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Cat Noir's POV...)

Just as we were about to discuss our next move, Stoneheart coughs and spits out a swarm of akumas that form Hawk Moth's face.

Hawk Moth's impromptu hologram began his message with, "People of Paris, listen carefully. I am Hawk Moth."

We all exclaimed in unison, "So that's Hawk Moth!" "So that's Hawk Moth!" "So that's Hawk Moth!"

Hawk Moth's hologram finished as he said, "Ladybug, Cat Noir, give me the ladybug earrings and the black cat ring now. You've done enough damage to these innocent people! Oh, and tell your friend Ghost Punisher to remove her Tenshi and to walk away while she still can. She has no business here!"

Just as Ladybug was about to ask me to help her with the hologram made of akumas just because the two of us can purify akumas, something happened. Me, Ladybug, Ghost Punisher, the people gathered at the tower and Hawk Moth suddenly heard some 1970s Superman theme music playing.

As the music gets a tad louder for everyone to hear, the source of the music seems to get closer. And then, when the three of us looked up, everyone else looked up to see some sort of armored half-human, half-butterfly hybrid flying overhead while humming the Superman theme out loud as flying radio drones play the music. Whoever this was, he was humming the Superman theme song at the same time as the flying radio drones playing the music.

The armored butterfly superhuman was clad in a form-fitting suit of metallic armor faintly resembling many different forms of Hawk Moth that we may not have seen just yet. That is, if he ever thought of using body armor for his transformations. The rest of his armor resembled many different forms of The Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ranging from comic book iterations to concept arts to animated cartoons to even live action blockbuster movies. Such cartoon iterations of his Shredder-inspired armor happens to include elements of the armors worn by the Utrom Shredder, the Karai Shredder in the male version, the Demon Shredder, the Tengu Shredder and the Cyber Shredder. Meanwhile, his armor was also using design elements of The Shredder's mechanized armor from the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. As for the man's armored helmet and mask combination, it looked like a combination of Hawk Moth's mask with the butterfly visor, but with added burgundy-red and with a tear-shaped dark blue peacock feather-like cocktail mask with bright purple mark in the center and a brilliant scarlet translucent eyehole over his right eye. And the entire helmet ensemble shared design elements from many depictions of The Shredder's helmet. Except for depictions of the Super Shredder's helmet. On top of that, his armored back also had retractable metallic butterfly wings attached to a jetpack that would help him fly in the air in case his wings aren't powerful enough, or in case they're too weakened to help him fly in the air on his own. At the same time, his wings also looked like they could help him fly in case his jetpack is damaged, running low on fuel or completely out of fuel. To top it off, he was holding in a holster on his back a cane swordstick which was as tall as this guy was, and a combat hand fan covered in metal plates. As for the cane swordstick, it looks like every version of Hawk Moth's cane swordstick, even from a deep crimson red version of Hawk Moth and a Hawk Moth transformed with both the Moth Miraculous and a "Peacock Miraculous." At least, that's what we were shown yesterday. As for the combat hand fan, it looked like a combination of a Japanese hand fan covered in peacock feathers and April O'Neil's tessan from the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. And if that wasn't shocking enough, this guy also had a sword that looks like Vector Prime's sword from Transformers Cybertron, but in red, yellow, grey, blue, and silver, a metal staff similar to my metal staff, but in an added white, an umbrella colored in baby blue, white, purple, black and light blue, a mallet which is basically a dark blue sledgehammer, a pink and purple tambourine, an orange, bluish-white, and purple flute, a yellow, black, and purple spinning top, a dark green, light green, and purple Captain America style shield, a forest green and purple lyre harp, a light pink, red, black, orange, and purple skipping rope, a trio of purple, crimson red, pale light grayish fuchsia purple and dark cerise-striped bolas, a chestnut brown, dark brown, red and purple horseshoe, a purple, black and white-striped paint brush, a black and purple ruyi jingu bang, a gold, red, white and purple feathered fountain pen, a medium-sized orange, brown, white, blue, and purple ball, and a dark orange, dark brown and dark purple bullroarer. And of course, at the same time, whoever this guy is, he's a literal walking arsenal. Simply because of the fact that he's carrying the same amount of guns and other kinds of weapons from many heroes and villains as Jonah Hex, Silver Sable, Wild Dog, War Machine, Rocket Raccoon, Deadshot, Cable, Judge Dredd, Deadpool, The Punisher, Crossbones, Hellboy, RoboCop, Spawn, Red Hood, Arsenal, The Comedian, Agent 47, Deathstroke, Deathlok, Moon Knight, Elsa Bloodstone, Big Daddy, Hit Girl, Blade the Vampire Hunter, Ra's Al Ghul, the various counterparts of The Shredder, the Justice League, the Suicide Squad, the Avengers, the characters from the Transformers franchise, the characters from Tomb Raider, the characters from the stupid Grand Theft Auto video games, and so forth. As for the colors of this butterfly man's battle armor, they were dark purple, lavender, black, burgundy red, indigo blue, pink, sea green, silver, and regular blue. Lastly, his wings and his jetpack were purple and red. As for the design of the wings in question, they looked like butterfly/bird-style metallic wings in the same design as Witchblade's wings, and the winged jetpacks used by many iterations of The Falcon and The Vulture.

