping secrets from her, but this one isn't mine to share so I have to keep it to myself." Juleka stated confirming that she'd take this secret to her grave if she had to.

"Wonderful to hear now can we please go before the chameleon gets away?!" Valentina barked after finally getting changed into her black widow costume and growing impatient that she had to wait a whole two minutes for the team to move out and finally catch the Chameleon.

The team finally split up and started to perform their jobs as directed. While Pegasus and Bunnix started to warp the party drugged party goers back where they needed to go and Death metal and Juleka just sat tight and watched the kids the rest of the team pulse one assassin headed after the Chameleon. Thanks to Death metal it was much easier to find out where the guests from London were staying for the time being, after getting everyone else back home Pegasus and Bunnix had only one person left to take care of, Milan. After opening up a portal to her bed room Both Pegasus and Bunnix carried her through the portal and laid her out on the bed. "Phew…that was a lot of drop offs we had to make in one night." Pegasus declared as he wiped the sweat from his brow. "I think I've used up all my energy making portals pop up all over the city."

"Yeah well we still have the kids to worry about remember? I'm not sure what Dallas is planning but I hope it works otherwise we're screwed." Bunnix added as she too felt exhausted from lugging around so many people all a cross town, regardless if it was only five to six steps at a time through a magic portal at a time.

"Let's get out of here while we still can, you know before we alert Milan's parents to our presents." Pegasus stated the obvious. But just before the two were about to jump back through the portal they hesitated when they heard Milan start to cough. Which was a signal that plainly said that she was waking up. "Oh boy, here we go."

But to their surprise she did not in fact sit up right in her bed, rather she just laid their and started to groan, but not the kind of groaning one would use in protest to waking, this was a different kind of groaning. The next thing she did caught them off guard completely as she started throwing up profusely. "Oh that's nasty…" Bunnix voiced as she saw her friend start to puke her gust out all over the side of her bed and the floor. But this wasn't the most disturbing part of this, the most disturbing part was what came out with her vomit. "Wait…is that…blood?"

Before she could get an answer the doorknob to the bedroom began to turn and the door opened slowly revealing Milan's father who thought he'd heard voices in his daughter's room, as soon as he locked eyes with the two heroes he paused for a brief second, not long after this the sent of vomit hit his nose quickly, that's when he looked upon his daughter, along with the puddle of blood and vomit on the floor. "MILAN!" He cried as he rushed over to her side fearful that she might have been poisoned. "Honey? Milan can you hear me? It's daddy can you hear me?"

But all he got in response was a blank stare on her face, she didn't even seem to be breathing. It was around that point that Pegasus and Bunnix knew that they were her only hope at getting to the hospital quickly. "We'll get her to the hospital sir, I promise she's in good hands." Bunnix reassured him as she placed a hand on his shoulder.

"I'm coming with you." Fred declared as he began to pick up his daughter not caring that she was covered in vomit. "I need to be sure that she's okay she's all I have sense her mother passed I can't lose her too."

The two heroes hardly protested against him as they agreed to let him come along, once Pegasus opened up another portal they all stepped through and appeared in the hospital lobby, it didn't take long for hospital staff to attend to Milan as they brought out a stretcher and lead her deeper into the hospital to be treated for her sudden ailment which at the moment was unexplainable. Fred, Bunnix and Pegasus all felt useless as they all prayed that she would be alright.

Meanwhile the chameleon, still disguised as Adrien, was sat in the back of the cab which still undenounced to him was taking him straight to a group of Interpol agents ready to put him behind bars. Although he did start to get suspicious that the ride was taking longer than it should've in his personal opinion as the driver took him almost all the way down town far away from any known residential area. He was about to ask the driver what was taking so long when he received a call from Lila Rossi, he just rolled his eyes as he answered the phone. "Yes Miss V? Can I help you with something?" He asked sounding very uninterested in speaking to her.

"Did you get the job done? Is Marinette out of the picture yet?" She asked twice.

"There were some…complications." He admitted to her somewhat regrettably.

This only managed to enrage Lila as she began to scream into the phone. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN COMPLICATIONS?!" She raged.

The assassin began to wince as his ear was filled with the sound of her displeasure. "I mean…Miss V…that I couldn't get the job done like we'd originally planned." He replied trying his best not to get angry.

"Seriously how hard is it to kill someone?! I mean honestly I thought you said you were good!" Lila shrieked. If it wasn't clear with how annoyed she was with the Chameleon before it surely was now.

Feeling tired of her complaining the Chameleon just shouted back into the phone not caring if he upset her. "NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME YOU LITTLE BRAT! I could care LESS if you get what you wanted when you wanted it, as far as I'm concerned I could just walk away and take the money with me and you wouldn't get a damn thing out of it except for the bitter reminder that the boy of your dreams is much happier without you in his life! Now just SHUT UP! And let me do what I do best, or so help me god I'll come to your house in the middle of the night and do away with you MYSELF! And don't think for a second that I won't. I'll try again sooner than you think alright, believe it or not I'm on my way to where your little friend has been staying for the past few days so don't get on my case Miss V. You might've hired me but I'm still the boss and don't you forget that." Without another word he just hung up on her and started to growl. "I swear to god if I don't kill her myself after this next job I'll be very fucking impressed with myself."

Almost a quarter mile ahead of the cab the miraculous team was preparing for their ambush with each one of them at key points on the street prepared for anything the Chameleon were to try. "Rena, target in route get ready to rock n roll." Iktomi announced as he looked down the street with a pair of binoculars.

"On it, let's put an end to this." She replied as she pulled her flute and began to play her usual tune to summon her one time power. A split second later she tossed the glowing orange sphere at the street below causing a giant sinkhole to appear out of nowhere. The cab then came to a screeching halt just before it touched the fake sinkhole. The driver got out and went to check out the sinkhole, then while he was distracted Rena called Iktomi back. "Alright spider boy your tern."

"Rodger that, time to go get our quarry eh babe?" Iktomi asked the black widow, who was nowhere to be found as she had just vanished into thin air. "Uh…Val…Valentina? Baby?" He called out to her but got nothing in response. "I hate it when she does that." He growled to himself. He then looked down toward the taxi and gasped when he saw her sneaking up on the cab from the side. "Oh no-no-no-no-NO!" He quickly leapt off the building in the attempt to stop her from doing what he knew she was doing.

While the chameleon waited in the car for the driver he failed to notice the one woman who wanted him dead more than anything in the world was just outside the car about to pounce, and exact her revenge upon him. She quickly opened the door and reached in and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and physically dragged him out of the car by force and tossed him to the side walk. As he rolled onto the pavement he looked up and froze as soon as he saw her. "Zdravstvuj Mr. Agreste, or would you prefer the Chameleon!" She greeted him with an evil smile.

"Don't you ever QUIT?!" He barked back as he quickly pulled two of his guns and started shooting at her with the intent to kill. But she just rolled out of the way and started shooting one of her own guns at him. The gunfire began to draw the attention of the Interpol agent who was tasked with bringing the assassin to his fellow agents, he was about to grab his own gun and attempt to arrest the two of them if he could but before he even had a chance he was quickly wrapped up in a net trap rendering him unable to move.

"Really sorry about that but I really need Interpol to stay out of this okay thanks!" Iktomi cried as he ran past the agent and started to radio the team. "Iktomi to team, Widow's gone rogue I repeat Widow has gone rogue." He cried as he raced after his girlfriend who had started to chase after the Chameleon down the sidewalk in the opposite direction that he'd come from in hopes of out running her.

