(A/N: Hey guys chapter 29 is ready, I decided to post this one up to as a way of saying sorry for not doing a lot of posting for anything really lately,and to say I'm sorry that I didn't get this story completely finished like I said I would before my break, to be honest writers block got me again for this story, but to make it up to you I have a bit of an announcement to make, you see my brother has spoken to another fanfiction writer who seems to deal with this problem much more than I do and she's said that the best way to deal with this, even though I don't really understand it myself, is to start up new projects and come back to your old ones later when you get blocked with those projects. So I think I'm gonna try that and see if it works because I at least want to leave you guys with something else to read from my page if it can't be this. Now just to let you know I'm going to be working on a few Sonic the hedgehog based fanfics for a while, yes it's because of the movie that came out recently, yes I went to see it, and yes I loved every second of it. Alright then time for me to kick this thing in gear.)

Chapter 29: The fox hunt

"Seven years…" Valentina began to rant. "Seven long years I've waited to take my revenge on you, seven long years you've haunted my dreams, plagued my memories, filled me with so much pain! I hardly had anyone to help me through the loss of my parents back then! But after I found Dallas things got better, then I had his child and my life finally started to get back on track! But the only way I'll ever truly be able to live my life the way I want to live it again is if I kill you and finally put an end to all of this! And believe me when I say this I want you to suffer for it! I want you to suffer for every single second I've suffered over the years! But that would make me no better than you, I'd become a monster, AN animal just like you! So I'm going to do something that you would never have done for me given the chance, I'm going to do the honorable thing and make your death quick and painless!"

And with all of that finally said Valentina fired off one final shot hitting him in the heart, normally this kind of shot would've been pointless to make with his bulletproof suit. But that was one of the first things that had been taken away from him after being captured, so without his protection from the bullet Valentina's shot struck true drilling itself into his chest. In his last few seconds of life he clenched his chest in pain, then with his dying breath he smiled and said. "I was right…you really are your father's daughter." Then he dropped to his knees, then he doubled over collapsing to the floor.

Valentina just let out a sigh of relief, after so many years of hunting, fighting and plotting to kill him, she had finally gotten what she wanted. "Mother, father, Yurochka…I have avenged you all. Finally…justice has been served." She then fell to her own knees as she felt as though a great weight had just been lifted from her shoulders, she even felt at peace, but only for a moment as she remembered who else was in the room with her. She then turned her attention towards Simon and just glared with hatred. "Now…as for you!"

Simon saw the look in her eyes and saw the fury boiling up within her, if it wasn't for her mentioning his brother Dallas he would've had no idea why she was looking at him with such rage. "I take it Dallas told you about what happened the other day?" He asked with a nervous smile and chuckle.

All he got in response was another gunshot which quickly flew past his head. Then with zero warning she charged him delivering a swift kick to the face with all her might following it up with and elbow to the gut then a right hook sending knocking him across the room only to be caught by the table next to the wall. "You have some nerve using my son as a pack mule to pull off a crime!"

"I'm sorry okay? It was a mistake I know that now." Simon replied as he rubbed his face. But all this managed to do was enrage Valentina even more.

She then clasped her hand around his neck and shoved him down upon the table's surface then pressed the gun right into his forehead. "You should've known from the start you son of a suka! If you want to be a petty criminal for the rest of your life then fine, but when you try to bring a child into it THAT'S when you've crossed a very fine line! One that I don't even think your brother would fault me for after killing you!" Valentina the pulled the hammer back on her gun as she stared Simon in the eyes, every single part of her screamed inside her telling her to pull the trigger. But instead of following her instinct she pulled the gun away from his head and said. "But you would be a waste of time, because you are a disgusting piece of garbage in my eyes. You're a disgrace to your family's name Simon Clearlake, not even worth spiting on and certainly not even worth the effort of killing! Now you listen to me and listen good you little ublyudok, I want you out of this city at the earliest convenience and get far away from me, Dallas and our son! And if I find that you're still here I will hunt you down and make you wish that I had killed you because I won't hesitate to put an end to you the next time we meet! That is a promise!"

