Okay, I officially hate this teacher. Madame Mendeleiev is incredibly mean.

I eventually get bored and look over at Nathanael beside me to find him drawing. He seems to be lost in his drawing of... he drew a comic book?!

That's so cool! I wish I could do that. What's he drawing? Is that... Marinette? Does he have a crush on Marinette? Oh, it's an action romance comic book! He does like Marinette!

I've learned Ladybug's name from hearing her and her friend Alya talking to each other throughout the different classes.

Suddenly Mendeleiev walks up, eyes set for Nathan. I try to warn him but it's too late.

"Nathanael! What are you drawing?" she asks sternly.

"Wha, wha–?!" Nathan shoots his head up.

"And these artistic endeavors are clearly why you are failing science," she snaps, and I get even more irritated.

That's rude. A teacher shouldn't announce that to the class.

"I'm sorry..." Nathan apologizes.

"You go march yourself down to the principal's office and show him that chicken scratch! Then you'll be really sorry!" she demands and points him to the door.

Nathan gets up with his head low and ends up tripping over someone's backpack and falls, dropping his sketchbook. Chloe quickly grabs it and skims through it.

Oh, poor Nathan! Damn Chloe!

"Ooh! Look, Sabrina! It's him as a superhero! And look who he's saving! It's Marinette!" Chloe observes obnoxiously.

"Uh–" Marinette says, unsure.

"He's so totally crushing on you, Marinette!" Chloe exclaims, totally embarrassing Nathan.

"Hey, leave him alone Chloe," I snap. "Give him his notebook back."

She looks at me, shocked that I would help him.

"Gimme that!" Nathan shouts and grabs his notebook. In the process, one page gets ripped out that Chloe seems to keep.

"Enough! Nathanael, go!" our teacher yells, and he hurriedly leaves. She sighs and continues our lesson. "The next particle physics presentation group is Nino, Adrien, and Alya! Also, Mirabelle, you'll be with them too since we have an uneven amount for you to be in another."

"Yes, madame," I say.

"Oh! So lucky!" Marinette squeals quietly to Alya.

"And then, Sabrina, Chloe, and Marinette," Mendeleiev calls out.

"So unlucky," Alya retorts to Marinette, probably feeling sorry for her best friend.

Heck, I even feel bad for her.

"Uh, Miss, can't you add her to another group? Sabrina and I work much better on our own," Chloe says. "Ooh and Mirabelle can join our group."

Oh goodness no!

"Deal with it," the teacher replies, totally dissing Chloe.

"I hate dealing with it!" Chloe pouts.

"You wouldn't be willing to trade groups, would ya?" Marinette asks Alya.

"And deal with that twosome terror? Sorry. But I promise to talk all about you in between particles and the physics!" Alya responds.

"You're the best!" Marinette squeals and glomps Alya, causing them to tumble to the ground.

The bell rings, and we all depart to our lockers in the locker room while we have some time before lunch.

"Forget it, Sabrina. I don't have time for some dumb project. Besides, now you have Marinette to help you."

"Okay, that's fine, Chloe. We'll do the work. Don't worry," Sabrina assures her queen.

Ughh, I was right. Chloe makes her do all her work. Spoiled rich girl! I decide to go to my locker and trade out all my new books that I got during study hall.

"That's not equal at all! Is that how you two work?!" Marinette complains.

"Yeah! We've been doing this ever since grade school when I started doing Chloe's homework! And we've been BFFs ever since!" Sabrina informs her flatly.

I block out their conversation when Alya, Adrien, and Nino come up to me.

"Oh, bonjour!" I greet. "Looks like we'll be working in a group together! How fun."

"It looks like it," Adrien agrees.

"Wait, you two know each other?" Alya observes.

I grin. "Of course I do! I'm his girlfriend!" I squeal, clinging onto his arm like Chloe would. A look of shock crosses all their faces, and I begin laughing as I let go. "No, I'm kidding! How'd you like my Chloe impression?"

"Jeez, you scared me there for a second!" Alya groans, placing a hand over her chest to calm herself down.

Nino gives a cough-laugh as Adrien quickly turns away to hide his blush he thought I didn't see.

"We know each other from when we were younger. We modeled together once or twice. That, and our fathers are business partners," Adrien says.

"Oh!" Alya says, taking in the information. This didn't surprise me; she came off as the kind of person who wanted to know a lot about everyone.

"Well, I'd rather have no friends than be friends with you," Marinette snaps, grabbing everyone's attention.

