"Quartz Lennon to the front office! Quartz Lennon to the front office!" Quartz lifted their head, their hair messy from being rubbed on the wooden table. She look at her teacher, Mr Pi, who was a short Chinese man with black hair and a balding hairline, "Grab your bag," he said with a frown, annoyed from his lesson being interrupted.

She grabbed her bag, placing their pencil case and water bottle in it in her bag. She looked over to Nessa and Tiffy who were giving her a reassuring thumbs up.

The walk to the front office was short but tiring, the hot weather instantly making them tired and in need of a glass of water.

The front office is a small building near the front gate, Quartz hadn't spent much time there, she usually avoids getting herself into trouble. "Hi, I was called over the speakers."

The lady at the front desk looked up at her, giving her judging eyes, Quartz shuffled her stance self-consciously, straighten her back and unfolded her arms. The office lady almost looked impressed. "Miss Gracie and Mrs Chase will see you soon, take a seat."

"Mrs Chase? What!? Why does the principal want to see me?"

The lady shrugged, "How would I know? Take a seat and you'll find out soon."

Quartz glared at the lady before taking a seat, Quartz tried to think of everything she has done wrong lately but nothing came to mind. Their grades were the same, an average B+, she had been completing all of her homework and wasn't causing trouble in class. Maybe she was called into here for something simple, maybe she needs to show around a new exchange student. Although she doubted she wasn't in trouble, she kept telling herself that was the case.

"Quartz?"

"Yes, that's me."

"Follow me, lovely."

When Quartz entered the office she instantly knew something was from, Miss Gracie was looking at Quartz as if she was glass. "Have I done something wrong?" Quartz snap out, they intended for their voice to be confident but instead, she experienced an unfortunate voice crack.

Miss Gracie looked over to Mrs Chase, they exchanged a small nod. Quartz fidgeted with their hands underneath the desk, Duusu placed a reassuring hand on Quartz's lap.

"Your test has been graded and Quartz, we have something to discuss."

"Okay..." Today is the last day of the term, they took their end-of-term tests last week, Quartz hadn't gotten time to study the night before but still thought they did pretty good.

"You got a C- on four out of six of your classes, Quartz." Miss Gracie grabbed out her report card, Quartz snatched the card off of her and read them.

"I- I don't understand how that's possible," she read through the different classes, she had two Bs (in English and art) but the rest of her grades were just a pass, maybe she didn't do as good as she thought.

"Your grades aren't the only thing getting worst, Quartz, so is your attendance."

'Shit.' Quartz knew her attendance was bad, being a superhero and all. Quartz hoped that if their grades stayed the same then the school wouldn't care. Obviously, she was wrong.

"Quartz, you know the agreement of the exchange. If your grades keep getting worst we will need to send you home."

"No!" Quartz launched out of their chair. Quartz misses their family, but they can't go home, not now.

Miss Gracie stood up carefully, she held out her hands and calmly spoke, "Quartz, calm down. This is just a precaution, we aren't sending you home today."

"I'll do better, my grades will go up, I promise. Please don't send me home," hot tears formed in her eyes.

"Quartz, watch out!"

Nessa needs to get out of this classroom. The raven-haired girl was hiding underneath her desk with Tiffy, minutes after Quartz left the classroom, the school went into lockdown and Nessa knew she had to help Quartz, she didn't want her best friend to be out there in the middle of a lockdown.

"Tiffy, help me escape."

"No, you could hurt."

This was one of the rare times Nessa actually misses Aja, because she knew if Aja was here she would make a scene, damaging they all go home, not even caring about the akuma. Nessa bit her lip, she needed to get out of here and even though she appreciates Tiffy looking out for her, she isn't going to take no for an answer. "Tiffy, I really need to go. Like now." She looked down, at her skirt.

"Oh." Was all Tiffy said. Nessa nodded awkwardly, she doesn't like talking about this stuff but she had to admit it was a good excuse to leave any classroom, even in a lockdown. "You spill?"

"Yes. I need to get to the bathroom."

Tiffy nodded. "Okay, I am coming with you."

"But-"

She went to complain but Tiffy was already walking to the door, Mr Pi was in the corner trying to comfort Jessie who was mid a panic attack.

"Tiffy, what are you doing?" Aiden Reynolds asked as Tiffy walked past him. His voice was so concerned, under different circumstances Nessa would have been teasing Tiffy but now she was just annoyed.

"Toilet."

Aiden crawled out from under the table, "I'm coming."

"No, you're not."

"I'm coming," Aiden repeated, his voice was no louder than a whisper but his tone was a lot more confident. Tiffy blushed. Aiden stood behind Tiffy and Nessa.

"Okay, let's go."

