Chapter 28: The Pharaoh vs. Archangel

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(Author's notes: There's not really much to say other than this: Steel Butterfly will be recruiting this guy to help him against The Pharaoh: Antonio Yarbrough, also known as Archangel. He's gonna look like several art and media-based depictions of Michael the Archangel and the X-Men/Horseman of Apocalypse iteration of Archangel merged together, completely clad in knight armor and with a set of techno-organic angel wings to boot.

Also, there's going to be a scene featuring Steel Butterfly disrupting The Pharaoh's spell to bring Nefertiti back to life. But you'll have to read the chapter to find out how the butterfly hero is going to do that.)

(Quantic Universe Earth 139, Paris, France, May the 20th, 2015, Steel Butterfly's voiceover POV as he writes in his Rorschach-inspired journal in his lair while cooking himself two turkey-based cheeseburgers for the first time in years...)

Steel Butterfly's journal.

May 20th, 2015.

First journal entry today.

Today's the day of the incident in which Bunnyx's extremely idiotic older brother Jalil Kubdel becomes The Pharaoh.

I hate that guy to an extreme just because of his polytheism and his willingness to try to recite ancient Egyptian magical spells without knowing or caring about the prices to using any form of magic to bring anyone back from the dead or using any form of magic in general.

I hope that me and his father Alim can set Jalil straight on the consequences of his actions.

If not, then I'm afraid his fate has already been sealed.

The rest of the world's accumulated filth consisting of many sorcerers and magic practitioners of different types will foam up above their waists in hardening cement, and those a**holes and w***** will look up and shout, "Please save us!"

Also, if even Jalil ever tries to beg me to save him or grant him magical/angelic immortality, I would say in response, "F****** Hell no."

And it seems I have at least another ally I can trust in this world.

I was pursued by a small enough anti-superhero group of corrupt police officers six nights ago and they seemed like they wanted my head while it seemed like at least two of them wanted my Miraculous for obvious but different reasons.

A cab driver stopped and offered me a ride out of the Twentieth Arrondisment.

It seems she recognized my armored face.

We managed to lose the disgraceful officers while I gave the driver my address on a discretionary note.

On our way to my residence where I will be able to map out the corrupt officers' route through the city so I can smite them while leaving a few survivors to be arrested, she told me I was her hero, and she told me she was also compelled to take up arms and go to war against the various types of criminals and supervillains of the entire city and perhaps the world itself while taking into account overall health, fitness, combat training, weapons training, tactician training, strategy training, detective skill training, finding the right non-lethal weapons and equipment, amassing large sums of money for this war against crime through legal means, increasing one's own durability against physical pain, and the fact that Hawk Moth in the future wouldn't hesitate to Akumatize criminals and real life supervillains to get what he wants.

In my head, I was like, "What is this, the Watchmen comics?"

Anyway, she asked me how I always managed to help out people in Akuma attacks, how I was able to manipulate magic despite my strict religious upbringing, and how I always manage to stay on and off the streets regardless of me using ground and/or air tactics against all of my enemies.

And so, I told her that remaining on and off the streets is easy.

I told her that my enemies never see me coming and they never find me because I use every kind of method and superpower related to evading capture, staying hidden to avoid all forms of detection that happens to include being caught on cameras, staying silent to avoid being spotted or ratted out, changing my appearance to make sure that nobody bats an eye at who they see out of the ordinary, keeping a close eye out for anything out of the ordinary, staying on the move as fast and as discreetly as possible, persuading others to turn the other cheek if I did something they didn't like, specifically as long as what I did was legal, and so forth.

I also told her that I was chosen to be the bearer of the true Butterfly Miraculous because not only did my benefactor know about my desire to be a superhero in my own right while keeping in mind that great power and great skill all come with a burden of responsibility, but also because of the fact that my Miraculous was made by both a mage in Ancient China five thousand and fifteen years ago and an angelic weapon smith. At the same time, I was once contacted by God Himself who told me that he persuaded my benefactor to bring me to the world of superheroes because of the fact that he didn't like how things went in the future, particularly because of the mistakes that Ladybug and Cat Noir would make if I wasn't here, along with the possibility of an Italian compulsive liar potentially becoming the new Hawk Moth in the future.

To top it off, I told her that even if I was not an antihero, the police don't want to mess with me because not only am I extremely powerful in terms of precisely how many superpowers I have, but also because I'm thirty-two thousand, one hundred and eight years old, and I have trained with the greatest martial artists and close quarters combat instructors in history while also simultaneously inventing new martial arts moves that I would be willing to teach my protégés, my teammates, my army, and my future successors and descendants in the foreseeable future, in the near future, and in the far future. Therefore, even Hawk Moth will be no match for me.

You see, while the police protects the public from people they can never hope to understand, I protect the police from the people they can never hope to understand.

Case in point? Hawk Moth.

True, Hawk Moth only wants to revive his wife, but I had to spell out for the cab driver the consequences of what could happen if Hawk Moth ever got his wish. And I made sure to simplify it because of the fact that the entire world doesn't know anything about Miraculous magic, and it has to stay that way to protect the legacy and secrecy of the Miraculouses and the Order of the Guardians from the entire world.

True, the police and I don't always see eye-to-eye – not every superhero or murderous vigilante does – but we share a mutual respect towards each other in wanting to keep people safe from anyone wishing to cause death, chaos, and destruction among other things.

But one day, sometime in the far future, the police will become so desperate to stop me from murdering other killers and other kinds of criminals and supervillains that killed people intentionally or not.

Trust me, the police will become so desperate to the point where they'll do anything possible to lock me up.

And when they finally imprison me behind iron bars with my Butterfly Miraculous taken away only to be taken back by the Order of the Guardians, they'll look down from their watchtowers in shock and horror as they realize too late that my incarceration hasn't done a single thing to haul them up to a single ladder rung, let alone raise them out of the pits of Hell.

I've been faithful to my belief in God and to my journal, which is going to be my own personal attorney. And when that day comes, I'll be extensively and extremely prepared.

Anyway, when I was a good distance away from those corrupt cops, I thanked the driver with a large sum of money and flew off to retrieve my army of clones.

To say the least, when the corrupt officers were sleeping, we smote each and every one of them all at once.

And we also smote their corrupt allies while leaving a few survivors to put behind bars.

Any corrupt police officer or politician that tries to challenge me even in the face of Armageddon will be cut down like trees being illegally cut down to make space for roads and buildings.

Anyway, I visited the home of former villain Phantom Trickster after seeing her pay respects to Maxence.

Even now, I can sense that some of my actions and some of the actions of pretty much everyone else were all similar and somewhat different to the actions of the characters of the original Watchmen comics and the Watchmen movie.

