Miraculous: Chloe Bourgeois Time Travel Fix-It.
Chapter 21: Marinette and Alya.
(Three hundred and four thousand, six hundred and third Quantic Universe Earth, Paris, France, Saturday, October 10th, 2015, third person POV...)
In Marinette's bedroom, Marinette narrates as she writes in her journal, "Marinette's journal. Saturday, October 10th, 2015. Dear journal, something happened today. I believe it warrants a debrief in these pages.
I was in the Place des Vosges square with Alya, and I ran into Adrien during a break from his latest photoshoot. With the sun reflecting in his hair, he looked so good I almost fainted in the original timeline. But believe me, I lived through that once before.
I managed a simple hello, Alya said her hello, and Adrien and I gave each other la bise before we let Adrien focus as the rest of the men got back to work. I was allowed to remain on site with some refreshments for the employees purchased from my parents' bakery. When I was on site with the refreshments, I made sure that the employees got the food and water they needed if they were going on lunch break. It's a good thing that Alya was there to help me out by ensuring that anything Vincent the photographer or any of Mr. Agreste's other employees might've missed and anything I forgot to remind them about were brought up in time. Alya and me, we're BFFs. It's literally an amazing thing to have a great friend like her. She's always there for me, she's not afraid to throw her weight around to help me or other people in our family lives or in the school with any problems we have as long as we're extra careful not to attract Hawk Moth's attention, and most of all, Alya helps keep me grounded in case I start to lose control of my anger or if in the event I hit a roadblock with babysitting or with anything else on my daily agenda until we graduate. She knows how to best help me out, even when I feel like I've hit a roadblock in anything else I'm doing. Such as fashion designing, computer mathematics, engineering, etc. We're super close, you know what I'm saying? We can talk about everything, we have a laugh now and then, and we do a lot of neat stuff together!
For example, we love to go to the movie theater and talk about anything about the movie afterwards. We talk about some things that we liked about the movie, some things that we hated about the movie, and so on. It's always very intriguing because Alya often notices things that escaped my own notice, both in movies and in real life.
Alya is the most observant person I know, but I do believe Majestia, Batman, Superman, and so forth in my experiences with Peggy Sue memories would be able to outpace her about things we previously didn't notice back in the original timelines. And Alya has an interest in pretty much anything related to movies, real life news, superheroes, police crackdowns, the weather, school life, school relationships between students, and even the explanations for why teachers like Ms. Bustier and Mr. Damocles are fired by the school board because they were incompetent at their jobs. Alya's also very curious, and like I said in the original timeline, maybe a bit too curious. Alya happens to be one of the most somewhat "supernaturally" observant people I ever knew in my life in all timelines similar to the original one I came from before I was murdered and sent to Hell. Not only that, but she has an interest in practically anything that she thinks warrants an investigation. Perhaps she's too curious, but that's why she thinks she'll be a proficient reporter. But I know for a fact that sometimes, when it comes to her curiosity, her drive for the truth, her need for details, her admiration of superheroes like Ladybug and Majestia, and so forth about her passions, it tends to get out of hand to the point where, if her theories are proven wrong, she'll often try to deny it and practically try harder to prove that she's right. In different sectors of the Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction multiverse that I was informed about by our twenty-four recruits, Alya's impatience with her stories and her incompetence at checking her sources mostly and often cause her reputation to go down in flames and cause her to land herself in jail, cause her to take down her Ladyblog permanently, and cause her to lose even the love and support of Nino and her family. And in the instances where she doesn't check her sources about anything she posts on the internet both in the canon timelines and in the future of this one in particular if I don't change that, she'll literally blow a fuse about being wrong while demanding for others to provide the evidence that they're the ones who were right. This in general is most definitively something that she needs to work on if she wants to be a reporter. After all, great reporters like Nadia Chamack or even Lois Lane and April O'Neil became great reporters by having keen observational skills, a drive to never give up, the capability of knowing when specific subjects about people and other things are sensitive matters or are secrets that are above normal classified levels, and an instinct to know when it is or it isn't the appropriate time to report a story about something when it comes to superheroes or anything else that happens in universes where superheroes either don't exist as anything other than tales of fiction to entertain children or who fight crime from the shadows to hide their identities and often their humanoid animal mutant natures from the general public. But they also checked their sources before submitting their reports to their bosses. If Alya wants to be an equally great reporter in her own right, she has to learn how to take criticism politely – Hawk Moth or no Hawk Moth – and she has to learn how to be patient and check her sources of whoever she interviews for potential stories. That way, when Lila Rossi inevitably appears and gets the interview she wants about Lila being Ladybug's best friend, Alya will be able to see her true colors immediately, even despite what I told her. And yes, after Alya was first Akumatized into Lady Wifi and defeated, I revealed my identity and the identities of my army to her and I revealed to her my origins and the origins of not only Chloe, but also our twenty-four recruits. She was shocked about what I had to tell her, even all the way to the way Thomas Astruc had run the show from season 1 to season 5 before and after Gabriel Agreste sacrificed himself to reunite with Emilie Agreste in the afterlife