08/17/23
13 Reviews, 3 Favs, 5 Follows
We know that Gabriel Agreste's real name is Gabi Grassette. He never came from a rich family and whatever the reason why he changed his identity, maybe it could be to hide from the law or that he didn't want to be with the poor family Grassette anymore. False identity somehow does have a connection with Cerise as we learned Lila Rossi was her alias. My theory points out that maybe Gabi had an affair with an unknown woman and Cerise was born but he may or may not know that when he abandon them before he became a fashion designer with the help of Audrey Bourgeois changed his name and then fell in love with Emilie. I could be wrong but between Gabriel and Lila, they both have similarities with changing their names, manipulating anyone to get what they want, and greed for power.
My second theory is maybe Cerise is over a century old sentimonster and she was created with the emotion of deceive. Her nature to lie and manipulate to get what she wants. She never removed her bracelets when disguising herself with wigs and eye contacts. Maybe her amok is in her bracelets. I mean teenage life is short when becoming an adult and she's far too young to wander things without an adult.
With Nathalie, she felt the effect of Adrien's bite take effect, her eyes taking a sickly red coloring. She can feel no pain at all, especially since her coughing stopped.
"Hrrrgh! AAAGH!" She rushes to the mirror and saw her skin turned pale, "Oh, my lord!"
She had no idea what Adrien went through and she craves food, "Must...stay...strong!" She clutched her stomach.
Adrien came through the open window with Ladybug, knowing that Nathalie would not control her hunger. So he brought a severed arm from a crazed man in the alley.
"Nathalie, over here" Adrien hands it to her and she takes big chunks from the arm.
"Gross" Ladybug looks away, "I can't believe this is real. You bit her and she's now a walking dead"
"She told me to," Adrien said.
"I did," Nathalie said.
"I cannot believe that cataclysm is spreading. This is not good. That explains why he constantly makes me wear the alliance ring so that I could get akumatized or something to do his bidding. He tried to take advantage of me" Adrien growled angrily.
"But you're….lucky you didn't," Nathalie said.
"I can't believe he's Monarch. That bastard is keeping the kwamis somewhere" Ladybug said.
"Where are they?" Adrien asked.
"You can't face him. He's beyond insane" Nathalie finished eating.
"Nathalie, his obsession and madness is causing misery and trauma in Paris. If no one stops him, the kwamis will forever be his slaves. He's not using it for the greater good" Ladybug said.
Nathalie sighs and goes to her vault behind the frame, looking for the coordinates of the buttons on Emilie's portrait, "These are the code buttons on Emilie's portrait in his office. Please, be wise about this. You need to think of a plan before you do" She hands it to Adrien.
"Thank you, Nathalie," Adrien said.
"Let's go. I have a feeling that your ex-father would be insane to kill you" Ladybug said to Adrien.
"Yes, let's go, Ladybug" He clutched onto her as she swings away.
x
The next morning, the news on TV is reporting about Cerise has gone missing and no witnesses have been made.
Felix knew this was gonna happen but he's not gonna set that psycho free. He wants answers from her and he wants to know where her lair is. He's not interested in her lair but he's doing this to avenge Adrien's death and repay Ladybug.
"You're a really good actress. Such a shame that everyone will know who you really are. I used to lie a lot but I never lie to get my ways like you" Felix smirked evilly.
"You're insane! But you do disguise yourself like him" Cerise said with anger for being trapped for a few days.
"Everyone thinks we are twin brothers but technically I'm his cousin. He's a few months older than me. Since you have no biological parents, perhaps my dog can sniff you for your backstory of the day you were born" Felix chuckled and gestures to his sentimonster to sniff her scent and transfer the time event of the day she was born.
It showed that her real parents are Gabi Grassette and an unknown Italian woman but unfortunately, Gabi abandoned the woman he had an affair with, leaving the poor woman with nothing to care for Cerise. So instead, she gave her away for adoption and was never seen again. Gabi changed his identity to Gabriel Agreste, became a fashion designer, and fell in love with Emilie Graham de Vanily.
"You're Gabi's daughter?!" Felix was surprised.
"Si Signor" Cerise said in Italian.
"Then that means…You are Adrien's half-sister! Gross!" Felix said, realizing that she tried to smother him on modeling, "Oh, god!"
"I didn't really know by then until a DNA test proved it," Cerise said.
"So that's why my uncle changed his identity. So that means you're 2 or 3 years older than Adrien. Man, he's gonna be so pissed" Felix said.
"And broken for sure! HAHAHA!" Cerise laughed.
"You didn't even know that before!" Alya glared.
"This is madness!" Kagami agreed.
"You're nothing of a sister to Adrien!" Felix said in anger.
"And you don't deserve to have a family!" Kagami said.
"Like that matters," Cerise said.
"That's what you are, Cerise! A monster who can't even understand the values of life! You didn't grow up as a human being!" Alya said.
"You grew up as a psycho bitch with no life whatsoever. Sooner or later, no one is gonna trust a liar like you" Felix said.
