"Alya you won't believe what I just saw!" Marinette told her in a video call from the park.

Alya sighed audibly, "Girl, is this another wild goose chase? I'm not ready for another one of those." Alya groaned, "I don't know if I'll believe you again. I don't even care if this is actually my surprise party this time."

Marinette grinned, shew knew a fool-proof way to convince Alya to go with her. "Let me send you a picture first." Marinette told her and sent the Ladybug selfie she took earlier. She could hear Alya's message notification over the call, followed by a few seconds of silence and Alya opened the image.

"How did you get this?" Alya demanded. Suddenly her tone changed from careless to serious.

Marinette laughed, "I told you! I saw her at the park, meet me there!"

Alya hesitated, then agreed to meet before they ended the call.

Marinette returned her phone to her purse and turned to see her friends waiting behind her. She gave a thumbs up to everyone eagerly awaiting the result of her call. They all exclaimed energetically and thanked Marinette for all the effort of trying to throw Alya off for when the party might actually be.

"I'm going to meet her at the park entrance, you're all ready?"

The group nodded in agreement.

"Don't spoil it now." Alix joked, sticking her tongue out.

"Thanks Mari!" Adrien shouted from within the group.

Marinette found Alya at the entrance of the park, eager to meet Marinette.

"Alya!" Marinette called out to get her attention.

"There you are! Okay, where did you see Ladybug?"

Marinette laughed, the true way into Alya's heart: Ladybug. If only Alya knew that the heroine she'd idolized had actually been her best friend this whole time.

"She was this way!" Marinette took Alya's hand and led her in the direction of the party.

Alya suddenly stopped and Marinette stumbled back, their hands still linked together. "Wait," Alya started, "If there's no akuma, why are Ladybug and Chat Noir out on a Wednesday evening?"

Alya had a point, but Marinette already thought about this. "I've heard some people say they go on patrol, maybe this is one of those?"

Alya looked suspicious, but Ladybug and Chat Noir's patrols were common knowledge. "Alright…" Alya continued to follow Marinette spite the doubt she felt.

"Happy Birthday!" The group exclaimed as they held out balloons once the pair came into view.

"I knew it!" Alya yelled in excitement.

Marinette crossed her arms. "No you didn't." She said with a confident smile.

"Shhh! Girl, don't blow my cover." Alya hushed her. "Alright, let's party!" She cried and pointed to Nino, "Do your thing Nino!"

Marinette laughed and joined the rest of the group. Nino started the music at his DJ table and everyone started to dance.

Marinette deemed the party a success. The date, time, and place where all kept hidden from Alya leaving the true time a surprise even if the party itself was expected. Everything else went exactly as planned, and nothing went wrong.

Suddenly, a group of people ran through the park screaming. No, no, no… Marinette started to panic. Hawk Moth wasn't supposed to be here yet. Ladybug was already on a patrol according to her earlier, how was she going to get out of the group if they thought Ladybug was already around? How was Adrien going to sneak away?

"You must all love each other of face the wrath of—"

"Woah! What do we have here?" Chat Noir called out the the akuma.

Marinette looked around for Adrien. How did he get away and transform so quickly? She dashed away while everyone was distracted by the sudden appearance of the akuma and Chat Noir.

"Tikki, spots on!"

Ladybug swung her yo-yo and joined Chat. "Well hello kitty, you're here early."

Chat smirked. "I was in the area."

The akuma continued to terrorise the citizens, but ironically left everyone really happy and...loving? "No one will ever be made fun of for who they choose to be with anymore! Everyone will love each other when I'm done!"

Chat took a step back, away from the akuma. "Me-ouch! Bad breakup?"

Ladybug shrugged, "Maybe, but we've got to save these people!" She pointed to a group of people standing around in a circle. They were all clearly in a daze, but were complimenting and giving each other hugs.

"It could be worse," Chat Noir shrugged. "I could live with this."

Ladybug jabbed him in the side with her elbow. "They didn't ask for this Chat, we have to help them!" She pointed at the akuma. "Look this…" She paused to attempt to find the right word," Magic beam is coming from it's hand. The akuma is probably his glove."

Chat nodded and gave a salute. "Aye, aye!" He knew this meant she had a plan.

"I'll distract him and you use your cataclysm to release the akuma." Ladybug explained with a smirk.

Chat looked at her eagerly. It wasn't often she was the distraction instead of him.

She called for her lucky charm and the plan commenced.

It didn't take long for the plan to succeed and for Chat to release the akuma from the glove. Ladybug purified the butterfly and let it go. She threw the lucky charm up and everything returned to normal thanks to her miraculous ladybug power.

"Pound it." They chorused.

Marc sat between them, slowly coming out of the stupor Hawk Moth's akuma had left him in. "What happened?" He asked confused. "I was out with Nathaniel, and someone was making fun of us…" He trailed off. "That's all I remember."


I'm not dead! Sorry guys, my PC started to die and I can't turn it on if I don't want to completely lose it. I just got a new PC today and the plan is to type that's left and publish everything asap. So look forward to seeing the ending probably sooner than you would otherwise lol