A/N alright so begins the chapter 7 remake of El Tigre the new adventures season 1! I actually don't have much to say for the opening Author's note, so all I can here is I hope you enjoy the chapter and I also hope you all are having a nice day! Enjoy!
El Tigre the new adventures Season 1 Episode 7 – A friend in need
When Manny arrived back home, feeling tired, worn out and fatigued it didn't take him any time before he had completely passed out. The only time he ever woke up was for about a couple of seconds to his mother, Maria Rivera, who arrived at his home to check on him. He opened his eyes and stared up at his mother, who was staring down at him with a worried expression on her face.
"Hey mooom…" Manny said to her mother in an exhausted and drowsy tone.
"Oh Hijo…I'm so glad you're ok…" Maria said rubbing her sons head softly.
Manny smiled, but fell back asleep pretty quickly.
Both Rodolfo and Maria had decided to let Manny skip school so he could recover a bit more. He ended up sleeping that entire day peacefully.
Manny opened his eyes and he looked around. He was standing in the middle of a dark open area. He looked around slowly. Then, it started coming back to him. He did this before, in the same dark area. When he looked forward, he saw a giant green tiger sitting in front of him. The large green tiger had his head rested on his paws and his tail swaying back and forth. The green tiger opened his eyes and stared down at Manny. It smirked at him.
Both Manny and giant green tiger stared at each other for a moment. Till Manny quickly shut his eyes and quickly opens them. He found himself lying in bed, staring straight at his alarm clock which the time reads 7:30pm. Manny lies up and he pops his neck a couple of times before he gets out of his bed and heads downstairs. Sitting on the couch watching TV was both his father and his grandfather, who were watching a sports game on TV.
Rodolfo turns to Manny "Oh Manny! You're finally awake!" he said happily.
"How long was I out?" Manny asked softly scratching his stomach.
"A whole day," said Puma Loco "After what your father told me it's understandable."
"I was out for a whole day? Jeez…" Manny said surprised. He was never usually out that long after fighting against bad guys.
"By the way Hijo, Maria had fixed you something to eat. Everything is in the refrigerator." Rodolfo informed
Manny went into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator and saw that there was a container that contained Spaghetti and meatballs.
"Oooo!" Manny said licking his lips as he grabs the container and places it in the microwave. As he sets the time on the microwave to heat up his food, he begins to think about Frida, also remembering how her father, Emiliano Suarez, who blew up on her when they arrived back home from Ven's vill. Manny thought he should check up on her. He walks over to the phone on the wall and dials in her number. The phone begins to ring for a moment and then someone picks up
"Suarez Residence," Said a deep and intimidating voice
"Uhh…" Manny gulps recognizing that deep and intimidating voice.
"Who is this?" Asked Emiliano Suarez "IS THIS MANNY RIVERA?!"
Manny quickly hung up the phone. He knew that Emiliano was still furious with him and blames him for bringing Frida along on the Ven's Vill mission. Even though Frida was the one who snuck her way on to the mission, Emiliano blames him, Rodolfo and Ryumaru for it anyway. Manny sighed; he was hoping he would be able to talk to Frida while he sat down and ate his dinner, but sadly that wouldn't be happening. The microwave timer went off, and Manny grabbed a fork and the container of Spaghetti and heads into the living room to watch TV with his father and grandfather. Once he was done went straight back to bed. He couldn't help but worry a bit about Frida. But, usually when things like their friendship was hanging in the air thing's always ended up ok in the end.
With that closure in his mind, Manny quickly fell asleep.
The next day, Manny was waiting next to candy shop around 7:20pm for Frida to show up. It was the usual spot where he and Frida would meet up so they could get a snack and walk to school together. But, a couple of minutes passed and Frida didn't show up. Manny had guessed that her father had probably dropped her off at school already by car. Manny bought a couple of chocolate bars and heads of to Leon Middle School.
Once Manny arrived at Leon Middle School he walks into the school and heads to his locker. That's when he saw Frida open her locker and take out her class books. Manny hurried over to her with a smile across his face
"Yo Frida!" Manny said happily to his best friend
When Frida closed her locker that's when Manny saw her expression. She looked extremely tired. She had dark bags under her eyes her expression itself looked depressed.
Frida replied to Manny "Hey Manny…" she replied depressingly
"Uh…are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine…" she said in a drowsy tone as she placed her backpack across her shoulders.
"Umm…I tried calling you earlier but heheh…your dad picked up. So I had to hang up quickly." Said Manny
"Yeah I heard my dad screaming your name…" Said Frida quietly "I'm going to head off to class,"
"But class doesn't start in like 20 minutes. Don't you want to talk?" Manny asked
Frida closed her eyes and sighed. She turned to face Manny "Manny…to be honest…I just want to be by myself…i…I just want to be alone."
"O-Oh…" Manny felt a pit form in his stomach
"I'm sorry. I just…I just need time to myself." Frida said softly, her tone had much sorrow in it. "Bye Manny…" she said turning around and walking off.
Manny watched as Frida walked off "See ya…Frida…" he said in a saddened tone as he went the opposite direction to his class.
Elsewhere
The ground trembled and explosions were going off left and right. Citizens were running for their lives as a giant silver robot was coming from around the corner. It had three large red eyes on its face, two lasers coming out of its back, and two large mechanical hands. Operating the giant silver robot was both Dr Chipotle Sr., and his son Dr. Chipotle Jr., (AKA Diego Chipotle) were in cockpit of their new destructive robot.
"MUAHAHAH!" Dr. Chipotle Sr. let out a cackling laugh.
