Chapter 4: The Tiger vs The Police
[Mid Morning. Demolished dam. Manny is encircled by the Police Force's best soldiers: Anita, Nikita, Jessica, and Delisa.]
Delisa: Pendejas!? One we beat you up, I will make you regret your words when you're inside my prison!
Jessica: You might want to be careful with what you say, guapo. I might rip out your tongue and feed them to the K-9's litter.
Nikita: Jessica! No flirting with the criminal! He's the bastard who killed the head engineer of MP Rodriguez's construction projects!
Manny: Head engineer!? (points to the dam) That moron was in charge of that eyesore? No wonder it broke!
Anita: That "eyesore" was key to Miracle City's prosperous future. Without it, our livelihood would end up as desert! How can you destroy our hard work like that? Where else can we attain fresh, clean water?
Manny: Have you ever considered the little guy? How about the ones who live in huts instead of mcmansions? The ones who ride the bus instead of luxurious supercars? The ones who live off of canned sardines instead of chiles en nogada!?
Nikita: Look, don't throw that social class bullshit on us! We work hard for a living.
Manny: Tell that to the journalists and social workers inside Calavera Prison!
Delisa: There are only violent prisoners and terrorists in my prison! Nothing else!
Manny: Then, Calle Porqueira was blown up for nothing!?
Jessica: Not true, hermoso! That area was full of criminals, drugs, and FMCA members.
Manny: And mothers, fathers, children, grandparents, and innocents?
Jessica: You're missing the point, hermoso. Calle Porqueria was doomed from the start. What happened was no one's fault but their own. Like Sodom and Gomorrah, it burned to the ground and anyone who looked back turned to a pillar of salt. You understand it, don't you? The innocent outweigh the guilty and we were clearly innocent, guapo.
[Manny kicks Jessica in the face, making her lips bleed]
Jessica: (seething) You made a giant mistake, hermoso! Too bad, I was about to go easy on you and your handsome face.
Manny: (grins) I'm bisexual for a reason! Time to show you pendejas what fear REALLY MEANS!
[Manny kicks Jessica on the stomach and she is flung to the sky. Anita proceeds to punch Manny but he turns to mist and strikes Anita on the neck, paralyzing her and knocking her down. Nikita kicks Manny on the back. Manny instead turns his head to his back, terrifying her, and slashes the lieutenant's face with his claws. Delisa pulls her gun and shoots Manny but turns to mist and pulls his spinal cord katana and slashes the gun in half. Delisa's clothes are also ripped in half until she's in her intimate apparel.]
Delisa: (embarrassed) Ahh! MY CLOTHES! You'll pay for that!
Manny: (whistles) Nice panties! The color, though, doesn't match for you! I'm thinking more pink than green.
Delisa: (outraged) Pervert! How dare you gaze at me with those eyes!
Jessica: Delisa! Stay away from him! He's mine!
[Jessica heads toward Manny and he slashes her with his katana. Like her sister, Jessica attire is reduced to nothing but intimate apparel.]
Manny: (whistles) Nice lingerie! I like polka dots! They make you sexy. If you weren't evil, though, I might consider sleeping with you.
Jessica: (flattered) Thanks, hermoso. I'm flattered by your words. But since you attacked me, you can forget about me going easy on you! Though, I would have considered marriage instead of dating, given your kind words.
Manny: Hmm! Pity.
[Manny lunges his his boot and the title card opens]
[Morning. Daran Norris District. We open up to a bedroom. Inside the room, someone's sleeping in bed. Then a knock at the door wakes up the individual.]
?: Hello. Hello? Hello?
?: Huh? Who is it?
[Individual opens the door and is greeted by a short man]
?: Hey! Are you awake already!? We need to get to the DiCicco District to pick up your wedding dress! So, get dressed Frida! This isn't the time to sleep all night!
Frida: (deadpan) Oh. Okay.
