Fashion Police (pt. 1)
"Marinette!" Her mother yelled across the house. "Did you eat the baguette Nadia was going to take home?"
The girl sat straight in her bed, yawning as her mother continued to yell. Tikki next to her dived deep into the sheets as if doing that would get rid of the noise. She yelled back, "No! I bet it was dad! Ask him!"
"Oh, lord," Her mother replied, the yelling ceasing.
Marinette Dupen-Chang stood up and looked herself in the mirror. Her blue hair was made into a terrible mess while her blue-bell eyes remained beautifully deep as always. Her mother would always wake her up ten minutes before the alarm, maybe because she always arrived late to school, that causing her to have detention tonight. She couldn't afford Hawkmoth akumatizing another victim today, not today. The director was even coming to detention to watch her carefully.
Marinette always had an excuse to leave.
She put on her normal clothes, her favorite grey jacket followed up by her pink jeans and her white with a black and pink flower design t-shirt on the left right corner. She designed those clothes and if she could-she would design everything around Paris. Her presents would always include some kind of fashion item towards it. Like for Adrian's birthday she gave him a blue scarf, that turned out being a gift from his dad, she didn't know why. Or at Christmas when she gave to him a Santa hat that later turned out to be the real Santa's hat and...
"You're going to be late!" Her mother yelled. "Like always!"
"I'm coming, mom!" Marinette yelled back and raced down the stairs to the kitchen. It was a nice and peaceful Saturday morning, but she knew that if she missed detention, the director would not be happy with her and neither would Alya that got detention only for her by saying the chemistry teacher was an ugly witch.
Marinette was glad her friend decided to do such thing, but the real reason Marinette was excited to go was because Adrian would also be coming. She remembered his blonde, soft hair, softer than any silk she'd ever wore or his green eyes that would always remind her of dreams and wonderland. His smile was like the only trigger to activate Marinette's heart. She'd been meaning to tell him about his feelings for a long time, but just like her friends would say: Boys are blind.
She ate her french toast quickly, secretly passing Tikki who was still sleeping in her bag some kind of bites and packing cookies, just in case. After looking at the hour, she yelped in surprise, kissed both of her parents and dived out of her house.
"Chloe?" The director called.
"Present." replied the blonde hair girl looking at Adrian romantically, sharing him a wink.
The director sighed. "Is Marinette late again?"
"No! I'm here!" Marinette yelled storming into the room quickly before the bell would mark. The direct shot a suspicious look at her and nodded. She sat down on her normal place, next to Alya and in front of Adrian who was already there. To her surprise-which was not a surprise at all-Chloe had taken Nino's seat who never got detention even if it was the last thing he did.
Sabrina, who had gotten detention only for Chloe, sat in her normal seat, sighing whenever she looked over at Chloe. Guilt spread over Marinette's stomach, Sabrina did everything to please Chloe and she didn't do anything over Sabrina. Marinette understood why Hawkmoth would akumatize Sabrina, her whole life was negative feelings.
"You know the rules." The director said, sitting down in their teacher's chair. "Talking is allowed, no headphones or phones allowed, no yelling or running and no going to the bathroom for an hour."
Oh, Marinette thought. Adrian has to talk to Chloe for an hour and I get to see him for an hour.
Alya smiled and nudged her in the ribs while Marinette kept her blue-bell eyes fixed on the boy in front of her, while the boy across her looked at her with the same kind of gaze. Marinette waved at the boy and he looked surprised, then waved back.
"Never heard of him." Alya said looking doubtfully at her bag like she missed her phone already. "Apparently he's knew in one of the classes, just joined in and got detention already. He's looking at you."
"Don't start." Marinette muttered and let go of a dreamy sigh as Adrian turned around to look at her. Mostly, detention was like an hour of talking with friends, but to her an hour of talking with Adrian as the director took notes of their behavior. It would either don't count in their grade or it would lower their grade, since it was detention nothing good could come out of it.
"His name is Dexter." Chloe said, not caring that Alya was shooting her a dark look like saying-Who invited you to this conversation? "He's also a teen super model, just like Adrikins but he's better. His father is also rich and they come from Russia."
"I like Russia." Marinette said looking shyly at Dexter who continued to look at her. His height was similar to Kim's and they shared the same kind of personalty, only looking at his physical traits. He had a grey hoodie on and casual jeans, wearing the same shade of grey on his shoes. His eyes were incredibly blue, pick the lightest blue you could imagine-those were his eyes.
"So, Adrian I heard you lost your chemistry notes yesterday." Alya said mostly looking at Marinette to see how she'd react. Marinette had her eyes wide as Alya explained she would be giving Adrian those notes. She only nodded when Adrian asked her if it was okay. His voice was like a memory of her swimming in an ocean, so peaceful and kind. She lived in Paris, so the ocean was pretty far away.
"Thank you, M-" He was immediately cut off by Chloe who was starting to say something about her super cool shoes. Marinette often hated when Chloe would always come and take Adrian away from her, if they were talking, she would come around and separate them, dragging Adrian to Hawaii if Marinette was in Paris.
She sighed and leaned back on her bench while Alya patted her shoulder as if she understood the terrible heart-ache Marinette was having.
"So, um, I heard you like to design things." Dexter said as everybody started to clear out. To be fair, he was really tall, in between Adrian and Kim now that Marinette could look at him carefully. She grabbed her backpack and nodded as Alya quickly disappeared into the school, probably to find those chemistry notes. Adrian was hanging in the background just in front of them both of them. "Cool, I like it too. Being a model, it isn't exactly what I like to do."
She nodded. Dexter had definitely the looks to become a model. Some girls were already looking at him as if he was the new Adrian. Every girl knew they should stay away from him because of how wrapped Adrian was with Chloe. Dexter was another thing, he was more free and out-minded. "I designed my backpack."
