Sly Persona 5:Thieves of one's desires

by ElstienTheAbandonedKnight

Ruin is something no one can predict. Sly Cooper, A Master Thief. Was chosen to go be the one who will face a ruin no normal person can go through. But really, A master thief like him can sneak through this, Right? Well, if he wants to get back home. He needs to do what he signed up from an odd stranger that he doesn't even know. (Takes place after Sly 4)(Sly x Harem route)

1. Chapter 1

Note:I don't Own Persona or Sly Cooper as they belong to their respective owners. So Atlus please don't rape me with your copyright bullshit or I'll slit my wrists. (Geddit? My Immortal Joke, lulz.)

-1 The costs of Heists-

-?-

The sound of the wind being sliced by a singular helicopter was propelling towards a Night timed Colorful and bright city. It gingerly makes its way through each and every building to lead of what looks like to be a casino. The casino's appearance seems to be 5 towering buildings mushed together while the right side seems to be more triangular than the rest of the construction. It appeared to have a few large glowing aura signs that seem to beg for attention for anyone that's either far or close.

The bright and attractive signs themselves consist of the word "Casino" on the top and in the entrance of the building, A Vulpine lady that appears to wear a Red Dress that snugs in the wearer's body while wearing a red cowboy hat seems to be place around the roof as a small one sits on the triangular edge while the Bigger one seems to be the main attraction as it's right holds a large sword with the tip shining as bright as the sun itself. The left seems to also a Roman of the scales greatly outweigh the other as it seem to carry the golden word "WIN" as if it's imply that the chances of winning is highly possible opposed to the chance of losing. The windows strangely have catholic-like windows instead of the clear and plain glass.

-Casino-

The interior of the Casino itself seems to be glittered with neon bright colors and a few hints of chandeliers. The area seems to have some slot machines that had a japanese style of golden yellow and red. There were also a few green tables that were used for games like blackjack or Roulette. It seems to be meant for a peaceful yet exciting place for people who want to test their luck on getting the treasured awards that rarely anyone could possible get. Indeed, It looks too secure to have any trouble...until now.

The building that was filled the brim from the variety of unique and different animal-like species tall and short,Fat and thin,Male and Female,Furry and scalie. The mammal crowd look around in a fearful and confused panic. Every that was currently gambling away all their remaining money they had left have no idea what was going on as an abnormal event has currently stopped the Casino's usual schedule. Soon some of the mammals begin to think it was time to leave before it could get any worse A sudden blurred shadow made across the scenery of chaos.

The figure soon jumped from a pillar light to another, The Mammal bystanders were still in confusion of what's going on. Soon three other figures that seemed to look like Rhinos wearing black suits and black glasses walking into the commotion that tears through the casino. They seem to join on what was causing this trouble. Meanwhile the figure lands atop of a pillar and then continues to jump on another Platform lamp that seemed to shake as it strains a bit from the pressure it's getting. Soon the figure finally stops it's madness as it finally seems to reveal themself.

It seemed to look like a Young-Teenage Raccoon boy. He appear to wear a Very Dark blue three patch suit. Two gloves that cover the hands seem to be have a lighter shade of blue . A three piece cloak that has a mini pocket that holds a white talisman. It also to have a golden edge across the entire cape. A hat that rests on top of the raccoons looks to be the same color that fits the suit is half fedora and half flat cap that is also detailed to have a face of a racoon that wore a blue mask. Grey Tuxedo pants and blue combat boots. The most recognizable feature of the figure was the mask.

The mask ironically seems to have a Raccoon's face with a blue mask covering its eyes, Similar to the hat. It seems to be only covering his upper face and half of his muzzle. The Mysterious looking coon seems to be posing out while holding a briefcase under his left arm while holding what looks to be some sort of cane. thankfully the air conditioner seem to blow on his cape as it flutters making his Relevance more cooler(literally) than it should be,While the moonlight from a giant reinforced window shines upon him. He have a somewhat faint grin that rests upon from what he's seeing under him.

As a thief you really shouldn't come bursting in to get so much attention, That is the number one thing that any thief knows, The Raccoon knows this and it would be really hurting his pride doing all of these stunts to be so revealing, If it weren't for the plan he was currently in. So why not? Might as well show off to look good if you're gonna need to be caught.

"Look! Up there!" One of the Mammals point out seeing the Thief on the Light, The majority of the crowd seem to notice him as well. The three rhinos in black begin to mutter in the mic from their earpiece giving info of what they see as they begin to push their way to the thief. His grin grows wider seeing that it was time for him to leave, Otherwise it's going to be a long time behind the bars!

"Good! You've got their attention! Now get running!" a boyish voice crackles through his ear as another more masculine voice calls out "This is our only chance!" "Stay calm! You can get away now!" A somewhat high pitched female voice says to make sure there's no pressure for the Thief. "We'll be sure to get the briefcase on our end." A more mature Female voice reaches on him. "Suspects...not...conformed...hold...your...positions." A deformed and demonic voice rants out in a sluggish pace. The Raccoon blinked twice in confusion from that strange voice that reaches out to him. "Hm? What was that?" The high pitched female questioned out. "Don't worry about us. Just concentrate on getting away!"

his calm and cocky voice comes to respond. "You don't have to say any of that again fellas, All I have to do is to press the X button jump across each gap to advance on a platform."