"Whatever. I've got more important things to worry about. My hair is a hot mess and Jean-Claude promised to work his magic. Later!" Chloe retorts and walks away.

"I really despise Chloe," Nino growls. "She's so rude to everybody!"

Marinette sighs and walks out for her next class.

"I guess we should hurry and get to class before we're late," I say and leave before anybody can jump on me for autographs.

The rest of the day passes quickly and before I know it it's the end of the day.

"Hey, Mirabelle? Nino and Alya won't be able to make it, but do you want to go to the library so we can get a head start on our project?" Adrien asks.

"Oh, sure!" I affirm. "That sounds like a good idea."

"Of course, I came up with it," he says smugly.

"Well, aren't you full of yourself?" I say and walk to the library with him in tow. We enter and Chloe's voice immediately rings out.

"Ugh! What do you mean, you're not doing my assignment?" Chloe fusses.

I roll my eyes and tug Adrien away from the drama. "Let's see if we can find anything over here." He nods as we begin searching anything related to our project.

"Marinette's right! I...I'm not your slave!" Sabrina says.

"I never actually said that..." Marinette says with a sigh.

"But Marinette didn't buy a super cute beret at Gabriel's, and I did! And perhaps I could lend it to you," Chloe taunts, waving the beret back and forth.

It's a beret, not some kind of dog treat, I think sourly.

"Excuse me, but are you trying to bribe her into staying your friend? With a hat?" Marinette asks, glancing at the two.

"Uhhh... a really, really adorable hat! That would look fantastic on me!" Sabrina cheers, looking at it hungrily.

"No, excuse me, but you are trying to steal my friend from me with homework!" Chloe yells.

Suddenly a load of berets appears out of nowhere and falls on Chloe's head. I laugh a little at the sight. "Serves you right. Wait, what the heck?!"

"Ahh! My hair!" Chloe complains, covering her head with her arms. Then a giant hairdryer appears and begins attacking Chloe with its gust. "Ahhh!" She begins running away and it chases after her. "Please! Please! Ahhhh!"

Adrien drags me and hides me somewhere safe, the hallway. "Stay here."

I already know but... "Where are you going? You don't possibly think that you can take on that giant hairdryer, do you?!" I frantically ask. Damn, I'm a good actress!

He smiles that smile that could kill. "Don't worry, I'm not doing anything like that. I think I left my phone in there, and I don't want it to get destroyed."

Liar. "Oh, okay. Please, be careful!"

"I will!" he shouts before he bursts out the hallway into the library.

"Are you going to transform too?" Flamme asks me.

"No, they might get suspicious if I suddenly show up and help. That could lead to them finding out that I'm Kitsune. I'll help later today if they don't win right now."

"Smart. I didn't think of that..." Flamme says.

"You hungry?" I ask him.

"Yes!!" he squeals.

"Let's go see if the lunchroom has blueberries then," I say and start walking in that direction. We make it there and look around for blueberries only to come up with nothing but strawberries. "Sorry, Flamme, it looks like they only have strawberries."

"That's okay. I like strawberries too just not as much as blueberries!"

"I know," I chuckle and grab a handful of them and take us to a seat in the lunchroom. He floats out, since nobody else is in the lunchroom, and sits on the table in front of me.

He quickly gobbles them up before someone bursts into the room and he quickly hides back in my bag. I dump the rest of the strawberries into my bag.

"Mirabelle!" Adrien shouts, worriedly. "I told you to stay put! You scared me half to death when I didn't find you out in the hallway!"

"Hehe... Sorry, I was just kinda hungry."

"Jeez, you're just like Pla–" he quickly silences himself. "I mean Nino! He does things like that a lot."

"Uh huh," I say with disbelief. He was about to say his Kwami's name.

"Well, I guess we should go home in case something might happen again," he says.

"Oh, did you find your phone?" I ask, purposefully catching him off guard.

"Huh? What are you– Oh, yeah!" he says and pulls it out of his pocket to show me.

"Oh, that's good," I say as we leave the school.

"Hey, do you need a ride?" he asks.

"Huh? Why would you think that?" I ask.

"Because you came here against your mother's orders, didn't you?"

"W-what?! H-how did you know that?!"

"Because I did the same thing," he admits.

"You escaped to school?" I ask. I didn't know that, and I've been watching him and Marinette for quite a while.

"Yep. My father wouldn't let me either. I've been homeschooled all my life, and I wanted to make friends."

"What!? Me too!"

He laughs. "I figured."

