Y'know, I've noticed a lack of omegaverse fanfictions for this fandom (or I haven't been looking hard enough and, to be honest, I wasn't really purposely looking for that but *shrugs*). So I figured what better way to introduce myself to the community and make a first impression with my first story being in the omegaverse?
*high-fives self* Great idea, me.
And this is also an aged-up AU. Adrien will be 18, Marinette will be 17. Because writing a story like this about 14 year olds is *shivers* eugh.
So that's enough blathering from me. Let's get this show on the road.
"Chat, watch out!"
Ladybug swung her yo-yo at the black cat's ankle and it quickly wound itself around. She gave a harsh yank which sent Chat Noir flailing backwards just as something went sailing through where his head used to be. Feeling her yo-yo unravel from his ankle Chat quickly somersaulted backwards to land on his feet by her side again. "Thank you, m'lady."
"Don't thank me yet-" Ladybug began, suddenly grabbing Chat's wrist and yanking him down to duck under another projectile. She grunted in frustration and looked up at their attacker, whom was standing quite a ways away from the duo.
"You two talk too much to be in a library." the villain sneered. He was known as the Stickler. As in 'stickler for the rules'. He was armed with a pad and pen and would scribble out rules on the paper before sending them flying towards either one of the heroes, the paper turning into whatever was needed to keep them from breaking whatever rule was writting down in mid air as it went. "I think you ned to quiet down." He scribbled out the words 'NO TALKING' down onto his notepad and hastily tore the paper from his book to send it at them. Halfway between him and the heroes it turned into a large strap of tape to aim for their mouths. Chat extended his baton and swung it at the tape, thinking he would send it towards the wall instead. However, it stuck to his baton and started crawling up towards his hand with intentions of covering his mouth. He yelped and started to try and shake it off.
"Here, let me." Ladybug used her yo-yo to lock around the baton and threw it towards the wall, thus successfully smacking the tape against it and rendering it useless. She retracted her yo-yo and handed the stick back to her partner. "The akuma must be in his notepad."
"Right, so how do we get it away from him?" Chat asked. He kept his baton at the ready in case he needed to knock anything else away.
"No toys in the library either!" Stickler yelled, hastily writing that command on his notepad and sending it off.
The note turned into a small toy chest with a lock on it, the top open wide as it crashed to the floor and a strong rush of suction started to come from it. The yo-yo and the baton started pulling from their wielders' hands, drawn to the box but still clutched desperately so. Their feet slid against the floor as they grunted in effort.
"Any ideas yet?!" Chat called over the pulling air, his claws scratching against his baton.
Ladybug's jaw set determinedly, her eyes narrowing. She had no other choice. She pulled hard on her yo-yo and sent it up into the air.
"Lucky charm!"
From the air and into her waiting hand came a toy sticky hand. She raised an eyebrow and looked to Chat.
"Serious case of sticky fingers?" He asked with a shrug.
Ladybug rolled her eyes and started peering around the room with focused vision, looking for anything that stood out to her. The hand, the toy box, the book shelf, Chat himself, and the akumatized book. Ladybug smiled.
"Got it." Ladybug looked to Chat. "Chat, let the box move you closer! Use your cataclysm!"
"On it!" Chat Noir grinned and loosened his stance for the suction to force him faster to it, at the same time raising his free hand. "Cataclysm!" And his power summoned around his paw.
Hawkmoth's glowing symbol appeared before Stickler's eyes. "No, don't let him touch it! Get their miraculouses!"
Stickler growled and took a readying stance, about to surge forward but it was too late. Chat's hand landed on the toy chest mere seconds before his baton could disappear into it and it crumpled into nothing. Stickler howled in anger as the duo regained their footing and smirk triumphantly. Chat looked back at Ladybug for the next move and she nodded subtly to the bookcase just a few feet away then glanced to their opponent. Chat Noir trailed her gaze and gave a nod that he understood.
