Hello everyone. Hope everyone is having a good day wherever you may be.
This is a request fanfiction I made for Brokenheart05. Unlike my previous fanfiction planning, this is a multi-chapter fanfic that's all been written out already. However, I feel like it's too long to have it all in one chapter, so I'm making it into 3 chapters. It'll all be up by tonight (UTC-08:00/Pacific time), so look forward to it.
If you would like a request fanfic as well, feel free to pm me the idea and any other specific details you want. However, I won't do any NSFW's (implied NSFW is ok depending on request).
Enjoy, and stay miraculous!
"You're fired!" an old man yells in front of a woman with a suit and microphone in hand. She clutches onto it tight as she feels the instant pressure growing rapidly on her mind.
"B-But sir, it wasn't me. I swear-"
"SILENCE!" She winces back; the people around them look at her in mixed feelings.
"I've seen your kind before" her bo- her former boss explains. "You think you can do whatever you want just to get to the top, but you know what girl, cheating will never get you anywhere in show business, especially when trying to ruin someone else's career."
He points to the back as the audience moves to see another woman with a fancy dress weeping on the ground.
"H-How… How could you? Furthermore, we were partners. I thought we were friends!"
"No! It wasn't me! Please believe me! Someone- Anyone! I didn't do it."
"Hmph, useless" He turns back and heads towards the exit. Before he leaves, he left one last statement.
"Be glad - at least I'm doing you a favor of all the 'good work' you did, before your reputation gets any worse. Leave, and never come back here." Soon enough, almost everyone leaves except for one man who was grabbed by the woman in the dress. Hesitantly, he helps her up. The woman then sneers once up at the lonely weeping woman.
"Hehe, serves you right. It was nice working with you!"
"How... How dare you?" She hesitantly asks. "I told you… This was my lifelong dream…"
"And it makes it even better for myself! Look at you, cowering down on your knees with that pathetic look on your… everything actually. Ho-Hohohohoho~" She continues to laugh at her former colleague's pain while the woman ever so fails to hold back her tears.
"O-Oy. Stop it Hilda. This isn't right."
"Shut up Todd" she whispers with a dangerous tone, making him jump back. Nevertheless, she still holds on to his hand as she looks back to the woman with the smug grin back on her face.
"I guess since this is the end of our 'partnership,' I can also give you one last piece of advice Aria." Aria gasped. She honestly didn't want to hear what, but her curiosity got the best of her and lifted her head. She instantly regretted it.
"Only the strong like I can reach the top of the top." She lets go of Todd's hand for a moment towards Aria and violently pulls her hair to make her look eye to eye. "Fools like you, who think they can be at my level though 'hard work' and 'never giving up,' are just begging to be kicked around like the weaklings you are."
Aria hated the pain of her roots prying from her scalp and the kick in the stomach she later received, but what she hated the most, even more than the woman in front of her, was seeing Todd at the back seeing her in her current state. After coughing a bit from the blow, she glares back at Hilda.
"I…I hate you!"
"Hmph, good, you're starting to get it" Hilda replies. She whispers in Aria's ear before letting her go, laughing all the way as she leaves the studio with a worried Todd in tow. All there was left was a screaming Aria in tears who continued to weep as she lies on the ground when a butterfly heads to catch it's prey.
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You may as very well be lucky to have the chance to dust off the webs of spiders.
Marinette walks by the Kidz+ Studios to watch Adrien's first live broadcast on modeling (because of his father) with their friends when screaming occurred inside the building.
"What was that?!" Marinette questions herself. Tikki comes out from her purse.
"Marinette! I think an akuma is inside there."
"An akuma?!" The two briefly look back again from more screaming before looking back at each other.
"Let's go Tikki!"
"Right!"
They leave to transform in a more private place before Marinette barges in as Ladybug. She immediately sees the place darker than usual with tints of green creeping up from the walls, and spider webs all over. Some of them held unconscious people up; Ladybug tried to rescue one of them but to no avail.
