A/N You know, there are times when I hate watching my favorite Movie online. The same goes with Manga and Anime. I use to love doing that but then I start to hate doing so. Mostly because I want to own the Dvd myself. Anime is really rare when it comes to me going to stores and trying to find it. Do you think it's bad for me to watch stuff online? Anyway here's Chapter 45/Season 2 Episode 22 of EL Tigre the new adventures. Enjoy!
(EL Tigre is owned by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua) All rights reserved
EL Tigre the new adventures season 2 episode 22 – Defeat Merqushio! Escape the portrait!
Manny slowly opened his eyes. He moves his eyes left and right, seeing nothing but blank white areas. He rubs his hand and carefully lies up, flinching a bit do to the wound that was inflicted on his chest. Manny thought when he awoke his eyes were still a bit blurry or there was just an immense shinning white light, but when he was fully conscious he saw that everywhere he looked was nothing but a large white blank area. He looked behind him. Lying still unconscious was Marcus, Frida and Ronnie.
"Guy's!" Manny said. He gets on his knees and shakes Marcus trying to wake him up. "Wake up! HEY!"
Marcus groaned and turns over. Manny scoffs and shakes him harder "WAKE UP!"
"Look…we've been having fun all night let me rest…" Marcus said turning over and looking at Manny. Manny stared back at him blinking a few times. Marcus stared back blinking a few times as well.
"Uh….what?" Manny said raising an eyebrow.
"So that was just a dream…ok." Marcus lying up. "Damn it…"
Manny shook his head "Forget that for now! Look where the heck we are!" he shouted. Marcus scans the area around them. He gets to his feet stares at the endless white blanks areas.
"What the hell? Where are we?" Marcus said.
"Last thing I remember was that portrait…falling on us." Manny said staring at Marcus. Then finally they both came to realize where they are. "This is…"
"We are in that son of bitch's stupid portrait!" Marcus shouted
"Oooh…what happened?" Ronnie said waking up and rubbing her head "Huh? What the heck? Why is everything white?! WHERE AM I?! IS THIS HEAVEN!? NO I HAD SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR!"
"Ronnie calm down we're not heaven!" Manny said looking at her
"What the heck happened?" Frida said regaining her consciousness "Where are we?"
"Merqushio's stupid portrait…" Marcus said helping Ronnie get to her feet and grabbing his sword off the ground.
"We're in Merqushio's, portrait?" Frida repeated. She looked around seeing the endless white spaces. "So…this is where Miranda's uncle is?"
"Not quite little girl." Merqushio's echoed voice. Merqushio suddenly appeared out from below the ground with a smirk across his face. "You see when it comes to this portrait of mine it has special unique features. The one Miranda's uncle is in is a small little space with hardly anywhere to go."
"You sick bastard!" Frida said glaring at him
Merqushio chuckles "But here it's similar to the painted world I made early…but now I have more freedom." He said snapping his finger. The entire white area was shifting and transforming. A giant volcano burst from the out of the ground and clouds appeared from out nowhere, out from above the clouds rained flaming boulders.
"Holy crap!" Ronnie screamed.
"EVERYONE RUN!" Manny shouted.
The four of them started sprinting off. Flaming boulders started falling towards their direction. One fell right in front of them exploding with fire knocking Manny, Marcus, Ronnie and frida off their feat.
Marcus looks up seeing another flaming bolder heading straight for them. Marcus grips his sword, hopes off the ground and slices the flaming bolder into pieces. Manny extends his claws slices a flaming bolder into multiple pieces.
Lava erupted from out the ground. Frida rolled over to another spot avoiding the molten lava that was rushing out the ground. But the lava erupted on the other side where Frida was running too.
"This is crazy!" Frida screamed.
"You see unlike my other painted world I am able to paint a picture of what I want here just by using my mind. Pretty impressive isn't it?" Merqushio said floating on air looking down at the four of them.
"You son of a bitch," Marcus growled. "ART OF FIRE! FLAME FIST!" he shouted launching a large flaming fireball fist at Merqushio. Merqushio smirked and blue ball appeared out thin air and it launched at Marcus attack and instantly froze his attack.
"SHIT!" Marcus said frustrated
"You'll have to do better than that fire boy." Merqushio said. Manny launched his grappling hook hand right at Merqushio. It flew right by Merqushio's face. Merqushio flinched moving his head back at the surprise of Manny's attack.
