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Museum of Egypt, Cairo. 6 P.M.
Wolf's grappling hook connected to the balcony railing as he rappeled up to it. "I can't believe they store the remains of the most hated criminal and leader of the Fiendish Five in Cairo." A brown wolf said climbing onto the balcony. He was wearing a white jacket and pants before looking back over the balcony.
"It's for research, Wolf." A woman's voice said into his earpiece. "After being done in by the Cooper Gang, They picked up what was left of the old bird for research."
"Cooper Gang..." Wolf Scoff. He then heightens his voice. "Oh look at me, I steal from other criminals, I'm so cool and nimble and have hundreds of phone numbers of people who want to date me in my back pocket."
"Very funny, But you got to admit, stealing from criminals is a first. HEY, Why don't we STEAL from criminals? I bet they have loot they're never going to look at again." The woman replied.
"Webs," Wolf said sighing. "Is Shark dealing with the guards?"
"Yep, Love his choice for disguise for this job." She replied. "Mr. Piranha and Mr. Snake are waiting for you by the main vault door...That's weird, all the security systems turned off."
"Well, some guy on the intercom system said the security had to be taken down for maintenance," Wolf said as he picked the lock to the door leading to the security hallway. Opening it.
"Yeah, maintenance isn't till tomorrow..." Webs replied leading.
"Oh, that means there's another group of thieves here," Wolf said as he picked up the pace as he made it the double doors. "Gotta get those parts."
The main vault was being broken into by one of Wolf's comrades, an orange snake who was coiled around the vault dial listening to the inner workings. Besides him was a green, Anthromorphic Piranha wearing a white striped shirt and overalls waiting by the door. "How's that Vault?" Wolf asked Mr. Snake.
"Just give me a moment. These Egyptian Vaults are complicated." The snake said turning another round. Suddenly, there was the sound of a window breaking from inside the vault.
"Please tell me that wasn't the backroom being broken into," Wolf said worriedly.
"No, That was the sound of the bullet-proof windows in the vault being broken into." Webs corrected.
"Got it." Snake said uncoiling from the dial as the massive steel door moved forward.
They entered the storage area, blueprints of the old bird were plastered all over the wall...But the clockwerk parts were gone, The harness and construction cables that were supposed to hold the parts were bare.
"What!? No! No! Did the Cooper Gang beat us here or?" Wolf said looking around the empty room. "Webs, What happened to the-"
Suddenly, a gold hook-like object snagged the wolf by the waist before he was flung into a stack of crates. In front of him, pinning to the crates was a racoon with gray fur, he wore a blue cap and shirt with gray pants, He also wore a brown backpack.
"Well, If it isn't the big bad wolf, leader of the Bad Guys, Funny, shouldn't you be stealing an identity of an old lady in the forest somewhere?" Sly said using his cane to pin the wolf against the crates. "...Where are the Clockwerk Parts?"
"I was going to ask the same thing..." Mr. Wolf gasped out before Sly pulled away from him.
"Wait, Wait, Wait." Mr. Snake said using his tail to rub his forehead. "You're telling us you didn't steal that scrap heap?"
"I was...But apparently, someone got here first..." Sly said thinking. "Question is who..."
Suddenly. the two sarcophagi in a corner of the storage room shook before both a police fox wearing an yellow jacket over her police uniform and a violet furred lynx burst out. The fox woman holding a shock rifle at the four. "Freeze, Thieves!"
Wolf, Snake, and Piranha all froze. "Oh Snap." The brown snake said not moving.
"Well, Well, Inspector Fox as beautiful and unpredictable as ever." Sly began, raising both his hands in fake surrender.
"Whereas you crooks are so predictable, You always return to the scene of the crime." The Inspector said keeping her shock pistol trained on the four.
"Crime? We haven't stolen anything...Yet." Sly said with a mischievous smirk.
"Y-Yeah! We haven't broken any laws...In front of you." Wolf added to the raccoon's comment.
"If you didn't count our act of trespassing just now." Mr. Piranaha said suddenly. Earning a facepalm from Mr. Snake.
"We're going to Egyptian Jail." Snake groaned.
"Like I said, No theft," Cooper reassured.