"Isn't this robot wonderful father?!" Diego asked with a grin on his face "I worked really carefully on it! I'm sure it's going to—"
"Yes yes it's wonderful, now pay attention!" Dr. Chipotle shouted
The giant silver robot moved towards the nearest bank. The silver robot placed his hands around the roof of the building rips it off, and tossing it away. The people who were in the bank, screamed and quickly existed building as fast as they could. The silver robots arm transformed into a vacuum that began to suck all the bags of money and bills into the robot.
"Oh boy…" Said a smooth and mighty voice
The silver robot turned his head around to see a women, with brown skin, wearing black leather torso with purple gloves and legging, her hair was neat and well kept brown haired afro with purple cobra snakes coming out of them, glasses that with purple lens and stars on them, and sporting two wide gold earrings.
"The chipotle boys just never know when to quit." Cosmic Cleopatra said, floating in the air as if she was laid out across a couch
Cosmic Cleopatra; A hero who specializes in the use of cosmic magic, was once a member of a hero stable in Miracle city called the league of alliance society alongside Silver Sombrero and the industrialist. After a mission that left the team humiliated Cosmic Cleopatra left the team and went on to pursue her solo hero career, which she has been finding more success in doing so.
"COSMIC CLEOPATRA!" Dr. Chipotle Sr. and Diego gasped
"Hello boys." Cosmic Cleopatra said wiggling her fingers at them
The silver robot aimed its lasers at Cosmic Cleopatra. With one wave of Cosmic Cleopatra a purple barrier appeared around her. The laser hits Cosmic Cleopatra's barrier but it barely did anything at all. The torso of the silver robot opens up and missiles shot out towards her. Cosmic Cleopatra rolled her eyes and she holds her hand out, purple aura flowed around her hand. Every single missile suddenly stopped, and it had the same glow of aura that was around Cleopatra's hand was now around the silver robot's missiles.
"Uh oh…" Said Diego as he began to sweat
Cosmic Cleopatra sends the missiles straight back to at the robot hitting it directly around the lower body and head of the silver robot. Both Diego and his father were rocked around inside the giant robot. Cosmic Cleopatra flew down to the legs of silver robot, her right hand glowed with a purple aura and she slings an energy whip at the left leg and pulled with all her strength. The entire left leg came out and the silver robot started to tilt over and it fell on its side.
Cosmic Cleopatra points both of her hands at the two arms of the silver robot and beams shoot out cutting off the arms of the giant robot.
"NOOOO!" Dr. Chipotle Sr. Roared
"Alright you two, exit the robot right now!" Cosmic Cleopatra demanded
Suddenly a blinding light shines from the eyes of the Silver robot, so bright that not even Cosmic Cleopatra's sunglasses could shield her eyes. As soon as her visibility was back she looked down, the head to the giant silver robot was gone.
"DARN IT!" Cosmic Cleopatra said snapping her fingers "I was too careless…ugh." She groaned taking off her sunglasses and rubbing between her eyes.
"Everything ok Cosmic Cleopatra?" Rodolfo asked as he had just arrived on to the scene.
Cosmic Cleopatra quickly turned around and gasped "WHITE PANTERA!"
"I guess the Chipotle's got the slip on you." Rodolfo said with arms crossed "are you ok?"
"Oh yes I'm fine! I just…I just got a little cocky." Said Cosmic Cleopatra chucking nervously "I heard you just got back from your first mission out of Miracle city, did it go well?"
"It was very rough indeed. We went against foes with a power I've never faced against before. It was truly in interesting experience. Although the whole climax was surprising considering that a member from the Washington league of heroes intervened…he was…not really nice I could say." Rodolfo explained
"Oh I see…well umm…I'm glad that you and your son are ok." Cosmic Cleopatra said with an awkward smile. Cosmic Cleopatra was very nervous while talking to Rodolfo for a reason. She and her former teammates befriended Manny all for one reason, to try and lure out an Ancient evil serpent dragon that was hiding in Miracle city. After leaving the team she had a lot of time to reflect on her actions and felt extremely bad for what she was involved in.
Cleopatra sighed "Umm White Pantera…I just want to apologize deeply. About what happened between you, your son and my former team, It was wrong of us to shame you and use your son. I hope that you can forgive me, and even them."
Rodolfo smiled "What's in the past is in the past Cleopatra. Besides we're all heroes who are here to protect our city! Holding grudges are things we should never do!"
Cosmic Cleopatra smiled as well
"Thank you White Pantera…"
Elsewhere, both Dr. Chipotle Jr. and his son Diego were hiding out somewhere in a alley, panting after having to run as quickly as possible to get away from Cosmic Cleopatra. Dr. Chipotle Jr. glared down at his screamed
"WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DIDN'T THE ESCAPE POD WORK?" Dr. Chipotle screamed at his son
"IT WAS SUPPOSED TO IT WAS JUST JAMMED AN—"
"THIS IS THE LAST AND FINAL TIME I EVER LET YOU MAKE ANYTHING WHEN WE'RE TOGETHER! YOU'VE DONE NOTHING BUT MAKE IT HARD TO DO ANYTHING LATELY!"
"D-Dad please it's not that serious…w-we got away didn't we?" Diego said, a lump was starting to appear in his throat
"SILENCE, I TOUGHT I TAUGHT YOU BETTER! BUT YOU'VE NOTHING MORE THAN DISAPOINT ME!"
"F-Father i…" Diego didn't know what to say. He's never been scolded like this before from his father, that or he's never been this angry at him.
