THE GUARDIAN (PART ONE)

THE GUARDIAN

BY: VICTOR HUGO BARRERA ARELLANO

CHAPTER 1.- FIRST GUARDIAN

ACAMBARO, GUANAJUATO. 2007 ...

All Mexico is undergoing a process of becoming in Colombia, ie, the gang is increasing day by day, the killers execute not only politicians but also ordinary people. However, the Federal Government has failed to curb insecurity, crime, executions, and the worst unemployment. Main reason for crime acording analysts say.

In Acámbaro, the executions began to happen every weekend, and most victims are women. Therefore, the electronic engineer, Jonás Prado put security bars on doors and windows of his home and improve the safety of it every day before going to work before going to bed. Since Jonás had to work to support his Sister, who was a widow, her small son named Raul Cortes and his mother Diana Prado. Jonás saw with regret that every day one of his coworkers was fired and it was a matter of days to be his turn.

So Jonás saved his money and the little monet He used, it was destined to the pantry, health and safety of home. One night, Jonás is awakened by the barking of his dog named "Guardian", who notes that a boy wants to get in into the house, Jonás gets up and along with guardian stopped the thief, which is taken to the nearest separated.

The boy is identified as Rene Tapia, a member of a gang called "Wild Cats", which is responsible for many home burglaries, car thefts and murders of journalists and public officials. René was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, with an option to reduce his sentence if he turns to his fellow gang.

However, the officer Jesse Barbosa, who is the true leader of the Wildcats, free Rene demanding him murder the person who caught him and his family with him. René runs away and Barbosa pretends to have been attacked by the Wild Cat.

René takes several wild cats to the Prado house, Guardian detects the presence of gang members, Jonás gets up and puts his mother, Marisa and Raul in a safe place, he loose guardian as he calls the police and faces the wild cats who steal all the furniture in the house.

Jonás manages to hit and knock out some cats, but they multiply and attack Jonás hitting him very hard. Marisa, Raul and Doña Diana leave their hiding place trying to help Jonás, but "Fiera", leader of the wild cats comes with more gang members holding Marisa, Raul and Doña Diana.

Fiera kills Doña Diana in front of Jonás, then, Fiera is about to kills Marisa and Raul, but guardian arrives biting Fiera and causing Marisa and Raul escape. Jonás attacking the Wild cats to prevent them reach Marisa and Raul, who escaped.

Fiera kills guardian with his gun and then He shootes Jonás near the heart. Fiera commands the wild cats loot the Prado house and leave, the police men arrive and Wild cats escape. Jonás was taken to hospital while Marisa and Raul fleeing running, although a car is about to run over them. Jonás is incorporated to the nearest hospital and pronounced dead, Marisa and Raul fleeing the state after they bury Doña Diana.

3 MONTHS LATER ...

Jonás awakens in the hospital listening to international news about that in State X, a guy who calls himself "The Protector" has been set the task of scaring criminals and revenge. Jonás decides to investigate about the Protector, discovering that the young man Henry O'Neal was attacked by a psychopath and he could not be captured, on the contrary, Henry was accused of attacking his professor at the University.

Jonás decides to perform rehabilitation therapy and then He escapes from the hospital and go in search of the Protector. During the trip to State X, Jonás investigates the Protector, discovering that He uses armored clothing and a mask that allows him to crawl into the darkness to the criminals, and that his aluminum gun fires bullets filled with sand and rubber bullets filled sand.

In State X, Henry is about to burn the clothes and weapons of the Protector, Jonás comes before that happens and tells Henry that allows him to do something for his country as well as Henry did. Henry agrees and gives his clothes and weapons Jonás, Jonás gets the suit and returned to Mexico.

In Acámbaro, Jesse recruit all the most dangerous criminals who are caught to be part of Wild cats. Jonás Prado comes home found it with yellow tape near the ground that it is still a crime scene. Jonás enters, and notes the almost empty house and with bloodstains of his mother. Jonás rescues some family photos and Guardian´s photos. Jonás said that Guardian could prevent Marisa and Raul were killed, although he does not remember much about what happened later.

