I Need a Hero
Summary: AU: Marinette is near the end of her rope with Lila and her lies, with no one on her side, except Chloe, even Adrien has been converted. What happens when an old friend from the past is transferred into the class? Lila and, entire class bashing. A new black cat is chosen. Marinette/Bastion. Kagami, Chloe, and Luka friendship. Yu-Gi-Oh GX/Miraculous Ladybug X-over. Early Season 4, set after Gang of Secrets. Alya was never told about Marinette being Ladybug. Lila bashing, class bashing, Bastion/Marinette
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh/Yugioh GX/Miraculous Ladybug and anything else that creeps its way into this story.
This is very AU, concerning heroes, characters, personalities, and love interests, you have been warned. If you don't like it, don't read it.
Chapter 1: A new student
Marinette sighed, it was another day at school with no friends, she was ready to quit but she was a hero, she was Ladybug, she couldn't quit. Paris needed her, she had to fight against Shadow Moth. There was a new transfer student coming today, she'd baked a box of pastries for them, maybe they wouldn't be taken in by Lila's lies. She snorted, fat chance.
She said goodbye to her parents and went to school, running because she was late again.
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Standing outside the school was a boy. "Well, I'm back," said the boy with black, slightly spiked hair, fair skin and silver eyes. He was tall and handsome, dressed in a green shirt, a yellow and white jacket, and black jeans with stylish black and yellow sneakers. He wore a silver watch on his left wrist, a white ring on his ring finger on his left hand, had a green backpack, and wore a dented Egyptian coin around his neck on a chain. He'd been away from Paris for several years and was finally back. He got directions from someone and headed to the principal's office.
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Plagg felt something, there was a change in the air, a change in magic. He sensed it and he was sure that Tikki did too. "A real cat is here," he said quietly to himself, and he sighed, Adrien had changed, that girl Lila was a bad influence and Adrien was becoming, correction, had become obsessive and clingy with Ladybug, he was too busy flirting and was now unreliable in a fight, leaving Ladybug to do practically all the work. When she brought in the other heroes, they also pestered her about getting together with Cat Noir. Plagg was sick of it. The guardian should not be treated the way she was being treated. The only ones that didn't treat her that way were Viperion, and Ryuko. Plagg sighed again. He'd need to find who the real cat was and then sneak the ring away to them.
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The rest of Miss Bustier's class was already inside the classroom and Lila was holding court as usual, to Chloe's annoyance.
"Alright class, today we have a new transfer student," announced Miss Bustier. "I told you all yesterday so let's give him a big welcome," she said.
The transfer student was reaching for the door handle and had just opened it when he was pushed into the classroom and landed on the floor next to someone.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I was running because I was late, and I didn't want to miss the new transfer student and…"
"Haha, hi Marinette," said the transfer with a grin.
Marinette stared at the boy whom she had seen years ago, "Bastion!" she squeaked.
"That's my name," he said, getting up off the floor and held out his hand to help Marinette up. She blushed and took his hand.
"Uh, these are for you," she said, holding out the box of pastries that managed to survive the fall.
"Awesome, Dupain-Cheng pastries are the best in the world. Thanks Marinette, you're an angel," and he hugged her, causing her to blush, but she felt happy for the first time in a long time.
"Anyway, I'm the class President, so I'll be helping you around for a bit, and welcome to the class," she said after the hug.
"Thanks Marinette," Bastion said with a smile. Of course, all this time the class had been glaring at Marinette and he didn't miss that, Bastion didn't miss anything. "Is there a reason you are all staring at my old friend with hatred and disgust?" he asked, finally giving them a moment of his time.
"You don't want to hang around her," said a girl with glasses, "She's a bully." Everyone but Chloe nodded.
"Ok, let's try and not get off on the wrong foot, maybe I could have everyone's names, take a photo of everyone and you can tell me a little bit about yourselves first. If it's alright maybe I could record everyone during their introductions?" asked Bastion, he was keeping his temper in check, and he held Marinette's hand firmly.
"Dude, why would you need to take photos and do recordings?" asked the boy with the red cap and glasses.
"I've always done it with each new class. That way I can show my relatives what everyone looks like and what they sound like too."
"He has always done it," said Marinette and Miss Bustier nodded, she'd been informed of this as had Mr. Damocles.
"Let's do this alphabetically, then Bastion can introduce himself," said Miss Bustier.