"Man they're stuck there really tight. What on earth happened in here? How long has this been going on?" Looking around once more, she finds the doors further into the building are blocked by more webs except for one. She then thought about her partner, hat Noir, and wondered if he was aware of the new situation. Ladybug picked up her yoyo to contact him, however she struggled to receive any connection in the building and became worried on the trapped people and a bit of the new victim.
"No way, Ladybug?" The heroine immediately turns around at her name to find her classmate, Alya, running to her. Alya briefly stops to take a breathe, but soon after beams up to Ladybug in relief.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so glad you're here Ladybug! Wifi went down when the akuma appeared, and there was no way to get out of here."
"What? But i got in through-" She points to the entrance of the studio, but found it shut tight with my webs all over. "No! Those screams earlier must have been a trap for me. Alya, can you explain to me what happened?"
"Y-yeah!" Alya nods. "I was talking with my friends upstairs when Lady Araneae appeared. She's the one you're looking for…"
A while ago:
"Don't worry Adrien. You'll do great out there."
"Easy for you to say Nino. I'm a model; I'm not necessarily required to be behind on any camera other than the kind for photo shoots. And people will be seeing this in real time all over Paris. What if I mess up along the way?"
Alya and Nino, along with Marinette who had yet to arrive, to see Adrien on a talk show as a rising, successful young model by his father. They're, at the moment, trying to ease the nerves of their popular friend, who's sitting on a bench with a new attire different from his everyday wear, and bottle of water tightly clutched in his hands.
"Adrien, you claimed to have practiced everyday at home since if got this role from your father, and you even studied what to say during lessons." Alya explains. She stood with Nino in front of Adrien. "You're lucky Madame Bustier let you off that one time for not paying attention in class."
"Ugh, don't remind me." Setting the bottle aside, he rests his head on his hands and sighs. "I can't mess this up. Father will kill me if I did, and I rather face that than going out in public again for being stupid in front of thousands of people."
"Dude, you are not stupid" Alya retorts.
"Mmmm~ I don't know…" Alya glares at Nino, though he was too deep in thought to notice it until he snapped his fingers. "Wait, I got it. It's the hair for sure. You do look stupid because of it. It throws off your whole 'Adrien-y' aura" Nino scruffles Adrien's hair, which was previously stylized for the broadcast. Adrien jumps back and smacks Nino's hand away, trying to fix his hair back to its normal style.
"Hey! That took over an hour to fix."
"Well it doesn't matter now, and never will." Nino shakes Adrien a bit as he rests his hands on Adrien's shoulders to make him look in his eyes. "You're awesome, and you are going to show just how awesome you are out there Mr. Adrien Agreste."
"Yeah" Alya says, pumping her fist near herself. "We'll be here to cheer you on, so relax and enjoy yourself, or we'll send Nino here to be you."
Nino lets go of Adrien, and dramatically takes off his glasses with a smug grin on his face. "Hey. Big time model Adrien Agreste here. How's it going?" Clicking his tongue with a wink at nothing, Adrien and Alya laugh at Nino's bad impression till their sides hurt.
"Oh my gosh. Hahahahahaha... Thanks Alya, Nino." Adrien replies with a nod, finally smiling after calming down. He takes a quick breath and stands up to fix himself a bit more, giving himself a better look of confidence.
"Hey Adrien, we'll be on in 10!" the director of the show says, and all three teens nod
"Thank you" Adrien says. The director walks away, and Adrien takes a another, more deep breath. "Ok, I think I'm ready guys."
"Good luck out there Adrien" Nino says with a double thumbs up while Alya nods.
"Marinette is also coming right?" Adrien asks.
"Yeah. She texted me a while ago that she's almost here" Alya replies.
"That's good. I would love for all of my closest friends to be here." Alya and Nino smile at this, and Adrien was about to say more when a woman comes up to them.
"Adrien, sorry, but we'll need to borrow you for a minute."
"Ok. I'll be there." Adrien gives a quick nod to his friends before making his way to the stage. Nino notices Alya's small chuckle to herself.
