Queen Bee couldn't stop fidgeting with her hands.

"Stop doing that!" Volpina cried, pulling Queen Bee's hands away from each other. "It's our first mission as official superheros and we can't even make a plan to enter the tower!"

"What are we going to do?" The turtle superhero asked as he unleashed a shield that was camouflaged as his shell. "We can't do anything without Ladybug's guidance."

"Okay," Volpina said, her heartbeat fierce from inside. "Let's rescue her first."

"Chat Blanc will have somebody looking out for her." Queen Bee said, then crossed her arms. "I like it."

Ladybug observed as the orange creature moved around the walls, it almost seemed like a fox. What? Volpina was just in front of her, batting her eyelashes at Chat Blanc who could constantly blow a kiss back at her. Even if her insides wanted to explode, her eyes would soften at seeing Chat Noir like this, she was so close in finally falling for him,  yet so far. There was always that obstacle pulling them apart. She wanted to cry, fall down to her knees and let all the pain go out, but Volpina was there-and she would never allow herself to be seen weak in front of her. 

"I win again, my white cat." She said, knocking Chat Blanc's chess piece and offering him a smile. The sight of him returning the smile with so many feelings, didn't not only made her sick, but physically hurt. The way his eyes narrowed each of her movements, the way they would expand...

Ladybug saw the way he looked at Volpina.

It was almost the way he looked at her. 

"Are you jealous now?" Volpina asked as Chat Blanc disappeared from the room, apparently people had stopped being akumatized and were causing pandemonium near the loop. As much as she wanted to see, she even knew that the hope  was destroyed and nobody was coming to rescue her. "I'm finally getting everything I want. You, destroyed, and Chat Blanc is mine."

"It was Adrien." She snapped, struggling to get free and strangle Volpina. "I didn't steal him, I only put up with your lies about me. If you would've talked to him, he would've realized you were a bitch on his own."

She gasped. "Kitty! Ladybug is bothering me! When can we akumatize her?"

Chat Blanc entered the room, glancing behind his shoulder as if Volpina's cries were much more important than whatever was happening outside. Ladybug raised her eyes back to the last place she saw the orange blob and realize it was gone, it had moved places to near the cameras. How could it? Was it perhaps something with Chat Blanc? If it did, why was it always hovering around her? 

"Patience, my lovable fox." He said, fixing his gaze on her. She scoffed. Beneath all that madness, her Chat Noir rested. How could it be? Staring into a friends face, only recognizing a stranger? She wanted to yell at him to fight it, but she'd never tried it with the villains, friendship and love was something darkness could fight against.

Even if it was her love for him she decided to finally accept. 

"Where is Volpina?" Queen Bee asked frantically, as she used her power to control bees to attack against the akumatized villains who were powerless against such an army. When her forces would go down, Green Shell (the horrible name one of her partners came up with) would attack them with his shield, with one flicker, it would turn into a hammer out of iron. Queen Bee? All she got was an elegant, thin, yet deadly silver sword. 

"Let the fox take her time." Green Shell as he moved forward and shielded both of them from one of the villain's blasts. "Any ideas of what to do in the meantime?"

She shook her head. She wasn't ready for taking such a responsibility. Sure, she'd always dreamed about being like Ladybug mostly every night, but it was so different actually being it. Every dream she had in her life was a fail, she wanted to be a singer-bad voice. An actress-couldn't cry. Fall in love-everybody believed she was insane.

"My bees won't last too long." She said. Queen Be hoped the old man would've been specific to what she could do. She checked her powers before their plan had begun, she could fly and once she pressed her hairpin, every bee in Paris was under her control and turned from ordinary bees to warriors that wouldn't go down without a fight. Taking one of them down would be like avoiding a bullet. Okay, she thought that was cool. Her bees, whatever they would prickle under her permission, could destroy from the inside.

Her powers came from Chat Noir's which make her think, Hawkmoth created all this villains, couldn't that count as creation? His powers came from Ladybug, which could only mean Green Shell had his powers from Chat Noir. He refused to use them, saying it would show a sign of weakness.

"How exactly would that show a sign of weakness?" She asked, checking if her ponytail was in place.  "We have powers, not everyday we get that."

"Look," Green Shell said, dodging one of Stormy Weather's parasol attacks. "That doesn't matter right now. We need to see the sign, remember? Fireworks on top of the tower, then we move."

