Hello there,
Welcome my friends to the next chapter of Miraculous: My Iron Skin.
Hope your going to enjoy it as much as I had writing it and now on to the reviews.
Nathan Kirk: Thank you for correcting me.
LegendarySteel1: Glad that the opening got you hooked. I got a few ideas on how the relationships are going to develop and I hope you will enjoy it.
Gobert600: Alright noted. TravisXJuleka would be pretty cute.
And now on to the story.
"Welcome to the finals of our KIDZ+ competition!" the announcer from the Weather girl finals said on the television that was displaying on the computer in Travis secret base, "When today, one lucky winner will be announced as our brand new KIDZ+ weather girl!"
Travis was sitting in his chair wearing his ear piece, overlooking the captured Akuma in it's containment unit.
"It seems this little bloke is charged with magical energy. If I can get a reading over the city, I could triangulate locations were similar energy signatures are and then..." he spoke out loud, before he began to move his fingers over the holographic keyboard, "I will know were Hawk Moth is located."
Just then his phone went off. Picking it up from the nearby table, he saw on the caller ID that it was his classmate Nino.
"Go for Travis." he said picking up.
"What's up dude?" Nino said from the other side, "What are you doing?"
"Just chilling... killing." Travis said taking a drink from his soda.
"True, true..." Nino said, "Hey, would it be cool if me and some classmates come visit you? I know your new in Paris, so I figured you don't know many people and me and some dudes could keep you company."
"That depends..." Travis said leaning back into his chair, "Does any of those classmates happen to be named Chloe?"
"What no!?" Nino said, "Just Nathaniel, Rose, Juleka, Marinette, Alya and maybe Adrien if his dad let him."
"You had me at Adrien." Travis said with a slight chuckle, "I'll send you my address and tell my doorman to buzz you in."
"Alright dude!" Nino said happy, "Wait doorman?"
But Travis had already hung up and send a quick text to his classmate as he continued to work.
"We started off with 5000 contestants. But with the help of our audience at home, we whittled our talent down to just these two amazing young ladies!" the tv host said, "So, let's welcome our fantastic finalists! To my right, Aurore Beaureal, and to my left, Mireille Caquet! Who will be the lucky winner? Vote now! Text 1 for Aurore and 2 for Mireille. And remember, standard text messaging rates apply."
Travis just stepped out of the elevator hidden behind a bookcase as he heard the door bell to his front door rang. The bookcase closed behind him automatically and locked itself.
He opened the front door leading to the hallway where the elevator was located and standing there were Nino, Nathaniel, Rose and Juleka.
"Dude!" Nino said, giving the male brunette a bro fist as the brunette stepped aside to let them in, "You never mentioned you lived in The Plaza!"
"None of you ever asked." Travis said as he greeted the others, "Adrien, Marinette and Alya couldn't make it?"
"Adrien had a modeling job at the park." Nino said as they sat down in the seating room, "And Marinette had to babysit while Alya is helping her."
"That is... a big TV." Nathaniel said, looking at the massive television screen build into the wall.
"You should see the one back home. You would almost think my father is compensating for something... Probably his height." Travis said, walking past the sofa and walking towards the kitchen, "Anybody want something to drink?" and they all requested something to drink.
"This place is huge!" Rose suddenly exclaimed, spinning around, "How many rooms does it have?"
"A master bedroom for my parents, two separate bedrooms one for me and my sister, a guestroom mostly for my uncle, each coming with their own bathroom, which bring the total of bathrooms to five, kitchen combined with a dinner room and of course the sitting room."
Travis had returned with their drinks on a tray along with some snacks, "And of course the garage." he finished, placing the tray on the table.
"It must cost a fortune..." Nathaniel said.
"Well..." he said with a sheepish grin, rubbing the back of his head, "My father can afford this vacation home."
"This is your dad's vacation home!?" Nino said shocked, "Who is he? Bruce Wayne?"
"...Close enough." he said, sitting down next to Juleka as the five teens turned their attention to the tv.
"This is the moment we've been waiting for! The viewers at home have made their decision, and the new KIDZ+ weather girl is..." the tv host said, and when the votes are shown onscreen, Mireille has significantly more votes.
"That was completely one-sided..." Travis noted, standing up when he remembered something, "I need to run to the store real quick. Anyone else needs some?"
