Haha, so haiii! I got this idea when thinking about "The Grave Escape" and looking at el tigre fanart on DeviantART. Hoping you likes it! [:
El Tigre shot out his grappling hook-hand at his zombie foe, landing it right in the undead bandito's chest. The blow sent him flying, with a hard impact with the brick wall nearby.
"Very well then, El Tigre. Have it your way. Or as I would prefer to call it, the hard way." The zombie bandito threatened in an ominous and dark voice. He laughed menacingly and called his zombie army together. He tore off different body parts from different undead banditos and combined them in a separate persona. The new villain, created from the parts of different members of zombie town, was uber-strong and powerful, and had a triumphant evil grin planted on his borrowed face. The masculine and buff zombie then took a blow at El Tigre, sending him back quite a few feet. El Tigre lay on the sidewalk, now cracked from the impact, unmoving, and slowly slipping into unconsciousness. He caught sight of Frida running towards him in worry, and the dastardly villain triumphantly chuckling in the distance. This fully enraged the poor tiger laying on the sidewalk. Ignoring Frida's efforts to help him as he stood up, he started to charge full-blast at his zombie foe, letting out the loudest and most ferocious growl he had ever let escape his lips.
Frida, still standing on the sidewalk where her best friend had been laying just moments ago, gasped as she heard El Tigre's powerful growl; one that did enough damage as it is. As Manny let the roaring effect slip out, it wiped out the rest of the zombie army, sending them all but the puzzle-piece buff bandito flying back. Manny, failing to notice, let his claws escape from his glove so they could claw the life out of the attacker at hand. Manny was starting to let his anger get the better of him. That, and since he is a tiger, his instincts started to wildly rage as Manny attacked, mercilessly clawing at the buff zombie, ignoring the screams of surrender.
Manny could care less that he had surrendered. First they come along and just take Frida, kidnap her, thus forcing him to do what they had instructed him, then they just come guns-blazing, attacking. They attack the whole rest of the city, claiming that no jail cell could hold a zombie. That brings up what other things they've done to enrage Manny. Breaking out of jail. He thought they were done fighting villains, he thought they were all defeated. Apparently there were a few that needed to be taught a lesson. Bringing harm to the officers on prison duty, nearly breaking the other villains free, oh they were asking for it. At least that's what Manny was thinking.
Earlier, when Manny had first heard of the jailbreak, and Frida's capture, he had told his family to not interfere. This was his problem. Thus he was alone. He had taken this for the last time; it was the last straw. Frida had been taken one time too many, he had to do this one time too many; which wasn't a bother, of course. That's why he's here, after all. To ward off villains, and danger in general. But after it's all over with, jailbreak and kidnapping? That's where the last straw was drawn.
After Manny finally stopped, gotten off the zombie bandito and sent them back off to jail with a "Don't mess with me, or you know what happens!" Look of warning on his face as he watched them on their way to prison.
"Dude, I've never seen you like that before. What the heck?" Frida commented after things had grown quiet.
"I….you know what, I don't know. That growl….it was way more powerful, and way louder than anything I've ever done before." Manny answered, his anger turning into worry.
"Well, I don't know. Maybe it's a new power or something. The original El Tigre said you'd get more, right? So maybe that's one." Frida said, growing more worried. Then her worry turned into a giggle.
"Or maybe you're just growing uppie-wuppie!" She suggested, pinching his cheek and giggling. Manny smiled at the remark and let her pinch his cheek more as he turned back to Manny. The two started walking down the street, towards Manny's casa, Casa Del Macho. Frida fought the strong urge to run her fingers through his curls and wrap her fingers in each curl, as she had wanted to all the time. Ever since she kissed him, which had Manny avoiding her as much as possible for weeks, until Frida just made up an excuse that it was just the rush of adrenaline, she's been dreaming of him, daydreaming of him, doodling his name all over her books during class, (which she never paid any attention to in the first place,) and in general, could not get him out of her head. She was glad Manny had bought the adrenaline-rush sap story, because if he hadn't, their friendship would've been ruined. Manny would say that he only thought of them as friends, and then slowly their friendship would end completely.
