I don't own Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir.
"You only have one day to work on your fashion piece for Mr. Agreste, and it must be your original design." Mr Damocles looked around Madame Bustier's classroom to see if everyone understood, then he continued. "In ten hours your fittes presentation will be judged by none other than Adrien's father, Mr. Agreste."
Everyone turned to look at Adrien, and he just smiled cheekily.
Max raised his hand. "Only ten hours? I don't think most of us will be able to manage a hat in ten hours-"
"You'll have to manage then. Anyways, the hat theme is: derby hats!" Mr. Damocles exclaimed, and Marinette had a look of worry on her face.
"Derby hats?" She asked herself, chewing on her nail as Chloe gave her a thumbs down.
"Why that little-" Marinette thought, giving her an angry look.
"Okay, well- get started, and meet back here tomorrow! What are you people waiting for?"
Everyone started to pack up, including Marinette. "Derby hats?" She grumbled to herself while putting her water bottle in her bag.
"Girl, let's go!" Alya yelled, pulling Marinette by the arm and out the door. The two headed to a bench inside school grounds to brainstorm.
"Derby hats? I don't have derby hats!" Marinette complained, showing Alya her sketchbook. "I have top hats, caps, even two horned hats! Need a beret? I'm your girl. A sombrero? No problemo! But a derby hat?"
Alya grabbed her best friend's book and started flipping through it. She was right, she had everything except for derby hats. "Why don't you just design one?" Alya deadpanned, handing the book back to the bluenette.
Marinette groaned and took out her pencil. "Derby hats were never really my thing."
Alya leaned on the bench. "But flapper hats were?"
"It was a phase!" Marinette reasoned, sketching out the outline for a derby hat.
Adrien was about to walk out of school, but he saw Alya and Marinette on the bench. Marinette looked grumpy, so he decided to see what that was all about. "Hey Mari!" He exclaimed.
"Not in the mood." Marinette huffed, putting down her pencil.
"Why not?" Adrien raised an eyebrow, turning to Alya.
"She doesn't like derby hats." Alya explained to the blonde headed boy. "She has never designed one."
"Oh, well, father picks the hat designs- don't blame it on me." Adrien pretended to put his arms up in surrender, causing Marinette to hit him on the head. "OW!"
Marinette grabbed her purse in frustration and picked up her sketchbook. "I'm trying to concentrate! You know what? I'm going to head to the park. See you two later. She stormed off, almost tripping over the stairs because she didn't see where she was going.
"Okay then.." Alya trailed off, taking out her phone. "Hey, do you want to see new footage for the Ladyblog? Because I have much new footage of Ladybug and Chat Noir! Oh, they would be such a cute couple!'
"Me and Marinette do not make a good couple. We are literally as different as yin and yang, but-"
Another voice in Adrien's head interrupted the one that was currently speaking.
"Um, opposites attract! Have you ever heard of that saying? We would obviously look good together-"
"Hey Agreste, are you listening?" Alya asked, waving a hand in front of her friend's face.
"What?" Adrien asked, snapping out of it. "Oh, yeah, you can show me the footage."
Marinette seemed frustrated as she tried to sketch out a design for the derby hats. Didn't her friends understand that this was important if she wanted to be a famous fashion designer when she grew up? They had to be more serious.
(A/N: I just realized- every model needs a designerrrr! *COUGH COUGH ADRIEN AND MARI COUGH COUGH*)
"They could have chose anything, but they chose derby hats." Marinette complained to Tikki as her Kwami ate some cookies.
"Marinette, if you can save the world in under one to two hours, I think a derby hat would be a piece of cake!"
"Yum- cake." Marinette said, getting momentarily distracted. "Oh, right! I should be able to do this, I save the world under one to two hours, I should be able to make a derby hat!"
After thirty minutes of crumpling dud designs and tearing them out of her book, she finally decided to take a break and talk to Tikki for a while.
While talking to Tikki, a strange man came along and sat on the bench opposite to the park stairs, so they decided to watch as he fed his friends. "Ahh, what a glorious day here in Paris!" The man said, throwing bread crumbs all over the ground so the pigeons could be attracted to him.
He blew his bird call, and more pigeons came over. "Ahh, glorious day, wonderful day! Splendid is the afternoon day." He proclaimed while a pigeon landed on his finger.
Before he was about to throw more crumbs, a man with a police outfit a beer belly came over and stopped him, saying, "Mr. Ramier, do not feed the pigeons!"
