Hello again! So I decided to write a bit of the battle, just the end bit, because I wanted to see if I could do it justice. I hope you guys like it!

"Ladybug, look out!" Chat Noir shouted as the Trash Man shot another jet of dank green fog from his hands in her direction. She turned at his call and elegantly flipped away from it, her grace making the moves look like dancing. She landed and ran towards him, sliding under more of the green mist that was fired at her before skidding to a halt next to him.

"Thanks for the heads up." She smiled at him and he beamed back. "Now we have to get at his akuma, I think it's in his-duck!"

She threw herself at him and they both crashed to the ground behind a nearby car, narrowly missing the stream of stinking smoke that had been aimed at their heads. She opened her eyes to find she was nose to nose with Chat Noir and he was devilishly grinning up at her. She could see her own shocked expression mirrored in his green eyes and a little gasp escaped her. Why did this feel like déjà vu? And why was it making her stomach flip like that?

"Cat got your tongue, M'Lady?" He asked as her mind span. He waggled his eyebrows suggestively at her and she groaned.

"This is serious Chat!" She said as she quickly scrambled into a crouching position and he followed suit, still grinning playfully at her. They looked around and saw the thick green smog was travelling across the street and threatening to engulf them at any minute. She looked over the car and saw the bright figure of the Trash Man laughing loudly in the middle of it all and her face creased in concern when she saw how many people were getting caught up in it. They needed a new strategy. They had been fighting this akumatised villain for a while now and he was showing no signs of weakening. Surely Adrien would be wondering where she was…

"Lucky Charm!" She cried as she threw her yoyo up into the air. There was a blaze of light and she caught something small as it fell back to the earth. She opened her fingers and stared confused at the red and black spotted clothes peg that sat in her palm.

"What am I…" She stared to say before she was alerted by her partner hissing.

"The smoke is getting closer…" He warned her taking her arm and pulling her away from it before he made a face like he was about to vomit and covered his nose with both hands. "Urgh and it reeks!"

"That's it!" She exclaimed as things around her started to glow with black and red spots, including the body of her partner. "Chat, hold still!"

She clipped the peg onto his nose, ignoring his yelp of protest, and then tied her yoyo around his leg. He looked at her confused and she hurriedly explained her plan. "We need to get close to him and if I throw you over there, it will be easy-if you can't smell him, he can't get you. When I throw you, aim for his glove and use Cataclysm on it. It should disintegrate and then I can catch the akuma!"

"I thought it was in his duck?" Chat Noir smiled at her and she sighed and shook her head. "C'mon Bugaboo, you said it yourself."

"I'll take that to mean you're ready." She gave him a wry smile and started to spin around.

"Time to take out the trash!" Chat Noir yelled as she swung him around like she was in the hammer throw at the Olympics and let go. He sailed through the air at the surprised Trash Man who he could no longer smell thanks to the clothes peg. Realising he was powerless, he tried to run but Chat Noir tackled him to the ground with a triumphant shout of "Cataclysm!" He grasped the left black glove of the wriggling villain and it crumbled to gritty black dust, allowing a little black butterfly to flutter out.

"You've done enough harm little akuma!" Ladybug sprang up and brandished her yoyo, catching the tiny dark insect. "It's time to de-evilise!"

She deftly caught her yoyo and pressed it open, realising the butterfly which was now white as a pearl. She wished it goodbye before whisking the peg from Chat Noir's nose and throwing it into the sky. Everything magically went back to normal around them and now instead of a dangerous villain, a rather confused looking man in a dustman's uniform was lying on the ground in front of them scratching his head.

"Good jo-Chat?" Ladybug turned to bump fists with her partner for a job well done but he was nowhere to be seen. She turned around and scanned the crowd that was slowly appearing now that the danger was gone but she couldn't spot his distinctive black leather. He had vanished completely from sight.

