Adrien Agreste's Cruelest Timeline Game

Destruction

Adrien sat in the back of the silver car with nothing left in him. He had killed Ladybug, he killed his father, Hawk Moth had vanished with nothing but blood splatters left, and Marinette had probably died by his hand too. A dark shadow of a truth loomed over him, and it threatened to deal the killing blow. He pushed it back as far as he could while the car sped to his home, a truth that overturned the entirety of his double life. 

The girl behind the spotted red mask. The girl he had killed was-

The car came to a halt. Nathalie ran as fast as her heeled shoes would let her, her hair disheveled and messy, with makeup almost nonexistent.  The poor assistant swung open the door, nearly bursting into tears when she saw the deflated boy in the backseat. Gabriel came around to the open car door, looking relieved at the sight of his son. 

Adrien looked over at the two adults, his green eyes filled with a sense of watery emptiness and helplessness. He just wanted to be younger again, small enough to be lifted into his mother's arms and sung lullabies at night, unbothered by blood on his hands and the fate of the world. 

The boy cracked. Tears began to spill as he began to sob uncontrollably. He cried and cried, only strangled sounds of guilt and torment coming from his tightened throat. The next thing he knew, he had been laid in his bed, and an attempt was made to comfort him. Nothing was working. Nothing could console him, not with what he knew he had done. He let out another sob, " Leave me alone..."

Nathalie and Gabriel hesitated, but complied. Once alone, he crumpled himself up into a ball under his bedsheets, whimpering softly. Now that he was alone, Plagg decided to show himself, creeping out of Adrien's pocket to console him. The blonde shoved him away, it was his power that caused all this. He wished he could go back to being the empty-eyed face of his father's brand, whose only worries were how he posed and how he wanted his mother back. 

Marinette sat in her room, deeply worried for Chat and Adrien. Marinette knew how much Chat protected her in their day to day hero work, and it ripped her up inside to think of what this might be doing to him. She sighed softly, searching her mind for anything she could do to check up on him. An idea came to her, excusing herself from the presence of her parents. She went into an alley and transformed, taking to the Paris rooftops. She had to find Chat Noir, no matter what. 

After a long period of running around aimlessly, hoping that he'd just show up like he always did, she decided that she would use the only thing that could help her right now, outside of an akuma appearing. Tossing her dotted yo-yo into the sky, she put every bit of herself into calling for her Lucky Charm. As she held out her hands, all that fell into them was a large, tablecloth-sized piece of ladybug-patterned cloth. Ladybug looked around helplessly, wondering what she could possibly use it for. 

How lucky for her that she managed to spot the Grand Palais off in the distance, but the building itself wouldn't be of much use to her, rather it was the spotlight on top of it. Ladybug's bluebell eyes lit up as she bounded rushed back over to her home, a plan forming in her mind. She landed silently on top of her bed, rushing down the little stairs to grab one out of the half a million pairs of scissors she has for her design work. She was just about to leave, when she stopped and thought about what else she could bring. She grabbed a basket of yarn and some of the cookies she kept in her room for Tikki and placing them in the basket as well. 

Feeling satisfied, she launched herself out from the trapdoor again, speeding off toward the Grand Palais and coming to a halt beside the spotlight. She slid the glass panel with the bee symbol off and draped the cloth over the light. Ladybug snipped at the cloth, cutting out a cat-like shape. She turned the light on, aiming it toward some nearby clouds so the cat symbol would show in the sky. She closed her eyes and prayed with all of her ladybug luck that he would come back to her.