Naia and her friends were getting ready to head to physics when of course,
"Oh no! I left my bag in the locker room! Again." Marinette groaned. Naia instantly recognised what day this was going to be and quickly volunteered to retrieve it for her,
"Marinette," she deadpanned when the girl began to argue, "Ms Mendeliev actually likes me somewhat, you are at least somewhere on her shit list because of your constant tardiness. Even though she likely won't even notice today I'm still gonna use my clout so you don't get further cemented onto that list." she walked off before the forgetful girl could argue anymore. As she jogged to the locker room Alya called after her,
"Make sure she didn't leave her brain in there too!"
She had retrieved Marinette's bag and did not have to wait long to hear what she was waiting for,
"Of course you're my best friend! I'm 100% affirmative! But I am also 98.2% positive the teachers are not ready for...this advancement of evolution!" Naia announced her prescence,
"Hi Max, I think you're right if you're talking about what I think. Do you mind letting me in the know, I'm good at keeping secrets and dishing out advice." she prompted. Max stiffened for a moment before relaxing,
"This is Markov, my best friend." Said the techno genius, said friend flew out of the bag, waving his arm/clutch,
"Hello Naia, Max has told me all about you. As well as everyone in the class but I was particularly interested to meet and talk to you, you seem so interesting and knowledgable about a wide range of topics. Not to mention your apparent ability to predict the future."
Naia smiled, "Well, it is understandable that someone who lo es to learn will want to learn. I was correct in my prediction about who you were talking too then though I don't know everything, not even about the things I seem to know all about."
"Understandable, " the 2 friends said. Naia turned to Max,
"Max, could you grab and hold onto your anti-virus drive quickly? I'll explain as we walk to class." Max nodded and Markov dove into the bag, producing the drive before remaining in the bag. Max pocketed the device and they began to walk to the science room,
"Ms Mendeliev has a problem with her computer and our esteemed," she cringed an dragged the words out sarcastically, "Head is going to accidentally activate Dino-33 by trying to fix it. You need to speak quickly and convince them to let you use that drive as soon as it activates. We won't be able to stop them from activating it but we can definitely neutralise it. Just know this Max," She turned to the boy who had been listening carefully and placed her hands gently but firmly on his shoulders,
"The teachers cannot find out about Markov yet. His emotions are more real than anyone really knows, if today went as it would originally, then he would have become one of the most powerful akumas made so far. You need to just keep him hidden until you can create a proper display to prove this. Otherwise the teachers won't believe shit, they tend to have a very selective suspension of disbelief. When you explain what the drive is and how you made it, describe Markov as an 'Artificial superintelligence' of your own creation. You can show the class at a later time when Mendeliev and Damocles are not around. Adults tend to be narrow minded like that."
Max did not look shocked for long, in fact after about 5 seconds his eyes refocused on her and he nodded. The 2 of them walked into the classroom to see Mr Damocles typing in the keyboard of Ms Mendeliev's laptop. It appeared to reset and function properly and the 2 of them congratulated themselves prematurely, only to be disrupted by a distorted roar coming from the connected speakers and a virus popping up on the projector.
Ms Mendeliev started, "That's not supposed to be happening! Whatisit?"
Techno-Max took over, "It's Dino-33, a malicious computer virus! I could-"
Mendeliev did what she always did when things got out of control, shun any possible assistance while worrying about how she or another adult could fix it, "Go back to your seat now, Max! Leave this to the adults!"
Naia didn't stand for it, "Dino-33 takes 120 seconds to work, but permanent damage is caused after only 75. It will destroy the school data and that hard drive in only 70 from now. Let Max try."
She stared hard at Mr Damocles and he nodded once. Max rushed up to the front, fishing the drive out of his pocket as he went and explaining what it could do, Naia zoned in completely on the dino currently eating the data and only relaxed once the process was reversed. She walked over to Marinette and handed her, her bag.
As Naia and Max sat down in their seats Naia pulled out an extra notebook with her science pad. She wrote 12 notes out, all containing the same message and discretely got one to everyone in he class except Chloe. Every one of them said:
"Meet me outside school, by the staircase at lunch"
When lunch arrived she grabbed onto Max's arm and they walked to the stairway together, after 3 minutes (which Naia spent convincing Max to show Markov off) the whole class, bar Chloe and Sabrina (because Sabrina couldn't convince Chloe to come along and would not abandon the brat) was stood around them.
"Well?" Kim asked impatiently, "Why're we here?"
"Because," Naia said with excitement flooding her, "Max has something awesome to show you all. And while you all fawn over its amazing ness, I'm going to get lunch for stick figure and I." she said the last part grinning at Adrien.
Once Max began talking she walked down the steps, explained to her and Adrien's bodyguard that she was heading across the street to get food, and was off to the Dupain Chengs.
Wen she reached the front of the queue she said a quick hello to Sabine before placing her order, "Could I get. . . 3 cheese twists, 3 croissants, a mini cookie selection and 2 slices of quiche?"
Sabine smiled, "Of course dear, That would be 23 euros normally, however," she leaned in and whispered, "Marinette's friends always get a discount of some kind. You have helped my daughter so much recently, since you've arrived she has been so much more at ease and I can't thank you enough. 18 euros please." Naia handed the money over and placed her change in a donations pot on the counter.
"Have a nice day!" she called before she made her way back to the school.
She paused next to Damien and gave him a macaron, before walking up too Adrien and they split off from the class, who was still fawning over Markov. Plagg immediately zoomed out of Adrien's jacket,
"I smell cheese!" he said and was presented with 2 of the 3 cheese twists that she had bought. She bit into the 3rd one and handed Adrien a croissant when he began to look sulky.
"I'd have thought you would be sick of cheese by now Rhydian, but here your are sulking over not getting any cheese treats? Well it's a good thing I got other stuff to fill your ailing stomach with. . ." she trailed off as he scoffed down the first croissant and his eyes filled with joy at the sight of the quiche and cookies.