JOB #000: THE CRIMINAL FILE AND THE TROUBLE-MAKING THIEVES
PARIS, FRANCIS; 4:20 AM
Paris, the City of Lights; home to romance, fancy restaurants, and the best fashion trends. The city was bustling with people, both man and animal, and was kept peaceful by law enforcement officers everywhere. Couples and families were enjoying themselves to some dinner at fancy restaurants, teenagers were fooling around being teens on a bridge over the Seine river, and businessmen were trying to catch taxis to get to their jobs. Aside from the police patrolling the streets, everyone was carefree, with the lights seeing everyone who was a criminal… almost everyone that is.
Jumping across the dark rooftops, hidden from the lights of the streets and buildings, a young man with light skin, blue eyes, and red hair was searching for something. His attire was a red dressage jacket with a cape hanging down from the back, red pants, white gloves, black boots, shirt and tie with a white undershirt, and a black top hat with a red ring around it. On his back was a cane with a golden hook on the end, and holstered on his waist via a black belt was a white gun with a railing system on it, a belt buckle with a racoon symbol with a black head, red eyes and white lower head, and a set of advanced binoculars.
The mysterious figure then jumped off a tall building and landed on the edge of another before speeding across it. He was now speeding towards a rusty turbine vent before he destroyed with his cane. Avoiding the broken pieces, the mysterious figure jumped off the building and landed on a smaller building in a crouching position. The then jumped onto the neon sign at the side of the building, and somehow managed to jump high enough to reach the top of the building with his cane. After pulling himself up, the masked figure saw the police station just across from him. He then felt the binoculars vibrate before grabbing them and looking into them, revealing technology inside. In the binoculars, he saw a green turtle man with brown eyebrows, wearing large glasses and a red bow tie on his neck. This revealed the binoculars to be part machine.
"Max! Come in," The turtle exclaimed, hoping the masked man would reply. "MAX! DO YOU READ ME!?"
"Yes, Bentley," The masked figure replied into the device, "I hear you loud and… very loud!"
"Sorry, I'm a little nervous," The turtle apologized for his panicking behavior, "Trying to break into police headquarters does that to you."
"Get over it, Bentley, you and Murray are safe in the van," Max reminded him rather bluntly, "I'm the thief here, so I'm the who's got to steal that file from Inspector Fox."
"Well, count one me to be your eyes and ears buddy," Bentley assured his friend before explaining the situation, "Got their security system totally scoped. To get inside you're gonna have to go through that air vent."
Max looked around with his binoculars before finding the vent leading into the building before saying, "Alright, I'm going in,"
"And don't forget you've got me at the wheel, Max," A pink hippopotamus man wearing goggles, a tan scarf and a light blue shirt assured his friend, "All you gotta do is grab the file and get back to the van. We'll do the rest."
"Keep that engine running, Murray," Max said, "I'll be down in no time."
"And don't forget, we have to meet up with Douglas and Emma at the Poisonous Toad Casino right this," Bentley reminded Max of another task.
"No problem, we'll make this quick, head on over there, and steal that Collection Piece," Max ended the call before running off towards the building. When he approached a water storage unit, he could've sworn he saw some blue sparks emanating from around the ledges.
"What the…" Curious about what he was seeing, he called Bentley again with his binoculars, "Hey, Bentley, I think I might be seeing things. Must be vertigo or something. Can you see those crazy blue lights across the rim of the water storage unit?"
"Really?" Bentley replied, both curious and amazed at the sight of the blue sparks, "I've read about this. The master raccoon thieves from your ancestry are able to sense thieving opportunities which manifest themselves as unexplainable blue auras."
"Seriously?" Max asked in disbelief.
"Seriously," Bentley reassured him before explaining, "According to my research, you should have no problem completing the glowing blue tasks since you're a Cooper."
"Understood," Max said before ending the call, "I'm on it."
Max got closer to the water unit before the aruas revealed what kind of task needs to be done here. Max then saw a transparent blue version of himself sneaking around the water tower with ease before saying, "Whoa."
