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ming to you Gripping her head while hunched over in the courtyard Marinette hears Hawk Moth whispering into her mind "Sinn I am Hawk Moth I grant you the power to seek out all lies secrets and injustices, to administer Justice all I ask in return is that you bring me Ladybug and Chat Noir's Miraculous. do we have a deal?" feeling her self control slipping Marinette puts up a mental block to stop Hawk Moth from realizing she is Ladybug. as Tiki Zips past taking the earrings from Marinette.
The students all rush out of the school As a dark fog envelops Marinette it begins to expand quickly overtaking the campus stopping right before it reaches the streets and begins receding towards Marinette. watching this happen the other students are confused, to say the least, some of them had seen people transform others had heard what the process was like but, this was new.
With the dark fog receding Alya races over with her phone already streaming for the Lady-blog catching the sight of a dark sphere with an ominous purple glow around it taking a moment of silence to think Alya then begins speaking "yo peeps Alya here. bringing you the lady-blog once again we are coming to you live from Francios Dupont where the latest Akuma is about to emerge in a rather unusual fashion. ah, it's happening" going silent once more Alya notices cracks forming in the shape of a handprint before the dark sphere shatters into glistening lights revealing Marinette her hair down and wearing something akin to half-plate armor styled into a black and white color scheme.
Dashing across the courtyard at a speed that suggests the armor doesn't slow her down in the slightest Sinn reaches for Alya just outside the doors and grabs her before she can dodge. when they make contact Alya feels a tremendous pressure weighing down upon her making it rather difficult to breathe.
heading out into the streets Sinn begins tagging more people with her power placing varying degrees of pressure upon them some people being relatively OK to some writhing on the floor in agony. though it doesn't take long for Chat Noir to arrive on the scene their battle quickly changing locations so that they aren't fighting around collapsed civilians.
As Chat Noir is fighting Sinn Tiki is flying around trying to find someone she knows will give back the miraculous but everyone who she knows of is either someplace else or has already been tagged by Sinn after flying around the school for a few minutes Tiki spots Kagami among the spectators outside. feeling a gaze upon her Kagami looks around for a few moments until she sees a small floating red creature in the school window's watching her realizing it's a Kwami she races into the building despite the protest of the teachers saying it wasn't safe, they were right. as she enters the courtyard Kagami feels a pressure weighing down on her "this Akuma really is different from the rest" struggling her way up the stairs and into one of the classrooms where she spots Tiki waiting for her "what happened to Ladybug" seeing the sadness on Tiki's face it takes a few moments but it clicks in her head "Ladybug is Marinette isn't she" after a few moments she gets a nod out of the Kwami.
Walking over Kagami picks up the earrings and puts them on "help save the day return the Miraculous later right" "yes also you cannot tell anyone Ladybugs identity after the Akuma has been purified you need to return the Miraculous to her, to transform just say Tiki transform me" taking a deep breath Kagami transforms and leaps out of the building and chases after Chat and Marinette.
finding Chat and Sinn wasn't that difficult given the trail of destruction left behind by their fight arriving in time and using her yoyo catch one of Sinn's attacks before it could hit Chat though it still causes quite the blast of air that flies past him cracking the building behind him before Sinn is lifted off the ground and thrown down the street.
Ladybug reaches down and helps Chat Noir up "what are we up against" Chat noir just looks at her for a few moments before telling Ladybug everything he found out thus far "but I have a question who are you and why do you have the Ladybug earrings "I'm a friend the real Ladybug is out of town for a family matter so you're stuck with me for now" hearing this Chat noir just nods before turning back to Sinn "it seems like there isn't a conscious present controlling the body we can try using that to our advantage its also out good fortune from what I've seen Marinette is a capable fighter and a tactician probably almost equal to Ladybug"
contained within the recesses of her own mind Marinette is trying her hardest to not fall under Hawkmoths influence while watching the battle taking place outside streets shattered building toppled and blocks raised to the ground as the three super-powered individuals clash across the streets of Paris. though seeing the damage she is causing only makes the situation in her mind worse as she begins spiraling and drowning in her own thoughts and guilt.
as Marinette is not controlling her body it is fighting on instinct and therefore leaving a lot of openings for Ladybug and Chat Noir but never letting them deal a substantial blow but before long it becomes too much for Marinette to handle and she breaks.
both Ladybug and Chat Noir are caught off guard when Marinette's mind takes control of her body with the sole purpose of defeating them the lack of strategy and foresight disappear and the power becomes more focused