WHAT'S UP, BITCHES
Just kidding. That's not how I start my stories.
Now that I have your attention, hello! My name is superzombiedestroyer123 (I went through a phase. It was...interesting), and I have so many incomplete stories that it hurts my brain to think about. I have ADD, and my mind jumps subjects easily. For the time being, it's on Sly Cooper and Victorious!
Now, something to note would be that this has already been done by StakeTheHeart, who wrote On The Sly, which I highly recommend. It's a great story, and a perfect blend of the first three Sly games.
I also bring up On The Sly, because this story may seem similar to it. I assure you, I can think of my own plots, I swear, but I, like StakeTheHeart, want to try to sort of stick to the storyline of the Sly Collection. So, if it seems really similar, that's probably why.
Now that I have that super long author's note out of the way, let's start!
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"Sly? Come in, Sly!"
Jadelyn Elizabeth "Sly Cooper" West stood on the roof of Interpol's headquarters, the Paris branch, to be precise. The voice coming from the red pack on her thigh belonged to one of her two best friends, Robert Matthew "Bentley" Shapiro, who, at this point in time, seemed highly distressed.
Jade sighed, and reached a blue-gloved hand into her pack, pulling out her binocucom and bringing it up to her face.
"Yeah, Bentley?" She asked, raising her voice slightly to be heard over the Paris night. The gang used codenames when on missions, to ensure that nobody would know their true identities.
Robbie sounded relieved. "Just making sure you're okay. It's not every day that we break into jail, you know."
Jade chuckled at that. "You're right. But this is long overdue, and I need that file."
He sighed. "I know, Sly. Which is why I called. According to these blueprints you stole from one of the officers, there should be a small vent across from the water tower you can use to enter."
Jade pushed a button on the side of the device, focusing in until she found the vent in question. She looked around, and found a way up.
"Alright, pal. I'll get back to you once I make it in."
A second voice, this time belonging to her other best friend, Andre Leon "Murray" Harris, cut in.
"Don't forget you've got me at the wheel, Sly. Just grab that file and meet us at the rendezvous point."
"Will do. Over and out."
She placed the binocucom back into her pack, and readjusted her blue beret, where her jet black hair was stored under in a tight bun, and grabbed her cane.
The cane was made of about 4 feet of polished wood, with a gold-looking hook shape taking up the final foot of the 5 foot object. The hook itself was made of titanium, while the shaft was made of Quebracho, one of the hardest woods in the world. It belonged to her father, and now, to her.
Jade shook her head, willing her memories to crawl back from where they came from. She walked up the incline to the side of the water tower, where she then slid along the side of it, coming to two large, rather unstable-looking antennae.
She paused, and looked around for any other means of getting to the air vent on the other side.
When no other means became apparent, she sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose with a gloved hand.
One of these days, I'm gonna end up breaking my neck, Jade thought to herself.
She jumped, and landed in the middle of the antennae, which began swaying wildly. She slowly stood, trying to balance herself in the middle, and jumped again.
This time, however, the second antennae nearly ripped her off, and she grabbed onto one of the prongs with her cane, pulling herself back up.
Jade quickly jumped to the roof, and breathed a sigh of relief.
She smacked the blade of her cane across the vent's cover, and crawled inside, mindful of any nails and dead insects that littered the vent system.
The thief came out onto a small ledge, and looked down, noticing a massive array of lasers waiting for her.
Bentley's voice filled the mic in her ear.
"Be careful when you go down! Those lasers are quite active, and will burn you to a crisp."
"Thanks for the heads up, buddy." She replied, and looked for somewhere to jump too. A little below her platform and to the right was another ledge, one that looked a little unstable.
She jumped anyways, and landed on the ledge, feeling it immediately start to give way underneath her.
Jade jumped to the left, over a set of lasers, and onto another ledge, one that also gave way.
A few more jumps, and she was at the bottom, where she noticed that she was in an elevator shaft. She shoved one end of her cane in between the sliding doors, and pried them open, stepping out into the hallway.
