Marinette looked at her cousins, one with puppy dog eyes and the other with a raised eyebrow, before sighing. She really hated having to be the voice of reason despite being the youngest. "Chiot. You're two years older than me. And you, Oiseau noir. You're eight years older than him! I'm thirteen! You're twenty-three! You're the one who should get to decide if we go flying!"

Conner seemed to take her words to heart before nodding. "You're right. I am the oldest." He struck a power pose, drawing laughs from his younger brother and their cousin, before he declared. "We are going flying!"

"No flying in this weather." Jason called from the living room. "Also, next time you make plans don't be loud about it."

Marinette flushed before a Chesire grin spread across her face. She quickly scurried to the living room and repeatedly poked her brother's cheek. "Hey. Hey. Jay-Jay. Jay-Jay. Jay-Jay." She smiled when her brother turned to face her (turning her poking into incessant booping of his nose) with a light-hearted scowl. "Do you wanna go flying with us?"

Jason, who usually didn't get the option to be a child who could fly, let his scowl drop and his eyes widened in glee. "Monsters. Let's go flying."

Marinette dragged Jason into the hallway with an excited giggle before she looked at their cousins, nodded and together the four of them ran up to the top floor of the house. Marinette let go of Jason's hand and shook out her shoulders. "Tikki, spots on."

Jason, Jon and Conner (who had all seen Marinette's transformation (multiple times)) had to cover their eyes and turn away and when the bright (did it get brighter while she was in Paris) light finally faded and they turned back around, what they saw stopped them in their places. While Marinette's suit had never screamed "ladybug" to anyone who saw it, this was definitely the furthest thing from a ladybug any of the boys had ever seen.

Marinette stood in what appeared to be a beautiful recreation of Megamind's Black Mamba suit. Most of the suit was black, her arms and legs clad in the ink coloured fabric, but on her front was a shock of a dark red covered in blue lighting bolts and that was not the only difference. Her feet were clad in the black platform knee-high boots but the blue detailings were the same dark red of her center front. The signature cape that Megamind wore was still there, however instead of the same inky black colour of her sleeves and pant legs it was a dark translucent charcoal colour and really freaked the boys out when it spread out behind her and behaved like wings. Marintte's face was obscured by a black mask with red stretching from the outside corner of one eye to the outside corner of the other eye and tiny blue lighting bolts covered the mask. Her earrings, which usually were red with black spots, were dark red with black spots and tiny blue lighting bolts in the middle of each spot. Her hair, usually pulled back in two pigtails or a pair of braids, was instead pulled up into a beehive and was the same shade of blue as the blue lighting bolts covering her outfit.

Marinette smiled, experimentally flexing her wings (were they wings or was it a cape?) before she looked at the boys and her confidence bottomed out. Did they like it? Or was it not cute? Did it work the way she wanted it to?

Jon suddenly wrapped his arms around her, being the closest in age to Marinette he knew that her mind was racing and it couldn't be good. "You look so cool!" Jon's face split in a megawatt smile and he pulled back to look at her better. "This suit is beautiful and you look so good. Jason is going to look so good in your arms."

Marinette giggled and nodded, looking into Jon's eyes. "Thank you." She pressed a grateful kiss to his cheek before looking at the two older boys.

"We're watching Megamind when we get back." Jason said, looking at Conner out of the corner of his eye.

Conner nodded before fully taking in what Jason was wearing. He let out an exasperated sigh before throwing a black sweatshirt at him. "Put this on."

The four children climbed back in through the window and looked up, into the angry eyes of Clark and Lois. Marinette and Jon froze, their blue eyes widening in fear.

"Hey, Mom and Dad." Jon's voice cut through the tension, allowing Conner and Jason to fully come into the room.

"Tikki, spots off." Marinette whispered and with a much duller light than before she was, once again, in her large yellow sweatshirt (that she definitely didn't steal from Duke) over a pair of black leggings (that she definitely didn't steal from the back of Cass's closet) and she looked up at her Uncle Clark and Aunt Lois. "I'm sorry Uncle Clark and Aunt Lois."

"Oh sweetheart. It's okay, while you are responsible for your own actions, the boys are equally responsible for their own actions." Lois said, her voice taking on a maternal tone. "However, you four are in trouble. So, as much as we've loved having you two here, I think it's time to go home."

Clark nodded before he fixed his two sons with a glare. "Say goodbye to your cousins boys."

"Bye Marinette. By Jason." Conner and Jon chorused, fear in their eyes.

"Bye Chiot. By Oiseua noir." Marinette replied sadly, waving at the boys before she went to go collect her things.

"Bye nerd. Bye baby nerd." Jason called out as he followed his sister.

Marinette and Jason pulled into the garage, Jason's fear came back full force when he saw Bruce standing in the doorway.

"Ubaba!" Marinette cried as she shot out of the car and bolted over to him. "I missed you!"

Bruce smiled and nodded. "I missed you too Mon Chou. Why don't you go help Alfred in the kitchen?"

Marinette waved at Jason and happily skipped into the manor.

"Why did you think running away, and dragging your sister along for the ride, was the best course of action?" Bruce demanded.