Chat leapt forward and bounced off the side of the bookshelf, entering a pouncing position as he rebounded towards Stickler. His attention was immediately drawn to the leather-esque clad hero and his grip tightened on his pen.
"No catapulting off the furniture!" he commanded. He rushed his scrawl across the pad - 'NO LEAPING' - and practically threw it at Chat with the piece of paper turning into chains last second.
Chat gasped and thrust his baton in front of him to throw the chains off course before crashing head first into Stickler, thus forcing him to drop the notepad in the process. Ladybug grinned and swung the sticky hand at the pad before snapping it back after it successfully clasped onto it. She caught the pad with ease and broke it in half over her knee. The butterfly slipped out from the torn pages and started to fly away.
"No more evil-doing for you, evil akuma!" Ladybug said, preparing her yo-yo. "Time to de-evilize!" She sent her yo-yo at the big and it split open to catch it before returning to her hand. "Gotcha!"
Ladybug pressed the center spot and released the now cleansed butterfly with a smile, watching it as it went. "Bye bye, little butterfly." She says. Smiling to herself, she tossed the sticky hand into the air with a victorious, "Miraculous Ladybug!"
The swarms of ladybugs freed themselves to return the affected parts of Paris to normal as they usually did, saving the villain for last and returning him to his normal self still dressed in his hall monitor attire. He picked his head up and placed his hand in his hair with a look of confusion.
"Pound it!" Ladybug and Chat said in unison and shared a fist bump.
"So, m'Ladybug," Chat said. He nodded to the exit of the library but gestures to the window. "Whaddya say we hit the town for a bit, hm? Maybe see the sights?"
Ladybug laughed softly with a slight shake of her head. She was more than used to Chat Noir's flirting after having to put up with it for almost four years now since they started on this superhero escapade. As endearing as it was, she knew that he knew it could never happen. Not now. Her mouth opened to speak a playfully denying retort as she always did, but the beeping of both their miraculouses did all the speaking for her.
"As lovely as that sounds, kitty cat, I've got other places to be." She reached forward and flicked his bell. She walked past him towards the windows, feeling his gaze follow her the whole time, and stepped onto the ledge to push a window open.
"I'll get a yes out of you one of these days." Chat swore with a grin.
Ladybug gave him a look over the shoulder and grinned, winking at him. "Good luck with that." She faced the outside world and sent out her yo-yo.
Chat gasped and placed his hand over his heart. "Ladybug, did you just make a pun?" He asked.
Instead of answering, Ladybug laughed. And in the blink of an eye she was gone.
Chat Noir stood there watching the spot she'd just been mere seconds ago with a lovestruck expression; something else that had never changed over the years. He sighed with a light chuckle at her pun and he, too, made his way to the window.
Marinette landed on the rooftop of her home and crouched down to open the hatch, slipping inside as silently as possible and landing on the bed with a soft grunt. She sighed and sat down. "Tikki, spots off." she murmured.
Her Ladybug alter-ego fell from her body and her kwami reformed before her with a bit of a tired smile. "Great work today, Marinette." Tikki praised, which made her holder smile shyly.
"Thanks, Tikki. I'm just glad we took care of him when we did, otherwise there's no way I would've had enough time to finish my homework." Marinette said with s shake of her head. She leaned forward and picked up a sealed container of cookies from her nightstand. Opening it, she took one out and offered it to Tikki whom immediately took it happily and started nomming on it. "That's the second akuma this week already." she said, resealing the container and returning it back to its spot.
"That's the life of Ladybug. A hero's work is never done." Tikki said.
"Yes, but how many villains has Chloe caused on her own in the past four years?" Even thinking of the blonde daddy's girl nearly made Marinette's blood boil. "And this one was just because she was using her phone in the middle of an assembly and gave the hall monitor serious attitude." She sighed and hung her head. "I was hoping during our senior year she would be better but she's only gotten worse."
"You can't always expect people to change, Marinette. Some are beyond that reach." Tikki said.
