Ladybug swung out of the alleyway and onto a building across the street from the school. The akuma hasn't made any declarations and its motive and powers are currently unclear. It remained inside the black structure that was now slowly extending to the sky. It had to be Lila that was akumatized, trapping those who had exposed her.

As she was observing the entrance and sifting through all the other miraculous powers that might be able to get her inside. I could use Kaalki, but I don't know the layout inside. Plagg is with Adrien and I wouldn't even know the effect of his powers on this building. Suddenly her planning was interrupted by a loud booming voice.

"Ladybug!" She looked up to see a hologram of Gamemaster being projected onto the side of the building, by, what she assumed, was a hidden projector. "If you want to gain entry into my Tower of Judgement, you have to bring me someone: Lila Rossi."

Ladybug scowled at him, then shouted "I can't bring you a civilian just so you can do god knows what to them, even one as cruel as Lila." If Lila isn't the akuma, then who? They seem to be male, could it be Adrien? A shiver ran down her spine at that thought, please don't let it be Adrien.

The hologram of Gamemaster visibly chuckled . "Then I guess I will just have to kill Chat Noir then. It won't be hard seeing as he isn't transformed right now." His laughter only increased as he saw her eyes go wide with shock. "Yes, I know Chat Noir's secret identity, and unless you want Hawkmoth to learn it, you better bring me Lila Rossi! And no one else!"

The hologram vanished, leaving Ladybug standing in horror. Adrien was a hostage somewhere inside of the school, his ring possibly in the possession of Gamemaster. She had to act quickly if she was going to be able to save him and his miraculous before Hawkmoth found out his identity. She quickly dashed into the alley next to the bakery and pulled herself up onto her balcony, dropping her transformation as she landed. Tikki gave Marinette a concerned look, "Marinette, slow down. You need to think rationally."

Marinette nodded at the Kwami's wise words. "You are right, Tikki. The only way Gamemaster is going to let me in is if I only bring Lila with me. Meaning I have to get creative in sneaking in another ally to assist us in this fight."

She frowned as she climbed down into her room and pulled the miracle box out of its hiding place. Opening the miracle box, Marinette looked at the different miraculous available to her, collecting them as she looked at them. The monkey, the mouse, the horse, the ox, the tiger, the fox, the turtle, the bee, ah there is it: the dog. She pulled out the collar, debating on who would be able to wield it successfully. She grinned as she thought of the perfect person to use it. Placing all of the miraculous she collected from the box and climbed back onto her balcony. "Tikki, spots on," Marinette summoned her, transforming into Ladybug again.

Jumping off of her balcony railing, Ladybug set off to find Sabrina Raincomprix and set her plan into motion. In her rush to escape, not once did she think about the open miracle box she had left behind, unattended in her room and with an unwelcome guest. One who was now inspecting the miracle box and the remaining miraculous curiously.

Adrien

"Plagg, claws out!" Adrien called out, punching his ring forward and waited for his transformation. But Plagg didn't fly into it and not even one snide remark was made about being too tired. "Plagg?" Adrien called out as his heart began to race. "Where are you? This isn't funny, you know I hate being caged up!" he shouted into the darkness, gripping the bars tightly.

The bars suddenly slid up, the cage around Adrien going away as he was forced to let go of the bars. "What's going on?" he asked, not expecting to get an answer from the akuma that had trapped him.

Gamemaster's voice came over the hidden speakers in the room, "I decided I want to see how far you can get without superpowers. Is it the powers that make the hero or is there actually something special about you."

Adrien's eyes widened as he realized Gamemaster knew his secret identity, quickly ensuring that he still had his ring. "Where is Plagg!" Adrien demanded as his face shifted into a scowl.

"Your kwami has been transported somewhere else," the Gamemaster informed him. "But I wouldn't worry about him right now if I were you. I feel like the muggers are a bigger problem." Suddenly, the lights turned on, revealing the room to Adrien as a door clicked behind him.

He whirled around to see that a door had opened, as three street gang members walked in and started to surround him, two males and one female. One male carried a knife while the others had brass knuckles on, their clothes tattered with scars and tattoos lining their arms.

