Summary:
Ladybug goes through a portal thanks to an akuma and meets a local Superhero there and they both have their issues and needs someone to vent to.
Post Season 1 of Invincible.
Notes:
I loved the Invincible cartoon and can’t wait for Season 2 and it’s pretty much the best superhero cartoon you can find that’s still running right now. But be warned it’s quite violent and mature and while it looks pretty light on the mature content at first, the first episode’s ending throws you in for a loop as you get a taste of what to expect from there on out. Let me put it to you this way:
If you thought that ending to the first episode alone was too much for you then stay as far as possible from the season finale. Trust me on this it’s not for the faint of heart.
Work Text:
Marinette Dupain-Cheng as Ladybug had been fighting an Akuma who had portal powers due to having been a researcher who had his funding cut on his research into alternate dimensions. She had been sucked through and had ended up in an Alternate America and there was a slightly older boy in a black, yellow and blue suit who introduced himself as Invincible asking where she had come from after he had seen her come through the portal.
Marinette introduced herself as Ladybug and Invincible showed her to the headquarters of the National Defense Agency which was a government superhero organisation. The scary looking director of the organisation Cecil Stedman said to wait there and they will work on a way to find her Earth and send her home. She was a bit worried and frightened about being there and knowing that alternate Earths existed but laughed while thinking that if Alya was here she would be asking a billion questions about the superheroes in this Earth.
"You seem to be taking it well about me being here Mr Stedman." Ladybug commented and Cecil gave a humourless laugh.
"Kid, you are far from the first misplaced Superhero that I have had to deal with." Cecil replied simply as Invincible came to see Marinette.
"So you come from Paris in your Earth and there is a guy named Hawk Moth who turns people with strong negative emotions into villains to steal the source of you and your partner's powers? Must be some life as a Superhero, fighting aliens can get overwhelming for me." Invincible said but noticed that she was looking down and offered a brotherly hand on her shoulder.
"Wish it was much easier than it is; I keep having to be late and bail on commitments while lying about where I am. Chat Noir doesn't seem to take it seriously at times and I had to break it up with my boyfriend. I kept bailing on him... He made me feel like the most important girl in the world and he was never angry at me... All that he wanted was honesty and I couldn't give it to him..." Marinette told him feeling like she needed to let all this out.
"I kept having to bail on my girlfriend and when it looked like I jsut ran away while people were in trouble she broke up with me, I revealed my secret to her but she figured it out before and was angry about the dishonesty. Even my best friend Mark thought i was a jerk." Invincible told her and she looked sorry for him while thinking that it was unfair for him.
"Not just that but I now have to take up the duty of replacing my mentor as the Guardian of the Miraculous with only the bare minimum considered training as well as him forgetting about it all. It's so much..." Marinette said about to cry.
"My dad was Omni-Man the top superhero in the world, I looked up to him and always wanted to be like him. Our top superhero team the Guardians of the Globe were murdered and he was knocked out cold afterwards but it turns out he set it up and murdered them himself." Invincible said and Marinette was open mouthed.
"That's horrible, was he under mind control?" Marinette asked Invincible and he shook his head sadly.
"I so badly wanted it to be the case and wanted to free him but no, turns out his alien race the Vitrumites are evil bloodthirsty powerful conquerors and dad was sent here to weaken the planet's defences and conquer it for them. I refused to join him and he beat me hard as I tried to fight him back, all the destruction he caused while yelling at me about how Earth wasn't our home. I couldn't save anyone and this pilot I did managed to save he crushed afterwards and used me as a shield to kill a train full of people. He asked me what I would have after a thousand years and I told him that I still would have had him, he flew away and we haven't heard any of him since. He said that my Mum was nothing more than a pet to him." Invincible said and Marinette was open mouthed in horror as silent as Invincible was mentally punching himself.
"Wow, I am so sorry as you didn't need to hear most of that or any of that really.. You are struggling with your own Superheroics and I could have traumatised a 14 year old Superhero with the details of my recent troubles just to vent, I really am the biggest jerk..." Invincible told her apologetically but Marinette gave a small smile.
"First of all I'm 15 thank you very much and I used you to vent and while you could have let out a lot of those details, it's only fair that you get to vent as well. Next time you see your dad tell him that he better not show his face on my Earth, if he does then I might steal Chat Noir's Miraculous so I can Catacalysm his face." Marinette told him and he couldn't help but laugh. "You are definitely coping with what you have been through better than I ever could have, I had to go through that and I would have quit all this all together, I would have put my earrings into the Miraculous Box and then tossed it into through a well forever." Marinette said.
"I almost nearly did quit several times but we both persevere despite how hard it is but let me tell you that you still need your social life. Ask this ex-boyfriend of yours if he wants to give it a second chance and if you trust him then tell him the truth. I know that it sounds risky but believe me it helps a lot to have at least someone you know and trust to talk to about all this. Future relationships are not going to go well if you keep secrets like this forever so tell him or a friend you have and make sure that you leave enough time to be the teenager that you really are." Invincible told Marinette and she thought about having to keep it a secret but couldn't help but think about how nice it would be to talk to someone.
Cecil came and gave her a watch and said to press the button and it would send her back home and if she wanted to come back then the coordinates were sent to this Earth as well, while adding that they could use more heroes. "See you later Ladybug, come and see me again if you think you need someone to talk to again. By the way... Mark Grayson." Invincible told her and she was stunned and smiled.
"Marinette Dupain-Cheng." Marinette replied with a smile not really believing she just told him that. Marinette and Mark smiled at eachother as she went back home to deal with the Akuma. She wasn't Invincible but she was going to be the best Marinette and Ladybug that she could be.
