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This Is A Great Setup But It Really Deserves Some Expanding, Particularly On Marinettes And Other Paris

This is a great setup but it really deserves some expanding, particularly on Marinette’s and other Paris based heroes POVs for the drama and angst of it all. Getting some insight about what Adrien has been up to since leaving Paris, be it Gotham or even as a Justice League asset of some kind. Someone should get on it!

Loved the last one!! I ended up going through all of your other ML stories and noticed there wasn't much Adrien love. So what if? Adrien ends up meeting Catwoman who is hunting for jewels and ends up meeting Adrien who is feeling left out & more like a side kick w/ each fight. Catwoman meets him and takes him back w/ her to US. Points if Bruce finds out while as the Bat and ends up helping her legally adopt him. LB gets lectured harshly thx to Cat and Bat family when she tries to bring him back.

Hi again! thanks for waiting, hope you like it!

Adrien wasn't sure what to do anymore. When all this started, he was so secure in his role as Chat Noir. Him and his lady fighting side by side. Them against the world. It was great for a while. But lately things were different. At first, it was only every once and a while that Ladybug brought in the other heroes. Rena and Carapace were great and a big help. But then there were more and more heroes. But Adrien was still ok. Sure, he preferred it to be just him and Ladybug, just like old times. But these other heroes were awesome, and he was still the first one Ladybug called. But lately, she had been going to these other heroes first more and more. Now he didn't feel like Ladybug's partner and equal anymore. He felt like he was just another temp hero that she would call IF he was needed. And Adrien wasn't sure what to do about it.

There had been another battle today. Not that Adrien had known until after. Ladybug had gathered the temp heroes and ended the fight before Adrien even knew there was an attack. He only found out when he saw it on the news later that night. Even though he knew what he would find, he transformed and checked his messages to see if Ladybug had even called him. She hadn't. She hadn't felt the need to call him at all. This had been going on for a while, but it didn't make it hurt any less to see his empty inbox.

Deciding he needed to get out some pent up energy, he decided to do his own patrol tonight. He had long since stopped being scheduled for patrols, the temp heroes and Ladybug taking care of it. It had seemed fine at the time when Ladybug explained. 'You have told me before you have a hard time moving freely as a civilian. This way, you don't need to worry about getting away. We can handle it!'

Logically, he knew that his lady had been trying to be considerate, even if it wasn't the right way to handle it. She hadn't meant to be malicious. But it still felt like he was being left behind. All he had ever wanted was friends, and with his father practically ignoring him now, he felt alone more than ever. His father hadn't even noticed that he had moved out of the mansion and gotten his own apartment.

But his father had never been terribly attentive, so that was nothing new. And he always could talk to Ladybug about it, if he needed too. But now he was growing distant from one of his closest friends, who had started ignoring him too. So, now transformed as Chat Noir, he left his bedroom and started moving around the rooftops of Paris. He sat down on a roof overlooking the entrance to the louvre, and just thought about everything, sitting in a miserable silence. He knew at this point of the night, whoever was doing patrol should be on the other side of the city. So he was surprised to hear footsteps behind him.

He whips around, baton in hand, expecting an akuma. Instead there is a woman standing behind him in a black leather body suit and cat ears on her head. Chat didn't know what to make of this woman, but she looked too normal to be an akuma. Aside from the costume, she was completely normal.

To her credit, Selina recovered from the shock of seeing someone dressed almost exactly like her on a near inaccessible roof pretty quickly. She had come to try and get her hands on the valuable jewels that were kept in the louvre. But now this boy had her interest. "Hello there little kitten. What are you doing up here by yourself. Imitation may be good flattery, but I'm not a big fan of copy cats." That is when she recognized this boy from the news. He wasn't some sneak thief trying to copy her. He was a local super hero, and was very famous in the city. Guess her plan would have to wait for another night, or at least until later.

"Now why would one of Paris' heroes be up here all by himself? On patrol? Though I thought you lot worked in pairs?" Adrien wasn't sure why, but he felt comfortable with this woman. He couldn't explain it, seeing as he could surmise that she was up to no good, but she had an almost maternal air to her. Adrien simply scoffed, "I'm not sure I am one of the city's heroes anymore. Ladybug surely hasn't been treating me like her partner lately."

