Author's Note: How are many of you doing, my followers & viewers? You ready to ENVISION what I got cooking up next here, are ya? Well wait no further, the "King Of VISIONS" has once again, another surprise to present for those that wanna see what is about to happen next. It'll be something to VISUALIZE as a little 'opening' of 'greeting' before we prepare ahead with the next stage of what's to come? Yes, I know you much wanna see all the action now, but we must be patient, for some good stuff will still be seen, just done differently? But what will be seen is still comical, funny, and enjoyable for any that love Sly Cooper, especially the five ancestors that are gonna be acting here. And trust me, just trying to make how they talk with their speech patterns is tricky, but so satisfying. Enough with the small chats, let's begin…shall we now…
Chapter 02) Welcoming The Competitors?
Location: Still Unknown?
Still Present Time?
Soon we return to the same area where nothing but darkness enshrouded the entire place. There was only some bit of light that was being seen in the area in question, but all was still quiet? After the mysterious figure had entered to devise his method on what to do after performing some feet of 'magic' involving the Coopers, he left this spot. Now there was nothing left going on here that seemed to remotely suggest anything would happen that would not catch us by surprise. Or would it now….?
"Poof!" Suddenly without warning of any kind, a familiar flash of white light erupted from where there was light from above that lit the only part of the room to later reveal; Sly, Bentley & Murray? After that light show faded off, the Cooper Gang were suddenly active to be on high alert now?
"Whoa! Um, what happened?" Murray yelped from suddenly getting his thoughts together to ask, what just happened to them?
"Murray, Bentley, you guys alright?" Sly spoke in seeing that his pals were okay, that was a relief off his chest.
"Well yeah, why wouldn't we be?" Murray shrug off his shoulders to look at Sly confused, why was the raccoon asking them such a silly question?
"I'm fine Sly." Bentley responded in firstly, answering his pal's question, before moving on. "But this is really puzzling my mind?" He held his head before looking at the pitch black area they are surrounded by.
"The only thing I can tell you two, is that just when we were about to leave our hideout…" Sly explained to Bentley and Murray about what was going on with them, back at their warehouse hideout during a commotion.
"Which Dimitri accidentally lead Interpol too?" Bentley remotely pointed out in a dry tone in recalling 'who' lead the cops to them, even by not knowing it himself.
"Yeah, he did?" Sly sheepishly nod his head off in recalling how Dimitri did slip up in that spot. "But then you both got covered in a light and vanished before my eyes? Same thing musta happened to me to?" Sly explained off in remembering that during such an event, they were glowed over by a light before vanishing from sight.
"And it might have been only us, Carmelita and Dimitri aren't here?" Bentley pointed off in noticing who the light's targets were, the three of them apparently.
"Yeah, seems like it?" Sly shrug off his shoulders in thinking the same thing; only the Cooper Gang were being taken, no one else, why?
"So wait, if we all got that white glow stuff that made us escape our jammed situation, one thing's puzzling me?" Murray slowly spoke off in suddenly coming to terms of what might be going on here?
"What's that pal?" Sly looked to Murray in wondering what kinda answer he's got?
"What about my deliver of twenty pizzas, how am I gonna collect them if I don't see the guy?" Murray exclaimed off in worrying about his meal and about paying the delivery, in all the confusion, he forgot about that?
"I think our situation calls for a more…appropriate attention then that, Murray? Sorry Big Guy, no harm in getting between your stomach, but our situation might be critical to our survival?" Bentley explained to his big hippo friend to think about the situation they are in, if they are in any danger, they have to think about getting out alive then about the losses, such as missing on pizza.
"Yeah sure, I guess?" Murray sulks a bit that he missed getting his pizzas, but their safety should be on their 'to do' list.
"So what can we guess of our new location?" Sly asked off in trying to study the darkness that surrounds them, trying to get a mutual understanding of it.
"It's kinda pitch black here Sly, but looks like we're getting a little light from above…" Murray spoke off from noticing where they were was pretty much dark, nothing but a little light from above them. "Only it's so far away, I can't make heads or tails if it's saying we're outside or inside something?" He tried to hold a hand over his eyesight to see pass the point of where the light coming down on them was the source of, not much luck there.
"I'm running a scan right now to determine just where we are right now?" Bentley spoke from bringing up his attachable lab-top to begin typing to find out any data on their current situation?
"Well lets hope there aren't anymore surprises?" Sly made a slight smile in hoping nothing pops out of the darkness to catch them by surprise?
Oh how wrong the Cooper Gang was, for surprises was the next thing to expect the unexpected in this kinda case. Which goes without saying, when something matching two canes reached out to suddenly pull the arms from Murray into the shadows.
"GAaugh! Help, Sly! I'm being attacked by an unseen foe I can't punch?" Murray yelped out loud to try to fight, but when he turned around to punch what was behind him, he got….nothing but shadows?
"Hang on Murray, I'll help!" Sly spoke off to hold his own family cane to go in to help his big pal while Bentley watched in concerns; was there a foe hiding before them?
"Oh my, Murray-san…is that you?" Spoke a voice with a Japanese speech use tone in how one address' someone?
And who should come out of the dark shadows that completely took Sly's group by surprise then….Rioichi Cooper?
"Rioichi Cooper?" Bentley responded in almost being flabbergasted to see one of Sly's Ancestors? "Your…you're here?" He just barely held out his left hand to point at seeing someone of Sly's family that was once alive in Feudal Japan in the 1603 AD, is now here in the flesh?
"Hai. I was minding my own when leaving the shop, only to sense an unseen force, that took me into the light…." Rioichi nods with a noble bow and his hands clap together in being very honorable to see his allies again while he explained something that happened to him; a light made him vanish that came out of nowhere?
"And it brought you here?" Sly raised an eyebrow of suspicion in hearing what his Japanese Ancestor said sounded like what happened with his gang.
"Correct, this form of ninjutsu…I am sad to say, I am…unfamiliar with?" Rioichi nods while looking serious, but distracted by the manner that what form this unexpected light was that took him to this place, he does not know of it's origin or function?
"Join the club, Bentley's just trying to help us figure that out?" Murray shrug off his shoulders to let Rioichi know they gone through a similar situation, and now their turtle pal in the wheelchair, is trying to figure this out.
"I'm afraid it might be more complicated then we thought, guys?" Bentley sadly stated with a serious expression on his face while trying to type on his lab top with more number-crunching, especially when he's added the knowledge of Sly's ancestor, Rioichi, was here with them?
"What do you mean?" Sly asked his smart friend in what was wrong that got Bentley a little more worked up?
"Yah Bentley, tell us? This waiting is making me almost go BERSERK!" Murray cried out in feeling that waiting this long, is driving him nuts here. "I feel like screaming?….AAAAhhhhh!" Then without knowing why, Murray just let off a loud scream that was mostly the sound of him getting furious.
