As Adrien steps out of the limo he is greeted with a surprise. Walking up to him is the new kid, Peter Parker. 'This is odd,' he thinks, 'usually it's Nino that meets me.'

Adrien remembers when he was the new kid. His first day hadn't exactly gone to plan. He had made a very bad first impression with Marinette, with her thinking that he had left gum on her seat. Although, he had thankfully cleared things up before giving her his umbrella. 

Adrien has noticed that Marinette is the first person that Peter had chosen to befriend; they seemed to have met each other before. So far she is the only one who knows anything about him. 

As Peter reaches him and greets Adrien with a smile, "Hey. Can I walk with you?"

"Sure. You're Peter, right?" he asks as they begin to walk towards the building.

"Yeah, Peter Parker. We have classes together." he says.

"It's nice to meet you, Peter. I'm Adrien.  Adrien Agreste." he introduces himself.

"Hey, dudes!" calls the voice of Nino as they watch him coming towards them.

"Hey, Nino! This is Peter." says Adrien.

"So this is the new kid? Nice to meet you, man." Nino says and continues before Peter can speak, "You should totally hang out with us at lunch. What do you think?"

Peter beams a smile at Nino as they walk, "That would be cool."

"C'mon guys. Let's get to class." says Adrien.

  They then walk through the school and into Miss Bustier's class. Peter goes to the back to find a seat. Alya has recovered and is sitting in her seat, using her phone; presumably on the Ladyblog. And Marinette is no where to be seen.

 Just as the bell rings, Marinette tumbles through the door and hastily rushes to her seat as Miss Bustier shortly follows her in, seemingly not having noticed Marinette's dramatic entrance. She goes to the front of the class and begins the register.

-

"So the stomach bug sucked, I stayed in bed for ages, had to listen to my sisters 'beautiful' singing to make me feel better and still had to do homework." Alya complains, listing off the events from the past to days.

"Well, at least you're feeling better now." Marinette says, as they walk to find a table to sit at for lunch.

"True... and I got to update the Ladyblog. Did you know that there's a new superhero going about?" Alya asks, as they sit down at a table.

"No, really?" Marinette replies, feigning surprise and wondering how Alya found out. 'Oh, right. She's Alya.'

"Totally. He's spider themed. From what I know, Chat Noir really doesn't like him." Alya gossips, whilst they eat, "I think he's jealous because Ladybug is interested in him."

At this Marinette chokes on her drink, "She what?"

"I mean it's so obvious,"  Alya continues to rant, ignoring Marinette, "I heard they had a fight over him - Spider-Man someone said his name is - and she hugged Spider-Man. They've known each other for like ten minutes and they've already hugged. And he seems to like her too; it's a budding romance! Damn, and I really thought that she liked Chat Noir."

Marinette snaps out of her partially shocked state to exclaim, "What?!"

"I felt the same, girl. It totally looked like there was something between the two of them; a connection, chemistry. Everyone says the same. Like they were meant to be. I mean they kissed, for crying out loud!"

"Alya, she only kissed him to break the spell! And how do you know about it anyway?" Marinette says in an attempt to defend herself.

"I have my sources." Alya says flatly, "And remember 'true loves kiss'? She could only break the spell by being his true love! Anyway, how's Peter? I haven't met him yet." 

  Completely taken aback by Alya - albeit unknowingly - having almost completely analysed her emotions for the two boys, she dumbly says, "Good."

"You totally have to introduce me," Alya begins excitedly, and with a sly smirk, "It's not every day that your BFF has a crush on two guys!"

"Yeah... wait, what?!" she exclaims, flailing her arms in a panic at realising what Alya has just said, "Alya! I do not have a crush on ANYONE except for Adrien."

"Mmm-hmm, you keep telling yourself that. Marinette, I saw you in class. If you weren't staring at Adrien then you were staring at Peter - and don't even try to deny it! It's okay to have two crushes, you know."

   Marinette is almost at a loss for words. First of all Alya tells her how obvious it is that she likes Chat Noir and Spider-Man, and that tons of people know that she is Chat Noir's 'true love'. Then she says that Marinette not only has a crush on Adrien, but also that she has an obvious crush on Peter. The only person that she wants to be with is Adrien -right? There is no way that Alya is right. I mean, she only hugged Spider-Man to make him feel better, and sure it had been nice and she still really wants to see him again, but she likes Adrien. And she has no idea how Spider-Man feels about Ladybug. And sure, Chat Noir is nice and funny and a little bit pretty - wait, what? - but the kiss didn't mean anything because she likes Adrien. And she hardly knows Peter, she just keeps thinking of him - just like she keeps thinking of Adrien, and Spider-Man, and Chat Noir. 

But she only likes Adrien.

 "Alya! Peter's my friend. That's it. I like Adrien." she whines indignantly.

"Right." says Alya, sarcastically, "Well, when do I get to meet him?"

"I don't know."

-

Nino, Adrien and Peter all sit down at the table. Before they can even take out their lunch, they are interrupted by the one and only Chloe, with Sabrina. Chloe stands beside where Adrien sits, with Sabrina slightly behind her.

"Hey, Adrikins." she coos, ignoring the others, "Would you like to come join me for lunch?"

Adrien gives her an apologetic look before saying, "I'm sorry, Chloe. I'm having lunch with Nino and Peter. You both can join us, if you want?"

Chloe gives Nino and Peter a short glare before turning back to Adrien with a hurt expression on her face, "If you would rather have lunch with the riff-raff than with me, then that's fine! Hope you enjoy your bread and butter while I Sabrina and I have the best of lobsters!" and with that she storms off with Sabrina in tow.

