A Masked Mistake

[WHAT IF] Stupid Mistake

Here is the first of my additional chapters.
When writing chapter 7, the thought of Adrien finding out Marinette's identity through Tom playing the game and dressed as Ladybug was too good an opportunity to ignore.
So here you go, a random 'WHAT IF' fic.

WHAT IF: Adrien never received Ladybug's message to come to Sunday dinner later, and turns up to find a rather large guy named TOM playing UMS wearing his wife's Miraculous. What the hell was going on?

Alternate ending to chapter 7 of A Masked Mistake.

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"Boo yah!" The roar from the sofa had Sabine and Marinette turn from her apartment kitchen, curious as to what Tom had accomplished. Marinette washed her hands off before placing the seasoned chicken in the oven and heading towards her father.

Ladybug and Chat Noir had been married for a couple of blissful weeks now, and Ladybug had decided it was time for Chat to meet the other important people in her life... her parents.

She squinted at the screen displayed on the television and gasped. TOM was now perfectly positioned in the number one spot, flashing in all its identity revealing glory.

"Papa?" Her voice stuttered, her eyes widening as she continued to look at the screen.

"You all think you're good, but none of you are as good as the master himself! Beat that my little 'Nettie."

"Papa!"

"Tom Dupain is number one!" He stood up striking his pose before dancing around the room, Marinette calling after him, time and time again, but he wasn't listening, too caught up in his own success.

"Tom, you idiot!" Tom froze at his wife's hard, demanding tone, Marinette stilling too. Her mother rarely raised her voice, the woman was the epitome of calmness, a calm river tickling down the stream...but it seemed like the river had turned into water water rapids as her mother was positively seething!

"What?" he asked, turning to look at his wife and daughter.

"You've typed your own name on there. What part of secret identities did you not understand?"

Tom's victorious smile suddenly disappeared when he'd realised what he'd done. It wasn't like Marinette could just delete it, once it was there it was a permanent addition to the game, until someone could wipe it off. But this score! It was impossibly high on a new game she hadn't figured out properly yet.

"Um, maybe now's the right time to reveal identities?" Tom defended himself. "It would be so lovely to meet the man behind the mask."

"Idiot!" Sabine said again, turning on her heel and heading back to the kitchen mumbling about 'I had told him', and that 'if he would just listen sometimes.'

Marinette sighed, looking between her father and the screen. The last thing she wanted was Chat figuring out her identity over this. It would be one of the most ridiculous reveal stories ever.

"Tikki," she called, praying that maybe Tikki could do something to help. Maybe she could fly into the computer and blow it up for something. The small red kwami appeared beside them, her eyes widening as she read the screen.

"Oh, Monsieur Dupain, what did you do?"

Her father gulped before sitting down and taking the controller, his hands slightly shaking. "How long do I have?"

Marinette checked her watch. 14 minutes.

"Unless Tikki can do something, you only have 14 minutes, and believe me when I say the guy is incredibly punctual." She tapped her father on the shoulders, before looking at Tikki.