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Maribat March 2021 - Half time

In my AO3 account I am also updating the 'A playboy billionaire, an ambassador and the secret love-child' title, and sometimes I add(ed) commentary why I write something the way I do.

Masterlist

From the last fifty days here is all the plus note:

First day

In Red Robin (2009-2011) comics Vicki Vale was a little bit too noisy for her own good, that's why I used her personal annoyance against Bruce Wayne in this story.

Third day

Vanessa Rios was an assistant district attorney in Gotham in the Robin (1993-2009) run. Here I am using her as the Wayne's legal team head. Tamara Fox, Lucius Fox's daughter, is friends with Tim Drake in Red Robin (2009-2011) comics and here too. Also she is an intern with the HR department who knows about the BatFam alteregos.

Fifth day

In the comics, Alfred always followed Bruce to his 'trips' (in 'Batman and Son' to London, 'Batman & Robin Annual' to an scavenger hunt, in 'Batman Inc.' to every country where they found representatives...) However because of Damian's unpredictable behaviour he stayed at the manor with the children in this story.

Sixth day

So Young Justice thing is a little complicated to me if I dare to say something about it. There was the 'Young Justice: The Secret' and its sequels. Then there were 'The New52' and 'DC Rebirth' era, plus the animation show. And they all are kind of okay..ish, furthermore I wanted to keep the principles like the main members (Tim Drake, Connor Kent, Bart Allen and Cassie Sandsmark), however I never liked their too childish behavior in some of the works (and the mixing with 'The Titans). So in this story, here, they are more adult..ish, but more relaxed and cheerful than 'The Titans' ever was (like in comics, not in the shows).

Eighth day

In the 'Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir' show they showed Lila as a manipulator without any remorse, which got me to think she has antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). I am not a doctor but I had some basic lesson in psychology, and I have a natural curiosity about things so I always research everything. With diagnosed ASPD the person has to be older then 18, however I read its symptoms can show up in childhood, and it can lead to an earlier diagnosis like 14-15 years old early.

In the case of Lila she deceives people and uses them (✓). Don't makes long term plans or thinking through about her behavior (✓), however has a set on some goal she wants to achieve (✓). She has a sense of superiority above of her classmates and adults in her environment (✓), nevertheless does't have any remorse or guilt to mistreat them (✓). Uses charisma and her fake charming persona to get something or someone (✓), however didn't value them more than tools or prizes (✓).

I didn't see any real aggressive behavior from Lila beside akumatizations (✓), but on its own I think it's enough evidence, that she has this disorder (and not the many that she claimed). In normal aggressive way Lila didn't show herself (like physical violence, loud angry outbursts, big fits in front of everyone) yet, rather she uses Akumatization to hide that kind of behavior (when Adrien tried to stand up she became willingly Chameleon, or the Heroe's Day, or Oni-Chan). So her Akumatised forms and helping to Hawkmoth are the evidences that she has aggressive behavior, however they are not the classic forms (but we also can remember the threatening in the bathroom, but I think that was more intimidation and showing her superiority then pure aggressiveness).

And I wanted that recreate and strengthen this 'fact' a little bit so it would be more obvious than in the show.

Ninth day

In the comics there are so many take on Bruce Wayne it's kind of hard to count it. We could list the Batman persona, when he kind of let his children do what they want within his no-kill-rule (like living alone at fourteen with bunch of other teenager - 'Teen Titans' or 'Young Justice' or as it looks like to go rough - Robin, Red Hood). And there is the obvious martyr-parent take, when he has to know everything about his children, but he is always silent about the important things ('Death of the family' - 'Batman and Robin: Born to kill' - 'The Hunt for Robin'). And one of my favorites the worried-tired father take, when he is kind of showing his emotions and trying to love his kids ('Super Sons' - 'Robin Rises' - 'Prelude to the Wedding: Nightwing vs. Hush' ...).

And I decided to use the last with a more active take from the first (like he lets everyone do their thing but he is monitoring them within reasons). In the comics there are many accusations about being someones father (with Julie Madison or Mariah Shelley), and here in my take he is trying to be responsible (for the sake of his children, mainly for Damian and Jason) and checks every claim out personally (so they also can do DNS test).

Tenth day

Alya Césaire is a complicated someone in the show. At first she is portrayed as a fierce helper for the protagonist, Marinette. She is stubborn and reckless, but royal to her best friends.

