Episode 1: El Fuego Enters

Ricky Cospel leaned himself against the car door, with a question that plagued his mind.

"Did we really have to move to Miracle City?" asked the brown-skinned 13-year old, sitting in the back seat of a white sedan. His dark chocolate eyes stared out to view through his black-framed spectacles. The young teen had an egg-shaped head with a defined chin and chubby cheeks. He had black short hair, but was hidden by his black cap, and was wearing a blue hoodie and long black jeans which hid his lanky, yet fit physiques.

"Why? Don't you wanna make a fresh start?" asked his eldest brother, Raymondo Cospel Junior (AKA Ray). He was in his late 20s with similar features as the teen, but fatter. He had short flat hair and a full beard. Like the young teen, he wore black framed glasses, but his were ray bans. The man wore a blue and turquoise short sleeve plaid shirt, which was one size larger to fit his meaty physiques, and faded blue jeans.

"From what? We had everything back in Brasilia! Shelter, friends.."

"Back-stabbing relatives, harsh environment," the second youngest, Riff Cospel, commented. He, too, had the similar features as the young teen, but had a bit of facial hair and was slightly skinnier and fairer. He wore a white tee and long jeans. He also wore glasses, but his were white and black in frame. His hair was short as well.

The young teen glared at his brother.

"C'mon, chico, where's your sense of adventure?" another man, the second eldest son, Rin Cospel, asked. This one sat in the passenger seat. Like his brothers, Rin shared the same facial features, but his eyes were darker, his skin was fairer and he had stubble that covered his mouth. He was slightly younger the than Ray by a few years and not as chubby too. He had a red beanie which hides his hair, which was the longest among the brothers reaching to the back of his neck and slightly covering his eyebrows, and green framed glasses. He wore a long-sleeve black and white tee, which was slightly tucked in, and blue, slightly ripped jeans.

The youngest sibling didn't answer back. He remained silent, still observing the view. The eldest sighed. "Think of it this way, Ricky, it's an opportunity to grow and discover new things. I bet you didn't know that we used to live in Miracle City years before we moved to Brazil. So, we're basically going back home to our roots!"

Ricky still didn't say anything back.

"You'll see. It will all work out in the end."

There was a moment of silence until Ray, the eldest, spotted their destination.

"Look, Miracle City."

Everyone looked out the window. The view of the city was both beautiful and very ominous, considering the fact that the whole town was built around what seemed to be an active volcano.

This is where we used to live? was what went through Ricky's mind. While everyone else took in the view, Ricky was more or less thinking oddly of the city.

They stopped in front of their new home.

Everyone got out of the car and took their bags. Ricky looked up and read the sign.

"Casa Del Macho? This place reeks of bachelors." He commented. As he looked back, he found that the car was gone.

"Oh, did I forget to tell you that this place is a spicy cesspool of crime and villainy," Ray informed, "You'd think this city would have turned to nothing but rubble by now, but I guess that's the miracle of it all."

"So, basically our car just got stolen?" Ricky asked.

"In-deed."

Ricky rolled his eyes and entered the apartment, followed by his brothers.

The brothers reached their floor and looked for the door to their apartment door, which were at the end of the hall nearest to the stairs. They unlocked the door and entered the room. It was spacious enough for the four brothers. The apartment room was furnished, complete with a couch, an end table or two, and a dining table from their last tenant. The thing about place is that there are three rooms, meaning two of the siblings must share a room while the other two gets their own. Another thing to point out is that there were two bathrooms, one located outside and the other within the master bathrooms. Following the rule of eldest, the youngest two shared the middle room, which was big enough for the both of them.

After setting up, Ricky decided to go tour the town a bit.

"Be careful out there," Riff, warned his brother, "Then again, you did inherit "the power".

Ricky scoffed off his brother's remark

"Don't forget to come back by 5pm; we'll be meeting an old family friend of ours." Ricky nodded and left the room.

Already outside the apartment, Ricky started walking down the street until he was stopped by the scene before him. It was a robbery by an overly burly man wearing some sort of bear-themed costume. He held a couple money bag in each hand.

"HAHAHA, Finally got the load, man! Tonight, El OSO is sleeping in riches, man!" the robber laughed.

