[Back at the Campsite]

Alya pulled Adrien's towel from his backpack, slinging the cloth over her head as Nino followed her. She pulled her phone from her pocket, placing by the fire, in the sunlight as she dried her hair. Looking around, she saw neither Adrien or Marinette at the campsite, and instead looked at Nino as he sat back beside the fire — obviously trying to light it again.

"Thank goodness for those dudes earlier, or we would've been fish bait!" he smiled, watching his friend take a seat on the log next to him. "Too bad both of them disappeared so quickly though, I would've liked to ask for their names."

"Adrien and Marinette also ran out so quickly, where could they—" she stopped, looking up as the two moved their way through the undergrowth, towards the campsite. Springing upwards, Alya ran to the edge of the clearing "Marinette! Adrien! Where have you guys been?"

"Still trying to see where the yacht went." Marinette raised her hands, showing she had no clue with a empty wave.

"You guys didn't run out after us, what went down with the octopus?" Adrien ducked under a branch, pressing his hand past a bush as they wandered into the campsite.

"You wouldn't believe it, but two superhero dudes came in and saved us from it. You totally missed it!" Nino motioned them to come over and sit next to the campfire.

"Saved?" Adrien looked from Nino to Alya as she sat down. "Who were they?"

"No clue, they didn't even say their names." Alya reached her hand towards Nino and the box of matches as he still struggled to get the fire lit. He quickly swiped them away as she retracted her hand in surprise. The campfire combusted. Everyone looked at the fire in surprise as Alya jumped back. "Wait, did this fire just light on it's own?"

Adrien looked at Marinette, who shook her head quickly in response. Marinette didn't light the fire, Nino didn't light the fire, he couldn't light the fire with his powers, it had to be… "Alya, can you do that again?" he quickly motioned his hand behind his back, extinguishing the flames. Marinette shot him a look, but looked again at her friend.

"Sure, but I'm not sure what I did." Alya raised her hand towards the fire, curling her fingers back again in the same surprised fashion she had done before. Spontaneous combustion. A grin danced across her face. "Did you guys see that?"

She's got powers! Marinette nodded at the voice in her head, watching Alya try to light every dry piece of scrap she saw. We should stop her before she sets the whole island on fire. Marinette grabbed her arm, leading her back to the fire. "Breakfast first, then we'll decide what to do for the day."

Alya nodded, beaming at Nino. "I lit the fire and you didn't!"

[Beach, after breakfast

Alya shuffled her toes in the sand, had having changed into an orange and magenta bikini, she pulled Marinette behind her towards the lifeboat. "Even if we're stuck here, we should at least have fun while it lasts!"

Marinette, wearing Adrien's t-shirt tied tighter around her midriff and a really short pair of shorts Alya had brought, dug her heels into the sand as the boys followed them onto the beach. "There's a storm coming, we shouldn't swim right now!" Marinette tried to brake further, instead falling face-first into the white sand. She let Alya help her up as Nino and Adrien caught up with them, Nino stopping to dump his free-diving gear into the lifeboat.

"I'll wait with Mari on the beach, you two go enjoy yourselves." Adrien grabbed her shoulder, motioning to Alya and Nino to go on ahead without them, taking the hint, they both waded into the waves. "Now we can talk—"

"We still have to figure out how to turn back, and we need to figure out how Alya's one drop into the Moon Pool gave her fire powers." Marinette quickly quipped, looking at Adrien, who pressed his hand to his chin, in thought.

"Guys?" Nino yelled from the shallows, not grabbing their attention completely, so he tried again. "GUYS?!"

"What was that Nino?" Marinette yelled back, looking over the boat, her eyes quickly snapped from Nino, to Alya, and back to Adrien. She shook her head, finding the boy in just as much shock as she was "Are you going to get her, or am I going to get her?" She watched as Nino lifted Alya up, an orange tail descending from her waist and falling over his arm as he carried her, bridal-style, over to them.

"Guys! I'm a fish! A freakin' fish!" Alya was freaking out, squirming in Nino's grip as he struggled not to drop her onto the sand. "What are we going to do?" her tail whacked Nino's thigh, the boy squeaking slightly from the impact.

"M-maybe if you dry off, you'll turn back?" Marinette shrugged, looking at her friend as Alya raised a hand, about to say more about her predicament. Water droplets flew off Alya's hand, spraying Marinette in the face, she jumped from shock. Looking around, she ran towards the ocean and dove into the crashing waves.

"MARI!" Alya looked over Nino's shoulder as her friend disappeared beneath the surf. "Nino put me down, please. I'm going after her—"

"—I'll get her—" Adrien started to take his shirt off, but Nino had already set Alya back into the water, setting her into the ocean. "NINO!"