Then came Lila and the makers sharpened her stubborn tunnel vision. This I saw it first at the 'Lady Wifi' episode, when she clearly didn't remember about the first day, when Ladybug saved Chloé (or ignored it). After that she always fixated on 'Adrienette' (or everything else if it's interesting - Dark Cupid) when the girl, herself had other things to do (Princess Fragrance, Puppeteer 2, Reflektdoll 2, Timebreaker). So it was not that big surprise when her tunnel vision turned to Lila, and she (and everybody in her class) forgot about that they all met Jagged Stone and with his crocodile already.

Yeah, it's all true, however unlike Lila, Alya didn't show any other big social flaw. And she is 14 years old and middle child, which is kind of important in someone personality. She has to be a mature figure and a little child at the same time in her sibling's eyes. She has to compete attention in their parents eyes and be smart about it.

Moreover if we look at the Collège Françoise Dupont's students, they are all spoiled, not just Chloé or Lila or Adrien. Yes, they are not that bad like the three, but they are all sheltered to a certain degree. Their family don't have financial problems (famous chef, designers, mayor, famous bakery, curator in the most famous museum, police officer, famous pantomime, ...), plus they are all in a prestigious school where they can't meet people with everyday problems (and rich spoiled kid is not an everyday occurrence in my country). And beside some vision problems (Max, Sabrina) they are all healthy and the first time to meet a disability is when Lila arrived. So it's natural if they don't really know how to interact right with her (putting aside that whole lie thing).

And I think they, especial Alya, need first a little life experience, before they could be called responsible about their acts. And here I am trying to write it this kind of way, where they are all flawed, but they can learn from it.

Human being can be shallow and not perfect. These children only heard one perspective from Lila, and another from Marinette. In the show the makers not exactly specified about how well the classmates know Marinette and how depth Marinette and Alya friendship is, so there is already some trust issue.

Like yeah all of they are going to concerts, cinema, each others, however they didn't show so far any serious conservation between them (maybe the only exception is Adrien-Marinette combo). Until this year when Adrien and Alya got transferred in the class, the classmates don't even help Marinette with Chloé bullying. And one year friendship - how beautiful is it tho - is not that depth and stable, especially with that many secrets they have. And Lila 'charming' personality came into this still fragile relationship at the right time to prove this.

I am not saying that the makers is doing good to simplifies the relationships. Because rather they missed so many ziccers for the sake of promote new hero designs and the overwritten romantic scene, it's physical hurting me. But they are right that we are talking sheltered-traumatized-too naive kids, who sometimes had unearned magic powers (looking at Chloé, Alya, Kim).

And I didn't ever going the length of mentioning the adult characters. It's an other kind of wormhole.

Marinette was the only one who openly disobeyed Lila's wants. She stands up against her lies in the public so she is a real obstacle for Lila. While Adrien is only trying in the background without any witness (I don't say it's bad, because with some case it's better, but not here), and the boy is too valuable to Lila.

Lila already showed in the series she didn't stop with the lies and she is brave enough to ruin someone carrier with them (Marinette - 'Ladybug', Nathalie and Gorilla - 'Oni-Chan', Alya - 'Volpina'). And Adrien watched all of it in the front seat, and he kind of knows that Lila's main target here to discredit and broke Marinette/Ladybug (and Adrien, himself also, but it's his perspective and he is very sheltered and naive about it).

And this story she got another one to ruin. Bruce Wayne, himself. And as her fake charming side melts away in her anger as she is focusing more and more on her targets.

Eleventh day

Speed Force is one of the Seven Forces of the Universe. It grants the power of the speedsters. And some of them merged with it (for example Barry Allen). Speed Force has a direct connection to the time flow and with the Multiverse (or now Omniverse). The biggest event of it is the Flashpoint (2011) which started the New52 era. And Batman doesn't want to mix this kind of force with a really mysterious ancient magic.

Nightrunner's first appearance was in 2011 in Detective Comics Annual #12. Within the Batman Incorporated line Bruce recruited Bilal Asselah, French-Algerian citizen to represent Batman in Paris. Here he is a mentor/background assistant to the Team Miraculous and a representative of Batman Inc.

Fourteenth day

Wang Fu is not the most mature character in the show and I think it says it all. Being an 186 years old is the Great Guardian after he accidentally destroyed the temple, he is kind of shameful and amateur. And if we contrasted him with Batman... yeah. Batman is NOT happy and takes the control from the old master.

