Chapter 1

First Page of Chapter 1

The first chapter of **Origins**, titled **Boy Meets Chameleon**.

## Synopsis

*Not official synopsis*

Johnny is moving with his mother to L.A., which is hard on Johnny. However, a great evil has awoken in L.A.! When Johnny finds himself with the Chameleon Miraculous, will he be able to defend the city and learn how to use his powers? Or will he just end up calling the police?

## Plot

The chapter starts with Johnny and his mother, Martina, in the car driving to L.A. from New York to meet up with Martina’s new boyfriend, Mark. Johnny is visibly upset about the move, which Martina realizes. Johnny tells her that because of the move, he had to break up with his girlfriend, his brother Alex is mad at him, he doesn’t understand why they’re moving across the country for a man his mother just met, and he has to start over in a new school and make new friends. Martina sees that the move is extremely hard on him and tries to console him by saying that Mark is very kind and has a sweet daughter about Johnny’s age, and his cousins Lance and Samantha live there as well. Johnny reminds her that they haven’t been close with Lance and Samantha after their father, Victor, died, but his mother tells him that this is his chance to rekindle his relationship with them. Meanwhile, Lance transforms with the Peacock and Butterfly Miraculous, ready to begin his reign of terror over L.A. Red Phannix sees this and goes to warn Master Katie, the guardien of the Chameleon Miracle Box. He alerts her of the situation and asks if they should tell Master Fu, but Master Katie doesn’t want to risk him traveling so far with the Miraculous and decides to handle the threat herself. She uses the Duck Miraculous to transform, and uses Clarity to try to locate ShadowMoth. However, ShadowMoth has a charm on a necklace that counteracts the power of the Duck Miraculous, causing Kate to have to seek a new hero. Red Phannix recommends her great nephew—Johnny himself! Meanwhile, Martina is introducing Johnny to Mark and his daughter, Alicia. While both are happy to meet him, Johnny is unenthusiastic and doesn’t even bother to greet them. Alicia takes him to his room, and asks him if he needs anything, which Johnny promptly respond to with no. Suddenly, Martina and Mark call out for her, and both kids rush over to see a projection of ShadowMoth over the city, threatening to terrorize the city until the Chameleon Miracle Box is in his possession. Johnny cheerfully responds that he’ll start re-packing. He also tells Mark that he can’t believe he didn’t tell him and his mom how dangerous L.A. is, despite Mark not knowing about the threat either. Johnny tells him that they’re moving back to New York, and goes to his room, where he finds a strange green box. He opens it, revealing a bracelet and a kwami, who announces that his name is Chammou! Johnny is not amused and tries to call the police, but Chammou snatches his phone and tells him that he is a secret that he can tell no one about. He explains that he is a kwami, and grants powers, as well as that Johnny must say “Let’s Mimic” to transform. Johnny says the transformation phrase, confused, and is startled when Chammou is absorbed into his bracelet and transformed into a superhero in a green chameleon-themed suit. Johnny looks in the mirror, and tells himself that he looks stupid. He looks around for Chammou, and is confused about where he went. He goes to deal with ShadowMoth’s projection, but it vanishes before he can deal with it, The next day, during lunch at his new school, Johnny contemplates over how ShadowMoth’s projection vanished and the news claimed it was a hoax, which was enough to convince Martina to stay in L.A. Alicia asks Johnny if he is enjoying his new school, and he says no cheerfully, as he hasn’t met any cute girls. Alicia asks if he’s met any cute guys, but he tells her that he hasn’t liked a guy since middle school and he doesn’t know if he’s attracted to boys anymore. Brandon, Alicia’s friend, then shows up. Suddenly, a new villain named Disaster Master appears at the school. He hits Brandon with a ray gun, and Johnny runs off and transforms. He returns to the scene and offers a helping hand to Brandon, who asks who he is. He dubs himself ‘Chameleon’, knowing that he’ll regret the name choice later. Brandon, who is blushing, asks if Chameleon could take him to the nurse’s office. Chameleon picks him up, making Brandon blush harder, and asks him if his legs are broken. Brandon says his legs are fine, and Chameleon drops him comidically and yells at him, asking if he forgot how legs work and that he can take himself. Chameleon then searches for the villain, who appears right behind him! Chameleon scolds him and says that his therapist will be hearing about this, then cheerfully uses Mimmicry on him. He announces he has his powers, and freezes Disaster Master with a freeze ray. Chameleon breaks his ray gun and purifies the akuma and restores damages with his Miraculous Chameleon. He remarks that the battle was surprisingly easy, and Master Katie smiles, thinking that he was a good choice. Meanwhile, in ShadowMoth’s lair, the supervillain watches the news, seeing that Chameleon is being proclaimed as a hero. He grins, saying that they took the bait, and creates a sentimonster. Later that day, Johnny is walking down the street, thinking about how being a celebrity is cool since the city and lots of girls love him, and how this makes the move not as bad. Suddenly, a giant robotic sentimonster appears, which annoys Johnny. He transforms and uses Mimmicry on the sentimonster, then uses its own laser attack against it, but the laser simply bounces off of it. ShadowMoth proclaims that his powers are useless against Senti-Robot, and Chameleon retreats and detransforms. He talks to Chammou about how he can’t defeat it on his own and needs help. Master Katie then appears, holding the Chameleon Miracle Box. Johnny picks the Owl Miraculous, and Master Katie asks which ally he has in mind. Johnny tells her that his ally of choice is himself, and unifies the Chameleon and Owl Miraculous, becoming Chamelowl! Katie tells him that wearing too many Miraculous at once is dangerous, but he tells her that he’ll be careful. He uses his power of Solution, and sees his chameleon tail staff, a ribbon wand, and a heart. He declares the power useless as he doesn’t understand the symbols, and returns the Miraculous to Master Katie. She asks what he saw, and he tells her. She realizes that the solution must have something to do with the Unicorn Miraculous, and explains how Mimmicry allows him to also copy any power from the Chameleon Miracle Box by saying Mimmicry and then the name of the animal. He says Mimmicry Unicorn, and his staff transforms into the Unicorn Miraculous’ ribbon wand and his outfit becomes fully pink. He cries, saying he looks hideous. ShadowMoth calls out for Chameleon, and Katie explains to Chameleon how the Unicorn Miraculous’ powers work. Chameleon becomes excited at the thought of being able to cerate anything. Meanwhile, ShadowMoth wonders where Chameleon went, declaring him a ‘twink’. Suddenly, he hears Chameleon calling out the power of Distraction, and is surprised when a crazed, laughing Chameleon loudly runs over his sentimonster with a giant plowing vehicle. ShadowMoth asks why no one told him that he could do this, and Chameleon uses his Miraculous Chameleon to restore damages of the battle, making completely demolished buildings stand tall again. The chapter ends with ShadowMoth having a montoge about how the Chameleon Miraculous is more powerful than he thought, but with a powerful Miraculous in the hands of a child, Chameleon is bound to make a mistake, like his secret identity being revealed to someone.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Johnny/Chameleon/Chamelowl
* Master Katie
* Martina
* Alicia
* Chammou

### Minor Characters

* Red Phannix
* Brandon
* Mark
* Senti-Robot
* Disaster Master
* Police (voice)
* Katia (background)
* News Reporter (background)
* Johnny’s Ex-Girlfriend (mentioned)
* Alex (mentioned)
* Ben (mentioned)
* Samantha (mentioned)
* Quackk (background)
* Errol (background)