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Part #4. Rude but truly. Celine Bustier's story. Evil Copier. She is still there.
"Adrien, we know how you feel now. You realized that you love your friend and now she is akumatized. Then she appeared here and akuma threatened your friends. It was an akuma! It wasn't Marinette! And we should stop it and we will. But now we need your help with rescuing our friends."
This conversation lasted already twenty minutes. All this time Adrien was sitting in the corner of the room while Alya and Nino tried to cheer him up. Chloe decided to help with rescuing but it seems that it wasn't very successful.
"Nino, let me say now." Alya asked for. Nino nodded. Then she turned to Adrien and started her speech.
"Pick up your drool and stop dissolving nurses! You were almost right," Adrien glanced at her with perplexity and she continued. "Because you are both fucking jerks! She was sure that she hasn't got any support in her war with Lila and you didn't show to her any signs that you don't like Lila too. She tried to say that she loves you but she love you so much that she couldn't tell you about her true feelings and you didn't notice it! But it is not too late to fix it. You can get back our friend and your love and you will. You should only stand up and start fixing all things that you've done. And your love square… To be honest I shipped it but when it came outside I really hate it. Just break this square and make only one line: you and Marinette."
Adrien still was sitting but after one minute he stood up and came out of the lab. "It seems like you cheered and charged him, babe." Nino said and then he hugged his girlfriend. "It is cool that our sunshine is back."
"I hope on the fact that he wouldn't stop by anything while he is reaching his goal." Alya hugged back. "Come on, we should help them and we should listen whole history what happened while we was talking with Master Fu.
They caught up Adrien close with the door of dining room and then all three entered in the dining room. They saw the strangest picture that they had ever seen. Everybody tried to rid Nathaniel, Kim and Max whose were captured in some traps that could be created by some villains from their past.
It seems that Nathaniel was free but when they looked at him more intently they noticed that he has got free area in two meters around him. And he was knocking in the air like if it was a wall. Sure, it was a work of Mime.
Kim bungled on the ceiling. He was caught in the cocoon of slime and he couldn't move well. But his head was outside of cocoon so he could talk well. It was Horrificator's work.
And Max… He was captured in the cell. But it looked like very real but where did it come from? There could be only one explanation: it was work of Evillustrator.
They froze in perplexity. Mylene is here, her father is traveling with his troupe and Nathaniel is captured. "Guys, thanks that you are coming. We tried a lot of things to rid them but we weren't successful in it and we've got limit of our ideas." Mme. Bustier greeted them.
"How all of those villains came here unnoticed?" Nino expressed the idea that was in his, Adrien and Alya heads. "We know that Nathaniel didn't transform into Evillustrator and Mylene into Horrificator. But how..?"
"Okay, listen… I'm warning you that it could be hurting to listen it. Your classmates will help me if I will forget something." Mme. Bustier answered and told the story…
Francoise-Dupont school, dining room, forty five minutes ago.
Mme. Bustier entered in dining room and she felt that cats scraped a heart. It was already twenty minutes since lesson has started but her class was disappeared. After ten minutes from the bell she decided to ask other students where her class could be. In one class she heard that they are still in dining room and that there happened something very serious.
She didn't like it.
When she entered in the room she quickly counted over the heads her students.
Six students were missing.
"Where are Lila, Nino, Alya, Chloe, Adrien and Marinette?" She asked with the fear in her voice.
"The middle four is somewhere in the school. And Lila is here." Class parted and they showed to Mme. Bustier bind Lila with the gag in her mouth.
Mme. Bustier looked completely shocked. "What… what did you done with this poor girl?"
"She is not a poor girl. She deserved it for all her deeds that she did."
"Okay, I hope you will explain why you did this…"
"Mme. Bustier, can you sign the petition?" Alix asked.
"What is this petition about?" Celine looked surprised.
"To delete Lila Rossi from our school."
It seems that her eyes couldn't grow wide anymore but it was wrong impression.
"Those… those choices couldn't be accepted without agreement from all class and especially your class president. I ask you again: where is Marinette?"
"We saw each other, Celine, about an hour ago and you're already missed me? I'm not upset about it. Because I missed for everybody." Marinette's voice suddenly appeared into the room and everybody bounced even Lila. They looked around to see her but she wasn't there.
"Oh come on! If you don't see what can happened on the earth maybe you will see something in the air?" Marinette's voice sounded unusually mockingly.
Class raised their heads and stared at Marinette who was bungled on the lamp upside down and looked for them from 5 meters height.
"How… How did you get there?"
"Oh, it is a magic trick, but I can show it to you because you 'deserved' it." She singled out 'deserved' with a dangerous and evil notes. "You are all deserved it when you abandoned me and believed this bitch." She nodded in the side of Lila." But now… let the show begins!"
