Summary: Was mentioning Chat's "bell-bombs" not vague enough? Probably. Whoops. You all asked for this.

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A/N: If you didn't know I can't keep schedules for the life of me, this was supposed to be up 5 days ago. You're welcome.

If anyone gets the Kingdom Hearts reference, you get a cookie.

Beta'd by Toxic Girlfriend (ff & Tumblr).

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The clock stopped ticking forever ago. How long have I been up? I don't know. I can't get a grip, but I can't let go: There wasn't anything to hold on to though. Why can't I see? Why can't I SEE? All the colours that you see? Please, can I be, please can I be, colourful and free? What the hell's going on?! Can someone tell me please? Why I'm switching faster than the channels on TV? I'm black, then I'm white, no! Something isn't right! My enemy's invisible, I don't know how to fight! The trembling fear is more than I can take, when I'm up against the echo in the mirror! I'm gonna burn my house down into an ugly black. I'm gonna run away now and never look back. And never look back…!

Euphy (?/?/?/?ver.)

Volume II - Part XVI

"That's him! Don't lose sight of him!" Ladybug yelled.
"THE HELL DO YOU THINK I'M DOING, WOMAN!?" Chat Noir yelled back, in a panic, as they both chased down a familiar face in the crowd.
The crowd upon seeing them, split like a wave, granting them a line of sight of the villain, as well as overhead watch from the police.
As if they could do anything.

"Damn this man is fast!" Chat panted.
"More running. Less whining!" Ladybug yelled at him.
"Yes, Ma'am!" Chat yelled back, saluting her as he ran across roof tops.
"Don't make me trip you, Minou! You'd have a long way down!" She retorted.
"You wouldn't dare! You love me! Besides, we need to set a good example, and catch this guy!" Chat grinned, while hoping to any god that was still up in the sky above, that he had done all the straps and buckles tight properly.
Ladybug grumbled. "I hate it when you're right!" She yelled back across roofs.

They final had him cornered in an alleyway, some ways away from civilians, bar one that couldn't have been helped.
Chat creeped aside him, getting near enough to throw out his bell bombs, that stuck to the ground at the villain's feet, bombs that set up as soon as they hit the floor, ringing every so often.
"You know exactly what these do, so don't try anything stupid!" He called, raising his baton like a detonator charge.
"Wouldn't want this to get messy, would we?" The villain told them, nodding to Chat's backpack, Chat reared and hissed in anger.
They edged closer.
"Let's not blow you sky high, yeah?" Ladybug started, dropping next to her partner, in wary of the villain smiling.

"Lovely talk and all, but I've got places to be, time to spend…" He started.
Suddenly the vortex was ripping the man and Chat's bells away with it.
"Merde!" Chat yelled, yanking his bells back, as Ladybug launched her cage through.
"Come on…!" She yelled latching onto Chat's paw and letting herself and her partner get pulled in with the villain.

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It was a peaceful afternoon, until you know, an earthquake hits.
That tends to make people run and scream. And overall not have a good day, in general.

Marinette rapidly picked up her phone when Alya rang.
"Are you okay?!" She yelled, grasping the table alongside her family, and non-blood-related Agreste family members.
"Girl! You get your butt outside right now!" Alya screamed.
Whelp. There went their day.

Her instructions, all in all were a tad vague, so when they got outside, they weren't expecting to see half of Paris, on fire.
And the other half, as it seemed, demolished.
"The hell…?" Adrien asked next to her as emergency sirens blared out throughout all of Paris.

Therein came their answer as a flash of plasma light, streaking down from the sky like a sword, and one Elder-Chat Noir barely able to dodge his face out of danger.
Chat Noir hadn't seen them, being rather preoccupied with the guy wielding the unlimited space sword of plasma and keeping himself and cargo from being harmed.
"You are legit trying to kill me!" Chat yelled, rather indignant, holding himself away from the man in question with half his baton extended out in front of himself for extra protection, the other half behind him.

