Sly Fox

Chapter four; First Round of Jobs

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Sly made it to the point where he was to find the painting Bentley hid when they were training today. He pulled out his Binocucom as he looked at the painting that he was to switched with the one Gato had. "So I brake into Gato's office and swap the paintings. Sounds too easy."

"Is that all you care about?" Bentley asked before he sighed. "There is more to it then that. For one thing that paining is very fragile so one hit and it would be worthless."

"It's a fake, it is worthless," Joke Sly, "But okay I got it pure stealth, don't get hit and take out the guard with stealth take downs."

"So you master the complete silent takedown?"

"Well no not yet but I just have to get out of sight before any other guard show up as well."

"Now you are making that sound so easy. But the last thing you need to know is that we can't show any sighs for breaking in to Gato's office. Otherwise he might get paranoid and we may not get anything."

"Okay so got any leads onto how I can get in without notice?" Sly asked.

"Well looking over the blue prints I found an underground entrance to the mansion which was to be use as an escape route incase the mansion was invaded. But if rumors are true Gato is just using it as a wine cellar." Bentley said.

"Wow, he really thinks that he is untouchable." Sly said surprise. "Well he will have to learn sooner or later. So where do I go to find the entrance?"

"It is not far from the dock you took a recon photo off." Bentley replied. "It looks like a cellar door to one of the buildings so you should be able to find it easy.

"Roger that Bentley. This shouldn't take too long." Sly said as he pocketed the Binocucom and placed the painting on his back.

He stealth ran to the nearest pole and climbed it to the rooftops. Why carefully navigate the city streets waiting to be caught when you could simply navigate the rooftops? There were ropes and a few areas that would easily allow him to walk across with the proper usage of Tennessee Kid Cooper's Railwalk, and that is what he did. He navigated the rooftops towards the docks, and found the cellar door he was looking for.

'Bingo, but those guards might make things tricky. I am glad Bentley finished his little gadget.' Sly thought as he looked around at the area in general with his Binocucom, taking in every little bit. He then started to watch the guards for a bit, and then made his move. He pulled out what looked like a doll. He pushes a little charka into it and threw it. The doll landed on its feet before it jumped a few inches and cried out waving it little arms, "Hey! Hey!" in a loud human size voice.

A guard heard the noise and went to find out what it was. Sly followed the guard while staying out of the light and notice something shiny sticking out of his back pocket. Sly smirked before he started to pickpocket him for a bit. After a few ryo was pulled he pulled a watch from the pocket. 'Easy pickings, and all this will go to charity. Ninety percent of Gato's ill earned fortune returns to Wave, and ten percent goes to the Cooper gang.' Sly pocket the watched before knocking the guard out and quickly scurrying up the nearest pole, knowing that when the second guard investigated was the time to strike from behind.

Sure enough the second guard came and looked around, as Naruto hide the body real quick, for the source of the sound. Thinking he must have imagined it the guard shrugged before he turned and walked back. Sly quickly jumped down and knocked the guard out. With that done Sly made his way to the cellar and open the door.

Sly jumped down at looked around. The wine cellar was stacked with shelves of wine with little light around. He creep to along the passage way to where he believes was another door. He heard voices ahead so he ducked under a table as two guard came by. He held his breath in worry but sigh in relief as they went to take a sip at some of Gato's wine. He crept pass them and went ahead, one guard was by the door waiting for his buddies. Sly waited in the shadows looking for a way to get pass. As luck would have it the guard was dozing off slightly before he nodded his head and snored. Sly tiptoe but at the sound of his snort used his shadow power to hide. Just in time too as the guard woke up. The guard shook his head and tried to stay away. Slowly he nodded off again so Sly undid his shadow power and went to the door. 'Note to self; start working on shadow power level two.'

