13. The Evillustrator

Scene: Collège Françoise Dupont at night. Marinette is being chased by Stormy Weather and Lady Wifi.

Marinette: Heeelp! (Marinette runs away from Stormy Weather, but she finds Lady Wifi. Lady Wifi puts a pink pause symbol on her, and Stormy Weather freezes her with her parasol. But then, Super Nathan arrives, and erases Stormy Weather's parasol. He traps the two villains in a cage he draws. He also erases the ice block Marinette is trapped in) Oh, Super Nathan, you're my hero!

"WHAT?! When did this happen?!" Marinette asked shocked as she had no recollection of that scene ever happening.

Great! This show also includes dreams too?! Nathaniel thought exasperated as he tries to hide himself, but then cleared his throat bringing everyone's attention. "I can explain that, Marinette. Remember when I had a crush on you at that time?"

"Yeah," Marinette said gently.

"Well, this was a daydream of mine where I'm a superhero and you were the damsel-in-distress that I'm in love with," Nathaniel explained blushing in embarrassment. Marinette blushed back in reaction and Adrien looked with hidden jealousy while the others snickered. "Let's just get this over with."

Nathaniel: It was nothing.

Marinette: (embraces Nathaniel) I love you!

Nathaniel: (embraces Marinette) I love you too, Marinette.

Ms. Mendeleiev: Nathaniel! What are you drawing? (Nathaniel looks up, revealing the scene to be a dream)

"OK, dude. Miss Mendeleiev's class? Wrong class to be daydreaming and drawing," Nino noted to Nathaniel who nodded in response. After Miss Bustier and Mr. Damocles glared at him, Nino added, "I mean any class!" The others laughed in response.

Nathaniel: Wha, wha--

Ms. Mendeleiev: And these artistic endeavours are clearly why you are failing science.

Nathaniel: I'm sorry...

Ms. Mendeleiev: You go march yourself down to the principal's office and show him that checked scratch! Then you'll be really sorry! (Nathaniel trips over Mylène's bag, dropping his sketchbook. Chloé grabs it)

Chloé: Ooh! Look, Sabrina! It's him as a superhero! And look who he's saving! It's Marinette!

Marinette: Uh-

Chloé: He's so totally crushing on you, Marinette!

Nathaniel: Gimme that!

"Chloe, was that really necessary?" Marinette asked Chloe with a frown while Nathaniel looked at the former with a grateful smile.

"Speaking of which, did anyone else take a close look at Adrien's face? He's obviously annoyed about Nathaniel's crush on Marinette!" Alya playfully accused Adrien and the others (except for Lila who's just annoyed) laughed in agreement.

"No, I wasn't! I was just annoyed that Chloe is being mean again!" Adrien quickly denied making the others laugh harder.

"Sure, Agreste," Alix sarcastically snorted while Adrien just blushed.

Ms. Mendeleiev: Enough! Nathaniel, go!

Scene: Hawk Moth's lair.

Hawk Moth: (his window opens) Ahhh... Artists can be so emotional. I love it. (turns a butterfly into an akuma) Fly to him, my little akuma. Draw him into our evil web!

Scene: Collège hallway. Nathaniel drops his pencil, but when he grabs it, the akuma flies in and possesses it.

Hawk Moth: Are you tired of having your creative spirit crushed? Evillustrator, I'm your friend and patron of the arts. I'm here to offer you support. But I don't give this kind of power for free. I have a couple of items that need retrieving.

Nathaniel: Just tell me what you want. (turns into the Evillustrator)

"Well, that's the earliest I've seen a person akumatized in an episode," Angel pointed out and the others nodded in realization.

Scene: Ms. Mendeleiev's classroom.

Ms. Mendeleiev: The next particle physics presentation group is Nino, Adrien and Alya!

Marinette: Oh! So lucky!

Ms. Mendeleiev: And then, Sabrina, Chloé and Marinette.

Alya: So unlucky.

Chloé: Uh, Miss, can't you add her to another group? Sabrina and I work much better on our own.

"Oh, and you think I wanted to be in a group project with you?" Marinette asked rhetorically. "If allowed, I'd second the motion." Chloe unexpectedly smiled in amusement while the other teens snickered.

Ms. Mendeleiev: This is a group presentation, not pairs! Deal with it.

Chloé: I hate dealing with it!

Marinette: You wouldn't be willing to trade groups, would ya?

Alya: And deal with that twosome terror? Sorry. But I promise to talk all about you in between particles and the physics!

Marinette: You're the best! (glomps her)

"Did she really?" Marinette curiously asked both Adrien and Nino.