As he ducked behind a corner of a building he quickly stopped and readied himself for her to run right into a trap. He pressed a different button on his watch and turned completely transparent rendering him completely invisible. He simply pulled out a fresh pair of magazines and began to reload his guns. But just as he was about to take aim he was quickly kicked in the side of the head by an unforeseen force. He quickly turned to see what had struck him only to be struck again by the same figure who was revealed to be Viperion. The Chameleon quickly tried to shoot him but Viperion just grabbed the gun and pulled the top of the gun off rendering it useless to him to use, then he quickly kicked the other gun into the air then performed a swift series of kicks to his torso then he tripped him by sweeping his legs out from under him then pinning him to the side of the building with his foot to his neck. "How the hell did you do that?" The assassin asked with surprise that he'd been beaten while he was using his watch's invisible camouflage mode. "There's no way you should've been able to match me move for move I was invisible the whole time."

Viperion just smirked as he answered the Chameleon. "Snakes rely on thermal vision in order to track their pray, you might've been able to cloak your body but your body heat stuck out like a sore thumb pal." Around that moment Iktomi and Black widow both turned the corner and saw Viperion holding down what appeared to be nothing. "I've got him you guys, he's got some kind of invisibility on his watch too. I'm guessing that's how he's so good at what he does."

As she came closer the black widow crouched down and started to search for the watch on his left wrist, once she found it she pulled it off of her quarry forcing him to turn back to being visible. "Finally…" She growled as she pulled one of her guns off her hip. "Justice is served." She pulled the hammer back and aimed it for the chameleon's head.

Fearing that she was about to kill him before they could properly interrogate him Iktomi quickly stepped in front of her gun preventing her from shooting him. "Widow wait! Don't forget we still need him alive." He said as he tried to sway his lover from killing him before it was time, however the chameleon saw this as an opportunity to literally stab him in the back, so he quickly pulled out a knife hidden on his ankle and quickly stabbed Iktomi in his lower back into his spinal column, only to see his blow had no effect. Iktomi just turned around and narrowed his eyes on him. "Really? Did you honestly think that would work?" He asked as he quickly pulled his tomahawk and wacked him in the side of the head effectively knocking him out. "God what an ass." Iktomi then turned back to his lover who once again tried to shoot the Chameleon only to be stopped by Viperion this time.

"Not happening…" He said as he tore the gun out of her hand and just crushed it in his hand. "At least not yet, we all agreed that he needs to die Val but first we need OOF!"

He was quickly interrupted with a swift kick in the gut, as he hunched forward she quickly kneed him in the chest and knocked him down, then she quickly turned toward Iktomi, who as one might've guessed was still standing in between her and her target. "Val…don't…do this." He demanded in a stern voice.

"Get out of my way Dallas!" She growled as she pulled her knives off her lower back and took a boxer's stance.

Iktomi could see that she was beyond reasoning at this point, he could see whatever was driving her to kill him so soon would make it pointless to try and sway her. I can't let her kill him, he thought, if he dies before we get a name out of him then all this will have been for nothing and we'll be back at square one. I've got no choice; one net trap should do the job. "TANGLE!" He cried as he shot a net trap at her only for her to roll out of the way then rush him.

She performed a swift kick to his face then she tried to bash the pommel of one of her knives into his gut only for him to block it, he then grabbed her wrist then quickly twisted it around her back then he quickly kicked her in the back of her knee forcing her down then he hooked his leg around her neck then locked his leg around her as tight as he could then with all of his weight he flipped her forward and holding her on the ground like a pro wrestler, she struggled and gasped for air trying her best to get free but Iktomi was far to strong with his miraculous active. Thankfully he managed to hold her in place until the rest of the team showed up to help him out. Once they arrived though they were all confused as to what they were looking at. "What the hell is going on here?" Carapace asked.

"Long story short…my freaking girlfriend is trying to kill this guy before we get what we freaking need!" Iktomi grunted while he held his lover tightly while she still struggled to get loose. "So could one of you please…do me a favor…and get him out of here? Oh and check and see if Viperion is okay."

"I'm fine…just a little winded." Viperion added as he slowly stood up, as he rose Ryuko rushed over and helped her boyfriend off the ground.

"Okay then…" Cat began to voice. "Let's get him out of here while you and your girlfriend hash this out." As he bent down to pick up their quarry Black widow made a last stich attempt to kill her target with a secret weapon that she rarely ever used, she quickly extended her arm then flexed her wrist firing off a single poison dart laced with cyanide to ensure he would die without a chance of being saved. But do to the odd angle she was being held in she had made a slight miscalculation and the dart found it's way not in the neck of the Chameleon but rather that of Cat Noir. "OW!" He cried as his hand instinctively shot up to his neck as if he'd been bitten by a miskito, as he pulled out the dart he started to calculate where it came from. His eyes just narrowed onto Black widow and he just began to shout. "Did you just fucking dart me?!"

These words brought Iktomi's attention straight up from his girlfriend to his foster brother who he saw holding a dart in his fingers. He then released Black widow allowing her to get up and take in a much needed breath of air while he went to inspect the dart, he took the dart and gave it a quick sniff to try and identify what was on the needle, his eyes shot open with fright as he immediately recognized the scent. "Cyanide!" This one word alone was enough to make everyone in the group start to panic, Cat especially.

Ladybug gasped with fright, Rena, Carapace, Monkey-king, Ryuko and Viperion were far too shocked to say anything. As for Black widow, her sudden lust to kill quickly and naturally turned into regret as she came to realize that she'd hit the wrong target. What have I done, she thought to herself as the guilt that began to well up within her took over her mind. "No…no this can't be happening." Ladybug uttered as she began to sob. "You can't…you can't die, not like this."

Cat was clearly scared of what was about to happen, but even though he believed he was experiencing his final moments of life the only thing he actually cared about was his lady, knowing this would be the last time ever he took her in his arms and tried to calm her down as she just grew hysterical. "Please don't cry princess." He whispered to her. "You know how much it hurts me to see you cry." He knew that he had to be strong, even though he knew this was the end and he'd more than likely suffer until the end he chose to be strong for her, he shed a single tear as he tried to enjoy what little time he had left to live.

For almost a minute no one said a word or made a sound except for Ladybug's crying, but to the surprise of everyone the poison was taking far longer than expected to work. This of course confused everyone greatly, they may not have seen it happen first hand but they were smart enough to know that cyanide took far less time to kill anyone. "Uh…okay I know I'm probably gonna sound like a gigantic asshole for even thinking to say this out loud…but shouldn't you have died by now?" Monkey-king asked the burning question that everyone wanted to know the answer to.

This answer Cat wanted to know especially as it was he who was supposed to die. "Okay what's going on?" He voiced and making it very clear that he was just as in the dark as everyone too. "Iktomi I don't suppose you or Dallas have read in the book about something like this have you?"

Iktomi would've loved to tell him he had, but in all honesty he hadn't read anything close to something like this. "I haven't got a clue, but maybe there is something in the book that talks about something like this, until then you guys just get the Chameleon somewhere else, while I have a little CHAT…with the Black widow here." He said as he turned a glare over to his lover whom he was extremely angry with in this particular moment in time. After grabbing her by the arm and dragging her off to somewhere private for them to talk the rest of the team took their captive to a location that only they would know about until after Iktomi had finished yelling at his girlfriend. He'd taken her to the roof of a convenient store not far from where they taken down the Chameleon. "You…are so lucky…that Adrien is still alive Val, otherwise you and I would be having a much different conversation right now." He snarled at her with clear anger.

