The Adventures of Puss in Boots

Ah. This is most pleasant.

Why do I not do this more often?

Oh, hello, Babieca.

Have you always had that horn?

No, Puss, I'm a beautiful unicorn now.

Ha ha ha! Wonderful! Is this a dream?

Of course not.

If it were a dream, would I be able to fly?

Ha ha ha!

Whee!

Aaaaah!

Intruder!

- What is it? - There's a crack in the floor!

What? What?

Something's under the bed!

What?

I think I saw my shadow move.

My shoe!

A hangnail!

My tummy hurts!

There's a spider in my room!

You cannot keep doing this every night, Mr. Mayor.

- I have not slept in a week. - It crawled in my mouth!

I see no spider.

Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!

There it is again!

What's wrong, Puss?

It is the mayor.

He has kept me awake every night this week

with his terrified screaming.

The man is consumed by fear.

Maybe the mayor wouldn't need you so much

if you could teach him to be brave.

I already tried that.

I see.

Bravery is not something you can teach, Dulcinea.

It is a conviction, a philosophy of living.

It is the feeling you get when you stare down your enemy

and vanquish them with ease.

Puss, that's it!

What?

You just have to arrange for the mayor to defeat an enemy as fake as that sword,

and he'll believe he's brave.

That might work.

But I thought you did not approve of lying.

Lying? It's not lying.

It's... It's helping, by pretending.

Everyone else calls it lying, but okay.

I will hire some thieves to pretend to attack.

Oh, and I'll write the script!

When do we get paid for this?

After you let the mayor beat you.

Everyone knows what to do?

Sure, we read the script.

It's my best work.

I need to get some sleep.

Mr. Mayor?

Mr. Mayor, if I could...

- What? - Ah, Puss in Boots!

What can your mayor do for you?

I have some concerns about the fountain.

Oh! Did it come to life? Is it eating people?!

No.

See? Right there. It has a leak.

I don't see anything.

Prepare to die!

Bandits! Stay back! All of you!

Well, well, well. If it isn't...

- "... Mayor Temeroso." - Mayor Temeroso.

We are bad guys.

And we are going to use our hands to hit you in the faces.

Puss! Save me!

- Puss in Boots! Oh, no! - Oh, no!

Aah! I'm frightened! Ohh!

Now you will feel the wrath of Puss in Boots!

Yaah!

En garde!

Aah. Aah. Frightened noises. Aah.

Kick!

Ohh!

Oh, no, no, no.

I've become unconscious.

Faint.

Puss!

Angrily fight me like a man.

No, no. You say it angrily.

Angrily fight me like a man!

So?

And?

Oh. Right.

A Sweetie Boy doll. At last!

Why do you want that thing anyway?

It's not weird. Maybe I collect them.

None of your business.

We have to convince the mayor that he beat the thieves somehow.

Huh?

Mr. Mayor, you did it!

You're the bravest man who ever lived!

Uh... who's what?

You defeated all these bandits with your bare hands.

And then you fainted from, uh, an excess of bravery.

That is... hard to believe.

Toby.

The thrilling tale of how the mayor beat the bandits,

illustrated by Toby, that's me.

Here we see the bandit leader.

Toby, why is he a frog?

I'm good at frogs.

Ah. So, the bandit leader demanded you fight him.

You... I guess this duck is you...

I'm good at ducks, too.

You struck him with your mighty fist.

He went flying. The other bandit... frogs attacked

and you leapt into the fray, smiting them relentlessly with your...

wings.

Until they could fight no more.

And then there was pie... for some reason.

I got hungry.

Can this really have happened?

Mr. Mayor, a child's hastily scrawled drawings do not lie.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

So it is true. I am...

a hero.

Oh. Yes, yes, hero, hero.

Give it up for the mayor.

- You're great, Mr. Mayor! - What a great hero!

Speech, speech, speech!

Citizens, today I have saved you all!

You're a hero.

You're a hero!

Yes, I suppose I am a hero.

You're the greatest hero ever.

You're the greatest hero ever!

I am the greatest hero ever!

You're the bravest and strongest hero of all time!

And your fists are like mighty cannons

sent by heaven to protect the world from evil!

You are right!

Go forth and crush the evildo...

I will do this!

Oh, look at that!

I am no longer Mayor Temeroso.

Hmm?

I am Temeroso, brave hero of the western desert!

Citizens of San Lorenzo,

I hereby appoint your new mayor to be...

Puss in Boots!

- Can I sleep in the office? - Yes.

Then I am the mayor now.

Farewell forever, San Lorenzo!

I am off to fight evil! Temeroso, away!

Well, that got out of control fast.

Finally, I can get some sleep.

Puss! Puss!

Dogs!

We can't let the mayor do this.

He's not a fighter. He'll get himself hurt.

You're asleep, aren't you?

Oh, my. I guess it's up to me, then.

Mr. Mayor!

I came to find you

and to say come back to town.

Dulcinea, I cannot.

I must crush evildoers,

and that is a hero's job.

But could you go with me?

I don't know the way to the Thieves' Market.

Well, I don't know. I...

Whoa!

Well, seems like a good time to be heading home...

now, while you're still alive.

I must clean up the Thieves' Market.

I will heroically make it the No-Thieves' Market!

Illegal gambling? Ho ho!

Go fish.