Just before Bentley could answer those questions however, something else took place here.
"Abominus Beast, you shall not stop a knight on his quest!" A new voice spoke off that suddenly cut in on the group's conversation.
"Wait, who's a what's it?" Murray yelped off to find who spoke to him, and addressed him under such a manner?
"Sally-forth…HOooooe!" The voice spoke of Medieval tone before something of a blur rush from the shadows…with a spear object pointed at Murray.
"AAAAaughhhh!" Murray scrammed out in fear, and was running for his life in another direction to escape this pursuer.
And who should come out from the darkness next, then into the light while chasing Murray in a circle be….Sir Galleth Cooper.
"Sir Galleth Cooper?" Sly responded surprise on two things; one, another of his ancestors was here from 1301 AD, and two, the guy was too focus on his task to pay attention to his surroundings of others he knew.
"GlupUummm…." Murray was toppled down with the Cooper in armor standing on the hippos' back, like a knight that has best'd a beast.
"Yield to my might, fowl beast!" Sir Gellath clutched his free hand into a fist, and held his cane up for the final blow when….
"Sir Galleth wait, that's Murray you're about to shred?" Bentley yelped up to hold his hands up to get the guy's attention, that was no monster, it was their hippo friend.
Soon Sir Galleth turned to see Bentley which made him confused, and looked down on closer examination to see…the beast he conquered was indeed Murray.
"What pray tell is this?" Sir Galleth asked off a bit bewildered by what he has suddenly come across. "Sir Bentley, & Sir Murray?" He recognized those that have helped him in the times of Medieval England days.
"Hello…glad to see ya, if you weren't on top of me?" Murray spoke from being pressed down, before Sir Galleth got off the hippo to let him stand up; soar from his aching body from what happened, but alright.
"And Sly, is this real, or more illusion & sorcery at hand?" Sir Galleth spoke in seeing his descendant of a future present time was here, but was confused; was this real or not?
"I think we all wanna be filled in on that?" Sly stated with a sudden serious face, two of his ancestors were here, this definitely puzzled his mind a bit?
"Bang-Bang!" Suddenly, there was some gun fire shots off in the distance that got the gang's attention to go defensive.
"WRAaaughhh!" Then a cry was heard that also alerted them, that there was more then just those in the only lit light room here?
"Now what is it? Gulpvhmm…." Murrary was about to ask in feeling this was getting out of hand, but it got worst when a blurry creature attached himself to the hippo's back, and knocked him down to the ground. "Why me?" Murray complained off from being taken onto the ground by someone else? This just wasn't a good start of a day for him?
"Holly-Mollie! It's Bob?" Bentley yelped off in seeing that what tackled Murray, was someone they saw in the light of this center to be recognized.
"Wait Bentley, you mean…Bob as in, Caveman "Bob" Cooper?" Sly asked off from looking to Bentley, and seeing that it was true; his Prehistoric Ancestor from 10,000 BC was here?
"Hugh, I thought that tackle felt familiar?" Murray spoke off from recalling how strong Bob's strength was, as the Caveman Cooper got off and to lean a hand in helping the hippo up. "What are you doing here, Bob?" Murray asked off in how a guy he helped get back into shape, was doing here, outside of the Ice Age time period?
"(I was sniffing of where I was, my hands touched something, and then loud noise spook me out?)" Bob responded with his gibber caveman talk which could still be understood (Note: by the words we read) in what happened to him.
"A weird noise? But the only sound we heard was…gun shots?" Bentley spoke in holding his hand under his chin in pondering….who fired off those gun shots that Bob never heard before since it existed long after the caveman's time?
"Alright you varmint, you and everyone else in your group put your hands where I can see them!" Spoke a new voice with a Western cowboy accent in wanting those in the light, to reach for the skies and not try anything.
Then who should enter the scene of the puzzled group of thieves, then one doing the stuff from old cowboy's action then…Tennessee Kid Cooper.
"Tennessee Kid Cooper?" Bentley responded off for the forth wonder of it all, that Sly's Western Ancestor from 1884 AD was accounted with the rest.
"Well howdy that? Bentley, Sly, and Murray, fancy seeing you here?" Tennessee Kid responded in lowering his revolver cane in noticing some old friends of his. "Something caught me by surprise that touched my boot, and I reacted with some gun shots in the air to scare it away. So what was it?" He explained what happened to him, something caught him by surprise, and he reacted in self-defense, and wants to know what it was that he was chasing?
"Would you believe, it was Bob here?" Murray pointed to the Caveman Cooper that was behind the hippo that peeked from behind from being a bit cautious from what he went through.
"Oh, sorry about that, my bad?" Tennessee Kid reacted to the news, and immediately apologized to his prehistoric caveman member of the family for his rash action.
"(Eh, no problem. I've handled worst?)" Bob shrug off his shoulders to say that it was okay, he's gone through worst, as he came out from behind the hippo.
"Okay, this is getting weird?" Sly spoke off from looking around him to see something out of a fiction book. "I'm seeing my ancestors again, and this time, it's the ones I've gotten to really know from when they were in trouble?" Sly remembers meeting with these guys during the time his family's history as worlds greatest thieves, was about to be changed & erase from history.
"I know, Rioichi, Sir Galleth, Bob, Tennessee, who else is next?" Bentley responded in understanding his friend's point, this was all too weird, who else were they gonna see from this group of Cooper Ancestors?
"What in the Dessert Sands is all the racket, and why is there no light on except for this spot?" Spoke another voice that got all our attention that spoke with an Arabian tone accent.
And who would you know to walk right into the middle of the scene, then another Cooper of the past, Salim Al Kupar.
"Salim Al Kupar?" Bentley responded in more surprise shock in remembering Sly's Arabian Ancestor from 1001 AD, and it was hard to forget him. "Oh boy, I had to ask for old cranky-pants?" He signs in remembering that this was one Cooper that was in his senile years, and can be a bit cranky at times.
"Salim, you're here too?" Sly responded in seeing his fifth Ancestor before him, this was almost too good to be true.
"Well it's not like I had any other choice?" Salim snap off to complain a bit in stating this was not his idea to begin with. "One minute, I am enjoying selling my snack food from my camel, and the next, I'm gone in a white light?" He was explaining himself that something strange happened that he was now here instead of his hometown?
"Hugh, same with me, Sly and Bentley here?" Murray spoke kinda curious, yet puzzled about how something like what Salim said, had also happened with him and his pals.
"Bite-thy tongue, tis this true? Art thou saying what's happen to thee?" Sir Galleth asked off rather shock to learn of a stunt scene that happened to him too.
"Um, yep?" Sly slowly responded with a sheepish rub to his back about such an experience happened to him & his team.
