It has a happy ending....right? {COMPLETED}

Chapter 3

"Wha-hoo!" Alya exclaimed, driving down the barren highway. They had waited until rush hour was over to escape as their civilian selves, knowing that no one would suspect them of having $4,000 hidden away in their trunk.

"No more heroes to stop us," Marinette leaned back, resting her hands on the back of her head as she kicked her legs onto the dashboard. Chloe and Kagami sat in the back, both looking out their respective windows at the passing by trees.

"Are you sure they're all gone? No one survived?" Chloe asked.

"If any of them survived that explosion, I'd be impressed," As Marinette said that, she heard an incoming transmission from the radio station that was just playing an upbeat song.

"An explosion just went off at the Byblos Bank! The miraculous team has been seen carrying unconscious victims out, but we still don't know what happened before the explosion," The reporter told. Marinette sat up in a panic.

"Son of a bitch! That pesky bug got away!" She exclaimed, changing the radio station in anger.

"Be impressed, Mari," Alya cooed. Plagg cackled at Marinette's mistake.

"Oh, they'll have something coming to them. Don't you worry,"

Meanwhile, Adrien was enraged at his failed attempt to capture Ladynoire and Ryuko.

"It's okay Adrien, you'll get her next time!" Tikki assured him. Adrien sighed, knowing that her statement was true, but that still didn't make him feel any better.

"I know, but I'm angry that she tricked me, and the others," Adrien sat on his couch, resting his head in his hands.

He told the interviewers that Ladynoire was behind this, but he didn't mention that he had managed to catch her, then proceeded to let her go. His teammates' safety came before catching her. The footage the police gave him showed helicopters following Ryuko before she called upon her wind dragon and flew off, escaping effortlessly.

"At least no one questioned how I knew Ladynoire was behind it all," He didn't like lying to Paris, but if they found out that he let her go, they wouldn't trust him anymore and he needed the people of Paris to trust him.

Adrien left his apartment, needing a break from his stressful situation. As he walked the streets of Paris, he bumped into a familiar face that he hadn't seen for a little while.

"Marinette?" He asked. She had changed quite a bit since he last saw her at graduation. Her pigtails were now replaced by a medium-length braid, one that reminded him of Ladynoires. He sighed inwardly. No matter what, she still managed to stay in his head. The navy blue pencil skirt that ended at her knees was complemented by a white button-down shirt that was neatly tucked into the skirt.

"Adrien! I haven't seen you in so long," She smiled. She had gotten over her high school crush, and could now form a coherent sentence around him.

"Yeah, what have you been up to?" He asked. She looked around, her mind quickly thinking of what to say. She couldn't tell him that she was Ladynoire.

"I've been working at my parent's bakery until I find a permanent job," She lied. It wasn't a complete lie, she did help around the bakery with her parents from time to time. "What have you been up to?"

"I managed to convince my father to let me quit modelling, but I still work for him, helping him with designs and such," He explained. Sure, being a superhero is a full-time job, but he still needed a way to make money. He reluctantly took over his father's company after college.

Marinette smiled, causing Adrien's heart to flutter. He hadn't realized how much he liked her since the end of high school when he suddenly noticed how she cared for him. "H-hey, are you free later?" He muttered out.

"I'm free after 3:30 if you want to maybe get an early dinner?" She had managed to push the conversation further without him saying anything.

"Okay, How about I'll pick you up at 4:00 and we'll go to Le Gabriel," He remembered the restaurant from when his father had invited him to a company dinner.

It was strange seeing his father actually interact with people in real-time. Before that point, he would try to avoid going out into the public eye as much as possible.

"Great! I'll be at my parent's bakery, helping during closing hours," She smiled and waved him goodbye.

Little did Adrien know, Marinette was on her way to Le Grande Paris Hotel to meet with Chloe, Alya and Kagami. They had been brainstorming ideas for ways to get rid of Misterbug for good. Once they got rid of him, taking down Sting and Fennick would be child's play.

"We should find out who he is first, then someone can take the miracle box," Alya asked, reading through interviews of reporters and Misterbug.

"Yeah, and someone could follow him!" Chloe answered. Marinette was watching the discussion in silence, focused on the news channel that showed various moments of Misterbug's successes.

"He would know if someone was following him, miraculous holder or not," Kagami explained, skimming through the latest edition of a fashion magazine, a model for Gabriel's company on the front.

"Then how are we supposed to find out who he is?" Chloe snorted, crossing her arms over her chest. "Sass, do you know anything?"

"I am not allowed to say, Master," Sass explained. Chloe sighed and rolled her eyes, moving to each kwami and begging for help.

"I might know something, for a price," Plagg narrowed his eyes at Marinette.

"What do you want?" Marinette sighed, realizing that he would tell them something if they gave something in return.

"A month's worth of camembert," Plagg admitted. Marinette complied, telling him that she would put in an order under the bakery's name since they recently started using camembert in pastry orders with a side of the cheese. "All I can say is that his father was very popular, and so is he,"

"Wow, Plagg, that was really helpful, thanks," Chloe was slightly shocked at how much Plagg knew. Did all the kwami's know that much and only Plagg was willing to tell?

"See? My talents go unnoticed in this team," Plagg complained.

"Yeah, talents," Marinette used bunny ears around the word. His talents included sleeping and eating, much like any other cat. As they thought of popular people whose son was as popular as his father, Alya had come by a quote from an interview.

"Guys, look," She held up a sheet of paper, Marinette taking it from her hand and reading the highlighted sentences aloud.

"Reporter: What do you do outside of being a hero? Misterbug: I took over my father's company but luckily I have enough time to help out Parisians," A spark of interest gleaned in Marinette's eyes.

"So we just need someone who is blonde, has green eyes and is very generous when it comes to helping people," Kagami tapped her chin in thought. Adrien Agreste quickly came to Marinette's mind but she brushed it off. There would be no way of him being able to be Misterbug who always seemed to be free whenever they planned an attack.

"How about we focus on Fennick? We can focus on the other two for now," Chloe asked.

"Okay, Here is a picture of Fennick," Kagami pulled up a picture of the fox superhero from a recent special in the newspaper.

"Wait, Get a picture of Nino Lahiffe," Alya sat up abruptly. She hadn't seen her ex-boyfriend in person since the summer after high school but she knew about his recent mention on T.V about winning a DJ contest. Fennick and Nino looked almost identical, aside from the obvious differences in clothing. Both pictures featured the fox chain that hung around his neck, and Alya gasped.

"Looks like we have one of the three already down," Chloe smirked.