Summary: Marinette is visiting her cousins in Queens when there is turmoil in a supermarket, prompting a Ladybug appearance.

Meanwhile, Peter Parker is on a grocery run for his Aunt May when he sees smoke over the city. When he goes to help, there's a superhero already there. Wearing… a red jumpsuit?!

No Infinity War spoilers here #Thanosdemandsyoursilence.

Disclaimer: I do not own Marinette or any Avengers. If I did everyone except that purple grape would be alive, and Adrien and Marinette would be together by now.

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"Marinette! Can you and Cindy run to the store and buy some groceries that we forgot to grab?" Called Tom from the first floor of the townhouse.

"Un minute, Papa!" Answered Marinette, gritting her teeth. Almost there… just a few more hits…

"Yes!" Exclaimed Marinette, jumping up from the couch as a collective groan was heard from everyone else in the living room.

"How is that even possible?" Asked Lee, staring dumbfounded at the screen. "One player can't beat four other players at the same time! That's impossible!"

Marinette smiled at him. "In France, I was the Ultimate Mecha-Strike III champion!"

"Rematch!" Demanded 4-year old Adalene, hands on her hips. The others nodded in agreement.

Marinette was about to sit down when her dad walked into the room. "You can beat them later Marinette. Right now, you and Cindy need to go get the ingredients for my famous soup."

She turned back to her cousins. "After dinner, then?" Without waiting for an answer she went upstairs to grab the only cousin her age.

Marinette's family rarely travelled because it was too hard for the bakery. However, there was always one exception; coming to New York to see her mom's side of the family every American spring break. It's nice to be on vacation again. Thought Marinette as she opened the door to Cindy's room. Adrien could take care of the akumas for now, and since she'd given Alya the fox miraculous again, it would be a walk in the park for the week she was gone.

Marinette knocked on Cindy's bedroom door before opening it to see Cindy sitting on her bed with papers and books spread all around her.

"How are you busy during spring break?" Asked Marinette in disbelief. "I thought it was a vacation for Americans?"

Cindy looked up and smiled at her cousin. "Sorry. I was just about to head down." She stood up from the bed and stretched her arms over her head. "I was studying for the _tournament in two weeks."

"The what tournament?" Marinette furrowed her brow. She had never heard that word before, in French nor English.

"Never mind." Shrugged Cindy. She suddenly grabbed Marinette's hand and sped down the stairs. "Let's go show you the amazing wonders of America!"

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"I wouldn't call the subway an amazing wonder of America." Marinette wrinkled her nose. "It smelled funny."

Cindy laughed. "Welcome to New York, Mari. We can walk home if you want." Marinette nodded.

"So, I haven't really got a chance to talk to you one on one yet since you arrived yesterday." Said Cindy as they waited at a light. "Anything cool happen since I last saw you last year?"

Nothing much, just got visited by a magic being, turned into Paris' savoir, and I now spend the nights running around in a red jumpsuit. Instead, she decided to lead with Adrien. "Well, I got a boyfriend."

"WHAT?!" Screamed Cindy at the top of her lungs, making fellow pedestrians look at her weird. "I want all the deets, Marinette!"

Marinette giggled as they crossed the street. "I'll tell you after we get the groceries. It will only take a few minutes."

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"We have everything except…" Marinette trailed off, trying to remember the word. "Ummm… layers?" Cindy just gave her a blank look. "Makes you cry?"

"Oh, onions!" Marinette nodded as she followed Cindy.

Many things happened at once the next moment.

Marinette remembered a shout, the ground shaking, and suddenly being on the ground, her head hitting against the concrete floor of the store.

As soon as she had her senses back, she realized Cindy was holding her against the ground. She quickly shook Cindy off her and got on her knees.

Marinette coughed. Smoke. A fire?

No. Marinette realized with a start. An explosion.

She saw Cindy beside her hacking up a lung. The magic would protect a lot of the danger to Marinette, but Cindy was defenseless. Marinette tapped her cousin's shoulder. "Let's go." She mouthed.

Cindy nodded. They started to crawl towards the fire exit. It was so hot. Too hot. There was also a terrible smell; probably the now spoiled food.

Suddenly, another huge explosion wracked the building, causing more debris to fall.

Right above Cindy.

It was like Alya all over again; the sheer look of horror before disaster, only this time it wasn't her best friend.

It was her cousin.

Without thinking Marinette shoved her cousin out of the way, mere milliseconds before the ceiling fell between Cindy and her, blocking Marinette's exit out of the building.

Shit. Marinette doubled over coughing, the smoke becoming too much. She looked through the hazy air, trying to spot any other people stuck int his part of the supermarket.

There was no one. Crouching down behind a shelf, she opened her bag. Tikki flew out in front of Marinette's face.

"What are you doing?" Asked Tikki concerned. "We need to get out of here. This isn't magic, it's something that we can't help!"

"People are still in here, Tikki, I need to help them."

"Marinette, we don't need to. Queens have their own—" But Marinette didn't let her finish.

"Tikki, spots on!"

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(Music starts playing)

Spiderbug, spiderbug, does whatever a ladybug does.

Spins a web, any size. Catching akumas, just like flies.

Look out! Here comes the spiderbug!

Yes, I really just did that. I regret nothing.

This is going to be about 3 or four parts include the epilogue, and I WILL finish it, but probably not until this summer, since I need to finish MNIC.

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