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Submitted Prompt: "Phone Tapped"

Splintering off the climax of “Oblivio”: when Alya gleefully shows off the photo she snapped of the amnesiac Ladybug and Chat Noir kissing, Ladybug doesn’t even think.  Just reacts.  Before she’s fully processed the situation, her hand snaps out, and she wrenches the cell from Alya’s grasp.  Naturally, Alya tries to recover it, but she manages to twist away from her - and from Chat, who screams at her to stop.

Quickly realizing that she won’t be able to do what she needs to do with those two (plus Nino) trying to get the phone back, along with the fact that she’s still on a timer transformation-wise, Ladybug’s forced to retreat, cell still in hand.  Alya’s left in utter shock while Chat furiously pursues; thankfully, she’s able to evade him and find a safe place to change back.

Tikki’s rather horrified upon learning that Ladybug just straight-up snatched Alya’s phone, and furiously berates her for the theft.  Pushed past her limit, Marinette snaps back that she knows it’s wrong - but what else was she supposed to DO?!  Let Alya post that to the Ladyblog?!  Chat’s difficult enough to deal with already; he doesn’t NEED any more ’excuses’ for his HARASSMENT!  Yes, she panicked, she made a mistake, she’ll have to return Alya’s phone as Ladybug and explain herself… but what was she supposed to do?!  Just stand there and take it?  Let him sneer and taunt and tease, while Alya and Nino passed off her protests as simply stemming from embarrassment…?

…Tikki doesn’t have any easy answers for her.  And when she goes out on patrol that evening, heading for the Césaires’ in order to return the phone, she finds Chat out there waiting for her.  He knew she’d be swinging this way, and is keen to confront her.

By this point, the incriminating photo’s already been deleted.  Wiped away.  Adrien knew that there was no way she’d preserve it, or offer any chance of recovering it.  So he takes out his frustration on her, sneering about how he never would’ve guessed that Ladybug was a common thief.  Sarcastically wondering whether she just wanted to make a copy for her own collection, knowing full well that was the polar opposite of his motivation.

Ladybug’s in no mood for his guilt-trippy shit.  Coldly, she calls out his refusal to respect her boundaries, and how he keeps screwing around during battles - if Oblivio had any powers other than mind-wiping, they would have lost everything in that fight the moment they both got hit.  And they only got hit because of his refusal to take things seriously.

Chat sneers that if anything, this whole incident’s taught him that he should goof off even MORE - because look what happened!  He got rewarded for it!  She gave him a kiss - and it doesn’t matter that they don’t remember why, or what happened leading up to it; all that matters to him is that he won.  He got what he wanted.  Getting right up in her face, he leers that she can’t erase that.

She snaps back that he’s got it all wrong.  She’s not some prize to be won… and his actions have been anything but winning.  Chat just laughs at that - doesn’t she get it?  It doesn’t matter what she thinks.  Only what everyone believes.  And it’s only a matter of time before all of Paris is convinced that they’re partners in every sense of the word.  Really, she should just give up already.  Give the public what they want.

But Ladybug holds firm.  Spells it out for him yet again: she’s not interested in him.  Will never be interested in him.  They will NEVER get together.  And honestly?  He should be just as upset by what happened with Oblivio as she is.

Chat stares at her, asking what she means.  With a bitter little smile, she points out the obvious: they weren’t themselves.  Oblivio wiped the slate clean… and that was what it took for him to stand a chance.  For them to be complete strangers to each other.  To have absolutely no history together, as if they were meeting for the very first time… no baggage.  No unpleasant memories.  Nothing.

He only stood a chance when she had literally no idea who he was.  But for them to get together as they are… it’s literally impossible.

Bristling, Chat tosses out a few parting barbs before retreating.  Impulsively deciding to ditch the rest of patrol, snarling about how if she’s so sure of all that, she can take care of the city herself.  Once he’s gone, Ladybug gives herself a chance to exhale, destressing as best she can before going down to meet with Alya for another fun conversation.

