I own none of the characters in Sly Cooper or it's sequels.
I only own 1 OC in this fic, her name being Tilly the Rabbit (who is 12 years old).
I will let you know if a new OC will come into play at any point during the fanfic.
With this out of the way, let's begin.
Ch11
Sly and I made it past the rest of the gang of muscle-bound dogs with ease, mostly due to him getting a new ability in the Mine Hat technique, which could turn his hat into an explosive! I did the same with a small fedora I got from our trip to England and found that it could also be thrown to great effect on the opposition. We then made it into the city of Mesa itself, finding that it was now home to a huge casino with the word Muggshot posted on the top of the huge building as well as a fire hydrant penthouse. "Hmm... if my knowledge on bulldogs serves me right, Muggshot must be in the giant fire hydrant. Pooches really love those things," I said with a smirk.
"I'm going to go up there and fight him while you go try and find a page by yourself, okay hero?" I smiled at him. "Of course, Tilly," Sly smirked with a suave smile that made me tingly. I then proceeded to jump high atop the building's little ledges until I finally reached the top of the building, right by the huge Muggshot letters. I continued jumping all the way up to the giant fire hydrant, which I noticed another person flying in the opposite direction, though luckily not seeing me. "Crap. Inspector old lady is here. Gotta make this quick," I frowned as I opened a window at the top of the fire hydrant and fell down, using my new jumping ability to jump with ease from the chandelier to the second floor all the way to the ground floor, right in front of Muggshot and stunning him greatly upon doing so.
"Whoa! How'd ya get here so fast, kid?" Muggshot asked with surprise on his face. I could tell he was impressed at my moves. "Being able to use the same moves as the Coopers can really help a girl out," I smiled at him as I branded my weapon in hand. My wooden spoon. "Heh. You got guts to challenge me, kid. I'm unstoppable with these babies!" Muggshot gloated as he flexed his muscles while he sat in his chair. "Brawn isn't going to win over my brains, Muggshot. Trust me on that," I smirked.
"Okay then, let's rock!" Muggshot smirked as he then did something that truly made me impressed. He walked forward on his freaking arms and his arms made small tremors when he moved! "Now see, this is why no one should miss leg day," I frowned at him with my brand of humor, which I could tell made him smile as he chuckled a bit. "Looks like you shoulda been a comedienne, kid. Now let's see you come after me," Muggshot smirked as he pulled out two giant handguns and shot at the ceiling, a bunch of glass rocks falling and scattering across the ground.
Muggshot then started to come after me as I simply threw my fedora at the dog's fists and, once it connected with his meaty hands, it exploded, his body immediately getting very bloody and bruised from the blast. He also let out a large whimper and a loud yelp once I did this, looking to have been pretty badly hurt. "E-Explosives?... T-That really hurt, kid!" Muggshot exclaimed at me. "Now you know how my partner felt when he witnessed you and your 4 friends kill his entire family right in front of him that fateful night," I growled at him as I walked up to him. He tried going for his gun, but it was too damaged from the blast to work.
"L-Listen! Kid! I didn't even wanna shoot the lady! I wasn't in control that night!" Muggshot whimpered through the pain. "Oh yeah? Then who was in control of your trigger finger?" I asked him with a growl as I stepped on his bruised, bloodied hand and made him scream in agony. "I-IT WAS MZ RUBY! OH PLEASE HAVE MERCY!" Muggshot cried out in pain, which I then noticed I was going a touch too far. "Where is Mz Ruby and where are those pages?" I growled at him. "T-The one's in the safe under my chair! An' the other safes are in the different areas around the casino! I'll tell my boys to just give 'em to ya! Just please don't kill me!" Muggshot exclaimed with fear in his eyes. "Recognize my face Muggshot. Recognize it well. Because I am not a ruthless killer like your gang is. I will take pity on you if you tell the truth. Did Mz Ruby force your finger to pull the trigger with her voodoo powers? Or did you do it yourself?" I asked him. "SHE DID! For the love of all that is good, please believe me!" Muggshot exclaimed.
I then heard Kiri in my head after I heard what Muggshot said. "He's telling the truth. He wouldn't be lying at this kind of state he's in. I think you should just leave him be," Kiri frowned at me. "No, Kiri. I'm not going to leave him be in this state," I frowned at her. "W-Who are ya speakin' to?" Muggshot asked as I placed my backpack on the ground and pulled out some medical supplies.
"I know I shouldn't tell you this, but I know everything that happened that night because, when I read the pages of the Thingus Raccamagoocus, I get visions from the ancestors of the Cooper clan. And one of them that is speaking to me right now? It's that little girl that Clockwerk devoured that night. Devoured and placed into his own mainframe, unable to escape," I frowned at him as I then began to spray his arm with disinfectant and him wincing as I did so. "Stay still. I'm patching your hand and arm up," I frowned at him as I then began to put his hand in a gauze and then wrapped his arm in a splint. After I did this, Muggshot looked at me with confusion as I then walked past him and to his chair.
