08/16/23
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With Gabriel, he was barely able to stand due to his condition being at his heart. He experienced that using the snake miraculous of Second Chance results in increasing any injuries, including the necrosis cataclysm on his body.
"I don't have much time left...haaaah...urgh!" He clutched his chest.
Nathalie came into the office and saw that the cataclysm has hit the heart, not caring anymore that he got into this mess and have not listened to her warnings or advice. This was all on him.
"Why did you come back?!" Gabriel asked.
"I may have resigned from you but I see your foolish move finally got you," Nathalie said.
"You well know I was trying so hard to get Emilie back!" Gabriel said.
"And I told you that she accepted her fate. You used to do this out of love for her but now you were doing this out of madness. What you were doing was never for her anymore but for yourself. Because of your madness, you made Adrien's girlfriend suffer even more after Adrien died! THINK GABRIEL! THINK!" Nathalie ranted, knowing that this madman will never learn, "This was never about Emilie, this was about Adrien! As a real father you should have been, Adrien grew lonely in that mansion without the attention he needs! You abandoned him! And I know you tried to take advantage of his vulnerability when you gave that alliance ring so you can akumatize him! You don't care about him at all!"
"I did this to try to make us a family again!" Gabriel protested.
"You're not! Just let it go and you have done enough with the other miraculous! You don't need them all!" Nathalie shouted.
"I do and I need them to defeat Ladybug and Cat Noir!" Gabriel yelled.
"Everything in life, you always replace another after another. If the miraculous is not enough for your greed, what else will satisfy you? Face it, Gabriel. Emilie did not like how obsessed you were with finding other miraculous. You lost respect, you lost the family, you lost my trust, and you also lost everything because of your greed, selfishness, and insanity. I become a victim of your madness and we are both dying" Nathalie said and coughed.
"I have nothing to live for then," Gabriel said, clearly giving up.
"Stop lying to me. You always continue to akumatize victims whenever you sense one. You always manipulate Adrien all the time to hide your dark secrets. Worst of all, you constantly think you're a god but in reality, you only hate things the way they are. You really did ruin your son's life really badly" Nathalie said.
Outside the mansion, Ladybug lands on the rooftop, seeing Gabriel and Nathalie talking. A look of vengeance appeared in Ladybug's eyes seeing Gabriel.
"Oh, I'm gonna tear him limb from ...What am I saying?!" Ladybug snaps out of her dark thoughts.
She can't believe she's teaming up with Argos since he is repaying her and still being punished. They planned to have Adrien sneak into the mansion so he can show his father that he came back from the dead. It was a very stupid plan but Argos couldn't tell his cousin about Gabriel's dark secret, he has to find out on his own.
"This is really stupid, bird! Adrien could get killed" Ladybug said.
"Stupid or not, Gabriel is the one who's stupid to get his son killed and ruin my cousin's love life. Right now, I want to see the look on Gabriel's face when he sees Adrien as a zombie" Argos said.
"I can't believe he's a real zombie" Ladybug pretends to shudder without giving suspicion to that bird.
"Me too, but this plan needs to work," Argos said.
"I just hope Adrien knows what he's doing," Ladybug said.
"He hasn't eaten flesh or brains for like 3 days. But I need to have my…." Argos hates saying the word, "….sentimonster dog gather evidence of everything Gabriel did in the past time events of this mansion"
"Why can't you just tell me what you found out about Lila?" Ladybug asked.
"I'll explain it later but you would be extremely pissed the same way Adrien was," Argos said.
Inside the mansion, Adrien had to pretend to be stiff and limp while Detector sniffed around for traces of evidence from the past events it took place. Adrien heard coughing and it sure did not sound very good than common. He was supposed to head to his father's office to show his father that he's undead but he changed his mind and heads upstairs to Nathalie's room. He remembers her terrible condition was very fatal this time.
"Nathalie?" He opens the door, seeing her laying down coughing.
"Adrien?" She looked more horrible than Marinette's miserable state but she was dying, "It worked" Nathalie murmured.