"She did. Though we never really got it," Adrien answered as both he and Nino blushed in embarrassment.

"Yeah, girl. Boys are so clueless," Alya teased to which the boys gave an offended gasp in response and frowned at her while the girls giggled.

Scene: Locker room.

Chloé: Forget it, Sabrina. I don't have time for some dumb project. Besides, now you have Marinette to help you.

Sabrina: Okay, that's fine, Chloé. We'll do the work. Don't worry.

Marinette: Um, is everything okay?

Chloé: It is fine, Marinette.

Marinette: Well then, why can't you help us with the project?

Chloé: None of your business, Miss Nosy!

Marinette: Uh, actually, since I'm part of this group, it is.

Sabrina: It's okay, Marinette. You and I will do all the research, and the writing for our project, and then, Chloé can present it! That way it's equal.

Marinette: That's not equal at all! Is that how you two work?!

Sabrina: Yeah! We've been doing this ever since grade school, when I started doing Chloé's homework! And we've been BFF's ever since!

Chloé: You got a problem with that? Come on, Sabrina.

"Young lady, if you don't do any of the work yourself, you won't get anywhere in life," Sabine said to Chloe, giving her much needed good parental advice. "My husband and I didn't manage to own and run one of the most popular bakeries in Paris by doing nothing and making others do it." Chloe then looked down in embarrassment, giving this a lot of thought. All the others nodded in agreement except for Lila of course.

All you have to do is marry well! Duh! Lila thought with a scowl to her enemy's mother.

Marinette: Sabrina, Chloé's totally taking advantage of you. You don't have to do what she says. That's not how a real best friend acts!

Chloé: Ugh, not only am I Sabrina's best friend, I'm her only friend, so she better do what I say, 'cause without me, she has nothing.

"That's not true. Sabrina, you do know that you would have us as friends if you didn't submit to Chloe so much," Marinette said to Sabrina.

"Marinette's right, Sabrina!" Rose said to Sabrina with a sweet smile.

"That's true, Sabrina. If Chloe left you, you wouldn't be friendless. In fact, Chloe is the lucky one to have a friend like you despite her mean attitude," Adrien explained and everybody else nodded in agreement. "Isn't that right, Chloe?"

"Yeah, they're right. Sabrina, I really do appreciate you being by my side all these years despite the way I treated you. I'll really try to be a better friend to you from now on," Chloe promised. Sabrina smiled and then hugged her, knowing that Chloe is genuine. Everybody smiled at this except for one obvious person.

Ugh! This is sickening! Sweet people deserve to be treated like servants or dirt. Lila thought with a hidden scowl.

Marinette: Well, I'd rather have no friends than be friends with you.

Chloé: Whatever. I've got more important things to worry about. My hair is a hot mess and Jean Claude promised to work his magic. Later!

Scene: College hallway. Marinette is leaving.

Sabrina: Marinette! (hugs her) I can't believe you stood up to Chloé like that! It was so amazing.

Marinette: Uhh, well...Yeah, what are friends for?

Sabrina: You are my friend, and I'm really super excited to hang out with you, and have a new best friend who actually helps with the project! We're going to have the absolute best time together! Then, we'll do the presentation, and tell Ms. Mendeleiev the truth about Chloé! Sound good?

Marinette: Sounds...great?

Sabrina: YAY! Then I'll see you in the library, bestie!

"Uh, Marinette's my bestie!" Alya said out loud, making everyone giggle in amusement.

Scene: Library. Sabrina refuses to do Chloé's assignment.

Chloé: Ugh! What do you mean, you're not doing my assignment?!

Sabrina: Marinette's right! I...I'm not your slave!

Marinette: I never actually said that...

Chloé: But Marinette didn't buy a super cute beret at Gabriel's, and I did! And perhaps I could lend it to you.

Marinette: Excuse me, but are you trying to bribe her into staying your friend? With a hat?

Sabrina: Uhhh... really, really adorable hat! That would look fantastic on me!

"You two do know that my intention is not to break up your friendship. I just wanted you Chloe to treat Sabrina with more respect and help you Sabrina earn it by standing up for yourself," Marinette explained that day and the two girls nodded in understanding.

Chloé: No, excuse from ME, but you are trying to steal my friend from me, with homework! (The Evillustrator sees them, and draws a beret on his pad. Suddenly, berets fall from above, and one falls on Chloé) Ahh! My hair! (The Evillustrator draws a hairdryer) Ahhh! Please! Please! Ahhhh! (Adrien sees her in distress close by)

The audience laughs when Chloe has been chased by the hairdryer. It might've been terrifying at the time, but does seem funny looking at it.

