A/N: Hello again, everyone!

Here's the eighth chap!

Blessa offered to stay and watch over Adrien at the Couffaine boathouse. There was no way any Miraculized was getting in, not with the invisible cloak shield placed over the boathouse and another one on Adrien. And if they did, her duplicate clones were more than ready to take them out.

Adrien coughed and struck a nightmarish flash. "Mmm…! Ah…"

"These nightmares are really doing a number of you, huh?" Blessa picked his head up gently, fed Adrien more of her unique herbal tea, and had a special essential oil diffuser help; Aisha even led him into a suit as well, just in case he wanted to join in later on. His mind was really in a bad place right now. "You show great strength and discipline, considering your current emotional state. But remember, just because it was a nightmare doesn't mean it'll come true or that it is real. And sometimes, it's always best to confront it and not to let it take control."

It was a lot more than that.

Especially from what Félix told him while flying back to Paris.

"Adrien…"

Blessa heard a beep go off on the laptop.

"I'll be right back…get some rest." Blessa laid him back down and left to tend and monitor the activities. On the screens, all these Miraculized were coming at random Voyage portals and running loose.

It was worrying her.

Bug Noire and Monarch continued the fight in the foyer. She tried to take his Butterfly Miraculous, but unfortunately, he was protected by the Resistance superpower from the Ox Miraculous.

"You're not gonna win today!" Bug Noire was still determined not to let Monarch get his hands on the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous. "Or ever."

Monarch retorted back, "Just try and stop me..."

Coward kept using Voyage to evade her.

Blessa spoke into her microphone. "Aisha. Ziddy. Félix. Ekon. Abdou. Uche. Can either one of you hear me?"

"Abdou, Uche, and I are doing some internal damage control…" said Ekon while corrupting all things relating to the Alliance systems…

Including the rings.

"We're going as fast as we can!"

"Aisha! Ziddy! Félix!"

Aisha and Ziddy fought within their suit's protection armor shield, using their arsenals and combat skills against the Miraculized.

Félix fought back with all types of backflips, spins, punches, and kicks, dodging Miraculized villains that came his way and took off their rings.

When more prowled towards and around them, Aisha got the boys between her and used her suit power to switch to a static electric dome for the three of them.

"I believe it was Muhammad Ali who said one of my favorite quotes, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.""

Using the dome, she created lightning bolts and waves with her hands and fingernails that struck the Alliance rings, freeing the brainwashed.

And more dropped in.

"Oh, no…"

"Kagami…? Are you still there?"

"HIYA!"

The mother-daughter continued fighting. Even if Tomoe kept eluding most of her daughter's attacks, Kagami got her mother a few times despite getting out of breath and still secretly feeling the effects of Nightormentor's dust.

Tomoe sensed it when Kagami grabbed her head, now feeling the sudden intense pain.

"Looks like you're still letting your controlled feelings get the better of you again?"

"No…" Kagami wasn't ready to give up and felt as determined as ever to stop her mother and Monarch-secretly-Gabriel-Agreste. "I'm not finished yet."

More heroic faces—from New York to China—joined in on the now-gray-skied-and-thunder-pealed Parisian battle…

"The United Heroez! Lady Dragon!" Alya was thrilled to see them.

The American heroes helped free the brainwashed with their powered abilities and Lady Dragon blasting lighting.

Along with a surprise from Blessa…

"Alekwu! Shango! Code C-A-3!"

The two Nikenobian vehicles transformed into fifteen-foot-tall mecha suits and helped subjugate the Miraculized.

"Ekon…yah! Abdou…whoa! Uche!" Even with using her duplicating ability to make a dozen of her—the same with Ziddy and Félix, Aisha grew more worried with all these Miraculized villains coming randomly, making it a bit harder to subdue them. "Come in!"

"It's getting there."

"Hang on a little bit longer…!"

"Easier said than done," Ziddy sarcastically replied, even if he had a dozen of his clones fighting in and avoiding the Miraculized.

Unfortunately, Tomoe disarmed her, knocking the staff from her hands. Kagami groaned when she got knocked to the ground. Kagami tried to reach for hers, only for her mother to have her bokken on Kagami's chest.

Tomoe smiled smugly.