Fifteenth day

I know Cyborg, alias Victor Stone is currently shown as a founding member of the Justice League (since 2011), however I am prefer him more in the Titans. And it's not just because of the animation show form 2003, but also in the comics he is more himself with the first Titans then with the -all mighty- Justice League. And I also wanted him to have a little cameo in this story because in the Super Sons (2017-) he was kind of like a babysitter for the boys. And to me it's kind of funny how many times the bats short circuited him (Robin Rises, Super Sons: Parent Trap, ...).

Sixteenth day

Damian Wayne is a complicated character. For ten years he was teached to kill. He only learnt about his mother at eight. He only learnt about his father at ten. Thalia used him for anything from power play to plotting someone death. Bruce loves him, but he is so moronic about his own emotions it's kind of painful to read sometimes. And there is the thing where Damian is never enough, his mother cloned him (Heretic), his father has other wards (mainly Red Robin). Dick Grayson went incognito spying when the boy had finally a healthier relationship (Grayson: The Superspy). His best friend, Jon Kent was suddenly older then him (2018 Superman #16). Alfred was killed in front of him (2016 Batman #77). Yeah, Damian is a jerk, but he has every right to be a jerk in my opinion. And I wanted that recreate here as Lila is a liar and threatening his 'only' position as a blood son. His only weapon to prevent it to have a fit and doing what was teached to him.

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He saw a red figure coming towards him as the screaming got louder, but before he could doing anything the figure smacked into him, sending them both tumbling towards the ground. Adrien felt the figure, another person, smack against his chest as, was that string?, wrapped around them. Right before the could hit the ground they suddenly stopped. The string had not only tangled them up, but saved them from a very painful landing.

Adrien looked at the person tangled up with him. a girl that appeared around his age with blue haired pigtails and a domino mask just like his, though hers was ladybug patterned.

“Well her there,” he greeted, “nice of you to drop in.”

“I’m sorry.” the girl apologized. “I didn’t do it on purpose.”

“I bet your the partner my Kwami told me about,” Adrien said, as soon as his feet were on the ground again and he was no longer tangled up with the girl. “I’m…mmm…” he couldn’t believe he hadn’t thought of a name yet. “Chat Noir. Yeah, Chat Noir.” He liked it, nice, simple. easy to remember and self explanatory. He looked to the girl who was trying to get her…yoyo? untangled from his baton which was still balancing above them between the two roof tops. “And you are?”

“I’m Mar-oh-mal-eh“ She said, pulling on her yoyo, also sounding like she hadn’t thought of a name. She stopped as her yoyo gave way. She reached out to grab it but unfortunately for Adrien, or Chat Noir as he was now being called, it thunked him on the head. His baton landed beside his feet with a clatter. “Madly clumsy.” the girl finished. “I am so clumsy.”

“No sweat clumsy girl,” Chat Noir said, grabbing his baton. “I’m learning the ropes too.”

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ground shook which each boom. He and the girl both looked up and watched as the Montparnasse Tower collapsed.

Chat Noir didn’t allow himself to feel horrified at what he just witness. He knew he needed to he help out and take down this villain before it could destroy anything else.

He ran forward, shoving his baton towards the ground, allowing it to expand and vault him over to the tower, and Stoneheart.

Time to actually be a hero.

Marinette watched as the black cat theme person accurately named Chat Noir, vault himself towards danger.

“Hey wait!” she called after him as he landed on the roof of a nearby building. “Where are you going?”

There was no way he could be heading towards Stoneheart. They hadn’t trained nor did they have a plan. There was no way they could take down a rock monster.

“To save Paris, right.” Chat Noir called back to her.

So maybe she had been wrong.

She watched as he jumped away, not being able to do anything to stop him.

She looked down at the yoyo in her hand. “Trust yourself.” she whispered, remembering all the words of encouragement Tikki had said to her before disappearing into the earrings.

“Trust yourself.” she said, this time with a bit more forced confidence as she threw her hand back, spinning the yoyo, before flinging it towards the building Chat Noir had just jumped form. With a pulled and a scream, she was once again airborne, whether she wanted to be or not.

She so wasn’t cut out for this.

Chat Noir arrived at a stadium where Stoneheart was chasing a kid about his age. Chat Noir got his baton ready, aiming for just in front of the stone monster just as the kid trip and fell, successfully cutting Stoneheart off.

“Hey,” he said landing, as the monsters target ran off. He brought his baton up to sit on his should, “it’s not very nice to pick on people who are smaller then you.”