Down in the streets of Paris, Marinette was walking by the park with Alya and the girl she was babysitting named Manon.
"We're gonna stroll over there real cool as if we just happened to be passing by." Marinette said, explaining her plan to her friend.
"Then what?" Alya asked.
"Then? I'll invite him out for a fruit smoothie! Then, we'll get married! Live happily ever after in a beautiful house and have two kids? No, three. And a dog! Maybe a cat?" Marinette said, beginning to day dream, "Nah, forget the cat. A hamster! I love hamsters!"
"You got it really bad girl." Alya teased her friend.
"I-I can't help it. He's just so nice and handsome!" Marinette said with a light blush, "And he has that hot sexy voice that can melt butter."
"Well that's bad news for butter."
The girls turned around to see Travis and Juleka standing behind them, carrying plastic bags of the grocery store.
"Hello there." Travis said with a wave.
"H-Hello." Juleka said.
"Travis, Juleka!" Alya said curiously, "That's a combination you wouldn't expect."
"It's nothing like that." Marinette said, turning to the two, "Right?"
"Oh no. Juleka, Nino, Rose and Nathaniel are visiting and I needed to do some groceries." Travis explained, "And Juleka was kind enough to help me."
"That is... nice." Marinette said.
"Why are you here?" he said.
"Oh, me, Marinette and Manon here are just getting a smoothie." Alya said giving a small elbow bump against her friend, "Right, Marinette?"
"Uh, yeah!" she said quickly but Travis was looking to something off in the distance.
"Isn't that Adrien?" he said and indeed it was his friend from class, who upon seeing them waved.
"Anyway, nice to meet you Manon. I'm Travis." he said, kneeling down to the young girls eye level, "Are you having a fun day with Mari and Alya?"
"Your that boy..." She said shyly, hiding behind Marinette's leg.
"Oh, hey Manon!" Marinette said quickly, distracting the girl, "Let's go on the merry-go-round!" A giggling Manon grabs Marinette by her hand, just as Travis felt a disturbance.
Turning to look at the sky, his green eyes widen when he saw it. A girl with pale skin, her hair is two tones with dark purple base and periwinkle bangs, while her large, pointed, low-angled twintails are striped with dark purple and periwinkle spirals. On her face, she has jagged black face paint that surrounds her eyes and comes down to her cheeks as lightning bolts.
She wears a tight, muted-color purple and blue two-piece dress that poofs into a curved bell-shape around her waist, has small shoulder puffs with a narrow-ended-tube-shaped collar.
"Everybody take cover!" Travis shouted immediately.
Pulling Juleka and Marinette, who pulled Manon along, with him behind a wall for cover as the villain fires an icy wind at the civilians, freezing the park over, along with the people who couldn't find cover in time.
Travis peeked up from their hiding spot, trying to think of a way to put Marinette, Alya, Juleka and Manon at a safe place so he could change into his super suit.
"I hate the cold..." he mumbled, spotting a nearby coffee shop, "We can weather the storm in there."
He stood up, keeping low to the ground so the villain would not spot them, as they were at the shop. As discreetly as possible, he let the girls go first while he went into the nearest alleyway.
Travis took the Spider Head from his pocket, placing it on his chest as he double tapped on the center. Striding forward as the nano machines contained in the head formed into his red and gold suit.
It was Travis who had stepped into the alleyway, but out of it stepped the hero known as Iron Spider.
Taking to the sky, he immediately spotted the villain which he send a beam from his gauntlet towards her. The villain turned around just in time to be hit by the beam, sending her into the ground. She bounced off the grass, creating a dirt cloud as she recovered and hovered in place.
"Hey Killer Frost." Iron Spider said landing on the ground, "Why don't you unfreeze everything and we can go for some ice cream or something."
"My name is not Killer Frost!" she shouted in anger, "It's Stormy Weather!"
"That's only a name Hawk Moth could come up with." Iron Spider groaned, face-palming his gauntlet, "Why don't you show me where your boss is and after I take his Miraculous, we can still go for ice cream."
In response, Stormy Weather aimed her weapon, which was a dark purple umbrella, she called forth a powerful storm from it. The nano machine's formed a pair of extra boots, pinning Iron Spider down on the ground.
Putting both hands out, he unleashed a stream of energy from his gauntlets, forcing Stormy Weather to cease her attack and attempting to block it with her umbrella. The laser impacted on the magic infused fabric, knocking her backwards into a nearby street.
