Back at Trocadero, Chloé and Sabrina had arrived at the monument, and were now secretly watching Marinette on opposite sides of the monument, as she was submerged into her design. Chloé then glanced over at Sabrina from her hiding spot, giving the bespectacled girl the okay to run down to the end of her hiding spot behind the row of statues that lined the area, and crouch down, taking her phone out, ready to take a picture of the soon to be completed design.

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Meanwhile, Marinette was deep in her concentration-her tongue tip still sticking out-when she finally completed the design.

"Yes!" Marinette exclaimed in excitement as she took her phone from the unoccupied side of the book and she held up a drawing of her finished design. She switches her phone to camera mode so Jim and Toby could see it, all while Sabrina snaps a photo of the .

Happy with herself, Sabrina fled her hiding place and went back to Chloé, all while Marinette had no idea what had happened, as she was more focused on her kwami and brothers reactions.

"Now that's a derby!" Tikki praised, causing Marinette to look away from her design, and back down at her kwami with a bright smile.

"Thanks, Tikki," Marinette replied, as she continued to hold her phone in her left hand so Jim and Toby could see the design.

"I don't know what Tikki said, but I'm sure it is something along the lines of, 'That design is amazing'," Jim guessed, giving his own praise for Marinette's hard work.

"Going to have to agree there. It might not be the 'Geode Design' but it still looks great," Toby agreed, feeling proud of his honorary little sister.

"Thanks, you guys. Yours and Tikki's support means the world to me," Marinette gushed as she closed her book, placed it next to her and started picking up her discarded ideas. She needed to get home as fast as possible so she could start working on the hopefully winning design.

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Sabrina had reached Chloé as the heiress stood in her hiding place, feeling confident in herself.

"We're so awesome!!" Sabrina happily exclaimed as she showed the picture on her phone to Chloé.

"We?" Chloé coldly questions as she snatches the phone away from her slave, which hurt Sabrina, but she didn't let it show.

"Oh right, sorry! You're so awesome, Chloé," Sabrina reassured, with a hurt look on her face as Chloé looked at the picture of the design.

"When are we-- uh, you, going to make the hat?" The bespectacled girl asked, even though she most likely knew the answer to that question... either Chloé would force her to make it, or she'll get her dad to get someone to do it.

"And ruin these nails? Of course not." Chloé scoffed, holding out her newly manicured nails out towards Sabrina.

"Daddy'll pay someone to do it." The spoiled brat declared before she walked off with Sabrina following her. Of course she was right, when wasn't she when it came to Chloé.

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Back with Marinette, she had just picked up her discarded designs and put them in her bag.

She could very well edit the designs after the competition was over, that way she had more projects to do. Well... after she created the 'Geode Design' for Toby of course.

"I got to go, guys. I only have a little more than 8 hours to create this design. And I need to get home as soon as possible to start working on it." Marinette explained as she held her phone while packing up her stuff.

"No worries. We'll talk to you tomorrow." Toby replied, hoping to get Marinette to not worry so much about them, and focus more on the compilation coming up.

"You just worry about the contest. We know you'll do great." Jim encouraged. Thankfully, it worked.

"Thank you guys. Talk to you later. Bye boys." Marinette said as she waved at the two boys on the other side of the screen.

"Bye sis." Jim and Toby replied as they waved back through the screen before hanging up, leaving a smiling Marinette as she finished packing her bag, put her phone into the pink bag and raced off towards her home, eager to start her design.

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(Time Skip)

Very soon, Marinette had made it back to her house, and raced up to her room to begin working on her hat. The time flies by fast as Marinette gets out the necessary fabric, needles, thread, and hat construction pieces she needed to create the faux feathered design. It was a labor of love that had taken painstaking patience to do, as Marinette measured and cut the pieces of fabric to suit her needs, even when Marinette poked her fingers with needles every now and then, and having a quick snack-thanks to Tikki bringing her an apple-but the hat was almost complete.

But as the young designer gave it a once over, she suddenly realized that something is missing. Immediately, she frantically looked around the top of the desk, coming up empty. She then looked under her desk to see if what she was looking for had dropped to the floor, which confused Tikki as she floated above in the air while Marinette continued her search.

