#ml class bashing

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MLB Salt Fic prompt

"You want petty? I'll show you petty."

Where after Marinette fails to reveal Lila as a liar, she is scorned by every member of the class, even Adrien waits until they all leave to give his "disappointed" speech and to call her petty. She responds with the above quote and walks out ready to rain hell on her class

Marinette uses every one of her connections, Jagged Stone, Clara Nightingale, the Waynes, Clark and Lois Kent and beyond and takes to social media

Post after post of what Lila has claimed, backed by proof of this being impossible, entire threads of what each member of the class did in "retribution" , the class is scorned by their idols, meanwhile Ladybug goes on live with Nadja

(Adrien, as Chat sees LB while the consequences come crashing down on the class, he pleads with her to try and save the class, to make everything "right" again only to be told off and have the ring taken right off his finger

Having just taken the Black Cat Ring back from Adrien, she publicly announces that none of her temp heroes will ever receive any Miraculous ever again

Shadowmoth tries to take advantage of this by akumatizing the entire class into The Akuma Class, a horrific blob monster with all their previous powers

But LB distributes the Miraculous to heroes she has been in contact with, The BatFamily, Young Justice, and assorted JL members

They take down the Class Akuma hard

And thats what happens when Marinette is truly petty

Marinette was on the ground, after having been shoved around by her classmates. Lila had been filling their heads with lies for weeks about how Marinette had been bullying her and hurting her after school. She had lit the match and the class had been taking revenge against their 'friend's' bully. As a last ditch effort, while they all ripped her homework, destroyed her belongings and sketchbook, and pushed her around, she tried to reveal Lila again. She had proof and an alibi for the most recent accusations. She yelled that she hadn't been out that night. She had even been babysitting for Alya and Nino so they could go on a date, but that seems to have slipped their minds in their rage.

When they were done, they left Marinette there bruised and surrounded by her destroyed things. She was numb, not quite processing what had just happened. When Adrien was still standing there, Marinette clung to hope that maybe now he would say it was time to do something. After all, Lila had just gotten her attacked. But her last tiny hope was snuffed out when Adrien went on and on about how disappointed he was that she had tried to reveal Lila again. Disappointed that she hadn't sat there quietly and let them hurt her. Marinette could hardly believe it, but she supposed that was more in character for him. All he cared about was the limited freedom his father gave him and standing up to Lila, even to help a friend, would endanger that so he wouldn't do it. Just as he finished his tirade, Marinette felt something inside her snap. "I am so disappointed in you Marinette. They would have stopped eventually, but now you have turned them all against you. If you had just stayed quiet, we could have all stayed friends. But you were too petty." Marinette stood up quickly, glaring at Adrien. "You want petty, Adrien? I'll show you petty."

Marinette was fuming. They had all betrayed her for some pretty words and promises that would never come. Meanwhile, Marinette could and would have easily helped them. But now they had burned that bridge, and Marinette would rain hell fire down on them. And she would be able to do it in a single night.

She jumped online and started posting on every social media she had. Post after post of not only Lila and her lies (with the proof that they were only lies), but also what the class had done to her. Photos of the bruises from the altercation. Of her destroyed homework and property. She showed everything, but that was only the start of her plan. If they thought that was mean, wait until they saw what happens next.

She also showed her parents what had happened, and they had initially wanted to press charges and have all of the class arrested for assault. And while Marinette was angry, she didn't want to send them to prison. Not yet anyway. They attack her again, and that could change. She convinced her parents to sue for damages instead. That way they are still held accountable, but they don't go to prison. Even as angry as she is, there is still a tiny seed of compassion in her for her old friends. But that was where the compassion ended.

She went back to her room and opened her laptop again, seeing that her posts and threads were quickly picking up steam and going viral. She could see her classmates trying to defend themselves in the comments, but it wasn't going well for them. Now on to the next phase of her plan. Her classmates had applied to many different internships and summer jobs with their top idols and most had gotten the positions. Lila had taken responsibility, saying she had called in some favors with her famous friends.

