THE BATTLE OF THE QUEENS, PART 1: THE QUEEN OF HEARTS.

It was a normal morning in Paris...

"WHAT?!" Chloé Bourgeois roared.

However, at the Françoise Dupont College everything was turned upside down, and all thanks to the announcement of another new exchange student who had been enrolled that morning by the famous designer Gabriel Agreste's assistant, and said student was none other than the girl who had been akumatized the day before and who had recently been hired as a model for the brand Gabriel, Mary Jane Watson.

But to say that not everyone had liked the news was an understatement.

"What you heard, blondie, I am the new student." Mary Jane answered in a mocking tone. "And it's a great pleasure to be in this class!"

"Thank you, but could you tone down your enthusiasm a bit, Mary Jane?" Asked Miss Bustier. "And you too, Chloé."

"You can call me MJ, Miss Bustier, everyone calls me that."

"This is an outrage! She's dangerous! Just yesterday she was akumatized and tried to kill me!" Chloé snapped.

"Just like almost the whole class and several other people in the city, and in each of those times, it was your fault." Alya blurted out.

"If you hadn't sent Sabrina to damage the clothes that MJ was going to model, none of that would have happened." Peter snapped.

"But on the other hand, good thing you did, because that way MJ can be with us again." Said Harry.

"My daddy will hear about this!" Chloé said as she took out her cell phone.

"What? Are you so afraid that moi will take your place as so-called queen of the school?" Said Mary Jane with a mocking smirk.

"Afraid of you? From a redheaded peasant girl with bad taste in fashion? Ha! Don't make me laugh." Chloé said as she dialed her father's number.

"Well, it seems that oxygenated-blondie cannot deal with the Great and Powerful Mary Jane Watson, without hiding behind her daddy."

Chloé turned off her cell phone and glared at Mary Jane.

"As if I needed someone's help to deal with a peasant like you..." Chloé said contemptuously.

"Maybe you should ask for help because I have beaten up people dumber and bigger than you." Mary Jane replied.

The two girls began a staring duel, which caused a palpable cloud of tension in the room, which suddenly dissipated when a person put a hand on both girls' shoulders.

"Now, now, calm down, please." Asked Miss Bustier. "Shake hands and go to your seats."

Mary Jane and Chloé glared at each other again, however they both did as the teacher had instructed them, and then taking their respective seats and with MJ sitting next to Rose.

"Okay, now with that settled, I have a couple of good news to give you. As you may already know, Juleka, Sabrina and Alix have been transferred to the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters thanks to their incredible abilities, so we have a couple of vacancies in our group, so today, aside from Mary Jane, we have another new student." Said Miss Bustier as she opened the classroom door again. "You can come in now."

At that moment, the door opened, letting a young woman with platinum blonde hair, who was wearing a light pink blouse, a light blue skirt with black trim, white socks with colored vertical lines, and black low-heeled shoes, walk through the door, with a huge but sinister smirk on her lips.

"Hello, commoners." Said the new girl.

"Felicia!" Chloé smiled widely.

"Oh, Chloé, dear!"

At that moment, both blondes ran to hug each other, surprising all the students.

"Why didn't you tell me you were coming to this place?" Chloé asked.

"Because I wanted to surprise you, after seeing the conditions in which all these... peasants left you, I didn't want to leave you alone with them." Felicia said.

"Ugh, great, now there's two of them..." Mary Jane blurted out.

At the biting comment from the Montoursville redhead, Felicia let go of Chloé and glared at MJ, who met her gaze with one of boredom.

"So you're the redhead Chloé was talking about... Huh, I was hoping you were something more threatening." Felicia blurted out.

"Oh, trust me, honey, this is my good girl side, I still haven't shown you how threatening I can be..." Mary Jane growled.

"Calm down, please, or I will have to send you to the principal's office on your first day." Said Miss Bustier. "Well, students, I want you to meet your new classmate, Felicia Hardy."

