About a week after the Valentine's Day fiasco, Adrien's standing outside the classroom while Marinette's father talks about his typical day in the Bakery while Marinette holds a tray of Croissants. His phone goes to his father's voicemail, instead of even to Nathalie, and Adrien sighs dejectedly - it shouldn't be a surprise, his father's such a flake, but that doesn't mean he isn't disappointed beyond belief. It's career day, he'd hoped his father would show his face…even on that tablet he uses these days. But no, he's too busy to even pick up the phone to say he can't come.
Figures, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. They always get smashed back into the ground now.
He walks back to his seat dejectedly, not even Plagg, Bloom, Nino, or the Croissant Marinette sets down on his desk able to cheer him up. And then Marinette suddenly trips over Chloe's bag, Croissants going everywhere as she hits the floor.
Chloe irritatedly asks "Geez, is there a day where you're not constantly tripping over something?!"
Bloom rolls her eyes, and asks "Is there a day when you're not constantly such a witch, Bourgeois? Honestly, grow up already." She then helps Marinette gather up all the Croissant, while Chloe gets her stuff back in her bag as Officer Roger gets called up front.
They've just gotten back to their seats when Chloe shrieks "My bracelet, it's gone!" Bloom internally counts to ten, just waiting for the explosion that's going to happen - Chloe was bragging about her new, expensive bracelet to everyone in earshot, and now its missing after Marinette tripped over her bag. Sure enough, the explosion comes at once - Chloe accuses Marinette of purposefully tripping over her bag to steal her bracelet.
Bloom rolls her eyes, and says "You literally just said Marinette trips over everything if given half a chance, Chloe. Besides, why would she want your bracelet? More than that, why would she steal it in such an obvious way that it would be bound to be noticed?"
The Mayor demands Officer Roger search Marinette, but he refuses on the basis that he can't search her without solid proof. And tripping over Chloe's stuff isn't proof, just unlucky circumstances. Mayor Andre Bourgeois then fires Officer Roger, saying he's incompetent in the process, when intimidating the man doesn't work. Then Tom and the Mayor start yelling at one another, Tom refusing to let anyone near Marinette's bag while Andre demands to search all Marinette's belongings and even asking if they know who he is.
Finally, Bloom slams one palm down on the desk yelling "ENOUGH, BOTH OF YOU!" Now everyone's looking at her, expressions varying from being startled to shocked to outraged. Unsurprisingly, Andre and Chloe are the outraged ones.
Andre recovers first, unwilling to be intimidated by a schoolgirl, and brings himself to his full height while asking "Do you have any idea who I am, young lady?" Adrien mentally facepalms, bad idea. His sister knows, and if she doesn't know right away she will very soon. She always knows, and Mayor Bourgeois just invited her to tear him apart while letting everyone know she knows exactly who he is.
Bloom straightens up as well, crossing her arms over her chest and flatly saying "I do, actually. Andre Bourgeois, Chloe's father. Elected mayor of Paris five terms in a row now, despite being the most corrupt option, because all of Paris prefers a man with known flaws who outrageously spoils his daughter with pretty things and loads of money to keep her satisfied and relatively well-behaved in public to a dictator disguising himself as a conservative that would have all foreigners shipped out of the city, beheadings legalized for daring to question him, and the entire city ending up being heavily monitored for the slightest signs of insurrection. You're so busy with your job, you prefer to get your already-spoiled-rotten daughter more and more shiny, expensive things or just throw money at her or threaten people to get her to stop bothering you rather than take time out of being the Mayor to teach her about things like morals, integrity, and basic human decency. Yes, Andre Bourgeois, I know who you are. Can we get back to the matter at hand now?" She's met him as Dragon Fyre enough times to have gotten a read on him long before now, and the guy has absolutely no spine whatsoever when it comes to his daughter.
That last question seems to snap a few people out of their shocked states, and Marinette says "Right, the bracelet…wait, Nino's been recording everything! Let's just watch the video and see what really happened!"