Max then decided to try it out for himself as reached the water. Keeping his eyes closed, hoping not to slip up, the thief snuck around to the other side of the unit with ease. He reopened his eyes and saw that nothing went wrong.
'Well, this is definitely gonna come in handy,' Max thought with a smiled before making his way up to the air vent by jumping across two Tv antennas and onto the roof. Max then entered the vent and crouch-walked the entire way before making it inside the building. He looked down the building, but saw something he wasn't expecting: military grade security lasers.
"Uh, Bentley?" Max called out to his friend via an earpiece communicator.
"Oh, uh, be extra careful here, Max," Bentley advised cautiously, "Break just one of those laser beams and you'll set off the alarms-not to mention, you'll be fried to a crisp."
"Don't worry, I've got this," Max replied with confidence as he jumped from platform to platform until he made it down to the floor, avoiding the lasers "See, what'd I tell you?"
"Nice job, your in," Bentley said, relieved to see his friend unharmed, "Inspector Fox's office is behind the red door."
"Red door, on it," Max then looked around the floor. It took a few minutes before having the red door in sight and saying, "Ah ha, there you are."
Max then sped off towards the door and stopped in front of it. He notice in had a fox head symbol on the door window. Max then tried to open it with the knob, but the lock restricted it from turning further. Max wasn't surprised by this action - but it did annoy him a bit - as he knew that most to every office building kept their doors locked. Max would've picked the lock, but there was no keyhole on this side of the door. He then went for the more violent approached and tried to force it open by ramming into the door shoulder first. Unfortunately, all that did was leave a bruise as he silently groaned in pain.
"Oh, that's just great," Max sighed before calling Bentley again, "Bentley, I've got a problem - the door to the Inspector's office won't budge."
"That door must be super reinforced, Max," Bentley assumed, "Maybe there's a way to get around it."
It was then Max found a way to get into the office. He looked out the window and saw a balcony right outside. Max walked out onto the balcony and say another one connecting with Inspector Fox's office.
"There's a balcony just outside this window and small ledge connecting another outside the office," Max said, excited to reach the end of the goal.
"Perfect, you know what to do," Bentley said before hanging up as Max slowly and steadily walked along the thin ledge.
"Okay, nice and easy," Max breathed before seeing the entire city from where he was at, amazed by the sight, "Whoa, this is a great view of Paris."
It was so silent, Max jumped a bit by the sound of a phone ringing, but managed to keep his balance on the ledge. He then realized the ringing was from his pocket before reaching into it and getting out a touch phone. Max saw the caller ID as Douglas.
"Oh, boy," He said in a bit of worry before answering the call, "Hello?"
"Where are you, Max?" An British voice spoke from the other end, in an irritated sort of voice
"Uh, sightseeing, Douglas," Max lied to his contact as he carefully made his way across the ledge.
"Well, ignore the sights and get here already," A teenage girl's voice spoke up from the phone, yelling into Max's ear, "This job's too hard without you here!"
"Don't worry, Emma," Max groaned, rubbing his ear, "I'll be right there."
Max hung up his phone and put it away before receiving a call from Murray in his earpiece.
"We better hurry this up, Max," Murray said in worry, "The others are starting to wonder where we are."
"Uh, yeah, I got that, Murray," Max replied bluntly before reaching the office balcony. The young thief then picked the lock with a lock picking set. Max unlocked the window before entering entering the office quietly, so even if there is someone in the building, no one would hear him.
"Okay, I'm in the office," He said as he noticed all the paperwork and cases scattered on the walls of the office, "And apparently, Inspector Fox has been keeping his hands full."
"Uh, you mean 'her hands,' Max," Bentley corrected his friend.
"What?" Max asked in confusion, "'Her?'"
"Yeah, her name is Carmelita Fox," Bentley clarified for him as Max was starting to get a feeling in his head, telling him that he knew someone with the same name from long ago.