As the winds died down, the nano machines around his feet returned into his his usual armor just as his fellow two heroes landed next to him.
"How come when there is trouble, I always run into you two?" Cat Noir said as they stood next to Iron Spider, leaning against him, "Not that I'm complaining of course."
"I don't find trouble, trouble finds me." Ladybug said, turning to the other hero, "What is it this time, Spidy?"
"A villain named Stormy Weather. She can fly and I first thought she could only use ice, but it seems she can also use the wind." Iron Spider explained to the other heroes, "It might be possible she can..."
But at that moment, a recovered Stormy Weather floated high above them, "We should be expecting lightning storms like right NOW!" she yelled as she used her parasol to darken the sky with storm clouds.
She called down bolts of lightning to strike the heroes, who where thrown back by the impact.
Iron Spider was thrown on the ground, his armor softening the impact as he felt someone fell on top of him. Ladybug blinked twice as she was laying on top of Iron Spider, "I think she can control the weather." she noted, looking down into his golden lenses.
"I guess she does." he said, smirking under his helmet.
"Can you three get a grip on it!?" Cat Noir said, a hint of jealousy in his voice.
The other two heroes stood up Stormy Weather used her parasol to coat the streets with ice. Following it up with a wind blast, knocking the three heroes backwards through the air, knocking them backward through the air, along with several vehicles.
Iron Spider rolled over the ground, seeing a bus about to crash onto them. He prepared his gauntlets to fire at the bus, but instead, Ladybug spun her yo-yo around as a shield, cutting a circular hole on the side of the bus and through it, saving the three of them.
The yo-yo stops spinning and falls on Cat Noir's head, making the cat hero mad after her yo-yo fell on his head.
"So what do you think her problem is?" Iron Spider said.
"Maybe she's got some anger issues?" Cat Noir suggested, "Or she didn't pass her driving test!"
"I would be very sour if I would fail that." Iron Spider said with a nod just as a nearby cracked street screen lit up.
On the screen was Stormy Weather addressing the public, "Hello, viewers! Here's the latest forecast for the remaining summer. It is officially canceled! Mother Nature had a change of plans!"
"Already?" Cat Noir said with a smile, "But I look so good in a swimsuit." he wiggles his eyebrows and nose at Ladybug.
"The cat suit will do, thanks." Ladybug said turning away from the two, "At least now we know where to find her..."
"I don't know." Iron Spider said, "Going to the beach could have been a great team building exercise."
"I'm all for that, but... " Cat Noir said, "But wouldn't you rust?" he gestured towards the male red hero suit.
"And your a cat." Iron Spider joked back at him, "And cat's are afraid of water. Believe me I speak from experience."
"When you two are done joking around." Ladybug interrupted as she pointed towards a nearby poster hanging on the wall, "I think I found the identity of our Akumatized victim."
The poster depicted a slender teenage girl standing at medium height with fair skin, blue eyes and blonde hair with bangs and low hanging twintails tied with light blue hair ties.
"Isn't she one of the finalists of the KIDZ+ Weather Girl competition?" Iron Spider said, "The akuma must be in her parasol."
A short trip to the TV studio later, the three enter entered only to find it completely empty. It was followed by the sound of thunder outside which followed by a blackout in the building, covering the room in complete darkness.
"The electricity is out." Iron Spider said, activating the night vision in his lenses as he pulled up the blue print of the building, "We can get to the roof through that door and taking the stairs. Let's go, our objective is getting away."
But as they burst through the door, Ladybug trips and nearly falls if it wasn't for Iron Spider catching her by the arm and pulling her back to her feet.
"Thanks Spidy." she said.
"Oh, do I hear a damsel in distress?" Cat Noir said.
"Well some of us don't have night vision..." she responded as he grabbed her hand and began to walk her up the stairs, leading her along the way.
"I see you kids on the roof." Iron Spider said, taking off as he flew to the roof.
Iron Spider blew the door off his hinges as he landed on the roof where Stormy Weather was floating above him.
"You airhead!" she said, creating a whirlwind around the building with her parasol, "You fell right into my trap! There's no way out! Party's over, fools!"
"On the contrary, my dear." Iron Spider said, his glove lighting up just as Ladybug and Cat Noir arrived, "The party is just getting started."
