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.
trying414: That's a bit of a secret.
girani4: Both a lack of inspiration. What do you mean basically McGrath? Also I am impressed that you have memorized Skyguy 'lore' that you immediately thought of McGrath.
And now on to the story.
It was lunch time at College Françoise Dupont, Alya was walking out of the classroom trying to call Marinette who hadn't returned the class after having to use the restroom.
"It's Marinette, leave a message. Beep! He he." her voice mail said.
"Come on Marinette pick up." Alya mumbled into her phone when she spotted Chloe standing by the lockers. Which wouldn't be unusual but what caught the intrepid reporter's eye was a Ladybug costume and similar styled yo-yo in the blonde's locker.
"Chloe's Ladybug?" Alya whispered in surprise.
Meanwhile down at the cafeteria, Nathaniel was sitting at the usual table, his plate with food in front of him, trying to call his friend.
"This is Travis. I can't pick up at the moment, so leave a message and I will call you back as soon as I can." Travis voicemail said.
"I hate it when he goes AWOL..." Nathaniel mumbled, placing his phone down on the table.
"I know what you mean dude." Nino said from behind, placing his tray on the table before sitting down, startling the shyer, shorter boy, "My man Adrien's the exact same way. But I guess you gotta be sly when Mr. Control Freak is your daddy-o."
It was at that moment that Nathaniel's phone receives a news update. Looking at the article, he saw that once again Ladybug, Iron Spider and Cat Noir have saved Paris from the clutches of a menacing villain.
"Hey!" Alya said suddenly standing behind Nathaniel and Nino, "I think I've just sniffed out who the real Ladybug is!"
"What is it with people suddenly appearing behind me?" Nathaniel said annoyed as Alya sat across from them.
"I know right?" Nino said turning to Alya, "Who is it?"
Alya looks from her left to her right, seeing if nobody was listening in on them. When she considered it safe, she leaned closer to the two boys, "It's Chloe."
At this revelation, Nino began to laugh at the thought of Chloe, residential alpha bitch, being the selfless hero superhero Ladybug.
While Nathaniel was looking around, "Am I being pranked?" he said.
"Seriously, Chloe? She's too self-absorbed to think of anyone but herself, much less save the world." Nino continued to laugh, "You are cray-cray, lady!"
"I am so not!" Alya protested, "You'll see!"
The following day, Chloe and Sabrina enter the school, and some students are watching her.
"Hey there! Hi! You look totally fab! Uh, no, not you." Chloe said to the students she passed, "Hey, it's still a month from Halloween, you know?"
"You need to have your head examined." Nino whispered to Alya as they watched Chloe walk by, "If she's a superhero, then I'm the Wizard of Oz."
"Oh, can I be the Wicked Witch of the West?"
They found Travis standing there, a a piece of baguette in his hand, greeting them good morning. "So what were we talking about?" Travis said, taking a bite out of the bread.
"Travis, back me up on this." Alya began, holding up her hands, "There is a big chance Chloe is Ladybug, right?"
Travis looked at her with a raised eyebrow, before bursting into a loud laughter. "Oh, wait. Your serious." he said shocked, dropping his smile, "Let me laugh even harder." and he did just that.
"I'm telling you, she's Ladybug!" Alya argued, her cheeks a hint of red from embarrassment.
"Can you prove it?" Nino asked as Travis continued to laugh.
"Maybe instead of making up some wild theories." Travis said when he finally stopped his laughter, "You should try and figure out who was absent from school and class.
"The British dude talks sense Alya." Nino agreed with a nod, "Like Marinette was notably absent, for example..."
"So was Travis and Adrien." the girl pointed out.
"Okay, you got me." Travis said with a completely straight face, holding up his hands, "The truth is... I am Ladybug."
"You can't be Ladybug, your too tall and you have that sexy British accent." Alya said, looking him up and down, "Also you have a penis."
"How do you know that?" Travis said with a raised eyebrow, "Just don't blame me when it goes south." walking away with his sandwich in hand.
