Ok @imagine-miraculousladybug I just thought of the absolute BEST AU ever which could totally be canon compliant with MLB because lets face itā¦everyone in that show is either dense as a brick, blind as a bat or both.
Beholdā¦The AU that is totally plausible :
So Adrien is upset for some reason because his Dad is (in his best interest) trying to control him and normally Adrien is used to it but Gabriel says he wants whatās best for him and then the next day turns around and cancels yet another dinner/lunch break he promised to spend with his son. Adrien feels betrayed and used and really pissed off so he runs to his room and cries and even Plagg canāt comfort the cute muffin.Ā
He spends literally hours staring at pictures of him sandwiched between his Mom and Dad as a kid who are tickling and smiling at him and basically they all are acting like a family.
Adrien wantās to- no needs to fix his family so he asks Plagg for a favor.Ā
The next day he signs up for Ms. Mendelievās science fair who is excited to see what her prized student will do (Mme M. basically only likes Adrien from the class and very grudgingly).
Marinette signs up as well because its Adrien. (Need I say more ?)
So Adrien spends days and weeks and nearly a month studying up everything he can going way beyond the Physics a boy his age should know but he is very desperate so the long nights are worth it. (He gets to nap in his Ladyās lap while she watches over Paris after Patrol so thatās a plus).
Come the science fair. Adrien is really pumped and nervous but a few encouraging words from Nino and he takes his project to the fair very happily.Ā
Now Adrien is no Physics prodigy but the favor he asked Plagg, who only wants his charge to be happy, comes in very useful for his project.
Mme Mendeliev is judging the fair and Mayor Bourgeois is a guest. M. DāArgencourt demands to be allowed to judge because a) itās his stadium and b) his ancestors were very well educated in the sciences.
Ā Adrien sets up his project. He bumps into Marinette who promptly drops some of her things but its okay. No harm done.
Now Adrien was completely prepared to be a magical girl when Plagg showed up. What he was not prepared for is a strange green eyed boy with extremely messyĀ raven hair to pop up out from behind the table as soon as he takes out his project. (Extra emphasis on the boyās messy hair).
He talks cryptically and he canāt be much older than Adrien himself but he gives a weird introduction about being from the future and a strange warning to look out for someone who might sabotage his project and disappears.Ā
Adrien shrugs it off. The boy seemed familiar for some reason but Adrien pegged it as a prank and moved on not noticing someone of to the sidelines spying on him.
That someone in particular manages to sabotage the project even though he doesnāt come within a 10 meter radius of the young Agreste.
Finally its Adrienās turn to present. Mme Mendeleiv has already scolded a few students and M. DāArgencourt even made one run a lap around the football stadium for the poor project quality.Ā
All three judges know and respect Adrien though so they expect his project to be good.Ā
Adrien is ecstatic. This is his chance. Heāll get a good grade and show his dad and if his plan works he might even be able to fix his family.
He starts his presentation. The strange boy is watching but in the course of being at the fair he bumped into Marinette three times too many and the normally sweet girl is pissed, so this time she demands he help her clean up. (Both are staring at Adrienās presentation though).
Marinette thinks he looks familiar too but doesnāt know from where either.
The boy notices the project going wrong before Adrien does. It doesnāt work and causes a mass panic in the stadium when a propeller hits one of the lights and the smoke sets off the fire sprinklers.
Adrien runs off frustrated, angry and upset. He canāt do anything right. (Poor Muffin).
The boy follows him and comes into his huge room and very discreetly pretends to be a cat but thatās ridiculous and Adrien just isnāt in the mood for this nonsense.
Boy claims his name is Louis and that heās from the future. Adrien has none of it this time.
An argument ensues and Louis fails to convince Adrien to go fix his project and Adrien fails to believe Louis is from the future. So Louis strikes a deal, he proves heās from the future and Adrien fixes his project.Ā
The model with banana hair goes along with it because, Come on. This boy canāt actually prove heās from the future, right ? Wrong.
Adrien has seen many weird things and done many weird things. Being Chat Noir sort of ensures that. Being thrown out out the window isnāt new to him but when a stranger does it and your not fighting Akumas in battle itās pretty terrifying.
Apparently there exists an invisible time machine that catches him. Adrien is screaming and the boy is smirking and in a weird burst of light they enterā¦another dimension ?
Itās beautiful. Tall buildings, clean skies, greenery and flowers and basically itās the perfect Utopia of the future.
Louis asks for confirmation that Adrien believes him. Satisfied that he kept with his end of the deal, he asks Adrien to fix the project who rips up his diagram and decides that a time machine that works is way better at solving his problems than a device that doesnāt.
Louis is baffled and at a loss for words because he canāt explicitly explain why itās so important Adrien fixes his machine instead of using the time machine.Ā
Both boys fight over the steering wheel, crash the ship and from Louisā point of view, prepare his grave.
