#dickenette

[ashbrea381writings]

Flying Blind: Chapter 1, Bats in Paris

Four-year-old Richard Grayson glared at the girl in front of him. Marinette Dupain-Cheng was just six weeks older than him, and right now, she was taller than him too. “You’re gonna lose.” He taunted in heavily accented French, “I got super high scores and you can’t beat them!” “Don’t even think about it! I’m gonna win!” Marinette’s fists were clenched and her face red. “Just you watch!” The Dupain-Chengs and the Graysons shared an amused look over the heads of the children. “How are you doing?” Tom asked, chuckling about the children’s antics. “We’re good, we’ll be starting another tour this summer, then probably settle down for a couple years before moving on.” The two children started shouting even louder, causing them to be dragged apart by their exasperated parents. This happened every competition, for years.

***

Five years later, Richard stopped showing up to competitions. Marinette was annoyed at first, grumbling about him being a chicken who didn’t want to face her. At another competition, a month later, she heard one of the judges talking about the Graysons, making a sad comment about the loss of so many talented people, the wasted potential, an entire family of fliers just gone. Marinette stiffened in shock, her eyes wide as she processed what they had just said. Bolting to the locker room, Marinette yanked her hair out of it’s bun and changed back into her street clothes, hiding in the bathroom stall and crying. When her parents find her some minutes later, they make sure she isn’t hurt and take her home. “He’s dead… Dick’s dead.” She told them tearfully in the car on the way home. “All of them are.” Marinette stopped going to competitions after that.

***

Ladybug could feel the tension in her shoulders as she confronted the man before her, Chat a step behind and to her left. “If your Justice League doesn’t want to help, you could at least stay out of our city.” Her arms were crossed as she glared at Batman. “Why do you think the League wouldn’t help?” Robin asked, his accent strong but his pronunciation carefully precise. “We only heard of the situation recently.” “Oh? I called the League two years ago when our mentor gave up his memories to prevent Hawkmoth from getting something important.” Ladybug spat, letting her disgust show without letting it be bad enough that Hawkmoth could sense it. “I got told to stop playing games and they hung up on me.” “Who did you speak with?” Batman asked, pulling out a small tablet to take notes. “I don’t know, they didn’t say. Male, light voice in the baritone range, sounded way too cheerful until he decided I was lying, then he was just an ass.” She shrugged and gestured to the city around her. “‘Paris is fine, we would have noticed if something bad happened.’” She quoted in a near-perfect impression of Hal Jordan that made Batman frown. “Did you mean to do an impression?” Robin asked, somewhere between surprised and trying not to laugh when the girl his age was able to deepen her voice that much. “It’s accurate, I was there to hear him.” Chat chuckled, crossing his arms and shifting to lean on just one leg. “The guy continued to rant about children making prank calls and how he didn’t even know how we had the number.” “The fact that we had it at all should have told him the truth.” Ladybug scoffed. “Look, I’ve been doing this for four years. If you really wanna help, you’ll need to make sure you don’t fall victim to Hawkmoth yourself.” “And how does one do that?” “Mostly by repressing your negative emotions.” Chat shrugged, looking out over the city. “To be honest, it’s getting harder for Parisians to keep up their hopes. Our ages don’t help either, there are plenty who keep demanding we give up our Miraculi to older, more experienced people, but not just anyone can wield them.” “The personalities of the people wielding them must mesh well with the Miraculous, or it corrupts you and either causes you to become someone you wouldn’t recognize, or makes you very sick.” “That explains why you can’t pass them on, but why were you two chosen?” Robin tilted his head, moving forward a bit more. “We were the best candidates at the time. Our former mentor read our auras to make sure who meshed with which Miraculous and gave us a test to make sure we were the type of people to help others even when it’s not in our best interests.” Ladybug sighed and turned to look as a loud ‘bang!’ sounded from the direction of the Eiffel Tower. “Always the tower, I still don’t get it.” Chat sighed, prepping to take off. “Don’t ask me, Kitty.” Ladybug grabbed her yo-yo. “Stay back out of the fight unless you see a civilian in danger. You don’t know what you’re up against.” Batman looked like he wanted to argue, but the teen heroes took off in the direction of the Akuma that was currently pulling pieces off of the Tower and throwing them at the ground nearby. Batman and Robin found a spot just outside the action to observe. Other members of the Miraculous Team were already on the scene, moving civilians and calling out information to each other. Viperion split off from the action to intercept Ladybug and seemed to have a lot of information. Once they conferred for a few moments, a suddenly weary-looking Viperion gave signals to several of the team members. The Akuma was released, captured, and purified. With the Cure cast, the Tower was repaired and the Miraculous Team collectively shared quiet celebrations before separating except for Chat Noir, who’s Cataclysm hadn’t been used. “LB and the others are going to recharge, check in with their families after the attack, and meet us. I’m to lead you to somewhere private where we can talk more thoroughly.” Chat was brisk, seeming tired. “Your Snake friend… He spent a good portion of the fight observing and only really called out instructions for the most part. Why is that?” Robin asked as they started running across rooftops. “That’s his part. Ladybug is Creation, I’m Destruction, he’s Intuition. He watches the fight and uses his ability to make sure we do not fail when we cannot avoid it otherwise.” Chat answered vaguely, enjoying the verbal cat-and-mouse. “Are you going to tell us what his power is?” Batman asked, his exasperation audible in his voice. “The more information we have, the better we can plan and the more help we can give.” “I’m gonna let Viperion explain, he’s a chill guy, he won’t mind telling you. Besides, they’re all gonna be there and I think LB plans to give you two a rundown of everyone anyway.” Chat explained, dropping down into a small garden hidden between buildings. There was a small storage shed that Chat opened, removing a handful of chairs and a folding table. “I believe LB plans on bringing refreshments, will you help me set this up?”