Anyway, Phantom Trickster, now going by her civilian name Priscilla Nguyen, insisted that she wanted to pay her respects to Maxence because they used to be childhood friends, but they were driven apart when Priscilla took up work as the Phantom Trickster and he was one of the officers who helped bring her to prison.

In any case, Priscilla was awoken two weeks before Maxence's death to see him sitting on her bed, in tears because he regretted some of the similarly different actions and words he did and said during his entire career as a detective.

Maxence went onto a drunk ramble of why he feels miserable now that he realizes that even if his son gets married and has a child, and even if Maxence meets his grandchild, he's still gonna wind up alone because not even his family wants to be near him, thinking that his coldhearted and stone-hardened exterior and interior would pass onto his grandchild.

There were other things Maxence said, chief among them being that he wishes he was able to save Priscilla from her life of crime.

When I went to visit the cemetery again, I thought about Priscilla's story.

It couldn't've been lies.

Priscilla had told me herself that she took a vow to never lie again after she was released from prison, having served her time.

But even if it was true, what could've possibly scared Maxence enough to cry in front of Priscila?

So many questions, and yet, so little answers.

Never mind; there'll be answers when I get the time to use my precognition.

Nothing is not salvageable.

Nothing is hopeless, not while there's life.

But in any case, I intend to use a secret weapon against The Pharaoh, and it's nothing less than the Staff of Bu-Kai from Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation.

True, that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action cartoon of the 1990s was a train wreck, but it introduced a magical weapon capable of destroying magic spells and killing the magic practitioner if optional and if necessary.

And of course, I intend to make a few memes off of Ladybug being caught in a time bubble and talking in slow motion.

Tee heh heh heh.

Even after all these years, I still find Ladybug's slow motion talk to be extremely hilarious!

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

If I'm being honest, she actually has a masculine tone outside the time bubble.

Ah, but all the same, I should be careful as Ladybug could possibly get Akumatized, and she wouldn't be able to notice the Akuma in time no matter how fast it flies into either her Miraculous or her yoyo.

But now, I must be ready to fight The Pharaoh, and who knows?

Maybe I'll be able to use the Staff of Bu-Kai to interrupt The Pharaoh's spell to revive Queen Nefertiti.

But in any case, I also intend to set Alya straight on how it's not her business to ask Ladybug for her age.

Usually, my demonic voice is more than enough to make people comply.

And in any case, I intend to do a lot of good things for not only my future family, but also for all of my friends.

And as for the possibility of fighting Hawk Moth on Heroes' Day after cutting off Catalyst's power to make the terrorist become Scarlet Moth, I can't imagine a more dangerous opponent.

Despite the fact that Hawk Moth doesn't often fight directly, he's still a highly skilled combatant and fencer.

But the sad reality of being a swordstick and fencing fighter is that Hawk Moth's skill is useless against an opponent in a real swordfight, especially when it concerns Hawk Moth fighting an adult user of the Dragon Miraculous since the weapon of the Dragon Miraculous is an actual sword.

And even if he fought Grandmaster Su-Han as Monarch in the future, the Celestial Guardian of the Miracle Box probably won't stand a chance against Monarch if he possesses the Miraculouses in the Miracle Box outside of the Ladybug, Black Cat, Rabbit and Peacock Miraculouses, with the other Miraculouses being forged into the Alliance Rings.

But whatever the case, I intend to put my Mirakung-Fu skills to work against Hawk Moth on Heroes' Day.

Yeah, even after thirty-two thousand and fifty-six years, I've been heavily training myself in Mirakung-Fu to take down rogue Miraculous users in case I end up the Guardian of the Miracle Box instead of Ladybug and Cat Noir. After all, even rookie Guardians with small amounts of hand-to-hand defensive training need to learn offensive Mirakung-Fu moves.

But enough of that for now; for the time being, I must mobilize Archangel for the fight against The Pharaoh.

(Third person POV...)

In Marinette's bedroom, Marinette and Tikki are watching Alya's latest video on the Ladyblog.

Alya Cesaire, the owner of the Ladyblog, says on the streamed video, "Don't blink now, because we are all live from Paris. Yo peeps, its Alya here, and I'm bringing you the one and only Ladyblog."

Alya hears the noise of a helicopter whirring overhead.

Alya asks aloud, "Huh? What is that? Do I hear a helicopter whirring, or is it me?"

Alya looks in the shrinking distance to see an out of control helicopter and answers her own question, "Nope, I definitely hear something. And it's definitely... (She looks ahead) an out of control helicopter!"

Ladybug and Steel Butterfly fly by, with Ladybug anchoring her yoyo onto the helicopter and a building while hovering in the air via her heavily-armored ladybug wings.

Steel Butterfly was using his own yoyo to help latch the helicopter onto the same building and around his waist.

Steel Butterfly is given the signal by Ladybug, and Steel Butterfly flies in the helicopter's opposite direction, slowly bringing the chopper to a safe stop on the ground.

All the while, Steel Butterfly was thoroughly hiding Ladybug's history textbook in his cape as his wings continue flapping as fast as the wings of a crow in flight.

Alya remarks, "Ladybug and Steel Butterfly in action. Hang on to your socks, everybody, because we're going for a ride."

Alya quickly approaches the two heroes as they help the passengers of the now deactivated helicopter while making sure not to drop her phone.

Alya tries calling for the two heroes' attention, "Hey! Ladybug! Steel Butterfly!"

Steel Butterfly turns to Alya and asks politely, "Is there something we can help you with, Ms. Cesaire?"

Alya answers, "Any idea about what happened with that helicopter?"

Steel Butterfly answers, "I was just about to deploy my scanner drones to find out what the problem is." Just as Alya was gonna ask what Steel Butterfly meant, much to the Ladyblogger's surprise, his scanner drones are deployed and after scanning the helicopter, the drones relay the information to Steel Butterfly.

Steel Butterfly remarks, "Ah. According to my scanner drones, there was some faulty power and construction regulations in the helicopter's tail rotor. That's why it was out of control."

(Quick author's note: I don't really know about how real life helicopters can actually malfunction, so bear with me.)

In Marinette's bedroom, Marinette states, "Whew! I'm glad that Steel Butterfly saved my history book from being taken by Alya. I can't believe I actually forgot to put the textbook in my yoyo."

Tikki replies a bit cheerfully, "Yes, even I'm truly grateful that the big butterfly is on our side. And with the power of the real Butterfly Miraculous in our arsenal, we might have a chance against Hawk Moth just in case he tries to Akumatize an army of supervillains."