Ricky looked around for an alleyway. He found one and quickly made his way. Making sure no one was around; Ricky closed his eyes and said one word.

"Transform."

Suddenly, Ricky was engulfed in fire. After a moment, the fire faded away, revealing Ricky's transformed form. He wore a white suit with fire decals, his gloves and boots were red, and he wore a white helmet that covered his face and a long red scarf wrapped around his neck. Where his mouth and eyes were was covered by a silver mouth piece and two big crescent-shaped eyes.

Wasting no time, Ricky exited the alleyway and ran towards the robber. He jumped, engulfed himself in fire and landed a kick right in El Oso's face. The hairy man's hands let go of the money and flew straight through a building, knocked unconscious by Ricky's kick.

"That was easy." Ricky looked up and saw the money bags falling on top of him. Quickly, he managed to catch one in each hand and swiftly dodged the rest. Seeing the mess, Ricky decided to gather the rest of the money.

"STOP RIGHT THERE, VILLIAN!"

Villain? Ricky turned his head to owner of the voice. It belonged to a freckled boy with a scar on his left eye. He looks like he's my age. The brown-skinned boy had curly dark brown hair, but his eyebrows were a lighter shade of brown which matched the eyes. He wears an orange and yellow striped shirt with a black jacket that has a yellow line go down the arm parts and a small red star on the left part of the jacket. In between that and his blue jean is a belt buckle with the letter "T".

"What?"

"Too slow, now face the wrath of," the boy spun his belt buckle. Suddenly, he was quickly engulfed in green flame and then was transformed into some cat-like costume, "EL TIGRE!" Scratched that, some tiger-like costume.

Just as Ricky was about to explain himself, El Tigre shot out his hand towards the flamed teen. Quickly, Ricky dodged the hand, but the land grabbed a post and reeled El Tigre in. Ricky never saw the fist coming as it landed to his face. Just like what happened to El Oso, Ricky flew across the street and crashed to the side of a building.

"Did you see that, Frida! I was all –", the feline-themed hero turned to his friend, but saw what she was doing. "FRIDA!"

"WHAT!?", the friend, a girl with light blue hair with red goggles on top of it, shouted back. She had tawny skin color, blue eyes and dressed in a punk/goth style. Frida was picking up the money bag.

"Drop the money, Frida!"

"But Mannyy." Frida pleaded.

"Drop it."

Finally, Frida dropped the money bag, but noticed something else.

"Manny, watch out!"

But it was too late. As soon as El Tigre turned to where his friend was pointing at, a flaming fist landed on him, sending the feline hero flying.

"Not bad, El Tigre," Ricky complimented, "I had expected my first day here in Miracle City to be a bore fest, but you've managed to turn that around."

"First day?" Manny said groggily, "Wait, who are you again?"

Underneath the helmet, Ricky let out a grin. His debut finally came, but not in the way he imagined it though.

"My name is….EL FUEGO!"

"El Fuego?"

"And you, El Tigre. Feel the fiery wrath of my..FIERY FIST…AGAIN!" Ricky engulfed his fists in fire and blazed towards El Tigre.

"Not if I beat you with my.. TIGER FIST!" Manny clenched his fist and charged towards El Fuego.

Both leaped and charged a fist at each other, both landing a hit on their face. The two super-powered teens both landed on their feet and continued the onslaught against each other. Both were growing battered by the second. Finally, El Fuego summoned fire from his hands and blasted El Tigre with a beam of fire, but El Tigre managed to evade that by jumping over El Fuego and clawed him on the back. El Fuego quickly recovered from the attack, turned to El Tigre and blasted him with a couple of fireballs. The fireballs connected with El Tigre, burning parts of the feline hero's body. El Tigre fell to his knees and El Fuego took advantage of that. Gathering fire to his fist, El Fuego charged towards the downed feline. But El Tigre wasn't out yet. He retracted his claws and delivered it towards El Fuego.

"AAAAAHHHHHHH"

The two heroes stopped half-way as they turned to the sound of a screaming girl.

"Frida!"

