Nino was worried about Zoe. It had been ten minutes since class had begun, and had been over 15 minutes since he had last seen her. Marinette felt cold chills, much to the confusion of Nino and his classmates.

He noticed Nathaniel seeing something with his eye, but he couldn't tell what is was or what he had attempted to say. "Marinette, behind!-"

The blue-haired fashion designer was grabbed by her ankle by a vine. As she was dragged along, she screamed and Adrien ran to the railing. Nino looked from afar and saw a woman in rose shaped dress.

Nino joined his best friend on the railing, looked at the akumatized villain. He gasped and felt his heart begin to break. "Zoe?"

"The name's Flora now! And you will all pay for what you've done! Starting with this one!"

Using her nature magic, Flora made three vines with thorns appear and they attacked Marinette. They pricked her and cut her and she began to bleed. Adrien ran outside the school. Nino ran forward towards her, much to the protest of his fellow classmates.

"Nino, don't!" Alya exclaimed, but he didn't listen.

Nino looked sadly at Flora. "Zoe! Don't do this! What did Marinette ever do to you?!"

"You fool. She tore apart my flowers, and my hopes and dreams. Therefore, she will suffer! And I'm not letting you, or anyone else, get in my way!"

She used one of her vines to grab him and threw him against the wall, knocking him out. After being unconscious for who knows how long, he felt someone gently shaking his shoulder.

"Master... Master..."

Nino groaned. "Wayzz?"

The kwami nodded as his chosen got up. "The rose witch got away! You have to find her before it's too late!"

"Wayzz, scales on!"

He transformed in the middle of the school. Luckily, there were no witnesses. He left the school and raced through the city to try and find Flora. He jumped from rooftop to rooftop at a quick pace.

I hope we can find Marinette in time. Wayzz said in his head.

Same here. Aside from Adrien and Alya, Marinette's my best friend!

He was soon joined by his fellow superheroes Abeille and Renard. "There you guys are! Flora's getting away with an unconscious Marinette!"

Abeille asked, "Which way did that sneaky enchantress go?"

"Look, over there!"

Renard pointed over to a rooftop where Flora stood with her arms raised skyward. She had a giant cloud of green energy above her and she was adding more energy to it by the second. The three heroes confronted her.

Jade Ninja looked around before glaring at Flora. "Where's Marinette?!"

She laughed in a confident and sinister manner. "You're too late fools. Marinette's been handed over to Hawkmoth!"

The heroes gasped. Jade Ninja was the most horrified. "No!"

"Give it up, foolish heroes! Now that no one's in my way, I will turn this place into my own garden!"

Huge vines started to grow around the building. "Zoe... Please... don't do this!"

"I'm not Zoe, the weak and oblivious flower girl! I'm Flora, the all powerful enchantress! And without Ladybug, you guys can't defeat me! Just give it up! Marinette is gone forever and you'll never see the old me again!"

Jade Ninja felt himself sinking into despair. He felt tears threatening to fall from his eyelids and down his face. He fell to his knees and started crying like a baby, burying his face in his hand. He briefly glanced at Abeille and noticed that her wings drooped downward. She closed her eyes sadly. It seemed as if everyone in the group had given up.

"No." a stern voice said. "I'm not giving up."

Jade and Abeille opened their eyes and saw Renard blasting Flora down with a beam of energy. Using his flute, he then scattered the energy cloud, breaking it up and caused the energy that Zoe had accumulated to disperse.

"No!" She glared at Renard. "You're gonna pay for that!"

Jade put forth his right hand. "Time Crawl!"

He shot a green beam of energy towards the akumatized villain. Flora had been showed down by Jade's superpower. She said in slow motion, "Rose wind gust!"

It was fairly easy to dodge her attack since that too was in slow motion. Abeille got her spear and slashed it against Flora until she fell to the ground.

"Quickly, grab her!" Jade commanded. Abeille and Renard grabbed her right and left arms respectively. "Alright, if we just had some rope, we'd be able to bind her..."

"I think there's some down there." Renard pointed to a ball of green yarn.

"That's yarn, actually, but close enough."

He jumped down, swiftly retrieved the yarn and went back up to the roof. Abeille quickly tied up her wrists, then her arms and then her ankles with the thread.

"There. Wrapped up all nice and neat like a present." She chuckled. "If only I had a bow."

Jade looked happily at his coworker. "You have some mad skills, working that fast!"

Abeille smiled. "Thank you, Jade."

"Now we better get Ladybug over here." Renard got out his communicator and called Ladybug, but she didn't respond. "That's strange."

"Let me try." Jade said.

He did the same as Renard with the same result.

"That's strange. Third time's a charm?" Abeille too, tried to call Ladybug with her communicator, but she didn't respond. "Still nothing. What do we do now?"

Out the corner of his eye, he saw Cat Noir out cold. He gasped.

Renard asked, "Jade, what's the matter?"

He ran towards Cat Noir. "Cat Noir's unconscious! I gotta help him!"

"But what about Flora?"