"Your right! We're going to..." Ladybug said, seeing that Cat Noir still held her hand. With a grin, he let go off her, "We're going to whip up a storm!"
"Very poor choice of words." Stormy Weather said, casting a storm of hail from her parasol.
Cat Noir spins his staff to make a shield and protect Ladybug and Iron Spider from the hail. "So what's the plan for getting the akuma back?" the cat hero said, "My arm's starting to get a cramp!"
"I'm going to draw her attention." Iron Spider said, preparing to take off, "I should be able to tank whatever she throws at me."
Stormy Weather sees Iron Spider come flying in, she attacks him with lightning, but he evaded under it. His gauntlet formed a fist, striking her against the face with a powerful punch.
Recovering from the punch, Stormy Weather attempted to cast but her arm was pulled into a iron grip of Iron Spider. She attempted to punch him with her free hand, but was caught in his other hand.
With only one option left, whatever it was adrenaline or anger, she slammed the front of her head against Iron Spider's helmet, getting the expected result when you slam your head against heavy armor.
"F-Fuck!" Stormy Weather groaned in pain. The clopping, painful feeling in her head and the grip on her arm made her drop the parasol.
Which was caught Cat Noir, who tossed it to Ladybug. "Get out of here, you nasty bug." she said, breaking the parasol and the akuma flies away from the parasol.
"No more evildoing for you, little akuma. Time to de-evilize!" she said, using her yo-yo to capture the akuma and purifies it, "Bye bye, little butterfly." She follows it up by throwing her yo-yo into the air and the miraculous light fixes the damage caused, turning the weather back to normal and Stormy Weather was once again Aurore.
"Well that was an adventure and a half..." Travis said, standing in the elevator with Juleka, each holding the groceries, along Marinette, Alya, Manon, "You alright?"
"Yeah... Aside from the almost freezing to death, I had fun." she said with a small smile as the elevator came to the top floor.
"That's the most you have said all afternoon. It's nice." Travis said not noticing the small blush on her face nor did he notice Alya whispering something to Marinette, who got a blush of her own.
Stepping out of the elevator and opening the door to his place, "I'm home! I brought some guests." he called out.
Entering the living room, he saw that the karaoke system was on the television and Rose was singing while Nino and Nathaniel watched.
"Dude, thank god your alright." Nino said, "Things were getting crazy from what we could see."
"Oh, about the Stormy Weather right?" Travis said casually, "I just thought winter came early."
"Winter is coming... eventually." Marinette said as Travis took the bags from Juleka who went to talk with Rose and went to put them in the kitchen.
"Uhm... Hey Marinette." Nathaniel said shyly and suddenly.
"Oh, hey Nathaniel." Marinette said when Travis got back when Rose finished her song.
"Who is singing next?" Rose said.
"How about..." Alya suggested, a mischievous grin on her face showing she was up to something, "The new kid Travis and..."
"Alright." Travis said, walking up to the stage, "But don't blame me when your undies turn into a moist toilet."
"I wasn't finished." Alya continued turning to her friend next to her, "How about Marinette joins in a duet?"
"W-What me!?" Marinette said shocked, "B-But I can't sing."
Under cheers, encouragement from the others and just being pushed towards the large television screen by Alya, Marinette landed against Travis her hands landing on his chest.
Through the fabric of his shirt, she could feel in defined pecks. "Don't worry, Mari." he said gently, handing her a second microphone, "Just have fun."
She gave him an embarrassed nod, taking a hold of the microphone as soft piano music started to play from the sound speakers around the room.
"Another day, I'm back at school. I think about him, he's so cool." Marinette began to sing her lines, "He looks at me, I look away But does he see me anyway? He's got me spinning around, my feet are off the ground."
"I am a cat, just chilling out. But in the night, she's all I think about. I feel so strong when she's around, she picks me up when I am down." Travis sang his lines, "Oh no, you'll never know, my love can only grow and when I see her smile..."
When the song ended, Travis gave Marinette a smile making her turn away from him as they recieved loud applause from Alya, Nino, Nathaniel, Juleka, Rose and Manon.
"Your... a good singer, Travis." Marinette mumbled.
"So are you, Mari." he said still grinning.
And there ya go, the next chapter hope you enjoyed.
I know, not a lot of Adrien this chapter. But I promise, next one we will have a some bro moments with Travis and Adrien.
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