The two friends walked further on into a small wood where they were unknowingly being watched by Wasp. She had planned on jumping the innocent girl once she was alone in the woods but now that she had Cat Noir with her, her plan would require some set backs.

Growl!

"What was that?" Cat Noir asked.

"My stomach. I guess I'm little hungry." Marinette said.

She then spotted a few apple trees, she hungrily went over to the first tree and picked an apple. But the tree smacked it out of her hand.

"Ouch!" She said.

"What do you think you're doing?" The tree asked angrily.

"Well I was hungry and- did you say something?"

"She was hungry." The tree mocked.

"She was hungry." Another one mocked.

"How would you like it if someone came along and picked something off of you?"

"Oh dear. I keep forgetting I'm not in France anymore." Marinette said.

"Come along Marinette." Cat Noir said. "You don't want any of those apples. Ick!"

"Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?" The tree asked getting more angry.

"Oh no. It's just that she doesn't like little green worms."

"Worms! Oh you!"

The tree tried to grab Marinette but Cat Noir smacked him away and pushed her to the side.

"I'll show you how to get apples." He whispered. He then stuck his tongue out at the trees and began mocking them. "Yeah you've got worms alright! And caterpillars! And wood lice! And I bet your apples are rotten too! Rotten to the core!"

"Why you cocky little- give it to him boys!"

The trees began throwing apples at him. He got knocked over a few times but it didn't hurt.

"How do you like them apples?" One tree asked.

"We like them just fine thank you." He said catching them. "Suckers! Help yourself milady."

"Do all trees talk here?"

"Just the ones with bad attitudes."

He handed her an apple and put the rest in her basket. One apple fell out and rolled to the other side. When Marinette went to retrieve it she found that it had stopped at what appeared to be a tin foot followed by a tin leg and a whole tin body. It was a man and every part of his body was tin except for his hair which was red and his eyes which were turquoise. He reminded her of Nathaniel minus the tin body and face. He wore a dark blue suit and was holding up an axe that looked very old. He appeared stiff, as if he couldn't move.

"Cat Noir! Look at this!" Marinette called.

He hurried toward her and looked at the tin man.

"Mmmph." It squeaked. "Mmmph."

"Did you just speak?" Marinette asked it.

"Mmmm."

"He says oil can." Marinette guessed.

"Oil can what?" Adrien asked.

She then saw a small oil can on a tree stump.

"Where do you want it first?" She asked grabbing it.

"Mmmmph! Mmmm!"

"He said his mouth." Cat Noir squirted his tin lips with the oil can.

The tin man moved his lips and began to speak.

"Muh...muh...my goodness." He said. "I can talk again. Oil my arms, my elbows, please."

Marinette did that and his arm holding the axe fell.

"Does that hurt?" She asked.

"No it feels wonderful! I've held that axe up for ages."

"How on earth did you get this way?"

"About a year ago I fell in love with this winkie girl shy but very beautiful like you." Marinette giggled, Cat Noir rolled his eyes.

"She had long black hair highlighted with violet and the most lovely eyes." He said. "We were gonna get married but her mother didn't like me so she paid Antibug the wicked witch of the East to take away my heart so I couldn't love and then turned all the rest of my organs aside from my hair and eyes into tin."

"How awful."

"It gets worse. Because I couldn't love anymore and because I wasn't a man anymore I didn't see myself worthy enough to be her husband so I went off live out my days as a woodsman and I never saw her again."

"But when did the whole you couldn't move thing kick in?" Cat Noir asked.

"Well one day while I was chopping that tree it started to rain. I rusted solid and I've been that way ever since."

"Oh you poor thing." Marinette said.

"Yeah it's sad." He said. "But where are my manners? I should introduce myself before I go any further. My name is etain bleu that means blue tin but you can just call me etain."

"Well the tin I get but why do the blue?" Cat Noir asked.

"Don't know, maybe because these blue clothes were the only thing that could fit me or maybe because I'm feeling blue everyday."

"I'm Marinette and this is Cat Noir. We're very sorry this happened to you."

"That makes you the first, most of the time nobody cares about a emotionless hunk of junk like me."

"Well we're not like that, are we kitty?"

"Nope. Not at all."

"Thank you both for what you've done but I should be going." Etain said.

"To where?" Marinette asked.

"I don't know. Probably to chop another tree."

"You mean to sulk again?" Cat Noir said. "That's a dumb way to live."

"Hush!" Marinette scolded. "Why don't you go back to that girl? I'm sure she misses you terribly."

"But what will she say when she sees me like this? And how could I possibly love her now that my heart is gone?"

"Well we're going to see the wizard of Miracula who can help us I'm sure he could get back your heart or give you a new one."

"Suppose he wouldn't?"

"Oh but he must. We've come such a long way already."

Suddenly the air was filled with a horrible cackle that made the three of them jumped to their feet. Standing on top of a tree was Antibug.

"You call that long?! Why you've just begun." She screeched. "Helping the little lady along are you my fine gentlemen? Well stay away from her! Or I'll stuff a mattress with you!" She pointed to Cat Noir. "And you!" She said pointing to Etain. "I'll use you for a bee hive!"

"Who are you anyway?!" Cat Noir asked feeling annoyed.

"Wasp! The wicked witch!"

"Of the east?"

"The west! You fool! I'm much prettier than my sister was."

"Your sister must've been quite a looker!"

"Cat Noir don't." Marinette said.

"Better listen to the girl straw man! If you know what's good for you!"

"Why? You don't scare me!"

"In that case, here scarecrow wanna play ball?"

With that said she threw a fire ball straight at him. Cat Noir dropped to the ground and desperately tried to get away from the flame.

"Fire!" He shouted. "Get it away! Get it away! I'm burning!"

Etain quickly snuffed it out. Wasp cackled and vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Are you okay?" Marinette asked helping him up.

"Yeah."

"Now she's really mad." She sighed. "You two better get out of here and forget you ever saw me unless you want a witch after you."

"Never." Cat Noir said brushing himself off. ""I'm not afraid of her, you're my friend and I won't leave you no matter what she does. Stuff a mattress with me, humph! Go on and ride your broom ya old snake!"

"I've heard things about her." Etain said. "Or at least things Vanisher told me before she turned me into this and they weren't nice. But that doesn't mean I'm going to let her do anything to you. Bee hive, bah! Let her try and make a bee hive out of me! I'll bet she eats nails for breakfast."

"Oh you guys are the best friends a girl could have." Marinette giggled. "But you don't have to do this really, she's my problem."

"True but you helped us with our problems." Etain protested.

"We're just returning the favor milady." Cat Noir said. "Because that's what friends do."

"Thank you, you really are wonderful." Marinette said. "You know what's funny you both seem very familiar to me. Which is strange because before today I never knew any of you."

"I don't know maybe you saw me hanging around another field?" Cat Noir suggested.

"And maybe you saw me when I was human." Etain said.

"No it's not that it's...it's hard to explain. Well never mind that now, let's get going."

"Right." They said.