A while later, Ladybug arrived with Adrien, having plans with them and the code.
She saw Cerise but she has no idea that it was the liar all along, "Who the hell is that and why do you have her in a cage?"
"Ladybug, that is Cerise, or should I say, Lila," Adrien said.
Ladybug gasps recognizing her facial features, "Lila?!"
"Ladybug" Cerise glared coldly.
"But her eyes aren't green," Ladybug said.
"Contact lenses and this is what I found" Argos tossed the wig to Ladybug.
Cerise was beyond scared that her discovery is no longer a secret anymore.
"So, Lila was merely an alias for you Cerise?" Ladybug glared at her.
"There's more" Argos gives her the tablet of all her fake identities of Cerise.
Ladybug looks through all of them. Every fake identity Cerise did was a way for her to deceive anyone with her manipulation and lies.
"And get this. All her aliases have something in common" Argos highlights the tablet of the bracelets she wears that gives out.
"You made a mistake there, Cerise. Those bracelets give away who you are" Ladybug said.
"And the wig in the trash can?" Argos laughed a little, "It leaves a trace. Not very smart of you"
"Neither were all of you from the beginning I was Lila Rossi. You were all fooled too long until it gave out" Cerise glared.
"Anyways" Argos looks at Adrien, "Cousin, there's something you should know but I know this is gonna really piss you off" Argos hands Cerise's phone to reveal all of Gabriel's secrets from his past.
Adrien reads through for a brief moment before he discovered the truth, "Not only he's Gabi Grassette, but he's Cerise's dad?! And my half-sister?!"
"That makes her 2 or 3 years older than you before your dad met your mom," Argos said.
"That son of a bitch! My own father never came from a rich family and the surname Agreste was a fake!" Adrien growled angrily.
"We're a family of frauds" Cerise snickered.
"SHUT UP!" Adrien yelled.
"Adrien, calm down," Ladybug said.
"She's not a sister to me!" Adrien yelled.
"We have the same DNA from our dad, model. Can't escape where we came from" Cerise said.
"I rather die than believe that shit!" Adrien glared.
"You're already dead," Cerise said.
"Undead but still regaining a heartbeat! The father I once had is dead to me! He abandoned you just like he abandoned me but constantly gives me orders like I'm not a son to him! As I see now, both of you are alike with greed, selfishness, and lies!" Adrien said, wanting to bite her so she can suffer like he did but can't.
"Easy now, Adrien. It's time to reveal what Nathalie gave us" Ladybug said and glared at Cerise, "Once it's over I'll deal with you"
They went to the table, showing them the code to the secret lair, "I should've bitten him but his flesh is already decaying. Zombies don't eat dead bodies" Adrien said.
"No, but he still has them all. And since Nathalie's infected, I worry if she'll infect him" Ladybug said.
"Let her. She supported me more than him" Adrien said.
"Never mind. Okay, here's the code" Ladybug shows the code to Kagami and Alya.
Argos remembers the buttons on the portrait but he can't give it out to them or they would think he's been there.
So he acts along, "Good, maybe that's where we can save the other kwamis" He said.
Though they all glared at him for trading all the miraculous to that monster and who knows if the kwamis are either tortured, untreated, or abused. The same way Colt Fathom did to him.
"Well, I'm doing it to redeem myself for my crimes," He said.
"Doublecross me again and you hand your brooch to me" Ladybug warned.
"You got it" Argos nods.
"Well now let's cook up this plan together. It's three holders, me, Argos, and Cat Noir, and two without them" Ladybug began.
"All we need is to shut down the security system to get in" Argos added.
"But we need a distraction," Ladybug said.
"It's me he wants and I know he wants to fix a mistake that can't undo. I will be the distraction" Adrien said.
"No," Argos said but Adrien gives him the look, "No, no, no! Absolutely hell no for that!" Argos said and looks at the code paper but looks back at Adrien again, "No!"
"Any other suggestions then?" Adrien replied.
"Fine. You do your way since you care so much about wanting him to kill you" Argos groans in frustration, "I cannot let history repeat itself again, Adrien"
"Not if he shoots me in the head. Because I'm gonna test his intentions" Adrien held out a gun, "When he was that monster, he was a coward that can't even get close to Ladybug and Cat Noir"
"Especially when my kitty and I chased him through time events from the past to prevent him from changing history. Something that a bird did not think about because he wouldn't have gotten the peacock miraculous in an altered timeline" Ladybug glared at Argos.
"Enough about me! What matters is he doesn't have the time miraculous anymore from what you told me" Argos was getting fed up with being scolded.
"Don't forget, your ass is still punished" Ladybug reminds him.
"Right," Argos replied lowly.
"This time Gabi will pay for all harm he has caused," Kagami said.
"He's mine," Ladybug said darkly.
Adrien saw the lust for revenge in her eyes, "Don't even think about it, Ladybug. Ah, forget it. Plagg, claws out" Adrien transformed into Cat Noir so they can show that he was the cat.