Sly went into the next room and looked around, while keeping his ears open for enemies. Satisfied that no one was following him, he continued on through the wine cellar passage. He spotted a light and knew a guard was coming by, forcing him to duck between a pair of wine casks. He waited for a while as they passed by, talking about something else, but they wouldn't go away. 'Calm down, think and look. What could be...perfect!' He thought as he noticed that the casks themselves were elevated that he could crawl under them without alerting the guards.

He crawled and looked to find a ventilation shaft large enough for a person to crawl through. He made his way there and pulled the grate off. He entered, making sure to replace the grate, and crawled around the ducts looking for a way to reach Gato's main office. 'Hmm, if I was a big drug dealer with a huge ego and a size complex, where would I build my office?' He thought, but it was more out of sarcasm then actual questioning. It was too obvious that such a man would go to the top of his huge building for most business.

Sly made it down the hall before he came to a lobby area. It was all fancy with a large statue in the center made of marble and from his point he could see several guards around the lobby. A door was in the back of the room and he new that was Gato's office. He looked around, seeing at there was too many guard to try and fight especially with the painting on his back. Sly notice a small tree in a pot to one side. Seeing the blue sparkles Sly smirked before he jumped up and hooked onto the tree and climbed up.

Above the group of guards he crept along the edge getting closer to the area that stuck out above Gato's office. He step onto the ledge and pulled the grate open. He crawled inside and dropped down into the man's office. Sly snorted seeing the big desk and chair for such a little guy. He walked over to the painting on the wall and swapped it for the real thing. "Good work, the listening device is working perfectly." Bentley said over his com-link. "If you can get that painting back to the safe house in one piece we can sell it later and make a ton of ryo."

Sly smirked before he said, "Be there soon Bentley." and exited back through the vent.

He replace the grate as he got out and made his way pass the guard and down the hall. He opens a window and jumped out and landed on a wire. He walked on the wire pass the wall and jumped down. On the ground he made his way back to the safe house.

"I'm back," Sly called out as he entered the safe house. "And I come baring gifts." He handed Bentley the painting and the other ryo and objects he pick pocketed ob his way back.

"Just what I always wanted," Bentley said in a sarcastic tone before he put the painting away. He then turned to Sly. "Okay I suggest you get some sleep Sly, we have training tomorrow morning. Murry and I have one more job to do."

Murry punched his palm in excitement, "I'm pumped."

Sly laughed as said as he left the room "Go get them big guy."

Murry exited the safe house and made his way to the start of his mission. While he was not as fast or and sneaky as Sly or Bentley he was no slouch and was able to get to outside the thug handout in no time. Murry got his Binocucom out and Bentley said. "Okay Murry we need you to take out those alarms by the hangout. Any sigh of trouble an we would be over realm by guards."

"I am sure we can handle it." Murry said.

"And risk Gato getting away. This is needed for the heist. Use what ever you can to break them. Oh and one more thing…be ready for a fight cause with all the noise your making thugs will come a running."

"No sweat pale those guys are no match for 'The Murry'. Besides I get to try out the new move I learn; the fire punch."

Murry put away the Binocucom and went over to a bunch of broken stone from a building and stomped on the ground. The vibrations caused the slabs to jump up and Murry caught one. Turning to the alarm he smirked, before he threw it at the alarm.

The alarm was damaged, but still there. Murray stomped the ground again and tossed another to smash it, but couldn't get to the next alarm as a group of guards and lesser thugs showed up. "You guys will feel the might of 'The Murray'!" Murray said before he started knocking the smaller thugs out with a single punch.

The larger guards tried to use their spears, but Murray was oddly quick for a person of his build and dodged them easily. He grabbed a knocked down thug and threw him at the guard before he finished it with a thunder flop. After knocking out the guards, Murray smashed the alarm before he started to head to the next area with an alarm.

The way was clear expect for one thug, who found himself throw into a bunch of creates. He found the alarm and threw a large rock at it. While damage it blared loudly. The door open and several thugs came running out. One came running at Murry but got an uppercut for his troubles. While in the air Murry grabbed him and chucked him at the others.

