To Feel and Love: a Miraculous story,

Episode Four: Hawkmoth Revealed!

Heads up guys I changed the Name of Barkk to Poppet, because the name Barkk sucks, also I changed her power and weapon,

As for the new name the reason why is at the bottom,

Let's get squeaky

We open to find A group of people surrounding a large statue that was covered with a tarp, The Mayor of Paris Andre Bourgeoise stood at a podium looking nervous and checking his watch, "Where are they?" He asked,

Both Mutlimouse and Cat Noir stared down at the scene from a nearby roof, Cat Noir just smiled down at the gathered people, "See all those people?" he asked his partner, "All of them are excited to see us,"

"How is this different from any other day Cat Noir?" Multimouse asked blankly looking off the roof,

"Cause today, is our day Milady," Cat Noir stated, he gestured down to all the people gathered, "We get a statue in our honour for all our years of service for Paris," he said, "We'll jump down there, strike a few poses, offer a speech of gratitude, shed a few tears, meet some of our many fans, sign some pictures, and most importantly remind everyone that there's nothing to fear, while we're watching over the city,"

"You'll meet your fans you mean?" Multimouse asked, "I doubt any people really like me that much,"

"My favourite Mousey," Cat Noir gasped playfully, then he wagged a finger at her, "Someone hasn't been watching the fansite," he said, "Last I checked in our popularity polls you were ranked higher then me by 15%,"

"Fansite?" Multimouse turned to Cat Noir "When did we get a fansite?"

"Six years ago," Cat Noir stated, "Did you really not know?" She shook her head at him and he sighed, "Well we have loads of them," he stated, "The most popular of which is The Black Mouse Blog," he said, "It's run by... ah," he pointed to the crowd, there was a girl around their age in the back, "See that girl with the flannel shirt and the red hair?"

Multimouse squinted, "I think so,"

"Her name is Alya, she's the creator of the blog," he said, "She got popular after our fight with Stormy Weather, she found, and shot some of the best footage of the fight and edited it all together into one video," he smiled, "She also somehow was able to record the best footage of your speech to me,"

"My... speech?" She asked,

Cat Noir grinned, "If we run now," he said dramatically, "These people will never trust us again, yesterday we said we're heroes Cat Noir, and heroes never run, so we'll never run,"

"I... don't remember saying any of that," Multimouse said,

"It was six years ago," He said, "after all we've been through together it makes sense you'd forget it," Cat Noir smiled, "She's actually wanted to get in touch with us so she can reshoot that speech with much clearer audio,"

"So she'll likely ask about that?" Multimouse asked,

"And A hundred other questions, like are you dating Cat Noir? what's your favourite restaurant? and can I have your phone number?"

"No, Dupen-Chang Bakery, and no," Multimouse stated,

"Dupen-Chang Bakery?" Cat Noir asked, he rubbed his chin, "Well I have to admit the food there is pretty good, but would you really call it your favourite?"

'It is where I live,' Multimouse thought, "Clearly you've never had food there after it was pulled out of the oven," she gave a chef's kiss, "I'd live there if I could, just eating bread and pastries,"

"Fair enough," Cat Noir said,

"Why are we on the roof anyway?" Multimouse asked, "Shouldn't we be down there?"

"Just figured since it's our first real interaction with the public while not fighting a villain we should take a minute to just relax before diving into it," Cat Noir stated,

Then he smirked at her, "But... I'm ready, if you are?"

"Please kitty," she shook her head, "It's just an unveiling, I'll be fine,"

Cat Noir took a breath, and sprinted towards the edge of the building while Multimouse just let herself fall off it as usual, the two dropped in front of the statue, "Sorry we're late," Multimouse said, "We we're just finishing our lunch when we remembered about the event,"

Cat Noir nodded, "It was a mad dash across town after that, I'm surprised we're not more winded,"

The Mayor walked over to them, and held out two hands for them both to shake, "Multimouse, Cat Noir," he spoke with a high admiration of the two of them, "I am Andre Bourgeoise," he said, "And thank you both for coming to this humble event,"

"The Honour is all ours," Cat Noir said taking his hand,

Multimouse just nodded as she followed Cat Noir's example,

After Andre stepped away from them to start his speech Cat Noir leaned over to her, "You might wanna smile a little, Paparazzi tend to use lack of smiles to demonise people," he whispered,

"Me or him?" she asked quietly,

"Probably both," Cat answered,

Multimouse brought her lips up slightly, it was a small smile, but Cat Noir nodded approvingly, "Very cute," he said with a wink,

After the Mayor finished his speech the gathered fans cheered as the two heroes waved,

Multimouse's mouse ear buns twitched as the cheers grew deafening,

After the cheers died down Andre drew everyone's attention to the statue, which he unveiled,

The statue showed a smirking Cat Noir with his staff over his shoulders in the middle of three Multimouses one was crouched down and stared ahead, the second looked, the last was offering a hand to someone below her,

"Would our heroes like to say a few words?" Andre asked offering the stand to the two Heroes,

Cat walked toward the podium and gestured for Multimouse to follow him, which she did,

"Excuse my partner everyone," he said, "This is her first time doing this sort of thing," he said, "Our complements to the creator of the statue,"

Multimouse nodded, "It's... an honour to have ourselves immortalised in statue form," she said still keeping her small smile,

"I for one like being surrounded by cute ladies," Cat Noir said with a grin, "It has my approval,"

"Really that's where your brain goes to?" She asked,

"Just being honest," Cat said with a shrug,

Multimouse took a look at the statue, she looked at the her that was crouching and stared ahead, "I'd say it captures who we really are deep down," Multimouse lied,

"I agree," Cat Noir nodded, "The three Multimouse's, one prowling for wrongdoers, one standing resolute, and the third offering a hand to those who need it, surrounding me who as always, is ready for battle," he said,

"Unfortunately we'll have to leave shortly as without us Akuma may run amok," Multimouse stated,

"Thems the breaks," Cat Noir said shrugging,

"We'll answer questions until we get out of the park," Multimouse stated,

A man walked over to them, "Multimouse" he smiled holding a picture close to him, "I'm the sculptor," he said holding a hand out to her,

She shook it, "Charmed," she stated, "Thanks for the statue," she said,

"W-would you sign this?" he asked holding the picture to her,

She nodded and signed as Cat noir searched the crowd for the blog maker,

"You," Cat Noir said pointing at Alya, Her face lit up, but she pointed to herself questioningly, "Yes, the red head with the flannel shirt,"

Her eyes went wide and she ran over to them, she fumbled with her phone and said, "I uh, have a few questions for you two," she said pulling a flip book out of her pocket, "Where's the... oh!" she cleared her throat before pointing her phones camera at them, "Cat Noir, and Multimouse, what do you two think about the other heroes of the world?"

