(Same day as last chapter)
"Ruff Rider" I hear a voice scream my name, opening my eyes I notice I am in a hole under the Eiffel Tower. Content to lay there since every small movement causes pain my necklace beeps telling me I have three minutes before I detransform, great. Lifting my right arm up I try to prop myself up only to be met by failure when I searing pain tears its way through my arm, You Can Do This I think to myself over and over again. Trying once more I ignore the blinding pain in my body shutting my eyes tight as tears threaten to pour down my face caused by such immense pain, finally standing up I look around for a place to safely detransform when I see Alya running towards the action once again.
"Alya over here" I yell my voice strained, just barely louder than a whisper, I yell for her again finally getting her attention she runs over to me
"Ruff Rider are you okay" Alya asks her voice laced with concern
"I'm not really sure but I do need a favor" I say struggling to stay standing upright
"What is it"
"Can you catch me" I say right before my legs buckle beneath me, Alya luckily manages to catch me and helps me stand back up "I need to go somewhere where no one is around"
"Okay, how badly hurt are you" Alya asks looking extremely worried while also taking me someplace secluded
"The suit absorbed a lot of the damage but let's just say there was also a lot of damage it didn't absorb" I say, my necklace beeps its final warning
"Are you about to detransform where about there" Alya says quickening her pace practically dragging me behind her, she drags me into a back alleyway, right as I detransform she looks away
"Pluto how bad is it" I ask as he hurriedly digs some jerky from my pocket and starts eating
"You should be good in a few hours" Pluto responds trying to keep my spirits up
"We don't have a few hours" I say when an idea pops into my head, leaning against a wall I hold myself up and half walk half stagger behind Alya
"What are you doing" Alya asks hearing my walk over to her
"Trust me" I say taking off my necklace and putting it over her head
"Where have I seen this before" Alya asks looking at the necklace now around her neck
"I only wear this everyday" I say laughing under my breath "Once Pluto is done just say Time to Play and you will become Ruff Rider"
"Are you sure about this, I mean isn't this meant for you" Alya asks wondering why I would give this to her
"I trust you more than anyone else I know and right now LadyBug and Cat Noir need Ruff Rider so if I can't be Ruff Rider"
"I can" Alya says finishing my sentence
"I'm ready" Pluto says finishing the last piece of jerky
"Time to Play" Alya says transforming "How will I get this back to you" she asks still not looking at me
"I have my ways but you don't need to worry about that, go and be a hero" I say, Alya collecting her nerves runs towards the fight. Sighing I slide slowly against the wall until I am just sitting on the ground, I think i'm in love and in lots of physical pain but mostly love.
(Alya/Ruff Rider POV)
"I'm so glad I remembered this" I mumble to myself as I open the necklace to find out where they are right now, finding them I quickly arrive at the fight.
"LadyBug what can I do" I shout over to the hero
"Where is Ruff Rider, is he okay" LadyBug asks looking at me confused
"He's fine, i'm just standing in for him" I say trying to look and sound confident
"Well okay then, Ruff Rider we need to save Cat Noir he got grabbed and is now trapped somewhere inside the robot"
"Okay, do you have any idea where the akuma is hiding" I yell back running towards Electron
"All I could figure out is the person controlling this is inside the robots head and controlling it from there so it must be with him" LadyBug yells
"I hope this works" I say to myself as I run and jump onto the robot's legs trying to punch my way into it, strike after strike I start to notice a dent form and eventually I break through the tough alloy exposing a bunch of wires, tearing them all out the robot's right leg stops moving. Shouting in triumph I quickly look for LadyBug only to see her grabbed and tossed into a opening in the chest that quickly closed. "You may have them but try and go anywhere with only one leg" right as I was preparing to jump higher up the robot to save the heroes the head detached flying up into the air and off into the distance. I failed them and I failed Ruff Rider, that is the only thought that goes through my head as I numbly get off the robot and head to where I left Ruff Rider. There is no one there about to leave someone grabs my attention
"Hey Ruff Rider, do you need help" turning to the voice I see Caleb walking over to me, well actually it looks like he is limping
"Sorry i'm not Ruff Rider I can't help anyone" I say dejected
"I'm sure Ruff Rider gave you necklace for a very good reason, you know he really likes you" Caleb says choosing his words wisely
Taken aback I ask "Do you know him and how do you know who I am"
"We happen to be very great friends, let's just say he thinks about you quite a lot and don't worry I got him to safety, he was very vocal about how I should go help you while he recovers" Caleb says thinking that it is kind of weird he is his own wingman.
Turning red in the face I stammer out "You know I always thought you were nice but brave too no wonder Ruff Rider trusts you so much" saying this I notice Caleb turn a shade of red I didn't think was possible.
