Today was the big day. Today Marinette would be skating with Adrien at the ice rink. ALONE.
Marinette couldn't help but be nervous and excited at the same time. She was afraid that she would screw it up like she always did but she was determined to finally tell him. Tell Adrien that she loves him.
She stared at herself in the mirror. She was in her typical outfit with her hair still in pigtails. Marinette was considering letting her hair down but wasn't sure if that was really her style.
"Tikki do you think I look good enough for a first date?" asked Marinette
Tikki popped up from Marinette's purse and answered. "Marinette you know it's not a date until you ask him out."
"Yeah but I still feel I should try to look better for him since today will be the day. The day I finally tell him."
"You don't want to be late now do you Marinette?" said Tikki
"Of course not but I still have a few minutes." replied Marinette
"Uh actually you're running late." stated Tikki pointing a clock. The clock said it was 4:15. Marinette was supposed to leave by 4:05.
Marinette was snapped back to reality when Tikki pointed her tardiness out. "Ahh I can't be late!" exclaimed Marinette running downstairs and out the door in her rush to get to the ice rink. With only five minutes to get there she had to run all the way there.
Fortunately for her Adrien was late too and was just pulling up in his car.
As he exited his car Adrien greeted Marinette. "Hey Marinette. Ready to head in?"
"Yeah... yeah just give me a sec." panted Marinette out of breath from running all the way there.
"I'll see you out on the ice." said Adrien as he entered the stadium heading for the locker room and to rent a pair of skates. Marinette followed him inside to do the same.
Marinette was silently hoping for nothing to ruin this so that she can finally tell Adrien but she knew she would probably screw it up somehow anyways. Still she knew she had to at least try one last time to confess her feelings to Adrien or she'll never forgive herself.
As she made her way out onto the ice Adrien was already there skating. There were also other people there but only a few. When Adrien saw her he skated towards her greeting "Hey Marinette. Ready to skate?"
"Y-yeah" answered Marinette a bit nervously as she got onto the ice with Adrien
The two skated for awhile but mostly did their own thing skating separately.
Marinette decided it was time to break the ice (not literally of course) so she skated to Adrien's side.
"Hey Marinette. Enjoying skating?" asked Adrien
"Yeah its a lot of fun just you and me." replied Marinette mentally praising herself at not stuttering or screwing it up yet.
"I agree. I'm glad you suggested for us to skate alone together. Also I never really got to thank you about coming to the ice rink with me earlier with Kagami." added Adrien
"Oh no problem Adrien." said Marinette. She was about to add on to what she said when Adrien spoke.
"Thanks Marinette. But I've got to be honest. I like Kagami a lot and I know she likes me too but theres this other girl I have a crush on." started Adrien
When Adrien said this Marinette's world slowed down and the words he had said kept repeating in her head "this other girl I have a crush on.". Marinette was so lost in thought she hadn't noticed that she had stopped skating and hit the edge of the rink.
"gah!" cried Marinette as she fell onto the ice. Adrien rushed over and pulled Marinette back up.
"Are you ok Marinette?" asked Adrien concerned
"Yeah yeah just lost focus." replied Marinette sadly
"Are you sure you're okay?" asked Adrien again
"Yeah I'm fine but I'm not really in the mood for ice skating anymore though. I think I should head home." said Marinette as she stepped off the ice and to the locker room.
Adrien frowned and after a moment of thinking decided he should go check on her like he did the last time they were at the rink.
Marinette rushed out of the ice rink as fast as she could after returning her rented skates. As soon as she got home she ran up to her room, shut the trapdoor, climbed up to the top bunk of her bed and stared at one of her many pictures of Adrien but this one has lots of hearts drawn around it.
Tikki flew out of Marinette's bag.
"You heard him. Adrien is in love with another girl. And me... I'm just a friend" said Marinette to Tikki.
"Oh, I'm sure life has many surprises in store for you, Marinette!" said Tikki
Marinette fell back onto her bed and replied "yeah" then turned over and kept thinking about it over and over.
Tikki decided to try to lighten the mood with some pleasant music by turning on Marinette's computer and setting it to a Jagged Stone song. However Tikki should have looked at what song was at the top of the playlist she chose because the song was about heartbreak which only made Marinette feel worse.