"..."

Complete silence takes over the mic in his ears in which left him in the dark of what was wrong with the picture he just made. Few moments passed by which made the awkward situation reach to the racoon in which he cringed in confusion. "Did I ...say something wrong?" He asked

"Cooner...you're doing that video game thing again-"A nerdy female voice reached out to him. The moment she pointed that out, The blue thief's eyes widen as he blushes in shock, He immediately realized his mistake. "Gah! Darn it!" he face palmed himself feeling embarrassed what he just recently said.

"Oh man! I can't believe you're still doing that!" a vulgar male voice giggled doing everything he had to held in his laughter. A sigh was heard in the mic as a beautiful female voice speaks out "Old habits die hard I guess." "Even when we keep pointing it out you still do it. It's like your a broken record player!" the boyish voice speaks with a hint of annoyance.

Shaking the awkward moment off, The teen in dark blue quick looks to behind him and see a path of lights and hangers that seem to be perfect for his cane. Seeing his opportunity of where to go he quickly dashes through the lights with an agile leap. While he continue his acrobatics the voice of his partners continues on in his ear.

"But I have to say, Showing yourself above that crowd earlier was an excellent move." The boyish voice comes out sounding amused. "Nice work as always, Cooner." The beautiful feminine voice comes into the call half giggling. "I really bet you that Skull really won't pull something like that really smoothy." A deep charmisitic male's voice soon joins in the call as well. "This happens because you don't have no sense for aesthetics." He insults to this "Skull".

"Nobody asked you,Inari!" The vulgar male voice rants out. "Fellas, Fellas calm down there's no to fight in this current situation,We have the police on our tails, So we can't just insult each other!" The raccoon calls out in a stern voice. while he still continues his parkour that sometimes even involves rings for his cane,(Which thankfully he's strong enough to carry himself with one hand) so he can reach to places not much thieves could reach to. But just when he was about to reach the balcony...

"Freeze thief!"

A feminine voice snarls out. Cooner came to a stop. He suddenly was hit with shock. 'This voice...can it really be...no. It can't be!' Cooner realized this voice...the accent...the aggression…He looks up above the entrance on the door and saw her...

'Ca-Carm'

"INSPECTOR FOX?!" Cooner cringed hard from his thoughts at the sudden explosion to his ear, It actually began to rang. "I can't believe this! I know that the police were getting involved in this."The boyish voice says in concern. Carmelita was up on a window staring the thief down with a look of wrathful fury. "But did it really get so much attention to the point that even one of the world's best inspectors needed get involved!?" "GOD DAMNIT! NOW WE HAVE TWO INSPECTORS ON OUR ASS! THIS IS BULLSHIT! WHY DOES EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD WANT US CAUGHT!?" The Vulgar male voice growls in pure frustration. "B-but why...why mom...Why did you need to get involved too?" A mature accent female voice question."Wait..,mom? Queen...What are you tal-" "Augh! Forget it! We need get out of here now! She is not someone we can just outrun from!" "Okay okay! Everyone calm down,I'm just as shocked that she's here but we need to stay calm!,It possible for the rest of us to get out of here! She might found Cooner,But she didn't find the rest of us yet! We can still have a chance at this guys!" Everyone in Cooner's mic continues to debate as he watches the Vixen gives a flip and lands on the floor crouching while her left hand is on the floor for support giving her a menacing entrance.

She looks up at the Raccoon as she quickly withdraws her shock pistol. Just the mere look of her presence was enough for the Thief to tense up. Time seem to slow down around them. The mere silence in Cooner makes him felt...like this was familiar. Like they had done this before. The vulpine inspector looks at him in a cold angry look with the inside of the pupils burning with fury and justice.

-Casino-

To Cooner it felt like they were looking at each other for an hour. But to Carmelita it was just a few moments. She decided that it was time to break the ice. "I've heard the rumors of the Phantom thieves. I just thought it was some small gang of troublemakers, Thinking that the police would easily find them." She shakes her head in frustration. "But to think you and your gang would cause this much trouble! Especially when you killed that Billionaire! What is your motivation to do that in the first place?!" She demanded an answer from the thief in blue.

He narrowed his eyes, She may have that powerful shock pistol but it didn't scare him. 'If she wants an answer. She'll get one.' he thought to himself. "We didn't have any plans of killing that man! That's not how the Phantom Thieves does business. We take the hearts of cruel people's deep desires to confess the sins they've done that was hidden from the law! We have no desires of hurt anyone!"

Carmelita gave an angered stomp. "Eso es jodidamente mierda! Don't make up such nonsense! The moment when you 'changed' people's hearts; The law saw that this was a potential threat! You can't change people of who they are! It's not a natural action to commit! I may be a little old, But that won't stop me from lawbreakers like you!"