"Like Majestica?" Cat Noir asked,

"Well specifically... all of the big ones," she said, "The American heroes like Majestica, Uncanny Valley, and the Immortals Talon and Sparrow, or the England hero Muse, the international duo, The Great Stache and Jelifica, and that new mysterious cloaked hero who's been popping up around the world?" she said,

Cat noir looked at Multimouse, who just pulled his arm a little, 'Guess the question is for me then?' he thought, "Well, we're of course happy that the worlds problems aren't entirely on our shoulders, but you mean deeper then that right?" he put his hand to his chin, "Well I'm not really a fan Of Talon cause he's kinda too dark to actually be believed he's even real," he said, "Like would anyone here really want to be saved by some gruff Owl dude?"

"Sometimes you don't always have to check people for injures Cat Noir," Multimouse stated,

Internally Cat Noir was happy she'd taken the opposite position on the discussion, "Yeah I know, but I grew up reading comics, and I prefer heroes who save people with a smile,"

"I didn't but if people are in danger what does it matter who helps, so long as they actually can?" Multimouse stated,

"Difference of opinion then?" Alya asked, "Well how about The Muse?"

"The U.K. hero? well first of all his weapon is pretty cool, a glowing mic staff that floats, and his scientific mind is a great asset to crime fighting, but he's a little... eccentric,"

Multimouse raised an eye at him, "Eccentric?" she asked, "How's that?"

"Well," Cat Noir smiled "It's sorta hard to explain, best way I can say it is he often shows up to crimes singing, sometimes he even has the criminals form conga lines on their way to be arrested,"

"They... actually do it willingly?" she asked,

Alya wrote all that down quickly, "And Jellifiaca?"

"She's tiny but incredibly powerfu-," he stopped as tiny black butterfly that radiated with darkness floated by the crowd, "BACK!" he cried as everyone quickly heeded his orders looking around as they did while the Akuma flew closer,

"Wh-what's the problem Cat Noir?" Andre asked looking around,

"That" Multimouse said as she pointed at the butterfly, with everyone turning to face it, and Alya filmed it, "That's how people get transformed into supervillains," as she and Cat noir backed away from it the crowd followed along,

"Anyone here got any secret dark feelings of anger or sadness?" Cat noire asked, "Or A secret crush on a fellow superhero?"

"Yeah, I just think Muse is soo cute" Multimouse droned,

"But you've never even-" Cat Noir's eyes went wide, "oh, you're teasing me"

"I'm sorry," the sculptor spoke, "but are you two... flirting?"

"I saw it more as banter," Multimouse said,

"Speaking of which" Alya moved closer to Multimouse "are rumours of you and Cat Noir dating true?"

"There are rumours we're dating?" She asked,

"We are always seen together," Cat said with a smirk and a shrug, "And I do know you better then anyone,"

"You do?!" Alya asked moving to Cat Noir, "What's her favourite food? colour? park? number? film? actor? childhood crush? celebrity crush? book?"

"Is that all? I can answer all that easy her favourite..." as Cat Noir thought about the answers to each question he remembered a key part of the Stoic Multimouse, she... never talked about herself,

In all the years they'd been fighting to protect Paris she'd barely even started a conversation with him, mostly he talked and she'd respond to what he said,

He'd asked her about herself constantly, but she almost seemed to avoid the questions, the only thing he knew about her was her favourite restaurant, and she'd only just told him about that,

Multimouse narrowed her eyes at Alya and Cat Noir, 'He'll figure out we've never spoken much in years, and bringing him closer to figuring out that I can't feel, I can't let that happen,' She pulled her tail off and started whipping it around, before tossing it into the air and then it wrapped around her becoming a pink cocoon, at first there were only two more of her that stepped out of her boots, but then the original started shrinking rapidly until she was two feet tall and ten more of her were around,

Quickly the 10 small Multimouses formed a circle around the crowd, each drawing their belts off and spinning them around trying to blow the akuma away from the crowd, but it kept on it's path then it stopped,

The heroes glared at it, Alya dropped her notebook and held her phone with both her hands, then suddenly a large shadow appeared over the park,

"Oh no" Cat noir gasped as he stared upwards as a swarm of hundreds of butterflies flew down into the park, all converging on the lone butterfly,

Slowly they started to form a person, a figure in what looked like robes holding a cane in front of him, He glared up at them, "Greetings heroes" he said, "And assorted civilians," he gestured to the crowd, "I am Hawkmoth," he stated,

"So you're the one making all the villains?" Cat Noir asked drawing his staff, "How's about you come here so we can thrash you,"

"Please... I'm not here to fight... this time," the villain stated, "I just wanted to congratulate you two on your numerous victories over me," he said looking upwards, "Marvellous statue, my complements to the sculptor,"

"Why are you here?" Multimouse demanded,

"Why because I'm here to apologise of course," he stated, "Over the years we've battled through my akumatised victims and yet not once have we met face to face,"

"So why not step into the light Hawkmoth? come out here in person and get your whooping over with." Cat Noir spat, his fingers tensing on his staff,

"Calm down Cat Noir," Hawkmoth spoke smugly, "You'll need your energy for my next move," Hawkmoth spread his arms out wide, "Until now I've been slowly learning about you two using recordings of your fights with my akumas, but I feel as though it's become rather droll for the citizens of Paris, running from my villain of the day must be exhausting," he chuckled, "But that is a thing of the past,"

Hawkmoth held out a hand to Cat Noir, "Cat Noir, hand over your miraculous to me right now and I shall spare Paris my next villain attack," he threatened,

"Tempting, if I thought for a second you'd actually keep your end of the deal," Cat Noir spat,