Mr. Ramier's smile turned into a frown as he said, "Then who will feed my friends?"
"I don't know, and I don't care. But if you keep feeding those birds, they will keep coming back and hoarding any human that comes their way! Now leave!" The police officer scolded as Mr Ramier left the park sadly.
The police officer turned and walked away, and once the coast was clear, Tikki popped out of Marinette's bag. "That man was like a human bird!" She exclaimed quietly to Marinette. "So much grey on his, and his birdcall completed it!"
"Oh my gosh, thanks Tikki!" Marinette gushed, sketching out a feathered grey bowler hat designer with a single feather.
Mr. Ramier sat down sadly on a bench after being scolded. Why couldn't those pesky park keepers and police officers just mind their own business? How would they feel if they were left off to fend for themselves as a bird?
"Poor Mr. Ramier." Hawkmoth said, observing the man from inside his lair. "The feeling of injustice, such easy prey for my Akuma." A white butterfly flew over to him, and he captured it in his hand, turning it to a dark color. "Fly away my Akuma, and evilise him!"
The Akuma took around five minutes before finally reaching the pigeon lover. It infected the man's bird call without him noticing, and suddenly, like always, a purple butterfly silhouette appeared around Mr. Ramier's eyes.
"Mr. Pigeon, I am Hawkmoth. Neither this police officer, nor any other park keeper should keep you from taking care of your pigeons. I will help you give Paris to the pigeons, if you help me on getting Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculous."
Mr. Ramier just chuckled, and he turned into a pigeon like human, with a magnificent bird call far more fancier than before. He flapped his arms in a wing like motion, then ran off.
Marinette added one last detail to her derby hat. She knew she had all the materials at home, and was excited to make her first derby hat. Instead of a real feather, she would be using a fake one she had at home.
"Yes!" She exclaimed, lifting her design book in the air.
Little did she know, Chloe and Sabrina took a picture of the design, and were planning to steal it for themselves. "We're so awesome!" Sabrina squealed quietly, hiding behind a pole Chloe was near so they wouldn't be caught. Chloe snatched the phone away to look at the design.
Chloe raised an eyebrow. "We?"
"Oh- you're- you're so awesome, Chloe." Sabrina corrected herself, smiling. "So how are we- you- going to make the hat?"
"I'm not going to, we're probably going to hire someone." She said, sashaying away with Sabrina following behind.
"Now that's a derby!" Tikki applauded quietly, making Marinette grin.
"Thanks, Tikki!" Marinette grabbed her sketchbook and started to run in the direction of her family's bakery.
When she finally got there, she ran into her room, and shut the trapdoor tight so she could have complete concentration.
~(1-2 hours later)
"Where are the fake feathers!?" Marinette grumbled to herself, setting her bowler hat down.
It was dark grey, with fabric overlapping on the crown of the derby to look like feathers. The black band has a gold squiggly line on it- Marinette's signature- and a light grey bow. The only thing missing was the grey feather.
"I think they're over here, in the drawer!" Tikki flew over to the vanity, trying to open it, but Marinette accidentally pushed her out of the way and grabbed a white fake feather.
"Thanks, Tikki!" Marinette ran over to the hat, and used some fabric glue to attach it onto the grey bow. It was finally finished.
"It looks great, Marinette!" Tikki praised, flying over so she could see the hat. She was right, it was amazing.
Marinette grinned and flopped down on her bed, satisfied with her work.
She was getting ready to take a nap, until Adrien/Chat Noir called her. Tikki flew over to the phone and tossed it to Marinette, who caught it. "Hello?" She asked, staring at Chat through the screen.
"Princess," He started, and then he sneezed.
"I told you not to call me that!" She stomped her foot on the ground in annoyance.
"Whatever." He grinned, and then continued. "Someone's been Akumatized, you better hurry up! I don't know where I am exactly, but I'm going to head to the Eiffel Tower after our call."
"But I just finished my hat-" She yawned sleepily.
"Okay, but hurry up Lady, I need you! I'm allergic to feathers." He sneezed again, making her worry.
"Including fake feathers?"
"It depends what's in them. ACHOO! Now, hurry!" The call ended, signifying that he needed her ASAP.
"Well Tikki," She said, turning to her Kwami. "SPOTS ON!"
She quickly transformed, then headed out by her balcony to meet Chat Noir at the Eiffel Tower.
"This is weirder than weird." Ladybug commented, scaring the living daylights out of Chat Noir.
"Ahh!" Chat jumped, turning around. "Oh, it's just you, My Lady."
