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After defeating Style Queen with Alya’s help, Marinette is offered the chance of a lifetime! But it’s not easy to decide between her dream and her duty.

A Queen's Battle Rewrite focused on two premises: What if Marinette had been successful in giving Alya the Bee Miraculous, and then given more time to consider the decision to go to New York?

Thanks and credit to imthepunchlord and ryanidious on Discord for the names of Bee!Alya and alternate Akuma!Chloé, respectively.

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Alya wasn’t hard to find. Of course she had been making her way up the tower to get a good shot of Style Queen. But right now, Marinette needed her help, so she jumped down to her and pulled her aside. Alya scrambled to put away her phone as Marinette procured the Miraculous, her whole face lighting up with recognition and excitement.

“This is the Bee, rather than the Fox,” Marinette began. “I need you to…”

Style Queen interrupted, and Marinette shoved the box at Alya, quickly whispering:

“Pollen will explain the rest. I’ll keep Style Queen occupied while you transform!”

Alya nodded and ducked away, as Marinette went to challenge Style Queen, dodging her blasts and drawing her away from Alya. Once again, she called on Lucky Charm, and received a glue tube. She didn’t have much time to figure it out under the relentless attacks, however, so she continued to scale the tower until she reached the area where Adrien and the akumatized rose were. It was there that she saw the flag, and got an idea.

Moving quickly, she snatched it up and covered it in glue, just in time to be cornered once again by Style Queen. Behind her, she could see Alya, now transformed, coming up the tower. Marinette smiled, knowing that her plan was falling into place, and charged the villain with the flag.

Style Queen became distracted as she realized that part of her glitter was now stuck to the flag, and Marinette saw her chance.

“Now!” she yelled, and Alya struck from behind with her power, freezing Style Queen into place.

“It worked!” Alya said excitedly.

“Yeah!” Marinette agreed. “Now we have to figure out how to get past this shield thing – the akuma is in that rose.”

“I can take care of that.”

Marinette turned, and wasn’t really all that surprised at what she found.

“Plagg! But Mas…the Guardian said you weren’t supposed to help!”

“Yeah, yeah, what does he know? It’ll be fine, I’ll be careful. And you’re just gonna fix it anyway, right? Besides, how are you gonna break this thing without me?”

Marinette frowned. She didn’t want to go against what Master Fu said, but Plagg had a point – the shield needed to be destroyed.

“Aww, aren’t you just the cutest thing!” Alya cooed, moving towards Plagg, looking quite like she was about to try to pet him. “Are you Chat Noir’s kwami? Where is he, anyway? How far can kwamis go from their Miraculous? What…”

“Not now!” Marinette cut Alya off. Both of them had used their powers, and were on a time limit, after all. She turned back to Plagg, coming to a decision. “Okay. Do your thing.”

“Yes!” he said, delighted. And with the lightest tap of his tiny paw, he invoked Cataclysm.

The shield shattered. And so did half the city.

“If that’s what happens when you’re being careful, I don’t ever want to see what happens when you’re careless,” Alya said, bracing herself against the destruction.

“You definitely don’t,” Plagg agreed. “Of course, you probably wouldn’t survive long enough to see much of it anyway. Ladybug, you’d better hurry up.”

Marinette nodded, grabbing the rose and snapping it in two. With a quick motion, she captured the akuma, then sent the glue into the sky to restore the city. As the ladybugs swept over the city, she, Alya, and Plagg jumped down to a lower level, and the three of them shared a fist bump.

Alya detransformed.

“It was a pleasure to work with you, my Queen. Farewell for now,” Pollen said.

“I already told you, you don’t need to call me ‘my Queen’,” Alya said. “But yeah, it was good. I hope we’ll see each other again!” She looked hopefully at Marinette as she removed the comb and handed it back.

“We’ll see. It depends on what I need to fight the villain, after all.”

“How many Miraculouses are there?” Alya asked. “And what happened to Chat Noir? Is he sick? And…”

“I can’t answer that, Alya. As for Chat Noir, apparently he misplaced his Miraculous.” She glanced over to Plagg. “I hope he finds it soon…”

“He misplaced it‽” Alya said, incredulously. “What, did it fall down the drain or something?”

“I’ll get on his case about it,” Plagg said, and zipped off.

“Time for me to be heading out, too,” Marinette said, tucking the Bee Miraculous away.

“See you!” Alya said cheerfully. “And if you ever need me again, don’t hesitate to ask! Hmm…I need to come up with another superhero name, it wouldn’t make any sense to be Rena Rouge when I’m a bee…”

“That it wouldn’t,” Marinette agreed, and she bid Alya goodbye. She had a Miraculous to return.

But first…it wouldn’t hurt to see if Adrien wanted a ride back to the show…

( Continued... )