"Wait... Felicia Hardy? As in the daughter of Lydia Hardy, one of OsCorp's shareholders and owner of the Hardy Foundation?" Asked Harry.

"The one and only, dear Harold, in fact, it hurts me that you didn't recognize me before, I've been to many meetings that my mother attends." Felicia said.

"Sorry, I almost always start chatting with MJ or Peter on Skype and I don't pay attention to my surroundings."

"Right... I have to admit that I don't do much at those meetings either.

"Please, Felicia, Harry, you can talk all you want at recess, it's time to start class."

"Sure thing, Miss Bustier." Felicia nodded politely.

With a good girl face, Felicia took Chloé's arm and they both went to their seats, under the gaze of the other classmates, including a murderous glare from Mary Jane, a confused look from Marinette and a stare of malice and interest from Lila.

(Later)

Once the classes were over, the students of the Françoise Dupont College hurried home, although a trio of students were walking by the exit, chatting among themselves about their plans for the afternoon.

"You both are busy?" Harry blurted out. "It's the first day off I have in weeks and it turns out that it's exactly the same day that you guys are busy..."

"Unfortunately yes, my dear Harry, believe me that I would love nothing more than to play Mecha Strike III with you, but I have to go to a training session for this weekend's fashion show." Said Mary Jane with her head down. "Being a model is exhausting..."

"And I need to finish something that I have been working on for the Stark Industries internship, I must show that I'm worth the little trip to Europe and all the support from Mr. Stark." Peter said. "Besides, I also have to help Eddie with a couple of things."

"Oh right... If you want I can talk my dad into rehiring him, I mean, the Smythes disappeared a few days ago and no one would mistreat him like them."

"Thanks, but Eddie said that he prefers to stay away from OsCorp, even for a while. Michael Morbius was his friend, after all."

"All this is too overwhelming..." MJ sighed. "And to think that just a year ago our biggest concern was how to get money to go to Connie Island."

"And now look at us, or rather look at you guys: MJ is already a professional model and Peter is a Stark Industries intern and the official photographer of Spider-Man." Said Harry. "I'm a bit jealous, both of you are already very advanced with your life projects."

"And what about you, oh Great Heir of the Osborn Empire?" MJ laughed. "You already speak five languages, you are very good at Muay Thai and there is that other thing we can't talk about."

"Yeah, I'm impressive, but that's more to please my father. The truth is, I don't even know what I want. I know I will inherit OsCorp, but I don't know if that's all I want to be."

"Well, I just know that whatever happens, we will remain friends until the end." Peter said as he put his hands on Mary Jane and Harry's shoulders.

"You betcha, Tiger." Mary Jane smiled.

"Oh come on..." Peter said with a laugh while he pretended annoyance. "That nickname again?"

"What can I say? Habits take hold."

"It's good to see that not even world fame can change you, MJ." Said Harry. "You are still that outgoing and friendly girl from Montoursville even though you're Gabriel Agreste's model."

"You're truly hilarious, Harold, calling that red-haired town girl a model." Said a voice behind the trio in a sarcastic tone.

"The poor deluded girl thinks that Adrikins' father hiring her out of pity means that she has a future in modeling." Added another voice slyly.

At the words of derision towards Mary Jane, the trio of friends turned around and faced the new pair of rich and spoiled girls, Felicia Hardy and Chloé Bourgeois.

"Oh look, if it isn't idiot blonde number one and idiot blonde number two." MJ said in an annoyed tone as she crossed her arms. "What do you two idiots want?"

"Ohh, how uncivilized." Felicia said contemptuously. "You don't even have property to insult."

"Property is something that neither you nor the cause of 80% of the city's akumatizations deserve. Now, get lost while I'm still in a good mood."

"Why should I fear you? You are nothing more than a deluded, commoner red-haired girl who thinks of herself as a model without realizing that everything she has was given to her out of pity, since even Gabriel Agreste can feel compassion for an underdog like you."

