Peter sat in the back of the car on his way to school. Chloe's presence next to him was out of his view but still noticeable as he gazed out the window. She was fidgeting with her phone. Probably texting someone. Thoughts flooded his mind. However what kept coming back to him was Marinette. It didn't matter how many times he brushed the thoughts away. Marinette was Ladybug. Even though this had surprised him yesterday- he definitely hadn't been expecting it- he didn't feel surprised. He himself was Spider-man, and he wasn't that much older than Marinette- who was Ladybug. If he and Marinette were super-heroes, could other people around their age also be superheros? Or Hawkmoth? He glanced at Chloe beside him. Wouldn't that be amusing if she was Hawkmoth? He shook his head silently, smiling in amusement. No, I'm pretty certain that Hawkmoth is not female. He mused. Or Chat Noir? Who could his identity-
"You thinking about me Parker?" Chloe interrupted his thoughts.
He flinched, glancing at Chloe. "N-no! I'm not- I'm not thinking you about-" Dammit I messed up my grammar again- "No. I'm not."
Chloe laughed loudly. "I'm pretty sure you are, Petey."
There's that nickname again. I thought it was just a one-off thing yesterday-
"No! I'm not! Chloe! Stop it!"
She laughed again. "This is hilarious, seeing you embarrassed." A flash from the phone she held up let him know a photo had been taken.
"Chloe! Seriously?"
"What? I'm taking a photo of my favourite guy." She placed a hand on his shoulder, causing him to flinch again.
"Don't-"
"Anyway," She continued, "You didn't tutor me yesterday."
"Huh?"
"Yesterday. After Michelle decided to throw a fit and become Akumatised-"
"That was your fault Chloe-"
"And then you never helped me out with English. I mean, that was really mean. You just left me there." Chloe pouted, scooting over in her seat closer to him, and Peter resisted the urge to move away.
Peter glanced out the window, seeing the school come into view. "Oh look! The school! We're here. O-kay. We will now- uh- go... into- the um- school." He opened the door of the car- this car felt like it cost more than his own home- and hurried own.
"Petey!"
He froze. "What?" Peter turned around.
"Why don't you hang out with me and with Flash? Instead of hanging out with them." Chloe almost seemed... Offended?
"Well," Peter responded slowly, "Flash uh- strongly dislikes me, and I- I well, want to hang out with Adrien and Nino and Alya and Marinette and Michelle-"
"Marinette? Michelle?" Chloe groaned loudly. (And exaggeratedly) "I honestly don't understand how you can stand them. Either of them." She waved her hand dismissively in the air. "Whatever, you can hang out with who ever. (I guess) We can always hang out later since you're staying at my place."
"Yep. O-oright Chloe. You have a day good at school!" Peter put his head in his hand. I'm pretty sure I screwed up my language again. "You know what I meant, right?"
/*\*/*\
Peter spotted Alya talking with Marinette and Michelle. He lightened his steps as he got closer and put his finger to his lips as Alya caught his eye. She received the message and continued talking to Michelle and Marinette, (who had their backs facing him) and pretended to not notice him. When he was close enough he suddenly put his hands on their shoulders.
"Hey guys!"
Michelle flinched slightly and shot daggers towards him, her eyes narrowed in annoyance but sparkled with a hint of amusement.
Marinette, on the other hand, reacted much more. With a yelp she spun around in surprise, dropping any books she was holding. Her face reddened instantly as everyone turned their attention towards her. Marinette scrambled to pick up all her books from the floor.
The hairs on the back of his neck rose as Peter felt the presence of someone behind him. He glanced over his shoulder to see Adrien standing behind him, hands hovering slightly above his shoulder as if he was about to try startle Peter.
"Michelle was right," Adrien mused, looking slightly disappointed and lowering his arms. "You are hard to scare."
"I could hear you." Peter snorted. "You're not as quiet as you think you are."