She knew that if Manny had told her that he loved her the way she was deeply in love with him, and they ended up married, it wouldn't be a repeat of all the other Rivera women. Every other girl left the family, unable to see their loved one in such danger, because she had seen Manny in dozens of fights, and eventually she even started helping him during battle. She would be different; she would stay by his side forever. With a passion as deep as hers, she knew that she couldn't even bear the thought of leaving him. Simply could not.
"Hel-looo? Frida? You there?" Manny asked, waving a hand in front of her face. She snapped back to reality and realized that Manny had asked her a question.
"Oh, sorry, what?" She asked, shaking all other distracting thoughts out of her head.
"I was asking if you wanted to go to the arcade for a while." Manny responded.
"Oh, yeah! You bet!" She accepted.
"Speaking of bet, I have an idea." Manny grinned mischeviously. Yep, he was still the same evilly genius Super-Macho Fighter II champ that Frida knew him for at the arcade.
As Manny slammed open the doors to the arcade, he scanned the building for a worthy opponent.
"Ok, who wants to take me on in Super-Macho Fighter II?" He asked to everyone, dramatically. They all shook their heads. They knew that Manny was a regular, and they all knew he had skills. Playing a fighting game in an arcade was just an easy training exercise for him, being El Tigre. He grinned.
"No takers, ehh?" He chuckled under his breath. "Weak." Then he noticed someone sliding out of the shadows.
"I'll take that challenge." The mysterious chico stepped out of the shadows. He had blonde semi-long hair that only went slightly past his ears. He had a green hat dawned upon his wavy blonde hair that had 'Helereno Gamer Club' stitched across the middle. He had a plain white long sleeve on underneath an orange short sleeve shirt that read 'Kev' across it, indicating that was his name. He had cargo shorts to go along. The others gasped. The Helereno Gamer Club was the most extreme gamers club there is. No one has beaten them. Manny's eyes formed slits and he smiled deviously.
"You're on." Manny challenged.
"A round of Super Macho Fighter II. I win, I get all your arcade tokens and all your tickets. You win, you get all my tickets and tokens." Manny challenged, stepping closer to his opponent.
"You're on." Kev accepted, skipping the handshake. Frida pulled Manny aside for a moment.
"Dude, what are you thinking? He's a Helereno Gamer. There's no way you can beat him!" She scolded.
"Ah, don't worry. I can beat this ammature. After all, I am El Tigre, right?" Manny explained, waving off her warning.
"Ok, I guess you're right…" Frida said. Manny walked over to the SMFII station and started up a game. Before clicking start, he stretched, cracked and flexed his macho thumb muscles, macho due to the fact that Manny did thumb push-ups regularly.
He pressed his finger onto the start button. Within seconds, a rapid fire virtual fight was roaring over the screen. Everyone else in the arcade formed an audience, watching Manny, gasping at his every fall and cheering at his every triumph. Then Kev got Manny into a pinned position, and Manny was struggling to get back into the game. The audience gasped, holding their breaths. Then Manny broke free of Kev's pinning and pushed him, sending him flying into a building. "Game Over" flashed across Kev's screen, and across Manny's read the word "Winner!" Manny let out an evilly triumphant laugh and Frida joined him, laughing by his side. Manny held out his hand, wordless. Kev knew what he wanted. He dug his hand into his cargo pocket and pulled out all the tickets and tokens he had. With a look of defeat fully spread on his face, Kev placed the loot into Manny's outstretched hand and walked away. Manny pulled the winning tickets from the machine and slapped them in along with all the other loot he had. Then Manny heard a scream coming from further downtown. Looking at the clock on the arcade wall, he realized that it had been 5 hours since they had gotten in. Bagging the tokens and tickets and shoving them into Frida's arms, he spun his belt buckle and roared his battle cry. "El Tigre!" He shouted heroically as he zoomed out of the arcade and back downtown. Frida's eyes widened at the sudden activity and left the arcade to chase after her battle-prone friend.
When she caught sight of him, she dropped the bag she was carrying in her arms, the bag full of tokens and tickets, and her mouth gaped at her friend's seemingly new power.
Welllllll, that's chapter 1 for ya! Haha, wow it's like 11pm here. Well, who cares right? Not meeee [: whaddya think? Review!