But the reality? The reality was that despite everything, when Marinette heard about the applications, she had reached out to her contacts and given glowing recommendations for her classmates. That is what had gotten them the internships and jobs. Not Lila, Marinette. And now, if Marinette could give that too them, she could take it away. She called everyone. Jagged, Clara, the Wayne family, Lois Lane, and many others from around the world. She told the story of what had happened several times that night, but it worked. They all agreed to pull her classmates from the accepted applicants and reject them.

And while she was talking with Bruce Wayne, she called in another favor. This time in regards to his more covert activities. She had a feeling that this plan of hers may result in an akuma, or more likely multiple akumas. Obviously she couldn't use any of her old temp. heroes if this happened. She had already been training with the Justice League and the covert team known as Young Justice. Several members of the two teams had been selected as new miraculous holders and were ready to come if needed. She hadn't thought she would need to use that offer until it was time to defeat Hawkmoth, but she called in the favor anyway. Bruce agreed and soon there would be a small team of heroes ready and waiting for the fallout that was sure to come.

For the final stage of her plan, she decided to reveal not just to the class, but to the whole city, that Lila had been lying. She went on the official Ladybug twitter account, and sent a message to Nadja asking for a live interview that very night. Nadja got back to her within a minute and agreed to have the interview in an hour. Ladybug wanting an interview was big news and the TV station was happy to oblige.

As Marinette made her way to the TV station as Ladybug, all over the city, her classmates were panicking. They had seen the posts and initially thought nothing of it. Who cared what Marinette thought, and then they really read the posts and saw the proof of Lila's lies and began to grow concerned. But they would apologize to Marinette and this would all blow over, it was just a single thread on Marinette's page, it wouldn't be a big deal. That was until they saw the posts going viral. People were commenting and sharing it everywhere, calling out the class on their behavior. And these weren't just random people call them out. These were big names in every major industry. Which just made it go more viral.

The class tried defending themselves in the comments, but no one was listening to them, or taking their sides. As far as people were concerned, they were horrible people who attacked Marinette for no good reason. Just as their panic began to reach their peak, the rejections started coming in. Programs and internships that had accepted them only weeks ago, now sent them letters rejecting them. The letters said that the person who had recommended them for the positions had come back and retracted their recommendations because they had attacked the person who gave the recommendations.

With growing horror, the class realized that not only was Lila a liar, but that Marinette had been the one with the connections that got them these positions. And she had taken no credit, letting Lila claim that it was her doing. And now everything was falling apart all around them. Adrien watched as the Gabriel brand stock tanked and his fans turned on him quickly for not defending Marinette. He hadn't thought Marinette had this kind of pull. But in a single evening she had ruined everything for the class. As if things couldn't get worse for them, everyone's TVs and phones that had been watching all of this unfold were now playing a special interview from Ladybug.

Adrien and the class watched in horror as Ladybug went on the record, clearly stating that not only had Lila lied about being her friend, but was also akumatized several times and was suspected of being a willing accomplice to Hawkmoth. Adrien knew he had to do something. This wasn't right, and LB should know that. But he could get her to stop. To change her mind, retract her statement about Lila being a liar, and get everything back to normal. He would have to throw Marinette under the bus on live TV to do that, but it was her own fault and he would try to make it up to her later. She would forgive him, and realize she was in the wrong eventually. So he transformed into Chat and raced to the station.

He got there just as they were wrapping up a commercial break. They were just about to go back on the air when he arrived. He rushed up to Ladybug and begged her to make things right. "I don't know what Marinette told you, but she must be exaggerating. This is too much and you know that. But there is still time to make this right again. We just have to tell everyone that what Mrs. Bustier's class did was justified and Marinette was the real aggressor. Then everything will go back to normal." He had expected Ladybug to agree, but instead she simply glared at him, before grabbing his arm and yanking off the ring.

Adrien was stunned and yelled at her, demanding the ring back. The TV crew stood in shock, forgetting to get prepared to return to air. "Adrien. Of course it was you, I should have known. No I will not say any such thing. I'm not a coward like you. I know when to stand up and say enough. That class made their bed and now they have to lie in it. They don't get to torment people and expect everything to just go away. Now they will suffer the consequences of their own actions."