"What are you doing!? There's no way you can make Inspector fox believe in this situation she's way too focused on the law! Just get out of there!" the boyish voice yelled in panic. Cooner finally realized that his gangs were trying to make contact to him but for some reason he was unable to hear them. He a sharp turn he sees that there was the top of a tunnel lights that lead to another doorway.

Seeing that he had an opportunity to escape he gave a confident smirk as he turned back to the inspector. "Well, I tried telling you the truth but-" he noticed that the shock pistol was currently powering on as he jumped at the last second to the light tunnel. He gives a goodbye salute to the vixen, Finishing his sentence. "I guess You can't have everything."

The vixen gave a weak growl as she aimed at the thief and continues her barrage of lighting shots at him only to miss hitting him every time he jumped to another light at a blurring speed. The lights that took the hit of the pistol began. To fall part and feel to the floor making a large cloud of dust to the mammals on the floor. Thankfully none of the lights actually hitted anyone but the voices in Cooner's ears were shocked.

"W-what the!? Is that gun even legal to use!?" the nerdy girl voice ask to which she might not get an answer to.

"Holy shit man... That pistol... she really wants to catch. No wonder why even the most toughest criminals were taken down by that." The vulgar boy voice said in shock.

"I can't even think of what would happen if you were to even get hit…" the beautiful voice muttered.

"Art probably won't even describe of how much pain that would be to express.." the deep voice says in worry.

"Guys there's no need to worry about Cooner, And besides look behind him! Inspector fox just destroyed the lights making her unable to cross!"

Just when the thief was out of the vixen field of vision she was about jump to a light to keep him in her sight. However she immediately staggered back as she realized she destroyed her one way passage to pursue the thief.

"DAMNIT" she barked as she stomped down again. Looks like she needs to find another way to get the thief. She runs to the back door disappearing into the casino.

When The thief landed on a stable balcony he turned around and look at the destruction of the lights. Ignoring the damage he doesn't seem to see the fox anywhere, Giving relief to him. He breathes out the rest of the stress from that conversation with the police lady.

Even when he sounded calm he was internally troubled from her presence. He waits a bit till he recovers and was about to rush out.

"Stop right there!" a singular security zebra stood in his way. Then a sudden distortion took over the thief's eyes as the zebra's body became unusually disproportionate. His black and white fur became a shadow aura glowing black as his brown eyes became nothing but a red of anger.

The zebra abomination soon dashed to the Racoon. The racoon readied to fight but he almost forgot about the briefcase in his arm. 'What am I supposed to do with this!?' he thought in concern. "Cooner! To your right! Throw the case in the air vent, I know where it leads,Just leave it to us!" the nerdy voice yells out.

Cooner looks at his right as he follows the command. He quickly rolls out of the zebra's swing and toss the briefcase like a throwing knife. "Great! Take em down Cooner!"

With a smug grin He turned to immediately block the baton that almost hitted him as he uses the cane's curved design to disarm the zebra's baton off the balcony. In an attempt to knock the thief down he swings his long slender arm at Cooner who simply jump over it and onto shoulders.

The zebra roared in a monsterous tone and attempts to shake him off but to no avail as he felt a cane dig deep into his security mask and felt like it was ripping off of his skin. Cooner simply giggled. "Now be a good shadow. And show me your true form!" he yells his catchphrase as the mask finally flings off to the distance. Cooner soon jump and rolled off the shadow as it soons melts to the floor to a bloody puddle.

The puddle instantly bubbles and a figure splashes out revealing A giant bull-monster. The beast's lower body consists of some sort of robot figure with a tail that seems to be usable to whip. The legs seem to be bent backwards similar to a flamingos. The upper body seems to have a maiden's upper dress with the sleeves of its slender arms having a similar style to the dress. The head seems to be surrounded with what looks like a chair cushion on its shoulders. The head itself resembles a head similar to a bull's as it stares the smaller opponent with eyes of fury.

Honestly it kinda surprised Cooner that it would be a big guy, But he didn't really seem to be that scared. In fact he wanted this to be a bit of a challenge. "Comparing power levels...no threat! Get em Cooner!" The nerdy girl voice calls out 'Aww come on No threat?' He gives a mental sigh in disappointment.

The beast roars out as it whips its tail at Cooner. With quick reflexes he quick backflips over the tail and cart wheels to another side. "Nice dodge there Cooner!" The nerdy girl voice compliments. He gives a small shrug.

He dashes towards the beast and lunges out a wide cane swing that followed up to a barrage of swings against the beast until a large slam against it's bull head. Not done with his attack he quickly rolls back and takes out of what looks like to be a pistol. A quick aim to the beast and a large shockwave was made as soon as the bullet reached to the beast making it cry it agony as it loses its composure and falls to its knees the floor stunned.

Smirking at this he decide to have a little fun at this. "That doesn't feel so well huh?" he asked in a cocky tone. The beast looks up and glares. What he's feeling doesn't matter,All he feels is utter rage and desire to snap this raccoon beanpole into two. The thief immediately takes out his pistol and aims at blank-point range.

"Well too bad. Maybe next time chase with back up, alright?"

Before the deformed monster could even reply…

*BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BANG!*

Is all what the thief heard in his ears as he continues firing away upon the poor giant as his cries were simply muted from the loud and powerful gun shots that were being made across the area.

