Chapter 1: Prologue
Chapter Text
Prologue
It took three weeks and five days before Robin was happy with the updates to the communicators.
He was so angry - angry at himself for falling for Madam Rouge’s trick, mostly. He knew that she could disguise herself as others, she had literally done it early. But he had been tired, and stressed, and worried for the other titans.
And it had been three weeks and six days since they defeated the Brotherhood of Evil, so it was time to focus on something else.
He landed on the roof silently, surveying the scene. The building was abandoned - the Brotherhood of Evil was defeated, their equipment confiscated, their members arrested. Most of the investigation had ended, although there were still some questions about the long-term effects of being frozen.
But the roof was occupied that night. It was, after all, a good meeting location - still in Paris, but past Hawkmoth’s suspected range.
Robin landed silently, but made noise as he stood up. Making his presence known.
Ladybug turned towards him.
“Robin?”
“Thought it was about time I introduced myself,” Robin replied.
He held a hand out, and Ladybug shook it.
The original idea was to leave Paris alone. Hawkmoth could turn anyone into a supervillain, so it was better if the already-deadly trained heroes stayed away.
But the Brotherhood of Evil had set up their base here. It was a bold (stupid) move that ticked off everyone involved, but it did give Robin a reason to reach out to the Parisian heroes.
“It’s an honor to meet you,” Ladybug said. “Although, we do appreciate the hands-off approach. I do not want to see Superman or Batman akumatized.”
“Yeah, us either. But after the Brotherhood of Evil set up base here, I think we need a way to stay in contact.”
“I’ve been working on that, actually,” Ladybug said. “My yo-yo works as a communicator. And I have all these security measures set up-“
She had a lot of security measures set up - Ladybug had a similar paranoia around her secret identity that Robin had.
It took a minute to figure out how to link the miraculous-magic yo-yo to the Titan’s communication system, but eventually Ladybug’s symbol popped up on Robin’s communicator.
“Great,” Robin said. “Oh, just so you know, Bumblebee is setting up an event - she’s calling it Titans’ Prom. It’s next Thursday, if you’re interested. Harold will be there to send anyone back if there’s a villain attack.”
“Prom?” Ladybug asked. “So, super formal and romantic?”
“Doesn’t have to be romantic,” Robin said. “But pretty formal, yeah.”
It would have been Bumblebee’s senior year, if she had stayed at her old school. So she had decided that she “was not missing senior prom,” and now Titans East was holding the big event.
Robin didn’t understand it, but then again, he had willingly and quite happily left his school in Gotham. Bumblebee hadn’t had the same choice.
Besides, Starfire was excited about it.
“I’ll be there, if there isn’t an Akuma,” Ladybug said.
“The invitation is extended to you and Chat Noir,” Robin said, “and feel free to bring a plus one.”
Ladybug nodded.
A beep from her yo-yo ended the conversation - there was an Akuma she had to go deal with - so they quickly said goodbye and parted ways.
“See you Friday,” Ladybug said before yo-yoing away.
“I’m so glad we’re doubling up on these assignments now!” Starfire said.
“Yeah,” Raven replied. “As far as Robin’s paranoia goes, this isn’t too bad.”
Ever since Brotherhood of Evil separated the titans to ambush them alone, Robin’s insisted on no Titan being solo on missions.
Of course, his own mission didn’t count. Something about Paris being dangerous and no need to risk having more people there. Hypocrite.
Amity was small, for somewhere with so much villain activity. Raven could feel the thrum of a portal - the source of most of the problems in town, although good old greed caused its fair share.
Cyborg had the T-Car, so Raven and Starfire had driven a rental car. It had been a hassle to find a rental car they could rent as teenagers, and Raven was determined to return it better than new. Just to make a point.
She parked the rental car on the top of a hill, overlooking a park. It was a frequent location of the hero they were looking for.
Phantom. It had been an ongoing argument for a year whether to reach out to him, since information coming out of Amity was so spotty and conflicting and Phantom handled different types of situations than the rest of the titans. But as they talked with the other, newer titans, who had more experience with ghosts, it became clearer.
Raven and Starfire waited outside the car. Amity had less light pollution than Jump City, letting the stars shine bright in the sky. In fact, they seemed a little too clear, even for Middle of Nowhere, Nebransas, or wherever they were.
“You two don’t look like locals.”
Raven and Starfire turned.
It was hard to sneak up on them, but then again, Phantom was a ghost.
He was flying upside down, hands behind his head in faux casualness. There was an aura around him - probably not visible to most, not even Starfire, but Raven could see the ectoplasm green pulsing from and around him. He was a powerful ghost, if newly dead, and still very much a teenager.
“We’re not!” Starfire replied cheerfully. “I am Starfire, and this is Raven.“
“Oh, I know who you are.” Phantom straightened out, still hovering over the ground. “What brings you to Amity?”
“You do,” Raven said. “Robin wants to extend our network of heroes. He sent us to give you this.”
She held out a communicator - now updated with even more security.
“By extending your network, you mean…”
“You’re invited to join the titans!” Starfire said.
“I - the titans?” Phantom asked. “Me? You don’t think I’m a villain or, evil, or something?”
“Why?” Raven challenged. “Just because you’re a ghost? We aren’t like that.”
“Hm,” Phantom replied. His eyes were still fixed on the communicator.
“Oh, we are also holding a party!” Starfire added. “It is called the prom? I am told it is a high school tradition here, that many titans would otherwise miss if we did not hold one ourselves! It is this Thursday at the Titans East.”
“That sounds fun.” Phantom finally grabbed the communicator. “I’ll see you there?”
“Maybe,” Raven said.
Starfire elbowed her (lightly) in the ribs.
“Of course you will! We look forward to seeing you there!”
“Pound it!”
Ladybug checked her earrings quickly - still three minutes left. She had enough time for this conversation.
“Hey Chat,” she called. “Can we talk?”
Chat Noir glanced at his ring, and nodded.
They left the scene of the akuma, where the victim was being greeted by his crying parents, and landed at a nearby rooftop.
“The Titans contacted me,” Ladybug said.
“The Titans!” Chat Noir repeated. “That’s so cool! Wait, why were they contacting you? They know you’re needed in Paris, right?”
“Right,” Ladybug confirmed. “They just wanted to set up a communication channel with us… and they invited me to a party. Prom, actually.”
“When?”
“Thursday.” Ladybug stood up and started to pace. “I know you probably want to go too, but one of us needs to stay here to contact the other, and they asked me, so I figured it would only be polite if-“
“It’s fine,” Chat Noir said. “I would only want to go if I went with you - as friends, of course!”
“Okay, if you’re fine with it. I was going to ask Rena if she could go with me.”
“Sounds good,” Chat Noir said. “A lot of people go to prom with friends.”
“Um, well…” Her earrings beeped. “Got to go, talk to you later!”
She threw her yoyo, glad to get out of that conversation.
“Uh, talk to you later?” Chat Noir replied.
“Prom” was maybe not the best word for the party at Titans East.
It was definitely a party. Cyborg had rigged up a music system, and Titans East had a disco ball. There was plenty of food - even vegetarian options - and lots of card and board games.
There was some dancing, especially among the few couples that had shown up. Lots more game playing, and storytelling as everyone talked about the different villains they faced. There were some ridiculous stories, and even the more serious ones brought laughter.
Beast Boy told the story of the final battle with the Brotherhood of Evil - with Panthera’s occasional interjections. Cyborg and Bumblebee were off to the side, sharing a bowl of chips, smirking at the story.
Most of the Titans had been there. Danny had not - he didn’t know the reasons why they had only reached out to him now, but he was glad they did.
Sam and Tucker knew him well, but there were things they didn’t understand. And none of the other Titans were half-ghost, but.
But at some point, at what had to be after midnight, Danny ended up on a couch still talking to Beast Boy. It had started as a joke battle, but then they kept talking.
He had never met someone who got it. Who understood what it meant to be a normal human one day, and something else the next.
It was nice.
Chapter 2: Chapter 1: The Rules of the Chat
Summary:
kentucky fried: this titan fenifintely does eat
kentucky fried: *denidintely
kentucky fried: whatever
Notes:
The best thing about this was letting all my typos just become part of the story.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat has been created
Robin: Hey all. I was thinking after last night that we could use a more casual channel of conversation.
Robin: also thanks Bumblee and Titans East for hosting last night
Robin: *bumblebee
Cyborg: bumblee
Beast Boy: bumblee
Bumblebee: lol
Bumblebee changed name to Bumblee
Beast Boy changed name to green bean
Ladybug: yes, thanks Bumblebee. It was a blast last night!
Ladybug: also just a warning my English is not the best
Bumblee: it sounded fine last night
Ladybug: my miraculous translates for me when I’m transformed
Bumblee: oh cool
Starfire: hello everyone! It is such an honor to talk to so many heroes!
Raven: yeah hi
Raven: anyways I’m muting this
Robin changed name to big bird
big bird: no I didn’t?
Rena Rouge: ohhhh this is so cool!
Rena Rouge: i have so many questions for everyone!
Rena Rouge: !!!
Ladybug: breathe, Rena
Speedy: lol Bumblee
big bird: yeah we’ve moved past that
Aqualad: not very speedy of you
Kid Flash: turtle.png
Kid Flash: ew real name
Kid Flash changed name to kentucky fried
kentucky fried: there we go
kentucky fried: anywho hi everyone
kentucky fried: i didnt talk to many last night cause i actually had a girlfriend? to take to prom? very weird
big bird: my thoughts exactly
big bird changed name to Robin
kentucky fried: ew
kentucky fried: change it back
kentucky fried: also speedy change ur name everyone keeps calling me that
Speedy: no
Speedy: nobugsbunny.gif
kentucky fried: please i am begging you
Speedy: then beg
Phantom: oh hey living people
Phantom changed name to Icy Dead People
Starfire: please, why are you icy?
Icy Dead People: oh, it’s a movie reference. Sixth Sense. There’s a character that says “I See Dead People.” It sounds like Icy Dead People. And since I’m dead, and arguably icy, and a people. So I thought it fit.
Ladybug: how are you icy?
Icy Dead People: i have ice powers
Ladybug: makes sense
Robin: alright so a couple of rules.
Robin changed name to bird brain
bird brain: okay first of all stop doing that
bird brain: I know that’s you KF
kentucky fried: actually im innocent this time
Cyborg: pressxtodoubt.png
bird brain changed name to Robin
Robin: Rule 1 is be respectful. No bigotry or bullying or anything.
Ladybug: good rule
Raven: are we still allowed to bully Beast Boy?
Cyborg: I thought you muted us?
Raven: I did
Robin: technically that’s not bullying.
Ladybug: what are the other rules?
Robin: good question
Icy Dead People: what about banned topics? Or people’s triggers?
Robin: yes good point
Robin: don’t trigger people on purpose. If anyone wants to bring up topics they’d like to avoid or have warnings for, I can include that in the rules
Robin: you can DM me if you want it to be anonymously added
Starfire: DM? What does that mean, please?
Robin: direct message
Starfire: thank you!
Bumblee: Titans Eats has to head out lmk of any more rules
Cyborg: Titans Eats?
Starfire: best of luck with the villain fighting!
kentucky fried: this titan fenifintely does eat
kentucky fried: *denidintely
kentucky fried: whatever
Jinx: this is what happens when you text at super speed babe
Starfire: hello friend Jinx!
Jinx: didnt know I made it to the friend category yet
Starfire: did you not want to be friends?
Robin: you better say yes the sad face Star is making right now is devastating
Starfire: you do not need to worry about my feelings
Jinx: no no its fine I was just surprised
Jinx: thought I would have a harder time being accepted here
Starfire: of course you are accepted! We all got off to a rough start but we can find strength in each other!
Icy Dead People: wait why wouldn’t you be accepted?
Jinx: I was kinda a bad guy for a little bit
Jinx: well, for more than a little bit
Jinx: long story short: I have bad luck powers. Thought that meant I was doomed to be a bad person. Realized I was wrong. Showed up in Paris to embarrass the BoE
Jinx name changed to Friend Jinx
Ladybug: we love embarrassing the bad guys here
Rena Rouge: to be fair hm does most of the embarrassing himself
Ladybug: yes that’s true
Ladybug: I don’t know how much of what happens reached the rest of the world but
Ladybug: did you see the last Akuma? Ugliest design I’ve ever seen
green bean: wait how did you do the emphasis
Ladybug: asterisks
green bean: what?
Ladybug: * on each side
green bean: like this?
green bean: oh it worked
Robin name changed to Red Robin. Yum.
Red Robin. Yum.: okay seriously whoev
Red Robin. Yum.: never mind got to go Control Freak just appeared
kentucky fried: he sounds fun
Ladybug: probably beats fighting Mr Pigeon for the millionth time
Ladybug: poor chat’s allergic to feathers too
Icy Dead People: that sucks
Jinx: talk about bad luck
Panthera: oh hey new chat
Herald: hello people
Ladybug: hi!
Hotspot: hey
Hotspot: does anyone else frozen by the brotherhood still struggle with feeling cold?
kentucky fried: i didnt let myself get caught in the first place
Friend Jinx: excuse me?
kentucky fried: well okay i did get captured once
kentucky fried: Jinx set me free
kentucky fried: thx babe
Friend Jinx: I think Speedy and Aqualad got frozen if you want to ask them when they get back?
kentucky fried: where’d they go anyways?
Rena Rouge: news shows Titans East fighting an Ice Kate and Kid Kold?
Friend Jinx: oh them
Friend Jinx: lol
Hotspot: are those ice themes? Yikes
Icy Dead People: what’s wrong with ice powers?
Hotspot: nothing. just hard to summon my hot stuff when I feel so cold
Hotspot changed name to Hot n Cold
Ladybug: jendjkaajz bdhdksjjzbsbzjzhsjwis
Rena Rouge: babe?
Ladybug: sorry, tripped while typing. Akuma attack. I’ll text you the address
Ladybug: wait did you just call me babe
Ladybug: aasfgghklsne
Notes:
Oh also sorta doing a semi-canon with the Teen Titans comics. Might be some references to what happens in there, some things might completely contradict. That’s the fun of fanfiction.
Chapter 3: Chapter 2: A Chat in the Chat
Summary:
Not a Ninja: dude
Chat-aclysm: I’m sorry
Lucky Charm: no your not
Notes:
Team Miraculous Chat Names:
Lucky Charm: Ladybug
Chat-aclysm: Chat Noir
Not a Ninja: Carapace
Like A Good Neigh-bor: Pegasus
monkey busness: Roi Singe
major scales: Viperion
Titans Chat Names:
Birds of a Feather: Robin
green bean: Beast Boy
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Team Miraculous
major scales: … well?
Lucky Charm: well what?
Like A Good Neigh-bor: it’s been over two days and five Akuma attacks and you still haven’t told us how your time with the Teen Titans went
monkey busness: yeah!
Not a Ninja: they told me
Chat-aclysm: I’m pretty curious too
major scales: you better be careful chat. you know what they say about curiosity
Chat-aclysm: Yeah I know that was leading up to a joke
Chat-aclysm: You stole my punchline
Lucky Charm: you should have had a more original joke then
Chat-aclysm: My lady! You wound me!
Lucky Charm: good
Lucky Charm: anyways Thursday night went well. The Titans all seem cool. Added me and Rena to a group chat afterwards
Chat-aclysm: Apparently they invited me too but LB won’t let me in
major scales: wait why
Lucky Charm: he knows what he did
Chat-aclysm: I’m sorry, alright?
Lucky Charm: for what, specifically, are you sorry for?
Chat-aclysm: For making a bad joke?
Lucky Charm: specifically
Chat-aclysm: the fan one?
Lucky Charm: what. specific. joke. and. why .
Chat-aclysm: I am sorry that when you summoned your luck charm, a fan, I made a joke that I was a fan and it distracted you and you almost dropped the fan
Lucky Charm: there you go
Chat-aclysm: I didn’t realize that it would bug you so much
Not a Ninja: dude you are not helping your case
Chat-aclysm: Sorry! I can’t help myself!
Lucky Charm: …
monkey busness: you had a fan lucky charm? Did you go all Mulan on them?
Lucky Charm: it wasn’t that type of fan
Lucky Charm: it was one of those handheld ones that spin when you hokd down a button, since I needed the air stream to blow constantly while Chat and I were busy with something else or the plan wouldn’t work
Lucky Charm: *hold
Chat-aclysm: Easily one of the most complicated lucky charms that I’ve seen
Chat-aclysm: Can’t say I was a fan of it
Not a Ninja: dude
Chat-aclysm: I’m sorry
Lucky Charm: no your not
Titans General Chat
green bean: who wants to take bets on how long control freak stays in prison this time
Birds of a Feather: it can’t be that hard to keep him away from screens while in prison
Birds of a Feather: oh come on seriously?
Birds of a Feather name changed to ITS ROBIN
Cyborg: I give him a week
Speedy: no way three days at best
green bean: alright what’s the wager
Herald: the loser does the others chores?
Speedy: your on
Cyborg: my chores are Cyborg-only, sorry
ITS ROBIN: harold you don’t have to come up with reasons to come hang with us
Herald: Harold?
ITS ROBIN: long day sorry
Herald: lol it’s fine
Herald name changed to Harold
Speedy: if I win, you do my chores. If you win, I’ll try out that video game you keep trying to get me to play
Cyborg: works for me
green bean: the bet has been made
Ladybug: alright I’ve been mean enough to him
Chat Noir has been added to the chat
Chat Noir: Hello
green bean: hi!
ITS ROBIN: hello Chat Noir! Welcome!
Speedy: hey
Harold: hi other cat-themed superhero
Panthera: chat noir! I demand we must fight to determine the stronger cat
Panthera: also hi
Cyborg: hello
Rena Rouge: oh did LB finally give you the invite?
Chat Noir: Yeah finally
Chat Noir: It is Paws-itively amazing to meet all of you! I’ve been a fan of the Titans fur furrever
Ladybug: I have many regrets
Rena Rouge: what did you think would happen?
green bean: dude you can’t use fur twice like that that’s just lazy
Raven: and your jokes aren’t?
green bean: …
green bean: yeah that’s fair
Panthera: I am not allowed in Paris so if we are to fight you’ll have to come here
Chat Noir: Aren’t you in Fevereiro? That’s pretty far for me
Panthera: that’s what Heralds for
Harold: I mean I do other stuff too
Chat Noir: Okay I’m in
Panthera: great! Prepare to be defeated!
Ladybug: I don’t want to leave Paris if Chat Noir’s not here, but Rena will you video it for me?
Rena Rouge: absolutely
green bean: any bets for the fight?
Harold: Panthera wins
Cyborg: yeah Panthera has my bet
Chat Noir: That’s probably fair
Ladybug: we’ll have to postpone. Akuma @ the Eiffel Tower
Notes:
Yeah, so I’ll be slowly introducing the ML and DP characters into the main chat, just so everyone has time to adjust
Titans South is in Fevereiro, a city I made up because its DC.
Chapter 4: Chapter 3: Bug Out
Summary:
Bird’s I View: everyone was a valuable part in the battle against BoE
Icy Dead People: even me?
Bird’s I View: everyone who was there was a valuable part in the battle against BoE
Notes:
Bumblebee: Bumblee
Beast Boy: green bean
Kid Flash: kentucky fried
Phantom: Icy Dead People
Jinx: Friend Jinx
Robin: Birds I View
Hotspot: Hot n Cold
Herald: Harold
Panthera: Catfighter Supreme
Chat Noir: Pawsome
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Icy Dead People: ugh I hate summer
kentucky fried: homophobic
Icy Dead People: how?
kentucky fried: its literally pride nonth
kentucky fried: minth
Friend Jinx: mispelling pride month? Homophobic
Bird’s I View: misspelling misspelling? Ironic
green bean: hotel? trivago
Starfire: what is trivago please?
Bird’s I View: it’s a company whose slogan is hotel? trivago
Starfire: thank you
Starfire: friend Phantom, why do you dislike the summer?