"Concentrate, Chat!" Ladybug thought for a moment, then spoke again. "We need to go to an open spot where he can find us!"
"Like where?" Chat questioned.
"No questions asked, just follow!" Ladybug grabbed her yoyo from her belt and then latched it onto a lamp post, Chat following behind.
They finally stopped at the park, where Chat Noir picked up a police hat on the ground. "Cool!" He exclaimed, putting it over his cat ears.
"We need to concentrate!" Ladybug pointed out. "He could grab us from behind at any moment!"
"Relax, My Lady." He said, casually doing the wave and Gangnam Style.
Ladybug slapped her hand on her forehead. "Oh brother."
As Chat Noir is dancing- and Ladybug is facepalming herself, the two don't notice a single pigeon fly over to the park, watching them. After a few seconds of watching Chat Noir's horrible dance moves, the pigeon flies back to Mr. Pigeon and tells him what he has seen.
"Ahh, well done buddy boy!" Mr. Pigeon praises, petting the pigeon under his chin. "Pigeons will rule over Paris!" He falls over the top of a building, and a flock of pigeons carry him up, steering him towards our two favorite superheroes.
"Where is he?" Ladybug asks herself in a whisper while watching her best friend dancing. "He should have been here by now!" She turns around to check if any pigeons are behind her and Chat, and by the time she turns around, Chat is gone and being carried away by the pigeons.
"HELP ME, LADY!" Chat screams, but is soon muffled by the flapping of the pigeons.
"What the?!" Ladybug springs into action, taking out her yoyo and following the herd around to the top of Le Grand Paris, Chloe's hotel. The pigeons drop Chat Noir off at the roof, and Ladybug swings next to him, almost tripping- but Chat catches her. "Thanks." She says, standing back up.
"Where's the bird brain?" Chat asks, looking around with Ladybug by his side.
"I don't know." She takes a quick glimpse around, and adds, "And I feel like we're about to be ambushed."
"Right you are, Ladybug." Hawkmoth chuckles from his lair. "Mr. Pigeon, if you want to give Paris to your friends, you must first get rid of those two pests, Ladybug and Chat Noir!"
Mr. Pigeon blows his birdcall for a second, then a swarm of pigeons surround Ladybug and Chat.
"Call me crazy, but I feel like we're going to be bird seed in a few seconds." Ladybug points to the pigeons making a cage, and Chat Noir sneezes.
"Have any ideas, Lady?" He asks, the two of them taking out their weapons.
"You're the cat, don't you eat these things for breakfast?!" She jokes, checking their surroundings. She gasps, as the pigeons carry a cage over the two of them, and turn around so their behind is surround all around them.
"Turpy day, I am so ruthless!" Mr. Pigeon exclaims to himself, making a face of triumph.
"Excellent." Hawkmoth praises from his lair. "Now get the earrings and the ring!"
"Hand over the Miraculous, or else my pigeons will shoot!"
No one moves. The superheroes just stay still, making Mr. Pigeon even more angry. "Okay then, on the count of three, my beloved friends will commence fire!"
"Use your power!" Ladybug whispers while she's back to back with Chat Noir.
"CATACLYSM!" He lifts his right hand into the air, and black circles surround it as he waits for Mr. Pigeon to count down.
"One, two thr-"
Chat suddenly lifts his hand to the and presses it down to one of the bars of the cage, causing it to turn to rust as Mr. Pigeon cowers back towards the edge of the rooftop. "Looks like the pigeon's really a chicken!" Chat Noir taunts, walking in sync with Ladybug as the two superheroes spin their weapons around.
"Oh, I'm not quitting yet." The pigeon man informs the two teenagers. "In fact, I'm just killing two birds, with one stone!" He walks over the edge of the building, and Ladybug and Chat run over to see if he's okay, but in reality, he's being carried by his flock of pigeons.
"Merry Christmas!" Mr. Pigeon laughs, riding his flock away as another group of pigeons surround Ladybug and Chat.
"Run!" Chat shouts as the two of them run towards a door. Chat opens it quickly, ushering Ladybug inside, and then shuts it firmly behind the two of them, as a bulge forms in the doorway, which signifies that the pigeons are trying to get in.
"Ahh, that was a close one." Ladybug pants, putting her hands on her knees.
A beep alarms Ladybug and Chat that Chat is almost going to turn back into Adrien. "We better hurry." Ladybug warns, as the two of them run down the stairs to the base of the hotel.