"oops." said Tikki quickly changing the song to a hip Clara Nightingale song but the damage was already done and Marinette just wanted to forget about her troubles now so she turned over in bed and went to sleep thinking about how Adrien didn't love her.
The Next Day at School
Alya was a bit worried today. It was second period and Marinette still hadn't shown up to school. Normally her being late wouldn't worry Alya but Marinette was never this late. Usually she would come bursting through the door during first period about 5 to 10 minutes late so at first Alya just assumed that she was running later than usual but now she was starting to worry since Marinette also hadn't given her a heads up on her being absent.
She tapped Nino on the shoulder. He took off his headphones, turned to face Alya and asked "What?"
"Do you know where Marinette it today?" asked Alya
Nino just shrugged and went back to listening to his music.
"I think I might know why she's absent today." said Adrien to Alya.
"Why?" asked Alya
"Well me and her were skating together at the ice rink yesterday and she crashed into the barrier around the ice. She had crashed into it before but this time she seemed more hurt and left for the locker room after that. I went to try and find her but by the time I followed her off the ice she was already gone." explained Adrien
"So you're saying she got really hurt on the ice?" said Alya
"Yeah that's what I think but if she was so hurt I don't know how she could have left the ice rink so quickly though." added Adrien
"I'll go over to Marinette's place after school today and ask about it." said Alya
"Thanks Alya. Tell me if she's okay. I hope I didn't hurt her somehow." added Adrien
"I hope so too." mentally added Alya knowing he could have said something that would have easily hurt Marinette's feelings.
After School
Alya immediately after school went over to Marinette's place to check on her. Upon entering she was greeted by Marinette's mother at the bakery's counter.
"Hello Alya come to check on Marinette?"
"Wait whats wrong with Marinette!" asked Alya beginning to panic a little.
"Oh she didn't tell you. She said she isn't feeling well today so we had her stay home today." explained Marinette's mom
"Can I go up to see her?" asked Alya
"Of course dear." answered Marinette's mom gesturing for her to go past the counter. Alya went past and went immediately up to Marinette's room but before entering she knocked on Marinette's trap door.
knock knock knock
Alya heard a groggy reply from Marinette "Come in"
She opened up the trapdoor to find that all the curtains were closed making the bedroom much darker but still possible to see in. Nothing else looked out of the ordinary except that all of Marinette's pictures of Adrien were either on top of Marinette or in the trash. Marinette herself also looked miserable with her makeup running down her face from crying on the top bunk of her bed.
"Marinette are you okay. When you didn't show up at school today I got worried about you." said Alya
"Its nothing Alya." replied Marinette.
"Girl clearly it's not nothing if you're feeling so upset." stated Alya
Marinette rolled over to face the wall and touched the one picture of Adrien that was still up. "Yesterday me and Adrien went to the ice rink together." started Marinette.
"Really just the two of you alone?" asked Alya. Marinette nodded in response then continued.
"We were having a great time skating together and I... I was about to try to confess my feelings when he spoke and said..." Marinette stopped speaking. She had choked on the words.
"What did Adrien say?" questioned Alya
"He... he said that he has a crush on another girl." finished Marinette as more tears came down her face.
"Oh Marinette I'm so sorry." said Alya
"it's fine Alya I just need a day to get over it." replied Marinette miserably, wiping the tears from her face.
"Just because he has a crush on someone else doesn't mean that he can't have feelings for you too you know." said Alya trying to cheer Marinette up.
"Yeah but since he told me that, it definitely means he doesn't like me in that way." said Marinette.
Alya wasn't sure what else to say. So she said "Marinette I got your homework from school. Maybe working on that can take your mind off of Adrien. Besides don't you also have a crush on Ben too?"
"Yeah I do but it still hurts that Adrien doesn't love me." replied Marinette. Alya noticed she had perked up a bit at the mention of Ben's name.
"Do you want me to help you with today's homework?" asked Alya
"No thanks. You can go home Alya." was Marinette's reply.
Alya frowned and left Marinette's homework on her designing desk then left. After Alya left Marinette got out of bed and began doing her homework within the despair of her bedroom.
Miles away in Hawkmoth's lair.
The butterfly shaped window in Hawkmoth's secret lair opened up to let the light shine in upon Hawkmoth. When it opened the moths scattered at the sudden appearance of light. As he stared out the window he did his common supervillian talk to himself.
