(First Sly Cooper story, chapter... thing. Woo! *Throws confetti* I've been wanting to do this for a while and since I finally got around to finishing the first chapter, well, here we go. Hope you all enjoy. Make sure to leave a review down at the bottom and tell me what your thoughts are

It was a cold and dark that night in paris. Perfect for a midnight heist with the gang. We were paying a visit to the museum because there was word that another one of my ancestor's canes was there, but since it had only just been found out a few minutes ago we didn't gather much information on who's it was, but what we did manage to get info on was what kind of security was there at the moment.

Lemme just say, with our past 'adventures' they certainly beefed up the competition. And by 'they', I mean Interpol and the oh-so-persistent Inspector Carmelita Fox. It was some tight security with guards posted at each doorway and the Inspector standing in front of the room the cane was supposedly in, along with five more guards with her, and wouldn't you know it, she had those same hand-cuffs she's been trying to capture me in even to today. That and there were more guards inside, but it was nice to see she's been as stubborn as usual.

So with that, I waited on the roof for any intructions from my good pal in the fan. "Alright Sly, are you ready?" Bentley, the brains of the group, asked me as he was talking via the Binocucom.

"As ready as I'l ever be." I replied with a grin as I surveyed the room I was looking at from above.

"Alright, so your goal here is to quietly sneak past the guards without being seen. Might I recomend using the chandeliers to get across the room? Just make sure not to make too much noise when they swing around."

"Right, got it." I said dropping down from the skylight part of the roof, then swinging form the ledge that I still held onto and landing on one of the Chandeliers with only a tiny bit of noise. There were currently 5 of them in the room. 3 patrolling the main area while the other 2 were guarding the door way.

"Alright. Now what you wanna do here is move from light to light without making too much of a disturbance, and head over to the air duct entrance. From there you want to go left twice, go right once, and then keep heading straight ahead for approximately 2 minutes and 54 seconds, that should lead you to the exhibition area and allow you to slip past Carmelita undetected. That is, if they don't hear you first."

"Bentley. You worry too much. Don't you remember how many times I've done this?"

"Don't you remember how many times our plans have failed?"

"Ouch, thought you might have gotten over that fact yet." This conversation between us was somewhat quiet and not that distracting for me as I was able to chat and still swing across to my destination while avoiding detection. Once at the Air vent opening I was about to go in before I caught eye of one of the door guards having quite the hefty pocket. And being the nice guy I am, I decided to... 'help carry' most of it for him. It was easy reaching him with my cane, though making sure the others didn't see it was the hard part. Some even saw a glimpse of my cane before I hid again and they looked around for a bit before shrugging it off and going back to their post.

Once I was done looking at the loot I scored, I found myself in the Air Duct and currently crawling through the vents towards my destination, the exhibition area, to grab what's rightfully mine.

Now you see, usually... I steal from other thieves seeing as that's how my family has been doing it for years, stealing from those who deserve it regardless of us becoming somewhat infamous for that. But when it came to my family's canes. I like to think of that as a special occasion where I get to break the rules that one time.

As I was approaching the room where the cane was being held in, I couldn't help but shiver a bit as I felt something change in the air, but it wasn't a cold feeling at all, more like something was changing or was about to change soon. But I had to focus, at least no-one decided to turn on the air conditioning, and I was closing in on the cane's location. Once I got to the end of the vent, I contacted bentley on my Binocucom in order to get the scoop on what the security's like in the room, you can never be too careful. Especially if you're a wanted thief and number one on Carmelita's list on people to arrest.

"Bentley, what's the scoop?"

"Well Sly it doesn't appear to be trapped in any way, there aren't any security lasers this time so it should be an easy grab."

"Well that's good. So I can just go in, grab the cane, and sneak back out."

"That would be the case Sly, but unfortunately there's an alarm system on the glass casing itself. And there's no way for me to access the security system and hack in, it's like there's a remote controller for it. Try looking around and see if any of the guards has one on them."

"Got it." So I took Bentley's advice and after opening the air vent quietly, I was able to get a better angle of view and I took a look at what the guards had on them with my Binocucom. At first it was fruitless, not a single one had a remote anywhere and they didn't even have a single bulging pocket, so that means no constellation prize either, but what did surprise me the most was that I was able to find where the remote was, only downside is: Carmelita has it. And in a hard to reach spot.

"Uhhh... Bentley?"

"Sly! Did you find the remote?"

"Yeah, I found it."

"Great!... So, where is it?"

"Carmelita has it. And in a... hard to reach spot."

"You mean it's in her-"

"Yeah. The one place a guy can never take things from."

"Ho boy... Well we need that remote if we're gonna get the cane from it's case."

"You sure there isn't any other way?"

"I'm sorry Sly, but the only way we're gonna get into that casing is with that remote! So it's best we just give up tonight and try again another time."

"I got a better plan. I'm gonna find a distraction and hopefully get that remote back."

"Sly, you know that won't work!"

"Sorry Bentley, gotta go."

*Bentley POV*

"Sly? SLY?!... Oh boy... Murray, get the van started. We're gonna need to get ready for a get away ASAP." I said with a sigh as I couldn't believe what Sly was going to attempt. At this rate he'll get into even more trouble with Carmelita than he was before! Regardless of their... slight relationship.

*Sly POV*

I slowly, but quietly made my way behind the Inspector as I was attempting to grab the remote from one of the most devious of hiding places. Right in-between her chest. I needed a distraction first, and I needed one badly, well... maybe I asked for too much. Because as luck would have it, I got my wish and a little too much as there was a flash of light, the sound of glass shattering and alarms going off from the room I was just, which in turn alerted the guards and Carmelita, who, once saw me trying to grab the remote from her chest, was completely enraged.