Chloé sat on the edge of the bed as she looked down at her goddaughter Emma. The girl was bundled up in her blankets staring at the wall not really saying anything.

She had only seen that look on the girl's face once before. 10 years ago. When she had held the girl in her arms as she waited for Pegasus to get back with the police.

The two, her and Pegasus never really talked about it. They never talk about when Pegasus had gotten the call from Adrien to hurry and help them, how apparently Adrien knew who Pegasus was and knew to call him. Pegasus had grabbed the only other hero he knew, Chloé, and tried to help. It was too late by the time they arrived.

Two hours of searching lead them nowhere. Which seemed impossible to the heroes but they eventually gave up. All they ended up finding of the Agreste family that day was a stunned girl that wouldn't leave Queen Bee's arms. They wouldn't find the remains of the other 3 till four days later.

Chloé shook herself from her thoughts and looked at the sad girl, "Emma, I don't really know what's wrong and you don't have to tell me but everyone's worried." She leaned over and took the girl 's right hand and froze. Chloé stared at the light scars on her right hand, they were faded sure but they were odd as well. They seemed to look like they had come from the ring she was wearing.

That was very strange, Chloé thought as she held her hand and studied the right before something clicked, "This was Adrien's ring…"

To her surprise Chloé did get a reaction. But it was just Emma taking her hand and curling into her blanket. Leaving the blonde woman confused, thinking over how she couldn't do anything for the daughter of her childhood friend.

…..

As soon as Ladybug arrived she realized she was too late. A young man, using the stolen rooster Miraculous, was leaning over the injured, probably knocked out, horse hero, Carapace and Rena Rogue were engaged in a stall mate more or less as they fought Wukong and Boarusk.

"Back away from Pegasus!" Ladybug ordered as the Rooster villain leaned down to grab the glasses.

When the man didn't pause and ripped them off the Pegasus and revealed the hero to be Dr. Max Kanté, a former classmate of her mother's and a scientist from the local university. Ladybug reared back her hand to attack the man with her yo-yo when a top intercepted her hand and wrapped it up.

Ladybug looked at her attacker and sneered, "Buzzkill."

The bee villain winked at her as she called to the Rooster villain, "Book it, Mourning!"

Mourning nodded to his ally and ran off.

The bug hero and villain launched into flips and twirls as they danced around each other flipping their yo-yo and top at each other .

"Sloppy today!" Buzzkill taunted as she elbow the girl in the jaw, "Must be lost with your kitty!"

The spotted hero glared at the girl. She didn't want to let her know she was a little right. Ladybug always expected Cat Noir to show up and save her, alleviate some of the trouble and weight of being a hero. But Cat Noir hadn't shown but since Road Rage and she was so worried and hurt. She needed Cat! Just like she needed Emma…

The thought and angry made Ladybug rear back and punch the unsuspecting Buzzkill in the throat, as Zacharie told her one time, no expects a punch to the throat. Just like Ladybug hadn't expected as she did that for yellow sparks of lightning to start coming off the girl.

"What the…?"

Suddenly Wukong and Boarusk jumped away from fighting the senior heroes to check on their teammate.

Carapace and Rena took a stance next to Ladybug ready to strike.

"Stay!"

The heroes froze as Rowdy appeared and ran up to help Buzzkill, "Are you okay?!"

Buzzkill groaned as the lightning got worse.

Wukong picked up but and the 4 villians ran off as the 'stay' order wore off the heroes.

"Shit," Carapace muttered as he walked over to check on Max.

Rena threw down her flute frustrated, "Damn it. We lost another one."

Ladybug stared and thought over the scene again, "I think Buzzkill can't use the Miraculous."

"Huh?" Rena asked the teenager.

"The sparks coming off of Buzzkill? I think that was the transformation breaking down," Ladybug explained, " If that's the case Buzzkill has bad chi to be using the miraculous. And if that's true for Buzzkill, that may be true for some of the others too."

…..

The phone by the bed keep buzzing and buzzing. Ringing and ringing.

People keep coming into the room too and leaving it.

But Emma just couldn't bring herself to care.

….

Sophie sadly looked at her phone as she ate more ice cream in her bed.

Tikki was sitting on the pillow next to her bed snacking on some of the ice cream as well, "what's wrong Sophie?"

"Nina and Zach aren't answering me," The blonde explained, "Which makes me think that they are avoiding me. Which means…"

"You think they told Emma?" Tikki asked concerned.

Sophie sighed and looked disinterestedly at the screen playing an episode of Once Upon a Time from season seven, honestly as the show went on Sophie wished the show had ended earlier, "I think something may have slipped from them to Emma. Hell, maybe Louis said something. But I can't ask him either since he is away at that fencing tournament and he is always leaving his phone."

Tikki nodded, "But, even if you decided to stay with Louis and all that, what's going on with Emma isn't your fault. You have a right to your life, Sophie."

The sixteen year old sighed, "I know but...my friend is hurting…"

Sophie focused back in on the tv and blinked as Alice ran up to the just introduced Robin woman and kissed her, "Oh. That's why Emma likes them..."

Tikki had spaced out at that though as she noticed a Plagg waving at her outside the window.

Author's Note

Sorry this took a while. I'm not only an essential worker in these trying times but I'm also moving into a new apartment.

Side note, you may notice I went back and changed Plagg's prologue to saying Episode 0, that's cause I decided it's going to be a part of a 4 part prologue type piece. Originally it was just to be a two parter with a Tikki prologue but I changed my mind a bit. The other 3 parts will slip in here in due time. That does change the number of chapters from 98 to 100 though. If I finish it will be my longest fanfic ever.

Anyway, please review and thanks for reading!

Next chapter: Plagg and Tikki have had enough and step up.