So I haven't been here for a while. I don't have an excuse.
There was a competition around the world. Anyone who wanted to enter it would send in a submission to have a chance to be picked.
All around the world, tons of people submitted forms. Theygchchd knew there was as little to no chance to get chosen, but entered anyways.
Weeks later, after the deadline, they had chosen the ten players to play together. It was a simulation that they would play together in. Everyone who played would get ten thousand dollars. The players alive in the end would get fifty thousand added to the ten thousand.
It took the people a while to find people that all had one language in common so that they could play, but they eventually found ten people who all spoke one common language. French. Some spoke English, which would help some when trying to keep a secret.
The players were Lila Rossi, Alya Cesiare, Nino Lahiffe, Chloe Bourgeois, Adrien Agreste, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Damian Wayne, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, and Jonathon Kent.
They were all given a plane ride together. The first people to be able to get on was the Waynes, Jon with them, then the people in Paris. They were flying out to somewhere secret, where no one would be able to track down.
On the plane ride, they got to socialize with one another. They got to know who they were competing with. You could make friends, or know your opponents and know how they act.
Marinette had sat alone. Alya, Adrien, and Nino were all crowded around Lila. The good thing was that everyone else there knew she was a liar. Chloe, even if she was the only friend she had there, was talking to this guy with blue eyes, dark hair, and glasses. So that had left her alone.
She noticed that two other guys, who looked like the only adults there, were conversing with one another. There was one guy left, who seemed to be sitting alone. Just like her. He seemed to be her age.
Marinette got up, since it was good to be up at the time, and went to sit next to him.
She turned to him. "You seemed lonely, and I thought you could use some company. My name's Marinette."
The guy seemed to ignore her. It wasn't anything she wasn't used to. "You don't have to talk to me, I just thought it would be nice to have company. I would sure know." She muttered the last sentence.
The guy seemed to stare at the adults and the guy she wasn't familiar with for a moment before he started to talk to her. "My name's Damian."
They started a conversation. At first, it was just Marinette talking, with Damian sometimes putting what he thought into it. Later on, Damian was actually contributing to the conversation.
Marinette had somehow gotten him to chuckle at something, making her giggle. Neither of them noticed that everyone was looking at them, but for different reasons.
Damian had chuckled, but it was a very quiet one. Jon, who heard it, got Dick's and Jason's attention and told them. The three of them just stared at them like they both grew three heads. Chloe looked at the two, but she just had a smile on her face. Lila had noticed that no one was talking besides her. So she looked at them and saw they were looking at something. She followed their gaze and it led to Marinette. Every one of her followers there looked there too, surprised that Marinette was actually laughing, genuine laughter which none of them had heard in a while. Lila was just mad that Marinette had managed to friend someone there. And the worst part, she couldn't understand what they were saying. She couldn't refute something she said, because she didn't know what it was about. She only knew French and Italian. This obviously wasn't a language she knew, so she was stumped.
