Sly's Narration: Like I said before, Carmelita and I have had a very...complicated relationship and I succeeded in upgrading it to...hazardous. With her on a case, I thought she'd be too busy looking after me. Though I wouldnt be one to underestimate Interpol officer Carmelita Fox. Everything has happened so fast, that this day seemed like a blur. We'd been through a lot i can remember that were heading to another time. But also… we just hooked ourselves an uninvited friend. Some newbie kid named Hope. He was a bit of the...sticks his nose in places it doesn't belong, kinda guy. Hope quickly recovered from the time vortex and found a way into the van through my passenger window. I could already tell in his eyes that he had friends, with time machines too, and the'yll be on us like a predator to prey. This kid was gonna be a major liability. I was tempted to toss him out, but not knowing where he might end up, I decided not to. Like it or not, he and his friends were gonna be on this case. So I decided to tell him the truth.
I told hope what we were up too, and what we were doing first. Starting with us locating the first ancestor that disappeared from the Thevious Raccoonus, Rioichi Cooper, Master Ninja, and Master chef. I'm not sure if the kid believed me when i told him Rioichi was the actual inventor of Sushi. He had his own restaurant, which provided the perfect cover for a master ninja. But when we arrived, what was suppose to be a quiet japanese village was like a patrolled military base. Rioichi was locked up, and his restaurant closed down. As it turned out, he was locked up for feeding bad sushi to the shogun. We needed to get to the bottom of this, with Hope and his freinds in tow. But I know hes up for it. I can see that spark of a hero in his eyes. And the first step, was getting Rioichi outta there.
(End narration)
Hope just sat outside as they waited. "I'm sure they're coming." Hope said sitting there as nothing was happening. "Any...minute now." Hope said.
"They aren't coming are they?" Sly asked.
"I...I don't believe it. They actually abandoned me." Hope said. "What was I thinking? They don't even know I'm…" Hope began before feeling a tap on his shoulder.
"In another timeline?" Evan said as Hope saw the whole group as well as his own ship.
"What the? How did you even find me?" Hope asked.
"Easy. We just followed the tracking chip we put in your last meal." Tails said showing a device.
"What the? Why would you do that?" Hope asked.
"Honestly, we kinda saw you doing something like this." Lucy said.
Hope smiled. "You guys…" Hope said.
"Well, thats one way to make an entracne." Bentley said.
"And you guys are Sly, Bentley and Murray." Rainbow said.
"Whoa, how did you…" Sly began.
"That fox lady was handing out police sketches when we ran into her. She also gave us this." Indigo said showing a bad sketch of Hope.
"Ah nuts. Now she thinks I'm in league with Sly." Hope said. "In all honesty, if you two were in love, you really shouldn't have pulled this without telling her."
"Oh sure, I tell a cop that I'm going to pull a heist. That'll smooth things over." Sly said.
"Well we can argue all we want, but theres something about you i like." Hope said. "Youre not just an ordinary theif."
"He isnt? Looks like one to me." Naoto said.
"Nah. If he was a real thief, he'd sell that dagger. No, he's doing this for honor. The whole reason I'm here with him is because he wants to save his family tree." Hope said.
"He's right. My family histories leaving the books, literally. I had to take that dagger to get here to the Feudal era to help a relative of mine, Rioichi Cooper." Sly said.
"Well, maybe you should learn more about your surroundings first before running into things." Naoto said.
"Right on target, Detective Shirogane. In fact, i was just getting to that." Bentley asid. "In order to Bust Rioichi out, we need a plan. But first, I always have Sly do a little recon."
"As in take pictures with the Binocucom." Sly said.
"This things also a camera?" Hope said holding his up. "Wow, its like a whole news crew all smushed into a set of binoculars. Say, how about I do a little recon for you guys? I can be pretty sneaking."
"Kid, let me go with you on this one. You need a little guidance from a pro to pull some stealth off." Sly said.
"Alright. You still owe me for your girlfriend almost blasting my butt off." Hope said as Sly got to work. "Okay. So the photo's will come up on the binocucoms, right Bentley?"
"Right. I need some photos from all over. Hmm. Looks like Sly already got the first one." Bentley said as a photo of a boar guard appeared. "Man, these guards look like big bruisers."
The next photo that arrived was a heavily guarded building. "Judging by the number of guards, thats the Imperial Prison where Rioichi is being held." Bentley said.
The third was a large gate with two dragon statues in front of it. "That has to be the largest gate I've ever seen." Bentley said.
Hope then snapped a final pick of Rioichi's shop.
"Might need this for later. It's locked up tight. And Sly, I'm still a little sceptical about your anscestor inventing one of my favorite dishes." Hope said.