"Hospital….you're dying" Adrien rushed to her aid.
"I'm far beyond medicine, Adrien. You're a zombie" Nathalie coughed badly before breathing, "Bite my arm"
"What? You'll….turn" Adrien refused to turn her into a monster.
"It's better than the alternative. You're a special zombie with the senti-serum in your veins" Nathalie said.
"Senti….monster?" Adrien gasped slowly.
"Yes, I used some blood from past sentimonsters to revive you after you died. I knew it would work for you. I kept my word for your mother" Nathalie said.
"Nathalie….. I'm so grateful you brought me….back to life" He hugged her.
"No time. I'm dying now. Hurry. Please" Nathalie coughed.
Adrien then bites her wrist, infecting her. He doesn't know how long it will turn her but it's best if she didn't suffer the same fate as his mother did. He hates to see another life get taken away. Especially those that die in vain.
"Now go before your father goes crazy if he sees you" Nathalie coughed.
"I will, that monster is no longer my father," Adrien said.
"WHAT IS THIS?! Get out of my house you mutt!" They heard Gabriel shouting.
"Damn it!" Adrien has to save Detector before his father does something way too far.
"They've been spotted!" Argos hears his dog's barking.
"Shit! I told you this was stupid you bloody damn bird!" Ladybug swings inside through Adrien's bedroom window.
Adrien growled savagely at his father who did not have time to react. He tackled him, baring his teeth to bite since his anger made him feel hungry for flesh.
"What the hell?!" Gabriel struggled.
Adrien stopped when he smells something decaying and it sure wasn't himself since he had a shower. But then he realized it came from Gabriel himself. The smell came from his left arm as Adrien rips the sleeve off to reveal what looks like a cataclysm but also looking necrosis on the skin. It flashed Adrien's mind that night at the wax museum when he was forced by Monarch to cataclysm the arm.
"You're….….him?" Adrien gets off of him.
"So you figured it out," Gabriel said.
This was making Adrien unable to hyperventilate due to no ability to breathe, he was processing everything between Monarch and his father, "You made Cat Noir do that! YOU COWARD!" Adrien yelled.
Ladybug and Argos rushed to the scene and saw Adrien looking angry at Gabriel when he found out.
"Oh, my god" Argos can see the black skin on his uncle's arm and it sure looked extremely deadly.
"It explains a lot why you constantly spend less time with me! You took advantage of my trust! I TRUSTED YOU! I TRUSTED YOU!" Adrien screamed in grief and anger.
"I did this to get Ladybug's and Cat Noir's miraculous! I had no choice but to do that to escape!" Gabriel said.
"You're insane, Mr. Agreste! You traumatized my partner!" Ladybug got mad.
"AAARRRGGGHHHH!" Adrien attacked his father by scratching him with his sharp zombie nails.
"AAARGH!" Gabriel fell back as Adrien lost control of himself.
"Adrien!" Ladybug quickly grabs him before he tries something deadly.
"Cuz, keep it together!" Argos helped too.
"He deserves to be bitten! Let me go!" Adrien struggled, unaware of how strong he was but the holders were much stronger with powers.
"Adrien! Think of Marinette! She wouldn't want you to do this!" Ladybug said.
"Think of delicious macaroons, not flesh and brains!" Argos held a box of macaroons to give out a sweet smell to Adrien to calm him down.
Adrien smelled them and grabbed a handful of them while Gabriel crawls back terrified.
Ladybug kept her glare at him, "I should've known you were him! In the beginning, my calculations were correct, you akumatized yourself so Cat Noir and I wouldn't suspect you!" Ladybug said.
"GRRRRRRR!" Detector growls viciously at Gabriel, smelling him to gather more evidence to transfer through the magnifying glass.
Argos takes a look and it showed the lair with Gabriel, Nathalie, and Tomao trying to use the machine with all the kwami energy to transfer to Gabriel to reduce the cataclysm spread but it failed and the spread goes back to the same spot it was before on his chest.
