A/N: I tried

Disclaimer: I do not own the "Miraculous; Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir" franchise

~Chapter One- No Secrets~

Marinette POV

When Chloe Bourgeois comes to mind, the words brat, snob, and spoiled accompany her. But today, Marinette, along with the rest of her class, couldn't help but feel bad for her.

The day started out normal. Marinette darted into class moments before the teacher arrived. She smiled sheepishly as Alya rolled her eyes. Adrien and Nino exchanged looks as Chloe cried something ridiculous to her 'Adrikins' from across the room.

Then Lila walked in.

She did it casually, as if she hadn't disappeared for several months. She took slow steps, her high heels echoing loudly. Some kids gasped. She smirked and held her head high.

"Mrs. Rossi. Take a seat. We are just starting role call," said the teacher, with a hint of annoyance lining her voice. With full confidence, she strode across the room, stopped, and turned, so that she was facing Chloe directly.

With a sneer, she growled. "Move." Chloe looked at her with disbelief.

"For someone who hasn't been seen in months, what an Iconic comeback," Alya whispered to Marinette.

"Girls," the teacher said. "I'm sure we can find a place for Mrs. Rossi,"

"Yeah," hissed Chloe. "Find. Another. Spot." she glared. Sabrina was quivering in fear and looking back and forth from each girl's ferocious stares.

The whole class could feel the tension. They could cut it with a knife. Chloe gritted her teeth as Lila faked a curious look around the room.

"When you see an empty spot, let me know. Until then, I'll be sitting right here.

It was true. There were no empty seats left in the classroom.

"Mrs. Bustier, I don't think my daddy will be happy with this." Chloe's face was practically red. She pulled out her phone and waved it in the air, signaling to the teacher who she was about to call.

"Chloe let's not interrupt the mayor. Why don't we figure something out?" Mrs. Bustier pleaded. Chloe's blackmail, always effective. Even on Mrs. Bustier.

"Is there anywhere else you'd like to sit, Lila?" Mrs. Bustier begged.

Lila Crossed her arms and fake pouted.

Chloe-frustrated from not immediately getting her way- cried out in rage.

"I can't believe you're still considering this Mrs. Bustier! This is ridiculous, utterly ridiculous! Go sit her next to Mari-trash and her friend Super weirdo!"

Marinette's face turned red and she glared at Chloe. She just couldn't leave her alone even if she was completely uninvolved! Marinette silently willed Chloe's lips to melt together so that she could never utter an insult to her or anyone else, ever again!

Alya, wasn't as silent.

She burst out of her seat in protest.

"Hey!" She yelled. Chloe rolled her eyes.

"No one asked you, dork" she cackled.

Mrs. Bustier finally snapped.

"That is quite enough Mrs. Bourgeois!" she said, slamming her hand on her desk. "Go straight to the principal's office. You too, Lila Rossi. You two will work this out!"

The two girls yelped in dismay.

"But Mrs. Bustier, I'm completely innocent!" whined Lila.

"I'm calling the mayor!" exclaimed Chloe.

"Oh no you're not! Hand over that phone, Mrs. Bourgeois!'' Chloe looked shocked. Never had any teacher (or person, for that matter) stood up to Chloe like that! Chloe growled and Marinette swore she could see smoke coming out of her ears. She stomped up to the teachers desk and shoved the phone at her. Then she turned to Lila, who was holding back snickers.

"This is your fault you brat," she said through gritted teeth.

"Principal's office," the teacher reminded them. They went out the door and down the hall, leaving a baffled Sabrina all alone at her seat.

Alya gave Marinette a look. "Looks like someone finally stood up to Chloe!" she whispered.

"I know! I'm so proud of Mrs. Bustier!" Marinette replied. Alya snickered.

"No silly! I mean Lila!" Marinette almost burst out laughing.

"Lila? Are you kidding? She was just trying to prove her dominance, that's all!" Marinette said, a little too loudly.

"Marinette, please don't talk while I'm giving instructions, unless you would like to join your friends Mrs. Rossi and Mrs. Bourgeois in the office?" she raised one eyebrow.

"No ma'am, I me-mean No Mrs. Bustier!" she stuttered.

