Episode 8: House of Fear

Manny woke up with his head pounding and feeling dizzy. Suddenly he noticed that his arms were strapped down to a chair.

"What the?"

When his vision cleared he saw that three chairs next to him and strapped in them were Frida, Django, and Zoe.

"Frida?"

"Manny?" She said. "What's going on?"

"I don't know. All I remember is that I was in my room and then some weird mist came into my room."

"Me too!" Frida said.

"Same here!" Zoe replied.

"Okay what's the big idea?" Django asked. "Where are we?"

"You're in my house." A voice said. A man wearing glasses and a suit with flat shoes and a staff walked up to them.

"Who the heck are you?" Zoe asked.

"Mr. Fear at your service Madame."

"How did you get us here?" Manny demanded.

"I just filled your rooms with knock out gas and then brought you here."

"What do you want with us?" Frida asked.

He pulled out a clip board and studied the paper on it.

"Manny Rivera, Frida Suarez, Zoe Aves, and Django of the Dead. Four of the most troublesome kids in Miracle City."

"Hey we're not kids!" Django shouted.

"If there's one thing I can't stand it's children especially children like you all." He walked up to them. "And you know what I like to do to kids? I like to scare them!"

"What do you mean?" Zoe asked.

"I mean I'm going to lock each of you in a state where you will face your worst fears!"

"Let us go!" Frida cried.

Mr. Fear walked up to her grinning.

"Careful Dearie. If you make me mad I might have to wreck that pretty face of yours."

"Get away from her!" Manny growled.

"Oh a child with big mouth well I'll fix that!" He hit Manny on the head with his staff.

"You creep! Just wait till I-. Where's my belt?"

"Looking for these?"

"My belt!" Manny said.

"My glove!" Frida said.

"My jet back!" Zoe said.

"My guitar!" Django said.

"I figured you'd try to use your powers so I swiped your little objects." He twirled Manny's belt around his finger. "Now prepare to be scared!"

He snapped his fingers and the chairs took each of them into a different room. Manny struggled to get lose but it was futile effort then everything went black. When he woke up he was on the ground as El tigre and was surrounded by fire.

"What's going on?" He asked.

He stood up and looked around. The city was in chaos. Buildings were smashed and fire was everywhere. Then he looked at a poster that said: El tigre, villain, thief, murder.

"Murder!" He gasped.

Then he looked over and saw his father, mother, and grandfather were on the ground dead. Their bodies were bleeding and Manny saw the blood on his claws.

"I did this? No! No! This isn't happening! I'm not a killer!"

Then he felt someone grab his shoulder. It startled him so much that he turned around and scratched the person. But he was horrified to find out that it was Frida. She put her hand to her face and gasped at the blood on her hand.

"Frida I-."

"No! Don't touch me!" She screamed. "You're a monster!"

Manny thought he would die he had killed his family and attacked Frida. Frida the one person who he believed would always be his friend saw him as a monster.

"No! This can't be real! This is a nightmare!" Then suddenly it clicked. "This isn't real! This is just some trick! I would never hurt anyone especially Frida!"

Then his eyes flashed open and he found himself back in his chair.

"Oh thank God it was only a dream!"

He struggled to get out but the straps were too strong. Then he noticed a knife not too far from his foot. Using his feet he grabbed the knife and brought it to his hand. Then he started cutting his straps. Once he was free he found his belt hanging up. He put it on and spun the buckle.

"Now to find that Mr. Fear and kick the crap out of him!"

He walked out of the room and started to search for Mr. Fear then he heard a scream.

"Frida!"

He followed the scream and it led him into another room. He found Frida strapped to a chair. Her eyes were closed and she was screaming and shaking. He gently grabbed her arm and shook her softly.

"Frida it's me! Listen this is just a trick! It's not real!"

"No! Please! I'm scared!" She shrieked.

"It's okay I'm here."

Frida's eyes fluttered open, Manny cut her straps with his claws. She fell into his arms with tears in her eyes.

"Oh Manny it was horrible! There was fire everywhere and these voices telling me that no one cared about me." She sobbed.

Manny hugged her close and soothed her to calm down.

"It was a nightmare. It's alright. You're safe now." He cooed.

They found her glove and she turned into Plata Peligrossa.

"When I find that jerk he is going to wish he had never been born." Frida said.

They walked into another room and found Zoe overcome with fear.

"No! No! Get em off me! Get em off me!" She cried.

"Zoe! Are you in there?" Manny said.

"Wait a minute! Let's just leave her like this for a few minutes." Frida snickered.

"Frida!"

"Oh alright!"

They had her awake in ten minutes.

"Zoe are you okay?" Manny asked.

"Spiders! Keep em away from me! The crawling demons!" She cried.

Frida couldn't resist laughing at her. They retrieved Zoe's jet back and she changed into Black Cuervo. In the last room and they saw Django struggling like mad to get out his chair.

"No! Get away!" He shouted.

"Django it's us." Manny said breaking the straps.

Django woke up the moment he was free.

"Dude what did you see?" Frida asked.

"Clowns! So many clowns!" He got into a fielded possession and started sucking his thumb. "Don't take me to the circus Nana, the clowns scare me!"

"Snap out of it man!" Zoe said slapping him.

"Thanks I needed that." He grabbed his guitar and they burst out of the room.

"Oh I see you little brats got out!" Mr. Fear said.

"Yeah and now we're gonna kill you!" Django said.

"We'll see about that." And he took off running.

"Let's get him!" Manny said.

They chased him all through the building but he was took quick.

"Hey kiddies! Try this on for size!" He waved his staff and a large mallet tried to crush them.

"Scatter!" Manny cried.

The four of them ran like the wind trying to avoid each blow.

"That's right! Run you little twerps." He was just about to raise his staff when he realized it was gone. "What the?"

"Looking for this?" Manny asked holding up the staff. Then he broke it and the mallet vanished.

Manny, Frida, Zoe, and Django gave him vengeful looks.

"Uh listen kids why don't we let this go?" Mr. Fear asked.

"No way dude! You made me face clowns! You're gonna pay!" Django said.

"Oh I'm getting him first!" Zoe said.

"I'll rip off his legs!" Manny said.

"And I'll claw out his eyes." Frida said.

Mr. Fear was in a world of pain that lasted for three hours then he was taken to the police.