It felt frigid at night as she huddled as close as she could with Tikki still nestled against her chest on an empty park bench in whatever city she found herself in as she huddled close all that she could think about was how much she missed her bed back home, how she'd never had to wonder about where to find food, or what to do.
If she hadn't been so stressed or worn out, she might have found the city beautiful in its own way and found inspiration from tall building to tall building from interesting sight to interesting sight, but she couldn't work up the energy to let herself be inspired.
"Ti-Tikki, where are we?" She found herself murmuring, trying to be soft though she wasn't sure if she had the energy to care whether anyone around found her crazy or not.
"I don't know, Marinette." It was all the answer that Tikki gave, and Marinette found herself worn out but not really tired enough to sleep.
She stood up, "Do you mind transforming, so that we could get a good look around?" Marinette wasn't entirely sure whether or not, the citizens here would freak out at seeing another superhero, think of her as a villain, or what they'd do. Ladybug wouldn't mean anything to them.
She just hoped that everyone was asleep or at least most of them as Tikki told her that they could.
Swinging across this unknown city with people that she was even less familiar with left her more than a little nervous, and yet with every slip on an unfamiliar rooftop or every fumble or every single time that she got lost, she could only think of her home, a city that rarely caused her to stumble if an Akuma wasn't involved.
Ladybug had grown used to swinging through Paris and yet this city, whatever the people called it, was not her home, not the city that taught her what being a superhero was like. She learned to swing and run across Parisian rooftops, not these ones.
She worried that she wouldn't be able to understand this place, wouldn't know exactly how to get past all of this, and yet she was almost more worried about meeting that other superhero and getting past the shock of it all.
What if he found her to be a supervillain and tried to defeat her? She wasn't sure that if that happened that she'd be familiar enough with this unknown city to win.