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 3: The New Cat
The group arrived at the Kaiba mansion, which was even bigger than the Agreste mansion and its gates had Blue Eyes White Dragon statues on each side. There was a Blue Eyes fountain in the center of the driveway surrounded by flowers. On one side there was a hedge maze and to the left was the garage. "Welcome to my home. It's not much," said Bastion with a shrug and the girls looked at him and he smiled, "What?" he asked.
"Only you would say that this isn't much," said Marinette with a smile. Bastion didn't answer because Roland had just opened the door, and everyone hopped out.
Seto asked if Bastion would like to have a lunch with his friends in the rec room or with the family. "It's your choice son, don't feel obligated to join us," he said.
"If no one minds, I would like to spend time with my friends and I promise I'll spend time with you all later," he told his siblings, who nodded, "Great, come on girls," said Bastion and he lead them up the stairs, first showing them his room. Marinette's eyes widened; it was bigger than Adrien's room! Bastion had a queen size bed with a stars and moon motif on his covers and pillow, a large walk-in closet, a desk and chair, both made of the finest mahogany, his walls were a light shade of cream, and his carpet was pale blue, on the walls there were posters of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Judgement Dragon and Ladybug. There was a very full trophy cabinet filled with golden trophies for everything from sports, to dueling to academics and there were also numerous medals and certificates on the wall above the cabinet as well. There were shelves filled with Duel Monster figurines and there was a Ladybug figurine too. A full-length mirror stood in one corner and there was a door next to it that lead into Bastion's on-suite bathroom. There were two bookcases filled with schoolbooks, research books, pencils, pens, coloured paper, glue, scissors and lined paper.
"Bastion, your room is amazing but, apart from your figurines, there's nothing to just, have fun with," said Marinette after taking in the fireplace at the other end of the room with picture of him and his family on the top of it.
"My bedroom is meant to be for homework and sleeping. I have my own rec room down the hall, it's best to keep work and fun separated," Bastion explained.
"Oh," and she nodded. Bastion took the girls on a tour after that, his rec-room was amazing and they played games and ordered take-out for lunch as well, they basically behaved like ordinary teenagers.
"So, Bastion, what are you planning on doing after school, you know when you grow up?" asked Marinette after playing some games.
"I'll probably be working for my dad," he said with a shrug.
"Aren't you going inherit the company?" asked Chloe.
"No way, my dad loves Kaiba Corp too much, he's fought so hard for it, against everyone and anyone, Zigfried von Schroeder, Dartz, the big five, anyone who has tried, has eventually regretted it and been curb stomped into the ground. The only way I'm inheriting it if and when he dies. Even then, my uncle will have a little more claim than me since he owns two percent, but maybe my dad with leave it to me in his will. It doesn't bother me at all though, I'm free to do whatever job I please and so are my siblings."
"Isn't Noah actually the blood son of Gozaburo?" asked Kagami.
"He was. When my father and uncle found his mind floating around in cyberspace because he'd created a backup of it, they transferred his consciousness into my unborn brother's mind and so he was rescued and is very happy being a little brother and a big brother with a family who loves him," said Bastion.
"That's sweet," said Marinette."
"Anything else you want to share about your future?" asked Chloe.
"I might create my own company, I already have ideas that I'm working on," he admitted, and the girls grinned, knowing that Bastion's ideas were going to change the world.
The girls were escorted home by Bastion, and he dropped Marinette off last, "It's wonderful to be together again Marinette. I'll pick you up tomorrow," he said and kissed her on the cheek, leaving a blushing Marinette with no thoughts of Adrien but plenty of the charming young man who was her hero. Tikki just smiled as Marinette waltzed inside and sighed in happiness. She had felt the transfer of the ring from Adrien to Bastion and she was happy that Marinette would have a proper cat to help her.
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Bastion arrived home and ate dinner with his family before asking them to meet in the lounge. "What are you planning kid?" asked Plagg.
"Telling the truth," he said.
"Wait, what do you mean?" Plagg asked in alarm. Bastion just smiled and turned as his family walked in.
"Plagg, claws out!" he said, in front of his family he transformed and within a few seconds Bastion was standing there but looking very different. He wore a black suit that was made from an extremely durable fabric that looked like fur, his left hand was coloured white but the ring on his middle finger was black. He wore a black belt with a white cat head for a buckle, around his neck was a white collar, it was separated from the rest of the outfit. His eyes were cat shaped and a golden color, he wore a black mask with a pink nose and a white mark that started from the bridge of his nose up to the top of the mask. He had real whiskers, three on each side, that started from the middle of his cheeks. His hair was long, black and shaggy, reaching down to his shoulders with a single white bang hanging in between his eyes. He had real cat ears, that were black in colour with the right one having a small white, round spot on it near the top and he also had a real cat's tail, that was all black except for the tip which was white. His feet were covered in the same furry material as the rest of his body and looked more like paws than boots. He grinned and his family saw that he had longer and sharper canines to add to the look. His staff was attached to his left hip and completed the look. "So, what do you think?" he asked. His father just nodded in acceptance as did his uncle and Noah. His mother sighed and nodded and Usagi, Timmy and Hikari jumped around in delight that their big brother was a superhero. Bastion had also invited Roland to witness the transformation and he took it in stride.