"Its true. Hold on." Sly said getting something. "Okay. Hope, Bentley says there's a commotion at the Geisha house. He wants us to check it out."
"Yeah, I see it." Hope said going over. Out of the house came a tiger with two katanas and smoking a cigar.
"Naoto, have you seen that guy before?" Hope asked.
"I'm looking him up now. Got it. El Jefe. He's a notorious criminal on the run from interpol. He's wanted for the domination of several small countries. He vanished before interpol could get him." Naoto said.
"This is too weird. Why would a mercenary commander be in the Feudal Era? It doesnt make any sense." Hope said.
"Not as weird as a Sengoku era sword being right next to a Feudal Dagger." Sly said. "Too bad it was shattered."
But that sword was more valuable than sly thought. It was a cursed sword, and the black mist from it, combined with the time vortex's effects brought someone back. Up on the hill out of sight was a familiar boy with pale white skin, rabbit ears, and holding a scythe.
"Ah, Feudal Japan. Just like I remember it. Before Lord Nobunaga began his conquest that is. Those thieving fools had no idea that sword in the art collection was the exact same sword my master once wielded. Now, I am free to walk the earth once more." he said.
He walked out of the shadows. "Soon the Demons of New York will have their revenge. Because I, Ranmaru, have come back from the grave. And I know a certain green haired swordsman who deserves all of my wrath. Kyahahahaha!"
Suddenly, a large man slammed down behind Ranmaru. He had a skull mask on with a sword straight through his head with beady eyes. He also had sengoku clothing on.
"Gahahahaha! No need to do anything else, Ranmaru! Because the great Dokurobo has returned!" Dokurobo said.
"Urgh. Of all the ones to be brought back, you had to be in that sword with me?" Ranmaru asked.
"Well excuse me for giving you company. Now I am free for revenge against the...the...who were the one's who beat us again?" Dokurobo asked.
"Argh! You and that empty head. It's those heroes that beat us, remember? Especially one with three white stripes in his hair?" Ranmaru asked.
"Oh yeah. I remember him now. He got me pretty good with those guns. Shot a hole right through my chest. But yeah, he's pretty bad too. I'm gonna smash them all." Dokurobo said.
"Well, as much as I want to attack right now, we cant let them know were here with them. We are to remain silent and follow them through time until we get back to the present. Then, we disappear and find out a way to bring our master back from the grave." Ranmaru said.
"Only one problem, you need to be alive for that plan to work." said a voice as they saw a weasel in japanese clothing holding a scythe.
"Ha. A stupid weasel standing up to us." Dokurobo laughed.
"No way. You idiot. That's…."
"Kamaitachi. The slicing wind itself." the weasel said.
"A Yo-kai? Here?" Dokurobo asked.
"A classic one at that. He's notorious for cutting a person before they even realize he cut them." Ranmaru said.
"Heheh. So, how is it possible that two demons of new york come back to life when I hear that Fukai and the demons were defeated?" Kamaitachi said. "And another one….what makes you think I'm going to stand having you around my village?"
Dokurobo thought about this for a second before snapping. "I just had a smashing idea."
"Another one of your strategies? Oh, this should be good." Ranmaru siad.
"Shut up! This time, I know what to do. All we need to do is…" Dokurobo began before his armor fell apart leaving him in his underwear. "Run for it!" he said as he ran with Ranmaru.
"I don't need them in my village. I need to focus on my other goal: liberating my village." he said leaping off.
Meanwhile, Sly had acquired a piece of Samurai armor as a disguise to get into the prison. He clanked around in it with Hope following with the others.
"Sly, are you sure this is gonna work?" Hope said.
"Just trust me, all right." Sly said.
"Halt! Who are you?" a guard asked.
"No need to be alarmed. I am...Major Muggshot." Sly said.
"Muggshot? I've never heard of you." the guard said before sly went up in his face.
"You dare question me? Son, I've been a commander ever since you were a little piglet! Wait until I tell the general about this. I hear he loves porkchops." Sly said.
"Wait! Er, I'm sorry sir. Please, go right on it." the guard said.
They marched in as Naruto approached the cell first.
"Hey, Rioichi cooper! Over here!" Naruto said. He got Rioichi's attention, as he was a brown raccoon in japanese robes.
"Hmm?" Rioichi asked.
"My names Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki, I'm a ninja and I came with some people to bust you out." Naruto said.
"Do not say any further. I can see your headband. That symbol is for the Village Hidden in the Leaves. You have come to release me, yes?" Rioichi asked.
"Yeah. Me and guy named Sly." Naruto said.
"Perfect. First, you will need to head to the dragon bridge in order to release me from this cage. Hurry up!" Rioichi said.
They traveled to the bridge and found keys to open the gate. Sly trigger at trap halfway to the cell, but used his armor's shield to deflect fireballs and reach the cage.