"Sit down!" Mr Pi demanded, he was still trying to calm down Jessie with Mary Beth and two other students. "No one is leaving this classroom! We are in the middle of a lockdown! If anyone leaves this room, they will get extra homework for the next year!"

Although extra homework didn't sound ideal, it was the least of Tiffy, Aiden and Nessa's concerns, the trio opened the door and walked out. Behind them, they saw a handful of other students leave the classroom, Nessa will deal with that later, she told herself.

Nessa ran to the toilet block, her running into the girls one, Aiden running into the boys and Tiffy waiting out the front.

Pierre had skipped school with Lee. It was the last day of term, no one attends the last week of school. Pierre had his earphones as he watched Lee take photos of stuff around them, a sad smile on his face. Lee used to always take her camera everywhere with her though after her mother's death she put her camera away and never used it. Today, Lee wanted to try to get back into photography.

When Pierre was looking down at his phone, Lee aimed his camera at Pierre and snapped a few pictures.

"Shit!" Pierre took his earphones out and looked at Lee, "Sorry, Lee. I gotta go."

Lee aimed down his camera, slightly embarrassed he had been caught taking photos of Pierre, though the boy didn't seem to care. "What? Why?"

"There's an akuma attack. I gotta check on Kylie and Freya. Catherine's at work and they have a new babysitter," Pierre lied, today was Catherine's weekend but there was no way Lee would know that.

"Yeah, okay."

Pierre ran off. A smile appeared on his face, he had caught Lee taking pictures of him, he was going to have so much fun teasing Lee about that. Pierre ran into the alleyway next to Benji Dale's house. "Trixx, let's pounce!"

Renard when approached the school, he saw Night Noir, Ladybeetle, Honeybee and Souris already at the school and Tartaruga a little bit in front of him. Renard looked behind him, expecting to see Peafowl but she wasn't. Peafowl was nowhere to be seen.

"Another student?" Renard asked the group. He put his flute behind his back.

"Quartz Lennon, I don't know what happened. Mrs Chase and Miss Gracie were too shaken up to tell us much." Renard looked at the teachers. Lee talks about Miss Gracie, though Pierre has never met the school therapist, he usually does his best to avoid hers. Pierre has never even talked to Mrs Chase despite being a student at the school for the past three years.

"I'm twenty-three again!" Miss Gracie exclaimed. Renard looked at the young lady confused.

"What-"

"Quartz swapped Miss Gracie and Mrs Chase's bodies."

Renard looked at Mrs Chase (or Miss Gracie?) the fifty-four-year-old lady had long grey hair, chocolate brown eyes and a mole on her chin, Renard struggled with the idea that it was Miss Gracie he was looking at.

"The akuma went inside their headband."

"Thank you, Mrs- ah... Miss Gracie, that's really helpful. You two stay safe, we'll make sure Quartz is back to normal in no time."

The two teachers left after Ladybeetle reinsured them.

"Where is Pinkie?" Tartaruga asked, Renard, looked around, he had a bad feeling about Peafowl not being here. Renard isn't psychic or anything, he usually gets a bad feeling about everything, but he was still worried.

"They might be sleeping," Honeybee offered.

Renard rolled his eyes, "It's midday, I don't they're sleeping."

"She might be."

Ladybeetle shook his head, "It doesn't matter where she is. Quartz might have already switched her with someone, we can't just wait for her."

Renard bit his tongue, of course, it matters that she isn't here. "What's the plan?"

Night held up his hands as he walked into the centre of the group, "We should see her first."

"No," Renard counted, "We should make a game plan, so that way we know what we're doing before she swaps us."

"Night's right. We don't even Quartz's outfit or name. It would be no point creating a plan."

"Of course, you side with Night," Tartaruga muttered. Renard caught a small blush on Ladybeetle's cheek.

"Okay."

[ With Quartz ]

Exchanger knew only two things. One, get the miraculous of Ladybeetle and Night Noir and two, exchange people. Exchanger stood in the middle of the road, her usually short light pink hair was longer and had blonde highlights through it, and her dark grey eyes were covered in a red and white mask.

"Where are you, heroes!? I got something I think you would want!" They held out a brooch that was pinned on their costume. 'what are you doing?' A voice in their head asked. "Chill, Mariposa! I'm using my miraculous to lure them out, they're probably wondering why I'm not there by now."

'put that away.' "But-" 'hide your miraculous, don't let them see that.'

Exchanger let out a huff before putting away her miraculous. "Guess I'll need to lure them out the hard way."

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I got a little carried about with this chapter. The start was just supposed to be three hundred words and the rest a battle but this is already almost 2000 so I'm just gonna spit it into two chapters.

Also, expect a lot more plot heavy chapters from now on. Shits gonna hit the fan.

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