"Man Marinette will freak out when she hears about this" Alya exclaims, shivering in excitement, while Nino nods.
"Still got a lot of work to do though. Poor boy has yet to notice anything."
"Did you ever find out about who he's crushing on?" Nino shakes his head.
"I'm kinda leaning on Ladybug still because of the Jackady incident, but I don't want to mistaken it for admiration. Other than that, there doesn't seem to be anyone else in mind,"
"Hmm? I think we should still include Ladybug as a potential rival. A reporter must be open to all kinds of assumptions."
"I'm not a reporter though," Nino crosses his arms, "and it's not like we're telling this to anyone."
"Well consider it training for me" Alya adds. "Plus, we're trying to get Marinette and Adrien together. At the very least, Marinette is more comfortable around Adrien, and let's not forget that Marinette has a better chance than Adrien since he spends more time with her than Ladybug."
"Or unless… Adrien is Chat Noir!" Nino hits his fist with the palm of his other hand as the idea strikes his mind, though Alya didn't seemed amused.
"...Really?"
"What?! Don't tell me you never thought about it?!"
"Well I did once-"
"He even has the same hair color!"
"There are a bunch of other blonde guys Nino. Besides, Adrien is a lot more reserved and less cheeky than Chat, don't you think?"
"I don't know about the cheeky part since I've yet to talk to the man one on one, but he is more of a "do-it-at-the-moment" kind of guy than Adrien's "think-before-action" kind of thinking."
"Well, not that I don't like Chat Noir, but I'm more focused on Ladybug. Why don't you give it a try?"
"... Maybe. If I get the opportunity." Nino answers a bit after. Alya chuckles out loud with a grin.
"Great ready to feel the burn of a reporter's world junior reporting intern."
"Hey, exactly whose intern is it I'm under?! And hey, how hard can it be?"
Just then, the lights went off. People gasped, and a few shouted in surprised, while Alya and Nino stayed still.
"Woah, why are the lights off?" Nino asked out loud.
"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling about this." Alya answers.
The lights, without warning, went on again, though they find that the room has changed. Some people, including Alya and Ninom gasped at how the walls turned green, and a few screamed to find an unexpected creature in the scene.
On stage appeared but a lone woman in purple with long brown hair, short fangs, and a pair of weird sunglasses that made her seem to have another pair of eyes on her forehead. Her head secured a top hat with a cartoonish spider face on the side, and her outfit consisted of a black twin coat on top of a white collared shirt and a black leotard, plus fishnet stockings and black high heels. In particular, the collared shirt had a design around the waist that made it look like she had extra arms crisscrossing in the area. On one of her black gloved hands rests a black and green microphone that she started speaking into.
"Is the camera on? Great! -ahem- Greetings everyone! My name is Lady Araneae, and I'll be your host for today's broadcast! Tee hee 3" She poses with a wink in a cutesie pose, but everyone in the same room as her were too shocked to react.
'No way! What happened to Adrien?' Nino thought as he side glances to Alya.
'Marinette is also on her way here… Darn it, I hope she hasn't come inside yet.' Alya thought while glancing at Nino as well.
"Boo boo! I thought people would like that. Oh well." Lady Araneae quickly recovers. "Now then, I would love to get to the main program, but the stars have yet to arrive folks! Stay tuned for this once-in-a-lifetime special: Lady Araneae's Close-up One on One with Miss Ladybug and Mr. Chat Noir!" She jumps towards the camera and whispers to it, though everyone can still hear her through the mic: "Are Ladybug's powers actually lame? Will we get to see what's under the mask for the badly dressed duo? Stay tuned!"
In that moment, the backdrop falls behind Lady Araneae and Chat Noir came out with his staff prepared for a fight.
"Meow. Hope I didn't ruin the fun yet?"
"Hmm? Oh no, of course not!" Lady Araneae gleefully replies.
"There's sure no harm in arriving early, my little kitty cat." She turns back to face him. "But first, let me make some small preparations first."