After a couple more shots that pierce into the bull headed abomination. It was finally able to recover from the blazing of bullets. The thief look at it for a moment then he shakes his head with a grin. He aims the gun once again. "Are you really sure you want this? I mean we can just settle this peacefully. Just tell them that there was no thief around here and I'll won't blast your face like a tomato, hm? How's that?" he cocked his head sideways to ensure he actually meant it.

The creature immediately began to charge it's attack completely ignoring the raccoon's in which he took a slight amount of offense from this beast's rudeness. "If ignoring implies anything I assume that must be a NO." he begins to pull the trigger ready to continue his blaze.

*CLICK!*

"..." he stood there in silence and disbelief. 'That didn't just happen...did I really spend all of my clip's ammo!?' he tries firing again only for it to click and nothing else happen. Except for the monster's charged attack. The thief slowly lowered his gun and looked at what he used to see was a robotic bull. Now he sees a giant sun-like fireball launching straight at him.

'Oh crap.'

That was all he thought of before being consumed in the flaming attack. But the reaction wasn't what the beast expected.

The thief was covered in burnt black but he immediately shaked his head and body like a dog as his color returned to normal, He glares at the beast with a hint of a serious attitude.

"Okay. Now you just miffed me." he said sternly as a blue aura begin to glow around him. Two black wings sprout out behind him as he appears to be blurred somewhat. Suddenly he has a double, The double itself seems to have a cobalt suit on. Soon it began to hover above the thief. Revealing it's demonic appearance.

It's coat and legs are styled like a thief but almost similar like a tuxedo,With the boots looking like sharp high heels ready to give someone a big roundhouse. Its arms looking slender to the bone having two claws. However the claws in each finger seem to be golden and curved like a hook similar to the cane the Racoon is holding. It seems to have a tall top hat with a mask on its upper face with two demon like horns on each side of the mask. Whatever is behind the true feelings from the crackled,wide and sinister smile the creature is holding is unknown. But that's the least of Cooner's concerns.

And more for the beast. "If you want to play like that,Then that's your choice. I wanted to go easy on you...despite me shooting you alot. Looks like you lead me no choice." The thief growled. With a triumph grip on his mask he commands the figure behind him.

"Ravage them, ARSENE!"

The demon behind the Raccoon curls up somewhat as it charges some a red power within itself. With a stretch it releases its power. Suddenly the ground underneath the beast began to glow as a tower a dark power unleashes on the beast.

With a cry the beast disintegrates into black ashes. With a smile the thief crosses his arms while holding the fact that the fight didn't even last a minute was pretty amusing of how strong he's gotten. "Good you've handled them with ease." The boyish voice speaks out. "Huh, That was way too easy. I was expecting a place like this would provide me SOME sort of challenge." he responded.

Suddenly more disfigured guards appear on the stairs. The confident look on the thief immediately gets scraped off as he drops his arms. The boyish voice sighs in his ears. "You just had to say that." With a exhaled chuckle he smiles about his wish coming true. "You think I regret it?" he asked "Hey, you always like a challenge, I don't mind it as you don't get caught." The nerdy voice speaks with no resistance "I don't intend to get cau-"

Cooner gets interrupted as soon as he sees One of the shadows leap in a lunge with it's nightstick ready to knock one out of commission. With a skilled reaction he cart wheeled away from the attack as the rest of the other deformed creatures join in. The thief's eye caught a blue sparkling trail with a turn he sees broken pillars that lead to another balcony. 'Thank you and your crazy gun inspector fox.' he mentally appreciates. 'Still I need to remember to press the O Button when I'm about to land on these pillars when I ju- wait. What am I doing!?' He mentally face palms himself at the fact that he's doing weird talking again.

'I really need to stop that habit.'

He jumps on the guard rail. He quickly lunges on the tall crumbling marble and balances with the upper sole of his boots as he leaps on another pillar. He turns his and smiles at the shadows. 'Looks like they didn't get trained to do acrobatics.' As soon as he finished that thought, "Whoa!" He dodges a fireball that almost hitted his left shoulder leaving him to almost lose his balance on the pillar. 'But they are trained with magic!' He knew that staying here would be a bad idea so he kept jumping one pillar after another.

The other shadows follow the same idea as the rest melt into a puddle and transform into different kinds of creatures and shoot a barrage of attacks. This only made Cooner speed up his pace while the meteor shower of magic all miss him as he jumps over and takes cover in the guard rail. He was amazed of how not one of them managed to hit him, Either a miracle just happened Or those shadows have really poor precision.

"Cooner In front of you, Go straight to that door! It has a exit somewhere!" the nerd voice points out. "I can see that, Sherlock." The thief grumply barks. "Hey! Sorry for trying to help you!" The girl back mouthed him. Truthfully that was actually pretty damn rude and out of character for him to just suddenly yell that out of nowhere. His harden face weakens from the guilt.

"Sorry. It's just that you called in a bit too early right after I escaped from a storm of hatred." he apologies to the girl in which she simply sighs. "I forgive you. Let's talk about that later. We don't want to caught or killed now, Do we?" The thief gave a small grin and gets in a crouching position and quickly squat walks to the door while being protected from the raging attacks the creatures are continuing.

