Hey there guys and this is the last part of the Muggshot arc and i must say it was kind of hard to chose some parts over other but they will be answered in the next chapter.

Sly: Finally we are done with this arc

Sonic: well at least your story is progressing

Me: Sonic how many times do i have to say I'm sorry for delaying your story

Sonic: tell me when are you gonna work on it?

Me: Soon okay

Sonic: you better

Me: Fine let's just get to the story

Last time, Sly and Ava defeated the second and third member of the Fear of Four and things took a surprising turn as he last member of the group turned out to be an Interpol agent, not only that he is also part of Carmelita's team. And now Sly's team and Carmelita's team are about clash against one another in heated battle…or are they?

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"Now with that out of the way. Let's get started" Ava said as she soon got into a fighting stance. Sly, Carmelita, Murry and Jerry looked dumfounded at what she just said; Sly just let out a sigh and got into a fighting stance. "Carm, there's no point in arguing with her, trust me I know. Let's just fight already." The vixen raised her left eyebrow, she then shook the whole incident in from of her and pointed her shock pistol at Sly, Murry and Jerry looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders, Jerry aimed his shock pistol at Sly and Murry got into his fighting stance. The two groups glared at each other, with each passing second their glares intensify, both side were prepared to attack each other with in seconds, but then Ava's ears picked up something, she looked up and yelled "EVERYONE GET BACK!" she yelled, everyone looked at her confused as she was the one that wanted to fight, but Sly knew that she must have picked up something dangerous, as Sly took a step back and just as he stopped, a feather shape knife struck where he was formerly positioned, Ava and Carmelita did the same, while Murry raised is left foot and Jerry jumped back. Then out of nowhere a figure landed between both groups, the figure slowly stood up, it reveled to be a female Eurasian eagle owl, she wore what appeared to be a mix between an Egyptian kalasiris and a Japanese Kunoichi clothing with mostly the kalasiris covering most of the upper torso and the waist while the Kunoichi clothing was mostly the legs.

The figure glared at Sly and Ava before turning to Carmelita's team, "You must leave now," she said as she faced Sly, "You need to put your family heirloom back together correct? And take your revenge on one of your father's killers." Sly's eyes grew wider, in shock that someone knew about the whole ordeal. "Wait how do you know that?" "Vhat, ve did our research on you Zly Cooper." Said a familiar voice. Then a roped dropped from the ceiling and a familiar reptile slithered down and landed next to the avian. "You!" Ava yelled as she pointed at the corbra.

"Yez, me. I'm Lauranze in caze you have forgotten," he said as he threw what appeared to be a bone shape key at Sly, who caught it, "Zhat iz the key to Muggzhot'z secret chamber thatz he iz currently hiding in." Jerry was surprise, "How did you get that only the other members of the Fear of Four have that!" the cobra turned to the weasel and had a sinister grin on his face, "Exactly the point, vhy do you azk?" the cobra and owl got into a fighting stance as the face Carmelita's group, Ava soon said "Wait, why are you helping us? We don't even know you guys?" the owl turned her head slightly to face the pair, "It's within our mutual interest. Now go and defeat Muggshot and put the Thivious Raccoonus back together." Sly was confused to how they knew or the fact they knew about the Thivious Raccoonus to begin with, but he shook it off, he looked at Carmelita and blew a kiss at her, "Sorry love, but we'll have to take a rain check." He said as he and Ava ran the way they came in, Carmelita was about to peruse them but Lauranze stopped her in her tracks, "you vill have to get pazt uz first, Inspectorz'."

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Sly and Ava returned to the lobby of the hotel that Muggshot was hiding, then Adam stated to contact them, "Sly, Ava me and Unit now know where Muggshot is," "Let me guess e's in the highest level in this hotel and we need a special key to open a secret pathway to get to his chamber." Ava replied. Adam didn't answer, he suddenly yelled through the com "HOW DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THAT!" Sly and Ava shook their heads rom Adam's sudden outburst, "Well we sort of ran into Carmelita and her team while chasing a member of the Fear of Four, I'll tell about that later," Adam was about to protest, but he decided to allow big brother to finish his tale, "We were about to fight Carm's team when suddenly an owl chick threw knives at all of us and then our 'new friend' Lauranze dropped in, he gave us the key and told us to leave while they are currently keeping Carm's team occupied." Then Unit pushed Adam a side and spoke, "So basically, you got help from a complete stranger and the same cobra that we fought back at Raleigh ship, and not only that they gave you the exact thing we need to get to Muggshot. Am I missing anything?" "Nope that's pretty much it." Ava replied. Adam and Unit looked at each other and sigh, and then Adam took over, "Anyway there is hidden key hole near that ridiculously big head of Muggshot that's near you, once you find it, the elevator door will open and take you guys straight to Muggshot."