"How bizarre? For I too, have experience…such acts?" Sir Galleth held his chin in recalling the event that took him from where he once was.
"(It happened to me too?)" Bob responded in letting the others know of his case as well. "(I was curious when it was only on me, but then when I least expect it, I was gone from my tribe, and was alone in this dark place?)" He stated about being with his tribe, then the light took him by surprise to this dark place.
"Well ain't that rowdier then a Buzzard Bathing in a pit-filled with cactuses? The same thing happened with me too?" Tennessee Kid responded off with a very shock surprise that whatever happened to him, happened to a lot of other folks here to.
"Yes, it would seem we each, have had a rather….'peculiar', experience of being in one place, then the next, somewhere else?" Rioichi made a serious expression on his face in pondering how this was all strange to have gone through the same experience.
"Well, I think I've gotten something?" Bentley spoke in finally finishing his typing on his portable lab top to have an answer for them.
"Is it the Good News, Bad News, kinda explanation Bentley?" Sly asked off with a little bit of a joke of the manner here.
"Historical Sly, just let me finish here?" Bentley rolled his eyes that his raccoon pal was joking at this time. "The area around here seems to be throwing off some weird wave-lengths that are trans-digressing time & space's ruction, by the circumference of…" The turtle was explaining some very much into science talk about what's happening here, but….
"Um Bentley, I know you're smart, but…could you…maybe, just a 'little', give me a simple explanation of what you're saying?" Murray asked off in having a hard time figuring out all this science talk, it's too much confusing to him?
"Right Murray, sorry everyone? In short, something is making time here for all of us, seem…well normal?" Bentley responded before giving the short message of the meaning of what he's trying to say. "Last time Sly, we brought your ancestors to the present, they couldn't stay long, and were sent back to their own timeline after a while, so to not disrupt the time stream." The turtle guy knew about time travel, going to the past is one thing, but taking someone out of that period was risky, so he made sure that those outside their timeline, would return eventually.
"So you're saying….something is keeping my ancestors here, without causing any time craze disaster on our hands?" Sly slowly responded in getting what his pal was suggesting, that something was preventing any time anomaly from going haywire with his ancestors being here together?
"Yes, but there's still more, what I gave, was only good news?" Bentley stated off that firstly, what he told, was mostly good about time not getting out of hand, however… "Bad news would be, I can't figure out if we're somewhere in the past or our present timeline?" He couldn't really know if they were somewhere of their time or anyone else's past timelines?
"So you think we're in the future?" Sly shrug off his left hand to make a suggestion about being in the far future instead.
"The future? I thought we see flying cars and instinct food delivery service? And even those food pills that grow big with a drop of water?" Murray responded in being very curious, and looked around, but was not seeing some exciting things going on?
"I'm not sure if it's the future either guys? What I 'can' say…" Bentley shook his head with some self-doubt, that while not in the future, there is one answer he can understand the most for now. "Is that something is interfering with my scan readouts to understand the tech hidden around here?" He's certain there is technology involved that is making it hard for him to figure out where they are, weather it's some point of their own time or not, was left a mystery?
"Enough with the twaddle & gobbledegook! The time for action is now! Even if this be magic, by Merlin's Beard?" Sir Galleth waved off his right hand in being bothered by how he can barely figure out much of Bentley's words, and that they must make haste in their situation.
"Hugh, a magical item, like a genie's lamp, that could be it?" Salim spoke with some interest in thinking that it maybe something of a magic genie lamp?
"No, no, there is some technology, but it's hard to understand it?" Bentley waved off his hand in trying to let Sly's ancestors know that the cause was of some form of technology, he just can't figure it out is all.
"Bentley-san, sometimes, two different halves of the coin, can be apart of one meaning." Rioichi spoke with wise-advice that stated, that two different subjects: technology & magic, maybe one in the same.
"(Um, is it like looking at water to see one's self, but not really there?)" Bob asked off a bit unsure how to follow, but thought of a good example.
"Heck, I wonder what anything that comes up being something we've never expected in our lives?" Tennessee Kid smiled in thinking about how they've already experienced some out-of-whack stuff already that wasn't something normal that they've encountered.
"Okay, okay, so maybe from some…'small chance', there is magic involved? And with advance technology, whatever is being used, I can only assume we're in a…Central Dimension?" Bentley concurred that if they are going to put a theory to the test, the turtle believes that they might be in some form of a dimension that's centered in on where they maybe?
"A Central…what?" Murray responded off really confused by what Bentley just said. "You mean we're not even on our own PLANET, anymore?" The hippo asked off if the meaning was that they are not on their own planet anymore, that's really taking the cake here?
"It's a long shot Murray, but it's hard finding out if we're on our own planet if time isn't keeping track of Sly's Ancestors being outside of their own time line?" Bentley put a good theory that if they were in a dimension that exist where time is not kept in order, then any being from different time periods, could co-exist here.
"So you are saying, that if we all existed differently, and we shouldn't even be here in the first place?" Salim spoke off in getting the idea of what Bentley is trying to tell them of their situation. "Then how is it that when I got taken, everything with me isn't near me?" He asked off a puzzling question about something he had was not on him anymore.
"What do you mean?" Sly asked from raising an eyebrow in never understanding his ancestor's question?
"My camel, my stock, and my earned retirement money, it's all…KAPOOF?" Salim waved up his arms to complain that his stuff, and camel, are long gone when he was taken by the light?
"Speaking of bequeaths, my fellow steed I road on is missing, tis sheer annoyance to rob a knight of his horse?" Sir Galleth spoke in thought of remembering what happened to him around recently, back in his time.
"Woah, must be some kinda horse-thief going around?" Murray responded off surprise to hear someone actually stole a horse, what kinda thief does that?
"Now that I have a moment to think, a scroll of my recipe ingredients is missing?" Rioichi spoke from checking his clothing to find, something that wasn't on his person. "To swipe it off a ninja master, is no easy task?" He stated with a serious face that whoever took his scroll of ingredients off his person, must be very skilled?
"You think that's a problem, the money I robbed off of robbers is gone too? Last I saw it, it was near me, and when I got here, it weren't beside me?" Tennessee Kid stated that he had robbed off robbers of their loot, but when he vanished to appear out of the light, the money he got was long gone?
"(And I think my small stack of eggs were taken too?)" Bob spoke off in stating something else he had went missing; pterodactyl eggs?
"Okay, so somehow, something brought us here, and it took each thing we got?" Bentley held up his hands to try to get everyone to calm down while he was thinking of what their situation was turning out to be. "For natural reasons, criminals would want money, maybe Rioichi's recipe could score big, and pterodactyl eggs are rare for big bucks?" He made excellent points if crooks were to take such priceless objects of wealth & rare items that would make a 'pretty penny' in modern times of the present.