"So, explain with you need to do," said his father.
Bastion explained to them all that he needed to help Ladybug defeat Shadow Moth and he asked that they accept that he was going to be in danger now.
"Well, it's not as though we're strangers to strange things," said Noah with a smirk, Mokuba smirked as well. Seto also smirked but he requested that Bastion capture an Akuma for his new project and to keep his siblings safe.
"I want you to be careful," said Serenity.
"I will mom, I promise," he said. Roland sighed and said he'd be available if he was needed. "Thanks everyone. Plagg, claws in," and he detransformed.
"What in the world are you doing? No one can know your identity!" he exclaimed.
"I'm showing my family that I trust them and that they can trust me. We try not to do secrets unless it's a surprise or we're planning a birthday," he said.
Plagg rolled his eyes and looked at the Kaiba family. "So now they're going to know the secret and be in danger," he said. The Kaibas laughed, "What's so funny?" he asked.
"We've delt with magic and danger so many times it's not funny, Mokuba and I have even had our souls removed and placed into cards. I've travelled to the past, I was a priest in ancient Egypt with a magic item called the Millennium Rod, I've seen a great Leviathan, stood on Atlantis, fought against evil psychos, there's nothing that that worm Shadow Moth can do to scare me," said Seto.
"Same here," said Mokuba.
"Even I wasn't exempt," said Serenity, "I was dragged into a virtual world and my body was on the line, I was also there for Battle City and while I stayed mostly out of it, I was still a part of it and it turns out that I'm the reincarnation of the lady who held the Blue Eyes in her soul, so I'm fine with my son being a hero. My husband, my big brother, my friends, they're all heroes too, I'm used to this by now."
"I was the one to drag everyone into said Virtual World and put everyone's lives at risk, but I gave up my chance to live again and saved everyone. Now I have a great family and I'll support my brother every step of the way," said Noah with a smile.
"We all have Duel Spirits and know the stories," say the twins and Timmy nodded. "We're ready to help."
"I'm a big boy, I can help," said Timmy, his father picking him up and putting him on his shoulder.
"I've been on some of these adventures and seen them happen, I will do my best to protect Master Bastion and the rest of his siblings," said Roland.
Bastion grinned and looked at Plagg, "See, everything is fine," he said, and he took off the ring, placing it on the table.
"What are you doing?" he asked and then Bastion looked at his father, they exchanged a look and Seto nodded, picking up the ring. "Hey, now what are you doing?" asked Plagg, what was going on?
"Son, this ring is very special, I'm giving it to you to look after," said Seto, handing Bastion the ring.
"I'll be careful dad, I promise," said Bastion, putting the ring back on.
"Bastion, can you explain what just happened?" asked a freaked out Plagg.
"Truth, Plagg," he said.
"Wha…?"
"It's simple, 'Bastion where did you get that ring?' 'My dad gave it to me, he said it's very special, so I'm never taking it off,'" said Bastion, playing how a conversation would go. "You see Plagg, if someone asks where I got this ring, I can truthfully say that my dad gave it to me, and it is very special. No one will have reason to believe that it's the Cat Miraculous, my dad gave it to me after all and it's the truth," he said with a smirk.
"Oh, wow, you're good, taking the ring off, your dad, everything, that's a plan and it's all true. Genius. Hey, do you have any camembert?" he asked.
"I'll get you some," said Serenity with a smile and she did.
"Thanks, Mrs Kaiba," said Plagg politely before eating it.
"So big bro, what's your superhero name going to be?" asked Hikari.
"Felis Nero," he said.
"Cool!" shouted his siblings and his parents and uncle also nodded in approval.
"Not bad, very creative actually," said Plagg, still eating his cheese.
"Thanks. I'm going to transform now and see if I can find Ladybug to let her know of her change in partner," said Bastion.
"Normally, my old user would have made a pun, pawtner," said Plagg.
"I don't do stupid puns, they're a distraction," said Bastion, "Plagg, claws out!" and he transformed. "I'll be back later, by eleven at least, unless an Akuma shows up," he said to his family.
"We trust you, just come back home safe," said his mother and he nodded, leaping out of the window and running off.
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"This is bad, very, very bad," said a very anxious Adrien, he'd been searching for Plagg and his ring all day, and he couldn't tell Ladybug, he didn't know her civilian identity. What was his lady going to do without him? He was sure that Plagg had been captured by Shadow Moth, that was the only reason he could think of for Plagg not coming back to him. He had to find him and fast.
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Ladybug was wondering where Cat Noir was, he was late for their patrol, she sighed, "He's becoming more and more unreliable."
"I hope that that will not be the case with me," said a voice and Ladybug turned in a defensive way to see a new Cat Noir! Her jaw dropped.
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That's all for this chapter folks, I hope you enjoy it. Next up is Marinette's reaction.