Marinette remarks, "Maybe I really am cut out for the whole Ladybug thing."

Tikki replies, "Yes, you are, Marinette. In fact, everyone has a past that they can learn from."

Tikki types a command onto the computer and a page about ancient Egyptian pharaohs is brought up on the screen.

Tikki finishes saying, "This will show you why."

Marinette asks, "An exhibition at the Louvre? On the pharaoh Tutankhamun, aka King Tut? What does this have to do with what you said about there being a past everyone can learn from?"

Tikki answers, "Five thousand years ago, in Ancient Egypt, one of your predecessors was the Ladybug of the era. During that time, King Tutankhamun tried to use a magic ritual to bring one of his father's wives, Queen Nefertiti, back from the dead. The ritual consists of one hundred mummies and the sacrifice of a pure soul to please the Egyptian sun god Ra in order for Nefertiti to be revived."

Marinette holds up a hand for silence as she replies, "Even though Steel Butterfly already showed me how this ritual will work thanks to Hawk Moth Akumatizing Bunnyx's idiotic older brother into a replica of King Tut, never lose sight of the fact that I'm from a religious family, Tikki. Like Steel Butterfly, I don't believe in any god other than God, no matter what His name is and no matter how He prefers to be addressed. HE is the One True God of the Multiverse. And don't EVER mention the names of any god other than God Himself. Do I make myself clear?"

Tikki answers shakily, "Y-yes, Marinette. I was just giving you a history lesson, but I'll try my hardest."

Marinette replies back a little calmer, "Good. Now, don't worry; as long as we're on the same page on many subjects with a few exceptions, we're cool."

Tikki assumes her human form and the two Ladybugs hug each other.

Later, Marinette and Miguel are walking into the ancient Egyptian exhibit in the Louvre.

Miguel points at the papyrus and Marinette sees it.

Miguel says, "According to these ancient hieroglyphs, everything I told you about the ritual to revive Queen Nefertiti was true. Hawk Moth's powers can easily make that ritual come to life if given the right circumstances."

Miguel and Marinette's Ladybug and Butterfly Senses go off and they move out of Jalil Kubdel's way just as he comes in running.

As Jalil brushes past them without bumping into them, Miguel says quietly, "(Softly) We better keep an eye on him from the shadows. If my foreknowledge is correct, Jalil will become The Pharaoh in no time."

Marinette and Miguel conceal themselves as Jalil returns with his father, Alim.

Jalil says, "I'm telling you, father, its right there in the hieroglyphics. There, as you know, the one with the scepter is Tutankhamun, the first. And there, on the opposite side is Nefertiti, one of the wives of Tutankhamun's father. There are exactly one hundred mummies beside them. She died six years before he did, and the sun god Ra took her as his goddess."

Miguel softly growled in anger while simultaneously hiding his anger from Hawk Moth.

Alim replies, "Yes, I know all of that. I'm the director of this exhibition, remember?"

Jalil replies back, "Then you also know that Tutankhamun wanted to bring his father's last wife back to life, by simply offering the sun god a new wife. This seemed to illustrate the ritual he invented to do so. Nobody has ever managed to completely decipher the hieroglyphics, but I have! It's a magic chant that needs to be recited in order to complete the ritual! I'm sure of it!"

Alim replies back as well, "Jalil, these types of frescos are almost always the illustration for a legend. They called it a legend for a reason..."

Jalil counters, "No offense, father, but even I once learned from the first Ghost Rider movie that the thing about myths and legends is that sometimes, they turn out to be all too real. As for the magic chant, it's said to be a legend, but that's what everyone thinks. But I know it's real. I can prove it!"

Alim inquires skeptically, "Oh really? And exactly how are you gonna be able to prove it?"

Jalil answers giddily, "I just need to get my hands on Tutankhamun's scepter and recite the chant for the spell!"

Miguel silently counts down from three to zero with his fingers, and... Alim replies back while stopping Jalil from touching the scepter, "Are you serious?! Have you lost your mind?! Don't even think about touching that scepter! I'd lose my job on the spot. It's a priceless historical object! It's not a toy!"

Jalil protests, "Come on, Dad! We have to try out the spell! What if Tutankhamun had found out how to bring people back to life?"

Alim snaps, "Listen, Jalil! That's enough! Get your head out of those papyrus scrolls and focus on the real world! This one!"

Alim leaves.

Jalil drops his papers with a saddened expression on his face. And that expression turns to pure anger as he mutters under his breath that if it were up to Jalil alone, he'd have sacrificed his own father for the sake of his desire to prove the magic chant was real.

Miguel quietly sneers, "(Softly) Even though the ritual is real, I'm afraid that Jalil is never gonna be able to learn the easy way that his actions have seriously deadly consequences. Especially where God and magic are concerned."

Miguel and Marinette become Ladybug and Steel Butterfly without being seen or filmed.

Ladybug watches for any Akumas while Steel Butterfly leaves to talk to Alim Kubdel. But before that, Steel Butterfly decides to Tenshize an important person into an archangel.

In Hawk Moth's lair, the window opens as the terrorist of Paris remarks, "There's nothing wrong with living out a fantasy. Especially when I can make it a reality."

He creates an Akuma and sends it off while saying, "Fly away, my evil Akuma, and transform that young man!"

The Akuma flies off to the Louvre.

Steel Butterfly makes a Tenshi appear out of his cane and sends it off to find Antonio Yarbrough.

The Tenshi reaches Antonio and merges with his pocket watch.

Steel Butterfly says telepathically, "Archangel, I am Steel Butterfly. I'm granting you the power to show the new supervillain of the day that God Himself is the One True God of the Earth whose existence has been proven to be real on a number of occasions. Do you accept my offer, Archangel?"

Antonio/Archangel answers, "In the name of the Lord, the new Akumatized villain will feel the mighty wrath of the greatest Archangel to ever be made!"

Antonio is transformed into Archangel, a hybrid fusion of Warren Worthington III as Archangel and various different forms of Michael the Archangel in various art and media-based depictions merged together. Archangel was completely clad in a full suit of armor with techno-organic angel wings on his back.

Archangel flies to the Louvre.

Outside the Louvre, the Akuma flies into Jalil's amulet.

Hawk Moth telepathically says, "Pharaoh, I am Hawk Moth. I have endowed you with the magical power of the ancient gods. You must do me a favor in exchange for this gift."

Jalil/Pharaoh replies, "My precious Nefertiti will come back to life!"

Jalil becomes The Pharaoh.

Inside the Louvre, Steel Butterfly has finished explaining everything to Alim about Jalil's Akumatization.