[Frida Suarez. 15. A Spanish individual living in Miracle City, Mexico. She's getting herself ready for a wedding. A timid, obedient, bleak looking person, she lives with her parents and 5 siblings. None of whom respects her. She steps downstairs and is greeted by her mother. Carmelita Suarez]
Carmelita: Frida Suarez! You need to be alert! Just because our dear butler Antonio knocks on your door and expects a response from you doesn't give you the right to sass him! You understand!
Frida: (deadpan) Sure. I'll try not to do that.
[Carmelita responds by slapping Frida in the face]
Carmelita: How insolent you are! Give me a better, proper response, chamaca tonta!
Antonio: Excuse me, Carmelita. Frida here needs to hurry up!
Carmelita: Oh! My mistake. Frida, go with Antonio and pick out your wedding dress! And try not to look like a prostitute, mija!
Frida: (deadpan) Sure. Let's go, Antonio.
Antonio: Hey! Crack up a smile, tonta!
[Frida enters the limo. Antonio turns the key and drives to the wedding dress boutique in the DiCicco District. The limo stops abruptly.]
Antonio: Hey! What's the hold up?
Rich kid 1: Hey, old man! I think you lost! Geezer Street 3 blocks down!
Antonio: Do you mind, chamaco! There's a Suarez in this limo and we need to get to the boutique immediately!
Rick kid 1: Oh shit! I'm so sorry!
Antonio: Stupid motherfucker! Here we are, DiCicco's Wedding Day! You better pick a good dress because your mother gave me a strict budget: 900,000 pesos! Hurry up and choose, tonta!
Frida: (deadpan) Okay.
[Frida gets out of the limo and enters the store. There she's greeted by the store's associate.]
Saleswoman 1: Oye! Me llamo Cherise! Your mother called me and said to give you a proper wedding dress since you're "too stupid" to pick an approprite outfit for yourself. Here it is! (gives dress) That's 70,000 pesos! Thanks for buying at DiCicco's Wedding Day!
Frida: (deadpan) You're welcome. I got the dress, Antonio.
Antonio: (angry) Yes! I know! Your mother called me and said that this dress is the appropriate outfit for your special day! Now get in and don't say anything stupid, nina tonta!
[Antonio drives the limo back to the Suarez mansion, all the while ignoring the vast amounts of police vehicles and helicopters]
Antonio: Hmm! Must be some cat in a tree.
[Mid-morning. Demolished dam. Manny continues pummeling the Suarez sisters to a pulp. Delisa, cowering in fear, calls for reinforcements]
Delisa: Hello! Hello!
Officer: This is MCPD! What's your current position, over! (static)
Delisa: Oh, we got the prisoner and he's cooperating with us. WHAT DO YOU IDIOTAS THINK WE'RE IN!
Officer: (deadpan) Oh. It's Delisa. We're on our way, ma'am! Give us some time!
Delisa: Stupido policia!
[Manny shadow then jumpscares Delisa]
Manny: Good! Then we can have some fun along the way!
Delisa: Ahh!
[Mid-morning. DiCicco District. Antonio stops the limo at a banquet hall. There, Frida enters where her entire family and MP Rodriguez's assistant is waiting for the bride to be.]
Esmeralda: (gleeful) Frida! It's me, tu tia Esmeralda! ¡Ya viene mi sobrina! (looks at dress) This dress is simply fabulous, mi sobrina! It completely matches your eyes and face! I can't wait until you walk down the aisle with the groom!
D'Angelo: Si, mi amor! Now Frida, when you walk down the aisle, try to smile a bit. Okay. Nobody wants to look at a bride who frowns too much!
Frida: (sotto) Okay, tio.
Alanna: Frida! I can't believe you are getting married! Finally, you can put the Suarez family to the pinnacle of history! Also, why are you so silent!? Speak up! Talk loudly! Where's your passion!?
Frida: (sotto) I left it at home.
Candi: Well Alanna! If that's passion, then I'm blind!
(splat)
Rodrigo: (cocky) Hey, stupid! Dodge, nextime! You sulking is a perfect target for a tomato in your face!
Jennise: Hahahaha! (teasing) Look at me! I'm Frida! I'm so sad all the time! My favorite thing to do is whine like a baby! Boo hoo hoo!
