OMG! You guys will never guess what just happened! I've got the major scoop!

So today, due to a very embarrassing event, my boyfriend Nino and I were Akumatized into the super villain, Oblivio. We were embarrassed on a field trip today and wanted everyone to forget... a certain incident… so naturally our supervillain powers were to erase memories. Usually, I'd be very upset and ashamed for allowing my negative emotions to get the best of me, but at the same time, I've never been more grateful.

Ladybug and Cat Noir KISSED! And I was right there to see it (photo above)!

Now, before you scream and squeal like I did: right after this photo was taken, Ladybug sent off her miraculous cure, and her and Cat Noir's memories were reset back to normal (If you didn't know, our heroes were blasted by Oblivio and, like everyone else, temporarily lost their memories). Ladybug and Cat Noir are not a couple. Sad face.

The scoop is that apparently, Ladybug is already in love with another boy! Sorry, Cat Noir. :\

But, what did happen after their memories were erased? According to news reports, Cat Noir and Ladybug each used their powers before being hit by Oblivio. Taking the five-minute rule into account, one can only assume that their transformations dropped, thus revealing their identities to each other. Sadly, they have no memory of anything that happened after they were hit, and before everything was fixed, so we may never know what led up to the kiss.

But one thing is for sure! We have amazing heroes. Imagine waking up and not knowing who you are, and then finding out you're a super hero and have to save the day without any memory of who you are or how you do this! AND you still defeat the villain!

Ladybug and Cat Noir, you guys rock! Thank you so much for saving Paris, once again!

P.s. you guys wouldmake an awesome couple!

Alya proofread her writing three times before she hit submit and uploaded her post to the Ladyblog.

With a satisfied sigh, and a huge grin on her face, she sat back in her chair and waited. It was less than five minutes before the comments started rolling in.

Ahhhh!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

Ladybug is in love with someone else?

Aww, I wish they could remember this :(

Wait, Ladybug has a boyfriend?

I wish Cat Noir was in love with meeeeeeeeee

Whoever Ladybug is in love with is so lucky!

The comments continued to pour in like rain, and Alya switched off her post notifications, knowing this particular post would garner a LOT of traffic, which was good for business. The Ladyblog was definitely the number one stop for finding out delicious and TRUE information about Ladybug and Cat Noir. That alone was enough to keep Alya fighting to always be in the middle of the action.

This was the best. day. ever!

Alya spun around in her chair, still psyched about the day. As she mentioned in her post, she wasn't too happy about being akumatized, but man was it totally worth it!

"This is a disaster!" Ladybug had cried out, back on the rooftop when Alya showed her the photo. It was hilarious to see the cool and collected Ladybug freak out like that. So much so, that Alya was still chuckling about it, hours later. Something about the memory felt…like déjà vu. Whatever was nagging at her caused Alya to replay the memory a few times in her head.

Cat Noir had been happy about the kiss. Smug, even. He insisted that they'd make a great couple. Which pretty much confirms all of the rumors about him being in love with Ladybug. But Ladybug said she was in love with someone else.

Hmmm.

Alya got up from her desk and locked her bedroom door, the investigative journalist in her beginning to come out. Nobody was home anyway, but she could never be too careful. She walked over to her closet and opened the door. It was the kind you slide open, and it was deep enough to walk into. She glanced over to her door again to double check that it was locked, before stepping into her closet and sliding the door closed.

Alya reached up to pull the string on the light, squinting her eyes from the sudden transition from darkness, and pushed aside all of the clothes that she had hanging on the rack in front of her. Behind her clothes was a framed poster of Jagged Stone. She'd begged her parents to get it framed after he signed it at a concert earlier in the year. She wasted no time with the memory and removed the poster from the wall, placing it carefully on the floor beside her. Here, in her innermost sanctum of investigations, was her evidence board—hidden as well as she could think to hide it.

It was the type of evidence board you see on crime shows: photos connected by strings. They were color coded, of course, to make it easier to keep up with each connection. Beside the evidence board was a map, with different colored tacks, to match the strings and the photos to different locations around Paris. And under the map and the evidence board was a timeline, also color coded.

