A Sudden Return 3/3✅

Miraculous Ladybug: 20

"How is she doing? Still here?" Marinette walked up to the sack as Master Fu nodded. "How long do you plan on keeping her here?"

Master Fu shrugged. He held up the needle he was holding once again.

"Please just get me out of here!" Chloe yelled as soon as Marinette lifted up the sack. "I'm sweating. It's hot in here!"

"Until we know what to do with you, you're probably going to be stuck in here," Marinette shrugged. What do we do with her?

"I want to find out everything about this needle," Master Fu said. "I want to know if there are any other needles around, or if it's only these ones."

"If there were more, who would have it?" Marinette asked, looking from one needle to another.

Ugh! We're getting nowhere with this. How do we find Hawk Moth?

Marinette turned back to Chloe. "If you were the one who released them, turn you probably know where Hawk Moth is."

Chloe groaned. "No! I do not. Hawk Moth wouldn't tell me his secret place. Even Matthew doesn't know."

A Master that doesn't tell his fellow helpers where his hiding place is? What is Hawk Moth planning? Is he afraid that Matthew or Chloe will release his hiding place?

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Huh? Marinette is late again? Where can she be? Alya checked the time on her phone. She promised she would come with me so we can watch the new movie that just got released. Did she forget?

She was going to cross the road, but then she heard her name being called by some stranger she didn't know of.

"Yes?" Alya turned to the man who had walked up to her.

"Are you... A friend of Chloe?" The man spoke in a low voice, making it hard for Alya to understand what he was saying.

"Uh... No," the thought of Chloe being in Master Fu's lair still, got her thinking if Marinette was there.

"Ah, I see, but." The man tapped his cane against the ground softly before continuing again. "A girl named Chloe asked me to call you. She said she was your friend."

Chloe asked this man to call me? Has Chloe escaped, or is it a different Chloe?

"Lead me the way!" Alya exclaimed firmly. The man nodded and started walking towards where he said Chloe was.

He was a bit slow, so Alya had to make a few stops to let him continue leading the way. Finally they got into somewhere Alya didn't know of.

Suddenly a hand from behind came and pressed against her lips, causing her words to be muffled.

Three men came out of nowhere, the man grinning evilly at her.

One of the three men tied her arms and legs together, while the other two held her so tightly, to make it hard for her to run away.

"What are you doing?! Who are you?!" She yelled as she was pushed to the ground with a loud thud. She ignored her bruised arm as she glared at the men.

"We were ordered to do this?!" One of them said. "We are going to get good rewards for this."

"Huh? Ordered by who?"

The men started laughing. "Said to capture Alya," another man exclaimed. "You fell for our trap way too easily."

Alya looked over at the man that had exclaimed Chloe had called for her. He was lying! Of course Chloe wouldn't be able to escape that easily. How could I talk for it so stupidly?!

"Now, you little girl," the man that had tricked her came closer to her. "You're gonna have to tell us a few informations. There is no doubt that you know where Chloe is. You're going to be our bait!"

"I WILL NEVER HELP YOU!" Alya yelled in his face.

"Well, then, I guess it's time we call in our boss," the man moved away from her. "You can come out now. The girl refused to talk."

Footsteps started walking towards them. Alya huffed as she waited for their owner to show himself. Or herself.

Who is it?! Who is it?!

Then her eyes widened at the person now in front of her. He grinned, showing all his teeth.

"Alya," he said.

Hawk Moth!