Ladybug stood in awe at the reveal of Hawk Moth's face. Hawk Moth laughed.

"You seem surprised." Hawk Moth said. "Guess you don't have a good memory."

"W-what do you-?" Ladybug asked.

"You didn't hear Gabriel's voice when I announced myself? That man's got a lot to answer for."

"YOU akumatized everyone, not Gabriel!"

"That doesn't mean he's in the clear."

"And what did he do anyway?"

"Leave the detective work to the professional, kid. We'll see each other again." Hawk Moth threw a little ball on the ground and black smoke burst out, blinding Ladybug. The heroine frantically waved her arms to clear the smoke, but when it was gone, so was Hawk Moth.

"NO!" Ladybug said in frustration. "Stupid! I let him stall so he could escape! At least he left the brooch behind. If that's even the miraculous."

Ladybug walked backed to Cat Noir, Hornet and the Crowd. Ladybug saw that the Hornet was still injured and realised she needed to repair the damage done. Taking the shield Cat Noir had, she yelled "Miraculous Ladybug!" and the damage was undone and the Hornet's arm healed. Cat Noir helped the Hornet onto his feet, Ladybug picked up the brooch Hawk Moth left behind, and the crowd surrounded the heroine. Nadja Chamack quickly took advantage and shoved her microphone in Ladybug's face.

"Ladybug!" Nadja said. "Where is Hawk Moth now? Did he get away? Is his terror over?" Ladybug remained startled and blinded by camera flashes that she felt were about induce a seizure until a voice came closer to her through the crowd.

"Get back! Ladybug, do not answer any questions." The voice reached Ladybug and Nadja, who saw the face of Félix Rejeter, wearing a sand colour, open trench coat.

"Hello, Constantine!"

Félix did not smile at Nadja's comment and turned to Ladybug. "Hello, Ladybug." Félix reached inside his trench coat and pulled out a Detective badge. "Detective Félix Rejeter. I need you and your teammates to answer a few and questions."

"Is this an investigation, Detective?"

"Nadja Chamack, right? I heard you were once cautioned for interfering with a case by doing what you're doing now. I was also told that if you did it again, it was time to slap the cuffs on." Félix smiled. "Do you have a babysitter?" Nadja backed off and walked away with her cameraman. "That's what I thought. Okay, Ladybug, Cat Noir and... whoever you are..." Félix pointed at the Hornet. "Could you come with me?" The three heroes nodded and followed Félix to a police car, where Sabrina's policeman father, Roger was waiting there. Ladybug handed out the brooch to Félix, who put on some latex gloves, took the brooch and placed "Did you get a look at Hawk Moth's face when he was unmasked?"

"Yes. I did." Ladybug answered. "He..." Ladybug hesitated. "His face was identical to Gabriel Agreste." Cat Noir and Hornet's eyes widened. "Except it was scarred all over. Like he had cut it off, cut in into pieces and then put it back together. And he stated it was the face of George Erickson." Félix was writing everything down.

"But I saw Gabriel Agreste at his mansion earlier." Cat Noir interrupted. "And his face was in one piece."

"Interesting." Félix said, while hearing the beeping from the Miraculous. "You've done enough, you two. Hawk Moth may have escaped, but he no longer wears this brooch and know what he looks like. It's only a matter of time before he's behind bars." Félix sulked and turned around. "Get out of here, Chamack! I'm not asking again!" Nadja and her cameraman ran away. "You two should leave as well, you're about to time out."

Ladybug gasped. "Okay. Happy to help, detective. Bug out!" Ladybug swung away with her yo-yo and Cat Noir ran and jumped towards the eiffel tower. Félix turned to face the Hornet. "You're a new one."

"Call me the Hornet." Hornet answered, pretending he didn't know his brother. "And I gotta go as well, my powers are playing up. If we meet again, I hope it's not under these circumstances." Hornet activated his wings and flew away. Félix got in the police car with Roger in the driver seat and the two drove back to the police station. During the drive, the two of them discussed Hawk Moth.

"So that brooch is what gave him his powers?" Roger asked.

"Well, Ladybug gets hers from the earrings and Cat Noir gets his from the ring." Félix answered. "Not unbelieveable."

"At least he can't cause any more terror. But why did Ladybug say he looked like Gabriel Agreste? Was he trying to frame him?"

"We'll ask him when we catch him. Where could he hide now that we know what he looks like? We will need to speak to Gabriel Agreste about this matter, see if there's a reason why someone wants to wear his face? First, let's get this in evidence lockup."

As Félix and Roger drove to the police station, Ladybug returned to the bakery roof and transformed into Marinette. Tikki flew out of Marinette's earring and started celebrating.