Frida: (sotto) Please. Stop that. That's enough
Manchego: There you are! We need you at the dressing room this instant, young lady! That's not a question! Get over here, now!
Carmelita: (cross) There you are, stupid! Give me the dress! (looks at it) It's pristine. You did a good job for once, STUPID! Now follow Manchego! And walk like a lady with class!
[Frida then follows Manchego, reluctantly. After she leaves, the family talks]
Candi: Can you believe the attitude that girl is showing?! Some sass that dumbo speaking!
Alanna: I know! If that were my daughter, I smack her until she's obedient! Right, Jennise.
Jennise: Yes, mommy. I'm more obedient than Frida will ever be. She's more disobedient than a retarded monkey! At least Nikita is lady-like!
D'Angelo: And her face. I thought you were kidding, mi amor! But that look on her face is just wrong. She needs to grow a spine and be happy! Like you, Esmeralda!
Esmeralda: I know! I'm only here for my sister, Carmelita. If anything, that girl is ugly! A sour, stupid, ugly girl who clearly doesn't deserve this magnificent wedding. I'm surprised that anybody wants to choose my flat chested niece over Jessica!
Rodrigo: Frida is LAME! More LAME than those losers at Old Miracle City! I want to see tanks burn that city to the ground! It'll be EPIC!
[Noon. Demolished dam. Manny continues fighting the Saurez Sisters and Anita prepares to handcuff him from behind]
Anita: (thinking) Okay, all I need to do is put these in and the criminal should fall down with enough time for us to kick him until he's unconscious! Simple? Right?
[Manny gets handcuffed by Anita only for him to break them apart]
Anita: (shocked) What?
Manny: Really? Handcuffs? What is this, 1800?
[Just then, MCPD forces surround the desert landscape and point their guns towards Manny]
Anita: Hah! You're surrounded, criminal!
Nikita: Try escaping this with your life intact
Jessica: Sorry, guapo! But you messed with the wrong team! (blows kiss)
Delisa: Now then. Men! Kill that bastard!
Manny: (sarcastic) Oh no! I'm surrounded! What should I do?
MCPD officer 1: I suggest you surrender! You're going to Calavera forever!
[Manny breathes in and out and before he can do anything, gunshots shoot down several officers and the remaining ones try to maintain their composure]
MCPD officer 1: Who did that!? Show yourself!
MCPD officer 2: I'm scared. Protect me, gun!
[Several MCPD officers shoot sporadically at the direction of those gunshots while a few aim at Manny]
MCPD officer 3: Take this, criminal!
[Suddenly, the officers aiming at Manny start disappearing, one by one]
MCPD officer 4: (scared) What was that!? Yah!
MCPD officer 5: (terrified) Who was that!? Ahh!
MCPD officer 6: (paranoid) Show yourself! Eat this, monster! (shoots with no avail) Noooooooooo!
[Suddenly, one officer spots a gigantic dark being with yellow eyes, shark teeth, and red veined knives for claws, one of which drips blood]
MCPD officer 7: (wetting his pants) What is that?!
Manny: (points) That is my demon self. And he does not enjoy people like you pointing guns at innocents.
[Before the officer can rationalize anything, Demon Manny responds by biting the officer in half, leaving the lower part of his body to fall down and the Suarez Sisters bewildered]
Delisa: (beyond upset) THIS IS NOT FAIR! HOW MANY OF THESE IMCOMPETENT SOLDIERS MUST WE WASTE TO ARREST ONE GUY! AAAAHHHHH!
Anita: (petrified) We are doomed! We need to leave before things go south! I literally don't care if the force laughs at me for this! We can't fight without knowing we're outmatched!
Nikita: (persistent) No! We can still do this! He might be tough, insane, and wily, but I know he's tired from the fighting! We can defeat him! This is our last stand! Just suck up your fear and immerse yourself in the pride of being a cop!
Jessica: Nikita, you have grit and I like that! But, Anita is right! As much as my burning passion for being the city's warden is absolute, my hermoso is too powerful for us to arrest him! Also, as much as he keeps insulting us, I've grown to accept his proposal to a date.
