Volpina flew them both to a hotel near the hospital Eliza died at and was buried near. Once she had helped Chat Blanc, she wanted to show Ladybug and Chat Noir exactly what their devastation had cost.

The hotel looked just as empty as the hospital had, so firstly she dragged the two onto the first floor and tied them up in rooms across from each other. Firstly, she tied up Chat Blanc, as he was the more dangerous of the two. But as she was tying up Ladybug, suddenly, she detransformed. Volpina had instantly shut her eyes. She didn't want to look, in respect of her, but she eventually had to open her eyes. It was...Marinette...

Her Kwami looked exhausted. Volpina caught it in outstretched palms before it could fall to the ground. The Kwami looked up, and was surprised to see someone besides Marinette.

"Volpina... You're the new Volpina? What are you doing here??" She asked.

"Yes, I am the newest Volpina." Alya swallowed hard. "Um, there's no easy way to say this, but Ma- uh, I mean, your holder and Chat Noir got Akumatized."

"Oh no! Are they both okay?"

"Your holder is fine, I just knocked her out. When she wakes up, tell her Chat Noir is alive and that once she's ready to transform, I'll be waiting for her outside the door. Chat Noir is, hopefully, okay, I'm about to go get that nasty akuma out of him." She explained quickly before leaving the kwami on Marinette's lap.

"Good luck, Volpina." She complimented.

Volpina left Marinette's room and locked the door. She was still in shock over the fact that Marinette was Ladybug, but she couldn't afford to think about it. Now, had to save Chat Blanc. Walking inside his room, Volpina saw that he was still unconscious/asleep.

Looking at her flute, she suddenly had an idea. Volpina untied Chat Blanc from the chair and carried him over to the nearby bed. Placing him lightly on the bed, she dragged the chair next to it and sat down in it.

Volpina brought her flute to her lips. Her plan was to manipulate Chat Blanc's dreams into nightmares about him killing Ladybug, in hopes that he could expel the akuma from his miraculous as Ladybug had done in the same situation. Volpina began to play a mystic song on the hollow instrument.

*Inside Chat Blanc's dream*

It was raining, with lightning striking every now and then. Ladybug's body lay on the ground. Chat looked down at his hands, which were covered in her blood.

"What have you done?!" Volpina cried from behind him.

"I-" Chat Blanc's eye color shimmered, switching from a harsh metallic yellow to a leafy green. "Ladybug...??" He ran forward and pulled her closer to him. "Wake up!!"

Volpina grabbed his neck and threw him backwards. "Stay away from her!" Lightning flashed again, and her glared eyes were illuminated. "You killed her! It's all your fault!"

Chat's eyes widened. "No- I didn't mean to-"

"BUT YOU DID, CHAT BLANC." A voice echoed through the dreamscape. "YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM THE TRUTH. YOU MURDERED HER, AND THERE IS NOWHERE FOR YOU TO HIDE. NOWHERE TO RUN, BLACK CAT. LOOK AT WHAT YOUR BAD LUCK HAS WROUGHT."

"No..." Chat Blanc covered his ears and shook his head frantically. "No no no no no!"

*Back in the real world*

Volpina snapped herself back to reality to see that Chat's body shaking violently. Chat himself looked drenched in sweat, groaning and crying out in pain in his sleep. Volpina prepared the jar with Dark Ladybug's akuma flittering around inside it.

Chat Blanc's body gave one last jerk, before he collapsed. The black butterfly flew out of his ring, and Volpina caught it inside the jar.

Screwing the lid back on, Volpina felt a sense of accomplishment. She had done it. She avenged Eliza. She saved Ladybug and Chat Noir from themselves. God, she had done it.

Volpina's thoughts were interrupted by a green flash. She heard a tiny thud, and looked up to see a weak black Kwami on the floor, and Adrian Agreste in the place of Chat Noir.

Volpina placed the jar on a nearby table to prevent herself from dropping it.

"Those two... I swear..." Volpina muttered to herself before bending down to carefully pick up the small black Kwami.

"Hey there." She greeted as she scooped up the little cat in pooled hands.

"Oh, another Volpina? Interesting." He muttered. "Do you have cheese? Preferably camembert?"

Volpina chuckled a bit. "Sorry, you'll have to ask your holder. All I've got is beef jerky." She glanced at Adrian. "Speaking of which..."

Volpina placed the black Kwami on the bed, then dragged Adrian into the chair and tying him up again.

"What are you doing that for?" The cat Kwami asked, confused.

"He'll be able to get out as Chat Noir." Volpina waved her hand as if to disregard the matter. "Besides, I tied up Ladybug, might as well tie him up, too." She shrugged. "Make sure to tell him that once he's transformed, I'll be waiting for him outside." She grabbed the akuma jar before taking it out into the hallway and locking Adrian's room behind her.

"Wow..." Volpina exhaled. "Who knew being a superhero was so complicated?"

Her best friend was Ladybug. Her best friend's crush and boyfriend's best friend was Chat Noir. Why did life have to be so complicated?

"Oh well." Volpina shook her head. She put the akuma jar back into her school bag. "Now I wait." She sat between the two rooms in a meditative position, closed her eyes, and waited for the two to come out.

After a few minutes, both doors opened simultaneously. Volpina didn't have to open her eyes, as she knew exactly who it was.

"Oh." Ladybug's voice sounded strained, presumably at the sight of Chat Noir. "Wait, who are you?" She took notice of Volpina.

"Yeah, um, who are you?" Chat Noir avoided eye contact with Ladybug, but sounded just as awkward and strained as her.

Volpina stood up and opened her eyes, seeing the regular heroes staring at her.

"I'll explain that, and everything else on the way." She reassured the two. "But for now, follow me."