"Adrien? You're Cat Noir?!" Alya gasps.
"Yup. It gave me the ability to talk, walk, run, and dance like normal rather than being slow like a zombie. Claws in" He detransformed back.
Plagg waited too long to say something in Argo's face, "You murdered my cheese the day you came into my kitten's room snooping around!"
"I didn't know it was yours," Argos said.
"Next time you'll taste rotten cheese," Plagg said.
"And never impersonate my kitten again for mischief! Those kwamis are like my brothers and sisters!" Plagg said.
"You have my word, I will save them and will never disguise as your holder," Argos said.
"Good bird" Plagg pats his head.
"I guess I'll reveal myself to you all when the time is right," Ladybug said.
"And can you please stop bringing up my mischief?! I'm already suffering too much!" Argos had enough of being judged.
"You're lucky I haven't eaten a bird like you. You would be so delicious to eat than mice and fish" Adrien snickered.
"Technically, cats don't eat peacocks. They're too big. Can you please focus on the plan instead of trying to kill my feathered ass?" Argos growled impatiently.
"Right of course. Now I'll be the distraction while the four of you get in to rescue the kwamis and the miraculous. If you see Gabi, then take him down" Adrien resumed the plan.
"Hai, we'll be ready for him," Kagami said.
"Rena Rouge or not, I'm gonna beat that God-wannabe's ass," Alya said.
Cerise was stuck with the sentimonsters keeping an eye on her.
"Oh, and even if you do escape, there's a tracker in your body. You ate it in plain sight" Argos snickered at the time he put a microscopic tracker in the food she ate.
"Aw crap" Cerise scowled.
x
Gabriel was still suffering from the cataclysm on his body but it still hasn't killed him yet since he hasn't used the snake miraculous of Second Chance again.
He heard the window shatter and there stood Adrien, walking like a zombie and glaring at his father.
"Gabriel!" He growled lowly.
"You're a walking corpse," Gabriel said.
"Yeah, and I'm undead because you killed me," Adrien said, munching on a severed arm.
"But how?!" Gabriel demanded an answer.
"Nathalie injected me with a serum. The day I was dead at the hospital and I came back to life" Adrien explained.
"That little—" Gabriel was cut off.
"Don't blame her! You never wanted to make me happy, you only wanted happiness all to yourself so no one can ever have it!" Adrien said, tossing the eaten severed arm aside, aiming his gun at him.
"What are you doing?!" Gabriel asked in fear.
"Such a coward you are. You care about your life but you don't care about anyone's. Tell me, father. Every akuma you sent out, you almost put me in direct danger by them. Just like Gorizilla and I had to jump and you did nothing to save me. Only Ladybug saved my life" Adrien said, hearing the comms in his ear that his friends are in.
"It was his fault for not being a good bodyguard that day!" Gabriel used him as a scapegoat.
"Liar! Ladybug may have done mistakes but Paris needs her!" Adrien said, knowing that his father has no sense of acknowledging or admitting what he did, "And no, it wasn't his fault that he's not a perfect bodyguard to you! You obviously insulted him and you plan on akumatizing him. He supported me because he cares about my happiness, not just protecting me! Nathalie and him were the only ones that supported me while you left me in the dark!" Adrien circled while aiming, "Not to mention every friend of mine has been akumatized and you regretted nothing!"
"I did what was necessary to get those miraculous to bring your mother back!" Gabriel protested.
"Oh, really? Explain this!" Adrien held out Cerise's phone with the photo of his young self, "Make a lie all you want but I saw everything on Lila's phone! You're not truly Gabriel Agreste!"
"WHAT?!" Gabriel was shocked his secret is out.
"Yes! I never was an Agreste and your real name is Gabi Grassette!" Adrien said angrily, "Worst of all, Lila is your daughter that you abandoned before you met my mother! What kind of psycho would do that?!" Adrien said.
"How did you know?!" Gabriel gasps.
"It doesn't matter. That bitch is nothing like a half-sister to me!" Adrien tossed the gun to him, "Shoot me, Father. Shoot me like I'm not good enough for you. Or are you just scared I'll bite and you'll become a zombie?"
Gabriel hesitated, not wanting to kill Adrien again.
"Go on, I'm not even completely alive" Adrien urged him.
Gabriel struggled as he picks up the gun and aims at Adrien.
"You hesitate? You tried to kill my girlfriend without hesitation" Adrien said.
"That's not true!" Gabriel lied.
"I loved her with all my heart and you never approved!" Adrien shouted, "Shoot me!"
"I'm so sorry" Gabriel pulled the trigger but nothing happened, "It's not loaded!"
"Mmhmm" Adrien smirked and gestured for Alya to come out of hiding since she got everything recorded.
Adrien knew his father was really a coward. He was testing his intentions if he really has the guts to kill him but thankfully he emptied the bullets earlier.
"Face it, Gabi. You just exposed yourself" Alya said.