This was a disaster.

Marinette never really understood the mechanics behind soulmate bonds. While the concept of one person, one partner, one constant to walk beside her in life was the epitome of her romantic daydreams the actual science behind the whole mess seemed… silly at best.

And in the case of the newly minted superheroine completely catastrophic.

She was going to have words with whatever cosmic bullshit decided a soulmate bond should result in an actual, physical bonding.

Marinette met the strange green gaze of her apparent partner with growing horror.

"Please tell me you're able to move."

The cat boy wriggled uselessly as they swayed like a pathetic pendulum of magical spandex. His apologetic grin was nearly blinding as the blood rushed to her head.

"Looks like we're stuck with each other."

Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.

Not even a superhero for five minutes and she'd already screwed up. She'd told Tikki this was a mistake.

"Oh my god."

Marinette struggled to pull away only to send them both swinging as her yoyo swayed against their combined weight. It was horrifyingly hopeless - they were plastered together chest to knees.

"Huh," Her soulmate said, shaking his ridiculous curtain of blonde hair. "This wasn't how I pictured our first meeting."

"Why couldn't it have been a handshake," She groaned, squeezing her eyes shut against the reality of their situation.

Somewhere downtown a giant stone monster was wreaking havoc across Paris and she was stuck - literally stuck - here with her soulmate.

And to think she woke up this morning worried about Chloe.

"Not that I'm not loving this," The boy said, face rapidly turning red although from embarrassment or the rush of blood to his head Marinette wasn't entirely sure. "But do you think you could get us down?"

She could not that it did them much good as they fell awkwardly to the ground. Like some morbid twist on a three-legged race the pair of them shuffled together mumbling stilted apologies until they were both standing.

"Now what?" She said, doing her best to avoid looking anywhere other than the face of her partner, which was rather difficult considering he was hardly four inches away.

God, this was a disaster.

The only thing she could say for this was at least they still had autonomy over their arms.

"I guess we go find Stoneheart."

Marinette gaped. "You're kidding me, right?"

Cat boy shrugged, sending her shoulders shrugging with him. The unexpected action made him grin.

She scowled.

"Don't."

"You're no fun," He said, eyes sparkling. "And no I wasn't kitten. We've got a job to do or did your kwami not explain?"

"You're lucky our knees are stuck together right now," She snapped. "Or else the only kittens you'd be having would be from the pound."

His smile faltered. She continued, frowning down at their joined torsos.

"We're not going to be able to help anyone like this. I don't know about you but I was already skeptical about this whole thing before I was super glued to another person."

"So… we wait?"

"Yeah," She sighed, deflating. "I guess we wait."

Some superhero she was turning out to be.

Marinette startled when his hand squeezed her shoulder. Meeting his cat-eyed stare, he smiled.

"Don't look so glue-my, bug girl. We've got this."