“I guess you’re talking about yourself.” Stoneheart said. He pulled back in fist and swung it down aiming to squash Chat Noir.

But Chat was expecting it. After all, what do you get when goading a villain. He jumped out of the way, placing his baton in front of him so he could fended himself. While this may not be like fencing, hopefully he’d be able to fight the monster off just fine.

Stoneheart tried to smack him flat, like he was just an annoying bug but Chat managed to jump out of the way again.

When Stoneheart stuck down at him a third time, he was ready. He used the rocky fist as a jumping point, landing on the back of the things head and smacking him with the metal baton before jumping to safely.

A yellow light surrounded Stoneheart causing him to double in size, turning around to face Chat Noir, defiantly pissed off now.

That so wasn’t good.

“Where are you partner?” Chat Noir asked, mainly to himself since it was just him and Stoneheart. Now would so be a good time to have some back up.

Marinette watched as Chat Noir tried fighting Stoneheart, causing monster Ivan to just get bigger and angrier, though his main form of attack still seemed to be trying to squash Chat Noir like a bug. Like what she currently was.

“Oh, I can’t. I’m not going to be able to do it.” Marinette. Tikki should have chosen someone with confidence, who was athletic and had all their limbs and wasn’t a complete scary cat.

Marinette watched in horror as Stoneheart lifted up the goal and flung it at Chat Noir, who managed to dodge it, but now it way flying towards the stadium entrance where Alya was crouching, filming the interaction on her phone. Chat Noir saw what was happening and flung his baton out, causing to expand and suspended itself over the concrete above Alya. The goal hit the baton, and bounced off, landing in the grass beside an unharmed Alya.

Chat Noirs act of heroism caused him to not pay attention to Stoneheart, who picked up the feline hero in one of his giant fists.

“What are you waiting for super red bug.” Alya’s voice called out to her. “The world is watching you.”

Now most people would think this would only set Marinette into a deeper spiral of panic but it actually helped. As Marigold, Marinette was used to trending to be someone else, and while as the base of it, she was still the same as Marigold, she didn’t change her personality completely, Marigold knew what to say or do, how to be confident and with a few tweaks, maybe even be a hero.

Marinette looked back at the Stoneheart held Chat Noir strapped, forcing any her fear and doubt, replacing it with determination. She could do this. First things first, rescue her partner.

Marinette jumped from the top of the stadium, eyes locked on Stoneheart, as she flung her yoyo out, wrapping around Stonehearts legs, as she slid between them.

“Animal cruelty? How shameful.” she said, giving the yoyo string a tug, tying Stonehearts legs together, causing him to fall to the ground, as well as releasing Chat Noir.

Chat Noir bounce across the ground as he was flung from Stonehearts grip. Marinette heard Alya excitedly go ‘yes’ as she rushed over to him.

“Sorry it took so long, Chat Noir.” she apologized.

“It’s cool Wonder Bug,” he said. He stretched out as he got to his feet. “Not lets kick his rocky behind.”

He rushed towards Stoneheart but Marinette grabbed his tail, his belt? tail, yanking him back towards her. “Wait.” she said. “Haven’t you noticed? He gets bigger and stronger with every attack. We have to do something different.”

But what?’

“Different how?” Chat Noir asked, as if reading her mind.

Which was un-usefully blank. “Uh,” she let out dumbly. She hadn’t really gotten that far in her plan. “I don’t know.”

“Okay,” Chat Noir said. He turned and faced Stoneheart. “Let’s use our powers. CATACLYSM!”

Chat Noir glanced at his hand, which not had black puffs of black smoke or something toxic looking, coming off of it. He turned to bug girl. “Apparently i destroy whatever I touch.” he told her.

“I don’t need a superpower to destroy everything.” Bug girl said, though it sounded like she only meant for herself to hear it. Chat Noir wondered if the cat ears actually gave him cat like hearing. He’d have to test it out later.

For now, lets see what this hand could do.

Chat Noir turned around and touched the goal post, watching in fascination as it started to rust.

“No! Don’t do that!” Bug girl yelled right as his hand made contact. What was her problem?

The goal post collapsed along with the rest of it.

“Cool!” Chat Noir said, turning back to Stoneheart. “It’s just you and me now.”

He ran towards the monster. “Time to rumble, soon to be rubble.”

“Chat Noir,” Bug girl called after him. “Wait.”

Why wait when he was about to end this thing?

Chat Noir jumped int eh air, propelling himself way higher then he would without the magic suit, smacking his hand against one fo Stonehearts toes as he landed.

