A/N: Hello again, everyone!
Here's the third chap!
"Emilie, my love. I don't have much time left. This is my last chance to get Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous. If I have to take the whole world with me just to have you back to us, then I will do that."
Aisha stared around the beautiful city of London during her immediate arrival. "Here I am, London."
"Lady Graham de Vanily?" Aisha stood before a beautiful woman with platinum blonde hair and green eyes in a dark gray pantsuit and heels.
"Yes, may I help you?"
Aisha curtsied to the aristocrat. "May I please come in, ma'am? I need to talk to your son, Félix. I know him."
Amelie allowed the young princess to enter the apartment duplex on a high floor of a green London skyscraper.
The living room was luxuriously spacious, with white walls and stunning flooring with two red strokes. There was a large white piano with a crystal chandelier hung over it, white corner armchairs, and a bay window accessing a balcony with green railing.
"Félix, darling! You have a visitor!" His mother cried for him, and out came a young man who looked borderline identical to Adrien, except Félix's hair was parted to the side, and his attire was more formal.
"Aisha..."
"I'll leave you two alone." Amelie kissed her son on his cheek and sashayed out of the room, leaving the two standing across from each other.
It'll be the first time since the two saw each other—Félix masqueraded as Adrien—at the Diamonds' Dance at the Grand Palais, a formal ball organized and hosted by Gabriel Agreste for all his wealthy associates and their children known as 'diamonds,' their parents' precious stones for being the heirs and heiresses to their businesses and fortunes. She was there with her uncle, aunt, and cousins, even though a majority of the attendees were Chloé-and-Prince-Adofo-level snobs.
Long story short: he appeared as Argos and tried snapping everyone with his Red Moon but spared Marinette, Adrien, Kagami, and even Aisha when he heard her backstory on how she mainly left her country when she wouldn't consent to a future arranged marriage and not to let anything control her anymore—just like Adrien and Marinette shouldn't let anyone get in the way of their love story, not even Mr. Agreste and for her effects for trying to stop Chloé from humiliating Marinette when she snuck in disguised herself as Chloé's maternal half-sister, Zoé Lee.
Aisha was ready to beat him up when he wouldn't bring everyone back because it was his version of being free. Still, it wasn't until he couldn't get Marinette back that he brought everyone back, despite claiming he kept her safe in a dumpster. When she, Adrien, and Kagami comforted Marinette when she returned, Aisha looked at Argos with slight sympathy for him when he watched them hugging her before he fled in shame of his actions.
And knew more about…
She had to put that aside for now.
"I need your help." Aisha bluntly stated.
"With what?"
She pulled out her cell phone and showed him. Félix gasped in horror to see Adrien and Kagami under lockdown via solitary confinement rooms. "And yes: this is real."
"This can't be…" Félix had just dropped her off back at her hotel balcony not so long ago. How did…? What…? "Where'd you get this?"
Aisha sighed. "I can't tell you that right now, but we are going to free Adrien and Kagami first. And then we will go back to Paris to help however we can. I have a feeling Gabriel Agreste and Tomoe Tsurugi are going all out."
Félix's eyes widened. "You know about…?"
"The time has come, Gabriel-san, to start staging our final plan…"
"The world will be at our mercy, Tsurugi-san, with Operation: Perfect Alliance…"
Aisha recalled one time she overheard Mr. Agreste and Tsurugi-san talking about their plans not too long again—it was a good thing they didn't even know she heard them and fled away before either one of them or anyone could see her.
"There was always something that turned me off about them; I can always sense that about people," said Aisha with her hands on her hips. "And think about it: they are really pushing for Adrien and Kagami to be together again, and with this..." Aisha showed him the live stream again and then footage of them together in all these Gabriel ads and commercials lately. "And I know about you two."
Kagami tells Aisha about falling in love with Adrien's cousin, Félix, even though her mother and Gabriel Agreste want her to be with Adrien again.
Kagami wondered, "Is it wrong to love him, even after he…has done so much?"
"You don't choose who you love. And you shouldn't let anyone tell you who you can or can't love..."
She knew her mother or Mr. Agreste would never approve of their romantic relationship.
…And the fact that she saw the two from afar—Félix was Argos, once while everyone was celebrating on the Eiffel Tower.
She put two and two together when Marinette ran off.
"Plus, these Alliance rings..." she scooped out an Alliance ring from her jeans pocket. "I never wore this, but… I've always had a bad feeling about them. Plus, they are linked to how he akumatizated so many people into becoming villains for him lately. Despite what you did in Paris, I know you care about those two, so I need your help to free them."
Félix looked away in shame. "This is all my fault. I had my own reasons for what I did. All I wanted was to protect my cousin from my uncle. And me...for personal reasons. So I gave my uncle all the Miraculous Ladybug kept safe."
"For someone who hates opposers and controlling people, you made a devil's deal and gave the Miraculous to the biggest opposer of them all." Aisha pressed her fingers between her nose bridge.
"Still, I went back on Adrien a bit, and I am partially responsible for why the world is like this now."
Aisha sighed. "You want to at least try and make up for it? Help me free them, and then let's get back to Paris. This is the calm before the storm."
Félix wondered. "But how are we going to do that?"
"Come with me."
Aisha and Félix arrived at a luxurious white stone home in one of London's most expensive neighborhoods.
