Encounter 3: Chloe

Previously on Le magazine de 'avenir, Nino found Alya babbling incoherently in the doorway of their classroom and almost stepped on a curious magazine at her feet. After seeing it was from the future, he decided to read it. After putting too many clues together, he joined Alya in her babbling. Now a third person has found this piece of future contraband.

It was all Sabrina's fault. If she hadn't been home sick with some icky bug, like the selfish brat she was, then Chloe wouldn't have forgotten her Gabriel purse at school. She had to have it, so back to the school where she would undoubtedly run into some of the other unfortunate students she had to go to school with. Honestly, the only reason she even attended this school was because her father and the principal were old friends from, well she honestly didn't care where from. Her way into the classroom was blocked by two of the biggest losers in class: the girl who dared call herself the number one Ladybug fan, an honor that was clearly hers and hers alone and that low-class hanger-on who insisted on clinging to Adrien like a leach. How pathetic did one have to be to constantly subject someone to their presence whenever it was clearly unwanted. It was almost as bad as Marinette.

Chloe sniffed and pushed past him only to see something hit the floor. She ignored it and there her precious purse sat, making the rest of the room look as drab as Marinette's wardrobe. She was on he way out whenever she noticed something in Nino's hands. A magazine of some sort. The fine glossy cover indicted this wasn't some common trashy magazine either. She pulled it out of Nino's hands without so much as a by your leave and flipped it shut and blinked at the male form on the cover. He was fairly cute, not as cute as Adrikins, but he was still nice looking. Hmm? What was up with the date? October 2028? Were these losers trying to have fun poking fun at people with a prank magazine? How utterly pathetic? Though, this cost too much money to just randomly make, and the two losers who were looking more like idiots than usual definitely didn't have the resources to pull something like that off.

She could, of course.

Did that make this silly thing real? She opened it up and found that it was some sort of superhero themed magazine. Wait, yes! There she was! Ladybug! She eagerly flipped to Ladybug's pages and smiled widely. This had to be real and Ladybug grew up to be a completely amazing heroine! That outfit was far more fashionable than her current one. While it looked good on her and Ladybug, it wasn't something many could pull off. She even incorporated Chloe's colors from when she was Antibug! It was official! She and Ladybug must be BFF's in the future! This magazine had to be 100% real! Chloe thumbed through the rest of the pages. Oh. So that really was Chat Noir on the cover? He did grow up to be very cute. Chloe wondered how handsome Adrien would look by that point. With a dreamy giggle she flipped the page and nearly let out an excited shriek.

That was her! She was a hero! She did it! Oh she must have become best friends with Ladybug and she must have gotten her superpowers from wherever Ladybug had gotten hers!

Though, the mask was making her face look less radiant the usual, almost like it wasn't even her under the mask! It was probably the Photographer's fault.

"Chloe, give that back!" Nino was back to speaking like a real boy again.

"No! You don't get to keep this to yourself! Are you afraid I'll find out you're a pathetic loser in the future?" she sneered.

"How do you know—."

"Even someone as dense as Marinette would figure this out!"

"Hey!" Alya had joined in too.

"Give it back, now," Nino said holding a hand out for it.

"Sorry, finder's keepers!" Chloe said.

"Then it's mine because I found it first!" Alya said.

"Well it's mine now!" Chloe said. She flipped a page and her jaw dropped. She. Wanted. That. Future. Dress. Now! It was beautiful and it was Ladybug, and it was worn by a so-so Chinese woman with blue eyes—MARINETTE! Someone was stupid enough to let her model for them? The male model with her was to die for—Adrien! Oh, he was every bit as handsome as Chole thought he'd be. Oh, she was going to be so lucky in the future. That brand—no way! No. There was no way that Marinette of all people would have a label like that with a dress Chloe deemed fit to be worn! She was just going to have to stop that now with the design from this magazine! Then she'd have it all! Alya reached for the magazine and Chloe held it away and found herself looking at the next page. Nino and Alya exchanged looks. They knew what was on that page.

"NOOO! SHE IS NOT GETTING MY ADRIKINS! NO! NOT HAPPENING! I'LL GET HER DEPORTED FROM PARIS!" Chloe shrieked. It was during her angry hand gesturing that she lost her grip on the magazine.

She had to get it back! She had to destroy Marinette now with her designs from the future to prevent that travesty from coming to pass.

"Oh no you don't!" Alya said running for it too. Nino nodded and tried to flank Chloe.

"Sa-oh, right," Chloe rolled her eyes. She'd have to do this herself!

There was a collision which sent the magazine fluttering down to the first floor. The magazine, front side down, was picked up by a hand bearing a silver ring.

NOTE: Queen Bee isn't Chloe. Sorry for the psyche-out but it's actually Rose. She wanted to be "Princess Bee" but the others told her she wasn't a princess, but a queen, so she accepted the name.

Also sorry for the abruptness that is the Chloe chapter but I really, really don't like being in her head any longer than I have to be.