The group fell into a pile dazed, expect the one that was thrown who was knocked out. They started to get untangled before the heard a cry, "Thunder flop!"

They looked up to see Murry falling down over them ready to body slam them. They screaming in fear and tried to get out of the pile but it was too late. A large cloud of dust formed on impact. Murry clapped the dust from his hands as he walked away from the groaning pile of thugs. With another tossed rock the alarm was silenced for good. Murry made his way to the last point.

Murry saw some trouble at the last hang out. A group of spear wielding guards with lanterns were out side. They were tough and Murry needed a way to get an upper hand before they could hurt him. It was then did Murry got an idea. He moved till he was in a straight path to the thugs a way down the street. He formed a hand sign, "Expansion jutsu!" Murry burst into smoke before he tucked his limbs in and started to roll. "The Murry's Human Boulder!" He cried as he rolled at the guards.

The guard heard the loud sound and turned to see the boulder rolling at them. Two of the four were flatten while the other one was knocked over dazed and the other got out of the way. As Murry turned back to normal and then was hit in the back by a swinging spear. Murry got back up and saw the guard coming closer. Murry stomped on the ground and grabbed a rock before he chucked it at the guard.

The guard fell dazed before Murry grabbed him and lifted the guard over his head. The guard trashed around to break free but Murry slammed the guard to the dirt, headfirst.

The last guard got up and saw Murry. Murry smirked, "Time for 'The Murry's' new move." He clapped his hand together above his head and they caught fire. "Fire punch!" he cried before he punched the guard right in the chest. The guard caught fire from the hit before Murry hit him with the attack again. The guard out cold with his cloths all burned.

"That's right no one is a match for 'The Murry'." Murry cried out as he flexed his muscles. With the guard already out cold the alarm was no problem.

"Great work Murry that will make the heist much easier." Bentley said over their com-link. "Head back to the safe house, we got training tomorrow morning."

The next morning was fairly simple and calm as the gang woke up and readied for the day of training. Naruto stretched out before heading to breakfast. Shikamaru and Choji followed Naruto for the usual sparring session. Naruto didn't bring his cane staff out as it would be simple Taijutsu. They fought each other for a bit then broke off the sparring session. "Good spar guys. We should be able to steal chunin easily." Naruto chuckled as he and the others went into the kitchen of Tazuna's house.

"You really shouldn't joke like that. Troublesome blondes."

"You should be careful on what you say." Ino said as she and Sakura came down from the upper rooms. She had a slight glare at the crack from Shika.

Naruto definitely chuckled at the fact that he was caught in a bad situation. 'Knowing Shikamaru's luck, he'll probably fall in love with a woman that he considers troublesome.' Naruto thought as he sat down near Sakura as Tsunami, a lovely woman in her mid-twenties, served the breakfast meal. Naruto knew that Wave had financial all around and planned to gather more food for the family as well. 'I'll probably get into my portable ramen stash or something to help feed this group. Sasuke sure doesn't think twice about eating a meal. He probably didn't even investigate how bad the financial trouble is.'

Tazuna then said, "You know I heard something from one of my workers when they came by this morning. Someone got into a fight with a bunch of Gato's thugs."

"So how badly were they beaten?" asked Inari, Tazuna grandson, as if he expects nothing less.

"That's the thing, they weren't" Tazuna said, getting everyone's attention. "Not only did the guy win, he beat up the thugs in all of the hangouts and busted up the place and alarms. The guy that told me was watching out his window. It was only one man but he was beating them like nothing, evening throwing the goons like dolls. He was shouting something that seemed to be his name…now what was it? Matty? Murphy?"

"Murry?" Sakura asked, unable to believe it. Was the Cooper Gang here?

Tazuna snapped his fingers. "That's it Murry, he was shouting his name like 'The Murry'. No idea who he is but I am grateful to him."

Kakashi and Asuma looked at one another, before Kakashi asked "Heard anything else?"