"No way!" He said like it was such a surprise. Marinette saw Nathaniel clench his fists as he left the room. Marinette knew he had a huge crush on her and the look on his face almost convinced her to run off and help him. Almost. "I was actually going to ask where you got it. My sister, she loves pink."
"I like pink too." Marinette said, putting her backpack over one shoulder. "But I prefer red."
Dexter remained with the same expression while Marinette high-five herself in her mind. He didn't understand the joke.
"I know it's too soon, but her birthday is coming soon and I have nothing to give to her. Could you make one for her? I'd pay and everything." Dexter said, suddenly him becoming more introvert than ever. He was probably scared Marinette would say no, but she wouldn't. Her day was going so perfect, she wouldn't akumatize someone to ruin it.
She nodded. "Of course I would! What's her name?"
"Ally." He replied and smiled at her. "Thank you. I'm Dexter, by the way."
"I'm Marinette." She said, shaking her hand with his.
He walked quickly and so did she, going out of the school with Tikki complaining she still wanted more to eat.
"Ally, I finally got the present you wanted!" Dexter said opening the door to his mansion. His big sister, Ally, was sitting in the stairs looking over at her many, many pictures with her dad. "I know you wanted a backpack and I had a friend make it. Isn't that great?"
"A backpack?" She said shaking her head. "For what? It's not like were going to school anyway. You just went there to get the attention of the girl that won Gabriel Agreste derby contest. She's not even that pretty."
Dexter looked away. "Can you just accept the gift and say it makes you happy?"
"I'm not doing it!" She cried, stomping her foot. "I always do what you want, pretend I'm sick, pretend I'm hurt so you can get the girls you want and they always dumb you, Dexter! When will you realize no girl wants you?"
He clenched his fists. "Just, just do what I tell you."
"Or what? Your going to drown me with the sea of tears when the girl doesn't return her love?" Ally said and looked away as Dexter yelled at her and locked himself in his room.
"Have you heard the news, girl?" Alya asked as the two girls entered the bakery. Marinette shook her head, too busy sketching the backpack Dexter had asked her to do. Alya moved Marinette out of the way before the girl could trip over a bag of flour. "What are you doing? Sketching something else for Adrian?"
She shook her head. "No, someone asked me to sketch a backpack for a sister. I'm doing it right now."
From the TV, the reporter Nadia said, "Recent events have shown a new super villain going through the name 'Fashion Police' is out there. His powers mostly include to destroy fashion trends he does not like, but destroys the person with it. The people are running around in the streets of Paris, scared, we recommend for you mostly to stay indoors. Only Chat Noir and Lady Bug can save us now."
Marinette sighed. "You need to go, Alya."
"What?" Her friend asked looking at Marinette in the eyes. "Didn't you see what the TV said? STAY INDOORS! I can't go out there!"
"Fine, stay here." Marinette said. "Let me go quickly to the bathroom."
Alya nodded as Marinette dived into her own bathroom then whispering softly, "Tikki, spots on!"
Ladybug moved across the roofs of the houses in Paris. Apparently, the people had taken the reporters advice because nobody was around, only her and supposedly her sidekick. Chat Noir seemed invisible like he went into hiding too. She spotted the Fashion Police easily. His costume was made out of every type of trend you could imagine and it was made out leather, silk, fur, anything. His hair was bright pink, then red, then green. It changed with the emotions he was feeling.
"Dexter." Ladybug whispered as Chat Noir appeared next to her, scaring her to death she hit him hard on the shoulder. "Don't scare me like that!"
Next time, she wouldn't scream. Fashion Police turned around and fixed his eyes which were bright gold on the two superheroes. He laughed out loud and pointed to Chat Noir's ears. "Cat ears are so last season!" From his hand, a wave of blue cloud shot out aiming for Chat Noir. He dodged it easily, but the wave hit the building behind them which disintegrated within a second. Ladybug and Chat Noir locked eyes and they both started to move quickly.
Fashion Police turned his attention on her. "Spots? Oh come on! What age is this? 2015?"
He shot another blast at her and she dodged just like Chat Noir. They tried various attacks but nothing seemed to grab Fashion Police's attention. His suit had so much on it, most of their attacks would have been in vain, expect her yo-yo. When it hit his head, he turned around and growled. "Go away!" From his two palms, a wave of blue air exploded pulling them all across Paris.
Both of them landed on the ground, alive but with some injuries. Ladybug looked over at Chat Noir and realized he was looking at her. He was always looking at her the way she looked at Adrian. She winked at him and said, "Okay, so he definitely doesn't like us."
"I guess he doesn't like our style." Chat Noir said and Ladybug rolled her eyes. "Well, okay, what do we do?"
"We need to find where the akuma is." She said. "Where could it be? Do you have any idea?"
"He was so many things in his suit I didn't even get a chance to see anything!" Ladybug complained. "First things first-we need to find him."
Chat Noir nodded and wrapped her arm around him. Ladybug tried to complain but he shrugged it off and eventually she agreed. With one hand tightly wrapped around her waist and the other one on the top of his stick, they slowly rose until they could see all of Paris. She sat in his lap as both of the superheroes explored Paris carefully. Ladybug wished she couldn't feel his breath on her neck, it almost smelled like...lemons.
She liked lemons.
But she preferred apples.
"Found him!" Chat Noir said pointing it with his head, both of his arms slightly occupied as his feet supported them. "What's the plan?"
"Explore his suit." Ladybug said. "Find anything that could seem personal-find something that maybe isn't fashion like."
Chat Noir nodded and dived forward, both of them falling towards Fashion Police.
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