Chloe asks, "Is that Steel Butterfly?"

Mayor Bourgeois confirmed it, as he had met Steel Butterfly years ago.

As Steel Butterfly lowers himself just enough for everyone to get a close look at his armor and his winged jetpack, Steel Butterfly shouted to the hologram, "NICE TRY, HAWK MOTH! BUT WE HAVE ALREADY KNOWN WHO THE REAL BAD GUY IS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING! REVERSING THE ROLES HAS NEVER WORKED IN THE PAST, IT NEVER WORKED IN THE LONG RUN IN MOST COMIC BOOKS, AND IT AIN'T GONNA WORK TODAY! NOT NOW, NOT EVER!"

Hawk Moth's hologram retorts, "You have no idea why I'm really doing this, you pathetic excuse for a butterfly!"

Steel Butterfly replies loud enough for everyone to hear, "See, that's where you're wrong, Hawk Moth! I know why you really want Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses! You want to conjointly use them so you can access their ultimate power and speak a special incantation to be granted a reality-altering wish to revive your dearest wife from her endless slumber! And yet, you chose to ignore the fact that there's an equivalent exchange drawback that could cost you your son's life! I triple dog dare you to correct me, you piece of s***!"

We all gasped in shock at Steel Butterfly's choice of words and the true reason as to why Hawk Moth wants our Miraculouses: to revive a wife of his from a sort of deathless slumber. And yet, Hawk Moth has indeed chosen to ignore the possibility of having to pay some sort of terrible price that could cost him his son's life. I really pity whatever family Hawk Moth has for their sadness when we throw him in jail.

Hawk Moth's hologram states in response, "As long as I get what I want and all of my enemies are obliterated, nothing else matters!"

Steel Butterfly says in response, "And that is why you'll lose!"

Ladybug interjects while clapping her hands slowly and sarcastically, "I'm gonna say this right now, Hawk Moth: Steel Butterfly's right. Without you, none of these innocent victims would be transformed into villains. Hawk Moth, no matter how long it takes, we will find you, and YOU will hand us YOUR Miraculous!"

Steel Butterfly shouts to his radio drone, "CUE THE MUSIC!"

This time, the radio drone plays the 1980s RoboCop theme as Steel Butterfly hovers in front of Hawk Moth's hologram.

Steel Butterfly starts spinning around in a tornado-like fashion with his wings flowing and crackling with magic electricity as he hovers in front of the akuma-based hologram and shouts, "TIME TO DEAKUMATIZE!"

