fWarning. In this AU one shot, this one is going to have a few dark-adult themes in this and will be mentioned to a certain extent. It's nothing that will break the T version but I'm giving you a heads up. Also, try to imagine everything in black in white like the Noir genre. Also, this is going to be a POV from Manny Noir's POV, or in this case him narrating for the most part. And lastly, everyone here is human.

Manny Noir's POV

Miracle City. A spicy, polluted, disgusting, rancid, cesspool of crime. Everywhere you look a crime takes place. Someone robs a bank, drugs are being peddle in alleyways, a murder in someone's house, jaywalking. This city has no hope. But it's not that I care. All I care about is getting paid for my services,which is detective work and bounty hunting. Which I love a lot.

At the moment, I was in my office eating lunch. I had just finished a case involving a cheating husband and capturing a known drug peddler named Matches Maurice. While I didn't get much for Maurice from the police department, I did manage to get a lot of money from the cheating husband case. Just then, I got a call from someone and answered it.

"Manny Rivera, professional detective and bounty hunter. How may I help you?"

"Hello Mijo. It's me." I recognized the voice. It's Maria, my mother. I already knew what to do.

I said to her "I'm not leaving this Miracle City. Don't call this number unless you have detective work or bounty hunting business for me."

I was going to hang up the phone until she said "Wait, this is detective work."

Rolling my eyes, I said "Really mom. Cause every time you contact me it involves me leaving Miracle City. Every time."

Maria said "I know, I know but this is real detective work. Just hear me out, about the case not moving out of Miracle City."

I decided to listen to what she said. Surprisingly, she didn't try to convince me to leave Miracle City. She asked me to find one of her mariachi bandmates named William Richards. She explained that he came to visit a sick sister who was admitted to Miracle City General a week ago and never came back. I told her that I would take care of it after lunch and she thanked me. She wanted to talk to me more first but I hung up. There was never really anything to talk about anyway. Mom and I were never really that close after she left dad, me, and Miracle City because she thought dad's profession as a wrestler was unsafe and she didn't like to see him get hurt which I found stupid on multiple levels as a kid and even now given that she married him when he was just starting out. It wasn't until he lost to a wrestler named El Mal Verde that she "then" realized that it was too dangerous and started her ridiculous hyperventilating everytime he fought even though he was the hero of the ring. While I visited her during her mariachi performances, she would always try to talk me into wanting to leave Miracle City with her but I always said no.

Later, I went to Miracle City General to see William's sister, Coco Richards. She's diagnosed with liver cancer and is going through treatment. After she came back from some test, I told her that my mother sent me since he knew her brother and I was here to help. She explained to me that her brother had been staying with her since she's suppose to get treatment that might get rid of the cancer since they were able to act quickly on it. The last time she saw him, he was going to visit a lady friend of his named Tangerine about an important meeting and was going to come back afterwards. I asked if she had a picture of Tangerine and she gave me one of her and her brother. After seeing the photo of Tangerine, I already knew where to go.

My next destination: Flock of Fury Brothel. I only knew one person who could tell me about Tangerine, or rather I know two people but one of the would not tell me anything anyway and the means to get any information from "her" is extremely low. When I arrived, I told the receptionist that I wanted a private booth and to see La Cuervo. As soon as I paid the receptionist, I was escorted to La Cuervo's room. While I was being lead there, I could her loud cheers in one direction and moans in the other; the cheers being a strip show or a pole dance party and the moans being sex. Then I heard loud screams. Automatically, I knew that they were coming from Voltura's den and the one person I was hoping not to meet. The attendant left and I opened the door to La Cuervo's room and found the person I was looking for in black and purple bustier lingerie and black leather boots: Zoe Aves.

She said in a seductive voice "Hola Manny. I'm surprised to see you here." She got up and placed her arms around my neck and gave me a kiss.

I said "Hey Zoe. I know that it's almost your break time but I needed to see you." While I came here on business, I couldn't help but be momentarily distracted by Zoe's beauty and half naked body in that lingerie.

Zoe said "Oh Manny, you know that you can visit me any time. Although, I'm surprised you ordered full service instead of your usual lap dance."

I said "That's because I need you to tell me about someone who used to work here."

Zoe said "I see." She had a slight look of disappointment on her face but she knew why I was really here.

The brothel acts as a place of information. All secrets about anyone flows through here in some way. If you ask the right girl and you pay the right price, not in tips, they can give you all the information you need. However, any information about the girls that work here or used to work here is extremely difficult to get. Not only do you have to pay a lot of money but you also have to satisfy them one hundred and twenty five percent while your here or you'll get nothing. I've only ever had to resort to that for cases three times; this being the third time. Only difference being that I needed to talk to Zoe about this because I remember Tangerine from a photo that Zoe sent to me a while back during the brothel's anniversary parties. Apparently she, Zoe Voltura(Zoe's mom), Blue Jay, and Tangerine were voted best party team of the year at one point.

