Marinette and Alya were entering the room.
"Hey Alya" said Marinette.
Alya was looking unhappy though.
"Bad news Marinette. We are broke!"
"Hu? But after our last adventure we were rich though"
"Yes, but after tax's, we are broke! In fact we OWE money now because taxes are high for rich people"
"Ow...darnit!"
"What will we do?" said Marinette to Alya.
"We need to make a lot of money to pay of the tax else our condo in which we live in will be taken away from us!"
Just then, the TV which was on this entire time changed to a news announcement.
"...And the world Fashion championship final starts tomorrow. Aside from the coveted trophy, the prize this year will include 18 million euro...In other news, a war just started…"
Alya shut the tv off.
"Of course!" said Marinette
"FASHION! Why didn't I think of that!"
Alya laughed. "Yes, Fashion - the sport of kings!"
Marinette nodded in agreement.
"We can make lots of money doing that and pay off that dang tax that we owe"
"YES" screamed Alya, getting excited.
"But we need an 'in' else we won't be allowed in." Marinette laughed at her clever pun.
"Don't worry! I know someone who can get us into the finals!" said Alya, being useful.
"Nice" said Marinette.
And with that they got into the finals! Yay nepotism!
The next day, Marinette was nervous.
She was good at Fashion, some would say the best. But was she really the best? The best at Fashion on Earth? Marinette was about to find out, as the contest started soon.
Marinette thought back to a few years ago.
Happy times, before all the troubles with Hawkmoth got really bad.
Breaking out of her deep thoughts, Marinette decide to go to the Arena early, perhaps to do a few laps as a warmup her fashion abilities.
Marinette casually strolled to the Arena while practicing Fashion activities.
As Marinette walked out, she was surprised to see Chloe already there!
Chloe was clearly up to something. Marinette had to find out what it was!
"What are you up to, Chloe?" yelled Marinette angrily.
"You will never find out!" yelled back Chloe, who wanted to keep her plan a secret. She was so smart.
Frustrated, Marinette started practicing even MORE Fashion, never taking her eye of Chloe as she did so.
Nino joined them a few minutes later.
"Hi Marinette!" he said.
"..and hello...Chloe"
"…yes. Hello Nino. Good to see you're in the contest too. For now…"
But before Nino could hear what the evil Chloe had said, it was time to start!
Oh no!
They walked to the start line, and bent down ready.
The crowd was getting big. Many fans had banners saying stuff like:
'Go Marinette Go Marinette Go Marinette'
or
'Go! Go! Go! Chloe you're the best!'
Nobody liked Nino. He's too... well, too Nino.
The starter pulled their baton out and got ready to start the Fashion match.
Nino, Chloe and Marinette all waited with anticipation.
3!
Nino started breathing heavily.
2!
Chloe tensed. Ready to go!
1!
Marinette's skin GLOWED with excitement.
0!
BANG!
The starter threw the baton ...at NINO!
Nino COLLAPSED instantly! Chloe started Fashioning, laughing manically as she did so.
Marinette was in shock, and raced over to Nino.
"She beat you up!" but why? And how? Marinette had to know even though she had JUST seen what had happened.
"Owww...I am beat up bad! This sucks!" said Nino, in a typical Nino way.
The starter stared at their hand.
"I didn't mean too...my baton acted weird!"
Marinette looked at the baton.
She then asked Tikki if the baton was evil or not. She said yes. Using her skills, Marinette made a deduction.
"Yes...this baton has clearly been sabotaged to beat up Nino!"
"Typical!" said Nino, as if this kind of thing happened to him every day.
"What now?" said Marinette.
"You have to go on" said Nino, still bleeding with blood and being generally hurt and stuff. Marinette nodded, and went away sadly.
But just then the Fashion clock went off!
It was half time!
As Nino was carried taken to hospital by rocket, Marinette and Alya retired to the locker room.
Chloe was already there, still grinning and rubbing her hands evilly.
"Oh, what a shame. Nino isn't going to compete anymore. Even doing nothing I'm going to come second. You know...I might just let you win... out of my... generosity... " Chloe sniggered again.
With that, Chloe left out the backdoor.
"GAH!" Alya said. "Chloe sure drives me mad! "
"You know, I think she had something to do with Nino's accident " said Marinette biasedly.
Alya was shocked. "Gasp! How dare you say something so baseless as Chloe doing bad things to people-" (A/N: HAH! I couldn't keep a straight face, LOL! Oh Chloe, you crack me up.)
Marinette was thinking. Hard.
"Chloe is never generous. Lack of generosity is her number one defining character trait. Well, that and pure dangnasty evil!"
"Ignoring your sudden and unfounded hatred against Chloe, that means..." said Alya, her slow cogs working.