"Interesting," He scratched his chin in curiosity before the idea of one person came into his head, "First of all, Bentley, never forget the details. Secondly, see if you can tie that name to a Carmelita Montoya Fox, who attended Sir Taylor Davis' High School in England."
"Uh, okay, Max," Bentley said in confusion, but said it like he'll do it anyway, "Looking up her background info now."
"It can't be her," Max said in denial of his own thoughts, "Can it?"
Max knew the name was familiar, but right now, he needed to focus on getting the file from wherever Inspector Fox hid it. He then saw a large metal safe with a combination lock.
"Bentley, I found a large safe," Max said into the earpiece.
"Way to go, Max," Bentley said in enthusiasm, "That's where Inspector Carmelita Fox stashes all her important files. I hacked into the police security system, but the vault's combo is nowhere to be found."
"That's why I have this bad boy, remember?" Max asked rhetorically as grabbed out from his other pocket a small red airplane with a black dial on top of it. He pressed it up against the safe, and it spoke and projected the combo number in green.
9-3-7!
The safe then adjusted the numbers and it unlocked itself before opening slightly.
"Unlocked," Max said, proud of himself as he put way the small plane.
"Show off," Bentley said bluntly as Max saw a stack of files in the safe. He skimmed through them quickly, before finding the one particular file on his case. Max then grabbed it and placed a small calling card resembling his belt buckle in its place before shutting the safe.
"Nice job - you got the file!" Murray exclaimed in a pumped tone, "If you come down through the fire escape and head through the parking lot, we'll be waiting in the getaway van."
"Got it, Murray," Max replied, "Not to get out of-"
Max, not looking where he was going, then bumped into the Inspector's desk making a small portrait fall over.
"Oh!" Max rushed over and caught it before it could hit the ground. He then looked at and noticed the frame was made of glass, which would have made noise if shattered on the ground, but that wasn't what shocked him.
In the portrait, he noticed three people in the portrait, all of which he recognized. One of them was tall, blue-eyed, black-haired man who wore a police uniform. The second one was a fox girl with orange and tan fur, with black hair and orange eyes wearing a blue dress shirt and orange skirt. The last one had his description all over him, except he was wearing a red shirt, a white jacket and jeans. He noticed the three people smiling as memories rushed back into his head.
"Carmelita," Max said in disbelief as a tear ran down his face and dropped onto the portrait, for suspicions were confirmed, "It is you."
"Uh, Max?" Bentley called out, wondering what's taking his friend so long, "You okay?"
"Wha… uh, yeah, I'm fine, Bentley," Max put down the portrait and exited through another window, "Heading down the fire escape now."
Max made sure to close the door before leaving down the fire escape, so it would look like nothing's been damaged. But before he continue down to the parking lot…
"Hold it right there, criminal!" A strong, female voice shouted from a distance.
Max stopped in his tracks before seeing a female figure jump out from behind a water unit and onto a large neon sign. Max saw the figure as a fox woman with orange and tan fur, brown eyes and thick navy blue hair with bangs tied in a braid by a gold hairband. She had a small mole below her left eye, and her outfit consists of a dark blue midriff-baring top that zips up from the front, a matching-colored pair of form-fitting pants, a choker around her neck with an Interpol badge hanging from it, a light brown leather jacket, yellow gloves, black combat boots with yellow police stars, and golden hoop piercing on the top of her left ear. In her left hand was a red, handheld cannon with a golden police star on the side. Max immediately recognized this woman as his confirmed suspicions were further supported.
This was Inspector Carmelita Fox, the Interpol agent who's been after him all over the world.
'Oh, my God, it really is her,' Max said in his head as he noticed how beautiful she looked, 'And she's more beautiful than before!'
The young thief's face turned into one of surprise as his cheeks turned as red as his mask. However, the thought of Carmelita finding out his identity gave him a feeling of nervousness. He then snapped out of it by shaking his head before speaking to himself.
'Wait, why am I nervous?' Max thought, 'I'm the one wearing a mask, and as long as she can't see my face, I'm good! And the last thing I need is to put her in danger.'