With that, Ladybug went back to the interview, which just returned to air. Nadja was still stunned, so Ladybug took the lead. "I have just retrieved the Black Cat Miraculous from Chat Noir. He was unworthy of wearing it and has since been retired. And this goes for all of the temporary heroes as well. They are all retired. If I can't trust them to have my back, then they don't deserve a miraculous. They will never again wear a miraculous." She of course didn't mean Luka or Kagami, they hadn't done anything. She would reach out to them individually to tell them in person, and help them come up with new hero personas so no one was suspicious.

Just as the interview ended, the akuma alarm went off. Just as she expected. Ladybug left the stunned studio crew behind and rushed outside where she saw a grotesque amalgamation of her classmates' akuma forms. Hawkmoth had sensed the growing despair from them all, from Lila being revealed to the city, and the class' world falling apart, and took advantage of the situation. For once, he felt grateful to Ladybug, sure her announcement had something to do with this. Not that he could make out much, with so many minds under his control at once. But one thing was clear. They wanted to go after Marinette. She caused all of this tonight, and they were placing their anger on her. And Hawkmoth would be happy to oblige.

But it wouldn't last long. Thanks to Marinette planning ahead, she went to where the zeta tube let out and found her back up there. Several heroes like Aqualad, Nightwing, Super Boy, Miss Martian, Beast Boy, and many others all stood waiting. She gave them all a miraculous that they had practiced with previously, and gave Aqualad the Black Cat miraculous, thinking his cool headed nature would help keep its destructive power in check. With her new team by her side, they faced the villain they decided just to call Amalgamation.

Within a few minutes, they had defeated the group akuma. When she worked with a real, practiced, team of heroes, it wasn't nearly as hard to do. She should have done this ages ago. The class was deakumatized and Ladybug didn't give them the time of day. She and her team simply left. She retrieved the miraculous and the heroes went home. Meanwhile, Marinette got to watch the fallout. The class was in shambles and desperately tried to apologize to Marinette the next day, but she didn't listen to any of them. They had lost out on jobs, internships, their futures in their favorite industries were in question, and they got slapped with a hefty lawsuit for the damage they had done to Marinette's property the day before. Everything was ruined. They had wanted petty? Well they got it. And this is what happens when Marinette gets petty.

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Uncle Oswald: Chapter 1

Inspired by @ozmav 's maribat

Summary: just a short one shot of the class in Gotham, everyone, other than my favorite 3, have stopped being friends with Marinette. Too bad because the class is targeted by many villains when the bluenette and the othet three of her friends aren't with the class. Probably has to do with how she's related to a certain mobster...and the honorary niece of Joker...as well as other villains close to Oswald.

From my headcanons 1 and 2

Marinette sighs as she ruffles her hair, it felt greasy that day much to her annoyance. A few strands fell on her eyes and she rolls her eyes before brushing it and using a bit of hairspray to make it into a mowhawk.

Chloé eyed the bluenette and smirked, "bad hair day princess penguin?" she teased playfully.

Ever since the two were little and became friends, Chloé would mention to the rest of their friends that Mari was similar to a penguin. To which Mari tried to deny but one point to how she liked shiny things and easily got distracted by rocks and with how her pixie hair looked well...she kinda did look like a penguin.

Which was hilarious to her parents since she was basically Oswald Cobblepot's half niece.

Although her friends didn't know that, only Tikki because the kwami saw a picture of Oswald and Mari and questioned Mari.

Except Chloé's father, he got curious about Marinette's last name. So if he saw The Penguin's name up with who his father was well he kept it to himself and worked out that Chloé being friends with Marinette was better than not being her friend.

Oddly enough her half grandmother wore the mouse miraculous way before she had Oswald. She was a good one as well.

She was also one of the few who wore more than one miraculous. Poor thing. It would explain how she changed drastically after she left Oswald's father.

She wondered if she should tell uncle Oswald that but decided against it because it wasn't her place to do so.