"That's such a good idea Miss Bustier, I just hope that everyone will…I mean," said the ugly girl with sausage pigtails and a hideous jacket.
"What is it girl?" asked the mean girl with glasses.
"Oh, I know I've done amazing things, I just don't want to take away from anything that everyone else has done. I won't say much about myself, you all deserve a chance to shine."
Bastion couldn't believe that he was hearing basically everyone, except Marinette and the blonde girl with sunglasses on her head promise to say something nice about her. 'Is she compensating for something? How much power does she have over this class?' he wondered and smirked, he started recording. No matter how much power she had, he would take it away, he'd looked up this class after all, he'd done it with every class he'd been in. You never know who would attempt to bully you or manipulate you because of your connections. That's why his parents insisted that he do the pictures and recordings.
"Hi, I'm Adrien Agreste. I'm a teen fashion model and my dad is Gabriel Agreste. I do fencing and piano. I do my photoshoots with Lila."
"We make a lovely couple Adrien," said Lila. He gave a cringy smile.
"My name is Chloé Bourgeois; my daddy is the Mayor of Paris. I have a half-sister who is going to transfer here soon, her name is Zoé Lee, our mom is Audrey Bourgeois, the famous director of the fashion magazine, Style Queen."
"She's also the meanest girl in class and she's a bully, just like Marinette," said the girl with glasses, glaring at Chloe and Marinette.
"At least I'm honest about it! Plus, anyone who thinks that Dupain-Cheng is a bully is stupid, the very idea is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous!" snapped Chloe.
"It's nice to meet you, Chloe," said Bastion with a smile, she was standing up for Marinette, probably for her own self-interests but she was doing it. Chloe looked surprised but he caught a small smile before she composed herself again.
"Uh, I'm Ivan Bruel, I'm dating Mylène and I'm not as scary as I look. I'm a drummer. Lila promised to help Mylène and I with our charities."
"Hey there, I'm Alya Césaire, the Class Deputy and I'm an aspiring journalist and I run the Ladyblog. I'm Lila's best friend and she's also best friends with Ladybug herself," she said.
"Mmm, Juleka Couffaine. I'm…a year older than everyone, I've got a twin brother who goes to another school. He doesn't like Lila. I'm dating Rose. Lila said I'd never be overlooked again," she said quietly. Bastion made a mental note to look into her brother.
"Hello, I'm Mylène Haprèle. I'm dating Ivan and I'm scared of a lot of things, but I like to help out charities and the environment. Lila said that she's got contacts who can help with them."
"Nice to meet you, I am Max Kanté. I'm the genius of the class. I love video games and my best friend is a robot I created; this is Markov. Lila says she'll introduced me to some people to further my future career," said Max.
"Sup, I'm Alix Kubdel. I'm a roller-skater, and I've got a rivalry with Kim. Lila said that she'd get me hooked up with Bill Bogash."
"Hi, I'm Nathaniel Kurtzberg. I like to draw comics, and my best friend is Marc in Miss Mendeleiev's class. He doesn't like Lila; I don't know why. Lila's related to Leonardo da Vinci and knows some famous artists as well," he said, Bastion shook his head in disbelief. Lila frowned a little bit upon seeing this.
"Dude, I'm Nino Lahiffe. I'm a DJ and a total party dude. I'm Adrien's best bud, Alya is my gf and Lila is going to introduce me to Steven Spielberg, Jagged Stone had also written a song about Lila," he said.
"It's nice to meet you, I'm Rose Lavillant. I love pink and unicorns and cute things and I'm Juleka's girlfriend. I'm the singer for Kitty Section. Lila is amazing and even saved Jagged Stone's kitten when it was on a runway and she got tinnitus from it, but Ladybug cured her. I know Prince Ali and so does Lila, she was recently in Achu helping him with raising money to deal with pollution," she squealed. Bastion frowned right away after hearing that and Lila frowned again, this guy didn't seem to believe her tales.
To Bastion, these Lila stories were becoming more and more outlandish and unbelievable and this class was stupid and gullible enough to believe them.
"Hey, my mane is Lê Chiến Kim. I'm a top athlete and Alix's rival. Lila is great at sports too, but she has a lot of medical problems that prevent her from playing like her sprained wrist, but she knows sports stars like Tiger Woods."