and before and after he asked my counterparts to not tell his Nightormentor, Monarchbug, Monarch, Shadow Moth, Scarlet Moth, Collector, and Hawk Moth identities to Adrien and/or to anyone else in the new world, something I realized way too late in the original timeline, realized in this new timeline in the past thanks to the kwamis and our twenty-four recruits, and told Alya that, much to her surprise, runs parallel to Norman Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2002 movie pleading Peter Parker not to tell his son Harry about Norman being the Green Goblin before he died, even if we take out of the equation the difference being that Harry did find out Spider-Man and Green Goblin's identities at the end of Spider-Man 2, but because he still believed Spider-Man killed Norman without being fully educated about the truth just yet, that combined with him discovering his father's Goblin Lair, equipment, and performance enhancer/Goblin Serum supply combined with Norman's spirit trying to convince Harry to avenge his father eventually compelled Harry to try to kill Peter in Spider-Man 3 twice before discovering the truth from his butler before the final battle against Venom and Sandman, and he wasn't even fired for keeping secrets. Don't get me wrong; I know there's a time and a place to know everything, but now I finally realize that sometimes, when innocent people are in danger, when the future is about to become apocalyptic, when friendships and relationships are potentially about to end because of secrecy and trust issues among other reasons that I can think of, it's better to tell the truth early on rather than waiting years or until the day you die to find out and tell the truth to whoever you're keeping secrets from, for both good and bad reasons. But even despite that, it also ran parallel to The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises in terms of similarities as follows: after accidentally killing Two-Face, Batman took the blame for Harvey Dent's crimes and eventual death to keep the Joker from winning in his crusade to destroy Gotham City's hope for Harvey Dent's work in eradicating crime in the city and to prevent Harvey Dent from being remembered as a villain in his final moments, with Batman believing himself to be the hero Gotham deserves, but not what it needs. But the only difference is that the new version of Bane in the sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, intentionally exposed Two-Face's crimes to Gotham City as part of his and Talia Al Ghul's mission to avenge Ra's Al Ghul and destroy Gotham City with the Scarecrow's help.
But anyway, even despite that as well, Alya was (bleep!) about the way Thomas Astruc ran things and the way he behaved in real life whenever someone questioned his decisions, questioned the decisions of Jeremy Zag's staff members, asked him questions about and other than about spoiler alerts, or criticized him and the way Astruc ran things. Even including Chloe's canon redemption arc being burnt to ashes and dust during the season 3 finale, even though it was mostly because Chloe didn't try harder to change and also because my counterparts didn't try harder to convince Chloe to change and to convince her that she can be a hero even without needing a Miraculous jewel. And along with that, I was so (bleep bleep!) about Adrien being kept in the dark about the truth of his father and about Lila getting her hands on the Butterfly Miraculous to become Gabriel's unappointed but long-since correctly predicted successor as Hawk Moth that our twenty-four interdimensional friends said that their own friends had explosive rage quits about the cartoon of our lives – which thankfully didn't result in either of their friends landing themselves in prison for property damage – to the point where their friends swore off watching the remaining 7 seasons of Miraculous Ladybug in favor of writing fanfictions about what they would change when it comes to the overall story while destroying the (bleep bleep bleep!) status quo about Hawk Moth's identity, the identity rule, the love square, Lila's treachery and eventual future as the New Hawk Moth, and so forth that I can think of after rewatching Miraculous Ladybug sixteen times one episode in the correct chronological order at a time for inspiration, reading Miraculous Ladybug fanfictions about similar changes, and in favor of making my own 3rd party but still legal version of Miraculous Ladybug that not only features the webisodes, the Rise of the Sphinx console video game, and even the Miraculous Adventures comic books which includes issues 6 and 8 that were never released in the U.S. while also excluding issues 5 and 7 since technically neither of them took place after issues 4 and 6, but also featured the changes everyone wanted which was 4 to 96% similar to the comic book and cartoon versions of Marvel's What If?... storylines that featured alternate choices that led to big paradise-filled futures or utter catastrophes in apocalyptic futures, thanks to the technology our interdimensional recruits were able to invent for those things I mentioned.
Anyway, Alya had also created a blog 100% dedicated to our army, the Oracle Knight Blog. She's a huge fan of every superhero, real or clone, that existed and served in our army, including my Ladybug identity. She even invented a special alert into her phone that allows her to be notified about when an Akumatized supervillain attack is happening so that she can get to the scene and film everything for her blog."
In Czar Rex, Seraphim Sentinel and Sovereign, Alya says in a mixture of words from two different sentences at two different times, "Coming to you live, Oracle Knight Blog viewers..."
"(Softly) Look at the Oracle Knights and their new angelic champions go! If I'm dreaming, don't wake me up!"
Marinette continues as she eventually concludes her journal entry, "And before the Lady Wifi incident happened, whenever Alya wasn't reporting, she spent her time investigating for and looking for any forms of information about Ladybug. Her dream was to have an interview with Ladybug. And maybe that'll happen after we deal with Fred Haprele as The Mime. But don't quote me on that, 'cause there's no guarantees that it'll happen. But either way, who knows? Maybe a little help from the Web of Destiny, and bam! She gets her interview. I'll keep you updated on that. Bye for now, journal. Signing off."
The End.
(Author's notes: See you all in chapter 22: Comic Comedian, Performer, Star Man.)