Ms. Mendeleiev's Lab class
The students pour into the lab, Marinette and Adrien sitting in the back again, while Nino sat by himself in the front. When bell rang Adrien noticed Alya wasn't in the classroom. He remembered her anger when he stuck by Mari's side, realizing she maybe akumatized. "Miss, may I please see the nurse, I'm not feeling well."
Ms. Mendeleiev, noting Adrien was not a trouble maker, nodded, proceeding to write a formula on the board. Adrien rushed out to the bathroom, hoping to get Mari in the clear to be safe, possibly transform into Ladybug. He ran into an empty stall and summoned Plagg, "Plagg, claws out!"
Outside Collège Françoise Dupont
Alya sat outside the school, deleting every picture of Marinette off her phone, when the akuma entered her phone. A butterfly outline appeared before her face. "Lady Wifi, you have been wronged by people who can't see the truth. I am giving you the power the make anyone spill their lies and reveal the truth to all, along with your previous powers. All I ask for in return is Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculous."
"Yes Hawkmoth, Marinette shall reveal her true intentions to all!" A dark cloud consumed her, transforming her into Lady Wifi once more. The villain looked at her phone, "Find Marinette Dupain-Cheng!" Her phone bleeped as Marinette's current location was revealed: Ms. Mendeleiev's lab classroom.
Ms. Mendeleiev's Lab
There was no explosion, no shouting demands. Lady Wifi walked in calmly, pausing Ms. Mendeleiev at her desk. "Marinette, your lies are over. The truth will come out and you will pay for the wrongs against Adrien and Lila."
Marinette was shocked, looking for an escape to transform in secret, but Kim moved to block the door. The rest of the class simply stayed in their seats, looking expectantly at her. Lady Wifi flicked a new symbol off of her phone, a message emoji. It hit Marinette in the chest, making her eyes glow. "Why did you lie about Lila?"
"I didn't," Marinette said, frozen in place as if in a trance. "Everything I have said about Lila is true."
"How are you still LYING?!" Lady Wifi raged, "You lied about Lila and your intentions with Adrien, that you just wanna use him!"
"No, I didn't," the entranced girl stated plainly, "She has lied about everything since she got here and I love Adrien with all my heart, I could never hurt him."
"Tell us your secrets now!"
"My secret is..." Marinette never finished, as a portal appeared. Bunnix leaped out, kicking Lady Wifi out of the lab, breaking through the wall and into the courtyard. The class gaped as the rabbit hero from the future opened another time burrow to leave. In their shock, no one noticed Marinette, now free of the truth trance, slipped out the room and into an empty classroom down the hall.
Chat Noir meanwhile was at the closest cell tower. "Cataclysm!" As his hand became engulfed by the dark energy, he touch the tower, corroding it to dust. If this worked like last time, Lady Wifi was now powerless. He rushed back to the school, hoping his plan didn't get anyone hurt.
Lady Wifi got up in the middle of the school court, her phone beeping. The signal bars were gone, telling her all her abilitites were useable until she found another cell tower. She growled, her anger increasing. Marinette was gonna spill a secret, but that redhead hero stopped her from finding out what. She ran out the school into an alley way, ducking out of sight just as Ladybug landed on the rooftop of the school.
Ladybug looked around frantically for the akuma, "No, no, no, where is she?" But Lady Wifi was gone. Chat Noir landed beside her, his ring beeping, to of her paw pads gone. "Chat Noir, did you see her? Why is your ring beeping already? Did you fight her?"
"I just got here, My'Lady, I cataclysmed that cell tower over there, so her powers are useless," Chat stated, realizing his mistake.
"If you just got here, how did you know to destroy the cell tower? How did you know it was Lady Wifi?" Ladybug's eyes narrowing at her partner.
Chat raised his hands in mock defeat, "Did I ever tell you about my feline intuition?" Ladybug dropped her head, sighing at her ridiculous partner.
"Let's just split up and find her before she can get her powers back." She removed a tiny earpiece from her yo-yo, Chat's ring beeping another warning.
"I'll let you know once my kwami is recharged. Later Buggaboo!"
"Don't, uggghh!" Chat smirked as he jumped off the roof to find a safe place to recharge. Ladybug sighed and swung off to search for the akuma.
Tom & Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie
Lady Wifi strode into the bakery, shocking the bakers and the customers. Four quick swipes, Tom was locked to the wall, while Sabine's was locked to the counter. She created a video camera, broadcasting to all of Paris, "Marinette Dupain-Cheng, if you want your family to be safe, come to the Tom & Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie and surrender yourself." She left a muted feed of Tom and Sabine horrified, shouting helplessly, as she traveled to Marinette's balcony, waiting for her former bestie to make an appearance. "Lady Wifi, what are you doing? You were supposed to retrieve the miraculous."
Lady Wifi smirked, "Don't worry Hawkmoth, I will retrieve them for you, because Ladybug and Chat Noir are now rushing here to be heroes. They won't able to stop me here"
"You better be right Lady Wifi, or you will lose your powers and the truth you seek!" Lady Wifi groaned, unable to stand the super villian's demanding tone. She would get him the miraculous once she got her confession from Marinette. Scanning the streets below for the bakers' daughter to show up, she forgot to watch out for the heroes.