Selina had always been one for gossip. Couple that with the fact that this boy looked miserable and she had this strange protective instinct towards him and she wanted to know everything. "Do you want to talk about it kitten?" And that was all it took. Someone finally asking about him. Finally checking on him, for the damn to break. Adrien actually started crying as he told the mysterious woman everything. With each passing word, Selina grew more and more angry. But she tapered it down for now. The last thing she needed was that idiot Hawkmoth further ruining the night.

After Adrien was done, it was clear to Selina that he needed a break. From his horrible father, his partner who was ignoring him good intentions or not, and from Paris as a whole. So she offered a suggestion. She told him that she was only in town until morning, then she would return to Gotham. She invited him to come with her. Revealing herself to be Catwoman, Selina Kyle, and having connections to the Bat family, he could come back with her to Gotham.

There he could forget about Paris for a bit, or even forget it completely, and she and the bats could help train him up a bit and make him a better fighter. He was reluctant, so she simply told him to meet her at the airport at Bruce's private plane by 8:00 if he wanted to come. With that, Selina left. The jewels could wait until her next visit. In the morning, she waited by the private jet, until it was almost time to leave. Just as she thought he wasn't going to come, Adrien arrived, running to meet her. Without another word, they boarded the plane and Adrien's adventure began.

When they arrived in Gotham, Bruce and Alfred were waiting for them. She had explained the situation to them last night, and to expect another guest when she got back. To say the bats were livid about this boy's treatment would be an understatement. They welcomed the boy with open arms and got him settled in at the manor. Seeing how Selina cared for the boy, Bruce put her in contact with his attorney that processed his adoptions in the past. While Adrien's father may be alive, seeing as Mr. Agreste hadn't noticed his son had been living on his own in Paris and still hadn't noticed when his son left Paris all together, the attorney was able to make the case that Mr. Agreste was an unfit father and got the adoption pushed through. Adrien was growing accustomed to life in Gotham, even having started helping the Bat Family with their super hero work. He wasn't sure he ever wanted to go back to Paris.

It made big news in Paris when Adrien Agreste left his father and got adopted in Gotham. Meanwhile, Marinette had been looking all over for Chat. He hadn't answered his messages in a while. Sure they had been a bit distant lately, but this is nuts. So when Marinette saw pictures of a new cat themed hero in Gotham, she put two and two together. Sure, this new cat hero looked a bit different, Adrien having changed his appearance to try and avoid suspicion, but Marinette wasn't dumb. She could tell it was Chat. Wondering why he was in Gotham and not here in Paris where he belonged, Marinette used the horse miraculous and went to Gotham. There, she waited on a roof until she spotted the Bat Family, Catwoman, and who she was sure was Chat on a roof, talking. She made her way over and called out to her partner.

"Chat! There you are! I've been looking all over for you. What are you doing here? I've needed you back in Paris, but you haven't answered my messages!" Everyone turned to look at her, and just based off her costume, they knew exactly who she was. She was the person that had been ignoring Adrien and now she wanted to act like this? They just glared at her as the one Marinette knew as Catwoman responded, moving in front of Adrien. "You sure haven't needed him in a while. So he went somewhere he would be appreciated. Now why don't you just leave him alone. He has a new family now."

Marinette was stunned. She had expected Chat to smile at her like he always did, crack some lame joke about his absence, and come back to Paris with her. But that didn't happen. Instead he stared at her with an apathetic look before saying, "You and the others had a handle on things. You haven't needed me for a while. As a matter of fact, you ignored me for a long time. We were supposed to be partners, but you haven't treated me like a partner in a while. Just a sidekick, and not even a sidekick you needed. So I left, and I have found where I belong. You should go." Marinette tried to defend herself, to argue against his statement, but nothing worked. The rest of the heroes in front of her joined Chat in lecturing her and telling her to leave.

She tried one last time, hoping to get him to come back. "Chat please, I need you! I will always need you." Chat just scoffed, "You haven't needed me in a very long time. And now, I don't need you. I have new friends who don't ignore me until it is convenient. Goodbye milady. Please don't come back." With that, the crowd of heroes left, leaving Marinette standing there, wondering what she had done.

This Is A Great Setup But It Really Deserves Some Expanding, Particularly On Marinettes And Other Paris

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