"Foolish uncle. Do you think that's gonna cure you? There is no cure for cataclysm!" Argos said, knowing how Cat Noir's cataclysm is deadly and dangerous, "And I never should have traded with you, to a murderer like you!"
"That's why I needed the miraculous to make a wish to save Nathalie and myself!" Gabriel stumbles against the stairs.
"Ladybug once told me that the wish has a terrible price to pay in exchange! Ever since I used Red Moon out of hatred and anger, I never truly meant to hurt anyone but I did and I restored everyone back, including you! Adrien couldn't be happy without the girl he loves! I thought I was doing this to set him free but instead, I did this out of madness! Just like you are doing too!" Argos yelled, pouring his anger and guilt out.
Gabriel turns the remote on and it activated the alarm and weapons system to get rid of intruders.
"Let's get out of here!" Ladybug shouted.
"Not without the other miraculous!" Argos said.
Unfortunately, the lasers almost shot Argos but instead, Adrien shield him and gets shot but did not die.
"Move your ass now!" Adrien pushed him out the door.
Argos whistled for Detector to follow them, "Hurry!"
Adrien tumbles with Argos down the outdoor stairs, landing on top of Adrien's back.
"Agh! Get off me!" Argos groaned.
"A simple thank you would be nice that I saved your feathered ass from getting plucked off!" Adrien growled.
Ladybug landed next to them with Detector, "We need to retreat!"
"Goddamn it, he's a psycho!" Argos said.
"So many things add up! We must get to safety" Adrien said.
As the four escape, Gabriel looks at his wounds, red and black blood dripping, "My son! He's alive?!"
x
Later with Ladybug, she was spending some alone time with Adrien. She told him her secret identity and that Adrien was glad that the love of his life was his bugaboo the whole time.
"Oh, Bugaboo. It was you the whole time? How did I not notice?" Adrien wondered.
"Cat Noir?" Ladybug gasped at that nickname.
"Uh, I mean Marinette. It's something your cat often calls you right?" Adrien realized what he said.
"You're really Cat Noir?" Ladybug hugs him.
"Nope," Adrien lied.
"Adrien" Ladybug being serious.
"Okay, I'm the cat's meow. My big damn mouth" Adrien gave up that he can't lie to her.
"Oh, dear. All this time I've rejected you and hurt you as Cat Noir" Ladybug felt guilty.
"And now it's reversed when I did the same," Adrien said.
"Agh! Finally. You two are so oblivious for way too long!" Plagg came out of Adrien's hoodie.
"Hey Plagg," Ladybug said.
x
Alya and Argos were still at the abandoned warehouse doing more research on Gabriel's schemes. It was clear that Lila did team up with him during the Oni Chan incident and made her a model.
"I can't believe it" Argos saw the results.
Kagami growled at Cerise for being the cause of this, "You're lucky I didn't kill you" Kagami said.
"And yet you don't remember being akumatized. That ugly horn on my forehead was the worst!" Cerise said.
"I had witnesses. And it's not cool to play with Adrien's feelings like that. He's not some prize to be won and I'm happy for him that he loves Marinette" Kagami replied.
"Marinette will pay for foiling my plans! YOU HEAR ME!" Cerise grabs the bars but got a shock.
"You should've listened to Adrien's advice. He once told me that he tried to give you advice on being a better person but you didn't. You also hurt my girl very badly by framing her and it's not okay!" Alya said.
"That's because Gabriel made her do the plan to get your friend akumatized. Look" Argos showed the hologram of the time event when Marinette and her mom nearly almost got akumatized into Princess Justice and Verity Queen but when Scarlet Moth was gonna fully akumatize them, Catalyst coughed badly and the akumatization was broken, freeing them to normal.
"Just how low are you gonna go, Cerise?!" They asked Cerise.
"As many times as I want! I don't really care about remorse!" Cerise glared.
"You're even worse than my father, you bitch!" Argos said.
"Calm down, Felix. Both of them are the worse" Kagami shoved a crumpet in his mouth to calm him down.
"Mmmmmph?!" Argos was stunned.
"How's Adrien doing?" Alya asked.