"And I'm certain you share his opinion Multimouse?" Hawkmoth asked,

"You'd be correct,"

"Splendid," Hawkmoth said retracting his hand, "This next year I shall make use of the numerous akuma you've been unable to stop, soon you two shall face two new threats you've never seen before, at once, and mark my words by the end of the month, both of the powers I seek will finally be within my grasp," then he turned to Alya who was still recording, "And this is too those other heroes, you've not interfered yet, and unless you want every single last Akumatised villain I've ever made before loose on the streets of Paris you'll keep away," he threatened, "Just imagine the damage that could be done before any of you even have time to land,"

"I'll return here tomorrow in case you two change your minds and want to surrender," His threats delivered Hawkmoth's akumas scattered to the winds,

The-Elsewhere-Muse

A man sat inside a lab having found the livestream due to his computer constantly searching for certain words due to his investigation into the ''Temporary Empowerment'' epidemic that seemed to occur only in Paris,

The man had long shoulder length white dyed hair with magenta streaks in his bangs that framed his face, looked rather worn down as if he hadn't slept well in days, and his superhero costume was covered by a white lab coat, his costume was black with a large white M that covered most of his torso that had magenta borders around it, he had long white boots and gloves, and his domino mask was black, the sunglasses reminiscent of a pair a long deceased musician used to wear only with the Union Jack flag in the lenses were propped on his head,

Behind him a robotic maid placed her hand on his shoulder, "Should I pack you some snacks for a trip Sir?"

"As much as I want to say yes, I can't deny that even The Muse's tech wouldn't help much if Hawkmoth made good on his threats, I wouldn't be able to keep everyone safe and may just end up provoking a superpowered hornets nest," the man said rubbing his eyes, "If I act I'd be responsible for the devastation of Paris and most likely all of France,"

"Perhaps I should go then?" she asked as her arm separated making way for a chainsaw blade to pop out, "I have not acted as a Hero, and I am combat ready,"

"These are innocent people who's emotions are being toyed with, also that chainsaw is to help you threaten people, you know how I feel about killing Cassandra," He sighed leaning on his hand, "Nothing worse then wanting to help and not being able too," he yawned,

"Perhaps The Muse can't help directly, but you could assist from afar," Cassandra said,

The man behind the superhero Muse nodded his head tiredly, "Maybe you're right," Hawkmoth said he'd start judgement day if Muse was seen, nobody said he couldn't try supplying the troops, I'll offer an apology for my late actions, and I'll have to get the news out to the others so nobody starts world war three superpower edition, get the pods while I type this up,"

Quickly he started typing onto his computer quickly trying to edit the live stream to the important parts, he also added the symbol on his suit into one of the corners and then had it so for a few minutes it would play on every screen in the world,

Then Cassandra dragged over a large oval metal pod over to the centre of the room, "Pod is ready,"

"Computer find out the owner of the livestream, subscribe to her livestream account, any other websites she's on, and give me an update every time she posts anything," he said walking over to a work bench,

"Acknowledged," The computer said, "Subject has already started another livestream,"

"On the big screen please," he said,

Suddenly the big screen changed to a young ladies face, "Hey guys it's me again, I just started a livestream because I thought I was gonna see some Multimouse and Cat Noir action only to catch the biggest scoop ever, before anyone else," she smiled proudly, "But I'll recap later, right now check this out," she turned the camera to a large screen which showed the looped footage Muse had made, "That logo in the other corner belongs to the U.K. hero The Muse, meaning he caught my livestre-," she stopped before she squealed again, "Oh my god he's subscribed to me!" quickly she aimed the phone away from herself as she calmed herself down, "And he's watching now," she cleared her throat, "Muse if you're watching I know you've been warned not to come and all but I'd love an interview, we could do it over messages, or facetime- oh! also Cat Noir and Multimouse have swung off to find some mysterious backup, the situation seems grim, but Cat Noir said there was nothing to worry about in the slightest, they'd beaten the now revealed Hawkmoth tons of times," though their was a twinge of panic on her face, "But... can't say I'm not worried, some of the villains Frances own heroes have beaten were extremely powerful, like Stormy Weather and Reflecta, I'm not sure if they were all here at once if we'd even stand a chance, Black Mouse Blogs, out."

He frowned, "I sense you're troubled," Cassandra stated,

The man frowned, "What good is a man in tights if he can't swoop in and save the day?"

"I think you overestimate the power of tights sir," Cassandra stated dryly,

He turned back to his work mumbling "You only think that cause you've never wore tights," he said as he went back to designing several gadgets that as they were completed Cassandra would take and add into the oval pod, After a while the first was done, "Computer scan and make a holo-blueprint for the bots to follow, then fire them them to large area's people could be effected in, hospitals, residents, schools, shopping centres, sports arenas, anywhere like that,"

"There will need to be hundreds of pods for that sir," Cassandra stated,

"Pull in all the funds we have available to make more pods, looks like I'll only be able to make fifteen," he turned, "Cassandra get all my cd's and merge them into one and meet me in the recording booth,"

Both machines acknowledged his orders and stood for a few seconds before completing them, "Done" they intoned at the same time,

Suddenly something ''Wooshed'' behind him, there stood a short blond haired woman in a blue and red suit stood behind him, "Muse what's the situation in France?" she asked, trying as hard as she could to keep the panic out of her voice,

Quickly he explained the situation to her and she frowned but looked on his computer screen, "Is there anything we can do?" she asked,

"Plenty, we just can't appear ourselves," he said, "I myself am working on a way to keep people safe from any future ''Akuma'' attacks,"

"Akuma?" she asked,

"That's what Hawkmoth called them," He explained,

Majestica floated over to the computer, "Computer locate all heroes,"

"Welcome Miss Majestica... All heroes have been located," it said as several dots appeared an a large globe nearby the computer, "Bluejay and Gull are still Inactive, The Real Ochre Octopus has not yet been brought back from whatever was done to him, this concludes the list of heroes who are no longer active, The Great Stache is in China dealing with a large stone lion," A holograph came from out of the globe showing a muscular man in a torn Gi and a luchador mask holding back the creature while people cheered him on, he shoved it back before he started posing, then image stopped and the globe spun, "Jellifica has encountered... Designation: That bastard who stole my Ochre Octopus suit, in Spain," the holograph changed to show a three foot woman who looked like she was made of pink jelly holding a sword three times her size duelling with a shadowy figure in high tech armour both were incredibly agile and stretchy,

