twenty-nine

"Marinette." Adrien approached her and Leo.


Marinette broke from her make-out session with Leo and turned around to look at Adrien.


"What do you want?" She snapped.


"Come with me." Adrien held out a hand.


"Why should I do that?"


Marinette's best friend caught her eye. Alya was giving Marinette a look that practically yelled at her to go with Adrien.


"Fine." She huffed and took Adrien's hand.


Adrien led her to Alya and Nino. As he was about to explain, the ground rumbled.


Alya and Marinette shared a confused look. They thought Hawk Moth had given up.


"Oh shit, Marinette!" Alya grabbed her best friend's hand as she formed an excuse. "I forgot something important, come with me!" 


Alya ran and Marinette wasn't far behind. They walked into an alleyway.


"What's going on?" Marinette asked. "I thought Hawk Moth was done for."


"Apparently not. Look!" Alya pointed to a sky-high robot. It looked like a Transformer.


"It's probably a sentimonster." Marinette assumed. "Ready?"


"Trixx, let's pounce!"


"Tikki, spots on!"


"Oh good lord, dude."


Ladybug and Rena Rouge turned around to see a wide-eyed Adrien and a face-palming Nino.


"I told him not to follow you guys." Nino grumbled.


"You're..Ladybug?" Adrien walked towards Ladybug. 


"Adrien..you weren't supposed to-"


"Marinette.." He walked closer to her.


"Adrien stop." Ladybug grew frustrated.


"Marinette, please-"


"I don't want to hear it, Adrien." Anger formed in Ladybug's stomach.


"Marinette, I need to tell you something-"


"No!" She backed away. "You weren't supposed to find out! And besides, you cheated on me! Yeah, whatever, I'm Ladybug, but when the other Ladybug approached you and performed her voodoo magic or whatever, you gave in!"


"Marinette I'm Ch-" 


"I don't wan't to hear it! And my name is Ladybug to you, not Marinette." She said coldly and extended her yo-yo onto a building. She zipped to the top and started to run towards the sentimonster.


As she was running, Bunnyx appeared from her burrow. Ladybug stopped.


"Mini-bug! Something's gone horribly wrong in the future! Anything to report on your side?" Bunnyx asked hurriedly.


"Yes. Adrien found out my secret identity." Ladybug admitted.


"What? Wait..do you know Chat Noir's identity?"


"No, I don't. Am I supposed to?" She asked.


"No, you're not. At least not now. Don't worry, we'll fix this." Bunnyx put a bowl on Ladybug's head and guided her into Bunnyx's burrow.


"What happened in the future?" Ladybug asked as Bunnyx guided her through her burrow.


"I'd like to say the less you know, the better, but it's better if I tell you." Bunnyx sighed. "Mini-bug..Emilie Agreste got akumatized and practically ended the world, like Chat Blanc."


Ladybug froze. "E-Emilie? Agreste?"


Bunnyx nodded, then she realized Ladybug could see her, so she replied with a 'yes'.


"I though she was.." Ladybug trailed off.


"She disappeared. Everyone assumed she was dead, but it turns out she's not." Bunnyx replied. "In the future, you revealed your identities to the world. You and Chat Noir already knew, obviously, and you were ready to, but the world wasn't. Hawk Moth became furious, and clouded by his anger, he..um.."


A silent moment passed.


"..Bunnyx?" Ladybug lifted the bowl to see Bunnyx wiping some tears.


"It's fine, Mini-bug." Bunnyx push the bowl back onto Ladybug's head. "He merged your miraculouses and woke up Emilie Agreste. That was his one wish, his goal this entire time. She woke up, and when she found out who you guys were and what Hawk Moth did. She used the peacock miraculous and started to fight Hawk Moth, but accidentally broke his cane and an akuma landed on her, giving her the power to absorb powers and convert them to destruction. To make things worse, she's still wearing her miraculous."


Ladybug gasped and put her hands to her mouth. This really was horrible. How could she capture the akuma? That's something she's going to have to figure out later.


"I'm ready, Bunnyx."


Bunnyx guided Ladybug through a burrow hole. She took off Ladybug's bowl, told her she was counting on her, and disappeared through her burrow to find more information.


Ladybug looked around. She was in an underground layer, with butterflies floating around. She saw a window, and peered through it. The world looked as though Chat Blanc destroyed it again, except snow was falling into the water that surrounded the world.


"My baby, my baby," She heard a woman sing through tears. "You're my baby, say it to me.."