Nothing happened.

Why isn’t anything happening? It worked on the goal post.

He tapped his hand against the toe a few times. Maybe he just didn’t get enough contact.

Nothing.

“Oh oh,” he said, looking up at the massive stone monster. “I guess I only get one shot to use my power.”

He waved at Stoneheart. Maybe if he looked none threatening, he wouldn’t be squished.

Well he was half right, he thought to himself as Stoneheart kicked back towards bug girl.

“And you only have five minutes before you transform back,” Bug girl told him as she looked down at him disapprovingly. “Didn’t you kwami explain anything to you?”

“Chat Noir put his hands behind his head somewhat sheepish but still wanting to appear confident. After all, it’s not like he was hurt. “I guess I was a little excited about my new life.”

“Well, up to me.” Bug girl said. She flung her yoyo up into the sky. “LUCKY CHARM!”

Marinette watched as a red light came from her yoyo and…a bodysuit fell from the sky. Wasn’t this power suppose to be helpful?

“Super power.” Chat Noir said in a slightly mocking tone, though it didn’t sound like he was trying to be hurtful.

“My Kwami told me I had to break the object where the, whatchamacallit, the akuma, is hiding.” Marinette explained.

“Well,” Chat Noir said, “he’s made entirely out of stone.”

“His right hand,” Marinette said, trying to think up a plan as she looked at a slowly approaching Stoneheart. “It’s still closed. He never opened it. It’s like the Russian dolls. The object isn’t on him, it’s hidden in his fist.”

“So what’s you plan?” Chat Noir asked.

Marinette looked back at Stoneheart, thinking. It was as if the world went black and white. Stonehearts fist lit up in red with black polkadots. So did Alya who was still filming on the other side of the field. And finally so did the hose, once at where you turned it on and then again where it laid at her and Chats feet.

“This.” Marinette said, reaching down and picking up the hose as her plan formed. She shoved it into the wetsuit, which was like a wetsuit version of her suit, making sure the hose couldn’t slip out.

She then tossed out her yoyo, wrapping it around Chat Noirs feet. “Don’t resist.” She old him. “Trust me.”

She yanked Chat Noir off his feet, who let out a scream of alarm, swinging him around a bunch of times before flinging him away, right into Stonehearts fist.

“This girl’s crazy!” Chat Noir yelled as she did so.

“Catch me if you can.” she taunted Stoneheart. She flung herself at Stoneheart, aiming closer to his right fist.

Just as she’d hoped, Stoneheart opened up his fist, dropping the object hidden within, as he grabbed her.

“And now,” Marinette said, glancing towards her new friend. “Alya! The tap!”

Thankfully Alya got what she meant, instantly running towards the tap and turning it on. Within mamanents the wetsuit expanded, forcing Stoneheart to release her. She landed and instantly ran to the idea he’d dropped, stomping her foot on it. The rock like item crushed under her foot, releasing a black and purple butterfly. She watched it fly away, amazed that she had done it.

Chat Noir watched as bug girl stomped on the time that had following out of Stonehearts hand. A weird black and purple butterfly flew out and away. Purple cracks started to appear along Stoneheart until he was completely incased in them. They crumbled away revealing a large teenage boy around his age.

Chat Noir landed on his butt unceremoniously since there was no longer a rock fist holding him up in the air. He turned and looked back at the bug girl.

“That girl is awesome,” he couldn’t help but say. There was no way he could have saved the day without her. Nor could he have come up with that plan. “She’s crazy awesome.”

“Wha-what’s going on?” The boy who used to be Stoneheart asked. “What am I doing here?”

Chat Noir was confused but he ignored the boy instead turning toward bug girl. “You were incredible miss..a… bug lady.” he complimented. “You did it.”

Bug lady put her hands out in front of her to stop him. “We both did it, partner,” she told him. She put her hand out and Adrien instantly got what she was try8ing to do, throwing his own fist out.

“Pound it,” they both said as they fist bumped.

Chat Noirs ring let out an annoying beeping sound. He glanced at it to see the toxic green paw print blinking.

“You should get going,” Bug lady said. “Our identities must remain secret.”

Fair enough.

Chat Noir gracefully bowed towards his partner, “Fair well milady.” he said turning around and running away. “Let’s do this again soon, okay?” he called behind him.

Marinette watched as he jumped and used his baton to get out of the stadium. “Uh huh,” Marinette agreed. “Not too soon I hope.”