***

An hour later, the rest of the team had assembled, with more than just Ladybug bringing snacks and drinks. There was something for everyone, although Batman chose not to eat. “So, a rundown?” “My powers stem from Creation, I create an object that helps us in the fight, purify the Akuma, and my Cure repairs any damage done by the miraculous during that specific Akuma fight. If too much time passes after the Akuma was purified, I can’t put it right.” Ladybug began, pointing to Chat next. “His power is from Destruction, he can destroy any one item he touches or a portion of a surface such as the ground or a wall. He can control how far the destruction spreads to a degree, it’s something we’re working on. Viperion has the power of Second Chance, he sets a timer and within that span of time he can reset to the beginning as many times as he wants theoretically. The problem is that he’s the only one who remembers what happened in the timeline he reset, so he has to be able to remember what to do so we can succeed.” “Is that why you suddenly looked more tired during the fight?” Robin asked, brows furrowing. “Yes. Seeing your friends get hurt over and over will do that.” The shaggy-haired hero sighed, shaking his head. “As much as I dislike seeing it, I know that I can prevent it as long as I still have my power active and as long as I’m able to give them the right information when we reset. I’ve gotten a lot better than when we started, but it helped when Chat started to realize I knew what I was doing.” His eyes sparkled with a bit of humor and Chat shook his head with a goan. “You’re never going to let me forget that, are you?” Chat asked, stretching. “Nope, never.” “Anyway.” Ladybug glared at the two boys, but it lacked conviction. “You’ll have to give me the rundown later of how many times we reset. Moving on, Rena Rouge, power of Illusion. Carapace, Protection, his shields are nearly impenetrable.” Ladybug pointed out each hero in turn. “Honey Bee, she can paralyze a person with her stinger, most of these have a duration and are usable just once for now. Pegasus can make portals to anywhere, again, once and there’s a time limit after using it. King Monkey isn’t here right now, but his power disrupts those of whomever is touched with an object he summons. We have one more teammate who doesn’t get involved often. Their name is Bunnyx, and they don’t show up much unless we really need them. They travel through time.” “So you have a time-traveler to come pull you out? Then why don’t they tell you who Hawkmoth is?” Batman demanded. “Because one: that’s cheating, and two: that’s not how they’re supposed to figure it out.” Came another voice from above before a blue, white, and pink blur dropped down behind Ladybug.

***

Note: The competition is for Gymnastics if anyone’s confused.

#dickenette #maribat #mgi trope tussle #dc #miraculous au #soulmate

[raven-frost-21]

Can You Marry Me?