Steel Butterfly spins in a zigzag omnidirection as his wings and his power-infused hands purify the akumas, one magic-infused butterfly at a time while simultaneously transforming them into his angelic servants.

Everyone downstairs, Ladybug and I included, were astonished at what Steel Butterfly did. He literally purified those akumas and transformed them into... TENSHIES.

Steel Butterfly declares to the audience, "Let me make this promise to you, people of Paris. No matter who wants to harm you, my crew and myself, Steel Butterfly, will do everything in our power to keep you safe! BUT, should Hawk Moth spill any innocent blood in his goals, especially in the form of mass murder, he will suffer the consequences by my hand and BY THE POWER OF GOD!"

(Third person POV...)

Everyone in Paris started to cheer, even Steel Butterfly's recently-arrived crew.

Steel Butterfly floats down to his two new friends and lands, showing them how tall he really is compared to Hawk Moth.

Ladybug holds out her right armored hand and she and Steel Butterfly shake hands, causing everyone else to cheer even more.

Just then, Mylene comes running over and asks Steel Butterfly, "Time for Plan B?"

Steel Butterfly's only reply in one word was, "Definitely."

In Hawk Moth's lair, Hawk Moth was fuming over how his plan to "reverse the roles" and make the heroes surrender had just failed. Hawk Moth's exact words for the moment were, "AGH! That's the problem with superheroes! They're too... heroic and they choose not to let the bad guys win!" Hawk Moth sends another telepathic message to Stoneheart, "Stoneheart, they're trying to take your loved one away from you. You must snatch their Miraculouses so they will be powerless against you!"

Stoneheart replies, "Okay, Hawk Moth."

Stoneheart gets back up.

Soon as Ladybug and Cat Noir fly up to him, Stoneheart bellows out, "Give me Mylene! Come to me, my stone beings!"

Soon, Stoneheart's army of clones starts climbing up the Eiffel Tower.

Cat Noir gapes and states, "We're surrounded! What do we do now? We know we can't attack Stoneheart without him getting bigger and stronger."

Steel Butterfly teleports and replies, "Yes, but we know where his new akuma is, same as the last one."

Cat Noir remarks, "In his clenched fist. So..."

Steel Butterfly finishes, "So, we know he's in love with Mylene. I happen to have a plan. We'll bring them closer together. They're literally made for each other. Thing is, they don't know it just yet."

Soon as Steel Butterfly's wings started flapping to initiate take-off, Cat Noir stated, "Um, okay. I'm following you and I trust you." He looks at the "camera" as he finishes, "Something tells me this is how it's gonna be from here on out."

Cat Noir flies via his jetpack and manages to get to the balcony part of the tower.

Steel Butterfly and Ladybug managed to land on the very top of the tower, with Mylene being flown by Corvo, one of Steel Butterfly's crew members.

Mylene screams, "This better be worth it! I'm scared of heights!"

Corvo replies, "This'll be worth it!"

Stoneheart lets out a roar that shakes the tower and causes the heroes to cover their ears in pain, with Corvo holding onto Mylene tightly.

Cat Noir manages to dodge a stony hand from one of the clones.

Cat Noir calls out, "How do you plan on getting them closer than they already are?!"

Ladybug calls out, "By using our powers! LUCKY CHARM!"

Soon as Ladybug's yo-yo worked its magic, a ladybug-patterned parachute appears and lands on her armored hands.

Cat Noir gets thrown by a stone being, only to get himself above the Stoneheart clones.

Cat Noir calls out, "You sure you know what you're doing?!"

Ladybug replies, "We'll find out soon enough!"

Ladybug tosses her yoyo and manipulates it into tying up Stoneheart's hand.

Ladybug calls out, "His hand! Get ready!"

