No Escape (Miraculous Ladybug)

Alyssa Agreste

Both teenagers were speechless. Chat's bright green eyes were wide with disbelief.

"That's... No, it can't be." He said shaking his head.

"I wouldn't expect you to remember me. I left before Mother died. She gave me my Kwami and told me to get out of Paris. I think she knew that father was Hawkmoth and that he would be coming after my Miraculous. So I went to England. She died a week later, and no matter what anyone tells me the only explanation is father killed her because she told me everything. I knew she had a Kwami for you too that father didn't know about so you were protected. I couldn't come back or else I would be putting your life in danger." She spoke with a low voice and did not make eye contact once.

Chat stared at her for many moments without blinking. His mouth hung open in awe. This was just too much for Ladybug, first Chat was Adrien and now Adrien has a sister that he never knew about? And Hawkmoth is their father?! The lights suddenly went out and a warm glow from the sunset outside barely shed any light. Alyssa leaned her head back onto the cold steel. She let out a long breath.

After a few hours Alyssa heard soft snores coming from Ladybug's direction. She could not see anything in the pitch blackness and assumed that Chat had fallen asleep too.

"Did she really love him?" Adrien's soft voice broke the calming silence. Alyssa jumped and turned her head towards him, he could see her perfectly fine thanks to his nocturnal vision.

"What?" Alyssa asked.

"Did our mother really love our father?" He asked again, Alyssa blinked slowly.

"She loved the man who cared for his daughter and newborn son, before he found his Kwami. She loved the man she married, not the one he evolved into." Alyssa said carefully. Adrien turned away from his sister. He rested his head on his knees taking in everything that had happened in the last several hours.

Alyssa woke to the lock on the reinforced door clicking open. The room was bright with morning light and the fluorescent's above their heads. She watched Chat and Ladybug wake as one of Hawkmoth's servants came in with food and water for all three of them. They sat the tray down in between Chat and Ladybug and loosened their chains and opened their shackles so they could use their hands. The servant left without giving anything to Alyssa. The other two looked nervously at Alyssa who just closed her eyes to go back to sleep.

Chat and Ladybug felt guilty eating in front of Alyssa while she sat with nothing.

"Are you alright?" Ladybug asked Chat, she had come to terms that he was Adrien. Oddly enough she could still hold a conversation with him instead of flubbing every other word like at school. He didn't respond, he just chugged his water and leaned against the pole. A few minutes later the servant returned and re shackled them and tightened their chains and took away the food and water.

The day drug on until Hawkmoth returned. He held a wooden chest that enclosed Alyssa's miraculous. There were six other slots, purple, red ,black, blue, yellow, and orange. He handed the box to one of his servants and walked up to Chat Noir, who glared at his father. Hawkmoth leaned down and pulled off his miraculous. Chat transformed back into Adrien.

Alyssa saw Ladybug's eyes soften. Hawkmoth then turned to Ladybug, he pulled off one earring but she moved her head so he couldn't take the other one. Hawkmoth grabbed her chin firmly and stole the second earring. Ladybug reverted back to her non-miraculous form: Marinette.

"M-Marinette?!" Adrien said. She didn't look at him, it seems that the two knew each other in their daily lives. Their Kwami's came out, Tikki stayed close to Marinette while Plagg stayed next to Adrien. Alyssa's heart rate rose as Hawkmoth was about to place them into the box. She stood up and the chains holding her to the pole snapped away from her hands and she was free. She leaped onto Hawkmoth and knocked the Miraculous from his hands, sending them flying across the ground.

"How did you-?" Hawkmoth groaned, getting to his feet. Alyssa held up a straight pin,

"Might want to make sure that I don't have anything on me, next time." She growled. She ducked under his hook and punched him in the solar plexus. Hawkmoth fell over again, Alyssa went to Adrien and freed him from his shackles then did the same to Marinette.

"Go! Get out of here!" Alyssa said right before Hawkmoth punched her in the shoulder. The two teenagers had nowhere to go, the guards slowly advanced on them. There was only one window but they were more than six stories up. Alyssa caught a look from Tikki and Plagg, she pushed herself up.

"Do it, to save them." She whispered, the two Kwami's were reluctant to move towards Alyssa. Hawkmoth kicked Alyssa in the stomach and sent her sliding across the floor. "Come on! Just do it! Or he wins!" Alyssa screeched, Adrien and Marinette looked at each other confused. Alyssa got up and dodged a high kick to her face. The Kwami's flew into Alyssa and fused with her human body. She and Adrien locked eyes, he saw a single tear drop from her eyes,

"I'm sorry" she mouthed before a blood-curdling scream came from her mouth. She fell to the floor, her skin changing from a pale flesh tone to red and black. She looked like Chat Noir but had polka dots of red peppering her body. She stood up and turned to Adrien and Marinette, her blue eyes sparkled with what looked like pain before she collapsed again. Hawkmoth ran over to the miraculous that were on the ground and threw them into the wooden box.

He turned back to Alyssa who was writhing in agony on the ground. Her chest heaved for air then laid still.

"No! No!" Hawkmoth yelled, Adrien was dumbfounded, what had just happened? Was she dead? Hawkmoth ran over and bent over Alyssa, listening for a heartbeat. His vile screaming told Adrien that he found none. He and Marinette slowly backed away from Hawkmoth and Alyssa. Adrien saw a thin stream of blood trickling down Alyssa's mouth. He held Marinette close to him, she whimpered in fear.

Suddenly Alyssa burst up and her knee met Hawkmoth's head. She tossed the yo-yo Ladybug used into Adrien's hands,

"Go! Live!" She yelled at him, turning back to Hawkmoth. Adrien grabbed Marinette's waist and they both jumped out of the window. They landed in the busy street's of Paris.

"Let's get out of here!" Marinette said, running away from the building they came out of. Adrien hesitated but soon followed his partner and classmate. They didn't have time to talk about what happened. The sharp sound of shattering glass made Adrien run faster. A dull thump followed and both him and Marinette stopped and looked back, Alyssa was scrambling to her feet, something clutched tightly in her hands. She sprinted towards Adrien and Marinette, shoving them forward.

They wove in between cars and people, a blast of darkness narrowly missed Marinette. They came to a bridge over the Seine River. Alyssa threw them into the water and turned around, Hawkmoth threw another blast of evil at Alyssa. She jumped over the railing as the blast hit her square in the back.

Hawkmoth looked over the railing into the water, there was no sign of the three escapee's. He spat and whipped around, returning to his lair. The current carried the three young adults away from Paris to a rocky shore in the countryside of France. All three of them were coughing up their lungs as they dragged their exhausted bodies out of the freezing water. Alyssa collapsed still half in the water, she opened her hand and out fell Adrien's and Marinette's miraculous. Tikki and Plagg came out of Alyssa's body and flew to their miraculous's.