Jaws were dropped on the floor. Now they're all see not their Marinette but Evillustrator. Class glanced at Nathaniel but he still was here and his jaw was dropped too.
"Surprise my dearest!" Marinette giggled mockingly. "Although who am I kidding… You WERE my dearest. All my class was dearest to me until SHE came." She again nodded to Lila.
"Marinette…"
"I'm not Marinette anymore! I'm Copier and will be Copier for the rest of the days. And now…" She drew something in her album.
"Get outta here!" Max shouted and pushed out everybody with unexpected power before cage finally formed.
"It's sad that there is only one bird in the cage… And it is not nightingale but poor sparrow…"
"Marinette, calm down and get a hold of yourself." Nathaniel tried to say it peacefully. "We need our Marinette, not Copier. We need our kind, sweet and cheerfully Marinette! Please, come back!"
"Get a hold of myself? Oh, I can do it even silently." She said and transformed into Mime with a dark smile on her face. Then she landed on the floor near with Nathaniel and made a move like she is closing the door and throwing a key away. Nathaniel tried to move away from her but he bumped into the invisible wall and fell.
"Marinette! Please! Listen up us! Our class always loved you and we still love you. We understood that Lila is lying when she began blaming you and Ladybug! We newer abandoned you! It's Hawk Moth's thoughts, not yours! Came back to us, Marinette!" Kim shouted.
"Hawk Moth is gone, do you knew about it? Of course you are not because he is still didn't made his confession. So it is not his thoughts, they are only MINE. But I heard something about love. Who knows about love more than our Kimmy?" Copier transformed into Dark Cupid. "Or it is better to say, who knows better how to destroy it?"
With those words she shoots an arrow in Kim. He dodged and arrow hit Principle Damocle who opened the door to see why there is so aloud. His lips became black and then he gone away with the words, "I never loved this school and this job! Why I'm still here?"
"Oh, I see that sport is helped you somewhere but not only in gym classes. But who will help you if I will do this?"
She caught Kim and threw him in the air then she transformed into the Horrificator and threw slime to him. Now Kim was glued to ceiling and couldn't move. Then Copier felt that nobody don't afraid her in this form and transformed back to Marinette.
"I think that you understood your lesson. I came here to take her with me and it would be better if you will not stand on my way." Then she turned to Lila who looked at her with fear. "And I've got a very special program to you, my dear little liar." Her voice was such soft and cold that everybody fluttered.
"Marinette…" Mme. Bustier started but Copier interrupted her.
"Please Celine; don't taunt me to do that." And she transformed to Zombiezou. "We don't want the repeating of this history, isn't it?"
"Marinette! Please listen me again! I now that I'm gonna be punished by you after this but please, listen to me!" Juleka turned her attention to herself. "You wasn't alone who didn't believe to Lila. Your closest friends ran away to check you after events from the lunch. We never saw Alya, Nino and Chloe so upset and… We never saw Adrien so mad at somebody when he was blaming Lila. We saw his genuine emotions: he was hurt that you were hurt by Lila and he said aloud here that he loves you. He wants to see you, Marinette. And I think that he wouldn't see somebody another in you."
Copier froze for a moment and her transformation dropped and they saw Marinette, their Marinette, not Copier, again for a moment. But only for a moment.
"I think that I will talk with them privately later. But now I came for Lila and I will take her. Thank you Juleka, but it was weird to hear from you so many words." And she transformed into Volpina.
"Do you like to see yourself again?" She asked Lila with a mocking smile and Lila fell in faint.
"After she gone away with Lila we tried to escape boys, but we can't let them free without help of Miraculous Five. And her words about talking with you privately make us afraid that you were kidnapped too." Mme. Bustier sighed and then started crying. "I c-can't bel-lieve th-that it-t h-happened w-with o-our M-Mari! H-how I d-didn't n-notice h-her p-p-problems with Lila?"
"Don't blame yourself, Mme. Bustier. It wasn't your fault. We didn't notice that Lila began huffing Marinette." All three hugged their teacher to calm her.
"I'm already called to Miraculous Five and they will be there in one minute. Guys, can you meet them and conduct them here?" Chloe asked Alya, Nino and Adrien with a hint.
"Of course. It would be good because they can don't know a right way." They stood up. When they were close to Chloe Alya whispered, "Try to calm her down. It hurts to see our teacher in this state." Chloe nodded.
Adrien closed the door. When he turned around he saw that his friends are staring at him.
"You heard this story. Marinette is still here. And we can rid her because we have got a key to her – you." Alya said.
"I was really glad to hear it. And I know that we will come back your friend to us." Adrien nodded.
"Wait, 'your friend'? And what about you? She is not still your friend?" Nino asked.
"She is still my friend. But I think that it would be better if we will call her 'my girlfriend' from this moment." Adrien smiled to them. It was his first smile at this whole day. "Let's go to the empty class. We should transform now."