[Transformation Sequence]

Adrien: Plagg, claws out! (Adrien turns into Cat Noir)

Chloé: No! Not the hair!

Marinette: Time to transform!

[Transformation Sequence]

Marinette: Tikki, spots on! Ah! (Marinette turns into Ladybug)

Chloé: No! Stop! (Ladybug arrives and jumps on the hairdryer)

Ladybug: Run and hide! (Chloé runs)

Cat Noir: I got wind that you were being blown away by a hairy situation.

"Ugh! The puns! The puns!" Alix shouted in a jokingly frustrated manner with her hands in the air, making everybody else laugh.

Ladybug: Fewer puns, more action! (Ladybug and Cat Noir stop the hairdryer, and disintegrate it)

"Listen to your lady!" Kim shouted in a joking manner, making everyone else laugh harder.

Cat Noir: (sees the Evillustrator) Well, that guy looks pretty sketchy! (Ladybug and Cat Noir go after the Evillustrator, but he draws a wall and they fall backward)

Ladybug: Where'd he go?

Cat Noir: I don't know, but he sure has a way of illustrating his point.

"Dude, three puns in a few minutes?!" Nino asked his best friend, both amused and exasperated.

"Again, don't hate me because I'm beautiful and have a sense of humor," Adrien jokingly retorted making everybody else facepalm.

Ladybug: (annoyed) Ughhh...

Scene: Le Grand Paris Hotel.

Cat Noir: Seems this Evillustrator's targeting you specifically, Chloé. Any idea why?

Chloé: No. Everyone adores me.

"Are you that delusional, Chloe?" Alix rhetorically asked while Chloe looked down, embarrassed by her behavior.

At least you're not as delusional as Lila! Angel thought in her head.

Ladybug: (sarcastically) Yeah, because you're sooo adorable.

Chloé: Yeesss! Ladybug just said I'm adorable! I totally need a picture of the two of us together! (takes a picture of her and Ladybug with her cellphone)

"It's called sarcasm, Chloe!" Alya said laughing while Chloe still looked down.

Ladybug: Ugh! That was unpleasant.

Chloé: Well, I look great, of course, but your smile is all wonky. I'll take another! (takes another picture of them)

Ladybug: Sorry, I'm just a little camera shy.

"Well, that's true in this case. This wasn't the time to be in front of the camera," Marinette said and everybody agreed.

"If anyone can understand about that, it'd be me, m'lady. I grew up having my pictures taken even when I don't feel like it," Adrien said with a sad smile.

That sounds fabulous to me, you handsome moron! Lila thought, completely losing respect for Adrien at this point, but still admitted to herself that she still needs him to achieve the lifestyle she wants.

Cat Noir: Looks like somebody's got a fan!

Ladybug: Yeah, great.

Cat Noir: So what's the deal? Why are you acting so weird? Come on, you gotta admit that having this girl worship you is pretty awesome.

Ladybug: (sees Nathaniel's drawing, spoiled by Chloé) Ugh, seriously? I'm over this! Let's go!

Cat Noir: Are you kidding me? And what if the Evillustrator attacks her again?

Ladybug: Fine! You stay! Later!

Cat Noir: What do you mean later?

Ladybug: I mean, you're the one who wants to protect her, but you don't need me. So, later! (swings away)

"Sorry for ditching you guys. I can't focus when I'm mad," Marinette apologized to Adrien and Chloe, and the two nodded in forgiveness.

Chloé: (looks over balcony) Ahhh! Ladybug! Text me! OK!

Scene: Dupain-Cheng House. Ladybug reaches the trapdoor of her room, and detransforms into Marinette. She throws her purse on her sofa.

Tikki: (Muffled) Ow! (Tikki pops out from Marinette's purse) Hey!

Marinette: Sorry, Tikki... Chloé! She just...fires up this little red bug!

"Oh, and you guys get on my case for making puns when she just made one?" Adrien asked with a playful pout.

"First of all, my puns are better than yours, kitty. And second of all, you try too much with those puns," Marinette retorted and everybody else laughed in agreement, while Adrien still pouted.

Tikki: Well, simmer down! A hot head isn't going to get you anywhere!

Marinette: It's hard to keep my cool. Especially in school. Oh my gosh! Sabrina! The project! (She checks her cellphone, and sees a lot of missed calls from Sabrina)

"Whoa! That's a lot of calls to someone," Juleka noted while everybody looked at Sabrina.

