A Sudden Return 3/3✅

Miraculous Ladybug: 16

Marinette stood there, eyes wide opened. She tried to imagine this was all a dream, but Tom was really there, looking upset.

"What?!" She finally got her words out. "Who?! How?! Why?! When?!"

Tom opened the door to let them in. Adrien and Marinette walked inside, still confused.

"Today the Mayor suddenly called us," Tom explained sadly. "He said he was closing the bakery, I don't know why?"

The Mayor suddenly closing the bakery? Why?

"But he said something about Chloe," Tom continued, making Marinette and Adrien to look at each other. "He said we had to find Chloe in order to open the bakery again. Do you guys know where Chloe is?"

"But why would Mayor close the bakery just to find Chloe?" Adrien asked.

Tom only shrugged. "I don't know what we did to him. I don't know how Chloe being missing has to do with us."

But Marinette knew. She gulped as her thought roamed around her brain. She wanted it to not he true, but this was the only explanation she could get.

Marinette grabbed Adrien's arm, making him look at her. "Uh, we'll be going upstairs, papa, and think about where Chloe might be."

Tom smiled. "I'm so glad you're trying to help us, Marinette. Honestly, I could not ask for a better daughter."

"Of course, papa," Marinette was still dragging Adrien up her room. "Anything to save the bakery."

Finally they reached her room, and Marinette closed the door.

"What is it, Marinette?" Adru n frowned at her as he sat down on her bed.

Marinette sighed. "It all makes sense, doesn't it?"

Adrien frowned again. "What does?"

Marinette sat down beside him and tried her best to explain what she thought was really going on, which was highly true.

"Matthew probably used the needle on the Mayor. Matthew is trying to get Chloe out, so that both of them could start working together again, and for him to do that, he need the Mayor."

"So you mean..." It all made sense to Adrien now as he stood up and went over what Marinette had told him. "The Mayor doesn't actually mean it when he shut down the bakery, the needle has just gotten to him? And he said to find Chloe, so that Matthew can have her again. I don't know about you, but this guy is pretty smart."

"Not as smart as me," Marinette smirked. "Because I've got a better plan!"

-

"Ah, he's not here," Carapace hopped down from the Eiffel tower, Rena Rouge right behind him.

"Where else should we go?" Rena Rouge asked, looking around. But they didn't need to think about it, because Marinette and Adrien came running to them.

"I thought you guys were going to have a rest," Carapace folded his arms. "What happened."

"We found a new problem," Adrien explained. "We know where Matthew is. Well, at least we think we know." He looked back at Marinette who shrugged. "Mari, are you sure this is going to work?"

"I'm not exactly positive but there is a very high chance that it is," Marinette answered. Did he just call me Mari?

"Okay guys, tell us," Rena Rouge stepped forward. "What's the plan?"

And Marinette started explaining.

-

"Oh Mayor..." Marinette called out. She stepped inside the Mayor's office. "I have found Chloe for you."

Behind her Adrien was carrying a sack, that was just like the one Master Fu had used to cover Chloe.

Someone was inside the sack alright. It just wasn't Chloe.

And that was what Matthew didn't know as he turned around to greet them.