Frida was captured by El Oso, who had just awoken from his beating. Without any hesitation, Manny charged towards the huge wild man. With his fist still in flames, Ricky pulled back his arm and then swung it towards the direction of El Oso, summoning his flame fist. The fist landed on El Oso's face. Hard. The bear-themed villain was dazed, causing him to let go of his hostage. Manny quickly stopped in front of the hairy man and delivered a jumping uppercut, totally knocking him down. Manny was just in time to catch a falling Frida, holding her bridal style.

"You can open your eyes now, Frida," Manny spoke softly.

Slowly, she opened one eyes to look around, then the other. She lifted her head to see her predicament. In the arms. Of her best friend. Bridal style. Any other day, this would have been just status quo saving, but oddly, her face started to develop a slight blush on her cheeks. Manny cocked his head.

"Uh, are you okay?" he asked

"W-what, y-yeah, of course I'm okay, why wouldn't I be ok, I mean, you're okay, sort of." Frida raised her hand placed it on Manny's cheek. He winced, which cause her to retract back her hand.

"Kinda hurts, y'know" Manny said

"Of course it did." Frida said back.

"RIVERA!"

Manny got shocked by the voice and unintentionally dropped Frida. Frida grunted as she landed and quickly got up. They both turned to a man in a law enforcer uniform.

"Dad!" Frida said in surprise. Her dad, Emiliano, pushed Manny away and hugged Frida.

"Frida, are you alright? Are you hurt?" he asked in rapid sequence. Before Frida could answer anything, Emiliano turned to Manny, "YOU, what did you do to my Frida?"

"What? Chief Suarez, I saved her from El Oso." Manny pointed towards El Fuego's direction, "With his help."

They all turned to El Fuego, who awkwardly waved back

"uuhh… Ola?"

"Who are you,' asked the police chief.

Ricky took a deep breath and composed himself. He strikes a pose and pointed towards the officer.

"I'm someone you'll be seeing around," Ricky then pointed to El Tigre, "That goes double for you, El Tigre. Next time you attack someone, make sure you allow them to explain themselves first."

"Heh, sorry about that," Manny apologized. El Fuego turned back and started walking. Manny quickly called out the fiery hero, "Oh, and Welcome to Miracle City."

El Fuego looked back and nodded. He then covered himself with fire. When the fire disappeared, he was gone.

Back at the apartment, Ricky dragged himself towards the door to his apartment room. The gate was locked, so he took out his keys. But he forgot about it when he left. Crap, I forgot my keys. Man, it was unlocked when I left, why is it lock now? Ricky started banging the gate. He caused some disturbance to the neighbors, but he ignored their glares. Finally, the door swung open to a groomed Rin, the second eldest brother.

"You forgot you're keys, didn't you?" he asked smugly.

"Just open the door, Rin."

Rin peacefully comply to his younger brother's demand. He unlocked the gate and let Ricky inside.

"Chico, go take a shower and get ready, we'll be leaving in a couple of minutes."

"Can't I just skip whatever we're doing? You don't need me around for it."

"Not an option. The man was a good friend to our father and was the one who got us this place. Now, move!"

Reluctantly, Ricky headed towards the bathroom. As he opened the door, he was hit by a warm air of stink and shampoo.

"Oh yeah, I just used that so you're going to have to bear it." Rin told his youngest brother.

Great. Ricky took a prayed a bit before entering the bath.

After a few minutes of showering and getting ready, The whole Cospel brothers set off to their next destination; the top floor of Casa Del Macho.

They stopped in front of a door at the end of the hall. Ray knocked on the door.

"Hurry, hurry! They're here!"

They could hear the sound of an excited man from behind the door. A moment later, the door swung open to reveal tall and muscular man. The man wore a grey suit with black pants, golden boots with intricate designs, a mask? and glasses over the mask.

"Junior," he called out Ray, "It has been a while,"

"It sure has, Rodolfo." The eldest answered back. Rodolfo pulled in Ray for a hug and then looked at the other brothers.

"Rin, Riff and," he turned to the youngest member, kneeling down to Ricky's size, "This must be little Ricardio Cospel, inheritor of the Testamento Del Fuego."

Ricky's eyes went wide.

"How did you know about the power?"

Rodolfo smiled, "Do you not know who I am, hijo?" Rodolfo reached for his mask and took it off, "It is I!"