"Okay. By the looks of those shadows being fire-happy it looks like he has all their attention. Looks like the rest of us has a chance to escape!" The boyish voice whispers. "Does anyone know where we need to go?" A new female voice pops up and it sounds soft and somewhat quiet. Cooner feels somewhat concern that his team. "Oracle, Lead everyone else seems to be lost so I need you to lead them for the exit!" He commanded. "B-but Cooner what about you? We aren't the Cooper gang without a leader!" The nerdy voice girl speaks against his plan. Who's also now called Oracle.

"That's an order Oracle, I'll be fine. What's more important is for the gang getting that treasure out of this palace. And besides we all have our own maps, And I think I know where the exits are." Cooner demanded. But it seems like Oracle isn't going to bad down yet.

"That's the thing! You THINK you know but if you don't? You can't do this alone, It's too risky to take that chance especially now that the Interpol's involved as well! Even if this was planned none of us wants you to get hurt Sly!" Oracle raised her voice a little higher than usual.

Cooner widens his eyes at her mistake. "Oracle! Don't say my real name! We don't know what would happen if we expose of who we are in the metaverse!" He yelled out. Perhaps maybe too loudly. "Who's there?!" A bold voice yells out in the distance. The thief staggered a bit immediately hides against a box and is coated in the shadows.

Soon the source of the voice was Horse-morph in black. He scans around the area to see who suddenly yelled in this direction but only to see nobody.

"Damnit! This place is like a maze! I can't conform their location!" soon he leaves the direction where Cooner went through. Sly looked around to see if any more is coming but sighed that it was safe for now. "Listen Oracle." he says while squatting against the box. "I know it's a risk for me to do this. But going through these palaces are dangerous enough. We're the phantom thieves,We go through any mission that looks impossible for us. Would you rather have me; a singular team member safe? Or an entire squad safe?"

". . . ."

Oracle seems to have nothing to say before mumbling a bit before she finally decides what's best. "You're right Cooner, You always tell us not to give up when we all are in the most distressed times. Alright, I'll lead them out. Just...please be careful okay?"

The thief nodded. "You'll never see it coming whether I'll be safe or not Oracle. But always know that I'm doing 110% for the team. Good luck to all of you."

"Wait. Another dead end!? God damn this map's pissing me off!" The vulgar boy yells out in the middle of their conversation. Oracle sighed seeing that the other team members need her.

"Good luck to you too." she says before talking to the rest of the gang members. "Everyone but Cooner, go into positions and use route B!"

Cooner smiled at the cooperation at the team and stands up into a sneaking stance.

Seeing that the coast was clear he rolled from the box and continue his mad dash, He looks around the grey sticker infested room trying to find his escape.

"Tch! We got away from those guys from the back. But they're still loads more of em." The vulgar voice says obviously annoyed. Running down stairs, Cooner looks to his left and felt a chill run through him as a group of black agents are just at a distance from the bars in between The thief. He knows it's best to go another direction,It's common sense at its finest. One of the agent's canine ear perk up. Cooner was 5 meters from the door. He suddenly looks at the back with the corner of his eye but it wasn't clear enough for him to see. 2 meters from the door. He slowly turn his head…

Only to see an empty door like when the group first got here. "Something wrong Kage? What are you looking at?" A giraffe agent asked, The dog shaked his head. "It's nothing, I thought heard a noise but I was paranoid." He whispered loudly.

Cooner rests on the door painting from the current rush from the door, But he knew that's going to happen a lot. With a deep breath, He looks at the wide wall window at his left seeing a peacock currently running down the hall. He stops running to catch his breath. "Where did they go dammit?!" He rants out while Pressing his ear piece. "I can't confirm the intruders location." he says before running towards another direction from the window.

Cooner sees that his left side was clear but he checks on his right to be safe by peeking behind a wall. There was another group of agents that looks to waiting for an ambush. He Snaps his in frustration.'Darn! I'm blocked away from that doorway!' He rubbed his chin in his current situation before he looks up at the ceiling. His eyes squints in thought seeing it doesn't look like to be any access for him to use. The blue sparkles aren't even there…

'Unless…' Cooner closes his eyes and focuses his inner sixth sense and soon he sees a vision around his vicinity. He sees the entire area is completely gray and muted. He looks up at the ceiling once more and sees that there's one large tile highlighted golden yellow. He grinned at this, Of course his natural sense was unable to see through this. That was his other senses job. As if it saw the yellow highlight, The blue sparkles trail down on the pipes to the floor directing on where he needs to go.

He opens his eyes and sees that the yellow highlighted tile is gone, But it looks like the blue trail remains. He peeks the wall on his right again and sees that all of the agents have their backs turned on him.

He silently sneaks to the careful to not make any noise, Even with his high dexterity his footwear was too stiff to bend so tippy toeing is out of the question. 'Darn these good looking boots. Who knew fashion could actually give problems.'

