A New Beginning [Miraculous Ladybug AU]

Chapter 6

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Marinette/Ladybug's POV
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Hanging up, i let out a girlish squeal. My emotions were all over the place, tumbling against one another as my brain struggles to string a coherent sentence. Adrien asked me out on a date! Adrien Agreste asked me out on a date! Well yeah it was just because we couldn't get lunch, that's when Weatherlock striked.

"Oh Marinette! I'm so happy for you!" Tikki squeaked out, flying in circles. I smiled at my little friend. But then i froze.

Adrien is asking me out on a date.

I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WEAR.

"Tikki, you need to help me find something to wear!" I screech as i rummage through my hellhole of a closet. Tikki rolls her eyes. "You're a designer Marinette! How can you not have something to wear?"

In a short five minutes, i put together a decent outfit, consisting of a mint green dress, and combat boots (colors inspired by this AU post on ig, consisting of Marinette's Chat Noir - inspired outfits). I was ready to go.

Sealing up my totem jar, the totems clinking together, i headed out of my house, waving to my parents along the way out.

Arriving at the Trocadero, i saw a figure waving it's hand at me. With the moonlight illuminating his figure, i couldn't mistaken that tousled blond hair for anyone else. Then again, there is a certain cat's hair that's suspiciously similar to Adrien's... probably the same hairdresser. (MARINETTE YOU)

Adrien grinned as i walked towards him, his heart stopping smile sending my heart plummeting to my stomach and up to my throat. I took a moment to really gaze at him. His face got more mature, more defined like his father's, but his eyes were still the same soft green ones i fell in love with years ago.

"Ready to go to dinner?" Adrien asked, snapping me out of my stupor. Wait was i checking him out? A faint blush surfaced on my cheeks, and i was so glad it was nighttime so Adrien couldn't see them. "Yeah, lets go!" I smile.

I was expecting a casual restaurant, maybe even a drive-in, but i didn't expect reserved seats on the Eiffel Tower. I gasped. Adrien turned and chuckled. "My dad gave me a one year membership for dinner at this place, so why not spend it on a reunion with a good friend?" He mused as a smile graced its way up my face.

Sitting down, we were about to order something, when a crash down below snapped us out of our hunger. Running to the edge and glancing down, we saw a huge, huge robot stomping through the streets.

Another stomp rattled the Eiffel Tower. Tables started falling as our table fell sideways, separating me from Adrien. I wanted to help Adrien, but i knew Paris needed Ladybug. Adrien will be safe.

"Tikki! We need to transform! Spots on!" I whisper as i silently transformed under the overturned dinner table. When i was ready, i jumped out just in time before a laser gun blasted the table to pieces.  How did that robot get up here so fast?

"I am Creatron. I create destruction. It is my duty to destroy Ladybug and Chat Noir" the robot says in a monotonous voice before its hollow eyes train themselves on my figure. Leaping out of the robot's vision, i aim my yoyo at it, in attempts to trip it. However, in a split second, a knife was summoned in his metal hands as he slashed at my yoyo. "Creatron, knife!" I was frozen in shock. I thought only the ladybug miraculous had the power of creation?

"Now i will annihilate you." The robot continues as it aims the glinting knife at me, getting closer and closer.. "What's Buzz Lightyear doing here? Why don't you stop and go back to your spaceship and we'll call it a night," A voice yelled from behind me. The robot turns to the source of the sound, giving me enough time to slip under the robot and wrap my yoyo around it again. Chat Noir is hanging on the chandelier, with his stick ready to lengthen at any moment. The robot charges at Chat, but it was a few inches short as i tied him up already. Falling down with a deafening clang, Creatron got ready to summon another device, but i beat him to it.

"Lucky charm!" I yelled as duct tape fell into my hands, and this time, i knew what to do. Working fast, i leaped onto it's huge shoulders and duct-taped his mouth, sealing it shut, disabling him to summon anything else. "Cataclysm!" Chat Noir flew off the chandelier as his destruction-entwined fist connected with the robot. It was immediately destroyed and reduced into a small totem.

"Pound it!" We yelled together. "Are you feeling better? You took the fall quite hard yesterday," i ask. Chat smiles at me. It's a genuine smile, so unlike Chat's usual smirks that i couldn't help but blush. "Yeah, i'm good." he said, looking a little confused, as if he wanted to ask something.

"Um..ladybug, i need to ask you something. Yesterday, after we fought-"

The totem in my hands let out a blind white light, like a small explosion that sent us a few feet up in the air. I landed with a sore elbow and scraped knees, but the totem wasn't done yet. A figure materialized above the totem, taking the silhouette of a person. "I am Arachne!" The figure boomed. "I will take you and Chat Noir's miraculouses and with both of them, i'll be able to finish what Creatron started. I'll be able to create destruction." With that, she laughed, sending chills down my spines before the image vanished. Groaning, we got up, trying to recover from the shock. "Are you okay, m'lady?" Chat asked, extending his paw to my direction. Taking it i got up. "Yeah i'm fine, but my gut's telling me we won't be fine with that Arachne still around." "That's true. M'lady, forgive me for the sudden topic change, but i recall asking you something before i blacked out yesterday, do you remember what i asked?" I gulped. This is it. My heart was telling me to tell him, but my brain was telling me he wouldn't be safe. "I think you asked about my hair. Whether it was naturally or artificially umm, blue? It's natural by the way." I lied, the guilt eating me from the inside. Chat scrunched up his brows, and it took all the self control in me not to gush at his cuteness. Wait, cuteness?

Our miraculouses beeped, and chat was already ready to take off.

"Alright LB, gotta go! Our miraculouses need recharging." Chat salutes me as he somersaults away. I followed suit to the opposite direction. But even as we went our separate ways, the guilt was sticking to me like a magnet.

Did i make the right choice?