Tazuna thought about as he took a bite before he said, "Yeah actually he said he heard from his neighbor that some guy was jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Said that he had some kind of weapon with him that had a hook at the end."

Sakura gasped, "The Cooper Gang,"

"Who are the Cooper Gang?" asked Tsunami.

Kakashi answered, "A group of thieves back home. They are famous for sneaking into compounds and stealing from different clans. I had no idea what they are doing here but from the sound of it they have made Gato there target."

Sakura looked at her sensei. "Kakashi sensei, do you think we will run into them?"

Kakashi turned to her, "I doubt it; they're concern in Gato not Tazuna so we should not meet them. Even then, going after them is not our mission and could put it at risk if we do." He did his eye smile. "Besides we could use this to our advantage. With Gato focusing on them it leaves more breathing room for us to work in."

"It doesn't matter," Inari said, "They are just going to die anyway."

Naruto took a bite of his food, his eyebrow twitching, 'I can feel the love from this kid. He has such high hope for us.' He could tell Choji was annoyed too while Shika did not seem to care.

Sakura stared at the kid, "What do you know? They are the best ever, no one in the village every came close to catching them. Gato will have every taken from him and he won't be able to do anything to stop it."

Inari looked at Sakura before he got up and went to his room. Sakura watched him go unable to believe it. Then she could not help but wonder what were the odd that her first mission and Sly and his gang was working so close to them. Naruto smile to himself seeing how Sakura defend them so easily. It was times like these that made him wish his secret wasn't so secret.

Asuma look at his team and made a point to talk to them. He figured it would not hurt the mission but even help them in it.

Once breakfast was over and the teams were outside. Kakashi, still with crutches then said, "Now we are working on a new exercise to work on your control. To do that we will be climbing trees."

Both teams looked at him, though for team ten it was for a different reason "Hold on, time out," Naruto said before he turned to Sakura. "I thought both teams were formed at the same time?"

"They were," Sakura answered, not knowing where this was going.

"Then why haven't you guys learned this yet? We learned it the first week we became a team." Naruto said. 'Well as team ten anyway, but we never heard of tree walking before we started as genin. Would have been more useful before.'

"Well then Naruto, if you and the others know it already then why don't you explain it?" Kakashi said, but afterwards he saw team ten playing a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, with Naruto losing.

He sighed before he went to one of the trees and formed a hand sign. "Tree climbing is a basic chakra control exercise that involves climbing a tree without the use of hands, or other climbing equipment. It helps in the learning of chakra control. Mastering this exercise could help us to master any jutsu in theory, as it teaches us how to not waste chakra when using a jutsu."

After that brief explanation, Naruto started walking up the tree without the use of his hands or any other climbing tool. Sakura was pretty impressed that Naruto was able to explain something she didn't know about, but also give an example of how it could be used. 'I guess he really did grow up from the prankster of the academy.'She thought.

'How did that dobe know something I didn't?' Sasuke thought, looking at Naruto with jealousy for success. Asuma chuckled a bit, "Kakashi, you really need to get off your ass and train them! Sakura's pretty much a blank slate, while I'm thinking that my team's ready for elemental training."

Kakashi stared at them; elemental training was advance training and for is team to start already. Asuma smirked before he was hit over the head with something and he turned glaring up at an equally glaring Naruto. "Hey sensei, don't say stuff about Sakura like that! She is just so awesome that she can become anything."

Sakura rolled her eyes at Naruto but was grateful either way. Asuma just blow smoke form his cigarette before he mumbled "Perhaps you guys need a different kind of training for now. I will teach you water walking before we get to the elemental training."

Kakashi looked at team ten and was actually looking forward to trying his bell test on them. He turned to his team and threw some kunai at each of their feet. "Use these to mark your progress. Work on a running start to climb the tree. Just focus charka down to your feet and make them stick to it."

"Oh and one more thing," Naruto cried out, "Too much charka and you break the bark under your feet and get pushed off and too little charka and you won't go anywhere."