With a few slow steps he finally reached to a particular long pipe that the sparkles is leading him to, He puts the cane's handle to his mouth and grits on it just enough to be still and jumps on the pole. His gloves seem to be specially made for climbing which means it was easier to grip on the pipe. He eventually reaches to the ceiling and pushes the tile that was suspicious with his cane.

It was somewhat heavy but it came out loose which was a ticket to the vents. He carefully puts his left arm on the ceiling and lets the tile land on his back, But only for it to not make any noise and he slowly pulls himself up. When he was able to safely put his right leg on the platform he picks up the tile and take his left leg out….

"ALERT! THE INVADER IS ON THE CEILING!" one of the agents yelled out. This legit shocked Cooner as he lost grip the tile.

*CRACK!*

Suddenly everything seemed to stop around Cooner. He just seems to stand about. His other leg made it out. What was the problem? Where did that crack came from? Cooner just continues to stand and feels a burning agonizing pain thats grips on his body like a dragon's jaw...oh wait. Did I mention that he had a tail? A ringtail? Well..let's say I'm not good of a narrator because…

Cooner's tail got caught in the tiles. And When I mention they are somewhat heavy, I meant they could still break bones. Especially a Raccoon's tail.

'GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~' He consecutively screams in his mind while he grits his teeth,which surprisingly aren't breaking into dust at that point and gripping on his hands that are beginning to draw blood since his claws are stabbing through the skin and layer of his gloves.

With a half second thought, He grabs and violently pulls his tail off of the tiles that crushed it like a waffle cone and looks at the damage because of his butter(Or should I say bloody) fingers. The tail seems to be bent and broken to the point that the other half of the tail lays limp dead.

He could still feel the clinging pain in his tail as he attempts to sooth it, But only just stabs him with massive stinging. "Cooner, I got the rest out of here how are you-" "i'm doing okay." The moment The nerdy voice was interrupted she was silent.

"Um. Cooner, are you alright? You don't sound good."

"i-it's fine." The thief responds in a voice that sounds like he got hit in the crotch with helium in his throat. "n-nothing can fix better than a healing item." He shakily takes out an IV bag and with a little maintenance he injects the IV in his left arm.

The sounds of broken bones begin to sound out from Cooner's tail as the half of it fixes to it's right position and springs back to life. With a little test swishing the pain was gone as well, He looks at his hands and they both seem to be just as fine.

He clears his throat and straightens his collar. "That's better." The tile that he just dropped begins to raise. In a moment Cooner jumps on the tile before it could open up completely.

"I'm glad you came actually, I need you to tell me which of these vents are the best option." He ask with his voice still calm despite blocking some agents that are literally on the floor underneath him. "Cooner, You do know that I can't see every single detail about this casino." She muttered smugly.

Confused, The thief narrow his eyes in thought. "What." Realization hits him as he just remembered."Oh, right." He takes out what looks like to be some sort of binoculars but it seems to be in a more mechanical fashion.

It wasn't just 2 normal scopes to see farther. He looks through the strange device and sees a screened monitor with two blocks of monitors on each side. The right side seems to be the thief himself but the left side seems completely static.

"Heh, I guess skull was right about the binoculars helping us." She giggled. Cooner however had the opposite of her attitude. "Wait, I can't see you in the screen,The only thing see is TV snow."

He saids tapping on the binoculars to try and fix them in anyway he can.

"Hmph,I guess skull must've dropped this one while he gave these to us. But that's the least of our concerns,By the looks at the one in the middle. It should lead you further down the hallway. It looks like two vents are blocking it but I'm sure you'll squeeze through, right?"

The tile underneath Cooner gave a push under his feet which made him almost lose his balance. He puts the Binoculars away in his coat and takes a deep breath. 'It's all in the timing that counts now.'

The tile underneath him gave more force than before. He had no other choice. It's now or never. He gets into position as he has a quick idea.

Soon the push underneath the tile gave enough pressure to knock the Raccoon off of the floor. However that was exactly what he planned. As soon as he was in the air he flips and takes out what looks like to be some sort of fragile white ball.

With the right timing and determination he waits for the right timing. He sees a buffalo's head come out and throws the ball onto the floor next to the agent's head.

The ball made contact to the floor it bursts into a wall of smoke which gave Cooner some noises of coughing which meant he has enough time to get the heck out of here!

He holds his breath and shuffles through the two vents that block his way and uses his cane to smash the grate from the vent he needed to go in.

He quickly crawls in and hears some grunts behind him. He's pretty sure the mammals behind him are having trouble with the vents.

"Good thinking the Cooner. Smoke bombs away catches them off guard. Now there are two path for you to take but I need to warn you, The other paths more difficult but it seems like there's a code safe. The other leads a fan straight outside." Oracle speaks out.

"Hmmm….Oh gee, I wonder which one I'm going to besides I'm pretty sure we collected all of the bottles for this safe so why not?" Cooner said. With a sigh,Oracle knew what the Raccoons going to pick, So why did she even bother to say there were two paths in the first place? "Go right ahead ringtail. I'll be telling which place to stop."

The raccoon mumbled "Ringtail...I don't think I like that very much."