Icy Dead People: the short answer is it gets too hot
Aqualad: valid
Icy Dead People: the long answer is that ghosts are dead. We are the absence of life, the silence of sound, the stillness in the forest, etc, blah blah blah. When atoms heat up, they move more, and ghost physiology doesn’t like that. Especially me with my ice powers
Aqualad: Atlanteans also have lowered ability to deal with heat, since it doesn’t get very hot in Atlantis. Heat tolerance was actually one of the first human traits to go when we started evolving.
Jericho: that makes sense. Humans can adapt and unadapt to hot climates fairly quickly.
green bean: jericho! hi!
Starfire: friend Jericho hello!
kentucky fried: hey jericho!
Jericho: hello!
Icy Dead People: Aqualad do you have any Atlantean pro tips for dealing with heat?
Aqualad: hydrate
Aqualad: although that might not apply since you are dead
Aqualad: maybe get a large hat? Keep the sun off your head?
Icy Dead People: hats fall off when I go intangible
Speedy: I want to go intangible
Icy Dead People: trust me it was not worth the cost
Bird’s I View: I imagine it was not
kentucky fried: i joke but i dislike the heat too its way to easy to overheat going at superspeed
Friend Jinx: heat suppresses my style
Raven: skill issue
Friend Jinx: excuse me???
Catfighter Supreme: mjpopcorn.gif
Ladybug: personally I’m excited for summer. No more school themed akumas
Rena Rouge: yeah Pop Quiz sucked. Almost as bad as getting a pop quiz
kentucky fried: a villain named pop quiz sounds like one of my nightmares
Bird’s I View: reminds me of our first run in with Mad Mod
green bean: dont remind me
Cyborg: yeah that definitely wasn’t your finest moment
Raven: he’s had fine moments?
Cyborg: lol
green bean: hey!
Icy Dead People: I thought Beast Boy saved everyone from the Brotherhood of Evil
Cyborg: yeah but don’t tell him that he’ll get too big of a head
kentucky fried: he didn’t save me
kentucky fried: jinx did
Friend Jinx: and don’t forget it
kentucky fried: never
green bean: to be fair Jericho did a lot of the work
Jericho: but you got everyone together and came up with a coherent plan! everyone was panicking and you got us functioning as a team
Harold: I was there too
Catfighter Supreme: yes you were very valuable in making a portal so the rest of us could do the fighting
Harold: :(
Bird’s I View: everyone was a valuable part in the battle against BoE
Icy Dead People: even me?
Bird’s I View: everyone who was there was a valuable part in the battle against BoE
kentucky fried: even me?
Bird’s I View: of course you were very valuable in making sure Jinx could be there to help
Friend Jinx: <3
kentucky fried: your joking but your not wrong
Starfire: maybe we can be kind to everyone here and make sure everyone feels valuable?
Bird’s I View: I already said that. KF can interrupt it how he wants
Bird’s I View: interpret
Bird’s I View: although interrupt is accurate
kentucky fried: its more encouraging from Star though
Bird’s I View: very true
Cyborg: everything is more encouraging from Star
Starfire : how did Friend Jinx form the heart shape?
Starfire: 3>
Starfire: >3
Starfire: <3
Friend Jinx: its a < and a 3
Friend Jinx: oh you got it nvm
Starfire: <3 <3 <3
Starfire name changed to Starfire <3
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Pawsome: What’s black and white and red all over?
Starfire <3: oh I know this one! It is a newspaper, correct?
Pawsome: No
Pawsome: img85748.png
Cyborg: ugh
Bumblee: yikes
Starfire <3: oh no!
Icy Dead People: that sucks
Bird’s I View: that’s paint, right?
Pawsome: Yeah from the paint themed Akuma yesterday
Pawsome: The paint coated my joints and kept me from moving but it never touched my ring so I couldn’t cataclysm it
Pawsome : One of our local blogs, the Ladyblog, posted a bunch of cool pictures of Ladybug, Carapace, Ryuko, and Roi Singe from yesterday but this was the only one she uploaded of me :(
Bird’s I View: the media is like that sometimes
kentucky fried: gotta be quicker and not get hit
Icy Dead People: must be fur-strating
Ladybug: don’t encourage him!
Rena Rouge: can you blame the Ladyblogger if she was more distracted by Ladybug than the others?
Ladybug: asdffgghkl
Rena Rouge: babe?
Ladybug: sorry dropped my phone
Icy Dead People : hey Rena
Rena Rouge: what’s up?
Icy Dead People: rouge means red, right?
Rena Rouge: yeah. Red foxes are orange, that’s why my name is red and my suit is orange
Icy Dead People : do you get asked about that a lot?
Rena Rouge: all the time
Rena Rouge: img12887.png
Rena Rouge: a red fox for reference
Cyborg: that thing sure is orange
Pawsome: Orange you glad that you had that photo on hand?
Ladybug: no
Rena Rouge: lol except I didn’t I literally just googled it
Pawsome: …
Ladybug: chat, no
Pawsome: Orange you glad that Google exists?
Rena Rouge: fair enough
Rena Rouge name changed to Orange You Glad
Ladybug: stop! encouraging! him!
green bean: i dont think yellow-ing is helping you
Ladybug: sorry
Ladybug: it just annoys me when he does it
Ladybug: you could even say that it
Ladybug: bugs me
Pawsome: lol
green bean: i red what you did there
Icy Dead People: it really blue us away
Notes:
I’ve been arguing with myself over whether this series is E or T, so if it changes a bunch, it’s because I have the decision making skill of a squirrel in the middle of the road.
Chapter 5: Chapter 4: The List
Summary:
Ladybug: what about clowns? I know that that’s a thing in Gotham
Cardinal: fortunately, the person you’re thinking of does such a bad job at being both a clown and a joker that I never developed any association between them and him
Notes:
Anyways, this takes inspiration from DC backstories, although since this is clearly a different universe I’m leaving some of it up to artistic license on my part.
Nicknames:
Beast Boy: green bean
Cardinal: Robin
Kid Flash: kentucky fried
Chat Noir: Pawsome
Phantom: Icy Dead People
Rena Rouge: Orange You Glad
Jinx: Friend Jinx
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Argent: hey BB
green bean: yeah?
Argent: you can turn into any animal, right?
green bean: yep
Argent: including a rat?
green bean: … a rat? all of the animal kingdom and youre asking about a rat?
Argent: this is going somewhere I promise
green bean: okay then yeah
Argent: okay have you seen ratatouille
green bean: yes
Argent: so have you tried climbing onto your teammates heads and controlling them?
green bean: no they won’t let me
Raven: I don't want a rodent in my hair
Cardinal: its a cartoon it won’t work in real life
Cyborg: I don’t have hair
Argent: its up to you, Star!
Cardinal: cardinal? Really KF?
kentucky fried: its! not! me!
Speedy: hey, this is probably a weird ask, but can we not joke about mind control?
Ladybug: seconded
Cardinal: yeah that’s fair. Added to the list
Pawsome: what’s the list? I don’t think I was here when it was made
Cardinal: it’s a list of topics to avoid or tread carefully around.
Cardinal: an alarming number of people asked for medical stuff to be put on the list. Makes me concerned for the state of the world of medicine
Cardinal: no overly pro-government, military, or JL stuff
Aqualad: we are very anti-Green Arrow here
Ladybug: what about clowns? I know that that’s a thing in Gotham
Cardinal: fortunately, the person you’re thinking of does such a bad job at being both a clown and a joker that I never developed any association between them and him
Aqualad: ooh burn
Icy Dead People: actually since it was brought up I have issues with clowns?
Cardinal: ah okay added to the list
Argent: i admit I’ve been curious about the few of you who’ve worked with the JL before. Obviously you don’t anymore, except for KF
Argent: and like, how’d you end up working with them in the first place?
Orange You Glad: yeah me too
Cardinal: it’s a long story. For me at least.
Cardinal: the tldr is that after my parents died I decided by myself to go for revenge. He saw me trying and decided to take me in to train me so I wouldn’t get myself killed. Then a few years later he fires me out of nowhere
kentucky fried: out of nowhere? i heard you got shot
Cardinal: so?
Raven: what do you mean, so?
green bean: yeah dude getting shot is a big deal
green bean: ESPECIALLY FOR YOU
Cyborg: you’re going to turn me gray. And I don’t even have hair
Cardinal: anyways
kentucky fried: so the Flash is a family friend, i idolised him and decided to try to electrocute myself to give me superspeed and somehow it worked
Icy Dead People: oh hey I got my powers from electrocution too
kentucky fried: oh cool
Argent: how do you get ghost powers from being electrocuted?
Icy Dead People: well I got electrocuted. and then I died
Argent: oh
Friend Jinx: makes sense
Aqualad: I was raised by Aquaman. Then he and his wife had a baby, and I felt ignored, so I started working by myself and met the titans and then Bumbleebee
Friend Jinx: spell bumblebee correctly challenge level: impossible
Aqualad: apparently
Speedy: GA took me in after my guardian at the time died, but then he kicked me out
Argent: oof
Speedy: but i’m with titans east now, so hopefully i’ll never have to deal with him again
Aqualad: titans east more like ga’s number one hate club
Notes:
A more serious chapter, but I promise hijinks are coming
Chapter 6: Chapter 5: Sharp As Steel
Summary:
Not a Ninja: do you like pokemon?
Ryuko: no
Not a Ninja: okay then
Notes:
Miraculous Chat:
Ladybug: Lucky Charm
Rena Rouge: Ninetails
Chat Noir: Chat-aclysm
Viperion: major scales
Pegasus: Like A Good Neigh-bor
Roi Singe: Monkey Busness
Titans Chat:
Robin: Pope Robin
Rena Rouge: Orange You Glad
Chat Noir: Pawsome
Kid Flash: kentucky fried
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Team Miraculous
Lucky Charm: thanks again to everyone with the Akuma today! That was a tough one
Ninetails: yeah it was! Never would’ve defeated it without you LB
Chat-aclysm: Yeah good work team! Glad you all were there while I was frozen the entire time. Again.
Lucky Charm: you distracted the akuma while I got the miraculouses, that was very helpful.
major scales: glad it worked out but that was one exhausting loop for me
Lucky Charm: make sure you get some good rest Viperion
major scales: i am already called in sick to work
Lucky Charm: good
Lucky Charm: btw how would you all feel about adding Queen Bee to the chat? She did do a good job today but she needs to learn to work as a team. This might be a good chance for her learn while still letting me kick her out if she’s too mean to you guys
Ryuko: if she’s part of the team she should be in the chat
major scales: agreed
Like A Good Neigh-bor: if I understand the situation correctly, a lot of her bad behavior comes from her parents. Giving her a space to interact with us without that pressure might be good. However, she is known to be Chloe and this might pose a security risk to the chat if someone took advantage of that.
Lucky Charm: all good points
Lucky Charm: also Roi Singe Ryoku I’m swinging back around to pick up your miraculouses. Tikki just gave me the go ahead to transform
Ryuko: understood. I’m in the same place you found me before
monkey busness: im at my apartment ill tell xuppu your on your way
Chat-aclysm: Ryoku we have got to find you a nickname for this chat. You are the only one without one.
Ryuko: I am not creative enough to come up with one, and the only ones that have been suggested are Mulan references.
Ninetails: hmm. sounds like a fun challenge
Not a Ninja: do you like pokemon?
Ryuko: no
Not a Ninja: okay then
Ninetails: what about Sharp as Steel?
Ryuko name changed to Sharp as Steel
Sharp as Steel: I like it
Sharp as Steel: Ladybug is here to collect my miraculous, I must go
Titans General Chat
Pope Robin: hey team miraculous you guys okay? That Akuma looked rough
Orange You Glad: yeah we’re fine! LB just had to work out those creative muscles a bit more than normal
Ladybug: “a bit”
Ladybug: easily the hardest Akuma battle since Hero’s Day
Orange You Glad: oh don’t remind me. Hero’s Day was a disaster
Pawsome: I thought it went pretty good, all things considered
Starfire: why is your screen name Pope Robin, please?
Pope Robin: I’m assuming it’s cause I was Cardinal earlier
Starfire: I see. Cardinal is a type of bird associated with red, like a robin, but it also a religious position, like a pope? It is a play on words, then?
Pope Robin: yeah pretty much
Icy Dead People: I didn’t know you were cathlotuc
Icy Dead People: cathlotic
Icy Dead People: catholic
Pope Robin: I’m none of those things
Starfire: that is because it is a pun
Icy Dead People: I know lol
Icy Dead People: oh happy Friday the thritwenth
Ice Dead People: thirteenth
Icy Dead People: skulker broke my phone it’s making it hard to type
kentucky fried: oh mood i hate when villains break my phone
Orange You Glad: Ladybug’s cure fixes my phone for me
kentucky fried: yeah yeah rub it in
Notes:
Starting a new job on Monday, wish me luck!
Chapter 7: Chapter 6: Cookout
Summary:
Argent: not so much cool as cold
Kole: it’s not that bad! Plus we’re right next to the ocean which is amazing
Argent: you grew up in the literal North Pole I don’t think you get an opinion
Notes:
Herald - Harold
Robin - Cathlotuc Birb
Phantom - Icy Dead People
Beast Boy - green bean
Chat Noir - Pawsome
Bumblebee - Bumblee
Jinx - Friend Jinx
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Cyborg: Tomorrow is Father’s Day, and I know a lot of us here have rough relationships with our parents, so I have Robin’s permission to invite all of you over for a cookout tomorrow. 12 noon California time.
Harold: cool. I’ll be over so I can make get people back if a villain pops up
Jericho: will there be vegetarian options?
Cathlotuc Birb: yeah BB is vegetarian
Icy Dead People: hey I had serious reason to be making tupies
Icy Dead People: *typos
green bean: tupies
Pawsome: Tupies
Icy Dead People: shush
Cathlotuc Birb: I didn’t choose this name. KF changed it on me again
Aqualad: you had me at cookout
Bumblee: same here
Bumblee : the twins will be coming as well
Speedy: and me
Pawsome: I’ll have to check with LB first but I’m interested
Ladybug: yeah you’re good I have civilian plans that day
Red Star: It is not Father’s Day for us, but I’ll also be there if we don’t have a villain attack.
Argent: same
Kole: same. But Gnarrk will not be
Cyborg: tell him we’ll miss him!
Kole: I will!
Ladybug: Redstar where are you that you don’t celebrate Father’s Day tomorrow? France celebrates at the same time as the US and I thought a bunch of other countries did too
Red Star: I am from Russia but right now Titans North is stationed in Denmark
Ladybug: oh cool
Argent: not so much cool as cold
Kole: it’s not that bad! Plus we’re right next to the ocean which is amazing
Argent: you grew up in the literal North Pole I don’t think you get an opinion
Cathlotuc Birb: actually Kole’s home in the NP was really nice
green bean: yeah it was lovely much better than russia
green bean: no offense red star
Red Star: None taken. We all saw how much you were struggling when in Russia
green bean: yeah that was a little embarrassing
Ladybug: but if you can shapeshift why not just be a polar bear or something?
green bean: unfortunately none of the other titans speak bear
Friend Jinx: Kole lived in the North Pole? Like Santa?
Kole: yep
Kole name changed to Secret Santa
Friend Jinx: also cookout tomorrow sounds fun
Friend Jinx: sorry just got back from dealing with Capt Cold and catching up on the chat
green bean: has anyone heard from Raven? shes passed up on many chances to make fun of me and im starting to worry
Cathlotuc Birb: she and Starfire disappeared into her room an hour ago, they’re probably fine
green bean: what do they even do in their?
Cathlotuc Birb: idk, meditate? Summon spirits? Whatever girls do
Friend Jinx: can confirm girls do that type of thing
Secret Santa: I want to hang out with girls and summon spirits
Friend Jinx: we can totally do that some time this week
Icy Dead People: just be careful what you summon because I might have to deal with them
Notes:
Happy Father’s Day to those who celebrate tomorrow!
Chapter 8: Chapter 7: What's in a Name?
Summary:
Raven: the trifecta of bad-joke makers all agree
Pawsome: Ooh I’ve always wanted to be part of a trifecta
Notes:
Nicknames:
Kid Flash: kentucky fried/windows no longer supports
Robin: Bird is the Word/Mom Friend
Beast Boy: green bean/asparagus
Phantom: Icy Dead People
Chat Noir: Pawsome
Jinx: Friend Jinx/Pink Hair and Pronouns
Rena Rouge: Orange You Glad
Cyborg: One Man Geek Squad
Raven: Attempted Murder
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titan General Chat
Speedy: it finally happened. Someone confused me with Kid Flash
kentucky fried: that’s why I keep asking you to change! your! name!
Speedy: ugh yeah
Speedy: speedy was GA’s name for me anyways
Bird is the Word: ew
Speedy: exactly
Speedy: I’m just not creative enough to come up with anything
Ladybug: what about Robin Hood? He was a famous archer
Speedy: then I’d just get confused with Robin
Ladybug: yeah I realized that after I sent it
green bean: bird names are in
Icy Dead People: yeah you could be sparrow
Pawsome: Purrfect
Speedy: cute but no
Speedy named changed to Sparrow
Sparrow: ???
Bird is the Word: KF isn’t the only one with name changing powers
kentucky fried: dude its not me i swear
Pawsome: Color names are popular now. You could be, like, Red Arrow
Pawsome: No wait we don’t want to sound like GA. Red Bow?
Sparrow: better but still too close to GA
Starfire: what about quiver?
Sparrow: like I’m quivering in my boots? No thanks
Starfire: ah yes. People on Earth do like their plays on words
Icy Dead People: are puns not a thing in your home?
Starfire: no they are not. I do not understand why, as once I grasped the purpose of these play on words I do find them humorous
green bean: hey raven star said im funny
Raven: no, she said she finds clever play on words funny. She said nothing about your jokes
Starfire: Beast Boy is occasionally funny, yes
Pawsome: Occasionally? Even LB gives me more than that
Ladybug: when?????
kentucky fried: ohhh sparrow because its sp arrow
Sparrow: yeah? Are you just getting that?
kentucky fried: look im still recoverig from fathers day
Friend Jinx: I told you to cancel and come to the cookout with me
kentucky fried: if you need a name how about slowy?
Sparrow: how about no
kentucky fried: teenage human archery turtle?
Sparrow: don’t make me come fight you
kentucky fried: you think youd win? lmaooooooo
Ladybug: what about bowstring?
Sparrow: not quite feeling it but its my favorite so far
Icy Dead People: I was going to talk with some friends later about hero tech stuff and my friend S is pretty creative. I could ask her?
Sparrow: sure thanks
Bird is the Word: yeah Phantom I’ve been wondering how much support you have in Amity. I know Red Huntress is active but she doesn’t seem completely dependable yet.
Icy Dead People: RH will come through when we need her but she’s still pretty anti-ghost. I have multiple civilians and a few ghosts that help me.
Bird is the Word: good
Raven: yeah Robin’s been on a big “no titan by themselves” kick since BoE
Sparrow: completely understandable. The twins have been inseparable since too
green bean: okay here me out: you could just go by Bow. then when you face your opponents you can go “bow before me”
green bean: wait a moment
Cyborg: honestly I’ve been feeling the separation anxiety since BoE too
green bean: okay ive got it. you could go by Bow and then say youve got a present wrapped in a bow when you shoot someone
Sparrow: or I could not
Orange You Glad: what about Crossbow? I’ve seen you use them before and it sounds more dangerous than just bow or bowstring
Icy Dead People: I kinda like BB’s idea
Pawsome: Me too
Raven: the trifecta of bad-joke makers all agree
Pawsome: Ooh I’ve always wanted to be part of a trifecta
Icy Dead People: sweet we’re trifecta buddies!
green bean: trifecta buddies!
Raven: I may have regrets
Argent: what about Bullseye?
Sparrow: finallysomegoodfood.png
Bird is the Word: doesn’t that imply that you’re the target?