"But what did we lose Bentley, other then me with my pizzas, you with…ugh…something important?" Murray asked off his turtle pal in what was taken from them before they got here?
"Thanks Murray, I did leave behind some newly made gadgets, but I can still know how to make them without the blueprints?" Bentley responded to his hippo friend with his own answer, that he didn't really lose much since he knows how to build it, but was there nothing else to think about?
"Only thing I could think about…is that something of mine was taken…my friends." Sly addressed the manner with a serious face that made the other members of his gang looked to him. "What got me, first took you two." He recalled that whatever the flashing light was, took Murray, then Bentley, before working around Sly himself.
"Now the pieces have come together, getting living creatures is different from non-living objects, but now all that remains is one thing to figure out?" Bentley held his chin in understanding how what happened that brought them had a different work function on solid to life-organism creatures that needed different working methods to transport? "What did this, or more to it….'who' did it?" What the turtle addressed the subject in question, would bring a lot of others into the thought.
If this was just a phenomena that was just coincidence, that's one thing, but… If this was all done by a person, then who would have the resources, the tech, and magic to do the impossible. All these rushing questions…would soon be answered.
"Welcome…Thieves & All!" Spoke a new voice that got everyone's attention in hearing someone greet them, sounding like some announcer?
Then suddenly the entire room was lit up with lights that all traces of darkness that shadow the area were brought into motion. It was style like a grand hall of such design culture with many opened windows without glasses, and a sky-roof to see what was endless night stars. The area was like a circle room with a few doors that would lead to some part of this mysterious building in question, and around the mid-section of each door was a lantern with a lit flame to illuminate the room. Even hidden within the rooms were glimmering items of gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, etc., it was almost overwhelming to think a thief could ransack an entire building?
"Woah!" Sly spoke off from being surprise by his surroundings, it was definitely of classy artwork alright.
"By the Seven Arabian Nights?" Salim spoke off from feeling such utter motion to gasp at the sighting of such marvel.
"By Dragon's Breath?" Sir Galleth exclaimed off in looking around, stun by this place, it was more then a mere castle palace?
"By the Ancient Code of the Ninja?" Rioichi muttered off with his eyes trailing along the architecture of the building's form.
"(By Dinosaur Teeth?)" Bob responded with his own surprise in being here in such a vast place of so many things never seen before.
"By Scorpion-Snake Rattle Tail Wrestling?" Tennessee Kid replied off in almost whistling to the room and all it's fine glory.
"By The Quantum-Physics!" Bentley exclaimed off in looking around, never believing this was even for real here, but it was?
"By Triple-Decker Pizza, with Pepperoni, Anchovies, Hot Fudge with Banana Split Ice Cream & a Cheery on top!?" Murray responded off a shocking surprise reaction that was going over the top of lots of stuff to say in just looking at this place.
Course, the others looked to the hippo puzzled and confused in what he just said sounded…weird?
"What? I thought this was a 'make-up stuff in responding to how surprise we are' game?" Murray looked to the others to respond that he was just going allow in what was happening here?
"While this is strange Murray, what you said, just became the second bit from the first?" Bentley pointed off that Murray spoke something that left the group completely lost in thought to be the second surprise to their knowledge, while this room was the first.
"Guys, I think there is something above…we all, gotta see?" Sly pointed off in taking a little earlier notice of another major thing that earn their attention.
Soon all eyes focus on a long stairway in the center of the room that lead to some high stand; an altar by another word? There, someone stood in proudly being seen by those within the room; it was the mysterious cloaked figure? Only this time, he revealed a bit more of himself to those below him. He appear to be a humanoid bat with dark-gray fur and pointed ears with gray triangle earrings with a ruby stone in the center. He had red color eyes, combed silver hair that falls behind his back, and only two small fangs sticking from his mouth on the top and bottom while his teeth were inside his mouth. His sharp claws were hidden under his gloves & from his feet were made from boots to allow toe room. Hidden from in back of his hooded cape was where his wings were located. The only other thing to see was around the guy's neck was a ruby amulet, that looked pricy and valuable. This guy had his hands on his waist in being presented with a high dignity on his frontal approach on being seen.
"I…Am the Master of Games: Kortez!" The mysterious being addressed himself by rank title before giving out his own name while doing his bold announcing performance. "And you, are hereby invited to compete…" He spoke off in declaring that those below are to get ready for a competing trail, which was… "In the Tournament Of Thieves!" He soon waved out his arms in declaring that this shall be a tournament where all thieves alike can compete against each other.
"Ah tournament?" Bentley responded off in being stumped to hear this now out of the blue?
"Of Thieves?" Sly repeated that whoever this guy was, wanted only thieves to compete in something like this?
"Wait a sec. Master of Games?" Murray suddenly broke the tension in liking something to be answered firstly here. "Like, as in…you've master every game there is in existence?" The hippo had actually wanted to know if this 'Master Of Games', really is a Master of Games or not?
"Yes, that would be the objective." Kortez responded in acknowledging the answer to the simple question.
"Does thou have ever bested archery, jousting, and swordsmen competition?" Sir Galleth asked off his series of games that have been done in Medieval England.
"I have done so." Kortez nods in responding to the question of old England games from Medieval times.
"Well have you ever played a game of poker cards, and is good at throwing darts?" Tennessee Kid asked off if this guy had played games that folks that go in bars and saloons have done.
"Yes, I have." Kortez responded without delay in knowing of games from Western times.
"(Um, have you wrestled against Sumo Penguins?)" Bob asked off in thinking how he's done a game like that, which Murray once had him do to get into shape?
"I tiny effort, yes." Kortez nods in noting how such a challenge is but a small basic thing to him.
"Have you ever tried to snatch a scroll in a game used in ninja training?" Rioichi asked in wondering if this Kortez person, has played a game that ninjas do as a training technique.
"A tradition I've seen done many times before." Kortez responded off in knowing very much about Feudal Japan's games befitting for ninjas of that time.
"Have you ever played a game of heckling in which treachery is tested?" Salim asked off with a sly eye in knowing how in market places in his Arabian hometown, there are such sly dogs.
"I have seen how such a game even works." Kortez waved off a left hand in knowing such trickery such as heckling off hecklers trying to con him.
"Have you've beaten Monster Truck Rally VII, Zombie Rush V, & Wrestle Mania XII with a high score?" Murray asked off a series of some games he's played and are very popular.
"I've finished those with being the high score champion, & still rain…undefeated." Kortez motioned this message off with a tiny smile in beating such games of present time.
"Woah, that's some impressive record?" Bentley responded along with Murray, beating those mentioned games they know is indeed, challenging.
"Well, with asking game-related questions aside, I have something else to ask? Are you the one that brought us here?" Sly stated in bringing back the main topic if the only person they haven't meant before until now, is the one that brought them here to begin with.