A little later, Travis was sitting on a bench in the schoolyard about to take another bite from his sandwich. His teeth were about to sink into the bread when he heard someone say, "Good morning, Travis."
Turning to look at his side, he saw that it was Adrien.
"Morning Adrien." he said, taking a bite as his friend sat next to him, "How are you doing?"
"Same as usual..." Adrien said, a bit hesitant, "Travis, can I ask you for a favor."
"Do you want to borrow money?" the brunette said.
"No..." the blonde said, "I need some help with my English homework, and I thought..."
"Because I'm British, I'm the ideal candidate." he said, munching on his sandwich, "Pretty smart Adrien. Sure, I can help."
"Really? C-Can you come over at my house after school?" the blond said and when he got a nod from his friend, he added happily, "Thanks, Travis I owe you one."
During school, Adrien had texted his address, to Travis and once school ended he drove his scooter up to Place du Chatelet 75001. The mansion is at least four stories tall and has a basement. On the outside, it is tan and cream with black shingles on the roof.
"This is a nice place." Travis said, stepping off his scooter and rang the doorbell at the gate. A hidden compartment on the wall opens and a camera appears.
"Yes?" a woman's voice said.
"Good afternoon." he said, leaning closer to the doorbell, "My name is Travis, I'm in Adrien's class and he requested me to help him with his English homework."
There was a silence for the moment, before the gate swung open slowly and the same female voice instructed him to come in.
Walking across the large courtyard, he finally reached the door which opened to reveal a large foyer of white with sections of gray marble and black details. Large cylindrical lights hang from the ceiling. The floor is white, but in some places, it has secluded black designs that resemble peacock designs.
There was a huge white staircase directly ahead of the entrance. Above the back of the staircase is a large framed photo of Adrien and a man he recognized as his father.
Down near the stairs at the foyer he saw Adrien waiting for him, along with a woman of average height, pale skin, she had dull blue eyes behind her black framed glasses, and black hair with the left side of her head that is dyed a red color.
She wears a red turtleneck sweater, a black dress jacket, black pants and black medium-heel shoes.
"Travis!" Adrien said happily, "Happy you made it."
"Promised, didn't I?" Travis said before he introduced himself to the woman.
"Nathalie Sancoeur, I'm Gabriel Agreste assistant." the woman named Nathalie said.
Following Adrien up to his large bedroom. The room is separated into two levels, connected by a white spiral staircase. The second level has a walkway which is bordered by a glass-like banister. Various fencing trophies flanked his computer monitor. It has a rock-climbing wall, situated on the second story, next to the library.
"Now this is what I call a dream bedroom." Travis said, looking around as he stood next to the Foosball table.
"Make yourself at home." Adrien said as his friend placed his bag on the ground, "We can work in the sitting area."
"Good idea." Travis said, joining him at the couch, as they laid down the English homework, "I should have warned you earlier. I'm a pretty stern teacher."
"Don't worry." Adrien said confidently, "I can handle it."
Meanwhile over at the school, more specifically the office of Mr. Damocles. Where Alya, Chloe and Sabrina where standing before the headmaster after Alya's failed attempted to get an photo of the inside of the blonde bitch's locker.
"She's guilty of invasion of privacy!" Chloe said, showing the photo the intrepid reporter had managed to get, "I have proof!"
"What!? Seriously!" Alya exclaimed, "All I did was take a measly photo!"
"I'm sorry, Chloé." Mr. Damocles said, trying to be fairly, "But there's no school policy on invasion of privacy."
"Then... then breaking and entering!" Chloe said.
"I didn't break into her locker!" Alya argued back, "It was open!"
"And nothing was stolen?" Mr. Damocles inquired.
"Only my very soul!" the blonde said, acting overly dramatic, "My locker is my secret garden! He who enters uninvited burglarizes my inner being and steals my life force!"
"...Right." Mr. Damocles said, turning to Alya, "An hour of detention for you, Alya."
