the Present: part 1

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Ms Lulu Hadeen was a model. Adrien had even worked with her before. She had played his older sister in previous shoots, but this time she was cast as his mother. That didn't go over very well, it seemed.

Now she was akumatized as Mizz Hazbeen and was hellbent on stealing other people's youth. Her sentimonster Timeless had the power to hold a person in time; it paused, rewound, or fast forwarded a person through time.

The Eiffel Tower stood, but about fifty metres too short, having been aged back to its construction.

There was this one thing about Sentimosters: You could not cataclysm them. Like you could, but actually you really shouldn't.

Ladynoir had first discovered this when she cataclysmed Reflekdoll. That the sentimonster would be chaotic after that was all that could be counted on.

So when the sentimonster Timeless thundered around, aging everything in its way, Ladybug and Cat Noir were not looking to cataclysm it, but, you know, accidents happen.

"The akuma went into her earrings," Cat Noir hollered to Ladybug as she zipped over him on her yoyo, knocking Timeless' blaster to the side. The car it zapped instead of Cat Noir crackled and seemed to be replaced with a rusty heap.

"You saw it happen?"

Cat quailed a little at her intensity. "Well, I was in the crowd watching the shoot." It was partly true. Obviously he was there, but there were only three models IN the shoot, so that was too narrow a group. But the crowd along the edges had been pretty full, given it was the Concorde, near the Louvre.

Marinette had been too. It irked her to think she might have seen Cat Noir and never known it. But then, he just generally irked her. "Into fashion now, Kitty?"

They started running down a narrow side street, trying to get some distance between them and the blasting sentimonster while they regrouped.

"Not by choice, Bugaboo," he answered honestly.

Ladybug scoffed to herself. "Yes, I can just picture the sort of guy you are, and fashion has got nothing to do with it."

Cat Noir smirked. "So you like to picture me, then?"

"UGH!!"

Ladybug's whole face was twisted with distaste. He was really infuriating, and that was probably the closest he'd come all night to actively flirting with her. She did NOT want him thinking it was okay to start that up again after the whole Couple of the Year thing.

Cat was hurt and apologetic. "All right, over stepped. Sorry. Old habits. So, how do we get past that giant alarm clock to get to her earrings?"

Ladybug relaxed into the change of topic. "Right, we need some way of stopping the sentimonster from pausing--"
"Or aging us. I kinda want to get old the old fashioned way."
"--or making us toddlers again. I don't think being in diapers would help us get Ms Hadeen back."

"What should we try? She isn't leaving the protection of the sentimonster, so we can't split them up."

"No, so we'll have to take control of the monster or release the amok."

"I think the amok landed in her watch," Cat Noir scrunched his nose, thinking back.

"Of course! That makes sense."

"But her watch isn't any easier to get ahold of than her earrings, so we're back at square one."

"Then I guess I'll need the help of my Lucky Charm!" A whirling fizz emitted from Ladybug's yoyo, and out of a flash of Creation popped... a small throw blanket.

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