"Hello. . .? Cat Noir?" Ladybug waved her hand in front of his face. "Are you okay?"
Cat Noir snapped back to reality. "Yeah! Uh- yes, I'm fine."
"Good. We need to decide who we're going to pick. We could get Carapace to Shell-ter Vesperia while she paralyzes Rena. That must be the most efficient," said Ladybug.
Cat Noir sighed and agreed. Ladybug zoomed away to give Nino and Zoe their Miraculous, meanwhile Cat Noir. . .
Sat around and waited.
He decided to transform back and feed Plagg. "Claws in!"
Plagg asked, "So weird day, huh? Ladybug likes you back, Adrien!"
"Sure," moaned Adrien. "But we don't know which normal girl does. And she likes Adrien, not Cat Noir." He handed Plagg some cheese.
Plagg munched. "Well, at least she likes one of you."
"Plagg, what if- say, Tikki- liked Cat Noir, but not you?" asked Adrien. "How'd you feel?"
Plagg looked at Adrien. "You're a chip off the old block, aren'tcha?"
"How so?" asked Adrien.
"You and I don't understand love sometimes. Kwamis can't feel love, and you just. . .let's just say you feel it wrong," answered Plagg with a burp.
Adrien smirked and transformed into Cat Noir, just as Ladybug showed up.
"So nice of you to return Bugaboo, and with two friends!" Cat Noir saw Carapace and Vesperia behind her. "Ni- Carapace, Vesperia, good to see you, my friends!"
Carapace and Cat Noir shared a fist-bump. "Duuude!"
"Who am I? Queen Bee?" laughed Vesperia. She earned a laugh from the gang.
"No, but hello, Vesperia," Cat Noir said. He kissed her on the hand, and Ladybug scowled.
"Jealous?" snickered Vesperia. "Don't pretend we don't see you frowning, LB."
Ladybug's face flushed with red. "Augh! Focus, you guys!"
"So, we have a plan," she began. "So Alya has been akumatized. I think this should be fairly complicated, as complicated as fighting Rena Rouge. We'll have to destroy her necklace. Cat Noir will take care of that."
Cat Noir winked.
"But we'll need you to paralyze her, Vesperia. Carapace can shell-ter you-"
Cat Noir lit up. "I just realized that Carapace's power is a PUN!!"
"Yeah, buddy!" Carapace snickered.
"BOYS!!!" shouted Vesperia and Ladybug. "Focus!"
"Fine. . ." they grumbled.
"-while you are trying to paralyze her," finished Ladybug. "Just like we did with that safe super villain."
"We remember," said Carapace and Vesperia.
Cat Noir shrugged. "What safe super villain?"
"The time you were gone," replied the others.
"Ah," said Cat Noir. "Which time?"
"At least you know you're ignorant!" frowned Ladybug. "Come on, you guys. Let's save our friend!"