"Good. Everyone, take out your books and read chapter 26. Take notes, this will be part of your test." Marinette and the rest of the class hurriedly opened their books and read without protest. Mrs Bustier was not going to tolerate any kind of misbehavior, and everyone could tell.

It was lunch, and no one had seen neither Chloe nor Lila in any of their classes. Marinette was beginning to suspect they had been suspended, and with a grin she thought, if I'm lucky, they both got expelled. Without the two most dramatic girls in the school around, things were peaceful. Everyone was getting along, and no one was calling anyone names like Mari-trash.

Of course, nothing lasts forever.

Lila burst into the lunchroom, earning several gasps. The lunchroom went dead silent as Lila clomped her way to the back of the lunchroom, at an unoccupied table, seemingly unfazed at anything that happened that morning.

"Look who's back," Alya smirked.

"Aww but I was enjoying the peace." Marinette whined.

"Yeah, well, soon you might be enjoying the drama," she winked. "Look over there," she said pointing down the hallway. It was Chloe, or rather, a monster that looked similar to Chloe.

Her blonde hair was out of its usual ponytail and it hung loose and tangled at her shoulders. Her yellow jacket was tied around her waist, leaving her skinny, pale arms completely exposed. But what stood out most, was the murderous expression covering her face.

"LILA ROSSI," she screeched, causing the lunchroom, to once again, fall silent.

"I'LL KILL YOU," she cried again. Marinette had never seen Chloe so angry! It was astonishing.

Lila awkwardly stood up from her seat, and although her body language hinted she was scared, her face bore a smug, confident expression.

"What are you going to do, call your daddy?" she said, fluttering her eyelashes mockingly.

Chloe growled. Marinette was positive this would end in bloodshed. There weren't any teachers around, and quite honestly, she was too scared to step in between them.

"I can't BELIEVE you got us DETENTION for TWO WHOLE WEEKS!" she shrieked, once more.

"Jeez Chlo, don't get your hair in a twist," Lila replied, trying her best to look bored.

"DON'T CALL ME THAT! EVER!" Lila smirked."What you gonna do about it?" she taunted.

The two girls locked eyes. They were definitely going to claw each other to death.

But then a voice interrupted their moment of pure hatred.

"Ladies, Ladies! Calm down, I'm sure we can work something out!" it was Adrien.

"Chloe, maybe we should-"

"STAY OUT OF THIS ADRIEN! This is between me and the snitch!" she looked ready to push Adrien out of the way, but Marinette doubted she would. After all, he still was her 'Adrikins.' Marinette gagged. She hated herself for thinking that.

"Jesus Chloe calm down! Didn't your mom ever teach you some manners?

Lila grinned. She knew what she had done. Everyone knew. Chloe's eyes went wide. Kids muttered amongst themselves. This was a new low for Lila Rossi. That insult was way too close to home. And Lila did not seem to regret it. In fact, she looked like she had achieved some sort of accomplishment for making the cruelest joke ever.

Everyone knew Chloe's mom abandoned her when she was very young.

Chloe's eyes welled up with tears. She felt one escape her grasp, and then that was it. There was no holding back. She let out a sob as she sprinted out of the lunchroom.

Adrien glared at a prideful Lila before he chased after Chloe. The lunchroom chatter began to resume, but Marinette could hear that other people were muttering things like, "so cruel…" "what's her problem?" and "I actually feel bad for Chloe."

Alya had originally planned to post the video she took up on the internet, but even she admitted that she would just be stooping to Lila's level.

"That was intense," Alya said, still stunned.

"Are you kidding? That was insane!" Nino said pumping his first in the air. "Chloe finally got a taste of her own medicine!"

"Yeah I guess, but don't you think that she was a little harsh?" Marinette argued. Even as one of Chloe's Bourgeois' worst enemies, Marinette knew that Lila had gone too far.

"I thought you hated Chloe," said Nino, scratching the back of his neck.

"I do! She just… Lila was so rude. What if she had said that about one of us?"

"I guess you're right girl! In the meantime, let's eat! I'm starving," said Alya with a wink.