Marinette sighed and gave her kwami a light smile. "You're right, Tikki..." She said. "Still, it would be nice if she wasn't the cause for so many akuma attacks. Sometimes it makes me wonder who the real villain is. Hawkmoth for making them, or Chloe for always giving him the ammunition he needs."
It had also occurred to Marinette that Chloe could've been doing this just to be a little spiteful due to the fact that she wasn't allowed to hold on to her miraculous twenty four seven. Carapace - Nino - had accidentally let it slip last year that he and Rena Rouge were eventually granted permission to keep their miraculouses with them when Hawkmoth started to grow more and more dangerous and less restrained with his attempts. Marinette tried to explain to her as Ladybug that because she went and blew her cover sky high upon first receiving Pollen, it was too high risk to leave her in Chloe's possession. God forbid Hawkmoth try to just waltz right into her home and steal the bee miraculous away or attack her directly.
Then again, Chloe could've also just been being her typical bitchy self.
Marinette hummed and slid off her bed, making her way to her desk. She sat down in the chair and bent over to grab her backpack to take out her text book and notebook with a pencil. Tikki floated over and settled on the desk to watch her as she set up to do her homework. Just as she flipped open to the textbook page, a jingling sound came from her computer and the screen came to life with the display of her lock screen. Which was an image from Adrien's recent photoshoot at the Eiffel Tower overlooking Paris. Marinette knew what the sound was for as she'd set it purposely for that and a small weight of dread settled in her stomach. Her features fell as she reluctantly pressed the space bar on her keyboard and typed in her password.
The screen changed to her browser, a few tabs left open to research sites and YouView where she was watching the new music video from Clara Nightingale the other night. However, none of those were what the notification was for. Marinette opened a new tab and typed in her site destination, but hesitated to click 'go'.
"Are you alright, Marinette?" Tikki asked. She lifted from the desk and moved closer to her wielder.
"I'm fine, I'm just..." The girl heaved a sigh and lowered her head. "I'm afraid of what I'm going to see on there, you know?"
"But why? I thought you liked checking out the website?"
"I do. But lately it's gotten way more personal than before, and... It's scary when I think about it."
Marinette clicked 'go', thus refreshing her tab to the homepage of the very LadyBlog itself. Marinette gulped subtly as her eyes scanned the page for the latest update from her best friend that she'd been notified about. She scrolled up to the 'RECENT' section. There were two new updates. Another video with Alya capturing the fight just as it started in the school's common area and somewhat narrating the whole thing which made Marinette smile a little.
"Did you guys see that?" Alya said excitedly, aiming the camera to Chat Noir. He'd managed to knock Stickler into the stairs. Ladybug jumped down from the second story and Alya squealed just before Marinette paused the video. She scrolled up again and the dread that had first developed in her gut strengthened.
'WHAT IS LADYBUG'S PRESENTATION?'
Marinette groaned and put her head in her hands, her face flush with embarrassment and annoyance. This is what she'd feared. Tikki came down and pat Marinette's head gently. "Is this what scared you?"
Marinette made a sound of confirmation and nodded her head weakly before picking herself back up to look at the screen in dismay. "I love Alya, but I wish she could see how invasive this is of my- I mean, Ladybug's privacy. Not to mention how much danger it could put her in. And me if she knew."
"You know how Alya is, Marinette." Tikki said. "She likes giving the people what they want and they want to know about Ladybug."
"Yeah, I know that." Marinette groaned and leaned into the chair, putting her head back and turning away from the desk. "But it's super dangerous for that information to get into the wrong hands, especially during a fight. Imagine if Hawkmoth tried to use it against me with his next villain? Not to mention I don't need to be distracted by guys trying to court me left and right."
"Maybe she thinks Ladybug can handle herself because she's a superhero." Tikki suggested and shrugged with her hands raised.
Marinette huffed a breath through her nose and looked to the screen again. "That's just it, Tikki. Ladybug may be a superhero, but she's also human. Plus, I don't see anyone asking what Chat Noir's presentation is." Not that she wanted her partner in that kind of danger either, but maybe she'd feel better about it if it was directed to both of them rather than just her.