"I might've gone a little impatient to get started on the project with my new bestie," Sabrina explained sheepishly.

Tikki: Uh-oh... Looks like you got yourself a new BFF! (Suddenly, Tikki sees someone in the window, and she hides. The one in the window is the Evillustrator, erasing the window pane.)

Marinette: It's you! From the library! What are you doing here?

Evillustrator: I just wanted to see you.

Marinette: Okay... But why did you attack Chloé?

Evillustrator: 'Cause Chloé is cruel and selfish!

"Can't argue with that!" The audience said in-sync with Marinette on-screen. Chloe wanted to retort back, but stayed silent as she couldn't argue with that either.

Marinette: Can't argue with that... Are you going to hurt me?

Evillustrator: You? You're Marinette! You're beautiful and sweet and... you're perfect and I could never hurt you!

"Well, he's right there," Adrien said to his girlfriend who gave him a smile. "You are indeed purr-fect." Adrien said smirking while everyone else including Marinette groaned at the pun.

Marinette?! Perfect?! They're kidding, right?! Lila ranted angrily in her head.

Marinette: Wow...that's, uh... very, umm... flattering! Uh, thank you?

Evillustrator: So, I just came by to ask you, it, uh, well, it's my birthday today, and, uh, would you wanna come to my party?

"You got akumatized on your birthday too?" Alix asked her fellow artist friend.

"Yeah," Nathaniel answered.

"Being akumatized is not something to be proud of, but fellow birthday akuma, hi-five!" Alix said as she and Nathaniel hi-five each other.

Marinette: Oh, umm... Actually, it's not really the best night. See, I got a presentation to work on, and...I have to call my friend, so we can meet and...

Evillustrator: Oh please, Marinette! It'll just be you and me. (draws an invitation and gives it to her)

Marinette: Oh my gosh! That's...me!

"That was a really nice drawing of me, Nathaniel," Marinette complimented and everyone (except for Lila) nodded in agreement bringing a smile from Nathaniel.

Evillustrator: You like it?

Marinette: I...love it! So much that I will absolutely be at your party. On one condition.

Evillustrator: Anything for you, Marinette.

Marinette: You can't hurt Chloé anymore. I simply cannot bear violence.

"You agreed to go out with a supervillain to protect me?" Chloe asked shocked.

"Yes. I may not be your biggest fan, Chloe, but I don't want you to get seriously hurt. I'd like my enemies to be punished big time once in a while, but not in serious pain. That's just sadistic," Marinette explained.

"You are too sweet, girl!" Alya said with a hug and everyone agreed with smiles except for Chloe who is just deep in thought and Lila who just scowled.

Well, call me sadistic! Because I want you to suffer bad! Lila thought while she still scowled.

Evillustrator: For you and only you. Meet you on the left bank, next to Notre-Dame, at sunset! (draws a rocket pack, and flies away)

Marinette: Ahh...

Tikki: What are you thinking, Marinette?

Marinette: I'm thinking poor Nathaniel's got a crush on me. And his alter ego, the Evillustrator's gonna get crushed by Ladybug!

Tikki: Yes, but... how exactly is Ladybug going to crush this crush when...you're going on a date with as Marinette?

Marinette: Oh, maybe some cool cat needs to crash the party.

"Cool cat, huh?" Adrien teased, wiggling his eyebrows making Marinette roll her eyes while most others snickered.

Scene: The hotel.

Chloé: Ohhh... Sabrina is so selfish! Making me do this project by myself?! Ugh, my brain hurts... Huh? Hey! Cat Noir, Are you any good at particle physics?

Cat Noir: Oh, this cat's got particle physics in the back.

Chloé: Ah! Great! (pulls his arm) Sit, kitty! (gives him the project) Now, make it sound purr-fect for my presentation. See what I did? I made a cat joke! Ah! I can be funny.

"Really? You're that desperate to have someone do your project for you? Even a superhero?" Alya asked with an amused smile while Chloe nodded sheepishly, making everybody else chuckle.

Cat Noir: (sarcastically) Yeah, hilarious. (his staff rings, he answers it) You can't just fly out of here and then decide to make cat calls, Ladybug!

Marinette: (from phone) I'm sorry, that was a call. But you can leave Chloé. I need you to protect this girl instead. Her name is Marinette. Really cute, isn't she? The Evillustrator is in love with her, and promised not to harm Chloé as long as Marinette comes to his birthday party. (Chloé dings Cat Noir's bell by telling him to do the project but he shoves her away while he is talking to Ladybug on his staff) While he's distracted, I want you to take him down.