"Ahh a soul tormented by unrequited feelings and the pain of rejection. Perfect prey for my akuma!". Hawkmoth grabbed one of the many moths in his lair and fused it with his dark energy.
When he released it the moth was now black and radiating a purple aura .
"Fly away my akuma and evilise her!" ordered Hawkmoth as the akuma flew out a small hole in the window.
The akuma began flying across Paris to Marinette's bedroom passing by all of Paris.
However when it passed by a factory it burst open in an explosion. The explosion consumed the akuma turning it to ash causing Hawkmoth's power to return to him.
"What! How can this be! What is going on, that explosion is not my doing!" exclaimed Hawkmoth furious at how his plan failed before it even started.
At the scene of the explosion
As the fires of the explosion raged on out stepped a gigantic metal figure. He has orange skin along with large jaws with the teeth merged with the lips. He also has two brown horns extending downward from his jaw. The figure is wearing a red metal suit with spikes on his shoulder pads and a few around his neck.
This is Alien fugitive Vulkanus. Underneath his big metal suit the Detrovite is really just a big baby with an adults head. In his hands he is carrying two large briefcases filled with iron.
Vulkanus looked around at his handiwork "Hah too easy." boasted Vulkanus
He set one of the briefcases down and pulled out a button. The button was attached to a beacon. He pushed it activating the beacon calling to his ship. Vulkanus knew it would take a few minutes for his ship to arrive but as long as he held the beacon it would come.
However Vulkanus heard the sound of a vehicle moving towards him. Before he realized what was happening the vehicle rammed him into the burning wreckage then backed up away from the flames.
The vehicle was an RV, The Rustbucket. The side door opened as the Tennysons came out. Grandpa Max was in his plumbers outfit and had his weapons aimed at Vulkanus. Vulkanus himself was getting up from the rubble and stomped towards the Tennysons.
"You all've got a lot of nerve hitting me!" roared Vulkanus in rage.
"And you've got a lot of nerve showing up on Earth again after we kicked your butt back to outer space." replied Ben
The taunt only made Vulkanus angrier. He set aside his briefcases and charged at the Tennysons. Ben already had the Omnitrix at the ready with Gwen morphing into Lucky Girl and Grandpa Max with his weapon ready to fire.
Ben grinned as he slammed down the Omnitrix dial transforming into Wildvine.
As Wildvine Ben evaded Vulkanus's charge by stretching around and wrapping his body around Vulkanus's. Wildvine tightened his wrap binding Vulkanus's arms together leaving him struggling to escape.
"Gotcha." said Wildvine
Suddenly Wildvine was struck by a missile in the back. The hit to the back also detonated all of his fruit bombs hurting Wildvine even more. Wildvine fell down off of Vulkanus's back however his fruits and exploded bits had already regenerated due to his healing factor.
The one that fired the rocket landed down beside Vulkanus from the air. The figure was wearing armor, his feet are hooved. He has purple pads covering his central joints, a belt, and four central lines on his helmet to provide outlines for his face, which are his eyes and mouth as well as a jetpack for flying. This was SixSix often times he and Vulkanus would team up like they have now.
Wildvine stood back up but was slammed away by Vulkanus's fist into a pile of burning crates.
"Youch hot hot hot hot!" exclaimed Wildvine shooting up from the flames and stop, dropped, and rolled on the ground to extinguish the fire on his back. He got back up after the flames died down and the fruit bombs on his back regenerated.
By the time Wildvine did get back up he narrowly avoided a charge from Vulkanus. The only reason he had enough time to dodge was a warning from Grandpa Max and Lucky Girl tripping Vulkanus with a mana claw before he got to Wildvine.
Lucky Girl tried to keep Vulkanus restrained by splitting her mana into four separate claws grabbing onto all of his limbs. Wildvine then resumed trying to crush them with his viney body but this time focused on doing each limb individually and managed to crush Vulkanus's right arm before another missile from Six Six forced Lucky Girl to redirect her focus on a shield thus dropping the claws.
Grandpa Max began firing upon Six Six keeping him from sniping Wildvine and Lucky Girl. "You two fight Vulkanus I'll handle Six Six." said Grandpa Max placing an attachment onto his laser rifle. He aimed and fired releasing an energy net that encased Six Six and dropped him to the ground.
