Miss Bustier was going through roll call, starting off with Adrien, who had no idea what was going on. "Agreste, Adrien?" she called, looking down at her clip board with the list of students.

Nino nudged him, whispering, "You're supposed to say, present."

"Oh, uh, present!" He said, though a little too loud which garnered some chuckles and giggles from the others. He smiled sheepishly and Miss Bustier simply smiled kindly at him.

She continued, "Bourgeois, Chloe?"

"Present."

"Bruel, Ivan?"

Everyone jumped as Stoneheart came crashing through the door, ripping the door off its hinges and roaring, "PRESENT." All the students began screaming, Chloe ducking under the desk to call her father. "Mylene?" he called out, looking for the girl who screamed in terror as Stoneheart drew closer.

Marinette was quick to push herself over the desk despite the shouts of her name from her three friends (four if you count Rose, but she was more of Juleka's friend so she tolerated her presence). Running across the desks in front of her, she tripped on the second to last one when Stoneheart shoved some miscellaneous items to the side.

Her hands landed on Adrien's shoulder's just as he was getting up to make his escape out of the room, pushing herself with her momentum from her fall to vault herself over the desk and landed on the floor in front of them.

Throwing her hands up after sticking the land as if she were a gymnast, she immediately ran out the door and leaving.

"I'm gonna kick her butt for leaving us behind," Alix hissed, hiding behind a desk next to Juleka, Nathaniel and Rose. Juleka frowned and nodded, agreeing.

Adrien snapped out of his stupor and hurried out as well, going down to the locker room to transform into Chat Noir.

"First day and I can't even get through roll call. Come on, Plagg, Claws Out!"

"Awe, man," Plagg groaned as he gets sucked into the ring.

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"Do you have any idea who I am?!" Chloe shouted, demanding to be released, "My father is the mayor! He'll get the police, the army, the-the whole cavalry!"

"Don't be forgetting about us superheroes!" Chat Noir flipped over Stoneheart, delivering a blow. Once he landed, the villain shone brightly as it's size increased. "Whoops, forgot about that."

"More like super-incompetent," Chloe rolled her eyes.

"You want cavalry? I'll give you cavalry!" Stoneheart roared, and all the replicas came running to their location. Chat Noir did his best to defend himself, avoiding attacks all while trying to keep up with the original.

Alya came running around the corner, ducking behind a trash can and peaking around just as one of the Stonebeings through a car at Chat Noir. He dodged it but whipped around when he heard a yelp. Alya tried to run, but it was obvious that she wouldn't have made it.

Chat was ready to throw his baton to change the angle of the car when Alya was swept up by a passing figure, making him grin, "Ladybug!"

Ladybug smiled, holding the string of her yo-yo in one hand and holding Alya up by her waist as she swung them to a safe spot, but noticed that his staff was knocked away and was now being held by the upper half of his body. Setting Alya down, she rested her hands on her hips.

"Seriously?" she started, "You could have been injured, or worse, killed. I won't always have good timing." Alya was about to say something but was silence by Ladybug's hand, "I don't want to hear it. Just be more careful." She threw her yo-yo, and swinging after her partner, picking his baton from the ground and propelling herself to the roofs, running overhead before swinging over the hand that held Chat and dropped his baton inside. "Chat Noir!"

"Got it!" Extending his baton into a staff, he was able to break the grip around him and rolled once hitting the ground. Shaking his head, he felt something wrap around this calf and pull him up into the air. "Whoa!" Looking up from his hanging position, Ladybug sat on the lamp post.

"Sorry for the wait," she apologized.

"Have I ever told you that you turn my world upside down?" he joked, wiggling his eyebrows. Ladybug let out a small laugh, shaking her head. She was about to reply when the Stonebeings began roaring and running towards them.

"Whoop, gotta blast!" she announce, jumping back onto the roof, pulling Chat along by his leg before hauling him up as well and he raced to keep up with her.

"Wait, wait! Aren't we going to take them down?" he called out, but she kept on her track.

"If you want to take them all out, you have to take down the first one," she explained, both stopping at the stairs right before the bridge to the Eiffel Tower, where Stoneheart had climbed up on.

