In the Milky Way galaxy, something is headed towards the third planet in the solar system.
The planet is known as Earth.
It was not visible to maintain its stealth.
Unknown to the unfortunate inhabitants of Earthlings, this object would soon bring nothing but terror and mayhem to wherever it lands.
May the almighty help them all...
Miracle City, a city in Mexico that's known for its crime and villainy. Despite this, its giant monster rampages, outnumbered, outpowered police force who continuously struggles to maintain order in the city and the super-powered individuals who run rampant in the city whether it be the villains who want something to gain and will hurt others to obtain it or the heroes trying their best to keep them at bay.
One kid stood somewhere in the middle of that line of good and evil.
This kid is the boy known as Manny Rivera, also known as the city's antihero El Tigre. Being the son of famous hero White Pantera and the grandson of famous villain Puma Loco, this left Manny with a bit of an identity crisis of whether he should be good like his father or evil like his grandfather. While the kid has fought on the side of good as he protects Miracle City from villains, he was prone to committing some acts of evil like stealing something of value which results in lots of property damage and working with villains from time to time.
Despite the indifference of choosing of being good or evil, Manny was content with where he was. He can be 50/50 regardless of his father and grandfather's expectations.
Speaking of Manny, he was currently walking to school with his best friend, the wild child and aspiring guitarist of the band the Atomic Sombreros, Frida Suarez.
"So, Frida. Any plans you have this weekend?" Manny asked.
"If you can count being bored as a plan, nothing." Frida said as she rolled her eyes. "My Dad and sisters are going to the academy to teach new cadets, thankfully a dog sitter is coming to take the dogs to her place for the weekend to take care of them. What about you?"
"Well, my Grandpappi wants me to help him steal something from the Miracle City Museum, but my dad wants me to go a crime stopping patrol during the weekend."
"Lucky you." Frida sarcastically said, sadden that her best friend and boyfriend was going to have a blast this weekend while she was left with nothing.
Manny quickly noticed her tone and placed a comforting hand on Frida's shoulder. Just then, an idea popped in the hero's head.
"Wait, I just got an idea!" Manny said. "You could help my father with the patrol."
"What?!" Frida shouted in shock. "Are you loco?!"
"Maybe but think about it." Manny began. "Remember, my mom gave you her mystical glove to use occasionally thanks to the one-hour time limit. This would be a perfect chance to use it and besides, when was the last time you and my dad hung out?"
Frida began to think about this for a bit. The idea her best friend was considering was crazy. If she and Manny's father Rodolfo caught Manny and Puma Loco during the patrol, they would have to fight them, and Frida didn't want to fight Manny considering their friendship. Then again, the two have been known to cause mischief and borderline insane stunts before, why is this any different?
"Alright, I'm in!" Frida said in agreement. "I just hope we don't run into you guys during the patrol."
"Same here." Manny said as they continued walking. "But hey there's tons of villains to run into besides us."
The two friends continued their walk. This was going to work out great.
Oh, how wrong they will soon be.
It was nighttime at the Suarez household as Frida and her family were outside with White Pantera.
"So, let me see if I got this right." Began a large man wearing mostly brown in color such as a tux a sash pants and mostly notably a sombrero saying "Police" on it glasses and a black eyepatch. "Instead of staying home, you wish to go on patrol with White Pantera for the weekend?"
"Well, it beats staying home bored." Frida countered. "Besides dad, you guys and the twins are going to the academy training the cadets this weekend anyway."
"Do not worry, Chief, I promise to do my best to keep her safe." The boot wearing hero spoke up in her case before dramatically pointing a finger to the sky. "This I swear!"