After a bit of arguing over the fact that whoās older, what should be done about the ship and how to keep Louisā family from murdering him and dancing on his grave they come to an agreement : Adrien will try and fix the ship with the help of Louisā friend Carl and Louis will take Adrien to exactly where he wants to go in his timeline.
They manage to get the ship to a garage so as to fix it and meet a robot who promptly screams and runs away. Louis gives Adrien a hat that is essentially a sculpture ofā¦Cookies and Camembert ? (āItās all the rage right now. I should know, my Momās the designerā).
Adrien learns that under NOĀ circumstances can he meet Louisā family and he must stay. in. the. garage. at all times. Adrien absolutely hates that because heās been cooped up all his life but now no one can stop him so up a magic tube thingy he goes.
It takes him in front of a large mansion. It looks nothing like his own mansion and has a warmer feel to it but Adrien suspects that like all needlessly large houses, itās mostly empty.
He freaks out when he meets a towering old man who apparently canāt find his rolling pin ? Thatās odd. But nonetheless heās the only one Adrien can ask to get back to the garage so he follows the old man all around the house.
Adrien is pleasantly surprised to find that the house in fact is not empty but full of life and even meets a bunch of Louisā family.
Finally they reach the sewing studio. A giant door that leads into a huge room covered in fabric of all types and sewing equipment. Mannequins are spread out and assorted papers are stuck to the wall.Ā
A woman with Louisā jet black hair is sewing something while Jagged Stone blares from the speakers. She is wearing a red, black, pink and white dress and makes it work. She addresses the older man as āPapaā and finds Adrien endearing while giving him an impromptu tour around her studio while they search for the rolling pin.
They find it and the family rushes in excitedly and they apparently really love cookies because they congratulate Louisā grandpa for having found it. (āCookies for desert tonight, Uncle Tom ?ā)
Louis has been freaking out and looking practically everywhere for Adrien and they run into each other just as he escapes the sewing studio not wanting to intrude on this obviously happy family.Ā
Louisā asks for a rundown of what he knows. Adrien complies :
āOk so Tom is married to Sabine. They are bakers. Their daughter is Mari, whoās full name I do not know. Sheās a designer and is married to someone everyone refers to as CN, for some absurd, reasonā¦who does your Dad look like ?āĀ
āOkay so Mari is married to CN while her best friend is Alya. Alya is married to The DJ who has known Mari since Kindergarten. The rest are also childhood friends. Kim is married to someone dubbed Swift who has pink hair. They like challenging each other. Then Prince is married to Rosie and they are really close with Jules. Nath is a painter and a world renowned artist. He is in a relationship with someone dubbed Bee but I didnāt meet her. She was on the phone talking to a āSabrinaā in another room and Tom said disturbing her wasnāt wise. Ivan and Millie are married and Max is someone who is on a business trip with your Dad. I didnāt get to meet any of the kids in the family but I know DJ and Alya have a son and so do Ivan and Millie.āĀ
āArenāt you forgetting something ?āĀ
āOh yeah, Mari and CN have three kids. You are the eldest and from what I know have a younger brother and sister.āĀ
āAnd no one knowās your from the past ?āĀ
Ok so now Adrien should have put two and two together or someone from the future should have but everyone is dense and couldnāt see the similarities because apparently Adrienās hair was hidden in the Cookies and Camambert hat. Thus no one suspected and the boys made it to the garage.
They manage to get the machine to work for all of a minute before it crashes and Adrienās self loathing reappears.
Mari demands they come up for dinner or sheās gonna come get them. They canāt very well show her the broken time machine so up they go.
Adrien finally meets Emma and Hugo and the other future kids. Dinner time is the best and for the first time in a long time Adrien has dinner with an actual family who may not be related by blood but it doesnāt matter to them.
When the conversation steers too close to personal territory, Louis creates a fight between Kim and Mari. Adrien is astounded at her mad Kung Food skills. (The family makes this pun and Adrien is so ecstatic).
Adrien lets it slip that : āYour all so nice. If I had a family, Iād want them to be just like you.ā
Mari who is very much like her own mother goes into mom mode and asks Louis what that means. Turns out this Adrien has a similar backstory to her husbandās.
A dinosaur crashes the dinner party along with a swarm of butterflies. It targetās Adrien and you would think this family is made of superheroesā the way it works together.
The sun has nearly completely set by the time the fight finishes and Adrien gets carried away and calls Mari, āMomā when she hugs him and Louis.Ā
Louis decides to take Adrien home very loudly announcing so because suddenly his Mom has her determined face on and before he knows it sheās inviting Adrien to stay with them, because from what Louis tells her and she knows, Adrienās home isnāt one he should be living in.
The hat comes off, gasps all around. Adrien defends Louis but Mari tells him he absolutely has to go back to the past. Feeling rejected he asks to let Louis take him to his mom first. Mari is furious and Louis lets it slip that he never intended to go through with his promise of taking Adrien to his Mom.