"Are my ears failing me?" Chloe said, "Did I hear you're giving one miserable hour of detention to a... a heinous criminal?" before calling for her side kick
"The school rules clearly state that any student guilty of theft should be suspended for one full week." Sabrina pointed out, reading from the school rule book.
"Yes, but she's hardly stole anything." Mr. Damocles tried to be reasonable.
"I'm not sure that my father would share your point of view." Chloe threatened, taking her phone from her pocket.
"Well, now, Chloé, let's not bother your father. I mean, the honorable Mayor with a minor locker situation..." Mr. Damocles said nervously, but the blonde had began to call her father, "What I mean is, you're suspended for a week, Alya!"
"What!? That is so unfair!" Alya said, "I am so gonna protest this on the school blog!"
Mr. Damocles looks at Chloe who's smugly shaking her phone, before adding with a sigh, "The school blog is hereby suspended as well."
"She's no superhero" Alya said, looking at Chloe angrily, "She's super-psycho!"
Some time later, over at the Agreste mansion, Travis and Adrien walked down into the foyer after having finished the English homework. To help him understand the English language, Travis had insisted they would only converse in English.
"If you knew the English words for it." Travis said, pinching the bridge of his nose when they were done with the work, "Why didn't you just told me?"
"...Because I'm terrified you would be yelling again." Adrien explained, "Your pretty scary when you..."
"English motherfucker!" Travis yelled when his friend responded in French, "Do you speak it!?"
"Y-Yes I speak English!" Adrien said completely terrified.
When they reached the bottom of the white stairs, the two looked at each other, before breaking down in laughter.
"Adrien." a voice from atop of the stairs said.
Turning around, Travis saw a very tall man, with a fair skin tone. He has light blue eyes behind his silver glasses, and combed-back light blond hair. He has a white dress shirt underneath a silver vest with red buttons and a cream-colored dress jacket, along with a red-and-white striped tie. He also wears red dress pants and white shoes with red laces.
"Father, your home." Adrien said surprised as his father looked down on them from atop the stairs, "Travis, this is my father Gabriel Agreste."
"The famous fashion designer right?" Travis said, looking up at the man, "It's an honor to meet you sir."
Gabriel ignored the greeting as he looked down at Travis, "...Have I met you somewhere before?"
"Perhaps you have visited London." Travis said before thinking, "Why does your voice sound familiar, Mr. Agreste?"
"Dad, I'm going to walk Travis to the gate." Adrien said, "Then I will be right back for my piano lessons."
Gabriel gave a small nod, heading back to his office as Adrien let Travis out of the house.
"And I thought my father could be rude." Travis noted when they walked over the courtyard.
"My father is... something, I don't know." the blonde mumbled, "But thanks for spending today with me, Travis."
"Ah, it's no big deal. What are friends for?" Travis said waving it off, "You didn't really need help with your homework, did you?"
Adrien shook his head, "No, I didn't." he admitted, rubbing the back of his head, "I-It's my birthday, and I didn't want to spend it alone."
"...Why didn't you just said so?" the brunette said, "I might have yelled less at you, and I would have given you a gift... Though that might have been a bad thing. I'm horrible with gifts... Does Nino know, he might have thrown you a party."
"That's why I didn't tell him." Adrien said with an embarrassed grin, "I doubt my father would have approved of it."
He was distracted by his phone, which had received an news update. Taking it from his pocket he saw a dark skinned girl wearing a black suit, her lower arms, and legs are white with three stripes that are white above each. On her chest is a glowing hot pink Wi-Fi symbol, and a thin white line goes around her waist.
"I'm Lady Wifi, revealer of the truth!" the girl announced, "For our first expose, your principal of College Françoise Dupont would like to share a little tidbit with you."
She turned the camera to reveal she was standing in Mr. Damocles office, where the terrified principal was sitting behind his chair.
"So, Mr. Damocles, is it true you wrongly suspended a student named Alya today?" Lady Wifi inquired.