The one-eyed, eyepatch wearing man looked away from the two as he thought about this in his head. While he has gained some respect for the Rivera family due to their position in keeping the city safe (even Puma Loco to some degree), he didn't want his daughter out there due to how dangerous the city can be from time to time (and by that he means all the time). Almost every time that his beloved youngest daughter had hung out with Manny, she was either getting hurt or captured by whatever villain is attacking Manny and Frida ends up getting caught in the crossfire causing the chief to blame Manny more than the villains for the incident due to Manny's failure to keep his friend safe and overall his overprotective nature and general dislike of the sole son of the Rivera family due to constantly dragging his daughter into danger with his antics and pranks. Granted, Manny was able to make sure his friend was unharmed to the best of his ability for the most part and even gained some his respect as a result.
On that note, while he knew that his daughter was capable of defending herself due to her own ingenuity as she once defeated one of Miracle City's most powerful villains, the mystical guitar using mystical skeleton lady known as Sartana of the Dead with nothing more than a potato of all things, she was still his youngest daughter. His clever yet untrained daughter. Especially since Frida told him about the one-hour use of the mystical glove that Maria gave her.
After a few moments, the police chief spoke up. "Very well Frida, I will allow this." He then looked at Manny's father. "On the condition that as soon as the one hour on that glove is up, I want you to bring my daughter straight home, you got it Rivera. Not a second more."
Frida embraced her dad. "Thanks Dad!"
"Be careful out there Mija." Her dad said as he embraced his daughter. "I love you."
"I love you too, Papa." The rocker girl said as she tightened her embrace.
After pulling away, Frida and White Pantera walked away from the former's house.
It was a cool night in Miracle City for Frida and White Pantera. Frida didn't put on the glove as there was no crime warranted of Frida putting the glove on. So far, the only crimes the two were seeing and stopping were jaywalkers and people who were littering, the latter receiving the proper (if in Frida's opinion, admittedly somewhat exaggerated) scolding from White Pantera. Luckily, for the two (more specifically Frida) they didn't run into Manny and Puma Loco, at least not yet but hey the less the two confronted them the better.
*BOOM*
Suddenly, an explosion along with the sound of an alarm system sound off as a bank robbery was in progress.
"A bank robbery!" Frida exclaimed.
"Let's go!" White Pantera ordered.
Without a moment to lose, the two followed the sound of the bank's alarm.
Unknown to them, there was someone was watching them from the shadows, and decided to follow them.
At a bank, there was smoke coming from the main entrance as a large male human wearing bear-like clothing was carrying 2 bags full of cash.
"Ah the sweet smell of money in my hands Mang." said the large man as he began to walk away.
"Not so fast El Oso!" shouted a determined voice.
"Huh?" said the supervillain as he turned around.
Now El Oso was confronted by two people.
White Pantera and Frida.
"Well, if it isn't White Pantera and El Tigre's little friend!" The bear man said condescendingly. "Come to stop me? Well, you're already too late, I've got the money Mang."
"This is your only chance to return the bags and surrender quietly." Rodolfo said as he put his fists up. "But you will never learn."
"Ha! Only an idiot would surrender after having what they got!" Oso said as he dropped the bags and raised his fists as well. "I won't have my night of robbing banks be ruined by the likes of you, mang!"
The two men stood in a Mexican standoff. Neither of them moved from their positions. Frida felt like she was in the middle of it despite being a witness. If El Oso was refusing to surrender peacefully, then by all mean Rodolfo was more than happy to kick him (literally) into next week.
Without warning, the villain let out a primal roar as he charged at the hero with his enemy doing the same thing.
El Oso, once he was in range attempted to bring his fist down on to the Rivera father's head to knock him out and get on with his night only for the superhero to blitz the overhead strike and kick him in the back sending the villain skidding face first into the concrete of the street until he stopped by halfway up the street.
The man who lived with bears quickly got up and let out a rage-filled growl. All he wanted to do tonight was to rob banks in peace. Why can't White Pantera just leave him alone?
He shook those thoughts away as he managed to regain his bearings. He needed to use his head if was going to win this fight.
Looking around he noticed several cars and that gave him an idea. A wicked idea.
Lifting up one of the cars over his head, the supervillain threw it at White Pantera with the immense strength of his muscles in his arms.