With that Sly and Ava nodded and headed to the ugliest thing they had seen so far in their lives, after a few minutes of searching and Ava punching holes into the Muggshot head shaped statue, they finally found the keyhole, Sly slight in the key and turned it to the right, then the mouth of the Muggshot head dropped down and revealed a hallway behind it. The siblings looked at each and nodded and ran into the hallway.

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Back with Carmelita and her team, Murry lunched a barrage of right crosses and left jabs at Lauranze but the cobra was almost as fast as Sly, he dodged the hippo's attack with ease, he used his tail and whacked Murry from the back of his head and slithered back a bit. The hit didn't do much to the large hippo, he rubbed the back of his head and soon charged straight at the cobra once more, "Ah you have zhe worrior zprite, good like a good challenge."

As Carmelita and Jerry continuously fired their shock pistols at the owl ut their shots missed as avian swiftly dodged, with each shot narrowly hitting her, Carmelita signaled Jerry to stop shooting as she did as well, the avian stopped moving and glared at Carmelita, "Why don't you tell us why you are helping the Cooper Gang if you don't know or have any align meant with them." The avian didn't answer at first, the vixen noticed that the avian's body was shaking a bit, Carmelita used her hearing and she could hear the avian chuckling. "What so funny?" the looked at Carmelita, she stopped chuckling "It is a Family matter that has intertwine our families destinies since ancient times," she then pointed at Carmelita, "As your destiny is intertwine with Sly Cooper." This made Carmelita blush a bit, but she immediately shook it off and pointed her shock pistol at the avian once again, "Yeah, how our destinies intertwine is when he commits a thief and I be there to arrest him." But in her mind "What did she mean by her family and Cooper's family destinies are intertwined? And did she just say that me and Sly are meant to be…YES!" Jerry stared at Carmelita with his left eyebrow raised, he watched as Carmelita fired her shock pistol at the avian, he noticed that her face was blushing a bit, "Carmelita really needs to just tell Cooper that she loves him already." He let out a sigh and began firing on the owl again.

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Sly and Ava ran down the dark hallway, as they ran Sly looked over to his right to face Ava; the snow leopard noticed this and asked "Alright Sly, I know that look on your face, so what's on your mind?" "Well…I've been wondering about something," "Does it involve a certain Interpol agent?" Sly didn't answer, he looked away from her, she noticed that his face had a mix of worried, confused, sadness and…loneliness, Sly then turned to face her, "No…it about you and Adam," Ava raised an eyebrow, "I mean is as soon as we take Muggshot down, I understand that if you and Adam wat to leave the gang and start your lives like nor-" "Sly Stop it!" Sly turn his head to face her, "Ava," "Sly just stop it, I know what you are thinking, you think that when we take down Muggshot and his goons down, you think me and Adam will Leave you and Unit by yourselves to search for the rest of the Thivious Raccoonus, while me and Adam do normal boring everyday things, then you must be crazy." "She's right Big Bro," Adam said over their com, which Sly just remembered was still on, "We don't want to leave you, we don't want you to be alone on this, not now not ever." "Yeah Sly," Unit said as he joined the conversation, "Besides the more the merrier right." Sly just looked at their faces, he started remembering all the times they had spent together, all the trips, missions and family times they spent together, he then rubbed his eye with his right arms, the other notice some tears flowing down a bit, he pulled is arm away and faced forward with a smile on his face. "Yeah, sorry about that don't know what I was thinking for a moment there."