"Yes, it was 'I', that called you all here. By an ability you may know it as…teleportation." Kortez did not deny the evidence that he was the one to bring these thieves here, and many were astounded to hear of a move this guy can perform.
"And here would be?" Sly raised his eyebrow in not sure where they are, since they just appeared by teleportation work?
"The Central Dimension, where Time has no meaning here of the outside space, this place is…Zeta Prime!" Kortez slowly responded to wave off his arms in announcing the place all stand in, his Central Dimension: Zeta Prime.
"Zeta Prime, hugh, you don't say?" Sly responded in finding that name pretty strange for a different dimension, but then again, what did he know about dimension travel. "So tell us buddy, what is it you want of us again?" Sly curled his eyebrow in wondering what this person in question, has got planned for them?
"As spoken; A Tournament of Thieves. A friendly competition." Kortez exclaimed that this was to be a tournament where there was a friendly competition to be held. "Between the World's Best Thieves of any Time." He exclaimed the motion that was focused solely on those that have arrived here in this very room.
Suddenly, a flash of light came off from Kortez's amulet that blinded many. And soon came display screens that showed much of any competitor & of the info about them.
"Sly Cooper." Kortez spoke from when suddenly, there was a image of the Cooper of Paris, France. "Inherited skills from his long line of Cooper Family Thieves. Skills to pull off quick & agile performance to completely take down any foe that underestimates him." He explained off the stuff Sly can do while performing his skills that match his abilities.
"Hugh, I didn't know that you caught up in knowing stuff about me?" Sly smiled a bit in seeing this guy knew some bits about him, kinda impressive…kinda?
"Sir Galleth Cooper." Kortez spoke from when the next name & image display of the contestant came up, was Sir Galleth Cooper. "He's got the strength to be a knight, and plow through any dangers with his bombastic attitude in the Medieval Times." He explained the knowledge of a thief that is a knight, and the strength he holds from his sheer might & honor.
"Ye be too kind in honoring my knight's valor." Sir Galleth responded with a little gentleman's bow to this strange character.
"Bentley." Kortez spoke in bringing up a member of Sly's gang to the picture display screen, the Brains of the group; Bentley. "The turtle with the gizmos, and plenty of big Brain. Though he maybe crippled & in a wheelchair, his skills with any tech make him unpredictable in any situation." He explained from what is seen of the turtle performing much use of his brains and gadgets and gizmos to the point of what his wheelchair can do.
"Wow, I had no idea, I was 'that' good?" Bentley responded in finding that watching himself in action…was kinda cool.
"Rioichi Cooper." Kortez spoke forth in bringing out the next person to have some screen time, the ninja master, Rioichi. "A ninja master that can leap from furthest places with ease, performing his ninjutsu training of stealth & camouflage, and is a master chef of sushi from Feudal Japan." He explained the powers that the ninja thief can perform, from all his skills in thievery to that of a chef.
"Hai, you are most wise in foreseeing that, which others, haven't." Rioichi clapped his hands to bow in respecting this person for knowing and seeing his abilities…thus far.
"Murray." Kortez then announced the next person from Sly's gang to be seen on the display images, the big hippo of Brawn, Murray. "The hippo of 400 pounds of pure heroic fury, and being the big muscle Brawn. He may lack some things, but what he doesn't lack, is the strength to take out twenty men." He explained off in what we seeing a pink hippo plowing and bashing bigger thugs like they were nothing to his might and breaking through tough objects like walls and crates.
"Oh yeah! The MURRAY...is an unstoppable fighting machine!" Murray cheered off in announcing his greatness out for all to remember. "Although,…the 400 pounds thing, 'might' be a 'bit' much?" He rubbed the back of his head in feeling a little embarrass of being said to weigh so much.
"Salim Al Kupar." Kortez then introduced the elderly raccoon, Salim Al Kupar, as he was seen in trying to look his best while the display images were showing himself off. "An elderly thief said to have the stealth of forty thieves, and can rapidly ascend vertical climbing objects, and even ride a magic carpet to get over large gaps of the Arabian desserts." He explained the matters that while this Arabian thief maybe old, he has skills to keep himself from being just a frail old man.
"Oh please, you should have seen me in my prime days of youth." Salim waved off his left hand in claiming that if he was seen much younger, he be much better then his elderly self.
"Caveman "Bob" Cooper." Kortez spoke in now going off to introduce the prehistoric Caveman Cooper, Bob, as his screen display was seen. "A prehistoric creature from the Ice Age, skills develop to be the first thief of the family, and Greatest Egg Thief to provide food, and climbing walls as a speciality, even to have made the first tool to continue the legacy." He explained the abilities this caveman of earlier start of a thief has achieved while showing such strength of his climbing to be unheard off.
"(I've done what I can to help my tribe out.)" Bob explained off that what he did, he did it for his tribe, so that they can survive.
"And Tennessee Kid Cooper." Kortez had then prepared the last of the gathered bunch, with it being a picture of Tennessee Kid Cooper's turn. "The quick gunner with his best accuracy & rail sliding to be hard to catch in the old West." He explained the best noted functions that this cowboy raccoon can do, and with his sharp gun skills makes him hard to shot him from any side, or even follow him on railway track tracks.
"Aw shucks, my pleasure to have done the deeds." Tennessee Kid tip his hat off in liking how this here fella was complimenting him.
Now once all the view screening of the constants have been seen, we return to the room where the Master of Games finishes the introductory.
"Eight Brave & Worthy Thieves!" Kortez proclaimed his high announcement, the skills that are fitting for each of those here that have earn their rank. "But only one…shall win." He softly declared off with a serious motive that no matter what, out of these eight potentially gifted & skilled thieves, there can be only 'one' victor.
"So wait, you want us…me, my friends, and my family, to fight it out?" Sly asked off in wanting something explained here, this 'host' guy here, wants him to fight those that are his friends and family? He may fight other criminals, but why would he wanna fight those that aren't the evil type.
"As I said, it is a 'friendly' competition, and those that are defeated, will not be harmed anymore then to the point where there is no longer victory to be gain." Kortez calmly explained to the concerning eyes of all listeners that were hearing this statement on their well-being.
"I see…?" Sly slowly responded in hearing this, yet felt that it would be something 'out of him', by his the raccoon's nature, to fight his own family, but… "Well, I guess as long as it's a 'friendly' competition? I guess I can let off a bit." He shrug off his shoulders to get himself to feel more loose & relax, and a bit more like his old self.
"And here I thought you fear trying to harm me in a wheelchair, or face off against Murray here?" Bentley stated off in almost thinking Sly was not only fearing of hurting his pals, but to end up getting wounded by what the turtle and hippo can do.
"Trust me Bentley, those are the least things I wanna face? That, and when Carmelita gets mad enough to pull a Shock Pistol, on me." Sly comically stated how fighting his time traveling pals, that be the biggest challenge he have to face…next to his own girlfriend with the blaster.