Sparrow: and you’ve ruined it
Dick and his Del-tones
Pink Hair and Pronouns: speaking of names, I have to come up with a new civilian name
One Man Geek Squad: Lucille? I know you used to go by Lucky
Pink Hair and Pronouns: no specifically because I want to leave “Lucky” far behind
Mom Friend: would you want it to start with a J? Jenna, Jasmine, Janice, Joyce
Asparagus: why do all your name suggestions sound like old woman?
Mom Friend: well what would you suggest?
Asparagus: cat
Pink Hair and Pronouns: like the animal?
windows no longer supports: aunt iris knows a cat
Pink Hair and Pronouns: like, she knows an animal cat?
windows no longer supports: no she works with a human named Cat
Attempted Murder: I assume you need a first, middle, and a last?
Pink Hair and Pronouns: yep
Attempted Murder: what about Morgan A. Chance?
Mom Friend: ooh
One Man Geek Squad: nice
windows no longer supports: that’s a good one
Pink Hair and Pronouns: that’s perfect thx Raven
Notes:
(Dick Dale and his Del-tones is like an old surfer style band or something)
Chapter 9: Chapter 8: Gotta Catch Them All
Summary:
Friend Jinx: wow you’re all a bunch of nerds
kentucky fried: youre surprised?
Friend Jinx: not really
Notes:
Nicknames:
Phantom: Icy Dead People/Phantastic
Sam: Doom Queen
Tucker: King Tut
Jazz: All That Jazz
Robin: Taillow
Jinx: Friend Jinx
Kid Flash: kentucky fried
Hotspot: Hot n Cold
Speedy: Sparrow
Beast Boy: green bean
Bumblebee: Bumblee
Rena Rouge: Orange You Glad
Chat Noir: Pawsome
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Team Phantom
Doom Queen: mom finally gave me my phone back what’d I miss?
Phantastic: not much honestly
Phantastic: Skulker came after me again on Monday but we dealt with him easily
King Tut: we went to the movies yesterday and managed to finish an entire movie this time
Doom Queen: sounds suspicious
Phantastic: idk I think the heatwave is keeping the ghosts away. It’s pretty brutal out here
Doom Queen: you better be hydrating
Phantastic: I am I am I swear!
All That Jazz: hi Sam! How’s your family vacation going?
Doom Queen: it sucks. Star City has so many interesting locations but my parents refuse to go to any of them! And none of the restaurants they’re dragging me to have good vegan options
All That Jazz: I’m sorry to hear that. Fortunately you’re almost done, and you’ll be back in Amity before you know it
Doom Queen: ugh I also hate how they always talk about boring topics and mind-numbing gossip but then get mad when I’m on my phone instead of talking to them. Like, I would talk to you if I thought you had anything interesting to say!
Phantastic: tell me about it
All That Jazz: just hold on a bit longer, you’ll be home soon!
Phantastic: oh btw if you see Green Arrow anywhere please give him some trouble apparently he’s a huge POS
Doom Queen: I do love giving old white men trouble
All That Jazz: what did GA do?
Phantastic: well you didn’t hear this from me, but he kicked Speedy out
King Tut: wait isn’t Speedy Flash’s sidekick?
Phantastic: no that’s Kid Flash
King Tut: wait for real? Why is GA’s sidekick called speedy? Isn’t he just another archer?
Phantastic: I don’t know and I don’t think he’d appreciate me asking
Doom Queen: he needs a better name. Like Robin Hood
King Tut: but there’s already a Robin Hood inspired hero?
Doom Queen: true
Doom Queen: bullseye?
Phantastic: wait is Robin’s name inspired by Robin Hood?
King Tut: yes? At least I’ve always assumed so
Phantastic: huh
Doom Queen: that doesn’t make sense either Robin’s not an archer or a thief
Phantastic: brb I’m going to go ask him
Titans General Chat
Icy Dead People: hey Robin are you on rn?
Taillow: yeah what’s up?
Ladybug: oh are we doing Pokemon names now?
Ladybug name changed to Ledyba
Raven changed name to Murkrow
Aqualad changed name to Tentacool
Friend Jinx: wow you’re all a bunch of nerds
Hot n Cold changed name to Scorbunny
kentucky fried: youre surprised?
Friend Jinx: not really
Icy Dead People: are you named after Robin Hood?
Icy Dead People changed name to Phantump
Taillow: no lol but I get that a lot
Cyborg changed name to Klang
Jericho changed name to Drowzee
kentucky fried: wow an entire list of superheroes choosing pokemon and none of you choose fighting type
green bean changed name to monferno
kentucky fried: well it doesnt count after i said something
Starfire changed name to Throh
Taillow: the tldr version is I like high places and pre-hero people compared me to perching birds like robins
Phantump: oh cool
Sparrow: I appreciate you being the only “sidekick” to use your own name and not something your mentor choose or a variant of their name
Throh: can confirm that Robin is very much like the birds on this Earth
Bumblee: but you can’t actually fly, right?
Taillow: unfortunately no
kentucky fried: wait non-powered titans if you could have any power what would it be?
Ledyba: flight
Sparrow: but you do have powers?
Ledyba: I have magical jewelry that gives me powers, but if I personally had powers, it would be flying
Orange You Glad: I think I would like superspeed
Pawsome: Superspeed probably
Orange You Glad: oh twinsies!
Sparrow: I’d some invulnerability actually
Tentacool: you’d do what to some invulnerability?
Sparrow: I’d like some and also shut up
Throh: I would like it if Robin had some invulnerability
Klang: me too
monferno: yeah seriously
Murkrow: that would be nice
Taillow: invulnerability would just slow me down
monferno: dude
Murkrow: if I ever go gray it’s your fault
Notes:
Had a fun time looking up all those pokemon!
Chapter 10: Chapter 9: Punday Monday on a Sunday
Summary:
Phantump: you know the punchline to every joke or something?
Pipikek: I grew up dealing with Gotham villains
Notes:
A shorter chapter, but life’s been busy.
Pawsome: Chat Noir
monferno: Beast Boy
Murkrow: Raven
Pipikek: Robin
Throh: Starfire
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
Phantump: Phantom
Klang: Cyborg
Catfighter Supreme: Panthera
Drowzee: Jericho
Sparrow: Speedy
Ledyba: Ladybug
Tentacool: Aqualad
Harold: Herald
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Pawsome: Happy Punday Monday! What’s the difference between a piano, tuna, and a stick of glue?
monferno: ?????? i woudlve sworn that today was sunday
Murkrow: that’s because it is
Pipikek: Paris is like nine hours ahead of Jump.
Pipikek: also you can tuna piano but you can’t piano a tuna
Throh: very creative!
Pawsome: Is there really such a big difference in time between us? I had no idea
kentucky fried: wait what about the glue
Pawsome: I knew you’d get stuck on that
kentucky fried: lol
Throh: because glue is sticky, correct?
Pawsome: Exactly
Phantump: it’s still sunday here but I have a pun for you: when does a joke become a dad joke?
Pipikek: when the punchline becomes apparent?
Phantump: you know the punchline to every joke or something?
Pipikek: I grew up dealing with Gotham villains
Phantump: oh right
Throh: please I do not get the joke
Klang: say “apparent” out loud
Throh: oh I see! A dad is a parent!
Catfighter Supreme: hey just a heads up those of us not familiar with pokemon are having a hard time remembering who’s who
Red Star: experiencing the same issue here
Pipikek: that’s fair, let’s all change it back
Pipikek name changed to Red Robin. Yum.
Throh name changed to Starfire
monferno name changed to green bean
Murkrow name changed to Attempted Murder
Phantump name changed to Icy Dead People
Red Robin. Yum.: I’ll remind Titans East when they get back on
Sparrow: I’m on I’ll remind Aqualad
Klang name changed to Cy’s Your Guy
Drowzee changed name to Luting in the Streets
Pawsome: Jericho you play the lute?
Luting in the Streets: a little
Pawsome: Awesome
Ledyba name changed to Bug Lady
Luting in the Streets: playing music helps me meditate
Bug Lady: you and Viperion would get along well I think
Pawsome: Oh totally
Tentacool name changed to Giant Squid
Giant Squid: who wants to help me chase down Speedy for waking me up to change my name in the chat
kentucky fried: on my way
Harold: you need an escape, Speedy?
Sparrow: yes please
Notes:
Until next time!
Chapter 11: Chapter 10: hahahaha oops
Summary:
Lucky Charm: you would never believe what I just did
Chat-aclysm: drop your phone?
Ninetails: drop your phone?
Not a Ninja: drop your phone?
Sharp as Steel: Did you drop your phone again?
Notes:
Nicknames:
Ninetails: Rena Rouge
Like a Good Neigh-bor: Pegasus
Lucky Charm: Ladybug
Sharp as Steel: Ryuko
Chat-aclsym: Chat Noir
Not a Ninja: Carapace
major scales: Viperion
monkey busness: Roi Singe
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Team Miraculous
Ninetails: heads up the Ladyblogger has given tomorrow an Akuma rating of 9
Like A Good Neigh-bor: how do you know? Neither the Ladyblog nor her Twitter page has updated yet
Lucky Charm: we ran into the Ladyblogger at the Akuma today and she let us know
Ninetails: yeah exactly
Sharp as Steel: Was she able to record any of the fight?
Lucky Charm: unfortunTfggcz
Chat-aclysm: ladybug?
Ninetails: babe?
Lucky Charm: you would never believe what I just did
Chat-aclysm: drop your phone?
Ninetails: drop your phone?
Not a Ninja: drop your phone?
Sharp as Steel: Did you drop your phone again?
monkey busness: did mnow one else see rena call lb babe?
Not a Ninja: they’ve been dating for like a month my dude
monkey busness: !
Sharp as Steel: I also did not know. Congratulations.
major scales: whats up with akuma rating? did she say?
Ninetails: something about another game show filming
Chat-aclysm: Why do we even let game shows film in Paris anymore?
Ninetails: I guess people still need jobs or something
Like A Good Neigh-bor: I just looked it up. They’ll be at the Eiffel Tower tomorrow, which is one of the highest Akuma hotspots. Fortunately, tomorrow is not a high-traffic day for tourists. This will be the only episode this particular game show will be having in Paris.
Lucky Charms: thanks Pegasus
Rena Rouge started a chat
Rena Rouge added Ladybug and Carapace into the chat
Rena Rouge: hahahaha oops
Rena Rouge: anyways thanks for the save babe
Carapace: maybe it’s time for another picture of the two of you together?
Rena Rouge: my and lb?
Rena Rouge: *me
Ladybug: I think he means civilian you and RR
Ladybug: I wouldn’t overthink it. Alya and RR have been seen in the same place enough times it’s not suspicious that you’d be able to talk to you
Ladybug: although I’m not against another picture if you can make it seem like you took it at the Akuma earlier
Carapace: hey LB Rena knows your civilian identity, right? She can do the same for you if you want
Ladybug: good point. But civilian me doesn’t have as good of a reason to be near akumas as the Ladyblogger herself does
Rena Rouge: I’m sure we can think of something
Notes:
Sorry for the lack of updates! New job and new schedule = new lack of energy
Chapter 12: Chapter 11: Independence Day Eve
Summary:
Cy’s Your Guy: and you’re okay?
Argent: no but for reasons completely unrelated
Notes:
Nicknames:
Robin Egg Blue: Robin
Harold: Herald
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
green bean: Beast Boy
Bumblee: Bumblebee
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
Friend Jinx: Jinx
Catfighter Supreme: Panthera
Icy Dead People: Phantom
Secret Santa: Kole
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Attempted Murder: Raven
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Robin Egg Blue: heads up, Fourth of July is tomorrow. We all probably have different feelings about this day, but the Jump City fireworks show is amazing and we can see it from the top of our tower if anyone wants to come
Harold: I’m free to play taxi again
Starfire: fireworks are beautiful! I am always excited to see them!
kentucky fried: im being deagged to something with my parenfs
green bean: you’re being deaged?
kentucky fried: dragged
Bumblee: heads up we just got visited by Control Freak and it sounds like he might pay the other titans a visit
Argent: I’d like to see him try. We are being overrun by evil snowmen
Cy’s Your Guy: big oof
Cy’s Your Guy: also I will be cooking for tomorrow
Friend Jinx: sorry babe I’m cancelling on you I love Cy’s cooking
kentucky fried: fair
Bumblee: Titan’s East will be there so you better cook a lot
Catfighter Supreme: control freak? lol
Catfighter Supreme: he will pose no threat to us
Icy Dead People: 4th of july is always crazy in amity so im not expecting ill make it
Robin Egg Blue: do you need any extra help Phantom?
Icy Dead People: no im good but thanks
Red Star: I have no inclination to celebrate an American holiday but Cyborg’s cooking does sound good
Cy’s Your Guy: it makes me happy to be able to feed people
Argent: youre so dad-coded sometimes
Cy’s Your Guy: sorry what?
Robin Egg Blue: Titans West and Team Miraculous?
Bumblee: is Titans West even on here? I haven’t heard from them
Bushido: I’m usually training, Lightning and Thunder keep breaking their devices, and the kids are too young to be on the chat
Starfire: Bushido! Hi!
Bushido: hello Starfire
Bushido: I do think Red Star is right. I dislike celebrating American holidays, but Cyborg’s cooking is not to be missed
Giant Squid: I just googled it and I think the French team is a little busy
Giant Squid: img127777.png
Argent: as much as I complain about our snowmen I am glad that I don’t deal with akumas
Secret Santa: the snowmen aren’t that bad as long as you don’t let them eat you
Cy’s Your Guy: excuse me?
Secret Santa: Gnarrk wants food but I don’t think he’d like fireworks
Cy’s Your Guy: that’s fine you guys can leave before the firework show if you want. Can we get back to the snowmen eating you?
Secret Santa: it’s not a big deal I just turn crystal and they can’t stomach me
Cy’s Your Guy: what about the other members of your team?
Argent: well Red Star is radioactive so they don’t try to eat him, and Gnarrk is hard to catch, so I’m the one who keeps getting eaten
Cy’s Your Guy: and you’re okay?
Argent: no but for reasons completely unrelated
Hot n Cold: quick question: do your snowmen melt?
Red Star: no
Argent: no
Secret Santa: no
Robin Egg Blue: they do not, or I would’ve mentioned it to you earlier
Icy Dead People: if you need someone who can handle the cold and not get eaten, I could always visit
Icy Dead People: heard the stars are beautiful up where you’re all at
Red Star: they are. I’ll let you help if you let someone help you tomorrow
Icy Dead People: …
Icy Dead People: okay fair
kentucky fried: i volunteer i need an excuse not to be at my parents tomorrow and flash abandoned me for a jl mission
Attempted Murder: ngl I would love a chance to learn more about ghosts and the ghost zone
Icy Dead People: I mean sure. I’d love to talk about ghosts to someone who doesn’t hate them just for being ghosts and I’m always up for providing an excuse to not be with your parents
kentucky fried: thanks dude
Attempted Murder: I’ll see you then
Notes:
Don’t forget to leave out cookies and milk for Captain America tonight!
Chapter 13: Chapter 12: untitled-doc-(1)-(1)-(2)
Summary:
Phantom: have you ever broken a bone and needed a cast
Raven: I have healing magic so no
Notes:
Just a short little chapter to follow up yesterday’s.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Phantom created Fourth of July chat
Phantom added Raven and Kid Flash
Kid Flash name changed to kfc
Phantom: alright I asked my friend T to help with this but this is the basics on who’s going to be causing problems today
Phantom: untitled-doc-(1)-(1)-(2).doc
Raven: I’m going to hack into your computer system and changed your document names I swear
kfc: ooh that thermos design is nice
kfc: ive been studying ecology but i havent gotten a chance to see designs this advanced
kfc: although that battery design can probably be improved on. if your up to looking at it
Phantom: yeah sure
kfc: fenton-thermos-design1.doc
Phantom: wow you did that fast
kfc: suurspeed
kfc: *superspeed
Phantom: so your speed doesn’t just speed your body up, but also your mind?
kfc: yep
Phantom: cool
kfc: i think so
Raven: do you know how being in a thermos affects the ghost?
Phantom: unfortunately
Raven: what was it like
Phantom: have you ever broken a bone and needed a cast
Raven: I have healing magic so no
Phantom: oh sweet
Phantom: well that’s what I always think of being in the thermos as
Phantom: it’s kinda itchy, and there’s no way to scratch it, and it’s kinda sweaty, and it’s mean to put someone in one if they don’t need it, but putting someone in one that will otherwise be hurt or hurt others for a brief time is fine
kfc: yeah thats about what a cast feels like
Raven: didn’t you say you had speed healing?
kfc: i do but i still need a cast sometimes if the injury takes more than a few hours to heal
kfc: plus if any of my civilian classmates hear about it
kfc: once a civilian classmate got suspicious so i pretended to break my leg and wore a cast for six weeks as a civilian while being active as kid flash
Phantom: did that work?
kfc: it did but i still stand by that it was unnecessary
Raven: then why’d you do it?
kfc: it was robin’s idea
Raven: ofc it was
kfc: anyways @phantom where do you want us to meet you?
Phantom: at the park. I know Raven’s been there she can show you
kfc: cool be there in like five
Notes:
Be safe with any explosives please! Lets not burn down anything and not completely ruin the air quality for tomorrow.
Chapter 14: Chapter 13: Story Time With Beast Boy 1
Summary:
Attempted Murder: oh gods I remember this
green bean: shush im telling a story
Notes:
Nicknames:
green bean: Beast Boy
Attempted Murder: Raven
Robin a Bank: Robin
Catfighter Supreme: Panthera
Giant Squid: Aqualad
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
green bean: so i just randomly remembered this time that no one on the team was paying attention to me
green bean: so i got all sad and started moping around jump city
green bean: i was trying to impress these random girls i saw
green bean: so i turned into a dog
Attempted Murder: oh gods I remember this
green bean: shush im telling a story
green bean: anyways, completely unknownst to me, at that particular moment in time there was a different green dog that was actually an alien
Bug Lady: oh no
Robin a Bank: unknownst?
green bean: and it had this… master? pet? i still dont know what was going on with them but the other alien was sad that the dog left
green bean: so i got kidnapped because he mistook me for the other green dog
green bean: i tried to reason with him but it wasnt working and the alien just tried to leave with me on his ship?
green bean: the other titans finally showed up and were enough of a distraction i could sneak out
green bean: and then the other green dog showed up and renegotiated things and the two of them just left?
green bean: anyways that was easily in my top ten of weirdest days of my life
Catfighter Supreme: wtf
Giant Squid: only top ten?
green bean: ive had a weird life dude
Notes:
Hope y’all have a good week
Chapter 15: Chapter 14: Training Day
Summary:
green bean: yeah no one is evil on thrusdays
Attempted Murder: thrusdays?
Notes:
Heads up there is a link in here I do not know what it goes to irl so don’t click it
Nicknames:
Bumblee: Bumblebee
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
Attempted Murder: Raven
Bug Lady: Ladybug
Nest Egg: Robin
Friend Jinx: Jinx
Harold: Herald
Orange You Glad: Rena Rouge
green bean: Beast Boy
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titan General Chat
Bumblee: hey y’all, not-speedy just installed some killer training equipment here at Titans East Tower if anyone wants to come try it out
Giant Squid: it’s not literally killing anyone just fyi
Cy’s Your Guy: ooooh I love training equipment
Cy’s Your Guy: please tell me you have a new obstacle course those are my favorites
Attempted Murder: Cyborg does love his obstacle courses
Bumblee: we have two. One for flying and one for the rest of you
Argent: a flying based one does sound fun
Bug Lady: that sounds great! I’ve never used real training gear before
Red Star: the lack of training Team Miraculous has concerns me
Nest Egg: yeah same
Bumblee: well if you want to bring the rest of your team down the course is open to everyone but Jinx
Starfire: wait why is our friend Jinx excluded?