"You guys drag her to the nearest prison!" He got on his shield and hovered over the ground with Cat Noir in his arms.

"But..." Abeille began.

"Go!"

Jade Ninja took an unconscious Cat Noir to the nearest hospital; Hopital Saint-Louis. He entered through the emergency room entrance and was looked at rudely upon first.

"Hey, you can't be in.." an employee began, but stopped when he saw Cat Noir out cold in Jade's arms. Then he gasped loud enough for everyone to hear. "What happened to him?!"

"He was knocked unconscious by an akumatized villain."

Say, 'And he's been poisoned.' Wayzz added.

"I think he might have been poisoned as well."

"Alright, we better move!" the emergency worker exclaimed.

They put him onto a stretcher and ran down the hall.

"Do you know what kind of poison the akumatized villain injected into him?" a female employee asked.

"No clue." Jade Ninja answered.

They rushed him into an operating room. Jade Ninja sat down in a chair next to his comatose friend.

How did you know that Cat was poisoned? Jade silently asked his kwami.

I can sense a negative energy around him, even while I'm helping you in your transformation of Jade Ninja. He's been poisoned, but I can't tell you what the poison is. he answered.

Jade Ninja sat down as the emergency worker staffed cured him. Much to Jade's surprise, Cat Noir never detrasnsformed, even when seemingly in a coma and quite possibly on the verge of death. Eventually, he got a call from Renard.

"We've finally managed to transport Flora to the nearest prison." he reported.

"That's good to hear."

Abeille took Renard's communicator. "Is Cat Noir ok?"

"He was poisoned. The poison's been drained out of his system, but he's still out... He'll be fine... I hope."

"We'll be right there." Renard said.

He hung up, leaving a sleeping Cat Noir with a worried Jade. Soon the other superheroes arrived.

Abeille looked disheartened. "Oh my gosh... He looks so lifeless." She looked at her hands. "Maybe I should use Benevolence on him."

"It's supposed to be used for repairing objects and fixing what's broken. Could it even be used for healing?" Renard asked.

Cat Noir slowly woke up and looked around him. "Ow... Where am I?"

"You're in the hospital. Hopital Saint-Louis to be exact."

"The hospital?" He widened his eyes which Jade Ninja noticed were full of fear. "Where's Marinette?!"

Jade Ninja nodded sadly, which confirmed his worst fear. "By the time we arrived, it was all but too late. Marinette was gone and Flora was the only one there."

"Don't worry, Cat. Me and Abeille put Flora in her place." Renard added. Cat Noir started crying, much to his friends' confusion. "Cat Noir?"

"I... I failed. I promised that I would protect her. Now that I've failed, I can't help but feel shame and sorrow."

"I don't even get it. What did Hawkmoth want from Marinette anyway?" Renard asked his team.

Jade shrugged. "I thought it was because she contributed in the downfall of Queen Bee and Volpina."

Abeille nodded. "That is the most common theory I've heard of, but it was never confirmed." The feline superhero got up from the bed. "Where are you going? And where's Adrien?"

"I have to make things right. And Adrien went back to his home."

Cat Noir then left, leaving the trio in confusion once again. They stood there in awkward silence until a nurse came in. "Where's Cat Noir?" she asked.

"He woke up and left." Jade answered.

She looked at them sadly with maybe the tiniest hint of skepticism. "And none of you tried to stop him?"

"He seemed fine and there was no reason to try." Abeille answered.

The nurse shrugged and left. "I guess we should depart." Renard suggested.

Jade and Abeille nodded in agreement, so they went their separate ways. Nino stood in the commons of the school, where he was found by Sabrina and Nathaniel.

"There you are!" the red haired artist exclaimed.

Sabrina added, "We've been looking everywhere for you!"

"We should probably tell them what happened to Adrien, Zoe and Marinette."

They discussed it (without any revealing of secret identities), then nodded in unison before going back into the classroom.

"Almost done..." Ivan grumbled.

"You guys ready?" Mylene asked from the top of Ivan's shoulders, who stood on the top step of a step-stool.

Nino looked up, only to find Alix hanging from a vine on the ceiling.

"Ready." Kim and Max said in unison.

Mylene cut the vine around her ankle with a pair of clippers and she began to fall. Kim caught her before she fell to the ground.

"Finally I'm down from there." Alix said. She turned to her cocky boyfriend. "Now could you put me down?"

He did so. Ms. Mendeleiev turned to the trio. "Ah, you guys are back. What news do you bring?"

"Adrien has returned to his home. I was told by Cat Noir." Sabrina answered.

"What about Zoe?" Rose asked.

"She was akumatized and taken to Fresnes Prison." Nathaniel answered. "I saw Renard and Abeille drag her there."

"And Marinette?" Alya asked, her eyes full of fear.

The entire class waited in anxious silence. Everyone was wondering what happened to her. Nino nodded sadly. "She's gone. In the hands of Hawkmoth."

The class gasped. Alya was so loud that everyone looked at her. "NO!" She screamed and cried.