"So….does the winner get some cool prize?" Murray slowly was tapping his index fingers in being curios in what the winner of this tournament gets out of it? "Like…maybe…oh, I don't know? Um…." He was rubbing his head, pondering in thought before shrugging off the shoulders in what would be a good example of a prize. "A New Turbo Booster Engine?" He clapped his hands together to smile and then pictured himself driving the Cooper Van with a new turbo booster engine, giving it more speed then ever before.
"I have no Turbo Booster, hippo." Kortez calmly stated off the answer which broke Murray's day-dream of actually getting one. "But rest assured. When the tournament is complete…there will be magnificent prizes." He was seen still standing on the center stair alter in declaring to the challengers, that by the end of this, there will be prizes to be given out. "And of course, the winner shall prove…'he' is the greatest Thief of his World's time." The others that were gathered around listen to what Kortez stated in what one of them can get out of this; title of 'Greatest Thief of their Time' on their planet. "However…." Kortez suddenly brought up something else that had to be considered at this moment. "Any who do 'Not' wish to compete? Need only say the word." He stated off that if any of the thieves here, wish to not partake in this tournament, must simply say it now. "And I shall return you home, back in your own time, at once." Kortez boldly declared with his amulet glowing to signal that any that wish to stand aside, will be sent back to where they belong.
Now things really got everyone's attention, a chance to compete in a tournament to test which of them is the 'Greatest Thief of all Time' on their world, it sounded like a major chance to be forever remembered in the history books. And there would be prizes, what they were, was still a question. But if no one here wish to compete, then this Master of Games; Kortez, would send them back to their home planet, and in their own time period too. What were the eight competitors going to do about this?
"So what say the rest of you?" Sly was addressing the others from his team to his ancestors in what they say about this tournament.
"Hard to say partner, to fight or not, it's a tough call to make?" Tennessee Kid held his chin in thinking that this was a tough thing to call.
"(I'm having a hard time deciding?)" Bob responded in not having much to know if he should do this or not at all, what be the point besides what they've been told?
"Bah, I'm too 'old' to be doing anymore of this, I'm retired!?" Salim waved off in being stingy about the whole idea of him to be going through more adventures at his age.
"To fight against family that has done no wrong, what honor is there?" Sir Galleth asked off in not getting the idea of fighting off a family member that has done no evil?
"But the questions remain, who this 'host' of tournaments, truly wants from us?" Rioichi spoke in pondering what this being called Kortez wants of them, for they have no clue?
"He says he's wanting to see which of us is the Greatest Thief of all Times? My guess is, it might be related to the Cooper Clan?" Bentley stated in thinking this was more related to the Coopers, being the worlds Greatest Thieves of all Time, and the members of each clan have earn their name to be forever known for the next generation to learn & uphold.
"What about us Bentley, aren't we great too?" Murray asked off in thinking that, being thieves themselves, arn't they also something 'special' to be here?
"I know we have our strengths Murray, but I can't help shaking the feeling, this is another Cooper related case?" Bentley knows the hippo was trying to say good things about them, but Sly's family has always had a more bigger role then they ever would have guessed?
"Then maybe we outta take part and see where it goes?" Sly suggested with a sly smile that they go along to sign up in this event, and learn the truth while doing it.
"You having some kinda plan there, son?" Tennessee Kid asked off in thinking Sly's got something to be thinking like that?
"Kortez says that he picked us on our skills, and so he's probably the guy that took us from our homes?" Sly pointed out in knowing without a doubt, Kortez was behind their disappearance in a white light.
"Tis true, he did willingly admit the deed?" Sir Galleth held his chin to look in thought, the Master of Games did 'say' such a thing.
"(Does that mean, he also took our things?)" Bob asked off in wondering if this meant another thing for them to know about?
"We can find out for sure if we just play along." Sly stated a plan to just go along with what's happening & unravel some questions along the way.
"Uh-oh Sly, I know that look, you're not thinking of actually competing?" Bentley spoke with some worried expression, he knows what the raccoon maybe planning.
"Only way how Bentley, plus, we might as well see how far this game of his goes? Since he's gone to all this trouble to bring me & my ancestors together." Sly shrug off his shoulders to think that, they may as well compete in this tournament Kortez is throwing since he got all the Coopers together (at least 6 of them), plus two team members?
"And that there're prizes to be won!" Murray responded with a smile in just thinking what prizes they can win if they compete, it's mind blowing?
"Please, why go to so much effort, when there are many other thieves in our family or even those outside our own?" Salim complained that why it have to be 'them' and not some 'other' thieves to compete for this silly tournament?
"Such efforts are not in-vein, this Master of Games, may have other things on his mind to have only chosen us…in particular?" Rioichi spoke with a serious mood of thinking they were picked for a reason, what that reason is…they haven't a clue?
"So what say you all, are you up for a 'friendly'…competition?" Sly turned to everyone here to see if there was anyone that wanted to go into this tournament to challenge themselves.
"Forthwith, I shall also lay my sword and shalt offer overmany my assistance." Sir Galleth proclaimed in raising his right hand to his chest in willing to offer a lot of his effort in this.
"(I'm in too!)" Bob responded with a nod in happily offering to go into this with the others.
"To test one's skills against other talented opponents, would be an honor." Rioichi nods with an approvable expression to happily do this to experience other fighters and their abilities.
"Heck, I be willing to bust my boot's heel to get a little dirty in this competition." Tennessee Kid smiled off in liking to be apart of something that'll really spice up his excitement.
"How's about it Salim? You wanna join?" Sly asked off in liking to see if the elderly raccoon of the Arabian time period, wants to be apart of the game.
"Well…seeing as that quitting now when you all are such high spirits, wisdom be foolish of me to say 'no', show how I'm a stubborn old fool." Salim thought this over to suddenly realize that backing out here would be a sign of weakness, he may complain at times, but not to embarrass his family name.
"Well looks like everyone in Sly's family is going along with this?" Bentley spoke from seeing that all the Coopers are in on this competing stuff.
"And so are we Bentley, lets party!" Murray responded in feeling that he and his turtle pal will really shake up this competition.
Soon after the chatting amongst themselves was over, much attention was turn towards the Master of Games himself.
"Looks like we're in. All of us." Sly approached from the others in letting Kortez here know, they plan to stick around & compete.
"The challenge is accepted." Kortez proclaimed with a proud nod in seeing all competitors have agreed to partake in his tournament. "Tell me, do any of you have questions from accepting this?" He asked off if those competing, will want some questions to be answered firstly?
"How's about my missing business & my camel?" Salim snapped off sternly in wanting back what belongs to him.
"And my trusted steed!" Sir Galleth demanded out what was also missing of his that he rode on as well.
