Wandas P.O.V.
Death.
There was so much dead.
Flashes of different deaths were running across my mind.
A man in a snake costume, a bee costume, a dragon costume, and a fox costume.
I think I just found our paris heroes.
Some time later, no ones P.O.V.
"So, I have a feeling this will get you the farthest in life, so heres the scoop."
Marinette had gotten over her panic attack the bast she could, and with how well she had mastered masking or replacing her emotions she was able convince the Avengers she was good enough for the day.
So now Marinette and Carol were curled up on the couch in the Avengers common room with both classes, gossiping like teenagers.
The classes were doing some weird dares with the Avengers, and although no-one liked the akuma class, they still had to play nice and it was actually going fine. At least, until Lila exclaimed something about her picking up Mjornir, Thors hammer.
Thats when everyone started pestering Thor begging him to let everyone try and see if they were 'worthy.'
Marinette didnt kniw why everyone was making such a big deal about a hammer, but she watched amused as each student tried picking it up.
None of the Midtown class picked it up, and to Marinette their attempts to pick it up were hilarious.
Her classmates attempts were even funnier.
The only people who managed to move it even the slightest bit, like, a hair width to the side, were Peter and her friends.
"What are you laughing about Marinette. You couldnt lift it in a hundred years," Alya snarked.
Everyone froze waiting for her reaction, but she only chuckled amused as she for up.
"I don't know why youre all freaking out about a hammer."
Marinette skipped happily over to the hammer and bent down dramatically before lightly wrapping her fingers around the handle.
Everyone was silent and still as they waited for her reaction, but jumped when she shouted "BOO!"
She started cackling as she lifted the hammer easily. "Gosh, that was hilarious! Now see, I lifted the hammer."
She tossed it back to Thor who just stood there shocked as she clambered back onto the couch and curled up between Bucky and Loki.
Silence was draped over the room in a heavy blanket for about thirty seconds before Thor shouted, "SHE IS WORTHY, I MUST TAKE HER TO ASGARD!!!"
No-one would tell Marinette what it meant to lift Thors hammer and she couldn't google it because Tony made a reluctant Friday block all information about that from her.
So since she knew she wouldnt be able to find out so she just started participating in the fun little avengers worthy challenges.
"Who is the most flexible?" Sam yelled. "I want to know who would be best hero material!"
Everyone started screaming in excitement and started stretching and twisting themselves into difficult positions as Marinette exchanged smirks with her friends.
The Avengers saw them and were all confused but Loki and Wanda. Both of them becauae they had seen videos of the superheroes of paris and since they knew Marinette and her group were the heros, well, thet knew they would win by a mile.
The group all took thier positions and started twisting themselves into living pretzels. They finished one of thier poses before most of the Midtown class saw them.
"Wow you guys! Even I can't do that!" Peter exclaimed.
After a few minutes it was down to three.
Kagami, Chloe, and Marinette.
The three knew Kagami wouldnt win as even though she was a dancer, she wasnt the most flexible even though she she was more flexible than the boys.
Sure enough Kagami was out.
Now, Chloe had an advantage. She did yoga hardcore in her civillian life so she was always pretty flexible in civilian form or hero form. But while Ladybug was absolutely the most flexible, Marinette never really did anything that required her to do anything like that.
Chloe did pose #1 while Marinette did pose #3.
They never broke eye contact.
A series of whistles and cheers broke out as the Evil Trio simmered in anger as the rest of their classmates cheered.
It was down to the last one.
Sam jumped onto the table holding the paper towles as a mic and said, "This is it folks! The last pose. Whoever gets the loudest cheers is crowned champion! So get ready for Miss Dupain-Cheng and Miss Bougouis!"
The two friends were breathing hard, they have gone through over twenty poses in the last give minutes and it was tiring them.
Chloe pulled herself into pose #2 while Marinette went into pose #4.
Chloe could only hold hers for about thirty seconds with Marinette falling immedietly afterwards.
It was decided Marinette had won.
Marinette and Chloe stayed sprawled on the floor until they got the the dreaded alert.
