"Hello, Ladybug." Marinette awoke to Hawkmoth's mug on a phone screen. She could see she was in a warehouse. Was this where they fought Copycat? "I'll have to thank you, Black Cat. You got me Ladybug's miraculous and I just had to ask." Marinette watched as Felix, who could barely look at her as he held his head, placed a small red object into one of two glass cases. When he closed it, she could see what it was. Tikki.

But that wasn't the only thing she saw. "So this is Ladybug. Doesn't look so scary." It was an akuma, who was looking at her with greedy eyes. "In fact, she's kind of cute." She could feel his hot breath as the man inched his hand closer to her chest.

"Let her go!" Then there he was, his face shocked. Her Cat Noir, there to save her. She could hear him growling, like an angry wolf. "I said, let her go."

"Give up your miraculous and I will."

Marinette felt herself scream at him not to do it for her, but no words came out.

"Amaretto, let her go."

"Let me talk to her first, then you'll get your wish." Cat asked, signaling silently towards the thug. Felix nodded, stepping away from the pair.

"How about I stay and watch?" The akuma thug looked to Felix. "Or maybe I should go over and see if that little friend of yours needs some special company."

"You or any of your friends touch her and the deal is off."

"Sure, but maybe I should teach you a lesson in her place. You do seem to have a run of bad luck."


As soon as the door shut, Cat raced to Marinette. He pushed away her hair and saw the pain in her eyes. "I'm sorry I got you into this. I wanted you to stay my sweet princess." Then Cat noticed what was missing. Marinette wasn't wearing her earrings that she'd worn every day. "Where are your earrings?"

"Felix took them to make Hawkmoth and Amaretto think he was on his side." She looked at the last spot on his ring. "But if Amaretto takes your miraculous, you can't be Cat Noir anymore."

"How'd you?" Then he saw the glass cases. And the red and black kwami beating against her prison walls staring at Marinette's crumpled body. "You're Ladybug."

"Not anymore, kitty cat." She smiled. "Not when Tikki is in that jar and definitely when I don't have my miraculous."

Then a beep came from Cat's ring. His own miraculous was depleted. "Not now, please not now."

"You used your cataclysm powers didn't you?"

"Only for you, Bugaboo." He smiled at her as his transformation released. Then it was her turn to gasp.

"A-Adrien? You were Cat this whole time?"

"Here I was saying I was going to give up on Ladybug for you." He looked away, anxiously. "And I'm glad I don't have to make that choice."

"Gross." Plagg spit out his tongue, reminding everyone he was there. "Now can I have some cheese so we can blow this Popsicle stand?"

"I can help you with that." To their surprise, Felix came in, the akuma thug in the shadows behind him. It stunned them as they looked at the ballerina, who was no longer transformed.

"Being a pretty boy in London town does have its interesting days." He let the red and black kwami out of the jar and gave all of them cheese crackers. "Sorry, I couldn't sneak anything else. And sorry to you Ladybug. I couldn't risk Amaretto telling Hawkmoth that I was looking for your help."

"Why didn't you just ask me instead of blackmailing me?" Adrien looked at him with a stern eye. "Did you even think how that might prevent Ladybug from helping you?"

"Would you trust me if you could chose between me and someone else?"

"Well. that's different. You obviously have a dead heart."

"Will you boys just kiss already?" Marinette's kwami laughed.

"Tikki!" Marinette looked at her. "Felix, why did you do this?"

"Hawkmoth has my Ladybug."

"Marinette is right here and she's my girlfriend." Adrien instinctively held her hand. This action caused Marinette's cheeks to turn red, more so that it was so unlike him.

"The Ladybug on my team, the Quantic Kids. This used to be my curse until I gave her and them a chance." Felix showed Marinette and Adrien his ring, a panther with a ruby gemstone. "I never asked to be apart of their team. But I hid it from my Ladybug because they told me all I needed to get my ring off was a kiss from her. The only one who knew was my best friend Xander and I didn't even know he was fighting alongside me as Sparrow until…"

"I didn't think that there might be another Cat Noir and Ladybug across the pond." Adrien looked at the kwamis, who shook their heads.

"There aren't. Plagg and me are the only ones who help Cat Noir and Ladybug." Tikki hovered.

"The Quantics are based on miraculous powers." The Quantic cat corrected. "So much so that it seems I need the Miraculous Ladybug's kiss to get my ring off. That means from you, Marinette." The fact she was the key to end his bad luck angered Adrien a bit before he realized why it hurt Felix to say it. "Not that that matters. It's useless either way against Hawkmoth and the akumas he has guarding my team."

"How many people are on your team, besides you and your Ladybug, of course." Marinette contributed.

"Three, right now. There's Melodie, Mercury, oh and Kid Mime."

"Kid Mime wouldn't happen to be able to conjure any object that he enacts and use it like a real object. would he?"

"Yeah, why you ask?"

"We faced someone like that." Paris's Cat Noir remembered. The show after was technically his first date with Marinette.

"Why don't they just use their powers to escape?" She posed.

"Hawkmoth's goons took their Quantic accessories off them before they could defend themselves." Felix slumped against the wall. He could remember the way he screamed as they tore out her earrings, blood running down her hairline. How she struggled to get free when they almost broke his finger. "I'm the only one who can't take theirs off. Bit of lousy bad luck, I guess."

"That's why Hawkmoth decided to use them as leverage against you."

"No, it's why he decided to use her as leverage against me." Felix brought out the ladybug pendant he had made a habit to keep in his inside vest pocket. "This was her present I was going to give her after the performance."

He clicked it to reveal a small picture inside of him and a young girl, who was tenderly kissing his cheek. She looks just like me when I first became Ladybug, except for that crazy hair, Marinette thought to herself. "She's pretty."

"Her real name is Marisol. She's my girlfriend."


Yes, finally Felix is on the side of good again, or he always was. Wait, that's confusing.

I actually found most of the stuff about the Quantic kids from the miraculous ladybug wiki, including that the reason Felix!Cat Noir flirted with Ladybug was actually to get her to kiss him so he could take off his ring. Crazy, huh?