The Black widow hardly even acknowledged his words as she was still upset with herself for what she'd done, but thankful that she hadn't killed anyone who didn't deserve to die. "I'm sorry…" She stated with a guilty tone.

"Oh well that just makes it all better now doesn't it? What were you thinking Val? You could've easily killed my foster brother with that dart, and did you forget that we needed that fucker alive or did you just not care?" Iktomi shouted, he was clearly angry with her before but those times were all a pail comparison to how angry he was right then and there.

"I never meant to hit him Dallas you know that!" She barked back at him. "I just wanted the Chameleon that's it, hunting him has been my drive ever sense I first became the Black widow of Chernobyl. This has been the only thing other than you and our son that I've actually cared about in such a long time."

Iktomi was still plenty mad at her for everything she'd just put everyone through, but he still felt as though she had the right to explain herself as he too had done very irrational things in his time. "Start talking…right…now." He stated firmly.

Black widow just looked away from him and replied. "You wouldn't understand."

Iktomi just sighed as he retorted. "Val, I literally do the dumbest shit on a weekly basis for a multitude of reasons that would take me more time then it should just to narrow them all down. So if you really think that I wouldn't understand than you clearly haven't been paying attention to me whatsoever."

She just closed her eyes and took a deep breath as she began to tell him the truth. "The reason that I wanted to kill him is…when I was just a child…he…he's the reason I am who I am today." She said with tears in her eyes and sorrow in her voice as she started to think back to when she'd first come face to face with the world's deadliest assassin.

Chernobyl Russia, eight years ago…

It was lightly snowing outside; the wind was calm as the flakes began to fall from the sky. A seven year old Valentina Volkov was walking home with her mother from her ballet rehearsal for her very first performance for her home town, and it would be a grand spectacle for the town as this show was a love story which told the tale of an angel who fell in love with a mortal man and wanted to become mortal and spend her entire life with him only to lose him to the devil in which case she'd have to find a way to become an angel again in order to rescue him. And Lucky for Valentina she was to portray the angel, she was more than excited to perform in this show too as there was a certain boy she liked in this play as well, a young man roughly her age by the name of Yurochka Romanov who was playing the mortal the angel loved, needless to say this young man was her very first love interest. "Did you see me mama? I jumped so high this time." She said to her mother as she tugged on her sleeve.

Valentina's mother simply looked down on to her only child, she resembled her mother so much more than her father by far. She shared her mother's hair and facial features while she shared her father's green eyes and determination. "Yes my sweet I saw it, and you were perfect as well my darling." She said as she smiled down on to her child.

"Mama, do you think papa will be back in time to see the show?" Valentina asked with a hopeful expression. Sense her father was a soldier for the Russian military he was called away for duty more often than not, and ever sense he was recruited into the Spetsnaz corps he was allowed to go home even less than usual especially sense he proved on the field of battle that he was an exemplary soldier, as well as the deadliest in all of the mother land, thus earning a codename fitting such a great soldier, after proving himself he was forever referred to as the black wolf of Chernobyl. Valentina loved her father beyond all doubt and understood that Russia needed him more than she did, but that didn't make the time he spent away from her any easier.

Valentina's mother simply said in response. "I don't know my child, I am hopeful he will return to us soon. I miss him deeply." As they turned the corner leading toward their house on the edge of the street they saw a troop transport pulling away from their house, normally that only meant one thing to both Valentina and her mother. As her excitement grew too large to contain Valentina ran ahead of her mother and down the sidewalk. "Valentina don't run!" Her mother called after her.

As she got to the front door Valentina quickly turned the door knob and threw open the door and there standing in the living room was her father Nikolay Volkov. "Papa!" She cried as she ran into her father's waiting arms and embraced him after so many months.

"I've missed you so much Valentina my sweet." Her father replied as he just held her tight, he only pulled away for a brief second to ask her a question that no normal parent would ever ask their child. "Have you been practicing your marksmanship while I've been gone?"

She looked up to him and nodded her head yes along with a big smile and said. "I've gotten so much better sense the last time you saw me shooting papa." Ever sense she had turned six her father had started to teach her how to operate and fire a pistol, the caliber of course was no more than a simple twenty-two which was relatively a weaker caliber than anything other than most guns, he might've wanted Valentina to know how to use a gun at her age but he didn't want her to go flying backwards into a wall from the recoil.

Nikolay smiled down at her and asked again. "Do you still have your practice targets so I can see how well you've done?"

"I'll go get them!" She replied with a warm smile as she ran off to her room to retrieve all of her adult sized targets, each was as tall as a single adult male, and every single target had a bullet hole in several recurring places. Most of which were in the groin of the targets, due to her father's guidance so she could deal with young men who didn't want to take no for an answer, also because he had a wicked sense of humor. When she came back with the targets she found her father embracing her mother and kissing her passionately, Valentina simply stuck out her tongue in disgust at the sight.

Sensing her presence in the room both Mr. and Mrs. Volkov broke their kiss and turned to see their daughter who was holding the targets tightly in her fist ready to show her father just how much she'd improved in the shooting range. "Well that didn't take long." Nikolay said as he knelt down and took the targets from his daughter to give them closer examination. He inspected each one of them thoroughly seeing just how tight her grouping was, he could see that she had indeed improved tremendously as he could see that each shot she'd made was no more than three to four millimeters apart, and as he'd hoped most of her shots were located in the groin. He smirked as he chuckled slightly at how accurate she'd become with a gun. "Very good my daughter very good, I think you've earned your presents I brought you."

Valentina shrieked with delight as she bounced up and down eager for the presents her father had bought her. He reached into his duffle bag and pulled out three gifts, two of them were wrapped in a simple cloth while the third was just a simple sack of candy. Valentina took all three gifts eagerly as she knelt down to unwrap the two which were wrapped. The first gift she unwrapped was a small spider pendent designed to look like a black widow spider while her other gift was something far more dangerous. "A knife Nikolay! First you get her a gun now you want her to have a knife as well?" Valentina's mother growled with disapproval.

He simply grinned up at his wife and said in response. "Natasha darling please, she can handle it. If she can use a gun properly then she can use a knife as well. Also it is called a karambit my love, it is far more dangerous than a simple knife."

"You say that like it's a good thing." She said in response.

"It is when you want your daughter to be as dangerous as the black wolf of Chernobyl." He replied as he ruffled his child's hair. "Do you remember how to use a knife properly Valentina?" She nodded her head yes in response. "Then show your papa." About a minute later Valentina was stood in front of a training dummy her father had made specifically for her to train herself while her father was away, either with hand to hand combat or knife fighting she would use this dummy to hone her skills until she felt as though she'd done enough for the day. Her father simply stood close by and watched as she performed her usual techniques that he'd taught her, only this time the way she moved was slightly different.

Instead of her usual punches and kicks she'd use along with slashing and stabbing she moved more like she would during her ballet rehearsals with pirouettes and leaps similar to that of a ballerina, and the strangest thing was she didn't even realize she was doing it this way. Until her father spoke up. "What are you doing?" He asked puzzledly.

Valentina then stopped and then realized what she was doing was not what her father had taught her let alone what he was expecting. She quickly stood in front of him feeling nervous, but she also had an explanation prepared. "I'm sorry papa, mama wanted me to take up ballet a while ago and I found it hard to find time to practice my fighting and dancing so I…did…both?" She didn't know what to make of her father's feelings about this as his facial expression stayed very neutral, but in that moment Valentina for some reason figured that he was angry with her, she then started to cry a little. "I'm sorry papa…" She sniffled as the tears began to fall. "I promise I won't do it again."