Nikita: Are you fucking me?
Jessica: What?
Nikita: He is a criminal! A criminal who blew up a dam for no reason other than to piss us off! Fraternizing with the enemy is illegal! And you should know that, Jessica!
Delisa: Enough! Clearly, this fighting amongst each other is exactly what he wants us to do! Quit fighting with each other and fight the real enemy, that tiger!
Manny: Soul Eject!
[Unbeknownst to Delisa, Manny punches Delisa in the chest. The punch was so hard, a shiny orb plops out of Delisa and she falls flat on the desert floor. The sisters react with horror as they rush to her aid.]
Anita: Delisa!
Nikita: Delisa!
Jessica: Hermana!
[Just then, Manny picks up the orb and mists himself to a standing rock. Hiding there, he observes the orb and realizes what he's carrying]
Manny: Hmm? Is this what I think it is? (proceeds to touch, squeeze, and smell) Just as I thought, it's a soul. I haven't seen this since my days in the Congo!
[Flashback to 2 years ago as Manny retells his adventure at the DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo.]
Manny: (thinking) It was a long time ago. I was training there with the Sarengeti Vampiros in the lush rainforests. I never liked the daytime there. It was scorching hot, mosquitos kept flying and biting me, and I got so sweaty I may have fought a gorilla over banana rights. Night was always my favorite time there. My sleep was always met with light breezes and gentle chirps. The sky was always lit up with the brightest stars. The nightlife in the towns was also the reason I preferred nights there, not that the daytime there was fun. Wait, where was I? Oh yeah! I was training when we were alerted about certain towns being manipulated by a warlord using black magic. That's when we found out about the Soulless, people who lost their souls through certain actions and are transformed into hollow and very uncanny beings, and that they're being manipulated into participating in a violent war against the African continent and making it the warlord's new empire. Only after I destroyed his jungle stronghold, freed the souls, and permanently damaged what's left of his sanity (I heard he's in a South African prison, wailing in horror about some "tiger demon", (smiling) I don't know what he's talking about) I found out he had contacts for arms and supplies and it lead me to the head of the American embassy of the DRC. I still remember the conversation I had with him:
Manny: So. You're the son of a bitch responsible for this! Why? What gives you the right to hurt innocents for nothing.
Ambassador: Nothing? Nothing!? My country needs resources, dang it! If it means these dumb, primitive people get hurt, so be it!
Manny: What the fuck are you talking about!? What resources?
Ambassador: Diamonds! And lots of them! Gold! And lots of it! Oil! Gas! All underneath this stupid country! And these morons want to preserve nature and protect some stupid monkeys! If my ancestors were here, then this country and these stupid people would be in the technological future and not in mud huts like cavemen!
Manny: (annoyed w/ gritted teeth) You are making me stupid pissed!
Ambassador: Oh yeah!? Well, what is some filthy, sweaty, cocky beaner gonna do to me!?
After that, I punched the son of a bitch so damn hard, his entire soul flew out of his body, plopped to a wall, dissipated, and he ended up being a vegetable. Even though several Vampiros were supportive of my decision, as they insisted he gave me no other choice, I still regret the day I punched the ambassador's soul out of his body. It haunts me because, even if what he did was so evil, I might have doomed his life feeling nothing. And what's worse, what if he was a family man? How will his family react to this? Would they be in horror that this man is an empty shell or would they abandon him out of frustration? Those questions are the major reason I never want to eject a soul out of anyone's body. But, maybe this one is different? After taking a whiff, I noticed the smell was like pan dulce fresh from the oven. What's a soul like this doing inside Delisa? And how did it get inside her? I know one thing though. This soul was stolen and whoever's soul this belongs has some explaining to do!
[Mid noon. Demolished dam. Suddenly, a loud noise interrupts Manny's thinking]
Delisa: Hey! Show yourself already!
Manny: (points at Delisa) You! Dumbass! I need to speak to you!
Delisa: Don't point your finger at me, boy! And who are you calling dumbass!?
Manny: Shut up and pay attention! I want to know whose soul was that?