Friend Jinx: I might have a record of destroying every training simulation and obstacle course I’ve been on
Friend Jinx: still I might come and judge everyone
Giant Squid: bring snacks
Friend Jinx: I will if KF doesn’t eat them all before we arrive
Cy’s Your Guy: well if this is going to be An Event then I will bring stuff to cookout
Giant Squid: we should do a pot-luck
Attempted Murder: why? Can’t we just let Cyborg cook? His food is the best anyways
Cy’s Your Guy: awww thanks Ray
Giant Squid: I mean yeah but I can’t be the only one that feels weird that it’s always Cyborg bringing the food
Cy’s Your Guy: but I like being the one bringing the food
Red Star: it could be nice to have some non-American food for once
Bug Lady: fair point. I can bring some pastries from a local bakery for something more European
Bushido: then I’ll provide the Asian food
Bug Lady: you better not be acting like sushi is the be all end all of Asian food
Bushido: but you literally just called Parisian pastries European?
Bug Lady: yes but I’m Parisian but not Japanese so
Bushido: ahh I see
Harold: what part of Asia is your family from? I can probably pick up something from there for you
Bug Lady: Shanghai
Bug Lady: okay I at least have Ryuko and Roi Singe interested in the training. What day works best?
Nest Egg: historically Thursdays are best
green bean: yeah no one is evil on thrusdays
Attempted Murder: thrusdays?
Orange You Glad: yeah the stats say akumas are less likely on Thursday. I guess people hate Mondays, hump day is exhausting, and on Fridays and the weekends people get up to Akuma-causing trouble
Orange You Glad: ladyblog.com/akumastats
Red Star: evil snowmen are a problem every day of the week
Red Star: but we will still try to come on Thursday
Secret Santa: I will bring pie
Bumblee: ooh yum
Notes:
Until next time!
Chapter 16: Chapter 15: Tomato/Tomato, Bullet/Bulette
Summary:
Giant Squid: oh come on Roi was a lot of fun
Bug Lady: he tried to out swim a shark
Giant Squid: it was a friendly shark
Notes:
Nicknames:
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Sparrow: Speedy
Attempted Murder: Raven
Pawsome: Chat Noir
Angry Bird: Robin
green bean: Beast Boy
Luting in the Streets: Jericho
Bug Lady: Ladybug
Orange You Glad: Rena Rouge
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
Friend Jinx: Jinx
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Cy’s Your Guy: 10 photos
Cy’s Your Guy: from our zoo trip yesterday
Giant Squid: ooh that looks like fun
Sparrow: nice
Starfire: it was much fun! Beast Boy is especially knowledgeable about the animals on this planet
Attempted Murder: yeah it’s weird when Beast Boy actually acts intelligently
Pawsome: BB you can’t act intelligent you’re ruining our brand
green bean: sorry i just like animals
Luting in the Streets: bb is actually very intelligent?
Attempted Murder: being intelligent and acting intelligent are two very different things
Angry Bird: I saw BB struggle to open a door for five minutes once
Sparrow: pushing a pull door or vice versa?
Angry Bird: no
Angry Bird: he forgot to unlock it
green bean: look
green bean: actually no i dont have an excuse i was just having a moment
Bug Lady: I’ve done that
Bug Lady: tbf I was running on fifteen minutes of sleep
Pawsome: fifteen minutes?
Bug Lady: blame the akumas
Bushido: Ladybug, hello. You still haven’t added Ryuko and Roi Singe
Bug Lady: I’m not sure if I’m ready for Roi Singe to meet BB and Phantom but I can add Ryuko
Giant Squid: oh come on Roi was a lot of fun
Bug Lady: he tried to out swim a shark
Giant Squid: it was a friendly shark
Orange You Glad: you should add Carapace too. He has seniority over the others
Bug Lady: true. And I can trust him to behave himself
Orange You Glad: I wouldn’t go that far
Carapace, Ryuko, and Roi Singe have been added to the chat
Carapace: oh sweet
Ryuko: hello all
Ryuko name changed to Sharp as Steel
Bug Lady: Roi Singe is at an event right now I don’t think he has his phone
Carapace: dude is always busy. Last few akumas both of us were at he arrived soaking wet
Carapace: really hoping he’s on a swim team or something
Bug Lady: luckily there are not a lot of sharks in Paris
Pawsome: save for that one time with the Akuma
Bug Lady: oh yeah that was a fun one
green bean: was that the one that flooded paris
Bug Lady: no it was a foreigner who felt like a fish out of water so he changed people into fish out of water
Giant Squid: as a literal fish out of water I can understand the urge
Pawsome: actually I was talking about that aquarium employee
Bug Lady: ohhhh that one
Bug Lady: that was less fun.
Carapace: technically those were bulettes
kentucky fried: like the dnd monster?
Carapace: yeah
Friend Jinx: nerds
Bug Lady: no bulettes have armor and legs. These were flying sharks
kentucky fried: yeah you cant just call any landshark a bullet
Carapace: … because it’s spelled bulette?
Orange You Glad: babe you have no right to be criticizing other peoples spelling, you know that, right?
Friend Jinx: babe? I thought yoi were dating Ladybug?
Orange You Glad: lol I am. Carapace and I used to date before that, before I realized I was gay. We parted on good terms so I guess I never thought to stop calling him babe
Bug Lady: anyways babes and not babes we’ve gotta go. Akuma @ Eiffel Tower
Sharp as Steel: will you need all of us, Ladybug?
Orange You Glad: you near a window, Ry?
Sharp as Steel: yes and now I’m assuming a yes
Cy’s Your Guy: best of luck Team Miraculous!
Notes:
Well this was supposed to be more about the zoo visit but it got away from me a little. Oops.
Chapter 17: Chapter 16: Not Thinking Straight
Summary:
Bumblee: I think he’s just tired and not thinking straight
Giant Squid: well I don’t do “straight” so
Attempted Murder: understandable
Notes:
Oof got behind on replying to comments but I appreciate every one of them!
Nicknames:
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
green bean: Beast Boy
Sparrow: Speedy
Icy Dead People: Phantom
Bumblee: Bumblebee
Ribbon: Robin
Attempted Murder: Raven
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
Friend Jinx: Jinx
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Giant Squid: back from that fun trip. What were we talking about?
Cy’s Your Guy: we weren’t?
green bean: dude the chats been quiet all day
Giant Squid: were we not having a discussion before Triton appeared?
Cy’s Your Guy: no
Giant Squid: huh
Giant Squid: I would’ve sworn we were talking about something important
Sparrow: you weren’t even awake before we left though?
Giant Squid: I wasn’t?
Sparrow: nope. You were dead asleep. Missed Bumblebee’s alert so I had to go and wake you. Literally had to pull you out of your bed before you’d wake up
Giant Squid: so I was asleep? And dreaming? And what I was dreaming of was this chat?
Cy’s Your Guy: apparently
Giant Squid: weird
Icy Dead People: do you usually have such vivid dreams?
Giant Squid: I’ve never had any dream that I thought was real before
Bumblee: in Aqualad’s defense, we had a really weird day before he went to sleep
Bumblee: I know the twins were having some weird dreams when I woke them up
green bean: ive had some weird dreams after missions
Sparrow: I mean, me too, but I never thought they were real?
Giant Squid: but it wasn’t a weird dream, it was just vivid
Giant Squid: I could’ve sworn that we were talking about something important
Ribbon: important? In this chat?
Giant Squid: fair enough
Attempted Murder: there are certain substances that can make dreams feel more lifelike
Bumblee: I think he’s just tired and not thinking straight
Giant Squid: well I don’t do “straight” so
Attempted Murder: understandable
Ribbon: sounds like Aqualad should be going back to bed?
kentucky fried: hypocrite
Attempted Murder: hypocrite
green bean: hypocxeure
Cy’s Your Guys: and this is coming from you?
Friend Jinx: lol
Ribbon: bb you alright?
green bean: yeah im just textung and okaying video games
Cy’s Your Guy: okaying?
Attempted Murder: okaying?
green bean: plaging
green bean: can we go back to dogpiling rob jnstead?
Cy’s Your Guy: we’re multitasking
Attempted Murder: and yet we can still spell
Icy Dead People: happy moon landing day btw
Icy Dead People: I’ve been blasting this playlist all day long: spotify-moon-playlist . com
kentucky fried: happy moon landing! uncle f jinx and me are going to this really cool talk about later
Giant Squid: okay looks like I need to do some googling
Icy Dead People: I can dm you the information if you want?
Giant Squid: yes please
Cy’s Your Guy: I forgot that was coming up, been so busy with these puppets. Happy moon landing day!
Friend Jinx: nerds
Bumblee: puppets?
Attempted Murder: you don’t want to know
Giant Squid: you know, I wasn’t expecting to be impressed until I saw that date. That was so long ago? You didn’t even know that we were on the bottom of the ocean but you made it to the moon?
kentucky fried: in complete fairness i dont think we know whats on the bottom of the ocean yet
Cy’s Your Guy: not completely, no. Working with the Atlanteans has expedited it a little but the ocean is huge
Starfire: yes the oceans of Earth are much interesting. Tamaran had water features but not with such depth. In fact, the lack of large water areas is one of the reasons Tamaran weather is so much more severe than Earth’s
Icy Dead People: takingnotes.png
Friend Jinx: I joke about you guys being nerds but it’s honestly so cool how much everyone knows about different stuff
Notes:
Random headcanon but going with space as being one of Danny’s ghost obsessions, I hc that ghosts don’t bother him as much on 7/20 since it’s such an interesting day for his obsession and makes him more powerful
Chapter 18: Interlude 1: Secret Identities
Notes:
A little interlude to develop… not plot. Character relations? I guess?
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Interlude 1: Secret Identities
Ladybug landed on the roof and blew a strand of hair out of her face.
This fight was not going well.
They needed reinforcements. Chat Noir’s timer had already run out, and Rena Rouge was acting as a distraction while Ladybug tried to think. She knew what allies she needed, what miraculous to give out, but a bigger question was weighing on her.
How did she get back to her room?
Alya was the only other person who knew where the miraculous were, and even then she didn’t know the exact location in Marinette’s room. And Alya was very busy at the moment.
Right now, the three of them were miles from the Dupain-Cheng bakery, and giant robot dogs were roaming the streets recording everything. Even if Marinette decided on someone she trusted, there was always the chance of being caught by the dogs.
I need advice, she decided.
Marinette grabbed her yo-yo and navigated to where it was connected to the Titan’s communication system. She clicked on Robin’s name, and he picked up almost instantly.
“I need advice,” Marinette said.
Robin looked busy, the background rushing by as he zoomed upwards - using his grappling line, maybe. Green flashed behind him as he landed on a roof.
“Okay,” Robin said. “What’s up?”
Marinette quickly described the situation - neither of them had a lot of time at the moment.
“Okay,” Robin said. He tossed a birdarang over his shoulder without looking, and something exploded. “Would you trust another titan with that?”
“Maybe,” Marinette replied, “but a superhero would be obvious, and he has these dogs everywhere.”
“What about Phantom?”
“Phantom?”
She had met him a few times now, and he seemed a trustworthy friend. But why-
“He can turn invisible,” Marinette remembered.
“And intangible,” Robin added. “Perfect for sneaking past those dogs. I know it’s a scary idea, but I know you’ll make the right decision.”
It was a scary idea. But so was continuing to fight this akuma without backup, or risking going back to her place herself. And she didn’t have time to antagonize over it.
“I’ll call him,” Marinette decided. “Thanks.”
Marinette pushed the door open to her room and forced herself to ignore her bed. Instead, she pulled out the miraculous box.
Phantom had done a good job putting everything back to where it had been. He’d also shown up, dropped off the miraculous, and disappeared without asking questions.
Still, now that the immediate danger had passed, Marinette worried.
At least Phantom wasn’t Parisian. He wouldn’t recognize the bakery name, and Marinette hadn’t given him hers. Coming to her place once wasn’t enough to memorize the route, not the way Alya and Nino had. And who would guess that an American ghost knew who Ladybug was, much less manage to capture him.
Marinette’s phone beeped.
Tikki floated over Marinette’s shoulder to peak at the phone.
“It’s Phantom,” Marinette said, unlocking her phone. “He’s asking if it’s okay to meet here to talk.”
She sent back a quick yes and pushed the miraculous box back in place.
The other kwamis were popping in and out of the box, at their own will. Most seemed to pick up on Marinette’s anxiety and exhaustion and weren’t bothering her - Wayzz had landed on her knee in silent support. As usual, Barkk was at her computer, watching something.
The air temperature dropped a little as Phantom appeared.
“Hey,” he said.
“Hey,” Marinette replied.
“Look.” Phantom scratched the back of his head, the same way Chat Noir did when he was nervous. “I know it was necessary, but I still appreciate being trusted. I promise I won’t tell anyone.”
Marinette gently shook Wayzz off her knee before standing up. “I know you won’t. And I really do appreciate the help.”
“Do your parents know?” Phantom asked.
“No,” Marinette said. “Only Rena does, really.”
“That’s hard,” Phantom said.
“It is.”
Phantom stood there, a little awkward. Marinette slumped into her desk chair - awkwardness aside, she was exhausted.
The movement took Barkk out of the show they were watching. He popped up and, for the first time, noticed Phantom in the room.
Marinette had messaged herself on the secure messaging system she and Tikki had set up, to tell Barkk to expect and help Phantom. Barkk was a lot like the dogs he was supposed to represent - he would make a fuss if someone he didn’t know came into Marinette’s room, but he was easily won over once he knew someone was safe.
Phantom must have made a good impression, because Barkk darted over and started hugging him aggressively on the cheek. It made Phantom laugh.
“Nice to see you too, Barkk,” Phantom said, reaching one hand up to scratch Barkk’s head.
Marinette smiled. Something about seeing how well Barkk liked Phantom put her at ease.
Tikki must have felt similar. She had hid when Phantom appeared, but now returned to Marinette’s shoulder.
“You must be the ladybug kwami,” Phantom guessed.
Tikki nodded. “I’m Tikki. Thank you for your help today, Phantom. It’s nice to meet you.”
Phantom nodded his head in return. “And it’s nice to meet you too.”
“So,” Marinette said. “This is your first time in Paris, correct? How do you like it?”
“It’s big,” Phantom replied. “And crowded. Everything is on top of each other. And the catacombs are packed with ectoplasm.”
“They do have an interesting magical energy,” Tikki agreed. “Ladybug, Rena Rouge, and I have been talking about looking into them when Hawkmoth is defeated.”
“That sounds fun,” Phantom replied. “Look, I came back because - well, Barkk asked me to, but also. I know that took a lot of trust, and I thought it would be good to even that out, you know? A secret for a secret.”
Marinette should say no. There was no reason for Phantom tell her anything, not strategically, not logically.
But one part of her did agree with Phantom. A secret for a secret.
Phantom closed his eyes, and changed . It reminded Marinette of detransforming, of returning to her normal self after a battle. Phantom’s white hair turned black, his skin went from white to, well, he was still white, but in a human, alive way. He opened his eyes - still green, but not glowing.
“Wha-“
“I’m a half-ghost,” Phantom said.
“Half ghost?” Marinette asked.
“I’ve heard of that,” Tikki said. “It’s supposed to be very rare.”
“There’s two of us,” Phantom said. “I think I’ve mentioned I was electrocuted? It happened while I was inside this portal so I died, but I didn’t.”
“So you’re still partially alive?” Marinette asked. “How does that work? Do you have - wait, do you have a secret identity?”
“I do.” Phantom held his hand out. “I’m Danny.”
Marinette took his head. “It’s nice to meet you, Danny. I’m Marinette.”
Notes:
Will have a follow up chapter, hopefully up tomorrow.
Chapter 19: Chapter 17: Fallout
Summary:
Not a Ninja: don’t you mean, for real?
Chat-aclysm: that’s what I said?
Not a Ninja: I meant fur real. Autocorrect
Notes:
Hahaha totally meant to post this yesterday.
Nicknames:
Lucky Charm: Ladybug
Ninetails: Rena Rouge
Not a Ninja: Carapace
Chat-aclysm: Chat Noir
major scales: Viperion
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Robin started a chat with Ladybug
Robin: hey
Robin: look, I don’t want to tell you how to do your job
Ladybug: no please do I have no idea what I’m doing
Robin: okay. Have you heard the phrase don’t put all your eggs in one basket?
Ladybug: frequently. Rena quotes it at me all the time when I drop things
Robin: has it occurred to you that you are keeping all your eggs in one basket with the miraculous all being in one spot
Ladybug: huh
Ladybug: I’m doing what the last guardian of the miraculous did, I didn’t even think if it was a good idea
Robin: tbf people often have a reason for doing things, especially when it comes to tradition
Ladybug: true
Ladybug: I’m going to ask Tikki, see if she knows
Robin: Tikki?
Ladybug: oh right! She’s the ladybug kwami. I think we’ve mentioned kwamis before?
Robin: you have mentioned kwamis, just not by name
Ladybug: right. Anyways I talked to her about it and she said that miracle boxes used to live in strongly guarded fortresses, so it was easier to retrieve. Also another of the kwamis here muttered something about status and power so there might be non-strategic reasons involved
Robin: yeah power and status come up a lot when looking into traditions
Ladybug: I’d have to ask each kwami individually to see what they’re comfortable with, but if they were interested in a change, what would you suggest?
Robin: At the very least, a secondary location with one or two miraculouses, for if you get stuck away from the primary location or the primary location is discovered. Maybe someone else to hold onto them that you trust, like Rena
Ladybug: Rena has many little supplies
Ladybug: *siblinfs
Robin: understandable, little kids get into everything. The Titans have an old bunker outside of the city you can use.
Ladybug: let me think about it and talk to the kwamis
Robin: sounds good. Let me know what you decide
Ladybug: I will!
Ladybug: your French is very good, btw
Robin: thanks. I actually spent a lot of time in France growing up. Never made it to Paris, though
Ladybug: sweet
Team Miraculous
Queen Bee has been added to the chat
Lucky Charm: alright everybody be nice to each other. I’m going to take a nap. Chat’s in charge
Chat-aclysm: Wait for real? You never leave me in charge
Not a Ninja: don’t you mean, for real?
Chat-aclysm: that’s what I said?
Not a Ninja: I meant fur real. Autocorrect
Queen Bee: oh hi. I promise to be nice
Queen Bee: but also does anyone else get sore after a battle? Pollen says the miracle cure should fix all injuries but my muscles are killing me
Ninetails: oh yeah that’s totally a thing. Miracle cure cures injuries but not sore muscles or exhaustion
major scales: hence lb’s nap
Not a Ninja: hence?
Queen Bee: wait I’m bad with peoples names who’s who
Chat-aclysm: I’m Chat Noir, Lucky Charm is lb, Ninetails is arena, Not a Ninja is Carapace, major scales is Viperion
Ninetails: arena?
Chat-aclysm: sorry autocorrect
Chat-aclysm: Like A Good Neigh-bor is Pegasus, monkey busness is Roi Singe, Sharp as Steel is Ryuko
Queen Bee: thx
Ninetails: but arena? Really?
Chat-aclysm: I said I was sorry!
Ninetails: I’m feeling so attacked right now
Chat-aclysm: I didn’t mean it!
Ninetails name changed to Rena the Arena
Chat-aclysm: Don’t do this to me
Notes:
So I uh. Might have forgotten that Danny’s eyes are blue in human form. Which seems like a pretty big detail so idk how I forgot but… I did. Thanks to the commenter for pointing that out, and let’s all agree it’s a trick of the light.
Chapter 20: Chapter 18: The Extra Mile
Summary:
Row the Bin: row the bin? KF are you running out of ideas?
kentucky fried: still not me
Notes:
Nicknames:
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Bug Lady: Ladybug
green bean: Beast Boy
Orange You Glad: Rena Rouge
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
Attempted Murder: Raven
Sparrow: Speedy
Row the Bin: Robin
kentucky fried: Kid flash
Sharp as Steel: Ryuko
Icy Dead People: Phantom
Pawsome: Chat Noir
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Chapter 18: The Extra Mile
Titans General Chat
Giant Squid: Roi Singe you are a roll model for me
Bug Lady: don’t encourage him!
green bean: wait whatd he do i missed it
Roi Singe: I just did what Ladybug asked?