"Why on earth would you do that?" He asked as he knelt down to look her in the eye, he took his thumb and wiped away her tears. "Valentina that was beautiful, and a very unique style of fighting. And from what I've seen it is quite effective in battle." He stated as he pointed at the numerous cuts all over the head of the dummy, there had to of been over a dozen new cuts on the dummy from her new style of fighting which she'd invented completely by accident. "My child I don't want you to think of this as an insult to my teaching, I want you to embrace it and make it your own. I want you to keep practicing and perfect it until you can use it without anyone being able to get the better of you. Because I see this as you simply being resourceful and creative. In fact I think it might just gain you the advantage in a fight as it's new and no one has ever seen such a style of fighting before. Now promise me that you won't stop fighting like this my sweet?"

Valentina wiped her nose then said in response. "I promise papa." Her father smiled down at her and placed a simple kiss on her forehead as he pulled her into a deep loving hug, not long after her mother called them both for dinner, which consisted of beat soup and bread along with a special surprise dish along with it, smoked salmon. As one might expect such a fine piece of food was hard to come by in Chernobyl do to poverty but well worth the price if you managed to find it. After dinner Valentina played a game of chess with her father mainly because he wanted to spend as much time with his family as he could before he had to return to active duty, which would be in three to four months fighting against a rebel cell attempting to over throw the government. From what the locals of Chernobyl had heard he alone was responsible for driving back a platoon of rebels armed with heavy machine guns on the Lesosibirsk railway as they were attempting to steal a train in which they would drive all the way to Moscow, originally he had a team of Spetsnaz with him as they'd been sent to deal with the rebels located somewhere in the city, however due to a riot that the rebels had created the Spetsnaz were thoroughly distracted with an even bigger problem.

But Nikolay knew better than to believe that this was their plan, he figured that this riot served nothing more than as a distraction, and as luck would have it he already knew that a train had come into town loaded with heavy arms and ammunition, and it's next stop was none other than the capital of Russia itself. So while his comrades dealt with the riot he alone ensued on a suicide mission to prevent the rebels from stealing the train and it's cargo. He fought through countless odds and just barely managing to evade getting shot on numerous occasions, not even he knew if it was by pure skill or just dumb luck but either way Nikolay Volkov came out the victor in the end and was hailed as a hero to his government and his comrades. He enjoyed the fame that he'd made for himself as a Spetsnaz, but sometimes he wished that he wasn't so good at being a soldier as he hated it when he was pulled away to serve Russia for several months at a time. Even though she said it was okay he could see the hurt in his daughter's eyes every time he had to leave again, but he still did what ever he could to make their time together special, once she had told him of her part in the ballet she would be performing he knew that he would attend without question. After their chess game, which Valentina won mainly due to the fact that her mother was a master of the game and taught her every single one of the best moves it took to win, she went straight to bed and simply drifted off to sleep while her parents simply stayed awake for a few more hours and simply talked.

The next morning Valentina woke up and prepared herself for school, after her mother packed her lunch, which consisted of a carrot, bread, an apple and a small piece of salmon from last night's dinner which Nikolay had saved just for her, she gave both her parents a loving hug and kiss each and went on her way. Sense busses weren't very popular in this particular part of the world for one reason or another Valentina was forced to walk to school. It was still relatively dark out but not so much that Valentina couldn't see where she was going. After a half hour of walking she'd finally gotten to school without incident, at least until she'd gotten inside the building. Just as she was making her way to her classroom she was halted by an older student, someone who took great pleasure in bothering Valentina each and every day he could. "Well hello Valentina, what kind of lunch did you bring me today?" The boy asked as he intentionally stood in her way much to her irritation.

She just grinned then said without a hint of fear of him. "Hello Dimitri, let me ask you something. Do the other monkeys at the zoo know your missing from your cage?"

He just frowned as he replied. "Give me your lunch brat." As he reached for her lunch pail she quickly yanked it away then swung it at him hitting him in the side of the head. He staggered a bit before he turned back to her with gritted teeth. "Why you little…" Before he could finish she hit him again from the other side just as hard, as he hit the ground in a daze Valentina simply stepped over him as if he weren't even there, she learned from a very young age not to show fear or even give so much as an inch to bullies like Dimitri.

"If you weren't smart enough to bring your own lunch then you don't deserve to eat you idiot." Valentina called out as she just left him lying on the ground groaning in pain and simply headed onward to class. After a few minutes in class some of the other children started to praise Valentina for her bravery against Dimitri, who by this point in his life had earn the title of school bully. But that didn't mean Valentina was afraid of him which was one of the only reasons why he targeted her the most, all though it wasn't really his smartest move sense she literally beat him bloody almost every time he came for her, it also didn't help him that she'd been trained by the black wolf of Chernobyl, but that didn't stop him from trying to put her in her place. Which ultimately never happened.

Around lunch time Valentina was sitting in a very small and cramped lunch room without any kind of tables or chairs, sadly do to the poor economy several things that most of the world took for granted such as furniture among other things most public places in this part of the world didn't exist. So the children had to sit on the floor as they ate their lunch. The first thing that her friends commented on was what she'd done with her hair, thanks to her mother she'd managed to get her hands on some quality hair dye which she'd used to decorate with a beautiful silver color to impress Yurochka. But sense it was so expensive to get let alone hard to come by Valentina chose only to give herself a few highlights which she had tied into tiny braids. Her friends all thought the look suited her quite nicely, however as soon as she admitted to her friends why she did it they started to tease her. "So are you finally going to kiss him like you said you would?" A brunet girl asked Valentina with a mischievous grin.

"I bet she's just going to chicken out again like she always does." Said a red haired girl sitting next to the burnet.

The boy they were all talking about was none other than Yurochka Romanov who as one might've guessed went to the same school as Valentina, and it was no secret to her friends that she liked him or that he was in the ballet that Valentina was performing in, which made her heart do backflips every time she saw him at the studio. "I don't chicken out…" Valentina denied to her two friends. "I'm just…waiting for the right moment is all."

"Oh sure you are." The brunet stated with a smirk and an unconvinced tone. "You've been saying that for months Valentina, you've got to do it soon and especially before the show otherwise all the girls in the school will be chasing after him too."

"Oh look there he is, now's your chance go and talk to him." The redhead added as she shook Valentina while looking over at the door with the very subject of their conversation just entering the lunchroom.

Valentina's heart suddenly began to do backflips again at the sight of her crush. For some reason he looked particularly good looking to her this day, Valentina just let out a love filled sigh as she couldn't help but stare at his beautiful ocean blue eyes and imagine running her fingers through his thick black hair while kissing him as deeply as she could. She was so lost in thought that she didn't even notice him sit down next to her and her friends as he began to eat his lunch. The reason of which was because he needed to talk to her about the show. "Hello Valentina…" He greeted as he sat down, but he got nothing in response from her as she was just lost in her own thoughts.

The sight of her in this state caused her friends to hold back their laughter as she remained completely clueless that he was sitting right next to her. But Yurochka had no clue what she was so deep in thought about, it just puzzled him. "Valentina? Can you hear me?" He asked as he waved his hand in front of her face.

Finally one of her friends decided to help snap her out of it by yelling in her ear. "VALENTINA YOUR BOYFRIEND IS HERE!" And as expected she snapped out of her daydream, once she realized that Yurochka was sitting right in front of her she began to panic inside of her own head.

