Disclaimer: You really think I'd be wasting my time with this if I owned the Sly Cooper cast? I'd be making this into a game.

New Alliance

Sly was taken aback by the sudden statement. Little brother? There's no way… There's no way she could be related to him… it was impossible. He was an only child…. Wasn't he?

"But, I thought Sly was an only child," Murray said, thoroughly confused.

"Well, I'm living proof that's a lie," the female raccoon said and jumped down off the branch. "Look, we can talk about this later. Kobra's going to find out where we are and I rather not be here when he realizes you're gone."

"She has a point. We'll talk about this later, okay Sly?" Bentley said, looking up at the still stunned raccoon.

"Uh…. yeah…" Sly was still partially out of it. What the heck was going on? He just couldn't grasp the situation.

"You're better off coming to our safe house. We have no idea if Kobra found yours," Wolf suggested.

Bentley nodded in agreement and wheeled over to Wolf and the female raccoon. Murray went over as well, but looked back at Sly, who was still sort of frozen there. The female raccoon walked over to Sly and put her hand on his shoulder. Sly came out of his trance and looked up at her.

"You can ask anything after we get back, all right?"

Sly nodded a bit, now seemingly out of his shock. With that, the group left with Wolf and the female raccoon.

The safe house was pretty plain at first glance. After a bit of looking around, there were two extra rooms adjoined to the main room.

"Just who are you?" Sly asked after he entered, looking back at the two whom had done so much for him and his friends.

"Juan Wolf."

"Jaz Cooper."

Jaz motioned for Sly to sit on the couch. Murray had all ready sat down at the table and Bentley was near the couch.

Sly sat down and looked back up at Jaz. "I-I still don't understand…"

Jaz sighs and sits on the armrest next to Sly. "It's a long story."

"And this isn't the best time for it. We have to deal with Kobra first," Juan pointed out.

"Then explain that to us."

Jaz leaned back a bit. "Kobra's just got issues with me and Juan. Mostly because he's jealous of our thieving rep and I tend to steal from him time to time."

Sly questionably raised an eyebrow. "You're holding back."

Jaz shrugged. "Why we're gong at it isn't important. What really matters is that we take him down."

Sly smirked a bit. "Anything we can do to help?"

Jaz matched his smirk. "Two Coopers are better than one."

Meanwhile at Interpol, Carmelita was still stewing over her previous encounter with Cooper. It was just so different. He didn't have any witty banter. Hell, he didn't even say anything. He was a lot more agile too. Normally, she could get a couple of shots on him, but this time he avoided them all.

No way, that couldn't have been Cooper. Too many things were different. If it just had been one or two things, she would assume Cooper wasn't in the mood to play, but that wasn't the case. What was going on? Was someone trying to frame him?

"Carmelita."

Carmelita turned around to see her chief standing next to her desk.

"Oh, hello sir."

"What are you doing, Fox?"

"That last robbery… I don't think it was Cooper."

"I had a feeling as much. It was similar to his M.O. but there were a few key differences."

Carmelita nodded. "Is there something you need, Chief?"

He nodded. "Carmelita, please come into my office when you have a minute." With that, he left for his office.

Carmelita blinked. What was this about? She sighed and decided to finish up her paperwork before going to see what the Chief wanted. Paperwork… who invented the crap anyway!

She was relieved when she was finished and she went into the Chief's office. Once she got in there, she blinked. Inside was a young canine. She had perked up ears, beautiful white fur, big brown eyes, a leather tube top, a collar with the Interpol logo dangling from it, much like her own, and a pair of shorts with knee high boots.

"Hi there!" she said in a chipper tone.

Carmelita looked to the chief. "Chief, who is this?"

"This, Carmelita, is Tasha Eskie. She's a rookie fresh from the academy. You'll be her mentor."

Carmelita paled a bit. "What? No, I can't. I gotta track down Cooper and this guy impersonating him."

"She can help. She's an excellent tracker. She should be able to keep you on Cooper's trail."

Carmelita couldn't believe it… he had gotten so fed up with Sly getting away he paired her up with a rookie who happened to be an excellent tracker…

The eskie smiled brightly. "This is going to be so much fun!"

Carmelita mentally grimaced… this was going to be hell.