"Hello, it's nice to meet you. My name is Sabrina Raincomprix. I used to be Chloé's best friend but I'm friends with Lila now since Chloe doesn't believe her and sticks up for Marinette. My dad is a policeman. Lila says she knows Chase Devineaux from Interpol and will see what she can do to get my dad a promotion."
Bastion was beyond sick of this whole thing, Lila had the class in her net, except for Chloe and Marinette.
I'm Lila Rossi, it's so very nice to meet you, I hope that we can be friends. It was so nice of all of my friends to say something nice about me even though they didn't have to," Lila said sweetly but she stopped speaking seeing that Bastion had turned his back to her and was talking to Marinette.
"Anything you'd like to say Marinette?" he asked gently.
"Um, I'm Marinette Dupain-Cheng and I live with my parents in our bakery, and I want to be a fashion designer," she said.
"Thanks, Marinette."
"Um, I was talking," said Lila, folding her arms.
"I didn't need to hear anymore, besides, it was Marinette's turn to speak. I'm so sorry that I value her opinion more than that of a liar's," said Bastion sarcastically, causing the class to gasp and Chloe to laugh.
"Lila isn't a liar!" shouted Aya.
"Oh really, then you'll know that airport runways would never allow a kitten on them unless it was a stray and lived close by, airport security would take care of it and even then, airport security would never allow a girl on the runway either, even to save Jagged Stone's imaginary kitten. Everyone knows he has a crocodile named Fang," said Bastion crossly. Everyone stared at him as though he was an alien.
"Bastion, it's not worth it, everyone believes her anyway," said Marinette, tugging on his hand.
Bastion simply dialed a number on his phone and put it on video call. "Hello, this Jagged Stone," said the rock star.
"Hi Jagged," said Bastion with a grin.
"Bastion, my main man, how are you?" he asked with a smile.
"Confused, do you know a girl named Lila Rossi?"
"No, who's she?"
"Someone in my class who claims to have saved your kitten on a runway and she got tinnitus from it and that you wrote a song about her," said Bastion. "This is her," he said turning his phone to show Lila who looked horrified.
"That's rubbish, it's all lies, I don't write songs about minors and there's only one girl I'd write a song about and that's Marinette Dupain-Cheng, she designed my favourite sunglasses, my album cover, and my new poster, she's rock 'n roll to the n'th degree. Plus, Fang would eat a kitten and I'm allergic to fur. It's not cool to lie kids. Oh, since we're talking about lying, let me set the record straight about how I met my rock 'n roll man, Bastion. I was touring Tokyo around three months ago and my sound system spluttered and conked out. We were in trouble until Penny suggested to ask if there was anyone who lived in the area who knew how to fix stuff. We asked several people until a sweet middle-aged lady pointed to a boy wearing a Jagged Stone t-shirt, who was obviously on babysitting duty with four kids, saying that he was from Domino City and visiting Tokyo and was staying in her house, he'd fixed her computer a few days ago and Bastion and the kids were her grandkids. I went up to him and asked for his help. He agreed and within half an hour he'd fixed it. I gave him a backstage pass after that and we became brothers in rock and roll," said Jagged with a grin. "He's like a nephew and Marinette's like a niece."
"Marinette is one of my best friends," said Bastion.
"That is so wicked, it's hard-core rock 'n roll, I could write a song about a friendship like that, not about you two by name but the feeling of it. Come around to the Le Grand Paris, after school tomorrow, both of you and we'll catch up," he said.
"Sounds like a plan, right Marinette?" She nodded, unable to believe that Bastion had done this.
"Alright, you two, keep on rockin'," said Jagged.
"And you keep on rollin,'" replied Bastion and Marinette with grins.
"Well, I think that has proven that Lie-la is lying about Jagged Stone and her tinnitus at least. After all, if it never happened then she never had tinnitus at all," said Bastion calmly, his phone was back on record. "That also means that she was lying about Ladybug's Miracle cure curing her as she didn't have it and it wouldn't have cured it anyway since even, I know that the Miracle Cure only cures things that happened in the Akuma attacks and since her 'tinnitus' wasn't a result of it, it wouldn't have cured her anyway," said Bastion with a triumphant smile. You could have heard crickets; the class was so quiet. Lila burst into tears.
"I'm so sorry, I lied to everyone…. I…I…I just, just, want to…to be accepted by you all. E…everyone is so…so amazing in the class. I…I felt like I had too… I didn't feel like I could...hic…measure up to everyone. I'm so sorry…"
Everyone was surrounding her and not blaming her, and Bastion rolled his eyes.
