Grim Gamble
Chapter 1: Navy Seal Reunion
It was for quite some years since Billy's father-Harold had been a Navy Seal. Billy, curious enough to follow his father was invited by him to head toward the reunion, as he got into his seat, and attempted to buckle up, he was curious to know what his father did as a Navy Seal.
"Say dad!" cried Billy as he was struggling to buckle his seat belt, "Why the heck did you become a Navy Seal?"
"You know son, that's just a big blur to me the rest of my entire life" replied Harold as he buckled up his seat belt and began to start the engines of the car, "well, it looks like it'll become clearer for the both of us when we get to the reunion."
As Harold pushed his car forward, as he began to drove off, poor Billy whom didn't have his seat belt tied headed straight toward the back window, making poor Billy look like a stuffed animal meant for the back seat. When the two finally left the scene, Mandy was about to head toward her home and noticed that Billy would be gone for an entire weekend.
"Bye Mandy, see you Sunday!" cried Billy as he was slobbering all over the rear window of the car.
"Lucky me, a weekend without Billy" sighed Mandy with a relief as she then continued on her way toward her home.
After a few hours on the road, Harold finally reached the local military training camp to meet up with his old members of his unit. As he parked the call to a halt, Billy flew from the rear end of the car to the front.
"That's the spirit son, the sooner we get there, the sooner it can be over" said Harold as he took Billy off the front window.
"Ah, isn't this the dunce of our unit?" said an old man in a military uniform, "You nearly got us killed on that mission."
"Yeah, but we eventually managed to win the day, didn't we?" asked Harold.
"You nearly got us all killed!" shouted the old man.
"Wow dad, you were on a dangerous mission?" asked Billy.
"Yep son" laughed Harold as they headed inside.
As Harold along with Billy stepped inside the large tent where members of Harold's old unit met for a reunion, everyone in uniform began to give an odd, yet angry and disturbing star at Harold.
"Hey dad, all of your old Navy Seal buddies seem to like you if they all look at you this way" said Billy, "that's the same look I get at school."
"I guess idiocy must run in the family" laughed one of the retired soldiers whom committed in Billy's clueless behavior.
"I guess everyone in my old crew finally arrived" said Harold.
"Not everyone" said another retired soldier, "we're still waiting for one more, although he's not a citizen of this fair country, we couldn't deny someone whom saved our lives."
"Oh come on, we can start the party with out him, can't we fellows?" asked Harold.
"No!" cried the old General as he came into the scene, "And we're not going to start without the White Pantera, which you'll be doing push-ups until he finally arrives!"
"Er, right away sir!" cried Harold as he kept on doing push-ups.
After a few minutes later, poor Harold whom was quite well out of shape, and couldn't even do one push-up, Rodolfo Rivera, a.k.a. the White Pantera just arrived on a private plane that was provided for him by the military. As he entered the tent, he was greeted by cheers from members of Harold's old unit.
"White Pantera, even though we're not Mexicans, we're proud to be honored at your side" said the old General as he took off his hat.
"It's nothing much" said Rodolfo, "all I did as a hero during that day was saving a life."
"So, who's the kid?" asked another retired soldier.
"Oh, this is my son Manny" replied Rodolfo, "I thought I'd bring him along to give him experience."
"What a coincidence, some of our boys brought their sons over as well, including you know who's son" said the old General.
"Oh please, don't try to shame Harold in that manner, anyone could have nearly gotten his own people in a bar fight" said Rodolfo.
"I don't know, you might want to keep your son away from his son, a little piece of the brain may fall off" remarked one of the retired soldiers.
Back in the corner of the tent, the children of the retired soldiers of the Navy Seal unit were playing games ranging from truth or dare, to surrendering what they cherished most in a game of cards. Manny felt he didn't feel right being here with a bunch of old fossils from the past, things would only go down hill even further for him when he would run into Billy.
"Hey new kid, wanna play truth or dare with us?" asked Billy.
"Play along" whispered another kid to Manny, "this big nosed kid will do anything on a dare."
"Er, maybe later, what other games do you have?" asked Manny.
"Well, we can play cards and just trade in what we carry the most precious to us" said another kid.
"It's going to come to as a surprise, that back in Miracle City, I am known as El Tigre" said Manny as he changes into his El Tigre suit.
"Wow, you're a super hero like your dad?" asked Billy.
"Yep, I don't think anyone of you has anything of equal value to my El Tigre belt" laughed Manny.
"There is someone I know who is, I'm best friends with the Grim Reaper!" continued Billy to which made all the kids laugh.
"The Grim Reaper?" asked Manny who was a bit curious.
"Yeah, we're best friends forever, unless if we give up his contract to someone else where he will have to do bidding for that person" replied Billy.
"Well then it's settled, we'll have a contest of super hero powers" said Manny, "if you win, my El Tigre belt is yours, but if you loose, your Grim Reaper friend is mine forever! What do you have to say about that?"
"But how can we hold a super hero contest if I don't gots no powers?" asked Billy.
"You're friends with the Reaper, you go figure that out" replied Manny, "I'll be waiting right here until you do come back."
As Billy went off to find Grim, Grim was on patrol at the very military base trying to ensure that he would be immediately there if anything went wrong.
"A weekend without those two monsters" sighed Grim with relief as he was watching the war games going on the military base, "all I need are some of these flies to literally fall down and then I'll be able to do me job."
"Hey Grim! Grim, Grim, Grim!" cried Billy as he rushed over.
"Billy, what da heck are you doing here on this military base, you didn't escape from their secret experiment section of the base did you?" asked Grim.
"Grim, I made a bet from a kid from Miracle City, that if I don't challenge him in a super hero contest I'm going to have to give up you!" cried Billy.
"You did what?!" cried Grim as he was quite well enraged, "Billy, when I use me scythe to give you powers, you're powers stink."
"Oh come on, I don't think there's no hero like Captain Spring Green Squeaker can never beat" replied Billy, "so please Grim, can I be Captain Spring Green Squeaker again so I can kick this kid's behind!"
"Yeah, yeah" replied Grim, "if you loose in this bet, the only good thing is that Mandy will have to only deal with you."