"That's because Ladybug is desirable, Marinette." her kwami explained.
Marinette cringed at the word 'desirable', but her heart also sank. Ladybug was desirable. Marinette was just Marinette. No one cared really about what her presentation was, not even the one person she sort of wanted to care. It didn't matter either way, though, because she needed to keep herself just as safe as she did when she was Ladybug. Marinette sighed and grabbed the mouse, moving the cursor to the top of the screen and closing the page without a second thought.
"Let's just forget about it, Tikki." she said quietly, looking to the kwami who gave her a nod. "I've still got homework to do anyway."
"Ladybug's totally an alpha. Look how she always takes control in battle. Natural alpha."
"What are you talking about? Chick's totally an omega. Girls like that always end up being the opposite of their personalities."
"Man if she's an omega I'd show her a real alpha"
"Gross man. I bet Chat Noir's already got dibs anyway if she's omega."
"Like hell he does. Ladybug wouldn't be with a guy like Chat Noir."
"Did you all ever consider maybe she's a beta?"
Adrien grit his teeth as he continued to scroll through the comments that had accumulated over the past few hours on Alya's theory on her blog. The more he read them, the more aggravated he got. His eyes may have been green, but he was seeing slightly red. He'd been reading comments like this for the past few years, unable to help his curiosity.
"Why do you keep reading those comments?" Plagg asked, zipping up beside Adrien with a piece of camembert between his paws. "They just make you upset anyway."
Adrien's nose scrunched up from the smell of the cheese and he turned his head away from it a bit. "I can't help it, Plagg. The way they talk about Ladybug pisses me off."
"But you keep reading them. They don't even ask about you, you know."
The blond rolled his eyes and sighed. While he'd noticed a lack of concern for what he was, he didn't really care. He only had eyes for Ladybug. And while he was also curious about her presentation, he also respected her privacy and somewhat guessed that with that kind of information floating around she could end up in serious danger. That was the last thing he wanted. He hardly expected her to tell him anyway, because she didn't even want to share her identity.
"I wish I could tell Alya to stop posting things like that on her blog." He said.
"Why not let Ladybug handle it herself?" Plagg spoke through a mouthful of his cheese, which made a smile almost appear on Adrien's face.
"Because she's too nice for that, and she knows how much Alya's blog means to her." he said. He shook his head. "She respects her right to post what she wants on it."
Plagg made a face but shrugged and polished off the rest of his camembert, patting his stomach with satisfaction. Adrien chuckled and got up from his computer to grab his school bag from his bed. He'd stalled long enough in starting his homework and really needed to get on it. Unzipping his bag, he reached in and started rifling through it to find the worksheet for his first class tomorrow. Once he found it he took it out and splayed it on his bed while he searched for a pencil next. Beside his bag, his phone started to vibrate and lightly nudge around the comforter from the movement. Adrien raised an eyebrow and reached for his phone just as the screen lit up to show that the person contacting him was Nino. Adrien grinned and pressed the green button.
"Hey, dude!" Nino said before Adrien could speak. "What are you doing right now?"
"Uh, I was just about to start my homework. Why?" Adrien said. He picked up his mechanical pencil and opened it to check for lead.
"Nathan invited me to go hang out with him and said you could come along." Nino said. "You down?"
Adrien's lip pulled back slightly with thought. He glanced between his pencil and the worksheet. "I don't know. Where are you guys planning on going?"
"We don't know yet, we're gonna decide when we meet up. Are you coming or not?"
Adrien smiled to himself and shrugged casually. Maybe homework could wait for a couple more hours. "Sure, I'm in. Meet you guys at the theater in fifteen."
"Sweet!" Nino said, and Adrien could practically see the fist pump his friend more than likely did. "See you soon."
Yeah, yeah, slow first chapter I know. But no way am I gonna rush right into the action! Gotta wait for that ;)
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