Soon Sly and Ava see a rather huge door in front of them, they looked at each other and nodded and they raised their left legs forwards and kicked the door open and ran into the center of the room, there they saw a huge bulldog wearing a white sleeveless t-shirt, yellow and white striped pants with two machine guns on his back sitting on large leather arm chair, he then spoke, "What? My boys have been yapping about some big mysterious dude running around and cracking skulls and, and this is it? You're the monkey wrench in my operation? Some scrawny rat with a stick... Wait a second, I've seen that stick before." Sly then pointed his signature cane at the bulldog, "Maybe when my father knocked your block off with it." "Your father? Whoa! You're a Cooper? You know, that "Thingus Raccamagoocus" had a lot of nice pictures but WAY too many big words." Muggshot said in surprise. "So you don't mind just handing it over?" Sly asked.

"What are you, kidding? You and your little girl there break into my place, steal my stuff, trash the joint. I feel transgressed and violated. Let's rock!" Muggshot said as he got off from his chair, he used his massive arms as legs as he got closer to Sly and Ava, who got into their respectively, the big brute stopped a few meter away from the, he then reached for his two machine guns on his back and fired them up to the ceiling, the random bullet fire caused the huge chandelier do drop to the floor and surrounded them and then the chandelier crystals also landed within their now smaller area. Muggshot began firing his machine guns at the pair, they used 'Roll' to move behind the crystals, the shots bounced off the crystals. When Muggshot stopped firing, he put back his guns and began moving forward with his massive arms, Ava noticed, she signaled Sly, the raccoon nodded and they ran out of their hiding spots and charged at the bulldog, within seconds they closed the gap between them with the giant brute, Sly swung his cane as hard as he could at Muggshot's left arm, Ava delivered a right roundhouse kick at the brutes right arm. The pair noticed that Muggshot didn't seem affected at all by their attacks, the canine smirk as he pushed them away.

"What did you really think your puny attack will hurt moe? You got another thing coming." He said as he fired his machine guns again. And again Sly and Ava used 'Roll' to get behind the crystals. Then they got an incoming call, 'Not a good time Adam," but it wasn't Adam or Unit, instead it was the voice of someone else "used the mirror's to reflect the sunlight on to the crystals, the concentrated heat will cause his guns to overheat and exploded in his face." Sly and Ava looked at each other confused to who was talking, "Who is this?" "That's not important, just remember this Sly, there is more than one Cooper in this world." With that the transmission ended, soon Adam and Units faces appeared on screen, "Guys, who was that?" Unit asked, he thought that it was a friend of theirs as he is still new to the team, "That what I would like to know, who was he and how did he get into our frequency?" Sly then spoke "That doesn't matter right now, we just have to trust what he said." Ava looked at Sly, a bit worried but she trust his choices and carried out the plan, Sly aligned the mirror on the right hand side while Ava took the left side. Muggshot didn't seem to catch on to what they were doing and started laughing, "Hahaha, that's right keep running around like the little weakling that you are."

Then he noticed that Sly and Ava were at the ends of each side, he watched as they turned the mirrors at their respective corners, he then realized that all the mirror in the area were angled so that the sunlight would be reflected against the crystals, then he aimed his guns at them, as he pressed the trigger, his machine guns exploded knocking him back a bit. "My Beautiful guns," he as he made his way to his chair, a trap door open in front it and elevator "Good thing I have an extra pair upstairs." He said as he went up, when the elevator came down, Sly and Ava used to go up, when it stopped they stepped out and found themselves on a new level, Ava's ear perked upwards and she pushed Sly to the side, narrowly dodging a barrage of bullets. Sly let out a sigh of relief, "That was close, thanks Ava." The snow leopard nodded, they took a minute to analyze while avoiding Muggshot, they noticed that there were the same number of crystals but the two mirror short, Ava signaled Sly that she would distract Muggshot while he turn the mirrors around. Once Sly finished his side, he turns around to see that Ava was having a little trouble getting to her last mirror as Muggshot lay suppressive fire one her stopping her in her tracks, "Dammit need to think of something to help Ava but what?" then and idea formed in his head. "Hey, Mugshot, why did your mom name you that anyway?" he yelled, grabbing the brutes attention, "It because your mommy thought you would be ugly when you grow up and she was right." Then several vain formed on Muggshot's forehead and he aimed his guns at Sly, who immediately regretted saying those words, "YOU DARE TALK BAD ABOUT MY MA, THAT IT NOW YOU GONNA GET IT!" he said firing at randomly at Sly's direction. Ava took the chance to turned the last mirror around, Muggshot turned around to face Ava as she turned the mirror around, but he did realized as he turned around to face her, he pressed the trigger on his right machine gun and it fire a single shot before exploding, but that one shot was able to put Ava out of the fight as it hit Ava's right arm. "AVA!" Sly yelled as he charged to her, he leaped over Muggshot, who was making his way to another elevator. The raccoon placed his cane beside him and held Ava between his arms, "Ava, your bleeding, just stay still." Sly said as he inspected the wound, based on his examination it was not life threatening as the shot did hit any vital points but right now Ava is bleeding above her right elbow, Sly took out a piece of cloth and wrapped it around her wound, "Ow, ow, careful there Sly, that hurt." "I know but it will help stop the bleeding, now you stay here, while finish off Muggshot." "But Sly I'm fi-Ow" she said as she tried to move but her wound prevented her, Sly picked her up and moved her to a nearby crystal were he leaned her against it, "No buts alright, Ava I don't want you to push yourself to hard okay? Your my sister and I want to make sure that your safe," Sly stood up and made his way to the elevator, "I will do everything within my power to keep you, Adam, Unit and Edd safe." With that he stepped on the elevator and he left Ava there to rest.