Delisa: Que!?
Manny: Whose soul was that?
Delisa: What soul!? What are you talking about?
Manny: This! (shows the soul to Delisa and her sisters gaze at it in a distance and then Manny swallows it) Now. Whose soul was that? And why is it in your body?
Delisa: If that was from my body, then clearly it was mine! Spit it out and give it back!
Manny: I know my soul knowledge and THAT clearly was not your soul. You have an anger issue, you respond to fellow cops with verbal abuse, and you have a burning passion to be a cop. Therefore, your soul should smell like burnt charcoal! The soul I gulped smells and tastes like a concha, a type of sweet bread.
Delisa: (refusing to accept defeat) Maybe you got it wrong?! Maybe I am sweet like a concha?!
Manny: (not buying it) Sweet? You? I recalled a certain cop yelling at an officer on a walkie talkie when he said "is everything all right?"
Delisa: (persistent) You don't know me!? Those officers treat me like some pinup girl. I set the record straight with them! If it weren't for me, those officers would be ruined and Miracle City would be lawless, again!
Manny: So, like Calle Porqueira?
Delisa: Exactly!
Manny: (sarcastic) Oh, sure! Murdering innocent civilians and saying that "faulty gaslines" are what killed them. Yeah, your soul does smell like a concha.
Jessica: (frustrated) Stop it! I am getting really upset with you, guapo! We did not kill innocents! The people there were guilty before we arrived! Just stop mentioning Calle Porqueira already! It's getting really old!
Manny: Soul Eject!
[Manny then punches Jessica in the chest and she plops out a soul. Jessica, however, stands firm clutching her chest]
Manny: Another one. (sniffs) Just as I thought, concha! You four are obviously soul stealing! (looks at Anita and Nikita) I wonder if those two have the same thing.
Jessica: (in pain) Stop it! Hermoso, you will not touch my twin sisters! Delisa is tough, so of course she can handle it! But not Anita and Nikita! If you want to fight somebody, FIGHT ME INSTEAD!
[Dusk. Battlefield. Manny ignores Jessica and heads straight to the twins,holding themselves and cowering in fear, near the cop corpses, over getting their souls ejected out of their bodies, while Demon Manny goes after Jessica to fight. But before Manny can do either, helicopters (two gunships and a medevac) fly over the battlefield, a rope ladder falls down from the medevac and the sisters climb on board one by one]
Anita: (exhausted) Finally!
Nikita: (exasperated) What took you so long, Alphonso!
Alphonso: (cocky) Sorry, sisters! Been busy with the wedding! You know how bad Papa wants things to go smoothly.
Jessica: (nonplused) Oh, it's Alphonse. Just hurry up! I need medical attention!
Alphonso: (cocky) It's Alphonso, to you, elder sister! Let me guess, you got beaten up by a guy! (smiling) Again! Oh, hey Delisa! Care to tell me about the blood stains!?
Delisa: (humiliated) Not now, Alphonso! I'm not in the mood!
Alphonso: (cocky) Whatever, baby sister. Oops! I forgot! You're Delisa and not Frida! The babiest sibling out of all of us! And she's getting married instead of one of you weaklings!
Manny: (yells at a distance) Hey dumbass! I'm not done with those soul stealers! Put them down here and let me finish the job!
Alphonso: (cocky via megaphone) And why I, Alphonso, the head of MCID (Miracle City's Intelligence Department), should pay attention to a peasant like you!
Manny: Do you want to fight me, bro?! Because I can take your needle body and break your spine in two!
Alphonso: (sarcastic via megaphone) Ooo! I am so scared! Try and take me, peasant!
Jessica: Don't do it, brother! He may be handsome, but he's frighteningly powerful!
Delisa: And his shadow can kill you!
Alphonso: PFFT! I'm not afraid of that peasant! And what are you talking about, Delisa? Shadows?! You really need to take a break! You work too hard! Your mind plays tricks on you, stupid! What are you people looking at! Hey pilot! We need to get back to the station STAT! HEY! WHAT ARE YOU NOT RESPONDING TO ME, TONTO!