"Yes... it is." Mr. Damocles said ashamed.
"For my next scoop, I'll be taking you to meet the girl who's been hiding behind the Ladybug mask!" Lady Wifi said to the camera, before putting a pink stop icon on Mr. Damocles, freezing him, "Stay connected!"
And with that the news feed ended.
"I need to go home, Adrien." Travis said alarmed.
"That sounds safest." Adrien agreed, "Text me when you get there."
Travis put his helmet on and giving a last nod, he drove off ready to allow Iron Spider to step in.
Flying over the skies of Paris, Iron Spider was flying towards the house of Chloe, which was in a hotel owned by her father, the Le Grand Paris.
"Lady Wifi must be Alya..." Iron Spider thought as the hotel came into view, having send a message to Ladybug and Cat Noir, "And if Alya thinks Chloe is Ladybug then she is heading towards her home."
He lands on the balcony, looking into the bedroom of Chloe where he saw her dressed as Ladybug.
"Oh, my god... She is a cosplayer..." Iron Spider mumbled, as he watched her keep playing with her yo-yo and ends up tying herself up, "Yeah... Only an idiot would believe she is the real Ladybug."
Iron Spider stepped through the glass door as Chloe attempted to get out of the yo-yo string.
"Need help?" he asked.
Chloe looked to her side, her eyes widening upon seeing who was standing over her, "Iron Spider!" she said, finally untying herself as she stood up, "What are you doing here?"
"I believe an akumatized victim is heading this way." Iron Spider explained just her phone rings.
Chloe press the ignore button, as she jumped in excitement, "Oh my gosh. I can't believe the real Iron Spider is standing in my bedroom." Chloe began to fangirl when her phone starts to emit a bright pink glow.
She throws it, and Lady Wifi appears as Iron Spider put himself between the villain and Chloe. "Well, hello there, Ladybug!... And Iron Spider!" Lady Wifi said, "Alone in a bedroom! I guess the fan art is true."
"There is fan art of me and Ladybug?" Iron Spider said surprised managing to pull Chloe out of the way of Lady Wifi's pink pause attack, "Questions for later."
Lady Wifi puts a camera icon above, "Well, well... So my hunch was correctamundo." she said as she send out another broadcast, "Everyone thinks the girl beneath the Ladybug costume is a little angel. Think again, people! The real Ladybug is... Chloe Bourgeois, everyone!"
But just then, Lady Wifi was knocked down when two figures came crashing through the glass window. It was Cat Noir and the real Ladybug.
"Who are you?" Lady Wifi said confused.
"That's Cat Noir." Iron Spider said, "And the other one is the real Ladybug."
Lady Wifi turned to Chloe, "But I thought you were Ladybug!"
"Sorry to bust your news story." Cat Noir said, "Next time, double-check your facts."
"Alya." Ladybug said, trying to reach out to the akumatized girl.
"Alya? Alya's been disconnected. I'm Lady Wifi!" Lady Wifi said, pointing towards the polka dot hero, "News flash! Ladybug, let's find out who you really are!"
Ladybug evaded under another pause symbol, the three heroes booked it out of the room as they rushed out of the room, Lady Wifi in hot pursuit.
"So what's the plan?" Cat Noir said as they jumped into the emergency staircase, evading more attacks from the villain.
"I noticed that she gets her powers from her phone." Iron Spider said as they scaled down the stairs.
"Then let's lead her to the basement." Ladybug suggested, "Where there is no service!"
"No service, no power. Nice one, my lady!" Cat Noir said suddenly changing the subject, "So, what do you do when you're not Ladybug?"
Ladybug looks shocked but quickly recovers, "Can't you see we're a little bit busy right now?" she pointed out, "Take an example from Spidy."
"Did you guys know there is apparently fan art depicting me and Ladybug as a couple?" Iron Spider randomly dropped, "I didn't know. I wonder if there is fan art of you two... or me and Cat Noir..."