Kakashi chuckled, "Well I was hoping they figure that out for themselves. Try and not to ruin my fun next time Naruto."

Team seven formed the ram sign and focuses their charka to their feet. After gathering they ran at the tree. Sasuke made it almost half way before the bark broke under him. He quickly marked his place and flipped down. Sasuke looked at the pace he jumped from. 'The dope was right again. I need to use less charka next time.' He looked at his teammates and was shocked to see that Ino nearly made it to the top before she fell while Sakura was sitting all the way to the top. She smirked down at the group as she gave a victory sign. "That's great Sakura!" called out Naruto from his branch. "I guess I have to keep training or you would become Hokage before me."

Sakura smiled at the praise from Naruto, knowing it was rare for Naruto to praise anyone like that. "Anyone would become Hokage faster then you dope. Between the six genin here I'm the one that will become Hokage." Sasuke received a few glares, mainly from team 10, for his overconfidence.

Naruto would have hit him, but then he got a better idea. He jumped down before he said "Ne, Kakashi-sensei, Asuma-sensei, how 'bout Sasuke and me have a spar? We can't just keep sparring with the same people over and over, and we have to get used to fighting at random."

Shikamaru and Choji figured out what Naruto was planning, and even Asuma could guess what Naruto was planning. "Sure, if Kakashi agrees to it. It wouldn't hurt to spar from time to time with others."

Kakashi started to have an idea on what Naruto was planning: teach Sasuke a lesson in humility by beating him in Taijutsu. "Hmm, I guess I could let our genin spar for a bit. No jutsu or weapons will be used, and it's first blood rule, the first to make a decisive blow wins."

Naruto and Sasuke nodded at the conditions for the spar and got into a Taijutsu stance. Kakashi held up his hand and waited before he shot it down and called out, "Begin!"

Sasuke charged right out the gate and threw a punch. Naruto smirked and side stepped it. Sasuke was barely able to block the counter that Naruto sent and grabbed his wrist. But before he could even attack again Naruto placed his foot onto his hip and kicked out putting some distance between the two of them and throwing Sasuke off balance.

Sasuke growled out unable to believe that the dead last of the class was giving him a hard time. He hated that fact all Naruto has been doing is dodging and the fact Naruto did not lose that god damn smirk on his face. Sasuke lunched another barrage of combo attack while Naruto was dodging them all. "Why do you keep dodging dope? Too weak to attack?"

Naruto kept up his dodging while leading Sasuke into his trap. "What's wrong Sasuke? Can't hit a moving target? Well you know what they say; you can't win if you can hit your opponent."

Everyone was watching Naruto move fast around Sasuke as the genin was unable to land a hit. Kakashi, Asuma, Shikamaru and Sakura were the one to notice that Naruto was moving back toward a large tree with Sasuke right on his tail. Just as Naruto was back to the tree Sasuke smirk seeing that he had Naruto. But just as Sasuke threw another punch Naruto jumped up and stuck to the tree. Sasuke was shocked and his fist hit the tree trunk with full force.

Sasuke winched as his fist cracked from the blow, but Naruto was not done. Seeing his chance to strike he pushed off the tree and lashed out a kick right to Sasuke's face. Sasuke was knocked to the ground with nose broken and bleeding. Before he could even get up as Naruto was standing over him with his foot at his neck to keep him down.

Kakashi cried out, "That enough the spar is over, Naruto wins." Sakura and Ino went to help their teammate up as Naruto got off, but he pushed them aside and got up himself. He cracked his nose back into place and tried to stop the bleeding. Kakashi looked at the others, "Now can anyone tell me what went wrong?"

"It's too troublesome to answer." Shikamaru just decided to keep out of it, as the answer was blindingly obvious.

"Sasuke lost because he underestimated his opponent, and was led into a trap." Sakura said, pointing out how he lost.

Kakashi nodded, but then asked if she knew why he lost. "It's because Naruto planned ahead and used Sasuke's emotions against him, as well as the environment. Naruto didn't even throw a punch and waited for the right moment to attack." Choji added as he munched on a potato chip.