"Prick," Muse muttered under his breath glaring at the guy in the suit,

"Language," Majestica chastised crossing her arms,

"I forget you can hear me from all the way over here," Muse said sheepishly,

The Image cut out again and the globe shifted to France, "The Duo of Cat and Mouse are in France talking to... error unknown," The holographic image showed the two heroes on a rooftop talking to a man in green armour,

"Who's that?" Majestica asked,

"I have no idea," Muse stated,

Cat-With our heroes-Mouse

Multimouse and Cat Noir stood across from their mentor who frowned, "So the situation grows dire," he said with a nod,

"Yeah, like it was always going too," Cat Noir stated, "We need the ladybug,"

"No, this is a trick designed to make us believe that and bring out the Ladybug Miraculous," The Jade turtle stated, "We can't allow him to get it and the Cat Miraculous at any cost,"

"Wait he wants those two? alone?" Multimouse asked, "Wh-,"

"None of your business!" The old defender snapped,

"Hey she just asked a question!" Cat Noir said as he stepped in front of her, "You don't have to rip her head off,"

"It's fine Cat Noir," Multimouse stated, "But if we don't have the Ladybug how are we supposed to fight this?"

"He said he'd have what he wants by the end of the month," Cat Noir stated crossing his arms, "If that isn't code for 'I'm gonna slowly turn people into monsters and have them out number you 500-1' then I don't know what is,"

"And we can't rely on the other heroes that I didn't know existed until today because Hawkmoth told them to stay out else he'd decimate Paris," Multimouse said,

"If there's a time for you to start to actually act like a mentor it's right now," Cat said,

The Jade Turtle frowned, "I... suppose you're right Cat Noir," he said pulling two boxes out of his pockets, "For Cat Noir The snake, For Multimouse the dog," he said handing them the two boxes he'd picked out for them, "Don't put them on until your have both villains in your sight, the wear they'll put on your bodies will be hard to fight through for long,"

"So what I become Snake Noir? and she becomes... the Greyhound? great plan,"

The jade turtle frowned, "Wayzz Shell off" he said turning back into Master Fu in front of them, then he took Cat Noir's box from him and put the bracelet on his other arm, "Wayzz, Sass, Unify!" he declared,

He spun around and was in what at first looked like his usual armour, only... rather then green it was turquoise, and his underclothes had become long sleeved and were decorated with scale patterns, his bracers now had what looked to be snake heads on the side of his fists, "This is the power of Unification, when used a Miraculous holder becomes twice of everything they were before, gaining the weapons and skills of both Miraculous they hold, however holding too many for too long can weaken yourselves," he stated, "Divide!" and he returned to normal, and removed the snake bracelet and placed it back in it's box before he handed that to Cat Noir,

Then he let out a loud yawn, "I am getting lazy," he stated, "It used to be I could handle unifying for an entire day," he looked to his students, "Multimouse, Adrian," he said pointing at them both, "Do not try Unifying three of the miraculous yet, you are not ready for that, nor should you try practicing with you unified forms less you tire yourselves out too much to defend from the actual threats,"

"To Cat Noir I have given Sass a very powerful Kwami, he has the power to reverse time itself for up to five minutes, the weapon he gives are the Serpent Gauntlets, they will bite whomever you strike,"

Then he turned to Multimouse, "And to you Poppet is the Kwami I've entrusted to you, Her power Track will serve you well, her weapon the Jitte may take some getting used to,"

"I'm sorry... what?" Cat Noir asked walking over to Master Fu, "Why are you doing this to her?" he asked,

"Doing what?" Fu asked,

"You give me the power of Destruction and her the power to make smaller clones," Cat Noir stated, "Now I get Time travel and she gets Tracking?"

Fu sighed, "Cat Noir you do not understand,"

"Understand what?" His best and most loyal student questioned yet again, "Cause at first I thought it was cause you saw something in her that I don't have, but now I'm starting to think you're a sexist or something," he said crossing his arms,

Fu fought the urge to facepalm, 'Of course he'd think that,' he thought

But the one who came to his rescue was the very reason for the argument, "Cat, Master Fu isn't a sexist," she said, "He did give me my powers first, and The powers of the mouse miraculous I honed over the first couple of days I gained them, through Talking to Mullo and practicing my power, what did you do when you first gained the cat Miraculous?"

"Uhh," he smiled nervously and rubbed his head, "Ran over rooftops,"

"See? Master Fu does understand us, he knew I would study my power before using it outside of a safe environment, and you could be trusted with the power to destroy anything without becoming crazy, these new powers are additions to what we have already, If you accidentally destroy the wrong thing now you can reverse time giving yourself a second chance, and I can virtually track anything as it is, but with the addition of this power nothing can escape me," she said,

Cat Noir rubbed his head, "I... guess that makes sense," he said, "Sorry Fu,"

Fu smiled at the young man, "Cat Noir, you were given the power of freedom for a reason, I prefer you to speak your mind, but it's getting late, tomorrow I will join the hunt for these new villains in the morning, but for now we rest,"

"Yeah," Cat said, "Goodnight all,"

"Night Kitty,"

"Rest well,"

And with that Cat Noir leapt off the roof and vanished, they waited for a few minutes before, "You should really stop being so obviously biased against me Master Fu," Multimouse said, "You might as well just start calling me a fat cow or something with how blatant you are,"

"So what? I can trust you with something dangerous? how do I know you won't hurt anyone out there?" He asked glairing at her,

She leaned against a wall, "Not what I meant, but giving him time and me tracking isn't exactly a balanced power set, if you keep this up eventually you'll have to tell him why you don't like me, or he'll just assume you don't like women again,"

"And which would you prefer?"

She stared him dead in the eyes as she stated, "I'd convince him you tried to molest me before I told him I can't feel, that's my secret and I don't want anyone to know it,"

"So you'd lie to protect yourself and doom an innocent man?" he asked,

"For a person who knows I can't feel, you sure don't seem to understand what not being able to feel means," she stated,

"Why are you still here?" he asked exasperatedly,

"I wanted to know why you still haven't gotten rid of me yet," She said, "You hate me, don't trust me, yet still I am Multimouse, at first I thought it was because your injuries had grown worse, but you look fine now, so why?"

