A Sudden Return 3/3✅

Miraculous Ladybug: 28

"SABRINA, WAIT!"

Sabrina stopped running. She looked back to see Ladybug land in front of her. She folded her arms. "What?"

"Don't be so mad at Lucas," Ladybug spoke. "It wasn't his fault."

"Marinette, why are you telling me this?" There's no way I'm gonna talk to him after what he just did to me!

"I've been in this situation before, where Adrien started suddenly acting weird. I soon found out that it wasn't him, it was just some needle that changed him," Ladybug tried to explain, but it kept making Sabrina frown more. "I'm sure you have heard of those needles, right?"

"Yes, I have."

"Good. Those needles are capable of changing one's personality. How did... Lucas exactly get the needle?"

Sabrina thought back to when Lucas started acting differently. "This guy was running and bumped into Lucas.... I guess he had a needle and accidently uses it on Lucas... I.... I didn't know..."

"Lucas is probably okay now, so you can go talk to him," Ladybug waved as she prepared to leave and get back to work. "Besides, I totally think you two are cute. And promise me one thing, Sabrina?"

"What?"

"Promise me that you will at least talk it out with Lucas, or try to find out what's wrong, instead of just running away."

Sabrina smiled as she looked down. "I promise."

"Good!" And Ladybug was in her way, leaving Sabrina to walk back to where the confused Lucas was.

"Haha!" Vegas laughed, pointing at the two helpless superheroes. "Ladybug abandoned you!" They started to swing out their bags.

But then something held unto them, preventing the bag to move. The villains looked back to see yoyo string wrapping around their bags.

"Who abandoned who?!" Ladybug smirked as she pulled the bags. She was only able to drag two and year the bags apart, the akumas flying out.

The last Vega stood, liking fearless, showing his muscles at Ladybug, who quickly purified the other two akumas.

"Hey jerk!" The last Vega turned, only to be met by Cat Noir's cataclysm, which touched his bag and released the akuma.

"Good job, Cat Noir. I guess these villains don't do great when they are distracted," Carapace shrugged.

"Speaking of distraction," Ladybug spoke after she purified the other akuma, "where's Axis?"

The three of them looked around, while the other three that just got freed from akumatizing scratched their heads and wondered what had happened.

"Ugh! He must have taken off!" Cat Noir clenched a fist. "Probably off to Hawk Moth."

It then reminded them that they still had to find Hawk Moth, which they totally didn't know where he was, which caused them to groan again.

"He's got Alya!" Carapace groaned the loudest. "We need to find this spot that Hawk Moth has been hiding in!"

"Well, I'm going home to rest. When Axis decided to come back, then I'll have enough energy," Ladybug quickly de-transformed back. She sighed. "I'm going to see how Master Fu is doing."

"I'll come along," Cat Noir offered as he de-transformed as well.

"While you two go ahead to see Master Fu the Great, I'll keep looking for for Alya," Carapace waved them off. "It might not be so simple, but I bet I could find her!"

"Good luck man," Adrien waved back as he followed Marinette.

Carapace sighed as he looked around helpless. "Alya, where are you?"

-

Ah, it's already night. Carapace, who had continued to transform and de-transform, was still looking for Alya. So far he didn't know where he was, but he bet with his powers, he could be able to find out where he was.

Suddenly he heard mufflings, and sounds of struggle. He walked closer, trying not to be spotted.

And that's when he saw them!