"Oh really? Then who broke in here last night and made off with all the clockwerk parts?...YOU got the motive." Inspector Fox accused.
"Someone already stole the parts?!" Sly yelled, Mr. Wolf looked at the racoon, realizing that this wasn't going to his plan as well.
"Don't Play dumb with me."
"Now, Don't you think it'll be odd for a thief to come back after stealing several cursed pieces of a metal owl?" Mr. Wolf said defending Cooper.
"The Wolf may be on to something, It might not of been them." The purple lynx said throwing her red hood back slightly. "The method of entry and Guard casualties all point to this being a Klaww Gang job."
"...The Klaww Gang?" Both Sly and Wolf muttered before looking at eachother.
"Constable Neyla, I brought you on this case as a favor for the Contessa, I Don't need any help." Carmelita Fox said annoyed by the chime in from her new partner.
"Oh, I think you might. Look at the facts."
"FACTS!? Sly Cooper and the Bad Guys are right there!"
"Uh, Think we should leave and let these two ladies talk it out." Mr. Piranha whispered to Sly and Wolf. The four looked at one another before creeping over to the vault door while the two policewomen continued to bicker.
"All I'm saying is that there are other criminals in the world besides's..." Neyla said just as Carmelita caught the raccoon and wolf pulling the Vault door shut, planning to trap the two officers inside.
"SLY COOPER!!! AFTER HIM!!!" The fox yelled shoving past a resigning Neyla just as the vault door was shut. Banging and angry yelling was soon heard from the other side.
"Okay, Truce till we get away?" Mr. Wolf said to the raccoon.
"Truce, We'll talk later. Right now, we need to bail before Mrs. Fox finds the entrance Murray made." Sly said before he Sprinted off ahead. Wolf picked up Snake before he and Piranha ran after him.
"Guys! It's a bust, meet me, Snake, Piranha, and Cooper in the east hallway. If You encounter The other two members of the Cooper Gang, move together." Mr. Wolf said into his ear-comm.
As they made a break for it, One of the skylights broke above them as Inspector Fox landed on the upper floor balcony. "You're not getting away!" She yelled firing her shock pistol, Mr. Piranha then grabbed a large bone from one of the display cases and struck several of the electric shots like a baseball batter, when Carmileta was out of charges. Piranha dropped the bone before catching up with the others. "That was a homerun performance!" Sly said as Piranha caught up to the group.
Suddenly, the doors beside the group opened as a green turtle wearing a safari hat and glasses and a pink hippo with red gloves and boots, a blue shirt, purple pants held up by a large belt. and a red wrestler's mask, Burst in with the remaining of Mr. Wolf's gang.
Mr. Shark, the master of disguise of the group who was currently wearing a pizza delivery uniform as part of his distraction, on his shoulder was the diminutive but intelligent, Ms. Tarantula, The Hacker of the Bad Guys outfit, whose computer skills were on a match to Bentley's.
"Well, this definitely wasn't in the plan- GAHHH!!!" Bentley ducked his head into his shell to avoid one of Inspector Fox's shots. "And now Carmileta's after us...Again..."
"Come on, This is the fun part," Sly said to the group. "Head to the van with our new friends, Me and Mr. Wolf are going to keep the good ol Inspector busy."
"Wait! Why do I have to come along with you?" Mr. Wolf said as the others headed down the stairwell.
"Because you have a grappling hook? And I don't?"
"Ah, Touche." The Wolf said as Carmelita landed behind the two.
With no other options, the two made a running start before jumping through the window. Midway through the jump and shattered glass, Wolf drew his grapple gun and fired it at a flagpole on the rooftop. Grabbing Sly by the wrist, before zipping to the roof, The two hit the roof with a roll, getting up with fevered breaths.
"Whew, Just like that safe stealing job back at home," Wolf said as he began to hear police sirens. "I think we should run."
"Fifteen steps ahead of ya," Sly said dashing ahead and jumping to the next roof. "Try to keep up!"
Mr. Wolf quickly got up and dusted off his suit before running after the raccoon.
Shark was having a hard time fitting in the van, His smaller friends had no problem finding space, But the overgrown fish took up most of the backspace with Bentley's equipment. The group heard a telltale sign of a grappling hook being fired before Sly and Wolf burst into the back of the van and slammed the doors shut. "Punch it!" Sly yelled.