El Tigre's old man quickly sped to the right and the car flew right passed him before it crashed right behind him.
He was about to run forward to the villain to apprehend him only for El Oso to throw other cars and sch vehicles at him.
"Dios Mio!" shouted the hero of Miracle City as he ducked, dodged, sidestepped and sped out of the way of several vehicles being used as sports objects.
However, throwing the vehicles at Rodolfo wasn't Oso's plan. That was what White Pantera was thinking that he thought that the villain was just mindlessly throwing vehicles to try and hit him.
After a few minutes, El Oso finally ceased throwing the many vehicles that were parked on the nightly street.
"Oh no!" White Pantera said as he was surrounded by many vehicles in a circle shape. "I'm trapped!"
"Hahaha!" El Oso laughed as he lifted a giant churro truck over his head. "Now to make sure that you don't get out of that White Pantera!"
"NOT THE CHURROS!" shouted an angered voice.
"Huh?" El Oso looked towards the voice and saw that it was Frida who was red in the face and seething with rage.
Frida, for the most part, was just standing on the sidelines of the fight, choosing not to interfere. She has seen what El Oso was capable of since she has seen him fight Manny many times. So, she figured that he would be easy for White Pantera and figured that there was no need for her to get involved. But once she saw that El Oso as about to use a truck that was full of churros as they were her favorite food (and also that Manny's dad was in danger that was also troublesome) that finally caused her to do something.
El Oso laughed a bit before he responded. "Oh yeah mang, and what exactly are you going to do about it?"
Oh, Frida knows exactly what she was going to do about it.
"I'll show you what I'm going to do El Oso!" Frida declared as she took out the mystical glove.
Putting on the mystical glove, she transformed. With the power of the mystical glove, it was like in explosion of power went off in the street as a cloud of dust manifested.
After a few seconds of suspense, it dissipated.
In the place was Frida in a totally different outfit. Aside from the red googles that were still present and a skull wore around her neck, the young rocker was now wearing a silver sombrero, with matching colored, face mask, pants, skirt and boots.
"Plata Peligrosa Dos!" The new heroine declared before pointing at the villain. "Your days of robbing banks and destroying food related trucks are through El Oso!"
White Pantera couldn't help but smile as he remembered his ex-wife wearing that silver attire when she put on that glove.
El Oso just laughed at her. "Oh yeah, you and what-"
Without giving the villain, a chance to finish his taunt, the new hero flew forward at speeds comparable to a laser being fired Frida sucker punched her enemy square in the face causing him to release the churro truck and sending him into the pavement.
"Here's something you should know about me, El Oso." Frida began as she walked up to him as he was slowly getting back up.
Rearing her fist back, she spoke each word with both a venomous declaration and a punch to his face.
"You..."
*Left hook*
"Do..."
*Right hook*
"NOT..."
*Left jab to El Oso's chest...*
"Mess..."
*Right jab to the villain's stomach*
"With..."
Punch to the nose which caused it to bleed...
"CHURROS!"
With one mighty uppercut to El Oso's jaw possibly knocking out a few of his teeth in the process, the sombrero wearing heroine sent the villain flying for miles!
"I"LL BE BAAAACCCCCKKK!" Yelled the villain as he vowed his return as he flew through the sky in defeat.
El Oso was sent flying until he landed in one of the cells of Miracle City's prison.
"Ow mang!" the villain whimpered a little from the pain.
"Frida, you did it!" White Pantera said as he lifted the cars away from the streets. "Very good for your first fight!"
"Aw, it's no big Mr. Rivera." Frida dismissed with a wave of her hand. "I couldn't let get away with her you or my precious churros!"
As the 2 were celebrating their victory unknown to them someone was as watching through thermal vision.
"Let's go see Manny and Puma." Frida offered.
White Pantera let out a sigh. "Knowing those two they are either stealing or vandalizing something."
Deciding to act, that someone jumped down.