The entire molten area seem to blur and re range. Frida noticed this and looked up at Merqushio. "What the heck was that?" she thought.
"Damn it Manny how the hell did you miss?!" Marcus shouted at him.
"There was lava bursting around me how the hell did you think I missed?!" Manny shouted back at Marcus.
A large blunt rock shoots up from the ground hitting Manny in his upper body area knocking him to the ground. Manny winches and holds his chest.
"Sneaky little brat!" Merqushio said irritably
Marcus hopes in the air and swings his sword at Merqushio. He cuts Merqushio's cheek, Merqushio spins kicks Marcus in the back of the heading knocking him back to the ground. Frida noticed again that the area was starting to glitch and static.
"Oh come on Marcus!" Ronnie said looking at him "You can do better than that!"
"I don't see you doing anything!" Marcus said to Ronnie. Marcus looks over at Manny. "Yo Manny, you ok?!
"I got hit by a blunt rock what the hell do you think?!" Manny shouted at Marcus.
"Hey Ronnie!" Frida said running over to Ronnie. Frida quickly whispered something in her ear and Ronnie smirked.
"Gotcha." Ronnie winked. Ronnie sped over to Merqushio and stood under him. Merqushio looked down "what are you doing?"
Ronnie started running circles. The more she ran the more speed she picked and Merqushio started going in circles in the air.
"H-Hey! What are you doing?!" Merqushio screamed.
"I noticed something." Frida started to explain "When you lose focus this entire area you created starts to mess up…so that means as long as we knock you off your concentration you won't be able to hold anything you make."
"AHHHHHHH!" Merqushio shouted as he the speed of him going in circles started to pick up. Ronnie stopped running in circles, she stood there blowing her nails and rubs them on her chest "Piece of cake." She said smiling.
A large tornado was made behind her and it started moving with Merqushio spinning around in it.
"Look at him go…" Manny said watching him.
"It's pretty impressive huh?" Ronnie said smirking.
"Well if you made an F-5 Tornado then yeah." Marcus said shrugging.
"In F-5? Oh man…" Ronnie rubbed the back of her head.
"That's a pretty big Tornado isn't it?" Frida asked.
"One of the dangerous ones," Manny said.
"Hey…here he comes." Marcus said pointing at the tornado Ronnie made that was slowly disappearing. Out of the Tornado came Merqushio that was zooming through the air. a large pillow appeared out of nowhere and he landed right on it.
"Well I guess when he's in panic he can make anything." Marcus said crossing his arms.
"Only small things…" Frida said
Merqushio slide off the large pillow and landed on the ground. he gets to his feet and stumbles a bit holding his head, still dizzy from getting spun around by the tornado.
"Y-you'll all pay for this…" Merqushio said through his teeth. "How dare you make a fool of me…"
"To be honest you've always looked like a fool." Manny said
"You look like a bunch of kids smeared paint all over you." Ronnie said shaking her head "But I guess it's…a bit creative…"
"SHUT UP! I AM SICK AND TIRED OF ALL OF YOU! YOU ALL WEREN"T EVEN SUPPOSE TO BE ALIVE THIS LONG ANYWAY!"
"Well I guess you just do an overall bad job at killing." Marcus said cracking his knuckles "But I do admit the attempts were good."
"You just couldn't get the job done." Manny said grinning at Merqushio.
"NOW LET US OUT OF THIS STUPID PLACE!" Ronnie screamed
Merqushio stood there. He puts his hands on his head and started to laugh. Marcus narrowed his eyes at Merqushio annoyed by this.
"What the hell is so funny?" Marcus asked glaring.
"I don't know what's even funnier…the fact that you think you can escape here alive? Or the fact that if you did you can take beat the red crow gang? You all are so damn foolish!"
"Tch! You think we're supposed to be scared of you guys?! Give me a break!" Manny shouted at Merqushio. "The reason we are here is to kick you guys out this town! And we're going to start with you!"
"Oh is that right?" Merqushio said putting his hand on the white ground "I'll make wonderful art of all of you…"
Erupting from below the ground, large bony white hands with large razor sharp claws and they lunged at the four of them. Ronnie leaped into the air zips around the claws appearing behind and power kicks the claws making them hit the ground with loud boom.