That is the last straw. Adrien runs away and Louis is grounded for life. The boy still goes after him just in time to see Adrien accept a deal from Hawkmoth (who in this AU has not been defeated).
Adrien doesnāt even notice the butterfly when it slips into his family photo in his pocket. Hawkmoth promises him to see his mom in return for something. For once, it isnāt the miraculous.Ā
Adrien accepts. Hawkmoth takes him to an abandoned building with a large butterfly window and makes Adrien fix it while heās mumbling hateful words about the machine as he fixes it.
In an unlikely turn of events, Hawkmoth makes him come to the conclusion that he is Louisā dad. (Hallelujah give the boy a prize !).
Hawkmoth tells him he just wants to find his wife, just like Adrien wants to find his Mom, but Adrien knowās what Hawkmothās doing is wrong by akumatizing people.
Hawkmoth then betrays him and refuses to take him back but promises Adrien that he will see his Mom soon. Once again the poor thing is betrayed.
Heās rescued by Louis and the robot friend named Carl. Hawkmoth steals back the machine though and Louis disappears as Hawkmoth goes back in time and changes the future.Ā
Louis only manages to tell Adrien that Hawkmoth is Gabriel and reminding him that only he can save the future, before being wiped from existence. The last think he says is ,Ā āI know you can do thisā¦Dad.ā
Now Adrien doesnāt know what to do because his Ladybug isnāt here. Sheās back in their own timeline. When he makes it back to the house to find Marinette and the others theyāve all been akumatized already so they canāt help.
Adrien hurriedly fixes the time machine and travels back in time to stop his Dad from signing the machine to a Invention company, thereby broadening his market and helping him get more influence which, (according to him), would somehow help him to be able to find his wife so him, Adrien and Catmom Agreste can be a happy family again.
Adrien interrupts the meeting right as his Dad was giving his concluding statements about āThe Memory Scannerā and forcefully brings his Dad back to a future in which everyone is akumatized and there is chaos and destruction.Ā
Gabriel is shocked and upset. He just wanted to make his son happy by making their family whole again.Ā
Adrien just tells him that Gabriel needs to be a better father and Ā pay more attention to him and heāll be happy. They hug.Ā
āOne parent is better than none. I miss mom, but sheās gone. I miss you, but your still here.ā
Since Gabriel never signed the contract handing over Adrienās machine, the future is back to normal. Louis appears in front of him and hugs him.
He attacks Hawkmoth and when Adrien pulls him off and saysĀ āMeet your grandfather. Iām assuming you havenāt.ā Louis is shocked and repliesĀ āHeās your DAD ?ā.
Mumbling apologies and saying something likeĀ āWe have too many superheroes in this family.ā, Louis grudgingly accepts Gabriel who backs off as the rest of the family greet Adrien.
Cue a frantic Older Adrien and Max rushing out of the house and Tom commentingĀ āTheyāre home early.ā Both are screaming about the two time machineās being missing when younger Adrien comes face to face with his older self.
His older self is an inventor apparently and still Chat Noir. While Marinette is Ladybug (Adrien canāt wrap his head around that).Ā
āDo we ever go back and find mom. Do we see her again ?ā
āYouāll have to find that out yourself. I canāt tell you for certain.ā
āI was figuring you would say that.ā
āWell we are one smeowrt kid.ā
Everyone canāt stop saying goodbye. Mari gives him one last piece of advice while booping his nose :Ā
āI am always right. Even when Iām wrong, Iām right.ā
āSheās right. Iād believe it if I were you. And I am.āĀ
āYouāll always have a family Adrien. You still do. Just wait and see.āĀ
āI sure you are absolutely right.ā
Louis and Adrien finally go back in time and Adrien is shocked to see himself farther back in the timeline than he expected. Louis wants to honor his promise but Adrien doesnāt stop his mom the night she leaves. He has an opportunity but doesnāt take it because he realizes he has a family.
He still doesnāt know why his Mom left even though they were happy, but he wonāt deny her what she felt was right.
Back to the science fair. Adrien gets a retry and this time he calls his Dad who, for once, shows up for him having learned his mistake. Adrien asks for a volunteer and his Dad steps up.
They see memories of his family when Adrien was younger and its a bittersweet moment and Gabriel and Adrien work on their relationship.
Adrien gets an article featured in the newspaper. For once its not because heās a model or Gabrielās son.Ā
He looks around the room, sees his proud classmates and future family, Marinette is cheering him on, Nino giving a thumbs up and the rest of his class is proud too.
Slowly things heal between Adrien and his Dad. Heās more free and finally he takes steps to reach where he was in the future.Ā
Not everything is the same. His father is in that future. But his family never changes and Adrien is content and happy.
This is rushed, unedited and quickly done because I was in a hurry. I apologize for the mistakes in advance. Tell me what you think. I had fun writing this. It struck me and I just had to get it out. I didnāt see this AU done before so I hope I did it justice. Iāll try to go back and properly edit later but probably wonāt have time so thisāll have to do.
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