"Enough! I'm going home to build a real robot that can actually do its job!" Dr. Chipotle Sr. Said as he walked off into the alley.
Diego stood there. He placed his back against the wall and just stared down at ground. Diego was shaking, trying to hold back his tears but he couldn't. A tear began to fill up in his human eye and it glided down his right cheek.
"So cruel…" Said Nelson, watching from a distance while standing on a building "Poor little Chipotle Jr., So much talent being shamed for someone's own short comings." He said watching Diego bawl his eyes out.
"Don't worry little one. You're future is so bright. Just let everything, fall into place."
Back in Leon Middle
"I just…never seen her that sad before," Said Manny sitting at the table in the school library "and she's never acted that way towards me before. If she's always had a problem she would talk to me…"
"Hmm…I'm guessing the scolding must have been a serious one then." Maria replied placing the retuned library book on the proper shelf.
It was lunch time. Manny wasn't feeling hungry at all. He did however tried looking for Frida in the cafeteria to see if he could try talking to her again but she wasn't seen anywhere. Manny sighed heavily as he placed his chin on his folded arms feeling as bad as ever. Maria looked over at her son and frowned a bit. She climbs down from the ladder and walks over to her son, placing her hand on his shoulder.
"Manny there's no need to worry too much about it." Maria said softly "All Frida needs is time. Just give her the space that she needs. She'll probably be back to normal in no time!"
"I guess so…" Said Manny, looking up at his mom
"Just give it time Hijo," Maria said smiling down at her son and patting his back gently. With that, Maria went back to organizing the library books on the right shelves.
Even though her mother told him not to worry, Manny couldn't help but worry. He couldn't stop picturing that depressed expression that Frida had on her face earlier. At this point it was burned into his brain, and his worry was beginning to grow even more.
"You know Manny," Maria began "Why don't you hang out with that boy you went on the mission with?"
Manny's eyes widened "You mean Marcus?"
"Yes Marcus! I haven't met him but Rodolfo told me how he shielded you from getting impaled by all those knives! What a brave boy he is."
Manny began to think about it "Well yeah that's true but…I don't know." Manny intertwined his fingers together and twiddled his thumbs "He's not as bad as I thought he was but he seems like he's hard to hang out with…I don't know if we have anything in common. Not to mention most of the time he's quiet and always keeps to himself and doesn't want anyone to bother him."
"Hmm…" Maria rubs her chin "I see. You know Manny; someone who's like that could really use a friend. If you two are on better terms, now's the time to get to know each other better!"
"I uhh…well…I guess so." Manny said scratching his cheek
"Good! I hope you two get along well!" Maria said happily
The bell began to ring. The next classes were starting
"Be good Manny!" Maria said waving to him
Manny walked out of the library and heads down the hallway. He scanned the crowd of kids that were leaving the cafeteria. He looked out for Frida. After standing there till all the kids were out of cafeteria. He didn't see Frida at all. Manny sighed and just decided to head on to his class.
School was over, and all the kids were existing Leon Middle School. Manny walked out of the school entrance along with everyone else. That's when he saw Frida. Manny was about to approach her till he saw her walk towards a police vehicle. The driver was of course her father, Emiliano Suarez. Frida got in the back seat of the car and they drove off.
Manny lowered his head and just sighed. Manny continued walking down the sidewalk deep in thought. What in the world happened at home that made Frida act this way? Usually when Frida gets scolded she just shrugs it off, but now she's just looked completely broken. She didn't even want to talk to Manny about it, her best friend. Was Manny really just going to wait for her to say something and feel better? That didn't sound right at all to him. But at the same time…he didn't want to make things worse by going against Frida's wishes. As Manny walked around town he didn't even know what he wanted to do. He thought about going straight home and just laying in bed but he shrugged that off. So he thought about going to arcade. Manny decided to shrug that off as well. He wasn't in the mood, he wouldn't be able to focus on the game, and it wouldn't be the same without Frida. Manny decided to stop by an ice cream parlor and just eat his worries away with ice cream. He bought vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup and sprinkles on top. Manny sat down at outside tables with his elbow on the table and his chin rested in the palm of his hand. He just stared at the ice cream at this point, regretting that he bought it. Manny looked forward, seeing the empty seat in front of him. Manny let out a small sigh, wishing Frida was with him.
"It really kills me to see a sad kitten."
Manny turned around, seeing Marcus standing behind him wearing a grey shirt with dark blue jeans and grey and white running shoes.
"O-Oh, Marcus." Said Manny "H-hey…"
"It's just you by yourself?" Marcus asked walking over to the other side of the table and sitting down in the empty seat. "Where's your blue haired girlfriend?"
"SHE'S NOT MY-Oh forget it." Manny just sighed once again not even feeling like arguing with him "She's…well." Manny tried to think of a way to explain
Marcus raised a brow "You two having a fight or something?" he asked curiously
"No we didn't have a fight." Manny replied "Frida just…didn't feel like hanging out today that's all."
"I see." Marcus said staring at Manny "I guess she found a new boyfriend."
Manny shoots a glare Marcus and shoots up from his seat and shouts "YOU KNOW TODAY'S NOT THE DAY TO-"
"Are you going to eat that?" Marcus said completely cutting Manny off and points at his ice cream.
Manny let out a low growl and clenches his fist. Manny sits back down in his seat, slides the cup of ice cream over to Marcus and crosses his arms looking away from him.
"Thanks! My sweet tooth was really beginning to act up." Marcus said as began eating the ice cream.
"Whatever…" Manny whispered. He was already sick of being around Marcus.