I told Zoe about the case I'm working on while she was giving me a lap dance and how it relates to Tangerine, or as she was called here American Robin. She decided to tell me everything during the dance despite not giving her the one hundred and twenty five percent satisfaction since she knew I was good for it; largely due to satisfying her outside her workplace in the past. Apparently Tangerine quit to pursue a career as a travel writer and food critic. During her travels she met William and the two started to form a relationship. While she's been coming and going out of Miracle City by herself, recently William has been with her heading toward the docks at Warehouse 35. I've know that place as the warehouse that sells exotic drugs that you can't get in Miracle City. No one has busted it because the Warehouse is owned by Miracle City's mob boss, Sartana of the Dead.

After satisfying Zoe and leaving her sleeping on the bed, I gave her a kiss on the cheek before leaving for Warehouse 35. But as I left the room, Zoe's mom was right there with an angry look on her face. She looked into Zoe's room, saw the smile on her face, and the money that I left so she closed the door and walked the way. Carmelita never likes me to be around her daughter due to some bad blood between her family and mine; bad romance stuff that happened. Unlike our family, Zoe and I are at least friends, or in most cases friends with benefits. While we used to date, we broke up mutually to pursue our own goals and stuff after we graduated high school.

Later that same night, I waited around Warehouse 35 to see if I could find Tangerine or William anywhere. I had to remain hidden so none of Sartana's goons wouldn't recognize me. I've run into her goons before but I've always walked a really thin line with them whenever it came to any investigations and bounty hunting that I do that could potentially relate to them. After a long period of waiting, something happened. From the looks of it, all these people lining up at Warehouse 35 are all potential customers who are looking to buy drugs. Surprisingly, I saw Django, Sartana's grandson, there. Next to him are his lieutenants: Dr. Diego Chipotle Jr. and Billy "Cactus Kid" Cabal.

As I watched them, I noticed a ship coming into port. If I had to guess what that ship is for it would have to be these three things: drug transportation, human trafficking, or arms smuggling. If it's human trafficking, then odds are I will find mom's band mate and maybe even Tangerine here. But before I could see what was going on, I was grabbed from behind and pinned to the wall. The person pinning me to the wall is Anita Suarez.

She said "What are you doing here, Rivera?"

I said "I could ask you the same thing."

Anita said "I'm a cop. I'm suppose to be here."

I said "Didn't take you for a dirty cop. What would your daddy, Mad Dog Suarez, think of you now?" In my mind, I knew she wasn't a dirty cop. Unlike seventy five percent of the MCPD, she's is no way corrupt and loves the lower just as much as her father. Granted, I think her dad is nothing more than a wild animal.

She shouted "Don't talk bad about my father, Rivera. I could arrest you right here and now. Now start talking. Why are you here?"

I said "If you must know, I'm looking for someone for a case. A member of my mom's band is missing and I got a clue that he might be here. There, happy?"

She said after unpinning me to the wall "No. Now get out of here. This is a police matter."

I said "Yeah, right. The MCPD haven't been able to bust any of Sartana's operations for years now, at least not long term. What makes you think this will be any different from all those other failed bust?"

A voice said "It won't be any different. Cause you'll be dead in an instant." It was Django and he is holding two heavy revolvers in his hand

Anita said with a brave face "You're under arrest, Django. Surrender."

I said "How can you say that when he's pointing the guns at us?" The fact that she didn't even have her gun out made my question

Django said "Rivera. Didn't take you for the type to work with the police."

"I'm just looking for someone for a personal case."

"William Richards and Tangerine." I wasn't that surprised that he knew about my case. While it wouldn't surprise me that Zoe told him given that he must have paid for the information and the brothel itself is in Sartana's pocket, it was also possible that he got the information from another girl at the brothel as well. "Here's your answer." He threw me two photos of them and they were horrific. One photo had Tangerine's head blown off and the other one had William's chest have a hole where his heart is.

Anita said with a look of horror "Oh my god."

Django said "If it's any comfort, they didn't feel any pain. Which is sad since feeling pain after death is exhilarating."

Anita said "Your sick, Django. How can you call yourself a human being?"

Django said "I see myself above humanity in more ways than one."

Django was about to shoot us. I wasn't afraid. My job comes with being in a life or death situation. If I regretted anything at this moment, it would have to be dying with Anita of all people. It's like dying with Mad Dog Suarez next to me. If it were Nikita, I would feel a little more contempt since she was always the nice twin. However, if I had to pick any Suarez to die with me it would have to be Frida. Seeing her blue hair and hearing her loud voice would make my entire life worth it. I miss her so much. If anything, I would have left Miracle City with her if she hadn't run away without saying goodbye.