Ladybug rushed to the bakery, hiding on a near by rooftop, searching for a sign of Lady Wifi. She saw her parents in the bakery trapped, then the akuma pacing on her balcony. As she struggled to come up with a plan, Chat Noir landed next to her. "So any ideas? Is there a cell tower near by?" Ladybug shook her head.
"I checked that out already, she has a literal firewall around it. We need to try something else. Lucky Charm!" Her yo-yo cast a swarm of ladybugs, forming a fridge magnet. "Oh great, what do I do with this." She searched for an answer, not getting hints anywhere.
"Wait, magnets can mess up computers right? What if we hit her phone with it some how? Maybe it will mess up her powers some how?" Chat stated, surprising Ladybug.
Ladybug looked at Lady Wifi across the street, her phone suddenly lit up in lucky vision, looking back at Chat, his belt and the fridge magnet also lit up in her sight. "Got it, give me your belt." Taking the belt, she put magnet near the buckle, almost instantly magnetically attaching together. "I hit her phone with this, then restrain her with my yo-yo while you destroy the phone."
Chat grinned, "You got it My'Lady, I distract her." Before she could protest, Chat Noir lept across landing behind a startled Lady Wifi. "Hey miss, didn't anyone tell you it's not Halloween yet? Not that I'm judging, but I don't think any candy is gonna be handed out tonight," giving her a Cheshire grin. Lady Wifi growled, flicked pause symbols as fast as she could, but the black cat dodged. Suddenly a the belt with the magnet hit her phone, clinging to the metal case. Her screen started to fuzz out, not allowing her to use her powers.
"Noooooo!" she screamed, trying to remove the magnet when Ladybug's yo-yo wrapped itself around her, restraining her.
"Chat Noir, now!"
"Cataclysm."
"No more evil doing for you. Time to de-evilize! Gotcha!" Ladybug released the purified butterfly. "Goodbye little butterfly. Miraculous Ladybug!" The cure swept around the city, repairing the school and cell phone tower while freeing Tom and Sabine.
"Pound it!" The duo grinned at each other.
"I'll take Alya back to school, see you around kitty-cat." She swung off, leave Chat Noir once again in awe. If only he could confirm she was Mari.
Bunnix watched from another rooftop, out of sight from the heroes. She showed up just in time, saving Ladybug's secret identity and the future was safe again. Opening a time burrow, the time traveling hero returned to her year, satisfied that Paris will safe, not knowing the coming chaos she has caused.
"I'm sorry Ladybug, I was so angry at my friend, well we're not friends anymore, she lies about one of the nicest girls and has been tricking us all." Ladybug cringed, wondering what to do. If she told Alya the truth, she'd risk exposing her identity.
"What if your friend wasn't lying? What if she has a reason for all of it?"
Alya sniffed, "As if. She just jealous cause Lila is interested in the same guy as her. She is acting so petty about it, she won't even tell me the truth about it." Ladybug stayed silent, dropping Alya on the roof without another word. After detranforming and feeding Tikki, she snuck back to class, where everyone was talking about Bunnix showing up. Adrien seemed to be the only one to notice Marinette's return, noting she was gone again when Ladybug showed up. "Hey are you OK?" he asked approaching her.
"Yeah, I ran home to make sure my parents were OK. But Ladybug and Chat Noir saved the day by then. Adrien smiled at her thinking, 'LIAR! But your are my liar.'
Before he could ask more, Alya burst in the room, "Did she confess? Well, someone tell me!"
Everyone hesitated, except for Lila who brought out the crocodile tears, "No, she kept lying, saying she always told the truth."
"YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE! YOU THAT SICK AND TWISTED THAT YOU ARE CONVINCED YOUR LIES ARE THE TRUTH? DO YOU EVEN CARE?" Alya was screaming at the top her lungs, "WHATS WRONG WITH YOU?"
Adrien stepped between her and Marinette, staring Alya down, making her hesitate for a moment. Ms. Mendeleiev slammed a book down on her desk, "ENOUGH! Alya, go to Mr. Damocles' office now! Not another word." The reporter stomped out of the lab, slamming the door behind her. The science teacher sighed, "If anyone else has something to say, keep it to yourselves." The rest of the class glared at Marinette as they moved back to their seats. Adrien glared back at them, startling Rose and Nathaniel, the only ones to catch his anger at the class.
Marinette was on the verge of tears, as Adrien took her hand, surprising her, walking her to their lab bench in the back of the room. They sat down together, Adrien trying to think of ways to cheer her up. When they walked out of class, he was struck with a sudden source of inspiration. He walked Mari home, then called the gorilla to pick him up. Some shopping was required for his plan to cheer Mari up.
Meanwhile, Nino was pissed. Marinette was going too far, Alya was upset and Adrien was being led on by her. He thought of ways to send a clear message to Marinette, when he came up with the perfect revenge against her. He smirked, looking for just the thing he needed for his plan.
Hawkmoth's Lair
"Nooroo, dark wings fall." Another failure, he figured he should have learned not repeat the same akuma twice, especially after akumatizing that pigeon lover twenty five times. The appearance of the bunny holder from the future though was a surprise. Why she showed up today, then left so abruptly, he did not know, but he knew one thing for sure: Marinette Dupain-Cheng was vulnerable to negative emotions once again, the one person to have avoided being akumatized. He smiled, soon Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculous will be his to control.