But when Alim started pondering aloud how to punish Jalil for his actions, Steel Butterfly was quick to physically and violently remind the museum worker that Jalil's actions as The Pharaoh are of Hawk Moth's exploitation of Jalil's sadness and anger through the usage of ancient magic that was transformed into dark magic, and once Jalil is freed from Hawk Moth's control, he immediately forgets everything that ever happened. Literally.

Steel Butterfly was also quick to remind Alim that even though he sympathizes with the potential for him losing his job, he must never lose sight of the fact that people in Paris who don't get what they want as long as Hawk Moth is active will continuously get Akumatized and Jalil will most likely not hesitate to kill his own father while still Akumatized if Alim tries to get in the way.

But once that bridge was crossed, Steel Butterfly rendezvoused with Ladybug and Archangel just as a museum employee sees The Pharaoh walking in, blows his whistle and shouts, "Hey, you!"

The Pharaoh calls out, "Thoth, give me time!"

The Pharaoh's face changes to a dog ape face and he traps the employee and several civilians in time bubbles, causing them to move and talk in slow motion inside the bubbles.

The hidden heroes avoid the time bubbles.

The Pharaoh calls out, "Get out of here, faster!"

The bubbles fly out of the room.

Alya unexpectedly shows up in hiding and whispers while live streaming, "(Softly) OMG. This is coming to you live, Ladyblog viewers. I'm at the scene even before Steel Butterfly, Ladybug or Cat Noir! This is insane!"

The Pharaoh's face changes back to King Tut's funerary face.

In Adrien's bedroom, Adrien and Plagg are watching the live stream.

Adrien is shocked at what he's seeing.

Plagg remarks, "I can't believe this! Steel Butterfly was right; Jalil Kubdel really is, and I quote, '"a f****** idiotic fantasy and magic lover with no regard for the consequences of his actions, even when he's not Akumatized.'" All the same, I really dig the changing faces. You could certainly use that in case your identity gets exposed. But all the same, we gotta help SB and LB."

Adrien nods and says, "Plagg, Claws Out!"

Meanwhile, back at the Louvre, The Pharaoh steals the scepter and the papyrus.

Ladybug, Steel Butterfly and Archangel all slide under a security gate just as it closes.

Ladybug remarks, "You do realize that's considered stealing, right?"

The Pharaoh counters, "Actually, I'm taking back what rightfully belongs to me."

Steel Butterfly counters back, "Maybe if you were the REAL King Tutankhamun, which you're not!"

Steel Butterfly and Archangel draw their swords.

The Pharaoh notices Archangel and asks, "And who is this supposed to be?"

Steel Butterfly makes the introduction, "Give it up for Archangel, the servant of THE ONE TRUE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE!"

The Pharaoh retorts unwisely, "I don't believe in your God!"

Steel Butterfly sonic roars like an angered dragon, making The Pharaoh stumble to his knees in pain.

In just twenty-five to forty-nine seconds, Steel Butterfly ferociously beats up The Pharaoh within an inch of his Akumatized life.

Within the first two minutes of the beating, Steel Butterfly was roaring like a dragon in battle.

After grabbing Pharaoh by the throat, Steel Butterfly snarls in his demonic voice, "Don't make me kill you."

Archangel nods to add his two cents.

Steel Butterfly proceeds to choke slam Pharaoh into the ground.

Alya was stunned silent by what she had seen.

However, much to the surprise of pretty much everyone, The Pharaoh managed to completely recover from his grievous injuries that could cause him to die.

Steel Butterfly mentally bemoans, "Yeesh. This is kind of like that Miraculous Ladybug and The Mask crossover story in which Big Head antagonizes the Akumatized villains to the point where they become Mega Akumas, not like the Mega Akumas that made their debut in the Dearest Family episode of season 4."

Then, Alya whispers, "(Softly) So, as we can see, as long as The Pharaoh remains Akumatized, he practices polytheism, the belief in the Egyptian gods and not the one true God of the universe Himself, and that turns out to be a half of the one thing that Steel Butterfly refuses to tolerate the most and he won't hesitate to answer to it with ultra violence and murderous retribution. And apparently, The Pharaoh can heal from even fatal wounds. But still, look at Steel Butterfly, Ladybug and Archangel go! If I'm dreaming, don't wake me up!"

Steel Butterfly notices her and flashes his Wolverine claws at her, telling her to go away.

But Alya didn't pay attention, stupidly focusing her attention on the fight.

So, while The Pharaoh was preparing to attack, Archangel signals Alya to be quiet and Alya whispers very quietly but quiet enough for her voice to be recorded, "(Softly) Oh. I gotta be really quiet here."

Steel Butterfly swung his sword and claws at The Pharaoh's face, and he manages to scrape the armor of The Pharaoh's face.

Angered, The Pharaoh grabs Steel Butterfly and swings him into the farthest wall really hard.

Steel Butterfly's momentum caused him to destroy the wall, but the butterfly hero crashing through the wall was thankfully not enough to bring the museum crumbling down.

Ladybug swings her yoyo at the Pharaoh, but he catches the yoyo and swings her around before swinging her into another wall.

Archangel flies forward and stabs the Pharaoh in the chest, causing him to scream in pure agony.

Then, the Pharaoh drops lifelessly to the floor.

Steel Butterfly woozily gets out of the hole and approaches the lifeless Akumatized Jalil Kubdel.

Alya asks shakily, "I-is he dead?"

Steel Butterfly nudges the Pharaoh's hip with his cane.

Sensing danger, Steel Butterfly and his two allies jump out of the way as Pharaoh does a break-dancing kip-up as a form of a getting-back-up attack.

The Pharaoh rushes towards Ladybug and throws her into Steel Butterfly and Archangel, but neither of them were actually hurt because of their magical nigh-invulnerabilities and because of their nigh-indestructible magic suits of armor.

The Pharaoh states, "Sekhmet, give me your strength!"

The Pharaoh's face changes to resemble a lioness.

The Pharaoh pulls some of the bars of the security gate to the sides to allow him to squeeze through, but then Cat Noir remarks, "How nice of you to open the door for me!"

Cat Noir leaps into the air and tries to slam his stick on The Pharaoh's head, but the Pharaoh grabs him by the face and throws him into an Egyptian sarcophagus.

The Pharaoh remarks, "Enjoy your coffin!"

The Pharaoh laughs maniacally.

Alya gets behind a pillar and continues filming.

Steel Butterfly opens the sarcophagus without straining himself.

Alya remarks, "This is hecka crazy! Keep your eyes peeled!"

Steel Butterfly notices Alya filming the scene and points over her left shoulder.