Master Fu sighed, "Because there's-"

"Plenty of options," She stated, "I know you're looking into more Miraculous holders, I've seen you around my collage with that cooler you kept the miraculous in when you gave me mine," Fu frowned at her, "Smarter then I act aren't I?" she asked,

He sighed, "Yes, I am looking into new holders, but I won't get rid of you,"

"Why not?" she asked, "There's no reason to... oh," she said evenly, "Because Cat Noir likes me, and If I was removed for anything less then murder he'd start asking questions right?"

"Goodnight Marinette," Fu said before he leapt away,

She watched him leave, before she left herself when she got home she turned back to Marinette and Mullo appeared, "Heya Mary I see we got Poppit backing us up now,"

Before Marinette could respond there was a knock on the trap door to her room, and quickly Mullo hid, before the trap door to Marinette's room opened up, "Sweetie?" her father asked, "Oh there you are, I thought I heard you up here,"

She spun in her chair to face her dad, "Hi Dad," she said, she noticed he had a worried expression on his face and the house phone in his hand, "Is something wrong?"

He nodded, "C-...can you come into the living room?" he asked,

She stood up and he walked down the stairs, she followed after him and saw her Mum looking nervous on the sofa,

"Mum?" she asked, "Is something wrong?"

Her Dad sat next to her Mum and wrapped his arm around her, "Have a seat sweetheart," he said gesturing to the other side of the sofa with his head,

She came down the stairs and sat across from her parents wondering what could be bothering them,

They looked at each other for a few minutes, before turning back to her, "Y-you remember when you were a kid?" her mum asked, "And you weren't very popular because of your... issues?"

Marinette nodded, "Well today we got a phone call because-,"

"Lyla is moving back," Her dad stated, "she's fresh out of that horrid school and she's transferring back-,"

"Here," her mum said, "She's moving in here, temporarily because her mom's asked us if we could keep an eye on her for a few weeks while they get settled,"

Tom raised his arms, "She's not sleeping in your room," he stated, "That's your space and she's not invading it,"

"She said the sofa was fine with her," Sabine said nervously, "We know that you, despite your issues are a responsible young lady, so please try to help her,"

"But if she hits on you-,"

"Tom!" Sabine chastised, "Lyla had a crush when they were kids,"

"I know, it's a dad's instinct though," Tom crossed his arms and scowled, "I'll bet she still likes Marinette,"

Sabine rolled her eyes, "Tom she was a lonely child and had only one girl who would talk to her, and we don't even know if she's gay,"

"Wait," Marinette said, "I'm sorry, are you telling me that Lyla is going to my collage and living with us for the next few weeks?" she asked, when they both nodded she asked, "Why tell me? and why are you two acting like it's world war three?"

"Because she got out of juvie for everything she did, and then is still thrown into a school for bad teens," Tom stated, "And now we're expected to watch her to make sure she doesn't steal anything, or beat anyone up or give another old man a heart attack,"

"Tom!"

"I don't like her," Tom said,

"No," Marinette stated, "You're making excuses dad, you don't like her cause you think she'll try something with me,"

"That girl convinced you to kiss her as kids," he defended himself, "she'll try it again,"

"Dad I'm not a little girl, I'm not as Naive anymore," she said, "And I don't care that Lyla is coming," Marinette said, "It might even be... nice? to see her again after all these years,"

"Sweetie your father isn't just worried about her... being inappropriate with you," Sabine said, "You see, as a child you never really hid... your issues,"

Marinette's eyes narrowed slightly, "You mean she knows?"

Tom nodded, "That you can't feel anything," he looked to Sabine, "And we're scared she'll tell people,"

"...I See," Marinette stood up, "When is she coming?"

"Later tonight," Sabine said, "And when she get's here we wanted to have a word with both of you about that video that played on the news,"

"About Hawkmoth?" she asked, when they nodded she stated, "It's fine, I'm not scared,"

"We know," Sabine said,

"That's part of the reason why we want a word with you," Tom said,

"Okay," she said, "I'll be in my room," she said,

"We'll be baking cookies if you want to join us," Sabine said,

"I'll... think about it," she said walking up the stairs and entering her room, after the door shut Mullo came out from hiding, "So, who's Lyla?" she asked,

Marinette looked around her room, she walked over to her desk and pulled a picture out, "This is her here," she said, Mullo flew over and the picture showed two very young girls, around 7 years old, the ravenette holding a slingshot who stared blankly at the camera was all too familiar to Mullo, but the tanned brunette in an orange dress hanging off the Young Marinette's arm wasn't, "So that's Lyla?" Mullo asked,

"As kids we were best friends, or rather she was the only person who didn't care that I couldn't feel, until we accidentally scared an old man with a heart condition, he fired a rife, scaring a bunch of people and went into shock, after that Lyla took the blame and was forced to move, after that we lost touch,"

"And apparently she's been to juvie?" Mullo asked,

"Eavesdropper," Marinette chastised,

"I get bored easily," Mullo stated, "Man it's a bad day for you Mary, Cat's getting closer to figuring out his love has no emotions, Jade Turtle's not making you hiding what you are a secret, An old friend who knows you deepest secret is sleeping on your sofa, and Hawkmoth is-"

"Who is he?" Marinette asked, "Hawkmoth, you know don't you?"

"You know how this works Mary, I can say his name till Lyla gets here, you won't hear it," Mullo said,

"There has to be a way to tell me," She said, "Write it down,"

Mullo rolled her eyes and picked up a pencil and wrote something on a nearby notepad, "Here you go Hawkmoth's real name," she said,

Marinette walked over to the paper and read-

She dusted off her hands "There all cl-," she looked around her sparkling room, "What have I been doing?"

