The Cooper Gang and Team Natsu
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40 Thieves
The van went through the vortex as it dropped itself in a area close to an Arabian city. "Cool we're in Ancient Arabia," said Jade. "I can't believe it. I am so gonna get an A Plus on my history paper."
"Enough Gawking," said Camille. "We need to locate my ancestor Salim Al Kupar."
"So who is he anyway?" Natsu asked.
"He is said to hold the stealth of 40 thieves and one of my speedier ancestors."
"Then I'm sure you won't be surprised when I tell you he's a charter member of the infamous 40 thieves thanks to the research I've done about him on the way here," said Kira.
"We're gonna meet real live professional Arabian thieves? Ancient Arabia is so cool!" Jade exclaimed.
"It looks like we'll have a lot of help for this task," Jade said. However, when the group arrived at the hideout of the 40 thieves they found the place empty much to their surprise.
"Kira," Michelle, "I thought you said that this place was full of thieves. Where are they?"
"Looks to me like most of them retired," said Seth, "After having made their fortunes and gotten older they decided to call it quits and enjoy their golden years in piece." Right on cue the sounds of feet could be heard forcing everybody to hide. They could see that some goons working for Le Paradox were present.
"Guys I have more bad news," said Tori, "Turns out nobody has seen Salim. He'd been working with the few remaining thieves but he's vanished."
"So for the hundred million jewel question Tori. Where is Salim Al Kupar?" Tori asked.
"Let's get back to the hideout and we'll figure it out from there," Erza said.
They got back to the hideout and started to plan on how to find Salim. "Since I'm a mage much like Camille I can create a locator spell to find Salim," said Kira. "The only catch is I'll need a personal item of Salim's to find him."
"Like his laundry or something," said Jade.
"Camille and I will go look for anything that belonged to Salim," said Michelle.
The two girls in question left the hideout to go look for anything that belonged to Salim. While they were gone Jade noticed Lucy's mood.
"You okay Lucy?" Jade asked.
"Huh? I'm fine Jade."
"Liar," she replied sternly. "Erza told me what happened during those magic games with Camille's cousin Minerva."
"I'm sorry, it's just…I can see Camille is a good person but what if it's just fake and she's just like her cousin and waiting for us to let our guard down to attack?"
"My Uncle Jackie once said that to see what is inside a person's heart is to listen to the words of those who know them best."
Lucy thought about it and looked at Camille's friends. "Maybe..."
Just as Lucy was about to finish her sentence Camille and Michelle returned to the hideout with a Turban once owned by Salim. "We found this turban," Camille said. "It was once owned by Salim."
"Will it do for the Locator Spell Kira?" said Michelle.
"Perfect," said Kira, taking the Turban and putting it in the locator spell. The turban then glowed as it showed Salim was somewhere in a boat on the river. "He's there."
Camille nodded. "Then let's go get him. Natsu, Benjamin, come with me."
"Why me?" Natsu asked. "I understand Benjamin since sand is part of Earth which is his element but why me?"
"Because you can stand the heat better than any of us and we'll need your help."
"Makes sense," agreed Benjamin. So Natsu, Camille and Benjamin went to go find Salim and they followed the turban using it as a guide which led them to a boat on the water. The trio jumped across and landed on the boat and entered to find an elder man with a gray mustache sitting on a couch wearing Arabian clothes.
"This is your Ancestor Salim Al Kupar?" said Natsu to Camille quietly. "I was expecting him to be younger and more muscular."
"The Locator spell does not lie Natsu," she replied. "That's him and remember most of the thieves have gotten older and retired by now."
"Either way let's go talk to him," Benjamin said.
Camille stepped forward and did the talking. "Are you Salim Al Kupar?"
"Yes, now who are you and how come you look familiar?"
"I'm Camille Orlando Cooper. I'm your relative from the future and these are my friends Benjamin Spong and Natsu Dragneel."
"How about we go discuss this at the hideout, Salim?" Benjamin asked.
"Ooh, will there be snacks?"
"Plenty now let's go," Camille said.
"Lead the way," said Salim. Once back at the hideout introductions went underway as Camille cooked up plenty of food for the Cooper Gang and Salim.