Alya asks, "Hmm?" and she sees the Pharaoh standing over her.

Alya remarks nervously, "Uh, hiya."

The Pharaoh places his hand on Alya's face and says, "Your face. Fate has placed you onto my path. Come with me!"

The Pharaoh slings Alya over her shoulder and begins walking out.

Alya exclaims, "Hey, hands off the threads! I can walk myself!"

Steel Butterfly growls dangerously as he and Archangel block the Pharaoh's path.

Steel Butterfly remarks while doing his best dangerous Optimus Prime impression, "(Imitating Optimus Prime) Taking an innocent bystander for your goals is a bad move that warrants a death penalty. Not that France has a death penalty anymore, mind you."

Cat Noir remarks, "Hiding behind an innocent bystander is weak for you, Pharaoh!"

The Pharaoh bulldozes through Steel Butterfly and Archangel without harming Alya and without making her drop her phone, then he puts the bars back in place as he retorts, "I'm way more powerful than the rest of you."

Steel Butterfly does a kip-up as he shouts, "(Normal voice) That's not what he meant!"

Alya remarks in a slightly nervous tone, "And don't forget, all the latest behind-the-scenes footage is on my blog!"

Steel Butterfly groans in annoyance as he sneers, "I hate it when people take sayings out of context, and I hate it when people ignore me."

Steel Butterfly deploys his Shredder claws and slices open the bars.

Cat Noir remarks, "That Alya is one brave chick."

Steel Butterfly retorts, "If by brave, you mean bossy, feisty, headstrong, slightly undisciplined in the fields of journalism, unwilling to swallow her pride when it comes to the late discovery of some people's true colors, and unable and unwilling to admit she did anything wrong until she's blue in the face, that's definitely her, based on what I've seen and heard."

Cat Noir asks, "How are we gonna find them? Oh wait, she's got a livestream option on her blog, doesn't she?"

Ladybug answers, "Yep." And she slides open her yoyo to play Alya's livestream on the yoyo screen.

From the video, Alya says, "Hey, ladies and gentlemen! Alya here, livestreaming from the shoulder of the terrifying villain appropriately named The Pharaoh! There's a huge scoop to come, so stay tuned!"

Steel Butterfly snarls in annoyance, slightly scaring even the brave Archangel.

Outside the Louvre, The Pharaoh throws Alya to the ground.

Alya states as she lands hard on her behind, "Oof! Hey!"

The Pharaoh remarks, "Onward to the next phase. Anubis, bring me mummies!"

The Pharaoh's face morphs to completely resemble the face of a jackal and his eyes shoot laser beams that transform people into mummies.

However, just like with Darkblade's knights, The Pharaoh's army of mummies looked the same regardless of what they previously looked like in terms of height and weight.

The Pharaoh remarks, "Soon, we'll be together again, my Nefertiti! My long-lost love!"

Alya says to herself, "This is gonna be one major scoop!"

She readies her phone, taps on the Pharaoh's shoulder, and asks, "Excuse me, Pharaoh, but, uh, what exactly is going on here?"

The Pharaoh replies, "I'm going to carry out the sacred spell to bring Queen Nefertiti back from the dead!"

Alya remarks, "Ahh, hmmm. I got it; you're talking about the spell on the papyrus, right?"

The Pharaoh answers, "Correct! The one hundred mummies and the offering!"

Alya inquires, "What offering, exactly?"

The Pharaoh explains, "In order for me to persuade the sun god Ra to give me my sweet queen, I must offer him something in exchange. A pure soul!"

Alya remarks, "Dude, that's so hard to come by these days."

The Pharaoh replies, "But I've already found her! You look so much like her!"

The Pharaoh shows Alya the illustration of Queen Nefertiti on the papyrus for added emphasis, even though Alya is only wearing glasses and Nefertiti was not, due to the fact that glasses were invented in sometime between the years 1268 and 1300.

Alya exclaims with wide bug eyes, "Say what?!"

The Pharaoh laughs maniacally and the readers' camera view zooms out to reveal Ladybug, Steel Butterfly and Cat Noir watching from an ethereal hologram that Archangel had conjured.

Ladybug says, "Hold on, Alya, I'm coming."

Ladybug starts running but then, Steel Butterfly calls out, "Wait!" But unfortunately for Ladybug, it's too late as she stumbles into a time bubble as she exclaims, "Whoa!"

Inside the time bubble, Ladybug bemoans in real time as she pounds on the time bubble, "Oh no! I ran right into one of those time bubbles, just like Steel Butterfly said!"

Outside the time bubble, Ladybug says in the slow motion style Steel Butterfly told her about, "I've got to get out of this!"

Cat Noir, Steel Butterfly and Archangel burst out laughing as Steel Butterfly remarks while trying to speak coherently, "This – hahahahaha – this is just like I told you! You sound like a man outside of that thing! Hahahahahahahahahaha!"

Ladybug shouts in slow motion, "Get me out of this thing!"

Steel Butterfly replies cheekily, "Okay... right after I post this on the internet and maybe make a few memes out of it!"

Steel Butterfly flies up to the ceiling and posts the recorded footage to YouTube.

He puts the title in as follows: Ladybug in Slow Motion.

Ladybug growls in slow motion, signifying that she's not gonna ever forgive Steel Butterfly for humiliating her like that.

Cat Noir just watches in amusement.

Inside the bubble in real time, Alya says in the video, "Ladybug, this is Alya! I just found out I'm gonna be the sacrificial offering to the sun god! Please hurry!"

Ladybug says to herself, "Hold on, Alya."

Outside the bubble, Ladybug starts running in slow motion as she states, "I'm nearly there!"

Cat Noir sighs as he says, "All right, boss, fun's over."

Steel Butterfly replies, "Agreed. We gotta get Alya out of there and deakumatize Pharaoh."

Steel Butterfly conjures a bolt of electricity and fires it at the time bubble, freeing Ladybug, but making her stumble and fall to the floor in the process.

Steel Butterfly sighs in response as he mutters, "Note to self: never free anyone from a time bubble unless you're there to catch them."

The four heroes arrive at the front door to the museum and they see the entrance doors are blocked by mummies.

Ladybug states, "I don't see her or Pharaoh for that matter."

Steel Butterfly remarks in reply, "We'll need a bird's eye view."

The four heroes make it to the roof.

Cat Noir points to a specific direction and says, "Over there!"

The other three heroes look at where the black cat hero is pointing and they see the Pharaoh and his army of mummies about to commence the ritual.

Down on ground level, the ritual is about to begin.

But then, Alya sees a suspiciously familiar figure on the papyrus.