The large claws attempted to grab Manny but he slashes the large clouds into pieces. Merqushio gritted his teeth and clenches his fist. Merqushio puts his hands together and begins to rub them. Clay was being made within Merqushio's hand and he throws it to the ground.
The clay by itself started transform, creating a large troll carrying a spiked hammer. The troll charged towards the four of them. Manny smirked and extended his claws ready to attack.
Marcus shoved Manny to the ground and gripped his katana. "Watch a master at his work." Marcus said grinning.
"HEY!" Manny said irritated as Marcus dashed forward. Marcus swings his sword in immense speed. Within seconds the clay troll was cut into 3 large pieces, the head, arms and body and it fell to the floor.
"Ha…clay," Marcus said chuckling.
"You're way to confident Marcus." Merqushio said smirking
"MARCUS, WATCH OUT!" Manny screamed. A piece of clay that dethatched from the clay troll launched off its body, turned into a sharp knife and pierced right through Marcus back. Marcus spat out blood and fell on one knee holding his side where the piece of clay pierced through him. Blood leaked out of Marcus mouth and he turns around looking at the clay.
"Did you actually think that would have worked? Let me guess…you thought I was going to be easy to defeat now did you all? Well no…don't you ever underestimate me you little ingrates!" Merqushio said glaring at the four of them.
The clay started to morph and transform into small human sized statue. It turned around and looked at Manny, Frida and Ronnie.
"Now that's just scary…" Ronnie whispered.
The clay statue held out its hand. The clay around its arm started to morph and transform. It became in extremely large great sword. The clay statue swung its arm; wind was starting to pick up as it did.
"DUCK!" Manny shouted as he kneels down and covers his head. Everyone did so. The extremely large sword swung by them. The vast white area behind them was sent flying. The wind behind the swing of the clay statue sent Manny, Frida and Ronnie rolling on the ground.
"Damn!" Frida said lying up. She looked up seeing the clay statue leap in the air with its foot out and it grew, with spikes coming out of them. Frida screamed and rolled out the way. The clay statue hit the ground with its foot, making a large creator in the ground. Frida went flying into the air. The clay statue pointed its hand at Frida and a flurry of spikes came shooting out of its hand.
"OH CRAP!" Frida said terrified.
"I GOT YOU!" Ronnie shouted speeding in the air and catches Frida as the both avoided the flurry of spikes. Ronnie landed on her feet and puts down Frida.
"Thanks." Frida said smiling at her.
"Anytime Fri Fri!" Ronnie said smiling back. Ronnie looked behind Frida seeing the clay statue charging at them two of them. Manny leaped forward and stood in the clay statue's way. Manny and the clay statue collided, and both of them were now at a power struggle.
"You Stupid faceless, clay thing!" Manny shouted trying to hold back the clay statue. The clay statue tilted his head and lifted Manny into the air gripping Manny's hands.
"H-Hey!" Manny said as the blood was starting to rush to his head.
The clay statue repeatedly started slamming Manny to the ground over and over again like a rag doll.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! OW!" Manny shouted each time he was slammed to the ground.
Ronnie rushed in and kicked the clay statue in the stomach sending him rolling on the ground and dropping Manny.
"You ok Manny?" Ronnie asked. She saw that Manny's eyes were rolling in his socket and he was laughing unconsciously.
"He's out cold is he?" Frida said giving a big sigh.
The clay statue got to its feet and slowly started walking towards Manny, Frida and Ronnie. Merqushio simply laughed and looked down at Marcus who was holding his stab wound that was leaking blood.
"You must have given up huh?" Merqushio said smirking "I can't blame you."
Marcus chuckled and said "No…just thinking of how greatly I'm going knock the paint off your stupid ass face."
Merquship scowled "What really makes you think you can handle the red crow gang? You all are nothing but petty children…you don't know what you're getting yourselves into."
"Look at you talking like you're an old man or something…give me a break." Marcus said closing his eyes and clenching his fist. "All I needed was a year to upgrade my Art of fire ability's…I might seem like I already completely master the art…but."
Merqushio raised an eyebrow. He started to sweat and felt the temperature of the air rise. "What are you doing?" he said glaring at Marcus.