Ino then caught on to the last bit of information, "Naruto used Sasuke's anger against him!"

Kakashi nodded at that part. "Good, it seems that everyone learned a bit from this spar. Naruto purposely provoked Sasuke into a state of blind rage, and while it can make you stronger, it also makes you blind to what's around you. Thus, Sasuke thought he pinned Naruto to the tree, but he was tricked by forgetting that Naruto had learned and mastered the tree climbing exercise. With that factor he injured Sasuke indirectly and then made a finishing blow. A good ninja makes sure to take in every factor in battle. A single mistake could spell your end. Now, back to training."

With that said, Kakashi went back to observing his students training in tree climbing, while reading his book. Ino and Sakura were instructed to continue the exercise to build up their chakra reserves.

"It's almost impossible to believe that Naruto actually beat Sasuke!"

"I know Ino. He could barely pass the Taijutsu exams, and had the worst grades in class. I guess he's really has gotten serious about being a ninja." Sakura replied, as she thought about how useless she seemed right then. 'Naruto's gotten stronger, and his team could be doing more advanced exercises. Here I am fantasizing about Sly, but if I can get stronger, then maybe I can find out who he really is.'

Meanwhile Naruto was in a very good mood, he knocked Sasuke down a few pegs, he was learning a new exercise that would be very useful when on the job for the gang and more importantly, Sakura stood up for him. Well more his other half and she did not know it but he counted that as a win.

Shikamaru then said, "Hey Naruto, try and be careful next time. While the two styles are different but the way you moved was closer to Sly then normal."

Naruto sighed and knew it was true. His style for both side were different with some common factors but they did the job as long as he keeps the two styles to that side of him. They focus on dodging and not getting hit while attack when there were an opening. He might have cheated a little with the Cooper clan side step dodge but it was pure Taijutsu and he was not going to let Sasuke win cause he use his shadow clones like he would when he fights as Naruto. He looked at Shikamaru, "Hey any chance we can steal some food from Gato or his thugs for the town and Tazuna's family."

"I will listen to find out but we still have much to do before the heist."

Naruto nodded and went back to work on the water walking.

That night Naruto mood seemed to stay when he dressed as Sly and jumped across the roof to the boat yard. He pulled out his Binocucom and looked at the office. "Now we need the route for the patrol boats around the water in the land of wave." Bentley said over the Binocucom. "It should be in the office, but unfortunately it is lock with several padlocks." Naruto zoom into the office door and saw four large padlocks on the door.

"Who locks stuff with so many locks?" Sly asked. "So where are the keys?"

"The guards have them in their pockets. You will sneak up to them and pick pocket them till you have them all. Also the keys are very fragile so if you break attack a guard before you pick the key off of them they will be destroyed."

"Hey this is me we are talking about. Those keys will be mine in no time." And with that Sly put away his Binocucom and went to work.

'Now to find the four uglies that have the keys.' Sly thought as he kept an eye out while jumping around from roof to roof. He started near the warehouse area and snooped around. If the guards were typical then they'd keep the keys far from the locks. He snooped around until he saw a spear wielding thug and noticed a glimmer in his back pocket. 'Either I just hit pay dirt, or he's got a key.' Sly thought, before sneaking up behind him. He began pick pocketing the guard and collected a minor valuable and a key. Sly quickly scurried up to the rooftops just as the guard turned around. "Musta been the wind." The guard said, as Sly played around with the key before placing it safely in his pouch. "One down, three to go." He then took off for another area to find the next key.

Sly jumped from the roof to one of the boats as he looked around. He stopped one guard moving along the dock between boats. Sly jumped from one boat to the next till he was high in the sails of a boat in the path of the guard. Sly waited till he passes by before he jumped down. He landed without a sound behind him before he started to pick the guy's pocket. After grabbing a few Ryo he found the key, Sly jumped back into the boat before the guard even knew he was there.