"Sly…" she said, as she reached for her 'Watch and Listen', on the other end she saw Adam…crying? "SIS, ARE YOU OKAY? ME AND UNIT ARE ON THE WAY SO JUST HANG ON!" he yelled over the com, Ava now felt guilty that she is the cause of her brothers tears, she smiled at him, "I'm okay Adam, Unit. It's not too serious so just calm down Adam, I hate to see you crying like this." "B-but sis, I was worried that i-i-I might lose you too." "Shh Adam, I won't leave, that's a promise."

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The elevator soon stopped and Sly jumped off the elevator and on to a huge crystal chandelier, at the very center of the chandelier was a huge crystal and on top of that crystal was Muggshot. "Well, well, looks like is just mano a mano now." Sly just snarled at the bulldog and used the 'Ninja Spire jump' to maneuver around on the smaller crystals and dodge Muggshot's continues fire. With each passing Sly turned one of six mirrors that surrounded the large crystal, Sly was just one mirror away from finishing off Muggshot, as he was about to turned the last mirror, he didn't noticed that Muggshot had already aimed his guns at him, Sly was about to turn the mirror when he realized that he was facing the end barrel of the bulldog's gun, Muggshot had a smirk on his face as he was about to pulled the trigger, when suddenly a dagger in shape of the Cooper cane hit Muggshot's barrel causing him to miss Sly by the tip off the raccoon's facial fur. As Sly turned the last mirror, the concentrated sunlight from the crystal caused Muggshot's gun to explode once again, the only thing Sly could ask to himself was "Where did that dagger came from and why was it shape like my family cane?" He put the question aside for later as she jumped on to the large crystal were Muggshot lay there in pain. "This is impossible! A little pipsqueak like you, beating a big, strong bruiser like me? It ain't right! You want all of that stupid picture book? You're gonna have to go down to Haiti and cross paths with Mz. Ruby, and then believe me, you don't want to be you." He then passed out. Sly jumped off the crystal and back on to the elevator, he then picked Ava up and they went down the other elevator, then as they got off the elevator, Adam and Unit came running into the room, the young lupine had a first-aid in his hands, Unit began using his wide knowledge of medical info he downloaded from the web to treat Ava, Sly walked over to Muggshot's chair and open the safe underneath, he took the pieces of the Thivious Raccoonus and placed his calling card in its former place, Sly noticed that Muggshot kept most of his section besides Rob McCooper section together.

Sly didn't want to read the section now as his priorities is to get his sister medical attention and get the heck out of Mesa City, as they headed out of the hotel and entered the van, they suddenly heard sirens, police sirens. Sly let out a sigh and closed the back doors of the van. "This is gonna a bit more trickier then I thought."

Ava: wait you are just gonna leave right there!?

Me: What? No, of course not, i just have something plan for the filler chapter before the next Arc

Sly: Well, i have a feeling that this filler is gonna be exciting

Me: yep and involes you, Carm, another Mystery person and a really (probably) epic high sped chase.

Carmelita: Wait does the mean i ge-

Me: Yes but shhh don't spoil it.