"But… we're at the London house of the Worth family, the Duke and Duchess of…"
"Yes, a cousin from my father's side is married to the current Duke," Aisha politely interrupted him and knocked on the door three times before an elderly-looking gentleman appeared.
"May I help you?"
"I'm Aisha."
The majordomo smiled. "Yes, we've been expecting you," he allowed Aisha and Félix to come in. The interior looked as exquisite as the home's exterior.
"Aisha!" a distinguished-looking gentleman approached and hugged her. "How are you?"
"I'm good, thank you," Aisha smiled. "I'd love to stay here and chat with you and Sarah some more, but I'm in a bit of a hurry and…"
The nobleman waved his hands down. "I understand. Your guests are downstairs in one of the rooms on the ground lower floor. Make a left and a right; you'll come across a door leading you down.
Aisha and Félix bowed.
Aisha and Félix descended the staircase. "So, why are we here again?"
"I called in some reinforcements from back home," Aisha answered before coming across a white door.
She opened the door, and her eyes dilated.
"Sha…"
"Ziddy…"
Along with her best friend and lover, Ziddy—whom she saw in disguise during her press conference in Paris. Also, her bodyguard, Blessa, her younger brothers Ekon and Jabari, and their bodyguards, Abdou and Kasmin.
"Ziddy!" Aisha couldn't help but leap into his arms, and he responded with a kiss before pulling back, and she then hugged her brothers and bodyguards. "I'm so happy to see you all. This is Félix Fathom."
Félix waved awkwardly; he felt a bit intimidated—scared—by them, especially Blessa.
"As much as we love to catch up, you said you needed our help, so here we are." Ekon pointed to the silver briefcase his bodyguard, Abdou, held up before he set it down on the small table and opened it. "And you're in luck; they've just been updated and improved. There's still more work that needs to be done with them, but they should be fine."
Inside it were these dark silver bracelets with glowing blue-purple rock detailing.
"What are these?" Félix wondered.
"This, Félix," Aisha showed him the bracelet on her wrist after she pulled up her jean jacket sleeve. "Is the answer to help break Adrien and Kagami out of London and how we can help my friends in Paris."
"The activation codes have been changed, so to activate, say 'Nikenobia, Engaged. To deform, Nikenobia, Shut Down. Watch." Aisha pressed a button. "Nikenobia, Engaged."
When she said that, she was now wearing a full skin-tight woven bodysuit with metal detailing, including a removable mask, which Aisha activated with a button. Aisha also announced that in some instances, the bodysuit can be altered to befit the user's occupation or, in this case, style.
"Wow, what is it?" an amazed Félix asked, feeling the outfit.
Aisha gently slapped Félix's hand away as Ekon explained. "This is our ultimate power suit, crafted and made from our finest nano-and-technology and materials. And until today, they've only been used in Nikenobia for our country's armed forces, military units, police."
"An exception has been made for this battle," Aisha added.
"Soundproof, waterproof, bulletproof, invulnerability, etcetera, etcetera. Along with the enhanced physical skills like superhuman speed, agility, strength, it comes with a limitless number of other abilities, weapons, and powers you can think of, even with the user's voice command. There's stealth, invisibility, cloaking, intangibility, impenetrability, teleportation, flight, all types of communication, withhold, manipulate, absorb anything. And when I say anything, I mean…Anything."
After deactivating the suit, Aisha pulled out her Magical Charm and slipped it on her neck. According to Ladybug and Cat Noir, the magical charm can become a giant shield and magically purify akumas based on positive feelings and motivations. But it still doesn't hurt to have an extra layer of security.
Félix exclaimed. "Impossible…but what about the power of the Miraculous…?"
"Let's just say even Nikenobia has had its fair share of Miraculous holders." Blessa blinked.
"And Nikenobia's technology is very advanced, to say the least, young man," Abdou replied with his arms folded.
Kasmin added with a smirk. "We are not some stereotypical underdeveloped African country, you know."
Jabari responded while holding an Alliance ring before he dropped it and smashed it with his foot. "We actually make any technology of right now, including these…Alliance rings from Tsurugi Industries look basic," Jabari scoffed when he said, 'Alliance rings' and 'Tsurugi Industries.' "But we don't stop our citizens from having them if they want to."
"How do you think we got here so quickly, especially Aisha, and discovered where Adrien and Kagami were?"
Flashbacking to Aisha running away from home, she grabbed one and packed it in her suitcase.
On the rooftop of her Uncle Chi's Paris estate—she was graceful they were out of harm's way and out of the country for a couple of weeks. She used the suit to power up and flew to London. At the same time, she gave them information on the two, Gabriel Agreste and Tomoe Tsurugi, as they gave her details back.
"Before we get started," Aisha turned her attention to her brothers, bodyguards, and Ziddy. "I know this is risky, using this kind of technology for this battle. But they are my friends. The world is potentially at stake here, and I want to help in whatever way I can, so…if any of you have any doubts… it's okay; I'll understand."
It was dead silence for the brothers, bodyguards, and Ziddy before the latter answered, "You know I'm in."
Ekon and Jabari replied at the same time. "Anything to save your good friends."
"And for the good of the world." Blessa, Abdou, and Kasmin nodded their heads.
Even Félix, who was ready to free Adrien and Kagami from their controlling parents and really make up for betraying Ladybug and Cat Noir.
With a look and mindset of determination, Aisha declared, "Let's get to work."
A/N: Things are really gonna heat up next chapter...
Wait and see...