Miraculous Oneshot: Not This Way

Ladybug's POV

I'm trapped, chained to a wall, staring at Cat Noir. We were captured by Icy Elemental; a girl who was akumitized because of a feeling of unimportance. She was jealous that Cat Noir and I got to be super heroes, but not her. Her name's Chloe, no surprises.

"I'll let you two alone, so you can find out who you've been working with this whole time!" Icy Elemental cackles and with this, slams the cell door. I immediately start to struggle with the chains. I know that my identity will be revealed before my parter's because I used my lucky charm all too soon!

"We have three minutes to get out, or else..." I trail off and bite my lip. Cat Noir nods.

"I promise I won't look, okay?" He asks. I return his nod and sigh. We struggle with the chains for a full minute.

"Ah! Two minutes!" I can't help but shout. I hear another beep from across the room.

"Looks like I've got a little over that!" Cat Noir says. We struggle and it seems that two minutes go faster than it would seem! A familiar, pink glow starts at my feet and travels up my legs.

"NO NO NO! Close your eyes! This can't be happening! Not now, not this way!" I shout as the fuchsia arrives to my waist. I look over to see Cat's eyes closed. Good enough. No! Bad! Bad enough! I mean... I don't know what I mean. All I know is that I see tiki appear out of my earrings and a faint glow of green behind her. I gasp and snap my eyes tight.

"Tiki! Can you do something about these chains?" I ask.

"What about it, Plagg?" I hear Cat ask his Kwami. I hear silence, then two, tiny, gasps.

"What's wrong?" We both ask. I hear Tiki whisper in my ear.

"You should take a peek at that cat!" She giggles. I raise an eyebrow, eyes still shut.

"I hear from my Kwami that it won't be a mistake to see you, M'lady, may I?" Cat Noir asks in his usual, flirtatious tone.

"We might as well see..." I reply. I softly begin to open my eyes.

Cat Noir's POV

I slowly open my eyes until a familiar looking girl comes into view. I gasp. It's... it's... it's...

"Adrien?!" Marinette practically shrieks at me. She backs up as far against the wall as possible. We both sit there, speechless, our jaws dropped. You mean... oh geez! I mentally facepalm. I've been flirting with Marinette! Man, am I stupid! It's not a bad thing, sure, but school is gonna be very awkward! I never knew she had that much of an attitude!

"Wait, wait! Lemme just close my eyes for a second and reopen them to see if this is real!" Marinette says. I sigh and roll my eyes as she shuts hers. She opens them again and I give her a crooked smile. She gives out a yelp in surprise.

"You're real?! Ah! How-you-I-school-wha-Adrien-we..." She then gasps, as if in realization.

"I KISSED ADRIEN?!"

"What? You kissed... what? Who? Why? When? How?" I sputter. When was this?!

"OH NO! THE DARK CUPID! Do you reme- of course you don't! I had to... um... kiss... you?" She says and shrugs.

"Why?!" I ask. This is not fair! I got a kiss from Ladybug and didn't even know it!

"To lift a spell! Do you remember when the teacher taught us about fairy tales and she said that these things were conquered with true love's... true love's... wait. True love? How did the kiss work then?" I see Tiki fly out from behind Mari.

"Cause Mari, here, has been crushing on you ever since she became Ladybug!" She blurts out. Marinette gasp.

"Tiki! That's not-you can't just-Tiki!" I then see Plagg come out. Oh boy.

"Plagg! Don't-"

"Cat Noir has a crush on Ladybug!" He spills.

"Well, you just had to go and let the cat outa the bag, didn'tcha?" I say.

"Wait." Marinette says. "It makes sense! Marinette has a crush on Adrien and Cat Noir has a crush on Ladybug? Oh boy!" Just then, I see Icy Elemental strut into the room like she owns the place. Well, technically, she does. It's her house.

"Uh oh! Chloe!" I exclaim. Chloe gasps at the sight of us and I gulp.

"Adrien? Marinette? Wha..." She trails off and I roll my eyes.

"Let us go, Chloe!" Mari shouts.

"Not after a picture!" She waves her phone in her hand.

"You. Wouldn't. Dare." I say.

"Oh, but I would!" She scoffs and holds up the phone. I close my eyes and turn my head, in hopes to hide my identity. Just then, I hear a "hey!" from Icy. I open my eyes, and just like that, Mari and I drop to the ground, chains undone. I see our kwamis getting away with Chl- I mean Icy's phone. I laugh and they drop the phone into Ladybug's hands.

"Oh look, a new phone! Oops!" She drops the phone and crushes it under her foot.

"Wait, you're not Ladybug!" I exclaim. She gasps.

"Tiki, spots on!"

"Plagg, claws out!"

We both transform and she catches the akuma. Everything goes back to normal and Chloe gets to her feet.

"Wha-what happened?" She asks. "Ladybug, Cat Noir! OMG!" Mari and I gasp and look at each other, but she just hops around on her tiptoes, fangirling.

"Ugh," I mutter. Ladybug giggles and then gets out her yo-yo.

"Well, gotta run!" She says.

"Same!" And with this, we both dart out of the building and onto a rooftop. We burst out laughing and sit down on the edge of the roof.

"That was, haha, priceless!" I say.

"Yeah!" We both stop laughing and look at each other with smiles.

"I'm glad it was you, Adrien."

"Likewise, M'lady!" With one, fell, swoop, I grab her waist, and kiss Ladybug.