"Boys!" Ladybug said exasperated annoyed, when she noticed that Lady Wifi is no longer above them, "She's gone back into the hotel!"
The trio ran back up, but all the doors had pink lock icons on them. They continued to climb the stairs but each door they came across was locked with the same icon.
"Hey, you realize we might actually know each other in normal life." Cat Noir said.
"Doubt it." Ladybug said.
"Have to agree with the lady." Iron Spider said, until they reach the top door, which doesn't have a pink lock on it, "Totally not suspicious at all... After me."
They burst through the door to the dining room, only to find that Lady Wifi is nowhere to be found, instead there were phones on all the tables.
"Well that's disappointing." Cat Noir said, looking around, "I was expecting an ambush and what's up with all these phones?"
A pink light comes out from a phone, and Lady Wifi appears who send a pause icon towards them, which was clashed with an blast from Iron Spider's gauntlet, creating a small explosion.
Ladybug ties Lady Wifi with her yo-yo, but she disappears, re-appearing above one, "You can't get me!" Lady Wifi said, as she does her disappear trick again.
"Yes I can." Ladybug said, swinging her yo-yo around and one by one, she destroyed she breaks all the phones. With her last phone destroyed, Lady Wifi runs into the kitchen.
Ladybug rushed after her before the other two heroes could follow her. When she breached the doors threshold, the door slammed shut and a lock icon appeared on it.
"No, no, no..." Cat Noir said, slamming his fist against the door.
"Keep calm Cat." Iron Spider said, holding out his hands, "You also might want to stand back."
In the kitchen, Ladybug dodges Lady Wifi's attacks until finally her hands get pinned to the wall by two lock icons. With her prey finally cornered, Lady Wifi puts a camera icon in front of her.
"Who is Ladybug? Is she a superhero or a super-weirdo?" Lady Wifi began, gesturing to the female hero's face, "How can we trust the girl when we have no idea who she really is? We have the right to know!" she reached out, trying to remove Ladybug's mask, but it won't come off, it kept sticking to her face.
"Why doesn't it come off?" Lady Wifi groaned annoyed.
"Because... magic?" Ladybug said.
A loud boom shook the wall as the entire door leading to the dining room was blown off it's hinges, sending crashing into the opposite wall. Iron Spider and Cat Noir comes through the hole.
"You're out of minutes, Lady Wifi!" Cat Noir said.
"Oh, how romantic." Lady Wifi said back, "Tomcat and the bug come to save their love bug."
"I'm neither of their love bug!" Ladybug protested.
"We'll come back to that later." Cat Noir said.
Lady Wifi does a surprise attack, knocking Cat Noir into the freezer room, the door locking behind him.
"Cat!" Iron Spider said, evading an icon from Lady Wifi.
"Now it's only the bug." Lady Wifi said.
"I'm not a bug!" Iron Spider shouted at her, "Spider's are arachnids, they have eight legs!"
"If you don't get him outta there fast." Lady Wifi chuckled evilly, "The kitty cat will soon be slush."
"Alright then, Lady Wifi... Have it your way." Iron Spider growled angrily, "The kitty gloves are off!"
Outside Le Grand Paris, the mayor and two police cars are in front of it as Chloe exits the hotel and hugs her father. She checks her phone, but a frightened Lady Wifi comes out from it and flies into the sky.
The glass on the upper floor of the hotel was shattered as Iron Spider came flying out, giving chase towards the villain.
Throwing out another camera icon, "What's up, peeps! Listen everyone!" Lady Wifi said standing on the hotel roof, "I present you with the..."
But the icon was blown up by another blast, she turns she saw Iron Spider floating above her.
"Time to take you off the air, Lady Wifi." Iron Spider said, aiming his gauntlet towards her.
"I'm not gonna let you cut me off so easily!" Lady Wifi said, and she began to in quick succession firing pink pause icon's at him.
"Here goes." Iron Spider said, waving and evading through the icon's as he blew them up with blasts from his gauntlets as Lady Wifi keeps attacking.