Realising she had to do the same and get back to Adrien, she threw her yoyo at the nearest building and swung away from the scene. The crowd cheered her as she swept away but the moment she was away, she frowned as no matter how excited she was to get back to Adrien, the sudden disappearance of Chat Noir played on her mind. She knew he could handle himself-she had seen that when she had met him as Marinette-but it still unnerved her. Usually she was the one who disappeared and he was the one to linger and he never usually left without a goodbye. Why was she getting so worked up over this? She thought as she shook her head like she was trying to shake them out of her head. He was just her goofball partner; she shouldn't be bothered like this…

A bleeping from her ears alerted her to how close she was to reverting back to her regular self and within seconds, she spotted her home just ahead of her. With a little sigh of relief, she spun up into the air and spiralled down, landing on the door on the roof. Phew, she thought as she clambered silently down into her pastel pink bedroom. Hopefully Adrien hasn't been waiting for too long…

She went to hop down but froze when she looked over at her desk. Chat Noir was relaxing in her chair, whistling a tune and twiddling a pencil in his fingers. She quickly hid and watched him closely, ignoring the second bleep that came from her earrings. Although he gave the appearance of being calm and collected, she could read him well enough to see that his body was tense and worried and he kept sneaking anxious glances at the door.

"C'mon Plagg!" She heard him hiss in an irritated tone. "You can't stay in there forever! Is this about the cheese? I will get you cheese, now hurry up and please stop sulking! I need to change back!"

"Chat?" She leapt down to face him and he violently swung around in his chair, nearly toppling from it in shock. "What's going on? What are you doing in my room?"

"Your room?" He said and she clapped her hands over her mouth as she realised her mistake. Suddenly there was a flash of light and when she looked back down, she was back to being Marinette. She squeaked loudly as she turned and saw Tikki fly to her side, a big satisfied grin on her face.

"Marinette?!" Chat Noir was staring at her dumbfounded. "You're…"

Before he finished, there was another burst of light and left sitting in the chair was Adrien. Adrien? Marinette thought as she felt both her hands fall to her sides as her mouth dropped open. Adrien was Chat Noir? It couldn't be…

"Yes! We did it!" A small black cat-like fairy flew out from behind Adrien and Tikki bobbed over to meet him. She engulfed him in a hug that made his cheeks go red and his mouth twitch into a bashful smile before she grabbed his hands and whirled him around, both of them cheering as Marinette and Adrien watched them stunned.

"Good job!" They congratulated each other, bumping their tiny fists together laughing.

"Plagg?" Adrien finally managed to splutter out and both fairies turned to him. "You…you know her? What is…how…what is going on?"

"Adrien!" Tikki squealed as she flew over to him and hovered in front of him. "I'm Tikki, the Miraculous that makes Ladybug! It's so lovely to finally meet you, I've heard so much…"

"Woah, let him breathe." Plagg flew to her side and put his hand on her shoulder. "Tikki and I go back millennia," He explained. "But we hadn't seen each other for years until today. She found me in your bag earlier and that was when we realised who Ladybug and Chat Noir were and that you two have been crushing on each other the whole time…"

"And it's so adorable!" Tikki gushed but she stopped when Adrien looked away from them both and at Marinette who was still standing in the centre of the room unmoved. Her eyes were wide and she was staring at Adrien like he had grown another head. He stood up slowly and went over to her, taking both her hands and holding them gently, feeling how they were trembling like leaves shaking in the wind. There was a part of him that couldn't believe it was her, that his Ladybug was standing before him in the form of this stunned girl but now he knew, he was wondering how he had never seen it before. She hadn't been akumatised, they looked so alike, it was just so right…

"Marinette…" He started to say as the world seemed to suddenly go deathly quiet. He wanted to declare his love, shout it to the world now that he had finally found her but the words died in his throat when he glanced up and saw the look in her eyes. They were pools of disbelief, the deep blue not fully registering what she was seeing before her. Why wasn't she saying anything? Had she not wanted it to be him? Was she horrified to see him there? He could feel his confidence faltering as her mouth started to move.

"Adrien, I-"

"I'm sorry, I have to go!" Adrien blurted out as he heard the trapdoor opening as Marinette's parents once again peeked to see how they were getting on. He grabbed his school bag and bundled the papers on the desk inside before grasping Plagg and stuffing him in there as well, ignoring the yowls that Plagg made in protest. He then bolted from the room, zooming past Tom and Sabine Dupain-Cheng and running down the stairs like he was being chased. They stared after him and then looked in at their daughter, who was standing in the centre of the room frozen like a statue, her chest gasping as if the words she had been longing to say were stuck in her lungs and choking her. They didn't see the little red fairy pressed against the window, trying to see which way her friend had gone and trying to hide her tears as the glorious plan they had built fell apart.

Well this got angsty…next chapter will be the last. Please leave a review, they make me happy and when I'm happy I write!