Ladybug starts pulling Stoneheart's hand and Corvo brings Mylene to Stoneheart. Mylene kisses Stoneheart. Stoneheart tries to grab Mylene, only to drop the Akumatized song lyric paper. Corvo manages to get away with Mylene in hand. Cat Noir flies towards the paper and hits it with his baton like a baseball bat, forcing the paper up to Ladybug's waiting hand.

Ladybug remarks, "Home run!" She breaks the paper, freeing the Akuma. She slides open her yoyo and says, "No more evil-doing for you, little Akuma. Time to deakumatize - huh?"

Ladybug sees Stoneheart revert back to normal, falling down from the tower.

Ladybug flies down to Ivan and says, "Cat Noir, take care of Ivan!"

Raising his right hand, Cat Noir calls out, "Cataclysm!"

He uses his Cataclysm on the Eiffel Tower, making part of it fall off. He slides on it and rescues Ivan while Ladybug captures the Akuma.

Ladybug calls out, "Gotcha!" She activates the parachute, descending to the ground safely with the aid of her jetpack. She opens the yoyo and releases the purified butterfly while saying, "Bye-bye, little butterfly." Ladybug grabs the Lucky Charm object into the air and shouts, "Miraculous Ladybug!" The magic ladybugs restore the damage done by Stoneheart and his clones, and reverting the Stoneheart clones back to normal people.

As he stares at the ladybugs fixing every inch of damage in the city, Cat Noir asks in awe, "Whoa. Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"

As she also stares at the ladybugs repairing the city's damages, Ladybug answers truthfully, "Yeah. It's beautiful and amazing. It's... uh... miraculous!"

Meanwhile, in his lair, Hawk Moth was fuming about his second failure in a row. His precise words were, "This is just the beginning, Steel Butterfly. You, Ladybug, Cat Noir, and your new crew may have won this battle, but I will win the war. I will get your Miraculouses! I will get the absolute power! And then, my secret dream will come true!"

Soon after Ivan and Mylene resolved to never get themselves Akumatized again and embraced their feelings for each other, the heroes gathered around.

Ladybug remarks, "Oh, they're so made for each other."

Cat Noir remarks, "Like Marinette and Adrien are."

Ladybug looks at her partner and smiles at him.

Ladybug looks at Steel Butterfly and sees him standing tall and proud.

Suddenly, Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses alert them they have ten minutes left, much to their confusion.

Tikki and Plagg telepathically inform their owners that they upgraded the timers just in case they had unfinished business to take care of.

Ladybug looks over at Steel Butterfly and asks him, "Hey, how come your timer isn't blinking?"

Steel Butterfly answers, "One, I didn't use any of my special powers yet. And two, I'm an adult Miraculous user. Adult Miraculous users can stay transformed for extended periods of time after using their powers, in addition to being able to use their powers an unlimited number of times."

In response, Ladybug states, "Ohh. I see. Well, see you around... Steel Butterfly."

Soon, Steel Butterfly, Ladybug, Cat Noir and Steel Butterfly's crew depart.

Meanwhile, outside the school, Marinette and Alya are chatting.

Alya stated, "So, by the time I was reverted to normal, it was already over. I don't remember anything about what happened and I'm way bummed."

Marinette's response was, "Not to worry. You'll get your scoop eventually."

Alya states coyly, "You're right. Next target: Steel Butterfly and Ladybug, an exclusive interview!"

Marinette remarks, "Ooh. Sounds exciting."

Alya replies, "Oh, wait! Even better: finding out who's really behind those masks of theirs."

Marinette sternly asks in response, "You do realize that you're starting to act like Lois Lane and J. Jonah Jameson in terms of wanting to find out the heroes' identities without regard for the consequences, right?"

Alya looks at Marinette in confusion as Marinette continued, "Besides, earlier today, you said so yourself that even though your goals as a reporter are simple, that doesn't change the fact that your extensive knowledge of the world of superheroes has made you realize even Ladybug and Cat Noir's identities are extremely important. And you would've been in serious trouble if you ever posted the heroes' identities on your blog, as well. If you want to keep yourself out of trouble, if you want to prevent Hawk Moth from coming after you, if you want to avoid being grounded for life, you should practice what you preach. Especially in regards to your desire to be a reporter."