Chapter 1 pt2

He gasped and his hand shot up to touch the mentioned necklace as the woman scrambled off of him, her face pale. Suddenly a knife was pressed to his throat as the woman glared. “I will ask this one more time. Where. Did. You. Get. THE NECKLACE!” He growled and shoved the hair out of his eyes to get a better look at the woman and his eyes widened. “Nettie?” The knife clattered to the ground and he heard a gasp. “Dick!” He was again on the ground but this time in a tight hug. He shuddered and held his best friend tightly. She had been taken from him before he had ever met Bruce. His Sparrow. The two of them had been able to have one thing to keep with them when her parents had stolen her. She had been traveling with Gina all her life. And had been with Haly’s for just as long. When her parents had found out they had been in London, and the two were performing when her parents caught sight of Sparrow. They thought she was familiar. After the performance the two snuck backstage and caught sight of the two without masks. To their horror Sparrow was the little girl they saw on video calls every friday. Without a word they grabbed the girl and ripped her from the tired arms of her partner. He never thought he would see her again. And now, he sat there with her in his arms. He sobbed. The two had a necklace, a Sparrow and a Robin on a branch. She had taken the robin, stating that it meant she always had a small bit of her robin with her. The last thing she had said to him was that she would never take it off. Yelled over her fathers shoulder. He had promised the same. And even when Slade had him and did the worst things he could, he never took it off. She pulled back and smiled at him. He wiped the tears that were still dripping down away gently. “What are you doing here?” Her eyes dulled and her smile seemed strained. “Dick, what are you doing here?” He chuckled, “I’m going to university. My parents are dead, Nettie. 8 years ago.” She gasped and more tears came to her eyes. Suddenly she stood up. “RICHARD JOHN GRAYSON! You are starving aren’t you?! You are coming to my apartment now! You haven’t showered, slept properly, or eaten in days! I can tell. C’mon.” She yanked him to his feet and started to pull him along. He, weak from lack of nutrition, numbly let her. She started to mutter to herself in a variety of languages, finally settling on telling him, “OH. And we’re talking about your night activities wing.” He gulped, shit, B definitely was going to kill him. A few minutes later he was shoved into an apartment that seemed relatively secure. She looked at him and winked. “Don’t worry. I bought the building, and this is the most secure apartment. Don’t tell my tenants. Magic helps. Now, look. I get if you don’t want to tell me anything, we haven’t seen each other in 9 years. But, you can go out as Nightwing. And I have an extra bedroom. You're staying there. Unfortunately, I don’t have any access to my bank accounts so we both are going to have to get plenty of jobs to pay for school and food.” He just smiled at her. “You know, if you turned that dress design into a suit, you could go out with me as Nightingale.” She smiled and bopped his nose. “I might, or Ladybug, former heroine of Paris could.” He gasped. “You’re a hero?” She nodded, “Yup one that single handedly saved Paris from Hawkmoth and her former partner turned rogue. Take that Green Lantern. That man is an imbecile. But, I should change the name shouldn’t I?” He nodded. “Yeah. Nightwing, prepare to introduce the world to Ladybird, your best friend and partner in crime fighting.” He snorted and started to laugh, “Ladybird?” She glared at him from where she was popping rolls into the oven. “I should keep to the bats or birds theme. And I’m not naming myself after a fucking bat.” That broke his thin control and he burst out laughing. Soon enough he was on the floor holding his sides as he rolled. She pouted above him. Finally he sat up. Marinette was on her phone with her nose wrinkled in concern.

#Maribat #MariBat college au #Dickenette #Dick Grayson #Marinette Dupain Cheng #mlb x dc

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So I’m trying to find this fic, I think it was Dickenette. (Idk if I spelled that right) where it’s a college fake marriage au? I have no idea what the name was.

Can You Marry Me? by @raven-frost-21

#mod: Vi #Maribat #Raven-frost-21 #Dickinette #College au

[raven-frost-21]

Can You Marry Me?

Chapter 1 pt 3

“Dick, this isn’t funny. We’re both broke and can’t buy food, I don’t have much, and we have to pay for college. I can’t even buy fabric to do commissions.”

He groaned. “Shit. Don’t remind me. What are we going to do?”

She frowned. “You’re homeless because you told Batman that Plague was too young to do this, especially after finally breaking free from the league training.”

He looked at her shocked. “I may know Selina. And trust me. I ain’t afraid of Bruce Wayne. Even his “Batman” glare doesn't faze me.”

He stared at her incredulously. She gave him a wry smile. “I’ll explain more later. Right now. It’s just too soon.”