Sly moved the boat yard looking for the next guard. The shine of a light caught his attention and Sly saw it was from on of the larger boats. Sly hooked onto the anchor and peeked over the edge. A guard was patrolling the deck, his pocket shining with the key Sly needed. Sly climbed up as the guard walked by. He crept behind the man and picked his pocket. His found the key with ease before he jumped off the boat as the guard turned around and walked pass where Sly just was no noticing a thing.

It took a while to find the last guard but this one seemed really paranoid. He on the end of a deck with his back to the water. He was watching the dock his light shining far down it. There was no way he was going to sneak by from the front. Sly thank his sensei in his head before he jump onto the water. He stood on the water and crept as quietly as he could as the water rippled under his feet. He was behind the guy and picks the key off of him. Sly saw that the easiest path to the office was pass this guy so he hooked the man from behind and slammed him into the water. Sly ran before the guard knew what happen.

Sly worked his way easily back to the door and unlocked it with the four keys and entered. He then found a place where he could hide and see everything. 'Alright, now comes the hard part of getting those patrol routes.' Sly got out his Binocucom to look around. 'Alright, I've got at least two maybe three floors with offices and a few guards patrolling the area, shouldn't be too hard. Not any harder then that ANBU armor collection.' Sly then started a minor sneak around to get a feel of the place. He kept a close watch as he went towards the stairs, and used his shadow power at level one. The guard saw nothing and turned his attention elsewhere, only to get knocked out from behind. "Good help is so hard to find, unless you don't skimp on the payments." Sly whispered as he started to investigate the offices. He didn't find that much other then the usual things from a criminal lord, but he did see something that disturbed him greatly. 'Human trafficking? This guy's worst then we thought. I'll make sure that he gets put in prison with nothing to get him out.'

"Find it yet?" asked Bentley over his com-link.

"Not yet but the more I find the more I enjoy stealing this guy of everything he has. We might even leave something for him to get locked up for." Sly said before he went to check another office. He found a safe on the wall. Sly smirked before he grab the knob and focus his charka and started to turn it slowly. He felt the first vibrations and start to turn again and felt another vibration. One final vibration and Sly got the safe open. Inside were several folders. Sly pick them up and looked them over. They were the patrol route for the boat alright as well as shipment date for different things. Sly took a picture of the routes and the date for when the boat carrying food comes before he put the folders back and closes the safe. Gato could not find out they were here, he might change the routes and make thing harder for them.

"Good work I will start making a plan right away. Come back to the safe house, I am just about finish with the defenses around Tazuna's house and I need your help to make sure everything is set up."

"On my way Bentley." Sly said as he exited the building.

Sly found Bentley on top of the safe house, over looking a monitor "Now I have two series of traps for two different paths to the house. Here is the manual control."

Sly looked at it, "Manual? Isn't there an auto control so we are protected even when are not here or up?"

"I have not finished it yet, that was the reason I wanted you back here. I got word from our bug in Gato's office that he is sending more guys to deal with us while we are all asleep. I need time to finish it while you use our traps to keep them away."

Sly sat down and look the controls over, a switch on the top that flips from side to side. Under that were four color buttons with numbers 1-4 on them. Bentley then said, "Now the controls are simple. The switch selects which group of trap you want to use. Try it out"

Sly flip the switch and the once blank screen showed a forest path. He flipped it and the screen showed a path by the dock. Bentley continued, "Now the buttons are the traps. The numbers showed the order of where the traps are. One being the trap closest to the beginning of the path while four is closest to the house. They are also need to recharge to use. One has the shortest recharge while four is the longest. Try the traps out."

Sly flipped to the forest path and hit the first button, an axe swung down and swung into the path; anyone in the way would get hit. The second button cause flames to shot out into the path. The third button cause spike to shot from the trees. The last button cause to huge hammers to smash together in the middle of the path. Sly looked at Bentley, "Solid work buddy, I almost feel sorry for those guys."