"My missing recipe for fine sushi?" Rioichi spoke with a serious face in wanting what is his own invented creation; returned.
"The money I stole off from robbing thugs?" Tennessee spoke off with a stern tone in wanting the cash he robbed from evil robbers.
"(My eggs!)" Bob cried out in wanting his food supple of pterodactyl eggs back & to be given to his tribe.
"Right, all the stuff that we had, we wanna know, where are they?" Sly nods from hearing his ancestor's demands and complaints, and wanted this guy to respond to it.
"Rest easy, they are near…" Kortez held up his left hand to say that all the properties of these challengers are safely kept near. "But are kept safely away until the end of the tournament." Hearing this would let all those that had stuff, know that their items in question are not taken, but kept somewhere else. "If you would just head down the corridor to behind you, rooms are prepared for your stay." He issued where those competing can go to their own chambers to rest now.
"Wait!? Aren't we doing this thing now? This tournament?" Sly stopped to ask that they aren't gonna start this tournament right now?
"We must have a proper start with all competitors at full strength, you shall gain sleep, and when fully rejuvenated, shall we begin." Kortez expressed his best interest to see that all shall compete fairly at their best without any problems.
"But this place exist outside of time, doesn't it?" Bentley asked off in remembering this host said time doesn't work around here, or was that a lie?
"Indeed, but, time on how your planet moves on still works even when those here, do not age. So you'll know, what time in a day is." Kortez explained that even here, everyone will know when it's morning or night, they just won't age in this place is all. "Is that all?" He asked in wanting to know if he answered all questions presented?
"I have one, will there be room service?" Murray raised a hand to ask a question about getting something to eat; which of course this hippo thought about food?
"You shall receive plenty of refreshments to keep your strength well for now and for later." Kortez exclaimed that all those competing, will be given the best, so they can compete well in the tournament.
"Okay, I think that's everything?" Sly responded in seeing they gotten everything they wanted answered for, at least for now.
"Excellent. For come the next day? The Tournament…Will Commence!" Kortez waved out his arms in declaring that the tournament shall now start, after all have rested. "We shall begin by tomorrow by your planet's standard time, rest well, challengers." He rested his hands on his waist in letting those here know that they shall start the tournament by the time of their world's schedule.
"POOFruvhmm…." Then in a flash, the Master of Games vanished in plain sight before anyone's eyes?
"Woah, that was flashy for a leave stunt?" Murray was impressed by the Master of Games' exist trick, just like a magician would have done.
"Probably some smoke and mirrors…course….it's hard to say it, if it was so?" Bentley tried to state an obvious fact of the trick, but from everything that's happened, he didn't have much to go with.
"For now, we'll turn in for the night, come on." Sly issued to his group and ancestors in what they may as well do for now.
So without much else to do, everyone followed the advice of Kortez to go down the corridor behind them that would lead them to their chamber rooms.
Through a hallway the gang entered in, there were four chamber doors on each side that totaled up to eight; each with a picture logo of the competitor that was in the tournament.
"Hugh, guess this is where I'm spending the night in?" Sly commented with a little joke from his side, seeing his door had his image & signature color was blue off his attire.
"I can see they've captured my likeness very well in design?" Bentley quoted in seeing what he was looking at, seeing his door had his image & signature color was green.
"Heck, they've really made, 'the Murray', look tough in this one." Murray boldly declared off what he sees, seeing his door had his image & signature color was magenta.
"Truly, these image markings, are signs of our chambers of peace." Rioichi pointed out with some 'wise ninja' wordings, seeing his door had his image & signature color was reminiscent to that of raccoon dogs.
"Heck, I think they've done a bang off job on mine?" Tennessee Kid smiled in inspecting his logo mark, seeing his door had his image & signature color was orange.
"(Hugh, I wonder if that's really me or not?)" Bob asked a puzzling question, seeing his door had his image & signature color was beige.
"Truly, Kortez makes mine look fitting for a knight." Sir Galleth exclaimed from commenting such craftsmanship, seeing his door had his image & signature color was silver.
"Ehh, mine could be changed a bit, oh well?" Salim however seemed to find his in need of improvement (what with it reflecting his age), seeing his door had his image & signature color was turquoise.
So without delay, everyone entered their own chambers after saying a few 'goodnights' & 'rest well', & a few 'see you in the competition' quotes and comments. They each shut their doors to plan, think, train, eat, drink, or rest of what will happen when all the thieves compete to see which of them is the best?
Tennessee's Chamber
Tennessee's room was fitted to be like the old west with all the stuff from his time. Looked like that of a hotel/bar room where he could go to bed, get near the stall to get a drink or pick up anything that was on means of food stored in barrels or crates. Heck, there was even a shooting rig for his revolver & some rails for him to slid on.
"Well how bout dat? This place looks like back in the West?" Tennessee Kid smiled in looking at his surroundings, liking it very much. "Hugh, I could also get comfy being around here?" He spoke from twirling his cane gun around before approaching the target zone area.
Salim's Chamber
Salim's room was fitted to be like an Arabian structure with all the stuff from his time. It looked like a Sultan's palace, carpet floors, comfy big wide bed's with curtain rods, a mirror to see his reflection, a chain rope for his climbing, even a basket of food & a barrels of squeezed juices. There was even a calm pond for relaxing near it with some scattered pillows for one to sit in.
"Oh my, this palace reminds me of the time, I snuck into an evil Rajah's to steal what he'd taken from his people?" Salim spoke amazed by the glimse of the room that he's almost been here before…back in his youth perhaps. "Augh, in my retired life, I suppose I can compete if I can be given such fine treatment?" He signed from lying on a comfy lounge chair while picking up a bowl that had some fruit for him to feast on.
Bob's Chamber
Bob's room was fitted to be like the prehistoric cave caverns with all the stuff from his time. Nothing fancy expect besides some rock formations of furniture of a chair, a table, some with sticks in rocks for a workout set, and skinned animals for decoration. The animal skin parts were like a rug, wall decoration, and even a blanket for his round rock bed and stuffed with feather pillow. There was even a basket of Jurassic pterodactyl eggs on the table for him to snack on if he's hungry.
"(Oh, I feel like at home now?)" Bob exclaimed with a teethy grin in liking and walking into his cave room. "(And they even got the eggs right? I'll work out, eat, and then sleep afterwards.)" He spotted pterodactyl eggs on his table, and broke the shell to sip it's inside while doing that in-between his working out.
Sir Galleth's Chamber
Sir Galleth's room was fitted to be like the Medieval England's castle palace with all the stuff from his time. Banners hung from the wall, a mirror near the side, training wooden dummies and a sides stack of weapons. There was even a table and chair with a basket of food and a barrel of fine refreshing liquid for a knight to satisfy his taste buds. Even a bed was so comfy that one could remove their armor to rest without being bitterly before waking up fully refresh for battle.