They fell into an easy routine. After a while Dick started to work at the coffee shop on campus while Marinette worked at three of the local fabric stores and the night shifts at the coffee shop. He was worried about her. He took on two more jobs and convinced her to quit the coffee shop. About two months after they had reunited he came home to find her sitting at the table staring at her computer.

The only thing she said was, “Can you marry me?”

#Maribat #mlb x dc #Dickenette

[raven-frost-21]

Can You Marry Me?

Chapter 1 pt 1

Marinette slumped onto her bed and sighed. She had just graduated and was tired. But, she was finally free from the hell that is Lila Rossi. Or so she thought. She heard her mother call for her and dragged herself down the stairs. To be met with her livid parents, and a crying Rossi. She was shocked when her mother slapped her. “You are scum. You never designed a single dress as MDC did you? It was all Lila, and you took all the credit and the money. As of this instant young lady you will be handing over MDC’s bank account to the real designer. Give me the access.” Marinette blinked back the tears as her heart broke. She thought that Lila would stop, her parents believed Lila enough already. She already was yelled at about Haly’s. But how did Lila find out? She pulled her phone out with shaky hands and started to type. After a few minutes (and transferring everything on her phone to the extra in her purse) she handed the phone to her mother and walked up to her room. Thankfully she had already “shipped” all of her furniture to her apartment in Gotham. Kaalki was a great help. She had just closed the door when she heard the phone shatter against something and her mother yell, “THE BITCH FROZE THE ACCOUNT!” She heard the pounding as they made their way towards her. She paled and bolted, grabbing the miracle box and transforming with Kaalki as she clambered onto her balcony. She heard the wood of the locked trapdoor of her room splinter and her father yell, “WHERE IS THAT DAMN CIRCUS BRAT!” She muttered voyage and stepped through. As the portal closed behind her she sucked in a shuddering breath. The contingency plan for Lila trying to seize the account, locked for four years. Shit, she should have moved more money into the secret account. Now she had to apply for thousands of scholarships. She can’t exactly pay for school with 4 dollars. Shit, she needs to get a job, or three. Her phone rang and she jolted. ‘Miss Dupain-Cheng, this is to inform you that your meeting with the head of the fashion department at GU is in 15 minutes, please press two if you are unavailable.’ She hung up and groaned. “I guess that there is no rest for the wicked right Tikki?” Tikki chuckled, “C’mon Marinette! You have to get ready. You can’t go in your pajamas.” She blinked and jumped up. She pulled on a dark blue and black dress reminiscent of the last outfit she wore as Sparrow. Which coincidentally was the inverse of Nightwing’s latest suit. Which was her robin's costume. (So the dress is mainly Nightwing blue and the emblem is black) Smiling softly she pulled on black stilettos and wore her half of the necklace. The little Robin on his branch. She quickly did her makeup and grabbed a black purse as she ran out the door, thankful her hair was already up in a bun. Onwards towards her new life. Dick sighed. He and Bruce had had another fight. He doesn’t care that he started at 10, Damian shouldn’t be fighting crime so soon. He just started acting like a real boy and not an assassin. He shouldn’t be back to fighting so soon. And he just came back from the dead. Bruce had finally had enough with his nagging. He had snapped and told him to stop trying to parent his children. He wasn’t his ward anymore and he was under no legal obligation to help him. The fight escalated from there and ended up with him homeless and barely making enough to buy some food. At least Bruce had paid for this semester of schooling. And he did have several scholarships. But, he was definitely going to have to quit being Nightwing for a while. Maybe Roy would let him crash at his place? No, Kori would be there and he didn’t want to have to relive Mirage again. His stomach grumbled as he walked out of class and started to head for the coffee shop on the edge of the campus. Suddenly he was on the ground and a little sprout of a woman was on top of him. “I’m so sorry. I wasn’t looking where I was going and-- where did you get that necklace?”

#maribat college au #Maribat #Dickenette #Dick Grayson #Marinette Dupain Cheng #mlb x dc

[raven-frost-21]

MARINETTE: *waking up from a nap* Why do I feel like I missed something?

LILA: *screams*

MARINETTE: DAMN IT DICK!! WHAT DID YOU DO?

DICK: Nothing! It was Jason!

MARINETTE: *facepalms* He's in space! why did I agree to marry you?

LILA: *panicked screaming intensifies *

#Lila is a shit #Lila is a bitch #dick x marinette #Dickenette #MariBat #Marinette is done #Dick is savage