"Almost there…almost there…"

Even with the help of the United Heroez, Lady Dragon from China, the Order of the Guardians, and two transformed cars, there were still too many Miraculized to tame.

Even Lady Dragon got paralyzed by at least a dozen of the Miraculized villains with their Venom via the Voyage portals and Sublimation flight powers.

Not to mention, neither Ladybug nor Cat Noir were seen.

"Come on, Ladybug…" Alya whispered to herself after trying to get in contact with Marinette. "Where are you…?"

Bug Noire felt a headache coming from her nightmare.

"What's the matter, little girl?" Monarch taunted her in a childish tone. "You can't control your nightmare?"

Bug Noire gritted through her teeth, her eyes sight on the Miraculous rings. "My nightmare…is you!"

She and Monarch took the fight down into the mansion's crypt after she Cataclysmed the foyer flooring…

And that's where Bug Noire made a gruesome discovery…

"Oh…"

The innocent lives Monarch's willing to sacrifice for the sake of his wish…

And…

But it made her more than ever determined to stop Monarch and free Adrien.

"HYAH! KYAH!"

"STILL TOO MANY OF THEM…!"

"EKON…ABDOU! UCHE!"

"GOT IT!"

"Ahhh!"

"Get ready for a bad breakup, Alliance…"

"UGH..!"

"Uche, you know what to do…!"

"OOF!"

"I now see there is no chance to save you, my daughter…" Tomoe reached her bokken up in the air again, frightening Kagami, thinking this was the end for her…

A white blast nearly stormed into the room; it was enough to surprise Tomoe.

It was Félix coming to Kagami's rescue, still hurtling blasts at the elder. "Mrs. Tsurugi, you are a viciously horrible mother!"

While Tomoe avoided them, Kagami regained momentum and took this chance to attack her mother again. She used her staff to strike her twice cleanly; Tomoe fell to the ground. She tried reaching for her bokken, but Kagami kicked that aside and faced her mother with tense hatred.

But she couldn't.

Her gaze eventually softened to pity, and she couldn't bear herself to do anymore to her now.

Kagami's mistake.

Tomoe sensed this and used this opportunity to chuck Kagami down again. Félix tried to help Kagami, but Tomoe rolled over, took her bokken back, and threw him hard against the wall.

"Yah!"

"Ooff!"

"Your mistake to go sentimental on me…" Just when she was ready to finish what she started with her daughter…

"Alliance systems malfunctioning…" said a robotic voice. "Perfect Alliance app malfunctioning…"

Tomoe was alerted by the screen's notifications. "What…?"

"Alliance system malfunctioning…Perfect Alliance app malfunctioning…"

"What's happening?"

Aisha and Ziddy witnessed the Miraculized stiffening…

"Could it be...?"

The same with the superheroes and Resistance…

"What the...?"

"No…" Tomoe attended to the screen and tried everything in her power to stop the Alliance systems from shutting down. "This is not possible…"

"Alliance systems shutting down…Perfect Alliance app shutting down…"

"Don't bother wasting your time," Ekon and Abdou appeared before Félix and Kagami, same with Aisha and Ziddy. "Looks like your Perfect Alliance app has turned into the Flawed Discord app," the former bragged.

Uche added, floating next to Ekon, "Along with all things relating to your superfluous Alliance systems going beyond repair."

"Alliance systems shutting down… Perfect Alliance app shutting down…"

A semi-cocky Uche replied cheekily, "Oh, and, uh…about your Alliance rings…"

The robotic voice began to say, "Alliance rings self-destruct initiated…Alliance rings self-destruct initiated…"

"Worldwide, we might add…" Ekon ended with arms crossed after giving Abdou and Uche high-fives.

"Alliance rings self-destruct initiated…Alliance rings self-destruct initiated…"

"No…no…NOOO…!"

"Alliance rings self-destruct initiated…Alliance rings self-destruct initiated…"

"Let's get out of here…" Abdou suggested before he, Uche, and Ekon teleported out.

Félix, Aisha, and Ziddy were also ready to leave, but Kagami sighed with regret and sadness.

"You really are a viciously horrible mother."

Kagami aimed her wrist at her mother, who was trying in vain to stop the Alliance systems and the Perfect Alliance app from collapsing. She pushed a button on her suit's bracelet, and an electrified bola emerged, rendering Tomoe unconscious. She then shed tears before getting out of there with everyone else.