Three large question marks were at the top of the evidence board, connected by red, green, and purple strings, to the photos of Rena Rouge, Carapace, and Queen Bee. Under the photos, were the names of the true identities of the heroes.

Alya stared hard at her work, looking for clues she might've missed. Ever since she started her blog, Alya'd been gathering evidence on Ladybug and Cat Noir in an attempt to unmask them. But then Ladybug called on her to become Rena Rouge, and she finally understood the importance of keeping a secret identity a secret. Yet, even though she no longer wanted to be the one to reveal Ladybug's identity to the world, she couldn't help the curiosity of finding out who was behind the mask of her favorite superheroine.

And each time the list of heroes grew, she added their photo and added them to the investigation as well, hoping they'd somehow provide clues that she could use to decipher the mystery of Who Was Ladybug.

Alya picked up her black marker and drew another question mark onto a slip of paper. She added it to the board near the red question mark that represented Ladybug. Another clue. Whatever identity she could match to this new question mark, might be able to help her figure out Ladybug's identity.

She reached above her head, without looking, and pulled down a woven basket that contained the yarn she used for her connections. She reached her hand in to pick out a color, but paused to Alya again at the board and all of the connections she made.

The board was mostly red yarn, since Ladybug handed out all of the extra miraculous.

Alya had been the first, as Rena Rouge. Then Nino as Carapace, and last Chloe as Queen Bee. All of whom were connected to each other's strings and a picture of the school.

The biggest connection Alya ever noticed was that all of the extra miraculous holders were in the same class, and while she wanted to believe that wasn't just a coincidence, there wasn't any evidence to prove that it wasn't. In fact, it mostly said otherwise.

Rena Rouge was the first extra miraculous holder. As the owner of the Ladyblog and Ladybug's biggest fan, it only made sense that Ladybug would choose Alya to be Rena. Right? After all, Ladybug already knew, from all of the chasing around, that Alya could handle the danger and wouldn't be afraid to jump in and help. Plus, the night she was chosen, it was her own sisters who'd been akumatized. Who better to help reign them in?

Nino, Alya's boyfriend, only became carapace after trying to help save her. Once again, after one of Alya's sisters had been akumatized, and Cat Noir had been captured, Ladybug brought out another miraculous for help. Nino had just been around when Ladybug needed help. The way he stood up against Anansi, even without super powers, must have proven to Ladybug that he was willing to do whatever it took to stand up against the villain. Nino was a classic case of being in the right place at the right time.

And Chloe? That was an accident. Ladybug had first approached Alya with the Bee Miraculous. She thought back to the day when Style Queen was brought forth, and imagined how she would've looked in the Bee suit, had she not been turned to glitter. She decided yellow was not her color. Shaking the image out of her head, she got back to her original train of thought. Due to the following events of Style Queen, Ladybug lost the miraculous, and Chloe found it. Why she ever gave it back to Chloe was a mystery, she thought. But then again, she proved to be useful during the heroes day attack. Anyway, Chloe was never supposed to have the miraculous in the first place. Once again, this hero was a product of being in the right place at the right time.

So honestly, the fact that they were all in the same class was really only a matter of circumstances. Had Nino been captured by Anansi, not Alya's boyfriend, or any random person, Carapace could've been anyone. And anyone could've been the one to find the Bee Miraculous.

She reached down into her yarn basket again and decided on gold. That's a meaningful color. She attached the gold string between the new question mark and the red question mark. Perhaps if she could find out who this mystery boy that Ladybug was in love with was, she could find out who Ladybug was too.

And so it continues.

The next day, Alya sat in Marinette's room recounting to her the entire story of how she and Nino became Oblivio, and then the kiss after Ladybug and Cat Noir saved them.

Of course, it wasn't much to tell since she didn't remember being Oblivio at all, and there wasn't much that happened after Ladybug set the city straight and yo-yoed out of there before transforming back.

Still, it was very exciting for Alya, and Marinette was her best friend. She had to share every detail, even if she knew Marinette already read them on her blog post.

