Chapter 2: En Garde!

It took a lot for the citizens of Miracle city to stop and stare, but seeing one of their renowned heroes (and part-time trouble maker) with a half naked child wearing a big brown coat, they did just that. However, the two didn't seem to notice the curious, puzzled and confused stares from the surrounding populace, as they were too deep in conversation.

"So, you're saying that that caja de madera is a space-ship?" The masked teen asked, looking at the curly haired Doctor in a little shock. It's not every day that you learn that there was aliens out there...And that they didn't have cool space-ships.

"Yep," The Doctor replied, popping the 'P', as he looked past the mystically powered hero as he noticed that they had just passed the most popular (as there was only one) costume shop in Miracle city. "And she's called the TARDIS..." He murmured as he stopped and walked towards the shops door.

"Turd-as?" Manny asked, still walking ahead before noticing that the blond haired alien had disappeared. "Doctor?" El tigre asked, looking around for him, then noticed that the door to the 'tienda de disfraces ciencia ficción' and walked into the store and was greeted with a green velvet jacket thrown at his face.

"Had that already, nope, nada...Nada is a good word, remind me to use that more," The Doctor murmured to himself, pulling out various types of outfits from a cowboy outfits to a rocket man to an El Tigre outfit. "Oooooh, this looks good," the childlike Doctor muttered as he pulled out a black matador outfit, beautifully embellished with light golden-green. Looking beneath the coat he discovered a white ruffled shirt with a bright red foulard and fell in love with it.

"Are you loco?" El Tigre asked as he looked at the costume that was in the curly haired boy's hand, "I don't suppose you have cash on you?"

"Nope," The 12th regeneration retorted, walking up to the shop's owner and fumbled about in his overly big jacket pocket for his wonderful piece of paper and then showed the shop owner it, "John Smith: Kid costume inspector."

Manny jaw dropped at what happened next: The clerk believed him & after a few minutes the two left, the Doctor now dressed in his new outfit and Manny looking at him confused. "John Smith: Costume Inspector?"

"Psychic paper," The Doctor replied simply, pulling things out of his brown coat and shoving them into the pockets of his new jacket, like his sonic screwdriver, the 3-D glassed, a Yo-Yo, a Christmas bauble, etc. ('How much stuff can he fit in his pockets?'.) "Basic psychic manipulation, quite useful actually," he began, throwing the coat over his shoulder, before stopping suddenly, "Oh yes!"

Manny jumped slightly at his sudden exclaim, "What?!" The Doctor only turned to him and smirked hopefully, gently fixing his foulard, "I can't stay in the TARDIS tonight, so...?"

"You want to stay at mi casa?" El Tigre asked, raising an eyebrow at the idea. He had literally met this weird teen 20 minutes ago and was now in the position of letting him stay the night in his house. "Eh..."

However, unfortunately (or rather fortunately for El Tigre) a loud girlish scream was heard coming from a few blocks away. "Well I got to-" Manny began, eyes closed and smiling on the inside that he didn't have to answer the Doctor right then, but upon opening his eyes he noticed that the curly haired teen was running towards the yell. "Hey wait up!" El Tigre yelled, running after the Doctor.

After a quick run (one that Manny was breathing a little heavily after) the two arrived at the Miracle city museum. Upon arrival, the doors to the building were blown off their hinges & a golden, humanoid shaped, machine with a grey haired oldie visible due to the transparent dome that topped the machine.

Pulling out his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor didn't notice the look of recognition that both El Tigre and the villain shared, before point the device at him. "En Garde!" he yelled with a grin, pressing the button as an audible 'oooooooo' sound was heard.

"What th-?" The older villain said in confusion, before he abruptly fell to the ground, the mechanical exoskeleton reverting to its golden sombrero state.

"Granpappi!" El Tigre yelled, running towards his dazed grandpa, who looked to the tube holding boy in bafflement.

"Eyeh?! Qué ha passado?!" Puma Loco demanded, pointing an angry finger at the Doctor, who only looked baffled at the two.

Running over to sombrero wearing villain, he smiled slightly, "Hello there, I'm the Doctor and if I remember right, you're Puma Loco, the evil Grandfather of El Tigre," he said, grabbing the older (only in form) man's hand and shook it heartily, "Sorry about all that, but you were robbing that museum, so I had to stop you."

"Pero, se stole that costume," El Tigre pointed out, after his grandfather stole his hand back from the oddly dressed alien.

"No I didn't..." The Doctor replied, before stopping in realization that he had essentially done just that. "He gave it to me after I showed him a blank piece of paper," he reasoned, throwing his arms back slightly in defense. "Anyway, can I stay over then?"

"At Casa De Macho?" Puma Loco queried, looking to his grandson in mild shock, hoping that this person who could transform his sombrero at will wasn't going back to his house.

"..." El Tigre finally considered it. This boy was so intriguing. He came in a space ship (a big blue box), he willingly wears a tacky matador costume (not that Manny Rivera would ever be seen in it...Again) and he stopped his grandfathers stealing spree by using a light-up remote thing. "Uh...Yeah, Por qué no?"