With that said Valentina threw him to the floor as hard as she could then just walked out of the warehouse without another word leaving Simon feeling somewhat shaken by her threat. He fully believed that she'd make good on it as well, but what she didn't know was while she was distracted with dealing with the Chameleon Simon had set up his phone to record everything that had transpired. The purpose of which would be entirely for his benefit. "No more games, no more screwing around, it's time I get my groove back."

The next morning Adrien, Marinette and Dallas all gathered around the breakfast table to discuss what he'd wanted to talk about the night before. Upon hearing what he'd had to say simply shocked Marinette to her core. "Lila Rossi? She's behind all of this?" Marinette asked puzzledly.

"Yep, she's behind it all the little bitch." Dallas replied sternly. "I don't know how she managed to get in contact with the Chameleon or how she even had the means to afford him but it doesn't matter. Now we know who la Volpe is, and we can finally put an end to her plans."

After giving it some thought Adrien saw her motive behind it all. She wanted Marinette dead purely out of jealousy, and she wanted to frame him in the attempt to blackmail him into a relationship with her. But he'd rather spend the rest of his life in prison hatting Lila instead of spending it with her any day. "I honestly wish I could say that I'm surprised she'd do this, but I'm afraid I can't because we know her too well." Adrien stated plainly.

"Alright so what's our next move?" Marinette asked eager to take Lila down.

Just as Dallas was about to reply they all heard a knock at the door. Dallas then got up and answered it, and standing there holding a package in her hands was none other than agent Elisa Menendez. "Good morning everyone." She greeted as she entered the safehouse and sat the package down on the living room coffee table.

"Agent Menendez, we weren't expecting to see you at all today. Did something happen that requires us to be relocated again or something?" Dallas asked plainly.

Elisa simply turned to him and said. "Surprisingly no, I'm actually here to drop this off for the three of you. As well as discuss something that your father apparently wants you to attend Mr. Agreste."

Upon hearing mention of his father Adrien instantly gave her his fully undivided attention. "My father contacted you?" He asked with surprise.

"Indeed, he also saw to it that this package got to me last night thanks to your governess Natalie. I'm not entirely sure what it is but I believe it's for you to use at the upcoming charity event at the Italian embassy, which I still think is a bad idea but I can understand the how important it is that you show up so I'll allow it. After we acquire the necessary security detail." She replied casually and still wanting to call off the entire ordeal.

Adrien then walked over to agent Menendez and the package, then he asked with concern. "How is he? Is he okay? Hawkmoth hasn't found out that he's not here has he?"

"To my knowledge no he hasn't Adrien, and I truly hope that it stays that way." Menendez replied plainly. "Anyway as I'd said your father wanted me to deliver this to attend the charity event at the embassy."

Adrien then opened up the box and found three different outfits inside which he recognized as his father's handywork right away, two of them were black suits the third was a lavender dress. "Okay I guess it's not too surprising that my father's sent us a few outfits for this. But what makes these so special?"

Dallas picked up one of the suits in the box, on closer examination he saw that they were made of a particularly strong material. "Their bullet proof, oh Gab you mad genius you. I'll bet even the dress is bullet proof, and the best part is he's finally made me something in my color." This phrase alone earned him a dirty look from Adrien simply for missing the entire point of these outfits. "What? I'm just saying that I prefer black."

"I'll be back in a week to collect you all after acquiring a proper security detail. I just hope we don't run into any trouble along the way. Thanks to Ladybug and her team we lost track of the Chameleon, now he could be anywhere in the city." Elisa stated still bitter that she'd lost one of her top most wanted criminals.

Which reminded Dallas of what he'd just told Adrien and Marinette. "Oh crap I almost forgot, Menendez I know who it was that hired him." He said quickly turning back to the Interpol agent as he pulled out his phone and played the recordings for her. Upon hearing them all Menendez was just as shocked at this revelation as Adrien and Marinette were.