Detective Javier Flores arrives pointing his gun at Jonás, because he thinks that Jonás is the murderer of the family, Jonás reminds him and explain what happened, but Javier does not believe him. So Jonás faces Javier to prove his innocence. Suddenly, both heard that wild cats are attacking the house next door, Flores asks for reinforcements but Jonás disappears.

The Wildcats led by René attack the family while others begin to ransack the house. The Guardian appears and attacks by preventing wild cats hurt and steal the family home. The police arrive and the Guardian carried a wild cat out, the police and Flores capture some cats less René, who managed to escape.

Guardian questions Gato Negro testing the aluminum and rubber bullets with him. Gato Negro does not support torture and tells Guardian everything about the Wildcats.

Guardian throws Gato Negro out the museum of the mummies for everyone to see him. Fiera and all the Wildcats come by Gato Negro, but before he finished tell them what happened, Detective Flores and the police men arrive capturing the vast majority of the Wildcats.

René and Fiera reach their hideout found the Guardian, René escapes and Guardian and Fiera face themselves. Everything ends when Guardian kills Fiera discovering his identity. The police men arrive and they capture the Guardian. Flores accused the Guardian of hindering the work of the police, in addition to Rene declares against the Guardian, who is sentenced to serve a sentence in the Islas Marias.

René mockingly tells the Guardian that Marisa and Raul are alive and when he is transferred to Islas Marias, René will murder Marisa and Raul, besides continuing with the work of Jesse, because Rene is the new Fiera. Marisa finds out the sentence of his brother and immediately she communicates with Flores telling the truth about what the Wildcats did them.

Jonás Prado is stripped of the Guardian costume and He is put on a train heading to Nayarit, so after that, He take a boat to the Islas Marias. Jonás riding in a car with more than one hundred prisoners. There, women are used as prostitutes, sexual infections begin to emerge, like viral infections due to heat and lack of hygiene.

After eight hours of travel, the train stops suddenly causing unrest among the prisoners who try to escape, but the police men end up killing them. Jonás notes that someone else has uploaded the train.

The trip continues up to Nayarit. There, many prisoners died of starvation and gonorrhea and syphilis. Jonás and several other prisoners are placed in a boat that will take Maria Guadalupe Island.

Detective Flores investigating the attack of the Wildcats to the Prado family discovering the truth, and that it was a revenge because of corruption in the police.

During the boat trip, Jonás met Barbara Escandon, who is pregnant and was jailed for stealing folic acid. Also, Jonás meets Brian Barrero, Vicente Trujillo and Lucio Moya, who committed minor crimes, but directly affecting the position of politicians.

During the journey, the heat and fatigue begin to take the lives of some prisoners, so that everyone has to ration food and water. The captain realizes that have gone off course and they are lost.

Marisa calls Henry O'Neal asking him about what he gave Jonás and if he know the whereabouts of his hideout, as Marisa suspected Jonás has evidence involving Jesse Barbosa and Acambaro police men.

Jonás realizes that he has been traveling in circles, John, Brian and Vincent go to the cabin to find the captain dead. So with the help of Brian Jonás takes the ship to its destination, while Vicente and Lucio care for Barbara, who has suffered from fainting.

Flores reviewes the case file realizing that Prado is closed on the orders of the officer Jesse Barbosa. The ship arrives at the Islas Marías, the few remaining prisoners are placed in an area of hard labor, while prisoners dead are buried in the same island. 

Jonás takes care of Barbara, he works the hours she should work, Barbara finds the costume of the Guardian and Jonás tells her the whole story. They heard a shot and Jonás comes out to see, all observed surprised that Lucio is killed and apparently he killed himself. Jonás notes finding that the weapon is one that he used when he was the Guardian.

Detective Flores investigates the history of Jesse Barbosa, founding that he was gang member in his youth and he came to the police through the Chief Leonel Ramirez, who is now Mayor of Acambaro. Flores reviewes the list of people killed by the Wildcats discovered that all they did something that endangered the continuation of the Mayor. Even Raul Cortes, as did a school homewokr where he questioned the work done by Leonel Ramirez.

Jonás works at the same time realize that part of the mesh that leads to the restricted area of the island is broken. Vincent comes to tell Jonás that Barbara is having a lot of complications with her pregnancy. Jonás and Vincent come to see Barbara, who gives birth to a son and then she dies.