I let him take me home, I thank him and his bodyguard for the ride, walk inside my home, and am immediately getting yelled at. It ended up with me grounded for 2 weeks, but since I'm enrolled, have the textbooks, and am in a group project with Adrien, I get to stay in public school. I guess I should thank Adrien for that.

Later on, I see Chat Noir jump out and pole vault off into the city.

"Flamme, it's time to transform. Flamme, tricks out!" I transform into Kitsune and follow behind Chat in the shadows. I follow him all the way to a corner house where he hovers over in one place looking down. I quickly realize that this is Marinette's house or Ladybug's. I move around so I can get a better view of what he's looking at to discover it's Marinette and Sabrina. I use my super hearing to listen in on the conversation between them.

"Uhhh, I'm so sorry Sabrina, I've got something really important that I have to do," Marinette says.

"Something really important? Really? That's fascinating. Oh, you know who else uses that excuse all the time, don't you?" Sabrina asks.

"Um, no?"

"Chloe! I'm beginning to see how similar you two are! I bet you'd expect me to do all the work like she did, right?"

"No! I don't! Really! It's just that–"

Sabrina rips the papers out of Marinette's grasp and stalks off. "I can't believe I did your geography homework for you..."

That's when Chat decides to make an entrance and leap down from his hiding spot. "Whoo-hoo! I thought I was going to have to save you from that girl's claws. Get it? Claws? Hey, I haven't even introduced myself. I'm Chat Noir."

"Uh, yeah... I know! You kinda save the day all the time and stuff... I'm Marinette! So... What are you doing here?" she asks, trying to lie but failing miserably.

I decide to leap over and take the place Chat once occupied. She begins to mimic his actions in disdain.

"Well, that birthday boy date of yours is bad news. But don't worry. You'll be safe with me."

"That puts my mind at ease," she replies with slight sarcasm.

"But I am going to need a little help. Care to assist a superhero?"

She turns around, her back to him, and starts making faces from what I can see. "What about Ladybug? Aren't you a duo?"

"She's busy with something tonight, so...You get to be my Ladybug."

"Me and Chat Noir? Fighting crime together? Amaazing! What do I do?" she over exaggerates.

"Just get that drawing pencil away from your friend, little lady. I'll take care of the rest."

He jumps away and Marinette giggles. I decide that I'll stay here until Marinette comes out to depart to her date. I detransform and hang out in the spot on my phone till it's time to go. Quite a while later once the sun sets, Marinette leaves, and I follow her in the shadows after transforming back.

"Happy birthday," Marinette says, getting on a boat.

"Marinette!"

Is that, Nathan?! Nathan! This must of been Chloe's fault and that's why she was attacked in the library! "Poor Nathan."

"Thank you for accepting my invitation."

I block out the rest of the conversation and listen to the tune that Nathan is drawing that comes out as beautiful music. I freeze when Marinette looks my way and smirks. She must think I'm Chat. He's up ahead of me a little ways.

Marinette scoots closer to Nathan. "You're so talented! I just don't understand why you wanna use your power to hurt people."

"Not all people. Just Chloe. And I'm never doing that again. After all, you were true to your promise, so I'll be true to mine."

Chat finally decides to leap onto the boat and I quickly follow, still unnoticed.

"I...actually draw a little too, I'm not as good as you are, of course," Marinette says.

"I'm sure you're a wonderful artist."

"Well, can I draw you something special for your birthday?"

The pretty tune stops as Nathan looks at Marinette. "That would be amazing," Nathan says, handing her the pen then notices Chat and freaks. "Marinette, give me my pencil back. I need to draw something, now!"

"No, I'm keeping it! Chat Noir! Now!" She grabs his pen and runs off.

Chat's staff is put in front of Evillustrator, so he can't escape.

"Marinette!" Nathan cries with a broken heart sounding voice. "You're working with him? I'm so stupid... I actually thought you liked me! But you're really just like Chloe. Teasing me, mocking me, leading me on!"

She huffs. "Come on! Seriously? Why is everybody comparing me to Chloe tonight?"

The Evillustrator kicks Chat's staff, and it hits the pencil in her hand, tossing it into the air. He jumps and flips to grab it, landing on top of the moon above the small Eiffel Tower he made on the boat, and draws a cube that traps Chat and Marinette.

"Dahh!" she squeals.

Nathan leaps on top of the box. "And I'm taking back my promise! Chloe's gonna get a little lesson she'll never forget!" Nathan draws a hole in the boat, making it sink. He escapes.

"We've been painted! Literally!" Chat exclaims. "I'm stumped on what to do!"