"So," Marcus began as he was stuffing spoon of ice cream into his mouth "Don't you have any other friends to hang out with? She couldn't be the only friend you have."
"Well of course I-I…" Manny began to think. As a matter of fact, Manny didn't really have many other close friends like Frida. He of course knew some kids from school that he talked to sometime but they were mostly acquaintances. The only person he hung out with all the time was Frida, not anyone else. "Not…really." He said saddened
Marcus chuckled "Jeez the super hero life really isn't all that for you huh? The mighty El Tigre with hardly any fame or attention at all." he grinned at Manny
Manny scowled at Marcus. That didn't make him feel any better then he already felt now. "Did you only come to see me just so you can mock me and pick on me?" He asked in a frustrated tone.
"Nah," Said Marcus placing the spoon into the empty ice cream cup and laying back in his chair, he eyes wandered around the area "I was hoping you would show me around town."
"Tch, do that yourself." Manny scorned and looked away
"Oh come on, I don't know my way around here like that. I don't want to get lost, show me around."
Manny looked over at Marcus thinking about it. "Ugh, fine…" Manny said giving in. He could at least get his mind of off worrying about Frida by doing this. "Where do you want to go?" He asked reluctantly
"No idea." Marcus replied shrugging "What do you usually do anyway?"
"Well…" Manny thought about it "When I'm hanging out with Frida we usually start off by heading to the arcade but-"
"Let's go there." said Marcus getting up from his seat "Sounds interesting."
"Well… alright then…" Manny said getting up from his seat. He wasn't feeling the arcade at all, why not give it a shot with him, he thought.
The two of them began walking down the sidewalk. They really didn't say much to each other at all. Marcus was pretty much whistling, hands in his pocket and looking as if to be in a good mood. Manny wished he could be feeling that right now.
"So," Marcus began "How's your wounds healing up?"
"Huh?" Manny said looking over at Marcus. As they were walking he was pretty much wondering around in his own thoughts "Oh yeah the wounds are healing up pretty well. What about yours?"
"They're all healed up," Marcus replied followed by a yawn
"They're healed up already? You had some pretty serious wounds."
"Eh, I've always had a fast healing rate." Marcus shrugged
"That's pretty cool…" Manny said staring at the ground as he walked.
"This city can definitely be noisy as all hell." Marcus said "Earlier I heard a bunch of noises and sirens, apparently there was a robot attack?"
"Oh that must have either been Giant Robot Sanchez, the chipotle's, or Senior Siniestro." Manny explained "It's just the norm."
"Unbelievable…" Marcus said rubbing his head.
Manny chuckled and said "I guess you didn't have too much noise at your home city?" He asked looking over at Marcus
"I wouldn't know." Marcus replied "I haven't been at my home city in a couple of years."
"You haven't? Where are you from?"
"Nowhere important…" Marcus said in a low voice
"Um…ok."
The two of them were quiet yet again. Manny glanced over at Marcus. Marcus's expression wasn't as cheerful when he first saw him. It was more neutral, but he looked a bit annoyed. I guess he really doesn't like talking about his home city at all. So Manny decided to try and ask other things.
"Sooo…got any favorite TV shows?"
"I don't watch TV."
"Ooook…" Manny said scratching his cheek "Favorite movies?"
"Not really. I don't think I ever really seen a movie..." said Marcus
"I…ok."
This is what Manny was trying to tell Maria. Marcus was such a hard person to talk to. If he were with Frida the two of them would strike up conversations about anything in seconds just about with…ANYTHING. Manny frustrations were beginning to rise even higher.
Finally after what seemed like hours they arrived at front entrance of the arcade. Marcus started up at the tall red building with expression of what looked like confusion his face.
"Well here we are!" said Manny "What do you think?"
"This is the arcade?" asked Marcus raising a brow
"Yup, pretty cool huh?"
"Pretty flashy…" Marcus replied examining the building
"I've always liked the giant mouth of entrance!" Said Manny excited
"Why are the stairs so long?" asked Marcus
"Eh, beats me." Manny shrugged "I always think its good exercise before rotting your brain with video games."
"Uh huh…"
So the two boys walk up the long stairs to the arcade. Once they finally reached the top to the entrance of the arcade building Manny opened the doors. The sounds of flashing lights, kids yelling, and buttons being mashed filled the ears of both of them. Manny took a deep breath exhaled "Ahhh! The best escape in Miracle city!" He said happily. At first he really wasn't feeling the arcade but now since he was at least with someone it wasn't so bad at all.
Marcus had a slight twisted expression on his face "It's so noisy in here!" he groaned.
"Isn't it great?!" Manny said with a big grin across his face "Come on let me show you around!" he said as began walking forward
Marcus let out a big sigh and followed Manny
"This is Zombie slayers 4! This just came out!" Manny said pointing to the arcade Machine. The arcade machine was tall, colored black, had the red bloody letters reading Zombie Slayer 4 on it with and had big behemoth Zombie on the sides "I know a group of guys that really hate this game." He said with a mischievous chuckle "That's rampage racers 2," He pointed to the right where some kids were in a red, blue and yellow cars controlling the game and racing "That's Alien Conquers 3!" He said pointing to the green arcade machine where two teens were playing. "AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST!" He pointed forward at the single arcade machine "SUPER MACHO FIGHTERS"
"I'm guessing this is your favorite game?" Marcus asked
"HECK YEAH IT IS!" Manny said bouncing up and down with excitement "I'M A BEAST AT THIS GAME! ONE OF THE BEST!" He said proudly
Marcus rolled his eyes "I see…" He said in an uninterested tone.