She didn’t need another monster attacking Paris after all.

She glanced back at Ivan who was sitting confused on the ground. She looked at the piece of paper in her hand and couldn’t help but wonder what Kim had written that had sent Ivan off so badly earlier in the day.

“You haven’t even got the guts to tell Mylène you love her, wuss,” she read aloud.

Marinette felt her heart go out to Ivan. She walked doer to him.

“Kim wrote it,” He explained since as far as he knew, she didn’t know who he was or what was going on. “He’s always making fun of me.”

Marinette couched down, placing a hand on his shoulder, hating the ashamed looked on his face. She couldn’t believe how mean Kim could be sometimes. “You know, you should get so bent out of shape about that.” Marinette told him, trying to cheer him up. “There’s no shame in telling someone you love them, Ivan.”

Ivan looked at her confused. “Hey, how do you know my name, miss?”

Marinette quickly pulled her hand away. Shit, she hadn’t thought about that.

“Uncanny.” Marinette turned and saw Alya crouched close to them, still filming. “Amazing! Spectacular! Are you protecting Paris from now on? How did you get your powers? Did you get stung by a radioactive ladybug?”

Marinette defaulted to her reporter training, ignoring Alya’s questions as she headed towards the end of the stadium so she could leave.

“Oh I have a ton of questions to ask you, miss, uh…” Alya trailed off.

“Ladybug. Call me Ladybug,” Marinette watched herself say to Alya before using her yoyo to propel herself to the top of the stadium and way.

“Ladybug,” Alya repeated, keeping her phone’s camera on Marinette as Ladybug. “Super awesome.”

The screen went back to Nadja of TVi. “So thanks to this ammeter forage,” she said, “ the Parisians now know the identities of their heroes.”

Marinette couldn’t help but smile. “I did it Tikki.” she said happily.

Tikki, who had reappeared once the Ladybug costume had transformed back, thankfully returning Marinette to normal, black hair, regular prosthetic and everything, floated up to her face. “You see, you were up to it.” she said hugging her cheek. Marinette closed her and nudged her with her head affectionally.

“Marinette, dinner time!” Her maman called from downstairs. Marinette turned her computer off and made her way downstairs, a little hop in her step, feeling proud of what she’d done to protect her city and save Ivan from the evil butterfly thing.

Marinette got downstairs to see her maman and dad by the table with the TV on to the news.

“I am please to announce we will be holding a huge celebration in honour of our cities new protectors, Ladybug and Chat Noir.” Mayor Bourgeois announced from in front of Hôtel de Ville.

“Ladybug. Her name is Ladybug.” Adrien said, watching Mayor Bourgeois’s news conference. He couldn’t stop thinking about her and the way she had saved the day. He wondered if she was English since she chose an English name for her hero persona.

“EWIE!” Plagg said flying over to him. Adrien hadn’t even noticed that Plagg had gotten into his food, carrying his desert over to him with a look of disgust on his little face. “What is this?”

“Seriously?” Adrien demanded. He could so do with the annoying flying cat. “My personal chef made all this.”

“If you expected to get my energy back,” Plagg said, throwing the dessert to the ground, “after a transformation, I need to eat something more delicate.”

Adrien sighed. Why couldn’t he just have a magic ring that gave him powers. “Okay, what do you want?”

“Oh my!” Marinette turned from where she was washing the dishes to look at her maman in alarm. Was she okay? Did something happen?

Her maman was looking at the TV where Nadja was reporting on Stoneheart again.

“Just as Paris is about to celebrate the appearance of our two new superheroes Ladybug and Chat Noir,” Nadja said as the TV changed to show a clip of purple butterfly landing on a lands shoulder, turning him into Stoneheart, “a new wave of panic is sweeping across the capital as dozens of people are mysteriously transformed into stone monsters.”

Marinette felt horror sweep over her and her papa pulled her maman to his chest.

“It’s simply unbelievable,” Nadja continued.

Marinette bolted from the kitchen and up to the privacy of her room so she could talk to Tikki without her parents seeing.

“Camembert cheese,” Adrien said. Why did it have to by stupid, stinky cheese. “Fantastic. All he eats is Camembert cheese, which means I’m going to smell like stinky old cheese.”

“These victims transformed into stone beings,” Nadja caught his attention as she reported on what looked like dozens more Stonehearts, “are still, like statues. Police are perplexed. What will happen to them? Will they come to life? Or will they stay frozen in time forever?”

