Note: Sorry about taking so long. Got this chapter idea from a tumblr drawing. I thought it was an amazing thing to happen to them. Kudos to the artist! Here you go!

A FIGHT AT THE SCHOOL

Adrien had barely slept a wink last night. His mind was to full of confusion. And so, when Adrien went to school the next day, it was no wonder he fell asleep during History.

A loud bell rang, waking Adrien from his cat nap. He slowly opened his eyes, still in a daze, and wiped the small trail of drool from his chin with his sleeve.

"Morning sunshine!"

Adrien looked to his left to see a laughing Nino.

"Morning my butt...", Adrien mumbled, "They start school too early..."

Adrien grabbed his bag, tossing his blank notebook inside as he got up to head to the next class. "Hey Nino, could I borrow your notes?"

Nino laughed, then turned a bit red as he rubbed the back of his head.

"You could, but..." Nino opened his notebook, which was full of random doodles and a total of five notes, each three words long.

Adrien rolled his eyes teasingly.

"Its alright Nino, I'll just ask Marinette if I can borrow her notes."

Nino bobbed his eyebrows up and down teasingly. "You'll ask Marinette for her notes eh?"

Adrien pushed Nino away jokingly, "It doesn't mean anything Nino, it's just notes."

"Thats what they all say!", Nino laughed.

But after that Nini let it go. Well, he let it go for the moment, Adrien knew, Nino was geared up and ready to tease him some more later.

When lunch finally rolled around, Adrien walked over to Marinette. As he did, he began to feel a bit nervous, still remembering to goodnight kiss. "It didn't mean anything," he kept repeating to himself. But he still couldn't get it out of his mind.

By the time he reached Marinette, Adrien was sure his face was bright red.

Standing nervously behind her, Adrien tapped Marinette's shoulder and said, "Um, hi Marinette."

Smooth, very smooth, He chatised himself for being nervous.

Marinette turned her head and flushed deep crimson. She gave a slight jump when their eyes met.

"Um, er, ah, h-hi A-Adrien." Marinette gave a tiny wave.

"Er, I was wondering," Adrien rubbed the back of his head as he looked away, "If you have the notes from History class."

Marinette looked startled.

"Er, y-yes I-I do."

"Um, I sorta, fell asleep during class, could I borrow your notes?"

Her face lit up.

"S-sure!" Eagerly, Marinette dug through her backpack, pulling out carefully handwritten notes.

"Thanks a lot, I'll be sure to return them as soon as I can!" Adrien took the notes from Marinette's shaking hand, missing her little happy squeak when their hands touched.

"Thanks again Marinette!"

"N-no p-problem!"

Adrien was just walking away when a loud explosion rocked to school. He turned back around to see a construction worker who had become an akuma.

Every were he placed his hand, an explosion bloomed. On his head was a deep purple construction hat.

Another explosion happened, and Adrien knew he had to transform.

The explosions where getting closer, and a particularly large one shook the ground, causing Marinette to trip on her own feet.

"Marinette!" Adrien just barely managed to catch her before she fell to the ground. "Marinette, run!"

Adrien grabbed her her hand and held it in a tight grip as he began running away with her.

Weaving in between other students who were rushing to escape the attack, Adriens only thought was to get Marinette to safety.

They were almost to the door when another explosion caused bits of the school to collapse.

By a stroke of bad luck, a large chunk of debris dropped down towards them. Adrien yanked Marinette out of the way.

The chunk of rock landed, and the world around them went quiet.

"Marinette, are you ok?"

"Y-yeah, I-I think so, what about you?"

"I'm fine, but it looks like we've been cut off from all the other students!"

Drat. How was he supposed to transform into Chat Noir while Marinette was here?

What Adrien didn't know, was that Marinette was having similar thoughts.

Adrien stood up and dusted himself off.

He looked around to see that a wall of debris had been created, sealing off any exit they could have. He would have to protect Marinette as Adrien.

"Alright Marinette, we need to find something to use as a weapon."

Adrien picked up a broken broom handle that was by his feet. He twirled it around, it wasn't perfect, but it should work similar to his baton.

Meanwhile, Marinette had found a small tether ball, still attached to it's string that had been blasted all the way over here.

She began spinning it, smiling at her find.

Adrien nodded his head. "I suppose that works as a weapon."

He turned to the only path they had, which was headed to the Akuma.

"Now, stay behind me, I'll keep you safe, right now, we need to keep ourselves alert and ready to fight. Don't worry, I'm sure Ladybug will be here soon"

Behind him, Marinette frowned.

"M-mabye Chat Noir will come."

"I wouldn't bet on it..." thought Adrien.

"Maybe." Is what Adrien said outloud. He didn't want to get Marinettes hopes up. They would just have to wait for Ladybug.

