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Chapter 10

Dudas

Alejandra Marengo reappeared in an empty alleyway on a puff of black smoke. The villainess never forgot about her passenger. With a thought, her shadow dress shifted and released thirteen-year-old unconscious Manny Rivera from its dark folds. The inky supervillain grasped the small boy in her arms, carrying him gently. Unusual for someone who'd just feasted on part of his essence to cradle him carefully.

Alejandra noticed the change in her emotions since taking Manny's essence. She felt a little… sorrow well up inside of her as she glazed at the boy in her arms. Manny surrendered whole-heartedly to her, like there was nearly nothing left of his spirit. Alejandra couldn't help but remember the spunky teenage boy who defeated her a year ago. But now, because of the state his life was in, Manny Rivera seemed to be a dispirited husk. It made her strangely irate and regretful for the boy to be in such a state; even before his essence was fully consumed.

"Alejandra." The woman heard her name. Picking up her head, she saw the Titanium Titan slip down a wall of a building via a liquid metal rope.

Though seeing him again, her eyes were not on her lover, but of the other he held in his free arm. Rodolfo Rivera.

The Titanium Titan's feet hit the ground as his arm reassembled. Seeing the surprised look on Alejandra's face, the ex-side kick strutted up to her with his prize.

"Mida, mi amore." Extending his liquid metal arm, he dropped Rodolfo at her feet. Alejandra stared at her idol's limp body. "As soon as he surrendered his Bronze Boots of Truth, Rodolfo was no problema."

Then the Titan noticed the look on his girlfriend's face. A question was on the tip of his tongue when two shadow tentacles Alejandra's drifted over to him. The ribbons of darkness wriggled into his grasp and took Rodolfo from his grip. Gently floating over the unconscious man over to her, Alejandra's frown turned sad. Rodolfo's heroic face was tired and his eyes puffy from his constant weeping. Even as he was out cold he looked as if he never wanted to reawaken again. Alejandra let her shadow dress grip Manny and free her hands. Extending a finger, she let her costume form it into a point. Easing finger into Rodolfo's chest, she closed her eyes and listened. Her brow furrowed tightly and after only one second of hearing Rodolfo's emotions, Alejandra pulled back her finger.

There was only one thing inside of him. Intense pain.

Alejandra suddenly huffed and let her tentacles carry Rodolfo and Manny back over to the Titanium Titan.

"Take them back to the hideout, Titan." She grunted in a gruff, business-like tone. The Titan caught Manny.

"What are you going to do?" He squeezed out before Rodolfo was heaped unceremoniously onto him. Alejandra's frown deepened.

"To get Puma Loco." She stated. The ex-sidekick finally pulled Manny and Rodolfo into his arms.

"Wait-!" He called out. But Alejandra was all ready gone; nothing but a cloud of smoke wafted through the alleyway. "Thanks. Ai. Mujeres!"

Grandpapi was pacing inside his hacienda. No word from Rodolfo or Manny. It'd been over an hour. The phone hadn't rung and the policia hadn't paid a visit yet. The retired supervillain wanted to believe that it was a good thing. Still, there was something off. Grandpapi could feel it in his bones.

Suddenly he heard a weird snapping. Looking to the door, he saw black ink-like ooze slide through the cracks in the front door. Then the ooze contracted, folding the door in half and sending slivers of wood into the air. The broken door was yanked off of its hinges. And then Grandpapi saw HER walk in through the doorway. The old man's voice was gone as his mouth became dry. The shadowy villainess was scowling at him.

"Sopresa. La Cortina is back and I'm out for revenge." La Cortina growled. Tentacles rose off of her back as she extended her fingers.

Grandpapi saw those shadowy claws that took his essence a year ago. In a stunned stupor, the aged man failed to do anything but gape. La Cortina was irritated with that. Picking up a nearby coffee table with a tentacle, she hurled it at Grandpapi. It hit the elderly supervillain and threw him into the next room. The villainess walked into the living room, ready to suck the essence out of the powerless old man.

She then heard a soft mechanical whirling. And then something huge and golden exploded through the wall and grabbed her. It was Grandpapi, in his Puma Loco form. Puma Loco slammed the inky villainess against the wall with a robotic claw. The old man glared red-hot daggers at her as he white knuckled on his mech suit's controls.

"Chu DARE show your face here again?!" Grandpapi snarled, his dark eyes narrowed from behind his yellow glasses. La Cortina's scowl deepened.

Raising her dark claws, she brought them down on the joint of the robotic suit's arm. In a hiss of hydraulics and a splatter of oil, the robotic limb hit the floor. La Cortina was free. Puma Loco used his rockets to jump him away from the villainess. Heat-seeking missiles whistled through the air. La Cortina teleported and the missiles sped into a wall and instantly decimated it.

The villainess reappeared behind Grandpapi. The aged supervillain whirled around and pointed his only rocket-launcher at her. Again La Cortina teleported.

"You can't beat me, Puma Loco." She was behind him. Grandpapi spun and saw her standing in the middle of the living room again. "I can be anywhere you are and be anyone."

Her form shifted into Manny's and then Rodolfo's. The elderly man gritted his dentures.

"Mi familia! WHAT DID CHU DO TO MI FAMILIA?!" Puma Loco raged. He released more rockets.

La Cortina merely teleported as the weapons peppered the floor where she was once standing. This time Puma Loco didn't have time to turn. Something black shot out of his chest. Grandpapi knew what it was. With a pulse, La Cortina's tentacle gulped down part of his essence. With a wet gasp, the elderly man slumped forward. The Puma Loco mech suit fell still.

Alejandra recoiled her tentacle. He would find out soon enough what she did with his family.

Alejandra returned to her hideout. She found the Fancy Headquarters in a Big Fist eerily quiet when she arrived. The Titanium Titan was casually seated in a chair, filing his liquid metal nails. She knew her boyfriend saw her come into the hideout but he said nothing to her. Alejandra felt irritation wash over her but what did she expect? She was having second thoughts about their perfect venganza and the Titan doubtlessly saw that. Gliding over to where the prisoners were kept, Alejandra ordered her dress to relinquish Grandpapi's limp body. Hanging him next to his unconscious son, her costume fastened shackles to his wrists. Alejandra's purple eyes traced to Rodolfo, who was still limp. A wave of anger nearly choked her.

Turning up her nose, the inky supervillainess opened the folds of her dress and retrieved Puma Loco's Golden Sombrero of Chaos.

The Titanium Titan was sitting in his favorite chair, trying to give his finicky girlfriend enough space. She didn't seem right after she saw Rodolfo unconscious. Then he heard a "thunk" in front of him. Looking up he saw Puma Loco's mechanical sombrero on the floor and Alejandra standing over him. He was relieved to see her normal saucy smile spread over her lips.

"I'm tired of sneaking around, Titan." She leaned over and looked him in the eye. "And I want some essence. What do you say both of us get out of here and start some trouble with the supervillains?"

An eager smile spread over the ex-sidekick's face.

"Finally!" The Titan gave a dirty half-smile. "That's just what I wanted to hear, Alejandra."

He grabbed her lips with a surprise kiss, which Alejandra melted into. In a puff of smoke both supervillains teleported elsewhere to begin siphoning essences from Miracle City's supervillains.

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