Sneaky Fox

Hi I'm LoveBug7744, I hope you enjoy this story. I like the friendship between Mari and Alya so I wanted to write about that, especially since friendships are really important right now in this crisis. Also this is set just before the season 3 final (just in case you were wondering). Have a great day, stay home, stay safe. Bug Out. :)

Alya had been given the fox miraculous to keep and she was excited. She wished she could share the news on the Ladyblog but she knew that would be dangerous for her and Ladybug. So she decided to ask Ladybug if there could be an interview on the official new hero.

"Ok you can ask Nino to film, but no giving away hints on who you are, and you have to make it look like you're filming it, ok."

"Ok Ladybug, hey will you be in the video? PLEASE!"

"Ok but it has to be a short video, I'll drag Chat Noir here too."

"Mari, Mari, Marinette!" Alya yelled running up to Mari's bedroom. Mari looked startled and closed her diary quickly and put it in the secret box.

"Stop whatever you're doing, you have to see this. Wait what are you doing?" Alya questioned the suspicious looking Marinette.

"Ummm errr, ahhh Nothing!" Mari yelled.

"Writing in your diary about Adrien?" Alya laughed.

"Ummm ya, sure. That," Mari mumbled. Alya held out her phone and played the video:

(Bold = on phone BTW)

Alya: "So I've heard that there is an official new hero, is that true?"

Ladybug: "Yes you are correct. Me and Chat Noir have asked this person for help many times but they were only a temporary superhero before, we are now declaring them an official hero and they will get to keep their miraculous."

Chat Noir: "Yes so you can be expecting to see a lot more of this hero in the future."

"Wow, a new hero; that's amazing."

"Plus I got an exclusive interview!" Alya yelled jumping up and down, although she was a little disappointed that her bestie wasn't more excited.

Alya: "So who is this new official hero? Carapace? Queen Bee? Rena Rouge? Bunnyx? Ryuko? Viperion? Pegasus? King Monkey? Multimouse? There are a lot of temporary heros by now."

Ladybug: "Well we've decided to go with the first helper hero we appointed."

Chat Noir: "We give you, drumroll please… Rena Rouge!"

Rena Rouge walks out and sits in a chair next to Chat and Ladybug.

Rena Rouge: "Hi guys, thanks for the warm welcome, It's so amazing to become an official hero!"

Alya: "So what's gonna be like for the new hero?"

Ladybug: "Well Rena will be coming on patrols with us and will be helping us in the majority of battles."

Chat Noir: "Ya, like my Bugaboo said Rena will be doing all the stuff that you normally see us doing."

Ladybug: "Hey I thought we agreed on no Bugaboo during the interview."

Chat Noir: "Aww, come on M'lady, don't get so upset."

Ladybug: "M'lady!? When I catch up with you…"

Ladybug chases Chat Noir out of the room.

Rena Rouge: "Better go I guess. Bye."

Alya: "Bye, see you around."

Rena leaves.

Camera turns around to face Alya.

Alya: "Well there you have it, you'll be seeing more of Rena Rouge very soon. Bug Out!"

"Wow, that's awesome." Mari said, absentmindedly. What is going on with her thought Alya, she should be a million times more excited.

"Come on girl, let's get to school." Alya and Mari walked to school and were greeted by a stoked Adrien and smiling Nino. Adrien was bouncing like he had 10 large coffees. Alya held up her phone and pointed to the video on the Ladyblog, Adrien nodded and gave a thumbs up seeming too excited to talk. Now there's the reaction I want.

All day Alya's entire class was excited about the video, well everyone except Mari. When Ms. Bustier declared this as a special event and played Alya's interview for the class while everyone cheered Mari didn't even blink, she just sat there.

"Girl what's wrong with you?"

"I'm just tired, I was up late last night." Alya could tell that was a lie but she went along with it. I'll figure it out later.

In lunch break she decided to find out what was going on with Mari. Alya snuck behind a tree and transformed. She crossed the roofs and landed on Mari's balcony where she de-transformed.

"You're as sneaky as a fox," Trix laughed.

"That I am," Alya said, tickling Tickling Trix under the chin. "And you're gonna be a sneaky fox too and help me find out what is going on with Mari."

"Already on it!" Trix yelled as she dove into one of Mari's drawers. Alya searched through Mari's sketchpad, closet, bed, tack board, trash, and computer. Suddenly she remembered how sketchy Mari acted when Alya saw her writing in her diary.

"Trix, look for Mari's diary, she keeps it locked up in a box," Alya yelled, excited.

"You mean this thing?" Trix asked, flying out of a drawer with the box clamped on her head. "This looked cool so I started playing with it and it tried to EAT ME!" Trix yelled. Alya gently pulled Trix out of the box and gave the little fox kwami a hug and a juicy berry.

"Hey Trix."

"Yummm," Trix mumbled while eating the berry.

"You can fly through objects, right." The kwami nodded happily.

"Oh I know what you're thinking, I can fly into the lock and open it, but it will cost you another delicious berry," Trix replied, smirking.

"Ok." Trix dove into the lock and nudged it open. Alya grabbed the box and tossed Trix a bag of berries.

"YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMY!" Trix muttered before stuffing her face. Alya opened the diary and started skimming through it.

(BTW bold means Diary)

Dear Diary

Today was amazing, I was able to say a full sentence in front of Adrien.

Nope

Dear Diary

I can't believe that Chloe got akumatized again, well actually I can believe it.

Still nope, but agreed.

Dear Diary

Being Ladybug is hard, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Wait, Mari was Ladybug? That was AWESOME! But still that didn't explain anything.

Dear Diary

I don't know how to break it to Adrien, but all the signs lead to his dad being Hawkmoth:

He has a house that is big enough to have a secret lair in there

He's always very distant and never seems to be around

The miraculous book was in his possession

He was very interested in my miraculous when were rescuing him from Sim Says

Well that explains a lot, Mari didn't know how to break it to her crush that his dad was a super villian.

"Alya, we need to get back to class," A juice covered Trix said, tapping on her shoulder. Alya reached the school just in time and for the rest of the day Alya was as absent minded as Mari.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please let me know what you would do if you were in Alya's shoes. Bug Out. :)