Max shook his head to get rid of his thoughts and regain his posture before facing the Inspector in the moonlight.
"You foolish thief," Carmelita called out to him, "I've finally caught you red-handed!"
"Ahh, Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox," Max said, regaining his cool, "Haven't heard from you since I gave you and Interpol the slip back in Bombay. And now, here we are, face to face at last. It's an honor to meet you."
"Same here," Carmelita frowned as she knew what he was doing, "Which reminds me-you need to return the Fire Stone of India to its rightful owners."
"Aw, and I was going to give it to you as a little token of my…" Max tapped his chin in thought, trying to find the right words to say, "I wanna say my heart, but it's a little too soon to start a relationship on the day we just met."
"Flattery will get you nowhere out of this one, Thief," Carmelita sternly notified him, "Though, I appreciate the effort."
"Why, thank you," Max said flirtatiously, "And I must say, that bazooka really brings out the color of your eyes. Very fetching."
'Way to go, Max,' He thought to himself, realizing he was sounding like an idiot, 'Now you sound like flirtatious dumbass.'
"You think?" Carmelita placed her free hand on her bazooka as she explained, "This pistol packs a paralyzing punch, so there's running away after you're hit."
"Oh, really?" Max quirked a brow, still keeping his smirk as he leaned up against a drain pipe.
"You ought to try it," Carmelita suggested, "Might snap you out of your crime spree."
"Please," Max scoffed, "And give up our little chase?"
"No worries," Carmelita 'reassured' as she took aim a the thief, "Once you're safely behind bars, there'll be plenty of time for a few rendezvous."
"Love to stick around and chat for the first time, but I just dropped by to pick up your little case file," Max showed Inspector Fox the file he stole "I think you've had it long enough, and it's time to take this case into my own hands."
"We'll see about that, Cooper!" Carmelita shot out an electro-bullet at Max, but he managed to jumped out of the way and down the fire escape. As he made his way down to the parking lot, Max's phone rang again. He grabbed it and saw Douglas' number on the line as he answered.
"Now's not the time, Douglas!" Max exclaimed as he could feel the fire escape falling apart from the impacts of the blasts.
"Uh, yes, it is, Max!" Douglas shot back, "What's taking you so long?!"
"Car trouble, man," Max said as he made off the fire escape and onto concrete parking lot. He then saw the gang's van waiting and running at the exit. Unfortunately for him, as he ran past the police cars, Douglas could hear the explosions from the other side of the line.
"Are those explosions?" He said, thinking that Max was lying to get out of trouble later, "What the hell did you do?!"
"Look, now this: I'm going to be a bit late for the job because of the Interpol officer on my tail, so until I get to the casino, be patient!" Max hung up his phone aggressively before continuing to the van. The thief leapt up and over the cars until he made it to the van - which had its doors open - and jumped in. There he saw his brothers in crime, Bentley, the brains and Murray, the muscle, who both stared at him as the van doors closed.
"You okay, Max?" Murray asked in concern.
"I'm fine, just drive!" Max exclaimed, and Murray obeyed that command by flooring it. The van then sped away from the police station, as they made their way to Poisonous Toad Casino to meet up with Douglas and Emma.
"You can't escape me, Cooper!" Carmelita explained before grabbing a hold of her phone and dialed for her back up. Lucky for her, someone did answer, but she wasted no time listening to them as she yelled into the phone.
"This is Inspector Carmelita Fox requesting immediate backup," She exclaimed, "The Cooper Gang has stolen an important case file and escaped in their van!"
"You know where they're going, Inspector Fox?" A rough, English voice spoke from the phone.
"They're all heading to a casino for some reason," Carmelita explained as she saw them speed off into the night, "Possibly for their next robbery, but I haven't got a clue which casino they plan to rob."
"Alright, we'll get word out to every officer in the city, and alert the Global Police," The voice replied, "Lucky for us, the Cooper Gang insignia is easily recognizable, so we'll easily locate them."