The concrete was smashed under the pressure of the individual as it gained the duo's attention.
"What in the world" Frida said.
The thing than turned off its camouflage.
It was a tall creature coated in helmet that covered the face, body armor with a cannon on one of its shoulders and gauntlets on the wrists with a brown loincloth below the waist. The skin looked almost green in color, and it had claws instead of hands and talons instead of feet.
The most grotesque thing that was clear was that this thing is not human.
"Who are you?" Manny's papa demanded as he raised his fists.
"Yeah, you got some nerve coming out of nowhere unannounced." Frida said as she got into a fighting stance.
Whatever this thing was let out a growl from its throat as it seemed to ignore Frida and pointed a finger straight at White Pantera indicating that he was here for him.
White Pantera glared at the creature before gesturing to Frida. "Frida, I think this creature only wants me so you should go find Manny and my Papi." White Pantera instructed. "I may not know exactly what he is, but I'll do my best to hold him off at least."
"Okay be careful." Frida said as she ran away from the inevitable showdown that was going to happen.
"Alright, you vile villain. Prepare to be defeated!" The Miracle City hero declared dramatically.
The creature activated a pair of blades on its wrist gauntlets as it let out roar before charging at the masked man.
With El Tigre and Puma Loco, they were in the middle of a heated fight with one of their three main enemies, the Flock of Fury, the familial trio who unknown to everyone as the Aves family. Each of them had a vendetta against the Rivera men for breaking their hearts somehow.
The trio of villainess were trying to rob the Miracle City Museum when the two Rivera show up to do the same thing, thus leading to the confrontation.
As Puma Loco was struggling against both Lady Globber and Voltura at the same time, El Tigre was on the other end of Black Cuervo's wrist mounted laser blaster.
"Hahaha!" The youngest bird-themed villainess laughed in triumph. "Farewell, El Tigre! This will teach you to-"
Out of nowhere, someone came up from behind and sucker punched her, knocking the little girl's helmet of as she was sent flying towards a parked car, knocking her out almost immediately on impact.
"Are you okay?" said Frida as she looked towards her enemy. "Manny, look!"
Looking at the unconscious person, they were shocked that underneath the Black Cuervo helmet was...
"It's Zoe Aves!" Manny said in shock. "She's been Black Cuervo the whole time!"
"If she's Black Cuevro, then that must mean-" Frida began.
"Voltura!" Lady Globber shouted as she ready to flee the scene. "Black Cuervo's identity has been revealed! We must retreat!"
"Agreed, if she's foolish enough to let her identity get revealed, then she's no longer worthy of being a member of the Flock of Fury!" Voltura said in disdain and disappointment.
Despite saying that, though deep down, Voltura didn't want to do this, but Zoe had broken the golden rule of the Flock of Fury: Never have your secret identity revealed. Otherwise, it would not end well for the Aves family and their criminal careers.
Without another word, the two took off abandoning their daughter to El Tigre, Frida and Puma Loco.
Everyone was in shock at the recent development as they stood in silence for the next few seconds before Frida decided to poke Zoe's face before grabbing her cheeks and pulling on them to see if this was a mask or not.
"No mask." Frida confirmed as her foe go and backing off.
"I can't believe her Voltura and Lady Globber just abandoned her like that." Manny said in shock as he picked up Zoe bridal style.
"What are you doing, Manny?" Puma Loco asked his grandson.
"What do you think, I'm taking her to a hospital." Manny said as he turned to his grandpa.
Frida then spoke up. "What?! Manny all she's done is attack you and your family and also, I must point out how she's done nothing but hurt me at school, why should she receive your help or anyone's help in spite of all of that?"
"She may be a villain, but she's still human and she needs our help regardless. It's what heroes do." Manny said determined. "You saw what happened Frida, Voltura and Globber just left her behind like garbage! If we don't help her, no one will."