I sigh and decide this a time better than ever to make an appearance. I walk out from my hiding place and chuckle, causing them to look over to me in shock. "You look like you're in a little trouble."

"W-who are you?" Marinette asks.

"Me? I'm gonna be the one helping vixen your little situation," I reply.

Marinette rolls her eyes. "Not another pun maker."

"Who are you really? Are you another akumatized victim?" Chat asks.

I laugh as the boat starts sliding sideways. "Oh no! Definitely not! I'm Kitsune. I'm the owner of the Fox Miraculous," I say. "Now, let me help you out of there before you become catfish. Haha, I just made a cat pun like you Chat."

"Hey, that's my thing!" he pouts. "But... that was pretty good."

I wink. "I know. Now, duck down."

"Why?" Chat asks.

"Do you want to be free or not?" I ask.

"Yes!" Marinette shouts. "Help us!" She hurriedly ducks down, bringing Chat with her.

I melt off the top of the box with my fire powers, and they climb out.

"Wow, you have a way cooler power than me!" Chat whines, rushing up beside me once we get off the boat.

"The Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses are the strongest pair of Miraculous," I say. "Live up to it. Now let's go. I'm sure Ladybug will meet us there." I wink at Marinette out of Chat's vision before we both leap off.

Chat and I arrive at Chloe's place to find that Ladybug is already there. How in the world did she make it here before us?!

"Well, well, look what the cat dragged in," Chat says.

"There's no way..." I grumble with a pout. "For foxs sake."

Ladybug looks at me and I see a slight smirk form on her lips. "No cat dragged me anywhere, Chat Noir. I flew in all on my own."

She doesn't even act shocked to see me? She doesn't even ask? Idiot.

"So what was this secret mission?" he asks.

"If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret."

"In the comics, this is what's known as the final showdown. The thing is, if you knew her, you wouldn't be breaking a sweat to save her skin! She's the real baddie!" Nathan says, referring to Chloe.

"Oh! It's not true! Everybody adores me!" Chloe claims.

"*cough* Bullshit. *cough*" I say.

Nathan begins drawing boxing gloves and fires them at Chat Noir.

"Look out!" Chat yells but ends up getting knocked out by one himself.

Ladybug leaps over a glove, and I shoot my fire at the glove that's about to annihilate Chloe, disintegrating it. Ladybug shoots her yo-yo at Nathan, but he draws a wall to protect himself. He then draws a buzzsaw, but Ladybug dodges it. The buzzsaw is about to hit Chloe, but Chat Noir stops it. He then splits his staff into two and throws them at the Evillustrator, but he dodges them. One pole smashes the light behind Nathan. Nathan growls and moves over to the other light.

"The light! Chat, Kitsune! He can't draw in the dark!" Ladybug shouts.

She or Chat didn't realize that she just called me Kitsune even though I haven't told Ladybug my name. Hehe.

"Got it!" he shouts and uses his Cataclysm on a light switch nearby, but Nathan erases it, and Chat Noir breaks the wall instead.

"Here you go, kitty. A little ball and chain to play with," Nathan says and attaches a ball and chain around his ankle.

"Hey!" Chat fusses.

"Sadly, those who get in my way get erased." Nathan draws a hole in the floor and Chat hangs onto the side while Ladybug backs away. I just leap up onto the wall.

Chat's Miraculous beeps. "No, no, no, no, no!"

"Before you go, you have something I want," Nathan says, creeping closer to Chat.

"Guys! This cat doesn't have nine lives!"

"Kitsune!" Ladybug yells. "You're closer to him!"

"Oh, right," I say, melting the ball chain off from around his ankle and lifting him up to me. I place him on my lap as it's the only place he can go.

"I didn't know you'd be so forward," Chat says with an eyebrow wiggle.

"You know I have the ability to let you fall, right?"

He chuckles wearily, scratching the back of his head.

"Lucky Charm! A bouncy ball?" Ladybug questions.

"Just try and stop me with that, little lady!" Nathan says and laughs.

"Gladly!" She throws the bouncy ball at the lamps, breaking them, and turns everything dark. "Kitsune? Chat? Do you guys have night vision? Some help would be appreciated."

I set us down on some actual floor. Chat knocks out the akumatized pen and breaks it, causing the dark butterfly to rise out of it. I provide light with my fire so Ladybug can purify the butterfly.

Chat's Miraculous beeps again. "Hurry!"

"No more evildoing for you, little akuma! Time to de-evilize! Gotcha! Bye bye, little butterfly. Miraculous Ladybug!" She throws the Lucky Charm into the air, its energy repairing all the damage and turning everything back to normal. The Evillustrator turns back into Nathan.

