Confronted

"Thank you both. " Chase nodded respectfully, but Abbie looked downcast, still grieving over the lost of her friend. "What happened, Tikki?" "Well, after I came to warn you about Marinnete, I stayed in hiding. Unfortunately, Marinette found me and has kept me locked up in that box ever since."

"I'm glad nothing worse happened to you. But we have to go rescue Adrien." "You're right. The sooner we rescue him, the sooner we can get Mari back.'' Plagg held Tikki's little hands and looked her in her eyes reassuring her that it was going to be ok.

"Now let's go save Adrien!"

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The four hid behind a corner of the hall, looking at a few guards standing in front of the entrance to the way to the Void prison. "Now what? There's no way we can get past those guards. And if there are some here it means they must be at the rest of the doors." Chase said. "You're right, Chase. We need a distraction." Tikki said.

Tikki, Chase, and Abbie all looked at Plagg who was standing there whistling. "What?" Plagg asked. But as soon as he saw the smirks on their faces, he knew what was going to happen.

"No... no no no no. I'm not going to do it. Nope. Not a chance. Nada. Non. Nein. Never. There is no way you will get me to do something stupid just to distract those guards."

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"I hate life."

"Come on, Plagg we have to do this Adrien and Marinette. You are only hope." "Fine, fine, just go ahead and put the sheet on me, so we can get this over with." Abbie threw a sheet with two holes cut out of it on him. Now he looked like a ghost. "Now we just have to set the stage. There's no way they'll be scared by a mere piece of flying fabric.

The group whispered to each for a bit to a make plan while still keeping an eye on the guards and making sure they weren't seen. "You go the plan?" Everyone nodded and went to their assigned positions.

Chase quietly ran to a vase in the hallway and knocked it down. The guards were startled by the loud crash. Two of the guards went over to it to see what had happened. Chase waved his hand from behind a pillar to Abbie as a signal. From behind a corner, she got out the spell book and recited the words, with the help of Tikki, to create a gust of wind that blew out the flames of all the torches in the hallway.

The guards drew their swords out, obviously frightened by the strange happenings. Now that the lights were out the guards were more vulnerable. Now it was Plagg's time to shine. He quickly flew by the guards as if he was the Flash. The guards turned the direction he flew in thinking something was there. Plagg did again on the other side of them.

Then Chase and Abbie took the green spotlights that Tikki created for them. Then shined them in Plagg's direction, who was floating right in front of the guards. Plagg raised his arms to the sheet look even bigger and to scare the guards even more. The guards trembled from fear even a few dropped their swords.

Abbie gave Chase a megaphone so they could hear him. He adjusted his voice so it sounded like he had a deep voice. "I AM THE GHOST OF DESTRUCTION AND I HAVE COME TO DESTROY YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR EVIL WAYS!" Nothing more needed to be said. The guards immediately started running away dropping their swords and weapons on the way, which was convenient.

"Now that the guards are gone, we can get into the prison. Good job, Plagg!" Tikki said giving the 'ghost' a hug. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, now can you get this off me, so we can go." Abbie removed the sheet and put it away, just in case they needed it again. Chase grabbed a few of the weapons the guards left behind as well.

Then Plagg flew into the code keypad and unlocked the door for them. Now they were finally getting closer to getting Adrien out of the prison.

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After making it through the doors and fighting their way through the guards, they finally made it to the big door which would lead them to the Void prison. "We're finally here!" Abbie excitedly exclaimed. "I'm so tired." Chase said "I'm sure we all are, we just fought through 50 guards to get here." Plagg said. "We? Me, Chase and Abbie did all the fighting. You had the easy job, unlock the doors." Tikki said frustratedly.

"Yeah, but doing stuff like that multiple times can take a lot out of a kwami and without cheese too." "Then I'll get this one, Plagg." Tikki flew into the last keypad that opened the door. The doors started to open outwards revealing the dark black void and bubbles flying around.

Abbie and Plagg's eyes scanned through the multiple bubbles to try and see if they could find Adrien. Tikki pressed the green button which started the process of the bridge to come out. As soon as the bridge was fully out Abbie ran out screaming, "Mr. Adrien! Mr. Adrien! We've come to rescue you!"

Plagg flew up searching each bubble to try and find him. Then a voice called out, "Abbie?" "Mr. Adrien! Is that you?" "No. I'm his classmate Kim. Adrien told us about you." "Do you know where he is?" "No. They took him away not too long ago. Said they were going to take them somewhere for safe-keeping, or something. The fogged up bubbles, so we couldn't see where they were taking him. We haven't seen him since."

Abbie sunk to her knees, crestfallen. They had gotten so far, only to find out that he was gone. She sobbed her heart out as the people in the bubbles watched her. Chase ran to her side and tried to comfort her.

Plagg still searched the bubbles desperately, refusing to believe that he was gone. Plagg came across the bubble with Nathaniel in it, and immediately began to feel a big surge of anger. "You." Plagg growled. He phased into the bubble and slapped Nathaniel's face, not that did much damage since he was so tiny.

"You did this! Everything was fine, until you ruined everything!" Nathaniel didn't even answer and just accepted Plagg's words. Tikki flew up to the seething Plagg. "Plagg, stop! Doing this won't solve anything. We need to find out where they took Adrien." Plagg huffed and crossed his arms in frustration.

Tikki could see the dried tear stains on his face. His eye bags showed that he obviously hadn't slept in a while. Tikki could also see that the poor boy looked like he hadn't eaten or drank anything in days. His hair had grown a little so his bangs covered his eyes. She pitied him. Even if he did try to put a spell on Marinette, no one deserved to be like this.