The figure itself was a woman with an assortment of black spots on her apparel, and was wielding the same yoyo as Ladybug.

Alya exclaims before asking, "Whoa, wait, back up! Who's that goddess chick with the black spots on the papyrus?"

The Pharaoh looks at the figure on the papyrus before explaining, "Ladybug, my sworn enemy! My nemesis may have stopped me from carrying out my sacred ritual five thousand years ago, but she will never stop Nefertiti from coming back to life this time!"

Alya asks in a surprised tone, "Did you just say... Ladybug 5,000 years ago?!"

Ladybug, Cat Noir and Archangel are surprised, while Steel Butterfly mutters sarcastically, "Very observant."

Ladybug remarks, "Looks like everybody does have a past they can learn from."

Cat Noir looks at Ladybug's face and states, "But you don't look a day over three thousand."

Ladybug retorts, "And now you know why I'm so much wiser than you—"

But Steel Butterfly interrupts, "Ahh buhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuh! Actually, I'm the one who's wiser and smarter than the three of you put together since my Miraculous grants me the intelligence of various smartasses from fiction and real life plus the fact that I've been training and learning for thirty thousand years in the past."

Ladybug huffs, signifying that she forgot about that little detail.

The Pharaoh starts the ritual by saying, "Oh, sacred Ra, god of the sun, I, Pharaoh, offer to thee a pure soul! The sacrifice for the return of Nefertiti!"

The Louvre pyramid lights up and as the Pharaoh speaks, the pyramid shoots a beam into the sky, and the beam starts spreading darkness.

The Pharaoh continues, "I bow to you, and I present this gift with my mummies! In company, we pray to you the safe return of Queen Nefertiti! Awaken, Nefertiti! Awaken! Awaken, Nefertiti! Awaken!"

The mummies slowly say, "Awaken, Nefertiti... Awaken..."

Alya screams out loud in a panic, "Ladybug!"

Steel Butterfly pulls out of his cape a replica of a magical staff, and he points the staff at the circle of darkness, shooting red electricity at the circle, completely closing it.

The Pharaoh exclaims, "What?! How is this possible?!"

Steel Butterfly takes to the air and shouts, "BEHOLD THE STAFF OF BU-KAI, THE MOST POWERFUL STAFF CAPABLE OF DESTROYING MAGIC SPELLS!"

The Pharaoh asks in a whisper, "(Softly) The Staff of Bu-Kai? It exists?"

Steel Butterfly aims the Staff of Bu-Kai at the mummies and fires more electricity at them and the Pharaoh, completely returning the mummies to normal while also deakumatizing The Pharaoh.

Thinking quickly and pushing aside her shock at something done only in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Ladybug does her usual spiel and uses the Miraculous Ladybug cure, and The Pharaoh is turned back into Jalil Kubdel.

Jalil asks, "What happened?"

As Alya continues to film and livestream, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Archangel and Steel Butterfly look down on Jalil with clear scowls on their respective faces and faceplate.

Alim Kubdel comes onto the scene in an angry march and he strikes Jalil hard across the face, making Alya, Archangel, Ladybug and Cat Noir wince in unison while Steel Butterfly nods approvingly. Signifying that even though Steel Butterfly hated children once before, he's not above using all sorts of discipline on them for disobedience, including raising a hand against them even if it's considered illegal these days.

An explanation later, let's just say Jalil is gonna be looking for a new job pretty soon, and Hawk Moth decided not to bother with Akumatizing Jalil again.

As Alim and Jalil leave, Alya points her camera-phone at Steel Butterfly and asks, "Thanks, Steel Butterfly! But, uh, I still gotta ask, how old is Ladybug, really?"

Steel Butterfly sneers demonically, "It's not your business to know. Even young women like you should know better than to ask each other for their age. And young women like you should know better than to ask men for a girl's age."

Alya gulps in fear as Ladybug, Cat Noir, Steel Butterfly and Archangel take off in flight.

Steel Butterfly and Archangel circle back around to the back of the Louvre and Steel Butterfly detenshizes Archangel back into Antonio Yarbrough before sending him on his way.

Hawk Moth in his lair snarls, "You and your allies may have escaped this time, Steel Butterfly, but I assure you, some day, wherever you are, I will have your Miraculous and Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses! And by the time I'm through with you and all of your allies, you'll all be nothing! Nothing at all!"

The window to Hawk Moth's lair closes.

Later that day, Alya is shown laughing hysterically at the video Steel Butterfly posted of Ladybug talking in slow motion.

Marinette groans audibly in annoyance, signifying that she was still never gonna forgive Steel Butterfly for humiliating her like that.

During patrol that night, the other members of the team, Bunnyx included, all laughed hysterically at the video, but Ladybug shouted, "That's enough!"

Steel Butterfly then proceeded to tickle torture Ladybug to assert his dominance.

But thankfully, Steel Butterfly made sure that Ladybug didn't pee herself.

That night, in Marinette's bedroom, Miguel is explaining to Marinette the legacy of Ladybug Miraculous holders spanning five thousand years.

Miguel says, "The Egyptian Ladybug is from Ancient Egypt five thousand years ago. And the reason why Tikki was able to live for millennia is because she was the first concept introduced to the universe during the Big Bang: the concept of creation. Tikki says that she's the oldest kwami, but that's not technically true."

Marinette and Tikki ask in unison, "What?!" "What?!"

Miguel explains, "You see, because of the nature of the power of the Rabbit Miraculous and because of how Fluff's owners before Bunnyx were previous Time Guardians who guarded their timelines for thousands of years, and couple that with Fluff living thousands of years in the past, the present day and the future, Fluff is technically the oldest kwami in existence. Ask Fluff yourselves if you don't believe me."

Marinette and Tikki look at each other before Tikki replies, "We believe you."

Marinette asks, "But wait. Tikki, if you have existed for thousands to billions of years before Fluff's holders became Time Guardians, then you must have known much cooler Ladybugs than me, right?"

Tikki answers, "Every Ladybug is different."

Marinette replies back, "That's what I thought."

Tikki interjects, "Marinette, you are different. But different as in surprising, unpredictable, endearing, strong, compassionate, loyal to a fault, tempered with patience and humility, and very talented. You learn fast."

Marinette asks, "Really?"

Tikki answers, "Yes."

Marinette kisses Tikki on her forehead, and Tikki kisses her holder on her cheek in response.

Miguel states, "Well, I gotta go. But don't forget, tomorrow is May the twenty-first, the day when that b**** Lila Rossi-slash-Volpina-slash-Chameleon-slash-Hoaxer-Future Hawk Moth shows up at Francoise Dupont for the first time."