"Are we done with the fake crocodile tears?" the class glared at him and, but he ignored it. "I've been on the receiving end of my dad's glares; your glares are nothing to me. Speaking of me, back to me then instead of the Liar-la show. Now all anyone needs to know about me is that my name is Bastion Misawa and I'm Japanese and Marinette is my best friend and I've been keeping in contact with her since I left Paris several years ago. You don't need to know anything else about me because I value my privacy and I only tell my friends things about myself," he said and then turned to Marinette. "So, where will I be sitting?" completely ignoring the flabbergasted looks from the class and the look of hatred from Lila.
"Um, well, you could sit next to Ivan or Nathaniel. I sit alone at the back."
"Then I'm sitting with you," he said.
"Wait a minute!" shouted Chloe, who got up and looked in Bastion's eyes, "Bastion kun!" she shouted, finally recognizing him.
He grinned, "I wondered if you would remember me Chloe chan." He hugged her and she hugged him back.
"What's going on?" asked Alix.
"Aside from Marinette chan, Chloe chan was the only one who knew me back in school, we all went to the same small private school and were in the same class and I got to know both of them. When I left, they both kept in contact but eventually Chloe fell out of contact," said Bastion. Chloe looked guilty.
"Sorry Bastion kun," she said. The class gasped; Chloe never apologized to anyone.
"What's this kun stuff?" asked Kim.
"Japanese honorifics, they're usually suffixes. It's polite to use an honorific at the end of names. San is equal to sir or miss, Mrs, Mr, ma'am, etc.," said Bastion. "Chan is used for girls and Kun is used for boys. Sama is used for those of a higher station and used to confer great respect. Dono comes from the word tono which means lord, it's even higher than sama and confers the greatest of respect. Bozu is an informal way to refer to a boy, in English it means kid or squirt. I call my youngest brother this way," he said.
"Another brother!" asked Chloe in surprise.
"Yeah, his name is Timothy, I call him Timmy bozu," said Bastion. "He's five. I call my other brother, Noah Kun, he's ten now. My twin sisters are Hikari chan and Usagi chan and they're seven. But back to the honorifics lesson, the next suffix is senpai, used to address one's senor in school, but also used in the workplace when a new employee addresses a more experienced employee who also has experience in the company. Next is kohai, used by upperclassmen to address lower classmen. Then there is Sensei, used for teachers, doctors or masters of any art, so I'd address Miss Bustier as Bustier Sensei, if that's alright," he said.
Miss Bustier nodded as she'd been informed of all this.
"If I leave someone's name without a suffix it's extremely rude unless given permission by that person. Saying someone's name without a suffix normally occurs in families, my parents calling each other by their names, me calling my siblings by their names, etc. it's also used to show closeness between people in love. You will all address me by Misawa san since none of you except for Marinette and Chloe have my permission to call me by my first name. In return I will address you all by your surnames with san at the end since I don't know you and consider none of you my friends," said Bastion and Chloe took her seat with a smirk and Bastion and Marinette went up to their seats at the back.
"Isn't that unfair, you should give everyone a chance, I'd love to be your friend," said Lila.
"I'd rather be friends with Shadow Moth than you Rossi," said Bastion disrespectfully. "Yes, I'm saying your last name without permission and without an honorific, I don't care. You've done nothing to earn my respect, you've lied and according to my sources, you've bullied Marinette and framed her for cheating, theft and bullying, three things she'd never do. Take a long walk off a very short bridge into the most shark-infested piece of ocean you can find, no one will miss you, trust me." The class stared at him in shock, but he just folded his arms and smirked.
Miss Bustier began to speak, "Bastion, please apologize to Lila, what you said was hurtful and you shouldn't speak to a girl like that."
"I'm still waiting for the DNA results on that one," he said, and Chloe and Marinette bust out laughing with the rest of the class still sitting in shock, but Alix did let out a snicker, but pretended it was a cough. "I'm not apologizing until she apologizes to Marinette for everything, she's said about her and done to her, that's going to be never and so I'll never apologize, and I don't care if she gets akumatized either, it'll allow Ladybug to hit her hard and good. Maybe knock some sense into her and why are we wasting valuable time focusing on a lair when we could be learning something useful?"