"So now that you've stuffed yourself Salim can you tell us about your problem?" asked Gray.
"Well, me and the other remaining 40 thieves were to do one last heist before we retire, however when we got there, this smelly man and...really impressive women were there with odd soldiers, I managed to flee but the other thieves weren't so lucky."
Judging from the tone Team Natsu and the Cooper Gang knew that the woman in question was large enough for Sumo Wrestling. "Did you get the name of the Woman in question?" Erza asked Salim.
"A Ms. Decibel from what I recall as I fled."
Tori looked up Ms. Decibel and found something interesting. "You got something you want to share with the rest of the class Tori?" Jade asked.
"Yup, and hear it is..."
Kira took a look. Turned out Ms. Decibel comes from a wealthy British family and has a love of classical music. However her lack of musical skill combined with an extremely short temper made a very explosive combination. It was during one of her short tempers that she found out she could control people through her hypnotic music and she was able to make other people commit crimes for her thanks to the enchanted baton she suddenly found."
"Great so we got an upper class snob," Gray concluded. "No offense to Lucy of course."
"None taken. This Ms. Decibel is an embarrassment to the nobility," Lucy concurred.
"She must be working with Le paradox and took Salim's Cane and the other thieves," said Camille.
"Actually I still have it." Salim then presented a stylized cane to the group.
"Well that's good news but it's only a matter of time till she comes after the cane," said Natsu.
"Then we are gonna have to free the other thieves and figure out what decibel and Le paradox are doing," said Camille.
"Easy, Camille," Gray countered. "We have no idea where Miss Decibel is keeping the other thieves."
"I've been working on that and unfortunately she keeps moving them around.
said Kira.
"What if I ease drop on her and Le paradox and figure out where they are hiding them?" asked Camille.
"We took that into consideration and for this job you'll need to take Erza with you. I have a feeling she'll be a life saver on this job," Tori said.
"All right, now let's go." So Camille and Erza left to go eavesdrop on Decibel and Le Paradox. Fortunately Erza had changed into an Arabian outfit instead of her usual Knight Armor since she stuck out like a sore thumb in that time period while wearing it and Camille herself had stolen some flawless gemstones from around the area while looking for Salim. The two in question were looking for Le Paradox and Decibel and they could hear them talking. Fortunately Camille had used some invisibility magic on herself and Erza so as to tail them.
"Now to see what they're talking about," said Erza.
The two stealthy hid in the trees. "So please tell me the operation is going according to plan?" said Le Paradox.
"Of course," said Decibel. "Everything is progressing splendidly. I have those raggedy little thieves completely under my control. I've never seen better forgeries. The documents they're producing are of the highest quality."
"Perfect. Once I get them back to the present day and my royal lineage is "discovered," my wealth and power will be unstoppable!"
"Well, there is one teensy little problem – we still need to feed our little worker bees, but our supplies are running low. The one who calls himself "The Panther." Seems to work best when I feed him Scorpion Claws. Disgusting!"
"Very well. I shall have some delivered immediately. Whatever it takes to keep these vermin working. One more thing- tell your guards that if they don't capture Cooper I will have them all fired and then executed."
"Oooh huh how devious, Cyril."
Erza and Camille continued to follow Decibel and Le Paradox till they began to speak again. "Tell me, what do you think of this little sand pit?"
"Well, this dry environment plays absolute havoc with my sinuses. My music practice has been horrendous. Want to hear it?"
"No need. Just be certain not to foul this up otherwise you'll find yourself behind bars like Mz. Ruby did and I hate to see that happen to you."
"Very well then. But there is one more thing I need from you. I need some Camel cheese. The thief called "the Tiger." Seems to rely on it. It's horrid stuff."
"Fine, I'll send a delivery boy to get the cheese though I'd rather starve them into submission."
Erza and Camille glared as they continued following the criminal duo.
They soon made it to a tent.
"Anything else?" Le Paradox asked Decibel.
"Actually there is one more thing. The one called "the Lion" seems to favor cobra tails and you know how troublesome those are to get."
"Yes I'll have somebody send them right away. But I had better get those papers soon."