“Plagg, what’s going on?” Adrien asked, getting to his feet. He thought everything was suppose to be good now that they’d defeated the original Stoneheart. “I thought we defeated him.”

“Did you capture the Akuma?” he asked.

“What’s capturing the Akuma have to do with the other stone beings?” Marinette asked, not understanding what Tikki meant.

“An Akuma can multiply.” Tikki explained. “That’s why it must be captured. If Ivans emotions become negative again then the Akuma will turn him back into Stoneheart again. He’ll control the stone beings and bring them to life to serve as his army.”

“So that means that this is all my fault.” Marinette said, bringing her hands up to her face as panic started to settle in. “I knew it! See Tikki, I’m not cut out to be a superhero. I’m only going to keep messing up.”

“Keep calm, it was only your first time.” Tikki said, trying to reassure her. “You’re going to go back and capture Stonehearts akuma,” Marinette turned her back not wanting to listen to Tikki. She was a failure, “and do it successfully.”?

Marinette whipped around to face Tikki. “I can’t. I told you I’m clumsy, and a cripple, and I create disaster all the time.” she said. “I’m only make things worse, for me, for you, for everyone. Chat Noir will be better off without me. I’m quitting.”

“So I can’t do anything without Ladybug?” Adrien asked Plagg. That sucked.

“Only Ladybug can capture akumas and repair damage caused by super villains.” Plagg explained.

Okay. That was fine. Sure he would have to wait for her to make a move but she had kicked ass earlier in the day so she’d be able to do it again.

Marinette looked at herself in her vanity mirror, only able to see what a failure she was. “If Chat Noir can’t capture akumas then just find another Ladybug. I told you, I’m not cut out to be a hero.” Marinette told Tikki. She was done. She wasn’t a hero and that was the end of it. She took off her prosthetic arm so she could use her numb to help take her earrings off. “I’m sorry Tikki.” she said as she did so.

“No! Don’t ta-“ Whatever Tikki was going to say suddenly cut off. Marinette looked up and saw that Tikki had disappeared.

“Tikki?” she called softly. She looked around her room before sighing. It made sense that Tikki had disappeared now that Marinette had decided not to become a hero.

Marinette turned back to her vanity, where the hexagon box was, and carefully placed the earrings inside, placing the box in the middle door and shutting it away. It was better this way.

“I’m really sorry, Tikki,” Marinette said, feeling grief wash over her. Grief for losing Tikki, who’d she liked, and grief for failing Paris and trapping innocent people as stone monsters.

She’d find a new Ladybug tomorrow. Someone who’d actually be a hero.

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Confession week: ladynoir july

it's still day 4 but it's part 12: hairstyles

Ao3

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11,

Ladybug groaned as the evillustrator, or at least this version of him tugged at her hand styling it according to the directions of style queen who was watching every move like a hawk.

This was almost worse than tourture.

He tugged at her locks again.

Never mind it was worse.

She couldn’t help but feel nervous as a troupe of akuma’s from previous battles, fussed over dresses shoes and other accessories.

It was rather confusing.

To see akuma’s working together on such a strange event.

Holy matrimony, if lady wifi and style queen could stop bickering for two seconds about trends maybe she could have enough time to think of an escape plan.

She thought of calling her lucky charm, but it would be too hard to defeat a room of at least 10 akumas of different skill sets, they could easily take her down in a one shot.

She would have to wait...no pray that rena and carapace would be able to find chat and the rest of the heroes to bust her out of this mess.

Aka an arranged marriage between her and viperon.

Akumas had such weird tastes in shipping. ~ Rena and carapace walked hand in hand through the dark forest.

Splotchy patches of light were scattered all over the path, and they found it was easier- no safer to walk together.

After about 20 minutes of consistent walking on the path they heard the crunch of crisp leaves and a sing song voice, chorusing the reprise of a disney piece, which they couldn’t pinpoint.

The muffled voices moved closer, and rena and carapace, couldn’t help but step back in fear.

“When will my reflection show who i am insiiiiiiidddddddddddddeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!”

Roi singe cackled.

“for the love of miraculous, do shut up chanton.”

Rena looked as if she was about to explode as the trio turned down the path towards them, and carapace grabbed her wrist.

“No one flirts with chat noir, but his lady.”

“Rena-”

His sentence was cut off by chat noir running towards them embracing them in hug.

“Thank the good lord, your alive," he broke it searching over their shoulders "where’s ladybug?”

“We need to hurry, she’s been captured.”

“What?!?”

