Hello, and I'm back with another chapter of My Cousin is a robot?! I hope you enjoy!
I'm thinking about just trying to finish this fanfic before starting another one-but I'm not too far from the end of this one-maybe. It kinda depends on the way my mind ends up going. But yeah…
I don't own Miraculous Ladybug or any anime I reference here!
Enjoy!
Marinette took a deep breath, looking around. Nobody was around-Lunette was distracting them while Marinette "used the bathroom." It was pretty easy since everyone was wondering if she was alright-Marinette and Chloe had helped her come up with a believable lie, and Lunette had covered her arm-and her miraculous-with bandages and a sleeved dragon shirt-the bandages were supposedly there until they could get new hinges for a small platform on her arm-although the only thing that was actually wrong anymore was her still-robotic voice.
Anyway, Marinette,snuck over to Alya's locker and quietly opened it, putting her miraculous in her backpack-along with a note, telling her to meet at the top of the Eiffel Tower at 7:00 that night. Marinette snuck over to Nino's locker and did the same with his-along with the note. Marinette looked around again, then quickly walked back to class, where everyone was crowding around Lunette-Mrs, Bustier didn't try to tell then to get back to their seats-after all, Lunette had nearly died the day before, and all of them wanted to know what was going on.
"So why are you a robot?" Kim was asking as Marinette walked back into the classroom. "I mean, did you start out that way?"
"No, I started out human," Lunette said. "I have mentioned the bullying problems, correct? Well, it went much further than I admitted."
"You tried to jump off a bridge," Markov said.
Lunette nodded. "I was going to. I'm guessing you read the articles and Marinette told you?"
Everyone nodded.
"What those articles don't say is just how bad it was," Lunette said. "I was planning on that day for three months. A day where it would most likely be for me to die and for my body to never be found. I researched the predicted weather-the conditions were perfect. It was slightly raining-there shouldn't have been anyone around. It was a lesser-used bridge, so it wasn't like people would have noticed. It would've been harder for drivers to see me and stop. Mom and Dad were busy with work-if I had not gone home, they wouldn't have noticed until about eight at night. It was about four when I was going to jump. I had sold some of my stuff, leaving my dragons, but my other stuff could have been used by others. I didn't sell too much-not enough to be noticed. I ate less, but not enough for people to even think that I was trying to starve myself."
"The amount of planning that went into that was kinda ridiculous," Nathaniel said. "Why didn't you just see a therapist?"
"Because it had been going on for so long," Lunette said. "Mom had always said that it was going to get better, and she and dad often brushed it off, which made me believe that nobody would ever care, so I stopped trying to reach out for help. I stopped trying to believe that life was worth living."
"Why did you start thinking about...that?" Mylene asked.
"Actually, it hadn't been even an idea in my mind until we watched a video in class about teen depression," Lunette said. "The video was trying to encourage us not to consider suicide, but it mentioned that teens believed that it was the only way to take away the pain-and suddenly, it felt like it was...right. To take away the pain." She took a deep breath. "But suicide...it's a permanent solution-once it's done, you can't take it back, no matter how much you want to. And bullying is only a temporary problem. If I had spoken to the teachers and bullies more, or the school counselors, or tried to reach out to a neighbor or just someone, then I could have solved the problem." She snorted-it sounded weird with a robotic voice. "I only realized all this after I was killed. I can think of every possible solution that I could have used back then, but I can't act on it now." She laughed. "But I guess that it doesn't really matter anymore, because I wouldn't be here today, meeting everyone. If I had considered all of this, then nothing would have changed. I would be a regular human girl that is very depressed, but instead, I get to be a robot who can go around stopping people from making the same mistake that I did."
"It's very kind of you to try and help people like that," Mylene said. "But...how are you going to do that?"
Lunette took out a folder from her bag and set it on the table. Everyone watched as she opened it, revealing…
...pages and pages of manga.
Everyone gasped as Lunette took out the first page, setting it on the table.
"I am well aware that even with my extended lifetime, I won't be able to get to meet everyone on the planet-or stop people from making my near mistake. But...I'm going to write this, and possibly adapt it into a show. I want to send the message about depression through the main character, who is really depressed. She gets stopped from dying many times, because people care about her. And she goes on thousands of adventures. I don't know if it'll work, but maybe-just maybe-there's a shred of hope, however small."