"First order of business is we need to find out where they are heading and I have the perfect idea for that" Caleb says reaching towards my chest, confused and offended I slap his hand out of the way
"What do you think you are doing" I ask
"Reaching for the pendant, what do you think I was doing" Caleb asks rubbing his hand, oh yeah super strength I forgot I had that, taking the pendant out I open it up revealing the map and LadyBugs and Cat Noirs icons moving east towards the richer part of the city
"You know Caleb you sure do know a lot about this suit it's almost like you are Ruff Rider" I say intending for it to be a joke
"Me, Ruff Rider, no way" Caleb says rambling like I just exposed his little dirty secret, after a few moments of silence me and Caleb head off towards LadyBug and Cat Noir.
(Caleb POV)
Walking alongside Alya who is technically Ruff Rider right now was weird at first but eventually I got used to it after a while, why can't I just say it already just tell her the truth I tell myself over and over again wondering why I was so ready to tell her i'm Ruff Rider but now that i'm no longer transformed it seems maybe i'm not so ready after all. I wonder what Pluto would think about all this which has been the hardest part about all this is the absence of Pluto who has become such a constant that even after a couple of hours I miss his presence. Arriving at the place where LadyBug and Cat Noirs icons stopped at I soon realize that this is very close to where Adrien lives.
"Look the head is over there" Alya points out to me the robot head casually sitting out in the backyard of the mansion "Okay Caleb you wait here and I will go in"
"I'm coming, no way that i'm letting you go alone" I say determined to help even if I am just Caleb right now. Alya just shaking her head bends the fence just wide enough for us to sneak onto the property "We can go through the window" I say pointing to a window that was left slightly ajar. Sneaking into the house it looked like no one has lived in it for a while now, quietly me and Alya walk through the house until we hear someone talking. Finding the source of the sound I see a man who is tied up to a chair.
"What are you doing here" I whisper to him as Alya checks to make sure no one else is around
"He lied, he promised me power but instead he tied me up" the pieces connecting in my head I realize this must be the person who was controlling the robot, ready to slap him I calm down I can't blame him for throwing me through the Eiffel Tower and into the ground.
"Where is Hawkmoth" I say questioning him
"He's in his atrium with LadyBug and Cat Noir stuck in a cage" he says seething with anger for being betrayed "Now untie me." Smirking I make the knots tighter and tell Alya I know where they are, we leave the room with him shouting obscenities at us. Arriving at a set of gigantic doors I turn to Alya
"This must be it, Hawkmoth is behind these doors" I say
"Caleb I say something" Alya asks looking me in my eyes
"Sure" I say wondering what could be on her mind
"I'm sorry"
"For what" I ask confused
"For this" she says grabbing my hands and tying them behind my back, shocked I try to break free but I can't move
"What are you doing" I ask confused and angry
"Trying to protect you" with that last sentiment she enters the atrium with her head held high ready to face Hawkmoth. After a few minutes of wriggling around I end up knocking a nearby vase over shattering it into pieces, an idea forming in my head I grab a broken shard and cut the rope freeing myself. Entering the atrium I see Alya unconscious against the wall and Hawkmoth, sneaking over to Alya I make sure she is okay when Pluto grabs my attention and whispers "I'm good for one last transformation, but only for a few minutes" he says, nodding I gently lift the necklace off Alya and put it on transforming, making a silent promise to tell her my true identity if I make it out of this alive.
"Finally LadyBug and Cat Noirs miraculous are mine" Hawkmoth says slipping on Cat Noirs ring and putting on LadyBugs earrings. Trying to stay hidden I take a few steps back when my necklace beeps warning me that my detransformation is imminent, there is no more time I must act now I think. Growling I charge towards him, knowing that all of Paris is relying on me I pour everything into it, all my strength, all my courage, all my fears, all my soul, my very being. The ground cracks beneath my feet, the earth trembles with each step an earthquake follows, Hawkmoth turns towards me and looks at me dismissively as if I was just a tiny house fly, the air around him radiates with power. Lifting his staff towards me he charges what can only be pure magic into the top using the powers of creation and destruction, bending them to his will creating a blast so powerful it could level a city. Nearing him I raise my fist for one final punch, for Cat Noir, for LadyBug, for Alya. The energy from his staff releases, a blinding light envelopes me, a searing pain rips its way through my body, my fists connects with the staff shattering it causing Hawkmoth to be hit by the blast also, falling to my knees my necklace beeps one last time and I detransform.
(This story is drawing to an end, please tell me what you thought and like always thank you all for reading, by the way I found I pretty good picture on what the necklace looks like here is a link if you are interested in looking. cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=84565109 )