"Well you read the note and then realised how dusty the room was and tore the paper out of your notebook threw it away and then started cleaning up, also you put away most of your Adrian stuff," Mullo explained,

Marinette shook her head and walked over to the bin, the note was still there, crumpled but otherwise fine, she took it out and opened it, " Well that saves me from cleaning up, but second times the charm," she said as she read the no-

Her lips were pressed against her Adrian doll, "You're so needy tonigh-," she put the doll back in her open closet and looked around,

"It's back in the bin again," Mullo said,

"Why am I doing this?" Marinette asked, "It doesn't make sense,"

"It's Magic Mary, your brain is unable to understand Hawkmoth's real name," Mullo said, "And that's what you're trying to brute force here Mary, magic, it won't let you know who Hawkmoth is, because the magic is there to protect the holders from those who would harm them, and the best way to do that is to make sure nobody knows it,"

"What if I took a picture of it?"

"Best guess? you'd be lucky to still have a working phone," Mullo said,

Marinette nodded, "Right right," she said, "But... what if I..." she again took the note out of her bin and opened it slightly, she saw the bottom off the words and tried copying th-

"Perfect rolling Marinette," her dad said as she rolled out what would be the cookie dough,

Marinette quickly figured out what had happened and held in her groan, she may not have super hearing, but she could tell Mullo was laughing at her from upstairs,

"By the way what was on that paper you threw away?" Sabine asked as she separated the chocolate chips from the nuts and raisins,

"Nothing important," Marinette lied as she continued helping make cookies,

Cat-Meanwhile-Noir

"This Adrian is someone we've taken into our care," Natalie stated as she introduced Adrian to the guest who'd be living with them for the foreseeable future,

Adrian held back his shock as Aurore Beaureal stood across from him, "I'm certain you've... heard of me?" She asked tentatively,

"Weren't you on Kidz+ for a junior weather girl position?" he asked, She frowned and he felt really bad, "J-just kidding," he smiled, "I know who you are Aurore, actually I voted for you during that,"

She gave him a small smile, "Thanks Adri- Mr Agre- Mast- wh-what do I call you?" she asked,

"Adrian's fine," he said, "But why are you here exactly?"

"Penance," came the answer from the staircase, Adrian turned to see his father walking down them cleaning his glasses, "As it turns out Miss Aurore and Miss Mireille were actually tied for the weather girl position, one of the technicians made a mistake and that's what caused the whole thing," he said, "A technician that eventually came to work for the almost finally christened Agreste tech, he'd been unable to properly function after he heard what his mistake had caused, so I decided to help,"

"I am deeply in your debt Mr Agreste," Aurore said, "After everything I just... it feels like more then before like everyone's against me,"

"Time to turn to a new chapter of your life Aurore," Gabriel said, "Leave Stormy Weather behind and live as Aurore Beaureal,"

"J-just Aurore for now, please?" she asked, "I don't think I want... you know" she said meekly,

"Of course," He nodded, "Adrian help Aurore to the guest room near yours, it's the closest to mine and Nathalie's rooms,"

"Of course Father," Adrian offered to take the case from her but she held it tightly, Thus he simply led her to the room, "And here we... oh wow," he said as he opened the door,

"Is everything all..." then she squealed, as she ran inside the room and smiled, "It's perfect!" she said,

Decorating the room was superhero merch, but mostly Adrian noted a theme with it, a certain hero appeared more then others,

Way more then the others,

Aurore dove onto the bed and grabbed a large Cat Noir plush, "Oh it's wonderful," she said,

"You uh... like Cat Noir I take it?" he asked awkwardly,

"He and Multimouse did save me from destroying Paris," she said, as she held the plush tighter, "I... may have... you know," she said, "And ever since then..." she looked over to her abandoned case,

"I'll... I'll show you, but promise you won't laugh," she demanded,

"Scout's honour," he said,

She let go of the large plush and walked over to her case, she opened it and inside was a much smaller, and much more worn down version of the plush, she held it close to her, "he's my comfort doll, I feel... safe when I have him," she nuzzled into it, "Like nothing can hurt me,"

She turned to Adrian, "You won't... judge me for this... will you?"

"If Cat Noir makes you feel safe then what's to judge?" he asked,

"You... don't think I'm being childish?" she asked, "Clinging to this stuffed doll?"

"You went through something traumatic Aurore, if that doll, these posters, and everything else helps you who cares?"

She smiled, "Th-thanks Adrian, Mr Agreste was right, you're really nice,"

Gabriel, Nooroo and Nathalie watched the two teens getting along before Adrien left to let Aurore get settled in,

"A technician eh Sir?" Nathalie asked,

"Because she became Stormy Weather and the horrors she'd been forced to commit no one will even talk to the girl, hopefully with Hawkmoth's reveal, threats to the heroes, people will realise that she really wasn't in control, and with Aurore coming here she can finally start to heal,"

"I think It's a nice gesture Gabi, Emmi would be proud," Nooroo said,

"Look at her," he said as Aurore walked around her room as giddily as a schoolgirl, "I did this to her, made her unable to function without that Cat Noir doll," Gabriel stated, he sighed, "If Emmi saw her..." he picked up the wedding picture of her again, "She'd wonder what became of the man she married,"

He leaned back in his chair, "Even if I bring Emmi back I couldn't take the glare she'd give me," he stated,

"Sir?" Nathalie asked, "Are you okay?"

Gabriel put the picture back on his desk, "No more, never again," he stated, taking off his white coat, he screwed it up and tossed it in the nearby bin, "Those two kids need someone to be there for them, and I can do that," he stated,

"Gabi?" Nooroo asked,

"This Chapter of Gabriel Agreste, distant father figure is over," he said, "I'll change, become a parental figure to be admired, and help those two, and when Hawkmoth finds those Miraculous and creates a new world, those two will heal," he stated,

"I've decided Nathalie," he said, turning to the woman, "I have to be around more, we have to be here for these kids," he stated again,

"Sir... are you certain this was wise?" Nathalie asked, "Your threats to the heroes will only work so long before one of them tries anyway and finds out your threat of Akumatising everyone at once is still beyond you, and with that discovery,"

"Majestica, Talon, Muse, Stache, Jellifica," he listed off, "I wouldn't be able to hide for long as Hawkmoth," he stated, "Eventually one would discover the path from Agreste manor and come to investigate,"

"I always knew they'd appear to try and stop me one day, but now they know of me, and that I want the Miraculous, they may not know why," he frowned, "After the defeat of Cat Noir I'll have about an hour before one of them comes to confront me," he stated, "And the chances of them standing around while I try to remake the world are non-existent,"

"You threat is all that keeps them back," Nathalie said as she reached for his drawer, "Then perhaps-,"

Gabriel grabbed her hand, "Don't even think about it Nathalie,"

"Sir... we don't have long until one of them tries," she said, "It's our only option,"

"Not yet it isn't." he stated, then he stood up and pushed her back, "It won't come to that Nathalie, I won't let it."

