"It's her. We finally found her. After all our years of searching." The woman dropped her hood to reveal a gaunt, emotionless face with a tight blonde bun and intense blue eyes. A young man with excruciating teal eyes blinked into appearance.

"How can you be so sure?"

"It IS her. It has to be — the chosen one. More powerful than all of us combined. The girl of three worlds."

They stared at the girl's video on the screen. She appeared around 14 years old, still young, with pale skin and deep indigo hair, pulled up in round pigtails. Her suit was bright red, with black polka-dots like a ladybug. Her mask matched her costume with a red ladybug print surrounding her large bluebell eyes. She swung her magic yoyo and hit the akumatized villain in the face.

"Well, then. I believe it's time to return to Paris."

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Zoe brushed her pink-streaked blonde hair out of her face. She was crouched in a dark alleyway, careful to stay out of sight. She carefully observed Ladybug as she called up her Lucky Charm, and an everyday object fell into her hands, as ladybug-printed as her outfit.

"What am I supposed to do with this?" Ladybug wondered. Zoe was afraid to blink, afraid to look away for even a second at the thought of losing her.

"Don't let her out of your sight," Zoe told herself. "The fate of the world depends on it."