He was unsure of Oracle calling him that as an insult or a nickname,Isn't that what his code name is for? He continues crawling through the vent but he's starting to have trouble breathing through his nose since these darn metal boxes are starting to collect dust.

"Stop!" The nerdy voice calls out in which Cooner simply obeyed. "The safe's underneath you." She pointed out. Just as the thief is under a grate. "Alright so the code is….hm. I'm going to ask you to get out of that vent while I'm trying to crack the code."

Cooner looks down and true to Oracle's words. There was the safe,He simply waited for a bit to see if anyones there but is only given complete dead silence. He kicks the old grate as it falls down the floor with a loud *CLANG!*.

He drops down silently and quickly looks around to see if anyone has heard that. Seeing that it was clear he dashes the the safe and kneels against it.

"This...was ironically the harder safes to figure out...yet ironically the number was simple and obvious… Anyway just try 9-1-1" Oracle speaks out.

He puts his hand on one of the first knobs and simply put the first two numbers in the safe. 'This is simple enough.'

But the moment he puts the third number in… "INTRUDER! I found the thief,He's over here!" One of the agent yells out as he wave gestures the others to give him backup.

Cooner sighes in disbelief 'Me and my big fat mouth.' He gets the last number in the safe and quickly opens the door and collects what looks like to be a royal bag.

He puts the bag in his jacket, (seriously, how deep are those pockets?) and takes out what looks like to be a Calling card, similar to the logo of his hat and mask. Except this one was red and black that had a big hat with a flaming right eye.

He simply flicks the card to the safe. Where as he would normally place it carefully, He knows he doesn't have much time to be careful when he currently has a stampede chasing after him.

He quickly dashes through the hallway seeing a couple of windows pass through him in a flash, He didn't even get the chance to look through the windows.

What was actually behind the window was a camera room filled with people who are determined to find their invaders. "He's not alone! Find them and kill them all!" They are so focused on their search for the Thieves they didn't even recognize the noise in the background.

The blue Thief continues to run down the wall and was about to make a turn to the right of the corner. "Cooner,Wait!" Oracle cried out. He comes in a quick skeet on the floor and came to a stop. He was going to question the problem until he realized his face was very close to high heated beams.

"These aren't the type of lasers that sound the alarms...these are vaporizing lazers! Weren't these illegal to use after the bill of safe security in 2004?" Cooner just simply blinks at the lazer and shakes his head. "They really don't want people like us to not get caught." He said with disapproval.

"You can't go that way, Try the stairs to your left! And go to the highest floor the stairs can take you, There's an exit after that." The voice says while typing was heard in the background.

"I got it. But what if there's a few agents or shadows waiting up there?" Cooner asked as he ran up the steps.

"I recently just scanned the place and all the shadows are aiming at the rest of the gang, while the agents are all at floor 1 to 3 so it's more likely to be smooth sailing, As long as you can outrun them,That is." Oracle speaks out.

"I guess my legs could use the exercise, But you better not be wrong about the exit,Spider Goggles." Cooner says as he continues his run up the stair while feeling heavier with each run up stair.

Eventually he found himself what looks like to be a hallway and there weren't any staircases. He look to his left and notice the exit sign at the door. He quickly slams the door open and closes the door, With the help of the figure behind him he pushes a heavy sofa barricading against the door.

The door get immediately slammed but suddenly for a moment the agents behind the door seem silent...but that didn't last long as stronger bangs hit against the door.

Cooner takes a few steps back and made sure the Sofa is intact. He knows he has a few seconds since he saw that one of the agents where a buffalo. That those type of anthro-species can almost match the strength of a Truck.

He turns around but only came to an immediate stop as he only ended up in another unlike the small ones, This one was across to the window with a giant gaping hole of the mammals. He mentally swears and looks down on the bottom floor seeing the anthro-mammals running in a panic like a pack of ants running around from a giant.

"Something wrong? The exit is up ahead!" Oracle says with concern. "The entrance is blocked off though. The people are still trying to leave the casino and I don't see an opening." Cooner replied.

"That's just how it is! After that commotion the bottom is closed off. Do you know where to go? And if that's so...can you make it?" For a moment,The raccoon is silent from giving her an answer. The bottom floor is blocked off and the way out to the roof is off the list since he needs to go back through the door he just went in.

He looks at the window and he suddenly had a idea. 'How strong is that window?' He gave a grin at his thought. Maybe there is another way out...but it looks like sneaking out isn't going to be his choice.

The door behind him violently crashes open. He looks behind to see three agents holding a pair of shock pistols and one buffalo agent on the floor dazed. "Ugh..don't make me do that again." He groans, "There's nowhere to run ya filthy criminal! Now get yer hands behind you dern skull!" A rat agent speaks out.

Cooner grins. "There's only one way to find out. And it's the only way we have." He jumps on the grid with perfect balance as he dashes through the balcony square to the window. The Agents were somewhat caught off guard of this but they continue their pursue on the Thief.

Cooner was already at the window and he's just wanting to see if they can get to in. But by the looks for them they aren't even close.

"Au revoir."

*CRASH!*

This was the sound of glass breaking apart combined with the screaming of many animals that was all Cooner can hear after jumping through the window.

