• Ladybug and Chat Noir were fighting an akuma atop the Eiffel Tower once again, only this time the akuma managed to steal one of Ladybug’s earrings and shove her off the top of the tower. Ladybug no longer has her super strength, and her suit is slowly vanishing. She quickly calls for a Lucky Charm, and it’s a blanket.
• Chat Noir realises that with only half of the miraculous, it’s a very real possibility that Ladybug won’t survive that fall. He’s forced to ignore the akuma and jump off the tower as well, grabbing the blanket midair and diving for his partner. He manages to catch up to her, wraps her body up in the blanket, tucks her head against his chest, and uses his baton to make a safe landing.
• The akuma is gone, and Chat Noir rushes for an empty alley, somewhere, to leave Ladybug. When they make it, Chat Noir tries to leave her without looking. Ladybug stops him and tells him that he needs to know, at this point.
• “You might… The akuma might have delivered their half of my miraculous to Hawkmoth already, kitty. You need to know who I am, or you won’t be able to find me again later. I’ll still be able to purify but… I can’t cover up my identity anymore, Chat. I can’t help in public.”
• That’s how Chat Noir learns that Ladybug is Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the girl he quite literally called an everyday Ladybug. Honestly, he’s not surprised at all. He feels like he should be, maybe, but the moment he sees her face, all the pieces just click together in his mind, and all he feels is warmth. Of course it’s Marinette. Who else could it possibly be?
• It turns out that the akuma DID deliver their half of the Miraculous to Hawkmoth. Fortunately, without Tikki, Hawkmoth can’t do shit with it. Unfortunately, Marinette can only summon her yoyo now, and nothing else. She no longer has the ability to even swing around with it— if she tried, her arms would literally get torn off her body. She doesn’t have the super durability or strength to do that. That’s not even touching how she’d be able to land…
• Ladybug is officially out of commission. Well, not really, but as far as the public knows, she’s gone. For all they know, Chat Noir himself is putting on the other earring and casting the Miraculous Cure after every battle now.
• Marinette becomes something of a leader, at this point. She can’t leave Chat Noir to fight alone, but she also can’t help him without pretty much publicly outing herself as the former superheroine. So, a couple akuma fights later, after Paris realises that Ladybug is no longer around, Marinette gathers up classmates and tells them her plan. If Ladybug can’t be around to help fight, then they will.
• The class, under Marinette’s leadership, are actually pretty fucking good at carrying out her complicated battle plans. They’re all collectively a genuine help to Chat Noir. On the side, Marinette is also visiting Master Fu and distributing temporary heroes with notes on where to leave their Miraculous after they’re done. These temporary heroes aren’t just Nino, Alya, and Chloe— the rest of her classmates also get a chance at being a superhero as well. And none of them disobey the notes from Ladybug on where to leave their Miraculous.
• Marinette actually begins to gain more members to her class army as time goes on, making it less of a “class” army and more of a general Parisian collective. Monsieur Ramier joins, so does Nadja Chamack, and Monsieur D’argencourt— hell, even Jagged Stone joins in!
• With so many people joining in, there has to be a few ground rules:
1. No talking about the collective or any missions in public. Ever. It does not matter if the person you want to talk to is apart of the collective, and it especially does not matter if you think you’re alone.
2. Never tell another member of the collective about any personal missions assigned to you personally by either Marinette or Chat Noir.
3. Don’t text about any missions, either. Only use the app specially created by Max Kanté to update your progress on the assignments. Marinette and Chat Noir will sometimes send you an assignment through the app.
4. New members from this point on need to be approved by Marinette and/or Chat Noir beforehand.
• Obviously, Mayor Bourgeois, Gabriel Agreste, Nathalie Sancoeur, Lila Rossi, and a few other characters are immediately shot down. The Gorilla is approved, though, surprisingly.
• The Parisian collective start to speculate about Marinette’s connection to Chat Noir. In an attempt to cover her identity, Marinette admits to Alya who she is, and gives her the fox miraculous for a moment to make an illusion of Ladybug. Ladybug appears in front of the collective and tells them that she no longer is fighting the akuma because, although she has her super suit (a lie), she no longer has most of the powers that allowed her to be Ladybug (not a lie). Marinette stands next to the illusion and makes sure no one gets too close. She opens the door for Ladybug and lets the illusion walk away after the announcement. Now, everyone simply believes that Chat Noir is in contact with Marinette solely due to her leadership over the collective. No more, no less.
• (There’s still rumors, though. Is Marinette dating Chat Noir? Are they secretly related? Are they in a love triangle with Ladybug?! ARE THEY ALL POLYAMOROUS AND JUST DATING EACH OTHER?! WHAT ABOUT ADRIEN?!)
• Marinette starts to realise that losing half of her Miraculous might have been a good thing for her, because she never would have been able to organise this when she had the one-track mind being a superheroine. With so many of the people of Paris working together, they can start making plans not only to defeat the akuma, but to find out who Hawkmoth is.
• The strategy is simple. Hawkmoth is still under the belief that Marinette’s Parisian collective are only used to help Chat Noir fight the akuma. He won’t know that the Parisian collective is also making an effort to figure out where the akuma is coming from. All they need to do is keep a vigilant eye out and report when they see an akuma, as well as the direction it’s heading. They’re working under the assumption that when an akuma is let out, it flies in a straight direction towards its target, with some possible outliers.
• The theory was correct. They realise the direction the akuma are coming from, start to cluster around the general area where they believe the akuma are coming from, and at some point, someone finally witnesses exactly where an akuma was coming from.
• Alya, Nino, and Chloe are once again brought into the fray as the temporary heroes. This time, however, Marinette joins the team as well, using the Miraculous of the Rat, becoming Multimouse.
• They bring Gabriel Agreste down. The man tries to put on some desperate spiel at the end about doing this all for Adrien. Chat Noir and Carapace both need to be restrained, as they both very nearly murdered the man for that particular speech.
• Chat Noir goes by himself to reclaim the Peacock Miraculous and the missing half of the Ladybug Miraculous as well, while both Gabriel and Nathalie are restrained by the temporary heroes. Marinette comes along with him, noticing he’s strangely distraught.
• After everything is done, Gabriel Agreste and Nathalie Sancoeur are behind bars. The Peacock Miraculous and the Butterfly Miraculous are returned to Master Fu, and Marinette is chosen to be the next Guardian of the Miraculous. Adrien finally reveals himself as Chat Noir to Marinette, the Parisian collective disperses (not entirely, after all they never know what might happen in the future, so the app stays up), and Paris is finally at peace.
• … Relatively at peace. Just because there’s no longer a super villain terrorist wrecking havoc amongst the city doesn’t mean there isn’t going to be other drama, or magical events. There’s still ship wars revolving around Marinette, Adrien, Chat Noir, and Ladybug. There’s still unexplainable things that demand the investigation of the Parisian heroes. Despite all that, though, everything’s mostly at peace.
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