"Why?" Chat Noir asked skeptically.

Volpina lunged forward, choking him with one hand and her other fist raised to knock some of his teeth out. "Listen here, Chat Noir, I didn't just fight through hell and back to take any of this attitude from you! Now, you follow me!" She released the grip of his neck and lowered her fist, but still scowling.

"I'm gonna follow her, if you don't mind." Ladybug said to Chat, who was coughing from Volpina's vice-like grip.

Chat grumbled a bit, but started to follow as well.

As Volpina led them to the exit, she spoke to both of them about what had happened. "All I know about it is that you both got Akumatized by Hawkmoth, and then the two of you were in an all-out rage against each other, trying to murder each other and destroying half of Paris to do it."

"Really?" Ladybug sounded mortified.

"Was anyone hurt?" Chat asked, worried at the answer.

Volpina didn't answer just yet, she had to show them the grave, first. Good thing they were almost there.

"Answer us, mystery girl." Ladybug anxiously begged. "Who are you? What were the casualties?"

Volpina gritted her teeth and put her trembling hands in a fist. "My name is Volpina." She continued to walk towards the grave. "I am the current holder of the fox miraculous. And to answer your question, yes, there were casualties." She stopped walking and pointed to the grave as it became visible. "One death, no more, no less."

Ladybug and Chat Noir walked closer to the grave to try and read the description. Volpina followed at a short distance.

"Volpina?" Ladybug read aloud. "But I thought you were Volpina?"

"You're not dead, are you?" Chat Noir asked.

"I am Volpina, and no, I'm not a ghost. I am very much alive." Volpina shot Chat a look. "I am, what you might call, a rookie. You see, the first Volpina who came to help Paris and stop you both suffered a fate much crueler than she deserved."

Volpina brought out her phone and pulled up the broadcast she had done for the Ladyblog and skipped to the part where Eliza got stabbed. She then gave the phone to the heroes and pressed play on the video.

"Now!" Volpina recognized Chat Blanc's words from the video. And then a few seconds had passed, and the two heroes gasped.

"Oh no..." Ladybug murmured.

"I would never-" Chat Noir stammered.

"Well, you did, okay?!" Volpina practically threw the phone back into her bag. "This is what happens when you guys aren't there to save Paris! PEOPLE DIE. I don't know what the heck happened between you two, and frankly, I don't care. But you two have to forgive and forget, or else what's to stop you two from getting Akumatized again??" Volpina reached into her bag again and pulled out the knife that killed Eliza, the rubber band that destroyed her illusions, and lastly, the jar that held the two akumas.

Chat looked like he was about to hiss at the sight of the glass jar and what was inside it. "Are those-"

"Yes, these were your akumas. And the lucky charms you summoned during all three battles. Ladybug, seeing as I can't purify akumas, or release your Lucky Charm items, you'll need to do that now."

Ladybug shook her head. "Unscrew the jar." She pulled out her yoyo and prepared to cleanse the akumas.

Volpina opened the lid, releasing the twin butterflies.

"You've caused enough devastation, nasty butterflies." Ladybug swiped her finger over the yoyo, and it opened up, revealing the bright pink light of the Akuma cleanser. She spun the yoyo around, and then swung it and caught the akumas. Ladybug brought the yoyo back to her, and then released the purified akumas.

Volpina then handed her all three items.

Ladybug placed the knife and the rubber band inside the jar and threw it up into the air. "Miraculous Ladybug!"

The items burst into a huge glowing swarm of Ladybugs. The red bugs flew everywhere, reversing the damage from the devastating battles. Then Volpina noticed two particular Ladybugs break off from the swarm and head towards Ladybug and Chat Noir. One bug flew towards Ladybug and spiraled around her, with the other bug doing the same to Chat Noir. When the bugs finished spiraling around the two heroes, Volpina saw that their cuts and minor injuries were healed, and she could almost see sparkling in their eyes. The two bugs swirled around each other, approaching Volpina.

The bugs swirled around her, healing her cuts and bruises. But then, Volpina had a vision.

It was Adrian rejecting Marinette. The words "someone else" echoed through the vision. Then Marinette was sobbing in her room, but then she looked up, wide-eyed. Adrian was Chat Noir... Then Ladybug was at Notre Dame, thinking, before Chat Noir appeared behind her with a rose. Ladybug, furious, smacked the rose out of his hand and screamed at him. Chat left her at Notre Dame and went to the Agreste mansion. Then... Akumatization.

The vision ended.

"Man..." Ladybug rubbed her head. "I remember we got Akumatized... I just don't know why..."

"I know..." Chat looked just as baffled.

"How about we keep it that way?" Volpina chimed in quickly. "I mean, you forgot why, so you don't have to awkwardly make up." She chuckled a bit.

Ladybug shrugged. "I'm not against that."

Chat Noir smiled. "Me neither! I'd hate it if My Lady was angry with me, that'd be a cat-astrophe!"

Volpina laughed, but Ladybug groaned.

"Well, anyways." Volpina said. "You guys should probably get back to your civilian lives. Your parents are probably worried."

"Oh, right!" Ladybug remembered. "Oh, man, how the heck am I gonna tell them this time?"

"I could break your arm." Volpina offered.

"Heh, um, no thanks." Ladybug began backing away slowly. "Gotta go!" She threw her yoyo and zipped away.

"Hold up, Agreste." Volpina said as Chat Noir was about to leave.

Chat Noir's eyes widened. "Uh-"

"Do try to refrain from breaking anyone else's hearts, chaton." Volpina winked.

Chat looked confused at first, but then he grinned and winked back. "Sure thing, Volpina." He took off, and using his staff to lift himself into the air.

Volpina flew away from the grave. There was one last thing she had to check.