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"I'm Cat Noir, yeah, and you?"
"I'm ma-ma-Marinette-ah!" the yo-yo fell on top of the guy's head, just to add more clumsiness and bad luck to what was her day. So much for a new year of school.
"Marinette? Oh, then I should say I'm Adrien" the blond guy rubbed the back of his neck, a bashful smile as he looked at her fixing up the string of her yo-yo "so good to meet you, partner."
Adrien? The name rang a faint bell in her head. Had she heard that name before?
"Wait," she gasped. Had Tikki mentioned something about giving her name? She, oh how could she forget about that?! "ah I shouldn't have said my name."
"No sweat Ma-"Adrien frowned "hm, how about bug hero for now?"
Marinette frowned.
"No?"
"Definitely not," she said, looking down at her outfit again "but sorry about falling on you, I'm so clumsy."
"No sweat clumsy girl, I'm also learning the ropes of this."
A loud noise, a shake of the ground and the sudden sight of a building collapsing interrupted their conversation. Next thing Marinette knew, Chat Noir was vaulting himself off and towards the place of commotion.
"Hey! Wait! Where are you going?"
"To save Paris! Right?"
Oh, right. Marinette looked down at her yo-yo. 'Trust yourself' she muttered again and tried the same thing she did at her balcony, only to shout when she was flung off the floor and after who was her partner in this.
When she arrived at the monster, no, Stoneheart, was already in a struggle with Chat Noir.
"What are you waiting for a super red bug! The world is watching you!" she heard Alya yell at her. Marinette closed her eyes. Trust yourself, she said in her mind and huffed. She could do this.
And she did it.
She couldn't help but smile a little when she did destroy the object in question, a crumpled piece of paper.
"You did incredible miss uh, bug lady, you did it!" Chat Noir smiled at her.
"We both did it partner" Marinette smiled at him as they bumped fists, both exclaiming "pound it!" all excited.
Chat Noir's ring started to beep, the signal that he was about to detransform any time soon.
"You should get going, our identities must remain secret" she glanced around "at least to the rest of the people."
"Well thought" he nodded and then bowed to her "farewell my lady, let's do this again soon, ok?" he smiled and ran off, jumping again with his baton out of the stadium.
"Not too soon I hope" Marinette mumbled to herself.
She turned to make sure Ivan was alright, gulping when she slipped out she knew him. This superhero thing was not easy at all. Even when Alya was throwing all those questions at her with a smile on her face.
Stung by a radioactive ladybug? Was that even a thing?
"Ladybug, call me Ladybug" she managed to say before flinging herself out of the stadium to go home.
It'd be a while later when her confidence would crumble, her failure at her first mission crushing down on her, as she put back the earrings into her box. What was she thinking? She couldn't do any of this, be a superhero, save the city, she was just a klutz.