As they make their way there, they're stopped by the Mayor who looks worried. "Ladybug and Chat!" He exclaims, running over to the two superheroes. "Thank goodness! If these stupid birds keep invading my beautiful city, no tourists will come here, and our little place will eventually die out!"
"Okay, but first I have a urgent need." Chat jumps up and down, like he is about to spill the beans.
"Oh, go to the royal suite. There's paper in there, but perhaps you would prefer a litter tray?" Mayor Bourgeois jokes, as Ladybug chuckles.
"No, but I need to gooooo!" The cat themed superhero runs over to the elevator, and presses the highest floor, where the elevator quickly takes him there. The doors open, and Chat Noir runs into the bedroom.
"Do you need anything?" A butler asks from outside the door.
"Yes, do you have camembert?"
The butler knocks again, annoying Chat Noir. "How do you like your camembert?"
"RUNNY!" The blonde exclaims, shutting the door before it is opened again.
"Here is camembert matured for two years-" Chat grabs the tray of camembert cheese from the butler.
"Thank you!" Chat locks the door one more time before he transforms back into Adrien. The tiny cat kwami flies over to the big red bed and flops on it.
"Oh my poor aching body, I can't move a muscle!" Plagg complains, being a little too over dramatic.
"Yeah right." Adrien laughs, jogging over to the kwami with the tray. He takes off the lid, and Plagg perks up at once.
"Yum!" Plagg chomps on the cheese.
"You better hurry up, Mari needs us."
Ladybug walks up to a window, looking down at all the pigeons flying in a airplane shape. "This is pretty good, I can get a much better view from up here." She says quietly to herself, watching as the pigeons fly in all the same direction.
Just then, the elevator dings and Chat Noir is inside. "Let's go." He says, while Ladybug runs in.
"I heard all the park keepers and a police officer is gone." Chat Noir informs her, leaning against a handle bar.
"That's strange..." Ladybug replies, thinking for a moment. "Wait. When I was in the park, there was this man- he was like, a pigeon guy!"
Chat raises an eyebrow, saying, "Why would a pigeon man get akumatized?"
"Well.." Ladybug trails off, and the elevator only has five floors left. "Uhm, oh yeah! You know Sabrina's dad?"
"Oh, the police officer? Yeah, why?"
"Well, he kicked Mr. Ramier- the person who got akumatized- out of the park because he was feeding the pigeons."
"That's kind of a stupid reason.." Chat mumbles under his breath, and Ladybug glares at him.
The elevator comes to a stop, and the two superheroes run out of the building, following the trail of pigeon airplanes to a small building. "So that's where Mr. Pigeon is keeping the park keepers!" Ladybug gasps, pointing to the park keepers in a cage.
"Of course, The Grand Palais! Ahh, ahh-"
Ladybug stops the cat themed superhero before he sneezes, then the two of them keep watching. "Well, that means pigeons are nearby."
"Either that, or you're wrong..." Ladybug thinks for a moment for a plan.
Chat smiles deviously and says, "Let's set the cat among the pigeons." He rubs his hands together, and is about to go in before Ladybug pulls his fake tail. "Ouch! Lady, what was that for?!" He asks, turning around.
"Hold up kitty- it's too easy." She realizes that all they needed to do was go in, set the park keepers free, and find Mr. Pigeon while capturing his Akuma.
Chat rubs his tail. "Well, what do you suggest?"
"Just follow me." The two of them run around to the roof, where there is see through windows and skylights.
Chat opens one carefully, waiting to pounce on wherever that bird brain was- but a feather flies through and lightly brushes against his nose. "ACHOO!" He sneezes, alerting the pigeons nearby.
"So much for the element of surprise." Ladybug rolls her eyes, and hops into the building along with Chat Noir.
The two of them finally spot Mr. Pigeon, and chase him until he threatens them with two spheres of birds around his hands. "Haha, come closer if you please. But beware, I have my feathered friends to protect me!"
"I'll take my chances." Chat replies, raising up his claw- but he and Ladybug are hit back towards the cage. "Lady, are you okay?!" He asks, helping her up.
"I'm fine, don't worry." She replies, looking at the park keepers. "Don't worry, me and Chat are going to get all of you out of there!"
"Hurry up, Ladybug!" A park keeper pleads.
"LUCKY CHARM!" Ladybug raises her yoyo into the air, and red hearts surround it, dropping a ladybug coin into her hand. "What am I supposed to do with this?"
"Well, you better hurry, because you only have five minutes!"
Ladybug's vision activates, showing her a beam, a vending machine, and the coin.