Marinette sat up abruptly and said, "I need to go freshen up!"
She gave Loki a look that he knew what it meant, and Wanda peeked into Marinettes head curiously and saw she was going to Paris.
Alone.
Darn it.
As Marinette left Tony got the notifaction from Friday and left the room with Bruce, it was getting to much for him.
Fifteen minutes later Tony came back to the common room looking slightly distressed and Loki knew the battle was over.
Loki silently rushed out of the room to find Marinette.
He found her lying in the bathroom barely consious and laying in a pool of her own blood still as Pegabug.
"Come on Marinette, lets get you washed off and changed back."
First he used hus powers to heal her and then cleaned off all of the blood from her suit.
Marinette was feeling slightly better although she was still woozy.
At Lokis insistence she mumbled the detransformation phrase and Kaalki and Tikki appeared looking worried about their guardian and holder.
Loki gently helped the girl up as she shook herself.
"Im fine Loki," she slurred.
Loki frowned. "You are most definitely not love. Go to sleep, I'll protect you."
Her eyes slid shut despite her protests and he picked her up bridal style before quickly depositing her in his room and tucking her beneath his covers.
He left the room and slid into the seat next to the blonde whispering, "Shes in my room. She will be fine but one of you can stay with her."
Chloe startled at the fact Loki knew her secret. "Okay, um, where did she get hurt?"
"I healed her."
"Okay, then she would just rather be left alone. She always does afterwards."
Time skip
"Sure Phil, I can bake some for you." Marinettes twinkling laughter floated down the hall like music to some peoples ears. Specifically Marinettes friends, Loki, and Wandas ears.
Marinette and Agent Phil Coulsen walked into the common room with a brooding Nick Fury behind them.
"Sup Nick, Phil, and Mari," Carol said.
Fury sent sent Carol a scathing glare and when he looked away, Marinette and Carol shared a look.
"Listen up you little-"
"Language Fury, thier kids!"
Fury scoffed and rolled his eye. "Fine, when I call your name you will follow me. Do not question me as I am the juge, the jury, and the questionqutioner. Peter Parker."
Peter paled the slightest bit but followed him without hesitance.
Two minutes later he emerged looking fine enough with a lollipop.
One by one the Midtown class was taken in by Fury, each coming out within five minutes looking pale.
Agent Coulson and Marinette stayed together the whole time speaking to eachother out if the way of everyone.
Agent Phil Coulsens P.O.V.
This girl is so sweet.
She emerged from Lokis room looking disheveled rubbing out the sleep from her eyes, unaware of the dried drool running down her cheek.
"What in Odins name were you doing in the gods room?!"
Marinette whipped around in a fighting stance before relaxing once she saw me.
I had the pleasure of meeting her yesterday after Fury sent me to deal with the pictures trending in Paris. This little cupcake was taking Tonys measurements when I came in and made me, and I mean she wouldnt take no as an answer, stand there while she took my measurements because apparently, "Your style is absolutely inspiring. I will have a jacket ready for you in about a week. I'll leave it with Tony if I cant give it to you in person."
"I um, well, Loki found me passed out," she saw our expressions and rushed out, "not literally passed out, more like I got a really really tired spell. So since were friends he let me pass out in his room for the past," she checked her phone, "two hours. Wait a minute! Two hours!"
She rushed into the bathroom across the hall and let out an ungodly screech before she came out a few minutes later looking pristine and and bright red.
She wouldnt look Fury or I as she walked, so I used my advantage.
"So Marinette, I hear you live in a bakery. You pick up on any of those skills?"
Marinette perked up and she looked at me. "Yeah, my parents are the best bakers in Paris. Even though I want to be a fashion designer I know alot about our recipes and how to bake them. Why do you ask Mr. Coulsen?"
"Please, call me Phil. And if you must know, I was going to ask what I should buy from your parents the next time I go to Paris."
Marinette stilled and went pale. "When was the last time you went to Paris, and when are you going next?" She asked quietly.
Fury coughed behind us but I didnt pay attention to him, instead stopping to look at the young girl in front of me.