"Really cute, isn't she? Trying to get a certain cat to like you as Marinette?" Alya asked her best friend with a teasing smirk and everyone else followed suit with the teasing.

"N-no! Just trying to get him to forget about Ladybug for a while," Marinette said, trying to come up with an excuse which made everybody else laugh harder.

"Sure, Bugaboo," Adrien sarcastically said with a smirk.

Cat Noir: What about you?

Marinette: I'm going on... a very important secret mission. I'll catch up with you later. Can you handle this alone?

"Really? An important secret mission? That's your cover?" Kim asked laughing along with most of the audience.

"What am I supposed to say? I'm going on a date? He'll probably forget all about the Evillustrator and try to track Ladybug down in order to disrupt her date to satisfy his jealousy," Marinette joked making the audience laugh harder in agreement.

"Hey!" Adrien said offended, then smiled. "OK, I guess that could be true." The audience laughed for a minute more before the episode replayed.

Cat Noir: Ha! Please! It'll be a cinch! (closes the phone, and says to Chloé) You're out of danger, uh, so I'll see ya! Later! (jumps away)

Chloé: Later?! What about my presentation?! Ughhhh!

"DO IT YOURSELF!" The teens yelled in a deadpanned joking matter to on-screen Chloe.

Scene: Dupain-Cheng house. Sabrina arrives at the front door.

Marinette: Oh! Sabrina! You scared me.

Sabrina: Sorry...I was just waiting for you. Did you get my messages?

"There are too many to miss," Marinette joked making everybody laugh while Sabrina looked sheepish but smiled.

Marinette: Yes! Yes I did! And I was totally gonna call you.

Sabrina: You were? I knew you would! Eventually. And so? I did your geography homework! (hands homework to Marinette)

Marinette: (steps back) Whoa! You didn't have to do that.

"Seriously, Sabrina. You didn't have to do that for me or anyone else for that matter. Even Chloe," Marinette said to which Sabrina gave her a knowing smile. Everyone including Chloe agreed with the statement except for one person.

You're still gonna do my homework! After all, my sprained wrist could be acting up again. Lila thought with a malicious smirk on her face.

Sabrina: Well, since you're my new best friend, it's the least I can do.

Marinette: Thanks, but I just can't.

Sabrina: Really?

Marinette: Oh, okay, but just this once. (takes homework)

Sabrina: Great! So, you wanna work on the physics project tonight?

Marinette: Uhhh, I'm so sorry Sabrina, I've got something really important that I have to do.

Sabrina: Something really important? Really? That's fascinating. Oh, you know who else uses that excuse all the time, don't you?

Marinette: Um, no?

Sabrina: Chloé! I'm beginning to see how similar you two are! I bet you'd expect me to do all the work like she did, right?

"Sorry, Marinette," Sabrina apologized sheepishly. "I should've known you'd never bail on your homework unless you have a good reason."

"I get it, Sabrina. You probably heard that line too much from Chloe over there," Marinette said while everyone else including Chloe giggled.

Marinette: No! I don't! Really! It's just that--

Sabrina: (grabs homework) I can't believe I did your geography homework for you... (Suddenly, Cat Noir appears)

Cat Noir: Whoo-hoo! I thought I was going to have to save you from that girl's claws. Get it? Claws? Hey, I haven't even introduced myself. I'm Cat Noir.

"You're in love with Ladybug and yet, you're flirting with Marinette, dude?" Nino asked both amused and exasperated.

"What? It's a fact that Cat Noir is a major flirt," Adrien said while everyone chuckled and nodded in agreement.

"That may be true, Adrien. But from what I've seen, Marinette was the only girl you've ever flirted with besides Ladybug despite them being the same girl," Angel pointed out and the audience looked with interest.

"That is true. Fighting side by side with you all this time, I am the only girl you've ever flirted with. Both sides of myself," Marinette said, finally realizing with an amused smirk on her face.

"That…might be true," Adrien said blushing while everyone else (except for Lila) chuckled.

Marinette: Uh, yeah... I know! You kinda save the day all the time and stuff...I'm Marinette! So... What are you doing here?

Cat Noir: Well, that birthday boy date of yours is bad news. But don't worry. You'll be safe with me.

Marinette: That puts my mind at ease.

Cat Noir: But I am going to need a little help. Care to assist a superhero?

Marinette: (turns around, making faces) What about Ladybug? Aren't you a duo?

"YOU WERE MOCKING ME?!" Adrien asked exasperated at on-screen Marinette secretly mocking him. Everyone else burst into raucous laughter at that.