Adrien privately wonders just how nobody else can tell Bloom Peters is also Dragon Fyre when she acts like that - because that would've given her away to him in an instant. He looks down at his feet to hide his smirk - Cat Noir is allowed to smirk, not Adrien Agreste, after all! - only to see something that wipes the smirk off his face in an instant. Plagg, rolling around on the floor…with Chloe's bracelet wedged around his head.
Oh, you've gotta be kidding!
Just as Nino's about to turn the video off, Bloom says "C'mon, Marinette, let's get out of the room for a few. Get water from the fountain down the hall or something. That way, nobody can say you're trying to interfere with the investigation or anything."
Just as the two girls have reached the doorway, Bloom practically dragging Marinette by the shoulder, Chloe screeches "How dare you?!"
Bloom rolls her eyes, asking "Should I be scared? Scared of what your big, bad, dad will do? News flash, I'm not. Considering the detail that we get to deal with Akuma attacks every single day, many of which are caused by you, I'm not feeling that scared. Besides, your dad's got bigger things to worry about than one schoolgirl who's not afraid to stand up to you. Like the cop he just insulted, humiliated, and fired for actually doing his job like he's supposed to. Given Hawk Moth's habit of preying on people who've just been greatly upset, frustrated, or angered, chances are we'll be seeing an Akumatized Roger Raincomprix storming the place." And then she's gone, dragging Marinette out and leaving the rest of the class a mix of dumbfounded and terrified.
Adrien slips out as well, Plagg stuffed in his jacket as he heads to the locker room to get his stuff in case this takes the rest of the class - and to get the bracelet off Plagg's head and plant it somewhere under a desk! Only to freeze halfway there when he sees…a bright blue robot-like figure walking through the courtyard. Looks like Bloom's prediction came true…unfortunately. Adrien quickly groans, why does his sister have to be right so much?
And then he sees Bloom notice him, Marinette getting pushed behind the red-head, and he quickly flashes Plagg and his current situation. Her expression clearly says 'You've gotta be effing kidding me.' for a moment, and then she turns to Marinette and hisses "Hide, Mari! That's Sabrina's dad, he might be after you because of the debacle with the bracelet!"
Marinette nods, sprinting down the hallway as Bloom heads towards Adrien. "How did this happen?!"
Plagg says "It's a long, boring story, I won't- Hey!"
A flick of Bloom's wrist rips the bracelet right off Plagg's head, taking a fuzz of black fur with it, and then Bloom mutters "Crud, c'mon! He's either after Mari or Andre Bourgeois, and guess who's the more likely target!" Adrien feels his stomach drop out of his body - he may be in love with Ladybug, but Marinette's the nicest girl in class. He's got a soft spot for her - maybe because Plagg tried to get him to stop pining about Ladybug by comparing her to different girls in his class to show him she wasn't that unique. It didn't work to get his mind off Ladybug, but it did make him start noticing Marinette more. He's noticed she stutters around him all the time, and his sister is getting more and more resigned and annoyed as time goes on.
Adrien groans, and asks "No time for us to transform, Sis?"
"Uh-uh. Hence why Dragon Fyre hasn't made an appearance for a few Akumas." Like Darkblade, someone has to do damage control if necessary and Ladybug is the most important member of the team...so she can't do damage control, unfortunately. Ladybug needs to show up, to purify the Akuma, but her two partners have a bit more leeway as they technically aren't 'necessary' - she's told them both time and again that she couldn't do this without them, but that's beside the point. Besides, she can heal herself and doesn't have any parents . Better that it's her rather than Adrien, taking hits like this outside of the suit and
Adrien nods, and says "Alright, damage control it is. Any ideas?"
Bloom sees the Akuma's head just appear at the stairs, and hisses "Yeah, get inside! We'll figure it out from there!"
The two of them burst into the room looking frantic - and for good reason, considering the situation, neither of them transformed, one of them completely powerless and the other unable to really use her powers without outing herself - and Adrien hisses "Mayor Bourgeois, you need to hide! There's an Akuma heading straight here!"