After the two were out of range Camille and Erza got a call from Kira and Tori via the Binocucom. "I've got a crazy idea you two," said Kira. "Tori and I have been doing research and I think we might have an opening. The Guards know everybody around here and they also know that the Sultan's wife is also in town. Your outfits won't fool the guards but I bet outsiders like Le Paradox and Decibel won't know the difference."
"That's true," said Camille, "it's also dark and maybe we can fake were delivery men to get the locations of the three thieves.
"Not to mention they've never seen us before. Let's do this," said Erza.
The two in question entered the tent in disguise. "Huh? Who is this?" asked Le Paradox.
"Uh we are the delivery boys," said Camille in a fake male voice.
"We don't recognize you two," Decibel said.
"That's cause the other guys are out sick," Erza replied, also in a fake male voice. "You know how troublesome Cobras are."
"Ugh tell me about it," Decibel said, "well if you are hear then hear are where the three thieves are for their meals are"
"The thief called the Panther favors scorpion claws no," Erza said, still in her fake voice.
"They're legitimate," Le Paradox assured. "Here are the delivery locations. Now get moving." He handed Camille and Erza the delivery locations.
Camille and Erza then left the tent with the locations in hand. "Easy as Pie," Camille said.
"It helps that they are arrogant," Erza added.
"Let's get back to the hideout." The two of them returned to the hideout to give Kira and Tori the news on what they found out.
"So they're trying to establish a fake Royal Ancestry for Le Paradox here in the Past so his wealth and Power will be untouchable?" Jade wondered.
"That's pretty much it Jade," said Tori. "We've got to burn the papers and fast."
"But we still don't know what he wants with the Cooper Family Canes," Kira said.
Mira pondered. "Perhaps he wants to steal all the canes belonging to all the well-known members of the Cooper Clan and by doing that it's only a matter of time till he returns to the present and comes after Camille herself."
Camille nodded. "Seems like it, but I am not gonna let him succeed."
"And neither will we," said Tori. "But first things first. Salim the time has come to free your thief brothers. We'll start with the Panther first. He's being held somewhere in the tower close to Honest Hassan's Carpets. Going through the carpet shop is going to save us a lot of trouble."
"All right, Salim." Camille turned to Lucy. "Both of you can come with me."
"I understand Salim but why Lucy?" Jade asked.
Camille looked at her as Lucy looked back. "I have my own reasons."
"Just get going," Kira said. "Once Salim gets to the shop we'll give further instructions." The group nodded as they exited the shop. "You did talk to Lucy did you?" he asked Jade.
"Yes I did. She's still afraid of Camille slighty because of her elder cousin and it doesn't help that she looks like a younger version of her only with longer hair that goes past her hips and to her knees and without makeup."
"Hopefully this mission will clear the air about Camille."
"And if it doesn't then we'll have to figure out something else," said Tori.
Back with the two coopers and celestial Mage they made it to their destination. "Okay Salim, Camille, Lucy," Tori said. "We know that Decibel has "The Panther." Somewhere in that tower. Trying to get through the palace gates would be impossible."
"Can't we just get one of Princess Margaret's ancestors to help us?" Lucy asked. "Just like we got Isis from Egypt to help?"
"I'm sorry Lucy but we can't wait for one of Maggie's ancestors to help us," said Tori. "However you three can get into the carpet shop by crawling through vents and from there you can make your way to the tower."
"I guess…"
"Great work," said Salim.
"Suck it up Lucy," Camille added. "We've got work to do." So the three of them crawled through the vent and entered the carpet shop they then stopped at a room the minute Kira and Tori rang.
"This isn't right," Kira said. "This room isn't in our blueprints. My guess is that it was probably renovated recently. Give us a minute."
"Oh by Aladdin's beard," Salim groaned. "Rule 37 in the thief's handbook states, 'Expect the unexpected, foresee the unforeseen, and predict the unpredictable.'"
"Keep your turban on Salim. All you have to do is cause that crate of carpets to crash and you'll make a hole big enough that'll get you to the underground passage that'll take you guys to the tower."
"Great work." He rolled his eyes.