Now freed Vulkanus was fuming from having lost his arm to Wildvine. He growled and wrapped his arms around Wildvine and began charging through buildings like The Juggernaut but made sure that everytime he smashed through a wall Wildvine was the one taking the brunt of the force. Lucky Girl followed them.
Of course smashing through building after building would draw attention from the public which led to people running and screaming away from the fighting.
Back in Marinette's Bedroom.
Marinette could here the sounds of buildings being smashed from her bedroom. She turned on her TV to see the news reporting on the fight going on downtown.
"Nadja Chamack live here in downtown Paris where it appears there is a fight going on between two either akumas or some sort of creatures." stated the reporter stepping aside for the camera to focus in on the brawl going on between Wildvine and Vulkanus.
Wildvine punched Vulkanus in the face but he retaliated by kicking Wildvine into a streetlamp bending it. Vulkanus was about to continue trying to exterminate Wildvine when Lucky Girl tried to restrain him again with mana claws.
Vulkanus however saw the move coming once the first claw clamped onto his one remaining arm. So he pulled his arm forward dragging Lucky Girl through the air towards him. The mana claw dissipated midair as Lucky Girl lost her concentration.
Vulkanus stepped back and let Lucky Girl fly straight into Wildvine whom was just getting back up from hitting the streetlamp.
"It looks like a battle for the ages. But one question still remains. Where are Ladybug and Cat Noir?" asked Ms Chamack rhetorically to the viewing audience.
Marinette switched off her TV and sighed. "Looks like Paris needs us Tikki."
"Cheer up maybe fighting a supervillain will help take your mind off of Adrien better than your homework will." replied Tikki
Marinette only replied with one phrase "Tikki Spots On." sucking Tikki into her earrings and transforming her into Ladybug.
Wildvine was tired of this. He, Lucky Girl, and Vulkanus had been fighting for awhile now and he knew the Omnitrix would time out soon. Not only that but also all their fight had accomplished was some destroyed buildings that fortunately didn't collapse, a missing arm from Vulkanus, and a lot of pain for himself.
Wildvine was about to change into another alien to try to turn the tide of the battle he and Lucky Girl were currently losing when a yoyo tripped Vulkanus into the street. Of course Wildvine had learned awhile ago that the only person who could use a yoyo like that is Ladybug meaning she was here.
Sure enough he was right as she landed beside him on the opposite side of the street as Vulkanus. Strangely though she didn't say a word just kept an emotionless expression on her face and retracted her yoyo from Vulkanus's legs.
Before Wildvine could ask about the silence he heard Cat Noir approach with a mock complaint "Aww you all started the party without me."
They all saw Vulkanus begin to get up so they prepared themselves for him to charge at them but they didn't need to. Lucky Girl placed a dome around him before he could fully get up trapping him inside.
"Do you or Lucky Girl know where the akuma is?" asked Ladybug finally speaking but still seemingly emotionless. This caught Cat Noir's attention but he knew right now wasn't the time to bring it up.
"He isn't an akuma. He is an old enemy probably trying to make a profit or settle the score with us." answered Wildvine.
"So since he is a real supervillain not an akuma victim there's no need to hold back on hurting him?" asked Cat Noir.
"Nope. In fact he is just a big metal suit the only part of him that is real is his head." explained Wildvine.
"So we destroy the suit and he's done for?" questioned Ladybug.
"Pretty much. But that is easier said than done." replied Wildvine slapping the dial on the Omnitrix. In a bright green flash Wildvine transformed into Four Arms.
Ladybug also used her Lucky Charm getting a red polka dotted hammer.
"Are we supposed to fix something or hit something with that?" asked Cat Noir about the hammer.
Ladybug looked around but couldn't see waht to use the hammer for.
"I can't figure out what to use this for" stated Ladybug.
"Then that means I'll be coming up with the plan." said Four Arms as began to think. Vulkanus was missing one arm so that made things easier and if they could destroy all of his limbs or remove him from the suit then he would practically be harmless but the only question is how since restraining can never last long and they can't touch him inside the mana dome he is currently trapped inside of.
A light bulb went off inside Four Arms's head and he turned to Cat Noir. "Can you use your cataclysm on his suit?" asked Four Arms.