"You can't buy yourself out of here!" Mr. Pigeon shouts, throwing a sphere of pigeons at Ladybug and Chat. Ladybug slides under it nonchalantly, wrapping the yoyo around Mr. Pigeon's left ankle. She quickly jumps up to the beam, then goes back down, which makes a pulley for her.
She runs swiftly to the far end of the building, towards the vending machine where she buys a bag of popcorn and throws it up into the air. "Chat Noir, your staff!"
The blonde haired boy grabs his staff out and hits the bag of popcorn, triggering it to fly everywhere- with the pigeons chasing after it. Ladybug pulls on her yoyo, making Mr. Pigeon higher- and he drops his birdcall.
"NO!"
"Chat Noir, grab it!" Ladybug screams, and Chat runs over and picks it up.
"Got it!" He throws it to Ladybug, and she catches it.
Then he does the unthinkable. Something he should have held in, but didn't.
He sneezed, dropping the birdcall around five feet away- making it a free for all.
Mr. Ramier drops down, and slaps his hand down on the birdcall, trying to grab it, but Chat Noir lands a hand on his, and Ladybug on top of all of them.
The bluenette gets a brilliant idea to slap Chat Noir's hand, so theoretically it would hit Mr. Pigeon's hand, causing it to break. "OW!" Chat squeals, pulling back his hand.
It works anyways, so it doesn't matter.
"NO! Curse you, Ladybug and Chat Noir!" Hawkmoth screeches from his lair.
"No more evil doing for you anymore, little akuma." Ladybug says, breaking the birdcall. A black butterfly flies into the air, and Ladybug spins her yoyo in a circle, capturing the Akuma. "TIME TO DE-EVIL-ISE!" She grabs the Akuma with her yoyo. "Gotcha!" She presses gently on her purifier, and the butterfly is now white. "Bye bye, little butterfly."
She throws the coin into the air, and little ladybugs scurry around like little workers, fixing the place. "MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!"
The cage around the park keepers are gone, the pigeons fly away, and Mr. Pigeon is now Mr. Ramier. "Pound it!" The two teenagers hold out their fists, and bump them together.
"What happened?" Mr. Ramier asks, looking around. "Did I sleepwalk here?"
Ladybug and Chat chuckle and leave- because Ladybug's earrings beeped.
"That really hurt though." Adrien complains to Marinette, waiting for her to grab her hat.
Marinette laughs and looks around her room- finally spotting the hat. She picks it up, and hides it from Adrien. "Aww, let me see!" He complains, trying to reach where she has the hat.
"No." She giggles, heading down the trapdoor, Adrien following behind.
The two of them walk to school, arguing about which is better- the power of creation or destruction. Those dorks.
Once inside their school, Marinette rushes over to Alya with her hat. "So cool!" Alya gushes, taking pictures before she notices something peculiar.
"What?" Marinette asks, confused.
Alya points at Chloe's hat, and Marinette fumes. "Want me to take care of it?" Alya asks, cracking her knuckles.
Marinette squints her eyes at Chloe and Sabrina, and replies, "No. I've got this."
When it's finally Marinette's turned to be judged, Gabriel is confused as heck. "Um, Nathalie, turn the pad thing back to Chloe's hat." Nathalie shifts the IPad in the direction of Chloe, then she turns back to Marinette. "What is going on?!"
"Marinette copied Sabrina and I!" Chloe accuses, pointing her index finger at Marinette.
Marinette just rolls her eyes, and says, "Mr. Agreste, I can prove I made this hat." She says smugly.
Chloe forms her hand into a fist, while Mr. Agreste allows Marinette to claim that she owns the design. "First off, this is all handmade, from the weaving of the band to the stitching of the brim- I did it all myself." She turns over the hat, revealing a gold squiggly signature. "And plus, I signed mine."
In your face, Chloe.
"DADDY!" Chloe cries, knocking over the hat stand and running away- her lackey Sabrina close behind.
"Very good Marinette, you are an excellent designer." Gabriel says, impressed. "Adrien will wear your design in the next photoshoot."
"Ahh, thank you!" The bluenette exclaims, jumping up and down, everyone applauding except Chloe and Sabrina and Adrien.
He's looking at her, thinking, She's cute like that. Wait what? I don't have a crush on her, I won't have a crush on her! Adrien thinks to himself, facepalming himself mentally in his brain.
Oh you silly cat, of course you have a crush on her! (Grin)
Next Episode: Stormy Weather
~Mia