Besides, she wasn't sure if her uncle wanted to hear about his mother. It still hurt him to talk about her.

At least he had Edward.

And she had Damian.

She fixed her leather jacket as she looked in the mirror. She wore a purple skirt, black leggings, a black button up shirt with a red rose stitched in the with a black tie with a green question mark and black flats with a bit of green lining.

The combination of subtle colors were just her showing her uncle she deeply loved him and Edward. They were her favorite villain couple.

Those fucking dorks.

Her pixie hair was in a small mowhawk while she had a bit of strands down so to act as bangs. She didn't have the faintest clue why she prefered her hair short but with her cheekbones and if she did her make up good enough she could easily pass as a female Oswald.

Although she didn't have his nose. Or his limp, she really should ask Tikki if she could heal his poor knee. No matter what Fish said she still was weary of the woman who claimed herself to be Mari's godmother.

Chloé wore a black and yellow sundress with a white jacket that had a yellow bee in it with black flats as well.

Adrien walked in and smiles brightly at seeing his friends dressed and cooed at how adorable they looked. Adrien just wore a black and red hoodie with black ripped jeans and converse, just casual to be comfortable.

Nathaniel wore his usual outfit but had a black beanie on.

All four were up early before the rest of the class so as not to be "accidentally" forgotten.

It was their first day in Gotham for the trip.

Well for the whole class except Marinette, she was used to the city thanks to visiting it during the summer to stay with her uncle.

So if her uncle pulled a few hidden strings to have her class go then so be it, which was what Marinette didn't know. She just believed she was extremely lucky that the second time she filled out the paperwork was correct.

Totally didn't have to do with part of her last name or how one time her uncle came to threaten the school board once he heard how lenient Ms. Bustier was with bullies, which Marinette still didn't know about since Oswald just had a few of his men and Ed do a background on the useless teacher before Marinette had her.

Other than that it most definitely was not because a part of her last name or the connection to it.

Van Dahl.

A name that came from old money.

All four finished getting ready and went downstairs to get breakfast. They all happily chatted as they ate before groaning as they heard Lila and the class arrive.

"Of course I know the Waynes. I was at their mansion one summer and I briefly dated their youngest. Devon is such a sweetie," Lila brags not knowing that Mari and Adrien both knew the name of the Wayne she was trying to lie about.

Both tried not to laugh.

The rest of the class ate breakfast ignoring the group.

Marinette placed the box of double chocolate chip cookies and macaroons in her bag in case she needed them for Tikki or whatnot.

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Lila fakes a giggle at the lame joke Alya said, god she hated the blogger but oh well she had to do what she had to do to get on top.

She glanced at Marinette's table and sneers a little seeing the Asian girl's pixie hair in a neat mowhawk and her nice attire.

'Then again the pixie cut did not look nice on her,' she told herself as she looked away from the group that knew she was lying.

"Did you see Marinette's hair?" she whispered quietly to catch her sheep's attention.

Everyone leaned in closely to listen to the Italian girl as she began to speak about the bluenette.

"Ugh it's on that stupid mowhawk again. She totally can not pull it off, I don't see why she bothers," Alya said with an eyeroll as she eyed her classmate.

"Surely you can pull it off Lila," Kim said sweetly to the Italian girl who he had a crush on.

Lila feigns a look of shyness and looks down to hide her look of disgust before shrugging, "oh! I don't know. I don't think it'll look nice on me really."

In all honestly she'd look god awful with a mowhawk and they were all stupid to believe it'd look good on her.

"Oh...I don't know. Marinette told me that I'd look hideous with a pixie haircut," she feigns wobbly lips as she sniffles.

She smirks a little as the whole group look up to glare at the bluenette who was laughing out loud at something Chloé had said.

"Let me give that girl a pi-" Alya starts to say as she was starting to sit up but is interrupted as Ms. Bustier walks in.

"Alright class, the bus is here. Come on," their teacher said smiling weakly as if to not show she was frightened about what she saw outside.

The class grumbles and walked so as to get to the bus, each one throwing a glare at the bluenette.