Holding his stick like a baseball bat, Adrien, slowly walked towards the raging Akuma. He held his other arm back, keeping Marinette behind him as he acted like a shield.

He suddenly jerked against the wall, pulling Marinette with him. He looked around the corner and saw the Akuma blowing the school apart with his explosions.

"Com'on Ladybug, where are you?"

Adrien was getting very worried now, it was hard to protect Marinette as just Adrien. He began thinking of a plan. "Marinette, I need you to go find somewhere safe to hide while we wait for Ladybug and Chat Noir, I'll be right behind you bringing up the rear."

"B-but what If you got hurt?"

Marinette had no idea what to do. She wanted to leave so she could transform, but what about Adrien? No. She would stay and fight as Marinette. No way was she going to leave Adrien to fight on his own! Even if it was pretty heroic how he was protecting her.

"I'll be fine Marinette, now go!"

"N-no! If you fight, I fight with you!"

Adrien stared at Marinette in surprise. He had no idea she was so brave! Even if it was stupid that she thought she was going to fight an Akuma, her being just a normal girl and everything. Oh well.

Finally, Adrien nodded his consent and allowed Marinette to stay.

Both were getting very worried. Marinette was worried that Chat Noir wasn't here yet and Adrien was worried that Ladybug was here yet. Both totally unaware that the superhero they needed was right next to them.

Knowing that they needed to stop the Akuma soon, both decided they had waited long enough for help.

They looked at eachother, determination set into their very souls, they rushed in to battle.

Marinette ran around screaming and distracting the Akuma as she bopped it on the head a couple times with the tether ball. Meanwhile, Adrien ran in, swing his broom stick as he attempted to knock the hat off of the Akuma. "Almost got it!" He knocked it off and tossed it to Marinette as he dodged other attacks jumping around as explosions rocked the very ground.

Marinette grabbed it. Remembering that she had to keep her identity a secret, Marinette called out, "What do I do with it?!"

Adrien, also trying to keep his identity a secret, yelled back, "Um, do what Ladybug does in those videos of her fighting, I think you break it or something?"

Marinette nodded, ran to a wall, and began bashing it against the wall, hard.

"How on earth do you break a construction hat!", she yelled, very annoyed at the Akuma's choice in an object to posess.

Exasperated, Marinette looked around, she saw the construction worker still blowing things up, an idea came to her mind.

"Hey! You suck!"

She knew it was a bad insult, but it seemed to work as he turned and glared at her. "Bet you can't blow up me!"

She was having doubts, but somethibg had to be done.

"Marinnette! What are you doin?!" Adrien was looking at her as if she had gone crazy.

"Just trust me!"

The man came rushing at her, his hand held out to kill her, and-

His hand touched the helmet instead.

He looked at in fear as Marinette tossed it as far from her and Adrien as she could.

The hat exploded in midair, causing her and Adrien to get thrown back by the sheer force of it.

When the sky cleared, a small purple butterfly could be seen. Before it could fly away, Adrien ripped off his short and threw it around the butterfly, trapping it in his clothing.

"Got you!" Adrien smiled, now all he had to do was bring it to Ladybug later tonight on patrol.

Beside him, Marinette' S face grew red and hot as she stared at a shirtless Adtien, admiring his large muscles that she had never noticed before.

"Marinette?"

Marinette was startled out of her reverie as she looked at Adrien.

"Y-y-yes?"

"Nice going."

He smiled.

Out of sheer habit he raised his fist to give her a fist bump, and Marinette, out of habit as well, bumped it.

They both suddenly looked very confused, staring at their fists. Adrien shrugged it off.

"Marinette, why don't you go find a way out of here? I'll head out another way to see if we can get out of here."

Adrien decided to try and use this moment to transform into Chat Noir.

Marinette nodded eagerly,

"S-sure!"

They both ran off.

After transforming, Chat Noir ran back to the site of the epic fight, an unconscious construction worker in the middle of the floor. Beside him was Ladybug.

"Wel, well, well, if it isn't My Lady, seems we both got here a little late, huh? Paw-y about that!" He winked.

Ladybug rolled her eyes.

"Enough of the puns Chat, we need to find the Akuma and cleanse it."

"No worries My Lady, I already found it!"

He held out his hand where a trapped butterfly lay.

Ladybug smiled. "Perfect!"

"I think you man, purr-fect, My Lady."

Ladybug didn't say anything to him as she threw her yo-yo at the creature, cleansing it from evil.

"See ya later Chat, I have something to do!"

And with that, Ladybug swung off, leaving a euphoric Chat behind.

Note: There you go guys! I hope you liked it! I'm sorry, I love puns but I don't know very many cat puns, I actually had to look them up! Well, there should be an increase in cat puns now. So I hope you're ready for tha! Next chapter should be coming soon!

~Nerdqueen395