A.N. This is an AU where Carmelita in the thief and Sly is the INTERPOL officer, Bentley and Murray will still be Sly's partners though on the other side of the law, and Carmelita will have an entirely new gang. Hope you enjoy the story anyway.

Disclaimer: I do not claim rights to the Sly Cooper Franchise, I only claim rights to this fanfic, and OCs

Chapter 1

The young Carmelita Fox cowered in the furthest corner of the hallway closet and the group of five villains took down both her parents and ransacked the house in search of the family book. The only this is that this book wasn't your average family heirloom and her family wasn't an average family.

The book itself was the Thievious Vixen, an object that contained all that her family had learned in the past in their thieving career, and that right there is what set her family off from the others, she was from a long line of thieves and she was supposed to inherit the book today, and before the five villains had arrived she had managed to glance over a few of the many worn pages.

After the large figures left and the house got silent Carmelita crawled out of her hiding spot within the closet and took in the true wreckage of her house. After she had called the authorities she packed a bag full of a few belongings, stuffing the second and remaining family heirloom in the bottom of the bag, the young orphaned fox waited in the trashed living room for the authorities to arrive and take her to her fate.

The only problem she had with the waiting was having to sit in the remains of her demolished house, and after deciding that she waited in the depressing scenery for long enough she stood and made her way to the front porch, quickly hearing the sirens as the Police approached. About five different squad cars stopped before her house with dozens of officers pouring out and entering her house, a lone officer staying outside to comfort the young fox and transport her to her new home.

The trip in the squad car was silent as the officer drove forward, Carmelita sat in the back staring out the window in a daze, not even paying attention to the areas passing them outside the car during the trip Carmelita must've fallen asleep because next thing she knew she was being shaken awake with the all girls orphanage standing behind the officer. Following behind the officer Carmelita found herself inside a dull building full of screaming and giggling girls. Upon seeing all the strange faces Carmelita clutched her backpack protectively against herself. She was introduced to the head matron of the orphanage and then led up to the room that she would share with one of the other girls.

After leading her to her room the matron left Carmelita to unpack her belongings. While she was unpacking the door squeaked on its hinges as someone entered the room. Carmelita turned, after quickly stuffing her back and the concealed heirloom into the draw, and came face to face with a large juvenile female boar. She walked over with a bag of chips in her hand and outstretched her free hand.

"Hai, Miss Greenwood said ya'd be in here." As Carmelita took the boars hand the stranger continued. "Welp, I'm Winnie, what do you go by?" Winnie released Carmelita's hand to retrieve some more chips, she didn't even notice as the fox rubbed her hand against the fabric of her dress to remove the oil from the chips that Winnie's hand had left on her fur.

"I'm Carmelita." Winnie swallowed the chips in her mouth and smiled. "All right, though that seems like a mouth full, so Imma jus' call ya Leeta." Of all the nicknames the young fox wanted Leeta was not among them and after trying to tell that to the boar, she realized that any argument would go right through the boars head without any success of reaching her. In the end Carmelita settled for the nickname and except it.

With that Carmelita gained her first friend, although reluctantly at at first, and after a few months in Miss Greenwood's Orphanage for Girls, the two grew closer together and Carmelita told Winnie all about herself and her family. Then the two of them as well as the other girls were moved to other orphanages as Miss Greenwood's became bankrupt. That is how Carmelita and Winnie found themselves at Happy Camper's Orphanage.

They found themselves lucky at being able to stick together and often stuck to each other's side. The new orphanage they found themselves in was like stepping into an entirely new world, because while Miss Greenwood's was an all girl's orphanage Happy Camper's was coed.

Although it was always thought that girls were weaker and gentler than boys, Carmelita wasn't going to put up with anyone's crap, and so when she saw some of the boy's picking on a quiet owl, who was known around the orphanage for being, quite literally, a bird brain. Along with that her had a stuttering problem and was quite often holed up in his room to avoid confrontation with anyone else.

"Hey, why don't you pick on someone who's actually stand a chance." Carmelita called as she made her way to the others. They momentarily stopped in their attack as they turned to the Carmelita, taking in the fox that most boy's would assume as weak, due to her short and thin frame.

"Why don't ya go back and play with your dolls?" One of the larger males asked, he height and stature certainly rivaled Carmelita's but it was no match for Winnie's brute strength and size. Speaking of Winnie the large boar got up from her spot on the couch and made her way to Carmelita's side. "Why don't you take yer own advice and scram." Winnie said as she took and threatening step forward.