Marinette sat and listened patiently to her friend. While she was excited for Alya's scoop, as her supportive friend Marinette, she was dreading everything about Alya's enthusiasm as Ladybug. There was a picture of her kissing Cat Noir plastered all over the internet and she didn't even remember it happening! She was glad Alya hadn't left out the details of how they had no memory of who they were at the time and that she set the record straight on their status as NOT a couple (!), but she could've done without Alya telling the internet about the reason why they weren't a couple.

Now Alya was telling her about all of the theories that had already been formed overnight due to the revelation. Everyone was wondering who was Ladybug's Mystery Lover, as Alya repeatedly referred to him. Some said he was an older guy who went to college in another city, and that's why they weren't dating. Others claimed that they had been dating since before she became Ladybug, which is why she never fell in love with Cat Noir. And even others said their relationship was going through turbulence since "The Kiss" happened. None of this information came from any reliable sources, of course.

"I'm pretty certain that they aren't dating. Otherwise Ladybug would've said she had a boyfriend, not that she was in love with someone." Alya was saying.

"Maybe she's just in love with her boyfriend." Marinette chimed in.

"Maybe, but I doubt it. Usually, 'I have a boyfriend' implies the love. It doesn't have to be stated separately."

"That's true. Any idea on why they aren't dating?" Marinette asked.

Inconvenient as it might've been sometimes, Alya's investigative mode was something that Marinette always admired. She was able to pick up clues and deduce facts that nobody else seemed to be able to. She was a force to be reckoned with. And she was always two steps away from discovering Ladybug's identity. So, it was a huge relief back when Marinette realized that becoming Rena Rouge slowed Alya's investigations to almost a halt. But every now and then Alya's curiosity peaked back up, and Marinette needed to know exactly how close Alya was to the truth.

"I've got a few. The most likely reasons are that either they can't be together for some reason, probably the fact that she's a superhero, or that he doesn't love her back. I doubt he knows her identity, because that's something that Cat Noir doesn't even know, and it would make sense for her to tell him before anyone else. Or he simply doesn't know how she feels." Alya had come up with her own theories the night before, being the expert that she was.

Once again, Alya was hitting the nail on the head. Well she was close to hitting it. She at least had the nail in her options of nails to choose from.

"Which means, there's no way their 'relationship' is rocky, because 1) they aren't in one and 2) he doesn't know she's the one who kissed Cat Noir."

Marinette raised her eyebrow.

"I mean, he—whoever he is—knows that Ladybug kissed Cat Noir, but he doesn't know that whoever-she-is-to-him kissed Cat Noir. Are you following?"

Marinette nodded her head, her eyes trained attentively to her friend's.

"The real question though, and everyone wants to know, is what led up to that moment between the two? How do you go from zero memories to in-love in less than an hour?" Alya tapped her chin.

"Beats me," Marinette answered.

It was the same question she'd been asking herself all night. Everyone else who was hit by Oblivio's blasts seemed to remember having the amnesia. Alya had mentioned as much when she was telling Marinette about the interviews she'd conducted before coming over. They'd all had no memories at all, but could remember not being able to remember, even after Ladybug fixed everything. So why couldn't she and Chat?

"That's what everyone on my blog is dying to know." Alya said, interrupting Marinette's thoughts.

She thought for a moment before her eyes lit up. Marinette recognized the look on Alya's face; she'd just had an idea. Marinette had to stifle a groan before asking,

"What did you just think of?"

Whatever it was, it had to be good. Alya was nodding to herself and her eyes got wider and she was practically vibrating with excited energy.

"What would you do if you woke up with no memories?"

Marinette shrugged and giggled. Because she did wake up with no memories, and had exactly no idea what she'd done.

"Think about it: You wake up in a weird costume, in a place you don't know, with a person you don't know, and then what?"

Marinette tried to take herself back to the day before where she woke up in an elevator and didn't know who she was. But the memories didn't exist. She had no idea what she would've done, or did, but somehow she made it work.

"I don't know." She finally said.

"Me neither! But I bet I could find out!" Alya was grinning now, like she could see all of the pieces falling together. "Come on!"

Alya grabbed Marinette by the hand and dragged her along, not answering her once about where they were headed.