Bug Lady: I mean, yes, but still.
Orange You Glad: there’s a video on the Ladyblog showing what happened
green bean: oh sweet
Cy’s Your Guy: you parisians are lucky, none of the reporters in Jump City get good videos
green bean: yeah cause ravs weird powers screw with camera
Attempted Murder: if you aren’t careful, my “weird” powers will screw with you
Bug Lady: it’s like I asked you to run a 5k and you did a marathon. Technically you did, but you also ran the extra mile. Or thirty or so
Sparrow: a 5k is 3 miles, a marathon 26. 26 - 3 does not extra 30?
Row the Bin: I think she was doing it in kilometers?
Row the Bin: row the bin? KF are you running out of ideas?
kentucky fried: still not me
Bug Lady: yeah I know I said miles but I was thinking kilometers
Orange You Glad: I’m just wondering how long it took you to come up with a sports metaphor
Bug Lady: oh I googled it
green bean: duuuude thats so cool
Giant Squid: I know right?
Sharp As Steel: I was also impressed
Roi Singe : ok sorry i walked away my mom needed sumthing but im back
Roi Singe name changed to marathon monkey
green bean: dude what even is your power
marathon monkey: me
marathon monkey: ?
green bean: yeah you
marathon monkey: the miraculous amps up a lot of my physical aptitude and then I can mess with the akumas powers but only once
Row the Bin: all of the miraculous only work once, right?
Bug Lady: basically. The miraculous are tied to the kwamis who have immense power, so there’s a bunch of limits so the power doesn’t overwhelm us and all the magic is used with intent
green bean: i see
green bean: kinda reminds me of ravs powers
Attempted Murder: can you stop with the “rav”? Raven is literally two extra letters
green bean: sorry
Attempted Murder: but it does sound similar. If I’m not very careful with my powers, they’ll overwhelm me, and I have to know what I’m going to use them for before I start
Bug Lady: yeas essentially
Bug Lady: *yeah
green bean: magic seems dangerous
Attempted Murder: it is
Icy Dead People: yeah magic is dangerous and people should be careful with messing with it
Icy Dead People: in other news, what type of ghost attacks at one pm in July? It was so hot they were barely able to banter with me
Pawsome: Not being able to banter with the bad guy is the worst
Icy Dead People: for real
Icy Dead People: the worst part was that it was techno’s. He said he was attacking because he knows my heat tolerance is worse than most ghosts, created a super suit out of old cars, and then his suit preceded to overheat. Absolutely horrible time for both of us, 0/10 do not recommend
Icy Dead People: tech is. Stupid autocorrect.
Icy Dead People: TECHNUS HIS NAME IS TECHNIS
Icy Dead People: nvm
Cy’s Your Guy: technology do be overheating in this heat
Notes:
Finally saw the new superman movie and aaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa its so good
Chapter 21: Chapter 19: Paranoia
Summary:
Starfire: bold of you to assume Robin is the only one with separation issues
green bean: hey i had seperation issues before it was cool
Notes:
Nicknames:
Attempted Murder: Raven
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Catfighter Supreme: Panthera
Secret Santa: Kole
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
Sparrow: Speedy
green bean: Beast Boy
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
Luting in the Streets: Jericho
Bobbin: Robin
Bumblee: Bumblebee
Friend Jinx: Jinx
Harold: Herald
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Attempted Murder: does anyone want a free teammate? I’m looking to rehome Beast Boy
Giant Squid: we’ll take him
Catfighter Supreme: I’d gladly team up with Beast Boy again
Secret Santa: sure!
Bushido: I could always use more help
kentucky fried: hes always welcome to hang with jinx and i
Attempted Murder: great. I’ll have his bags packed in ten minutes, you all can decide who gets him first
Sparrow: wait what’d he do?
green bean: in my defense, the whip cream was meant for Cy
Cy’s Your Guy: bb you have got to work on your aim. I’m literally the largest titan in our building how do you keep missing me?
green bean: youre never where i think yoill be!
Luting in the Streets: is Beast Boy a regular prankster?
Attempted Murder: he tries
Luting in the Streets: so why is Robin so sure that it is Kid Flash who is constantly changing his name?
kentucky fried: good question
Bobbin: because bb has absolutely the worst luck when it comes to technology
green bean: this is very true
Bobbin: meanwhile kf managed to give himself superpowers on purpose
kentucky fried: it isnt me tho
Giant Squid: so is BB coming to Titan’s East or…?
green bean: ask robin
Bobbin: I’d prefer to keep BB on our team but if he wants to go he can go
Bobbin: temporarily he can go. Like, a weekend
Cy’s Your Guy: yeah Robin has separation issues with us
Starfire: bold of you to assume Robin is the only one with separation issues
green bean: hey i had seperation issues before it was cool
Cy’s Your Guy: sep a rat
green bean: do what to a rat
Cy’s Your Guy: sep it. It’s how I remember to spell separate
Attempted Murder: wouldn’t that be sepping a rate, not a rat?
Cy’s Your Guy: yeah that does make more sense actually
green bean: still unsure what a sep is
Bobbin: it’s what you do to a rate
green bean: that clears up absolutely nothing
Bobbin: glad I could help
Bumblee: jokes aside we could actually use BB’s help tonight. Aqualad has information that Triton’s going to make another attempt tonight and we’d all love to have some backup that can breathe underwater
green bean: yeah dude i can totally help out
Bobbin: that reminds me. I keep thinking I need to make a list of titans that can survive a gas attack re:scarecrow well. I’ve already been talking to Phantom about it, since he doesn’t need to breathe
Giant Squid: I am absolutely horrible in a gas attack because gas masks don’t always cover my gills. Even if I don’t breathe through them, they can get infected from it
Secret Santa: wait you have gills?
Giant Squid: very small ones. Most don’t notice them
Bobbin: good to know. BB also doesn’t do gas masks well since he shapeshifts, and I have Raven crossed off for anything that can affect emotions
Attempted Murder: very smart
Bumblee: any reason for the concern?
Bobbin: in complete honesty? No, just nightmares
Bumblee: understandable
Giant Squid: yeah we get that
kentucky fried: mood
Attempted Murder: yeah I figured
Red Star: if we’re talking about nightmares, does anyone have a plan for nuclear war?
Bobbin: yes
kentucky fried: yes
Bumblee: I do
Sparrow: yeah
Catfighter Supreme: of course
Bushido: I have a plan for a different situation that is similar enough to apply
Red Star: okay just checking
Bobbin: another backup plan I’ve been working on is for if the JL goes bad. It’s highly unlikely, but with mind control, magic, etc, it’s possible
Friend Jinx: oh hey KF and I were talking about that the other day
Giant Squid: not-speedy and I have talked about it too
Luting in the Streets: it’s come up a few times in our planning sessions as well
Harold: wow we’re a paranoid bunch, aren’t we?
Bobbin: I wouldn’t call it paranoia when it’s saved my life before
Attempted Murder: I would
Secret Santa: trust me, you don’t know paranoia until you’ve met my dad
Harold: fair enough
Notes:
Realized when editing this that I got Harold (the nickname) and Herald (real character’s name) mixed up. Fixed it, but might think about changing that nickname some time soon
Chapter 22: Chapter 20: Eggs in a Bucket
Summary:
Ladybug: ox. Don’t know why that corrected to Ozzie?
Chat Noir: lol imagine an Ozzie miraculous. What powers would that even be? A blast of rock music?
Chapter Text
Ladybug created Eggs in a Bucket chat
Ladybug added Chat Noir, Rena Rouge, and Robin to the chat
Ladybug: hey so following up on what Robin and I discussed about the miraculouses, I think I finally got a straight answer out of the kwamis
Rena Rouge: imprsssice
Chat Noir: ?
Rena Rouge: I meant impressive siblings were being siblings
Robin: wait if this is going to be a strategy talk, Bumblebee is a good person to include too
Ladybug: oh right
Ladybug added Bumblebee to the chat
Ladybug: okay to get you up to speed: miraculouses were traditionally kept together in boxes in a fortress, so I was keeping the box together, but Robin pointed out the strategic reasons not to, so I talked with the other kwamis about it
Bumblebee: hence the name. Don’t keep all your eggs in the same basket
Ladybug: exactly
Robin: so what did the kwamis say?
Ladybug: ok so
Ladybug: Pollen wants to wait to see how things with Queen Bee work out
Rena Rouge: why?
Ladybug: I don’t know. Pollen is a lot more patient than I am
Rena Rouge: you have been a saint when dealing with QB
Ladybug: thanks
Ladybug: anyways, Wayzz is on board with trying out Carapace as a permanent wielder
Robin: he does seem trustworthy
Ladybug: he is. And I know he’ll treat Wayzz well
Ladybug: Mullo likes the overall idea but is unsure about what they want
Bumblebee: Mullo is?
Ladybug: the mouse kwami. Mullo is a “big picture” kwami, apparently, and isn’t used to dealing with small details? I’m leaning towards keeping them with me, since they’re so good with strategy
Chat Noir: what about multimouse?
Ladybug: one good run with the miraculous doesn’t make me willing to trust her
Chat Noir: yeah okay that’s fair
Bumblebee: if they’re good at strategy and figuring things out, then they’re a good plan B. I’d put them in the secondary location, so if someone needs to grab them when you’re not able to help they can help.
Ladybug: good point.
Chat Noir: so where is the secondary location going to be?
Ladybug: Robin knew a location. I’ll give it to you and Rena in private
Ladybug: Stompp wants to be paired up with a hero but I don’t know who else I trust. Roarr prefers to stay with me.
Ladybug: Stompp is the Ozzie and Roarr the tiger kwami
Ladybug: ox. Don’t know why that corrected to Ozzie?
Chat Noir: lol imagine an Ozzie miraculous. What powers would that even be? A blast of rock music?
Robin: wait are these zodiac themed?
Ladybug: yeah. The original guardians of the miraculous had a lot of miraculouses to deal with, so they often used themes like the Zodiacs to sort them
Robin: so the next would be the rabbit?
Ladybug: yeah, Fluff. No one can get a straight answer from Fluff, so I’m leaving them be
Ladybug: Longg is the dragon kwami. He’s mostly interested in staying with Ryuko, which makes me anxious cause Ryuko blew her identity with Hawkmoth, but she’s a real solid fighter so idk. Longg said they’re very patient so I don’t think I have to decide now.
Ladybug: Sass also wants to stay with Viperion
Chat Noir: Viperion’s cool, I’d trust him
Robin: Viperion should definitely be ready to go at a moment’s notice, considering his powers
Ladybug: Tikki agrees, actually
Ladybug: Kaalki is also interested in staying with Pegasus, but I’m not as willing with him, yet
Bumblebee: that’s valid. Trust takes time
Ladybug: Ziggy and Orikko want to stay with me. Barkk says he wants to stay with me but I think he just likes my computer. Xuppu said he’s fine with anything that doesn’t require going back into the box for long periods of time.
Ladybug: Daizzi is willing to go with Mullo to the second location, but idk I’d almost rather a group of three
Chat Noir: why? We made a good duo by ourselves
Ladybug: true, but our powers balance each other out. Theirs doesn’t
Robin: in my experience, people are able to work with whatever powers they are given
Rena Rouge: in my experience, Mullo is energetic and can handle a lot at once, and Daizzi is calmer but always upbeat. Seems like a good pair to me
Robin: good point. In the zodiac story, the mouse convinced another animal to help him so that he could be the first to finish the race, while the pig was happy with whatever place he got and took his time. A lot like Cyborg and BB can be, actually
Bumblebee: yeah Sparky can be a bit too motivated sometimes. Like babe, slow down
Ladybug: I understand the feeling
Rena Rouge: babe you are that feeling
Notes:
Happy August!
Chapter 23: Chapter 21: TBD
Summary:
Bug Lady: glad to see we’re all hypocrites here
Robblehead: do as I say not as I do
Notes:
Nicknames:
Sparrow: Speedy
Robblehead/Mom Friend: Robin
Cy’s Your Guy/One Man Geek Squad: Cyborg
Bug Lady: Ladybug
Asparagus/green bean: Beast Boy
Bumblee: Bumblebee
Sharp As Steel: Ryuko
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Secret Santa: Kole
windows no long supports: Kid Flash
Star Light, Star Bright: Starfire
Pink Hair and Pronouns: Jinx
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Sparrow: I have figured it out
Robblehead: figured what out?
Sparrow: drum roll please
Cy’s Your Guy: drumrollingdownstreet.gif
Bug Lady: it’s wayy too early for that dude
Cy’s Your Guy: yeah isn’t it like, 4 AM where you are?
Bug Lady: essentially
Bumblee: go to bed girl
green bean: yeah seriously dude
Robblehead: sleep is important lb
Sparrow: yeah go to sleep
Icy Dead People: sleep
Bug Lady: glad to see we’re all hypocrites here
Robblehead: do as I say not as I do
Cy’s Your Guy: anyway what was the announcement?
Sparrow: right! Drumroll please
Sparrow name changed to Arrowpoint
green bean: meh
Arrowpoint: meh?
Sharp As Steel: I like it. Sounds like holding someone at knifepoint but with an arrow.
Arrowpoint: thank you
Robblehead : I don’t know, I thought you didn’t want arrow in your name?
Arrowpoint: I didn’t but it’s the most threatening part of being an archer, couldn’t avoid it
green bean: i thi nk you can do better
Attempted Murder: I didn’t know you thought
green bean: ha ha ha
Giant Squid: you already know I don’t like it
Arrowpoint: and you already know I don’t cat
Secret Santa: is this one of the situations where I say I like it regardless or should I give my honest feedback? Sorry my social skills are a little rusty after spending so long with only Gnarrk
Arrowpoint: if you have actual feedback and not just dislike like BB and Aqualad sure
Secret Santa: okay so in my complete honest opinion I think you need something that rolls off the tongue better. Something about the row in arrow and the oi in point clash
Arrowpoint: see that was actual useful feedback. Thank you Kole
Giant Squid: that’s what I meant
Arrowpoint: that’s not what you said
Bumblee : what is it with the two of you these past days?
Giant Squid: I don’t know! It’s all him!
Arrowpoint: I didn’t realize we were acting different?
Giant Squid: you’ve got to be kidding me
Arrowpoint: yeah okay now that I’m saying it I think Kole’s right
Arrowpoint name changed to TBD
TBD name changed to Sparrow
Sparrow: hey
Robblehead: :)
Dick and his Del-tones
Mom Friend: hey Cy you know whats going on in East?
One Man Geek Squad: so it’s possible that Not-Speedy is going through the same thing I was when we set up Titans East
Mom Friend: ugh don’t remind. E
Mom Friend: *remind me
Asparagus: yeah you really scared us
Attempted Murder: still, it makes sense.
windows no longer supports: what is the plan, after were all adults?
Mom Friend: technically you and Cy are adults
windows no longer supports: dont remind me
Star Light, Star Bright: adulthood is a topic that wracks our nerves, but I am sure we will figure something out
Pink Hair and Pronouns: you’re optimism is actually great sometimes, Star
Star Light, Star Bright: thank you friend Jinx!
Asparagus: i still have time before the adultining happens
Attempted Murder: I’m not convinced you’ll ever be an adult
Asparagus: good cause it looks exhausting
Notes:
Thanks for all the kudos and comments!
Chapter 24: Chapter 22: Too School for Cool
Summary:
Herald: honestly I’m with Bumblebee. I really think we should be encouraging the others to go back to school, even if it’s just online like I’m doing
Herald: except for Jericho. He already knows too much
Notes:
Nicknames:
One Man Geek Squad: Cyborg
Star Light, Star Bright: Starfire
Mom Friend: Robin
Asparagus: Beast Boy
windows no longer supports: Kid Flash
Attempted Murder: Raven
Pink Hair and Pronouns: Jinx
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Chapter 22: Too School for Cool
Dick and His Del-tones
One Man Geek Squad: okay here’s the agreed upon renovations
One Man Geek Squad: finalFINALfinalrenovationplanv5FINAL.doc
One Man Geek Squad: if you have a problem with this, speak now or forever hold your peace. All in agreement, say aye.
Star Light, Star Bright: AYE
Mom Friend: aye
Asparagus: aye
Attempted Murder: aye
windows no longer supports: aye
Mom Friend: kf you don’t get a vote you don’t live here
windows no longer supports: theres an easy way to fix that problem
Mom Friend: it’s not a problem
One Man Geek Squad: well that’s five ayes so it’s settled. Renovations begin now, please grab your camping gear and head to the roof to set up camp for the night
One Man Geek Squad: also Jinx and KF you are totally invited to camp out with us this weekend it’ll be fun
windows no longer supports: unfort we already have plans with titans south
Mom Friend: cool
Asparagus: youre cheating on us with ts?
windows no longer supports: as rob likes to remind everyone, were not technically a part of titans central
Pink Hair and Pronouns: nor do we want to be. We enjoy being in Central City helping the Flash and getting a chance to finish high school
windows no longer supports: yeah true
Asparagus: i still feel cheated on
One Man Geek Squad: it is too bad that you’ll miss our weekend camp-out but enjoy Fevereiro
windows no longer supports: we will
windows no longer supports: want us to bring you any souvenirs
Mom Friend: now is not the time to be getting more random trinkets
One Man Geek Squad: there is a sauce Panthera sends me sometimes from there if you see it
One Man Geek Squad: img88546.png
Pink Hair and Pronouns: we’ll keep an eye out for it
One Man Geek Squad: thanks
Kid Flash created Too School for Cool Chat
Kid Flash name changed to popeyes kitchen
popeyes kitchen: anywho i think i got everyone in here thats starting school soon
Ladybug: schools already started for us. They decided to start earlier than normal because of expected days off for akumas
popeyes kitchen: oof
Chat Noir: Personally I like school
Carapace: dude why?
Chat Noir: Because its an excuse to get out of the house
popeyes kitchen: you know i can understand that
Bumblebee: I’m always surprised at how many titans have just given up on school. Especially the other leaders, like Red Star and Robin
Bumblebee: especially Robin
Beast Boy: dude robin hates school or at least sitting still for that long
Beast Boy: he swears he learns better if he’s upside down
Argent: Red Star has already graduated school. He was in the military when everything hit the fan for him.
Beast Boy: yeah and cy got his ged pretty soon after becoming a titan so ravens the only one who like does the school thing
Beast Boy: and me this year
Beast Boy: this is what i get for making up with the dp
Ladybug: dp?
Beast Boy: doom patrol
Ladybug: oh yeah I’ve totally heard of them
Herald: honestly I’m with Bumblebee. I really think we should be encouraging the others to go back to school, even if it’s just online like I’m doing
Herald: except for Jericho. He already knows too much
Raven: not everyone is suited for school and that is okay
Roi Singe: yeah but schools have sports teams and those are fun
Beast Boy: only if youre athletic
Bumblebee: are we not all athletic as heroes?
Raven: no
Ladybug: being a hero takes a lot of physical stamina and ability but that’s very, very different from the type of athletic people in sports are
Beast Boy: exactly
Ladybug: I say that with the utmost respect of anyone who is into sports
Beast Boy: like, you can tell that cy use to play football
Argent: that does explain a lot, actually
Beast Boy: doesnt it ?
Argent: also what type of school is everyone doing and what subjects? I’m doing an online course in mechanical engineering
Bumblebee: I’m taking “dual-enrollment” classes online with Steel City Community College. Getting a start in my English and humidors for if I go to college for real
Chat Noir: humidors?