(For bonus points: Alya overhears at least part of the argument, giving her much better insight into WHY Ladybug reacted the way she did to the photo.  Whether or not she admits that she eavesdropped or reveals how much she overheard is up to you.)

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Only comment is that technically it’s not eavesdropping if they’re having this conversation right outsider her bedroom window, lol

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Ireprible damage part 5

part 1: here part 2: here part 3: here  part 4: here 

part 5: Conclusion: 

“ I didn’t want to stop the freanch American ceremony from happening! If I have to lose my freedom for everyone else to have their’s than fine, put me in jail” says the villain with a brand new form. One by one, all the heroes arrived at the scene, at the trap planted by the super villain. And one by the Heroes were “Liberated”. Majestia was liberated from her fear and sadness, Knight Owl was freed from his Morals, and went to arrest easier criminals. And so on and so on and so on. 

 “What is going to happen? How will the situation be fixed?” asks rose, panicking. “I don’t think it can be fixed” said Nino. “Even if by some miracle, the heroes will be defeated, it will not bring the dead back to life.” added Alya. “Too bad they don’t have Ladybug in here.” said Kim. “If it weren’t for Ladybug, We will have a similar amount of victims daily”.    

And than the Television switched to show Hawk Moth. “Ladybug, Chat Noir I am in New York. If you don’t want the party to be ruined, your only option is to hand your miraculous over to me.” 

“Hawk moth is here?” Asked Iven bewirlded. “Aperrently so” said Mrs. Mandalave, wondering why couldn’t she have a more peacful trip and questionin whether coming here was a good idea.

Jess went outside, to hide and be alone. “OK! I am completly alone against super heroes much stronger me, without my weapons, and the only thing I do have for me is that freanch girl!! No presure!!!!!” she said completly freaking out.  

“OK! Calm down! Calm down!!” she said focusing. She transformed into Sparrow and went in the direction of where the fight ended, using the shadows to not be seen. She found the manhole cover close to the building.  With a smirk, she said “Found you!” 

Marinette has started to calm down. She still has a headache, and she is still afraid, but she feels a little better. Now she is sitting and meditating, a thing she was taught by Fu before he lost his memory.  

“Ladybug” she hears from the direction of where she came from. “Spots on” she say with determination running away.   “Wait!! I need your help!!” Sparrow says, staisfied seeing Ladybug had stopped.  “Hawk Moth is in New York, and it seems he akumatized the Techno Pirate!!!  his powers made the heroes destroy the city!! We are the only herores left that can stop him!!”. “Hawk Moth is here? What did he to do here?” Questioned Ladybug. “I don’t know, but we must defeat and clean the damage!” answered Sparrow. “Well if we will be able to do that, we will bring you sister back to life, as all the damage done by the villain will be erased.” Said Ladybug ready to spring to action. “That’s a relief” replied Sparrow, with a sigh.   

Both of them came out of the sewers and went to hide on the earth, where they had a visual of the heroes.

Ladybug: “We need to think where the Akuma is. It’s probably in his handcups! He already wore tham when he attacked at the museum!”   

Sparrow: “He is also wearing the necklace from the museum! The one Lahfayete gave to Washington!” 

Ladybug: “It’s probably a miraculous! That will explain his sudden power boost! We need to get it and we will be able to return the heroes to normal!” 

Sparrow: “But how will we get pass the heroes? We don’t even where he is.”

Ladybug Yoyo got a notification on it, and it showed a rocket rising from the water. You could hear Hawk Moth in it saying “Ladybug and Cat Noir! If the rocket were to take off because of you a world war will be declared! Unless you give me your miraculous of cours1 you have seven minutes~!” and than it showed the villain on the statue of liberty. 

Ladybug: Well now we know where he is. How will we get there on time? 

Sparrow: If the heroes notice us we will be fried! Can you somehow teleport? 

 “Let’s see” Ladybug said, pulling out glasses from her Yoyo. “Can you help us get there?’ she asked the Kwami. “No, I am exauhsted” he answered.  “We need another way than. Who else can teleport?” She asked Sparrow, checking the design of the statue for any week spots.

 Sparrow: “Doorman!” 