Tikki flew up to Nathaniels face. "Please, Nathaniel. If there's anything you know, then please... tell us. I know you've made some mistakes, but now is the time to redeem yourself. You'll be able to have the chance to be able to ask for forgiveness, and to forgive yourself."

Nathaniel still kept his head down in silence, not looking at the red kwami. And Tikki started to leave thinking that he wouldn't talk. "There's a place not far from here." Tikki whipped back around surprised that the boy had said something.

"If you use the button pad to the lift the bridge there should be another door higher up. They fog up the bubbles so we can't see and they try to make us think that they left, but in reality they don't go very far." Tikki flew up to his face again and hugged his cheek. "Thank you, Nathaniel."

The kwamis flew down to the two kids to share the good news. Nathaniel watched from afar as he saw the little girl's face light up. Her excitement turned into surprise and she looked up at him. Nathaniel expected her to look at him with contempt and anger. But it was opposite, she gave him the brightest smile and mouthed a little 'thank you'.

Tikki's words replayed in his head, and for the first time in a while, he truly smiled.

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Chase ran to the button pad to try and find the button to lift the bridge up. He volunteered to stay behind and guard the entrance, while he manned the buttons. Abbie, Tikki and Plagg stood on the bridge platform as it slowly elevated and looked up trying to search for the door.

Eventually they did find it. Abbie yelled to Chase to stop the bridge. As soon as it stopped, she ran to the door. Tikki flew into he code keypad to open it. Then the door finally opened to reveal Adrien's hands held by chains on the wall. Adrien slowly opened his eyes to see Abbie, Tikki, and Plagg.

"Mr. Adrien!" She yelled and ran to him to give him a hug. Adrien would've hugged back if he wasn't chained up. "Hi, Abbie." He said. "You have no idea how much I missed you." Abbie said snuggling her face into his chest. Plagg flew up to his face and gave a little cheek hug. "Nice to see you too, Plagg."

Adrien looked up to see Tikki flying there. "You found a girlfriend or something, Plagg." Plagg scoffed. "This is Tikki, Ladybug's kwami. And no, she is not my girlfriend." Tikki shyly waved. "I'm so sorry, Tikki. I wish-" "It's ok. You didn't know, but save your sorry's for when we save Marinette."

"You're right. Is there any way to get me out of these chains? I would transform right now and use Cataclysm, but I feel like we should save my powers for the real fight." "You're right. Thank goodness we have Abbie then." "What do you mean?" Abbie revealed the spell book. "We stole this from Marinette when went to save Tikki. I've gotten pretty good at using the spells. I'ms sure there's one in here that could melt metal or something." Abbie said.

"You're a smart little cookie, aren't you?" Adrien praised. Abbie smiled, obviously happy from Adrien's compliment. She looked through the large book for a few minutes and finally found the spell they were looking for. Abbie recited the words and the waved her hands around the chains. The chains started to fizz away like dust.

As soon as he was free, he jumped up to hug the little girl. "Thank you, Abbie. For everything." Abbie dropped the book and hugged back with a smile. Their hug was interrupted by Chase's voice. "Did you find him?!" he hollered. "Yeah! Take us down!"

Everyone click ran onto the platform before it left without them. Soon they safely made it back to ground. Everyone in the bubbles cheered as they saw Adrien back. Chase ran up to the group to make sure that everyone was okay and had returned safely.

"Hello again, Mr. Adrien." "Hi, Chase. Nice to see you again." The two shook hands awkwardly. Abbie stepped in. "What about the other people in the bubbles. Shouldn't we get them out too." "You're right, Abbie. We can't just leave them here. Chase, is there anyway to bring the bubbles down with the button pad." "I think so. Let me check."

Chase ran back to the button pad. He gave a thumbs up to signal them that there was. Chase looked through the many buttons, the symbols made things a lot easier. He pressed a button and soon all the bubbles were being floating towards the bridge. One by one the bubbles popped releasing the people on the bridge.

Adrien helped everyone make it safely down and checked to see if everyone was okay. As soon as everyone was released they ran towards the exit. After a while they finally made it back to the first door. But something had been waiting for them.

It was Marinette.

Half of her face had cracked off leaving behind a black shadowy mist behind. Even now pieces were still falling off like she was a porcelain doll. She stared at him with an evil smile that sent chills down his spine. Behind her stood 3 shadowy looking beasts. Everyone started to huddle up, terrified.

Adrien realized that it was nearly too late, he had to save her now or else it would be too late. "Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. I see that you have escaped, Adrien." She said with sneer. Her voice sounded distorted as if someone had edited her voice for a horror movie.

"Leave these people alone, and I'll give you the fight you've always wanted." Adrien said getting into a fighting stance, prepared to do anything if necessary. "Ah but you see, I can't let that happen. These people must die too. I want to see the look on your face as you slowly lose everything you know and love, just like I did. The whole world rejected me, but people like you and Chloe get to have it all. People who hurt others just to get what the want, while the rest of use have to suffer and deal with the consequences. Well, no more! Today I change that, I'm throwing away the weak girl that was me and replacing it with this form. And together we will make the whole world suffer. And soon the it will belong to me, and will make it into the world it was mean to be."

"Not if I have anything to say about it. Plagg! Claws Out!" Adrien quickly transformed. "Get everyone out of here! Get outside it'll be safer!" The crowd of people, along with Abbie and Chase ran down one of the hallways to get away from he chaos.

"The transformation has already begun and you can't stop it." "No, I know there is still good left inside of you, Marinette. I know you're still there." "I sure I can help prove that theory wrong." Marinette held out her hand and a black shadowy sword formed in her hands. She got into fighting stance preparing to attack Adrien.

"I wish it didn't have to come this, Adrien. You could've just sat still and watched it happen. But you decided to get in my way and now... I have to destroy you."