"You must keep this a secret. The Brotherhood must not know." A man said to his accomplice in a dark alley in Paris. I had been stalking them for an hour, eavesdropping on their conversation
"Yes, of course. For the Order." The man left, the other man staying behind. Once the man was out of earshot, I jumped down and, extending the blade from my wrist, stabbed him in the throat, not making a sound. I stood up and retracted the blade. After making sure no one saw the deed, I searched his body for papers. I found them and put them in an inside pocket of my jacket. I used the grapple hook my father gave to me and went back to the roofs, running to my apartment on the other side of the Seine.
The Next Day . . .
The bell rang as I approached Collège Françoise Dupont. Luckily, it's my first day here, so hopefully I wouldn't be called out for being late. I rolled up the sleeves of my red flannel shirt, which was unbuttoned to show a black t-shirt underneath, and put my phone back into the pocket of my army green cargo pants. I adjusted the black flat cap on my head and walked up the stairs. As I walked, a girl about my age brushed past me. I chuckled as she somewhat clumsily ran up a flight of stairs. A blonde boy ran past too, to the same classroom. I walked up the stairs to the same classroom as the other two, as it was also mine. I walked through the door.
"Adrien and Marinette, I hope both of y-" The teacher stopped as I walked through the door.
"Is this Miss Bustier's class?" I asked, standing in the door.
"Yes it is." She turned to the class. "This is Jacob Dorian. He moved here from the United States. He will be joining our class today."
"Ha! Pu-lease! We already have enough fashion failures here." A blonde girl who sat at the front of the class said.
"I'm looking at one right now." I said, staring her down as I walked up to my seat, which was in the back. I sat next to a girl that looked like she was from Italy.
"Nice ring you've got there." She said, pointing to my ring I wore on my right middle finger.
"Thanks." I said, rubbing my finger against the Brotherhood's insignia that was on it. "What's your name?"
"Lila Rossi."
"Nice to meet you, Lila." I said. I took out a notebook and began taking notes from the lesson.
After a few more classes, I heard an argument from outside. After a few minutes of the two arguing, one of them ran off. I continued taking notes. A few minutes later, one of the girl's phones went off.
"Miss Bustier!" A black girl said, standing up.
The teacher sighed. "Yes Alya, you may go."
"Thank you!" She said as she grabbed her bag as she ran off.
"Excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom." Adrien said, and he ran off. Marinette gave a similar excuse and ran off. I was certainly confused. Suddenly, the ground started shaking. Instinctively, I looked outside. There was a giant metal man, throwing cars across the city. As it stomped toward the school, everyone started running, I climbed to the roof and, removing my hat and putting a mask and hoodie on, ran to the action.
After running to where the action was, I saw two people. One, a girl with black hair, wearing a red mask and bodysuit, with black spots on it. The other wearing a black mask and bodysuit, with a belt making a tail and black cat ears.
"You've gotta be joking." I muttered as I used the grapple hook to get across a street, trying to get a better angle on the monster. I made sure the hood was still on my head before drawing a revolver. As the monster threw a car, I shot the gas tank with a special incendiary bullet, causing it to explode, the monster stumbling back from the blast. I climbed on top of one of the chimneys and made sure that the people were safe. The people weren't evacuated were already running away from the girl in the red suit swung down and landed next to me, using some sort of yo-yo.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"If I told you, I'd have to kill you." I said, holstering the gun as I started looking for any more opportunities to attack the monster. The cat-man, or is it man-cat, landed next to her.
"Oh, really? You and what army?" He asked.
"You should know that I am a one-man army." I said, standing up.
"So how do we stop that?" The girl asked, stepping forward.
"No idea. Wait." I looked at the girl's yo-yo again and got an idea. "Your yo-yo, can you use it to tie up that, thing's legs?"
"I see where you're going." He stood up and took out a bo-staff. "I'll distract him." He jumped down and started attacking it.
"Let's go." She jumped down and wrapped the string of the yo-yo around the legs of the monster. As it fell, the girl took an object from its hand and broke it. As it fell to the ground, a black butterfly flew out of it. "No more evildoing for you, little akuma." She said, doing something with her yo-yo, and half of it disappeared. "Time to de-evilize!" she shouted as she swung the yo-yo at the butterfly, capturing it as the other half reappeared. She brought it back to her hand. She opened it again. "Bye-bye, little butterfly." she said as a now-white butterfly flew away. She picked up an object that was in the same color scheme as her costume. "Miraculous Ladybug!" She shouted as she threw the object into the air. It turned into several little ladybugs and they flew around the city, returning it to normal. I use the grapple hook to quickly flee the scene, and get back to the school. I took the mask and hoodie off and put them back into my backpack before anyone noticed. I put my hat and backpack on and walked around the city. Apparently, after an 'akuma attack' school was let out early. I could tell why. Quite a few people were shook up over what happened. I started walking down the steps of the school when both the girl and the boy from earlier ran up them, rushing back to the classroom. I chuckled, realizing their identities as the heroes from earlier.
"Hey, Jacob?" I heard Lila say. I turned to the bottom of the steps, where she was standing.
"Yes?" I asked, wondering what she wanted.
"Can we, talk?" She sounded nervous.
"Sure." I said, now curious. She lead me to a part of the Seine that I was familiar with, and we sat at a bench.
"Earlier today, you sounded like you didn't hate me." She said.
"Why would I hate you, exactly?" I asked.
"A few weeks ago, when I moved here, I made up a bunch of lies about myself. It got me into bigger trouble, and now everyone at school hates me." She looked away from me.
"Looks like you need to get on the road to redemption." I said.
"What do you mean?" She asked, looking at me.
"All you have to do is ask for forgiveness from them. Trust me, from what I've seen from my hours here, they're all nice people. Well, except that blonde jerk." We both chuckled at that.
"But, what if they don't forgive me?"
"You never know anything if you don't try. And if they initially reject you, just keep asking. They'll forgive you eventually." I gave her a pat on the back. She smiled.
"Thank you." She said.
"No problem. I gotta go." I got up and, after waving goodbye to her, I went back to my apartment. I took off the flannel, put the mask and hoodie back on, and put my hidden blade on my left arm. After making sure it was calibrated, I went to the roofs through the window. The hunt for the Templar's accomplice had begun.
This was fun to write. Tell me if you like the idea, and let me know if you want more of this. Thanks for reading!
-The SteelNerfer