She stared into his eyes for a few seconds, then she nodded, "okay," she said quietly before she left the room,

Gabriel frowned as he stared at his screen, Aurore started taking more then just her doll out of her bag, and Adrian sat down and set a jewellery box on his table, as he takes out a bracelet Gabriel turned the screen off, it reflected his tired face, he took a deep breath, he gave a smile, it was entirely forced, "I'll have to work on that," he said,

"It'll come in time Gabi," Nooroo said,

Multi-Meanwhile-Mouse

Marinette opened a book she'd started years ago to keep track of what she knew about the Miraculous, while Mullo was... less then helpful with the history of the Miraculous, Marinette figured she might as well ask Poppet to see what she knew, and as soon as she put on the dog miraculous a small doglike creature popped into existence, "Greetings Marinette," Poppet said with a smile, then she sniffed around, "are there people downstairs?" she asked floating quickly in circles, "Can I meet them? do I smell cookies can I have some? ohhh no I smell sausages in the fridge can I have some? please Marinette? can I please? I love sausages," then she floated over to the window, "can we go for a walk?"

"You... talk a lot," Marinette noted,

"I do," she smiled,

"Mary, this is Poppet," Mullo said gesturing to Poppet who , "she's loving, excitable, a chatterbox, yet there's no one more loyal then her,"

Marinette put her pencil to her notebook, "Hello Poppet, what do you know about-,"

"Sunshine? it's bright and warm and I love laying in it, birds? they sing nice I wanna chase em, food I wanna eat it all up," she said licking her lips,

As Poppet continued bouncing around asking questions, or saying what she loved Marinette dropped the pencil and closed the notebook as Mullo laid in her hair and laughed,

-Outside-

A girl stood she looked at the sign and sighed before entering,

Sabine stood behind the counter and smiled at her, "Hello and we-," she froze and swallowed nervously,

The girl in front of her was a tanned, mountain of a woman who was a bit shorter then her husband, with a serious fitness kick judging by the six pack she sported, her hair was a brown untameable mess, she had several piercings, one on her lower lip, in her two in her left ear, three in her right, a ring in her nose, two in her left eyebrow, she wore a leather jacket and a sports bra and seemed to have something over her shoulder, and judging by her arm she looked like she could throw Sabine out the shop with one hand,

Tom walked out the back "Something wron-" he stopped as he saw the woman standing in his shop,

"Yo," she said stepping closer showing that Sabine's estimate was wrong, the woman in front of her was about the size of her husband, she cleared her throat, and looked at wither of them, "Aunty Sabine, Uncle Tom," she said, "I'm so sorry for walking in to your shop in such a state but my top got drenched and my zipper's busted, "I know I already said it but I'm so, so, so sorry," she stressed nervously,

"W-wait," Tom said looking her over, "Lyla?" he asked,

She smiled, "Y-yeah," she said, "I uh, kinda hit a growth spurt while I uh was... away?" she said nervously shuffling,

"Well don't just stand there girl," Sabine said, "March up those stairs, you remember where the bath is right?"

Lyla nodded, "Th-thanks Aunty I'm freezing my ti-er," her eyes went wide, "Sorry again I'm not used to speaking to anyone I actually respect,"

"You're shivering girl, go," Sabine ordered, "There's fresh cookies on the table when you're done,"

"Thanks Aunty, Thanks Uncle," she said, "F-for having me over, I know it was short notice and..." she looked down at herself, "I kinda look like a problem don't I?" she chuckled walking past them showing the thing she had was a backpack,

"Is that all you have?" Tom asked,

"Don't worry it's stuffed with the necessities, toothbrush, clothes, deodorant... though I think I'm low on that... Ah I'll just borrow from Netty," she said as she started to climb the ladder, "By the way," she turned, "Is Netty here?"

"In her room," Tom said, "But you shower first young lady,"

"Yes Uncle Tom," Lyla chuckled before she climbed the ladder,

It took fifteen minutes for Lyla to feel satisfied with her cleanliness and she walked out of the bathroom in a large band shirt and baggy trousers,

"Man, I feel like I ain't showered that good in years," she said to herself as she stretched, she saw the cookies on the table and was tempted to take one,

But a bang from upstairs alerted her and she turned to look at the trapdoor that led to Marinette's room,

Lyla took a deep breath, before she walked up the stairs and knocked loudly, "This open?" she asked,

"Lyla?" Marinette asked, she walked over and pulled the trap door open, "It is" she said,

"Can... I come in?" Lyla asked,

Marinette stepped back and nodded, Lyla stepped into her oldest friends room for the first time in ages, "This place has changed," she said looking around, she payed careful attention to the fashion dolls and the stuff she had around without trying to look like she was snooping,

"As have you," Marinette stated looking at Lyla, "I thought you loved dresses,"

"Eh, well kinda got used to not wearing them," she admitted, "Uh anything changed about you?"

"Not really," Marinette lied, "Still the same lifeless doll you used to know,"

"Really?" she asked with a chuckle, "Just the same old Netty?"

"Pretty much, you got tall though, not use to looking up to far to look into people's eyes," Marinette said,

Lyla chuckled, "I uh get that a lot," they stayed in the room for a bit just standing around before Lyla said, "Well I'm gonna go down stairs and enjoy those cookies you and your folks made," she said, "It's been a long trip and I am starved,"

Marinette tilted her head, "How do you know I helped?"

Lyla smiled at her, "Cause I'm your bestie,"

Marinette nodded, "Lets go together then, mum and dad wanted a word with us anyway,"

"Be honest you just wanted some cookies too right?" Lyla asked,

"I don't feel Lyla so there's not much I want," Marinette stated,

"Not much... but not nothing right?" Lyla asked,

Marinette turned to Lyla, and gave her a smile,

"Holy hell!" Lyla stepped back, "Was that an actual smile?"