Alya looks lost in thought at the explanation as she considers Marinette's words.

Meanwhile, in the Agreste car, Gabriel says to Adrien, "You disobeyed me, Adrien. Take a look at that school."

Adrien looks at Francoise Dupont.

Adrien says dejectedly, "Yes, Father."

Gabriel continues, "You will never, I say, never go back there again..."

Adrien states, "Father, no."

Gabriel finishes, "...without your bodyguard. He will drop you off and pick you up every day. Nathalie has offered to organize for you a new schedule. You'll be continuing your music, Chinese, and fencing classes, and your photoshoots."

Adrien thanks both his father and Nathalie, then gets out of the car.

In Ms. Bustier's classroom, Marinette and Alya sit behind Nino as Chloe and Sabrina come in the classroom with expressions on their faces that look like a cat got the cream.

Adrien comes in and waves at Marinette, causing her to wave back.

Much later, it's raining outside the school, as Steel Butterfly has previously predicted when his crew asked him for a weather report.

Marinette feels the rain with her hand.

Miguel Guevara, the civilian alter ego of the now famous Steel Butterfly, holds in his hand a spare raincoat with a hood for Marinette.

He hands it to Marinette, who gingerly puts it on.

Marinette states, "Thank you, sir."

His voice normal without the voice modulator, Miguel says in response, "You're very welcome. You most certainly don't want to end up with a cold, Ladybug."

Marinette and Adrien stand there, their mouths gaping open.

Miguel states, "Relax. As long as I have amnesia dust and the ability to manipulate anyone's memories, your secret is safe with me... Steel Butterfly. But rest assured, I know what I'm doing. No one else knows except for my crew and our mutual mystery benefactor."

Tikki pokes her head out and asks, "Who are you? I mean, what's your real name, big butterfly?"

Miguel answers, "...Miguel Guevara."

Miguel leaves, the rain falling off his waterproof trench coat and his waterproof hat.

Marinette and Adrien part ways on good terms, possibly hinting to each other a possibility of a future romantic relationship.

Unbeknownst to the holders of the Ladybug and the Black Cat Miraculouses, Miguel is actually standing next to Master Fu and Wayzz.

In particular, Miguel had to bend down slightly due to Master Fu being shorter than him and the fact that Miguel's clothes are more waterproof than Jade Turtle's battle armor.

Wayzz remarks, "Excellent choices, you two."

Stroking his beard, Master Fu states, "Those two are made for each other."

Miguel responds, "Yeah, but as long as Gabriel Agreste and many others like him lurks in the shadows, even he won't hesitate to kick-start the Cat Blanc timeline. We need to be ready, and it starts with finding a worthy permanent replacement of Bunnyx."

Ever since the first day of Ladybug and Cat Noir on the job yesterday, Miguel took the liberty and pleasure of telling Master Fu about Bunnyx and how her choices impacted the timeline of this universe and people's reactions to her choices as a Guardian of time and space from the perspectives of his dimension.

At first, Master Fu was gonna agree with Bunnyx's choices. But after Miguel showed Master Fu different timelines of the future where Ladybug and Bunnyx have an irreversible falling out about keeping the Cat Blanc timeline a secret to preserve the future that caused Ladybug to have Cat Noir destroy the Rabbit Miraculous and Ladybug expelling Bunnyx from the team – with Steel Butterfly's permission, of course – along with all of the choices that Bunnyx made all across the Quantic Multiverse in the form of fanfictions from Miguel's Earth, let's just say Master Fu is more than willing to help find a worthy permanent replacement for Bunnyx.