Frida knew that she couldn't argue with the hero's logic, despite what the Atomic Sombrero guitarist's personal history with the sole Aves daughter was even she knew that helping someone in this state would be the right thing to do despite the fact that it might come back to bite them later. She then remembered something.
"Manny, Puma!" Frida suddenly shouted. "Mr. Rivera is fighting something new! We need to go help him!"
"Alright, Grandpapi, you go with Frida to help dad, and I'll take Zoe to the hospital." Manny instructed.
"Okay, meet up with us soon." Puma Loco said as his grandson embraced his battle armor.
Frida led the famous supervillain back to where the famous hero was fighting against this mysterious adversary as Manny carried his fellow Miracle City student to the nearest hospital as quickly as he could.
Back with White Pantera, he charged at his foe and tried to kick the beast with a speedy kick, only for the creature to block and grab the hero by his offensive leg, spin him around and throw him into a parked car. The impact caused the car's alarm to start going off.
The predator lunged towards the lucha libre masked man with its wrist gauntlets but Rodolfo backflipped over the car as the alien's wrist blades broke through the window and tore off the steering wheel as well as received the consequence of getting the blades stuck in the car's radio which turned off the alarm as a result.
White Pantera, while could use the opening to attack his stuck opponent, decided to wait for his opponent to get unstuck from his predicament.
The Predator roared before it used a shoulder mounted laser to blast its blades free from the car's wiring and oil. Pulling it out, the creature's blades were covered in oil.
That didn't matter to the creature as it charged once more at White Pantera lashing its wrist blades in a barrage of a frenzied onslaught of slashes.
White Pantera had to go on the defensive as he dodged the slashes and blocked the punches as best he can despite getting some cuts here and there.
"Dios Mio, this thing is relentless!" The hero said to himself as he continued dodging. "If I don't turn this around, I'll be dead. I need to change tactics quickly!"
The predator attempted to smash the hero's head in with his fists. This was the opening that White Pantera needed as he quickly kicked the beast in the chest with a lot of his strength, causing a large crack to appear across the torso as it was sent flying a few feet back. Looking behind him, Rodolfo noticed a fire hydrant and got in idea.
"If I'm right..." The hero of the crime and villain ridden city thought to himself as he looked back at the creature he was fighting.
The Predator quickly shot out a blast from its shoulder cannon. Pantera quickly leapt out of the way as the blast hit the fire hydrant causing a stream of water to hit the beast in the chest with the force of a fully powered fire hose sending it crashing into a run-down house that was abandoned long ago.
As the smoke cleared, the creature has seemingly vanished from sight.
"He's gone?!" The hero exclaimed as he then sped over to the house.
White Pantera looked around cautiously as he searched the house for his adversary, the darkness of the living room was evident as it was not helping him so his tried to look for a light switch which was due to lack of light. The only source of light was the moon's light from outside which did help a little but not much where it mattered.
It was tense as the hero searched through the seemingly empty abode. Rodolfo needed to remain vigilant as he knew that should he split, that thing could finish him off with ease.
He stopped in front of a mirror and observed it.
Out of nowhere, a small, thin, red line was slowly creeping up behind him before it stopped at the back of his head.
Suddenly, the hero's ears picked up the familiar sound of a plasma shot being fired off. Upon hearing it, he ducked fast as the blast bounced back and hit the shooter in the helmet, completely breaking the helmet apart.
The Predator stared at his prey with a growl as White Pantera was shocked.
"Woah, so you are an alien after all!" He said as he prepared for Round 2 with this determined creature.
The creature then took out a pole-like weapon before charging at the hero one more with a barrage of ferocious swings causing the hero to block the onslaught as best he could.
Eventually, the beast broke though White Pantera's defenses and slammed him against a wall as it pinned him there by his throat with its elbow, slowly beginning to choke him.
The creature attempted to use its laser again and finally put a gruesome end to this fight, but Rodolfo, not wanting to go out like this, headbutted his foe, causing him to back off but have the unfortunate ramification of the blaster going off as it fired a plasma shot through one of the hero's shoulders.