"I'll take it from here." Camille tossed her fan like a boomerang to slice the rope holding up the pallet which in turn caused the pallet to fall creating a crack in the hole. Camille then retrieved her fan before putting it back in her backpack. "After you two."
Salim and Lucy then headed into the hole with Camille following behind. They made their way to the passage and Salim used his Cobra Climb to climb up the rope while Camille used her wings to fly Lucy up into the tower.
"You're almost there just a bit further and you'll find "The Panther.,"" Kira said.
They made it to a door. "So do you think they will open with a secret password?" asked Camille.
"I doubt it'll be that easy," said Lucy.
"Let's just go in and open this," Salim. He, Lucy and Camille tugged on the handle and opened the door. When they got in they could see a small man which was no doubt the Panther. Kira then dialed up the Binocucom to contact Salim, Camille and Lucy.
"Your friend is in a hypnotic trance," said Kira. "It must be due to that device."
"That would explain the record player and Arabian music," said Lucy. "Snake Charmers use that to hypnotize snakes. Decibel must be using a similar principal."
Salim despaired. "Then all hope is lost."
"Not really. Kira's got a plan to reverse this," Camille said.
"Put a device on top of that thing and I'll take care of the rest," said Kira.
Camille did so as Kira got to work hacking the system. As Kira did the deed Lucy looked away as Camille decided to break the ice with her.
"Why so glum Lucy?" asked Camille. "We're on a big adventure and you've gone to places that most upper class kids can only dream about. Are you afraid of something?"
Lucy then looks at Camille and then away. "A bit."
"You're afraid of me are you?"
Lucy was somewhat frightened that Camille could read her like a book but then again Camille did come from a long line of Master Thieves so that would explain it. "Yes."
"Somehow I'm not surprised. Gajeel the resident Iron Dragon Slayer mentioned that my cousin massacred you in the grand magic games."
Lucy clenched her fists. "She just beat me and insulted me calling me weak and pathetic and…" A sigh. "She was right, and she just kept doing it over and over and kept insulting me like she didn't care."
Camille could sense that Lucy had been on the receiving end of Minerva's sadistic side of her personality and from what she could make out her cousin's father the previous guild master of Sabertooth had not been the father of the year. "I am sorry for what my cousin has done, but you shouldn't be afraid of me, I am not and never be my cousin."
Kira then called over the Binocucom at that moment. "If you two are done with therapy then I'll have you know that I disabled the device. So the Panther is Free."
The music then stopped as the Panther woke up disoriented. "Ooh my head. Where am I?"
"You have been hypnotized. Forced to make forgeries for that evil woman but I have rescued you. With some assistance."
That's nice. I'm hungry. Did you bring me anything to eat? Perhaps some nice roasted Scorpion Tails? Maybe some camel milk?"
"Amazing, I climb halfway to the stars to rescue you and you expect camel milk? Why do I bother…"
Back at the hideout after rescuing The Panther, Kira and Tori then briefed the group on who they were going to free next.
"Next on the list to free is The Lion," said Kira.
"So let's get him," Jade said.
"Easy Jade," said Tori. "We can't just rush in there. And Gray, put some clothes on. I know this is ancient Arabia but walking around in your boxer shorts is considered indecent."
Gray was shocked that he was in his boxers again. "Oh come on…" He grumbled as he went to find his clothes.
"Getting back on track where is The Lion?" asked Erza.
Kira started to type on her computer. "I found him but this time I'll be in the field. Camille, Michelle, Salim come with me." They followed her out of the hideout.
"This is going to get Dicey. Security's been beefed up. The Turrets are too well guarded to attack directly. Tori's already hacking the security system but she's having some trouble and we don't have time to wait on her. We'll have to bolt for it or we'll miss our one chance to free The Lion."
Jade popped up behind Kira. "So we'll just use the Dragon Talisman and blast them."
"Jade, how did you do that?" Michelle wondered.
"I used the snake talisman to follow you guys."
Camille was impressed. "Sneaky."
"Why did I not get a Magical Talisman that would let me regain my youth?" Salim lamented.
"Try this," Jade passed Salim the Dog Talisman.
