After a long night of heroes work, Marinette finally went back home feeling absolutely exhausted. Before she left, she made sure to take back Queen Bee's Miraculous. She understood that she couldn't keep it all the time since Chloe just came back from being on Chrysalis's side and gave it back. It didn't seem to bother her that Rena Rouge was able to keep hers. Uraraka let her know that her parents were worried about her.
Apparently, Uraraka had to lie to them and told them that she was staying at the school for another movie night. Luckily, what they were all doing before the akumas showed up.
She came home with open arms, both of her parents so happy to see that she was okay. They could tell she needed some rest, so they led her up to her room and let her sleep. Even when she was alone with Tikki, her Kwami even looked really tired.
"Wow, I've never this tired before," Tikki said to her holder.
"Right? Well, at least we can finally get some sleep," Marinette said back, "Mr. Aizawa is letting Class 1-A take a break from hero training and just sleep for a while."
Marinette climbed up to her bed along with Tikki floating over to her pillow. She laid down on it like a little kitty and Marinette patted her on the head. Then she remembered what happened before she left. Bakugo was actually considering staying here in Paris, with her and Cat Noir. The looks on his friends's faces really worried her.
"I really hope Katsuki is doing okay," Marinette said to her, "I never he of all people would consider staying here. It seems so... strange."
"Well, maybe whatever happened in their Japan really bothers him," Tikki said to her, "Maybe you could talk to Izuku about it later."
Marinette thought about it for a while, and then pulled the covers over her. She smiled at Tikki and laid her head on the pillow.
"Yeah. I'm just hoping Izuku can get some rest. I'm just so glad he got his Miraculous back," Marinette said to her Kwami.
After laying down for a while, she let that thought sink in. Then she remembered Midoriya's Miraculous being taken away from Bakugo. The last thing she remembered was Queen Bee holding it in her hands.
Queen Bee never gave Midoriya back his Miraculous.
"Oh my gosh! Tikki, Queen Be-- I mean, Chloe gave back Izuku his Miraculous!" Marinette cried out, then covered her mouth just in case her parents heard her yelling.
"Marinette, you need some rest. Go see Chloe after you get some rest," Tikki said to her, "Don't you trust her?"
Marinette remembered all of the things she did for Midoriya and her recently and smiled. For once, she actually felt like she could.
"You're right, Tikki," Marinette said as she gave her a kiss on top of her head, "Get some rest."
Marinette laid back down, feeling like she could finally trust Chloe. Maybe even start giving out the Miraculous again. She was going to need all the help she could get at this point. Class 1-A is going to need it soon.
As Marinette started to fall sleep, she felt something pull her away from her room. Something otherworldly...
Back at the Adrien's house...
Adrien was finally back home after a long night of collecting akumas. He walked up the stairs to his house, with Plagg hiding in his jacket. When he opened the front door, he found really quiet.
"Natalie?" Adrien called out.
No one answered back. Adrien thought she might still be asleep.
He was about to walk up to his bedroom, but then he heard a door creak open. He stopped in his tracks and noticed it was the door to his father's office. Adrien looked around, wondering if maybe someone was here.
Adrien knew that Chrysalis might've been in his father's lair, but he didn't dare go in there. He hadn't been in there since his father was arrested.
He hesitated for a moment, but then stepped towards his office.
"Whoa, hey kid!" Plagg said to him, "Are you sure you want to go in there? You haven't gone there since--"
"Since my father was arrested. Yes, I know Plagg," Adrien said to him, "But I've gotta check something."
Adrien entered his father's office, slowly and quietly. No one was in there. He walked in some more, finding to be ransacked. There were papers on the floor, and he even noticed the painting of his mother to be crooked. He knew the police had come in to go through the place, but he knew they didn't do anything like this.
Even Natalie had cleaned it up after they left.
"Chrysalis..." Adrien growled out.
Adrien made his way towards the painting of his mother. He stepped onto the floor that opened up into an elevator and placed his fingers over the buttons.
"Are you sure you should be doing this, Adrien? Chrysalis could be in there!" Plagg asked him.
"This is my house, she should've known better than to ransack it like this," Adrien said to him.
He pressed the buttons down, and the elevator went down. It turned into a glass elevator as it went down towards the basement. He looked at the attic button and pressed on it. The elevator stopped, moved forward and went up towards the attic.