That question made Miss Bustier blush, but she wanted to say something to Bastion about Lila, but Bastion didn't seem to want to even think about being nice to Lila, so she saw it as an exercise in futility and began the lesson. "Today we're talking about famous Duelists in history, who can name one?"
"Seto Kaiba!" said Bastion raising his hand.
"Good, and what is he famous for?"
"He and his younger brother Mokuba were adopted by Gozaburo Kaiba after Seto beat him in a chess game at the age of 12. He took over Kaiba Corp from Gozaburo Kaiba when he was thirteen. Gozaburo gave him 10 million dollars and was told that although he could spend the money any way he wished, he must return ten times the amount in one year. He returned all the money within a single day. He did this by buying 51% shares of a small company that cared for its employees. Seto then made the president buy it back, under threat of it being shut down and leaving the employees jobless. He overthrew his stepfather and took over Kaiba Corp, stopping it from making weapons of destruction and turning it into a gaming company instead. From then on, he went on to become the number one duelist in the country, having the legendary Blue Eye White Dragons by his side. He was defeated by Yugi Moto. He created the holographic dueling system and eventually Duel Disks. He hosted the Battle City tournament, controlled Obelisk the Tormentor, helped defeat the possessed Atlantean King, Dartz, helped defeat the Great Leviathan, created Kaiba Land for everyone, including orphans and underprivileged children and he helped save the world multiple times, even if it was in his own self-interest," said Bastion with a smile.
"Very good, you really know a lot about Mr Kaiba," said his teacher.
"I'm a big fan," said Bastion with a shrug.
"I'm great duelist, a champion actually and I know Seto Kiba, he taught me everything I know," said Lila.
"Can you keep your fat and large mouth shut for more than one minute and stop lying?" asked Bastion crossly. "I know all the great duelists, the majority of them come from Japan, where I'm from, I'm acquainted with Yugi Moto, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine, Marik Ishtar, Ryou Bakura, Ishizu Ishtar, Odion Ishtar, Maximillian Pegasus, and others, unlike you, I can prove it," he said and he brought up pictures of said duelists on his phone, doing everyday things with him, it was obvious that these were real photos. One even showed him in Seto Kaiba's office. "School project, interview someone famous and write a report, I interviewed Mr Kaiba," he said.
"I'm still a dueling champion," said a flustered Lila.
"No, you're not, if anyone here aside from Marinette and Chloe, had half a brain and a modicum of common sense they'd look up the list of contestants for each tournament and your name isn't on any of the lists. However, I'll gladly challenge you to duel after school, we'll see how good you really are," said Bastion. His phone was still on record.
"Lila could duel circles around you," said Alya.
"Then she should have no problem accepting my challenge," said Bastion.
Lila was encouraged by the class, and she could hardly say no, but she was going to say something, "I would I really would, but my wrist prevents me from holding anything too heavy."
"Let's test that then," said Bastion, he took two things from his bag and threw them hard at her. She could them on reflex. "I guess that if you have no problem catching my stress balls with either hand then you should have no problem carrying a duel disk on your arm."
"Of course, I can, I've been trained by professionals," said Lila.
"Then you won't mind a Duel after school?" he asked, he was going to humiliate Lila.
"Of course not," she said.
Bastion smirked.
"I just forgot my deck at home," she said.
"Not to worry, here," and he handed her an unopened starter deck. "I always carry a few of these with me in case I ever meet a player who has forgotten their deck or who wants to learn how to play," and he showed them the several decks in his bag.
"You can do it Lila!" said Alya.
"I…Of course I can, but he's using his own deck, that's not fair against a starter deck," she said.
"I've encountered this problem before, I will also use a starter deck to make things fair," he said, choosing one. Lila was trapped now, he'd made himself to be a good sport, and made her reveal that her wrist was just fine.
"By the way, don't try and weasel out of our duel, we have witnesses, and I haven't really stopped recording," said Bastion, revealing his phone was still on record, "So don't try and wiggle out of it."
"You can't keep recording me! Miss Bustier, that's not fair," said Lila.
"I'm afraid that Bastion will be recording the entire day, it's something his parents arranged so that they can judge the school and it's curriculum, and it's been done before with all his other schools," said Miss Bustier. Lila paled.
Bastion smiled.
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I hope that you all enjoyed this first chapter. Let me know what you think.
Please note that again, this is AU, and so, yes, Bastion's personality is different but hey, he is a Kaiba in this Universe, so he's allowed to be different.