He turns his gauntlet towards the female villain, blasting at her. Lady Wifi's eyes widen in shock, but she can dodge out of the way just in time.
The pink symbols disappear just as Ladybug and the freed Cat Noir enter the roof through the exit.
Jumping into action, Cat Noir tries to take the phone away from her, but Lady Wifi dodges. Using his staff, the cat themed hero tripped up the now powerless villain giving Ladybug the opening to seize the phone with a quick trick from her yo-yo.
She breaks the phone, releasing its akuma. "No more evildoing for you, little akuma. Time to de-evilize!" she said, catching the akuma with her yo-yo. When she released from her yo-yo, it was returned to a normal butterfly.
"Bye bye, little butterfly. Miraculous Ladybug!" she throws the yo-yo into the air, and it explodes into the blast of red energy, repairing the damage done in the battle as Lady Wifi turns back into Alya.
"What?" Alya said confused, but soon realized who where standing in front of her, "Ladybug! Iron Spider! And Cat Noir! Can I get a quick interview? Just let me grab my phone!"
She turned to pick up her phone, but when she turned around, the trio where gone. "Where did they go?" Alya said.
The trio stood on a nearby roof, overlooking the hotel. "That's another job well done." Ladybug said, as the trio gave each other a fist bump, "She you two dudes later."
Ladybug was about to leave, but felt a hand around her arm, "Stay, I want to know who you are." Cat Noir said, "I won't tell anyone who you are. Cat's honor."
"Nobody must know who we really are." Ladybug said, throwing her yo-yo, "Not even us." and with that she swung away, leaving Iron Spider and a disappointed Cat Noir standing on the roof.
"Better luck next time, buddy." Iron Spider said, as he took off into the skies.
It was evening now, Iron Spider sat with his legs over the roof edge, on a roof top overlooking a park as he used a different phone from his usual one.
"Holy shit, there is fan art of Ladybug and me... very explicit fan art. Ladybug's behind is as well formed as on that picture. Oh, but I like the ones from Le Dessinateur." Iron Spider said, scrolling through the pages, "Maybe I should create a social media account..."
He looked up from his phone to see bluebell colored eyes of Marinette staring at him, as she was leaning on the balcony railing across the street.
He waved at her, startling the surprised girl. "I-I-Iron Spider." Marinette stuttered.
"Hello." Iron Spider said, jumping over to her roof top, "Nice evening isn't it?"
"Yes, it is. I-I'm Marinette by the way." she said, "W-What are you doing here?"
"Just chillin and checking out fan art of me and Ladybug..." Iron Spider noted, as he looked on his phone, "Oh, that one is definitely NSFW."
"B-But why here?" Marinette said, "Why not at your own place."
"I needed some fresh air and I liked the view, especially the great view of the Notre-Dame." Iron Spider said, putting the phone into his armor as he turned away from her, "Anyway, I won't take up anymore of your time."
"Iron Spider, can I ask you something?" she said, he turned to her and gave her a nod, "How would you react if someone told you that they liked you?"
"Well, that depends." Iron Spider said, "Does this someone just blurt it out? Do I like them back? I need context."
"I... I don't know if you like them back." Marinette mumbled, "Maybe you do. He's... Really nice."
"Marinette... Just take this advice." Iron Spider said, placing a hand on her shoulder, "A hero often uses his head, but it's one's heart that does the choosing... often against better judgment."
With one last wave towards the girl, Iron Spider took to the sky, soon disappearing into the distance.
"One's heart that does the choosing..." Marinette said, watching into the distance.
"Those were some wise words." her Kwami said, floating next to Marinette's head.
It has a tiny body, a large head, dark blue eyes, and freckles across her face. It resembles a ladybug, with two antennae, a large black spot on her forehead, back, and each side of her head, and a short tail with three tips aligned vertically.
"That it was, Tikki." Marinette said with a smile, "Maybe... Maybe I should tell him."
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