"You are a great partner," Plata Peligrosa muttered as she lovingly rubbed White Pantara's ears. "You know White Pantara we should go on a date sometime we would make a great..." Her next word was couple but that didn't matter now because Maria's watch sounded and the glove came off. Regular Maria looked up at Rodolpho now. "Well ummm I must be going." Awkwardly and quickly she left. It was ok though Rodolpho was use to it by now. To him his time with Maria as Plata Peligrosa was kind of like a dream and like most dream they always end before they get to the best part. He sighed and started home slightly depressed.
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Inside Maria's house the female super hero was curled up in bed with tears streaming down her face. It would be hard to believe all of five minutes ago she had been the fearless Plata Peligrosa but she had been. Maria cried because she was scared and because she was confused but most of all because she was miserable. Maria had done countless tests upon her Plata Peligrosa glove and found out something. Something she kind of knew but never wanted to nor had to face before. Part of the gloves power was to make it so the user felt no fear but since they felt no fear they would not hold back from doing the things they were too nervous or scared or proud to do normally. When she was finally sure that the glove had that power Maria was forced to face the truth, the truth she had tried to deny for so many years. She was still in love with Rodolpho. That's why she was always hitting on him when she was Plata Peligrosa because she wasn't afraid of her feelings for him anymore. She wasn't afraid that they would hurt each other again like last time, that they would hurt Manny, that Rodolpho doesn't really love her anymore, idealize there's no question but did he really still love her? All of these fears were why Maria could never tell her ex husband she still loved him but it was becoming harder and harder to be without since she kept seeing what they were like together while fighting crime.
Maria stood up and looked at herself in the mirror, her red puffy eyes stared back. "Maybe I should talk to him about it," she muttered to herself and looked at the glove reaching for it then stopping. "No I must do it without the glove or he won't believe its how I truely feel." Maria got her coat, she had to do it fast or she might lose her nerve.
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"Technically we didn't rob the bank," Frida stated as White Pantara glared down at his criminal son and his son's best friend.
"Ya," Manny agreed, "We just stole this money from Senor Siniestro and Black Cuervo. And there's nothing wrong with stealing from super villains right?"
"Manny have you learned nothing? I thought I taught you stealing only leads to trouble," Rodolpho droned.
"TROUBLE THAT MAKES YOU RICH," Puma Loco called out appearing out of no where.
"Papi I'm trying to figure out how to punish Manny and Frida for robbing the bank. So please leave teaching them how to be evil for another time," the legendary hero said.
"Actually I was planning on discussing evil with them a little later but that's not important right now," Grandpapi answered. "I came here to tell you Maria is here." Puma pointed behind him and Maria waved shyly at her ex-husband.
"Ummm Rodolpho I need to talk to you. Alone," Maria said as the two of them walked into his room. When the two of them were finally alone under Rodolpho's giant picture of Maria, she turned to him with her teary eyes full of fear. "Rodolpho there is something I need to tell you..."
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"I wonder what my mom needs to talk to dad about?" Manny wondered aloud now alone with his grandfather and Frida.
"Ah what does it matter? Come on Manny lets go hide this money before they come back out otherwise they're gonna make us take it back." Frida suggested picking up sack up money and then stopped. "Wait where can we hide this money?"
"Hey Grandpapi would it be ok if me and Frida kept our loot in your vault?" Manny asked. "I mean dad's going to find it if we put it in my room and we can't keep it at Frida's place her dad is even worse then mine."
Puma Loco smiled hearing this, "Ah Manny no you can't keep your loot in my vault but come with me to your room and I will show you how you can hide it." The pair of young villians (ya Manny is so a villian) followed Puma to his room. Grandpapi searched around his grandson's room for a little while until he found what he was searching for. "My grandson I have dreamed of this day for so long. The day that you would finally become a villian and need what every villian needs and evil lair." Puma pushed a button under the bed and the whole room began to change around them. In a few seconds the room had been changed from a messy teenagers bedroom into a state of the art villainous lair. It had everything police radar tracker, maps of sewer and rooftop escape routes throughout the city, auto updating theft target tracking system and most importantly a hidden vault for their loot.
Manny and Frida looked around in amazement as they put the money in their new vault. "Wow this place is amazing how long has it been here?" Frida asked.
"Ya," Manny agreed and paused looking at the room again. The walls were all cover with flags with the sickle and hammer symbol on them and the symbol on various other places. "Wait Grandpapi waits with all the communist symbols everywhere?"
"Ah yes sorry I had forget those were there," Puma explained, "You see Manny back before you were born Comrade Chaos use to rent this room from me. This is his old evil hideout I didn't tell you it was hear earlier because I was worried about Rodolpho finding out but you will keep this place secret now that you need it right?"
"Of course Grandpapi this place is a secret between me and Frida I'm not gonna tell anyone about it."
"Well good. Listen I will leave you two alone. I suggest you take your money back out of the vault and spend it on some redecorating," with that Puma Loco left the two teenagers alone in their very own evil lair.
"How cool is this Manny? We have our very own evil base." Frida exclaimed. "All we need to do is take down some of these flags and put in some churro machines and it will be perfect. I wish this could be my room. I mean now that we have this its like were real super villains."
"Ya real super villains," Manny sighed thinking about it. Frida frowned and looked at her friend noticing his change in mood. "Listen Frida I know you wanna be a villain and all that stuff its just that I'm still not sure about it." Frida grabbed onto Manny's hands making him look at her.
"Listen Manny I get that you just don't know what you want yet but no matter what you do I know one thing for sure. We're always gonna be friends ok?" Frida smiled at him and leaned a little close so their foreheads touched. "Now come on lets start making this place our lair."
Manny smiled at Frida, "Thanks Frida you are gonna make a great sidekick."
"Hey who says I'm gonna be your sidekick and not the other way around," Frida said as she jumped out the window down toward the city.
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A few hours later Frida was getting ready to leave to go home. She and Manny had an awesome day, they had redecorate their lair, put in a churro machine and finally stole some ice cream. Frida was just climbing out the window when she looked down. "No way dude come here you gotta see this."
"What is it?" Manny asked coming to look. At the bottom of the building was Rodolpho saying goodbye to Maria but it wasn't quite with words, it was more of the kinda goodbye where you end up with your tongue in the girl's mouth. "Wow." was all Manny could manage as he sat back down.
"Dude does this mean your parents are getting back together?" Frida asked deciding she should stay a little longer to make sure Manny doesn't freak or anything.
"No way Frida. I mean it was just one kiss. Its not like that means anything. I mean we kissed before and its not like we're a couple."
"Well yeah I mean we're not a couple or anything and I was drunk but it was both of our first kisses its not like it ment nothing right?" Frida nervously laughted but when Manny didn't answer it soon turned into a long awkward silence. Manny was about to say something but Frida spoke faster. "I'm just kidding. Of course it didn't mean anything. I mean its just a kiss who cares. Ok well see you tomorrow bye." Frida said the last part quickly and rushed out the window. Manny was just left sitting in his room completely confused, even more so then usual.
The whole evil or good thing was enough for him to normally worry about but now his parents might be getting back together, his best friend is a super villain (neither of these are nessicarily bad but Manny worries cause he is thinking of the trouble they might cause) and what was with that kiss thing with Frida just now, sure Manny wasn't the sharpest but he wasn't so dumb as to miss that, although that confused him more then anything right now. Manny lay down on his bed, he was tired from his long day and he drifted off to sleep.
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Wow its been a long time since I wrote anything but I felt like looking through my old files found this re-read and finished this chapter maybe I will do another one soon too. Well as always I love me some reviews and some advice about anything so send away