Marinette and Tikki look at each other before they ask in unison, "How are we gonna prepare for her first day?" "How are we gonna prepare for her first day?"

Miguel answers, "By informing Alya all about Lila's lies before Lila shows up while informing Alya about Lila's crimes and her future as the second Hawk Moth."

Marinette and Tikki look apprehensive, but they knew from the start that Miguel knows what he's doing and they knew that he cares about Marinette, Tikki, Adrien, Plagg, Alix, Fluff, Markie, Tania, Jeffery, Angela, Ryoka, Feliss, Swiine, Tabbii, Lappis, and Grimm like if they were all parts of his family.

Miguel becomes Steel Butterfly, but in his transformation sequence, there was no light or sound effect; he just transformed the same way that The Flash and The Reverse-Flash suit up: with the Butterfly Miraculous making his armor appear and Miguel ran into it as it unfolded and summoned the metals of the armor.

Now fully armored, Steel Butterfly teleports out of Marinette's bedroom, leaving the Ladybug Miraculous holder and her kwami alone.

Tikki states, "Well, you better get to sleep, Marinette. Remember, even despite Lila Rossi's arrival, you have that history test tomorrow!"

Marinette replies as she takes out her pigtails, "Oh yeah, I remember! Good thing it's about Ancient Egypt."

Marinette and Tikki immediately went to sleep.

(Steel Butterfly's voice-over POV as he writes in his Rorschach-inspired journal in his lair's butterfly garden before going to the Cesaire residence...)

Steel Butterfly's journal.

May 20th, 2015.

Second and final journal entry for tonight.

The minutes are counting down.

Tomorrow is Lila Rossi's debut and our first battle with her as Volpina, the fox-themed supervillain who has the same powers and abilities of the Fox Miraculous in the possession of an adult Miraculous user.

I didn't want to admit this to even Ladybug, Master Fu, and Bunnyx, but I purposely took a peek into the future to find out about Lila's true fate in La Santé Prison and what I found out shook me to my core.

Lila found out from one of her fellow prisoners who I put in prison during the aftermath of her trial, Gabriel's trial, and Nathalie's trial that she was meant to become Gabriel's unofficial and twice-as-bad successor as Hawk Moth with the power of the original Butterfly Miraculous and with the jewel's power source, the Butterfly Kwami of transmission known as Nooroo as her personal slave just when he's starting to recover from Gabriel's abuse during his one year reign of terror as Paris' first ever magical terrorist.

And I also didn't want to admit this to anyone else just yet, but during my one hour bout of denial on my Earth regarding Lila's lies after her debut, I actually had a moment or two of wishful thinking in regards to this. I hoped I was wrong in regards to how she would react when she finds out in La Santé Prison that she was meant to become Gabriel's successor as Hawk Moth in the near future.

But my mother spelled out for me in simple terms for me to understand that someone like Lila Rossi even before Akumatization will do anything to get what they want, and they don't have any regrets or empathy for the people they hurt.

And in addition to that, based on what I saw decades into the future thanks to my secret access to the Rabbit Burrow, when Future Lila found out from her cellmate in their prison cell she was supposed to become Gabriel's unofficial successor as Hawk Moth in the future, she gleefully took this information in and started devising a way to escape from prison so she can steal the original Butterfly Miraculous and become the new Hawk Moth.

As for Lila breaking out of prison, it was highly unlikely to happen as La Santé Prison is a maximum security prison for the most dangerous prisoners. Including its new category of magical terrorists. Meaning that even if Lila somehow found a way to escape her cell, she wouldn't be able to get very far because security at even La Santé Prison is extremely high.

Like I said, I hoped I was wrong.

But sometimes, I just hate being right on an equal level to me sometimes hating being wrong.

Anyway, I hope that I in particular will be able to collect evidence of Lila's lies and her crimes – oh wait. That's right. I typed into my computer documents of Lila's lies and her various crimes accumulated from my constant watching of Miraculous Ladybug from series premiere to series finale, in addition to her potential crimes in the form of Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction stories from my Earth. I wrote down these documents months and years in advance thanks to my highly-developed and highly secured computer.

Either way, after Volpina comes The Collector.

Hhhaaa.

I'm definitely gonna have to help Adrien take away the Peacock Miraculous and the grimoire while making sure to cover up our tracks as thoroughly as possible so that we can avoid legal ramifications, so that we can avoid invoking Gabriel's legal wrath or his secretly villainous wrath as Hawk Moth or as The Collector, and so that way we can easily plant the seeds of Scarlet Moth's permanent and final defeat on Heroes' Day.

I intend to make sure that we take a cue from the Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction What if we had known each other first and fallen in love second by simply using an untraceable fake damaged Peacock Miraculous and a falsified Miraculous spellbook that would both reveal their true natures to Gabriel if he ever touched them two days after the Syren incident and/or two hours before Heroes' Day.

And I have a feeling that this might be one of my best plans ever invented thanks to my foreknowledge of Miraculous Ladybug due to both the original cartoon and the fanfiction stories invented by Miraculous fans to provide alternate endings to the show just because the show displayed things about the characters, the plot, and so forth that most of us don't agree with.

Anyway, I must be off.

I'm gonna warn Alya Cesaire about Lila Rossi. Alya will know what to do.

I just hope that I'm not too late, and I just hope that Alya will be willing to listen.

The End.

(Omake: Early in the morning, in Alya Cesaire's residence, Steel Butterfly warns the Ladyblogger about Lila Rossi's true colors.)

Alya wasn't sure what she was expecting when Steel Butterfly showed up outside her window with a signal to be quiet so as to not wake up her sisters and her parents.

Alya whispers, "(Softly) SB, what scoop do you have for me today?"

Steel Butterfly answers, "(Softly) The scoop is a new student at your school by the name of Lila Rossi. She's a liar."

Alya whisper-yells, "(Softly) What?! What is there to know about this Lila Rossi?"