"Preparations?!" Chat asks, getting into a fighting stance.
"Yeah." She raises both her arms. "After all," she smirks, "it's not appropriate for the audience if we don't have a stage first. And all of our guests haven't arrived yet!"
With a snap of her fingers, webs start shooting from the air, and people start to lift into the darkness up above. Alya, Nino, and a couple of other people dodged this by jumping to the ground as Chat Noir watches the rest fly into nothing.
"No!" He starts charging into Lady Araneae. "What did you do to them?!" He tries to swing a hit on Lady Araneae, but she catches it with ease and throws him over her to a few inches in front of Alya and Nino.
"Chat Noir!" Alya and Nino attended to the hero while Lady Araneae laughed out loud.
"Now then, why don't you wait in the green room while I set things up." With another snap of her fingers, more spider webs rained upon them. Alya dodges back, but Nino this time was caught along with Chat Noir. They screamed as they went up, and Alya desperately tried to reach for them but failed.
"No! Chat Noir! Nino!"
"Oops~ missed one." More fingers snapped, but Alya dodged a couple of them until she felt the door behind her and ran through it. She sprinted for her life at the unrecognizable hallways, hoping no more spider webs would get her, though Lady Araneae gave up when she left the room.
"Aww, pity. Oh well, I get her when I see her. Now then, how do those things work?"
"I kept running until I was tired. I felt like things were done for until I saw you. That's everything that happened until now."
"I see. It must have been so tough for you." Ladybug pats the back of her friend's back. "Thank you Alya, You were so brave."
Alya smiles again as she nods in response. "Thank you Ladybug. Hearing you say that makes me so happy! So, what do we do know?"
"Well, now that I know the situation more, it would be dangerous for you to stay here by yourself. Let's go look for her-"
"Don't worry Ladybug! I know exactly where you are." Ladybug and Alya looked at the source of the shrilled voice and ran to a big tv. They see Lady Araneae waving at them; Alya recognizes the room she's in to be different than the previous one.
"Hello Ladybug. I. See. You." She says while pointing at the camera. Ladybug clutches her hands.
"Lady Araneae!"
"Oh, you learned who I am! I guess it was smart to let that little one run around then Goodie for me!"
"What did you do to Chat Noir and this girl's friend?!"
"Woah, gu-rum-pay! Don't worry though, they're safe. I also left the boy with Mr. Kitty Cat so he wouldn't be alone. See… Wait, hold on… this one?" The screen changes to the boys, who are looking around the area they're in until Chat noticed the screens.
"Ah, my lady!"
"Chaton!"
"Gasp~ nicknames! Can I have one too? How about Lady, or maybe Ara?"
"Shut up!" Nino shouts. "Stop fooling around and let everyone go!"
"Yeah! Just what are you planning anyway you… you witch?!"
"Alya!" Ladybug harshly whispers while Lady Araneae laughs.
"Oh, but that's why I'm doing this! Where's the fun in battling anyway? Too much work and sweat for little ol' me against two, well-seasoned people such as yourselves. You see, I want to give you all a chance."
"A chance? You'll give us your akumatized item then? Most appreciated then. Thank you for donating to Heroes and co." Chat Noir asks.
"Wait, since when were 'we' a company?!" Nino asks. Lady Araneae giggles.
"Unfortunately, it's not that simple as well kitty! Especially you - TADA!" No one noticed how Ladybug glared at the akuma for calling her partner 'kitty,' though it was but a passing moment when Lady Araneae hold up in her other hand Chat's weapon. Chat looked around his body as he yelled in shock before glaring at the akuma.
"Urgh! It must have been from a while ago!" Lady Araneae laughs.
"You see, if you want this these, all you have to do is find me."
"Find you? Where are you? You're not outside the studio are you?" asked Alya.
"Ouch, I'm wounded already. You're friend there is so mean. I may be evil, but I have my standards. I swear over my little purple heart that I'm in the same building as you. See?"
Lady Araneae moves to the side for the four to get a good look of the room.
