Diablero S2E2
Now: Episode 2 "The Ahuizotl"
Little Mayaken is revealed to be playing some video games. He gets preturbed when someone in the house is vacuuming. He uses his powers to unplug the vacuum. Doesn't phase the dude so he plugs it back in. Now this time it is personal! The man takes one look at this cat and then runs. Mayaken uses more of his spooky powers to scare the shit out of him.
Elvis, Keta and Nancy are staring at that portal that materialized from the aforementioned incantation last episode. Elvis automatically gets a chicken timer and activates it as he explains to the girls that it will help them get a gauge of how much time as passed. 10 minutes in the real world would be more like months in the portal. He sets it to 60 minutes. If they are in this other dimension for too long it will fuck up their brains and stuff.
So hold the fuck up. That means Ventura has been there for centuries then!!
Nancy being the unapologetic bad ass she is jumps in.
Irked at how she jumped the gun, he mentions that in Papi books, it only tells him how to open this portal but not to get out. So...FUCK! Keta hands him something that may come in handy. It was something she prepared to help him remember what is reality so he won't get stuck or whatevs Quick hail Mary and he jumps in. Looks like Keta is staying behind. Just in case.
Elvis gets up and uhhh how what a weird limbo this is.
Nancy on the other hand is calling out for Ventura on this weird looking boat where dead ass people are not exactly responding to her. They're dead so...yeah. One does eventually nudge her in the right direction.
The floating man...is that...?!?!?!
Ventura be looking like a muthafuckin Jesus over here. Funny, he doesn't seem to remember her and is acting like a whole different ass person. And much older as you can see his hair and beard. She is insisting on rescuing him but he doesn't seem to want to be rescued. All that timey wimey stuff his brain es muy fucked. So he ain't budging.
Off the in distance, Elvis is swimming along and eventually boards the boat with Nancy. Holy fuck though, his potion fell and spilled on the boat. This goofy ass tries to lick what little he can since this is what will hold his sanity. Everybody just laughs at him.
However, by the time Elvis reaches the boat, Nancy is succumbing to the effects as Ventura did. In record time the effects are also rubbing off on Elvis too. He looks at Nancy as if meeting for the first time and doesn't hesitate to proudly hand her his buisness card. HA
Meanwhile, there are dead peoples sombering singing while a main one is playing the accordion. Time is flowing pretty wacky here and Elvis even joins in on the band of the dead.
Elvis joins Nancy and Ventura sitting on the butt of the boat. One even asks if he has a sister and he's genuinely confused now. He vaguely remembers Keta but this reignites his mission again so he gets an idea to talk to the captain! He inches his way over there but the more he progresses down the roat, reality is getting more and more disorienting for him that he actually lost his train of thought and goes back to resuming his hang out.
Keta, still on the IRL side of things, she notices that the chicky timer is nearly out and assumes something must be wrong. As a last ditch effort to save them, she hops in the portal too!!!!
Once Keta reaches the raft, she is able to slap some sense back into him again. Sanity restored this time he RUNS to the front of the boat to have a chat with the captain. Brooding fellow, that chap. Scary as fuck too because the first thing he says is to look on the bottom of the channel. A sea of dead ass souls. The captain says that is what will become of him if he steps off this boat...ELVIS INFANTE. That's right, he knows this cat. He tries to appeal to the captain regardless that him and his group are living so the captain says he will make a deal with him. But he won't like it. Elvis says he is willing to do literally anything.
It is immediately cut to Ventura, Nancy and Keta, whom she is already succumbing to the effects. Elvis says that they will all take off at the next stop. Ventura is like "NONSENSE! This raft never stops. You know that, fool!"
Alas, they actually do get off. All four are on the pier while the boat of the dead bid their adios to them. Keta cautiously asks Elvis WTF he did. A favor, he says and nothing more.
Now that they can get out, Keta doesn't even remember if she left the portal open. Hmmm well if there's a will there's a way.
Remember that guy that got his thumb ripped the fuck off in order to seal the demon in a bottle from first season???? Well while he was in the shitter is exactly where Elvis had his exit point. DISGUSTANG!!!!!! At least they are back in the real world, huh?
It is a sunny day and all four and heading back to Elvis' crib. Since it's been like forever since Ventura has been out and about, he is just gawking at the world around him as if it's his first time being born. Kids are outside playing, adults chatting away with each other. Elvis says that all he needs is a group hug!!!!!
Ventura is still looking at them like WHOOOO ARRREE YOUUUU. He's still in a bit of a limbo trance I guess. However, he stares at Nancy and looks like it's slowly but surely coming back to him as they both share a kiss.