"So do you want to play?" Manny asked with a grin "I'll make sure to go easy on you."
"Uhh…" Marcus walked forward and stared down at the controls "I have no idea how to play these games."
"Have you ever played video games at all?" Manny asked "Like…anything?"
"I never really was interested in video games." Said Marcus pressing down on the buttons
Manny slouches his arms down a bit staring at Marcus "You got to be kidding me…" He said quietly to where Marcus couldn't hear; like he could hear anyway with all the noise in the arcade. Manny let out a big sigh and asked softly "Do you even want to play anything here…like at all?"
Marcus looked over at Manny, and then back at the arcade machine. "Actually yeah," He said "I've never played video games before but I've always wanted to."
"Oh?" Manny looked at Marcus surprised. He didn't expect him to actually want to play "Well…alright. I guess I could show you the ropes." Manny walked over to the arcade machine and placed some quarters in. Super Macho fighters started up. Manny went over to player VS play selection and clicked on it. A roaster of characters showed up and Manny highlighted his main.
"Who should I pick?" Marcus asked
"Eh, just pick whoever." Manny replied with a shrug.
Marcus spotted with one female character who was sporting this dress with a short skirt and he smirked "Ooooh…look at this lovely lady." He said with chuckle and picked her.
Manny rolled his eyes. He knew he was going to pick her.
So after the two boys kicked their characters the screen transitioned both their characters glaring each other down with the initials VS in the middle, then straight to the game play.
Manny didn't hold back a tall. He charged in with his character hitting Marcus's character with all the advanced combos. Marcus was just moving the joy stick and pressing random buttons on the control panel trying to figure something out. Manny was performing special moves and super moves.
"Jeez you weren't lying when you said this was your favorite game." Said Marcus as he randomly mashing button combinations, doing this led him to perform a super move and on Manny taking out half of his health "Ooooh I think I saw a panty shot on that one!"
Manny growled. It seemed like Marcus was hardly paying attention to the game at all, he was too busy staring at the character he was playing with in the game. "I didn't even know you could see all of her like that…" Manny thought, since he hardly played with anyone else in super macho fighter's besides his main. As the two of them finished up super macho fighter's (which Manny ended up winning both rounds) the two of them decided to try another game. The two of them decided to go play Zombie slayer's 4. Manny entered in the quarters and started up the game. Manny looked over at Marcus and sees him just staring at the gun.
"You never seen a gun before or something?" asked Manny "it's just plastic."
"Eh, I just never really liked the sight of guns to begin with." Said Marcus aiming the gun at the game screen "Oooh that's pretty cool," he said, moving the courser around the screen
"Just make sure to pay attention to the game…" Manny sighed as he started it up
"Alright, alright,"
The game started. Both the characters Manny and Marcus were playing appeared on the screen running away from a group of Zombie's with guns in their hands. They manage to get into a building and bard it off. Now all they had to do was escape the building which also had Zombie's roaming around in it, and survive.
As soon as the game started at least seven Zombies showed up and lunged at the two of them.
"WHOA!" Marcus shouted surprised as he just started firing randomly at everything.
Manny couldn't help but laugh at Marcus's sudden surprise. Throughout the game Manny was the one who got the most kills over Marcus. Marcus died a majority of the time and his aim was incredibly off. Marcus was frantically trying to aim at just about everything. He also ended getting a couple of accidental headshots. Manny had to admit to himself that it was pretty funny seeing Marcus panic at certain points in the game. And so, the two of them surprisingly ended beating the game, Marcus smiled and chuckled a little bit. "That wasn't so bad actually," He said placing the plastic gun back on the holder. After that they decided to play a bunch of miscellaneous games. The two of them went over to play ski ball, which Marcus almost ended destroying the machine when he threw a ball so hard into one of the holes…which he was not supposed to throw it that way. After spending some time in the arcade the two boys decided to leave the arcade.
"I'm not going to lie, I thought I was going to be bored as all hell in there but…it wasn't so bad." Marcus said with a smile.
"Yeah…besides you almost breaking all the ski ball machines and nearly getting us kicked out the arcade." Manny said narrowing his eyes over at Marcus
"Hey I didn't know you were supposed to roll them."
"The instructions were printed next to coin slots…and the slide didn't tip you off either?"
"Oh. I didn't notice that."
Manny ends up face-palming and sighs
"You know. Playing in that arcade really worked up an appetite. Want to treat me to dinner?" Marcus asked looking over at Manny
"You want me to buy you something to eat?" Manny said pointing at Marcus
"Why not, aren't you showing me around?"
"Yeah…fat chance on that…" Manny said with scoff
"Tch, some guide you are." Said Marcus, but he quickly stops walking and turns around to scan the area around him.
"What's up with you?" Manny asked staring at Marcus confused
Marcus didn't respond just yet. He then rubs the back of his head and turns forward "Eh…I thought I heard something…"
"Uhhh…ok,"
"So about that food…"
"I SAID NO!"
Looming in the shadows watching the two boys with his bright red eyes, clenching his bony fist was Django of the Dead. He snarled watching them as they walked off, eyes full of hatred and anger.
"You'll get yours…you punks." Snarled Django
"You'll get yours…"
So after Manny and Marcus went to go get themselves a snack, which Marcus paid for his own food and Manny asked "Why did you want me to pay for your food if you have money?!"
Which Marcus replied "You're the one showing me around town, so it's common courtesy for you to by me food."
