Some of the dialogue in this story will be the same or a slight variation to the dialogue so I'm not just retyping the dialogue from the game.
Late at night, well early morning in Paris, France a mysterious figure by the name Sly Cooper could be seen jumping from roof to roof, smashing chimneys and side stepping thin ledges.
The light from the window by the ledge revealed Sly to be a grey raccoon with a blue shirt, hat and gloves with a red backpack and a black eye mask covering part of his face. In his hand was a long wooden cane with a gold C shaped hook on the end.
Reaching the end of the ledge he jumped high in the sky and landed on a bright glowing police sign before gracefully landing on the roof of Police HQ where he was contacted by his team mates Bentley and Murray.
Sly comes from a long line of master thieves all with different adventures and villains, all these events and ancestors were recorded in a big book called the Thievius Raccoonus, in this book was all the moves previous thieves had learnt and passed on to their heirs, just reading the book granted their descendants new abilities that could be used for their own thefts. Master thieves were different to regular thieves as they saw no honour or challenge stealing from normal, innocent people. This, of course, created a well-known infamous reputation with master criminals and the police.
However when it came to Sly's turn to inherit the book his family was attacked by 5 criminals known as the Fiendish Five. A young Sly forced to watch his parents being attacked and murdered by these criminals in search for his family's heirloom. Eventually after tearing everything in the house apart they found the book each stealing pages and going their separate ways to commit crimes. Sly was spared but with no family to care for him he was put into an orphanage where he became friends with Bentley the turtle who was incredibly bright and the brains behind their operations and Murray a hippo who acted as their driver and burden.
As they became older they left the orphanage and took up careers as thieves, their first objective was to steal back Sly's family book. This is what had led them to breaking into Police HQ.
"Sly! Come in! Sly! Do you read me?" Bentley said - shouted coming in from Sly's binocucom.
"Yeah I read you. Loud and... very loud." Sly replied rubbing his ear.
"Sorry I'm just nervous it's not every day you decide to break into Police HQ." Bentley said.
"Get over it Bentley. At least you're safe in the van. I'm the thief here; I've got to steal my file back from Inspector Carmelita Fox."
"Well you can count on me to be your eyes and ears; I've got their security systems scoped. All you have to do in order to get inside is climb through that air vent." Bentley informed.
Sly looked over to see the vent he needed to reach.
"Alright, got it." Sly replied.
Sly was about to make his way to the vent when he got another voice sounding in his ear.
"Don't forget about me Sly. I'll be at the wheel and all you need to do is get the file and get back to the van in the parking lot." Murray said.
"Thanks, just keep that engine running Murray, I'll be down shortly." Sly said.
Sly made his way up some steps and around a water tank before jumping antennas and breaking through the vent, crawling through the vent he made his way into the empty police HQ and was guided to Carmelita's office by Bentley. As most doors were locked and not accessible Sly had to climb through a window and walk along a thin ledge to get into the office where a huge safe was positioned in the corner of the room.
Using the code provided by Bentley Sly broke into the safe and retrieved the file with his name and picture, replacing the file with his signature calling card he made a break for the fire escape to head to the getaway van.
However he didn't get very far before he was greeted by an angry and pistol holding Inspector Carmelita Fox.
Carmelita was a very good cop who had been on Cooper's tail for some time yet failed to capture him yet. This rather than deter her made her even more intent on being the one to put him behind bars.
"Criminal!" Carmelita shouted stopping Sly in his tracks.
"You foolish raccoon I've caught you red handed." she said.
"Ah Carmelita, haven't seen you since I gave you a slip in Bombay." Sly replied calmly.
"That reminds me, you need to return the fire stone of India to its rightful owners." Carmelita replied.
"And I was gonna give it to you as a token of my- you know I'd love to stay and chat but I dropped by to get this file as I think it needs to be returned to its rightful owner." Sly replied before jumping down to the parking lot.
Narrowly avoiding Carmelita's shots he managed to reach the van and they made a speedy getaway leaving Carmelita in the dust.
"I'll get you raccoon!" Carmelita was shaking her fists at the disappearing van when a voice came over her communicator.
"Inspector Fox there's been a robbery at the Art museum."
Meanwhile at the Art Museum
Another raccoon figure was walking the halls, dodging spotlights and knocking out guards in search for some valuable artifacts. However this raccoon was a blonde female named Lola De'Loreann.
She was also a thief however with less of a reputation but a known reputation none the less. Although her thefts are more for personal wealth and souvenirs in order to earn money. Lola also had two team mates Penelope and Bess who supported her in stealing.
After exploring the museum and stealing whatever looked light and expensive, this wasn't difficult in an art museum. Finally she came across a high security room filled with laser alarms and two sleepy guards in front of a golden ancient helmet in the centre of the room with other ancient golden objects surrounding the room.
The two guards although tired and falling asleep would wake abruptly and look around before drifting back to sleep.
Penelope managed to shut down the lasers in the floor and inside the glass case of the helmet, while Lola climbed to the ceiling and travelled along the beams supporting the roof before jumping and landing perfectly on the glass case silently.
One of the guards woke due to their partners snoring and moved away to the other side of the room where he fell back to sleep leaving his partner asleep by the helmet case. Preparing her attack and stealing their personal belongings she quietly flipped the first guard over her shoulder and knocking him out before charging at the second guard and kicking him in the head.
Making her way back to the unprotected case she lifted the glass and stole the helmet, however whilst turning to leave she noticed a golden staff weapon, that looked like a blunt ended pole, and a golden encrusted case for blue prints and plans. Unfortunately Penelope hadn't shut down the alarms for all the items so when Lola stole both the objects it set off alarms alerting the rest of the building and the police to a robbery.
Sprinting down the halls, dodging obstacles and jumping beams and managed to make a narrow escape, that is until she made it to the roof planning to jump down but was stopped by Carmelita Fox, who had already had a busy night but Carmelita didn't get a good look at the thief before making a mistake in identity.
"Thought you escaped didn't you Cooper?" Carmelita said.
"What?" Lola replied and moved to be more visible.
"Ringtail? Should've known this was your doing." Carmelita replied raising her shock pistol.
"Well it's a living, now if you don't mind I must be going." Lola said jumping onto the next roof.
Carmelita wasn't prepared for her to jump but reacted quick enough to shoot Lola with her shock pistol, only momentarily slowing her down before she gave chase.
They reached a bridge and Carmelita thought she had her cornered but Lola jumped off the side of the bridge and landed on the lower framework and managed to make her way back to her team waiting in a safari style jeep and escaping Inspector Fox.
Although she had a feeling this wouldn't be there last encounter.