"Aah! My shoulder!" screamed White Pantera as he clutched his shoulder in agony to stop the bleeding, it was like being shot with a blast of lava.
Seeing the opportunity, the Predator backhanded the hero through the wall, sending him back outside.
Seeing his opponent still alive, the creature fired another shot. Manny's father quickly rolled out of the way as with a burst of adrenaline leapt forward with one kick, shattered the blaster into pieces and finally took it out of the fight.
The Predator was far from finished as it took out a disc-like weapon and threw it at the hero, only managing to tear off a part of his mask as well as cut his cheek with a large cut.
With a grunt of pain, White Pantera put up his fists and sped towards his opponent, but his foe anticipated this and quickly threw another disc at the hero.
White Pantera dodged it as he said. "Give up, I'm fast for- AGH!"
The hero screamed in pain as he felt a sharp pain in his leg as he was forced down to a knee.
Looking down, he saw to his shock that the bladed disc was buried into the back of his knee.
The hero quickly tried to pull it out only for a large net to encase him.
"Oh no!" Rodolfo said as he tried to break free. "I'm trapped!"
The predator walked up to him and raised his wrist blades into the moonlit sky, the light shimmering off the blades.
It was finally over.
The alien hunter was victorious.
And White Pantera was going to be its trophy.
However, before it could go through with the kill and collect its prize, a blast of red lasers struck the enemy in the back, sending it crashing face first into the dirt a few feet away from its target.
"Rodolfo, are you alright?!" Puma Loco asked as he and Frida ran to him. Frida got to worked removing the net and Puma Loco readied his golden and red battle suit.
"I'll be fine." White Pantera said as he clutched his shoulder. "Nothing a trip to the hospital can't fix."
Frida looked at the Predator, who starting to get back up. "Eww! That is one UGLY monster to fight! Has it looked in the mirror lately?"
The Predator slowly got back up and growled at Puma Loco and Frida in fury. It was already exhausted from fighting White Pantera for so long, it can't fight two more. Not only would be dishonorable but it knew it couldn't fight another battle in its current condition.
Luckily, it had just the thing for a situation like this.
It took out a syringe and injected the fluid into its side. The beast roared as it felt the liquid quickly do its job.
Within seconds, it was back up and ready to fight once more.
"Oh great..." Frida said as she backed up. "Looks like that thing got a second health bar."
"Stay back Frida." Puma Loco said as he stepped forward. "I need you to take Rodolfo to the hospital as fast as you can."
Nodding, Frida quickly used her flight due to the gloves powers and began to fly away from the fight.
The Predator roared as it wanted to go after the two and finally finish this hunt, but it needed to contend with the elderly man in the power suit first.
"Vamonos!" The supervillain said as he began to fire lasers at the creature.
At one of Miracle City's hospitals, Manny still in his El Tigre outfit was sitting in the chair outside the currently occupied patient room. He brought the unconscious Zoe Aves, who he revealed her identity as Black Cuervo to the shocked doctors who immediately called the cops which included Frida's dad, and two more cops. The chief immediately wanted to take her to prison once she wakes up only for Manny to tell him about the battle that he and Puma Loco had with the Flock of Fury and how Lady Globber and Voltura abandoned her and once she gets released from prison, she won't have anywhere else to go. The chief was conflicted between upholding the law and not wanting to imprison a child despite her being a villain. That was when Manny offered a compromise.
Zoe will go to prison for however long the judges decide to give her and when she's released, she'll be put in the Rivera's care along with doing 3 months of community service.
The chief agreed to this as he and his fellow cops left to put new information on the young villainess into their MCPD computer's database on the various villains of Miracle City from Sartana of the Dead to the Cactus Kid to the Chipotle family.
As minutes passed, he wondered how his dad was doing. As soon as Frida told him about this new villain, he wanted to go help but he chose to prioritize getting Zoe to a hospital as he knew his father would be proud of him for that decision.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of wheels squeaking as he turned and saw to his shock, his dad was on a stretcher as a team of doctors ran past him and into the emergency room.
