Marinette had been in the car for not more than 3 minutes and she was already fiddling with her fingers second guessing her choices of excepting this mission.
Marinette first started her training as a spy when she was around 10 years old. Tikki had been her babysitter for a few years prior and she had always looked up to her. To Marinette she always seemed so cool, at some point they were playing outside with a few other (slightly older) neighbor kids. Frizz b was the game they were playing. One of the older boys threw it a little to hard towards Marinette, it was about to hit her in the face when tikki hit it mid-air and caught it. That night when being tucked in Marinette expressed to her how cool she is and continued to ask a bunch of questions like
"How did you do that?! How did you become this cool! Are you ninja?! Can I be like you when I grow up?!"
Which a few days later was followed by tikki asking her parents if it's okay if she took her to see her work.
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"Where do you work exactly?" Mrs Dupain-cheing asked politely.
"It's just a small business, I work with computers and tech and stuff like that." She smiled and patted Marinette head.
"Marinette was asking about my work and I thought it would be fun to bring her."
"Well I don't really see the interest..." she looks down at Marinette who's eyes were sparkling. "But I don't mind if you take her, I trust you tikki!"
It took them about 25 minutes to get to her work. It looked like any other office building and that made Marinette get slightly sad...until she walked her to a door with a small button by it.
Tikki clicked the button.
"Name please?" An computer voice said from the wall.
"Tikki Mushi." She stated.
A small hologram screen piped up next to the door. She typed in a code, as the door clicked open she grabbed Marinette's hand and walked her through the door.
"Second person detected. State your name." The computer said. Marinette looked at Tikki confused.
"Just say your name." She smiled.
"Marinette." She said quietly.
"And last name." She whispered in her ear.
"Dupain-cheing?" Marinette said.
"State your age?"
"9."
"Processing..."
"Identity confirmed, proceed."
Tikki walked her down a small hallway towards an elevator. The elevator seemed to have a window on the back wall which is odd because it just was staring at cement.
"Can I push the button?" She asked excitedly walking into the elevator.
"Um yeah, push that one."
Marinette looks to where tikki is pointing and she pushes the button. They're not normal number buttons, instead they had small symbols on them. The one Marinette pushed had a running stickman.
As she pushed it the elevator started moving but not like a normal elevator would. It felt as though it was also moving sideways.
"Where are we going?"
"Somewhere where I think you'll have some fun!" She said smiling down at her. "We'll go to my actual job later."
After a few second of moving a bright light shined through the glass wall. As Marinette's eyes adjusted to the light she walked up to the glass and looked down.
She could see a wide open area, in the middle of the room there was multiple foam looking pits. it looked as though people were running and jumping on a whole bunch of moving platforms as some people stood to the side watching. Not only were people on the ground but also in the air, on small hover boards, some people were swinging from high bars with nets underneath in case of a fall. On the left back corner of the room there look like a small gym area with a bunch of machines. The back right corner seemed to have a bunch of unique weapons and tools on a wall that looked like it had led lights behind it and behind where ever you pulled a weapon from. The front left corner had a boxing ring and the front right corner was a small cubby/resting area where Marinette and Tikki's elevator just landed.
They walked out as Mairnette took it all in.
"What is this place?" She gasped.
"This my dear is my work... remember when you called me a ninja?" She chuckled as they walked past some people sitting and chatting on a bench.
"You're a ninja?!" She asked surprised.
"No, I'm a spy. And this is the miraculous agency."
She walked her over towards the foam pits and clicked a button cause if the floor open up and another foam pit emerging. Tikki pushed a few more buttons and some trampolines piped up as well along with a few harder platforms.
"So this is your little friend you said you were bringing agent spot." A voice from behind asked.
"Ah master Fu!" Tikki said smiling as she bowed slightly. Marinette turned around and saw a shorter older looking guy, he had grey hair a small mustache and a tiny beard. He was wearing a sort of Hawaiian shirt but he also had a small jacket, he had tan-ish brown shorts and black shoes.
"What's your name little girl?" He asked.
"I'm Marinette." She hesitated.
"Nice to meet you. Like what you see?" He asked her pointing towards all the agents.
"Yeah...it's cool!" She said warming up to him.
"I brought her here just to have some fun...and I asked you to come to maybe see if she had any potential..she's a very smart kid." Tikki said.
"So can I jump?" Marinette asked.
"Yeah go ahead." Marinette booked it to the small trampolines and started bouncing.
After around an hour of jumping and attempting to do cool tricks in the air. Tikki Even taught her how to do a backflip. They walked over to Master Fu.
"You're quiet an energetic young girl." He stated.
"Thank you sir!" She smiled happily. Tikki handed her a water bottle.
"You have great potential...would you ever consider becoming a spy?" He asked
She chugged the water then said "Yes!! That sounds super duper fun!" She shouted.
"Now at the moment you are still young... but I would be able to train you.. and you could become a wonderful agent."
Marinette looked up at him with glimmer in her eyes.
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Marinette still wasn't sure how to feel about this partner idea, but if her master trusts that the best option is a duo, and if he trusts that they are the best paring then she can deal with that.
She sighs and pulls out a small Id. It's a fake one that they forged for the mission.
"Maddison scot." She said to herself as she read through the card. "Age 18... a few years older than me but I can work with that...occupation: training in deign... I've worked with clothes and I love design so I see why master Fu gave her this occupation..."
Marinette turned her head out the window as the car was slowing down around a large white (very extravagant) building, multiple people were walking in.
"Good luck miss." The driver said as he opened her door for her. She took his hand and got out of the car.
"Thank you." She gave him a small curtsy and started walking towards the entrance. She was told about chat noirs general appearance.
"You must be my partner?"