Bumblebee: huminites
Bumblebee: that’s not it either
Ladybug: I’m still in the school before uni
Ladybug: I do not remember the English term for it
Chat Noir: Same for most of team miraculous
Herald: I’m catching up on my high school credits online. I would’ve been a junior if I had stayed
Ladybug: idontknowandimafriadtoask(1)(1).png
Herald: eleventh grade, second to last year before college
Ladybug: college is university, right? Because it means something very different here
Herald: yeah
Beast Boy: im catching up on high school too i guess my english skills neds work
Raven: I’m taking an online university course in literature
Rena Rouge: oh cool!
popeyes kitchen: im redoing senior year (final year) since i didnt finish it last year
Jinx: I’m completing a few credits that weren’t offered at HIVE so I can get a legit high school degree
Bushido: I am completing an online school course in engineering this year. Titans West seem to be the least tech adept team.
popeyes kitchen: sure but there are tons of us willing to help you
Bushido: and I appreciate that, but just as there are some who struggle with formal learning, I have found that a structured school setting is personally helpful.
popeyes kitchen: if that floats your goat then sure
Ladybug: what?
popeyes kitchen: its something uncle f says a lot
Raven: it’s a variation of “float your boat” people say. It’s supposed to be nonsense
Ladybug: thanks
Notes:
I should probably figure out the definitive ages I’m using for this. I know I have Red Star, Cyborg, and Kid Flash as eighteen, I need to decide on the rest.
Chapter 25: Chapter 23: S'mores and More
Summary:
Cy’s Your Guy: you’re good everyone just showed up to smores except ts and the Paris team
Cy’s Your Guy: because the Paris team should be sleeping
Cy’s Your Guy: I know you were typing lb
Notes:
Nicknames:
Pawsome: Chat Noir
Icy Dead People: Phantom
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
Friend Jinx: Jinx
Harold: Herald
Luting in the Streets: Jericho
Secret Santa: Kole
Bumblee: Bumblebee
Turdus Migratorius: Robin
green bean: Beast Boy
Sparrow: Speedy
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
Catfighter Supreme: Panthera
Bug Lady: Ladybug
Pawsome: Chat Noir
Hot n Cold: Hotspot
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Ravager has been added to the chat
Starfire: hello new friend! Welcome to the chat!
Icy Dead People: welcome
kentucky fried: huh i dont know who you are
kentucky fried: i though i knew everyone in the heroes business
Ravager: I wouldn’t say I was in the hero business exactly
Friend Jinx: oh same
Harold: wait aren’t you Jericho’s sister?
Ravager: I did not finally shake up years of my fathers influence, lock away the mask I used to impersonate him, join his mortal enemies, and begin seeking an identity away from being his daughter just to become Jericho’s sister
Harold: I mean that’s fair, but I was hoping for some embarrassing childhood stories about him
Ravager: …. I might be able to help
Luting in the Streets: :(
Ravager: by the way, I kinda sorta need a place to stay? I’m at the original titans tower but they’re doing renovations
Bushido: Titans West desperately needs more fighter
Red Star: Titans North could use the help too. I think we’re the only team without a skilled hand-to-hand fighter
Secret Santa: we do have Gnarrk
Bumblee: you should come to Titans East! Not-speedy keeps talking about taking a vacation and he might actually do it if he knew we had another teammate
Bumblee: also tn is fighting snowmen and tw have been fighting some random cult but we’re getting to do some high-tech car chases with this new biker gang
Ravager: alright I’m sold
Harold: I can come get you and portal you to Titans East and then we can embarrassing Jericho moments
Ravager: can you wait an hour we’re doing s’mores?
Turdus Migratorius: Herald you can join for s’mores as well
Turdus Migratorius: kf what even is this?
kentucky fried: not. me.
green bean: oooh i know this one! its the scientific name for the american robin
Turdus Migratorius: you’re joking, right?
Sparrow: it has been too long since I’ve had s’more’s
Giant Squid: okay I’ll be the one to bite. What are s’mores?
Sparrow: …
kentucky fried: omg youve never had smores????
Harold: I’m picking you up and taking you to titans central because smores are wonderful
Cy’s Your Guy: yeah you all are all invited! Come have some smores with us!
Catfighter Supreme: unfortunately kill
Cy’s Your Guy: umm Panthera? Everything alright?
Catfighter Supreme: sorry I dropped my communicator and it apparently autofilled with kill. As I was saying, unfortunately Titans South is busy right now
Argent: I have never had a s’more, are they good?
Cy’s Your Guy: come over and try them out!
Bug Lady: hi sorry just got back from Akuma but hi new person!
Pawsome: ooh hi!
Ravager: hello!
Pawsome: also I could totally go for some sweets right now
Harold: I can meet you all at the usual spot to portal you to titans central?
Carapace: no team miraculous needs to go to bed
Carapace: that was nearly thirty hours of back to back akumas
Catfighter Supreme: and Herald really should be focusing on his own team right now
Bumblee: thirty hours of akumas back to back?
Bug Lady: ugg yeah hm occasionally goes on these long marathons to try to tire us out and it sucks
Bug Lady: but yeah team miraculous go get some sleep
Sparrow: thirty hours is insane. I remember doing something like that back when I was in Star City and it sucked
Giant Squid: I’ve done something like that a few times and it is pretty harsh
Hot n Cold: I was pretty close to thirty hours a few days before Robin found me in Morocco. It was getting so bad I couldn’t flame up
Friend Jinx: I’ve pulled a few all-nighters studying for exams but never fighting anyone
Luting in the Streets: I did a training program with my older brother once that made us stay up that long. Never again
Icy Dead People: are we just ignoring that ladybug just told someone to go to bed?
Sparrow: I think we’ve established that we’re all hypocrites here
Secret Santa: I didn’t know you had an older brother Jericho?
Luting in the Streets: I did. He died a few years ago
Secret Santa: oh sorry to hear that
Luting in the Streets: it’s okay. I miss him but life goes on
Luting in the Streets: I did not mean to kill the chat
Cy’s Your Guy: you’re good everyone just showed up to smores except ts and the Paris team
Cy’s Your Guy: because the Paris team should be sleeping
Cy’s Your Guy: I know you were typing lb
Bug Lady: sorry I had to get up to help my parents with chores
kentucky fried: booo
kentucky fried: go back to bed
Bug Lady: I promised I would help them though! Besides I’d have to get up soon for school anyways
kentucky fried: call out sick
Cy’s Your Guy: maybe call out sick?
Luting in the Streets: I would suggest calling out sick
Icy Dead People: call out sick or I will haunt you
Turdus Migratorius: I agree with the others, you should call out sick
Friend Jinx: blow school off and go back to bed
Bumblee: I will dm Rena if you don’t go back to bed
Bug Lady: okay okay I’ll go back to bed you don’t have to bring Rena into this
Bug Lady: my parents seem to have caught on that I’m not feeling my best so they’re sending me back to bed anyways
kentucky fried: rare parenting w
kentucky fried: also aqualad im dging to know how you like smores
Giant Squid: dging?
kentucky fried: dying
Giant Squid: then perish
Giant Squid: but yeah smores are good
Notes:
Added in Ravager since she’s in the comics, and I thought having a pair of siblings in the chat would be interesting
Chapter 26: Chapter 24: We All Scream
Summary:
Attempted Murder: blueberry ice cream usually comes out purple, not blue
Cy’s Your Guy: well that’s just false advertising
Notes:
Nicknames:
green bean: Beast Boy
Luting in the Streets: Jericho
Bug Lady: Ladybug
Pawsome: Chat Noir
Icy Dead People: Phantom
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
Attempted Murder: Raven
Erithacus Rubecula: Robin
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Orange You Glad: Rena Rouge
marathon monkey: Roi Singe
Harold: Herald
Secret Santa: Kole
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
20 new messages
green bean: anyways that was the last time mento let me near his helmet
Luting in the Streets: so that’s what Robin means when he says you have bad luck with technology
Ravager: wild
Bug Lady: ew
green bean: ew?
Bug Lady: sorry wrong chat
Pawsome: yeah we’re talking about ice cream in the team miraculous chat
Icy Dead People: ooh ice cream
Bug Lady: a new ice cream shop opened up in Paris and it has some interesting flavors
Pawsome: it also has some hero-inspired sundaes that I purrsonally think are pawsome
Bug Lady: …
Cy’s Your Guy: oooh what kind of sundaes?
Pawsome: there’s the ladybug sundae, which is raspberry sorbet mixed with blackberries with marshmallow “lucky charms”
Bug Lady: the chat noir one is chocolate with chocolate pieces sticking out and some weird green “mint” syrup that does not taste like mint
Bug Lady: Rena’s is orange flavored, of course. Nine marshmallows as “tails” and a chocolate piece that is supposed to look like a flute
Attempted Murder: the ladybug one doesn’t sound too bad except for the marshmallows
Erithacus Rubecula: I’m a little concerned about the green syrup
Erithacus Rubecula: I’m assuming this is a European Robin, KF?
kentucky fried: i wouldnt know i didnt choose it as i have told you MULTIPLE TIMES
Cy’s Your Guy: wow I didn’t know you knew where the shift key was kf
green bean: but yeah thags an euro robin
Attempted Murder: it’s a much more pleasant name than the American Robin
Giant Squid: shush I want to hear the rest of the flavors
Bug Lady: right okay so the Carapace ice cream is two scoops of mint chocolate chip with a shell of dried chocolate around it
Carapace: which sucks because I don’t like mint
Bug Lady: there’s a Queen Bee ice cream that’s pineapple flavored with stripes of chocolate syrup across it that just isn’t it
Pawsome: the ryuko is three scoops of berry banana and coconut
Pawsome: it’s berry good
Bug Lady: I hate it here
Orange You Glad: the Viperion one is the worst, it’s cotton candy and mint chocolate chip
Attempted Murder: ew
Starfire: I much like the candy that resembles cotton, but I did not know it was a type of ice cream? It did not seem very icy or creamy.
Erithacus Rubecula: it’s not. Cotton candy ice cream is supposed to be flavored like cotton candy, but it really just tastes like sugar
Starfire: oh I see!
Bug Lady: I will say that the Pegasus ice cream is good. It’s brownie bites in chocolate and vanilla ice cream
Erithacus Rubecula: that sounds much more like a classic ice cream
Bug Lady: and then Roi Singe is banana-flavored ice cream with vanilla wafers and half of a chocolate covered banana, which I guess is good if you like bananas?
kentucky fried: you should tell them to do some of the other titans
Orange You Glad: well what flavors would you all be?
Erithacus Rubecula: kf would probably be banana, maybe with some cherries?
green bean: ig id be stuck with mint flavor like carapace
Cy’s Your Guy: Robin could be raspberry, maybe banana or mint?
Erithacus Rubecula: there are other flavors for green, like that matcha flavor Raven likes
Cy’s Your Guy: ooh Raven could be blackberries, or maybe blueberries
Attempted Murder: blueberry ice cream usually comes out purple, not blue
Cy’s Your Guy: well that’s just false advertising
green bean: i could see a cyborg ice cream with like cotton candy and vanilla
Erithacus Rubecula: that leaves Starfire. I’d pick raspberry, grape, and maybe add full green grapes for her starbursts
Erithacus Rubecula: I mean starbolts. I guess I have candy on my mind
Starfire name changed to Pink Starburst
Sparrow: you could do blueberry and blackberry with Swedish fish for Aqualad
Giant Squid: and then raspberry and orange for not-speedy
kentucky fried: strawberry for jinx
Erithacus Rubecula: maybe add chocolate covered strawberries like they did with Roi Singe
marathon monkey: okay just caught up with this chat where is the ice cream shop actually at?
Bug Lady: oh it’s by the Eiffel Tower themed restaurant near the DC Bakery
marathon monkey: the eiffel tower one with all the beams or the eiffel tower one with the fancy cake
Bug Lady: the beams
marathon monkey: sweet thanks
kentucky fried: a phantom themed one woukd be like vanilla with with those star shape sprinkles or maybe those ghosts one that come out in fall
Icy Dead People: oh come on don’t make me the boring flavors
Bug Lady: if you want white you can do coconut, passion fruit, or white chocolate, or even banana can be white
Bug Lady: pistachio is usually white too
Bug Lady: and cookie dough flavors
Icy Dead People: yeah I’ll be cookie dough
Ravager: Jericho can be vanilla
Luting in the Streets: I think I would rather be blueberry flavored. I like purple
Harold: no surprise there
Ravager: vanilla and blueberry then
green bean: okay now the blueberry purple thing is bothering me
Bug Lady: I mean you could die it blue
Bug Lady: dye it?
Erithacus Rubecula: dye it is correct but I think we all got what you meant with die
Attempted Murder: you don’t even like ice cream why do you care what color it is
green bean: I like ice cream it just has to be vegan
Icy Dead People: but vegan ice cream tastes so weird
Cy’s Your Guy: it’s barely ice cream at that point
Erithacus Rubecula: be nice about other people’s dietary restrictions
Luting in the Streets: there are actually some really good vegan ice creams if you know where to look
Ravager: what are you a vegan now?
Luting in the Streets: yes? I’ve been trying to go vegan for a few months now
Ravager: huh
Ravager: why?
Luting in the Streets: because it’s better for the environment?
Erithacus Rubecula: is it really that much better for the ein
Icy Dead People: S is a vegan for similar reason
Bug Lady: Robin are you okay?
green bean: he’s fine we just got an alert for something happening downtown so he’s all business now
Secret Santa: ooh what ice cream would I be?
Bug Lady: strawberry and vanilla for you I think
Icy Dead People: I think Red Star would be strawberry and raspberry since his powers are very red
Bug Lady: hot fudge sundae for Hot Spot. And I think Jinx would be more bubblegum then strawberry
Friend Jinx: yeah very true
Notes:
Anyways I want ice cream now
Chapter 27: Chapter 25: Study Session
Summary:
Attempted Murder: what about this?
Attempted Murder: phantomchangeyourdocumentnamesiswear.docx
Notes:
Nicknames:
Bumblee: Bumblebee
Pawsome: Chat Noir
green bean: Beast Boy
Icy Dead People: Phantom
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
Early Bird and Its Worm: Robin
Sparrow: Speedy
Bug Lady: Ladybug
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
Harold: Herald
Attempted Murder: Raven
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Catfighter Supreme: Panthera
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Bumblee: You’re all intelligent people
Pawsome: pressxtodoubt.png
green bean: um have you met me
Icy Dead People: are you sure about that?
kentucky fried: how dare you
Bumblee: so ignoring that, I need help with updating our bikes for this newest issue with the Brotherhood of Blood v3. Not-Speedy, Aqualad, and I have been working on this for days and haven’t figured anything out, but a few pairs of fresh eyes might be good.
Bumblee: bikeworkinprogressbobv3.docx
Early Bird and Its Worm: the brotherhood of blood is back?
Bumblee: kinda
Early Bird and Its Worm: you have to send more updates Bee
Bumblee: sorry! We’ve been busy with that weird biker-spaceship gang and now this
Early Bird and Its Worm: how’s Ravager doing?
Bumblee: she’s fitting in fine. She’s already saved our butts in battle once
kentucky fried: have you tried this
kentucky fried: bikeupgrade1.docx
Sparrow: not a bad idea
Icy Dead People: bikeworkinprogressbobv3(1).docx
Icy Dead People: best idea I’ve got, but I can ask T if you want
Bumblee: the more brains the better
kentucky fried: ooh that is not a bad suggest either phantom
kentucky fried: combining the two:
kentucky fried: bikeupgrade2.docx
Red Star: I have an old design that might be relevant
Red Star: motorcycleidea3(5).docx
kentucky fried: ooh
Bug Lady: I can send this to Pegasus?
Bumblee: do it
Cy’s Your Guy: going off of Phantom’s idea
Cy’s Your Guy: titanseastbikedesign.docx
Harold: okay not relevant to the Magic thing but I do think you’ll get more stability on the bikes if you do this
Harold: bikeworkinprogressbobv3stabilizeridea.docx
Icy Dead People: after a quick text with T, he suggests this
Icy Dead People: bikeworkinprogressbobv3(1)(1).docx
Attempted Murder: what about this?
Attempted Murder: phantomchangeyourdocumentnamesiswear.docx
kentucky fried: okay okay combining all of that
Bug Lady: te_bike.docx
kentucky fried: bikeupgrade3.docx
Bug Lady: from Pegasus
Bumblee: two things
Bumblee: 1) I don’t want any of you insulting your intelligence again
Bumblee: 2) damn you all work fast
kentucky fried: superspeed
Cy’s Your Guy: I absolutely love working on vehicles so I already had a few ideas
Sparrow: here’s a design I had a while back that I can’t figure out how to implement, but it seems similar to yours Herald if you want to look
Sparrow: bikeschematicswip11.docx
Icy Dead People: oh here’s a design for a bike battery that could hold up a little better with those changes
Icy Dead People: untitledimg345(7).docx
kentucky fried: okay so taking all that information into account you need a better battery
kentucky fried: oh nvm phantom beat me to it
Cy’s Your Guy: Phantom I am stealing that battery design that is genius
Icy Dead People: can’t steal it from me if I give it to you willingly
kentucky fried: anywho
Cy’s Your Guy: why does that give me fae vibes?
kentucky fried: bikeupgrade5.docx
Bumblee: thanks
Cy’s Your Guy: anyone else need help while we’re all in the mood?
Icy Dead People: yes
Red Star: yes
Giant Squid: we have other problems if you’re bored
Catfighter Supreme: yes
kentucky fried: yeah actually
Early Bird and Its Worm: we have our own projects that could use help too if anyone’s up to it?
Cy’s Your Guy: team engineering party let’s go!
Early Bird and Its Worm: give me a second and I can have some kind of drop box server set up, so we don’t crowd the chat
Early Bird and Its Worm: also Pegasus and this mysterious T friend both seem to be good with computers
Bug Lady: yeah Pegasus definitely is
Icy Dead People: would you even describe him as… mysTeerious?
Early Bird and Its Worm: ignoring that, do you think they’d be up for a challenge?
Bug Lady: what did you have in mind?
Notes:
Pegasus and Tucker will be back in the next chapter
Chapter 28: Chapter 26: And The Truth Comes Out
Summary:
Ruby Breasted: perfect
Bug Lady: chat don’t
Pawsome: don’t you mean, purr - oh never mind
Notes:
As promised
Nicknames:
Attempted Murder: Raven
Ruby Breasted: Robin
Icy Dead People/Phantastic: Phantom
Bug Lady/Lucky Charm: Ladybug
Pawsome/Chat-aclysm: Chat Noir
marathon monkey/monkey business: Roi Singe
major scales: Viperion
Rena the Arena: Rena Rouge
Like A Good Neigh-bor: Pegasus
Not a Ninja: Carapace
Sharp As Steel: Ryuko
Doom Queen: Sam
King Tut: Tucker
All That Jazz: Jazz
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Pegasus has joined the chat
Pegasus: I have finished my investigation. Here’s my report
Pegasus: tgc_investigation.docx
Attempted Murder: you all know that you can put spaces into document names now, right?
Pegasus: underscores make me feel cool
Pegasus name changed to Underscorer
Ruby Breasted: thanks for your report, Pegasus
Underscorer: you’re welcome
Icy Dead People: T is still working on his
Underscorer: understandable. I had an advantage as I had my miraculous last night and could use that
Ruby Breasted: perfect
Bug Lady: chat don’t
Pawsome: don’t you mean, purr - oh never mind
marathon monkey: oh hey peggy
Underscorer: hello Roi Singe
Ruby Breasted: this report is well-written, Pegasus. Thanks again for being willing to help us
Underscorer: it wasn’t a problem at all
Team Miraculous
Chat-aclysm: are you going to check on Pegasus or should I?
major scales: did something happen
Rena the Arena: just a major fangirling event
Lucky Charm: he’s keeping his cool in the main chat, but I might swing by later anyways
Like A Good Neigh-bor: you all know I’m in this chat too, right?
Lucky Charm: how are you doing, Pegasus? Not hyperventilating?
Like A Good Neigh-bor: I’ll admit I didn’t expect Robin’s praise to feel this good, but I will leave the extreme fangirling to Rena.