"Oh phooey,"
So once they did finish eating the two of them just hung out around the taco stand where they ate at trying to figure out where to go next. Marcus looked up at the giant volcano that had words Miracle city on it.
"Whose bright idea was it to build a city above a Volcano anyway?" asked Marcus
"The founder of the city I guess. I mean it hasn't erupted at all. Except for that one time…" Manny said thinking back to the tournament where Sartana held her guitar up as a prize. Which turned out to be a ruse.
"Good luck trying to deal with that if that Volcano erupts."
"Why are you so worried? You can control fire right? Can't you just hold it up and suppress it then calm it down or something?"
"I can control fire yes…but not lava." Marcus stated
"I mean they're both hot,"
"Fire and Lava are completely different. But to be honest I'm not even sure if really can or not." Said Marcus
"We could go up to the Miracle city Volcano and try!"
"Uhh…no,"
"Oh come on! I'm your guide right? One of the fun places me and Frida go to have fun is at the top of the Miracle city Volcano!" Manny said with a smile
"You two go up to the top of a Volcano to have fun?" said Marcus, looking over at Manny dumbfounded.
"That's right! And we slide down the volcano with makeshift roller skates!" Manny said happily
Marcus didn't really know how to reply or process how those two can do it. He knows that people can do stupid things but what he had just heard was beyond anything he's ever imagined.
"Want to try it?!" Manny asked
"No."
"Tch, you're no fun at all." Manny said crossing his arms and looking away
"Yeah because I value my life,"
"There's a thing called living life to its fullest also!" said Manny
"Yeah and there's a thing called not doing something stupid that would end that life an-What the hell is this?" Marcus said staring down at the ground. Below the two boy's feet was a black pound with a red circular ring around it.
"Uhhh…we should get out of this." Manny said as he tried moving. But his feet wouldn't budge. They were completely stuck. "Why can't I move?!"
But before the two boys could say anything, the two of them were sucked through the dark portal. Everything went dark, they couldn't speak and not a single noise was made.
The whole room was spinning as Manny Rivera opened his eyes. All he could see were blurry candle light's in the background. Manny tried moving but he noticed that his arms were all locked in together by caged undead bandito. Manny looked forward, sitting on a throne made of bone was none other than Sartana of the dead, strumming her guitar.
"S-SARTANA!" Manny roared
"Ahhh…you're finally awake El Tigre…" Sartana said in cold voice "It seems sending you through my portal was a bit too much for you?"
Manny turned his head to the left, seeing Marcus held up by the same skeleton bandito as him.
"You have a good cat nap?" asked Marcus nonchalantly
Manny sighs in annoyance "Why is it the first thing you say is a cat joke?!"
"SILENCE BOTH OF YOU!" Shouted Django, as he walked forward and glared Manny in the eyes. He then smirked and held up Manny's El Tigre belt.
"M-MY BELT!" Manny gasped
"I made sure that even if you find a way to get lose from here you won't have any way of transforming!" Django said tossing the belt over to tone of the skeleton banditos.
"Darn it…" Manny said through his teeth.
"Hey," Said Marcus "What the hell is this crap? I thought you took care of that old bag of bones."
"This old bag of bones," Said Sartana shooting a glare at Marcus "Can't be taken down so easily." She gets up from her throne and walks over to Marcus. A grin appeared across her face. "It's good to see you again my red eyed child. I'm really glad I have another opportunity to see you again."
"Look…I have a thing for more experienced women but this is just pushing it…" said Marcus
"Oh well aren't you the little joker," Sartana said placing her bony finger on his chin "I'm not really all that interested in jokes. But I am more interested in what you have here." She points at his eyes.
Marcus glared straight at Sartana. A vein appeared on his head.
"Yes…those wonderful red eyes." Sartana said as she lets out a dark chuckle. "They'll soon be mine…"
"Tch…what are you going to do rip out my eyeballs?" Marcus asked with scoff
"I would. But it would be useless to me afterwards." Sartana said as she took a few steps back. She holds up her mystic guitar and aims it at Marcus "You'll just be serving under me!" Sartana strums her mystic guitar and red laser shoots out from the tip of her guitar and hits Marcus straight in the head.
Once the laser connected Marcus's eyes immediately went red and he began groaning, moving his head around in agony.
"Marcus?" Manny said in concerned tone.
Both Sartana and Django were letting dark chuckles as the bandito that was holding Marcus captive let him loose. Marcus fell to his knees. He slowly got to his feet and looks over at Sartana. His eyes were bright red with the pentagram but he looked lifeless.
"Hehehe…welcome to the family my dear boy." Sartana said with a grin.
Manny's eyes widened "NO!" he cried
"No use calling out to him. He's completely under my Nana's control now!" Django laughed
"Now my red eyed boy. Do what I ordered you to do the first time." Said Sartana, batting her undead eyes at Manny "KILL El TIGRE!"
Marcus slowly turned his head towards Manny. He slowly walked over to Manny and stood in front of him.
"MARCUS PLEASE YOU GOTTA FIGHT IT! YOU CAN'T LET SARTANA CONTROL YOU!" Manny shouted
But Marcus didn't listen, or he couldn't hear Manny. Red hot Fire surged around his right hand. He holds it up and he whispers slowly as he raises his arm ready to strike Manny. "Art of Fire…" Marcus whispered. Manny closed his eyes and awaited the blow Marcus was about to deliver.
Marcus's turns his body around and faces both Django and Sartana. "FLAME FIST!" he shouted launching a fire like fist straight towards the two of them.
Sartana and Django were able to dodge but the shockwave from the attack sent them both flying back. Django was smacked up against the wall and Sartana landed on flat on her bony back.
