It has a happy ending....right? {COMPLETED}

Chapter 14

Adrien pushed open the glass door to the museum, expecting to see Nino who was usually stationed at the front desk, except a lady dressed in professional clothing with boring hues, stood at the computer, tapping in codes for the gift shop.

"Excuse me?" Adrien asked, grabbing the lady's attention. "Is Nino working today?"

"No, he called in sick," The lady responded before going back to helping customers and their excited children.

"Odd." He thought. He hadn't seen Nino all day, and if he was sick he would've been at home. "Maybe he's out for patrols, though I didn't tell him he had to go out today," Adrien brushed off his absences. If Nino was in trouble he would've known by now.

As Adrien turned around to leave the same way he came in, he saw Ladynoire and her team, pushing through the doors and shooting a hole in the roof. In reaction to the deafening sound of the gunshot, Adrien quickly crouched down, wondering why they were here. A museum wasn't the place they would go for unless something valuable was there. "Okay people, we are looking for our friend," Shelly shouted, cocking her rifle as she lowered it from its position facing the roof to facing the lady at the desk. "Maybe you can help us out?" She continued. The lady shook in fear, holding her hands in the air.

Adrien frantically looked around for a place to transform where Ladynoire wouldn't see him. The action seemed impossible but it was worth the try. As Adrien carefully inched towards a nearby hallway, his back to the criminals, he heard a nickname being called out by Ladynoire.

"Hey, blondie, stand up and turn around for us slowly," Ladynoire instructed. Adrien placed his hands in the air, slowly standing up and turning around, as instructed. As he turned around, he saw the barrel of a pistol pointed at him and Ladynoire's finger on the trigger. Her green eyes grew wider as she realized who was standing in front of her.

"Adrien?" She whispered, low enough so he wouldn't hear it. Ladynoire stood in conflict, staring at him. If she let him go, someone would be suspicious of her actions and if she killed him, she would be killing the love of her life. Before Adrien could ask any questions, Ladynoire lowered her gun and turned back around. "J-just sit right there and you won't get hurt,"

"Ok, I will ask one more time," Shelly threw her rifle to the side and grabbed the pistol that Ladynoire held over Shelly's shoulder, continuing to point it at the lady. "Where is Nino Lahiffe?" She shot another bullet into the air, terrifying the other customers even more.

Was Alya looking for her ex-boyfriend? and why? Had they found out where he worked? And if they did, how? Maybe they were just guessing or maybe they followed Nino. Wait. Adrien had told Marinette where he worked, right in front of Kagami. But Kagami or Ryuko was nowhere to be found.

Well, that was a problem for later, he couldn't do anything about it until he warned Nino but he had to focus on what just happened? Why did Ladynoire spare him? She would have shot someone right then and there if they tried something funny. He knew from a visual experience.

Luckily, Sting was able to drop in, seeing Adrien and helping him out with the other hostages. But before Sting could get back from behind the stationed police barricades, Ladynoire and Shelly had already abandoned the scene, taking off without a trace.

"Wait, I'm confused. You're telling me that she just lowered her gun at the mere sight of you?" Nino asked, trying to understand Adrien's story more.

"Yes,"

"Was she delusional?" He exclaimed, throwing his hands into the air.

"Maybe her cracked ring had something to do with it," Luka chuckled, slumping onto the couch. That's right. He still needed to find a way to fix her ring. He needed to find a way to ask Tikki, who would definitely be against the idea.

"Maybe she knew you as a civilian and had a-" Nino paused mid-sentence, an awful thought crossing his mind.

"Had a what?" Luka asked, sitting up suddenly.

"Had a soft spot for you," Nino looked at Adrien in his lily pad eyes, the bluenette who had been dating him for about a month now crossing Adrien's mind as well.

"There's no way she could be Ladynoire," Adrien didn't even want to believe it, the woman he loved was also a mastermind criminal who had been taunting them for two years.

"We were all surprised that Alya was Shelly," Nino shrugged, still toying with the idea of Marinette being Ladynoire.

"Wait." Adrien sat up, realizing who was close to Marinette. "Kagami was with her one day, and they never got along in high school,"

"Holy shit." Nino looked to Luka, then to Adrien.

"There is a good chance that Marinette is still in contact with Alya and is possibly Ladynoire," Luka explained, standing up in realization.

Weeks after the museum incident, Misterbug and Fennick were left powerless after being defeated by Ladynoire and Ryuko. Misterbug struggled against the sharp wire that Ryuko's wind tied around him effortlessly, while Fennick was left unconscious in the arms of Ladynoire. Ladynoire watched as Nino's necklace beeped, and his transformation fled. She rolled him out of her arms, placing him gently on the ground.

"I always did like Nino, such a talented soul,"

"So you know him, personally?" Misterbug cocked an eyebrow, trying to invoke a reaction from the black cat.

"Yes..." Ladynoire cooed, knowing that Misterbug was only trying to set something off inside of her. Ryuko looked over her shoulder from her gaze over the city, panicked about her answer.

"Well, that narrows down the possibilities by a smaller percentage than I thought," Misterbug's smirk rolled into a Chesire grin. Ladynoire's heart rate quickened and her chest felt heavy. She tried to mutter out an excuse, leaving her mouth agape.

"Ladynoire..." Ryuko placed her hand on the leather of Ladynoire's shoulder, easing her from the shock. "C'mon here," Ryuko pulled Ladynoire away, the ladder still eyeing Misterbug's grin as she looked over her shoulder.

"Marinette, he's just trying to get to you, I can't have you lashing out again," Ryuko whispered as she held onto Ladynoire's shoulders with a firm grasp. Her eyes were darting back and forth between Ladynoire and Misterbug. It was strange for Misterbug, seeing her teammates 'baby' her now that she wielded a broken miraculous.

"I know, but he just..."

"Gets on your nerves, spoils your milk...kitty?" Misterbug teased, butting into the conversation. Ladynoire remembered Ryuko's previous words, but they couldn't hold her back.

She quickly whipped around, her braid lashing her in the face that was sure to leave a whiplash. Ryuko's arms latched under Ladynoire's armpits, letting the cat get her anger out in the form of scratching at the air and making hollow threats.

As Ladynoire's anger cooled, she began to pace back and forth in front of Misterbug, his eyes watching her every move. "I could lecture you on how I am going to kill everyone you love, take away your fame and luxuries and how your time has come to be defeated blah blah blah," Ladynoire spun her wrists in a circular motion as she explained her plan. "Or I could do this,"

She called upon her cataclysm, taking the fox chain from around Nino's neck before turning it to dust. Misterbug's heart dropped, praying in his mind that he would be able to fix what was left of the miraculous.

"Have fun, pretty boy. The police should be here soon," Ryuko waved lazily to him, not bothering to turn around as she slumped the duffle bag full of priceless artifacts over her shoulder. The two criminals leapt from the building's rooftop, disappearing just before the cops showed up.

Misterbug struggled to get out of his wired prison before the cops came looking for him, finding Nino and the destroyed miraculous. He felt the thorns of the wire poke and scratch at his suit, soon tearing his skin open.

"If I could just-" Misterbug said to himself, looking around him. The broken glass shards from a broken window caught his eyes in the glimmer of the moonlight. The blonde quickly crawled his way toward the glass, taking a piece of glass gently in his hands and sawing at the wire.

As Misterbug cut the last notch of wire, he quickly grabbed Nino, slumping him over his shoulder and scooping the dust pile into his hands and leaving the rooftop.