Marinette and Adrien are in her room. They are hard at work practicing up for the Mega Strike Three tournament.   Marinette smiles.  She can hardly believe she gets to something with her crush for a change!  This is so much fun!  She blushes as usual, but possibly even more!

      Adrien smiles, but then as Marinette wins there practice round he sighs.  "Wow, Marinette you are even better at this than me!  I really do not see why you need me for this at all!"  Adrien says.

      "Come on A-Adrien, do not be so d-down on y-yourself!" Marinette says.

     "It is true, maybe you are better off on your own for this sort of thing." Adrien says.

     "Fine, I have a secret that helps.  See!" Marinette says as she pulls a charm bracelet out of her pocket to show to him.

      Adrien looks at it.  Then back up at her!  "You are kidding, right?"  Adrien says.

    "Why would I kid about a thing like t-this A-Adrien?"  Marinette replies.

    Adrien shrugs his shoulders. He still has the bracelet in his hands when he decides he could use a bit of  snack break.  

    "Marinette, want to get a bit to eat?  I could use a snack." Adrien says.

   "Sure, and we can go to the park to it.  I mean if y-you w-want t-too." Marinette says.

    Adrien agrees.  So they head downstairs, explain where they will be and off they go to the park. They take a few cookies with them.  Adrien sits down on a bench next to Marinette.  He thinks, this sure is nice to spend time with Marinette outside of school. 

    As they finish the cookies, they hear a loud  "Boom! " which is followed by an evil laugh.  The two look up and see the villain who calls himself,  The Gamer!   Adrien stands up and Marinette does too. He grabs her hand and starts to run with her.  He lets go at some point and sighs.  He continues to run. He hides and calls out  "Plagg, claws out!"  He transforms.

    Now Chat Noir is on the scene of the battle.  He looks around.  Strange, where could she be?  Ladybug is no where in sight.  He sees Marinette and grabs her up.  He takes her back to her place and sets her down gently on the roof.  He winks at her and says,  "You stay safe Princess!  Well, got to go!"  With that he leaves.

    Once Chat leaves, Marinette smiles and says,  "Tikki spots on! Yeah!"  She transforms.

    Ladybug shows up!  Together Ladybug and Chat Noir are able to defeat the villain, the akuma is purified by Ladybug and everything goes back to normal.   

  "Pound it!" Ladybug and Chat says as a team as they give one another a fist bump.

    Now, they both have gone home and destransformed.  Their identities as usual remain a secret to everyone else and to each other!  The only one who knows is Master Fu, and their kwami's  Plagg (Adrien's) and Tikki  (Marinette's).  This is just the way Ladybug prefers it to be so this is how it goes!  

      At the Agreste mansion...Adrien looks at the bracelet Marinette handed him. He thinks, I meant to return it too her, but I forget.  He smiles.   He decides it is late and he can give it back when he sees Marinette at school the next day.

   At the bakery... Marinette  does not seem to recall what she did with the charm bracelet.  "That is funny, I thought I saw it around her somewhere!"  She says to no one in particular.  She writes in her diary, locks it up for safe keeping, does her homework, eats a late supper, gets ready for bed and gets some rest.

    As Marinette sleeps , Tikki thanks about Plagg!  She often wonders what he is up too !  She also thinks, he so cute!  

    Meanwhile with Plagg...

    Plagg, just eats some cheese!  When he goes to settle down for the night on Adrien's pillow  he thinks about Tikki!  He sighs.  Oh, Tikki are you sure we can not just tell them their secret identities ourselves?  It would make things, so less crazy around here if we did!  I mean Adrien always goes on and on about how great Ladybug is and how he loves the girl behind the mask.  Yet he always says Marinette is  "a great friend!"   Plagg   just longs to tell him they are the same girl!   He does not because he knows Tikki would be furious.  

  to be continued in Chapter  1  Years Later!