The rest who had seen Elder-Chat before, took notice of a few changes, for one his uniform had changed ever so slightly, with now with a crisscross Recusant's Sigil detail over his chest to hold a backpack that was big enough to go his full back length, which was also black, and had both symbols for Ladybug and Chat Noir on it, with Chat's symbol glowing gently, as well as the relocation of his baton lock to his right thigh.
The man chuckled. "Let's try again." Then he moved his sword.
Chat yelped, and dashed out the way, shielding his back as much as he could.

"Didn't they go back to where they came from?" Adrien asked, noting his mother's gobsmacked expression.
Marinette nodded. "They must have fallen through that time vortex chasing that man with the sword…" She voiced.
Oh. So, this was a common day for them!
"They are legit you guys from the future? Seriously, no tricks with magic and mirrors?" Aubrianne started pointing to the flying Ladybug and the backpacked Chat Noir.
"They're a little different from the two we said goodbye to, so we don't know if they're the same version…" Marinette told her.
Food for thought then.

Both elders had their sights on the villain, Chat from in front of them (he had yet to notice them), and Ladybug from above, ready with her cage.
"Can you give it a rest now, please? I want a cat nap!" Chat voiced, as Ladybug launched her cage.
All the guy did was laugh at them, and in the rubble smoke, he had disappeared.
"ARGH!" Chat near on yelled in frustration. "Again! He did it. Again!" He raged.

"That settles it. He's you." Aubrianne said. She was loud enough that Chat flinched and turned to her. "Salut!" She greeted, cheekily.
All Chat did was blink at her, his expression fast switching into incredulousness, then turn to Ladybug. "MARI…!" He yelled franticly in rising panic.
So definitely her son.

"I'm busy, Minou!" She called back. "City kinda on fire!" She yelled.
Chat blinked. "Oh. Right." He mumbled, then taking off his bell threw it up to her. "Here!" He yelled back.
She caught the object, and threw it up alongside her yo-yo.

They all watched in amazement as Paris fixed itself as it normally would have had there been an evil butterfly involved.
Aubrianne had noted that Chat had kept his eye on her the entire time and had edged away from her nervously. Definitely her son.
But damn was he older! She was still trying to get over her son being a teenager, never mind an actual adult!

Ladybug soon dropped down, once Paris fixed itself handing Chat back his bell and saw the reason her husband had yelled her name frantically.
"Madam Agreste!" She called, a little in shock, then saw their younger versions. "Oh, I am going to murder that guy when I find him next!" She seethed.
Whoops.

In a flash of pink light, she was Marinette again, and looking worriedly at her Chat.
"Are you alright?" She asked, carting her hand through his hair to rub his cat-ear.
He rumbled as he closed his eyes. "I'll be alright." He mumbled.
"How about her?" She questioned.
Chat opened his eyes and blinked. "We, well you, are seriously lucky. She hasn't made a peep since." Chat told her, missing the confused glances from their youngers.
Elder-Marinette sighed as Chat changed back into Adrien and she looked to herself. "Mind if we crash at your place again?" She asked, tiredly.
Marinette nodded mutely.

They noted the wary glances Elder-Adrien kept giving Elder-Marinette.
"Are you sure you're fine? We can still close the bakery for a little while…" He started.
She just sighed. "We'll see how long we're here for, Minou…" She replied.
"Let me know if I can do more, yeah?" He started persisting. "I mean, you can always kick me outta bed if I sleep through alarms. Or I can—?"
Elder-Marinette giggled, and put a finger to her husband's lips, halting his barrage of questions about her welfare and what he could do to help. "Seriously, Minou, I don't think I've ever met or heard of someone like you. Most guys run for the hills when wives ever hint about asking or needing help." She told him.
He blinked at her erratically. "Seriously?!" He asked, causing her to nod. "Well, screw them!" He sputtered out indignantly.
Aubrianne, by now was giggling to herself, while Marinette and Adrien were completely lost and confused.

"Maman…!" Marinette called, opening the door to her house and letting everyone else file in.
"Yes dear!" Sabine called back.
"I'll be needing the lounge room again!" Marinette yelled.
"Dear, what for?" Sabine asked as she came through the house, the answer for her question was answered when she saw the elders.
Elder-Adrien saluted. "Salut, Maman!" He told her.
Sabine might have squealed.

