One of the very first rules Tikki had given her was, 'Make sure that absolutely no one knows you're Ladybug!' already broken. Completely down the drain. Now she was standing face to face with two strangely dressed kids she didn't recognize and…. Their pet rabbit? Not to mention they had very obviously just seen Tikki. Her secret identity was toast, and burnt toast at that. It surely wouldn't be long before the entirety of France, and Hawkmoth, knew her identity, her friends, her family, her address! She might as well hand Hawkmoth her Miraculous herself with a coupon to her family's bakery a long with it!

In a panicked voice, Marinette managed to stutter out, "Wh-what are you doing here? What did you see?" The stranger's eyes were wide, darting between her and Tikki. The more Marinette looked at the odd trio however, the more she noticed how out of place they seemed.

The boy, eyes frantic as he took half a step forward, "Were you the one who released that magic into the air earlier?" Marinette was a bit taken aback. She had been expecting a 'You're Ladybug', not a question over whether or not she had, as he put it, 'released magic into the air'.

"I uh…" She struggled on a proper response. All the times she had pictured herself being cornered in an alley after being caught changing back into her civilian identity not once had she pictured herself being asked about her 'magic' instead of the fact that she ran around Paris in supernatural spandex. Still, she figured there was no point in lying, as they had no doubt figured out who she was. Not to mention that the girl and the odd looking bunny had their gazes locked onto Tikki. "Y-Yeah that was me."

She could hear the breath catch in the strangers throat, his hand lifted from the hilt of his sword and he straightened his back. "Then you might be able to help us!" His tone was serious, and yet full of relief.

The Ladybug in her responded with urgency. People in Paris in need of help, that was her job. "Of course I can help you. But I need you to promise me something first." Marinette held Tikki up to the strangers, her brow furrowing as she assumed what Tikki often called her 'superhero voice'. "You need to forget you saw Tikki, and you need to forget that I'm Ladybug!"

"Ladybug?" The boy shook his head. "I don't know who that is, I'm not here about that!" Marinette's head spun. Not here about Ladybug? She didn't mean to sound so conceited, but usually people were always here about Ladybug. His voice betrayed desperation as he stepped forward again, "I need your help finding Princess Sakura's Feather!"

…

Adrien had dealt with many things in his time doubling as the Leather clad superhero of Paris. He had fought an angry toddler, a giant goo monster, even a shapeshifting zoo keeper that couldn't handle the taunting of one of his classmates without getting himself akumatized. But this, being held at sword point fresh out of detransformation in the park by two strangers was definitely a first. He'd have to remind himself later to cross that off the list of weird things that happened to him since the ring came into his possession.

"What are you?" The taller of the two, the one holding the very long and very sharp looking sword to his throat demanded. "Are you some sort of demon? A sorcerer?" His red eyes focused on Plagg as the Kwami sat lazily atop Adrien's head, as nonchalant as ever. "Is that your familiar? Is that a demon?"

Quite frankly, if he wasn't in fear for his life, Adrien would feel tempted to make a joke about pop quizzes. But something told him that neither of these men would find it very funny. "What, no! I… I'm… uh…" If he didn't want to end up a kitty kabob, Adrien had to choose his words very carefully. "I'm not a demon, or a sorcerer, and Plagg is not my familiar, whatever that is!"

"If you don't mind us asking then, what are you? I can't imagine that it's normal for someone to run around on rooftops in, was it a cat costume you were wearing?" The blond man asked, his voice smooth and less urgent than his companion. "If it was, I think we'd see quite a lot more of you running about."

The question shook Adrien to his core. Did… did they not know who Chat Noir and Ladybug were? They certainly looked like they weren't from around Paris, or France for that matter, but Adrien was under the impression that Paris' Superhero Duo were kind of world famous. He almost felt offended.

"I'm a superhero… Y'know… Chat Noir?" He dropped his hands to his sides. "Ladybug's partner? We kind of save Paris on the daily? Do you guys not watch the news?"

Atop his head, Plagg yawned. "Adrien can you hurry this up please, I'm starving!" The Kwami flopped over onto his back, leaning his head backwards to get a look at the aggressors. "They're obviously not from this world Adrien, and they probably won't be here long after this, can we please just go home, I know you have Camembert there. I need my gooey-ness!"

"I'm sorry what? Not from this world?" Adrien practically yelped as he snatched the Kwami off the top of his head. "You can't just… Say that stuff Plagg, it's rude and… and crazy!" As if today and his overall life wasn't crazy enough, Adrien had his Kwami throwing around wild and probably untrue accusa-

"No, you're little friend there is right." The blond man spoke again, catching Adrien off guard for the tenth time in a row. "We aren't from this world."

….