"Dad?!" Manny said in shock.
"Manny!" Frida shouted as she ran to her boyfriend.
"Frida!" Manny demanded as he shook his girlfriend a bit in his panicking state of mind. "What happened to dad? Is he okay?!"
Frida shoved Manny back. "Chill dude. Your dad is going to be fine. That thing was fighting just got the better of him but thankfully Puma and I managed to save him before he got killed."
"Is Grandpappi fighting that thing right now?" Manny asked as his fists tightened. "I'm going to go help him!"
Frida instantly noticed that Manny got a vengeful look in his eyes and tried to reason with him. "Manny don't be loco. You don't know what that thing is capable of! Let your Grandpappi take care of it."
Manny then began to walk past her before saying. "I'm sorry Frida, but that thing hurt my dad and now my grandpappi is in danger. I'll avenge dad's honor and save Miracle City from this new threat..." He then pointed a finger into the air. "This I swear!"
Frida sighed as she knew that nothing that she can say can stop Manny once his family's honor was threatened.
"I'll stay here and watch over your dad." Frida said as she kissed Manny on the lips, which she held for a few seconds before she pulled away. "Just be careful mi amor."
Smiling, Manny said. "I will."
With that, Manny ran out of the hospital as fast as he could!
"I just hope I'm not too late! Hang on Grandpappi, I'm on my way." Manny thought to himself as he shot his claw top the top of a building as he began to swing through the big Mexican city as moonlight shined down upon him.
At the battlefield, Puma Loco was breathing heavily as beads of sweat appeared on his forehead to which he wiped away with his hand.
"I'm getting too old for this." The elderly supervillain said to himself as he tried to get his mechanized suit to stand up again but with the circuits being damaged, the suits functionally was severely crippled.
Speaking of the supervillain's suit, it was so damaged that it was a miracle that it didn't explode in a fireball... at least not yet anyway. It had many cuts, scrapes, scratches and scorch marks all over the torso and even one of the arms of the suit was torn off. Even the suit's propulsions in the legs thrusters were failing as the fight was continuing.
As for the creature of the stars, it was worse for wear too as it was also breathing heavily as its body had marks of being bruised, bloodied and had scorch marks all over. It had collapsed down to a knee as it held a scythe-like weapon with both of its exhausted arms.
But despite the body telling it to quit, the mysterious creature managed to manifest enough willpower to stand back up albeit with some wobbling.
"It's STILL getting back up!" The supervillain said in shock before thinking to himself. "Think Jorge think! There must be some way to stop him!"
The Predator slowly began to walk if not stumble towards his prey with some diminishing willpower, letting out a growl as it did so.
Once it was close enough, with shaky hands, it managed to raise its weapon in the air intending to end this fight once and for all.
He and that other man were indeed worthy of its hunt, it'll look forward to collecting their skulls.
The old man closed his eyes as he thought to himself. "Rodolfo, Manny, I know we've haven't always gotten along due to our conflicting ideals of good and evil. Regardless, I'm glad to have been your father and grandpappi. I'll be watching over you both from the land of the dead."
The elderly man waited for the weapon to finish him off...
2 seconds passed...
5 seconds passed...
14 seconds passed...
Confused the man opened his eyes and surprised by what he was seeing.
A familiar claw grabbed a hold of the scythe and manage to stop it from removing the old supervillain's head from his shoulders.
"Not on my watch you're not!" shouted a familiar voice as he yanked the weapon from the monster's grasp.
The claw has a chain that retreated back to its original position, and it was revealed that Manny Rivera also known as El Tigre had finally arrived.
"You hurt my dad!" El Tigre shouted as he raised the weapon above his head before he brought it down on his knee, breaking it in two. He then turned to his grandfather. "Are you okay Grandpappi?"