"We did it! We did it! Yeah!" The kwami chanted. Tikki turned to Marinette and saw that she was upset. "What's the matter, Marinette?"

"Tikki." Marinette said. "Did it really make a difference? Hawk Moth escaped. It feels like Stoneheart again. Not capturing him is gonna come back to haunt us. I didn't purify Stoneheart's akuma the first time and look what happened."

"Marinette. He may have gotten away, but now he doesn't have the Moth Miraculous. Do you remember what happened with Stoneheart?" Marinette shook her head. "You captured the akuma the second time. And you'll get Hawk Moth when we see him again." Marinette smiled.

"Thanks, Tikki."

"Anytime. My friend."

Cat Noir returned to the Agreste Mansion, turning back into Adrien in the garden, away from the cameras. Plagg flew out of Adrien's ring and spoke to him.

"Why are you and Ladybug so happy? Liam had us go through all of that and we LOSE Hawk Moth!"

"We still got his Miraculous. His terror is over for now."

"Yeah, for now. He'll come back. Plus, Ladybug claimed he looked like your old man."

"That's the thing. I know my dad's nowhere to be seen, and he's upset over mom, but he wouldn't. It's not who he is. Plus Ladybug said his face was scarred. It's obviously an impostor." At that moment, Adrien's phone rang. "Dad. Get in my pocket, Plagg." Plagg snuck into the inside pocket of Adrien's shirt while Adrien answered the phone. "Hello, dad. I'm sorry, I was supposed to ring you. On my way there, my friends said they weren't going anymore. Wait, what? Hawk Moth!? Did they get him? Aw, man. Well, I'm at home. I'm sorry for panicking you. I'll be here. I'm not going anywhere. Okay. Goodbye." Adrien hung up. "Thank god he's alright." Adrien walked into the house and observed the picture of himself and Gabriel,puzzled. "Who'd wanna frame dad for these attacks?"

The Hornet flew through the skies trying to reach Félix and Bridgette's house, but his wings kept deactivating.

"Gah! What the hell?" Hornet tried to reach the house, but his wings gave in. "Nononononono!" CRASH! The sound echoed around as the hero crashed into the back garden. Lucky for him, Bridgette was in the house and came out to check on him.

"Liam!" Bridgette called out as she ran to him. "You okay?"

"Yeah." He answered, changing back into Liam Rejeter. "Don't what caused that... Malfunction."

Bridgette observed. "Maybe it was those butterflies on the watch." Liam lifted his arm to see that some of the akumas had latched onto the watch. "I think they were some that were purified." Bridgette touched the top of Liam's watch and holograms came out.

"What the?" Liam fiddled with the watch and saw that the hologram changed from one akuma villain to another. "These are telling us which akumas I have." Liam started going through them. "Timebreaker, Evillustrator, Princess Fragrance, Lady Wifi, Bubbler. What does this mean?"

"I wish I knew Liam. I wish I knew."

At a secret location, "Hawk Moth" as he was still being called was in pure darkness ranting to himself.

"Those miscreants! I finally had my chance at revenge and that Hornet blows it for me. Now I have to start again! I'll kill him, Agreste and everyone for what they did." His ranting was disturbed by the sound of smashing glass. "Who's there?!"

A distorted, deep voice spoke. "How are you gonna do that, now?"

"Who are you?" When Hawk Moth asked. Sudden bursts of flames flew at him in a flame thrower fashion. A figure was standing in the shadows, with the figure of an anthropomorphic ant. He looked to be the same height as Ladybug.

"Look at it this way. Each hero has a villain. Ladybug and Cat Noir have you. The Hornet has me. I'll get him out of the way and you can make your move."

"While that sounds great, how can I trust you? Who are you?"

The figure fired his flamethrower at the floor and was circled in fire, showing his appearance. He had a full body suit that was black with a singular red pad on his breasts, one on the outer sides of his forearms, biceps, thighs and calves and numerous one on his hands to cover the back of his hands and each part of each finger. He also wore a black helmet with glowing red eye lenses and strange gauntlets on his forearms that looked like they were made of barbed wire. The flamethrowers were also attached to these gauntlets. The figure chuckled.

"You can call me... Fire Ant!"

AN: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! Well, this was a great story for me to write. This is the end, and I'll say: I'm gonna change the name of this story because the original 'Consequences of the Past' isn't accurate. But I do plan on making a story that will use that title. And yes as shown, there will be a sequel, which will include characters that I created for this story but left them out.

I hope you've all enjoyed reading this story as much as I loved writing it. I'd like to thank all those who reviewed, favourited and followed this story. Thank you for reading and I will see you all later.