"Yes, we will," Carmelita nodded with a smirk, "Call me as soon as you have a location!"
"Copy that!" The voice from the line hung up as Carmelita put away her phone and jumped down onto the sidewalk. The fox woman then stared out into the street with an angry frown saying one last sentence.
"No one steals a case I plan to solve," She seethed, "And no one gets in the way of putting my friends at ease."
With that last proclamation, the inspector went to grab police car to patrol the city, in hopes of finding her criminal.
LATER THAT MORNING; POISONOUS TOAD CASINO; 4:35 AM
The Poisonous Toad Casino, Paris' biggest and most infamous casino. People participate in this shady part of the city, but little do they know about the dangers of gambling here. The casino was also suspected of running illegal operations, but neither Interpol, the CIA, or the Global Police have been able to find solid proof. This morning, that will all change.
While most people were spending their time and money on the lottery machines and playing Poker, a few men in tuxedos and sunglasses were watching another man fail at playing Roulette, losing most of his money as the ball landed on zero. What he didn't noticed was that another man with a skinny mustache at the table was manipulating the ball with some kind of green glow in his chest under his shirt.
After losing another round and more of his cash, the man decided to groaned in worry and despair, but also determination.
"I might as well go all in," The man said as he pushed the rest of his coins of money to the number 06 on the table. He then took his ball and spun it in the Roulette wheel.
"Hahahahaha," The French man cackled sinisterly as he once again, somehow, manipulated the ball to land on zero again.
"Huh?!" The man gasped in shock - catching everyone's attention - as his money was taken away.
"You'll be paying the full amount, of course," The man said with a sinister smirk and French accent.
"Hang on," The man exclaimed in further shock at this development, "I don't have any more money!"
"Well, that leaves us with no other option…" The French man then snapped his fingers, "Take him away!"
"No, please!" The man was then grabbed by the owner's men and taken to the elevator, "Don't do this! Let me go!"
"And that's another one who couldn't pay their debt," The man said deviously as his men took him into the elevator before cackling, "HAHAHAHA-"
The cackling was then interrupted by the windows that came crashing into the room as Max made his appearance along with his partners in crime: Douglas and Emma.
Douglas was a French 23-year old man with pale skin, brown eyes, black hair and light tan skin. He wore a blue long suit jacket over a gray shirt with a pin of a V on it, a black horse riding hat, a blue pair of pants over black dress shoes, white gloves and the same white gun as Max. Emma was a blue-eyed, brown-haired, English girl wearing a white blouse and gloves, yellow skirt, black leather jacket with yellow highlights on chest and wrists, yellow bow, mini top hat with scarf attached, black leggings and another white gun holstered on her waist. Their faces were covered by a blue owl-like mask, and a yellow feather-like mask.
As the now shattered glass scattered across the room, the trio landed on the floor in crouching positions. Everyone panicked at first and backed away from the slowly as the trio then stood up right.
"Sorry we took so long, someone took forever to get here," Douglas glared at Max.
"Oh, zip it," Max shot back.
"And who exactly are you three?" The French man pointed at them.
"We are the Phantom Thieves that everyone's been talking about," Max explained as he adjusted his glove.
"You people…?" The French man gasped, getting a feeling of fear, "It can't be!"
"Here's your warning…" Max said as he pulled out a different calling card than the one from before. This one was red and black with diamond patterns and the letter V in the shape of a top hat.
"We'll be taking your treasure!"
Max then threw the card at the French man, cutting him across the man groaned before his cut started to glow and entire body inflated like a beach ball before popping. Everyone in the casino then screamed in fear as they say his true appearance. The French "man" was actually a yellow frog-like monster with black legs, purple poison sacks and finger tips, a pink set of armor on his neck and shoulders with purple spots on them, two football-shaped eyes, and very long tongue, like that of a frog. His abdomen had some sort of safe installed, probably to keep what he used to cheat in his own game.
"Gero Gero," He exclaimed in rage, "I worked so hard on this disguise!"