Ladybug: “Now we just need to find a way to convience him to help us! Any ideas?” 

Sparrow: “No. How about you?” 

 “Let’s try! Lucky Charm!” Ladybug said, throwing her Yoyo in the air, and catching a red liberty statue key chain. “Doorman love keys, we can use them to tempt him!” Sparrow said trying to rush things.  “But how will we covince him to go there?” said Ladybug with a frown. “He always wanted to see the safe inside the statue!” Sparrow said happily already tasting victory. “Let’s find a door than!”  

“Sorry miss. We need to use your phone and you house door! Do you have a pretty box?” Ladybug asked the women they broke into her house? “On it” replied the women bringing a shoe box. “Thanks! Now hide” Ladybug replied taking a picture of the closed box with the ift in it, sending it from the women’s phone with “Hi! I saw you were going on a tour so I made you a gift! come get it in *appartment*”. Ladybug and Sparrow hid so they would be out of sight. 

Doorman apeared, and opened the box. “I know you really liked keys, so here is a key chain as a gift for you!” he red from the note on it. “Why thank you! Wait…. the stuate, that’s where I should have started! Of course!” 

Doorman closed the door and reopened it, and Ladybug and Sparrow followed, hiding so he won’t see them.  “Here it is! the key for the safe hidden in the statue!” They quickly followed him as he made another door, letting him see what’s inside as they quickly climbed up. An alarm started ringing. “We ony have twenty seconds left!” Ladybug said, accelerating her pace.  

She opened the door, quickly taking the necklace and throwing it over to Sparrow, “Transform and fix the heroes, I will distract him!” Sparrow wore the necklace and the Kwami apeared “Hello fledgling, all you have to say is Leere, Wings of liberty!”.  “Lerre wings of liberty” Sparrow transformed (without turning into Jess, so not revealing she isn’t the original Sparrow) and contiued saying  “Cool down”, bringing the heroes back to normal. 

 Meanwhile Ladybug managed to catch the remote and keep Techno Pirate from lauhnching the missle. “Where is Chat Noir?” he asked. “Never coming back!” she replies fiercly while launching her yoyo at his head. He lanched her claws at him and she caught two of them with her yoyo.  Sparrow came from behind them, using his weapon to tie him up, and Knight Owl cut his handcups. 

“No more evil doing for you little akuma! Time to devilise! Bye bye little butterfly. Miraculous Ladybug!!”  and thus the damage is repared. Uncanny Valey was repared and reunited with her Mother in a very emotional reunion.  “Well. I think I have misjuged you Ladybug. You are a good hero.” said Knight Owl. “And you too Sparrow. You have proved that you are ready to streach your wings as well. I am proud of you” he said as he hugged him. “Thanks sir!” 

 Sparrow tried to take of her necklace but was stopped by Ladybug. “Or… maybe you can come and help me in Paris? We worked really well together, and I need some help in Paris. So what do you say?” Ladybug asked hopefully. “No bad feelings if you don’t of course.” she added.  

“What about New York? I can’t just leave. Plus I can’t speak freanch. Sorry Ladyug.” Sparrow said a little upset. “That’s OK. I will figure it out. Can I have the necklaece than?” Ladybug asked, disappointed. And Sparrrow gave it back. “Well, goodbye than.” Ladybug said, as she went away and transformed back. 

Marinette went back to where all their friends are, to be abseloutly crushed by a group hug. “Marinette you are alive!!! I am so sorry!! I should have never done that to you!!!! I understand you want to move on from Adrien, and I promise I will help you. I shouldn’t have done that!!!!!” Alya said crying. “Oh it’s OK Alya. Thank you!!”  

“We are doing a video for Adrien as a suprise. Do you want to help us?” Alya asked. “Nah” Marinette answered. “I rathar not.” 

Bonus: 

Later:

“Let’s try it than” Marinette said, wearing the necklace. “Leere, Wings of liberty!” Marinette transformed. She used her power on Tikki “Tikki, you are enslaved to the miraculous, forced to follow all of the holders orders and transform when said. I free you from that enslavement!” 