"I don't believe this, Lila Rossi…the Italian ambassador's daughter…was behind everything against Marinette? How did you even come by these recordings?" She asked with a dumbfounded look.

"Remember back at the hospital when she accused me of stealing her phone? Well to be honest I kind of did do that right before I bugged it and handed it off to the first member of hospital staff. Mostly to try and get some pretty useful blackmail information or something along those lines. Who knew it would've worked out in your investigation."

He was right, they had helped make a major breakthrough for the case. But there was one problem. "While I would scold you for illegally bugging someone else's phone Mr. Jones, I am grateful that you've helped us greatly in putting a positive I.D. on the client for the assassin. However I'm afraid this is inadmissible as evidence to our case as you obtained it illegally."

"Yeah I might've figured you were gonna say that, but whose to say that Lila won't take matters into her own hands after she finds out the Chameleon's gone?" He replied quickly.

Menendez began to think for a moment, what he'd said sounded reasonable for her to take drastic measures. Especially if she discovered that her assassin was missing. "I suppose that makes sense, but how are we supposed to drop that hint without her catching wind that it was us?"

Dallas just smiled and said. "Agent Menendez, today is your lucky day. Because I happen to know a very talented actress, and a few things from some of my old friends in low places that might just help sell the act. And once we've baited the trap she'll walk right into it without being any the wiser."

She had to give him credit, when it came to plans he was an expert. "Alright, we'll go with you're plan. When should we start?" She asked plainly.

Agent Menendez then made a quick call to her office asking some of her cohorts to acquire an arrest warrant for Lila Rossi as well as ask the director to give them full permission to begin investigating her entirely. About an hour later both Dallas and Agent Menendez simply waited outside of Lila Rossi's apartment simply waiting for her to come out and meet the Chameleon at whatever café she'd met him at. After she finally left her apartment Menendez began to follow her in an unmarked car while keeping her distance from Lila. After following her for about four to five minutes they'd finally arrived at the café she'd mentioned in the message. "This must be the place." Dallas announced. "I'd best contact that actress I mentioned."

"Are you certain she's up to the job?" Menendez asked seeming a bit skeptical about this part of the plan.

Dallas just smiled at her and said back. "Relax, I know what I'm doing. As does she." After making a quick phone call to Valentina, who was a little reluctant to do it once she'd learned that she'd be working with agent Menendez, she made a quick change in her look with a pair of blue contacts and a brown wig she made her way to the café and over to Menendez's car. Once she'd finally made it over to the car Menendez rolled down her window to meet the girl face to face.

"I take it that you're the actress that Dallas mentioned?" She asked casually.

"Hey "Valery," been a while sense I saw you last." Dallas added on and quickly giving her a new name in which she could go with.

Valentina then nodded her head at Menendez and said with a French accent. "Oui, that is me madam. And you are?"

"Agent Elisa Menendez of Interpol, and we're in need of your help to catch a criminal who hired an assassin to have one of her own classmates murdered out of petty jealousy. Dallas told me that you're a tremendous actress so we need you to play the part of another assassin, one whom this assassin is bitter rivals with." Menendez replied as she handed her a dossier, her dossier. "You'll be playing the role of a woman who goes by the name "Black widow of Chernobyl," she's the second most wanted assassin in the world and she's been known to go after the clients of her rival on occasion, usually to scare them off and call off the hits on their targets. It doesn't always work of course but that doesn't stop her from putting a bullet in their heads."

"I'm sure she has her reasons." Dallas stated plainly.

Upon saying this Menendez just glared at him and said. "Her "REASONS" are illegal, let's not forget that Mr. Jones. She is a dangerous killer whose made a name for herself as an assassin all over the world."

"Hmm…sounds like my kind of a woman." He replied with a cheeky smile, upon hearing him say this Menendez just glared at him even harder. "What? Don't give me that look, dangerous chicks turn me on."