Adrien backed away from them slowly, searching the room for a way to defend himself but came up empty. Without warning, another door opened, revealing a hallway unblocked by more thugs.

Without hesitation, Adrien ran down the hallway, the gang following close behind him. Suddenly, everything froze, Adrien found himself unable to move as Gamemaster spoke up again. "Ah I forgot to mention, you never rolled the dice yet." In front of Adrien, a twenty sided die materialized, dropped to the floor and started to roll. It landed with the twenty facing up. "Impossible!" Gamemaster shouted in frustration. "No one gets a twenty on the first roll! No matter, your luck will run out soon enough."

Adrien smirked as he ran down the hallway, leaving the thugs behind in the dust. Dating the embodiment of luck seems to have a stat boost that you don't know about. His luck didn't last long enough though before Adrien found himself at a dead end. He whirled around, the sound of the heavy feet running down the hall towards him as he waited defenseless and alone, Gamemaster's victorious laughter boomed over the speakers.

Ladybug

She landed outside of the downtown library, careful to avoid anyone that might spot her and try to follow her. Sabrina was inside as she had been for the last few weeks, studying by herself. Ladybug felt a pang of guilt inside her heart as she turned to hide in the alleyway. "Tikki, spots off."

The kwami zipped out of her earring and gave Marinette a skeptical look. "Are you sure she is the right choice to use the dog miraculous?"

Marinette grinned as she held out the box containing the collar, slipping inside of the library unnoticed. "No one else is more qualified than her for this mission," she whispered as she peered around a bookshelf. Just then, she saw Sabrina getting up to put away the book she just finished reading and move to get a new one. "Now is our chance to give her the miraculous without her noticing. Have you filled Barkk in on the plan?"

Tikki nodded her head in acknowledgement. "She promised to behave as long as she gets a treat later." The kwami made a face, adding "Barkk's bones are more disgusting than Plagg's cheese."

Marinette grinned as she began to sneak over to the table where Sabrina was sitting just moments ago. Well, she attempted to sneak across. Marinette didn't even make it a meter before she tripped over a book left on the floor. As Marinette hit the ground, she lost her grip on the box and it flew across the floor. Marinette watched the box with wide eyes as it rolled until it came to a stop right in front of Sabrina's chair. "I guess luck is still on our side," she whispered with a smile as she snuck away before Sabrina got back.

Tikki still seemed skeptical of Marinette's plan. "Are you sure Sabrina will help? After what happened with Chloe, she might not be willing to help us out."

Marinette gave Tikki a reassuring smile as she held out a cookie for the kwami to recharge. "Sabrina is a good person, although a bit gullible when it comes to Chloe. I believe she will do the right thing, Tikki. Now we have to hurry and collect the other recruits." Marinette shuddered, then added, "And then find Lila, even if i have to throw her over my shoulder and drag her there myself. Tikki, spots on!" Transformed once again, Ladybug swung off to find Ivan and Mylene.

Plagg

The black cat kwami sat in a dark room, two other kwami's sitting across from him. "So explain to me again why you actually want to help Hawkmoth?"

Nooroo sighed, "It's so his family can be together again. Master feels so much pain everyday and we can't help but feel it."

"He just wants to save the woman he loves," Duusu added in a dramatic voice as she raised a hand to her forehead. "It's so romantic!"

"Have you two seriously forgotten what happened with the last moron who tried to use the miracle wish for their own intentions? We are talking about cosmic consequences here; timelines breaking, alternate universes colliding, the end of the world!"

The two captive kwamis looked at him blankly, having been so conditioned to the point where they stopped caring about the bad after effects from their past. "I know I am supposed to be sorry, but I am not" Nooroo said. "But we have been on our own for years, no one else to protect us but each other. We have been used for things that would horrify you that keep us awake at night. So sorry if I am a bit damaged from the horrors I have been used for that when a man decides to use us to save his wife, I agree to help," the kwami spat. "What we are helping Hawkmoth do will help save a life."