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Marinette rolled her eyes at the glares her classmates sent her. Thank god she never became friends with them most of them except Nathaniel. Alya was kind of a friend, but the glasses wearing girl just looked for danger and god knows what she would've done if she found out about who Mari was related to. She tried too hard to become famous when Marinette thought about it.

Shreaks could be heard as she stepped outside and she tilts her head curiously since she was surprised a little. She looks around to see what caused her class to react that way before seeing a bald, eyebrowless pale man dressed all in black holding a Dual stainless SIG-Sauer GSRs on his sides as he stared curiously at the students in front of them.

This man was familiar to Marinette and as she realized who it was she started to bounce on her toes excitedly.

"Victor!" the bluenette squeals excitedly as she ran up to her honorary uncle.

Victor smiled widely seeing his boss's niece and held out his arms as she hugged him.

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Lila and the rest of the group were scared of the man in front of him, more so because of his gun and they weren't sure if he was there to harm them or not.

When Lila noticed the Asian girl hug the older man she scoffs.

"Typical. What a slut," she hisses out loud enough for the group to hear.

The group freeze, they may have not known Marinette well enough since she mostly had always kept to herself other than when hanging with Chloé. So of course, it was easy for them to believe the liar's lies when it came to Marinette.

Marinette pulls away from the hug and tilts her head, "what was that Lila? I'm sorry, I was just hugging my uncle," she said innocently before huffing in annoyance as Victor ruffled her hair.

Alya was about to retort before Ms. Bustier spoke up, "I'm sorry Marinette, but we have to get going. We have a full day of sight seeing."

Marinette waved them off disinterested, "you can go. I've seen Gotham plenty of times," she says shrugging her shoulders as she looked at her nails before smile brightly as Victor handed her a pink and rose decorated umbrella.

"But Mar-" Ms. Bustier was about to protest before being interrupted by the bald man.

"You should get going by the way, you might be late if you wait too long. That or you may accidentally leave the bus so unattended that someone could tamper with the brakes," Victor said with a drawl befoee smirking widely at the French class in front of him.

Everyone gulps before nodding quickly and getting on the bus, only Mari's friends hesitated before waving her goodbye.

As she watched the bus drive away she smirked before turning around to look at sweet toothed assassin next to her and held out her box of sweets to which his eyes widened and he smirked widely as he took it.

Not far from them does someone poat a picture of a close up of Marinette's face in twitter.

'New Wayne?' Was what it read.

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"Oh! My grandmother was friends with the Van Dahls once! They had a fall out because the family's only son fell for her while he was married," Lila brags to her group.

Lila only knew a bit of Van Dahls, which was that they were rich. If she had done her research she would've realized Penguin, or Oswald Cobblepot was one by blood as well as the eldest son was already dead.

Who was his father.

"Wow! That's so cool Lila!" Alya said with wide eyes as she listened to the Italian girl.

Ms. Bustier wanted to speak up, but thought against it. Marinette wasn't with them, so...perhaps she could pretend she never heard Lila.

Adrien, Nathaniel, and Chloé all stayed far away from the group. They felt somewhat relaxed, but a little lonely since Marinette was not with them. That and they were so tired of their class, the constant sneers and taunts thrown at them somewhat put them down but they had Marinette so they were ok.

Alya was looking at her phone mostly on Twitter when she saw the post and was about to tell her friends before the page (idk how Twitter or FB works) reuploaded and THE PENGUIN'S official account replied to the person.

'Unlikely as she is my niece.'

"My mother did get to meet the Van Dahls' of course, but only as a small child. She doesn't remember a lot from the visit," Lila said before all of a sudden a limo pulls up in front of them with a rusty bus screetching beside them.

Chloé and her two other friends froze before suddenly their mouths were covered by someone's hand and they were being taken away from the rest of the class.

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Ms. Bustier froze and gulps as a nicely attired man came out of the limo.

It was the Penguin who wore a velvet suit with The Riddler beside him with a dark green suit.

Oswald gripped his husband's arm a little as he walked out of the limo gripping his cane.