Marinette shook her head, "No, I've just been practicing for a long time," she said walking down the stairs, "By the way at collage I pretend to have emotions so don't be surprised when tomorrow I start acting like a clumsy nervous wreck,"

"Urgh is that what you went with?" Lyla asked as she watched Marinette walk down the stairs,

"Anything to keep my greatest secret," Marinette stated,

Lyla stood in Marinette's room, "Greatest secret eh? bet only your closest friends and confidants know it," she muttered with a grin,

Mouse-The End-Cat

This Chapter is dedicated to Poppet Fincham, she passed away early this summer after suffering from a really bad sickness, she was about twelve at the time, I've been wanting to dedicate a chapter to her for quite a while but for one reason or another I didn't,

With Barkk having a terrible name and being a female dog with similar colours to my best buddy I figured it was time to dedicate the chapter to her,

Rest In Peace Poppet. I know we had you for eight years but the time we had feels so short in retrospect, you're gone but you'll never. ever. be forgotten.

Review corner: VVV

Kb2118: Well my guy the reason for the character changes is tri pronged,

1: Perhaps the most important reason to change them, is because I don't want to have the exact same characters as in the show, it makes the story more unique and readers don't feel like they're watching a re-run with one different character,

2: Because you're right I haven't watched much of the show, as I stated in the first chapter I haven't watched much of the show, at the time of writing this response I have seen 18 episodes in season one, plus Kwamibuster and Cat Blanc, I know a bit about the characters as I've seen some vids on Youtube,

And 3: Some of the characters NEED to be changed, for example Gabriel in the show sucks as a sympathetic villain, if he cared for Adrien then him finding out his son was Cat Noir would've broken him, finding out one of the people who's been fighting him for years is the son he loves and cares for, Yet in Cat blanc he grins and says "Soon his Miraculous will be mine" also his outfit looks nothing like a moth/butterfly and that's stupid, especially since he's supposed to be a famous fashion designer yet his outfit is big lame, and that's not me implying I'm better at costume design, I'm not My idea just ripped off Big Chill from ben 10 and Batman,

3: Addendum, Lyla. okay the original title for this chapter was The Many Admirers of Multimouse/Marinette, where I basically combined two episodes into one and we had the introduction of Lyla who would originally be introduced By Marinette's parents, we'd see the picture of the two as kids and then meet her the next day in class, Now Lyla would basically by just her being there force Marinette to play a certain role thinking that Lyla might spill that she can't feel, at the end however it would be revealed that Lyla would never do that because they're friends, yet also bring Lyla and Chloe to the first of Many altercations which reveals to the audience that not all rumours about Lyla are false, and that she's not just strong because she likes exercise, though with it we'd also keep the audience guessing whether she's a good person or not, her more punk redesign was always planned for her just more to my preference, since I wanted her and Ivan to bond quite a bit on looking scary to others and because I actively prefer it to her cannon design,

The Chloe point to me actually just makes me think that we think differently, have you ever seen OG Rugrats? when Angelica was done right in that show, she was the best character, a character you understood why she did the things she did, and one you could sympathise with despite her being mean to literal babies, and I haven't seen a character like Angelica in ages,

Chloe herself for example acts more like Bulk and Skull from Power Rangers, she walks in to frame says something kinda mean and then depending what season you're in she either mentions her dad is the mayor to deal with anything bad said about her, or is the mayor herself,(I'll remind you, in my story they're adults, in cannon they're teens, I'm not into any type of politics whatsoever but even I'm sure nobody elects people who aren't old enough to drink, drive, or shave into an office with actual power behind it,)

Chloe's original point in cannon is as a foil to Marinette, basically every time Marinette notices Chole does something bad and restrains herself from helping Chloe off the Eiffel Tower the ''fast way'' she proves that she's a better person then her, yet Chole is also supposed to have things Marinette wants to sort of tempt her to act out just like Chloe does,

Anyway regardless I still like Chloe and I've heard there's an intentionally botched redemption arc coming up for her in the show and I'm gonna use that as a gauge to see if I want her to join Marinette and Adrian in the superhero stuff permanent like, if I'm annoyed in anyway yes, If I'm peeved off It'll be the next chapter I write when I get to that point, and if I don't care no Queen Bee, or maybe yes Queen Bee but she's a villain,

But I don't really get why people hate Chloe so much, she's a bully, the main thing she does

I'm glad you're enjoying the story, hope I don't mess it up for you

Captainrex22345: glad you're enjoying it,

Eventually it will,

Well I haven't really thought about the wish with her beyond Master Fu not wanting her to know about it, though best guess is it would depend on how well her plan is going, if it's going well she'd note it and then move on, but if it was going badly she'd certainly try to get both the Cat and Ladybug

Guest: Well usually I update stories in a cycle, since this story on my page was updated pretty recently you likely won't see this chapter until you've forgotten you wrote the message, but even that isn't a good indicator since sometimes I just can't stop writing certain stories, this came out early if anything because the other story I've been making significant progress with was also written recently and the whole dedicated to my dog thing,

Now I actually planned to do six Omakes explaining the other active heroes Astruc's and mine all based on some form of hero, but I'll do them later here's the names of them so you know what to expect from our line up of heroes, now be excited cause I'm gonna drop a piece of info here, every cannon character below (And the Majestica and Talon's sidekicks) are all getting new powers and weapons, and to whet your appitite Majestica is going to be the least changed, she's losing super breath in favour of a slightly changed form of one of Superman's powers and one of Wonder Woman's, (And if that excites you we haven't even gotten to Felix yet, for now we'll say he's season three,)

Omake One: Be Majestic.

Omake Two: Beyond Death.

Omake Three: Hero first, Scientist second.

Omake Four: The Wandering Warrior.

Omake Five: ShE cAmE fRoM oUtErSpAcE!

Omake Six: Evil don't need a cure, it needs putting down

Now then we have multiple heroes, enemies, combinations all to look forward too, see you all next... actually I'm not done whetting your Appetites, and it's December here, so I'll tell you, Multidog? doesn't exist, neither does Snake Noir, we're getting interesting fusions of power so even if this chapter sucked to you You'll still want to stick around.

Everyone who's reading this thank Captainrex, he sent me a review that told me the formatting fucked up,