"W-WHAT HAPPENED?!" Django roared
"THAT SPELL WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE YOU UNDER MY CONTROL! HOW DID YOU FIGHT IT SO EASILY?" Sartana screamed
"I actually have no idea." Marcus replied rubbing the back of his neck "I didn't really feel anything to begin with." He elbows the bandito that was holding Manny captive shattering bindings.
"Marcus quick my belt!" said Manny quickly, pointing over to undead minion who was holding Manny's belt tightly in his hands.
"On it…" Marcus said glaring straight at the undead minion. With one leap Marcus dashed over to undead minion with his right hand covered in flames and punched the undead minion to pieces. Marcus quickly grabs Manny's belt and passed it over to him.
Manny catches it, straps it around his waist and spends the buckle. With one fierce roar Manny transformed into El Tigre with smirk across his face and his claws extended.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH! CURSE YOU AND YOUR EYE'S! KILL THEM BOTH!" Sartana whaled
Sartana's undead minions had surrounded both Manny and Marcus. The two of them didn't waste any time. They lunged into the crow of undead banditos. Manny roared as she slashed, punched and kicked a horde of banditos. Manny then launches his grappling hook that pierced through 5 banditos. Manny yanks his grappling hook and spins around, using the hook undead banditos as a weapon taking out the others.
Marcus went full power house. His arms and legs were covered in scorching flames. Three banditos leaped into the air to dog-pile on Marcus. Marcus leaped into the air as well, and takes out three of the undead banditos with one kick. He lands back on the ground, power elbow's one bandito that was right behind, power punches two more undead banditos that exploded with fire, and sends another flaming fist towards a group undead banditos completely obliterating them.
"HA, piece of cake!" said Manny confidently, before he could react he was blasted by one of Django's lasers from his mystic guitar and sent rolling on the ground.
Django leaped into the air with mystic guitar, which was coated in a solid red aura and he brings it down towards Marcus.
Marcus held up both his hands and caught Django's mystic guitar. Django spin kicks Marcus in the gut causing him to the stagger, Django grips his mystic guitar and whacks Marcus on the chin with it sending him into the air.
During this whole time Sartana was charging up her laser. She strummed her mystic guitar's strings and blasted that highly charged laser at Marcus. Marcus braced himself by putting up both his arms around his chest as quickly as possible. The whole room shook violently It was a direct hit. Marcus landed on the ground next to Manny with black smoke resonating off his body.
Django walked over to Marcus and stood over him. Django stared down at him with a victorious expression on his face, till something caught his eye. Marcus's grey shirt that he was wearing was completely burned away. But the pearl necklace was still around his neck.
"Oooh…" Django said as he reaches down and places his bony hand around Marcus's neck and snatches it off his neck. Django began examining the pink pearl necklace closely, then, letting out a laugh "This is pretty cool, I think I'll take it!"
To Marcus, the sound of his necklace ripping off was louder than anything he had ever heard. Marcus snapped his eyes open, his devil's eyes were on, he clenches both his fist. Fire surged around both.
"You…bastard…" Marcus said viciously
"Huh?" Django stared down at Marcus
Marcus sprung to his feet so quickly that Django didn't even see him get off the ground. Django drops Marcus's necklace and holds up his mystic guitar. Marcus punches with all his might it sent Django hurdling across the room.
"DON'T YOU EVER!" Marcus began "PUT YOUR HANDS THAT NECKALCE EVER AGAIN!" He roared
"Whoa…" Manny said staring at Marcus in
Django slowly raised his head and looked down at his guitar. Django gasped, he could see that the coating was gone and there was a crack on the back of his red mystic guitar.
"Darn it!" Django shouted. As soon as he looked up, Marcus was above him with his leg raised high covered in red hot flames. Django was able to move quickly out of the way as Marcus dropped his leg down on the ground creating a small creator on the floor.
Django hurried over to Sartana and stood next to her. The two of them begin strumming their guitars together. The souls of all the undead banditos were leaving the skeleton bandito's bodies and forming around both Sartana and Django.
"What the heck did they do?!" Manny asked confused as she stared at the swirling pool of souls.
A red and blackish glow of energy turned into physical form of a skeleton with large thick arms and glowing white eyes. Sartana and Django stood in the middle of the skeleton hid behind its rib cage.
The large skeleton monster eyes down both Manny and Marcus. Shooting out form the large skeleton monster's eyes were two white lasers that were heading towards the two of them.
Manny and Marcus hopped out of the way just in time and the beam of lasers hit the ground creating a small shockwave that took out parts of the ground. Manny rushed in quickly to center and slashed at the rib cage of the monster skeleton. Just as Sartana and Django's newly magical enforced guitars, the rib cage was just as hard to slash through. Sartana and Django let out cackling laughs as the skeleton back hands Manny away and fly's smack into a wall.
Marcus intervened; he hopped high into the air and aimed straight for the head. The skeleton monster aimed its glowing eyes at Marcus and fired two shots at Marcus, both of them hitting directly and he was sent rolling across the ground landing next to Manny.
"God damn it all!" Marcus groaned frustrated
"We can't slash through that Skeleton at all!" said Manny rubbing his head
"God damn it! We're going to bust through that skeleton if it's the last thing we do! We just gotta keep trying!" said Marcus determined.
"We can't keep going in by ourselves! It's not working!"
"Then what the hell are we supposed to do?!" Marcus asked irritated
Manny looked at Marcus, then over at the monster skeleton. "We have to work together!" He said looking back at Marcus with serious expression. "If we can combine our attacks together and have enough punch to break through that skeleton's defense."