The moon seems to be perfectly aligned to The raccoon's acrobatic posing and flipping in the air.

Oracle simply " hmps"in amusement from this performance."What a show off you are. You're so reckless you know that?"

Cooner lands with a roll as glass shards rain over him, He half giggles with a grin. He knows he doesn't need to answer that with a serious question. "Come on Oracle, You know you liked my jump there."

He stands up and dusts off the glass pieces off his clothes. "Now then, It's time to get-" A flash of light appears in the distance until a swarm of lights all aim at the raccoons vicinity.

He shields his eyes from the overwhelming brightness and grits his teeth.

'Shit!'

"The enemy is here!?" Oracle screamed. "What's wrong?" The vulgar male asked. "These readings...no. It can't be!" Oracle panicked. "What! What's happening!?" The vulgar male questioned in vain. "An ambush?!" Oracle answered.

Cooner scoffed "These bastards knew I was going to Jump out here." he rants. "Cooner can you handle this!?" The boyish voice asked. "Cooner!" The mature male voice cried out! "Oh no!" The beautiful voice yelled out.

"Capture hin!" One of the mammals demanded the officers through his walkie talkie. They obediently obey and close in the raccoon. Cooner quickly digs his hand into his jacket,His intention was to get another smoke bomb. It's the usual get away tool that every professional thieves knows they need to have. However he doesn't seem to find the item he needs. The Group continues to close in on him as he continues digging to find the smoke bomb. He then remember something.

'I just used my last one.' He shakes his head. "I guess I don't have a choice."

He holds out his cane and flicks a hidden pad that seems to hide a red button.

*Click!*

Suddenly the Raccoon was engulfed in a ball of smoke as most of the coppers cough from breathing in the smoke. The lights seem to wander around attempting to look for the suspect they intend to catch.

"OVER THERE!" one of the cops point at as one light was able to find him running away. The rest of the lights follow him as he jumps toward a ladder but he wasn't tall enough to reach it. However he catches himself with his cane and flips on the ladder with one hand and leg. He bites the cane's handle in his mouth and starts to quickly climb. He looks down and sees the policemen that look back with furry and justice. What he didn't see was a shock gun touching the back of his head.

He slowly turns his head to see what was touching him and see the shock pistol's barrel. The wielder of the gun seemed to look familiar to Cooner.

"Going somewhere criminal." a venomous female voice hisses at him. He looks up to see that it was none other than Carmelita. He widens his eyes at her presence….this wasn't going to end well.

The vixen raises her right heel. With a forced grunt she kicks down upon The thief's forehead. This was enough to make his grin loose as he let's go of the ladder.

Everything seems to be silent around him, He yelps from his lost of grip as the cane in his mouth slips away and looks at the fox glaring him down with angered eyes. He falls down wondering what has gone wrong in his head with multiple questions before he falls upon the sea of justice slaves.

He falls on his back but was forcefully pushed on his chest as multiple arms of different animals grip on his limbs and held them down to where he is helpless to move. "Suspect is now secured!" a light and naive but bold male says to a figure who made the wall of Mammals move aside. The figure slowly walks and stops in place in front of the raccoons head.

"Hmph. I didn't expect it would be a kid." a deep and scratchy voice comes out of The figure, He kneels down and grabs the Raccoon's hair like a doll. "You have your teammates to thank for this, Because unfortunately." The figure simply moves somewhat closer to Cooner who was trying his best looking at the details of who this mammal was but it's so dark and bright he cannot make out of what he is.

"You've been sold out." The figure finishes, The thief gives shocked expression. "What do you mea-gah!" Cooner attempts to speak, But was immediately interrupted with his head being dropped. The figure walks into the distance as Cooner still cannot conformed of who he was.

"Suspect conformed! Cuff him!"

Cooner grunts as his right arm was forced into the air as he feels steel warp the fur of his arms. The rest to him was a complete blur as he only just hear voices of Mammals he cannot understand and feel pressure of hands pushing him. Before he blacked out, He had one thought in his mind. Just one.

'Who sold the Cooper Gang out?'

Hello everyone, I like to introduce this new story I've published but I'm not so sure if it'll do completely well,So in any case this will be a temporal one-shot unless people actually enjoy the story so far. I hope I'm not greedy for this but if I get a complete criticised review but yet wants me to continue that will be the case. So anyway,yeah here's a Persona and Sly Cooper crossover. Allow me of how I got this idea: It first started when I was a big fan of persona 5 and watched a let's play of Sly Cooper. Personally I enjoyed the raccoon robin hood but that cliffhanger in Sly 4...man does it kill me. However when I saw persona 5. This had me thinking. There's a lot in persona 5 that was related to thieves, And after that I had a million ideas of why persona 5 would be the perfect sequel for Sly. He didn't get back in time. But he went FORWARD. Now just to let you know, I'm not going to change persona 5's story too much but I'll add extra arcs in it to make sure that it's not just slapping Sly in the story. So get your pancakes and popcorn ready and enjoy my fic (Or at least I hope you do.)

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"IhaveanEgdyName"

A.K.A ElstienTheAbandonedKnight