Sly's Unlucky Break
Chapter One: A Careless Slip
It was a stormy night, and the rooftops of Paris had a slick of rainwater over them.
A shadowy figure was sprinting full speed across them, while another figure was not far behind.
"You can't run forever, Cooper!" a voice rang out as one Sly Cooper gave a smirk as he hoped onto a tightrope to a second building.
"STOP RUNNING RINGTAIL!" yelled the voice of Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox, a vixen with a shock pistol and a bad attitude.
Sly then stopped and turned around, facing the fox and nonchalantly flung his cane over his back.
"Ms. Fox, this rain sure is heavy, I wouldn't want you to catch a cold out here." Sly said smoothly.
"Cut the smooth talk, Cooper, I know you have the Sapphire of Alexandria, now hand it over!" Carmelita lashed at him.
"Sorry, Carmelita, but I'm only stealing it back from El Terrible himself, he stole it off of a museum and I'm stealing it back." Sly said with a smirk on his face.
"Well unless you're going to return it to the museum, you might as well put the handcuffs on now, you're under arrest." Carmelita yelled as she pulled out some cuffs in addition to her shock pistol
"Sorry again, Ms. Fox but I've got to add this little baby to the Cooper family collection."
Sly then dropped a smoke bomb, threw the sapphire into his backpack and ran off, continuing to jump along rooftops.
Carmelita coughed and quickly grabbed her shock pistol, waving off smoke and got Sly in her sights, then thought of an idea.
If she shot the wet metal pipe the Cooper was going the climb down, he'd surely be electrocuted.
She saw Cooper start climbing, aimed for the middle of the pipe and fired her pistol ZAPP!
When Sly noticed this he knew what would happen, so he immediately let go of the pipe and ell down to a pile of trash cans below CRASH!
He lay in the pile of cans, the stood up only to feel a sharp pain in his leg, it was broken.
"AHH!" Sly yelled as the pain shot through his leg as he put pressure on it, and extreme pain and stinging in his knee.
Then a loud, nasaly voice came buzzing into Sly's ear, "SLY... CAN YOU READ, ME WHAT'S WRONG!?" Bentley asked through the Binoc-u-comm.
Sly winced at the volume of Bentley's voice right in his ear. "Bentley, we've got a bit of a problem here, I may have slipped and broken my leg, and Inspector Fox is coming for me, you guys need to come pick me up. The good news is I've got the Sapphire."
"Okay, pal here we come." Bentley said with an assuring tone, "Step on it Murray!"
When Murray and Bentley arrived, they immediately ran over to Sly, who did indeed had a broken leg and the Sapphire.
"Wow Sly, you're the only person I know who can have his bad luck canceled out by good luck, I don't get it!" Murray said jokingly as he hoisted Sly onto his back and laid him in the back, then reentered the driver seat and sped off to the gang's hideout so that Bentley could analyze Sly.
Chapter Two: Out of Action
When they got back to the hangout Murray helped Sly into the living room, where Bentley was soon to examine him.
"Okay Sly, let's see where the break is." Bentely pointed out as he moved his hand down Sly's leg until he heard a yelp from Sly that made him jump.(Benteley not Sly)
Bentley pointed out again "Yup Sly, your tibia is broken, and as for your knee, your ACL is ruptured, and MCL is sprained." Bentley knew all this from a new invention that allowed him to look through peoples bodies.
Sly let out a sad sigh, knowing that this was bad, and that he'd be out of theiving for a while.
'Great, so let me guess I'm gonna be out of commision for how long?" Sly asked "Well I'd say with the high severity of the break and tissue torn, about 16 months.'
"16 MONTHS, YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME, BENTLEY!" Sly said in extreme fear and anger
"I'm sorry Sly but that leg is too much for you to walk on, unfortunatley, you're gonna need knee surery." Bentley said to him uncomfortably.
"I can perform it, since I'm pretty much team doctor, along with Penelope, we'll do it in a couple days.
He then handed Sly some crutches so that he could at least move around until then. Sly then sighd again realizing the situation.
"Okay Bentley, I understand" Sly said dejected, he then crutched out of the room to his bedroom and shut the door. This while Murray and Bentley looked concerned at each other.
That night Sly was in bed with a knee brace on his knee and elevated by a couple pillows and the crutches at his bedside.
Why, why did it have to happen, why now? I guess my luck is staring to run out, huh? guess it's time to think about retirement, being out for so long, I won't do anything except sit here and get fat. And the Cooper Line, who'll continue it, who'll continue the theiving Cooper ways? This is bad.
As all these thoughts were swirling inside Sly's brain, going a mile a minute, Sly finally started to calm down as he rested his head agianst the pillow and a small tear rolled from his eye.
Chapter Three: Surgery
When Penelope arrived from Greece, Bentley was ready to operate.
When she saw Sly, she could only feel bad for him, stumbling on the crutches, trying to reach things he couldn't.
Then when Sly was alone in the bathroom, the was attempting to keep hismind off the things he thought about the night before... by taking some antidepressants, but when the crutches bumped his arm and they spilled, Sly screamed at the top of his lungs.
When Bentley came in, he saw the raccon sobbing in his hands, he then got his crutches and stormed out.
Later, in the makeshift operating room, Sly was on the modified hospital bed and was looking up at his two friends.
"Thanks for this guys, I now I've been pretty paranoid and upset but I still appreciate it." Sly said.
"It's no problem Sly, you're our friend, we'd do anything for you." Penelope said to him.
"Okay buddy, I'm putting this anesthetic in you, this'll be long, but painless." Bentley said in a reassuring tone.
As Sly started to drift, he started to think about the other night, and started to relax and think about Carmelita, his one true, love...