"You were being so flirty that it annoyed me! And I couldn't say anything because you might guess that I'm Ladybug based on my actual reaction," Marinette said, defending herself while everyone else still laughed. Adrien however jokingly pouted.

Cat Noir: She's busy with something tonight, so...You get to be my Ladybug.

"How ironic," Alya deadpanned.

"This show is practically bent on irony!" Angel pointed out and everyone chuckled in agreement after thinking about it.

Marinette: (stops and turns back around) Me and Cat Noir? Fighting crime together? Amaazing! What do I do?

Cat Noir: Just get that drawing pencil away from it, little lady. I'll take care of the rest. (jumps away)

Marinette: (giggles)

Everyone else giggled along with on-screen Marinette while Adrien just blushed in embarrassment.

Scene: The Seine, near Notre Dame, at night. The Evillustrator is preparing everything for his birthday date.

"This was really nice, Nathaniel," Marinette pointed out. "You should be a date planner as well as an artist." Everyone nodded in agreement.

Hawk Moth: That is a lovely little scene you're setting. But I don't want you to get distracted, boy.

Evillustrator: But I just want Marinette to love me.

Hawk Moth: And I want the Miraculous. So get it! Or else. (The Evillustrator's hand is paralyzed)

"Hawk Moth can do that?" Luka asked wincing.

"That makes sense since Hawk Moth controls him with the akuma," Kagami said, being observant as she is and everyone murmured in agreement.

Evillustrator: Okay, I will, I will! (Suddenly, Marinette arrives)

Marinette: Happy birthday.

Evillustrator: Marinette! (Marinette and the Evillustrator stroll by) Thank you for accepting my invitation.

Marinette: Wow, it's so beautiful.

Evillustrator: You like it? Well hold on, 'cause I'm just getting started. (He is about to draw something, but dark clouds appear, clouding the moon) Grr! Come on, you've gotta be kidding!

Marinette: Huh?

Evillustrator: Uhh, sorry. I didn't mean to startle you. It's just... I can't draw properly in the dark.

"I'm guessing you just gave away your weakness?" Marc asked his boyfriend with an amused smile and Nathaniel nodded.

Marinette: Hmm!

Evillustrator: (Draws a glowing moon) Voila! (Marinette and the Evillustrator ride the boat, while the Evillustrator plays some music on his pad. Marinette notices Cat Noir leaping)

Marinette: (scoots closer) You're so talented! I just don't understand why you wanna use your power to hurt people.

Evillustrator: Not all people. Just Chloé. And I'm never doing that again. After all, you were true to your promise, so I'll be true to mine. (Cat Noir sees them, and leaps directly to the boat)

Marinette: I...actually draw a little too, I'm not as good as you are, of course.

"Are you kidding?! Have you seen your designs, Marinette?" Nathaniel said surprised.

"I was raised to be modest," Marinette answered.

"That is true," Sabine agreed as both she and her husband nodded.

Evillustrator: I'm sure you're a wonderful artist.

Marinette: Well, can I draw you something special for your birthday? (stops the music)

Evillustrator: That would be amazing. (He notices Cat Noir) Marinette, give me my pencil back. I need to draw something, now!

Marinette: No, I'm keeping it! Cat Noir! Now! (Cat Noir's staff extends in front of the Evillustrator)

Evillustrator: Marinette! You're working with him? I'm so stupid... I actually thought you liked me! But you're really just like Chloé. Teasing me, mocking me, leading me on!

Marinette: Come on! Seriously? Why is everybody comparing me to Chloé tonight? (The Evillustrator kicks Cat Noir's staff, and it hits the pencil. He grabs it, and draws a transparent cube that falls and traps Cat Noir and Marinette) Dahh!

"You're right, girl! No one in their right mind would compare you to Chloe!" Alya exclaimed exasperated.

"She's right. We're totally different," Chloe agreed along with everybody else.

Evillustrator: And I'm taking back my promise! Chloé's gonna get a little lesson she'll never forget! (erases a hole in the boat, making it start to sink, and escapes)

Cat Noir: We've been penned in! Literally! (Tikki sticks out of Marinette's purse; Marinette covers her with her hands.)

Marinette: Cat Noir, your stick! Like this! (indicates placing the stick against the ceiling of the cube) And extend it!

Cat Noir: Great thinking!

Marinette: Yeah...I'm a genius. (Cat Noir extends his stick, lifting himself, Marinette and the cube into the air, and landing safely.)

"OK, that should've been a clue that Marinette is Ladybug. I mean, how would she know what to do with your staff?" Alix pointed out and after some thought, everyone else agreed.