"Art of fire has many different types of ability's…I haven't even scratched the surface of what it can do…" Marcus said as fire started forming around his hand.
Merqushio started sweat beads. He felt the paint that was around his face start to sweat off. Merqushio quickly went for his paint brush, but before he could get it saw a large spark appeared out of nowhere.
"By generating heat around the area we are standing in I can use it by any means of controlling fire. Raising the temperature high as I can go," Marcus explained.
Sparks of fire started sparking out of nowhere around Merqushio. He covers his head trying to avoid the siring hot flames that were exploding around him.
"Can't even concentrate on your own ability's because of a little fire? That's your downfall coming to the battlefield with little knowledge of your own power!" Marcus said getting to his feet and holding out his hand.
"Wait! Don't!" Merqushio screamed.
"ART OF FIRE! HELL FIRE SWARM!" Marcus roared as the sparks of fire grew around Merqushio and formed into a tornado of red hot fire. Marcus pants as he quickly puts his hand back around his wound.
"Whoa…did he do it?" Ronnie said looking over at Marcus.
Manny rubbed his head and looked over to where Marcus was, seeing the red hot flames. Manny turned his head seeing the clay statue standing there glaring at Manny, Ronnie and Frida.
"Damn…" Marcus said looking at burning fire he created. "That slick son of a bitch."
The flames started to die down. The burning corpse that was Merqushio fell apart. But it wasn't the burning flesh. It was melting clay.
"WHAT, BUT WE SAW HIM GET HIT BY IT!" Frida said dumbfounded
"H-how did he dodge it?!" Manny asked confused.
"And where the hell did he go?" Ronnie said clenching her fist.
The four of them could hear Merqushio's confident laughter. The laughter was coming from the clay statue. The clay statue takes his hand and puts it around his face and grips. He tears off the clay around its face. It was Merqushio.
"What the hell?" Marcus said shocked.
"He was the clay statue the whole time?" Manny said staring at him.
"But…but when? When did he?" Frida said holding her head.
"It was a simple switch around trick I did. It was when I was in the Tornado actually. Perfect time for me to mess around with paint ability," Merqushio said smirking.
"God damn sneaky bastard," Marcus said through his teeth. He blinked a couple of times. His vision was becoming more and more blurry by the second. "Shit…I have to think of something fast…or we might not make it out of this."
"I have wasted enough time with you all already…I should be back at headquarters by now. But no matter…" Merqushio said as he made his bare hand appear out of the clay around his hand.
"This guy is really starting to get on my nerves…" Manny said.
"How are we going to get this guy? If we don't we'll never get out of here." Frida said glaring at Merqushio
"Screw that!" Ronnie shouted as she sprints at Merqushio and slugs him in the chest. Ronnie's hand went right through Merqushio. But Merqushio showed no pain at all.
"Ahahah! Oooh that really hurt!" Merqushio said smirking as he grabbed her wrist and squeezed it. Ronnie winches in pain and tries pulling her arm out of his clayed body.
"What the heck?! LET ME GO!" Ronnie demanded, tugging and pulling trying to free her arm. Merqushios right arm transformed into a long blade, he smirked ready to stab Ronnie.
Frida ran in, jumps in the air, and kicks Merqushio in the face making him stumble. Merqushio had lost his focus, and Ronnie pulled her arm out of his clayed body.
"YOU ASSHOLE!" Ronnie said arching her arm back and throws a fierce punch at Merqushio. Merqushio dodged Ronnie's punch and sunk into the ground. "GET BACK UP HERE YOU COWARD!"
"Be on the look out!" Manny said looking around on the ground. He looks over at Marcus who had finally gotten to his feet. "Marcus! Are you-"
"Don't worry about me! Just stay on guard!" Marcus said clenching his wound "Focus on this paint bastard…"
"Marcus…" Ronnie said as she was about to walk over to him. As she did her font sunk straight into the ground. Ronnie let out a yelp and she was slowly getting pulled into the puddle of clay.
"AHH! DAMN IT!" Ronnie screamed.
"RONNIE NO!" Frida ran over to her, but it was too late. Ronnie was completely sucked into the ground.
"NOOOO!" Frida screamed "RONNIE!"
"DAMN IT! QUIT SCREWING AROUND AND COME OUT AND FIGHT!" Manny roared.
