Rick Cooper and the lord of Fürher's Thieves
Part 1
Chapter I
One foggy night in Paris, France, Bentley received an E-mail from Penelope. It read,
"Dear Bentley, I over heard that there's this master Criminal who claims he is better than us. I intercepted a message from him that said that they were planning to come over to our main Safe House in France to steal everything from us! We have to stop him. Meet me at the old harbor of Poultry-giest, Germany. I'll have a makeshift safe house set up with it's own power generator."
Bentley read the message aloud to Me, My father (Sly Cooper), and Murray. We packed up everything and locked up the main safe house. Murray drove us over to Poultry-giest, Germany; the ride was about 5 hours long. During the ride, I researched the history of Poultry-giest. I found out that it was once an industrial town that was known for it's factories. However, a band of thieves by the name of "Fürher's Thieves" targeted the thriving town and robbed it of all it's goods, money, and property. Now the city was an industrial waste land filled with old, crumbling factories, smog, and shanties. When we arrived at the ghost town of Poultry-giest, we drove around looking for the old harbor, Murray tried asking for directions, but the residents just ignored him. Eventually, we found the harbor and Penelope. Penelope told us of Lord Doberman, an evil dog that had a merciful-less reputation of thievery, dictatorship, and downright heartless. He and his lance-toting Guard dogs stayed at the old City Hall building where they stored all their money and stolen loot.
This was going to be a heck of a challenge. We have to stop this dictator-like dog and his swarm of Lance-toting Guard dogs patrolling the streets for loot. I don't know how we're going to do this, but we have to save this town from collapsing and prevent the thieves from robbing our Safe House in France. Before we do anything, I have to take recon photos of the area.
After we docked at our target, we quickly set up our safe house. The first mission would be for me to take recon photos. I decided that early dusk would probably be a good time, there'd still be enough light for the pictures and yet, it would be dark enough for me not to get caught. As I was wandering through the town, I realized that this was a fairly big town compared to some places I went. I called for some recon backup and enlisted my father to do one side of the town while I did the other. I took the on the east side, the side with most of the factories. I looked around from the roof tops of old houses and found the tallest factory building that would give me and good view of the area. I hopped off the roof and paraglided down to the front doors. There was an old pad lock on the door that looked quite rusty and ready to fall apart. With a simple swing from my cane, I shattered the lock right off and proceeded inside.
There was no electricity in the building anymore, and even if there was, the light bulbs were smashed. There was a dank smell in the air that consisted of mildew, machine oil, and rainwater. I proceeded down an old corridor that looked like it led to the offices. I stumbled across something and landed face-first onto the floor. As it turned out, I stumbled across a guard, who I awoken from sleep.
"Hey! Who are you?" he yelled
"I'm a building inspector" I cleverly lied, "I'm here to see if this factory should be blown up"
"Alright, good enough. But one last thing… who sent you here?" he ask
"Lord Doberman's men called me up to look at a few buildings" I lied once again
"Really? Huh, didn't think they cared" he replied, "Ok then, you're off the hook, and thanks for waking me, my shift is on soon."
"Have a good day" I replied
"Yeah, same to you" he responded
The guard left and I continued down the corridor. I came up upon a door that read, "SERVICE ELEVETOR authorized personal only" Being a thief, that didn't apply to me, I picked the lock and opened the door. Behind the door was the shaft. I looked down the shaft and noticed that the elevator had broken off of its cables years ago and crashed in the sub-basement. The cable looked strong enough to climb up on, and so I did. I leaped on to the cable and climb my way to the top floor. I busted the door down with my leap and landed on my feet. After surveying my surroundings, I made my way to an old window encrusted with dust and dirt. The sunlight was trying to come in the windows, but it was too dirty, I shattered the glass with my cane and leaned out to take pictures of the surroundings. I stood leaning out the window enjoying the scenery of the old town basked in the sun set. A few stray gun shots went off from a distance and snapped me out of my daydream, I walked around the room looking for more windows, I found one in the far corner that had a good view of this one mansion, possibly Lord Doberman's. I knocked out the window and leaned out to get a good shot. As I leaned out the window, supporting myself on the weak window frame, the windowsill gave way and I almost fell out! Fortunately, I reacted in time to jump back. I took a few more pictures from neighboring windows and enjoyed the sunset. The orange sunlight shinning on the ruins of crumbling factories and buildings was amazing. Once the sun set, I paraglided out the window and back to the safe house undetected.