Miraculous spies!

Alex finds out

I really am insane... And I love it!

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Two weeks.

Two weeks since the three schools came together for a sports event and forced the students from all three schools to share classrooms. Alex was fine with all that, she really was. What she wasn't fine with was that during that week her friend Marinette had been guarded from her regular friends by two rich snobs from the other school. The snobs in question were Felix DeNoir and Bridgette Cheing, every time they wanted to hang out with her, those two came in and dragged her away, claiming they wanted to reunite with her better. Thankfully at the end of the week both of them left, Alex had never been happier for a sports event to be over.

It had also been two weeks since the mysterious thief known as Ladybug had started showing up, leaving notices at the police station about who and when she would strike. However even with this no one had been able to catch a glimpse of the girl's face, only a black hoodie with the word ladybug on the back.

Now that the track and field week was over, Marinette was back to hanging out with her friends. But something felt off to Alex. Marinette was closed off slightly, like she was hiding something really big that had to do with all of them.

That Friday Alex had had enough, she was going to stake out Marinette and find out why she was acting all weird. She would've asked the others, but they hadn't noticed anything wrong with her.

It was even better that Ladybug had sent out a notice that she would be targeting a very important house tonight. And just like she figured her friend would, at around ten o'clock, Marinette left her house and started running. Alex followed.

Marinette ran all the way to the edge of town, Alex was impressed at how many sharp turns she had to make to keep up with the girl. Once they got to the edge of town Marinette stopped and called out. "Alex! I know you're following me. Just come out. I want to show you something!"

Alex was surprised to say the least, and did as she was asked. "How did you know?" Marinette laughed. "I can sense when someone is following me. Now come on! We're almost there."

The two walked for a few minutes before coming to an old tree, Marinette laughed when Alex shot her a confused glance, and pushed a part of it.

They both fell through the floor, Marinette landing more gracefully than Alex. "Where are we?" Alex asked standing up and rubbing her back. "Ladybug's secret hideout." Marinette smirked at her.

It didn't take Alex long to put the pieces together, "YOU'RE LADYBUG?!" Marinette just nodded her head and told Alex to follow her.

She was brought into a room that had, what looked like a spotted ladybug motorcycle, and eight slots in the wall. "You like my bike? It changes into different forms as I need them, it really helps with my job." Marinette said as she was digging through her bag looking for something. "Yeah, it's awesome." Alex said awed.

Then Marinette pulled out a small box, and handed it to Alex. "For you. I'll be back when you're done." And with that Marinette left the room. Even though she didn't want to be left alone, Alex was extremely glad that her friend had given her space to figure everything out... and open that box. Somehow that one objective was what scared her the most, not the fact that one of her best friends was a thief, or anything else that had happened since then. No opening a box and seeing what's inside filled her with immense amounts of dread.

She wrapped her head around the fact that her friend was technically a villain and that she should be calling the police right now but wasn't pretty fast.

So with a deep breath Alex opened the small box, inside was a plain choker with a firefly as a pendant. With caution Alex closed her eyes and put the choker on, suddenly she felt right, and got the feeling it would be even better if she called out, so she did, "Fire Starter!"

When she opened her eyes she was wearing an orange shirt with a yellow lightbulb on it a pair of knee length shorts, and orange sneakers. All in all it felt awesome.

Alex was so busy being awed by her transformation that she didn't even notice when Marinette walked back in. "I see you like the outfit." Alex jumped. "Mari! This is so awesome!" Marinette smiled at how excited Alex was. "Well if you're done freaking out, we have a job to do." Marinette said and quickly tossed Alex a black hoodie similar to her own except on hers there is a firefly and above that in flaming orange was the word: Firefly.

Alex was shocked. "You want me to help you?" Marinette smiled. "Yep. And I promise that I will explain everything after we get back. So will you help me?" Alex looked around her, at the awesome stuff she saw, and then she looked at Marinette, who had transformed into Ladybug. What Alex saw... wasn't a hardened criminal, not even a petty thief. What she saw was an old friend asking for help in something she was really scared about, not the stealing, no she was scared about her friend leaving her. Turning her back and forcing her to fight alone, and most likely crack under the pressure of facing it alone. At that Alex's heart broke in two.

"Of course I'll help you."

With that Firefly was born. And she would defend her sister in crime until they finished this fight.