Marinette Dupain-Cheng was finally trying to get to go to school. She had always wanted to go but her mom never let her because she should focus on her singing career. Yet, Marinette was running toward Collège Françoise Dupont. She was about to walk in, but her assistant Sam stopped her before she could get inside.

"You know that your mom doesn't think you should go to school! You even already have a private tutor!"
"I don't care what my mom thinks. All that matters to her is that I keep on writing songs, singing them and making money."

"You know that's not true, Marinette"
"Please just let me go to school! I don't ask for much, please!"
"You know that that's not my decision to make. You have to talk to your mom about this. So, until then, I can't let you go!"

"Fine," Marinette said sadly, "let's just go back to my house."

Meanwhile, in Collège Françoise Dupont, Nathaniel (the son of the mayor) was still wondering when Marinette was going to show up. But until then, he was kicking Adrien Agreste out of his seat. Nathaniel was in love with Marinette, and he wanted to sit next to her.
"Where is she? She should be here by now!"

Adrien said, "Who?"

Nathaniel rolled his eyes. "Marinette Dupain-Cheng is moving to our school! And I have been her best friend for the longest time ever. She loves me!"

"Ya, right dude. I bet she doesn't even remember you"
"Does too!"
He grabbed Adrien and pulled him into a seat on the opposite side of the rows of desks.

"Thanks um-"
"Nino. My name is Nino."
"Well thank you Nino. I hate Nathaniel. He has been always been pushing me around."

"No problem. I hate bullies."
Adrien introduced himself and they started talking. Then, class started and the teacher stopped the conversation, but Adrien could barely pay attention to the teacher.

Adrien was freaking out. Marinette Dupain-Cheng was moving to her school! He had every one of her songs, and he had lots of posters of her on stage, and photoshoots she had done in her career. But he never had a chance with her. Sure, he knew that the girls at his school had thought he was super cute, but he was just a normal kid who lived with his parents, who owned a photography studio. In interviews Marinette had done, she seemed super nice and sweet. But maybe that was just an act. All Adrien knew was that she was beautiful. She had long, dark hair that she usually kept down.

Adrien ran home to his parents doing a photoshoot for a family.

"Hello Adrien!" His mother said when she saw him run in.

"Hi mom! Guess what! Marinette Dupain-Cheng is moving to our school!"
"Wow! Do you think she might have a photoshoot with us? That would certainly make our studio famous!"

"I don't know. She's probably always busy."
Adrien ran up to his room, which was a room above the studio. It had straight access to the roof with a balcony. His parents lived right below him. His room was bigger than most kids' rooms. It had lots of windows, for a lot of natural light. He had a desk with a computer, and a lot of books on one of his shelfs that took up most of the room.

Marinette however was at her mansion, facing her mom, who was also her manager. After her father died, she became focused on Marinette's career. Always finding ways to make more money. It was like that was all she cared about anymore.

Her mom was right there when she walked in the door. "You may not go to school. It is a very dangerous world out there and you need to focus on your career."

"It's not that dangerous and I would be around adults all day! You don't even care about what I want!" Then Marinette mumbled, "at least you used to"
"What was that?"
"You used to let me do whatever I wanted to! But ever since dad died-"
"Enough! You are not going to school. And that is final!"
Marinette ran to her room. She was so mad. Yet, even though she had all this anger gathered up in her, all she could think about now was her dad. Instead of getting angrier, she just jumped on her bed and cried into her pillow.

A couple hours later, Sam knocked on her door and said, "Are you ready to come out? Your tutor is here."

"Yes, I will be there in a couple minutes."

"Okay, you know your mother does care about you. She just doesn't know how to deal with her emotions correctly."
"And what is the correct way to deal with the fact that my father died!?"

Sam just said quietly, "mourning"
There was no sound for about a minute until Marinette opened the door and went to her tutor.

That next day, Adrien went to school and Marinette was still not there, but Kim got up out of his seat and yelled at Ivan. Ivan was laughing, but Kim was about to punch him right in the middle of Mr. Damocles' lesson.