Stonebeings began to make their way to the tower as well, where there was a barricade waiting. The mayor stood next to a police car, yelling into a megaphone.

"I demand my daughter's return!"

"Daddy!" Chloe cried, struggling to break free from Stoneheart's grasp.

"You want her back?" Stoneheart asked, before raising her up in the air, "You can have her!" He promptly threw her, sending her flying towards the impending ground. The mayor screamed in horror and Chloe in fear.

Was this how it was going to end?

Before she could hit the ground, a figure flew down and caught her, pulling them both up with her yo-yo and landing on the ground, carrying Chloe bridal style. Setting her down quickly, Ladybug tried to snap Chloe out of her daze.

Chloe stared at the masked female with wide eyes, not noticing she was shaking and breathing irregularly until the hero cupped her cheeks, calling out to her.

"Hey...hey! Look at me. Just look at me," patting her cheeks lightly, she got Chloe to focus, her breath calming down, "hey, you're just fine, okay?" Nodding numbly, she realized that her father was running over, and scooped her up in a tight hug.

"Oh, Chloe," he whispered, tugging her away behind the barricade. "Oh, my little princess." Chloe brought her hands up to curl them up in his suit, wrinkling the fabric, but it grounded her.

She sniffled before whispering, "I was so scared."

"Me too...I couldn't bare to lose you, my darling, little girl."

"We are now clear to attack," a red-headed officer shouted, his right arm in a sling. Chat Noir appeared behind ladybug just as she whipped around to face the officials,

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you crazy?!" she waved her arms, "If you hit him, you'll only make it worse!"

"How about you mind your own business as a civilian and leave it to the professionals. You've already failed once," he scorned.

"Sure we did," she admitted, catching everyone off guard, "if I had captured Stoneheart's akuma the first time, we wouldn't be here. It's my fault."

"Ladybug, that's not-"

"But," she crossed her arms, standing her ground, "we also managed to do more than you professionals did. I'm not putting down your work, you all did all you could, but these akumas are not for you to handle. Without us, she," she pointed at Chloe, "wouldn't be alive, along with another girl you had no idea was almost crushed by a car." The officials flinched, not finding the words to respond. "This current situation is my fault, so let me take responsibility, please."

Chat Noir stepped up, wrapped his arm around her shoulders with a smirk, "Us," he corrected. "Let us take responsibility. We are a team, after all." A minuscule blush spread on Ladybug's cheeks, looking up at the blond.

Before anyone could reply, Stoneheart roared. Everyone turned to look in shock as the villain began coughing and spluttering, before a hoard of dark butterflies erupted from his mouth, sending him falling back, frozen. Mylene screamed, but was still unable to get out of the closed fist around her.

Everyone present looked on at the black butterflies as they formed a face, and then it began to talk, "People of Paris, listen closely, I am Papillon. Give me the Ladybug earrings and the Chat ring now. Don't you think you've done enough damage to these poor, innocent people."

"I'm gonna stop your tirade right there," Ladybug stepped forward, a scowl on her face, "what do you take us for? Don't try to put the blame on someone else, without you, none of this would have happened in the first place. Papillon, no matter how long it takes, or how we have to do it, we'll find you and end your terrorism and retrieve your Miraculous!"

Pushing into a running start, she wrapped her yo-yo around to lamp posts and slingshot herself towards the hoard. She grunted, capturing and dispersing all the akumas, Papillon roared in pain until disappearing.

Those who watched bellow could only show their shock and awed expressions as she landed at the edge and smiled down at them. "No matter who is out there that wants to hurt you, no matter what akuma may appear, Ladybug and Chair Noir are here to protect you. I ask of you all to count on us." Raising her yo-yo, she released all the purified akumas, which dispersed like a strong wind.

"Whoa," Chat released the breath he was holding, the officials cheering behind him, though he didn't pay much mind to them. His focus solely on his partner, "Whoever she is under that mask...surely I would..."

His mind flashed to Marinette, staring up at him through her eyelashes with bright blue-bell eyes.

Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he quickly made his way up the tower with Ladybug, just as Stoneheart got up and started climbing up the tower.

"I won't let you take Mylene from me," he growled, "Gather, Stonebeings!"

