Look What You Made Me Do

Marinette Becomes An Actress....Sweet Dreams Everyone

(AN:The new Marinette comes to class. What will the others think of a Marinette that doesn't keep her head down? Some people might start to question things. The Gotham trip is announced but Marinette will have already shared the news with Chloe so she doesn't care about attention stealers like Lila. Just a heads up Marinette will swear in this chapter. A little out of character when compared to the show I know)

The next morning Marinette got up at her usual time. She had taken to doing yoga in the morning. It helped to clear her mind and keep her calm. There was no hope for therapy to help deal with the emotional aftermath of Hawk Moths reign of terror. It wasn't easy to always be in control of your emotions. All the therapists in Paris were booked solid. And she didn't think anyone outside the country knew what was going on. As Ladybug she had tried to reach out to the Justice League but had been told that it wasn't okay to prank call the Justice League. And to be honest she understood how things would have seemed if they had looked into things. They would probably find everything looking normal. Though really it was for the best. Marinette couldn't imagine what would happen if someone like Superman or Green Lantern becoming akumatized.

Now that she had won the trip to Gotham she had a lot of thinking to do. Gotham was the home of the vigilante Bat Family. Batman was said to be the world's greatest detective. She was wondering if Ladybug could find a way to talk to him and ask for his help. She could feel that time was running out. The akumas were getting stronger. In the last months she had needed to call upon as Kagami and Luka to become Ryuko and Viperion again. Fu had admitted to having doubts because this was not something that had ever been done before. It was dangerous to have so many miraculous active. But Marinette knew she could trust Chloe, Kagami, and Luka with her life. The Parisians called them Team Miraculous. People had been quick to notice a lack of Chat Noir. Finally Ladybug had to announce that Chat Noir had needed been hurt and needed to be retired.

But what the people didn't know was that the cat and ladybug were always supposed to be active together. You couldn't have life without destruction. So when they couldn't win without a cataclysm Ladybug would become La Dame Chat (Lady Cat but come on...Chat Noir just translates to Cat Black) after unifying Tikki and Plagg. No one really liked this because combining miraculous was dangerous. Marinette had hated having to take the cat miraculous. But it was hurting Adrien. Which was why she had opted to take away all his memories as being Chat Noir. To just erase some or none would just be asking him to be akumatized in his crazed desperation to get Plagg's ring back.

Once she was done with her morning yoga Marinette got ready for school. She did her best not to be late but . She grabbed a quick bite to eat with her parents before heading off to school. Today was a big day. She was going to put her money where her mouth was. It was time to take a stand against Lila. For too long she had been keeping her head down and taking abuse from everyone. That was the old Marinette. If her class wanted a villain she would give them one. They all bad mouthed her all the time but still expected to help them with school things. Well she wasn't going to be anyone's doormat ever again.

Team Lila wasn't really active in the morning so it was safe for her to travel to school on her own. But she knew Chloe would be waiting to walk in with her. As expected the blonde was sitting on the front steps filing her nails. When she spotted her friend she stood up and picked up her bag. "Marinette what was so important that you wanted to meet early?" she asked. "I have a VERY detailed morning routine. Perfection takes time."

"And yet you make it look so easy and flawless." Marinette interrupted her friend's rant with a big smile.

Chloe couldn't help but smile. "Alright Dupain-Cheng. What's the big news?" When she used Marinette's last name there was no longer the bite of venom in her tone.