"Ah, she's right" Nino says. "Look at the background - that's where Jackady appeared."
"Correct-a-mundo~ I remember that incident very well, so I thought I stay in a familiar room, but as you can see already I sort of… redecorated the place a bit! Now that you have your first clue, shall we get started?!"
"Wait, hold on a minute there, we haven't agreed to anything yet missy." Ladybug yells.
"Missy? I'M WAY OLDER THAN YOU BUGGY! HOW'S THAT FOR YOUR PEA-SIZED..." Lady Araneae's temper flares up, but then she coughs a bit before taking in a breathe. "Well, nice try Ladybug, but you should seriously reconsider my offer. After all, my mic isn't the only thing on the tightrope here. Haven't you noticed yet?"
"Hmm? Our miraculous isn't it? Even if you have my staff, I can still do fight you without it!"
"Tsk tsk tsk! Bad kitty. Then, how about this image to refresh your memory." Lady Araneae moves the camera to two people stuck on spider webs. One was her previous partner and the boy she was with, though the teens just recognized them as several of the other victims trapped by the akuma.
"Ah man, now that's just sick! It's bad enough we see them all over the place, but you also have people with you?!"
"Gotta spread it nice and evenly after all! Anyways, what do you say Ladybug? Chat Noir? If both of you can reach here by nightfall, which I'll provide this lovely sunglass here all over the tv's," she types the keyboard to show the sunglass in between the three-way screen, "then you win my mic and everyone's freedom along with it! Easy right? And if not, I'll have the miraculous and be able to the star of my very own show for the entire world to see! ...How about it?"
Ladybug and Chat Noir looked at their companions before looking at the screens to see each other before they smirked.
"Isn't that obvious?" Ladybug asks.
"Hmm? So you'll do it?"
"Hell yeah we'll do it! Bring it on spidey!" Chat exclaims.
"Oh-hohohohoho~ Excellent! Now the games can begin! Can't wait to feel those beautiful pieces of jewelry in my hands! Good luck~" Pressing a button, she closes the three-way and leaves the hourglass with a time underneath it. It had started in 2:00:00, and began counting down already.
"2 hours… are you sure Ladybug?" Alya asks.
"That's plenty of time" Ladybug answers, turning her back to her friend. "Let's go! We got no more time left to lose!"
"What about Chat Noir and Nino?"
"Don't worry about them. We may not be able to communicate each other, but I believe in Chat Noir. That's all."
Alya took in a breath. "I see…" Soon enough, she then smirked at the possibility of new information she can learn from her hero for the sake of her friend's love life. "Alright then, shall we head out then? The sooner we start, the faster you can save the day."
She practically skipped her way down the hallway past her hero, though Ladybug paid no attention as she followed her friend with worry. "Hold on, not so fast. We don't know what's out there."
Meanwhile, in another floor, Chat Noir and Nino had just had their transmission end.
"2 hours" Nino observes. "Should we split up?"
"No, we don't know what that akuma provided in these hallways. If she has enough power to transform this building without anyone noticing, then who knows what lies ahead. Let's stick together to minimize damage."
Chat walks up ahead, though Nino stayed in place as he looked at his travel companion. He thought of his conversation with Alya, and his theory of his best friend as the hero before him. For Nino, Chat certainly acts differently than what he knew of his best friend, but he decided to wait and observe more closely before further assumption.
"Nino, let's go!" Chat says from the distance. "We can't keep the ladies waiting for us."
"Ah, r-right, coming!" Nino runs forward, catching up to the feline hero, who starts to run with him through the dark corridors.
"Excellent" Lady Araneae hums, watching the heroes from a different set of cameras. "All is according to plan."
She turns back to her precious captives, Hilda and Todd, and slowly struts to them with a sly grin on her face.
"Soon… Soon enough, everything will be within my grasp… Who's the weakling now, you liar?"
Aria's akuma form, Lady Araneae, was based off of Sardonyx from Steven Universe, Muffet from Undertale, and Zatanna from DC Universe.