"Now check the next one."

Sly flip the switch and press the first button. The first bunch of boards fell down dropping anyone on top into the water. The second button made flip over and sent the person on top back toward the beginning. The third button causes the board to come alive with lighting due to the seal under it. The last button was a launcher which sent the person standing on it to go flying do the river. Sly was impressed, "I thing those thug won't be coming back after this."

"Great but I still got to set up the auto control and the thugs will be here soon. I have Murry in front of the house in case some get through. I will work as fast as I can to get it online." Bentley said before he jumped off the roof and into the safe house to finish the auto control.

It wasn't that long that the first thug decided to stop by. Sly had an evil smirk on his face as he tried to approach the house. 'So many fun traps to play with, which should I let him walk into first?' He thought and decided to try trap number one of the forest path, as that was where the thug was going for. "Too easy," Sly pushed the button for the axe trap and almost killed the thug. He got out his Binocucom and saw the puddle, and trail, of liquid that was coming from the terrified thug. The other thugs that gathered on the path laughed before stepping forward. Sly decided to play with the other traps, as more guard ran pass the axe trap as it came down. The scream as the fire shot out of the trees. Some thugs jumped ahead to avoid the flames and ducked to avoid the spike. It was the two hammers coming down that cause the few thugs to run away pushing their fellow goons aside to safety. After a few minutes of messing with them using the traps, they stopped coming from the forest. 'Next up, look to the docks.'

At the dock several men were getting off a boat and headed down the path. Sly smirked before he press the button for the first trap. Two thugs fell into the drink, to the shock of the other thugs. The door closed as the trap rested itself. One thug stepped forward as it was recharging before going forward. More followed him as Sly hit the second trap then the first. The one in front was push back while the first trap door open and they whole group fell in.

Sly laughed as he watched their reactions as the trap resets. One thug ran forward hoping to avoid the traps. He was lucky as the other two were not ready yet as the other men start forward. Sly hit the first two again to stop the main group. The first thug made it all the way to the fourth trap and while he was thinking he was home free Sly lunched him high into the air before he fell into the river. Sly laughed as this group tried like the last one. Well one tried to get smart and wait as his fellow goons go in front and went after them. He was tricked when Sly did not do a trap in the guy in front and when he though it was clear he got shocked while the ones in front were sent flying.

Bentley then said over the com-link "Okay that is the last wire, the auto controls are online."

"While better late then never as the thugs all left. But it was fun while it lasted." Sly said as he jumped down.

Bentley came outside, "We do not know if others will come but at least everyone is safe for now." Murry came back to the safe house now that he was not needed. "Okay our jobs are down we need to make plans for the next phase." And the gang went inside.

(Slide show)

A picture of the mansion was shown again. "Things are going well but we are not done. We need more to put the rest of the odds in our favor." Showed picture of the boats. "Now I found out that the boats that patrol the island are controlled by computer so I need get on to those boats to hack them." Showed picture of computer before change to a bunch of boats from high view and arrows draw to show them moving, "Then I can control where they go and have them work for us." Picture of a boat then a bunch of food were show "I found out when the food for his goons and Gato himself was coming," showed RC copter and Murry by the food with and arrow showing it moving, "Murry will grabbed the food and bring it to a safe location where we can give it to the country later while I will provide air support with my RC copter." Showed what looked like a power plant. "Next we hit this power plant and sabotage it so now power goes to Gato's mansion." Shows mansion with the spotlight before they were crossed out. "with no power they would have to use that old generator to power the place and that is what we want."

Shows bridge "Now with everything that is happen we have to keep an eye out in case Gato get crazy and tried to take matters into his own hands." Showed sunrise on the land of waves, "A few more mission and Gato would have no money, no power and with the bridge complete the country will be free."

Hope you all enjoy this and look forward too. If you like this story, then check out some of my other ones. Make sure you check out the one me and my partner worked on, they are on his profile. Please review.