[Mariposa Spanish for Butterfly] Today was the day. The day when Marinette would tell Adrien how she felt about him. But then... It all goes wrong... Witness the fall of Ladybug and the rise of Mariposa, Princess of all Akuma's.
Once again, nearly all of Paris was brought to the front of Black Widow's palace where on the stage, there was still Chloe and Lila from a few days ago, but also a frozen Chat Noir, along with Darkblade, Lady Wifi with a camera already in play, and of course Black Widow herself.
Just as this bit of news was about to be released to the people of Paris, one Gabriel Agreste joined the crowd and slowly tried to make his way to the stage.
"Citizens of Paris," Black Widow began grinning widely "Tonight, we shall see, once and for all, just who exactly it is behind Chat Noir's mask." she said pointing to Chat, a large cheer coming from her re-akumatized people and those under Princess Fragrance's spell.
The still free people of this 'City of Love' were a little worried, and yet curios as to who the boy behind the mask was.
"Bubbler, a drum roll please..." Black Widow said to the Akumatized dj who nodded and laid down the right record onto his player.
Slowly, to build up a dramatic effect, Black Widow made her way over to Chat Noir, reached for his hand and began to pull the ring off his finger.
"HEY LOOK IT'S LADYBUG!" someone called out, making everyone gasp, the music stop, and Black Widow to spin around fire in her eyes.
"What was THAT?!" she cried out looking for the culprit who dare say such a thing, but no one replied, or pointed to anyone else so the identity of this person was not shown.
"Who would DARE! say such a thing like that? Speak up! Or else you will all go into the dungeon, like I said you would if I ever hear ANYONE say HER name ever again!"
Still nobody spoke up, or pointed to another citizen.
"Fine..." Black Widow said darkly standing tall "Darkblade, Rogercop, round them ALL up and shove them ALL into the dungeon!"
"As you wish, Your Highness," the two of them said bowing and got to work, not letting anyone to escape.
Black Widow, and the rest of her villainous crew, all having been distracted by all this, did not see Hawkmoth, hiding in the shadows of backstage.
Waiting for the right chance, the man waited until Lady Wifi went to help the Knight and the Policeman, and cut off the camera.
Then he quickly grabbed the boy, pulled out Chat's staff, extended it and together they left the scene.
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Once everyone was rounded up, Black Widow turned her attention back to Chat Noir, she was not going to let this opportunity fall again, only to find the cat boy was gone.
Screaming in frustration, Black Widow soared into the air and began searching for Chat, and his helper, so she can kill them both.
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After Hawkmoth had grabbed Chat Noir, he went back to the rooftop, collected Tikki, and together, with a still frozen Chat Noir, they headed back to Hawkmoth's place.
Since it had already been searched, the chances of it being looked through again were pretty slim.
"So... How are we going to unfreeze Chat Noir?" Tikki asked nervously, looking towards Hawkmoth who was going through the objects used to barricade the door.
"We do what Ladybug did when he was stuck in that dumb freezer," he said pulling out a microwave.
Placing Chat Noir behind the door, and the microwave on the other side, so he wouldn't get hurt if something went wrong, Hawkmoth and Tikki waited both nervous in case this didn't work.
After about 10 seconds the microwave dinged and Hawkmoth opened the door, letting a reawaken Chat Noir in.
"You alright Chat Noir?" Tikki asked getting into his face.
"I'm fine," he said checking he was still him "Still got my Miraculous and suit on, so I'm guessing Black Widow didn't see me without it."
"No, and you were lucky I was there to make sure that didn't happen," Hawkmoth said glaring at the cat darkly "Why is it you are always the one to get hit by the Akumas and never Ladybug?"
"Dumb luck I guess," Chat said shrugging never really putting much thought into this before.
"I'm guessing you didn't get the locket or the earrings then?" Hawkmoth asked deciding to drop the subject, giving Chat back his staff.
"Nope, kind of hard to do when I was fighting off everyone there and then frozen for how ever long." Chat said looking around for a clock.
"So what do we try now?" Tikki asked nervously looking between the man and the boy.
"We need to somehow, get her alone and try again," Hawkmoth said looking out his window.
"There's a high chance that she's looking for you, boy, and is out there right now hunting you," he said.
"Oh that's good, yeah 'cause I so do love being the one who's hunted instead of being the hunter," Chat said.
"Just go out there and get her to follow you back here," Hawkmoth said in an orderly voice.
"Ok, ok, I'm going," Chat said backing off and heading for the door.
"So, what's your plan on getting her to stay still long enough while she's here?" Tikki asked curious.
"Well, believe it or not, little Kwami, when I was younger, before I got into what I do in my civilian life, I was rather good at using a rope," Hawkmoth said going to go look for one.
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Outside, Chat Noir was running over rooftops and looking for Black Widow, to try and lead her back to Hawkmoth's place.
After not finding her for a while, he came to a stop on top of the Eiffel Tower.
"Where is she?" Chat asked looking out towards the city, leaning on the railings a little.
"Lost someone Kitty Cat?" a familiar voice asked behind him, filling Chat's heart up with both happiness, sadness, and slight fear.