"Naruto-san, i do not know who this is, but only one who is a true cooper could make the trip like that." Rioichi said.
"Yeah, thats be cause I am one. My full name is Sly Cooper. I'm sorta your… future relative." Sly said.
"Youre not surprised by that?" Hope said looking at rioichi remaining calm.
"Do not worry, ninja are never alarmed. With all that has happened, I believe you all. Now perhaps you could open the cage so that we may escape certain death?" Rioichi said.
"Good call." Hope said ripping the door off as they escaped.
Back at the Hideout…
"Okay, whats out next move?" Hope said.
"With the intel gathered on El Jefe, its gonna be hard to go in directly. So why dont we start with reclaiming Rioichi's own shop?" Bentley asked.
"I had already planned on heading there. It is time I reclaimed my restaurant." Rioichi said pulling his hood up.
Sly used his samurai armor to relieve the guard there as Rioichi leaped into his shop. Hope saw him pull the mat up and reveal his own cane, which he could split into two. Hope and Rioichi then equipped the binocucoms.
"Okay, I suppose I dont need to tell Rioichi about his own place, hope." Bentley said. "But it is quite impressive to use his own sushi knives as door keys."
"Bentley-san, the young one knows I am a ninja master." Rioichi said.
"Wait, young? I'm 18, for your information." Hope said. "Okay, 17, but I'm still a hero dang it."
"Right. The good news is that his knives are still here. The bad news is the guards have them, and there's security traps Rioichi has never seen before." Bentley said.
"Bentley-san, though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it with no effort." Rioichi said.
"Translation… he's got this no problem." Hope said.
"Okay. Get those knives back and take back your restaurant." Bentley said.
They then heard slicing inside as they saw a whirlwind of slashes attacking the guards.
"Ah. So he has decided to take back the village as well." Rioichi said smiling.
"Its a Yo-kai. Even here, they can be seen." Hope said.
"I can see that you also bear the summoning watch to call them to your aid. If you want to earn Kamaitachi's trust to give you his medal, then you must put in the effort a ninja master would." Rioichi said.
"Kamaitachi? The sickle weasel!?" Naoto said on the comm.
"The very same, Naoto-san." Rioichi said.
"Who is he?" Hope asked.
"He's a famous Yo-kai in folklore. Known for being able to cut someone in the wind before they even realize they've even been cut." Naoto said.
"I see. So lets help out too.: Hope said.
He picked up the three knives from the downed guards and tossed them to Rioichi one by one, opening the gates. Rioichi then turned on a boiler that activated the restaurant, scaring the guards away.
"Yes!" Hope said.
"And begone!" Kamaitachi said scaring the last of them out with his scythe.
"Good to see you, Kamaitachi." Rioichi siad.
"Rioichi? When did you get out of your cell?" Kamaitachi said.
"This young one and his friends released me. It is strange, but one of them is my future Cooper relative." Rioichi said as Kamaitachi looked at hope and then his watch.
"That is a model of watch I havent seen. Which means you are from the future." Kamaitachi said.
"And in the future, Yokai and humans exist, well mostly together. Sunset, Nate and I have these watches which allow us to make friends with them. You wouldnt believe how much we have." Hope said.
"If that is true, then it is with great pleasure that you take mine." Kamaitachi said offering his. "Just save my village."
"No problem. But first, we gotta make El Jefe let the cat outta the bag, using a little… Geisha talent."
After securing fish for the shop, the next phase was at the Geisha house.
"Hope, Rioichi, sources tell me that El Jefe always leaves his fortress to speak with Madame Geisha. If we wanna know what he tells her, we need her costume." Bentley said.
"Uh, isnt that pervy? I don't really think this is a good way of getting info…." Hope said.
"No worries, my sources say she's on vacation and El Jefe doesn't know it yet." Bentley said. "One problem, the place is locked down tight. If only you two could get in some other way.
"For a ninja, theres always a way. For instance, the roof. Right Rioichi?" Hope said.
"You are learning well, Hope-san." Rioichi said as they leapt across to the roof and got inside. "I wonder how Murray san will even fit into the outfit? Perhaps he is very flexible."
"Wait, Murrays doing this?" hoep said.
"Of course he is. Have you seen madame geisha's portrait?" Bentley said as it was a rhino.
"Yeesh. And I thought this was pervy, but that face is really not suited for a geisha job." Hope said shuttering.
They opened the lock to the dress as Murray was on the roof.
"You are so lucky murray. I wanted Nami or robin in that outfit." Sanji said.
"It's too big for them. So, here I go!" Murray said diving down.
"Ack! Careful murray, the cables really fragile." Hope said.
"Ah, you worry too...YAAAH!" Murray said crashing into the display.