"Huh? Where am I?" Nathan asks.

"Pound it!" Chat and Ladybug say together and look towards me.

"What are you waiting for? You pound with us," Chat says.

"Really?" I ask.

They smile, and I join them.

"Pound it!" we all say together and hit our fists together. Chat quickly leaves. Ladybug and I remain.

"I guess I should go too. Thanks for the help, Kitsune." She grabs her yo-yo about to swing off before I stop her.

"So, Ladybug, how'd you know my name was Kitsune? Neither I or Chat said or told you my name when we arrived. How could you possibly know?"

"Oh, umm... I–"

"Don't worry. I already know," I say with a wink as her eyes widen. "You should change your hairstyle or people are going to start figuring out who you are like I did. Don't worry. I won't tell anyone."

...The next day at school...

"What happened when Ladybug and Chat Noir arrived on the scene?" Ayla asks.

"Well, to be perfectly honest, they only made matters worse. They came barreling in, and started smashing things to bits, throwing plastic balls around my room! They also burned my curtains, well the new superhero did!" Chloe complains.

"There's a new superhero?!" Alya squeals.

"Yeah, apparently she goes by the name of Kitsune."

I'm at my locker which is somewhere between Chloe's and Marinette's. I listen to their conversations.

"This is awesome!!!" Alya shouts excitedly. "Kitsune, the new superhero to Paris!"

"I hope you had a good time last night taking care of that important thing you had to do," Sabrina scoffs to Marinette.

"I'm really sorry Sabrina. But, I can meet you in the library today and finally work on the project with you."

"Too late. Chloe and I are doing the project together."

"You mean, you're doing the project?"

"Of course! After all she's been through..."

"Ughhh.... Nice new beret, by the way."

"I know, right! Chloe lent it to me. She really is my BFF! Chloe! Your geography homework's ready!" She rushes off towards Chloe.

I see Adrien hide behind Marinette's open locker door. She closes it. "Hey!"

"Wahhhh!" Marinette freaks, throwing her hands up in the air before resolving herself.

"I heard about your adventures with Chat Noir yesterday. Were you scared?" he asks.

"Me, scared? Pfft, it was a dream. I mean, you're a dream. I mean, in your dreams! Huh? Oh, this is a nightmare..."

"Okaaay... So, what do you think about Chat Noir? Was he awesome?"

"I mean, sure! Yeah, but not as awesome as you, of course. Because, who could be? You're the most awesome of awesome."

"So, that's a yes?" He chuckles as the bells rings and he pats Marinette on the shoulder.

I laugh as I hear her talk to her Kwami as we all exit the locker room. We all leave to the classroom and get our things out to begin. Marinette follows behind with something in her hands. She walks up to Nathan and I's table.

"May I sit?" Marinette asks me.

I give Nathan a secret thumbs up and get up for Marinette to take a seat. "Take all the time you need. I'm gonna go sit in your seat in the meantime."

She smiles. "Thank you."

I leave the blushing Nathan with Marinette and go to Marinette's seat. "Hi, Alya."

"Hi, Mirabelle," she greets back.

"Marinette is talking to Nathan. Sssh, I wanna listen in," I tell her.

She giggles and tries to listen with me even though she can't cause I have better hearing than her.

"Hey, Nathanael," Marinette says. "Happy belated birthday." Nathan turns to look at her surprised, and she gives him a big smile back. "I got you something. I made it myself." She takes the box from her hands and hands it to him. "Actually, I got my dad to help me some. I hope you like it."

He places it on the desk in front of him. "T-thank you, Marinette."

She smiles. "I guess I should be getting back to my seat." She stands up.

"Please wait, Marinette!" Nathan says, throwing his hand out to grab her arm. She turns to look at him. "I want to apologize for drawing you without your permission. I know it can be weird for some people so..."

She smiles and begins to giggle. "Don't worry about it."

"You're okay with it?"

"Of course! No one's ever drawn me before and you do it so well! I'll talk to you later. Happy Birthday again." She smiles and walks down to her seat. "Thank you, Mirabelle."

"No problem," I say with a wink. She blushes as I move passed her back to my seat. I sit down and look at the pink Nathan next to me. "So? What did she give you?"

"I don't know yet," he says. "Let's look."

Inside are four cupcakes decorated as his comic book self, the color scheme, one that says happy, and the one next to it says birthday.

"Aww, that's so cute!" I fuss.

"Yeah, Marinette is awesome..." he says dreamily.

I giggle and whisper. "I ship it."