"Yeah but he would need to be standing still for me to get an accurate shot." answered Cat Noir.
"Leave that to me." replied Four Arms grinning and turning to face Lucky Girl across the street.
"Drop the dome!" shouted Four Arms as he began charging straight at it. Lucky Girl barely had enough time to realize why to drop the dome but fortunately did so in time.
Vulkanus stood to face Four Arms but was unprepared to face him because he expected Four Arms to throw a punch not keep charging until he rammed right into Vulkanus sending him back onto his back.
Before Vulkanus could get up Four Arms grabbed is legs and hoisted him up. "Someone restrain his arm!" shouted Four Arms. Lucky Girl now seeing the plan wrapped her mana around Vulkanus's one arm keeping it restrained. Ladybug also wrapped her yoyo around the arm.
This left Vulkanus completely vulnerable so all Cat Noir did was activate his cataclysm and tap his metal chest with his index finger and the suit rusted until it turned to dust. Vulkanus fell onto his head now having been revealed to only be a small orange creature in a diaper.
"Ow" Vulkanus said when his head hit the ground. As he got up he began issuing threats that fell onto deaf ears as everyone was too busy laughing at how pathetic Vulkanus is without his suit. Although eventually the pathetic threats got annoying and Ladybug realized what she was meant to do with her hammer.
So Ladybug held her hammer over Vulkanus who was too busy throwing a tantrum to notice her. She dropped the hammer hitting him straight on the head and knocking him out cold.
Ladybug picked up her hammer and did the miraculous ladybug repair power reverting everything back to the way it was before the fight began.
Cat Noir was still laughing abut Vulkanus turning out just to be a big baby but then realized that this left one question left. "Um guys what do we do with him? Give him to the police?" asked Cat Noir unsure if the cops would even be qualified to take in a baby like alien criminal.
"We can call the proper authorities to come take him back to space prison." answered Lucky Girl picking up the disgustingly, orange, fat, baby criminal.
Cat Noir smiled and began to say "poun-" but stopped himself when he realized Ladybug had already left and was swinging away on her yoyo. He frowned but did the same after a reminder from his ring and saying bye to Four Arms and Lucky Girl.
Four Arms and Lucky Girl were dragging Vulkanus back to the Rustbucket with him complaining and issuing death threats every few seconds when they realized something. They forgot about Grandpa Max Fighting Six Six!
Lucky Girl decided to risk the nausea of teleporting and blipped them back to the Rustbucket in an instant only to find Grandpa Max looking through Vulkanus's suitcases.
"Hey that's mine!" raged Vulkanus before wiggling out of Four Arms's grip and puking on the ground before fainting again.
The Omnitrix beeped and flashed red and in Four Arms's place stood Ben after a bright red flash.
"Looks like you're not the only one who gets sick from teleporting Gwen." joked Ben before turning to see her puking behind some rubble.
"Come on you two we should get going before the fire department gets here." said Grandpa Max picking up Vulkanus and tossing him into the RV but leaving the suitcases.
"uh Grandpa aren't gulp you going to bring the suitcases" said Lucky Girl gulping mid sentence to swallow down her vomit and then morphing back to Gwen and getting in the RV
"Nah its just some iron in there. This pile of rubble behind us used to be an iron refinery and Vulkanus was obviously stealing the iron to mix with element X to make a bomb again." explained Grandpa Max
"What about Six Six?" asked Ben stepping into the rustbucket.
Grandpa Max closed the door behind him and started up the Rustbucket, then explained "Shot him in the jetpack and he took off into the sky like a firework. Although I'll bet we'll be seeing him again sometime soon."
Ben and Gwen shared a look of worry knowing that Grandpa Max was right as the Rustbucket left just before the fire department arrived to clean up the mess.
Sorry this one has taken so long but I can explain. First off I definitely have writers block for this story. Two I have also been procrastinating writing this until I finally was able to come up on how to get past the writers block on this chapter so now I can finally get started on making BenxMarinette a thing but of course I don't want it to be too forced so now I am done with having Marinette trying to go out with Adrien and she is now trying to move on. I know it has been 2 months so now my goal is to get the next chapter out sometime in April especially since I have no school due to the coronavirus. Thanks for reading, please review, fav, and follow.