That single step, which was a complete bluff, worked as the three boys raced out of the room as though the devil himself were at their heels. The owl slowly brought himself to his feet and turned to face the two girls, and even though most boy's stood either at Carmelita's height or taller, this boy stood at least a head shorter than the fox.

"Th-thanks." He said as he brushed off and straightened out his feathers. Carmelita stepped toward the owl, who flinched and shied away from her form.

"I-I can t-take care of my-myself."

stopping Carmelita picked up the wire rimmed glasses that she knew he wore from the floor and placed them back on his face, letting him adjust them himself. With the glasses back n and perched on his beak his eyes appeared twice bigger than they were. Once again he thanked them and then turned to leave.

"Hey ya wanna watch toons with us?" Winnie asked as she moved back to the couch to continue watching the remained of the cartoon that was on. Carmelita joined her friend and after a bit of hesitation the owl joined them.

"Th-Thanks, for le-letting me join y-you, I-I'm Dominic." With that Winnie and Carmelita introduced themselves and Carmelita found herself with a well rounded group of friends, knowing that if they stuck with her and were willing she would have the Brains and Brawn needed to to retrieve the stolen pages of the Thievious Vixen.

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Finally their first heist, Carmelita watched as one of the adults returned from shopping and noticed, in one of many bags, the corner of a box cookies, and that was when she went to Dominic to see if he could formulate a plan for liberating the cookies. As Carmelita and Winnie sat in their blanket fort hangout Dominic began making a plan of action which the put into action no more than five minutes later.

With Dominic's job finished and hi waiting in their room Carmelita and Winnie made their way to the kitchen, watching and waiting for an opening in which they could sneak in and retrieve the loot. After one of the other kids and adult left the large kitchen thieving pair made their move.

Winnie linked her hands and helped Carmelita up onto the counter and watched as the fox made her way over the veneer counter checking within each cupboard for the coveted treats. Suddenly a gasp was heard from one of two kitchen doors and after almost loosing her balance Carmelita turned and caught sight of the calico colored tail that ducked behind the wall. The fox could only curse her stupidity as the worse thief ever for getting caught in the middle of a job. Then from the other door they heard the sound of approaching footsteps.

Just before the steps reached the door and the looming shadow of an adult came into view a voice called out, thus making the shadow halt in its approach. "Miss Lavallee, I have a question." Carmelita quickly toned out the voice as she continued searching and after checking all the cupboards she finally saw the box on top of the fridge. After beating herself up for missing such an obvious thing she snatched the box and with Winnie's help got down from the counter. The two of them quickly escaping the scene and racing back up to their hideout.

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Back in their room Carmelita was about to open the box when an 'Ahem' sounded from behind them. The three partners in crime turned toward the pair that stood just outside of the blanket forts boundary.

Carmelita recognized the two as the twin cats that had recently joined the 'Happy Camper Family'. The brother, a pure white brother, a natural dirt and mud magnet stood behind his calico colored sister who smiled broadly, exposing her gap toothed smile to the three friends. After a few moments in shocked silence, the box having yet been opened the girl, Riley if Carmelita remembered correctly, continued.

"Ciel and I distracted the adults and helped you, now we want in on the cookies." That was the most the three had ever heard either of the two say since they arrived, this was mainly due to the fact that during their first month in the home they had remained isolated in corners and never left the others side, much like Carmelita and Winnie when they had first arrived.

The three exchanged glanced and with a nod from each Carmelita turned to the two siblings and nodded she and Winnie moving a little to make room for the two to join in their group. With that Carmelita had a full group and then some.

She had her natural skills, that would only get better once she started retrieving the lost pages of her families book, she had Winnie the Brawn, there was Dominic the Brains of their group, and then the two new additions to their group that she never thought she would need, Ciel and Riley, the Distractions.

It wasn't long after that before the misfit group of orphans left Happy Campers and began making their band of thieves known around the world as the Fox gang, aiming to make their way to the top as the greatest master thieves in the world. Carmelita having learned from her parents before they left that the only way to be a master thief was to steal only from other thieves, for there was no honor in stealing from ordinary people.

A.N. And thus the first chapter, Carmelita's first heist and the new group, Sly and his charms to come in the next chapter, also I am not happy with the name for the book so if anyone could come up with a new name and leave it in a review I would much appreciate it. And if I do use your suggestion you will receive credit.

Until Next Time Peace Love and Virtual Hugs