"Okay so let me get this straight." Marinette rubbed her temples as she tried to process her current pickle of a situation. "You three," She gestured to the strangers, "Are all from a different dimension?" The boy, the girl, and the space rabbit all nodded in unison. "You," She pointed to the girl, "Have lost your memories in the form of, what did you say they were, feathers? That are super powerful and were spread across the multiverse?" Another nod. "And now, you think one of them might be in my world."

"Well, it's hard to tell exactly." The boy scratched the back of his head. "Mokona says that she can sense a great amount of magic in this world, which means that there very much could be a feather, but it's hard to tell with so much of it coming from different places. Including you, and uh…" He looked down at the speckled Kwami. "I'm so sorry, what was your name again?"

With a smile on her face, Tikki flew over to rest in the palm of the boy's hand. "My name is Tikki, and this," she gestured over to her chosen with a paw. "Is Marinette!"

Marinette flinched as her Kwami gave her name to complete strangers. Strangers who had just figured out she was Ladybug. "Tikki…." She hissed through her teeth, shocked that her Kwami, who had insisted on the importance of her secret identity, had just given her name out to people who hadn't even shared their own!

"It's ok Marinette." Tikki reassured her, turning back to the travelers. "You seem like a nice boy, I don't think you want much else other than that feather and some help finding it." She patted his thumb in an understanding, almost motherly fashion.

He shook his head. "Right. I just want to make sure Princess Sakura gets her memories back." He glanced over at his companion with a soft smile.

"If you've been travelling multiple worlds," Tikki began, "That must mean you went to go see The Witch of Dimensions, right?"

The two teenager's eyes widened at her statement. "You know Yuuko?" The rabbit like creature hopped off the girl's shoulder to join Tikki and the boy in his other palm.

The kwami nodded. "Yes, the other Kwamis and I have known her for a very, very long time. She was around when we were first made!"

The white creature inhaled deeply as she placed her stubby paws on Tikki's. "You're a Kwami?! I remember Yuuko talking about you guys, you sound so cool, giving people superpowers and stuff, just like in all those cool comic books!" She mimed a few punching motions.

"And you must be…" Tikki chuckled with a smile.

"Mokona Madoki!" The creature stuck her ears out towards the sky and threw up her paws in an almost sickeningly cute gesture. "At your service! And these two," Mokona hopped atop the head of the boy, "Is Syaoran, and Sakura!" She gestured over to the girl, who had remained fairly quiet until now.

"We have two other people we're travelling with too, but…" Sakura began, her brow creased with worry.

"But, we think we might have lost them when we went chasing after you." Syaoran finished her statement, running his fingers through his hair. "Though this wouldn't be the first time something like this has happened."

Crossing her arms and tapping her foot in thought, Marinette dwelled over the three and their kerfuffle. It was Ladybug's job, her job, to help the people of Paris, but this all seemed just a tad out of her jurisdiction. "If they look anything like you two, they'll stick out like a sore thumb for sure." She sighed, running the palms of her hands down her face as she took a deep breath. "Okay…" She began. "I will help you find her feather, just as long as you-"

"Don't tell anyone you're Ladybug!" The trio repeated back to her in almost perfect unison.

Marinette blinked at the response and smiled. "Right! But you guys can't stay here dressed like that." She gestured to their clothes. "People will be able to spot you from a mile away! Come with me, we can go the back roads until I can help you blend in a little better."

…..

"So you two, just, fell from the sky." Adrien pinched the bridge of his nose as he tried to make sense of the story the two strangers had just fed to him after he'd been able to convince them that he wasn't some demon set upon this world in malevolence.

"Yes."

"Just, out from the big ol' blue, huh?"

"That is what we have repeated many times, yes."

"Wow." And Adrien thought that discovering he was chosen to be a superhero was a stretch. "And you have three other people that are supposed to be with you, you said?"

The taller man, who had been introduced originally as 'Kuro-sama' but quickly corrected his partner and told Adrien his name was Kurogane, nodded. "A kid, a princess and a pork bun. The Kid saw your friend in the other suit and went running after them before we could do anything to stop him."

"Not that you really can stop him once he puts his mind to something." The other man, the blond who called himself Fai, mused, walking leisurely alongside Kurogane as they followed Adrien back to his home, where he had told them they could stay while they sorted this mess out.

"Okay, well until we figure out what happened to your friends and the memory fuzz-"

"It's a feather."

"Memory feather, you two need disguises and cover stories. My father is busy nearly twenty four seven and it's not hard to hide Plagg from everyone in my house, it shouldn't be too hard to hide you two. At least for now." Adrien turned around to face them. "And while you're here, don't go telling everyone you meet that I'm the guy in the cat suit, it's kind of a secret and I need to keep it that way if you don't mind."

Fai nodded and waved his hand. "Oh don't worry, we're very inconspicuous." He said just as Kurogane removed his sword from his sheath again to polish it with a piece of his cloak.

Glancing between the deadly weapon and their over the top uniforms, Adrien rolled his eyes before looking back ahead of him. "Oh yeah, you blend in real well."