"...She actually WANTS to come second!" said Marinette, thinkingly.
"Do you think that's..."
"...because she wants the second prize medal!" said Marinette, winning at Thinking again.
"It must be because the second prize is really Adrien in disguise!"
"Yes, now that I Iook at the second prize I notice it now. It's clearly Adrien!" It WAS Adrien. He was sitting in a corner with a sign that said 'I'm totally being held hostage by an Akuma guys, please help!' Huh. It had slipped their mind, what with him ALREADY being treated as the 'object' of the girls' desires for so long. (A/N: YAY PUNS!)
"That explains why someone would want to become second!"
"Exactly! It makes absolute sense now!"
"So, we have to beat Chloe by being the best at coming second? How are we going to do that...you have never lost before!" said Alya, making Marinette's huge head grow bigger.
"I know" said Marinette. "I am not sure I know how"
"You got to though. Just this once you got to come second!"
"No I cant. But I have an idea...you could compete!" said Marinette, being completely oblivious as to how this comment may seem condescending and rude. But in order to stop the evil Chloe from kidnapping Adrien, she was willing to do ANYTHING!
"Me?" said Alya, surprised and a bit sad. "Do they even allow girls like me to do Fashion?
"Yes, it's a modern contest, a few girls like me have already competed. I'll win the contest as normal, and you will come second. You can do this!"
"Ok Marinette, I'll do it. I'll do it for you"
Then the Gong went again, the final leg of the Fashion contest had begun!
Alya and Marinette walked boldly into the World Championship Fashion-ing Arena.
It was time for the final part. But first, Alya had to be registered.
"I, ALYA, WOULD LIKE to COMPETE!" she shouted proudly, all ready for her big day.
"I am sorry but afraid it's not allowed" said the contest judge. HUH?
Devastated, Alya started sobbing.
"But, I have wanted to compete in a Fashion-ing contest all my life! "
"It's not in the rules I am afraid."
Marinette took Alya in her arms.
"I'm sorry, I thought you would be allowed to compete"
"Its not fair...I have every right to compete."
"Its probably just because you are a girl"
"Probably. that's just typical!"
Alya sobbed some more. The floor was quite wet now.
But suddenly, Marinette had a NEW IDEA! "I KNOW, I'll have to lose now"
"It's so unfair, why should you have to lose? Why should you have to come second?"
"I'll...be ok Alya, I can do this." said Marinette holding back her emotions.
"*sniffle sniffle*" said Alya.
"It's so unfair on you! All the people at Untitled School will all make fun of you for coming second!"
It was true, her dank fellow kids at school and other talented fashion friends would make fun of her. It was sad.
"I can take it" said Marinette in a BOLD way. Alya was already SO upset that Marinette would have to lose, Marinette didn't want to make her even MORE sad. That would be CRAZY.
With that Marinette stood up and went to the starting line next to Chloe.
"So, it's just you and me...!"
"As it should be."
"Let's end this!"
Chloe gave the contest judge and nod and the contest started once more.
Marinette and Chloe did their Fashion-ing intensely. Marinette tried to control herself, but it was hard. Every instinct in her made her want to win. She could not be put on a leash. But she had to control it!
Marinette struggled.
"Could she do it?" "How could she not win?" "She Loved Fashion!" "This was not possible" "But she had too" "For the sake of the Earth" "She needed too" "But how?"
Finally defeating her inner monologuing, she overcame her bloodlust for Fashion-ing. She could lose now.
Marinette stopped. A calmness washed over her, and she entered a zen-like state.
Chloe didn't see this and rushed ahead Fashion-ing like Marinette was still going. Before they could see what happened, she had won!
Marinette had come second by default!
"I...won...?" said Chloe, confused.
"Yes...you see, we knew your plans to come second and kidnap Adrien. So Alya and me planned to come second!"
"And I won?"
"Yes"
"I never won anything before! I was always bitter and evil because I never won anything!"
Suddenly Marinette realized that Chloe was a good person and they just did evil because they never won anything before! (A/N: LOL)
"Now that I have won this prize I feel all my evil thoughts leaving me, I don't need Adrien now...I am sorry I did anything bad, ever."
Marinette and Chloe forgave each other, and the crowd cheered!
"I forgive you!"
"THANK YOU!"
"Yayyyyyyy! Horrrraaayyyyy" said the crowd.
And then everyone went home together and lived happily ever after and there were no more problems. Except for Adrien, who stayed at the gymnasium, all tied up and hungry, for far too long before finally deciding to get SWEET revenge on everyone and he began his OWN Crazy Amazing Adventure with together with his robot monkey pal Mewtwo (no relation to ****mon).
-The End