Well whatever few readers I have for this story, here's a little update for you. Start the fic.
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Sly stuck his head out the window and dropped his jaw at what he say. That red I'm-Gonna-Make-You-Feel-Pain-Now guy was chasing after them and GAINING...fast even!!
"Murray we got ourselves a tailer!" announced Sly.
"No problem Sly! Just leave it to The Murray!"
Knuckles was most surprised least to say when the giant truck had turned around and seemed to tip over. The back of the truck scouped Knuckles inside as it started to make itself rightside up.
"Nice work Murray." complimented Sly.
"Anytime, hey do you want to hear the theme song I've been working on?"
Sly thought for a moment, what was the worse that could happen? Too bad he didn't see his pal Bentley groaning with his hand covering his eyes.
"Well sure I guess s..."
"SLY DON'T!!!" shouted Bentley.
"OH HERE HE COMES HERE COMES THE MURRAY!!! HE'S A HIPPO ON WHEELS, HE'S A HIPPO AND HE'S GOING TO BE CHASING AFTER SOMEONE!!!"
"He's been singing this around me for weeks Sly!!" lectured Bentley.
"Well how was I supposed to know he'd sing it at the top of his lungs?!"
DONG!!!
Murray stopped singing.
"What was that?" asked Murray.
"I'm not sure...Bentley?"
"It sounded like it came from one of the holding cells."
Murray pulled the truck over, they had long since lost Carmelita and her Interpol agents.
Murray, Sly, and Bentley looked at a fist shaped dent sticking out of their van.
"Bentley, is it possible that the red guy is trying to escape?" questioned Sly.
"Impossible, the cells are made out of reinforced steel. Not even Murray could break out of o..."
DONG!!! DINK!!! BING!!!
Three more dents appeared on the side of the truck. Knuckles finally punched open a hole and jumped down.
Knuckles punched the ground when he landed in the middle of the Cooper gang sending out a shockwave from his punch.
Needless to say the Cooper gang were sent flying backwards receiving a rough landing.
Sly woozily stood up holding his head in pain. The red escapee seemed to be making his way to them with anger radiating from his steps.
The sound of groaning alerted Sly to Bentley and Murray who were just starting to pick themselves up…which was kind of difficult for Bentley seeing as how he was in a wheelchair.
"Murray I think it's time to get your van out of the truck."
"Huh? Oh right, the upgrades Penelope did."
Murray pulled out a small rod with a button on it from his shirt pocket and pressed it. A door from the giant truck opened up and the Cooper van zoomed out of it passing Knuckles and stopping short in front of Murray.
Sly spun his cane around and took a stance as Murray helped Bentley into the van.
"The two of you go on ahead, I'll catch up." ordered Sly.
"But what about you?" asked Bentley.
"I'll stall this new guy for as long as can, once I'm sure your far enough away I'll give him the slip."
Murray portrayed a worried expression. "But..."
"Go!! I'll be fine."
The childhood friends didn't like this plan one bit but there was no time to argue.
As the van sped off Knuckles finally caught up with the latest of the Cooper line.
"Well thief, it looks like I've finally caught up with you."
"The name is Sly, friend. What do you go by?"
"You can call me Knuckles, and I'm afraid you 'Sly' are going to have to answer for your little incident at the museum. That tablet..."
"Some very nasty people were going to steal it a week later, I was just making sure to keep it out of their hands." interrupted Sly.
"Oh yes because your obviously such an outstanding citizen." responded Knuckles.
"Well it appears I can't appeal to your better nature, so I'm just going to have to knock you out instead."
Sly did a leap into the air and brought his metal cane down only to have Knuckles catch it.
"I'm not impressed."
Knuckles punched Sly in the stomach sending him hurdling backwards until he hit the wall of a building.
As Sly was groaning in pain Knuckles slowly approached.
"I really don't want to hurt you anymore because frankly, you don't seem that durable. So give up now and I won't hurt you anymore, you will be arrested but at least you'll be in one piece."
Sly forced himself to his feet and grinned. "Or I could run."
Sly jumped up and started to climb the building with his jumping and climbing skills. It wasn't until he was four stories up that he noticed that Knuckles had nearly caught up with him. He was punching his fists into the building and using it to climb.
"What is WITH this guy?!"
Sly decided that if he couldn't climb away he'd just parachute. He leapt off of the building deploying his trademark Cooper parachute. He started to relax thinking the worse was behind him.
"Pretty clever…"
Sly gaped as he saw Knuckles with his hands outstretched next to him gliding keeping up.
"What the…?!"
"But not clever enough."
Knuckles delivered a punch across Sly's face sending him crashing to the ground.
"Alright, you gonna come peacefully or are you ready for round two?" asked Knuckles as he landed.
Sly remained motionless on the ground, Knuckles ran over and checked his pulse. It was still very strong but the raccoon had lost consciousness.
"You blacked out already? Man the people in this world just can NOT take a punch."
Carmelita looked at the giant damaged truck trying to figure out exactly what happened.
"This is going to a pain in the ass when I have to report all this."
She could the faint sounds of something dragging but she paid it no mind.
"Oh crap what was her name again? Cammy? Carol? Carmon? Carmelita! That's it! HEY CARMELITA OVER HERE!!!" shouted Knuckles.
She was a little glad to see him she admitted, the Cooper gang were known to be highly resourceful. It was nice to know her new acquaintance was unharmed. She calmly walked over to him putting away her shock pistol.
"Echidna, what happened with you and Cooper?"
"Take a look for yourself."
Knuckles threw Sly in front of his feet from behind his back.
"OH MY GOD, YOU KILLED HIM!!!"
"He's not dead!" explained Knuckles. "He's just unconscious."
"Oh well I'm glad I won't have to arrest you then."
"Yeah just the raccoon will do."
Yes Sly is captured but that's just so I can write a story where the gang busts him out of Carmelita's new mega prison.
