"What are we going to do?" Alya asked.
The two girls were down in the dining room sitting on the barstools hidden underneath the breakfast bar, watching Sabine do her thing in the kitchen.

"I think the only way we can deAkumatise the Inventor is through force, like the rest of the villains we have fought throughout the past year." Marinette murmured, her elbow propping her head up on the breakfast bar.

Alya nodded her head, her eyes absently looking at the side of Marinette's face. And then her shocked gasp caught the attention of both Sabine and Marinette.

"What?" Marinette worried.

"Your earrings," she started, "they're gone."

Instinctively, Marinette reached a delicate hand up to her earlobes, to find that what Alya was saying was true. Oh no. She cried internally, poor Tikki.

Marinette rushed up stairs and ushered Adrien out of the room and left Nino looking after the Inventor, making sure Hawkmoth didn't take charge and coax him into breaking out and escaping.

"What is it?" Adrien asked in a soft voice.
She dragged him into the small bathroom. "Our Miraculouses are gone." She whispered.

"What?"

"They're gone."

And like Marinette did, Adrien absentmindedly reached to the finger his ring usually surrounded. She was right.

"How did we not notice?" He asked, "I always fidget with my ring." His Miraculous gave him a sense of comfort and meaning, and now that it's gone, he felt... empty.

He had wondered why Plagg was being so quiet. He would normally have a couple snide remarks or comments about cheese every half hour or so.

Oh no, poor Plagg. "Does that mean they would've been lonely for the 23 years we were gone?" He asked.

Marinette hated to think about her sweet little red kwami being lonely and sad. "We need to get them out of the museum." She determined.

"How? We don't have any superpowers to overcome the security system."

"The kwamis don't make us superheroes, Adrien." Marinette touched his hand that was still toying with his ring finger. Her warm hand encased his and he softly smiled. "We have learnt the skills off by heart. Sure, the manoeuvres and flips that we can do are amplified by the Miraculouses. But we can still be stealthy and smart."

Adrien nodded determinedly. Let's do this.