“Yeah dude, she was taken by style queen.”

“There’s more of them?”

“Yeah, dude, like heaps, we have too save her come on!”

“Yeah, we’re probably too late, she’s probably already married to him.” he sighed

“Dude you seem way to enthusiastic about his.” carapace said sarcastically

“Yeah chat, go save your girlfriend.”

“She’s not my girlfriend, and she probably likes him anyway.”

“Dude, i wasn’t supposed to tell you this, but like while me and LB were talking she told me how much she enjoyed spending time with you.”

“Yeah, like a friend.”

“No… not just like a friend, more than that.”

Chat and rena perked up.

“And you didn’t tell me about this why?”

“Because rena, it was supposed to be a secret, but the poor guy was so oblivious, I just had to tell him.”

“So,” he choked, “she likes me?”

“That's what I implied.”

“Go for it dude!” rena encouraged, “ don’t let some snake steal her, it’s confession week remember?”

“Right.”

“Go be her prince dude.”

Chat smiled.

“Thanks guys.”

“You think we just gonna let our otp get ruined because you have a lack of self confidence, nuh-uh, dude.”

“By the way, have you told her yet?”

“Yeah, what is your plan.”

“It’s a secret.”

“Can we leave?” the dragoness spoke with a sharp and fiery tone, which chat had to admit made him fear for his life.

“Sure…” - All of the akumas had cleared out of the room allowing her time to so called ‘admire’ her dress.

It was basically an ugly piece of bunched fabric.

“Ladybug!” a yellow striped heroine whispered from behind her.

“Chlo- i mean queen bee, what are you doing here?”

“Me and pegasus have been searching for you around the castle. The real question is why are you here? Did you just let yourself be captured?”

“I told rena and carapace to get help, and yes i let myself be captured.”

“Why you waiting on your prince charming to save you? Your perfectly capable of escaping and you and me could easily could take them down. Strong woman like us can stand on our own two feet.”

“Queen bee, I know this comes from the best in you, but I honestly think it’s better that we wait! Go find everyone else and then you can bust me and viperon out of here.”

“But…”

“I trust you.”

“Yes, ladybug.” - As the 5 heroes continued on the path way back it was made clear that the path, was bricked, and yellow.

Capace, rena, chat and roi singe exchanged glances, with no hesitation they linked arms.

“We’re off to see the wizard! The wonderful wizard of oz!”

The skipped off leaving the dragoness to shake her head in utter disappointment.

- Ladybug sludged as she walked down the aisle, following the enthusiastic footsteps of the puppeteer or at least this version.

If there was ever one day she was going to get married, she really didn’t expect it to be in the presence of akumas and to a guy she didn’t even know that well.

Viperon smiled as soon as he saw her, he leant into her and whispered in her ear.

“Don’t worry will escap-”

The akuma had made her first appearance since she had made them dissaperate and into this crazy fairy tale land.

It’s fairy tale book held open.

Ladybug leaned over to him.

“The akuma is in her book.”

“Gottcha.”

The akuma coughed awkwardly interrupting their conversation.

“No interrupting the ceremony with side chats.”

“No interrupting our side chats with your ceremony.” ladybug retorted, receiving a snicker from several in the audience and viper.

“Silence.”

The two heroes exchange glances of amusement draining out the akumas monologue.

“And now ...ladybug do you take viperon to be your lawfully wedded husband.”

“Wait what?” viperon exclaimed in disbelief

“Your getting married.” - The troupe was stopped by akuma.

weredad.

Who seemed to be searching for someone.

The monster leaned in suspiciously at the trespassers.

“Trust me guys i got this!” chat murmured clearing his throat.

Well he didn’t, got this, got this, but if he could accomplish defeating a giant, he could surely ask the girl of his dreams, who may or not return his feelings out.

“Fee, fi, fo,fum, where is jack? so i can take him up to my beanstalk.”

“I have no idea who dis jack is, but we are here for the ball.”

Chat plastered a fake smile on his face and to his surprise the giant let them pass through the gates.

As they made it to the door they found queen bee and pegasus standing in conversation at the doorway, seemingly arguing over something.

“You just let her go?”

“Well i couldn’t just kidnap her? Could i?”

She paused at the sight of them.

“Chat noir, rena rouge, carapace, roi singe and you….”

“Yeah, it’s us, where were you guys?”

“We’ve just been here, annoyed that ladybug insisted that she was going to wait for you to show up.”

“At least we did.”

“Time to crash a wedding.”