"Still shocked about the truth revealed today about his father," Argos said, munching on his treats.
"Was he really pissed?" Alya asked.
"Very pissed, he almost killed him in pure zombie rage," Argos said.
"Shit. Did he find out that you were a very bad puppy?" Alya crossed her arms.
"Not that, we discovered something way more shocking," Argos said.
"What's that?" Alya asked.
"Monarch and Gabriel are one and the same. Adrien smells decay from him and saw the cataclysm on his arm" Argos said.
"Unbelievable!" Alya exclaims.
"Yes, and from what we saw, Gabriel looked like hell," Argos said.
"This whole time he was that goddamn monster?! It's no wonder why he likes obedience from Adrien!" Alya punched the table in rage, "I hope he burns in hell!"
"I wanted to get rid of him so badly that I wanna shove my samurai sword right up his ass!" Kagami said.
"Would you girls calm the hell down?! Jeez!" Argos simmers them down.
"Sorry" Kagami calms down.
"As much as I like to be very pissed about it. Detector, show me the vitals in Gabriel's body. Is the cataclysm spreading?" Argos asked his sentimonster dog.
"Ruff!" Detector showed Gabriel's body scan, it has already reached the chest area. Especially the heart too, resulting in a rapid heart rate but surprisingly he's still standing. It hasn't affected his lungs or respiratory system.
"Okay, that's strange. But I worry what could happen since Adrien clawed him" Argos said.
"Zombies spread only by biting," Alya said.
"Shit. It's definitely necrosis but still a cataclysm on the flesh. It's spreading very slowly but how did it spread so fast? Detector, give me something on what caused the cataclysm to spread fast" Argos said.
Detector could not find something but it did lead to the time event when Gabriel explained the effects of using Second Chance while having this condition.
"I'm wasting my time Nathalie, and time is something I can't afford to lose" He rolls up his sleeve revealing a very black skin, "Every time I use Second Chance, time rewinds for Ladybug and Cat Noir and the rest of the world, but not for me. I remember every one of those attempts and so does my body" He plus his collar down to reveal the cataclysm is up to his neck.
"He really is dying" Alya said.
"Fast forward," Argos said and the time event could only show Monarch collapsing in exhaustion while the hologram showed the spacewoman telling it was a success. The villain detransformed and fainted.
"Yep, his time is running out" Argos nodded.
"The snake miraculous is a strong one. He probably used it too much to increase his condition or something" Alya said.
"Exactly," Argos said.
"This is why Viperion knows the true power of Second Chance. He never failed but Gabriel used it for selfish reasons. That's another reason why he's not careful with the miraculous. It can do much condemning to him" Kagami said.
"And it's far too dangerous for kwamis to use their powers without a holder. Detector, show them the time event when Cat Noir's kwami used his power without a holder" Alya holding the magnifying glass to give the amok a command.
It showed Plagg using Cataclysm without a holder, causing the Eiffel Tower and the area around it to crack up.
"Holy shit," Argos said.
"Yeah. Detector, show them when Ladybug's kwami used her power without a holder" Alya said.
The hologram showed Tikki craving for gallete and she called upon the lucky charm, "LUCKY CHAAAARRRRRRMMMMM!" It unleashed a humongous gallete in space, 20x bigger. It covered the entire sky like an eclipse and the gravitational to create cracks on the ground.
"Oh boy," Alya said.
"I know you're upset, Alya. You told me that Shadow Moth threatened your family with Sentibubbler before. What he did was wrong" Argos can see how much pain she is in to believe that Gabriel went too far by threatening her and almost sending her family into space if she didn't do what he tells her to do.
"He will pay for this. Do you see why I never betrayed Ladybug? Because I find a solution to the problem, not make a deal with monsters. Chloe betrayed all of us when she couldn't understand the responsibilities and she chose to side with that monster. Just like you betrayed all of us by trading the miraculous for an exchange" Alya glared at him, making him understand the difference between saving a life and betrayal.
"Yes, of course," He lowered his head sadly.