Oh no how long has he been sitting there? What should I say? What do I do? She spent so much time trying to figure out what to say that she almost didn't notice him talking to her yet again. "Valentina, I need to talk to you about the show." He said with a soft smile.

"What why? I-I mean…yes of course." She blurted out feeling even more embarrassed. Why does this always happen to me when he's around me?

Valentina's friends both took this as their cue to leave and leave the two alone, but before Valentina could even protest they were already gone leaving her alone with her crush, whom she still had yet to tell him how she felt but no matter what she tried or planned she would always chicken out at the last moment and run away. But thankfully for her all he needed to do was ask her to tell their teacher that he might be late for the show, after words they just sat and ate lunch in silence. A few hours later school was over and Valentina started to head straight home. But sadly it couldn't be that easy for her as Dimitri had worked up the nerve to annoy her yet again. "Oh look it's Valentina Volkov, where are you headed in such a hurry? Back to see your mama and papa in that shitty little shack you call home?" He said just trying to get under her skin.

Valentina was just going to ignore him and keep on going, but that was when he pelted her with a snowball with a rock in it, she hit the ground with the back of her head throbbing. "That's it!" She growled as she rose from the ground and turned to face him, she stared him down with a look that could freeze water, as she rose up from the ground she noticed a stick on the ground. She picked it up and snapped it in two and held them both like daggers tightly in her fists and ready to unleash hell. "You want to fight? You've got one…bitch." She said with attitude as she prepared herself for combat.

Everyone but Dimitri gasped as they heard the word come out of her mouth, they all knew the punishment for swearing at school very well, but Dimitri just started to laugh at her as he clearly didn't take her seriously as she just took her fighting stance. "Oh you really think you can beat me with those stupid little sticks? Aw that is so cute of…" Before he could finish Valentina just ran up to him and kicked him in his groin, he hunched over forward and just held his family jewels. Then she began to whack him with her sticks with her ballet skills as she delivered a series of blows all over his face and head not relenting even for a second as she just brutalized him and showing him once again why it was a bad idea to mess with her. With each twirl and leap she bruised him over and over and over again either with her sticks or with a well placed kick until finally he begged her to stop. "STOP! PLEASE STOP NO MORE!" He cried as he cowered away from her.

And as he asked she stopped, but instead of just leave she pinned his head down under her foot and delivered her declaration. "Now let me be perfectly clear you little shit, if you don't start leaving other kids alone in this school I'm going to get a knife next time and cut you somewhere that a knife should never be used to cut." She didn't actually know what that meant at her age because her father encouraged her to say it in a situation like this, and that included her dropping the S-bomb.

"Alright I'll stop I'll stop!" He cried aloud knowing that she had bested him yet again, and this was the most painfully she'd ever beaten him.

"You'd better stop…or else!" She growled as she finally let him up, and kicking him in the face just one last time to get the message across that she was not one to fuck with. As soon as she'd gotten home she told her father about her fight with Dimitri, and as one might've expected from a father with his particular parenting style he was absolutely overjoyed to hear his daughter kick the stuffing out of someone, especially when he deserved it. From that point on Dimitri didn't dare mess with anyone while Valentina was around for fear that she actually might cut him somewhere he really didn't want her to cut.

It was about a week later when it was finally time for the ballet, Valentina was already at the theater with the rest of the dancers minus Yurochka who as he'd predicted was running late. But it was an hour until show time so it didn't matter too much. Most of the parents of the dancers had already arrived early to get the best seats in the theater so they'd have a better view of their kids. But as for Valentina's parents they were nowhere to be found, she had hoped they were only running late and that they'd get there before the show started. After the hour had passed Yurochka had finally shown up and gotten ready for the show, when asked what had kept him he simply shrugged and said he had a small task to do for an uncle of his who was just visiting. About an hour and a half later the show had ended but Valentina's parents still hadn't shown up to see the show, she knew that her parents wouldn't simply forget about such an important show for her. She had a bad feeling that something had happened, and what ever it was it was something bad. The walk home was a long and unsettling one for Valentina as her gut told her that something terrible had happened to her parents and no matter how hard she tried to dismiss the thought from her mind it just kept popping up even when she reminded herself that her father was the greatest soldier that Russia had seen in over a hundred years.

But in the end it didn't matter, as soon as she'd returned to the street her house sat on she looked on in horror as she saw her house, the only home she'd ever had, was burnt to the ground. She ran up to the pile of smoldering ash and searched franticly for her parents remains, underneath a collapsed wall was where she found a chard hand sticking out with a gun clenched tightly in it. Valentina's bottom lip began to quiver as she came to realize her father and most likely her mother as well, were dead. She fell to her knees and began to cry feeling the pain of her loss begin to sink in. Her mind began to fill with so many questions such as how it had happened and why. This would remain a mystery to her until the time was right. After a neighbor had finally called for the police to investigate they had discovered that the fire was no accident, and that Valentina's parents were already dead before the fire was lit due to very visible gunshot wounds in the head which left only one conclusion, the Volkovs had been murdered in cold blood.

Two days later the funeral was held for Valentina's parents in red square of Moscow in honor of her father, who would be greatly missed by several of his brothers in arms. The government vowed to Valentina that they would find the ones responsible for the crime and they would make them pay dearly for it, but sadly the search was much harder than they'd originally assumed it would be as it would seem that no one even bore witness to the crime or even caught a glimpse of what the killer looked like. This only caused Valentina's pain to grow even more as she had all her hopes for justice taken away from her in one fatal swoop, that is until the most unlikely of witnesses came forward, Yurochka Romanov. He'd told local law enforcement that he was asked to deliver a letter to the Volkovs home for his uncle who had happened to be in the KGB and worked closely with Nikolay and had discovered something that could've saved his life if he'd only read it before leaving. Yurochka knew about his uncle's position in the KGB and knew what ever it was inside the letter it was classified information, and as he expected it was classified, as it spoke of an assassin that went by the codename Chameleon along with other information about him personally wanting to kill Nikolay for no other reason than to see who was the better killer, it also said that this same assassin had stolen a device that the KGB had been working on to improve infiltration of any certain location such as an enemy base or compound in which case sneaking in was almost impossible. This device was simply known as the changeling watch designed to disguise who ever wore it simply by taking a picture and passing it through a computer or a smart device. Sadly though Nikolay didn't read the letter in time and it cost him his life.

Once the KGB had a name they knew who to look out for, but with this watch at his disposal it would be next to impossible to catch him. But this would not deter Valentina from getting justice, so she vowed to try and go after him herself and arrest him if she could. But she wasn't so naïve to think that she could do it alone or without a gun, thankfully the KGB had a way to track the watch down in case it had been stolen and based on what they'd discovered the Chameleon was still in Chernobyl waiting for the right time to escape. After gathering a large enough group of Spetsnaz and KGB operatives the operation to capture the assassin and retrieve the watch was good to go. Anyone would've thought that Valentina was foolish if not just crazy to even think about going after the Chameleon with or without the help of the government, even though she wasn't invited officially she still followed them to the hideout where they'd tracked the assassin down.

Valentina just waited until the agents and soldiers headed inside so that they could clear the way, once she saw no more agents or soldiers outside she started to head inside, until she was stopped by a familiar voice. "Valentina? What are you doing here?" She turned around and saw that it was none other than Yurochka Romanov, why he was there she had no idea.

"I could ask you the same thing Yurochka, but I don't have time for that. I'm going to get the Chameleon and I'm going to send him straight to prison if I can." She declared as she loaded a magazine into her twenty-two pistol.

