Episode 16: Closer

Rena Rogue and Carapace looked down at the miraculous in front of them, "He just gave it back?"

Rose nodded, "Matthias is just a scared kid in a bad situation. He's going to stay with us, I honestly just think he needs a home."

Rena looked unsure, "Alright, think he can help find Luna Moth or the others."

The blond shook her head, "He only dealt with a few of them outside of costume. Mostly a girl called Bridgette that terrified him and has the peacock miraculous, the current bee holder Kathy, and two boys named Brandon and Phillipe that hold the sheep and rooster."

Carapace looked puzzled, "They didn't have a hide out."

"They apparently changed hideouts every two weeks," Rose explained, "Well, the homeless kids did anyway."

"Well, at least you're back in the game," Carapace said, happy to have Piglet back.

The woman in question sighed and added the tiger miraculous to the pig and slid it to the two of them, "I'm not. And I'm afraid Juleka won't be helping anymore either."

The fox hero stared in shock, "What?"

"I'm afraid I agree with Cat Noir's take more than yours or Ladybug's," Rose explained, "Kim told me all about it. I think it's safer for it not to be with easy targets right now. Especially with Matthias staying with us now. As it is we get attacked every week since Juleka had the tiger miraculous. Luka still isn't fully better and I'll have two teenage boys to think about. Juleka agrees with me. I love Daizzi and Roarr, I love being a superhero. But, I think this is for the best right now."

Rena and Carapace stared unsure of how to take this .

"Now, if you'll excuse me," the former hero stood up, "I have to go meet Jules, Zach, and Matt for lunch."

….

Rena sat next to Carapace on the eiffel tower as they each stared at the miraculous they held, Rena the pig and Carapace the tiger.

"So, what should we do?" Carapace asked Rena all seriousness in his voice.

The fox hero had no real idea, "Well, I think there's two things we can do. Give it to someone else to use or hide it for safe keeping."

"So, the Ladybug option or the Cat Noir option," Carapace summarized.

"Oh, you heard Ladybug rant about that too?"
"Honey, Ladybug is very opinionated on that front."

….

Ladybug narrowed her eyes at Cat Noir as the police carted off the whining villain, Ladybug thinks her name was Vanessa or something like that, "You giving the horse miraculous to who?!"

Cat Noir looked uncomfortable at Ladybug's aggressiveness, "The miraculous guardian?"

"Since when do we have that?" the red dressed hero asked, looking annoyed.

"Um, why does it matter? We have one. He's going to look after the miraculous we recover," The black dressed hero explained.

Cat Noir and Ladybug glared at each other for a moment, they were suppose to be on there way to meet Carapace and Rena. But they had been stopped by the clearly out of her depth newest villain looking to prove herself to the villains. Too bad for her neither Cat Noir or Ladybug had wanted to deal with her and very quickly disposed of her and took the horse miraculous from her.

"That's not really your decision though," Ladybug argued angrily, "This affects all the miraculous heroes."

"Oh, we came in at the wrong time," a voice muttered.

The duo looked over to see Rena Rogue and Carapace joining them on the roof they were arguing on.

"Rena! Carapace!" Ladybug smiled at the heroes, "Tell her we should be giving the miraculous back to the heroes!"

The older heroes shared a look but Rena sighed and held out the tiger and pig miraculous to Cat Noir, "We're actually on her side. Rose even said earlier how it's too dangerous to have them."

Cat Noir smirked and took the miraculous from Rena and gave a triumph look at Ladybug but the smirk fell as a distraught look appeared on her face.

Ladybug turned and swung off the building.

"Ladybug…" Cat muttered as Rena and Carapace looked at the upset teen heroes.

….

Emma handed the 3 miraculous to Hugo as he pulled out the box he hid under his bed and stored them in their appropriate spots in the box. Xuppu and Plagg were to the side eating snacks and chatting quietly to one another.

Hugo pushed the box back under his bed and noticed a look on Emma's face, "Em, you alright?"

"Hmm?" Emma asked, "Just tired, haven't been sleeping. Insomnia is acting up."

The blonde looked at his sister not believing that, "You sure? I saw on tv you got into another fight with Ladybug."

The girl looked startled and muttered, "I don't like making pretty girls upset."

The tween gave her an eyeroll, "I don't think you like making anyone upset."

Louis entered the room with no warning and Plagg and Xuppu yelped and dived to hide, "Oh, Em there you are? Think you can help me with my english homework?"

The eldest Agreste nodded and followed Louis out of the room.

Xuppu and Plagg floated out from there hiding places and sighed.

"I swear we need to put a bell on him. He comes out of nowhere," Plagg complained.

Hugo rolled his eyes at the antics of the kwami.

….

Meanwhile, halfway across the city an upset Sophie sat in the kitchen eating a bowl of cookie dough ice cream with Tikki.

"She is so infuriating! Like what about the ones that want their miraculous back! She always has to be so difficult!" The blonde complained to her kwami.

Tikki giggled, "You're more upset about Cat Noir than you have been over breaking up with Louis last week."

Sophie sighed at that. Truth be told while upset with breaking Louis after a quick cry to herself, she found she was actually happy they broke up. And she realized the reason for that was now she didn't feel guilty or awful about thinking about Emma, and how which Louis as an obstacle she could now look at Emma and say she wants to be with her, like date her.

God, she was a bisexual disaster.

"Well, I have to deal with Cat like every day," she muttered, "And Cat Noir is so hard to get a read on."

Tikki was going to say more but the sound on the unlocking echoed into the room so she dropped her spoon and dived into Sophie's backpack.

A giggling and flirting Chloe and Kagami entered the living room.

Not wanting a repeat of another time, Sophie coughed letting them know she was there.

They jumped a little away from each other then waved at Sophie.

Sophie half heartedly waved at them with her spoon.

Chloe's eyes narrowed on the ice cream and walked over, "What number bowl is that?"

"Third."

"Oh, you're not doing good," Chloe commented, "Is there anything we can do to help?"
Sophie sat in silence for a minute before asking straight faced, "can i have a cat?"

Author's Note

Omg, guys I'm so excited for the upcoming chapters/episodes. Especially for episodes 18 and 20.

Anyway, Chloe and Kagami still going strong and Louis and Emma are finally getting along.

So, please review and thanks for reading.

Next chapter: Sophie and Emma go to adopt a cat (The next chapter is titled Kiss the Girl)