Steel Butterfly answers, "(Softly) What's there to know about Lila? Let me start from the beginning based on what I already know. She's always seeking attention because her mother is not home much because of her job as an Italian ambassador at the embassy consuming hours of quality time with Lila, and because Lila's mother is divorced from her husband because of circumstances that were never revealed to even me when I was learning everything I can about the original timeline. But I think that Ms. Rossi divorced her husband for possibly teaching Lila about lying while purposefully not telling her about the consequences and dangers of lying. As for Lila Rossi herself, she's highly deceptive and crafty, being able to manipulate people exceedingly well with her lies simply by utilizing her peers' hobbies, crushes, future jobs, favorite celebrities and so on. Her lies are so outlandish and yet a lot of people, including your classmates in the original timeline, are so dumb that they are willing to accept Lila's empty promises just for a shortcut to their careers, and that always results in disappointments and failures upon finding out too late Lila's promises were lies, all just for hours of attention. Lila's lies are so absurd that your classmates in the original timeline simply forgot that they can just use Google to search for anything related to her lies, all because your classmates had no common sense and no working brain cells in the original timeline. Some people like my own friends in the superhero community even remarked that they've never seen someone as skilled at lying as her. Except for maybe paling in comparison to the Devil himself, Mephistopheles, as he is the Father of Lies. Anyway, this Lila Rossi is overly fond of attention and has no qualms or restrictions with how she chooses to acquire it, leading to her making up various false tales about herself towards her peers in order to gather as much attention as possible. Possibly a sociopath, this girl views no harm in her actions and unfortunately, she possesses absolutely no remorse for her actions whatsoever. Yet, she does become incredibly distraught if her lies are exposed and her empire burns to the ground. Furthermore, she also envies the attention others receive, as she'll quickly become incredibly jealous if Adrien Agreste were to suddenly reveal that he's in love with Marinette and is currently dating her in one possible situation in the near-future. And this basket case will most definitely not hesitate to go out of her way to make Adrien feel the same way about her, no matter how long it takes, no matter how many times people try to get in her way for the greater good of such a healthy relationship, and no matter how many times Adrien turns her down just because of how he was raised. Also, this big liar does not – I repeat – does not ever forgive people she thinks have wronged her by exposing her deceitful nature when in reality, they're doing the right thing to prevent their friends from ruining their futures with lies before it's too late, hence why she's delusional. Whether any of us manages to expose her lies gently or harshly, she'll never forgive us, even if we didn't ask for her forgiveness in the first place. She especially doesn't like being lectured by superheroes, classmates, employers or even her own mother about the values of honesty and the consequences for lying on a daily basis, hence her arrogant and delusional views on the human race of the world. Moreover, if anyone attempts to expose her, she won't hesitate to make them miserable or break them down as discreetly as possible just to get them out of her way. This especially goes for doing whatever is necessary to get her targets Akumatized as soon as she undergoes Akumatization for the first time, only to end up succeeding or failing. Whichever one comes first. Furthermore, whenever someone tries to expose her in public, she uses crocodile tears – fake tears that are not from real sadness to make people more sympathetic towards her – to make the exposer look like a bully. Furthermore, after being ousted by either Cat Noir, Ladybug, or me, Lila's hatred of either of us in general just so happens to be rather petty and undying. Meaning, after being ousted as a liar to Adrien Agreste during the girl's first day of school and after being Akumatized for the first time, Lila easily gets enraged at the attention that Ladybug will ever receive. And Lila is willing to grab up any given opportunity to get back at Ladybug for SUPPOSEDLY ruining her chances with Adrien on her first day at school here in Paris despite somewhat knowing the real reason for how and why that happened. Thus, as the Akumatized fox-themed supervillain known as Volpina, Lila will take great joy in beating up Ladybug and tormenting her, gleeful in nearly succeeding at taking her Miraculous twice in the future by exploiting Ladybug's emotions. Through her usage of her powers of illusion as Volpina, Lila can be incredibly precarious in her attempts to overcome us all, almost never confronting us directly and always using her illusions to fool and trick us into being where she needs us to be, waiting for the right time to strike fatally. Although, her arrogance in doing so seems to be on an equal matching level with her cunning intellect. As shown in a future battle I had to observe in order to learn more, Lila takes pleasure in doing whatever she can to ruin Ladybug's reputation – and my own if optional – by simply using illusions, even after being deakumatized, thus showing that she possesses absolutely no remorse for even those actions. Unfortunately, this also makes Lila the first of Hawk Moth's victims to genuinely enjoy her actions as an Akumatized supervillain. And, by extension, this makes Lila the first of Hawk Moth's initial victims to willingly work for him, even while not Akumatized, just to settle a petty grudge. Overall, Lila is vindictive, spiteful, arrogant, delusional, prideful, greedy and spoiled. She doesn't care one bit about human beings. She doesn't care one bit about even her own mother despite knowing that without both of her parents, Lila wouldn't exist. Additionally, she doesn't give a flipping crap about the people she tries to befriend using her silver tongue. Lila just views them as pawns and slaves for her future goals. She doesn't even have an ounce of tolerance about her grandparents' religious beliefs, even in terms of following the 'thou shalt not bear false witness' rule from the Ten Commandments, or commonly known as you shall not tell lies. In addition to that, Lila doesn't care one bit about her grandparents, nor does she have one ounce of love for them. She doesn't give a f****** crap about the consequences of her actions. She thinks that nothing matters as long as she gets what she wants, even if it means aiding and abetting a magic-abusing terrorist in order to settle a petty grudge against any person calling her out on her lies in public, especially superheroes. And she is completely detached from telling any sort of truth whatsoever. But that's not all; I collected evidence of Lila's future counterpart doing the one thing I initially thought she didn't have the guts or the audacity to do:" Steel Butterfly shows Alya footage of Lila as Hawk Moth in the future as he finishes, "Literally becoming the second villain to take on the identity of Hawk Moth in the future during the aftermath of the first one being unmasked and arrested."

Steel Butterfly purposefully made sure to tell Alya about all the times she didn't listen to Marinette and didn't check her sources like an actual reporter when it came to Lila's stories, thus making Alya more and more likely to suffer the consequences of her actions if the trend continues to the end of high school with Lila's actions continuing to go unexposed and unpunished. And the same would also go for any of Alya's classmates that refuse to double check Lila's claims and the staff of the school as well. Principal Damocles and Ms. Bustier included.

So, with this new information, Alya went to work on the school blog to inform everyone at the school about Lila Rossi's crimes in the present and in the future while purposefully omitting Lila's fate as the second Hawk Moth in the future.

Steel Butterfly didn't even need to tell Alya that people at the school blurting out Lila's fate while she's within earshot would result in Lila attempting to make that future of hers happen much, much earlier.

And nobody wants that to happen, not even Ladybug and Cat Noir.

Once Alya was done, Steel Butterfly left the Cesaire residence to prepare for Lila's debut and to prepare for the fight to come.

The End.

(Author's notes: In the next chapter, Steel Butterfly will be fighting Volpina with a demon-like fury unlike anything that the people of Paris have seen before. And in case Volpina turns out to be extremely persistent as an Akumatized villain, Steel Butterfly will easily turn to using his demonic powers to get one up on Lila's first Akumatized form.

Also, who wants to see Steel Butterfly go up against Hawk Moth in the Heroes' Day chapters.)