“Did it work?”  Marinette asked. “Let’s try” answered Tikki.  

Marinette: “Tikki, I order you to bring me that cookie!”.

 Tikki:“No”

Marinette:“Great it worked!!!” 

Marinette detransformed, “Let’s try Transforming than. Resist it.”. “Tikki spots on!!” She said, but she didn’t transform. “It works!!! Great!! Now we could liberate all the Kwamies and no one will ever be able to use them for evil. And of course, you aren’t forced to obey me.” 

The End. Probably.

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"Sail or Sink?" (1/3) Since Alya posted that photo over Ladybug's protests, Chat sees her as a valuable ally in his ongoing fight to convince 'his lady' to give in. So he decides to offer her an 'exclusive interview', plotting to exploit her bad habit of not double-checking her sources or ensuring that her information is legit. He goes full Noir, ramping up the 'charm' while making grossly exaggerated claims about the nature of their relationship, acting like they're secretly together.

When Alya asks why she denies it, he dismisses it as his ‘Bugaboo’ being overly cautious. The way he blows it off honestly surprises Alya; the more he talks, it becomes harder and harder for her to ignore the warning bells going off in the back of her head.

Despite his claims about how much they love each other, he isn't showing much *respect* for Ladybug, and seems perfectly happy with going behind her back to give this 'exclusive interview' and blow the whole thing wide open.

Whether this serves as Alya Salt, Pepper or Sugar naturally hinges upon her decisions. Does she post the interview despite any concerns? Figure out some way of flagging down or contacting Ladybug to verify his claims?

Chat Noir has offered what could be the scoop of a lifetime; does she take what he offered her, or dig deeper and potentially expose things that will flip her perceptive of Paris' heroic duo on its head?

The ball's in her court; what's her next play?

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How about this for a prompt, Alya thinks about how Marinette’s crush has gotten out of control but realizes that she has been unintentionally encouraging her more extreme tendencies with the schemes that they had been putting together, so she takes it upon herself to to help Marinette get her crush under control at the very least

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Submitted Prompt: "Scooped Out"

Diverges from canon following the events of Oblivio.  Alya is riding high the next day, as the photo she snapped has drawn a ton of traffic to the Ladyblog.  Adrien's also clearly in a good mood, while Marinette... well, she seems pretty distracted.  Hard to read.  Evasive and uncomfortable.

That evening, Ladybug pays her a visit.  But this isn't a social call, and she's not offering her another interview.  Instead, she asks her to take down the photo.  Naturally Alya protests; she can't just take down the picture now--!  Not only will that confuse and upset her readers, it won't stop it from existing -- by now it's been copied and spread all across the 'Net!  If she takes it off her blog, that'll just make it even easier for others to claim credit...!

...Ladybug doesn't seem surprised by her resistance.  Rather than arguing the point with her, she just sighs, looking distinctly pained... and increasingly resigned.  Finally, she fixes the young reporter with a serious expression and informs her that Rena Rouge is now officially retired.

Alya reels at this.  W-wait, she can't mean that, right--?!  But Ladybug holds firm: by posting that photograph, she's proven that she can't be trusted.  She prioritized her blog over the person she's supposedly devoted it to, ignoring her feelings on the matter for the sake of... what, exactly?  A 'big scoop'?

'But Chat liked it,' she naturally protests!

'Of course he liked it,' LB snaps back.  He's always harassing her, trying to make their partnership more 'romantic' despite the fact that she doesn't WANT to date him.  She doesn't want that kind of relationship with him, but guess what?  He doesn't CARE about how she feels!  Much like how Alya apparently doesn't care how she felt about that awful picture!  Both of them focused on what THEY wanted to her detriment, and dealing with one 'ally' like that is bad enough...  She refuses to deal with two.

Reeling from this revelation, Alya struggles to figure out the best way to respond.  But Ladybug isn't done, pointing out how her making this picture public is only going to embolden Chat further.  No, she's not blaming her for his behavior; she makes that much perfectly clear.  But she's provided him with ammunition - and worse yet, she's spread it around.  Everyone who sees that picture is going to be more inclined to believe that there's some kind of mutual attraction there, which is going to make it so much harder to convince them otherwise... making it even easier for him to lie.