"Is it over…?" asked Alya when the Resistance watched the Miraculized suddenly froze like statues.

Aisha and Ziddy, Ekon, Abdou, Félix, and Kagami teleported back to the boathouse, appearing around Blessa.

"Come on-come on-come on..."

The world's actions were being viewed from the laptop screens. Then they soon showed the Alliance rings exploding, turning everyone back to themselves.

Not just in Paris…

But around the world…

A smile appeared on everyone's faces as Aisha declared through everyone's communication pieces. "It's over…"

Everyone cheered, over the moon that it was all over…

Aisha, Ziddy, and Blessa group hugged. Ziddy gave Aisha a passionate kiss, making her blush.

"We did it…"

"Indeed," Aisha hugged him again. "I'm going to tell Adrien the big news."

Aisha gently pulled away and ran to the room where Adrien was resting. "Adrien…" her grin turned into a confused face. "Adrien?" She spoke into her earpiece. "Adrien! Have any of you seen Adrien?"

Bug Noire and Monarch continued their bitter-end fight. Monarch frantically tried accessing a Miraculous power via his rings, but he can't now for some reason. Bug Noire used this chance to take some of them back with her glued boomerang and yo-yo.

And now he had even more pressing matters to attend to…

"NO!" Monarch stopped Bug Noire from getting anywhere near the glass sarcophagus containing Adrien's mother after she Cataclysm the elevator. "DON'T! YOU! DARE…!"

"Give it up, Monarch!" Bug Noire got her staff again after safely putting the Miraculous rings away.

Monarch threw the remains of the elevator aside and shouted as he drew his cane again. "NEVER! Not until I have the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous will I make my wish of having my wife back. Adrien would have his mother back. Repair the Cataclysm Cat Noir inflicted on me. A world where Adrien and Kagami are the eternal icons. A PERFECT WORLD WITNESSED BY THOSE WHO MATTER…!"

Bug Noire interrupted his over-the-top rant. "Do you really think this is what Adrien wants?!"

"YES!" Monarch screamed to the highest heavens. "I KNOW THIS IS WHAT HE WOULD HAVE WANTED…"

"NO, HE WOULDN'T!" Bug Noire retorted as their weapons clashed and drew back and eluded attacks. "Had you bothered to ask or take any actual interest in him, you'd know that. But you don't care! Adrien has made peace with it because he has his whole life ahead of him while you're living in the past and refusing to accept the truth that you'll never bring your wife back…"

Monarch was more than ready to annihilate her. "KEEP MY WIFE OUT YOUR LITTLE MOUTH, YOU DISRESPECTFUL BRAT!"

"Oh, please!" Bug Noire tried to talk some sense into Monarch about his actions. "You're using Adrien and his mother as a selfish excuse to justify your horrible acts! I mean, look at what you're doing! You think being a supervillain and your willingness to sacrifice innocent lives, especially your assistant Nathalie, even though she became Mayura, Catalyst, and Safari of her own will, for your own twisted madness and dreams to get what you want!?"

"If that's what it takes…" Monarch countered back. "Are you willing to sacrifice your precious Adrien's happiness right now?"

"This coming from the man who stopped caring about HIS OWN SON'S HAPPINESS A LONG TIME AGO!" Bug Noire used her extended staff to force the Butterfly brooch off his chest, rendering him back into himself. Who knew where it went into the deep waters?

"NOOOOOOO!" Gabriel doesn't have his powers again. His hands clenched with rage and glared right back at her, and his voice reeked of venom. He may not have his powers anymore, but now…all bets were off. "How dare you…you…PESKY LITTLE BUG!"

"YOU STUBBORN OLD MAN!"

Gabriel got in her face. "WHY, I SHOULD…"

"YOU SHOULD WHAT?!" Bug Noire still wasn't scared of him.

"YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW…!"

"STOP!"

A familiar voice—and a dark figure—made Bug Noire and Monarch turn around in surprise.

"Wha…?"

"Who are you?"

They soon de-transform in the middle of the platform runway.

"No…"

"Adrien…"

A/N: I hope you liked the chapter!

Wait and see what happens next...