"That's really nice that you're doing that," Sabrina said.
"I don't want to hear about people that finished what I tried to do when I can do something," Lunette said. "There's so much I want to do to help people, and I'll do everything in my power to achieve it, even if it makes me break down for good."
The class stayed silent for a minute, then Miss Bustier clasped her hands together. Everyone looked at her.
"Well, on that note, we will begin today's lesson," Miss Bustier said.
Later…
Alya, after school, opened her locker, and almost instantly she noticed the small box that was sitting in her backpack. Alya carefully slipped it into her pocket, then say the note. She glanced at the note, which was printed.
Meet me,at the Eiffel Tower at 7:00 tonight-I have information that might lead us to Hawkmoth. ~LB
Alya's eyes grew wide as she shoved the note into her pocket with the box.
Sorry, Marinette, but it looks like we can't go see a movie tonight, Alya thought, forgetting that Marinette had already said that she had been too busy that night anyway. Ladybug and Chat Noir need me. And I won't let them down.
Meanwhile…
Nino opened his locker, also instantly seeing the note and box. He, like Alya, read the note, then quickly put the box and note in his backpack.
Man, and I was planning on asking Alya on a date tonight...I guess that it'll have to wait. Ladybug and Chat Noir need help with this-I just wonder what's going to happen when Hawkmoth is defeated, and there's no more heroes. Alya's gonna be devastated...but maybe we'll learn who they really are. That would make Alya really happy. With those thoughts, Nino walked away, wondering exactly what this information was about.
That night…
Marinette looked at Lunette as the two of them stood on Marinette's balcony.
"Are you sure that you're ready?" Marinette asked, looking at Lunette. "I mean, with transforming...we could tell them all that our new help had something come up last second, or…"
"Marinette, I can't do that," Lunette said, her voice almost no longer robotic. "I mean, I'm the one with the evidence and all. I should let the others know the truth about who I am, and how I got the information. Otherwise, they would think that I'm going on a gut feeling."
"So you're sure?" Marinette asked.
Lunette nodded, then smiled at her kwami. "Tammy, scales on!"
Marinette smiled at Lunette, then turned to Tikki. "Tikki, spots on!"
At the Eiffel Tower…
Rena Rogue looked at the time on her watch, which she had brought with her. "It's two minutes to seven. Where is she?"
Chat Noir looked around. "Ladybug still has two minutes...but I'm still confused. She's usually one of the first, so why is she late?"
"She's not late yet," Queen Bee said. (A/N: Since I wrote her backstory before Style Queen came out, I'm going to say that in this fanfiction, Marinette purposely gave her the miraculous, and the others don't know her identity, although I know that it's not actually that.) "She still has two minutes."
"But still," Carapace said. "I wonder what's taking her time."
Suddenly, Ladybug zoomed over, followed by Dragoness...but her costume was different than it had been. It looked like it was full of red scales, and it was a jumpsuit like the others had, although she had a small skirt added on. Her hair was the same as she usually had it, and a red, scaled mask covered her face. She had a pair of black dragon wings on her pack, and in her hands were her weapons...knitting needles?
"Ladybug, there you are!" Chat Noir said, then gave Dragoness a confused look. "Who're you?"
"I'm Dragoness," Dragoness said, her voice completely normal now.
"Wait, isn't Dragoness the supervillain we fought?" Rena Rogue asked, her eyes wide.
Dragoness shuffled a little. "Yeah...that was me."
"And now you're on our side?" Chat Noir asked. "But that can't be right! And how'd you…?"
"It's a long story," Ladybug said. "One that takes tons of explaining."
"So you should start," Carapace said.
"Well...you guys know my civilian identity," Dragoness said, then took a deep breath. "Tammy, scales off." Her costume disappeared, revealing Lunette. She shyly looked up as Tammy floated next to her, then Tammy sat on Lunette's shoulder. "Um...as you guys probably know, I'm a robot."
"Yeah, we know," Rena Rogue said. "But what does that have to do with this?"
"When I became the...other Dragoness, I recorded all of what I saw, and it made a backup file in my database," Lunette said, her voice slightly robotic, but not too much. "Which means that I remember Hawkmoth's voice."