"We assume that if there aren't fireworks, Volpina got akumatized again or she's dead." Queen Bee said, checking her nails and then flickering her hand for her bees to move to attack Vanisher who had just come up to attack her. Oh, yeah, the bees were also connected to her. Whatever they saw, she would see too. 

"She won't be dead." Green Shell said, ducking another attack. "I believe in her."

She scoffed and turned around. "Precisely another reason why we won't be able to finish the mission."

"She's boring." The akumatized Volpina said, looking at Ladybug as Ladybug looked at Chat Blanc. Volpina saw the horrible ache in Ladybug's eyes like she was missing something dear, something vital to her life. She saw the same flicker of sadness in Marinette's eyes whenever she saw Adrien with Chloe. She moved quickly behind Ladybug, hopefully Volpina would be blind and not see her. 

Plan? What was the plan, oh, yes, distract Volpina while Queen Bee and Green Shell take care of the villains, once distracted, free Ladybug, put fireworks over the Eiffel Tower to alert her partners they had Ladybug-the person which would help them. They were lost. 

"Don't you do anything?" Akumatized Volpina asked, fixing her green eyes on Ladybug who would still stare at the akumatized victim.   

"Other than kill you in my mind," Ladybug drew in a breath. "NO."

Volpina snickered. "Did you hear that, Chat? She's just jealous because I have you and not her. Well, at least you won't have to worry about his puns anymore-that's my business."

Ladybug sighed and looked down at the ground, she attempted to move, her hands rising up to strangle Volpina, but something jerked her back and she let out a guttural cry. Volpina observed from the little corner she had been hiding in the roof, how smoke came out of Ladybug's suit, enough smoke to cause a three-degree burn, enough to burn down her clothes.

They were torturing her.

Volpina had to strike. She eyed from one of the villains camera how he was being constantly attacked by Queen Bee's bees. She moved quietly, her body barely making any movement at all as she crept into the shadows of the room and pulled her flute out. The akumatized Volpina had much more experience with the flute than her, but she decided to maintain hope.

She sang a little melody, her fingers moving quickly over the holes, only to let out the image of Master Fu appear. If Volpina wasn't too wrapped up in fear, she would've enjoyed her work of art before it got destroyed. She let the illusion come out of the shadows and attack Volpina quickly. Chat Blanc, somehow, crept into the shadows from across the room as Volpina saw him disappear the tower. 

"I can handle an old man!" Akumatized Volpina said. 

Just then, the image of Master Fu turned into Stone Heart. She gulped and dodged one invisible attack, still thinking it was real and yelled as she raced down one of the Eiffel Tower's hallways, crying Chat Blanc's name. Stone heart turned his attention over to Ladybug, and Volpina could see how much she'd been crying, enough for her eyes to be blood-shot red and her cheeks to be red. 

Volpina used her hand to wave the illusion of Stone heart away and knelt in front of Ladybug. "We need you're help."

She shook her head. "Chat Blanc will win. I can't-I can't do anything about him."

Volpina leaned back. "You're not the Ladybug I know."

"I've changed." She said quietly. "That's what you do when the people you love leave you."

"Chat Noir didn't leave you!" Volpina cried, standing up and walking to face Ladybug's back as she untied the ropes who had a slim thread of burning rope. She saw those before, placed upon every wall of Paris. You move, you get burned. Would they want to burn her alive? Volpina didn't think so, still, underneath all that darkness Chat Blanc had, Chat Noir was still inside him to never let anything hurt Ladybug. "He's fighting Chat Blanc, I know it and if you don't do anything, he'll be fighting alone."

"He has you now." Ladybug said, rubbing perhaps the pain on her wrists. "I was so easily catched."

"You had no idea what was happening." Volpina said offering her a smile. "Be the superhero Paris thinks-knows you are, Ladybug, and don't do this for them, not for me or Master Fu, maybe not ever for yourself-but for Chat Noir. Destroy Chat Blanc and prove how much you love him."

Ladybug hesitated, but eventually nodded. Volpina suddenly found a feeling to wrap her in a hug, and she did. Ladybug acted in that moment too much like Marinette, and she had a soft spot for her best friend. Volpina needed to help those who felt like they would never get help. 

She grabbed Ladybug's wrist and dragged her on top of the Eiffel Tower, she sang a little melody and fireworks sprang out of the top. Ladybug stared at her, perplexed. Over the sound, Volpina attempted to explain her it was all part of their plan. Soon, Queen Bee and Green Shell were on their side, arguing about some kind of power. 

