Now transformed into their alter-egos, Ladybug and Cat Noir reached to gain the Inventor's attention away from Alya and the weakening Carapace.

"Let's finish this," Ladybug grinned, throwing up her yo-yo into the air shouting, "Lucky Charm!"

As her weapon came down, so did the object her special ability summoned. It truly worked in weird ways. She studied the small white tube now in the center of her palm. "Fast drying glue?" she asked, "What am I to do with this?"

Jumping out of the way of the Inventor's orb-streams, Cat Noir took up a fighting stance, protecting her.

Out of habit, she started to look around hoping her Ladybug vision would give her some clues on how to defeat this akumatised villain.

Three items illuminated themselves: Cat Noir, the broken mirror on the floor as a result of Carapace's attack on the security guard, and the glue in her palm. "I've got it!"

"Carapace!" she called, "I need Cat Noir to have the mirror."

The Inventor laughed, "What are you going to do with a mirror and glue?"

She smirked, "Oh, just you wait."

Cat Noir caught on to her plan. After a year of fighting Hawkmoth's akumatised villains together, he knew her thinking to a T.

"Go long!" Carapace yelled and tossed a large piece of the mirror towards Cat Noir who backtracked to catch the object. As he did so, his shield weakened, threatening himself and Alya.

They needed to do this quickly.

Cat Noir jumped high above the Inventor, and the villain followed his movements, just like Marinette's suspected. Cat Noir angled the mirror towards the Inventor's eyes, reflecting a sharp beam of light from the ceiling as he started to descend to the ground.

The Inventor lifted his left hand, the one that he used to activate his weapon, to cover his eyes as the light was too strong. Ladybug raced to his vulnerable position, spreading the fast-drying glue onto the villain's hand.

Without thinking, the Inventor placed his left hand back onto the sphere, wanting to swipe the heroes to non-existence. But his hand was stuck. He shook his hand to no avail. Getting frustrated, he failed to notice Cat Noir activated his Cataclysm. With one touch to the sphere, the weapon disintegrated between the Inventor's fingers with a bubbling noise and a dark butterfly fluttered out of the ashes.

"No more evil-doing for you, little Akuma." She threw her yo-yo in the direction of the butterfly and captured it within, purifying the evil existence. "Bye-bye, little butterfly," she grinned as the now white-butterfly fluttered out of her yo-yo.

And finally throwing the tube of glue into the air Marinette reveled in the sight of millions of ladybugs surrounding the futuristic city and changing it back to what it once was.

The Inventor de-transformed into the eccentric scientist Sedrik Fugar, a confused emotion displayed clearly on his face. "Wha-What happened?"

Ladybug just smiled at him before running over to Carapace and Alya.

Simultaneously, they all put their fists together in a circle, "Pound it!"

The four friends linked arms as they all de-transformed into their Parisian civilian forms. Their kwami's followed behind them, happily playing tag and bulldozing each other in hugs.

- You can't predict the future nor can you change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about both. -

- the end -

Hi there!

Thank you all so much for reading 'A Miraculous Discovery' and 'A Miraculous Future'! I hope you enjoyed the sequel as much as the prequel.

Let me know in the comments what your favourite part was!

Stay safe and happy.

- Samantha High :)