The thief and voodoo
chapter 7
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Sly jumped from building to building to try and get away from his pursuer. Behind him, Carmelita was chasing after him with her shock pistol at the ready.
"You won't escape from me raccoon! You will return the jewel or I'll shoot!" shouted Carmelita doing a good job of dodging any obstacles in the way.
"Sorry Carmelita, but I've got a special gal that deserves this more." sly called back when he used his cane to hook onto a fire escape railing and fell down. Luckily, he landed on a passing truck hauling mattresses. Sly sat back and saw Carmelita stop and tried to blast him. Each shot came close, but didn't make any contact for fear of hitting the truck itself.
Sly waited until Carmelita was out of sight before reaching into his bag and pulled out a jewel. It was a ruby that was small enough to hold in his palm, but still big enough to be worth quite a lot.
He smiled at his prize before putting it away and waited for his stop. He hopped off the truck and made his way to a train car on the tracks, where there hideout was. He gave it a few knocks as a sign of their password and waited til it was unlocked before heading inside.
The car was decked out for each members own personality. Bentley had a desk lamp with a few books near it. He also had a computer to hold all his data. Murray had several bags of food and a few weights for working out. Sly himself had a hammock for a bed and different stuff around from a few stolen prizes to some paper on where their next heist was gonna be. Ruby had her own bed, which sly said she deserved for being the only female of the gang. She said she didn't want any special treatment, but that's not how sly rolls. Her part had different potions she could use and a large cauldron to mix up some new ones.
"And just where were you?" questioned Ruby who had her hands on her hips with a frown set on her face.
"Just went for a nice walk." replied Sly with a nonchalant grin and plopped down onto the hammock.
"I'm serious Sly. Where did you go?" asked Ruby who got close to Sly's face with a frown.
"Alright, I'll tell you." Ruby got back a little. "But not now. Just wait til we're done, and I'll tell you." finished Sly.
Ruby just sighed at Sly's response and just let it go. She would get it out of him eventually. But right now, they needed to finish the last member of the group off.
"Alright Sly, I've managed to pinpoint the location of the last member. We don't know his name, but we have do know where he's at. The location is Krack-Karov Volcano located in Russia." replied Bentley using his computer.
"Then let's head out." replied Sly getting off the hammock and grabbing his cane. All of them followed Sly to board the van as Murray and Bentley got in front while Sly and Ruby got in the back. Soon they were off heading to meet the final member as the van left out from an underground garage they had built under the car so they could easily get to it.
(Russia)
The van carried them through the cold country much faster than they thought and could see their destination coming up.
"We need to be careful when we get to the summit of the volcano. By then, Clockwerk will have already sent defense forces against us." replied Ruby.
"So his name is Clockwerk?" asked Sly.
"Yes, but that's all I know. He never really talked about himself when we had meetings." replied Ruby.
"Then we better be careful." commented Murray.
Soon the van made it to a large gate that had Clockwerk's face on it.
"Sly, use the turret on the van to open the gate." suggested Bentley.
"On it." replied Sly who shot at the lock and began to destroy land mines that were on the road. Soon a flock of robo falcons flew around the van, but Ruby helped by summoning up her cat ghosts who interfered with them and stopped them from hitting the vehicle.
Sly then had to destroy boulders that were coming towards them while Ruby used her ghosts against more robo falcons. Luckily they managed to get into a cave, but made it into a large cavern where they needed to get a certain number of computers. Which was easier than using the van as Ruby's ghosts were able to keep the slugs away while Murray ran them over.
After they got enough data, the door opened up and let them in. In which Sly and Ruby took over
They found themselves in a control room that had search lights all over the place.
"Look, it's Carmelita." Sly pointed to the fox that was inside a glass container.
"Why should we worry?" asked Ruby who could careless for the fox.
"Because stealing wouldn't be as fun without a little challenge." replied Sly.
"Fine, but you best not stare at her, cause I'll be watching." replied the alligator.
"Gotcha." replied Sly who began to easily dodge past the spotlights and used a barrel against a pair of automatic turrets that hit the barrel instead. Ruby knocked them aside with her tail and joined Sly inside the chamber. This of course led to Clockwerk using a knockout gas that rendered Sly, Ruby, and Carmelita unconscious.
Bentley saw the trouble they were in and began to use his computer skills to hack into the computer to retrieve the security codes needed to stop the gas. It was tough to try and avoid Clockwerk's security, but he managed to stop the gas.
"Sly, I owe you an apology. Break me out of here, and I'll make it up to you somehow." promised Carmelita.