The rusty bus's door slammed opened and a scar faced individual popped out with a camera as he giggled hysterically.

Jerome Velaska.

"We're live Ozzy," the redhead told the raven haired man.

"Mmm yes I know Jerome. My my isn't this the French class my niece told me was going to come?"

"Indeed it is," The Riddler said as he looked a piece of paper.

"Boss? The one in orange said her mom knew the Van Dahls," said a man who popped out of the shadows.

Lila paled as she was suddenly roughly pushed to the front of the group.

"So this is the harlot my poor niece has to listen to? And claiming to know the Van Dahls no less. Despicable and I know for a fact you never knew them," Oswald said smugly.

Alya growls out, "how?! She can't be lying so she's telling the truth!" she shouts to the villains much to the class' dismay.

Oswald turned to stare at her and smirked widely, Jerome's camera catching everything said and shown.

"That's because I'm a Van Dahl by blood. I know for a fact you're lying because my father or my horrible step-siblings would have told me before they died."

"S...so you're the last Van Dahl?"

Oswald smiled wider, "oh no my dear. My niece is the next generation of Van Dahls."

"W...who's that?" Ms. Bustier asked weakly.

Oswald hums, glad he sent some protection for his brother and his sister-in-law since he knew this would go international instantly.

"Marinette."

"What?" Lila asked paling further.

"Marinette is a Van Dahl by blood. Her full name is Marinette Van Dahl-Cheng."

"Oswald do you think it's wise-"

"She basically has the rogues protection Edward. They gotta go through Gotham's villains to hurt my brother's family," Oswald said with a hiss as he glared at his niece's dumb class.

To be continued....

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Salt-Fic September Day 14: Song Fic

This story is based off the song Fake Friends by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts. Sorry its shorter than normal, never was great at song fics.

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Marinette was exhausted. She had been pushing herself so hard lately. She was trying to help with everything the class wanted done. Field trips, fundraisers, banners and more. Marinette was quickly becoming burnt out. She tried telling them. She tried telling them that she was tired. But they didn’t listen. “Its alright girl, we know you can do it. You are amazing girl.” They just kept feeding her praise until Marinette truly thought something was wrong with her that she was feeling stressed out.

Marinette was beyond stressed, but she didn’t want to ask for help. The class was sure she could handle everything and she didn’t want to let her friends down. Not when Lila was trying to ruin their friendships. She was pushing herself more than she should. It wasn’t long before it was too much. She was leaving the class when Kim asked for a new banner, and it made her snap. She just started crying. She asked for help. Begged the class to give her a hand with everything on her plate, or to at least give her a break before asking for more.

 The class just laughed at her. They thought this was all an act. They never thought that Marinette would actually need help. Marinette didn’t know what to do. She felt like she was underwater. Finally, though, someone noticed that Marinette was in trouble. She was on FaceTime with Damian, her long-distance boyfriend, when he saw how tired she looked. Her hair was a mess, and she had dark circles under her eyes. She looked like Tim after he hadn’t slept in three days. When he asked if she as ok, she tried to put on a fake smile, but quickly broke down again and told Damian everything.

 Damian was very concerned for Marinette. He knew that she was pushing herself too hard for her class. “But they’re my friends.” Damian sighed. “Angel, they don’t sound like friends. They are fake friends.” Marinette tried to defend her class, but she quickly ran out of excuses. Damian told her that she needs to stop with all this extra work. After much convincing, Marinette relented. “I just don’t want to lose them as my friend.” Damian looked very serious as he said, “You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.”

 The next day at school once classes had ended, Marinette told her friends that she was done doing all this extra word. The class lashed out after she said that. They said some very rude things in the heat of the moment. It broke Marinette’s heart that she gave so much from them and they still treat her like this. Alya tried to get Marinette to change her mind one more time. “Girl, this is just what friends do for each other. If you don’t want to put in the work for the friendship, then we can’t be friends anymore.”  Marinette turned to leave the class room. “You don’t lose anything when you lose fake friends.”

Hope you guys liked it! @maribat-central-official