"Kim! Go to the principal's office right now!"
Kim was so mad! Ivan had said some mean things about Kim and Alix. He went to the principal's office and he walked in the door. Ms. Bustier was surprised that he didn't knock.

"You scared me! Go outside and try knocking!"

Kim stormed outside and he was about to knock on the door again, until a little dark butterfly landed on the note. A woman's voice started speaking to him. He was in so much pain, he couldn't resist whatever was happening to him.

"Floroshade, I am Midnight Monarch. I have given you the power to destroy anyone who has made fun of you. But in return, I want some new accessories, the Chat Noir ring, and Ladybug earrings."
"No problem Midnight Monarch."

Ms. Bustier was confused, "Well, knock!"
Just then, there were tree branches climbing the walls of her office. The floor was starting to shake and the door slammed open. There, stood a person who had a green outfit, which appeared to be leaves, that covered his whole body.

"Ooops, I forgot to knock."
He grabbed Ms. Bustier with tree branches by her feet and pulled her away.

Everyone in the school had heard Ms. Bustier scream and they all went to the library. Everyone in the class had seen on the camera's what had happened. He seemed to be pulling her away to somewhere. Adrien was questioning why, but then the new girl Alya, had seemed to be running out of the class.
"Where are you going?" Adrien yelled to her.

"Well, if there are supervillains, then there has to be superheroes! I can't wait!"
Adrien just thought she was crazy to be running toward danger.

Mr. Damocles just yelled, "Everyone go straight home right now! Be careful!"

Adrien ran home and he told his parents everything and he went upstairs. He turned on his computer and he watched the news to see what was going on. He went downstairs to get something to eat, and when he ran back upstairs, there was a strange old box in front of his computer. He curiously opened the box and a giant light sent him backwards, falling on the floor. A little animal appeared out of nowhere. He looked like a cat, but he was flying!

"Who are you!?"

"Adrien, calm down. I am a kwami. I grant you special powers."
Adrien yelled and threw whatever he could grab at the 'kwami'.

"Adrien, calm down"
"How do you know my name?" Adrien said demandingly.

"I know a lot of things and yo-"

His sentence was cut off by Adrien capturing the strange animal in an empty bowl.

"Adrien- my name is Plagg. You are now a superhero! So ya, you have the powers of destruction and well, you can come up with a name, but you have to stop Floroshade before he makes a dungeon and captures all of Paris!"

"Makes a dungeon? Really? I don't believe you. MOM! DAD!"
Adrien went to open the door and yell for them again, but was stopped by Plagg fazing through the bowl and stopping him.

"Kid! Calm down! You and Ladybug are the only ones who can stop Floroshade and any other future villains under Midnight Monarch's control!"

Meanwhile, Marinette was at her house, mad at her mom. When she ran in her room and saw a weird looking box on her table. Her reaction to her little kwami was a bit different than Adrien's. She ran around her room trying to grab her kwami. It looked like a red flying bug, with black spots. Marinette was finally able to grab the strange animal.

"What are you?"
"My name is Tikki and I'm a kwami. I grant you the power of creation and being lucky."
"Is this a prank? Did my mom prank me? Oh wait of course she couldn't."
The kwami started getting annoyed. "Marinette you are a superhero!"

Marinette thought that this could be the perfect opportunity to finally be free of her mom and her life, and finally be able to just live life.

"How do I become the superhero? Do I have to get changed really fast, or do I have the power where no one knows me?"
"Calm down. And for your information, you say, 'spots on' to become the superhero."
"Cool, Tikki spots on!"
"Wait, I haven't finished explaining everyt-"
Tikki couldn't finish her sentence before she was absorbed into the earrings.

Adrien was at his house looking into his tall mirror. He said out loud, "Plagg if you can hear me, I want my normal clothes back!"

He was about to say "Plagg claws out" again, but he heard a crash come from outside.