"Are you crazy? He'll kill you if you try to pull a gun on him, he's an assassin he's trained to kill people!" Yurochka replied as he implored her to rethink her decision, but she may as well have been deaf because she just ignored his words of warning thinking that it didn't matter what he thought sense she had also been trained to kill, the only difference was this was her first time actually trying to shoot someone. Not that this was what she planned of course, her plan was simply to try and arrest him and force him to pay for his crimes against her family. As she headed inside Yurochka followed close behind her, but both paused when they heard gunfire erupt from the upper floors of the building. Surely it could only mean one thing, the agents and soldiers had engaged the Chameleon, Valentina then rushed up stairs in hopes that she could get the drop on the assassin with Yurochka still trying to get her to leave this to professionals but as soon as they'd gotten to the top floor the gunfire had suddenly stopped.

As the children rounded the corner Valentina held her gun out in front of her ready to shoot if she needed to. They both paused and looked on in horror as they bore witness to the massacre of twenty-five battle hardened spetsnaz elites and five KGB operatives laying in a combined pool of their own blood running down the hall. Shell casings and empty magazines littered the floor as well as the bodies of the dead. But this wouldn't be enough to deter Valentina from her mission to bring down the Chameleon, she was determined to get him if it was the last thing she did. She put a finger to her lips as she turned back to Yurochka and whispered. "Stay here…"

"Are you crazy?" He whispered back to her. "After seeing what he's done to these soldiers you really think you stand a chance?"

"There's only one difference between me and them, and that difference is I was trained by the black wolf of Chernobyl, they weren't. So I have the advantage." She said back to him as she proceeded deeper, the stench of blood filled her nose as she kept going creeping ever so slightly as she made her way past the bodies of the dead until she came to the apartment at the end of the hall, the door had been blown open with a breach explosive and the majority of the troops bullets had been wasted being fired into the room. Valentina just couldn't understand how so many soldiers could've failed so miserably to hit him.

"Looking for someone in particular little girl?" A chilling voice asked from behind her, Valentina quickly whipped around and aimed her gun at its source, but she saw nothing. Until that is the owner of the voice turned off his camouflage bringing him back into a more visible spectrum. He simply towered over Valentina with a sinister grin as she stared him down. She pointed her gun at him ready to fire knowing that this was her only chance to take him and bring justice for her parents. "Now if I were you little lady I'd put that gun down before someone gets hurt, it's not a toy after all."

As the Chameleon tried to gently take her gun away from her she fired off a shot which just barely grazed his cheek, he brought his fingers up to the cut on his cheek and saw that she'd actually managed to scratch him. "The next one is in your eye if you try anything funny prick!" She barked not showing even a hint of fear.

The Chameleon could sense this very easily, she wasn't scared of him and he knew it. This brought a smile to his face as he asked. "Are you looking to make a name for yourself sweetie? Because there are way better means of doing that without going on a suicide mission to try and kill someone like me."

"I'm not here to do anything except take you to the police you monster!" Valentina stated as she kept her grip on the gun firm and her aim steady.

The Chameleon just laughed at her thinking that she wasn't a real threat to him. "Listen kid, this isn't a game. How's about you go home where it's nice and safe, I'm sure your mommy and daddy are missing you."

"I'm sure they are, from heaven at least. Because that's where they are right now, because you killed them." She retorted as she aimed the gun right for his head.

"Ohhhhhhh so that's what this is, revenge for one of my old hits. Listen kid-o it was nothing personal okay? It was just business." The Chameleon stated with a smug grin. "Tell you what though, I'll make it up to you by killing the guy who asked me to do it and we'll call it even how's that sound? I won't even charge you for it."

"No one asked you to do it, you did it just because you wanted to, and left me alive to hunt you down and bring you in." She countered.

The Chameleon just started to laugh again, he knew by this point that she was serious but he just couldn't help it. "You are just the cutest little thing you know that? Even when you want to try and kill me you're just so damn adorable." He stated as he wiped away a tear. He knelt down in front of her just before he asked. "So who was it you think I killed little girl? Because when your as busy as I am you tend to forget who you've taken out over time."

Valentina just narrowed her eyes as she trained her gun on his heart and said. "My father, the black wolf of Chernobyl and my mother as well. You killed my parents for no better reason than because you wanted to you BASTARD!"

His eyes then shot open with surprise, then he realized just how serious she really was about taking him down. "Oh, I see…your father was Nikolay Volkov was he? Just so you know he was pretty tough to kill even for me. I must admit your old man put up one hell of a fight before I finally plugged him." He said somewhat respectfully about his fallen prey.

"It was clear why you killed my father, but why did you kill my mother?!" Valentina shouted with rage.

He just shrugged and said. "She got in the way, she wouldn't let me do my thing so I tried to make her leave, that's when she pulled her own gun and took a shot at me, she missed, then I took a shot at her, I didn't."

That's when something in Valentina just snapped, hearing that he killed her mother just for getting in the way was what sent her over the edge. She didn't care anymore about bringing him in alive, she just wanted to kill him. "You're an animal! No…you're worse than that! YOU'RE A MONSTER!" She roared as she pulled the trigger three times each one hitting her target in the chest.

He then toppled over and just groaned a bit, the surprise attack clearly caught him off guard. But instead of dying like she'd expected him to do he just sat up and started to rub his chest. "OW! Jesus Christ, you actually tagged me." He whined as he looked down at his chest and saw just how accurate she was, it was more than enough to stun him. "Holy shit, your old man taught you how to shoot pretty damn good. That's some pretty tight grouping."

Valentina just stood there stunned as well as she didn't understand how he was still alive especially when she'd shot him at close range. "How…? How are you…?" She voiced just before he cut her off.

"It's called kevlar sweetie, you know bullet proof vests. That's what I'm wearing underneath this suit, you'd need a way stronger gun than that pitiful little twenty-two to kill me while wearing this." He explained as he slowly stood up. "But I've gotta say kid you're a damn good shot, you don't hesitate and you don't show mercy. I'm sure your old man would be proud. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm gonna have to kill you too now. I mean I can't let word get out that I got sucker punched by a kid. Otherwise I'll look like a punk, but I'll tell you what though. We'll do this like they used to duel with flint lock pistols. We'll each go back to back then take a few steps away from each other and on the last step we turn around and fire, does that sound good to you?"

Valentina was surprised that he would actually offer her this chance to try and kill him, especially now that he knew just how deadly she was with a gun. But she wasn't going to pass this up, no matter what she was determined to avenge her parents as quickly as possible. "Alright, I accept your proposal." She replied finally lowering her gun.

"Great, how does ten paces each sound to you?" He asked with a Cheshire grin.

Shen simply nodded her head yes and said. "I'll walk my ten if you do the same." Without another word the two stood back to back prepared to duel, then they began to walk in opposite directions down the hall. Valentina kept her cool, aim for the head, she kept saying in her mind over and over as if she might forget it.

"VALENTINA LOOK OUT!" Yurochka cried out from the other end of the hall as he bore witness to what her opponent was doing, which was cheating by slowly turning around and trying to take a cheap shot by shooting her in the back only to be foiled by the boy whom he didn't see up until now.

Rathe than pause and turn around Valentina quickly dove into the hall Teeing off into the one she currently stood in just barely avoiding the bullet that whizzed past her head.