"What are you looking for?" Tikki asked, just before Marinette got out from under her desk.

"A feather!" Marinette cried in a panic as she stood up from the ground, her hands on her head–which she had a habit of doing while she was freaking out–before turning to face her kwami.

"I forgot to pick up a pigeon feather for the hat! It has to have a feather!" The designer exclaimed before she raced out of her room, with Tikki following behind her.

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It doesn't take Marinette long to run back to the Trocadéro. When she arrived at the spot she had been earlier, a few pigeons were occupying the space. But when she slows down enough to not trip and fall, the pigeons scatter, dropping feathers, much to Marinette's joy as she walks down the short flight of stairs to where the pigeons had left.

"Yes!" Marinette exclaimed to herself as she picked up a fallen feather.

'That was easier than I thought it was going to be,' Marinette thought to herself before heading back to her house. But as she leaves, she accidentally runs into Roger.

"Uh, sorry mister officer, sir." She apologized before moving past the police officer, and left while Roger smiled fondly at the girl.

'Kids... always a treasure.' The officer thought. But as Roger walked away, a swarm of pigeons descended on him and attacked him.

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A little while later, Marinette was sitting on the bus, deciding that returning home would have been quicker that way, but was proven wrong when the bus stopped moving. Soon, Marinette had enough of waiting, especially when the light had turned green and the bus still hadn't moved.

"Come on! Can't we go any faster?" Marinette asked as she walked to the front of the bus towards the driver.

"Sorry folks, we have a situation here," the bus driver explained as Marinette reached the front of the bus, only to see that a bunch of cars were being held up by a cluster of pigeons.

"You'll need to get off the bus now," the driver continued, just before the doors opened, but her attempts were stopped when she looked down at the ground to see a whole bunch of pigeons in front of her.

"Ah! Uh, this is weird," Marinette remarked before she got off the bus, careful not to step on any of the weirdly acting birds.

The streets were littered with pigeons as she walked down, when she saw a bunch of people gathered near a screen billboard, and decided to join them to find out what was going on.

"Pigeons have taken over Paris. This is just one of the many alarming situations giving authorities cause for major concern," Nadja reported, as pictures of pigeon infested areas were shown behind her. But soon, she was interrupted by someone giving her a tip from her earpiece.

"Yes, I've just been told that someone named 'Mr. Pigeon' is making an announcement," The reporter continued, which immediately gave Marinette a good clue as to who was the current akumatized victim of the day.

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Her theory was proven right when the screen shifted to show the familiar face, transformed into Hawkmoth's minion, as he stood on the Eiffel Tower.

"Oh, dreary day, poor Parisians," Mr Ramier, now Mr Pigeon, announced as he stood on the Eiffel Tower.

"Sorry to ruffle your feathers, but Paris now belongs to the pigeons! Flap flap!" Mr Pigeon continued as he flapped his arms like wings and made pigeon noises.

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Marinette broke away from the crowd and ran towards a subway entrance to transform.

'Should have guessed that this would have happened. Toby is definitely going to see the irony with this one.' Marinette thought to herself as she entered the subway tunnel. Once she was deep enough, she crouched down and opened her purse, letting Tikki pop out from the bag.

"Paris needs us!" Marinette whispered to her kwami, and out Tikki flew.

"Tikki, spots on!" The young designer calls out before she transforms into the amazing Ladybug.

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No sooner than she had transformed, Ladybug exited the subway, and was soon jumping from roof to roof like an acrobat, looking for Mr. Pigeon. But just as she had jumped down from one roof and onto another, she looked up at the sky, only to stop running when she saw pigeons flying through the sky above her in the shape of airplanes .

"Now this is weirder than weird," Ladybug remarked as she saw the unusual behavior the pigeons were displaying.

"Birds of a feather flock together," a voice from a ledge above her flirted, causing her to look in the direction of where it was coming from, and see Chat Noir as he laid across the roof under him, all while he seemed to be... charming... or cocky? Ladybug couldn't really tell.

But then his bravado shattered as he suddenly sneezed and rolled down the roof to where Ladybug was, looking up at her with a bashful smile.

"I'm allergic to feathers," the cat themed superhero admitted as he stood up from the roof, only to sneeze again.