They all turned silent when they heard the ghostly high-pitched giggle no one produced, but Elder-Adrien's backpack he had retained from his Chat Noir transformation.
"Oh look, someone's finally awake." He noted, looking back as much as he could.
Excuse me?
Elder-Marinette unzipped the backpack, and pulled out a child.
Excuse me!?
Several women, possibly all mothers, squealed.

"Elephant in the room!" Aubrianne exclaimed, pointing.
"Uh…?" Both elders asked, as Elder-Adrien put the backpack down, while the child regarded Aubrianne in interest.
"Sorry. My bad. Went through previous videos, saw she was pregnant. Asked Nathalie about it. She had no clue…" Aubrianne exclaimed lowly.
"Right," Elder-Marinette said, while happily bouncing her child on her hip, who laughed merely.
"Oh. Name! She's got a name, right?"
As soon as she saw Elder-Adrien she squirmed and held her hands out urgently.
"Ellayne." Elder-Adrien told her as he took her happily.
Elder-Marinette looked to her would-be mother. "Um…You don't mind that she stays here, right…?" She asked.
Sabine glared at her. "She will be staying as long as you are!" She said.
Elder-Adrien laughed as he hefted Ellayne over his head. "Maman-Cheng angry!" He played, making his daughter squeal in delight.

"Yeah. This is weird." Adrien remarked in a whisper, watching Ellayne make notions to the floor.
"Hmm…" Marinette replied, with a tiny smile.
Elder-Marinette seeing her daughter fussing, went over to the backpack, and pulled out a white toy, and gave it to her. Ellayne squealed, and the toy instantly went into her mouth.
Elder-Adrien groaned. "I worked really hard on that." He told her, she just squealed happily.
"Da, da, da…" She mimicked.
"Yes, da, da, da." Elder-Adrien replied back, giving her an Eskimo kiss, Ellayne giggled and latched onto both of his cheeks.

"Aw. She's cute." Aubrianne remarked, causing both parents to look at her. "I can say that…right…?" She asked in an afterthought, looking from one son to the other. The elder was blinking, while the other looked just as bemused as her.
"I'm sure Ellayne won't mind." Elder-Marinette giggled. "Seeing as she loves fuss at the moment." She said.
"Just as long as you're female after dark. She's grand!" Elder-Adrien noted grumpily.
"She'll get over that." She told him. "She's fine now!" She said.
Ellayne was perfectly happy in her father's arms as she gummed her possible-mythical kwami toy.

They all noted Ellayne's constant vigilance of Aubrianne. Eyeing the woman wherever she went.
"Um…?" Aubrianne asked, motioning the child, not really sure how to ask to hold her.
Elder-Marinette smiled, taking her child from her husband and walking over to Aubrianne. "Shall we say hello?" She asked Ellayne.
"Ma, ma, ma?" Ellayne questioned, reaching out to Aubrianne and making grabbing motions.
"…How old…?" Aubrianne asked, before taking.
Elder-Marinette grinned. "Seven going on forever months accelerated." She told her, as her child made herself more urgent, hurrying her grasping motions.
"Ma!" She cried.
Aubrianne took her, and held her appropriately. "Hey there!" She said.
Ellayne stared at her. "…Muh," Ellayne remarked, now slightly wary, now in Aubrianne's arms, and looked for her parents. Seeing they were fine, she settled happily.

Adrien couldn't help but grin as when Ellayne finally made her way to the floor, she butted her way to the nearest furniture to get up on her feet. Her green dress falling around her each time she fell down to reveal in its folds pictures of black cats chasing red-white spotted ladybugs (as well as Marinette's signature).
Her parents seemed fine in leaving her to her own devices for a little while, as they and the other parents talked about dinner logistics.
"You sure you wouldn't rather sleep?" Elder-Adrien asked.
Elder-Marinette gave him a look. "How old were you when you decided to become a mother hen?" She asked.
"Probably around the same time you told me you were pregnant." He answered truthfully, making his wife groan.

