Paris, France
It has been two months since Felicity left and Marinette missed her company. She did have her best friend Alya and her other classmates but Felicity was one of the only people that she could share her double life with.
"You miss her don't you?" Her Kwami Tikki asked.
"Yeah. It feels strange not seeing her at school or talking to her on patrol" Marinette replied. "Rikki seemed sweet as well"
"Yeah" Tikki agreed.
Marinette had just opened her facebook page. On the news feed, there was a video. Felicity had posted a comment on it which meant that Marinette could see it.
"Tikki, look at this" Marinette said. Tikki flew over and landed on her chosen shoulder. "Doesn't that look like an Akumatized Villian?"
"A little bit but I don't think it is. Hawkmoth's Akuma's can't travel that far" Tikki said as they watched the rest of the video. "The video just confirmed it. It's not an Akuma. It's something else"
"It's a firefly," Marinette said. "Anyway, I don't think theres much that we can do about the trouble in London. Ladybug is needed in Paris. Felicity and her new partner are the only ones that can deal with it."
London, England.
The first week of the new school term was a success. Felicity loved her new school. The only downside to the week was Firefly showing up, that she hadn't expected. Her friend Mia was now on a mission to find out who Wolfette is which could put her in danger. Her blog dedicated to the new heroes was an instant hit around the school. She even got Year 7's coming up to her and asking about the blog.
It was now the weekend and Felicity felt glad that she had two days away from school. On Saturday morning, Felicity woke up bright and early. She had plans with her friends.
Felicity sat at her dressing table, putting her make-up on. She was going to meet her friends Mia, Eliza, Sophia and Lana. The girls planned on going shopping and Mia suggested that they went to Oxford Street.
"I still don't understand why you're putting so much make-up on. You never did it in Paris" Rikki said as he watched his chosen.
"I need to put a bit more effort into my appearance if I want to fit in with my new friends. It's not loads of make-up. I'm only using it to cover up a few spots. " Felicity said as she put her lipgloss on. Today, Felicity wore a pair of blue ripped skinny jeans, a plain red top, denim jacket and a pair of pink vans. She also had a dark blue cross-body bag.
"Felicity Mia's here," Uncle James said.
"Coming" Felicity replied as she opened her bag for Rikki to hide in.
"Hey, Mia," Felicity said as she smiled at her friend.
Felicity and her friends decided to take the underground to Oxford Street. They walked from Mia's house to Mile End Station and got on a Central Line train to Tottenham Court Road. Soon they found themselves on Oxford Street, one of London's main shopping streets. It's home to many different department stores and high street fashion brands.
"What's going on with you and Ben, Felicity?" Mia asked. "He seems interested in you?"
"Nothing, I've only just met him," Felicity said, trying to hide the blush that appeared on her face everything Ben's name got mentioned. "He's probably trying to nice and be friends with the new girl"
"Do you have a crush on him?" Eliza asked.
"No, he's a nice boy that's all and we work well together in Drama" Felicity replied. "Ok, maybe I have a little crush on him but I don't understand what all the fuss is about"
"Ben comes from a very wealthy family. Ben's father is a successful lawyer, people pay lots of money to have him present at their court case and his step-mother does something to do with fashion. Ben doesn't talk about his step-mother that much" Sophia said.
"That's interesting. I bet he has girls clinging to him" Felicity said as they walked into Topshop.
"Not really" Mia replied "He's not that type of boy. He's smart and academic, has a busy lifestyle. His father wants him to apply for Oxford when he's older"
While Felicity and her friends enjoyed there afternoon shopping, someone else wasn't having a very good afternoon.
Michael hated shopping, especially when his parents dragged around the wonder rooms in Selfridges.
"Mum, are you done yet? I want to go home" Michael asked.
"Not yet, Michael." His Mum said.
"Why?" Michael asked.
"We haven't finished shopping yet" his Mum replied.
Micheal's Mum turned around and continued looking at items in the display cabinet.
Micheal sighed but kept quiet. He didn't want his Mum to take away his PS4.
"If I had things my way then only cool shops would exist not boring jewellery shops. Mum's so busy looking and spending money, she won't notice if I head to the ground floor to look at the cool gadgets," Micheal thought to himself as started to walk away but his Mum noticed.
"Micheal, It's very busy here. You must stay with me at all times," His Mum told him.
"But Mum, it's so boring here," Micheal replied. "You never let me look at anything, it's always what you and dad want to look at. Where did Dad go?"
"Your Dad is still in the queue to buy something. He said that he would meet us here" His Mum said.
"Can I help you?"
"I would like to buy the daisy earrings, please," Michael's Mum said as she opened her bag. As she did this everything fell out of her bag and onto the floor.
"Michael, could you give the man my card will I pick up my things, please," his mum said.
"Ah, shopping, it's one of those things that you either love or hate. Now that gives me an idea" Firefly said as she touched one of the many fireflies in his room with his wand and sent it out.
Micheal followed his Mum around the wonder rooms.
He was so busy, thinking of ways to change his Mums mind and get her to wait for Dad.
He didn't notice the dark firefly enter the credit card he was about to hand over to the man behind the desk.
Micheal's hand moved away and the salesman looked at him. Micheal could hear someone talking to him.
"Anti-Shopper, let me help you create a place where you can stop people shopping. All you need to do is bring me Wolfette and Tawny Owls Miraculous"
"Ok then," Micheal said. Dark red mist surrounded him as he turned into Anti-Shopper. Anti-Shopper wore a silver jumpsuit with grey trainers and the credit card doubled in size.
"Micheal, where did you want to look? Mum and I have been a bit hard on you lately"
"Micheal's gone. I'm Anti-Shopper and you are now on time out from shopping" Anti-Shopper said as the credit card glowed and turned the man's clothes grey.