Especially because, as Miguel predicted for a later date, once Bunnyx finds out who Steel Butterfly is and where he comes from, Bunnyx won't hesitate to abuse her powers to send Steel Butterfly back to his dimension, lie to Master Fu's past counterpart about his protégé and ensure that the time alterations are irreversible so as to preserve the futuristic existence she arrogantly believes is better for her universe.

If Ladybug found out about it, she wouldn't be happy one bit. Especially if she were to find out about it by unifying the Ladybug and Rabbit Miraculouses in a future unknown battle as a last resort.

Master Fu didn't know it at first, but based on Miguel's foreknowledge of Bunnyx in both the original timeline of the show and in several fanfiction stories from his Earth, Bunnyx is attempting to play god with timelines because she doesn't want her past and her future changed, for the better and for the worse.

Much later, Steel Butterfly was testing out his space powers, his supersuit and his jetpack imitating a combination of Astro Cat's spacesuit, but without the Black Cat aesthetics, and Steel Butterfly's current armored battle suit. In his space form, Steel Butterfly takes on the name Galactic Butterfly.

As Galactic Butterfly flies across Paris' nighttime skyline, the Superman movie ending march theme plays on his radio drones.

As Galactic Butterfly flies towards the United States skyline where the sun was rising, the Superman movie ending march theme continues playing as Galactic Butterfly hums the song out loud.

As Galactic Butterfly flies higher, the theme song gets more dramatic as it continues playing.

Once Galactic Butterfly reaches outer space, thankful that his radio drones can survive the vacuum and coldness of space outside the Earth's atmosphere, Galactic Butterfly once again mimics what Superman did: flying in the direction of the sun, facing the "camera," smiling for the camera, and continuing his flight.

Along the way, Galactic Butterfly has also learned something that was not possible in any form of the Miraculous Ladybug cartoon or any of the show's not-so-affiliated fanfiction stories: Galactic Butterfly literally learned how to combine his costume designs from his normal Steel Butterfly form and his Galactic Butterfly form, completely retaining all of his powers and his jetpack with moving wings!

Galactic Butterfly headed back to inform Master Fu. The elderly Guardian was surprised to say the least, but he also said that this brought an extra benefit of something new to teach a new generation of Miraculous-wielding superheroes.

Miguel went to his primary headquarters and went to sleep.

As he slept, a hologram projector plays a message he had recorded earlier.

The message is said from his own voice, "For the first time in this dimension, good has triumphed over evil. All of humanity has earned a brief rest from Hawk Moth's akumatized villains. But we must remain vigilant, should he return to continue Akumatizing people into his lackeys to steal my Miraculous, Ladybug's Miraculous and Cat Noir's Miraculous. For united we shall stand as one, and overcome any adversity that comes our way. My name is Miguel Guevara, also known as Steel Butterfly, Aqua Butterfly, Icicle Butterfly, Galactic Butterfly, Crimson Butterfly, and Bright Butterfly. And I send this message to any supervillain soon to come into the future who might try to take the places of Hawk Moth/The Collector/Scarlet Moth/Shadow Moth/Shadow Noir/Scarlet Shadow/Hawk Bug/Nightmare Chimera/Rooster Moth, Mayura/Catalyst, Volpina/Chameleon/Hawk Moth II, Felix Graham de Vanily Fathom/Flairmidable, Techno-Pirate, Ignoblia, and any alternate universe versions of Adrien Agreste, Chloe Bourgeois, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Emilie Agreste who turn evil in their dimensions. Whatever scheme you attempt to rule the world, whatever scheme you attempt to bend reality to your will, whatever scheme you attempt to revive a loved one from the dead thanks to overusing a broken Miraculous, and whatever threat you might offer, know that all of those things I mentioned will be in vain. This fictional dimension is now my home. And as long as me and my own band of superheroes, or as I like to call them, my own band of pseudo-Autobots stand together, the French Miraculous Superhero Team, the United Heroez, and the remaining members of the Order Of The Guardians will protect the Earth, the galaxy, the entire universe and all of existence."

