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Marinette woke up to Tikki shouting in her ear. “I’m up!” she yelled.
“Thank creation! I thought you’d never wake up! There’s an Akuma!”
Marinette grunted at Tikki and rolled of bed transforming as she went to open the hatch to her balcony. Akumas had been more frequent as of late and she was getting close to cussing Hawkmoth out from the top of the Eiffel Tower for making her lose more sleep.
Four hours later Marinette was running to school. After she got back from the Akuma she had crashed in bed until her Maman had yelled through her trapdoor for her to get ready for school. As much as she wanted to fall asleep at her desk she knew that would be too good of an opportunity for Lila to pass up sabotaging her in some way. Since Lila had arrived and declared them enemies Marinette’s life had gotten harder as she had to deal with whatever Lila through at her with all of her other responsibilities on top of that.
Luckily she had some great friends. Chloe handed her a cup of coffee as she sat down in her seat, they had both been ‘exiled’ to the back of the classroom because they were “bullies” and “super mean to Lila, you’ve changed Mari.” Luckily, however, they had a spy:
Group Chat:
Bastard Chat: Lila’s lied about like 4 celebrities already
Queen Bitch: eww
Bastard Chat: 1 is dead
Lady Slytherin: ughhhh
Lady Slytherin: stay quiet. don’t blow this. remember the plan
Musical Snake: poor baby
Bastard Chat: *sad face emoji*
Dragon Bitch: Pitiful.
Bastard Chat: *shocked face emoji*
Marinette smothered a laugh as she looked to Chloe who was trying not to smile. After an accidental reveal, lots of talks about feelings, and a few team upgrades, it had finally come to this. A group of people who knew each other’s secret identities, which made fighting Akumas so much easier, and made planning the downfall of a liar even more so.
Chloe, Kagami, and Marinette were using their contacts and influence to get in touch with almost everyone Lila had lied about. It was hard at first when only Chloe and Kagami were doing it, but once they convinced Marinette it was semi-moral to use your celebrity contacts for a bitch take-down she was able to get in contact with more people then they knew she knew. Apparently MDC Designs was more popular than anyone thought.
Luka had talked to Jagged about it, he had been working with him ever since Lila convinced the rest of Kitty Section he was too old to be a part of their band and people wouldn’t work with them. Jagged had been hesitant at first, Lila wasn’t the first fan to lie about him for clout after all, but after explaining what she was doing to his “favorite niece” he was on board.
Adrien had been the spy, he couldn’t do anything to out of line or Lila would report it to his father, but he was able to listen to almost everything she told people and record it since she almost always had her claws in his arm and was next to his side.
It had been a long couple of months, but everything was finally coming together.
“Mlle Rossi? We need to speak to you outside the classroom.” There was Mr Damocles with Marinette, and many of her clients, lawyer.
“Of course Mr Damocles,” came the sickly sweet voice of Lila as she got up from her seat next to Alya to leave. “I hope this isn’t bout those things Marinette said to me in the bathroom yesterday, I’d hate for her to get in trouble,” she ‘whispered’ to Alya.
“Girl, you’re too nice. Marinette needs to be put down a peg.” Alya glared at Marinette, she had been Lila’s number one supporter helping to keep the rest of the class supporting Lila. If the reporter believed it, why shouldn’t they?
Most of the conversation outside was to quiet to hear, until a loud “WHAT” was heard. Mlle Bustier opened the door to help intervene so everyone heard what happened next.
“You can’t sue me!” Lila all but screamed.
“Mlle Rossi as you have lied about a number of my clients, I’m afraid we can.”
“I-I I have diplomatic immunity!”
“According to my papers here, it was waved by Italy per one of the ambassadors request”
“Maybe we should take this to my office, surely there is something you can do? Mlle Rossi has a rare condition that forces her to lie, it was out of her control.” The simpering voice of Mr Damocles was heard.
“Not according to my papers.” stated the lawyer, “Have you tried calling Mme Rossi to see what she had to say about this, condition?”
“My mother is very busy as an ambassador, I wouldn’t want to bother her.”
“As Mlle Rossi said, her mother is much to busy.”
“Hmm, well I need you to sign this paper stating you understand what you are being given and will appear in court in a month’s time or we will have to take more, drastic, measures.”
At this point, the class snapped out of the daze they had been in from the conversation outside. Alya spoke up first coming to the door and shouting at the lawyer, “You can’t sue Lila! She didn’t do anything!”
The lawyer merely looked at her before handing Alya a stack of papers as well. “I was going to talk to you individually, but I suppose this will do. Sign here, please.” She pointed to a paper on top of the stack.
As Lila went through her own she became increasingly pale, “How- how did you get my mother’s signature!”
“She was the one who asked for the immunity to waived, I thought that would be obvious.” The lawyer stared at Lila before turning to Marinette and winking.
Marinette had been the one to hire her, with the help of Jagged and Penny. Almost all of her clients who had been lied about agreed to use her lawyer, who had never lost a case, against Lila. While Adrien couldn’t publicly help he was planning to bring up accusations of sexual assault through Marinette and her lawyer. Luka had been the one to help him through understanding that people needed consent to touch you and that it’s okay to say no.
Alya glared at Marinette accusingly, “You did this! You lying minx! You couldn’t help knowing that Lila is better than you so did...THIS!” Clearly words failed her in anger.
“Yes,” Marinette cooley replied, “But none of this is fake, did you seriously think saving Jagged’s cat was something that actually happened? Even after I, someone you know knows Jagged, denounced it?” Marinette shook her head and hid a smile behind her hand.
“I thought reporters always checked their facts?” Chloe mocked, not even bothering to hide her smirk.
As Adrien moved to sit next to Chloe and Marinette, Nino’s voice stopped him. “Bro, did you know about this?”
“Of course,” Adrien replied, continuing to walk away. “Like Nettie said, it’s pretty obvious. Half the people she talked about were dead.”
That seemed to lower the mood for the class as they thought back to all of the obvious lies.
“Marinette seriously,” Bustier’s annoyed tone cut through the class’ sad musings, “Is this really necessary? What did we say about all of the Marinettes in the world?”
“Mlle Bustier while my client, Mlle Dupain-Cheng, does not want to sue you for gaslighting, I have no issue. Continue this and her parents and I will override her decision.”
Mlle Bustier looked taken back by the lawyer’s statement, but before she could comment Chloe butted in.
“We’re still going to the school board though, Daddy’s backing us. Plus Nettie’s Aunt who is on the school board, so.” Chloe looked at her watch before standing up and gathering her things, “Any way we’re going to lunch, so see you all later!” Marinette and Adrien followed her out of the room.
“Adrien how could you let this happen!” Lila whined as Adrien walked out.
He spared a glance at her before continuing, “You did this to yourself Lila, I told you we could all be friends without you lying, but you wouldn’t listen. Now deal with the consequences.” He joined hands with Luka who had been standing with Kagami outside of the classroom waiting for the three and watching the show.
“That was hot,” the class heard Adrien’s laughter as they walked out of the school.