"Ladybug!" Queen Be said, pushing past Green Shell to hug the super heroine. "I'm a huge fan...but that doesn't matter right now because Chat Noir's in danger, am I right?" 

Ladybug nodded and stepped over the railing of the Eiffel Tower. Below, the army of villains, Chat Blanc and the akumatized Volpina were standing and waving at them.   

I saw stars in your eyes, why did day come so soon?

She wanted to yell at his face. Whoever akumatized Chat Noir would pay, not only for putting in danger one of the person she loved, but to almost destroy her. Watching him snicker at her pain, wink when Volpina thought she was acting cute, it broke her heart to shreds. As she fell down the Eiffel Tower, the three other super heores which could've easily been the last miraculous holders, fell next to her, moving in sink, ready for battle.

They landed on the ground and she rose up, fixing her gaze on Chat Blanc. Chat Noir was in there, she knew it, part of her knew he wouldn't hurt her because some part of him still loved her, but not even love could break such spell of the akuma. 

"Think this through." She said quietly, extending out her hand, but then thought better of it and jerked it back. He akumatized everything he touched. Even if she was never akumatized, she was in danger as much as everybody else around her. "You can beat him, Chat Noir."

"I'm white now, thanks." He said at her moving towards. As if reading his thoughts, all the villains took a step back, even Volpina who didn't look too happy about it. She realized Volpina and Queen Bee weren't at her side anymore, they had stood back.

They were all waiting to see the two superheroes fight each other.

She swallowed ,her voice was weak. "Chat..."

"I was there for you." He snapped, moving his stick as she attempted to drew out her yo-yo but she remembered it was torn to pieces. How could it happen? She was invulnerable against the boy she loved who wanted nothing but to see her in agony. "I was always there for you I was stupid enough to believe everybody else would accept it. Because of you, I was akumatized."

Tears started forming around her eyes. "I did this to you?"

"You were the cause of it." He said and extended his stick so it would raise her chin which had fallen. "Don't worry, bugaboo. I'll go easy on you."

She swallowed again, a tear sliding down her cheek as she dodged him jumping at her. She had to be quick, had to be much better in thinking, moving and fighting better than him. Ladybug avoided various attacks from his stick, but eventually some would hit her, sending her with an immense speed back to the ground, but she would stand up.

What could she do? Think? Her yo-yo was destroyed, no lucky charm, then and even if it did, she wondered what would it be. As she fought him, which mostly involved her dodging his attacks, she scanned his body for signs of an akuma, the only bright light she saw was his ring, but if she destroyed it, there was no yo-yo to catch the akuma.

How did she fight Chat Noir without destroying anything? Puppeteer, he didn't have the akuma and she had her yo-yo back then, and he was being controlled. Princess Fragrance, she used his powers to favor herself, no such thing here. She had her yo-yo back then, she had another resource, Princess Fragrance, to take down, never him. Dark Cupid-

Her heart froze as she thought of that day, Chat Blanc noticing the distraction and hitting her with his stick, sending her to the ground. The tip of his stick rested on her stomach, stabbing her with an uncomfortable pain as he walked over her, extending her finger.

"Ladybug-" Volpina tried to fight Chat Noir, but Stormy Weather trapped the new villains in a block of ice, as much as all of them fought to get out of it, they were powerless.

Everything was powerless, hopeless.    

I'm sorry, Master Fu. She thought, tears staining her eyes as Chat Blanc knelt next to her, his finger hovering over her forehead. 

I'm sorry, Mom and Dad.

Sorry, Alya, sorry, Nino and Adrien for not being there.

Sorry, Paris, for letting you down and not being able to save you.

Sorry, Volpina, Queen Bee, Green Shell for not reaching your expectations.

Sorry, Tikki, I know I'll never see you again.

"Hawkmoth will finally win." Chat Blanc said, before his green eyes lighting with energy, but now dark and filled with dust, almost like her heart.

"Not if I have something to say about it." She said, sounding braver than she felt. Was she really doing this? Was she really taking her crazy mind to another level? Could they do it? It was the question that circled around her head, the only flaw-and a couple of hundred more. "I love you, Chat Noir."

Without another word, she grabbed his cheeks and drew his lips down to her's, a purple blob surrounding both of them.