Nino turned around, shrugging. "She said please, bro."

Adrien moved quickly, pushing the bow of the lifeboat off the sand and jumping into the vessel. "Start the motor, Nino! We have a mermaid to catch!"

[Out on the Reef]

Marinette dove past a coral formation, looking around as she noticed no one had followed her into the water, she swam towards the surface, taking a mouthful of air before diving again. She had to swim around the reef to get to the rock shoals, then she could emerge dry without revealing her tail to them. She turned, looking up at the bottom of the lifeboat, which skimmed past her — she swam back towards the surface.

She watched Nino quickly turned the craft, Adrien then leaning out to grab her hand without a fear of getting soaked. Slowing down, Nino idled the motor as Marinette was pulled into the boat. "Dude, she's—"

"Nino, stay focused, Alya?" Adrien put a towel around Marinette as he dried his own hand. "Are you alright?"

"Where's Alya?" she curled her fingers, using her powers to dry her own tail.

"She went swimming to find you, I tried to stop her but—" Adrien shook his head as pink glitter rose from Marinette's tail, turning her back to her human form. "—Nino, do you have the fish finder on?"

"Yeah, but I don't see her, at all." Nino sat back, looking at Marinette. "So, how did you get the tail?"

Marinette looked at Adrien, wondering how he couldn't of filled Nino in prior to picking her up. Unless… did Adrien tell his friend the same happened to him? She shook herself out of her daze, hearing the engine cut. "Wait, why are you stopping here?"

"I'm not, the engine cut out on it's own!" Nino pulled the cord a few times, trying to get the motor to start again — the fish finder rapidly beeping out of control before powering off. Nino turned, pressing the reset button a few times, before giving a nervous glance to Marinette. "Can you check if there's seaweed in the rotor?"

Marinette was about to complain, when a splash was heard from overboard the vessel. Turning, she watched as the boat rocked dangerously from side to side. Another splash. Adrien raised his hand, pushing Nino out of the way as he extended his arm from the back of the boat. Marinette watched him as the boat shook again.

"Dude, you're going to fall in." Nino went over to his friend as Adrien twisted his hand around, the sudden motion of the boat knocking both Marinette and Nino back as Adrien used his powers to propel the boat onwards. "Dude—"

"I'll explain later, we need to find Alya." Adrien looked back at them, Marinette nodding as she came over, outstretching her own arm to help propel the boat. "Mari, maybe you should check the reef, I'll keep the boat nearby."

Another splash, the boat lurched, almost flipping over completely. Nino ran over to the side, hoping to keep them above water "There's something trying to sink us!" He peered over the edge, squinting his eyes at the clear water, seeing nothing below them but reef. An invisible hand grabbed his jacket, pulling him down to the water. He jumped backwards "GUYS, THERE'S—" the boat rocked violently, Nino grabbed his extra air tank, strapping it onto his back as he reached for the blue flippers on the bottom of the boat. Suddenly, the boat capsized, dumping the three of them into the ocean.

Adrien plunged into the ocean, releasing his powers from the stern of the lifeboat, he gazed up towards the surface. He saw Marinette's tail reappear as Nino's flippers floated past him, he looked around, snapping out of his shock-induced trance, snatching the flippers as his own tail appeared. A quick bolt back to his friends, resurfacing, he put his hand on the side of the lifeboat. "Are you guys okay?"

"Dude! You have a—"

"We'll explain later!" Marinette and Adrien both quipped in unison, glancing at each other, right as the motor for the lifeboat magically powered to life — the rotor slicing against air as the boat still remained capsized.

"It seems you're in a bit of a pinch!" a mermaid surfaced before them, Adrien swallowed hard, looking at her features, a black tail with magenta markings — almost glowing in a sequence from the smallest dot out the the largest line. Like a wifi signal? "I am Lady Wifi, and I'm here to collect Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculouses — you haven't seen them, have you?"

"Who?" Nino asked, looking from her to his friends. "Wait, are those the people who saved Alya and I earlier? Because they were awesome!"

Adrien passed Nino's flippers to him, then diving under the capsized boat, into the air pocket maintained by the overturned hull. He inhaled sharply, preparing himself "Plagg, transform me." Watching the green light burn over his tail, up to his neck, he closed his eyes as he swam back out to Marinette and Nino, brushing his own black tail around Nino and Marinette as he resurfaced. "Sorry, Lady Wifi, but your signal is about to be cut!"

A/N: Hi all, long time no story! Sorry for the break there, I was driving home from college and then Christmas happened - basically my life turned upside-down! If my writing seems a bit topsy-turvy, I'm getting back into the swing of things right now. Hopefully the updates for H2N will be a bit more regular from now on. Thanks for reading! - RicePoison