"You miserable little shit…" The assassin shouted with annoyance. "YOU MADE ME MISS!" Without a second thought he turned around and aimed his gun at Yurochka, but before he could fire off a shot he felt a shooting pain punch right through his left shoulder, he turned around and saw his foe who he'd all but forgotten about standing in the open holding a smoking gun and a smirk on her face. "Oh I see how it is, you brought him with you to keep me off balance. I've gotta say that's pretty clever, but it won't help you in the slightest." He quickly turned back around and took another shot at Valentina just before she dodged out of the way again and fired another shot at him.

But this time he ducked down just barely avoiding being shot in the head, he then fired three shots at once trying his best to kill the girl. "Not bad, for an old man!" Valentina barked with sass.

"Kids these days, no respect for their elders. Let alone their betters." Chameleon stated while trying to reload his gun. "If I were you kid I'd reload that piece of crap you've got while you still can, you've only got about three shots left, assuming you didn't add an extra round to the chamber which I'm guessing you didn't because most people are too lazy to think about that. I on the other hand always take the time to add an extra bullet to my guns before I use them. Makes my chances of killing you go up a little more."

But Valentina didn't pay him attention as she just rolled out and took her next shot, which sadly hit him in the chest, and in his vest. "Oh no…" She voiced just before he shot at her again, she then darted down the hall thinking she could make stand if she forced him to come around the corner, she stopped just a few feet from the crossing of the halls and laid down flat on her stomach hoping he wouldn't see that coming. So she simply laid there on the floor just waiting for her pray to round the corner, when she heard his footsteps walking away from her and towards the stairs and towards… "Yurochka!" She knew exactly what he was going to do, he was going to either kill him, or use him as a human shield but either way she knew he was in danger. "RUN YUROCHKA RUN!" She cried as she hopped back up and ran back into the hall and fired her remaining two shots at her foe's legs hoping she'd at least cripple him. But sadly both her shots hit nothing but air.

"You missed…" He whispered from behind her as he was once again cloaked by his watch, he then bashed his gun but into her head knocking her down. He then grinned down at her as he turned back to normal and asked. "Any last words?"

"LEAVE HER ALONE!" A Yurochka shouted while he held up a gun from a fallen soldier and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened but a metallic click.

Chameleon just groaned and said. "I don't have time for this." He then aimed his gun down the hall lining up his sights with his new target, who just froze as he stared into the eyes of the assassin. A single defending shot rang out, the bullet flew through the air at top speed hitting Yurochka in the dead center of his chest sending him flying into the wall behind him. His body hit the floor lifeless, Valentina just cried out in horror as she could do nothing to help him. "Well kids, that's what you get when you don't pick your battles wisely."

But just as the Chameleon was about to aim his gun on Valentina again she quickly leapt up, pulled her knife and leapt at the assassin's face screaming like a banshee as her rage took over her actions, she grappled her legs around his torso and used her free hand to keep his shooting arm away from her as she started slashing his face. "Die…" SLICE "DIE…" SLICE "DIIIIIIIIIE!" SLICE She was no longer an innocent little girl at this point, at this point a dark forced took control of her, as the only person she'd had left that she loved now lay on the ground dead she no longer hand anything left to lose, she didn't hold back, she just kept on slashing and slashing at his face while he just barely held her out of range of his throat with his free hand.

Shit she's gone nuts, he thought inside his head, for the first time in his life he was the one afraid of someone else. He tried to aim his gun at her head but he found that her rage and adrenalin had made her so much stronger than him. He knew if this kept up she would eventually kill him, and he knew it too as she had already left several small cuts on his face. His only option was to get ride of her, and out of the corner of his eye he saw a widow of opportunity, literally. He carried her into the room adjacent from where he was holding her until he stood in front of the window, in one quick moment he managed to free his arm from her grip and with all his strength he pushed her through the pain of glass and let her fall to the alley below. She hit the ground with a thud that he could hear all the way from the top floor. "Yep, just like your old man. I tip my hat to you girl." He voiced as he slowly walked down the hall towards the stairs, he then looked down at Yurochka and said with a cold tone. "You never should've got involved, you might've lived longer."

Hours later Valentina had awoken on the ground of the alley in a pile of garbage which broke her fall luckily, she quickly stood up and ran around the building to the entrance. But as she rounded the corner she found the entire building was being swarmed by police and KGB agents alike carrying out bodies of the fallen, Yurochka included. She slowly walked up to the truck which was being used to transport the bodies of the dead to the morg and found Yurochka's body bag, she opened it up and just looked at him with horror as she saw the bullet hole in his chest. If there was ever any doubt that he was dead before it was now gone. "I'm…I'm sorry Yurochka…" She said as she began to sob. "You didn't deserve to die. But I promise you, I will hunt him down, I will find him and I will kill him in your name, in my mother's name, in my father's name. He will never know peach so long as I live." She placed a single kiss on his cheek, his skin was as cold as ice, then she took her pendent her father had given her and placed it around his neck. It was upon this night that she would pursue vengeance for her family and her first true love.

But she knew that he couldn't know that she was still alive, otherwise he'd simply come after her and finish her off. So she would disappear, that night she left Chernobyl and snuck aboard a train headed to Moscow. She would then continue her training under the guidance of her father's closest friends in the Spetsnaz corps. Once she had turned twelve years of age she felt she was ready to go after her new foe, under her knew name, though the black wolf had fallen from the ashes his brood would take revenge in his name, as the black widow of Chernobyl.

Present day…

After finally finishing her tale Valentina was close to crying as telling Dallas the truth behind her past as well as her origin of becoming an assassin brought back pain that she'd hoped she'd never have to feel again. Dallas then came to realize that she'd named their son after this kid not only as a way to honor his memory but also as a way to punish herself for what had happened that day along with always wearing the same silver highlights in her hair every time he'd see her. The way she looked to Dallas almost scared him as he'd never seen her like this, not even after confronting her about their son came close to how she looked at this moment. Slowly after he'd first scolded her he became a bit more sympathetic to her as he could actually relate to her in this way. One way or another. "The worst part is I still have no idea why Yurochka was even there that day, when I asked his parents all they said was he wanted to offer me a place in his family's home until I was older. But it doesn't matter anymore, because thanks to me and my petty thirst for revenge an innocent boy was killed that day because of me." Valentina voiced with a sad expression.

"Babe listen to me…" Dallas said as he turned her toward him to look her in the eye. "I get what your saying, you blame yourself everyday for what happened to your first love, but you can't keep blaming yourself for it. Yurochka wouldn't want you to live like this, he'd want you to move forward and be happy that you found love again let alone that you have a family that loves you just as much as your old one. God knows that if it were me than I'd want you to move on too."

Valentin just sniffled a bit feeling the sting of his words. Sweet though they were they still hurt knowing that he was so willing to forgive her even after she'd left him so suddenly without even saying goodbye, she didn't feel worthy of his love let alone his forgiveness. "Do you think that Adrien and Marinette will ever be able to forgive me for what I've done?" She asked unsure of what laid ahead of her between the two teens she'd sworn to protect.

"I don't know, I know for a fact that Adrien is a very forgiving guy. And believe me I'd know about that first hand sense I kicked his ass when we first met, even though he still wants to even the score he's still forgiven me." Dallas replied casually. "Marinette on the other hand, that might be a different story entirely. I mean she's a very understanding person but even she's gonna take some convincing."

Valentina sighed as she'd already guessed that it wouldn't be as simple as saying 'I'm sorry' and just moving on with there lives, but she didn't care how long it would take because whatever the price it would cost she would not rest until she'd made up for what she'd done. She looked up to Dallas and asked again. "Will you be there for me when I finally find the strength to apologize?"

