Sly: Return of The Thief Chapter 8: Resistance

The road trip gave Carmelita and I the time we needed to study up on the "Black Wings."

They were obssessed with doing research and tests.. on people. I had barely enough information on their leader;

But enough to know that there's a secret group dedicated to defeating the Black Wings, a group called the "Resistance."

I just have to meet these brave people. And maybe I could find a recruit for the Cooper Gang, to help us defeat Clockwerk's minions.

On the way, Bentley emailed the Resistance, and they replied saying they might know someone that was extremely skilled with Mechanics, and

they called him one of their prized members. A young boy named, "Zack." Who he was, a total mystery, but I just had to meet this guy.

They spoke so highly of him, and now that we're part of the Resistance already, We get to meet this esteemed Zack.

If this operation goes well, we may have a full time Mechanic on our team.

-Sly and the gang in: Resistance-

Bentley: Sly, head down to the Resistance base. I've marked their GPS coordinates into your Binoc-u-com.

Sly: Roger.

Sly headed down to the base, and greeted all over the Elite members, as they greeted him back.

"Hey, My name is Sly, and my gang are all recruits in your group. The rest are coming down, can I meet this "Zack?" Sly asked.

Their leader nodded, and led him to a training room. Plenty of robot dummies, the strongest they had, swarmed Zack.

A warrior indeed, with silver wild hair, gold eyes, and appeared to have fangs, wore Red Skull patterned overalls, and sat in a huge robot of some sort, with two huge hands that shift into weapons. Zack was swarmed, but he brought own two huge guns on his hands and shot everyone down without even a poke on him. "Whoa. He's amazing!" Sly complimented. "Thanks," the Leader accepted, "My best student."

"Might I ask for your name?" Sly asked. "Blake." He replied. "Zack, come over here, there's someone here to meet you." Blake called out.

Zack walked over by robot, and nodded to Blake. "This is Sly Cooper, a Master Theif of the Legendary Coopers.

Zack's eyes widened. "C-Cooper? T-THE Cooper?" Zack asked. "Well, I wouldn't say my legacy is legendary, but-" Sly said.

"Nonsense! In Eldstein, we've heard countless stories of all the hiests you accomplished, and the bad people you've beaten!" Zack exclaimed.

"So, my gang, is like, famous here?" Sly asked. "Ya! Well we kept you secret from the Black Wings, but maybe someone might've told 'em, cuz they're security just rose 60% in the past hour." Zack replied. "An hour? Are they afraid of me and my gang or something?" Sly asked again.

"Yup, and they're TERRIFIED of me, too. By the way, It's been my life's dream to join your gang! You guys are awesome!" Zack smiled.

"Really? Because the reason I wanted to meet you, was for that reason. If we help you defeat the Black Wings and save Eldstein, will you join my gang?" Sly asked, with a smile. "YES! Anytime, Sly. Those robots are piece of cake, just wait till you see me in REAL action!" Zack exclaimed.

"Well, consider yourself a part time member of the Cooper Gang." Sly said, and pinned a Cooper Gang logo pin onto his overalls, next to Resistance Badges. Zack smiled, and led Sly to the lobby, where the gang waited for them.

"OH. MY. GAWD. THE WHOLE GANG IS HERE?" Zack cheered, and started asking questions right and left to the members.

Afterwards, he walked up to Sly, and had an important question. "Sly, I have another recruit... or two." Zack said.

"Two? Are they good fighters?" Sly asked. "Yupp," Zack replied, "Here they come." Zack pointed to two people.

Kilayla, A wild archer, who wore green and sat on a leopard mount. And Luke, A Battle mage, who wore a logn white jacket, black boots. gloves, and held a gold staff with a blue orb on the end with electricity jolting out. The two greeted Sly and the others.

"These two also have the dream of joining the gang, but they're so overjoyed, they're speechless." Zack said, "They're just as good as me. The Resistance's best Students of all time." "Wow! Im convinced. How bout yall?" Sly asked the gang. "Of course, Awesome! Oogattah! Wow, Mm, Cool, bro, and "I agree, Cooper." came from each of the members in order. Bentley, Murray, Guru, Penelope, Panda king, Dimitri, and Carmelita. "Zack, Kilayla, Luke. We'd be glad to help you with the Black Wings, because lately, 5 strong guys have conspired with Clockwerk and creating 5 copies of his frame to fight in. We defeated two of them, but the third, is the leader of the Black Wings." Sly replied.

"WHAT?" Zack shouted. "Yeah. We gotta gather up all their Hate chips so Clockwerk will never be revived again. If he does get revived, We will definately need you 3 in defeating him. Once we beat the Black Wings, you guys will be full time members of the gang." Sly replied, and pinned more Cooper pins to the others.

"Also, Zack, Luke, and I were already in our own gang, but now, our gangs have merged. We were called, "The Saviours of Eldstein", as our leader discribed us." Kilayla said, and put Saviour pins on each of the Cooper gang members.

Sly smiled. The two gangs then conspired a plan to take down the Black Wings and destroy the frame and collect their chip.

"What's a Hate Chip, anyway?" Zack asked. "Its a big microchip that gathers energy from people's hatred. Neyla and Arripegio took all of the Clockwerk parts from us, and Neyla merged with Clockwerk, deeming her new name, Clockla. When the blimp set over Paris, they were unleashing the power of the northern lights on the people who ate spice in Paris, causing them to hate all, especially the Cooper Gang. If tha twere to happen, Clockla wouldve been too powerful to stop. So, in brief summary, The Hate Chip is a device used to turn hatred into life, creating Immortality." Bentley summarized. "What?" Zack shouted, "If the Black Wings have a Hate Chip and decide to use it on the frame, He will be immortal?" "No, only if everyone hated each other." Sly replied. "No, seriously, the people all across the Eldstein Region, Towns and Black Wings hate each other. If the leader merges with the frame using the chip, he'll be unstoppable!" Zack exclaimed.

"WHAT? Then why are we standing around? We have to move, and fast! We can't let that happen!" Sly and Carmelita said in unison.

The gang started advising a plan to attack the enemies of the Resistance, while Zack and Sly talked about their previous adventures and about what was to come.

-The Plan-

Okay guys, Time for a plan. First, Zack must help Sly get inside the Black Wings' Base, and take some recon photos of the security and the frame, plus our enemy. Also, take some extra photos of the outside.

Next, Our new recruits will suit up and take out any security on the outside so we can all get in. Once clear, I can move in and hack the system for the data.

And lastly, Sly and Carmelita will break into the mines and steal keys from each of the Black wings watchmen, and use them to get into the main Security System building after the first two jobs are complete.

Alright team, conspire!