"Uncle Dolfo!?"

"You didn't notice this, chico?" Rin asked. Ricky only shook his head.

"It's okay, Rin, he never did see my mask when I visited you guys in Brasilia." Rodolfo put back his mask, "Well, come on in. Make yourself comfortable."

The Cospel brothers entered one by one. Inside Rodolfo's home were decorations balloons and a banner stating, "Welcome Back To Miracle City, Cospels!" There was food on the table as well. Sitting on the couch was an old, wrinkly man wearing a sombrero and thick rimmed yellow lens glasses. The old man hunched back man was about to reach for a burrito, but then looked towards the Cospel brothers and grinned.

"Well, if it isn't the little descendents of Raymondo," The old man spoke, "Have you finally come to rid of me?" Missiles appeared from the old man's sombrero, pointing at the Cospel brothers.

Ray smiled, "Hahaha, not all of us are little anymore, Papi Jorge. And unfortunately, I am not responsible for that job," Ray pointed to Ricky who was still looking around, "My maninho, however, can do it. If he were up for the task, that is."

Ricky's attention came back. He looked to his brother, then the old man Jorge, then alternate between the two. What is going on?

"Papi, please don't tease them. They are our guest."

"Ay, calm yourself, Rodolfo. If they are anything like their old man, they'll be fine." Jorge put back his missiles and then turned to the eldest son, "So, Raymondo Cospel Jr, care for a game of Where's The Ball? For old times' sake?"

"You are obviously going to cheat again, Papi Jorge, but you're on! 5$ says I can find where you're hiding the ball."

"Hehehe, just like you're old man. Agreed. Prepare to get broked, junior!"

Ray and Jorge went to one corner of the room to prepare for their game. Rin and Riff headed towards to couch, munching on the food and minding their own business. That only left with young Ricky Cospel with Rodolfo.

"So," Rodolfo started, "What do you want to do?"

"How did you know that I inherited the Testamento Del Fuego?" the young Cospel asked.

Rodolfo made a curios face, "You mean, your father never told you?" Ricky shook his head and looked down. "Oh. Right." Rodolfo as well looked down; he made a sad face as he knew about the news.

"Come, hijo, we sit." Rodolfo lead Ricky to another couch. They both sat down side by side. Rodolfo cleared his throat and started, "Your father, Raymondo Cospel Senior, was once a hero here in Miracle City." Rodolfo paused for a moment, "Well, we called him "hired hero", but he was basically a bounty hunter. Do not be mistaken, though. He was the one who taught me what it means to be a hero." Rodolfo took another paused again to think about, "Well, my grandfather first, then Ray."

Ricky tried to process what he just learnt. "Wait, my dad was a sort of hero-"

"Hired Hero."

"And he never told me about it?"

"I'm guessing he did not have the heart to tell you about it." Ricky sadly looked down once again. Rodolfo moved his hand and patted his son's inheritor, "Do not worry about that, miho. The Rivera's are here to help." Rodolfo suddenly stood up and looked up to the ceiling, "THIS I SWEAR," the hero shouted. Ricky looked up to the hero and smiled. Rodolfo looked down and smiled back. "You have your father's spark, Ricardio. And speaking of family resemblance." Rodolfo looked at his watch, "Where is he?"

As if on cue, the entrance door swung open, revealing the son of the Legendary hero, White Pantera, and grandson to the supervillain, Puma Loco, who walk inside back to his home. Beside him, of course, is his friend. Manny Rivera stopped talking to his friend and took a look around.

"What's happening here?"

AN: Don't you just loove cliffhangers? Ola, my compadres (did i wrote that right?), I have written a new story. This time, based on the El Tigre universe. I know, I'm definitely on a roll, but I shouldn't get ahead of myself. As the title says, this will be focus on my OC, someone new that would rival against our favorite undecided hero~

I hope you guys enjoy my story. Comment, review, favorite, love, hate, anything..

P.s. I used google translate to get the phrases, but I'm a bit skeptical about it. So if anything correction, please inform me.

P.p.s. I may or may not follow the canon, so we'll see first.

Adios~ Till next time

Disclaimer: El Tigre belongs to Jorge Gutierrez and Nickelodeon. I don't own anything except my OCs.