"By Merlin's Beard! It feels like I've returned to the castle of my time?" Sir Galleth responded amazed by the de-coral sets of what he sees here. "Very well, I shall put the honor of the Cooper Family name to the test! And see which of us shall bring home the glory?" He unsheathed his sword in declaring that he'll fight in this tournament, and bring honor to the Cooper name.
Rioichi Chamber
Rioichi's room was fitted to be like the Feudal Japan building of his restaurant with all the stuff from his time. A kimono bed, a futa table with a cloth for warmth of one's legs with a basket of sushi and a teapot filled with tea with a little cup to be poured in. Nearby was a bamboo that was filled with water from a little pond that ran near a structured system, and when the bamboo was filled, dropped to make a strange 'Bom-ka!' sound before fixing itself up again for the next one, which to many, helped one relax themselves.
"Ah, it is very much satisfying to see something familiar to me?" Rioichi smiled with a satisfied expression, as he slowly walks to a spot with lit standing twigs in potted pots, as he sat in a strange stance of bend knees and spread arms. "Now, I must go into a meditated state…and focus my ninja chi to help guide me…for what awaits me?" He spoke with his eyes shut, as he began to elevate off the ground, feeling his spiritual self being enlighten at the moment of his concentration.
Murray's Chamber
Murray's room was fitted to be like the Safe House with all the stuff from his time. Had a lot of his heavy lifting equipment, a few parts he use to fix the Cooper Van, a big bouncy bed, and a table with a basket of lots, & LOTS of junk-food goodness; ham, cheese, pretzels, soda bottles, etc.
"ALRIGHT! The Murray…IS ABOUT TO DINE IN!" Murray shouted out for pure joy, as he rushed over to grab some snacks. "Gulp! Gulp, SLURP! BURP!" He ate, he drank, he let off a belch, all while smiling happily. "Augh, I better work out after eating that good stuff, I haven't eaten for what's been like, woah, I don't even know how long it's been? Guess it's been like forever to me?" The guy was pretty much unsure how long it was since he ate, since his group didn't eat before trying to leave & got sent here, but he'll pass it off just before going to a punching bag nearby.
Bentley's Chamber
Bentley's room was fitted to be like the Safe House with all the stuff from his time. More then just a bed for sleeping, a table for sitting to eat a placed basket of food and a barrel of a refreshing drink he can pour later. The place was packed with tech for him to use, operate, create, even a few constructive tables and hardware computers by the walls, it was a tech-genius' dream.
"Incredible! Look at all of this?" Bentley responded amazed by the tech in his chamber room. "Gotta say, Kortez really knows how to please a contender?" He stated from approaching the stuff, and began to do a little…process access point of his own curiosity. "Course, why I have all this, I think a little…'investigation' of our situation and the..Master Of Games…might be benefiting for our cause?" The turtle wanted to at least find out something of what's going on around here, with where they are, the situation as it stands, everything; no details left unchecked.
Sly's Chamber
Sly's room was fitted to be like the Safe House with all the stuff from his time. The normal bed, coffee table, basket of food & barrel of refreshing liquid. But mostly stuff that was set up for his training to practice his thievery, and some held stuff from which kinda was like the Cooper Gang Safe House…only it wasn't, as it was all just there to better satisfy him. Course, there was a photo of Carmelita and him during one of their chase events from the past, ah the memories.
"Well this guy really does his homework, he even knows about how I fine Carmelita…quite the attractive girl?" Sly spoke from smiling at a picture of him and the vixen fox with the Shock Pistol Carmelita carries on her. "Still, this tournament is something completely out of normal, but I guess competing is the only way for us to learn what goes on?" He spoke from spinning his cane before taking a seat to relax himself a bit. "I just hope that I make it through against my friends, and my ancestors…this'll be a chance to see…if I can live up to the Cooper Name?" Sly leans back in his chair, looked to the ceiling, wondering of the possibilities that await him when he partakes in the tournament?
Mysterious Room
Kortez's Hidden Chamber
This place was more secluded to be kept only to personal only, in this cause; the Master of Games himself. As this guy enters a room, dark, with his floating gems that soon…attached into some high-tech equipment and began to run data through some screens? As Kortez watches, he summons a commander's thrown chair for him to sit in, as he studies the information he's receiving.
"All the pieces have been gathered." Kortez slowly spoke in seeing the data of all things that are happening to his gathering of eight qualified thieves. "Now then, to begin settling stages to beneficiate those I like to see compete against?" He was searching for answers before a few suggestions, came across by a magic network he was using. "Yes, these stages shall do nicely." He smiled under his sly grin in seeing the stages he's come to terms in what he's found.
Soon the images of the eight challengers: Caveman "Bob" Cooper, Salim Al Kupar, Sir Galleth Cooper, Rioichi Cooper, Tennessee Kid Cooper, & the present Cooper Gang of Sly Cooper & allies: Bentley & Murray. These eight would face each other off, and from them, one by one, the answers would come clear…for the Master of Games.
"The competition will commence, and soon we shall see…" Kortez spoke in feeling extra pleased with his results and finds of these challengers. "How far these eight can go to become….the top four contenders of thievery while the others…" As he was stating off trying to pinpoint the best four to advance; a hidden expression began to raise? "Will serve another purpose." He spoke from such a creepy sound of his tone, that from his scary eyes said something unimaginable will happen once this tournament begins. For now, all the thieves have to do now…is try to get by the 'First Round', and see what the results will be like?
VISION NOTE: The gag of what one expects in the future, is usually something off many old other fantasy ideas of what to hope for; flying cars & instant dehydrated food, are of the many.
I've added some additions of what kinda games are those that can be played (especially that which were from different time periods), as a side fun bonus.
The image signatures & colors are mentioned here as a sign mark of which character is which, and that repressed their life-meter from Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time, for the eight cast here.
I've also tried to fit each character's room with stuff one sees from such places &/or in that time period, to give it that special something.
What say many of you, like the VISION of the competitor's get together? Don't threat, the VISION-KING still has more special surprises to be on the way even as I speak. For explain, we finally shall commence with the tournament where it's a Thief VS. a Thief, but who will face who? Gee, they are all so good, it's a toughie & a tricky thing to choose…? Okay, maybe not!? You can IN-VISION what will happen, as there will….FOUR MATCHES! That's right, we start with eight, then go for a two challenger; one-on-one fight, and by the end come out with….FOUR! Who's going to pass, who's going to lose, who's gonna notice one has won, but another has not? And what mysterious can we get from the Master of Games; Kortez, out of any of this meaning, OR….is he up to something? Just sit back, relax, and let your imagination prepare to go wild in seeing Sly Cooper characters, their techniques, EVERYTHING that they can do, be unleashed! Till then, enjoy what is here….