"I'm sorry but you have reached your limit on the amount you can spend," The salesperson said as he followed Anti-Shopper around the department store.
Anti-Shopper continued zapping people with the card. Soon most of the department store was a no-shopping zone and people filed out onto the streets to continue Anti-Shoppers will. The people who didn't get zapped hid in fear.
Felicity and her friends had their hands full of different types of clothing to try on. Mia gave Felicity a pink denim skirt to try on.
"Mia, that's not my style," Felicity said.
"It's the new fashion trend and I forgot to tell you that I managed to get you an invite to Robbie's 16th. We are wearing skirts. I thought that you might want to wear one as well." Mia said as her phone pinged. Mia didn't say anything else about trying the skirt on and Felicity felt happy about that. She wasn't a skirt person at all.
"Mia, where are you going?" Felicity asked. Mia didn't answer, so Felicity followed her friend out of the shop and noticed that she had her phone out. "Mia, wait"
"There are another one of those supervillains down the road, he calls himself Anti-Shopper. There's no way I'm going to miss this" Mia said. "You have to come with me. The superheroes will show up"
"Mia, I don't think that's a good idea," Felicity told her as they walked past lots of people trying to get away from the trouble. Mia didn't listen to her and kept running up the street. Eventually, Felicity managed to separate herself from Mia.
Felicity ducked into a side ally, once she was certain that no one followed her, she let Rikki out of her bag.
"We need to stop this Anti-Shopper Villian," Felicity said "Maybe this mysterious Firefly person will make an appearance today"
"I don't think Firefly will show up. The last one always used minions to do his dirty work" Rikki said.
"Anyway, let's clean his mess up," Felicity said "Rikki, Paws Out"
Felicity arrived and saw her partner Tawny Owl working with the police to try and keep people calm.
Anti-Shopper was not there but the group of controlled followers, mostly children marched up the streets holding signs in front of them.
"News gets around fast but I don't think Anti-Shoppers here," Felicity said.
"Nice to see you, Wolfie," Tawny Owl said.
"Down with boring shops"
"Anti-Shopper must be somewhere around here," Felicity added. "We need to find him."
There was a flash of light, which caused people to look around them.
Felicity didn't understand why they wanted to be in the path of potential danger.
"Well, looks like he found us," Tawny Owl said as he looked at the young boy standing on top of a building.
"Wolfette, Tawny Owl, hand me your miraculous" Anti-Shopper said
"You're not getting anything," Felicity said.
"If you won't give them to me then we will have to do this the hard way" Anti-Shopper replied as he started to zap the streets below him. The two heroes managed to dodge the attacks but some of the civilians didn't and they got turned into followers.
"The firefly must be in the card," Felicity told her partner.
"Yeah but it's not like we can freeze it?" Tawny Owl said.
"Maybe we can but I'm going to need some help getting past his followers" Felicity replied.
"Leave it to me," Tawny Owl said. "I can be distracting when I need to be"
"Look, the latest and best toys are all free today. Come and get them while you can" Tawny Owl said.
Felicity couldn't believe that Anti-Shoppers followers fell for it. Now it was just her and Anti-Shopper, who seemed annoyed.
Ant-Shopper tried to hit Felicity with the rays from the credit card but she managed to dodge them.
At the same time, Tawny Owl used his power to create clones and ordered them to help his partner.
"Hand me your miraculous" Anti-Shopper said.
"Never," Felicity said as she dodged another ray.
"Over here" One of Tawny Owls clones called out.
"Icy Touch," Felicity said.
Anti-Shopper looked around at what he thought was the real Tawny Owl and zapped him.
Firefly watched.
"Maybe things will go my way today," He said.
Felicity managed to freeze the back of the card with her power and then took it from Anti-Shopper.
"Not fair, you tricked me," Anti-Shopper said as the clone vanished.
Felicity snapped the unfrozen part of the card in half, freeing the dark firefly.
"I free you from evil," Felicity said as she touched the dark firefly with her whip, turning it to dust. Then just like last time, everything around them turned back to normal. The people that had been in the silver suits looked around them wondering what had just happened to them.
Anti-Shopper turned back into a boy around the age of 12.
"Where am I? Where's Mum and Dad?" The boy asked. He looked up and notice the two superheroes standing in front of him.
"Wow," Micheal said.
"Are you ok?" Felicity asked.
"I'm not sure what happened. I was in Selfridges and then I don't remember much of what happened next" Micheal said. "Mum and Dad must be worried about me. I better go and find them"
The boy left and Felicity looked at her partner. They smiled at each other as their Miraculous beeped.
"I guess it's time for us to leave," Felicity said.
"Yep. See you soon Wolfie" Tawny Owl said as he blew a kiss at his partner.
Felicity sighed and left.
Felicity let her transformation drop. Her Kwami landed in her hands.
"You did well today," Rikki said.
"I couldn't have done it without you," Felicity said.
"I bet Mia's posted most of the action on her blog. I wish she listened to me and stayed away from it tho" Felicity said as she suddenly remembered that she would be waiting for her.
Felicity put Rikki in her bag and then hurried back to look for her friends. She found them waiting for her outside Topshop.
"Felicity, where did you go?" Sophia asked.
"I got turned into one of Anti-Shoppers followers," Felicity said.
"I guess that can happen. I'm glad you're safe" Sophia said. "Did you want to come with us next time we go out?"
"Sure," Felicity said.
Note: Anti-Shopper is an OC created by me. Oxford Street is a real street in London, England. Topshop and Selfridges are real shops on Oxford Street and the memories of going here with my parents as a child inspired me to write this chapter.
