"My daughter is alive. Franz did everything to keep her safe. Lowell, you have to let me return to her!"

The burly man slapped the rose haired woman in the face, who struggled to get back at her as his ambition flared glare reeked of anger.

"When the Men in Black took you, I did everything I could to set you free and give you a new life and supercomputer and this is the thanks I get."

"But Project Carthage was already dangerous enough and now you want to bring it back?"

"And I lost my work because of your naive husband! Now I'm getting it back. Aelita and her gang of friends won't be harmed. I tried to get her back but look what happened. She rejected you and tried to destroy my work. Our work. An elite group of warriors that fight in the virtual world and eventually the real world, a super computer that can alter the world for the better. Isnt that what we seeked to build Anthea?"

Anthea rubbed her hurt cheek, only remembering seeing her daughter on the monitor for the first time in years, yet feeling tears that they were seperated once again.

"The true person of Project Carthage. To create Un Monde Sans Danger: A world without danger."

——

"Sir, are you sure?"

Gabriel hands Natalie the repaired Peacock Miraculous.

"The grimoire contains so many secrets about the Miraculous. Recipes for new powers, the strengths and weaknesses of ever power, unification, the ultimate power!"

Natalie however starts to cough up. Gabriel rushes to her need, but she brushes it off.

"I'm okay, I'm feeling much better. Now I'll be able to assist you more once I'm fully recovered. But in the case of Chloe Bourgeois-."

"Gathering more allies will be difficult. However, we still have Lila Rossi. And", resting her hands on Gabriel's palms, "you can always count on me."

"Thank you Nathalie."

Adrien Agreste creeps out of his room to see Gabriel and Nathalie. He smiles and silently closes back the door to get ready.

——

"Tikki, you ready"?

Marinette Dupeng Chang felt more optimistic, looking at the letter Fu gave her before he sacrificed herself. Remembering Mayura and Hawk Moth had taken Fu's tablet with the translated notes of the grimore, the thought of whoever was under the mask left a unsettling thought. Their battles were going to get tougher but she had no idea what to expect.

"Are you still thinking about the battle from before", her concerned ladybug Kwami asked?

"Mhmm. But I can't let that stop me. As long as I'm alive, I'm going to keep moving forward."

"That's the right attitude". Tikki flies into her purse. "So what's going on at school today?"

"I heard there are going to be students from a school in Boulogne-Billiancourt coming to visit for a few days. Ms. Bustier said it was at a private school."

"A private school?"

"Yeah, most people that go there live and sleep in a building while they attend classes in the other buildings."

"That sounds so much fun. Why don't you try it?"

"And have a roommate like Chloe or Lila? As if. There's no way Adrien's dad would let him go to a school like that. At least he wouldn't be locked up in his house."

The two of them eventually reach College Francoise Dupont when a bus suddenly stops behind her. It opening to see a chubby man in a tracksuit yelling at the students to get off. Two kids get off, one blonde in glasses with a red and blue polo stripped sweater with khakis holding a weird computer while the other was a rose haired girl with headphones and a black-rose attire from a heart based rock shirt to pink shorts with an angel pattern. Before Marinette could admire the girl's hair and innocent nature, a biker nearly running into her companion resulted in him nearly falling over towards her. She managed to catch him but fell down as his laptop fell out of his hands.

"I'm so sorry about that. I'm such a klutz."

"You're fine, I totally get that. Are you one of the students visiting us today?"

"That's correct." The two get up as Marinette notices a image on his laptop: a blinking well drawn cylinder but decided not to pry considering her snooping efforts had gotten her and the city in trouble a few times. The rose haired girl closed it as she helped the visiting student up.

"Well it's nice to meet you. The name is Marinette Dupine Chang. And you are?"

"Jeremie. Jeremie Belpois. And this is Aelita."

Out in Switzerland, the switch of a zealous Lowell Tyron reactivated a certain supercomputer, and alongside it, a old threat two group of heroes would meet that same day: X.A.N.A.