14 long, frankly not terrible, years Rene has been living in this world. And why this one? Why couldn't they have been reborn somewhere else? Why here?

The world of miraculous is stupid but also amazing. They hate it and they love it. There are so many missed opportunities in the show. Like Lila, Chloe, and Gabriel Agreste. Hell, even the main characters were wasted in their own ways! But the show also had its good qualities that made it exciting and made them want to keep watching the show no matter how much it hurt them over and over again. It was so frustrating in many good and bad ways. They loved each character but sometimes they wanted to just strangle them. 'sHe's JUst a fRIenD' or the stupid things Gabriel did as Hawkmoth, like akumatizing Mr. Pigeon 72 times are big examples.

But they had a plan for this world. One that super fans of this show would definitely froth from the mouth in anger at. It was evil. It was cruel. But for their own happiness, it had to be done. Marinette had recently received the Ladybug Miraculous, so they knew it was finally their time to shine!

Rene looked at the clock on their phone. 1:36, They needed to get to Francoise Dupont before 2:00. They Grabbed their phone and put it in their dark blue satchel. They left their house at a brisk pace and headed for the door. Today was a bore. They wanted to finally get some action. Feel the adrenaline pulsing through their veins as they went undercover. In order for their master plan to work they have to track the ditsy superhero. She wouldn't notice. She didn't even realize Optigami was watching her in season four until it carelessly showed up in that stupid elevator. It would be simple. Gain Lila and Gabriel as their allies by using Marinette's unfortunate flaw and prove she was a danger to Adrien (Not that hard). Gaining power over the school via Lila and gaining fame, fortune, and a Miraculous, maybe multiple, through Gabriel. They would use evidence of her stalking in order to boost them up.

The outcome will be glorious.

They giggled and grinned with delight. It would be perfect. They know who the Guardian is, where he lives, the location of the Miracle box, the password to the miracle box, all current and future miraculous users, and they have knowledge of the information in the Miracle spell book.

They would admit, they were obsessed with this show on an unhealthy level.

Today is the day Marinette will take Adrien's phone. It might have been hard to remember if they didn't know about the major event happening today. The announcement for the statue reveal for the miraculous duo allowed me to prepare for the first notably stalkerish act they could record without anyone being suspicious of their actions.

They reached the school at 1:57 and successfully snuck into boys' the locker room. They quickly hid towards the back of the locker room and watched the door.

Of course, Adrien enters the room a little after 2:00. 'Just a little longer and Marinette will show up.' Adrien goes to his locker and opens it. 'Now I know where to focus my camera!' They pull out their phone and start recording. It wouldn't hurt to have his transformation on camera. When else would they be able to get a shot like this?

"Plagg, you pig!"

They could faintly hear Plagg from the model's locker. "You have 1 new message." He then burps.

"Move, please, so I can check my voicemail." He grabs his phone from his bag. "Hmm, don't recognize this number." He pauses as he looks at the time. "Oh no, now we're late! Time to transform, Plagg!"

"Aww. Can't I have another slice of cheese?" Plagg whines.

"There's no time for that! Plagg, claws out!" He quickly transforms and surprisingly doesn't do a transformation sequence, before jumping out one of the locker room windows. Rene ended the recording and saved it on the cloud just in case before they took the small amount of time to change their placement in the room for the next recording. Rene won't include the audio in Marinette's video. That'll include her speaking with Tikki and they couldn't explain that away. They would get info on her alter ego later.

They quickly press record on their phone as Marinette weirdly enters the room "...I'm there!" She looks at all the lockers in the room. Luckily, they were hidden from her sight.

"Oh boy." They heard Tikki say.

"Which one's his?" Marinette frets.

"If you call him, you'll make his phone ring."

"Nice, Tikki!" She calls Adrien's phone then puts her ear against some lockers near the ringing to figure out which locker the sound is coming from.

"Hurry, they're finishing up!"

Marinette eventually finds it. "Here it is!" She attempts to open the locker but fails. "Gah! It's locked!"

Though it wouldn't be seen on camera, Tikki phases through the locker and opens it from the inside. "Ta-dah!"

Marinette gasps. "Tikki you're a lifesaver!" She takes his phone from the bag and tries to unlock it for about 30 seconds before we all hear noise from outside the door.

"They're coming! Put back the phone!"

"I haven't erased the message yet!"

"We're out of time and we really ought to be getting to that ceremony, come on!" As Marinette runs away with the phone, Rene quickly hides in a closet just as the door opens. Marinette is able to quickly leave before she's spotted. 'Damn it! Now I'm stuck.' They think as the fencers file into the room. They sigh quietly. At least it was a mission success.

Now onto phase two.


Rene waited before they entered the classroom. They had to wait for their que to enter.

"I looked for hours, and I couldn't find my phone anywhere!" Bingo! They started to enter the classroom.

"Maybe you dropped it somewhere."

Adrien sighed "Well, if I did, then, whoever has it found it in the boys' locker room. I was checking my voicemail in there during fencing practice."

Rene walks over to the blond. They hadn't talked much but Adrien at least knew their name. "Hi, Adrien!" They smiled brightly and made sure to enunciate their words. Not too loud but just loud enough for everyone in the class to hear. They had to make sure everyone knew he lost it. "I couldn't help but overhear you lost your phone. If you need any help finding it, I'd be willing to help ya' out anytime. I think I'm quite good at finding things." They wink at him. They could see Marinette and Alya wince at their words. Good.

He smiled back and did a little wave. "Hey, Rene, and thank you. I'll make sure to ask you next time I look for it." They see Marinette reach down from the corner of their eye and Adrien's bag falls over. "Huh? What in the… I already looked in here a thousand times!"

Rene chuckled, "Well, I guess you won't need my help after all."

Nino wraps his arm around Adrien's shoulder. "You need some time off. Hey, I know, let's go to the movies tonight."

Alya reaches over her desk. "Hey, dudes, mind if a few friends tag along?"

Nino tips his hat in a nod. "Sure thing!" He turns to look at Rene. "You too, Dude."

They blink at him before smiling and nodding. "Of course." This was perfect. Now they could worm their way into the friend group and into the good graces of both heroes. This was even better than expected!

Marinette looks at Adrien and practically jumps out of her seat in joy. 'I think in the show she really did jump out of it though. Huh.'

"Yay!" she exclaimed.

Oh, Marinette. If only you knew what you've let happen to yourself.