Marcus stood there. His eyes shadowed and he let go of his wound.
"AHAHAHAHAH! LOOK HOW CARELESS THIS GIRL WAS! Maybe I should just let her sit under here forever! Or should I be creative with her. I can turn her into the most beautiful of art." Merqushio taunted and let out another laugh.
"That sick bastard!" Frida screamed seething with anger. "LET HER GO!"
Marcus walked forward and puts his hand on Manny's shoulder and turns him around.
"Marcus?" Manny looked into Marcus eyes. His Akuma no me was active. Marcus leaned forward and whispered something into his ear. Manny looked at him and shock.
"W-what?! But if you do that you migh-"Marcus gripped Manny's shoulders tightly.
"We got cocky and we let one of our team mates get into serious danger! If we don't take this guy out now, Ronnie, Miranda and everyone in merry town will be locked in with red crow gang…are you in?" Marcus said slowly.
"But…" Manny sighed and nods "Alright…"
"Guy's?" Frida said looking over at them "What are you two talking about?" she said worried.
"Frida...when the time comes I need you to do something along with Manny. Will you do it?" Marcus asked. Frida looked at them puzzled and walked over to the two of them.
"What are you talking about?" Frida asked
"I have a plan…listen carefully…" Marcus said
Merqushio came from out of the ground. Ronnie's entire body was covered in solid clay.
"STUPID PAINT FACE COVERED SORRY ASS PIECE OF CRAP!" Ronnie screamed glaring Merqushio
"Such a potty mouth…I change my mind about making you into art. And why is it everything so quite up here?" Merqushio asked looking at Manny, Marcus and Frida.
"Got it?" Marcus said looking at Manny and Frida.
"Yeah…" Manny nodded sadly.
Frida didn't say anything and just nodded. Both Manny and Marcus turned around looks at Merqushio.
"Whatever you got planned it won't work. You can do all the tricks you want but you won't be able to lay a finger on me." Merqushio said grinning.
Manny didn't waste any time. Manny dashes over at Merqushio and launches his grappling hook at him. Merqushio launches a pond of clay at Manny's attack. The clay wrapped around it and fell to the ground.
Frida went in. she hopes over Manny and sprints at Merqushio, she forms her hand into a fist and throws a punch at Merqushio. Merqushio catches Frida's punch and smirks.
"This was such a stupid plan…let me show you what happens to people who are fools!" Merqushio forms his right hand into a blade and shoves it at Frida. Frida's entire body shifted into black smoke. And the blade went right through it.
"What? What the hell?!" Merqushio said looking at who he thought was Frida. But in reality it was Marcus. Merqushio's blade went right into Marcus stomach. Marcus winched and blood came rushing out of his mouth.
Ronnie was horrified. He looked over to where Manny was seeing Frida standing where Marcus was.
"WHAT THE HELL?! WHAT? WHAT HAPPENED?!" Ronnie screamed looking at Marcus then Frida.
"S-Sorry Ronnie…I didn't mean to upset you…" Marcus said with heavy shiver in his voice. "But…this was the only thing I can think of…because this dumbass right here would fall for it…" Marcus grips Merqushio by the neck and puts his other hand on Merqushio's clayed chest.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Merqushio said trying to sink into the ground but for some odd reason he couldn't.
"I-I-it's a little trick I learned how to do with my akuma no me…simple body swapping trick. Like you did when that tornado got you…" Marcus explained. Marcus sunk his fingers into Merqushio's clay chest…and with that Merqushio's clayed armor suit dissolved. And his physical body was exposed.
"NOO! WHAT THE HELL?!" Merqushio shouted panicking. He whips out his paint brush and tries to paint. But he couldn't. All he was doing was splashing paint across the pure white surface.
Merqushio looked at Marcus with his eyes wide with shock.
"What did you do to me?" Merqushio asked with a hushed voice.
"I temporarily locked you're ki…now you can't make anything come to life with your paint." Marcus said grinning.
Merqushio felt a sharp stinging feeling around his neck. A red collar appeared around his neck and Merqushio winches in pain as glows and burns his neck.
"NOOO DAMN IT NOOO!" Merqushio screamed.
"Manny…Frida…you know what to do…" Marcus fell flat on his back. His eyes went dim and he slowly closes them.