"Hmm…well it's a worth a shot." Marcus said getting to his feet, popping his neck and popping his knuckles.
"You ready?" Manny asked as he extended his claws.
"Let's do this." Marcus said nodding.
The both of them dashed in. The Skeleton monster shoots two lasers out of his eyes that were aimed at Manny and Marcus. The two of them hopped high into the air. Manny held back his arm and his grappling hook began to spin quickly. Marcus focused both of his hands around Manny's grappling hook. The fire was fusing within Manny's grappling hook. The fire grew larger and larger till it was sphere of red hot fire.
"RIVERA TIGER!" Manny began
"STRIKE HIM NOW!" Sartana screeched
Manny launched the flaming fist straight at the skeleton monster who also threw a fierce punch.
"FLAMING RIFLE!" Manny screamed as his grappling hook pushed through the skeleton monsters arm completely destroying it and broke through the skeleton monsters rib cage hitting both Sartana and Django. The impact crushed both of their mystic guitars leaving them to turn into dust.
As Manny landed on the ground, he stared over at the large burnt patch where Sartana, Django and the skeleton monster use to be. They were all gone, burned to ash.
"Man…THAT WAS SO COOL!" Manny said staring at his hand. To his surprise the grappling hook was not burned at all. "Hey Marcus how did you-Marcus?" He turned around to see Marcus on his knees looking for his pink pearl necklace.
"Where is it…where is it?" Marcus whispered looking around for it.
"Marcus." Manny said walking over to him.
"UNLESS YOU SAW WHERE IT WENT DON'T SAY ANYTHING TO ME!" Marcus panicked
"I have it…"
Marcus sprung to his feet and turned around seeing Manny hold out his necklace in his hand.
"O-Oh…" Marcus said staring at his necklace. His voice that was just now full of anger and panic was now calm and relaxed.
"After you punched Django and he dropped it, I quickly picked it up and placed it in my pocket…" Manny explained as he handed it back to Marcus.
"T-Thanks…" Marcus replied softly as he stared down at his necklace. "Thank you…so much…" He said in relief as he closed his eyes and held the necklace close to his chest.
"Heh, it's no big deal." Manny said with a smile.
After that, the two of them searched around for an exit till they found a hallway that lead down to the front entrance of the building they were in. It turns out they were pretty far out from Miracle city. It looked to have been evening as the sun began to set.
"Jeez…we were in there for awhile." Said Manny, staring up at the sky
"Yeah…" Marcus responded softly. Although he was just staring at his necklace the whole time trying connect the separated chain.
The two of them began to walk down the road. It was just like earlier. The two of them didn't really say anything at all to each other. Manny glanced over at Marcus who was just checking his pink pearl for any cuts or cracks.
"Who gave you that?" Manny asked "If I may ask…"
Marcus stared at his necklace for a moment, he didn't blink at all as he did so, and it was as if he was in trance, till he finally said "Someone…someone who protected me…someone who gave their life for me…"
"I…Oh…" Manny said speechless
Marcus looked at Manny "This necklace…really means to me. Thank you for…protecting it Manny...I really appreciate it."
Manny smiled a bit and rubs the back of his head "Heh…like I said It's no big deal. I just remembered the last time when that werewolf dude picked it up soo…you know."
Marcus chuckled "Yeah…" He said placing the necklace around his neck "So…those two skeletons, they're going to be back right?" he asked curiously
"Yeah, they will." Manny said nodding
"Ugh…great, that's going to be annoying to deal with." Marcus groaned "Must be a big pain in the ass fighting them knowing they'll just come back."
"Oh trust me it is…" Manny said letting out a big sigh "But…as long as everyone In Miracle city is fine I don't mind it. It's what being a hero is all about after all…so, let them come." He said with a shrug.
Marcus glanced over at Manny. He then stared down at the ground as he walked along the road.
"Hey...Manny,"
"Sup?"
"I…I really did have fun today, I hope you know I really did mean that." said Marcus, sounding as if he was too embarrassed to even say those words "I…I never really had fun like that in awhile…"
"Oh?" Manny said looking over at Marcus
"Yeah…you think we could...well…" Marcus said scratching the back of his head and looking away from Manny "Hangoutagainsometime?" He said quickly.
Manny smiled warmly at Marcus and let out a small laugh "Of course man!" he said happily.
Marcus, as he looked away had a small smile across his face as well.
"And…uh," Manny said rubbed his left arm "Thanks…for hanging out with me today. I really did need the company…" He said sounding just as embarrassed as Marcus did.
"It's no problem…" Marcus replied with a smile.
The two boys arrived back to Miracle city. Marcus told Manny that he was heading back home. The two of them said their goodbye's and went their separate ways.
Manny thought about what Marcus told him. About how that necklace belonged to someone who gave their life to save him. He began thinking about what kind of life he went through. All of this never really occurred to Manny before. How Marcus grew up, who his parents were, did he have any friends, or what kind of trauma he went through.
Then he thought about what his mom said to him earlier today. When Manny mentioned how hard it was to talk to Marcus and how silent he was.
"Someone who's like that could really use a friend."
Manny turned around and stared at the direction Marcus went for a moment; he then looked forward and continued walking down his path. A smile grew on his face.
"He really is a nice guy…"
To be continued
It's about time I got this re-make chapter out. Every time I hopped on this chapter I would write a couple sentences and lines and just close it up. No idea what I was. But anyway here it is! I hope you enjoyed! Stay golden everybody!