[Unbeknownst to Alphonso, Demon Manny flies up, grows in size, and proceeds to scare the sisters and the medevac pilot. Once Alphonso sees the demon, his pride starts to crumble into cowardice. He starts shaking and stuttering over the massive, dark shadow with yellow eyes, red veins, and blades claws]
Alphonse: (whimpering via megaphone) I…am…an officer of the law. You…will…respect me…or else?
[Demon Manny then lunges his blades into Alphonso's chest. The sheer pain silenced his screams as he started foaming blood out of his mouth. The sisters, horrified by the end results, yell at the pilot: GET US OUT OF HERE! The medevac heads straight east while the gunships launch missiles at the demon, only for him to dissipate into mist and appear as Manny's shadow again.]
Gunship pilot 1: (shakingly) This…is…MCPD! Please…turn…yourself…in! Or we'll shoot you!
Manny: (nonplused) Bring it, homeboy!
[Both gunships aim their missiles at Manny while more gunships, loaded with armed cops, arrive to finish the job. But before they attack, multiple gunshots ring the atmosphere as they hit the rotor masts, making the two gunships spew black smoke. Before the reinforcements can contact their colleagues, half of them fall down to the ground and explode. The remaining half are alerted by HQ that one of the pilots was shot in the head resulting in several policemen getting killed in the process. The two main gunships, meanwhile, are trying to pinpoint where the random gunfire is located. Manny then spots a bullet heading towards the mast and it pierces the center separating the rotors from the gunship and sending it towards the ground, killing the cops. The other gunship, paranoid, reacts by firing the missiles towards Manny. But, each missile gets blown up instead of landing a hit. Frustrated, the reinforcements arrive with the gunships and the armed cops shooting Manny until their ammo is used up. However, a shadowy figure arrives from nowhere, pulls out a rocket launcher, and fires several rockets to the gunships. Explosions light up the night sky as the villagers and Vampiros try to figure out what is going on out there. The armed cops, broken spirited, aim their guns towards the shadowy figure. However, Demon Manny appears and swipes the officers off the ground, some of them fleeing in terror and leaving behing vast amounts of their unused guns. One officer aims his gun at the shadowy figure's head, before the figure takes his gun and puts it in his mouth and shoots. He dies with his brains shot out of his skull. When the dust settles, the fields are layered with dead cops and flaming gunships. Manny sweeps dust off himself and nonchalantly talks to the figure]
Manny: Well, if it isn't my boo. Hi Djangy! How have you been?
Django: It's D of the Dead! And, fine! I heard you came back to MC. And it figures you would be causing trouble.
[Django, once the "grandson" of Miracle City's most wanted criminal, now a freelance bounty hunter with wanted posters all over Mexico. Covered in tattoos to distance himself from his sordid past, he and Manny once met up with each other during Manny's "Around The World" training and became inseparable since]
Manny: (delighted) Haven't seen you for a while? Like that trip we had in Thailand! Remember Bangkok?! I was having crab omelets all night while you dealt with loan sharks and upended a drug ring.
Django: Right! That's how I got my Royal Thai Army insignia tattoo on my femur.
Manny: Heh! Or that time in Iran!? You know running away from cops, parkour style, while figuring out why we went there in the first place?
Django: I think we got lost? I mean we were supposed to be in Saudi Arabia. And then we got super baked and found ourselves in a blacksite prison.
Manny: Oh yeah! Those pinheaded guards really chased us all the way to Saudi Arabia. I made friends with 9 sheiks because of my partying attitude and you somehow made friends with the king.
Django: Yup! My greatest achievement ever! Remember the Congo.
Manny: (dejected) I don't want to talk about it.
Django: I mean the party we had there in Kinshasa!
Manny: (realizing) Right! The party! A lot of beer and you still couldn't get laid!
Django: I'm asexual, dude! I don't need sex to feel pleasure!
Manny: Remember France! That day we stayed in a Parisian hotel. We had some bread and drank some wine. Then we hit the bed. You and I had our chests squeezing each other. Your ribs touching my ribs and then…
Django: (embarrassed) I don't want to talk about it!
