Prelude
"OK, Bent, I'm in," whispered Sly Cooper, within a mansion he had just forcibly entered. "What do I do from here?" he asked.
"There should be a marble staircase on your left," said Bentley, Sly Cooper's best friend and the brains of the Cooper Gang. "Don't go up there, head down the hall to the circuit breaker box and flip open the switches marked 'Cameras' and 'Security'." Sly ran down the hall and flipped the switches. "Now, head up the stairs and go into the door on your left. That's the library. In the glass case lies what we're looking for!" Sly ran up the stairs and entered the library.
"Whoa…" The library was a huge room, the walls lined with hundreds upon thousands of books. "Hamlet, Beowulf, Romeo and Juliet, the Odyssey, the Iliad, Macbeth, Othello, all in original copy!" exclaimed Sly as he lined his sack with priceless books.
"Sly!" Bentley almost screamed, "We're not here for priceless Elizabethan literature, we're here for daVinci's codices!"
"I know," Sly whispered back into his Binocucom, "but these belong in a museum, not in some rich idiot's private collection! These are for everyone to see, and I'm sure that's what Homer and Shakespeare and all the others intended," he whispered, still stripping books from their shelves.
"Fine," said Bentley, "take the Shakespeare stuff. But promise me you'll be quick with it."
"Sure," Sly replied, packing one last copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream in his satchel. "OK, where to from here?"
"Follow the red carpet to the end of the room. The case will be there." Our hero tiptoed down the carpet to the end of the room to where the case was standing, sparkling, containing 4 of daVinci's priceless codices. "Give me a visual," asked Bentley, his voice muffled by static. Despite the incessant crackle, Sly could hear the underlying message, and focused his Binocucom on the case. "Damn! Seems the case's security runs on a separate power grid. We could never shut it down even if we tried. Abort mission, abort mission!"
"Never say never," said Sly as he shut down his Binocucom, "Although I just said it 2 times…" Sly pulled the gum out of his mouth and stuck it on the blade of his Swiss Army Knife. Carefully, he set to work guiding the blade between the frosted glass and a small grey sensor, until the sticky gum remained stuck to sensor, rendering it useless. Sly jimmied the lock open on the other side, and viola! DaVinci's codices were revealed. Sly grabbed them and stuffed them in his bag. But alas, the removal of the codices revealed something unfortunate. Another sensor! "Damn; this guy's smart," remarked Sly as an alarm went off on the roof. Sly jumped out the window of the library and landed in a pile of soft, Switzerland snow. Sly activated his boot's Air Boosters, and disappeared into the forest.
"Attention! We have you surrounded! Come out with your hands up!" screamed Carmelita Fox at the mansion, as Sly Cooper escaped into the forest, free as a bird.