Rena the Arena: I have enough for the both of us
Queen Bee: but he works with Ladybug, who’s much cooler than Robin
Lucky Charm: thanks QB
major scales: i agree with queen
Lucky Charm: wait stop
Rena the Arena: me too although im biased
Lucky Charm: babe no
Chat-aclysm: keep going I think we can make her key smash
Not a Ninja: I definitely think Ladybug is cooler than the American heroes
Lucky Charm: nooo don’t do this too me
Sharp As Steel: Ladybug is definitely my favorite hero
monkey busness: yeah lb your great!!!
Rena the Arena: oooh we got her blushing
Like A Good Neigh-bor: I was calm when I first worked with Ladybug, too
Rena the Arena: I was not
Lucky Charm: yeah but it was cute on you
Team Phantom
Phantastic: tucker you’ve got to step up your game, Pegasus already did his part
King Tut: well the dude must be magic because there’s no hacking this
Doom Queen: yeah Tucker you’re making team phantom look bad
King Tut: I’m trying. I’m even using that super high-tech stuff we got off technus. Robin has the security done tight
All That Jazz: but that’s a good thing?
Phantastic: if you’ve done everything you can think to do, then just write up a report and I’ll send it to Robin
King Tut: you can’t just except me to write a report that lives up to Robin’s expectations
Phantastic: it’s not that hard? I’ve been sending in reports for a couple weeks now
All That Jazz: if you’re having an easy time with those reports, maybe it’ll make school easier!
Phantastic: you’re being a little too optimistic there
Pegasus started a chat with Robin
Pegasus: I hope I’m not overstepping by dming you
Robin: you’re good, what’s up?
Pegasus: while investigating the chat, I saw the problem with the name changes you’ve been having. You seem to be under the impression that Kid Flash is behind them
Robin: oh no I know it’s Cyborg
Robin: I’m just saying it’s KF so Cyborg doesn’t suspect that I’m planning on getting him back. Also because annoying KF is fun
Pegasus: oh okay then
Notes:
So the truth finally comes out.
Chapter 29: Chapter 27: Forgiven but not Forgotten
Summary:
Cy’s Your Guy: yeah I’ve had my tech stolen, Star has an evil sister, BB once downloaded a virus into my brain that made me eat anything. We’ve all had our judgements affected by one thing or another.
Notes:
Nicknames:
Bumblebee: Bumblebee
Flycatcher: Robin
Bug Lady: Ladybug
Giant Squid: Aqualad
Luting in the Streets: Jericho
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
Harold: Herald
Sparrow: Speedy
Icy Dead People: Phantom
Orange You Glad: Rena Rouge
Underscorer: Pegasus
marathon monkey: Roi Singe
Pawsome: Chat Noir
Sharp As Steel: Ryuko
Attempted Murder: Raven
Cy’s Your Guy: Cyborg
green bean: Beast Boy
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Bumblee: so we had a surprise visitor at Titans East today
Flycatcher: oh?
Bumblee: img77532.png
Bug Lady: is that Aquaman?
Bumblee: yep! Apparently kings of the sea don’t need to call ahead
Giant Squid: yeah he’s like that
Flycatcher: what did he want?
Bumblee: someone he was tracking ended up at the Steel City Docks, so he wanted to make sure we were updated with what was going on and if we could help him
Luting in the Streets: were you able to catch them?
Bumblee: yeah not-speedy and the twins had him located within minutes
Bumblee: he actually seemed impressed
kentucky fried: even a speedster or a pair of them need to be smart about search patterns to be that quick
Bumblee: yeah we’ve been working on it in training
Flycatcher: looks like all that training paid off
Bumblee: he also gave us some amazing Atlantean food. It was a bit weird to figure out how to eat it on land but eventually we figured out how to turn into a soup. It is delicious
Giant Squid: it’s vegetarian too, if BB wants to swing by and try some
green bean: herald you up ?
Harold: yeah I’ll come get you
Sparrow: Aquaman also had some embarrassing footage of GA so that was fun
Harold: Jericho just said I can’t unless I take him too
Bumblee: well Aquaman left a lot and none of us can figure out how to store it so feel free
Icy Dead People: I have a vegan friend who would love trying this out, can I get some for her?
Bumblee: you mean S, right?
Icy Dead People: yeah her
Bumblee: yeah you can def take some for her
Orange You Glad: I’m not vegan but I am so interested in Atlantean food can I request a pick up?
Harold: meet me at the usual place?
Orange You Glad: thanks
Orange You Glad: LB, you want me to pick some up for you?
Bug Lady: pls no no food
Bumblee: you okay LB?
Bug Lady: stomach bug. Caught it at school
Cy’s Your Guy: oof. Feel better soon LB
Underscorer: yeah multiple of my classmates have gotten it too
marathon monkey: yeah queen bee said she got it a few days ago
Pawsome: my best friend is out sick too
Carapace: I have a bad stomach bug myself. I think Rena caught it and gave it to the two of us
Harold: on second thought, maybe I won’t go to Paris
Orange You Glad: yeah that’s fair
Sharp As Steel: I am not sick
Carapace: good for you
Bumblee: there was something else I wanted to ask about
Flycatcher: shoot
Sparrow: oh is this about the thing?
Bumblee: yeah
Bumblee: so Aquaman was talking about working with the other JL members, and he mentioned Batman had developed a plan to take down each of the JL members. Do you/we have something like that with the other titans?
Flycatcher: oh that. Okay.
Cy’s Your Guy: it looks like Rob’s taking a minute to type so I’ll get the tl;dr version: of course we do
Bumblee: good
Flycatcher: no, I don’t have a list of everyone’s weaknesses on a computer buried somewhere, that’s a security concern. But I do have ideas how to handle it if something happens where we end up in a situation like Blood again. It is a big concern - I’ve already fought mind controlled titans, magical versions of my teammates, and other copycats, so it’s not like I don’t trust you guys
Bug Lady: I’ve had to fight Chat while he was mind controlled so I get it
Flycatcher: plus like Star has a sister with similar powers, or if we had to deal with an Atlantean, or a ghost, etc
Icy Dead People: oh good because I’ve been mind controlled into doing bad things and it sucked
Flycatcher: also, a lot of the same weaknesses I’d use to take someone down are the weaknesses I am aware of when watching someone’s back
Attempted Murder: you know, if you slowed down and actually read the chat, you would realize that you don’t need to defend your choice
Bumblee: especially not to us. We remember Blood
Luting in the Streets: I literally possess people so I understand the risk
Flycatcher: oh okay then
Flycatcher: as Cyborg said, the tl;dr is that we have plans if anyone ends up under mind control, or has an evil clone, or an evil sister, and it’d be appreciated if the other teams has plans in place for us
Cy’s Your Guy: yeah I’ve had my tech stolen, Star has an evil sister, BB once downloaded a virus into my brain that made me eat anything. We’ve all had our judgements affected by one thing or another.
Bumblee: wait BB did what now?
green bean: heh yeah i was hoping that had been forgotton
Cy’s Your Guy: nah you’re good, everything’s forgiven
Bumblee: I still have questions
Sparrow: eat anything? Like, metal, rocks, furniture?
Cy’s Your Guy: yeah I ended up in the infirmary after because most of it was indigestible
Sparrow: ew
Cy’s Your Guy: yeah it wasn’t pleasant
Notes:
As for what Robin’s plan of revenge on Cyborg is… i have absolutely no clue
Chapter 30: Chapter 28: Miraculous Titans
Notes:
kentucky fried: also i swear im not the one changing your username i dont have this level of commitment to the bit
Red Tail: you are nothing but committed to the bit
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Team Miraculous
Like A Good Neigh-bor: okay I am officially confused
Chat-aclysm: I have a few questions myself
Sharp As Steel: I think I need to apologize for letting my identity slip again today
Lucky Charm: you’re good Ryuko, it was an intense situation and at least it was to one of your team mates, even if it was the one who can’t keep a secret
Queen Bee: hey!
Lucky Charm: am I wrong?
Queen Bee: no
Queen Bee: iknowbuthey.png
Lucky Charm: anyways the tl;dr is Queen Bee and Ryuko ended up switching miraculouses out of necessity
Like A Good Neigh-bor: so Queen Dragon was Queen Bee and Abeille Ryuko?
Lucky Charm: yes
Queen Bee: it was fun, actually, getting into the dirt and fighting like that, instead of having a distance weapon
Sharp As Steel: and having to hang back like that and use a distance weapon was a good challenge for me
Lucky Charm: both of you did good
major scales: this is your friendly neighborhood snake hero slash mom friend telling everyone to go to bed
Lucky Charm: Viperion is right. I’m going to go to bed, and when I wake up, everyone else better have at least tried to sleep
Direct Messages
Marinette: that includes you, rena
Alya: as soon as I’m done with this blog post
Marinette: the blog can wait
Alya: so can sleep
Marinette: alya
Marinette: go
Marinette: to
Marinette: bed
Alya: alright alright I’m going
Alya: night babe
Titans General Chat
Icy Dead People: ok team miraculous is asleep after that last akuma. What miraculous would you all use if you had a chance
Icy Dead People: I think I would like the horse miraculous, if I was still alive. I’ve heard he can even go to space with it
Red Tail: space is cool
Cy’s Your Guy: space is very cool. Especially when you have more than a few minutes warning to prepare to go to space for the first time
Red Tail: but I think the dragon would be cooler. Turning into lightning, or wind?
Bushido: I agree with Robin. Ryuko also has the better weapon
Bushido: at least, I am assuming that was Robin
Red Tail: yeah it’s me KF is just running out of ideas
kentucky fried: unfortunately for my parents i never run out of ideas
kentucky fried: also i swear im not the one changing your username i dont have this level of commitment to the bit
Red Tail: you are nothing but committed to the bit
Attempted Murder: I like the bee miraculous. The ability to freeze an opponent, even for a limited amount of time, would be nice.
Cy’s Your Guy: I think Rena’s powers are cool, illusions are super useful
Bumblee: I feel like I’m supposed to say the bee, for obvious reasons, but I like the butterfly. I think it would be a really good power in the right hands
Giant Squid: an old story I heard growing up had someone with a source of magic similar to the miraculous, but it was octopus themed. Gave the wielder the ability to free themselves or anyone else from physical bounds. Showed up to a shipwreck hoping for human survivors, ended up rescuing some Atlanteans stuck in the wreckage.
Red Tail: cool
marathon monkey: cool
marathon monkey: do you think there’s a shark miraculous?
Red Tail: I thought Team Miraculous all went to sleep after that Akuma?
marathon monkey: maybe idk
marathon monkey: im not in paris atm
marathon monkey: and i havent had the chance to check my phone all day
Giant Squid: where are you?
marathon monkey: doing civilian life stuff
marathon monkey: not anhthing as fun as being a hero or as important as being there for lb or my civilian friends who are stressed from hm but my parents were being persistent
Icy Dead People: parents can be like that sometimes
Sparrow: I would choose the bee. As an archer, have the bad guys continue to move around is a pain
Red Star: I think the turtle miraculous would be nice. The power to shield others instead of just being able to fight off evil.
Argent: I’d say CN’s powers are cool. Instead of having to figure out how to hack or dispose of weapons, we could destroy them with one touch
green bean: monkeys are cool
green bean: also the idea of having a bad guy in the middle of some complex scheme about to use their charged attacks and whacking them in the face with a banana peel and ruining it all is fun
marathon monkey: def is
Pink Starburst: I agree with friend Red Star! So many injuries and damage comes from debris when fighting, it would be nice to put up a shield. Especially one that can stay static as opposed to Raven’s, which require a lot of concentration
Red Star: Jinx is right, being called “friend Red Star” is nice
Pink Starburst: we are friends, yes?
Red Star: I have always considered you a friend, but it’s good to know that you feel the same
Pink Starburst: of course I do <3 <3 <3
Catfighter Supreme: I need no miraculous. But the octopus one would be useful occasionally
Hot n Cold: I would love a more specific power like CN’s cataclysm. Target something specific instead of just shooting fire and hope I don’t burn anything important
Ravager: I agree with Star and Star
Ravager: star^2
Luting in the Streets: I think illusions would be good. Distract an opponent without risking yourself or even having to hurt them
Harold: I’m with Argent. I’ve had to send so many miscellaneous weapons into space but I think just destroying them would work better
marathon monkey: i really want to know what a shark miraculous would be now
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Bug Lady: just caught up with the chat and I think it’s hilarious that none of you picked the ladybug
Bumblee: the ladybug looks difficult you can keep it
Notes:
Brought to you by popular request
Chapter 31: Chapter 29: Alien Attack
Summary:
green bean: dude sometimes i forget youre like actually a ghost and not just someone who got ghost powers in a lab accident or something
Icy Dead People: I mean, it wasn’t not because of a lab accident
Notes:
Nicknames:
kentucky fried: Kid Flash
green bean: Beast Boy
Icy Dead People: Phantom
Sparrow: Speedy
Bug Lady: Ladybug
Catfighter Supreme: Panthera
Secret Santa: Kole
Hot n Cold: Hotspot
Harold: Herald
marathon monkey: Roi Singe
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Bustier’s Homeroom (Chloe DNI)
Max (and Markov): does anyone have eyes on Alya?
Alya: don’t worry Max I’m not off chasing footage of the current alien attack
Max (and Markov): pressxtodoubt.png
Marinette: I have eyes on her, can confirm. We’re working on homework
Alix: the world might be ending and you’re doing homework?
Marinette: we don’t want to get behind this early in the semester
Alix: there’s aliens!
Nino: stop encouraging her
Marinette: this isn’t even the first alien attack we’ve witnessed
Alix: yeah but: aliens!
Rose: I do hope everyone is staying safe! Remember to listen to local authorities as conditions develop!
Titans General Chat
kentucky fried: this titan thing is weird
kentucky fried: uncle f is off saving the world from an alien invasion and im down here saving not even a dozen from being burned alive because heat waves genius plan backfired
green bean: i feel you dude. one of the battles is close to jump so star and raven are helping keep debris from hitting us. meanwhile im stuck in the tower with rob and cy trying to figure out what mad mod is doing
green bean: so far all he’s done is make me personally see in black and white
Icy Dead People: I’m at dinosaur island working with Skulker today because some fruit loop has decided to try to raise an army of ghost dinosaurs
Sparrow: Titans East spent the morning helping out up north in Casino City where a tidal wave from debris hit some touristy crowded location and now the rest of the team gets to fight the biker spaceship gang while I’m stuck in the tower with a broken arm
Sparrow: GA is up there fighting aliens and I got defeated by a support beam
Bug Lady: we had a ten year old get akumatized because he was a JL fan and HM convinced him that if he stole our miraculouses he could join them in the battle
Bug Lady: when I deakumatized him I told him that he could be a hero like the JL with time, but he had to do a good job at school and be kind to his schoolmates and family. His mom seemed to like me telling him that
green bean: ive given that speech a few times always feels a bit hypocritical when im so bad at school
Bug Lady: what feels hypocritical to me is telling others to keep up with their chores and help their parents out, when I’m chronically behind on my chores
Icy Dead People: told a kid once “be careful around electrical equipment or you’ll end up like me” and I don’t think his parents appreciated that
Sparrow: oh my god phantom
Bug Lady: lol that’s horrible
green bean: dude sometimes i forget youre like actually a ghost and not just someone who got ghost powers in a lab accident or something
Icy Dead People: I mean, it wasn’t not because of a lab accident
Catfighter Supreme: in regards to kf’s point earlier, I spent most of the day battling a giant robot to save a town of 25. Got a brief glimpse of Superman as he saved a plane with double that amount of people
green bean: was this another of the totally not lex corp robots
Catfighter Supreme: yes
Bug Lady: wait what does Lexcorp want in a small village like that?
Catfighter Supreme: natural resources, land, chances to try out his robots
Secret Santa: we had a big piece of debris land near us and spent the entire morning keeping Dr Light from it
green bean: dude i couldve sworn dr light was in jail
Secret Santa: he is now
green bean: also notspeedy i will say that getting people out of massive ruins of buildings that will fall on you if you breath wrong is a lot harder than shooting an alien from afar in the open sky
Sparrow: thanks
kentucky fried: ugh apparently the first responders in central are understaffed because of the alien thing and heat wave broke out of custody ill be back
Hot n Cold: need help from someone who can take the heat?
kentucky fried: not necessarily but maybe itll demoralize him so sure
Harold: we’re coming over where do you want us to meet you?
kentucky fried: same place as usual
Supreme Catfighter: you better be doing this to help your fellow titans out and not to get out of fighting the next robot that appears
green bean: good news! the black and white thing is wearing out and im starting to see in colors
green bean: the bad news is that a bunch of birds are attacking the tower so i have to go help handle that
green bean: nvm apparently cy already had a security system specifically for birds
marathon monkey: at least you all get to do something im still stuck outside of paris
green bean: now the birds are attacking somewhere else gtg
Sparrow: I feel your pain Roi
marathon monkey: i feel yours broken bones suck
kentucky fried: hey panthera
Catfighter Supreme: yes Kid Flash?
kentucky fried: can hotspot help me out next time heat wave tries something it was hilarious watching his face drop when he realized hotspot was immune to his heat gun
Catfighter Supreme: if he’s willing and not busy then sure
green bean: dude did you get a video
kentucky fried: no sorry
Notes:
Until next time!
Chapter 32: Chapter 30: A Big Missed Steak
Summary:
Red Robin. Yum.: what do you call an alligator in a vest?
Attempted Murder: not you too
Red Robin. Yum.: an investigator
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
Pawsome: happy punday Monday/Sunday!
Attempted Murder: oh gods
Pawsome: did you hear about the guy that got hit in the head with a can of soda?
Pawsome: he’s lucky it was a soft drink
green bean: i cant believe i got fired from the calendar factory
green bean: all i did was take a day off
Attempted Murder: boo
Icy Dead People: two fish are in a tank. one turns to the other and says, “how do I drive this thing?”
kentucky fried: i dont trust russian dolls theyre so full of themselves
Red Robin. Yum.: what do you call an alligator in a vest?
Attempted Murder: not you too
Red Robin. Yum.: an investigator
Icy Dead People: how do you throw a space party? You planet
green bean: what do you call a pig that does karate? a pork chop!
Guy’s Your Cy: becoming a vegetarian is a big missed steak
Guy’s Your Cy: hold up a minute
Bug Lady: sigh
Bug Lady: I had a joke about amnesia, but I forgot what it was
marathon monkey: i tried to catch some fog. i missed
Guy’s Your Cy: hey rob I’ve been locked out of changing my nickname
Red Robin. Yum.: how strange
Pink Starburst: how do trees access the internet? They must log in!
green bean: nice one star
Pawsome: I once did a performance about puns. It was a play on words
green bean: what did the duck say when the waiter gave him his check? Put it on my bill
Red Star: I took a photo of a field of wheat. It was grainy
Carapace: I love my puns but I’m struggling to think of some in English
Pawsome: I turtlelly get that
Giant Squid: what did the crab say when it finally got back to the ocean? Long time no sea!
green bean: why did the fish cross the ocean? to get to the other tide!
Red Robin. Yum.: meh
Guy’s Your Cy name changed to Cy’s Your Guy
green bean: dont be salty about my ocean puns
Pawsome: I sea what you did there
Cy’s Your Guy name changed to Guy’s Cy Your
Guy’s Cy Your: ????
Icy Dead People: pun already used. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
Pink Starburst: I do not understand?
Icy Dead People: oh it’s a reference to a board game called monopoly
Pink Starburst: I see
Pink Starburst: or I guess I should say, I sea
Attempted Murder: and now you’ve gone and corrupted Starfire. Good job
The Underscorer: can February March? No, but April May
Pawsome: what do you give a sick lemon? Lemon aid!
Bug Lady: when does bread go bad? When you yeast expect it to
Pawsome: wow LB, you’re on a roll!
Pink Starburst: because a roll is a type of bread, yes?
Pawsome: yep
Bug Lady: you butter be taking notes, Chat
The Underscorer: I’m really frustrated - I can’t remember how to write 1, 1000, 51, and 500 in Roman numerals. Really, IM LIVID
Attempted Murder: okay that one’s not bad
Pink Starburst: and Roman numerals are?