"Can we please focus?" Kira shot back.
"Sorry," the others said.
"Thank you. Anyway we're gonna have to drop smoke bombs at certain locations so as to cause a diversion. Then since Salim knows this city like the back of his hand he can guide you through the smoke."
"I will be providing back up via the RC Copter," said Michelle. So the team followed Salim as soon as Michelle dropped the smoke bombs in the city and stopped when the smoke wore off. They repeated the pattern until they eventually they found the Location of The Lion.
"Open Sesame," Camille said.
"You may have magic Camille but you are not a genie. Now help me with this thing," Salim said. Camille, Jade, and Salim opened the door working together.
"Close sesame." The door closed right on cue.
"So you got lucky once or twice."
"What is that hideous odor?" Jade groaned. "Heaven help your friend."
"Unfortunately that is the Lion. He always hated doing laundry."
"Could have fooled the next person," she said, covering her nose.
"Let's just get this device onto the terminal and let Kira do her thing," said Camille. She placed the device onto the terminal and let Kira do her hacking.
"Just about got it done!" Just as Kira said that she finished hacking the device and powered it down and The Lion was freed.
"Uuuh I had a terrible nightmare," said The Lion. "I was being charmed like a snake, and could not break free!"
"That was no nightmare my friend," said Salim.
"Salim. You were in my dream too. You brought me many delicious snacks…"
"What's with you guys and all the food?" asked Jade.
"Probably a culture thing Jade," Camille replied.
"Salim who are these two?" asked the Lion.
"These two are friends. They helped free you. But for now let's get you out of here."
"Ooh will there be snacks?"
"Yes, there will be snacks."
"Camille while you're there get what's left of that device," said Kira. "Michelle Tori and I can put something together from it."
Camille got what was left of the device and returned to the hideout. Kira started to tinker with the machines. "While Kira's tinkering with the machines I've located the thief known as "The Tiger,"" said Tori. "He's being held somewhere inside the Taxi shop. The interior is small and there aren't any guards at the moment so this seems pretty straight forward. Camille and Jade go in and free him."
"Will do," said Camille with a salute.
Jade and Camille entered the shop and they began to make their way across the traps with ease and in record time they reached the Tiger.
"Well that was oddly easy," said Jade.
"We're not done yet," said Camille. "We still need to free the Tiger."
"Camille's right," said Kira. "You know the drill by now." Camille planted the device on the console and Kira began hacking it.
Jade stared at the Tiger. "Seriously these guys are a part of the forty thieves?"
"They are and they were the best at what they did," said Camille. "But they're old and due for retirement."
Just then Kira finished hacking the device and it shut off. "Ooohhh my head," said the Tiger.
"Easy. Let's get you out of here. Salim's waiting for you," said Jade.
"Salim! He is there, he owes me a lot of coins."
"You can take it up with Salim when we get to him," said Camille.
Jade and Camille took the Tiger to the hideout but on the way they ran into somebody.
"Didn't anybody ever hear off…. Oh boy," said Jade.
"You said it," Camille concurred. Camille and Jade had run into another girl only this one was wearing Arabian clothing and the scary part was that she resembled Margaret and Isis. "I don't suppose you're familiar with Isis of Ancient Egypt?"
"How do you know of my royal ancestor?" the girl asked.
"More to the point who are you?" asked Jade.
"I'm Aura, the Sultan's wife and descendant of Isis the First, Queen of Egypt. I'm visiting this village for the time being but this place stinks and I'm not talking about the guards. I've been hearing rumors about some new player known as Miss Decibel that's been causing trouble."
"I think we found another of Maggie's ancestors," said Camille to Jade.
"Pretty much. I think we better bring her back with us."
"Come with us. We'll explain everything Aura.
"Do I know you? You look familiar."
"Trust me, it's a long explanation."
"Perhaps we better continue this somewhere less public." Jade and Camille nodded and they guided Aura back to the hideout and Salim was surprised to see her.
"Aura? What on earth are you doing here?" asked Salim.
"Wait you two know each other?" said Erza.
"You can say that in a way."