"You're right," Adrien said blushing in embarrassment as he finally realized.

Cat Noir: Gotta go. A superhero's work is never done. (starts counting on fingers) Damsels in distress, ladies in waiting... I've got a lot more saving to do. You can thank me later. (jumps away)

Marinette; Me? Thank him? Please! He should be thanking me. We'd still be trapped if I hadn't told him how to do his "job."

"Sorry, kitty, but your ego needed to be taken down a notch," Marinette apologized to her boyfriend giggling.

"I know. Thanks for getting us out of that cube," Adrien said and Marinette responded with a smile.

Tikki: Speaking of which...

Marinette: That boy's gonna need our help saving Chloé.

Scene: The hotel.

Chloé: (fake crying) Boo-hoo-hoo! I'm so sorry, miss, but after what happened at the library, I simply couldn't work on my project! It would've been too...dramatic! Just look what it's done to my...my...hair! (fake crying, then stops) Oh, please. Who's going to believe that?! Even a stupid hairdryer couldn't make me look bad. (The door rumbles) Uh? Cat Noir? Is that you? (It's the Evillustrator. She runs away in fear) Ahhhh! (hides under her bed)

"Yeah, Chloe! That's the problem with this excuse!" Alix sarcastically snorted making everybody else laugh hard while Chloe just silently frowned.

Evillustrator: Chloé, where are you? Are you hiding? That is so cute. You're playing hide-and-seek. In the closet?! (He starts erasing things in the closet, until he erases the bed Chloé is hidden under)

Chloé: Ahhhh!

Evillustrator: I win, Chloé! I found you!

Chloé: Ah! My Chanel dresses! My Todelan heels! You're... you're a monster!

"REALLY, CHLOE?!" The teens shouted exasperated while Chloe looked down sheepishly.

Evillustrator: You like to walk all over other people. But you don't like it when others trample on you! Do you, Chloé? Do you?! (draws a giant heeled shoe that chases Chloé)

Chloé: Ahhhhhh! (Ladybug appears, and breaks the heel making the shoe disappear) Huh?

Evillustrator: Grr!

Ladybug: Oops! Broke your heel! Better watch your ankles. (Cat Noir enters the room)

Cat Noir: Well, well, look what the cat dragged in.

Ladybug: No cat dragged me anywhere, Cat Noir. I flew in all on my own.

Cat Noir: So what was this secret mission?

Ladybug: If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret.

"Well, I know now at least, m'lady," Adrien said to Marinette with a smile.

Evillustrator: In the comics, this is what's known as the final showdown. The thing is, if you knew her, you wouldn't be breaking a sweat to save her skin! She's the real baddie!

Chloé: Oh! It's not true! Everybody adores me! (The Evillustrator draws three boxing gloves, and fires them at each other person in the room)

"And unfortunately as superheroes, we have to save everyone from danger no matter how we feel about them. We would even have to save Hawk Moth if he was in some sort of grave danger," Marinette pointed out. After some thought, everyone agreed with that statement except for one obvious person.

And this is why I'm not a superhero. I'd leave you to die in a ditch, you stupid pathetic simp! Lila thought with an evil scowl.

Cat Noir: Look out! (gets knocked out by one of the gloves. Ladybug dodges a boxing glove, and then disintegrates another one with her yo-yo, saving Chloé. The Evillustrator draws a wall to protect himself from Ladybug. He then draws a buzzsaw, but Ladybug dodges it. The buzzsaw is about to hit Chloé, but Cat Noir stops it. He then splits his staff into two and throws them at the Evillustrator, but he dodges them. A half of the stick breaks a lamp, so the Evillustrator gets closer to another working lamp)

Ladybug: The light! Cat Noir! He can't draw in the dark!

Cat Noir: Got it! (he sees a light switch) Cataclysm! (he uses his Cataclysm to hit the light switch, but the Evillustrator erases it, and Cat Noir breaks the wall instead)

"Great! Another Cataclysm wasted!" Adrien said annoyed.

Evillustrator: Here you go, kitty. (draws a ball and chain) A little ball and chain to play with. (they appear on Cat Noir's ankle)

Cat Noir: Hey!

Evillustrator: Sadly, those who get in my way get erased. (erases a giant hole in the floor, and Cat Noir is about to fall into it. Ladybug tries not to fall)

"That's scary!" Rose pointed out shuddering and everyone murmured in agreement.

Cat Noir: (his Miraculous beeps, showing one pad) No, no, no, no, no!

Hawk Moth: Cat Noir has a Miraculous! Take it! Take it now!