"Last time I went was about six years ago, we don't have much troubles there, and I was planning on going there in the next two weeks or so. We had some possible sightings of um, ah, some buisness associates. Bad buisness associates."
Marinette pinched her lips tightly together. "You will not in any circumstances go to Paris. You won't, the SHIELD wont, Mosiour Fury won't, and absolutely none of the Avengers will. Do not look into it. You are better off not knowing and I am absolutely serious about that." Marinette had a death grip on her purse as she spoke, staring me straight in the eyes as if daring me to object. And object I did.
"Why Marinette? What could possibly be so bad about Paris that we havent heard about?"
"Im not an idiot Coulsen!" She snarled.
Shocked, I took a step away from her, instincually reaching for my weapon, as did Fury.
Her eyes softened but didnt quite lose the coldness that had taken residence.
She cursed quietly in French, and it was a creative and colorful choice off words considering she never actually cursed.
She took a deep breath before saying, "I know more about SHIELD than you know. Hydra came to paris a year and a half ago when they heard some rumors about jewelery that rivaled power with the tesseract."
"How do you know about the tesseract and Hydra?" Fury asked.
Marinette glanced around before lowereing her voice. "Let me finish. When Hydra came to paris, they attacked our heroes, Ladybug and her team. Unfortunately I was caught in the crossovers, as was many others but I am not like the others. While the others forget and heal from what happened, I don't. Ladybug managed to defeat them and unfortunately for them, I wanted to know why unakumatized people were after our miraculous. I got the answers I wanted from them but not without a price."
"What do you mean our miraculous Miss Dupain-Cheng?"
"I was Multimouse, a temporary superhero."
"Hold on, you were a superhero?" I asked.
Marinette whipped her head at Fury. "He doesnt know?!"
Fury shrugged. "Never got around to it."
She groaned exasperated before quickly giving me the rundown of what the miraculous are and a glossed over version of the past few years.
"Anyway," she stressed, "I made everyone leave the warehouse before Ladybug used her cure and used some um, uncommon techniques for the superheroes but the Hydra soldiers had already killed dozens of people including my parents and a few temporary teammates. So I got out all the information I needed from them and consequently learned about SHIELD and the involvement of the Avengers. Then Ladybug used her cure and it miraculously cured everything like it would an akuma, although the Hydra agents remembered, along with Ladybug and I. Now for why you shouldnt go to Paris. Since all of Shield operatives are highly trained it would be devestating if any of you got akumatized. It would be even worse if it was against an Avenger, as almost all have powers of some sort. So I repeat, do not go to Paris now, or ever."
"You seem to know a lot Miss Dupain-Cheng, for being a temporary superhero at least." Fury leaned back slightly regarding her reaction.
Her face closed off for a second before she took off her jacket leaving her only in the tank top.
She shoved her arm towards us and hissed.
"This, this is why I have been trusted with the secrets. Because I have been the target of so many akumas. Not because I caused them, but because a fox convinced everyone that I was the cause of thier problems, even when it was from a broken promise of the fox."
I reached our and grabbed her arm, inspecting the scars.
From her elbow to her mid palm was three deep trenches. The wound was jagged and torn apart as if tearing the skin apart brutally.
"Thatvwas from a zookeeper gone bad. A zookeeper. Just imagine if it had been Thor or Wanda. Or even James for gods sake. The Winter Soldier? He has a lot of supressed anger. And Dr Banner too. If the hulk was akumatized Ladybug wouldnt be able to defeat him. I kniw that, you know that, everyone knows that. Do not go to paris or you will be essentially destoying the whole planet, heck, the whole universe even. Do you understand what I'm saying? And no one can know. My friends don't even know the whole story." Her voice had gone soft and vulnerable as she looked at us with simmering eyes.
"Yes Miss Dupain-Cheng, I understand. I won't send any agents to Paris if it means that much to you."
"You have my word Marinette. I won't go to Paris."
She smiled as we continued walking.
"But then you have to bake them for me," I added.
Her laughter twinked into my ears. "Sure Phil, I can bake some for you."
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October 3rd 9:44 p.m. 2021 Hawaii time