"Does it look like we care?" Douglas asked rhetorically, not caring what upsets the monster man as the civilians ran away for their lives.
"Ooh, that's a suspicious looking safe," Emma exclaimed.
"That's right, and no one but me, Ruretta Gerou, can open it," The monster said before calling out, "Pordermen! Take care of these intruders, now!"
With those words, the employees also revealed their true faces; black figures with red gloves and scarves, azure neck guards, helmets, left shoulder armor and boots, cyan chests, and white masks of dotted faces with golden monocles for right eyes. Their entire armor seemed to be covered in cracks, as if they were made of broken stone. These footsoldiers, the Pordermen, surrounded the thieves. The thieves then smirked mischievously as they spun their white guns in their hands. The Pordermen then fired their weapons at Max, Douglas and Emma, who all fired back their own shots and avoided every obstacle in their path. The grunts then charged at them, but one-by-one, they were being taken out.
"Alright!" Max exclaimed as he tossed one of the grunts on the pooltable.
"Whoa!" Emma ducked to avoid another shot from the grunts.
Every civilian in the building then ran to get the hell out of that war zone of a casino as all the money was flying everywhere. As Emma and Douglas were distracting the Pordermen, Max was ran over to Ruretta Gerou and placed his mini plane on the safe to unlock it.
2-0-7!
The safe then opened opened up for him as he grabbed something the thing the toad used to cheat: it appeared to be some kind of large, ancient dice, possibly a hundred years old.
"It opened?!" Ruretta's jaw dropped in shock of this new development before having Max kick him towards the back of the room and fell down. All of the Pordermen then surrounded their boss to protect him as the Phantom Thieves landed in approached the center of the room.
"We'll be taking your piece of the Lupin Collection," Max said as the large dice was glowing on the dotted sides.
"So you were using it to manipulate the odds in the games and rake it in, I see," Douglas proclaimed.
"You wannabe criminals think you can just steal my treasure?!" Ruretta glared at them in anger as he got up and slammed his hands on his stomach.
"Actually…" Emma jumped in with a smirk, "We're stealing the treasure back!"
"If you mess with the Gangler Crime Syndicate…" The toad monster pushed away to of his guards and approached the Phantom Thieves, "Then none of you are getting out of this alive!"
"Be careful, guys," Bentley said from the other side of their earpieces, "Ruretta can secrete toxic explosives from his body that'll destroy anything it touches."
By the time they all got the message, it was too late, the Gangler released the toxin from his neck an shot at them, causing an explosion in the building. In the parking garage below the building, Bentley and Murray were getting worried sick about their friends.
"Uh oh," Murray shuddered in worry, "Do you think they're all right up there, Bentley?"
"I hope so, Murray," Bentley said as he adjusted his glasses and skimmed through his computer, "Then again, we shouldn't really worry, given that Max, Douglas and Emma have gotten out of even tighter situations than this."
"Yeah," Murray nodded, but was still a bit uneasy, "I guess you're right, Bentley."
Not far from the Casino, a patrol car from the Global Police were heading there due to all the reports HQ has been getting. In the vehicle were three officers -two men and one women - in blue uniforms the Global Police logo on the right side of the jacket and golden S pin on the left side. The man at the wheel was Jason Martinez, a 20-year old man with brown eyes, light brown hair, green patterns on his jacket and peach skin. The woman right next to him, loading her gun, was 22-year old Rose Wilson, who had dark brown hair, tan skin, green eyes, and a pink pattern on her uniform. The man in the back seat, loading his weapon, was Dennis McCall, a 24 year-old man with black hair, blue eyes and white skin, along with a red patterned uniform. Dennis looked on his watch to see how much time it would take for them to get to the casino, but one thing's for sure, nothing was going to stop them from delivering justice.
"Gangler scum…" Dennis seethed, "We'll take care of each and every one of you."
Once again, not far from the casino, Inspector Carmelita Fox was trying to locate the Cooper gang after their escape from police HQ. She was driving a patrol car, followed by five more cars, to the thieves' last known location. When she was expecting every possible move on the street the Cooper Gang could make, she got an unexpected call from her radio.
