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“One of Gabriel’s earlier gambles was the time he allowed Simon Says to attack his home to lure Ladybug and Chat Noir inside to… get information on them, I guess. I never really caught what he hoped to gain from that.”
“Anyway, it almost backfired when Simon Says successfully captured him and hypnotised him to jump off the building. Fortunately for him, Ladybug and Chat Noir defeated Simon Says before that happened.”
“But what if they took a few moments longer…”
Gabriel ran out to the roof, “Wheeee! Phhhhhhhhhhhh!”
He ran to the edge of the roof…
And kept going.
He fell through the air, “Phhhhhhhhhhhh–”
Splat!”
“Hahahaha!” Bunnyx’s face became serious. “I should not laugh,” she said, lasting a few seconds before a smile returned. “Hahahaha!”
But at Gabriel’s body, a tiny head poked out of Gabriel’s pocket.
“Oh my!” Despite everything Gabriel did, Nooroo felt sympathy for him.
But he knew he had only seconds.
He flew to Gabriel’s ascot and removed it, grabbing his Miraculous.
At that moment, the ladybug swarm emerged from the TVi building.
“Aaaahhhh!”
Panicking, Nooroo flew in a random direction.
Seconds later, Gabriel was returned to life.
“What?! Where am I? What happened, Nooroo?”
No answer.
“Nooroo?”
He felt for his Miraculous and gasped when he found it was gone.
“NOOROO!”
Nooroo was in such a panic that he kept flying for over an hour.
It was only after he stopped that he realised he should have gone to Ladybug and Chat Noir, but they would have gone home by now.
And without his Miraculous, Gabriel wouldn’t be able to create more akumas, and thus there would be a lot less reason for them to appear.
How ironic, his freedom made it harder to find true safety.
But Nooroo knew that akumas were not the only times the heroes showed up. Sometimes they went to events like the unveiling of their statue, or they dealt with non-akuma emergencies like when Ladybug saved that helicopter the other day.
He would just have to keep his head down and be patient.
He flew off to find somewhere to hide in the meantime.
“Sir!” Chat Noir jumped down with Ladybug to Gabriel, “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” Gabriel told him curtly.
Chat looked like a kicked kitten as he walked off.
“He did just die,” Ladybug comforted him, “that would make anyone grumpy.”
“Yeah… sure,” Chat said.