Menendez just groaned as she began to rub her temples and already starting to regret her bringing him along. "Only an American." She mumbled to herself. "Look, do you think you can play the part of this woman or not miss?" Menendez asked the alleged brunette standing before her.

"I will give you the best performance madam, just tell me my motivation and I will handle the rest." Valentina replied keeping up her French accent perfectly.

"Your motivation is this, you're from Russia, you're an assassin, you've just taken down the very man that this girl hired." Menendez stated as she showed Valentina a photo of Lila Rossi. "And that you're there to threaten her to call off the hit or else she'll meet the same kind of end that her contractor has."

At least challenge me, Valentina thought to herself with a smirk. "Alright, I'll go see what I can do." She replied casually as she started towards the café. Only for Menendez to stop her for one last brief bit of information.

"Wait, she may not believe you unless you have proof that you took him out. Here take these." She announced as she handed Valentina an earpiece and a scarlet handkerchief which she already knew well enough belonged to the Chameleon. "This belonged to him, I happen to know for a fact that he always wears one in the front pocket of his suit even when he meets a client for the first time. So she's bound to have seen it, so she should recognize it right away. Good luck young lady."

Valentina took the hanky and proceeded to the café, as soon as she went inside she saw a somewhat irritated looking Lila Rossi tapping her foot as she waited for someone. She then pulled out her phone and dialed in a number. "Hey it's me, where are you? You should've been here by now, we still have business to discuss." She said just before she hung up her phone again with a frustrated look.

Around that moment Valentina sat down at her table wearing a Cheshire smile and dropping her fake accent as she said. "Good afternoon Miss, it is a pleasure to finally meet you."

Lila looked up and saw some strange brunet girl sitting across from her. She then said with an annoyed tone. "Hey, can't you see this table is already taken? Besides I'm waiting on someone, who happens to be running late."

"Yes I know your waiting on someone, but I'm afraid it is all in vain you see dorogoy." She stated plainly. "Because as you know this particular line of work can be very…"cut throat," and the competition is VERY bloodthirsty."

Lila just sat there for a moment, what she had just said had completely caught her off guard. But that hardly mattered to her. "I'm sorry but who are you?" Lila asked with annoyance.

Valentina just smile as she held up the hanky for Lila to see as she replied with. "The competition."

"You were right, she is good. She actually has me convinced that she is the Black widow." Menendez stated as she listened to the conversation as it recorded.

Dallas just smiled and said to himself. "If only you knew."

Back inside the café Lila just stared at Valentina with shock. "You mean to say that you're an assassin too?"

Valentina just chuckled and said. "But of course dorogoy, and as of this moment I am your worst nightmare, or at least I will be if you don't wise up and back off Ms. Dupain-Chang and Mr. Agreste."

"Why should I? What business is it of yours who I want killed?" Lila asked back angry at the fact that this girl had killed the man she'd hired to do her bidding.

Valentina just leaned in and said with a growl. "Because if you don't I'm going to make you wish you were never born! That and Mr. Agreste hired me to kill whoever it was who wanted Marinette dead in the first place, but luckily for you I convinced him otherwise. Now these are your only two options Ms. Rossi, either continue to try and kill Marinette Dupain-Chang in which case I will intervein each time, or back off and leave her alone for the rest of her life, the choice is entirely up to you."

Just as Valentina began to stand up and leave Lila quickly stopped her with an offer that surprised her. "Wait!" She said grabbing her sleeve. "I wanna hire you now!"

Back in the car both Menendez and Dallas just exchanged a surprised look as they clearly didn't see this coming. "Don't leave yet, just hear her out and agree to take the job, we can use this as a way to nail her to the wall too." Menendez stated.

Valentina then turned and said in response to Lila's offer. "I'm sorry?"

"I wanna hire you!" She repeated herself. "I can find a way to pay you for it just like when I paid the Chameleon."

Valentina then smirked and asked. "And how are you going to do that?"

"The same way I did the first time, I'll just lie to my mom about wanting to donate money to the local homeless shelter and she'll fork over the cash." Lila stated plainly.

