Chapter Two: The Palace
"Wake up little one!" yells Sly. "I have today planned, get up!"
Marta slowly opens her eyes, wakes up to seeing Sly smiling. "We have a big day ahead of us! I think we should know more about each other."
Marta gets up and stretches, yet reaches towards her stomach. "Sly... I'm very hungry. Do you have anything to eat?"
"Nope" Sly answered. "But I bet people in Egypt do, especially the Pharaoh. If you want food, come with me."
"I read about Ancient Egypt before. It's cool to actually see it in life." thought Marta.
Marta's heart races quickly as she runs with Sly. She sees workers building statues, working so hard. She kind of feels bad for them, yet thinks constantly on the way, "Is Sly going to steal, and I get to see his thief tricks? That would be so cool!"
They get close to the palace where the Pharaoh is located, but it's surrounded by guards. These guards were dogs dressed up as an Anubis. The palace was very beautiful, decorated with yellow and white stones. There were statues of different animals, decorated with blinding gems. A red carpet lied in front of the entrance and flags hung from ropes attached from the roof of the palace. The view was astonishing.
Marta and Sly stood in front of the palace, staring at its beauty. Marta's face turns puzzled. "How do we get in?" Sly suddenly thought of Bentley, how he always told Sly what to do. He's not there anymore, just like that one time when Bentley was too depressed to even come out of his shell. Sly knows that now, he needs to figure things out himself and hope for the best.
Sly looks around, hoping to find a way to get inside. He spots the ropes hang from the roof. The ropes are attached to the flag poles.
Sly answers, "I think we should climb on those flag poles and walk on the ropes to the palace. That way the guards won't see us. I believe there may be a way inside from the roof. I have no idea what to do if that doesn't work out."
Marta smiles. "It's worth a try! Lets go!" She runs faster than lightning towards on of the flag poles. Sly follows, watching her enthusiasm.
She climbs the pole all the way to the top and before you know it, she starts to run on the rope. Sly examines her moves, still puzzled at the fact that she can do them and... so quickly. He follows her up the rope to the palace roof. They each rush to the top of the palace when they discover, there's nothing there. Sly hits his hand against his face. "What a fail."
Marta ignores Sly's reaction, trying to think of a new plan. She looks down at the palace walls. "What about the windows? We can look through one to check if no one is there. Then we crash in! Does that sound right?" Sly glances to Marta, smirking. "Yes it does. Good job Marta! Lets hurry up and then go back to the machine."
Without hesitation, Marta rushes to a window. "Wait!" Sly exclaimed. "We can't be seen! We are in a different time period, we could change the future in a heartbeat!"
"Okay, then we just peek in, come in when no one is there, and BAM! In we go!" Sly smiled and nodded.
They hung from the roof as they peek from the outside window. The one room was very beautiful. The bed was huge, there were very rare but beautiful decorations, walls were painted magenta, a bowl full of fruits on the bed and more expensive treasures.
Marta whispers, "Jackpot! Let's go in!" "Okay but be quiet when you enter."
Sly slowly opens the window and sneaks in the room, followed by Marta. He investigates the room while Marta is in shock from seeing so much goods. "Well, there's no one here but I'm pretty sure This is one of the Pharaoh's wives' rooms." Sly shouts.
Marta goes straight for the extra fruit in the room. When done investigating, Sly goes in for the food. They were gone for so long without food. They quickly finished, but still very hungry. "Let's get more food from another room." Marta said. "Good idea Marta."
Sly spots a hole in the lower part of the wall. "We should go in through that hole in the wall since the hallways is most likely loaded with guards. We can't take the chance. Besides, it looks like it leads to a different area."
Marta hesitantly nodded. "What's wrong?" asked Sly. "I just don't like tight spaces much..."
Sly laughed. "You'll be fine." Sly looks through the opening and smirks at Marta, "Well, ladies first."
They go through the opening and end up in yet again another well done room except... They hear a conversation. Marta looks in and crawls under a table. Sly was about to come out when suddenly he sees a very well dressed man step in front of the opening.
"He looks like the Pharaoh! This must be his room!" thought Sly. The raccoon eavesdrop on the Pharaoh's conversation with one short person dressed in black, with two guards beside him.
"...How could he, dare to steal from my palace! I give thanks to you for telling me their location. There must be consequences for his actions! Yes... consequences no one will forget! Inform him and his son to come here immediately. You two!" Sly watches the Pharaoh turn to his guards. "While she's at it, take me to the execution room. Those two thieves shall eliminated! That will show their family to not mess with the Pharaoh!"
The guards carried the Pharaoh out the room. The woman walked behind and stopped. You couldn't see her face from the black hood she wore. She looked over and met eyes with Sly. The woman looked back and walked out the room.
Marta immediately got up from under the table. "Jeez it felt like forever just crawling! Well I spotted a HUGE bowl of goods right by the dude's bed! Lets dig in and get outta here!" Sly smiled and quickly went to join her.
A guard walks in the room but didn't notice Sly and Marta at first. Marta got really scared and looked at Sly in terror. Sly winks at her and sneaks behind the guard. Suddenly, the guard spots Marta and yells, "HEY! WHO ARE Y-" In a blink of an eye Sly picks the guard up with his cane and slams the guard to the ground, killing him instantly. Marta opens her mouth in shock, seeing such techniques. She yells with excitement, "THAT WAS AWESOME! COOL! You have to teach me that!" Sly smiled and said, "Sure, I guess it won't bite. We need to hurry and go before more come."
Sly and Marta finished and went out the closest window. "Wow it got really dark! We need to get back to the time machine before we do any damage" said Sly. They both walk along the ropes attached to the roof. Sly spotted a grown raccoon-like man and a smaller one next to him walking in the palace followed by two guards.
"Who it that? Are those the guys the Pharaoh was talking about? Wasn't he... accused of stealing? What's going on?" Sly kept filling himself with more questions, just more on the list.
"Sly come on! We need to get outta here! We need to go!" Sly looks at Marta and follows her back to the time machine. They return to the broken time machine with full stomachs. Marta turns to Sly.
"That was so cool stopping the guard like that! Wow, I want to be just like you some day! That was totally mind-blowing Sly!"
Sly glances over to Marta. "You know, you did a pretty good job out there. Anyone can really mistaken you as a Cooper."
Marta blushes. She looks down and gasps. The young raccoon ran into a room in the machine when suddenly you hear, "Wow my room survived! Yes!"
*Interesting... He learns more about this raccoon, Marta. Well I hope you like it!*