Jonás mourns the death of Barbara and promises to take care of the baby, whom he called Jonás. Brian, Vincent and Jonás bury Barbara. After the funeral, Vincent gets a shot in the head and he dies. Jonás discovers that the bullet that killed Vincent is an aluminum bullet like the one he used in his arms. Jonás and Brian come to the house of Jonás seeing blood painted in wall forming a message that says "You are the next, Guardian" Jonás recognizes the Wildcats logo and asks Brian to take care of Jonás Jr., as he has work to do.

Marisa reviews the safe in the mailroom where Jonás was a customer, Marisa found a tape containing the confession of Gato Negro, in which, Mayor Ramirez is intruded. Marisa shows Flores a recording and he calls for digging up the coffin of Jesse Barbosa. Marisa and Flores dig up the coffin of Jesse finding the body of Gato Negro. Flores immediately requested a helicopter, as Jonás Prado was judged unfairly, in addition he is in serious danger.

Jonás gets the costume of the Guardian, of course, takes all the crystals that are in the cabin, the explosive materials and sharp tools and goes toward the general office. Jonás sells his clothes in exchange for two calls, one, Jonás uses it to leave a message on her cell phone to Marisa and the other is occupied Jonás to ask Brian to be hidden in the basement of the cabin with the baby and not go for nothing.

Marisa hears the Jonás´ message and report it to Flores, who holds the record for the police to provide him with the helicopter. Guardian puts the glass in the treetops, so they do not fall with any movement. Then, Guardian enters the restricted zone, where is Jesse Barbosa, who tells the Guardian he was very hurt, but never he died. Guardian tells Barbosa He know which he came on the train and he took his arms, besides the killing of the captain of the ship.

Barbosa told the Guardian that both have been spared, but it is time that one of them perish. Both face using the weapons at their disposal, the sun passes through the glass burning the brush and cause a fire, which facilitates the fight between Guardian and Barbosa.

The helicopter descends and Flores runs to help the Guardian. Barbosa pulls his gun and Guardian picks it up and shoots Barbosa, who falls dead. Flores arrives with Guardian just when he gets up and Barbosa wakes up to attack the Guardian, but this one will fit him a stump in the heart. Before he died, Barbosa mockingly tells the Guardian that the new Fiera goes to Marisa and Raul, and this time, Guardian can not protect them.

Barbosa dies, Guardian is on the baby and then He ups to the helicopter towards Guanajuato. Marisa and Raul visit the Alóndiga de Granaditas, people start leaving, because the museum is about to close, Raul goes to the bathroom and Marisa waits outside. Raul takes and Marisa decides to go in seeing Fiera holding Raul and pointed him with a weapon.

The Wildcats come beginning to destroy and loot the place. The helicopter arrived, the Guardian slips and falls down into the Alóndiga scaring the cats. Flores and the police men come and face the Wildcats. Fiera flees to the roof of the Alóndiga with Raul, Flores tells Guardian that he and the police men are responsible for the Wildcats and he must go by his nephew.

Marisa and Guardian reach the ceiling seeing Fiera holding Raul on the edge of the roof and pointed him with his gun, Guardian tries to negotiate with Fiera but he insists on killing Raúl, the helicopter is approaching and Fiera Distractes Guardian shoots in Fiera arm, which falls down from the roof pulling Raul, Guardian uses his springs to jump and hold Raul as the springs are stuck in the ceiling, the spring break and Raul and Guardian fall down, but the helicopter is approaching and Guardian uses his hooks to hang from the helicopter and avoid crashing. Guardian and Raul watch Fiera shot and killed.

3 MONTHS LATER ...

Jonás, Marisa, Raul and baby Jonas arrive at their new house that the government provided them. Flores visits them and tells them they have captured the Wildcats, but Ramirez still remains at large and there are many criminals to be captured. Therefore, the Guardian would be very useful, but Guardian replied that he take care of his son, but if his state nees him, he will protect him. 

TO BE CONTINUED... 

(C) COPYRIGHTS 2011 VICTOR HUGO BARRERA ARELLANO