"That's helpful," Ladybug sarcastically remarked with a small grin, much to the cat hero's annoyance.

"Tell me about it," Chat Noir responded, right before he was almost ready to sneeze again. But managed to stop himself with an awkward smile, getting his head back into the game.

"These birds are only part of the problem. The park keepers in Paris are vanishing without a trace," The cat superhero reported, pulling Ladybug from her amusement of watching Chat Noir dramatically sneezing from the feathers.

"What? We have to track down Mr. Pigeon ASAP," Ladybug proclaimed, her focus for the job at hand coming back full force.

"Where are we gonna find him?" Chat Noir questioned, as she tried to think of a plan to solve that little detail.

"Hmm, I don't know where we can find him, but I do know where he can find us," Ladybug replied, knowing exactly what to do to draw out the villain of the day, while she glanced Chat Noir over with a sly smile. Yeah, he was in trouble, and about to be yet another 'Arcadia's Unlucky Trio' story.

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Soon, the two heroes were at the Place des Vosges, where Chat Noir was wearing a police cap and pretending to be an officer as he whistled, "La Marseillaise", with Ladybug hiding behind a tree nearby. But soon, Chat Noir got bored and started to dance, making Ladybug poke her head out of her hiding place.

"Act natural or he'll never show up!" Ladybug scolded Chat Noir as he 'gangnam styled' right past her.

"What do you mean? I am acting natural," Chat Noir replied as he changed directions, and moonwalked past her.

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All while a pigeon watches him and the hidden Ladybug, before it takes off to fly back to Mr. Pigeon, as he stands on a statue in the city. The pigeon overlord then extends his arm out, letting the little winged spy land on it, before bringing it closer to him so it could report its findings.

"Ladybug and Cat Noir? Job well done, buddy-boy," Mr Pigeon praised, using his pointer finger to tickle the bird's chest in affection.

"Let's get them!" The bird man proclaimed, commanding the pigeons to flock and carry him off. They soon reached the park, and started flying above Chat Noir, causing him to sneeze. He looked up in the sky, just as the bunch of pigeons formed a big ball and started carrying him away, causing Ladybug to poke her head out from her hiding spot.

"What the-" Ladybug exclaimed in surprise, before she ran out from her hiding place and went after them.

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Leaping over rooftops and using her yo-yo to keep up with the pigeons, Ladybug soon reached the roof of the Le Grand Paris hotel and the pigeons dropped Chat Noir off onto the glass pool cover. He landed in a crouch and quickly stood up, sneezing as feathers drifted around him.

Once he did, he looked around, and saw that the pigeons that took him to the rooftop were looking at him. While he was looking around the roof, seeing that there were more pigeons surrounding him, Ladybug arrived, and joined up with him.

"Where's that bird-brain Mr. Pigeon?" Chat Noir questioned, while Ladybug seemed to notice all of the surrounding pigeons as well.

"He's gotta be here somewhere," Ladybug concluded as they stood on the rooftop, waiting for the villain to show up.

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But they were unaware that Mr. Pigeon was already there, lifted by a swarm of pigeons behind them, and staring down at them.

A second after the pigeons had lifted the bird lover up above the unsuspecting heroes, Hawkmoth had decided to speak to his current villain.

"If you want to give Paris back to the pigeons for good, you must first rid the city of those two pests," 'Hawkmoth the Stupendously Incompitant' commanded from his lair, bringing a twisted smile to Mr. Pigeon. As soon as the connection was complete, he brought his bird whistle to his lips, and sounded his call, causing the pigeons to start to circle around Ladybug and Cat Noir.

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"Call me crazy, but I feel like bird seed all of a sudden," Ladybug admitted as the pigeons formed a dome to keep them in, making them shield their eyes from the birds as they stood back to back.

"Got any bright ideas, bug?" Chat Noir asked as he tried to keep himself from getting any feathers in his eyes, and especially near his nose.

"You're the cat, don't you eat these things for breakfast?" Ladybug questioned, giving him an 'are you seriously asking me what to do?' look as the pigeons that were surrounding them blocked their sight. While they were distracted, more pigeons brought down a gigantic cage over them, imprisoning the two heroes.