MJ couldn't hold back any longer from what Felicia had said so she simply raised her fist quickly and tried to punch Felicia in the face, but to her surprise and those of Harry, Peter and Chloé, Felicia caught MJ's fist and dodged her. Felicia didn't let go fo MJ, then she twisted her arm at a painful angle and brought her to her knees, as she leaned closer to whisper in her ear.

"In Midtown you may have been someone important, but here you are noth..." Felicia tried to say.

Before Felicia could finish her taunt, MJ headbutted her hard and hit her with the back of her free fist in the face to free herself and try to counter, but Felicia quickly recovered and threw a punch into MJ's face, which was responded with a blow to the chin by the redhead, followed by a knee to Mary Jane's abdomen and an elbow to Felicia's solar plexus, to finally end up grabbing each other's hair and pull it with all their might, exchanging occasional slaps, scratches and punches, much to the horror of their respective friends.

"Harry, do something!" Peter snapped.

"What?! And why me?!" Said Harry.

"You know Muay Thai! You must know how to stop a fight!"

"Yeah, but not one among girls!"

After a couple of minutes, and after several students got together to see the commotion created by the girls, Felicia and Mary Jane had the idea of ending the fight with a headbutt, having the bad luck of executing the movement at the same time and leaving each other quite stunned and stumbling backwards.

Taking advantage of the fact that both had let go the other, Adrien interposed between them while Peter held Mary Jane back in case she wanted to continue the fight and Chloé took Felicia by the hand to move her away from the place, wanting to prevent her from wanting to continue as well.

"What happened?!" Adrien asked as they kept the two girls apart.

"Felicia and Chloé came to insult MJ, MJ has never allowed anyone to humiliate her and I think Felicia knows how to fight, because otherwise she wouldn't have been able to match MJ." Harry said as he checked his friend's injuries.

"Let go of me, Peter! I want her head on a silver platter and nothing will deny me that!" MJ said as she tried to get out of Peter's grip.

"You wish, village girl! I would have ripped you apart if it weren't for your little friends here!" Felicia snapped as Chloé pulled back her with all her strength by the arm.

"It's not worth it, dear." Chloé said as she put a hand on Felicia's shoulder. "She is just a silly commoner and you are a diva of high society, don't lower yourself to her level."

"MJ, calm down now, it's not worth fighting with Felicia, she's just another bully." Peter said as he released MJ. "Don't risk your place in Gabriel just for a spoiled child's nonsense."

"You're right, Pete, but that doesn't take away the fact that I'll beat her up if she talks bad about me again, or anyone else for that matter." MJ said as she brushed several strands of hair from her face.

"True, Chloé, but someone has to teach the village girls a lesson and put them in their place, so every now and then you have to get your hands dirty." Felicia snorted as she adjusted her hair and clothes.

"Miss Watson, Adrien, it's about time..." Nathalie said before noticing Mary Jane's disheveled appearance and slight injuries. "What happened here?"

"Long story, nothing that some makeup and a modeling session to distract my mind can't solve..." MJ sighed as she walked up to Gabriel Agreste's car, not looking at Nathalie.

Gabriel Agreste's assistant raised an eyebrow and looked at Adrien, who shrugged, then looked at Peter and Harry, who made a gesture and shook their heads as if saying, "You don't wanna know."

Nathalie shrugged slightly and gestured Adrien to follow her to the car, where MJ was opening the door of said vehicle, but not before stopping suddenly and giving Felicia a murderous look, who reciprocated with a cold and contemptuous stare.

'Whatever happens, that idiot's gonna learn the hard way who she's messing with...' Both girls said in their minds before stopping their staring contest.

After Gabriel Agreste's car left, and Felicia and Chloé got into a black car to also leave the place, Peter couldn't help but let out an exasperated sigh.

"This is gonna end badly..." Peter said.

"You can say that again, buddy..." Harry said.