Nancy brings him inside to finally chop off that god awful Jesus Tarzan hair. After he got his beauty makeover, Nancy hands him his box of priestly stuff. He described his trance in limbo as if he has been in a long ass slumber, he is still struggling to remember that he was a priest to begin with. Right when they are about to kiss is when none other than MARIANA!!! She comes in to greet her long lost papi.
She is showing him Halloween pictures of her and Elvis. lol
While Elvis and Keta are talking at the kitchen table it was very brief. Keta says while it's great they brought him back at all, their original mission was about that ominous warning! AbruptlyNancy and Ventura, hand in hand formally announce them dating. Keta is quick to notice that now that they are still touching each other, their electric spark seems to be...nonexistant now??? PORQUE!!?!?!?
Still in his expectantly hazy memory he said that something happened to his angel.(took me wayy too long to realize that the reason for that SPARK was that since Nancy is a demon magnet, the spark was a result of Ventura's angel protective mechanism) Ventura claimed that Rosita (whom he spoke through) was attacked by a yellow eyed demon. His brain is still loopy as fuck and trying to unravel things. Keta doesn't make this transitioin any better because at the slight mention of wanting to rescue Mayaken sends her in protective mom mode and starts accosting him. Nancy tells her to chill out since this dude spent a good couple of years in LIMBO of all places so yeah....give the guy time to recollect KETA!!!
Ventura retrieves an item and says that someone handed this to him in limbo. Elvis unravels the cloth and it's....just an animal figurine (dog or cat? idk it was a quick glance).
Elvis asks to reassure him if this s because his brain is in jumbles but Ventura insists that they should hold out for a phone call. Elvis is like nahhhhhhh
But phone goes brrrrrrrrr
On the other line is Lupe who called to inform him that Rosita has now disappeared. Oh noes. The whole group head straight over to there where Punk Rock Bella Thorne is also in attendance to tell them that this is all that was left in the courtyard where she disappeared. A blankey. Nancy takes one whiff of it and says it wreaks of evil shit, dude. Exact quote.
Lupe scoffs when Elvis tells her that Ventura had an angel. She's says they don't even exist anymore. However, let's get back to the missing young lady.
She already knows that Rosita was selling that forbidden drugs, and this is accompanied with flashbacks of Rosita and friend being attacked. Now that she has a name, I can no longer call her Goth Grimes even though she looks more like Billie Eilish but I can't stand that brat and Grimes is...different but still the lesser of my annoyances but I digress here.
Elvis believes that it is a demon that is responsible for the attack. A very powerful one at that. This immediately gets sidetracked when Lupe takes one look at Keta and takes her hand to acknowledge her great pain. Keta doesn't take it well and pulls her hand hand. Nancy tells Lupe to stay TF out of her mind, man!
Resuming the mission: Find Rosita, he goes on a rant about how he needs funds to aid in their help and goes on a semi further rant about his ordeal. Lupe ain't listening though lol! She telepathically implores Keta that she is yet to unlock a special power within her and she can help.
Keta says yes out loud and Elvis, this silly goose, interprets this as her backing him up for the monies. Ha. Lupe continues as normal and actually sends them on their way after handing them a stack of cash so they can get to work.
After Punk Rock Bella Thorne (still don't know her name yet) closes the door, Lupe does this witchy thing and writes Keta's full name on an envelope sealed with a 💋
Meanwhile at a different location in a dark ass surrounding is an ugly yet poorly CGI looking demon steps in a room and reguritates a human encased in...something. Ew. Maybe it is Rosita?? The person peeks out of a hole and sees another encasing.
Elvis and the rest of the crew arrive to the GPS location of Jimena, Rosita's friend last whereabouts. It's still daytime at this point. He asks Ventura and Nancy if they can interpret any clues. Both say nope.
Nancy thinking she stepped in shit, is in fact not shit. It's a black glob that she says the smell is hella reminescent to the blanket Rosita was last using. Ventura randomly says that he sorta of remembers faces and their cries. Elvis asks if he heard a baby cry and he replies that while it looked like a baby he is not sure if it was one.
This sparks something in Elvis and they descend downwards and crawl on this abandoned pipe. Everyone is clueless why the heck they crawling in a stinky pipe but Elvis seems like he knows what he's doing. In fact, he is more confident more than ever on his answer.
Switching scenes yet again to the mansion Mayaken is at. A man in glasses is slowly walking arouund the house until he hears a weird groaning. As he approachs a gate, he finds the vacuum man with his mouth glued shut!! The man walks on over to Mayaken and asks him why he did that to the man. Mayaken telepathically says he's sorry. What a brat.
