Episode 3: The New Plata Peligrossa

"Manny! Wake up!" Rodolfo shouted.

"Dad...It's Saturday! Let me sleep." Manny groaned.

"Come on Miho it's important."

"No! I just want to lay here and sleep." Manny put his pillow over his head.

"But Manny we're going to the annual superhero convention."

"Go without me!"

Rodolfo thought for a minute then thought of an idea. "Oh and did I forget to mention that this year their having jet backs."

"Jet backs!" Manny jumped out of bed, got dressed, and spun his belt buckle. Then Rodolfo turned into White Pantera and they hurried outside to the convention. Well they were but Rodolfo had to stop for a bathroom break.

"Hey dude. Where ya going?" Frida asked.

"The superhero convention this year they're having jet backs."

"Cool! Can I come?"

"Sorry Frida but it's heroes only."

"Really? No fair."

"Okay Manny I'm done now let's go!"

El tigre and White Pantera continued toward the convention unaware that he had toilet paper stuck to his bronze boots. Frida walked over to the library and started reading her favorite book(Exploding Guitars). She always did this when Manny did hero stuff that she couldn't do it made her mad and upset. "I wish I had powers."

"Hi Frida." Maria said. "Is something wrong?"

"Manny and his dad are going to a cool convention that's only for heroes." She grumbled. "Sometimes it sticks being powerless."

"I'm sorry about that but you don't need powers to feel special." Maria hugged her. "You'll see, anyway I have to go to the store."

"Okay bye." Frida left the library and went into town as she walked she had the strangest feeling someone or something was following her. She turned around to find nothing there but everytime she continued walking she heard a scuttling noise like a crab or spider. Finally she turned around quick enough to see what it was before it could hide. It was Maria's glove.

"Oh hi weird glove thingy if you're looking for Maria she just left." But the glove just started walking toward her slowly then it jumped into the air and attached itself to Frida's hand. "Hey! Get off!" Then there was a flash of light.

"Those jet backs rocked!" Manny said.

"I'm glad you had a good time." Rodolfo said.

Suddenly Robot Sanchez came running toward them. They quickly got ready to attack them but he ran right past them, he was running away from something or someone.

"What's up with him?" Manny asked. Then they heard the battle cry of Plata Peligrossa only it sounded a little different. They saw the glowing figure with a medal glove. "Dad! Mom's become Plata Peligrossa again!"

"Oh no! Okay don't worry Manny we will save your mother."

"Save me from what?"

"Mom!"

"Maria! But if you're here then who's that?"

Manny took a closer look at the heroine and was shocked by who it was.

"Frida?"

"Oh my gosh! How did she get my glove?" Maria said.

"Manny are you okay?" Rodolfo asked.

Manny kept staring at Frida in awe. Frida noticed this and winked at him. Manny's eyes popped out of his head, his jaw dropped, and his heart started beating.

"Uh Manny? You do realize you're drooling."

"I am? Sorry it just that she's...she's...she's so pretty!" And the love struck hero/villain rushed over to her.

"Hmm! Seem familiar Rodolfo?" Maria giggled.

Frida punched, kicked, and smashed the Robot Sanchez she was one heck of a fighter. Manny loved that in a woman. He swallowed hard then tried to look as macho as possible.

"Hey." He said.

"Hey yourself." She said in a seductive tone.

"Do you need any help?"

"No I got it! But thanks for asking."

Frida threw Robot Sanchez into the jail then gave a laugh of victory.

"Frida are you alright?" Maria said.

"Yeah I feel great!"

"And you look great too." Manny sighed.

"Thank you." She scratched under his chin with her finger, Manny purred with delight.

"Frida can you control yourself?" White Pantera said.

"She hasn't gone danger crazy yet." Manny purred as he enjoyed Frida's touch.

"No but she's gone flirt crazy." Maria said. She pulled the glove off Frida's hand which turned her back to normal.

"Huh? Oh hey guys." Frida said.

"Frida how did you get my glove?"

"I don't know it just attached itself to me."

"Oh it did now!" Maria glared at the glove. "So you thought you'd find a new host. Did you?"

"We better lock this thing up." Rodolfo said.

"No wait! Can please use it? Just for emergencies! Please!" Frida said.

"Alright! But please be careful." Maria said.

For the next few days Frida joined Manny and his father on fighting villains. They were a great team and unlike Maria, Frida could control the danger mania but that still didn't mean things wouldn't go wrong.

"Take that!" Frida screamed as she pounded the crook.

"Frida you are awesome at this." Manny said. "We should've given you that glove years ago."

"Yeah it's great and being you're partner is the best." Frida winked at him again which made Manny blush hard.

Then without warning Frida grabbed El tigre's shirt and pulled him into a kiss. He felt a spark when their lips touched and his body trembled. When her lips left his El tigre fell to the ground with a silly grin on his face.

"Bye Tigre!" She flew off to her home, Rodolfo came outside and looked down at his son.

"Miho are you alright?"

"What a woman!" Manny shouted.

that night Frida took off the glove and got ready for bed. "What a day! Now to get a goodnight sleep." She crawled into bed and fell asleep. But after a while she felt something moving in her bed she woke up and looked in her blanket. The glove jumped on her and made it's way toward her hand.

"Hey what are you doing?" Frida smacked the glove away and tried to run but the glove was too quick and it grabbed her foot making her trip. "Stop!" But the glove just attached itself to her.

The next morning Manny made his way to school wondering where Frida was then he found her. She was on the ground as Plata Peligrossa looking exhausted. "Frida! What happened?"

"The glove! It won't let me go!" Frida cried. Then the glove flew off taking Frida with it. "Manny help!

"Hang on Frida! I'm coming!" He spun his belt and swung after them. Quickly Manny tackled Frida and started to pull it.

"Get it off me!" Frida screamed.

"I'm trying! It won't budge!"

The glove punched Manny then started dragging Frida. Manny ran as fast as the wind. Maria looked out the window and started hyperventilating then she followed them. Manny finally caught up with Frida and the glove, Manny ran up to Frida and kicked the glove off her hand sending it flying.

"Take that ya oven mit!"

"Oh my head!" Frida moaned. "I don't feel good." She fainted, Manny quickly slid on his knees and caught her just before she hit the ground.

"Manny! Is Frida alright?" Maria asked.

"Yeah just a little dizzy."

The glove landed right in front of them. Manny growled at it. "I am gonna smash you!" The glove got into a cowering possession then started speaking sign language. "What's it saying?"

"Let me see I know sign language." Maria said.

"Hmmm...What happened?" Frida asked.

"The glove is saying that it didn't mean to hurt Frida it was just tired of being put away." Maria translated.

"Well it can't just take control of Frida." Manny said.

"Okay gloves let's make a deal." Maria suggested. "Frida can use you but only for emergencies."

The glove gave a thumbs up.

"That good for you Frida?" Maria said.

"Yeah. Good deal."

So Frida placed the glove in a case that said for emergencies only. Then she walked with Manny to the arcade. "Hey Manny I didn't do anything weird while I was wearing the glove was I?"

"What do you mean?"

"I know I didn't go danger crazy but did I get flirty like your mom does with your dad?"

"No! Of course not! No way!" He said blushing.

"Oh my God! I did! I am so sorry but it wasn't me it was the glove."

"Hey I understand."

"Great."

They shared an awkward silence then went into the arcade.