"I am okay." The supervillain said as he coughed a little before he made his suit retreat back into its sombrero. "Manny, what are you doing here?"
"I came to help you!" Manny exclaimed. "I saw what that thing did to Dad, and I knew I had to something. I couldn't let that thing hurt you too."
"Ah the Rivera pride." Grandpappi said with a smile. "Be careful, whatever that thing is might be on its last legs but who know what it's going to do next?"
Nodding El Tigre turned to the Predator. You come here, attack my dad and nearly killed my grandpappi!" Brandishing his claws, he then said with determination. "I don't know what you are, and I don't really care but I'll take you down! THIS I SWEAR!"
With vengeful aggression controlling his brain at the moment, El Tigre attacked like a wild animal that his name was based off of with claw slashes as well as savage punches and brutal kicks.
This beating. This unrelenting. painful, bone-crushing beating lasted for 3 whole minutes. Every attack was felt as the young hero poured his all into them. The jaw-dropping shock he felt from learning Zoe's identity. The temptation of vengeance he felt against this creature for hurting his two male family members. The complete and utter rage he felt at his family's personal honor being tarnished thanks to this creature of the stars.
While Predator would have fought back, it couldn't it was too exhausted from fighting 2 fights back-to-back and even if had a second healing syringe, it wasn't going to considering that it was a child beating it up and it didn't want to hurt a child even if it was capable of defending itself against the creature.
With one more punch to the creature's hideous face, the rage-filled teen broke the creature's teeth as it sprawled on the ground.
Manny breathed heavily as he dropped to his knees as his rage and anger was finally spent.
"Are you alright, mijo?" Jorge said as he placed a hand on his grandson's shoulder.
"Yeah, just tired." Manny said as he gazed at the creature. "That beating I gave took a lot out of me."
The two Riveras looked at the creature and was surprised.
It was still moving as it was moving its arms.
While the humans were confused at why the Predator was moving, the Predator knew what it needed to do as it was the only option left.
It failed its hunt and if it didn't do this than it was only a matter of time before the military forces of this planet got their hands on the creature's technology.
And it didn't want that. Not one bit.
The creature began to tap the device on its wrist, and it began to emit a sound.
The sound similar to a countdown.
It was only then that the Rivera men realized what it was doing.
"Grandpappi, that thing is going to destroy Miracle City!" Manny said in shock.
"We need to get it out of here and fast!" Puma Loco said as he began to think before it hit him. "I got it!" He brought out his power suit once more. "Manny, get on my claw! Quick!"
Feeling like he got an idea on what his grandfather was planning, Manny did what was asked of him. "Ready!"
Let's do this!" shouted the old man as he launched his claw at the downed creature.
Manny shot out his chained claw and quickly wrapped it around the defeated foe as Puma made the claw go up into the sky at a fast speed.
"You can do this Manny!" Puma shouted words of encouragement to his grandson. "You're a Rivera!"
Upon reaching the highest point in the sky as the suit's claw can go, Manny spun as fast as he could and with a determined yell, threw the creature as hard and far as he could into the atmosphere before the claw rocketed away.
The creature was content with this as then was enveloped in a massive flash of white light.
On the ground, the elder Rivera was in shock at the blast radius he was witnessing.
"Dios Mio!" Grandpappi said in awestruck disbelief. "Manny!"
Seconds passed as Manny was seen riding the claw.
"We did it!" The young hero said as he embraced his grandpa.
Returning the hug, the older Rivera said. "Yes mijo, we were rockin'! We showed that thing who's boss!"
Breathing a sigh of relief, Manny transformed back to his civilian self. "What a night. Let's go home."
Without another word, the two men did just that! It was going to be a long walk home though considering how exhausted they both were. They were going to visit the hospital to check up on Rodolfo and Zoe in the morning once they go their well-deserved rest after managing to achieve this hard-earned victory.
The End!
Hey guys, I hope all enjoyed this one shot of El Tigre and Predator crossover. I'll see you all next time.