"Y-You're not... killing me? I-I don't understand..." Muggshot gawked at me. "Like I said. I am not a murderer. I am not going to kill you, but I assure you that everyone else in your crew has killed someone, you yourself have probably done so as well. Besides, you were cooperative and you held your end of the bet we made. So now I am going to take these pages and move on to the real murderer of Sly's mother. Mz Ruby, was it? Where is she located?" I said to Muggshot as he got up and walked over to me normally on his own two feet. "She's... in Haiti," Muggshot said with a frown. "Thanks. Now why don't you go ahead and make that little announcement we agreed on, hmm?" I asked him.
"Yo! Youse mugs standing guard over my safes! I want to give ya some new orders. I just lost pretty big bet, so I need youse lugs to get those pages from them safes and deliver them to the elevator to my penthouse. I want it done in half an hour, so get to it!" Muggshot frowned into the loudspeakers, just as I swiped a page for speeding up time around my person, perfected by B.F. Cooper. It would've been helpful to use his technique to get the key, but Bentley already teleported me away and to the entrance just as I saw a certain mongoose appear out of nowhere!
I then heard some punches from against the wood blocking the front entrance and, after a few hits, it finally went down, to reveal a bulldog with 2 giant arms, but with the one in a splint and him having a very odd walk with his stubby legs. "So, I take it that yer this Sly guy, right?" the dog frowned at me. "Um, yes. How did you know?" I asked him. "That Kitchen Kid... she said that you saw everythin' that happened that night. Honestly, I never knew there was another kid in dat house, and I certainly didn't think that me bein' there would have this much of an impact on me," he frowned. Definitely Muggshot if this was him.
"Well, she's certainly very good at her job, isn't she?" I asked him with a small smile. "Yeah, I've heard about her from some of my boys and she proved how tough she is. One hit, and this is what happened to my arm," Muggshot growled a bit. "I see," I frowned at him. "Well, I lost the bet, and now I pay the price. Once you get your stupid little paper pieces, get the hell outta my casino and go on off to Haiti. That's where you'll meet the one who really killed your mom," Muggshot frowned as Tilly soon came from behind him with 4 paper pages in her grasp. And once she got out of the casino, I heard something that made me smile. The sound of love. "I've got you now, raccoon!" I heard Carmelita say once we got out of the casino and Muggshot looked at me with confusion. "See ya later, Muggshot! Good luck with the old lady!" Tilly smirked, calling Carmelita old once again. It was almost like she were trying to tick Carmelita off, which showed when Carmelita chased us while her other police members took in Muggshot and his other goons.
Once we got spotted by Carmelita, the chase was on. She chased us from the casino nearly the whole way back to the van on foot! And since she was wearing boots, she was huffing and puffing by the time she got back to the van. "Later, fox! I'll see you on our way to the next one, I'm sure!" I giggled at her from the side window as she growled at me. "I will see your face, Kitchen Kid! And I will throw you into Juvenile Detention and throw away the key!" Carmelita shouted at me. "Sure you will! See ya!" I smirked as I pulled my head back into the van and we lost sight of her, just in time for me to start reading up on the different pages that Sly and I got.
The 5 remaining pages we got from Muggshot, unlike Raleigh, were all pages from the book. There was a page from BF Cooper about speeding up time, a page from Suzanne Cooper that would allow me to be able to jump in and out of water with ease, Sir Andrew Cooper's replica technique, Sir Galleth Cooper's technique entitle Catapult Crash (which could be used to hook onto ledges and then jump up with enough force to crash through a barricade), and finally, the most interesting of the bunch, Tennessee 'Kid' Cooper, who perfected the Rail Walk and Rail Slide techniques, which could be used to run or slide around on thin bits of rope, vines, or even pipes! It sounded so cool!
And when I read all of the pages, I was surprised to hear only one voice from among them inside my head, that being of B.F. Cooper. "Hey! How's it goin'? I really want to get out of Clockwerk! Is it bad that I want to be able to floss my teeth when I get out! Whoo!" I heard him talk nonstop in my head, which was quickly cut out by another voice I was glad to hear. "Ugh! Would ya please keep that racket down before I cork it with me hook?" Henriette groaned. "Thanks for the save," I smirked in thought at her. "Sorry, he's just very hyperactive," Sally smirked.
Once we escaped from Muggshot's place, we then started to drive east, before I told Bentley something important. "Bentley. I hate to be a bother, but can we skip the vacation and go straight for our next heist?" I asked him. "And where would that be?" he asked. "Haiti. That's where we will find Mz Ruby, and according to Muggshot, she used her voodoo powers to force his finger to pull the trigger on Sly's mom. And since we're so close, why don't we do it now?" I asked. "Good thinking. Except we don't know where she could be in Haiti," Bentley frowned. "We'll simply ask the natives. I'm sure they could point us in the direction," I smiled.