ADJUDICATION

Tragedy Below the Eiffel Tower

It was a few days after Ikari Dozen was defeated. (Yes, I'm using Cat Noir's joke name for her as I think it is amusing.) Paris was feeling anticipation as Monarch doesn't usually go a full week without akumatizing another person with some sort of heartache. There must have been hundreds of negative emotions going on all at once all over Paris every day.

Lila Rossi (or if you've watched far enough ahead, you can call her X as we don't know her real name) was walking under the Eiffel Tower. Some heads were turned, and when one of them announced "Hey! It's the Alliance girl!"

After this announcement, a lot more of attention was placed upon the famous digital assistant that resided inside the digital world of the Alliance rings, the major difference was that they weren't looking at the digitized Lila, but the real deal. Many gathered and most asked for autographs.

Lila had to admit in her own mind that she had never seen so many pens and items to sign in her life, and then she cringed that her mind spoke a truth instead of a lie.

But just as she was bathing in her fame thanks to Gabriel's new invention, the crowd changed their perspectives because someone gasped "Ladybug!"

As Ladybug was a famous hero, everyone gave her attention above someone who just helped them get around, and inform them when an akuma is around among other functions. Lila was jealous of course, and the memory of Ladybug ruining her chances with Adrien Agreste was still fresh in her mind, and that compounded with the jealousy. A delectable combination that by itself would have attracted a certain power-giving black butterfly. Yet Monarch didn't react, and since everyone was paying attention to the newcomer, nobody noticed that Lila had became a perfect target for Monarch, but then again, if Lila is known for one thing beyond the constant stream of lies she spews without question is that she can keep a straight face to hide her true emotions when she chooses so.

Ladybug and Lila were soon standing facing one another. "Clear a circle!" Ladybug instructed. It was an eerie tone, a one filled with instruction, almost as if for that brief moment Ladybug had become an instructeur de formation. (may as well use the proper French term for 'Drill Instructor') The citizens were shocked and so they did as was instructed, but slowly as fear was driving their hearts. They didn't even think that Ladybug was even capable of saying words in such a manner.

"L-ladybug?" Lila relayed. "I'm surprised that you are out and about when there is no akumatized villain in sight."

"I'm on patrol, looking for trouble, and it looks like I've found it." Ladybug said in an uneasy cold tone. Some people were raising their phones to record what was happening.

"Trouble? Where? There is no trouble here, and if there were, I'm sure that the people around us would have noticed it." Lila noted. "Besides, where's the kitten? Don't you two usually work together?"

"Cat Noir and I employ a divide and conquer method to our patrols. If either of us see an akuma or a villain created from one, we join up to battle it together. But if there is none, we take threats as we find them, as we can handle a petty theft or two on our own without calling the other. Which reminds me, I think its time for me to take care of you."

Lila felt a chill as Ladybug said the last part. It was chilling and full of venom. "W-what do y-you mean? Take care of me? What have I done to you?"

"It's not just about what you've done to me, but also what you've done to Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Adrien Agreste and their friends. You've lied to me, you've lied to them, and you keep lying, it's like there is no off switch for you!" Ladybug yelled. "You lied to Adrien and Alya Césaire about you and I being friends on the Ladyblog. You lied about being the holder of the Fox miraculous, you lied to all the people of Paris when you made an illusion of me akumatized battling with my faithful feline. You lied to the school to try and get Marinette expelled because you didn't like that she saw through your lies. I am done with the lies and I don't want to see someone hurt in a way that they won't recover because of you." Ladybug announced, her anger was clear. The people were shocked. They didn't know she was a liar, but they didn't know what to believe, could the digital assistant version of Lila also be lying about the best places to shop, the best places to hide from akumas and the cheapest places to find wholesale goods?

"B-but... even if that were all true, what are you going to do about it?" Lila asked.

"Lucky charm!" Ladybug shouted and tossed her yo-yo high into the air. A sharp knife formed from the ladybugs and Ladybug caught it. "This!" She yelled as she drove the lucky charm into Lila's heart. Lila gasped and a tear came down from her eye and fear could be seen on her face.

Everyone was shocked. You could hear phones drop and some even made a crunch sound as the screens broke. Paris was in shock again. Could they have been fooled like they had been before when Lila created the illusion of Ladybug and Cat Noir battling each other during hero's day so that Monarch (Hawkmoth at the time) could akumatize a large amount of people.

Their darkest fears were confirmed when one man broke free of the shock of witnessing a murder first-hand. He went to the body and touched it, from what the Parisians could recall about Vulpina's illusions is that when they are interacted with via physical touch, the illusion would vanish. Although not many were certain about this as the people who'd know for sure are the members of team Miraculous. But Lila's body didn't vanish upon touch. She really was dead and this was not an illusion.

So, our tale has begun, and what a horrific beginning. Ladybug, Paris' greatest hero and defender of Paris' lands, had been caught red-handed for murder! Not only that, but her recorded words also provided a motive that the people overlooking the law and order in Paris will use to their advantage to ensure that Paris will see justice for what had happened.