"Salim and his pals used to steal from my enemies. My husband the sultan is an honest and wise ruler so Salim had no reason to steal from him."
"Your family really knows a lot of royalty," Natsu whispered to Camille.
"What did you expect Natsu?"
"Can we get back to what you're doing here Aura?" Salim asked.
"Right of course but first I'd like to know what's going on." So Team Natsu and the Cooper Gang explained everything that was going on and when they finished Aura had a look of interest. "Okay so that explains a lot but there's one thing I'm confused at. When I look at Erza it seems like I'm looking at a relative of mine. Why?"
"Perhaps we better get Maggie on the line." Tori activated the communication line.
Jackie answered the line. "What's up? Find anything?"
"Uncle Jackie. Is Margaret there?" Jade asked.
"She's back on Sodor why?"
"We wanted to ask if she had an ancestor from Ancient Arabia," Tori replied.
"She mentioned something about Aura of Arabia from her Mom's side of the family. Why do you ask?"
"Well we have her ancestor with us."
"Hello."
Jackie was shocked upon seeing her before regaining his composure. "Hello. So you know what's going on."
"Yep and I'm here to help correct history."
"Well, be careful."
"We will Uncle Jackie," said Jade.
They then ended the communications.
"Okay Salim I'll need you to help me get into Miss Decibel's office," said Kira. "Only somebody with your climbing ability can get in there."
"Great, more climbing," said Salim.
"Calm down, Salim," said Tori. "Once you and Kira get to the library I'll give you further instructions.
The two quickly enter the library as Mrs. Decibel was playing music...classical music.
Tori then called them via the Binocucom. "Okay Salim, I'll need you to place the urns that Kira and I created so that when Kira fires her darts it'll create a distraction allowing you to place a bug on her desk."
"How will putting an insect in there tell us anything? At the most it will just annoy her."
Kira explained. "Camille said her father said something similar to that when they put an Indian Water Bug in Rajan's office when they were going after the Clockwerk Heart. Anyway it's a device that will allow us to listen in on her conversations and figure out what she's up to. Anyway we need to get her out of her office and I know how to do it. Just place those urns at the points I told you and once I fire at them with my darts she'll get a taste of the one type of music she can't stand. Rock n Roll."
"I don't get how rocks and rolling is going to help but I'll do it." So Salim went to put the Urns in the places that Tori had told her about.
Kira then came in. "Ok it's my turn."
Kira then shot a dart at each of the three urns and when all three were activated the Rock and Roll Music began to play which caused Decibel to rampage allowing Salim to plant the bug. "Great job Salim. Let's get out of here."
"You don't have to tell me twice." He quickly left as Kira putted up a slideshow back at the hideout.
"Okay everyone thanks to the Bug in Decibel's office," said Kira, "we know that she plans to hand the documents to Le Paradox in the Lamp Shop behind that security door."
"Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out what's behind there yet," Tori replied.
"I did. Using the sheep Talisman power I found a giant blimp in there. It's an underground docking station"
"Okay so that explains it."
"How do we get in there without announcing ourselves to the guards?" asked Erza.
"I believe I can help out in that department. I'll distract the guards by preforming a belly dance," said Aura.
Jade face faulted. "Seriously?"
"Yes. I'm serious. Once I'm able to lose the guards I'll join you."
Camille stroked her chin. "This is possibly the best plan yet."
"Or the riskiest," added Lucy.
"Either way at least we have a plan," said Natsu. With the plan in mind they rushed to the location with Aura in costume ready.
"Hey you big apes. Over here you apes," Aura called out.
The Guards were star struck to see such a beautiful woman as Aura and they were eager to see her perform so Aura preformed a belly dance while the Cooper Gang began to open the security door.
As she did it, more guards came to watch as the girls of the Cooper team looked and shook their heads.
The girls all grumbled. "Boys…"
"Oh right, silly us." They replied.
The Cooper Gang then regained their focus and managed to open the door.
"I'm thinking I should go no further Camille," said Salim. "The last of my friends have retired and I've had enough climbing, snakes and jumping for three life times. Besides, I've passed my greatest wisdom on to you. Besides somebody should go check on Aura."