Both children watched as their future? child? Ellayne? Whatever? decided to toddle around on unsure pins, dropping every so often, which meant she needed to go back to the nearest chair or table to hoist herself up again, always with her kwami in mouth or hand. She soon caught them in her sights, and made her way over to them.
"Um…?" Marinette muttered, looking from the child to her parents.
"Oooff!" Ellayne exclaimed as her feet landed her on her butt again, but she squealed happily and lifted her hands, making grasping motions to them.
Adrien folded first, and picked her up, causing her to squeal in delight, grasping both Adrien's cheeks as she did.
"Da, da, da!" She remarked.
"Nope. But close enough!" He remarked, making her giggle as she clapped her hands over his cheeks happily. Marinette watched her boyfriend become putty to the child that sort-of- kinda-is- would-probably-be(?) his.

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"Hmm. Okay, no. This isn't going to work." Elder-Adrien voiced, as he watched his daughter rolled around on her back happily on the floor aside the couch waving her caught booted feet in the air.
"What's up…?" Marinette asked.
He looked to her and gave her a polite smile. "We adults can sleep fine on the couch. But little Ellayne here likes rolling around." He told her, and motioned with his hands falling off the couch.
"Oh…" She voiced quietly.
"Your magic backpack doesn't fold out into a useable cot, Minou?" Elder-Marinette asked, coming over from helping put away dinner.
He shook his head. "I don't think we have enough blankets to make a fort currently. I mean, I know we changed that because we couldn't make one. But I doubt that's happened yet…" Elder-Adrien voiced, noting the silent inquisitive eyebrow raise from his younger self.

"What's wrong?" Aubrianne asked, coming up behind her son.
"Trying to figure out how to make sure Ellayne gets a bed, without her cot." Elder-Adrien muttered.
"You have your card on you…? I gave it to you." Elder-Marinette asked curiously.
Everyone noted the full body flinch. "I am not using Gabriel's money on my daughter." He hissed.
Aubrianne stalled sadly, realising that this version had a father like her son did.
Elder-Marinette just shrugged. "I left my money at home. I had to go to the bank, again, to explain that you cut up your biological family card. Again." She told him. He looked at her like he was rather nonchalant about it.

Elder-Adrien blinked then looked to Marinette. "Hey, Princess? Can I borrow all your cat pillows?" He asked.
Marinette blinked, then bolted up her stairs.
"Wait. She has cat pillows?!" Adrien near on yelled. "As in more than one?!"
Ellayne just giggled and clapped her hands.
"Adrien!" Marinette shouted.
"What's up!" Adrien asked, going over the stairs, and without warning, face planted a huge pillow that caused him to grunt out in pain.
"IF THAT HIT YOU, MINOU, I AM SO SORRY!" Marinette yelled.
The elders just cracked up laughing.

One cat body pillow was draped around Adrien's awed shoulders, while Marinette's arm was full of not just cat-themed pillows.
"How did you get this many?" Adrien asked, awed.
Marinette grinned. "My secret!" She then looked to Elder-Adrien.
"I cannot promise she will not drool on them." He warned.
"If she does, I'll wash them, don't worry." Elder-Marinette promised, as she fussed over her child's toy, causing her to laugh, and joyfully lifting up both her arms and legs.

"Tada!" Elder-Adrien crowed , having made a pillow and blanket fort like cot.
"Ten out of ten, Aimé. Ten out of ten." Elder-Marinette remarked, putting a yawning Ellayne down on her fort, who immediately relaxed against all the fluff.
Elder-Adrien regarded her with uncertainty. "Are you…Are you mocking me?" He asked.
"Whatever gave you that idea, Minou!" She gasped.
"Yeah. That. You are!" Elder-Adrien remarked.
Elder-Marinette smiled, tutted her husband in good nature, bopped his nose and went on her merry way. "Maman! I need to use your stove-top! And microwave!" She called as she took out a what looked like a bottle of milk.
"You do know I can do that, right?" Elder-Adrien grumbled.
Elder-Marinette turned to him and grinned. "You're on guard duty." She told him, and clicked the stove on. With that, Elder-Adrien happily sat down on the couch, watching over his daughter merrily.

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A/N: Congrats to the people who figured out the backpack held Ellayne, you all get a cookie!

Go to the Ao3 version of this chapter to see posted pictures of what Ellayne looks like.