(The next day in Paris after class with Ms. Bustier, the group had all gathered by Marinette's desk as the team's kwamis all flew out of their respected hiding places as Marinette stood by with her hands clasped and a smile on her face.)
Marinette: "So?"
(she asked.)
Marinette: "Everyone got the votes?"
(The thirteen others all smiled as they reached into their bags and pulled out a small slip of paper with a smile and passed them to her and Marinette pulled her own out and smiled as she looked at the others nervously.)
Marinette: "Remember. This is a blind vote to prevent any sort of bribery or influence."
(Marinette said.)
Marinette: "There's a reason I asked you all to take your picks separately. None of you is going to know who voted what unless the vote is unanimous. And it must be unanimously 'yes' for us to reveal our secret to the Omni-Team."
Alya: "What are you waiting for then?"
(Alya asked her best friend.)
Alya: "Tally the votes."
(The kwamis looked on nervously as Marinette unfolded each one of the papers and sighed.)
Marinette: "Yes."
(she said, tossing the papers away.)
Marinette: "Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes."
Adrien: "That's thirteen 'Yes' votes."
(Adrien said.)
Adrien: "All we need is one more and then we have six more Keepers of the Secret."
Marinette: "I should add that I saved my vote for last."
(Marinette said as she slowly on purpose for dramatic effect unfolded the paper and then showed it to the group.)
Marinette: "Well of course I voted 'Yes.'"
(Marinette said.)
Marinette: "I'm a fan of theirs too."
Plagg: "Alright."
(Plagg said.)
Plagg: "You guys did make a deal. It was voted 'Yes.' Now you have to live up to it."
Sabrina: "Those guys going to be trustworthy, guys."
(Sabrina said to the group.)
Sabrina: "Like Marinette said. If there's anybody that we can trust with the secret, it would be other superheroes."
Alix: "But how are we going to find them? We only have six days."
(Alix said.)
Max: "Simple? We wait for them."
(Max said.)
Ivan: "Wait for them?"
(Ivan asked.)
Ivan: "Why would we do that?"
Juleka: "Come on, Ivan. It's obvious from what happened yesterday that they're going to be looking for us too. It's not like we're going to be fighting the Collector again."
(Juleka said, brushing her hair out from her face.)
Kim: "Don't remind us."
(Kim said, remembering the brutal experience with said psychopath.)
Chloe: "I still have the bruises."
(Chloe said with a groan.)
Juleka: "Sorry."
Rose: "Still, Juleka's got a point."
(Rose said, tracing her finger on the desk.)
Rose: "And I'm not just saying that because she's my girlfriend. These guys might not be from our neck of the woods, but they're still heroes."
Alya: "I've heard great things about them."
(Alya said.)
Alya: "Hawk Moth is one of the biggest threats that this planet has ever known. If we can do as well as we have against his forces without any help, just imagine how we'll be against him with it."
Nathaniel: "We'd be almost unstoppable."
(Nathaniel realized.)
Marinette: "What do you say guys? Tonight at midnight?"
(Marinette asked, putting her hand in.)
Adrien: "Tonight at midnight."
(Adrien said with a smile as the rest put their hands into the pile one by one.)
Everyone: "Miraculous Team!"
(they all shouted, breaking the pile and throwing their hands up before they all walked to the door.)
Chloe: "Oh, and don't forget, guys. My birthday cotillion is in three days."
(Chloe said.)
Chloe: "Marinette, I specifically asked my daddy to let you design my dress to begin with. You're ready with them, right?"
Marinette: "Not quite. I need another day."
(Marinette said.)
Marinette: "But trust me, it's going to be my best work since Fashion Week."
Chloe: "Eee! I don't know why I ever picked on you when we were little."
(Chloe said with a proud smile.)
Chloe: "You're an amazing friend."
Marinette: "And you are too for inviting all of us to your birthday."
Chloe: "Oh, stop it!"
(Chloe smiled as she walked off as Pollen looked up from her purse.)
Pollen: "You are a great friend, Chloe."
Chloe: "I'm just trying my best to be anything but what I was a few years ago."
(she said to her kwami, her pride and joy.)
(Ever since she briefly lost her to the Collector, their bond had grown even closer than before.)
(Chloe barely let her out of her sight at this point so that nothing bad would ever happen to her again.)
(Ironic given that she's been deathly afraid of bees almost her entire life. But Pollen was different.)
(And at this point, she was willing to start to consider Chloe her favorite holder she's ever had in her immortal life.)
Pollen: "Your friends know that you're not. And so do I."
(Pollen said.)
(Later on, the Omni-Team were sitting at a restaurant with a sigh as they ate at their lunch as Jen bit into her croque monsieur sandwich.)
Jen: "Oh, that's good!"
(she said to herself, hearts forming in her eyes as she looked to Allison and smiled and at her duck a l'orange with a contented smile.)
Allison: "France really does have the best cuisine in the world."
(she said, moaning in content as Kevin snapped his fingers.)
Kevin: "Ladies! Yes, the food is out of this world. No doubt. But can't we focus on what's really important. Like the Miraculous Team?"
Ben: "Kevin's right."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "From what the city's told us since we've been here, these kids have been doing this for about a year now. We've got four years on them in terms of experience and they're already as good as us."
Becky: "Those jewels they have must be spectacular for them to pull that kind of stuff they've done."
(Becky said, tasting her fondue.)
Becky: "If we were fighting, I think that we could probably take them, but man it would be a close one."
Gwen: "Now... on to who they are..."
(Gwen said with a raise of her eye to her Anodite cousin.)
Jen: "Yes. I'm 99.9% sure that those guys we met yesterday are part of the team."
(Jen said with a smile.)
Ben: "We'll find out for sure tonight."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "We're all agreed, right?"
Allison: "We go out to find them, reveal our secrets to each other, right?"
(Allison asked.)
Becky: "Right."
(Becky said.)
Becky: "We're heroes. Heroes have to stick together."
Jen: "Of course."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "Mom and Dad are going to be in that meeting for the majority of this vacation. They said to do what we want as long as it's reasonable. This is the fate of the world here, I'd say that's reasonable enough. We're not going to be interrupting anything. Our secret is going to be perfectly intact. Even after we reveal ourselves to the Miraculous Team."
Kevin: "This Hawk Moth guy is definitely bad news. When do we leave to meet them?"
(Kevin asked.)
Ben: "Tonight at midnight."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Almost everyone in the city is going to be asleep then. If you're a superhero like we or they are, it's the perfect time to do patrol. But how are we going to find them?"
Gwen: "We're not."
(Gwen said with a smile and crossed arms.)
Gwen: "They're going to find us."
Allison: "Gwen's right."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "The best way to find someone is to let them find you. If you look at this logically, whoever they are, they're probably having the same conversation that we're having right now. And where's the first thing they would think to look?"
(Six pairs of eyes then looked outwards towards the Eiffel Tower and then smiled to each other and nodded in wordless agreement.)
[To Be Continued...]