Ruby was tempted to let the officer stay in there, but didn't stop Sly from breaking it as she knew that he was faithful to her. Carmelita blew an opening in the back of the chamber and jumped through with the two of them in pursuit.
"Do you really trust that fox?" asked Ruby.
"She may be on the other side of the law, but she's not the real enemy. Clockwerk is." replied Sly.
Ruby understood and they stopped when they saw Carmelita. After agreeing on a truce, Sly's cane was nabbed by a robo falcon from out of no where. Carmelita told sly to go get her jetpack that she stashed while she and Ruby covered him. Both bombshells were able to keep him safe thanks to Carmelita's shock pistol and Ruby's ability to summon up ghosts in front of an enemy.
After gabbing it, Bentley contacted him and told him the place was beginning to come down. So he used all of his skills to hop along the wreckage of machine junk without touching the lava, and grabbed the jetpack and got airborne.
"Sly, behind you!" called Bentley. Sly rotated the jetpack and saw a giant mechanical owl. This was Clockwerk.
"Sly Cooper. For years, I've been pushed towards wiping your clan out with nothing but my anger and hatred. By replacing my body with machines, I've lived hundred of years, waiting for the moment to wipe you all out." came Clockwerk's mechanical voice.
"Well I guess you got sloppy, cause my parents and I are alive. And after this, there will be more of the Cooper clan." replied Sly who began to use the rockets from the jetpack to hit his wing. This caused him to start flying away and send rockets at him. Sly easily dodged them and saw Carmelita and Ruby hop on the wreckage and began to assist him. Carmelita hit his other wing with her shock pistol while Ruby sent some of her ghosts to cover his eyes.
Clockwerk began to shake his head to get rid of the ghosts and soon found his rocket launcher destroyed by sly shooting them. Clockwerk howled in rage and flew straight towards Ruby, but was caught off guard by Sly landing on his head after discarding the jetpack and wailed in anger and pain as Sly used his cane to hit away at his eyes.
"Be careful Sly!" cried Ruby as she and Carmelita watched as Clockwerk flew out of control and ended up crashing into a large piece of rock that protruded out of the lava.
Sly managed to hang onto the owl's head after the crash and held onto his back. Clockwerk's head extended up from his body and turned to face the thief.
"Foolish Cooper. Clockwerk is superior!" yelled Clockwerk as his head was bashed away by Sly until it came off the body and fell into the lava.
Sly let a smile on his face as the adventure was over. They had finished what started years ago. He took notice that he was still on Clockwerk's body, which was currently sinking into the lava and knew he needed to get out of there.
"Sly! Up here!" called Carmelita who put the jetpack on after it was discarded and had Ruby hanging from her legs. Sly reached out and grabbed onto Ruby's tail and hung on until they all made it out of there and landed on one of the roads that lead to the volcano.
"That was crazy, but we did it." replied Sly.
"Yeah, but now you have one more thing to do. Like telling me what you went out to grab earlier." reminded Ruby.
Sly sighed with a smile and reached into his bag. He held out his hand and opened it, revealing a bright ruby. Ruby was confused and shocked to see sly get on one knee while holding the gem out to her. "Ruby, I went out to get this, for you. Ruby, I want you to have this as a sign of our bond. And I have a strong question for you. Will you marry me?"
Ruby was stunned while Carmelita was amazed that a thief like Sly would suddenly propose in front of an officer.
Ruby was completely stunned. She could feel tears of happiness fall down her face and found herself hugging Sly close to her as he returned the hug. She pulled back and held his face in front of her. "YES! YES! A thousand times yes!" cried Ruby slamming her lips against Sly's as they held each other close.
Carmelita smiled at the nice moment and decided that maybe a few minutes to get a head start would be better for these two. Once they pulled apart for air, Sly turned to Carmelita and smiled. "Well Carmelita, we'll be seeing you." that was the cue for Ruby to get them out of there. Ruby brought up a wall of ghosts that shielded them from her sight. Once it dispersed, the happy couple were gone.
The female officer was surprised by the escape and noticed something. She saw and grew frustrated at seeing her right arm handcuffed to a piece of metal. She was both angry and happy for the couple who just got away.
Meanwhile, Murray and Bentley had gotten the van ready when Ruby and Sly suddenly appeared and hopped in. Murray burned rubber as they drove away from the volcano. Bentley noticed the way they were holding each other and decided to ask.
"What's gotten you two in a good mood?" asked the turtle.
"We're engaged." replied the both of them together.
Murray and Bentley turned to them completely stunned, before Murray turned back to keep them from crashing.
Yep, things just got a whole lot better for the two love birds.
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Sorry for the wait, but be ready for a whole lot of romance in the next and might I add last chapter.