Red Robin. Yum.: they’re a different way of writing numbers. I is one, II is two, V is five, IV is four, etc
Red Robin. Yum.: so I = 1, M = 1000, LI = 51, VI = 6, and D = 500
Pink Starburst: I see
Pink Starburst: did you know that, no matter how hard you push an envelope, it will always remain stationary?
green bean: why couldn’t the bicycle stand on its own? cause it was two tired!
Attempted Murder: these jokes are making me tired
Icy Dead People: when a clock gets hungry, it goes back four seconds
The Underscorer: there are 10 types of people in the world. Those who get binary, and those who don’t.
Red Robin. Yum.: lol nice
Guy’s Cy Your: lol nice
Sparrow: I think I’m with Raven on this
Bug Lady: bakers aren’t always broke, but they usually knead dough
Red Robin. Yum.: I should have been scared when my flashlight’s batteries died, but I was delighted
Giant Squid: I don’t trust stairs. They’re always up to something
Carapace: okay I’ve got one
Carapace: my only plan for today is to get my glasses fixed. Then I’ll see what happens
Luting in the Streets: youreunderarrest.png
Pink Starburst: what language is that sign, please?
Luting in the Streets: it’s a quarter rest, a musical symbol
Pink Starburst: I see. And that makes the stick figure under “a rest”
Luting in the Streets: exactly
Pink Starburst: it is like when Beast Boy holds the salt shaker over Raven’s head and says she’s “under assault”
Luting in the Streets: basically yeah
Pawsome: lol
Carapace: what is a sad thursday called in paris? A tra-jeudi
Red Robin. Yum.: lol
Icy Dead People: I know a guy who’s addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop at any time.
Red Robin. Yum.: I was told I had Type A blood, but it was a Type O
kentucky fried: class trip to the soda factory. i hope theres no pop quiz
green bean: energizer bunny arrested, charged with battery
Pawsome: hey LB how do I look?
Bug Lady: with your eyes, chat
Red Robin. Yum.: I support farming. You could even say I’m a
Red Robin. Yum.: protractor.png
Attempted Murder: okay you all want a joke?
green bean: wait raven you know a joke?
Pink Starburst: yes please!
Icy Dead People: sure
Red Robin. Yum.: go for it
Guy’s Cy Your: this should be good
Attempted Murder: okay. This is not a pun but it’s a good joke. But it’s a long one so don’t interrupt me
Attempted Murder: so a man was hiking up a mountain, when he heard this music. It was the most beautiful music he had ever heard. He followed the music to the monastery, where a monk greeted him. The man asked the monk about the music.
Red Robin. Yum.: oh I hate this joke
green bean: dude shush
Attempted Murder: the man explained that he absolutely had to know what the source of this music was. “Sorry,” the monk said, “it’s a secret only for the monks of this monastery.” “But I have to know!” the man argued. “The only way to know is to become a monk,” the monk replied.
Attempted Murder: “Okay,” the man said, “how do I become a monk?” “First,” the monk replied, “you must count every grain of rice in each bag of rice.” There were a dozen bags of rice, each as big as a person, but the man did what the monk said.
Attempted Murder: next, the monk led the man to a field, and told him to count every blade of grass. After that, he handed the man a dictionary, and told him to count every word within. Finally, the monk gave the man his final task - to sit in one position on the top of the mountain from sunrise to sunrise, a full twenty four hours, without moving.
Pawsome: mjpopcorn.gif
Attempted Murder: the man hiked to the very top of the mountain, through the night, to reach the spot by sunrise. And he sat there, not eating, drinking, or talking, from sunrise to sunrise.
Attempted Murder: when sunrise came the next day, the monk congratulated the man on finishing the trials and walked back to the monastery with him.
Attempted Murder: the whole monastery celebrated the newest monk, from the moment he came back from the mountain top to sunset that night. Once the celebration was over, the man approached the monk.
Attempted Murder: “Now, may I learn what the source of that music is?” The man asked.
Attempted Murder: “You may,” the monk replied. “Follow me.”
Attempted Murder: the monk led the man down to the back of the monastery, past the kitchens, past the storage rooms, and into a winding hallway that continued towards the heart of the mountain. They descended staircases made of the very stone of that mountain, and arrived at a beautifully carved door.
Attempted Murder: “Behind these doors is your answer,” the monk said. So the man took a deep breath, stepped forward, and opened the door.
Guy’s Cy Your: so what’s behind the door?
green bean: yeah you can’t leave us hanging like that!
Attempted Murder: sorry, I can’t tell you. You’re not monks.
green bean: flippingtables.gif
Notes:
None of these jokes are original. I’m not that creative lol
Chapter 33: Chapter 31: Sportsball
Summary:
Orange You Glad: had a moment of surprise that people still play american football when it’s obviously such an akuma risk. And then I remembered
kentucky fried: the 21st night of september?
Notes:
Nicknames:
Guy Cy’s Your - Cyborg
green bean - Beast Boy
Giant Squid - Aqualad
Red Robin. Yum. - Robin
kentucky fried - Kid Flash
Icy Dead People - Phantom
Catfighter Supreme - Panthera
Bug Lady - Ladybug
Attempted Murder - Raven
Bumblee - Bumblebee
The Underscorer - Pegasus
Orange You Glad - Rena Rouge
Pink Starburst - Starfire
Sharp As Steel - Ryuko
marathon monkey - Roi Singe
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat:
Guy Cy’s Your: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!
Guy Cy’s Your: I’m going to take that as a no
green bean: american tackle football scares me
Giant Squid: I just can’t get into any land sports
Red Robin. Yum.: you know I’ll watch it with you but I can’t say I’m that excited for it
kentucky fried: most sports are too slow for me
Icy Dead People: I despise football for no other reason than the fact that Plasmius enjoys it
Catfighter Supreme: I love American football! Also ice hockey and rugby. Can’t seem to find any good channels that show it here
Guy Cy’s Your: ooh I can help you set that up
Bug Lady: I think we’ve established that I don’t do sports
Attempted Murder: football. So excited. woot woot.
Icy Dead People: people who say you can’t read tone in a text message have clearly never chatted with Raven
Bumblee: I can come over and watch it with you sparky, I love a good game
Guy Cy’s Your: aww thanks
Guy Cy’s Your name changed to Sparky Sparky Boom Man
Sparky Sparky Boom Man: I’m going to assume whoever did that is also the person responsible for waking me up at 2 AM with Mr Roboto
Sparky Sparky Boom Man: for three nights in a row
The Underscorer: historically, most mischievousness in this chat has been attributed to Kid Flash
kentucky fried: not you to
The Underscorer: I am merely stating the facts
kentucky fried: will i ever be believed innocent
Red Robin. Yum.: no
Orange You Glad: had a moment of surprise that people still play american football when it’s obviously such an akuma risk. And then I remembered
kentucky fried: the 21st night of september?
Orange You Glad: that too
Pink Starburst: please what occurred on the 21st day of September?
kentucky fried: its a song reference
kentucky fried: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=NXcUovmnMNztAlsJ
Pink Starburst: sorry to disappoint you, but I do know what a rickroll is
kentucky fried: nvm then
Sparky Sparky Boom Man: it is from a song, though. Look up “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire
Pink Starburst: thank you friend Cyborg <3
Sparky Sparky Boom Man: you are quite welcome, Star
Icy Dead People: heads up I’m about to head back to the states, if anyone wants me to pick up any cool souvenirs from Europe
Red Star: Phantom was a great help in finishing the snowman problem
Icy Dead People: my pleasure. Had to get out of Amity anyways with all the GIW around
Red Robin. Yum.: yeah someone needs to do something about the GIW
Carapace: rena I’m so glad I’m not the only one who keeps forgetting other cities don’t have akuma problems
Bug Lady: I do that all the time
Sharp As Steel: so do I
marathon monkey: it was a prob for me when i was out of the city
green bean: dude control freak just reappeared
green bean: i guess he has a grudge against sports?
green bean: anyways tune in to espn to see the titans take him on on live tv
Giant Squid: shouldn’t you be helping them, not texting us?
green bean: i was in the bathroom when it happened so i didnt get sucked into the tv this time
Bug Lady: this time????
Notes:
Anyways happy football day for anyone who observes it
Chapter 34: Chapter 32: Fixer Upper
Summary:
Red Robin. Yum.: whatever you want to say, say it. This is a no judgement zone
Attempted Murder: unless you’re Beast Boy
Notes:
TW: brief mention of addiction/Speedy’s backstory at the end, after the second line break
Nicknames:
Red Robin. Yum. - Robin
Bug Lady - Ladybug
Icy Dead People - Phantom
Bumblee/Bee for Best - Bumblebee
Friend Jinx/Pink Hair and Pronouns - Jinx
Attempted Murder - Raven
green bean/asparagus - Beast Boy
Luting in the Streets - Jericho
Sparrow/Teenage Human Archery Turtle - Speedy
Sparky Sparky Boom Man/Squad One Geek Man - Cyborg
Pink Starburst/Star Light, Star Bright - Starfire
Orange You Glad - Rena Rouge
Rookie Monster - Ravager
marathon monkey - Roi Singe
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Titans General Chat
5 new messages
Red Robin. Yum.: so what you’re saying is, if there was a gas attack, you’d be able to help?
Bug Lady: any of team miraculous could help, as long as I had a chance to get the potions to them beforehand
Red Robin. Yum.: good to know
Icy Dead People: can we circle back to the train in space part?
Bumblee: I’m more interested in the underwater part. Aquaman and Aqualad keep trying to drag the team out to sea and I don’t like getting wet
marathon monkey: i volunteer
Bug Lady: of course you do
Sparrow: Jinx you’ve been typing a while, everything alright?
Friend Jinx: yeah I’m fine it’s just
Red Robin. Yum.: whatever you want to say, say it. This is a no judgement zone
Attempted Murder: unless you’re Beast Boy
Red Robin. Yum.: tbf bb gets even more aggravated when you don’t pick on him
green bean: yeah it freaks me out i always worry that i actually made you mad
Luting in the Streets: we are here to listen to you, Jinx
Friend Jinx: okay so does anyone else feel like we’re handling the big villains and such but not actually fixing anything? Like the real problems that are causing this type of stuff?
Friend Jinx: maybe it’s just me having been in their shoes before idk
Red Robin. Yum.: yeah literally all the time
green bean: yep
Luting in the Streets: I do feel like that sometimes
Sparrow: oh yeah like all the time
Red Star: I understand the feeling
Friend Jinx: oh
Red Robin. Yum.: there’s a part of me that keeps thinking we need to do more to help the actual problems in our community, and then whenever I try to do that, control freak or mad mob or some other annoying villain pops up and I have to go deal with them instead
Attempted Murder: the good news is that Jump City has a lot of other, non-hero people that are willing to take on that challenge, provided that we continue to protect them from the annoying pop up villains
Red Robin. Yum.: that’s a good point. No good change is going to come if we let the world get destroyed, or turned back to the sixties, or whatever
Friend Jinx: that’s a good way to look it at
Red Robin. Yum.: if you have any ideas yourself on things we can be doing, let us know
Friend Jinx: I do not or I would already be doing it
Bumblee: this doesn’t apply to everyone, of course, but sometimes leading by example really does work, especially if you’re from a group that doesn’t get a lot of representation. Like people who’ve had a freak accident that gave them permanent wings.
Sparky Sparky Boom Man: yeah, I’ve had several people with prosthetics come up to tell me I’m a role model, and I’m always like ???. I’m just being me.
green bean: dude youre like naturally awesome
Red Robin. Yum.: agreed
Sparky Sparky Boom Man: awww thanks
Pink Starburst: I have never tried to do the leading by example but Jump City has become one of the most welcoming cities to aliens
Orange You Glad: LB has this thing where she’ll swing by a charity or something just long enough to get photos of her there and suddenly everyone’s invested in it
Bug Lady: it works surprisingly well, especially when I get can the Ladyblogger on it
Icy Dead People: never underestimate the power of a throw-away line to a reporter
Friend Jinx: takingnotes.gif
Red Robin. Yum.: I’m surprised KF hasn’t talked to you about it
Friend Jinx: he’s been distracted
Dick and His Del-tones
Pink Hair and Pronouns: img8876.png
Pink Hair and Pronouns: said distraction
Squad One Geek Man: oooh is he trying out those new wheel designs?
Pink Hair and Pronouns: yep
Pink Hair and Pronouns: not to be a bi disaster on main but he looks so cute when he’s focusing
Star Light, Star Bright: I did not know you identified as bi
Pink Hair and Pronouns: oh yeah Bee and I used to date
Squad One Geek Man: wait what?
asparagus: wait you knew each other before becoming titans?
Pink Hair and Pronouns: yeah? We both studied at hive
asparagus: oh right
Pink Hair and Pronouns: we were both contenders for top student for a while, and somehow ended up doing a school rivals to lovers arc
Attempted Murder: nice
Star Light, Star Bright: so why did you break up?
Pink Hair and Pronouns: hive leadership changed. She was upset about it, I wasn’t.
Pink Hair and Pronouns: we actually broke up a few weeks before Cyborg went undercover
Red Robin. Yum.: so was Cyborg your rebound?
Pink Hair and Pronouns: lol
Green Arrows 1# Hate Club
Teenage Human Archery Turtle: okay but wrt to the conversation in gen chat, I’ve also got a charity I’d like to help somehow
Rookie Monster: aren’t most charities scams?
Teenage Human Archery Turtle: some are, some aren’t
Bee for Best: what charity?
Teenage Human Archery Turtle: SC’s teenage recovery program. I’ve been touching base with some of the facility there and it seems like a really good program
Teenage Human Archery Turtle: beats anything star city had, at least
Bee for Best: when it comes to addiction, we’ll follow your lead
Teenage Human Archery Turtle: thank you
Notes:
Sorry for the lack of updates! Had an all-reading, no-writing week.
Chapter 35: Interlude 2: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?
Notes:
Another interlude to introduce a few more characters.
Chapter Text
Interlude 2: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?
The French prison looked much like other prisons Jinx had seen, just with more security.
A lot more security.
She was a legit visitor this time, with Robin by her side, but all the security made her nervous. She had been a thief, once, and then a villain. Comparatively, she hadn’t been a good guy for very long.
The prison was busy, having had Parisian prisoners transferred out to it to avoid akumatizations. Most of the lower-level Brotherhood of Evil members had ended up here.
Madame Rouge was in a facility specifically designed for shapeshifters.
Their escort led them to an empty room, saying that he’ll come back for Jinx in a moment, and disappeared.
“Nervous?” Robin asked.
“A little,” Jinx admitted.
She had never expected to feel so comfortable around the titans. She hadn’t expected them to accept her so quickly, even when Wally had assured her they would. But now they almost felt like family - people she could count on, depend on, and also people she enjoyed being around.
And now she was here to extend the same chance to her first family.
It would be the first time she saw them since Paris. It felt like years.
Jinx had updated her look since then. Raven had helped her create a neck guard in the same style as her original collar, just high enough on her chest to protect her neck. Ladybug had made some suggestions on the dress - mostly ways to fit surprise pockets, but Jinx had added a purple belt with a hexagon clasp and brought the collar up flush with the neck guard. Robin had gifted her a pair of black fingerless gloves and some sturdier lace-up combat boots.
She did keep her same signature hairstyle.
“Prisons used to make me nervous, too,” Robin said.
“Really?” Jinx asked. “Why?”
Robin didn’t get a chance to answer, because the escort had returned.
“This way, please,” he said.
It had been Robin who had helped her organize this, and Robin who’d volunteered to go with, but Jinx entered the room alone.
Gizmo was on the other side of the glass. He huffed in annoyance when he saw Jinx.
“Finally remembered the rest of us?” He asked.
“Sorry for disappearing,” Jinx said. “I had some thinking to do.”
“But did you have to do it with the stinking titans?” Gizmo asked.
Jinx shrugged. “Go big or go home. But I wanted to check in on you.”
“I’m fine,” Gizmo said. “Not my first time in jail. These snot eaters won’t be holding me in here for long.”
“It’s been months.”
“I’m being transferred in a few weeks. I don’t want to break out too close to Hawkgoblin. Blegh.”
“Fair enough,” Jinx said. “I have another option, though.”
“Of course you do,” Gizmo said. “Probably feel guilty about leaving us to rot in jail.”
“I was the reason the brotherhood recruited you.”
“Yeah, but you’re not the reason the brotherhood ended up being a bunch of grass-brained, snot-nosed, idiot geezers. I mean, how much of an embarrassment do you have to be to be taken down by Beast Boy.”
Jinx frowned. “He had help.”
Gizmo huffed. “We still outnumbered them. Stupid idiot melon-headed morons.”
“The point is,” Jinx continued, “I have a way out for you.”
“Does it involve the stinking titans?” Gizmo asked.
“No,” Jinx said, “but it involves a lot of computers.”
“I’m listening.”
Mammoth was next.
“I’m fine,” he said with a shrug, “already have an escape plan.”
Yeah, Jinx knew. Mammoth wasn’t exactly subtle with his planning.
“Thanks for checking in,” Mammoth said. “Next time, bring pie.”
Billy Numerous also had an escape plan.
If Jinx was in there with them, she would have been frustrated by the three individual escape plans. It really wasn’t that hard to coordinate. But without her there to force cooperation, no one was working together.
She had been so driven then. Everything she did had to be perfect - because she had to be perfect, had to be the best.
That had changed.
It didn’t matter as much to her what she would be in five or ten years from now - not when just last week, she was able to save a family from a house fire with a few well-placed flicks of magic. She didn’t care if everyone knew her name when Cyborg always remembered her favorite foods and Ladybug brought her the macaroons she loved and Iris knew her coffee order. It didn’t matter if she was the smartest person in her classes when she was doing homework with Wally after missing class or listening to Barry explain his forensics work.
It was like she had spent her whole life trying to prove that she had a right to exist - a reason to exist. To prove whoever her parents were that they were wrong to abandon her, to show up every teacher that saw her as another problem child, every foster family that blamed her for their own issues. To show up Slade, who set her up for failure, and Blood, who had blamed her for it.
And then she’d had a moment, when Madame Rouge had taken credit for something Jinx had done, where she had seen her future. A future of constantly looking for validation from villains, of constantly being walked over and talked down to.
And she decided she had had enough of that.
After Billy Numerous was See-More.
“You look nice,” See-More said.
“Thanks,” Jinx replied. “I wanted to apologize.”
See-More frowned. “What for?”
“I dragged you into the team, and then dragged the team into the Brotherhood of Evil, and then left,” Jinx replied. “And now you’re in jail, and I’m not.”
“You didn’t drag me into anything,” See-More replied. “I chose to follow you. I continued with the brotherhood even after you left. I’ve never felt like I had much of choice, with being a bad guy, but not because of anything you did.”
“Well, I’m giving you a choice,” Jinx said. “I have a few ways you can get out of jail, if you want to.”
See-More leaned forward. “Sounds better than waiting for Mammoth’s escape plan. What do I need to do?”
Join the Titans was not one of the answers Jinx had prepared.
It seemed wrong, to ask them to risk themselves for a chance to stay out of jail, and Robin had helped her find several other options. Gizmo would be working with a technology company that was probably a part of Wayne Industries. She’d had similar ideas for the rest of the team, but-
But See-More had wanted to join her.
He didn’t trust the other opportunities - See-More had dealt with a lot of crap, being so visibly different. But he said he was willing to try with the Titans, if they had accepted Jinx (and Cyborg, Raven, Bumblebee, etc).
And where See-More went, Kyd Wykkyd usually followed.
“You don’t seem surprised,” Jinx commented, when she told Robin what happened.
“I’m not,” Robin replied. “A lot of the students at H.I.V.E. couldn’t find their way in normal society, but the Titans aren’t exactly normal.”
Jinx nodded. “That’s about what See-More said.”
“Do you think they’ll want to stay with you,” Robin asked, “or would they be okay with assisting another team?”
“What did you have in mind?”
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