"On it, Hold on!" Murray shouted hitting the gas and Van lurched forward, despite the added weight, the van still took off strong.
"Alright, Introductions." Sly began. "Bentley our strategist, hacker, and demolitions expert."
"Charmed," Bentley said at his computer with a wave. Ms. Tarantula was watching him work.
"Murray our brawn and driver," Sly said gesturing to the hippo in the driver's seat.
"Please as punch! Oop, Left turn!" Murray shouted as the van made a sharp turn.
"And then there's me, Sly Cooper, Master Thief, and expert acrobatic runs in the family," Sly said proudly. He then looked serious, "Now, what are you doing here?"
"We just came here for the Clockwerk Brain, Webs wanted to download the contents of it and try to locate his stash," Wolf explained. He then realized. "HEY! I just realized something, I thought you only stole from thieves? Why did you break into the museum?"
"Is the owner an organ trader or something?" Mr. Snake said as he was coiled around Shark's arm.
"It's a bit of a..." Sly said squeezing to the front seat and sitting down. "Personal matter."
"Ooooohhhh." Webs said realizing. "He came here to finish off Clockwerk." She said to Mr. Wolf.
Sly made a click of his tongue and held a thumbs up to let Ms. Tarantula know she was right on the money.
"Huh, Funny you didn't think of that AFTER you broke him apart the first time." Mr. Wolf said leaning on the left side of the van.
"Well, I thought the lava would've done the job," Sly said reclining in his seat. "...How Naive I thought I could put an end to that kinda hate."
Ms. Tarantula then lowered from the ceiling of the van via her webbing. "It sounds you knew the guy." She commented before jumping onto his cap.
"He tormented my family and killed my parents...In that order!" Sly said with a sad look. "There'll be disastrous consequences if those Parts are put to work...Or worse...Put TOGETHER. Does the Klaww Gang Realized what they stole?"
Mr. Wolf then thought about it before nodding his head. "You know, we seem to be at an impasse, We want the Clockwerk Brain to steal his loot and you want to destroy the rest of the parts altogether. How about we join forces?"
"Yeah, Once we get the clockwerk brain, I can just download its contents before you smash it." Ms. Tarantula said looking at Sly from her perch on his cap.
"That's a great idea! The Murray approves!" Murray said making a donut through the town square.
"We could use their skills in retrieving the Parts. The Klaww Gang are a lot tougher than anything we faced." Bentley commented.
"...How Can I be sure you won't run off with the parts with our backs turned?" Sly said looking at Ms. Tarantula.
"Uh...Because you're a master thief? A criminal who specializes in stealing from other criminals? And that if we try to betray you, you'll hunt us down to the ends of the earth and beat us senseless before dropping us in front of a police station?" Ms. Tarantula said to Sly. "Trust me, I did my research, the last thing we need is a Cooper as our enemy."
"Point is, Wouldn't you rather have us as allies than enemies? And This is just a one-time thing. Once we get the map to Clockwerk's loot from his brain, you can do whatever you want with it and the rest of the bird." Mr. Wolf said before nearly losing his balance in the shaking van.
Sly then looked at the criminal in the back with Bentley, Sly couldn't help but sympathize with them. They didn't seem like bad guys for real, just people who have never been given a chance other than being criminals.
"Okay, Let's do it, But while we're in an alliance, I don't want you stealing from anyone other than the Klaww Gang." Sly said looking at the five.
"Deal!" Mr. Wolf said before he lost his balance and nearly fell but held onto the side. "So...Where we're going...?"
"Home, Paris, to our Hideout," Sly said as the Van finally shook the police and drove off into the desert. "And Hopefully, Our first target."
"Yeah! The Cooper Gang and the Bad Guys, Roughing it up together!" Murray shouted, nearly going off the road.
"MURRAY!" The Group shouted from the sudden bumpy ride. And thus started the greatest caper as two of the most cunning groups of thieves join forces. Now on route to Paris, France.
As the drive to the port continued, Sly pondered what Neyla said back at the museum, was that Klaww Gang bit a slip of the tongue...? Or an important Clue?...."