Alya narrowed her eyes with a smile. "I think we're going to make it our personal challenge to scare you, Peter."
"Please don't." Peter groaned quietly.
/*\*/*\
None of them attempted to scare him until Mathematics.
Peter felt a tingling at the back of his neck as he wrote in his book. He ducked as a paper ball sailed over his head.
"Really?" He whispered quietly, turning around.
Alya shrugged, trying to hide a smirk and he turned back to his work, rolling his eyes. He ducked a few seconds later as another ball sailed past his head. Peter glanced at Alya briefly but she actually looked focused. Who threw that? He glanced at Adrien. He was attempting to stifle a laugh. Yep. That's who threw it. Peter shook his head silently and picked up the paper ball. He tossed it back towards Adrien, hitting him on the head and causing him to flinch. Haha! I startled him but he can't scare me. Peter mused silently.
/*\*/*\
At lunch break they'd seemed to have forgotten about the whole 'lets-try-to-scare-Peter' thing. The five of them (including Nino) were crowded around Alya's laptop.
"What are you guys all watching?" Peter asked them
Alya motioned for him to be quiet and so he watched the video with them. It seemed to be a news story. He couldn't understand every word spoken but he got the gist of it.
"We will now be turning to our mayor, André Bourgeois, to see what his opinion is on the matter. André?"
"Well as we saw a few days ago when the Supervillain, Reverser, attacked the city, it was probably not a, well, completely good idea to send Paris' trash into space and so-"
A chorus of cheers, hisses, boos and many words in French that Peter didn't understand were thrown towards the Mayor. Obviously this had been recorded 'live'.
"And so- so as I was saying," The Mayor stammered. "I have decided to bring the trash and rubbish from space back down to Paris so we can-"
The clip was cut short to a new reporter.
"As we can see from that clip that I hope helped to refresh your memory," She said calmly, a hint of irritation in her voice. "the Mayor announced the Space Trash being brought back to earth more than six months ago. Where is it now? Still up in space. Its been like that for those whole six months. However we have new updates on this topic." She paused to catch her breath.
Oh, that clip was from awhile ago. Peter thought.
"Yesterday the Mayor announced that in two days he will finally be bringing the trash back. However he refuses an interview and he refuses to comment on the situation further." She gathered up her papers, showing she was almost finished talking. "Anyway, I'm Nadja Chamack, don't be bemused, it's just the news! We'll see you tomorrow as we show the live coverage of the trash returning to earth!" The screen went blank and Alya closed her laptop.
"Isn't this exciting?" Alya grinned, and Marinette nodded.
"What's exciting about space trash?" Peter asked.
"Not the trash." Nino answered. "What's on the trash."
"Huh?"
"Peter. Don't you remember that a few years ago it was shown to us that literal aliens exist? Imagine what could be on that junk that's been floating in space for six months!" Alya interrupted enthusiastically.
"Yeah. I guess. You're saying that some alien could be hitchhiking its way onto earth on some trash?"
"Yes. It's entirely possible." Adrien answered.
Peter shrugged. "Alright. Sure. I guess I'll have to watch it with you guys tomorrow."
"You'd better!" Marinette smiled.
Hey guys!
Sorry for posting late. ;n;
Mild spoilers for the Season 2 Episode of Miraculous called, 'Reverser' in this chapter. :0
That episode was amazing because SPACE
Y'all know what space can mean in a Spider-man story?
hmm
well if you can't figure it out you'll have to wait and see haha
also
I've figured out when the story is going to be set. (i think)
I'm going to set this story after infinity war and infinity war pt 2. I'm assuming that any characters in this story are alive at the end of Infinity War pt 2 and if you're reading this after that movie comes out I apologise for canon divergance :0
however this story will probably disregard the Spider-man sequel for obvious(?) reasons. I'm probably not going to count that movie as canon in the story.
also also
Just letting you all know now that I might reference Infinity War in future chapters, but I will put spoiler warnings incase some of you guys haven't seen it.