As it made its way towards HawkMoth's lair, Adrien ducked, expecting Chrysalis to be there. Plagg hid his jacket, ready for her to jump up at them.
The elevator opened up, and nothing happened.
Adrien slowly stood up and looked around.
Chrysalis wasn't anywhere in the lair.
Adrien stepped off of the elevator and began walking around. He noticed a few things different about the lair. Chrysalis had put a rug in the shape of a butterfly. She even put in a bean bag couch. It really annoyed him that she would even think about doing something like this in his house.
He then spotted a chain lying on the floor, and some pieces of the wall scattered everywhere. Based on what he had just found, he could tell that this is what he heard Uraraka had done. She fought back.
"Whoa, that Zero Gravity Girl did this," Plagg said once he realized that no one was around, "I wish I was here to see that!"
Adrien smiled at him and realized there were some books that looked like they came from his father's room or office. Whatever books they were, they looked like they were about Miraculous, ancient relics and treasures. He then spotted the Miraculous book he had found in his father's office.
That was the day Lila showed up.
It was also the day Ladybug thought his father was HawMoth. It turned out she was right all along.
Adrien grabbed the book, sat down in the bean bag chair and flipped through it. He couldn't really read it since it was in some kind of code. There was a page of Ladybug, and he smiled. He really missed her already. Soon he came across the page that had Cat Noir on it. He remembered how weird it felt to feel the ears on top of his head. Luckily, the effects on the Miraculous didn't do anything to him when he detransformed.
He let out a sigh of relief and soon felt a yawn coming. He stretched in the bean bag chair, feeling how comfy it was.
Soon enough, Adrien ended up falling asleep in HawkMoth's lair. He felt something otherworldly start to pull him away...
Back at the school...
Class 1-A settled down in their classroom with their sleeping bags all spread out. Mr. Aizawa allowed them all to have a day off to catch up on some sleep, and everyone was happy about that. Even Principal Damocles thought it'd be best to delay school for just one day after what happened last night.
Midoriya set up his sleeping bag, but kept looking over at Bakugo the whole time.
Bakugo was already lying down with headphones on. He might've already been asleep at this point.
He sat down next to Uraraka and Todoroki and let out a sigh.
"Tired, huh?" Todoroki pointed out.
"Yeah..." Midoriya said back.
Ashido let out a big yawn with tears in her eyes. She plopped down next to Jirou and Kirishima with a big smile on her face.
"What're you so happy about?" Jirou asked her as she plugged her earphone jack into her phone to listen to some music.
"My voice. It's finally back," Ashido said to them, "I'll tell you, it is not easy planning to set a trap with Cat Noir when you can't talk. That Silencer guy was a little creepy. He took my voice just by touching my lips."
Ashido let out a shiver when she remembered the feeling.
They all looked at her like that was the weirdest thing they probably had to deal with last night.
"Oh yeah," Sato joined in, "Me and Mr. Aizawa had to go up against Principal Damocles. If it wasn't for Aoyama, we wouldn't have made it out of there."
"Wait, Dark Owl was the Principal?" Kirishima said to Sato while Aoyama tried to get their attention with some striking poses, "No wonder he was okay with delaying school for one day. Well, it was kind of cool to go up against Todoroki. Again, sorry for the headbutt, man."
"It's nothing," Todoroki said, rubbing his head right where he hit him, "I'm just hoping I didn't hurt you too much."
"Not at all actually," Kirishima said to him, "It was actually Alya's boyfriend that did that to me. He was kind of strong back there!"
"Whoa, Nino did that to you?!" Ashido cried out, "Why did he do that to you?!"
Kirishima thought back on it for a moment and felt warm as a blemish started to form under his eyes.
"H-He mi-might've thought that me and Alya were going out behind his back," Kirishima explained as he rubbed the back of his head.
They all looked at him with their jaws dropped, especially Ashido. She gave him a knowing grin, making Kirishima turn bright red like his hair.
"As-Ashido! Do-Don't look at me like that! Of course me and Alya aren't actually going out! We're just friends! Besides, I would never go out with someone that already had a boyfriend."
Ashido noticed Jirou in the corner of her eye and saw her sulking a little. Her eyes drifted down to her phone, but she stopped looking through her music.
"So-Sorry, Jirou," Ashido said as she gave her friend a side hug, "I didn't mean to bring that kind of thing up."
"What? What's wrong Jirou?" Todoroki asked her.
Ashido could tell Jirou really didn't want to talk about it, but she might as well get it over with.