Dallas just huffed inside the car and said to himself. "Figures she'd steal from her own mother to get what she wanted."

Valentina then sat down and asked. "Alright then, how exactly do you want this done?"

Lila smiled evilly as she answered. "For starters I want you to make it look like Adrien did it."

"What for exactly?" Valentina asked plainly.

"Because I want to blackmail him into accepting that I'm the only woman for him. Once he's accepted that I want you to prove that he didn't do it in which case I get what I want." Lila stated plainly.

"You want to black mail him into a relationship with you? You do realize that he'll never actually love you by doing this." Valentina stated the truth.

But Lila just waved it off as she replied. "He'll learn to love me, in time anyway."

"Or he'll just hate you until the day you die as he routs in prison." Valentina pointed out.

"It makes no difference to me as long as Marinette is dead, but after you kill her I want you to bring me hear earrings as proof that you did it. I always thought they'd look better on me anyway." Lila said as she began to stand up and walk towards the door, but she just stopped as she remembered one thing. "Oh, I almost forgot. After this I have another job for you, another class mate of mine who made the mistake of striking my ire, I need him dead too. Kill him however you want."

Valentina just looked on at her and asked. "Who's the target?"

Lila then smiled knowing that she'd be ride of both Dallas and Marinette, or so she thought. "His name is Dallas Jones, he's half white half native American, he also has a major biker fetish."

On the opposite side of the radio Dallas wasn't the least bit surprised that he found himself on her hit list especially after putting her in her place back at the hospital, but he was thoroughly annoyed that she'd claimed that he had a biker fetish. "Fottiti stupida puttana!" He cursed in Italian.

"Quiet, I can't hear her. Also watch your language." Menendez stated as she kept on listening to the conversation.

Valentina was just as frustrated with Lila for daring to put a hit out on her lover, it took every last ounce of her strength to keep her cool and not expose herself as a true assassin with agent Menendez just outside the café. "Alright then so two killings and one frame job, shouldn't be too hard to do. But I hope you realize that my services don't come cheap, and just so you know Mr. Agreste paid quite the sum for my services so you'd better make it rain more than he did." She stated as she made it very clear that she would take the job, or at least that's what she wanted Lila to think.

Lila just smiled and said. "Oh don't worry, I have my ways of paying you. Just give me a couple of days and I'll have a fat sum of cash ready for you."

"And how exactly do you expect to pay me with babysitting money? Because I doubt that you want to spend the rest of your life." Valentina asked, mostly as a way to pile on a little more evidence to convict her.

"Oh you don't need to concern yourself with that, I always get what I want anyway. I'll just con my mom into signing over a check from the embassy funds worth your usual fee and tell her it's for a charity just like when I hired the Chameleon. She honestly had no idea what my true intentions were for it." Lila admitted casually.

Hearing this only made Menendez smile, not only was she guilty of conspiracy to commit two murders as well as planning to blackmail one of her victims but she had also just admitted to cheating the government out of a high sum of money, as well as a foreign embassy which technically classified her as an international criminal now. "This is going to earn Mr. Rossi a criminal grand slam for sure." She said plainly.

"None of it will matter though unless we can get her diplomatic immunity revoked, remember her mother is hear on official business which grants her full immunity from the law no matter what evidence we bring forward for the assassination attempts." Dallas added what he knew was the truth. "At the very least though if nothing else we could definitely nail her for stealing from the embassy as its technically considered a part of Italy, but there's no guarantee that her mother won't get her pardoned for it."

"You're right I'm afraid." Menendez replied acknowledging his words. "I might be an international agent but not even I can touch her if that happens. We need to find a way to prove that she's not just a thief and a liar."

"What if we gave the recording to the media?" Dallas suggested. "That might at least stir up the pot."

Menendez just sighed, it was a good plan but she knew it wouldn't be enough. "Even if we did she could just stay in the embassy until the whole thing blew over, no what we need is something bigger than this something so big that her mother will have no choice but to revoke her immunity."