Adrien let's out a breath as they move out of sight.

 "Geesh. What's her problem?" Peter asks.

"Peter, meet Chloe. The official daddy's girl of Paris." answers Nino.

Adrien tries to defend her, saying, "Chloe just likes things her way. You'd like her if you got to know her."

"If you want to be friends with a shark!" Nino laughs, "C'mon dudes, lunch. Eat." And with that both Nino and Peter take out their lunches, with Nino giving a spare sandwich to Adrien.

'Odd.' Peter thinks. "Adrien, did you forget your lunch?"

"What?" Adrien says, a large chunk of sandwich stuffed in his mouth, "Oh, no. I'm just on a strict diet. My dad's idea." 

 Adrien doesn't mention his modelling, he has asked Nino not to mention it either. Peter doesn't seem to know about it and it's nice to meet someone unbiased. He knows it probably won't last long though, what with his face plastered all over Paris.

"Aw, that sucks. Here, want a biscuit?" offers Peter, holding out a chocolate chip cookie.

"Thank you." Adrien says, accepting the treat.

"So why'd you move from America. Didn't you like it?" Nino asks.

"I love it. I actually came here during the Summer and liked it so much that my aunt said that I could go to school here, see if I wanted to stay." Peter recites, "Have you guys ever been to America?"

"No, dude. I might get to go next year, though. It would be totally awesome!" says Nino.

"I haven't. My dad's always been busy with work. And now, without my mum, he's even busier with work than ever." Adrien says, ending up looking at the table.

 Before the silence turns awkward, they are greeted with Alya and a very reluctant looking Marinette.

"Hey guys! Mind if we sit with you?" asks Alya.

"Be our guests, dudettes." says a smiley Nino.

 Alya moves to sit infront of Nino and beside Adrien, while Marinette shyly walks over to sit beside Peter.

"I'm Alya and you must be Peter. Nice to meet you." says Alya.

"Nice to meet you too. I'm glad you're feeling better. Marinette has told me a lot about you." says Peter.

"And she hasn't told me nearly enough about you. Everyone give Peter your numbers, he needs to have a way to contact the best of Paris, now doesn't he." With a laugh to Alya's comment everyone writes down their numbers on a page that Alya passes around before handing it to Peter. "There."

"Thanks." says Peter, "We should probably head back to class now."

 And as he says that the bell rings, signalling that lunch is over and that they have to go back to class.

"Woah, dude. Are you psychic or something?" Nino laughs as they all get up.

   Marinette begins to walk to class, but manages to trip over her own feet. Before she can hit the ground, however, she is caught by Adrien, and pulled back up to her feet.

"Are you okay, Marinette?" asks Adrien, concern lacing his voice.

"Fine me trip air you thanks. I mean thanks trip fine. I mean-" she stutters.

"I think she means she fine - and thank you." clarifies Peter.

 Alya and Nino have been watching this seen play out in amusement, with Marinette red from embarrassment and Peter standing almost protectively beside Marinette. All the while Adrien still hasn't moved his hand from holding Marinette's arm.

"C'mon," says Alya, "let's get to class."

-At the SHIELD Helicarrier

"Well, it seems like you got to meet them all." says Natasha, "Just keep building on that."

"You got it!" says Spider-Man.

"And we've decided to take action on our plan for you to gain Chat Noir's trust. And now we're going to tell you what you have to do." says Tony, watching Spider-Man carefully.

"We need you to meet someone." says Steve.

 The sound of the door opening causes Spider-Man to turn around and see the person that he is to meet with for their plan. 

 Loki.

-

Standing in his Queens apartment, Peter looks outside to see a huge commotion. Loki is forcing the citizens to bow before him.

Quickly changing into his costume, Spider-Man climbs outside resulting in him standing across the street from a relaxed Loki, who smiles at him.

"Hey, Spider-Man!" he cheerily calls, waving at him. 

Suddenly he raises his staff, pointing it at Spider-Man and expelling a blue light. The light hits Spider-Man and he is suddenly overcome with nausea. 

Feeling strangely shorter, he turns to look into a mirror. To his horror he finds himself to have been turned into...

  Peter sits straight up in the bed, gasping. In his brief moment of panic he shouts, "Spider-Ham!"

He then calms down, checking his alarm, to show that it is midnight before falling back into sleep.

-In Adrien's Bedroom

Adrien walks across the platform until he comes to a bench on which he sits. He watches a blue train go past, with a smile frozen on its face, and the number one painted on it. He continues to watch several similar trains stop and deliver packages before they race off again.

After what only feels like seconds, it turns dark. Adrien hears a faint chugging, growing louder by the moment. A green train, with the same frozen smile and dead eyes, the number six painted on the side, appears infront of him. Adrien rises to meet it.

"Hello, I'm Percy!" it cheerily says, before adding darkly, "And I'm your doom."

Before Adrien can think about what Percy has just said, the train lunges forward. The frozen smile on Percy's face opening wide to show a dark hole, in which Adrien is completely swallowed.

 Adrien awakes, sitting up straight in the bed and gasping for breath. Plagg suddenly appears before him, surprising him enough to move backwards.

"Adrien! Adrien! What's wrong?" Plagg whispers, showing pure panic and worry.

In a scared, choked whisper, Adrien says, "I saw them... They're out to get me!"

"Who are trying to get you?" Plagg continues to question.

A look of pure horror takes over Adrien's face, becoming evident in his exclaimation of, "The trains!" Before falling back into the bed and going back to sleep. Leaving Plagg to wonder what on earth is going on. 

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What on earth is going on?