"All units, report to the Poisonous Toad Casino immediately," An officer from HQ spoke, "An explosion has occurred on the top floor of the building, and we need all nearby units present to investigate!"
Inspector Fox grabbed the radio with her hand and spoke, "On our way, chief! All units behind me, follow me to the Poisonous Toad!"
"Roger that!" The police officers responded before Carmelita hung up. Eventually, the casino came into view, and Carmelita could see a fiery blaze on the top floor. Her face turned into one of determination as she put the pedal to the metal.
"That better not be you, Cooper," She seethed, ready to take the thief down for good.
Ruretta Gerou laughed in amusement and relief, knowing he defeated his enemies, while the foot soldiers applauded him. However, the cackling and clapping ceased at a new sight when the flames cleared - a sight which the Gangler had to rub his eyes to make sure he wasn't just seeing things. When the smoke cleared, the Ganglers stared at the trio in shock; not only did the survive, but they changed.
Leaning on chairs, Max, Douglas and Emma stared at their enemies, knowing they were shocked at their new transformation. The trio to be in charismatic outfits to match their styles. They were all in new bodysuits, each with a cape with silver on the inside and red, blue and yellow colors on the outside, a white neck, a helmet each with a hat-like visor and silver mouthpiece - Max's was a sharp top hat, Douglas' was rounded hat, and Emma's was almost heart-shaped - black suits, boots and belts, colored upper bodies, boot rims, arms, and ties. On the left of their suits were the V-shaped top hat pin and on the belt was some kind mechanical belt buckle. The guns in their hands have also changed, with their mini planes being on top of them - Emma's plane like a gyrocopter with a saw blade in the back while Douglas' plane was a dogfight airplane with a machine gun at the end. They proved themselves to be no ordinary thieves, but the infamous trio of Phantom Thieves…
Kaitou Sentai… Lupinranger!
"WHAT THE-?!" The Gangler toad yelled in utter shock.
"Looks like we'll make it out alive after all!" Emma laughed as she and the others stood up.
"No need to hurry, though," Douglas added.
"We'll take off after taking you out," Max exclaimed as he adjusted his helmet before kicking his chair at the Gangler, followed by two yellow and blue shots and the Pordermen.
The newly transformed thieves then charged at the Ganglers who shot back at them, but failed to hit them. Each of the rangers ran around the room, dodging shots and weapons, and taking down enemies. Max rolled out from behind a pool table and shot the Ganglers surrounding him. Douglas jumped and spun vertically in midair before sitting down in a leather seat, looking relaxed. Taking this as an advantage, the Pordermen charged at him, but Douglas shot every single one of them down, stood up and kicked a small rolling table towards an incoming soldier, making him fall. Emma kicked a bowl of darts, flinging them all into the bodies of three Ganglers, making them stagger before falling to the floor in pain. Ruretta Gerou then popped out from hiding behind the bar.
"How?" Ruretta said in further shock, seeing as how all of his men were taken down, "I was hiding!"
Douglas was then chased up to the roof - which had a swimming pool - and fought off every Gangler he could find, and flung a few into the pool. Hanging out by another bar, Emma and two other Pordermen crossing their guns together. Knowing she stuck, she grabbed a nearby bucket and…
"Bonk! Bonk!" She hit their heads with the bucket, knocking them unconscious.
"And swoosh!" Emma then slid the bucket at a hiding Gangler, hitting him in the face.
Max then slide-kicked three Pordermen up in the air and shot at Ruretta Gerou, breaking all the wine and beer bottles. With one last jump into the air, the Lupinrangers destroyed all of the soldiers. When they all landed the stood up before Max's earpiece spoke up in Bentley's voice.
"Max! We got a problem!" Bentley said in panic.
"Not now, Bentley," Max said before four people entered the room: Global Police officers Dennis, Jason and Rose, and Interpol officer Carmelita Fox, who had followed Max's trail.
