Yay! Another chapter! This one is a bit shorter, I guess they all have been really, I can try to make them longer, but I don't know if I will. Let me know if you feel strongly either way. Wow, I can't think of anything else to say. That's probably fine. If any of you are like me you don't like the really long author's notes and just want to read the story.

Chow for now, TheUltimateFanGirl7

Yep, still don't own Miraculous, check back later (when nothing will have changed)

Marinette didn't get much sleep that night. She kept tossing and turning, thinking about the contents of the notebook. She wondered what could be in the rest of the notebook.

Tikki wasn't very much help. She was in nearly as much shock as Marinette was. Needless to say, Marinette wasn't in the best mood when she arrived at school the next morning. Alya had already left Germany earlier that morning, so she headed over to where Nino stood, waiting for Adrien to arrive.

"Hey dudette!" Nino called. Marinette grumbled a response and gave a short wave.

"You okay, Mari?" Nino asked. "Something seems… wrong."

"Nothing!" Marinette shot back at him. "Nothing's wrong with me!"

"Okay, jeese dude! Don't need to be so rude about it!"

"I know, I'm sorry." Marinette sighed. "I just, well, it's just that I got some pretty shocking news last night and didn't get much sleep because of it."

"Oh. Well if you ever need someone to talk to… Well I'm not Alya, but…"

"Thanks, Nino." Marinette said with a smile.

"So, what was this shocking news you got, Marinette?" said a voice from behind her. Marinette jumped nearly a foot in the air and spun around, reflexively going into a defensive stance. When she saw the boy, who had come up quietly behind her, she jumped again and practically teleported behind Nino she moved so fast.

"A-Adrien! Come from – you – where?! I mean! Where come from - you?! No, did you – where – come?! No that's not it either…"

Adrien laughed.

"Good morning, Marinette! Morning, Nino!"

"Morning, dude!"

"Mor-morning!"

"Where's Alya? Adrien asked.

"She – uh – she – she…" Marinette stammered.

"She left for Germany with her family early this morning." Nino answered his friend.

Just then, the bell rang, signaling that they needed to make their way to class if they didn't wat to be late. None of the three even noticed that no one had answered Adrien's original question.

For their first class, the teacher gave them free time. Adrien pulled out something that, from the looks of it, must have been for his Chinese lessons, and Nino pulled out a book that had some sort of DJ's turntable on the front cover. Marinette decided to continue reading the journal. She keyed her name into the lock inside the journal. She had returned it the previous night in case someone else somehow got a hold of the journal. Now, she removed it again and slipped it into her bag, before opening the journal to wear se had left off.

"I know that to truly be rid of the akuma, you will have to battle me while I am transformed and purify the akuma. You might think it would be easier if the jar was just broken when the akuma was dormant, but believe me I've tried. The akuma doesn't appear and the jar repairs itself almost instantly.

Another problem. I don't know how to get to you, or get you to me, and whoever back home. It's not as simple as just getting to Paris or Iowa. You see, where I live, none of your world is real. It's all just a figment of someone's imagination that they shared with the rest of the world. This means that if I truly am an akuma, then we live in different dimensions, different universes, different planes of existence, however you want to think of it. I don't know how the akuma got here, or how this journal got to you, but they did, and that means that there is a way to travel between our two worlds, I just don't know what it is as of yet. Perhaps Tikki and Plagg would know.

However, I caution you. If you do decide to try and help, you may need to reveal your identity to Cat Noir. People here, if they have heard of you, will most likely know your identities. I fear that, one way or another, by the time this is over, you will know each other's identities."

Unfortunately, before Marinette could read any further (and fry her brain even more than she already had), there was an explosion and the sound of people screaming outside. Marinette made an excuse and rushed out of the classroom to find a place to transform.

"What are you going to do about the journal?" Tikki asked her. "Are you going to tell Cat Noir?"

"I don't know yet, Tikki. I'll have to think about it during the battle Tikki! Spots on!"

After she transformer, Marinette, now Ladybug, quickly swung to the akuma using her magic yo-yo.

(Sorry, I'm not going to show the fight seen, or name the akuma, or his powers, or his costume, because this particular one really has very little to do with the story and I'd rather not spend ages describing an akuma and battle that have little to do with the story arc.)

After Ladybug successfully beat the akuma – a man who had been fired from his job as a chef when his boss found out he had been modifying the recipes – using this time's random-object-of-the-day (it was a paperclip, just FYI, but that's not really important right now, or ever again really), she pulled Cat Noir aside and whispered to him:

"Eiffel Tower. Tonight. 8 o'clock sharp. Don't be late."

Then she swung away before he could respond. She was going to tell him. She wasn't sure what his reaction would be, and she didn't really want to think about it, but she felt like she had an obligation as a hero to help this Megan person, and if she needed to reveal her identity to Cat Noir to do it, then so be it. She would just have to deal with the consequences later.

Later that Evening

7:45. It was time to go. Tikki had been surprisingly quiet the rest of the day after the battle. She had accepted Marinette's decision to reveal her identity to Cat Noir without protest. On some level, she was looking forward to seeing Plagg again after so long, and this girl clearly needed help. Unless this was all a trap. Tikki knew that Marinette had read more of the journal during class, but Tikki hadn't been able to because she had to remain hidden. When Marinette had gotten home from school, she left the notebook, locked, in her bag, so Tikki wasn't able to read it then, either; and Marinette hadn't spoken about what it said, other than she needed to reveal her identity to Cat Noir.

Marinette wasn't sure when she would be coming home. She knew, one way or another, with Cat Noir or without, she was going to find a way to Megan. And she wasn't returning until the akuma had been purified. Knowing this, Marinette packed a backpack with a few small items: The class photo with Juleka (taken after the Reflekta incident), a photo of her parents, some pictures with a few of her friends, a change of clothes, her hairbrush, etc. She also placed the journal back in its box and packed that. When everything was ready, she stood, shouldering her bag, and looked around her room, one last time. As an afterthought (so it didn't look like she had run away), she threw a couple things on the floor and knocked over her mannequin. Then, she backed up everything on her phone to her computer and transferred the files to a flash drive which she packed in her diary box (she had also packed this so no one would read it and find out she was Ladybug while she was away). Then she dropped her phone on the floor, took a deep breath, and stomped on it. Afterwards, she transformed into Ladybug, looked around her room one last time (for real this time ;p), and left through the trapdoor to her balcony, not even bothering to close it behind her.

I wasn't really sure about how I described her running away and making a mess of her room. I wanted it to make her seem like she was taken, but I wasn't really sure what to say. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please let me know. Thanks!