"Look!" Ladybug exclaimed once she was able to look through the bird cyclone, only to see that the two of them were trapped. The pigeons flew away, their job of distracting the heroes, complete.

"Turpy day. I'm so ruthless," Mr. Pigeon cooed as he towered above the trapped heroes on his platform of hovering pigeons, chuckling to himself. But a second afterwards, Hawkmoth had decided to butt in once more.

"Excellent. Now take their Miraculous!" Hawkmoth commanded as he stood in his lair, like the cowering cockroach that he is. Once he says his piece, Hawkmoth cuts off the connection and Mr. Pigeon commands the pigeons holding him up to lower him down to the trapped heroes.

"Coo-coo, coo-coo! Your Miraculous. Give them to me or face the wrath of my feathered friends," Mr Pigeon demanded, before he sounded his bird call. Some of the pigeons start banging on the top of the cage, causing the top to lower down on the heroes, while others turn around and point their behinds at Ladybug and Cat Noir.

"Dada-dee, on the count of three, my beloved pigeons will commence fire," The pigeon overlord sang as the pigeons lowered him to the roof, where he stepped off and stood a good distance away from the cage.

"You can still save your sorry skins by handing me your Miraculous. One, two..." Mr Pigeon offered, sasily counting down with his fingers, while Ladybug suddenly thought of a way out of their predicament.

"Cat Noir, the bars!" Ladybug shouted, which Chat Noir immediately caught on.

"Cataclysm!" Chat Noir called out, summoning his powers. He then placed his hand on the bars and wiped it across them using his Cataclysm to destroy the bars of the cage. Mr. Pigeon only cowers back toward the edge of the rooftop while Ladybug and Cat Noir advance on him, spinning their weapons as they do so.

"Well, well. Looks like the pigeon's really a chicken," Chat Noir snarked as Mr Pigeon jumped up onto the rail of the roof, looking like he was about to jump. But unfortunately for them, he didn't and instead, stood his ground.

"Me? I'm not flying away. I'm just killing two birds with one stone," Mr Pigeon responded. He sounded his bird call and jumped over the edge of the roof. The heroes ran to the rail, to try and help him, only to see some pigeons had caught him, lift him back up and take him away.

They only watched as the pigeons that were lifting the villain into the air, while another group of pigeons formed into a giant rock-like flock.

"Coo! Coo! Merry Christmas!" The bird man shouts as he flies away and the rock-like group of pigeons dived towards Ladybug and Cat Noir. They took that as their sign of retreat and ran towards the roof access door, and ran inside, closing the door behind them, and holding it to stop the pigeons.

A second later, a bulge formed in the door as pigeons slammed into it, but Ladybug and Cat Noir fell down to the ground in relief.

"Ah!" The both of them yelped, glad to make it out of that disaster unscathed.

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Back outside, Mr Pigeon saw they had escaped, but only chuckled.

"I'm not done with you yet!" Mr Pigeon shouted as he rode away on his cloud of pigeons.

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Ladybug and Chat Noir started running downstairs, when Chat Noir's ring beeped. He looked down at it, and saw he only had four minutes left.

"I've gotta get out of here before my secret identity's revealed!" Chat Noir reported to Ladybug-who was a flight of stairs below him-as he realized just how close this was going to be.

"Yeah, you wouldn't want to let the cat out of the bag," Ladybug remarked, trying to add a bit of humor to the situation before continuing her path down the stairs.

"Ha ha, very funny," Chat Noir deadpanned.

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They soon make it to the first floor and start to head out the building. On their way out they see a crowd gathered at the entrance, with the Mayor of Paris among them.

"Ladybug, Cat Noir! I'm in great danger-- of losing big bucks if my guests leave Paris!" André--the Mayor of Paris, and Chloé's father–wailed as he ran to the heroes, hoping to have the akuma taken care of quickly.

Chat Noir's ring beeped again, making him so nervous that he got ready to bolt.

"You are going to get rid of those pigeons, aren't you?" The mayor pressed, while Chat Noir kept fidgeting, and Ladybug only fondly smiled at his antics.

"Of course we are, but before we do I have an urgent need," Chat Noir admitted, trying to get the mayor to let him transform back into a private space.