Evillustrator: Before you go, you have something I want.

Cat Noir: Ladybug! This cat doesn't have nine lives!

Ladybug: Lucky Charm! (Lucky Charm gives her a bouncy ball) A bouncy ball?

A tiny little bouncy ball?! Seriously? Lila thought with an amused evil smirk.

Evillustrator: Just try and stop me with that, little lady! (laughs)

Ladybug: (uses her thinking vision, and the lights and lamps glow) Gladly! (she throws the bouncy ball at the lamps, breaking them, and turning everything dark. She then drags the Evillustrator, making him fall. She grabs his pencil, and breaks it, releasing its akuma)

"Whoa! That ball was fast in breaking those lamps!" Mylene said amazed and everyone nodded, just as amazed.

Cat Noir: (his Miraculous beeps again) Hurry! (the ball and chain disappear, so he manages to get out of the hole)

Ladybug: No more evil-doing for you, little akuma! Time to de-evilize! (grabs the akuma with her yo-yo) Gotcha! (purifies and releases the akuma) Bye bye, little butterfly. Miraculous Ladybug! (she throws the Lucky Charm into the air, its energy repairing all the damage, and turning everything back to normal. The Evillustrator turns back into Nathaniel)

Nathaniel: Huh? Where am I?

Ladybug & Cat Noir: Pound it!

"Pound it!" Marinette and Adrien once again fist-bumped and kissed in victory.

Hawk Moth: Noooo! The Miraculous was practically mine! And they will be. Once I have them all in my grasp, I shall rule the world! (window closes)

Scene: College.

Alya: What happened when Ladybug and Cat Noir arrived on the scene?

Chloé: Well, to be perfectly honest, they only made matters worse. They came barreling in, and started smashing things to bits, throwing plastic balls around my room!

Alya: Plastic balls?

"I was so confused by that at the time. But, now I get it," Alya admitted about her interview with Chloe.

"We made matters worse? We saved your butt, Chlo," Adrien said with a slight frown and Marinette nodded.

"Sorry. Insulting people became a habit for me," Chloe said sheepishly.

Marinette: (giggles)

Sabrina: I hope you had a good time last night taking care of that important thing you had to do.

"Sorry again, Marinette," Sabrina once again apologized.

"No worries. You couldn't know," Marinette said with a forgiving smile.

Marinette: I'm really sorry, Sabrina. But I can meet you in the library today and finally work on the project with you.

Sabrina: Too late. Chloé and I are doing the project together.

Marinette: You mean, you're doing the project?

"Of course," The teens deadpanned simultaneously.

Sabrina: Of course! After all she's been through...

Marinette: Ughhh... Nice new beret, by the way.

Sabrina: I know, right! Chloé lent it to me. She really is my BFF! Chloé! Your geography homework's ready!

Adrien: Hey!

Marinette: Wahhhh! (Tikki hides)

Adrien: I heard about your adventures with Cat Noir yesterday. Were you scared?

Marinette: Me, scared? Pfft, it was a dream. I mean, you're a dream. I mean, in your dreams! Huh? Oh, this is a nightmare...

Adrien: Okay... So, what do you think about Cat Noir? Was he awesome?

"I also like to point out that as far as I've seen, Marinette is the only one you subtly asked for praise about Cat Noir," Angel pointed out making everybody chuckle in agreement.

"You're right, Angel!" Alya said realizing before pointing to Adrien. "You so had a crush on Marinette!"

"Maybe," Adrien said blushing when everyone else chuckled and Marinette gave him an amused and flattered smile.

Her?! And not me?! What is he, blind?! Lila once again ranted angrily in her head.

Marinette: I mean, sure! Yeah, but not as awesome as you, of course. Because, who could be? You're the most awesome of awesome.

Adrien: So, that's a yes? (the bell rings, and he pats Marinette on the shoulder)

"I guess that was sort of a yes," Marinette said and Adrien responded with a blush and a smile.

Tikki: You do realize you just blabbered on to Adrien about how you think he's awesome, don't you?

Marinette: He touched my shoulder... I'll never wash my jacket again!

Tikki: Girl, you have got to get better control of your emotions. (The end card shows Nathaniel's sketch book with a new picture of Ladybug)

"AMEN!" Everyone shouted agreeing with on-screen Tikki.

"That episode was pretty interesting," Kagami said. "What is the next one?"

"The next episode is Rogercop," Angel answered.

"That was my dad, right?" Sabrina asked with a bit of a sad look.

"Right. Anyway, let's play," Angel said as the episode started playing.