Ladybug turned around and saw a woman who was wearing the peacock miraculous, except the suit was all white.


She walked up to the woman, who she assumed was Emilie. As she got closer, she looked over Emilie's shoulder.


Ladybug saw Adrien sleeping in a coffin that was the same as the one Emilie was in. Ladybug couldn't help but to feel sorrow. She still loved him.


"Baby, my baby.." Emilie sobbed.


"Emilie?" 


Emilie turned around and Ladybug was met with icy blue eyes. They practically shot icicles through her heart, she could've sworn Emilie's eyes were once big and green.


"I am not Emilie, I'm Morana. I bring winter and destruction." Emilie's voice echoed through the room like a melodic tune.


"W-what happened to Adrien?" Ladybug's hand shook lightly when she pointed to Adrien.


"How are you alive? Tell me now." Morana demanded.


"I've always been alive, I've never died." Ladybug furrowed her brows.


"Liar." Morana moved to the side.


Ladybug widened her eyes and saw herself. She saw herself as Marinette in an identical coffin to Adrien's. Her eyes were closed and she looked so pale. So lifeless. Ladybug looked over to Adrien and saw he looked the same. Ladybug looked back to herself and squinted her eyes to look at her ear lobes. The miraculous isn't on, but Adrien's was. That meant that Morana only needed Ladybug's miraculous to make things go back to the way there were before.


"How.."


"He killed you. He killed Adrien. My son. My only son. How I longed to see him again, and his own father killed him just to get me back. He used Nathalie, and he tried to use you too." Morana sobbed. Ladybug noticed that more snow was falling down the harder Emilie cried.


"It's okay, Emilie, I can fix this. Just tell me where your akuma is." Ladybug walked towards Morana with pleading hands.


"My name is Morana!" She roared.


Morana used her fan to shoot icicles at Ladybug, for real this time. 


Ladybug jumped up into the air to dodge them, and Morana took the chance to kick Ladybug. She successfully did so, and Ladybug went through the ceiling, as she was being sent upwards, she clutched her stomach in a protective manner. She landed in Gabriel Agreste's office. Ladybug got up and looked around. Everywhere was clean.


Morana flew through the ceiling. She was about to use her fan again, but Ladybug ran up to her and kicked her fan up into the air. Ladybug jumped for it, grabbed it, and flipped back down.


She landed on the ground and ribbed apart the ran. "Time to de-evil-"


Nothing came out.


"You should try harder than that." Morana cackled.


Ladybug ran to the door and ran for the stairs.


"I know you're a smart girl, Marinette!" Morana yelled as she chased Ladybug.


"Wha-?" Ladybug tripped up the stairs and fell.


"Give me your miraculous, Marinette!" Morana held out a hand as she yelled.


Ladybug forgot her and Chat Noir supposedly revealed their identities, but quickly regained herself and ran toward Adrien's room. She barged through the doors and was greeted by the scent of his cologne. She quickly glanced around and she ran and she noticed that his room was clean too.


Her heart ached for Morana - she was still cleaning the house even though her family was long gone.


Morana ran in the room after Ladybug. Ladybug flipped onto Adrien's couch.


"Lucky Charm!" 


"A voice recorder?" Ladybug turned it on and saw it had a small little sticky part. Ladybug stuck it to her chest and it stayed.


"Why don't I tell you a little story?" Morana grinned.


"Why don't I capture your akuma?" Ladybug retorted and swung her yo-yo to Morana.


"Two superheroes. A bug and a cat. In love. Expecting a baby. A butterfly who wants their miraculouses." Morana started her story as she dodged Ladybug's attacks. "The butterfly had a little liar as an ally, and she managed to get ahold of the Ladybug miraculous, but refused to give it to the butterfly's civilian identity, and proposed a plan."


Ladybug didn't have to listen, because she knew the recorder was listening. However, to act like she didn't care, she threw careless attacks at Morana.


"The little liar used the miraculous and became a wanna-be Ladybug." Morana continued. "The butterfly bribed the cat's identical cousin to act as him, as he kidnapped the cat and trapped him in his own room."


Ladybug paused. Identical cousin? The bug and cat in love? She never fell for Chat Noir. Expecting a baby?


No.


It can't be.


"Adrien is Chat Noir.." Ladybug concluded out loud.


"Bingo!" Morana exclaimed. She formed her hands together and created an amok and shot it out to Ladybug.


Ladybug quickly de-evilised the amok. She concluded that Morana couldn't have possibly had any other weapons, which meant that the akuma was in the miraculous.