"An urgent need? I see, head to the royal suite," André said, allowing Chat Noir to race over to the elevator, where a butler was waiting inside, while Ladybug remained standing next to the mayor.

"There's paper in there, but perhaps you would prefer... a litter tray?" The mayor joked, in an attempt of humor, much to the feline hero's slight embarrassment.

"Uh...? Oh right, no need for litter. But, um, could I have some Camembert?" Chat Noir requested before the elevator door closed. Mayor Bourgeois looks back at Ladybug, who gave an exaggerated shrug. Like she would tell the father of her school bully why Chat asked for that specific cheese.

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Over at the Royal suite, Chat Noir raced into the room, just as Butler Jean had opened the door.

"'Scuse me, sorry. Emergency!" Chat Noir exclaimed as he slammed the door behind him. A second later, there's a knock on the door, making Chat Noir open it, only to see it was Butler Jean once again.

"How do you like your Camembert?" Butler Jean inquired smoothly.

"Runny!" Chat Noir responded before he slammed the door again. Once again, a second later, there's another knock on the door. Quick as a whip, Chat Noir opened it again to see Butler Jean holding out a plate with a cloche towards him.

"Unpasteurized Camembert, matured for two years," Butler Jean said as he handed Chat Noir the silver plate.

"Thanks!" Chat Noir exclaimed before he took the plate and he slammed the door again.

A second later, his last pad disappeared, and his transformation ran out. Plagg spiraled out of the ring and landed onto the bed of the suite.

"Oh the exhaustion! My poor aching body, I can't move a muscle!" 'Plagg, the Cheese Annihilator' complained while Adrien walked over to him, the silver plate in his hands.

"You wanna bet?" Adrien asked as he placed the plate in front of Plagg, and removed the cloche from it to reveal the Camembert. Its noxious fumes rose from the cheese, and attracted the little kwami's attention.

"Yesss! My gooeyness," Plagg gushed, and like a starving lion, he leaped over to the cheese with renewed strength, and started devouring it like a pig.

"Eat up buddy. Ladybug needs help," Adrien said, as he leaned against the bed post, watching as Plagg scarfed down his favorite snack.

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Meanwhile, over in the Le Grand Paris Hotel's restaurant, Ladybug stepped out of the elevator into the dining hall, able to see the action that was going on outside, through the near floor to ceiling windows.

"Great, I can get a much better view from up here," Ladybug remarked as she walked up to a window, seeing large groups of pigeons flying by, but also noticed something else.

"Odd, pigeons are flying in the same direction. Better go follow them," the spotted hero decided, just before the elevator dings, bringing her attention to it to see Chat Noir was waiting for her inside.

"Ready when you are, LB," Chat Noir said, while Ladybug walked over to the elevator.

"Let's go!" Ladybug exclaimed just as the elevator doors closed in front of her after she stepped inside.

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They followed the pigeons to the Grand Palais and looked inside to see a big cage full of park keepers, seemingly unguarded.

"So that's where Mr. Pigeon's keeping them," Ladybug noted as she looked past the corner they were hiding behind before moving back to Chat Noir who was a few feet away from her, but he started to sneeze. Thankfully Ladybug stopped him before he alerted Mr Pigeon.

"My pigeon radar is on high alert," the feline superhero groaned as he rubbed his nose to stop it from itching.

"Either your radar is on the brink or Mr. Pigeon's left the park keepers unattended," Ladybug opined worriedly.

"Let's set the cat among the pigeons," Chat Noir exclaimed, excited to let his claws out for a scratch fight.

"Hold up kitty," Ladybug argued. "It's too easy. I've got a plan," she said before running around the other direction, with Chat Noir following.

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But they didn't see that a pigeon was above them, watching them before it flew inside.

"Perfect timing, hootie hoo! We're ready to greet them, aren't we? They're going to fall right into my trap," Mr Pigeon exclaimed as the spy pigeon flew back to him.

"It won't be long before you get your Miraculous, friend," the pigeon loving akuma said as Hawkmoth restarted the connection once more.

"I can't wait, my dear Pigeon," Hawkmoth said, feeling confident in his choice in akumatizing the pigeon lover in the first place.