"We couldn't have made it this far without you Salim but I think we can take it from here," said Camille, "You've certainly earned your retirement. Go enjoy it. And the belly dancing."
"I think I will."
Camille then followed the others into the door just before it closed.
"Well Jade said this was big but this is bigger than I was expecting," said Tori.
"So what's our next move?" asked Gray.
"We just need to get up there but the laser grid is on the way," said Kira.
"This would be where an RC car or copter can help us," said Camille.
"I'm on it." Michelle presented her RC Car. "In my spare time I like tinkering around with RC vehicles and what not." Michelle then manipulated his RC car to deactivate the laser nodes to the laser gate.
"Okay the gate's history," said Erza. "Let's go." So the group headed to the computer terminal where Kira began doing her hacking to deactivate the security around the blimp.
"Almost there," Kira said. The alarms broke out. "Hoo boy."
"What did you do Kira?" said Lucy.
"I must've tripped an alarm. Give me a minute to figure this out."
Just then Troopers then landed via Parachutes and were armed with gas masks and stink themed weapons.
"We can't wait on Kira. Let's go team." Jade said. Everyone started to fight/fend off the troopers. Jade then got the idea to use the Dragon Talisman to destroy the Laser barriers while everyone else defeated the troopers. "And that's that. On to Le paradox."
"I'll go first, hurry." Camille dashed forward with the group following behind her as they got to Le Paradox's blimp.
"Ah if it isn't the Cooper Gang. One step behind me just like last time. You are too late," Le Paradox said. Le Paradox then showed that his group had tied up Salim and took his cane.
Aura came in a minute later only now she was in her regular royal outfit. "I'm sorry Camille. I tried to stop them."
"That's okay Aura. You did your best."
"Let Salim go you creep and return his cane!" Erza called out to Le Paradox.
"You are in no position to be making threats to me. Decibel destroy them!"
"Of course Cyril," she said in a flirty voice. Now for a serious tone. "I hope you are ready for a music lesson you won't forget!"
"Bring it on cause your music sucks."
That caused Miss Decibel to get mad and attacked Erza dodged before attacking with her sword
"Not gonna be easy," she said.
"You haven't seen anything yet." Decibel then used her wand to belt out painful musical notes but Erza dodged each one and evaded them using her Knight Armor and blade.
"You'll have to do better than that!" Erza said.
"Oh I will." Decibel then tried charging at Erza but the S Class Requip Mage dodged it before switching to her Lightning Empress Armor and began to use Lightning Magic to fry Decibel till she managed to subdue her.
"You did it Erza. You defeated Decibel," Lucy said.
"Don't mention it," Erza said.
"Guys where is Le Paradox?" asked Jade.
"Yooo hoo…" The Cooper Gang turned to see Le Paradox already in his blimp. "You are too late to stop me fools. Thanks to Miss Decibel I already have the documents which means I'm out." Le Paradox then took off in his blimp leaving Miss Decibel behind.
Later on back at the hideout after Camille used a spell to send Miss Decibel back to the future to Section 13 where they could arrest her the Cooper Gang was giving Jackie Uncle Tohru and Captain Black an update.
"And that's what happened," Gray said. "We lost Salim's cane and Le Paradox has the documents."
"He wants to make everyone think he's Royalty," Lucy said.
"Well that will explain this," said Captain Black. He pulled out a magazine.
"Le Paradox has established his lineage," Camille said. "But he's still after the rest of my ancestor's canes."
"Uncle has been studying the Thievius Raccoonus and Your next stop is Medieval England," Uncle said.
"But we don't have an artifact that can take us there," said Seth.
"That's not all," said Jackie. "When I was doing some archeology work I began to notice cave paintings in caves that weren't there before. They're forgeries but somebody must've planted them. Judging from the scale I'd say somebody has gone back to 10,000 B.C. the Ice age to be precise."
"Then that's where we're going," Michelle said.
"We need something from that time to get us to 10,000 B.C.," said Kira.
"Try my Australian fossil necklace," said Mira. She took it off as Kira took it and put it in the scanner. The group then found themselves heading to the Ice Age as the Van rocketed through the time stream.