"Really?" Chat Noir asked, eyes wide. "But when Robustus was akumatized, he had no idea what was going on."
"I was specifically designed to record every memory and make reports on every piece of information I sense," Lunette said. "I assume that Markov was not. But when I heard Hawkmoth's voice, I ran it through a voice recognition software."
"You have one of those?!" Carapace asked, his eyes wide. "But, wait, does that mean…?"
"I know who each of you are in civilian life," Lunette said. "Don't worry-nobody else knows. I am the only one that can access my folders unless I tell them, or give them specific permission to download my information to another hard drive-which I won't allow anybody, no matter what happens. You don't have to worry about that."
"You know who Hawkmoth is," Rena Rogue whispered. "B-But I thought that it was just a little bit of information-not his actual identity!"
"When I gave you those notes, I couldn't let you know that we had discovered the truth-not when somebody else could have found it," Ladybug said. "It would've been easy to make an excuse if someone else had found it and it said that there was just a little information-it would've made it seem like I didn't care as much if it was in the right locker. But if someone had seen that it was Hawkmoth's identity? Then I couldn't've possibly misplaced it. That way, there would have been just a little more room for doubt that it was actually you guys."
"So you were protecting our identities?" Carapace asked.
"I still don't know how you managed to hide it in my locker," Chat Noir said. "And you got the lockers right?"
"I put them in the lockers," Lunette said. "Well, it was kinda me. I have a small robotic minion-well, if you can call it that. In reality, it's more like a second me, but in a smaller form. I can divide my conscious between me and it and get multiple tasks done at once."
"I didn't know that you could do that," Queen Bee said, eyes wide.
"I don't like mentioning it," Lunette said. "It tends to make people act as if I'm a complete weirdo, and they tend to try and stay away from me so they don't find out what other out-there defense systems I have."
"But that isn't the point," Ladybug said. "Lunette, tell them what you told me earlier."
"I ran his voice through my voice recognition software, and there is a single conclusion I came to," Lunette said. "Hawkmoth is...Gabriel Agreste."
"WHAT?!" Chat Noir exclaimed, shaking his head. "But he was akumatized!"
"Is there a hand book that specifically states that Hawkmoth cannot akumatize himself?" Lunette asked.
Chair Noir paused, thinking. His eyes widened in horror as he processed her words.
"G-Gabriel Agreste is Hawkmoth," Chat Noir said quietly.
"I plan on finding his lair by the Agreste Mansion, so it will be easier," Lunette said. "I'll stay hidden to people don't know about me as a hero, seeing that I mainly have the evidence, and I'm going to help you guys take Hawkmoth down. Since I don't have to sleep, I'll probably do my investigations late at night."
"I think that we should fight Hawkmoth on Saturday," Ladybug added. "That gives us some time to prepare."
"I think we should go fight him now," Carapace said. "I mean, he can still akumatize people."
"I still need to collect just a little evidence," Lunette said. "I would like to find where Hawkmoth sends out his akumas, and I also need to do a little more fixing to my cameras so, when we fight Hawkmoth and arrest him, people can check the recording so we can prove what we saw."
"Why do we need more evidence?" Rena Rogue asked. "More than anything, we need to take him down!"
"The police won't believe us if we out-right tell them," Queen Bee said. They all looked at her.
"Why aren't you reacting more?!" Carapace asked.
Queen Bee looked over Paris. "Well...because I already knew this."
"WHAT?!"
"I went to her civilian form and asked for some help in gaining just a little more evidence," Lunette said.
"Oh," Carapace said.
"But none of this matters right now," Lunette said. "I will go and do some investigating tonight."
"We just wanted to let you know what's going on," Ladybug said.
Lunette looked at Tammy. "Tammy, scales on!"
Lunette transformed back into Dragoness, then looked at everyone.
"I will go do some investigating-you all get some rest and make your own preparations for the fight," Lunette said, then took off.
The other superheroes exchanged looks, then all of them left as well.
And that's it for this chapter! What did you think?
So sorry for taking so long to update-I had some competitions for a few activities I'm in. Within the next month and a half, two of those activities are going to be done, so I'll have more time to write fanfics and my other stories. Thanks for reading!
Lunetheart out.