"Freeze!" Dennis called out, "Global Police and Interpol!"
"Look out!" Carmelita exclaimed as she saw Ruretta Gerou jumping at them. The four managed to dodge him as he had a rough landing. The four then looked at the Lupinrangers who pointed their guns at the Gangler, and they had their pistols ready to shoot at them in case of emergencies. What they didn't expect them to do is to actually shoot the Gangler at the same time, resulting him exploding in flames. The officers covered their faces from the explosion to avoid getting their retinas burnt. Once the explosion died-down a bit, Ennis, Jason, Rose and Carmelita looked at them as they spun their guns.
"What the-" Rose said in shock of the sight as she and the others stood back up.
"Whoa, aren't these guys the Phantom Thieves everyone's been mentioning?" Jason said in awe as the thieves turned to face the law enforcement officers.
"No autographs, please," Max joked as he pointed at them playfully.
"No jokes!" Dennis yelled at him as they all pointed their guns at the Lupinrangers, "This is perfect! We can arrest can arrest you lawbreakers, too!"
"Leave Red to me, Dennis," Carmelita stood right by him, pointing and at the red Phantom Thief, "I'll be taking that file your gang stole from me, Cooper!"
"File?" Douglas, Jason and Dennis quirked their brows in suspicion.
"Cooper?" Emma and Rose got curious as well as Max felt all eyes on him before sighing.
'Oh, boy, Carmelita in Interpol, working with the Global Police?' He thought before mumbling in realization, "Bentley must've tried to warn us. I guess I should've listened to Bentley."
"Yes, you should have, Max," Bentley spoke bluntly from the rangers' earpieces, "Now get out of there! NOW!"
"Same with here with you guys, Bentley," Max silently exclaimed.
"Gotcha, Max!" Murray exclaimed before the sound of a van engine turning over started in the background, "We'll meet you guys back at the hideout!"
"Well… I…" Max placed his free hand on the rails of the gun.
"Don't even think it, Thief!" Dennis demanded, "Put the guns down!"
"You didn't let me finish, officer," Max scoffed, "I'm sorry for inconvenience, but now, we really must fly."
"Fly?" The four officers echoed as Max rotated the rails to the side then back, making the gun light up and speak.
Get Set! Ready? Tobe!
"Yes, fly," Max then pointed the gun at the cops before pulling the trigger. A road of the gun's rails projected as the mini plane took off at them growing into a giant red jet.
Go! R-R-R-Red!
The four officers ducked to avoid getting hurt as the jet changed direction to the opening towards the pool. In a small explosion, the Lupinrangers grabbed onto the jet with grappling hooks as they took off.
"Adieu!" Max bid the officers farewell.
"Bye bye!" Emma added on in a yell.
"Wait!" Dennis called out to them, but the Phantom Thieves were already too far away. Rose then saw something falling down and grabbed it. She saw that it was the Lupinranger calling card.
"'We've taken the treasure.'" She read aloud before Dennis snatched it out of her hand and looking at it before looking at Lupinrangers escape route.
"Damn you, Lupinrangers!" Dennis threw the card out of the destroyed hole. Carmelita then went out to near the edge of the building clenching her fists in pure rage.
"One day, I'll catch you, Cooper - you and your friends," She growled, "And when I do, I'll put you all behind bars where you belong! Then I'll get back on that case… and bring those who brought my friends misery to justice!"
As the Lupinrangers were flying away, with Max as the pilot, he couldn't help but think about Carmelita. At first, Max didn't think she meant anything but a challenge, but that was before he found out she was a woman - a woman with a familiar name and the same looks as someone he knew from a few years back. He smiled underneath his helmet before speaking one last time as he pulled out a picture of the same three people from that portrait in her office. He looked at it with a sigh before saying one last thing…
"Carmelita… it's good see you again…" He said.
"My old friend…"
Lupinrangers took into the night, without a single trace, not knowing where this new adventure would take them. All people can tell at this moment…
…It's JUSTICE VS VENGEANCE!