Chloe POV

It just wasn't fair, no- It just wasn't right! How dare Lila! How dare she walk in to her school, demand to sit at her seat, and now? Insulting her in front of everybody? That was Chloe's job! Chloe's tears ran down her face. She wrapped her arms around her legs and let herself sink to the floor of the bathroom stall. She cried in anguish and frustration. How dare she joke about her missing mother! What kind of spoiled brat?!

Chloe let out a frustrated scream and proceeded to cry into her hands, attempting to muffle her sobs.

She heard the bathroom door creak open.

"Chloe? Chloeeee?"

it was Sabrina.

"Chloe are you in here?" Chloe sniffled.

"Chloe!" Sabrina called. "Oh Chloe, I'm so sorry are you okay that Lila has no idea what she's talking about you are the most amazing pers-"

"Sabrina, shut up!" Chloe interrupted. "Just leave me alone," she whispered.

"Chloe," she squeaked, "are you sure?"

"Just go away! I don't need you!"

"But Chloe-"

"GO!" she screamed.

Defeated, Sabrina took off the pin that her friend gave her to symbolize their friendship, slid it under Chloe's stall door, turned around and left the bathroom.

Chloe let loose again and cried. She sat like this for about three minutes, and then something weird happened.

She felt something weird come over her, like some sort of- strangely familiar- energy. She picked her head up out of her hands and saw that Sabrina's pin was a dark maroon.

And then she heard a voice.

"Chloe," it whispered. Frantically, she looked around the bathroom.

"Who's there?" she shouted.

"It's me, your good friend Hawkmoth."

"Hawkmoth?!" she shrieked. Oh no, she was not letting this freak control her again!

"What do you want from me?" Chloe snarled.

"I'm afraid you mean, what do you want from me, Memory Lane,"

Chloe felt a burning energy crawling up her spine, spreading to her head and limbs; overtaking her completely. She cried out in pain.

She had been Akumatized.

"Memory Lane," Hawkmoth repeated the Villain's name. "Your past has been exposed to all of your classmates; now it's your turn to reveal their deepest secrets. But in exchange for these powers, you must capture Ladybug's earrings and Chat Noir's ring- their miraculouses."

"This will be something- they'll never forget,"

Marinette/Ladybug POV

She knew as soon as she heard the sirens that someone had been akumatized. She suspected it was Chloe, in fact she had been anticipating it all afternoon.

Now she was home, waiting for something unusual to happen. After lunch, Chloe completely disappeared. Lila paraded around like it was her birthday or something. It was sicking. Or at least to Marinette.

"Tikki," she had asked her kwami as soon as school let out. "Do you think Chloe's been Akumatized?"

"I don't know Marinette, but we should be extra careful, just in case!"

It was hours later, and Marinette saw what she had been waiting for all afternoon. (Not that it was a good thing)

"Breaking news!" the familiar voice of Nadia Chamak rang out on Marinette's T.V.

"Another one of Paris' own has been Akumatized. Stay inside, Chat Noir and Ladybug will be here shortly,"

That's all Marinette needed to hear.

"Tikki, spots on!"

The mystical light surronded her, tickled her, comforted her. She opened her eyes, and she was Ladybug.

She practically catapulted out of her window, flinging from building to building. She felt the wind run through her hair, and she wished she could just swing around for a little while. It felt so perfect.

Unfortunately, she had a job to do. Next to her, she could see a blur of black. But Ladybug wasn't startled- she knew that sarcastic blur of black all too well.

"Nice of you to drop by Kitty," she yelled to her partner.

"No problem, M'Lady," Chat Noir winked at her, backfiring greatly as he catapulted (pun intended) himself right into the side of a building.

"Watch where you're going, Chat Noir," she giggled ferociously.

"Yeah I get it, can we just find this Akumatized victim?" he said brushing off dust.

"That would be me," said a voice from behind. Ladybug jumped at the extra voice. She heard Chat Noir snicker, but she wasted no time scolding him. She bolted herself around, letting herself get s good view of the villian.

She was in an all yellow bodysuit- the same type as Ladybug's- and the same color of Chloe's infamous jacket. Her hair was golden, her eyes were golden- and a mask covered her face colored- you guessed it- gold. She had a pin very much like the one she gave Sabrina on her suit, and Ladybug guessed, her akumatized object.