But aren't miraculouses indestructible? The only other thing was Chat Noir's cataclysm.


Then Ladybug came up with an idea, but she had to allow Morana to continue her story.


"The cousin and the liar started to put on a show when they heard the bug wake up. The bug fell for their trap, and at the same time, the cat escaped to see the love of his life. The bug sobbed to the confused cat, and later on, the bug dumped the cat. At a party, the cat approached the bug, danger struck, so the bug and her fox friend transformed, but were caught by the turtle and the cat. Then, the cat and bug made up, confessed to the world, and died. The end." Morana finished.


"Hm, I don't like it. I'm going to rewrite it." Ladybug teased. She threw more careless attacks at Morana, and subconsciously led her back to Gabriel's office.


When they reached the hole, the Ladybug jumped in. She landed on her feet, and ran as fast as she could to Adrien's coffin. She broke the glass with her yo-yo, and got the cat's ring. She slipped it on her finger, and Plagg flew out. Morana landed and used her hand to cast hail at Ladybug.


"The wish has already been used, Marinette." Plagg said.


"I know, but I don't need it." Ladybug said as she deflected Morana's attacks.


"Plagg, Tikki, unify!"


Ladybug's suit was entirely purple (view chapter photo. All credits go to the artist). Luckily, the 


"Just because you merged miraculouses, doesn't mean you can defeat me Ladybug." Morana scoffed.


"It's LadyNoire." LadyNoire smirked.


"Cataclysm!" 


LadyNoire and Morana charged towards each other and their battle cries filled the room.


As they were about to collide, LadyNoire touched the Peacock Miraculous with her hand and it turned to dust.


"NO!" Morana roared and collapsed.


The akuma LadyNoire was longing for flew out of the pile of dust. 


"Plagg, Tikki, divide." 


Plagg flew out of his miraculous, and Ladybug de-evilised the akuma.


Bunnyx's burrowed appeared before her again. 


"Mini-bug! You did it!" Bunnyx exclaimed.


Morana transformed back to Emilie.


"Marinette?" She gasped.


Marinette's stomach dropped at the sound of her name in Emilie's mouth.


"You aren't supposed to know my name." Ladybug looked down. "But don't worry, Emilie. I'll save you."


Emilie smiled, and she knew what was going to happen.


"I trust you, Marinette. Take care of Adrien for me." She smiled.


"I will." Ladybug waved and walked into Bunnyx's burrow.


"Take me to the moment before Adrien was going to get me while I was with Leo."


Bunnyx nodded, put her hand to one of the holes, and found the moment. She motioned for Ladybug to step inside.


Ladybug was in front of the door to Chloe's hotel. She ran in, saw herself kissing Leo, and grabbed herself and ran.


"Hey!" Marinette yelled.


"No time to explain. It's me, from the future again." Ladybug said as they ran on rooftops.


Ladybug landed on her own, and went inside.


"What's wrong?" Marinette asked once they landed on the bed.


"Listen to this."


Ladybug played the voice recorder. Marinette listened to it with wide eyes.


When it finished, Marinette looked up at Ladybug.


Ladybug climbed down her bed. Bunnyx appeared with her burrow in front of Marinette's couch.


"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug threw the voice recorder up.


Her magical ladybugs raced inside of the burrow and repaired the other reality, then they came and swished over Ladybug and Marinette.


All that was left was Ladybug.


"You did spectacular today, Mini-bug." Bunnyx hugged her.


"Thanks Bunnyx." Ladybug hugged back.


They said their goodbyes and Ladybug detransformed.


"Marinette?" 


It was Adrien.


Marinette quickly whispered to Tikki to hide, and her heart rate quickened. She knew that because she repaired everything, Adrien didn't know who she really was. But she hadn't forgotten a thing.


"Come in." Marinette called.


"Marinette, I have to tell you something." Adrien walked in.


"Don't worry, Ladybug explained everything." Marinette smiled. "I know it wasn't you, Adrien. I'm sorry for reacting that way. I love you."


"I love you." Adrien beamed. He hadn't told her about his secret, but that was okay, because he got her back.


He leaned in and kissed her. She gladly kissed back, and was incredibly proud of herself.






A/N: DID YOU GUYS LIKE IT? I'm proud of this chapter! Btw, I'm temporarily unpublishing 'The New Girl' as I want to make this book into a series. After the series is finished, I may return to 'The New Girl'. Stay turned for chapter thirty!



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