Plagg hissed at Nooroo, "He is using you to hurt innocent people and in most cases, those people end up dead."

"Ladybug always brings them back to life," Duusu retorted. "Our master would never want to actually hurt someone."

Nooroo nodded his head in agreement, adding, "And sometimes the akumas go after bad people who deserve it. If Ladybug and Chat Noir would just give up their miraculous, everyone would be happy. That's all our master wants, for everyone to be happy. No more sadness or pain will happen after he makes his wish."

Plagg glared at them, deciding not to bother trying to reason with the two kwamis any more. He turned around and zipped away from them without another word, attempting to fly towards the closed window so that he could phase outside. Duusu's eyes widened with understanding at what he was trying to do and she yelled to Plagg, "No, don't try it!"

But her warning came too late as Plagg hit the invisible barrier, zapping him and knocking him back to where the other kwamis were still sitting. "What the heck was that?" he hissed at them, his fur sticking up in rage and green flames burning behind his eyes.

"That's the reason why we can't leave," Nooroo said softly. "Master has put some kind of magic spell on us. We must stay in this room or by his side at all times."

Plagg growled, "Then where is this master of yours? Because I have some choice words for him!"

"Nooroo, dark wings rise!" Nooroo zipped into the shadows, causing a brief flash of purple. Plagg felt himself holding his breath as Hawkmoth stepped out of the shadows, grinning evilly at the kwami of destruction. "Then why don't we chat?" he chuckled as he strode over to Plagg with a malicious smirk.

Sabrina

She had had a tough time after the Miracle Queen akuma attack, often bullied due to her closeness to Chloe. Lila had even started to spread a rumor that, because of her connection to Chloe, Sabrina was a secret agent for Hawkmoth spying on all of them. Not everyone believed it, telling Lila that it was okay and Sabrina wasn't a threat to them. But Sabrina still caught a few people giving her suspicious looks and doing their best to avoid her.

Chloe has shut herself in her father's hotel, not replying to any of Sabrina's messages or calls. Sabrina had tried to visit her at the hotel, but the staff denied her entry and kicked her outside. Now without her best and only friend, Sabrina spent most of her time in the library studying or immersing herself in a new world of people with bigger problems than her own. It was the one place where she was left alone and could feel normal for a few hours, or could even be a completely different person all together. However, today was not one of those days.

When Sabrina returned to the table she was using, she spotted a small wooden box sitting on the floor next to her chair. Examining it closer, Sabrina recognized the box as the same one Chloe once showed her: the box that contained the Bee miraculous. Sabrina glanced around the section she was in to make sure no one was watching before opening the box to see what was inside.

There was a bright flash of brown as a kwami emerged from the miraculous inside, a small dog-like creature. Chloe had described her former kwami Pollen as similar to a bee. The small dog kwami gave Sabrina a smile as she greeted her, "Hello Sabrina! I am Barkk, the dog kwami, and I can grant you the ability to guard your allies from danger and keep them safe from harm. You must use the powers I can grant you to help Ladybug stop the akuma. Then when the mission is complete, you must return the miraculous to her."

Sabrina's eyes flashed from the collar in the box to Barrk and back again. Then she answered flatly, "No."

Jac

After Ladybug left again, Jac climbed out of his hiding spot from under her lounge. Finding out the baker's daughter was actually Ladybug was a surprise, but a welcome one. He managed to video the entire transformation on his phone to keep as leverage. That's when he remembered the mysterious box from the Miracle Queen akuma attack and how all the miraculous jewels that granted powers were stored inside it.

Jac managed to sneak inside of the bakery and after a short search, he found Marinette's room and began to poke around it. He was about to give up when he heard a zip and a thud on the ceiling. Jac hid as Marinette opened the trapdoor above her bed, climbed down the ladder, went over to the...and pulled out the box. She removed a few miraculous and then left it open in the middle of the room before climbing back out onto the roof and swinging away.

Now he had the chance to choose any miraculous he wanted, granting him a superpower like Ladybug and Chat Noir. But which to choose? Guess we will have to wait until the next chapter to find out.