"Hey Chloe," Ladybug snarled under her breath.

"I am not Chloe! I am Memory Lane! And I will confiscate your miraculous!" She grinned, evilly.

"But… how'd you know it was Chloe?" Chat said, scratching his head in confusion.

"No time." Ladybug quickly brushed him off, despite his questioning looks.

"Her akumatized object must be her pin. Let's not waste any time," Ladybug said before starting in a sprint and grasping her yo-yo.

But a hand on her shoulder stopped her.

"M'lady- shouldn't we wait? We don't know what she's capable of, we shouldn't rush into anything!" Chat tried desperately, but there was no point.

"Cover me!" Ladybug yelled behind her, flinging herself up to the building where Memory Lane stood.

She laughed manually. "You should have listened to the kitty. Too late! I'll squash you like the bug you are!" She screamed, lunging at her.

Ladybug dodged the attack, and Memory Lane snickered.

"Soon you'll know what my name means, Ladybug!!" She yelled, pressing her pin, shooting out a bright yellow beam, that Ladybug had to do flips to avoid. Barely avoid.

"Told you so, Bugaboo," Chat teased.

"Not now," she grumped.

"Ladybug," Memory Lane snarled. " I can sense your FEAR!" She cackled.

"That must be her power!" She yelled to Chat Noir.

"Memory Lane- of course- she can access our memories!" Chat went pale.

"What's the matter, kitty- got something to hide?" Said the villain, shooting a beam at him. Ladybug and Chat Noir leaped down off the building.

"We need to assess." Ladybug started, taking deep, shaky breaths.

"No kidding," smirked Chat Noir.

"It's been Fun, super losers! But I have some important business to attend!" She said, jumping from roof to roof.

"Come on, we have to follow her!" Chat yelled.

"She must be going to Lila's," Ladybug added.

"What?" Chat Noir asked.

"How do you know?"

"She got in a fight with her today." Ladybug offered. She could tell he wanted more of an explanation.

"Seriously kitty, I thought you were plugged into all the gossip," Ladybug joked, flicking the bell around the neck of his costume.

The two superhero's flung themselves into the air, following the golden glow of the villain in the distance.

They arrived at Lila Rossi's house minutes after Memory Lane. House? Thought Ladybug. Yeah right. This is a mansion! Thought Ladybug, scanning the 'house.'

They scaled the building, bursting through the window they saw the villain go through. Ladybug felt all of her color be drained from her face. The sight in that room made her want to faint.

Lila was layin lump on the floor, tears running down her face. The villain stood over her, eyes glowing intensely, giving the room around her an eerie glow. Ladybug was frozen in shock.

Memory Lane's eyes went back to their normal gold appearance, and she smirked at the heroes. "It's too late. I know all her secrets! And when I discover your secret identities, I will broadcast them to the whole world, just like this!"

She touched her pin, and a screen appeared in front of her.

"Citizens of the world! My secrets have been exposed by this brat" she signaled to Lila's unconscious body- "so now I will expose hers! To be honest, Lila Rossi is a brat with no accomplishments! She had never been to Hollywood, not is she a defendant of a super heroine. She is just a liar! How can we know her name is even Lila Rossi?" She pressed the pin, concealing the screen.

Chat Noir was the first to get out of his daze, hurling himself at the villain. His sudden moment snapped Ladybug out of it too, and she rushed to assist her partner.

But then she saw Memory Lane's hand move in the direction of her pin. She saw Chat noir extend his baton. It was all in slow motion. Chat noir was

Right in her line of Fire! Ladybug knew she had to do something- and fast!

Slow motion wasn't slow enough for Ladybug to come up with an alternative.

She dove right in front of Chat Noir, letting time resume regular speed.

The beam hit Ladybug square in the chest. A direct hit. He heard his partner scream her name in a pained voice.

What had she gotten herself into this time?

A/N: This story's been in the works for a couple weeks now. Let's see how everyone reacts to this chapter, then I'll decide when I'm going to start on the next chapter :)