Chloe laughs, and says "Adrikins, I think-" The bright blue Akuma slams the door open, and the rest of Chloe's retort dies on her lips.
"Mayor Bourgeois, you are under arrest for abuse of power." He hits the Mayor with a beam of light, which makes a red and blue glow appear around his wrists, but Bloom tackles his arm as he's reaching for the whistle. He throws her to the side, making her crash into her and Marinette's desk painfully, and hits her with one of those beams. And says she's under arrest for obstruction of justice.
Adrien runs over to her, yelling "Bloom!"
She discretely passes him the whistle she just filched from the Akuma as he helps her up, groaning "What the heck did I land on…?" When she pulls her hand up, she comes up with…a very bent bracelet. "Chloe, I found your stupid bracelet. It rolled under my bag when Marinette tripped."
Chloe gasps, yelling "My bracelet! Look what you did to it! Daddy!"
Andre nervously says "Not right now, sweetheart!"
Adrien says "I'll go get you an icepack, Bloom." He then runs out of the room, whistle in Plagg's grasp in his jacket as he follows the Kwami's directions towards Ladybug. It's a valid excuse anyway, considering Bloom's now got a knot on the back of her head and a bruise is probably forming across half her body right this instant. He finds Ladybug running through the hall, yo-yo in hand as she heads towards Miss Bustier's class. "Bloom got this whistle off the Akuma, we think the butterfly's in it! You gotta hurry, there's no tell-"
And then Officer Roger's robotic voice says "You are under arrest for resisting arrest. Cease and desist at once."
To Adrien's dismay, Bloom yells "Why, because you say to? Good luck with that, gotta catch me first!" They see Bloom dash out the door, take the stairs three at a time and then just…vanish around the corner.
Oh, Sis, you've gotta be kidding...
The Akuma heads out the entrance to the school to search for her, claiming she's under arrest for thievery as well, and Ladybug and Adrien head down to the corner to try and pick up her trail. Only for Bloom to suddenly ask "Seriously? I'm trying to buy you time, Ladybug!" Adrien jumps straight out of his skin, Plagg making a small noise of surprise as well, and both he and Ladybug look around for the source of the voice. "Look up, you two." What they find is Bloom keeping herself suspended midair by the two walls of the stairwell.
Adrien's jaw drops to the floor instantly, and he incredulously asks "How did you manage that?!" Her arms are out, yeah, but he's never seen anyone stay up there like that - and she's not using magic, either, her eyes are bright blue instead of orange.
Bloom smirks, and says "Just because I'm not wearing a super-suit doesn't mean I can't get around. Surprise."
Ladybug quickly breaks the whistle, releasing the Akuma inside it, and quickly de-evilizes it - Bloom quickly heals the knot on her head, and hopes nobody's going to be checking for a bruise where she landed on that desk and - unfortunately - Chloe's bracelet. She had Adrien give it to her so she could plant it somewhere plausible, but she really did land on it. Which really did hurt, unfortunately.
Marinette shows back up, claiming she went to go find Ladybug, and Andre reinstates Sabrina's dad as a cop. And, lucky for everyone, Chloe's all-important bracelet was found and fixed by the Miraculous Cure, so class can get back to normal. And, thankfully, everyone drops the mess about the bracelet since its been found and wasn't stolen - Chloe drops it in a huff, but she drops it.
AN: Hey, everyone! Next chapter is up! Hope you like it! Have to say, Bloom being capable of stealing stuff is actually coming in extremely handy - how many Akumatized objects do you think she can get like that? Both as Bloom and Dragon Fyre? I, personally, think it's hilarious that Rogercop was beaten because someone stole his whistle.
Anyway, enjoy! More updates coming soon!
PS. To everyone asking for more chapters on Girl Who Survived...I'm working on it, I swear! Just got hit with a bout of Writer's Block for some of my stories - including, unfortunately, Girl Who Survived. This particular story was spared that due to the detail that there's episodes I can watch. Good news, I finally managed to kick the Block for Girl Who Survived and The Last Peverell. So, updates are coming soon for those stories!