Just then, a huge explosion happened at the dock. Django was surprised to see that explosion happen and Anita was looking away at the explosion. So, I used the opportunity to run away. As I ran away, I could hear all the gun fire coming from the direction of the boat. I was about to escape until one of Django's gunmen appeared in front of me and was about to shoot me. Then suddenly, another explosion happened and a small object fell from the sky and hit the gunmen in the head. Surprisingly, the object that hit him was a belt with a "T" buckle on it. I couldn't understand why such a thing was able to knock him out but it didn't matter since I was able to escape because of it. But not before taking the belt with me. I don't know why but I was feeling it.

A finally arrived home. I made sure to lock my doors and windows tonight. I don't think Django's goons are going to come for me since I didn't interfere with their operations. I'm more worried about having to deal with Anita or Mad Dog Suarez on some made up charges but it's not like they can arrest me for anything. I haven't done anything illegal. I decided to call mom and tell her about her bandmate. I wouldn't go into detail about how he died since the image from that photo would be too graphic for her. Not to mention that William's sister is going to be even more heartbroken about his death. I should also inform Zoe that Tangerine is dead too if for no other reason than the girls at the brothel can give her a personal Flock of Fury funeral.

God, it's been a long day. But that's to be expected from living in Miracle City. It's not like it can get any worse.

No One's POV

At the MCPD, all the police officers who were at the docks during the raid were bringing in all of Django's goons who were arrested along with one of his lieutenants, Cactus Kid, along with some of contraband that was at the Warehouse. At the moment, Anita is in Chief Suarez's office going over what happened.

Chief Suarez said "Another illegal artifacts and drug ring. This is the third one this week. It's still not much but it's another stepping stone in taking down Sartana. Good work, Anita."

Anita said after giving him a salute "Thank you sir."

Chief Suarez said "By the way, your mother told me to tell you and Nikita hello and she's going to bring you back souvenirs from her trip."

Anita said "Alright. Anyway, other than Django and his thugs, what would you like me to do about Rivera?"

Chief Suarez said "For now, nothing. From what you told me, he was only there to find that mariachi musician and the whore but wasn't intentionally interfering with police business like before. Although, I do look forward to getting something to bust him. I still find it hard to believe that he's the son of Rodolfo Rivera. The Hero of the Ring and most powerful Luchador: White Pantera." He then looked at a picture of him and Rodolfo shaking hands

Anita said "I heard he's going to face off against El Mal Verde again. I bet he's training to fight him right now."

Elsewhere, in a small house, Rodolfo is doing push ups while looking at the flier for his upcoming fight against El Mal Verde. After doing more than enough, he stopped to drink some water when someone came in.

Rodolfo sad "You're back from your meeting early."

A female voice said "It didn't last as long as I expected. Anyway, are you done with training for tonight?"

Rodolfo said as he wiped his face with a towel "I am." After he finished wiping his face, the female voice appeared in front of him. It is Carmela Suarez.

She asked "Are you nervous?"

Rodolfo said "No. Not like before. I'm going to win this time." Carmela placed her hand on his face

Carmela said "I believe in you, mi amor." She then proceeds to kissing Rodolfo and he kissed her back.

He broke off the kiss for the moment and asked "Are you still alright, Carmela? With us?"

Carmela said "I am. I want you, Rodolfo. Do you want me?"

Rodolfo said "I do. I don't care if it's wrong. I want you." The two continued to make out again, walk toward the room, and started stripping each other of their clothes.

At the Headquarters of Sartana in an unknown location, Django is in an office room with Sartana. While in the room, they have three men in strange hoods tied up over a tub of acid.

Django said "It's hard to believe that these people followed us here."

Sartana said "That's the power of faith, Django. People will do anything for a higher power if they believe in it hard enough. The same goes for these zealots.

Django said "Lucky for us they didn't get any of the mystical items back. We can start testing them on more people."

A goon ran in and said "Boss. We've got a problem."

Sartana said "What kind of problem?"

The goon said "One of the mystical items are missing." Django then started to strangle the goon.

He then asked "Which one?"

The goon said as he is being strangled "El Tigre's belt buckle."

Sartana asked "Do the police have it?"

The goon said "According to our mole in the police, no." Django then broke his neck, killing him.

Back at Manny's house, while he's asleep, the El Tigre belt buckle is glowing green. Then out of nowhere, a green tiger kitty appears right in front of Manny. It says "He is the one. The one worth of wielding my power."

I was so proud with how well this concept was going that I made it longer than I anticipated. I just wanted to get so many of the concepts of this AU out there that I had to continue it. If I feel like it, I might do a sequel to this AU later down the line when I have time or when I feel like it.