"Nice job! The file your looking for is inside of Inspector Vega's office. It should be behind a red door." Bentley told her.
She nodded, though he couldn't see her, and crept silently throughout the headquarters, trying to find a red door.
After a few tense moments, she found it at the end of one of the winding hallways of the building, marked with a large star on the glass.
Jade tried the knob. Locked.
She looked to her right. A window led out onto a small ledge, from the looks of it used for gardening. She opened the window and crept out.
Jade slid along the edge of the building, where Inspector Vega's office window was. Gripping the side of the window, she slid the very edge of her cane under the window sill, pulling up to open it.
She landed deftly onto the floor, taking in her surroundings.
On her left was a simple couch, presumably for visitors to sit on, with books on either side. To the right of that, was an office desk and chair, with a large cork board above it. On the cork board were pictures of the thief, along with locations in the past month that she'd stolen from. To the right of that, was a safe, the words "Make It Shine" emblazoned on the front.
Jade went to the safe, kneeling down in front of it and pressing the communication device in her ear.
"Bentley? I'm at the safe."
"Alright. I've hacked into the security mainframe. Try 9-3-7."
Jade went to the left most knob, turning it until the dial read "9". She went to the middle, and dialed in "3". Then to the last, dialing in "7".
There was a soft 'click', as the mechanism unlocked, and she swung the door open, sifting through files until she got to one with a blurry picture of five menacing silhouettes clipped to the front.
Jade grabbed it, and produced her calling card from her pack, placing it inside.
She headed out of a different window, one that exited onto the fire escape, heading to the rendezvous point.
"You know, when I decided to stake out right outside of my office, I honestly thought you'd be smart enough not to show." A feminine voice said from the rooftop next to her.
Jade turned.
"Carmelita! What a pleasant surprise. I was worried you fell behind after I gave you the slip in Bombay." She replied, lowering the pitch of her voice.
The Latina crossed her arms. "That reminds me. You need to return the Fire Stone of India to its rightful owners."
Jade propped herself up on her cane. "And I was gonna give it to you as a token of my-" she notice the large gun in the police woman's hand "Hey! That bazooka really brings out the color of your eyes."
Carmelita smirked, holding it up to the moonlight.
"You think? It works a lot like a taser, and the paralyzing electric shock it'll give you may just be enough to knock you out of your criminal actions."
Jade pretended to be hurt. "And give up our little rendezvous?"
"Plenty of time for that once you're in jail."
"You know, I'd love to stay and chat, but I just dropped by to pick up a file. I think you've had it long enough."
Carmelita took aim, and fired at the blue clad thief.
Jade picked up her cane, and hooked it on the railing of the fire escape, swinging over the side of it and bracing her feet against it. She grabbed the railing with her right hand, and unhooked her cane from the rail, swinging to the floor below her.
She slid down two set of stairs, avoiding electric blasts, and landed next to the parking lot. Carmelita had made her way down her building's fire escape, as well, and sprinted across the street, firing at Jade.
Jade weaved in between parked cars, ducking and jumping to avoid being shocked, and neared the edge of the lot.
In the distance, she saw the back of her gang's van, with a large blue raccoon face painted on the back, and headed straight for it.
Robbie shoved the back doors open, and the van began to move. He held on to the handle on the inside with one hand, and held his other out to Jade.
As soon as she got near enough, Jade stuck out her cane, and Robbie grabbed it, pulling it, along with her, into the van.
The inspector fired a few more rounds, but they went harmlessly to the side as the van sped off.
Carmelita Victoria Montoya Vega ran a hand through her brown hair.
Shit, she thought. My boss is gonna kill me.
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Jade, now safe in the van, opened the file, reading through the contents.
Finally, after all these years, she'd finally found the file on the Fiendish Five, and with it, the revenge she'd been awaiting all these years.
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So that's that! Lemme know what you think in the reviews! I'll see ya next time!