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Lunch came around in a flash, the morning classes all blended into one. I couldn't help but be glad it was only the first day of class, and that I hadn't missed anything important in all my daydreaming. Even though I was here on a mission, my interest had been peaked and I want to learn. I've yet to complete my final schooling year- as agents, we usually get the basics before we're thrust into missions. No one on the team has learned any of the material they will be teaching us, and so even though it might interfere with the mission I was going to give my all to the classes.

Alya poked my shoulder playfully, and I smiled at her and nodded once she asked if I wanted to sit with her at lunch. "Some kids will be joining us too if that's okay?"

Smiling I chirped, "That sounds like fun, it's good to meet new people anyways."
We sat down in the cafeteria and stared up at the school's skylights. Whistling, Alya exclaimed, "What a fancy school!" I agreed with her as I bit into a sandwich only to choke when two figures sat down at our table. "Marinette, these two are new students too! This is Nino," she pointed at a guy with glasses and a red baseball cap, "and this," she points to the guy I ran into earlier, "is Adrien."

I waved hello to them as I took a drink of water. Adrien hadn't stopped staring at me since he sat down. My hands shook nervously and I looked down at them blushing, stupid teenage hormones. I've been shot at, kidnapped, threatened, and many more in my line of work, and never snapped. Yet one look from this guy and I felt as if I was spiralling out of control.

When I looked up I noticed that Adrien was looking at me with dazzling green eyes, he stuck his hand out and I shook it, relishing in the strangely familiar feeling of his hand in mine. "I'm Adrien," he informed me in the silky voice of his.

"Marinette." His eyes widened slightly at the sound of my voice before he shook his head. "Are you okay?" I asked him when he sat there, stock still, for a few minutes.

His eyes snapped to mine and I lost my breath as I stared into his familiar green eyes. Chat? I shook my head, that's impossible. The Guardian would never make it this easy to find each other. But then again, he probably thinks that we've never really seen each other's hair or heard the other's voices, which Chat and I had done...

"I'm great," he replied with a broad smile. I was about to open my mouth to ask him a question when out of nowhere, a loud, nefarious laugh boomed through the school. Shivers raced down my spine, making my hair stand up.

"I am Hawkmoth," it announced and as if a switch was flicked, I was no longer a teenage girl, I was Ladybug. My mouth mumbled a quick excuse, and my eyes widened as I found the others doing the same, I didn't have the time to wonder though because I was already racing down the hallways of the school.

Hastily I opened my locker where I had earlier stashed my Miraculous outfit. After grabbing the suit in its bag I raced to an empty classroom to hastily change.

I swore at the spandex as it stuck to my skin when I pulled it on. My hood was thrown on hastily when Hawkmoth continued, "I would like to say hello to Miraculous Inc, it's good to see you're enjoying your stay here..." Clumsily, I stashed the bag with my clothes before I ran through the halls of the school.

My feet pounded as I ran towards the announcements room, I may not have had a tour, but I studied a map of the school before the mission started. It's always handy to know where everything is, especially in emergencies like this one. Hawkmoth continued, "Isn't it dull to be spies? So constricting- I hated it."

I slid to a stop in front of the door only to bump into a certain cat who was doing the same thing. "Nice to see you around, Kitty." I told him before my eyes widened when I realised I forgot to apply my voice scrambler.

Chat Noir smiled at my predicament just as the other three on our team found us. He smirked, "Seems you can't argue or boss me around today, huh M'lady?"

I huffed before pointing to the door, the others seemed to have had the same idea and soon we were filing into the announcements room. "I've been tired lately," boomed Hawkmoths voice. "And my Akumas have been so bored.

"So I thought, why not add something else to spice up our oh so boring lives?" The room was filled with shelves of records and miscellaneous wires. I signalled to go around the shelves and everyone nodded before we split up. Queen Bee, Rena Rouge, and me on the left side, vs Chat Noir and Carapace going around the right.

We rounded the corner only to find the room empty, I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. Rena Rouge quickly jumped onto the announcer's desk and started pulling at something plugged into the wall that was connected to a microphone. It was a pre-recorded message.

"It was a pre-recorded message." Carapace said, voicing my earlier revelation.

Chat stepped in and extended a baton he always carried and pried the message out of the socket while I disconnected all the wires it had wrapped around the microphone. We managed to get it out with minimal damage, but not before we heard Hawkmoth say, "My Akumas will crush you, Miraculous, so you better be on guard because pretty soon they won't be happy to just be sitting on the sidelines of your wild goose chase."

I let out an aspirated breath and Chat Noir walked over till he was at my side. He leaned in till I felt his breath on my neck, "Want me to relay anything to the team since you stupidly forgot your scrambler?" In response, I threw him an unamused glare in which he raised his hands as if surrendering. He took a step back before he gave a distorted chuckle, "Just asking."

My head whipped around to stare at the door only to notice a few students gathering around it. I gestured to the students, and my team all winced. Queen Bee was the one that stepped forward, "We're here to help." Her high pitch, mechanical voice filled the room when the students went quiet.

Someone spoke up, "Are you going to stop the Akumas?"

Rena Rouge was the one that replied, "We are certainly going to try."

With that, Chat had managed to open a vent in the wall and we all quickly and elegantly climbed in it, disappearing from sight.

It took under a minute for us all to end up on the roof, I paced as I stared at the Hawkmoth's tape (which somehow ended up in my hands), my gloved hands turned the tape around in my hands as I studied every inch of the thing.

Rena Rouge slipped into step beside me, "What's up with you not talking?" To answer her question, I simply pointed at my neck and she made a sound of realisation. "Your voice scrambler, huh? It's stupid how it hasn't yet been built into our suits. Currently, it's like an itchy metal sticker always placed on my neck."

I nodded in agreement before she could add another comment Chat Noir was speaking, "I think we should get back into our civilian forms and call as soon as we are all at our safehouses. If we all skipped now or was late it would be noticeable for both Hawkmoth and us." His eyes met mine and he gave a painful wince before they flitted away. "You know the rules."

We all nodded and soon we all dispersed our separate ways, Rena Rouge and Carapace taking the stairwell, Queen Bee jumping off the side of the building before opening her own wing like set to glide to safety. Just as I was about to leave, Chat Noir grabbed my hand and pulled me closer to him. I shifted awkwardly, not knowing how to react to him being so close since that night, "LB, if you ever found my civilian self, would you tell me?"

I stared into his eyes and an image of Adrien flashed in my head. My gaze turned to the ground and I took in a quivering breath, "You know the rules, Chat. Under no circumstance are we to reveal ourselves or compromise our comrades. If I knew who you were I wouldn't tell you. It's too dangerous, especially now with Hawkmoth."

He let out a breath before letting go of my arm and taking a step back. A pained smile marred his face, "That's what I thought you'd say."

With that, he leapt off the roof, using his baton to stay upright. My eyes followed him as he went down to the ground, he showed off his reflexes by bouncing off window sills and using drain pipes to get to the street.

His head tilted till his eyes met mine. He gave a small smile as he flipped off a sill and landed on his feet. With that, he was gone, as if he vanished into thin air.

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Sorry for the chapter, I'm not 100% happy with it, but I'm glad I finished writing it because I currently have heat stroke. I'm just a Canadian so used to cold weather that this heat wave is literally making me sick.

I hope you enjoyed this -if anything, mismatch- chapter! Have a great week!

Till next Sunday!

-SecretsInMyHead