(Steel Butterfly's voiceover POV as he writes in his Rorschach-inspired journal...)

Steel Butterfly's journal.

September 4th, 2014.

9:03 p.m.

Second journal entry tonight, but this one is being written by one of my clones as I'm currently asleep.

So, the second Stoneheart battle went well.

I... literally revealed to the entirety of Paris what Hawk Moth really wants, and he literally confirmed both directly and indirectly that he thinks that nothing matters as long as he gets what he wants.

What a total motherf*****.

All the same, that's not gonna matter so long as Hawk Moth is active with the power of the original Butterfly Miraculous at his disposal.

Well, anyway, Ladybug and Cat Noir might know about Hawk Moth's goal today, but it's only a matter of time before they both find out more about the potential repercussions of Hawk Moth's wish to revive his wife.

And unfortunately, it appears as though Hawk Moth wants my Butterfly Miraculous as well.

And trust me, readers, that's not good at all.

How is that so, you ask? Well, for those of you with low I.Q's, if Hawk Moth ever got his hands on my Miraculous, even if he forsakes Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses, Gabriel will undoubtedly use the power of my Miraculous to not only heal and awaken Emilie Agreste, but he will also use the power of my Butterfly Miraculous to kill us all in case any of us tries to stop him or tries to expose his crimes to Emilie the moment he takes his eyes off her.

In particular to note, I have a feeling that even if it wasn't for my foreknowledge, we are in for a large and long Miraculous War with Hawk Moth, Mayura, Lila Rossi, Chloe Bourgeois from the original timeline after Miracle Queen, Peacock Felix Graham de Vanily Fathom from Shadow Moth's Final Attack Part 2 all the way to the first episodes of season 5, Tomoe Tsurugi, the Trash Krakken, Techno-Pirate, Ignoblia, Cash, Bob Roth, XY, the Butterfly Sentimonster, Optigami, the Lollipop Sentimonster, Reflekdoll, the Feast Sentimonster, Sentimonster Ladybug, Light Eye, Guiltrip, Banana Boom-Boom, and many other Miraculous Ladybug villains to come in the future if Scarlet Moth is allowed to escape on Heroes' Day next year.

But I have faith in my two favorite Zagtoons heroes, which is kind of ironic that they are my protégés now.

In any case, there is gonna have to be at least a few things that I can do to help contribute to Marinette and Adrien's civilian lives in case they miss anything important or trivial.

And I happen to think that the best thing I can do for them for now is to build an assortment of perfected, flawless clones to lead their classmates, Mr. Agreste, Nathalie, Adrien's bodyguard, and everyone else except for Marinette's parents astray from discovering Ladybug and Cat Noir's identities and relationship through different safer methods possible. That way, even if Gabriel dies of a heart attack, we can keep such crucial information about my two favorite heroes behind closed doors until they're ready to go public with their identities and their love lives with and without the Order of the Guardians revived to full functionality to continue their duties in the twenty-first century.

Now, the next Akumatization to prepare for is Alya Cesaire, aka Lady Wi-Fi.

I hate to say this, but I'm hoping that I can test my mettle against Alya's first Akumatized form. Especially by Tenshizing my own kind of Lady Wi-Fi to help us deakumatize Alya.

I'm going to have to remember to keep records of the Akumatized supervillains to show up before Lady Wi-Fi and after Stoneheart.

Technically, many Akumatized supervillains like the Magician of Misfortune never showed up on screen as their Akumatized selves, but also never as their civilian selves either. With the exception of Magician of Misfortune being a student in Calixte Mendeleiev's class.

But I will still keep track and keep records of those Akumatized supervillains nevertheless. After all, with my records as admissible as evidence for Hawk Moth's trial, the former Akumatized victims can easily testify against Gabriel Agreste as one of the final nails in the coffin before the judge declares Gabriel to be guilty as charged.

But now, I must be off to rest myself. After all, I had a pretty hardworking day.