"Me and Adrien broke up..." Jirou confessed to her friends.
Class 1-A all looked at her looking so heart broken. They really liked seeing someone like Jirou in a relationship like that. Adrien was a good guy, too.
"I'm sorry Jirou. I didn't mean to bring it up," Ashido apologized again, "Do you want one of my macarons?"
Jirou felt herself laughing at Ashido's attempt to cheer her up. She even grabbed a box of macarons and started sharing it with everyone.
"Gosh, these macarons are so delicious!" Sato cried out as he ate one of her macarons, "We're going to have to grab some more macarons before we leave."
Midoriya felt that and looked back at Bakugo. He never woke up or moved from his spot. Midoriya hugged his legs tighter and felt tears coming up again.
Uraraka noticed him looking at Bakugo and placed her hand on his arm. He looked up to see Uraraka looking sad for him, but then smiled genuinely at him.
"Do you really think Bakugo is going to leave U.A.?" Kirishima asked them, looking just as upset as Midoriya, "I mean, he can't just leave all of us. There's no way Mr. Aizawa would let him."
"Kirishima, now's not the time," Iida said to him as he pointed to Midoriya.
They all looked at Midoriya, who hadn't even noticed that they were talking about Bakugo. All he could do was stare at his childhood friend. Even Bakugo couldn't hear them talking about him with his noise cancelling headphones on.
"Sorry, I just... he's my friend, too," Kirishima said to them, "I don't want to see him leave. We've just started to get along finally."
"It just seems like this field trip has gone on for a lot longer than any of us thought," Iida said to them, "We weren't even supposed to come here, but Ladybug really needed us. Bakugo just looks like he's happier here, as much as that surprises me."
Midoriya heard Iida's last comment and almost booked it out of there. He couldn't bear to listen to this anymore.
Class 1-A seemed to notice, and Uraraka gave him a big hug. They didn't like seeing Midoriya like this, but Bakugo left, they might not ever see him again. Midoriya felt tears fall down his face as he cried quietly.
"Ochaco..." Midoriya mumbled to her, "I don't think he's coming with us..."
Uraraka's eyes widened to hear something so sad coming from him. Even his friends heard him say that and felt the same way. Kirishima looked down at his hands and clenched them in anger. He really wanted to do something about this. Bakugo was his friend, too.
After Midoriya cried quietly for a while, he ended up falling asleep in Uraraka's lap. She let him lay on her lap as Class 1-A made sure not to wake him up. She played with his green hair, and he seemed to like that.
Uraraka smiled down at him.
"Hey, did anyone else notice that Queen Bee didn't give Midoriya his Miraculous?" Jirou asked them, looking up from her phone.
That caught Uraraka's attention. She looked up frantically wondering what she meant by that. Uraraka looked down at Midoriya's belt and didn't see it anywhere.
"Wait, she never gave it to him?" Uraraka asked them.
"No, I'm pretty sure she did. He had it on him at one point when we met up with Ladybug and Queen Bee," Ashido said to them, "It was kind of confusing to keep track of it, but she definitely still has it."
"I hope she doesn't bring it back to Chrysalis," Iida said to them.
"There's no way she would do that," Kirishima said to them, "Chloe has been helping us ever since we defeated... well, Uraraka when she was akaumtized."
"Wait a minute, she's been helping you for that long?" Uraraka asked him.
"Yeah, she's been a great help. She told us about Chyrsalis's plan to come over to our Japan right when you went back to Chrysalis. I think we can trust her."
Uraraka felt her shoulders tense up when he mentioned trusting her. She looked back at the bag that she left in the corner. It still had the akuma in a jar that she found. Chrysalis was going after her home, so she had to tell them about this soon.
For now, she had to get some rest.
Midoriya felt something otherworldly pulling him away... Something very familiar...
Another amazing chapter!
This was kind of nice to write! It felt nice to have to chapter that didn't have any fighting in it. Just a relaxing chapter going over what Marinette, Adrien and Class 1-A had gone through. Marinette is just exhausted and will have to talk to Chloe soon. Adrien finally went into HawkMoth's lair. Midoriya is not doing so good with Bakugo possibly leaving Japan. More heroes will definitely show up soon! I thought Bakugo leaving U.A. was such an interesting way to go about the next chapter and so now!
Marinette, Adrien and Midoriya all fell asleep. Hmm...
What's going to happen next??
More to come soon!