"Oh boy," Chat Noir and Ladybug leaned over the rail to see the Stonebeings climbing up, then turned to where Stoneheart was making his way up as well.

"Ladybug, he's holding the Akuma and Mylene in the same hand, but how are we going to make him let go?"

Marinette smirked, "We have to catch him off guard."

"If it were that easy, we'd have this in the bag," he rested a hand on his hip, surely she knew that.

She shook her head, "Tell me, kitty, what happens when you bring together two shy people who like each other close to one another?"

He raised an eyebrow, "Uh, I don't know? I guess they get flu-" he paused, "Oh." Ladybug winked and swung up to catch up with Stoneheart. "I can't tell if that's really smart or actually kind of evil..." he laughed in disbelief and quickly followed after her.

Ladybug squatted on the top of the tower, squinting her eyes, Mylene looked up and was about shout, but the hero quickly held a finger to her lips. Don't alarm him of her presence.

Rising up to balance on the beam, she threw her yo-yo up, "Lucky Charm." Retrieving her yo-yo only a few moments later, she caught a ladybug patterned- "Is this a parachute?" she squawked as Chat flew behind her, screaming. Luckily landing on a beam near her, he glanced at her strapping on the parachute.

"What are you doing?"

She grinned, "Getting ready for some free fallin'," she switch the last two words to English, spinning her yo-yo and wrapping it around Stoneheart's arm and over his shoulder, and pulling. "Get ready, Chat Noir!" Pulling with all her strength, she was able to bring the hand closer, and then there was the small of a small 'smooch' of Mylene's lips meeting Stoneheart's.

They both gasped, but Stoneheart jerked his hand away, releasing his hold of both Mylene and the Akuma, Mylene crying out as she barely caught hold of one of the stony fingers. Chat Noir flipped off the tower, sticking his staff in the crevice of the structure and extended it, pulling it out as he neared the Akuma and swung it like a bat to hit it towards Ladybug. After grabbing on to a beam himself, he looked up expectantly as she caught it.

Wrapping the yo-yo around it, with a swift tug to apply pressure, the item broke and out came the evil akuma. "There you are, you little shit," she muttered, opening her yo-yo and spinning it to get a good throw, "time to go back to who you once were."

She gasped as Ivan returned to himself, both and him and Mylene screaming as they began to plummet to their doom. Steeling herself, she didn't hesitate to jump off and aimed herself for Mylene.

"Chat Noir!"

"I got him!" he called back, "Cataclysm!" Hopping up, he pressed his hand into a part of the tower, which pushed out a part above it. He held on tightly until he caught Ivan by his hand, looking to see how his partner was fairing.

Holding on to Mylene, she angled herself to throw her yo-yo and catch the akuma, before pulling the string on her chute and releasing the parachute, beginning a safe descend.

Now, safely on the ground, Mylene tried to calm herself down and breathe slowly, Ladybug opened her yo-yo releasing a now white and purified butterfly with a soft, "Be true to yourself, little butterfly."

Grabbing her parachute, she toss it up in the air with a shout of "Miraculous Ladybug!" The parachute become a cluster of shimmering ladybugs that broke into groups, wrapping around destroyed objects and stonebeings, returning them to how they once were.

Chat supported Ivan as they all watched in awe as everything was turned back, as if the attack had never happened.

Once everything was finished being restored, she brought Mylene and Ivan together, handing Mylene the song that Ivan had wrote for her. "Read," she pointed at the female then turned to Ivan, "talk. My work here is done, peace out."

Standing side by side with her partner, she watched as words and blushes were exchanged between the two, when Mylene finally hugged Ivan, leaving him a blushing mess not knowing what to do.

"That could be us, you know," Chat joked, and Ladybug laughed, bumping his shoulder.

"Sure," she replied, though sarcastically. "We could be like Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl." Chat turned to her with wide eyes, but the look she was giving him meant that she was pulling his leg.

"Don't go leading me on, you'll break my poor heart," he sighed deeply, holding a hand to his chest, changing his expression to one of hurt.

Both their Miraculous beeped in warning, and Ladybug turned to him, "We're running out of time, bye kitty. See you next time."

"Until we meet again, milady," he bowed and she jokingly curtsied before they both set off their respective ways.