My Little Miraculous Ladybug

Burnt Bridges

The evening twilight soon cast its warm, loving calm over the entire city of Paris as Twilight, Marinette, and their friends traded stories about their adventures with each other. Marinette and Adrien told Twilight and her friends all about the duties they had as defenders. They told them how two months ago, two kids named Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz came to Paris for spring break. They also related how Adrien's biological father, the supervillain Hawk Moth, had been going after their Miraculouses to obtain ultimate power and rule the world and how he had succeeded two months ago in achieving his goal, revealing both of their identities to their peers in the process.

"Oh, my," Fluttershy squeaked, a bit terrified. "How horrible."

"Yeah," Marinette admitted. "But the forces of good eventually prevailed, as always. Star and Marco became a couple, and so did Adrien and I."

Twilight listened to the story in amazement. These two have been on so many adventures together, just like she and her friends have.

"You guys must be pretty proud of yourselves, saving the city at least a hundred times," she said at last.

"Got that right," Adrien agreed. "Though, to be honest, now that Hawk Moth is out of commission, Marinette and I are kinda at a loss for what to do now. I don't suppose you can help us, can you?"

Twilight paused, trying to think of an answer. At last, she said, "Not at the moment. But we'll let you know." She and her Equestrian friends turned and headed into the College Francois Dupont.

"Where are you girls going?" Alya called after them.

"Into the school, of course," Twilight answered her. "To spend the night there." The four of them could only watch on as they disappeared inside, then looked at each other in confusion.

"You know," Tikki started, flying up to Marinette, "our apartment still has the extra floor from when Star and Marco were here. We should ask them to spend at least one night at our place."

"You're right, Tikki," started Marinette. "We should."

"Speaking of night," Sabrina yawned, "I'm going home to get some shut-eye. Shall the four of us get together again to get our outfits for the dance together?"

"Okay," Alya said. Adrien nodded his head in agreement.

"'Kay. 'Night, guys. See you tomorrow." Sabrina started walking back home. Just then, a car beeped, and the remaining three friends turned to see that it was Adrien's driver/bodyguard, come to up. Adrien and Alya turned around to face Marinette and Tikki.

"See you girls, tomorrow," Adrien said. "My driver will drop Alya off at her place before we go home." On his shoulder, Plagg waved goodbye to them, before disappearing inside the car with his master and Alya. As the car drove off, Marinette and Tikki turned around and went back into their apartment.

The next morning, Tikki woke Marinette up. They quickly got dressed after they both had their breakfast. As they went down the stairs, Mr. and Mrs. Dupain-Cheng called Marinette over to give her everything she needed to go shopping.

"Now, be sure to come back by around noon," Mrs. Cheng said to Marinette, giving her a surprisingly large amount of money.

"Mom, that's quite a lot," Marinette noticed. "Where did you get this?"

"The royalty checks," her mom said simply.

"Wait, what royalty checks?" Tikki asked, surprised.

"The ones we get weekly for being the face of the Ladybug action figures, Tikki," Marinette reminded her. "You were there, remember?"

"Oh yeah," Tikki said. "Now I remember."