Now that everyone is back at the main headquarters (Elvis' casa), he explains to everyone sitting at the kitchen table that as young children, him and El Indio knew where The Ahuizotl was hidden and convinced Elvis to take part in selling this demon for the sake of financial gain. Also passing comment that he took an apprentice with him named Tepoz.
Everyone is ingesting this information like whaaaaa? Just wait.
He continues the story saying that when all three of them got to their vessel, it broke. El Indio and himself were able to protect themselves. However, the unfortunate fate of Tepoz wasn't so luckily, the demon possessed him. Elvis turns behind him to take a picture out of a frame with a young pic of him and El Indio and grasps it firmly while continuing the story. He is filled with guilt that he had to kill this young man, he extends the pic to reveal Tepoz as hidden pic. He has a sneaking suspicion that this is the same demon that attack Rosita.
Mariana, doing her homework at the table is like, what are ya waiting for, diableros?! KEEL HIMMM.
And cue the montage of all the members getting getting and riled up for this big ass showdown. Ventura getting his new wardobe fix, to Keta doing witchy things and Elvis getting his guns packed and ready. As they leave, Ventura gives parting words to his preteen daughter promising his return. Big hugs and they part.
Foursome goes back to the stinky pipe sewer at night time now which also takes place at night time, as per usual in a demonic showdown scene. They exit through an abandoned water park.
While they are walking, Elvis winces in pain and he checks to see some black bruise on his upper torso. It's implied he is actively keeping this to him. I'm assuming this is the connection with that deal with the Captain in Limbo. Keta notices that this time, Elvis is not wearing his signature red chaqueta but rather late Papa Benito's jacket. Elvis tells her to mind her beeswax.
I'm finally piecing this shit together that this was the exact place that young Indio, Elvis and Tepoz went. Elvis says that he doesn't quite remember the exact location since Tepoz had the map. Keta thinks she can help as she concocted a pill to trigger a flashback and after some hesitation, he takes the plunge.
He holds out his hand and while Keta recites an incantation to materialize the pill in his hand that he hastily injests. Things continue to get a little loopy because now that the pill is immediately taking effect, it's hard to describe it here but Elvis is "rewinding" before everyone's eyes. Rewinding in the form on styles of attire. Almost like flipping through a book of various times in his life. He continues to rapidly go through all these changes from his hip hop era, to metal era, hobo era, to finally the long haired era.
Now that he is in his desired timeline in his brain, he is also reliving the one sided conversation with Tepoz. It must be a bit amusing to witness his chats as he toggles between his conversation with Tepoz and eventually El Indio. Not Keta, obviously. She is not amused listening as this conversation in particularly was about El Indio pursuing Keta and Elvis not approving of it.
As they follow long haired Elvis, he stops abruptly. The rest of the group give him space making sure to not be too close to him and just observe where TF he is going. It's been decades so a building has been built since that timeline and he bonks his head which triggers him to revert to his modern state in a blink of an eye.
Keta goes to his aid. Now that they have a solid lead, the rest take their entrance and...enter.
It's hella dark in there with only a dim red lightstick that Elvis is holding. Keta observes some black bones down there. Ugh. Elvis cautions everyone that this is a Type 3 demon so watch yo back. As they are walking....
They find Rosita (I was right!) dazed a bit. They asked where Jimena is and she points to where her dead bloodied carcass is resting. She stands up and hold fuck, the fucking demon is coming back!!!!!!!!!!
Elvis tells them to break out the salt and make a circle around them ASAP. The demon is quickly approaching the circle. It pouts and then yeets out of there. That was anticlimactic bruh.
The continue to stay in the circle and Elvis is confused when he looks down and sees the circle is actually broken but for some reason the demon chose to flee instead of attacking them so...what's up with that, man? He theorizes that an outward force was the only reason. Elvis tells Ventura and Nancy to take Rosita to safety while they try to hold it down here.
As they are walking, they seem to lose their tracking. Nancy gets a call from Elvis (as a walkie kind of thing I suppose). She stops dead ass and says that she can smell the demon. Oh shit. In an effort to try to ensure their safety, Ventura says he will try to distract the demon so both of them can escape in one piece (or 2 pieces if we're being pedantic). While still on the phone Elvis says he cray cray and almost means certain death.
Nancy and Rosita are ducked out and see The Ahuizotl zoom past them. AND THEM COMES BACK TO THEM!!!!!!! In a swift movement, the demon grabs Rosita by her head and prys her head from her body. Fucking gross.
What a climatic way to end this episode.
Episode 3 is next.
Outro: 🎵 Los Tempestades "Museo" 🎵