Dallas then started to put his mind to work, then he came up with the most brilliant of plans. "I've got an idea, but it's going to require a lot of work and the biggest poker face I've ever put on before."

Menendez then looked at him with an intrigued look before asking. "What did you have in mind?"

After Valentina had finally gotten everything they needed to aid in the case against Lila, the Interpol agent, the assassin and the reformed thief all began to discuss what the best course of action would be. Once they figured it out the began to put things into action right after telling Marinette and Adrien. "You wanna use Marinette as bait?" Adrien asked as he, his girlfriend, Menendez and Dallas all sat in the living room of the safehouse and going over the plan with them directly.

"Yes, but it'll only work if she thinks her initial plan to have her killed falls through." Dallas answered plainly.

"In which case she'll think that she has no other choice and she'll have to take matters into her own hands. Then when she does we'll catch her in the act and have one hundred percent positive proof that she's guilty, and with me making the arrest it'll be much easier with my status as an Interpol agent." Menendez added on and loving the fact that things were going so smoothly for her for the first time in a while.

Adrien and Marinette both exchanged a look of concern, they figured that they'd be alright given that they would have their team mates, an army of Interpol agents and their own miraculous at their disposal. But with Marinette now expecting she was very nervous for the life of their unborn child. Somehow Dallas picked up on this and said reassuringly. "You'll be fine Mari, don't forget that dress is bulletproof it would take a literal explosion to get through that. And not only that but we'll also have a shit tone of people watching you guys. Trust me, you'll be safer than need be."

Marinette only found this to be a mild comfort as she subconsciously rubbed her stomach still feeling concerned for her child. But she had faith in Dallas and his abilities and was willing to give him a chance, he hadn't led her a stray so far so it led her to believe that this time would be no different. She just sighed hoping that she wouldn't regret what she was about to say. "Alright, I'm in."

Agent Menendez then nodded to the three teens in the safe house, then she turned towards the door and took her leave. Not too long after she left Marinette received a text message from Alya telling her to check out the news to see something which she found to be interesting. After flipping on the television all the three teens had to do was read the caption at the bottom of the screen to understand what was going on as they saw Mayor Bourgeois making a big announcement like he said he would. "The city of Paris is in a state of emergency, with no clear end to these akumaa attacks in site we must empower the only ones who seem capable enough to deal with the problem now more than ever. Which is why I am formally announcing the official deputation of the miraculous heroes to aid our local law enforcement. As official deputies of the city they will be given permission to operate as they usually do, provided that they abide by out local laws and the proper guide lines of our cities finest as well as answer directly to a carefully selected handler chosen by local government, the identities of the candidates of course shall remain undisclosed for the time being and the handler selected will be announced officially after the signing of the necessary documents that Ladybug and her team will need to fill out in order to legitimize their official work for the government. Until then things will continue on as they normally do, thank you all and have a wonderful day."

After the Mayor walked off stage a reporter began to speak in his place as they looked into the camera. "That was Mayor Bourgeois at a live press conference outside of city hall making an official declaration of the city's current state of being. The only question is what will be the response from Hawkmoth once this is officially put into motion?"

In this moment Dallas simply smiled at the resolve of his latest plan coming to a close. "Game…set…match." He said smugly and honestly wishing that agent Menendez was still there, just to see her reaction to all of this. But little did he know she was taking things quite well as she too had her own plans for this already set in motion.

(A/N: And that's it for this one guys I hope you enjoyed it, and I also hope that you understand why these chapters will be coming out later from now on. I really hate to do this to you guys but like I've said before it's a real pain in the ass and I'd rather not just leave you hanging like this without something else to hold you over so I really hope you're satisfied with these other fanfics I'm posting soon. Anyway it's time for the spoiler, in the next chapter of WOS, Adrien prepares for the charity event, Marinette prepares for Lila, and Dallas must come face to face with his worst nightmare once again. Will he be able to handle it or will he fall apart from the pain? You'll just have to find out in the next chapter.)