What goes up must come down
Summary: By the time, Adrien realize the consequences of being passive it was too late. He and his friends had fallen while Marinette and her friends risen.
I don't own Miraculous Ladybug or Batman.
Marinette smile as she fights alongside her boyfriend Damian and his family. She had been fighting alongside them for years now. In her everyday job, she is a fashion designer like she always wants to be both for citizens and superheroes. Her life has risen from the low it was after Lila's return.
A few weeks after Lila return, a few students from several other classes brought their concerns about the rumors that she had been spreading to Marinette's parents' attention. They told the Dupain-Cheng parents how Lila had been expelled from her former school in Italy for bullying a student to committing suicide. They were worried about Marinette especially since it looks like Lila was targeting her next. While most classes didn't believe the rumors, having been warned about her beforehand and checking her stories out, it looks like Marinette's class did with Marinette being the sole exception. From their point of view, it looks like Marinette's classmates have started to isolate her and they were worried that it will develop into bullying any day now. They thought Marinette wouldn't bring it up to the other people's attention because she didn't want to trouble them. The students want the parents to help their daughter before things got worse. They defend Marinette at school. They had tried to told Marinette's class of Lila's history but had been brushed off. One of them pulled up an article about Lila at her old school and showed it to the two concerned parents. The two parents thanked them and sended them on their way with free pastries. That night, they bought the topic up with Marinette. The look on Marinette's face told them everything. They coaxed the entire story out of Marinette along with the threat. Sabine started ranting about Lila and mention how Lila won't be driving Marinette to committing to suicide like she did to that poor student in Italy. Marinette was surprised about that piece of information. The fact she didn't know surprise her parents. The other students had all been warned by their teachers. Didn't Ms. Bustier warned her? The negative reply infuriated her parents.
The next day, Sabine stormed into the principal's office to screamed about how he had let her daughter be bullied by a girl who had already driven another to commit suicide. Principal Damocles was intimidated by the angry mother but managed to explain that he had told all the teachers to warn their class about Lila. Marinette explained she and her class had never heard about it from Ms. Bustier. She also explained about Lila's lies so far and how her class and teacher had reacted. Principal Damocles called Ms. Bustier to his office. When he asked her why he didn't warn her class about Lila, Ms. Bustier tries to justify saying she didn't want her class to bully or isolate Lila. That will just make her worse. Sabine startws screaming about how Lila was bullying Marinette. Ms. Bustier tried to brush it off with how Marinette should set a good example for her classmates and forgive Lila. Sabine wasn't impressed and neither was Damocles. Sabine give Damocles an ultimatum, transfer Marinette to another class and protect her properly or she will pull Marinette from his school and tell Nadja and all the customers at the bakery just why she pulled her little girl from his school. Damocles chose the first option and also put Ms. Bustier on probation. He put Marinette in Ms. Mendeleiev class. Sabine want to talk to her first to ensure she wasn't another Ms. Bustier. Damocles agrees under her glare. Ms. Mendeleiev was called and briefed on the situation. She like the other two adults wasn't impressed with Ms. Bustier's explanation or actions. She agrees to look out for Marinette in her class but expected Marinette to keep up with her work. She walks with Marinette to her class.
Marinette quickly made friends there and break off ties with her old ones at her parent's insistence. Her parents didn't think it was a good idea for her to be friends with people who will turn on her so easily. When her former class started to criticize her for believing the slander about Lila and transferring classes, she uncharacteristically snapped at them and told them to stay far away from her. If they can't see the truth, then they weren't worth her time or help. They had then started to shout insults at her. Alix and Kim tried to hit her. She managed to dodge. Thank kwamis for being Ladybug. Lucky for her, her new friends came to her aid, before she attacks back. Otherwise she didn't want to think about the consequences. Ms. Bustier's class was put in detention for bullying. Alix and Kim were put on suspension from their sports team. She had been taken to the nurse by Ms. Mendeleiev. Then, an akuma attack. Fortunately, she managed to defeat it quickly and rushed back to the nurse. Unfortunately, she didn't check her surroundings and detransformed right in front of Ms. Mendeleiev, who had come to check on her since she wasn't in class.