"MARCUS!" Ronnie screamed with tears in her eyes. The clay that was around her melted away, and the second that she was free she ran over to Marcus and kneels down to him. "MARCUS! MARCUS WAKE UP PLEASE!"
Merqushio panicked as he tried looking for a way out. He turns around and BAM! Frida slugged Merqushio so hard that many of his teeth were flying out of his mouth along with blood. Merqushio fell to the ground. he looked up seeing Manny in the air with his arm arched back and grappling hook spinning at high speed.
"RIVERA! TIGER! SONIC PISTOL!" Manny screamed hitting Merqushio in the stomach with severe impact. Merqushio screamed in pain and a gush of blood came flowing out his mouth. Merqushio's eyes went completely blank. And with that…Merqushio passed out unconscious.
"Go to hell you son of a bitch…" Manny spat, glaring at Merqushio with full hatred.
"Manny!" Frida called for him. Manny turned around and looked at Frida. Frida and Ronnie were both over to where Marcus was. Marcus didn't move. Blood was all over the white covered surface.
Manny rushed over to them and kneeled down next to Frida. Manny looked at Marcus emotionless face. His eyes closed and didn't move at all. Ronnie picked up Marcus hand. She had her eyes closed as if she was trying to listen for something.
Ronnie snapped her eyes open "A pulse!" She said with a big smile and tears coming down her cheeks. Manny and Frida smiled and let out a big sigh of relief. Manny looked at white surface, cracks were starting to appear and was spreading all throughout the white area.
"Umm…sooo…I guess that…" Frida said looking at Manny and Ronnie.
"Yeah," Manny said nodding.
"So how are we going to be leaving?" Ronnie asked.
The white surface below them shattered. Manny, Frida, Ronnie and Marcus fell through the white surface into the deep darkness. Then everything went completely black.
…
"Manny? Frida? Is everyone alright?"
Manny opened his eyes. He stared at the ceiling of the abandoned mansion. Manny sprung up and looked around. Miranda stared at him with a smile on her face, And standing next to her, was her uncle "
"You're all back!" She said relived. "You did it!"
"Good job you all." Jonathan Holman said smiling at them.
"H-hey…you're." Frida said lying up and looking at Miranda's uncle.
"Yes, I'm Miranda's uncle. Jonathan Holman. It's a pleasure meeting all of you finally." He said smiling. He looks over at Marcus with shock across his face "Oh my."
Jonathan walks over to Marcus and examines him.
"He's still alive." Ronnie said looking at him.
"Come…we need to get back to the house. I think we all need to rest." Jonathan said turning to Manny and Frida.
"What about him?" Manny said pointing at Merqushio "What do you we do with him?"
"Judging by how hard you must have hit him…he'll be out for awhile." Ronnie said looking at manny "Now come on let's get out of here!"
The four of them nodded. Manny walked over to Marcus puts his arms over his shoulder. Ronnie did the same. And with that, the six of them had left the abandoned mansion, and went off back to merry town.
…
Victor crow sat on his chair with his eyes closed. He snaps them open and springs to his feet. Everyone in the room looked at Victor crow with full attention.
"Merqushio has fallen." Victor said calmly.
Everyone in the room shouted in shock. Victor stepped down from his chair and walked over to the middle of the room.
"There is no need to panic. Merqushio was a week pathetic fool. You all shouldn't be so surprised he failed."
Everyone went quite. They all looked at each other then looked back at their leader.
"It looks like we have to do things ourselves huh victor?" Anthony said smirking.
"We'll do more actually." Victor said looking at Anthony "We've been in this town taking all we want for some time now. It's time we repay them eh?"
Anthony formed a huge grin across his face. So did Victor.
"Come on men. Let's show them our gratitude."
To be continued
A/N Hope you enjoyed this weeks episode! Sorry it took so long for the update! Anyway last chapter I said had an EL Tigre story planned out. It's going to be called EL Tigre Pirates of the Caribbean. That's right, I am going to do a mix up of my favorite cartoon and favorite movie!
Cast
Manny Rivera: Will turner
Frida Suarez: Elizabeth Swan
Marcus Dupree: Jack Sparrow
Tetsuo: Barbosa
There are other characters that I won't show on this list because of spoilers. Well everyone! See ya next chapter, stay golden!