"Looks like he's gonna have to test that disguise out right now." Bentley said.
"Who goes there? Explain yourself!" said a guard as Murray turned around with face paint and a fan and wig.
"Konnichiwa! I am the most elegant Madame Geisha, here to entertain you." Murray said.
"Yowsa.." Hope said as all the guards dropped their crossbows. "To think he'd pull off a look like that… I'd rather just skip to helping bentley with the RC car intel."
"Hope?" Bentley asked as Hope found himself with Bentley.
"Uh… what was I doing? I was staring at something, wasnt i?" Hopes aid.
"Not more than normal. Now with Murray's disguise, we can get some records on El Jefe's voice and figure out his plan." Bentley said.
He launched the RC car and found him standing there.
"Ah. Even this magnificent view pales in comparison to my statue fortress." El Jefe said. "And no one will suspect that the switch to the gates is under the bridge inside the dragon's mouths."
"Hah. He keeps secrets badder than most people." Hope said.
With all the intel secured, they besieged the fortress as Ranmaru and Dokurobo watched from above.
"I'd get in on this, to get back into the taking a fortress gig, but then again, that El Jefe is too cocky and brash. It's better to watch." Ranmaru said.
"And once their finished, we will follow them to the next time period and blend in, not letting them know we are right behind them." Dokurobo said.
"Well, they won't notice me, either way." Ranmaru said.
Fighting through waves of enemies and trying to find El Jefe, he was actually pouncing on Rioichi and grabbed his cane.
"Hah! Finally, I acuire this for the boss." El Jefe said throwing rioichi aside.
"My cane!" Rioichi said.
"What would you boss want with a cane anyway?" Ranma shouted.
"All in good time." El Jefe said as he climbed up.
"After him!" Bentley said.
"I got him." Sly said going after him.
"Someone else needs to follow sly and tame that tiger!" Hope said.
"I'll go." Ranma said as he jumped after El Jefe with Sly.
They climed the statue to see El Jefe on the top of the head.
"Hey, Cooper, Saotome? How do you like my statue? A magnificent likeness, isn't it? Take a long look cause it will be the last thing you see before I crush you two!" El Jefe said putting out his cigar in his bare hand.
"Looks to me like you got not nowhere else to run. Ready to do this like a man?" Ranma said.
"Ha! Youre one to talk, man-girl! I know about your little curse. In fact, I brought something for the occasion. A nice bucket of ice cold water." El Jefe said.
"You wouldn't." Ranma glared.
"Everyone knows men are stronger than women. This will be a cake walk." El Jefe said. "Oh you two, you climbed so high, and now… youre gonna fall!"
They leaped to El Jefe and faced him on a platform where he was meditating.
"You know something? Youre actually starting to annoy me." El Jefe said.
"Yeah, I got that effect on all crime lords." Sly said. "Your name… isnt it spanish for big baby?"
"Enough of these games!" El Jefe said drawing his swords. "Time for you to take a cold shower, Ranma Saotome!" El Jefe said splashing Ranma with cold water.
"Doesn't matter if I'm a guy or a girl. I'm still gonna beat your furry butt to the ground." Ranma said now a girl.
"Ha. As if you could…" El Jefe started before seeing her up close to him.
"Drain...Punch!" she shouted uppercutting him.
"Argh!" El Jefe said.
Sly then slammed into El Jefe, knocking him out.
"Im...possible." he said before falling unconscious. But just then, a small device fell from the sky.
"Smoke grenade!" Ranma said as the two jumped.
As soon as it dropped, rats in gas masks came from a large blimp before taking Rioichi's cane and leaving behind a gold six pointed badge.
"They got away, but i think i know where were going…" Sly said before the top of the statue glowed. "Next?"
Out of the statue came a small piece of something as it showed the Japanese flag on part of it. "Hmm. Strange. I'll hold onto it for now." Ranma said.
Back on the ground, USApyon took a look at the star. "This isn't a star. Its a sheriff's badge. From the 1800's I think." USApyon said.
"I've contacted our friend Dimitri. Our next ancestor in danger is Tennessee "Kid" Cooper in the Old West." Bentley said.
"Oh!" Gemini said perking up.
"Being a cowgirl, id say this is more your speed. And this sherrif's badge will get us to where we need to go." Sly said.
"Its time to go west, young Cooper." Hope said laughing a bit. "Sorry, just couldn't resist."
As they opened the time vortex, Ranmaru and Dokurobo were right behind them secretly.
"Now our chance to ditch this fallen tyranny." Doku robo said going in. Ranmaru stayed behind and looked back at the scenery.
"I wanted another chance to establish something for when our master comes into this timeline, but with Kamaitachi and Rioichi around, that won't happen." Ranmaru said before running after.