Second Chance

Chapter 4: Making Amends

"How could you?" She painfully asked.

Once again, Manny had lifted his head in terror as he had a few mornings prior. When he calmed himself down, he got out of bed and went over to the curtains and pulled them back, revealing the sun's bright rays. Quickly draping the curtains back into place, the youngest Ribera made his way into the living room and wasn't surprised when he didn't find his father on the couch.

Not taking another step, an explosion went off in the distance and by instinct spun his belt buckle and transformed into El Tigre as he headed off towards the city. When he found the source of the blast, the Miracle City Bank, he could see five shadows.

The first one wore a red mask and had brown eyes, red gloves, a white shirt and jacket with a red tie, black jeans, and had boots made of bronze. Many easily recognized him as his father's legendary superhero persona, White Pantera.

The second one was a golden mechanical battle suit, and inside the red dome was his Grandpapi, or as he was known as his legendary super villain alias, Puma Loco.

Upon closer inspection, El Tigre could see that the three other shadows were reflecting off the ground.

The first one was a small old lady in a black body suit and under it was her partially exposed grey dress. Her combat suit consisted of black gloves with small orange talons, small black heels, a huge black collar that resembled turkey feathers, and the scepter/cane with a handle shaped like the head of a turkey she was holding. Due to her face being hidden behind the orange beak shaped visor, the only distinctive features on her were that she had red eyes and that her white hair was pinned in a bun that was exposed from the back of her large orange helmet. She was known as the head of the Flock of Fury, Lady Gobbler.

The second one was much younger and taller woman wearing a black body suit, black gloves with white tuffs at her wrists and green talons, large black thigh length boots, a black cape that resembled the wings of a vulture and her hair hidden by her large green helmet. Her piercing red eyes behind her green beak shaped visor were glaring down at White Pantera. It was no great secret who she was, the second member of the Flock of Fury, Voltura.

The third shadow belonged to the last and youngest member of the Flock of Fury, Black Cuervo.

"Give up now Riveras, there's three of us and only two of you." pointed out Lady Gobbler

"Think again you old turkey!" Exclaimed El Tigre as he came onto the scene.

The scene was now set as each member of the respective families faced off against their opponent. All was quiet, until a bird unfortunately flew over the city's volcano and was engulfed in spewing lava and subsequently ignited the inevitable battle.

Puma Loco quickly raised both his hands and fired missiles at the head of the flock, only to have her aim her tech – enhanced scepter/cane at the projectiles and destroy them with the orange laser that it emitted. The young woman in the green suit activated her jetpack and shot forward towards White Pantera, pushing him back a great distance. As he was busy seeing watching his father's struggle against his female nemesis, El Tigre barely had any time to react by placing his hands out and stopped Black Cuervo's purple talon – like claws from digging into his face. Not long after keeping her at bay, Tigre was able to turn Cuervo's directional push against him around, sending them away from the battlefield of the elder heroes and villains. As the struggle between the two young super powered children were rocketing towards a building, the youngest Rivera quickly pushed back one of Cuervo's hands long enough to fire his hand and send the youngest flock member back into an alleyway.

"Cuervo, I need to talk to you." stated El Tigre as he walked up to his nemesis, but received a punch to the face as a response

"What could you possibly want to talk to me about?" She asked as she threw another punch towards his face, anger obvious in her voice and eyes.

"I just wanted to say that..." He finished sincerely as he waited for the impact to his face.

"W-what?" she asked in confusion as she stopped her fist before Tigre's face

"I'm sorry for using you to get information on your family's crimes." He elaborated.

"Tigre, I don't think you realized exactly how much you hurt me..." The raven themed villainess stated sadly, the pain obvious in her face.

"I know that's why I want to..." He started, but was blasted away by a green laser before he could finish.

When El Tigre got back up, he saw Voltura standing next to her daughter and watched as they lifted off into the sky and joined Lady Gobbler before they flew away towards home.

"Manny, are you alright?" White Pantera in a fatherly concern as he and Puma Loco regrouped with their youngest member.

"Yeah, I'm fine... Just fine..." He said as he watched Cuervo and her family disappear from view.