CHAPTER 13: Back to the past
Rickshaw, now being a bucket of water, needs to find someone to turn him back into a human and continue to pursue Mr. T. They find a space wizard and pay him 10 pesos (worth about 90,000,000 dollars US) to cast a spell on him. However, they forgot to specify what spell to cast on him, and Rickshaw is sent back in time to 1888.
Rickshaw ends up in an old town, with horses and rickshaws. Many moons ago... rickshaws were pulled by hand. Rickshaw nets a job as a Rickshaw puller, thinking there’s no way to get back to modern times. Rickshaw then meets fate, THE ENFORCER’s great great great grandfather, THE ENFORCER. “Where the heck is that damn Pedro?” THE ENFORCER asks to himself.
“If I don’t stop him, he’ll be the great great great grandfather of a man named Poncho ...Why look, a bucket of water!!”
Having thought Rickshaw was an innocent bucket of water, he kicks it.
Rickshaw forgot he was a bucket of water, so he has to find another way to approach THE ENFORCER. Maybe if he found a way to help THE ENFORCER, THE ENFORCER might find a way to turn Rickshaw back into Rickshaw, and send him back forward in time.
Rickshaw needs to find a way to disguise himself before approaching THE ENFORCER, so he uses the money he earned from his Rickshaw pulling job to buy a cowboy hat. With his watery insides concealed, now Rickshaw is ready to face THE ENFORCER. With a stroke of luck, THE ENFORCER passes by again. “I still can’t find that dang Pedro!”
Now’s his chance. “You’re The Enforcer, right?” asks Rickshaw.
“I ain’t no Enforcer.” THE ENFORCER replies.
Rickshaw is puzzled in why THE ENFORCER refuses to give his identity. THE ENFORCER continues. “...I ain’t no Enforcer, Pardner, I’m THE ENFORCER, You spell it with capitals, Y’hear?”
“Oh, I see.” Rickshaw finally understands.
“Well you see, I can help you find Pedro, The Enforce- uh... THE ENFORCER.” Rickshaw begins. Looks like the disguise seems to be working! Rickshaw got THE ENFORCER listening...
“You can help me find this here Pedro, huh? What do I need to do in return?” asks THE ENFORCER. “Well, you may not believe it, but I’m from the future. If I help you, I need you to find a way to get me back.”
THE ENFORCER is not surprised. “Well of course you’re from the future, Nobody in 1888 can pull a rickshaw THAT well. Alright, I’ll help you back.”
And so, Rickshaw and THE ENCFORCER went on to search for Pedro. They try to find Pedro, but all they find are goats. THE ENFORCER, who is good at looking for things, finds a goat with TNT attached to it. “Look out! It’s a terrorist goat!” BOOM!
The goat explodes, and Rickshaw and THE ENFORCER get launched into space. Having flown into space, THE ENFORCER has earned the title of Space Cowboy, and because Rickshaw was flown into space, he has earned the title of Rickshaws in Space. This was the weirdest stroke of luck, as they have found Pedro, hiding out on the moon in a little shack. Having being in space for a while now, Pedro has earned the title of True Mexican Hero G. I. Jose. “What’s the secret message?”
Pedro asks, only his eyes visible. “Rickshaw tries his best” Rickshaw says.
THE ENFORCER pokes Pedro in the eye and throws open the door. The inside of the shack turned out to be a casino. Who would have thought there would be so much room in the shack!
The casino has many Pedro Look-alikes, It seems that Pedro was more prepared than they thought. It was Pedro’s Space Casino, which was around for 5 years already. THE ENFORCER was closer than to his goal than he thought. Now all they must do is search the Space casino. Rickshaw didn’t notice, but he turned back to normal. Maybe because the explosion from the goat-bomb messed up his atoms, or when he flew through space the golden ring stopped working. They meet a man named Dubaiz, who looks just like Pedro. “Excuse me, do you know where Pedro is?”
Dubaiz doesn’t know who THE ENFORCER is. “To get to boss, you must gample your way to him!”
but Rickshaw and THE ENFORCER don’t know what gampling is. “Allow me to explain. Gampling is gambling, but with apples.”
Now Rickshaw and THE ENFORCER knows what to do. However, they don’t have apples, so they were forced to wager their Adam’s apples.
And so a game of Craps begins. However, before they were able to place their bets, a Rickshaw lookalike, crashes his rickshaw through the wall, with no pants on, throwing hamburgers everywhere. The hamburgers are very dangerous projectiles now, as Rickshaw skilfully dodges them all. Pedro comes out of the room (the real one) and he looks pretty annoyed. “Why are you all causing such a commotion in my casino?!”
A stray hamburger hits him in the baby toe and he vomits out a flock of vampire bats. The vampire bats fly out the window, but melt from the sight of the sun. As the pant-less Rickshaw lookalike continues throwing the hamburgers, and Rickshaw continues to skilfully dodge, THE ENFORCER chases after Pedro. Pedro, startled that he was found, quickly puts on his disguise, a pair of gag glasses (Fake glasses with the nose and moustache.) “Where did that damn Pedro run off to this time?!”
Pedro’s plan has worked. Pedro notices a horse trying to steal Rickshaw lookalike’s rickshaw, and Pedro hops in the rickshaw as the horse pulls it away as the Rickshaw lookalike and Rickshaw are preoccupied with their hamburger related activities. THE ENFORCER decides to make chase with Pedro, even though it might not be him due to his witty costume.
As THE ENCFORCER gets closer to the possibly-Pedro, the might-be-Pedro takes cover in the stolen rickshaw, so THE ENFORCER doesn’t see his face. The horse keeps pulling the rickshaw down the road, and THE ENFORCER continues to gain on the most-likely-Pedro. confirmed-to-be-Pedro, who is getting desperate, takes out freshly ground black peppers, and throws them at THE ENFORCER. The black peppers become killer bees, and rush towards THE ENFORCER. THE ENFORCER bats them away using his THE ENFORCER BIBLE (Patent Pending), and they bounce off like rubber. The killer bees fly off into the sun. Pedro is losing distance, and needs to get away fast.
As a desperation attempt, The horse who stole the rickshaw veers into a nearby office building, trying to escape THE ENFORCER. The horse climbs the stairs, as the rickshaw with Pedro in it bumps up and down, bumping Pedro’s head to the roof of the rickshaw every step of the way. As they tear through photocopiers and cubicles, the people in the office continues to live out their boring lives, hellish internships and their desk jobs. Pedro approaches the elevator, where the door opens to reveal THE ENFORCER. Pedro is shocked! Pedro turns around after receiving a shock from THE ENFORCER’s ENFORCER STUN GUN (Patent Pending), the horse pulling Pedro’s rickshaw makes its way out the window, onto the highway.
Having failed to slow down or confuse THE ENFORCER, Pedro takes matters into his own hands. He throws everything inside of his pockets at THE ENFORCER, including a koala, a few rocks, a plasma rifle, a cruise liner and a sticky keyboard. Pedro, having emptied his pockets, has no other choice. He throws his disguise at THE ENFORCER. They drift into orbit.
Pedro’s out of things to throw, this is the end of the line. He finds a moon rock, and throws that at THE ENFORCER to. The moon rock floats like a bubble into orbit instead. It seems that they forgot that they were on the moon. Pedro, THE ENFORCER and the horse begin to suffocate. They die.