Dallas looked down onto her and placed his hands on either side of her head looking her in the eye as he replied. "I'll be your rock to stand on in this raging shit show of a situation Val, neve for get that I'm always going to be there for you no matter what." Without another word Dallas placed a soft kiss on her lips signaling to her that he'd forgiven her for her error in judgment which very well could've ended in the death of someone close to him.

Back at the safehouse both Marinette and Adrien now out of their costumes were sat with their kwamis at the table discussing why Adrien didn't fall victim to the poison of the dart. As it turned out Tikki and Plagg had dealt with this sort of situation more than once and reassured the two teens they had nothing to worry about as long as Adrien kept his miraculous on until his body had completely expelled the poison from his body entirely. "I still don't get it…" Adrien voiced as he just couldn't comprehend how it was possible for him to survive cyanide poisoning.

Plagg just groaned as he just felt so annoyed that he had to explain to his owner yet again how it was possible. "For the love of…it's called a universal ability, which also doubles as a passive ability, meaning it works for every miraculous weather or not if it's activated."

Around that moment Tikki joined in a little more patient with Adrien than Plagg was being. "Let me explain it to you, you two have both noticed that your speed, strength and agility all increase exoplanetary every time you transform right?" She asked bluntly, both teens nodded their heads yes then she continued. "Well those are what's called a passive ability, they active when your miraculous is transform you into your superhero personas, however there are some abilities that are constantly active even when your miraculous isn't, one of them being the immunity to diseases or poisons of all type both lethal and nonlethal. Let's say that you've both eaten something that's long past its expiration date but you still eat it anyway, what's the most likely thing to happen to you?"

"You'd get food poisoning of course." Marinette answered the obvious.

"Right, but if you throw something like a miraculous into the mix it's magic will protect you from any and all of the negative effects that you'd get from food poisoning, so much so you wouldn't even notice it unless you took off your miraculous."

Adrien finally started to make sense of what was going on. "So your saying that even if I'd ingested like a whole pound of poison I would be just fine?" He asked bluntly.

"Yes that's exactly what we're saying, but only if you keep the miraculous on your finger until you've gotten it all out of your system, which should be about a week at most. So don't take it off unless you really want to know what it feels like to die a horrible agonizing poison related death like this." Plagg added just before he started acting like he'd been poisoned, first he clenched his heart and started to foam at the mouth then fell to the table and begin to convulse as if he was having a poison related seizure until he finally stopped moving and gave a very dead looking stare off into space.

Tikki just sighed as she facepalmed with embarrassment. Marinette just sat there thinking his performance was in poor taste on Adrien's behalf, but Adrien didn't mind it too much as he knew this was jus Plagg trying to make him smile, which oddly enough worked. "Wow, you really sold that." He said with an impressed expression.

"Why thank you my good sir…" Plagg replied as he hopped back up and wiped his mouth. "One of my former masters was apart of a Chinese opera troop, it was their I learned how to act with the skills of a master. Heck I've even written an entire play all about the wonders of cheese."

Marinette just sighed and asked rhetorically. "Why am I not surprised?"

"Would you like me to recite it for you?" Plagg asked as he took a deep breath as if he were about to start a giant monolog about cheese, when Adrien quickly stopped him by shoving a wedge of camembert in his mouth. He was surprised by this sudden interruption, though as annoying as it was Plagg just swallowed the cheese whole forgetting all about his 'play' in an instant somehow.

"So mainly out of curiosity, would this immunity to poisons also apply to a drug overdose as well? Or perhaps even the effects of narcotics all together?" Marinette asked curiously, mainly because after being subjected to the effects of peyote first hand and then baring witness to the effects as well she just couldn't understand how she'd been effected so differently than everyone else, she could also as the same for Chloe after seeing her act the same way she did at first.

"Yes the miraculous can do that, however it doesn't prevent you from feeling the high that narcotics can bring you. It'll take away anything negative about the drug you've taken but it won't keep you from getting drugged." Tikki admitted what she knew about this particular subject.

"Well that explains why you acted so differently from Doof the other night." Adrien added as he recalled the first night Marinette had ever gotten high off of anything in her life. After this discussion about the passive ability to grant the wearer immunity to poison Marinette and Adrien decided to order some take out sushi mainly because they didn't feel like cooking anything after the horrible night they had. After words they both went straight to be and just cuddled, which was something Marinette needed more than anything right now especially sense she came so close to losing her true love tonight. Adrien didn't even need to look at her as he knew how distraught she still was, he could feel the chilling cold of her tears fall against his chest like shards of ice. "Do you need something to help you sleep Mari?"

Marinette sniffled a bit before answering. "No…I'll…I'll be fine, I'm sure of it. Let's just go to sleep." She said trying to dismiss her mood. Easier said than done of course, but Adrien wasn't just going to let it go.

He rolled onto his side and looked her in the eye and said with a soft tone. "Come on Marinette we both know you're not fine especially not after what Val did."

She just narrowed her eyes upon hearing that name. "Don't even mention one syllable of her name." Marinette growled as she rolled over away from Adrien. It was very clear to Adrien that she was upset with Valentina for what she'd done but he had no idea just how mad she truly was. She actually contemplated weather or not if she should call the police on her for what she'd done, but that's when she remembered Dallas's trump card for that plan and decided against it.

"Marinette please…" Adrien snaked his arms around her and pulled her back into his chest. "Being bitter with her isn't going to change anything."

"Well it's nothing less than what she deserves Adrien, she could've killed you tonight." Marinette stated with anger.

"But she didn't thanks to the miraculous." He quickly countered.

She then rolled back over and added. "But what if you didn't have the miraculous? If master Fu hadn't given it to you…" Before she could finish Adrien cut her off with a hard shred of the truth.

"Then I never would've been there to begin with remember, it would've gone to someone else and they would've been just fine too. Look the point I'm trying to make princess is it doesn't matter anymore." Adrien stated plainly. "Now can we please get some sleep? I'm just exhausted, both physically and mentally."

"I just don't get it; how can you be so casual about this? Normally after someone's been poisoned their usually a little more distraught." Marinette pointed out.

He just shrugged and said. "I guess I'm just a little more focused on…how my father's doing…without me." He closed his eyes as a sad expression began to form on his face and a single tear began to fall.

Marinette's mood suddenly changed from angry to compassionate, she remembered how he looked the day that he'd received a call from his father for the first time in over a week. Being apart from each other was hard enough, but not being able to talk to one another was even worse. She quickly snaked her arms around him and just held him close to try and comfort him until they simply fell asleep in one another's arms.

(A/N: And that's all for now folks, mainly because I hate keeping you guys waiting any longer than I already have which is why I've decided to turn this chapter into another two parter which I kind of hate doing but hopefully I won't have to do this again for a while, also want to say sorry for this chapter being late because I got hit with writers block again, god knows this is the bane of my existence as a writer but I won't let that stop me. Now before the spoiler I have a little announcement to make, my older brother, the one I'm currently helping with his own fanfic on my page is getting married soon sometime in August, so guess who gets to be his best man, this guy. Now before any of you potential pervs ask me what his bachelor party is going to be like all I have to say is it's going to be very cowboy themed and that's it. Anyway time for the spoiler, in the next chapter of WOS, Dallas FINALLY TELLS everyone the story I promised you in the last chapter, sorry about doing that to you guys but it was necessary, Dallas head's to the hospital to try and help Milan if he can, and Simon finally reunites with Dallas after so long, how will that turn out? Well your just gonna have to wait until next time, that's all for now folks, bye-bye.)