Manny: I'm sorry! I just assumed you were asexual to a specific type of person. I didn't know you were flat out committed!
Django: You remember the time we ate snails? Can't believe you gulped down 50 plates! And the manager called the gendarmes when you spat out their daily special!
Manny: I do not like liver! Any food that offers me liver makes my tongue sad! Too bad for the manager. I didn't mean to make him mad.
Django: To be fair, I found out he led a smuggling ring underneath the restaurant. Then, you told me to call those gendarmes. I hesitantly called those pricks. And I got a lofty sum as a result.
Manny: Yeah! Those were the days! What brings you to MC now though? Last time I heard, you were in Argentina trying to gun down an American banker who fled to avoid paying federal taxes.
Django: That job was done! Dude choked on a choripan. Since then, I headed back to MC feeling that you needed help with that canal.
Manny: That project is over, dude! Besides, I got mad when it was all for nothing. Our bureaucracy fled to the east, making permits to receive water from the ocean inaccessible, and as a result I destroyed the dam here to receive freshwater for the villagers. However, I fought our police force and then you showed up.
Django: (smiling) Hmm! Typical day for Manny Rivera. It's Siberia all over again.
Manny: First rule of Siberia, you do not talk about Siberia. Second rule of Siberia: Always carry a bottle of vodka. Third rule of Siberia: Never kill baby seals!
[Suddenly, sounds of stomping are heard as Vampiros rush to the battlefield and clean up the aftermath]
Rasta Vampiro: Hey, child! What happened here!?
Manny: (smiling) You know? Siberia.
Every Vampiro: First rule of Siberia, you do not talk about Siberia. Second rule of Siberia: Always carry a bottle of vodka. Third rule of Siberia: Never kill baby seals!
[Rasta then spots Django]
Rasta Vampiro: Hey! If it isn't rudeboy! What brings you here, rudeboy? Last time I heard, you left my youth and tore out his symbolic heart!
Django: Oh. It's those guys. Hey Rasta. How's it been?
Rasta Vampiro: Been too long, rudeboy! (proceeds to hug) So glad you safe though. How's Argentina? Not too hot for you, rudeboy!
Django: Been hot or cold. Depends on the season. Just finished my mission there. Dude died from choking on choripan, though.
Rasta Vampiro: When will people learn? ALWAYS CHEW YOUR FOOD! Bumbaclots just bite and swallow! Assuming that's enough!
Django: People are just people. Have brains but barely use it.
Rasta Vampiro: Exactly! Child! How are you doing? Not scraped, right?
Manny: Nah. Just fine. Oh, Rasta. I found something from the fighting.
[Manny spits out two souls and shows them to the Vampiros and Django and they are astonished]
Rasta Vampiro: A soul!
Rabbi Vampiro: A soul!
Ernest: A soul!
Jim-bob: A soul!
Priest Vampiro: A soul!
Cajun Vampiro: A soul!
Shaolin Vampiro: A soul!
Mexican Vampiro: A soul!
Django: A soul? Who does that belong to?
Manny: I don't know, dude! I chucked it from two of those cops. But when I took a whiff, these souls smell like freshly baked conchas! But the cops' personalities were conflicting!
Rasta Vampiro: Elaborate a bit!
Manny: One was fiery and demanding and the other was sharp-witted but flirty.
Rasta Vampiro: So their souls should smell like charcoal and perfume, respectfully! But if these souls smell like concha bread, then they're soul stealing!
Django: I hate soul stealers! Especially ones who rob souls for kicks!
Priest Vampiro: Now, hold on! We don't know if they stole it! For all we know, they could be unwilling participants! We need to figure out who did this heinous crime before things get ugly!
Manny: Then it's settled! I will venture to the rich part of town and confront those bastards! Along with that, I'll confront MP Rodriguez over the dam he commissioned "for the people".
Django: Wait! If you're going, then so am I! Remember, you are still disliked by the majority of MC and that's a cop stronghold. You need me to make sure you're not caught and tortured!
Manny: Aight! We're off to Richland!
End of Chapter 4