What's more, the fact that she disregarded Ladybug's feelings on this matter also makes her leery of other ways that she could potentially betray her trust... or their other allies.  Such as when it comes to maintaining their secret identities, or other secrets of the Miraculi - what's to stop her from deciding to turn anything else she learns or witnesses into her next 'exclusive'?

Has she even considered the fact that for all they know, Hawkmoth is keeping tabs on her blog?  Or could come across anything she posts while searching for any information he can get about his adversaries?

If Alya tries defending herself by bringing up Queen Bee, and how she shouldn't be allowed her Miraculous either, Ladybug actually agrees with her.  But that's between the two of them, and has no bearing on her ability to trust Alya.  And after this, she no longer believes that she can.

Alya is left to ruminate on this after LB leaves.  While this likely marks a turning point for her, what direction she pivots in naturally depends upon the author's tastes.  How does she process all this information, and what does she decide to do with it?  Does she take a closer, more critical look at her own actions?  At Chat's behavior?  Or does she try finding fault with Ladybug's logic and convince herself that she was in the wrong...?  Maybe a complicated mixture of all the above...?

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Ireprible damage part 4

part 1: here part 2: here part 3: here  part 5: here

part 4: We killed them!

 Alya and Nino passed through the magical door just before it collapsed. “Wait… where is Marinette??” Alya asks with worry. “And where  exactly is Adrien??” Adds Nino getting really anxious. “OH NO!!!!” Alya says “NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!” Nino and Alya yell together. “I can’t believe it!!! We killed them!! We actually killed them!!!!” Alya said crying. Nino too is crying   “This is all our fault!! I can’t believe we done that!!! It wasn’t supposed to go this way!!! And now they are never coming back!!!! Because of us!!!!” and they both broke down crying.  

“What happened?” Asked rose scared. “Where are them?” added Juleka, very worried.  “What have you two done?” Asked Mrs. Mandelave Sternly. “We told to get into the room we went to before in an attempt to get them together.” Said Alya still crying. “Why would you do that?” asked Max as the rest of the class started to cry as well. “Now you got them killed,” said Mrs. Mandalave, very sad but trying to pretend to be strong. Alya and Nino cried even harder.  

A great amount of time had passed. Everyone is mourning. Two women get inside a building, holding the girl who told Nino and Alya to put them in the room and… Adrien. “Adrien you are alive!!!!” Nino cheers And the entire class wraps him in a (very not deserved) group hug. “Where is Marinette??” Alya asks with tears still in her eyes.  “I don’t know!”, he replies with fake tears. “I haven’t seen her”  adds Sparrow who first came up with the plan.

“Would Uncanny Valley be OK?” she whispers to Majestia. “Yes. I have a backup for her and a backup body. She will forget the last week or so, but she will be OK. We will activate her after we will defeat Techno Pirate” Sparrow sighed with relief.  

The French students are now crying even more when Gabriel’s car arrived to take Adrien. Adrien left without a word. Marinette is still nowhere to be seen. Everyone are crying. Majestia and Knight Owl left. Everyone are mourning.

One more episode left. Will I make it? Maybe!

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We killed them

Alya and Nino pepper following them teleporting through doorman's door. There they notice that Marinette and Adrien aren't there at all.

They start questioning where they, getting to the horrifying realization that in the last time they have seen them were in the room with the saber.

The same room where the supervillain appeared! The room they sent them to in order to bring them together!! They are absolutely horrified to learn that they killed them.

They start blaming themselves, knowing that if not them, they would not be in that room! They reflect on their actions, and see that they were in the wrong to try and push them together against their wishes.

When Marinette and Adrien do finally turn up, they are both greeted to Alya and Nino crying to them and apologizing to them. Alya agrees to help Marinette get over Adrien.

A problem remains, how would Marinette go and transform? Alya didn't cause her to go chase Adrien, and she won't let her at all go now. How will Marinette manage to escape and save the day? Will Aeon reveal her secret identity to her friends?